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Monday, September 27

St. Vincent de Paul, Priest

12:15 p.m. - Martha Shaw req Judy Ojala

Tuesday, September 28

St. Wenceslaus, Martyr; St. Lawrence Ruiz and

Companions, Martyrs

12:15 p.m. - Norma Fay req Rose DeAnda

Wednesday, September 29

St. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels

12:15 p.m. - Bud & Lorraine Daily req Gloria Stiel

Thursday, September 30

St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

12:15 p.m. - Angie Davis req Rose DeAnda

Friday, October 1

St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the

Church

12:15 p.m. - Martha Shaw req St. Vincent de Paul group

Saturday, October 2

4:00 p.m. - Paul Sr. & Lorraine Bonfiglio req son,

Paul Bonfiglio

Gerry Bray req Sherry & Joe Long

Nancy Keith (1

st

Anniv.) req St. Benedict Parish

Nripen Nandi req Maureen Nandi

Sunday, October 3

9:00 a.m. - Carter Mcllquham (33

rd

Anniv.) req family

11:00 a.m. - Fred Bond req Ella Stellmach

Dave Cascarelli req family

Raymond, Irene & Mickey Roman req Roman family

24 HOUR PRAYER LINE…

Nuns of the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament

have a twenty-four hour prayer line. Even if your call

goes to voicemail, the Sisters are attentive to begin the

requested prayers promptly. The prayer line phone

number is 248-626-8253.

PRAY FOR OUR PARISHIONERS...

Paul Bonfiglio, Judy DeKeyser, Larry Edwards,

Marge Flanigan, Nancy Flanigan, Tom Fisher,

Phil Hanson, Albena Lipar, Michael Jozwik,

Stan Slavsky, Norma Swift, Linda Tongko, Frank Vertin,

Wally Wetherbee, Sylvia Zanger.

...Loved ones who are ill and in need of prayer:

Kate Banaszek, Sandi Bonfiglio, Leonard Britt,

Joyce Campbell, Kathy Daniels, Gini Hofman,

Deborah Jolliff, Melinda Kici, Marie Kurczak,

Jason Makaroff, Louise Martin, Janel Nadeau,

Anne Marie Pizzuti, Avery Pope, Russ Ranke,

Caitlyn Robinson, Felecisimo Sabaldan, Miles Sabaldan,

Kris Schermerhorn, Suzie Skidmore, Kelly Ann Stratton,

Charlie Stacer, Laura Thomson, Seth Todd, Bill Thomas,

Scott Thor, Primo Tongko Jr. Suzette Zawisza. Names

run four weeks. To re-list, please call 248-681-1534.

WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY…

St. Benedict’s Women’s Bible Study will begin on

Wednesday, October 6

th

, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the

church social hall.

Cost for books will be $25. If you would like to

participate, please contact Gloria at the parish office

248-681-1534.

AWAKEN EVENING W/ FR. JASON…

*NOTE: the date change from Our Lady of Refuge

Ice Cream Social event cards

Fr. Jason Brooks will be hosting an

“Awaken Evening of Reflection” with

Eucharistic Adoration and a faith enriching talk.

Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

Where: Our Lady of Refuge Church

Future Awaken Evenings are scheduled for:

October 27, 2021

November 17, 2021

December 15, 2021

January 19, 2022

February 16, 2022

March 16, 2022

April 20, 2022

May 18, 2022

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ST. BENEDICT PARISH

St. Vincent de Paul Society

Men and Women who

Seek their

Personal Holiness

Through works of

Charity

WHO

As a reflection of the whole family

of God, members, who are known as

Vincentians, are drawn from every ethnic

and cultural background, age, group, and

economic level. Vincentians are united

in an international society of charity

by their spirit of poverty, humility and

sharing, which is nourished by prayer and

reflection, mutually supportive gatherings

and adherence to a basic Rule.

Inspired by the Gospel values, the Society of

St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic lay organization,

leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually

by offering person-to-person service to those who are

needy and suffering in the tradition of its founder,

Blessed Frederic Ozanam, and patron, St. Vincent de Paul

Mission

For more information or to join,

contact our parish office

248-681-1534

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JIM’S GEMS…

National Catholic Register

February 14, 2021

PART ONE

A ‘Transgender Mandate’

Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public

Policy Center in Washington, told the Register that

Biden’s executive order “is instructing his agencies

to now treat sex as gender identity”; and when it

comes to health care, “no one’s being denied treatment

for COVID because they’re male or female, or for that

matter, because they identify as male or female. So,

what he’s really getting at here is health-care plans are

going to have to cover sex-reassignment procedures.

Hospitals are going to have to offer sex-reassignment

procedures.”

Anderson, the author of When Harry Became Sally:

Responding to the Transgender Moment, said that

when Biden says “people should have access to health

care without being subjected to discrimination,” he’s

“describing a disagreement about appropriate medical

care for gender dysphoria as discrimination.” He

referenced St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Baltimore,

which is facing a lawsuit from the American Civil

Liberties Union for declining to perform a gender-

transition procedure, citing its Catholic beliefs.

He said the portion of Biden’s order discussing

people having a “secure roof over their heads

without being subjected to sex discrimination” is

relevant to a 2019 case in Anchorage, Alaska, where a

faith-based shelter for battered women “wouldn’t allow

a male who identified as a woman to spend the night

there. They called up a taxi cab, and they paid to have

the individual go to the male shelter.”

“That’s what’s at stake there, that they’re going to

reinterpret antidiscrimination law that says you can’t

discriminate on the basis of sex to now mean gender

identity,” Anderson said. “So whereas you could have

separate homeless shelters for men and women, you

now would have to do those based upon the self-

declared gender identity of the individual.”

He anticipated “endless litigation for the next four

years,” comparing the situation to the lawsuits triggered

by the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate,

saying that in this case the litigation will not be “on one

aspect of health care, which is what we saw during the

contraception mandate.” That’s because Biden’s initial

executive order is the first step of “a transgender

mandate” that will “get fleshed out with an

education transgender mandate, a health-care trans-

gender mandate, a housing transgender mandate.”

Anderson speculated that after the midterm elections, a

GOP-majority Congress could push back and even

potentially “pass a law that would clarify that

the word ‘sex’ means the biological reality, not the

subjective identity.”

Not Just a Religious-Liberty Concern

While, as in the case of the Catholic hospital, some

of these complaints have to do with religious freedom,

Anderson said that “what’s really important for

Catholics to realize is that we shouldn’t discuss these

issues and frame these issues as if they’re just about

religious liberty.”

“There is a religious-liberty component, if you are

forcing Catholic homeless shelters or Catholic hospitals

to violate their beliefs,” he said, but he also raised

questions he says are foundational outside of a reli-

gious context. “What does good medicine look like?

What is a good housing policy for everyone, whether

it’s a Catholic homeless shelter or a secular homeless

shelter, whether it’s a Catholic hospital or a secular

hospital?”

“You could be a secular girl and still think it’s unfair

to have to compete against the boy who identifies as a

girl,” he said. “You could be a secular girl and still think

it’s a violation of your privacy to have a boy who

identifies as a girl in your locker room. … There are

lots of different groups who have concerns about this.”

A group of leaders in women’s sports, the Women’s

Sports Policy Working Group, are asking Congress and

the Biden administration to limit the participation of

those who “have experienced all or part of male

puberty (which is the scientific justification for

separate sex sport).”

“We fully support the Biden executive order,

ending LGBT discrimination throughout society,

including employment, banking, family law and public

accommodations,” Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a Title IX

attorney and one of the leaders of the Women’s Sports

Policy Working Group, told USA Today Sports on

Monday. “Competitive sports, however, are akin to

pregnancy and medical testing; these areas require a

science-based approach to trans inclusion. Our aim has

been on protecting the girls’ and women’s competitive

categories, while crafting accommodations for trans ath-

letes into sport wherever possible.”

Idaho was the first state to ban the participation of

transgender athletes in female sports in March, but that

law is blocked due to a challenge from the ACLU.

Madison Kenyon, an Idaho State University runner who

supported that law, told Fox News that her

competitions against “biological males” were

“frustrating” and “unmotivating.” Her attorney

Christina Holcomb said that Biden’s new executive

order sends a message to female athletes that they

“don’t matter to this administration.”

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