St. Genevieve-St. Maurice Catholic Parish 30Th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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St. Genevieve-St. St Genevieve-St. Maurice Maurice Catholic CatholicParish Parish Page “You shall love the Lord, your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” Matthew 22:37 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time October 25th 29015 JAMISON STREET, LIVONIA, MI 48154-4021 ● TELEPHONE: 734.427.5220 ● FAX: 734.422.1763 WEBSITE: www.stgenevieve-stmaurice.org PARISH OFFICE HOURS: Monday–Thursday 9:30 am–5:30 pm & Friday 9:30 am–4 pm MISSION STATEMENT We, the Catholic Community of St. Genevieve - St. Maurice Parish, an active and caring family, strive to understand and share Christ's teaching with others. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we proclaim the Good News of Jesus Christ through worship, education, service, and fellowship to all. St Genevieve-St. Maurice Catholic Parish Page 2 Gospel Meditation - Encourage Deeper Understanding of Scripture For some reason, it is easier to genuflect in reverence to the world’s pain. It is not about having, hording, accumulating, presence of Christ in the tabernacle of a church, than to acquiring, securing, storing, protecting, owning, claiming, or genuflect in reverence to the same presence of Christ in any of the other human terms we use to distinguish mine another person’s soul. We wrongly believe that God divides from yours. We put so much power in these words and that himself, placing himself in one place in preference to power, even though we may not always realize it, can cause another. It doesn’t work that way. Love of God and love of those words and the distinctions they carry to wound and neighbor are intimately and inseparably connected because hurt others. We have the whole order of things wrong, but the essence and spark of God’s very presence is in all we are so set on preserving this order that we are absolutely creation. God’s presence is just as real in the one who is afraid to do it any other way. We go through hoops trying to good, as in the one who is bad, and the one who is just, and convince ourselves why the perils of the person seeking a the one who is unjust. new place to call home are not our perils that we turn our Our brains get in the way of truly contemplating the back and justify closing our doors. It makes perfect sense to awesomeness of this truth. We like to separate things into us. Yet, it makes no sense in terms of our faith. It doesn’t boxes, the sheep from the goats and the deserving from square with any of the words found in Sacred Scripture or in the undeserving. But, with any time-tested teaching of the church. God there are no distinctions We have it all reversed. We know that we do because when such as this. Our human Jesus speaks about such things and the words of the Old classifications, subdivisions, Testament prophets ring out again, we start to feel and definitions hold no power uncomfortable and anxious. What we do, directly or by or have any weight in God’s omission, to one of the least of these little ones we do to eyes. Sadly, we relate to God God. It is quite possible that some of what we are doing and to each other as if they do. personally, economically, politically, globally, and even We cannot be deaf to the religiously is doing more harm than good. Let’s ponder that a bit. ©LPi C`*7`Y F`-J-` FJ MJJ` A7Y November 7th and 8th, 2020 For nearly 100 years, the Conventual Franciscan Friars of the Province of Our Lady of Consolation have served God’s people across the United States and around the world. We are grateful for the generosity of the many who choose to support and accompany us. WELCOME THE CONVENTUAL FRANCISCANS TO OUR PARISH. A-J*JJ7 CY7`3 Saturday, October 24: Tuesday, October 27: Friday, October 30: 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Confession 6:30 pm Confession 8:30 am Confession 5 pm Mass / Bible Timeline Graduation 7 pm Mass 9 am Mass / Adoration until 11 am Sunday, October 25: 8 pm AA/Alanon (PC) Saturday, October 31: 9 am Mass Wednesday, October 28: 9 am Parish Clean-up 11 am Mass 8:30 am Confession 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Confession 7:30 pm AA (PC) 9 am Mass, Rosary following 5 pm Mass Monday, October 26: 7:30 pm AA (PC) Sunday, November 1: 8:30 am Confession Thursday, October 29: 9 am Mass 9 am Mass, Rosary following 8:30 am Confession 11 am Mass 9 am Mass 7:30 pm AA (PC) CONFESSIONS HELD IN THE CHAPEL! St Genevieve-St. Maurice Catholic Parish Page 3 LJB1 A G7 W3 F G7 30G S`31 J` O3J`1 TJ_7 FIRST READING Exodus 22:20-26 GOSPEL ACCLAMATION Thus says the LORD: Alleluia! "You shall not molest or oppress an alien, for you GOSPEL READING Matthew 22:34-40 were once aliens yourselves in the land of Egypt. The Lord be with you. And with your spirit. You shall not wrong any widow or orphan. When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced If ever you wrong them and they cry out to me, the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of I will surely hear their cry. My wrath will flare up, them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, and I will kill you with the sword; then your own "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the wives will be widows, and your children orphans. greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, "If you lend money to one of your poor neighbors your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, among my people, you shall not act like an and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the extortioner toward him by demanding interest from first commandment. The second is like it: him. If you take your neighbor's cloak as a pledge, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. you shall return it to him before sunset; The whole law and the prophets depend on these two for this cloak of his is the only covering he has for commandments." his body. What else has he to sleep in? The Gospel of the Lord. If he cries out to me, I will hear him; for I am Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. compassionate." The word of the Lord. THANKS BE TO GOD RESPONSORIAL Psalm 18:2-3,3-4,47,51 SJJY C__`J` My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul. Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacramentally, Come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there And unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated SECOND READING Thessalonians 1:5c-10 from you. Amen. Brothers and sisters: You know what sort of people we were among you for your sake. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great affliction, with joy from the Holy Spirit, so that you became a model for P17 S. MJ-G7Y all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia. For Saint Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle. from you the word of the Lord has sounded forth not Be our defense against the wickedness and only in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we your faith in God has gone forth, so that we have no humbly pray; And do Thou, O Prince of the need to say anything. For they themselves openly heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into declare about us what sort of reception we had hell Satan and the other evil spirits who prowl among you, and how you turned to God from idols to about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen. serve the living and true God and to await his Son Leo XIII (1810-1903) from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath. The word of the Lord. THANKS BE TO GOD St Genevieve-St. Maurice Catholic Parish Page 4 S. G7`7*J7*7RS. MJ-7 S. G7`7*J7*7RS. MJ-7 FJG F_J` G37 KR8 HJBG S-GY YG MJ`J1 FJG F_J` N7+ Blessed Carlo Acutis was October 24 and 25, 2020 beatified on October 10th, 2020. Carlo was an Italian Our K-6 families have been doing our program, “Gospel teenager who loved computer Weeklies” at home. Congratulations to the students who programming. He was best have submitted their assignments to Sunday’s Gospel. You known for creating a website are all doing a great job! It is nice to see family participation documenting Eucharistic in the student’s faith journey. It is not too late to join us for Miracles around the world. Carlo was a fun-loving teenager face to face teaching for 7th and 8th grades on Wednesday who had a special devotion to Jesus in the Eucharist. He nights. You can find registration forms on our parish website, often said, “The Eucharist is my highway to Heaven.” He was www.stgenevieve.org, and in the kiosk in our Gathering an ordinary boy, simple, spontaneous, and likable. Carlo died Area.