La Chiesa del Santo Rosario Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church The Italian Parish of Indianapolis B envenuto! Welcome to Holy Rosary Church! Whether you are a lifelong parishioner, a first-time visitor to our parish, or someone in between, we are grateful you have joined us today. Founded in 1909 as the Italian Parish of Indianapolis, we continue to serve as the parish home of people of Italian heritage and also embrace all Catholics in union with Rome, including those devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) and the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite. In the words of our founding pastor, Msgr. Marino Priori: “The church is the temple of the Lord, the gate of heaven. Come after a week of earthly cares, after so much toil, after so many sorrows, after so much pain. Rest your limbs. Regenerate your spirit at the sources of grace. Raise your mind to God; thank Him for the benefits received through His creation and in daily life; ask for strength so you can win all of life’s struggles, and be able to posses the fruits of redemption.” November 19, 2017 Ordinary Form: Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time Extraordinary Form: Resumed 6th Sunday after Epiphany Anglican Use: Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity Mailing address: 520 Stevens St. Indianapolis, IN 46203 Telephone number: 317-636-4478 Emergency number: 317-636-4478, ext. 3 E-mail address: [email protected]Website: www.holyrosaryindy.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/holyrosaryindy Twitter: https://twitter.com/holyrosaryindy Parish Staff and Leadership: The Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, STD ................................. Pastor The Rev. Luke Reese ........................................Parochial vicar Elizabeth Welch ................................................Music Director David Walden .............................. Director of Communications Joseph LeMark ...................................Parish Council President Marcus Shutta .................................. Finance Council President
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La Chiesa del Santo Rosario O u r L a d y o f t h e M o s t H o l y R o s a r y C a t h o l i c C h u r c h
The Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, STD ................................. Pastor
The Rev. Luke Reese ........................................ Parochial vicar
Elizabeth Welch ................................................Music Director
David Walden .............................. Director of Communications
Joseph LeMark ...................................Parish Council President
Marcus Shutta .................................. Finance Council President
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Liturgical schedule for the week
Saturday, November 18, 2017
4:30 p.m. ........ OF (Sung) ....... 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time................................... John Maio
Sunday, November 19, 2017
8 a.m............... AU (Sung) ....... 23rd Sunday after Trinity ........................................... Ralph Miller
9:30 a.m. ........ OF (Sung) ....... 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time................................... Pro populo
11:30 a.m. ....... EF (Sung) ........ Resumed 6th Sunday after Epiphany 2 ....................... Michael Peoni
Monday, November 20, 2017
7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Feria .......................................................................... Ian & Elizabeth Brown
8 a.m. — St. Monica Guild rosary and prayer for the return of fallen-away Catholics
5:45 p.m......... No Mass
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary M ................ John A. Maio
5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary 3 ................. Gus & Charles Navarra
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... St. Cecilia M ............................................................... Brad Love
Noon .............. EF ................... St. Cecilia 3 ................................................................ Thanksgiving for all blessings
No afternoon Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Thursday, November 23, 2017 — Thanksgiving Day
9 a.m. ............. EF ................... Pope St. Clement I 3 ................................................... Thomas Spahn (anniversary)
10 a.m. ........... OF ................... Votive Mass of Thanksgiving Opt................................. Brad Love
Friday, November 24, 2017
9 a.m. ............. EF ................... St. John of the Cross 3 ................................................ Donald Friederick
10 a.m. ........... OF ................... St. Andrew Dũng-Lạc & Companions M .................... Fr. Luke Reese
Saturday, November 25, 2017
10 a.m. ............ OF ................... St. Catherine of Alexandria Opt................................... John A. Maio
4:30 p.m. ........ OF (Sung) ....... Christ the King S ........................................................ Michael Bova
Sunday, November 26, 2017
8 a.m............... AU (Sung) ....... Christ the King S ........................................................ Pro populo
9:30 a.m. ........ OF (Sung) ....... Christ the King S ........................................................ Ian & Elizabeth Brown
11:30 a.m. ....... EF (Sung) ........ 24th Sunday after Pentecost 2 .................................... Bibiana Conrad
OF: Ordinary Form EF: Extraordinary Form AU: Anglican Use (Ordinariate Form)
1: 1st-class feast 2: 2nd-class feast 3: 3rd-class feast Opt: Optional memorial M: Memorial F: Feast S: Solemnity
MASS INTENTIONS: The standard stipend for Masses in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is $10. Requests should indicate whether people
are living or deceased, and must be typed or written legibly. We will attempt to honor requested dates, but cannot guarantee they will be
available. We recommend such requests be made at least eight months in advance. Except in the year of an individual’s death, no more
than 12 Saturday evening/Sunday Masses may be requested or offered for the repose of his/her soul in a calendar year. Intentions that
cannot be offered here within a year of reception are, at the pastor’s discretion, subject to being sent to the archdiocesan Mission Office.
Make checks payable to Holy Rosary Church.
T his is the most profound meaning of the Holy Eucharist, which means „thanksgiving‟:
thanksgiving to God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who engages us and transforms us
in His communion of love. — Pope Francis, general audience, Nov. 8, 2017
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Announcements
The parish office will be closed Thursday and Fri-
day for the Thanksgiving holiday.
There are many changes to the Mass schedule this
week. Please see Page 2 for details.
Handmade items from our parishioners will be sold
at a Craft Boutique in Priori Hall today (Sunday)
after Masses, and again on Sunday, Dec. 3. For more
information, see Peggy Ashton or Sister Judith Ayers.
This week, the St. Monica Sodality Guild will
pray the rosary and the St. Monica Prayer for the re-
turn of baptized Catholics to the sacraments on Mon-
day after the 7:30 a.m. Mass. (The group usually
meets after the Monday evening Mass.) To learn
more about the St. Monica Sodality Guild, contact
parishioner Mary Oliver at 317-881-5352.
Our annual Giving Tree kicks off next weekend.
See Page 5 for more details.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Prayer Group will not
meet this week due to the Thanksgiving holiday.
Spirituality for Children and the adult Apologet-
ics A-Z will meet next Sunday, Nov. 26, after the
11:30 a.m. Mass.
All women of the parish — all ages, married, sin-
gle, etc. — are invited to the Women’s Holy Hour
& Confession Thursday, Nov. 30, at 7:30 p.m. in our
church. Holy Hour will be followed by “sips and
snacks” in Priori Hall. Spend quality time with the
Lord and meet other women in our parish.
If you haven‟t done so already, please return your
Bottles for Life to the collection bin by the statue of
Our Lady of Guadalupe in the vestibule. Proceeds
will help our Pro-Life Ministry continue its efforts to
promote and encourage a Culture of Life.
The High School Youth Group continues to sell
Mystic Monk coffees and teas after Saturday eve-
ning and Sunday Masses.
Altar servers will be selling Advent candles and
wreaths after Masses this weekend and next week-
end. Proceeds will help fund their annual pilgrimage
to Rome.
The Knights of Columbus are collecting Christ-
mas presents for the kids at Gibault Children’s
Services. Parishioners may bring a new, unwrapped
gift to church by Dec. 8 and place it in the marked
box in Priori Hall. Suggested gifts include: remote-
control cars, sports and older-youth books, DVD
movies for teens, video games, music CDs, action
figures, board games, baseball cards, body lotions for
boys and girls, sketch books and art pencils, LEGOs,
and handheld electronic games.
Please pray for our sick and shut-in friends:
Debbie Barry, Archbishop-emeritus Daniel
Buechlein, John Caito, Verna Carr, Katie Cecil, Son
Hui Christensen, Sharon Conrad, Carol Craig, Nancy
Duffy, Paquita Fallas, Dave Galbraith, Jody Gassert,
Sam Gorsage, Robert Hanaway, Josephine
Lombardo, Amy Mauck, Sidia Mora, Tony Navarra,
Nathan Oliver, John Pickett, Linda Sweatland, Phil
Vierneisel, Sister Rita Vukovic, Fr. James Wilmoth
and Jenifer Zehner.
Birthline, a program of the archdiocesan Office of
Human Life & Dignity, seeks a “Joe Handyman” to
help on Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to receive
donations, carry items to client‟s cars, clean donated
items and to repair simple fixes. The volunteer must
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ORDINARY FORM LECTORS 4:30 Saturday 9:30 Sunday
Nov. 18: Kurt Hostettler Nov. 19: Blake Powers
Nov. 25: Kris Barnes Nov. 26: Mark Matthews
BY THE NUMBERS
Sunday Collections (includes Online Giving)
Regular collection, November 11-12 $ 9,538.22
Pro-Life Ministry 10.00
Parish operating expenses/week 12,312.61
Collection budgeted/week 8,658.65
Weekly collection surplus 879.57
Fiscal Year (began July 1)
Regular collections $ 200,491.33
Parish operating expenses 246,252.20
Collections budgeted 173,173.00
Total collections surplus 27,318.33
Confessions
Week of November 5 45
Attendance
Daily Masses, week of November 5 626
Sunday Masses, November 11-12 572
Approximately 30% of the operating budget comes from
Italian Street Festival revenue and other fundraisers.
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P resident George Washington issued a proclama-
tion on Oct. 3, 1789, designating Thursday,
Nov. 26, as a national day of thanksgiving. His 15th
successor, Abraham Lincoln, regularly issued simi-
lar proclamations, including the closing of federal
government offices for a day of thanksgiving on
Nov. 28, 1861.
Then, exactly 74 years after Washington‟s edict,
Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November
would henceforth be a national day of
“Thanksgiving and Praise.” Thus was born the offi-
cial holiday now known for gluttonous portions of
turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie, etc., and
hours of watching parades and football games on
television.
American folklore traces Thanksgiving celebra-
tions to the Pilgrims in Plymouth, Mass., in 1621.
But according to some historians, the first Thanks-
giving on American soil was actually a Catholic
celebration in Palo Duro Canyon (near Amarillo,
Texas) on May 29, 1541. Coronado, the Spanish
conquistador, had led an expedition there from Al-
buquerque. Fr. Juan Padilla, O.F.M., offered the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It was followed by a
feast on local game with members of the Jumano
Indian tribe who had recently been baptized.
The second American Thanksgiving was celebrated
in St. Augustine, Fla., on Sept. 8, 1565. Native
Americans and Spanish soldiers, sailors and settlers
under the leadership of Don Pedro Menendez gath-
ered for a feast on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. The Spaniards ceremoniously claimed the
land for King Philip II (which may have been a sur-
prise to their Timucuan Indian guests). Ship chaplain
Fr. Francisco Lopez de Mendoza Grajales chanted
the Te Deum and offered the Holy Sacrifice of the
Mass.
The third recorded Thanksgiving in America oc-
curred near El Paso, Texas, on April 30, 1598, the
Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Following the
Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Spanish explorer Don
Juan de Oñate formally claimed the land north of the
Rio Grande for King Philip II. The men feasted on
duck, goose and fish, and then enjoyed a play pre-
sented by some of their fellow explorers; written by
one of their officers, it reenacted the conversion of
Indians by Franciscan missionaries.
It wasn‟t until 1621 that the anti-Catholic Puritans
celebrated their first Thanksgiving in the Massachu-
setts colony. As the story is told, they offered thanks
to God for having survived the harsh conditions, and
gathered for a feast with a local Native American
tribe. One of those natives, an English-speaking
brave named Squanto, is generally singled out for
having befriended the English settlers and for teach-
ing them how to grow crops and handle the local cli-
mate. What folklore rarely mentions is that Squanto
was Catholic!
Some years earlier, an English expeditionary force
had kidnapped Squanto and several other Indians,
hauled them to Spain and attempted to sell them into
slavery. Instead, they were rescued by Franciscan
friars (or Jesuit priests, according to some sources)
who subsequently catechized and baptized them.
Squanto made his way to England and worked in the
shipyards. He eventually returned to his tribe about
five years before the Pilgrims arrived. It could very
well be that his Catholic-trained conscience led him
to help the struggling English settlers.
So, as you prepare to eat your sumptuous banquet
this Thursday and to give thanks to God for the
many gifts He bestows upon us, say an extra prayer
for those Spanish explorers, Squanto and all our
Catholic ancestors (let us not forget the French ex-
plorers who brought the faith to our region!) who in
ways big and small helped to bring our nation into
being.
History of Thanksgiving in America: a Catholic perspective
A PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING
Father in Heaven, Creator of all, and source of all goodness and love,
please look kindly upon us and receive our heartfelt gratitude
in this time of giving thanks.
Thank You for all the graces and blessings You have bestowed upon us,
spiritual and temporal: our faith and religious heritage, our food and shelter, our health,
the love we have for one another, our family and friends.
Dear Father, in Your infinite generosity,
please grant us continued graces and blessing throughout the coming year.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son,
who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.
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Make Advent Meaningful
HOLY ROSARY
PARISH MISSION
Dec. 11-14, 2017
FOUR ETERNAL TRUTHS:
DEATH, JUDGMENT,
HEAVEN, HELL
Talks twice daily at 8:15 a.m. and 6:45 p.m.
presented by
Fr. Paul Landwerlen
Priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis
Mass daily at
7:30 a.m. (Ordinary Form)
5:45 p.m. (Extraordinary Form)
Confession at 7 a.m. & 5:15 p.m.
This week’s offerings of interest from the Internet:
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Bring a non-perishable food donation to your photo ses-
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Feed the Need:
Allow 1 hour for your photo session.
Your appointment will involve:
Signing in with the host or hostess;
Short wait for a photographer;
Your photo shoot;
Viewing your photos;
Purchase of additional photos if you wish.
Photo Session:
Wednesday, January 3, 2018 ................................... 2 p.m. — 8:30 p.m.
(This session is designed for registered families/individuals who didn’t participate in the most recent directory or who would like to update their current photo.)
Two Convenient Ways to Sign Up:
1. After Saturday evening/Sunday Masses beginning November 18-19.
2. Online at www.holyrosaryindy.org — click on the link to make a photo appointment. (Online service will be unavailable from 3 p.m. Friday until 9 a.m. Monday.)
Don’t miss out — again! We are updating the Parish Photo Directory
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IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW
ABOUT HOLY ROSARY CHURCH
Weddings:
Weddings can be scheduled only after meeting
with the pastor at least six months in advance of
the ceremony.
Baptisms:
Please contact Fr. McCarthy at the parish office or
Parish Registration Forms can be found in the rotat-
ing rack in the vestibule. Completed forms can be
placed in the collection basket or mailed to the of-
fice.
Electronic donations:
Online Giving, a convenient way to donate elec-
tronically, makes it easy for you to fulfill your fi-
nancial commitments to the par-
ish even when you are unable to
attend Mass. You do not need to
write a check or have cash available at church. Giv-
ing electronically also helps the parish staff budget
more effectively. You can make one-time or ongo-
ing contributions, the timing and amount of which
can be changed at any time. Learn more by visiting
holyrosaryindy.org and clicking on the “Online
Giving” icon. Apps are available for your phone; go
to OLGapp.com and register with the parish.
Schools:
Lumen Christi Catholic School (PreK-12)
317-632-3174 580 Stevens St., Indianapolis, IN 46203
Catholic Schoolhouse South Indy
317-201-5815 717 S. East St., Indianapolis, IN 46203
Lumen Christi and Catholic Schoolhouse use facilities that are either owned by or adjacent to our church. Although their students often attend Mass here,
they are independent academic institutions which have no formal relationship
with our parish or the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.
Central Catholic School
317-783-7759 1155 E. Cameron St., Indianapolis, IN 46203
Roncalli High School
317-787-8277 3300 Prague Road, Indianapolis, IN 46227
Central Catholic and Roncalli are the officially designated archdiocesan
Hall, 1400 N. Meridian St. For a donation of $10 or
more, individuals can dedicate a luminaria in mem-
ory of a loved one; gifts will be invested in the
Catholic Community Foundation to support the
growth of parish, school and agency ministries. A
reception will follow the service. To RSVP by
Wednesday, Nov. 29, and/or to make a donation,
visit archindy.org/CCF/EveningofLights.
The annual archdiocesan Young Adults Retreat
(ages 18-35) will be Dec. 1-3 at the CYO camp in
Nashville, Ind. It will feature a combination of
talks, prayer, small group conversations and relaxa-
tion. Registration deadline is Nov. 27. Learn more
at indycatholic.org/young-adult-retreat.
Save the date of Monday, Jan. 22, for the 45th
solemn anniversary of the notorious Roe v. Wade
Supreme Court ruling which made abortion legal
throughout the United States. In Indianapolis, we
will begin the commemoration with Mass at noon
in St. John the Evangelist Church downtown;
Archbishop Thompson and Bishop Timothy Do-
herty of Lafayette will be the celebrants. Other
planned events include a march to the statehouse,
various speakers, a prayer service and a youth rally.
Details will be forthcoming in future weeks.
Secular Carmelites are the third branch of the
Carmelite order, along with the friars and nuns.
Seculars — young, old, married or single —
bring Carmelite spirituality to the world by their
daily prayers and actions. For more information
about the Indianapolis community, please contact
Holy Rosary parishioner Jeanne Carr at 317-297-
0298.
Announcements Continued from Page 3
ALTAR MEMORIAL CANDLES
This week, the candles on either side of our high
altar burn for:
+John Anthony Maio
+EmCele Masbaum
To have the deceased remembered for a week, send
$5 and his or her name to the parish office.
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