Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time August 29, 2021 Rev. Gary Dowsey, Pastor | Twitter | Instagram: @heyfrgary † Rev. Jonathan Stephanz, Parochial Vicar
MASSES Daily: Monday Friday 9am Saturday Vigil: 5pm Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30am, 5pm MASSES LIVE STREAMED Saturday Vigil: 5pm Sunday: 9:30am SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 89am
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Wednesday: 24pm | Saturday: 810am QUIET PRAYER Monday Friday: 24pm
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OUR LADY OF LOURDES PARISH FAMILY, DUNEDIN, FL Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Scripture Readings Next Week September 5 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Cardinal Chibly Langlois Is 35:47a Ps 146:710 Jas 2:15 Mk 7:3137
Mass Intentions SATURDAY, AUGUST 28 Fr. Gary writes: St Augustine 5:00PM The Members of the Parish SUNDAY, AUGUST 29 A number of you have asked about our twin parish and school of the 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Sacred Heart in Acul des Pins, Haiti, in light of the recent devastating 7:30AM William Welch earthquake. Our twin parish is in the north east of the country, the 9:30AM † The Palumbo Family earthquake was in the south, the epicenter around the city of Les 11:30AM † Thomas & Yolanda Papinga Caynes. On our last visit we travelled to Les Caynes to meet the 5:00PM † Abraham & Theresa Jimenez Cardinal, Chibly Langlois, the first ever Haitian Cardinal, appointed MONDAY, AUGUST 30 by Pope Francis in 2014. He is a wonderful man, and greeted us 9:00AM † John & Theresa Stacknick with such love and grace in 2018. He was visiting a parish when the † Adele Werner earthquake struck. While he survived, the house he lived in (where we visited him) collapsed, and one of the priests who shared the TUESDAY, AUGUST 31 rectory was killed. Five other rectories were destroyed, along with a 9:00AM † Joe Toomey number of schools and convents. Haiti seems to go from one WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 disaster to another, one crisis to another. Just a few weeks ago, World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation President Jovenel Moise was assassinated in his residence. We met 9:00AM † Mildred, Steve, Helen Popson the President, and his wife, at Mass on our last visit. Covid19 is † Charles Spencer rampant with little availability to vaccines. Haiti, being the poorest THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 country in the Western Hemisphere, seems to go from one crisis to 9:00AM † Stephen Pejka another. The situation would be more dire without the love that flows from the Catholic Church, providing much of the medical, social and FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 educational needs of the Haitian people. Bishop Parkes has sent St Gregory the Great, Pope $50,000 from our Diocese, and Catholic Relief Services are 9:00AM † The Rardin Family providing emergency aid. If you wish to make a monetary gift, please SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4 do so through Catholic Relief Services: www.crs.org. We will Blessed Virgin Mary continue to support our twin parish and school, and I thank you for 5:00PM † Don & Polly Kibbey your continued love and generosity. You are beacons of hope, vehicles of love and channels of faith. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Pope Francis has once again spoken about the merits of vaccination 7:30AM The Members of the Parish in combating the Covid19 pandemic, describing it as an “act of 9:30AM † Vincent LaBanco love.” He urges us to get vaccinated: “Thanks to God’s grace and the 11:30AM † Janice Stewart work of many, we now have vaccines to protect us from Covid19. 5:00PM † Gilda Lavenia They bring hope to end the pandemic, but only if they are available to all and if we collaborate with one another.” He added: “Getting the vaccines that are authorized by the respective authorities is an act of love. And helping the majority of people to do so, is an act of love. Love for oneself, love for our families and friends, and love for all peoples. Getting vaccinated is a simple yet profound way to care for another, especially the most vulnerable. I pray to God that each one Parish Mission Statement of us can make his or her own small gesture of love. No matter how “Our Lady of Lourdes Parish is a family of believers, small, love is always grand. Small gestures for a better future.” The embraced by the Father’s love, nourished by Jesus Archbishop of Los Angeles, Jose Gomez, President of the United in Word and Sacrament, and strengthened by the States Conference of Catholic Bishops, echoed the words of the Holy Spirit. Inspired by Mary we commit ourselves to Pope: “The terrible coronavirus pandemic has caused illness, death live and proclaim the Gospel of Salvation.” and suffering across the entire world. May God grant us the grace to face it with the strength of faith, ensuring that vaccines are available for all, so that we can all get immunized.” We take Christ’s words to heart, “Be not afraid, I am with you Altar Servers GREEN Team Sept 4-5 always.” Amen!
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August 29, 2021 OURLADYDUNEDIN.ORG
Wednesday, September 1
Help for Haiti Bishop Gregory Parkes has approved $50,000 from the Diocese of St. Petersburg Disaster Relief Fund to respond to the earthquake that has devastated parts of Haiti. These funds are made possible by generous donors from our parishes. Visit: gulfcoastcatholic.org/ popefrancisurgessolidarityhaitiafterdevastatingearthquake to learn more about this and other stories. Humanitarian assistance is also being provided by Catholic Relief Services (CRS). Your donations to CRS will provide immediate assistance to our Haitian sisters and brothers. To make a donation, visit: support.crs.org/donate/haitiearthquake.
Receiving Communion During the pandemic, we encourage every- one to receive Communion in the hand. If you desire to receive on the tongue, please wait until the very end of your line. Sept. 1112
Mask Policy for Ministries & Groups For all groups and ministries meeting at Our Volunteers Needed Lady of Lourdes, masks are optional for all We are looking for volunteers to help out at the those who are vaccinated, and strongly Welcome Table once a month following Mass. recommended for those who are not vaccinated. Training will be provided. If you are interested, please call the Parish Office at (727) 7333606. Thank you!
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EVANGELIZATION, FORMATION, YOUTH AND FAMILY LIFE
Little Saints: Age 2Kindergarten SUNDAYS DURING THE 9:30AM MASS Please drop your children at the school at 9:20am. Register at ourladydunedin.org or contact Mackenzie for more information [email protected] or 7277330872. Quest Kids: Grades 15 SUNDAY, AUGUST 29th, 10:45AMNOON “WHY DID GOD MAKE US? (No Quest Kids Next Weekend, September 5th) Quest Kids is a faith adventure, inspiring our children, through Christ, to be the best version of themselves. Register at ourladydunedin.org or contact Mackenzie for more information at 7277330872or [email protected]. EDGE: Middle School WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st NO EDGE THIS WEEK! 68th graders are invited to join us next on September 15th from 6:308pm in the Conmy Center for an EDGE Night! Register at ourladydunedin.org or contact Mackenzie for more information at 7277330872 or [email protected]. We are looking for volunteers to help!
Life Teen: High School SUNDAY, AUGUST 29th! 68PM A SHATTERING NIGHT! (No Life Teen Next Weekend, September 5th) 9th12th graders are invited to join us for a night about how God reveals himself to us in so many ways! Join us for 5pm Mass, then meet in the Youth Room of the Conmy Center following Mass and bring a friend! We are currently looking for sponsors to fund our weekly dinners. Contact Mackenzie at [email protected] or 7277330872. Young Adults JOIN US TUESDAY, AUGUST 31st, 7PM IN CONMY RM A For more information, email Fr. Jonathan: [email protected].
Confirmation for High School Students INFORMATION MEETING SEPT 12, 3:30PM IN CONMY RM B We don’t want any of our young people to miss the grace of this beautiful lifechanging Sacrament. For more info, contact [email protected] or 7277330872. Volunteers Needed to Share the Faith We are looking for individuals interested in being a part of our Faith Formation Team! Please contact our office at (727) 7330872 or email [email protected] for more information!
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Chorale This choir sings for the 11:30am Mass on Sunday mornings. We meet in the choir room at 10:45am for warmups, and to go over music. In the Fall, rehearsals take place on Thursday evenings from 78:30pm. Once we begin practicing music for Christmas, extended rehearsals will be necessary. Beginning in January (after Christmas break), rehearsals take place on Wednesday evenings from 78:30pm. Once we begin practicing music for Holy Week and Easter, extended rehearsals will be necessary. This choir is for singers in high school and older, and by AUDITION only. Auditions Auditions for Chorale are scheduled for September 7th, 8th, and 9th, beginning at 6:00pm. Multiple dates are being offered for convenience purposes: you only need to come to one of those nights to audition. Auditions are set up in 10minute intervals, but most likely won't take that long. Auditions will be conducted in a oneonone setting. Participants will be asked to sing "America, The Beautiful," verse one. There will also be ear training and music reading exercises. Signup sheets will be posted outside of the choir room on the bulletin board. Please print your name legibly!Everyone who auditions will be notified of the results on Friday, September 10th. Winter Friends/Snowbirds If you will be arriving after audition week, please contact the Director of Music to schedule a time to hear you sing. COVID19 Precautions The COVID vaccine is not required to audition or join the choir. However, participants are strongly encouraged to use good judgment, especially those who have compromised health. For all groups and ministries meeting at Our Lady of Lourdes: masks are optional for those vaccinated, strongly recommended for those who are not. Children's Choir This choir sings for the 9:30am Mass on Sunday mornings. We meet in the choir room at 8:45am for warmups, and to go over music. Rehearsals take place on Tuesday evenings from 67pm. Extended rehearsals may be necessary once we begin practicing music for Christmas, Holy Week, and Easter. This choir is for 4th grade 8th grade singers. Our first rehearsal will take place on Tuesday, September 14th at 6pm in the choir room(located in the church). If interested, please contact John Oreskovich, Director of Music, [email protected] or (727) 7333606.
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STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION HEARING AND DOING It is made clear throughout the Gospels and Epistles that our discipleship, as followers of Jesus, is not over until our bodily death. In today’s second reading we are urged, “Be doers of the word and not hearers only” (James 1:22). Discipleship is hard. Sometimes we have “reasons” why we cannot do thingsNwe are too tired, too old, too sick, too needy. We are too busy with work, with children, with other responsibilities. Yet some of the best “prayers” are people confined by illness or disability. Some of the wisest listeners are the elderly, who have a lifetime of patience and wisdom to draw on. Some of the most generous givers are those who have endured poverty and suffering themselves. Some of the most admired organizers are those who delegate and let a tiny fixed income cannot give large donations to the church or other people shine. And let us not forget the charity. However, the busy mother can talk to God as she chases heroes who put their lives on the line in time after her little ones. The hardworking man can help with an of crisis. Not everyone is called to heroism, occasional parish event, and the person with a limited income can but all of us are called to live generously and put a steady few dollars in the collection each week. Everyone can selflessly. The opportunities are endless: in be a “doer.” our families, our parish, our neighborhood or town, and in places around the world. Try to Living Stewardship Now balance prayer, action and financial giving. A What is your offering of stewardship, in gratitude for God’s busy mother with three toddlers can hardly goodness? Do you need to increase your giving, pull back from spend hours in prayer or at church. A man something, or change your commitments in some way? who must work two jobs to support his family has limited time to volunteer, and a person on Copyright © 2011, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.
Church Renovations Collection Next Weekend: September 45 A CALL TO SHARE On the first Sunday of each month, we have a second collection to help with the renovations of the church. Sunday, August 22nd You may use the special envelopes in your packet: Cash Offertory (2,148 households)$11,879 Contribution for our Renovated Church,’ or in the Parish Automated Giving$11,636 pews, or you can give online. For those who use Online Total Offertory $23,515 Giving for your weekly offertory, you may select an Weekend Attendance: 1150 automatic payment to be deducted once a month for this collection.
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“Who Are You Looking For?” asked Jesus. Are you (or someone you know) looking for Peace, Wisdom, Community, Growth, Eternal Life? If you have been looking everywhere for answers, and still have not been able to find them, we invite you to explore the beauty, truth and goodness of our Catholic faith. Sept 12th We Begin a New RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) process. We explore the beauty, truth and goodness of our Catholic faith for adults who are not Baptized or Catholic, or who began their faith journey through Baptism, but have yet to receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and Communion. Invite! There are many people (perhaps they are family members, work colleagues, friends or neighbors) who are just waiting for an invitation from YOU to come to know Christ in the Catholic Church.
If you would like to receive more information about this exciting, lifechanging journey of faith, please contact Father Gary at [email protected]. “Who Are You Looking For?” ...Jesus!”
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Wednesdays beginning September 15 9:30am in the DuBois Hall Study. Connect. Transform. These words describe the mission of The Cornerstone Catholic Scripture Study. We invite you to join us this year for a study of Creation and Covenants in the book of Genesis. The study is open to both men and women. As we did last year, we are offering a hybrid study with the opportunity to meet in person OR through Zoom. At this time, Our Lady of Lourdes strong- ly recommends those who have not been vaccinated to wear a mask. We will meet for 20 lessons. We invite anyone interested in finding out about the study to come to the visitor session on September 15th. For more info, visit thecornerstonescripturestudy.org or call Mary at (727) 7913240 or email [email protected].
Sacristy Renovations So far we have received $36,210 from the generous people of our parish towards the renovations of the back of the church, which were not completed during the original reno: walking with purpose the working sacristies, bathroom, and office. If Thursdays, Beginning September 9th, 78:30pm you would like to make a gift to this project, please contact Mary Kibbey in Fellowship from 6:457pm the Parish Office (727) 7333606. In the DuBois Center or via Zoom Ladies, do you want to dive into God’s Word, but are hesitant because you don’t know where to start? Do you desire to grow in your Catholic faith? Do you seek connection with other women in our parish community? Start here with us! Please join us for a study on the women in the bible. We will learn from the experiences of the women in the Old and New Testaments who let the power of God work in their lives. Through these stories, the women of the Bible reach out to touch our “present,” woman to woman, with ancient wisdom, sage advice, and insights from sorrowful failures and emotional wounds. The 22week study will be spread out over seven months, from September until March. If you are hesitating to sign up because you won't be available for all seven months, no worries, because each week focuses on a different woman of the bible, you can join us for the weeks that fit into your schedule. To sign up, contact Angel Chiariello at (727) 2784797; Laurie Neiman at (727) 3850877, or Joanne McFadden (online group) at (908) 6252347. To order a book, visit their website at https:// shop.walkingwithpurpose.com.
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Rekindle! Friday, Sept 3, 6:30pm at House of Prayer Join us for Mass, Adoration, Praise and Worship, Fellowship, and the Sacraments of Reconciliation & Anointing of the Sick on September 3 at Our Lady of Divine Providence House of Prayer® located at 711 S. Bayview Avenue, Clearwater. Praise and Worship at 6:30pm, Mass at 7pm, Adoration following SuperFit Kidz Health Tip Mass. Anointing of the Sick will be available with the Sacrament Becoming the best version of yourself of Reconciliation. Light refreshments will follow Adoration. For Anaerobic exercise should be a part of your Superfit more information email [email protected], call (727) lifestyle. There are many challenges in life, and if we 797-7412 or visit www.divineprovidence.org. incorporate different exercises into our daily life, we can achieve strength, perseverance, selfconfidence, and happiness. Anaerobic exercise is fast paced and shorter in duration, and includes high intensity sports like weight- lifting, high intensity interval training, jumping, and sprinting. These exercises strengthen muscles and assist in burning calories and losing fat. The energy system “without oxygen” pushes our bodies and lungs to rely on energy sources stored in our muscles, breaking down glucose for energy, which is called “glycolysis.” This process produces lactic acid in the muscles and is why we get tired after the energy burst. The benefit of regular anaerobic exercise is that it enables our bodies to be more efficient in eliminating lactic acid and therefore we feel tired less quickly. This type of exercise increases bone strength and density, boosts metabolism, fights depression, reduces the risk of disease, protects the joints, and increases our energy to be more productive in Celtic Music in the Conmy life. Often, individuals avoid this training system because Saturday, September 18 it is difficult. We must face the challenge and change our The Scottish American Society of Dunedin is hosting a mindset, seeking assistance from fitness professionals night of Celtic music at the Conmy Center, featuring who can guide and motivate us. We can be successful in Celtic bands Off Kilter and The Byrne Brothers in concert life if we learn to overcome things that are difficult, with the Isle of Skye Scottish Dancers. Visit their website especially when we understand the benefits! Be your own at sasdunedin.org for more information and how to superhero! Visit superfitkidzfoundation.org for more info. purchase tickets.
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