HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
Washington, DC

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

Bulletin
Sunday, 18 October 2009
The Twenty-Ninth Sunday of Ordinary Time

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday, October 18, 2009 – 29th Sunday in Ord. Time
9:00 Luigi Ruzzi
10:30 Umberto & Erminia Romano
12:00 In honor of St. Gerard
Monday, October 19, 2009 – Weekday
12:05 Franco DePerna
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 – Weekday
12:05 Nunzio DiPerna
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 – Weekday
12:05 Joseph Goetzinger, Jr.
Thursday, October 22, 2009 – Weekday
12:05 Leonardo Sauro
Friday, October 23, 2009 – Weekday
12:05 Nerina Zappalà Aniversario
Saturday, October 24, 2009 – Weekday
11:00 St. Padre Pio Prayer Group Mass
4:30 Wedding of James Kim & Nicole Coviello
Sunday, October 25, 2009 – 30th Sunday in Ord. Time
9:00 Famiglia Flaim
10:30 Bruno Cricini
12:00 Joseph Silenzi

 

The Collection for Sunday, October 11th was $1,807.00.

 

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

 

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Power, status, and self-worth. Everyone finds them important and probably even struggles with them in families, jobs, and souls. Today’s readings remind us, under the pressures to take control of our lives and surroundings, to seek positions of prestige, to compete with another, and somehow to feel worthy through it all, that in Jesus’ kingdom greatness and being “first” come from service to others. Because the Lord has experienced human suffering, weakness and temptation and has offered himself to redeem them, we can approach God’s merciful presence with confidence.

 

VENTOTTESIMA DOMENICA DEL TEMPO ORDINARIO

Sentendo Gesù parlare di sofferenza, gli apostoli comprendono le parole di Gesù come una fase per arrivare al trionfo del regno di Dio. Secondo Gesù, invece, le persone “arrivate” non trasformano nulla. Coloro che cambiano il mondo sono le persone contraddette e minacciate, come lui. È giocando la propria pelle che si instaura il regno di Dio.Il destino del Messia è quello del servo sofferente, che offre la sua vita in espiazione. Solo chi gli somiglia è grande nel regno di Dio.

"But it shall not be so among you. Rather, whoever wishes to be great among you will be your servant; whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all. For the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many." - Mk 10:43-45

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Readings for the Week of 18 October 2009
Sunday: Is 53:10-11/Heb 4:14-16/Mk 10:35-45 or 10:42-45
Monday: Rom 4:20-25/Lk 12:13-21
Tuesday: Rom 5:12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21/Lk 12:35-38
Wednesday: Rom 6:12-18/Lk 12:39-48
Thursday: Rom 6:19-23/Lk 12:49-53
Friday: Rom 7:18-25a/Lk 12:54-59
Saturday: Rom 8:1-11/Lk 13:1-9
Next Sunday: Jer 31:7-9/Heb 5:1-6/Mk 10:46-52

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WHY GO TO CHURCH: THE DRAMA OF THE EUCHARIST

The Mass is the central reason for most Catholics to gather in church. In his book, “Why Go to Church: The Drama of the Eucharist” (Continuum, London/New York), Timothy Radcliffe, former Master of the Dominican Order, goes through it element by chronological element, unfolding and enriching the symbolism and meaning of all that goes on during Eucharist. He looks at the Mass as a drama in three acts: faith, hope, and love.

We know that on Holy Thursday Jesus bade his friends to do what he had done “in remembrance,” but “we do not go to the Eucharist to remember an event that is simply past. We are touched by its present happening in our lives. Thomas Aquinas says that we encounter Christ not so much as risen but as rising. We are contemporary with the drama, rather like the Jews remembering the crossing of the Red Sea as an event that they share in even now, every time they celebrate the Passover. Now we are touched by the inexhaustible novelty of Christ.”

In his chapter on the general intercessions Radcliffe writes of the very notion of petitioning God, which some people think an unworthy sort of prayer. To the contrary, Jesus told his disciples to pray and in the Lord’s Prayer demonstrated asking God for what we need. “If we bring to God our real desires, then we will be in the presence of God as we are, rather than some false pious persona.”

In the Eucharistic prayer we pray for the pope and the local bishop by name as a way to say that our community is not just the group gathered in a parish church on Sunday morning, but the whole church all over the globe, undivided by space, time, or even death. At the end of the Mass we are sent forth, as the disciples were sent forth after Jesus returned to his Father, “free to leave the church… and go to other people, to share their lives and name the God who is already there.” Why go to church? We go “because we are offered a gift, Christ’s Body and Blood… We gather because Christ gathers us… The slow working of grace will free me to be sent at the end. Why go to church? To be sent from it.”

TODAY IS WORLD MISSION SUNDAY. We are called to this Eucharistic celebration – along with Catholics in every parish, chapel and church throughout the world – to recommit ourselves to the call we heard at Baptism, to share our faith, to be missionaries. Let us pray at this Mass for all who long to hear the hope-filled, life-giving message of Jesus’ love and salvation. Let us offer generous financial help to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith in support of the service of priests, Religious and lay catechists in more than 1,150 local churches throughout Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and remote regions of Latin America.

RELIGIOUS CLASSES began last Sunday. Children who are in the Second Grade or higher can be registered for the First Communion class. Children 12 and over may be registered for Confirmation.

HOLY ROSARY CHURCH has reached its goal for the 2009 Archbishops Appeal! As of Oct. 5, 2009, the 2009 appeal goal was $15,668.70; the total amount pledged was $20,012.00; and the total amount received was $16,152.00. We express our sincerest thanks to our parishioners who so generously contributed to the Archbishop’s Appeal.

ON SUNDAY, November 15, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., the Memorial Mass for deceased members of the Lido Civic Club will be held at Holy Rosary Church. Also, after Mass in the Church Hall, the Annual Father Donanzan Breakfast will be held, sponsored by the Holy Name Society. Price for the breakfast is $7 for adults and $2 for children and students.

CARDINAL THEODORE MCCARRICK, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington, DC, will join a diverse panel on Tuesday, November 3 at 7:30 p.m. at Gaston Hall in Georgetown University for a Woodstock Forum entitled “Honoring Human Dignity and the Common Good: A Catholic Approach to Immigration Reform”. Please RSVP to the Woodstock Theological Center at 202.687.3532.

“ADVENT SILENT RETREAT FOR WOMEN,” December 4-6, 2009. For information contact Mary Lee Seaman 301.937.4709 or the Dominican Retreat 703.356-4243.

OGGI È LA DOMENICA DELLA PROPAGAZIONE DELLA FEDE. Siamo chiamati a questa celebrazione Eucaristica assieme ai cattolici in ogni parrocchia del mondo – a rinnovare la chiamata revoltaci nel battesimo di essere missionari. Preghiamo a questa Messa per tutti coloro che desiderano sentire il messaggio di Gesù, vivificante e pieno di speranza. Contribuiamo con un generoso aiuto finanzario per aiutare la Società per la Propagazione della Fede in supporto al servizio di sacerdoti, religiosi e catechisti laici in più di 1,150 chiese locali, in Africa, Asia, le isole del Pacifico e regioni isolate dell’America Latina.

LE CLASSI DI CATECHISMO sono già cominciate. I bambini che sono nel secondo grado o piu avanzati possono registrarsi per la classe per la Prima Comunione, e ragazzi, 12 e sopra, possono registrarsi per la cresima.

LA CHIESA DEL SANTO ROSARIO a raggiunto la sua meta per l’Appello del Vescovo per il 2009! Al 5 ottobre 2009 la meta dell”Appello era di $15,668.70; la montare promesso era di $20,012.00; la montare ricevuto era di $16,152.00. Ringraziamo di cuore i nostri parrocchiani che cosi generosamente contribuirono all’Appello Arcivescovo.

DOMENICA, 15 dicembre 2009, alle ore 9:00 la Messa in suffragio dei defunti membri del Lido Civic Club avrà luogo nella Chiesa del Santo Rosario. Inoltre, la Colazione annuale in memoria di Padre Donanzan seguira’ in Casa Italiana. Biglietti: $10 (adulti); $2 (bambini e studenti).

IL CARDINALE THEODORE MCCARRICK, Arcivescovo Emerito di Washington, DC, parteciperà a una tavola rotonda martedi 3 novembre alle 7:30 p.m. nella Gaston Hall di Georgetown University per un Woodstock forum entitolato “onorando la dignita umana e il bene comune: un approccio catolico alla riforma migratoria.” Please RSVP al Woodstock Theological Center al 202.687.3532.

RITIRO SILENZIOSO PER L’AVVENTO PER DONNE: dicembre, 4-6 2009. Contattare Mary Lee Seaman 301.937.4709 o il Dominican Retreat 703.356-4243.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS: Mark your Calendar!

Polenta Dinner after the 12:00 Mass from 1:00 -3:30 p.m.