REFLECTING WITH THE PASTOR OCTOBER 30, 2016 THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MAKE YOURSELF AT HOME… It’s been said that hospitality is a social art… an intricate dance. Everyone 616 Reading Road involved must know the steps and feel the “rhythm” of the others. You need to Mason, Ohio 45040 know when to move forward, how far to go; when to step back and to what extent. In many ways, the gospel today redefines the ancient protocol of hospitality. Whether he was an honest man or not, as the chief tax collector, Zacchaeus was Phone: 513-398-3821 not seen by the crowds as an acceptable Parish Office: ext. 3100 person. Jesus disregards what “everyone School Office: ext. 3108 else is saying and doing “… he sees beyond the surface to the heart… and invites himself After Hours Emergency: ext. 3200 to Zacchaeus’ house. A closer look shows Fax: 513-398-2254 the dance going like this: Jesus offers salvation; Zacchaeus offers hospitality; Jesus accepts hospitality and Zacchaeus accepts Parish Office Hours salvation. God is always willing to reach Monday - Friday: out to sinners and bring them home. What 8:30am - 4:30pm about us? If we are the church of God… the living Body of Christ… the Kingdom of God on earth… do we offer hospitality to all or only to those we like? Do we accept people for who they are and walk with them as they become the people 1st Sunday of the Month: God needs them to be? Do we judge everyone and everything by our standards 8:15am - 12:30pm and those of the world or by God’s standards? We don’t know if Zacchaeus’ enthusiasm was long lasting. But St. Paul is convinced that the openness or hospitality of God endures forever. Are you convinced of that? Do you make yourself at home with God and encourage others to do so as well? This week we celebrate the Feast of All Saints and All Souls. These feasts remind us we are connected with all who come before us and all who will come after us. Our ancestors in the faith inspired us and encouraged us… assuring us that they could live this faith. We, then, have the responsibility of living in such a way that those who come after us are inspired and encouraged to be faithful and continue living the Catholic tradition. Please join us on the feast of All Saints, a holy day of obligation. Our Masses are 6:30am, 8:15am and 7:00pm. On Wednesday, the Feast of All Souls, join us at 7pm in church for our Memorial Service, celebrating the lives of those who have gone before us in faith. If you go to visit a cemetery on these days, here is a brief prayer service: Bulletin Deadline The deadline for all articles for • Read the first letter of Paul to the Thessalonians 13-18 the Sunday bulletin is Friday • Pray various intentions you have followed by the Our Father afternoon, (9) days before the • Closing prayer: Almighty God and Father, by the mystery of the cross, you article appears in the bulletin. have made us strong; by the Sacrament of the Resurrection you have sealed us Please send items, along with as your own. Look kindly upon our loved ones, now freed from the bonds of this world and count them among your saints in heaven. We ask this through the dates they should run, to Christ our Lord. R. Amen. [email protected] for Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord. R. And let perpetual light shine upon submission. them. May they rest in peace. R. Amen. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. R. Amen. 2 MASS INTENTIONS & WEEKEND PRESIDERS Monday, October 31 PRAY FOR THOSE Nursery Available The nursery is available for 9:00 and 6:00pm Barb Burnside SERVING OVERSEAS! 11:15am Masses. It is located in the undercroft. Call ext. 3126 or email Tuesday, November 1 Mark Anzer [email protected] for details. 6:30am Mary Rader Alex Back 8:15am Jerome Wiesenhahn Brandon Florea Joseph Patrick Fusco 7:00pm Abel Rodriguez Thomas Prieve Children’s Liturgy of the Word David Rodriguez For children in grades K-2, September Wednesday, November 2 Justin Schuh through May, 9:00 and 11:15am Christian Sorfnsen 8:15am Ken Murawski Masses. For details, contact Susan Liz Vossler James Wernke Gravely, ext. 3110 or Thursday, November 3 Rachelle Wernke [email protected]. 8:15am Frances Mastalerz Ryan Whitaker Jim Wykoff Michael Zeller Friday, November 4 Spanish Mass A Mass in Spanish will be held at 8:15am Jay Palicki 4:00pm on the 2nd & 4th Sundays of every month. For details, contact Saturday, November 5 PRAYERS FOR Karla Eysoldt, ext. 3202 or 8:15am Carol Ferman THOSE IN NEED [email protected]. 5:00pm (Fr. Roush) Larry and Jean Boho Maya Collins Misa en español es el segundo y cuarto Sunday, November 6 Ron Dearth domingo del mes a las 4:00pm. 7:30am (Fr. Farrell) Michelle Hodge James Edmund Dick Gardner 9:00am (Fr. Farrell) Marilyn Gomez Jimmie & Gerry Miller Scott Greisl Parish Membership 11:15am (Fr. Roush) Deceased Members Dianne Kunkle We joyfully welcome new members of the Berold Family Ray Meibers of our parish community. Information 6:00pm (Fr. Roush) Jane Brinkmann Michael Murphy packets are available at the desk in the Michaela Nowakowski Gathering Space. Gabriel Orick Alonso Ortiz Please register by calling the Parish Diego Ortiz Holy Days of Obligation Kathy Rohde Office (513-398-3821), online 6:30am, 8:15am, 7:00pm Ed Ryan (www.stsusanna.org), or after Mass Doreen Schowalter on the first Sunday of the month in the Reconciliation Marie Sueberling Parish Office. Monday at 6:45pm Annette Uhrick Mike Webber Saturday at 9:00am Tara Williams Jennifer Williamson Parish Library Eucharistic Exposition The Library is located in the undercroft Monday, 6:45 - 9:00pm of the church. Media can be checked out at any time. Stop by the Parish First Friday Office for help. After 8:15am Mass Friday to beginning IN LOVING of 8:15am Mass Saturday MEMORY OF Prayer Requests Rosary/Devotions Anna Geiser If you have people to be prayed for and Tuesday through Saturday at 7:30am Mother of Tom Geiser would like to have them in the bulletin, please email [email protected] and we will begin publishing them weekly. 3 WORSHIP Our Catholic Faith Are you interested in learning more about our beautiful Catholic Faith and perhaps becoming Catholic? Are you an Adult Catholic seeking Confirmation? Then please contact Susan Gravely, Music & Reflection by Candlelight ext. 3110 or [email protected]. 3rd Thursday of the Month 6:30pm-7:00pm All are welcome to come and reflect on the Holy Spirit through song, scripture, Baptism Preparation TAIZÉsilence and prayer. PRAYER Please find more information on our Questions? Email Guy Vanasse, [email protected] website: www.stsusanna.org/baptism. Thursday, November 17th 6:30pm- 7:00pm Upon your completion of the required forms found on the site, a member of the For our next Taizé, we’re inviting Parish Staff will contact you. people to bring a framed photograph of their deceased loved one(s), no larger than Marriage Preparation 8 ½ by 11. These pictures Please contact the Parish Office no later can be brought the night of than six months prior to the date of and will be displayed on tables intended marriage. around our icon focal point. The Women’s Association will also be sponsoring a reception following the service. LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST: THE EUCHARISTIC PRAYER! After the Preparation of the Gifts when all is ready, we stand up. In fact, we stand and gather around the table; only our numbers in this room keep us from coming into a circle. The one presiding stands at the table also and says four words to us that are not so much an invitation as an order: “Lift up your hearts.” Some remember the Latin where it was only two words: Sursum corda! “Hearts on high!” we might say. And we answer that we are ready for this: “We lift them up to the Lord.” Then the Presider gives the invitation to do that deed that is the very heart not of the liturgy only but of Christian life: “Let us give thanks to the Lord our God.” And we say: “It is right and just.” And so it is! Giving thanks. Giving praise. That’s the heart of things for us. Are we any good at it? Probably we are better at asking God, better at saying we’re sorry, better at almost anything than this. How do we think about those next few minutes? What do we think happens between this invitation and the Lord’s Prayer just moments later? Some would say: “A lot of words by the priest while we all kneel down and pray.” Others would say, “The priest consecrates the bread and wine.” But there is a problem with answers like these. It still seems to most of us that we become a very passive audience right at the moment when we are supposed to be most active. The prayer that the Presider speaks is the prayer of the church, our prayer. We show this when we sing those acclamations: “Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of hosts,” and “Christ has died, Christ is risen,” and the Great Amen that we sing at the end of this prayer. All of those are shouts of approval, commands to go ahead with this prayer.