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St. Maria Goretti Parish
500 Northgate Drive
Dyer, Indiana 46311
219.865.8956
Celebrating….
CFP Wonder and Awe
Sunrise…...September 12, 2021
September 18 - September 19, 2021
This Week In Our Parish Mass Intentions
Monday, September 20, 2021 September 18, 2021 - September 26, 2021
6:30 - 8:00 pm - CFP 7th Grade
Saturday, September 18, 2021 - 4:00 pm
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 Malcolm Peters by Ginny Geleta
9:30 am - 50/50 Club Drawing Pro LoDuca by the Family
6:30 pm - Music Ministry Choir Rehearsal
Sunday, September 19, 2021
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 8:30 am
8:30 am - Mass Al Ziemkowski by his Daughter
6:30 pm - Music Ministry Instrumental Rehearsal Charles Polito by Connie LaMantia
10:30 am
Thursday, September 23, 2021 Ted Bukowinski by his Wife and Daughter
No Events Scheduled
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 - 8:30 am
Friday, September 24, 2021 Paulino Herrera by the Family
No Events Scheduled
Saturday, September 25, 2021 - 4:00 pm
Saturday, September 25, 2021 Diane Johnson by the Family
9:00 - 11:00 am - CFP Session B Kevin Szirovecz by his parents Mike and Joan
2:00 pm - Wedding of Sunday, September 26, 2021
Eric Hakanson and Jenna Pritchett 8:30 am
4:00 pm - Mass Cleo Stroguiludis by Dave and Michele Bartlett
Isabelle Lucas by John Lucas
Sunday, September 26, 2021
10:30 am
8:30 am - Mass Virginia Andrews by Terezia Ronciak
10:30 am - Mass Jeffrey Michael Van Hecke
by Yolanda and Jonathan Van Hecke
Our Weekly Collection September 11 - 12, 2021
Regular Collection 409 envelopes $ 10,052.00
Community Outreach 151 envelopes $ 5,994.00
Music 10 envelopes $ 172.00
50/50 Club 326 envelopes $ 1,630.00
Ministry Schedule Parish Office Information
September 25 - September 26, 2021 Parish Office Phone: 219.865.8956
Father Niblick ext. 304
Lector Deacon Muvich ext. 315
4:00 pm Pat Kahl email: smgliturgy@yahoo.com
8:30 am Patty Gurnak Deacon Ratliff ext. 310
email: ministrysmg@gmail.com
10:30 am Breanna Heiberger Music Ministry ext. 302
email: rjurek@ameritech.net or
Eucharist Ministers www.stmariagorettichurch.org/music1.html
4:00 pm Cheryl Arroyo, Judi Crider,
Community Outreach: 219.865.5481
Deacon Muvich, Father Niblick
8:30 am Kathy Hansen, Chip Sobek, Church website: ww.stmariagorettichurch.org
Deacon Ratliff, Father Niblick
Church Address: 500 Northgate Drive, Dyer, IN 46311
10:30 am Pam Kulam, Donna Sharp,
Deacon Ratliff, Father Niblick Monday - Tuesday - Thursday: 9 am –12 pm & 1 pm – 4 pm
Wednesday & Friday: 9 am –12 pm
Saturday & Sunday: Closed
Evening Hours by Appointment
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The End of Summer and Ice Cream !!!
Club Drawing Club Information
To be eligible to win you may drop your Sunday and 50/50 enve-
The lopes in the collection basket at church. You may also drop your
Number Drawn envelopes in the envelope drop box located to the right of the
on business office door no later than 8:30 am on the Monday fol-
lowing the envelope date.
Tuesday, To be eligible to win our weekly 50/50 Club you must provide
September 14, 2021 a current weekly 50/50 weekly envelope with exactly $5 includ-
ed along with a separate current Sunday envelope with a mini-
was #3084 mum contribution of $5 for every week you want to participate.
It is A Rollover. You must have separate 50/50 and Sunday envelopes
every week. Writing one check for your Sunday and/or
The Winner Would 50/50 contributions for the entire month is not allowed.
Have Won Weekly drawings are held at 9:30 am on Tuesday mornings. If a
winner is picked they will be contacted via phone on Tuesday
$2,390.00. morning. Should the drawn envelope number not be present in
that Sunday’s collection, the winnings will rollover into the next
The Next 50/50 Club Drawing week’s drawing.
is Scheduled for
Tuesday, September 21, 2021. Thank you.
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Words For The Wind from Father Charles Niblick
Dear Friends, Anyway, there were an unusual number of children
th
Last Sunday many of our 9 grade Confirmation kids at the 10:30 Mass in particular and it was terrific to
gathered at the top of the big hill in Centennial Park see them.
in Munster at 6 AM so they could watch the sunrise That gave rise to the question as to when was I going
together at about 6:28. The sun rose into a slightly to start calling the kids up and asking them, “What
overcast morning but quickly the sky cleared. they wanted to ask God to bless our world with this
You can see some of what they saw on the cover of week?”
this bulletin. While I would love to do that, I believe that there is
They were trying to experience together what the sufficient reason for us to be patient as we watch the
gift of the Holy Spirit, wonder and awe, looked like in pandemic play out as there is no secret to the fact
reality. that viruses want to survive and reproduce and that
they to a great extent decide how that will work.
They came back to the hall for breakfast and then to
the 8:30 Mass as a group where I got to experience So, inviting the children into a non-necessary
what wonder and awe looked like in reality. situation where their health is endangered is not a
good idea at this time I do not think.
It looked like them!!!! It really did, those children and
many parents was an experience of wonder and awe As I said a few weeks back, I think Christ calls people
for me. away from the crowds off by themselves and helps
They erased the fog that pretty much settles over me them hear and speak from the authority of their own
these days and for that I am thankful. experience and I sincerely believe that Christ finds it
easier to work with children than with adults, so I
Being reminded that darkness and shadows as have no doubts that many, many of our children are
confusing and disheartening and as maddening as learning about the Kingdom of God in times that I
they can be but one way of “seeing” and that there is find dark but they find filled with light.
always another way of seeing is the presence of the
Spirit for sure. I am reading the book, Beautiful World, Where Are
You by Sally Rooney the young Dublin writer of
Many of those young people, 7th graders at the time, Normal People. One of the characteristic qualities of
where in the very last CFP session that we had before her writing is that her principal characters are all
the pandemic shut everything down. This was their young and they question the assumptions of an
first time back and along with just about everything “interpreted” world, a world where, as I said last
else they changed, they got taller, more mature, I week, our roles and, indeed, our place, have already
think, more confident but still witty, unjaded, and been decided.
awesome.
They don’t believe that. They ask lots of questions of
We did not have much time to linger and talk but the
themselves and of one another in their efforts to
time we did have together was great. It rejuvenated
interpret the world that is emerging with them.
me, at least.
The characters in these two books take seriously but
When the musical reflections commemorating the
not with dread or an overbearing anxiety the
events of September 11, 2001, were being played
formidable realties that are at work but largely
they sat or stood with attentive respectful silence.
denied by their parents and grandparents.
An additional encounter with young people last
Sunday came about because of my confused efforts They do not make “plans” as they have been
to make their religious formation meaningful and expected to, they enjoy the present just because
humanly attractive as many parents brought their there are aspects of the present to savor and enjoy
children to Mass because they were under the and they do not understand the present solely as a
impression that I would be checking them off a list prelude to the future.
and while I want them to rejoin the rhythms of life Given the acceptance of Sally Rooney’s stories of
that Sunday Mass offered us in the past, I do not your people and their lives, I think it is important for
want to use threats or coercion to have that happen. people in my profession to pay attention to her.
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Words For The Wind continued
Whatever the state of the Catholic Church and The fact that this Covid vaccine has become a
Catholic parishes in the future may be, I am controversial pseudo-political issue merely reflects
confident that there will be among us “little children” the intellectual poverty of our country, in my
for us to welcome and in welcoming them we will be opinion.
welcoming Christ and that probably will not happen Too much Dancing With the Stars, too much Monday
in churches or parishes, but it will happen. Night Football, too much fantasy and too many
Peace, cartoons have created a huge vacant cavity for all
Father Niblick kinds of nonsense but no real wisdom.
To be clear there is no justification in Roman Catholic
COVID PROTOCOLS
belief or practice for an exemption on religious
I am aware that many if not all parishes in our area grounds to being vaccinated. The religious exemption
have done away with all protocols, no social on religious grounds is not what you feel but what
distancing, no capacity limits, the typical procession the denomination that you claim teaches and Roman
for Holy Communion, etc. but I am not ready to do Catholicism teaches:
that as I do not believe that we are in the clear.
There is abundant evidence that people are still
getting sick very sick, sometimes, and people are “Being vaccinated with vaccines authorized
dying of the virus needlessly. If you are adverse to by the competent authorities is an act of
the safety protocols that I have in place I would be love. And contributing to ensure the majority
interested in listening to your informed thoughts. of people are vaccinated is an act of love–
love for oneself, love for one's family and
We know that it is in the nature of a virus to survive friends, love for all people.”
and replicate not unlike all other aspects of a created
world and a virus in a very real sense because of the Pope Francis I
elegance of their nature will do anything to survive
and replicate. “When ethically irreproachable Covid-19
The fewer hosts available as living laboratories for vaccines are not available...it is morally
viral replication the sooner it becomes increasingly acceptable to receive Covid-19 vaccines that
challenged in its efforts to replicate. Vaccination and have used cell lines from aborted fetuses in
public health protocols are the only means known to their research and production process.”
close down the host laboratories for viral replication.
I have a hard time, a very hard time, understanding The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of
how anyone who claims any kind of affiliation with the Faith
Christ can justify not getting vaccinated. It is a serious
blasphemy as far as I am concerned, a denial and a
distortion of their neighbor as one that they claim is “Receiving one of the COVID-19 vaccines
an image of the Divine Mystery. ought to be understood as an act of charity
toward the other members of our
It is theological pornography, in my opinion, to claim community. In this way, being vaccinated
Christ or Christianity as a means of advancing safely against COVID-19 should be
falsehoods and deceits. considered an act of love of our neighbor and
My whole life has been blessed as have the lives of part of our moral responsibility for the
my peers and our progeny by the science of common good.”
vaccination.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
We do not have to fear polio and the diseases of
childhood that used to be the causes of endless
suffering and sadness-measles, mumps, chicken pox,
diphtheria, and so on-are not a problem solely
because of vaccinations which are required to go to
school and to do any number of other things that we
take for granted.
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September 11th – Twenty Years Later by Ron Rolheiser
Twenty years ago today, struggling to digest the events of September 11th, I wrote this column. Two decades later, my reaction
is the same. Here’s the column.
Iris Murdoch once said that the whole world can change in fifteen seconds. She was talking about falling in love. Hatred can do
the same thing: On September 11th (2001), the world changed. Two huge passenger planes, hijacked by terrorists, crashed into,
and collapsed the twin towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, killing thousands of people, as television cameras
recorded the event live, showing horrific, graphic scenes over and over again. Shortly afterwards, a third hijacked plane slammed
into the Pentagon, even as a fourth crashed in an open field. Inside of what is supposed to be the most secure place on earth,
thousands of innocent people were killed within the space of an hour.
Stunned, muted, we nonetheless tried to speak to the situation. Many of the voices we heard were hard, angry, calling for
retaliation and vengeance. Most voices though were gentle, looking only for a safe, intimate place to cry, for someone to hang
onto. One Internet media site simply had a blank screen, a silent gesture that spoke eloquently. What, after all, can be said?
The opening lines from the Book of Lamentations offer this haunting description: How deserted she sits, the city once thronged
with people! Once the greatest of nations, she is now like a widow.
Later, this same book tells us that there are times when all you can do is to put your face to the dust and wait. Rainer Marie Rilke
would agree. Here’s his advice for times like these: O you lovers that are so gentle, step occasionally into the breath of the
sufferers not meant for you. … Do not be afraid to suffer, give the heaviness back to the weight of the earth; mountains are
heavy, seas are heavy.
The earth knows our pain. Sometimes silence is best.
Yet a few things need to be said even in the raw immediacy of this thing. What?
First, that each life lost was unique, sacred, precious, irreplaceable. None of these persons had ever died before and none of
them should have his or her name lost in the anonymity of dying with so many others. Their lives and deaths must be honored
individually. This is true too for the suffering of their families and loved ones.
Second, clear voices must call us, especially our governments, towards restraint. Many see this as an attack on civilization itself.
They are right. Accordingly, our task is to respond in a civilized way, holding fast always to our belief that violence is wrong,
whether it be theirs or ours. The air we breathe out is the air we eventually inhale. Violence begets violence. Terrorism will not
be stopped by bitter vengeance. Catharsis doesn’t bring about closure. We shouldn’t be naive about that. Nor, indeed, should we
be naive in reverse. These terrorist acts with their utter disregard for life, offer a very clear picture of the world these people
would create were they ever given scope and license to do so. They must be stopped and brought to justice. They pose a threat
to the world; but in bringing them to justice we must never stoop to their means and, like them, be driven by a hatred that blinds
one to justice and the sacredness of life.
No emergency ever allows one to bracket the fundamentals of charity and respect for life. Indeed, horrific tragedies of this sort,
call us to just the opposite, namely, to fiercely re-root ourselves in all that is good and Godly – to drive with more courtesy, to
take more time for what is important, and to tell those close to us that we love them. Yes, too, it calls us to seek justice and it
asks for real courage and self-sacrifice in that quest. We are no longer in ordinary time.
Most of all, this calls us to prayer. What we learned again on September 11th (2001) is that all on our own, we are neither
invulnerable nor immortal. We can only continue to live, and to live in joy and peace, by placing our faith in something beyond
ourselves. We can never guarantee our own safety and future. We need to acknowledge that in prayer – on our knees, in our
churches, to our loved ones, to God, and to everyone whose sincerity makes him or her a brother or sister inside the family of
humanity.
Moreover, we are called to hope. We are a resilient people, with faith in the resurrection. Everything that is crucified eventually
rises. There is always a morning after. The sun never fails to rise. We need to live our lives in the face of that, even in times of
great tragedy.
I end with Rilke’s words: Even those trees you planted as children became too heavy long ago – you couldn’t carry them now. But
you can carry the winds … and the open spaces.
Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser is a theologian, teacher, and award-winning author.
He can be contacted through his website www.ronrolheiser.com.
Now on Facebook www.facebook.com/ronrolheiser
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