FIFTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME – July 13, 2025

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RESPONSORIAL PSALM: Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

TODAY’S MASS INTENTIONS:

9:00 AM: Parishioners of St. Emeric Parish

11:00 AM: Zsolt Dömötörffy, by Éva Dömötörffy

MASS SCHEDULE & INTENTIONS FOR THE COMING WEEK:

FROM THE DESK OF FR. BONA: Thank you to everyone who helped last week with our agape meal as we visited with Fr. András Mezei. I appreciate your willingness to prepare the hall, bring food, serve and clean up. We are a smaller community and therefore we need each other’s help even more. We all have our gifts and talents that can help us to remain a strong parish community. Please know that your volunteering is crucial and always highly valued.

 PATRON SAINT FOR THOSE BATTLING ADDICTION TO GAMBLING: This week on Friday, July 18 (elsewhere in the world on July 14), we celebrate the memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614). Camillus was a son of a soldier and Camillus himself eventually found his way to a military career of his own. He picked up his gambling vice in the military. Throughout much of his life, he was afflicted with an addiction to gambling, which even reduced him to destitution. It was a vice into which he repeatedly fell. But it was also a vice that, by the grace of God, he overcame.

He made his way to Rome where he sought work in a hospital for incurables. It was not wholly benevolent — he hoped to be cured of abscesses in his feet. Unlike his gambling, the abscesses would plague him until his death. Indeed, his gambling and his quarrelsome disposition got him fired from the hospital, so he went back to soldiering. When his term of service ended, he went to work on a construction project for some Capuchins. This time, the guardian of the monastery managed to turn his gambling around and, though he sought admission to the community, they refused him because of his feet problems.

Camillus went back to Rome and the hospital where he previously worked. He obtained temporary relief of his foot problems and, with a changed life, became a nurse and eventually director of that hospital. Hospitals of the 17th century, especially for the incurably sick, were staffed not by health care professionals but often by mercenaries and criminals performing what then was called “penance” — and what today we might call “community service.” Their commitment to their patients was, therefore, often doubtful. Camillus de Lellis — who knew both the military and sickness — turned that around. When he announced plans to create a religious order of infirmarians, however, he ran into opposition and so left that hospital to relocate to Rome’s “Hospital of the Holy Spirit” where his vision would eventually take root. The “Order of the Ministers of the Sick,” as its name came to be, elected Camillus its first superior, but eventually resigned to devote himself directly to the community’s ministry. The Camillian Order continues today, with male, female and lay branches. Camillus turned from gambling when he reckoned with what mattered — and didn’t — in life. What lasted and what vanished in life. Let us seek the intercession of St. Camillus for those who are addicted to gambling (source: ncregister.com).

PLANNING MEETING – ST. STEPHEN DAY PARISH PICNIC: On Sunday, August 17, we will hold our St. Stephen Day Parish Picnic. The format will closely follow what we did last year. I would like to invite everyone who was involved in the last year’s planning meeting, or who would like to be involved in this year’s, to come on Wednesday, July 16 at 6:30PM to St. Emeric Hall to meet and plan.

THE NEXT PARISH COUNCIL MEETING will be held on Wednesday, July 23 at 6:30 PM.

LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION: Sunday Collection: $3,027; Assumption: $10; Maintenance: $1,260; Renovation: $20. May God reward your generosity in supporting the church. Thank you for sending in your donations by mail or using our website https://stemeric.com/donations/.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK, especially for Bev Kimar, Teréz Kalász, Lajos Boday, Márta Takács, Kathy Szabó, Alex Szaday, Virginia Kachmar, Margaret Falk, Mária Hokky, Balázs Bedy and Éva Fricke.

THIS SUNDAY the 11:00 AM Mass from St. Emeric church will be livestreamed at https://www.facebook.com/saintemeric/ and https://stemeric.com/

LET US PRAY THREE HAIL MARYS FOR OUR PARISH EVERY DAY!

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