The Parishes of Saint Mary in Bremen & Saint Bernadette in Lancaster
“You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
Jesus said to him in reply, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah. For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father. And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”
-from today’s Holy Gospel, Matthew 16: 13-20
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 23, 2020
St. Bernadette Parish St. Mary Parish 1343 Wheeling Road NE. (740) 654 • 1893 602 Marietta Street (740) 569 • 7738 LANCASTER, OH 43130-8701 BREMEN, OH 43107
Cover Picture: Christ Delivering the Keys to St. Peter Fresco (1481-1482) by Pietro Perugino (1446/1452-1523) Now in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome Our Parishes Both Parishes Father Tyron Tomson Pastor (740) 654 • 1893 fathertomson @ icloud . com Stephen Karnes Business Manager (740) 654 • 1893 stbernbook @ gmail . com Kathy Kehnast Secretary (740) 654 • 1893 stbernparish @ yahoo . com Bremen St. Mary Parish Sarah Borah Religious Education (740) 974 • 5925 sborah920 @ gmail . com Ben Factor Liturgical Music (614) 736 • 1689 benjamin.e.factor @ gmail . com St. Bernadette Parish Jeff Carpenter Deacon (740) 681 • 9918 carpenter.277 @ osu . edu Mark Scarpitti Deacon (740) 438 • 3970 dcn.scarpitti @ gmail . com Ann Essman Pastoral Minister (740) 654 • 1893 aessman001 @ att . net Steve Huber Facilities Coordinator (740) 654 • 3137 shuber57 @ yahoo . com Angie Kerns Religious Education (740) 654 • 2588 kwkerns @ gmail . com Liz Latorre Liturgical Music (740) 243 • 1872 lizlatorre @ gmail . com St. Bernadette School Joan Miller Acting Principal (740) 654 • 3137 jomiller2 @ cdeducation . org Barb Huber Secretary (740) 654 • 3137 bhuber @ cdeducation . org The St. Mary Bremen Parish Office is at the church vestibule. Hours: 9-11 AM, Thursdays. The St. Bernadette Parish Office is in the Mary Good Center, across the back parking lot from the school. Hours: 9 AM-1 PM, Monday through Friday. St. Bernadette School is located at 1325 Wheeling Road, Lancaster, OH 43130-8701 St. Bernadette Website is www . stbernadetteparish . net St. Mary Website is www . stbernadetteparish . net/about-us Flocknote: text STBERN or STMARY to 97000 to be added to our news, updates, and reminders.
Sacramental Life Holy Matrimony Baptism Couples wishing to marry should contact the parish To have a child baptized, parents must register and office six months before a wedding. Why so long? attend a class as a couple. Try to attend before your Because this Sacrament, not just the ceremony, child is born. At least one parent and godparent requires serious preparation. And the Church needs must be practicing Catholics. Please call or email to be involved in that preparation. The Church the church office for information or to register. needs to support couples through the years of Confession married life and offers programs to enhance married The priest is available for Penance at St. Bernadette life. To learn about these programs, watch the bulletin. on Saturdays at 8:30 AM and 3:00 PM, and on
Thursdays at 5:30 PM. Confessions are offered Sundays at St. Mary Bremen at 8:00 AM. Every Eucharistic Adoration Catholic priest is available whenever needed. Eucharistic Adoration takes place each Wednesday at St. Bernadette with Exposition of the Blessed Anointing and Care of the Sick Sacrament at 9:00 AM and Benediction and The priest gives the Anointing of the Sick to one Reposition at 2:00 PM. Exposition also takes place who is dangerously ill, facing major surgery, or each Thursday at St. Bernadette from 7:00 PM until suffering from the ravages of old age. Call the MIDNIGHT. On the first Thursday of the month we parish office to inform us if a loved one is in need offer a Eucharistic Holy Hour at St. Mary in of pastoral care in sickness, particularly with an Bremen after the morning Mass. All are welcome to extended absence from attending Mass. come as you are able, or stop in for prayer anytime.
Collar Corner Hear the Word of the Lord August 23, Isaiah 22:19-23 Matt 16:13-20 School is getting underway this week! We ask Twenty-first Sunday Psalm 138 for your prayers for our students and families and in Ordinary Time Romans 11:33-36 staff as this unique year begins. It’s a moment to be grateful for our Catholic schools and cognizant August 24, Monday Revelation 21:9-14 John 1:45-51 of the sacrifices made at every level to further the St. Bartholomew, Psalm 145 education of the next generation in the Faith. Apostle August 25, Tuesday 2 Thes 2:1-17 Matt 23:23-26 Thursday is the feast of St. Monica, a great St. Louis; St. Joseph Psalm 96 Calasanz, Priest patroness of wayward souls. We all have people we love in our lives away from the practice of the August 26, 2 Thes 3:6-18 Matt 23:27-32 Wednesday Psalm 128 Faith. Let’s give them over to her persistent intercession, which helped her son Augustine to August 27, Thursday 1 Cor 1:1-9 Matt 24:42-51 leave his life of sin and become one of the St. Monica Psalm 145 greatest saints the Church has ever known. His August 27, Thursday Wisdom 10:10-14 Matt 18:1-5 feast is celebrated the day after hers. Latin Mass Psalm 36 St. Joseph Calasanctius, Find your replacement: namely, an RCIA Confessor participant. This is the time for those who need August 28, Friday 1 Cor 1:17-25 Matt 25:1-13 to catch up and complete Sacraments, spend some St. Augustine, Bishop Psalm 33 time brushing up on apologetics and & Doctor of the Church evangelization, or just get some additional faith formation and inspiration. There is no in-depth August 29, Saturday Jeremiah 1:17-19 Mark 6:17-29 Latin Mass Psalm 91 assigned reading or homework like a class. RCIA Beheading of St. John is at its heart a group of people deepening their the Baptist relationship with the Lord in the Church. Come! August 29, Saturday 1 Cor 1:26-31 Mark 6:17-29 The Passion of St. Psalm 33 The Bishop’s Annual Appeal goal has been John the Baptist exceeded for Bremen. Congratulations! Keep at August 30, Jeremiah 20:7-9 Matt 16:21-27 it: everything we can raise from this point comes Twenty-second Psalm 63 back to us 100%. We look more for participation Sunday in Ordinary Romans 12:1-2 Time than anything else; please take a moment and make a pledge today. RCIA News In Our Lord and Our Lady, RCIA for our two parishes will have an information night for anyone interested at 7:00 PM on Sunday, Father Tomson September 13, in the Mary Good Center. Anyone interested in becoming Catholic or just learning
more about the Faith is welcome. Now is a great
time for you to invite and offer to accompany We Pray in August potential converts you know to this no-commitment We pray for all those who work and live from the evening. Any adult who somehow missed receiving sea, among them sailors, fishermen and their the Sacrament of Confirmation is also invited to families. RCIA. Call the parish office for details.
Intentions at Mass St. Bernadette Parish Saturday, 4 PM St. Bernadette Ray Sorg August 22
Sunday, 8:30 AM Bremen Frank Schmelzer What's the Buzz? August 23 St. Mary Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year at St.
Sunday, 10 AM St. Bernadette For the People of Bernadette! Because this is your parish school, the August 23 Both Parishes Home & School Association (SBHS) co-chairs, Tara Craaybeek and Amy Woo, are excited to Mon, Aug 24 8:20 AM St. Bernadette Pamela Eltringham include you on the journey of what looks to be an eventful school year. Having graduated from St. Wed, Aug 26 8:20 AM St. Bernadette John Beck Bernadette, St. Mary, and Fisher Catholic, Tara is a Thursday, 8:20 AM Bremen Jacob & lifelong member of our Catholic community. Amy August 27 St. Mary Winnojean Hahn has been a member of St. Bernadette since her Thursday, 6 PM St. Bernadette Celebrant’s family moved here in 2012. Both families have August 27 Intention children who have graduated from St. Bernadette as Friday, 8:20 AM St. Bernadette For the Students, well as current students. Tara and Amy also serve August 28 Families, & on the St. Bernadette Parish Pastoral Advisory Faculty of St. Bernadette Council (PPAC). Their hope is that “What's the School Buzz?” becomes a place where you can find information, create bonds, and become involved Saturday, 9 AM St. Bernadette Celebrant’s August 29 Intention with St. Bernadette School. Each week it will feature school activities, students and teachers, and Saturday, 4 PM St. Bernadette Paul Gallagher August 29 fundraising opportunities. As in any new endeavor, they ask that the Holy Spirit guide and make this a Sunday, 8:30 AM Bremen For the People of August 30 St. Mary Both Parishes fruitful enterprise for our entire parish family. If you have any questions or ideas, please call/text Sunday, 10 AM St. Bernadette Victor Ramoh August 30 Tara at (740) 503-8305 or Amy at (414) 882- 1863. They look forward to this journey with you! Bishop’s Annual Appeal The Bishop’s Annual Appeal (BAA) is a diocese- wide effort that supports the pastoral services and ministries of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Columbus. Goals for 2020 are: Diocesan - $6,850,000. St. Mary Bremen - $13,862. St. Bernadette - $47,223. Pledges so far (as of August 17) are: Diocesan - $4,274,987. St. Mary Bremen - $14,425. - Congratulations! St. Bernadette - $26,215. This year’s Bishop’s Annual Appeal continues in both parishes. Pledge envelopes are available at church entrances. You are invited to fill out your pledge and then place it in the collection baskets as you leave church. You may also mail your pledge directly to your parish or to the diocese, or you may use the brand new Columbus Catholic Giving website at https:// columbuscatholicgiving. org for your donation. Thank you!
Pamela Eltringham Memorial boys’ 6-9-month summer pants, and girls’ 12- Tuition Assistance Fund month summer PJs. Donations can be left at church or on the rectory front porch. Thank you! With thanksgiving to God, we recognize the 45 years of service that our former principal, Pam Eltringham, gave to St. Bernadette School. Our Around the Diocese school community will miss her quiet presence in our building each day and her steady hand at Foundation Dinners keeping our school “buzzing along.” May God Foundation Dinners in Lancaster is in need of grant her eternal rest in heaven. You are invited to bottled water and to-go food containers to continue support the Pamela Eltringham Memorial Tuition serving the homeless in our community. All food Assistance Fund. Pam’s dedication to making must be carry-out at this time because of social Catholic education available to all students will be distancing protocols. They are seeing an increase in carried on through this fund, and contributions are the number of people they serve. If you would like welcome. Please send donations, along with your to donate bottled water or plastic containers, just fond memories of Pam, to St. Bernadette School, drop them off in the hallway of St. Bernadette 1325 Wheeling Road NE, Lancaster, Ohio 43130. School, and they will be delivered. Thank you for Fifth Sunday: St. Vincent de Paul your care and concern.
Members of the Lancaster St. Vincent de Paul Bethesda Healing Ministry Society will be at the church doors after Masses Anxiety can be heightened during these trying next Saturday and Sunday, August 29 and 30, to times. If you know of anyone struggling from an receive your donations. They will be standing abortion experience in the past, Bethesda is outside to enable social distancing. Please be available to help at (614) 309-0157. generous. They operate entirely on income from their store and your voluntary donations. Thank you August: National Make a Will Month for helping them serve others. Have you been put off creating or updating your will? Is life too busy and this important planning Bremen St. Mary Parish tool keeps getting put on the back-burner? Now is the time to make sure that your final wishes are Parish School of Religion followed after you leave this earthly life. A will is a PSR registration is now open at St. Mary Church in legal document which captures what you want to Bremen. Look for an email from Sarah Borah with happen to your assets when you die. Having a will the new address of [email protected]. in place prevents the state from determining for you Please email Sarah if you would like to register how and to whom your assets are distributed. A will someone new. The form will also be located on the can be simple and may not require a lot of time or St. Mary website at www.stbernadetteparish.net money to establish. The Catholic Foundation’s /about-us. Professional Advisors Group has many attorneys from across the Diocese of Columbus who can Bremen Food Pantry Video serve as a great resource for determining what you Check out the video highlighting the Bremen Food need to create a will. The Catholic Foundation also Pantry on the Bremen St. Mary website at has tools available to help you get started with www.stbernadetteparish.net/about-us. It was created creating your will and forming your estate plans. as a Thank You to the Catholic Foundation for a They have a free informational planning guide to $2,000 grant for food and supplies. get you started. Stop procrastinating and use this month as an opportunity to start your will or review St. Mary Altar Society an existing version if it’s more than 5 years old. PDHC is extremely thankful for the donations from Your family and loved ones will thank you for St. Mary Church in Bremen. The diapers, wipes, taking the guess work out of how you would like baby shampoo, pacifiers, and baby clothes help your financial matters handled. Contact the Catholic many pregnant women in Lancaster. Most needed at Foundation today for information at (614) 443-8893 this time are size 4 diapers, shampoo, pacifiers, or visit www . catholic-foundation . org.