Sunday, July 18th 2021 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Fr. Greg Piatt, Pastor

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St. John XXIII 12100 Beech Daly Rd., Redford, Michigan 48239 (248) 800-6081

Weekend Masses Saturdays at 4 p.m. Sundays at 9 & 11 a.m.

Weekday Masses Tuesdays at 9:30 a.m. Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. Thursdays at 12 p.m.

Eucharistic Adoration Tuesdays from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Benediction Tuesdays at 7 p.m.

Confessions By appointment

Parish Office Hours Mon.-Thurs. 8-11:30 a.m.

IN OUR PARISH Friday, July 30 Dine-In Only 7/24-25 ... Nametag Weekend 7:30 p.m. Meal 7/30 ... Movie Night After Mass 7/31 ... Meal After Mass 8/13 ... Movie Night Please Join Us 8/15 ... Golf Tournament on Saturday, July 31 8/19 ... Car Blessing DURING JULY, THE CHURCH HONORS THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST following the 8/20 ... Cornhole Tournament 4:00 p.m. Mass. 8/27 ... Euchre Tournament 8/28 ... Meal After Mass th 8/29 ... 5 Sunday Rosary

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WEEKLY READINGS Sunday: Jer 23:1-6/Ps 23:1-6/Eph 2:13 -18/Mk 6:30-34

Monday: Ex 14:5-18/Ex 15:1bc,-2, 3-4, Welcome to our church family. 5-6 [1b]/Mt 12:38-42 We’re glad you could be with us Tuesday: St. Apollinaris today. We’re honored to share the Ex 14:21—15:1/Ex 15:8-12, 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time with 17 [1b]/Mt 12:46-50 you. We hope God touches your life as we worship side by side and Wednesday: St. you leave us today with the peace Ex 16:1-5, 9-15/Ps 78:18-19, of God in your mind and heart. To 23-24, 25-26, 27-28 [24b]/ learn more about St. John XXIII Mt 13:1-9

Parish, visit our website or Thursday: St. Facebook page. If you are new to Sg 3:1-4b or 2 Cor 5:14-17/Ps 63:2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [2]/Jn the parish, we encourage you to 20:1-2, 11-18 register at the parish office. We look forward to meeting with you! Friday: St. Bridget Ex 20:1-17/Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 [cf. Jn 6:68c]/Mt 13:18-23

PASTORAL STAFF Saturday: St. Sharbel Makhlūf Ex 24:3-8/Ps 50:1b-2, 5-6, 14-15 [14a]/Mt 13:24-30

Next Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:42-44/Ps 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18 [cf. 16]/Eph 4:1-6/Jn 6:1-15

Father Gregory Piatt, Pastor [email protected] PRAYER LIST FIND US Laura Scanlan, Pastoral Associate Deacon Ziggy, Florence Crowley, ON FACEBOOK! Facebook.com/ [email protected] Lester Williams, Carol, Meghan Steve Morello, Deacon StJohnXXIIIRedford [email protected] Perkins, Donna Thornburg, Mary Toal, Larry Skotzke, Esther Johnson, PARISH STAFF Bob Frank, Jim Frank, Marianne Linda Hudy, Secretary Corrigian, William Saxby, Lorraine [email protected] Waling, Scott Miller, Martha Frank Munoz, Maintenance Batayeh, Ed Furstenberg, Carol [email protected] Walsh, Gail Witt, Yvonne Lowry, Colette Renaud-Maher, Bulletin Christine D’Ambrosio, Alice [email protected] Please email your bulletin submissions Stefanich, Benjamin Hodge, Kenneth on or before Monday at noon. Rozmys, John Verkest, Tom Hurley, Loretta Gasiorek, Tony Capraro, Jr., COUNCILS & LEADERSHIP Sylvia Clark, Jack Flanagan, Victor Finance Council Waling, Eileen Roy, Dennis Sokol, Jim Allan, Jim Francis, Michelle Enrico “Ricky” Canini, Patricia Poisson, Cheryl Roza, Fred Schneider Griffin, Fr. Larry Kaiser, Evelyn & Jack Templin. Martin, and Bob Witt request your Parish Council Mark Cochran, Denise Zuzow-DeKett, prayers. Maureen Franklin, Chuck Sudekum & Jim Vote. REST IN PEACE Parish Leadership Team Pam Condron, Shane Foley, Maureen  Lois Olah Franklin & George Salloum.  Bridget Brennan-Hurley  Joe Zasa, cousin of Marie Tabeek

Sign Up Today for St. John XXIII Parish has several ways in which we support each other in Flocknote Texts special personal prayer. Prayer requests and Mass intentions are accepted at Text the parish office. Mass Intentions are dedicated to the intentions of the petitioner and are mentioned out loud during the Prayers of the Faithful. STJOHNXXIII Intentions for Mass may be for the support of the sick, for repose of the soul of to a loved one, in thanksgiving, on the occasion of an anniversary or for other 84576 special intentions. 2 MASS INTENTIONS AGGIORNAMENTO! By Fr. Greg Piatt SATURDAY, July 17 This past week, we finally completed the last Mass at 4:00 p.m. elements related to the St.  Margaret Kucharek By Deacon property sale. Ziggy  and Anna Kucharek By As a result of the sale of the church, school, and Deacon Ziggy rectory, the Archdiocese requires all parishes that  Gerald Beamish By Lillian receive the money from a sale to develop a Use of Funds document Overbeck and Ralph & Michele where the parish denotes certain capital projects and charities Westbrook receiving monetary gifts from the proceeds.  Marino and Rosa Benedettini By Graziano Canini In 2019, Bishop Walter Hurley wrote this document and presented it to the parish finance council for approval. The finance council SUNDAY, July 18 approved the document, which had as capital projects: refurbishing Mass at 9:00 a.m. and installation of the pews from St. Robert Bellarmine at St. John XXIII,  Ray and Dolores Elam By The a new AC system in the church, new church doors, and the repaving of Elam Children our parking lot. About $300,000 in improvements at the parish.  Arthur Piatt (14th Anniversary) By Fr. Greg In the use of funds, the parish donated $50,000 each to Sacred Heart Mass at 11:00 a.m. Major Seminary and Catholic Charities of Southeastern Michigan.  Marino and Rosa Benedetiini Lastly, the parish will donate $10,000 to Redford Interfaith Relief. By Graziano Canini  Rio Della Mora By Family Now, this past week, TUESDAY, July 20 we began Mass at 9:30 a.m. repaving the  Mary Ellen Allen By Marcia parking lot, Allen the last WEDNESDAY, July 21 capital Mass at 6:30 p.m. project on  The Parishioners of St. John the list—the XXIII pews, AC, and doors THURSDAY, July 22 are already Mass at Noon done.  The Parishioners of St. John XXIII This past Monday, I presented the $50,000 checks to the seminary SATURDAY, July 24 and Catholic Charities. They were appreciative. As of this bulletin’s Mass at 4:00 p.m. deadline, we have the Redford Interfaith scheduled.  Margaret Kucharek By Deacon Ziggy Our money to the seminary will be used to form new and lay  Msgr. Cass Kucharek By folks for ministry. Catholic Charities will use the money in the work they Deacon Ziggy do in Southeastern Michigan.  Gerald Beamish By Family Lastly, funds documents designated $100,000 for Parish  Marino and Rosa Benedettini Evangelization and $100,000 for Catholic School Scholarships for By Graziano Canini parishioners. SUNDAY, July 25 Mass at 9:00 a.m. Now, we are setting up that scholarship fund for children of  Marino and Rosa Benedettini parishioners who attend Catholic Schools. Next year, St. John XXIII By Graziano Canini enters into our 8-member Family of Parishes. There are two schools in  Val Colussi By Rita Dziadzio our family—St. Valentine and St. —and we all will have to support those schools in our family. Mass at 11:00 a.m.  The Parishioners of St. John In the future, the Leadership Team will discuss how to earmark the XXIII $100,000 for Evangelization, which will be used once our family gets formed and the family forms a strategic plan.

3 STEWARDSHIP REFLECTIONS The Steward’s Work Is Never Done By Tracy Earl Welliver Woe to the shepherds who mislead and scatter the flock! When you hear these strong words from the Old Testament, you’re probably thinking, thank goodness I don’t have any sheep — dodged that bullet. Nobody misled here! No flock scattered on my watch! However, we are all shepherds of a kind, called to tend our own sheep: our families, Thank you for your continued our parishes, our communities. support. If you would like to make your giving easy and consistent But it’s exhausting. Don’t we all sometimes just want to take a break this summer, please consider our from being a steward? The excuses are so familiar: we’re tired, we’ve electronic giving option. This past done enough, we’ve given all we can, what more does the parish (or my week 11 parish families used this spouse, or my kids, or my boss, or my friends, or my community) want? simple and secure way to make We give ourselves permission to be selfish. So, what if the flock scatters and track their parish giving of just a little?

$630. If you would like to learn Jesus gets that. We can just imagine him weary with exhaustion, can’t more, please contact the parish we? We see him on his boat, attempting to sneak away for a quick office or visit www.osvonlinegiving.com/4663. It break — maybe just a chance to eat a bite of food in peace. He is God, but he was still human, after all. Even the most dedicated shepherds is an easier way to give! It’s need to sleep. But people couldn’t leave him alone. They were hungry simple! It’s safe! And it keeps God at the top of your giving list! for him. They needed what he could offer, and they needed it now.

CSA 2021 As tough as it is, that’s the example we are tasked with imitating. Goal $49,456 Everyday Stewardship demands accountability. It demands our showing Pledged $14,639 up even when we are tired. It demands that we look at our lives, our Paid $12,999 time, our energies, our talents, our hearts, our bank accounts and think:

The CSA enables the Church in where do I still have more to give? , to carry out Christ’s ministry of mercy and love throughout southeast Michigan and beyond — works no one individual or parish could possibly do alone. The CSA campaign Love to Sing? continues through early July. Please be generous. Praise the Lord with Your Voice! Kroger Rewards: Kroger donates to our parish If you would like to join the through their Kroger Community Choir, please contact Laura Rewards program. To sign up: log Scanlan at the parish office or in to your digital account, enter speak with Stacey after the “JT036,” click “Save,” and show Sunday Masses. Here are some ideas to get your card when you shop! you started: • Pet sit for neighbors Amazon Smile: • Pick up trash in my At no cost to you, Amazon neighborhood donates 0.5% of your eligible • Share garden vegetables AmazonSmile purchases to our • Bake cookies for someone parish. AmazonSmile is the same else Amazon, you know. Support our • Volunteer parish by selecting our parish at • Pray for others smile.amazon.com.

4 ALL THINGS CATHOLIC DURING JULY, THE CHURCH HONORS THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST By Father Greg Piatt

Catherine of Sienna, considered inaugurates the beginning of the Prophetess of the Precious eternal life in it.” Blood. To understand the power of the Before 1969, July 1 was the Precious Blood, we must Feast of the Most Precious Blood, comprehend the gravity of sin as During July, the but the Church combined it with an offense to God, which required honors the Precious Blood of the Corpus Christi, which we Christ’s Blood to forgive those Jesus and encourages the faithful celebrated last month and is now sins. in this devotion. known on the Church’s calendar as the Solemnity of the Body and Today, to commit sin is From the time of Christ’s Blood of Christ. fashionable. And today, disciples Passion, when Jesus shed His need to venerate and have a blood for us, the Catholic Church While the feast day may be devotion to the Precious Blood to has practiced the devotion to the gone, the Church hasn’t forgotten reveal to us the awfulness of sin. Most Precious Blood of Jesus. its importance because it dedicates the month of July to Fr. John Hardon SJ “Let us fix our gaze on the Blood Precious Blood. once said that devotion to the of Christ and realize how truly Precious Blood is not a spiritual precious it is, seeing that it was The Early Church Fathers, those option but a spiritual obligation for poured out for our salvation and who followed the Apostles, tell us every follower of Christ. brought the grace of conversion to the Church was born from the the whole world,” said St. pierced side of Christ, and “I really believe that one of the Clement I, the fourth pope, in 96 through His blood, the sacraments symptoms of modern society (and AD. were brought forth. I would even include, sadly, modern Catholic society) one of The devotion to the Precious The Early Church Fathers sum the symptoms of a growing, Blood is one of the most ancient of up what the Church has believed gnawing secularism is the pious Church practices. Legend for 2,000 years. lessening and the weakening of has it that the Blessed Mother devotion to the Precious Blood,” venerated the Most Precious “The Precious Blood, which we Hardon said. Blood of her infant Son on the day worship, is the Blood which the of His circumcision when she Savior shed for us on Calvary and The grace from Christ’s collected His blood on a cloth. reassumed at His glorious Precious Blood is found in the Resurrection; it is the Blood which , where our Lord’s blood The circumcision is the first of courses through the veins of His is still sacrificed at every Mass in seven times Jesus shed His blood. risen, glorified, living body at the the host and chalice. From the The six others are from Christ’s right hand of God the Father in Precious Blood, which flows in the Passion: the sweating of blood in Heaven; it is the Blood made secret recess of Christ’s heart, the Agony in the Garden, the present on our altars by the words Church’s sacraments get their Scourging at the Pillar, the of Consecration; it is the Blood power to confer the life of grace,” Crowning with Thorns, the which merited sanctifying grace said St. , a doctor of carrying of the Cross, the for us and through it washes and the Church. Crucifixion, and the spear piercing beautifies our soul and of His Heart. St. Paul is considered the Doctor of the Precious Blood due to his preaching on the subject in his epistles—Romans 3:25, Ephesians 1:7, and Hebrews 9:12. There also are with strong devotions to the Precious Blood: St. , St. Austin, St. Gertrude the Great, and St.

5 PROCLAIM PEACE & THE WORD JUSTICE POTLIGHT S Now that we added a second God saw my affliction By Father Greg Piatt Mass on Sunday, the parish and the labor of my needs people to proclaim hands and rebuked God’s Word at all Masses, you. Genesis 31:42 especially the newly added 11 As Christ’s disciples, we are on July 30 is World Day against a.m. Mass. The parish hopes a journey. So, we are not Trafficking in Persons. Worldwide, to have two Lectors at each wanderers, but pilgrims, Christ’s there are an estimated 40 million missionaries in our world. Mass if possible, and we need victims of human trafficking each your help. Christ sends us out as year. Victims in the United States missionaries to our world. To tell include domestic workers who have So, if you ever felt called to the people in our world, our come here from other countries. proclaim the Word as a Lector, families, friends, neighbors, and These foreign workers are often here’s your chance. Once part coworkers, about Christ. exploited in multiple ways because of our team of Lectors, you will This is the mission Christ gives they are unaware of American labor be assigned to the Mass you us from our . Are you laws, have limited English language regularly attend. Training will fulfilling the task Jesus gave you? skills, and have no one to turn to for be provided. Please email help. Jesus was serious about us laura.scanlan@stjohhnxxiiiredf carrying out the mission, and in ord.org or call Laura Scanlan To learn more, visit last weekend’s Gospel, He gives at the Parish Office to lend sistersagainsttrafficking.org. You can us kind of rules for the road on your voice to the Lord by sign several petitions against forced our missionary journey to bring proclaiming the Word. labor at www.freedomunited.org/ the Good News to others. advocate.

Christ gives three instructions for our missionary journey as disciples: • Carry a walking stick. Save the Date • Travel in twos. Thursday, • Shake the dusk from those August 19th who are unresponsive to Fr. Greg will bless your car, Christ’s message. truck, or motorcycle. The First, Jesus tells His missionary blessing will be from 5 to 7 p.m. disciples to hang on to the walking stick of God’s Will because everything that happens in our lives happens for a reason. WHY DO WE DO THAT? We can’t be disciples if we reject Jesus’s words to the Father of CATHOLIC LIFE EXPLAINED “thy will be done.” This is critical Question: I’ve heard that we become angels when we die. Is this what for living a discipleship way of life. the Church teaches?

Secondly, Jesus tells us to trust Answer: As human beings, we are both spiritual and corporeal. We your spiritual companion, who will are body and soul. This makes us unique in all creation. No other encourage you and support you physical creature — plant or animal — possesses an immortal soul in prayer. We need a community made in God’s image and likeness. Like the distinction with plants and of faith. animals, angels have an entirely different sort of existence. Angels are Lastly, Jesus tells us not to be pure immortal spirit, and they have been so since the moment of their preoccupied and paralyzed by creation. While they may take on an appearance of a body in Biblical failure. Others need to hear the history, they are not a body like we are. Angels are neither male nor Good News. female, despite the art we often see.

We all have a purpose and goal, As the result of the Fall, human beings experience death. Our souls and the Lord gives us a mission. are temporarily separated from our bodies. However, we do not And by giving us that mission, the become something other than human. Every Sunday in the Creed we Lord gives us the resources and profess “I believe in the resurrection of the body.” As Jesus was united grace to carry it out. with his body on the third day, so too will we be united with our bodies at the end of time. 6 LET GO & LET GOD! St. Sebastian By Laura Scanlan (Feast Day January 20) At first reading, one would think that was c. 256 – January 20, 287 talking about sheep. After all, there are many According to legend, Sebastian readings in the Bible that talk about shepherding was born at Narbonne, Gaul. He sheep. However, in this reading, Jeremiah is not became a soldier in the Roman talking about shepherding sheep. Jeremiah is army and encouraged two talking about the Kings that were appointed to rule Christians, Marcellian and Marcus, the Israelites. These Kings often lead the people to remain firm in their faith under sentence of death. astray from what God wanted them to do – follow the Sebastian made numerous converts: Nicostratus, in Ten Commandments, the covenants He made with charge of prisoners, and his wife, Zoe, a deaf-mute his people, and not worship other gods. However, whom he cured; the jailer Claudius; Chromatius, whoever was appointed King lead the people farther Prefect of , whom he cured of gout; and and farther away from God. “You have scattered my Chromatius’ son, Tiburtius. After Chromatius was sheep and driven them away.” Jeremiah points to healed, he set the prisoners free, freed his slaves, Christ through his promise that God will “…raise a and resigned as prefect. righteous shoot to ,” a king who will govern Sebastian was a captain in the praetorian guards with wisdom and justice. during the reign of Emperors Diocletian and Maximian. Neither knew that Sebastian was a In St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians, he tells them Christian, but he was ordered to be executed when it how Christ has united the Israelites, who were heirs was discovered that he was a of the covenant, with the Gentiles (Ephesians), who Christian. He was shot with arrows were not. They have now been brought near God and left for dead, but when the through Christ, whose death destroyed the barrier widow of St. Castulus went to between Jew and Gentile and created one new recover his body, she found he humanity. was still alive and nursed him back to health. Soon after, Sebastian In today’s Gospel by Mark, the disciples return intercepted the Emperor, from their mission to proclaim the Gospel and heal. denounced him for his cruelty to They are tired, and Jesus wants them to rest. So, Christians, and was beaten to “He said to them, come away by yourselves to a death on the Emperor’s orders. deserted place and rest awhile.” There were so many people following them that they did not even St. Sebastian is the patron have time to eat. Unfortunately, the people got to of athletes because of his physical the place where they were going before them. endurance and energetic way of Jesus was filled with pity for them. He saw them as spreading and defending the “Sheep without a Shepherd.” Rather than escape Faith. the crowds, Jesus takes up the role of their shepherd and begins to teach them. TAKE TIME TO CHAT In what way did St. Sebastian exhibit courage in his life as a Christian?

LITURGY LINK In today’s Gospel, we hear that great crowds followed Jesus. How many people do you think can fit in our church? About how many people do you think were here for Mass this weekend?

FAMILY CHALLENGE Jesus taught the crowds many things. Resolve to learn one thing new about the Catholic faith this week. Share what you learned with your family members.

FUN FACTS The Summer Olympics typically happen every four years. They were postponed in 2020 and are slated to start on Friday, July 23, in Tokyo, Japan. The modern games were first held in Athens, Greece, in 1896.

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