SUNDAY, JAN. 24TH, 2021
Parishioners, family, and friends paid their respect to Monsignor Richard Osebold at a vigil and Rosary service Thursday and attended a Funeral Mass Friday at St. John XXIII Parish. Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron presided at the Funeral Mass for Monsignor Richard Osebold, pastor of St. John Bosco Parish, for 34 years. Monsignor Osebold died Thursday, January 14, after suffering a stroke. He was 86. After the 2018 merger between St. John Bosco and St. Robert Bellarmine, the new 12100 Beech Daly Rd., parish and church at the Bosco site was Redford, MI 48239 renamed, St. John XXIII. (248) 800-6081 Monsignor Osebold was ordained a priest for www.stjohnxxiiiredford.org the Archdiocese of Detroit on June 4, 1960. [email protected] Before serving as St. John Bosco’s pastor, Monsignor Osebold served as rector of Sacred Heart Major Seminary and was a faculty FR. GREG PIATT, PASTOR member there for years. He also was an IN MEMORY OF associate pastor at St. Mary of Redford Parish. MASSES Msgr. Richard Osebold Monsignor Osebold took senior status in Saturday 1/23 | 4 p.m. former pastor of 2018 and was named a monsignor in 2019 by Sunday 1/24 | 9:30 a.m. St. John Bosco Pope Francis. Tuesday 1/26 | 9:30 a.m. Wednesday 1/27 | 6:30 p.m. Thursday 1/28 | 12 p.m. Saturday 1/30 | 4 p.m. Sunday 1/31 | 9:30 a.m.
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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Tuesday 1/26 | 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m.
BENEDICTION Tuesday 1/26 | 7 p.m.
CONFESSIONS By Appointment or Drive-thru Saturday 1/30 | 12-2 p.m.
WEEKLY READINGS
Saturday: St. Vincent; St. Marianne Cope Heb 9:2-3, 11-14/Ps 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 [6]/Mk 3:20-21
rd We hope St. John XXIII Catholic Sunday: 3 Sunday in Ordinary Time Church is a blessing in your life. Jon 3:1-5, 10/Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [4a]/1 Cor 7:29-31/Mk 1:14-20 You are a blessing to us! Whether you’re visiting us, looking for a Monday: The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle new parish, returning to the Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2/Mk16:15-18 Catholic faith or interested in finding out more about the Tuesday: Sts. Timothy and Titus 2 Tm 1:1-8/Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10/Mk 3:31-35 Catholic Church, we’re happy you’re here! To learn more about Wednesday: St. Angela Merici St. John XXIII Parish, visit our Heb 10:11-18/Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 [4b]/Mk 4:1-20 website or Facebook page. If you Thursday: St. Thomas Aquinas are new to the parish, we Heb 10:19-25/Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [cf. 6]/Mk 4:21-25 encourage you to register at the parish office. We look forward to Friday: Heb 10:32-39/Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40/Mk 4:26-34 meeting with you! Saturday: St. Martina of Rome Heb 11:1-2, 8-19/Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75/Mk 4:35-41
PASTORAL STAFF th Sunday: 4 Sunday in Ordinary Time; Catholic Schools Week Dt 18:15-20/Ps 95:1-2, 6-9/1 Cor 7:32-35/Mk 1:21-28
PRAYER REQUESTS Father Gregory Piatt, Pastor [email protected] Jack Flanagan, Olga Hanzek, John Waling, Victor Waling, Eileen Roy, Laura Scanlan, Pastoral Associate [email protected] Dennis Sokol, Bob Frank, Joe Zasa, Enrico “Ricky” Canini, Ann Steve Morello, Deacon Donoghue, Patricia Griffin, Fr. Larry Kaiser, Evelyn Martin and Bob Witt [email protected] request your prayers.
Pray for our priests, vocations, nuns, and those who do God’s work. PARISH STAFF Linda Hudy, Secretary Remember in your prayers all those affected by the coronavirus [email protected] throughout the world. Frank Munoz, Maintenance [email protected] Pope Francis’ Prayer Intention for Jan. 2021: Human Fraternity—May Colette Renaud-Maher, Bulletin the Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our brothers and [email protected] sisters of other religions, praying for one another, open to all. Please email your bulletin submissions on or before Monday at noon.
COUNCILS & LEADERSHIP REST IN PEACE Finance Council Jim Allan, Jim Francis, Michelle Luella Plante Poisson, Cheryl Roza, Fred Schneider Msgr. Richard Osebold & Jack Templin. Parish Council John Gunn Mark Cochran, Denise Zuzow-DeKett, Mary Ann Leonard Maureen Franklin, Chuck Sudekum & Jim Vote. Parish Leadership Team Pam Condron, Shane Foley, Maureen Franklin & George Salloum.
Sign Up Today for St. John XXIII Parish has several ways in which we support each other St. John XIII’s Flocknote Texts in special personal prayer. Prayer requests and Mass intentions are accepted at the parish office. Mass Intentions are dedicated to the Text intentions of the petitioner and are mentioned out loud during the STJOHNXXIII Prayers of the Faithful. Intentions for Mass may be for the support of the to sick, for repose of the soul of a loved one, in thanksgiving, on the 84576 occasion of an anniversary or for other special intentions. 2 AGGIORNAMENTO! By Fr. Greg Piatt
St. John XXIII is planning on holding a takeout fish fry on Fridays during Lent. Known as the Codfather, Jim Vote, our parishioner who ran the renowned St. Robert Bellarmine’s fish fry, has agreed to run the St. John XXIII fish fry. MASS INTENTIONS There will be a limited number of dinners Saturday, Jan. 23 at 4:00 p.m. served, and Jim Vote is looking for Milford Schneider By Fred & Renee people to help in this parish foodservice Schneider endeavor. So, if you can help, please get Bob Dziadzio By Wife, Rita ahold of Jim. You may contact Jim by The Special Intention of Sylvia phoning (248) 470-6611 or emailing Majkowski By Stella W., Marie T., & [email protected]. Sr. Barb Please stay tuned for more details on the fish fry in the coming Peter and Genevieve Mucha By weeks. Son, Richard Carolyn May By Friend, Richard +++ Mucha I wrote last week in this column, and there will be a program of Sunday, Jan. 24 at 9:30 a.m. talks about the faith beginning during Lent right after the 6:30 Maxine Vrtis (Anniversary) By p.m. Wednesday Mass. Marcia Allen Bill Condron (1st Anniversary) By After Mass talks, questions will be held in the church and Wife, Pam should be a half-hour to 45 minutes long. These talks will not be Giuliana Montebelli By Graziano a Scripture study but on topics of Catholic and discipleship. Stay Canini tuned as we develop a list of talks for this program. st Jose Miraflores (1 Anniversary) By +++ The Sallador Family
Tuesday, Jan. 26 at 9:30 a.m. Just a reminder, the parish Scripture Giuliana Montebelli By Graziano study, Unleash the Canini Gospel into Your Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Life, begins after Giuliana Montebelli By Graziano this Sunday’s 9:30 Canini a.m. Mass in the church. You are Thursday, Jan 28 at 12 p.m. invited if you can The Special Intention of Doris th stay for about a half McQueen-Byrne on her 90 -hour after the Birthday Mass. Saturday, Jan. 30 at 4:00 p.m. Frank McNamara By Mary Toal +++ Giuliana Montebelli By Graziano We are looking for people who attend the Saturday 4 p.m. Canini Mass and can help us clean the church for Sunday’s 9:30 a.m. Anna Saxby By Husband, William Mass. This entails wiping down the pews under the Covid-19 Judy Ross By Marie Tabeek safety measures. Eugene Krol (35th Anniversary) By Wife, Bernadine +++ Lastly, remember to get your
Sunday, Jan. 31at 9:30 a.m. CSA Raffle Ticket and get a Stella Waronig By Family chance to win $5,000. There Wilma Golob By Family are 150 tickets, which cost Giuliana Montebelli By Graziano $100 each. Up to 5 people can Canini buy into one ticket. Barjas Haddad By Family
3 EVERYDAY OFFERTORY Winter weather means ice and STEWARDSHIP snow may make it difficult for By Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS some people to get to church. But parish bills keep growing Just ask Zebedee. It’s quite an during the winter, including image we get from the Gospel, increased heating costs and after all. “So they left their father snow removal expenses. You Zebedee in the boat along with can make sure your parish the hired men and followed him.” support doesn’t stop just when SOUPS FOR There was Zebedee, about his we need it the most. Check out A CHANGE business, mending nets with his our simple, safe, and secure Is back for the 6th year of two sons, who were undoubtedly online giving program fundraising to help pay our his best workers — they had to www.osvonlinegiving.com/4663.
CSA commitment! have been more dedicated than JAN. 17 the hired men, who worked for 66 Envelopes $2,293 wages rather than for family. And 14 E-Envelopes $657 SOUP MENU SCHEDULE in an instant, off they go, Loose $111 following this strange man. First Offering $28 Jan. 23-24 • Loaded Baked Potato I don’t know about you, but if Maintenance $105 Total $3,194 • Wild Mushroom my kids left me on a hot summer Christmas $300 • Chicken Pot Pie day to finish the lawn by myself, I wouldn’t be too happy. Religious Retirement $100 Jan. 30-31 But Zebedee must have been • Minestrone someone quite special. Perhaps • Garlicky White Cheddar he realized that his sons didn’t CSA Bisque belong to him — not really. They Our • Chicken Butternut belonged to God, and from the parish is Feb. 6-7 beginning of time, it had been selling • Brisket Chili appointed that they would be tickets to • Tomato Basil among the first disciples of the CSA • Calico Bean w/ Ham Christ. He passed, he called, they Raffle. followed, and Zebedee obliged. The drawing will be on Palm Feb. 13/14 He simply went back to mending Sunday, Mar. 28. The parish • Broccoli Cheese & Bacon his nets, I imagine. holds the raffle annually to raise • Cheeseburger Zebedee already understood money to meet its CSA target. • Creamy Tomato Parmesan Buy a $100 ticket and get a what St. Teresa of Calcutta would say millennia later: “Give until it chance to win $5,000 while Soup hurts.” helping our parish meet our CSA target. for the “You’re wasting my time.” “I’ve JAN. 6 CSA! done so much for her; she owes me this.” How often do we think Goal $46,479 things, and even people and Pledged $27,179 relationships, belong to us? The Payments $24,972 The soup cost is $10 per quart, of which $5.50 is donated to our truth is none of them do. We Your generosity to our CSA parish CSA campaign. must be ready, as Zebedee was, appeal is appreciated. Please to surrender them to God when make checks payable to CSA. Orders must be placed by 9 He comes walking past. p.m. on Tuesday nights by phoning (248) 470-6611 or KROGER REWARDS emailing [email protected]. Due to Kroger Rewards: Kroger the smaller capacity levels donates to our parish through allowed in the building, there will their Kroger Community Rewards be a smaller amount of extras for program. To sign up: log in to purchase after Mass, so PLEASE your digital account, enter make sure that you pre-order so “JT036,” click “Save,” and show that you are not left out. your card when you shop!
4 ALL THINGS CATHOLIC THE CONVERSION OF ST. PAUL THE APOSTLE By Fr. Greg Piatt
sanctification. moved by the charity of God, which has been shown to us in “God co-operates with all things th for good; really, absolutely all Christ,” said the 20 Century things, so that even if any of them saint. go astray, and turn aside from the We cannot return to our past, right path, even this itself God but time lost and wasted can makes to profit them for good so become time redeemed through a that they return more humble and conversion if we spend our lives in more instructed,” St. Augustine union with Christ, loving Him and said. letting ourselves be loved and God can make right what we changed by Him. have done wrong, and this should St. John of the Cross, the 16th A conversion recognizes that relieve the soul of the sense of Century Carmelite saint, offers God loves you and His love harm caused by sin. And God is this reflection: “When evening makes you a disciple. not just a great mastermind, but a comes, you will be examined in creator who does these things love. Learn to love as God desires because He loves us. When to be loved and abandon your On Monday, the Catholic someone undergoes a own ways of acting.” Church commemorates St. Paul’s conversion, they then live their life conversion to Christ because a for the love of Christ. conversion is a truly important th A conversion is an invasion of St. John Chrysostom, the 4 God’s love, and Jesus then moment of becoming a Jesus’ Century Early Church Father, said disciple. sends His disciples into the St. Paul, like others who undergo world precisely to teach this A Christian, who has a a conversion, knew he was loved love. Christ commands us to: conversion moment, uses it as a by Christ and was humbled. St. abide in His love and then go time marker in their life—there is John adds St. Paul: “had the into the world make disciples of time before and after their life- greatest possession of all in all nations by announcing to changing encounter with Christ. himself—the love of Christ.” them that they are loved. While many disciples may not “With this love, he considered have been knocked off their horse himself more blessed than all and blinded as St. Paul, they people…,” St. John Chrysostom remember when and how Jesus said in his writings about St. Paul. changed their lives. “With this love, he wished more to If one has had an encounter with be among the most lowly of the Christ that has led to a punished than, apart from it, conversion, in hindsight, it is an among the elite and honored.” isolated moment in time, which St. Paul’s conversion brought has been fed by the light of grace him no worries as he wrote in from the past. These are a string Philippians: in pressing “on of events and providential toward the goal for the prize of the encounters that bring a soul to the upward call of God in Christ point where they are prepared to Jesus.” meet Christ. This is the focus of a disciple, Nothing is impossible for God one who has received God’s and what His divine work and merciful love and lives in that love. grace alone can accomplish in each and every one of us. We waste time if we fail to see the extent of how God loves us The great early Church father, because Christ’s love is the only St. Augustine of Hippo, says the thing that can change us, said St. sins of those called by Christ are Josemaria Escriva. “I don’t like to resolved through His divine speak of fear for the Christian is providence for their salvation and
5 WHAT’S NEW IN THE FAMILY With about half of the Archdiocese’s parishes entering into Families of Parishes this year and St. John XXIII and the area parishes which will make up our individual Family of Parishes forming in 2022, we want to familiarize our parishioners with our soon-to-be family members’ parish activities.
Periodically, we will be publishing this column, What’s New in the Family. The column features the ongoings in what will be our Family, consisting of the Redford parishes of St. John XXIII, St. Valentine, and Our Lady of Loretto; the Livonia parishes St. Michael, St. Aidan, St. Priscilla, and Sts. Genevieve/Maurice; and Farmington’s St. Gerald. By Fr. Greg Piatt During Jesus Time, we are called to Here’s what’s new in our soon to be family: follow Christ deeper into discipleship • Our Lady of Loretto will hold a Blood Drive on Sunday, Jan. 31, by loving God above all and loving your from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. It will be held in the Fr. Henry neighbor out of your love for God. Roodman Family Center (Old Gym). For more information call 1- We learn about the dynamics of a 800-733-2767. calling to discipleship in our Old • St. Aidan will host The Great Adventure Bible Study Program Testament Reading from the Book of starting Feb. 7, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in Bixman Hall, next to the Samuel, where God calls Samuel church. The Bible Study Program will cost $27 per participant, during the night, and in the Gospel, and there are scholarships available. There is an online self- where Christ calls Andrew, who then paced study option as well. Check out the bible study on St. Aidan’s website at Saintaidanlivonia.org/prophets-bible-study. brings Simon Peter to Jesus St. John XXIII doesn’t Parish Monday Friday People today are called by God, and have a daily Mass on sometimes God is persistent about it. Our Lady of Loretto 8:30 a.m. ------Mondays and Fridays St. Valentine ------8:30 a.m. Do you walk away or ignore His at this time. Here are calling? the family members St. Aidan 8:00 a.m. 8:00 a.m. Sts. Genevieve/Maurice 9:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Many don’t hear a call but are who have daily Mass introduced to Jesus as Peter was. on Monday and Friday. St. Gerald 9:15 a.m. 9:15 a.m. Many of us were baptized as infants, St. Michael 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. brought to Christ by our parents, and were taught the truths of the Catholic faith by others. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Do you follow Christ in everything The Knights of Columbus St. Paul Council has put in place a 5th you do? We need to ask ourselves this Sunday Rosary Service program where in those months when because a disciple does what they are there are five Sundays, on the 5th Sunday our council will be called to do. leading a rosary service after the 9:30 a.m. at St. John XXIII. We invite all parishioners to join us on Sunday, If not, then ask daily for the Grace to Jan. 31. truly follow Christ and to hear His call in your heart. Congratulations to the Winners of the St. Paul K of C “Keep Christ in Christmas Whether our parents brought us to Poster Contest” Baptism or RCIA by a friend, the Lord reached us, and they taught us and Winners: Abigail Klinkhammer, Katherine guided us. Machowicz, and Madison Perkins
At every Mass, the Lord looks at us Runners Up: Emma Laity, Ava Laity, and sees our potential at every stage in Isabella Machowicz, and Elena Delcotto life. Are you living up to the potential Jesus sees in you? Are you bringing others to Christ? That’s what Christ calls us to do. Through our prayer and asking to do God’s will, Jesus will show us how to become His disciple.
6 ANNIVERSARY MASS SATURDAY, FEB.13, 2021, AT 4 PM You may ask how we can have an Anniversary Mass during the pandemic. I hated not holding this Mass because I am sure we have many anniversary couples this year. So, let’s see how we can do this:
• The anniversary couple and their family may sit in Post one pew. • Pews are 6-ft apart. of the • We can use the whole church for this Mass and Week the church hall for non-Anniversary parishioners if needed. • We will take photos of individual couples. • We will not have you come forward when we call your name. We will ask you to stand in your pew. • We will have flowers. • Instead of dinner, there will be a Meals after Mass LET GO & LET GOD! for take-out. By Laura Scanlan
So, what do you think? All three readings may be referred to as “call narratives.” In the first reading, we hear about Jonah On Saturday, Feb. 13, we will celebrate our and the message that he is to give to the people of Anniversary Mass. This article is an open invitation Nineveh from God. Now Nineveh was a pagan city, st th to all St. John XXIII couples celebrating their 1 , 5 , and God was angry about their evil ways. This is the th th th th th th th th th 10 , 15 , 20 , 25 , 30 , 35 , 40 , 45 , 50 , and 50+ second time God has asked Jonah to deliver His in 2021. Couples who have been married 50+ years message. The first time he ran away and ended up deserve to celebrate their anniversary every year at being swallowed by a whale. After three days in the this annual Mass. We cordially invite you and your belly of the whale, Jonah was spewed onto the family to attend this Mass. seashore. Please plan on attending. This second time Jonah went through the city Please complete the form below. Please return it proclaiming God’s message, “Forty days more and as soon as possible in the collection basket or mail it Nineveh shall be destroyed.” All the people of to the parish office. Nineveh took God’s message seriously, and a fast was proclaimed, and the people wore sackcloth (a sign of repentance). The people changed their ways, and when God saw what they did, “…He repented of the evil that He had threatened to do to them; He did not carry it out.”
In St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians, he tells them that through their baptism, life for them has changed. The Corinthians cannot act as if things are the same as before they heard the gospel. Nothing Last Name ______is the same, Paul insists. Christ coming into the world, and their lives have turned everything upside Husband’s Name ______down.
Wife’s Name ______Jesus begins his public ministry after John the Baptist is arrested. He continues John’s message, Address ______“This is the time of fulfillment. The kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.” The ______kingdom of God is seen in the works completed by Jesus. We are to change our lives as something new Phone ______is happening. We are to believe in the Gospel (Good What anniversary will you celebrate?______News) and then respond. The commitment made by Andrew, Simon, James, and John is the response Month/Day ______that Jesus wants from us. Jesus has come to announce this good news, and he needs people to help him. Are we ready to help him?
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