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THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC

THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

JUNE 28, 2020

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WELCOMES YOU Pastor: 720 East Beach Boulevard Secretary: Fr. Cuthbert “Cuddy” P. O. Box 1529 Becky Mullins O’Connell Long Beach, MS 39560 228-863-1610 Cell: 228-493-9303 Website: [email protected] www.saintthomaslb.org Parochial Vicar: Office Manager & Bookkeeper: Office Hours: M-F Beverly Leslie Fr. Colten M. Symmes 9:00am-4:30pm 228-863-1610 On Sabbatical Phone: 228-863-1610 [email protected] Fax: 228-868-6068 Music Director: In Residence: Lauren Hymel Fr. Pat O’Shaughnessy 228-865-3972 MASS SCHEDULE [email protected] : Ernest “Buddy” Vancourt ATTEND MASS Maintenance: Ben DiLorenzo TUESDAYS 228-596-3379 Youth Ministry: AND [email protected] Ashlie Moran THURSDAYS 228-863-1610 11AM Bulletin Editor: [email protected] Donna Brown SATURDAY VIGIL 228-863-1610 4PM [email protected] SRE Coordinator: Dave Gauthier SUNDAYS Data Resource Coordinator: 228-596-8835 7:30AM 228-863-1610 [email protected] [email protected] 9AM & 11:30AM

Pastoral Council: CONTINUE TO Receptionist: Lisa Starita WORSHIP Ann Mink 228-669-3205 VIRTUALLY 228-863-1610 [email protected] [email protected] SUNDAYS AT 9AM Baptism: Community Center Rental Sue Hoffman Robert Phillips TUESDAYS 228-864-5868 (home) 281-773-8328 AND 228-313-0157 (cell) [email protected] THURSDAYS [email protected] 11AM

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THE MESSAGE SEEMS HARSH

On first reading, our seems very harsh. The idea of taking up our cross can be fearful or have negative connotations, as if it were something only a few can do. It is also confusing. Scripture tells us to honor our father and mother, and yet here are told we must love more than our parents or children, or we are not worthy. The message that Jesus intends to convey, however, is not to give up these people, but rather to choose first. Sometimes this means being countercultural. For a family, how do we make choices to keep Christ in the picture? It could mean that when you make plans to take the family to that water park for the weekend, you should also locate the local church so you can attend Mass. Or maybe it means not placing your child on the soccer team with 10 a.m. Sunday games, or rescheduling another part of your life to keep Christ foremost. Perhaps it is something as simple as locking yourself in the bathroom for five minutes so that you have time to pray. Maybe it means listening to an audiobook of scriptures on your commute to work. All we do is for naught if we do not include Christ. Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

ADORATION

In the church 9am to 4pm

With the return of all the Sunday Masses there is a need for volunteers to help. Some of the positions are: Greeters Lectors Ushers Commentators Altar Servers Eucharistic Ministers

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RETURNING TO NORMAL… READINGS FOR THE WEEK Adoration 9am-4pm, Fri, Church Baptism Class 9:30am, Last Sat of every month, Monday: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Sue Hoffman at 228-864-5868 Mt 16:13-19 Choir Small Group Practices. See Parish Calendar Church Daily Mass, Tues & Thurs, 11am Tuesday: Am 3:1-8; 4:11-12; Ps 5:4b-8; Mt 8:23-27 Confession, Sat, 3:15 to 3:45 Vigil Mass, Sat, 4pm Wednesday: Am 5:14-15, 21-24; Ps 50:7-13, 16bc-17; Sun Mass, 7:30am, 9am, 11:30am & 5:30pm Mt 8:28-34 Showcase Personal shopping appointments Thursday: Am 7:10-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 9:1-8 Contact Darlene Barry 228-452-6354 or Friday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Jn 20:24-29 Nita Gross 228-918-0445 Knights of Columbus Saturday: Am 9:11-15; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Mt 9:14-17 Meetings 1st & 3rd Thurs every month, 7pm or, for Independence Day, any readings from the Mass Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus “For the Country,” nos. 882- 886, or “For Peace and Jus- Meetings 3rd Thurs every month, 7pm tice,” nos. 887-891 SVdP Society 9:30am-12:30pm, Mon & Thurs, OPEN TO HELP! Sunday: Zec 9:9-10; Ps 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14; Youth Gift Cards (SCRIP) During office hours, Rom 8:9, 11-13; Mt 11:25-30 9am-4:30pm Mon-Thurs, and Fri, 9am-12pm

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ST. PETER ST. PAUL JUNE 29 JUNE 29

Paul was born in the Roman city Tarsus, located in He is known as the Apostle. today’s Turkey into a wealthy family. He participated in He is the of Fishermen. stoning Stephen, the first . He was a He was born at Bethsaida, near the Sea of . Pharisee and a tentmaker. He was neither physically His name was originally Simon. imposing nor was he a good speaker. Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was first a follower of Here are some things you may, or may not know about and then became the first apostle of Jesus. Paul: Andrew introduced Simon Peter to Jesus. Relatives of Paul are mentioned in the . The name Peter, meaning 'rock', was selected by Jesus They are Andronicus and Junia, Jason, and to indicate the he would be the rock-like foundation on Lucius. There was also mention of his sister and his which the Church would be built. nephew who helped him in prison. Peter was a faithful follower of Jesus He must have eaten fish with scales because the Jewish although at the dietary laws restricted the eating of fish without scales. Jesus predicted that Peter would deny him Paul was the most popular apostle in the early Church three times following his death saying, and was efficient and effective in forming the Christian "Amen, I say to you, Community. this very night before the cock crows, He was educated in Jerusalem under the famous Jewish you will deny me three times." teacher named . At the time of the arrest of Jesus, His original name was Saul but after his conversion to Peter cut off the ear of a servant of the high priest he changed his name to Paul which means but then went on, as predicted, small. to deny that he knew Jesus three times. He never met Jesus during his brief years of ministry Peter became a missionary and returned to Rome in and he was also not one of the 12 apostles but according to 63/64AD. the New Testament he did interacted with many of the In 64 AD the Roman Emperor Nero set fire original disciples, especially in Jerusalem. He was a Jew- to Rome and blamed the Christians for its destruction. ish by birth and there were questions about his commit- He was one of the Christians who was arrested ment to Judaism both before and after his conversion to and was sentenced to death by crucifixion. Christianity. Jewish leadership plotted to kill him but Paul He died in AD 64 when he was crucified came to know of their plan. They watched the gates day with his head downwards and night waiting to kill him, so the disciples took him by because he did not consider himself worthy night and brought him through the wall in a large basket. to die in the same manner and posture as Jesus.

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Saul went through a conversion experience on his way ST. JUNIPERO SERRA, to . He saw a bright light and heard Jesus asking why he (Saul) is persecuting him (Jesus). Hearing this he PRIEST fell off his horse and was blind for three days. Only after JULY 1 the visit of a did he recover his eyesight. From that moment on he started preaching Jesus’ gospel. Junipero Serra spent his early ca- Another very interesting fact about St. reer as a Franciscan educator in Pal- is related to a incidence when he was traveling to Rome ma, Spain. He was in his thirties when and his boat was shipwrecked on the island of Malta. Paul he heeded the call to become a missionary. First he survived the wreck but was bitten by a poisonous snake worked to spread the word of God in Mexico in 1750s while setting up a camp. Everyone thought he would die and 1760s before moving to present-day California. Serra but he was saved by The Lord. established nine missions there from 1769 to 1782. He He is a major contributor to Christian theology. His died in 1784. He was beatified in 1988 by John Paul idea of justification by faith, is the concept that humans II and canonized in 2015 by Pope Francis. are saved from sin by believing in Jesus. Paul created a theological framework for understanding that Jesus’ death and resurrection triggered a fundamental change ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE JULY 3 in humanity’s relationship with God – the central element of the relationship is faith and not behavior He was different from other disciples. When Paul He is the Patron Saint of started preaching, the followers of Jesus who were Jews Architects, Builders and In- believed that Jesus was a Messiah to his chosen people dia. but Paul made a radical departure of preaching to non- He is said to have been Jews or Gentiles, saying that through Jesus, God has sent as an architect to build a extended salvation to Gentiles. palace for Gondoforus the Through his letters we have some of the earliest King of the Indies. information about Jesus. All his letters were written He was one of the 12 before the were penned. Apostles of Jesus and a loyal He is depicted with a sword and a book which follower. symbolizes the manner of his death (beheading by sword) Thomas was also called and his writings which became the sword of the spirit. the Twin (Didymus.) He is the man in the story of ''. After the he was unwilling to believe that Jesus had returned. Thomas received the proof of the resurrection see- ing the points where the nails had penetrated Christ's hands and the wound in His side

FIRST MARTYRS OF THE HOLY ROMAN where the spear had CHURCH JUNE 30 penetrated. Thomas then put Nero became emperor of Rome in 54AD. About 10 his fingers in the places years later, he began persecuting the Christians. When a where the wounds were terrible fire broke out in the city, Nero accused the inflicted. Christians of causing it and increased his efforts to destroy Thomas the Apostle them. Nero had Christians covered with pitch and set on preached in Persia and . fire to light the way for his night drive through the park. He was stabbed to death He had some Christians sewn into animal skins and left in c72 by opposers of Christian the woods so that he and his guests could go hunting for teachings. them. In the two centuries after Nero, thousands of Saint Thomas is Christians were put to death. All these unnamed martyrs represented in Christian Art are honored on the day after the feast of Peter and with a builder's square. Paul.

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PETITIONS FOR PRAYER COLLECTION JUNE 13 & 14 WELCOMED INTO THE Owen Barlow Donna Bass Envelopes $9,705 LIGHT OF Lucille Benoit Electronic Giving 1,552 GOD’S FACE Reece Bentz E-Giving (web) 945 Cheryl Boatner Abigail Bosarge †Marie Harshbarger Diane Calmes COLLECTION Beverly Carver JUNE 20 & 21 †Reese Helbert Ron Cole Melvin Dubuisson Envelopes Totals †John Paul Jones Lionel Fayard Electronic Giving will be John French E-Giving (web) available Lexi, Blake & Kamden Grimes Cash next week MASS INTENTIONS Leo Hamel Pat Hamel SPECIAL FATHER’S DAY COLLECTION (DIOCESAN Tues, Jun 30, 11am Blakely Quinn Hammons Jimmy Hillman PRIEST SUPPLEMENTAL) +Cecil Borzik Louise Hoselle +Souls in Purgatory Dottie Hertzog Kelly Total collected 0000 Christopher Burch Marie Elizabeth Kuechler (healing) Mike Kurowski TODAY’S SPECIAL Diane Ladner COLLECTION Roger Ladner Thurs, Jul 2 , 11am

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Kathleen O’Connell WEEKLY/MONTHLY CONTRIBUTIONS Owen Henrietta Peters Please remember that the following Garrett Ryle collections are still an important part of our Shiyou Mickey Slade church and The Church and we hope you are able to continue your support: Sat, Jul 4, 4pm Kym Bass Stevens Joe Weems Catholic Sharing Appeal +Clay Terry Welch +Al Warburton Peggy West Today, is the Peter’s Pence Collection, Sullivan Wilson a worldwide collection that supports the Sun, Jul 5, 7:30am Davis & Leslie Ezelle Winstead charitable works of Pope Francis. Funds from this collection help victims of war, +Stephanie Bass ...and all people across oppression, and natural disasters. Take this the globe inflicted with opportunity to join with Pope Francis and Coronavirus, strength for be a witness of charity to our suffering Sun, Jul 5, 9am their loved ones and brothers and sisters. Please be generous God’s protection for St Thomas the Apostle those who care for them. today. Parish Family For more information please visit, www.usccb.org/peters-pence Sun, Jul 5, 11:30am Please address all correspondence to the +Cathy McIntyre church office at, +Dominic Xuan Van Pham P.O. Box 1529, Long Beach, MS, 39560

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