PARISH STAFF REV. ROBERT CLARK Pastor REV. EDGAR RODRIGUEZ Associate Pastor REV. KENNETH BAKER Associate Pastor REV. CHARLES GALLAGHER Pastor Emeritus REV. RON ANGLIM Weekend Associate REV. MR. JESÚS & SILVIA CASAS Deacon Couple PASTORAL STAFF Paulette Bolton St. Cletus Canticle Worship 600 W. 55th Street - La Grange, IL (708) 215-5422 Deacon Jesús Casas (708) 352-6209 Rectory Hispanic Ministry (708) 352-4820 School (708) 215-5440 Kristen Maxwell www.stcletusparish.com Youth Ministry September 18, 2011 (708) 215-5419 Mary Beth Ford Social Concerns Twenty–fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time (708) 215-5418 Debbie Lestarczyk Business Manager (708) 215-5405 Justin Sisul Music Ministry (708) 215-5423 Christopher Wagner Technology (708) 215-5420 Dolores Wouk Ministry of Care (708) 215-5407 SCHOOL STAFF Jeff Taylor School Principal Kathy Lifka Assistant Principal Mary Lee Krieger Secretary Jeannie Scalzitti Receptionist/Office Assistant (708) 352-4820 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION STAFF Sr. Pat McKee Director of Religious Education Holly Kallal Secretary (708) 352-2383 RECTORY STAFF Patricia Drobny Bulletin Editor/Office Assistant All are welcome. Bobbie Kallal Handicapped parking is located in front of church. Human Resources Personal hearing devices are available from the ushers/greeters. Mary Zwolinski Parish Accounting Children’s Chapel available for the young and the restless (708) 352-6209 in the rear of the church. Page Two Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 18, 2011 Mass Intentions for the Week of September 19 - September 25, 2011 Day Time Intentions Monday 8:00 a.m. Lillian Hauman, Marie Hauman, Joyce Standish, Steven & Robert Firestone Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Karen Gorak, John Graves, Arthur Dalton Wednesday 8:00 a.m. Wayne Kral, Rose Mary Quattrochi Thursday 8:00 a.m. Inez Molinari, Louis P. Egielski Friday 8:00 a.m. Roseann Lodato, Joseph Vieceli Saturday 8:00 a.m. Timothy Benrus, Walter Johnston 5:00 p.m. Robert McGuire, Jack Branis, Georgia Popp, Dan Rosko, Karen Loch Sunday 7:00 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Edward Bogolin, James & Lorraine Adamec, Dolores E. Kuchta 8:00 a.m. Purgatorial Society 9:30 a.m. Florence Straka, Michael Arpaia, Richard Bleier, Charles Llwellyn 11:00 a.m. Sandy & John Fisher, George Benrus, Evelyn Zdenek Doll, Special Intention for Sarah Conner, Lottie & Frank Mendrala, Agnes Findor 12:30 p.m. Purgatorial Society SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Please remember our sick in your prayers: Sunday: Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Betty Niwa, Joan Workman, Betty Zapf, Maybelle Catechetical Sunday Ryan, Rose Pasquale, Mary Alice Gregorchuk, Monday: St. Januarius Harry Fisher, Donald Cuttill, Laura McDonnell, Tuesday: Ss. Andrew Kim Taegŏn and Paul Idolina Montano, Wei Wu, Sue Kremer, Gail Pankow- Chŏng Hasang and Their Companions Locker, Kathryn Super-Wilson, Lydia Ciaglia, Wednesday: St. Matthew Maeva Bishop, Rebecca Mueller, Joshua Thomas, Jr., Friday: St. Pio of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio); Katie Meyer, Howard Pohlman, Evelyn Kilker, Autumn begins Jessica Gundling, Rajamma Thomas, Joe Saban, Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary Ola Maveety, Jean Weekley, Marilyn Matesevac. Also pray for our parishioners who are in nursing homes or are homebound and unable to attend Mass. Please pray for those who have died and their families… St. Cletus Parish Family Welcomed... Krystyna Balda, mother of Eva Trefil Erika Gómez, Dan Gallagher, daughter of Jorge Ignacio Gómez & María Erika Cuevas brother of John …to the Catholic Faith through the Joseph Kmet, father of Liz Kmet May the Lord grant them eternal rest. Amen. WEDDING BANNS Amanda Schure and Dennis Croucher Friday, September 23, 2011 September 18, 2011 Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Three continual tug-of-war with his loyalties and values. Choosing Jesus over money would have been a relief. Today the United Nations sponsors an Invest just five minutes a day, and your faith will deepen International Day of Peace. Their website recommends peace prayers and grow—a day at a time. and ceremonies, peace convoys and choirs, planting trees, going on picnics, rounding up artists for a peace exhibit or friends for a peace walk. However you celebrate, share the spirit of peace today. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 TODAY’S READINGS: Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-13; Matthew 9:9- TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 13 (643) It’s OK to go to pieces “[Bear] with one another through love, striving to preserve Life is a puzzle; there are so many things we do not understand: Why is the unity of the spirit through the bond of peace.” there evil? Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do some people live to a ripe old age while others die before they’ve had a THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 chance to live? Why can’t we seem to get along? Why are some people Speak your mind fabulously wealthy or healthy or fortunate or all of these while others Scripture includes a number of revealing anecdotes involving powerful struggle simply to survive? Oddly, there is some freedom in not having political leaders—kings, sultans, pharaohs, and the like—who are fear- all the answers. We don’t have to be able to see the whole picture in ful of the spiritual leaders they encounter, especially in the form of order to know that “all shall be well, all shall be well, and all manner of prophets who dare to speak out against injustice and the abuse of things shall be well,” as the medieval mystic Julian of Norwich put it. power. Then as now, those in positions of power like to keep the perks Practice some surrender today. to themselves. Challenging the assumptions behind the Cold War in a TODAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 55:6-9; Philippians 1:20c-24, 27a; Matthew 20:1-16a (133) pamphlet back in 1955, the Quakers coined the phrase “speaking truth “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my to power.” It is an apt job description for prophets, ancient and modern. ways, says the Lord.” Applicants for the position always are welcome. Are you interested? TODAY’S READINGS: Haggai 1:1-8; Luke 9:7-9 (452) MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 “Herod said, ‘John I beheaded. Who then is this about whom FEAST OF JANUARIUS, BISHOP, MARTYR I hear such things?’ ” A festival fit for all This year marks the 85th annual San Gennaro (Italian for “Saint Janu- FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 arius”) festival in New York City. Even non-Italians are familiar with it Put your faith in motion as backgrounds for films and television programs like Godfather II and A number of stories in Hebrew scripture involve leaving and returning CSI: NY. Because Januarius is the patron saint of Naples, the festival is and going and coming, and these big moments get capital letters. After held in Little Italy in lower Manhattan, the first American home for the Fall, Adam and Eve had to depart their garden paradise home. In hundreds of thousands of Italian immigrants who arrived in the early the Exodus the Israelites left slavery in Egypt and eventually came to part of the 20th century. The feast has been called a “festive period of the land God gave them. The Babylonian invasion led to the Exile, faith and redemption, a time for remembrance and reconciliation, and a from which the Israelites came back. Through all this back-and-forth time for celebration.” It is a reminder that a public celebration of faith movement the one constant was God’s covenant, though the chosen and even small acts of compassion and kindness can and should fall as people didn’t always hold up their end of the bargain. In all the activi- a blessing on all people, not only the chosen few. ties of your life, when can you turn to God and find God’s holy pres- TODAY’S READINGS: Ezra 1:1-6; Luke 8:16-18 (449) ence? “There is nothing hidden that will not become visible.” TODAY’S READINGS: Haggai 2:1-9; Luke 9:18-22 (453) “In this place I will give you peace, says the Lord of hosts.” TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 FEAST OF ANDREW KIM TAEGŏN, PRIEST, MARTYR, PAUL CHŏNG SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 HASANG, MARTYR, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS FEAST OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY We’ve only just begun How do you know Mary? Suppression of Christianity as a “foreign import” in 18th- and 19th- The Virgin Mary is a woman of many names—today on one of her century Korea cost many early converts their lives. Andrew Kim Tae- regular Saturday feast days alone she is referred to as Our Lady of gŏn, Korea’s first native-born Catholic priest, was among those mar- Ransom and sometimes even Our Lady of Mercy. Name-calling in this tyred. Taegŏn used his final moments to send a powerful witness of sense isn’t such a bad thing because it shows how so many of us have faith to those who were present at his execution: “This is my last hour come to know Mary as truly our sister. This particular feast day recalls of life, listen to me attentively: If I have held communication with for- how Mary was instrumental in Saint Peter Nolasco’s foundation of the eigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for him that I Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy (the Mercedarian Friars), a die. My immortal life is on the point of beginning. Become Christians religious community of men dedicated to the redemption of those in if you wish to be happy after death.” An eternity of happiness isn’t the captivity. In what ways has Mary been instrumental in your life? What only benefit of a faith-filled life.