The Carpenter July 2013
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# 6, July 2013 Summer News Suggested donation: $0.50 Dear parishioners, that we must implement if we wish to stop #nancial Recent weeks have been very busy with events and hemorrhage and safeguard the future of the school. happenings. Several of the nine boys concerned by these changes will henceforth attend Our Lady of Mount Carmel e latter part of May was full of activity. e Academy in Canada. e academy has proper schooling children sat their end of year exams, then each class and sporting facilities so necessary to high school boys, practiced their various plays. e boys had us laughing who $ourish best in an academic and sporting with a delightful rendition of Baroness Orczy's Scarlet environment that is competitive and challenging due to Pimpernel. e girls chose Shakespeare's Amist the higher numbers of fellow students. Tempest and entertained their crowd. ese plays brought the school year to a pleasant if emotional end. e #rst Sunday in June saw nine children make their #rst Holy Communion. e previous day they e next day four boys and two girls graduated out entered the big black box to undergo their #rst soul of Saint Joseph's and into the big, wide world. Fr Nely, laundering session. Few forget their #rst confession. In second assistant to our Superior General, graced us some ways one's eternity hinges on the successful with his presence. Father preached a wonderful accomplishment of the #rst experience we have of graduation sermon on the duties of gratitude to all confessing sin and receiving mercy and pardon. Any those who contribute to help transform a scruffy child inhibitions or fears that are not spotted and promptly into a smart adult: parents, teachers and the Good allayed can make for serious problems later on. Lord Himself. e graduation mass was exquisitely Confession should be a moment of calm, con#dence beautiful, thanks to the efforts of our student choir and relief. No child should ever fear to come, though a under the guidance of Mrs Beck. Father Wood was also little apprehension is always good to help them have in attendance, and I enjoyed some very interesting proper respect for the sacrament. Although it is easy, literary conversation with him (I the pupil, he the children and adults should never forget that each master). absolution costs a life divine. e weather was pleasant, perfect for the pot-luck As for Holy Communion, we can so easily become lunch that followed the graduation ceremony. ere used to giving humble hospitality to Our Lord hidden was, however, a note of sadness in the air, due to the in the host. We begin to take His visit for granted. And decision to close both the girls' boarding house and the yet a single communion makes the hardest of lives boys' high school. is year's graduate boys are the last worth every second. for the foreseeable future. May and June also saw two parish couples exchange is decision was not easy. It became necessary due vows of love and #delity in the Holy Sacrament of to failing numbers and unavoidable budget restrictions matrimony. If only they knew what they were getting into! We laugh at such statements and veteran couples I think I speak for all when I say that Father will be nod their heads, but it is not all a joke. Matrimony greatly missed. A prior could not wish for a better man. offers a couple the chance to duplicate in no small I certainly could not have coped with this, my #rst year, measure the qualities of love and forgiveness that at Saint Joseph's without his dedication and straight Christ has exercised in our regard. For true love comes forward approach to matters. e boys had in Father a of age and blossoms when the loved one is not as wonderful example of generosity and friendliness and I lovable as one would like. It is easy to love the lovable, know they are very grateful for all his efforts in class and but heroic to love the insufferable. In this sense in the #eld. ere would have been no basketball team matrimony is a state in life that offers its members the this year for the boys, nor volleyball team for the girls chance to become heroes. ere can be no better next year, if it were not for all his time-consuming education for the children than when one or both efforts. In the name of all the parish, I express much spouses remain faithful not only to the letter of the law gratitude to Father for all his work over the past years of #delity, but also to the spirit. If wife gives herself and I do not hesitate to admit to sentiments of great and her life to her husband, husband gives up his life envy when I think that another priory will be for his spouse, organizing all for their betterment and bene#tting from his entertaining stories and general happiness rather than his own enjoyment. Just like trustworthiness. ank you, Father! Our Lord. Father Sick will be replaced by Fr Gillilan, freshly Father Terrence, former student of St Joseph's and ordained this year at Winona seminary, Minnesota. Fr freshly ordained to the priesthood, honored the parish Gillilan was a house-father here at St Joseph's before his with a #rst mass in the Dominican Rite. Mr Schy, our entrance to seminary. We welcome him warmly. He will faithful master of ceremonies, spent hours revising the take over Fr Sick's duties and no doubt #nd himself particularities of the Dominican Rite of Mass, quite busy. different from the Roman Rite we are all used to. e I will be absent during the month of July. I am altar service passed with distinction. returning to Europe for a few weeks vacation after a With Father James Carlisle set to come mid-month rather busy year. Two weeks in England and two more to celebrate a #rst mass, we are truly graced with these in France should be enough to replenish spent energies. "boys" coming back to share out the graces of their French wine and endless banter offer great stimulus to newly bestowed priesthood. What a transformation! mind and body. Fr Alphonsus will be covering most of Several years ago, as students, they were worth only my absence. their grades. Today they wield power enough to bring Yet there remains work to be done in preparation God to earth and souls to heaven. Before, perhaps, you for the new school year. By August we should have all would not have trusted them with the keys to the car. the timetables and schedules in order. Our teaching Now they carry keys to the kingdom of heaven. team will be somewhat smaller next school year, which Ordination to the priesthood is truly a miracle. makes for substantial salary savings but also for a tight ere remains one last piece of news that concerns teacher's schedule. Mrs Hetrick, our curriculum us all. Fr Sick has been assigned to our priory in coordinator, is doing great things #tting square pegs Walton, Kentucky, where he will ful#ll similar duties into round holes. If the President took her onto his staff to those he carried out here. he could do away with most of his administration and still get the job done. and we would pay less taxes. PARISH REGISTERS Were joined in the sacrament of matrimony MADE THEIR FIRST HOLY COMMUNION Jeffrey Murray and Melissa Zyrowski Dominic Amesse, Adam Poe, Brendan Simmerer, Caelin May 4 2013 Quain, Christina Slobodnik, Francis Beck, Julia Benjamin Astrino and Leah Latimer Hohmann, Eleanor Quain, Daniel Flores June 8 2013 St. Joseph’s Academy Bric-A-Brac mini FOURTH QUARTER HONOR ROLL SUMMA CUM LAUDE (90% (A-) minimum in all subjects + 97% (A+) overall average) The demons are legion MAGNA CUM LAUDE (87% (B+) minimum in all subjects + 94% (A) overall average) CUM LAUDE (83% (B) minimum in all subjects + 90% (A-) overall average) "The devils inhabit and infest our world; they meddle with our lives and assault us continuously, forcefully, JUNIOR & SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL incessantly. Although degraded, their angelic nature GIRLS’ SCHOOL BOYS’ SCHOOL remains vastly superior to ours; hence they know what motivates and moves us, and thus they play with us. God SUMMA CUM LAUDE MAGNA CUM LAUDE allows them to play and plague us, for our merit and for Grade 11 Charity Garno 97% Grade 12 David Garbacik 97% Grade 11 Margaret Hable 97% Grade 12 Kevin Quain 96% His greater glory. Grade 10 Bridget Hable 97% Grade 8 Stephen Hetrick 95% Grade 10 Moira Quain 97% Grade 7 Egan Quain 95% The devils act on our senses and toy with our Grade 8 Anne Hable 97% imagination. They fill our minds with pride, envy and Grade 7 Lydia Garno 97% CUM LAUDE anxiety. They deal out just enough favors and hardships to Grade 12 Stephen Fisher 94% MAGNA CUM LAUDE Grade 10 Joseph Fisher 92% lead us into sin, afflicting the just, rewarding sinners and Grade 11 Monica Muntean 95% Grade 8 Brian Garbacik 96% always seeking to move souls away from the supernatural. Grade 10 Bernadette Koehler 96% Grade 8 Michael Fisher 91% Grade 10 Catherine Merz 96% In their defense, Christians receive a steady stream of Grade 10 Rachel Schroeder 95% powerful and continuous graces. Grace is always available Grade 8 Colleen Garbacik 96% through prayer and the Sacraments, thanks to the aid of CUM LAUDE our guardian angels and priests.