St. Bernadette Church  October 4, 2020 350 NW California Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986  Page 2 From Father’s Desk...

Dear Friends,   Like the vineyard described by in today's , (Matthew 21: 33-43), the way we live indicates the MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2020 place God has in our life. Thank God, literally, for the gift 8:00 am †John Haupert, requested by of Jesus, His Son! Thank God for Scripture which gives Susan Komusin us every indication of how Jesus lived His life. Thank God TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2020 for the gift of prayer, enabling us to speak with Jesus, and 8:00 am †Marie Webber, requested by Jesus with us! Thank God for the Sacraments, where Estate of Marie Webber Jesus shows His mercy to us, makes us part of His Body, unites us with one another and with the Church, and WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2020 feeds us. Once we have immersed ourselves in all these 8:00 am For all members of the Benedict & gifts, then it is up to us to live mirroring the Desai Families, requested by compassionate and merciful Lord. Then our vineyard will Suresh & Angeline Desai produce the sweetest most juicy grapes possible. And THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2020 our vintage will be His. 8:00 am †Alan Bluemke, requested by Have a safe week, Marianne Joyce Father Victor Ulto, Pastor FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2020 8:00 am Matthew J. Smartt, requested by his mother-in-law Update...12:15 pm Sunday Mass Presently, we are extending the suspension of the SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2020 12:15 pm Mass on Sundays. Please join us in praying that 8:00 am †Alan Bluemke, requested by the Covid-19 pandemic ends soon, and that those who are not Marianne Joyce coming to Mass may return. Once this happens, we will 4:00 pm †Assunta (Cookie) Bonica, resume the 12:15 pm Mass. In the meantime, the Mass requested by John & Maria Bonica intentions for any of those Masses that are suspended are being remembered at private Masses that Father Molgano and SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2020 I are praying. Thank you. 7:30 am For the People of the Father Victor Ulto, Pastor 9:00 am †Floyd “Russ” Embry, requested by Marianne Embry

10:45 am †Paul G. Dwyer, requested by Monday - Friday Mom & Dad 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

‘Bad’ News

I recall the day I visited a primary school and listened to stories that students had written on the theme of, I didn’t mean to be bad. The stories ranged from breaking a window to throwing a live toad into a pot of burgoo at camp. None of the children had intended to do something bad. These things just seem to happen. And the students were genuinely sorry. Scripture stories reveal the atrocities of God’s faithful but often foolish people. The Israelites didn’t set out to be bad, but they often were, forgetting their generous and loving Lord. Ultimately, they repent, are forgiven and start again. We, as God’s children, are now entrusted with the vineyard. The Old Testament lessons, plus the , guide our actions toward fruitfulness. God forgives us for occasionally “being bad.” but it will be our mess to clean up. Our work begins with caring for others and forgiving each other as our Father forgives us. D. A. Meister Twentyseventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page 3

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE Stewardship....Live It! FOR THE MONTH OF   Stewardship: a way of life for our  SEPTEMBER 2020... St. Bernadette Parish Family…  “The stone that the builders rejected The cornerstone, or capstone, is the most important has become the cornerstone.” stone in construction—it was particularly common in  Matthew 21: 42 Roman arches which were built in Jesus’ time. It was the stone which held the arch together—normally triangular in STEWARDSHIP & … shape, and on which the pressure of the stones around it allowed the arch to stand. Remove the cornerstone/  capstone and the arch would collapse. We have been given so many gifts and blessings by our Heavenly Father. Yet, in our fallen state it is all too Jesus is indeed foundational. Once the cornerstone easy to take them for granted. Our readings today teach was set, it became the basis for determining every us that we must live with an intentional awareness of our measurement in the remaining construction; everything many blessings and use them gratefully to glorify God. was aligned to it. As the cornerstone of the building of the Church, Jesus is our standard of measure and alignment. In our Gospel passage from Matthew, Jesus uses the image of a vineyard to teach the importance of using our Stewardship calls us to live God-centered lives. That, blessings well. He tells the story of a landowner who of course, is not always easy, but if we accept our plants a vineyard and leases it to tenants before he goes Baptismal call to discipleship, which should be at the on a journey. Instead of tending the vineyard the tenants center of our very existences, we should be conscious of mistreat the servants in the vineyard, and even the son of the Lord’s presence in our lives and in everything we do. the landowner, whom they kill. When the landowner He should be the cornerstone of our own lives. May the realizes what the tenants have done, he puts them to Lord open our eyes to see Him as the cornerstone Ω death and leases his vineyard to tenants who “will give him the produce at the proper times.”

By , we have received the gift of salvation September 2020 (current year) Four (4) weekends and membership in the Kingdom of God — we are now Envelopes & Other  Faith Direct  “tenants” called to work in the “vineyard” and produce fruit $ 44,902    $ 29,157  for its owner, our Heavenly Father. Jesus makes it clear September 2020 TOTAL offertory  $ 74,059 that we if we squander the gift of salvation, we will lose it. Weekly average offertory: 18,515 It is a sobering truth.  Special: Building Debt  $ 2,147 So, let us use our intellect to think on these gifts  Respect Life  $ 717 throughout the day and resolve to use all of our gifts for  Youth Ministry  $ 628  DSA  $ 1,163 God’s glory. Ω  +++++++++++++++++++++++++  September 2019 (last year)  Five (5) weekends  Weekly average offertory: $ 18,984 Average envelopes used per week: 700  Envelopes Loose Faith Direct  $ 53,902 (3,502) $ 17,090 $ 23,927   September 2019 TOTAL offertory  $ 94,919  Special: Building Debt  $ 4,261  Respect Life  $ 1,987  Maintenance Fund  $ 2,855  DSA  $ 2,229 

Stewardship: A Way of Life St. Bernadette   October 4, 2020 350 NW California Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986  Page 4

 PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR THE SICK:   Sonny Gaudet Kim Gaudet Rob Perona Sunday: Is 5:1-7/Ps 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, Joanne Banville Rob Burns Chris Slevin 19-20 [Is 5:7a]/Phil 4:6-9/Mt 21:33-43 Kathleen Cowley Cathy Aiello Millie Battaglia Monday: Gal 1:6-12/Ps 111:1b-2, 7-8, 9 and Lucarelli Matt Symins Helen Terry 10c [5]/Lk 10:25-37 Nicole Gioia-Ficili Tuesday: Gal 1:13-24/Ps 139:1b-3, 13-14ab, 14c-15 [24b]/Lk 10:38-42 PRAYER INTENTIONS FOR THE DECEASED: Wednesday: Gal 2:1-2, 7-14/Ps 117:1bc, 2 Kimberly Howard Alfred Pavarini /Lk 11:1-4 Most Reverend John J. Myers Thursday: Gal 3:1-5/Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 [68] /Lk 11:5-13  Friday: Gal 3:7-14/Ps 111:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 [5] The Bread & Wine, Sanctuary /Lk 11:15-26 Lamp & Altar Flowers Saturday: Gal 3:22-29/Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 [8a] for the week of /Lk 11:27-28  October 4  10, 2020  Observances for the week of October 4, 2020  th are offered Sunday: 27 Sunday in Ordinary Time;  Respect Life Sunday In Memory of Monday: Blessed Seelos, Priest Robert Vanderhoof  Tuesday: St. Bruno, Priest;  Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, by his loving wife, Rosalyn Wednesday: Our Lady of the Thursday: ———— Friday: St. Denis, , and Companions, Martyrs; St. John Leonardi, Priest Saturday: ———— ©LPi

THANK YOU, GOOD STEWARDS!  Our deepest thanks and gratitude for your generosity to the recent In gratitude for our church St. Vincent de Paul collection building that has come to life… given last month. It is greatly Memorials, which come to the appreciated and is especially parish from the kindness and needed more than ever at the generosity of others, are placed in our Parish Debt Relief Fund. present time, when so many  people are in need owing to the This week:  COVID19 health crisis this year. May God bless all In Memory of of you!  Kenneth (Ken) Perrin (Total amount given: $1,981.00) by Glen A. Evans   Sincerely, In Memory of Members of St. Vincent de Paul Society Eugene (Gene) Miller by Edward & Patricia Melinsky  HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTIONS In Memory of FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER Salvatore (Sal) Augeri  by Rose Marie Mackey The Laity’s Mission in the Church   We pray that by the virtue of Baptism, the laity may In Memory of Bill Bresnahan participate more in areas of responsibility in the by Betty Bresnahan Church. Twentyseventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page 5

 A Letter from our Bishop...

Dear Brothers and Sisters:

Respect Life Sunday this year coincides with the Feast of . He is a fitting patron for us in regard to his respect for all of God’s creation of which the culmination is the human person made in His image and likeness. Respect Life Sunday also falls during the year of the 25th anniversary of This Wednesday, October 7, is the feast of Our the encyclical of Saint John Paul II, Evangelium Vitae, The Lady of the Rosary. What an appropriate time to take Gospel of Life. He gave us this great gift on the Solemnity of the next step as a Parish, in making effective the the Annunciation, March 25, 1995. Indeed, through Mary’s yes following: to God’s will, the Son of God became incarnate in her womb at the moment of conception.

Our Monsignor Cosmo Saporito Chapel will re-open Saint John Paul II’s encyclical begins with the words, after the 8:00 am Mass on October 7th, for “The Gospel of life is at the heart of Jesus’ message.” To our Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. society today, faced with a great deal of threats to life and misunderstandings of its dignity, it is necessary to proclaim the Please note the following changes you will find when you sanctity of life from the moment of conception until natural come for prayer before Jesus, exposed on the altar. death. So many of the world’s critical problems would be put in proper perspective with a fundamental respect for the gift of life ► After you gain access to the Chapel using the push at every stage. button code, as usual, you are asked to sanitize your The need to promote the dignity of all life is imperative but, hands as well as the key pad with wipes that will be at this particular political time, even more so for that of an provided by us on the round table in the Chapel. A unborn child. Horrific abortion legislation within various states receptacle also will be there to place used wipes for has gone far beyond Roe v. Wade, while tax dollars continue to disposal. be proposed to fund abortions.

► You will notice that the number of chairs in the In his apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate, Pope Chapel is greatly reduced, to accommodate social Francis clearly stated that, “Our defense of the innocent unborn distancing. Also, there will be no kneelers in the needs to be clear, firm and passionate for at stake is the dignity Chapel, because of the pandemic. of the human life, which is always sacred and demands love for each person, regardless of his or her stage of development.” On ► As usual, masks are a must when you come to pray one occasion the Pope expressed, “Last century, the whole in Church. world was scandalized by what the Nazis did to purify the race. Today, we do the same thing but with white gloves!” As the In addition, the Sacrament of Reconciliation United States have stated so clearly in Forming (Confessions) will be celebrated at the usual time Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, “The common outcry, (Saturdays, 2 - 3 pm) and place (the Reconciliation which is justly made on behalf of human rights – for example, Rooms in the Msgr. Saporito Chapel) beginning the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture – is Saturday, October 10. false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right, and the condition for all other personal rights, You are asked to wear a mask when coming to is not defended with maximum determination.” Confession, and the only way the Sacrament of   I wish to express my deep gratitude to the faithful of our Reconciliation will be celebrated for the time being will be for their staunch and loyal support in fostering respect behind the screen. No chair will be available for you to go for life at every stage. The present election time is a critical one to Confession "face to face," to reduce the possibility of and needs our prayers, attention and action in a special way, transmission of disease. Father Molgano and I will particularly in fostering protection of the unborn. sanitize the area around the screen after each penitent With every prayerful wish, I am leaves. Sincerely yours in Christ,

May Our Lady of the Rosary and Her Son continue to hold us close to their hearts!

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