Weekly celebration of Sunday Mass is the Saturday Vigil Eucharistic Liturgy at 4:00 ,pm, Sunday at 9:30am and 12:30pm in Spanish. All Masses are live streamed on Facebook at the scheduled time and archived on our pairsh Facebook page or YouTube
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UP COMING EVENTS
St. Michael Fraternity welcomes St. Clement and St. Francis Seraph to attend the Friday, June 9, 2023 Fraternity meeting at 7:30pm is the St. Clement School Library at 7:30pm. Fr. Bill Farris, OFM will give a presentation on the current status of the Six Franciscan Provinces of the United States becoming one province. For information in English contact Sue Aufermann, ofs at crazy.sue.a@gmail.com or 513-260-8762. For information in Spanish contact Greg Lamping, ofs at glamping@icloud.com o 513-373-7610.
RCIA for the unbaptized, those baptized in another faith tradition, as well as those baptized Catholic as an infant without celebratig First Communion, First Reconciliation and Confirmation meets in the School Library on Sundays from 10:45am-12:15pm (betwen the 9:30 adn12:30 Masses). If you are interested and want more information or you want to volunteer as a companion to our seekers contact Colleen Gerke by phone at 513-641-3176 ext. 106, cgerke@stclement.or, or by text at 513-394-7045.
From Fr. E.J. -
Some of us remember learning about Pentecost when we were children, at home or in religion class. What is your particular memory? fearful disciples behind locked doors? the sudden rush of wind? tongues of fire above each head? or Jesus’ gift of peace? In today’s gospel, Pentecost is revealed behind locked doors. Are any of us behind emotional or spiritual “locked doors”? What is the fear from which the Holy Spirit seeks to free us? “Peace” is the first word Jesus said to his disciples in their locked room. The peace of Jesus seeks to become our new life in the Holy Spirit outside our locked room. The coming of the Holy Spirit renews how we think about our lives. The experience of Pentecost in each individual Christian and the whole Church inspires us toward unity with each other and everyone, even those different from ourselves. Remember the first Pentecost when people from different lands and languages were able to understand together the word of God? God offers the Holy Spirit fully to everyone.
Let us pray this Pentecost for the grace to open our lives even more to the working of the Holy Spirit. Maybe the Spirit is inviting us to grow in how we perceive people on the margins of society and Church. Could the Spirit be encouraging us to be stronger in inspiring the faith of our young people? In what ways might the Spirit be forming us to be better managers of anger and conflict? May God bless us in our efforts to follow the lead of the Holy Spirit.
How does the annual U.S. Memorial Day touch your life? I am not sure if parishioners of Guatemalan, Honduran, or Venezuelan backgrounds have a similar holiday in the country from which they have come. Some of us may be direct family members of someone who died while serving in the U.S. armed forces. Maybe that “someone” was a more distant relative or friend. I am not aware of any of my family for whom Memorial Day is their day. In contrast, I do know families for whom Memorial Day is very personal.
This annual day always brings back boyhood memories of the annual visit to my grandma and aunt in Monroe, Michigan. After Mass and breakfast on what we called “Decoration Day,” my family put gardening tools in the trunk of the car and headed to the cemetery where several of my relatives are resting in peace. Some of them served in the armed forces in World War II. Although none of them died in the service, some of their buddies did. Their graves we decorated first with flags and then spruced up all the family graves. Uncle Hazen, who was normally with us for this annual tending to the graves, served in the Navy in World War II. He was part of the massive liberation invasion from the south up through Italy. My brothers and I always tried to get him to share stories of that experience. He would change the subject. I guess some of those painful memories remained raw even after a long time. This weekend, let us honor all our military families and all the military personnel who have died while serving in the armed services of the United States.
Enjoy your week, everyone! May God bless us all! — Fr. EJ
ST. BERNARD PUB PARKING LOT
Please share this EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY (MARCH 18), PARISHIONERS ATTENDING MASS OR SCHOOL FUNCTIONS CANNOT PARK IN THE ST. BERNARD PUB LOT at 4537 Vine St, across from church. THE VILLAGE OF ST. BERNARD NO LONGER HAS ACCESS TO THE LOT. IT IS NOW THE PRIVATE PROPERTY OF THE PUB. OWNERS CAN TOW YOUR VEHICLE IF NECESSARY. WE ASK THAT YOU USE THE VILLAGE PARKING LOT BEHIND LAROSA ’ S (entrance on Martin Street). THANKS FOR YOUR UNDERSTANDING AND COOPERATION.