MASSES FOR THE WEEK Intentions Please remember that during these difficult days Mon. 15 8:00 a.m. Communion Service collections remain essential to even the limited Tues. 16 8:00 a.m. Shirley Byerley operations of our parishes. We encourage you to Wed. 17 8:00 a.m. Louisa Canterberry mail in your contributions and special collection Thur. 18 8:00 a.m. Ann Bernard envelopes to our Parish Office. You may also drop Fri. 19 8:00 a.m. Dorothy Mouser your envelopes in the mail drop slot to the right side Sat. 20 4:00 p.m. Loraine Quann of the Rectory door or bring to the front door. 21 10:00 a.m. D. Hackworth Intention Sun. Please do not place your contributions in the bulletin (SA) 8:00 a.m. Parish Family mail box. Thank you for your continued support.

Due to the ongoing restoration and painting of St. Joseph Church, Mass will be celebrated in the hall Church Restoration We are nearing the completion of the painting and downstairs (the Bingo Hall). Please enter and leave restoration of our Church, but still have to gather funds using the west front door and the ramp entrance. for rugs or flooring. Please be generous by using the Chairs have been arranged in order to allow for monthly Restoration Envelope in your packet. We are social distancing. Hand sanitizers are available. very appreciative of your support, pledges, and We strongly request the use of masks. encouragement. Please drop your donations in the stationary Collection Baskets. Everyday Stewardship Anyone over 60 years-old and those with Mindful – live in the present, without baggage of the underlying health complications are encouraged to past or fear of the future. participate in Mass via live-stream only. The direct Prayerful – sometimes it's only about "being" with link to live stream the Mass at the Cathedral God, not necessarily talking and listening to God. Basilica of St. Louis is www.cathedralstl.org/live. Grateful – give thanks for the not so obvious things. You may also view a live stream of the Mass on Gracious – the grace we receive from God we should share with others, giving you a piece of me. the EWTN Global Catholic Television Network. Committed – stay on course and persevere, to run the race we must train for it. St. Anne Church Accountable – to each other, help each other be one Dear Jesus, Body of Christ. www.archstl.org/stewardship Through bread and wine at the Last Supper, and by Your Holy Your Gift to God Word, You gave the Eucharist June 6 & 7, 2020 to Your Church. Grant now St. Joseph St. Anne that Hayden Michael Ford and Landon Patrick Ford will Envelopes $4,385.00 $1,025.00 always treasure the gift they have in You. Give them the St. Vincent de Paul 268.00 50.00 grace to be faithful to You and to remain in communion Maint/Utilities 377.00 5.00 with Your Church. Congratulations to our June 7, 2020 Cemetery Fund 155.00 First Communicants. Cardinal Glennon Hos. 623.00 100.00 Church Cleaning Team #3 – Church Restoration 1,256.00 Jane Schmidt St. Anne Pic. Stimulus 400.00

2019-20 Budgeted Amounts Thank you to our volunteer teams who Envelopes/Loose take care of our Sacred Space. St. Joseph $3,644 St. Anne $750 for 52 weeks

The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ – June 14, 2020 Dynamic Catholic, Alive! – The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi The Solemnity of Corpus Christi is celebrated on the first

Sunday after the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. This Why do we seek out the homeless, feed the hungry, feast began with St. Juliana, a young Belgian nun in the serve families and protect the unborn? Why do we thirteenth century, who received in prayer an inspiration provide clinics, counseling and food pantries? Why for a feast that would celebrate and promote the gift of the do we give tuition help and teacher training for Real Presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. This feast schools? Some of those we serve are Catholic; many would eventually spread throughout the province, are not. But, we do it because we are Catholic. continent, and world. Corpus Christ and its accompanying The Annual Catholic Appeal sustains ministries and procession with the Blessed Sacrament, celebrating the services that help countless people of all faiths in sacrament and signifying God’s presence in our world and situations of need and suffering. Your gift will reach in our lives and reminding us of our common pilgrimage to thousands and give witness to the call of Jesus “to Heaven, is a prayerful and edifying act of the entire love as He does…to make ourselves the neighbor of Church. As a general rule, devotions are not mentioned in those farthest away, and to love children and the poor the Code of Canon Law. However, because of the as Christ Himself” (Catechism of the Catholic importance of this devotion in the life of the Church, canon Church, 1825). 944 mentions it: “When it can be done in the judgment of The Archdiocese of St. Louis has sent out a mailing the diocesan bishop, as a public witness of the veneration with pledge cards to everyone who has given in the toward the Most Holy Eucharist, a procession is to be past five years. If you did not receive a pledge card in conducted through the public streets, especially on the the mail, please call the Rectory Office. You may solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ.” On this feast also give online through the ACA via aca.archstl.org. we can express our gratitude for the opportunity to receive Annual Catholic Appeal Prayer our Lord every Sunday in the Eucharist, to adore Him in Lord God, we thank You for the untold blessings You prayer, and to show Him to the rest of the world in the have bestowed upon us. We offer these blessings streets of our archdiocese. archstl.org/dynamic back to You. We lay before You the labors and fruits of the Annual Catholic Appeal. We pray that our sole St. desire be to serve Your holy will. United as Adam Chmielowski was born in to Catholics, let us be reminded of our baptismal call to an aristocratic family. At seventeen he follow our Lord Jesus Christ in His service to others. lost a leg while participating in a We make our prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. nationalist uprising. Afterward he turned Saint Louis, pray for us. to art and began to achieve recognition for his painting. At the same time, living in 2020 ACA Parish Goals Krakow, his heart was increasingly St. Joseph St. Anne moved by the sufferings of the poor. He finally gave up his life as an artist to assume the life of a poor beggar. With 2020 Parish Goal $17,741 $2,938 the name Albert, he donned a gray robe and New Donor Goal 10 2 became a Third Order Franciscan. Total to Date $3,851 $1,710 In time he founded orders of men and women, known as the Albertine Brothers and Sisters, who practiced the Thomas Merton - works of mercy in soup kitchens and homeless shelters. In Thoughts in Solitude one of the shelters that he founded, Brother Albert died on “My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do Christmas Day, 1916. not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for His reputation lived on. Among the priests who certain where it will end. Nor do I really know attributed their vocation to his example was Karol Wojtyla, myself, and the fact that I think that I am following who in 1949 wrote a play about him. Years later, as Pope your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. John Paul II, he championed Albert’s cause and later But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact presided over his and, in 1989, his please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I . He said of St. Albert, “In his tireless, heroic am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart service on behalf of the marginalized and the poor, he from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will ultimately found his path. He found Christ. He took upon lead me by the right road though I may know nothing himself Christ’s yoke and burden; he did not become about it. Therefore will I trust you always though I merely ‘one of those who give alms,’ but became the may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will brother to those he served.” not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.”