Smow Bulletin 10 7 2018
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TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OCTOBER 7, 2018 Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it. ~ (Mark 10:2-16 (2-12) ST. MARY OF THE WOODS PARISH A Community of Believers MISSION STATEMENT MASS SCHEDULE We are a community of believers, proclaiming that Sat. evening, Vigil Mass: 4:30 PM Jesus is Lord. We come together as Catholics to Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, and 11:00 AM celebrate the Sacraments, especially the Eucharist, Weekdays: Mon-Wed. 6:30 and 8:00 AM to hear and be transformed by the Word of God, Thurs. 8:00 am Fri. 8:30 AM to bring Christian values and love into our world, and Sat. 8:00 AM to live and share the teachings of Jesus. Inspired by Holy Days: 6:30, 8:00 AM, (9:00 AM during the Holy Spirit, we strive as a parish family to further school) and 7:00 PM the Kingdom of God, making God’s presence felt and extending the caring spirit of Jesus. CONFESSIONS: Saturdays, 3:30 to 4:15 PM REV. AIDAN O’BOYLE, PARISH ADMINISTRATOR St. Mary of the Woods Parish I 7033 N. Moselle Ave., Chicago, IL 60646 I 773-763-0206 I www.smow.org Page 1 St. Mary of the Woods - October 7, 2018 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.smow.org A LETTER FROM OUR PARISH ADMINISTRATOR Our Children can Help us Understand ‘Laudato Si’ This Sunday, October 7th, parishioner Sister Colette Fahrner will begin leading a monthly discussion series on Pope Francis’ Letter to the World on Care for the Earth, our Common Home (‘Laudato Si’). The discussion will take place in the resource room off the church narthex from 2-4 pm. I encourage you to consider going! I believe you’ll enjoy it and get a lot of food for thought. Pope Francis brings a nice sense of poetry to the way he writes, and there’s little in this Letter that reads like you need a degree in theology or environmental science. In fact if you’re of a certain age you’ve probably already read much of what lies at the heart of this Papal Letter. When I read the Pope’s Letter I had also been reading the New York Times bestseller All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (by Robert Fulghum). It struck me that many of the central insights in both writings were the same! At the heart of Fulghum’s book are 16 insights central to our lives that he posited we had learned as children: 1. Share everything 2. Play fair. 3. Don’t hit people 4. Put things back where you found them. 5. Clean up your own mess. 6. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. 7. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody. 8. Wash your hands before you eat. 9. Flush. 10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 11. Live a balanced life – learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some. 12. Take a nap every afternoon. 13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. 14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. 15. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup – they all die. So do we. 16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned – the biggest word of all: LOOK. You might be inclined to think that a Letter from the Pope about Care for the Earth/Our Common Home would be a policy document, the Pope’s list of changes that need to happen on different environmental and social issues. But really what the Pope is interested in first is a change in the way we all think about our lives, our relationships with one another and our world. Again and again he makes the point that it’s only through that kind of conversion of our minds and hearts, of our imagination that our actions and our policies will ever substantially change. And as frivolous as it may sound, truly, at the heart of that conversion is a return to the very things that we knew as children. Things like: Share. Be kind. Clean up after yourself. All things in moderation. Make time for wonder. Have a blessed week. Father Aidan O’ Boyle Page 2 St. Mary of the Woods - October 7, 2018 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.smow.org PARISH LIFE Pot stands at $14,885 (as of Sept. 30, 2018) Wed. Oct. 10th at 9:00 PM Liturgy of Remembrance On Saturday, November 3rd at the 4:30 p.m. Mass, we will remember our parishioners who have died this past year. A candle ceremony and reading of their names will be a part of our liturgy. Please join us for this special remembrance of our parishioners. WE REMEMBER OUR LOVED ONES; WE CELEBRATE THEIR LIVES; WE BELIEVE IN THEIR RESURRECTION For further information please contact Mary LeBaron at 773-774-4958 Page 3 St. Mary of the Woods - October 7, 2018 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.smow.org ADULT FAITH FORMATION, FALL 2018 On Care for Our Common Home, LAUDATO SI', the Encyclical of Pope Francis on the Environment A monthly series on LAUDATO SI', the Pope’s encyclical on Care for Our Common Home will begin on Sunday, October 7th, 2 pm to 4pm, in Parish Resource Center with Information, Reflection, Prayer. Led by Sister Colette Fahrner, a Sister of the Living Word and SMOW parishioner. You are encouraged to purchase a copy of LAUDATO SI' before the first meeting. You can find it on Amazon for about $9 with cover shown at left, but can find it elsewhere with various front covers. Please be sure that your copy has LAUDATO SI': On Care for Our Common Home in title. Pope Francis’ historic encyclical on the environment is a watershed moment in the Church’s engagement with the challenges of environmental degradation and the fate of the poor. LET’S WORK TOGETHER IN CREATING A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE! Father James Martin’s Building a Bridge Over a series of the four Tuesday nights in November in the Parish Hall at 7:00 pm, (with an introductory night on Tuesday, October 16) parishioner Susan McGowan will facilitate a book discussion on Fr. James Martin’s recent book Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. Susan can be reached at [email protected] Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the introduction meeting on October 16 at 7:00 pm. Here are a few commentaries on the book: “I affirm what Martin is doing...he has given his life for the service of the church. The Holy Father appointed him to a commission in Rome. I say to people: Make up your own decision, your own mind about him, by reading exactly what he wrote.” ~Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago “A welcome and much-needed book that will help bishops, priests, pastoral associates, and all church leaders, more compassionately minister to the LGBT community. It will also help LGBT Catholics feel more at home in what is, after all, their church.” ~Cardinal Kevin Farrell, Prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life Page 4 St. Mary of the Woods - October 7, 2018 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.smow.org PARISH LIFE www.deaconchuck.com You can follow Deacon Chuck on-line for articles, homilies or to leave a message. Page 5 St. Mary of the Woods - October 7, 2018 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.smow.org C ARDINAL BLASE J. CUPICH LETTER Commentary: Blase Cupich: The Catholic Church 'must remain vigilant' in report- ing all abuse A woman prays on Sept. 14, 2018, in Richmond, Va., at a "Mass of Atone- ment" in reaction to a Pennsylvania grand jury report released in August that alleges some 300 priests abused more than 1,000 children over 70 years. (Shelby Lum/Richmond Times-Dispatch) Blase J. Cupich It has been a season of sorrow, pain and outrage for victims of sexual abuse and all who believed that the Catholic Church had definitively addressed this terrible scandal. Revelations about Archbishop Theodore McCarrick, whom Pope Francis removed from ministry in July amid sexual abuse allegations, along with the Pennsylvania grand jury report, which detailed hundreds of sexual abuse cases over 70 years, bring home the fact that we face a watershed moment in the history of the Catholic Church. The culture of self-protection, privilege and power that shielded abusers must be eradicated. It reflects a corrupt sense of entitlement without regard for honesty, accountability or, most important, the safety of young people and adults entrusted to our care. To begin to heal this wound on the soul of the church, we bishops must commit to facing our own failures — by looking into the faces of the victim-survivors and seeing Christ. The decades of walking away from victim-survivors must come to an end. Walking toward them is the only option — it has always been the only option. My determination to root out this abuse and the corrupt culture that enabled it comes from the experience of sitting face-to-face with victim-survivors, listening to their heart-rending stories and trying to address their profound needs.