DIVINE INFANT JESUS and

DIVINE PROVIDENCE Catholic Parish and School

Volume 19 TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME October13, 2019

Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region, October 6-27, Rome

This past week, a special gathering of Bishops began meeting in Rome for three weeks with the main objective, according to a Vatican announcement, “to find new ways for the evangelization of that portion of the People of God, especially the indigenous, often forgotten and without a perspective of a good future; also for the cause of the crisis of the Amazonian forest, lung of fundamental importance for our planet”. The Pan-Amazon is made up of nine countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname, Guiana and French Guiana. It is a region that is an important source of oxygen for the whole earth, where more than one third of the world's primary forest reserves are found. This Synod will consider the ecological, social and spiritual needs of these indigenous needs of the Amazon region. Those of us in North America may be tempted to shrug our shoulders upon hearing this news and respond with a polite “that’s nice” and move on. However, I invite you to read some excerpts from the Pope’s opening Mass homily (below), follow the news releases (check out www.vaticannews.va) daily and pray for the Pope and Synod attendees. Perhaps you have already heard about this Synod. Some of the more “hotly contested” topics to be discussed will include the possibility of married priests and the role of women in ministry in this geographical region. The Brazilian Cardinal in charge of leading this Synod, Claudio Hummes, spoke this week of finding “new paths” of providing pastoral care to Catholics. And I think they are, in an exceptional way, open to some ideas which may well have implications for the whole church. I don’t have a crystal ball; however, I believe this three-week Synod could be much more notable than we might expect. Pope Francis’ opening homily clearly urges the Synodal Bishops to bring the fire of the Holy Spirit to bear, in a prudent way, to renew the paths of ministry. His use of the image of fire, so timely given the 90,000 fires now in the rainforests of Brazil, is quite poignant in describing the Gospel as bringing the fire of love and unity to our world. The Catholic pundits I have read lead me to understand the significance and potential effects this Synod may have on the Church worldwide. I find that exciting and I hope you do too. Pope Francis’ October 6, 2019, homily to the Synod Bishops, excerpts: The Apostle Paul, the greatest missionary in the Church’s history, helps us to make this “synod”, this “journey together”. His words to Timothy seem addressed to us, as pastors in the service of God’s People. Paul first tells Timothy: “I remind you to rekindle the gift of God that is within you through the laying on of my hands” (2 Tim 1:6). We are bishops because we have received a gift of God. We did not sign an agreement; we were not handed an employment contract. Rather, hands were laid on our heads so that we in turn might be hands raised to intercede before the Father, helping hands extended to our brothers and sisters. We received a gift so that we might become a gift. Gifts are not bought, traded or sold; they are received and given away. If we hold on to them, if we make ourselves the center and not the gift we have received, we become bureaucrats, not shepherds. We turn the gift into a job and its gratuitousness vanishes. We end up serving ourselves and using the Church. To be faithful to our calling, our mission, Saint Paul reminds us that our gift has to be rekindled. The verb he uses in the original text is fascinating: to rekindle, literally, which means stoking a fire. The gift we have received is a fire, a burning love for God and for our brothers and sisters. A fire does not burn by itself; it has to be fed or else it dies; it turns into ashes. If everything continues as it was, if we spend our days content that “this is the way things have always been done”, then the gift vanishes, smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defending the status quo. Yet “in no way can the Church restrict her pastoral work to the ‘ordinary maintenance’ of those who already know the Gospel of Christ. Jesus did not come to bring a gentle evening breeze, but to light a fire on the earth. The fire that rekindles the gift is the Holy Spirit, the giver of gifts. “God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power and love and prudence”. Not a spirit of timidity, but of prudence, a Christian virtue; it is a virtue of life, and indeed the virtue of governance. And God has given us this spirit of prudence.

The students of Divine Providence School proudly displayed their patriotism as The Vietnam Veterans Moving Wall passed our school on Mayfair Ave. on September 26th.

Our Associate Pastor. Fr. Dan Costello, was asked to say the Opening Prayer at the closing ceremonies at Queen of Heaven Cemetery.

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Prudence is not indecision; it is not a defensive attitude. It is the virtue of the pastor who, in order to serve with wisdom, is able to discern, to be receptive to the newness of the Spirit. Fidelity to the newness of the Spirit is a grace that we must ask for in prayer. May the Spirit, who makes all things new, give us his own daring prudence; may he inspire our Synod to renew the paths of the Church in Amazonia, so that the fire of mission will continue to burn. As we see from the story of the burning bush, God’s fire burns, yet does not consume. It is the fire of love that illumines, warms and gives life, not a fire that blazes up and devours. When peoples and cultures are devoured without love and without respect, it is not God’s fire but that of the world. Yet how many times has God’s gift been imposed, not offered; how many times has there been colonization rather than evangelization! The fire set by interests that destroy, like the fire that recently devastated Amazonia, is not the fire of the Gospel. The fire of God is warmth that attracts and gathers into unity. The fire that destroys, on the other hand, blazes up when people want to promote only their own ideas, form their own group, wipe out differences in the attempt to make everyone and everything uniform. Let each and every one of us, then, feel called to give life. So many of our brothers and sisters in Amazonia are bearing heavy crosses and awaiting the liberating consolation of the Gospel, the Church’s caress of love. So many of our brothers and sisters in Amazonia have given their lives for them and for all those who have given their lives and those who are still giving their lives, and with them, let us journey together. Fr. Dan Costello Associate Pastor

Volume 19 TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME October13, 2019

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Parish Calendar of Events

DP = DIVINE PROVIDENCE / DI = DIVINE INFANT JESUS

Monday, October 14–8:00am Mass – DP Columbus Day - NO SCHOOL St. Peregrine Devotion 8:30am (C) NO RE Classes at Divine Infant Jesus

Tuesday, October 15–8:00am Mass – DP Confessions-Divine Providence following 8:00am Mass

Wed., October 16–8:00am Mass – DP RE Classes at Divine Providence 4:15-5:15pm (SCH-DP) Tai Chi Chuan 4:30-5:00pm (CN)

Thursday, October 17–8:00am Mass – DI

Friday, October 18–8:00am Mass – DI

Saturday, October 19–8:00am Mass – DI Confessions-Divine Infant Jesus following 8:00am Mass Virtus Training 9:00-11:00am (MC)

4:00pm - Anticipated Mass at DP Trunk or Treat! 5:00-6:00pm (DP Parking Lot)

5:00pm - Anticipated Mass at DI

Sunday, October 20–Masses – DP and DI 8:30am - Divine Providence

10:00am - Divine Infant Jesus

DIVINE PROVIDENCE DIVINE INFANT JESUS DPC=DP Church DIC=DI Church CN=Church Narthex LH=Langan Hall MC=Ministry Center ANX=Annex Room MC2=Ministry Center Mtg. Rm. MCC=Ministry Center Chapel MFR=Mayfair Room SCH=School G=Gym

REQUESTS

Divine Infant Jesus and Divine Providence

Vincent Antonio Tony Altobello Pat Ambrosia

Ed Backer Ina Bax

Tony Belmonte Denise Betkin

Bill Betz Bill Beuck

Carm Cammarata Rose Campobasso

Gilda Cappetta Michelle Carnagio

Michael Carr Cindy Cerveny

Jacqueline & Leonard Christopher

Joseph E. Cistaro Kathy Colella

Mary Jo Conway Margaret Cullen Donald Doucet Doris Esquivel

Tom Fahey June Franson

Antionette Gentile Bob Gibson

Nick Goedert Marcy Goetz Eileen Gorski

Fr. Bill Gubbins Adeline Hartman

Joe Healy Amy Heinz

Christopher Heitz Betty Hornbogen

Betty Hyland Anthony Jandacek Lorraine Jaworek

Janet Joy Carole Jurevich Jeanie Juvancic

Lois Kedzior Mary Ann Kelly

Jason Kuntz

Mike Labuda Ignatius Lagen

Joan Lyons Gordon Macpherson

Art Malina Brother Alfred Marshall

Nick Martino Thomas Martirano

Sam Martyn Steve Mazzarella

Gabriel Meier Ida Moravecek Richard Mraz Stefan Mraz

Mulfinger Family Jim Muha

Michael F. Murphy Mary E. Nelson

Mark Nelson Christine Neuzil Bernice Niemiec Patricia Olson

Frank Pedota, Sr. Mark Puc

Ralph Romano Anna Mae Rooney

Diana Roselli Evelyn Sadecki Gina Santucci Mary Scalera

Michael Scherer Geraldine Schneider

Donald Sloan Charles Soderquist

Paul Sodayko Grayson Stanley

Sarah Stanley Tessie Stavropoulos

Grace Thomas Vito Valerio

Parker Van Gelder Florence Voves

Mary Walsh Steven Wiersema Marty Wyskup

Weekly Collections Divine Infant Jesus & Divine Providence

October 6, 2019 Sunday & Holy Day $12,253.50

WEDDING BANNS III Chris Pagliuco & Erin Goode

II Kevin McWilliams & Ilene Schauer

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Please remember to pray for all the souls

that have gone home to heaven including:

Faith Hoberg

Rosemary Malek

Divine Providence Mass Intentions

Monday, 10/14 8:00am For the Parishioners †George & Carolyn Zanoni †Peg Grimes Tuesday, 10/15 8:00am †Geraldine Moscinski †Fr. David Cortesi Wed., 10/16 8:00am †Joseph Discipio †James Rodden †Carney & Rodden Families Special Intention for Allen & Diana Kuntz

Weekend Masses Sat., 10/19 4:00pm †Stanley Woznicki †Catherine & James Creighton †Rita Zdun †Guzzo & Locascio Families †Richard Brabec †Frank Napolitano Family Sun., 10/20 8:30am †For All the Souls in Purgatory †Eugene Pellegrini †Frank De Vita †Ann & George Cesak †Stanley & Bernice Boblak †Francesco Paulo DiBrizzi †Walerja Grabacki

Divine Infant Jesus Mass Intentions Thurs., 10/17 8:00am For the Parishioners †Josephine Mikos †Walter & Mary Wanick †John Masterson †Marie McHugh Ivy Verburgt Friday, 10/18 8:00am †Harold Thurbush Sat., 10/19 8:00am †The Otto Bezouska Family Weekend Masses Sat., 10/19 1:30pm Wedding Chris Pagliuco & Erin Goode 5:00pm †Marcus Beckler, Jr. †Maria Martinez Eillis †Vera Cognato Sun., 10/20 10:00am For the Parishioners

A shout out and THANK YOU to the students of St. Joseph High School for

lending and delivering tables for our Unity Celebration!

If we have died with [Christ Jesus] we shall also live with him;

if we persevere we shall also reign with him. — 2 Timothy 2:11�12a

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CLOTHING DRIVE

SAVE THE DATE….

The annual Polar Express Clothing Drive sponsored by the DP St. Vincent de Paul Society

will take place the weekend of October 26 and 27.

Warm clothing items are needed.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Join One of Our Parish Music Groups New enrollment is welcome in most of our groups through October!

Our Adult Choir opens up for newcomers at the beginning of each of the choir seasons. Currently, the Adult Choir is ready to begin the Advent/Christmas season, so newcomers are welcome to join us at our organizational/first rehearsal on Wednesday, October 23, from 7:15 PM until 9:15 PM in the music area of DI Church. The only requirements to join this group are a blendable singing voice as well as the time and dedication to devote to regular weekly rehearsals (on Wednesdays) and liturgies. A complete schedule of events for the season will be distributed at that rehearsal. We will sing at both parish sites (DI Church and DP Church). Our Divine Angel Choir (grades 2-4) is having their first official rehearsal of the season on Sunday, October 20 from 9:00 – 9:45 am in the newly re-located and decorated music room on the 2nd floor of Divine Infant School. Come to the northwest door of DI School on October 20 at 9 am to sign-up if you haven’t already done so. The children sing once a month at Sunday mass. This group will welcome 1st graders right after Christmas! Our most recent addition to our music family is a group of junior high students from our School and Religious Education that we call Divine Singers. Rehearsals are happening at Divine Providence School for their school group and RE group. Rehearsals are taking place at DI School before RE classes on Mondays for the DI RE group. Please encourage anyone in grades 5 - 8 who likes to sing to join our group. They sing once a month at a parish liturgy. We welcome back our Hand Chimes Ensemble who are already rehearsing and planning for the season. Our ringers are from grades 5 – 8. Rehearsals are on Tuesdays from 3:00 – 3:45 pm at Divine Providence Church. The group will play once a month at a parish liturgy. The Strings of Faith are already in session for the season. They are currently working on their full season schedule. The Cantors never take a break as a group. They rehearse and lead us in song year-round. We usually accept new membership to this group during the summer. The DI Resurrection Choir sings year-round at funerals at Divine Infant Church. The only requirements to join this group are a blendable singing voice and availability for funerals Monday through Saturday usually at 10am when there is a funeral. The Resurrection Choir will also sing at funerals at Divine Providence Church, as needed. However, everyone who is available to sing and interested in this ministry is welcome to join. If you are interested in this ministry, please contact Judy Schindler (708-383-4288 or judyps@comcast.net) who coordinates this ministry. The Youth Ensemble is open to young people of high school and college age who enjoy singing or playing a musical instrument. These young people must come to us with a blendable singing voice and some level of accomplishment on the instrument. This group is doing some re-organizing this season. Please watch for more information as we revitalize! Let us know if you or someone in your family is interested in being part of this group.

For further information about any of our music groups, please contact Janet Reif, Director of Music Ministry

708-531-9495 or e-mail jreif@archchicago.org

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Rom 1:1-7; Ps 98:1-4; Lk 11:29-32 Tuesday: Rom 1:16-25; Ps 19:2-5; Lk 11:37-41 Wednesday: Rom 2:1-11; Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 9; Lk 11:42-46 Thursday: Rom 3:21-30; Ps 130:1b-6ab; Lk 11:47-54 Friday: 2 Tm 4:10-17b; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Lk 10:1-9 Saturday: Rom 4:13, 16-18; Ps 105:6-9, 42-43; Lk 12:8-12 Sunday: Ex 17:8-13; Ps 121:1-8; 2 Tm 3:14 — 4:2; Lk 18:1-8

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Sukkot (Jewish Festival of Tabernacles) begins at sundown Monday: St. Callistus I; Columbus Day; Canadian Thanksgiving Day Tuesday: St. Teresa of Jesus Wednesday: St. Hedwig; St. Margaret Mary Alacoque; National Boss’s Day Thursday: St. Ignatius of Antioch Friday: St. Luke Saturday: Ss. John de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues, and Companions; Sweetest Day

D aughter of Claude Alacoque and Philiberte Lamyn, Margaret was born on July 22, at L'Hautecour, Burgundy, France, was sent to the Poor Clares school at Charolles on the death of her father, a notary, when she was eight years old. She was bedridden for five years with rheumatic fever until she was fifteen and early developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. She refused marriage, and in 1671 she entered the Visitation convent at Paray-le-Monial and was professed the next year. From the time she was twenty, she experienced visions of Christ, and on December 27, 1673, she began a series of revelations that were to continue over the next year and a half. In them Christ informed her that she was His chosen instrument to spread devotion to His Sacred Heart, instructed her in a devotion that was to become known as the Nine Fridays and the Holy Hour, and asked that the feast of the Sacred Heart be established. Rebuffed by her superior, Mother de Saumaise, in her efforts to follow the instruction she had received in the visions, she eventually won her over but was unable to convince a group of theologians of the validity of her apparitions, nor was she any more successful with many of the members of her community. She received the support of Blessed Claude La Colombiere, the community's confessor for a time, who declared that the visions were genuine. In 1683, opposition in the community ended when Mother Melin was elected Superior and named Margaret Mary her assistant. She later became Novice Mistress, saw the convent observe the feast of the Sacred Heart privately beginning in 1686, and two years later, a chapel was built at the Paray-le-Monial to honor the Sacred Heart; soon observation of the feast of the Sacred Heart spread to other Visitation convents. Margaret Mary died at the Paray-le-Monial on October 17, and was canonized in 1920. She, St. John Eudes, and Blessed Claude La Colombiere are called the "Saints of the Sacred Heart"; the devotion was officially recognized and approved by Pope Clement XIII in 1765, seventy-five years after her death. Her feast day is October 17. -Copyright 2019 Catholic Online

On October 18, Catholics and other Christians around the world will celebrate the feast of St. Luke, the physician and companion of St. Paul whose gospel preserved the most extensive biography of Jesus Christ.

Patron of: artists, bachelors, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors, glass makers, glassworkers, gold workers, goldsmiths, lace makers, lace workers, notaries, painters, physicians, sculptors, stained glass workers, surgeons.

Copyright © CNA All rights reserved

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Interfaith Career Network

Great Insights for the Current/Future Job Market

Mark your calendars now for Thursday, October 17, 7-9 pm. Learn how and why your job requires finding a fit between your skills, experience, education and employer's requirements. Job-hunting research is a key element of a successful search. Developing focused conclusions from a flood of data appears to be needed now more than ever. Our speaker, Tom Kacena, will outline job management techniques he has followed in his own career as an aerospace engineer in the Air Force and after in the private sector as well as in mentoring junior engineers.

Join us at St. Cletus Parish Center, 700 W. 55th St., Lagrange. (NOT St. John of the Cross Parish Center as previously stated). This meeting is open to everyone and there is no cost to attend.

We look forward to welcoming you.

The St. John Vianney Ladies Guild will be hosting “SOUP’S ON”

Tuesday, October 22nd St. John Vianney

Wolf & North Ave. in Northlake

There will be ten different wonderful homemade soups made by the Guild’s culinary experts. The dinner bell will ring at 5:30pm. Come anytime, SOUP’S ON will be served until 8:00pm.

Join us for ALL YOU CAN EAT SOUP. $8.00 for Adults—$4.00 for Children 12 & under. Price also includes salad, bread, dessert and drink

Call Helen at 708-562-4268 for more information. No reservations needed.

Now here is a day dedicated just for your sweetie. It exists as an opportunity for you to recognize that sweet and special someone. It doesn’t matter who that person is, or what their relation to you. They just have to be "sweet" in order to get a little recognition.

Herbert Birch Kingston, a Cleveland, Ohio philanthropist and candy company employee started Sweetest Day. He wanted to bring happiness to orphans, shut-ins and under-privileged. His intent was to show these people that they were not forgotten. In 1922, he started this holiday by giving candy and small gifts. He often used movie stars to distribute the gifts. The popularity of this holiday quickly spread.

Today, it is celebrated with loved ones and friends. However, we encourage you to follow the intent of the original holiday, and find ways to give candy and small gifts to those in need. Copyright 2000-2019: Holiday Insights © By Premier Star Company

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PARISH LOCATIONS

DIVINE PROVIDENCE Church: 2600 Mayfair Ave. Convent: 2540 Mayfair Ave. (708) 397-4342 Business Office: 2550 Mayfair Ave., Westchester, IL 60154 (708) 562-3364 FAX: (708) 562-3134 Hours: 8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Mass Schedule: Weekdays: Mon. Tues. Wed.: 8:00 AM Anticipated Mass Saturday: 4:00 PM Sundays: 8:30 AM

DIVINE INFANT JESUS Church: Newcastle & Canterbury Avenues Rectory Office: 1601 Newcastle Ave., Westchester, IL 60154 (708) 865-8071 FAX: (708) 865-8032 Hours: 8:30 AM-5:00 PM

Mass Schedule: Weekdays: Thurs., Fri., Sat.: 8:00 AM Anticipated Mass Saturday: 5:00 PM Sundays: 10:00 AM Holy Days of Obligation: As announced in bulletin.

PARISH STAFF

Mr. John Maher-Operations Director jmaher@archchicago.org

Mrs. Linda Hawkins Director of Marketing and Enrollment lhawkins@archchicago.org

Mrs. Charlene Boyd-Bookkeeper chboyd@archchicago.org

Mrs. Toni Podock-Secretary/Bookkeeper tonilpodock@archchicago.org

Ms. Karen Luciano-Secretary/Bulletin kluciano@archchicago.org

PARISH INFORMATION

Parish Registration: Registration forms are available on-line or call the Business Office.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Divine Providence: Tuesdays after 8:00 AM Mass Divine Infant Jesus: Saturdays after 8:00 AM Mass Or call the rectory to set up an appointment

Infant Baptism: Baptismal Preparation is required for the first child. Registration is necessary to schedule the baptism.

Divine Infant Jesus Church: Contact Toni Podock : 708-865-8071

Divine Providence Church: Contact Karen Luciano: 708-562-3364

Marriage: Please call the Parish Office at the time of your engagement to schedule your wedding. Pre-Cana is required.

Home/Hospital Visitation & Anointing Calls: If you would like a priest, deacon or Minister of Care to visit or if you wish to receive the Sacrament of the Sick, please contact either location.

Adoration: First Friday of the Month: Adoration 9:00 AM-4:00 PM in the Divine Providence Ministry Center Chapel after 8:00am Mass at Divine Infant Jesus St. Peregrine Devotion: 2nd Monday of the month after 8:00am Mass at Divine Providence.

PASTORAL MINISTRY

Pastor Reverend Marcin Szczypula

Associates Reverend Thomas Winikates Reverend Daniel Costello

Resident Reverend Gerald Joyce

Deacons Deacon Richard Hudzik Deacon Jim Sponder

FAITH FORMATION Religious Education Administrator Sr. Christine Nantaba (708)562-2258 - DP (708)865-8086 - DI cnantaba@archchicago.org

Adult Faith Formation Coordinator Deacon Jim Sponder 708-562-3364 - x12

EDUCATION MINISTRY

School—2500 Mayfair (708) 562-2258 Fax (708) 562-9171

Principal — Mrs. Lynn LeTourneau lynn.letourneau@archchicago.org

School Secretary-Mrs. Chrystal Farmar cfarmar@ archchicago.org

MUSIC MINISTRY Director of Music Ministry Mrs. Janet Reif (708) 531-9495 jreif@archchicago.org

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Divine Infant Jesus & Divine Providence Parish #000856 2550 Mayfair Ave. Westchester, IL 60154 TELEPHONE 708 562-3364 CONTACT PERSON Karen/Linda SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2007 Adobe Acrobat 10 Windows XP Professional PRINTER HP Laserjet 3600 SATURDAY/SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION 10/13/2019 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 12 Bulletin #000856 .