St. Cletus Canticle PASTORAL STAFF Paulette Bolton 600 W
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PARISH STAFF REV. ROBERT CLARK Pastor REV. EDGAR RODRIGUEZ Associate Pastor REV. KENNETH BAKER Associate Pastor REV. CHARLES GALLAGHER Pastor Emeritus REV. RON ANGLIM Weekend Associate REV. MR. JESÚS & SILVIA CASAS Deacon Couple REV. MR. STUART & MARLENE HEYES Deacon Couple St. Cletus Canticle PASTORAL STAFF Paulette Bolton 600 W. 55th Street - La Grange, IL Worship (708) 352-6209 Rectory (708) 215-5422 Deacon Jesús Casas (708) 352-4820 School Hispanic Ministry www.stcletusparish.com (708) 215-5440 June 10, 2012 Kristen Maxwell Youth Ministry (708) 215-5419 Feast of Corpus Christi Mary Beth Ford Social Concerns (708) 215-5418 Debbie Lestarczyk Business Manager (708) 215-5405 Justin Sisul Music Ministry (708) 215-5423 Christopher Wagner Technology (708) 215-5420 Deacon Stuart Heyes Ministry of Care (708) 215-5407 SCHOOL STAFF Jeff Taylor School Principal Kathy Lifka Assistant Principal Mary Lee Krieger Secretary Jeannie Scalzitti Receptionist/Office Assistant (708) 352-4820 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION STAFF Sr. Pat McKee Director of Religious Education Holly Kallal Secretary (708) 352-2383 RECTORY STAFF All are welcome. Patricia Drobny Handicapped parking is located in front of church. Bulletin Editor/Office Assistant Bobbie Kallal Personal hearing devices are available from the ushers/greeters. Human Resources Mary Zwolinski Children’s Chapel available for the young and the restless Parish Accounting in the rear of the church. (708) 352-6209 Page Two Feast of Corpus Christi June 10, 2012 Mass Intentions for the Week of June 11 - June 17, 2012 Day Time Intentions Monday 8:00 a.m. John Hopp Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Purgatorial Society Wednesday 8:00 a.m. Thomas Kigin Thursday 8:00 a.m. Jozef & James Slowik, John Wagner, Sr. Friday 8:00 a.m. Marcie & Walter Johnston Saturday 8:00 a.m. Katherine Korkos 5:00 p.m. Georgia Popp, Joseph Kmet, Peter Vukosovich, Francis Heslin, Anna Pleszka, Robert Kunkel Sunday 7:00 a.m. Marco & Emilia Rattin, Joseph Falls, Floyd Placzek 8:00 a.m. Robert Goshman, Patricia Halm, Michael Kinastowski, Walter Dobrowolski, Special Intention-Christopher C. Yara 9:30 a.m. Gerald Giblin, Dick Radom, Ken Herzog, Steve Paczolt, Orville Lifka, Len Wehrmeister, Roseann Lodato 11:00 a.m. John Crotty, Dale Fisher, Edward Mezan, Robert Kunkel, Stephen Callaghan, John Moosbrugger, John Aiello 12:30 p.m. All Souls in Purgatory Please remember our sick in your prayers: Julius Kohl, Peter Ference, Joan Trauth, Christina Cepicka & Michael Welchko Mary Bartucci, Alice Frederick, Jennie Boerste, Rene Quinones, Philip Hodak, Elizabeth Kensek & Steve Barcus Eddie Wisner, Frank Nash, Stacy Kwak, Harry Fisher, Jodie Walsh & David Courtright James McSweeney, John Karch, Gertrude Koenig- Stoiber, Gerdi Dorso, Loretta Pavlik, N. Zagrodnik, Bob Zimmerman, Breann Moddes, Betty Niwa, Joan Workman, Betty Zapf, Donald Cuttill, Idolina Montano, Sue Kremer, Kathryn Super-Wilson, A Warm Welcome to Lydia Ciaglia, Maeva Bishop, Katie Meyer, Howard Pohlman, Evelyn Kilker, Jessica Gundling, Our New Parishioners Joe Saban, Jean Weekley, Marilyn Matesevac. Please welcome to our parish family: Also pray for our parishioners who are in nursing homes Mr. & Mrs. Michael Nelson and Family and the or are homebound and unable to attend Mass. Papa Family. Please know we pray daily for the sick and the dying. If you have been attending St. Cletus, but have not registered as a parishioner, please consider the commitment of parish membership. Please Welcome… Vincent Maderak, Please pray for those who have son of Adam Maderak & Jennifer Guersch died and their families… Eddie Daniel Robles, Patricia Wilson, son of Eddie Robles & Maria Lopez mother of John Wilson Kenneth Mulderink to the Catholic Faith through the May the Lord grant them eternal rest. Amen. Sacrament of Baptism. June 10, 2012 Feast of Corpus Christi Page Three Notes from Father Bob… FEAST OF THE BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST People cannot match God for faithfulness; the Covenant was constantly breached. And so Jesus came, God’s own Son. The Law became a person, obedience became a relational response to a person, and the rule became love. The writer of the Letter to the Hebrews deliberately describes the work of Christ as renewing— even replacing—the old Covenant between God and people. The New Covenant is the person of Christ. This brings us to consider the first Day of Unleavened Bread. God’s new covenant with people gradually unfolded in the person and teaching of Christ. He is revealed as Savior in his ministry of healing, teaching and forgiving. But the old Covenant is still in place, and people are still bound by the Law. Jesus re-states the Law, showing its heart to be love. He points out that the two greatest commandments are loving God and loving neighbor, and he lives these commandments to the fullest. He spends his final hours on earth fulfilling, in his obedience, the Old Covenant and putting in its place the New. Only he could fulfill the demands of the Law perfectly, and so only he could bring the New Covenant into being. Only his blood could seal it. In the upper room, Jesus took bread and wine and used them to announce his own death and the salvation it would bring. Ever after, bread and wine, broken and poured out in his memory, would be a sign of the New Covenant between God and his people. Christ made the one, perfect offering to the Father, and enables us to share in that offering. We have nothing else to offer the Father. In the Eucharist, we associate ourselves with the ultimate offering, Christ himself. The Eucharist is not a morbid proclamation of the sacrifice of Christ; it is a celebration of a sacrifice unto death, which brought -- and continues to bring -- only life. The Law alone was not enough; we cannot relate to law. However, when Christ himself became the sign of the Covenant, we entered into a personal, dynamic relationship with him, who is our salvation. In our Eucharist, bread and wine are signs of the New Covenant. They are signs of Christ, who is the Covenant, and signs of the blood by which he sealed the Covenant. This has profound implications for us, who gather around the table of the Lord to share this bread and wine. We are not people under the obligation of law; rather, we are people in a covenantal relationship with God. This means that external obedience is of no importance. Obedience of the heart is what is crucial. Our commitment to the commandments of love will be manifest in our lives, and so our behavior is renewed from the inside to the outside. Our sharing the bread and wine is a celebration and a demonstration that we are not individuals with private contracts with God, but we are a people who share a Covenant with God. Our living of the Covenant is not private, but social; it is something we do together, with and for each other. We become what we celebrate: the Body of Christ, the presence of Christ in the world, and we pour out our lives in service of God and of our neighbor. PRAYERS AND BLESSINGS Today I officially begin my Sabbatical. I look forward to these next five months as a time of renewal and growth. I will have the great joy of reconnecting with many very good friends, whom I had the privilege to be in ministry with for almost 30 years in Southern California. I will have the amazing experience of being able to walk in the footsteps of St. Paul in Greece and Turkey and to spend a great deal of time in the Holy Land, visiting the sites where Jesus lived, preached, ministered, and SAVED us all. My journey will conclude in Italy, where I will have the opportunity to visit many religious sites and the seat of the Church in Rome and the Vatican. What a wonderful honor and privilege it is to make this pilgrimage! Please know that every step of the way, the people of St. Cletus will walk with me, in heart and spirit. Each of you will remain in my thoughts, heart and prayers. May God keep you in His loving care and continue to bless you abundantly. See You All in November! Love, Father Bob Pastor Page Four Feast of Corpus Christi June 10, 2012 June 10, 2012 Feast of Corpus Christi Page Five SPECIAL 2ND COLLECTION FOR RETIRED PRIESTS OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF CHICAGO - THIS WEEKEND, JUNE 9/10 This second collection is solely for the retired priests of the Archdiocese of Chicago. The retired priests of the Archdiocese receive no funds from the Religious Retirement Collection taken up in December. Those funds go for religious nuns and brothers and religious order priests. There are 221 Retired Archdiocesan Priests. They represent more than one quarter of all the priests serving in the Archdiocese. There are currently 20 priests over the age of ninety. 95 priests are between 80 and 89 years old and one of our priests turned 100 this past year. Collectively our retirees represent more than 10,000 years of service to the Archdiocese. Normal retirement age is 70 for Chicago priests. 50 retired priests still live in a rectory and assist the parish on a regular basis. Close to 125 retired priests celebrate Sunday Mass weekly: perform marriages and baptisms; and visit the sick in hospitals. Without these dedicated men, many parishes would not be able to offer the full range of Masses and sacraments that is currently offered. There are two independent living residences for retired priests that are subsidized by the Archdiocese. There is space for 28 retired priests to enjoy communal living with their brother priests in retirement.