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envenuto! Welcome to Holy Rosary Church! Whether you are a lifelong parishioner, a first-time visitor to our , or someone in between, we Bare grateful you have joined us today. Founded in 1909 as the Italian Parish of Indianapolis, we continue to serve as the parish home of people of Italian heritage and also embrace all Catholics in union with Rome, including those

September 13, 2020 Form: 24th Sunday in Extraordinary Form: 15th Sunday after Pentecost Anglican Use: 14th Sunday after

devoted to the Traditional Latin (Extraordinary Form) and the Anglican Usage of the . In the words of our founding pastor, Msgr. Marino Priori: “The church is the temple of the Lord, the gate of heaven. Come after a week of earthly cares, after so much toil, after so many sorrows, after so much pain. Rest your limbs. Regenerate your spirit at the sources of grace. Raise your mind to God; thank Him for the benefits received through His creation and in daily life; ask for strength so you can win all of life’s struggles, and be able to possess the The Italian Parish of Indianapolis fruits of redemption.”

Mailing address: 520 Stevens St. Parish Staff and Leadership: Indianapolis, IN 46203 The Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, STD ...... Pastor Telephone number: 317-636-4478 Very Rev. Joseph L. Newton, JCL ...... Sacramental Minister Emergency number: 317-636-4478, ext. 3 Elizabeth Welch ...... Music Director E-mail address: [email protected] David Walden ...... Director of Communications Website: www.holyrosaryindy.org Diane Fricker ...... Parish Council President Facebook: www.facebook.com/holyrosaryindy Marcus Shutta ...... Finance Council President Twitter: https://twitter.com/holyrosaryindy 2 Liturgical schedule for the week

At this time, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is limiting the size of congregations in its churches; therefore, we are re- quiring advance signups for indoor Saturday evening and Sunday Masses. A link to the online signup site will be emailed weekly to those who subscribe to our parish email notification service.

Saturday, September 12, 2020 4:30 p.m...... OF ...... Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time...... Pro populo Sunday, September 13, 2020 — 9:30 a.m. Mass will be outdoors, weather permitting 8 a.m...... AU ...... Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity......  Michael Morow (Celebrant’s intention) 9:30 a.m...... OF ...... Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time...... Mike Fox 2 11:30 a.m...... EF ...... Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost ...... Clients & benefactors of SVdP Monday, September 14, 2020 F 7:30 a.m...... OF ...... Exaltation of the Holy Cross ...... Policemen, firemen, military 5:45 p.m...... EF ...... Exaltation of the Holy Cross 2 ...... Joseph Mehan Tuesday, September 15, 2020 M 7:30 a.m...... OF ...... Our Lady of Sorrows ...... Francis 5:45 p.m...... EF ...... Our Lady of Sorrows 2 ...... Maria Hofmeister Wednesday, September 16, 2020 M 7:30 a.m...... OF ...... SS. Cornelius & ...... Priests and 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. — Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 5:45 p.m...... EF ...... SS. Cornelius & Cyprian 3 ...... Nancy Brown Thursday, September 17, 2020 7:30 a.m...... OF ...... St. Robert Bellarmine Opt ......  David Bunte 9:30 a.m. — Mother’s 5:45 p.m...... EF ...... Feria 4 ......  Patrick Fujawa

Friday, September 18, 2020 7:30 a.m...... OF ...... Feria ......  Holy Souls in Purgatory 5:45 p.m...... EF ...... St. Joseph of Cupertino 3 ......  F. Paul Mitchell

Saturday, September 19, 2020 10 a.m...... OF ...... St. Januarius Opt ...... At risk children 4:30 p.m...... OF ...... Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time ...... Christiaan & Anna Andreasen Sunday, September 20, 2020 — 9:30 a.m. Mass will be outdoors, weather permitting 8 a.m...... AU ...... Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity ...... Tom & Catherine Shippey (Celebrant’s intention) 9:30 a.m...... OF ...... Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time ...... Pro populo 2 11:30 a.m...... EF ...... Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost ......  Harrison J. Pierce

OF: Ordinary Form EF: Extraordinary Form AU: Anglican Use (Ordinariate Form) 1: 1st-class feast 2: 2nd-class feast 3: 3rd-class feast Opt: Optional memorial M: Memorial F: Feast S: Solemnity

CONFESSIONS: About 30 minutes before each weekday and Saturday Mass, and as time allows on Sunday. RECITATION OF THE ROSARY: English — Saturday at 4:15 p.m.; Sunday at 9 a.m. & 11 a.m.; Spanish — after 11:30 Sunday Mass. MASS INTENTIONS: The standard stipend for Masses in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is $10. Requests should indicate whether people are living or deceased, and be typed or written legibly. We will attempt to honor requested dates, but cannot guarantee they will be available. We recom- mend such requests be made at least eight months in advance. Except in the year of an individual’s death, no more than 12 Saturday evening/ Sunday Masses may be requested or offered for the repose of his/her soul in a calendar year. Intentions that cannot be offered here within a year of reception are, at the pastor’s discretion, subject to being sent to the archdiocesan Mission Office. Make checks payable to Holy Rosary Church. 3 Announcements BY THE NUMBERS  Thompson has dispensed the faithful from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass until Nov. 1. Sunday Collections (includes Online Giving)  We will be accepting nominations for Parish Regular collection, Sept. 5-6 $ 8,902.32 Council members at each Mass Sept. 26-27. The Society of St. Vincent de Paul 271.50 terms of four current members are ending — we Beirut Relief Fund 459.50 thank Lee Ashton, Bob Collins, Rob Roller and Nick Additional funds 250.90 Welch for their service. (Lee, Bob and Nick are eligi- Parish operating expenses/week 12,460.17 ble for another term, but they must first be nomi- Collection budgeted/week 9,230.77 nated and reelected. Rob has served his full comple- Weekly collection deficit (328.45) ment of allowable terms and will be “retiring” from Fiscal Year (began July 1, 2020) the council.) The two parishioners from each Mass Regular/holy day collections $ 87,798.08 who receive the most nominations will be listed on Parish operating expenses 124,601.70 the final ballot. Registered parishioners who cannot Collections budgeted 92,307.70 be here in person may send their nominations to the Total collections deficit (4,509.62) parish office by the U.S. Postal Service. Approximately 30% of the operating budget comes from  At indoor Sunday Masses, there will be a basket Italian Street Festival revenue and other fundraisers. on the table near the back pews to your weekly donations to the parish. At the outdoor 9:30 a.m. Mass, the basket will be in the general vicinity [email protected]. For other questions, contact of the portable . (You can also donate via our Severin Kempf at [email protected] or 317-808-4975. Online Giving portal; please visit https://  Arya Lyanna Vespa and Eloise Maria Edwards osvhub.com/holyrosaryindy/funds.) were baptized here last month, and Tryston Sky  We have a designated special collection today for Baker was baptized and confirmed. We belatedly con- Catholic University of America. Please make sure gratulate their families, especially parents Sydney Ve- your donations for this collection are in a separate spa, Nicholas and Elizabeth Edwards, and David Ma- envelope clearly marked for its purpose. They may son. be deposited in the same basket as your regular col-  Please pray for our sick and shut-in friends: Deb- lection. Donations may also be made through Online bie Barry, Brenden Bayer, Pam Berry, Ian Brown, Giving. Linda Buckley, Steve Bussell, John Caito, Verna Carr,  Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a visit to Holy Son Hui Christensen, Sharon Conrad, Danielle Dillon, Rosary by a missionary priest from the Archdio- Nancy Duffy, Annette Dybas, Paquita Fallas, Bob cese of Kumasi was canceled. Instead, the appeal for Gossman, Margaret Hanaway, Robert Hanaway, Fr. their work is being made virtually through the MIS- John Hollowell, Matthew Iaria II, Andra Ignas, Brian SIO Fundraising Platform. A links to the virtual ap- Joseph, Josephine Lombardo, Mary M., Amy Mauck, peal can be found at the parish website, http:// Sidia Mora, Tony Navarra, Jill Olecki, Nathan Oliver, holyrosaryindy.org/. At the MISSIO website, click Lena Peoni, Maria Peterson, Suzie Pietro, Jennifer on the picture to learn more about the appeal. Rivera, Bert Sansone, Gus Sansone, Mike Schott,  High School Youth Group meets today (Sunday) Simeon Scull, John Thomas, Phil Vierneisel, Kay Wa- from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Meet in the courtyard. Activi- terloo, Larry Webber and Jenifer Zehner. ties include the much-requested game of kickball and  The Pro-Life Film Series will present “Don’t’ Marian talk No. 2. Be sure to turn in your permission Talk About the Baby” on Friday, Sept. 25, at St. form, if you haven’t already, or we’ll have to send John ’s Pan-Am Parish Hall at Geor- you home early. gia Street and Capitol Avenue. Doors open at 6:15  The parish Confirmation Class will be held on the p.m. with the film beginning at 6:30 p.m. The docu- third Sunday of every month from 1 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. mentary explores the culture of shame and silence sur- beginning Sept. 20. Weather permitting, class will rounding miscarriage, stillbirth and infertility. Seating meet in the courtyard (Priori Hall is the alternate loca- is limited and pre-registration required; visit tion). If you still need to register your confirmation- www.eventbrite.com and search for “Pro-Life Film age child, please contact Sally Kaufman at Continued on Page 7 4 Appunti del Parroco: a Message from the Pastor The Nativity of the Blessed Mary

ast week, on September 8th to be exact, the derick II placed the cardinal electors under arrest. In L Church celebrated the Nativity of the Blessed response, the cardinals took a vow to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Logically, the annual observation of Virgin Mary that if they made it through the ordeal, this event occurs exactly nine months after her Im- they would extend the Feast of the Nativity of the maculate Conception is celebrated on December 8th. Blessed Virgin Mary into an octave (an eight-day The Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin observance). Mary is a beautiful observation born of Marian devo- Sequestered in a Roman monastery, the cardinal tion. Following the Council of Ephesus in the 5th cen- electors chose as their pope Celestine IV, who died tury, in celebration of the newly recognized title of soon after his coronation and before he could follow Mother of God (or God-Bearer), devotion to Our up on his and his fellow electors’ vow. War on the Lady grew and expanded among the people of Italian peninsula delayed the next papal election, so it God. It seems that many of the faithful, some influ- wasn’t until 1243 that the next pope, Innocent IV, enced by apocryphal writings, simply started cele- was able to fulfill the cardinals’ promise and propel brating the birthday of the Blessed Virgin Mary as the feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary they would the birthday of anyone they loved. Over to liturgical prominence. the course of a couple hundred years the devotion While the feast is no longer an octave, those with seemed to spread everywhere. great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary still have Then, as He does so often, God used the sinfulness the privilege on Sept. 8 to liturgically celebrate the of man to increase His honor and glory through the birth of the sweet Mother of God. then-Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II. Desiring to — Fr. C. Ryan McCarthy influence and control the papal election of 1241, Fre- Pastor

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PANDEMIC PROTOCOL RCIA: AT HOLY ROSARY CHURCH Would you like to learn more about possibly becoming Catholic? e ask that greater charity be exercised in our W church during the ongoing pandemic. While The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults COVID-19 may not concern you, it does worry others. is the process through which adults are The following guidelines are in place to help ease fears brought into the Catholic Faith. It involves a and prevent the spread of the coronavirus among our series of carefully planned stages, marked by congregation: liturgical rites in the presence of the parish Advance signup required for most Sunday Masses community, in which you embark upon and If you are coming to a Saturday evening or Sunday join that community in a continuing and deep- Mass inside the church, sign up in advance. This helps ening conversion into faith and discipleship. us keep attendance within acceptable limits. Every week Weekly classes will begin this fall and con- we email new links to online signup forms. To sub- scribe to this email notification service, send your email tinue until Easter. To register for the class or address to [email protected]. (Advance signup to learn more about the program, contact Sally isn’t necessary for attending the 9:30 a.m. Sunday Kaufman at [email protected]. Mass, which is outdoors, weather permitting.) Social distancing necessary indoors, outdoors Please maintain a distance of at least six feet between Wedding bells still ring, even in 2020 your household and others at all times, indoors and out- t’s an understatement to say we’re in the midst doors. This applies not only to when you are sitting in I of an unusual year. COVID-19 has brought us pews (or chairs at the outdoor Mass), but also to when too many deaths, hospitalizations and illnesses, you are standing in line for Holy or kneel- along with lockdowns, job layoffs and economic ing at the . turmoil. Churches were shut down for two Sanitize your pew immediately before leaving months and then opened only at partial capacity. Sanitize your pew immediately before leaving. This Social unrest, undoubtedly exacerbated by the will require you to bring disinfectant wipes or a disin- pandemic, has manifested itself in widespread fectant spray and paper towels. (We also recommend protests and too-often-deadly riots. Ice hockey is that you disinfect your pew upon arrival.) being played in the sweltering days of summer. The Indy 500 ran in August, and the Kentucky Mayor, county health department mandate masks Derby on Labor Day weekend. We’re sure that Mayor Hogsett and the Marion County Public Health somewhere dogs and cats are living in harmony, Dept. continue to require all persons over age 2 to wear and the lion is sleeping peacefully with the lamb. a mask or face shield when indoors, including at But not everything has been doom, gloom and churches. These face coverings are required even when strangeness. In fact, we’re happy to note that social-distancing is being maintained. Love conquers all, even in 2020, and there can be Leave nothing in the church or vestibule nothing more normal than that. Since the out- Do not leave any items in our vestibule or church — break of the pandemic locally, we have celebrated no books, no pamphlets, no holy cards, or anything else. six weddings of parishioner couples. Please join This has been our policy for quite some time, and is es- us in congratulating (albeit belatedly) and praying pecially to be followed during this time of pandemic for all of them, listed in order of marriage: when these items may become another source of conta- Daniel West & Christine Kuo gion. Peter DeMass & Lindsey Forbes Also, please dispose of any single-usage, parish-provided Carl Martin & Rebecca Willen worship aids that you use during Mass, such as music sheets and Latin Mass prayer sheets. A trash can is located Eric Leveque & Katelyn Klingler next to the front door of the church just for this purpose. John Gieger & Gabrielle O’Rourke Justin Posey & Grace Malinoski 6

PRAYER TO OUR LADY OF SORROWS Feast Day: September 15

most holy and afflicted Virgin! Queen of Martyrs! thou who didst O stand motionless beneath the Cross, witnessing the agony of thy expiring Son —through the unceasing sufferings of thy life of sorrow, and the bliss which now more than amply repays thee for thy past trials, look down with a mother’s tenderness and pity on me, who kneel before thee to venerate thy dolors, ELECTION DAY and place my requests, with filial confidence, in the sanctuary of thy wounded heart; present them, I beseech thee, on my behalf, to Jesus Christ, through the merits of ADORATION His own most sacred death and passion, together with thy sufferings at the foot of the cross, and through the united efficacy Pray for our country! of both obtain the grant of my present petition. To whom shall I resort in my wants and miseries if not to thee, O Mother of Mercy, Tuesday, November 3 who, having so deeply drunk of the of thy Son, canst compassionate the woes of those who still sigh in the land of exile? Holy Rosary Catholic Church Offer for me to my Savior one drop of the Blood which flowed from His sacred veins, one of the tears which trickled from His divine 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. eyes, one of the sighs which rent His adorable Heart. O refuge of Mass or Adoration as long as the universe and hope of the whole world, do not reject my humble prayer, but graciously obtain the grant of my petition. the polls are open in our city.

This week’s offerings of interest from the Internet: St. Joseph’s greatness in heaven https://www.hprweb.com/2020/09/st-joseph-greatness-in-heaven/ Supporting abortion even beyond the moment of birth https://www.thecatholicthing.org/2020/09/08/the-mysteries-of-the-born-alive-acts Indiana attorney general asks state Supreme Court to dismiss lawsuit against Indy Archdiocese https://calendar.in.gov/site/oag/event/ag-asks-court-to-support-religious-liberty-in-case-involving-catholic- teaching-on-same-sex-marriage March for Life reveals 2021 theme https://www.ncregister.com/news/march-for-life-reveals-2021-theme-with-unity-as-focus A lesser-known Ave Maria that’s as beautiful as Schubert’s https://aleteia.org/2020/08/24/a-lesser-known-ave-maria-thats-just-as-beautiful-as-schuberts

— Find links to these articles and more on the parish Facebook page, www.facebook.com/holyrosaryindy — Views and opinions expressed in the linked articles are strictly the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the pastor and staff of Holy Rosary Church, Archbishop Charles C. Thompson or anyone else connected to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.

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