16250 Old Weatherford Rd. Rev. Msgr. Publius Xuereb: Pastor

Aledo, TX 76008 Deacon Scott France [email protected]

817-441-3500 or Fax 817-441-7909

Parish Secretary: Laura Puente….……[email protected] Email: [email protected] Bookkeeper: Patricia Devlin….…[email protected] Website: www.HolyRedeemerAledo.org Dir. of Music: Cameron Normand….…[email protected]

______Dir. of Religious Ed.: Adrian Garcia..…[email protected]

Youth Ministry: Adrian Garcia…..……[email protected] Mass Times Safe Environment: Adrian Garcia….……[email protected]

Wed., Thurs., & Fri. ……….9:00 a.m. ______Saturday…………...………..5:30 p.m. Sunday…..…………………..9:30 a.m. Our Parish Mission Statement

Sacrament of Reconciliation/Confession: To all who need comfort… Saturday at 4:30 p.m. To all who are lonely and need companionship… To all who seek sheltering love… ______To all who sin and need a Redeemer… To all who offer praise to the Lord… Office Hours To all who long for peace…

Monday-Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. To those who would serve a living God… Friday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. To all who come, from near or afar this church opens wide its doors and in the name of Jesus says:

Welcome Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ Readings and ANIMA CHRISTI Mass Intentions

SUNDAY, JUNE 6 Soul of Christ, sanctify me. 9:30 a.m. Mass...Emory & Jeanie Hodges Ex 24:3-8/Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18/ Body of Christ, save me. Heb 9:11-15/Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 MONDAY, JUNE 7 Blood of Christ, inebriate me. 2 Cor 1:1-7/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9/ Mt 5:1-12 Water from the side of Christ, wash me.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8 Passion of Christ, strengthen me. 2 Cor 1:18-22/Ps 119:129-133, 135/ Today we celebrate a most Mt 5:13-16 O good Jesus, hear me. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9 amazing Solemnity—Corpus Christi, 9:00 a.m. Mass...Theodora Nogaski † Within thy wounds hide me. which means, 2 Cor 3:4-11/Ps 99:5-9/Mt 5:17-19 “Body and Blood of Christ.” THURSDAY, JUNE 10 Suffer me not to be separated from thee. 9:00 a.m. Mass...Salvador Palafox † The Church has given us a special 2 Cor 3:15-4:1, 3-6/Ps 85:9ab and 10, From the malicious enemy defend me. day to celebrate the gift and 11-12, 13-14/Mt 5:20-26 FRIDAY, JUNE 11 In the hour of my death call me and bid mystery of the . This week, 9:00 a.m. Mass...Katlyn Burden let’s take some time to pause and Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6/ me come unto thee offer our gratitude to God for this Eph 3:8-12, 14-19/Jn 19:31-37 SATURDAY, JUNE 12 at with thy saints I may praise thee gift, as well as ask questions to learn more about this powerful sacrament 5:30 p.m. Mass…Billy Jr. & Mary Riley forever and ever. 2 Cor 5:14-21/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11-12/ that awaits us in each Tabernacle Lk 2:41-51 Amen. around the world. Jesus knows that we hunger and thirst for more in this life. HOLY REDEEMER’S What do you find yourself hungry for? At the root of all of our longings is PRAYER INTENTION BOOK a thirst for God. Only in Christ will our hunger be satisfied and our thirst Please continue to remember quenched. Jesus offers himself to us today so that we may experience this satisfaction and incredible intimacy with him. and pray for all those listed in Spend a few minutes allowing the miracle that takes place each Sunday our prayer intention book. to resonate in your heart and mind. Jesus Christ makes himself food to nourish you and become one with you. How do you respond Online electronic giving! to his desire to be close to you? How does Jesus want you to receive him?

You can schedule your Sunday, F/M, & Special MUSIC MINISTRY Collection contributions all in one place. If you are interested in volunteering in the choir and ONLINE GIVING: Go to www.HolyRedeemerAledo.org and click current with your Safe Environment training, “DONATE” at the top of the page. please contact Cameron at: [email protected]

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Returning our Treasure Holy Redeemer’s Knights of Columbus

in Thanksgiving St. George Preca Council #17196

Financial Information Aledo, TX

May 29th & 30th We will meet the Second Tuesday & Weekly Need:….……....$11,350.00 Weekly Actual:…………$ 6,426.00 the Fourth Thursday of Every Month.

E-Giving:……..…..……$ 3,066.97 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Land Loan Balance:……..….$ -0-

Contact information: Brian Prewitt [email protected] or call the parish office Dear Lord, June 6, 2021 We bring these Congratulations graduates before You 2021 asking You to keep Your hand of Class of protection upon them. Please guide their steps in the days ahead as they embark on this new journey before them. Grant them wisdom to make wise decisions according to your will. May the road before them be paved with joyous opportunities that bring honor and glory to You. Amen. JUNE 12 THE STORY OF ONE SHORT, REMARKABLE LIFE Blessed Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an English-born Italian Catholic youth and amateur computer programmer, who is best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them onto a website that he created before his death from leukemia. He was noted for his cheerfulness, computer skills, and deep devotion to the Eucharist, which becomes a core theme of his life. He was beatified on 10 October 2020. Carlo was born in London on 3 May 1991 to a wealthy Italian family. His baptism took place on 18 May 1991 in the church of Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea.His parents, Andrea Acutis and Antonia Salzano, who were not especially religious, had worked in London and Germany, but finally settled in in September 1991, not long after their first son's birth. In 1995, when Acutis was four years old, his maternal grandfather died and was said to have appeared to him in a dream asking to be prayed for. When the child evinced a precocious interest in religious practice, his questions were answered by the family's Polish baby-sitter. Three years later he requested to receive his at the age of seven. After consulting a prelate and providing instruction, the family arranged this at the convent of Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus. Thereafter he made the effort, either before or after Mass, to reflect before the tabernacle. Acutis became a frequent communicant and would make a weekly confession. He is said to have had several models as guides for his life, especially Francis of ,as well as Francisco and Jacinta Marto, , , and . He was educated in Milan at the Jesuit Instituto Leone XIII high school. On the social side, Acutis would worry about friends of his whose parents were divorcing and would invite them to his home to support them. He defended disabled peers at school when bullies mocked them. Outside school, he did voluntary work with the homeless and destitute. He also liked films, comic editing and playing PlayStation video games. Although he greatly enjoyed travel, the town of Assisi remained a particular favorite. Those around him considered him a "computer geek" on account of his passion and skill with computers and the internet. Acutis applied himself to creating a website dedicated to cataloguing each reported Eucharistic miracle in the world. He completed this in 2005, having started compiling the catalogue at the age of eleven. He admired Giacomo Alberione's initiatives to use the media to evangelize and proclaim the Gospel and aimed to do likewise with the website he had created. It was on the website that he said: "The more Eucharist we receive, the more we will become like Jesus, so that on this earth we will have a foretaste of heaven". When he developed leukemia, he offered his suffering both for Pope Benedict XVI and for the , saying: "I offer all the suffering I will have to undergo for the Lord, for the Pope, and the Church". He had asked his parents to take him on pilgrimages to the sites of all the known Eucharistic miracles in the world, but his declining health prevented this from happening. The doctors treating his final illness had asked him if he was in great pain to which he responded that "there are people who suffer much more than me". He died on 12 October 2006 at 6:45 AM from M3 fulminant leukemia. He was buried in Assisi in accordance with his wishes.

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