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SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS NOVEMBER 1, 2020 LITURGICAL SCHEDULE SATURDAY, OCT 31 PB 9:00 AM Reconciliation PB 3:00 - 3:40 PM Reconciliation at Saint Bernard JH 4:00 PM Mass t James Kasdorf (Family) SUNDAY, NOV 1 Solemnity of All Saints WA 8:00 AM Mass For the People of Christ King Parish WA 10:30 AM Mass t James Rice (Mary Grogan Family) MONDAY, NOV 2 Commemoration of the Faithful Departed (All Souls) 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM Personal Prayer and Reflection at both Christ King and Saint Bernard BAPTISMS PB 8:15 AM Mass at Saint Bernard t Marcella Guentner Anniv (parishioners of Saint Bernard) We welcome Maxwell Anthony Miller, TUESDAY, NOV 3 (Election Day) Murphy Ann Stein and Evan William 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM Personal Prayer and Reflection at Grocholski both Christ King and Saint Bernard 8:00 - 8:00 PM Adoration at Saint Bernard MARRIAGE BANNS (interrupted for Mass from 5:30-6:00 p.m.) WA 5:30 PM Mass at Saint Bernard t Bernice M Nielsen (Tom Nielsen) November 14: Stacey Kondrakiewicz WA 6:00 PM Reconciliation at Saint Bernard and Daniel Nedset (II) WEDNESDAY, NOV 4 Memorial of Saint Charles Borromeo, bishop REQIUESCAT IN PACE 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM Personal Prayer and Reflection at both Christ King and Saint Bernard Please remember in your prayers the WA 7:00 AM Mass t James Kasdorf (Hall Family) repose of the soul of parishioner Karen Fournier who entered into eternal life THURSDAY, NOV 5 this past week. 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM Personal Prayer and Reflection at both Christ King and Saint Bernard PB 8:00 AM Mass t William Rettko (Family) PRAYER REQUESTS Please pray for our parishioners with FRIDAY, NOV 6 acute health problems and continuing 6:30 AM - 8:00 PM Personal Prayer and Reflection at health concerns: Maureen Ivans, Tony both Christ King and Saint Bernard Berg, Jim Michalek, Matthew Howard, WA 12:00 Noon Mass t Alvin and Mildred Zeise (Ronald Zeise) Rowan Wilcox, Jim Dries, Joan Bielefeld, Anna Bullio, Savanna Heltemes, Virginia SATURDAY, NOV 7 Krysiak, Mary Anne, Laine Meske, Sara PB 9:00 AM Reconciliation Block, Steven Neitzke, Donna Stahoviak, WA 3:00 - 3:40 PM Reconciliation at Saint Bernard Amy Bilski, Diane Brulc, Jerry Inhoff, PB 4:00 PM Mass t Joyce Dougherty (Gundersen Family) Harold Henry, John Volpe, Martha Lenz, Katina Yerton, Pat Borck, Madeleine SUNDAY, NOV 8 Dodgion, Tom Stepp, Vian Sirwardena, JH 8:00 AM Mass t Jeanette Murray (Drezek and Pickart Families) Barb Dropp, Julie Zeman, Lonnie JH 10:30 AM Mass For the People of Christ King Parish Melbinger, Neil Schmidt, Lucille Talbot and Doug Shears. PB Fr. Phillip Bogacki WA Fr. Will Arnold JL Fr. Jeff LaBelle JH Fr. John Hemsing 2604 N SWAN BLVD. WAUWATOSA WI 53226 | CHRISTKINGPARISH.ORG | [email protected] | 414.258.2604 2 THE MONTH OF While the month of November provide for an expiatory we can assist those who have The Art of Remembering and their prayers remain long obviously isn’t a liturgical sacrifice. In doing this he acted passed from this world (those after the person departs. NOVEMBER season, it has many of the in a very excellent and noble who died in a state of grace You may not want to go from By Maggie Pernice characteristics of one. Like way, inasmuch as he had the but still need to be freed from door-to-door, trading prayers • Just TALK to someone who Christmas, Lent and Easter, it resurrection in mind; for if he the burden of sin) by our for bakery, or have a picnic in has died—they’ll hear you! Despite the fact that we have opens with a celebration. At were not expecting the fallen prayers, and they can assist us a cemetery, but you could: Share your joys, your hot, muggy summers and the beginning of the month, on to rise again, it would have by theirs! struggles, the latest winters that can see our the Feast of All Saints, we pray been superfluous and foolish to • Visit the cemetery and adventure or the difficult temperatures plummet to that “we celebrate the festival pray for the dead. But if he did Which bring us to the “HOW?” decorate the graves of decisions you have to make. negative numbers, I often think of your city, the heavenly this with a view to the splendid to pray for the dead. The loved ones with flowers. Pray for him or her, and don’t how fortunate we are to live in Jerusalem. .where the great reward that awaits those who answer is simple: the same way forget to ask for prayers in this part of the world. We mark array of our brothers and sisters had gone to rest in godliness, it that you pray for the living! • Light a candle for the return! the passing of each year with already give you eternal was a holy and pious thought.” Include them in your morning, deceased, either a definite and distinct seasons praise” and then the next day, ~ 2 Maccabees 12:43-45 evening, and mealtime prayers devotional candle at church • Keep the legacy alive. Share which, coincidentally, on All Souls’ Day, implore that along with your parents, or at home. Like the Hebrew stories that the younger beautifully mirror the liturgical “the hope of resurrection has This passage was written in the children, and all whom we custom of leaving a pebble generation may not have year! dawned, that those saddened second century BC and is the keep in prayer on a daily basis. on a grave, it shows heard! Or (for example) by the certainty of dying might earliest-known statement on Through the years and across someone is thinking of them, whenever I make Grammy’s During the month of be consoled by the promise of the efficacy of prayers and the continents, we have almond macaroons, or November, we remember all of immortality to come.” This sacrifices offered for the dead. developed various customs hide Dad’s glass pickle the Faithful Departed—those theme resounds in the readings Praying for the Dead is connected to the celebration ornament on the souls who have gone before us (especially the Gospels) of the something that we Catholics of All Saints and All Souls’ Day, Christmas tree, I think of into the Heavenly Kingdom, final weeks of Ordinary Time are asked to do and do very to remember those who have them; and how their and how appropriate. In this and carries on through early well! But why and how do we died. strength and steadfastness northern climate, all of Advent. We hear of the end of do it? To answer the “Why?” set a standard that will creation cooperates in days and of future glory, when you need merely to turn to our Years ago, beginning in the always be my benchmark. echoing this refrain: our world the world we know will be belief in the Communion of Middle Ages and continuing– appears to die. Hours of destroyed and all of creation Saints. As one of the prayers of in some places—to this day, • Enter names in the darkness overtake the light. will once again be in the funeral liturgy declares: children would go from house Book of Remembrance: Our crops are harvested, trees right-relationship with God. “Indeed for your faithful, Lord, to house, offering to pray for we invite parishioners and drop their life is changed not ended.” anyone in the household who visitors alike to inscribe leaves, birds You see, while had died. In exchange, they (isn’t that a great word?!) depart for death is a great would receive a “soul the names of family warmer mystery to all of cake”—a flat fruit bun, members and friends who climates. us, we believe in seasoned with sweet spices. have died over the past Nature lies the everlasting (Does anyone else see, in this year in this book, located dormant—but life promised by ancient practice, the origins of on the table near St. with a promise Jesus. Our modern trick-or-treat??) In Joseph’s altar. (If a name of life to existence Latin countries, on November was entered in previous come!! transcends 1 & 2, families go to years, it is still contained in separation from cemeteries to be with the the book and does not As the world our earthly souls of the departed and need to be re-entered.) grows darker body, and build private altars containing The Book of and colder, we Christians who the favorite foods and Remembrance will be on huddle indoors have died are beverages, as well as photos display through the with loved always with and memorabilia, of the Thanksgiving holiday, and ones, us—not in the departed. Sometimes, they all of the names listed in reminisce, and same way: we even share a meal! The intent the book will be become “nostalgic”—a can no longer is to encourage the souls to remembered in prayer at beautiful word that literally Praying for the Dead see them and enjoy their visit so they will hear the each Mass throughout the means “homecoming.” But as company. But we are bound prayers and the comments of month. Christians, we instinctively know “Judas [the ruler of Israel] then together and together form the living directed to them. that the home for which we took up a collection among all the Body of Christ. And just as These celebrations are joyful May the souls of all the yearn is not in our past, but in his soldiers, amounting to two the living assist one another as anecdotes and tender faithful departed, through our future, within the reign of thousand silver drachmas, with prayers and spiritual stories about the departed the mercy of God, rest in God.