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

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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 , – 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, , 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 , 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 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 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. It was required by the Church, several General Chapters at which he proposed corrective legislation. especially considering the sudden growth in the number of his It was at one of these Chapters that the friars asked him to write followers. about the life of St. Francis. This was adopted as the official biography of the Order in 1263. St. Francis had wanted to simply live the life of the Gospel and let the Spirit be the guide of the friars. But the very human friars needed On June 23, 1273, he was made a cardinal and named the bishop of more structure and organization in their lives. St. Bonaventure Albano by Pope Gregory X, whom he both advised and helped offered that to them without losing the idealism of the Franciscan prepare or the Second Council of Lyon. While attending that council, vision.

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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 18 July 2021 The Spiritual Writer St. Bonaventure saw the spires of the great cathedrals reaching up to From the Office of the Secretary: rd heaven as a reflection of the human soul’s reaching up to God in his Quoting from Bishop Coyne’s June 23 letter: The Soul’s Journey into God. Likewise, the streams of light coming “My hope is that all of us who are Catholic see into the church through the stained-glass windows reflect God participation in the Sunday Mass as something we expressing himself in the wide variety of creatures upon whom he showers his gifts of grace. want to do, not something we have to do. It is a sacred obligation we choose in freedom. We should And the images go on and on as the saint reaches into human make every effort to attend Sunday Mass. However, experience of creation and cultural artifacts and finds vestigium (the as has been the case from the very beginning of the footprints) of God since everything in creation reflects in some way the grandeur of God. Human beings, of course, are the actual image Church as we, there are times and circumstances when of God. one cannot be present for Sunday Mass, Injury, ill- health, mobility issues, age, and now personal safety It was this ability to take the spirituality of St. Francis—as reflected in issues that are still present due to Covid-19. Children St. Francis’ Canticle of the Sun, for instance—and place it at the heart who have not been vaccinated, people whose health is of his writings, keeping the simplicity of the Franciscan insights and creating a sublime theology that truly deserves the name “Seraphic.” compromised so that they have to avoid any risk of contagion as well as their caregivers, may in freedom When Bonaventure was declared a Doctor of the Universal Church in chose not to attend Sunday Mass. Most Parishes 1588 by , he was given the title “Seraphic Doctor.” which are doing so now will still live-stream Sunday Merriam-Webster defines a seraph as one of the highest-ranking angels as well as “one of the six-winged angels standing in the Mass for those who cannot attend. I also urge them presence of God.” It was as a seraph that Christ appeared to St. to ask for Holy Communion to be brought to them Francis when he received the stigmata on Mount La Verna. Therefore, outside of Mass. Simply call your local parish and ask.” it is fitting to use the term to describe the soaring mysticism of St. Bonaventure. Obviously, in an ideal world, we would be able to come The Saint together as a Church to celebrate the Mass and As is true of all saints, St. Bonaventure had—and has—his detractors. receive the Eucharist, be in that moment “one body”. While considered the second founder of the Franciscan Order, there There would be no concerns about contagions or are those who feel that he took the community in the wrong direction. But the Order needed organization, and Bonaventure was viruses. But obviously, we do not live in an “ideal the man for the job. We’ll let history continue to discern whether he world”. There are many who do not yet feel safe in did a good job. coming into our Churches. As Bishop Coyne indicated in his letter, there are valid reasons for some to refrain But beyond his organizational and administrative skills, the saint expresses a heart of love after the model of St. Francis. One cannot and to continue to refrain. read The Soul’s Journey into God or the Tree of Life, for example, without feeling the devotion of the saint as he, like St. Francis, almost With the exception of my July 4th vacation day, I have gushes over the poverty shown in the Incarnation and the love been live streaming both the 9:00 am and 11:00 am expressed in the Passion of Jesus. In all he did he seems to have been a true Franciscan at heart. Masses from Our Lady of the Angels and St. Anthony’s st respectively. Starting on August 1 (two Sundays In his bull of canonization, Pope Sixtus IV wrote: from now), the 11:00 am Mass will no longer be live “Bonaventure was great in learning, but no less great in humility and streamed or recorded to the Parish’s Facebook page. holiness. His innocence and dove-like simplicity were such that I will still live stream the 9:00 am Mass from Our Alexander of Hales, the renowned doctor whose disciple St. Bonaventure became, used to say of him that it seemed as though Lady of the Angels. This Mass will also continue to be Adam had never sinned in him.” posted to our website and attached in the Weekly Update email blast. ********************************************** Sunday Collections (July 10th – 11h, 2021) God bless, OLA: total collections and gifts: $1,056.00 Elizabeth Electronic giving: $225 Sunday collections: $831 Parish Secretary Including: $75 Energy/Fuel

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16th Sunday of Ordinary Time 18 July 2021 a Marian life. Our Lady of Our Lady wants us to Excerpted from: resemble her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Mount_Carmel not only in our Patronage: , , , Catemaco, Aylesford, Roraima, outward Birkirkara, Jaboticabal, Valletta, Pernambuco, Villalba, Hatillo, vesture but, Higuerote, Carlopoli, protection from harm, protection from far more, in dangerous situations, deliverance from heart and

spirit. If we , or Virgin of Carmel, is the title given to gaze into the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Mary's soul, Order. The first Carmelites were Christian living on Mount we shall see Carmel in the during the late 12th and early to mid-13th that grace in century. They built in the midst of their hermitages a chapel which her has they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, whom they conceived of in flowered into a chivalric terms as the "Lady of the place." Our Lady of Mount Carmel spiritual life of was adopted in the 19th century as the patron saint of Chile. incalculable Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount wealth: a life Carmel has centered on the of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, of recollection, also known as the Brown Scapular. Traditionally, Mary is said to have prayer, given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint uninterrupted (1165-1265). The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is oblation to celebrated on 16 July. God, continual The solemn liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was probably contact, and intimate union with him. Mary's soul is a sanctuary first celebrated in in the later part of the 14th century. Its reserved for God alone, where no human creature has ever left its object was thanksgiving to Mary, the patroness of the Carmelite trace, where love and zeal for the glory of God and the salvation of Order, for the benefits she had accorded to it through its difficult mankind reign supreme. [...] Those who want to live their devotion to early years. The institution of the feast may have come in the wake of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to the full must follow Mary into the depths the vindication of their title "Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary" at of her interior life. Carmel is the symbol of the contemplative life, the Cambridge, England, in 1374. The date chosen was 17 July; on the life wholly dedicated to the quest for God, wholly orientated towards European mainland this date conflicted with the feast of St. Alexis, intimacy with God; and the one who has best realized this highest of requiring a shift to 16 July, which remains the Feast of Our Lady of ideals is Our Lady herself, ‘Queen and Splendor of Carmel’.” Mount Carmel throughout the Catholic Church. The Latin poem "Flos Devotees the Blessed Mother of Mount Carmel might raise petitions Carmeli" (meaning "Flower of Carmel") first appears as the to her through the prayer: for this Mass. O most beautiful flower of Mt. Carmel, fruitful vine, splendor of History Heaven, Blessed Mother of the Son of God, Immaculate Virgin, assist The Carmelite Order was the only religious order to be started in the me in my necessity. O Star of the Sea, help me and show me you are . In the 13th century, some of its people migrated my Mother. O Holy Mary, Mother of God, and earth, west to England, setting up a chapter and being documented there I humbly beseech you from the bottom of my heart to succor me in about 1241–1242. A tradition first attested to in the late 14th century this necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand your says that Saint Simon Stock, believed to be an early English Prior power. O Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse General of the Carmelite Order soon after its migration to England, to thee. Sweet Mother I place this cause in your hands. Amen. had a vision of the Blessed Virgin Mary in which she gave him the Church teaching Brown Scapular. This formed part of the Carmelite habit after 1287. In A 1996 doctrinal statement approved by the Congregation for Divine Stock's vision, Mary promised that those who died wearing the Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments states that “Devotion scapular would be saved. This is a devotional sacramental signifying to Our Lady of Mount Carmel is bound to the history and spiritual the wearer's consecration to Mary and affiliation with the Carmelite values of the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of order. It symbolizes her special protection and calls the wearers to Mount Carmel and is expressed through the scapular. Thus, whoever consecrate themselves to her in a special way. receives the scapular becomes a member of the order and pledges The Carmelites consider the Blessed Virgin Mary to be a perfect him/herself to live according to its spirituality in accordance with the model of the interior life of prayer and contemplation to which characteristics of his/her state in life.” Carmelites aspire, as well as a model of virtue, in the person who was Discalced Carmelite Fr. Kieran Kavanaugh summarizes this spirituality: closest in life to Jesus Christ. She is seen as the one who points “The scapular is a Marian habit or garment. It is both a sign and Christians most surely to Christ. As she says to the servants at the pledge. A sign of belonging to Mary; a pledge of her motherly wedding at Cana, "Do whatever he [Jesus] tells you." Carmelites look protection, not only in this life but after death. As a sign, it is a to the Virgin Mary as a Spiritual Mother. The Stella Maris conventional sign signifying three elements strictly joined: first, (Star of the Sea) on Mount Carmel, named after a traditional title of belonging to a religious family particularly devoted to Mary, especially the Blessed Virgin Mary, is considered the spiritual headquarters of dear to Mary, the Carmelite Order; second, consecration to Mary, the order. devotion to and trust in her Immaculate Heart; third, an urge to Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCD, a revered authority become like Mary by imitating her virtues, above all her humility, on Carmelite spirituality, wrote that devotion to Our Lady of Mount chastity, and spirit of prayer.” Carmel means “a special call to the interior life, which is preeminently 6

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