Janurary 11, 2015 - St. Hugh of Grenoble Church

St. Hugh of Grenoble
Catholic Church
The Baptism of the Lord
January 11, 2015
All you who are thirsty, come to the water!
— Isaiah 55:1
Clergy
The Sacraments
Rev. Walter J. Tappe, Pastor
Reconciliation:
Saturday:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Baptism: 2nd Sunday of the
month after the 11:00 a.m.
Mass. Call the rectory to
make arrangements.
Marriage: By arrangement.
Contact the pastor at least six
months before intended date
of wedding.
Rev. R. Scott Hurd and Rev.
Richard D. Kramer, Jr.,
Assisting Priests
Mr. Desi Vikor, Deacon
Parish Staff
Ms. Maggie Gutierrez, Business Manager
Mrs. Mary Wade, Coordinator of the School of Religion
Mrs. Jennifer Goltz, Director
of Music
Gerald Muller, DMA, Principal Organist and Director
Emeritus
Mr. Hung Le, Plant Manager
Parish Office
Office Hours: 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Monday—Friday
Anointing of the Sick: Call
the Office when a loved one
is seriously ill to arrange for
the sacrament.
New Parishioners
See the Greeter after Sunday
Mass to register.
School of Religion (CCD)
Please inform the parish
office that you’re leaving.
301-474-4322
Music for this Sunday
[email protected]
Entrance: no. 548
Mrs. Mary Wade, Coordinator
St. Joseph Regional School
11011 Montgomery Road
Beltsville, MD. 20705
301-937-7154
Mrs. Anne-Marie Miller,
Principal
Holy Hour
Mass Times
Departing Parishioners
SUNDAY Sat. 5 p.m. Vigil
8 a.m.
9:30 a.m.
Preparation: no. 554
Eucharistic Acclamations:
Schubert Deutsche Messe
Muller Christm as Mass
Communion: no. 686
11 a.m.
DAILY
Mon.-Fri. 7:15 a.m.
Marian: no. 1012
Saturday 9 a.m.
Final: no. 553
Fed. Holidays 9 a.m.
First Fridays at 7:00 p.m.
135 Crescent Road Greenbelt MD, 20770
www.sthughofgrenoble.org
Phone (301) 474-4322, FAX (301) 474-9263
sthughoffi[email protected]
Your Prayers Requested
This Week at a Glance
For those preparing for their vocations
Today 1/11/2015, The Baptism of the Lord
† 8am Mass
† 9:30am Mass
† 11am Mass
♦ Coffee Social after all Masses, Grenoble Hall
♦ Religious Education 10:30am, School
♦ Youth Group noon, School
Jack Berard and Joe Lomax
For those preparing for the sacraments
For all those preparing for the Sacraments of Initiation,
and our children preparing for 1st Reconciliation and
Confirmation.
For the sick
Please pray for: Bobby Mittelstetter; Elizabeth Pels Nash;
Ludvik Matyas; Dave Williams; Lori Moran; Ray &
Loretta Turek; Patricia Molden; Nancy DePlatchett; Stephen Blizard; Jennifer Montgomery; Dale Ude; Wilson
Hayden.
Monday 1/12//2015
† 7:15am Mass
Tuesday 1/13/2015, St. Hilary
† 7:15am Mass
♦ Knights of Columbus 7:30pm, Grenoble Hall
For the deceased
Wednesday 1/14/2015
† 7:15am Mass
In your charity, please pray for the souls of our beloved
dead: Mary Matyas; Elizabeth Maffay; Connie Turner.
Thursday 1/15/2015
† 7:15am Mass
For our troops
Friday 1/16/2015
† 7:15am Mass
Please pray for: Adam Weaver, James Hall, Christopher
Pfaffman, Anthony (Tj) Hose, Anthony Ladnier, Tony
Alves, Karen Mealey.
To add a name to these lists, please call the rectory.
Saturday 1/17/2015, St. Anthony
† 9am Mass
† 3:30pm-4:30pm Confessions
† 5pm Vigil Mass
♦ RCIA 10am, Rectory
The calendar is also online: www.sthughofgrenoble.org
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
We invite parishioners to consider registering
with Faith Direct to make their contributions
to the church. You can set up on-line how you
want to manage your giving. This way, you
no longer need to write checks or place cash in
parish envelopes. To register online, go
to www.faithdirect.net. Enroll by using the
parish code MD593. With online enrollment
you are able to access your account at any
time to view it and make changes. Faith Direct is a service hired by the parish to provide
this service to parishioners.
Masses for the Week of 1/11-1/18
Saturday
5pm
Int. the Stratchko
family
Sunday
8am
Intention of the Parish
9:30am Charles Fuchs
11am
David Dodge
Monday
7:15am Cecilia Hanyok
Tuesday
7:15am Leonard Stratchko
Wed.
7:15am Charles Fuchs
Thursday 7:15am Larry Keller
Friday
7:15am Mary Jane Windlan
Saturday
9am
Int. Dawn Cuozzo
5pm
Intention of the Parish
Sunday
8am
John B. Latham, Jr.
9:30am Bishop Olivier
11am
Cecilia Hanyok
In the 1560s, the Council of Trent attempted to standardize the widely
variant customs for the pastoral care of the sick and dying. We had inherited a practice called “extreme unction,” from the Latin words meaning
anointing at the point of death. The deeper tradition, however, is about
the prayer of faith that will heal and restore the sick person, and is
straight from the Letter of James. The Fathers went back to the beginning,
and while not discarding the “extreme unction” name, made a plea for
the proper use of this sacrament. As soon as a person is in danger of
death from sickness or old age, they reasoned, the time for the sacrament
had already arrived. As a result of this desire, the next ritual text for
anointing contained an innovation: a rite for visiting the sick that included readings from scripture, psalms, and prayers. Old customs fade slowly, however, and the quality of pastoral care languished for centuries
while people delayed the celebration of a consoling and effective sacrament, sometimes missing the opportunity completely. A priest ministering to a dying and unconscious patient alone in a room has never been
the desire of the Church. Our tradition is far too rich for this sacrament to
be celebrated in such a diminished and ungenerous manner.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Monday:
Heb 1:1-6; Ps 97:1, 2b, 6, 7c, 9; Mk 1:14-20
Tuesday:
Heb 2:5-12; Ps 8:2ab, 5, 6-9; Mk 1:21-28
Wednesday: Heb 2:14-18; Ps 105:1-4, 6-9; Mk 1:29-39
Thursday:
Heb 3:7-14; Ps 95:6-11; Mk 1:40-45
Friday:
Heb 4:1-5, 11; Ps 78:3, 4bc, 6c-8; Mk 2:1-12
Saturday:
Heb 4:12-16; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mk 2:13-17
Sunday:
1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-10; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42
From the Pastor
This Sunday the Church concludes the Christmas season with the celebration of the Lord’s Baptism.
Christmas is about the unveiling of God’s plan of salvation for the human race through the Incarnation of his Son.
The whole Old Testament was a time of preparation for the coming of Christ. To be sure, this was not always clear
to the people of the Old Testament, not because God was being purposely obscure, but because man, weakened by
sin and immature in faith, could only understand so much.
God accommodated his plan to the weakness of his creatures. He had made us the kind of creatures who do not
learn all at once, but only gradually. That is our nature. Therefore, God unveiled his plan gradually, but perfectly.
We still marvel at its beauty and its wisdom.
So, in the fullness of time—that is, at the right moment according to God’s perfect timing—God sent his Son, born
of the Virgin, to accomplish the work of our salvation. The Person of the Son, co-eternal with the Father and the Holy Spirit, took to himself a human nature with the consent of the Virgin Mary, to manifest in human form God’s
love for the human race which was from the beginning.
As a man, Jesus gave a perfect return to God. As a man, he embraced every human being with the love he shared
from all eternity with the Father.
The genuineness of Christ’s love for us was proven in his suffering. We threw everything we could at him—every
vice possible, every vice imaginable, every form of coldness and ingratitude, of selfishness and utter disregard. And
through this he loved us and offered us the chance of forgiveness, the opportunity to begin again, but to begin in a
new way as new men and women living a whole new kind of life, his life, a life of union with his Father.
Christmas is about reconciliation—God bringing the human race back to himself through Christ, and we through
Christ bringing ourselves back to God, sobering up from a life of dissipation.
All the feasts of the Christmas season celebrate this reconciliation—God and man reconciled in Christ. And so, also,
with today’s feast.
John the Baptist performed baptisms in the desert as the sign of man’s desire to be reconciled to God. When Jesus
submitted to the baptism of John, he expressed God’s desire that the human race be reconciled to him, and established baptism as the means by which the human race could be born again into friendship with God, be reconciled
to God and set at peace with him.
When Jesus was baptized, the Father revealed Jesus’ true identity to the world, as his beloved Son sent to redeem
us. When we submit to baptism, the Father adopts us as his own beloved children in Christ and declares it publicly
through the Church. Through baptismal grace, we were reconciled to God.
But our reconciliation with God is also something that we work at. Sin has weakened our nature. We must build it
up through the practice of faith and charity. Sin remains an ever-present danger. We must resist valiantly, always
calling upon the power of God’s grace. We fall into sin continually. Therefore, we must repent continually, activating that baptismal desire to be reconciled to God more and more.
As we celebrate the Lord’s baptism and bring this year’s Christmas season to a close, let us rouse ourselves as a parish to be reconciled to God, to activate the grace of our baptism more and more and show ourselves as his beloved
children, sent in power to bring his peace into the world.
Yours in Christ,
Father Walter
CHRISTMAS BAZAAR RAFFLE - The Christmas Bazaar Committee would like to thank everyone who participated and
made the 2014 Raffle a huge success. We are pleased to announce the following winners: Elizabeth Carey - 1st Prize, Laura
McAndrew - 2nd Prize, Mariquita Barnachea - 3rd Prize, Henry Haslinger - 4th Prize, and Ireneo Abadejos -5th Prize.
Thank you again for participating and we look forward to our 2015 Raffle.
Parish Life
Income Tax Information
The parish will be happy to provide an official 2014 statement of contributions for all those who need it, but to
prevent needless preparation of statements for all parishioners, we are asking those who need them to fill in the
form below and drop it in the collection. Statements cover
all contributions which are identifiable—those made
through the envelope system or FaithDirect.
NAME:
ADDRESS:
ENVELOPE #:
From the School of Religion:
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A “Thank You” and an Invitation from the Confirmation
Candidates: Each candidate selected a saint and wrote a report or created a trading card that briefly summarized the
life of the saint, expressed the special meaning the saint had
for them, and included a personal prayer to the saint. These
reports are now posted on the bulletin board in the back of
the church. The Confirmation candidates - Thomas, John,
John Carlo, Michael, Joseph, Benjamin, Nathaniel, Andrew,
Brian, Jared, Beverly, Kayla, and Tyler - invite you to take
some time to enjoy reading about “their” saints...and thank
you for your ongoing prayers as they prepare to receive the
Sacrament of Confirmation on April 30, 2015.
Invitation to Parish Youth:
The Sodality Union of the Archdiocese of Washington is
pleased to present an Essay/Drawing Contest with the winners to be announced Feb. 7, 2015 at St. Francis Xavier. Participants for the age groups 8-10, 11-12, 13-15 and 16-18 are
asked to respond to the following question: “What can I do to
preserve the Earth?” God has asked us to take care of the
Earth, God’s creation (Genesis 2:15). Entries must be received
by January 20, 2015. Please contact Mrs. Brown at
301.899.8995 for details about this event.
FATIMA GUILD NEWS -You are invited to join the St. Hugh
Rosary Guild! An individual or family makes a commitment
to pray the Rosary for one week, beginning on a Wednesday.
Rosary Guild members bring an image of Our Lady of Fatima
to the host household on Wednesday and will return the following week to take the image to its next host household.
Rosaries and a Rosary Prayer Guide are provided. The signup sheet for hosting the Guildʹs Rosary Pilgrimage from January - June 2015 is located on the table in the back of the
church. Contact Jessica at 240-472-3575for information or
with any questions.
Congratulations and many thanks to our parish catechists
and children who presented a joyful, engaging, and prayerful Christmas Pageant in the school gym on the Feast of the
Epiphany! A special thanks to our families for their generous offering of food and drinks for our potluck lunch and
for being a most enthusiastic audience...and to all of our
parents, catechists, and youth who helped put away the
chairs and tables and cleaned up. Together, you made it a
friendly and blessed occasion.
Gabriel Network Seeking Professional Assistance
Professionals Offering Reduced Fee for Services: The
Gabriel Network is developing a business directory of generous professionals who will offer their services for free or
at minimal charge to needy Gabriel mothers who need limited professional help for up to six months, for such needs
as medical, dental, educational, legal, financial, automotive,
and home repair services. We ask you to consider sharing
your talent or ask your service providers if they are willing
to offer these services. Responses should be made to Tom
Trunk by phone 240-593-6982 before January 15, 2015.
Professionals For Gabriel Network Registry: The Gabriel Network asks you to offer your professional services for free or at reduced rate for needy mothers who
are referred to the St. Hugh Gabriel Network. Are you a
physician, dentist, educator, social worker, job counselor, financial counselor, lawyer, computer specialist, or
auto mechanic? Your generosity may save a life and
bring stability to a family in need! To be added the serREMINDER – There will be no Religious Education on Januvice registry phone Tom Trunk on 240-593-6982, or
ary 18 for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Federal Holiday.
email him, [email protected].
Dear St. Hugh Families,
It is so nice to have all of our students back from Christmas break. They All have stories of adventures and
gifts and family time. Our students bring us so much joy and show us the face of God.
Re-registration has already begun. Current students should re-register using the email link sent to them. New families may
enroll on line www.stjos.org/school , click on TADS. New students will begin being accepted after January 28, 2015 for the
2015-16 school year.
Did you miss our Open House? We will have two more Open House’s, Wednesday, January 28th 2015 for 8:30-11:30 am. and
Saturday, March 7, 11:00am-2:00 pm. We hope to see you there.
Upcoming events:
Jan 26-31 Catholic Schools Week: Celebrating Communities of Faith, Knowledge and Service.
Peace and all Good, Mrs. Anne-Marie D. Miller, OFS 301-937-7154
Around
the
Archdiocese
Faith Foundations — Make learning more about your faith a New Year’s resolution that you stick
with! A new schedule of Faith Foundations in-parish courses is available. Visitwww.adw.org/faithfoundations to learn about these adult formation courses that can be completed online or inparish. Faith Foundations draws upon the pillars of The Catechism of the Catholic Church with courses on:
Creed, Sacraments, Christian Morality, Prayer, and Scripture.
2015 Adult and Family Rally and Mass for Life
Once again this year, the Archdiocese of Washington and the Association of Ecclesial Movements and
New Communities will sponsor the Adult and Family Rally and Mass for Life on the morning of the
National March for Life on January 22. This event for parishioners of the Archdiocese of Washington
will be held at The Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (1725 Rhode Island Ave., NW). The Rally
kicks off at 9am and features Sr. Maris Stella, S.V. (Sister of Life), as the main speaker. Fr. Avelino Gonzalez will celebrate the Mass, which begins at 10am. Attendees depart for the National March for Life at
11:30am. Registration is required: adw2015familyrally4life.eventbrite.com. Please visitwww.adw.org/
Adult-Mass-For-Life for more information.
St. Matthew’s Cathedral 175th Anniversary Choral Ecumenical Service
The 2015 opening event in the 175th anniversary celebration of the Cathedral of St. Matthew Apostle as a parish will be a Choral Ecumenical Service Celebration, to be held at 3pm on Sunday, January 25 at the Cathedral (1725 Rhode Island Ave., NW).
Thirteen neighboring Christian parishes have been invited to this special service. Renowned Rev. Cheryl Sanders of Howard
University Divinity School will give the Gospel reflection, and three of the surrounding parish leaders will offer prayers. This
observance will take place on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, the final day in the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
All are invited to this opportunity to pray together, to be inspired by the Cathedral Schola’s music, and to join in the reception
following. [Metro: Red Line to Farragut North (L Street exit) or Dupont Circle (South exit)].
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Vocation Society: Day of Recollection
On Saturday, January 31 from 9am to 2pm, Fr. Carter Griffin, Vice-Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary and Director of Priest
Vocations for the Archdiocese of Washington, will lead a day of recollection on the theme of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Life
of the Disciple. This event will be held at Annunciation Church (3810 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.), and it is not required to be a member of
BTCVS to attend this event! For more information and for fliers for downloading and printing, please visit www.dcpriest.org.
You many also contact Maris Moriarty at [email protected] or 202-636-9020.
Man on a Mission 2015
The annual Archdiocese of Washington Men’s Conference, Man on a Mission 2015, will be held on Saturday, March 14 from
8am-3pm at the St. John Paul II National Shrine. The theme for this year’s conference is The Biblical Vision for Men. Our keynote
speaker is Glenn Stanton, who serves as Director for Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family. Bring your Bible with
you! In his address Glenn will take us into the Scriptures to discover the biblical vision for men. Glenn has authored five books
on marriage and family life, and he lives in Colorado Springs with his wife and five children. In addition to breakout sessions
where you will have the opportunity to gain practical insights for living as a man with biblical vision, a highlight of this year’s
conference will include an opportunity to see the world class exhibit on the life of St. John Paul II and to venerate his relic at
his national shrine located right here in the Archdiocese of Washington. Registration is $20, which includes refreshments and
lunch. Register now at www.adw.org/manonamission.
Talk With Your Loved Ones on End-of-Life Issues
Illness and death – whether our own or that of a loved one – are issues many of us avoid thinking and talking about until they
are immediately confronting us. Too often we are unprepared for the questions that arise and find ourselves making difficult
decisions in the midst of a crisis, without the benefit of time and reflection. Maryland’s bishops have released a pastoral
letter, Comfort and Consolation, on care for the sick and dying to encourage Catholics to take that time now, before facing a crisis, so that
when illness and death inevitably come, we can face them with the comfort and peace of understanding our faith, and knowing Our Lord is there to embrace us in our hour of need. Visit the Maryland Catholic Conference at www.mdcathcon.org/
comfort for downloading copies or to order.
Our Blessed Mother in Art
Experience Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, at 1250 New
York Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C., now through April 12, 2015. This landmark exhibition, organized with the
support of the Archdiocese of Washington, brings together more than 60 Renaissance- and Baroque-era masterworks from the Vatican Museums, Uffizi Gallery, and other museums, churches, and private collections in Europe
and the United States. Visit www.nmwa.org/exhibitions/picturing-mary-woman-mother-idea to learn more.
CHURCH NAME:
ST. HUGH OF GRENOBLE
135 Crescent Rd.
Greenbelt, MD. 20770
BULLETIN NUMBER:
511528
CONTACT PERSON:
Jennifer Goltz OR Mary Wade OR Maggie Gutierrez
(301)474-4322
sthughoffi[email protected]
DATE OF PUBLICATION:
1/11/2015
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