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James Tissot The Resurrection of Lazarus 1886-96

‘I trust in the Lord; my soul trusts in his word.’ ~Psalm 130

Our Mission Statement

St. Francis Xavier is a Catholic-­Jesuit parish ignited by the Eucharist To Pray, Serve, Do Justice, and Love. Welcome! Though all public Masses are We are delighted you are here. suspended, our Church is open daily for personal prayer.

Monday - Friday 7am - 4pm Celebrating Sunday all the way home: Saturday & Sunday 11am-4pm

On the way home from Mass consider asking: Have you ever had to comfort someone who experienced the death of a loved one? Have you ever been the one who was comforted?

Mass Scriptures for the Month of March, 2020

Saturday 3/28 Jer. 11:18-20 Ps. 7 John 7:40-53 Sunday 3/29 Ezek. 37:12-14 Fifth Sunday of Lent Ps. 130 Rom. 8:8-11 John 11:1-45 Monday 3/30 Dan. 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 Ps. 23 John 8:1-11 Tuesday 3/31 Num. 21:4-9 Ps. 102 John 8:21-30

Mass Scriptures for the Month of April, 2020

Wednesday 4/1 Dan. 3:14-20, 91-92, 95 LiveStream Recording of our Dan. 3 Sunday 10:00 am Mass John 8:31-42 Thursday 4/2 Gen. 17:3-9 St. Francis of Paola onFacebook Ps. 105 John 8:51-59 Friday 4/3 Jer. 20:10-13 If you do not have a Facebook account and wish Ps. 18 to view our next live stream Mass, please follow John 10:31-42 Saturday 4/4 Ezek. 37:21-28 St. Isidore the instructions on our website sfxmissoula.org Jer. 31 John 11:45-56

Prayers Mass Intentions for The Month of March, 2020 May --- Sunday 3/29 Kate Deeds Chad Beers, Emma Neuman, Arlene Kochel, Betty Himmelsbach For the People* Justin Roness, Larry Blazevich, The Williams Family, Monday 3/30 Anthony Friia Kathleen Roberts, Andrew Roller, Andrew Hasquet, Tuesday 3/31 Fr. Healy, S.J. Jim Caplis, Ray Hoffman, Laura Fellin, and Bruce Peterson. Mass Intentions for The Month of April, 2020 receive His healing and consolation. Wednesday 4/1 Jack McInnis Thursday 4/2 Hadli Hughes* Friday 4/3 Betty Smith Saturday 4/4 Bridget & Bill Matalaski* Reminder that Mass Intentions Sunday 4/5 For the People* already scheduled will be added to Grace Collins the Jesuit Fathers daily Mass. Allen Fetscher 2 Fragmented “Real Presence”

You are there on the table; you are there in the chalice. You are this body with us, for, collectively, we are this body. - St.

It is a strange experience, to stand in the church almost totally alone, looking at the back of my phone, and proclaim the words of the Mass without the responses. For while the Liturgy of the Word, the proclamation of the first reading and the gospel—even the recitation of the psalm—seem somehow comprehensible, at least, in this digital format, the gift of the table, the blessing of the bread and wine and the sharing of communion with the Assembly, which is its culmination, seems almost a sacrilege without others. And while I believe in the spiritual communion which draws us to the constan- cy of the altar, and holds us as one, even when we cannot be together, still I grow profoundly sad each time I raise the bread or the cup and speak the words of institution— “Take this all of you and eat of it. . .take this all of you and drink from this”—knowing that this morning’s host and the contents of this cup are, for now, only for my consumption. And though I am aware how many of you miss the grace of receiving the Eucharist—of that pro- found experience of Incarna- tion that comes in the touch of the host in the hand, the taste of the consecrated wine in the mouth—I hope you also know that I miss that Incarnational grace that comes with our shared communion as the living and breathing Body of Christ.

In our Catholic tradition, we often speak of the “real presence” of Christ in the Mass —a concept both beautiful and, at times, con- fusing. Usually, when we use the phrase “real presence,” we are speaking of the host itself, and our belief that our faithful God, in every celebration of the Mass, fulfills the promise Jesus gave on the night before his death. On that night of love and betrayal, Jesus told his disciples that the bread and wine they shared in his name were his body and blood, and that whenever they celebrated the memorial of his death, he would be with present in their midst, in the form of that bread and wine. It was not a promise of magic, but a commitment of love that becomes flesh on our table, even in our imperfect prayer. Throughout history, theologians have sought to explain this gift—most famously St. Thomas’ theory of transubstantiation—but, in the end, the real presence of Christ Jesus in the bread and cup transcends any explanation, calling us to enter a mystery of love that is greater than our mind can grasp.

But if the notion of “real presence” is most often employed to describe the consecrated host and cup, the Catholic tradition also speaks of the real presence of Christ in the Word of God, and especially in the gospels. The Liturgy of the Word is not simply the “warm up act” for the Eucharist, but is, itself, a celebration of God’s abiding presence among us: a God who has pitched a tent in our midst and spoken a word to us that liberates and educates us, that touches not just our minds but our whole being, and so transforms us—as the Eucharist transforms us—into the very presence of Christ in the world. Perhaps nowhere is this notion of the “real presence” in the Word of God made more explicit than in the Gospel of John, where we are told that the “Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (Jn. 1:14), and where we later see how that Word be- comes part of the Women at the Well, who gives it to her neighbors, until it changes them and they become that enfleshed Word themselves (Jn. 4:42). Thus, the celebration of the Mass involves the coming together of these two forms of real pres- ence, like layers of grace, given to God’s beloved ones so that the living Christ might become the word we hear and the food we eat, and that we become what we receive: words of grace and mercy to the world, nourishment for all of God’s People.

3 Which leads to the third—and in many ways most important (and often most overlooked)—form of “real presence” in the Mass: the real presence of Christ in the gathering of the People. Living in a culture so deeply rooted in individualism and self- determination, we can mistake the assembled Church as simply the convenient gathering of a bunch of autonomous souls. The Mass, like the performance of theater or dining at a restaurant, is seen as a personal experience—something each of us takes- in privately, though we do it together because private services would be impossible. The assemblage of people, in such a view, is just a functional requirement, or at best, part of an enjoyable social experience; but being together is not part of the essence of the Mass. This view of Mass as a group exercise of private piety manifests itself in many ways: in architecture and posture, in limited opportunities for participation and in a lack of hospitality when one arrives. It may be seen in those in the congre- gation who come just in time to pick up the Eucharist and leave before those boring announcements, or in the actions of the ordained who, in the name of piety, would drive out children and never speak to the ordinary problems of the people before them. Yet, though it remains, in many places, a dominant view, this idea of the Mass as a private act of piety, done in a group setting, denies the ancient tradition of the Church, and the current revival of that teaching in the Second Vatican Council.

From the beginning of the Church, the Assembly of the faithful was the real presence of Christ among us. We, not just you or I, we incarnate the presence of Christ in the world. So it was that St. Augustine spoke of the presence of Christ in the Eucharist as the expression of what the Church was at all times, and taught that our very under- standing of the Eucharist as the consecrated bread and wine depends upon our understanding of the community by which that bread and wine are offered. In a far different time, the Second Vatican Council spoke similarly, when it declared that the fundamental Sacrament is the Church herself, ex- pressed in the individual sacraments that we know so well. In all this, then, we must recognize that the “real presence” of Christ is not limited to the objects of word or of consecrated bread and wine, but begins with us being united around the One who be- came as we are, so that we might be redeemed. For the word is made for us to hear, and the Eucharist is given for us to eat—we are the reason for Christ’s coming into the world, and we, the living Church, are the true and lasting expression of his presence.

We are a people of Sacrament, and today we experience that Sacrament fragmented—the various dimensions of “real pres- ence,” which we are used to experiencing together separated from one another. We can hear the word, proclaimed in a broadcast—on Facebook live or streaming—but we cannot gather together as People of God to receive the wondrous pres- ence of Christ in the Eucharist. Each of us receives one or perhaps two forms of the “real presence” but none of us seems to receive it all. In these days of contagion and pandemic, we can feel as though the Sacrament itself has been broken, taken from us by the dangers of the world. Yet, here, I think, we miss the grace at work so powerfully in these days. For if the Mass seems broken, we know that Christ, too, was broken on the Cross, for our sake—i.e., that all those he loves might be raised up anew. The breaking of Christ in death does not lead to an end of grace, or to our destruction; rather, it is the prelude to resurrection and to all the graces that the People of God receive. In the same way, this time of suffering and separation may well lead to a resurrection in the Church, and a new sense of how precious each member of the Body of Christ is.

Today, we are called in some ways to break the Mass apart, separating the presence of Christ in the Assembly from the pres- ence of Christ in the Eucharistic elements; but by our willingness to make this move, we proclaim something revolution- ary: that the Eucharistic meal, blessed as it is, is never more important than the People for whom it has been given. Even though it is a source of great grace, the Eucharist is first of all a call to love those people whom Christ loves, a love he showed even to his death. Today, though we may receive only partially all the ways Christ is present in the Mass, yet if we act out of love for our sisters and brothers, we still receive fully the grace and love that Jesus gave to us in the Paschal Sacrifice. For today we are called to share—not in symbol alone, but in fact—some part of the separation and brokenness which Christ accepted in his journey to death. Further, as we are summoned to social distancing and maybe even to sheltering in place, we have a sense of the powerlessness felt by the women and the beloved who stood witness at the foot of the Cross.

May this profound Lenten experience give us new and richer grace, a grace that empowers us to love with deeper compassion, and helps us to experience the Mass with new eyes and new hearts—to see its full- ness not simply in the gift within the tabernacle but in the life of every woman and man beloved of God.

Pastor

4 st. Francis Xavier Missoula’s Jesuit parish St. Francis Xavier Parish wishes to thank all of you who so generously supported the 2019 Annual Catholic Appeal for the Diocese of Helena: Dorothy Anders Melvin and Jane Finlay Nancy LaVoie Sharon Scarborough Anonymous Dan Fix Robert and Patricia Lawrence Frank and Kelly Scariano Annette E Arceo Lisaann Fleming Mr. and Mrs. Dan M. Lee Felicia and Ryal Schallenberger Robert and Linda Ayre Th eresa and Paul Floyd Dean and Carol Lipp and Laurie Scherer John Ballas Maureen and Raymond Ford Clem and Jamie Lockman Mark Schmidt Joy Barry Kathryn Franchino James Lopach Jessica and Jack Schwenk Steve Barsness Rowland G. Freeman, IV and Marion Daley Jim and Janet Loran Floyd and Ann Severson Patricia Bartow Th omas Frickle James and Susan Lowery Lisa Sharkey Robert and Jane Becker Bruno and Marsha Friia Marge Lubbers Rod and Lisa Sharkey Patricia Benally Betty Gaab Jean Luckowski Pattijo Sherwood Hilary and Barbara Benbenek Aggi Gary Arthur and Jo Ann Mandell Tyrus Shimogaki Kevin and Alexandra Berland Robbin-Jeanne Gates Dorothy J. Manion Agnes Shoen Rebecca Berland William and Kathy Gaul Patrick and Maria Mannix Peter and Pamela Simonich Robert and Karen Berland Bill and Judy Geer John and Dorothy Marceau Gary Skalsky Bigelow Dr. and Mrs. Don Gillespie Paul and Carol Marmorato Ellen Smith James and Mary Ann Bigelow James and Julie Gilligan Mary Ann Martello Dr. and Mrs. John M. Smith Joshua and Lauren Black Marilyn Giuliani and Annette Martin Society of Jesus - Ravalli Jesuit Community Neil and Annabelle Blade Rhoda Glick Donald M. 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Sterling David and Carol Brooks Norma Gregory Dolores McLaughlin Roger and Sieglinde Stevens Sandra Brosious Ross and Paula Grenfell Terry and Connie McLaughlin Mary Jo Steyee Madeline Brown David and Dolores Grimsley Raynita Meier Marilyn Stickney Mark and Jeanne Brown Robby and Mareth Gunstream Allen and Betty Miller Trudy Stoll Th omas and Zoli Browne Scott and Mary Lou Hankel Brian Miller and Molly McKinnon Carl and Linda Stotts Velma Bruski Tim and Holly Harrington William and Jane Mills Debbie Sullivan-Walchuk Anne Bruskotter Barbara and John Harrison Augustine and Carol Minjares Peter and Diane Szekely Joan Bummer Matthew and Whitney Harrison Cy and Michelle Mohland Anita Th omas Robert and Doris Burger Juanita Hasquet Margaret Mollberg Mark Th onnings Michael Burke Th omas Hauck Dick and Marsha Morgenstern Doug Th urston Terry and Ruth Ann Burke Gerard and Kathy Heivilin Paul and Mary Murk Susan Tiede Ray D. Burns Joyce Hickethier Stephen and Katherine Murphy Jason and Katie Tirrell Robert and Becky Byrne Arvid and Lynn Hiller Dennis and Linda Muth Joe and Julie Tomlanovich Michael and Christine Caldwell Richard and Th eresa Horst Frank and Alicia Muth Candace Torrens Christine Campbell Gary and Lillian Howard Gerald and Evelyn Nelson Richard Troy Doreen Campbell James and Mary Howie John and Martha Neuman Michael and Joan Trudnowski Joseph and Rita Cancellare Alan and Deidra Hoyt Mark and Pam Newby Mark and Jeri Tschida Kathy Caplis-Moe Michael and Sheila Hurd Antone and Lynell Norman Joan Tschida-Bonde Leslie Chapman John and Mary Ann Hurley Duane and Rosa Nygaard Jon and Erin Turner Eileen and David Childers Deanna Huseth George Oberst Kathy Turner Gwen Cloninger Valetta Hutcheson William and Rebecca O’Donnell Linda Vap Ronald and Becky Cloninger William and Carol Jacobs Pauline Oldenburg Th omas and Jennifer Verlanic Joseph P. 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White Timothy and LaRissa DeFors Randy and Rosi Keller Deacon and Mrs. Carlton L. Quamme Marie Whitmire Shirley Deschamps Richard and Dianne Keller Catheryn Quinn Maureen Widhalm Colleen Devlin Judith Kelly Byron Redler Maria and Darin Wines Andrea DiMatteo Brian Kerns Mike and Karen Regan Gary and Rita Wolfe Patrick and Mary Dougherty Marlene Koch Ann and Dwayne Rehbein David and Julie Wolter Sarsfi eld and Teresa Dougherty Shirley Kohout Eric and Catherine Reiber Joseph and Lori Yakawich Michael and Isabella Dunn James and Patricia Kosena Sandra and Rusty Richardson Michael and Alberta Yalon Maureen Edwards Kraig and Megan Kosena Sylvester T. Riemann Michael and Eileen Zak Ronald and Barbara Ehman Robert S. 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