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ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 4900 RIALTO ROAD : WEST CHESTER, OHIO 45069 PH: 513-645-4212 • FAX: 513-645-4214 www.traditionalmass.org • www.sgg.org THE MOST REV. DANIEL L. DOLAN, PASTOR, THE REV. ANTHONY CEKADA THE REV. JULIAN LARRABEE, THE REV. CHARLES MCGUIRE FEBRUARY 12, 2012 • SEXAGESIMA • • THE SEVEN HOLY FOUNDERS • ♦Blessing of Religious ♦Dress Code: Ladies—Please Articles: First Sunday of the wear a modest dress and a month after all Masses, at head-covering. No tight communion rail. fitting, low-cut, short, slit, or sleeveless dresses. No pants or ♦Blessing of Expectant shorts. Men & Boys—Please Mothers: Third Sunday of the wear a shirt and tie, with either month after all Masses. suit coat, jacket or sweater, and dress shoes. No T-shirts, sweat ♦Rosary Chain: To request shirts, sweat pants, tennis prayers for your special shoes, sneakers, shorts, jeans or intentions or needs, or to assist Sports logo jackets. in the Rosary Chain, please call the office. ♦New at St. Gertrude’s? Welcome! In the vestibule ♦Baptisms: Saturday morning you’ll find a pamphlet by appointment. At least one explaining the traditional rules parent as well as the sponsor observed here for the reception (only one sponsor is required) of Holy Communion. There is must be practicing Roman also a Visitor’s Card to fill out Catholics who do not belong if you want more information to the Novus Ordo Religion. on St. Gertrude’s or on the Novus Ordo and non- traditional Latin Mass. A free practicing Catholics may not information packet on the serve as sponsors. The Church traditional Latin Mass is will provide a sponsor in case available to newcomers. Stop of necessity. The Churching of by the Social Hall after Mass New Mothers follows the for refreshments. baptismal ceremony. Please make arrangements through ♦Catholic Books & Religious the church office. Articles: A fine selection is available in the Gift Shop after ♦Mass Intentions: the Masses on Sunday. Individual Mass intentions as well as Purgatorian Society ♦Registration: Please enrollments are available in the complete a card at the Gift vestibule, and may be given in Shop or phone the church. with the collection or at the Collection envelopes will be office. mailed. The seed is the word of God. ✠ ANNOUNCEMENTS ✠ POETRY CORNER ¶FEBRUARY 12, 2012 • SEXAGESIMA • ¶NEXT SUNDAY By Love Possessed SEVEN HOLY FOUNDERS • QUINQUAGESIMA - HOLY FACE SUNDAY O bird caught by a thread, The Blessing of Religious Articles The Blessing of Expectant Mothers And sparsely fed, follows all Masses. Morning Classes are follows all Masses. Morning classes as How can you rise and soar at 10:40 AM, but no Vespers this usual. No Vespers. Where never fettered wing has stirred afternoon. Stop by our St. Valentine Set Your Missal: Quinquagesima before? Bake Sale in Helfta Hall after Mass Sunday, Our Lady and All Saints, the today! Buy some sweets for your Holy Face, Trinity Preface. How can you sing sweetheart (or yourself) in honor of this With struggling wing great saint, and help support our school. The benison of night, And covet no delight ¶THIS WEEK In life’s star-radiant dark, The Maidens of the Immaculate Heart O stricken lark? meet on Monday at 3:30 PM in Helfta Hall. Girls of all ages are welcome. To smooth your crumpled wing, Tuesday is the feast of St. Valentine, One heart is hungering; priest-martyr and patron of courting or Your unimaginable pain engaged couples. Friday comes the One begs of heaven in vain. devotional feast of the sorrowful Flight into Egypt. We honor St. Bernadette ¶PRAYERS NEEDED O bleeding lark, on Our Lady’s Saturday. Please continue to keep Fr. Martin, Diane Within the heavy-lidded dark, Powell, Stella Simpson, Danny Teach me to understand ¶ FRIDAY NIGHT NOVENAS McKnight, Marty Lierl, Bill Buckley, our Enough, like you, to bless the hand The beautiful and powerful devotion of shut-ins, and all of our sick in your That binds me by a silken thread the Infant of Prague continues before prayers. And leaves me bleeding and all but dead, Mass on Friday evening. Come to By pain caressed, By love possessed. present your petitions before the “Little ¶ CONGRATULATIONS - Sr. Miriam, R.S.M. King” for the eighth day of the Novena. To Rhonda and John Lynch on We continue our Novena to the the baptism of their son, The Quarrel Sorrowful Mother with the Blessing of Theodore Joseph, on February Two little sparrows, hopping by, the Sick, after Mass. Contact the 11, 2012. With sidelong motion, quick and spry church office with the first names of Began, about the right of way, those for whom you would like us to To argue one cold winter’s day. pray. There is a beautiful ¶PALMS INTO ASHES precept which he who has “Let me pass first! -- “No, sir: not I!” -- Please bring last year’s blessed Palm to be received an injury, or “Your rude assumption I defy.” -- burned for Ash Wednesday. Drop off thinks he has, would for his “I am the elder.” -- “I lived here, this sacramental in the vestibule any day own sake do well to follow: On yonder fir-tree, all last year.” this week. “Excuse half, and forgive You may bring any additional palm And so they came to blows--meanwhile during Lent to be reverently disposed of the rest.” A hungry cat, perched on a tile, by burning. Upon the pair adroitly sprung: Servers FEBRUARY 13-19, 2012 They made sweet morsels on her tongue. The blessed Virgin loves above all to see •FRI 2/17 5:45 PM LOW: Regular Friday Servers •SAT 2/18 7:30 AM LOW. Simpsons The wind-swept branches, bleak and in her children purity, humility, and 8:30 AM LOW: M. Briggs charity. •SUN 2/19 7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros. bare, 9:00 AM HIGH: CHAPLAINS: R. Hill, T. Simpson -St. John Mary Vianney ACS: S. & L. Arlinghaus TH: A. Richesson TORCH: Moaned a shrill requiem in the air; J. Lacy, M. Simpson, P. Omlor, T. Lawrence 11:30 AM LOW: A.D. Kinnett, N. McClorey The gardener, on his morning round, 5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller Brushed a few feathers from the ground. -Hope Willis USHERS FEBRUARY 19, 2012 Collection Report 7:30 AM Scott Pepiot, Kent Maki, Volunteer (Dedicated to the winter birds who stay with us and sing Sunday, February 5th ................................$3,539.00 9:00 AM Mike Briggs, Mark Lotarski, Steve Weigand, Paul Arlinghaus 11:30 AM Bob Uhlenbrock, Dennis Hille, Kirby Bischel, Volunteer and soar for us, all for the odd seed cast in return. “Some Second Collection ..................................... $951.00 5:45 PM John Seyfried was eaten by the birds of the air.” -- Bishop Dolan) ✠ THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER ✠ The Domestic Church: Seven value.” Parents too should bless their translation) Little Office of Our Steps to a Proper Catholic Home own children with Holy Water, by Lady, Holy Cards, flowers, the 1. The King of the Catholic Home: signing them on their foreheads. names/pictures of deceased family It has been said that the Catholic Lastly, each child should have a members, palm branches, home should be seen as “The blessed Crucifix in their bedrooms sacramental certificates (Baptism, 1st Domestic Church”. With this being above their beds. The child should be Holy Communion, Confirmation, said, the Father is the head, the taught to kneel when rising and Holy Matrimony). It would also be Mother is the beloved spouse, and going to bed and say their prayers wise to keep a small library of books the children are brought up learning with their parents. that will cultivate our Catholic faith: to love and serve the Blessed Trinity. 4. The Focal Point of the Home: As traditional Catechisms, “Lives of the The true head of the Catholic home soon as Catholics move into a new Saints”, “Summa Theologica”, the is Christ, just as the visible Head of home, they should ask a priest to writings of St. Therese the Little the Church is the Supreme Pontiff. bless it. All families should consider Flower, St. John of the Cross, St. Christ should be known and with great deal consecrating their Louis de Montfort, etc. recognized in each Catholic home as homes to the Most Sacred Heart of 7. The Liturgical Season at Home: King; the family’s week should be Jesus. Why? It is a simple way of Families should change the home centered around the Holy Sacrifice letting Christ know that He is King. altar as the liturgical seasons change of the Mass and prayer is a must. The center of any home let alone a as well. During Passiontide (last two 2. Proper Prayer: Parents should Catholic one should NEVER be a weeks of Lent), icons and statues encourage their children to pray to television! The focal point of a should be covered with a purple Our Lord, The Blessed Virgin, and Catholic home should be the family cloth and there should be no flowers the Saints in their own words as well altar. This would be a place in which on the altar. In May, one might want as the Church’s traditional prayers: the family can gather to offer their to crown Mary with Roses, keep a The Holy Rosary prayers to God and ask the Saints to vigil candle going for as long as The Nicene Creed pray for them. Family Rosaries, possible, and bring Her various Blessing before and after meals prayers for special graces, family votive offerings, etc. Some families Prayer to Guardian Angel novenas, and Lectio Divina should even clothe statues of the Virgin Act of Contrition be said in front of the home altar.