WLOPEFM QFJBPJBP Church of Saint Michael Saturday: 4:30PM God's sons and daughters in Sunday: 8:00AM, 10:30AM Tuesday: 6:30PM Chapel Farmington, Minnesota Wednesday: 8:30AM Chapel Thursday: 8:30AM Chapel Our Mission Friday: 8:30AM Chapel To be a welcoming Catholic community CLKCBPPFLKLK centered in the Eucharist, inving all to live the Saturday: 3:15-4:15PM Gospel and grow in faith. AKLFKQFKD LC QEB SF@HF@H If you or a family member needs to October 6, 2019 receive the Sacrament of Anoinng please call the parish office, 651-463-3360. B>MQFPJJ Bapsm class aendance is required. Bapsm I is offered the 3rd Thursday of the month at 7pm. Bapsm II is offered the 2nd Thursday of the month at 6:30pm. Group Bapsm is held the 2nd Sunday of the month at 12:00noon. (Schedule can vary) Email [email protected] or call 651-463-5257. M>QOFJLKVLKV Please contact the Parish Office. Allow at least 9 months to prepare for the Sacrament of Marriage. HLJB?LRKA ER@E>OFPQFPQ If you or someone you know is homebound and would like to receive Holy Communion, please contact Jennifer Schneider 651-463-5224. PO>VBO LFKBFKB Email your prayer requests to: [email protected] or call 651-463-5224 P>OFPE OCCF@B HLROPROP Monday through Friday 8:00am-4:00pm Phone—651-463-3360 [email protected] BRIIBQFK DB>AIFKBFKB Monday noon for the following Sunday bullen, submit to: info@stmichael- farmington.org 22120 Denmark Avenue—Farmington MN 55024—www.stmichael-farmington.org ▪ October 6, 2019 2 A glimpse of Orvieto Italy—Where Fr. Little and his fellow travelers are staying while on Pilgrimage. The town of Orvieto sits Orvieto's cathedral is on its grand stone known for its dynamic throne a thousand feet facade, opcal-illusion above the valley floor. interior, and extravagantly (photo: Dominic frescoed Chapel of San Bonuccelli) Brizio. (photo: Cameron Hewi) Orvieto — What an Italian Hill Town Should Be By Rick Steves Behind the Duomo, a complex of medieval palaces called Palazzi Papali shows off the city's best devoonal art. Not to be missed is the The town of Orvieto sits on its grand stone throne a thousand feet marble Mary and Child, who sit beneath a bronze canopy, aended by above the valley floor. (photo: Dominic Bonuccelli) Orvieto's cathedral exquisite angels. This proto-Renaissance ensemble, dang from is known for its dynamic facade, opcal-illusion interior, and around 1300, once filled the niche in the center of the cathedral's extravagantly frescoed Chapel of San Brizio. (photo: Cameron Hewi) facade (where a replica sits today). Orvieto is one of the most striking, memorable, and enjoyable hill Orvieto also boasts a rich underground world. The town sits atop a towns in central Italy. Less than 90 minutes from Rome, Orvieto sits vast underground network of Etruscan-era caves, wells, and tunnels. majescally high above the valley floor atop a big chunk of tufo Guided tours of the medieval caves offer a glimpse into how these volcanic stone, overlooking cypress-doed Umbrian plains. A visit here ancient Italians lived, from the remains of an old olive press to a will reward you with a delighul, perfectly preserved, and virtually pigeon coop where the birds were reared for roasng. Even now, traffic-free world highlighted by a colorful-inside-and-out cathedral and you'll sll see pigeon (piccione) dishes featured on many Orvieto some of Italy's best wine. menus. Orvieto has two disnct parts: the old-town hilltop and the dull new St. Patrick's Well — 175 feet deep, 45 feet wide, and 496 steps down town below. All travelers start at the boom, where train passengers — impresses modern engineers to this day. Thanks to its natural disembark and drivers can leave their cars for free. Visitors can then hilltop forficaon, Orvieto served as a 16th-century place of refuge drive or take an elevator or escalator to the medieval upper town. But for the pope. Wanng to ensure he had water during a me of siege, my preferred mode is joining the locals to climb the town's natural he built this extravagant well, with two spiral stairways leading down fortress hill on the slick funicular, which deposits riders about a 10- to a bridge from which people could scoop up water. The double-helix minute walk from the heart of town. design was crucial for allowing efficient traffic flow (imagine if donkeys and people, balancing jugs of water, had to go up and down the same Orvieto's cathedral gets my vote for Italy's liveliest facade. This stairway). Digging this was a huge project. Even today, when faced colorful, prickly Gothic facade, divided by four pillars, has been with a difficult task, Italians say, "It's like digging St. Patrick's Well." compared to a medieval altarpiece — a gleaming mass of mosaics, stained glass, and sculpture. It's a circa 1330 class in world history, Of course, no visit to Orvieto is complete without trying its famous back when no one dared queson "intelligent design." Things start Classico wine. One of my favorite places to do this is at the Tenuta Le with Creaon and end with the Last Judgment. Velee winery, just outside Orvieto, where Cecilia and Corrado Boai welcome visitors who make an appointment. As the volcanic soil is Inside, the nave feels spacious and less cluered than those in most very rich in minerals, grape vines thrive here, as they have since Italian churches. It used to be filled with statues and fancy chapels unl Etruscan mes. In fact, the Boais sll keep boles in the same cellar 1877, when the people decided they wanted to "un-Baroque" their where the Etruscans used to store their wines. Dug from tufo stone, church. The nave is also an opcal illusion; the architect designed it to the cellar provides the perfect condions for aging wine. be wider at the back and narrower at the altar, making it appear longer than it is. Windows of thin sliced alabaster bathe the interior in a so While Orvieto is busy with tourists during the day, the town is quiet light. a er dark. The back streets feel oblivious to the crush of modern-day tourism. Evocave lanes seem to keep the mystery of the Middle Ages The cathedral's highlight is the Chapel of San Brizio, featuring Luca alive. I like to close the evening with an a er-dinner stroll, when the Signorelli's brilliantly lit frescoes of the Day of Judgment and Life a er town is lamp-lit and romanc, then find a perfect spot to sit and Death. Although the frescoes refer to themes of resurrecon and simply savor the quiet thrill of a hill town a er dark. salvaon, they also reflect the turbulent polical and religious atmosphere of Italy in the late 1400s. Signorelli's ability to tell stories hps://www.ricksteves.com/watch-read-listen/read/arcles/orvieto- through human acons and gestures, rather than symbols, inspired his what-an-italian-hill-town-should-be younger contemporary, Michelangelo, who meculously studied Signorelli's work. ▪ 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 Mission and Pastoral Care Jennifer Schneider, Director of Pastoral Care and Mission 651-463-5224, [email protected] EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - It is my hope that the Church of St. Michael will RECOGNIZE GOD IN YOUR become a stewardship parish as well as a parish full ORDINARY MOMENTS of stewards! How Much Is Enough? A Steward's Way The life of a Chrisan steward models the life of Jesus. It is During a conversaon about good challenging and even difficult, in many respects, yet intense joy stewardship of money and me, my daughter shared that comes to those who take the risk to live as Chrisan stewards. somemes doing the best thing was so hard for her to do. It Women and men who seek to live as stewards learn that "all wasn’t always a maer of right and wrong, black and white, but things work for good for those who love God" (Rom 8:28). a maer of beer and best. I began to reflect on the truth of her A er Jesus, we look to Mary as an ideal steward. As the Mother statement. When confronted with a decision, we can somemes of Christ, she lived her ministry in a spirit of fidelity and service; be given a choice of good, beer, and best. We fool ourselves she responded generously to the call. We must ask ourselves: Do into believing that the good choice is not a bad one, so it must we also wish to be disciples of Jesus Christ and Chrisan be enough. However, we have essenally placed a limit on our stewards of our world and our Church? Central to our human generosity or commitment with our false sense of good and Chrisan vocaons, as well as to the unique vocaon each stewardship. one of us receives from God, is that we be good stewards of the gi s we possess. God gives us this divine-human workshop, this Jesus calls us in different ways every day. Somemes the cost to world and Church of ours. us is clear. Yet somemes there is no clear metric. When called to love, how much love is enough? When someone needs our The Spirit shows us the way. me, how many hours is enough? When a small gi will bring Stewardship is a part of that journey. about a posive outcome, what could a larger gi accomplish? (A Summary of the U.S.