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July 25, 2010 |
Volume 63, No. 30 |
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Welcome! We thank you for worshipping
with us today; we hope you will return often. If you are new to our faith or
our community and want to join our parish, please call our office at
974-3569. |
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ST. MARY’S CHURCH COURT BISHOP WEHRLE CATHOLIC DAUGHTERS is sponsoring a household and clothing drive for the Catholic Indian Mission at Fort Yates. Items may be dropped off at the parish office during office hours. CHRISTIAN MOTHERS need prizes for the Christian Mother Church Fair Raffle Ticket. If anyone has anything they would like to donate please call Millie Hauck at 974-3687. CHRISTIAN MOTHERS will be sponsoring a Bake Sale at Little Opry Land on August 14 at the Senior Citizen Center starting at 9:00 a.m. They will have their next meeting on September 5, 2010. FIRST COMMUNION PICTURES are in the Parish Office. Please pick them up. AUGUST 1ST GIFT
BEARERS: Ambrose & Charlotte Hoff AUGUST GREETERS:
Saturday: Angie Kopp & Elaine Schank
Sunday: Marc & Joyce
Erhardt AUGUST USHERS:
Saturday: Dwight & Elaine Schank, Ron Hoff , volunteer ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH AUGUST USHERS:
James Thomas & Dick Zent ST. THOMAS CHURCH AUGUST USHERS:
Ted Goelzer & Emil Wieglenda ALL THREE PARISHES PLEASE KEEP these infirm members of our parishes in your prayers: Sandy Dinius, Gary Goetz, Anacleta Hartman, Francis Hecker, Martha Hutchins, Rose Kitzan, Gary Quintus, and Betty Steckler. ST. MARY’S NEW
ENGLAND CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL: Sunday,
July 25th, there will be a 10:30 a.m. Mass celebrated by Bishop
Zipfel. Dinner will be followed by an
entertaining afternoon with “Rhythms of the Hart” band and other activities
for adults and children alike, including White Elephant Bingo, Card Games,
Horseshoes and Dunk tank and “refreshments” in Father’s backyard. Souvenirs of our 100 years as a parish will
be available. Tents will be set up for
the protection from the sun. Bring
your own lawn chair, and come Celebrate with us! BLOOD DRIVE
on Tuesday, August 3, 12:30–6:00 p.m. at the Richardton American Legion,
sponsored by Clara’s Diner. Please contact Judy Roll at 974-3438 or log on to
www.bloodhero.com, select Donate
Blood and enter “Richardton” as the sponsor code to schedule an appointment. VOCATION VIEWS: “Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, kock and it shall be opened to you.” Believe and act on Jesus promise. Pray for wisdom to discern God’s will. RIGHT TO LIFE: “In 1857, the U.S. Supreme
Court looked at the slave, Dred Scott, and came up
with the wrong decision, declaring the slave as ‘property’ and not a
‘citizen’…but the slave’s life was still protected. In 1973, the U.S. Supreme
Court got it wrong again and handed down decisions on abortion which declared
‘open season’ on unborn children throughout the full nine months of
pregnancy.... Most people have not noticed that the population
descended from U.S. African slaves, comprising around 12% of the population,
make up about 35% of the abortion population. [Since 1973, more than
14 million unborn black children have died from abortion.]” STEWARDSHIP: Jesus is describing God’s immeasurable generosity when He says in today’s Gospel, “Whoever asks, receives; whoever seeks, finds; whoever knocks, is admitted.” But it should also be the description of us as Christian stewards – those seeking to follow Christ by using our gifts in service to others. Stewardship thought: Have you given real thought lately to how good God has been to you? Do you give in proportion to what God has given to you? PASTOR’S REFLECTIONS: The Ninth Rule: There are three principal reasons why we
may find ourselves desolate. The first is, from our being tepid, lazy or
negligent in our spiritual exercises, and so through our faults, spiritual
consolation withdraws from us. The second, to try us and see how much we are
and how much we let ourselves out in His service and praise without such
great pay of consolation and great graces. The third, to give us true
acquaintance and knowledge, that we may interiorly feel that it is not ours
to get or keep great devotion, intense love, tears, or any other spiritual
consolation, but that all is the gift and grace of God our Lord, and that we
may not build a nest in a thing not ours, raising our intellect into some
pride or vainglory, attributing to us devotion or the other things of the
spiritual consolation. (Spiritual
Exercises 322) |
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