HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
Washington, DC

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

Bulletin
Sunday, 7 September 2008
Twenty-Third Sunday of Ordinary Time

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

September 7, 2008 – Twenty-Third Sunday of Ord. Time
9:00 Annunziata Ruzzi
10:30 Cesare Mazzocchi and Maria Faramonti
12:00 Mary Carew
4:30 Wedding of Sami Simaan & Marisa Farruggio
Monday, September 8, 2008 – Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
12:05 Pietro & Udilia Gobbato
Tuesday, September 9, 2008 – Peter Claver, priest
10:30 Memorial Mass Christina Barrett
12:05 Paolo Priarone
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Concetta DelGrasso Goetzinger
Thursday, September 11, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Stefania & Arturo Nobilio
Friday, September 12, 2008 – Weekday
12:05 Concetta Cotturo Goetzinger
Saturday, September 13, 2008 – Weekday
No Mass
September 14, 2008 –Exaltation of the Holy Cross
9:00 Holy Name Society
10:30 Vincenzo Avallone & Luisa Masiello
12:00 Maria DeSantis

The collection for Sunday, August 31 was $2,249.00.

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

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Correction is a small but important way of fulfilling the commandment to love each other. Jesus tells us that all of us have the responsibility of correcting others, our peers and even our superiors. It is not Christian to shut our eyes in the face of evil, because we are part of the community, part of the Body of Christ.

Jesus tells us that correction is called for when a wrong is committed against us. Also, Jesus encourages us to deal with an offender directly and privately. People have to acquire the necessary skills to accomplish correction in an effective and appropriate way. That’s why correcting others is called “though love.” Each Eucharist reminds us of our obligations as disciples of Jesus and as members of his Body.


VENTITREESIMA DOMENICA DEL TEMPO ORDINARIO
La correzione fraternal fa parte del commandamento di amarsi gli uni gli altri. Deve essere fatta direttamente e privatamente quando il male è fatto a noi stessi. Ma per essere efficace, la correzone richiede di essere fatta in una maniera giusta. Ogni celebrazione eucaristica ci ricorda dei nostri obblighi come discepoli di Gesù e membra del suo Corpo Mistico.

 

"If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have won over your brother. If he does not listen, take one or two others along with you, so that 'every fact may be established on the testimony of two or three witnesses.'" - Mt. 18:15-16

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Readings for the Week of 7 September 2008
Sunday: Ez 33:7-9/Rom 13:8-10/Mt 18:15-20
Monday: Mi 5:1-4a or Rom 8:28-30/Mt 1:1-16,18-23 or 1:18-23
Tuesday: 1 Cor 6:1-11/Lk 6:12-19
Wednesday: 1 Cor 7:25-31/Lk 6:20-26
Thursday: 1 Cor 8:1b-7, 11-13/Lk 6:27-38
Friday: 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27/Lk 6:39-42
Saturday: 1 Cor 10:14-22/Lk 6:43-49
Next Sunday: Nm 21:4b-9/Phil 2:6-11/Jn 3:13-17

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 A PERSONAL APPROACH TO RELIGION

A generation or two ago Catholics practiced their faith more than those of other traditions; today, in general, they do so less than others. A generation or two ago Catholicism was expressed and transmitted culturally. Today, religion is not, in general, expressed and transmitted as effectively at a cultural level.

Religion for evangelicals and some other Protestants has often been more a personal than collective expression. That has been a good fit for those traditions in a time of globalization and an increasing emphasis on personal choice as people live further from families of origin, marry later, have fewer children, and identify less with neighborhood-based subcultures. Catholics are still getting used to this change – but where they have, for example in parts of the South and West where they are relative newcomers or in newer suburban areas, they have made the transition relatively well, and the church, relatively speaking, is flourishing.

The challenge is to change our way of thinking from a church that lives with our subcultural, ethnic, or any other form of collective identity to a church that lives with our own personal, individual identity. Catholicism will no longer do well if we expect it to simply be socialized into the next generation by some sort of allegedly near-automatic process; it has to be accepted by each and every person, one at a time and on an ongoing basis.

There is plenty of room for Catholicism and religion in general at the level of the person. That is not to deny the communal and sacramental nature of Catholicism. Today, however, instead of entering Catholicism collectively, people enter individually – and then as individual persons come to a communal experience of the tradition. We Catholics have to take our religion personally.

- BRYAN FROEHLE

TODAY’S SECOND COLLECTION is for the Catholic University of America, the national university of the Catholic Church in the United States, located in Washington, D.C. CUA provides an academically rigorous education guided by Catholic intellectual tradition to 6,000 students every year. Every dollar we give 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 takes place today, September 7, 2008, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. FREE admission.

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 SECONDA COLLETTA OGGI è per l’Università Cattolica d’America, l’univeristà nazionale della Chiesa Cattolica negli Stati Uniti, situata a Washnington. DC. L’università Cattolica provvede un’educazione accademica rigorosa, guidata da una tradizione intellettuale cattolica a 6,000 studenti ogni anno. Ogni dollaro che doniamo andrà per intero al fondo spese degli studenti delle diocesi americane. 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 è oggi 7 settembre 2008, dalle ore 11 allle ore 18. Entrata Gratis.

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.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Mark your calendar!