PENTECOST SUNDAY JUNE 12, 2011

From Father Rich Homa

SharingsSharingsSharings “Let those who have eyes to see,

let them see.”

THESE ARE JESUS’ WORDS TO GET PEOPLE TO SEE GOD in all of life in the way Jesus saw God all around Him. This article from U.S. Catholic Magazine can help us to see God in all the beauty of summer. in

For The Beauty of the Earth by Catherine O’Connell-Cahill

O N A SUMMER DAY IN SOUTH HAVEN, MICHIGAN, at the little resort where my family stays (formerly called a “motel”), guests leave their rooms and picnic tables to head toward the bluff at certain times each evening. Along the lakeshore road, cars pull up, dispensing folks bearing blankets and lawn chairs.

The magnet drawing them hither is free, silent, and unavailable across the water: a glorious sunset over Lake Michigan. Sometimes you’ll hear little “oohs” and “ahs” as a particularly beautiful cloud formation has its way with the sunlight or as the last sliver of sun finally drops below the horizon.

Two years ago in Estes Park, Colorado, my family rode horses out of our camp and over the moraine into Rocky Mountain National Park. For an hour or so, we could indulge the illusion that we might meet up with Buffalo Bill. As we finally took the trail back over the moraine, the horses chuffed nervously. There on the forest floor beside the path, not 10 feet away, rested a stupendous elk, a giant rack on his head, staring imperiously at horses and riders alike.

Now that school is nearly out, summer hands us a chance to let our kids become students of the beauty of nature. One such student, the Catalonian architect Antonio Gaudi, earned the praise of Pope Benedict XVI when he dedicated Gaudi’s wondrous Church of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family) in Barcelona, still unfinished after the architect’s death. The pope referred to “the three books which nourished [Gaudi] as a man, as a believer, and as an architect: the book of nature, the book of sacred scripture, and the book of the liturgy.”

“He made stones, trees, and human life part of the church so that all creation might come together

in praise of God,” said the pope, “but at the same time he brought the sacred images outside so as to place before people the mystery of God.” In this way, Gaudi tried to overcome the division “between the beauty of things and God as beauty.”

I suspect many of our kids are beauty-starved. They spend far less time outdoors than previous generations. Much of what comes at them from TV, from the Internet, from their endless video games is crude, glitzy, lacking in substance. They are hustled as consumers from toddlerhood on.

Nature offers children a break from this onslaught. It offers us the experiences of beauty, of wildness, of God’s grandeur. Beauty is one of our deepest needs, says the pope. “It is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness.”

The poet Mary Oliver, whose poems my daughter has been reading at bedtime for a couple of years now, ponders how creatures help us glimpse the Creator. In the prose poem “December,” she encounters a deer in the woods for an all-too-brief moment before it vanishes: “In shyness, perhaps. Or simply because we get no more than such dreamy chances to look upon the real world. The great door opens a crack, a hint of the truth is given — so bright it is almost a death, a joy we cant’ bear — and then it is gone.” May God bless you,

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Sunday Reflections for the Solemnity

of the Most Holy Trinity

June 19, 2011

Meeting people for the first time usually involves offering our name and what we do. This is what happens on the Feast of the Holy Trinity. We return to Ordinary Time by listening to three texts that attempt to

tell us who our Triune God is and what God has done and continues to do for us.

WHO ARE YOU? WHAT DO YOU DO?

Once a young priest was giving a blessing in our seminary chapel and he left out the ands separating the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. An older priest loudly whispered: “Modalism!” This was a heresy in the early Church that taught that there was one God but not three distinct persons, only three modes or ways of experiencing God. Thus, those ands were important, giving emphasis to three dis-tinct persons. We believe in one God who is three: the Father and the Son and the Holy

Spirit. Your head can hurt trying to wrap your mind around this mystery. These readings don’t try to “figure it out.” They simply allow God to be introduced. First God gives Moses a name: “Lord.” God then spells out what that means for Moses and a people liberated from slavery. God is “merciful and gracious, slow to anger and rich in kindness and fidelity.” The Gospel of John reveals Jesus as the beloved Son sent into the world. For “God so loved the world he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not perish but have eternal life” (3:16). God really loves creation and all that continues to be created in love. Finally, Paul’s farewell to the Corinthians refers to the Lord Jesus who graces, the Father who loves, and the Holy Spirit who draws everyone into community. In brief, at the heart of God is found love, grace, mercy, community, kindness, and fidelity. Not a bad introduction. More ways to know the Trinity will be discovered as we move through “ordinary” time.

Readings for the Week June 13th-June 18th: Mon.: 2 Cor 6:1-10; Mt 5:38-42 Tues.: 2 Cor 8:1-9; Mt 5:43-48 Wed.: 2 Cor 9:6-11; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thurs.: 2 Cor 11:1-11; Mt 6:7-15 Fri.: 2 Cor 11:18, 21-30; Mt 6:19-23 Sat.: 2 Cor 12:1-10; Mt 6:24-34

REFLECTION

The Lord, the Lord, a merciful and gracious God (Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9). FIRST READING

God revealed Himself to Moses on Mount Sinai. God is always mystery, but in those moments God let Moses know that He is mer-ciful and gracious. God does not want to be angry with us. He only seeks our good. Thus, the Commandments that God revealed to Moses and the people of Israel are to be seen as a great act of compassion. God so

loved us that He taught us how to live in His ways. If we observe the Commandments, we will find Life; but if we break the Command-ments, we will have chosen our own spiritual death. Moses admitted that the people of Is-rael (and we) are sinners and we will always be in need of God’s mercy, but God promises to grant that mercy when we seek it.

The Gospel of John presents the final judg-ment as something that will occur before the end of time. It already occurs today, for when we make Jesus take a part of our lives, God will be real and alive to us. When, however, we reject Jesus, we choose to live a life with-

out Him. There could be not greater punish-ment than that. However this is certainly not what God wants. God did not send Jesus into the world so that we would be condemned. God wants us to be saved; He even called His Son to the cross out of love for us.

God sent his Son that the world might be saved through Him (John 3:16-18). GOSPEL

Saint Paul’s two Letters to the Corinthians are the first Letters written in the New Testa-ment that have clear references to the Holy Trinity. Remember that these Letters were produced long before the Gospels were writ-ten. In the last verses of this reading, we hear

a blessing given in the name of the Lord Je-sus Christ (the word “Lord” means that Jesus is God and the word “Christ” is the Greek equivalent of the word “Messiah”), God (the Father), and the Holy Spirit.

SECOND READING The grace of Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit (2 Corinthians 13:11-13).

STEWARDSHIP

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Sat., June 11th (5pm) Kenneth Schomers; Rose Johnson; Scott Zaur; Loreto De La Fuente; 40th Anniversary of Dave and Linda Weber Sun., June 12th (7:15am) Jack Dobbins (8:30am) Janice Viasisvich; Patricia Fitzpatrick (10am) Michael Panko; Mary Flores; Frank Gasper; Jack O’Connor; Carol Eisenberg; Esther Pickering; Jenney Tejheda; Stanley and Frances Gill; Arthur Gomulka (11:30am) Blaschke Family; Carol Carter; Anthony Esposito Mon., June 13th (9am) Michael Sullivan; Ray and Corinne Gillis Tues., June 14th (9am) Joan Mancari; Walter Brownley Wed., June 15th (9am) Michael Betz; Patricia Kinsella Thurs., June 16th (9am) Camille Rosiak; Agnes Gannon Fri., June 17th (9am) Raymond Binkowski; Dorothy Stanis; Esther Pickering Sat., June 18th (5pm) Peter Vallort; Ronald Jordan; Bill Boardman; Camille Rosiak, Yolanda and Otto Politano; Arnold G. Skibinski Sun., June 19th (7:15am) Mary Lou Naponiello; Eugene Kurowski; Clarence Horzewski (8:30am) Charles Kibler; Greg Szyndrowski (10am) Kenn Nemec; John Vitkovic; James Grant, Sr.; Edward Keane; Helen Kurek; Robert Petrie; Harry Baran; Leo Dignan, Sr.; James Paul; Willard and Estelle Bush; Ralph Vennetti (11:30am) Vernette Haines; Ray Gillis; Art Williams; Henry O’Neill

June 12, 2011

COLLECTION FOR 6-5-11: $25,851.15

KIDS COLLECTION: $74.18

Thank you for your generosity.

We remember the sick, infirm, and those recommended to our prayers, that they may experience the healing power of Christ: Alvin Smith Patrick McKernan Lucis Nemanius Carmen Roti Sandra Touissant-Smith Liam Quirk And for our deceased: Preston Pingel Catherine Hackett Virginia O’Hara “Heavenly Father, accept the prayers which we offer for them.”

David and Jennifer Vogt Children: Nicholas, Jordyn, Brandon, and Stephanie Vogt

Please pray for these couples preparing for the Sacrament of Matrimony: Jackie LaMonte and Brendan Durkin; 6-18

Congratulations to the following parents on the baptism of their child on 6-5-11: Olivia Lori, child of Thomas and Lois Batinich Grace Margaret, child of Adam and Meghan Wolbers Elias Erubiel, child of Erubiel and Eva Esparza Brianna Stephanie, child of Timothy and Christine Wyma Addison Marie, child of Adam and Erin Henrichs Anthony Thomas, child of Dominic and Janet Tommasone

Please visit the St. Elizabeth Seton

Men’s Club Food Tent at the Orland Hills

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Hot Dogs $2

Brats/Italian Sausage $3 Corn on the Cob $2

Pop/Water $1

Friday, June 24th 6-8pm: J & T Band (country); WJMK K-Hits 8-11:30pm: 7th Heaven (rock/pop) Saturday, June 25th 1-3:30pm: Saint Laurence Rock Band 4-6pm: WLUP Van and Loop Girl 4:30-7pm: The Deal (rock) 8-11:45pm: Echos of Pink Floyd; Laser Light Show 9:30-10pm: Fireworks Sunday, June 26th 1-4pm: Jumpees, face painting, balloon artist, petting zoo, cold blooded creatures, magician 3:30-6pm: Libido Funk Circus (pop/fun/dance) 7-9pm: American English (Beatles Tribute Band)

SVDP Used School School Supplies Drive This Weekend! The St. Vincent DePaul Society is collecting used school supplies in GOOD CONDITION this weekend. Please deposit your donations in the boxes by the entrance doors of the church. Your donations will be distributed to needy children for their Summer School projects. Thank you for your support!

Kelly Park 16553 Haven

All proceeds will benefit the Branches Youth Group and our 2-1 Mortgage Reduction Appeal

Congratulations to Edward and Dolores Senese who are celebrating their 56th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, June 11, 2011. Congratulations to Dave and Linda Weber who are celebrating their 40th Wedding Anniversary on Saturday, June 11, 2011.

MASS INTENTIONS

WELCOME

PLEASE PRAY FOR

WEDDINGS

BAPTISMS

ANNIVERSARIES

T WO YEARS AGO, outside of Guatemala City, Lorenzo Rosebaugh, a Missionary Oblate of

Mary Immaculate, was shot to death as he was driving with a number of his fellow missionar-ies to a community meeting. The real motive behind his kill-ing may never be known. On the surface, it appeared to be noth-ing more than a violent robbery, but given the circumstances of Lorenzo’s life and his life-long fight for justice for the poor, everyone, myself no exception, wants to believe that his being shot was more than a question of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Too many things suggest that this was more than an accident. If nothing else, his death by gunshot is somehow symbolic: Lorenzo wasn’t meant to die of old age in a comfortable bed. I first met Lorenzo at our mother-house at Aix-en-Provence in France 10 years ago. He had just returned from a long missionary stint in Latin America where, among other things, he had lived on the streets of Recife with its poor, without roof or fixed address, for several years. A serious illness drove him back to the USA and his Oblate community sent him on a sab-batical to France. He arrived there unable to speak any French whatsoever. Yet, when I met him there, less than a month after his arrival, he was sitting on the steps of the church which is attached to our community residence with a dozen street-people gathered round him. They were sharing food and ciga-rettes and some kind of conversation. It looked like a picnic in the park. There is nothing exceptional about this except that Lorenzo couldn’t speak a word of French and the people gathered round him couldn’t speak English, Portuguese, or Spanish (his languages). Yet they clearly seemed to be communicating with each other, and deeply, in a way that would trigger envy to an outsider, and Lorenzo was their focal point.

How? How can we speak to each other beyond communicating in the ordinary languages that we know?

W HEN THE EVANGELIST, LUKE, describes the first Pentecost, he tells us that, after receiving the Holy Spirit, the first followers of Jesus came out into public and began speaking and, everyone,

absolutely everyone, no matter their ethnicity or language, heard the disciples’ words as if they were in their own language. The old barriers of native language no longer blocked hearing or understanding. The language given by the spirit transcended ethnicity and native tongue.

It is too easy for us to simply write this off as a miracle, an exceptional foundational intervention by God which helped found the church. That may also be true, but there is another point to this: Language functions at different levels. At its most obvious level, language depends upon the spoken word and that word is always in a particular language, e.g., French, English, Spanish, Chinese. At this level words have a relative power, but they can also deceive and lie. Words don’t always accurately mirror the heart. Moreover, they invariably fail us just when we most need them, especially in depth situa-

tions where tragedy, death, and betrayal render us mute.

B UT WE HAVE OTHER LANGUAGES: Beyond the spoken word there is body language. Our bodies speak louder and more honestly than do our words. Through our bodies, through its gestures and the nuances of its countenance, we speak more deeply and more truly than we do with our words. And we have still yet a deeper language: More deeply than through the body, we speak through the spirit, through the language of the Holy Spirit, a language that transcends the spoken word and the language of our bodies. What is the language of the spirit? The Holy Spirit is not just a person inside the Trinity, hopelessly abstract and beyond our conception. Scripture tells us that the Holy Spirit is also very concrete, conceivable, and tangible inside of charity, joy, peace, patience, goodness, longsuffering, fidelity, gentleness, and chastity. These speak through us more loudly and clearly, either in their presence or their absence, than do all our words and gestures. In the end we are not fooled by each other. We hear beyond spoken words, bodily gestures, and beyond what we explicitly intend to say to each other. The heart reads the heart and the spirit recognizes itself wherever it sees itself as manifest. Thus many of us talk passionately about our love for the poor, but the poor do not hear us, understand us, or gather round us, even when our diction is perfect in their native tongue. While working in Latin America, Lorenzo Rosebaugh spoke only broken Spanish and broken Portuguese. Yet the poor there heard him and perfectly understood what he was saying. He spoke no French at all and still he was able to sit on the steps of a church in France and gather round him the street-people there who spoke only French—and they understood him clearly, as in their mother-tongue. Such is the language of Pentecost.

In Exile by Rev. Ronald Rolheiser

Come, Holy Spirit! Come Father and Mother of the poor! Come, our sweet refreshment, our solace in the midst of woe, our light in darkness. Healer of our wounds, dew upon our dryness, warmth for our cold hearts.

Bring the orphans home that all our gifts of life form one family within your Church. Amen.

PENTECOST SUNDAY Make Christ Present in the World Today

Deeper Language “And they were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in

different tongues, as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.” —ACTS 2:4

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Journey with the Lord and let your heart hear God’s Words….

By Margie Guadagno St. Elizabeth Seton Pastoral Associate

When the disciples

met Jesus

on the road,

they were

disappointed

and sad.

He walked with them

and listened to

their story.

Then, by opening up

the Scriptures

He gave them hope!

He helped them see

that they were

not abandoned

or left orphaned,

that God

was with them

and would

always be part

of their journey.

The Road To EmmausThe Road To EmmausThe Road To Emmaus The Road To Emmaus The Road To EmmausThe Road To EmmausThe Road To Emmaus

And All Were Filled With the Holy Spirit...

“When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled, they were all in one place together.”

W HEN I HEAR THESE LINES each year, I do so from the perspective of my Christian upbringing and Catholic education. After the passion, death and Resurrection of Jesus, a time was appointed by God to send the ‘advocate’ that Jesus promised. That is our celebration of Pentecost, the Birth of the Church. But this year, something drew me to research this feast day from the perspective of Jesus’ followers who experienced it through their Jewish upbringing and education. What I found is very interesting. Pentecost, which means ‘fifty days,’ was the Feast of Shavuot. It was the celebration of the giving of the Torah to Moses at Mt. Sinai. The Torah is the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. The date of Shavuot is determined by counting off fifty days from the Jewish Passover. This fifty day period is called the Counting of Omer and is a time of intense spiritual preparation and anticipation leading up to Shavuot for Jewish people. In fact, an important spiritual aspect of the Jewish faith is the belief that God freed the Jewish people from servitude to the Pharaoh in Egypt so that they could receive the Torah at Mt. Sinai and begin to serve God. So, just as they celebrated Passover believing God was freeing them as much as he freed their ancestors, they approached the time of the Counting of Omer believing

each person was responsible to prepare to accept the Torah into their own lives. So much so that on the eve of the Feast of Shavuot, Jewish families would gather together and stay up all night reading the Torah in preparation for the feast day. Understanding this makes it clearer for me why the followers of Jesus were gathered together and what was meant by ‘the time for Pentecost being fulfilled.’ The 50 days had been counted, they had gathered together to read and study the Torah and were now ready to celebrate the Feast Day. Suddenly, a noise filled the entire house and each person present was filled with the Holy Spirit who enabled them to proclaim the mighty acts of God. Can you imagine what that must have been like? To have spent the night reading the Torah to recommit yourself to God’s Word, and then to have that Word opened up in ways you could never have understood on your own? To see that the freedom granted by God to the Hebrews is now granted to everyone through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus? To be filled with the courage to go out and share that understanding with others? No wonder the people who heard them were astounded and amazed! They were truly people on fire.

P erhaps we can approach Pentecost in the same state of mind as the first disciples did—believing that what God did for them through the Spirit is being done today for us: right here and right now.

Happy Pentecost!

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As we look back on almost 25 years as a parish

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1) After much coaxing during previous Seton anniversary dinner dances, when did Father O’Mara promise to dance the “Chicken Dance” with parishioners? 2) What parade did the St. Elizabeth Seton parishioners march in? 3) Who led the St. Elizabeth Seton parishioners in the parade? 4) Fr. Ron Hicks was an associate here at St. Elizabeth Seton from 1996-1999. Where was his assignment after leaving Seton? 5) Who wrote movie reviews in the bulletin?

Remember When articles submitted by Sharon Daley. Seton Trivia Answers can be found on page 13.

Jonathan Biallas Emily Bilecki Scott Cuba Tara Esboldt Colleen Innis James Jaeger Benjamin Justice Max Kircher Elizabeth Kochniarczyk Olivia Kozel Erik Krause

Taylor Krueger Rachel Latus William Leeson Ryan Loizzo Brian McMahon Peyton O’Neill Henry Pawelczyk Joshua Szymanek Brady Walter Stephen Westman Matthew Zdun

Seton Eighth Grader Altar Servers! Thank you for your years of faithful service!

Dear Altar Servers,

Maybe you never thought about what it means to be an altar server, but here is something to think about…

You have served Christ at the altar, and have a connection with altar servers around the world — all attending to the mystery of the altar. Something drew you to be an altar server. Maybe it was the white robes, maybe it was a way to stay more focused at Mass. Whatever it was still resides in you even as you end your official service as an altar server. The mystery which drew you remains forever in you, whether you can articulate it or not, because it is the mystery of God that really compelled you. Oh, certainly you were encouraged by a parent, but we know that God does his work through many instruments — parents being a way that God speaks to you.

You placed the bread on the altar, you held the water and the wine at Mass. Water, wine and bread; the same elements that Jesus used at the Last Supper. You held the book with all the prayers that we use at Mass. You have carried the candles, which are always a symbol of hope, that Christ is our light. Some have carried the cross, and we know that we have a heavy cross at Seton. Interesting, that it is a heavy cross. But Jesus surely didn’t want to carry His cross right away. Although, He eventually embraced it, and you have done the same symbolically by carrying the cross.

Thank you for your service to Christ and to our parish!

Get your raffle ticket

today! Early Bird drawing next

weekend!

“Thanks for Giving” RAFFLE GRAND PRIZE $25,000! Early Bird Drawing….. $2,000 (June 19, 2011 after the 11:30am Mass)

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ONLY $50 PER TICKET JUST 2,000 TICKETS WILL BE SOLD!

Proceeds will support our 2-for-1 debt reduction.

Drawing on Saturday, August 27, 2011 at 5pm in the church parking lot at the SetonFest Church Picnic.

All ticket holders welcome. Winner need not be present. GRAND PRIZE drawn first. In the event all tickets are not sold, all prize monies will be awarded on a pro-rated basis.

Raffle Tickets available in the Parish Office.

For more details or information regarding $100 medallions, please call Donna Stolinski, St. Elizabeth Seton Business Manager, at 708-403-0101 or Joe Tucker at 708-873-0065.

$46,000 IN TOTAL PRIZE WINNINGS

Available TODAY!

St. Elizabeth Seton 25th Anniversary

COMMEMORATIVE MEDALLIONS

Cost: $100

Price includes one free $50 raffle ticket to the $25,000

raffle drawing at the Jubilee Seton Picnic on

August 27, 2011.

Must purchase medallion before August 27th to receive raffle ticket.

Monies raised go the church debt reduction and to Jubilee events.

(For a party of 6 or more, please call ahead with a reservation !) We invite you and your family to {dine in or out}

at Gatto’s Restaurant in Tinley Park Monday through Thursday.

June 27th through June 30th. St. Elizabeth Seton Parish will receive 15% of each sale

when you present this flyer at lunch and/or dinner at Gatto’s. Monies received from Gatto’s will be added to our fund to reduce our debt.

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2011 ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL

Your “donation” becomes a “TWO-FOR-ONE” and is really a “THREE-FOR-ONE”!

Help reduce our mortgage as all monies donated are matched by the Archdiocese! There has never been a better time to make a gift!

AMOUNT PLEDGED-TO-DATE: $100,673.00 AMOUNT PAID-TO-DATE: $ 77,866.00 The theme of the 2011 Annual Catholic Appeal is “seek first the kingdom of God…” (Matthew 6:33). However, the Annual Catholic Appeal is different for St. Elizabeth Seton. The Archdiocese is aware of the very large mortgage and interest payment that St. Elizabeth Seton makes each year. As part of their Mission and ministry, they want to assist us. As a result, all the monies that you pledge will be applied not only to Archdiocesan needs, but to our mortgage to the Archdiocese. And, as a special incentive, they will match all funds pledged and received. “Two-for-One” is actually “Three-for-One”. This truly is a great gift. It is important to understand how vital a single pledge is. Each family’s pledge does make a difference. The participation of many parishioners in this campaign will, I hope, enable our parish to have a significant reduction in our mortgage and interest payments. The combined gifts of so many people will not only signify gratitude to God, they will glorify Him by improving the ministry of our parish.

Place your order for a St. Elizabeth Seton 25th Anniversary

Jubilee Polo or T-Shirt today and help support our Branches Mission Trip!

Shirts are available in two styles -Polo and T-Shirt-and two colors-maroon w/white lettering or white w/maroon lettering. They can be ordered in small through 2XL sizes.

The t-shirts have a large version of the Jubilee logo on the back and "25th Jubilee - St. Elizabeth Seton Church" with a drawing of the processional cross on the front breast area. The polos just have a smaller version of the Jubilee logo on the front breast area. Cost: t-shirts are $12 each and polos are $15 each, with all proceeds going to the Branches

Mission Trip. We are taking orders until July 3, with shirts delivered in time for our Jubilee picnic.

Please submit all order forms with a check for the proper amount (made out to St. Elizabeth Seton Church) to the Parish Office by July 3.

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Be Still… A Call To Centering PrayerBe Still… A Call To Centering PrayerBe Still… A Call To Centering Prayer Wednesday, June 8th at 7pmWednesday, June 8th at 7pmWednesday, June 8th at 7pm

You are invited to join in an hour of quiet timeYou are invited to join in an hour of quiet timeYou are invited to join in an hour of quiet time and learn about Centering Prayer. The groupand learn about Centering Prayer. The groupand learn about Centering Prayer. The group meets the second Wednesday of each monthmeets the second Wednesday of each monthmeets the second Wednesday of each month in the Cornerstone building located on the in the Cornerstone building located on the in the Cornerstone building located on the corner of 167th St. and 94th Ave. corner of 167th St. and 94th Ave. corner of 167th St. and 94th Ave. Questions?Questions?Questions? Please call Marge at 708Please call Marge at 708Please call Marge at 708---460460460---5357.5357.5357.

For more information about the priesthood please visit www.ChicagoPriest.com. To explore vocation opportunities, please contact Fr. Brian Welter at bwelter@archchicago.org, call 312-534-8298 or . To learn about religious life contact Sr. Elyse Ramirez, OP at 312-534-5240 or via email at eramirez@archchicago.org.

VOCATION CROSS PARTICIPANTS:

Wednesday, June 15th Pamela Zufan

Wednesday, June 22nd Leeson Family

Wednesday, June 29th Maryann Mirecki Please call the parish office at 708-403-0101 to sign up to be a Vocation Cross Participant. Please join them in prayer... PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, graciously hear our prayers. Give us generous hearts to respond to Your call in our lives. Lift up courageous men and women willing to follow after Your Heart as priests, sisters and brothers. Help parents and teachers to share the faith and to encourage young people to explore religious vocations. Guide all people, Lord, in Your ways of compassion, truth and peace, that we may find happiness in fulfilling our vocations. Amen.

Parish Vocation News

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Newborns in Need The Seton Sowers Chapter of New-borns in Need will be meeting at 9:30am on Monday, June 20th in the downstairs meeting room. The group welcomes anyone who would like to help knit, crochet and sew baby items

for the University of Illinois, St. James and Provena/St. Joseph Hospitals which specialize in the care of premature and ill babies who need to spend time in the hospital after birth. They will accept Any baby items you make, as well as donations of yarn/fabric. Materials/patterns can be pro-vided. For information, call Carol Dimer at 708-479-6994. Alcoholics Anonymous If you have a problem with alcohol and feel a sincere de-sire to stop drinking, you are welcome to attend a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) in the downstairs St. Eliza-beth Seton Church Hall on Thursdays from 7:30-8:45pm. Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover. The only requirement is a sincere desire to stop drinking. Families Anonymous If your life has gone astray due to living with someone who has a substance abuse problem, consider attending Fami-lies Anonymous on Mondays from 7-8:30pm at Palos Hos-pital, 123rd and 80th Ave., Palos Heights (LL Rm. F). Call 708-429-5704.

Seton Summer Market Days are BACK! June 16th, July 20th, August 17th

PICKUP THIS WEEK! Pickup for the Seton Summer Market Day is scheduled for Wednesday, June 15th from 5:00-6:00pm. Questions? Call Kathy Hall at 708-349-1879. And remember! You can order Everything from main entrees to snacks for your quick, delicious meals online for any of the remaining Market Day events at www.marketday.com. (Acct. #2887).

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SAINT OF THE WEEK

St. Anthony of Padua 1195-1231

THE GOSPEL CALL TO LEAVE everything and follow Christ was the rule of Anthony’s life. Over and over again God called him

to something new in his plan. Every time Anthony responded with renewed zeal and self-sacrificing to serve his Lord Jesus more completely. His journey as the servant of God began as a very young man when he decided to join the Augustinians in Lisbon, giving up a future of wealth and power to be a servant of God. Later, when the bodies of the first Franciscan martyrs went through the Portuguese city where he was stationed, he was again filled with an intense longing to be one of those closest to Jesus himself: those who die for the Good News. So Anthony entered the Franciscan Order and set out to preach to the Moors. But an illness prevented him from achieving that goal. He went to Italy and was stationed in a small hermitage where he spent most of his time praying, reading the Scriptures and doing menial tasks. The call of God came again at an ordination where no one was prepared to speak. The humble and obedient Anthony hesitantly accepted the task. The years of searching for Jesus in prayer, of reading sacred Scripture and of serving him in poverty, chastity and obedience had prepared Anthony to allow the Spirit to use his talents. Anthony’s sermon was astounding to those who expected an unprepared speech and knew not the Spirit’s power to give people words. Recognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars. Soon he was called from that post to preach to the Albigensian in France, using his profound knowledge of Scripture and theology to convert and reassure those who had been misled. After he led the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made his headquarters in the city of Padua. He resumed his preaching and began writing sermon notes to help other preachers.

COMMENT Anthony should be the patron of those who find their lives completely uprooted and set in a new and unexpected direction. Like all saints, he is a perfect example of turning one's life completely over to Christ. God did with Anthony as God pleased—and what God pleased was a life of spiritual power and brilliance that still attracts admiration today. He whom popular devotion has nominated as finder of lost objects found himself by losing himself totally to the providence of God.

Save-the-Date Saturday, August 27th

to “Make the Scene” at our

“Setonville” Parish Picnic !

Dig the hot rods, dig the food,

dig the plans we made for you! Family Fun all day!

Be cool! Help Volunteer!

Sign up in the Narthex!

St. Julie Church will host

Theology On Tap Sundays evenings

July 10th-31st Theology On Tap is of-fered for all young adults, single or married, between the ages of 20-39. The sessions will be held during the four-weeks of July

starting on July 10th. St. Julie Billiart, 7399 W. 159th Pl., Tinley Park, is one of the 40 sites throughout the Chicagoland area hosting Theology on Tap. All partici-pants are welcome to attend the St. Julie Billiart 6pm Sunday Mass. Refreshments will be served followed by their speaker at 7:15pm. Please visit the Young Adult Ministry website, yamchicago.org for details. Also, you will find Theology-On-Tap on Facebook and Twitter.

Remember When Trivia Answers: 1. Over the years prior, Fr. O’Mara promised he would dance to the Chicken Dance at our 10th Anniversary Dinner Dance. 2. The Southside St. Patrick’s Day Parade. 3. Fr. Brian Ardagh led our parishioners in the parade. 4. Fr. Hicks left for a teaching position at St. Joseph Seminary. 5. Fr. O’Mara would share his O’ratings movie reviews in his his O’rations bulletin articles.

Sixth Grade Families RELEASED ON MARCH 9, 2011, the New American Bible, Revised Edition (NABRE) is the culmination of nearly 20 years of work by a group of nearly 100 scholars and theologians, including bishops, revisers and editors. The NABRE includes a newly revised translation of the entire Old Testament (including the Book of Psalms) along with the 1986 edition of the New Testament. All incoming sixth grade students and Catechists will be issued the newly revised edition.

MONDAY NIGHT MEDLEY CATEGORY:

LITURGY, PRAYER, SACRAMENTS LOCATION:

ST. JULIE BILLIART PARISH 7399 W. 159TH ST., TINLEY PARK

TIME: 7:00-8:45PM

DATE SPEAKER TITLE June 13 Rev. Steve Lanza Revision of the Roman Missal June 20 Todd Williamson Liturgy of the Word June 27 Dr. Mary Amore Liturgy of the Eucharist July 11 Rev. Ed McLaughlin Prayer July 18 Kathy Drennan Sacraments July 25 Dr. Joe Paprocki Catechetical Dimension: Incorporating Liturgy, Prayer, and Sacraments into the Classroom

There is no charge for these sessions if you are attending for your own personal faith formation. If you wish to receive credit for this course towards certification as a Catechist you must register to attend all six sessions, pay the $15 material fee.

Checks should be made payable to: Southwest Suburban Cluster Association

Mail registrations to: Trish Nickleski, 608 Sobieski St., Lemont, IL 60439

If you are a Catholic School teacher please contact Esther Hicks office to see if this will count towards your certification.

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S T . E L I Z A B E T H S E T O N C H I L D R E N ’ S R E L I G I O U S E D U C A T I O N

REMINDER: RE-REGISTERING FAMILIES —

Early bird (discounted tuition fees) end on June 17th. Rates increase by $50.00 as of June 18th.

Highlighting Our Ministry/Recruitment Weekend ON THE WEEKEND OF MAY 28TH AND MAY 29TH, the Religious Education Program joined with the Cardinal Bernardin School and the Athletics Program celebrating our ministries by carrying in our 25th Anniversary commemorative candle during the Entrance Procession at each of the Masses. At the 7:15am Mass (pictured above) our program was represented by Mrs. Mary Kaye Green (Third Grade Leader Catechist) and her daughter Mary Kate. We would like to thank the people who stopped by our table in the Narthex to inquire about Catechist, Faith Companion and Support Staff positions for the upcoming 2011-2012 year. We especially wish to thank the individuals who filled the Catechist positions for 1st, 3rd, and 8th Grade, and Hall Monitor position. We are still in need of Catechists and Faith Companions! Please stop by or phone the R.E. Office at 708-403-0137 if you are interested in information on how to join our team. We are looking forward to meeting you.

ST. ELIZABETH SETON PARISH INFORMATION

Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered on Saturday, between 4:15-4:45pm.

Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated twice monthly at 1pm. Reserve your time by calling the Pastoral Center early. We are limited to six children per Sunday.

Baptismal Couples preparing for the birth of their child should contact the Pastoral Center to register for a one night seminar, focusing on a parent’s role in his/her child’s faith development. This session is mandatory prior to the Baptism.

Anointing of the Sick is available in the Church every Monday after the 9am Mass. For those who are ill or facing hospitalization, it is appropriate to receive the sacrament once every six months. Please call the Pastoral Center for more information.

Ministry of Care is available to give Communion to the housebound, to visit and pray for hospitalized and/or to arrange for the Anointing of the Sick. Please call the Pastoral Center for assistance.

In the Hospital? Because of HIPAA Privacy regulations hospitals can no longer contact the parish regarding your hospitalization. It is the responsibility of you or a family member to notify our parish. We desire to offer whatever spiritual support we can. Please call the Pastoral Center.

Sacrament of Marriage Couples planning to marry are encouraged to make arrangements at least six months in advance.

Wedding Workshops are offered throughout the year. They provide engaged couples with guidelines and suggestions for the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage. The workshop covers topics ranging from readings and music to flowers and video taping.

Adult Choir sings at all 10am Sunday Masses, as well as at a number of special liturgies.

Moving? Please call the office at 708-403-0101.

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SETON YOUTH PROGRAMSETON YOUTH PROGRAMSETON YOUTH PROGRAM Seton Saints Summer Softball

We play 16" softball against other parish teams, with weekly games starting in June and ending the first

weekend in August. We practice Wednesdays from 6:15-7:30pm starting April 27 on the grass field by the

Cornerstone. The team is open to current eighth graders through high school seniors, who are Seton parishioners, CJB students, and their friends. Cost is $30, and covers

the league fee, uniform shirts, and some equipment. Mission Trip Meetings

All those participating in the 2011 Mission Trip must attend Wednesday evening planning meetings from 7:30-8:30pm in the Parish Hall (below the church). The meetings will be June 1 and June 8. The meeting will follow softball practice

for those of you playing on the team.

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Pastoral Staff Rev. Richard Homa, Pastor Rev. Stanislaw Kuca, Associate Pastor Margie Guadagno, Pastoral Associate Donna Stolinski, Business Manager Claudia Nolan, Director of Liturgy Linda McKeague, Director of Music Elaine Pawlak, Religious Education Coordinator Mary Iannucilli, Principal, CJB School Sr. Dorothy Glaister, OP, CJB School RE Coordinator

Pastor Emeritus: Rev. William T. O’Mara

Resident Priest: Rev. William Gubbins

Deacon: Frank (Betty) Gildea Deacon: Joseph (Nancy) Bishop

Liturgy and Music Staff Claudia Nolan, Director of Liturgy Linda McKeague, Director of Music

Parish Office Staff Donna Stolinski, Business Manager Darlene Raila, Parish Publications Joan Nemec, Morning Receptionist Sharon Daley, Afternoon Receptionist

Religious Education Staff Elaine Pawlak, Catechetics Diana Barracca, Administration Karen Mirecki, Administration

Branches Youth Program Bruce Hall, Coordinator Rick Vlaming, Coordinator Rick Wojcik, Coordinator

Athletics Bob Myjak, Director

Maintenance Staff Raymond Yanowsky, Director of Maintenance Carlos Juarez, CJB Maintenance Coordinator Michael Makuch, Staff Joseph Shake, Staff

REGULAR MASS SCHEDULE

Monday-Friday 9am Saturday 5pm

Sunday 7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30am

St. Elizabeth Seton Church 9300 W. 167th Street Orland Hills, IL 60487

Parish Office: 708-403-0101 WEBSITE: WWW.STESETON.COM Religious Education: 708-403-0137

PARISH SUMMER OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY: 8:30AM--4:30PM SATURDAY-SUNDAY: 8AM-1PM

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Catholic School 708-403-6525 Principal, Mary Iannucilli Vice Principal, Bonita Brown Administrative Assistant, Cindy Labriola Devlin

6/18 & 6/19 5:00PM 7:15AM 8:30AM 10:00AM 11:30AM GREETERS R. Coe

S. Klean A. Miller D. Roczniak B. Rose P. Rose M. Rose J. Rose R. Sharp J. Sikora M. Taska R. Vlaming M. Vlaming

A. Dovgin L. McGhee S. McGhee D. Skrzypiec B. Tenuta A. Shemanske B. Shemanske G. Staszewski P. Staszewski A. Wrzesinski

K. Fox M. Fox D. Gurka M. Gurka P. Gurka M. Gurka J. Klomes J. Klomes L. Klomes M. Klomes A. McCoy

A. Gent M. Havlin J. Havlin P. Havlin B. Krueger S. Lorenz N. Lorenz J. Moran D. Weber

R. Andrews M. Broderick M. Fitzgerald M. Gniady K. Ivancich B. Ivancich M. McMahon B. Wojewnik

LECTORS J. Tunelius R. Coe

D. Houha

K. Dziallo B. Hall

M. Eisenberg R. Hicks

C. Steckhan G. Rekar

ALTAR SERVERS

S. Nemec E. Krause H. Pawelczyk

C. Murphy R. Senick S. Westman

N. Thompson B. Ryan J. Dennis

F. Velcich J. Jalowiec M. Bialka

M. Yara D. Bergins J. Ucha

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

M. Jeswein R. Piorkowski S. Abbatemarco M. Abbatemarco A. Sharp J. Harris J. Connelly D. McBride B. DeJonge T. Hanlon S. Grill M. Miller

D. Nykiel M. Guadagno C. Nolan M. Fundator B .Gildea J. Janiak A. Weishaar

M. Dziallo S. Hall V. Patrizi V. Patrizi T. Cohoon J. Juds P. Skowronek J. Kelly K. Kelly N. Krieher S. Weishaar B. Knight

J. Eisenberg R. Hicks M. Fehrenbacher S. Rosinski M. Gabrione L. Gent R. Laud B. Hansen S. Michalek J. Kokotan-Krauss J. Federico T. Federico

M. Merino M. Morajda B. McMahon K. Hall T. Wolski S. Villegas T. Scorzo L. Koning J. Mitchel M. O’Connor J. Frese K. Frese

Attention All Ministers!

New ministers schedules are now available on our website at: www.steseton.com Then visit: Music and Liturgy

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