October 11, 2020 • 28TH SUNDAY of ORDINARY TIME • Volume 70:1
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CatholicThe TIMES The Diocese of Columbus’ News Source October 11, 2020 • 28TH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME • Volume 70:1 Inside this issue Order offers first Mass: The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest celebrated a traditional Latin Mass on Friday, Oct. 2 at the renamed St. Leo Oratory after the order arrived in Columbus last week to take over the parish, Page 3 CSS assists family: A Coshocton couple will find it much easier now to transport their daughter to appointments and activities after Catholic Social Services stepped in to help provide a specially equipped van, Page 8 October saint spotlight: Pray to St. Teresa of Avila, whose feast day is Oct. 15, for help with patience and perseverance, writes MaryBeth Eberhard in Walking with the Saints, Page 7 RESPECT LIFE MONTH AND WORLD MISSION SUNDAY Pages 11-16, 17-21 Catholic Times 2 October 11, 2020 Local news and events Bishop to celebrate World Mission Sunday Vigil Mass at cathedral Bishop Robert Brennan will celebrate a Mass for for subsequent sessions, all Saturdays, are Dec. 5, Lancaster rosary rally planned World Mission Sunday and honoring the 100th an- 2020 and Feb. 20 and April 17. 2021; formats to be The annual America Needs Fatima rosary rally in niversary of the diocesan Missions Office at 5:15 determined. Lancaster will take place at noon Saturday, p.m. Saturday, Oct. 17 at Columbus St. Joseph Ca- The fourth session will be on the Sacrament of Oct. 10 in the downtown gazebo at Broad and thedral, 212 E. Broad St. Holy Orders and the Mass will be led by Father Nic Main streets. It will mark the 103rd anniversary of The Mass will be livestreamed at www.colum- Ventura of Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Wellston, the Marian apparitions at Fatima, Portugal. buscatholic.org and available for later viewing on who is an Eagle Scout. the diocese’s YouTube channel. Because of the Catholic Scouts are encouraged to take advantage White Mass set for Oct. 16 coronavirus pandemic, there will not be any other of this opportunity. Pass the word and start now by Bishop Robert Brennan will celebrate and deliver diocesan event for Mission Sunday. requesting an AAD application. Call (614) 882- the homily at the diocesan White Mass, sponsored 7806 or send an email to [email protected]. by the Catholic Medical Association of Central Ad Altare Dei program open for Scouts Ohio, at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16 at Hilliard St. Bren- The coronavirus pandemic is providing young Men’s luncheon club cancels meetings dan the Navigator Church, 4475 Dublin Road. people with more time to work on projects they The Catholic Men’s Luncheon Club has canceled All health care workers and their families are in- might not have been able to complete in the past. its remaining monthly meetings for 2020 because of vited. Face coverings or masks are required. With this in mind, the Diocesan Catholic Com- restrictions resulting from the coronavirus. A brief outdoor reception will follow, weather mittee on Scouting has created a practical way for The club meets on the first Friday of each month permitting. For more details, go to www.cmacbus. young men and young women who are at least 12 except January and in the summer after the 11:45 com or call Marian Schuda at (614) 769-5150. years old and members of Scouts BSA to earn the a.m. Mass at Columbus St. Patrick Church, 280 N. Ad Altare Dei (AAD) emblem during the pandemic. Grant Ave. It sponsors the diocesan Catholic Man Aid organization asks youth to pray rosary This is the oldest of all religious awards in Scouting of the Year award, which is presented at its Febru- Aid to the Church in Need, an international orga- and is earned by only 2 percent of Catholic Scouts. ary meeting. Plans for this year’s presentation are nization which is one of the pope’s pastoral chari- Those who apply to participate in the diocesan being made. Nominating information and other de- ties, is inviting Catholic children around the world AAD program may immediately start working on tails concerning the award will be published in The to pray the rosary on Monday, Oct. 19 as a way of its four prerequisites before taking part in the first Catholic Times once the plans are complete. of four sessions required for completion of the pro- When meetings resume, the club will continue gram. The first session will take place via Zoom on Father Stash Dailey’s four-part series on “Rebuild- Saturday, Oct. 24 at a time to be determined. Dates ing a Christian Culture.” See LOCAL NEWS, Page 8 Mergers of Scioto County parishes announced By Tim Puet being entrusted to the pastor of Holy tium and for the Catholic Church in joint pastorate in 1992, with Father Catholic Times Reporter Trinity, which will be designated as all of Scioto County,” Father Yokum Yokum becoming their pastor in 2009. a mission of Portsmouth St. Mary said. “The team is meeting in small The two Portsmouth parishes become Church. groups with representatives from part of a single pastorate in 2012. Fa- Bishop Robert Brennan has ap- Father Joseph Yokum has been pas- all the parishes so we can identify ther Yokum’s pastoral responsibilities proved two mergers affecting five tor of all of the affected parishes, plus strengths and weaknesses, obstacles were expanded to include those par- small parishes in Scioto County, ef- Portsmouth St. Mary and Holy Re- and opportunities. ishes, plus Wheelersburg and New fective Jan. 1, 2021. deemer churches, since July 14 of this “This is not the end of anything. Boston, in 2017. The bishop on Sept. 28 issued a year. They are known as the Scioto It may seem we’re moving out of The bishop’s decrees announcing church document officially known as Catholic Consortium. Father Patrick churches, but it doesn’t mean the the mergers both say that “demo- a decree of suppression declaring that Watika, AJ, a member of the Apostles Catholic presence is going to be lost graphic changes in the general popu- effective Jan. 1, the congregation, ter- of Jesus order of priests, is parochial in the areas those churches serve. We lation and among the Catholic faithful ritory and property of New Boston St. vicar. are looking at how to use the church of Scioto County, including but not Monica Parish and Wheelersburg St. No decisions have been made con- in Otway and the property at West limited to decline in registered parish- Peter in Chains Parish will be merged, cerning what will happen to the New Portsmouth in other ways and hope to ioners, decline in Mass attendance, with their care being entrusted to the Boston, West Portsmouth and Otway announce those plans in the future.” decline in offertory revenue, and the pastor of St. Peter in Chains Parish. church buildings. The merger marks the latest in a shortage of priests, have drastically A similar decree, also effective Jan. “We have formed a transition team, series of consolidations that began in affected the viability of the parishes in 1, was issued involving the western consisting of two families per parish 1985, when the three western parish- that region.” Scioto County parishes of West Ports- plus members of the Scioto Catholic es were placed under the care of one The decrees also said the mergers mouth Our Lady of Sorrows, Otway staff, which will work as a consulting priest. The Wheelersburg and New Our Lady of Lourdes and Pond Creek body to create a vision for the consor- Boston parishes were placed under a Holy Trinity Mission, with their care See SCIOTO COUNTY, Page 10 Front Page photo: Bishop Robert J. 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Postage Paid at Columbus OH 43218. OH 43215. Please allow two to four weeks for change of address. October 11, 2020 Catholic Times 3 Bishop says opening of oratory is ‘great day’ for diocese By Tim Puet said. Catholic Times Reporter “Since the summer, all of us have had to make do for a number of rea- sons,” the bishop said. “It was like a Bishop Robert Brennan had an en- very, very long Lent. There have been thusiastic welcome for the Institute of many sacrifices and deprivations, but Christ the King Sovereign Priest as he we know Easter is coming. On this delivered the homily for the first Lat- feast of the Guardian Angels, we cele- in Mass in the newly renamed St. Leo brate God’s great care for us, how the Oratory. angels watch over and care for us for “It hit me coming through the park- our benefit and the advancement of ing lot and seeing you (priests from the kingdom of God.” the institute) that this is truly a great The Mass was a Votive Mass of the day in the history of the Diocese of Sacred Heart because Oct.