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Week of June 12-18, 2016 Fr. Francis Cusack, C.P (1930-2016)

WELCOME TO THE INTERFAITH AIRPORT CHAPELS OF CHICAGO! Fr. Francis Cusack, a Passionist friar who assisted at the O’Hare Chapel The O’Hare Airport Chapel and Midway Airport Chapel are each for many years before moving to Louisville, passed away June 1, 2016, at a peaceful oasis in a busy venue. A place to bow your head in Nazareth Home, Louisville, while convalescing from kidney surgery. He was prayer while lifting up your heart and spirit! Prayer books and born William J. Cusack on February 3, 1930 of William J. and Helen Cusack rugs, rosaries, and worship materials are available, as are chap- (nee Curtin) who preceded him in death. A third generation Chicagoan, lains for spiritual counsel. You are welcome to attend Mass or though growing up in a household closely associated with the Daley Democ- Worship services and to come to the chapels (open 24/7) to pray ratic machine, he decided to serve people in the priesthood rather than in or meditate. May God bless your travels. — Fr. Michael Zaniolo, Administrator politics. He entered the Passionist Preparatory Seminary in 1944, professed vows as a Passionist religious in 1951 and was Interfaith Calendar & Events ordained to the priesthood May 31, 1958. Father Francis ✈ Shavout: Feast of Weeks, June 12-13, is a Jewish festival celebrating served in several ministerial roles in Passionist administration. the harvest of the first fruits and also commemorating the giving of the Torah Pastoral roles included St. Gemma's in Detroit (1991-1995) at Mt. Sinai. and St. Agnes in Louisville, 1961-68, 1987-91 and 2012 until ✈ June 16: Sikh observance of the Martyrdom Day of Guru Arjan Dev his death. In Detroit (1975-87), he conducted a ministry of in 1606, the fifth guru. He assembled the Adi Granth and built the famous preparing couples for marriage and celebrating the sacrament Golden Temple of Amritsar. with them. Hundreds of couples were helped in this ministry. Source: The 2016 InterFaith Calendar, Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago He served as local superior in Louisville, 1987-91 and 1995-96 and Chicago, 2007-11. He served as assistant local superior in Chicago, 2004-07 and Lou- Chapel Staff Birthdays & Anniversaries isville, 2015-until his death. While in Chicago, he assisted at the O’Hare ✈ Birthday blessings to Margaret Gorny, Wednesday, June 15, and Mary Chapel along with other Passionists. He was also active in the International Jo Anderson Saturday, June 18. Thomas Merton Society and served as moderator for the Chicago Chapter from 2005-11. As a newly ordained priest stationed in Louisville, Fr. Franics often took church groups to Gethsemani Abbey and became acquainted with ORD CATHOLIC MASS INTENTIONS Merton, and celebrated Mass with him at Merton’s hermitage. 06/11/16 4:00 p.m. † Daniel Howard req. by Friends Condolences and memorial gifts may be made to the Passionist Com- 6:00 p.m. † Rose Jafferis req. by Cynthia Oskroba munity, 1924 Newburg Road Louisville, Kentucky 40205. Our condolences 06/12/16 6:30 a.m. ● Adrienne Magnusun req. by Lena Lucietto to the family and friends of Fr. Francis and to the Passionist Community. 9:00 a.m. † Sr. Lesley Lockwood req. by George Simmons 11:00 a.m. ● Mark Prucha req. by Rosemary Prucha 1:00 p.m. † Elaine J. Geu req. by Susan Coates Interfaith Airport Chapels Fundraising Raffle Prize Winners 06/13/16 11:30 a.m. † Colbert Lynch req. by Craig & Noreen Heffernan We wish to extend a special thank you to all who participated in in our 06/14/16 11:30 a.m. † Barbara Zaniolo req. by Aida Zaniolo raffle. 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SUNDAY: 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY: 6:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. ✈ FATHER’S DAY SPIRITUAL BOUQUET: Chicago Airports Catholic Chap- Evening before Holy Day: 4:00 p.m. Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. laincy sets aside the 9 and 11 a.m. Masses on Father's Day, next Sunday, Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements Evening before Holy Day: 5:00 p.m. www.airporthapels.org/holydayschedule.html Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements June 19, for a special Spiritual Bouquet to honor fathers. ~ www.airporthapels.org/holydayschedule.html Spiritual Bouquet cards are available on tables in the chapel PROTESTANT WORSHIP ~ vestibule before and after all Masses, and at the chapel office. Saturday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 & 1:30 p.m. ISLAMIC JUMA’ PRAYER Fill out the outer envelope (please print!) with your offer- Sunday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon & 1:30 p.m. Friday: 1:15 p.m. ing, and place it in the collection basket, the safe, or mail it to Monday—Friday 10:30 a.m. & 1:30 p.m. ~ PROTESTANT WORSHIP the chapel. We will print the names of all those participating

Sunday: 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 noon in our Spiritual Bouquet, living and deceased, in a flyer on Father’s Day. For information: 773-686-2636.

Rev. Fr. Michael G. Zaniolo, STL, CAC — Administrator/Catholic Chaplain Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago ✈ The O’Hare and Midway Airport Chapels are among the 33 pilgrim- Mr. Qazi M. Biabani — Imam Khateeb/Muslim Chaplain age sites designated by Archbishop Blasé Cupich for the Muslim Community Center of Chicago Indulgence which Pope Francis has granted during the Rev. Dr. Hutz H. Hertzberg - Protestant Chaplain The Moody Church of Chicago period of December 8, 2015, to November 20, 2016. Mrs. Susan E. Schneider, CAP — Office/Business Manager/Fund Raiser Information is at http://www.jubileemercy.org/. Mr. Michael Brennan — Bulletin Editor She died all alone on her straw bed at the age of 22. Her body, which This Week in the Life of the Church was buried in the church of Pibrac, was accidentally exhumed in 1644, 43 Being a compendium of feast days and notable events in Church history years after her death, and was found in perfect preservation. This circum- stance, and the numerous miracles which were ascribed to her, encouraged a Sunday, June 12, 2016 desire for official sanction of her cult. Owing to the French Revolution, how- ✙ We Remember: ST. LEO III, a Roman by birth, became the 96th pope in ever, and other hindrances, her beatification and canonization were deferred 795. While attempting to suppress the unruly factions of Rome, he was himself until the pontificate of Pius IX; on June 29, 1867, the neglected little waif of seized and put to the torture. He then called on Charlemagne for help, who Pibrac was enrolled upon the list of Saints. Annually thousands of pilgrims reestablished order in Rome. Subsequently, in St. Peter's, Charlemagne was visit the church of Pibrac, where the sacred body of St. Germaine is en- crowned emperor of the West by Pope Leo on Christmas Day, 800, thereby shrined. (B,H,S) ✙ BLESSED THOMAS SCRYVEN, a Carthusian brother, died founding the Holy Roman Empire and laying the foundations of the Middle of starvation in Newgate Prison during the English persecutions. Ages. Leo refused to add the filioque to the Nicene Creed. He was also con- ● Today in 1475, the VATICAN LIBRARY was founded by a decree of Pope cerned with the affairs of the church in England. Sixtus IV. (W) ● In September, 1915, XAVIER UNIVERSITY in New Orleans Monday, June 13, 2016 opened as a Catholic high school for African-Americans, and in 1917, issued ✙ We Remember: ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA, Evangelical Doctor, "Wonder the first diplomas. The college department opened in 1925. Worker" (1195-1231). Anthony, a native of Lisbon, joined the recently founded Thursday, June 16, 2016 Friars Minor in 1212. Bent on martyrdom, he sailed for Africa, but illness ✙ We Remember: St. Lutgardis, Virgin (1182-1246) was among the and storm brought him to Italy, where under the guidance of St. Francis he notable women mystics of the 12th and 13th centuries. A sympathetic and began his career as a preacher against heresy, and as a wonder-worker. He was lovable figure, today's saint was born in the Netherlands and, at 12, placed in the first Franciscan to teach theology, and was named a lector by St. Francis a Benedictine convent (for no better reason than that the money intended for himself. He died on this day, age 36, at Padua, where he is buried in the basil- her marriage-portion had been lost in a business speculation, and without it, ica there that bears his name; he was canonized by Gregory IX the following she was unlikely to find a suitable husband). Lutgardis was an attractive girl, year. He is popularly invoked to help in the finding of lost objects. fond of pretty clothes and innocent amusement, without any apparent reli- In art he is usually represented bearing the Child Jesus in his arms and holding gious vocation. One day, however, our Lord appeared to her, and she re- a lily. He was declared a doctor of the Church by Pope Pius XII in 1946. nounced from that moment all earthly concerns. Some nuns said her fervor (B,L,S) ● In 313, the EDICT OF MILAN granted Christians the rights of all wouldn't last, but it only increased. After 12 years at St. Catherine's, she was religions under Roman rule. (W) ● In 1962, the LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF inspired to place herself under the stricter rule of the Cistercians, and se- WOMEN RELIGIOUS, started at a convention of Sisters in Chicago in 1956, lected the convent of Aywieres, upon the advice of her confessor and of her gained formal Vatican approval. friend, St. Christine the Astonishing. Here she lived for 30 years a won- Tuesday, June 14, 2016 derful life, full of mystical experiences. God endowed her with the gifts of ✙ We Remember: ST. METHODIUS THE CONFESSOR, Bishop (d. 847). healing and prophecy as well as an infused knowledge of the meaning of Born and educated in Syracuse, Sicily, Methodius went to Constantinople hop- Holy Scripture. Blind for eleven years before her death, she accepted the ing to find work in the imperial court, but changed his plans, became a monk, affliction with joy, as a God-sent means of detaching her from the visible and founded a monastery on the island of Chios. The Eastern Church regards world. She died on this day, June 16, 1246. (B,L) ● In 1845, the first free Methodius with great veneration because of his part in the overthrow of icono- public school in Wisconsin was able to open, through the generosity of FR. clasm (this term derives from the Greek for "image-breaking" and identifies MARTIN KUNDIG, in the basement of St. Mark Church, Kenosha. (W) ● First opposition to the use of images, first adopted officially in the East by Emperor pontiff to fly in an airplane (while pope): POPE PAUL VI (1963-1978) in Leo II in 726; believing that icons fostered idolatry and prevented the conver- 1964.(W) sion of Muslims and Jews, Leo ordered their destruction; the edict met with Friday, June 17, 2016 bitter opposition, especially from the monks) and his heroic stance during the ✙ We Remember: ST. ALBERT CHMIELOWSKI (1845-1916) was foun- persecution of Leo the Armenian in 815. Imprisoned for seven years in a tomb der of the Albertines. In the history of the Church, many holy men and or mausoleum with two thieves, one of whom died, and was left, we are told, to women have been the subject of plays, but none, surely, the subject of a play rot in the prison, Methodius was released looking like a skeleton, but his spirit by the man who canonized him. Until, that is, today's saint, around whom was unbroken. Fresh persecution broke out under the new emperor, Theophi- Pope John Paul II wrote Our God's Brother - though the play was not per- lus, and Methodius was summoned before him. Blamed for his past activities formed until after its author had become pope. Born in southern Poland, and for a letter which he was supposed to have incited the pope to write, he today's saint was involved in the uprising against the Russian occupation in replied boldly, "If an image is so worthless in your eyes, how is it that when you 1863; the insurrection failed, and he was taken prisoner. His left leg was condemn the images of Christ you do not also condemn the veneration paid to amputated, but he was allowed to return to Poland, where he enjoyed consid- representations of yourself? Far from doing so, you are continually causing erable success as an artist. He gradually abandoned his art to care for the them to be multiplied!" Finally in 842, the death of this emperor brought his poor - particularly the homeless - of Krakow. Inspired by Rafal Kalinowski, widow, THEODORA, forward as regent for her infant son, and she became a another freedom fighter who became a Carmelite friar, in 1887 he adopted champion of images. She induced Methodius to become Patriarch of Con- the name Albert, and donned a form of simple habit. A year later he took stantinople. In this position he did excellent work in restoring the faith after vows before the Archbishop of Krakow - who had also joined in the uprising 30 years of iconoclastic rule. He died on this day in 847. (B,D,S) of 1863! - and promised from then on to dedicate himself to the service of the ✙ In 1980, FR. COSME SPESSOTO, OFM, was shot by unknown assailants in poor. This was the beginning of the Albertine Brothers - followed three years El Salvador. The Franciscan missionary was shot while saying Mass. (W) later by the Albertine Sisters - congregations which opened houses for the Wednesday, June 15, 2016 poor and homeless and which still exist in Poland. St. Albert was beautified ✙ We Remember: ST. VITUS died about the year 303, a martyr. He is by Pope John Paul II in Krakow itself on June 22, 1983, and canonized patron against epilepsy and the nervous disorder called St. Vitus's dance. Nov. 12, 1989. Because he died on Christmas Day, 1916, the celebration ✙ ST. GERMAINE COUSIN, Virgin (c. 1579-1601), was born in Pibrac near of his feast was designated June 17. (D, L) Toulouse, the daughter of a poor farmer. St. Germaine suffered from scrofula Saturday, June 18, 2016 (a tuberculosis of the lymphatic glands, especially of the neck); her right arm ✙ We Remember: ST. GREGORY BARBARIGO, Cardinal, Bishop of Padua and hand were deformed and partially paralyzed; her mother died when she (1625-1697): Venetian-born, he was first bishop of Bergamo and then of was scarcely out of the cradle, and her father had no affection for her, while his Padua, and was created cardinal in 1660. He was equally distinguished both second wife actively disliked her. She suffered much harshness by her step- as a churchman and a statesman...he was present at the signing of the Treaty mother, who, after the birth of her own children, kept Germaine away from her of Westphalia, which ended the 30 Years' War. His charities were on a healthier stepbrothers and sisters. A frail, sickly child, the poor girl was made princely scale and his benefactions to Padua numerous and lasting. He was to sleep in the stable, or under the stairs, was fed on scraps, and as soon as she an earnest worker for the reconciliation of the churches of East was old enough, was sent to tend sheep. Even the villagers showed a hostile and West. He died 300 years ago: June 18, 1697; Pope John XXIII attitude toward the forlorn child. The children, however, loved to listen to her declared him a saint May 26, 1960. (B,L,D) speak about the goodness and love of God as she shepherded her flock. She ● In 1967, POPE PAUL VI promulgated SACRUM DIACONATUS ORDINEM, spent her short life in the fields, communing with God in prayer and practicing the document restoring the office of permanent deacon in the Roman Rite. charity towards others poorer than herself. In spite of her many afflictions, the 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. (D) emaciated child possessed a charming, sweet disposition. The village church Day by Day with the Saints, Patrick Moran, OSV, 1985. (ES) Encyclopedia of Saints, C. Jöckle, was the only place where Germaine was welcome, and nothing could keep her Alpine, 1995. (L) Butler's Lives of the Saints I-IV, Christian Classics, 1995. (L2) Lives of the from Mass. Several miraculous events changed the townspeople's contempt for Saints, O. Englebert, Barnes & Noble,1994. (P) Pocket Dictionary of Saints, John Delaney, Image, 1983. (S) Saints of the Roman Calendar, Enzo Lodi, Alba, 1992. (P) The Popes, Eric John, her into something approaching veneration. For example, passing the stable Roman Catholic Books, 1994. (V) Vatican II Weekday Missal, Daughters of St. Paul, 1975. (W) We where she slept, some of them heard a heavenly melody emanating from within Celebrate, We Commemorate, Patrick Walsh. This Week in the Life of the Church is com- and saw the child, through a crack, with her head crowned in a radiant light as piled by Mike Brennan. Tax-deductible contributions to the Chicago Airports Catholic she knelt in ecstatic prayer. Chaplaincy are welcome. E-mail: [email protected].