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AUGUST 15, 2021 THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY Parish OfficeN4019 N. Farwell Ave., (414) 3321164 Pastor Rev. J. Enrique Hernandez#3015 [email protected] Associate Pastor Rev. Andrew Infanger…..#3011 [email protected] Office Administrative Assistant Debe Dannecker#3010 [email protected] Accountant Karen Raap#3030 [email protected] Parish Life / Youth Ministry Coordinator Caitlin Raether#3014 [email protected] Director of Liturgy and Music Matt Zembrowski#3043 [email protected] RCIA Coordinator: Becoming Catholic Donna Shriner#3045 [email protected] Religious Education…………………..…#3010 Bereavement Ministry Rozanne Schmidtlein (Volunteer) 9646977 Prayer Network Maripat Shaw (Volunteer)3322394 Eucharistic Adoration Cathy Hoelter (Volunteer)6173896 Scrip Coordinator Kathy Wyatt (Volunteer)9625691 Pastoral Council Robert Weinschrott (Volunteer) 3321164 Trustees Nadine Weske and Tom Dean3321164 SchoolN2200 E. Capitol Dr.,(414) 3321164 WELCOME Principal We are blessed that you are here LOVE GOD to worship with us. Our parish Lauren Beckmann#3017 LOVE OTHERS family [email protected] MAKE DISCIPLES extends to you the School Advancement#3018 hospitality of Jesus Christ. Main Office#3018 WEEKEND MASS TIMES Pastor: Fr. J. Enrique Hernandez Associate Pastor: Fr. Andrew Infanger Saturday 4:30 Sunday 8:30, 11:00 & 5:30 4019 N. FARWELL AVE. | SHOREWOOD, WI 53211 | (414) 3321164 LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS, MAKE DISCIPLES Dear brothers and sisters, On August 15 each year, Catholics celebrate a feast day in honor of one of the greatest mysteries of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary: her bodily Assumption into Heaven. As the Catechism of the Catholic Church puts it: “The Most Blessed Virgin Mary, when the course of her earthly life was completed, was taken up body and soul into the glory of heaven, where she already shares in the glory of her Son's Resurrection, anticipating the resurrection of all members of His Body” (974). The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our Lady, but we don't know how it first came to be celebrated. Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285337). By then it had been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76138) had leveled it around the year 135 and rebuilt it as Aelia Capitolina in honor of Jupiter. For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was obliterated from the city, and the sites made holy by His life, death and Resurrection became pagan temples. After the building of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in 336, the sacred sites began to be restored and memories of the life of Our Lord began to be celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of the memories about his mother centered around the "Tomb of Mary," close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community had lived. On the hill itself was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's "falling asleep," where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried. At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it was to become our feast of the Assumption. For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only in Palestine, but then it was extended by the emperor to all the churches of the East. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of God. Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven. That belief was ancient, dating back to the apostles themselves. What was clear from the beginning was that there were no relics of Mary to be venerated, and that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem near the site of her death. That location also soon became a place of pilgrimage. (Today, the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on the spot.) At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when bishops from throughout the Mediterranean world gathered in Constantinople, Emperor Marcian asked the Patriarch of Jerusalem to bring the relics of Mary to Constantinople to be enshrined in the capitol. The patriarch explained to the emperor that there were no relics of Mary in Jerusalem, that "Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; but her tomb, when opened later . was found empty and so the apostles concluded that the body was taken up into heaven." In the eighth century, St. John Damascene was known for giving sermons at the holy places in Jerusalem. At the Tomb of Mary, he expressed the belief of the Church on the meaning of the feast: "Although the body was duly buried, it did not remain in the state of death, neither was it dissolved by decay. You were transferred to your heavenly home, O Lady, Queen and Mother of God in truth." All the feast days of Mary mark the great mysteries of her life and her part in the work of redemption. The central mystery of her life and person is her divine motherhood, celebrated both at Christmas and a week later (Jan. 1) on the feast of the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God. The Immaculate Conception (Dec. 8) marks the preparation for that motherhood, so that she had the fullness of grace from the first moment of her existence, completely untouched by sin. Her whole being throbbed with divine life from the very beginning, readying her for the exalted role of mother of the Savior. The Assumption completes God's work in her since it was not fitting that the flesh that had given life to God himself should ever undergo corruption. The Assumption is God's crowning of His work as Mary ends her earthly life and enters eternity. The feast turns our eyes in that direction, where we will follow when our earthly life is over. The feast days of the Church are not just the commemoration of historical events; they do not look only to the past. They look to the present and to the future and give us an insight into our own relationship with God. The Assumption looks to eternity and gives us hope that we, too, will follow Our Lady when our life is ended. The prayer for the feast reads: "Allpowerful and everliving God: You raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body and soul, to the glory of heaven. May we see heaven as our final goal and come to share her glory." In 1950, in the Apostolic Constitution Munificentissimus Deus, Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Assumption of Mary a dogma of the Catholic Church in these words: "The Immaculate Mother of God, the evervirgin Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heaven." With that, an ancient belief became Catholic doctrine and the Assumption was declared a truth revealed by God. (This article was taken from ewtn.com: https://www.ewtn.com/catholicism/saints/assumptionoftheblessedvirginmary814) Blessings, Fr. Enrique Hernandez LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS, MAKE DISCIPLES High School Religious Education Registration for Readings for the week of August 15, 2021 202122 is OnGoing! Sunday: Rv 11:19a; 12:16a, 10ab/ Ps 45:10, 11, Welcoming all freshmen & sophomores for Confirmation 12, 16 [10bc]/1 Cor 15:2027/Lk 1:3956 Prep and juniors & seniors for Confirmation Year! We plan to Monday: Jgs 2:1119/Ps 106:3435, 3637, 3940, start in late September and will meet on select Sundays 43ab and 44 [4a]/Mt 19:1622 twice per month. Register Online at https://forms.gle/ Tuesday: Jgs 6:1124a/Ps 85:9, 1112, RFp9FxzmTpfzVLMa7 1314 [cf. 9b]/Mt 19:2330 Please register by Friday September 3. Thank you! Wednesday: Jgs 9:615/Ps 21:23, 45, 67 [2a]/ Questions? Email Aliah Taylor, Youth Ministry Assistant, at Mt 20:116 [email protected] Thursday: Jgs 11:2939a/Ps 40:5, 78a, 8b9, 10 [8a and 9a]/Mt 22:114 Find more information on our website at: https:// hsreligioused.weebly.com Friday: Ru 1:1, 36, 14b16, 22/Ps 146:56ab, 6c7, 89a, 9bc10 [1b]/Mt 22:3440 Saturday: Ru 2:13, 811; 4:1317/Ps 128:1b2, 3, PARISH TRUSTEE ELECTION 4, 5 [4]/Mt 23:112 Wisconsin law requires that every parish have two trustees, Next Sunday: Jos 24:12a, 1517, 18b/Ps 34:23, each serving a twoyear renewable term. They serve as the 1617, 1819, 2021, 2223 [9a]/ Eph 5:2132 or 5:2a, 2532/Jn 6:6069 legal Board for the parish along with the pastor, the Find daily readings at: https://bible.usccb.org. Archbishop and the Vicar General of the Archdiocese. Archdiocesan policy requires that trustees be registered parish members, practicing Catholics and at least 25 years Mass Intentions for the Week of August 15, 2021 of age. Our current Trustees are Tom Dean and Nadine Sunday, August 15: The Assumption of the Blessed Weske Tom Dean’s position is up for renewal, and has Virgin Mary served our St Robert Family well for several years. A heart- 8:30 am †Kay & Harvey Schaefer (Bob & Maripat Shaw) felt THANK YOU to Tom Dean for ALL he has done for St 11:00 am †Rose Ann Harney (Gnadt Family) 5:30 pm For the living and deceased members of Robert over the past several years in his role as Trustee. St. Robert Parish and our college students. We are Grateful to have him in our Parish Community and Monday, August 16: Weekday look forward to many more years ahead as he continues to No Mass share his faith and stewardship with our Parish! We are Tuesday, August 17: Weekday grateful for all you have done Tom and continue to do! 7:00 am †Adrienne Bouchonville (St.