20th Sunday in Ordinary Time August 19, 2012

Saint Robert BellarmineSaint Robert Bellarmine Parish Mission Statement We are a diverse Catholic community of genera ons, experiencing the living God and reflec ng our faith in ac on with one another.

Mass Intentions MON. August 20, St. Bernard 8:30 am Anna Koestner, Walter and Mary Sullivan, Lucille Cosentino TUES. August 21, St. Puis X, Pope 8:30 am Bernard Ambrose, Marie Borkowski WED. August 22, Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary 8:30 am Helen Trush, Josephine Botzon THURS. August 23, St. Rose of Lima 8:30 am Sue Swope, Mary Kehoe FRI. August 24, St. Bartholomew, Apostle 8:30 am Joseph J. Koziarz, Restituta Sailei SAT. August 25, St. Louis, St. Joseph Calasanz, BVM 8:30 am Thomas Serpico, Henry Nardella 5:00 pm Frances Hojnacki, Frank Kubacki, Ralph Rio, Bernice and Eugene Gaskin SUN. August 26, Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00 am People of St. Robert Bellarmine 10:00 am Jeanne M. Flaherty, Daniel Loudon, Eddie DeFranco, Raymond and Michael Sullivan 12:00 pm George Brizzolara, Michael Glynn, Henry and LaVerne Lehmann

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TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

The first reading from the Book of Proverbs is part of a longer poem about Wisdom. In the Old Testament Wisdom is personified as a woman who comes from God and brings God’s word (wisdom) to his people. Wisdom invites us to her table to eat her food and drink her wine, and so receive understanding. Those who learn from her will live; while the foolish will die. The second reading continues St. Paul’s instructions to the Ephesians, exhorting them to live as those who are wise. He tells them not to live in ignorance but to seek the will of the Lord. In the reading from John’s gospel Jesus repeats that he is the living bread come down from heaven and that those who eat his bread will live forever. “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.” He promises that whoever eat his flesh and drinks his blood will remain in him and have eternal life because of him.

Proverbs 9: 1-6 Ephesians 5: 15-20 John 6: 51-58

THE DEATH OF MY BROTHER

My brother Mark was killed tragically last week in a rafting accident on the Menominee River. He was only 59 years old. A sudden death is very shocking and hard on all of us. The busyness of all the activity surrounding the wake and the funeral as well as transportation for out of town relatives helps to keep from being overwhelmed. It was certainly very gratifying to see the large number of friends and parishioners who offered their love and support. While all of us are trying to get back into the routines of life, it will never be the same. As the grieving process begins, I have been reminded about the importance of family and friends in our lives and the need to nurture these relationships. We can all get so busy with responsi-bilities and activities that seem important (and some of them truly are) that we forget to make the time to simply be with the people who matter most. I know that many of you have experienced similar tragedies and losses in your lives. I pray that you, too, will be healed and will be cherished by those around you.

Please keep Mark’s wife Susan, his daughters Elizabeth and Sarah, his granddaughter Zoe, our mother and our brother Paul in your prayers. Fr. Neil

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From the Pastor’s Desk Today’s readings continue the theme of being nourished by the Lord. However, today’s readings go deeper into the spiritual reality of the heavenly banquet, equating nourishment with God’s Wisdom (in the Old Testament) and Jesus giving his body and blood as true food and true drink for eternal life (in the Gospel). The importance of this truth can-not be overstated. The Body and Blood of Christ is our spiritual nourishment that gives eternal life.

Jesus tells us very clearly, ‘Amen, Amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you”. Jesus says that this is a real relationship that gives us eternal life. Many of you know that I am a convert to Catholicism. This passage from the scriptures is the reason why I am a Catholic. ‘For my flesh is true food and my blood is true drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.’ This passage is John’s version of Jesus’ Institution of the Eucharist. Unlike the synoptic gospels, this occurs very early in his public ministry. For Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus institutes the Eucharist at the Last Supper on the night be-fore he dies. In John’s gospel the celebration of the Passover makes no mention of the Eucharist; rather Jesus washes the disciples’ feet. John places this Bread of Life discourse in the context of the feeding of the five thousand precisely because he wants his listeners to understand that Jesus means exactly what he says, that we are to take this teaching literally. My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. Otherwise, people will drift off to a merely symbolic un-derstanding of the Eucharist as simply a memory of Jesus death as our deliverance from sin, just as the Passover was a deliverance of the Israelites from slavery.

As Catholics we participate in the sacrifice of the cross, we are joined to Christ in the Eucharist. Jesus says we remain in him and he in us. The Eucharist is a living relationship. The Second Vatican Council tells us that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our life. The Eucharist is the source of our life because it is Christ himself who gives us life, first in creation and secondly in baptism. The summit because participation in the Eucharist gives eternal life, renew-ing in us the baptismal grace lost through sin. That is why the early Roman martyrs sacrificed their lives for the Eucha-rist, saying that without the Eucharist we cannot live.

Merely coming to mass and receiving communion does not give eternal life. Only in actively seeking the life of God can the grace of the Eucharist can take root in our lives. This is no passive reception nor the fulfilling of an obligation. Truly seeking the life of God is to desire to unite our will with his. The Catholic tradition has always equated Jesus, the Word of God made flesh, with the Wisdom figure of the Old Testament. Wisdom is the Spirit that is the creative force in the universe that we first see in the very beginning of Genesis. In the reading from Proverbs for today we hear that Wisdom has prepared her table with meat and drink. Wisdom’s table prefigures both the Eucharist and the eternal ban-quet in heaven. We are told that those who seek her table will live and have understanding. Wisdom in the scriptures is knowledge of God’s will. St. Paul tells us the same thing in the Letter to the Ephesians. Live as those who are wise, do not continue in ignorance, seek to understand the will of the Lord. St. Paul warns about those who continue in ig-norance as being those who pursue the ways of the world instead of being imitators of Christ. To ‘continue in igno-rance’ is to be like ‘the foolish’ in Proverbs who do not seek Wisdom. All such folk will reside in the netherworld for eternity. But to those who seek Wisdom, God will reveal himself and come to dine with them. In order to participate in the life-giving grace of the Eucharist we have to sincerely seek to be imitators of Christ. When we open ourselves to God’s grace, Christ gives us his very self, re-inscribing in us his own divine image.

This past Monday I attended the pastors introductory meeting for the Parish Transformation Process. The goal is to begin to develop a strategic plan for the parish based on who we are and what we would like our parish to be in the fu-ture. This will involve ongoing discussions in the parish for about three months, beginning in September. Please watch upcoming bulletins for more information.

The end of summer is upon us all too quickly. The Finance Committee will meet on Monday evening to begin the review of our year-end financial results. The school will host a New School Family Reception for the parents of in-coming students on Tuesday evening. There will be a Meeting for the Catechists in our Religious Education Program on Thursday evening. The Parish Picnic will be held in Dunham Park next Sunday, beginning at 11:30 a.m. with a parish mass at noon. There will not be a noon mass in the church next Sunday. Details are on page nine. All are wel-come. Hope to see you there.

Have a great week. Sincerely, Fr. Neil

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The Hansen family

The Alzate family

Our Sympathy and Prayers for all who have passed away.

We pray for our recently deceased

Mark Fackler Marlene L. Welcing

Welcome into Faith Blake Ismael Valazquez

Son of Ismael & Myra

Velazquez

I Cynthia Viola and

Gerard Wroblewski

The Story of Knock began on Thursday evening of the 21st August, 1879, Our Lady, St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist appeared at the south gable of the church at Knock, County Mayo, Ireland. Beside them and a li le to their le was an altar with a cross and the figure of a lamb, around which angels hovered. There were fi een official witnesses to the appari on – young and old – who watched and prayed for two hours in the pouring rain. Two Commissions of Enquiry, in 1879 and 1936, accepted their tes mony as trustwor-thy and sa sfactory. Today, Knock ranks among the world’s major Marian Shrines.

OUR LADY OF KNOCK AUG. 21

"LIVING THE DISCERNING LIFE: IGNATIUS LOYOLA’S RULES FOR DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS”

From EWTN Series. How to recognize God’s presence in daily life and how to resist spiritual discouragement and deception. Practical! C.E. Credit approved for catechists.

September 21, 7:30 pm - 9 pm September 22, 9 am - 3 pm

St. Catherine Laboure 3535 Thornwood, Glenview

$50 Registration Open/Discounts available. www.St CatherineLaboure.com or info 847 998-4704

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Classes begin Sat. Sept. 8th!

Please register your child this week to assure your child’s books and supplies will be ordered.

Please either call or email the Religious Education Department listed on the back of the bulletin .

TUITION WILL INCREASE $25.00 for registrations after August 23.

St. Robert Bellarmine Book Discussion Group

Wednesday, August 22nd at 7pm in Kernaghan Hall

This is the perfect opportunity to discuss

your thoughts and insights, surface ques-

tions, and get to know others in the com-

munity.

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FROM CARDINAL GEORGE

Monday, August 06, 2012

CHICAGO VALUES, REVISITED: IT’S NOT ABOUT CHICKEN!

Responses to my reflec ons last week on “Chicago values” fell into two camps. There were almost universal plaudits for recognizing that the government should be concerned about ac ons and not about thoughts and values. The me-dia, of course, are in this camp, because they are concerned about the free speech that is at the heart of their profes-sion. More complicated, on the other hand, was the reaction to the “value” that was the case in point: same-sex “marriage.” Some who are comfortably in the first camp deserted the field of argument on gay marriage. An argument is always made in a context that determines what can be considered sensible, and it seems to me that some of us are arguing out of different contexts.

There are three contexts for discussing “gay marriage”: 1) the arena of individual rights and their protection in civil law, 2) the field of activities defined by nature and its laws, and 3) the realm of faith as a response to God’s self-revelation in history. Unfortunately, when the only permissible context for discussing public values is that of individu-al rights protected by civil law, then it is the government alone that determines how it is acceptable to act. Every public actor (including faith communities) then becomes the government’s agent. This is a formula for tyranny.

We can see how appeals to pluralism and toleration gradually become tyrannical in the development of how we are now expected to regard the killing of unborn children. When the individual civil right to abort a living child was discovered in the Constitution, its justification began as a “necessary evil” for the sake of a woman’s health; it was then applauded in nobler terms as a positive symbol of a woman’s freedom; it is now part of the value system of our society and every-one must be involved in paying for it, either through taxes or insurance. It is mainstream medicine and settled social policy. Its opponents are relegated to a quirky fringe, outside of the American consensus not only on what it is legal to do but also on what it is good to support. When the government, the media and the entertainment industries agree to agree on how to use words and shape the argument, society itself is deliberately transformed in ways that bring academ-ics, judges, legislators, lawyers, law enforcement officers, newspaper editors, actors, psychiatrists, doctors and every other public professional into public agreement, all portraying themselves as original thinkers. Anyone opposed to the new consensus, no matter the reason, is dismissed as a throwback to an earlier age, to be tolerated, perhaps, but re-moved from public life and, eventually, punished. It’s a very old story.

Getting people to think outside the context of “civil rights” is difficult. It’s as if Americans were forbidden to think beyond politics. What is singularly peculiar about the “gay marriage” argument is the way its proponents dismiss the field of nature itself as in any way normative for human actions. We would think it odd if the government, in order to please those who desire to fly without an airplane, were to repeal the law of gravity. If nature gets in the way of a new civil right to “gay marriage,” however, that’s too bad for nature. This strikes me as bizarre.

Entering into the context of faith, the believer looks to how God has intervened in history through the calling of the Jewish people to a particular vocation, through inspiring the Hebrew prophets, by the incarnation of the eternal Son of God in Jesus of Nazareth, and the founding of the Church that speaks in Jesus’ name until he returns in glory. The God who created order in nature also reveals his plan for us in history; and the religious teaching on the nature of marriage is eminently clear. Those who dismiss any religiously based argument as simply private and therefore not publicly nor-mative are at least consistent with the secularism that makes protection of individual “civil rights” entirely determina-tive of public life.

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS

The school will host a New Family Reception Tuesday, Aug. 21 at 7 p.m., in Kernaghan Hall. Families will have a

chance to meet the principal and representatives from school organizations. Registration for the Extended Day Pro-

gram (EDP) also will be held. Children are welcome.

MEET THE TEACHER NIGHT

On Tuesday, Sept. 4, from 7-8:30 p.m., school families will have the opportunity to meet with their child(ren)'s teacher

or teachers in their respective classrooms following a short meeting in the church. Families will learn about classroom

routines, curriculum and more.

TOGETHER AS ONE SRB/OLV

It's with pleasure to announce that students from neighboring Our Lady of Victory School will be able to com-

pete as part of the St. Robert Bellarmine School sports program for 2012-13. Approval was granted from the City Sub-

urban Catholic Conference (CSCC), and students from both schools will participate under the SRB name.

DON'T MISS OUT Registration for the following LEGO® Robotics classes are currently open: LEGO Chess Club for grades K-4, Wednesday's 3:05-4:05 p.m., beginning Aug. 29. Competitive Robotics (WedDo) for grades 1-3, Fridays 3:05-4:05 p.m., beginning Sept. 7. Competitive Robotics Mindstorms NXT for grades 4-8, Fridays 3:05-4:05 p.m., beginning Sept. 7. To download program details and register online, please visit 21stcenturykids.us, or call 773-463-KIDS.

SRB Records Update – “Go Green!”

St. Robert Bellarmine wants to communicate with parishioners in the most efficient way possible. If you have access to email, please share with us your email address so that we may send you information and invitations via email. Please fill out the information below so that we might update our records. Thank you! Name _______________________________________________ Phone/Cell Phone ________________________ Address _____________________________________________ City/State/Zip ____________________________ Email address _____________________________________________ Please list ministries or organizations that you are associated with so that when we send out specific emails you will be included in the list. ___________________________________________________________________________________________

(Please return this form to the rectory or the school office or you can simply place it in the collection basket)

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What is puzzling is the case of those who, while claiming to be believers, ignore the history of salvation and reduce God to a cosmic wimp who smiles and blesses whatever comes down the track, as if God were without intelligence or the ability to discern right from wrong. Jesus is certainly “inclusive” as the savior of the whole world who invites all to fol-low him. But Jesus calls us to convert to his ways, which are not ours. Among the sayings of Jesus, there are about as many that start “Woe to you…” as there are those that begin “Blessed are they…” A Jesus reduced to our wishful think-ing is useless.

What remains a Gospel imperative, of course, is a respectful and loving concern for those who identify themselves as gay or lesbian, including them in the community of faith and accompanying them in their quest for holiness of life. The Archdiocese attempts this response, in part, through AGLO and Courage groups.

Thanks to all who responded to last week’s blog; apologies to anyone who feels unfairly judged. I’ve tried to keep it at the level of ideas and social trends that seem to me to be dangerous to us all, Chicagoans or others.

Francis Cardinal George, OMI Archbishop of Chicago

CHOIR NOTES

Singers needed!

On August 26 we will have our 2nd Annual Out-door Mass and Parish Picnic. Noon mass will be held at Dunham Park, and we need people to form a choir. If you are interested in helping to lead the assembly in song please contact Jean Tuohy at 773-286-0956. All are welcome.

WALKING THE WALK, LIGHTING THE WAY

MERCY HOME FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

CELEBRATES 125TH ANNIVERSARY

Father Scott Donohue, president of Mercy Home, in spiritual reflection with young women at Mercy

Home's Girls Home chapel. Photo provided/Carlos Javier Ortiz

MERCY HOME MENTORING PROGRAM

A friend can make all the difference…Be that friend, consider mentoring. The Friends First Program of Mercy Home for Boys and Girls is a one-on-one mentoring pro-gram for youth ages 9-17 in the Chicago area. Our purpose is to engage youth in fun, meaningful ac-tivities that promote healthy personal and social development. To learn more about becoming a mentor, call the Friends First Program at 312-738-9560 or visit www.mercyhome.org/mentor.

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August V.I.P. Winners!

Number Amount Name

301 $500 Jennifer Conroy 1615 $200 Alvira Callahan 830 $100 Loretta Swiatek 562 $100 Nickels Family 907 $50 Robert Tortorelli 1267 $50 Gregory & Carne Von Moser 354 $30 Andino Family 468 $30 Gonzalez Family 903 $30 M/M Walter Onysio 264 $30 Val & Mary Grasz 755 $30 Mary Kroll 1311 $30 John Finnerty 842 $30 Joseph P. Boyle 321 $30 Richard Buske 120 $30 Jennifer McHugh 929 $30 Edward Zmuda 0002 $30 Katie Griggs 874 $30 Adeline Sniegowski 494 $30 Yesenia Saavedra 529 $30 Kim Logan 1108 $30 Debra Edwards

“Watch carefully then how you live, not as foolish persons but as wise…” (EPHESIANS 5:15)

A wise person recognizes that all we have comes from God. A wise person thanks God every day for all His many blessings. A wise person realizes that God has blessed us for a reason and He wants us to be partners with Him in His work here on earth.

SEE “FOR GREATER GLORY” “For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada” tells the largely unknown history of the perse-cution of the Catholic Church in Mexico during the 1920’s . Many innocent people died as mar-tyrs in defense of their faith. This movie, starring Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Eduardo Verastegui and Peter O’Toole, tells the story of this sad episode in Mexican history. By special arrangement, “For Greater Glory” will be shown at the Patio Theater on Saturday, Septem-ber 8 and Sunday, September 9 at 1 PM both days. Because of the brutal nature of mar-tyrdom, the movie is rated R, so discretion is advised. The Patio Theater is located at 6008 W. Irving Park Road in Chicago, 773-685-4291. Bishop Michael J. Sheridan of Colorado Springs, said, “This deeply moving account of the Cris-teros’ fight for the freedom of religion in Mexico is very much a story for our own times. The faith and courage of the Mexican martyrs --- clergy and laity --- makes us proud to be Catholics.”

Next Sunday!

August 26, 2012 11:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Dunham Park

Outdoor Mass 12:00 Noon

Parking is limited, consider walking from the Church parking lot if you are able.

FUN AND GAMES!

Bring lawn chairs, balls, nets, games, playing cards. Children’s jumping slide, family games. Don’t forget your camera! GREAT FOOD! The Parish will provide meats on the grill, cheese, buns, condiments, table covers, flatware, napkins. BYOB - bring a cooler of beverages for your own family (no glass con-tainers please) BRING A DISH TO SHARE:

If your last name begins with A-J, bring a dessert

If your last name begins with K-Q,,

bring an appetizer If your last name begins with R-Z, bring a salad or side dish.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY Edward Bell (Army) Gy. Sgt. Timothy R. Hogan (Marines) Raymond Weernink (Navy) Brig. Gen. Tau’aika ‘Uta ‘atu (Tongan Defense) Captain Dan Allen (Army) Ln. Corporal Kurt Williams (Marines) Mike Janson (Navy) First Lieutenant Brian G. Lutz (Army) Bernard Brennan, (Marines) Pvt. 2 Michael Rosenthal (Army) Martin Durcan (Navy) Pvt. Colleen McDonald (Army) Ewa Dabrowski (Navy) Capt. Kevin P. O’Grady (Air Force) Capt. Daniel C. Ouper (Air Force) Airman Daniel Roger Cimon (Air Force) EM3 Abraham Ubi (Navy) Pvt. 1 Michael Barry (Army) Capt. Patrick J. Collins (Army) Corp. Armando Bolivar (Marines) Sgt. Scott Pekar (Marines) Capt. Albert Eiffes (Air Force) Sgt. Joseph Konieczny (Army Specialist Samuel Stanciel (Army) Specialist Sean Cheker (Army)

Daily Scripture Readings

Monday Ez 24:15-24 / Mt 19:16-22

Tuesday Ez 28:1-10 / Mt 19:23-30

Wednesday Ez 34:1-11 / Mt 20:1-16

Thursday Ez 36:23-28 / Mt 22:1-14

Friday Rv 21:9b-14 / Jn 1:45-51

Saturday Ez 43:1-7b / Mt 23:1-12

Sunday Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b / Eph 5:21-32 / Jn 6:60-69

Weekly Schedule Monday, August 20

7 pm Finance Meeting ((R) Tuesday, August 21

7 pm New School Family Reception (KH) 7 pm Novena (C)

Wednesday, August 22 5pm Benediction

7 pm Book Group (MR) 7 pm Closed PA Board Meeting (KH)

Thursday, August 23 7 pm Cat Meeting (TL)

Friday, August 24 Saturday, August 25 Sunday, August 26

12 pm Mass at Dunham Park followed by Parish Picnic

August 25 / 26 , 2012 Mass Presider Servers Lector Auxiliary Ministers

5:00 PM Fr. Neil Fackler

K. Griggs, E. Kadus, M. Silva

J. LaPlume B. Frere, Y. Simonsis, P. Mullane

8:00 AM Fr. Scott Donahue

J. Bogusz, J. Brosnan, H. Heidkamp

D. Walsh P. Zyburt, Sr. Mary Lou, M. Callaghan

10:00 AM Fr. Scott Donahue

K. Griggs, M. Griggs, J. O’Brien

J. Hearrin T. Calcagno, S. Calcagno, W. Calcagno,

M. Calcagno, D. Gandor, P. Gandor, M. Kmiec, 12:00 PM

Dunham Park Fr. Neil Fackler

B. Greifelt, E. O’Neill, M. Semtner

G. Ignarski K. Nigro, M. Blake, N. Kriescher, T. Eifert,

P. Eifert, K. Ernst, R. Borghi

Save the Date -----Labor Day Weekend Aug. 31 - Sep. 3

Taste of Polonia ~ Copernicus Center ~ 5216 W. Lawrence Polish Beer & Food * Krakus Kids Stage * Big Nick’s Casino * Festive Market Place, 5 Stages Non-Stop Music!

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Saint Robert Bellarmine Church

Mass Schedule Weekdays - Monday - Friday at 8:30 a.m. Weekends - Saturday Morning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday Evening at 5:00 p.m., Sundays at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., and 12:00 noon Holy Days - 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

Parish Office & Rectory

Rev. Neil E. Fackler, Pastor Rev. Scott Donahue, Resident

Rev. Michael A. Goergen, Pastor Emeritus Tony Delgado, Deacon James Schiltz, Deacon

Virginia Underwood, Secretary Christina Zaker, Adult Education Kathy Goetz, Business Manager

4646 North Austin Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60630

Tel. 773/777-2666 Fax 773/777-2770

Website: www.srb-chicago.org

Religious Education Office Debi DeMario, Director

SRBRE1@yahoo.com

Joyce Schoenecker, Admin. Asst. 6036 West Eastwood Avenue

Tel. 773/286-0956

St. Robert Bellarmine School Carrie Mijal, Principal Chris Wilson, Secretary

6036 West Eastwood Avenue Tel. 773/725-5133

Office of Music Director Jean Tuohy

6036 West Eastwood Avenue Tel. 773/286-0956

Bulletin Deadline: Thursday 12 Noon 10 days in advance

Submit articles in person at the rectory, fax 773 777-2770

or email at srbbulletineditor@hotmail.com

Pulpit Announcement Deadline Friday by 7:30 p.m. in the rectory.

Rectory Office Hours Monday - Friday - 8:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Closed from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. for lunch) Saturday - 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Sunday - 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Weddings Arrangements to be made with a priest or deacon

at least six months in advance. Please contact the rectory for date and time

availability before making other arrangements.

Baptisms Celebrated the second and fourth Sunday

at 1:15 p.m. Parents need to register at the rectory office. Please note: there are no baptisms scheduled

during the season of Lent. Preparation Class is on the last Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m. in the rectory.

Confessions/Reconciliations Saturdays 4:00 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

or by appointment.

Anointing of the Sick 1st Saturday of the month after the 8:30 a.m. mass.

Eucharistic Adoration & Benediction Third Wednesday of every month.

Adoration begins after 8:30 a.m. mass. Benediction at 5 p.m.

Please sign up at the rectory office.

New Parishioners Welcome to Saint Robert’s!

Please register at the rectory office.

Novena Mother of Perpetual Help Novena is offered on

Tuesday evenings at 7:00 p.m. in the church.

Recitation of the Rosary Monday through Saturday at 8:00 a.m.