www.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." ST. CELESTINE CHURCH ST. CYPRIAN CHURCH 3020 North 76th Court 2601 Clinton Elmwood Park, Illinois 60707 River Grove, Illinois 60171 Phone: 708–453–2555 Fax: 708–452–0560 Phone 708–453–4800 Fax: 708–453–6141 MASSES MASSES Saturday 5 PM Saturday 4 PM Sunday 7:30 AM Sunday 9 AM 10:30 AM and live–streamed on Tuesday and Thursday 8 AM Facebook and stguerinparish.org Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8 AM ST. CELESTINE SCHOOL Reconciliation Saturday 4—4:45 PM 3017 North 77th Avenue, Elmwood Park Illinois 60707 stcelestineschool.org 708–453–8234 www.stguerinparish.org August 1, 2021 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time stguerinparish.org 2 On weekends, because of the pandemic, all intentions for individual masses are read at all the Masses at both churches. During the week intentions are listed on the days when Mass is offered. SATURDAY, JULY 31 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4 St. Ignatius Loyola St. John Vianney 4 PM ST. CYPRIAN 8 AM ST. CELESTINE ST. MOTHER THEODORE 5 PM ST. CELESTINE and +Elizabeth Lowrey, 11th GUERIN PARISH SUNDAY, AUG 1 Anniversary Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Welcome! If you are new to our 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE THURSDAY, AUGUST 5 churches or just visiting, please 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN 8 AM ST. CYPRIAN introduce yourself. We are happy 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE Dedication of the Basilica of St. to share in this celebration of the +Mary Gannon Mary Major Eucharist. If you do not have a +Cecilio Bomediano +Keshawn Williams church home, or your church is +Nuris Orteg not home to you, we are open +Michael Majewski FRIDAY, AUGUST 6 to anyone looking for a spiritual The Transfiguration of the Lord; +Rose Marie Dalo home. We invite you to become +John Kaiser Hiroshima Memorial Day a part of our parish. You may +Michael and +Carol Bruno 8 AM ST. CELESTINE +Steve Goworowski, Birthday +Joan Psak register by calling 708–453–2555. +Vincenza and +Salvatrice +Connie DiNicolo–Kosmo, Insolia Birthday +Gertrude Gutkowski 2 PM ST. CELESTINE +Virginia Knack Marischler Sophia Ramos Quinceanera +Sarah Dwyer–Yep, 20th Anniversary SATURDAY, AUGUST 7 Mary Guidi O’Malley, for health St. Sixtus II and Companions; +Frank Pudlo St. Cajetan; First Saturday +Theodore Delatre 4 PM ST. CYPRIAN +Francesco Paonessa, Sr. 5 PM ST. CELESTINE and All offices in the parish are closed +Gloria Princivalli SUNDAY, AUG 8 to visitors. +Joan Corbett Czaja, 10th Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Anniversary 7:30 AM ST. CELESTINE Phones will be answered from Deceased Members of the 9 AM ST. CYPRIAN Corbett, Czaja and 10:30 AM ST. CELESTINE 8:30 AM to 12:30 PM at St. Sheahan Families +Clara Paplow Cyprian (708–453–4800) Monday Mary and James Riordan, 40th +James Pappas through Friday and from 8:30 AM Anniversary +Gloria Barton, Birthday to 5 PM Monday through Friday +Trudy Wynd at St. Celestine (708–453–2555). MONDAY, AUGUST 2 +Connie DiNicolo–Kosmo, St. Eusebius of Vercelli; Birthday If no one is available to answer St. Peter Julian Eymard In thanksgiving for graces the phone, please leave a 8 AM ST. CELESTINE received through St.Joseph message and someone will call +Earl Rone +Michael Majewski +Frank Pudlo you back on the next business day. TUESDAY, AUGUST 3 +Ada Lopez 8 AM ST. CYPRIAN +Virginia Knack Marischler +Anne Muellner +Bernard and +Rosaleen Kurtz August 1, 2021 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time stguerinparish.org 3 FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK: FATHER PAUL CAO New Fiscal Year more than a hundred families order to protect yourself and I hope you are each week. Thank you for all others. Many people have been enjoying the you do for St. Mother Theodore telling me that they don’t want summer so far. It is Guerin parish!!! May God reward to go back to lockdown again. It already the beginning you for you good work! has been hard enough especially of August and summer is on our elderly people. Let us passing by very fast. Our last Back to normal We are now pray that the Lord will help us to fiscal year ended June 30 and slowly coming back to normal. end this pandemic soon. we are already one month into I have seen many parishioners the new fiscal year. In a few returning to mass. We still need Welcome back There will be weeks the kids will be back in to be careful and be cautious with a welcome back outdoor Mass school. The pandemic made the new Delta virus that’s hit so and BBQ on Saturday, August 21 last year so difficult with all the many countries hard in Asia such at 5 PM at St. Celestine. Please uncertainties in our lives, yet as India, Indonesia, Malaysia, bring your family and friends so many of you helped us with Thailand, the Philippines, and to come to mass and enjoy your generous financial support Vietnam. Vietnam was doing hamburgers, hot dogs, chips, of our parish. Thank you for very well last year in terms of drinks, and music with a DJ. your support. preventing Covid–19 until May Please pray for good weather. when the Delta virus really hit As I said in my homily last them very hard. They don’t have Mass on the Grass and BBQ week, God always provides us enough vaccines and the whole will take place on Saturday, with what we need and works country is on lockdown. Many September 18 at St. Cyprian at 4 through us. We just try to do people suffer from Covid–19 and PM. Come celebrate and enjoy our best and God will take care lack of food. I ask you to pray being together after a year and a of the rest and I have seen thhis for the people in Asia, especially half of lockdown. happening in our parish. We those countries affected by cannot function without your Covid–19. The Carnival at St. Cyprian has help and I really appreciate your been postponed and you will be efforts and sacrifices as we go I think vaccines are the solution notified when we know the new back to normal and continue to ending the pandemic. In some date. to make our parish grow to be states with lower percentages of more strong and more vibrant. vaccinated people, the number May God bless you and your of people infected by the virus family and may you have a safe You also contributed to the St. is increasing. I highly encourage summer! Mother Theodore Guerin Food everyone, especially young Pantry and we were able to feed people, to take the vaccines in In prayer, Fr. Paul OUR LADY OF FATIMA DEVOTION STEWARDSHIP Join us at a devotion to Our Lady of Fatima at St. June Collections Cyprian Church on Tuesday, August 3 after the 8 AM Mass. It lasts about 15 minutes and has prayers for Envelopes $35,633.83 the intercession of Our Lady of Fatima for our needs. E–Giving 5,152.00 A small pamphlet with the prayers will be provided Total: $40,785.83 to be taken home. All are welcome. This devotion continues on the first Tuesday of each month. Thank you for your generosity! AUGUST HOLY HOUR CANCELLED There will be no Holy Hour at St. Celestine in August. Holy Hour will return on Friday, September 3 at 3 PM. August 1, 2021 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time stguerinparish.org 4 THE BREAD OF LIFE FEAST OF FAITH The Preface: Thanksgiving The preface of the Mass has been called “a poem, the cry of joy and recognition, the song of the world discovering its salvation . the certitude of faith making hope spring forth” (Philippe Béguerie, quoted in The Mass, Lucien Deiss, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1992, p. 70). The preface takes up the last words of the dialogue, and expresses briefly and simply why Today’s Gospel has the crowd is the work of God in the believer, we are grateful, why it is right and asking Jesus three questions. John would have us understand. just to give thanks and praise to First, “When did you get here,” to The third question asked by the God. which Jesus responds by rebuking crowd is a request for a “sign” them for their failure to grasp his that would allow them to put On feast days, the preface sings miracle as a “sign,” an occasion faith in Jesus, as the manna in the of the specific mystery or saint to put faith in him. Their second desert allowed the Israelites to we celebrate; in Ordinary Time, question about accomplishing the put faith in the Lord God. Jesus the Sunday and weekday prefaces “works of God” has Jesus respond answers by revealing himself as express our gratitude for God’s that faith is the “work” that God the “bread of life” that “comes gift of the Son, Jesus Christ, in wishes. Many scholars believe down from heaven and gives life whom we have redemption and this is John’s answer to the faith– to the world.” newness of life. works dichotomy emerging in the early Christian community. Faith © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. The prefaces offer a succinct account of what God has done for us in Christ; they express the mystery of faith, always relating it to us, to our lives. “By his birth we are reborn,” we hear in Preface IV for Sundays in Ordinary Time.