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Saint Brendan CATHOLIC PARISH 4 AUGUST 2019 • EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4242 BRENDAN LANE BAPTISM • At any Mass, or the first and third Sunday at l:00 PM. (Baptismal NORTH OLMSTED, OHIO 44070 class required for a first child). Schedule with the parish office. RECONCILIATION • Saturday 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM, or by appointment. Phone: (440) 777-7222 • Fax: (440) 779-7997 School: (440) 777-8433 MATRIMONY • Arranged at least six months in advance, call a parish priest. Religious Education: (440) 777-3702 Maintenance: (440) 777-7225 M INISTRY TO THE SICK/HOMEBOUND • We are happy to bring the Website: www.stbrendannortholmsted.org Eucharist or Anointing of the Sick to the homebound. Call the parish office. Email: [email protected] RCIA • Contact the parish office for information on becoming Catholic. Saturday Vigil ................................................ 5:00 PM NEW PARISHIONERS • We welcome you! Please call the parish office to Sunday ........................................ 9:00 AM • 11:30 AM make an appointment. Monday ― Friday .......................................... 8:30 AM PM EUCHARISTIC ADORATION • Monday – Friday, l:00 PM – 9:00 PM Holy Day Vigil ............................................... 7:30 Holy Day ....................................... 8:30 AM • 7:30 PM ROSARY • Monday – Friday: before 8:30 AM Mass and at 7:00 PM in the Prayer Garden Pastor Emeritus: Fr. Cornelius J. Murray ............... Pastor: Fr. Thomas G. Woost ....................... ext 11 PRAYER LINE • Gennie Fioritto (440) 777-5950 Deacon: Deacon Bob Herron ........................ ext 14 Eileen Campbell (440) 734-1071 Pastoral Minister: Ed DeVenney .................. ext 19 Director of Religious Ed.: Mary Oldja ......... ext 27 MISSION STATEMENT • The members of the Catholic community of Saint Brendan School Principal: Julie Onacila .................... ext 16 seek to be faithful disciples of Jesus Christ by continuing his mission of building God’s kingdom of love, peace, and justice in our world. We commit ourselves to Director of Finance: Megan Gerome ........... ext 20 being the body of Christ for others through our participation in the sacramental life Music Minister: Richard Gullion……………..ext 15 of the Church, especially the Eucharist, openness to God’s word, and service to Parish Receptionist: Gina Coyle ................. ext 12 God’s people. In the imitation of our patron, Saint Brendan, there will be no barrier Maintenance: Tom Truffin............................. ext 18 to our loving outreach in Christ’s name. ST. BRENDAN PARISH NEWS FROM THE PEWS NORTH OLMSTED, OH PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday-Thursday 9:00 AM-Noon & 1:00-8:00 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 5 Friday 8:30 A.M. Frank Martou, Jr. 9:00 AM-Noon & 1:00-4:30 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 All bulletin articles need to be submitted by Monday 8:30 A.M. Jeannette Babula noontime; can be e-mailed to [email protected] WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7 ST. SIXTUS II AND ST. CAJETAN 8:30 A.M. St. Brendan Parishioners LECTIO DIVINA FOR NEXT WEEKEND THURSDAY, AUGUST 8 ST. DOMINIC The Book of Wisdom tells of the 8:30 A.M. Michael & Rose Stefanik people of good who are plotting against the forces of evil in their FRIDAY, AUGUST 9 days through prayer and sacrifice, ST. TERESA BENEDICTA ushering in the power of God. 8:30 A.M. dec. members of the Ravas & Pogran families Jesus tells his disciples to always SATURDAY, AUGUST 10 be ready for the demands he will ST. LAWRENCE place on those who follow him. 5:00 P.M. Margaret Ferrara-anniv Be ready in every way in mind, soul, and body. SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME • How do you open a portal of 9:00 A.M. Anne Shivinsky-anniv good to ward off the forces of 11:30 A.M. Gertrude Gallagher evil? Readings for the week of August 4, 2019 • How are you in a constant Sunday: Eccl 1:2; 2:21-23/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14, 17 [1]/Col 3:1-5, state of being ready for the 9-11/Lk 12:13-21 demands of living the Catholic Monday: Nm 11:4b-15/Ps 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17 [2a]/Mt 14:13-21 faith to the fullest and sharing Tuesday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14/Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9 [1a and 9a]/2 Pt 1:16-19/ that faith with others? Lk 9:28b-36 Wednesday: Nm 13:1-2, 25--14:1, 26a-29a, 34-35/Ps 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-22, 23 [4a]/Mt 15:21-28 BOOK OF PRAYER Thursday: Nm 20:1-13/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 8-9 [8]/Mt 16:13-23 PETITIONS Friday: Dt 4:32-40/Ps 77:12-13, 14-15, 16 and 21 [12a]/Mt 16:24-28 The St. Brendan Parish Book of Saturday: 2 Cor 9:6-10/Ps 112:1-2, 5-6, 7-8, 9 [5]/Jn 12:24-26 Prayer Petitions can be found on a Next Sunday: Wis 18:6-9/Ps 33:1, 12, 18-19, 20-22 [12b]/Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 or stand next to the minister’s office 11:1-2, 8-12/Lk 12:32-48 or 12:35-40 in the gathering area. Parishioners ©LPi are invited to write their special prayers of petition in the book. We remember all of these written "But God said to him, 'You fool, this petitions at weekend Masses. night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God." - Lk 12:20-21 Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass ©2001, 1998, 1970 CCD. 2 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4 AUGUST 2019 PASTOR’S COLUMN EVENING PRAYER Dear St. Brendan Parish Family, ON MONDAY Liturgy of the Hours - Evening The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act was signed into law by Prayer is prayed the first Monday President Clinton on August 21, 1996. HIPAA, as this legislation is more of each month along with our commonly referred to, protects individuals from having their personal health regular Adoration of the Eucharist. information disseminated by health care providers and insurers without the We will gather for prayer this consent of the individual patient or their expressed designee. Monday, August 5, at 6:30 P.M. in the chapel. This is a good way to As a result of HIPAA, hospitals, rehabilitation centers and nursing homes begin committee meetings that are stopped notifying the parish if a parishioner was admitted to their facilities. happening that night. It is also for This remains in effect to this day. So, if you are admitted to any health care the intention of our efforts in facility and you would like the parish to know so that a visit from clergy can be Evangelization. made or to have prayers said for you at Mass or through a prayer chain, you must notify the parish. This can be done by the individual, a family member or a close friend. The hospital or facility can notify the parish, but you must direct FOOD COLLECTION them to do so. In this light, it is a good idea to discuss your intentions regarding OXCART FOOD PANTRY notifications and the reception of the Sacraments with family members or a The monthly food collection for trusted friend well ahead of any unforeseen events. the North Olmsted Oxcart Food Pantry is a collaboration of all the It is also important to note that every hospital located within the boundaries of churches in North Olmsted. the Diocese of Cleveland does have a priest assigned to them to serve as Currently St. Brendan is chaplain. The priest will confer the anointing of the sick upon you, but you or a responsible for all of the breakfast family member must let the hospital personnel know. Holy Communion is also items that the pantry gives to the distributed through the Chaplain’s Office. Local parishes normally distribute needy of our city. The other communion on designated days at the extended care facilities located within churches in the city and the their boundaries. A local parish priest will also be called if an anointing is Cleveland Foodbank supply the requested by the individual or their designee. Most often this is arranged at the other items needed. We will be time of admittance. accepting breakfast and canned fruit items next weekend at all the For parishioners who are homebound because of illness, injury or the affects of Masses. advanced age and are unable to attend Sunday Mass, communion can still be received by contacting me or the St. Brendan Parish office. For the homebound who are seriously ill, scheduled for surgery or suffering from the affects of WELCOME TO advanced age, the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick can be conferred by a ST. BRENDAN PARISH priest through a call to the parish office. It is best if the individual parishioner To register in the parish or to find or a family member make the contact. This is the best way to ensure that the out more about us, please contact information is received accurately by the parish. Unfortunately the days of Fr. Tom at the parish office at information being passed along on the parish ‘grapevine’ are not acceptable. 440-777-7222. For information on Although the intention is good, the information is sometimes unreliable and the our parish school, or to schedule a ill or injured parishioner might not want to be visited or to receive communion personal tour, contact Julie immediately. No matter the circumstance, remember that prayer is always the Onacila, principal, at spiritual ‘medicine’ that anyone can give or receive at any time.