stguerinparish.org MISSION STATEMENT: "To do God's will as a unified, vibrant parish, and to foster an intentional relationship with Jesus through worship, witness, service, discipleship, and community."

TEMPORARY SCHEDULE DURING COVID CRISIS You must register through the website for weekend masses. No registration needed for Reconciliation. At weekday masses we will take your contact information at the door. You must wear a mask and practice social distancing.

ST. CELESTINE CHURCH ST. CHURCH 3020 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707 2601 Clinton, River Grove, Illinois 60171 Phone: 708–453–2555 Fax: 708–452–0560 Phone 708–453–4800 Fax: 708–453–6141 MASSES Saturday 5 PM Limit 125 MASSES Sunday 7:30 AM and 10:30 AM Limit 125 Sunday 9 AM Limit 50 10:30 live–streamed on Facebook Weekday Tuesday at 8 AM and website Limit 50 Weekday Wednesday at 8 AM Limit 25 Reconciliation Saturday 4—4:45 PM ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL 3017 North 77th Avenue, Elmwood Park Illinois 60707 stcelestineschool.org 708–453–8234 , 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 2

ST. MOTHER THEODORE GUERIN PARISH On weekends, because of the pandemic, all intentions for individual Welcome! If you are new to our masses are read at all the Masses at both churches. During the week the churches or just visiting, please intentions for the days Mass is not offered in public are combined into introduce yourself. We are happy the days when Mass is offered. to share in this celebration of the Eucharist. If you do not have a SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7 church home, or your church is 5 PM ST. CELESTINE 8 AM ST. CELESTINE not home to you, we are open SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4 +Eric Velazquez to anyone looking for a spiritual 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Louise E. Czarnecki, Anniversary home. We invite you to become 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN +Zoraida Reillo, 5th Anniversary a part of our parish. You may 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Elmer and +Lillian Swiatkowski register during the pandemic by +Eleanor Koziol calling 708–453–2555. +Ken Strabley SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 +Connie Cicero 5 PM ST. CELESTINE +Eileen McMahon and Family SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 Dorothy Carey 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Frances R. Campagna, Name 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN Day 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE +Eugene Fahey +Father Bernard White, +Eileen Staunton, 1 month Anniversary Anniversary +Patrick Hagerty V, 4th + Miresse, Anniversary Anniversary All offices in the parish and +Frank Pudlo +Ramon Reillo, Birthday in the school are closed +Angel L. Rivera, Sr., Birthday +Enzo Pagnucci +Father Bernard White +Roger Lech until the Archdiocese gives +George Stockwell +Walter Gutkowski, us permission to reopen. Kelli Tambor, for Health Anniversary Phones will be answered Special Intention for all +Elenore Kolodzinski, Birthday from 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at Deceased +Frank Pudlo St. Cyprian (708–453–4800) +Dorothy Kezios during the week and from TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6 +Julian Kotowski 8:30 AM to 5 PM daily at St. ST. CYPRIAN +Marie Kirlin Celestine (708–453–2555). If +Phillip Johnson +Jeff Weiner, Sr. no one is available to answer the phone, please leave a message and someone will call you back on the next business day. October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 3 FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK: FATHER PAUL CAO RESPECT LIFE BABY BOTTLE PROJECT October is the of the pandemic, the Cardinal month of the gave permission to pastors to During Respect Life month Rosary. The confirm Confirmation students in October, our parish will be Church invites in their own parish. I am very participating in The Virtual Baby us to set aside happy to confirm our students, Bottle Project benefiting The this month to and I am very proud of them all. Women’s Centers of Greater pray the Rosary to ask for the I ask you to please keep them intercession of our Blessed in your prayers as they receive Chicagoland. Since we are not Mary to pray for peace in the the gifts of the Holy Spirit into handing out baby bottles due world, for our country, for our their lives. Congratulations to to coronavirus concerns, if community and for our family. the Confirmation Class of 2020 you would like to participate, The rosary is a of St. Mother Guerin please write a check to The good weapon parish!!! Women’s Center. Please drop to fight against it in the collection basket in evil in the Resident Priest As the back of the churches and world. It has of October 1, we we will send them to this been an active have a priest who wonderful organization, which ingredient in will reside at St. the formation Cyprian’s Rectory, assists mothers and families of holy lives Father Kenneth experiencing crisis pregnancies. for centuries. Okechykwu Ekekwe. Simply by Fr. Kenneth is from Donations can be made on their meditating Nigeria and is a friend website: GOTWC.org or call 773– on the lives of Fr. Stan Illo, a 794–1313 and make a donation. of Our Lord resident priest at the By God’s grace, The Women’s and Our Lady, St. Celestine Campus. Centers have saved over 40,000 an individual He is a chaplain at St. babies—and their mothers—from is invited into a deeper Anthony Hospital and is pursuing understanding of God’s profound his Doctorate in Counselor abortion since opening in 1984. love for each of us—something Education and we all need to be reminded Supervision with a of again and again. Let us specialty in trauma dedicate this month to pray a and crisis at Walden family rosary and to ask our University. I am glad Blessed Mother’s intercession to that we will have a protect our families, to end the resident priest living pandemic soon and to help us to at St. Cyprian. Please be closer to her son, Jesus Christ. welcome him when you see him at the St. RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT Cyprian Campus. Last Sunday eight Religious Education students received the May God bless each Sacrament of Confirmation at St. of you and bless St. Cyprian and this week and next Mother Theodore Sunday, more than 50 students Guerin Parish! from the school and Religious Education program of our parish Stay safe and healthy! Confirmation took place at St. Cyprian on will receive an outpouring of Saturday, September 26. For more pictures, see the Holy Spirit through the In prayer, the parish Facebook page and the website. Fifty– Sacrament of Confirmation at Fr. Paul four more will be confirmed over the next two St. Celestine Church. Because weekends at St. Celestine. October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 4 THE GIFT OF THE REIGN OF GOD

Matthew’s Gospel today expands on ’s ballad considerably. A comparison with the same story in Mark’s Gospel clearly shows us that here the author is busy teaching this community of Jewish Christians: “This is a story about Israel a long time ago; this is also a story about Jesus and the skeptical leaders.”

Jesus as much as told these Jewish leaders that they were the tenants who first stoned their own prophets. And he told the leaders they were the tenants who would soon even dispose of him— Jesus—and, in doing so, would forfeit their privileged place of presenting to the world the promised Messiah.

“And this,” says Matthew’s Gospel, “is a story about you, the inheritors of what was first offered to Israel.” The reign of God was first opened to Israel and is now given to the whole world, but it must be received as a gift. The first Christians are the new tenants in the vineyard. The deeper reality of the reign or kingdom of God is that it is available to everyone on the face (1182—1226) of the earth—Israel included. © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. October 4 When Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon was released (1972), people were shocked by the movie’s graphic nudity in the dramatic conversion scene. Son of a wealthy merchant, Francis’ aimless adolescence ended when a failed military expedition led to his imprisonment and complete breakdown. Once home, Francis rediscovered God in the beauty of nature and the ugliness of human suffering, caring for lepers, praying in the little church of San Damiano, whose crucified Jesus he heard calling, “Repair my house, Francis, which is falling into ruins.”

Francis sold his possessions—and his father’s—to fulfill this command. When his father objected, AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Francis disrobed: “I return the clothes, your name, Sunday: Respect Life Sunday and all you gave me: God alone is my Father now.” Later, the would dream of a ragged Monday: Bl. Seelos friar stretching forth a single hand to prop up the crumbling papal Cathedral of Saint John Lateran. Tuesday: St. Bruno; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher Francis indeed helped rebuild the universal Church, founding the Friars Minor (Franciscans), dying at a Wednesday: Our Lady of the Rosary young forty–four, bearing the stigmata of the Christ Friday: St. Denis and Companions; whose living icon he remains—in the Church and far St. John Leonardi beyond it. Peter Scagnell © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 5 ON ON GRAPES, AND THEN SOME Q: What did the green grape say the grapes to the landowner’s my vineyard: take away its hedge, to the purple grape? A: Breathe! servants when he sends them to give it to grazing, break through claim his fruit of the vine. its wall, let it be trampled! Yes, Q: What is I will make it a ruin…” Isaiah’s purple and long? In my Book, Isaiah’s text is called audience doesn’t respond, and A: The Grape “The Vineyard Song.” Here, the their guilt is evident by their wall of China. prophet is sneaky by keeping his silence. audience clueless about who’s Q: “What’s who until the end. “Let me now Beginning with the same set– purple and huge sing of my friend,” he begins, up as Isaiah (a landowner does and swims in “my friend’s song concerning his everything right in establishing the ocean?” A: vineyard…” With the benefit of a vineyard), Jesus then directs “Moby Grape.” hindsight, we know that Isaiah’s another parable at the religious friend is God, the landowner elite. He changes Isaiah’s Q: Why did Mrs. Grape leave her who does everything right, narrative, though. In Jesus’s family? A: She was tired of raisin vineyard–wise (“he spaded it, telling, the landowner leases kids! cleared it of stones, and planted his vineyard to tenants, and the choicest vines; within it he come vintage time, he sends his I’ve got a million of ‘em. Actually, built a watchtower, and hewed servants for the harvest. The this is about all I have. Found out a wine press …”) only to see it tenants reject the servants (“one them online. And I went looking produce bad grapes. they beat, another they killed, for them because grapes come and a third they stoned”), and to mind as I consider today’s first But Isaiah’s song then grows when the landowner sends his reading and the like–themed more transparent: “Inhabitants own son, the tenants throw him Gospel. We’re talking grapes all of Jerusalem and people of out of the vineyard and kill him as over the place. Some are wild (or, Judah, judge between me and my well. per one interpretation from the vineyard: What more was there original Isaiah text, “stinking”). to do for my vineyard that I had Jesus then asks the priests and And others are apparently so not done? Why, when I looked elders what the landowner will plentiful that the tenants who for the crop of grapes, did it bring do, and their own answer (“He had leased the vineyard from forth wild grapes? Now, I will let will put those wretched men the landowner refuse to give you know what I mean to do with to a wretched death and lease his vineyard to other tenants”) condemns them. Jesus concludes, saying, “the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit.”

Q: What’s the new definition of divine? A: It’s what di grapes grow on… Bad jokes aside, my friends, we are now the tenants of the Kingdom’s vineyard. May we remain ever faithful to the divine task at hand. ©2020 By John B. Reynolds ([email protected]) October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 6

CONGRATULATIONS to the students from St. Celestine School and Religious Education who will be confirmed on Sunday, October 4 and October 11 at St. Celestine.

Elijah Adorno Rylee Graves

Isabella Alongi Tony Guzman

Ryan Arnone Joseph Hollingsworth

Nicole Avila Klaudia Kojkol Gwendolyn Olney

Corey Balita Joseph Krzak Dominic Pilati

Natalia Barajas Liliana Kwong Victoria Ptak

Carlos Burciaga Jessica Lagunas Omarr Reyes

Luciano Campana Madison Loster Rominski

Olivia Czarnota Allison Lundin Ethan Saenz

Patrick Deenihan Nathan Macias Jesus Salgado

Gianna DiCanio John Madden Marinel Salazar

Blake Dunham Jake Magura Nathan Soto

Isabel Escamilla Paul Maiella Margaret Tobin

Reece Fenlon John Marino Alondra Torres

Sydney Fenlon Sebastian Martinez Nicholas Ujda

Jake Fini Mikee Kasandra Medrano Sabrina Villa

Elias Garcia Edward Milita Wardisiani

Andrew Gauthier Molly Milligan Isabella Waters

Luke Gomez John Niecikowski Francis Zagotta October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 7

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REGISTRATION

The Religious Education Registration for the 2020—2021 school year is now available online!!! Classes begin on Saturday, October 17. You may sign up online on our website: https://stguerinparish.org/religious–education/. Classes will be held on Saturdays once a month at St. Celestine School, Elmwood Park. Grades 1—8 will be offered and each monthly class session will be from 9:30 to 11:00 AM. Home/remote Religious Ed will take place on the weeks we do not have in–person class session. Additional information will be provided when the program begins.

RCIA—Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

Many people are searching for spiritual meaning and a deeper relationship with God. Often they feel drawn to the Catholic faith. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a process by which adults explore the Catholic faith and ordinarily become members of the Church.

The program consists of several months of instruction in the teachings, beliefs, customs, and practices of the Catholic faith. Those who complete the process receive the sacraments, usually Baptism, First Communion, and Confirmation, or a combination of those, at Easter.

WHO IS THE RCIA INTENDED FOR? · Adults and Teens who have never been baptized. · Adults and Teens who have been baptized in another Christian denomination. · Adults and Teens who were baptized Catholic, but never received First Communion or Confirmation.

Adult Classes meet on Thursdays from 7 to 8:30 PM in the St. Cyprian Rectory. The program begins in October and concludes on Easter Sunday.

Teen Classes meet on Tuesdays from 7 to 8:30 PM in the St. Cyprian Rectory. The program starts in October and concludes on Easter Sunday.

Please contact Ruthanne Swiatkowski at 708—453—2555 x17 or [email protected].

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION DATES Catechist Openings for Religious Education As Jesus teaches, “Let the little children come to me, and do not October 4 1:30 PM Confirmation Mass stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of heaven belongs.” – Matthew 19:13-15 for St. Celestine School at St. Celestine Religious Education needs you! We need caring people who enjoy working with children and sharing and October 11 1:30 PM Confirmation Mass for teaching the Catholic faith. Classes meet on Saturdays St. Celestine Religious Education once a month from 9:30—11 AM for students in Grades 1—8. The first class is October 17. Training is at St. Celestine available. We use the series from Finding God, Loyola Press. The Archdiocese has some requirements October 17 Religious Education Classes including taking a Virtus (child protection) class and a begin at St. Celestine background check. If you would like to be a part of the St. Mother Theodore Guerin Catechetical team, please contact Ruthanne Swiatkowski, Director of Religious Education, at [email protected]. October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 8 MARRIED 50 YEARS IN 2020?

Please call the Pastoral Center or the Rectory if you were married in 1970 and are celebrating your 50th wedding anniversary this year. Even though we Please keep those serving in the military in your cannot gather together to celebrate, the Archdiocese prayers. Thank you for your service to our country. would like to send you a certificate in recognition of this event and the 2020 and 2021 Jubilarians will be Col. Stephen Acosta Marines invited to celebrate together in 2021. Staff Sgt. Lawrence G. Campbell Air Force Senior Airman Cory McCambridge Air Force Chief Erin McGuire Navy The Archdiocesan Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass Lt. Col. Peter Anderson Army that was scheduled for Sunday, September 13 was Sgt. Kenneth G. DiCristifano Army Spec Michael Migliorisi Army canceled because of the pandemic. Maj. Deborah J. Crowley, M.D. Army Pvt. John Cerrone Marines BACKYARD Maj. Nevers Marines PFC Paul J. Lagoda Marines AND INDOOR PFC Sophia M. Garcia Marines Lt. Robert Reynolds Army AS PFC Richard A. Paduch Army SIGNS OF Staff Sgt. Alberto Boy Marines Sgt. Rodolfo DeLao Army CATHOLIC Staff Sgt. Natalie Borrini Air Force Cpl. Brian Macaluso Marines IDENTITY Lnc. Cpl. Meghan Jennings Marines Continuing our series Lnc. Cpl. Michael Casanave Marines on backyard shrines; Pvt. Nicolas Casanave Marines ABEAN Melanie Hodges Navy here is Maureen PFC Vincent Negron Marines Detty's Mary, St. Pvt. Matthew Meyer Army Francis and an angel. She says her neighbor likes to Master Sgt. Scott A. Cross Air Force look out her window at the statues when she says Private Niko Rodriguez Army Dario Rodriguez Air Force her morning prayers!Do you have a indoors or CH 1LT Jacque Beltran Navy outdoors? Send a picture and a short explanation to A1C Brian Moran Air Force [email protected] (or just post here) and you A1C Elyssa Moran Air Force Lnc. Cpl. Sean P. Mellett Marines can be featured in the bulletin and on Facebook. Let's Ensign Devon Zych Coast Guard show our Catholic identity! FN Matilda Davis Coast Guard Lnc. Cpl. Andrew D. Nordlie Marines Ensign FaithAnne Bieschke Navy Luis N. Burciaga Army PFC Rudy De La O Marines

Need help? Food, shelter, housing, employment, training, counseling, addictions, utilities, physical or mental health services, legal and financial, immigration, naturalization and refugee and senior services are provided by Catholic Charities. Call Information for the bulletin is due on the Friday 312–655–7700 or go to catholiccharities.net. the week before the bulletin comes out. Please send in Word or as an editable PDF to khagerty@ Alcohol and Drug Abuse 1–800–821–4357 stguerinparish.org. Will use as space allows. Child Abuse 1–800–252–2873 National Domestic Violence 1–800–799–SAFE Bulletin Deadline National Sexual Assault 1–800–656–4673 October 18 October 9 at 9 AM Compulsive Gambling Hotline 1–410–332–0402 October 25 October 16 at 9 AM Poison Control 1–800–222–1222 November 1 October 23 at 9 AM Suicide Prevention 1–800–273–8255 November 8 October 30 at 9 AM Elder Abuse 1–800–252–8966 November 15 November 6 at 9 AM October 4, 2020 Twenty–Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time www.stguerinparish.org 9

Names are kept on the list for four weeks. If you wish to add or remove a name, please call the parish office. Thank you! Paciano Acosta Tom McGuire Marie and Steve Auerbach Ron McGuire Michael Balaja Mary Mellett Grace Baldessara Sharon Meyer Mary Bartell Dan Murphy Karen Biagini Tom Murphy Joyce Brosseit Carolyn Nanni Victor Cabello Domenic Nanni Caitlyn Barbara Narducci Dorothy Carey Fr. Larry Nemer Deacon Dennis Colgan Larry Nestor Frances Copps Barbara Nevers Debra DeKelver Reginald Nevers Jackie DeLarco Bernice Nesbitt Michael DeLuca Sr. Noel Danny DiMaso Bill Noesen Elene Dimperio Manny Perez Dillon Dolecki Adrienne Pudlo Patricia Dwyer Kirk Pusenilli Eleanor Jim Raemisch Heidy Egan Michael Riesterer Brittany Foley Darlene Rinker Francine Caroline Russo Christopher Freel Betty Salemi Patsy Galecki Amy Schreiner Kathy Gallery Joseph Serwa Tammy Garcia Mickey Smith Phyllis Gossy Mary Sochnuk Patricia Guarino Ed Socki Brian Herbert Darryl Taggert David Holder Shirley Teofilo George Horvath Andrew Valko Laurel Horvath Lillian Wardzala Bob Jurasz Dorothy Witek Kathy Don Wojcik Margaret Karls Catherine Zmich Ken Kiska Gerry Zych Joy Ann Klewer and for all our sick All weekly events are canceled. Michael Kunz and homebound Tom Mayer parishioners

Emily Gallagher, Fred Hilgart, Delia Rose, Trudy Wynd, We are not using Liturgical Ministers at this time. Laura Gagliano, Marsha Long, and Gerald Bristen

ST. CELESTINE CHURCH 3020 North 76th Court, Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707 708–453–2555

ST. CYPRIAN CHURCH 2601 Clinton, River Grove, Illinois 60171 708–453–4800

Mass Schedules: See cover. Registration required. Office Hours: Temporarily closed. Communion Service: Temporarily canceled. Holy Hour: First Friday of each month at 3 PM in St. Celestine church, in person and live–streamed on Facebook and website. Please check our website, No registration needed. www.stguerinparish.org, for the most Fatima Devotion: Temporarily canceled. accurate information on the schedule for sacraments during the pandemic. Adoration: Temporarily combined into First Friday Holy Hour. Baptisms: Contact Ruthanne Swiatkowski to schedule; [email protected] or call 708–453–2555 x 17. Reconciliation: Saturdays 4—4:45 PM at St. Celestine. No registration needed. Weddings: Engaged couples are encouraged to call a year in advance of a preferred date. The couple must talk to Deacon Mike DeLarco before a wedding date can be reserved. Participation in marriage preparation is essential.

PRIESTS Ray Brownlee, Maintenance 708–453–4800 Rev. Paul Cao, Pastor [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–2555 x29 Eric Mueller and Rev. Brendan Guilfoil, Associate Pastor Bob Vessini, Maintenance 708–453–2555 x25 [email protected] 708–453–2555 x30 Rev. Eugene Gratkowski, Pastor Emeritus of St. Cyprian MUSIC MINISTRY Rev. Jeffrey Grob, Rev. Fil Ngwila, Rev. Stan Ilo, Resident Craig Kamptner, Director of Music Ministry Priests [email protected] 708–453–2555 x16 Rev. Ron Navoy, Weekend Associate at St. Cyprian Call Craig with questions about music for the parish.

DEACONS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Michael DeLarco 708–453–2555 x31 Ruthanne Swiatkowski, Director of Lifelong Faith Call Deacon Mike to schedule a wedding. Formation Miguel Negron [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–2555 x17 Ronald Pilarski [email protected] Mary Morvay, Coordinator of Children’s Faith Formation Dennis Colgan, retired [email protected] 708–453–5719 Mary Murphy, Coordinator of Religious Education for ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL Special Needs for children and adults Sheila Klich, Principal 708–453–8234 x23 [email protected] 708–453–2555 [email protected] Norma Pulido, Secretary 708–453–8234 x11 MINISTRIES Donna DelMedico, Finance Secretary 708–453–8234 x24 Lois DeFelice, Ministry of Care 708–453–2555 [email protected] PARISH SUPPORT STAFF Laurie DePillo, Business Manager 708–453–2555 x15 Greg Fidanzia, Guerin William Youth Group [email protected] [email protected] 708–453–2555 x13 Mary Krewer, Administrative Assistant [email protected] 708–453–4800 Kim Hagerty, Director of Evangelization 708–453–2555x12 Marge Dellinger, Receptionist 708–453–4800 [email protected] [email protected] Bulletin Editor Deadline is 9 AM on the Friday 9 days Irma Rivera, Receptionist 708–453–2555 x10 before the date you would like the information to Lynn Schmidt, Receptionist 708–453–2555 x10 appear. [email protected]