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August 15, 2021 The Assumption of the Blessed Mary

Welcome to St. Church! Francis of Assisi We are glad that you are here with us today 1489 Donelson Pkwy, Dover, TN 37058 to worship our Lord—sharing at His Table and Ph: 1-931-232-9422 enjoying the True Joy in His Light !!

For Our Mission For Confessions: For the of the first Saturdays: 5:00 —5:20 pm child, the parents and Gog- Our Church community is here to support its members Sundays: 9:15—9:45 am. parents should attend a prepa- of all ages through social, educational and spiritual All other times, by appointment. ration session. programs. We enjoy the celebration of the Sacraments and we are nurtured by the Body and Blood of our Lord For Marriage: Contact Father Anointing of the sick: All those and Savior, Christ. We work together to serve four months to who are seriously ill, are recom- our God, our Church and the Community. As our par- wedding date to receive mar- mended to ask for the Sacra- ish is rapidly growing we welcome volunteers to help riage preparation. ment of the Sick. Please con- us better serve our Church and its people. Join our tact Father Joseph ASAP. Catholic community and we can unite together on our For Baptism: Baptism should spiritual journey with God. take place as soon as possible For prayer requests, Mass offer- after birth. Expectant parents ings, blessings etc. please call With Saint Francis of Assisi, “We have been called to should contact Father Joseph. the office or Fr. Joseph. heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.” Pastoral Council Chairman: Ellen Osborne Parish Administrator:: Vice Chairman: Britt Young Rev. Joseph Mundakal CMI Secretary: Carol Eanes Email: [email protected] (931-232-9422) Religious Education: Linda Allen Secretary: Linda Allen (931-232-9422) Parish Finance: Jim Darke Parish Outreach: Carol Eanes Liturgy Coordinator: Mary Gainer To schedule a Mass Offering or to have Youth Group: Scott Osborne a visit from the Priest, or to request for Music Director: Cathy Storey Prayers for someone who needs help, Charities: Betsy Van- please call the office @ 931-232-9422 Volkinburg Your Offerings Readers Greeters August 8 Regular Collection $900.00 Aug 15 P. Bledsoe Wiemann Family Capital Improvements: $0 Aug 22 M. Gainer Westfall Family Aug 29 A.Templon B. VsnVolkinburg Thank You For Your Support Refreshmen Aug 15 C. Eanes & C. Darke If you cannot attend Church and still want Aug 22 C. Eanes & C. Darke to send in your weekly collection you can Aug 29 - Volunteer go to our website www.stfrancisdover.com E.M.H.C. Altar Serves and click on the tab ONLINE GIVING Aug 15 M. Gainer D. Clark Happy Birthday Aug 22 C. Eanes C. Allen Aug 29 E. Osborne B. Pets Aug 16 Allysa Hernandez Aug 17 Walter Perts Aug 19 Mary Lomax & Charlie Walsh Saturday Assignments Aug 20 Connor Allen Aug 14 S. Austin Aug 21 T. Hawkins Let us pray for our sick and ailing Aug 28 M. Gainer members, friends, family & caregivers: Mass Schedule For the Week Karen Pennington, Sherrie Hernandez, Chaz Graef, Amanda Graef, Mike Westfall, Deloris Bertrand, Saturday - 8-14-21 5:30 pm Jan Donahue, Fr. Gaffny, Michelle Pratt, Sunday - 8-15-21 10:00 am For SFC members Marianne Tolbert, Bobby Tolbert, Heather McDan- Monday - 8-16-21 9:00 am iel, Gary Castonguay, Jose Matthew, Gary Burdick, Winford Cox, Jeff Scott, Ursula Jones, Jim Wilson, Tuesday - 8-17-21 No Mass *** Nancy Mahoney, Alice Gunter, Peter Hughes, Mar- Wednesday –8-18-21 7:00 pm Bill Starner cia Crouch, Dannell, Fleur Dowell, Tonya Nash, Thursday - 8-19– 21 9:00 am Maria Dinicola, Kiera Sterken, Scott Templon, Ty- Friday - 8-20-21 9:00 am ler Riggins, Gillespie, Mercedes Wren, Brent Kilpatrick, Eilene Hacker, Dannell Frantz, Rosalee Saturday - 8-21-21 5:30 pm Boyd, Raul Hernandez, The Shannon Family, Chris Sunday - 8-22-21 10:00 pm For SFC members Cox, Denise Scott-Hayes, The Miller Family, Quin- ton Cagle, Nathan Thomas, Lana Holton, Tina Mark Your Calendar Reilly, Chuck Hathaway, Steve Shipero, Leslie Combs, Ed & Becky Baine, Quentin Sabiano, Bill August 15 Parish Council Meeting after Powell, Dannell Powell, Jim Dittman, David the Mass. Sandlin, Jean Waytkus, Karl Thomas, Jessica Hart, Aug 23 Monday morning Mass will be at 8:00am Scott Kring. August 25 CCD Meet and Greet at 6:00pm. Please note: Names will only be kept on the Aug 28 Amy Kring Baby Shower at 1:00pm. prayer list for 3 months. Call the office if you would like to extend. Readings Good News Reflection Revelation 11:19a;12:1- Announcements: The Assumption of the Blessed 6a,10ab Virgin Mary Ps 45:10-12,16  It is time to sign up your children for August 15th, 2021 1 Corinthians 15:20-27 Religious Education Classes. Sign Luke 1:39-56 up sheets are in the Narthex.

Pray: Beloved Jesus, I ask that just like our Mother, Mary  We are in need of Religious Education teachers Most Holy, I may be a messenger filled with the Holy Spirit, this year. If you would like to volunteer see Linda Allen. bearing the Spirit's anointing to those who trust in You. Amen.  We will have a meet and greet for Religious Edu- cation on August 25th at 6:00 pm. This is for all The Meaning of the parents, students and teachers. The scriptures for this solemnity can help us understand Mary's holiness and how it affected her physically. They  There will be a funeral Mass for Perter Grooms answer the question: How could she pass directly from earth on Monday, August 16th at 11:30 am. to heaven without experiencing the corruption of death in her body?  We need Greeters. Greeters are also responsi- ble for taking up the collections. See Linda Allen Mary was the only human after and Eve who was con- if you can help. ceived without inheriting their . arranged this so that Jesus the Son – who was completely  Every First Friday of the month there will Adora- holy and fully God – could reside within her human body tion at 8:00am. during pregnancy and then live in a very .

This gave Mary an advantage of grace that you and I do not have. Adam and Eve had it, but when faced with temptation, they chose to sin. As a , Mary faced temptation but chose to remain close to God.

Thus remaining full of God's grace, she was able to live in complete holiness and never experience the corruption of sin and death. When she reached the end of her time on earth, God's divine life raised her from the earth and immediately resurrected her earthly body into her glorified body.

To live in God's grace, we have to cooperate with it by say- Our weekly Bulletins ing no to temptation. Since we fail at this, Jesus died on our could be viewed on our parish website: behalf so that we can get to heaven anyway, as long as we don't completely turn away from God's grace. He gave us the https://www.stfrancisdover.com/bulletins-1 of Baptism to free us from the inheritance of Ad- am and Eve's Original Sin. But we don't have to be satisfied Questions for Personal Reflection: with the minimum. God wants to give us much more grace! How similar to Mary are you? What do you need from Mary so you can become more like her? We have the Holy Spirit so that we can resist temptation and be holy. Questions for Community Faith Sharing: Share the story of a time when you prayed the God gave Mary a ministry that did not end when she was or consecrated yourself to Mary and a transferred from earth to heaven. Her calling was – and still miracle happened. is – an eternal vocation of sharing the gift of grace that she received from God. Thus, she is able to care for us like a real mother and help us to grow in our love for Jesus and in our © 2021 Terry Modica, Catholic Digital Re- sources, www.catholicdr.com. Printed by permission. desire to resist temptations. The Assumption of The Blessed Virgin Mary The Assumption is the oldest feast day of Our apostles concluded that the body was taken Lady, but we don't know how it first came to up into heaven." be celebrated. In the eighth century, St. John Damascene Its origin is lost in those days when Jerusalem was known for giving sermons at the holy was restored as a sacred city, at the time of places in Jerusalem. At the Tomb of Mary, the Roman Emperor Constantine (c. 285- he expressed the belief of the Church on the 337). By then it had been a pagan city for two meaning of the feast: "Although the body centuries, ever since Emperor Hadrian (76- was duly buried, it did not remain in the state 138) had leveled it around the year 135 and of death, neither was it dissolved by decay. . rebuilt it as in honor of . . You were transferred to your heavenly Jupiter. home, O Lady, Queen and Mother of God in

truth." For 200 years, every memory of Jesus was obliterated from the city, and the sites made All the feast days of Mary mark the great holy by His life, death and Resurrection be- mysteries of her life and her part in the work came pagan temples. of redemption. The central mystery of her life and person is her divine motherhood, cele- After the building of the Church of the Holy brated both at and a week later Sepulchre in 336, the sacred sites began to (Jan. 1) on the feast of the Solemnity of be restored and memories of the life of Our Mary, Mother of God. The (Dec. 8) Lord began to be celebrated by the people of Jerusalem. One of marks the preparation for that motherhood, so that she had the the memories about his mother centered around the "Tomb of fullness of grace from the first moment of her existence, com- Mary," close to Mount Zion, where the early Christian community pletely untouched by sin. Her whole being throbbed with divine had lived. life from the very beginning, readying her for the exalted role of On the hill itself was the "Place of Dormition," the spot of Mary's mother of the Savior. "falling asleep," where she had died. The "Tomb of Mary" was The Assumption completes God's work in her since it was not where she was buried. fitting that the that had given life to God himself should At this time, the "Memory of Mary" was being celebrated. Later it ever undergo corruption. The Assumption is God's crowning of was to become our feast of the Assumption. His work as Mary ends her earthly life and enters eternity. The For a time, the "Memory of Mary" was marked only in Palestine, feast turns our eyes in that direction, where we will follow when but then it was extended by the emperor to all the churches of the our earthly life is over. East. In the seventh century, it began to be celebrated in The feast days of the Church are not just the commemoration of under the title of the "Falling Asleep" ("Dormitio") of the Mother of historical events; they do not look only to the past. They look to God. the present and to the future and give us an insight into our own Soon the name was changed to the "Assumption of Mary," since relationship with God. The Assumption looks to eternity and there was more to the feast than her dying. It also proclaimed that gives us hope that we, too, will follow Our Lady when our life is she had been taken up, body and soul, into heaven. ended. That belief was ancient, dating back to the apostles themselves. The prayer for the feast reads: "All-powerful and ever-living God: What was clear from the beginning was that there were no relics of You raised the sinless Virgin Mary, mother of your Son, body Mary to be venerated, and that an empty tomb stood on the edge and soul, to the glory of heaven. May we see heaven as our final of Jerusalem near the site of her death. That location also soon goal and come to share her glory." became a place of pilgrimage. (Today, the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition of Mary stands on the spot.) In 1950, in the ,

Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Assumption of Mary a of At the in 451, when bishops from throughout the Catholic Church in these words: "The Immaculate Mother of the Mediterranean world gathered in Constantinople, Emperor God, the ever-virgin Mary, having completed the course of her Marcian asked the of Jerusalem to bring the relics of earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heaven." Mary to Constantinople to be enshrined in the capitol. The patri- arch explained to the emperor that there were no relics of Mary in With that, an ancient belief became Catholic doctrine and the Jerusalem, that "Mary had died in the presence of the apostles; Assumption was declared a truth revealed by God. but her tomb, when opened later . . . was found empty and so the