Archangel Gabriel Parish Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus Christ June 6, 2021
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ARCHANGEL GABRIEL PARISH SOLEMNITY OF THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST JUNE 6, 2021 M a s s a n d C o n f e s s i o n T i m e s SAINT MALACHY HOLY TRINITY SAINT MARY, HELP OF CHURCH CHURCH CHRISTIANS CHURCH 343 Forest Grove Rd 5718 Steubenville Pike 1011 Church Ave Coraopolis, PA 15108 Robinson Township, PA 15136 McKees Rocks, PA 15136 HOLY MASS HOLY MASS HOLY MASS Saturday — 4 PM Saturday — 5 PM Saturday — 6 PM Sunday — 8 AM, Sunday — 10 AM, 12:30 PM, 7 PM Sunday — 11 AM 10 AM (outdoor) Mon to Fri — 6:30 PM Mon to Wed — 9:30 AM Thurs to Sat — 8:30 AM RECONCILIATION RECONCILIATION RECONCILIATION SATURDAY, 11 AM - 12 PM MON - FRI, 5:30 PM - 6:15 PM SUNDAY, 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM Administrative Office: 412-787-2140 Website: www.archangelgabrielparish.org Email: [email protected] Sacramental emergencies: 412-787-2140 x2 THIS WEEK’S BULLETIN - June 6, 2021 Table of contents, Parish prayer....................................................................Page 2 Message from Father Dave............................................................................Page 3 Sunday Mass worship aid.........................................................................Pages 4-7 This week’s Mass intentions..........................................................................Page 8 This week’s calendar, Mass registration link..............................................Page 9 Intercessory prayer lists, Mass readings for the week....................................Page 10 Faith Formation updates..............................................................................Page 11 June upcoming events..................................................................................Page 12 Parish news (Parish Picnic)..........................................................................Page 13 Parish news (Our First Year, EMHC renewal)...........................................Page 14 Parish news (BINGO, Catholic Schoolhouse, Hymn History.....................Page 15 AGS school updates...............................................................................................Page 16 Sacraments, offertory, and online giving information....................................Page 17 Clergy and staff.............................................................................................Page 18 COVER ART: “Disputation of the Holy Sacrament” by Raphael MISSIONARY COOPERATION SUNDAY This weekend is Missionary Cooperation Sunday. Today’s second collection will be for the missionary group, Claretian Missionaries in Cameroon. Through these funds, you can remotely help them feed, medicate, and house those who have been attacked and displaced by civil war in their country. Donations to this collection can be mailed to our parish office throughout the week. TABLE OF CONTENTS OF TABLE ARCHANGEL GABRIEL PARISH PRAYER O blessed Archangel Gabriel, you announced our salvation to the Virgin Mary. Pray for us that we may be courageous and compassionate, strong and faithful followers of her Son, Jesus. By your intercession, obtain for us the unification of our parish, and the fruitfulness of our mission to make disciples. Blessed be God in his angels and in his saints, 2 through Christ, our Lord. Amen. CORPUS CHRISTI Fr. David Poecking (Pastor) If you follow Church news, you know the U.S. bishops disagree with each other about some problems concerning the Sacrament of the Eucharist. The resolution of such disagreement is the usual means by which the Church clarifies of elaborates what has been revealed by Jesus. In any case, we of the Church of Pittsburgh are bound by the teachings and directives of our own Bishop, in addition to the ordinary teaching office of the Church through the centuries. As I understand them, the major disagreements pertain to: • Whether many of the faithful understand the Eucharist as the gift of Jesus’ own body, blood, soul, THEFROM PASTOR and divinity, and if not, then how to correct their misunderstanding; • How to understand the Eucharist as sacrifice and how to teach the faithful accordingly; • What features of liturgy and preaching constitute the worthiest celebration of the Eucharist, and how to improve these; and • When it becomes more harmful for people to receive the Eucharist than to abstain—e.g., whether and when persons not sharing the Catholic faith or full unity with the Church ought to be prevented from receiving the Sacrament. Personally, I am most invested in the notion of sacrifice. In a previous parish I had occasion each week to celebrate Mass ad orientem: standing on the same side of the altar as the faithful, and with them facing the altar for the Eucharistic prayer. The experience highlighted for me how the Eucharist “makes present the one sacrifice of Christ the Savior and includes the Church’s offering” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, §1330). While Mass ad orientem isn’t necessary to understand the Eucharist as sacrifice, the experience renewed my eagerness for all of us to appreciate the sacrificial dimensions of the Sacrament. I also observe that some bishops, including Bishop Zubik and Pope Francis, have written about the connection between the Eucharist and missionary discipleship. This is perhaps most important for Archangel Gabriel Parish, as we strive to implement our Bishops vision On Mission for The Church Alive! If you are habitually receiving the Sacrament of the Eucharist, I challenge you ( and myself) to consider whether you are doing so in the full faith and unity of the Church, with a Eucharistic examination of conscience: • Do I acknowledge Jesus, our Lord and Judge, really present in the Eucharist? • Do I receive the Eucharist as sacrifice, a summons to complete holiness, total personal dedication to God and to others for God’s sake? • Do I receive penitently, confessing my own need for healing from God, and prepared to forgive others as generously? • Do I worship by giving my first and best: full attention to God’s word, whole-hearted song and speech in praise and thanksgiving, outgoing warmth toward others? • Do I protect the Eucharist by keeping the entire Lord’s Day holy, purifying it of distractions and servile work, in favor of prayer, study, or fellowship with family, friends, and neighbors? • Do I receive the Eucharist with the same heart as the Blessed Mother and the entire Church—that is, with selfless desire for unity with all the faithful, and a missionary zeal for the salvation of the world? OTHER NEWS • Farewell to Maria Fenner, who follows her new husband, now reassigned out of state. • Welcome to Patrick Neve, who replaces Maria as our youth minister! Patrick will be promoting Christian maturity and fellowship among our teens, but in so doing also helping all of us to acquire that zealous missionary discipleship I mentioned above. • Today’s second collection is for the Claretian Missionaries in Cameroon—a country where the bishops are in even greater disagreement, torn between the Francophone majority and the Anglophone minority in a brewing civil war. Your ministers at Mass will likely read an appeal, required this year in place of the usual guest preacher. • Sadly, we won’t see Fr. Sam Esposito as often as in the past year. In addition to masses for the Felician Sisters, he’ll be helping with Sunday Masses at the Bellevue-Emsworth-Franklin Park grouping across the Ohio River from Archangel Gabriel. Our loss is their gain! 3 PROCESSIONAL HYMN — ALLELUIA, SING TO JESUS! FIRST READING — EXODUS 24: 3–8 When Moses came to the people and related all the words and ordinances of the LORD, they all answered with one voice, “We will do everything that the LORD has told us.” Moses then wrote down all the words of the LORD and, rising early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then, having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to the MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS OF AND BLOOD BODY HOLY MOST LORD, Moses took half of the blood and put it in large bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar. Taking the book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, “All that the LORD has said, we will heed and do.” Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with 4 all these words of his.” RESPONSORIAL PSALM — PSALM 116 MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF JESUS OF AND BLOOD BODY HOLY MOST 1. How can I repay tje Lord for all his goodness to me? The cup of salvation I will raise; I will call on the name of the Lord. R/ 2. How precious in the eyes of the Lord is the death of his faithful. Your servant am I, the son of your handmaid; you have loosened my bonds. R/ 3. A thanksgiving sacrifice I will make; I will call on the name of the Lord. My vows to the Lord I will fulfill before all his people.R/ SECOND READING — HEBREWS 9:11–15 Brothers and sisters: When Christ came as high priest of the good things that have come to be, passing through the greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands, that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship the living God. For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance. SEQUENCE – LAUDA SION Laud, O Zion, your salvation, laud with hymns of exultation, Christ, your king and shepherd true: Bring him all the praise you know, He is more than you bestow.