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Rectory Schedule of Liturgies 10 Old Church Road SATURDAY VIGIL Greenville, DE 19807 5:00 PM Office (302) 658-7017 Fax (302) 428-0639 SUNDAY EUCHARISTS: www.stjosephonthebrandywine.org 7:30 AM; 9:00 AM; 10:30 AM DAILY EUCHARISTS: Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Rebman, V.G., PASTOR 7 AM; 12:05 (Mon. - Fri.) 8:00 AM (Saturday) F. Edmund Lynch, DEACON, RCIA PROGRAM HOLY DAY EUCHARIST: As announced Parish & Pastoral Secretary: Francine A. Harkins; (302) 658-7017; [email protected] SICK CALLS: Anytime Bulletin Editor: [email protected] RECONCILIATION SERVICES: Bookkeeper: Laura G. Gibson 654-5565; Saturdays: 4 to 4:45 PM; Anytime by appointment [email protected] BAPTISMS: By appointment with at least one preparation session for new parents. DIRECTOR OF LITURGY & MUSIC WEDDINGS: Engaged couples wishing to marry in the Michael Marinelli (302) 777-5970 church should contact a Parish Priest at least one year DIRECTOR OF ADULT & YOUTH CHOIRS prior to the planned wedding date to begin the marriage Mary Ellen Schauber (302) 888-1556 preparation process. The year-long process includes ALTAR SERVER COORDINATOR diocesan pre-marriage classes and meetings with clergy. Steve Carroll (302) 373-6314 COMMUNION MINISTER COORDINATOR Carolyn Mostyn (610) 388-0829 COUNCIL #15436: Council LECTOR COORDINATOR meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:00 p.m., Harry Gordon (302) 994-8246 Archives Building. Membership in the Knights of Columbus PARISH COUNCIL EXECUTIVE OFFICER is open to men 18 years of age or older who are practicing Joseph Yacyshyn (302) 239-1879 Catholics. Contact Paul Thorson, 302-229- FINANCE COUNCIL EXECUTIVE OFFICER 5644, [email protected] or John Strusowski, 302- Eugene Julian (302) 239-6082 753-2928, [email protected]. BUILDING & GROUNDS MANAGER Robert W. Spittle (302) 658-1018; FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONS: All are welcome to [email protected] join the Knights of Columbus Council #15436 at the ST. JOSEPH CEMETERIES (302) 658-7017 First Saturday of the month devotions to Our Lady of Fatima at 8 a.m. in the church. Family Center Director of Religious Education: Eva Marie Lyons “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can (302) 656-7185; [email protected] do for you, ask what you can do for your country.” Religious Education Secretary: Linda T. -John F. Kennedy Mondzelewski (302) 656-7185; [email protected]

The Ascension of the Lord May 28, 2017 He was lifted up, and a cloud took him from their sight. — Acts 1:9

Religious Education Pastor’s Notes Dear Friends, Classes are over for the spring and we are already working Share the Hope hard to get ready for a wonderful new year in September. The readings for today’s celebration of the Ascension of the Calendars and registration forms will be up on the parish Lord once again remind us that as Christians we are people website very soon. If there are any jr. high or high school of hope. In the second reading Saint Paul eloquently exhorts students who need summer service hours, or who just want the Ephesians to enlighten their hearts so that they will know to help, we will be cleaning out and updating/decorating the hope and glory that come from being people who place classrooms over the summer. Please send me an email: their trust in the Lord Jesus. In the story of the Ascension, [email protected] if your son or recounted in the first reading, the Lord Jesus assures the daughter would like to help. All help is needed and disciples that the Holy Spirit’s power will come upon them. welcomed. Finally, in the Gospel, the Lord lets the disciples know that their mission is to spread the hope of the gospel to all the More summer service for students 16 and older is available nations. This wonderful feast keeps our eyes focused on the through the diocesan “Helping Hands, Washing Feet” hope in which we were grounded on the day of our baptism. program. Go to the diocesan youth ministry website for more information: http://www.cdowcym.org/events/detail/helping- Knowledgeable and caring adults who hands-washing-feet1 . are committed to protecting children can also protect our Church. Learn “The life of Jesus is a life for others. It is a life of service.” how to report child abuse. Francis (www.cdow.org scroll to For the Sake of Many Blessings, Eva God’s Children link; scroll to Section Four Resources) DE hotline 1-800-292- Always in Good Taste! 9582; MD hotline: 1-800-492-0618. Dress and attire show our reverence and respect for the Survivors Assistance Program Coordinator 302-468-4507. special presence of the Lord found in our Church. A gentle Questions call: Coordinator for Safe Environments 302-295- reminder is needed at this time of the year that dress and 0668. attire should not reflect that we’re headed to the beach, gym or pool. Let us take time to remember our brave military personnel living and dead who TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION placed their lives on the line to keep us If you could somehow transport a third-century Christian free. As we pause to pray and thank them into your twenty-first-century Sunday Mass, once the initial for their sacrifices, please be aware that shock wore off he or she would be more or less at home with flags in our cemeteries at St. Joseph honor the structure of the first part of the liturgy, the Word. The those who have served in the military. If a flag has not been second part might be more difficult to comprehend. The placed on the grave of your loved one and you would like one, stumbling block would be the book. We have a book, a missal please call the office at 658-7017 with his or her name and that is set down on the altar with a very precisely prescribed location. This event is sponsored by the Knights of set of words for the priest to say and the people to sing at the Columbus, local Cub Scout Pack 959 and a donation by one of Eucharistic Prayer. In the early days of the church, there our parishioners, Anne Wattman, Old Cemetery Consultant. were no set “formulas” for this prayer. The ancients would Thank you for your dedication, your duty, your unwavering have raised eyebrows at our “bookishness” since they loyalty and most importantly your unbelievable sacrifice. preferred to let the prayers roll forth from a gifted leader of prayer. There was a basic shape to the prayer of Memorial Day Field Mass - May 29th thanksgiving, and almost general agreement that the words Bishop Malooly will be the celebrant and homilist at Annual of Christ at the Last Supper ought to be included. By the Memorial Day Field Mass celebrated at 10:00 a.m., All Saints second century, Justin Martyr wrote that the presider “gives Cemetery. Immediately before Mass, there will be a brief thanks at some length . . . and when he has finished the military tribute. Protection from the weather and seating will prayers and the thanksgiving, all the people present give be provided; however, those wishing to do so may bring their their assent by saying ‘Amen.’ ” In the world before books, own folding lawn chairs. Remembering those who have died people could memorize long passages of prose and poetry, defending our freedom and praying for the safety of those and so it is easy to see how particular phrases or expressions now serving our country is a most appropriate way to begin passed from church to church. the summer season.

10 THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW Obelisk in St. Peter’s Square. ABOUT THE VATICAN (KevinAlexanderGeorge/iStockphoto.co m) Explore 10 things you may not know about the seat of the 3. captured the obelisk that

stands in St. Peter’s Square. Roman 1. is the smallest country in the world. Encircled Emperor Caligula built a small circus in by a 2-mile border with , Vatican City is an independent his mother’s gardens at the base of city-state that covers just over 100 acres, making it one-eighth where charioteers trained and where is thought the size of New York’s Central Park. Vatican City is governed as to have martyred the Christians. To crown the center of the an absolute monarchy with the pope at its head. The Vatican amphitheater, Caligula had his forces transport from Egypt a mints its own euros, prints its own stamps, issues passports and pylon that had originally stood in Heliopolis. The obelisk, made license plates, operates media outlets and has its own flag and of a single piece of red granite weighing more than 350 tons, was anthem. One government function it lacks: taxation. Museum erected for an Egyptian pharaoh more than 3,000 years ago. In admission fees, stamp and souvenir sales, and contributions 1586 it was moved to its present location in St. Peter’s Square, generate the Vatican’s revenue. where it does double duty as a giant sundial.

2. St. Peter’s Basilica sits atop a city of the dead, including its 4. For nearly 60 years in the 1800s and 1900s, refused namesake’s tomb. A Roman necropolis stood on Vatican Hill to leave the Vatican. Popes ruled over a collection of sovereign in pagan times. When a great fire leveled much of in A.D. throughout central Italy until the country was 64, Emperor Nero, seeking to shift blame from himself, accused unified in 1870. The new secular government had seized all the the Christians of starting the blaze. He executed them by burning land of the Papal States with the exception of the small patch of them at the stake, tearing them apart with wild beasts and the Vatican, and a cold war of sorts then broke out between the crucifying them. Among those crucified was St. Peter—disciple church and the Italian government. Popes refused to recognize of Jesus Christ, leader of the Apostles and the first bishop of the authority of the Kingdom of Italy, and the Vatican remained Rome—who was supposedly buried in a shallow grave on beyond Italian national control. Pope Pius IX proclaimed himself Vatican Hill. By the fourth century and official recognition of the a “prisoner of the Vatican,” and for almost 60 years popes Christian , Emperor Constantine began refused to leave the Vatican and submit to the authority of the construction of the original basilica atop the ancient burial Italian government. When Italian troops were present in St. ground with what was believed to be the tomb of St. Peter at its Peter’s Square, popes even refused to give blessings or appear center. The present basilica, built starting in the 1500s, sits over a from the balcony overlooking the public space. maze of catacombs and St. Peter’s suspected grave.

5. Benito Mussolini signed Vatican City into existence. The dispute between the Italian government and the Catholic Church ended in 1929 with the signing of the Lateran Pacts, which allowed the Vatican to exist as its own sovereign state and compensated the church $92 million (more than $1 billion in today’s money) for the Papal States. The Vatican used the 8. At several times during the Vatican’s history, popes payment as seed money to re-grow its coffers. Mussolini, the escaped through a secret passageway. In 1277, a half-mile- head of the Italian government, signed the treaty on behalf of long elevated covered passageway, the Passetto di , was King Victor Emmanuel III. constructed to link the Vatican with the fortified Castel Sant’Angelo on the banks of the River. It served as an 6. Popes did not live at the Vatican until the 14th century. escape route for popes, most notably in 1527 when it likely saved Even after the construction of the original St. Peter’s Basilica, the life of Pope Clement VII during the . As the popes lived principally at the across Rome. They forces of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V rampaged through the even left the city altogether in 1309 when the papal court moved city and murdered priests and nuns, the held back to Avignon, France, after King Philip IV arranged for a French the enemy long enough to allow Clement to safely reach the cardinal to be elected pope. Seven popes, all French, ruled from Castel Sant’Angelo, although 147 of the pope’s forces lost their Avignon, and the papacy did not return to Rome until 1377, by lives in the battle. which time the Lateran Palace had burned and the Vatican started 9. The majority of Vatican City’s 600 citizens live abroad. As to be used as a papal residence. Much repair work needed to be of 2011, the number of people with Vatican citizenship totaled done, however, because the Vatican had fallen into such disrepair 594. That number included 71 cardinals, 109 members of the that wolves dug for bodies in the cemetery and cows even Swiss Guard, 51 members of the clergy and one nun inside the wandered the basilica. Vatican walls. The largest group of citizens, however, was the

Members of the Swiss Guard in 307 members of the clergy in diplomatic positions around the Vatican City. (apomares/iStockphoto.com) world. With Benedict XVI residing as a pope emeritus in the Vatican, the population will increase by one when a new pope is 7. The Swiss Guard was hired as a named. mercenary force. The Swiss Guard, recognizable by its armor 10. The Vatican owns a telescope in . As and colorful Renaissance-era Rome expanded, light pollution from the city made it uniforms, has been protecting the pontiff since 1506. That’s increasingly difficult for astronomers at the Vatican when Pope Julius II, following in the footsteps of many Observatory—located 15 miles from the city at the papal summer European courts of the time, hired one of the Swiss mercenary residence in —to view the night skies, so in 1981 forces for his personal protection. The Swiss Guard’s role in the observatory opened a second research center in Tucson, Vatican City is strictly to protect the safety of the pope. Although Arizona. The Vatican conducts astronomical research with a the world’s smallest standing army appears to be strictly state-of-the-art telescope that sits atop in ceremonial, its soldiers are extensively trained and highly skilled southeast Arizona. marksmen. And, yes, the force is entirely comprised of Swiss citizens. Author: Christopher Klein

vegetables, olive oil or canola oil, bar soap, shampoo, toilet Adult Formation Corner paper and toothpaste. Thank you for your support! The Jesuits The Jesuits seek to “find God in all things.” They journey as Mass Intentions companions of Jesus in our contemporary world. Saturday, May 27 Alberto Hurtado, born in Chile in 1901, was a Jesuit priest, 5:30 p.m. James & Helen Grant & Jim & Diane Grant lawyer, social worker, and writer. Of Basque origins, he was requested by his family Sunday, May 28 canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. In his youth, he lived with relatives and was often moved from one family to 7:30 a.m. Sonny Ventresca by Marge & family another. Thus, from an early age, he experienced what it 9:00 a.m. M/M John C. Janes & Margaret T. Janes by meant to be poor and without a home and being at the Joseph Janes mercy of others. 10:30 a.m. Parishioners Monday, May 29 (One mass) In October 1944, while giving a retreat, Alberto appealed to his audience to consider the many poor people of the city, 9:00 a.m. For all deceased men & women who served in our country’s armed forces especially the numerous homeless children who were th roaming the streets of Santiago. This was the beginning of Tuesday, May 30 the “initiative,” a form of charitable activity that provided 7:00 a.m. Joseph (Beau) Biden by the Biden family not simply housing, but a home-like milieu for the homeless. 12:05 p.m. Carmine B. Tomaine by Margaret T. Speicher Wednesday, May 31 He once wrote, “I hold that every poor man, every vagrant, every beggar is Christ carrying his cross. And as Christ, we 7:00 a.m. Betty Jo Grier by Aline & Ed Lynch must love and help him. We must treat him as a brother, a 12:05 p.m. Peter Curtin by Kathy Neylan human being like ourselves. If we were to start a campaign Thursday, June 1 of love for the poor and homeless, we would, in a short time, 7:00 a.m. Elizabeth Colmorgen by Martha Zazzarino do away with depressing scenes of begging, children sleeping 12:05 p.m. Charles Thomas Carr, Jr. by Kathy Neylan in doorways and women with babies in their arms fainting in our streets. . . . Christ stumbles through our streets in the Friday, June 2 person of so many poor who are hungry, thrown out of their 7:00 a.m. Vince McCorkle by family miserable lodgings because of sickness and destitution. 12:05 p.m. Sister Elizabeth Malloy SSJ by Anne Wattman Christ has no home! And we who have the good fortune to Saturday, June 3 have one and have food to satisfy our hunger, what are we 8:00 a.m. Donald Brady by Michael & Margaret Reilly doing about it?” Alberto’s optimistic and joyful attitudes 5:00 p.m. Daniel Hurley by Leslie attracted people of all kinds—young, old, intellectuals, and workers alike. After his death in 1952 from pancreatic cancer, he was hailed as a national hero. Baskets for Babies

Emmanuel Dining Room – Friday, June 9th A program sponsored by the Pro-Life St. Joseph’s provides 350 servings of food for the hungry in Committee and the Knights of Wilmington each month. Volunteers purchase, cook, and Columbus, will welcome gifts during donate 24 chicken thighs. We cook 350 servings of stuffing the month of June. As a reminder, and add green beans and desserts. Our next date to cook and every 4 months a beautiful gift basket deliver food for the Emmanuel Dining Room is Tuesday, May will be personally presented to an 9. Please have your cooked chicken and desserts at the unwed mother to show our affirmation and support to her Family Center by 9 A.M. on that day. If you would like to and her new baby. All are invited to contribute and fill this assist in making the stuffing, we meet at the Family Center at Basket for Babies with gifts to welcome a precious new child 8 A.M. We can always use more chicken cookers. Call Peg into the world. A basket in the back of church will receive Janes (302) 656-3635. your baby gifts. Please contact Lynelle Robuck 610.388.1046 or Annie Jordan 302.992.0437. Food Pantry Collection- Last Sunday of May All offices will be closed Monday, May 29th in observance of The next collection will be May 27th and 28th. We are seeking Memorial Day. In case of emergency, please donations of: whole grain breakfast cereals, old fashioned contact 658-7017. oats, add water pancake mix, coffee, tea, low fat evaporated milk, flour, protein bars, dried fruits, nuts, peanut butter, jelly, low sodium hearty soups, canned meats and fish, rice Congratulations Graduates! and beans, pasta and crushed or diced tomatoes, canned lite fruit, natural low sugar applesauce, canned low sodium “May the gift of joy and the blessing of peace be with you always!”