Death of Mr. Robert Fortini
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Interfaith Airport Chapels of Chicago Chicago Midway and O’Hare International Airports THEBULLETIN W FOREEK THE OF WEEK J OFUNE JULY 7-13,9, 20132013 WE MOURN THE PASSING OF BOB FORTINI (1931-2013) Welcome to the Interfaith Airport Chapels of Chicago! WE EXTEND OUR SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY AND The O’Hare Airport Chapel and the Midway Airport friends of O’Hare Airport Chapel are each a peaceful oasis in a busy venue. A Chapel volunteer Bob place to bow your head in prayer while lifting up Fortini, who died peacefully your heart and spirit! Prayer books and rugs, rosa- June 25. Born in Chicago on ries, and worship materials are available, as are April 26, 1931, Bob had a long chaplains for spiritual counsel. You are welcome to career as a teacher at Schurz attend Mass or Worship services and to come to the High School in Chicago, after chapels (open 24/7) to pray or meditate. May God bless your which he became a full-time travels. — Fr. Michael Zaniolo, Administrator U.S. Immigration Officer. Upon retirement, he volun- Bob & Bernice Fortini CONGRATULATIONS TO SR. JOAN MCGUIRE, OP, ON RETIREMENT teered at the O’Hare Interfaith Airport Chapel and the O’Hare USO. Since 2001, Bob Congratulations to Sr. Joan McGuire, OP, upon and his wife Bernice served as sacristans, lec- her recent retirement from the Archdiocese of Chi- tors, ushers, Eucharistic Ministers and altar cago Office of Ecumenical and Interreligious Af- servers at O’Hare Chapel, and in 2011 were fairs. Sr. Joan has served as President of the Board honored with the Archdiocese of Chicago of the Interfaith Airport Chapels of Chicago since its Christifideles Award for their service to the inception. Thank you, Sr. Joan, for all you have Chicago Airports Catholic Chaplaincy. done to foster this ministry to people of all faiths. During his lifetime, Bob imparted his love of learning, travel, adventure, history, and a great sense of humor. He loved the opera, CHAPEL STAFF BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES the symphony and theater. He was an avid Receiving Christifideles Chicago White Sox fan. Award from Cardinal Birthday blessings and best wishes go out to Rosanne Sut- Bob was the beloved hus- kowski, today, July 7, and MDW Chapel founding chaplain band of Bernice (Anderson), Fr. George McKenna, this Friday, July 12. father of Eileen (Kim) More- house, Paul (Josephine), and Jean Fortini. He was a devoted uncle to Daniel and Kevin Pow- You are cordially invited to attend a ers and their families. The Fu- neral was conducted last Satur- Mass of Thanksgiving commemorating the day, June 29 at St. At Chapel Christmas party in January Juliana Church; in- 25th Anniversary of the Founding of the terment All Saints Cemetery. Memori- als may be sent to Midway Airport Chaplaincy Self-Help Closet and Wednesday, July 17, 2013 Food Pantry, 600 E. Algonquin, Des 11:30 a.m. Plaines, IL 60016. May he rest in peace. Francis Cardinal George, Celebrant Please pray for the repose of his soul at the and for the Fortini Bob & Bernice at Fr. Zaniolo’s 25th anniversary party family in their time May 19. Midway Airport Chapel of grief. Concourse C, Mezzanine Level NTERFAITH ALENDAR BSERVANCES Chicago Midway International Airport I C O The Muslim observance of Ramadan will begin this Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, July 9, and continues for an entire month, Light lunch immediately following Mass during which time all adult and physically competent in the Chapel’s Vestibule Muslims abstain from food, water and sexual relations from dawn to sunset. Please RSVP by Wednesday, July 10, 2013, Obon Festival — Japanese Buddhist festival to honor to Susan at (773) 686-2636 or [email protected] deceased ancestors, is held July 13-15. Involves lighting of bon- fires, traditional meals, paper lanterns, folk dances. Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time — July 7, 2013 May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. This Week in the Life of the Church — Galatians 6:14 Being a compendium of feast days and notable events in Church history. MISSION Sunday, July 7, 2013 Today’s first reading from Isaiah was occasioned by the return of ✙ We Remember: ST. PALLADIUS: We all know that St. Patrick the Jewish people from exile. The prophet visualizes the Holy City was the great missionary to the Irish people, but today we remem- as a mother welcoming her children home. The people may now ber St. Palladius - the man he succeeded. A deacon at Rome, Pal- look forward to prosperity and comfort. In this post-Pentecostal ladius was responsible for sending St. Germanus of Auxerre to season, the Church attributes this sense of fulfillment to the Holy Britain in 429 to combat Pelagianism and in 431 was consecrated Spirit. by Pope Celestine I and sent as a missionary to Ireland - the first Paul, on the other hand, speaks of “the bishop of the Irish. He worked in Leinster, encountered much cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.” It is the single opposition, but made some converts and built three churches. Ac- thing of which he will boast, for it is the means knowledging his lack of success in Ireland, he went to Scotland to by which we are re-created. The comfort and preach to the Picts, and died soon after he arrived at Fordun, near prosperity promised in the first reading are here Aberdeen, in 432; St. Patrick arrived later that year. (B) transformed by a deepening of the Christian ● In 1946, ST. FRANCES X. CABRINI was canonized by Pope Pius paradox. XII. Born in Italy, she became a U.S. citizen and opened many Luke’s Gospel describes the calling and the schools, hospitals and orphanages here. She is the first American mission of “seventy-two others,” who are commissioned to bring in saint and is the patron of immigrants. (W) the “harvest.” The number is symbolic, since according to Jewish ❧ tradition the number of nations in the world is seventy-two. This Monday, July 8, 2013 then is a universal mission, a catholic mission to all the world. ✙ We Remember: ST. WITHBURGA was the youngest daughter Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. of the King of the East Angles in Britain, who led an austere life in Sunday and Weekday Mass Readings solitude for several years until laying the foundation of a church and nunnery, but dying March 17, 743, before seeing her project com- TODAY’S READINGS pleted. ✚ ST. ISABELLA (ELIZABETH) OF PORTUGAL (1271-1336) First Reading —As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort established hospitals, orphanages and homes for wayward women. you (Isaiah 66:10-14c). She joined the Order of St. Clare later in life. At her death, she said Psalm — Let all the earth cry out to God with joy to Queen Beatrice, who looked after her, "Draw up a chair for the (Psalm 66). radiant lady in white who is coming." It was the Blessed Virgin who Second Reading — May I never boast except in the cross of our entered; the dying woman murmured: "Maria, Mater gratiae;" then Lord Jesus Christ (Galatians 6:14-18). gently gave up her soul. Gospel — Jesus sends out the seventy-two ❧ (Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 [1-9]). Tuesday, July 9, 2013 The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, ✙ UGUSTINE HAO ONG AND COMPANIONS 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. We Remember: A Z R : READINGS FOR THE WEEK “Christianity arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Depend- Monday: Gn 28:10-22a; Ps 91:1-4, 14-15ab; Mt 9:18-26 ing on China's relations with the outside world, Christianity over the Tuesday: Gn 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b, 15; Mt 9:32-38 centuries was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly. The Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a; Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930. Most of Mt 10:1-7 them (eighty-seven) were born in China and were children, parents, Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 10:7-15 catechists or laborers, ranging from nine years of age to seventy- Friday: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mt 10:16- two. This group includes four Chinese diocesan priests. 23 Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4, 6-7; Mt 10:24-33 “The thirty-three foreign-born martyrs were mostly priests or Sunday: Dt 30:10-14; Ps 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37; or 19:8-11; women religious, especially from the Order of Preachers, the Paris Col 1:15-20; Lk 10:25-37 Foreign Mission Society, the Friars Minor, Jesuits, Salesians and Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chi- Treasures from our Tradition nese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse (Paris Foreign Mission Society) to his martyrdom in Beijing. IT’S HIGH SUMMER NOW, SCHOOL IS OUT, THE PACE OF WORK Augustine was baptized and not long after was ordained as a dioce- slows, and some people drift away. There are visitors in the san priest. He was martyred in 1815. Beatified in groups at various churches every summer, and familiar faces are times, these 120 martyrs were canonized in Rome on October 1, “among the missing.” Some find the summer’s 2000.” Saint of the Day, Leonard Foley, O.F.M.