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Saturday Vigil: 4:30 p.m.

Sunday Mass: 7:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m.

Daily Mass: Monday  Friday 8:30 a.m.
Saturday: 8:30 a.m.

Holy Days: Vigil 5:30 p.m., 6:30 a.m., 8:30 a.m. 12:00p.m., 7:00 p.m.

Confessions: By request.

ST. ANGELA MERICI PARISH
FAIRVIEW PARK, OH

Dear Friends,
weekend. It is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity.
We believe in one God yes, but a God revealed to us as the Welcome to a beautiful Triune God M three in one. That is why the symbols we use solemnity today as we honor for the Most Blessed Trinity speak of both three and one. That the Most Blessed Trinity on is also why we use this bedrock of our faith to begin every this Memorial Day Weekend! prayer: in the NAME (not names) of the Father, the Son, and Easter is over. Actually, now we are the Holy Spirit. Our language defines for us each day and technically back in the Ordinary Time, each hour the essence of our Triune God.
specifically Week 8. This cycle/season
resumed the day after Pentecost and will Here is a picture of my favorite church last until the final week, which is Week in NYC. During my years in New York, I 34. The last Sunday of the liturgical year was blessed to serve in several of worship will be the Feast of Christ the churches/parishes. My first w as St. King of the Universe on November 21st. Raymond Nonnatus. Use the internet to Thus, we count down the year ‘ordinal
check up on him. He was a man known for ly with ordinals’ during this ‘ordinary’ engaging in the ‘ransom of captives.’ Then time (Remember: it’s not ordinary as I was in residence at the famous service church of St. Francis opposed to extraordinary but ordinary as of Assisi across from Penn Station and Madison Square counting week by week by the numbers) M it Garden. There I heard confessions to pay my room and is the counting of the gift of time we board. Confessions started at 6 AM and ended at 7 PM six have as we contemplate all the mysteries days a week. Hundreds of thousands of folks passed from of our faith that we have celebrated from Penn Station and walked by St. Francis, so it was a very, very Advent to Pentecost and try to live them busy place. So for about three years of my priesthood, I out in our lives. We have lots of weeks heard confessions a lot! Great training for the pastoral life of to do this. And we again return to the mercy.
Scripture reading cycles marked out for
us in this year as the Church guides us But finally, I landed in a most wonderful parish on through Cycle B for Sundays and Cycle 1 the upper Westside of New York name the Church for Weekdays in the lectionary. It may of the Most Holy Trinity. Several churches in be a tad confusing, but these norms for Manhattan are named for the Trinity M I believe there are at celebration help us to review our faith least two Lutheran, along with other Christian denominations. But the only Roman Catholic church dedicated to the Trinity on each year, the Sacred Scriptures of the nd Bible over a threeyear period, and all the island of Manhattan was on West 82 Street, and I was the great saints and mysteries of our most blessed to have landed there for a long stay of over 11 salvation as a community. I give you a years while also working at the managing editor of religion for test on this when we gather at Mass. the Catholic firm of William H. Sadlier Publishing. We were LOL!
essentially a textbook company.


Interestingly enough, even The small photos I copied here of Holy Trinity outside though it is officially the and inside may give you a hint of its beauty and Ordinary Season of the Year uniqueness, but you’ll have to see it in person to make sure liturgically, we still have several you grasp its architectural wonder. It is a small Hagia Sophia, important feasts to celebrate M really really. And it has won acclaim for many aspects of its solemnities M that mark out our splendor.
wonderful, mystical, and special faith as
Catholics and as disciples of Jesus. We These two ‘ease’ back into the Ordinary Season. pictures depict And these feasts help us to hone in on the outside and some important aspects of our faith in inside of the God and our relationship with God, who church with the is One God but a Trinity of Persons. rectory next Next week, for example, we center on door. It was the miracle of our most important founded in 1898! sacrament M the Most Holy Body and I was truly blessed Blood of Christ M Corpus Christi M that is to be there with a great parish community and a tremendous the Eucharist! And just for added staff. You will notice how close the church is to the street in wonder and beauty we also celebrate this Manhattan. Not lots of room to park or have green grass! month the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus to That’s what Central Park is for!
remind us of a love beyond our capacity
to fully comprehend! How’s that for an In our church of SAM here in Fairview Park we ‘ordinary time’ of the year!!!
also have a beautiful reminder of the Most Blessed
Trinity. If you look at the baldachin (baldacchino M bal Thus, first and foremost we dakeeno in Italian) above the altar you will notice our center in on the very essence of Trinitarian symbols to highlight our belief in the Triune God M God who has revealed God’s One God but Three Persons in One God. You’ll see the hand own self as a trinity of Persons this
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the Holy Spirit. Actually, the baldachin (baldacchino, Many of the most powerful myths ever told a term equivalent to Baldacc or Baghdad which was arose out of the experience of God’s famous as a source of silk brocades) is an overwhelming richness and the ancient architectural piece that is reminiscent of a permanent peoples’ incapacity to conceptualize God ornamental canopy, as above a freestanding altar or and God’s activity in any singular way. throne. Such is the baldachin in our church. Whatever else might be said about polytheism
and ancient myths about the gods and How do we share our love and experience goddesses, ancient religious practices and the of the Most Blessed Trinity? Are w e able incredible canon of mythology that these to help others to know this God who is love, produced speak of how rich, untamed, and this God who has been revealed to us by Jesus? beyond simplistic imagination and language is Where do we begin? Perhaps with the Sign of the the human experience of God. The ancients Cross M in the name (not names) of the Father, Son, believed that their experience pointed to the and Holy Spirit. Doing that correctly and reverently is existence of many deities.
an awesome way of deepening our life of true love in
God. But what more? Here is a nice clip from Fr. And then a massive shift took place: Rolheiser that I like:
Judaism, soon followed by Christianity
and Islam, introduced the strong, clear, The Richness of the Mystery of God (see how many doctrinaire idea that there is only one symbols you can come up with for the Trinity)
God. Now all divine power and energy was seen
G.K. Chesterton once said that one of the as coming from a single source, monotheism, reasons he believed in Christianity was because of its YHWH, the Father of Jesus, Allah. There were belief in the Trinity. If Christianity had been made up no other gods or goddesses. (No wonder the by human person, it would not have at its very center first of the Ten Commandments is what it is!)
a concept that is impossible to grasp or explain: the But from the time of Jesus’ idea that God exists as one but within in three resurrection onwards, Christians persons.
began to struggle with simple
How do we understand the Trinity? We monotheism. They believed that there is don’t! God, by definition, is ineffable, still only one God, but their experience of God beyond conceptualization, beyond imagination, beyond demanded that they believe that this God was language. The Christian belief that God is a trinity somehow “three”. Stated simply, when Jesus helps underscore how rich the mystery of God is and rose from the dead Christians immediately how our experience of God is always richer than our began to attribute divinity to him, yet without concepts and language about God.
identifying him as God the Father. Jesus was
understood to be God, but somehow different This is already evident in the history of from God the Father.
religion. From the very beginning, Moreover, inside of their experience, they humans have always had an experience of sensed still a third divine energy which they God and have worshipped God. However, couldn’t fully identify with either Jesus or God from the very beginning too, humans have also had the Father, the Holy Spirit.
the sense that God is too rich and toobeyond any
one set of categories to be captured in any This experience left them in a curious human conception. Hence most ancient peoples and sometimes perplexed state: They were polytheistic. They believed in many gods and were monotheists, God alone was God. goddess. They experienced divine energy and the Yet, Jesus too was God, as was the Holy Spirit. need to celebrate divine energy in many different Their experience of grace and God’s action in the areas of their lives and had gods and goddesses to world was at odds with their simplistic accommodate that. Thus they had gods and conception of monotheism.

goddesses for every longing and every circumstance, God was one and yet God was somehow from war, through growing crops, through sex, three. How to fit this together? It took through understanding why your father wouldn’t bless Christianity three hundred years to finally arrive you, there was a god or goddess to whom you could at a formula that somehow honored the richness turn.
of the Christian experience of God. The Council
Sometimes they believed in one supreme god of Nicea in 325 gave us the creedal formula we who ultimately ruled over lesser gods and profess today: There is one God in three persons; except they wrote that formula in goddesses, but they sensed that divine energy was Greek and the words there state literally that too rich a reality to be contained in a single being. God is one substance in three subsistent They believed too that sometimes the gods were at relations.
war with each other. As well, their gods and
That formula isn’t meant to give us goddesses often times messed around within human perfect clarity.
lives, making special deals with humans, having affairs
with them, and sometimes even having children with No formula can ever capture the reality of them. (The stories of the Greek and Roman gods give God because God is too rich to ever be
ample testimony to this!)

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captured, even half adequately, in Who knows? Maybe we of faith are hearing such imagination, thought, and word. The news today from our texts. The Book of Deuteronomy God that atheism rejects is precisely a is, for the most part, Moses’ final sermon. The great conceptualized God, a God captured in a lawgiver has come near the end of his incredible life that picture. In the end, atheism is less spanned the breadth of Egypt’s riches and the length of God’s faithful to human experience than was providence. He stands before the children of Israel to remind polytheism which more rightly sensed them of their rich heritage. “Has any people heard the voice of deity, gods and goddesses, hidden under a god speaking out of a fire, as you have heard, and lived?” every rock.
Answer? No! After 40 years of trudging through wasting To what does this call us? To wilderness, wandering in circles, wondering if God had forgotten humility. All of us, believers and them, Moses reminds them that theirs is a generous inheritance atheists, need to be more humble in our of God’s work and majesty. Theirs is the inheritance of far more language about God. The idea of God than a promised land.
needs to stretch, not shrink, the human
imagination. Our actual experience of Let’s go forward 1200 plus years to our Lord’s life, God, just as for ancient polytheism, is death, and resurrection. The horrors of Good Friday, forever eating away at all simplistic the sunburst of Easter, the scattering and gathering of conceptions of God.
frightened disciples is now collected in memory as the risen
Christ meets 11 disciples on a mountain somewhere in Galilee. Thank God, for the complexity of the There he stands in risen glory. Matthew tells us that “when doctrine of the Trinity! (Fr. Ronald Rolheiser, they saw him, they worshiped him; but some doubted.” How OMI)

could that be? How could anyone be in the presence of the Now for one more symbol risen Lord and not worship? But there it is, plain as the of the Trinity that you may proverbial day. “Some doubted.”
have seen lately! Along with
the more traditional symbols And some still do. Times are, perhaps, that many do for the Trinity (equilateral on one occasion or another M the death of a spouse, a triangle, threeleaf shamrock/ child, the craziness of war. We all find ourselves clover), a more popular symbol/image/ wrestled to the ground, even on mountain tops, by the strong icon has emerged in recent years. It arm of doubt. Even so, to both believers and doubters, our Lord is an image of three ‘persons’ seated gives this greatest of all commissions to go throughout the around a table. W hat is its source? entire world and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in Well, the artwork is called Trinity the name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, teaching them to obey (Russian: Троица, also called "Rublev's everything he commands. Listen carefully to what follows. Trinity"), and it is a Holy Trinity Icon, There, on a mountain somewhere in Galilee, the apostles believed to be created by Russian painter receive a generous inheritance as Jesus promises them that he Andrei Rublev in the 15th century. It is will be with them always, “to the end of the age.”

his most famous work, as well regarded Now let’s fast forward a mere 25 years after that as one of the highest achievements of glorious mountaintop moment. P aul, w riting to the Russian art. Trinity depicts the three Romans, reminds those early Christians that they are the sons angels who visited Abraham at the Oak and daughters of God, “heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ.” of Mamre (see. Genesis 18,115), but Meaning what? Meaning, that every person, baptized and the painting is full of symbolism and beloved in Christ, is the recipient of a generous inheritance. Not often interpreted as an icon of the Holy measured by a stock portfolio or real estate holdings, this Trinity. (I like it better than God the Father generous inheritance is the lavish, unexpected, and really depicted as an older man with a beard!)

undeserved gift of God. This inheritance, as outrageous as a Trinity Sunday M CYCLE B M A phone call from an attorney, is even God’s generous legacy to Generous Inheritance Texts: all of us.
Deuteronomy 4:3234, 3940; Romans
On this Trinity Sunday, what are these texts saying to 8:1417; Matthew 28:1620

us who are heirs of such great fortune? For one thing, Who among us hasn’t had the we are wanted members of God’s family. We’re told that a dream, at least once, of receiving common question among all children at one time or another is a generous, but totally whether they are adopted. By God’s grace and the decision of unexpected, inheritance? Ah, that loving adults, some children are adopted into homes where they imagined moment when an attorney with are given family and nurture and a promising future. Paul’s an exotic name, calling from some corner good word to the Romans reminds all of us today that office in a distant city announces, “You every Christian is adopted by God. To be God’s adopted have just inherited several million dollars son or daughter is to revel in the lavish fortune of God’s favor. from your late, distant, but very rich In a word, God wants us. There can be no greater, more uncle.” I’m glad you’re sitting down; generous inheritance, than to know that you are a wanted and perhaps I need to do the same thing! beloved child of the great King.

Yes, there are people who get such These texts are also saying to us, oddly so, that we phone calls and receive that kind of are wandering members of God’s family. That’s right. unexpected good fortune.
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family. How so? By wandering, we don’t mean aimlessly Catechesis on prayer: lost in the wilderness of life’s journey or brutally abandoned Distractions, Time of Barrenness, & to some mindless fate of circumstance. Not at all. Rather, Sloth
in the words of an old Southern spiritual, God is with you as
“wayfaring strangers” in this world. Far from being lost or Dear Brothers and Sisters,

abandoned, the risen Lord commands us to wander this Continuing along the same lines of the world, making disciples of all nations. We are to be on the Catechism, in this catechesis w e refer to move, here and there, looking not for our home or safe the lived experience of prayer, trying to shelter, but as God’s people of purpose, seeking out those show some very common difficulties, which in the human family who indeed wander lost and forgotten, must be identified and overcome. Praying is inviting them to experience newness of life in Christ.

not easy: many difficulties present It is interesting, if not disturbing, to consider that themselves in prayer. It is necessary to many Christians today seem to be almost obsessed know them, recognize them and overcome with surety and safety. Sadly, many spend precious them.
energy on useless quests (how many angels on the head of
The first problem that emerges to those pin as we’ve often heard) while shunning courageous who pray is distraction (cf. CCC, 2729). wandering among the human family. For some, proving You start to pray and then your mind one’s faith is of higher value than living one’s faith. How wanders, it wanders all over the world; your tempted we all are in this topsyturvy culture to run away to heart is here, your mind is there … the land of certainty rather than daring to live with bold distraction from prayer. Prayer often co faith as recipients of our God’s generous inheritance. God’s exists with distraction. Indeed, the human estate spans the length and breadth of all creation. Wander mind struggles to dwell for long on a single all over it bearing good news, sharing the fortune of God’s thought. We all experience this constant grace.

whirlwind of images and illusions in One last insight is clamoring for our attention. perpetual motion, which accompanies us We who are the inheritors of God’s gifts are commanded even during sleep. And we all know that it is to be witnessing members of God’s family. From the stories not good to follow this inclination towards of God’s people wandering in the wilderness over 3000 disorder.
years ago to the life of our Lord and those who followed him
in the early Church, we of faith cannot keep this generous The battle to achieve and maintain inheritance to ourselves. Truth to tell, keeping God’s concentration does not relate only to fortune to ourselves dissipates our inheritance faster than a prayer. I f one does not attain a plummeting stock market or a real estate bust. This good sufficient level of concentration, one cannot news is so outrageous, that it flies in the face of everything study profitably, nor can one work well. we heard about investments and the wise conservation of Athletes know that contests are not won resources. Anyone with any lick of sense will tell you that solely through physical training, but also only fools spend their inheritance, wasting it on trivial with mental discipline: above all, with the pursuits and tawdry trinkets. But not here. Not in these capacity to concentrate and to remain focused.
texts. So outrageous is God’s generous inheritance to us in
our Lord Jesus Christ that if we fail to give it away, we lose Distractions are not to blame, but they it. Poof! It’s gone.
must be fought. In the heritage of our
So, beloved of God, w andering this w orld w ith faith there is a virtue that is often forgotten, good news to share; give it away. Give away the but which is quite present in the Gospel. It is generous inheritance of grace God has given you. And you called “vigilance”. And Jesus said, “Keep will be rich beyond all measure indeed. Amen
vigil. Pray”. The Catechism mentions it
explicitly in its instruction on prayer (cf. no. How wonderful that we are loved by God who is 2730). Jesus often calls the disciples to the love. God is so much more than a supreme being. duty of a sober life, guided by the thought Bishop Barron reminds us that God is not a being. God is that sooner or later He will return, like a being itself! Check up on his reflection at Wordonfire.org. bridegroom from a wedding or a master And that reality of being? It is love. A Trinity of Persons from a journey. Not knowing the day and but one God who is love. Check up in the Catechism of the hour of his return, however, all the minutes Catholic Church and read more about the very essence of of our lives are precious and should not be God. A God who is love; a God who personally loves us; a wasted on distractions. In a moment that we God of relationship not just ideas or rules; a God who is do not know, the voice of our Lord will always inviting us to a deeper relationship; a God who resound: on that day, blessed will be those works in and through us and forms us as God’s own people. servants whom he will find diligent, still focused on what really matters. They did not No other faith is quite like this or as full as Christianity. Go stray in pursuit of every attraction that back and reflect on the documents of the Second Vatican entered their minds, but tried to walk the Council to explore once again the beauty and simplicity of right path, doing good and performing their our faith in a God who first loved us and who will never stop own task.
loving us. No wonder we need to pray, as our Holy Father
reminds us. Here is his latest reflection on prayer.
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wanders, it wanders and wanders…. does not consist in multiplying ecstasies, but in being able to Saint Teresa used to call this imagination persevere in difficult times: walk, walk, walk on…. and if you that wanders and wanders in prayer “the are tired, stop a bit and then start walking again. But with madwoman in the house”; it is like a perseverance. Let us remember Saint Francis’ parable on madwoman that leads you to wander here perfect joy: it is not in the infinite fortunes rained down and there … We must stop it and put it in a from Heaven that a friar’s skill is measured, but in walking cage, with attention.
with consistency, even when one is not acknowledged, even
The time of barrenness warrants a when one is mistreated, even when everything has lost its different discourse. The Catechism initial flavor. All the saints have passed through this “dark describes it this way: “the heart is separated valley”, and let us not be scandalized if, in reading their from God, with no taste for thoughts, diaries, we find accounts of evenings of listless prayer, lived memories, and feelings, even spiritual ones. without enthusiasm. We must learn to say: “Even though This is the moment of sheer faith clinging You, my God, seem to be doing everything to make me stop faithfully to Jesus in his agony and in his believing in You, I still continue to pray to You”. Believers tomb” (n. 2731). Barrenness makes us think never shut off prayer! It may sometimes resemble the of Good Friday, at night, and Holy Saturday, prayer of Job, who does not accept that God treats him the whole day: Jesus is not there, he is in unjustly, protests and calls him to judgment. But, very the tomb; Jesus is dead: we are alone. And often, even protesting before God is a way of praying or, as this is the “motherthought” of barrenness. that little old lady said, “getting angry with God is a way to Often we do not know what the reasons for pray too”, because a son often gets angry with his father: it barrenness are: it may depend on ourselves, is a way of relating to the father; since he recognizes him as but also on God, who permits certain “father”, he gets angry….

situations in the exterior or interior life. Or, And we too, who are far less holy and patient than at times, it may be a headache or a sick Job, know that in the end, at the end of this time of feeling that stops us from entering into desolation, during which we have raised silent cries to prayer. Often we do not really know the Heaven and many times have asked “why?”, God will reason.
answer us. Do not forget the prayer that asks “why?”.
Spiritual teachers describe the It is the prayer of children when they begin not to experience of faith as a continuous understand things, which psychologists call “the why stage”, alternation between times of because the child asks his father, “Daddy, why? Daddy, consolation and desolation; there are why? Daddy, why?” But let us be careful: the child does not times when everything is easy, while others listen to his father’s answer. The father starts to reply, but are marked by great weightiness. Very often, the child interrupts with another “why?”. He simply wants to when we encounter a friend, we say, “How draw his father’s attention to himself; and when we get a are you?” N “Today I am down”. Very often little angry with God and start asking why?, we are we are “down”, or rather, we don’t have attracting our Father’s heart towards our misery, towards feelings, we don’t have consolation, we can’t our difficulty, towards our life. But yes, have the courage to do it. They are those grey days … and there say to God: “But why?”. Because at times, getting a little are so many of them in life! But the danger angry is good for you, because it reawakens that sonfather, is having a grey heart: when this “feeling daughterfather relationship we must have with God. And he down” reaches the heart and sickens it … and will accept even our harshest and bitterest expressions with there are people who live with a grey heart. a father’s love, and will consider them as an act of faith, as This is terrible: one cannot pray, one cannot a prayer.

feel consolation with a grey heart! Or, one Thank you, Pope Francis.
cannot emerge from spiritual barrenness
with a grey heart. The heart must be open And don’t forget to pray and luminous, so that the light of the Lord to the Spirit each day so that can enter. And if it does not enter, we need we may be strong in prayer.
to wait for it, with hope. But do not close it
up in greyness.
We are also continuing to
pray about the pandemic Then, a different thing is sloth, another and the ‘light at the end flaw, another vice, which is a real of the tunnel’ for temptation against prayer and, more returning to Mass and the generally, against the Christian life. many ‘normal’ activities Sloth is “a form of depression due to lax of our faith lives. I ascetical practice, decreasing vigilance, shared with you the words of carelessness of heart” (CCC, 2733). It is one Bishop Malesic re Mass of the seven “deadly sins” because, fueled by obligation and other issues conceit, it can lead to the death of the soul.
as they relate to the CDC in
So what can we do in this succession the nation, the issue of of enthusiasms and vaccinations and their discouragements? One must learn to necessity, the protocols of always walk. True progress in spiritual life
masks and distancing as that affects us, and the
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communications of the State of Ohio and the dioceses of Ohio. existence with the COVID protocols We’ll keep you informed as we enter into June. Keep us your starting to be rescinded. Alleluia!
prayers for the world during this COVID time and for all who
need our regard. Amen!
And lest we forget M to all
This is also a very important holiday for graduates both near and our nation: Memorial Day. Memorial Day far M from Pre
School to is a federal holiday in the United States for doctoral programs in remembering the people who died while graduate schools M our heartiest serving in the country's armed forces. The congratulations and prayerful best holiday, which is observed every year on the wishes! May your commencement last Monday of May, originated as Decoration onto a new part of life’s journey be paved Day after the American Civil War in 1868, when the Grand with happiness. And may you get the job Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans of your dreams so that you can help founded in Decatur, Illinois, established it as a time for the others to dream, too! Don’t forget the nation to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. word commencement M a beginning, not By the 20th century, competing Union and Confederate an ending. Now is the time to dive into holiday traditions, celebrated on different days, had merged, the school of life! From academics to and Memorial Day eventually extended to honor all Americans reality. Wow. Best of luck and prayerful who died while in the military service. It typically marks the regards.

start of the summer vacation season, while Labor Day marks On we go, getting closer and its end.
closer to the summer! Oremus pro
Before I forget, I want to make sure invicem. Soli Deo Gloria.
you have met and are getting
acquainted with our new front office Father Michael J. Lanning, Pastor
personnel: David Becker and Ellie Munday. Some may remember Ellie as
a longtime and esteemed elementary
teacher in the diocese, who served many
years at OLA. She has been working and
ministering with Kathy Lynch, our DRE, for years now in PSR READINGS FOR THE WEEK
at SAM. She also has added to her ministry part time in the
front office. With the retirement of Mrs. Crable, we needed to
find the right folks for this pivotal part of parish life. We SUNDAY:
Dt 4:3234, 3940 / Ps 33:4 looked and found David Becker M a longterm parishioner with his wife Rosemary M who recently moved on from a career at 6, 9, 1820, 22 / Rom 8:1417 / Mt The Plain Dealer. He was interested in managing our parish 28:1620
sacristy (a HUGE job) as Katie Whitmore moves on to Law School this summer. And he is also working in tandem with MONDAY:
Zep 3:1418a / Is 12:23, Ellie to serve in the front office M another HUGE job at any 4bcd, 56 / Lk 1:3956
parish. So, thought you’d like to know. I hope you will get to know these great people who have dedicated with work life to your benefit. We are blessed to have them on board. So stop TUESDAY:
Tb 2:914 / Ps 112:12, 7 by and introduce yourself.
9 / Mk 12:1317

Again congratulations to our wonderful second graders and their families on the WEDNESDAY: Tb 3:111a, 1617a / Ps occasion of their First Holy Communion. And 25:25ab, 6, 7bc, 89 / Mk 12:1827
to our Confirmation candidates, too.

And as we come to the end of the school year, THURSDAY: Tb 6:1011; 7:1bcde, 9 how can we forget our great altar servers, our 17; 8:49a / Ps 128:15 / Mk 12:2834
ushers, our counters, our sacristans, our lectors, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, YOSA members, our teachers and catechists, our myriad volunteers FRIDAY: Tb 11:517 / Ps 146:1b2, 6c for bulletin collating, the Ladies Group, all those who help 10 / Mk 12:3537
with young people’s sports experiences, RCIA, PreCana, Social Justice Outreach, Finance and Parish Councils, all SATURDAY: Tb 12:1, 515, 20 / Tb school related councils and groups (e.g., PTC, SAT), Merici Moms, prayer groups, scouting programs, the Parish Picnic 13:2, 6efgh, 7, 8 / Mk 12:3844
planners, etc.

NEXT SUNDAY: Ex 24:38 / Ps 116:12 We are blessed with so many, many involved people! Let us pray for one another this holy 13, 1518 / Heb 9:1115 / Mk 14:12 weekend as we celebrate the Trinity! And as 16, 2226
we look forward to a more ‘normal’ parochial
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Obligation To Attend Mass On Sundays And Holy Days To Resume

The obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation will be reinstated effective the weekend of June 56, 2021. Those who are ill, have
significant
health risk factors or care for someone who is immunocompromised or ill, as well as those who have significant fear or anxiety of contracting the coronavirus in a large group of persons continue to be exempt from this obligation. These persons should observe the Lord’s Day and are encouraged to spend time in prayer on Sunday.

Masses that are broadcast through various media are intended for the sick, homebound, the imprisoned, etc., who are unable to attend Mass in person and are not intended as a substitute, nor do they fulfill the obligation, for the persons who are able to gather for a Sunday celebration and other Holy Days of Obligation.

What to expect

Face MasksM will no longer be required but are strongly suggested for those who have not yet been vaccinated or are otherwise vulnerable.

Social DistancingNwill no longer be required and all pews will be available.

Holy CommunionN the distribution of the Precious Blood will remain suspended until further notice.
It is highly recommended that one receive Holy Communion in the hand, but the right to receive on the tongue remains available.

Father’s Day Mass



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perfect way to remember our Monday, May 31NThe Visitation of the With summer
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Mass.

please be sure to The cards are available in the Tuesday, June 1NSt. Justin, Martyr
Parish Center office for just SLOW DOWN in the 8:30AM Special Intention for Betsy Kraus
$2 each.
parking lot!

Wednesday, June 2NSts. Marcellinus and Peter, Martyrs

F + M $% I 8:30AM James Delaney
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Thursday, June 3NSt. Charles Lwanga and
Companions, Martyrs


8:30AM Josh Cook

Friday, June 4
8:30AM William Kemme

Saturday, June 5NSt. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr
8:30AM Ellen A. Ellis
4:30PM Special Intention of Anita
Reese Marsh, Matthew Martis, Dembkowski
Captain Christopher
Salisbury, Sunday, June 6NThe Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
7:30AM Marie P. Becker
9:30AM Danny Kocon
11:30AM For the Parish
5:30PM Eileen Campbell

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THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
MAY 30, 2021

FINANCIAL REPORTS
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Kimberly Yaeger, Charlotte Zak and Daniel Zak.

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Parish
School of
Religion  Registration

 Registration for the 20212022 PSR school year has been extended.

 Registration forms
can be found on the parish website at
samparish.org/psr.

R To submit the registration form:

*Print and complete the form and return it, with the $100 registration fee, to the Parish Center.

*Complete the form online and email it to the Kathy Lynch, Director of Religious Education, at
[email protected]. Then submit the $100 registration fee to the Parish Center. Students are not fully registered until the registration fee is received.

*Students in grades 2 and 8 are prepared to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation and Holy Eucharist (grade 2) and Confirmation (grade 8) as part of the curriculum. For students to receive these sacraments they must be enrolled and they must have attended PSR the previous year.


Please submit forms no later than July 1, 2021.

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ST. JOSEPH CEMETERY M PrePlanning Seminar
Young Adult

The Catholic Cemeteries Association invites you to attend a 1hour pre Barbeque planning seminar on Saturday, June 12, 2021, 1:00 p.m. at St. Joseph Kickoff
Cemetery 32789 Detroit Rd., Avon.

Come learn about your Catholic burial options, including options for Young adults cremated remains. Attendees will receive a personal reference guide and special Savings Certificate.
from the nearwest side are invited to a summer kickoff We kindly ask that you RSVP (216) 6417575, ext. 8. Please know the CCA follows the current CDC guidance regarding COVID19 protocols.


Mass and barbeque at St. Christopher Parish on June 12th at 5:00 pm.

Fr. Anthony Marshall will preside over Mass, followed by barbequestyle catering and beer from Old Carolina Barbeque and the Rocky River Brewing Company at our new Centennial Park.

We hope you will join us for prayer, barbeque, and beer!

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