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8-30 St Mary Parish.Pdf 26 Dodgingtown Road, Bethel, CT 06801 Phone: (203)744-5777 Fax: (203)744-3740 Website: www.stmarybethel.org Email: [email protected] Visit us on Facebook: StMaryChurchBethel PARISH OFFICE HOURS: 9am –3:00 pm, Mon. – Fri. (Closed Weekends and Holidays) St. Mary Catholic Church September 2, 2018 FATHER COREY’S EPISTLE > Continuing our Saint’s from last week’s column, here is the story of St. Augustine, St. Monica’s son, and St. John the Baptist: The feast of St. Augustine, the patron of our Diocese is on August 28th. St. Augustine (354-430) was born at Tagaste, Africa, and died in Hippo. His father, Patricius, was a pagan; his mother, Monica, a devout Christian. He received a good Christian education. As a law student in Carthage, however, he gave himself to all kinds of excesses and finally joined the Manichean sect. He then taught rhetoric at Milan where he was converted by St. Ambrose. Returning to Tagaste, he distributed his goods to the poor, and was ordained a priest. He was made bishop of Hippo at the age of 41 and became a great luminary of the African Church, one of the four great founders of religious orders, and a Doctor of the universal Church. rests in God. The tears of his mother, the sanctity of Milan's According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Bishop Ambrose, the book of St. Anthony the hermit, and Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, that day is also the the sacred Scriptures wrought his conversion, which was feast of St. Hermes, a martyr of Rome, probably in sealed by baptism on Easter night 387. Augustine's mother Diocletian's persecution. He was buried in a cemetery on the went to Milan with joy and witnessed her son's baptism. It Salarian Way. He is mentioned in the Depositio Martyrum of was what it should have been, the greatest event of his life, the year 354. his conversion — metanoia. Grace had conquered. Augustine Aurelius was born on November 13, 354, in Augustine accompanied his mother to Ostia, where she died. Tagaste, North Africa. His father was a pagan, his mother, St. She was eager to die, for now she had given birth to her son Monica. Still unbaptized and burning for knowledge, he for the second time. came under the influence of the Manicheans, which caused In 388 he returned to Tagaste, where he lived a common life his mother intense sorrow. He left Africa for Rome, with his friends. In 391 he was ordained priest at Hippo, in deceiving his mother, who was ever anxious to be near him. 394 made coadjutor to bishop Valerius, and then from 396 She prayed and wept. A bishop consoled her by observing to 430 bishop of Hippo. that a son of so many tears would never be lost. Yet the evil spirit drove him constantly deeper into moral degeneracy, Augustine, numbered among the four great Doctors of the capitalizing on his leaning toward pride and stubbornness. Western Church, possessed one of the most penetrating Grace was playing a waiting game; there still was time, and minds of ancient Christendom. He was the most important the greater the depths into which the evil spirit plunged its Platonist of patristic times, the Church's most influential fledgling, the stronger would be the reaction. theologian, especially with regard to clarifying the dogmas of the Trinity, grace, and the Church. He was a great speaker, a Augustine recognized this vacuum; he saw how the human prolific writer, a saint with an inexhaustible spirituality. heart is created with a great abyss; the earthly satisfactions His Confessions, a book appreciated in every age, describes a that can be thrown into it are no more than a handful of notable portion of his life (until 400), his errors, his battles, stones that hardly cover the bottom. And in that moment his profound religious observations. Famous too is his grace was able to break through: Restless is the heart until it work “The City of God”, a worthy memorial to his genius, a Sunday, 9/2 Monday, 9/3 Tuesday, 9/4 Wednesday, 9/5 7:00am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 8:35am Rosary 6:30am Mass 6:30am Mass 11:30am & 5:30pm Masses 9:00am Mass 8:35am Rosary 8:35am Rosary 12:45pm Pre Baptism Class 9:00am Mass 9:00am Mass 6:30pm Three6Teen Crew Trivia 7:00pm Prayer Service Night St. Mary Catholic Church 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time FATHER COREY’S EPISTLE philosophy of history. Most edifying are his homilies, saint was buried in Samaria. In the year 362 pagans especially those on the psalms and on the Gospel of St. desecrated the grave and burned his remains. Only a small John. portion of his relics were able to be saved by monks and sent to St. Athanasius at Alexandria. The head of the saint is Augustine's episcopal life was filled with mighty battles venerated at various places. That in the Church of St. against heretics, over all of whom he triumphed. His most Sylvester in Rome belongs to a martyr-priest John. Also, in illustrious victory was that over Pelagius, who denied the the Dominican church at Breslau the Baptist's head is necessity of grace; from this encounter he earned the honored. (Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius surname "Doctor of grace." As an emblem Christian art Parsch) accords him a burning heart to symbolize the ardent love of God which permeates all his writings. He is the founder of There is no doubt that blessed John suffered imprisonment canonical life in common; therefore Augustinian monks and and chains as a witness to our Redeemer, whose forerunner the Hermits of St. Augustine honor him as their spiritual he was, and gave his life for him. His persecutor had father. demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. Nevertheless, he died for Patron: Brewers; diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Christ. Does Christ not say: "I am the truth"? Therefore, Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; diocese of Kalamazoo, because John shed his blood for the truth, he surely died for Michigan; printers; city of Saint Augustine, Florida; diocese Christ. of Saint Augustine, Florida; sore eyes; diocese of Superior, Wisconsin; theologians; diocese of Tucson, Arizona. Through his birth, preaching and baptizing, he bore witness to the coming birth, preaching and baptism of Christ, and by Symbols: flaming heart pierced by two arrows; eagle; child his own suffering he showed that Christ also would suffer. with shell and spoon; word Veritas with rays of light from Heaven; chalice; dove; pen and book; scroll; scourge; model Such was the quality and strength of the man who accepted of a church; Bible opened to Romans XIII; child; shell. the end of this present life by shedding his blood after the long imprisonment. He preached the freedom of heavenly The Passion of John the Baptist is on August, 29th. The peace, yet was thrown into irons by ungodly men. He was Church, having celebrated the earthly birthday of St. John locked away in the darkness of prison, though he came the Baptist on June 24, honors the anniversary of his bearing witness to the Light of life and deserved to be called martyrdom on that day. Besides our Lord and our Lady, St. a bright and shining lamp by that Light itself, which is Christ. John the Baptist is the only one whose birth and death are thus celebrated. That day’s Gospel relates the circumstances To endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was of his execution. He had the courage to blame Herod to his not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily face for the scandal of his illegal union with his sister-in-law borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be Herodias, whose husband was still alive. Herodias contrived his reward. to make Herod imprison him and took advantage of an Since death was ever near at hand, such men considered it a unexpected opportunity to obtain through her daughter blessing to embrace it and thus gain the reward of eternal Salome the beheading of the saint. life by acknowledging Christ's name. Hence the apostle Paul In addition to the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist rightly says: "You have been granted the privilege not only to (June 24), the Church, since the fourth century, believe in Christ but also to suffer for his sake." He tells us commemorates the martyrdom of Christ's precursor. why it is Christ's gift that his chosen ones should suffer for According to the Roman Martyrology, this day marks "the him: "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to second finding of his most venerable head." The body of the be compared with the glory that is to be revealed in us." Thursday, 9/6 Friday, 9/7 Saturday, 9/8 Sunday, 9/9 6:30am Mass 6:30am Mass 8:00am Mass 7:00am, 8:30am, 10:00am, 8:35am Rosary 8:35am Rosary 8:30am Catechist Meeting 11:30am & 5:30pm Masses 9:00am Mass 9:00am Mass 8:30am Men’s Ministry 12:45pm Pre Baptism Class 9:00pm Nocturnal Adoration 10:30am Bereavement Support 6:30pm Three6Teen Crew Grill the Group Priest Night 5:30pm Mass FATHER COREY’S EPISTLE > STAMFORD—The Reverend Monsignor Louis A. at 11:00 am, and Monsignor Andrew Varga was the homilist.
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