Interfaith Airport Chapels of Chicago Chicago Midway and O’Hare International Airports P.O. Box 66353 ●Chicago, Illinois 60666-0353 ●(773) 686-AMEN (2636) ●www.airportchapels.org Week of August 24, 2014 GOLF OUTING THIS WEDNESDAY WELCOME TO THE INTERFAITH AIRPORT CHAPELS OF CHICAGO! The 13TH ANNUAL INTERFAITH AIRPORT CHAPELS OF CHI- The O’Hare Airport Chapel and Midway Airport CAGO GOLF OUTING will be held this Wednesday, Aug. 27, at Chapel are each a peaceful oasis in a busy venue. A the Bloomingdale Golf Club, 181 Glen Ellyn Rd., Bloomingdale place to bow your head in prayer while lifting up (collared shirts and soft spikes required). Proceeds will benefit your heart and spirit! Prayer books and rugs, rosa- the O’Hare and Midway Airport Chapels. Best Ball Scramble- ries, and worship materials are available, as are chaplains for spiritual counsel. You are welcome Bag Drop and Registration will be from 8 to 8:45 a.m., with a to attend Mass or Worship services and to come to 9 a.m. Shotgun Start. “I invite you to come to the Golf Outing the chapels (open 24/7) to pray or meditate. and/or the dinner,” says Fr. Michael Zaniolo, Administrator of May God bless your travels. the Interfaith Airport Chapels. “It is always a good time, the — Fr. Michael Zaniolo, Administrator food is delicious, and we have some spectacu- lar raffle prizes. If you cannot attend, please CHAPEL BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES consider sponsoring a hole or golf carts as a way to take part in this important event.” The ●Birthday blessings & best wishes go out to cost is $160 per golfer, which includes greens Mary Kate O’Reilly this Monday, Aug. fees, motorized golf cart, coffee & donuts, half- 25. way house lunch, beverage cart tickets, 2-hour open bar, and a BBQ buffet—featuring a whole INTERFAITH CALENDAR & EVENTS roast pig! Banquet will immediately follow golf, estimated 2 p.m. social hour, 2 to 3 p.m.; dinner, 3 p.m.; ● Friday, August 29: Beheading of John the cash bar after 4 p.m. For those not golfing, the banquet and so- Baptist - Christian— Christian remembrance of the cial hour are available for $75 per person. Download flyer at death of John who is known for preparing the people http://www.airportchapels.org/goflyer.pdf. For more informa- so they would recognize Jesus as the Messiah. Com- tion, call Susan Schneider at 773-686-2636. memorated by Catholic and Orthodox Christians, it is a day of strict abstinence for Orthodox. REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD ● Hindus observe Ganesh Chaturthi this Friday, Aug. 29. Celebrates the birth of Ganesh, the re- Certain questions change lives, depending on our answer: “Do you mover of obstacles and bringer of luck. take this person to be your husband/wife?” “Do you want this job?” ● Paryushana Parva, a Jain observance, con- “Can you forgive me?” The question Jesus asks today is one that cludes Aug. 29, and Das Laxanä Parva begins, a certainly changes lives. Our response is not simply an academic 10-day festival similar to Paryushan observed by exercise, a matter of knowing the right answer we learned from a Jain Digamber sect. book. Our answer must lead to a commitment that is to be lived out each day of our lives. Source: The 2014 InterFaith Calendar, Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago Peter’s answer certainly changed the course of his life. Jesus recognized that it was not Peter’s innate knowledge, or that of any MDW Airport Chapel ORD Airport Chapel other person, that had given Peter his Concourse C, Mezzanine Level Terminal 2, Mezzanine Level response: “You are the Christ, the Son of (Inside Security Checkpoint) (Outside Security Checkpoint) the living God.” It was the Father. And so Scheduled Services: Scheduled Services: Jesus declares that Peter will be the one ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES ROMAN CATHOLIC MASSES to lead the other disciples and all who SATURDAY VIGIL: 4:00 p.m. SATURDAY VIGIL: 4:00 & 6:00 p.m. would come after. Simon, son of John, SUNDAY: 9:00 a.m. & 11:00 a.m. SUNDAY: 6:30 a.m., 9:00 a.m., fisherman, husband, brother—and one Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. Evening before Holy Day: 4:00 p.m. Monday—Friday: 11:30 a.m. who would deny he ever knew Christ!— Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements or Evening before Holy Day: 5:00 p.m. he was to be the rock on which Jesus www.airporthapels.org/ Holy Day: Check Bulletin Announcements or would build the church. His response holydayschedule.html www.airporthapels.org/ ~ holydayschedule.html was life-changing. PROTESTANT WORSHIP ~ Peter’s answer was not a perfect one, as we shall see next week. Saturday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 & ISLAMIC JUMA’ PRAYER Even so, Jesus accepts it as an indication that his Father is at work 1:30 p.m. Friday: 1:15 p.m. in those called to be with him who would continue his work. The ~ Sunday: 10:00 a.m., 12:00 noon & Father chose to work in fallible human beings. We may not think of 1:30 p.m. PROTESTANT WORSHIP Sunday: 10:00 a.m. & 12:00 noon ourselves as rocks, but the future of the church depends on how well each one of us lives out the answer to this question, “Who do you say that I am?” —James A. Wallace, C.Ss.R. Rev. Fr. Michael G. Zaniolo, STL, CAC — Administrator/Catholic Chaplain Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago Mr. Qazi M. Biabani — Imam Khateeb/Muslim Chaplain Living God’s Word Muslim Community Center of Chicago We pray that our loving Father will bring us to a deeper knowledge Rev. Dr. Hutz H. Hertzberg — Protestant Chaplain and understanding of his Son Jesus. We ask that this understanding The Moody Church of Chicago will lead to a deeper commitment on our part to the work of Jesus to Mrs. Susan E. Schneider, CAP — Office/Business Manager/Fund Raiser bring about in our own day the reign of God in our world. Mr. Michael Brennan — Bulletin Editor Copyright © 2012, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time — August 24, 2014 “Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and This Week in the Life of the Church whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Being a compendium of feast days and notable events in Church history. — Matthew 16:19 Sunday, August 24, 2014 THE ROCK ✙ We Remember: ST. BARTHOLOMEW, APOSTLE (1st Century) from Peter was Jesus’ choice to lead the fragile band of apostles. In to- Cana in Galilee, is identified by some as Nathaniel because St. Mat- day’s Gospel, Simon is given a new name—Peter, thew lists him together with Philip as one of the first apostles chosen the “rock.” In John’s Gospel, Peter is called to be by Christ. There is no agreement on where he preached the gospel. Eu- a shepherd. He is expected to lay down his life sebius says he preached in India; Rufinus, in Ethiopia and Arabia; but for his sheep. And tradition tells us that he did others mention places such as Mesopotamia and Phrygia. Most likely, just that. But today we think about the durable he went to Armenia, where he converted the king and, at the order of the king's brother, was skinned alive (according to the Persian custom) and rocklike quality that Jesus needed in a leader. then beheaded. His relics were transferred to various places: to Arme- Peter was appointed to his leadership posi- nia in the seventh century; to Benevento in the ninth century; and fi- tion for reasons we are not able to fathom. God nally to Rome in the tenth century. The skull of St. Bartholomew has knows, and Jesus knew well, that Peter was been venerated in Frankfurt, Germany, since 1238, and he has been flawed. We cannot mistake his enthusiasms, though, his manifest named a patron of the sick. This feast was celebrated on this date in love, and his great, exuberant faith. Those virtues saw him through. France in the 8th and in Rome in the 9th and 10th centuries. (S) They are durable, tough, beautiful virtues. They make Peter a sym- ■ In 1572, the terrible St. Bartholomew's Day MASSACRE OF THE pathetic and lovable person. They provide us with the balance and HUGUENOTS began in Paris. The Huguenot movement originated in the humor that we need as we consider our own roles in the universal 16th century as part of the Reformation and found support among all church. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. sections of French society, despite constant and severe persecution. Owing to political intrigue, religious intolerance and the resentment of SUNDAY & WEEKDAY MASS READINGS the lower class of the generally more prosperous Huguenots, mobs hunted down their leaders but soon a massacre unfolded of horrific proportions. Despite government orders to stop, the murders of Protes- TODAY’S READINGS tants continued in the provinces through October. In Paris during the First Reading — Eliakim is destined by God to be a father to those night of Aug. 23-24, it is estimated that more than 3,000 people were who live in Jerusalem (Isaiah 22:19-23). killed. Five more civil wars were waged between French Protestants and Psalm — Lord, your love is eternal; do not forsake the work of your Catholics in the years that followed, until the Edict of Nantes in 1589 hands (Psalm 138). provided a fair amount of religious liberty - at least, until it was re- Second Reading — How deep are the riches and the wisdom and scinded in 1685.