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Dear Brothers and Sisters of Our Lady of Lourdes,

I share with you this reflection on Holy Communion / Holy Eucharist from Father Rob-ert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D. I recommend his site and blog: MAGISCENTER.COM which con-tains great information and very engaging and intellectually informed perspectives on living our faith.

This article of Father Spitzer is about the sacrament of Holy Eucharist.

Why the Eucharist is Important in Your Daily Life—

Father Robert Spitzer, S.J., Ph.D.

The Eucharist is so powerful, but we often don’t notice this. It seems that usually God transforms our hearts gradually at our pace over time.

This gentle approach helps to solidify

our relationships with Him, as well. I can personally attest that when I was

a young freshman in college, I certainly had a very utilitarian viewpoint. I was looking for power, prestige, money, and getting my own way. But, I was a faithful Catholic. I was going to Mass on Sunday, and so forth.

One day this kid comes up to me, Bert

Martinez, and he goes, “Hey, what are you going to do for Lent?” I just said, “Oh, I’m going to give up meat or something.”

He said, “Well, I’m going to go Mass

every day.” I’m telling you, as the pure grace of

the Holy Spirit, this was not on my mind. Suddenly, I think to myself, “If Martinez can do this, I can do this.”

Of course, I resolved I’d go to Mass

during Lent, and the Lord just gripped me. When I started going, there began that warmth, that peace, that sensitivity to just being hooked, as it were, on the Word of God, of just being at home, a spiritual at-homeness right in the middle of the world.

I was getting hooked. Lent was over,

and I just kept right on going to Mass every single day, never stopped, was completely hooked.

Then, people would tell me, at the end

of one year, they’d say, “Spitzer, you’re really changing. You used to be a utilitarian bum, but, now, you have some kind of compassion and sentiment.”

I’d literally tell them, “I think I’m still

the same, utilitarian bum you used to know.” They’d go, “No, really you’re changed.” I was the last to see that I was literally being transformed in the heart of Christ by the Eu-charist.

It was happening so subtly, it was like

one of these Spitzerian diets. I get on the scale every five minutes. I want to see progress,

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NEW TO THE BULLETIN:

We have added our Mass

readings and songs to the

bulletin—See pages 6 & 7.

This will help you to

participate in the Mass.

Please join us.

Our Lady of Lourdes Sunday Mass can be viewed Saturday

5 pm—or anytime after this—every week. Please go to our

website LOURDESWESTORANGE.ORG. For an archive of

previous Sundays, click on “Lourdes You Tube”.

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SATURDAY 27 JUNE 8:30 am 5:30 pm

Louise Manzella Kathleen & Gene Mooney

SUNDAY 28 JUNE 7:30 am

9:30 am 11:30 am

People of the Parish Vivian C. Petrillo Peggy Bradley

MONDAY 29 JUNE 8:30 am

Edward McDonald

TUESDAY 30 JUNE 8:30 am

Anthony Minitti

WEDNESDAY 1 JULY 8:30 pm

Ann Iannacone

THURSDAY 2 JULY 8:30 am

Katie Dougherty

FRIDAY 3 JULY 8:30 am

Salvador Ortanez

SATURDAY 4 JULY 8:30 am

5:30 pm

People of the Parish Michael Trusio

SUNDAY 5 JULY 7:30 am 9:30 am

11:30 am

People of the Parish Antonio Matias (Thanksgiving) John Edward Thomas

Masses will be offered for the following intentions in church commencing June 22 thru 25; 5:30 pm Mass on June 27 & all Masses on June 28.

Private Masses will be held for the 8:30 am Masses on Friday & Saturday.

JULY 4—JULY 5, 2020

Mass Lector Eucharistic Ministers Altar Servers

5:30 pm Pat Sigalas

7:30 am Bless Bernardo

9:30 am

Kathy Petrillo

11:30 am Doris Spivey

Daphne Brown Catherine Gascoyne Nicholas Larusso Ramon Marmol Mary McGuines Matthew McHugh

Dolores Otero Mark Quarno Gregory Roxborough Mary Lou Ruppel Pat Schoeler Katerina Zachos

SUNDAY 28 JUNE

7:30 am 9:30 am

11:30 am

Mass in church Mass in church Mass in church **ALL ATTENDEES AT MASS MUST WEAR FACE MASKS AND SIT IN DESIGNATED AREAS

MONDAY 29 JUNE 8:30 am

6:30 pm

Daily Mass will be held Monday thru Thursday of each week in church. No reservation is required. **

Virtual Town Hall Meeting (See our website: lourdeswestorange.org for details).

THURSDAY 2 JULY 10:00 am

1:00 pm

Deadline for News & Announcements for July 12th bulletin email: lourdesbulletin@aol.com.

Virtual “Pray the Rosary/Divine Mercy via Zoom video & audio. (See our website: lourdeswestorange.org for details).

SATURDAY 4 JULY 4:15—5:00 pm

5:30 pm

Confessions (Family/Cry Room) Mass in church **

SUNDAY 5 JULY 7:30 am 9:30 am

11:30 am

Mass in church Mass in church Mass in church **ALL ATTENDEES AT MASS MUST WEAR FACE MASKS AND SIT IN DESIGNATED AREAS

MATTHEW 10:38

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PASTOR COLUMN Continued from Page 2

because withholding food is so painful. The idea though is literally you’re not going to notice, because God’s always going to operate within your freedom.

But, every single time there’s that little moment of conversion when you receive the Eucharist. Every time you’re hearing the Word of God, and you get some new idea, and you start softening up.

He’s kind of wheedling in there with His Spirit, constantly wheedling, constantly coming in, cor ad cor loquitur, ( heart speaking to heart). He’s getting in there. He’s urging. He’s cajoling. He’s wheedling.

Of course, you wind up changing, and everybody recognizes it, and you’re the last to know. This happened to me for three straight years of college. Finally, at one point, I started thinking, “My faith is the most important thing in my life. I wonder if I should be a priest… Aw, forget it, I’m going to get killed by my family if I do that.”

(Not by my whole family, I knew my mother would have loved it, leaped through the ceiling, she would have been so happy. My father was a little bit, shall we say, disappointed, and so forth.) But, to make a long story short, I put it off, put it off. But, finally, it became irresistible. I just could not stop.

One day, I had an experience going to work, and the rest is history. I just decided to see Father O’Leary, the vocation director for the Jesuits, and, as they say, “Look at what happened to me.” All because of the Eucharist.

(Source: https://spitzercenter.org/why-eucharist-

important/)

In Christ’s Peace Father Jim Ferry

St. Vincent DePaul Society

St. Vincent DePaul Society is hosting the soup kitchen on Saturday, 07/18/20 for Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. As of now the soup kitchen is operating on a to-go-lunch basis. Lunches are prepared ahead of time and will be dropped off at Holy Trinity on the morning of 07/18/20 so you will not have to serve at the soup kitchen itself. If anyone is interested in preparing or purchasing needed items please call Rosanne Bruno at 973-243-0679.

A Prayer to Combat the Coronavirus

Pandemic

Most Merciful and Triune God, We come to You in our weakness.

We come to You in our fear. We come to You with trust. For You alone are our hope.

We place before You the disease present in our world.

We turn to You in our time of need.

Bring wisdom to doctors. Give understanding to scientists.

Endow caregivers with compassion and generosity. Bring healing to those who are ill. Protect those who are most at risk.

Give comfort to those who have lost a loved one. Welcome those who have died into Your Eternal

Home.

Stabilize our communities. Unite us in our compassion.

Remove all fear from our hearts. Fill us with confidence in Your care.

(mention your particular concerns and prayers now)

Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You. Jesus, I trust in You.

Amen.

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******** MASS IN CHURCH ******

[1] Daily Mass (8:30 am) will start on Monday June 22. There will be Daily Mass Monday to

Thursday only.

Saturday Evening Mass (5:30 pm) will start on Saturday June 27.

Sunday Morning Mass (7:30 am, 9:30 am, 11:30 am) will start on Sunday June 28.

Please arrive 10 minutes early and bring your "registration" - explained below.

[2] ENTRANCE DOORS: Use main doors or handicap ramp near Eagle Rock Avenue.

[3] Confessions (4:15 - 5 pm) will be in cry room as new location, starting Saturday June 13.

Or call anytime by appointment.

[4] Church will be open for private prayer on Sundays from 7:00 am – 10:00 am

[5] For Saturday / Sunday Mass, you must "register" so that we can comply with 50-person

limit. "First come, first served".

Please use this LINK / app to register by the "Thursday" before the upcoming weekend.

https://reopen.church/r/OhHv8XcV

If there are 50 people already registered ahead of you, we ask that you consider coming to

another Mass or coming to Daily Mass at 8:30 am Monday - Thursday. There is no 8:30 am

Mass on Friday or Saturday.

After registering, keep your email confirmation either printed (paper) or electronic (phone)

to show an usher. To register by PHONE, please call rectory only at 973-325-0110

__Monday or __Tuesday or __Thursday, from 10 am to 1pm.

To leave a message, press ZERO for voice mail; leave your name and phone number with

your request. Please do not email your request.

Please contact me with any questions.

Our Lady of Lourdes, Pray for Us!

(v.19)

Date: June 15, 2020

From: Father Jim Ferry ferryjam2@aol.com

Reopening of Church, Phase 2, 3

Our Lady of Lourdes Church

One Eagle Rock Avenue, West Orange, NJ 07052

973.325.0110 LOURDESWESTORANGE.ORG

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First Reading: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a One day Elisha came to Shunem, where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her. Afterward, whenever he passed by, he used to stop there to dine. So, she said to her husband, “I know that Elisha is a holy man of God. Since he visits us often, let us arrange a little room on the roof and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp, so that when he comes to us he can stay there.” Sometime later Elisha arrived and stayed in the room overnight. Later Elisha asked, “Can something, be done for her?” His servant Ghazi answered, “Yes! She has no son, and her husband is get-ting on in years.” Elisha said, “Call her.” When the woman had been called and stood at the door, Elisha promised, “This time next year you will be fondling a baby son.”

Responsorial Psalm 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19 (2a)

Second Reading: Romans 6:3-4, 8-11 Brothers and sisters: Are you unaware that we who were bap-tized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might live in new-ness of life. If, then, we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him. We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him. As to his death, he died to sin once and for all; as to his life, he lives for God. Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus. Gospel: Mathew 10:37-42 Jesus said to his apostles: “ Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me; and whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. “Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives a righteous man because he is righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward. And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because the little one is a disci-ple — amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward.”

AVAILABLE VIA http://www.usccb.org/, Look for "Daily Readings" Calendar

June 28, 2020

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The promises of the Lord I will sing forever, Through all generations my mouth shall proclaim our faithfulness. For you have said, “My kindness is established forever”; In heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness. [R]

You are the splendor of their strength, And by your favor our horn is exalted. For to the Lord belongs our shield, And to the Holy One of Israel, our king. [R]

Blessed the people who know the joyful shout; In the light of your countenance, O Lord, they walk. At your name they rejoice all the day, and through your justice they are exalted. [R]

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