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204 N US Highway One, P.O. Box 3726, Tequesta, FL 33469 Phone: (561) 746-7974 Fax: (561) 743-6127 Web Site: www.stjudecatholicchurch.net Email: [email protected]

Rev. Kevin C. Nelson PASTOR August 15, 2021 Rev. Frank D’Amato PAROCHIAL VICAR Very Rev. Albert Dello Russo, JCL IN RESIDENCE Deacon Les Loh

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil: 4:00 PM Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 AM & 5:30 PM Holyday of Obligation: Vigil: 6:00 PM Holyday: 7:30, 8:30 AM, Noon & 6:00 PM DAILY MASSES (November through April) Monday - Saturday: 7:30 & 8:30 AM (May & June, and Sept. & Oct.) Monday - Friday: 7:30 & 8:30 AM Saturday: 8:30 AM (July and August) Monday - Saturday: 8:00 AM Rosary following Daily Masses Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 3:00 - 3:45 PM in Chapel (Other Times by Appointment)

OFFICE Office Hours: Monday: 1:00 - 4:00 PM Tuesday - Friday: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Closed for Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 PM The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary August 15, 2021

Parish Office Phone Number: 561-746-7974 Parish Secretary: Donna Faranda, Ext. 222 Bookkeeper: Sandi Gallagher, Ext. 224 Receptionist: Mary Lehman, Ext. 221 Facilities Manager: Tom Lehman, 746-7974 Saturday, August 14 Deacon Les Loh: 746-7974, Ext. 234 4:00 p.m.  Letitia Shields by Eileen Mack (Fr. Kevin) Religious Education Grades K thru 9 The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15 Julie Barrientos, Admin. Asst.: Ext. 231 7:30 a.m.  Frank Capogrosso by John & Nancy Hurley Youth Ministry & Confirmation (Fr. Art) - Frank Faranda: 748 8805  9:00 a.m.Souls (Fr. in Albert)Purgatory Director of Music Ministry 10:30 a.m.People of the Parish (Fr. Kevin) Lisa Bucheck: 746-7974, Ext. 223 5:30 p.m.  Dorothea Parsons by Theresa Collura(Fr. &Frank) Family SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM We look forward to welcoming your child into Monday, August 16 our Parish family at St. 8:00 Jude  a.m. GeorgeCatholic RomanoChurch. by His Wife, Marie A mandatory-baptism pre parental preparation program(Fr. Frank) is held in the mornings of the second Saturday in the months of January, March, May,Tuesday, July, AugustSeptember 17 and November. No babysitting Theis next provided. 8:00  a.m. (Fr. DenisKevin) Killane Baptism Class will be on September 18th, at 10:00 a.m. Registration in the Parish is required. Wednesday, August 18 Please contact the Parish Secretary at 746-7974.  8:00 Tom a.m. McPhail by John & Marilyn McCarthy (Fr. Kevin) SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Arrangements should be made at least 6 months in Thursday, August 19 advance and no other plans should be finalized until the 8:00  a.m. Lillian Matthews by Ray & Liz Schauer parish priest has been consulted. You must be a (Fr. Albert) registered member of the Parish for at least 6 months before making arrangements. Friday, August 20 8:00 a.m.  Mimi Ludwig by M/M Ray Schauer PARISH REGISTRATION (Fr. Frank) Saturday, August 21 Please join our Catholic community 8:00 a.m.  Don Kehoe by MaryAnne & George Poskitt by registering at St. Jude Church. (Fr. Kevin) Registration forms are available 4:00 p.m.Mimi Ludwig by Jim & Janice Wollam at the Parish Office. (Fr. Art) (Registration is also available online at Twenty-First Sunday in AugustOrdinary 22 Time, www.stjudecatholicchurch.net.)  James7:30 a.m.& Sally Kennelley by John & (Fr. KarenFrank) Oakes OUR PARISH SCHOOL  Walt9:00 a.m.Osborne by (Fr. His Kevin)Wife, Pat All Saints Catholic School 10:30 a.m.People of the Parish (Fr. Albert) 5:30 p.m.  Jerzy Serafin by Monica & Joseph Conrad Jupiter, FL 33458 (Fr. Kevin) Contact Admissions for Information or a Tour ~ (561) 748-8994 www.allsaintsjupiter.org ~ Blue Denotes Masses for the “Living” [email protected] The Celebrant assigned to the Mass may change. View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com Sacrificial Giving August 8th Offertory: $ 14,285.00 The Altar Flowers Second Collection: $ 1,848.00 this week are Thank You for Your Continued Generosity. In Loving Memory of “Tomas Rodriguez” Revised Capital Campaign By His Mother Goal: $ 452,775.00 Received to Date: $ 406,223.70

The Sanctuary Candle in the Church this week will burn In Loving Memory of “Robert Vernieri” By His Loving Wife, Joan

The Sanctuary Candle in the Adoration Chapel this week will burn In Loving Memory of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into “Timothy & Damian Leal” heaven reveals that what God begins, he brings to by The Bixler Family completion. In predestining her to be the Mother of the Savior, the Lord prepared her through the Immaculate Conception, which preserved her from original sin. Grace continued to expand and flower within her, giving her strength to stand by Jesus on the cross. She was preserved from the corruption of the tomb and enjoys already a bodily participation in the glory of Christ in heaven. From there, she prays for us ~ that grace may come to First Reading: Joshua 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b Responsorial Psalm: Ps :- 6- -9 0- - perfection in us, and that we may share in her Second Reading: :- : - glory with Jesus. ~ Magnificat Gospel: Jn 6:60-69

Flor Antonia, Ronald Bedard, Lucretia Bock, Nancy Boyle, Zoe Brooks, Margaret Christiano, Nancy Connor, Baby Conrad, Kenneth Cook, Jennifer Cray, Lindsay Cunningham, Gus DiBenedetto, Marianna DiMaria, Kathy Drew, Susan & Michael Gates, Christine Girard, Mi- chael Girard, Anita Halligan, Kevin Halligan, Betty Hallinan, Beverly Hewitt, Ruddy Hope (Baby), Al Janke, Jaime Kippenberger, Lynne Lascheid, John & Catherine Lengen, Holly Letendre, Phyllis Manitsoudi, Paul McGorry, Hallie Moody, Donna Moran, Renaye Novogroski, Rosemary Onorato, Pat Os- borne, Gerard Pecora, Jose A. Pinto, Joanne & William Roddy, Danny Rosinski, Lorraine Schaab, Jonathan Schonholz, Mark Scrocca, Debby Shunk, Andrew Soltau, David Stergas, Gina Ulmer, Fr. Tom Vengayil, Sue Young, Bailey Rose Zielasko (Child). Please call the Parish office with your requests for our sick. Their name will be removed after two weeks if we do not hear from you.

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he Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our La- near the site of her death. That location also soon be- T dy, but we don't know how it first came to be cel- came a place of pilgrimage. (Today, the Benedictine ebrated. Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on the spot.) Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was At the Council of Chalcedon in 451, when bishops restored as a sacred city, at the time of the Roman from throughout the Mediterranean world gathered in Emperor Constantine (c. 285-337). By then it had Constantinople, Emperor Marcian asked the Patriarch been a pagan city for two centuries, ever since Em- of Jerusalem to bring the relics of Mary to Constanti- peror Hadrian (76-138) had nople to be enshrined in the leveled it around the year capitol. The patriarch ex- 135 and rebuilt it as in honor of Jupi- there were no relics of Mary ter. in Jerusalem, that "Mary had died in the presence of the For 200 years, every memory apostles; but her tomb, when of Jesus was obliterated from opened later . . . was found the city, and the sites made empty and so the apostles holy by His life, death and concluded that the body was Resurrection became pagan taken up into heaven." temples. In the eighth century, St. John After the building of the Damascene was known for Church of the Holy Sepul- giving sermons at the holy chre in 336, the sacred sites places in Jerusalem. At the began to be restored and Tomb of Mary, he expressed memories of the life of Our the belief of the Church on Lord began to be celebrated the meaning of the feast: by the people of Jerusalem. "Although the body was duly One of the memories about buried, it did not remain in his mother centered around the state of death, neither was the "Tomb of Mary," close to it dissolved by decay. . . . You Mount Zion, where the early were transferred to your heav- Christian community had enly home, O Lady, Queen lived. and Mother of God in truth." On the hill itself was the All the feast days of Mary "Place of Dormition," the mark the great mysteries of spot of Mary's "falling asleep," where she had died. her life and her part in the work of redemption. The The "Tomb of Mary" was where she was buried. Assumption completes God's work in her since it was At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being cele- not fitting that the flesh that had given life to God brated. Later it was to become our feast of the As- himself should ever undergo corruption. The As- sumption. sumption is God's crowning of His work as Mary For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only ends her earthly life and enters eternity. in Palestine, but then it was extended by the emperor The Assumption looks to eternity and gives us hope to all the churches of the East. In the seventh century, that we, too, will follow Our Lady when our life is it began to be celebrated in Rome under the title of ended. The prayer for the feast reads: "All-powerful the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of and ever-living God: You raised the sinless Virgin God. Mary, mother of your Son, body and soul, to the glory Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of of heaven. May we see heaven as our final goal and Mary," since there was more to the feast than her dy- come to share her glory." In 1950, Pope Pius XII pro- ing. It also proclaimed that she had been taken up, claimed the Assumption of Mary a dogma of the body and soul, into heaven. Catholic Church in these words: "The Immaculate That belief was ancient, dating back to the apostles Mother of God, the ever-virgin Mary, having com- themselves. What was clear from the beginning was pleted the course of her earthly life, was assumed that there were no relics of Mary to be venerated, and body and soul into heaven." With that, an ancient be- that an empty tomb stood on the edge of Jerusalem lief became Catholic doctrine and the Assumption ~ ewtn View this bulletin online at www.DiscoverMass.com was declared a truth revealed by God. View Our Parish Supporters at www.DiscoverMass.com