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St. John of the Cross Parish 5005 South Wolf Road ~ Western Springs 60558 ~ 708-246-4404 ~ www.stjohnofthecross.org
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time September 4, 2016
Parish News
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Let us be concerned for one another, to help one another, to show love and to do good. Hebrews 10:24
Honoring Catholic Education
The Dr. Adalbert L. and Mildred J. Vlazny Scholarship Endowment was created in memory by their children to honor their commitment to Catholic Education. Dr. and Mrs. Vlazny were founding members of St. John of the Cross Parish and served in numerous volunteer positions during their five decades as members. The Vlazny Scholarship is awarded annually to a SJC Parish School student. For more information about the Scholarship go to: http://tinyurl.com/04j43vp.
To sign the postcard online, go to http://bit.ly/refugeepostcard.
All signatures are due by September 12. Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
200 New York Avenue, NW Washington DC 20001
Now is the time to raise your voice for refugees! On September 19, world leaders will meet at the U.N. Summit for
Refugees and Migrants. The next day, President Obama will host a Leaders’ Summit on the Global Refugee Crisis.
Please sign an electronic postcard to
President Obama and Congress:
Prayer for Refugees and Victims of War Lord God,
no one is a stranger to you and no one is ever far from your loving care.
In your kindness, watch over refugees and victims of war, those separated from their loved ones,
young people who are lost, and those who have left home or who have run away from home.
Bring them back safely to the place where they long to be, and help us always to show your kindness
to strangers and to all in need.
Thank You!! We would like to thank the following students for their dedication and service to our parish as Sacristans at Sunday Mass. Each week these young men and women were responsible for setting up for Mass, assisting altar servers, purifying vessels and locking the church. These graduates are now beginning a new chapter in their lives as college freshmen. Thank you to Maggie Hogan, Elizabeth Januska, Abbey King, Sam Scriba and Sean Smith. We are grateful for your years of service. Wishing you all the best. Thank you also to the following students leaving for college who worked in the Parish Center office as student receptionists. Thank you to: Maggie O’Donnell, Audrey O’Donnell, and Meghan Cannon. Good luck in college!
Living the Gospel Jesus forewarns the great crowds traveling with him that they must “calculate the cost” and the risk of journeying with him to Jerusalem. Even family relationships cannot come before the demands of following him. However, we really cannot calculate the cost of discipleship. Yes, we must follow Jesus with eyes wide open. We must be aware of the cost of following him. The cost of discipleship? Everything we have and are. The reward of discipleship? Everything God has and is. The amazing thing is that we know the cost of discipleship, yet we spend our whole lives trying to figure it out! Or trying to avoid expending the cost. We know that we must hand our lives over to Jesus. At the same time, we know we are not traveling this journey alone. We know that we are given wisdom and the Holy Spirit to be faithful, even when we aren’t quite sure what the cost will be. We just follow. It would be nice to say that we shouldn’t start what we can’t finish. If we calculated the cost of our faithfulness, or had undue concern for what others think, or weighed the risks involved in living the Gospel faithfully, we might never begin the journey of discipleship. But we have in fact already begun this journey at baptism. The challenge, then, is not to look at the cost, but to keep our eyes on Jesus who is walking ahead of us showing us the way. In Jesus death always leads to new Life. While the cost of discipleship is every-thing we have and are, the rewards of discipleship are so
much greater. God gives us a share in divine Life. ©Living Liturgy
Monday 1 Cor 5:1-8 Ps 5:5-6, 7, 12 Luke 6:6-11
Tuesday 1 Cor 6:1-11 Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b Luke 6:12-19
Wednesday 1 Cor 7:25-31 Ps 45:11-12, 14-15, 16-17 Luke 6:20-26
Thursday Mic 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30 Ps 13:6ab, 6c Matt 1:1-16, 18-23
Friday 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27 Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12 Luke 6:39-42
Saturday 1 Cor 10:14-22 Ps 116:12-13, 17-18 Luke 6:43-49
24th Sunday in OT Exod 32:7-11, 13-14 Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 17, 19 1 Tim 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-32
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Reflecting on the Gospel In chapter 14 of Luke's Gospel, Jesus is speaking to people gathered at the table about the difficulties of following him. This group of people is suspicious about Jesus, looking to catch him doing something wrong. Jesus speaks to them in parables, emphasizing that although there is a right way to be a disciple and enter into the kingdom of his Father, it is a difficult path to follow. Many, even some of the guests at the table, reject the invitation. So Jesus turns to the crowds and speaks to them of discipleship. Jesus explains that, when it comes to making a choice for the Kingdom of God, nothing can get in the way. When Jesus describes “hating” one's father and mother, he is not talking about feelings. Rather, he is emphasizing very strongly that choosing to be a disciple means that everything else—family, money, your own life—must come second. In Matthew's version of this story (Matthew 10:37), Jesus refers not to “hating” father or mother, but to loving them more than Jesus. Jesus makes it very clear that being a disciple is not easy. It means to bear one's own cross. These difficult sayings of Jesus are followed by two brief parables (a person constructing a tower and a king marching into battle) that make an obvious point—don't start what you cannot finish. Discipleship is difficult and is something we can commit to only if we are prepared to put the Kingdom of God before everything else. Loyola Press
Lifelong Learning
Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa on October 19, 2003. Pope Francis is scheduled to canonize her today. Venerable, Blessed, Saint Five years after a person dies, a bishop can request that he or she be considered for canonization. The first step is to collect the testimony of witnesses who can recount facts about the person's exercise of Christian virtues. At that point the person can be given the title of Servant of God, or Venerable. After more investigation the Congregation for the Cause of Saints can recommend to the pope that the person be beatified. This means that the person can be honored in public worship limited to a specific diocese or area. After beatification the person receives the title Blessed. Finally the Congregation can recommend canonization. When the pope canonizes a person, he declares that the person can be looked on as a model of Christian virtue and can be honored in the public worship of the universal church. After canonization the person who was named Blessed acquires the title of Saint. Loyola Press
In her poem “If You Have Nothing,” poet and Carmelite nun Jessica Powers wrote, “The gesture of a gift is adequate.” No matter what you have to give, it is the act of giving that is a gift unto the giver. As the Prayer of Saint Francis says, “It is in giving that we receive.” To recognize the true gift we have to offer we need to empty ourselves, step aside, and see what God is offering through us. “If you have nothing,” Powers concludes, “gather back your sigh / and with your hands held high, your heart held high / lift up your emptiness!” Prepare the Word
by James Martin, SJ Read the entire excerpt on our website
Mother Teresa struggled intensely in her spiritual life. And this makes what she accomplished even more extraordinary and her example more meaningful to me. Her ministry, based as it was on a singularly intimate encounter with Jesus that would gradually fade into silence, whether lengthy or lifelong, is a remarkable testimony of fidelity. Nothing so binds me to Mother Teresa as this facet of her life, and I have found, when telling this story to others, whether in articles, in homilies, or on retreats, that nothing so deepens their appreciation of her holiness. But I knew none of this when I was working with the Missionaries of Charity in Kingston. All I knew was that Mother Teresa’s sisters worked hard, were cheerful with everyone in the hospice, and asked the Jesuit novices only to follow their example. Our work at Our Lady Queen of Peace was to wash, dress, and care for the men who lived in the hospice. Modesty prevented the sisters from showering and dressing the men (they did so for the women); the sisters employed one elderly Jamaican man for the task. But since he was unable to wash the dozens of men in the hospice by himself, Bill and I were put to work. . . . This was a great grace, which would deepen over the course of my novitiate: the understanding that “the poor” and “the sick” and “the homeless” were not categories but individuals. Malcolm Muggeridge speaks about this same realization in his book Something Beautiful for God. During the filming of his documentary in Calcutta at Nirmal Hriday, Muggeridge moved through three stages in response to the sick and the dying. The first was horror at the sights, smells, and sounds of the hospice. Second was compassion. And the third, something Muggeridge never had experienced before, was the awareness that the lepers and the sick before him “were not pitiable, repulsive, or forlorn, but rather dear and delightful; as it might be, friends of longstanding, brothers and sisters.” The sisters’ cheerfulness, which I had at first assumed was an artful camouflage for disgust at their tasks, was revealed over time as both utterly genuine and wonderfully helpful to me and to the poor with whom they worked. And, as I would later discover, it found its roots in the spirituality of Mother Teresa. It was not a cheerfulness that masked the difficulties of the work—for the sisters were serious about their tasks. They struggled daily in a difficult situation: working long hours in a hot climate with the neediest of people using the simplest of tools. Rather, it was a cheerfulness that communicated the joy of their vocation and the joy of serving Christ. It had a practical application, too. Their attitude was a gift to those poor who had known mostly misery and rejection in life. “We want to make them feel that they are loved,” Mother Teresa told Muggeridge. “If we went to them with a sad face, we would only make them much more depressed.” Plainly, the sisters were happy to be Missionaries of Charity. And they were happy to be serving God in this way. “True holiness,” Mother Teresa had written, “consists in doing God’s will with a smile.” That is a difficult statement for many to accept, since it’s so close to the banal “offer it up for God” spirituality. But Mother Teresa, whose interior life was full of darkness, put into practice what she believed to great effect. So did her sisters. And their joy was contagious. . . . Toward the end of my time in Kingston, I was grateful not just for having survived my ministry at Our Lady Queen of Peace, not just for meeting some wonderful people among the poor, and not just for never once getting sick, as I had feared I would. I was grateful most of all for the chance to come to know the Missionaries of Charity and to encounter firsthand the remarkable spirituality of their order. In the midst of difficult work, they were joyful. And their joy was a great example to me, a singular gift to the poor, and truly, in the words of Mother, “something beautiful for God.”
Excerpted from My Life with the Saints (10th Anniversary Edition)
Mother Teresa and Doing Something Beautiful for God
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True holiness
consists in doing
God’s will with a
smile.
May we willingly remain faithful disciples of Jesus, regardless
of the cost. May we give ourselves totally to Jesus and receive
joyfully his total gift of Self to us in return.
Agnes was one of four children. When she turned 18 she felt that God was calling her, asking her to follow him. Agnes joined a religious order called the Sisters of Loreto who were based in Dublin, Ireland. After two months in Ireland, spent mostly learning how to speak English, Agnes got on a boat and 37 days later she arrived in the beautiful, busy, complicated country of India. In India, Agnes took her final vows as a sister and took the name Teresa, after Thérèse of Lisieux, the Little Flower. She spent 15 years teaching in a girl's school in Calcutta, a job that she loved and was very good at. One day she heard God’s call again telling her to make a very big change in her life—that she should leave her teaching position and go into the streets of Calcutta and care for the poor and dying people who had absolutely no one else in the world to love them. Teresa saw these people through God's eyes, meaning that she saw each of them as his dear child, suffering and yearning for some kind touch or word, some comfort in their last days on earth. She heard that call and chose to live it out—to let God love the forgotten ones through her charity. Teresa's efforts started out small. She got permission to leave her order, to live with the poor, and to dress like them, too. She changed her habit from the traditional one to the sari worn by Indian women, white with blue trim, the blue symbolizing the love of Mary. On her very first day among the poor of Calcutta, Mother Teresa started a school for 5 poor children; a school still exists today. Within two years, Teresa had been joined by other women in her efforts, all of them her former students. She was soon “Mother Teresa” because she was the head of a new religious order: the Missionaries of Charity. The Missionaries of Charity tried to care for as many of the dying as they could. They bought an old Hindu temple and made it into what they called a home for the dying. Hospitals had no room or interest in caring for the dying—especially the dying poor—so the dying had no choice but to lie on the streets and suffer. The sisters constantly roamed the streets, picking up what looked from the outside like nothing but a pile of rags, but was actually a sick child or a frail old person. When a dying person came, they were met with nothing but love. They were washed and given clean clothes, medicine, and—most important—someone who could hold their hand, listen, stroke their foreheads, and comfort them with love in their last days. Leprosy is a sickness that deadens a person's nerves and causes their fingers, toes, ears, and nose to eventually fall away. Lepers in poor countries like India, where they have a hard time getting the medicines to treat the disease, are kept away from communities. So Mother Teresa saw people with leprosy in the same way—through God's loving eyes. She got the help of doctors and nurses, gathered lepers from the slums, and began treating and caring for them in a way that no one before her had tried to do. Mother Teresa's work of love started out small, but today there are more than four thousand Missionaries of Charity today, living, praying, and caring for the helpless in more than a hundred different houses around the world, including in the United States. When we think about the work of Mother Teresa, we can learn all we need to know about love: It doesn't take any money or power to love. It doesn't take great talent or intelligence. It simply takes love. She did wonderful, brave work in caring for the forgotten, but if there's one thing she would want you to remember about love, it's that you don't have to travel to foreign countries to practice the virtue of charity. In fact, love has to start where you live. Adapted from Loyola Kids Book of Heroes by Amy Welborn
IN HER OWN WORDS: “If we really want to love others, we must first begin to love one another in our own home. Love begins at home, and so from here—from our own home—love will spread to my neighbor, in the street I live, in the town I live, in the whole world.” “Nakedness is not only for a piece of cloth. Nakedness is for human dignity, for respect. Homelessness is not only for a home made of bricks. Homelessness is being rejected, unwanted, unloved, uncared for, having forgotten what is human love, what is human touch.” Source: “Love: The Words and Inspiration of Mother Teresa,” Blue Mountain Press
The Life of Teresa of Calcutta
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Prayer
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September 1: Day of Prayer for Care of Creation
Father of all, Creator and ruler of the universe, You entrusted your world to us as a gift. Help us to care for it and all people, that we may live in right relationship-- with You, with ourselves, with one another, and with creation. Christ our Lord, both divine and human, You lived among us and died for our sins. Help us to imitate your love for the human family by recognizing that we are all connected— to our brothers and sisters around the world, to those in poverty impacted by environmental devastation, and to future generations. Holy Spirit, giver of wisdom and love, You breathe life in us and guide us. Help us to live according to your vision, stirring to action the hearts of all— individuals and families, communities of faith, and civil and political leaders. Triune God, help us to hear the cry of those in poverty, and the cry of the earth, so that we may together care for our common home. Amen. This prayer from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is based on Pope Francis' Laudato Si': On Care for Our Common Home.
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness, that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days. And may the gracious care of the LORD our God be ours; prosper the work of our hands for us! Prosper the work of our hands! (Psalm 90:14-17)
Hail Mary ... Lord you left your Mother in our midst
that she might accompany us. May she take care of us
and protect us on our journey,
in our hearts, in our faith. May she make us disciples like herself,
missionaries like herself.
May she teach us to go out onto the streets. May she teach us to step outside ourselves.
May she, by her meekness,
by her peace, show us the way.
Amen.
We pray for an end to the violence perpetrated by harsh words, deadly weapons, or cold indifference. May our homes, our nation, and countries around the world become havens of peace. Amen.
Gracious God,
You have called me to life
and gifted me in many ways.
Through Baptism You have sent me
to continue the mission of Jesus
by sharing my love with others.
Strengthen me to respond to
Your call each day.
Help me to become all
You desire of me.
Inspire me to make a difference
in others' lives.
Lead me to choose the way of life
You have planned for me.
Open the hearts of all to listen
to Your call.
Fill all with Your Holy Spirit that
we may have listening hearts and
the courage to respond to You.
Enkindle in my heart
and the hearts of others the desire
to make the world a better place.
Amen.
If we are peaceful,
if we are happy,
we can smile,
and everyone in our family,
our entire society,
will benefit from our peace. thich nhat hanh
Each morning as we awake, we can ask the Lord to open our hearts in gratitude for what we will be offered this day. What is Jesus calling me to? Who am I being invited to listen to and speak on behalf of today? Who will come across my path today that needs Jesus' love through my own care and kind words?
Dearest Jesus, be with me in this day. I can feel how much I long for a deeper connection with you, and yet I am ashamed of my
weaknesses. Touch my heart so that I might be open to your love. Let me be open to all of those you put in my life today and let me be
aware of their needs and care for them before I worry about my own. Give me an awareness of the love that is already there for me
and a generosity of heart that allows me to share it with others. Excerpt from Creighton U Prayer for the Week
Richard Rohr: The Meaning of Spiritual Love
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When I teach nondual consciousness, I often use the phrase “not one, but not two either.” Nondual consciousness heals our splits and sense of separation. Think of how a truly loving, faithful relationship has helped you be fully and wholly yourself. John of the Cross describes this relationship in his “Spiritual Canticle,” and this is my paraphrase: When you regarded me Your eyes imprinted your grace in me, In this, you loved me again, And thus my eyes merited To also love what you see in me. . . . Let us go forth together to see ourselves in your beauty. When we read poetry as beautiful and profound as this verse, we can see why John of the Cross was far ahead of his time in the spiritual and psychological understanding of how love works and how true love changes us at a deep level. He consistently speaks of divine love as the template and model for all human love, and human love as the necessary school and preparation for any transcendent encounter. If you have never experienced any human love, it will be very hard for you to access God as Love (although grace overcomes this barrier). If you have never let God love you, you will not know how to love other people or things as they deserve. In this surely inspired passage, John describes the very process of love at its best: You give a piece of yourself to the other. You see a piece of yourself in the other (usually unconsciously). This allows the other to do the same in return. You do not need or demand anything back from them, because you know that you are both participating in a single, Bigger Gazing and Loving—one that fully satisfies and creates an immense Inner Aliveness. Simply to love is its own reward. You accept being accepted—for no reason and by no criteria whatsoever! This is the key that unlocks everything in me, for others, and toward God, so much so that we call it “salvation.” To put it another way, what I let God see and accept in me also becomes what I can see and accept in myself. And even more, it becomes that whereby I see everything else. This is why it is crucial to allow God, and at least one other person, to see us in our imperfection and nakedness, as we are—rather than as we ideally wish to be. It is also why we must give others this same experience of being looked upon in their imperfection; otherwise, they will never know the essential and utterly transformative mystery of grace. This is the glue that binds the universe of persons together. Such utterly free and gratuitous love is the only love that validates, transforms, and changes us at the deepest levels of consciousness. It is what we all desire and what we were created for. Once you allow and accept God’s love for yourself, you will almost naturally become a conduit of the same for others. Can you let God “look upon you in your lowliness,” as Mary put it (Luke 1:48), without waiting for some future moment when you believe you are worthy? Remember the words of John of the Cross: “Love what God sees in you.” Many of us never go there, because to be loved in this way is to live in the naked now, and it is indeed a quite naked moment. Gateway to Silence: Be here now.
The Prayer for Love Bless us with Love, O Merciful God;
That we may Love as you Love! That we may show patience, tolerance,
Kindness, caring and love to all! Give me knowledge; O giver of Knowledge,
That I may be one with my Universe and Mother Earth! O Compassionate One, grant compassion unto us;
That we may help all fellow souls in need! Bless us with your Love O God.
Bless us with your Love.
"Even if the mountains should leave their place and the hills be shaken, My love will never leave you." Isaiah 54:10
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Building the Body of Christ
St. John of the Cross Parish
Fall Liturgical Ministry Conference
For all Parish Lectors, Communion Ministers, Ushers, Musicians, Choir
Members, Cantors, Ministers of Care, & Children’s Liturgy of the
Word Leaders Saturday, September 17
9:00am – Noon Parish Center
Spend quality time, build community, and reflect on the ministry to which you are called. Be inspired by widely acclaimed liturgist, author and teacher, Steven Janco whose message will renew, refresh and strengthen your role in liturgical ministry. Register on our parish website or in the Parish Center Office by September 10. “The ministry to which you have been called is present in every person and helps with the emergence of the Reign of God in our community and the world.” (Fr. Patrick Brennan)
Parish News
Divorce and Beyond Support Ministry Begins on Friday, September 16 7-8:30pm
8 Sessions in the SJC Parish Center
The Divorce and Beyond ministry of St. John of the Cross provides support, healing and guidance to the recently divorced or those in the process of divorce. It is a faith-based, Christian support ministry that welcomes all faith traditions.
Divorce and Beyond makes it possible for personal growth to overcome the feelings of loss, hurt and devastation.
Each session highlights a different aspect of the divorce-healing process including: managing anger, blame, loneliness, and achieving growth and personal happiness.
Sessions are led by Divorce and Beyond graduates who are committed to fostering the personal and spiritual growth of all participants.
It is well documented that divorce is one of the most painful and stressful events a person can experience. Feelings of confusion, isolation, and bewilderment can be overwhelming and make daily life feel unmanageable.
Learning the practical wisdom of the Divorce and Beyond process from those who have gone through it provides consolation and assurance that you are not alone.
We have found that those who commit to all eight sessions experience the greatest benefit, practicing the skills they have learned and deciding to help others as facilitators, small group leaders or simply through support of the Divorce and Beyond ministry.
A $10.00 fee for participant manual may be paid for at the first session.
Learn to let go of what hurt you,
but don’t forget the lessons it taught you.
Some people think that it’s holding on that makes one strong;
but sometimes it’s letting go.
Counseling and Spiritual Direction Counseling and/or individual spiritual direction can prove invaluable in times like these. The Archdiocesan Office of Family Ministry and Catholic Charities can provide assistance and resources.
(312) 655-7700
Serving with love and tenderness those who are in need helps us to grow in humanity.
Pope Francis @Pontifex Aug 31 Mercy does not just mean being a “good person” nor is it mere sentimentality. It is the measure of our authenticity as disciples of Jesus. Pope Francis @Pontifex Aug 21
Parish News
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Get Ready to Interview Learn how to prepare for your job interview, focusing on how to present your skills and the value you bring to your prospective employer. Join Interfaith Career Network on Thursday, September 15 from 7-9 pm in the Parish Center. Speaker, Steve Grosskopf, will cover important interviewing skills such as presenting yourself, researching the company, understanding the interview process and what recruiters won't tell you during the interview. Other issues Steve will address include how to practice interview questions, what to wear, what questions you should ask during the interview and what to do after the interview. This is open to everyone and is free.
St. John of the Cross Parish congratulates the following families who had their babies baptized on August 21 by Deacon John Schopp. Pictured from the left standing in front of their godparents are: Daniel Santucci & Jodie McCullough with Austyn Rose, Darren Linton & Jamie Bechina with Logan Richard, David & Anna Bartz with Samantha Grace, and Nathan & Julie Botkin with Ellen Mae.
Little Rock Scripture Study Beginning Monday, September 12 from 1-2:30pm our Little Rock Group will study Jeremiah. With the exile of many in Judah, the prophet Jeremiah spoke on God’s behalf using words and symbolic actions to condemn the idolatry that was rampant in Judah. His ministry was deeply misunderstood and his arrest was the source of personal anguish for this prophet who also announced a new covenant to be written on the hearts of God’s people. Materials fee: $15 to the Parish Center with your contact information by September 6 or just come to the first session. Direct questions to Chris Sulak @708-246-4784 or Roberta Gilbert @ [email protected]
Ministry of Care Ministers of Care are trained volunteers who visit, pray with and bring Holy Communion to the elderly or patients at RML Specialty Hospital, LaGrange Hospital, Hines VA Hospital or their home. Ministers complete training that covers the theological, pastoral, and practical aspects of ministering to the sick and dying. Ministers also receive additional instruction from our Pastoral Associate, Steve Weigand. Scheduling is based on your availability. Training fees are paid by the parish. Upcoming training dates are Saturday, September 10 & 17 from 9am-1pm at the Carmelite Center in Darien or beginning Thursday, September 8 for 6 Thursday evenings from 7-9pm at St. Francis Xavier in LaGrange. Please call Steve Weigand for more information and to register. Diocesan policy suggests that every three years Ministers of Care receive updating for their ministry. Current Ministers of Care may take part in a renewal session on October 15 from 10-11:30am at the Carmelite Center in Darien. This opportunity will give current ministers a second look at the skills and theology of this important ministry. The parish covers the cost of the renewal session. Please call Steve Weigand for more information and to register.
Fall Schedule Change The 12:15pm Mass returns next Sunday, September 11 for the school year. Weekend Masses are at Saturday 5pm, Sunday 7:30am, 9am, 10:45am, 12:15pm and 5pm. Also next Sunday parish babysitting (for children ages 1-5 years old during the 9am & 10:45am Masses) will return to the Garden Room of the rectory. The rectory is between the church and parish center. Ring the bell on the double glass front doors that face north to get buzzed into the building. This service is free for our families.
We are called to take up the cross for each other—a profound theology of suffering. But we are also called to bring the joy of God’s message of mercy to every dark corner of the world. These two messages can be hard to balance in one human heart. But we have these people among us we call saints, who embody Christ in all his compassionate suffering, and in all his tender joy as well. Mother Teresa’s life stands as a shining beacon for all who seek to follow God’s will, and so allows the light of Christ to shine anew. CRS
Jubilee of Mercy Parish News
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“God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.” Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium: The Joy of the Gospel
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?
Free to our parishioners. Call the Parish Center Office to attend.
SJC Sponsored Program at The Well
Choir rehearsals resume soon!
Cherub Choir serves children in grades 1-3 and practices on Wednesdays from 3:45 – 4:30pm in the church. The start date is Sept. 7 with registration and a brief parent meeting at 4:20pm in church. Youth Choir serves students in grades 4-8 and practices on Thursdays from 3:45 – 4:30pm in the church. The start date is Sept. 8 with registration and a brief parent meeting at 4:20pm. Register on our website for the children’s choirs at http://www.stjohnofthecross.org/childrens-choirs/ Traditional Choir rehearsals resume Wednesday, September 7 @7:30pm. The Traditional Choir sings at the Sunday 10:45am Mass. Contemporary Ensemble rehearsals resume Thursday, September 8 @7:30pm. The Contemporary Ensemble sings at the Saturday 5pm Mass.
St. John of the Cross Study Group Please join us
Wednesdays at 3:30pm
September 14—December 17 SJC Parish Center
We will be studying The Living Flame of Love of St.
John of the Cross. Come and learn much from the
love poetry of St. John of the Cross, including the
treasured passages of St. Therese, The Little Flower,
(her favorite author). We will continue to use The
Collected Works of St. John of the Cross. If you do
not already have this book, please order from
Maureen Dunne, 708-256-0398 prior to the first class.
To register contact Joan Binder 708-699-1002.
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Friday, September 30th
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 Sept. 28th. 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!
MOTHER & SON CAMPOUT 2016
The SJC Women’s Club invites you to
Please complete the form below and return to the Parish Center. Make checks payable to the Women’s Club.
Name: ________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________
Phone: ______________ Email: ____________________________________
Number of Children: _______________ Number of Adults: _______________
Amount Enclosed $ _______________ $15 per person/$20 at the door
Questions? Contact Heather McCarthy at [email protected] or Sarah Estep at [email protected]
School Families & Faith
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Jesus sends his disciples out to all nations. To every people. We too were part of all those people of two thousand years ago. Jesus did not provide a short list of who is, or is not, worthy of receiving his message and his presence. Instead, he always embraced life as he saw it. In faces of pain, hunger, sickness and sin. In faces of wounds, of thirst, of weariness, doubt and pity. Far from expecting a pretty life, smartly-dressed and neatly groomed, he embraced life as he found it. It made no difference whether it was dirty, unkempt, broken. Jesus said: Go out and tell the good news to everyone. Go out and in my name embrace life as it is, and not as you think it should be. Go out to the highways and byways, go out to tell the good news fearlessly, without prejudice, without superiority, without condescension, to all those who have lost the joy of living. Go out to proclaim the merciful embrace of the Father. Go out to those who are burdened by pain and failure, who feel that their lives are empty, and proclaim the folly of a loving Father who wants to anoint them with the oil of hope, the oil of salvation. Go out to proclaim the good news that error, deceitful illusions and falsehoods do not have the last word in a person’s life. Go out with the ointment which soothes wounds and heals hearts. (9/23/15, Pope Francis)
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.” -Mother Teresa
Today’s Gospel Reflection for Families This is a hard reading for parents if we take it literally. It helps to understand that Jesus was making a point about how committed we should be if we want to follow him. Discipleship is not something we go away by ourselves and do. It’s how we live in our everyday world. It’s how we treat our children, our friends and spouses, coworkers, neighbors, and strangers. When we count the cost of discipleship each morning when we get out of bed, we might consider the challenges we will face with people throughout the day. Even thinking ahead about how we will deal with expected issues or unexpected irritations will help us act like disciples. Asking Jesus to help us throughout the day will remind us that we are not alone! Bringing the Gospel into Your Family Have each person in the family cut out a cross from a large sheet of paper and draw symbols on the cross that describe their personal commitment to Jesus. Help family members realize that discipleship is demanded in our everyday lives, at home, at work, at school, in our neighborhoods and community. After the symbols are finished, share your ideas of what you might turn away from in order to faithfully follow Jesus. What kind of planning and foresight does it take for you to do the things you’ve drawn on your cross? Discussion Starters
1. One thing in my life that gets in the way of following Jesus is . . .
2. One person I know who lives this Gospel and is a faithful follower of Jesus, is . . . and I see him/her paying the price of discipleship by . .
3. As a follower, I think Jesus expects me to . . . RCL Benziger
Students at St. John of the Cross Parish School each have a buddy. Our kids love the buddy program because it gives them the opportunity to share their time with a child in a different age group. Each of our students in the upper grades pair up with a child in the lower grades and participate in activities. Our first graders start the year by meeting their eighth grade buddies and designing a portrait. Later in the year, both classes will march in a Halloween parade, have a buddy lunch, as well as many other events to celebrate holidays and other special days throughout the year. This is just one example of another way our students share their gifts with each other.
This Week At SJC September 5 No School September 6 Parent Association Meeting 9am Parish Center September 6 Curriculum Parent Meetings Grades 3 & 4 6:30pm School September 8 Curriculum Parent Meetings Grades 1 & 2 6:30pm School September 8 Band Parent Sign-Up 6:30pm School
YC News Crossroads
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Upcoming Protecting God’s Children Virtus Workshops at SJC Parish Center Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 9am-Noon or 6:30-9:30pm, OR Monday, Sept. 19 from 6:30-9:30pm
Register at www.virtus.org. Select “First-time registrant,” choose “Begin the registration process,” and choose “Chicago, IL,” and follow steps. This workshop is for all parents, coaches and volunteers who have contact with children. Q? Call Mary Beth at 708-246-4404 or 708-246-4454. Seating is limited.
St. John of the Cross invites you to discover the world of Crossroads. The mission of our Crossroads Youth Ministry is to embrace teens in our vibrant and caring parish community and meet them where they are by providing opportunities for them to: Grow in their relationship with God, Jesus and
the Holy Spirit Build a community with other Catholic teens Learn more about their Catholic faith Develop leadership abilities by serving others Have fun in a faith-filled environment Crossroads registration is open to all high school parish teens attending both public and private schools. Our twice a month (September – May) teen meetings are not religion classes. We don’t lecture about the commandments, Sunday Mass or even the Bible. In informal small group conversations, our committed volunteer adult leaders share their faith, answer questions about life and faith, and help you deepen your relationship with God. You will also meet and make friends with a ton of teens in our parish. Register online at www.stjohnofthecross.org/crossroads today.
Building Friendships
Through Faith
Crossroads Freshmen & Parent Orientation Sunday, September 11 from 6–8 pm
in the Parish Center
Retreats
Kairos 24 Retreat for Juniors & Seniors will take place November 3-6, 2016. Registration forms will be available on our website Tuesday, September 6.
The Freshmen/Sophomore Identity Retreat will take place January 13-15 at Dickson Valley Camp in Newark, IL. Registration coming soon!
Open Your Hearts
“Catechists discover with their witness of life, the joy of helping others meet
and fall in love with Christ.” Pope Francis
Only a few Aide positions needed! All are encouraged to volunteer— we have
parishioners without YC students, high school teens and parents spreading the love of Christ!
Why I Help? Constant feelings of joy! Lives touched beyond measure! Share love!! Lisa So awesome and holy a task, and so dependent on the Holy Spirit to work and transform lives. Peter Become a Catechist, because you will surely encounter Him through your students. Jesus desires more from you on your journey, and He desires more FOR you! Mary
YC Classes begin Sun-Mon, September 18—19
Room/Group Assignments will be emailed on September 14
Volunteer Meetings: 6th, 7th and 8th grade volunteers have already met, if you were unable to attend, please contact the YC office or the Coordinator for information.
Kindergarten through 5th grade volunteers, please join us on
Thursday, September 8 at 6:30pm or Monday, September 12 at 9:00am or 6:30pm
Closed Monday, September 5 for Labor Day.
YC Office, corner of 51st & Caroline Ave 708-246-6760
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When I was a child there was a popular song whose chorus repeated this line: Everyone is searching for Utopia. And we all are. Every one of us longs for a world without limits, for a life where nothing goes wrong, for a place where there’s no tension or frustration. But it never happens. There’s no such place. Anahid Nersessian recently wrote a book entitled, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment, within which she criticizes various ideologies for, naively, giving the impression that we can have a world without limits. She particularly blames liberal ideology which, she submits, privileges limitlessness by setting “itself, almost by default, against the governing and guiding of desire.” But, as she argues in the book, limitation is what’s life-giving. We will find happiness only when we accommodate ourselves to the world by minimizing the demands we place on it. For Nersessian, if Utopia is to be had, it will be had only by finding the realistic limits of our lives and adjusting ourselves to them. Over-expectation makes for disappointment. She’s right. Believing there’s a world without limits makes for unrealistic expectations and a lot of frustration. By thinking we can find Utopia, we invariably set up the perfect as the enemy of the good; thus habitually denigrating our actual relationships, marriages, careers, and lives because they, unlike our fantasies, perpetually have limits and therefore always seem second-best. Nersessian tends to blame liberal ideology for giving us this impression, but the unrealistic dream and expectation of Utopia is most everywhere in our world. In effect, we no longer have, either in our churches or in our world, the symbolic tools to properly explain or handle frustration. How so? When I was a child, my head didn’t just reverberate with the tune, Everyone is Looking for Utopia, it was also reverberated with a number of other tunes I’d learned in church and in the culture at large. Our churches then were teaching us about something it called, “original sin”, the belief that a primordial fall at the origins of human life has, until the end of time, flawed both human nature and nature itself in such a way that what we will meet and experience in this life will always be imperfect, limited, somewhat painful, and somewhat frustrating. Sometimes this was understood in an overly simplistic way and sometimes it left us wondering about the nature of God, but nonetheless it gave us
a vision within which to understand life and handle frustration. At the end of the day, it taught us that, this side of eternity, there’s no such a thing as a clear-cut, pure joy. Everything has a shadow. Happiness lies in accepting these limits, not in stoic resignation, but in a practical, buoyant vision that, because it has already incorporated limit and has no false expectations, lets you properly receive, honor, and enjoy the good things in life. Since the perfect cannot be had in this life, you then give yourself permission to appreciate the imperfect. This religious vision was re-enforced by a culture which also told us that there was no Utopia to be had here. It told us instead that, while you may dream high and you may expect to live better than your parents did, don’t expect that you can have it all. Life cannot deliver that to you. Like its religious counterpart in its explanation of original sin, this secular wisdom too had its over-simplistic and flawed expressions. But it helped imprint in us some tools with which to more realistically understand life. It told us, in its own flawed way, a truth that I have often quoted from Karl Rahner: In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we ultimately learn that, here in this life, there is no finished symphony. How succinct and how accurate! It’s interesting to note how this religious view is paralleled in the atheistic view of Rahner’s contemporary, the Nobel-Prize winning writer, Albert Camus. Camus, who did not believe in God, famously proposed an image within which to understand human life and its frustrations: He compared this world to a medieval prison. Some medieval prisons were deliberately built to be too small for the prisoner, with a ceiling so low that the prisoner could never stand fully upright and the room itself too small for the prisoner to ever stretch out fully. The idea was that the frustration of not being able to stand up or stretch out fully would eventually break the prisoner’s spirit, like a trainer breaking a horse. For Camus, this is our experience of the world. We can never stand fully upright and or stretch out fully. The world is too small for us. While this may seem severe, stoic, and atheistic; in the end, it teaches the same truth as Christianity, there’s no Utopia this side of eternity. And we need, in healthy ways, to be integrating this truth into lives so as to better equip ourselves to handle frustration and appreciate the lives that we are actually living. Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser
Utopia, With Limits
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Mass Schedule & Intentions Italics: Living Intention Monday, September 5 Labor Day 9:00am Chester & Evelyn Kowal; Bernard Williams No Adoration ~ Parish Office Closed Tuesday, September 6
7:45am Deceased members of Gora & Maier Families; Our Beloved Dead Wednesday, September 7
7:45am Paul Heraty; Francis Reilly Thursday, September 8
7:45am Peggy Nash Burke; Marie Spezia Friday, September 9
7:45am Betty Cook; Donald Parker Saturday, September 10
8:00am Catherine Piszczor; Bill Broderick ~ Reconciliation follows the 8am Mass on Saturdays ~
5:00pm Joseph Scelsi; Shirley Kazragis Sunday, September 11 24rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:30am Ronald & Judy Farber; Chuck Freehill 9:00am Marie O’Brien; Peggy Nash Burke 10:45am Thelma Ureel; Kevin Ryan 12:15pm Walter & Patricia Cebula; Deceased members of Fr. Joe McDonnell Family 5:00pm Bob Haag; Joseph Romano
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]
Pray for Our Sick Rita Barnes Anna Marie Berland Daniel Burke Judy Burke Bradley John Burton Gloria Ann Byrd Addie Callahan Paul Cervony Bill Cochran John Cooper Crystal Deters
Peg Dohe Mildred Fitzgerald Lynn Freking Marie Frieh Christopher Gallagher John Gannon Kathleen Gros Robert Hartnett Randall Hemauer Alfred Hesse 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 Kelly Seebruch Deloris Simonek Duane Szymakowski Mark Tomko Don Vollmer Monica Westell
Pray for Our Beloved Dead Larry Voelker, husband of Pat, father of Jennifer, Bridget and Erin Hughes, son of Helen, brother of Ed and Ronald, grandfather of 2 James Johnson, husband of Judith, father of Chris, Michael, Lauren, and Gregory, grandfather of 9
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
Next Sunday, September 11 ...
Our 12:15 Mass returns for the school
year.
Babysitting during the 9am & 10:45am
Masses returns to the rectory, the building south of church. The front doors face north. Ring the front bell.
Monday, September 5 9:00am Labor Day Mass 10:30am Step 11 Christian Meditation Tuesday, September 6 9:00am Parent Association 9:05am Tuesday with Mary Rosary 6:30pm Parent Grade Level Meeting 7:00pm RCIA Team 7:00pm YC Council 7:30pm Christian Meditation Wednesday, September 7 9:15am Wed Morning Bible Study 2:30pm Christian Meditation 3:30pm Cherub Choir Practice 7:00pm CCSS 7:30pm Traditional Choir Practice Thursday, September 8 9:00am Flourish Meeting 3:30pm Youth Choir Practice 6:30pm Parent Curriculum Night 6:30pm YC Catechist Meeting 7:30pm Contemporary Ensemble 7:30pm SAM Core Group Meeting Friday, September 9 12:30pm ODW Marriage Workshop Saturday, September 10 7:00am Christian Meditation Sunday, September 11 12:00pm Crossroads DOS Team 1:30pm Baptisms 4:00pm YC BEDS Meal Prep 6:00pm Freshman Experience
Are faith and belief the same
thing?
How do I know if I even have
any?
What really happens during
Mass?
Do my prayers make a
difference? How do I know God
hears them?
How do Catholics interpret the
Bible?
Is it true that Catholics
worship Mary and the Saints?
Do heaven and hell exist?
Interested in becoming Catholic? Are you searching for something more and questioning your faith in these uncertain times? Is there a sacrament you or someone you know has yet to receive and need more information? Then make sure to attend the
‘Faith-Finders’ Adult Inquiry Series
beginning
Tuesday, September 20 @ 7:00pm in the Parish Center
Led by members from the SJC Rite of Christian Initiation team (RCIA) participants will explore timely, faith-based topics in an atmosphere of Christian community and support. Afterwards, if you choose to continue the journey of faith, you will be welcomed into the RCIA process; culminating in reception of the sacraments at the Easter Vigil in April, 2017. For more information on ‘Faith-Finders’ or the RCIA, contact Steve Weigand, Pastoral Associate.(708) 246-4404.
“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.” --Paul Tillich
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