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HOLY COMFORTER November 24, 2013

PARISH NEWS

NEW PARISHIONERS: Christopher & Kristen-Paige Gordon, David Manka, Elisa Cooper, Todd Smith, Matt & Laurel Eberl, Angela & Mike Holian, Judy & William Harmon, Nicholas & 11/16-17: $4,900 Allison Gannon, Valerie Dormady, Caroline Markoff, Ryan & Lindsey Layer, Archdiocese of Military Services: $27 Nancy Hofmann, and Susan Villageliu. Catholic Virginian: $79

BAPTISMS: Justice & Peace: $90 SEPTEMBER 1, 2013: DOAN NGOC NGUYEN Haiti: $40 SEPTEMBER 7, 2013: JACQUELINE ELIZABETH ORTON World Missions: $8 SEPTEMBER 28, 2013: PATRICK ROWAN ELIAS Retired Religious: $10 OCTOBER 5, 2013: LEAH MARGARET GALL Philippines Disaster Relief: $100 WEDDINGS: SEPTEMBER 29, 2013: HEATHER JORDAN & TYLER TEASS WEEKEND INTENTIONS OCTOBER 12 2013: LAUREN SHEARER & ERIC HARKNESS

OCTOBER 13, 2013: ERIN KERR & GEOFFREY ALAN WISSING OCTOBER 19, 2013: DANIELLA MORRIS & THOMAS LONGSTREET COMPTON Saturday November 23 NOVEMBER 9, 2013: COLLEEN MACKEY & BRIAN WOLTHUIS 5 PM – Members of the

NOVEMBER 16, 2013: CHRISTINE GALLAGHER & ROBERT WYLLIE Sunday November 24 ANNIVERSARIES: 8:30 AM – Stuart Stelow (Petroni & Conaway Family) SEPTEMBER 4, 1971: DOMINIQUE & LEE FAUST 11 AM - D’Arco (Jim & Angie Morrisard) SEPTEMBER 20, 1969: CYNTHIA & LES BERLIN SEPTEMBER 23, 2000: ERMINIA & FRANCIS OLIMPIO Saturday November 30 OCTOBER 29, 1966: BARBARA & JOHN BATTISTON 5 PM – Members of the Parish NOVEMBER 5, 1966: JIM & ANGIE MORRISARD Sunday December 1 NOVEMBER 18, 1967: TOM & ANNIE TROMEY 8:30 AM – Nicole Vest (Bernadette Rumpf) NOVEMBER 23, 1968: BARBARA & HENRY RAINVILLE 11 AM – For the Mosca Family (Rebecca & Dr. Alfon B. Mosca) NOVEMBER 26, 1953: WALTER & MARGARET MCMAHON

THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR TO REMEMBER

NOVEMBER 23 - Sts. Clement I & Columban SUNDAY (11/24) – 24 – St. Andrew Dung-Luc 7 - 7:45 AM: Reconciliation 25 - St. 8:30 AM - MASS 26 - St. Leonard of Port Maurice 9:45 - 10:45 AM: Christian Formation Classes 27 - St. Francesco Antonio Fasani 11 AM: MASS

28 – St. James of the Marche MONDAY (11/25) 29 – St. Saturninus NOON – MASS 30 - St. Andrew 7 PM: Professional Women’s Prayer Group DECEMBER 1 – St. Eligius TUESDAY (11/26) 10 AM – NOON: Food Pantry PREVIEW OF NEXT WEEK'S READINGS NOON - MASS

OUR LORD CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE WEDNESDAY (11/27)

First Reading: 2 Samuel 5:1-3 10 AM – NOON: Food Pantry Samuel describes how all the tribes of Israel went to David in NOON - MASS NOON - AA Meeting Hebron and said they were his bone and his flesh and it was he who 7 PM - Practice led them back to Israel. The Lord told David he would be a shepherd 7 PM - Medjugorje Rosary Prayer Group to His people. David made an agreement with the elders and was anointed king. THURSDAY (11/28) – THANKSGIVING DAY – PARISH OFFICE CLOSED 11 AM - MASS Second Reading: Colossians 1:12-20 Paul explains to the Colossians that God has made them fit to share FRIDAY (11/29) – PARISH OFFICE CLOSED in the inheritance of the holy ones in light and that through the Son 8 AM – Monthly Mass for the Deceased Members of the Parish we have redemption and forgiveness of sin. He describes Jesus as 10 AM – NOON: Food Pantry NOON - AA Meeting the image of the invisible God, the head of the church and in Him all things hold together. SATURDAY (11/30) 8 AM – MASS : Luke 23:35-43 3:30 - 4:30 PM - Reconciliation Jesus is mocked by the crowd as he hung on the cross. Above him 5 PM – MASS was an inscription that read “This is the king of the Jews.” One of the men being crucified with Jesus tells Him to save them and SUNDAY (12/1) – FIRST SUNDAY OF Himself, while the other asks that he be remembered when Jesus is 7 - 7:45 AM: Reconciliation in his kingdom. Jesus said in reply, “Amen I say to you, today you 8:30 AM - MASS 9:45 - 10:45 AM: Christian Formation Classes will be with me in Paradise.” 11 AM – Children’s MASS

NEWS FROM HAITI JUSTICE & PEACE Anne Knasel (STA): [email protected]

Ginny Zeller (HC): [email protected] www.saltadere.org PANTRY SHOPPING LIST

NEWS FROM FATHER ILRIC’S VISIT: Father Ilric has returned safely to CHUNKY SOUP Saltadere. Due to a last minute change in schedule, he did not TUNA get to the Masses at Holy Comforter. He did meet with both MORE SOUP pastors of our twinning parishes. He has asked for support in MORE TUNA improving the sanitation at the rectory and for tuition support TOILET ARTICLES for 2 nursing and 2 lab tech students. His priority for the next big project will be remodeling the “old” dispensary building. All this as we continue to support the school operations mainly NOTE CHANGE SECOND COLLECTIONS through sponsorships and donations. NOTE CHANGE SPONSORSHIP NEWS: Thank you to our new and renewing CAMPAIGN FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT →→→→ 11/30 -12/1 sponsors. This is our chief source of funds to support the four PHILIPPINES DISASTER RELIEF →→→→→→→→→→ 12/7 -12/8 schools of our twin parish. If you wish to sponsor a student, there is a looseleaf on the sill above the credenza in the IMPACT UPDATE commons area that contains forms for unsponsored children and instructions on how to sponsor. Interfaith Movement Promoting Action by Congregations Together (IMPACT) recently decided to continue working on the Jobs for MEDICAL HELP NEEDED: The Bi-Parish Haiti committee is seeking Unemployed Youth project, and will continue to monitor the doctors and nurses and others for a medical sub-committee successful project promoting a Roundtable for Homeless agencies in which could help to coordinate our health care efforts at our Charlottesville. twin parish in Saltadere. Interested? Contact August Sanusi at Four hundred IMPACT members including over twenty people from [email protected]. Holy Comforter recently gathered at St. Thomas to select an additional

BI-PARISH HAITI COMMITTEE: The committee’s next meeting will be project for this year. The consensus was to work on another project announced here soon. All are welcome. To learn about the Bi- involving mental health issues in the community. On November 25th we will begin our Research to Action work with parish committee, you can e-mail Anne Knasel or Ginny Zeller. a meeting at Peace Lutheran Church at 6:30 pm. You may also visit the website. Members of the Holy Comforter IMPACT team will attend. If you are interested in joining a Research team, please come to the meeting PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR ______at Peace Lutheran Church. IMPACT Research teams conduct interviews with key members of the community and then narrow the issue to an achievable goal, then PARISHIONERS: Winifred Smith, Frank Pologruto, Al Bracuti, work with the community to work towards a solution. Norman Bednarcyk, Nicholas Sisman, and Mary Ann Williams. Past efforts in mental health include Healthy Transitions which

FRIENDS AND RELATIVES: Josephine Nampijja, Gloria Aberg, Grace providing transitional medication for those leaving the prison system. Dawn Wicke, Melyssa Dove, Nicole Carpenter, Beth Mauk, Evan Thanks to all parishioners for your continuing support of this Dotas Dave Halley, Cullen McQuhae, Bill Jones, Ray & Cecilia important work for justice.

Caretti, Jessica Caretti, Michael D’Arco, Christine Bentéjac, David Rumpf, Mrs. Jessica Viglietta, Pam D. Goines, Janet D. Gunther, SAVE Charlie Joseph Previtali, and Nicole Shaw. THE

MILITARY: Brian Fagan, Jamie Torbet, Mike Eiermann, David DATE!! Alvey, Charles G. Ellison, Eric Emmott, and Matthew Mickiewicz. HOLY COMFORTER’S

ADVENT RETREAT NEW PARISHIONER ↓ TH WELCOMING RECEPTION DECEMBER 14

Father Joseph Mary and the Parish Council cordially invite all parishioners to our 1st Annual Welcome ADDITIONAL ITEMS OF INTEREST Reception for all our new parishioners. The reception will be following the 11 AM Mass on MEDJUGORJE ROSARY PRAYER GROUP: Join us every Wednesday at 7 Sunday, December 15th in the commons area. PM in the . Come join this prayer group family once a Please join us for refreshments and to extend a week, once a month, whenever you can make it. For those who warm welcome to all parishioners who have joined cannot join us, please write your intentions in the notebook in the commons area and we will include you in our weekly us in 2013. prayer. For further information, please contact Barbara Cassidy at 202-1540.

that journey, Christ is not only our goal, symbolized by the "COATS FOR KIDS": , but He also the Incarnate Christ walking among His The cost has gone up to $18.33 per coat for high quality people in the person of the priest. coats which are brand new from a major As a unified body, the ministers navigate from the manufacturer. Knights of Columbus Council 3670 is an church vestibule, up the main aisle, and into the . authorized non-profit, so your is tax deductible. What is required is more than a mere movement from A statement will be provided if needed (>$25). Please help point A to B. Hopefully a need to create the any way you can. Please make the check payable to KOC mood of the celebration. It should communicate "There is Council 3670 and either mail them to PO Box 7257, something special happening here." By its pace and Charlottesville, VA 22906 or put in the collection. symbols, a procession sets the stage for what is to come. It is the first formal liturgical action of the gathered

assembly. It is a sort of "liturgical parade" comparable to the movement of dignitaries who walk in a solemn manner FROM THE PASTOR into the House of parliament for the opening of Parliament

and the reading of the Speech from the . It can WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO IN THE CATHOLIC WORSHIP communicate a reverential atmosphere and enable the THE CATHOLIC LITURGICAL assembly to enter into communal prayer of the Church

As with any ritual or ceremony that humans engage in, more fully. But, oftentimes some processions are sheer there is usually some kind of order in Church ceremonies, chaos resembling more a fire drill than a solemn act of by way of processional and recessional (entrance & exit) prayer. Last-minute preparations, hastily robed ministers, ritual. The Catholic Church in her has a defined unclear instructions, ambiguous processional positions, order of procession and recession as well which aids the hasty movement and vague sanctuary stations all add to faithful to direct their focus to the sacred nature of produce the effect of a Disneyland parade rather than a worship. Our order is defined by local and dignified celebration of the Word of God and the Lord's national ecclesial authorities. Processions are not just the Banquet. Liturgically, the procession, which is a highly way to get people or ministers from here to there. They visual medium, introduces our major symbols, the Cross are themselves a ritual expression of who we are and what and the Word of God a light to our lives preceded by we are about. We are pilgrims on a journey. What are lightened candle, and then the ministers. The use of music some of the processions the church has? They are many and song during the procession further help to qualify the and I will touch on a number of them in this article but first tone of the celebration. It ritualizes the gathering of the of will focus more on the Mass. In the Mass there is the people as an assembly as the active liturgical ministers entrance procession, the Gospel procession, the move slowly through this gathering that is engaged in procession with the gifts, the procession, and song. As the procession reaches the altar, the priest kisses the ending procession. Each procession, if done well, the altar, in effect, greets Christ with the kiss. While the enriches our prayer. What makes a good procession? As altar can be traced back to Eucharistic Sacrifices first one liturgist puts it, "It is a matter of timing and grace." offered in the catacombs on the tombs of the martyrs, the Each procession has its own character which intensifies has come to signify Christ as the cornerstone of the prayer of the entire assembly. that building which is the Church, the People of God, His While the Mass really begins when the people start to body, just as God revealed in Chapter 2 of 1 Peter: gather for worship, the visible beginning of the Mass starts “Behold, I am laying a stone in Zion, a cornerstone, with the entrance procession of the priest and other chosen and precious, and whoever believes in it shall not ministers taking part in the Mass. The entrance procession be put to shame.” The words of Jesus in the Gospels of is not just a means to get to the front of the church and Matthew and John, and the Book of Hebrews, tell us: “I the altar; it has deep theological significance, reminding us will never forsake you or abandon you – I will not leave all of the fact that the entire people of God are pilgrims – you orphans; I will come to you – I am with you always, we are a pilgrim people on the road from here (the earth) until the end of the age.” Jesus comes to us in the to eternity (heaven). The entrance procession symbolizes Mass. Jesus is here; for He said, “where two or three are that journey – from the world outside the doors at the gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” TO BE CONTINUED back of the church, to our heavenly destination, symbolized by the sanctuary at the front of the church. In

Formation Notes

Dear Friends, of his knowledge, and also because he is very truth, and it is from him that truth must be obediently This weekend, we celebrate the of Christ the received by all mankind.” (QP ¶ 7) King. This is a fairly recent feast in our tradition, instituted by Pius XI in 1925 with his Pius XI expressly notes the metaphorical quality of our Quas Primas (“In the first”)(As many of you know, use of words like “king” when we apply them to Christ. take the document’s first words – the These notions are very human ones. The reality of God, ones – as their title.) The liturgical colors for the day who is our “very truth,” lies far beyond our feeble are white and gold, colors that symbolize rejoicing and attempts at categorization. Nevertheless, as we come purity of the soul, colors that are also worn for the to understand that the reality of God’s truth is precisely other feasts that celebrate Christ, except those that which should “govern” our lives, these sovereignty pertaining to his passion. metaphors can be useful.

Currently, we mark this solemnity on the last Sunday in The wonderful thing about metaphors – they operate time, the last Sunday of the liturgical on so many planes. Pius XI, in this the first of his calendar, the last Sunday before the beginning of encyclicals, not only seeks to honor Christ, he seeks to Advent. But this move is even more recent, one prioritize the social experience of his day. At still instituted by Paul VI in , a motu another level, he no doubt seeks to grasp at remnants proprio issued in 1969. ( translates as “on of a quickly dwindling political power of the Church in his own impulse; it refers to a papal document created the world by noting where the Church’s power truly lies. at the initiative of a pope himself.)(Test next week, Just imagine the events encompassed by Pius XI’s folks.) Pius XI had originally set the observance date papacy. The history of the period is far too complex to as the last Sunday in October, i.e. the last Sunday consider on this little page. Yet as we tie up yet another before the Feast of All Saints. The choice to move the , having walked through what sometimes celebration to the last Sunday in was seems like the endless meadow of Ordinary time meant to stress “the eschatological importance” of the between Season and Advent, it is nice to have day. such a specific celebration. Again, in the words of Pius XI: “Thus by sermons preached at meetings and in As always, we do well to remember the historical churches, by public adoration of the contexts in which such documents were written to exposed and by solemn processions, [people] unite in understand why they were written. Pius XI was pope paying homage to Christ, whom God has given them from 1922 to his death in 1939. This period embraced for their King. It is by a divine inspiration that the Europe’s recovery from WWI, the heady days of the people of Christ bring forth Jesus from his silent hiding- “twenties” (did they roar in Europe the way they did in place in the church, and carry him in triumph through the US?), as well as the rise of Hitler in Germany and the streets of the city, so that [those who] refused to Stalin in Russia. Pius XI was himself the first receive [him] when he came unto his own, may now “sovereign” of Vatican City, which was created as an receive in full his kingly rights.” (QP ¶ 26) independent state on February 11, 1929. Some commentators suggest he wrote the encyclical in Many blessings on your week. response to anti-clericalism, others say the document Dawn serves to make a statement in the face of rising forces [email protected] of frightening nationalisms and secular culture. 434.295.6559

Whatever the institgation, Quas Primas summarizes scriptural teaching on God’s “kingship,” in both the St. Nicholas Night Celebration! Hebrew and New Testament scriptures. But what do th we mean by this “kingship”? What is God’s “kingdom,” It fast approacheth - Friday, December 6 at 6 pm, this notion of basileia addressed, e.g., by Kevin Hart in Holy Comforter children of all ages (but particularly his recent lectures? Here is what Pius XI says in the those willing to leave their shoes upstairs to see what document: happens after St. Nicholas passes through our church) gather for stories and songs and special refreshments. “It has long been a common custom to give to Christ Carole Gajdosik, our wonderful professional the metaphorical title of ‘King,’ because of the high storyteller/catechist, once again leads the narrative. degree of perfection whereby he excels all creatures. And we all are reminded of the “real” Santa Claus, a So he is said to reign ‘in the hearts of men,’ both by of the early Catholic Church. Check out this site: reason of the keenness of his intellect and the extent www.stnicholascenter.org. Lots of fun.