Text Box: A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY!! Please, consider the following: We need two teachers for next Year’s Religious Education Program: for grades pre-K and the 4th Grade. To be involved in this ministry, is very rewarding, indeed! Please call Sister Maria or Father Carrano at 625-1161. Thank you! THANK YOU We wish to express our deepest thanks to the Committee who made Sister Maria’s Celebration a great success. Many thanks to: Beth Bacon-Blaber, Kathleen Reynolds, Johanna Provenzano, Florence Sheers and Georgeanne Strakosch for the lovely floral arrangements. SUMMER SCHEDULE Our Summer Mass Schedule has begun. For the summer we will have the 5:00 P.M. on Saturday and just the 10:00 A.M. Mass on Sunday. Thank you for your cooperation! Text Box: LITURGY NEWS What is liturgy? Liturgy comes from the Greek work (leitourgia) which means “public work.” We come together to celebrate liturgy at Assumption on a regular basis. Our “public work” is how we express our shared faith in Christ Jesus together. Whether it is through the Liturgy of the Eucharist, Liturgy of the Hours or any other liturgy we celebrate. Liturgy encompasses our celebration as a whole, including our music, art, architecture and movement. Weekly, in the bulletin we will be exploring different aspects of our liturgy, both here at Assumption and in the church at large. I hope that these writings create a starting point for a deeper understanding of our liturgies. I encourage you to become part of the discussion by leaving written messages at the rectory or by emailing assumption liturgy@earthlink.net. These writings are an extension of the Liturgy Committee, which gives us a chance to participate in the work of the committee. Scott Battaglia Text Box: Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time Text Box: BVM Text Box: Assumption Text Box: From the Pastor’s Desk Dear Friends: Have no fear! How seriously can we take that statement of Jesus? Does God understand modern life? Did Jesus’ audiences have to deal with choking mortgages? Did families in Jerusalem get transferred away from their homes? Did they worry about health insurance? In fact, their problems weren’t so different. Their county was occupied by a foreign government. They died young. Mothers died in childbirth. Elders were revered because they weren’t common; most family tables were not blessed enough to have them. This isn’t a debate about whose problems were bigger. It is a matter of seeing that God doesn’t abandon us. If hope could be mustered in the time of Jesus, it’s worth our attention now. We can push even further back: No matter how bad it got, Jeremiah knew God would deliver him. Nobody had more reason to complain than Jeremiah. He looked at the treacherous political events ahead and spoke directly about them. He warned. He suffered for speaking the truth. Still we hear from him: “Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For He has delivered the life of the needy from the hands of evildoers!” We do not always know how or when, but we know God is for us. Yours in Christ, Rev. Michael A. Carrano