Celebrating 168 years of Pastoral Service to the Catholic Community of Berea

Parish Pastoral Staff Reverend John P. Singler, Pastor

Reverend Thomas E. Stock, Parochial Vicar Reverend Robert J. Cole, Retired, In Residence

Deacon Thomas A. Cully, Pastoral Associate Mrs. Angela Kovic, Music Director

Parish Support Staff Mrs. Diana Lipfird, Homebound Coordinator

Mr. John Mastandrea, Adult Faith and Education Coordinator Mrs. Johanna Garr, Religious Education Coordinator

Parish Office Staff Mrs. Janel Abraham

Mrs. Lorri Masie

School Administrative Staff Mr. Andrew Carner, Principal

Mrs. Sandi Ziegler, Program Coordinator Mrs. Nancy Kaesgen, Director of Development

School Office Staff Mrs. Mary Beth Hennessy

Mrs. Diana Zjaba

Parish Mass Schedule Weekday: 9:00am Monday through Friday Weekend: 4:00pm Saturday Vigil 7:30am, 9:30am, & 11:30am Holy Day Consult Bulletin

Sacramental Ministries

Baptisms: On Sundays After 11:30am Mass Reconciliation: Saturdays 3-3:30pm Seasonal Celebrations Marriage: Contact Parish Office Anointing of the Sick: Contact Parish Office Seasonal Celebration Communion Calls: Contact Parish Office

Saint Mary Parish 250 Kraft Street, Berea, Ohio 44017-1499

Rectory: 440-243-3877 · FAX: 440-891-9417 · Website: www.stmaryberea.org

Mission Statement St. Mary is a faith community which worships together, follows the teachings of Jesus Christ in our everyday lives, evangelizes others by our lives and actions, gives generously of our time and resources in service to others, shows

compassion and love towards one another, provides religious education and works for social justice for all.

25th Sunday in Ordinary Time September 20, 2020

All Cleveland Diocesan Parishes and beyond have received a request from the President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Most Reverend Jose H. Gomez, Arch-

bishop of Los Angeles for our financial assistance to those who have been impacted by Hurricane Laura and the California wild-fires. Any assistance that is collected will become part of the Bishops Emergency Disaster Fund and be used to support the ef-forts of Catholic Charities USA and/or Catholic Relief Services, the official relief agencies of the U.S. Catholic Church. Archbishop Gomez recognizes that all parish and diocesan activi-ties have been impacted severely by COVID-19 and that asking for money at this time may be more challenging than ever. But Archbishop Gomez relies on the generosity of others and trusts that we will respond as best as we are able. IF you are able to make a donation to the Bishops Emergency

Disaster Fund, please make a check out St. Mary Church and on the MEMO LINE mark Bish-ops Emergency Disaster Fund and drop it in the Church Baskets or in the Parish Office. THANKS!

Faith Formation BEGAN this past Monday and the students

were greeted by a very dedicated staff of Teachers! Mrs. Garr, Fr. Stock and I were on hand to welcome our students BACK and encour-age them to be good and do good this year. Many of our Faith For-mation families have chosen the Homeschool OPTION for their chil-dren and these families stopped in and picked up their materials. All our Faith Formation families are remarkable and so willing to take on the “job” of passing along their faith! Yeah to ALL OF THEM and here’s to a great new school year!

The parents of our 2nd Graders and 8th Graders met last Sunday to learn the process for Sacramental Preparation this year. Yes, it is going to look different, but Mr. & Mrs. Garr are so excited to share their faith in both challenging and exciting ways to our candidates making their First Reconciliation (December 19th), First Communion (May 2nd) and Con-firmation (May 22nd). Everyone is encouraged to attend Mass on the 2nd Sunday of each month at 9:30am and then the 2nd Graders will

have their morning session at 10:30am and the 8th Graders will have their evening session at 6:00pm. As they continue in their faith journey, please PRAY FOR THEM! It’s gonna be a great year!

Fr. Bob Cole will be offering an evening of Faith – the topic of which is The Problem of Suffering. He will reflect on why do bad things happen to good people and how should we handle it when it happens to us! The evening talk sounds like ALL of us could benefit from this reflection. MARK YOUR CALEN-DAR for Thursday October 1st at 7pm in Church OR if you choose to join the reflection from the comfort of your home, it will be Livestreamed on the parish website! The Problem of Suffering and HOW should we handle it! Journey of Faith has had a good response this past week – three students, three teenag-ers and three adults have called and said, “Yes” to the invitation to grow and learn more

about the Faith and/or to become one with us as Roman Catholics. That’s great news! The PLAN, at least as of this writing, is to meet with each of these three “groups” on Monday evenings in the Fr. Garrity Center Meeting Rooms. Deacon Tom will be leading the elementary age children and parents for Baptism, I will be leading the teens, and Fr. Stock will be leading the adults, and of course WITH our catechists and team. AND it’s not limited SO if you’re still interest-ed, “c’mon along and join Journey of Faith.” Call the

Office or one of us, or email or stop us after Mass – we’re here to help! And it looks as if Journey of Faith will begin sometime in October. Again, call if you are interested so we can order materials and schedule rooms and dates! So the Gospel this weekend is all about the generosity of the landowner. He hired la-borers for his vineyard at various times of the day and at the end of the day paid them all, “the usual daily wage.” He paid them according to how much they needed for existence and

NOT according to how much they worked. Those who labored the entire day for, “the usual daily wage” felt CHEATED when it came time to re-ceive their “usual daily wage” BASED on the amount of work they did as COMPARED to the amount of work the last group did. Again, the landowner’s generosity is all about paying ALL of them “the usual daily wage” based on what these laborers needed and not on how much they worked. Being a day laborer was a unstable exist-

ence, because the laborer never knew from day to day if they would work and if they would get paid to feed their families. Being called up to

St. Mary Church now provides Electronic Giving -

Electronic Giving allows our parishioners to give easily and is a safe way to make a one-time or recurring donation. Get-ting started is easy - Visit our website:

www.stmaryberea.org

Click on the VANCO Link to get started!

THE PARISH STAFF IS HERE TO HELP

You can stay connected to St. Mary Church many different ways:

♦ Visit our Website: www.stmaryberea.org - Our Website is updated with weekly streaming Mass-es, Fr. John’s Pastor Message & weekly bulletin

♦ Parish-Wide Emails from Fr. John - if you have not been receiving these email’s - update your address through our website - on the main page, scroll down to the “Register for Parish Email Ad-dress Book” & get registered.

♦ St Mary Church Facebook Page

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS!

Once again St. Mary Parish will be partnering with Habitat for Humanity Cleveland to assist them with their mission and to further take our ministry out into the community. Please consider sharing your Time and Talent as a Volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. St. Mary Volunteer days are:

♦ Saturday September 26th ♦ Saturday October 31st

The hours are 9:00 - 3:00pm each day and the houses are located on Grandview Ave.

To stay safe Habitat is limiting the number of site workers each day and practicing social distancing. If you have any questions or would like to volun-teer, please contact Deanna Meehan at:

dmeehan@meehanslawnservice.com

If you are not able to be a site worker but want to support St. Mary Habitat project it is not too late to consider donating to Deacon Tom’s Virtual K F u n d r a i s e r b y e m a i l i n g h i m a t dtom@stmaryberea.org

work the vineyard was a great opportunity for them to get paid and to feed their family. The land-owner knew how much everyone needed and so hired probably MORE laborers than he needed SO THAT he could give them what they needed to live another day. But the all-day laborers felt cheat-ed because they wanted more based on how much they worked. Today’s parable emphasizes the generosity of God’s kingdom in which everyone’s needs are met, regardless of their ability or good fortune. THANKS for everything you DO to help make St. Mary strong and vibrant! Your donations are a REAL BLESSING and I am grateful for all you offer generously to support the church! THANK YOU!

Fr. John

The Knights of Columbus Council #14416 offers our gratitude to the many parishioners of St. Mary of the Falls and St. Mary Par-ish of Berea that partic-ipated in the basket raffle to support the seminarians. A truly successful event that raised over $4,200.00.

We are excited to announce that Father John was the happy recipient of the $100 grand prize, though he didn’t have use of the accompanying stuffed “Dino”. Another ticket was drawn to find “Dino” a happy home.

THANK YOU !

Please remember in prayer all who are ill or homebound, especially the following: Christine Burrell Hilda Denk Kathleen Dorsey Linda Durica John Goetz Gerri Irvin Betty Kross

Chet Talarczyk Donald Ziehn To add a name to the Prayer List, please call the Rectory Office: (440) 243-3877 or email: jabraham1@stmaryberea.org

Bulletin Prayer List

Kathleen Murtha & Family Dan & Christine Huckleberry & Family

Nicholas & Emily Hall & Family David & Katherine Browne & Family

Welcome to St. Mary Parish

New Parishioners

Mother Teresa You can pray while you work. Work doesn’t stop prayer and prayer doesn’t stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to Him: I love you God, I trust you, I be-lieve in you, I need you now. Small things like that. These are wonderful ways to pray and wonderful prayers.

Excerpted from: Do Something Beautiful for God: The Essential Teachings of Mother Teresa (Published by: Blue Sparrow 2020)

Welcome the newly baptized -

Raymond Thomas Spencer

Welcome - Newly Baptized

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Anniversary Wishes If you will be having a wedding anniversary in the month of SEPTEMBER and would like your names listed in the bulletin, please call the parish office (440) 243-3877 or email jabra-ham1@stmaryberea.org

Deacon Tom & Barb Cully September 21st - 35 years Don & Theresa Powers

September 24th - 37 years Michael & Beverly McCarty September 27th - 45 years

Weekend of September 20 Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00pm Thomas A. Nicolay Family 7:30am For All Parishioners 9:30am Christopher Jackman Family 11:30am Margaret Noland Family & Friends Monday September 21 Saint Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist Eph 4:1-7, 11-13 / Mt 9:9-13 (643) 9:00am Pat & Jack Zeman Joe & Lois LaGruth Tuesday September 22 Weekday Prv 21:1-6, 10-13 / Lk 8:19-21 (450) 9:00am Len Stitt Marlene Dole Wednesday September 23 Saint Pius of Pietreicina, Priest Prv 30:5-9 / Lk 9:1-6 (451) 9:00am Fr. Bob Kurilec Tom & Joyce Kurilec Thursday September 24 Weekday Eccl 1:2-11 / Lk 9:7-9 (452) 9:00am Jane Schneider Special Intention Friday September 25 Weekday Eccl 3:1-11 / Lk 9:18-22 (453) 9:00am James Longrich Special Intention Saturday September 26 Weekday Eccl 11:9– 12:8 / Lk 9:43b-45 (454) 4:00pm James & Dorothy Klonk Family Sunday September 27 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ez 18:25-28 / Phil 2:1-11 or 2:1-5 / Mt 21:28-32 (136) 7:30am Louise Williams Cushman Cathy Hugney 9:30am Norma Milby Family 11:30am Jim MacArthur Mark & Pat Harris

Music Ministry & Liturgy Notes

By Angela Kovic, Director of Music and Liturgy

MUSIC GUIDELINES FROM THE DIOCESE In August the Cleveland Diocese Office of Worship gave a presentation concerning up to date information concerning public worship and singing during the pandemic. We were also given new guidelines to follow, and I’ll summarize them for you. First, everyone should wear masks, including singers! You will see me in the coming weeks wearing a strange duck like mask- it’s a special type of covering so that I can sing masked without being muffled! Next, the guide-lines recommend no congregational or choral singing, which we have already following. (If there were to be any sing-ing, everyone would have to be at least 6 feet apart and the singing would be severely limited, and less than 30 minutes total. To keep things manageable, I have decided against group singing for now.) A physically distanced can-tor is allowed to sing music, which I have been doing so far, but will hopefully be gradually bringing back some of our cantors from music ministry in the near future! The diocese suggests using music that is unfamiliar to the assembly, so as to not encourage group singing. As for other musicians, instruments should be limited to strings and percussions, but if there is brass or woodwinds, the instrument must have its bell and/or key holes covered up. We currently have viola and guitar, and so we are good! And the final guideline is to have only one person to a microphone per mass, as to allow time for air to flow through the windscreen. I know that all of these rules may seem overwhelming and difficult to digest, but as always, I want to thank you for being flexible, and I can’t wait until things are better and we can sing again! Contact me via phone (440.243.3877 ext. 27) or email (musicministry1@stmaryberea.org) for anything involving our Music!

Ministry Schedules Twenty-Sixth Sunday of Ordinary Time - September 27th

Mass Lector Cantor Extraordinary Ministers Servers 4:00pm T Morgan A & D Kovic (H) S Butcher, G Butcher, M E Nichols

7:30am E Jansen (H) L Madzy, K Zanotti, D Lipfird

9:30am Deacon Tom A & D Kovic (H) P Hultquist, Deacon Tom, L Richter 11:30am Deacon Tom A & D Kovic (H) P Hickey, Deacon Tom, D Hickey

PLEASE NOTE: WE ARE SUSPENDING THE OFFERING OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD & SERVERS AT THIS TIME

Formation Sessions - 2020 Now Open If you are interested in becoming an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion - you must 1st attend a Formation Ses-sion offered by the Diocese of Cleveland. Formation Sessions have previously been held in person at area churches, however in light of the pandemic ALL REMAINING 2020 SESSIONS ARE ON-LINE. Contact the Parish Office to register for one of the 2020 Sessions.

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion