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September 13, 2020 SEPTEMBER 13, 2020 Upcoming Youth Ministry Events High School Youth Group: Sunday, September 13th, after 5pm Youth Mass. High School Youth Group: Sunday, September 20th, after 5pm Mass. Panel of professionals from our parish! Visit us on the Internet at www.stpeterkirkwood.org or send your comments to: [email protected] WELCOME TO ST. PETER Sacrament of Baptism Please call the Rectory (966-8600) for details regarding participation in the preparation program. St. Peter Parish Prayer We encourage expectant parents to make arrangements for the preparation program at least a Lord, thank you for the rich history you have few months prior to the birth of their child. bestowed on our family of St. Peter in Kirkwood. Sacrament of Marriage Blessed by your grace, we ask that you be present Please contact the rectory office (966-8600) to in our parish today. Guide us as we celebrate our schedule your wedding date and for details gifts through worship, education and loving service. regarding the preparation program. In accordance with Archdiocesan policy, couples should contact a Holy Spirit, create within us a vision for the future that member of the parish clergy at least six months we live, witness and proclaim the good news of Christ. prior to their proposed wedding date. Amen Holy Orders and Consecrated (Religious) Life If interested, please call the parish rectory or the Archdiocesan Office of Vocations at 792-6460 Sunday Mass Schedule (During COVid-19) Saturday: 5:OOPM (Satisfies Sunday obligation) Rectory/Parish Office Sunday: 10:OOAM (Livestream) 243 West Argonne Drive Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 and 5:OOPM 966-8600 (Phone) 966-5721 (Fax) Weekday Mass Schedule (During COVid-19) Saint Peter Elementary School Monday - Friday: 8:15AM Pre-K thru Eighth Grade Saturday: 8:15AM 215 North Clay Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 Holy Day Mass Schedule 821-0460 Consult the bulletin for Mass times http://www.stpeterkirkwood.org Parish School of Religion Susan Lueker, 821-0460, ext. 4212 Sacrament of Reconciliation Sacrament of Reconciliation is held before Religious Education Offices - Rectory 5:00pm Mass on Saturday from 3:45-4:45 pm in the Offices of Faith Formation Linda Doyle, 966-8600, ext. 1011 Eucharistic Minister’s Room across from the Sacristy. Enter the front doors of Church to be guided to the St. Peter Youth Ministry - Ursuline Hall Eucharistic Minister’s Room. Trisha Lombardo, 822-1347, ext. 3003 Pastoral Council Eucharistic Adoration Cheryl Flaherty Monday - Friday, 6:00AM to 10:00PM Ron Jensen St. Angela Merici Chapel in Ursuline Hall Larry Bommarito Enter through the Garden Courtyard Joan Turnure Gina Jensen Baptism Alana Odenwald Baptisms are celebrated every Sunday of the month Finance Commission at 12:30PM. Please call the Rectory (966-8600) for John Modder, Chairperson, 303-502-4564 details regarding participation in the preparation program. St. Vincent de Paul Society We encourage expectant parents to make arrangements 314-289-6101 Ext. 2220 (Voice Mail) for the preparation program at least a few months prior Parish Center/Cafeteria to the birth of their child. 821-0460 ext. 4500 Anointing and Prayer Bulletin Deadline!! Articles intended for publication in the Bulletin must be Please call the rectory office (966-8600) to schedule a submitted to the rectory ([email protected]) time to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. by Monday, at 3:OOPM for the following Sunday’s This is meant to include such concerns as upcoming Bulletin. All announcements must be in writing with a name and telephone number attached. diagnostic tests, surgery, limitations of aging, anxiety, depression, undue stress, addiction, etc. for all ages. Please remember St. Peter Catholic Church in your will. 2 Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2020 THE TRIUMPH OF THE HOLY CROSS…SEPTEMBER 14 Some will scoff at such a relic challenging its legitimacy, but the Church claims that it is genuine and real and it has September 14th is the feast of the Triumph of the Holy been authenticated. As a faithful Catholic that is enough for Cross, previously called the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. me. Thus I find this relic an enhancement to my faith and a Christians have celebrated this feast on this day since the powerful sacramental deepening of my faith in the Paschal first half of the fourth century. According to an Eastern Mystery, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Our text, the empress Helena discovered the Lord’s cross on relic of the Holy Cross will be on display on our altar this September 14th, 320. Fifteen years later on September 13th, Monday for your devotion and prayer before, during and two churches on Golgotha in Jerusalem were consecrated after the 8:15 Mass. (the Church of the Cross and the Church of the Resurrection). On the following day, the relic of the cross The motto of the Congregation of the Holy Cross Priests found by Helena was solemnly exposed for public and Brothers, the priests that own and operate Notre Dame veneration. An annual commemoration began in Jerusalem, University in South Bend, Indiana, is, in Latin, Crux Ave, and churches in other cities that had relics of the cross Spes Unica. It means in English, Hail the Cross! It is our brought them forth on this day for veneration by the only (or one) hope! As we ponder onward trying to live faithful. The ceremony was called the exaltatio (lifting up). with the Covid-19 virus that has so up-ended our lives, it What follows are some words our ancestors in the faith would be good to keep that motto in mind and perhaps have used to describe the mystery, glory, and power of the recited daily in our prayer: Crux Ave! Spes Unica! cross of Christ. On September 15th the Church celebrates the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows. The reflection on that day is on the “May I never boast of anything but the cross of our Lord challenges, pains, and sufferings that the Blessed Mother Jesus Christ! Through it, the world has been crucified to felt during her life and especially watching her son suffer me and I to the world.” and die on the cross. Paul to the Galatians 6: 14 -16 May I point out to you that our own statue of the Blessed “Faithful Cross, above all other, one and only noble tree. Mother in our church is that of Our Lady of Sorrows. It is None in foliage, none in blossom, none in fruit your peer unique to our church and a statue, like all the other statues may be; sweet the wood and sweet the iron and your load, in our church, designed by the local artist, the late Rudy most sweet is he. Torrini in 1952 only for St. Peter Church. Archbishop George Lucas, the Archbishop of Omaha, said, when he Bend your boughs, O Tree of glory! All your rigid was an associate pastor here at St. Peter, how much he branches, bend! For a while the ancient temper that your loved that statue. It is the only one of Rudy Torrini’s St. birth bestowed, suspend; and the King of earth and heaven Peter statues that has color in it and it features the Blessed gently on your bosom tend.” th Mother holding her infant son, Jesus, in the form of a cross. Venantius Forunatus, 6 century Thus, like any mother experiencing their children’s pain and suffering suffers with them. Here is Mary carrying the “How splendid the cross of Christ! It brings life, not death; cross with her son. light, not darkness; paradise, not its loss. It is the wood on which the Lord, like a great warrior, was wounded in hands Summer is unofficially officially over now that the and feet and side, but healed thereby our wounds. A tree school year has begun, the pools are closed and had destroyed us, a tree not brought us life.” soon, cooler autumn weather will return. It is a Theodore of Studios, 9th century wonderful time of the year where we wait for the beauty of the Fall colors, picking apples and sipping cider. Enjoy it and still remain vigilant against Covid. It is expected to rebound when At St. Peter we are privileged to have in our possession a relic of the true cross of Christ. It is our most sacred relic in colder weather returns and we are forced inside. our church and part of the holy patrimony of Saint Peter We all know the safety protocols so let’s continue to Parish. The relic of the Holy Cross is so sacred a relic that pray for each other as we learn to live with this it can actually be placed within the tabernacle with the virus responsibly. Body of Christ. It is also the only relic where the faithful ought to genuflect before it when reverencing it. See you in church! Monsignor Jack 0822 3 September 13, 2020 Hard copies of this weekend’s bulle- SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS NEEDED FOR OUR SCHOOL tin are available in church after Mass We are seeking additional substitute and on the shelf in the vestibule of the teachers for this school year. All candi- rectory office. dates must have completed the Prevent and Protect program through the Archdiocese. This is a paid po- sition. Teacher certification is not required. Please email Please note: We are rescheduling Mass intentions that were pre- Dr. John Freitag, Principal at: [email protected] if you are viously scheduled. interested. We are rescheduling them in the same order that they were origi- nally scheduled. They will be celebrated, live or live-streamed, at 8:15am Monday through Saturday.
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