ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY

401 BROOKLINE BLVD.

HAVERTOWN, PA 19083

RECTORY: 610.449.1613 FAX: 610.449.7041

www.annunciationparish.com

Reverend James M. Cox, Pastor Msgr. Ignatius L. Murray, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Sean Loomis, Part-Time Parochial Vicar Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, In residence

Deacon Bob McElwee

Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation Sunday 7:30, 9:00, 11:00 AM Saturday morning 9:05 to 9:35 AM Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Saturday afternoon 3:15–4:15 PM 8:30 AM Or by appointment. Tuesday and Thursday 6:30 AM Holy Day Vigil 7:00 PM, 6:30 & 8:30 AM Sacrament of Baptism Pre Jordan classes are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM. Pre-registration is re- Parish Office Hours M-F 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM quired one week in advance. Baptisms are held the first and third Sundays of each month at 12:15 PM. Parish Registration Call the rectory to register 610-449-1613. We welcome new members to our Parish Family. Please call the parish office to register. Sacrament of Marriage Couples who desire to be married in the Church, must make an appointment with a priest at least six months in advance. Please do not schedule your wedding without first confirming church availability. Rev. James M. Cox Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament [email protected] Rev. Sean Loomis Every Wednesday following the 8:30 am Mass in church. Evening Prayer and Benediction will be [email protected] celebrated at 7:00 pm Wednesday evening. Celie Adams, Parish Secretary Church is open every day 8:30 am to 3:00 pm for [email protected] private prayer.

Peter DiNofia, Business Manager [email protected] Anointing of the Sick This sacrament is available to schedule prior to major Leslee Smith, CRE/PREP surgery or in the case of serious illness. [email protected] Elizabeth Jane McGuire, Music Director Communion for the Homebound [email protected] If you or a family member are unable to attend

Sunday Mass, please contact the Parish Office so that arrangements can be made for you to receive Holy Cardinal John Foley Regional Catholic School Communion at home. Mrs. MaryAnn DeAngelo, Principal 610-446-4608

26 September 2021 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday 9/26 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 am John McGrath 9:00 am Joseph Brumfield 11:00 am Robert Smedley Monday 9/27 St. Vincent de Paul Exposition and Adoration in church 8:30 am Grace Burns every Wednesday Tuesday 9/28 St. Wenceslaus St. Lawrence Ruiz immediately following the 6:30 am Thomas Mahoney 8:30 am Mass Wednesday 9/29 SS. Michael, and Evening Prayer and Benediction Raphael, Archangels is celebrated at 7:00 pm 8:30 am Patrick Hart Thursday 9/30 St. Jerome 6:30 am William Smithson (living) We continue to pray for all the men Friday 10/1 St. Therese of the and women serving in the armed forces. Child May the sacrifices they are making bring 8:30 am Marie Tomasetti peace, and may God bring them Saturday 10/2 Weekday home safely. 8:30 am Santuary Guild 4:30 pm People of the Parish PRAYER CORNER All Masses are livestreamed Together this week as a parish, let us join in Please go to our website Annunciationparish.com praying for families living on Holbrook Road, and use the Vimeo or Facebook link Kathmere Road, Kenmore Road, E. Langhorne Ave. https://vimeo.com/event/30234

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THE SICK OF THE PARISH:

Liz Campbell, Kathy Cera, Tiffany Cera, Nancy Cicione, Weekly Collection Report Jack Cloran, Jen Colletti, Nick Compton, Carrie Connolly, Basket Week of 9/19/2021 $ 6,218 Roxanne Danley, Lucy DeLuca, Matthew Donahue, EFT Week of 9/19/2021 $ 3,172 Lauren Engle, Nan Fagan, Connie Gibson, Sean Total $ 9,390 Grogan, Charlie Green, Ben Hamilton, Conall Harvey, Michael Howard, Mary Huha, Dana Iannella, Teresa Basket Week of 9/20/2020 $ 6,082 Immel, Susan Battani Karwacki, Barry Kelly, Edward EFT Week of 9/20/2020 $ 3,983 Kolbe, Rick Kroger, Francisco & Anna Koo, Sophia Total $ 10,065 Leidy, Jack Luli, John Mahan, Barbara McCaulley, Kathy Thank you for your continued support especially McDougall, Mary Mensack, Charles Morris, Franny through these challenging times. Murray, Msgr. Ignatius Murray, Florence Myers, Paul Myers, Tim Pickeral, Thompson Pitz, James Rastatter, Steve Ranaldi, Drew Robertson, Rosalie Rotondi, Mi- Sign up for Flocknote chael Scanlon, Henry Schovain, Christine Seltzer, Barba- Get important updates via email & text to Sign up ra Tourdot, Lucille Vitulli,,Rita Walsh, Lily Walker, Text: abvm to 84576 on your cell phone Isabel Wilsbach, Visit: www.flocknote.com/AnnunciationBVM All the sick and shut-ins of the parish Unsubscribe anytime—no spam we promise remain in our prayers.

2 039AnnuciationBVM The Sanctuary Lamp burns for seven days We welcome new members to our and is placed near the tabernacle to desig- Parish Family. Please call or email the nate the real presence of the Lord in our parish office to register. Church. The Sanctuary Lamp will burn [email protected] during the week of September 26th in 610 449-1613 memory of Mary Griesser.

Please join us today! A Catholic "Blue Mass" to honor, pray for, and bless all Haverford Township Police Officers, Firefighters, and EMS Responders will be held Today, Sunday, September 26th at 11:00 am Mass and Lunch in the church hall. Formerly the Oktoberfest, please join us for our A.B.V.M. Fall Social. Highlights include music, delicious food, good beer and both indoor/outside seating. We IRISH CEILI DANCING are planning an outdoor bier garten in addition to our Stress Free Fun so Jig don’t Jog. usual indoor seating. Register now by purchasing your Join us for our next class on Tuesday, tickets at https://my.cheddarup.com/c/a-b-v-m-fall-social October 5th at 7 pm in the ABVM OR www.signugenius.com/go/4090d48a5a92ca1fe3- church hall for dance class. For information email annuncition Bobby Graham [email protected] Get those tickets now at our lower rate! Sales go up at the door. Adults 16 & up $35.00 11 to 15, $20.00, 4 to 10, $10.00 We are accepting donations for water and soda to help offset the cost. Please kindly consider helping make this night a big success!

Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

Interested in becoming a Catholic? Are you seeking to be baptized? Have you been bap- tized in another faith tradition and are interest- ed in joining the ? Are you a baptized Catholic who has never received Eu- charist or Confirmation? If any of the above apply, RCIA may be for you… RCIA provides an opportunity to be guided to a deeper under- standing of Catholic teachings and prayer through a process adapted to the needs and situations of adults seeking to be fully initiated Catholics. Please contact the rectory for infor- mation 610 449-1613.

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4 Cinderella's Genderless Godmother ANNE HENDERSHOTT For the child — and the adult who knows there is still a child in all of us — fairy tales reveal truths about our- selves and the world. As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim stated in his extraordinary study titled The Uses of Enchantment (1976), "the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in the greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one's life." Children who are familiar with fairy tales understand that these stories speak to them in the language of symbols — not the reality of everyday life. Children know that the fairy stories are not "real," yet the real events in their lives become important through the symbolic meaning that is attached to them. They know that the events described in these stories happened "once upon a time," in a "world far from here." The old castles, the magical fairies, and the enchanted forests exist in a unique fairy-tale time — a time described in the opening lines of the Brothers Grimm's "The Frog King" as a time that was long, long ago, "when wishing still helped." The original fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm always had a moral message — a warning that we must be virtuous or else hor- rible things will happen to us. The classic fairy tales always ended with the wicked punished and goodness overcoming evil. And although Disney has distorted some of our most beloved fairy tales — like their most recent production of Sleeping Beauty, replete with a morally ambiguous character like Maleficent — Sony's newest version of Cinderella promises to create even more chaos in the child's mind. Just as there should not be shades of gray in a truly evil figure (like Maleficent) in a fairy tale, it will be even more difficult for children to understand how the Fairy Godmother in Sony's new Cinderella can be what some reviews are calling a "fierce and fabulous" man wearing a dress. Releasing on Amazon Prime today, Sony's Cinderella features Billy Porter as Cinderella's beloved and magical Fairy God- mother. Rather than the grandmotherly fairy godmother of the original Disney classic Cinderella, children are presented with a young gay man wearing a ball gown, high heels, and carrying a magic wand. Claiming that "Magic has no gender … we are presenting this character as genderless … At least that's how I'm playing it. And it's really powerful." The creators of what reviewers have called the "queer" Cinderella claim that the "next generation is already more than ready to see this kind of representation in their favorite media … You know this is a classic fairy tale for a new generation, and I think that the new generation is really ready. You know, the kids are ready. It's the grown-ups that are slowing stuff down." The saddest part of all of this is that Billy Porter is correct — many children are indeed ready. For those children who are en- rolled in progressive public schools throughout the country, gender fluidity has been taught to them from their earliest days in kindergarten. They may have attended Drag Queen Story Time at their local libraries, or even had visits from Drag Queens at their schools. LGBTQ issues have been a part of their public-school curriculum for nearly a decade now, and in some school districts, par- ents can no longer opt out from having their children exposed to the LGBTQ ideology. They have read that Heather has Two Mommies,and they have been introduced to the idea that they, too, can change their gender anytime they want to. There are gay-straight alliances for children even in the primary grades K-5 in many school districts, as children are encouraged to em- brace whatever gender and sexual orientation they may choose. Next month, Sony will make it even easier for the LGBTQ community to reach an even younger audience — those in pre- school. And although Billy Porter curtly responded to a reporter for Page Six by saying, "If you don't like it, don't watch it," when he received criticism for wearing a dress for his appearance on PBS's Sesame Street, it is difficult to ignore the constant media barrage targeted to very young children — even pre-school children. Now that the ideology has reached into Sesame Street and our most beloved fairy tales, it is almost impossible to avoid. This is sad because fairy tales are important. They speak directly to the child at a time when the child's major challenge is to bring some order to the inner chaos of his or her mind. These stories help children understand themselves better — a neces- sary condition for achieving some congruence between their perceptions and the external world. Confirming their inner expe- riences and thoughts, fairy tales help children feel validated. In Orthodoxy, G.K. Chesterton wrote: "My first and last philosophy, that which I believe in with unbroken certainty, I learned in the nursery … The things I believed most in then, the things I believe most now, are the things called fairy ta- les." Chesterton is speaking of the morality of fairy tales: There is the chivalrous lesson of "Jack the Giant Killer," that giants should be killed because they are gigantic. It is a manly mutiny against pride … There is the lesson of "Cinderella," which is the same as that of the Magnificat — exaltavit hu- miles (he lifted up the humble). There is the great lesson of "Beauty and the Beast," that a thing must be loved before it is loveable … I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by fairy tales. When Chesterton says that fairy tales are "entirely reasonable things," Bettelheim said he "is speaking of them as experiences, as mirrors of inner experience, not of reality; and it is as such that the child understands them." continued page 6

5 039AnnunciationBVM While they are moral tales, fairy tales are more than "fables." Fables tell us what we ought to do, and although they can be en- tertaining, they make real demands on us. They are a call to action. In contrast, the message of the fairy tale operates in the unconscious — offering children solutions to problems they cannot even acknowledge to themselves. The best ones — includ- ing classic ones by the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen — address the existential predicament. In The Uses of En- chantment, Bettelheim states, "the fairy tale reassures, gives hope for the future, and holds out the promise of a happy end- ing … That is why Lewis Carroll called the fairy tale a 'love gift.'" These stories are still important today. In fact, they are probably more important than ever as we try to find meaning in our increasingly bereft lives. Increasing numbers of children are no longer raised within a loving community in which the Church provides a source of meaning. Fairy tales are "fully moral" because the listener of the fairy tale understands that true happiness and peace rely upon certain moral precepts or conditions. When these are broken, there can be neither peace nor happiness. As one writer has said: "The condition may vary according to the tale, but the tales mimic the great understanding of Genesis when it declares that God Himself predicated all future happiness on one and only one condition: from all other trees thou may eat, but from this one thou may not." When Eve defied the condition, death entered the world. As Chesterton reminds us, the best fairy tales — like all the best stories — "document the moral imperative that there exists a condition, and that if the condition is broken, then all hell may well break loose." Billy Porter's Cinderella is not a Lewis Carroll "love gift." Porter and the LGBTQ community know the power of the fairy tale, and this is why they are attempting to reshape it into their own image. They cannot allow children to embrace the idea of love between a man and a woman as natural. They cannot have children seeing that falling in love and getting married is "normal." Billy Porter and the LGBTQ community — among Sony's biggest supporters — know that distorting a beautiful fairy tale like Cinderella needs to occur in order to promote the deviant and destructive ideology that gender is a choice — not a gift from God.

St. Denis Seniors Lumen de Lumine: Supporting the Regular Monday Meetings at 1:00pm Vocation of Fatherhood 9/27(BINGO), 10/11 (Entertainment), 10/25, Tuesday, October 19th at 7:30 PM 11/15 (Noon) , 12/13 Lumen de Lumine is for Catholic fathers who seek to more faithfully live out their vocation of fatherhood. By focusing on three elements - God the Father as the Casino—Nov 3 -$30, get $20 back model of fatherhood, the witness of saintly fathers Memorial Mass and Box Lunch throughout history, and understanding the complimen- tary and cooperative nature of marriage - we can bet- Monday December 6 - Luncheon ter understand what it means to be a father and their Christmas Show in Lancaster role in shaping their family life. Meetings occur on the Sunday December 12 third Tuesday of each month and feature commu- nal prayer, reflection and discussion on a selected topic, and fellowship and sharing focused on support- For more info call Anita 610-449-5756 or ing one another. Mary 610-449-7085 Lumen de Lumine is facilitated by Daniel Guertin. Dan- iel currently serves as the Associate Director for the Center for Church Management in the Villanova ABVM Young Adults School of Business. He lives in Drexel Hill with his wife and four children as is a member of St. Andrew the Apostle parish. Fellowship, Book Club, Service. Twice Monthly evening For more information, contact Daniel meetings at school. If interested, please at [email protected]. contact Ryan Rastatter [email protected] Parish Giving

Annunciation BVM Parish has enlisted Parish Giving to pro- St. John’s Hospice vide its members with the opportunity to use Electronic Funds Transfer. Parish Giving is being offered to you free of charge. Next pick up date for casseroles is Friday, October 15th. At the same time, Annunciation will benefit from a reliable, Casserole pans and recipes are available in the more efficient and more convenient means to process the vestibule of the parish office. contributions that make it possible to support its mission. To sign up visit the website: www.parish-giving.org

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