This document contains the weekly bulletin from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, including mass times and intentions, confession times, and announcements about upcoming events like religious education classes, a walk-a-thon fundraiser, a public rosary rally, and a women's conference. It also includes a short meditation on using one's temperament as an opportunity to develop virtue through deliberate acts against one's nature.
This document contains the weekly bulletin from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, including mass times and intentions, confession times, and announcements about upcoming events like religious education classes, a walk-a-thon fundraiser, a public rosary rally, and a women's conference. It also includes a short meditation on using one's temperament as an opportunity to develop virtue through deliberate acts against one's nature.
This document contains the weekly bulletin from Our Lady of Good Counsel Church, including mass times and intentions, confession times, and announcements about upcoming events like religious education classes, a walk-a-thon fundraiser, a public rosary rally, and a women's conference. It also includes a short meditation on using one's temperament as an opportunity to develop virtue through deliberate acts against one's nature.
Sunday Mass: Anticipated Sat. 4PM/Sun. 8AM: Ancient Rite Latin Mass Sunday 9:30 AM & 11 AM Confessions: Wed. & Fri. 6:30-6:55 PM/ Sat. 7:30-7:55 AM Sat. 2:30-3:30 PM & 6:30-7:30 PM
THE HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
Tue. 2 Oct. THE HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS 8 AM For: Anna Kustyn+ Req: Jane Britt Holy Rosary for the Unborn
Wed. 3 Oct. St. Dionysius the Areopagite, Bishop
7 PM For: Eileen Austin+ Req: The Anderson Family
Thu. 4 Oct. ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI, Founder
8 AM For: Lynne Moonen+ (Birthday) Req:Her children
Fri. 5 Oct. B. FRANCIS XAVIER SEELOS, Priest
7 PM For: John & Millie Houck+ Req: Mr. & Mrs. Kevin Beecher
Sat. 6 Oct. ST. BRUNO/BL. ROSE MARIE DUROCHER
8 AM For: Special Intention Holy Rosary in Reparation to the Immaculate Heart
4 PM For: Parishioners of OLGCC
Sun. 7 Oct. XXVII Sunday of the Year (New Calendar)
XX Sunday after Pentecost (Traditional Calendar) 8 AM For: John Massett & Family Req: Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Massett 9:30 AM For: Harold Whittemore+ Req: His Family 11 AM For: David Cook Req: Christine Cook Servers for the weekend of 6-7 October: Sat. 4 PM: J. Vanderhoof, J. Kaminski Sun. 8 AM: T. & J. Murnane Sun. 9:30 AM: C. vanLieshout, Z. Rose Sun. 11 AM: R. Anderson, L. Collins
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SCHEDULE FOR THURSDAY
CLASSES I am sorry that the schedule was not available for last week's bulletin, but here it is for those who wish to bring their child to class: Gr. 1 Mrs. Anne Johnson 12:30-1:10 PM; Gr. 2 Mrs. Susanne Dunne 9:50-10:30 AM; Gr. 3 Mrs Megan Vanderhoof 9:10-9:50AM; Gr. 4 Mrs. Sandra Vermeulen 10:30-11:10 AM; Gr. 5 Mrs. Karen Lohr 11:10-11:50; Gr. 6 Mrs. Marge Hendry 11:5-12:30PM. RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION FOR JR. HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS & ADULTS Jr. High Class: Tue. 7 PM Rectory Adults: Tue. 8 PM Rectory. TUITION ASSISTANCE APPLICATION This is the deadline for applying for tuition assistance for a child in a Catholic grammar school, Catholic home-school program or Catholic high school. There are application forms on the table in the vestibule. If you wish to apply, you must turn in the form this weekend. WALK-A-THON FOR THE MARCH FOR LIFE: SAT. 6 OCT. 10 AM CHURCH Please gather sponsors to support you in walking to raise money for the Bus for the March for Life. There are sponsor forms on the table in the vestibule. God bless you for defending the babies! PUBLIC SQUARE ROSARY RALLY: SAT. 13 OCT. 11 AM RECTORY Last year, an incredible 21,000 Rosary Rallies were held across the country by the America Needs Fatima apostolate of the Tradition, Faith and Property Association (TFP). This year, they are aiming for 23,000! Please make the extra effort to join us, and hundreds of thousands of your fellow American Catholics in praying for our Nation, the Church and peace in our world. DIOCESAN WOMEN'S CONFERENCE: SAT. 27 OCT. ONCENTER SYRACUSE Join the many wonderful women from across the Diocese in this celebration of the Faith. Information about the day's schedule and the featured speakers is on the bulletin board. But if you intend to attend, you mus t get your registration to Father by next weekend. Your fee for registration is $30, with a check made out to Our Lady of Good Counsel Ch.. The parish will pray the balance of the registration fee. YOUR CONSIDERATION IS ASKED Our maintenance man has been finding containers for drinks left in church after the weekend. Please remember: this is the House of the Lord, and drinking coffee, juice, soda, or anything other than water is not acceptable (except of course, for infants or small children), and please be sure to remove your containers after Mass. CONVERSION LIKE MATTHEW'S
I have a bad temper by nature, let me first of all, go down
on my knees and thank God for it; for it is surely probably that, if I had a good temper, I would be obliging and kind, not from any supernatural motive but from sheer nature. Suppose I was of that comfortable disposition which says yes just because it finds it impossible to say no; surely my acts would hardly ever be supernaturalized.
But, on the other hand, suppose that I am so
cantankerous that I can be generous and helpful only at the cost of a mighty effort. Then I can be certain that every obliging thing is done only from a high motive; it is the very contrary force that stiffens me into goodness. Just as the enemy is the necessary material out which to fashion victory, so is an evil temperament the foundation on which strong character is to be built. This character is, of course, nothing else than the group of habits formed around the axis of the will; and these are achieved only by repeated acts, so that it is by deliberate and energetic actions alone that I can react against my own temperament.
(Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P., “Conversion Like Matthew's” from
Classic Catholic Meditations: To Enrich Your Faith and Help You Pray. Sophia Institute Press, 2004).
Fr. Bede Jarrett, O.P. (1881-1934) was born Cyril Jarrett,
who received the name Bede when, at age 17, he entered the Dominican Order in England. Renowned in his own lifetime as the greatest preacher in Catholic England. The Times of London noted in his obituary that “he has been called the best Roman Catholic preacher in this country, and he was perhaps the most popular English preacher in the United States, his sermons being marked by their intellectual quality, their appositeness to the times and their incisiveness.”