HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
Washington, DC

Serving Italians and all Catholics on the move in the Greater Washington DC Area since 1913

Bulletin
Sunday, 31 August 2008
Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

August 31, 2008 – Twenty-Second Sunday of Ordinary Time
9:00 Members of St. Gabriel Society
10:30 John D’Onofrio
25th Wed. Anniv. Giovanni Gaito & Maria Ciampa
12:00 Savino (Sam) Campanella
Monday, September 1, 2008 – Weekday Labor Day
No Mass
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Umberto, Vittoria & Luigi Spadone
Wednesday, September 3, 2008 – Gregory the Great
12:05 Marcella Lovell
Thursday, September 4, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Joseph T. Goetzinger
Friday, September 5, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Saint Maria Goretti
Saturday, September 6, 2008 – Weekday
No Mass
September 7, 2008 – Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time
9:00 Annunziata Ruzzi
10:30 Cesare Mazzocchi and Maria Faramonti
12:00 Mary Carew
4:30 Wedding of Sami Simaan & Marisa Farruggio
 

The collection for Sunday August 24 was $1,933.00.
 

LECTORS THIS SUNDAY
9:00 Geraldine Oliveto
10:30 Marco Randazzo and Adriano Romano
12:00 Alex LoBianco
 

TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
The words of Jesus, “Whoever wishes to come after me, must deny himself, take up his cross and follow me,” are a treasure of wisdom, because they prepare us for life. Jesus was not big on making rules. He offers only two commandments: love of God with one’s whole being and love of neighbor as oneself. What Jesus aimed at was the formation of proper attitudes toward God, oneself, other human beings and all of God’s creation. It is also much better to think of sin not as a violation of a rule, but as a renunciation of one’s vocation and call.
The attitude that Jesus wants his disciples to have is simply this: that life is not easy. Jesus does not promise to eliminate hardships, but to give us the courage to face them. All of our Lord’s rhetoric is aimed at one goal: to get us to manifest by our lives the divine image in which we were created.

VENTIDUESIMA DOMENICA DEL TEMPO ORDINARIO
Ventun secoli dopo il Vangelo, la Chiesa di Pietro si è diffusa in tutto il mondo. Essa deve saper perdere continuamente la sua vita, i suoi privilegi e le sue sicurezze, per accettare e abbracciare la croce del suo Signore.
Gesù non ci ha promesso di eliminare la sofferenza e la croce, ma di darci il coraggio di accetttarle. Tutto il messaggio di Gesù mira a far rivelare nella nostra vita l’immagine divina nella quale siamo stati creati.

 

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Readings for the Week of 31 August 2008
Sunday: Jer 20:7-9/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27
Monday: 1 Cor 2:1-5/Lk 4:16-30
Tuesday: 1 Cor 2:10b-16/Lk 4:31-37
Wednesday: 1 Cor 3:1-9/Lk 4:38-44
Thursday: 1 Cor 3:18-23/Lk 5:1-11
Friday: 1 Cor 4:1-5/Lk 5:33-39
Saturday: 1 Cor 4:6b-15/Lk 6:1-5
Next Sunday: Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20

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A NATIONAL DISGRACE

The recent raid of a slaughterhouse in Postville, Iowa, by federal immigration agents, who found hundreds of undocumented workers, some as young as 13, in dangerous conditions, working 17-hour shifts, six days a week, offers additional evidence of a broken immigration system and the urgent need to include a comprehensive immigration reform in both Republicans’ and Democrats’ platform conventions in order for our nation to emerge from the immigration chaos that Congress bequeathed it last year. Presidential candidates must confront the issue with courage and a plan.

The current strategy of our nation is to exploit its labor while ignoring its suffering, condemning its lawlessness while sealing off a path to legalization. Raids in homes and workplaces have spread indiscriminate terror among millions of people branded as predators who steal identities but who pose no threat.

In the absence of Congressional immigration reform, states have passed overly punitive laws affecting employers and workers. More than 175 bills relating to immigrant employment have been introduced by states this year. Immigrants in detention languish without lawyers and decent medical care, while legal paths are clogged or do not exist.

“The restrictionist message is brutally simple – that illegal immigrants deserve no rights, mercy or hope. It refuses to recognize that illegality is not an identity; it is a status that can be mended by making reparations and resuming a lawful life. Unless the nation contains its enforcement compulsion, illegal immigrants will remain forever Them and never Us, subject to whatever abusive regimes the powers of the moment may devise.

Every time this country has singled out a group of newly arrived immigrants for unjust punishment, the shame has echoed through history.” A century or so ago, the Irish Catholics, Jews, Italians, Eastern Europeans and even some Germans were not universally considered white. But then we learned that race and ethnicity are really about culture not biology, and we rediscovered that our national identity rests not on a common ethnicity, but on a set of ideas. The children of immigrants “someday will study the Great Immigration Panic of the early 2000s, which harmed countless lives, wasted billions of dollars and mocked the nation’s most deeply held values.” Perhaps, someday, our country will recognize the true cost of its war on illegal immigration to the national identity: the sense of who we are and what we value.

The basis for our action as Catholics, reminded us Cardinal Martino, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, is the affirmation of the central role of the human person, that all persons are equal, well beyond the differences deriving from origin, language and culture, regular or irregular legal status, in the belief of the unity of the human family.
 

THE SAINT GABRIEL SOCIETY celebrates its annual feast today, at the 9:00 AM Mass, followed by a continental breakfast in Casa Italiana for everyone present.

HAPPY LABOR DAY! Tomorrow, Monday, September 1, 2008, is Labor Day –a legal holiday. The parish and school offices will be closed.

THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA is the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States, located in Washington, DC. It provides an academic rigorous education guided by Catholic intellectual tradition to 6,000 students every year. Next week is the National Collection for The Catholic University of America. Every dollar given directly supports financial aid for students from dioceses across the country, including ours. Please be generous.

CASA ITALIANA LANGUAGE SCHOOL will begin its Fall Session on Sunday, September 14, 2008. It includes the famous Children’s Program as well as Art & Culture Classes and Cooking, Ceramics & Mosaic Classes. Anyone interested should pick up a brochure in the back of the Church or call the School office at 202-638-1348.

FALL MAILING: Our parishioners and friends will receive the Fall Mailing from our Church which will include a brochure with the schedule of events for FY 2008-2009, memberships forms for the Sodality of Mary and the Holy Name Society, a subscription renewal form for the new Voce Italiana, a brochure of our Casa Italiana Language School, and an order form for the book of the history of our parish, “An Italian American Community of Faith: Holy Rosary in Washington, DC. Please respond to this annual mail. Thank you.

ITALIAN FESTIVAL AT VILLA ROSA will take place next Sunday, September 7, 2008, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. FREE admission. Homemade Italian food is available throughout the day. Anyone interested to volunteer for the event should call the Villa at 301-459-4700.

RELIGION CLASSES will begin on Sunday October 19, 2008. Children who will be 7 years old next year and can receive Holy Communion, and youngsters 12 and over who wish to receive Confirmation are encouraged to register. Parents can pick up registration forms in back of Church.

CINEFORUM sponsored by the Friends of Casa Italiana, Sunday 14 September at 2 PM: The Leopard by Lucchino Visconti with Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Dilon, on the 50th Anniv. of the publication of the The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. The film will be followed by a discussion led by Pino Cicala. Refreshments will be available.

LA SOCIETÀ SAN GABRIELE celebro la sua festa annuale oggi, alla Messa delle nove seguita da una colazione continentale in Casa Italiana.

HAPPY LABOR DAY! Domani, lunedì, 1 settembre è Labor Day – una festa legale. Gli uffici della Chiesa e della Scuola saranno chiusi.

L’UNIVERSITÀ CATTOLICA D’AMERICA è l’università nazionale della Chiesa Cattolica negli Stati Uniti, situata a Washington, DC. Provvede un’educazione accademica rigorosa, guidata da una tradizione intellettuale cattolica, a 6,000 studenti ogni anno. La prossima settimana ci sarà la Colletta Nazionale per l’Università Cattolica d’America. La colletta andrà per intero al fondo spese degli studentti delle diocesi americane, includendo la nostra diocesi di Washington, DC. Siate generosi.

CASA ITALIANA SCUOLA DI LINGUA inizierà la sessione autunnale domenica, 14 settembre 2008. Include il famoso Programma per Bambini come pure corsi di Arte e Cultura, corsi in arte culinaria, in arte della ceramica e arte mosaico. Persone interessate possono prendere un depliant in fondo alla Chiesa, oppure chiamare l’ufficio della Scuola al 202-638-1348.

IN QUESTI GIORNI, parrocchiani e amici riceveranno posta contenete un depliant con l’orario degli eventi parrocchiali per l’anno fiscale 2008-2009, applicazioni per il Sodalizio di Maria e la Società del Santo Nome, una forma per rinnovare l’abbonamento a Voce Italiana, un depliant della nostra Scuola di Lingua, e una forma per ordinare il libro della storia della nostra Chiesa, “An Italian American Community of Faith: Holy Rosary in Washington, DC.” Favorite rispondere a questo apppello annuale. Grazie.

LA FESTA ITALIANA A VILLA ROSA ha luogo domenica prossima 7 settembre 2008, dalle ore 11 allle ore 18. Entrata Gratis. Cibo italiano fatto in casa è disponibile tutto il giorno. Volontari per questo evento possono cotattare Villa Rosa al 301-459-4700.

LE CLASSI DI CATECHISMO cominceranno domenica 19 ottobre, 2008. Bambini che avranno sette anni l’anno prossimo e posssono ricevere la Prima Comunione, e ragazzi, 12 e sopra, che desiderano ricevere la Cresima, sono incoraggiati a iscriversi. I moduli d’iscrizione si trovano nel retro della Chiesa.

CINEFORUM sponsorizzato dagli Amici di Casa Italiana, domenica, 14 settembre alle ore 14:00: Il Gattopardo di Lucchino Visconti con Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale e Alain Dilon, nel 50mo anniversario della pubblicazione di Il Gattopardo di Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. La discussione dopo il film sarà guidata da Pino Cicala. Rinfreschi saranno disponibli.