Bulletin 59

Saint Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church
600 South Main Street, Atmore, Alabama 36502
Rectory: (251) 368-3615 3615 Office/Fax: (251) 368-1801
E-Mail: strobertparish@fronernet.net
www.strobertsatmore.com
Reverend Arulappan Jayaraj, Pastor (251-229
Reverend Charles Hirudhayam, Parochial Vicar (251
229-5071)
(251-229-6541)
23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
September 4, 2016

WEEKEND:
Saturday:
Vigil Mass…………………………..5:00 PM
Sunday:
Mass………………………………...9:00 AM
CCD (Sep—May)…………………10:15 AM
Hispanic Mass (1st Sun)…...……11:00 AM
Church Schedule
WEEKDAY:
Monday / Tuesday:
Mass………………………………...5:00 PM
Wednesday:
No Mass
Thursday / Friday:
Mass…………………………...…...5:00 PM
Adoration (1st Fri each Month)…..5:40 PM
Reconciliation: 15 minutes before Saturday and Sunday Mass or by appointment
Sacrament of Baptism: Requires one month prior notification
Marriage: Requires a six-month notice in advance of the marriage date
Hispanic Mass
Sunday, September 4th, 11:00 AM
Parish Meetings
Fall Festival Committee—Tuesday, September 6th, 6:00 PM
Parish Council—Friday, September 9th, 10:00 AM
Parish Women’s Group—Wednesday, September 21st, 5:15 PM
Stewardship
LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION
Regular Collection $1834.12
Building Fund $100.00
Blessed Mother Shrine $10.90
Home Missions $40.00
Special Collections
Building Fund—September 3rd / 4th
Catholic University—September 17th /18th
Cover Art: Unknown

News and Announcements
Fr. Jay’s Corner
Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,
Some sad news to begin with. Marjorie Lalak,
one of our long-time parishioners,
passed away Saturday morning. Please
pray for the repose of her soul and for the
peace and comfort of her family.
I would also like to thank all of our parishioners
who planned and helped in our Parish
Yard Sale under the chairmanship of
Blinda Smith: Ron Smith, Martha Staff,
Barbara Harris, Emma Holder, Rhecy Currie,
Brigitte Crenshaw, Ben Crenshaw, Rita
Hawkes, Anne Hetzel, Mary Powers,
Marleen Rodrigues, Mary Ann McCabe,
Ditto Gorme and Paolo Gorme. May God
bless you all.
—Father Jayaraj
Fall Festival: The Fall Festival Committee
will meet Tuesday, September 6th at 6:00
PM. This will be the meeting where we
make the final review of planning for the
“Taste of the South” coming up on Thursday,
September 15th. All members and
others interested in helping, please be at
the gathering.
Parish Council: The Parish Council will
conduct its monthly meeting on Friday,
September 9th at 10:00 AM. All members,
mark your calendars.
Parish Women’s Group: The next monthly
meeting of the Parish Women’s Group
will be Wednesday, September 21st at
5:15 PM in Boland Hall. All women of the
parish are invited to participate.
Burse Club: The archdiocese’s Burse
Club drive this year will be September 10th
and 11th. Dues collected ($12.00 annually)
are used to help fund our seminarians
studying for the priesthood. Please begin
thinking about this now. Our parish contact
is Mary Ann McCabe. More information will
be provided as we get closer to the chosen
date.
In Memoriam
We were informed and saddened to learn
that
Marjorie Lalak,
one of St. Robert Bellarmine’s early parishioners,
passed away Saturday morning.
Marjorie was a stalwart in our church
community and will be greatly missed.
She had been a resident of the Atmore
Nursing Home for the past twelve years.
The Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled
here at 10:00 AM, Tuesday, September
6th. There will be no Visitation
prior to the Mass. A reception will follow
the Graveside Service in Boland
Hall.
Pease pray for her and for her family in
their time of grief. Rest in peace, Margie.

23rd Sunday in Ordinary
Time
"If anyone comes to me without hating his father
and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters,
and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Whoever does not carry his own cross and
come after me cannot be my disciple."
The Feast of the Birth of Mary is celebrated today,
but the Sunday Liturgy supersedes it.
Sunday Readings
The first reading is taken from the Book of Wisdom
9:13-18a. In today's extract the author is
stressing man's incapability of understanding
the divine plans and decrees. Because we are
finite, limited beings, our knowledge is finite and
limited. There are many limited, finite problems
all around us, which we cannot solve. How could
we hope to solve the infinite ones?
The second reading is from St. Paul to Philemon
9b-10, 12-17. This letter is the shortest of
St. Paul's letters and at the same time the most
personal and touching. During his first imprisonment
in Rome (61-63), a slave called Onesimus,
who had run away from his Christian master
Philemon, a native of Colossae, came to Paul in
Rome and was converted to Christianity. Paul
sent him back to his master bearing this letter, in
which Paul touchingly appeals to Philemon to
deal kindly with the runaway.
The Week Ahead
Monday
Mass: 5:00 PM
Tuesday
Mass of Christian Burial (Marjorie
Lalak): 10:00 AM
Mass: 5:00 PM
Fall Festival Meeting: 6:00 PM
Wednesday
Communion Service
Thursday
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary
Mass: 5:00 PM
“Knit Pickers”: 6:30 PM
Friday
St. Peter Claver, Priest
Parish Council: 10:00 AM
Mass: 5:00 PM
Saturday
Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM
Sunday
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass: 9:00 AM
The Gospel is from St. Luke 14:25-33 and
teaches us that the essential condition for true
discipleship, demanded by Christ, was, and still
is, total dedication, total commitment of oneself
to Him. There can be no such person as a half-
Christian. "He that is not with me is against me,"

He said on another occasion. We cannot be for Christ on Sunday and against Him for
the remainder of the week. To be His true disciples, His true followers, we must live our
Christian life every day and all day.
Following Christ means making our way to heaven. It is a life-journey. We have a limited
time in which to complete this journey. Therefore, we must travel a certain distance
each day. This does not mean that we must spend every day in prayer and meditation.
There are other tasks to be done, but we must Christianize these other tasks. Even the
members of religious orders who "leave the world," that is, who are set free from the
family and financial cares of this world by their vows of chastity and poverty, have to
busy themselves with other cares like teaching, nursing, tilling the soil perhaps, housekeeping,
writing and many such activities. They cannot and do not spend all their day
and every day in prayer and meditation. Nor does Christ demand this of them.
Much less, therefore, does He demand this of the ninety-nine percent of His followers
who have to take on themselves financial and family cares. It is by fulfilling these worldly
duties in a Christian way that they are dedicating themselves to His service. This is their
total commitment to Christ. The married man or woman who is loyal to his or her lifepartner
and to the family, if there is one, and who provides diligently and honestly for his
own and the family's spiritual and temporal welfare, and who always does this with the
intention of pleasing God, is following Christ and is moving steadily day by day towards
heaven.
—Excerpted from The Sunday Readings Cycle C, Fr. Kevin O' Sullivan, O.F.M.
(From www.catholicculture.org (Trinity Communications))

Mass Intentions
Sunday, September 4th:
St. Robert Parishioners
Monday, September 5th:
Special Intention
Tuesday, September 6th:
Special Intention
Wednesday, September 7th:
No Mass
Thursday, September 8th:
Special Intention
Friday, September 9th:
Special Intention
Saturday, September 10th:
Special Intention
If you are interested in having a Mass offered up for
a special intention or for a deceased person, contact
Father Jayaraj. The suggested stipend is $10.00.
Voices of the Saints
“Keep your eye on God’s
pleasure and the eternal
plan for you. Surrender all
the remaining days of your
life to God, and let the
Lord use these for such
activities and services as
will be pleasing to God and
not to yourself.”
--St Jane Frances de Chantal
Prayer Requests
General Intentions
Blessed Virgin’s Intentions, Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope
Francis I, Archbishop Rodi, Father Jayaraj,
Father Milsted, Father Charles, Priests of the
Archdiocese, Bonnie Latino, Tim DiVincenti,
Curt Beck, Paul Crenshaw, Richard and Mary
Powers, Bob Vale, Jim Kizer, Persecuted
Christians, Ken Engleson, The USA, Susan &
Carl Bowen, Ron & Blinda Smith, Catherine
Lambert, Mr. & Mrs. Leo I. Bellard, Sr., Angeline
& Bernard Siulburski, Jaime Williams,
Fredrick Allen, John Ashe, Matt Carnely, Michael
English, Clyde & Iva Burkett, Amanda
Matta, Jennifer Schuman, Logan Lee Holder,
Trey Holder, Evan McGhee, William Stanhope,
Paul Peck & Family, Carol Wolinski,
Grace Detling, Tom & Darle Warta, Gary Robertson
& Family, Joan Bogdan, Barbara &
Richard Harris and Martha Sneed.
Our Military Family
Scott Stanford (USN), Andrew Markush
(USN), Will Markush (USN) and Joshua Wilson
(USAF).
Repose of Souls
Marjorie Lalak, John Rompinan, Ruth K.
Turner and Eric Chaloux.

St. Teresa of Calcutta
Today in Rome, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta will be canonized.
Born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on August 26, 1910, in
Skopje, Macedonia, she went to India in 1929 as a Sister of
Loreto. She became an Indian citizen in 1947 and founded
the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. She died in Calcutta on
September 5, 1997, after a life of cring for the poor, abandoned,
and marginalized. She was beatified in 2003 by St.
John Paul II.
—Living with Christ, September 2016