St. Bernadette Church
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Michael White & Grace Gener (III)
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Alice Sanaghan, Victor & Jean Alfirevic, Caroline Golab Sue Kordas, Matthew Ralph, Michael Milito Steve & Lucille Nardi, Michael Kane, Clarence Nowicki, Jr. Eleanor DeLucia, Martin Sayers, Jim Crofoot Nick Notarangelo, Victoria McDaniel, Michele Lowery Betty Howe, James Lynch, Lisa Townsend, Marie Caauwe, James Parrish, Marie Caauwe John White, Betty Kuikman, Betty Kuikman James Jamrus, Ardell Schleder, Jack Yerkes
Helen McLaughlin
If you
are in the hospital, please have your family inform us if you would like a visit.
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Rest in Peace
Please pray for the Faithful Departed
William Swart,
Thomas Michael
Casey,
Irene Petrusha,
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SUNDAY, August 24, 2008
MONDAY, August 25, 2008
TUESDAY, August 26, 2008
WEDNESDAY, August 27, 2008
THURSDAY, August 28, 2008
FRIDAY, August 29, 2008
SATURDAY, August 30, 2008
SUNDAY, August 31, 2008
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Sunday Collection Report Weekly Budgeted Amount. $8,000.00 Aug 10th. Sunday Collection (312 envelopes). $7,864.00 FY ‘09 Budgeted Year-to-Date. $48,000.00 FY ‘09 Year-to-Date Collected $49,320.00
Annual Catholic Appeal Please remember, pledge payments for the Annual Catholic Appeal should be mailed in the envelope you receive with your pledge update.
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Three Rites Like Three Days
The heart of our faith as Christians is the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. Because we are baptized into Christ, or longing to be so, the pattern of Jesus’ suffering, dying and rising is lived out in our daily experience. We, too, suffer, die and rise in myriad ways day by day, and in the arms of a God who loves us to the point of never, ever abandoning us. And all of this daily dying and rising is preparation — a kind of rehearsal — for that ultimate moment in our life here of earth, the moment when each of us will pass from this life to the next. This is what we call the paschal mystery. The heart of our life as Christians in community is the annual celebration of the passion, death and resurrection of Jesus. Our celebration of Easter is “of three days,” and so, from Latin, we call it the Triduum. The three days are: sunset Holy Thursday to sunset Good Friday, sunset Good Friday to sunset Holy Saturday, and sunset Holy Saturday to sunset Easter Sunday. During this festival of three days, we do what is most important. We wash feet — and we walk and walk and walk in processions. We lift up and kiss the cross. We bless a fire and sing around a candle, sharing its flame each to each. We tell the story of how and why it all began, who we are and where we are going. And then, with God as father and as midwife, mother church gives birth to new life by baptizing, anointing and welcoming to the table those whom God has chosen to be born again and live forever. Over the course of three days, the Paschal Triduum is nonetheless a single celebration, the most important of our life together in Christ. From this experience of three-in-one our tradition has crafted the rites with which we face death, too. The Order of Christian Funerals is the collection of rites that we Catholics enact to honor the mystery of the death of one who belongs to Christ. And there are three main parts to the Order: the vigil, the funeral liturgy and the committal. It’s true that most often these three parts are not celebrated over the course of three days. Today, a wake may be one or two nights, and the liturgy and committal happen on the same day. But it’s very meaningful to think of the three parts of each of our funerals as echoes and reflections of Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. For where Christ has traveled we are going, and his successful passing over from death to life is the sure promise of our own. Copyright © 2002 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL 60622-1101; 1-800-933-1800. Text by David Philippart. Art by Luba Lukova. All rights reserved. Used with permission
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Promises of our Lord for Souls Devoted to His Sacred Heart
I. I will give them all the graces necessary in their state of life. 2. I will establish peace in their houses. 3. I will comfort them in all their afflictions. 4. I will be their secure refuge during life, and above all in death. 5. I will bestow a large blessing upon all their undertakings. 6. Sinners shall find in My Heart the source and the infinite ocean of mercy. 7. Tepid souls shall grow fervent. 8. Fervent souls shall quickly mount to high perfection. 9. I will bless every place where a picture of My Heart shall be set up and honored. l0 I will give to priests the gift of touching the most hardened hearts. 11. Those who shall promote this devotion shall have their names written in My Heart, never to be blotted out. 12. I promise thee in the excessive mercy of My Heart that My all-powerful love will grant to all those who communicate on the First Friday in nine consecutive months the grace of final penitence; they shall not die in My disgrace nor without receiving the Sacraments: My Divine Heart shall be their safe refuge in this last moment.
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Faith in Miracles “God is always almighty; He can at all times work miracles and He would work them now as in the days of old were it not that faith is lacking!” St. John Vianney
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Please pray for the men and women serving
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for me to pray for other people? If Jesus contacted you personally, and asked if there was anything you needed, wouldn’t you give him a list that included favors for your friends and family? It would make you feel great to spread the wealth of Jesus’ generosity. In fact, Jesus promised his faithful followers that, “whatever you ask in my name, I will do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you ask anything of me in my name, I will do it” (John 14:13-14). The Creator of the Universe promised that, when we are united with his will, he will come to our aid whenever we ask. Intercessory prayer – asking God for favors for other people – helps us to spread the wealth of Jesus’ generosity. It is a wonderful way to declare our love for one another. “The fervent prayer of a righteous person is very powerful” (James 5:16). Plus, when we ask for God’s intercession for others, we become more aware of their needs. That is what Jesus wants.
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Who do we worship? Blessed be your holy name! Jesus, the Word become flesh Jesus, the Lamb of God Jesus, God's Chosen One Jesus, Teacher and Messiah Jesus, Son of God Jesus, the One whom God has sent Jesus, Savior of the World Jesus, the Bread of Life Jesus, the Light of the World Jesus, the Son of Man Jesus, Good Shepherd of the Sheep Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life Jesus, the King of the Jews Jesus, my Lord and my God.
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The Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s
different stresses. Our duty is not to abandon ship, but to keep her on
her course.
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When I pray, I am in training for the greatest event of all- the moment when my soul returns to its Maker and the two become one again. I am training not to overcome, but to surrender-not to perform, but to stop doing and allow the other to do all. Armchair Mystic: Easing Into Contemplative Prayer |
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God's word is so rich that it is a treasury of every good.
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Nourished by the Cross
The wood of the cross is mine for my eternal salvation.
I am
nourished by it, I feast on
it. I am strengthened by its roots. I lie down under its
branches. I fill my nostrils with its savor as with a
sweet breeze. This tree is a strong prop for the
universe, binding all things together, supporting the
whole inhabited
earth, a cosmic
interlacing which embraces the motley of humanity, the
Spirit holds it firm with invisible
nails so that its contact with God may never be
loosened, as it touches heaven with its peak, keeps its
base firmly on earth and embraces all the atmosphere
with its measureless arms.
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ST. FRANCIS’ STYLE OF PRAYER St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most popular saints of the Church. Even non-Catholics often are inspired by St. Francis. Why is his appeal so great? In the monastic tradition, monks and nuns were encouraged to transcend the world and look inward to search for God. Francis had a different approach. He came to prayer from the experience of a layman. Francis’ family belonged to the rising middle class in Assisi. His father was a merchant who sold cloth, and Francis apparently worked for him. In his father’s shop, Francis came into contact with all types of people — farmers, craftsmen, artisans — who worked with their hands and valued the things of the earth. The idea of escaping from this world to search for God would have been foreign to Francis. Francis saw the material world not as an obstacle to prayer but as the creation of God which manifests the glory of the Creator. To Francis, the Christian did need to search for a hidden God, but merely recognize the presence of the God who had already come to us in creation, and most especially, in the Incarnation. The journey of prayer and of life, then, is to disclose the presence of God in whose image we are created and whose presence abides within us. Francis found God in others: in his neighbor, his brothers, the lepers, the poor, and even the tiny creatures of nature. Where do you find God? Written by Jean Mowbray, based on “St. Francis’ Style of Prayer.” by Ilia Delio, O.S.F., St. Anthony Messenger, October 2004
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Rectory Office Hours:
708-422-8995 Fax: 708-422-8699
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| Please pray for the men and women serving in the Military & Intelligence Agencies of our country and in those of the Allied Coalition in the defense of freedom. |
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