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Saint Mary's Catholic Church Saint Mary’s Catholic Church IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH The Solemnity of Corpus Christi PARISH COMMUNITY MASS SCHEDULe CONFESSIONS Pastor Weekdays & Saturdays: First Friday of the Month: 4:00-5:00 pm FR. JEREMY PAULIN, O.M.V. 6:30 am & 8:00 am Saturday: 4:00-5:00 pm & 7:00-8:00 pm During School Year: Fri. 8:15 am AND BY APPOINTMENT FR. DAVID BEAUREGARD, O.M.V. FR. PAUL NGUYEN, O.M.V. Saturdays: 5:15 pm ANOINTING OF THE SICK (for Sunday Obligation) Please call the office if you or FR. BENJAMIN UNACHUKWU, O.M.V. a loved one needs to be anointed. DEACON JIM SCHWARTZKOPF Sundays: 6:30, 8:00*, 9:30, 618-465-4284, and press 1 BR. LELAND THORPE, O.M.V. 11:00 am & 6:00 pm BAPTISMS BR. JAY-AR SAN JUAN, O.M.V. *8:00 am on Facebook Live Daily Please call the office to arrange a baptism at this time. Rosary: 5:30 pm Mon.-Fri. on Facebook Live PARISH OFFICE MARRIAGES 618-465-4284 Day before Holy Day: 5:15 pm To be arranged at least six months Fax: 618-463-4637 Holy Days: 6:30, 8:00 am before marriage. Call the Parish Office. VOICEMAIL & DROPBOX ONLY 12:00 noon and 5:15 pm SCHOOL OFFICE (if announced) Check out our Facebook page... 618-465-8523 First Fridays: 5:15 pm Middle School 618-465-9719 St. Mary’s Catholic Church www.smsalton.com ƒ 519 EastOBLATES Fourth OF THE VIRGIN Alton, MARY Illinois www.stmarysalton.com St. Mary’s Learning and Living Our Catholic Faith Catholic Church My dear Brothers and Sisters, Members of the Body of Christ, ALTON, ILLINOIS Happy Solemnity of Corpus Christi, the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ! What a wonderful day on which to gather for the first time for Holy Mass after such a THE MOST HOLY BODY long time away! After almost exactly three months we gather again around the Holy AND BLOOD OF CHRIST Altar to worship Jesus, we come together again around the Lord's table to be present to him in person at his Sacrifice of the Last Supper and Calvary, the offering of himself JUNE 14, 2020 to the Father for our reconciliation with Him. This great Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, which really is a Feast in which we give thanks for the Mass and the Eucharist, presents us all with a wonderful opportunity MASS INTENTIONS to renew our gratitude and love for Jesus in the Eucharist. While the obligation to attend Sunday Mass is still suspended by our bishop (although we should find ways Monday, June 15 to keep the Lord's Day holy) we can all approach the beginning of Mass again, as if it 6:30 am Violet Schmidt† were our first Holy Communion, recalling the preparation we made for that wonderful 8:00 am Tom Altefogt† moment in our lives. It's yet another moment to begin again in our discipleship of Jesus. Brothers and Sisters, we need Jesus. We and the world need the Communion Tuesday, June 16 that he gives and is. We need him in the Eucharist. I urge you, love him! 6:30 am Alois Schmidt† St Thomas Aquinas(1225 - 1275), the Church's premiere theologian, preached with 8:00 am Harold Hoefert† wonder and amazement about our Eucharistic Lord: Wednesday, June 17 "Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in 6:30 am Int of Sr. Mary Joseph his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might Kneemiller, FSGM make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation. He offered his body to God the Father on the 8:00 am Int of Fr. Tim altar of the cross as a sacrifice for our reconciliation. He shed his blood for our Gallagher, OMV ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched Thursday, June 18 state of bondage and cleansed from all sin. But to ensure that the memory 6:30 am George Goeken† of so great a gift would abide with us for ever, he left his body as food and his blood as drink for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine. 8:00 am Tom Stephan† O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all Friday, June 19 sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value? Under the old law it 6:30 am Stella Lyons† was the flesh of calves and goats that was offered, but here Christ himself, 8:00 am Thomas & Rose Hill / the true God, is set before us as our food. What could be more wonderful John O’Brien than this? No other sacrament has greater healing power; through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is enriched with an Saturday, June 20 abundance of every spiritual gift. It is offered in the Church for the living and 6:30 am David Zorger† the dead, so that what was instituted for the salvation of all may be for the benefit of all. Yet, in the end, no one can fully express the sweetness of this 8:00 am Int of Jane sacrament, in which spiritual delight is tasted at its very source, and in which Schwartzkopf we renew the memory of that surpassing love for us which Christ revealed in 5:15 pm Louise Jehle† his passion. Sunday, June 21 It was to impress the vastness of this love more firmly upon the hearts of the 6:30 am The People of faithful that our Lord instituted this sacrament at the Last Supper. As he was St. Mary’s on the point of leaving the world to go to the Father, after celebrating the Passover with his disciples, he left it as a perpetual memorial of his passion. It 8:00 am Vic Schulz & Homer was the fulfilment of ancient figures and the greatest of all his miracles, while Zigrang† for those who were to experience the sorrow of his departure, it was destined 9:30 am Jerome Banghart† to be a unique and abiding consolation." 11:00 am Int of Deacon Paul Kallal, OMV May our Mother Mary, the Mother of Jesus, Mother of the Church, Mother of our Eucharistic Lord, pray for us that we might appreciate and adore the gift of Jesus in 6:00 pm Int of Robert Bohart the Eucharist! & Family - God love you, Fr Jeremy OMV If you have submitted a name for prayers in the bulletin THE MOST HOLY BODY AND they will remain for one month. If you would like to ask BLOOD OF CHRIST the parish to continue praying, please let the parish office Focus: Through the Eucharist, Jesus gives us the know by calling (618) 465-4284. strength we need on our journey through life to Heaven. Thank you for your prayers! Today we celebrate the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ and honor Jesus as the Bread of Life. Just as God led Moses and the Israelites out of Egypt and through 40 years of hardship and danger in the desert, so Jesus gives us the strength we need as we follow him through the Please remember our brothers and sisters, spiritual dangers of his life. who are in need of prayer. In Deuteronomy, Moses reminds the people of how God Roger Kamp, Lucy Rose Lucas, Bill Haine, Naomi brought them out of Egypt and through 40 years in the Fader, Barb Cronn, Everett O’Connor, Tom desert. Saint Paul writes of our unity as Christians, for we Grossheim, Jack Droste, Greg Weirich, Mary all partake of the one loaf. Jesus tells the Jewish crowds Donahue, The Ringering Family, Sean Michael that he is the living bread that came down from Heaven Donahue, Veronica Murray, Richard Cox, Keith so that eternal life may be found through him. Houghton, Debra Houghton, Baby Olivia, Shirley Dunphy, Mary Jenniches, Phyllis Milford-Rill, Larry PART ONE - THE PROFESSION OF FAITH Greenwell, Emilee Tate, Pat Gorman, Liam Maher, SECTION ONE - "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE" G. Terry Westfall, Ellen Saville, Margarita Pulido, Man’s Response To God / I Believe – We Believe Bob Rill, Chris Henkhaus, Mike Mihalich, Kathleen “Only One Faith” Engdale, Martha Kraehmer, Sue Imming, Michael Jennings, Jr., Francis Gonzales, Jill Love, Henry 175. "We guard with care the faith that we have received Leady, Matthew Paulda, Mary Wuellner, Stephen from the Church, for without ceasing, under the action Turvey, Rollan “Jerry” Jouett, Samuel Madrey, of God's Spirit, this deposit of great price, as if in an Jackie Stilley, Brian Petty, Bryce, William Danother, excellent vessel, is constantly being renewed and causes Christy Dorris, John Wittman, Phil Hoefert, Joyce the very vessel that contains it to be renewed."62 Zorger, Mary Ann Raymond, Rosemary Ruedin, Trisha Middleton, Denny Meehan, Jonathan Denney, PSR ANNOUNCEMENT 2020 Fr. Jeremy Paulin, OMV, Sarah Huber, Sarah Rose If you have a child who goes to St. Mary’s Parish but does Zangori, Bill Cox, Joan Cox, Florence Sabaj, Diana not attend a Catholic school, please consider enrolling Melosci, Bonnie Haegele, Mike Russell, Mathew Zini, your child or children in our PSR (Parish School of Religion Carmen Kassler, Gail Grant, Patrick Hickey, Mike (PSR) program. We meet every Wednesday from 7:00- Doucleff, Carolyn Holt, Mary Jo Buesteton, Michelle 8:15 p.m. You can find PSR Registration Packets on our Moody, Charles Nasello website: www.stmarysalton.com, under Sacraments, you Holy Mary, help those in need, give strength to the weak, will find PSR, download and printout.
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