St. Benedict Messenger, Waterford
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St. Benedict Messenger, Waterford
Monday, September 27
St. Vincent de Paul, Priest
12:15 p.m. - Martha Shaw req Judy Ojala
Tuesday, September 28
St. Wenceslaus, Martyr; St. Lawrence Ruiz and
Companions, Martyrs
12:15 p.m. - Norma Fay req Rose DeAnda
Wednesday, September 29
St. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, Archangels
12:15 p.m. - Bud & Lorraine Daily req Gloria Stiel
Thursday, September 30
St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church
12:15 p.m. - Angie Davis req Rose DeAnda
Friday, October 1
St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of the
Church
12:15 p.m. - Martha Shaw req St. Vincent de Paul group
Saturday, October 2
4:00 p.m. - Paul Sr. & Lorraine Bonfiglio req son,
Paul Bonfiglio
Gerry Bray req Sherry & Joe Long
Nancy Keith (1
st
Anniv.) req St. Benedict Parish
Nripen Nandi req Maureen Nandi
Sunday, October 3
9:00 a.m. - Carter Mcllquham (33
rd
Anniv.) req family
11:00 a.m. - Fred Bond req Ella Stellmach
Dave Cascarelli req family
Raymond, Irene & Mickey Roman req Roman family
24 HOUR PRAYER LINE…
Nuns of the Monastery of the Blessed Sacrament
have a twenty-four hour prayer line. Even if your call
goes to voicemail, the Sisters are attentive to begin the
requested prayers promptly. The prayer line phone
number is 248-626-8253.
PRAY FOR OUR PARISHIONERS...
Paul Bonfiglio, Judy DeKeyser, Larry Edwards,
Marge Flanigan, Nancy Flanigan, Tom Fisher,
Phil Hanson, Albena Lipar, Michael Jozwik,
Stan Slavsky, Norma Swift, Linda Tongko, Frank Vertin,
Wally Wetherbee, Sylvia Zanger.
...Loved ones who are ill and in need of prayer:
Kate Banaszek, Sandi Bonfiglio, Leonard Britt,
Joyce Campbell, Kathy Daniels, Gini Hofman,
Deborah Jolliff, Melinda Kici, Marie Kurczak,
Jason Makaroff, Louise Martin, Janel Nadeau,
Anne Marie Pizzuti, Avery Pope, Russ Ranke,
Caitlyn Robinson, Felecisimo Sabaldan, Miles Sabaldan,
Kris Schermerhorn, Suzie Skidmore, Kelly Ann Stratton,
Charlie Stacer, Laura Thomson, Seth Todd, Bill Thomas,
Scott Thor, Primo Tongko Jr. Suzette Zawisza. Names
run four weeks. To re-list, please call 248-681-1534.
WOMEN’S BIBLE STUDY…
St. Benedict’s Women’s Bible Study will begin on
Wednesday, October 6
th
, 10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in the
church social hall.
Cost for books will be $25. If you would like to
participate, please contact Gloria at the parish office
248-681-1534.
AWAKEN EVENING W/ FR. JASON…
*NOTE: the date change from Our Lady of Refuge
Ice Cream Social event cards
Fr. Jason Brooks will be hosting an
“Awaken Evening of Reflection” with
Eucharistic Adoration and a faith enriching talk.
Time: 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Where: Our Lady of Refuge Church
Future Awaken Evenings are scheduled for:
October 27, 2021
November 17, 2021
December 15, 2021
January 19, 2022
February 16, 2022
March 16, 2022
April 20, 2022
May 18, 2022
St. Benedict Messenger, Waterford
ST. BENEDICT PARISH
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Men and Women who
Seek their
Personal Holiness
Through works of
Charity
WHO
As a reflection of the whole family
of God, members, who are known as
Vincentians, are drawn from every ethnic
and cultural background, age, group, and
economic level. Vincentians are united
in an international society of charity
by their spirit of poverty, humility and
sharing, which is nourished by prayer and
reflection, mutually supportive gatherings
and adherence to a basic Rule.
Inspired by the Gospel values, the Society of
St. Vincent de Paul, a Catholic lay organization,
leads women and men to join together to grow spiritually
by offering person-to-person service to those who are
needy and suffering in the tradition of its founder,
Blessed Frederic Ozanam, and patron, St. Vincent de Paul
Mission
For more information or to join,
contact our parish office
248-681-1534
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JIM’S GEMS…
National Catholic Register
February 14, 2021
PART ONE
A ‘Transgender Mandate’
Ryan Anderson, president of the Ethics and Public
Policy Center in Washington, told the Register that
Biden’s executive order “is instructing his agencies
to now treat sex as gender identity”; and when it
comes to health care, “no one’s being denied treatment
for COVID because they’re male or female, or for that
matter, because they identify as male or female. So,
what he’s really getting at here is health-care plans are
going to have to cover sex-reassignment procedures.
Hospitals are going to have to offer sex-reassignment
procedures.”
Anderson, the author of When Harry Became Sally:
Responding to the Transgender Moment, said that
when Biden says “people should have access to health
care without being subjected to discrimination,” he’s
“describing a disagreement about appropriate medical
care for gender dysphoria as discrimination.” He
referenced St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Baltimore,
which is facing a lawsuit from the American Civil
Liberties Union for declining to perform a gender-
transition procedure, citing its Catholic beliefs.
He said the portion of Biden’s order discussing
people having a “secure roof over their heads
without being subjected to sex discrimination” is
relevant to a 2019 case in Anchorage, Alaska, where a
faith-based shelter for battered women “wouldn’t allow
a male who identified as a woman to spend the night
there. They called up a taxi cab, and they paid to have
the individual go to the male shelter.”
“That’s what’s at stake there, that they’re going to
reinterpret antidiscrimination law that says you can’t
discriminate on the basis of sex to now mean gender
identity,” Anderson said. “So whereas you could have
separate homeless shelters for men and women, you
now would have to do those based upon the self-
declared gender identity of the individual.”
He anticipated “endless litigation for the next four
years,” comparing the situation to the lawsuits triggered
by the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate,
saying that in this case the litigation will not be “on one
aspect of health care, which is what we saw during the
contraception mandate.” That’s because Biden’s initial
executive order is the first step of “a transgender
mandate” that will “get fleshed out with an
education transgender mandate, a health-care trans-
gender mandate, a housing transgender mandate.”
Anderson speculated that after the midterm elections, a
GOP-majority Congress could push back and even
potentially “pass a law that would clarify that
the word ‘sex’ means the biological reality, not the
subjective identity.”
Not Just a Religious-Liberty Concern
While, as in the case of the Catholic hospital, some
of these complaints have to do with religious freedom,
Anderson said that “what’s really important for
Catholics to realize is that we shouldn’t discuss these
issues and frame these issues as if they’re just about
religious liberty.”
“There is a religious-liberty component, if you are
forcing Catholic homeless shelters or Catholic hospitals
to violate their beliefs,” he said, but he also raised
questions he says are foundational outside of a reli-
gious context. “What does good medicine look like?
What is a good housing policy for everyone, whether
it’s a Catholic homeless shelter or a secular homeless
shelter, whether it’s a Catholic hospital or a secular
hospital?”
“You could be a secular girl and still think it’s unfair
to have to compete against the boy who identifies as a
girl,” he said. “You could be a secular girl and still think
it’s a violation of your privacy to have a boy who
identifies as a girl in your locker room. … There are
lots of different groups who have concerns about this.”
A group of leaders in women’s sports, the Women’s
Sports Policy Working Group, are asking Congress and
the Biden administration to limit the participation of
those who “have experienced all or part of male
puberty (which is the scientific justification for
separate sex sport).”
“We fully support the Biden executive order,
ending LGBT discrimination throughout society,
including employment, banking, family law and public
accommodations,” Nancy Hogshead-Makar, a Title IX
attorney and one of the leaders of the Women’s Sports
Policy Working Group, told USA Today Sports on
Monday. “Competitive sports, however, are akin to
pregnancy and medical testing; these areas require a
science-based approach to trans inclusion. Our aim has
been on protecting the girls’ and women’s competitive
categories, while crafting accommodations for trans ath-
letes into sport wherever possible.”
Idaho was the first state to ban the participation of
transgender athletes in female sports in March, but that
law is blocked due to a challenge from the ACLU.
Madison Kenyon, an Idaho State University runner who
supported that law, told Fox News that her
competitions against “biological males” were
“frustrating” and “unmotivating.” Her attorney
Christina Holcomb said that Biden’s new executive
order sends a message to female athletes that they
“don’t matter to this administration.”
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