St. Martha of Bethany Parish/Shrine of All Saints

St. Martha of Bethany Parish/Shrine of All Saints 8523 Georgiana Avenue, Morton Grove, Illinois 60053

Phone: (847) 965-0262 Fax: (847) 965-2535

Website: www.saintmarthachurch.org Email: [email protected]

Welcome! We hope that you have a meaningful worship experience at St. Martha Parish. We invite guests or unregistered congregants to complete a registration form found in the vestibule of the Large Church or by the bulletin board in the small church. If you have any questions, or if there is anything we can do to make your visit here more pleasant, please contact an usher or any staff member that may be present. You may also call the Parish Office for additional information. Enjoy your visit with our parish family!

Reconciliation: Saturdays, 3-3:30PM, large church. No reservations required at this time. Marriage: Please call the rectory at least 6 months pri-or to the wedding date. Baptism: Please call Deacon Tony Valdez (312) 218-7719 if you need to schedule a baptism. Homebound: Ministers of care will bring Communion to homebound or hospitalized. Call Patrick or Char McKenna at (847) 967-1324.

Daily Mass - Small Church Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday at 7AM

Saturday at 7:30AM Wednesday - Communion Service

Weekend Masses Saturday, 4PM - Large Church

Sunday, 7AM - Small Church/9AM & 11AM Large Church RESERVATIONS REQUIRED

Rectory Hours Monday - Friday from 9AM to 3PM

Light senior help may be available. Please call Bob Roman at 847 533-9314

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Saturday, May 29, 2021

4:00 p.m. Ray Cas llo (Cas llo Family)

Phil Par pilo (Pat Zmolek)

Sunday, May 30, 2021

7:00 a.m.

9:00 a.m.

11:00 a.m.

In Thanksgiving (Remy Maceda)

Robert Weick (Paul & Judy Berg)

Madgie Rodgers (Grace Rodgers)

Ma Karleskey (John & Mary Galvan)

Jerry Pauley (Susan Crandall)

Monday ‐ May 31, 2021

9:00 a.m. Jean Krieyer SLW (A. Roback)

John Skrzypiec (Ted & Stella)

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

7:00 a.m. Tom & Nancy Cooper (A. Roback)

Poor Souls (M. Karappillil)

Wednesday, June 2, 2021

7:00 a.m. Communion Service ‐ Dan Henrick

Thursday ‐ June 3, 2021

7:00 a.m. Julieta Maceda (Maceda Family)

Jean Anderson (Byron Anderson)

Friday ‐ June 4, 2021

7:00 a.m. Tomas Family Members (Vardijan Family)

Mohin Mathew ‐ Blessed Wedding

(U. V. Family)

Saturday, June 5, 2021

7:30 a.m. Lawrence Schiro (Paul & Judy Berg)

Next Week’s Liturgy June 5th & 6th

Sunday, 7:00 a.m. - Small Church

Celebrant Rev. Ed Udovic

Lector Tom Espinosa

Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - Large Church

Celebrant Rev. Dennis B. O’Neill

Lector Frank Tennant

Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - Large Church

Celebrant Rev. Dennis B. O’Neill

Lector Mary Lou Drott

Don’t forget Martha’s Pantry & Closet! As we begin to recover from the effects of the pandemic, there is still great need for food & clean, gently used clothing. Cash donations always welcomed. Please bring your donations to St. Martha any Wednesday morning from 9am - Noon or drop them at mass on the weekends.

My Jesus, I believe that You are present in the most Blessed Sacrament.

I love You above all things. And I desire to receive You into my soul.

Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart.

I embrace You as if You were already there, And unite myself wholly to You.

Never Permit me to be separated from you. Amen

Confessions : 3:00 PM Large Church Rev. Ed Udovic

Saturday, 4:00 p.m. - Large Church

Celebrant Rev. Ed Udovic

Lector Glaucia Pilarski

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Pastor’s Homily Dear Friends and Fellow Parishioners: Today we reflect one of the two great revelations about God which have come to us as a direct result of the out-pouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. The Holy Trinity. The other revelation is the Blessed Sacrament, the Eucharist, upon which we will reflect next Sunday. You see, the whole event of the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus is God’s “coming out” to us – God’s deep-er revelation of Who God actually Is. Before Jesus could be born, it was first essential that there was at least some peo-ple on earth who had it absolutely clear in their minds and hearts that there is only one God. The whole history of Israel is the struggle for absolute clarity on this one point. If the mystery of the Trinity were revealed without this prior history, we would completely-wrongly end up believing in three gods, instead of the One God. On the day of Pentecost, for those present, the missing piece of the puzzle of who Jesus is finally fell into place. After they were filled with the Holy Spirit, they could say to each other that God not only planned to SEND the Messiah. God BECAME the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the Lord God of Israel incarnate. If we ever wondered what God would be like if God became one of us, we now know in Jesus. Jesus is the face of God. The apostles were so convinced of this that they joyously proclaimed it to anyone will-ing to listen on Pentecost – many of them fellow-Jews- absolute monotheists on their way to or from the temple of the one God. So to hear fellow-Jews proclaiming Jesus to be that one God incarnate would have sounded to them like blas-phemy if they were trying to make logical sense out of what they were hearing. Instead, the Spirit was like a blessed con-tagion, which spread in the hearing. The listeners were filled with the same Spirit that had filled the disciples that day! And now they too believed that Jesus Christ is Lord. It must be admitted at this point that they would have had some difficulty explaining to monotheists how Jesus, who prayed to his Father all the time and who gave us the Our Father as a prayer to say with him, could also be identical with this same Father. They also knew the Spirit to be divine, because they had personally experienced the personal transformation in themselves which took place in them when they were “zapped” by God’s Holy Spirit. In their hearts and in their minds, they knew these things to be true. But they were at a loss in the first place to explain how they could all be true at the same time – One God in Three Divine Persons. Eventually, apparently, the mystery of love gave them an insight. Love IS a mystery. We know that it happens every day. The ability for love, friendship, unity, community are all in our spiritual DNA. HOW is it that people are drawn together in this way? Because we are creatures who are naturally behaving in imitation of our Creator God who IS this mystery. God is the reality: we MIRROR the reality The apostles were able to recall that, whenever Jesus spoke about the union of a man and a woman in marriage, he regularly cited the same passage from Genesis: “…a man leaves his father and mother and clings to his wife, and the two of them become one body.” Now we know that this passage is a great metaphor for human love. But it is only a metaphor, because, no matter how hard a couple try, they can never be literally fused into one. The laws of time and space don’t allow it. However, it is a great metaphor for love as the greatest goal in life. You see, they discovered, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, that people are capable of the mystery of love because they are naturally behaving in imitation of the Creator God who brought them into being in the first place. The reality of all love is God. We REFLECT this reality as the goal of our loves. To put it as simply and elegantly as pos-sible, we have the words of St. John: “God IS love. And we who abide in love abide in God, and God in us.” -Fr. Dennis

We want to thank everyone who continues to use the Mass reservation system. Your advance registration helps your check-in go more smoothly and enables our ushers & greeters to get you into the church quickly, mindful of social distancing requirements. Our main goal is to keep everyone as safe as possible. For those without access to a com-puter, remember you can call 847 967-1990 to make a Mass reservation on Friday mornings from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Our capacity limits remain unchanged at 40 in the small church and 100 in the large church. Those without reservations are welcome and will be seated IF space is available.

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Congratulations!

Last Sunday our 8th graders received the gifts of the Holy Spirit! We are so proud of them! Congratulations to the following stu-dents.

Alexander “Paul” Boukalis Abigail “Catherine of Bologna” Gifargis

Angela “Therese” Latada Nayah “Jude” Long

Edie “Elizabeth of Hungary” Lubin Mason “Lorenzo Ruiz” Mallari

Kayla “Bernadette” Miskell Sophie “Sophia” Puetz

Michelle “Our Lady of Guadalupe” Quam Jillian “Jude” Quilban

Alina “Sebastian” Rubio Hanna “Catherine of Siena” Taleb

Carissa “Anthony of Padua” Uy

Thank you also to Fr. Dennis who confirmed these students, and their teachers Mrs. Kohl, Mrs. Pauley, and Mr. Voltz, who pre-pared them so well!

Prayers to Our Mother Mary We hope you are enjoying the Mary Shrine on the front porch of church. We are so happy that it is a place of prayer and reflec-tion for not only our parishioners, but also for our neighbors as well. If you haven’t had a chance to visit, please do so before the end of May!

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Relics of Sts. Fevronia and Peter of Murom arrive here from Russia The saintly Peter Yuryevich became prince of Murom, Rus-sia, on the death of his brother. He eventually fell in love with and married a beautiful woman named Fevronia, who was a gifted healer. Because she was a peasant, the wives of the local nobles wanted nothing to do with her. Under continuing pressure to separate, Peter decided that, rather than do so, he would resign as prince of Murom, and the couple would go into exile. After their departure, there was such unrest and such bickering about who would succeed the prince, the nobles eventually decided to recall the saintly couple, who then governed happily and successfully for many years. Sensing that they were nearing the end of their lives, they decided to become a monk and a nun, taking the new names of David and Euphrosyne. They also prayed that they would die on the same day. They actually did so on July 8, 1226. They were buried together in the cathedral of Murom. Later, after the Soviets destroyed the cathedral, their remains were transferred to the convent of the Holy Trinity in Murom, where they rest to this day. In 2017, Abbot Pavel Uvarov of St. Catherine’s Ca-thedral in Krasnodor asked Bishop Isidor of Krasnodor if he would obtain some of Peter and Fevronia’s relics for a newly built church in their honor. The bishop petitioned Bishop Nil of Murom, who sent the relics to Abbot Paul. A while later, he separated some of the relics and sent them to another Russian church. And in April of 2021, he separated some more of the relics and sent them to our Shrine of All Saints. Their icon in our church is new and just came from Russia. It is dazzlingly and spectacularly colored entirely with tiny beads from the Czech Republic. In the Catholic Church, our equivalents of a saintly couple, who were devoted to each other and were models of Christian love are St. Elizabeth of Hungary (d. 1231) and her husband, Blessed Ludwig IV, landgrave of Thuringia (d. 1227). They were exact contemporaries of Sts. Peter and Fevronia, and they are depicted in the “Marriage Window” in our small church. St. Elizabeth’s relics are in our Shrine of All Saints Church.

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Parish Staff

Pastor Rev. Dennis B. O’Neill Please call the

rectory to reach the priests

Weekend Celebrants Rev. Ed Udovic, CM Rev. James Halstead, O.S.A.

Deacon Tony Valdez - [email protected]

Music Director Kevin Wood - [email protected]

Religious Education Coordinator Elizabeth Frake - [email protected] Religious Education Office - 847 965-6861

Business Manager Lori Ronczka - [email protected]

Organization Leaders /Preferred Contact Information

Parish Pastoral Council Peggy Friewer

847 965-4215

Parish Life Jim Wrzala

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Fil-Am David Calimag Ed Ramos

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Human Concerns Peggy Friewer

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SPRED Gerry & Terry Gangloff

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Gn 3:9‐15, 20 or Acts 1:12‐14; Ps 87:1‐3, 5‐7; Jn 19:25‐34 Tuesday: Sir 35:1‐12; Ps 50:5‐8, 14, 23; Mk 10:28‐31 Wednesday: Sir 36:1, 4‐5a, 10‐17; Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13; Mk 10:32‐45 Thursday: Sir 42:15‐25; Ps 33:2‐9; Mk 10:46‐52 Friday: Sir 44:1, 9‐13; Ps 149:1b‐6a, 9b; Mk 11:11‐26 Saturday: Sir 51:12cd‐20; Ps 19:8‐11; Mk 11:27‐33 Sunday: Dt 4:32‐34, 39‐40; Ps 33:4‐6, 9, 18‐20, 22; Rom 8:14‐17; Mt 28:16‐20

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — They were all filled with the Holy Spir-it, and began to speak in different tongues (Acts 2:1-11). Psalm — Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth (Psalm 104). Second Reading — There are different kinds of spiritual gifts but the same Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13) or Galatians 5:16-25. Gospel — As the Father has sent me, so I send you: Re-ceive the Holy Spirit (John 20:19-23) or John 15:26-27; 16:12-15.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Pentecost Sunday Monday: The Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church; Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Tuesday: St. Bede the Venerable; St. Gregory VII; St. Mary Magdelene de’Pazzi Wednesday: St. Philip Neri Thursday: St. Augustine of Canterbury Saturday: St. Paul VI; Blessed Virgin Mary

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