St Bridget of Ireland June 28, 2020 CATHOLIC CHURCH 1024 W
St Bridget of Ireland June 28, 2020 CATHOLIC CHURCH 1024 W. Main St. Berryville, VA 22611
t. Bridget (or Brigid) of Kildare is one of the three major patron saints of Ireland Pastor: Salong with Saint Patrick and Saint Columba. Saint Bridget’s faith and labors for Father Paul Grankauskas the Lord are remembered among the Irish people through prayers, sacred places, Rectory: blessings and customs. St. Bridget was an extraordinary woman of faith: strong in P 540-277-2943 • F 540-277-2945 her mission, loyal to the Lord, faithful to the Church, generous to the poor and [email protected] hospitable to missionaries. St. Bridget laid strong foundations for the Church in Hours: Mon-Fri 9 a.m. - 4 PM (closed 12-1 p.m.) Ireland. Her feast day is February 1st, the first day of the Celtic Spring. Religious Education: John Sengewalt 540-277-2948 Sacramental Information: Mass Schedule: [email protected] Please check Mass Times and Intentions Knights of Columbus: Baptisms: for weekly changes inside bulletin. [email protected] Sunday, after 9:00 a.m. Mass Saturday Bus. meeting 2nd Tue 7 PM Hobert Hall Contact the Rectory Office at 540-277-2943 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m . (Sunday Vigil) Office of Youth Ministry: [email protected] Office Hours: Sunday: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 9 a.m. and noon Music Ministry: Stacy Sefton [email protected] Marriage: Weekdays: Organist: Contact parish priest at least six (6) months Monday & Tuesday noon Jenny Sorenson [email protected] prior to proposed date of the wedding. Wednesday 9 a.m. Contact the Rectory Office at 540-277-2943 Thursday & Friday noon Eucharistic Minister / Lectors: Chet Lewandowski 540-722-7231 Office Hours: Holy Days: Servers: Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. 12:05 p.m. and 7 p.m. John Sengewalt 540-277-2948 Sacristan: Nationwide Mass Schedule: Confessions: Becky Jackson 540-955-1715 Saturday 4 - 5 p.m. www.thecatholicdirectory.com Sunday 8 - 8:30 a.m. Ushers: Hospitalized and Homebound: Parish Office 540-277-2943 Rosary: Notify the rectory at 540-277-2943 so Men’s Club: The rosary is prayed after the 12:05 p.m. that the hospitalized and homebound Meets the last Saturday each month Mass on the 1st Friday of each month parishioners may receive the pastoral 8 a.m. in Hobert Hall (7:30 Breakfast). care of the church. George Darnell [email protected] Prayer List: Women’s Group: Contact Becky Jackson at 540-955-1715 Website: www.stbridgetberryville.org Meets 1st Tues. each month after noon Mass Except for July and August FISH: Christi McMullen Coffee & Donut Sundays: Food collection is in the narthex on the 2nd [email protected] Sunday each month. Please give generously. 1st Sunday: Men’s Club 2nd Sunday: Knights of Columbus St. Bridget’s Bulletin Deadline Noon Monday Faith Direct: www.faithdirect.net 3rd Sunday: Youth Ministry [email protected] Sharon M. Gormas 540-277-2943 St. Bridget of Ireland
Words of Wisdom A Light Unto My Path Mass Times Some biblical commentators and theologians – especially in & Intentions the past hundred years or so – have argued that the divinity of Mass Intentions made at the Parish office Jesus is clearly presented only in the Gospel of John and that GF-Green Field RH-Rose Hill the synoptic Gospels present a purely human Christ, a teacher and miracle worker perhaps, but not the Son of God. Nothing All intentions will be said at could be further from the truth. Saint John indeed presents the private Mass divinity of the Lord in relatively straightforward language – The Monday June 29 Word became flesh; I and the Father are one; He who sees me sees the Father, etc.– but the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke are no less emphatic regarding Jesus’ divine Noon Mass Father’s Day Novena nature, though they employ a different symbol system and mode of expression than John. Tuesday June 30 Noon Mass Special Intention Matthew 10:37 is a striking example: Jesus said to his apostles, “Whoever loves father or Matthew Lewis mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.” If a merely human figure said this, we would legitimately laugh Wednesday July 1 him to scorn. To their great credit, neither the Buddha nor Muhammad nor Confucius 9 a.m. Mass Special Intention ever said any such thing. But Jesus effectively declares, “you must love me more than Rachel Piescik you love even those you treasure most in the entire world.” And mind you, he doesn’t say, “you must love my teaching or you must love the God I proclaim more than these”; Thursday July 2 he says, “you must love me more than all of them.” Noon Mass The Health of Our Country
The only one who could legitimately make such a demand is the living God, the good Friday July 3 that transcends anything in creation. Though he is stating his case a bit more obliquely Noon Mass † Richard Kobetz and indirectly than John, Saint Matthew is teaching here, just as clearly, that Jesus is divine. Saturday July 4 9 a.m. Mass Special Intention Katie Piescik - Bishop Robert Barron 5:30 p.m. Mass † Cory Waite
Sunday July 5 FYI 9 a.m. Mass Special Intention Confessions: There will be no Confessions on Tuesday, June 30. Beginning in July, Forrest & Katie Christiansen Confessions will be changed to Mondays, 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and Saturday, 4:00 p.m. Noon Mass Parish Family to 5:00 p.m.
First Friday: On July 3 there will be no Holy Hour following Mass. Prayer List Remember the following in your prayers: The parish office will be closed on Friday, July 3 in observance of Independence Day. Brian Dixon, Laurie Custidero, Live-Streamed Masses: From June 29 to July 3 there will be no Live-Streamed Masses. Becky Blair, Fr. Michael Dobbins, Live-Streamed Mass will resume on Sunday, July 5 with the 12:00 p.m. Mass. Jim Willis, Matthew Lewis, David Smith, Jack Cameron, Maggie O’Connor, John Caroselli, Fred Curtis, A women’s silent retreat on The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola will take Michael Boyd, Tony Tringale, place July 10-12 at San Damiano Spiritual Life Center in White Post, VA. The weekend Jim Lewandowski, Ryan Otey, silent retreat will be preached by the Priests of Miles Christi with spiritual talks and time Carl Stohl, Sue Fleming for personal meditation in silence. Each day there will also be Holy Mass, Holy Rosary, and Connie Guevremont. and an opportunity for confessions. For more information email virginia@spiritualex- ercises.net or call 248-596-9677. You may also register online at https://www.mileschristi.org/event/white-post-va-1/ Please contact Becky Jackson at Ushering at Mass: If you are interested in becoming an usher, please call or email the 540-955-1715 to be added parish office at 540-277-2943 or [email protected]. or taken off prayer list. June 28, 2020
Living Nazareth High School, located here at St. Bridget, is currently accepting student applications for the 2020-2021 academic year. We invite you to visit our Saint of the Week website, www.LivingNazareth.org, to learn more. To receive an application or more St. Irenaeus: information email [email protected]. Irenaeus was born of Greek parents in Thank You and Keep It Coming Please! Collections are still going well and being Asia Minor. His own works establish a handled in the parish office and will continue for a while longer. If you want to keep up few biographical points, such as that your weekly donations, you may send them in by mail. If you want to make a monthly as a child he heard and saw Polycarp, the last known living connection with payment, just send us one regular envelope with one payment. You may also include the Apostles (through John), in Smyrna, the second collection offerings in the appropriate envelope, and they will be recorded before he was martyred in 155. The for the specific second collection. If you use cash for your offerings, pleaseDO NOT era in which Irenaeus lived was a time MAIL CASH. You can bring your envelope to the church and put it in the poor box at the of expansion and inner tensions in the back of the church. We are very blessed in our church family with the most generous of church. In many cases Irenaeus acted as parishioners. mediator between various contending factions. The churches of Asia Minor Sunday Offertory:Although public Mass has resumed, we are not currently taking continued to celebrate Easter on the collections during the Mass. Instead, your offering or envelope may be placed in the same date (the 14th of Nisan) as the basket in the narthex following Mass. Jews celebrated Passover, whereas the Roman Church maintained that Eas- Divine Mercy Said: “I saw the glorious face of the Lord, and He said to me, What you ter should always be celebrated on a see in reality, these souls see through faith. Oh, how pleasing to Me is their great faith! Sunday (the day of the Resurrection of You see, although there appears to be no trace of life in Me, in reality it is present in its Christ). Mediating between the parties, fullness in each and every Host. But for Me to be able to act upon a soul, the soul must Irenaeus stated that differences in ex- have faith. O how pleasing to Me is living faith!” ternal factors, such as dates of festivals, need not be so serious as to destroy “Used with permission of the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the church unity. In 177 Irenaeus became B.V.M.” bishop of Lugdunum. As bishop, he was especially concerned with the Gnostics, CANCELED! St. Bridget Church’s second annual Vacation Bible School July 13-17 is now who took their name from the Greek canceled. word for “knowledge.” Claiming access to secret knowledge imparted by Jesus Advertising: There are a few spaces available. If you are interested in advertising your to only a few disciples, their teaching business to the parish please contact the Rectory 540-277-2943. Remember to patron- was attracting and confusing many ize these businesses their advertising dollars help defray the cost of the bulletin. Christians. After thoroughly investigat- ing the various Gnostic sects and their St. Bridget Women’s Group: Reminder the women’s group does not meet in July and “secret,” Irenaeus showed to what logical August. Our monthly meetings will resume in September. conclusions their tenets led. These he contrasted with the teaching of the apostles and the text of Holy Scripture, Education Program giving us, in five books, a system of theology of great importance to subse- 2020 – 2021 Registration: Forms to be distributed this week. Registration is open July quent times. Moreover, his work, widely 1 – July 31. used and translated into Latin and Ar- menian, gradually ended the influence of the Gnostics. The development of Help Needed the creed and the office of bishop (even the unique position of authority of the Religious Education Help Needed: Catechists for Fifth Grade. Contact John Bishop of Rome) also can be traced to Sengewalt, DRE [email protected] Irenaeus’ conflicts with the Gnostics. Be- cause the Gnostics denied that the God revealed in the New Testament was the Happy 4th of July Creator, the first article of the creed was for polemical reasons directly connect- “Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with ed with Genesis (“In the beginning God all.” created the heavens and the earth”). - George Washington Irenaeus refers to the creed as a “Rule of Truth” used to combat heresy. His Feast Day is June 28th.
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