The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ • May 29, 2016 The Steward [A]s often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the death of the Lord until he comes. -- 1 Corinthians 11:26 Celebrating the Class of 2016! The Most Holy Dr. Erika Mickelburgh Head of Secondary School Body and Blood In a few short weeks we prepare to send forth always impressed of Christ our 8th and 12th grade graduates! I am so when I visit the MAY 29, 2016 proud of all of our graduates and all that they classroom and have accomplished at St. Benedict. We are better for having can witness our known each and every one of them and are thankful for all students discussing they have contributed to our parish community. They have Catholic Teaching learned a great deal and we can be proud that they have and quoting been offered positions at a variety of schools. encyclicals when examining issues of today’s society. The We are fortunate that some of our 8th graders have course also involves students in direct community service elected to remain at St. Benedict to continue their high so that they can reflect on how they can impact the world school education. We are also proud of our students who as a Catholic young person. have been accepted at other fine schools in Chicago: St. One senior reflected on a community service Ignatius, Loyola Academy, Regina Dominican, St. Patrick opportunity below: High School, DePaul College Prep, Lane Tech, Walter For our second urban immersion exercise, our class Payton, Northside College Prep, Jones College Prep, went to the Franciscan Outreach Marquard Center, a Whitney Young and Lincoln Park IB to name a few. I am program where the homeless can eat, obtain clothes, confident that wherever our students will attend high obtain groceries, keep warm, or receive mail. In this school next year they have been prepared at St. Benedict exercise, I was asked to organize apparel by sex and size. to live a faith filled life. It is exciting that many of our As I was organizing the clothes, I began to question: who 8th grade students, after receiving the Sacrament of wore these clothes before? Did they wash them before Confirmation, have chosen to take on an active leadership giving them away? What was the story behind these role in the Church. You will soon see many of them as clothes? As I questioned the story behind these clothes, Eucharistic Ministers, Lectors, and Cantors. I began to sympathize for the poor because they did not Our Senior Class continues to earn significant Academic have the same abilities as me. For example, they could not merit based scholarships for college. This year our Class wash the clothes they received, and they could not afford of 2016 has earned a total of $2,696,400! The class of new, brand-name clothes, which is something we take for 2016 has earned an average of 79,305 per student which granted. is an increase from the 2015 average of $60, 954 per However, now that I begin to write my reflection, I graduate. In recent years our graduates have attended realize I was in the same position. Back in 2008 when schools like Loyola University, University of Illinois there was a recession, my father and my mother were Urbana Champaign, DePaul, Marquette, Kenyon, St.Louis unemployed since they were undocumented, and their University, and the University of Chicago to name a few. employers were only seeking people with a work permit. While the scholarship numbers and high school and Thus, my mother would pick up freelance jobs, such as college acceptance rates clearly indicate the rigor and cleaning houses or handing out flyers for a company. academic excellence evident in our Secondary School, we During that time, my mother would apply at this pantry also look to ways our students are being prepared to live to receive groceries every Tuesday. Every Tuesday for faith filled lives according to Gospel values. How are we that year, I would join my mother in a line about the size preparing our graduates to live a life of faith? of one street block, and we would wait until they called This year we reformulated our Senior Theology Class out our number to receive groceries. As we waited in into a 2 period course that combined the USCCB line, I felt humiliated and a little ashamed because standards related to Vocation and Catholic Social my nine-year-old mind could only understand that Justice. The class spends time reading Catholic my family could not afford something as simple as Church documents and examining our current one-dollar food items. Additionally, I would wear world as they relate to our Catholic faith. I am hand-me-downs from my best friend and from kids St. Benedict Parish & Preparatory School 2215 W. Irving Park Road Chicago, IL 60618 www.stbenedict.com MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9 AM, 10:30 AM, 12 Noon & 6:30 PM RECONCILIATION Saturdays: 11 AM that my mom cleaned houses for. Thanks to the experience population. at the Franciscan Outreach, I feel grateful because it Moreover, I feel like I need to respond in faith because made me reminisce about how many advantages I have Christ would expect me to. Christ states, now, and I am grateful that I was able to work with others “Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide who need it, which is what the Catholic Social Teaching of yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with the Preferential Option for the Poor calls us to do. Because a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no of my experience of being low-income, I feel like I can thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your identify with the marginalized population. treasure is, there will your heart be also.” (Luke 21:33-34) Because of this experience, I feel implicated in By this, Christ means to find love neither in money nor marginalizing these people because they are pushed off to possessions but rather in helping the needy and doing the edge of the world. How do I know? Well, as we were in good deeds. Therefore, I have decided that I shall respond the building, I noticed there were a few people in charge. to Christ’s call of love by helping the needy, by giving my There was one lady who was categorizing us students attention to the homeless when I am waiting for public into each department, the desks for social workers were transportation, by donating my clothes, and by giving empty, and the front desk person was a homeless person some of my time at the Franciscan Outreach even for a which shows that not a lot of people are willing to help. couple of hours. Additionally, as we passed to our stations, there were St. Benedict Preparatory Secondary School is proud of boxes of clothes, shoes, and appliances cluttered all over all of our graduates; whether they are leaving for college or the place, which were also indications that the program have chosen to leave the Block for high school I, know they did not receive enough help from others. There are some have been prepared to live a life according to the Catholic people who do their part and help others, like my best faith. Please pray for our young people as they transition to friend who helped me or the lady that assisted us during their new schools or colleges. I hope you all know that each last week’s urban immersion exercise, but it is just a and every day I give thanks for the support and prayers of little help in the bigger picture of the number of citizens the community of St. Benedict as they continue to support in Illinois or just in Chicago. For this reason, I am called our young people. to help demarginalize the homeless or the less fortunate MUSIC FOR MAY 29, 2016 - THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST SATURDAY: 5PM I SUNDAY: 7:30AM • 9AM • 10:30AM • 12PM Communion Antiphon Gathering 932 Gloria Misallette pg.9 Daily Readings 1108 Gospel Acclamation 335 Offertory 938 Holy, Holy, Holy 231 Memorial Acc 232 Communion Song - Refrain Great Amen 235 Agnus Dei 311 Communion Antiphon (right) Communion Hymn (right) Eucharistic Procession 1106 Sending Forth 953 Communion Antiphon © 2010 Peter R. Johnson, All Rights Reserved Take and Eat This Bread © WLP Publications, Reprinted under license C19817B May 29, 2016 parish.stbenedict.com page 2 MUSIC FOR MAY 29, 2016 - THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST SUNDAY: 6:30PM Responsorial Psalm - You Are a Priest Forever Entrance Hymn YOU ARE A PRIEST FOR EVER Psalm 110 Tony Alonso Shine Jesus Shine (right) b 4 œ j & 4 œ œ œ œ ú œ œ œ œ . œ ú . 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