MASSES FOR THIS WEEK CALENDAR - …

1 Page Two Holy Apostles MASSES FOR this week CALENDAR . Sunday, June 26 Sunday, June 26. 9:30am - Catherine Fowler - Red Czudak 9:00am - Rosary for Peace 11:30am - (Spanish) Providencia & Marita Santos - 9:30am & 11:30pm MASSES - 1st Communion Leticia Santos Monday, June 27. Tuesday, June 28 7:00pm - Alcoholics Anonymous (HA). 8:00am - Ken Ellman - Lou & Jane Tuesday, June 28. 7:00pm - (Spanish) (Chapel) Marie J. Brower - 7:00pm - Narcotics Anonymous (HA). Estate Wednesday, June 29. Wednesday, June 29 7:00pm - Prayer Meeting, Spanish (Urban Ctr.). 8:00am - Calagero Profeta - Lori Palermo & Family Thursday, June 30. Thursday, June 30 7:00pm - Ice Cream Social (Warner St. Parking Lot). 8:00am - Deceased of the Menzner Family - Estate Friday, July 1.

2 Friday, July 1 5:30pm - Evening Prayer - (HA). 8:00am - Deceased of the Brown & Weber Family - 6:00pm - Youth Group (Youth House). Estate 6:30pm - Holy Hour, Spanish (Chapel). Saturday, July 2 Saturday, July 2. 4:00pm - People of the Parish, Living & Deceased 11:00am - Faith Formation Class (Urban Ctr.). Sunday, July 3 3:00pm - RCIA (Rectory). 9:30am - Natalie Spaziano & Deceased of Spaziano Sunday, July 3. Families - Mary Spaziano 9:00am - Rosary for Peace 11:30am - (Spanish) People of the Parish, Living &. Deceased PARISH PICNIC Come worship and enjoy our parish picnic on Sunday, July 31st at Westgate Park. DONATIONS Westgate Park is located across from the super Wal-Mart and behind the post Office at 1489. this week the Holy Apostles Sanctuary Candle Howard Road (14624).

3 We begin by celebrating a will burn in loving memory of bilingual Mass at 11:00 in the open picnic TERESA MARINETTI shelter (to the right of the playground as you enter). requested by Seating is limited so please bring lawn chairs for DICK & ADELE KLEIN. your convenience. Note: There will be no Mass at Holy Apostles Church on Sunday morning July 31st. The Saturday anticipated Mass at 4:00 will be SAVE THE DATES celebrated as usual. Following Mass we will move across the parking lot to the enclosed shelter for some Ice Cream Social snacks and appetizers. Hots, hamburgers, rolls and Thursday, June 30, 2011 drinks, provided by the parish, will be served at approximately 1:15 It is a dish to pass picnic, and in order to have the right amount of food, we would appreciate it if you could use the sign-up sheets Parish Picnic in the back of Church to indicate how many are Westgate Park coming and an indication of what dish or snack you would like to bring.

4 Your July 31, 2011 generosity is appreciated. Come and celebrate the Eucharist with our parish community and then enjoy an afternoon of good food, fun, conversation and Weekend Collection Reports: games. Please also bring any games you may wish to June 11 & 12, 2011 enjoy with one another. Contact Liz Burke at 647- OFFERING ATTENDANCE 3272, Sr. Lorraine Julien at 529-5689 or Deacon John $ 313 Crego at 464-0596 if you have any questions or would like to help. Page Three Holy Apostles Feast of Corpus christi An accident in the middle of the desert The first reading for this feast of Corpus christi paralyzed one of my legs. When the doctor has Moses reminding the Hebrews how God had pity arrived - eight days later - it was too late; I shall be on them in their hunger in the desert and fed them lame for the rest of my life.

5 With a kind of bread called manna. this bread Stretched out on a mat in the cell of an old Saha- sustained them in their long journey to the Promised ran fort, I looked at the marks made by time on the Land. mud wall, whitewashed in lime by the soldiers of the Jesus addressed a different hunger that the Foreign Legion. The heat made it difficult to disciples would have when he would leave them by I remained silent, trying mentally to take my soul his dying and returning to heaven. Jesus love and beyond the compounds of my room into the little concern for his disciples and for all who would Arab- style chapel where I knew the Eucharist believe in him down through the ages, was shown was.. My leg was hurting terribly, and I had to when he became our food in the Eucharist.

6 He work up the force to stop my mind wandering. I re- identified himself with the bread when he said take membered Pius XII once asking in one of his audi- and eat, this is my body given for you and with the ences, What does Jesus do in the Eucharist? Even wine when he said it was his blood poured out for us. today, after so many years, I do not know how to The gift of himself at the Last Supper was reply. consummated on the cross the next day. Jesus had In the Eucharist Jesus is immobilized not in one also said, whenever you do this , do it in memory of leg only, but both, and in his hands as well. He is re- me. this Eucharist was to be repeated continually duced to a little piece of white bread. The world for all time-meant for all of us.

7 Each Sunday Jesus needs him so much and yet he doesn t speak. Men invites us to this Sacred Meal which expresses his need him so much and he doesn t move! deep desire to nourish us with his own life and to The Eucharist is the silence of God, the weakness remind us over and over how much we are loved. of God. Just as earthly bread sustains us in our physical It is as though the world and the Eucharist were hunger, the Bread that is the Lord Jesus, sustains us walking in opposite directions. in the deepest hungers we humans can have, our One has to be courageous not to let oneself be hunger for belonging, for being loved and for loving carried along by the world s march; one needs faith others. When Jesus says, this is my flesh for the and will-power to go crosscurrent towards the life of the world, he is speaking of these deep Eucharist, to stop, to be silent, to worship.

8 And one hungers which give meaning to our lives and needs really strong faith to understand the impotence increases our capacity to become more like the One and defeat which the Eucharist represents and which we receive. In receiving Jesus, we are made one is today what the impotence and defeat of Calvary with him, and through him, one with his Father in the was yesterday. unity of the Holy Spirit. In turn, Jesus asks us to And yet this powerless Jesus, nailed down and receive others that they too may be one, that they annihilated, is the God of the Impossible, Alpha and may experience love and belonging as we have. As Omega, the beginning and the end. he is Bread for us, he asks us to be bread for one Carlo Carretto another.

9 - Sister Lorraine Letters from the Desert Thank - you for making your Stewardship pledge last weekend. If anyone was not at church last week or did not turn in your pledge you are still able to turn your pledge in today. Please be generous! Holy Apostles Church Contact person: Joanne Kleisley 585 254-7170.