August 18, 2013 - Our Lady of the Assumption

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LITURGY & WORSHIPOUR LADY OF THE ASSUMPTION PARISHMasses for the Week5:00 PM - Adrian, Lucy & Ann Mary Ise byRosemary & Richard IseTwentieth Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 18, 20137:00 - For all the people of the Parish8:30 - Special Intentions of Adam Bouvier andTroy & William Gondela by Ed Hercer10:00 - Donato E. Donato by the family3:00 PM - Germaine Piombino by husband, LouMonday - August 19, 2013Saint John Eudes, Priest8:00 - Lena Paolantonio by the SlifersTuesday - August 20, 2013Saint Bernard, Abbot & Doctor8:00 - Congetta DowneyWednesday - August 21, 2013Saint Pius X, Pope8:00 - Marie DeSimone by the SlifersThursday - August 22, 2013The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary8:00 - Connie Sciarratta by Danny, Chris &JoanneFriday - August 23, 2013Saint Rose of Lima8:00 - Beatrice CefarattiSaturday - August 24, 2013Saint Bartholomew, Apostle9:00 - Ralph Price by Rosemary & Richard Ise5:00 PM - William Sabatini by his wifeTwentiy-First Sunday in Ordinary TimeAugust 25, 20137:00 - For all the people of the Parish8:30 - Simon Shudy by the Slifers10:00 - David Piombino by Zaira Silveri &family11:30 - Anthony Calvo, birthday wishes fromhis momSanctuary Lampis burningFor: Ralph PriceFrom: August 16 to August 22By: Denise Antoniniwww.olastrafford.orgPrayer IntentionsPlease pray for the sick or disabled members ofour parish family: Nicole LaMonaca, Sandra Doane,Ed Drill, Anthony Ciarlone, Sean McDermott, LaurenRobb, Robert Roux, Elsa Marsili, Dottie Boyle, JosephineSorrentino, Hugh Bradwell, Barbara Archer, EdithParella, Steven Santoleri, Christine Phillips, Don Burns,Sonny DeNicola, Tom Verderame, Marie Antonini, AnnaCoppola, Connie DiDario, Logan Schweiter, Kim & KevinMcCusker, Joseph Paolantonio, Gary Johnson, KatherineMacelko, Margaret Cox, Joe Monte, Victor Newton,Viola Tartaglia, William Vallejo, Kay Leydon, Nick Recchi,Msgr. Jim McDonough, Lou and Carole Pullo, CharlotteMinisci, Dom Losco, William Piccone, SteveSantoleri and Msgr. Gregory Parlante.Please pray for our parishioners serving in theMilitary: Adam H. Bouvier, Troy B. and WilliamGondela, and Matt Wilson.Scripture Readingsfor the WeekMonday: Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40,43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22Tuesday:Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt19:23-30Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16Thursday: Jgs 11:29-39a; Ps 40:5, 7-10; Mt 22:1-14Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10;Mt 22:34-40Saturday:Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn1:45-51Sunday: Is 66:18-21; Ps 117:1-2; Heb 12:5-7,11-13; Lk 13:22-30Please Join Us!LEGION OF MARYWednesdays, 1-2 PM: join us inthe Sacred Heart Chapel, lower level ofthe church. Our administrative meetingis every Wed. Visit parishioners at yourconvenience during the week. Your helpis needed in visiting our homebound and hospitalizedparishioners. For more info call Diane Jiorle 610-986-0000 or Di McTiernan 610-688-0363.1-108OLA
TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME August 18 , 2013My dear parishioners…From time to time I will be writing about some aspects of the Sacred Liturgy.The celebration of the Eucharist is ‘the source and summit of the Church’s lifeand activity.’ (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy from Vatican II). Everythingwe do flows from and returns to the Eucharist. Oftentimes the deeper meaning ofthings is lost, because we don’t understand how the external dimension is based on and reveals deeper,spiritual realities. Pope Benedict XVI has written extensively on the Liturgy. For today, there arethree bodily actions in the Liturgy which he comments on and provides deeper meaning.Standing before the Lord. Standing indicates a readiness to do what God asks of us, e.g., westand to hear the gospel as a sign that we want to do as it directs. We stand for the Lord’sprayer as a sign that we want to pray as He directs. The Latin word for standing is ‘statio,’from which we derive the word ‘station.’ In Rome each of the days of Lent there is a celebrationat a different station Church. In the beginning of Christianity, the idea was that one citywould have one bishop and one altar. This would express the unity which the Lord broughtabout. The Eucharist is not private business, carried on with a circle of friends. Pope Benedictnotes that, just as Christ was crucified outside the city, and therefore before the whole world,since His death was for the whole world, the Eucharist as public worship draws all, irrespectiveof any personal make-up. So in the early Church in the Mediterranean world whose citieswe hear about in Scripture – Corinth, Ephesus, Colossae, etc. – it would not be unusual at aEucharist to have an aristocrat seated next to a dock worker, a slave sitting side by side with aRoman citizen, a philosopher next to an illiterate person, etc. We have been brought togetherby the Lord and He leads us to meet each other. Pope Benedict writes: “What unites us todayis not the private interest of this group or that, but the interest that God takes in us, to whomwe can confidently confide all our own hopes and wishes. We are standing for the Lord. Andthe more we stand for the Lord and before the Lord, the more we stand with one another, andour capacity to understand one another grows.”Walking with the Lord. Processions are in our spiritual DNA. At each Mass there is a processionto Communion. We have May Processions and Corpus Christi Processions. The Popereflects on the phrase ‘to progress.’ The very concept of the word ‘progression’ seems to begoing forward. And yet it can be a meaningful term only if we know where we want to go. Inother words, mere movement in itself is not progress. In fact, the phrase ‘to progress’ maymean, as he says, a rapid descent into the abyss. As we wander through this world, the measureis Jesus Christ. He makes our movement through life meaningful, because we know wherewe are going.PASTOR’S CORNERKneeling before the Lord. Christ has given our kneeling a distinctive characteristic. Kneelingcan be forced and servile, in the way people were forced to kneel before kings and emperors,where distance is the essential note, the distance between our lowly selves and the mightyking. We kneel too, but ours is not servile, forced, distant or fearful, because Christ has removedthose dimensions by kneeling before us as He washed the feet of His apostles at theLast Supper. We bow down to enter a love that does not enslave us, but rather transforms us.2-108OLA
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