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ST. MARY CHURCH
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO
FEBRUARY 14, 2016
TODAY’S LITURGY
FIRST READING:
SECOND READING:
GOSPEL:
Deuteronomy 24:4-10
Romans 10:8-13
Luke 4:1-13
MASSES HELD IN THE FAMILY LIFE CENTER
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
MONDAY, February 15
8:30 a.m.
Mary Holman by Lucille Nichols
Deuteronomy is a kind of last will and testament of Moses. He
reviews the forty years in the desert (ca. 1200 BC). The book is not
written (in its final form) until perhaps the mid-sixth century BC. The
“deuteronomic school” of thought which developed it had great
influence on much biblical literature. It made Israel’s past a
contemporary experience.
In this, what God did long ago is repeated as the covenant
promises are renewed. In Sunday’s selection, a creed-like chant is
repeated by those who come to offer thanksgiving. “My father was a
wandering Aramean” acknowledges and embraces Israel’s past, making
it their own.
The Hebrew original (arami oved avi) is rhythmic but difficult
to interpret. Most think “my father” is Abraham or Jacob. One Jewish
commentary suggests this difficulty of interpretation is not all bad,
noting that much of the Torah is ambiguous. This allows the one giving
thanks to identify with all those of the past. Even as the Lord provided
for “my father” or “my ancestor” who went down into Egypt and lived
as an alien, yet the Lord made him into a great nation. When things went
badly for them the Lord showed his “strong hand and outstretched arm”
and brought them (us) to this land “flowing with milk and honey.”
The deuteronomist looked at his own situation and decided if
the Lord could keep a covenant with the unfaithful ancestors, then how
much more with his own generation, if they were faithful themselves.
They would renew the covenant, remind themselves of it often and
observe it scrupulously.
Thus, “we cried to the Lord, the God of our fathers...he heard
our cry...saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression... brought us
out of Egypt... gave us this land....” The repeated use of the first person
plural joins all later generations with the original covenant partners. We
resolve to be faithful, even if our ancestors failed.
After reflecting on this temptation scene, I think Luke does
something similar. Like Israel (forty years), Jesus was in the desert for
the symbolic forty days to be tempted there. Three times Jesus quotes
Deuteronomy while being tempted. (Dt. 8:3;6:13;6:16 in order of
appearance). The devil himself even quotes from Psalm 91. Jesus ends
the tempting by saying “You shall not tempt the Lord your God.” This
becomes a revelation of who Jesus is; one and the same!
At the end a curious line reads “he (the devil) departed from
him for a time.” It could also be translated “he departed until an
opportune time.” In Luke that “opportune time” will never come.
Luke’s Jesus represents the faithful Israel who successfully
resisted the temptation and who will never again allow any doubt to be
cast on the faithfulness of ideal Israel, represented by Jesus. In Luke’s
Agony in the Garden (Lk. 22:39-46) Jesus twice cautions the disciples to
pray “that you may not undergo the test,” that is, that you may not be
tempted.
Only in Luke’s crucifixion scene does Jesus cry out “Father,
into your hands I commend my spirit” (Psalm 31:6). Matthew and Mark
use perhaps the more remembered cry “My God, my God, why have you
abandoned me?” (Psalm 22:2).
Possibly Luke used Psalm 31, rather than Psalm 22 in order to
demonstrate how completely Jesus represented the ideal Israel, faithful
to the end, and never allowing that “opportune time” for the devil to
return, by uttering what might be thought a cry of abandonment. Thus
Jesus lived out perfectly what the deuteronomist hoped for, a faithful
Israel true to the end.
Father Hummer
TUESDAY, February 16
9:30 a.m.
Mary Holman by Dan Grabb (Grade 5 at Bishop
Flaget School – parishioners welcome)
WEDNESDAY, February 17
8:30 a.m.
Don Fout by Dan Grabb
THURSDAY, February 18
8:30 a.m.
Debbie Ziegler by Mary Kay & Tom Eltzroth
FRIDAY, February 19
8:30 a.m.
George Becker by Millie & Calvin Tanner
SATURDAY, February 20
5:00 p.m.
Charles & Kathryn Gaskill by Kathryn Page
SUNDAY, February 21
8:45 a.m.
St. Mary’s Parish
11:00 a.m.
Rose Marie Muir by St. Mary’s Choir
SUNDAY, February 14
LOVE IN ACTION SUNDAY
No PSR
No Choir
WEDNESDAY, February 17
6:30 p.m.
Walk Through The Garden Scripture Sharing
7:00 p.m.
Choir – Family Life Center
THURSDAY, February 18
6:30 p.m.
RCIA
7:00 p.m.
High School & Middle School Youth Group (St.
Peter Church)
FRIDAY, February 19
4:00 p.m.
Lenten Fish Fry – at St. Peter Church – until 7 p.m.
5:00 p.m.
Vespers – Evening Prayer – Family Life Center
SUNDAY, February 21
Collection for the Phoenix House
9:45 a.m.
PSR
10:00 a.m.
Choir
ST. VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY NEWS
Month of December 2015 Cumulative Year To Date
Families served
105
1639
Assistance given $3,426.23
$47,296.27
LOOKING FOR A LENTEN PROJECT?
We give out an average of 7 sack lunches per week to people in need who
stop in the parish office. We could use donations of: bottled water, canned
meats (must have pull top), tuna fish in individual sleeves, individual fruit
cups, chips, snack bars, cheese crackers, individual servings of peanut butter,
Ritz crackers packaged for individual use, candy bars. Leave your bagged
donations in the Family Life Center while attending Mass.
THE NEXT SESSION OF GRIEF RELIEF will be on Saturday,
February 27 at 10:00 a.m. in the Parish Office building. This will be the
fourth session.
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT
MINISTERS FOR THE WEEKEND of
FEBRUARY 20 & 21, 2016
OFFERTORY REPORT
February 7, 2016
Average Weekly Offering
Needed weekly to meet budget
Regular Collection
$7108.11
$6923.00
$9952.12
Restoration Fund
Bishop Flaget School
St. Vincent de Paul
Catholic Times
Home Missions
Initial Offering
$2,034.65
1,305.00
775.00
170.00
125.00
8.00
It is a generous and joyful giving of time, talent and treasure.
Stewardship is what we do after we say we believe.
THE SECOND COLLECTION
THIS WEEKEND, February 13 &14,
is for The Home Missions.
Our Turn, Our Time, Our Home
Capital Campaign Update
We have received 114 pledges totaling $184,458.00 for Phase II of
the Church Restoration Project. Pledges are still coming in, and it’s
not too late to fill out the pledge card. Simply fill it out and drop it
in the offertory basket. Please fill out a pledge card, even if you are
unable to donate. We will, in any case, contact all registered
parishioners who have not yet responded.
We have received pledges covering the cost of restoring the
Baptismal Font.
We will be having Mass in the Family Life Center until the
completion of the interior of the church.
Thank you for your continued support of the project, and continued
pledge payments.
VESPERS (EVENING PRAYER)
Due to the restoration and renewal of the Church and the Stations of the
Cross being worked on we will, this year instead, celebrate the
Liturgical prayer of the church known as Vespers, or Evening Prayer I.
Traditionally it happens anywhere after 4 o’clock in the afternoon. So
we shall pray Vespers every Friday at 5 p.m.in place of the Stations of
the Cross. This will happen in the Family Life Center.
TH
100 BIRTHDAY
Sister Annina Morgan, former principal at Catholic Central High School,
will turn 100 years old on March 9. Birthday cards can be sent to her at the
following address: 5900 Delhi Rd.; Mt. St. Joseph, OH 45051. While
writing out the card, you are asked to remind her which class you were in.
THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WILL HOST THEIR MONTHLY
MENS' OUTREACH at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, February 23, in the Parish
Office Building. This fun evening is open to all men of the parish. Light
refreshments will be provided. Anyone needing a ride should call Kevin
Crock at 740-350-8251 to arrange transportation.
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE NEEDS OF: Helen & Dave Bell, Bill
Bennett, Carroll Brown, Nicole Burley, Kelley Chandler, Anne Cooke, Steve
Cooper, Rose Cox, Sherri Cox, Martha Davis, Michael Dixon, Patrick
Flannagan, Therese Firestone, Shelly Whalen Francisco, Corey Gebhart,
Doug Griffith, Jason Henry, Emily Brown Hooker, Polly Hunn, Tracy
Jalbuena, Ann Klinker, Earnest Littler, Heidi Lovensheimer, Stephen Paul
Madru, Joan McCambridge, Charles McDonald, Rosemary McHarg, Gwen
Miller, Dave Neal, Dee Parker, Stuart Phillips, Molly Prochaska, Max
Putnam, Kate Richter, Wyatt Schumacher, Joe Schumann, Kathy Senff,
Eleanor Smith, Pam Thomas, Richard Tippie, Alexa Tyree, Leo & Louise
Von Clausburg, Ethel Wallenhorst, Riley Whalen, & Mary Whaley.
Saturday – 5:00 p.m.
Servers:
J Littler, J Copley, J Slater
Lectors:
M Kennedy, S Burkhardt
Lay Ministers
H Malone, Ma Haller, G Bonner, L Hardesty,
K Boesch
Sunday – 8:45 a.m.
Servers:
E Lanning, R Villarreal, J Whalen
Lectors:
D Ginther, G Anderson
Lay Ministers:
S Anderson, B & D Neal, D Ginther, D Adams
Sunday – 11:00 a.m.
Servers
H Anders, J Underwood, G Anders
Lectors:
J Venneman, J Maxwell
Lay Ministers:
Mi Haller, P Laughlin, K Leeth, S Anders,
J Anders
Cantor:
R Zedalis
Altar Linens for February 2016: K Rourke
Collection Counters: D Wagner, N Boggs
ATTENTION MINISTERS: Ministry schedules are available on
the tables in the Family Life Center. Please pick up a copy as we
are not mailing them.
CATHOLIC TIMES NEWSPAPER: Thank you to
all new and returning readers of the Catholic Times. It
is not too late to turn in your envelope. The parish rate
is $17. As an evangelization tool, Bishop Campbell
encourages all Catholic households in the diocese to
receive and read our diocesan newspaper, the Catholic Times. Come enjoy
“A journal of Catholic life in Ohio.”
FISH FRY FUNDRAISER
Where: St. Peter's Catholic Church –
285 West Water St.
(PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE FOR 2016)
TO BENEFIT BISHOP FLAGET 7TH & 8TH GRADE CLASS TRIP.
EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!!!!
Fridays in Lent: February 19, 26; March 4, 11, 18. 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Dine in and Take Out available. Dinners $7:50; Sandwiches $4.75
BISHOP FLAGET IS COLLECTING ITEMS TO DISTRIBUTE
TO NEEDY families in our community through
our "Night of Hope" on February 17th. The classes
are gathering needed materials and we are planning
a soup dinner for those families in attendance who
are in need of a hot meal and other items. If anyone
in the parish would like to help us with this endeavor, these are some of the
items that we need: socks, personal hygiene items (feminine products, dry
shampoo, baby wipes), toothpaste, re-useable shopping bags, crock pots of
hot soup (please bring to Flaget on 2/17 after 12PM), bread/crackers,
desserts, plastic spoons. Any of these items would be greatly appreciated and
all items will be distributed to families in need either through our Night of
Hope or through other local organizations afterwards. Thank you for your
help in serving the less fortunate in our community.
HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH GROUP High School Youth Group is now open
to Grades 8 –12 and is held on Thursday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the youth
group room, at St. Peter Church. Upcoming topics are: 2/18 – Is Jesus really
divine?; 2/25 – Is the Holy Spirit really a person?; 3/3 – Spreading the
Gospel. For additional info, contact Jenny French at 740-774-4172.
SCIOTO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 23 RD ANNUAL
CHOCOLATE FANTASY fundraiser TODAY, Sunday, February 14, at
Bishop Flaget School Gymnasium, 570 Parsons Ave. from Noon to 3:00
p.m. Tickets are $6.00 for 4 servings of chocolate desserts.
The SainT VincenT
dePaul
S o c i e T y ......i n T e r e S T e d ?
“Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
When did we see you ill or in prison and visit you?” And the King will say... “Whatever you did for one of these least...of mine, you did for me.” (Mt. 25:37-40)
With love from a Parishioner
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64 Executive Center Rd.
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