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1305 EAST ERIE AVENUE • LORAIN, OHIO 44052

Phone: 440-288-0106 • Fax: 440-288-0143

Website: www.stanthonylorain.org

OFFICE HOURS Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:00 am-3:00 pm Wednesday: 9:00 am-2:00 pm

January 1, 2016

PASTORAL STAFF Rev. Edward J. Smith, Pastor • ext. 248 Father Thomas Sanders, OSB, Weekend Associate Paul Heise Deacon James Stewart (retired) Andy Andino, Music Minister [email protected] Marty Flores, Building & Grounds Manager Kim Kuhn, Secretary • ext. 221 [email protected] Diana Lesiecki, Business Manager • ext. 223 [email protected] Kathleen Obermiller, Communications Director [email protected] Dean Robinson, Parish Catechetical Leader [email protected]

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 4:00 pm • Sunday: 10:00 am

WEEKDAYS

Monday & Tuesday: 8:30 am HOLY DAY MASSES Consult your weekly bulletin.

SACRAMENTAL CELEBRATIONS CONFESSION: Saturday 3:00 pm or by appt. : Call the Parish Office to register. will be held on the 3rd Sunday of the month MARRIAGE: Parishioners only. Call at least 6 months in advance. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Call the Parish Office

PARISH SCHOOL OF RELIGION (PSR) Grades 1−8 meet in school on Monday at 6:15 pm New students can register before class.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 440-288-2155 • www.stanthonylorain.com Joseph M. Akosi, School Principal • ext 232 [email protected] Lisa Stefan, Secretary • ext. 231 [email protected]

BULLETIN SUBMISSION Send to [email protected] by Monday at 10 am

ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA CHURCH LORAIN, OH REPORT INTENTIONS The Offertory Report will be available in the next bulletin. Sunday - January 1st - Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God 10:00 am - † Frank Latsnic (Anniv.) Spirit of Life, May we see the value of life. Requested by: Maureen Negulescu Spirit of Hope, May we renew our hope in Monday - January 2nd - Sts. Basil the Great & Gregory you. Spirit of Peace, May we find peace in Nazianzen, & Doctors of the your love, & love one another enough to bring Church your peace to our world. Amen. 8:30 am - †Norma Rush Gilles Requested by: Russ & Arlene Gilles PASTOR’S COLUMN For years the Church calendar celebrated the octave of Tuesday - January 3rd - Christmas Weekday as the feast of Our Lord’s ritual circumcision according to Jewish 8:30 am - †Jozef & Wojcieh Zhozien law (Lk 2:21). After Vatican II had devoted special praise to Our Requested by: Stella & Ted Sobon Lady under the title “Mother of God”, Paul VI authorized Saturday - January 7th - Christmas Weekday those who were revising the liturgy to change the name of the 4:00 pm - †Sandra Woods January 1 feast to “the Solemnity of the Mother of God”.

Requested by: Butchko Family The Council itself expressed joy that not only the Roman Church Sunday - January 8th - The Epiphany of the Lord but the Eastern Church separated from continue to honor 10:00 am - Living & Deceased of the Parish Mary by the title “Mother of God”. The Greek Orthodox use the word “” to express the title: (this Greek word means ADORATION CHAPEL “She who gave birth to God.”) It be pointed out, of course, “The Shepherds hastened to Bethlehem where they found Mary & that “Mother of God” does not mean “Mother of the Blessed Trin- Joseph & the baby lying in a manger” (Lk 2:16). ity”. What it does mean is that the person to whom Mary gave birth was truly the son of God and second person of the Trinity, “We fall down in adoration before the Son of God. We unite our- who assumed a human nature in Mary’s womb. As St. John says, selves in spirit to the wonder of Mary & Joseph. As we adore is “the Word… made flesh”. We are dealing here with a Christ, born in a stable, we make our own faith filled with aston- divine mystery that we cannot ever fully understand, so even to- ishment of the shepherds of that time. We feel their same amaze- day some people misunderstand the meaning of “Mother of ment & their same joy. Jesus Christ is truly Emmanuel, God-with- God”. us from His incarnation with the end of time. And he is this in particular intense & hidden way in the mystery of His continual If, to the pleasure of the Fathers of Vatican II, most of the Eastern presence in the . What vital strength, what consolation, Churches staunchly call Mary “God’s Mother”, there was unfor- what firm hope is discovered in contemplating that mystery of the tunately one Eastern Church that long refused to use the title, and Eucharist. It is God-with-us that enables us to share his life & broke away from the universal Church on that basis. This was the impels us to go out to evangelize the world, to sanctify it.” Nestorian Church, today more commonly called the “Assyrian (St. John Paul II, Pope) Church”. Its members are called Nestorians because they fol- lowed the of , a fifth-century Patriarch of Con- stantinople. Although Nestorius agreed with the definition of the Please join us Saturday, January 7th from 10:00 am- first of Nicaea (A.D. 325) that, as the Creed 3:30 pm, for our Marathon of Rosaries to Save the says, Jesus is “one in being (consubstantial) with the Father”, he Unborn. We will begin a rosary every half hour on the warned his faithful against calling Mary the “Mother of God”. hour. The final 3:30 pm rosary will be prayed in the This was because he tended to think of Jesus as having not only church before 4:00 pm Mass. two natures, the divine and the human, but ALMOST as having two persons, the divine and the human, so that (in his thinking) Mary could be called the mother of Christ, but not the mother of PRAYERS AND SYMPATHY God. To the family & friends of Irene Davis, upon her death on December 16th. To address this situation, an ecumenical council was therefore

May Irene’s soul and the souls of all held at Ephesus, Asia Minor, in 431 to clarify the issue raised by the faithfully departed, through the Nestorius. The result was a joint declaration that it is correct to mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen call Mary the “Mother of God”, for God the Son is Life is changed, not ended. “consubstantial with the Father in his divinity and consubstantial with us in his humanity.” Nestorius was hence condemned to ex- ile, and a large following of his Christian devotees from Syria and READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 1, 2017 Persia broke off unity with the rest, and thenceforth refused to call Sunday: Nm 6:22-27/Ps 67/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21 Mary “Theotokos”. (cont.) Monday: 1 Jn 2:22-28/Ps 98/Jn 1:19-28 Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:29--3:6/Ps 98/Jn 1:29-34 Wednesday: 1 Jn 3:7-10/Ps 98/Jn 1:35-42 SERVERS FOR MASS ON JANUARY 7TH & 8TH Thursday: 1 Jn 3:11-21/Ps 100/Jn 1:43-51 1/7 4 pm Evan Hricovec, Genevieve Zientarski Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13/Ps 147/Mk 1:7-11 or Lk 3:23-28 or 1/8 10 am Emmersyn Nazario, Max Fultz, Nicholas Ortiz 3:23, 31-34, 36, 38 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21/Ps 149/Jn 2:1-11 WEDDING BANNS Next Sunday: Is 60:1-6/Ps 72/Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6/Mt 2:1-12 REBECCA NIELSEN & CHARLES MCARTHUR JANUARY 1, 2016 SOLEMNITY OF MARY, THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD

PASTOR’S COLUMN CONTINUED In the Middle Ages this Nestorian Church, strongly missionary, THE SCHOOL & PARISH spread Christianity southeast into India and east into China. But OFFICES WILL REOPEN when, in the 14th century, the Mongols under Timor Leng swept WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4TH across Asia, they decimated the Nestorian Christians. After that, the Nestorians remained a small denomination dwelling in and around , although a fair number came to the United Weekly Activities States. Meanwhile a group of them reunited with Rome, and are SUNDAY, JANUARY 1 - HAPPY NEW YEAR! called the “Chaldean Catholics”. They have their own Catholic MONDAY, JANUARY 2 - SCHOOL & PARISH OFFICES CLOSED! patriarch, and one diocese in the U.S., with 55,000 members. 3:00 pm - CYO Basketball Practice (Gym) All along, the Nestorians had been more confused than heretical 7:30 pm - New Life Prayer Group (Adoration Chapel) in their beliefs about Jesus’ two natures and his Mother’s right to TUESDAY, JANUARY 3 - SCHOOL & PARISH OFFICES CLOSED! the title “Mother of God”. In fact, a great event in 1994, proved 3:30 pm - CYO Basketball Practice (Gym) that their beliefs were basically correct. On November 11, 1994, 6:30 pm - St. Vincent de Paul Society Meeting (Parish Office) Pope John Paul II and the “Assyrian” Patriarch Dinkha IV signed a pact agreeing that he to whom Mary gave birth was “the Son of WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4 - OFFICES REOPEN! God himself”, so Mary is his Mother. This has not meant instant 4:30 pm - CYO Basketball Practice (Gym) reunion for the 400,000 “Assyrians” with the . It THURSDAY, JANUARY 5 was, however, a happy beginning. How gratifying it was that on 3:00 pm - School Band Practice (Learning Center) January 1, 1995, Catholic, Orthodox, and Assyrian alike, after 3:00 pm - CYO Basketball Practice (Gym) 1,500 years, could at length agree in calling Mary “the Mother of 6:00 pm - St. John Vianney Fraternity Council Mtg. (Church) God”. FRIDAY, JANUARY 6 ~Rev. Edward J Smith 3:00 pm - Divine Mercy (Adoration Chapel) 3:00 pm - School Band Practice (Learning Center) CHARISMATIC MASS 5:00 pm - CYO Basketball Practice (Gym) Catholic Renewal Ministries will host a Charismatic Mass on Friday, January 6th, 7 pm, St. Peter Parish, 35777 Center Ridge SATURDAY, JANUARY 7 Rd., North Ridgeville. Fr. Bob Franco will be the celebrant. 9:00 am - CYO Basketball Games (Gym) Praise & will begin at 7 pm & the liturgy will start at 10:00 am - Marathon of Rosaries (Adoration Chapel) 7:30 pm. Healing prayer teams will be available after mass for SUNDAY, JANUARY 8 individual prayer, & there will also be a social. For more info., contact Fr. Franco, 440-327-2201 or CRM, 440-944-9445. This 1:00 pm - St. John Vianney Fraternity Gathering (Church) 1:00 pm - CYO Basketball Games (Gym) will be a time to truly encounter the Lord. All are invited!

CONFIRMATION PREP PRAY FOR THE SICK Preparation for the of Confirmation will begin with Please keep the following people in your prayers: a Student/Parent Meeting on Sunday, January 8th, 11 am Gilbert Amador, Loretta Bliss, Irene Debrason, Anna Mae Ebinger, (right after Mass) in the church. Any student in the 8th grade Judy Foltin, Bea Giacobbe, Judy Godlewski, Harriet Hageman, or older, who wishes to receive this sacrament, is invited to this Tim Haupt, Ralph Koontz, Nancy Kurianowicz, Betty McGinley, preparation program. If you have any questions, you may contact Sr. Anne McNulty, Victor Munoz, Mary Nazario, John Profant, Dean Robinson, in the parish office, 440-288-0106 ext. 225. Emily Raddell, Amy Schmidt, Elmer Schneider, George Simonovich, Brian Stawicki. Deacon Jim Stewart, Rick Teaman, Stacie Velasquez, PASTERKA - POLISH CHRISTMAS LITURGY Peg Young, Bob Zelina Will be celebrated on Sunday, January 8th, 3 pm, Nativity Call the Parish Office if you would like to add someone to this list. Church, 418 W. 15th St., Lorain. There will be a short prelude of Please notify us when to remove the name. Polish Kolendy (carols) followed by the Mass with in ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Polish & English. Free admission & open to everyone. For further Call the “Prayer Line” for immediate prayer requests, information, call 440-258-5231 or 440-826-0226. Georgianna: 440-288-1644 or Dee: 440-984-3874

MARIAN GUILD FUNDRAISER If you have a family member that would appreciate Come celebrate a Cleveland Sports Nite - Tail Gate Party on a visit or card, call Pat: 440-288-4135. Saturday, February 4th, 2017 in the Social Hall. Cost is $30 per person & includes dinner catered by Smith's of Avon while CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS enjoying Craft Beer or Wine Tasting presented by Eddie Schmitz. ...are available by request only. You can call the parish office, Win a beautiful Necklace from Nielsen's or one of the many Chi- email [email protected] or return the coupon be- nese Raffle Baskets. There will be Fun, Surprises, Photo's, Music low. All statements will be mailed. Please make sure we have & more. Wear your favorite team shirt. Tickets sold after Mass, or your correct address when requesting. call Linda, 440-288-2784 or Bob & Laura Parker, 440-522-2376. CONTRIBUTION STATEMENT REQUEST ELCOME EWLY BAPTIZED W , N Name: ______Lauren & Sky Woodrum, daughters of Charles & Brandy Address: ______Baptized into our faith on December 18th, 2016