19th Sunday After Pentecost
Glory to Jesus Christ! Glory Forever!
19th Sunday after Pentecost
October 19, 2025
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
Wed 10/22/25 7:00pm Liturgy for Healing +Souls in Purgatory by Marian Luther
Fri 10/24/25 7:00pm Akathist — Adoration begins at 6:00pm
Sat 10/25/25 4:00pm Vigil Divine Liturgy +Stanley and +Mary Gawlikoski by Drew Moniot
Sun 10/26/25 9:30am Divine Liturgy +John and Doris Antoszyk by Mark Antoszyk
Variable Parts Tone 2 - Pages 130 - 131
Epistle 2 Corinthians 11:31-12:9
Gospel Luke 8:5-15
Memorial Candle Request: No Candle Request
Epistle Readers 18-Oct Mary Troyan 19-Oct Amanda Stavish 25-Oct John Baycura/Mary Motko 26-Oct Hans Bergh
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: 10/11-26 10/12-81 Collection: 10/11 & 10/12 - $2,516.00
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 for your generous Sept donations. Our parish collected over 197 items! Any questions, please contact Pam Gagen.
Boscov Coupons: The Boscov Friends helping Friends coupons are back. For $5.00 you can get a 25% off coupon that can be used all day on Wednesday, October 22nd. This is the last Sunday these coupons are available. Please see Elizabeth Pocchiari at the coffee social if you want one.
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!
Baking Help Needed: We will be baking nut rolls on December 4th and December 12th. Please
Sometimes reading the lives of the saints is discouraging. They may have been imperfect, as we all are, but it can seem that none of them ever really sinned the way people today do. Even proverbial bad boy St. Augustine was a decent guy by today's standards. It's easy for those of us who have made terrible choices to feel discouraged. May I introduce Blessed Bartolo Longo who will be this Sunday proclaimed a saint. Like many saints, Bartolo was raised in a faithful Catholic family. Unlike most saints, Bartolo spent his 20s as a Satanic priest.
Born in 1841, Bartolo Longo lost his father when he was only 10. From that time, he grew more and more distant from his Catholic faith. When he began university studies in Naples, at the University where St. Thomas Aquinas himself had studied, he was eager to enter fully into the experience of a secular university. In mid-19th-century Italy, that meant anti-clericalism, atheism, and ultimately the occult. Bartolo began attending seances, experimented with drugs, and even got involved in orgies. He lured people away from the Catholic faith, publicly ridiculing the Church of his childhood. Before long, the newly minted lawyer was "ordained" a priest of Satan. As a Satanic bishop intoned blasphemous words, the walls of the room shook and disembodied screams terrified those in attendance.
Before long, Bartolo found himself paranoid and miserable, on the brink of a nervous breakdown. And as he clung to his Satanic practices, his family prayed.
As happened with Augustine, the faithful prayers of Bartolo's family finally broke down the wall of anger and sin that Bartolo had built around himself. One night, he heard the voice of his dead father crying out to him, "Return to God!" Stunned, Bartolo visited a friend who lived nearby, Professor Vincenzo Pepe. When Pepe realized what had become of Bartolo, he cried, "Do you want to die in an insane asylum and be damned forever?" Pepe's courage in pointing out the danger his friend was in cut through Bartolo's defenses, and before long he had agreed to meet with a Dominican priest, Fr. Alberto Radente.
Fr. Alberto worked slowly on the young lawyer, encouraging him to make a thorough confession. After a month of direction, Bartolo was finally absolved and began his work of drawing people back to Christ. He stood up in the middle of cafés and student parties and denounced occult practices. He served the poor and instructed the ignorant; after six years of such work, he pronounced vows as a lay Dominican, on the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.
Then, cleansed and consecrated, Bartolo visited one last séance. He walked in, held up a rosary and called out, "I renounce spiritualism because it is nothing but a maze of error and falsehood."
But for all he had been absolved, Bartolo, like most of us, struggled with memories of his past. He felt unworthy of God's forgiveness, certain that he was impure, permanently marred by his sin. One day, while collecting rent from the destitute farmers around Pompeii, Bartolo began to consider his past way of life. "Despite my repentance, I thought: I am still consecrated to Satan, and I am still his slave and property as he awaits me in Hell. As I pondered over my condition, I experienced a deep sense of despair and almost committed suicide." In that moment, Bartolo remembered the rosary of his childhood, remembered the love of the Blessed Mother. He felt Our Lady tell him that his path to heaven was through teaching others to pray the Rosary. Bartolo moved to Pompeii, where he began Rosary groups, organized Marian processions, and began work on a shrine to Our Lady of the Rosary. His work was funded by the Countess di Fusco, with whom he worked so closely that rumors began to spread about the nature of their relationship. Though Bartolo had taken a private vow of chastity, he was encouraged by Pope Leo XIII to marry the countess for the sake of the work; the two entered into a celibate marriage and continued to serve the poor. For more than 50 years, Bartolo preached the Rosary, founded schools for the poor, established orphanages for the children of criminals, and transformed a city of death to a city dedicated to the living Mother of God. At his beatification, St. John Paul II, himself perhaps the most Marian pope since St. Peter, proclaimed Blessed Bartolo Longo "a Man of Mary." Blessed Bartolo Longo was a vile, degenerate, blasphemous Satanic priest. But this is his legacy: blessed, canonized on Oct 19th 2025.
