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St. John of the Cross Parish 5005 South Wolf Road ~ Western Springs 60558 ~ 708-246-4404 ~ www.stjohnofthecross.org
God
25th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 18, 2016
Look back and thank Lord forward and trust Look around and serve Look within and find
Annual Anointing Mass
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On Sunday, September 25 at 12:30pm there will be a special Mass for all those who would like to receive the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick. Following Mass there will be a reception for those who were anointed and their families and caregivers.
A Sacrament of Healing
We come before the Lord for healing. Like all sacraments, the Anointing of the Sick is a liturgical and communal celebration. The sacrament includes the following principle elements: the priest in silence lays his hands on the head of the sick or elderly person and prays over them. He then anoints their forehead and hands with the Oil of the Sick saying, “Through this holy anointing may the Lord in his love and mercy help you with the grace of the Holy Spirit. May the Lord who frees you from sin save you and raise you up.” What are the effects of the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick? The special grace of the sacrament unites the sick person to the passion of Christ, gives strength, peace and courage to endure sufferings of illness or old age, imparts the forgiveness of sins if the sick person was unable to obtain it through the sacrament of Penance, provides for the restoration of health and helps to prepare the person for passing over to eternal life. Who may be anointed? “The Sacrament of the Anointing is not a sacrament for those only who are at the point of death” (Catechism 1514). The sacrament is appropriate for those whose health is seriously impaired by sickness or advanced age. This includes persons who are seriously ill whether at home, in hospitals or in nursing homes, as well as sick children who are old enough to experience benefit from the sacrament. It could be physical, mental or emotional. The sacrament may be repeated if the person becomes ill again or if their condition becomes worse. A person may also be anointed before surgery. Sources: Catechism of the Catholic Church, USCCB Catholic Catechism for Adults.
Fr. Dennis Koopman who has helped out at SJC for many years is being transferred to Springfield, Illinois on September 26. His last weekday Mass at our parish will be on Saturday, September 24 at 8am. There will be a reception honoring him following Mass in the church community room. Join us as we thank him for all he has done for and given to our parish. He will be missed!! Father is sad to be moving away from so many wonderful friars and friends after 21 years in the Chicago area. The parishioners of SJC have been a source of great joy and love for him. He is most grateful for our presence in his life and will keep us in his prayer. Fr. Dennis will be the new chaplain of the Motherhouse of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis. His new address will be: Our Lady of Angels Friary at Greccio, P.O. Box 2153, Springfield, IL 62705-2153.
Please note that Reconciliation will be at 9:30am on September 24.
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New Liturgical Minister Training Interested adults or any student who is a high school or older wanting to serve either as a Communion Minister or Lector at Sunday Mass needs to attend an upcoming training session. Training will begin promptly in church. Scheduling is based on your availability. Training sessions for both ministries will also be held in the spring. Communion Minister Sunday, October 2 3:00- 4:30 pm Lector Training Sunday, October 30 2:00–3:30pm Registration is not required. For more information contact Fr. Bill at the parish office. Children’s Liturgy of the Word Leaders Needed Lead children scripture and prayer during the 9am and 10:45am Masses. All materials provided. Contact Steve Weigand for more details. Divorce Support Group Our parish Divorce & Beyond group meets on 8 Friday evenings in the Parish Center from 7-8:30pm. The first session was last Friday, but if you are interested in coming call Steve Weigand in the Parish Center. Breaking Bread Supper Club Begins a New Season
Adults of the parish (any age 21 and up, any marital status) are invited to join our parish Supper Club. It’s a great way to meet fellow parishioners for an inexpensive evening of fun, sharing conversation and good food. This is not a gourmet cooking club, and it does not have to be complicated. It’s a simple way to get to know people in the parish. Over the past 2 years the Supper Club groups have included, parents of small children, retired empty nesters and singles all gathering together. One group even had one of their high school age child baby sit for the younger children of parents in the group. Conversations included talking about movies, books, sports and other interests, family, individual life journeys and faith. 8 to 10 adults are grouped together to share dinner in each other’s homes about 4-5 times during the year. Scheduling is up to the group. The host provides the entrée and beverages while others bring an appetizer, salad, side, and dessert. Register by September 20 on the parish website. We will kick off the year with a Wine & Cheese get-together at the Parish Center on Tuesday, September 27 from 7:00–8:00pm so everyone can meet their group. (Parishioners can still join if they cannot make the Wine and Cheese gathering.) For more information contact Fr. Bill at the parish office.
Parish News
There will be a special collection at all Masses this weekend to support our seminarians. Contributions made to this collection alleviate monthly expenses such as tuition and fees ($1,850), room and board ($950), formation programs ($250), and health insurance ($190) for each seminarian and will be used solely for the formation of new priests for the Archdiocese of Chicago. Thank you for your generosity.
Parish News
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St. John of the Cross Parish congratulates the following families who had their babies baptized by Fr. Bill last Sunday. Pictured with their godparents are Brian and Anne Etten with Nicholas Elmer, Andrew and Shelley Nelson with twins Margaret Claire and Catherine Grace and Rayn and Sara Rioux with Scarlett Marie.
Grief Support for Children & Teens Registration is underway for the next 6 week fall grief group for children and teens beginning October 13. Tommy’s Kids is for 4-12 year olds and Teens for Teens for 13-17 year olds. You can register online by going to Tommy’s Kids Support Group or call Rosemarie Cohen, Bereavement Coordinator, at Adventist St. Thomas at 630-256-6993. Grief Support for Adults The next 6 week session of our parish grief support group, Seasons of Hope, will begin on Monday, October 17 at 7-8:30pm in the Parish Center. Call Steve Weigand, Pastoral Associate or go to our website to register. Lost Child Pilgrimage The Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii in Chicago invites anyone grieving the death of a child to a very special day of reflection, healing and hope on Saturday, October 15 from 8:30am to 1:30pm. Keynote speaker, Julie Raino, will guide attendees in reflecting upon and sharing their experience, discovering how we can cross the threshold of mercy in God’s care for our grieving hearts. More info on breakout sessions and how to register, go to www.ourladyofpompeii.org or call 312.421.3757. Grief Support for Widows Joyful Again is a 2 day program for those who have lost their spouse. The next session to be held in our area is Nov. 5-6 at Our Lady of Angels in Lemont. Call 708-354-7211 for more information and to register.
New Parishioner Orientation Register to become a new parishioner then join Welcome Coordinator, Elizabeth Russell-Jones, on Sunday, September 25 at 10am in the Parish Center to learn all about our parish and how you can get involved. Call Elizabeth with any questions at 708-246-4404 x155. Career Transition Boot Camp 5 Consecutive Tuesdays beginning September 20 from 7-9pm at First Presbyterian Church of LaGrange. Week 1 will kick off with a punch list of things to do to prepare your career search strategy. Facilitator, Jim Peterson, will also describe how "Generational Differences" can impact that strategy and Dr. Joe Yount will deliver a special presentation on how approaching your job search with a positive mindset will help make you more successful. These meetings are open to everyone and there is no cost to attend.
www.interfaithcareernetwork.org Respect Life Sunday: October 2 Life Chain: Every year people are invited to join hands in towns across the nation to witness our respect of life at all its stages. Join fellow parishioners on Sunday, October 2 along Ogden Avenue between Wolf and Grand from 2:30-3:30pm.
Amazing Women: A social and spiritual group for women seeking other amazing women. Married, single, widowed, divorced, any age… Join us to meet and network with other women in our parish.
Saturday, October 15 from 8:30-10:30am in the Parish Center
Parish News
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Free parish sponsored program at The Well for our parishioners.
The Science of a Happy Marriage Workshop
Saturday, October 1 from 9:00-11:00am SJC Parish Center
Learn how to have a happier relationship in fun and practical ways gleaned from the scientific research of Dr. John Gottman. Trained Gottman Marriage Educators, Bill and Theresa Simantirakis, will be at St. John of the Cross on Saturday, October 1 to share over 40 years of research from the Gottman Insititute. This workshop is open to all adults in a loving relationship, couples in committed relationships as well as singles who would like to be in a loving relationship. This education truly lasts a lifetime—it’s the best relationship education available. There is no cost to attend. Please register on our parish website or by calling the Parish Center.
To offer today’s world the witness of mercy is a task from which none of us can feel exempted. Pope Francis @Pontifex Sep 8
Science, Theology and Pope Francis’ Ecological Vision Thursday 7-8:30 pm September 22 Speaker: John Haught “Unless we feel that we truly belong to the natural world, as Pope Francis points out, we will lack sufficient incentive to take care of it as our home.” There is now a broken connection, however, between humans and nature, and it has been sanctioned by the academically endorsed suspicion that the universe has no point, no meaning, no purpose. It is difficult for living and thinking beings, after all, to feel a warm relationship with a universe that seems essentially lifeless and mindless. With the help of scientifically informed religious thinkers, such as Teilhard de Chardin and Alfred North Whitehead, this presentation explores Pope Francis’ courageous affirmation in “Laudato Si’” that the universe does indeed have a purpose: namely, to bring about the self-justifying value of beauty. “At the end,” he writes, “we will find ourselves face to face with the infinite beauty of God.” What does this mean ecologically, scientifically, and theologically? Blessed are the Merciful: Reflections on the Beatitudes Wednesday 7-8:30 pm October 26 Speaker: Ed Shea, OM When you examine your conscience, do you use the 10 Commandments? That’s not a bad start, but perhaps we could go a little further. Franciscan Father Ed Shea will reflect with us on what it might look like to have a “Beatitudes” way of life. Through music and Scripture we will be invited to go deeper in our own spiritual journey as we celebrate this Jubilee Year of Mercy. A New Dawning Saturday, 9-3:30 pm November 12 Facilitators: Carolyn Toben and Mary Southard, CSJ A huge new sacred story is unfolding in the midst of dark, strident, competing voices, and the tensions and radical transitions of our times. A new light is dawning as the spirit of renewal arises from the depths of the earth and our own intuitive natures. This dawning light brings faith, hope and healing to our individual lives and to our fragmented world. Inspiration, imagination, and community will deepen our participation with the spirit of renewal by weaving the wisdom of spiritual leaders with our own understandings. Art, nature experiences, singing, prayer and celebration will create new chapters in the unfolding sacred story of a new dawning of consciousness. Participants are asked to bring a favorite inspiring quotation, poem, or prayer to share.
1515 Ogden Avenue in LaGrange Park ~ Register by calling the Parish Center
Background on the Gospel Today's Gospel sounds puzzling to contemporary readers, but it can be made less so by considering the economic system which stands behind the parable. A steward is dismissed because he is squandering his master's property. He is called dishonest because he is not serving the interests of the rich man, his employer. In response the steward, in an attempt to ensure favor for himself among the rich man's debtors, brokers repayment of the rich man's loans by foregoing the interest and fees that had been levied to line the steward's pockets. It is this action, in which the steward puts aside his greed and takes the longer perspective in order to enhance his security, which is commended by the rich man. The passage concludes with three morals for the listeners. The first exhorts the listener to be prudent about the use of wealth. Like the steward in the parable, those who would follow Jesus must put transitory affairs in proper perspective. Christians should handle the affairs of temporal life with an eye toward eternal life. The second concerns trustworthiness. Those who can be trusted in small things can also be trusted in great things. If Christians handle money and other passing things responsibly, then they can also be trusted with the affairs of the Kingdom of God. Finally, Jesus tells his listeners that no one can serve two masters simultaneously. God must be put ahead of money. Loyola Press
Living the Gospel This Gospel puts to us a familiar and basic question: Whom do we serve? We have heard all our lives that we “cannot serve both God and mammon.” This is such a common gospel saying; we are very familiar with it. We interpret the “mammon” as money, wealth, possessions. The basic question nudges us to think of serving “mammon” in another way, in terms of serving self. We are our own greatest wealth, our greatest possession. But even we ourselves can get in the way of Gospel living. The challenge is to pay attention to how we are living and sincerely ask the basic question, whom do we serve? Our answer might surprise us at times. The wily steward is clearly self-serving and decisive in doing what he thinks necessary for his own immediate well-being. But by acting in this way, he risks squandering his eternal well-being. To secure this, he needed to choose to serve God rather than self. By serving God and God alone, the wily servant would have secured the only future worth having—eternal Life. So, the question for us remains, whom do we serve? When it comes to Gospel living, we often squander op-portunities to gain “true wealth.” The thrust of the gospel is that we act prudently in this life in order to “be welcomed into eternal dwellings.” Prudence demands that we not squander opportunities to be charitable and just toward others. Prudence demands that we not squander opportunities to die to self. Prudence demands that we not squander opportunities to be trustworthy with the ministry of discipleship that we take on each time we say yes to our baptismal commitment. © Living Liturgy
Lifelong Learning
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Readings for the week:
Monday Prov 3:27-34 Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5 Luke 8:16-18
Tuesday Prov 21:1-6, 10-13 Ps 119:1, 27, 30, 34, 35, 44 Luke 8:19-21
Wednesday Eph 4:1-7, 11-13 Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 Matt 9:9-13
Thursday Eccl 1:2-11 Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17bc Luke 9:7-9
Friday Eccl 3:1-11 Ps 144:1b and 2abc, 3-4 Luke 9:18-22
Saturday Eccl 11:9–12:8 Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17 Luke 9:43b-45
26th Sunday in OT Amos 6:1a, 4-7 Ps 146:7, 8-9, 9-10 1 Tim 6:11-16 Luke 16:19-31
May we deepen our choice to serve God and God alone.
May we remain trustworthy and
faithful in following Jesus.
Prayer
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Most of us are feeling the pressure at this time of year. Too much to do; too little time. Here’s a prayer for those who feel way too busy.
A Prayer to the Holy Spirit O Holy Spirit,
give me stillness of soul in you. Calm the turmoil within,
with the gentleness of your peace. Quiet the anxiety within, with a deep trust in you.
Heal the wounds of sin within, with the joy of your forgiveness.
Strengthen the faith within, with the awareness of your presence.
Confirm the hope within, with the knowledge of your strength.
Give fullness to the love within, with an outpouring of your love.
O Holy Spirit, be to me a source of light,
strength and courage so that I may hear your call
ever more clearly and follow you more generously.
Ignatian Spirituality
Praying When You Are Too Busy I work in an office where the pace is breakneck speed. I pray during my morning commute, but pride kicks in as I park: “See you at noon, God. I’ve got things covered.” Then I read the Suscipe. Uh, oh. Do I mean it? I pray, “Take, Lord, receive, well, most of me. Can I hang on to this area—and that—while I ‘let you’ take care of the rest?” So I’m taking an incremental approach to praying the Suscipe and meaning it. I’m starting with my high-stress work environment. When expectations of what’s possible are unrealistic, I pause and recommit to who my boss really is: I’m called to work for God—not human approval. The Examen is a guide. At the end of the day, I think about how well I allowed Christ to lead me at the office, and where I exercised genuine self-surrender. It helps me to do this musically, so I’ve paraphrased the song “Take, Lord, Receive,” by John Foley, SJ (humming not included).
Take, Lord, receive all my work and career. Relationships, interruptions, my strategic plans. Give me only your love! You’re my boss. You’re enough for me. Your love and your plans are enough for me. Take, Lord, receive, multitasking and stress. Have you given this to me? Can I return it? Give me only your love and a cup of some fresh-brewed “Joe.” On Mondays I know: You’re enough for me. Take, Lord, receive, everything on my desk. Dispose of it, wholly according to your will. Give me only your love and a pace that leaves time for you. My office: a place where your grace comes through.
After singing and while driving home, I ask myself:
When did I see Christ walk through my office door?
When during the workday did I feel closest to Christ?
How did I listen to the invitations to kindness, honesty, and integrity in work relationships and tasks?
Did I pause to ask God’s opinion before barreling ahead with an e-mail, a decision, or a comment to a coworker?
Did I live my desire to work for God, or was success my bottom line?
Was I forgetful of God? Did I check my faith at the door? I make my resolutions for a better tomorrow. I’m grateful that God allows me the freedom to draw closer to Christ in increments. And truth be told, after praying this way, I am much more at peace. Things seem to be going better in the office, or is it that I am changed? I next turn to an aspect of my life that needs much more work (sung to the same tune):
Take, Lord, receive All my time in the car. The way I drive, my lane changes, The entire road. Refrain: Give a blessing to all who will drive Down this busy lane. All day and all night, give us patience, Lord.
What parts of my life are easiest to give over to God’s complete control?
Suscipe Take, Lord, and receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will, All I have and call my own. You have given all to me. To you, Lord, I return it. Everything is yours; do with it what you will. Give me only your love and your grace, that is enough for me. St. Ignatius of Loyola
I’m called to work for God
Richard Rohr Meditation: Dying with Christ
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My good friend and colleague, Franciscan Sister Ilia Delio, writes: God is radically involved with the world, empowering the world toward fullness in love, but God is unable to bring about this fullness without the cooperation of humans. Human and divine cannot co-create unto the fullness of life without death as an integral part of life. Isolated, independent existence must be given up in order to enter into broader and potentially deeper levels of existence. Bonaventure speaks of life in God as a “mystical death,” a dying into love: “Let us, then, die and enter into the darkness; let us impose silence upon our cares, our desires and our imaginings. With Christ Crucified let us pass out of this world to the Father.” [1] [2] Contemplative prayer is one way to practice imposing “silence upon our cares, our desires and our imaginings.” Contemplative practice might be twenty minutes of “dying,” of letting go of the small mind in order to experience the big mind, of letting go of the false self in order to experience the True Self, of letting go of the illusion of our separation from God in order to experience our inherent union. Prayer is quite simply a profound experience of our core—who we are, as Paul says, “hidden with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3). Delio continues: Only by dying into God can we become one with God, letting go of everything that hinders us from God. Clare of Assisi spoke of “the mirror of the cross” in which she saw in the tragic death of Jesus our own human capacity for violence and, yet, our great capacity for love. [3] Empty in itself, the mirror simply absorbs an image and returns it to the one who gives it. Discovering ourselves in the mirror of the cross can empower us to love beyond the needs of the ego or the need for self-gratification. We love despite our fragile flaws when we see ourselves loved by One greater than ourselves. In the mirror of the cross we see what it means to share in divine power. To find oneself in the mirror of the cross is to see the world not from the foot of the cross but from the cross itself. How we see is how we love, and what we love is what we become. [4] True life comes only through many, many journeys of loss and regeneration wherein we gradually learn who God is for us in a very experiential way. Letting go is the nature of all true spirituality and transformation, summed up in the mythic phrase: “Christ is dying. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.” Following Christ is a vocation to share the fate of God for the life of the world, not a requirement for going to heaven in the next world. Gateway to Silence: Surrender to love.
"Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything
whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset." - St. Francis de Sales
When am I most unhurried?
God of Seed and Harvest We bless you, God of Seed and Harvest And we bless each other That the beauty of this world And the love that created it Might be expressed through our lives And be a blessing to others Now and always - Author Unknown
Faith is lived. But it’s also prayed. Perhaps the most distinguishing thing we Catholics do is gather to pray: at Mass and sacraments, the blessing before meals, the Liturgy of the Hours, or to share a Rosary. Prayer isn’t always formal or complex. Saint Thérèse of Lisieux called prayer a surge of the heart, a simple look toward heaven. Saint Francis de Sales wittily declared, “Every one of us needs half an hour of prayer each day except when we’re busy—then we need an hour.” Renew your commitment to daily prayer. Prepare the Word
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Becoming Catholic Responding to God’s Call God works in many different ways. Most of the time God works through ordinary people and events—a parent, a friend, a beautiful sunset, a song, an inspiring story. Other times we hear God’s call during crisis moments or major life-changes—a birth, an engagement, a sickness, a death. Sometimes we just have a feeling that something is missing. No matter what a person’s reasons are for becoming Catholic, the Church’s hope and prayer is that when God calls them, they will respond. One part of the Catholic Church’s mission is to help people respond to God as best they can. For Christians, initiation and ongoing participation in the life of the Church are the primary responses to God’s call. Through the process of becoming Catholic, we try to help people learn how to respond to that call not just for the moment of baptism but for every day of their lives. The way we learn how to become Catholic is by actually doing what Catholics do. So the process of being initiated into the Church is not so much about learning things as in a classroom, but learning a way of life as an apprentice learns a discipline from a master and that master’s community. Do you remember when you first heard God’s call? Was it through a person or a significant event? What were you being called to do? How did you feel about what you were being called to do? Who helped you take the next step? Are you interested in becoming Catholic? Come to the Parish Center this
Tuesday, September 20 at 7pm Call Steve Weigand, Pastoral Associate, to learn more. 708-246-4404 x137.
RCIA Outreach News
Operation Support Our Troops Collection Every year SJC parishioners generously donate hard to obtain items to American soldiers. Add your donation to the marked boxes in church, the YC office, or the Parish Center before September 25. Some of the items needed for the Comfort and Care packages include: body lotion, body wash, shampoo, granola bars, fruit snacks, nuts, trail mix, hand sanitizer, mouth wash, foot powder, and deodorant. See a full list of items at www.osotamerica.org/get-involved/itemsneeded/. Food Pantry Collection 1 in 7 Americans struggles to get enough to eat. In fact, hunger or food insecurity exists in virtually every community in the United States. An average food-insecure family of four may forgo up to 100 meals a month because they lack enough money to buy food. For the majority of people seeking food assistance, pantries are now a part of households’ long term strategies to supplement monthly shortfalls in food. Seniors are disproportionately represented among those visiting pantries. Statistics from Feeding America. Please bring healthy nonperishable food to the church narthex to help feed those who will visit St. Gall during the month of September.
New Shed for Precious Blood SJC has delivered and assembled a new shed to hold all the garden hoses and tools for the Precious Blood community garden.
Jubilee of Mercy
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The Eternal Mystery of Love Jack Shea
“To repeat continually ‘for his mercy endures forever,’ as the psalm [136] does, seems to break through the dimensions of space and time, inserting everything into the eternal mystery of love.” Pope Francis
The “eternal mystery of love” is not as pressing as getting to work, shepherding kids, and making meals. The immediate that has to be done occupies the mind and motivates the hands. The big picture is often lost; small pictures, one after the other, monopolize. Yet Psalm 136 holds together the eternal mystery of love and the practical plans of survival. After each recital of some aspect of creation, covenant, and human need, the psalm remembers, “God’s mercy endures forever.” (Sometime “mercy” is translated as “steadfast love.”) “Who remembered us in our low estate, for God’s mercy endures forever. Who gives food to all flesh, for God’s mercy endures forever…” As we wake in the pre-dawn darkness, God’s mercy endures forever. As we realize we love the people we are with, God’s mercy endures forever. As we worry over the health of ones we love, God’s mercy endures forever. As we make decisions without knowing all the consequences, God’s mercy endures forever. As we struggle to include those with less in more of the goods of the earth, God’s mercy endures forever. As we thrill to the work we do, God’s mercy endures forever. As we dance at weddings, God’s mercy endures forever. As we hold the hands of the elderly to steady their steps, God’s mercy endures forever. What the Pope is trying to tell us, via the psalm, is that our lives are more than they seem. If we can bring that more into our minds and hearts, meaning and purpose will run through every fiber of our being. Our lives will be richer. Try it. © John Shea
One Word at a Time provides a key Word
related to the Year of Mercy, along with
reflections on how to put that Word into
practice in our everyday lives. The Words can
serve as the spark for a discussion of faith at
home or as a personal reflection. Stop in our
church narthex to read all the Words we have
reflected on so far.
Always-present God, help me to be present to all who need me.
Help me be present to those I know too well to actually see
and to those who are unseen strangers to me. Give me the ability to model your
attentive, loving gaze when I view my world,
my family and my friends,
who are seen and loved by you first. Finally, may my availability be marked
by a desire to be like your Son: open to being sent,
open to being loved, open to becoming love in the world.
Let us ask for a faith that allows us to have trust in God no matter what the circumstances of life. Pope Francis @Pontifex September 13
For the Men of our Parish
Parish Men’s Club Men’s Club Thank You: On a gorgeous summer evening outside and concluding in the Parish Center, the Men's Club held their 8th Annual BBQ and Bags Tourney on Friday Sept 2. The men of the Parish got together for refreshments, food, fellowship and some friendly competition. Congratulations go out to the team of Jim Messina and Ralph Schauf who took first place in the double elimination tournament. Be a part of our Men’s Club. $10 dues to help defray the cost of events is welcome. Save the Date to join us for our Bears Game Tailgate Party on Thursday October 20! Watch the bulletin next week for a full schedule of events for the year.
Saturday, September 24 The Catholic Church has a long, multi-dimensional and colorful tradition that has transcended every period of history since the Resurrection. If you have watched Bishop Barron’s series on Catholicism, you may have begun to appreciate the depth and breadth of our faith. Is it any wonder then that for many Catholics today, there may be slight apprehension at the mention of our traditions as we recall how much there was to learn? How many of us still remember the Baltimore Catechism (Quick…“What is a sacrament?”) or had trouble with the number or order of the 10 commandments? Well, the good news is, you know more than you think! At our September 24 SAM meeting, we will be holding a Catholic Trivia session where you can test your knowledge, but more importantly, learn a few interesting things about your faith while having fun with other like-minded men. Many of our children have gone through religious instruction at St. John of the Cross. Do you dare to see if you are smarter than a 5th grader? Know a ringer? Bring him along! SAM is a group open to all the men of the parish that meets monthly in the Parish Center to discuss topics related to our faith and our role as disciples of Christ. Come to our first gathering of the year on Saturday, September 24 at 8:45am in the Parish Center.
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Crossroads Parish News
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SJC Women’S Club
invites you to our
Mother-Son
Friday, September 23rd
6:30-9:30pm
Bring your tent and gear (optional) for a night of fun! We will supply the food, drink and games! $15 per person. RSVP by September 21. Walk-ins are welcome but price increases to $20. Join us for hot dogs, chicken tenders, s’mores and beverages for the boys.
Great treats for the moms too!
Don’t Miss… Laser tag, Raffle, Inflatable Fun and a Movie on the Big Screen!
From the Desk of Katie Hayes, Director of Crossroads Ministry
Our Youth Ministry year officially began last week as we welcomed all our new freshmen! The night was full of energy and positive spirits. It was awesome for me to share this night with Katie Nicholson—who has been here exactly 2 months! She had a great connection to all our new freshmen being welcomed into our ministry because she is experiencing all of our ministry herself for the first time too. Her openness and care are a gift to us all. Check out her thoughts this week on our social media sites: FACEBOOK: Crossroad Youth-Ministry TWITTER: @SJCCrossroads INSTAGRAM: sjccrossroads Even though we are full force ahead, our team is short-handed so please pray for our team, consider joining us in one of these roles or invite a friend to support our teens! RIGHT NOW we need 3 adults to join our Day of the
Spirit Retreat team (link to description: http://www.stjohnofthecross.org/crossroads/leadership/day-of-the-spirit-team/)
Two couples to become home group leaders (link to: http://www.stjohnofthecross.org/crossroads/leadership/crossroads-home-group-leaders-2/)
We are blessed to see teens desiring to grow in their faith and enjoying the opportunity to belong to something bigger than themselves!
Freshmen Experience Freshmen teens and their parents met last week for Crossroads orientation. They’ll gather again on October 2, and it’s not too late to join!! Register today at www.stjohnofthecross.org/crossroads. Retreats for Teens Kairos 24 Retreat for Juniors and Seniors will take
place November 3-6. Registration forms are on our website.
The Freshmen/Sophomore Identity Retreat will take place January 13-15 at Dickson Valley Camp in Newark, IL. Register now at www.stjohnofthecross.org/crossroads/retreats.
Parish School Youth Catechesis
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This week, we celebrated Grandparent’s/Special Friend’s Day with our Preschool and Kindergarten students. Each child invited their special guest to school. The children had a wonderful time showing them the school, singing songs to them, doing art projects, and sharing a snack. This is a wonderful tradition that everyone looks forward to each year. We also dedicated our new chapel. Fr. Bill led a beautiful prayer service for us as he blessed the space that will now house many of our smaller prayer services as well as our faith based activities. The teachers enjoy using our chapel as another way to instill our strong Catholic values in our students.
This Week at SJC Monday, September 19 All School Liturgy 9:15am Monday, September 19 Virtus Training 6:30pm Tuesday, September 20, School Picture Day Tuesday, September 20 School Advisory Board 7:00pm Thursday, September 22 7 & 8th Parent Activity Sign Up 7- 8:00pm Friday, September 23 No School
Bringing the Gospel into Your Family Around the Table Discussion Starters:
1. The greatest trust someone has shown in me is . . .
2. I tend to serve two masters when I . . .
3. One of the ways I use my resources to serve God is
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Sometimes we’re a mystery to ourselves, or, perhaps more accurately, sometimes we don’t realize how much paranoia we carry within ourselves. A lot of things tend to ruin our day. I went to a meeting recently and for most of it felt warm, friendly towards my colleagues, and positive about all that was happening. I was in good spirits, generative, and looking for places to be helpful. Then, shortly before the meeting ended, one of my colleagues made a biting comment which struck me as bitter and unfair. Immediately a series of doors began to close inside me. My warmth and empathy quickly turned into hardness and anger and I struggled not to obsess about the incident. Moreover the feelings didn’t pass quickly. For several days a coldness and paranoia lingered inside me and I avoided any contact with the man who had made the negative comments while I stewed in my negativity. Time and prayer eventually did their healing, a healthier perspective returned, and the doors that had slammed shut at that meeting opened again and metanoia replaced my paranoia. It’s significant that the first word out of Jesus’ mouth in the Synoptic Gospels is the word, metanoia. Jesus begins his ministry with these words: “Repent [metanoia] and believe in the good news” and that, in capsule, is a summary of his entire message. But how does one repent? Our English translations of the Gospels don’t do justice to what Jesus is saying here. They translate, metanoia, with the word, repent. But, for us, the word repent has different connotations from what Jesus intended. In English, repentance implies that we have done something wrong and must regretfully disavow ourselves of that action and begin to live in a new way. The biblical word, metanoia, has much wider connotations. The word, metanoia, comes from two Greek words: Meta, meaning above; and Nous, meaning mind. Metanoia invites us to move above our normal instincts, into a bigger mind, into a mind which rises above the proclivity for self-interest and self-protection which so frequently trigger feelings of bitterness, negativity, and lack of empathy inside us. Metanoia invites us to meet all situations, however unfair they may seem, with understanding and an empathic heart. Moreover, metanoia stands in contrast to paranoia. In essence, metanoia is “non-paranoia”, so that Jesus’ opening words in the Synoptic Gospels might be better rendered: Be un-paranoid and believe that it is good news. Live in trust!
Henri Nouwen, in a small but deeply insightful book entitled, With Open Hands, describes wonderfully the difference between metanoia and paranoia. He suggests that there are two fundamental postures with which we can go through life. We can, he says, go through life in the posture of paranoia. The posture of paranoia is symbolized by a closed fist, by a protective stance, by habitual suspicion and distrust. Paranoia has us feeling that we forever need to protect ourselves from unfairness, that others will hurt us if we show any vulnerability, and that we need to assert our strength and talents to impress others. Paranoia quickly turns warmth into cold, understanding into suspicion, and generosity into self-protection. The posture of metanoia, on the other hand, is seen in Jesus on the cross. There, on the cross, we see him exposed and vulnerable, his arms spread in a gesture of embrace, and his hands open, with nails through them. That’s the antithesis of paranoia, wherein our inner doors of warmth, empathy, and trust spontaneous slam shut whenever we perceive a threat. Metanoia, the meta mind, the bigger heart, never closes those doors. Some of the early church fathers suggested that all of us have two minds and two hearts. For them, each of us has big mind and a big heart. That’s the saint in us, the image and likeness of God inside us, the warm, generative, and empathic part of us. All of us harbor a true greatness within. But each of us also has within us a petty mind and a petty heart. That’s the narcissistic part of us, the wounded part, the paranoid part that turns self-protective and immediately begins to close the doors of warmth and trust whenever we appear threatened. Such is our inner complexity. We are both big-hearted and petty, open-minded and bigoted, trusting and suspicious, saint and narcissist, generous and hording, warm and cold. Everything depends upon which heart and which mind we are linked to and operating out of at any given moment. One minute we are willing to die for others, a minute later we would see them dead, one minute we want to give ourselves over in love, a minute later we want to use our gifts to show our superiority over others. Metanoia and paranoia vie for our hearts. Jesus, in his message and his person, invites us to metanoia, to move towards and stay within our big minds and big hearts, so that in the face of a stinging remark our inner doors of warmth and trust do not close. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser
From Paranoia to Metanoia
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Mass Schedule & Intentions Italics: Living Intention
Monday, September 19 St. Januarius
7:45am Eileen Quinn; Our Beloved Dead Tuesday, September 20 Sts. Andrew Kim-Taegon & Paul Chong Ha-sang
7:45am Michael Collins; Beth O’Leary Wednesday, September 21St. Matthew
7:45am Lillian Geoghegan; Bob Rooney Thursday, September 22 Weekday
7:45am Alice Sobey; Lois Flavin Friday, September 23 St. Pius of Pietrelcina
7:45am Evelyn Kowal; Teresa Bradley Saturday, September 24 Blessed Virgin Mary
8:00am Daniel O’Brien; David Murdoch ~ Reconciliation at 9:30am today following Fr. Dennis Koopman’s Reception ~
5:00pm Ailene Bishop; Richard Sprague Sunday, September 25 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:30am Charles Macke; Bob O’Brien 9:00am Bob Rooney; Gene Gallagher 10:45am David Woodward; Nancy Barron 12:30pm Richard Kooy; Lois Flavin ~ 12:30pm Anointing Mass Starts15 minutes later than usual ~ 5:00pm George Forster; Norbert & Barbara Mann
Pray for Our Sick Rita Barnes Gary Berger Anna Marie Berland Daniel Burke Judy Burke Bradley John Burton Gloria Ann Byrd Addie Callahan Paul Cervony Bill Cochran Crystal Deters
Mildred Fitzgerald Lynn Freking Marie Frieh Christopher Gallagher John Gannon Louis Gier Kathleen Gros Robert Hartnett Randall Hemauer Alfred Hesse Kellee Hopkins Karen Hult
John Impens Curtis Kerzich George Kojima Athie Lanahan Erin Lively Nancy Lohr Fillipa Lupetini Bobbie Misiora Warren McGee Dcn. Tom McGorey Ann McGuire Frank Mraz
Frank Pipal Marge Pipal Anthony Placek, Jr. David Sarros Gail Schmidt Kelly Seebruch Deloris Simonek Duane Szymakowski Mark Tomko Don Vollmer Monica Westell
Pray for Our Beloved Dead John Cooper, husband of Irene Margaret Dohe, mother of Margaret, Mary Lazier, Maureen & Harold, grandmother of 5, great grandmother of 8 Dale Snow, son of Ted & Claudine, brother of Letitia Taylor
Pray for Our Loved Ones Serving Our Country Sgt. Steven Foody, son of Tom & Sandra Foody Sergeant Sebastian Grabacki, son of David & Jan Grabacki Sr A Joshua Tischler USAF Pararescue, grandson of Betty & Frank Madler A Navy Seal, a relative of our parishioner & Mary Tischler Lance Corporal Daniel Pett, nephew of Kathryn Stimetz Capt. James Maicke, grandson of Phil & Mike Maicke Sgt. Robert Marburger, son of David and Kathleen Marburger Sgt. Larry Waszak, grandson of Bruno and Barbara Gacek Petty Officer 3rd Class Mathew Strafaci, grandson of Sandra & Jim Strafaci Lance Corporal David Strafaci, grandson of Sandra & Jim Strafaci
Marriage Banns Catherine Pusinelli & Mike Demkovich Katherine Wojtowicz & James Dittrich Kerry Murphy & Christopher Mathis Kaitlyn Kalata & Jason Acosta Elizabeth Reed & Brendan Kearney
Monday, September 19 9:15am School Mass 9:30am Spiritual Journeying 10:30am Step 11 Christian Meditation 1:00pm Little Rock 2:30pm Adoration 5:00pm YC Classes 6:30pm Protecting Gods Children Session 7:00pm Boy Scouts Tuesday, September 20 9:05am Tuesdays with Mary Rosary 7:00pm RCIA 7:00pm School Board Meeting 7:30pm Christian Meditation Wednesday, September 21 9:15am Wednesday Bible Study 11:00am Ladies Bridge 2:30pm Christian Meditation 3:45pm Cherub Choir Practice 6:30pm SPRED 7:00pm Chicago Catholic Scripture School 7:00pm Deanery Meeting 7:30pm Traditional Choir Practice Thursday, September 22 9:00am Women's Club Flourish Meeting 3:45pm Youth Choir Practice 7:00pm School Parent Activity Night Sign-Up 7:30pm Contemporary Ensemble Friday, September 23 No School Women's Club Campout 7:00pm Divorce and Beyond Saturday, September 24 7:00am Christian Meditation 8:30am Reception for Fr. Koopman 8:45am SAM Gathering Sunday, September 25 10am New Parishioner Welcome YC Classes Today 12:30pm Anointing Mass & Reception 1:30pm Baptism Prep
Rev. David P. Dowdle, Pastor [email protected] Rev. William J. Vollmer, Assoc. Pastor [email protected] Deacon John Schopp, Deacon [email protected] Bill Bright, Director of Outreach [email protected] Janet Caschetta, Director of YC [email protected] Kathleen Gorman, Principal [email protected] Katie Hayes, Dir of Crossroads [email protected] Jessica Koch, Director of Music [email protected] MJ Martin, Director of Operations [email protected] Steven Weigand, Pastoral Associate [email protected]
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SAINTS. ARTISTS. MYSTICS. SCHOLARS. Bishop Robert Barron's CATHOLICISM series, an epic ten part documentary, took people around the world and deep into the Catholic Faith. The series aired on PBS and has been seen by millions. But there is still more of the story to tell. Bishop Barron is on a new journey to unlock the truth behind the Catholic Church's most influential people. CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players is a multi-part film series that illumines a handful of saints, artists, mystics, and scholars who not only shaped the life of the Church but changed the course of civilization. Thursdays at 1pm or 7pm in the Parish Center. Register TODAY online or by dropping off your contact information and $25 check for your Study Guide to the Parish Center office. September 29 1pm or 7pm St. Francis October 27 1pm or 7pm St. Thomas Aquinas November 10 1pm or 7pm Blessed John Henry Newman December 15 1pm or 7pm St. Catherine of Siena January 12 1pm or 7pm G.K. Chesterton February 15 1pm or 7pm Michelangelo
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The Reformer Rebuild my Church! That’s the mission Christ gave to St. Francis and it’s the perennial task of the Church in every age of its life. But how is the reform and renewal of the Church to be accomplished? The life of St. Francis demonstrates that Christ intends the foundations of true and lasting reform to be built on the solid rock that is the radical witness of the saints.
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