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RANDOM THOUGHTS DIFERENTES PENSAMIENTOS from Father Bill Promesso RANDOM THOUGHTS DIFERENTES PENSAMIENTOS from Father Bill Promesso Leadership Night We bring together our parish staff, parish council, commissions and committees to kick off the meeting year. This time we will examine a draft of my pastoral letter to the parish entitled Ignite the Gospel. This is a parish-level follow up to Archbishop Vigneron’s pastoral letter of Pentecost 2017. I’m looking forward to August 28 and the opportunity to ignite! If you’re on one of the parish consultative groups, please RSVP to the parish office, so we can plan dinner and handouts. Away Days I’m traveling to Tucson, Arizona on Sunday morning to spend a week visiting friends and seeing that part of the country. Please welcome Fr. Tony Fox, a conventual Franciscan priest and chaplain for U-M Dearborn and Henry Ford Community College. Fr. Tony will preside on Sunday, August 19 and Saturday, August 25. I’ll be with you again on August 26 for the Sunday morning liturgies. Due to my absence, there will not be weekday Masses on August 21, 23, or 24. ST. CYPRIAN PARISH PAGE 2 RIVERVIEW, MICHIGAN Religious from our Formation Pastoral Minister We will be continuing to welcome people who are Summer Middle School Classes will meet on August interested in becoming Catholic or would like to 20-22. The morning session will run from 9:30- discover more about the Rite of Christian Initiation of 11:30am and the afternoon session will be from 1:00- Adults at our last two remaining inquiry sessions in 3:00pm. Lunch is on your own. August, taking place on Sunday after the 11:00 Mass. All are welcome to join our brief teaching or stop by to Confirmation Class will meet on September 9 right ask questions about full initiation into the Catholic after the 11am mass in the Social Hall. This will be a Church. Have a wonderful week and continue to seek shorter introduction meeting ending at 12:45pm. to serve the Lord our God with all of your mind, heart, soul and strength. Monday Evening Classes begin on September 10 at “Our labor here is brief, but the reward is eternal. Do 6:15-7:30pm. Please meet in the Church for a brief not be disturbed by the clamor of the world, which meeting before class begins. passes like a shadow. Do not let the false delights of a deceptive world deceive you. Offer faithfully what you First Reconciliation/Eucharist Introduction have vowed to God and God shall reward you.” - St. Meeting on September 18 at 6:30pm in the Social Clare of Assisi Hall. Why Does RCIA Take So Long? Family Program Parent Only Meeting will be on RCIA cannot be reduced to the mere transference of September 11 at 6:30pm in the Social Hall. knowledge. The courses are not academic in the sense that they represent a series of topics that must be All Catechists from all programs are invited to an studied in order to graduate into Catholicism. RCIA Open House/Meeting on August 20 at 6:30pm in the must be primarily a formative process rather than Social Hall. Please make it a point to attend. You will simply an informative one. The stress on formation have a chance to see the "new" classrooms and workspace, along with a tour of the parish offices. over information is due the fact RCIA is introducing you to Jesus Christ. Truth cannot be reduced to Stacey Sutowski-Shurtz, a concept but is rather a person—the person of Jesus Director of Elementary Catechesis and Youth Ministry Christ; and, just as it takes time for an individual to be formed in a relationship with a friend or spouse, it takes time to understand the person of Jesus Christ. Moreover, you cannot love that which you do not CALLING ALL SINGERS!! know. We must come to know Christ in order to love St. Cyprian Adult Liturgical Choir him. As such, we must allow ourselves to be formed will begin rehearsals on by the teachings of Christ, the knowledge of Christ, in order that our hearts may be able to make a true WEDNESDAY commitment to Jesus Christ. -© St. Peter’s List, 2017 September 19th Denise Gorski, Pastoral Minister 734-283-1366 x112 ■ [email protected] 7:00pm Anyone, high school age or older, is welcome and Book Club encouraged to join us. Reading music is NOT a Book Club will meet on August 22 at 7pm in the requirement, although a love of music is (and a sense Parish Office Building. We will be discussing "The of humor helps!!) Consider sharing your time and Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy” by Rachel talents with your parish family. Enjoy the rewards of Joyce. praising the Lord in song! Our next meeting will be September 26. We will be reading "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" For more information, please contact Mason Koch by Bill Bryson. [email protected] Stacey Sutowski-Shurtz, 734.283.1366 x120 Director of Elementary Catechesis and Youth Ministry Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time PAGE 3 August 19, 2018 ST. CYPRIAN PARISH PAGE 4 RIVERVIEW, MICHIGAN Southern Downriver Right to Life This is an 18 Hole Scramble, registration @ 10:00 am, shot-gun start @ 11:00 am, cocktails @ 4:30 pm Golf Event followed by Dinner @ 5:00 pm. Sponsor options The 8th Annual Golf for Life Outing will be held on available! Please contact Joe Connors for more info at Monday, September 17th at the Grosse Ile Golf & [email protected] or at 734-241-4277. Country Club. The primary purpose of the golf outing Let’s show the world that in the Downriver area, we is to allow us to sponsor busses for Downriver youth to support the Sanctity of Life from conception to natural attend the annual March for Life in Washington D.C. death. in January. The annual March for Life is the most uplifting & positive way I know of introducing young people to Right to Life, and last year we sent 120 Youth Group students on three busses at ½ price to the March for The Parish Picnic is on September 16 and I would like Life thanks to the golf outing. The golf outing also to invite all the youth to attend the picnic and then join helps us to reach out to youth, schools, & churches, me in the "new youth room" for an open house from 2- support crisis pregnancy centers, and finance Pro-Life 3pm. Be there or Be Bored!!! Billboards in the Downriver Area in support of Right Stacey Sutowski-Shurtz, to Life. This is our one fund raising event for the year, Director of Elementary Catechesis and Youth Ministry and we would appreciate it if you could spread the word to your friends, acquaintances, and business St. Cyprian Parish Congratulates associates. Sponsorship and advertising opportunities are also available. Southern Downriver Right to Life Nichole VanDyne is a local affiliate of Right to Life of Michigan. Don’t and golf? Come on out have dinner with us that night. Anthony Long upon their marriage in our church on You can also register on-line on our Web Site at August 11, 2018 www.sdrtl.org/event-registration/. Parish Picnic Sunday, September 16 2:00-5:00pm Raffle Drawing at 4:00pm As usual, for our Parish Picnic we’ll have party tents up for shade, but don’t forget your lawn chairs and/or blankets The social hall will also be open. We will provide hot dogs, sausages, buns, chips & pop. We are hoping you will enjoy adding to the menu of our community feast with a dish to pass. You don’t have to St. Cyprian Church cook a huge amount – a family serving is plenty. Please drop off your dish in the kitchen when you come to 2018 Raffle Mass the weekend of September 16th or you can bring it with you to the picnic. We’ll take it from there. A—D Green Salad (tossed, layer, cut-up Sales as of veggies, etc.) E—H Fruit (cut up or as a salad) I—L Potato Salad August 13 M—R Pasta Salad S—U Baked Beans V—Z Dessert $4,200 If you would like to help serve food or clean up, call the Parish Office at 283-1366 x110. Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time PAGE 5 August 19, 2018 Liturgy Schedule for August 26 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Minister Schedule also available at www.stcyprian.com 5:00 PM 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Altar Assistant Diane Zarosly Shirley Ellerbrock Debbie Kudla Fusinski Family, Michelle Dennis Gorkiewicz, Betty Maria Rosiak, Mary Slagle, Greeters Lyons, Ken Kreszyn Hajkus, Bonnie Dickson Cecile Bouchard Lectors Pat & Carl Baltosiewich Kathy & Mark Homan Susan & Al LaCroix Altar Servers ElenaMaria Farmer Janie Eaton Ines Ucros Readings for the Week of August 19 This week we are in need of the Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Prv 9:1-6; Ps 34:2-3, following items: oatmeal, 10-15; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6: 51-58 pancake mix and syrup. Monday Ez 24:15-24; Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21; Mt 19:16-22 Please remember we do not Tuesday Ez 28:1-10; Dt 32:26-27ab, 27cd-28, 30, 35cd- distribute expired items, so check 36ab; Mt 19:23-30 your dates! Wednesday Ez 34:1-11; Ps 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Mt 20:1-16 We distribute on Wednesday mornings at 10am. If Thursday Ez 36:23-28; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 22:1-14 you have extra items from your gardens you would Friday Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 like to share please bring them in accordingly.
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