ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 4900 Rialto Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069 • (513) 645-4212 • www.sgg.org • www.SGGResources.org Traditional Latin Mass: Sundays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM High, 11:30 AM, 5:45 PM Most Reverend Daniel L. Dolan, Pastor Rev. Anthony Cekada, Rev. Charles McGuire, Rev. Vili Lehtoranta, Rev. Stephen McKenna February 23, 2014 Sexagesima Sunday Saint Paul Sunday St Peter Damian, BpCD THE SEED IS THE WORD OF GOD ¶ TODAY ¶OUR SICK Today is Sexagesima Sunday, as we Lumen Christi Please remember Pat Harpen, who is in count only 60 days until Easter, and the hospital and very gravely ill, and The Sanctuary Lamp will burn before continue our preparation for the Season Kim LeBlanc, also hospitalized with the Blessed Sacrament for the next of Lent. Stop in to the Gift Shop to pick dialysis difficulties. Richard and fortnight for the following intention: up some good Lenten reading. Bishop Elizabeth Smith have a very heavy cross in their illness and need the support of Dolan will be answering your questions To the glory of God our prayers. Remember, too, Gary about the Catholic faith, following the (A grateful parishioner) High Mass this morning, beginning Amyx and all of those for whom we’ve about 10:45 AM in Helfta Hall. been asked to pray. ¶NEXT SUNDAY A SUNDAY SEVEN FOR THE SICK THE SORROWFUL MOTHER NOVENA The blessing of religious articles will be R. Our Lady of Sorrows, pray for us! with Blessing of the given after all Masses. Our second When it’s hard to rely on others for care: R. Sick continues on collection is for the seminary. Sunday When envy arises toward those who are R. Friday following the Classes as usual; Vespers at 4:45 PM. healthy: When pessimism or cynicism holds sway: R. evening Mass (approx. Set Your Missal: Quinquagesima Sunday When anguish is intensified by the need for 6:30 PM) with collects of Our Lady and All Saints, . Please contact reconciliation: R. the church office with and celebrant’s choice. Trinity Preface. When sickness is mistaken for punishment: R. the first names of your sick, who you When loved ones are far away: R. wish remembered during the Novena. When sickness causes financial hardship that IMPORTANT ¶ leads to worry or despair: R. Blessing and glory and wisdom and SCHEDULE CHANGE! thanksgiving, honor, might and power Parents of First Communion children, ¶MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW! be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen. please note: First Confessions & Testing # (An indulgence of 500 days; Raccolta No. 17) Girls’ Camp will take place on Saturday, April 5th. Wednesday, July 9th-Friday, July 11th Registration form and baptismal # ¶FIRST SATURDAY –MARCH 1ST Boys’ Camp certificate (if child not baptized at St. Tuesday, July 22nd-Thursday, July 24th St. Joseph’s month opens with another must be submitted before “detached” First Saturday. The Gertrude’s) that date. schedule is as follows: 7:10 AM Rosary & Confessions A tender devotion towards the Immaculate Servers : FEBRUARY 24 - MARCH 2, 2014 7:30 AM Low Mass OW Mother of God is one of the most powerful FRI 2/28 5:45 PM L : Friday Night Servers 8:10 AM First Saturday devotions, means of counteracting within us the effects SAT 3/1 7:30 AM LOW : Simpsons Benediction of the virus emanating from the fatal tree of 8:30 AM LOW : M. Briggs 8:30 AM Low Mass the terrestrial paradise. SUN 3/2 7:30 AM LOW : Brueggemann Bros. –Ildefonso Schuster 9:00 AM HIGH : CHAPLAINS : B. Lotarski, First Saturday intention: In reparation T. Simpson AC S: P. Omlor, J. Lacy for the blasphemies of those who publicly TH: A. Richesson TORCH : M. Simpson, Collection Report C. Richesson, C. Arlinghaus, C. Rios seek to place in the hearts of children Sunday, February 16th .............................$4,342.00 11:30 AM LOW : A.D. Kinnett, Nathan McClorey indifference or scorn, or even hatred, 4:45 PM VESPERS & B ENEDICTION : G. Miller towards the Blessed Virgin Mary. Thank you for your generosity! 5:45 PM LOW : G. Miller © THE POETRY CORNER THE SOWER SEVEN priceless gifts which Saint Walburga (February 25th) THE SOWER cost us little Born in the British Isles, Walburga, daughter of Ye sons of earth prepare the plough, 1. A happy face, a kindly St. Richard the Pilgrim, a West-Saxon Break up your fallow ground; smile. underking, was at the age of eleven sent to the The sower is gone forth to sow, 2. A happy gentle manner, Benedictine abbey of Wimborne for her And scatter blessings round. a thoughtful act. education. Walburga spend 26 years at 3. An impatience Wimborne, during which time she gained a The seed that finds a stony soil suppressed, a cheerful word. reputation for her austerity and learning. She Shoots forth a hasty blade; 4. A grateful thanks for wrote a biography of her brother, St. Winibald, in But ill repays the sower’s toil, trifling services. Latin, and is considered by some to be the first Soon wither’d, scorch’d, and dead. 5. Service without looking female author of England and Germany. for gratitude. When St. Boniface, Walburga’s uncle, began The thorny ground is sure to balk 6. Honestly acknowledging his work of evangelizing the German peoples, he All hopes of harvest there; that we are unprofitable sent for Walburga and her brothers. Walgurga We find a tall and sickly stalk, servants. entered the new monastery founded in But not the fruitful ear. Heidenheim and eventually became its abbess. 7. Willingly sharing our She died there in 777. Her remains were blessings with others. The beaten path and high-way side, translated to Eichstätt around 870, and reports of Receive the trust in vain; miracles due to her intercessions led to the The watchful birds the spoil divide, development of a robust following. A story is told And pick up all the grain. of her journey to Germany and the ferocious storm that rocked the ship on which she sailed. But where the Lord of grace and power St. Walburga knelt to pray on the deck and Has blessed the happy field, immediately the storm ceased. She is invoked against severe storms. How plenteous is the golden store St. Walburga is the patroness of the Benedictine Sisters in The deep-wrought furrows yield! Kentucky, who once were a fine congregation of nuns, educating many Catholic girls. Father of mercies, we have need Of thy preparing grace; Let the same Hand that give me seed Provide a fruitful place. CATECHISM CORNER: Read after Mass – William Cowper THE MASS is a real sacrifice, made by Jesus, as real and actual as the sacrifice of His Life unto death on Calvary. How? Why? Both on Calvary in His suffering Body and on the altar in His Sacramental Body, Jesus is ever offering, ever offered as Priest and Victim before His Eternal Father. On Calvary Jesus suffered a physical death when His Blood was drained from His Body. In the Mass there are two separate consecrations; one for His Body, the other for His Blood. These words of consecration are like a sword, which of themselves would actually separate His Blood from Most Holy Trinity, we adore Thee His Body. However, in point of fact Jesus is and through Mary we implore Thee. The design gives the three sowers entirely present, Body and Blood, Soul and Give unto all mankind unity in the faith Divinity under each appearance of bread and and courage faithfully to confess it. featured in the liturgy of (An indulgence of 300 days; Raccolta No. 30) Sexagesima Sunday: Noe, with his wine. This mystical death of Jesus on the altar can three sons, the ark, rainbow, and express His willingness to die again just as much vine; Paul, the great herald of as His real death on Calvary. Moreover, on the Heavenly Father, through the Christ; and our Blessed Savior who altar, Jesus is present in the state of a victim, once intercession of Saint Walburga, is both the Sower of good seed and immolated on Calvary and now offered again in grant me total trust in You, wheat to be eaten in the Eucharist. the Mass. All this makes the Mass a real sacrifice. even in the midst of deadly storms. © THE BISHOP’S CORNER © Every year I calculate the opening of Some of the 11:30 faithful last Sunday went our Friday evening Sorrowful Mother afterwards to visit H.O. Hinton and prayed part of the Novena by counting back nine weeks Rosary with him. Visiting the sick is a charitable Sunday from her feast in Passiontide. Then I activity, complementing and carrying out the Holy Mass. think, “Gulp! Holy Week is only nine Why not make it part of your Sunday some time, weeks out!” and then Easter, and May, especially (but not only) for Lent? and the end of the season with Bee Lutkehaus had plenty of visitors the other day. Corpus Christi....May we keep these Fr. McGuire tries to see her every week with Holy days of grace well! Communion, but Fr. Greenwell was there for the same The Church does the same thing (but without the purpose! We were surprised at this because we thought gulping), counting at first the days until Easter, until she our faithful were supposed to be denied Holy settles with forty, Quadregesima (which is Lent in Latin), Communion. In the old days this would probably be the perfect number for the struggle which is earthly life called “sheep rustling,” but I’m sure there was a lived in view of winning eternity.