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Saint Francis of Assisi Church Sixth Sunday of 26, 2019

 Saint Francis of Assisi Church  Mass Intentions and Scripture   Readings for the Week 5265 Placida Road  Grove City, FL 34224 MONDAY, MAY 27 9416974899 8:15am †TED ROY  Fax 9416970602 by Bob and Jean Weiss www.sfoachurch.com †RYAN PRODAHEL  email: [email protected] by Karen and Larry Mangold   Father Richard York, Pastor Easter Weekday Father Tony Chermeil (PartTime) Reading : Acts of the Apostles 16:1115 Deacon Robert Godlewsky (PartTime) Gospel: John 15:26N16:4a   PARISH STAFF TUESDAY, MAY 28 Robert Clark, Business Manager  8:15am †LISE TARDIF by Ron Tardif Nadine Goodrich, Director for Liturgy & Choir  Easter Weekday James Brantner, Director for Religious Education Reading: Acts of the Apostles 16:2234 Gerry Chesney, Director, Parish Women’s Guild Gospel: John 16:511 Matt Egan, Director, Parish Outreach  Janette Ash, Administrative Assistant  WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 Bert Ballentine, Maintenance & Facilities  8:15am †DORIS DALTON by Nancy Seiss  Chris Lewis, Bookkeeper  Easter Weekday Martha Mingel, Coordinator, Homebound and Reading: Acts of the Apostles  Healthcare Ministry 17:15, 22N18:1 

MASS SCHEDULE Gospel: John 16:1215   SUNDAY VIGIL (SATURDAY) THURSDAY, MAY 30 After Easter to December 28...... 4:00pm 8:15am †DAVID MASSIMINO by Parents 4 to 4...3:00pm & 4:30pm  Easter Weekday  SUNDAY Reading: Acts of the Apostles 18:18 After Easter to December 29  8:00am & 10:00am Gospel: John 16:1620  January 5 through Easter Sunday  FRIDAY, MAY 31 7:30am, 9:00am,10:30am &12:00 Noon  8:15am †THERESE CHERMEIL  WEEKDAYS by Vern and Carol Spiker  Monday  Friday...... 8:15am  The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Holy Days………….8:15am & 6:30pm Reading: Zephaniah 3:1418a  TV MASS Gospel: Luke 1:3956 The Diocese of Venice "Sunday Televised Mass"  airs at 9:30am on the CW Network SATURDAY 1  SUNDAY VIGIL (SATURDAY) PARISH OFFICE HOURS 4pm JACOB AND HELENE WELCH  Winter August 27 through June 8 62ND WEDDING ANNIVERSARY  Mon  Thurs 9:00am12:30pm,1:00pm4:00pm  Friday 9:00am12:30pm EDDY NUNES ON HIS BIRTHDAY   by Walter and Marianna  Summer  June 11 through August 24   Monday through Thursday 9:00am2:30pm SUNDAY JUNE 2 Friday 9:00am12:30pm 8:00am PASTOR’S MASS FOR   SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION  ALL PARISHIONERS Thursday 9am9:30am…….Friday 12pm12:30pm †ROBERT LALIBERTE by Marty Sanders Saturday...... 3:00pm3:30pm  10:00am †RICHARD BAILEY  SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE  Seventh Sunday of Easter  Call Parish Office at least six months  Reading 1: Acts of the Apostles 7:5560 in advance. Reading 2: Revelation 22:1214, 1617, 20  Gospel: John 17:2026 SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Contact Parish Office 

 ©All Rights Reserved         Saint Francis of Assisi Church  Pastor’s Message May 21, 2019                  What is the meaning of the Easter Candle?   Fire has long been a sign of God's Presence.  For example, the burning bush on Mount Sinai and  the Pillar of Fire in the desert are signs  in the in the Old Testament Scriptures.   Early Christians viewed the lighting of fire on Holy Saturday evening as a symbol of the Resurrected Lord. As early as the fifth century, the custom had become  associated with the celebration of the Resurrection, and later, Easter candles found their way into the liturgy of the western Church.  We ritualize Christ's triumph over the darkness of sin and death when we present the Easter Candle to the congregation at the Easter Vigil, Holy Saturday night.  Inscribed with a cross, the current year, and the first and last letters of the Greek  alphabet, the Easter Candle’s five nails represent the five wounds of Christ.  Then the Christ Candle is carried in procession into the church, as Christ dispels the darkness of sin and death.  Easter is more than one day, Sunday; it is a season of fifty days. Throughout the fifty days of the Easter Season, the burning Easter Candle stands near the altar and the ambo, as a sign of the Resurrection of Christ.  During the rest of the year, the Christ Candle serves as an integral connection  between the reception of the Sacrament of Baptism and a Funeral Mass.  For Funerals, the Easter Candle is placed at the head of the casket,  once again reminding us of the Resurrection and the message of Easter, that raised up by God, we are to live with Him for eternity.              Sincerely yours in Christ,    Father Richard York, Pastor 

  is much more than just a threeday weekend.  Here's a handy 10pack of facts to give the some perspective.

1.  1. IT STARTED WITH THE CIVIL WAR. Memorial Day was a response to the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War, in which some 620,000 soldiers on both sides died. In 1864, women from Boalsburg, Pennsylvania, put flowers on the graves of their dead from the justfought . The next year, a group of women decorated the graves of soldiers buried in a Vicksburg, , cemetery. In April 1866, women from Columbus, Mississippi, laid flowers on the graves of both Union and Confederate soldiers. Waterloo, New York began holding an annual community service on May 5, 1866. Although many towns claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congressional recognition as the "birthplace of Memorial Day." 2. MAJOR GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN MADE IT OFFICIAL. General Logan, the speaker at the Carbondale gathering, also was commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans. On May 5, 1868, he issued General Orders No. 11, which set aside May 30, 1868 "for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion." The orders expressed hope that the observance would be "kept up from year to year while a survivor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed comrades." 3. IT WAS FIRST KNOWN AS DECORATION DAY. The holiday was long known as Decoration Day for the practice of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths, and flags. The name Memorial Day goes back to 1882, but the older name didn't disappear until after World War II. Federal law declared "Memorial Day" the official name in 1967. 4. THE HOLIDAY IS A FRANCHISE. Calling Memorial Day a "national holiday" is a bit of a misnomer. While there are 10 federal holidays created by CongressNincluding Memorial DayNthey apply only to Federal employees and the District of Columbia. Federal Memorial Day, established in 1888, allowed Civil War veterans, many of whom were drawing a government paycheck, to honor their fallen comrades without being docked a day's pay. New York was the first state to designate Memorial Day a legal holiday, in 1873. Most Northern states had followed suit by the 1890s. In 1971, the Monday Holiday Law shifted Memorial Day from May 30 to the last Monday of the month.  5. IT WAS JAMES GARFIELD'S FINEST HOURNOR MAYBE HOURANDAHALF. On May 30, 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National CemeteryNwhich, until 1864, was Confederate General Robert E. Lee's plantation. Some 5000 people attended on a spring day. The principal speaker was James A. Garfield, a Civil War general, Republican congressman from Ohio and future president. "I am oppressed with a sense of the impropriety of uttering words on this occasion," Garfield began As the songs, speeches and sermons ended, the participants helped to decorate the graves of the Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery.

   6. NOT EVEN THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER CAN AVOID MEDIA SCRUTINY THESE DAYS. "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." That is the inscription on the Tomb of the Unknowns, established at Arlington National Cemetery to inter the remains of the first Unknown Soldier, a World War I fighter, on November 11, 1921. Unknown soldiers from World War II and the Korean War subsequently were interred in the tomb on Memorial Day 1958. An emotional President Ronald Reagan presided over the interment of six bones, the remains of an unidentified Vietnam War soldier, on November 28, 1984. Fourteen years later, those remains were disinterred, no longer unknown. Spurred by an investigation by CBS News, the defense department removed the remains from the Tomb of the Unknowns for DNA testing. The once unknown fighter was Air Force pilot Lieutenant Michael Joseph Blassie, whose jet crashed in South Vietnam in 1972. Lieutenant Blassie was reburied near his hometown of St. Louis. His crypt at Arlington remains permanently empty. 7. VIETNAM VETS GO ALL OUT. On Memorial Day weekend in 1988, 2500 motorcyclists rode into Washington, D.C. for the first Rolling Thunder rally to draw attention to Vietnam War soldiers still missing in action or prisoners of war. By 2002, the ride had swelled to 300,000 bikers, many of them veterans. There may have been a halfmillion participants in 2005, in what organizers bluntly call "a demonstrationNnot a parade." A national veterans rights group,Rolling Thundertakes its name from the B52 carpetbombing runs during the war in Vietnam. 8. MEMORIAL DAY HAS ITS CUSTOMS. General Orders No. 11 stated that "in this observance no form of ceremony is prescribed," but over time several customs and symbols became associated with the holiday. It is customary on Memorial Day to fly the flag at half staff until noon, and then raise it to the top of the staff until sunset. Taps, the 24note bugle call, is played at all military funerals and memorial services. The World War I poem "In Flanders Fields," by John McCrea, inspired the Memorial Day custom of wearing red artificial poppies. In 1915, a teacher and volunteer war worker named Moina Michael began a campaign to make the poppy a symbol of tribute to veterans and for "keeping the faith with all who died." The sale of poppies has supported the work of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. 9. THERE STILL IS A GRAY MEMORIAL DAY. Several Southern states continue to set aside a day for honoring the Confederate dead, which is usually called Confederate Memorial Day. It's on the fourth Monday in April in , April 26 in Georgia, in and , the last Monday in April in Mississippi, in North and , in , and the last Monday in May in . 10. EACH MEMORIAL DAY IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. No question that Memorial Day is a solemn event. On May 30, 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated by William Howard Taft before a crowd of 50,000 people, segregated by race, and which included a row of Union and Confederate veterans. Also attending was Lincoln's surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln. In 2000, Congress established aNational Moment of Remembrance, which asks Americans to pause for one minute at 3 p.m. in an act of national unity. The time was chosen because 3 p.m. "is the time when most Americans are enjoying their freedoms on the national holiday."

 Ministry Week for Saint Francis of Assisi Church

 Start End Event  Location

Mon May 27   Memorial Day  Parish Office Closed 

 7:50am 9:00am Rosary/Mass/Anointing/Chaplet  Church

Tues May 28 7:50am 8:45am Rosary/Mass

 8:45am 9:55am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and Adoration  Church

 9:00am 11:00am Parish Stewardship Ministry 

 9:55am 10:05am Benediction  Church

 10:00am 11:00am Parish Bereavement Ministry  Parish Conference Room

 11:30am 12:00pm Pastor Anoints at Hospice 

 6:00pm 8:30pm Knights of Columbus Officer’s and Assembly Meeting  Parish Center 

Wed May 29 7:50am  9:00am Rosary/Mass /Chaplet  Church

 9:15am 11:15am Parish Outreach Ministry  Parish Center 

 7:00pm 8:00pm AA “CLOSED” Meeting  Parish Conference Room

Thurs May 30 7:50am 9:00am Rosary/Mass /Chaplet  Church

 9:00am 9:30am Sacrament of Reconciliation  Church

Fri May 31 7:50am 9:00am Rosary/Mass /Chaplet  Church

 9:15am 11:15am Parish Outreach Ministry  Parish Center 

 12:00pm 12:30pm Sacrament of Reconciliation  Church

 2:30pm 3:00pm Priest Anoints at Hospice 

Sat June 1 3:00pm 3:30pm Sacrament of Reconciliation  Church

   Recalling and Renewing our BAPTISM  our Spiritual Birthday 

 4:00pm 5:00pm Holy Sacrifice of the Mass  Church

Sun June 2 8:00am 9:00am Holy Sacrifice of the Mass  Church

 10:00am 11:00am Holy Sacrifice of the Mass  Church

For the most updated Calendar please go to www.sfoachurch.com ©All Rights Reserved  Parish Bereavement Ministry 

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