ASSUMPTION GROTTO NEWS ASSUMPTION GROTTO CHURCH JUNE 28, 2015 Assumption Grotto Parish - 1832 - Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine - 1881 - A Pastor’s Descant I They made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. He asked for a tablet and wrote, " John is his name," and all were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God. - Lk 1:6264 wonder how cognizant people are about the true state of things at this time. My guess is that they are not much aware, or at least not all that much troubled by them. I’ve avoided apocalyptic warnings to you for the good reason that they would be false. Only God knows for sure when the travail of the final days will be upon us. This does not mean, however, that there cannot be a time great turmoil in the world –a time of disturbances which afflict the entire societal body in the political, moral, and religious areas of life–which is to say, in every aspect. The near collapse of order in beneficent government, national and worldwide, in societal structures, in education, the military, in law and judiciary, in education and arts, in economy and–hard to admit it– even in the Church, does not seem overmuch to worry many people, because they’ve been lulled into reverie by an enveloping, all-pervading sensuality. The palliative effect of pleasures which distract our minds and cloud our judgment tends to make us oblivious to the disorder all around us: the effect being much like an anaesthetic on a body suffering some pathological condition. Pain is a warning that something’s amiss that needs remedying. Covering over problems with blithe distractions from sensual comforts allows decay unattended to advance, to worsen. Men’s ambition and pride lead to resentment of authority; their inclination towards evil, and especially towards sexual indulgence, leads them to want to give way to outpourings of their lawless passions (anger, lust and disregard for law and discipline); and these in turn make Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass ©2001, 1998, 1970 CCD. men turn away from God and prepare them to become practical atheists, which is to say, agnostics. It is only at this last phase that we begin to see clearly that there’s more than human ambition and weakness behind the ensuing general disorder–that it is demonically inspired. In any case, whether we are willing to believe in the Enemy’s hand in this or not, we are all feeling the effects of the advancing chaos in the disharmony in our marriages and families, in our ineffective educational attempts in our schools, in the squeeze that holds our money and property, in the ever-wider encroachment of big government over more and more aspects of our lives, in the disturbances and discomfort we are feeling by being in a Godless public, in the uncertainty and fears we experience as ominous, impending calamity, in the division in the Church, etc. Much more needs to be said about these things that can’t be aired here. But my reasons for bringing them up are 1) to assure that all this is not right, is not normal, and is decidedly deadly for continuance in an ordered world; 2) to speculate about what the right response should be in the face of this distorted scene. Responses are basically of two kinds: a) offensive action which seeks to rectify the troubles by opposing the many seducing errors and the moral decay; b) prayer and sacrifice, both for restoration of order and for making reparation for damages already done. These two forms are often posed as being in tension with each other: the ‘direct confrontation approach’ or the more ‘indirect’ and (seemingly) ‘passive.’ In truth, I can’t say that there is an alternative: both are needed. We need front-line fighters and we need prayer-warriors (pardon that gooey expression). What we cannot do is to become idle and numb, indifferent and unconcerned, allowing evil to go unopposed, and thus to advance. I f I am undecided about which of these to recommend to you the more, I would, as your pastor, say at least this much with utter confidence: you must stop your own slinking into the myriad forms of evil that are rotting souls. You simply cannot give way to your passions–which are the internal originators of all the disorder and chaos in society and in the Church. You, in simple terms, have got to oppose the sinful inclinations that induce you to commit your sins. Never mind the terrible things other people are doing, how bad the ASSUMPTION GROTTO NEWS ASSUMPTION GROTTO NEWS COPY DEADLINE MONDAY, 5:00 p.m. Monday, June 29, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Ninfa Palazzolo (D) 7:00 p.m. - No Mass Tuesday, June 30, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Christopher Orlando (D) 7:00 p.m. - No Mass Wednesday, July 1, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Audrey Hymnes (D) 7:00 p.m. - No Mass Thursday, July 2, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Matthew Screws (L) 7:00 p.m. - No Mass Friday, July 3, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Poor Souls 7:00 p.m. - No Mass Saturday, July 4, 2015 7:30 a.m. - Reparation for sins against the Immaculate Heart of Mary 4:00 p.m. - St. Monica Sodality Sunday, July 5, 2015 6:30, 9:30 a.m. and Noon - People of the Parish Graves For information on graves or our cremation burial site, call the Rectory, Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Baptism Sarah Gianna Kopke, daughter of Scott A. Kopke & Maria A. Berardo. DETROIT, MI Saturday,July 4, 2015 4:00 p.m. D. Bastuba, , R & J. Praet, J. & J. Williams Sunday, July 5, 2015 6:30 a.m. R. Jacek, C. Kolomjec, M Pomeroy 9:30 a.m. K. Garavaglia, D. Schuster, K., D. Dux, J. & E. Lang, J. Prevo, G. Heffernan, R.& A. Santine, A., J. & S Coates, J. & J Simpson, H. Wisniewski, B. & J. Newby, R. Grado 12:00 p.m. B. & S. Sharp, J., P. I. & M. Doyle, C. & M. Chambers, G & J. Venditti, A. & M. Arrigoni, A. & J. Kopke, F. & W. Remske, J. Gallagher, P. Cooper, C. G. & J. Rochon, D & L Steinhaus, M. & M. Staschke Gethsemane Eucharistic Adoration Chapel The Chapel, located in the Convent, is open 9 a.m. to 6:45 p.m. Monday-Friday, and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. We need more people to be adorers. If you can commit to one hour, or be a sub when someone is absent, please call the Rectory. Join us for refreshments in the vestibule of the gym after Mass on Sunday Please Note: The Gif Shop will close at 11:30 a.m. this Sunday Readings for the Week of June 28, 2015 JULY 4, 2015 Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24/2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15/Mk 5:21-43 or 5:21-24, 35b-43 Monday: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10/Gal 1:1120/Jn 21:15-19 Day: Acts 12:1-11/2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/ Mt 16:13-19 Tuesday: Gn 19:15-29/Mt 8:23-27 Wednesday: Gn 21:5, 8-20a/Mt 8:28-34 Thursday: Gn 22:1b-19/Mt 9:1-8 Friday: Eph 2:19-22/Jn 20:24-29 Saturday: Gn 27:1-5, 15-29/Mt 9:14-17 Next Sunday: Ez 2:2-5/2 Cor 12:7-10/ Mk 6:1-6a ASSUMPTION (GROTTO) PARISH DIRECTORY 13770 Gratiot Avenue Detroit, MI 48205 Pastor, Rev. Eduard Perrone Associate Pastor, Rev. John Bustamante Deacon James Wilder RECTORY BUSINESS HOURS Monday-Friday ............................. 9:00am-5:00pm Saturday-Sunday........................... 9:00am-2:00pm Evening hours ............................... by appointment Rectory 313-372-0762, FAX 372-2064 Website: www.assumptiongrotto.com e-mail: [email protected] Assumption Grotto Gift Shop 313-332-4432 Email:[email protected] Parish Council President Anna Graziosi ..................................313-423-6972 Organist, Ray Long ........................313-372-0762 Email: [email protected] SUNDAY MASSES: Saturdays at 4:00; Sundays at 6:30, 9:30 (Tridentine), & Noon HOLY DAY MASSES: 6:30, 9:30 (Tridentine), Noon & evening at 7:00 p.m. WEEKDAY MASSES: Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. , Saturday. 7:30 a.m (all Tridentine) CONFESSIONS: Saturday 2:30-3:30 ., Sunday 9:00 & 11:30 a.m. BAPTISMS: Every Saturday after the 4:00 p.m. Mass or Sunday after the Noon Mass. Arrange at the Rectory Office. BLESSING FOR EXPECTANT MOTHERS: After the Noon Mass on the first Sunday of the month. REGISTRATION: Come to Rectory 9-5 p.m., Mon-Fri. If not possible, call for a registration form to be sent out to you. Weekly Holy Hours Wednesday: after the 7:00 p.m. Mass, “for all our Priests Thursday: after the 7:00 p.m. Mass, in commemoration of the Passio Domini Friday: after 7:00 p.m. Mass - for the souls in Purgatory Saturday: after the 4:00 p.m. Mass - for all our Military First Sunday of the Month: K of C Holy Hour after the Noon Mass, Benediction, prayers, Holy Rosary for vocations 26 Social 28 19 Social Crossroads 12 Social ..Annual Mission Appeal 21 14 5. Social 7 Sun Sun 15 27 29 20 No Parish Council 22 13 No Ushers Meeting 6 8 Basketball M-F 4-6 pm 1 All Saints Day Mon Mon 2014 To schedule the use of a room in the school, contact Janet at the Rectory Office (372-0762) 16 28 30 21 K of C Meeting 7:00 p.m. 23 14 7 9 2 All Souls Day Election Day Tue Tue 11 18 25 Legion of Mary 30 29 7:45pm Legion of Mary 23 22 7:45pm 24 Legion of Mary 16 15 7:45pm 17 Legion of Mary 9 8. 7:45pm 10 Legion of Mary 42 13 7:45pm Wed Wed Thu Thu 26 19 12 5 31 24 17 10 3 FriFri 27 20 13 6 25 18 11..Annual Mission Appeal 4. Carmelites ..St. Monica Sodality Mass 4pm SatSat . THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Pastor’s Descant (Continued) world is getting, how dizzying the turmoil in the Church. Be saintly, and do not budge from the way of righteousness. Be tough on yourselves and be holy people. The reform of the world begins with you, in your own soul. Then, and only then, should you proceed with your plan of righting the wrongs of others. This program is a version of what our Lord Himself said: remove the plank in your own eye before removing the splinter in the eyes of others. Don’t mistake my meaning. I am not suggesting that we should not oppose the tremendous evils that are upsetting the God-willed harmony and order of the world and the Church. We must oppose these. Nor am I saying that we should not be making the much-needed Eucharistic holy hours to appease divine justice and petition divine intervention. We, however, must not be hypocrites, outwardly valiant and righteous but inwardly unconverted. What is inexcusable is indolence and apathy and, of course, complicity in the great movement to overthrow the God-given order of truth, goodness, beauty, and holiness, a movement which is not fundamentally a thing but a destructive and malevolent person who rails against God and seeks to frustrate His plans for the salvation of the human race. Fr. Perrone P.S. This will be my last Descant for a while as I take my summertime lease for mental and physical refreshment. Fr. John, to whom I confidently entrust your pastoral care, will no doubt graciously supply in my absence. Please Note: There will not be a 7:00 p.m. Mass beginning the week of June 21st through August 14th due to Fr. Perrone and Fr. Bustamante’s vacation schedules. ……………..*********………………. Grotto St. Vincent De Paul Helpers will have envelopes on the side tables for donations to help parishioners in need. ……………..*********………………. Parishioners are invited to have your home consecrated to Jesus and the JUNE 28, 2015 Immaculate Heart of Mary and receive his special graces for this devotion and the twelve promises. Call Tom Ulrich at 586-775-8138 or Deacon Jim Wilder at 586-776-7774. Men of the Sacred Heart: ……………..*********………………. We are in need of Lectors for the 4:00 p.m. Saturday Mass and the Noon Sunday Mass. We would like to see some of the younger men of the parish volunteer. Normally we would have 4 men for these masses so that it would only be a once a month commitment. Call the rectory to volunteer. ……………..*********………………. Adoration Chapel News We really need new adorers to commit to an hour of adoration. There are several sick people and a few others have left their hours. We want to thank those who have filled in by taking additional Holy Hours to cover these absences. Thanks also to several substitutes new and old who are making daily Holy Hours. God will reward you! Independence Day Prayer "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." We all know these words by heart. They are from the United States Declaration of Independence. However, are these words held with the same reverence around the world as they are held here at home? Sadly, no. There are many places in the world where it is a life-threatening endeavor to practice one's faith, that faith that was given to each human by that Creator who endowed us with inalienable rights. Let us take a moment to remember all those people in the world who are not free to seek life, liberty or happiness. Let us pray…O God, you willed that the Jewish people be free from slavery by their Egyptian captors. You will that all people should be free to worship you without fear and to celebrate their religious beliefs freely, even if they have not yet found you. Grant that those of us who live in this great nation will thank you daily for our freedom, and work for the freedom of others around the world that do not yet have the freedom to practice their faith openly and proudly. We seek your wisdom where hatred abounds, and ask for humility to offer our good works to others who live in fear and bondage. We ask all this through Christ our Lord, who frees us from sin and death through the wood of the cross. Amen. 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time "And they ridiculed him." So he hung his head in shame and slunk gloomily out the back door? So he pleaded and whined and called them all names? No. Instead, Jesus "put them all out" and went about his business, raising Jairus' daughter from the dead. Jesus wasn't concerned about what others thought. And lest we imagine that everyone around him was constantly worshiping him and adoring his divinity, today's reading reminds us that even in the presence of the Lord, skeptics were a dime a dozen. So should we be surprised if we must deal with a bit of ridicule ourselves? As faithful Christians, we will at times be called to chart a course that doesn't make sense in the eyes of the world. And, yes, some people will say we're crazy. We may be called to take a stand for the unborn or the elderly in a culture that considers life to be expendable. We may be faced with a decision at work that requires us to adhere to an ethical code that our boss thinks is laughable. Perhaps we will have to sacrifice a relationship because of pressures to ignore Christian morality. Or maybe the situation could be as simple as dealing with the smirks that arise when we say a prayer before eating at a restaurant. Whether we face a snicker or blatant discrimination against our religious freedom, we should not flinch or waver when such opposition comes our way. Jesus faced it and so will we. The question is only how we will respond. Today, Jesus gives us an example of calm confidence as he marches forward with his mission. He knew that he was doing the right thing, and that was enough for him. It should be enough for us too.
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