Parish of the Resurrection of the Lord August 2, 2020

Holy Family 429 Main St. Old Town

Our Lady of Wisdom 83 College Ave. Orono

St. Ann 84 Main St. Bradley

St. Ann 6 Down St. Indian Island

Parish Mission Statement
Father Kyle Doustou Father Apolinary Kavishe

Deacon Mike Boggs “Rooted in the teachings of Jesus Main Office: Holy Family Church Christ, guided by the Holy Spirit, 429 Main St., Old Town, ME 04468 and strengthened by the Phone: 827-4000, Fax: 827-2113, Eucharist, we are called to invite Email: [email protected] all people into a deeper Office Hours: Monday—Friday 7:30am-12:30pm relationship with God and one Web Site: www.resurrectionofthelord.org another.”
Online Giving: parishoftheresurrection.weshareonline.org

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeNAugust 2, 2020 The Story of the Dedication of Saint Mary Major Basilica
Celebrated August 5th
First raised at the order of Pope Liberius in the midfourth century, the Liberian basilica was rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III shortly after the Council of Ephesus affirmed Mary’s title as Mother of God in 431. Rededicated at that time to the Mother of God, St. Mary Major is the largest church in the world honoring God through Mary. Standing atop one of Rome’s seven hills, the Esquiline, it has
survived many restorations without losing its character as an early Roman basilica. Its interior retains three naves divided by colonnades in the style of Constantine’s era. Fifthcentury mosaics on its walls testify to its antiquity.


St. Mary Major is one of the four Roman basilicas known as patriarchal cathedrals in




memory of the first centers of the Church. St. John Lateran represents Rome, the See of Peter;




St. Paul Outside the Walls, the See of Alexandria, allegedly the see presided over by Mark;




St. Peter’s, the See of Constantinople; and St. Mary’s, the See of Antioch, where Mary is




supposed to have spent most of her later life.


One legend, unreported before the year 1000, gives another name to this feast: Our Lady of the Snows.
According to that story, a wealthy Roman couple pledged their fortune to the Mother of God. In affirmation, she produced a miraculous summer snowfall and told them to build a church on the site. The legend was long celebrated by releasing a shower of white rose petals from the basilica’s dome every August 5.
The Story of the Transfiguration of the Lord
Celebrated August 6th
All three Synoptic Gospels tell the story of the Transfiguration (Matthew 17:18; Mark 9:29; Luke 9:2836). With remarkable agreement, all three place the event shortly after Peter’s confession of faith that Jesus is the Messiah and Jesus’ first prediction of his passion and death. Peter’s eagerness to erect tents or booths on the spot suggests it occurred during the weeklong Jewish Feast of Booths in the fall.


According to Scripture scholars, in spite of the texts’ agreement it is difficult to reconstruct the disciples’


experience, because the Gospels draw heavily on Old Testament descriptions of the Sinai




encounter with God, and prophetic visions of the Son of Man. Certainly Peter, James, and




John had a glimpse of Jesus’ divinity strong enough to strike fear into their hearts. Such an




experience defies description, so they drew on familiar religious language to describe it.




And certainly Jesus warned them that his glory and his suffering were to be inextricably




connectedNa theme John highlights throughout his Gospel.


Tradition names Mount Tabor as the site of the revelation. A church first raised there in the fourth century was dedicated on August 6. A feast in honor of the Transfiguration was celebrated in the Eastern Church from about that time. Western
observance began in some localities about the eighth century.
On July 22, 1456, Crusaders defeated the Turks at Belgrade. News of the victory reached Rome on August 6, and

Pope Callistus III placed the feast on the Roman calendar the following year.
The one who has hope lives differently; the one who hopes has been granted the gift of a new life. -Pope Benedict XVI

In Person Mass Schedule
During COVID19 Coronavirus Pandemic


Monday, August 3rd




Saturday, August 8th
8 am @ Holy Family, Old Town


4 pm @ Holy Family, Old Town

Tuesday, August 4th




Sunday, August 9th
8 am @ Holy Family, Old Town


8 am @ Holy Family, Old Town

Wednesday, August 5th


9:30 am @ St. Ann, Bradley
8 am @ Holy Family, Old Town


11 am @ Our Lady of Wisdom, Orono

Friday, August 7th
8 am @ Holy Family, Old Town

Registration is required for all Masses on Saturday and Sunday. Weekday Masses are a FirstCome, FirstServe basis. You can go to any or all of the above Masses

Register for Mass at https://resurrectionofthelord.org/ or by calling the Parish Office at 8274000.


Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeNAugust 2, 2020 Monthly Devotions of the Church Year
AugustNMonth of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Each month of the year is dedicated to a particular devotion within the Catholic faith; the dedication of each month is based on historical events or a particular aspect of the liturgical calendar, or a combination of the two. These monthly Catholic devotions do not line up exactly with the time frame of the liturgical calendar, since they are fixed to standard calendar months rather than the Church seasons.





The month of August is dedicated to the Immaculate Heart. Since the 16th century Catholic piety has assigned entire months to special devotions. The month of August is traditionally dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The physical heart of Mary is venerated (and not adored as the Sacred Heart of Jesus is) because it is united to her person and https://resurrectionofthelord.org
is the seat of her love (especially for her divine Son), virtue, and inner life. Such devotion is an incentive to a similar love and virtue.
Contact the Parish Office This devotion has received new emphasis in this
at 827
4000 with any century from the visions given to Lucy Dos Santos, oldest of questions. the visionaries of Fatima, in her convent in Tuy, in Spain, in 1925 and 1926. In the visions Our Lady asked for the practice of the Five First Saturdays to help make amends for the Everyday Stewardship
offenses committed against her heart by the blasphemies and ingratitude of men. The practice parallels the devotion of the The Power of a Simple Action
Nine First Fridays in honor of the Sacred Heart.

I remember seeing a story on a morning news On October 31, 1942, Pope Pius XII made a solemn program about a little girl who wanted to give an elderly Act of Consecration of the Church and the whole world to the man in a grocery store a hug. She had no way of

Immaculate Heart. Let us remember this devotion yearround, knowing that this man had just lost his wife of many but particularly through the month of August.
years and now felt so very alone and depressed. Her Excerpted fromThe Prayer Bookby Reverend John P. reaching out to the man seemed odd to her mom at first, O'Connell, M.A., S.T.D. and Jex Martin, M.A.
but the girl was so insistent about giving a hug she moved the shopping carts close together so the exchange could take place. No one knew that from that moment on the little girl would ask to visit her new friend at least LiveStreamed Mass Schedule
once a week for the next four years until he passed away. During COVID19 Coronavirus Pandemic
In an interview soon after the initial encounter, the man
said, “I haven’t been this happy in some time.” Imagine
Monday, August 3rd…………...8 am
the joy that relationship brought to them both over the
Tuesday, August 4th…….….....8 am
years!

Wednesday, August 5th………..8 am

It was just a moment. It was a simple gesture. Yet, it had a large impact that no one could have

Friday, August 7th……………..8 am
predicted. You never know what will result when we
Saturday, August 8th………..…4 pm
give just a little of ourselves. That uncertainty too often
Sunday, August 9th…………….8 am
leads us to hold back or refrain from the simple actions
of love or gestures of generosity that could come so
Live Stream Masses can be found at easily for us if we wanted. We should never doubt the https://www.youtube.com/channel/ power of a simple random act of kindness. Generosity UCFfLQMFMC3_nbf6WYg6wDw
does not need to be grand to make a big difference. The or our website at https://resurrectionofthelord.org/ . time is now, and the opportunity presents itself often to If you have any issues please call the Parish Office plant a small seed that God can water and nourish so that at 8274000 during business hours.
something beautiful can grow.
M Tracy Earl Welliver

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeNAugust 2, 2020

Day/Date
Time
Location
Priest
Intention
Saturday
4:00 PM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Jill Smith by Mary & Philip Drew
8/1/20
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Norman Ogden by Family
Sunday
9:30 AM
St. Ann, Bradley
Fr. Apolinary Parishioners by Pastor
8/2/20
11:00 AM
Our Lady of Wisdom, Orono
Fr. Kyle Glenna & Peter Brasslett by Children
Monday
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Maurice King by Judy, Bill, & Peter
8/3/20
Tuesday
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Holy Souls in Purgatory by Pastor
8/4/20
Wednesday
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Marion (Daigle) King by Sister, Pauline
8/5/20
Friday
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
Fr. Kyle Peter Comerford by Theresa Hart
8/7/20
Saturday
4:00 PM
Holy Family, Old Town
 Francis Mitchell by Edwina Mitchell
8/8/20
8:00 AM
Holy Family, Old Town
 Debbi Johnston by Alyre Michaud
Sunday
8/9/20
9:30 AM
St. Ann, Bradley
 Fred & Esther Savoy by Alfreda
11:00 AM
Our Lady of Wisdom, Orono
 Parishioners by Pastor

The Vigil Light by the Tabernacle burns this week
(August 2N8, 2020)

St. Ann, Penobscot Nation

Kenneth ‘Choppy’ Lucas by Great Grandchildren
St. John Vianney

Priest
Holy Family Church
 Holy Family, Rectory
Feast Day: August 4th
Our Lady of Wisdom, Orono
St. Ann, Bradley
For the deceased in the Parish

Compassionate and Loving Father,

In the face of confusion and concern impart to us the calm of Your presence.
In You allow us to find hope and healing.
Be with those who serve the sick and give them Your caring hands.
Be with those who lead and give them Your spirit of wisdom.
Be with those who have fallen ill and give them Your comforting heart.
Wrap Your arms around our world and hold us in Your love.
Allow us at this time of trial to then serve as instruments of that love to all we meet.
We ask this in Your Name.
Amen

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeNAugust 2, 2020 Gospel Meditation
Questions of the Week for Scripture Reflection
Many people in our world are hungry and thirsty. Isaiah 55:13
This hunger and thirst go well beyond physical needs for Near the end of Israel’s captivity in Babylon food, security, and shelter. Many are emotionally and
(597538 BC), the prophet Isaiah spoke of the Lord’s spiritually parched, too. Behind every act of violence is a desire to be unimaginably generous and lifegiving to his soul who hungers. People live with relationships that
people. How has the Lord been generous in gifts to you actually starve them. They are abused, exploited,
and your family?
disrespected, laughed at, and marginalized. There is a lot of Romans 8:35, 3739
confusion and inner pain that needs to be acknowledged In his letter to the Christians in Rome, Paul speaks of and expressed. We all long to be understood and loved, God’s inseparable bond of love for us through Jesus even when our inner demons or who I am make it difficult Christ. In what ways does this sense of God’s love for us to be. Do you live with inner confusion and pain? Folks help you in times of stress and anxiety?
often wander through life without any real direction or
Matthew 14:1321
purpose and take their cues from what seems satisfying or In the immediate aftermath of the news of the death of popular at the moment. The deeper dots of our lives can John the Baptist, Matthew reports that Jesus, “moved with easily remain unconnected, and we can find ourselves pity,” cured those who were sick in the crowds and fed the without grounding, purpose, or real happiness. Life
entire crowd of 5,000. How do you react toward others for becomes shallow and without real purpose as we hunger whom you feel “pity”?
and thirst for an ultimate love.
It’s easier to see the physical hungers and thirsts. We try to respond to these as best we can. Much more needs to be done. With all that God’s earth can provide,



nobody ought to face sleep at


night with a belly that’s


empty. It’s sinful. It’s unjust.


But isn’t all hunger unjust? It


doesn’t need to be, and it



should not be. Just as no one


ought to be physically hungry and thirsty, there is really no need to be emotionally or spiritually deficient either. If we have more privileges at St. Sixtus II and Companions
our fingertips, it is easier to try to satisfy our emotional and Feast DayNAugust 7th
spiritual hungers and thirst by acting on impulse or
selfindulgence, carelessly following passions, or by
One of the first things that dictators deny subjects seeking selfdestructive ways to dull the ache of emptiness.
is the right to assemble. This was true in 257 when the Folks need to know where to look for nourishment Emperor Valerian forbade Christians from holding and need the right friends to help them find it. We may not assemblies. Although Pope Sixtus II had been pope for think that we have enough to respond to and to satisfy all only a year he stood against this edict. He gathered with his of the needs, but we do. It doesn’t take much. Five loaves faithful deacons in the catacombs to hold Mass and and two fish provided for a huge crowd. With God, all celebrate the Eucharist. This would lead to his death.
things are possible. Our faith provides the direction for St. Sixtus II was known as a good and peaceful where God’s children must go to find the nourishment they priest. He restored friendly relations between Rome and the seek. It also tells us how to structure life so that justice and African and Asiatic Churches when they were in danger of equity can be a reality for all. It also tells us how to
being split over the rebaptism of heretics. When Emperor respond to pain, sinfulness, and confusion. Come to the Valerian made it law that Christians had to participate in water and then help another get there.
the national cult of the pagan gods St. Sixtus II still managed to perform his functions as Pope. When the Emperor issued an edict that ordered all bishops, priests, and deacons to be put to death St. Sixtus II would be one of the first to fall. He assembled his flock in a lesser known cemetery and, while addressing his flock, he was taken and brought before the tribunal. Here he was sentenced to execution through beheading, along with his deacons. He was taken back to the cemetery and beheaded in the very chair from which he was addressing his flock and from which he was taken. The bloodstained chair on which he was beheaded was placed in his tomb with him. St. Sixtus II died on August 7, 258 arrested and martyred for doing what he was called to do despite the secular authority edicts forbidding his faith.



Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary TimeNAugust 2, 2020

Sunday: Is 55:1
3/Ps 145:8
9, 15
16, 17
18   [cf. 16]/Rom 8:35, 37
39/Mt 14:13
21 Monday: Jer 28:1
17/    Chris Bate
Mona Gallant
 Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, 95, 102 [68b]/ Rosemarie Bate
Leslie Hair
 Mt 14:22
36 Tuesday: Jer 30:1
2, 12
15, 18
22/  Peter Bosse
Wayne Hesseltine
 Ps 102:16
18, 19
21, 29 and 22
23 [17]/ Edmond L. Boucher
Courtney King
 Mt 14:22
36 or Mt 15:1
2, 10
14 Joan Bragdon
Vin Knapp
Wednesday: Jer 31:1
7/Jer 31:10, 11
12ab, 13 Chris Brewer
Karen Lavoie Stone
 [cf. 10d]/Mt 15:21
28 Pauline Butler
Cherie Levesque
Thursday: Dn 7:9
10, 13
14/Ps 97:1
2, 5
6, 9 Ralph Button
Linda O'Connor Smithson
 [1a, 9a]/2 Pt 1:16
19/Mt 17:1
9 Theresa Cote
Darrell Parrick

Friday: Na 2:1, 3; 3:1
3, 6
7/   Susan Curran
John Parrick
 Dt 32:35cd
36ab, 39abcd, 41 [39c]/ John Davis
Vincent Rush
 Mt 16:24
28 Paula Davis
Bud Smith
Saturday: Hb 1:12N2:4/Ps 9:8
9, 10
11, 12
13 Theresa DeGrasse
Eveyn Stinson
 [11b]/Mt 17:14
20 Gwen Dewhirst
Mary Carmen Thibault
Next Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11
13a/  Tyson Dostie
Johndavid Toothman
 Ps 85:9, 10, 11
12, 13
14 [8]/Rom 9:1
5/ Glenn Dupuis
Scott Walker
 Mt 14:22
33 For all those affected by COVID19
The food pantry Please note: Names will be removed from the prayer is in need of list after 8 weeks. If a person needs to remain on the Macaroni & prayer list after that time please notify the office at Cheese, Pasta 8274000.
Sauce, and Spam.
Pray for our Military:

Thank you for your donations.
Mark Abbott
Preston Hodge
PFC Brandon Appel
Tyler Moore
SSG Dale Bragg Jr.
Andrew Rackliff
COLLECTION REPORT
Kyle
Dupuis
Jonathan Seymour
WEEKLY OFFERTORY FOR: 7/26/2020
Lew Henderson Jr.
Dillon Shorey
65
Regular Envelope Total
$ 5,358.00
Adam Hesseltine
SGT Anthony Waite


Currency
$ 125.95
Logan Hildreth

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Online Donations
$ 2,015.00


Total Offertory
$ 7,498.95
BUDGETED WEEKLY OFFERTORY
$ 8,365.00
Under for the Week
$ 866.05








Thrift Store
$ 699.75






1
Annual Mission Cooperative
$ 20.00






7
Building Fund Envelopes
$ 255.00
11
Building Fund Online
$ 202.00


August 2, 2020
LaBree’s Parish Contact Information BAKERY PAT’S
PIZZA Fr. Kyle
VISIT OUR THRIFT SHOP [email protected]
6:00 AM - 4:00 PM 11 Mill Street 8274000
Monday - Friday Orono, ME
169 Gilman Falls Avenue, Old Town Religious Education Director
827-6121 x124 866-2111 Jessica Moore: [email protected]
8274000

GAETANI EYE CARE Owen J. Folsom Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA)
827-3319 & Campus Ministry
ASSOCIATES Audrey Aylmer: [email protected]
Anne M. Hall, O.D.
John E. Gaetani, O.D. Parish Council
Alesia L. Higgins, O.D. William Halteman, Matt Ketch, Terri Maher, Bo Meservey, FAMILY EYE CARE Philip Roy, Kathy Shorette
[email protected]
CONTACT LENSES 614 Stillwater Ave, Old Town
Gilman Falls Avenue Prayer Group
207-827-2616 Old Town, Maine
Every Monday night in the Queen of Peace Chapel at Holy Family Church to pray from 6:45N7:45 PM.
Motorcoach & School Bus Charters
for school and athletic groups,
Baptisms
senior citizens or private outings To make arrangements for baptisms please call the Parish office at 8274000.


CYR NORTHSTAR TOURS This Space Prayer Line Ministry
Deluxe escorted motorcoach tours and day trips to For prayer line requests call Bernice Curtis at 8273264.
Destinations throughout the U.S. and Canada
Call for our free Vacation Planner is Available Prayer Shawl Ministry
153 Gilman Falls Ave. • Old Town, ME For prayer shawl requests call Anne Richard at 8273070.
1-800-244-2335 • 207-827-2010
www.cyrbustours.com Sacrament of the Sick
If your loved ones are in the hospital or nursing facility and wish to see a priest to receive the sacraments, please contact the Parish Office at 8274000 and someone will visit them as soon as possible.

Communion to Home Bound
Please call Claire Lint at 3568902 or email [email protected] if you or a family member wish to receive communion at home while sick or recuperating from surgery, etc. Thank you!


Parish Hall Use
Please contact the Parish Office at 8274000


Food Pantry
The Resurrection of the Lord Food Pantry opens at 9:30 a.m. on the last Monday of each month at the Holy Family Thrift Shop, Carroll Street, Old Town.


Contact Mac Economy to place an ad today! Resurrection Parish Thrift Shop
[email protected] or (800) 477-4574 x6442
The Thrift Shop is open
Wednesday & Thursday 9am12:30pm & Friday 9am3pm
Donations are accepted on
Monday’s & Tuesday’s from 9am12:30pm.
Holy Family, Old Town, ME 03-0452
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