St. Valentine Church

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Mission Statement: Guided by the Holy Spirit, we strive to live and share the Good News of Jesus Christ so that all may come to know God. As a and School Community we welcome, serve, teach, learn, reconcile and provide comfort and hope in the spirit of St Valentine.

July 12, Congratulations!  On June 26th at a private mass the remaining three of 2020 our Catechumens were brought into the Catholic Church. We congratulate Emily and Rebecca Johnson and Cathleen Payne. Rebecca and Cathleen went thru  the RCIA program held on Thursday evenings and Emily was instructed thru our School. We welcome these 3 women from the same family. Please be sure to send your congratulations to them when you see them in Church. We also wish to thank all those who helped with the RCIA process, whether you taught a class, prepared materials, worked behind the scenes or sewed the beautiful stoles. We thank YOU for your service to the parish.  Confirmation Congratulations!  On Saturday, July 18that a 11 a.m. Mass will confirm our Confirmation candidates. Our students were to be confirmed in March of 2020 but due to the Coronavirus everything was put on hold. We thank Bishop Cepeda for coming today and confirming our students. We wish to acknowledge the Confirmation Class of 2020: Carrington Boards Lauren Cavins Pablo Foster Angelina LaFramboise Macey Hayes Rodolfo Hernandez Katelynn Mosby Isaac Pace Joseph Pfeifer Dulce Rios Anna Ryan Shawnn Stackable Lucas Van Vliet Joseph Vargas Jovana Villasenor Andres Villasenor Fifteenth Time Sunday in Ordinary Savannah Wasik Garrett Wendell Brian Wilson Azriel Wutka  Due to the vacations of families and sponsors there is a strong possibility some of the students will be Confirmed in August 2020.  We wish all our students the best as they continue their faith journey in the Catholic Church.  We also wish to thank the following Catechists for their help in instructing the students: Mrs. Ciechanowski, Mr. Bob Modes, Mr. Tom Beaudoin, and Mr. Albert Betzler.  Have a good week, Fr. Kishore Babu Battu Page 2 St. Valentine Heartline July 12, 2020 et us pray for those who are Readings for the week of  Liturgy Schedule ill and have asked for our July 12, 2020 L Sunday: Is 55:1011/Ps 65:10, prayer:    11, 1213, 14 [Lk 8:8]/ Mass Intentions Judi Marshall Rosemary Byle   Rom 8:1823/Mt 13:1 Josiah Wardrop Jim Dishman   23 or 13:19  Bridget Brennan Enrico Canini Monday: Is 1:1017/Ps 50:89, MondayNJuly 13 Weekday, St. Hurley Phyllis Heiser   16bc17, 21 and 23 Henry Kaitlin Klaus Dan Jenkins   [23b]/Mt 10:34N11:1 8:30 a.m. Mass in Church  Marcia Favor Stephen  Tuesday: Is 7:19/Ps 48:23a, All living and deceased members John Dillon Crane, Sr.   3b4, 56, 78 [cf. 9d]/ of St. Valentine Parish Jim Dwyer Francis    Mt 11:2024 TuesdayN July 14 St. Kateri Shirley  Flannigan Wednesday: Is 10:57, 13b16/Ps Zimmerman Betty Smith   94:56, 78, 910, 14 Tekakwitha, Virgin    15 [14a]/Mt 11:2527 8:30 a.m. Mass in Church Kevin Dewan Kathy Myers Mike Whalen Joseph Thursday: Is 26:79, 12, 1619/ For all caregivers   Ps 102:1314ab and WednesdayNJuly 15 St. Colleen Devine Tomlinson Clara Macek Dave DeMarco   15, 1618, 1921 Bonaventure, Bishop and Autumn Carolyn    [20b]/Mt 11:2830 Doctor of the Church Pattenaude Ambramovich Friday: Is 38:16, 2122, 78/ No Mass at St. Valentine Donna Kern Katie Webber   Is 38:10, 11, 12abcd, Thursday, July 16 Weekday, Carol Sneary Tony Janisse   16 [cf. 17b]/Mt 12:18 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Loretta Kemp Victoria Saturday: Mi 2:15/Ps 10:12, 3 8:30 a.m. Mass in Church Barb Burgess Stephenson   4, 78, 14 [12b]/Mt James Nielsen Joe Stephenson   12:1421 For all first responders Next Sunday: Wis 12:13, 1619/Ps FridayNJuly 17 Weekday  Tanner Wertz John Fitzpatrick Joan Reilly Wayne Reynolds   86:56, 910, 1516 8:30 a.m. Mass in Church   [5a]/Rom 8:2627/Mt For all priests and religious  Barb Schenden Patricia Longo Andrew Ricotta Shaunda Trafk   13:2443 or 13:2430 SaturdayNJuly 18 Weekday, Jessica Coran Mike Rodriguez St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest Thomas  Diane Hura Don’t ForgetN 5:00 p.m. Mass in Church McCracken Robert Tworek Change in Mass Times Mr. and Mrs. J. Kurzeja, Mr. and Pat Bachman Margaret At St. Valentine beginning Mrs. T. Kurzeja and J. Kurzeja, Connie Rosendall Walt Kieltyka Saturday, August 1st Mass will Sr. req. by the Skora Family Jeanette  Elizabeth Klaus change from 5 pm to 5:30 pm. On SundayNJuly 19 Sixteenth Shamma Kathryn Potts Sunday, August 2nd Mass times will be changed to 8:30 am and 12 Sunday in Ordinary Time  Dick & Darlene  Sherry Snigier Eckstein Elizabeth Klaus noon. 9:00 a.m. Mass in Church Daily Mass at St. Valentine will be Georgiana Rydzewski req. by on Thursday and Friday’s at 8:30 Bob & Linda Rybka We offer our deepest sympathy to am in the Church. 12 noon Mass in Church John Cubba upon the death of his Our Lady of Loretto Georgiana Rydzewski req. by brother, Carl CubbaMay all the souls At OLL Mass times on Saturday Bible Study Group of the faithful departed through the will be at 4 pm and Sunday Mass at All living and deceased members mercy of God, rest in peace.  10 am. Daily Mass will be on of St. Valentine Parish Monday and Tuesday’s at 8:30 am. Please Note Daily and Weekend Masses Weekly Donations  Please maintain social distancing If you are able to donate at this time, of 6’ apart. please drop off your envelope at the Prayer List  Everyone over the age of 2 needs parish office. Please enter the door at If you would like your to wear a mask. the parish office and place your name or that of a loved  Enter the Communion line by the donation in the black mailbox. Fr. one on our prayer list, side aisles Kishore checks the mailbox several please call the parish office  Place your donation envelopes in times during the day. or mail it to St. at 3135324394. Thank the baskets at the doors of the Valentine Parish Office, 25881 Dow, you. Church. Redford, MI 48239. Our parish is grateful for your continued support  When leaving the Church after at this time. Thank you! Blood Drive Today! Mass, please remember social Please see the article on page I4. f distancing. June 28th  you made an appointment, please  You may take home and keep a 7,545.00 honor it and remember NO WALK INS missalette. You will find the books July 5th will be accepted. at the doors of the Church. 7,896.00 July 12, 2020 St. Valentine Heartline Page 3 Online Giving Coming Up This Week Make A Gift To Your Parish Saturday, July 18th   Confirmation, Church M 11:00 am  Without offertory, parishes rely Bishop Arturo Cepeda  heavily on online, Confessions, Church M 3:30 pm M mailedin gifts to fund ministry. 4:15 pm *Taken from Catholic 5:00 pm Mass  Sunday, July 19th  If you feel comfortable making an From Faith Formation 9:00 am Mass and 12:00 noon Mass online contribution to St. Valentine Focus on the Good Parish, please read the steps below  how to make your weekly donations Sumer Office Hours When I was a child, my mother had during this time. The Parish Office will reopen during a set of sculptures resembling three  the summer months with shortened human heads. One head had hands The archdiocese has created an hours. We ask that you conduct any over the ears, one had hands over the easy to use webpage,  parish business during the “summer eyes, and one had hands over the give.aod.org  office hours”. mouth. Of course, they depicted the that will allow your gift to your Monday  Thursday 8:30 am M 2 p.m. phrase, “Hear no evil; see no evil; parish. Friday M CLOSED speak no evil.” I have seen these  The office will close daily from 11:30 images repeated many times since Thank you for considering making a a.m. M 12:30 p.m. Monday M Thursday then, usually as the monkey heads gift online to support our parish. Your for lunch.  from a Japanese proverb, which gift will be credited and distributed In light of the pandemic, we ask you would have probably seemed a little directly to our parish. to keep your business visits short less creepy to me when I was a small  and please wear your mask. Thank child. Apparently, there is no We look forward to an end to the you for your consideration. The parish consensus about the full meaning or Coronavirus pandemic and resuming has a voicemail system that will take certain origin of these three images the sacramental life of the church in messages when the office is closed.  nor the phrase. At the very least, it our parishes. causes us to reflect on the need to It is a Joy to Welcome into the avoid evil and look for the good in I Can Hear You!! Family of God things. We welcome your newly baptized We started singing As I have lived my life, I have come child into our parish family. We share softly through our to believe there are more people who your joy and excitement. Your child is masks two weekends lives their lives in a contrary manner to a gift to all of us. With you we cele- ago. When I announced these images. It is not that they seek brated the beginning of your child’s this news at one mass, I heard evil, but it is as if they “see no good, faith. May God bless your family and someone cheer (softly), “Yay!” Trust hear no good, and speak no good.” guide us all as we journey together. me, I felt the same way. These past Gossiping is the way they pass the To the newest Christian in your home, two weekends have been one step time, and they always seem to find the welcome! closer to something “normal” at mass, negative in people and situations. Kinsley Ann Wetzel and it feels good! BUT.. Being a good steward certainly means Child of Derek Wetzel & We’re still not out of the woods that we do not seek evil, but more Melissa Gunnell than that, it means that we see the when it comes to this dreaded virus. abundance of good things all around Masks still need to be worn, social us. These gifts of God are big and distancing still must be maintained little, profound and ordinary. By seeing less our infection numbers rise and the world in this way, we begin to we’re ordered to stay home again.  change our personalities and our I’m trying out some new overall disposition. We always need to Communion songs; I hope you’ve follow a new proverb: see all the good, noticed. Some are pretty good and hear all the good, and speak about the we can start using them in the future; good. Amen. others are okay or just soso. It’s N Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi good to explore some new music for the future, when we can hopefully sing everything at mass. In the meantime please continue to pray for those infected, our health care providers, and all of our essential workers out there; maybe even a quick prayer for your Music Minister too.  God Bless! Kevin Cushman Page 4 St. Valentine Heartline July 12, 2020 52 Sundays name KateriCatherine on Easter 15th Sunday in  Take Time to Chat Sunday. Ordinary Time  What does a plant need to grow? After her conversion, she was  What do you need to grow in treated as a slave. Because she Using the best seeds faith? would not work on Sunday, she was doesn’t always guarantee the best  Have you ever planted seeds? denied food for that day. Her life in plants. An older Italian gentleman What happened? grace grew rapidly. She was straight from Italy gave me these  Retell this parable in your words. powerfully moved by God’s love for amazing tomato seeds that he Take turns and be creative. human beings and saw the dignity of claimed produced the best tomatoes Liturgy Link each of her people. She eventually ever grown. Without doubt, the fruit he The sanctuary lamp is a red light stole away and began a 200 mile walk shared with me was a testament to near the tabernacle. It signifies the to a Christian Indian village at Sault that fact. These tomatoes were presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, St. Louis, near Montreal. For 3 years, amazing! I couldn’t wait until the next which is reserved in the tabernacle. she grew in holiness under the growing season to plant these seeds Find the sanctuary lamp in your direction of a priest an older Iroquois and harvest my own tomatoes. The church. woman, giving herself totally to God in whole experiment ended up a failure. I Fun Facts! long hours of prayer, in charity, and in did everything the gentleman said, but All weeds need moisture, oxygen strenuous penance. At 23, Kateri took my fruit didn’t even come close. What and the right temperature to a vow of virginity, and unprecedented happened? At first I was perplexed, germinate, or grow. Until they have act for a Native American woman then some years later the light these conditions, seeds remain whose future depended on being dawned. The problem wasn’t the dormant and do nothing. married. She was beatified in 1980 seeds, it was the soil! Family Fun and canonized in 2012.  Visit a Local Pilgrimage Site or Family Prayer You cannot sow seeds in any old Historic Church Jesus, I Trust in You place and in a haphazard way and The Archdiocese of Detroit has a Pray together these words: expect them to be at their best. It rich history and many interesting Jesus, I Trust in You, doesn’t work that way. Planting the places to visit. Consider getting some Jesus, I Trust in You, seeds is the easiest part. Preparing families together to visit a local Jesus, I Trust in You, the soil is the challenge. Tilling, pilgrimage site or historic church in Amen. mulching, enriching, and building up the Archdiocese of Detroit. Call ahead  the nutrients are all required for good for mass time and ask if someone can  fruit. Then after the seeds are planted, give you a tour after Mass. Here are more care is required in order to some suggestions. Obviously with maintain that healthy, nutrient rich Covid, different arrangements may environment for those seeds to sprout, have to be made. grow, and flourish. God happily sows  Center, Detroit Church Missalettes the seeds of his Word. What do we do with them?  Cathedral of the Most Blessed Please feel free to take home as  Sacrament, Detroit many missalette as you wish from the If we expect to be a passive  National Basilic Shrine of the back of the Church. We will not be using them this year. bystander and have good fruit Little Flower, Royal Oak magically grow, we are mistaken.  Ste. Anne, Detroit Bearing the good fruit of God’s Word  Sweetest Heart of Mary, Detroit Bottles and Cans requires preparation and work. We  St. Joseph, Detroit Consider donating your bottles and have to cultivate the soil of our lives  Old St. Mary’s, Detroit cans to the Faith Formation so that those seeds can find a proper  St. Aloysius, Detroit Department and School. We use the home. This one thing alone takes a Meet our extended family monies from the bottles and cans to great deal of patience, time, and St. Kateri Tekawitha  help defray the cost of programs. effort. What kind of preparation have (Feast Day July 14) we put into our lives so that we can be 1656April 17, 1680 a recipient of God’s seed? It takes a Tekawitha was born near the place Blood Drive N Today  great deal of soulsearching and ego where St. Isaac Joges and Jean de July 12th checking to properly prepare. God is Lelande were killed in Auriesville, Please keep your scheduled the ever faithful and persistent sower. New York. Her mother was a appointment, as there are no If the seeds do not bear fruit the first Christian Algonquin, taken captive by walkins allowed. time, God will come back time and the Iroquois and given as a wife to the Thank you! time again, giving it another try.  chief of the Mohawk clan. Tekawitha Cecilia Gallagher M  If we have created a suitable bed for lost her family in a small pox Blood Drive Coordinator epidemic. Tekawitha was moved by sowing, then once the seed is sown, the words of three missionaries who we must properly maintain them. What lodged with her and an uncle. At the is our maintenance plan for the seeds age of 19 she took the step of of God’s Word? We need not only a converting. She was baptized with the (Continued on page 5) July 12, 2020 St. Valentine Heartline Page 5 Pantry Item St. Valentine Directory Tuna Fish  Thank you for your Redford, MI 48239 continued generosity. Rectory  You may drop your food 25881 Dow St. 3135324394 Fax 3135372237 off at the back of church or between School  the doors at the parish office. 25875 Hope St.3135337149 Fax3135333060  Parish Website  www.stvalentineparish.us (Continued from page 4) source for water but a watering Parish Email Address schedule. We need to weed, aerate [email protected] the soil, nurture the young plants, Facebook Rev. Socorro Fernandes SAC …………………………………………………....Pastor protect them, and provide proper Rev. Kishore Babu Battu SAC ….Associate Pastor & Director of Faith Formation nutrients. What does our spiritual Dcn. Lawrence Toth……..…………………………………………………….…..Deacon maintenance plan look like? If we Sue Daly..Parish Secretary/Receptionist have done all things well, imagine Kathryn Potts x203Bookkeeper Rachel DamuthPrincipal what the seeds of God’s Word could Kris BrakeSchool Secretary produce in us! Bonnie Danic x201Faith Formation Secretary/Bulletin Editor  Rick Charlton & Bill CharltonMaintenance ©LPi Faith Formation Office3135324394 x201 Music Minister Kevin Cushman 3139308907 Choir Practice Social Media Links for  Thursday7:30 p.m. Mass Schedule Detroit Catholic Saturday evening:5:00 p.m. Facebook.com/DetroitCatholic Sunday morning:9:00 a.m. Twitter: @DetroitCatholic 12:00 noon Daily MassNJuly Instagram.com/DetroitCatholic Monday, Tuesday, Thursday8:30 a.m. in Church Website: www.DetroitCatholic.com Friday8:30 a.m. in Church Holyday Schedule Holyday: 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. Support of U.S.  Confession Saturday afternoon:3:304:15 p.m. or by appointment Armed Forces Baptism As a parish community we would Prior arrangements must be made by calling the parish office. Parents must attend an like to support the men and women informational meeting. Matrimony serving in our Armed Forces with our Arrangements for Matrimony must be made at least six months in advance. prayer.  CatechumenateRCIA Lord, Hold these men and women in Please call the Parish Office for more information.  your loving hands and protect them St. Valentine Parish Office Hours as they protect us and bless them for MondayNFriday….8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. their selfless acts. We pray for peace Closed daily from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in our world.  Saturday & SundayCLOSED Credit Union  Michael Arsenault, David DeAngelis, Catholic Vantage Financial7344320212 Christopher LePain, Patricia Molloy, Located in Livonia and Plymouth Service Hours: Scott Shoemaker, Christopher Tibei, Mon. Tues..9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Joshua Coe, Anthony Potter, Andrew Wed………………………………………………………………….10 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Thurs. Fri 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Kliman, Luke Leveillee, Michael Cain, Sat 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Kristen Lauber, Frank Bordo, Bonda Revised 62520 Bordo, Larry Silk, Bradley Swanson, Gary Semon, Brian Jones, Seth DeTavernier, Christopher Rodriguez, Adam Fisher, Brent Byerle, David Starsinich, Timothy Mc Carthy, Rob Parish Council  Tom Alexander Nitz, Jesse Moore, Michael J. Ryan, Ron Fron….……………………Chairperson Dave Kemp and Loretta Kemp Mike Nowak………………….…...... Worship Ryan Coppens, Daniel T. Ryan, Wendy Wagner…………….Vice Chairperson Jeff Kramer……………………..…Secretary Joe Kelly…………………...Finance Council Justin Ryan, Micheal Nalepa, Steven Rosemary Fox……………Christian Service Tomlinson and Alex Blackwell. Anthony Janisse Frank Zbikowski Rachel Damuth……………. School Advisory

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