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Glad Tidings Holy Family Old Cathedral Newsletter GLAD TIDINGS HOLY FAMILY OLD CATHEDRAL NEWSLETTER STAFFED BY FRIARS OF THE WESTERN DOMINICAN PROVINCE DEUS PROVIDEBIT - GOD WILL PROVIDE The Most Reverend Andrew Bellisario, CM, Archbishop Volume IX, No. 7 Father Steven Maekawa, OP, Pastor August 2021 ST. DOMINIC DE GUZMAN Founder of the Order; Feast Day, August 8 O God, you have enlightened your Church by the eminent virtues and preaching of St. Dominic, your confessor. Mercifully grant that by his prayers SAINTS ALIVE!! we may be protected against temporal necessities and daily improve in all that is spiritually good. Jesus, Mary and Joseph most kind, bless us now and at the hour of our death. O Lord, deliver us from a sudden and unprovided death. Amen. IN THIS ISSUE St. Dominic Feast Day; Novice Visit p. 1 Letter from Pastor Steve; Parish Ministries and Groups p. 2 Creation; St. Robert Bellarmine p. 3 Welcome to Holy Family! p. 4 Religious Education for all ages p. 5 Summer at Holy Family p. 6 Rallies and Processions p. 7 August Calendar p. 8 Saints Alive; Novice Visit continued p. 9 Planning your Giving; United in Mission p. 10 Novice Visit; Farewell Br. Antony p. 11 Dominican Novices share their faith and their stories with Calendar, NAPA Conference p. 12 parishioners at a “Meet the Novices” evening. More on pp. 11 and 9. Letter from Father Steve /Carta del Parroco Parish Ministries and Groups Dear Parishioners, LITURGICAL MINISTRIES: Altar Servers English. Deacon Dave, 885-9992 Last Sunday I was in Talkeetna and Trapper Creek to celebrate Mass. The Fireweed along the Parks Highway was in full Dominican Rite. Jason Fouch, 903-7965 bloom. The areas of dead trees killed in the fires of 2019 were Spanish. .Dulce Martinez, 339-7118 ablaze with purple. The contrast of color between the living Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion / Lectors English. Marianne Berus, 248-4707 flowers and the dead trees was sharp. A colorful example of Spanish. .Lupe Ortega, 350-2667 life coming forth from death. It was also an affirmation of this Liturgical Art & Environment Florence Ward, 301-4613 great season of summer contrasted to the monochromatic Music. Music Coordinator: . Letha Flint, 227-3201 colors of winter. 2P Spanish. .Juan Ortega, 250-2027 4P Schola. .Mario Bird, 205-9390 August is the month we celebrate the Assumption of Mary into 6P Choir. Liz Janezich, 947-8335 Heaven. Just when we know summer is soon coming to an Sacristans. Weekdays and Saturdays. Position open end, the Church celebrates the highest, most colorful destiny Ushers. .English . .Deacon Dave, 885-9992 of heaven with the Assumption of Mary. To mix seasonal and Spanish . Jacobo, Carlos Sanchez theological imagery: summer is the bounding place to heaven PRAYER: Adoration. .Katie Reed, 348-7300 with Mary. Centering Prayer. .English: Kess Frey, 338-2894 Spanish: Cristina Azpilcueta, 903-6297 Pope Pius XII declared the Assumption of Mary as an El Shaddai. Rowena Carrillo, 250-0823 infallible dogma of the Church in in his apostolic constitution Llamas del Espiritu. .Griselda Martinez, 339-7118 Munificentissimus Deus (The Most Bountiful God). He said: Prayer Line Requests. Use the form found on the website “We proclaim and define it to be a dogma revealed by God Legion of Mary, Junior. Meyoung Wolfe, 360-0996 that the immaculate Mother of God, Mary ever virgin, when Legion of Mary, Senior. .Office, 276-3455 the course of her earthly life was finished, was taken up body WORKS OF MERCY: St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP). and soul into the glory of heaven”. Michael El-Khoury, 330-9637 Homebound Ministry. .Paul Lariviere, 276-3074 We desire to go where Mary has gone. The colors of August Pioneer Home. .Sheila Barrett, 334-9503 reminds us to pray for the salvation of souls. Parish Nurses. Office, 276-3455 Prison Ministry. .Deacon Dave, 885-9992 In Christ, Fr. Steve Maekawa, OP – Pastor SERVICE AND FELLOWSHIP: ________________ Knights of Columbus. .Bill Fasser, 907-903-3145 Women of Holy Family. Florence Ward, 301-4613 Queridos feligreses, Earth Angels. .Office, 276-3455 Coffee & Donuts . .Bill Fasser, 907-903-3145 El domingo pasado estuve en Talkeetna y Trapper Creek para Trail Life. [email protected] celebrar la misa. El Fireweed a lo largo de la Parks Highway Adoration Guardians. .Katie Reed, 348-7300 EVANGELIZATION AND EDUCATION: estaba en plena floración. Las zonas de los árboles muertos por Religious Education. Office, 276-3455 los incendios de 2019 ardían de color púrpura. El contraste de St. Paul’s Corner. .646-3070 color entre las flores vivas y los árboles muertos era nítido. Un Catholics Read book group. 646-3070 colorido ejemplo de la vida que surge de la muerte. También Project Rachel Healing after Abortion. .297-7781 era una afirmación de esta gran estación del verano Catholic Men for Life. Dennis Deering, 258-0386 contrastada con los colores monocromáticos del invierno. Natural Family Planning . www.aknfp.com Website/Parish App. [email protected] Agosto es el mes en que celebramos la Asunción de María al ADMINISTRATION: Cielo. Justo cuando sabemos que el verano está llegando a su Finance Council. .. .Joe Babka, 337-2335 fin, la Iglesia celebra el destino más elevado y colorido del Parish Council. Fr. Steven Maekawa, OP cielo con la Asunción de María. Para mezclar imágenes estacionales y teológicas: el verano es el lugar de llegada al terminar el curso de su vida terrena, fue elevada en cielo con María. cuerpo y alma a la gloria del cielo." El Papa Pío XII declaró la Asunción de María como dogma Deseamos ir donde María ha ido. Los colores de infalible de la Iglesia en su constitución apostólica agosto nos recuerdan que debemos rezar por la Munificentissimus Deus (El Dios más generoso). Dijo: salvación de las almas. "Proclamamos y definimos como dogma revelado por Dios que la inmaculada Madre de Dios, María siempre virgen, al 2 En Cristo, Fr. Steve Maekawa, OP - Párroco CREATION ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE Brother Antony Augustine Cherian, OP Doctor of the Church Fran Lopinsky Here in Alaska, we are blessed with a more immediate Patronage: Canon Lawyers, access to the wonders of God’s creation than are most people. The natural beauty of our surroundings combined Catechists, Catechumens with the remoteness of this land provide many opportunities Feast Day: September 17 to marvel at the intricacy, complexity, grandeur, and majesty of the world God has given us. As he created each part of our Robert Bellarmine was born world – light and dark; sea, sky, and land; fish, plants, birds, on October 4, 1542, in and animals – He looked at His creation and “saw that it was Montepulciano, Italy. He was good” (Genesis 1). the third of ten children in a family of impoverished nobles. This fundamental goodness may have been marred by the sin As a young man, Robert was of the first man and woman, but it is still continually held in educated by the Jesuits and existence by God as something good. In the world around us joined the order in 1560 over He has left His fingerprints, marks of His causality and the objection of his father. generosity. The existence and movement of the world makes He was ordained to the most sense precisely in light of God’s activity, not in spite of priesthood in Ghent, Belgium, in 1570. it. Because creation is such a great gift, receiving this gift Robert served as a professor of theology at the University comes with a certain responsibility. When God gave Adam of Louvain from 1570-1576. At the request of Pope the garden of Eden, it was with the charge to “till it and keep Gregory XIII, he taught polemical theology at the it” (Genesis 2:15). In the command to “fill the earth and Pontifical Gregorian University from 1576 to 1587. subdue it” (Genesis 1: 28), the dominion spoken of is not one While there, he wrote Disputations on the Controversies of exploitation; rather, as Christ teaches, true lordship of the Christian faith, the most complete work that imitates God: “[W]hoever would be great among you must be defended Catholicism against the numerous heresies of your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be the day. Other works include a treatise on The Seven your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but Words on the Cross, Commentary on the Psalms and two to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Matthew catechisms. 20:26-28). “Charity is that with Robert was the confessor of Saint which no man is lost, In Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI addresses Aloysius Gonzaga until he died. and without which humanity’s relationship to nature: “Human beings He then worked for the boy’s no man is saved.” legitimately exercise a responsible stewardship over nature, in canonization. order to protect it, to enjoy its fruits and to cultivate it in new St. Robert Bellarmine ways” (50), noting that this relationship does not put the Near the end of the century, needs of nature over the needs of people, nor does it give Robert became an advisor to Pope Clement VIII who license for an indiscriminate exploitation of nature’s appointed him a cardinal and declared him to be the most resources. Rather, nature “is a wondrous work of the Creator educated man in the Church. In 1602, Robert was containing a ‘grammar’ which sets forth ends and criteria for its wise use, not its reckless exploitation” (48). appointed Archbishop of Capua. When Pope Paul V was elected in 1621, Robert served as his Theological Man’s dominion and responsibility for nature is such an Advisor, Head of the Vatican library, Prefect of the integral part of human nature that it cannot be properly Sacred Congregation of the Rites, and Prefect of the understood except in a proper understanding of human Sacred Congregation of the Index.
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