18th Sunday After Pentecost Fathers at 7th Ecumenical Council
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
Sunday of the Fathers of the 7th Ecumenical Council
October 12, 2025
Sat 10/11/25 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Peter and +Mary Kavchak by Drew Moniot
Sun 10/12/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Richard Callihan by Matt and Darlene Callihan
Wed 10/15/25 7:00pm Liturgy for Healing +Souls in Purgatory by Marian Luther
Fri 10/17/25 7:00pm Akathist- we start with adoration at 6pm
Sat 10/18/25 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +John and Doris Antoszyk by Mark Antoszyk
Sun 10/19/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +Karen Bohin by Andy Bohin and Family
Variable Parts - Tone 1 - Pages 125 — 127; Fathers of 7th Council Pages - 263 - 264
Epistle 2 Corinthians 9:6-11 or Hebrews 13:7-16
Gospel Luke 7:11-16 or John 17:1-13
Memorial Candle Request: No Candle Request
Epistle Readers 11-Oct John Baycura/Mary Motko 12-Oct Liz/John Pocchiari 18-Oct Mary Troyan 19-Oct Amanda Stavish
Please Pray for: Brian Buchkovich, Lejen Warner, Sharon King, Ole J. Bergh, Liz Moyta, Fr. Michael Huszti, Fr. Laska, Susie Curcio, Teresa Milkovich, Robert Saper, Anna Habil, Mike Dancisin, Diane Sotak, Anna Pocchiari, Larry Hamil, Beverly Jones, Maryann Russin Schyvers, Nick Russin and Ken Konchan
Attendance: 9/27 — 30, 9/28 —76; 10/1 — 12 10/4 - 15, 10/5 — 78 Collection 9/27 & 9/28 $1,913; 10/4 & 10/5 $1,698
Student Food Pantry: For the month of October. we are collecting hot cereal items, like oatmeal and cream of wheat. We will also include any breakfast bars. (They will not need cold cereal.) Thank you! Any questions, please contact Pam Gagen.
Boscov Coupons: The Boscov Friends helping Friends coupons are back. For $5 you can get a 25% off coupon that can be used all day on Wednesday, October 22nd. See Elizabeth Pocchiari or Fr. Radko to buy coupons.
Rummage Sale: Thank you to all who donated or helped with the rummage sale. Left over items are free, take what you want. Help will be needed to box up the items that are left. Please stay after the coffee social to lend a hand.
Diaconal Ordination Celebration: If you will be attending the November 30th, 3:00pm parish celebration of diaconal ordination, please signup downstairs by November 16th as we will need a headcount for the catered dinner. Donations of deserts will be needed for this dinner and a signup sheet for this may also be found on the bulletin board. Thank you!
Parish Halloween Party: Party will be Sunday, October 26 during social coffee. There will be activities for kids! Please wear a costume for the costume parade!
Operation Christmas Child: Please continue to send in your donations for Operation Christmas Child program until October 26th. The children will fill the boxes on November 2. Thank you to those who have already generously donated. The box is in vestibule. Items to donate may include: small toys, washcloths, bars of soap, hats, gloves, socks. Please give cash donations to Amanda Stavish. She will purchase additional items with your donation. Thank you!
Our Lady of Champion: The First And Only Approved Marian Apparition in the United States The Marian apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, Guadalupe, and Lourdes are among the most well-known apparitions that millions of pilgrims visit every year, but some American Catholics might not know that we have our very own approved Marian Apparition in the United States. In early October of 1859, Our Lady appeared to Adele Brise in Wisconsin. Adele Brise was born in Dion-le-Val, Belgium, on January 30, 1831. Once she received the Sacrament of Holy Communion for the first time, Adele and a few of her friends promised Mother Mary that they would be religious teaching sisters. However, her family's move to the United States did not allow Adele to complete this promise. A priest consoled Adele, by guiding her to be obedient to her parents and encouraging her to pursue this vocation to religious life in America, if God wills her to do so. In 1855, Adele and her family travelled to present-day Wisconsin over the span of six weeks and joined a large Belgian settlement there. After four years of serving her family with physical tasks, Adele would be called to more spiritual tasks by the Mother of God herself. One day in early October in 1859, Adele was walking on an Indian trail, taking grain to the grist mill for her family, when a lady made Adele pause. She saw a lady, clothed in white, in between two trees, and the lady did not say anything. Shortly after, most likely on October 9, 1859, a Sunday, Adele was walking on the same trail with her sister and friend to Mass, which was at a church ten miles away. The same lady appeared to Adele again and still remained silent. After Mass, Adele consulted her priest, who advised her to ask the lady, if Adele saw her again, "in God's name, who are you, and what do you want of me?" On their way back home the same day, the lady appeared to Adele for the third time. Adele would later describe her as a lady, clothed in white with a yellow sash, golden hair cascading down her shoulders and a crown of stars framing her head. The lady's face beamed with light, almost blinding Adele. Adele asked the question posed by her priest, and the lady answered, “I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. You received Holy Communion this morning and that is well. But you must do more. Make a general confession and offer Communion for the conversion of sinners. If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them.” Mother Mary, Queen of Heaven, asked Adele, "What are you doing here in idleness while your Companions are working in the vineyard of my Son?" Adele, crying out of sorrow, asked Mary, "What more can I do, dear Lady?". Our Lady called on Adele to, "gather the children in this wild country and teach them what they should know for salvation." She further explained, "teach them their catechism, how to sign themselves with the sign of the Cross, and how to approach the sacraments; that is what I wish you to do. Go and fear nothing, I will help you."
With this particular calling from Our Lady in mind, Adele traveled door-to-door, walking up to twenty-five miles per day, to help families with chores if they allowed her to teach their children the catechism. Her new apostolate grew so much over the following years that she formed a religious community of women to evangelize the children and even their parents in the Catholic faith. At first, Adele's father built a small chapel near the spot of the apparition of the Queen of Heaven, but eventually others offered money and their labor to build a larger chapel, convent, and school near the apparition site. There, the religious sisters would teach the children. Twelve years after the apparitions, on October 8, 1871, the Peshtigo fire raged across Wisconsin. The Peshtigo fire is known as the most devastating fire in the United States, as it killed between 1,200 to 2,400 and it burned more than one million acres of land. Families ran to the apparition site, searching for shelter. Father Pernin, an eyewitness to this natural disaster, recounted, The fire was extinguished, but dawn revealed the ravages wrought by the conflagration. Everything about them was destroyed; miles of desolation everywhere. But the convent, school, and chapel on the holy land consecrated to the Virgin Mary shone like an emerald isle in a sea of ashes. The raging fire licked the outside palings and left charred scars as mementos. Tongues of fire had reached the chapel fence, and threatened destruction to all within its confines; the fire had not entered the Chapel grounds. The community considered the fire sparing the apparition site as a miracle. A year after, a practice began of those, whose lives were saved, visiting the apparition site on October 8 and praying at the chapel all night into October 9, the anniversary of both the fire and the second and third apparitions of the Queen of Heaven. This practice is still ongoing today, usually involving thousands of pilgrims praying at the shrine every year on October 8 and 9. After this fire, Adele, alongside her religious sisters, educated and evangelized children until her death on July 5, 1896. She is buried near The Apparitional Chapel.
