AND A GOOD TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!

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MASS SCHEDULE Monday & Tuesday 7:00 pm Mass English Monday 6:00 pm Adoration Wednesday - Friday 8:00 a.m. English SAT. 8:00 a.m.-English 5:00 pm English (Vigil Mass) 6-8 pm. - Eucharists of the Neocatechumenal Way (Vigil masses)

SUNDAY: 9:00 a.m. English 11:00 a.m. Polish

1:00 p.m. Spanish HOLY DAY

OF OBLIGATION 8:00 am & 5:00 pm English 6:00 pm Spanish 7:30 pm Polish HOLIDAYS (No Church Feast) 9:00 a.m.English

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Mon. , Tues. & Thurs. 1:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Wed. & Fri. 9:00 am- 1:00 pm SAT. & SUN. - CLOSED

CLOSED FOR LUNCH 1:30 pm—2:00

pm

CONFESSIONS 6:00-7:00 pm Thursdays

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Saturdays

CCD OFFICE CENTER FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Phone: 847-455-5810 Office Hours Tues. & Thurs. 6:00-8:00 pm Sat. 9:00am-12:00 noon at Parish ofc.

EMERGENCY ONLY

PHASE V OF REOPENING NEW REGULATIONS EFFECTIVE JUNE 11

UPDATED AUGUST Capacity: All capacity restrictions are lifted. Masses, liturgies, sacramental celebrations, parish/school events resume 100% ca-pacity. Physical Distancing:Physical distancing is NOT required for vaccinated persons. Physical distancing is recommended by public health authorities, when possible, for unvaccinated persons if conditions allow up to 6 ft. of separation. Masks Masks are REQUIRED by public health authorities for all - unvaccinated & vaccinated FOR IN DOORS. Masses and Liturgy

•Registration is no longer required.

•Proof of vaccination is not required for attendance at any liturgies or services.

•Holy Water fonts may be filled and used.

•Ushers may resume their pre-pandemic routine.

•Choirs, congregational signing, oral responses, use of worship aids, envelopes and bulletins may be fully resumed.

•The Sign of Peace must be done without physical contact..

•Reception of Holy Communion:

•Receiving Holy Communion in the hand no longer requires extra hand sanitizing on the part of the Communicant.

•Receiving Holy Communion on the tongue may resume.

•Distributing/receiving Holy Communion from the cup re-mains suspended at this time.

•All entrances to the church and both parking lots may be used

•Convent chapel will be open daily for individual prayers Monday - Saturday

•Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament during confessions on Thursdays 6-7 pm is restored

ALL MASSES WILL REMAIN THE SAME THROUGHOUT

THE SUMMER.

TEMPORARY SCHEDULE OF THE MASSES : SATURDAY 5:00 PM (ENGLISH) SUNDAY 9:00 AM (ENGLISH) NIEDZIELA 11:00 AM (POLSKI) DOMINGO 1:00 PM (ESPANOL) WEEKDAYS MON-TUE 7:00 PM (ENGLISH) WED-SAT 8:00 AM(ENGLISH) Other liturgies: EVERY MONDAY, 6 PM:EUCHARISTIC ADORA-TION EVERY THURSDAY, 6-7 PM CONFESSIONS AND ADORATION EVERY SATURDAY, 4-5PM CONFESSIONS ONLINE TRANSMISSION: ONLY 9:00 AM MASS IN

ENGLISH

CCD REGISTRATION FOR 2021-2022 Registration for the 2021-2022 CCD School Year is now in progress. The Registration period will be open thru September 1

st. Registration packets are available at the

Rectory Office, and in the back of Church. Please take a packet, fill out all forms, enclose copies of sacramental certificates if necessary, and enclose payment. This year, we will only be opening registration to students preparing for the sacraments:

Reconciliation, First Holy Communion, and Confirmation.

ONCE AGAIN FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED IN CHURCH

PARISH OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED LABOR DAY

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2021 THERE WILL BE ONE MASS AT:

9:00 AM NO ADORATION

TASTE OF ST. GERTRUDE CLEAN-UP MEETING

TO BE HELD ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

AFTER THE 7:00 PM MASS IN THE SCHOOL HALL

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HAPPY LABOR DAY! A Catholic Christian Vision of the Dignity of

Human Work

For Christians, Labor Day invites us to examine how we view our own labor in the light of what the Scriptures and the teaching Church proclaims about the dignity of all human work On this Labor Day weekend most of us take a break from what we refer to as our "jobs" in order to rest and re-create. We are invited to honor human work and all human workers. It is a unique secular holiday with profound Chris-tian potential. Many will gather for late summer cookouts and celebrations. We may sleep in a bit later than usual and relax from what is so often a frenzied pace in our contemporary pattern of life. For many parents, Labor Day weekend marks a transition from the hectic pace of the summer to the new hec-tic pace of the school year. For students and teachers, it is also a portal into the new school year when we begin the work of education, a word whose Latin root means to "draw out" of the student what is good. Through authentically Christian ed-ucation we are all invited to be drawn out into a fuller way of life. For Christians, Labor Day invites us to examine how we view our own labor in the light of what the Scriptures and the teaching Church proclaims about the dignity of all human work, no matter what kind, precisely because it is done by human persons who are created in the Image and Likeness of God. We are living in an age which desperately needs a vi-brant living Christian witness of the dignity, meaning and true value of all human work - one which is rooted in a rediscov-ery of the dignity of the human person. Let's offer it to them by living a Christian approach to work in our own daily lives. Happy Labor Day! Highlights By Deacon Keith Fournier In 1981 John Paul released an Encyclical letter entitled "On Human Work" which beautifully presents a Christian vision of the dignity of human work and the worker. In the introductory paragraph he wrote: "(W)ork means any activity by man, whether manual or intellectual, whatever its nature or circumstances; it means any human activity that can and must be recognized as work, in the midst of all the many ac-tivities of which man is capable and to which he is predis-posed by his very nature, by virtue of humanity itself. Man is made to be in the visible universe an image and likeness of God himself, and he is placed in it in order to subdue the earth." "From the beginning therefore he is called to work. Work is one of the characteristics that distinguish man from the rest of creatures, whose activity for sustaining their lives cannot be called work. Only man is capable of work, and only man works, at the same time by work occupying his existence on earth. Thus work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons. And this mark decides its interior characteristics; in a sense it constitutes its very nature." We live in an age that has lost sight of the true dignity of work - precisely because we have lost sight of the dignity of the worker. This loss is one more bad fruit of the rupture which was wrought by sin. In the industrial age, men and women were often reduced to mere instruments in a society

that emphasized "productivity" over the dignity of the human person, the worker. The technological age promised something different, but it has failed to deliver on that promise. Too often, men and women are still viewed as instruments and objects rather than persons and gifts. Even Science, a great gift meant to be placed at the service of the human person, human flourishing, the family and the common good, has often promoted a view of the human person as an object to be experimented on and disposed of at will. This fundamental error is the root of the contemporary culture of death. To grasp the truth that dignity of all human labor derives from the dignity of the human person who engages in it re-quires what St Paul rightly called a "renewal of the mind” (See, Romans 12:2).In 2004, St John Paul told those participants at the Catholic Action gathering that because work "has been profaned by sin and contaminated by ego-ism," it is an activity that "needs to be redeemed." His words are critical for us to consider in this day in which we seem to be profoundly confused about the purpose, goodness and ends or goals of human work. He reminded them that "Jesus was a man of work and that work enabled him to develop his humanity". He empha-sized that "the work of Nazareth constituted for Jesus a way to dedicate himself to the 'affairs of the Father,'" witnessing that "the work of the Creator is prolonged" through work and that therefore "according to God's providential plan, man, by working, realizes his own humanity and that of others: In fact, work 'forms man and, in a certain sense, creates him." He emphasized the need for work to be rescued "from the logic of profit, from the lack of solidarity, from the fever of earning ever more, from the desire to accumulate and con-sume." When the focus of work becomes subjected to what he called "inhuman wealth", he said, it becomes a "seductive and merciless idol." That rescue occurs when we "return to the austere words of the Divine Master: 'For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses or forfeits him-self?'" Finally, John Paul II unveiled for his listeners an im-portant understanding of the Incarnation, that Jesus, the "Divine Worker of Nazareth" also reminds us that 'life is more than food' and that work is for man, not man for work. What makes a life great is not the entity of gain, nor the type of profession, or the level of the career. Man is worth infinite-ly more than the goods he produces or possesses." What a profound and truly liberating message for us all to consider on this Labor Day! The Catholic Catechism in-structs us: "Human work proceeds directly from persons cre-ated in the image of God and called to prolong the work of creation by subduing the earth, both with and for one anoth-er. Hence work is a duty: "If anyone will not work, let him not eat." "Work honors the Creator's gifts and the talents received from him. It can also be redemptive. By enduring the hardship of work in union with Jesus, the carpenter of Nazareth and the one crucified on Calvary, man collaborates in a certain fashion with the Son of God in his redemptive work. He shows himself to be a disciple of Christ by carrying the cross, daily, in the work he is called to accomplish. Work can be a means of sanctification and a way of animating earthly realities with the Spirit of Christ.

EL MESÍAS ANUNCIADO El relato de hoy sobre la curación de un sordo y tarta-mudo es un buen ejemplo de lo mucho que contiene la des-cripción de un simple milagro. La palabra griega mogilalos aparece solamente aquí en todo el Nuevo Testamento. Es un término técnico que se refiere a alguien que es tartamu-do. También se utiliza una sola vez en todas las Escrituras judías, en el pasaje que leemos hoy en la primera lectura de Isaías. Es evidente que, por su selección de esta precisa pa-labra Marcos quiere que reconozcamos que lo que Jesús está haciendo es el cumplimiento de lo que Isaías había pro-fetizado siglos antes. De hecho, Marcos quiere que reco-nozcamos que Jesús es el Mesías anunciado por Isaías y otros profetas judíos de la antigüedad. La palabra effetá, “ábrete”, que se utiliza para describir la curación de la voz del hombre, es otro ejemplo de una sutil alusión a una profecía anterior. Esta vez la profecía a

la que se refiere es de Ezequiel, cuando anuncia que en la era mesiánica, “se abrirá tu boca para hablar” (24:27). La compleja sutileza de la narración de Marcos se manifiesta más aún cuando nos damos cuenta de que hay múltiples capas dentro de una sola referencia. Marcos no sólo llama nuestra atención al pasado profético de Israel, sino también nos señala la práctica de iniciación de sus contemporáneos al mencionar tales cosas como la saliva, el contacto con las orejas y el uso de la palabra effetá, elementos todos que eran parte del rito del Bautismo durante la primera Iglesia. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

LECTURAS DE HOY Primera lectura — Díganles a los que están asustados: Calma, no tengan miedo (Isaías 35:4-7a). Salmo — Alaba, alma mía, al Señor (Salmo 146 [145]). Segunda lectura — Dios ha escogido a los pobres de este mundo para hacerlos ricos en la fe (Santiago 2:1-5). Evangelio — Jesús curó a un sordo que hablaba con difi-cultad. “Ábrete” (Marcos 7:31-37).

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Tragedia y crisol del sacerdocio en México

ZENIT News : El 11 de julio 2021el Centro Católico Multi-

medial (CCM) lanzó el documental “Tragedia y crisol del

sacerdocio en México”, un documental estrenado original-

mente en 2019 y que SIPCA TV difundió en Centro y Suda-

mérica.

El documental es fruto del libro homónimo del CCM que el

Papa Francisco recibió el 26 de mayo de 2018. Reúne la

investigación de más de una década en torno a los lamenta-

bles asesinatos perpetrados contra sacerdotes católicos y

agentes de evangelización.

Como otros grupos o sectores sociales, el de los ministros

católicos ha sido tocado por el flagelo de la violencia. El

sexenio 2012-2018 lamentó 26 sacerdotes asesinados y en el

presente período de gobierno hay 3 asesinatos equivalentes

al número registrado en el período de Ernesto Zedillo.

A esto se suma la comisión de delitos y ataques contra tem-

plos y lugares de culto. Desde felonías comunes como robos

a feligreses, el robo de arte sacro que afecta al patrimonio

nacional y hasta situaciones extremas como tiroteos a las

afueras de parroquias o asesinatos consumados en atrios, el

incremento es señal de que la violencia llega a niveles inau-

ditos en lugares que eran respetados y gozaban de

cierta inmunidad moral, ahora simplemente son allanados

por delincuentes y, en casos extremos, son presa y botín del

crimen organizado.

A la fecha, la situación es complicada especialmente cuando

se constata el vacío de autoridad y la ausencia de go-

bierno. Este crisol del sacerdocio en México pasa por la du-

ra prueba de fuego cuando ahora sus ministros actúan como

agentes de intermediación ante autoridades y criminales pa-

ra salvar la vida de los demás. En días recientes, el municip-

io de Aguililla de la diócesis de Apatzingán fue punto que

concentró la atención del mundo cuando el nuncio Franco

Coppola y el obispo Cristóbal Ascencio llevaron una palabra

de paz y esperanza a los habitantes. A pesar de estas señales,

la situación continúa siendo particularmente pre-

ocupante. Los fieles de la parroquia del padre Gilberto Ver-

gara han utilizado las armas de la fe para lograr una urgente

reconciliación de la región asolada y devastada por el

crimen organizado. De no intervenir la Iglesia, quizá las cir-

cunstancias serían más lamentables.

Y en otras zonas del país que parecen tierra de nadie, los

obispos han apuntado cómo el crimen organizado se ha

hecho de las riendas sociales e incluso económicas. En la

diócesis de Cuernavaca, el obispo Ramón Castro Cas-

tro, quien cumplió ochos de su llegada a esa Iglesia, ha de-

nunciado constantemente las condiciones de violencia del

Estado, el pago de derecho de piso y la zozobra de la

población. Castro Castro no ha cesado en su lucha y, aún a

pesar de la pandemia, camina por la paz como el único

remedio de resistencia para estabilizar al Estado de Morelos.

Otro caso es el de la diócesis de Chilpancingo-Chilapa.

Mons. Salvador Rangel Mendoza, quien ha cumplido 75

años, es de los prelados mexicanos que se ha metido en la

cueva del lobo. Después de las elecciones intermedias, ha

denunciado el peligro de una narcoelección y ahora es inter-

mediario en las negociaciones para la liberación de cinco

secuestrados en Guerrero. Ante el vacío del poder, los sacer-

dotes y el obispo de Chilpancingo-Chilapa son factor para

conseguir cierta estabilidad ante la ausencia de autoridad.

Aún cuando han pasado dos años de su estreno y ahora llega

para su libre difusión, “Tragedia y Crisol del sacerdocio en

México” mantiene su vigencia advirtiendo de esta frágil

situación, de la descomposición de nuestro país a pesar de la

política de los abrazos, no balazos, del fracaso de la promesa

de campaña de devolver a México la paz y de la desmilita-

rización de la seguridad pública; sin embargo, Omar Sotelo

Aguilar, sacerdote paulino y productor del documental, lan-

za un concepto controvertido que podría definir a esta inves-

tigación del Centro Católico Multimedial. Los asesinatos de

sacerdotes no obedecen a una persecución por odio a la fe.

Más bien, el sacerdocio, como factor de estabilidad social,

resulta incómodo a los poderosos del mundo. Por eso es

una neopersecución contra la Iglesia católica de México.

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Komentarz na niedzielę

- ks. Leszek Smoliński

Ewangelia w sposób

bardzo zwięzły określa

życie i posłannictwo

Jezusa z Naza-

retu: „Dobrze uczynił

wszystkim...”. Ten

boski Nauczyciel był

całkowicie inny niż uczeni w Piśmie czy

faryzeusze – nauczał z mocą, której nie sposób

było się oprzeć. Odwoływał się do powszechnie

znanych świętych tekstów. Chętnie posługiwał się

też obrazami wziętymi z przyrody, pracy na roli,

sięgał do doświadczeń pasterzy, rybaków, bliskie

Mu były troski gospodyni domowej. To pewnie z

tego powodu przychodzili do Jezusa głównie ci,

których dotykały różne niepowodzenia, garnęły

się do Niego zarówno dzieci, jak i grzesznicy. Pan

Jezus potrafił przywrócić wiarę w siebie, Jego

słowa budziły nadzieję na lepsze jutro. Sposób, w

jakim mówił o Bogu, odsłaniał Jego Oblicze –

pełne miłosierdzia i tkliwości.

W dzisiejszej Ewangelii słyszeliśmy, że

„Przyprowadzili Mu [Jezusowi] głuchoniemego i

poprosili Go, żeby położył na niego rękę”. W

zasadzie nie bardzo chyba wiedzieli, o co trzeba

prosić. Ale w tej usilnej, choć nieporadnej prośbie

kryła się wielka wiara. Była to wiara nieokreślona i

nieuczona. Mieszkańcy Dekapolu byli poganami.

Nie znali Boga objawionego w Starym Testamen-

cie, a przynajmniej nie oddawali Mu oficjalnej czci.

A więc i o Mesjaszu mogli mieć co najwyżej tylko

mgliste pojęcie. Wezwanie do otwarcia można

interpretować szerzej jako apel do

mieszkańców regionu, aby przyjęli Chrystusa i

Jego nauczanie. Mimo wszystko Jezus był

mieszkańcom Dekapolu na swój sposób bardzo

bliski. I dlatego Mu ufali,

wiedzieli, że można Mu

przedstawić swoją prośbę.

Obecność ludzi nie-

pełnosprawnych wśród

zdrowych i silnych jest żywą

mową Boga o wielkości natu-

ralnych darów, jakie posi-

adamy. Człowiek z białą laską

w ręku mówi o wartości

zdrowych oczu, niemowa – o cenie daru języka,

siedzący na inwalidzkim wózku – o wolności ukry-

tej w zdrowych nogach, upośledzony umysłowo –

o darze rozumu. Bezpośredni kontakt z tymi

ludźmi wzywa do dziękczynienia za dary, jakie

posiadamy. Nie nasza to bowiem zasługa, że

cieszymy się pełnią sił. Inni, bez własnej winy

borykają się z kalectwem. Wielki kompozytor Lud-

wig van Beethoven właśnie, gdy ogłuchł, skom-

ponował swoje najpiękniejsze utwory, jak choćby

„Hymn do radości”. W królestwie Bożym nie ma

ludzi niepotrzebnych i drugiej kategorii.

Nie trzeba koniecznie doświadczyć głuchoty

fizycznej, żeby odkryć inny świat. Można stać się

głuchym z wyboru, głuchym selektywnie. Głu-

chota selektywna polega na wybieraniu tego, co

chcemy słyszeć, oraz tego, czego nie chcemy

usłyszeć. Tak działo się w młodości św. Au-

gustyna, biskupa Hippony, który był wszechstron-

nie utalentowany, a jednocześnie zagubił się w

poszukiwaniu sensu życia, uwikłał się w heretyck-

ie poglądy i nieuporządkowany sposób życia. Po

swoim nawróceniu zapisał w „Wyznaniach”:

„Przemówiłeś, zawołałeś i pokonałeś moją głu-

chotę. Zajaśniałeś, Twoje światło usunęło moją

ślepotę. Zapachniałeś wokoło, poczułem i chłonę

Ciebie. Raz zakosztowałem, a oto łaknę i pragnę;

dotknąłeś, a oto płonę pragnieniem Twojego

pokoju”.

1.W poniedziałek 6 września - Labor Day - biuro parafialne będzie nieczynne. Msza św. tego dnia w jęz. angielskim będzie odprawiona o g. 9:00. Nie będzie tego dnia adoracji Najśw. Sakramentu. 2. Nowenna ku czci NMPanny co środę o g. 19:00 w kaplicy.

1 czytanie: Powiedzcie zatrwożonym: Odwagi, nie bójcie się (Iz 35, 4-7a) 2 czytanie: Bóg wybrał ubogich tego świata, aby ucznić ich bogatymi w wierze (Jk 2,1-5) Ewangelia: Jezus uzdrowił głuchego, mówiac mu: Otwórz się (Mk 7,31-37)

Mass Intentions HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION

SEPTEMBER 2021

FEAST OF FAITH

SUNDAY, September 5, 2021 9:00 am Frank & John Disciano 11:00 am Msza zbiorowa 1:00 pm Misa Colectiva MONDAY, September 6, 2021

Labor day 9:00 pm Thomas Jaje TUESDAY, September 7, 2021 7:00 pm The Jaje Family WEDNESDAY, September 8, 2021 8:00 am Ron & Marie Anniversary THURSDAY, September 9, 2021 8:00 am Joe Rasala FRIDAY, September 10, 2021 8:00 am SATURDAY, September 11, 2021 8:00 am Ruben Contreras 5:00 pm Vincenzo Giordano SUNDAY, September 12, 2021 9:00 am Mariann Falco 11:00 am Msza zbiorowa 1:00 pm Misa Colectiva

An Environmentally Sustainable Lifestyle: We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable life-style, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this.

David Wischmeyer Father Alfred Corbo Jason Avelar Gina Sassone Ed Albers Emmanuel Kuanyin Gary Figiel Santiago & Maria Mendez Cathy Novelli Father Michael Michelini Gus Campeotto Donna Polvere Linda Sassone Jenna Starn Luciano & Vittoria Chemello

Ann Marie Rossi Judy Auten Edward Dewbray Kathleen Kneidek Michael Annuncio Rudolph &Johanna Steark Frances Reiser Sue Cirock JR Harrison Teresa Juk Dolores Cadetto Christine Grable Gabrielle Benefield Katrina R Tanisha Chaurero

Mary Landrum Gina Cuomo Caroline Russo Gino Melone Marilyn L. Peter C. John F. Elaine & Earle F. Eleanor Jura Konrad White And All Parishioners who are in hospitals and home-bound.

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Say to those whose hearts are frightened: Be strong, fear not! Here is your God (Isaiah 35:4-7a). Psalm — Praise the Lord, my soul! (Psalm 146). Second Reading — Show no partiality as you adhere to the faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ (James 2:1-5). Gospel — Jesus makes the deaf hear and the mute speak (Mark 7:31-37). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Com-mission on English in the Liturgy Corpo-ration. All rights reserved. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Col 1:24 — 2:3; Ps 62:6-7, 9; Lk 6:6-11, or, for Labor Day, any read-ings from the Mass “For the Blessing of Human Labor,” nos. 907-911 Tuesday: Col 2:6-15; Ps 145:1b-2, 8- 11; Lk 6:12-19 Wednesday: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28- 30;Ps 13:6 Mt 1:1-16, 18- 23[18-23] Thursday: Col 3:12-17; Ps 150:1b-6; Lk 6:27-38 Friday: 1 Tm 1:1-2, 12-14; Ps 16: 1b-2a, 5, 7-8, 11; Lk 6:39- 42 Saturday: 1 Tm 1:15-17; Ps 113:1b- 7; Lk 6:43-49 Sunday: Is 50:5-9a; Ps 116:1-6, 8- 9; Jas 2:14-18; Mk 8:27- 35 JUDGMENT To pass judgment on another is to usurp shamelessly a prerogative of God. —St. John Climacus RECLAIMING OUR UNITY Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to re-claim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

PLEASE PRAY FOR ALL OF OUR SICK & HOMEBOUND

Remembering When Jesus broke the bread on the night before he died, he told his disciples, “do this in memory of me” (Luke 22:19). Christians have been faithful to that solemn command. Our eu-charistic remembering is not nostalgia, nor is it merely historical, recalling events and facts of long ago. In the liturgy, remembering is action. “Do this,” Jesus said. In the Eucharist, we re-member by doing. And as we remember, the sacrifice of Jesus is renewed, truly made pre-sent, no longer then, but now. After the consecration, each of the Eucha-ristic Prayers includes a section called the an-amnesis, a Greek word that means “remembering.” In this part of the prayer, “the Church, fulfilling the command that she re-ceived from Christ the Lord through the Apos-tles, keeps the memorial of Christ, recalling especially his blessed Passion, glorious Resur-rection, and Ascension into heaven” (General Instruction of the Roman Missal, 79e). We pause and call to mind the whole paschal mys-tery, Christ’s dying and rising. “We celebrate the memory of his death and resurrec-tion” (Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation II). Obeying Christ’s command, we remember. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. LABOR Without labor nothing prospers. —Sophocles

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL In today’s Gospel we hear how Jesus “makes the deaf hear and the mute speak!” In living the gospel, we must open our ears to hear and recognize all the everyday opportunities for making God’s presence known especially to those who are poor and suffer-ing. On September 9, the Church also celebrates the feast of Blessed Frederic Ozanam, the founder of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Frederic heard the call of Jesus to love and serve those who are suf-fering. Is there a family you know who needs assistance? Please call the Society of St. Vincent de Paul so that together we can “make God’s presence known” to those who are suffering and poor?

Twenty-third Sunday in

Ordinary Time September 5,

2021 Did not God

choose those who are poor in the

world to be rich in faith and heirs to the kingdom?

— James 2:5

ST. GERTRUDE CATHOLIC CHURCH Parish Mission Statement We the members of Saint Gertrude Parish, are a diverse community united in our Catholic Faith to bear witness to Jesus Christ by spreading his gospel message. As we praise and thank God through Jesus Christ, we serve one another, we grow as individuals and develop as a community. Empowered by the Holy Spirit, we are called to reach out and welcome all and be known as a people of hospitality, support and service. Fr. Eryk Czarnecki-Pastor Fr. Krzysztof Pankanin, Associate Pastor Fr. Alfred P. Corbo, Pastor Emeritus Robert Murphy, Deacon Bulletin Editor, Marie Caronti CCD Coordinator, Yesenia Duarte Liturgy, Tony Hernandez Director of Music/English, Halina Makowski Parish Housekeeper, Lydia Herrera Bereavement/Baptism, Deacon Robert Murphy Parish Secretary, Robert Oliva St. Vincent de Paul. Co-ord,,Brian Emmanuel

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