Saint Florian Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars 1233 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3615

June 6, 2021 ~ The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)

PARISH STAFF WEEKEND MASSES Under the Care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars Saturday (Anticipated) ...... 4:00 p.m. Phone ...... 414-383-3565, extension 2 Sunday ...... 8:00 a.m. Email ...... [email protected] DAILY MASSES (in the Main Church at this time) Maintenance: Joseph Rivest M, T, Th and F ...... 5:00 p.m. Secretary: Jacqueline Wick followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben...... until 6:45 p.m. ST. FLORIAN PARISH OFFICE Wednesday ...... 8:00 a.m. 1210 South 45 Street, West Milwaukee, WI 53214-3614 followed by Euch. Ad. & Ben...... until 9:30 a.m. Phone ...... 414-383-3565, ext. 0 Saturday ...... 8:00 a.m. Fax ...... 414-383-2708 with Confessions at ...... 8:30 a.m. Email ...... [email protected] Evening before Holy Day (Anticipated) Website ...... www.stflorian.org ...... 7:00 p.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily on Anticipated Holy Days) PARISH OFFICE HOURS Holy Day ...... 8:00 a.m. Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. (No 5:00 p.m. Daily Mass on Holy Days) (The Parish Office is closed on Fridays & Holidays.) (Daily Masses or Holy Day Masses subject to change.) PASTORAL COUNCIL Chairperson: Sue Jens ...... 414-328-4042 CONFESSIONS - (in the Main Church) Vice Chair: Lucy Karaba ...... 414-671-1888 Saturday ...... 8:30 a.m. Trustee/Secretary: Russell Miller ...... 414-671-2385 or also by appointment. Please call the Parish Office. Trustee/Treasurer: Sandy Kania ...... 414-672-0364

MUSIC DIRECTORS MARY QUEEN OF SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY Joseph Carpenter - 4:00 p.m. Sat. choir ...... 414-430-3425 (our Parish Cluster School) • 414-476-0751 Diane Bersch - 8:00 a.m. Sun. choir ...... 414-541-8109 1227 South 116 Street • West Allis, WI 53214 Jen Vega, Principal • Email: [email protected] CHRISTIAN FORMATION OFFICE School Website: mqsca.org Within St. Rita Parish, 2318 South 61 Street , West Allis, WI 53219 Email for Registration Information: [email protected] High School/Confirmation Program RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RCIC-Rite of Christian Initiation of Children “Please remember St. Florian Parish in your will.” Contact the DRE - Director of Religious Education, Barbara Krieger ...... 414-541-7515, ext. 16

FUNERAL PLANNING Please contact Fr. Elijah as soon as possible to make funeral arrangements.

SACRAMENTS Baptism Parish registration and parental instruction required. Please contact the parish office. Marriage Please arrange for a date and instructions at least six months in advance at the parish office. Parish registration is required. Anointing of the Sick and/or Last Rites

Please contact Fr. Elijah at the Parish Office. Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them,

PARISH MEMBERSHIP and they all drank from it. He said to them, “This is Each family or single adult 18 years old or older my blood of the covenant, which will be shed for many. living at home or alone is invited and expected to be Amen, I say to you, I shall not drink again the fruit of registered in our parish family at the parish office. the vine until the day when I drink it new in the Please call the parish office to register. kingdom of .” ~ Mark 14:23-25 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) St. Florian Parish - June 6, 2021 June 5, 2021 Readings for the week of June 6, 2021

through Sun: Ex 24:3-8/Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18 [13]/

June 13, 2021 Heb 9:11-15/Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 Mon: 2 Cor 1:1-7/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [9]/Mt 5:1-12 Sat., June 5 - St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Tues: 2 Cor 1:18-22/Ps 119:129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 135 8:00 a.m. † Michael Palm [135a]/Mt 5:13-16

- Anticipated The Most Holy Body Wed: 2 Cor 3:4-11/Ps 99:5, 6, 7, 8, 9 [cf. 9c]/Mt 5:17-19 and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Thurs: 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, 13-14 4:00 p.m. † Joe & † Julia Kuras and † Debbie Marki [cf. 10b]/Mt 5:20-26

Sun., June 6 - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Fri: Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/ (Corpus Christi) Eph 3:8-12, 14-19/Jn 19:31-37 8:00 a.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian Sat: 2 Cor 5:14-21/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12 [8a]/

Mon., June 7 - Weekday Lk 2:41-51 5:00 p.m. † JoAnne Gannon Next Sun: Ez 17:22-24/Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 [cf. 2a]/ 2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34 Tues., June 8 - Weekday 5:00 p.m. † Fr. Timothy McGough CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS

Wed., June 9 - St. Ephrem, Deacon & Doctor of the Church May 31, 2021 8:00 a.m. † Kathi Amidzich

Thurs., June 10 - Weekday $100 - Katherine Duncan 5:00 p.m. † John Sullivan June 1, 2021 Fri., June 11– The Most of Jesus 5:00 p.m. Carmelite Perpetual Mass Union $25 - Diane Brazale

Sat., June 12 - The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary CATHOLIC QUOTE 8:00 a.m. † John Sullivan

- Anticipated Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 p.m. The Parishioners of St. Florian

Sun., June 13 - The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 a.m. † Stephen Pedersen ETERNAL FLAME

June 5 - June 11, 2021

In loving memory of:

† Patrick M. Fugger

EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP — RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS We Can Prepare the Upper Room — We all know that person, don’t we? Hey, maybe we’ve even been that person.

“I have a great relationship with God, but I don’t go to church regularly. God and I are on good terms. I can talk to Him just fine on my own.”

There isn’t anything false in these statements. It’s important to have an intimate, even conversational relationship with God. But the problem with this attitude is that it implies that churches don’t matter. Community worship doesn’t matter. Today, we are reminded exactly why that is so untrue. Why we need our parishes, our priests, and each other.

The Body and Blood of Christ — that’s what it’s all about. If it’s not about that, it’s not about anything. If we don’t have the , we’re just like the ancient priests, making sacrifices that don’t have the power to redeem anybody.

Where do we receive the Body and Blood of Christ? For most of us, it’s in our parishes. The altar of sacrifice is also the table we gather in front of, as a family, to become one with Christ in the truest and realest way possible, recreating the scene in the Upper Room over and over again every time Mass is celebrated.

The disciples were commissioned by Christ to prepare the Upper Room for the Last Supper. How can we take up that work ourselves? How can we strengthen the bonds in our spiritual family? How can we serve our parish, always remembering that the table is not meant to be set only for two? ~ Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) St. Florian Parish - June 6, 2021

In June, Please Pray For . . .

Sat., June 5 - St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr Catherine Becker Fr. Larry Katherine Papa 8:00 am Mass Donald Frankovich, OFM Mary Priewe Czeszynski Fr. Ralph-Elias Elizabeth Reineck 8:30 am Confessions

Sat., June 5 - Anticipated Most Holy Body and Ralph & Marlene Haddix, OCD Rose Schultz Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Daniels Jeff Huber Lynn Sheng 3:00 pm Celebration Choir in Fellowship Room David Demos Helen Guszkowski Mary Smith 4:00 pm Mass Claudia Derringer Joyce Johnson Cindy Terrien Gregg & Susan Ruth Kressl Edie Wurcer Sun., June 6 - The Most Holy Body and Dufek Betty Michalowski Gloria Zelazek Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) Netterfield Family Bernie Zimney 8:00 am Mass

Mon., June 7 - Weekday LIVE THE LITURGY — 5:00 pm Mass INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction As we gather today to reaffirm our faith in the Real Tues., June 8 - Weekday Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, we are reminded that 5:00 pm Mass we are also the Body of Christ. The mission of the Gospel 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction calls us to be Christ for others. There is so much Wed., June 9 - St. Ephrem, Deacon & brokenness and pain in our world. Many people are lost Doctor of the Church and feeling lonely, marginalized and oppressed, victimized 8:00 am Mass and abused. Every time we receive the Body (and Blood) 8:30-9:30 am Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction of Christ, we are asked to become what we eat. Are we Thurs., June 10 - Weekday willing to step aside from our preoccupations and concerns 5:00 pm Mass so that we can be Christ for others? The power and 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction presence of Christ in the Eucharist becomes present in us. Fri., June 11 - The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus In receiving this transforming presence of Christ, we can 5:00 pm Mass truly effect change in the lives of those we meet. We can 5:30-6:45 pm Eucharistic Adoration with Benediction show them God’s unconditional, ever-present love and the

Sat., June 12 - The Immaculate Heart of the beauty that can come from loving others. We are given the Blessed Virgin Mary grace to become temples of justice and peace, 8:00 am Mass carrying God’s sacred Presence within us wherever we go.

8:30 am Confessions th WHY DO WE DO THAT? — Sat., June 12 - Anticipated 11 Sunday in Ord. Time CATHOLIC LIFE EXPLAINED 3:00 pm Celebration Choir in Fellowship Room 4:00 pm Mass Question: Why are some saints honored as “patron saints”?

Sun., June 13 - The Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Answer: Each person is unique and each of us has 8:00 am Mass different gifts, interests, talents, and, yes, even struggles

and areas where we need to grow. This is no less true of MQSCA NEWS those holy women, men, and children who have been canonized or beatified. We would like to congratulate our graduates for their achievement, it was a challenging year, but they Because we believe that the saints and blesseds are both persevered. We launch them off with a solid foundation in models of faith and intercessors, Christians have looked to academics, faith, compassion and social justice and look certain holy people as role models and heavenly protectors forward to hearing about their future endeavors. They will for occupations, spiritual charisms, and even places. always have a home at Mary Queen of Saints Catholic Although the Church sometimes names a person as a patron Academy! We would also like to announce the retirement saint (e.g. Saint Philip Neri as the patron of Rome, of 4 individuals from the MQSCA team. Mrs. Kathleen Saint Clare of Assisi as the patroness of television, or Dagenhardt, business manager; Ann Preis, K4 teacher; Saint Aloysius Gonzaga as the patron of youth and young Larry Kartz, Physical Education teacher and Cheryl Flood, adults), more often it is popular devotion that inspires lay office manager. Together they have a combined 107 years Christians to turn to a particular saint or blessed for of service in education! Please keep them and the entire heavenly help and support. This is how, for example, staff of MQSCA in your as we wrap up our year. Saint Cecilia came to be honored as the patroness of musicians, Saint Toribio Romo as patron of migrants Make it a great day! In peace, Jen Vega, Principal. coming into the United States, and Saint Gertrude of COVID Hotline: 414-465-8297 Nivelles as patroness of cat lovers. Although there are official and unofficial lists of patron saints, we should

always feel free to ask any and all the saints to give us their patronage and protection in whatever it is that we need. GOSPEL MEDITATION — ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE As our world faces so much turmoil indicate whether we meet success. well. “There is nothing so great as the and change, it is now more important There is so much brokenness and pain Eucharist. If God had something more than ever to remember who God is, who in our world. Many people are lost, precious, he would have given it to us.” we are and where we are going. It is feeling lonely, anxious, marginalized, Only the Eucharist has the ability to easy to get distracted and lose focus, victimized, isolated, oppressed, and connect, sustain, strengthen, and especially when we are being pulled in abused. Every time we receive the properly orient us, not only on the road so many directions. We can not only Body of Christ, we have an opportunity of this life but the road to life eternal. lose sight of God but one another. to become what we eat. The power and Knowing this, when life gets Maintaining our well developed and presence of Christ in the Eucharist challenging, unsettling, and difficult, we mature relationships with God and one becomes present in us and effects can rely on and cling to this gift we have another is essential to continuing to live, change in ourselves and in the lives of in the Real Presence of Christ. This healthy, happy, and focused lives. In a those we meet. We are given the grace actual encounter with God celebrates message to young people, Pope to become temples of justice and peace, God’s unconditional love for us and Benedict XVI said, “the happiness you carrying God’s sacred Presence within grounds us to the truth of who we are in are seeking, the happiness you have a us wherever we go. Our faith a way nothing else is able to do. right to enjoy has a name and a face: it community is ignited with the fire of Because through the Eucharist we really is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the God’s love and stands out as a beacon do become the Body of Christ, we are Eucharist.” What is true for those who of hope in a world that is lost. This is also bonded together in a most perfect are younger is even truer for those who the only way we can discover peace- way to one another as that Body. are older. Regardless of how the filled resolutions to violence and create Nourished, united, and strengthened by particulars of life change over time, innovative solutions to what is fueling the Eucharist, let us individually and human beings are still hard-wired to its need in the first place. True collectively, bring this wonderful gift to seek the fullness of life and happiness. happiness, for the young and old alike, all we meet, especially the poor with How we embark on this journey and becomes an obtainable goal. whom we have a special connection. what we choose along the way will St. John Maria Vianney says it so DISCALCED CARMELITE BLESSED

Bl. Anne of St. Bartholomew, Virgin — June 7

Ana Garcia was born at Almendral, Castile, in 1549. In 1572 she made her profession as a Carmelite in the hands of St. Teresa, at St. Joseph’s The Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ — June 6 Avila. The saint later chose her as her companion and nurse, and This is also known as the Solemnity of Corpus Christi, she subsequently brought the which translates from Latin to "Body of Christ." This Teresian spirit to France and feast originated in France in the midthirteenth centu- Belgium. Where she proved herself, ry and was extended to the whole Church by Pope like Teresa, to be a daughter of the Urban IV in 1264. This feast is celebrated on the Thursday following the Trinity Sunday or, as in the Church in her great zeal for the salvation of souls. She died at Antwerp in 1626. USA, on the Sunday following that feast.

This feast calls us to focus on two manifestations of Source: https://ocdfriarsvocation.org/about-us/discalced- the Body of Christ, the Holy Eucharist and the carmelite-proper-calendar/june/ Church. The primary purpose of this feast is to focus our attention on the Eucharist. The opening prayer at Bl. Alphonsus Mary of the , Mass calls our attention to Jesus' suffering and death Priest and Companions, Martyrs — June 12 and our worship of Him, especially in the Eucharist. He was born in 1891 in Baranowka, At every Mass our attention is called to the Eucharist near Lubartow, Poland. He entered and the Real Presence of Christ in it. The secondary the Order of Discalced (Teresian) focus of this feast is upon the Body of Christ as it is Carmelites in 1908, taking the religious present in the Church. The Church is called the Body name Alphonsus Mary of the of Christ because of the intimate communion which Jesus shares with his disciples. He expresses this in Holy Spirit. He was ordained a priest the gospels by using the metaphor of a body in and appointed as a professor, while which He is the head. This image helps keep in focus dedicating himself to the education of both the unity and the diversity of the Church. youth. Afterwards he served the Order as prior and bursar. In 1944, after The Feast of Corpus Christi is commonly used as an having been arrested by the troops who had invaded opportunity for public Eucharistic processions, which serves as a sign of common faith and adoration. Our his country, he was shot on August 28 at worship of Jesus in His Body and Blood calls us to Nawojowa Gora, near Krzeszowice. offer to God our Father a pledge of undivided love He was beatified by John Paul II on June 13, 1999, and an offering of ourselves to the service of others. together with many other Polish martyrs.

Source: https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/solemnity- Source: https://ocdfriarsvocation.org/about-us/discalced- of-the-most-holy-body-and-blood-of-christ-270 carmelite-proper-calendar/june/ St. Ephrem, Deacon & Doctor of the Church — June 9

Poet, teacher, orator, and defender of the faith, Ephrem is the only Syriac Christian recognized as a doctor of the Church. He took upon himself the special task of opposing the many false doctrines rampant at his time, Feast of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus — June 11 always remaining a true and forceful The Feast of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is one of the defender of the .

most widely practiced and well-known Born in Nisibis, Mesopotamia, he was devotions in the Roman Catholic baptized as a young man and became famous as a teacher Church. It takes the physical heart of in his native city. When the Christian emperor had to cede Jesus as representation of His Divine Nisibis to the Persians, Ephrem fled as a refugee to love for humanity. The Feast of the Edessa, along with many other Christians. He is credited Sacred Heart has been in the Roman with attracting great glory to the biblical school there. Catholic Liturgical calendar since He was ordained a deacon but declined becoming a priest. 1856, and is always celebrated 19 days Ephrem was said to have avoided presbyteral consecration after Pentecost Sunday. The feast of by feigning madness! He had a prolific pen, and his the Sacred Heart always falls on a writings best illumine his holiness. Although he was not a Friday. The devotion especially man of great scholarship, his works reflect deep insight emphasizes the unmitigated love, and knowledge of the Scriptures. In writing about the compassion, and long-suffering of the heart of Christ mysteries of humanity’s redemption, Ephrem reveals a towards humanity. realistic and humanly sympathetic spirit and a great The origin of the devotion to the Most Sacred Heart in the devotion to the humanity of Jesus. It is said that his poetic modern form, derived for a French Roman Catholic Saint, account of the Last Judgment inspired Dante.

St. Marguerite Marie Alacoque, whose feast day is It is surprising to read that he wrote hymns against the October 16. She learned the devotion from Jesus during a heretics of his day. He would take the popular songs of mystical experience. Her revelations were numerous. On the heretical groups and using their melodies, compose December 27, 1673, Margaret Mary reported that Jesus beautiful hymns embodying orthodox doctrine. Ephrem permitted her to rest her head upon His heart, and then became one of the first to introduce song into the Church’s disclosed to her the wonders of his love, telling her that he public worship as a means of instruction for the faithful. desired to make them known to all mankind and to diffuse His many hymns have earned him the title the treasures of his goodness, and that he had chosen her “Harp of the Holy Spirit.” He preferred a simple, austere for this work. In July 1674, Jesus requested to be honored life, living in a small cave overlooking the city of Edessa. under the figure of His heart, also saying when He It was here that he died around 373. appeared radiant with love, He asked for a devotion of Source: https://www.franciscanmedia.org/saint-of-the-day/saint expiatory love, frequent reception of Holy Communion, -ephrem especially Holy Communion on the First Friday of the month, and the Observance of Holy Hours. The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary — In the Roman Catholic tradition, devotion to June 12 the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus has been closely associated with to Jesus Christ. In his In the midst of the second world war Encyclical, Miserentissimus Redemptor, Pope Pius XI Pope Pius XII put the whole world stated, “The spirit of expiation or reparation has always under the special protection of our had the first and foremost place in the worship given to Savior's Mother by consecrating it to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus”. The “Golden Arrow her Immaculate Heart, and in 1944 he Prayer” directly refers to the Sacred Heart. decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of THE GOLDEN ARROW PRAYER the . MAY THE MOST HOLY, MOST SACRED, This is not a new devotion. MOST ADORABLE, MOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE In the seventeenth century, AND UNUTTERABLE NAME OF GOD St. John Eudes preached it together with that of BE ALWAYS PRAISED, BLESSED, LOVED, the Sacred Heart; in the nineteenth century, Pius VII and ADORED AND GLORIFIED, Pius IX allowed several churches to celebrate a feast of the IN HEAVEN, ON EARTH AND UNDER THE EARTH, Pure Heart of Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast of the BY ALL THE CREATURES OF GOD, Immaculate Heart of Mary for the whole Church, AND BY THE SACRED HEART so as to obtain by her intercession "peace among nations, OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, freedom for the Church, the conversion of sinners, IN THE MOST HOLY SACRAMENT OF THE ALTAR. the love of purity and the practice of virtue" AMEN. (Decree of May 4, 1944).

Source: http://www.newmanconnection.com/faith/saint/feast-of Source: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/liturgicalyear/ -the-most-sacred-heart-of-jesus calendar/day.cfm?date=2021-06-12 COMMUNITY AREA ANNOUNCEMENTS A Lifeline for Marriage - Retrouvaille Weekend (pronounced retro-VI with a long I) helps couples through difficult times in their marriages. It is designed to provide the tools to help get marriages back on track. Maybe you know someone — a friend, family member or coworker — who is struggling. Or maybe your own marriage needs a lifeline?

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Guided Contemplative Silent Preached Retreat JOURNEY INTO THE SILENCE Redemptorist Retreat Center 1800 North Timber Trail Lane, Oconomowoc Monday, July 26 beginning at 4:00 p.m. through Sunday, August 1 ending at 1:00 p.m.

Each of us longs to grow closer to God through quiet in our lives. The longing for quiet is satisfied through contemplation. Silence within each of us can best be claimed when there is quiet around us. The Redemptorist Retreat Center is the perfect place. Join us for our Annual Guided Contemplative Retreat as we JOURNEY INTO THE SILENCE to emerge with renewed minds and hearts.

Presenters: Register at: https://chestertonacademymke.org/summer-camp Fr Ted Lawson, C.Ss.R. & Sister Susan Fischer, OSF

Fee: $505.00 covering room, board and materials.

To register by phone call 1-262-567-6900. Register by email at: [email protected]

Catholic Ecology Center, W1468 County Road NN, Neosho — Saturday, July 10 — 12:30-5:30 p.m.

Laudato Si' Project has started a new ministry, the Catholic Ecology Center, in Dodge County. We seek to deepen faith and foster a stewardship ethic through hands-on encounters with the natural world. Celebrate the Catholic Ecology Center with Bishop Schuerman! A day filled with faith, fun and fellowship that will begin with 12:30 p.m. prayer service/blessing by Bishop Schuerman. Following the blessing there will be tours of the property, fellowship and activities for families. An outdoor mass at our amphitheater with Bishop Schuerman will be at 4:00 p.m.

Need more info? https://catholicecologycenter.org/events Email: [email protected] Call 1-262-308-6641.