RANDOM THOUGHTS DIFERENTES PENSAMIENTOS from Father Bill Promesso
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RANDOM THOUGHTS DIFERENTES PENSAMIENTOS from Father Bill Promesso About Pope Francis: Life, Spirituality & Mission Set aside an hour on Wednesday, July 18 at 7PM for a special presentation on Pope Francis by Zaid Chabaan. Zaid is a priesthood candidate for the Archdiocese and studies at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. Zaid is currently serving a pastoral year at Divine Child Parish in Dearborn. We are at $75,800 from 331 families, He has developed this presentation and I invited him to that is 88% of our goal of $85,316. share it with us as an element of adult formation. Still needed $9,516 Christmas in the Park I’m very excited by our July community event. The Market Center Park (Eureka & Trenton Rd) is an excellent venue for a pig roast and an evening outdoor concert. I hope that many of you are planning to join us on Saturday, July 28 after 5:00 Mass. But I’m also praying that you’ll invite one or two unchurched family members or friends. This event is one of the “shallow entry points” of which I spoke a few weeks ago. Our work of evangelization might not begin with inviting someone to church on the weekend, but rather with encountering Catholics at less formal and intimidating gatherings. When we invite, then we are on the path to accompany someone on their spiritual journey. When they encounter our St Cyprian community, they are likely to want more! PPC The Parish Pastoral Council has two open seats for our 2018-19 meetings. We need one general member for the PPC and a new Downriver Vicariate Pastoral Council representative who also sits on our PPC. The PPC meets 8 times a year on Tuesday nights. The VPC meets 4 times a year under the direction of the vicar. If you’re interested in either of these positions, please contact me by email or phone and we can discuss it. ST. CYPRIAN PARISH PAGE 2 RIVERVIEW, MICHIGAN Religious from our Formation Now Pastoral Minister In this weekend’s Gospel reading we enter into an registering for experience with Jesus and the townspeople of Nazareth, 2018/2019 including some of Jesus’ own intimate family members. In returning to his native village for the first time, Jesus is Registration forms and schedules can be not met with great warmth but rather with an attitude of found on the parish website skepticism and incredulity. When Jesus enters the synagogue and begins teaching the townspeople respond www.stcyprian.com or in the parish office. with a sense of awe and wonder at his wisdom and authority, and rightfully question where it is coming from, but they are motivated by a spirit of disbelief. The townspeople only see Jesus, as a simple, carpenter’s son and All Saints Soup Kitchen an ordinary man and are unable to make the connection that Our next day at the All Saints the power that Jesus was exuding came from God. The Soup Kitchen will be townspeople considered it to be scandalous that Jesus was Wednesday, July 25th. We inaugurating the Kingdom of God through his teaching and need frozen meatballs and didn’t think that God would work in this manner. The cookies. Please drop off all people’s preconceived ideas of how God would and could donations by Monday, July act were being challenged and their definition of who Jesus 23rd. Thank you for your was too. They were unable to recognize that the Messiah faithful support of the hungry in our area! was in their midst. Jesus lived such a lowly and unassuming life that the townspeople, his own relatives and household could not accept the possibility that the omnipotent God was present in Jesus and working mightily through him. Jesus was truly one of us. God’s grace and power are made Lunch and a Movie known in and through the ordinary moments of the lives that We will be meeting at 11am on Monday, we too live, bringing about an “extraordinary ordinariness” July 9 at the Sporstmen’s Den at the that can proclaim the Kingdom of God to others. Just as in Riverview Golf Course on Sibley Road. We Jesus’ experience it is quite often our own family members will then drive to the Southgate MJR theatre. and close friends who make claim to know us according to Hope to see you there! their definitions and, knowingly or unknowingly, reject our witnessing about the Kingdom of God. But like Jesus, we are called to remember that our true identities are established in God and that He will use each of us as His instruments of love, mercy and grace. Our witness will be real and authentic if we dedicate ourselves to living in intimate relationship with Him, experience ongoing conversion and grow in holiness. Despite the weaknesses and limitations we may experience in our human flesh, the Spirit of God will continue to build us up, encourage us and inspire the world through us – and the Holy Spirit will use every means possible to accomplish the mighty deeds of God. Let’s pray that our eyes and ears will be open to recognize God’s Spirit working in our everyday lives and that our hearts and minds will be open and receptive to what He wants to reveal through us and to us. Who knows what God will be able to accomplish for His Glory! “Then he said to me: “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, and not by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of hosts.” Zechariah 4:6 Keep enjoying these summer days and thank God for His daily, generous providence. Denise Gorski, Pastoral Minister Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time PAGE 3 July 8, 2018 Francis, Our Pope: His Life, Spirituality, and Mission St. Cyprian Social Hall Wednesday, July 18, 2018 7:00-8:00pm Presentation by Zaid Chabaan, a seminarian intern at Divine Child, Dearborn and studying at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. ST. CYPRIAN PARISH PAGE 4 RIVERVIEW, MICHIGAN Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time PAGE 5 July 8, 2018 Liturgy Schedule for July 15 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Minister Schedule also available at www.stcyprian.com 5:00 PM 9:00 AM 11:00 AM Altar Assistant Marilyn Hibbard Shirley Ellerbrock Dan DeAngelis Joan Keith, Margaret Krohn, Ann DeFoe, Nora Cousino, Dennis Gorkiewicz, Betty Georganne Miller, Matosh Greeters Barbara Kubala Hajkus, Bonnie Dickson Family, Nathan Brandt Bev Nicholson, Rosemary Krach, Donna & Matt Ray Lectors Greg Lott Todd Stasik Altar Servers Richard Nicholson Clint Switzer Carol Brandt Readings for the Week of July 8 “He who sows courtesy Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 2:2-5, Ps 123 1- 4; 2 Cor 12:7-10, Mk 6:1-6 reaps friendship, and he who Monday Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26 plants kindness gathers love.” Tuesday Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-4, 5-6, 7ab-8, 9-10; —St. Basil Mt 9:32-38 Wednesday Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7 Thursday Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9; Ps 80:2ac & 3b, 15-16; Mt 10:7-15 This week we are in need of the Friday Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-13, 14 & 17; following items: canned fruit, Mt 10:16-23 laundry soap, cereal and soup. Saturday Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33 Thank you for your support! Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Am 7:12-15; Ps 85:9- 14; Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10; Mk 6:7-13 Sisters of Mary Reparatrix Our next 10065 Northway Avenue Baptism Preparation Allen Park, MI 48101 313-383-3312 / [email protected] session is July 31 at 7pm In all ages and circumstances, God has blessed Requirements for parents for celebration of Baptism individuals with deep faith and vision, within the at St. Cyprian Parish are: context of their own life’s journey. By exploring the •Parent(s) must be registered in the parish writing, speaking, and particularly the lived •If parents are registered in another parish a letter from experiences of these contemporary mystics, we will their parish is required discover together God’s invitations to us. •Parents who are not registered in any parish are to meet Contemporary Mystics with the Pastor or Pastoral Associate prior to Persons of Faith; Lives of Vision and Invitation scheduling of Baptism or preparation Thursday, July 12 Sophie Scholl •Attendance at the Baptismal preparation session with 10:00am – 11:30am — Free Will Donation Godparents Register by Monday, July 9. •Willingness to bring the child up in the faith and support the child’s faith journey Facilitated by Mary Therese Lemanek, Sr. Margaret Hoey and Sr. Ann Kasparek Please call the parish office for more information or to register for the Preparation Session. To Register for these events: Call 313-383-3312 or Email – [email protected] ST. CYPRIAN PARISH PAGE 6 RIVERVIEW, MICHIGAN Nathan Adanti, Ken Banchoff, Jean St. Cyprian Catholic Church Beaudrie, Renee Belanger, Larry Brown, 13249 Pennsylvania Road Elaine Chizick, Rita Cook, Kenneth Riverview, Michigan 48193 Crassweller, Tina Dalton, Hudson Demick, Frank Dolence, Judy Dow, Annette Edgerton, Parish Phone Numbers Jeff Goga, Lester Hodges, Tom Hoover, RoseMary Howell, Parish Office (734) 283-1366 Katie Kelly, Patty Kinser, Gary Kulick, Roseann Less, Vic Parish Fax (734) 283-2809 Leyland, Debbie Malkowski, David Matt, Theresa Matt, Web site www.stcyprian.com David McKee, Josephine McKee, Hugh McLeish, Harper Rose Metropolus, Dominic Monea, Donna Montgomery, St.