ST. BRIDE THE ROMAN CATHOLIC ARCHDIOCESE OF

CHICAGOParish Office: 773-731-8822Church Hall: 773-734-9125 Fax: 773-721-0673 Email: stbride@archchicago.org

MASSES THIS WEEKDaily Mass is celebrated at 8 AM

In the Parish House Chapel as scheduled The Fourteenth Sunday of the Church Year:

For the Intention of Carolyn AnzaloneFor the intention of Isabelle Rice

For the Intention of James P. HeffernanFor the Intention of Nicholas Pencek

For the Intention of Tyna Hoang NyuyenFor the Intention of Officer David Grubisic,

CPDMonday: WeekdayTuesday: WeekdayWednesday: St. Augustine Zhao Rong

And CompanionsThursday: WeekdayFriday: St. BenedictSaturday: WeekdayThe Fifteenth Sunday of the Church Year:

For the Intention of Dolores Bogacz

Our Parish Staff Reverend Robert J. Roll, Pastor

Ms. Laura L. Zbella, Administrative Manager

Mr. Terry Rose, Youth Minister Mr. Tommy Slay, Facilities Manager

Liturgy ScheduleSunday at 10 AM

Monday thru Friday as scheduled 8 AM in the House Chapel

The Sacrament of ReconciliationBefore Mass and anytime by appointment!

The Sacrament of the Sick Please make arrangements with

the Parish House to have the Sacraments brought to the sick and homebound.

The Anointing of the Sick should take place early in any

illness and as often as necessary. Please note: Hospitals are not allowed,

by law, to contact the parish. Please have someone contact

the Parish House for a hospital visit.New Parishioners

Please consider registering after Mass at the Activity Table in the Church or call the

Parish House at your convenience!Welcome Visitors to St. Bride

We are honored to have you with us!Please be sure to sign our guest book.

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The Fourteenth Sunday of the Church YearJuly 6, 2014

For the Intention of Fritz and LaVerne Baumgartner

For the Intention of Velma and Elma Gladney

For the Intention of Edith Austin

READINGS FOR THE WEEKMonday: Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps

145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26Tuesday: Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10;

Mt 9:32-38Wednesday: Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7;

Mt 10:1-7Thursday: Hos 11:1-4, 8c-9; Ps 80:2ac,

3b, 15-16; Mt 10:7-15Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9,

12-14, 17; Mt 10:16-23Saturday: Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33Sunday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 65:10-14; Rom

8:18-23; Mt 13:1-23 [1-9]

GOING HOMELife is a voyage that’s homeward bound.

—Herman Melville

Pray for Peace!

Mass Intentions AvailableIf you have a special anniversary or

celebration that you want to remember at Mass, now is the time to arrange to reserve that date. Please be sure to include your intention as well as your phone number when submitting the request. The traditional stipend per Mass is ten dollars.

Help the St. Bride Food Pantry

The Food Pantry continues it’s work even while we take a summer break! We will welcome your donations of NON-PERISHABLE food items to stock our shelves and prepare bags for those who utilize our outreach program.  We serve over 150 families a month. We have more than 400 families now registered for the program.  We need more assistance than ever in these troubled times. We also accept clothing for our clothes pantry and gently used small household goods; dishes, silverware, glasses, etc. Your financial support is greatly appreciated as are your donations of gift cards from local grocery stores.

Feast of St. Benedict July 11th

Dear St. Benedict, you are a "blessing" indeed, as your name indicates. Practicing what you preached, you founded the monastic tradition of the West by joining prayer to labor for God---both liturgical and private prayer. Help all religious to follow their Rule and be true to their vocation. May they labor and pray for the world to the greater glory of God. Amen.

A New Year of the Archdiocesan Strategic Pastoral Plan—A New and Important Step

By Father Louis CameliFr. Cameli is the Cardinal's Delegate for Formation and Mission.

So many church-based mission statements, strategic plans, and visions for the future are loaded with undeniably well-intentioned, sincere and even very noble aspirations. Unfortunately, often the grander the rhetoric, the weaker and less practical become the possibilities for genuine implementation and real impact. I do believe that Chicago’s Archdiocesan Strategic Pastoral Plan has managed to stay grounded in pastoral realities and the genuine needs of the people served by the Church. In great measure, this is due to the attention the Archdiocesan plan pays to central concerns of Catholic faith. The fourth year of the plan is about to begin, and it illustrates a strong focus on the center of faith.

At the heart of our Catholic faith is a fundamental conviction. We believe that the Word became flesh. In the humanity of Jesus Christ, God has been revealed to us and has moved among us. “The Word became flesh and lived among us, and we have seen his glory, the glory of a father’s only son, full of grace and truth.” (John 1:14) With the Incarnation, God has become accessible to us in a human way.We also believe that we have access today to Jesus Christ and his saving mysteries in the Church’s sacraments. Pope Saint Leo the Great speaks of the Lord’s Ascension and says, “And so our Redeemer’s visible presence has passed into the sacraments.” Through the sacraments, we are blessed to be able to meet the Lord personally and to share fully in the redemption that he has gained for us.

Catholic faith, at its core, is both incarnational and sacramental. A great challenge of preaching and catechesis is to draw our people into this center of their faith to understand it, to value it, and to find life in it. The Strategic Pastoral Plan’s fourth year, the Year of Sacraments is designed to meet that challenge with a variety of means, including bulletin articles, study guides, and specially designed celebrations across the year to highlight individual sacraments. The backdrop for all these efforts will be Pope Francis’ vision of healing and communion, as that vision comes alive in the sacraments we celebrate.

The goal is to open up the treasure of our sacramental faith to as many people as possible. And that goal fits into the larger purpose of the whole Archdiocesan Strategic Pastoral Plan to awaken and to implement the New Evangelization in the Archdiocese of Chicago, as we all seek to meet and renew our relationship with Jesus Christ in his Body, the Church.

SETTING ASIDE THE WEAPONS OF WARWhy, we might ask the prophet Zechariah today, would God want to banish chariots and

horses? The answer follows: because they are used to violate God’s reign of peace, along with the warrior’s bow. In the days of Zechariah, chariots and horses were high-priced items used only for war-making. They were the aircraft carriers and nuclear missiles of his day. And for his culture, which thought of any king as being a military leader first and foremost, a king riding on a lowly beast of burden to proclaim peace without horses, chariots, and bows would have set his listeners topsy-turvy.

This lowly, beast-riding king of peace, we believe, was fulfilled in Jesus, gentle and humble of heart. In a world torn by military strife often generated by differing religious views, and even in our own lives and homes where we are often at “war” over the tiniest things, we would do well to

stop and consider to what degree we are willing to be like that “king” whose way of gentleness and humility is the way for us to find rest for our weary souls.

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time - Meek and Humble GodJesus tells us in today’s Gospel that he is “meek and humble of heart.” Yet just a few lines before this,

he says that he is equal to his Father, the almighty God. So how can the Son of God be both meek and mighty?Jesus’ meekness meant doing the will of God completely. The challenge for us comes in his words

“learn from me.” We must learn to do God’s will as completely as Jesus did.First, to be complete means that we do all that God wants from us. We cannot pick and choose what we

want to do and what we want to ignore. For example, we may reserve the right to decide which teachings of the Church we will follow. But doing God’s will completely means doing it without reservation.

Second, we may try to do all that God asks, but give up if something becomes too difficult. We may say we forgive someone, for example, but when they reject that forgiveness, we become even angrier. We can learn from Jesus how to do each part of God’s will to completion, as Jesus did all the way to the cross.

St. Bride Church – Archdiocese of Chicago – July 6, 2014