La Chiesa del Santo Rosario O u r L a d y o f t h e M o s t H o l y R o s a r y C a t h o l i c C h u r c h

The Italian Parish of Indianapolis

B envenuto! Welcome to Holy Rosary

Church! Whether you are a lifelong

parishioner, a first-time visitor to our

parish, or someone in between, we

are grateful you have joined us today.

Founded in 1909 as the Italian Parish of

Indianapolis, we continue to serve as

the parish home of people of Italian

heritage and also embrace all Catholics

in union with Rome, including those

devoted to the Traditional Latin Mass

(Extraordinary Form) and the Anglican

Usage of the Roman Rite.

In the words of our founding pastor,

Msgr. Marino Priori:

“The church is the temple of the

Lord, the gate of heaven. Come after a

week of earthly cares, after so much

toil, after so many sorrows, after so

much pain. Rest your limbs. Regenerate

your spirit at the sources of grace.

Raise your mind to God; thank Him for

the benefits received through His

creation and in daily life; ask for

strength so you can win all of life’s

struggles, and be able to possess the

fruits of redemption.”

Mailing address: 520 Stevens St.

Indianapolis, IN 46203

Telephone number: 317-636-4478

Emergency number: 317-636-4478, ext. 3

E-mail address: info@holyrosaryindy.org

Website: www.holyrosaryindy.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/holyrosaryindy

Twitter: https://twitter.com/holyrosaryindy

Parish Staff and Leadership:

The Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, STD ................................. Pastor

Very Rev. Joseph L. Newton, JCL ......... Sacramental Minister

Elizabeth Welch ................................................Music Director

David Walden .............................. Director of Communications

Diane Fricker ......................................Parish Council President

Marcus Shutta .................................. Finance Council President

August 2, 2020

Ordinary Form:

18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Extraordinary Form:

9th Sunday after Pentecost

Anglican Use:

8th Sunday after Trinity

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Liturgical schedule for the week

Saturday, August 1, 2020

4:30 p.m. ........ OF ................... Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ......................... JoAnn Polke

Sunday, August 2, 2020 — 9:30 a.m. Mass will be outdoors, weather permitting

8 a.m............... AU .................. Eighth Sunday after Trinity ........................................ Pro populo

9:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ......................... Ethan Brown (third birthday)

11:30 a.m. ....... EF .................... Ninth Sunday after Pentecost 2 .................................. Cedric Georges

Monday, August 3, 2020 — Confessions after each Mass

7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Feria .......................................................................... Paulette Gephart

5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... Feria 4 ........................................................................ Bob Key

6:30 p.m. — St. Monica Guild rosary and prayer for the return of fallen-away Catholics

Tuesday, August 4, 2020 — Confessions after each Mass

7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... St. John Vianney M ..................................................... Fr. Kappes

5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... St. Dominic 3 .............................................................. John Bunte

Wednesday, August 5, 2020 — Confessions after each Mass

7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Dedication of Basilica of St. Mary Major Opt ............. Holy Souls in Purgatory

12:30 p.m. — Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by Adoration

5:30 p.m. Benediction

5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major 3 .......... Mark Wahoske

Thursday, August 6, 2020 — Confessions after each Mass

7:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Transfiguration of the Lord F ..................................... Fr. Newton

5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... Transfiguration of the Lord 2 ..................................... John Hanagan

Friday, August 7, 2020 — First Friday — Confessions after each Mass

7:30 a.m. ......... OF ................... Pope St. Sixtus II & Companions Opt.......................... John Maio

5:45 p.m. ........ EF .................... St. Cajetan 3 ................................................... Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

6:30 p.m. — Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, followed by overnight Adoration

Saturday, August 8, 2020 — Confessions after the 10 a.m. Mass

9:30 a.m. — Benediction

10 a.m. ............ OF ................... St. Dominic M ............................................................. Priests and nuns

4:30 p.m. ........ OF ................... Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ......................... Pro populo

Sunday, August 9, 2020 — 9:30 a.m. Mass will be outdoors, weather permitting

8 a.m............... AU .................. Ninth Sunday after Trinity ......................................... Celebrant’s intention

9:30 a.m. ........ OF ................... Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time ......................... John Hanagan

11:30 a.m. ....... EF .................... Tenth Sunday after Pentecost 2 .................................. William “Billy” Cameron

OF: Ordinary Form EF: Extraordinary Form AU: Anglican Use (Ordinariate Form)

1: 1st-class feast 2: 2nd-class feast 3: 3rd-class feast Opt: Optional memorial M: Memorial F: Feast S: Solemnity

At this time, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is limiting the size of congregations in its churches; therefore, we are re-quiring advance signups for indoor Saturday evening and Sunday Masses. A link to the online signup site will be emailed weekly to those who subscribe to our parish email notification service.

I t would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass. — St. Pio of Pietrelcina

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Announcements

Be sure to read “Pandemic Protocols” on Page 5

of this bulletin. It includes information on how to

sign up to attend Mass here, as well as what is ex-

pected of the faithful who come to Holy Rosary

Church.

First Friday is this week. Our customary

overnight Adoration of the Blessed Sacra-

ment will begin with Exposition at about

6:30 p.m. Friday and end with Benediction

on Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. An

online signup form can be accessed any-

t ime at ht tps: / /www.signupgenius .com/

go/409054da5a622a6ff2-first1.

Archbishop Thompson has dispensed the faithful

from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass until Aug.

15.

At Sunday Masses, there will be a basket on the

table near the back pews to collect your weekly

donations to the parish. (You can also donate via

our Online Giving portal; please visit https://

osvhub.com/holyrosaryindy/funds.)

The Santo Rosario Conference of the Society of

St. Vincent de Paul expresses sincere gratitude to

the good people of Holy Rosary Parish for your gen-

erosity during these challenging times. Thanks to

your donations, SVdP has continued its work to help

the poor and needy in our area. May God bless all

who have helped in this endeavor to care for the least

of His people.

Please pray for our sick and shut-in friends:

Debbie Barry, Brenden Bayer, Pam Berry, Ian

Brown, Steve Bussell, John Caito, Verna Carr, Son

Hui Christensen, Sharon Conrad, Nancy Duffy, An-

nette Dybas, Paquita Fallas, Bob Gossman, Margaret

Hanaway, Robert Hanaway, Fr. John Hollowell,

Matthew Iaria II, Andra Ignas, Brian Joseph, Jose-

phine Lombardo, Mary M., Amy Mauck, Sidia

Mora, Tony Navarra, Nathan Oliver, Lena Peoni,

Maria Peterson, Suzie Pietro, Jennifer Rivera, Bert

Sansone, Gus Sansone, Mike Schott, Simeon Scull,

John Thomas, Phil Vierneisel, Kay Waterloo, Larry

Webber, Jim Wernsing and Jenifer Zehner.

A generous parishioner has donated three First

Communion dresses, size 8, to the parish. Anyone

interested in procuring one or more dresses may call

the parish office and arrange a time to see them.

Bumper stickers and window clings with the new

Gabriel Project phone number are available from the

Holy Rosary Pro-Life Ministry. The bumper stickers

are not magnets, and they will not damage your car.

The Pro-Life Ministry is asking for a freewill dona-

tion to cover the cost of $3 per sticker or cling. To

acquire a sticker, see a member of the Pro-Life Min-

istry or contact holyrosary.prolife@gmail.com. To

learn more about the Gabriel Project, visit https://

www.glgabrielproject.org/.

The St. Monica Sodality Guild will pray together

every Monday evening with 5:45 p.m. Mass, fol-

lowed by the rosary and the St. Monica Prayer for the

return of baptized Catholics to the sacraments. To

learn more, contact Mary Oliver at 317-881-5352.

The Emmaus Group for young adults 18-35

meets every other Sunday from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in

our first-floor classroom. For more information, con-

tact Mikaela Smith at 317-775-3105.

Are you looking to save money and

perform an act of charity at the same

time? The Society of St. Vincent de

Paul operates a thrift store, Mission 27

Resale, less than 10 minutes from

Holy Rosary. Proceeds subsidize programs for the

poor and homeless. The store is located at 132 Leota

St. Learn more at www.mission27resale.org.

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis requires that all

parishioners receive its weekly newspaper, The Cri-

terion. If you are a registered parishioner here and

are not getting the The Criterion in the mail each

week, please contact the parish office.

BY THE NUMBERS

Sunday Collections (includes Online Giving)

Regular collection, July 25-26 $ 7,616.60

Society of St. Vincent de Paul 180.00

Building and maintenance 200.00

Pro-Life Ministry 60.00

Additional funds 725.00

Parish operating expenses/week 12,460.17

Collection budgeted/week 9,230.77

Weekly collection deficit (1,614.17)

Fiscal Year (began July 1, 2020)

Regular/holy day collections $ 34,470.80

Parish operating expenses 49,840.68

Collections budgeted 36,923.08

Total collections deficit (2,452.28)

Approximately 30% of the operating budget comes from

Italian Street Festival revenue and other fundraisers.

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T his Thursday we celebrate the Transfiguration of

the Lord in the presence of Peter, James and

John. A short time prior to this in the Gospel, Peter

had confessed that he believed Jesus to be the Christ,

the Messiah, the chosen one of God. However, when

Christ had revealed to him and the disciples the reality

of a suffering savior who would be crucified and die,

the disciples were shocked. They expected a king.

They expected the Messiah to throw the Romans out

and to reestablish a Jewish nation.

From the day Peter confessed that Jesus is the

Christ, the Son of the living God, the Master

“began to show His disciples that He must go to

Jerusalem and suffer many things … and be

killed, and on the third day be raised.” Peter

scorns this prediction, nor do the others under-

stand it any better than he” (Catechism of the Catho-

lic Church, No. 554).

Jesus was not and would not be the insurgent mili-

tary messiah they expected. While He was the Son of

God, He had chosen the route of humility and service

in order to witness to the world God’s saving love and

grace. However, He wanted to make sure that the dis-

ciples would not lose faith in the Son of God as the

Messiah. He also wanted to strengthen them against

the scandal of His suffering and humiliation in which

He, by the end, undoubtedly looked less than human

and much less than God. Therefore, Jesus gave them

the vision, the gift, of seeing Him glorified.

The Catechism (Nos. 555-556) teaches:

For a moment Jesus discloses His divine glory,

confirming Peter’s confession. He also reveals

that He will have to go by the way of the cross

at Jerusalem in order to “enter into His

glory” (Lk. 24:26). Moses and Elijah had seen

God’s glory on the Mountain; the Law and the

Prophets had announced the Messiah’s suffer-

ings. Christ’s Passion is the will of the Father:

the Son acts as God’s servant; the cloud indi-

cates the presence of the Holy Spirit. “The

whole Trinity appeared: the Father in the voice;

the Son in the man; the Spirit in the shining

cloud” (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiæ).

“[Christ,] You were transfigured on the moun-

tain, and Your disciples, as much as they were

capable of it, beheld Your glory, O Christ our

Continued on page 7

Appunti del Parroco: a Message from the Pastor

The Transfiguration of the Lord

The “Transfiguration” was the last painting by Raf-

faello Sanzio — the famous “Raphael.” Completed just

before the artist’s death in 1520, it was commissioned

by Giulio Cardinal de' Medici, the bishop of Narbonne

and the future Pope Clement VII, for his cathedral of S.

Giusto. However, the painting was never sent to the

French cathedral. After Raphael's death, the cardinal

decided to keep it for himself. He subsequently donated

it to the church of S. Pietro in Montorio where it was

placed over the high altar. It eventually found its way to

the Vatican Museums, where it resides today.

The altarpiece illustrates two episodes narrated in suc-

cession in Matthew’s Gospel: the Transfiguration above,

with Christ in glory between the prophets Moses and

Elijah; and below, in the foreground, the meeting of the

Apostles with the obsessed youth who will be miracu-

lously cured by Christ on his return from Mount Tabor.

In Raphael’s biography, written by the famous artist

and biographer of the 16th century, Giorgio Vasari, the

painting is called “the most famous, the most beautiful

and most divine” of Raphael’s works.

PANDEMIC PROTOCOLS

AT HOLY ROSARY CHURCH

W e ask that greater charity be exercised in our

church during the ongoing pandemic. While

COVID-19 may not concern you, it does worry others.

The following guidelines are in place to help ease fears

and prevent the spread of the coronavirus among our

congregation:

Advance signup required for most Sunday Masses

If you are coming to a Saturday evening or Sunday

Mass inside the church, sign up in advance. This helps

us keep attendance within acceptable limits. Every week

we email new links to online signup forms. To sub-

scribe to this email notification service, send your email

address to info@holyrosaryindy.org. (Advance signup

isn’t necessary for attending the 9:30 a.m. Sunday

Mass, which is outdoors, weather permitting.)

Social distancing necessary indoors, outdoors

Please maintain a distance of at least six feet between

your household and others at all times, indoors and out-

doors. This applies not only to when you are sitting in

pews (or chairs at the outdoor Mass), but also to when

you are standing in line for Holy Communion or kneel-

ing at the altar rail.

Sanitize your pew immediately before leaving

Sanitize your pew immediately before leaving. This

will require you to bring disinfectant wipes or a disin-

fectant spray and paper towels. (We also recommend

that you disinfect your pew upon arrival.)

State requires masks to be worn in church

The State of Indiana requires masks to be worn by all

people over age 8, and ages 2-7 are strongly encouraged

to do so. The governor has said exceptions will be made

for medical purposes, strenuous activity, eating and

drinking.

Leave nothing in the church or vestibule

Do not leave any items in our vestibule or church —

no books, no pamphlets, no holy cards, or anything else.

This has been our policy for quite some time, and is es-

pecially to be followed during this time of pandemic

when these items may become another source of conta-

gion.

Also, please dispose of any parish-provided worship

aids that you use during Mass, such as music sheets and

Latin Mass prayer sheets. A trash can is located next to

the front door of the church just for this purpose.

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One date, two sources of light

E very Aug. 6 I am struck by the confluence of

the Church’s liturgical observation of the

Transfiguration of the Lord and the anniversary

of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hi-

roshima, Japan, in 1945. The former has the Sec-

ond Person of the

Holy Trinity showing

His divinity to the

apostles Peter, James

and John: “And He

was transfigured before them, and His face shone

like the sun, and His garments became white as

light” (Matt. 17:2). The latter has man descending

deep into darkness — ironically with a brilliant

flash of light.

Joan Hinton, a graduate student who observed

the first atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945, in

New Mexico described the blast: “It was like be-

ing at the bottom of an ocean of light. We were

bathed in it from all directions. The light with-

drew into the bomb as if the bomb sucked it up.

Then it turned purple and blue and went up and

up and up.”

The light from the test blast could be seen for 20

miles. Worried residents were told that an ammu-

nition dump had exploded. Years ago I read an

account that claimed a Vatican observer of the

test told the pope, “The sun has been outshined.”

Some estimates say 100,000 people or more

died in Hiroshima, and tens of thousands more

were killed when another bomb fell on Nagasaki

three days later. Nearly all of the dead were non-

combatants, innocent men, women and children.

The Church teaches that such “indiscriminate de-

struction” of cities deserves “unequivocal con-

demnation” (Gaudium et spes, 80 § 3).

My senior thesis in high school defended the

decision to drop the bombs on Japan. Four dec-

ades wiser, I still struggle to fault President Tru-

man, who sought to end the war before even more

lives could be lost in an invasion of the Japanese

mainland. I may even owe my very existence to

his decision: My father was an 18-year-old sailor

who would have been part of the invasion force;

his death then would have rendered my concep-

tion impossible.

As we celebrate the Transfiguration, let us pray

that the bombs’ victims may rest in God’s perpet-

ual light, and that mankind may be enlightened in

such a way that no one will ever again face a de-

cision on whether to use such evil weapons.

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ALTAR MEMORIAL CANDLES

This week, the candles on either

side of our high altar burn for:

+Vince Gatto

+Katie Cecil

To have the deceased remembered for a week,

send $5 and his or her name to the parish office.

No more than 12 candles may be requested per

calendar year by any family or person.

IMPORTANT THINGS TO KNOW

ABOUT HOLY ROSARY CHURCH

Weddings:

Weddings can be scheduled only after meeting with

the pastor at least six months in advance of the cere-

mony.

Baptisms:

Please contact Sally Kaufman at the parish office or

sally@holyrosaryindy.org to schedule baptisms and

required baptismal instruction.

Joining the parish:

Parish Registration Forms can be found in the rotating

rack in the vestibule. They also are available online at

holyrosaryindy.org; click on the “Join the Parish” link

at the bottom of the page. Completed forms can be

placed in the collection basket or mailed to the office.

Electronic donations:

Online Giving, a convenient way

to donate electronically, makes it

easy for you to fulfill your finan-

cial commitments to the parish even when you are

unable to attend Mass. You do not need to write a

check or have cash available at church. Giving elec-

tronically also helps the parish staff budget more ef-

fectively. You can make one-time or ongoing contri-

butions, the timing and amount of which can be

changed at any time. Learn more by visiting holy-

rosaryindy.org and clicking on the “Online Giving”

icon, or visit the site directly at https://osvhub.com/

holyrosaryindy/funds .

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580 Stevens St., Indianapolis, IN 46203

Catholic Schoolhouse South Indy 317-201-5815

717 S. East St., Indianapolis, IN 46203

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tions which use facilities on our parish campus. Lumen Christi is recognized as a private Catholic school by the Archdiocese of Indianapolis; it has a special

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Central Catholic School 317-783-7759

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Roncalli High School 317-787-8277

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Central Catholic and Roncalli are the officially designated archdiocesan

schools supported by Holy Rosary Parish.

God, so that when they should see You cruci-

fied they would understand that Your Passion

was voluntary, and proclaim to the world that

You truly are the splendor of the Fa-

ther” (Byzantine Liturgy).

… The Transfiguration gives us a foretaste

of Christ’s glorious coming, when He “will

change our lowly body to be like His glorious

body” (Phil. 3:21). But it also recalls that “it is

through many persecutions that we must en-

ter the kingdom of God” (Acts 14:22):

“Peter did not yet understand this when he

wanted to remain with Christ on the moun-

tain. It has been reserved for you, Peter, but

for after death” (sermon of St. Augustine).

We, as Christians in the modern age, need to re-

member the lesson of St. Peter: There is glory, but

the true glory awaits after this life.

— Fr. C. Ryan McCarthy

Pastor

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