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Alexander Serrenelli at the Tomb of St. Maria Goretti Alexander Serrenelli at the tomb of St. Maria Goretti Blest be God the Father, and the Only Begotten Son of God, and also the Holy Spirit, for He has shown us his merciful love. St. Joseph Catholic Church Page 2 Battle Creek, MI Mass Schedule Saturday, July 18 - Vigil: 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00 pm † Jack Heston by Family Sunday, July 19 - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 am † Anthony Grumeretz by Adamson Family 10:00 am In Thanksgiving 50th Wedding Anniversary of Michael & Loretta Larner 12:00 pm † Most Rev. James A. Murray by St. Joseph Parish 2:00 pm The People of St. Joseph & St. Jerome Burmese 5:00 pm † Souls in Purgatory Spanish Monday, July 20 8:00 am † Mary Roberts by Krajewski Family Tuesday, July 21 8:00 am † Daiana Lopinto by Krajewski Family Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Wednesday, July 22 8:00 am † Walter & Evelyn Hudson by Jack Haciak ▪ Monday 7:00 - 8:00 pm in the Parish Center Chapel Thursday, July 23 8:00 am † Sergio & Papa Arroyo by Krajewski Family ▪ Wednesday 9:00 am - Saturday 9:00 am in St. Philip Seton Center Chapel 5:00 pm Holy Hour for Vocations Friday, July 24 ▪ Thursday 5:00 - 6:00 pm Holy Hour for Vocations in St. Joseph Church. 8:00 am † Manolo & Mercedes Bello by Krajewski Family 8:30 am Adoration ▪ Friday 8:30 am - Benediction at 4:45 pm in St. Joseph 4:45 pm Benediction Church Saturday, July 25 St. Joseph: To sign up for a Holy hour or to be on the sub 8:00 am † G. 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St. Philip: Seton Center Chapel, Wednesday 9:00 am to Saturday, July 25 - Vigil: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time Saturday 9:00 am, call Betty Dillard: 962-8255 to sign up. 5:00 pm † Marilyn Carattini by Family Sunday, July 26 - 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 am † Norma Naas by Bob & Bev Zalewski Financial Information 10:00 am † Sally Kohl by Cindy Schroerlucke 12:00 pm † JoAnn Mrak by Mary Pat Harter 2:00 pm † Elizabeth Cer Sia by John Thang Kap Burmese 5:00 pm The People of St. Joseph & St. Jerome Spanish Readings For 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Kgs 3:5, 7-12, Rom 8:28-30, Mt 13:44-52 St. Joseph Parish Website stjosephbc.org Connecting with Mercy “Those who plant kindness gather love.” St. Basil Noble Scion of David, Pray for Us View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Page 3 July 19, 2020 From Fr. Christopher Ankley Dear Friends, A while ago I went to the hospital to see a woman who After leaving the prison the very first person he was dying. I went there to anoint her. When I entered visited was Maria’s mom, he asked her to forgive the room I said, “Hello, you’re on our hospital list.” him. Which she did saying, “If my daughter can But she wasn’t hearing so well and she thought I’d forgive you, who am I to withhold forgiveness?” said, “You’re on our impossible list.” She smiled after They went to Mass together and they received the saying this, but it got me to thinking. Nobody’s on an Eucharist together, kneeling side by side at the impossible list, everything is possible with God. communion rail. On July 6th we celebrated the feast day of Saint Maria Alexander eventually became a Third Order Capuchin Goretti. You may remember I spoke of her on the 5th and spent his remaining days working quietly as a of July. Maria was born in 1890 in Northern Italy. gardener for The Brothers of St. Francis Monastery. She was born into a poor farming family and her father He lived long enough to see Maria Goretti become a died when she was very young. Her mom struggled to canonized saint of our Church and in 1970 he died a put food on the table for Maria and her five siblings. peaceful death. On a hot July day in 1902 Maria sat outside mending a shirt. A neighborhood boy by the name of Alexander Why have I told this story? I’ve told it because I came to the house. This boy had been in the habit of think because it’s a story that gives hope, because in repeatedly pestering Maria with advances. She always the eyes of God nobody is a lost cause. Nobody’s on resisted and told him to go home. On this day, the impossible list. Repentance and conversion are however, he dragged her into the house and because of always possible and sometimes they’re even her resistance he attacked her with a knife stabbing her miraculous. The Gospel always calls us to repentance repeatedly. and in today’s Gospel we’re called to it twice. Jesus says, “But I tell you if you do not repent you will An ambulance brought Maria to the hospital and it was all perish as they did!” This call to repentance, seen at once that she couldn’t possibly live. In those however, is also combined with divine patience. The next few hours Maria showed more concern for her fig tree is given more time to bear fruit. We are given family and the man who attacked her. She prayed for more time to bear fruit. God is patient. And with our Alexander and she forgave him, hoping to one day rationalizations and stubbornness in not wanting to “See him in Heaven”, she said. The man who killed always follow the narrow way or the good path we her was Alexander (Alessandro) Serrenelli. He was an need a God who is patient. We are all, at one time or eighteen year old who was very much addicted to another that non-bearing unproductive fig tree. But pornography and in his own words said, “My God lavishes us with his grace waiting for us to behavior was influenced by pornography and the produce abundant fruit and this fills us great hope bad examples of friends which I followed without because our God is kind and merciful he is quick to even thinking, I was not worried and looking back bless and slow to punish. Nobody is on an now at my past, I can see that in my early youth, I impossible list. chose a bad path which led me to ruin myself.” After being captured and tried, and still being I want to end with something Alexander wrote just considered a minor, he was sent to prison for thirty before dying, “I feel that religion with its precepts years of hard labor. He began his sentence in an is not something we can live without, but rather it unrepentant rage. He even attacked a young priest is the real comfort, the real strength in life and the who was sent to see him in his cell. only safe way in every circumstance, even the most painful ones of life.” After three years of hard labor Alexander was finally willing to let a local Bishop visit with him. He later Let us be great Saints, sent this Bishop a thank-you note and in that note he told the Bishop about a dream he had had. He wrote Fr. Christopher J. Ankley that he had dreamt of Maria Goretti and in this dream she had given him a bouquet of white lilies, which in the dream, immediately turned black and disintegrated when he touched them. This dream marked the beginning of Alexander’s conversion. Peace began to invade his heart, he began to live a constructive life, and he began to live in repentance. After twenty seven years of his sentence Alexander was released three years early for good behavior View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com St. Joseph Catholic Church Page 4 Battle Creek, MI Attention St. Philip Class of 1970! The 50-year reunion which was scheduled for August 2020, has been canceled. Plans are to have a reunion in 2021, details are pending. MONTH 4 – Developing Baby Spiritual Adoption Program “I Had a Dream!” The baby’s brain has begun maturing – a process that will continue until hes is about 14 years old. Her eyelids are now sealed shut and will re-open at 7 months. Her taste buds are now working. Nutrients consumed by her mother are passed on to her within an hour or two. Three hundred quarts of fluid a day are sent to the baby via the umbilical cord. Fine hair begins to grow on head, eyebrows and eyelashes. Facial expressions similar to the baby’s parents can be seen at this time.Thi s month REMs (rapid eye movements) have been recorded – a sign of dreaming. Sponsor of the Week Our sponsors make it possible for our bulletin to be published free of charge to our parish. Please thank them for advertising in our bulletin The Diocese of Kalamazoo has and will continue to cooperate with the Michigan Attorney General’s investigation and encourages anyone with information related to misconduct to call the reporting number set-up by the Michigan Attorney General’s office at: 844.324.3374. The Catholic Bishop Abuse Reporting Service (CBAR) has been established to receive reports of sexual abuse and related misconduct by bishops and to relay those reports to proper Church authorities for investigation.
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