the Bulletin - St. Gertrude the Great

ST. GERTRUDE THE GREAT ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
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
April 20, 2014
Easter Sunday
¶ RESURRECTION SUNDAY
A blessed Easter to all our parishioners,
friends, family, visitors, and as well to the
members of our “Internet congregation”
around the world. You are all
remembered in a special way in this day’s
Masses. Holy Mass is offered for all of
the faithful today, as well as the first
Mass of the Easter Novena. Benediction
of the Blessed Sacrament follows the
11:30 Mass. Easter Vespers conclude the
day at 6:00 PM. There is no 5:45 PM
Mass this evening.
¶ THE EASTER OCTAVE
Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday
are first class feasts of devotion. On
both days we offer morning and late
afternoon Masses. The early martyr and
Holy Helper, St. George, is honored on
Wednesday. Thursday comes St.
Fidelis, whose very name means
faithful. Saturday we keep the
devotional feast of our Mother of
Good Counsel and open her Triduum.
¶ HELP WANTED: GREATER LITANIES
Usually everyone takes a well deserved
rest during Easter Week; but our late
Easter has left us with a special duty for
Easter Friday. The Greater Litanies are
always sung on April 25th, and we mean
to sing them in procession. I’m looking
for some generous souls for one last
sacrifice. We begin Friday evening at
5:45 PM, and are looking for singers
and servers and faithful souls. Come
share the Easter joy with us as we go to
Emmaus together!
Thank you,
Bishop Dolan
HE IS RISEN
ALLELUIA!
Lumen Christi
The Sanctuary Lamp will burn before
the Blessed Sacrament for the next
fortnight for the following intention:
To the glory of God
(A grateful parishioner)
¶NEXT SUNDAY
The Octave Day of Easter, also known
as Sunday in White, or Low Sunday.
The blessing of expectant mothers will
be available after all Masses. Sunday
Classes resume at 10:40 AM.
Set Your Missal: Low Sunday, Vidi
Aquam, Preface of Easter.
Death has fled before
the Glory of the Risen One.
¶EASTER PRAYERS
We remember today all of our dear
parishioners, housebound or sick, former and current, friend and foe, and pray
for each one of them, as also for all of our
faithful departed. Spare a special prayer
for William Harris, who is seriously ill.
They are all of them with us this Easter
upon the altar for each Holy Mass.
Servers:
MON 4/21
TUE 4/22
WED 4/23
THU 4/24
FRI 4/25
SAT 4/26
APRIL 21 - 27, 2014
11:20 AM HIGH: Lotarskis, P. Omlor
9:00 AM HIGH: N., P., & N. McClorey
9:00 AM HIGH: J. Lacy, A. Soli
9:00 AM HIGH: J. Lacy, A. Soli
6:30 PM HIGH: Simpsons, P. Omlor
7:30 AM HIGH: Simpsons
8:10 AM LOW: M. Briggs
SUN 4/27 7:30 AM LOW: Brueggemann Bros.
9:00 AM HIGH: MC: B. Lotarski ACS: J.
Simpson, J. Lacy TH: N. McClorey TORCH:
Nath. & P. McClorey, C. Richesson, A. Soli
11:30 AM LOW: P. Omlor, N. Puglielli
5:45 PM LOW: G. Miller
E ASTER
Break the box and shed the nard,
Stop not now to count the cost.
Hither bring pearl, opal, sard;
Reck not what the poor have lost.
Upon Christ throw all away.
Know ye, this is Easter Day.
Build His Church and deck His
Shrine
Empty though it be on earth.
Ye have kept your choicest wine –
Let it flow for heavenly mirth.
Pluck the harp and breathe the horn;
Know ye not ’tis Easter morn?
Gather gladness from the skies,
Take a lesson from the ground.
Flowers do ope their heavenward eyes
And Spring-time joy have found.
Earth throws Winter’s robes away,
Decks herself for Easter Day.
Beauty now for ashes wear,
Perfumes for the garb of woe,
Chaplets for dishevelled hair,
Dances for sad footsteps slow.
Open wide your hearts that they
Let in joy this Easter Day.
Seek God’s house in happy throng,
Crowded let His table be.
Mingle praises, prayer, and song
Singing to the Trinity.
Henceforth let your soul alway
Make each morn an Easter Day.
– Gerard Manley Hopkins
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EASTER FLOWER MEMORIALS
John & Catherine Bischak
Katie Bischak
Ronald E. Kitchen
Marge Kitchen
My dear mother,
Martha Brueggemann
Regina & Ken Gilliam
Alvera Siemon
Robert Uhlenbrock
Robert Tatman, Sr.
Nancy Tatman
Fr. Robert Tatman
O Blessed Face, more lovely than the
lilies and the roses of the spring, Thou
art not hidden from us. The tears which
dim Thine Eyes are as precious pearls
which we delight to gather, and,
through their infinite value, to purchase
the souls of our brethren.
– St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Charles and Vincent Mattingly
Frances R. Mattingly
John M. & Elizabeth H. Reis
Kathy Verity
Daymon & Nellie Sutton
Margaret Sutton
Settle, Brandenburg, Corbin,
Mincey, & Patton Families
Patton family
Howard / Florence McConnell
Patsy McConnell family
Martha & Steven Lisik
Martha & Ed Robertson
Dolores & Charles Porter
Robert Porter
Pamela Lavinia Lamb
Peter Lamb
Cyndi Adele Frances Cain
Michael Cain
Ralph Patton, Barbara Desborough,
Alice & Stephen Corbin
Patton family
Homeward
Our dear mother,
Martha Brueggemann
Dan, Mary & family
Bischak & Hoelzle Family
Katie Bischak
Sister Gerard
Patsy McConnell family
G. Vande Ryt, J. Volz, R. Kuebler
Kuebler
My beloved Grandma Brueggemann
Beth Brueggemann
John & Mary O’Connell
F. O’Connell
Anna Di Benedetto
Joyce Disher
Toni Baker
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Evening is come and I am going home,
How peaceful now the hills of morning
seem,
There is a mellow softness in the gloam
That soothes the restless wood and the
chafed stream;
Twilight has evened all the rugged ways,
And fallen leaves made soft the stony
steeps,
Soon will they melt within the purple
haze
That like a ghost across the woodland
creeps.
So will it be when life’s long shadows
fall,
And fleeting fears of childhood fade
away,
Forgetfulness will fling its silken pall
Over the failures of a fitful day;
And in long lonesomeness our hearts
will feel
The phantom fears of morning were
unreal.
– Thomas E. Burke, C.S.C.
My father, Yuaan, Wen Quei
My grandmother, Sen, Chei Cein
Hai Y.
Wendy & Hilda Pearson
Terry Pearson
Joe & Pauline Burkhart
Shawna Davidson
Living & deceased members
of the Peschi Family
Edward C. Peschi
Sally Levine Tripp
Mary Louise Kennedy Doyle
Irene Schultz Deeter Kennedy
James Deeter Kennedy
Sally Tripp Kennedy
Matthew Tripp Kennedy
Suzanne Kennedy
Joseph Makoto Okamura
Maximilliano Hirota Okamura
Suzanne Nies
Eric L. Nies
Patrick Henry Omlor
Veronica O’Brien
Olivia Carland
Forde family
Neva Claire Thille Smith
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Smith
Gerard Patrick O’Brien
Veronica O’Brien
Christopher Brito Paulicpulle
Bertram Asirvadem
Derek Asirvadem
Fr. William Powers
Fr. Louis Stovic
Penny Ann Quintana
Judy O’Neill, Mark Stoneman
Eugene Nicely & Jessie Nicely
Doug Nicely
✠ EASTER MEMORIALS
Julie Isabel Waggoner
Kathryn Scowcroft
Margaret Mary Somdal
Suzette Anne Bates
Uncle Tony Trujillo,
Uncles Gilbert & Romolo Santistevan
Godparents Ruben & Rose Santistevan
Penny Ann Quintana
Lucille and Danny Delawder
Patton family
Loretta Otis
Ralph & Phyllis Otis
Sr. Gerard Vincent
Eileen Bartels
S. & C. Niehaus
John Donadio
Jane & Rob Brockman
Albert Kinnett
Virgil McCormick
Margaret & Albert Daniel Kinnett
William Fey
Joan Fey
Marko/Tkach Families
& Zuccaro/Delisi Familes
M/M David Marko
Geo. E. VandeRyt, Geo. C. VandeRyt
Clara VandeRyt
Jeanne Hille
Our friend, Maria
Mike Briggs family
John Metz, Roman & Leona Wise,
Paul & Thelma Metz
Judy Metz
Kenneth Weis
Lotarski family
Ritze & Kramer Families
Victor Ritze
Vande Ryt & Cooley deceased
Doloris Ritze
Anne & Dennis McMahon
Anne VanderPutten
✠ THE BISHOP’S CORNER
When we went to bed Monday night, we knew the moon would turn
to blood, fulfilling Joel’s Old Testament end time prophecy, which St.
Peter himself cited. (It will happen three more times through next year,
and some time it will be for good, as God only knows.) But what a
wonder to wake up to white and see Spring blossoms clothed early in
their Paschal finery. What a week, what wonders graced our Holy
Week, which took us from Sunday’s Summer and exaltation to
Tuesday’s Winter, and long Passion, with the heavy wet snow blotting out for a day the
promised relief of Spring.
Holy Week at church is...holy, all given over to the worship of our good God who
goes to die for us, washes us in His Blood and feeds us with His Body, and abides with
us still in the Sacrament of His Love. It is fitting then that a small army of His servants
should be all the time these eight days occupied with carrying out the so ancient and
yet freshly moving ceremonies of our Redemption, devoutly reenacted upon our altar.
Our byword most of all these days is “come, let us adore!”
The Church is always so beautiful for Palm Sunday in its green and purple finery,
wedding triumph to tragedy as do the sacred rites of this sad and happy Palm Sunday. The
donkey led the children demurely through the windy walk which comprised our
procession (it pranced only once, for sheer exultation) as we held our hats and palms,
struggling to be heard over the wind for the Gloria Laus at the church door. Then within,
the young Fathers sang the Solemn Mass with its long story of St. Matthew’s Passion.
Everybody around church during Passiontide was singing or practicing the sublime
music for these holy days, and reviewing rubrics and preparing ceremonies as well. Extra
ladies were imported for ironing duties, and John the Janitor helped Rose’s crew on
Monday with the drapes for the Repository. So much work, so many contributions in
every possible way to make this week of weeks shine forth in all of its splendor as we
live the story which gives us life, the bitter and blessed Passion and Death and glorious
Resurrection of Our Savior, Jesus Christ.
May yours be a blessed one. Thank you for all you do. Rejoice with us today for it
is done, the victory is won. Rest a little these days of Eastertide, and rejoice with us in
prayer still, as we continue our Novena of Masses, that unceasing and perfect prayer,
perfectly offered. Mass is suspended but one day of the year, for Good Friday, to our
grief. Let us rejoice that by the Mass, Our Lord who has risen is with us still. Alleluia!
With every Easter wish and great gratitude,
– Bishop Dolan
¶A CARD OF THANKS
I would like to thank the Clergy and everyone at St. Gertrude the Great that prayed for me
during my recent hospital stay, surgery and on-going recovery. God bless you.
–Kent Maki
Shakespeare once wrote: “In religion, what damned error, but some sober brow will bless it, and
approve it with a text, hiding its grossness with fair ornament.” It is to spare the faithful such
confusion that the Church requires a prolonged theological training for her priests; they are to pass
on to the faithful the truth which traces back through the Apostles to the Risen Christ Himself. But
the laity should also know some theology. Once need not always be defending the faith; one can also
find time to enjoy it, by studying and penetrating more deeply into its astonishing mysteries.
The O’Rourke Family
Mable Rowell
In honor of St. Joseph
My mother and father
Bishop Dolan
Our deceased parishioners
of last year:
Robert Duff
Maria Duff
Elizabeth Reis
Iris Wilson
Nellie Sutton
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THE CALENDAR
All Sunday Masses, school day Masses, Friday evening and
Saturday morning Masses are webcast at www.sgg.org
MON
4/21/14 EASTER MONDAY
8:00 AM Low Mass Salvation of my family and myself (Beth
Brueggemann)
11:20 AM High Mass Easter Novena II
TUE
WED
4/22/14
8:00 AM
9:00 AM
5:00 PM
EASTER TUESDAY
Low Mass Thank you, St. Anthony (Beth Brueggemann)
High Mass Easter Novena III
Low Mass Godchildren (G. P. Keaveney)
4/23/14 EASTER WEDNESDAY
ST GEORGE, M
8:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls (Boston faithful)
9:00 AM High Mass Easter Novena IV
5:00 PM Low Mass Holy Souls in Purgatory-Thanksgiving for
favors granted (A.M. Omlor)
THU
4/24/14 EASTER THURSDAY
THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST THROUGH THE EUCHARIST
Our Lord has fought; He has won control of the field of battle, on
which He has planted His flag and pitched His tent: the Sacred Host
and the Eucharistic tabernacle. He conquered the Jew and his temple,
and He has a tabernacle on Calvary where all the nations come to
adore Him beneath the sacramental Species. He conquered paganism
and has chosen Rome, the city of the Caesars, for His capital. His
tabernacle is now in the temple of Jupiter, the god of thunder.
He conquered the false wisdom of the sages; as the divine
Eucharist rose on the world and shed its rays over the whole earth,
darkness withdrew like the shades of night at the coming of day.
The idols have been knocked down and the sacrifices abolished.
Jesus Eucharistic is a conqueror who never halts but ever marches
onward; He wants to subject the universe to His gentle sway.
Every time He takes possession of a country, He pitches
therein His Eucharistic royal tent. The erection of a tabernacle is
His official occupation of a country. In our own day He still goes
out to uncivilized nations; and wherever the Eucharist is brought,
the people are converted to Christianity. That is the secret of the
triumph of our Catholic missionaries and of the failure of
Protestant preachers. In the latter case, man is battling alone; in
the former, Jesus is battling, and He is sure to triumph.
– Bl. Peter Julian Eymard
ST FIDELIS OF SIGMARINGEN, M
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6:00 AM Low Mass †Fr. Martin Stepanich, OFM (Samantha)
(from 4/18)
8:00 AM Low Mass Poor Souls (Patton family)
9:00 AM High Mass Easter Novena V
5:00 PM Low Mass †Fr. Damaso Loya (Samantha)
FRI
4/25/14 EASTER FRIDAY
GREATER LITANIES
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SAT
8:00 AM
5:15 PM
5:45 PM
6:30 PM
Low Mass Theresa Landry (Joan Landry)
Confessions, Rosary, Sacred Heart Novena
Greater Litanies Procession
High Mass Easter Novena VI
4/26/14 EASTER SATURDAY
SS CLETUS & MARCELLINUS, PPMM
OUR LADY OF GOOD COUNSEL
7:15 AM Confessions
7:30 AM High Mass Easter Novena VII
8:10 AM Opening of Triduum to Mother of Good Counsel,
Sermon, Low Mass Honor of Our Mother of
Perpetual Help-for my mother (A.M. Omlor)
SUN
4/27/14 LOW SUNDAY
Triduum to Mother of Good Counsel
7:05 AM Rosary
7:30 AM Low Mass Happy Anniversary Fr. McKenna (Mr. & Mrs.
Victor Ritze)
9:00 AM
10:40 AM
11:05 AM
11:30 AM
High Mass Easter Novena VIII
Sunday Catechism Classes
Rosary
Low Mass †Virgil McCormick (Margaret Kinnett & A.D.
Kinnett) (from 4/19)
5:45 PM Low Mass For the people of St. Gertrude the Great
CARAVAGGIO’S EARLY EASTER BUNNY HUNT
(Spoiler alert: may not be suitable for children and Easter Bunny fans)
Last Saturday morning, Caravaggio went out at first light,
after a light breakfast, as is his custom, and Puccini came in
for his. Well, not five minutes had passed and Caravaggio was
whining at the porch door to be readmitted. Whatever could the
matter be? We soon discovered the cat with a fairly intact miniature
rabbit in his mouth. Upon admission, Caravaggio did a victory lap
through the library, and then settled upon my shower as a
convenient and practical abattoir. I tried to separate the bunny from
the cats – by now Puccini was following things with great interest
– but unsuccessfully. The three animals all got out, and the little
rabbit was soon dispatched by the quick moving feline. I didn’t
want him eating the bunny (decidedly not chocolate) because he
gets into enough worms as it is. Scooping up the cats indoors, I
ended their morning adventure, and deposited the poor rabbit in
the trash. Caravaggio looked for his prey most of the day, and such
was his pique that he barely touched his dinner. Palm Sunday
morning he climbed into my lap to reconcile, however, and all was
forgiven until the next time.
– Bishop Dolan
KENTUCKY LENTEN JOURNAL!
An alert correspondent filed the following with us:
OK, so last Thursday two Arlinghauses, a Brueggemann and a Kunkel
(pretty much the Catholic Church in miniature) went into a little Mom
& Pop store for lunch. They all ordered fish sandwiches. The waitress
stopped and looked at them funny and said, “OK, it’s Thursday and
you are all ordering fish? What are you? Super Catholics?
Our correspondent wondered what the waitress would call those
who follow the old vegan fast for Lent...Super Duper Catholics?