MEETINGS and EVENTS for the WEEK of 08/05/2018 a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving Will Be Celebrated on the Feast of the Transfiguration On

MEETINGS AND EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF 08/05/2018 A Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving will be celebrated on the Feast of the Transfiguration on

Monday, August 6, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. by the newly ordained Reverend Canon Matthew Weaver

The Society of St. Stephen will meet on Monday, August 6 in the Club Room at 7 p.m. . Every Day: Say one prayer in thanksgiving, one prayer for someone other than yourself, and one prayer for the Church.

PR0-LIFE CORNER: HEARING THE KNOCK TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

In his June 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate, Pope In 1794, a young Irishwoman befriended two

Benedict XVI reminds the world that poverty will not be widows aboard ship while emigrating to America. They

eradicated unless we rediscover and protect the sanctity of bought a house in Philadelphia and began to live a

life at every level. Dismissing the unborn as less than community life under the direction of a priest. Soon they

human and allowing abortion impedes the work of social relocated to Washington. There, the “pious ladies,” as the

neighbors called them, were asked by their priest friend, by justice. He points out with urgency, “While the poor of the then the president of Georgetown University, to begin a world continue knocking on the doors of the rich, the religious community. In 1799 they established a branch of world of affluence runs the risk of no longer hearing those the Visitation Order founded by Saint Jane de Chantal and knocks, on account of a conscience that can no longer Saint Francis de Sales in the 1620s. distinguish what is human” (n. 75) The unique vision of this order followed a sensible

www.PriestsforLife.com routine, less arduous and more flexible than most traditions,

and also accepted widows and older women. Amazingly, this

REFLECTION: When people attached the wrong American outpost of the Visitation began without reference to the “rule” of the Order. Most of the European convents had interpretation to the miraculous feeding, Jesus revealed to

been lost under the “reign of terror,” and the rules and them the real food they should desire in their lives. To those customs of the community could not be obtained. A copy of who have ears he said, "Do not labor for food which the rule was discovered in 1812, and in 1816 the pope perishes, but for food which endures for eternal life". This officially established the monastery. By then, some French explains clearly that human beings are created not for nuns had regrouped, and they sent a habit and cross to be perishable life or food, but to attain eternal life. The copied. (No religious wore the habit in public in the United

Eucharist is the Divine Food that satisfies our human hunger States until after the Civil War.) From the beginning, the Georgetown nuns had an educational mission, even though and transforms us by the power of the Holy Spirit to live a they discovered in the “rule” that such work was officially life hidden with Christ in God. Let those who sincerely off-limits for the contemplative life. In America, the nuns follow Christ purify their attitude and not to embrace faith depended on a school for their livelihood, so the rule was simply to obtain worldly food, riches, jobs and other favors, adapted. Today, the Academy of the Visitation is a thriving but to be united more intimately with Christ in the Holy example of excellence in Catholic education, and the adjacent

Eucharist. The union with Christ transforms the way we monastery is the oldest monastic foundation in the original

believers think about food, jobs, good health, talents, thirteen United States.

union with Christ, let us not miss the opportunity to receive

Him through the Word and Sacraments. A SOLEMN MASS OF THANKSGIVING will be

-- Fr. Benjamin Koka, AJ celebrated on the Feast of the Transfiguration on Monday,

August 6, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. by the newly ordained

NOTRE DAME MISSION VOLUNTEERS is looking Reverend Canon Matthew Weaver. The Schola for that

evening are his friends. They will sing a Te Duem at the for AmeriCorps volunteers to serve at several locations in

the Cleveland and Youngstown areas for the 2018-2019 end of the Mass. Father Matthew Weaver will give his first

year. Service sites include Metro Catholic School, Boys priestly blessing individually at the communion rail after

Mass to those persons desiring a blessing. Please plan on Hope Girls Hope, and Catholic Charities Migration and joining us! refugee Services. AmeriCoprs volunteers receive a living

stipend of $13,732 and an Education Award of $5,920

YARN NEEDED! The Sisters of St. Joseph, Sisters of upon completion of their service. Positions with NDMVA Notre Dame, Sisters of the Humility of Mary, Sisters of are an excellent experience for recent college grads, those Charity of St. Augustine and the Ursuline sister are looking for a career change, or anyone seeking to make a working together to assist women in need and are

difference in his or her community. For more information, collaborating in this endeavor. Your donation of yarn

contact Marissa Panzarella at [email protected]. will be put to good use! Simply place the yarn in our food

donation boxes in the church. Thank you for your support!

CELEBRANT SCHEDULE July 28 & 29 Offertory Contributions MASS TIME: 5:00 PM 8:00 AM 11:00 AM General Collection: $3,142.42 Children: $1.24 (6) Aug. 4 & 5 Rev. Bede Rev. B. Koka Rev B. Koka Issued: 218 Returned: 84

Aug 11 & 12 Rev. B. Koka Rev January Rev .B. Koka Utilities: $75.00 All Sundays & Holy Days at 9:30 AM: Rev. Bede Kotlinski School Support: $365.43 Thank you for each and every contribution!

Thank you for your continued support and generosity. Each and every gift of time, talent, and treasure is appreciated. Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time THIS WEEK’S CHURCH SERVICES August 5, 2018 Saturday, August 4 Church Please pray for the following: 9:30 AM Latin Mass Special Intentions of Evelyn Trucks Michael George Jim Cables Burley Blankenship 4:15 – 4:45 PM Reconciliation (Confessions Heard) Michalyn Blasius Terry Shannon Karin Whyde Pray the Holy Rosary Patricia Burfield Wanda Eland Jean Gandee 5:00 PM Vigil of Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Leo Bevelacqua Aden Doucet Judith Kenny † † Dawn & Russell Sutherland Inis Lustri Lawrence Blasius Sharon Sneed † Charles J. Naegle Susan Hatta Wayne Daubert Deacon Moises Cruz The families served by our St. Vincent de Paul Society. Sunday, August 5 Church If you would like someone added to this prayer list, please call Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time the Parish Secretary at 216-631-5633. Thank you. 8:00 AM † Conrad Pokorski

LITURGICAL MINISTRIES August 4 & 5 9:00 AM Reconciliation (Confessions Heard) Saturday 5 PM Sunday 8 AM Sunday 11 AM Pray the Holy Rosary Lector Steve McElroy Barb Rieth Tony Ganzer, Katie Ganzer Euch.Min Dr. Jim Lisi John Rieth Paul & Diane Beargie 9:30 AM Tridentine Latin Mass Acolytes : Kevin Kroesen Kevin Kroesen 11th Sunday after Pentecost † † Fred and Mildred Courtright LITURGICAL MINISTRIES August 11 & 12 Saturday 5 PM Sunday 8 AM Sunday 11 AM 11:00 AM German Sunday Mass Lector Doris Durica Barb Rieth Matt Minarik † Herbert Mausser Euch.Min Dr. Jim Lisi John Rieth Paul & Diane Beargie Acolytes Evelyn Trucks Kevin Kroesen Minarik Boys

SAINTS/OBSERVANCES FOR THE WEEK OF 08/05 (o) = Optional Monday, August 6 Church Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 6:30 PM Latin Mass (Transfiguration of our Lord) Monday: The Transfiguration of the Lord All Men Discerning the Priesthood Tuesday: St. Sixtus II and Companions; St. Cajetan Tuesday, August 7 Church Wednesday: St. Dominic 7:00 AM Latin Mass (St. Cajetan Confessor) Thursday: St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Intentions of Penelope Marinchick Friday: St. Lawrence Saturday: St. Clare 6:30 PM (Chapel) Madeline T. & Roland M. Sittley READ THE BIBLE WITH THE CHURCH (Daily Mass Readings) Monday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; Wednesday, August 8 Church 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 6:30 PM Latin Mass (St. John Vianney, Confessor) Tuesday: Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102:16-21, 29, Intentions of Samuel Marinchick 22-23; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Jer 31:1-7; Jer 31:10, 11-12ab, 13; Thursday, August 9 Church Mt 15:21-28 6:30 PM Latin Mass (Vigil or St. Lawrence) Thursday: Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Intentions of the Blasius and Maxin Family Mt 16:13-23 Friday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 Friday, August 10 Chapel Saturday: Hb 1:12 — 2:4; Ps 9:8-13; Mt 17:14-20 6:30 PM St. Stephen Parish

Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30 — 5:2; Saturday, August 11 Church Jn 6:41-51 4:15 – 4:45 PM Reconciliation (Confessions Heard) MISSION APPEAL WEEKEND is August 11-12, 2018. Pray the Holy Rosary Reverend Lazarus Langbiir, CSSp, will visit our parish to speak at 5 :00 PM Vigil of Nin eteen th Sunday in Ordinary Time the Masses about the missionary work of the Church and in particular † Helen Ujvari that of the Spiritans (Congregation of the Holy Spirit, previously known as the Holy Ghost Fathers). To learn more about the Spiritans, Sunday , August 12 Church please visit their website at http://spiritans.org. This visit is part of a Nin e t eenth Sunday in Ordinary Time national program which annually a representative of one of the 8:00 AM The Members of St. Stephen Parish missionary groups visits parishes of the Diocese to invite the parish 9:00 AM Reconciliation (Confessions Heard) to share in the mission work of the Universal Church. Fr. Lazarus is Pray the Holy Rosary a missionary priest from Ghana completing post-graduate studies at 9:30 AM Tridentine Latin Mass Duquesne University in Pittsburg, PA. When Jesus said: “You shall 12 th Sunday after Pentecost witness to me in Jerusalem and in Samaria and to the ends of the Intentions of Father John Hardon earth”, He made the spread of the Gospel an essential part of our 11:00 AM Alumni Sunday Mass Catholic life. We urge to respond generously to Father Langbiir’s † Chrisann Blankenship appeal. Thank you for your support! † Dawn Tucker † Theresa Dailey Living & Deceased Members of the Bewley Family The Deceased Members of the Smith Family