20th Sun.
in Ordinary Time 8/18/02 Scripture Reading:
All peoples are invited to worship in the Lord and to know his
ways. God’s gifts and his call are to Jew and Gentile alike. Jesus comes to
recognize the universality of God’s call in granting the request of the
Cananite woman.
MASS INTENTIONS
SATURDAY: AUG. 17
4:30 pm Celia
Kitson (Family)
SUNDAY: AUG. 18 – TWENTIETH SUNDAY
IN
ORDINARY TIME
8:00 am Anthony D’Amico (Family)
10:00 am Lenny
Glinka (Regina Wyrczkowski)
(Sister, Lena,
Brother Jim, Niece Donna)
MONDAY: AUG. 19- JOHN EUDES
7:30 am Susan Koteles (Ed
and Amy Koteles)
TUESDAY: AUG. 20 – BERNARD
7:30 am John Blatnik (Wife,
Eleanor)
WEDNESDAY: AUG. 21 –PIUS X
7:30 am Jana
Brothers (Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walters)
THURSDAY: AUG. 22- QUEENSHIP OF THE
BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
7:30 am John P. Bene (Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Kinnell)
FRIDAY: AUG. 23 – ROSE
OF LIMA
7:30
am Ann Gavin (Anniv.) (Beacon
Family)
SATURDAY: AUG. 24
4:30 pm Joseph
Mendolera, Sr. (ChaunceyFamily)
SUNDAY: AUG. 25 – TWENTY-FIRST
SUNDAY
IN
ORDINARY TIME
8:00 am For the Parishioners
10:00 am Anthony
and Mary Ferrante (Russo Famiy)
(Jack and Mary Ann
Dempsey)
THIS
WEEK IN THE LECTIONARY
Mon Ez 24:15-241 (Ps) Dt 32:18-21;
Mt 19:16-22
Tue Ez 28:1-10; (Ps) Dt 32:26-36;
Mt 19:23-30
Wed Ez 34:1-11; Ps 23:1-6; Mt
20:1-16a
Thu Ez 36:23-28; Ps 51:12-19; Mt
22:1-14
Fri Ez 37:1-14; Ps 1072-9; Mt
22:34-40
Sat Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-18; Jn
1:45-51
Sun Is 22:19-23; Ps 138:1-8; Rom
11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20
DIOCESAN HOT-LINE
The Catholic Diocese of Cleveland has established a hot-line
number at which anyone with a concern, a need, a complaint about sexual abuse
or any other related matter can get help and can be heard. That phone number is (216) 696-6525 ext.
6600 or 6601.
PARISH BUDGET BUSINESS
Offertory Contributions
Contributions for August 11 and 12
$ 8,987.17
Please note: $10,500.00 is needed weekly
to pay our bills and avoid
going into debt
Thank You!
PLEASE PRAY
Please keep in your prayers the sick and the homebound of our
parish, Elizabeth Baroni, Nick Balishin, Robert Bartkowski, Ellen Blados, L.C.,
Mary Cala, Maria Carriero, John Cegonko, Geraldine D’Amico, Eleanor Dembowski,
Rita Downey, Dominic Fabrizio, Cheryl Gesik, Judy Glaros, Helen Glinka, Edward
Globokar, Steve Hajdu, Virginia Harley, John Husack, Jessica Kickham, Charles
Kolesnicky, Millie Kulchar, Don Lubecki, Camille Manzo, Abigail Morrow,
Elizabeth Miller, Judith Nagorski, Helen Plewacki, Josephine Radic, Clara
Rocco, Eleanor Sabo, Jordyn Sansavera, Catherine Schiffbauer, Daniel Sholz,
Bonnie Sobiesienski, Jean Toth, Stanley Trojanowski, and Michael Tustan.
And the recently deceased: Ann Grin (Aunt of Ken
Stanoszek).
FOOTBALL RAFFLE
Once again St. Martin of Tours will be holding a football
raffle. This raffle supplies the church with needed funds. Tickets will be
available shortly. We ask all parishioners to help sell these tickets for fun
and profit.
ST.
MARTIN OF TOURS ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE
St. Martin of Tours 3rd
Annual Pilgrimage
Where:
Our Lady of Consolation Shrine in Carey, OH
When:
Wednesday, September 11, 2002
Cost:
$30, lunch included
Sign-up and Money due by August 26, 2002
There will be a Pilgrimage Mass, lunch,
Stations of the Cross on your bus, Devotions-Enrollment in the Confraternity,
Rosary, Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Scripture Reading, Homily,
Benediction, Prayers for Healing and Individual Prayers with Pilgrims.
Please save this day and join Fr. Jamie in
a day of prayers and Thanksgiving. For further information you may call Dolores
Machen at 216-663-7443.
Sign-up sheets are in the vestibule of the
church.
FROM THE PASTOR
Dear friends,
Again this week we deal with the issue of the sexual abuse
scandal in the Church. The Special Commission, chaired by William Denihan, has
finished its draft toward making a new Diocesan Policy. It is too costly and too cumbersome to make
enough copies for everyone of the thirty sides of printed material, which make
up the document. Information below
lists how you can get hold of a copy to read this material. What is important is that you do read it and
make your response heard so that the Diocese can hammer out the best policy
possible for the good of our children, of our families, and of the Church.
It’s tiresome to be dealing with this over and over again. That seems to be a cumulative result of what
has happened through years of overlooking how serious abuse of a minor is and
of how deeply and lastingly hurt many of the victims have become.
Through it all Church goes on.
For through every Calvary there comes an Easter Sunday. Just three days ago we celebrated the
‘Feast.’ We treasured the holiness and
faith filled response of Mary to grace.
In contrast to all those sins and crimes against others (especially the
young) we can look to Mary as our model of purity in word and action and as the
paragon of living each day full of grace.
When we think of the horror things done to little ones, we see how low
we can sink as humans. When we reflect
upon Mary, we see our Mother and Sister raised up in holiness and we can
glimpse that God wants to raise us up to be like Mary. May our faith lead and
encourage each of us to desire to be a saint, to be like Mary.
In Christ,
Fr. Jamie
MEN’S PRAYER GROUP
Fourteen men came to the church for an hour of prayer and
fellowship this past Saturday. Rich
Bacha very capably facilitated the gathering, which began with coffee at 7:30
am; the prayer portion lasted from 8:00 to 9:00 am. Actually, we finished a few minutes before nine. The next meeting
will be Saturday, September 14. All men
of the parish are welcome.
HAPPPY ANNIVERSARY
Best wishes to Ron and Mary Roch who will celebrate their 40th
Wedding Anniversary on August 18.
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION ON
SEXUAL ABUSE
The Special
Commision on Sexual Abuse in the Diocese of Cleveland has completed its proposed draft
document. They ask three things. First that copies be made available to
parishioners and parents of school children.
Copies of the report are available by request at the parish office, on
the Internet at www.specialcommission.org and also on a link from www.diocese
of cleveland.org, and in the vestibule of the church for your reading. Second, the Commission asks that parishioners
have ways to respond to the draft.
Response forms are available at the rectory office, in the vestibule of
the church or on the internet. See the
form itself for more detailed information. The response form lists several ways
to return the form. Deadline for
comments is August 26, 2002. Thirdly,
we are to send people to a meeting of parish representative for our
district. Our Suburban Southeast
District will meet along with the Suburban East District on Thursday, September
5, at 7:30 pm at St. Francis of Assisi Parish at 6850 Mayfield Road in Gates
Mills. If you feel you need to be in
the group going from here, contact the parish office. If you have any questions for the Commission itself, please call (216) 281-8717.
ANYTHING BUT ORDINARY
The Church year is divided into various liturgical
seasons. Ordinary Time makes up 33 or
34 Sundays out of every year, or about 60% of the calendar. You can tell Ordinary Time because the
vestments are green.
What’s
extraordinary? We might call the other Church
seasons “Extra-Ordinary”—Advent, Christmas,
Lent, Easter. The stories of
Jesus during these times have special significance. We celebrate his birth, life, death and resurrection. The rest of the time is numbered (ordinal),
or Ordinary. But, Ordinary time is
anything but ordinary! Through the
year, most of our daily existence—tending to the basic necessities of food,
clothing, and shelter, all requiring the ordinary reality of works—seems very
ordinary. But is it?
Divine power
in our daily lives. Jesus uses ordinary human
experiences in his parables to direct our attention to the kingdom of heaven:
farmers sowing seeds, people baking bread, young lads walking along with fish
and bread. Jesus can take what is right
in front of us and transform it into an image of the reign of God. Should we not then do the same, and see the
divine potency in our ordinary lives?
(Next time we will look at St. Benedict who was able to see God’s
presence in every day life.)
WEEKLY EVENTS
Sun: Aug 18 Twentieth Sunday of Ordinary Time
Mon: Aug 19 6:30 pm Rosary
and Novena (C)
Sat: Aug 24 SVdP Food Collection
Sun: Aug 25 Twenty-first Sunday of Ordinary Time
SVdP Food Collection
SACRAMENTAL COORDINATOR/PSR PRINCIPAL
We are forming a religious education team
to fill those roles. Please contact Fr.
Jamie if you are interested in the coordination of either the sacramental
preparation program (First Penance, First Communion, Confirmation) or the PSR
(Parish School of Religion)
PSR REGISTRATION, TEACHERS AND AIDES
PSR (the Parish School of Religion for students K-8 who attend
public or private, but not Catholic schools) begins on Tuesday, September 10,
6:45-8:00 pm in the elementary school.
If you have a child or children not yet registered for the fall, please
pick up registration forms at the rectory office or in the vestibule of the
church. There will be a meeting this
Wednesday, August 21, at 6:30 pm for all those interested in teaching or in
being aides for the program. Contact
Fr. Matt or Fr. Jamie with any questions.
DO YOU WANT TO
BECOME CATHOLIC--ARE YOU A CATHOLIC ADULT WANTING CONFIRMATION?
RCIA is how non-baptized persons, non-Catholics, or baptized
only Catholics can become fully initiated into the Catholic faith. If you know
of someone who fits in these categories, tell them to contact Fr. Jamie or Fr.
Matt at the rectory. This includes
persons who were never baptized, baptized Christian but not Catholic, baptized
Catholic but not communicated or confirmed. The process will begin in September
on Monday nights. If you would like to
be on the RCIA team to help those becoming catholic, you can contact the
rectory as well.
BE AN ANGEL DONATE THAT OLD CAR
Help yourself to a tax deduction, a free tow
whether it runs or not and, to top it off, a good feeling of helping someone in
need. Call 216-696-6825 ext 3150 for more information. The St. Vincent de Paul
Society of the Diocese of Cleveland will sell you vehicle to raise funds for
its charitable programs that help the needy in our area.
St. Martin of Tours 3rd Annual Pilgrimage
Our Lady of Consolation Shrine,
Carey, Ohio
September 11, 2002
HEALING HUMOR
Mrs. Allen was having a tough time
getting the catsup to flow from a bottle.
While she pounded the bottle the doorbell rang.
“See who is there,” she shouted to
Jimmy, who ran to open the door. There was Father Murphy, to see about some
parish business.
“Where’s your mom?” he asked.
Brightly Jimmy replied: “She’s out
in the kitchen, hitting the bottle.”
(from JOKES PRIESTS CAN TELL, VOL.
1, by Msgr. Arthur Tonne, 1983)
We might be
tempted to ‘hit the bottle’ if we felt it to be true that Jesus played
favorites and did not care about us or our problems. However, not only did the Lord of Life come for the ‘lost sheep
of the house of Israel’, he came to love, comfort, forgive, heal, and save us
all. The entirety of humankind makes up
the family of the God who is with us, the God who loves us.
MARTINEERS TRAVELERS
We are sponsoring trips to:
Tuesday, September 3 Greektown
Casino
Cost $29.00—payment due by
August 5
Saturday, October 26 Trick
or Treat Bag Going
to Waterford, Spartansburg, Cambridge, PA
Wednesday, November 7 Oglebay
A guided tour of the Festival of Lights
For more information
or reservations contact Dee Kriz at 216-663-7258. All are Welcome!
MARTINEERS
JEWELRY SALE
Special
‘thanks’ and ‘blessings’ to all who have donated jewelry. It is not too
late, to donate unwanted jewelry items if you have forgotten. The BOX will
remain in the vestibule until Labor Day weekend. Sale will be September 19,
more to follow. Questions call Angie at 216-475-9857.
FOOD COLLECTION
Next weekend August 24 and 25, will be our monthly St. Vincent
de Paul food collection. All non-perishable food items would be greatly appreciated
to help those in need.
NEW PARISH EMAIL AND WEB
SITE
The use of computers and the internet has
become almost commonplace in today’s world and Church. Recent statistics show that 90% of internet
users are Christians. In an effort to
increase our responsible use of the miracle of modern communication we are
announcing our new parish email address: “stmartin@usa.com” . Our parish website can be reached in several
ways the easiest of which is to type the following into your web browser and
click “go”: www.geocities.com/saintmartinoftours . Then click on the picture of our Church and bookmark the actual
site for future reference. The school
email is “stmartintours@leeca.org”. We
are in need of volunteers skilled in the use of computers, websites or the
Internet to help us maintain and develop our parish’s use of the web. Please contact Fr. Matt 475-4300 or email
stmartin@usa.com if you have some extra time or feel called to help. We have an immediate need for someone to
help upload the bulletin each week. It
could be emailed to you and we could train you on how to do this from home.
Also we have a new fundraising link on our
parish website titled “shop to support Saint Martin of Tours.” When you make any purchases over the web,
please click through this link first and then our parish will receive up to 10%
of all your Internet purchases for free!
Its just like the certificate program in that the stores donate funds to
us just for directing our parishioners to shop through the link on our parish website.
THE HUNGER CENTER NEEDS YOU
St. Martin’s assists at the Hunger Center at South Haven Church
on Northfield Road in Bedford (next to Bedford High School.) The Hunger Center
needs a second representative from our parish to help serve the needs of the
hungry by attending the next meeting of people made up of members of churches
in the Southeast Clergy Council. That meeting will take place on Tuesday,
September 3, at South Haven Church. If you would like to attend on behalf of
our parish, please call the rectory.
PLEASE HELP US KEEP “UP TO DATE”
If you’ve recently had a
child, and the baptism took place at another parish; please let us know so
we can update our files.
If a child has moved out
of your home, and is living on their own, please let us know.
If you are a young
adult, supporting yourself, living on your own or with your parents, you
should be independently registered at our parish.
If your son or daughter
has gotten married, at a parish other than St. Martin’s, please let us know
so we can make the appropriate notation in our records.
If you have changed your
address or phone number, please let us know so we can have the correct
information on file.