Sunday, July 4
th2021 14
thSunday in Ordinary Time
Fr. Greg Piatt, Pastor
Encounter Christ With Us!
St. John XXIII 12100 Beech Daly Rd., Redford, Michigan 48239
(248) 800-6081
MassesTuesdays at 9:30 a.m.
Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m.
Thursdays at 12 p.m.
Saturdays at 4 p.m.
Sunday, July 4 at 9:30 a.m.
Sunday, July 11 at 9 & 11 a.m.
Eucharistic Adoration Tuesdays from 10 a.m.
to 7 p.m.
Benediction Tuesdays at 7 p.m.
Confessions By appointment
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Sunday: 14
thSunday in Ordinary Time; Independence Day Ez 2:2-5/Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-4/2 Cor 12:7-10/Mk 6:1-6a Monday: St. Anthony Zaccaria
Gn 28:10-22a/Ps 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15 ab [cf. 2b]/Mt 9:18-26 Tuesday: St. Maria Goretti
Gn 32:23-33/Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6- 7ab, 8b and 15 [15a]/Mt 9:32-38
Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a/Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19 [22]/Mt 10:1-7
Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5/Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20- 21 [5a]/Mt 10:7-15
Friday: St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions
Gn 46:1-7, 28-30/Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40 [39a]/
Mt 10:16-23
Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7 [cf. Ps 69:33]/Mt 10:24-33
Next Sunday: 15
thSunday in Ordinary Time
Am 7:12-15/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 [8]/Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3-10/Mk 6:7-13
Welcome to our church family.
We’re glad you could be with us today. We’re honored to share the Independence Day and the 14
thSunday in Ordinary Time with you.
We hope God touches your life as we worship side by side and you leave us today with the peace of God in your mind and heart. To learn more about St. John XXIII Parish, visit our website or
Facebook page. If you are new to the parish, we encourage you to register at the parish office. We look forward to meeting with you!
PASTORAL STAFF
Father Gregory Piatt, Pastor [email protected] Laura Scanlan, Pastoral Associate [email protected] Steve Morello, Deacon
PARISH STAFF
Linda Hudy, Secretary
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COUNCILS & LEADERSHIP
Finance CouncilJim Allan, Jim Francis, Michelle Poisson, Cheryl Roza, Fred Schneider
& Jack Templin.
Parish Council
Mark Cochran, Denise Zuzow-DeKett, Maureen Franklin, Chuck Sudekum &
Jim Vote.
Parish Leadership Team
Pam Condron, Shane Foley, Maureen Franklin & George Salloum.
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Larry Kaiser, Evelyn Martin, and Bob Witt request your prayers.
St. John XXIII Parish has several ways in which we support each other in special personal prayer. Prayer requests and Mass intentions are accepted at the parish office. Mass Intentions are dedicated to the intentions of the petitioner and are mentioned out loud during the Prayers of the Faithful.
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A GGIORNAMENTO !
By Fr. Greg Piatt
While last weekend’s storms and flooding limited people from attending our 3
rdbirthday weekend events, St. John XXIII’s Friday Movie Night and Ice Cream Social, Sunday Mass, and indoor Birthday Picnic were still a success, and those who attended enjoyed themselves.
Parishioners applauded Friday’s tearful movie, The Perfect Stranger . Those who saw it said they wish more parishioners would have seen the film.
Friday’s movie kicked off Fridays as a social night at St. John XXIII.
The parish and groups like our Knights of Columbus council will host events for parishioners, their families, and friends.
Parishioners attended Sunday’s birthday Mass and enjoyed the parish birthday picnic, which was moved in the parish hall because of the weather. This was the first time St. John XXIII held a parish
fellowship meal in the social hall since the COVID-19 pandemic closed indoor events in March 2020.
It was good to see people sitting together enjoying each other’s company and celebrating the parish’s birthday.
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Next weekend, St. John XXIII will return to celebrating two masses on Sunday morning. The new Sunday Mass times are 9 a.m. and 11 a.m.
Fr. Richard Leliaert will begin celebrating the 11 a.m. Mass next weekend, and he will then become the regular celebrant at the 11 a.m.
Mass in August.
With the addition of the second Sunday Mass, ushers will resume collecting your weekly envelope offerings at all three Masses. However, the collection basket will remain on the baptismal font if you would still like to drop your envelope in it yourself.
Along with ushers collecting your envelopes, the offertory procession will resume at Sunday Masses. We will need to have parishioners bring up our gifts of bread and wine on the weekends.
For now, we will only have two stations in the center aisle for distributing the Eucharist. And for now, we will ONLY distribute the precious body (hosts) at Communion time.
There won’t be any Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist when a deacon assists at Mass. And only one EME, when a priest celebrates without a second ordinary minister of the Eucharist—a deacon or another priest.
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This Fall, we are planning to reintroduce missalettes in the pews.
Along with the missalettes, we will continue to use the TV monitors for Mass responses and song lyrics.
However, some of you who wanted your own missalette last year and bought one when we offered them for sale.
If you still want your own missalette, please let Laura know that you want one. The cost will be around $6 or $7.
SATURDAY, July 3 Mass at 4:00 p.m.
Margaret Kucharek By Deacon Ziggy
Feliciano Ramirez (1
stAnniversary) By Laura Denton
Marie Browning By William Saxby
Leo Zitzewitz By Charles Nowak
SUNDAY, July 4 Mass at 9:30 a.m.
Ray Elam By the Elam Children
Anna Saxby By Husband, William
Tom Rabideau By Brother, Rick
Jean Papcun By Husband, Jim
TUESDAY, July 6 Mass at 9:30 a.m.
John J. Allen By Marcia Allen WEDNESDAY, July 7
Mass at 6:30 p.m.
Marino and Rosa Benedettini By Graziano Canini
THURSDAY, July 8 Mass at Noon
Marino and Rosa Benedetiini By Graziano Canini
SATURDAY, July 10 Mass at 4:00 p.m.
Margaret Kucharek By Deacon Ziggy
Raymond Elam by Vicki Bury
Anna Saxby By Husband, William
Esther Klebba (6
thAnniversary) By George & Cheryl Roza SUNDAY, July 11
Mass at 9:00 a.m.
Marie Browning By William Saxby
Mass at 11:00 a.m.
Marino and Rosa Benedetiini By Graziano Canini
M ASS I NTENTIONS
JUNE 27
60 Envelopes $2,328
Loose $63
15 E-Envelopes $800
Utilities $50
Total $3,241
JUNE 2021
June 6 $5,036.35
June13 $3,953
June 20` $4,283
June 27 $3,241
Total $16,513.35
Monthly Needed $18,268
Weekly Needed $4,567
Monthly Shortage $1,754.65 Weekly Shortage $438.67
Thank you for your continued giving.
CSA 2021
Goal $49,456
Pledged $14,639
Paid $12,999
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Paul Kustra Sean Griffin Gerard Northrup Patricia Taddia Stella Wolak Colleen Kinney Margaret Berendt Henrietta Cervantes
Christine Mielcarek Donald Cieglo Laurence Skotzke Sue Szpara Carol Nawrocki Lorraine Waling Anthony Nowakowski Stanislaw Detkos
Geraldine Griffin Daniel Nick David Klansek Dorothy Moliassa Michael Sevon Kevin Surma James Papcun Daniel Graustein
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N EW M ASS S CHEDULE
St. John XXIII will go back to two Sunday Masses next weekend.
However, the two Sunday Mass times have changed. The new times,
beginning Sunday, July 11, will be 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. Fr. Richard Leliaert will occasionally celebrate the new 11 a.m.
Sunday Masses, beginning July 11. We are happy that Fr. Richard will be here with us at St. John XXIII!
S TEWARDSHIP
R EFLECTIONS The Prophecy of You and Me
By Tracy Earl Welliver Prophet. There’s a heaviness to this word. It’s weighted down with meaning. We think of prophets and we think of Charlton Heston with wild hair and a booming voice,
reaching out his hand to work wonders of nature by the grace of God.
We think of prophets and we think of ancient Biblical history — someone far away, someone so removed from our everyday life. A prophet is someone who knows something we don’t.
When I let you in on this secret, it might scare you at first: in a way, God is calling you to be a prophet. He is calling me. He is calling anyone who hears the truth of the Gospel. However, there is no need for the megaphone and the wild locusts. This prophet gig might not be what you’re thinking.
What does a prophet do? He hears and testifies to the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it’s unpopular, even when it results in, as Paul says, “weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and constraints.” A prophet doesn’t have to be smart or rich or ordained;
heck, he doesn’t even have to be particularly willing.
All a prophet has to do is listen to the truth. The truth we receive from
Christ, through the Gospel and the sacraments, is a mighty gift. But it is
a gift that we are not meant to simply keep for ourselves. In possessing
it, we are compelled to also pass it on, to share it, to let the Spirit set us
on our feet.
F RIDAY M OVIE N IGHT
& I CE C REAM S OCIAL
Despite the stormy weather last Friday, more than a dozen
parishioners showed up for St. John XXIII’s Friday Movie Night and Ice Cream Social, which kicked off the parish’s birthday weekend.
The parishioners applauded The Perfect Stranger , the religious- based movie shown, and they said their fellow parishioners need to see it. There is also a sequel to this film, and we will show it on a future movie night.
The parish’s plan is for Fridays at St. John XXIII to be a social night
for parishioners. We plan to show a movie on Fridays once a month,
and our parish’s Knights of Columbus Council is also planning social
events a couple of times a month on Friday evenings. Stay tuned!
WHY DO WE DO THAT
CATHOLIC LIFE EXPLAINED
Question: Do young children really need to go toConfession? How much sin can they really have?
Answer: Ask any mom about her children and see how many would
say she has a brood of perfect angels! Parents know that kids do things that are wrong … and they often know they’re doing it! Even toddlers have a sense of right and wrong. The Church recognizes that their minds and consciences are not yet fully developed, however, and typically waits until age seven to offer the sacrament of Confession.
Around that age and beyond, most young people, when asked, can easily explain why something is wrong.
Confession for children is an excellent way to help them reflect on their actions and accept responsibility for their behavior. It helps them to grow in their understanding of sin and how it affects others. This helps them to form their consciences and make better choices in the future. Most importantly, they learn the value of forgiveness, both given and received. Rather than singling out what’s wrong, Confession offers hope and a new start! Children can grow in understanding God’s unconditional love and develop a sense of inner dignity that transcends
S POTLIGHT
By Father Greg Piatt In last week’s first reading from the Book of Wisdom, there is a line: “God did not make death.”
This sounds odd because death is most the natural thing around.
Every living thing dies.
What does that line mean?
Wisdom continues: “For God formed man to be imperishable.
The image of His own nature He made them.” Furthermore, it says death enters into the world through the “envy of the devil.”
In this reading, death is not the end of the body. Death in
Wisdom means the
psychological, physical, and spiritual phenomenon sinners experience. Therefore, it’s sinners who experience death.
Death for sinners is something we recoil at because sin alienates us from God. Cut off from God, we tend to fear death as
something mysterious and unknown. And the unknown terrifies us.
Alienated as sinners from God, the source of life, we find
ourselves unable to surrender to or trust God. This leads to our fear of dying.
When we look to the Blessed Mother, we can get an idea of what death is for someone who has never sinned. The early Church calls Mary’s Assumption of body and soul into Heaven, the Dormition of Mary or Mary’s falling asleep.
Mary didn’t die, and she fell asleep. Mary’s dormition was peaceful, effortless, untouched by fear and alienation from God. She was utterly confident in God’s love—Mary fell asleep and woke up again in the transfigured world.
In the Gospel, we learn from Jesus through Jairus’ daughter’s death that death is a falling asleep from God's perspective.
H ELLO J ULY !
The month of July is dedicated to the Most
Precious Blood of Jesus. The entire month falls within the liturgical season of Ordinary Time, which is represented by the liturgical color green. This symbol of hope is the color of
the sprouting seed and arouses in the faithful the hope of reaping an eternal harvest of heaven, especially in hope of a glorious resurrection.
The Holy Father’s Intention for July—Social Friendship. We pray that, in social, economic and political situations of conflict, we may be courageous and passionate architects of dialogue and friendship.
Focus of the Liturgy—The Gospel readings for the Sundays in July 2021 are from St. Mark and St. John—all are from Year B, Cycle 1.
Highlights of the Month—July is usually hot and a time for relaxing. It is also the time when crops planted in the spring are maturing and growing. Just as the crops are dependent upon summer rains not only to grow but to survive so our spiritual development is dependent upon frequenting the sacraments and receiving the Blood of Christ.
The Blood that coursed through the veins of Christ was a part of that Sacred Humanity made possible by the maternity of Mary, whose parents, St. Joachim and St. Anne are honored this month (July 26).
The summer Readings of Ordinary Time remind us that our earthly pilgrimage is also a journey, a great adventure towards union with Christ, the Beginning and the End of our journey. Each Sunday with its Easter renewal becomes a mile marker along the way, linking where we have been with where we are going. May the Precious Blood of Jesus sustain us as we journey to our true home, with Mary and the angels as our companions on the way.
L ET G O & L ET G OD !
By Laura Scanlan
What is a Prophet?
Sometimes it is easier to say what a prophet is not! A prophet does not predict the future or is a fortune teller. A prophet is not a social activist. A prophet is a person who stands between God and His people.
A prophet is an intermediary. One who can speak to the people as a messenger from God.
This is what Ezekiel is doing. God has spoken to Ezekiel, and God wants Ezekiel to speak to his people. Even if the Israelites did not heed Ezekiel’s message, God wanted His people to know that there was a prophet among them who was speaking God’s word to them.
Scholars do not know if St. Paul was writing figuratively about his opponents or if he had an actual ailment. St. Paul asked the Lord to take this ailment away three times, and all the Lord said to him was, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” What is grace? Grace is God’s own divine life which is given to us at Baptism.
St. Paul tells us that “he would rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ (grace) may dwell with me.” St. Paul also states that
“when I am weak, then I am strong.
Jesus knew that His Father sent many prophets to His people, but they did not always heed God’s message. This is what the Jewish people were doing to Jesus. He is just a carpenter’s son! Where did He get all this wisdom? Who does He think He is! Jesus knew of Israel’s rejection of the prophets, so it came as no surprise that his prophetic message would be rejected too.
Are we content with our weaknesses for the sake of Christ? Or do we look at our weaknesses and say,
“I guess I will just live with them; there is nothing I can do about them!” Or do I put this weakness into God’s hands so that the power of Christ may dwell with me?
In other words, do I let go of my weakness and put my faith in God that He will help me with this
weakness (Let God)?
What is your weakness? Are you willing to put your weakness into God’s hands? Are you ready to Let Go and Let God?
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IMESt. Augustine Zhao Rong
(Feast Day July 9) d. 1815 Christianity
arrived in China by way of Syria in the 600s. Over the centuries, Christianity in China was free to grow or was forced to operate secretly depending on China’s relations with the outside world.
Augustine Zhao Rong, is
one of a group of 120 Catholics who were martyred between the years 1648 and 1930 in China. Zhao Rong was a bailiff of a county jail. During the
persecution of 1772, he was moved by the words of Fr. Martinus Moye to his fellow Catholic prisoners, and, ultimately converted. He later became a priest, and when in 1815 another persecution broke out, he was arrested and tortured. Because of his age, he died of the ill treatment.
Of the 120 martyrs, eighty-seven were Chinese, ranging in age from nine to seventy-two, and four of them were priests. Thirty-three were foreign-born, mostly priests or women religious. Though the missionaries and religious tried to distance themselves from foreign policies, the Chinese government did not differentiate and saw them all as westerners.
The martyrdoms of China are very moving, each person having died heroically though many of them suffered torture and cruel deaths. Fr. Francis Li, grandson of a Chinese martyr, describes his grandfather going to his death joyfully saying to his brother and son, “Let’s go, we are going to heaven today!”
TAKE TIME TO CHAT
St. Augustine Zhao Rong was converted to Christianity through the moving words of a priest.
What words would you use to share Jesus with someone?
FAMILY CHALLENGE
Sometimes we can be mean and critical of people in our household. Make a commitment to only say kind and encouraging things to your family members this week.
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