Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 9:00 a.m. St. Gregory the Great Church Ex 16:2-4, 12-15 Eph 4:17, 20-24 Jn 6:24-35 1924 West Willow Rd. 73703 Phone 233-4589 Fax 233-45 : Deacon Val Ross Lector: Trojan Pastor: Reverend Mark E. Mason Associate Pastor: Reverend John D. Herrera Head Usher: McDaniels St. - 237-0812 MISSION: St. , Goltry Usher & Gifts: Volunteers Servers: Justin Duran/Hank Perdue Coffee & Juice - Volunteers

Sunday, Aug. 1, 2021 11:45 a.m. Lector: Lacey Hampton or Volunteer Usher & Gifts: Volunteers Servers: Volunteer Sunday, July 25 Thursday, July 29 St. Michael’s 7:30 a.m. Liturgy St. Gregory’s No Liturgy Mon., Aug. 2, No Liturgy Rosary - 8:30 a.m. St. Francis Xavier 12:05 pm Liturgy Collection Counters - Teresa Benway St. Gregory's 9:00 am Liturgy ESL Class 1 - 2:30 pm upstairs classroom

(Joe Simunek - 47 yr. ann.) Tue., Aug. 3, 4:45 pm Confession 5:45 pm Liturgy (Bobby Gau - 43 yr. ann.) (Rose Benda - 15 yr. ann.) Friday, July 30 Wed., Aug. 4, No Liturgy St. Gregory’s 11:45 am Liturgy St. Gregory’s No Liturgy 3pm Rosary & Chaplet of Divine Mercy- (Betty Pecha - 12 yr. ann.) Thu., Aug. 5, No Liturgy Church SFX daily (Eva Severin - 6 yr. ann.) ( Warnecker - 5 yr. ann.) Fri., Aug. 6, No Liturgy St. Francis Xavier 7am - 5pm MP/Adoration Monday, July 26 St. Francis Xavier 11:00 am Confessions Sat., Aug. 7, No Liturgy St. Gregory's - No Liturgy St. Francis Xavier 12:05 pm Liturgy (Robert Walsh - 10 yr. ann.) (Elverda Pospisil - 5 yr. ann.) (David Jones - 1 yr. ann.) Saturday, July 31 Pastor - Rev. Mark E. Mason St. Francis Xavier - No Liturgy St. Gregory’s - No Liturgy 50th Anniversary Planning Meeting 7pm (Louise Cohlmia - 45 yr. ann.) Associate Pastor - Rev. John D. Herrera St. Francis Xavier No Liturgy Deacon - Anthony Crispo Deacon - Val Ross Tuesday, St. Francis Xavier 4:00 pm Confessions Music Director - Judi Cunningham Office - Lori Buck St. Gregory's 4:45 pm Confession St. Francis Xavier 5:00 pm Liturgy St. Gregory’s 5:45 pm Liturgy KC Can Collection 9 am - 12 pm. Director of Religious Education - Sherry Stotts Rod Krist by John Hanan Youth & Young Adult Minister - Stephanie Willis (John Glahn - 17 yr. ann.) Safe Environment Coordinator/ Parish Evangelization - Rocio Montes St. Francis Xavier No Liturgy Sunday, Aug. 1 Parish Nurse - Kim Bruce RN (580) 977-7703 [email protected] ESL Class 1 - 2:30 pm upstairs classroom St. Michael’s 7:30 a.m. Liturgy St. Gregory the Great Parish Pastoral Council; Steve King Rhonda Griffith Rosary - 8:30 a.m. St. Gregory's 9:00 am Liturgy Dana McDaniel Sharon Trojan Marsha Weinand Kevin Winter Wednesday, July 28 Michelle Goodwin by Rev. Mark E. Mason St. Gregory’s No Liturgy (Jo Ann Gorman - 13 yr. ann.) CHRIST AMONG US (Fr. - 40 yr. ann.) (Robert Chastain - 9 yr. ann.) (Wayne Curtis - 13 yr. ann.) St. Gregory’s 11:45 am Liturgy St. Francis Xavier No 12:05 pm Liturgy SEMINAR 2pm St. Francis Xavier 5:00 pm Confessions St. Francis Xavier 6:00 am Liturgy 4:00 pm Rosary at St. Francis Xavier for Life Teen - Meet at St. Gregory’s 7pm Fr. RK’s Family and village in .

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time HAPPY ANNIVERSARY July 25, 2021 JOSEPH CATHOLIC July Deacon Tony will be leading a Last Sunday Operating Collection, Rosary at St. Francis Xavier on SCHOOL 580-242-4449 Budget - $ 5,942.00 26 David & Brenda Lee 35 yr. ann. Sunday August 1st at 4pm., Our web page: Collected - $ 3,393.00 30 Dwayne & Melissa Severin 27 yr. ann. for www.stfrancisenid.com Building/Maintenance (St. Michael) Fr. RK’s Family & his Village in India. Summer office hours. - July, closed Budget - $ 598.00 30 David & Daniela Rosero 10 yr. ann. Collected- $ 175.00 August 2 - 10, 9am - 1pm. June Online Contributions - $ 6,000.00 ENROLL NOW FOR 2021-2022 SCHOOL YEAR give your child the best education available- Attendance Retrouvaille Catholic Education Sunday, 9:00 a.m. - 162 There will be a Retrouvaille weekend “The hand of the 11:45 a.m. - 87 Lord feeds us,” Aug. 27-29 at the Catholic Pastoral Center, Sunday Total - 249 7501 Northwest Expressway in Oklahoma Catholic says the psalmis; “he answers all our City. Retrouvaille helps couples through School is accepting Coffee & Donut donation - $16. applications for full-time 1st and 3rd grade Mental Health Meds - $232.94 needs.” Both difficult times in their marriages. It is designed Elisha’s servant in the first reading and the Today - St. Joseph School Scholarship to provide tools to help get marriages back on teaching positions for the 2021-2022 school Next Week - Our Daily Bread disciples in the story who witnessed the year. Oklahoma state certification required. feeding of the five thousand saw this happen and track. For more information and registration, Good Samaritan Fund, Paid out in June, Contact Wade Laffey knew it to be true. visit helpourmarriage.org. $500.00 at, [email protected]

Auto Contribution from your bank Food For Thought account are available. Stroke Scan Plus Please contact the parish office. What is our spiritual life? A love union with School OPEN FORUM’s – 7pm-8:30pm Leven Center, July 28 Prayer Line - Allison, Jesus, in which the divine and the human give School OPEN FORUM’s PRE-REGISTRATION after weekend Who: Parents, Parishioners, Donors, [email protected] themselves completely to one another. Supporters, and those who may be school

Masses August 14/15. Parents in the future! St. Gregory Parish Hall Saturday, What: 30 min presentation on current school Kim Bruce RN, parish nurse Please pray for the repose structure and proposed changes. 1hr open forum [email protected] of the soul of Rubena August 21 For individuals for attendees to offer feedback, 580-977-7703 Leave Message. Kokojan who joined her recommendations, and proposals to incorporate heavenly Father last week. Please keep WHO HAVE PRE-REGISTERED into the charter. Project , Pregnancy her son Larry and grandson Lance Why:The Enid Catholic Community deserves Outreach (580)484 - 7538 Kokojan, and family in your prayers. , Catholic, Education! And a middle school! God willing, a School Charter will enable To Fr. Rajesh K. Mankena on the death of Quo Vadis Days Quo Vadis Days: Men’s us to expand student enrollment & retention, Also his father Mr. Danamaiah in India. Please pray for Discernment Retreat will be Aug. 1-4 at Our increase teacher satisfaction with the 3 year Website - WWW.stgregoryenid.com or the health of his family. goal of opening a middle school for our kids! . Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Youth Camp in enidcatholic.org Wellston. Visit okcvocations.com. And, Publio Edelberto Rios Morales father of Quality Catholic Radio/ 5 days a week AM 890, Please Call Deacon Val at KTLR 2-8:15 p.m. Miriam (Bob) Day grandfather of Darlene (Juan) Rodriguez and great-grandfather of Nicolas and 580-402-5486 if you know a Nadia Rodriguez.May their souls and all the souls Sunday Masses at St. Francis Xavier Homebound or Shut-in who would St. Francis Xavier 8:00 am Liturgy K of C Facebook page: KOC1044 of the faithful departed rest in peace. like a (lunch) meal on Monday – Friday Meeting and Dinner First Monday of the Month, St. Francis Xavier 11:00 am Liturgy St. Francis Xavier 1:00 pm Liturgy (SP) unless otherwise noted. delivered to them.

LIFE TEEN WEDNESDAY’S 7pm-8:30pm Grades 6-12 September 4th & 5th Mrs. Stephanie Willis, Youth Minister 541-1224 St Gregory's 50th Anniversary Celebration. July 28 – Youth Group - Meet at St. Gregory’s Church 7:00-8:30pm "We Remember We Celebrate We Believe" Catholic young adults of OKC We want everyone there! Open to all young adults (ages 18-39, married or single) in the archdiocese. Visit the Facebook Please send any memories to - [email protected] page (Catholic Young Adults of OKC) for events and information or e-mail Watch bulletin for more information. [email protected]

"Tell everybody that God gives His graces through the List of chores, for anyone that wants to work a project that couldn’t work a Immaculate Heart of Mary. Tell them to ask graces from cleaning day. Sharon Trojan, Brian Bruce or Sherry Stotts can fill anyone in on the instructions her, for the Lord has confided the peace of the world to but there’s more than just these… her...In the end my Immaculate Heart will triumph." 1. Clean bugs out of light fixtures in lower ceiling of sanctuary. ---Our Lady of Fatima 2. Old English the doors and woodwork in Parish Hall. 3. Paint walls in Parish Hall 4. Clean all folding chairs. Come early and pray the rosary with us at 8:30 on Sunday's. Thank you Kyle Gericke for leading the rosary last week. Our leader this week is John Hanan. August 1st Please pray for vocations and Kevin Winter, 8th Dennis Hladik, 15th John Hanan, 22nd Jerry Weinand, 29th Ed support our seminarians. www.OKCVocations.com Murphy. September 5th Kevin Winter, 12th Dennis Hladik, 19th ? and 26th Kyle Gericke. We appreciate and thank all our Leaders and parishioners that come early to pray with us. Blessings! Rita and Judy ’s Dinner Join Archbishop Coakley and the board of directors of the Catholic Foundation of Oklahoma for the 2021 Archbishop’s Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at the Omni Hotel, We pray the rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet for Our Country and Our Church at St 100 W. Oklahoma City Blvd. in Oklahoma City. The dinner supports the St. John Vianney Francis Xavier 3 PM every day, seven days a week. We have added 10 Memorares to Endowment, which helps seminarians who are studying to be priests. Visit cfook.org or End Abortion, as a group we keep track of the Memorares prayed and when we reach call (405) 721-4115. 1000 we turn into Relevant Radio to add to their "Memorare Meter". We have prayed over 6000+ Memorares since we started keeping count March 1, 2021. Anyone can pray Memorares at home or as a group and keep track and turn in to Relevant Radio. National Catolic Singles after each 100 you pray to End Abortion. As of 7/18/2021 there has been 364,142,558 Looking for Catholic community? Don’t know where all the single Catholics are Memorares on "Memorare Meter" at Relevant Radio. You can pray as a group, family hanging out? Come find them in Denver, CO August 20-22, 2021, and get the or join us for rosary & Memorares at St Francis any day of the week! Let's help END in-person experience with hundreds of other attendees, OR attend virtually with people ABORTION throughout the World. from around the globe (registration for virtual option coming soon)! This is your chance to connect with like-minded singles from all over. Join us for dynamic presentations by Fr. Nathan Cromly, Fr. Thomas Loya, Mary Beth Bonacci and others, as well as for Perpetual Eucharistic Adoration music, socials, prayer, fellowship and more! If joining us in-person: be sure to register You are always invited to spend time with Jesus, who is truly BEFORE AUGUST 6th to save $30 AND use our special discount code: present in the Blessed Sacrament. But, if you would like to be a NCSC21 to get $20 more off. scheduled Eucharistic Adoration Adorer, Please let the office know. For more information and to register, visit The poster in hallway has times that are not filled. www.NationalCatholicSingles.com.

BAPTISM SEMINARS 2021 Platicas Pre-Bautismales From the Pastor (ENGLISH) 2pm Sunday En Español 3pm Sábado Rev. Mark E. Mason

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December 5 Diciembere 11 This Sunday, July 25, parishes throughout the Archdiocese are celebrating Baptismal Seminars are for Infant Baptism Preparation the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley Rother. The fortieth Anniversary of his Parents preparing to celebrate the Baptism of their child are encouraged to attend a Session to the birth of their child to prepare for their child’s death falls on July 28, but by special permission, Archbishop Coakley is granting us the Baptism. privilege to honor him today. Baptismal seminars are for parents: *Who are expecting a first child *Have just recently had a child His unreserved love for the people of Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala and his withholding of *It has been more than three years nothing for the love of the Lord, not only one him the crown of death, but reminds each of us the triumph we inherit when we ourselves hold nothing back from God. Godparents also required to attend Seminar or provide a letter from their Parish Pastor to

Saint Francis Xavier prior to Baptism. Blessed Stanley grew just fifty miles from here. No one would have ever expected a farm boy from Okarche Oklahoma would ever have excelled in the Grace of God. Yet his Blessed Stanley Rother Pray for us. achievement as a priest in the Guatemala and his death are examples of faith that should Born 3/27/1935 Ordained 5/25/1963 inspire each and every one of us. It is not him, but his openness to letting God work Martyred 7/28/1981 Beatified 9/23/2017 through him that won such a great victory for the church in both Guatemala, Oklahoma, and the .

Rother Feast Day pilgrimage sites We honor him and seek his intercession both for the people of Guatemala, and the church Find a list of sites to visit for Bl. Stanley Rother’s Feast Day on July 28. in Oklahoma. Special hours and tours will be available from July 28-31 at locations that include the Bl. Stanley Rother Shrine, the Heritage Gallery at the Catholic Pastoral Center and Bl. Stanley’s crypt at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery. This year, Francis has established a first-class feast honoring the friends of Jesus; Find hours at archokc.org/feastday. Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. This is an obligatory memorial which falls on the same day inscribed for St. Martha and falls on the day after the martyrdom of Blessed Stanley, who himself was a friend of Jesus. Rother Feast Day Mass Archbishop Coakley will celebrate Mass at 6:30 p.m. July 28 at Holy May our journey towards the fullness of the Kingdom allow all to walk as a friend of the in Okarche for the feast day of Bl. Stanley Rother. The Mass will be in-person and live-streamed on Facebook, YouTube and at archokc.org/live. Lord.

Sincerely in Christ,

Fr. Mark E. Mason