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June 27, 2021 Y 13Th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 27, 2021 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time %%+($ ,RL,XS,L,!'+#%$ The parish office will be closed June 29 through July 5th. Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time The author of The Cloud of Unknowing prays, “That which I am and the way that I am, with all my gifts of nature and grace, you have given to me, O Lord, and you are all this. I offer it all to you, principally to praise you and to help my fellow Christians and myself.” Knowing that God sustains us in being is the key to faith. All that we need to do is to love God as God is and the rest will begin to fall into place. God made us in His image and desires that we have life. God also desires that we be healed of all of our wounds, especially those caused by sin, and know his loving touch. Being weighed down by negativity, imperfections, the cares of the world, and weakness is not something that God desires. Faith can profoundly change how we see God, ourselves, and one another. It gives a clearer lens through which to see life and connects us with the powerful virtues of love and hope. Three friends journeying with us through all that we encounter, faith, hope, and love, help us experience God’s embrace and heal us. All we have to do is let God be who God is and not foolishly try to make Him into what we need or want Him to be. Without God we cease to be. It’s that simple. The very blood that flows through my veins and the life that I have come directly from Divine origins. With this knowledge of who God is and who I am, I can open my ears and hear the powerful words Jesus speaks, “Do not be afraid, just have faith.” Trust begins. When we are struggling, we naturally reach out for God because we know that a divine remedy is the only remedy. But, in doing so we wrestle with letting God take charge. We want something more miraculous and visible than the obvious and have difficulty in finding consolation simply resting in God’s presence. Our naked being, stripped of any pretense or self serving agenda, is being called to rest in and love the uncreated Presence of God. Reach out in love to God. Ask God to heal you from all that separates you from Him. Put aside any ideas of God that create barriers between you and God’s tender and endearing presence. The Cloud of Unknowing leaves us with wisdom, “think of yourself and of him in the same way, that is, with the simple awareness that he is as he is and that you are as you are.” This is a meeting of two friends who desire nothing more than to share life together. ©LPi Page 2 St. Basil Bulletin EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR ORDINARY MOMENTS Touching the Cloak of Christ Look to today’s Gospel and you’ll find one of the most arresting images in all of Scripture. Christ in a crowd, everyone clamoring for his attention, pressing against him. Several feet away, is a chronically ill woman, weak and desperate for help. She knows she doesn’t have a chance of getting his attention. She has no connections. She has no strength. All she can do is lift up her hand. So that’s what she does. She reaches out. There comes a time, or maybe several times, in each of our lives when we become this woman. We’re tired and we’re sick. Is it with sin? With fear? With anger? It doesn’t matter. Whatever it is, it’s made us weak, and we feel like we’ve run out of options. We’ve looked for help and come up empty. We’ve consulted friends and gotten nowhere. We’re lost in the crowd of life, unable to stick our heads above the pressing throng to wave for help. And there is Christ, always passing by us. The hem of his cloak is never far from our grasp. We have no hope of a big miracle like the synagogue leader. We don’t even bother asking for that. But that cloak ... we can touch that cloak. That’s something we can do. Do we do it, though? Do we have the confidence of that sick, beatendown woman who knew so totally that healing was there for the taking? Or do we retreat back into the crowd, stumbling back home with our pain and our sinfulness? Reach out, friends. However, whatever, whenever N reach out. Christ will not fail you. N Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi Plastic Grocery Bags Collection WEEKLY SCHEDULE We are collecting plastic grocery bags (like the ones from Kroger’s, Monday, June 28, 2021 Meijer, etc.). The bags will be used to make mats for the homeless. The 8:00am Reconciliation / C bags can be dropped off in the Gathering Space and placed in a container 8:30am Mass / C labeled “Plastic Bags” located next to the Food Collection boxes. Thank 6:00pm Opus Angelorium / SH you. If you have any questions you can contact, Pat Laux, (586)7789278. Tuesday, June 29, 2021 Office Closed 12:00pm Adoration / C St. Basil Is Asking For Your SMILE! 6:20pm Reconciliation / C 6:30pm Rosary & Benediction / C Do you have an Amazon account? Well if you do you can make all 7:00pm Mass / C your Amazon purchases through Amazon Smile! Visit smile.amazon.com, and loginin through there and search for St. Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Office Closed Basil the Great, Eastpointe. There are no additional fees and .5% of 8:00am Reconciliation / C all sales will be donated back to our parish. Be sure to always login 8:30am Mass / C in through smile. Amazon.com for the purchases to count. Thursday, July 1, 2021 Office Closed Friday, July 2, 2021 Office Closed 8:00am Reconciliation / C St. Basil Rummage Sale 8:30am Mass / C August 13, 14 and 15th 6:00pm Contemplative Rosary/C Friday and Saturday 96 and Sunday 9:30 1 Saturday, July 3, 2021 We will begin accepting donations July 19 on Mondays, Wednesdays and 8:00am Reconciliation / C Fridays from 10am until 2pm in the social hall. Please donate working, 8:30am Mass / C clean, usable items which are suitable for a church rummage sale. 9:15am First Saturday Devotions / C 3:00pm Reconciliation / C We will not be accepting any of the following: clothing, encyclopedias, 4:00pm Mass / C textbooks, Readers Digest, computers, televisions and other electronics, stuffed animals, bowling balls, healthcare items, weapons, engines or Sunday, July 4, 2021 motors. We will be accepting other books. 8:30am Mass / C 10:30am Mass / C If you have any questions, need items picked up, and/or would like to volunteer, please call Rita at 5867764481. St. Basil Bulletin Page 3 Fr. Eric’s Exposé: The Essential Role of the Father Part 2 Here is the remainder of the article “The Essential Role of the Father” written by Fr. Ed Broom, found at The Catholic Gentleman website, which is an excellent source for Catholic men. Also, I found the great image below of a father and husband protecting his family from harm as his wife prays the rosary with the children. Here is the link to the article: https://catholicgentleman.com/2014/02/the essentialroleofthefather/ : …“Third, the father should love his children and see them as a precious treasure that God has given to him with the primary purpose of bringing these little ones to their ultimate destiny which is heaven. A child is a gift given to father and mother but with the primary purpose of the parents being ladders by which the children can climb to heaven. An authentic father first should provide for the spiritual need of the child. He should teach his child to pray as soon as possible. Little children are like sponges. The nature of a sponge is to absorb; it can absorb dirty water or clean water. Likewise a child can absorb the dirt of the modern world or, through the help of a good father, absorb that which is pure, noble and uplifting. The father should be the teacher to the child especially in prayer. He should be always mindful of the immortal saying of Father Patrick Peyton: “The family that prays together stays together.” With respect to the art of prayer, the father should exercise three different aspects of prayer: 1) He should be a man of prayer and not be afraid to manifest it publicly. There is a saying that praises prayer as such: “The man is greatest when he is found on his knees!” Why? Because he recognizes that true greatness comes from the Father of all good gifts, God Himself. 2) He should pray with the familyNthe blessing of the meal, the family Rosary and the active participation in holy Mass which is of course the greatest of all prayers. 3) Finally, a true father should be like Moses who elevated his arms so that the Jews could win the battle against their enemies. A father should pray frequently and fervently for his family for their protection from all evilsN physical, moral, spiritualNand for his family’s sanctification and salvation. An authentic Christian father should have his eyes fixed on heaven at all times and stay aware of the world and the dangers that menace the flock (his wife and children) entrusted to him.
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