SS. Edward & Lucy Parish Clustered with St. Helen Church

OUR MISSION

“The vibrant Catholic community of SS. Edward and Lucy

teaches, proclaims and lives the Gospel of our

Lord Jesus Christ. We do so through the

celebration of the Eucharist, the administration of the

sacraments and in loving and merciful service

to all.”

16280 East High St. Middlefield, Ohio

16150 Center St. Parkman, Ohio

Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 5:00pm-St. Edward 6:30pm-St. Lucy Sunday: 8:30am-St. Edward 10:30am-St. Lucy

Confession Schedule Saturday: 4:15-4:45pm-St. Edward 7:15pm-St. Lucy

Weekday Mass Schedule Monday, 6:00pm-St. Edward Chapel Tuesday - Friday, 8:00am-St. Edward Chapel

Holy Day Mass Schedule Holydays: Vigil Mass 6:30pm-St. Edward Holyday: 9:00am-St. Edward 6:30pm-St. Lucy

Mailing Address P.O. Box 709 * 16150 Center St.

Parkman, Ohio 44080 (440) 548-3812

Email: kt@simcon.net www.ssedwardlucy.com

Rev. John T. Burkley, Pastor Karen Thrasher, Business Manager

Cassie Brumbaugh, Youth Ministry & Director of Religious Ed.

Sister Rosemary Janezic, Administrative Assistant

Registration Call the office or download a form at

www.ssedwardlucy.com

August 16, 2020

We welcome new parishioners, Casey and Donna Mer-rill to our parish. Casey and Donna live in Perry with their four children, Jacob, Lucas, Traci and Cadence. Please be sure to welcome them when you see them at mass at St. Lucy. We will have the Summer Raffle drawing this Sunday. It seems strange not to have it with our yearly Chicken Dinner / Car Show. We’ll all be glad when the Corona cloud disappears...We have welcomed a new family to our parish last week, Casey and Donna Merrill and their four children. We hope our parish will be a blessing to them and they to us. It is good to begin working and planning for a return to our parish life….Judy Breedlove and D.J. Calhoun are planning on adding a second “Gathering” at St. Lucy on the third Sunday of each month. They see the importance of the parish communi-ty at the 10:30m Mass have more opportunity to be to-gether outside of Mass. Watch the bulletin for the next “Gathering”...Next weekend Fr. John Fisher will be with us to represent Cross Catholic Outreach. We have had appeals for CCO several times over the years. CCO reaches out to alleviate the poverty in the many coun-tries in which they serve. There will not be a second col-lection taken, but we will have a chance to respond after Father’s appeal by mail…...As we look at the calendar the 2020-21, the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

(RCIA) will begin on Sunday, September 27 after the 10:30m Mass at St. Lucy. If you want an adult under-standing of our Catholic faith or if you have a family member, neighbor or friend who might be interested in such a class, please have them call me at 548-3812. We will continue to meet most Sundays until Easter. Classes are usually one hour...Our ‘next big thing’ will be our upcoming Generations of Faith season. Our topic for the monthly opening segment is more than timely. It is about Catholic Social Teaching. Ours is a rich treasure of wisdom about being and building a Christian society and learning to live lives of holiness and virtue, some-thing we have not seen in the recent events of terrorism and hatred. We will discuss the life and dignity we have from God himself, our call to family, community and country, how rights are coupled with responsibilities and our relationship to others in the Corporal Works of Mercy. Seeing all the disorder and chaos these past few months, we need to appreciate the blessings we have as Catholics to live in our country. I encourage all adults and singles to join with parish families in this great in-tergenerational religious education experience month-ly…..Our Bible Study continues on Wednesday eve-nings at 7:00pm and Thursday mornings next week. (I will be gone this week.) We are at the beginning of the Letter of St. Paul to the Romans...St. Mary in Chardon is offering Friday take-out dinners Preorder at ad-min@thereservehouse.com.

Reflec ng on the Word The sun shone as she sat stroking a puppy on the step. The others gathered around. They wanted to hear her story again. “Tell us about when the Master came here to Tyre.” The growing Christian community hungered for stories about Jesus. “the difficulty stared when I was four—my arms and legs began to twitch. Sometimes, I blacked out. My moth-er began to moan, ‘Oh no, the demon wants her!’ My older brother had writhed and died when that same demon had arrived. I was scared. “One day, my mother saw a group of Jewish men visiting the city. She glimpsed Jesus the healer. She called out to him, ‘Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a demon.’ The men ignored her. She knew that she didn’t belong there. But she really loved me. Her heart ached from the grief that she might lose me, too. ‘Send her away,’ a man grunted. Jesus didn’t. At that moment my mother said her heart swelled with hope. Maybe? Could the mercy of the God of Israel extend even north of the border? “ Hope and love made my mother persist. She would not give up. She fell to her knees and cried out, ‘Help me, Sir!’ She said that she’ll never forget how gently Jesus said, ‘It is not right to take the children’s bread and give it to the puppies.’ She felt the Holy Spirit swell up within her: “Even the little dogs eat the scraps under the table!” Je-sus was astonished. His face shone as he looked her in the eye. At that moment I was healed! Until the day she died, she told everyone about God’s mercy toward me. And she seemed to take in every stray puppy in the city.” John R. Barker, OFM & Karla J. Bellinger

Saturday, August 15 Sunday Vigil 5:00pm Sharon and Marie Amentini 6:30pm Tom Roach / wife, Marie Sunday, August 16 20th Ordinary Sunday 8:30am Bill Wanatosky/M/M Frank Lesko Family 10:30am Gloria Deck / D/M/ Greg Frania Monday, August 17 Weekday 6:00pm Holy Souls Tuesday, August 18 Weekday 8:00am Jackie Gyure / Ron Arambasick Wednesday, August 19 Weekday 8:00am Sue Evans / husband, Cliff Thursday, August 20 St. Bernard 8:00am John & Carol Szilvasi / JoAnn Perko Friday, August 21 St. Pius X 8:00am Rose Wilkenson / M/M Don Smith Saturday, August 22 Sunday Vigil 5:00pm Ed Bugajski / M/M Tom Friedlander 6:30pm Martha Burkley / M/M Andy Musial Sunday, August 23 21st Ordinary Sunday 8:30am Laura Leegan / Wills Family 10:30am Bob Kozelka / wife, Jan

St. Edward St. Lucy Weekly 2019: $1989.01 (82) $1705.02 (63) Weekly 2020: $3120.00 (76 $2648.66 (60) Restricted: 175.00 .00 Religious Ed.: 100.00 134.00 St. Vincent: 70.01 31.00 Air Cond.: 224.00 159.00 Assumption: 80.00 30.00 Faith & Values: 10.00 .00 Children: 10.00 (20) 1.95 (1)

Monday: 10am-6pm Adoration in the Chapel 6:00pm Mass & Rosary in the Chapel Tuesday: 8:30am Rosary Group in the Chapel Wednesday: NO Bible Study E Thursday: NO Bible Study E 1:00-6:00pm Adoration * 2:00pm Divine Mercy Cenacle L Saturday: St. Vincent Food Kitchen in Warren Weekend: Cross Catholic Outreach here Faith & Values Collection St. Vincent Food Collection

KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS PREGNANT? SCARED? NEEDS HELP? CALL 888.552.3552 24 HOURS SS. EDWARD & LUCY PRAYER LINE: Call Rebecca 330-389-0728 or email prayer request to Rebbanne@gmail.com.

Our GENERATIONS OF FAITH TEACHERS will be meeting next Sunday, August 23 after the 10:30am Mass at St. Lucy in the meeting room to get ready for our GOF program this year. We are looking forward to our first ses-sion on Sunday, September 13!

ALL PARENTS OF 8TH AND 9TH GRADE STUDENTS registered for our Generations of Faith program can ex-pect a packet in the mail with information regarding our Confirmation program in the next couple of weeks. This packet will include information about the Sacrament of Confirmation, our program, and hopefully answer all your questions. Any parents of older teens who have not been confirmed yet are encouraged to contact Cassie in the office at (440) 548-3812 to discuss the best option for your child to re-ceive this Sacrament.

ALL PARENTS OF 2ND GRADE STUDENTS registered for our Genera-tions of Faith program can expect a packet in the mail with information regarding our Communion program in the next couple of weeks. This packet will include information about the Sacraments your child will re-ceive this year, information about the program, and hopefully answer all your questions. Do you have a child older than 2nd grade that has not made their First Communion? Contact Cassie in the office at (440) 548-3812 to discuss the best option for your child to receive preparation for First Communion.

PROTECTING GOD'S CHILDREN The Diocese of Cleveland's “protecting God's Children” program is a con-tinuing effort to instruct and inform everyone about the protection of chil-dren from sexual abuse. To report any past or present suspected inappropriate behavior toward children by priests, deacons, religious, lay ecclesial ministers or personnel associated with the Church, please contact the Di-ocesan Response Service Office at 216-334-2999 or via email at response_services@dioceseofcleveland.org. You are also asked to immediately inform local authorities about inappropriate behavior.

ROSE HALL AND WINCA HALL RENTALS: CALL THE OFFICE 548-3812

LIVING AND PRAYING WITH THE WORD

God of mercy, be gracious to us. We know that none of us deserve your love. Yet we hope in you. You gather people from all over the world to rejoice in you. In solidarity with the sacred and the forlorn, the outcast and the refu-gee, we praise you for always loving us. Together, bring us to your holy moun-tain and reconcile this world that you have made.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

Once the way was cleared for addi-tional Eucharistic Prayers, those who were appointed to compose them had to look deep within the tradition for sources. One of the prescriptions for new prayers was that they be “unencumbered by useless repetition.” From the start, therefore, the writers knew that the old Roman Canon, which had the priest bowing and crossing him-self many times in a long, complex prayer, was not a model of simplicity. Aside from the prayers treasured by Eastern Christians, there is an obvious model from ancient Rome. For about a hundred years now, the historical text “Apostolic Tradition” has shed some light for us on the shadowy shape of worship in the early church. In it, its author, Hippolytus, took care to record the actual texts of worship used at the time. He himself has a shadow side, since he was so ardently conservative in his tastes that he broke ties with the Bishop of Rome and became first in the line of history’s anti-popes. At the elev-enth hour, however, he reconciled with his enemies and actually died a martyr. In fact, he was shipped off to the Sar-dinian mines as a slave with the true pope as his companion in chains. Be-cause his tussle with the pope was over theological innovations and not liturgical texts, we are sure that his account of the style of Eucharistic Prayer in the third century is accurate. It forms the core of today’s Eucharistic Prayer II. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

CATHOLIC CEMETERIES ASSOCIATION Monthly Sunday Grief Support August 16th : Please join us as we continue our gradual return to “in-office” Sunday Grief Support Group on August 16th with limited seating for appropriate social distancing. The August topic is “He Knows Me; He Calls My Name”. We will meet 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at the following locations: Saint Joseph Cemetery, Avon (NEW office) * Holy Cross Cemetery, Akron (office) * Holy Cross Cemetery, Brook Park (office) * Calvary Cemetery, Cleveland (office) * All Saints Cem-etery, Northfield (office) * and All Souls Cemetery, Chardon (office). Meeting sites will be sanitized and seating will be arranged so every-one is at a safe distance. Participants are requested to RSVP so we can plan appropriate social distancing at each location. We require all in attendance to wear protective face coverings. To RSVP or for questions, please contact Rhonda at rabrams@clecem.org or at 216-930-4866. To view our most updated calendar of events, please visit clecem.org.

“IT’S MATTER OF LIFE...” When life and family are not treasured and preserved in a society, col-lapse on all fronts is inevitable. Sadly, this statement applies to Ameri-ca today as we bear witness to the resulting turmoil across our beloved nation because we have chosen silence as our reaction to the elements of our lives that are causing the collapse. The integrity of the family must be defended from attack by unjust laws, political parties, and Godless organizations. We can not in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a fetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying. Abraham Lincoln once said: “To sin by silence when they should pro-test makes cowards of men.” Our silence is giving the enemy the upper hand. Stand up, speak out, and speak up today.