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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
.
December 28, 2014
HOLY INNOCENTS DAY
¶ CHILDERMAS
The Blessing of Children in honor of
the Holy Innocents will take place
after all Masses. Our Children’s
Christmas Party with presents and
poetry follows this morning’s High
Mass. Vespers and Benediction are at
4:45 PM.
Non-Communicant
How I am starving! I who lately fed
At tables rich with meats, ruddy with wine.
Now while Thy guests are gathered, O Divine
Host, how I hunger for Thy simple Bread!
—Katherine Terry Dooley
¶ THURSDAY: NEW YEAR’S DAY
Remember, January 1st is the Feast
of the Circumcision; the Octave Day
of our Lord’s Nativity, and a Holy
Day of Obligation. Mass times are
7:30, 9:00 and 11:30 AM. All are
bound to assist at Mass under pain of
mortal sin. No evening Mass for New
Year’s Day.
¶ FIRST FRIDAY
8:00 AM Low Mass
10:55 AM Confessions
11:20 AM Low Mass and Benediction
5:00 PM Exposition
5:15 PM Confessions and Rosary
5:45 PM Low Mass, First Friday devotions, Sacred Heart Novena
All Night Adoration
Intention for First Friday: In
honor of the Sacred Heart for the
sanctification of homes and families.
Lumen Christi
The Sanctuary Lamp will burn before the
Blessed Sacrament during the next fortnight
for the following intention:
For the intentions of Kevin
O’Donnell and his family.
(A friend & parishioner)
¶ FIRST SATURDAY
7:10 AM Rosary and Confessions
7:30 AM Low Mass
8:05 AM First Saturday Devotions,
Closing Benediction, Sermon
8:30 AM Low Mass
First Saturday Intention: In reparation for blasphemies against Our
Lady’s perpetual Virginity.
¶ NEXT SUNDAY: THE HOLY NAME
The blessing of religious articles will
be available after Mass; the second
collection is for Most Holy Trinity
Seminary. Sunday Classes resume at
10:40 AM.
Set Your Missal: The Holy Name of
Jesus, commemoration of the Octave
of the Holy Innocents. Preface of the
Nativity.
St. Francis was first to show to mankind
The Crib of Our Savior at Mass;
His heart full of love a solace could find,
No joy on earth can surpass.
—Brother T. F. Kelly, S.J.
¶ OUR SICK
Be sure to mark your
calendar for Twelfth Night,
Epiphany, Jan. 6. After
the 5:30 Solemn Mass, you
are invited to our parish
Christmas party, which
honors all of our Church
workers and volunteers. So
many hours presented this
past year like precious
myrrh or fragrant frankincense. God reward the gold
of your devotion!
Richard Smith, Lorraine Gates, and
Connie Kamphaus seem to be holding their own. Please pray for all of
our sick and shut-in.
Best wishes to Tom &
Karen Simpson today on
their first anniversary.
Collection Report
Sunday, December 21st……….….……$3,749.00
Thank you for your generosity. Remember St.
Gertrude the Great in your will.
 THE CALENDAR
All Sunday Masses, school day Masses, Friday evening and Saturday morning
Masses are webcast at SGGResources.org.
MON 12/29/14 ST. THOMAS À BECKET, BPM
8:00 AM Low Mass Novena V
5:00 PM Low Mass Special Intention – Deceased (Judy
Metz)
TUE 12/30/14 RESUMED MASS OF SUNDAY
WITHIN THE OCTAVE
8:00 AM Low Mass Novena VI
5:00 PM Low Mass Poor Souls
WED 12/31/14 ST. SYLVESTER I, PC
WITHIN THE OCTAVE
8:00 AM Low Mass Novena VII
4:00 PM Low Mass Special Intention (Denis Vander
Putten)
5:00 PM First Vespers of the Circumcision
THU 01/01/15 THE CIRCUMCISION
OCTAVE DAY OF CHRISTMAS
HOLY DAY
FIRST THURSDAY
7:30 AM Low Mass Our Parents (Dan, Mary, & family)
9:00 AM High Mass Novena VIII
11:30 AM Low Mass For the people of St. Gertrude the
Great
..
FRI
01/02/15 OCTAVE DAY OF ST. STEPHEN
INFANT OF PRAGUE
8:00 AM
10:55 AM
11:20 AM
5:00 PM
5:15 PM
5:45 PM
SAT
FIRST FRIDAY
Low Mass Alter Christus
Confessions
Low Mass Purgatorian Society Benediction
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Confessions & Rosary
Low Mass Novena IX
All Night Adoration
01/03/15 OCTAVE DAY OF ST. JOHN, AP. EV
ST. GENEVIEVE, V
FIRST SATURDAY
7:10 AM Confessions & Rosary
7:30 AM Low Mass For my Godparents (Jacinta Simpson)
8:05 AM First Saturday Devotions, Benediction,
Sermon
8:30 AM Low Mass Dennis & Jeanne Hille – Merry
Christmas (Bobby & Aubrey Uhlenbrock)
SUN 01/04/15 THE HOLY NAME OF JESUS
OCTAVE DAY OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS, MM
7:30 AM Low Mass Paul & Till Wesselman (The
Wilkers)
9:00 AM High Mass For the people of St. Gertrude the
Great
10:40 AM Catechism Classes
11:30 AM Low Mass Bob & Becky Uhlenbrock – Merry
Christmas (Bobby & Aubrey Uhlenbrock)
4:45 PM Vespers & Benediction
5:45 PM Low Mass Philip Brockman (Rob & Jane
Brockman)
All Night Adoration Guard of Honor
7:00 PM -8:00 PM: Richard Zbilicki, Volunteer
8:00 PM - 9:00 PM: Ken Gilliam, Matt Schneider
9:00 PM - 10:00 PM: Peter Gebel, Mike Briggs
10:00 PM - 11:00 PM: Joe & Andrew Prell, A.D. Kinnett
11:00 PM - 12:00 AM: James Kolenich, Paul Puglielli
12:00 AM - 1:00 AM: Joe Soli, Steven Shaver, Brett Kirkpatrick
1:00 AM - 2:00 AM: Dominic O’Donnell, Volunteer
2:00 AM - 3:00 AM: Daniel Hille, John Boyd
3:00 AM - 4:00 AM: Steve Weigand, Rob Brockman
4:00 AM - 5:00 AM: Bob Uhlenbrock, Bobby Uhlenbrock
5:00 AM - 6:00 AM: Patrick Omlor, Volunteer
6:00 AM - 7:00 AM: Jim Soli, Joe Andreotta
THE QUEST
Where lies the road to Bethlehem—
The royal House of Bread?
A narrow road, a rugged road,
It leads to a cattle shed!
Where do the shepherds through the night
Their lonely vigil keep?
The starlit plains beyond the town
Are white with nodding sheep!
Where speed the angels in their flight
On wings with love aflame?
The hills have caught their song of peace
And whisper now His Name!
Where lies the Son of God in state?—
His Mother’s veil withdraw:
Behold! His throne a manger bare,
His couch some wisps of straw!
I found the road to Bethlehem,
The shepherds poor, the shed,
Adoring angels, peace, and God—
At dawn in His House of Bread!
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THURS 01/01/15:
7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros.
9:00 AM HIGH: CHAPLAINS: T. & J. Simpson CROSS: B. Lotarski TH: L.
Arlinghaus ACs: A. & C. Richesson TORCH: J. Lacy, T. Lawrence, A. Soli, C.
Arlinghaus, B. Lotarski, S. Arlinghaus
11:30 AM LOW: N. & N. McClorey
SUN 01/04/15:
7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros
9:00 AM HIGH: CHAPLAINS: B. Lotarski, N. McClorey CROSS: P.
McClorey TH: L. Arlinghaus ACs: J. Lacy, N. McClorey TORCH: C.
Arlinghaus, T. Lawrence, P. McClorey, C. Richesson
11:30 AM LOW: N. Puglielli, P. Omlor
4:45 PM VESPERS & BENEDICTION: G. Miller
5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller
 THE BISHOP’S CORNER 
Holy Innocents Day! May Innocence Himself, with
His Immaculate Mother, bless you on this Christmas Sunday by restoring your innocence, and renewing your devotion to protecting innocence in our midst. Innocence, purity, modesty and good measure in dress, innocence most
of all in good example shown to our children... These are
gifts precious beyond price, to which our children have a
strict right. Work on the innocence today, and you will
preserve the Christmas spirit in your celebration. Banish
pride and strife and the bane of self-seeking, of overdoing
things, of commercialism and impurity. Call a child into
your midst and bless him and let the children be a blessing
unto you. This is God’s way. Happy Holy Innocents Day!
I am writing this the Tuesday before Christmas but
already I am touched and so grateful for all of the help
from so many, which makes things come together so readily here, as we make our final preparations for the birth of
the King. Oh, problems and mini-crises we do have.
Monday was one of those days. But this always happens,
and it does by God’s permissive will, meant to sanctify us
as they try us, a little bit like poor St. Joseph, so tried in
Advent, all the way through Christmas Eve, with its
slammed doors and “no room in the inn” signs. But he
helps, St. Joseph does. Ask him, and ask him often as you
try to take good care of Mary and the Baby this Christmas.
In addition to thanking all of our helpers and workers—what a wealth this is for our church!—I want to
thank you for such thoughtful Christmas cards and gifts
this year, for me and all of the clergy. Thank you for keeping us so well fed, for thinking of all of this. Thank you
too for Christmas cookies and cakes! Someone even
thought of donating gifts for the little ones at today’s party. Thank you for your regular giving, and for today’s generous Christmas envelope. God, the giver of all good gifts,
reward you all.
We must be very grateful this year for the mild
weather which accompanies our Christmas, even as we
remember in prayer those who face difficult to trying
weather. Fr. McKenna was due to fly to Rochester, MN
on Christmas Eve and drive on to North Dakota on St.
Stephen’s day, his name day. (Bless his heart, he has never
had a Christmas with us but is always going off somewhere, bringing Christmas to others.)
Fr. Lehtoranta is in Milwaukee for the holidays,
where he is known as “the Christmas priest” because he
comes each year. He had to reschedule the children’s party, however, because he is offering Christmas Mass this
Sunday for the Louisiana faithful, with the traveling Fr.
McKenna due to drive in to take his place. It’s a complicated schedule this year, but Christmas often is, isn’t it?
The main thing is to work that no one be forgotten. That
is the ideal, anyway. “And even the birds,” St. Francis
would add at this point.
May the rest of your Christmas
week be warm and bright, with time for a
little needed rest, oh, and prayer too. We’ll
be here every day, praying away. Come to
the stable, and enjoy a little extra Christmas
peace. Don’t forget the Holy Day with its
three morning Masses, as we have each Sunday. Start the
new year by offering its first hours to God.
If you take Innocence home with you today (I
pray you do, that’s the point) will He feel at home there,
in your home? Try it out, and let me know, and God bless
you!
Bishop Dolan
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P.S. As I wrote the above lines, I had a little early Christmas cheer: the dispatching of a possum and a raccoon,
trapped on the roof, potential invaders. Thank you, Gino!
CHRISTMAS POINSETTIA MEMORIALS
LANDRY FAMILY
JOAN LANDRY
LEBRUN FAMILY
JOAN LANDRY
JON FITZERGERALD
KENNEDY
ANONYMOUS
OUR FAMILY
BRIAN GREGORY
ERNEST QUINTANA
PENNY ANN QUINTANA
FR. WILLIAM POWERS
PENNY ANN QUINTANA
ANTONIO SANTISTEVAN
PENNY ANN QUINTANA
FT. LOUIS STOVIC
PENNY ANN QUINTANA
H.O. HINTON, PAT HARPEN,
TOM PAYNE, & LOIS PETER
SIMPSON FAMILY
 HOLY INNOCENTS’ THOUGHTS
It is impossible for Herod’s henchmen to recognize with
absolute certainty, among all the babies of Bethlehem and its
vicinity, just which infant boy is Jesus Christ. Thus, seething
with diabolical fury, Herod orders the massacre of all who
resemble Jesus in gender and approximate age. This barbaric
case of “mistaken identity” becomes the source of incomparable exaltation for the Holy Innocents. For there is no
greater glory than for a person to be mistaken for Christ
Himself. Perhaps the Lord had this in mind later in life when
He declared that only those who change and become like
little children can enter the kingdom of God. In our childlikeness, we are most like Jesus Christ. The blood of the Son
Jesus that cleanses us from all sin begins to reach us and
transform us today in a powerful way through the blood of
the martyred Holy Innocents.
OUR UNION WITH THE HOLY INNOCENTS
Herod Archelaus, who had hunted the Child and
would have killed him, may be compared to the world, which
would kill the divine Infant in our souls. From the world we
must flee if we would preserve the Child alive within us. Indeed, our own soul is the Child. And when one has fled from
the world externally…presently Archelaus rises up and begins to rule interiorly in the soul. It may be that Archelaus
can never conquer you; but that is because you shall by the
strength of God fortify yourself with great and earnest industry in devout practices; for I assure you that you have many
fierce enemies arrayed against you and ready to assail you…
Be sure that if you will ever be blessed you must fly
from all this and must, for God’s sake, yield yourself up to
suffer all things kindly and meekly, whether men treat you
justly or unjustly. Leave your vindication to God and the
truth and do not defend yourself; and then will the peace of
God be born within you, and be spread around you in all
patience and love. But if you fail to do this with zeal and earnestness, then is your Archelaus present and he will surely
slay the Child, namely, the precious grace of God, within
your soul. We know how carefully the humble Joseph enquired, in order to discover if there was anyone near who
sought the Child Jesus to kill Him.
And even when all these vices are overcome there yet
remain a thousand bands to be broken asunder, and these no
one knows but a truly converted man; for Joseph’s example
teaches us an earnest perseverance in a godly and blessed
way of living, together with an ever-growing love of God’s
will. By such virtues did he most faithfully guard the little
Child and His Mother from those who would have killed
Him.
—Fr. John Tauler, O.P.
Fr. Tauler ( 1361) was a German Dominican priest, a popular
preacher, and a mystical theologian.
 THE POETRY CORNER
REVELATION
Hold your Boy in your heart awhile,
Sweet young Mother;
In His deep eyes there shines a smile
For you, His Mother.
The little head against your cheek,
The seeking hands, the baby feet,
The heart which you have
caused to beat—
Are yours, rich Mother!
Black on the sunny space of floor,
Adoring Mother,
Swift shadows fall!
Oh, stare no more,
Heart-broken Mother;
Rather let your anguished eyes,
Become of a moment sad and wise,
Rest on your Babe. Our Victim sighs
For you, my Mother!
NEW BEGINNINGS
—Loras Mary Walsh
Ring the bells of joy and gladness!
Sound their anthems loud and free!
Not because the old in ending,
But because the new beginnings
Come to you and me!
Ring because each passing second
Is the threshold of the new;
And like manna sent from heaven
Opportunities are given
Afresh to me and you!
Over old mistakes and failures
Look not backward in askance;
For starry-eyed with breathless wonder
Comes the dawn of hope, and yonder
Stands another chance!
—Ruth L. Erickson
BIRTH OF A YEAR
Merrymaking fills the midnight air—
Horns toot and whistles blow and voices shout—
The sounds of revelry are everywhere
Now that another year is going out.
The faces of the celebrants are lit
With bright expectancy, as if the stroke
Of midnight had a magic power in it
To wipe away the old year’s little joke.
Yet underneath the brilliance and the fun,
The heart holds deep communion with the mind,
And fears for this new hour whose birth has won
A heritage of days now left behind,
And prays the infant will grow strong and bold
Enough to bear its burdens and the old.
—Helen Howland Prommel
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