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Our Lady of the Angels & Our Lady of the Valley Parishes Rev. Scott A. Gratton, Administrator: Rev. John R. Carroll, Visiting Priest: (Deployed) (617)699-5425 Email: [email protected] Mr. Josh Perry, Diocesan Administrator: Elizabeth Stuart, Parish Secretary: (802)448-3515 (513)238-4854 – cell Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Our Lady of the Angels St. Anthony Parish Office Information: St. Elizabeth 221 Church Street 43 Hebard Hill Road 169 S. Main Street P O Box 63 P O Box 428 Rochester, VT 05767 Bethel, VT 05032 Randolph VT 05060 Office:(802)728-5251 Email: [email protected] Sixteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Confessions Sat.: 3:00– 3:45 PM St. E., Rochester Sun.: 8:00—8:45 AM OLA, Randolph & After the 11:00 AM Mass, St. A., Bethel Or by Appointment Adoration of the Bl. Sacrament Sat.: 3:00—4:00 PM, St. E. Mon.: 7:00—8:00 AM, St. A. Tues.: 5:15—6:15 PM, St. A. Wed.: 4:00-5:00 PM, St. E 5:00 –6:00 PM, OLA Thurs: 8:30—9:30 AM, OLA Weekend Masses Fri: 8:30-9:30 AM, OLA Sat.: 4:00 PM St. E., Rochester 2:00-3:00 PM, St. A. Sun.: 9:00 AM OLA, Randolph 11:00 AM St. A., Bethel www.ourladyvt.org 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 18 July 2021 Remember your loved ones in the Holy Mass WELCOME to all our Visitors: If you would like more information about our Parishes, or would like to learn more about the Catholic Faith, or about the process for joining the Catholic Church, – they will be forever grateful to you! please ask your neighbor or contact Elizabeth Stuart, Parish Secretary at 802-728-5251, or [email protected] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember to pray for the sick THIS WEEKEND: and hurting, especially for… Saturday, July 17 Marion Casarico, Stanislaw Kosiorek, Judy McCullough, St. E ~ 3:00 PM – Adoration/Confessions Janice Brown, Pam Corcoran, Rita Morin, Frank Mojzesz, St. E ~ 4:00 PM Mass – Intentions of the Parishioners Bobby Perez, Richard Perez, Cathy Bigelow, Paul & Sue Sunday, July 18 Field, Samantha Field, Sophie Weden, Nancy McNally, OLA ~ 8:00 am KofC - Randolph Blanche Rea, Peg Mollitor, Frank Russell, Shirley Dumont, Marion OLA ~ 9:00 AM Mass – Intentions of Fr. Scott Gratton (by Donna Bourn, Maybelle Dumont, Richard Church, John Flanagan, Annette Copeland) W., John Mahaffy, Russ Mitchell, and Keith Grimes St. A ~ 11:00 AM Mass – Thanksgiving to St. Anthony (by JLD) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- St. A ~ 12:00 noon – Summer Fellowship Luncheon BOOK CLUB starts on a new book on Tuesday, July 20th. Meetings are at the THIS WEEK: Bethel Public Library and start at 5:30 Monday, July 19 pm. St A ~ 7:00 am Adoration Tuesday, July 20 In Paul Farmer, Servant to the Poor, St A ~ 5:15 pm Adoration Jennie Weiss Block introduces readers Bethel Library ~ 5:30 pm Book Club: to this physician and medical Paul Farmer, Servant of the Poor anthropologist of international stature Wednesday, July 21 whose Catholic faith has driven him to OLA ~ 9:00 am Bible Study: James, Pearls of Wise Living work untiringly to make a preferential St. E ~ 4:00 pm Adoration option for the poor in health care. OLA ~ 5:00 pm Adoration Farmer, with his colleagues at Harvard OLA ~ 7:00 pm Bible Study: James, Pearls of Wise Living University and Partners in Health, Thursday, July 22 have been instrumental in bringing the OLA ~ 8:30 am Adoration fruits of modern medicine to millions of the poorest people in the Friday, July 23 world, in places like Haiti, Rwanda, Peru, Russia, Malawi, and West OLA ~ 8:30 am Adoration Africa during the recent Ebola crisis. Challenging the conventional St. A. ~ 2:00 pm Adoration wisdom of global health experts, Dr. Farmer has shown it is possible to deliver high-quality medical care on a large scale in settings of NEXT WEEKEND: great poverty and to build communities around the globe where Saturday, July 24 good health and hope prevail. St. E. ~ 3:00 pm Adoration/Confessions St. E. ~ 4:00 pm Mass – Intentions of the Parishioners Sunday, July 25 Next weekend will be the Parish OLA ~ 9:00 am Mass – Martha Mary Delhagen+ (by Edward Delhagen) wide collection of gifts, greetings, St. A. ~ 11:00 am Mass – Spiritual Healing in the Brown Family (by etc. for Fr. Gratton. Last time I Rosemary Brown) asked about what to send, he replied “Just prayers, and the UPCOMING: same old stuff (gummies, sour Wednesday, July 28 patch kids, Swedish fish, beef OLA ~ 9:00 am Bible Study: James, Pearls of Wise Living jerky, maple stuff, coffee). No OLA ~ 12:00 noon American Red Cross Blood Drive need for books, games or toiletries anymore.” Unfortunately, the OLA ~ 7:00 pm Bible Study: James, Pearls of Wise Living maple syrup does NOT seem to be getting through customs on a Friday, July 30 consistent basis. Some has been delivered but not all. OLA ~ 11:30 am Funeral for Edward McCormack, brother of Agnes GARDENING ASSISTANCE NEEDED: Both St. Anthony’s and Our Lady Pietryka of the Angels need more than a little tender care in the grounds Veteran’s Cemetery ~ 1:00 pm Committal for Edward McCormack keeping/flower bed/gravel bed areas….so CALLING ALL GARDENERS, OLA ~ 1:30 pm Reception/Wake for Edward McCormack Family or anyone that can help pull weeds, rake beds or otherwise be of help – on Saturday, July 31st – come and work at St. Anthony’s, specifically, Saturday, July 31 getting the various flower beds weeded. The rain has been good for St. A. ~ Gardening Work Party the flowers but also good for the weeds. On Saturday, August 7th at Saturday, August 7 Our Lady of the Angels, specifically, to clear out the weeds from the OLA ~ Gardening Work Party gravel beds, both the front and back patio areas. Work will begin at 8:00 and continue until 12:00 noon (although, if it’s really hot, we may quit sooner). As always, please bring your own tools! 1 16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 18 July 2021 he died suddenly on Sunday, July 15, 1274. According to some, he ST. BONAVENTURE: was poisoned. A FRANCISCAN HEART The Franciscan Theologian https://www.franciscanmedia.org/franciscan-spirit-blog/st- In many ways, Bonaventure remained a simple man of faith and bonaventure-a-franciscan-heart holiness; his life and administration governed by prayer and Fr. Don Miller, OFM reflection. Legends have it that when the papal legates came to give him St. Bonaventure may not be as well-known his cardinal’s hat, they found him as Sts. Francis and Anthony, but he is an washing dishes. important figure in both Franciscan history and the history of the medieval Church. A He is said to have asked them to Minister General of the Franciscan Order hang the hat on a tree until he and a Cardinal and Doctor of the Church, finished and could dry his hands. Bonaventure left his mark as a scholastic Legend also states that he drew philosopher and theologian, as well as a attention to a woman hanging her mystic writer adding significantly to the laundry and commented to his fellow spirituality of the Franciscan movement. clergymen that, in all probability, the woman exceeded all of them in Known as the Seraphic Doctor because of holiness due to her simple faith. his devotion to St. Francis and the Unlike them, he reasoned, she was Franciscan way of life, St. Bonaventure not burdened by sophisticated brought the warmth and affection of learning and the trappings of office. Francis’ love of Jesus to bear on the scholastic thought of his day. Thus, his As a theologian, Bonaventure was writings show both his highly developed able to reflect on the practical ability to reason and his down-to-earth aspects of life and see how they devotion to the persons of the Trinity and to interacted with the insights of the Church. faith—truly an incarnational approach, which is so typically The Man Franciscan. He was a well-seasoned Born in Bagnorea, Italy, to Giovanni di philosopher and theologian capable Fidanza and Maria Ritell in 1221, just five of thinking things through carefully years before the death of St. Francis, St. in the light of reason drawing truly Bonaventure was baptized John. He academic yet pastoral conclusions. received the name Bonaventure when he entered the Order of Friars Minor. But always a true follower of St. Bonaventure entered the Franciscans Francis and faithful disciple of Jesus, around 1243 as a member of the Roman Bonaventure remained centered in Province. the teachings of the Church. He attended the University of Paris studying The Organizer under the founder of the Franciscan school Like St. Paul, who organized the there, Alexander of Hales, receiving his institutional Church and formulated licentiate in 1248. This degree afforded him a Christian spirituality, he gave the right to teach, which he did until his structure to the Franciscan way of election as Minister General of the Order of life and the spirituality of St. Francis. Friars Minor in 1257, an office he held until Many have described Francis as a May 1274. dreamer. I don’t know what his Myers-Briggs score would have been, Those were difficult times as the Order was but I do know that he tended to split over the issue of the observance of avoid structure and legislation. He poverty, and Bonaventure wasted no time addressing it. He called wrote his Rule because he had to.