S T . G ERTRUDE THE G REAT
R OMAN C ATHOLIC C HURCH
4900 Rialto Road, West Chester, Ohio 45069 • (513) 645-4212
www.sgg.org • www.SGGResources.org
Traditional Latin Mass: Sundays 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM High, 11:30 AM, 5:45 PM
Most Reverend Daniel L. Dolan, Pastor • Rev. Anthony Cekada
Rev. Charles McGuire • Rev. Vili Lehtoranta • Rev. Stephen McKenna
November 9, 2014
DEDICATION OF ST. SAVIOR’S BASILICA
Pentecost XXII
St. Theodore, M
Patronage of Our Lady
¶ PENTECOST XXII
Sunday classes are at 10:40 AM. Simple
Benedictions follows the 11:30 Mass.
Please join us for our annual Indulgenced Cemetery Rosary Procession, sponsered by the Rosary Confraternity. We meet at Old St. Joseph’s
Cemetery on 8th Street in Price Hill.
“RENDER TO
CAESAR THE
THINGS THAT ARE
CAESAR’S, AND TO
GOD THE THINGS
THAT ARE GOD’S.”
¶ VETERANS’ DAY
Tuesday we keep the bittersweet
tradition of Veterans’ Day. Join us as we
pray for our deceased war veterans, and
all of the victims of all of our wars. Be
with us at 11/11/11: 11 AM on the 11th
day of the 11th month for the tolling of
the bell, the Absolution, the sermon and
the High Mass of the veteran St. Martin
of Tours, patron of soldiers.
¶ OUR SICK
Please pray for Fr. McKenna, who had a
bad viral infection last week, Paulina
Strauss who is moving to Kentucky to
be near her daughter, Laura Gilliam, Sue
Becker Menefee, John Segrist, Alex
Fulton and Elaine Pawinski and Richard
Patin in the missions.
¶NEXT SUNDAY
Next Sunday we keep the actual feast
day of St. Gertude the Great, and the
eleventh anniversary of the dedication
of our church and the thirty-sixth of our
founding. Celebrate with us at the
Pontifical Mass at 9 AM, followed by a
parish luncheon in Helfta Hall. There
are no Sunday Classes. Vespers of St.
Gertrude with Benediction are at 4:45
PM.
Set your missal: St. Gertrude the
Great, with commemoration and Last
Gospel of Penetcost XXIII, Trinity
Preface.
¶ ALL SAINTS WINNERS
Kindergarten
1st: Abbey Fulton, Saint Barbara.
2nd: Austin McClorey, St. Robert
Bellarmine.
1st Grade
1st tie: Dominic Simpson, St. Anthony;
Claire McConnell, Kateri Tekawitha.
2nd: Justin Jordan, Blessed Juan Diego.
3rd Grade
1st three-way tie: Calista Kamphaus, St.
Angela Merici; Lindsay Soli, St.
Elizabeth Ann Seton; Regina Simpson,
St. Rita of Cascia.
Judges were impressed by all the girls’ presentations and costumes!
4th Grade
1st: Nathan McClorey, St. Michael.
2nd: Vanessa Soli, St. Maria Goretti.
3rd: Michael Simpson, St. Bernard; wonderful wig!
5th Grade
1st tie: Alex McConnell, St. Patrick;
Cora Arlinghaus, St. Margaret.
6th Grade
1st: Dominic McConnell, St. Anthony;
wonderful hair effect!
2nd: Renee Arlinghaus, St. Solange; this
year's stump the priest saint!
3rd: Cecilia Simpson, St. Hedwig.
Group Presentations
1st Place: Richesson Family.
2nd Place: Arlinghaus Duet.
3rd Place: Lacey, Soli-Williams Family.
Collection Report
Sunday, November 2nd…………….$3,821.00
Second Collection…………………$1,030.00
Thank you for your generosity. Remember St.
Gertrude the Great in your will.
Servers
SUN 11/16: 7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros
9:00 AM PONT. SOL. HIGH: MC: R. Vande Ryt,
T. Simpson, J. Simpson CROSS: P. McClorey
TH: B Lotarski ACs: A. Richesson, Nicholas
McClorey TORCH: C. Arlinghaus, P. McClorey,
N. McClorey, T. Lawrence, A. Soli, J. Lacy
MITRE: J. Lacy STAFF: P. Omlor BOOK: S.
Arlinghaus CANDLE: L. Arlinghaus TRAIN: C.
Richesson 11:30 AM LOW: A.D. Kinnett, N.
Puglielli 4:45 PM VESPERS & BENEDICTION:
G. Miller 5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller
THE CALENDAR
All Sunday Masses, school day Masses, Friday evening and Saturday morning
Masses are webcast at SGGResources.org.
4:45 PM Vespers & Benediction
5:45 PM Low Mass Poor Souls & John Seyfried
(Patricia Patton)
MON 11/10/14 ST. ANDREW AVELLINO, C
SS. TRYPHON & COMPANIONS, MM
8:00 AM Low Mass Special Intention (Mr. & Mrs. Bellavia)
11:20 AM High Mass Fr. Lehtoranta (ACC)
SHE PONDERED THESE THINGS IN HER HEART
MARY HOLDS CHRIST AGAIN
TUE
11/11/14 ST. MARTIN OF TOURS, BPC
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:20 AM
5:00 PM
ST. MENNAS, M
VETERAN’S DAY
Low Mass Special Intention (Mr. & Mrs. Zelek)
Low Mass Poor Souls
Veterans’ Day Observance
High Mass Poor Souls (Gerard Keaveney)
Low Mass Michael Mugniery
WED 11/12/14 RESUMED MASS OF SUNDAY
7:00 AM
8:00 AM
11:20 AM
5:00 PM
ST. MARTIN I, PM
Low Mass Mr. Harris (Gerard Keaveney)
Low Mass Poor Souls (Gerard Keaveney)
High Mass Poor Souls (Gerard Keaveney)
Low Mass Fallen Away Priests (ACC)
THU 11/13/14 ST DIDACUS, C
6:00 AM
8:00 AM
11:20 AM
5:00 PM
6:30 PM
FRI
ST. STANISLAUS KOSTKA, C
Low Mass All of Our Priests (ACC)
Low Mass Cucina Clerical
Requiem High Mass Purgatorial Society
Low Mass Fr. Hecquard (ACC)
Choir Practice
11/14/14 ST. JOSAPHAT, BPM
7:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls in Purgatory & entering this
world (Mary Brueggemann)
8:00 AM Low Mass Special Intention (Paul Puglielli)
10:55 AM Confessions
11:20 AM High Mass Altar Christus-for the sanctification of
priests
5:15 PM Confessions and Rosary
5:45 PM Low Mass Charles Simpson for kindness rendered
(Mr. & Mrs. Victor Ritze)
6:30 PM Novena and Benediction
SAT
Rachel Oberman
One Sunday after Mass, I approached a woman whose
husband had died to offer my condolences. She proceeded
to describe, in loving detail, her husband’s final hours: how
she had stayed by his side in prayer and held him in her arms
for a long while after death. She spoke with great emotion
and, when I looked to my side, I was startled to see my eleven-year-old daughter Lily listening intently. My first instinct
was a desire to shield her from the powerful emotions she
was witnessing. I worried that Lily might be overwhelmed by
the woman’s sorrow, and too immature to sense her underlying joy at having loved her husband to the end.
When we talked later I could see that, without my planning it, something beautiful had happened: Lily had been
moved by the widow’s words. A few days later she was given
an assignment to write about and illustrate an act of kindness. Without hesitation, she described the woman holding
her deceased husband as having reminded her of Mary holding Jesus after the crucifixion, and drew a diptych with the
Pieta on one side and the widow holding her husband on the
other.
My human instinct to shield my
daughter from sorrow might have
deprived her of an encounter that revealed something a mere discussion
of love and death never could. May I
trust less in my own strategies and
more in God’s capacity to reveal himself to my children in the reality of their daily lives.
(Rachel Oberman lives in Brooklyn with her husband and five
daughters. She is an adjunct professor of English at New York City
College of Technology.)
11/15/14 ST. ALBERT THE GREAT, BPCD
OUR LADY OF DIVINE PROVIDENCE
7:10 AM Confessions
7:30 AM Low Mass Fr. Cekada (ACC)
8:10 AM St. Gertude Novena, Low Mass Fr. McKenna
(ACC)
SUN
11/16/14 PENTECOST XXIII
FOR THE POOR SOULS
Christ, our Lord, who by thy death hast helped the dead, hear us as
we pray for the faithful departed; so that through our prayers we
may obtain the salvation we desire for ourselves and repose for
them: and may the faith by which we and they believe in thee both
redeem us from sins and set them free from punishment. AMEN.
ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT, V
7:30 AM Low Mass
9:00 AM Pont. High Mass, followed by a parish
luncheon For the people of St Gertrude the Great
11:30 AM Low Mass Karen Puglielli – Happy Birthday
(Her children)
ST. CLARE CORNER
Next Mass: Sunday, November 16th
Confessions 3:50pm
Mass 4:30pm
THE BISHOP’S CORNER
A bitter foretaste of Winter cold accompanied our
time change, making for a dark and chilly Sunday morning, but not for long. Soon the warm November sun came
out, and then the little saints came marching in, followed
by three men in gold, Sacred Ministers of the most high
God. Solemn Mass for All Saints Sunday was sung, a fine
sermon preached, and then we processed back to Helfta
Hall to see and hear our saints. How warm, how bright,
how glowing with God's good light was last Sunday.
It never occurred to me, so international is the Catholic Church and our church, that the three priests on the
altar were all of them foreigners, until someone pointed
out the edification of it in a complimentary email. After
all, isn't St Paul all the time pointing out to us at the vespers of apostles that we are "no longer wayfarers and foreigners, but family members of God"? What a glorious
family is ours as Catholics, whether we be found fighting
in West Chester, Ohio or Nigeria or Austria or Finland;
suffering in Purgatory (and some souls are said to do
their time on earth, in churches even) or glorying in Heaven.
The saints are truly a glorious bunch, aren't they? International, transcending time or place, and yet so close to
us. But how charming it is to see our little ones, dressed
up in their innocence as saints, and to hear their stories, to
strive to remember their names. One mother confided
how much she has learned about the saints just from the
All Saints observance. It must be the same for our children. May they grow up remembering, and never forget.
I must mention the charming little skits from Sunday,
as well as the wealth of detail, Gertrudian in its quiet accuracy. St Anthony's tonsure, by wig or hair cut, St Margaret's captive dragon on a chain, St Elizabeth casually
producing bread rolls for potentially hungry bystanders,
the flames for the Elizabethan martyrs...... All well done,
and very well done.
Despite the Saturday's Holy Day, and a full Sunday
morning again at church, an impressive number of you
made it back to succor the Souls in Purgatory by Monday's many Masses and indulgences. You came, it is true,
in discreet small groups, so as not to draw attention to a
third consecutive day at church, which must violate some
law or other. But from 6 AM until Purgatory's polls closed
at 7 PM, you came to vote for the release of the holy souls
in a thin but steady stream. This is the only voting that
matters. All the rest is vanity and silliness and theater, badly staged theater. We are meant to be so drawn into its
world of make believe (St Joseph Cupertino calls the
troubles of this life the war of children with pop guns) as
to forget death and judgment and Heaven and Hell.
But let us not forget those who fought in all of history's wasted wars, and lost their lives in these vain strivings. Remember our veterans come Tuesday, won't you?
Come for 11/11/11 and pray for the veterans, and all the
victims of all our wars. Let us at least not forget, so that
our children may remember, and the Poor Souls be delivered.
After the last Mass of All Souls Day, I was delighted
to receive a bag of freshly baked Soul Cakes for Monday's
supper. These nicely spiced cookies are the medieval
origin of trick or treating. Once young people went door
to door promising to pray for the household's dead, and
were rewarded with a Soul Cake. How Catholic it all is,
our culture. We need only scrape off the secular and pagan excrescence to feel at home all year long. Vivat Sancta Mater Ecclesia!
Speaking of church, our own church's eleventh anniversary of dedication comes next Sunday, along with our
patroness, St Gertrude the Great. I invite you to the Pontifical Mass, followed by an anniversary luncheon with an
interesting Mexican theme, and honoring some feast day
visitors from neighboring Mexico. You know that St Gertrude is the patroness of New Mexico and all of the new
world.
Caravaggio bagged a suspicious mourning dove the
other evening, perhaps left over from Monday's Requiems. It was a classic cat fight, with many feathers flying.
He even had some in his whiskers, giving him a very
guilty look. But he dragged the carcass around to my
door, and generously gave it up. He is a model of devoted detachment.
Our work continues to restore our bulletin, and we
have not given up hope, even in these so busy days of
Autumn. Thank you for bearing with us, as well as for
your fidelity in attendance and generous giving.
Thank God most of all for our precious Catholic
Faith which makes us to be simply Catholic, which is
enough. Keep the Faith!
— Bishop Dolan
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DID ORWELL PREDICT
THE SSPX THEOLOGICAL METHOD?
“The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. The process should be automatic, instinctive. Crimestop, they called it in Newspeak.
He set to work to exercise himself in crimestop. He presented himself with propositions – ‘the party says the earth is
flat’, ‘the party says that ice is heavier than water’ – and
trained himself in not seeing or not understanding the arguments that contradicted them.”
“Crimestop means the faculty of stopping short, as
though by instinct, at the threshold of any dangerous thought.
It includes the power of not grasping analogies, of failing to
perceive logical errors, of misunderstanding the simplest arguments if they are inimical to Ingsoc, and of being bored or
repelled by any train of thought which is capable of leading in
a heretical direction. Crimestop, in short, means protective
stupidity.”
—1984 by George Orwell
ON ALL SOULS’ DAY
The long year round the father grieved:
His little son was dead.
Tears filled his eyes at ev’ry glimpse
Of frowsy yellow head,
At ev’ry sound of running feet,
Or merry play across the street.
But on All Souls’ his heart was glad,
And few his prayers, and cold.
The laughing boy, so sorely missed,
Had been but three years old;
No need to pray for his soul’s rest,
Safe, safe asleep on Mary’s breast.
RESCUE BY ROSARY
It could be your Rosary lowered into Purgatory to
save a Soul. Each Hail Mary is more than a word of
comfort to the Souls—it is an act
of rescue. Use your Rosary as a
First Aid for Souls (and soldiers).
Take hold of each bead confidently, as if, with it, you were pulling a
loved one to safety out of the peril
of battle! out of a “sinking sea”! out
of Purgatory, itself! All of Christian
civilization once hung on the
Rosary. At the crucial battle of
Lepanto, the Christians, vastly outnumbered by the
infidels, were pulled through to victory by Mary’s
Rosary. Attached to the masthead of their ships, Mary’s
Rosary did not “let them down.” Nor does our
Christian world today, hang by a thread, if it hangs on to
the Rosary.
NOVEMBER SONG
Spelling it out on the phone, I pause and say:
N for November.
An apt address, I think, open to all:
All Saints, All Souls – my postcode’s posthumous.
Out there, in seasonless space, they hold their peace.
Our planetary weather’s far beyond their reach.
Then why, writing, did I touch a stranger place?
Profundo lacu…
My slippy pen, mis-spelling, made the change:
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.
PRAYER FOR SOULS
We beseech thy holy clemency, God, almighty Father, on
behalf of the souls of thy servants all the faithful departed,
whom thou hast willed to take away from the wreck of this
life and the dissolution of the earthly body. Make them
members of the society of heaven; raise them from the grave
and establish them in celestial mansions, so that their flesh
which now lies lifeles may awaken in the state of glory. Let
them not be condemned to punishment but endowed with
spiritual graces. In thy loving kindness pardon all their deeds,
words, and thoughts, so that through the favor of thy Onlybegotten Son they may have a share of glory and rise to a new
life in company with all the saints. AMEN.
Not Sharon, from sun and soil, but Charon fruit—
The old rower of souls bringing golden globes,
Lights from the unlit straits, dim proofs or probes—
November’s fruits returned by the ferry load,
Late sweets, lost code.
The season’s closing dark attracts such gold—
Long, luminous recalls from foreign fields.
Now all my crowded, gathering dead come in,
Hard on the head of a name, a slip of the pen.
—Angela Leighton