Rooted in Faith Since 1923 January 17, 2021 ● 2nd Sunday in ordinary time 20970 Lorain Road, Fairview Park, Ohio 44126 | (440) 333-2133 | samparish.org ST. ANGELA MERICI PARISH FAIRVIEW PARK, OH S&. A M$ P$% FINANCIAL REPORTS C$+: The Rev. Michael J. Lanning, Pastor, VV@C7``V` Q`7 [email protected] The Rev. Donald Dunson, Parochial Vicar, $5 [email protected] The Rev. Robert Ramser, Parochial Vicar, [email protected] $ 5 J V1 The Rev. Thomas V. O’Donnell, Senior Priest Retired JC1JV The Rev. Richard Hudak, Senior Priest Retired The Rev. Mr. James L. Agrippe, Deacon Retired The Rev. Mr. Erick Lupson, Deacon, :J%:`7 5 [email protected] P$% S&: Mr. Bill Shaffer, Head of Parish/School Music Ministries, VV@C7``V` Q`7 [email protected] $5 Mrs. Maureen F. Adler, Youth Minister, [email protected] Mrs. Jennifer Fitzpatrick, Associate Youth Minister, [email protected] Miss Kathy Lynch, DRE, [email protected] J V1 Fr. Rob Ramser, Confirmation Sacrament Coordinator, $5 [email protected] JC1JV Mrs. Patti Horner, First Communion Sacrament Coordinator, [email protected] Fr. Don Dunson, RCIA Coordinator, :J%:`7 5 [email protected] Mrs. Therese Whitmore, R.N., Parish Nurse Ms. Suzanne Quinn, Development and Communications ``V`1J$R Manager, [email protected], [email protected]; $55 [email protected] Bulletin / Insert Deadline: 10 days prior to publication S!!: $ 5 Mrs. Lisa Whelan, Upper School Principal Mrs. Elizabeth Andrachik, Lower School Principal Mrs. Christina Kutz, Preschool Director JJ%:C%R$V ``V`1J$ Mrs. Julie McGovern, Extended Care Director Mrs. Danyelle Anderson, Nutrition Services Supervisor JC1JV``V` Q`7 .`1 I: ``V`1J$ V`HVJ :$V $ 5 Q :J%:`7 5 R 2 2ND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 17, 2021 Parish Raffle READINGS FOR THE WEEK Raffle tickets are being mailed to all St. Angela parishioners. Additional tickets are available at SUNDAY:1 Sm 3:3b10, 19 / Ps 40:2, the Parish Center or can be 4, 710 / 1 Cor 6:13c15a, 1720 / Jn mailed upon request. 1:3542 SELL THOSE TICKETS! MONDAY:Heb 5:110 / Ps 110:14 / Mk 2:1822 $5 per ticket | $20 for a book of 5 tickets Two early bird drawings $500 each TUESDAY:Heb 6:1020 / Ps 111:12, 4 February 18th and March 18th 5, 9, 10c / Mk 2:2328 GRAND PRIZE DRAWING WEDNESDAY: Heb 7:13, 1517 / Ps Saturday, April 10, 2021 after the 4:30 p.m. Mass 110:14 / Mk 3:16 Two Grand Prize Drawings $5,000 each THURSDAY: Heb 7:25N8:6 / Ps 40:7 Seller prizes $500 each 10, 17 / Mk 3:712 Help us sell tickets! Ask your friends, family and FRIDAY: Heb 8:613 / Ps 85:8, 1014 / coworkers! Mk 3:1319 This raffle benefits our entire parish community SATURDAY: Heb 9:23, 1114 / Ps 47:23, 69 / Mk 3:2021 NEXT SUNDAY: Jon 3:15, 10 / Ps 25:49 / 1 Cor 7:2931 / Mk 1:1420 Next week we will take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America. For many in Latin America and the Caribbean, a rising secular culture, difficult rural terrain, and a shortage of ministers all present obstacles to practicing the faith. Your support for the collection provides lay leadership training, 2021 catechesis, priestly and religious formation, and other PRECANA RETREAT programs to share our Catholic faith with those who long to hear the Good News of Christ. To learn more about how your Are you engaged and gifts make a difference, visit uscch.org/latinamerica. planning a wedding? Are you also planning for the sacrament of marriage? YOSA’S SOUPER BOWL OF CARING Engaged couples are invited to join married couples of all ages from our parish who will share their insights into YOSA’s annual Souper Bowl of Caring collection married life and help you plan for all the will take place at all masses the weekend of January 30/31. days that come after the wedding day. YOSA is asking for your contribution to purchase items for St. Angela’s 2021 PreCana Retreat w ill care packages for the homeless as wee continue to serve the be held VIRTUALLY this year on Saturday, needs of the hungry and needy in our area during this March 20, 2021. pandemic. Interested engaged couples can register Please contribute with your prayers and donations to help online at samparish.org/sacramentallife YOSA be the hands of Christ to those in need. Students will be at the doors after masses that weekend. You can also Questions? Please call Sarah and Brian drop off your contribution in the parish center. Burke at (440) 4383808 for more information. Thank you for your support. 3 ST. ANGELA MERICI PARISH FAIRVIEW PARK, OH Dear Friends, the apparent “uselessness” of the liturgy some people may say is answered by invoking the playfulness in the liturgy. This Once again, is the genius of the fifth chapter of Romano Guardini’s great tempus text, The Spirit of the Liturgy. The liturgy for this gifted writer fugit! Green is not a means to attain a certain practical objective, but an is now our end in itself: the act of glorifying and contemplating God’s color! January majesty. is already half over as I write. We are still filled with This truth is apparent to anyone who pays attention pandemic news and political upheavals, to the abundance of liturgical prayers and rituals. I n but we venture on, thanking all who are our earthly life there are two realities that offer an image or keeping up with protocols and best paradox if you will of this “sublime uselessness”: the play of practices. Students are in their second the child and the creation of the artist. Children do not aim at semester. Brave and courageous a specific functional objective when they play: they pour teachers, health care personnel, first themselves forth in countless movements and words which responders, et alii are keeping us on the beautifully express the richness of life. Artists try to give life to right path. God bless them all. their being and longings without a necessary didactic aim. So now it is Ordinary Time, from The sacred liturgy, while being similar to these realities, the Latin derivation of ordinal, a offers something even greater: the possibility of number such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, becoming, with the aid of divine grace, a child of God. And, as that shows the position of something in a this demands going beyond ordinary experience, the liturgy list of things. So this is the 2nd Sunday in finds its expressions in the world of art. Thus, liturgy “unites Ordinary Time. During this time, we see art and reality in a supernatural childhood before God”. And how we put the mysteries of faith into there is nothing more important than this purposeless action. practice as Jesus asked us to do. We see a glimpse of this gravity in the earnestness that both children have in setting up the rules for their games, and artists in their pursuit of the right form. We remember that wasted time is not a prized commodity in our society. W e This is what the liturgy does: with “endless care” it are a people ruled by the clock, by the has “laid down the serious rules of the sacred game wrist bit, an Apple watch, a cell phone, which the soul plays before God”. The greatness of the buzzers, Alexa, Facebook, snapchat, liturgy does not consist only in producing wonderful works of TikTok, Pokémon, whatever, etc. Time is art, but in transforming us “into living works of art before money because time is to be filled with God”, becoming thus as little children. This is God’s solemn purposeful controlled activity which is and joyful invitation: to “live liturgically,” to be children of the productive of things which can be sold. Father, to be not afraid of “wasting time,” of “playing,” of We are convinced that we must be in “celebrating,” of “existing” in the peaceful presence of the control of time. What a debacle since the Eternal Father. pandemic which put us out of control so completely! Creative activity is playful, and creative people do not feel that what they do is a job. Creative people also The last thing the productive have a sense that their creativity and all that they fashion in American would want to do is the creative spirit are gifts that they have received. The waste time playing around with Christian can speak of this and of the contemplative vision realities that do not produce a saleable which sees all reality as a gift or grace. Our thankful response commodity. At least that is the intention we call worship at the Eucharist. Giving thanks in beautiful of so many in our society, not just settings with beautiful prayer and music and art and America. movement. But the Creator of heaven and earth is We cannot speak of Ordinary Time without described by the Scriptures as the speaking of Sunday. The Lord’s Day. The every original and best of players. Creative ‘seventhday’ celebration of the Lord’s Day is the basic activity is playful, and creative people do structure upon which the Church Year is built. The great not feel that what they do is a job. liturgical seasons of Advent/Christmas and lent/Easter are Creative people also have a sense that more expansive celebrations of particular aspects of the one their creativity and all that they fashion in paschal mystery which we celebrate every Sunday, every the creative spirit are gift that they have Lord’s Day! How much we have lost in missing out on the joy received.