Rooted in Faith Since 1923 January 17, 2021 ● 2nd Sunday in ordinary time
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Parish Raffle READINGS FOR THE WEEK Raffle tickets are being mailed to all St. Angela parishioners. Additional tickets are available at SUNDAY:1 Sm 3:3b10, 19 / Ps 40:2, the Parish Center or can be 4, 710 / 1 Cor 6:13c15a, 1720 / Jn mailed upon request. 1:3542
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Dear Friends, the apparent “uselessness” of the liturgy some people may say is answered by invoking the playfulness in the liturgy. This Once again, is the genius of the fifth chapter of Romano Guardini’s great tempus text, The Spirit of the Liturgy. The liturgy for this gifted writer fugit! Green is not a means to attain a certain practical objective, but an is now our end in itself: the act of glorifying and contemplating God’s color! January majesty. is already half over as I write. We are still filled with This truth is apparent to anyone who pays attention pandemic news and political upheavals, to the abundance of liturgical prayers and rituals. I n but we venture on, thanking all who are our earthly life there are two realities that offer an image or keeping up with protocols and best paradox if you will of this “sublime uselessness”: the play of practices. Students are in their second the child and the creation of the artist. Children do not aim at semester. Brave and courageous a specific functional objective when they play: they pour teachers, health care personnel, first themselves forth in countless movements and words which responders, et alii are keeping us on the beautifully express the richness of life. Artists try to give life to right path. God bless them all. their being and longings without a necessary didactic aim. So now it is Ordinary Time, from The sacred liturgy, while being similar to these realities, the Latin derivation of ordinal, a offers something even greater: the possibility of number such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, becoming, with the aid of divine grace, a child of God. And, as that shows the position of something in a this demands going beyond ordinary experience, the liturgy list of things. So this is the 2nd Sunday in finds its expressions in the world of art. Thus, liturgy “unites Ordinary Time. During this time, we see art and reality in a supernatural childhood before God”. And how we put the mysteries of faith into there is nothing more important than this purposeless action. practice as Jesus asked us to do. We see a glimpse of this gravity in the earnestness that both children have in setting up the rules for their games, and artists in their pursuit of the right form. We remember that wasted time is not a prized commodity in our society. W e This is what the liturgy does: with “endless care” it are a people ruled by the clock, by the has “laid down the serious rules of the sacred game wrist bit, an Apple watch, a cell phone, which the soul plays before God”. The greatness of the buzzers, Alexa, Facebook, snapchat, liturgy does not consist only in producing wonderful works of TikTok, Pokémon, whatever, etc. Time is art, but in transforming us “into living works of art before money because time is to be filled with God”, becoming thus as little children. This is God’s solemn purposeful controlled activity which is and joyful invitation: to “live liturgically,” to be children of the productive of things which can be sold. Father, to be not afraid of “wasting time,” of “playing,” of We are convinced that we must be in “celebrating,” of “existing” in the peaceful presence of the control of time. What a debacle since the Eternal Father. pandemic which put us out of control so completely! Creative activity is playful, and creative people do not feel that what they do is a job. Creative people also The last thing the productive have a sense that their creativity and all that they fashion in American would want to do is the creative spirit are gifts that they have received. The waste time playing around with Christian can speak of this and of the contemplative vision realities that do not produce a saleable which sees all reality as a gift or grace. Our thankful response commodity. At least that is the intention we call worship at the Eucharist. Giving thanks in beautiful of so many in our society, not just settings with beautiful prayer and music and art and America. movement. But the Creator of heaven and earth is We cannot speak of Ordinary Time without described by the Scriptures as the speaking of Sunday. The Lord’s Day. The every original and best of players. Creative ‘seventhday’ celebration of the Lord’s Day is the basic activity is playful, and creative people do structure upon which the Church Year is built. The great not feel that what they do is a job. liturgical seasons of Advent/Christmas and lent/Easter are Creative people also have a sense that more expansive celebrations of particular aspects of the one their creativity and all that they fashion in paschal mystery which we celebrate every Sunday, every the creative spirit are gift that they have Lord’s Day! How much we have lost in missing out on the joy received. If we delve more deeply into and importance of Sunday, the Lord’s Day. Remember the this line of thinking, we will see the deeper Third Commandment! meaning of Ordinary Time in our lives. For spiritual giants, it’s akin to play! These special seasons focus our attention upon critical A famous spiritual writer, Romano dimensions of one mystery, a mystery so overw helming Guardini (liked by P ope Francis) that we are compelled to separate out its various elements for said that the liturgy (our worship) has particular attention. These seasons in no way minimize the a wonderful creative playfulness! critical importance of the Sunday celebration throughout the Imagine! It’s ironic that the serious rest of the year. question about 4 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 17, 2021
Thus, Ordinary Time, then is not So much for the First Reading. Another naming is very ‘ordinary’ at all! Ordinary represented in the Gospel. John the Baptist points to Time, the celebration of Sunday, is the Jesus. Jesus is waiting for standersby to notice him and identifying mark of the Christian community get interested. They follow and Jesus says bluntly, “What which comes together, remembering that on are you looking for?” the very first day of the week the Lord of life There are several layers to this question. The was raised up and creation came at last to plain meaning is, “What’s up? W hy are you completion. following me?” But the depth charge is there too, the Sunday as a day of play and worship is same one that finally shook Samuel loose: “Are you really a ‘sacrament’ of redeemed time. looking for God? Is that your hunger? Is there something How we live out Sunday proclaims to the about me that answers the deep desire of your heart?” world what we believe about redeemed time They stammer. They give some kind of reply. “Well, now and forever. uh, well, um, where, where are you staying?” Jesus replied What happens in our churches every as he does to you and me: “Come and see.” Sunday (and now even online with They do go and see, spending the day with him. livestreaming) is the fruit of our week. One of them, Andrew, runs to get his brother Simon, What happens as the fruit of the week past is shouting, “we have found the Messiah”! They run back to the beginning of the week to come. Sunday, Jesus and the most important event in Simon’s life takes like all ‘sacraments’ is simultaneously a point place: Jesus gives him the name Cephas (Peter), a new of arrival and departure for Christians on deep identity for him. The word Cephas’ base meaning is their way to the fullness of the kingdom. “the rock.” Jesus must have seen innermost stability in This is not ‘ordinary’ at all. This is the fabric him. of Christian living. Heaven and earth coming together some might say! So here are some Peter could never have become fully himself if reflections on our Ordinary Time this week. someone had not named him all the way to his The first week began on Sunday with the depths. The same goes for Samuel. God can call any Baptism of the Lord. So now we are at the of us by a name that reaches all the way down into our Second Sunday as we begin the Second souls, to a place that we do not even know about! Our job Week! How ordinal! is to begin hearing and to grow. SECOND SUNDAY IN Must it always be God or Jesus who calls our ORDINARY TIMENCYCLE B name in order for us to become ourselves? Couldn’t a psychologist do it, or a spouse, or a dear Called by Name: Must it friend who believes in us? Yes, of course, each of these always be God or Jesus who calls our name in know us and beckon us to be ourselves. order for us to become ourselves? But only God can know our very deepest desires, and We now begin what the Church calls only God can satisfy the one that is the most precious in “Ordinary Time.” Christmas season is each of us: the reaching out for that person we want most over, and we begin to see Jesus at work. and for whose sake we love others. Jesus, the Son of God We begin with a significant story, found who brings us to the fullness of God. in the First Reading for this Sunday. Do you sense in your insides a kind voice A young man named Samuel is sleeping whispering such an invitation, calling you by in the temple. He w akes up instantly your real name, calling you to be an ally of the Christ of when he hears his name spoken out loud. He God? M Fr. John Foley, SJ cries out, “Here I am!” and runs to his master, Eli, who is sleeping in another place Jesus turned and saw them following him and said to in the temple. “You called me, what do you them, want?” “What are you looking for?” (Jn 1:38) “I didn’t call you,” Eli rasps. “Go back Every Tear Brings the Messiah Close The fire to sleep.” that makes us sizzle is unfulfilled desire. But the same thing happened again. “People are always impatient, but God is never in a Samuel runs to Eli, with the same result. hurry!” Nikos Kazantzakis wrote those words and they On the third time, the old man at last highlight an important truth: We need to be patient, understands. Wisely, he says “Samuel if this infinitely patient, with God. We need to let things unfold in happens again, say these words: ‘Speak, their proper time, God’s time. Lord, your servant is listening.’” Looking at religious history through the centuries, Samuel goes back to sleep. He hears we cannot help but be struck by the fact that God his name again, “Samuel, Samuel”! seemingly takes his time in the face of our impatience. Our Following instructions, he says, “Speak, scriptures are often a record of frustrated desire, of non Lord, your servant is listening!” God speaks, fulfillment, and of human impatience. It’s more the and Samuel grows up accompanied by the exception when God intervenes directly and decisively to Lord’s presence. 5 ST. ANGELA MERICI PARISH FAIRVIEW PARK, OH
resolve a particular human tension. We are always longing Simply put, sometimes we have to be for a messiah to take away our pain and to avenge brought to a high fever through oppression, but mostly those prayers seem to fall on deaf frustration and pain before we are ears. willing to let go of our selfishness and let ourselves be drawn into community. And so we see in scripture the constant, painful Thomas Halik once commented that an cry: come, Lord, come! Save us! How much atheist is simply another term for someone longer must we wait? When, Lord, when? Why not who doesn’t have enough patience with God. now? He’s right. God is never in a hurry, and for We are forever impatient, but God refuses to be hurried. good reason. Messiahs can only be born Why? Why is God, seemingly, so slow to act? Is God inside a particular kind of womb, namely, one callous to our suffering? Why is God so patient, so plodding within which there’s enough patience and in his plan, when we’re suffering so deeply? Why is God so willingness to wait so as to let things happen excruciatingly slow to act in the face of human on God’s terms, not ours. impatience? Hence, ideally, every tear should There’s a line in Jewish apocalyptic literature, bring the messiah closer. This isn’t an which, metaphorically, helps answer this question: every unfathomable mystery: every frustration tear brings the messiah closer! There is, it would seem, an should, ideally, make us more ready to love. intrinsic connection between frustration and the possibility Every tear should, ideally, make us more of a messiah being born. It seems that messiahs can only ready to forgive. Every heartache should, be born after a long period of human yearning. Why? ideally, make us more ready to let go of some of our separateness. Human birth already helps answer that question. Gestation cannot be hurried and there is an organic Every unfulfilled longing should, ideally, connection between the pain a mother experiences in lead us into a deeper and more sincere childbirth and the delivery of a new life. And that’s also prayer. And all of our pained impatience true of Jesus’ birth. Advent is a gestation process that for a consummation that seems forever to cannot be rushed. Tears, pain, and a long season of prayer elude us should, ideally, make us feverish are needed to create the conditions for the kind of enough to burst into love’s flame. pregnancy that brings forth a messiah into our world. To offer yet another image: it is w ith Why? much groaning of the flesh that the life of the Because the real love and life can come to birth spirit is brought forth! M Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI when a longsuffering patience has created the correct WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? The space, the virginal womb, within which the sublime can be Text: John 1:3542 born. Perhaps a couple of metaphors can help us understand this. Remember the refrain from this popular song playing on the radio a generation ago? John of the Cross, in trying to explicate how a person comes to be enflamed in altruistic love, uses the Do you know where you’re going to? image of a log bursting into flame in a fireplace. When a Do you know the way that life is showing green log is placed in a fire, it doesn’t start to burn you? Where are you going to? Do you know? immediately. It first needs to be dried out. Thus, for a long time, it lies in the fire and sizzles, its greenness and “What are you going to do with your dampness slowly drying out. Only when it reaches kindling life? What is the direction of your temperature can it ignite and burst into flame. Speaking life?” These are some of the great questions metaphorically, before a log can burst into flame, it needs in life, are they not? And the pursuit of their to pass through a certain advent, a certain drying out, a understanding fairly consumes the greater period of frustration and yearning. So, too, the dynamics portion of an adult’s life. “What is the of how real love is born in our lives. We can ignite into love purpose of your life? And is it compelling only when weNselfish, green, damp logsNhave sizzled enough to give your life meaning?” Around sufficiently. And the fire that makes us sizzle is unfulfilled these questions swirls the possibility of great desire. wisdom, or great folly, depending on how a person answers. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin offers a second metaphor here w hen he speaks of something he The unexamined life cares nothing for calls “the raising of our psychic temperature.” In a this introspective insight. For such a chemistry laboratory it’s possible to place two elements in person, it is enough to trade the precious gift the same test tube and not get fusion. The elements of life for momentary pleasure, or a remain separate, refusing to unite. It is only after they are paycheck, or the pursuit of the perfect pair of heated to a higher temperature that they unite. We’re no shoes to match a dress. These pursuits are different. Often it’s only when our psychic temperature is not evils in themselves, of course. But they raised sufficiently that there’s fusion, that is, it’s only when are trivial pursuits. They are not worthy of unrequited longing has raised our psychic temperature exchange for one’s soul, for one’s life. They sufficiently that we can move towards reconciliation and are not sufficient answers to the question, union. “What are you looking for?” 6 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 17, 2021
So, what are you looking for? Really looking for, Did you see the cascading hand in your life? That is the question. It is the question off of faith in our lesson today? some of us only begin to consider after facing colossal John the Baptist recognized Jesus, failure or empty success; or in midlife, when we begin to and selflessly urged his own disciples to face our own mortality. But today it is the question follow Jesus. When Andrew, one of those addressed to us in our Gospel lesson, and by no less than original two, began to recognize the Jesus himself. importance of Jesus, he shared that news with his brother, Peter. When Peter came Notice that, like the disciples in the gospel story, while to Christ, he turned to his friend, Philip. we are seeking truth, in fact it is Truth that is seeking When Philip found his answer in Jesus, he us. John the Baptist first recognized who Jesus was, and sought out Nathanael. And so the story pointed him out to two of his disciples. “Behold the Lamb of goes, from one heart burning with new God,” John said. And with nothing more than that enigmatic found joy to another, all the way down pointer, the two men set out after Jesus. Initially their through the centuries to each one of us. following may have been nothing more than curiosity. But Christian faith is not just a private matter. after a short time with Jesus they wanted to know more, and It is also a shared story. How can anyone asked where he was staying. After a day with him, they who wrestles with the great question of transferred their allegiance from John the Baptist to Jesus, life’s purpose and meaning, and having and began their journey of discipleship in earnest, though it found a compelling answer, fail to run to would take the rest of their lives to grow into the their loved ones with that good news? If understanding of that decision. you discovered a cure for cancer, would The point is, Christian maturity is a gradual thing. you keep quiet about it? I hope not. How We move from curiosity to interest to commitment to much more, if you have found the secret maturity over a period of time, just like these first two to a meaningful life? You are surrounded disciples. Where are you on this journey of faith today? by others who are seeking some markers Just curious? Wrestling with profound doubts and along their way, some hope in their questions? Committed and growing? Isn’t it good to know despair, some witness to the presence and that we do not have to come to faith fullgrown from the power of a living faith, a living God. start? Each of us arrives to Christian faith in different ways, along different paths, influenced in different ways. But it is And if you have found such faith, for all of us a gradual and merciful journey, a zigzag course it will be like falling in love. You of ups and downs, of failures and triumphs. So take heart. will not be able to keep quiet about it. Have patience. Relax. Life’s best meals are not fastfood. Haven’t you all known someone madly in Wisdom rises slowly in the soul like homebaked bread. It love, who gushes about their loved one, cannot be microwaved. whether you ask them about it or not? Or a new grandparent who finds a way to But, in truth, faith is not a treasure we own. Rather wiggle pictures and stories of their new mature faith owns us. It is not we who finally master faith; grandchild into every conversation? Even it is faith that finally masters us. It is not we who seek and so, if you finally “know where you’re going discover Christ. For when we have found Him, we discover to, and the way that life is showing you,” if that it was Christ who was seeking us all along. Look again you finally know, don’t keep it to yourself. at our Gospel story. Sure, the disciples followed Jesus after Tell a friend. Besides, seeing them “get it” John the Baptist sent them in his direction. But it was the is the only joy greater than finding it question of Jesus that stirred their souls to life. “What are yourself. you seeking?” he asked them. It was more than just a conversation starter. He was asking these men to wrestle Some may be asking, “Isn’t this the year with THE profound question of life, “Just what in life do you of Mark’s Gospel? Why do we have a really, really want?” Jesus was fishing below the surface of selection from the Gospel of John?” Well, these men with a hooked question mark. Mark is very short, so we need to supplement. And it’s nice to hear John’s And to their credit, they answered by their lives. Gospel from time to time, so different from They were seeking God, the very God who had already found the synoptics of Matthew, Mark, and Luke. them. According to this Fourth Gospel writer, Jesus was John is the ‘eagle’, soaring high. Very, fond of such probing questions. He asked questions like very different and special as the last these to Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman by the well, the Gospel written. So let’s see what John is lame man by the pool, the woman caught in adultery, the about to help our spiritual journeys along: man born blind, and the family of Lazarus. In fact, this Gospel ends as it began, with another disciple, Mary A Paradigm From John Magdalene, seeking Jesus (this time in a cemetery), and One could make a case that every Jesus again intercepting her with the question, “What are episode in the Gospels is an epiphany. you looking for?” That is especially true of the Fourth Gospel; John the evangelist lays all his But notice also, once a person finds the answer to the cards on the table in each episode. This is great question of life, he or she cannot resist sharing obviously true of his famous prologue that joyous answer with others. (“And the Word became flesh … ”), but 7 ST. ANGELA MERICI PARISH FAIRVIEW PARK, OH
every scene in the Fourth Gospel is a window on the “What do you want?” full identity of Jesus and what it means to live in the “Where do you live?” light of that truth. What the Synoptic writers unfold at some leisure, John often gathers into one vivid “Come and see.” scene. Even the brief segment we read for this Sec- ond Sunday of the year illustrates that phenomenon. In that brief exchange lies the story of our Christian lives. M Fr. Dennis Hamm, SJ It takes the full length of the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke to gradually re- Thanks again to everyone who made our veal that Jesus is Messiah and Son of God; Christmas holy days even possible during and the Acts of the Apostles makes it clear that the this pandemic time! God bless all w ho are disciples really didn't “get it” until the dawning of coming to church physically and keeping the COVID Easter and the gift of the Spirit of Pentecost. But protocols. Truly acts of love for one another. John, writing even more boldly than the other evan- Again, we are so grateful for PSR and school staff gelists in the hindsight of the Easter illumination can and families who are doing their utmost to keep spell out the progress of Christian discipleship in a safe. You cannot imagine how hard maintenance is single scene. In the second half of John 1 (John working to clean and sanitize our facilities. They 1:25), the erstwhile followers of the Baptist are in- are the silent heroes and heroines along with the troduced to Jesus as “the Lamb of God” (a title medical personnel during this ‘new normal time’!! whose meaning will become clear only after the cru- God bless all. And lest we forget, our young ones cifixion and resurrection), and then, in the space of who keep social distancing, wear masks, and adapt sixteen verses, they proceed to acknowledge him with their resilient spirits so well! We are proud of successively as rabbi, Messiah, the one about whom them beyond telling. Moses and the prophets wrote. Son of God, King of And many, many thanks to Israel, and Son of Man. The insights represented by all who are watching us this set of titles represent a summary of realizations through livestreaming! that likely took a longer time. What a great future for our parish just when we In the part we read this Sunday, they move need it! Thanks for the support from those who from seeing Jesus as rabbi to announcing helped to finance it. The cost and wiring etc. came him as Messiah. That step, made by every close to $25,000. But our secret Santas and Mrs. Christian ever since, is told in the kind of deceptively Clauses were right there for the whole community. simple poetry that we have come to expect from God bless them. John. The Baptist sends two of his disciples to Jesus, So the days are getting longer. announcing, “Behold, the Lamb of God.” The disci- COVID or no COVID. The diocese has ples hear what he says and follow Jesus. Jesus sees now reminded me that I am a ‘senior them and says, “What are you looking for?” These priest’, due to my 70th birthday in April. words, note well, are the very first spoken by Jesus Oi vey! But the alternative is worse. LOL. We are in this Gospel, and they are not meant to sound like blessed with a great parish in our 98th year. 2023 the annoyed remark of a pedestrian suddenly aware is our centennial, so we’re getting ready for that. that he is being followed. In this context, they form We will livestream out to the world and touch all the question addressed by the eternal Word made those who were part of our history for a century. flesh to the heart of anyone meaning to take Jesus Amazing! Lots to talk about as we enter these next seriously: what, really, are you looking for in this weeks. Hope to share with you some thoughts, brief life? ideas, etc. Lots of great ministry in which we can engage together. Lots of people to pray for from Their answerN“Where are you staying?”N Pope Francis through our diocese, our first re- may on the surface sound like a reference sponders, our young people in service and college to place of residence. But in this Gospel, the and YOSA, etc. Help us to make our livestream thematic word translated “staying" (menein, often great by your comments and suggestions. And re- used for the mutual indwelling of Father, Son, and member what Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman Christian person) gives the question a meaning said: ‘To live is to change. And to be perfect is to more like, “Where are you rooted? What is the have changed often.’ Ain’t it the truth! Prayers source of your being and significance?” Or, as and best wishes to all of us and all who follow us on we sometimes put it in our vernacular, “Where social media, etc. So what’s life been like for us are you coming from?” here on campus? Understood that way, Jesus’ response, “Come, and you will see,” begins to take on the depth surely intended by the author. For the deepest Oremus pro invicem. Soli Deo Gloria. kind of “seeing” in this Gospel is the seeing of faith. And again, a most Happy and Blessed New Year. And one gets to see in this way by accepting Jesus And God bless your outpouring of support and gen- as the “one sent” from the Father and by being born erosity. You make St. Angela Merici live and thrive. “from above” and moving from the blindness of non belief to the vision that sees Jesus as the light of the Father Michael J. Lanning, Pastor world. 8 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 17, 2021
Monday, January 18NMartin Luther King Day 8:30AM Mary Lou Ensign F + M $% I T A$ S$(% Tuesday, January 19 8:30AM Sean Somoles Wednesday, January 20NSt. Fabian, Pope and Martyr; St. Sebastian, Marty 8:30AM Joan Rawling Thursday, January 21NSt. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr 8:30AM George A. Teconchuk Friday, January 22NDay of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children 8:30AM Manus Conway Reese Marsh, Matthew Martis, Saturday, January 23NSt. Vincent, Deacon and Martyr; St. Marianne Cope, Virgin; BVM Captain Christopher Salisbury, 8:30AM Susan Sundberg 4:30PM Judy Nairus Sunday, January 24N3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30AM Delores Behnke 9:30AM For The Parish 11:30AM Terrance Gravens 5:30PM Harry Hoffman
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In your prayers, please remember those in need of healing, especially:
Kathryn Agrippe, Maureen Ashdown, Alice Bader, Sam Bobko Sr., Paul Boscoe, Ella Burns, Lainey Chisholm, Levi Chisholm, Andy Corcoran, Joseph Crupi, Ken DeCrane, Francisco DerasSolits, Jean DiRuggiero, Peggy Drew, Aranka Gajzer, Woody Granger, Greg Harrison, Ann Hawk, Frank Hawk, Hank Hout, Megan Keefe, Fr. Jim Lee, Kay Leonard, Robert Lynch, Maureen Materna, Imelda Moenter, Deborah Mortack, James Nieberding, Frances Parcaro, Michael Pitts, William Schmidt, Rita Solly, Ann Stromp, Don Sullivan, Matthew Yaroma, Charlotte Zak and Daniel Zak.
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Please pray for Norman H. Krupp, Emily Kurt, Elisabeth Schwarz, Michael F. Sweeney and William Peter Taylor. May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace.
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