Our Lady of Guadalupe The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity 545 White Road Wetumpka, AL 36092

Parish Contacts Sunday, May 30, 2021 Church Office 334-567-0047 COVID Protocols Change Please Pray for our Deacon Parish website https://ologchurch.org Beginning this Sunday, May 30 to be Ordained June 5th Pastor Reverend Den Irwin Email [email protected] Archbishop Rodi is allowing us to Deacon Alexander Crow will be Rectory 334-514-0165 more or less get back to normal this ordained to the priesthood. We thank Volunteer Secretary Henrietta Cappelli Sunday in the way that each parish thinks almighty God for the gift of this vocation Email [email protected] is best. Right now, I think that it is and pray that he would continue to grant Parish Catechetical Leader Sharon Ducote important to continue some of our us men who will answer God’s Email [email protected] protocols. 1. We will continue to have a call. Special thanks to all of our section which will be seating for those parishioners who pray for vocations! This Week at OLOG who wish to be socially distanced from Volunteers Sought Holy Mass is Livestreamed 9:30 AM others, 2. myself and our Extraordinary for Coffee & Donuts every Sunday on Our Lady of Ministers of the Holy Eucharist will wear a face shield, 3. we will continue to Coffee and donuts after Holy Mass Guadalupe Wetumpka/Millbrook, AL returns this Sunday! Since this is the Facebook page. sanitize our hands, 4. we will allow anyone who so desires to receive Holy case, we will once again need volunteers Sunday, May 30 Communion before the rest of the church for three distinct tasks. We could use Adoration 8:45 – 9:15 AM comes forward. parishioners to: 1. pick up the donuts, 2. Confessions 8:45 – 9:15 AM make the coffee and serve the donuts, As of Saturday May 29th, the Holy Mass 9:30 AM and 3. clean up afterwards. Even if you dispensation from attending Holy Mass Spanish Mass 4:00 PM signed up for this before, please sign up has been lifted. Therefore, everyone again; half sheets of paper are provided Monday, May 31 who is able should return to Holy for this purpose. Please turn in these Mass. Catholics who are out in public at Tuesday, June 1 sign up sheets to the collection, the office grocery stores and other vendors should Adoration 6:00 – 7:00 PM or email them in. also make Holy Mass a priority. I know Wednesday, June 2 of no outbreak of Covid-19 that has been Marriage Matters caused by people attending Mass. Let’s Thursday, June 3 During these months in late spring and encourage everyone who is able to do so through the summer, while I have a bit to come back. Of course, anyone who is more free time, I would like to help any of Friday, June 4 Office Hours 9:15 AM – 2:30 PM unable to physically come to church, or you who need to regularize your marriage First Friday Devotion whose health would be endangered by and have it blessed in the Church. This is Holy Mass 8:30 AM attendance at Mass, or anyone caring for Holy Mass 6:30 PM not an easy subject, but I would encourage someone whose health would be you to come and talk to me about it. There Saturday, June 5 endangered, is not obligated to attend are lots of misunderstandings in regard to First Saturday Devotion Mass. Please contact me if you have any Adoration, Rosary and annulments that I would love to try and Confessions 10:00 – 11:00 AM questions or concerns. - Fr. Irwin. clear up if I can. Please give me a call so Holy Mass 11:00 AM that we can begin work on having your Confessions 4:45 – 5:15 PM Holy Mass in Spanish offered marriage blessed in the Church. – Fr. Irwin Holy Mass 5:30 PM the Last Sunday of Each Month at 4:00 pm Annulments Sunday, June 6 These Holy Masses will begin this An annulment is a declaration by the Adoration 8:45 – 9:15 AM th Confessions 8:45 – 9:15 AM Sunday, May 30 . Church that for some very serious reason, Holy Mass 9:30 AM one or both partners did not commit Long Range Planning themselves to marriage as the Church and Marriages Baptisms contact Fr. Irwin Survey Report understands it. There may have been real Marriages contact Fr. Irwin at least Thanks to everyone who turned in a love between the spouses and even six months in advance. survey. We received 54 completed children who were born in that union, yet, In accordance with Ecclesial Law, the couple never contracted a true the Sacraments are available to surveys. We had 40 surveys representing the Faithful in the Ordinary and 72 individuals in support of a capital marriage on their wedding day. For Extraordinary Forms. campaign in the Fall of 2023, 1 survey (2 instance, sometimes people marry before June Food Bank Donation individuals) who would support it in they are psychologically mature enough Canned Tuna Fish 2025, 10 surveys (14 individuals) who to do so; there was a commitment to one (drop-off box is in the vestibule) did not indicate whether or not they another but not a “death do us part” May 2021 - TREASURY REPORT commitment. Therefore, they could have rd would support a capital campaign, and 3 May 23 2021 Collection was $6923.00 surveys (7 individuals) would not their marriage annulled. There are lots of 2021 Budget: $318,643.51 support a capital campaign. We received myths about annulments such as: children Budget to Date: $128,485.26 some great feedback as well. The Long become illegitimate, annulments are very Collections to Date: $163,851.71 Range Planning Team will meet this expensive, the ex-spouse must April Collections: $35,948.00 cooperate. None of these is true. Debt: $845,794.72 week to discuss all of this. Fr. Irwin will be away May 31 – June 3 Year of the Eucharist & the Parish All the priests of the Archdiocese will be on retreat in Words from The Sacrament of Charity by Louisiana during this time. In case of an emergency, you Benedict XVI: “Year of the Eucharist & the Parish: may still call or text Fr. Irwin. Words from The Sacrament of Charity by Pope Benedict XVI: “Against this backdrop we can understand the decisive Changes to the Schedule this Week role played by the Holy Spirit in the eucharistic celebration, Since Fr. Irwin and all the priests are on retreat, Holy particularly with regard to transubstantiation. An awareness Mass will not be offered Tuesday – Thursday. However, we of this is clearly evident in the Fathers of the Church. will have adoration Tuesday from 6:00 – 7:00 PM. , in his Catecheses, states that we "call Traditional Latin Mass upon God in his mercy to send his Holy Spirit upon the th offerings before us, to transform the bread into the body of will be offered Sunday, June 13 , at 1:00 p.m. Father will Christ and the wine into the blood of Christ. Whatever the be celebrating a Missa Cantata in the Extraordinary Holy Spirit touches is sanctified and completely Form. Everyone is welcome. transformed" (25). Saint too notes that the Volunteers Needed to Invite priest invokes the Holy Spirit when he celebrates the Women to have an Ultrasound sacrifice: (26) like , the minister calls down the Holy Volunteers are being sought who will simply stand on the Spirit so that "as grace comes down upon the victim, the corner of East Jeff Davis Dr. and South Perry St. across souls of all are thereby inflamed" (27). The spiritual life of from the abortion clinic offering cards for free ultrasounds the faithful can benefit greatly from a better appreciation of from Life on Wheels - and First Choice Pregnancy Center. the richness of the anaphora: along with the words spoken There are two shifts on both Mondays and Tuesdays; they are by Christ at the Last Supper, it contains the epiclesis, the from 8:00 - 9:30 AM and 9:30 - 11:00 AM. Police Protection is petition to the Father to send down the gift of the Spirit so provided and volunteers are only asked to hand out cards, that the bread and the wine will become the body and blood smile, and wave. No debates! Only advertising. If you are of Jesus Christ and that "the community as a whole will interested in helping, please contact Robyn Blessing at 334-221 become ever more the body of Christ" (28). The Spirit -8166 or email [email protected]. invoked by the celebrant upon the gifts of bread and wine placed on the altar is the same Spirit who gathers the faithful Knights of Columbus Drawdown Tickets "into one body" and makes of them a spiritual offering Knights Drawdown Dinner on June 11th pleasing to the Father (29).” - paragraph 12 continued. (Sacramentum The Knights will be selling Drawdown Dinner tickets this Caritatis).Visit: https://mobarch.org/eucharist-and-parish weekend after Holy Mass—Saturday vigil and Sunday morning. Please contact Chris Ducote or any Knight about Year of St. purchasing a ticket. The ticket cost is $100 and the Grand Excerpt from With a Father’s Heart (Patris Corde) by Prize is $10,000! Ask a Knight for dinner details! Pope Francis: “During the return journey, “when Joseph heard that Archelaus was ruling over Judea in place of his father Reminder About Dress for Holy Mass Herod, he was afraid to go there. After being warned in a We have all been waiting for the warm weather of spring dream” – now for the fourth time – “he went away to the district and summer. While casual clothes are the norm during warm of Galilee. There he made his home in a town called weather, it is necessary to put some thought into what will be Nazareth” (Mt 2:22-23). The evangelist Luke, for his part, tells worn to church. Holy Mass is very important in our lives as us that Joseph undertook the long and difficult journey from Catholics. Please be an example, as well as considerate, to Nazareth to Bethlehem to be registered in his family’s town of others by the way you dress – so that your clothing reflects origin in the census of the Emperor Caesar Augustus. There your faith in what is going on at Holy Mass. Clothing should Jesus was born (cf. Lk 2:7) and his birth, like that of every other always be both appropriate and modest. child, was recorded in the registry of the Empire. Saint Luke is especially concerned to tell us that Jesus’ parents observed all Resources on Modesty the prescriptions of the Law: the rites of the circumcision of https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/ has some great Jesus, the purification of Mary after childbirth, the offering of guidelines and ideas on how to successfully raise modest the firstborn to God (cf. 2:21-24).[15] In every situation, Joseph kids by working together as strong families who are declared his own “fiat”, like those of Mary at the Annunciation building character every day in small ways. and Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.” Paragraph 3 continued Parish Bills over the Summer May Crowning Please keep the church in mind over the summer, May is a month traditionally devoted to Mary. During the especially if you are away on vacation for an extended month of May we place a crown on Mary’s statue as a small period of time. As we know all too well, just because we symbol of our devotion to her, as the mother of our Lord Jesus may be on vacation during the summer does not mean that Christ and because it points to the truth that she now reigns in the bills stop coming in. We rely on your generosity. heaven with Jesus who conquered sin and death.

Join a Mowing Crew Audrea Shimmihi Bill Fowler Maura Culberson* we can certainly use more folks to help take care of our Charlie Ester Ken Beckley Joe L'abbe* Bryant Culberson* Candice Miller Bea Morton expansive property. Sign up to join one of our four Ron Lacour* Melissa Meriwether Dottie D'Arciprete* teams. Teams mow (and sometimes edge and weed-eat) Ann Castro* Adrian Smith John Smaligo Austin Westmeyer Eloise Rowe Amanda Groves about once a month. Please contact Clay Cleghorn (334)- Samatha Westmyer Amanda Staton Johnston Jones 328-9489 if you are interested. Aidan Franz Trace Johnston Sheri James Sherri Hendrix Jones Paul Woodley Lisa Dobbs Just a Reminder that we have a Drop Box Janice (Ron Lacour's sister) John Pribulick* * parishioner In case you need to drop something off at the parish, we have a drop box. It is located beside the door closest to the mailbox The prayer list is updated. If a name was removed from the list and you (where the old office is located). want continued prayer, please email or call the church office.