Adoration/Exposition: Pastoral Staff: June 28, 2020
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120 South Eastmoor Drive June 28 , 2020 Post Office Box 67 New Bremen, OH 45869 419.629.2543 Mass Schedule: Saturday 4:30 p.m. Sunday 8:00, 9:30,11:00 a.m. Monday 7:00 p.m. Tuesday 8:30 a.m. Wednesday 12:05 p.m. Thursday 7:00 p.m. Friday 8:30 a.m. Reconciliation: Saturday 4:00 – 4:15 p.m. Mon/Thu 6:15 – 6:45 p.m. Tue/Fri 8:00 – 8:20 a.m. Wed 11:30 – 11:50 a.m. Adoration/Exposition: Every Tuesday 9:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. Pastoral Staff: Phone: 419.629.2543 Office Hours: Mon -Thu 9 am – 4 pm Friday 9 am – noon Pastor: Rev. Thomas Dorn 419.629.3031 [home] [email protected] Deacon: Greg Bornhorst 419.305.1977 [cell] [email protected] Accountant: Mary Eyink 419.629.2226 [home] Coordinator of Elementary CCD and Community Outreach: Kathy Pape [email protected] Coordinator of JH/HS CCD and New Parishioners: We would love to officially welcome you into our family. Youth Ministry: Registration forms are available online, in folders in the Jenny Sailer church entrance, or by contacting the parish office. [email protected] Baptism Prep: Required for all first-time parents. Scheduled on the 2nd Coordinator of Liturgy and Music: Monday in March, July, and November. Nick Wilker Baptism/Marriage/Hall Rental: Please contact the parish office. Pastoral Council: Chair: Jonathan Dietz, 937.489.9008 [email protected] Co-Chair: Nancy Topp, 419.629.2753 Pastoral Associate/Tech: Prayer Line: 629.629.2981, 419.629.2406 or 419.629.2639 Brad Feltz Stephen Ministry: 419.302.2223 or 419.733.4440 [email protected] h LIVE THE LITURGY Our Gift in Response to God’s Gift INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK Date Budget* Total Over/(Under) Count “Are you unaware that we who were baptized into 06/21 $5,906.35 $3,763.50 $(2,142.85) 541 Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?” What do 2020 Holy Redeemer Birthday Fund Balance $5,072 you understand these words to mean? Many see these May ** words as an indication of what may come in eternal $43,269.25.38 $34,764.50 $(8,504.75) life. In actuality, they have more to do with our lives YTD *** here and now. We are called to die to ourselves and $415,384.66 $426,075.47 $10,690.81 * Weekly contribution budget excludes give+ & monthly electronic giving. offer our lives as gifts given generously to others. It is ** Monthly includes weekly collections, Give+, & monthly electronic giving. not about us. We are asked to serve God and not *** YTD includes weekly, electronic, and special collections (July-May) continue in our service of sin. Life is about learning to STEWARDSHIP IS PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD. do what we really do not want to do because it brings June 20/21 Mass Counts us deeper into the mystery of God, ourselves, and Sat 4:30 Sun 8:00 Sun 9:30 Sun 11:00 Total others. Learning how to accept and live with the 132 136 150 123 541 “small deaths” and sacrifices we encounter teaches us Total Online views: Facebook: 180 YouTube: 52 232 how to live with and approach our final death. We can do so with a heart that has been touched by and is open to mercy or one that is self- focused and closed. Reminder: due to limitations in seating, we will be temporarily changing the Sunday schedule: Sunday Masses will be at 8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 a.m. A/V Coordinators (live We will continue to live stream Saturday evening Mass (now 4:30 p.m.). Please streaming) check our website and Facebook for schedule and updates. This group is in charge of the streaming of your weekly Masses as well as other Be a part of our new church directory – sign up now! events. We use a system called SlingStudio and software from CASTR to Anyone who had church pictures taken and asked that the pictures be delivered to stream on both Facebook and YouTube church, they are now in. Pictures will be available during weekend Masses in the simultaneously. One or two people are back of church, during the week in the parish office, or you can contact the office scheduled that control the camera, the to arrange a way to get them. For anyone who has not had their picture taken, a streaming, and sound. We are looking for link is available on our home page to schedule pictures in September/October. more help, so if you feel so-called, or would like more information, please contact the parish office at [email protected] or 419-629-2543. The following Mass intentions need to be rescheduled, please check the calendar online for open dates and/or contact the parish office to reschedule: March: 18: Dorothy Bertke, 19: Joyce Bockrath, 23: Joseph Schmitmeyer, 29: Rosemary & Harold Homan April: 5: Mark Nitschke, 11: Peggy Link, 18: Sr. Cecilia Huber, 25: Alvin Alig May: 2: Paul & Ruth Ritter, 3: Mike Heitkamp, 9: Henry & Lena Phlipot family, 10: Kyle Bensman & Ralph Holdheide, 24: Paul & MaryAnn Kremer, 27: Steve Kremer WORSHIP & MEDITATION June 28 – Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time First Reading – 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a: Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.” (2 Kg 4:16a) We hear how the prophet Elisha and his servant Gehazi repaid the Shunammite woman for her generous hospitality. When have you shown excessive generosity to another? Psalm 89: For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord. Second Reading – Romans 6:3-4, 8-11: Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus. (Rom 6:11) Paul taught the Roman Christians that through Baptism, believers fully participate in the death, burial, and resurrection GOSPEL MEDITATION of Christ. How should this reality impact one’s day-to-day living? Gospel – Matthew 10:37-42: Encourage Deeper Understanding of Scripture “Whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not When we were baptized, we were baptized into Christ’s death. worthy of me.” (Mt 10:38) Take a moment to ponder these profound words. We were Jesus continues to teach his followers the challenges of baptized into death. In every sense of the word, we are asked discipleship. What do you find most challenging in following to die. This is not just about our final death but about daily Christ? deaths due to inconvenience, discomfort, pain, loss, or others’ needs. This is an incredible epiphany given the way we very Next Week: July 5 – Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time often approach our lives. We do everything to avoid death, let First Reading – Zechariah 9:9-10: alone encounter it! Many avoid pain, discomfort, See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, meek, and inconvenience, uneasiness, change, interference, and suffering riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass. (Zec 9:9b) of any kind. We put a lot of energy into finding the easiest and The prophet Zechariah envisioned a future king for the people of least inconvenient way through many things. Even holding the Israel who would rule the nations with justice and humility. How door open for a stranger or saying hello to someone in the store do you see these virtues as a strength in leadership? can be major undertakings. Psalm 145: We are called to die. One of the biggest wake-up calls we can I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God. have is realizing that life is not about us! There are millions of Second Reading – Romans 8:9,11-13: other people sharing life on this planet with whom I have a For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the relationship. Does my life celebrate those relationships? The Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. (Rom 8:13) most distracting question we can ask is, “What do I want to Paul speaks of the promise of the resurrection from the dead for do?” The more focused, faith-filled question is, “What do I believers who reject the flesh and live according to the Spirit. need to do?” What I need to do may not be what I want to do. What spiritual exercises do you practice that help reject the However, asking this question more frequently will teach us flesh? how to more purposefully and intentionally live so we can be Gospel – Matthew 11:25-30: a life giving vessel for others. When we learn to live more “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give sacrificially, to put the needs of others before our own, and to you rest.” (Mt 11:28) not always seek our own self-interest, we become aware of Jesus praises his Father for the irony of the wise and learned who what baptism into Christ’s death is really all about. These are are unable to see what is revealed to the childlike. What does this the roots of virtue and the seedbed for justice, tolerance, tell us about the kingdom of heaven? solidarity, love, and peace. Learning how to accept all the “small deaths” and sacrifices life calls us to teaches us how to approach our final death. All deaths ask us to empty ourselves into something or someone else.