November 6, 2016 St. Francis de Sales Parish Page One Family… GOD AND COUNTRY United, Empowered RENEW MY CHURCH Committed HONOR OUR VETERANS United November 6, 2016 as a Catholic faith family; 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Empowered by the Holy Spirit to proclaim Christ’s teaching in word and deed; Committed To be Christ to one another through love and service ...and honor the dignity of all people. Former Pastors of St. Francis de Sales: Rev. Joseph F. Firnbach Founding Pastor 1949 - 1970 ┼ (1990) Rev. John T. McEnroe 1970 - 1982 ┼ Rev. Richard J. Valker 1982 - 1992 ┼ (2011) Rev. Ronald J. Gollatz 1992 - 2006 135 S. Buesching Rd. Lake Zurich, IL 60047 847.438.6622 Fax 847.438.6638 www.stfrancislz.org Jubilee Year of Mercy Pass through the Holy Door November 6, 2016 St. Francis de Sales Parish Page 2 WELCOME TO ST. FRANCIS DE SALES PARISH! We welcome you to St. Francis de Sales. Organized as a parish in 1949 by the Archdiocese of Chicago, St. Francis de Sales Parish encompasses the communities of Lake Zurich, Deer Park, Hawthorn Woods, North Barrington, Kildeer, Long Grove and has a strong spiritual and temporal presence in Lake County. If you are new in these neighborhoods or are returning to the practice of our Catholic faith, we welcome you to our Parish. Please call or, better yet, stop by the Ministry Center so we can meet you. If you are a visitor, we know that you will take some of our goodwill with you as you return to your home parish. Sunday, November 6, 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time, • Youth Ministry Life Night/2nd Year Confirmation Class National Vocation Awareness Week, (Gifts & Fruits of the Holy Spirit): Daylight Savings Time Ends—Set clocks back 1 hour 5 to 8 p.m.—Church & Ministry Center • Rel. Ed. Preschool: 9:30 a.m.—School • Emmaus House Dinner: 6 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall Monday, November 7 • Art & Environment: 1:30 p.m.—Church • Mass: 8:30 a.m.—Church • Rel. Ed. Grades 1-5 Classes: 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.—School • Jubilee Year of Mercy Speaker Series—Fr. Rocky: • Rel. Ed. Middle School Classes (Session A): 7 p.m.—Church 6:30 to 8 p.m.—Ministry Center • Athletic Board Meeting: 7 p.m.—Ministry Center • SPRED (Ages 11-16) Total Community Session: • Yoga: 9:15 a.m.—Ministry Center 6:30 to 8 p.m.—Ministry Center • Castle Retreat Leader Meeting: 7 p.m.—Ministry Center Tuesday, November 8, Election Day • Mass: 7 a.m.—Church • Rel. Ed. Grades 1-5 Classes: 4:15 to 5:30 p.m.—School • RCIA: 7 p.m.—Church Gathering Space • Rel. Ed. Middle School Classes (Session A): • NAMI Family-to-Family Class: 6:30 to 8 p.m.—Ministry Center 6 to 9 p.m.—Ministry Center • Boy Scouts Troop 309: 7:30 to 9 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall Wednesday, November 9, The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica • Rel. Ed. Grades 1-5 Classes: • Mass: 8:30 a.m. & noon—Church 4:15 to 5:30 p.m. and 6:15 to 7:30 p.m.—School • Mass with Father Ryan at Cedar Lake Nursing Home: • Great Bible Adventure: 7 to 8:30 p.m.—Ministry Center 3 p.m. • Cancer Sharing & Support: 7 p.m.—Church Gathering Space • Mass with Father Ryan at Solana Senior Living: • St. Vincent de Paul Meeting: 7 p.m.—Ministry Center 4:30 p.m. • • Choir Rehearsal: 7 to 8:30 p.m.—Ministry Center Eucharistic Adoration: 7 to 8 p.m.—Church Thursday, November 10, St. Leo the Great • 2nd Grade Girl Scouts: 2 to 3:30 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall • Mass: 7 a.m.—Church • St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry: • Great Bible Adventure: 9 to 10:30 a.m.—Ministry Center 6 to 8 p.m.—Ministry Center • 2nd Grade Sacrament Parent Meeting: • SPRED (Ages 6-10) Total Community Session: 7 to 8 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall 6:30 to 8 p.m.—Ministry Center • Scripture School: 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.—Ministry Center • Youth Choir Rehearsal: 5 to 6 p.m.—Ministry Center • Bell Choir Rehearsal: 6:45 to 8:30 p.m.—Church Friday, November 11, Veterans Day Parish School Closed • Mass: 8:30 a.m.—Church • Art & Environment: 9 a.m.—Church Saturday, November 12 • Great Bible Adventure: 9 to 10:30 a.m.—Ministry Center • Mass: 8:30 a.m. & 5 p.m.—Church • 2nd Grade Sacrament Parent Meeting: • Jubilee Year of Mercy Speaker Series— 9 to 10 a.m.—Fr. Valker Hall Fr. James McIlhone: 2 to 4:30 p.m.—Ministry Center • Girl Scouts Pajamarama: 6 to 8 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall Sunday, November 13 • Youth Ministry Life Night (Chili Bingo Night): • Rel. Ed. Preschool: 9:30 a.m.—School 5 to 8 p.m.—Church & Ministry Center • Knights Café: After 8 & 9:30 a.m. Masses—Fr. Valker Hall • Emmaus House Dinner: 6 p.m.—Fr. Valker Hall This Weekend Next Weekend November 5 & 6, 2016 Support the 2016 November 12 & 13, 2016 Annual Catholic Culver’s Collection Gift of Love Sponsor Sign-up Gift of Love Sponsor Sign-up Appeal! Men’s Retreat Registration November 6, 2016 St. Francis de Sales Parish Page 3 November 6, 2016: 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time To trust in God when one is destitute of such support is worthy of great praise. -St. Francis de Sales LIFE EVERLASTING The second book of Maccabees tells a powerful story, and a rather gruesome one at that. But central to it, beyond the horrible deaths inlicted upon the brothers and their mother, is their belief in the promise of resurrection and life everlasting in God. Paul asks the Thessalonians to pray for him as he spreads Christ’s message of love, so that he might be delivered from other nonbelievers anxious to do him harm. The apostle is conident in such prayer, just as he is conident in the everlasting support of Jesus and God the Father. And there’s that “everlasting” word again. The Sadducees, not buying the idea, ask Jesus an interesting— albeit meaningless—question about the status of married life at the Resurrection. He tells the non-believers that marriage isn’t an issue for the risen children of God. More importantly, he assures them that their ancestors do live on in God, even as evidenced by the Father’s words to Moses. -Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. TODAY’S READINGS SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES First Reading — The King of the world will raise us Sunday: Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time; up to live again forever (2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14). National Vocation Awareness Week; Psalm — Lord, when your glory appears, my joy will Daylight Saving Time ends be full (Psalm 17). Tuesday: Election Day Second Reading — May the Lord encourage and Wednesday: The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica strengthen your hearts (2 Thessalonians 2:16 — 3:5). Thursday: St. Leo the Great Gospel — Those who are deemed worthy of the Friday: St. Martin of Tours; Veterans Day coming age can no longer die (Luke 20:27-38 [27, 34 Saturday: St. Josaphat -38]). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION In the seventeenth century, English Catholics, many of them wealthy and well educated, looked to the READINGS FOR THE WEEK American colonies as a place to regain a measure of religious freedom. In Ireland, the so-called penal laws Monday: Ti 1:1-9; Ps 24:1b-4ab, 5-6; Lk 17:1-6 were even harsher than in England, as a minority Tuesday: Ti 2:1-8, 11-14; Ps 37:3-4, 18, 23, 27, 29; Parliament tried to force the conversion of the Lk 17:7-10 population by denying the majority political and Wednesday: Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9; economic power. Beginning in 1691, laws were passed 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2:13-22 that punished dissenters, principally Catholics, but also Thursday: Phlm 7-20; Ps 146:7-10; Lk 17:20-25 causing hardship for Jews, Quakers, and others. There Friday: 2 Jn 4-9; Ps 119:1-2, 10-11, 17-18; were acts forbidding “mixed marriage” or sending Lk 17:26-37 children “beyond the seas” for schooling. Catholics Saturday: 3 Jn 5-8; Ps 112:1-6; Lk 18:1-8 were taxed at double the common rate, barred from the Sunday: Mal 3:19-20a; Ps 98:5-9; 2 Thes 3:7-12; legal professions and from university, and not allowed Lk 21:5-19 to build churches or own a decent horse. In 1793 the situation began to change, as it WORDS OF WISDOM: A CHILD’S GIFT became clear that the economic persecution would not drive the majority away from Catholicism. Gradually, Give a little love to a child, laws were repealed until by 1829 freedom was won, and you get a great deal back. although Catholics at university were ineligible for —John Ruskin honors, and until the 1920s and the Republic, the Church of Ireland was the state church, funded by the taxes of all citizens. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. November 6, 2016 St. Francis de Sales Parish Page 4 NATIONAL VOCATION AWARENESS WEEK WASHINGTON—The Catholic Church in the U.S. will celebrate National Vocation Awareness Week, November 6-12.