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Week of January 31– February 6, 2016 Blessing of Throats on Feast of St. Blaise this Wednesday

WELCOME TO THE INTERFAITH AIRPORT CHAPELS OF CHICAGO! During the 11:30 a.m. Catholic Masses at O’Hare and Midway this The O’Hare Airport Chapel and Midway Airport Chapel are each Wednesday, Feb. 3, there will be a special blessing of the throats for the a peaceful oasis in a busy venue. A place to bow your head in Feast of St. Blaise. St. Blaise was a 4th century bishop of Sebaste (modern prayer while lifting up your heart and spirit! Prayer books and Armenia). The Germans and Slavs hold him in special honor, and for dec- rugs, rosaries, and worship materials are available, as are chap- ades many United States Catholics have sought the annual St. Blaise bless- lains for spiritual counsel. You are welcome to attend Mass or ing for their throats. Worship services and to come to the chapels (open 24/7) to pray or meditate. May God bless your travels. — Fr. Michael Zaniolo, Administrator Ash Wednesday Services at O’Hare & Midway Feb. 10

Condolences to the Frawley Family The symbolic power of ASH WEDNESDAY, Feb. 10, touches a deep Our deepest sympathy to Jack Frawley and his family on the passing of his chord for many Christians. The ancient custom of wife, LaVelle, 80, on January 9, 2016. The Frawleys were founding parish- receiving ashes on the first day of Lent is a Catholic ioners of the O’Hare Airport Chapel, and Jack served as an tradition which is also common among some Episco- airport executive for many years. They continued to support pal, Lutheran, Methodist and United Church of Christ both O’Hare and Midway Chapels through the years, attending congregations. During the Liturgy on Ash Wednesday, dedications, fundraisers and anniversary the people step forward to receive the sign of the cross events. LaVelle was the loving mother of smudged in ash on their foreheads, and to be re- Matthew (Patricia Cochran) Frawley, Chris- minded, Remember, you are dust, and unto dust you topher Frawley, Darcy Frawley, Jonathan shall return (see Gen 3:19) or Turn away from sin (Jennifer) Frawley; dearest grandmother of Caroline Frawley, Caiden Fraw- and be faithful to the Gospel (Mk 1:15). ley, and Micayla Frawley; dear sister of DeLourdes "Dae" (the late Robert) ASH WEDNESDAY FEB. 10, 2016 — CATHOLIC MASSES & SERVICES at O'HARE AIRPORT CHAPEL —MASS SCHEDULE: 7:00 a.m. 12:00 & 5:00 p.m. Hannah, the late Michele McBride, and the late Patrick McBride. Mass of the SERVICE SCHEDULE: 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 a.m. & 1:00, 2:00, 3:00, 4:00 p.m. Resurrection was held at St. John Brebeuf Church, Niles, on January 14, and ASH WEDNESDAY FEB. 18, 20125 — CATHOLIC MASSES & SERVICES AT internment was at All Saints Cemetery. Please remember the Frawley family MIDWAY AIRPORT CHAPEL — MASS SCHEDULE: 9:00 a.m., 12:00 noon in your prayers and pray for the repose of the soul of LaVelle Frawley. SERVICE SCHEDULE: 10:00, & 11:00 a.m. & 1:00, 2:00 & 3:00 p.m. Please Note: - Each ceremony will be 30 minutes in length. Holy Communion will only be Chapel Staff Birthdays & Anniversaries given at Mass. Ashes will only be distributed during the Mass or Liturgical service. For more ✈ Birthday blessings go out to Mr. James Miedema this Friday, Feb. 5, info: 773-686-AMEN (2636). and best wishes to John & Susan Schneider on their 23rd wedding anni- versary this Saturday, Feb. 6. Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time — January 31, 2016 Faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love. — 1 Corinthians 13:13 ORD CATHOLIC MASS INTENTIONS 01/30/16 4:00 p.m. † Arthur & Clara Colella req. by Family THE GREAT HYMN TO LOVE 6:00 p.m. † Anna Michelotti req. by Michael Michelotti It is doubtful that Saint Paul, when he sat down to write what we now know 01/31/16 6:30 a.m. ● Zaniolo Family Living & Deceased req. by Ruth Fuss as the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, knew that he was penning 9:00 a.m. † Charles & Mary Maher req. by Joseph Allegretti what was to become one of the keystones of Christian ethics. In this brief 11:00 a.m. † Denis McQuin req. by Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Grabinski passage, he set down ideals about love that have held fast through the centu- 1:00 p.m. ● SMM People ries. Sometimes we may think that because these are ideals to which we 02/01/16 11:30 a.m. † Fr. John Donohue req. by A Well Wisher aspire, we are excused from them in our daily living. 02/02/16 11:30 a.m. † Laura Beaulieu req. by Denise Donly But what Paul was writing was a letter to his friends, providing them 02/03/16 11:30 a.m. † Maclin McBride req. by Mike & Ann Green with some sound advice about what it meant—and still means—to live in 02/04/16 11:30 a.m. ● Jegfred Paul & Josephine Yorpo by Josephine Yorpo-Lane love, day by day, as a follower of Christ. We find in his words to his friends a 02/05/16 11:30 a.m. † Sean Murphy req. by Mr. & Mrs. Tom Grabinski broadening of the great commands of Jesus to love God and neighbor. To- day we hear what this love must look like in our own actions, and how it MDW CATHOLIC MASS INTENTIONS ought to guide our relationships with others. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. 01/30/16 4:00 p.m. † Elaine Fields req. by Denise McLane TODAY’S READINGS 01/31/16 9:00 a.m. † Ibrahim Yusif req. by Ashley Makar First Reading — God appoints Jeremiah as prophet to the nations (Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19). 11:00 a.m. † Charles Cooper req. by Kathy Roberts Psalm — I will sing of your salvation (Psalm 71). 02/01/16 11:30 a.m. ● Bohney Family req. by Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Bohney Second Reading — Love with its many facets is the most important of the 02/02/16 11:30 a.m. ● SMM People virtues (1 Corinthians 12:31 — 13:13 [13:4-13]). 02/03/16 11:30 a.m. ● Intentions of Holy Ghost Parish Gospel — When Jesus claims his salvific mission is for all people, not just 02/04/16 11:30 a.m. † Adrian Burns req. by Ted Czerkowicz the Jews, he is expelled by the enraged members of the Nazarean synagogue 02/05/16 11:30 a.m. † Robert L. Inglis, Sr. req. by Robert Inglis, Jr. ● Denotes Living/Special Intention † Denotes Deceased/Memorial (Luke 4:21-30). READINGS FOR THE WEEK MDW Airport Chapel ORD Airport Chapel Monday: 2 Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13; Ps 3:2-7; Mk 5:1-20 Concourse C, Mezzanine Level Terminal 2, Mezzanine Level Tuesday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32] (Inside Security Checkpoint) (Outside Security Checkpoint) Wednesday : 2 Sm 24:2, 9-17; Ps 32:1-2, 5-7; Mk 6:1-6 ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES Thursday: 1 Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12; 1 Chr 29:10-12; Mk 6:7-13 SATURDAY VIGIL: 4:00 p.m. SATURDAY VIGIL: 4:00 & 6:00 p.m. Friday: Sir 47:2-11; Ps 18:31, 47, 50, 51; Mk 6:14-29 SUNDAY: 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY: 6:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., Saturday: 1 Kgs 3:4-13; Ps 119:9-14; Mk 6:30-34 Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. Sunday: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8; Ps 138:1-5, 7-8; 1 Cor 15:1-11 [3-8, 11]; Lk 5:1-11 Evening before Holy Day: 4:00 p.m. Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements Evening before Holy Day: 5:00 p.m. www.airporthapels.org/holydayschedule.html Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements Rev. Fr. Michael G. Zaniolo, STL, CAC — Administrator/Catholic Chaplain ~ www.airporthapels.org/holydayschedule.html Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago PROTESTANT WORSHIP ~ Mr. Qazi M. Biabani — Imam Khateeb/Muslim Chaplain Saturday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 & 1:30 p.m. ISLAMIC JUMA’ PRAYER Muslim Community Center of Chicago Sunday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon & 1:30 p.m. Friday: 1:15 p.m. Rev. Dr. Hutz H. Hertzberg - Protestant Chaplain ~ The Moody Church of Chicago PROTESTANT WORSHIP Mrs. Susan E. Schneider, CAP — Office/Business Manager/Fund Raiser Sunday: 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 noon Mr. Michael Brennan — Bulletin Editor to his great preaching ability, the austerity and holiness of is life, and the This Week in the Life of the Church miracles he is reputed to have performed. (E,V) ● In 590, Pope Gregory Being a compendium of feast days and notable events in Church history the Great sent St. Augustine to convert the Anglo-Saxons. ✙ In 993, ST. ULRIC OF AUGSBURG became the first saint canonized by a pope of which Sunday, January 31, 2016 there is record. - Pope John XV - at the Lateran Basilica in Rome during a ✙ We Remember: ST. JOHN BOSCO (1815-1888) came to the aid of hun- synod of bishops. ● The feast of ST. AELRED OF RIEVAULX (1110-1167) is dreds of poor, abandoned boys and girls in Turin, Italy, which in the 19th Cen- observed today in Cistercian monasteries. During the term of this great abbot, tury was a growing industrial and political center. A born educator, effective the Abbey of Rievaulx grew to include more than 600 monks, making it the organizer, prolific writer, he trusted in God and accomplished wonders. He largest religious community in England. The monastery was one of the casu- founded the Society of St. Francis de Sales, better known as the Salesians alties of Henry VIII’s reign. Aelred died January 12, 1167. (AS) ● In 1518, - orders of men and women caring for the young. This "Apostle to Youth" died Pope Leo X imposed silence on the Augustinian monks - the religious order at age 73 on this day in 1888 and was canonized a saint on Easter, 1934. He is Martin Luther belonged to. ● In 1985, Desmond Tutu became Johan- patron of editors. ● In 1915, THOMAS MERTON was born. He joined the Trap- nesburg's first black Anglican bishop. pists in 1941 and seven years later wrote a smash bestseller, The Seven Sto- Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 rey Mountain, an autobiographical account of family life and the forces that ✙ We Remember: ST. ANDREW CORSINI (1302-1373) was born in Flor- led him to religion. ence. Before he was born, his mother dreamed she gave birth to a wolf that Monday, February 1, 2016 turned into a lamb when it entered a Carmelite church, and thus was the path ✙ We Remember: ST. BRIGID, first Irish abbess, was born about 450 in of Andrew Corsini. His youth was violent and dissolute, but in 1318 he joined eastern Ireland, near Dundalk, and said to have been baptized by St. Patrick. the Carmelites, studied in Paris and Avignon, and embarked on a life of aus- "Her memory, as it lived in the hearts of the people, was identified with an ex- tere penance. Known as a father of the poor and a mediator between quarrel- traordinary spirit of charity," says Butler's, and she is much beloved in Ireland some Italian states of that time, Andrew became a bishop in 1360. A patron to this day. "In Ireland the churches dedicated to her are innumerable; in Eng- of peacemakers, he is also invoked against sudden death and quarrels. (B) land we know of nineteen pre-Reformation dedications." Called the Mary of the ✚ ST. JOHN OF BRITTO (1647-1693), patron of Portugal, was a great Jesuit Gael, her life is shrouded in folklore, but we do know that about 470 she missionary to the people of India. His methods were unconventional and founded a double monastery of women and men at Cill-Dara (Kildare) and was enlightened - for example, he adopted the dress, diet, and lifestyle of the lo- abbess of the convent, the first in Ireland. "The foundation developed into a cals, inasmuch as possible. Many times John and his Indian catechists were center of learning and spirituality, and around it grew up the cathedral city of subjected to brutal violence, but he survived these attacks and made friends Kildare," says Delaney. St. Brigid's hospitality, compassion and care for the at court, converting the rajah - whom he persuaded to divest himself of his poor are remembered, and she is buried at Downpatrick with St. Columba youngest wife. The deposed woman complained to the Hindu clergy, and and St. Patrick, with whom she is the patron saint of Ireland. (E,B,G,P) eventually, after refusing to leave the country, John was captured, tortured Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 - Presentation of the Lord and executed. He was canonized in 1947. (B) ● In 1906, the birth of ✙ We Remember: The PRESENTATION OF THE LORD, formerly called the DIETRICH BONHOEFFER, Lutheran theologian, pastor, hanged by the Nazis Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also Candlemas, commemorates the in 1945 at Flossenburg death camp for his alleged involvement in the at- presentation of Jesus in the Temple - according to prescriptions of Mosaic Law tempted assassination of Hitler. (Lv. 12:2-8; Ex. 13:2; Lk. 2:22-32) - and the purification of Mary 40 days Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 after His birth. "In the East, where the feast antedated 4th Century testimony ✙ We Remember: ST. AGATHA, Virgin and Martyr, died about the year regarding its existence, it was observed primarily as a feast of Our Lord; in the 251. She is patroness of nurses and invoked against breast diseases, fires, and West, where it was adopted later, it was regarded more as a feast of Mary, until volcanic eruptions. Her name in Greek means "good." The story of Agatha's the calendar in effect since 1970. Its date was set for Feb. 2 after the celebra- martyrdom during the persecution of Decius at Catania in Sicily is quite tion of Christmas was fixed for Dec. 25, late in the 4th century. The blessing of graphic. Though many renounced their faith, especially officials, Agatha was candles, probably in commemoration of Christ who was the Light to enlighten among those whose steadfast devotion to Christ cost them their lives. The the Gentiles, became common about the 11th century and gave the feast the devotion of numerous popes to St. Agatha is possibly based on the legend that secondary name of Candlemas." (Catholic Almanac) “In the Old Testament, St. Peter appeared to her to console and heal her. She had been tortured on purification rites cleansed people who had contracted a legal uncleanness the rack and her breasts had been cut off. A few days later she was rolled through an impurity such as a skin disease, or though contact with the divine, naked over burning coals. Her last prayer to Christ was "Receive my soul," as in childbirth,” says Encyclopedia of Catholicism. “Jesus Christ emphasized after which she breathed her last. Devotion to St. Agatha is very ancient. A the importance of faith and loving service of brothers and sisters rather than church was constructed in her honor at Rome in the fifth century, and at the ritual purifications.” The second chapter of the Gospel of Luke is proclaimed, in beginning of the sixth century, Pope Symmacus introduced her feast into the which Simeon calls Jesus “a light to the nations. “The use of candles was intro- liturgy at Rome and dedicated a basilica in her honor. The inclusion of her duced in Jerusalem in the mid-fifth century by a Roman matron. Although the name in the Roman Canon of the Mass is attributed to St. Gregory the Christmas season officially ends after the Epiphany (January 6) with the feast Great, and to this day she is listed in the first Eucharistic Prayer. (S) of Our Lord’s Baptism, Candlemas is sometimes identified as the formal ending Saturday, Feb. 6, 2016 of the Christmas cycle.” ✙ALFRED DELP (1907-1945), Jesuit priest and ✙ We Remember: ST. DOROTHY is identified by apocryphal tradition as a martyr, was arrested by the Gestapo in 1944. "My offense is that I believed in resident of Caesarea, Cappadocia. When she refused to sacrifice to the gods Germany and her eventual emergence from this dark hour of error and distress, during Diocletian’s persecution of the Christians, she was tortured by the that I refused to accept that accumulation of arrogance, pride, and force that is governor and ordered executed. “On the way to the place of execution, she the Nazi way of life, and that I did this as a Christian and a Jesuit," he wrote. met a young lawyer, Theophilus, who mockingly asked her to send him fruits Imprisoned in chains in a dark cell, he wrote a final message to friends: "If from ‘the garden’ she had joyously announced she would soon be in. When through one man's life there is a little more love and kindness, a little more light she knelt for her execution, she prayed, and an angel appeared with a basket and truth in the world, then he will not have lived in vain." Father Delp was of three roses and three apples, which she sent to Theophilus, telling him she hanged in the Plotzensee prison on this day in 1945. (AS) would meet him in the garden. Theophilus was converted to Christianity and Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016 later martyred.” (P) ✚ ST. WARREN (+1159) (his Latin name is Guarinus), ✙ We Remember: The feast of ST. BLAISE (died c. 316), bishop and martyr, an illustrious cardinal, Bishop of Palestrina and a member of the Order of St. has for centuries included the Blessing of Throats, the practice of placing Augustine is also honored today. ✚ST. PAUL MIKI AND COMPANIONS were two crossed candles, accompanied by the recitation of a prayer, on the throats 26 martyrs, the first canonized saints of the Far East, who died some 400 of the faithful. St. Blaise was a fourth-century bishop of Sebaste (modern Ar- years ago. In 1862 they were all canonized as the Martyrs of Japan. (S,D,P) menia), according to the HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism. "When ✚ In 1944, on this feast of the Martyrs of Japan, 65 American Divine Diocletian ordered the persecution of Christians, Blaise hid in a Word missionaries died aboard a Japanese prison ship. The priests, forest. Legend describes wild animals gathering in his cave where, brothers, and sisters, who had been forced from their mission posts through- unharmed, he fed them all. When hunters came upon his hiding out the Far East, were among the victims of a mistaken attack by a U.S. air- place and saw him surrounded by lions and bears, they decided he craft whose pilot thought he was attacking a warship. (W) was a magician and took him captive. While in prison, he saved the ❧ life of a boy who was choking on a fishbone. The boy's mother re- Sources include: (AS) All Saints, Robert Ellsberg, Crossroad, 1997. (B) Book of Saints, Benedic- tine Monks, Morehouse, 1993. (C) Catholic Book of Days, John Deedy, Thomas More, 1989. (BB) warded Blaise with food and candles. Blaise was later beheaded. Big Book of Women Saints, Sarah Gallick, HarperSanFrancisco, 2007; (D) Day by Day with the After his martyrdom he was invoked, as one of the Fourteen Holy Saints, Patrick Moran, OSV, 1985. (G) Guide to the Saints, Kristin E. White, Ivy Books, 1991. (L) Helpers, on behalf of people suffering from throat infections." The Butler's Lives of the Saints I-IV, Christian Classics, 1995. (L2) Lives of the Saints, O. Englebert, Barnes & Noble,1994. (P) Pocket Dictionary of Saints, John Delaney, Image, 1983. (S) Saints of blessing of throats began in the 16th century when veneration for the Roman Calendar, Enzo Lodi, Alba, 1992. (P) The Popes, Eric John, Roman Catholic Books, St. Blaise was at its peak. Today we also commemorate ST. ANS- 1994. (V) Vatican II Weekday Missal, Daughters of St. Paul, 1975. (W) We Celebrate, We GAR (801-865), the first Christian missionary to Scandinavia, Commemorate, Patrick Walsh. This Week in the Life of the Church is compiled by Mike called "The Apostle of the North;" he was a French monk Brennan. Tax-deductible contributions to the Chicago Airports Catholic Chaplaincy are named bishop and papal legate to all Scandinavian lands. His success was due welcome. E-mail: [email protected].