Roman Catholic Parish

14 JUNE 2020 THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST Rev. Paul F. Chateau, Pastor United in Faith, Love and Service to Others

Oak Park Worship Location, Rectory, and Parish Office 13500 Oak Park Blvd. • Oak Park, MI 48237 Ferndale Worship Location 241 Pearson St. • Ferndale, MI 48220

Parish Office Phone Number 248.545.2310 Office Hours 10am—3pm Mon—Fri Parish Fax 248.545.2312 Parish Email [email protected] Parish Website www.omoph.org

Mass Schedule Sunday 9:00 am in Oak Park

Sunday 11:00 am in Ferndale Contact us at 248.545.2310 Rev. Paul F. Chateau, Pastor Please visit our website Ms. Vicki Mazurek, www.omoph.org Director of Finance and Office Administration [email protected] : Ms. Terri Mayfield Baptism, Anointing of the Sick, and Reconciliation Parish Office General Support Services Please call the parish office at 248.545.2310 [email protected] Mrs. Natalie LaCroix Marriage—Must be active and registered members Director of Religious Education/Faith Formation of the parish (for at least 6 months prior to scheduling) call the parish office at 248.545.2310. [email protected] / 248.374.9045 Bulletin and Calendar Email Address— First Communion and Confirmation [email protected] Please contact Natalie LaCroix, DRE at 248.374.9045 O  MG7 A P77 Y H7Y N7+ PǑǗǕ 2 M  I`7`J` IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT OUR PRAYER LISTS Saturday, June 13, 2020 Vigil of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ The Church calls us to lift our brothers and sisters up in prayer Msgr. Thomas J. Finnigan (2000) when they are sick or struggling. The Parish continues to receive word about our parishioners who are ill, and we also receive Sunday, June 14, 2020 requests about their well-being by others and ask why their The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ names are not published. Since some of the members of our 9 am – Oak Park parish request that their names not be published when they are ill and Helen Meo by Family it becomes difficult. We strive to respect everyone’s privacy Vincent Meo by Family along with trying to provide prayer support to all. We hope to Bill and Pat Chmielewski by Carol Fliger list the members of our parish who are currently in need of our Lorna Brock by Mary Beth Western prayers, a visit, a note, or a phone call. To add a name to the Jim Podzikowski by Family listing, please contact the person first to make certain they want 11 am – Ferndale such information published and then contact the parish office at and Sara Rayis Family by Muneer Rayis 248.545.2310.

Monday, June 15, 2020 If you wish prayer during a time of illness or difficulty for Rev. S. Dabrowski (1974) yourself or for a family member, please contact the office by e- mail at [email protected] or by phone at 248.545.2310. Tuesday, June 16, 2020 Names will be kept on the list for 4 weeks. Contact the parish Rev. Michael J. Kundrat (2002) office, at 248.545.2310, if you wish a name to remain on the Wednesday, June 17, 2020 prayer list for an additional four weeks. Thank you. Rev. James Murphy (1996)

Thursday, June 18, 2020 Mr. and Mrs. Albert J. Seiler by daughter Maureen and husband Robert

Friday, June 19, 2020 Rev. Edwin A. Schroeder (1987)

Saturday, June 20, 2020 Our Sick, Their Families and Caregivers, Vigil of The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time and the Special Intenons of Our Parishioners George and Eva Dettloff by Family Jim Podzikowski, Doig, Andy Doig, Euna Feschuk, Omer Finley, Celia Juras, Chuck Yodhes, Marilyn Serapiglia, Michael Sunday, June 21, 2020 Churillia, Victor Churillia, Marie Farrell The Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Our Men and Women Serving in the Military 9 am – Oak Park 1st Lt Ashmore-USAF, Cpt Jonathon Ashmore-USMC, Sgt Stanley and Josephine Fliger by Carol Fliger Cory Berry-US Army, LtCOL Thomas Goedert-USMC, Matthew Patrick Callahan by the Callahan Family Pelletier-USAF, Sgt Douglas Raven-US Army, COL David Chet Chmielewski by Carol Fliger Rogers-US Army, COL Thomas Rogers-US Army, PFC Edy Jim Podzikowski by Family Silveira de Souza-USMC, Staff Sgt. John W. Tomassi-USAF, AB 11 am – Ferndale Ashley N. Vozel-USAF, SSG Reiter-US Army, HM2 Michael and Sara Rayis Family by Muneer Rayis Maura Curtin—Navy, CPT Matthew Carey-USAF, HN Autumn- Anna Lepper and Daughters Ginny and Kit by a Friend Kyoko Cushman--US Navy Deceased and Living Members of the Kemling and Baracka Families by Dolly Kemling June S. Taylor—Memorial Centenary—by grandson Robert U`J73 J` F JG, L*7 `3 S7*J-7  OG7 Robert G. Crowton by Eric C. Feddersen O  MJJ`—Our Mother of Perpetual Help Parish is Leonard Schwendemann and Family by The Feddersen Family a welcoming and nurturing Catholic community building up the Body of Christ through prayer and service. Our vision is to be an extraordinary Please visit our website at www.omoph.org O  VJJ`— spiritual gathering place where people of all When you visit our website you can download the backgrounds and ages are welcome to question and bulletin, find faith formation perspectives as well as learn, pray, worship, and serve. In community through prayer resources and ways to watch mass online. There prayer and worship, we hope to continue to grow is info on how to download the parish mobile app. You together in our understanding and appreciation of can support our parish by donating online. There are God’s love. We strive to change and improve our lives reflections and music that we hope will inspire you and and the lives of others. bring you peace during this time of uncertainty. You can How do you live out our mission and vision? pray the Stations of the Resurrection, Novenas, daily prayer, evening prayer and much more... O  MG7 A P77 Y H7Y N7+ PǑǗǕ 3 F JG F_ J` P77-J*7...

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Corpus Christi (Body of Christ) Sunday is celebrated with Mass and then often after Mass with a procession with the Blessed , Adoration, prayers and hymns and Benediction. Throughout the history of the beginning with the early Christian communities and even today, the celebration of Mass and receiving communion is forbidden in some countries and one could face death to do so. In times of persecution the Church has gone "underground" to continue her mission. Here are three stories of a person's love and devotion of the .

This story comes from an interview of Fulton J. Sheen with a reporter. In the late 1940's when the communists took over , the soldiers would often ransack the churches. In one town when the soldiers entered the church they ransacked the church and spilled the consecrated hosts on the floor. A young Chinese girl praying in the church at the time and was hidden from the soldiers witnessed what happened. Over the next 32 nights she would silently slip into the church. pray and kneel down and with her tongue consume one host. At that time only could handle the host. On her 32nd visit she received the last reminding host. While leaving the church she accidently made a noise and woke a soldier sleeping in the church. The soldier chased her, caught her and beat her to death with his rifle butt.

By 1926 the Mexican government implemented drastic anti-Catholic laws. A Mexican Jesuit priest Fr. (1891-1927) returned to to minister to the faithful though an underground church network. He would fool the police by dressing in street clothes and would celebrate Mass with the faithful in hidden locations. Fr. Pro would bring communion to a number of people at various communion stations. In November of 1927 he was arrested and sentenced to death by firing squad. As he passed the soldiers at his execution he blessed them and forgave them. Fr. Pro refused to be blindfolded and stood in the form of a cross. "Viva Christo Rey" (long live Christ the King) were the last words of Blessed Miguel Pro.

An American Jesuit priest Fr. (1904-1984) was ministering to the faithful in Russia. In 1941 he was arrested on the charge of as a spy for the Vatican. Fr. Ciszek spent 23 years in the and 15 of those years in prisons and labor camps in . He tells the story in his book '" that while in one of the labor camps he meets up with another priest. To celebrate Mass the prisoners made wine from raisons and altar bread from "appropriated" flour from the kitchen. In secret they would celebrate Mass with a whiskey glass for the chalice and a gold disc from the back of a pocket watch for the paten.

These stories tells us of the love and devotion these three Catholics had for the Eucharist. Please ask yourself, What is my love and devotion to the Body and Blood of Christ? By Leonard Piasta, Faith Formation Chair

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What else is there to give when one has already given away one’s body and one’s life? What more can one say or do to demonstrate love for another when all one had has been given to another? This total giving of self to loved ones cannot be trumped by flowery words or material gifts that are fleeting. This is the ultimate in love. This is the love Jesus had for us on the way to his Passion, at the institution of the Holy Eucharist. This is the love he has for us daily in the celebration of the Mass on altars in every church, in every city, in every nation on earth. No one can give more. No one can ask for more. This is the true heart of Christian stewardship.

If you take the time to gaze upon your God in the simplest of forms and begin to reflect on what has actually taken place with bread and wine becoming the presence of the Divine, then you can begin to understand true humility, sacrifice, and love. And when you have the privilege to take that Real Presence into your body at the meal where you are an honored guest, you become one with the One who is the embodiment of stewardship.

Then, you must ask yourself, “How can I even begin to reflect the love that I have encountered at this feast?” The answer is you can begin with the simple actions of the day: where will you go, whom will you meet, and in what work will you partake? Jesus Christ has shown that the greatest gift ever given can be disguised in this world in a piece of bread. By joining your body to his, he can now transform human hearts, not by grand acts, but by everyday acts, by everyday people, practicing Everyday Stewardship.

— Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi O  MG7 A P77 Y H7Y N7+ PǑǗǕ 4

R7 3J`B A G7 +77W A J `7 14, 2020 Sunday: Dt 8:2-3, 14b-16a/Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20 [12]/1 Cor 10:16-17/Jn 6:51-58 Monday: 1 Kgs 21:1-16/Ps 5:2-3ab, 4b-6a, 6b-7 [2b]/Mt 5:38-42 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 21:17-29/Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 11 and 16 [cf. 3a]/Mt 5:43-48 Wednesday: 2 Kgs 2:1, 6-14/Ps 31:20, 21, 24 [25]/Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Sir 48:1-14/Ps 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7 [12a]/Mt 6:7-15 Friday: Dt 7:6-11/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 10 [cf. 17]/1 Jn 4:7-16/Mt 11:25-30 Saturday: 2 Chr 24:17-25/Ps 1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd [cf. 1]/Lk 2:41-51 Next Sunday: Jer 20:10-13/Ps 69:8-10, 14, 17, 33-35 [14c]/Rom 5:12-15/Mt 10:26-33

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It is no wonder that followers of Christ are called the Body of Christ. After all, sharing in the same spiritual food and sacred meal, they become what they eat and reveal the Divine Image. There is so much power for healing in the community of believers. Through the Eucharist, Christ becomes as present in those who have partaken of his Body and Blood as he has the elements themselves. The very presence of God touches the depths of the human soul and visits a part of us that no human being can ever hope to explore. We are God’s. The sacred Eucharistic meal is a celebration of intimacy, the reunion of two loves in constant search of and longing for the other.

The community of believers receives the power and the presence to touch and heal in the name of the One they have welcomed within. It is now within their grasp to change the way life is lived and to more intentionally put into practice the Beatitudes that the Divine Guest has revealed. We are asked to be like Christ and work to create a world of sufficiency, where the greed of some no longer creates the want of others but where all of God’s children can find a home and a place at the table of life. The One who makes a home within calls us to live a life that transforms. We are changed ourselves and now become agents of change for others. We are the Body of Christ. God is with us. We have been nourished.

Sadly, many are afraid to try. We know what we are called to do, but we struggle with feelings of doubt as to whether God really is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Do our systems have to change? Is it possible that we somehow missed the mark when we put all of our social networks in place and established the business of our lives? Perhaps we have to radically rethink our approach and that can scare us. We might have to give something up or change, and we don’t want to. As long as want, injustice, division, prejudice, and scarcity still exit, there is tremendous work for the Body of Christ.

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Question: Why do Catholics pray to Mary and the ?

Answer: One of the statements of faith we make when we pray the Nicene Creed and the Apostles Creed is that we believe in “the communion of saints.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church reminds us that this communion (another word for community) includes all the faithful on earth, the souls in Purgatory, and the blessed women, men, and children who are in heaven. This teaching is grounded in our belief that, through Baptism, we are united with Christ and to one another with bonds that are stronger even than death.

And so from the time of the early Church, Christians have turned to other believers for prayers and assistance, including those who have gone before us, confident that God hears the prayers of all of His children. While we ask the saints (and one another) for prayers and support, we remember that the saints join us in prayer. But it is God who blesses and sanctifies us.

When we think of Mary and the saints in heaven, we have to remember that we can turn to them for intercession and assistance because they were faulted, limited human beings, just like us. This means that they are able to understand our struggles, doubts, fears, joys, and hopes. But as we learn their stories, we can also begin to recognize that they stand out in the history of the Church because they persevered in their commitment to follow Christ. Whether they were ordained, vowed religious, , husbands, wives, or even children, they show us that holiness is possible. We can not only follow their example but also benefit from their prayerful support.

Our devotion to the saints and gratitude for their witness, prayers, and protection should also be an inspiration for us, especially when we become aware of the needs of others or when others ask us to pray for them. We are called to share the blessings we receive. This is also part of our own journey of growing in holiness. ©LPi O  MG7 A P77 Y H7Y N7+ P B7 5 S. VJ`-7` 37 P Y I`A `3 N7+ B `3Y7 D 1 Mass Schedule is Sundays 9am in Oak Park and 11am in Ferndale. The parish office remains closed. Please do not Good news. We will have our Bundle Day week end come to the rectory to conduct business. Our phones and June 27 and 28th. The pod will be unlocked and you voicemail are being monitored off site. If you have an can put your items inside. emergency call 248.545.2310. You may also email the parish office at [email protected] if you have questions. We appreciate all your donations as they will be put to good use by those who have need for them. Remember Our website www.omoph.org and parish mobile app are the - your excess may be someone's necessity. best ways for us to communicate with you. Please visit the parish website often. You may download the bulletin on our When dropping off your donations make sure wear a website. If you have not downloaded the parish mobile app mask and gloves and sanitize your hands after placing please do so. For android products go to the Google Play your items in the pod. If someone else is dropping off Store WeConnect Parish App on your phone [text items make sure you practice social distancing by ParishApp2 to 555888]. For apple products go to the Apple staying at least 6 feet away from others. Store WeConnect Parish App on your phone [text ParishApp1 to 555888]. Search for Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Remember to subscribe to the notifications you want to P 17 D J`B A H7 YG CJJ receive.

Compassionate and Loving Father, A BIG THANK YOU to all of those who have continued In the face of confusion and concern to support our parish. As you can imagine the COVID-19 impart to us the calm of your presence. pandemic has a direct impact on our ability to pay our In You allow us to find hope and healing. monthly bills. Contributions may be mailed to the parish Be with those who serve the sick office at 13500 Oak Park Blvd., Oak Park, MI 48237. and give them Your caring hands. You may also securely and safely donate online via our Be with those who lead website or from the parish mobile app. Call Chuck and give them Your Spirit of wisdom. White, Finance Council Chair, at 734.635.2598, if you Be with those who have fallen ill have any questions about online giving. and give them Your comforting heart. Wrap your arms around our world and hold us in your love. OAA71 A FY 2019-2020: Allow us at this time of trial to then June TD YTD serve as instruments of that love to all we meet. Offertory Amount $2,944 $227,278 Over/(Under) Prior Year ($2,392) ($49,723) We ask this in Your Name. Over/(Under) Budget ($2,671) ($47,876) Amen. Week of 05-31-2020 (deposited 6-1-2020) Offertory: $2,944

On-line giving totaled $170.00 and drop off, mailed in, and dropped in offertory basket envelopes totaled $2,774.00 for a grand total for 1 week of June is $2,944.00.

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