ST. ALPHONSUS PARISH
151 ST. ALPHONSUS WAY • CROSSVILLE, TN 38555

Phone: 9314842358 • Fax: 9314847407
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stalonline.org
Parish Office Hours: MondayMWednesday: 9:00 a.m.M3:00 p.m.
Thursday: 9:00 a.m.M2:00 p.m.
The office closes at 2pm for Staff Meetings

As disciples of Jesus Christ, the Catholic community of St. Alphonsus is
committed to knowing, loving, and serving God, and His creation.
• AUGUST 15, 2021 •

St. Alphonsus Happenings


Mass Intentions
SATURDAY, AUGUST 14 Mass at 5pm
SATURDAY, August 14

5:00pm
Lorraine Matthews
SUNDAY, AUGUST 15 Mass at 8:30am & 11am
SUNDAY, August 15
Youth Ministry Car Wash after morning Masses
8:30am
Carrie Harvey
Spanish Mass, 4:00pm
11:00am
Elaine Harvey Bennett

4:00pm For Our Parish Family
TUESDAY, AUGUST 17 Morning Mass, 8:30am
TUESDAY, August 17

8:30am
Father Joe Campbell
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18 Morning Mass, 8:30am
WEDNESDAY, August 18

8:30am
Father Paul Valleroy

THURSDAY, AUGUST 19 THURSDAY, August 19
Morning Mass, 8:30am

8:30am
Father Joe Hughes
Choir Practice, 67pm
Safe Environment Training for volunteers, 67:30pm
FRIDAY, August 20

8:30am
Father Val Peter
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20 Morning Mass, 8:30am
SATURDAY, August 21

5:00pm
Mitchell &
Rachel Ann Carey
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21 Mass at 5pm
SUNDAY, August 22

8:30am
Raymond &
Mary June Matz
SUNDAY, AUGUST 22 11:00am
Ron Alt & Our Parish Family
Mass at 8:30am & 11am
4:00pm No Mass
CCD PK4th grade begins, 9:45M 10:45am
TUESDAY, August 24
No Hispanic Mass

NO MASS
Prayer for the Year of St. Joseph, by Pope Francis
WEDNESDAY, August 25
Hail, Guardian of the Redeemer, spouse of the Virgin Mary. 8:30am For Our Parish Family
To you God entrusted his only Son; in you Mary placed her

trust; with you Christ became man.
Administrator/Pastor
Blessed Joseph, to us too, show yourself as father, and …………………….Rev. Mark Schuster
guide us in the path of life. Obtain for us grace, mercy, and Deacon
courage, and defend us from every evil. Amen
…………………..Deacon Peter Minneci

Mass Times
Director of Business & Finance
Sunday: 8:30am, 11:00am
………………...…….….Karen Otuonye
Mass in Spanish: 4:00pm on 1st & 3rd Sunday

Tuesday  Friday: 8:30am
Director of Music
Saturday Vigil: 5:00pm
.….…………………….Marian Sullivan


Sacrament of Reconciliation
Director of Faith Formation & Youth Ministry
Saturday: 4:00  4:45pm
…………………….....Pauline O’Keeffe

Sunday: 7:458:15am & 1010:45am
Assistant Director of Faith Formation

First Saturday Mass & Devotion: 8:30am
.……….………………...…..Sara Carey

PLEASE remember: the doors will be locked at the start of Mass for security ST. ALPHONSUS CATHOLIC CHURCH
CROSSVILLE, TN

People often attend Mass at a parish for months or even years without officially registering. Parish registration is an expression of your commitment to being an active member of our community. Parish registration also simplifies the process for the planning and preparation of baptisms, weddings, and funerals, and for serving as sponsor or godparent for a sacramental candidate. Parish registration can be easily accomplished by contact- ing the parish office.
(We
also need your help in keeping our records current. Whenever there is a move, birth, death, or marriage in your family, please notify the parish office.)
Observances for the week:
Readings for the week of 8/15


Sunday:
Sunday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:34, 1516; 16:12/Ps 132:67, 910, 1314 [8]/
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary*
1 Cor 15:54b57/Lk 11:2728 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:16a, 10ab/Ps 45:10, 11, 12, 16 Monday:
[10bc]/1 Cor 15:2027/Lk 1:3956
St. Stephen of Hungary
Monday: Jgs 2:1119/Ps 106:3435, 3637, 3940, 43ab and 44 [4a]/Mt 19:1622
Tuesday:
Tuesday: Jgs 6:1124a/Ps 85:9, 1112, 1314 [cf. 9b]/Mt 19:2330
St. Hyacinth
Wednesday: Jgs 9:615/Ps 21:23, 45, 67 [2a]/Mt 20:116
Wednesday:
Thursday: Jgs 11:2939a/Ps 40:5, 78a, 8b9, 10 [8a and 9a]/Mt 22:114
St. Helena
Friday: Ru 1:1, 36, 14b16, 22/Ps 146:56ab, 6c7, 89a, 9bc10 [1b]/Mt 22:3440
Thursday:
Saturday: Ru 2:13, 811; 4:1317/Ps 128:1b2, 3, 4, 5 [4]/Mt 23:112
St. John Eudes, Priest
Next Sunday: Jos 24:12a, 1517, 18b/Ps 34:23, 1617, 1819, 2021, 2223 [9a]/
Friday:
Eph 5:2132 or 5:2a, 2532/Jn 6:6069
St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor
of the Church
Upcoming Faith Formation Events: Attention volunteers!
Saturday:
St. Pius X, Pope
Sunday, August 22, 9:45am: Sunday School classes for PreK If you have not yet created your Next Sunday:
Safe Environment
through 4th grade begins account with CMG, please come Sts. Timothy, Hippolytus, Symphorian Wednesday, August 25, 5:30pm: Youth Ministry classes for *indicates Saint or Blessed
to a training on Thursday,

highlighted in this bulletin
5th through 12th grade begins

August 19, at 6pm.

HELP SUPPORT OUR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS! Question: What lessons should I learn from the Assumption of Mary?

The collection for Catholic School Tuition is this
Answer:
weekend, August 15.
Growing in holiness is similar to training in a sport. We need someone to Envelopes available in the entryway, or give show us how we can live our faith well. Mary is a model of sanctity. She online at https://dioknox.org/schoolscollection
shows us how to be faithful to God’s will, living each day with confidence The AdvocateNthe Holy Spirit that the Father will in God’s mercy and love. At the Nativity, in Jesus’ public ministry, and at send in my nameNhe will teach you everything and the Crucifixion, we see her steadfast trust. She allows the Lord to use her remind you of all that I told you.
life to accomplish his plan for her and for all of us. In the Preface of the

John 14: 26
Mass for the Assumption of Mary, we pray: “For today the Virgin Mother of

1. Jesus and Mary; 2. Mary; 3. Mary; 4. a b & c; 5. t; 6. t; 7. t t 7. t; 6. t; 5. c; & b a 4. Mary; 3. Mary; 2. Mary; and Jesus 1. God was assumed into heaven as the beginning and image of your Church’s coming to perfection and a sign of sure hope and comfort to your pilgrim
This year's Oktoberfest people.”
It is this image of holiness that we strive to imitate. In the office, at will be held on
home, or in our community, we look for signs of God’s grace that call us to Friday & Saturday,
an ever greater love of him and each other. A greater awareness of God is a 15 & 16 October.

sign of our conversion of heart that lives the lessons Mary teaches. ©LPi
We will be open from 11:30am until 9:30pm both days.



Act of Spiritual Communion
For your volunteering pleasure, we have

several positions available, including:
My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the Most  at the gate, selling tickets, collecting Holy Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I money, etc.
desire to receive You into my soul.

 Checking IDs and distributing arm bands
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramen- We require 5 people per each
tally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I em- 3hour shift.
brace You as if You were already there and unite my- The shifts will be: 11:30N2:30,
self wholly to You. 2:305:30 and 5:308:30

Never permit me to be separated from You. Contact Joe Rummel:
Amen. [email protected] or 9312481112

PLEASE remember: the doors will be locked
at the start of Mass for security.
THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY AUGUST 15, 2021

RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS
WWJD bracelets were all the rage about 25 years ago in Christian circles. I’ve always wondered if a WWMD bracelet might not make just as much sense, and maybe more. What Would Mary Do? WWMD?
I would argue that Mary was the most exemplary steward who ever lived. Her answer was always “Yes.” Yes, Lord, I am Your handmaiden. Yes, I will visit Elizabeth, and help her in the last difficult months of pregnancy. Yes, I will bring my son up in the Mosaic law and present him at the Temple of Jerusalem. Yes, I will give him to the crowds and to public ministry. Yes, I will offer him on this Cross, if it is Your will. Yes, yes, yes.
Well, I can’t be like Mary, we think to ourselves. There’s an intimidation factor with the Blessed Mother and Catholics some- times  one that almost exceeds that of Christ. Perhaps it’s because we are in awe of the fact that she was not divine in any way  she was a mere creation, like us; but somehow, she always had the courage to say yes. How could she do it, when we find it so hard?
Well, God certainly lavished on Mary extraordinary graces. Her lack of original sin liberated her to conform her will to God’s. But God is impatient to give us, too, all the graces we need to be a steward in the example of Mary. He’s waiting for us simply to ask. Just as in Adam we died, so in Christ  through Mary  we live. What can we say yes to today, in Mary’s example?
~Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi
The Dormition of the Mother of God is a Great Feast of the Eastern Trivia for your pleasure…
Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches which com-
memorates the "falling asleep" or death of Mary, the Theotokos ("Mother 1. Who was related to Zechariah and Elizabeth in the of God", literally translated as God-bearer), and her bodily resurrection BibleM Paul, Mark, Jesus or Mary?
before being taken up into heaven. It is celebrated on 15 August as the 2.
Who pushed Jesus to change the water into wine at Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The Armenian Apostolic the Wedding at Cana?
Church celebrates the Dormition on the Sunday nearest 15 August. In 3.
Who wrote the following in a letter to James: Western Churches the feast is known as the Assumption of Mary. The “Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the death or Dormition of Mary is not recorded in the Christian canonical scrip- Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their tures.
distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world”?
The term Dormition expresses the belief that the Virgin died without 4.
Since people in the Bible didn’t exactly have “last suffering, in a state of spiritual peace. This belief does not rest on any names”, how would Mary have been identified (prior scriptural basis, but is affirmed by Orthodox Christian Holy Tradition. It is to her marriage to Joseph)? A. Miriam bat Joachim testified to in some apocryphal writings, but neither the Orthodox Church (Mary, daughter of Joachim); B. There was no need to nor other Christians regard these as possessing scriptural authority. Hip- specifically identify herM everyone knew who she was; polytus of Thebes, a 7th-or 8th-century author, claims in his partially pre- C. She was identified by the area of the town or city served chronology to the New Testament that Mary lived for 11 years after where she lived or by the trade/job of her father.
the death of Jesus, dying in AD 41. 5. T or F Immaculate Conception refers to the fact that The Feast of the Dormition is preceded by a two-week fast, referred to Mary was conceived without the stain of original sin as the Dormition Fast. From August 1 to August 14, Orthodox and Eastern and born free from original sin.
Catholics fast from red meat, poultry, meat products, dairy products (eggs 6. T or F There is no word in the bible regarding the and milk products), fish, oil, and wine. The Dormition Fast is a stricter fast death of Mary. Everything we know comes from the than either the Nativity Fast (Advent) or the Apostles' Fast, with only wine apocryphal narratives, including being resurrected by and oil (but no fish) allowed on weekends. As with the other Fasts of the Jesus and welcomed into heaven.

Church year, there is a Great Feast that falls during the Fast; in this case, 7. T or F We honor Mary with the Assumption every the Transfiguration (August 6), on which fish, wine and oil are allowed. year.
In some places, the services on weekdays during the Dormition Fast are similar to the services during Great Lent. Many churches and monas-
St. Alphonsus Resources and Organizations
teries in the Russian tradition perform the Lenten services on at least the


first day of the Dormition Fast. In the Greek tradition, during the Fast either Faith Formation/Youth Ministry: Pauline O’Keeffe
the Great Paraklesis (Supplicatory Canon) or the Small Paraklesis is cele- Baptism,
Eucharist, Confirmation: Sara Carey

brated every evening except Saturday and the Eves of the Transfiguration
RCIA (joining or returning to Catholicism): Sara Carey
and the Dormition.

The first day of the Dormition Fast, August 1, is a feast known as the Marriage: Our diocese mandates a minimum six
month peri- Procession of the Cross, on which it is customary to have an outdoor pro- od for marriage preparation, and attendance at an Engaged En- cession and perform the Lesser Blessing of Water. In Eastern Orthodoxy it counter is required. Visit dioknox.org for more information. Contact the Office is also the day of the Holy Seven Maccabees, the martyrs Abimus, Antoni-
us, Gurias, Eleazar, Eusebonus, Alimus, and Marcellus, their mother Solo- Anointing of the Sick/Communion to homebound:
Contact the Office monia, and their teacher Eleazar. Finally, it is also considered the first of


the three "Feasts of the Savior" in August: the Feast to the All-Merciful Knights
of Columbus (K of C) Savior and the Most Holy Mother of God. Council of Catholic Women (CCW) The Dormition is associated most notably with Jerusalem, which holds Hispanic Ministry the Basilica of the Dormition and Mary’s Tomb, and Ephesus, which con- SACS Community Services: 931
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