St. Mary Catholic Parish

WORSHIP AND SERVE GOD WITH US IN SACRAMENT AND PRAYER IN OUR FAMILY OF FAITH

PARISH OFFICE HOURS
Monday  Thursday 8:00  12noon
Friday Closed
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Closed Saturday & Sunday
August 15, 2021


PARISH OFFICE CONTACT INFO
MASS SCHEDULE
www.stmaryspokane.org


[email protected]
Saturday Mass: 5:00pm
304 S ADAMS ROAD, SPOKANE VALLEY, WA 99216
Sunday Masses: 7:30am, 9:00am, 11:30am

Weekday Masses: Monday, Tuesday 5:30pm
PARISH CLERGY


Wednesday, Thursday 7:00am
Parish Office Number


9283210
Friday 7:00am & 5:30pm
Rev. Jeffrey R. Lewis, Pastor

x 109
First Saturday 9:00 am
Fr. Michael Kwiatkowski,






(Priest in Residence)
Confessions
Deacon Mike Miller


9283210
Wednesday 4:305:30pm
Deacon Dan Glatt


9283210
Friday 6:007:00pm

Saturday 3:304:30pm
Emergency Anointing of the Sick
x 9
First Fridays 7:308:30am

(afterhours)


Adoration
PARISH OFFICE


9283210
Friday 6:00  7:00pm
Suzie Frei, Office Manager

x 150
First Friday 7:30am  12pm
Marie Bricher, DRE & Faith Formation x 111 First Saturday
9:30am  10:30am

Sharon Greany, Business Manager x 107
NEW PARISHIONERS
Mark VanDriel, Maintenance Manager
x 7
Welcome to St. Mary Parish Community. If you would like to register Emma Smith, Youth Director

x 112
with the parish please fill out form on website, stop by the Parish
Office or call (509) 928
3210. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Craig Smentek, Grand Knight
(509) 9914692
CARE OF THE SICK
John White, Faithful Navigator (509) 9941023
Communion is taken to the sick and elderly on a regular basis.
Please call Karen Grewe (Homebound Ministry) at (509)927
4941 CHOIR DIRECTOR
Diana Thomas


(509) 3852663
SACRAMENTS


SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
Baptism: The family should be registered and active in St. Mary Bill Flerchinger, President
(509) 7037867
Parish. For arrangements call the Parish office, 928
3210.


Marriage: Couples must contact the parish at least six months prior ST. MARY SCHOOL


9244300
to their desired wedding date.

Ben Walker, Principal

x 202
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) or
Chelsea Weiler, School Secretary
x 200
RCIC (for children over 7)
Lou Turner Advancement Director x 206
Have you thought about becoming a Catholic? Do you know some- Sharon Greany, Business Manager x 204
one who is thinking about it? Please call Marie Bricher at  928
3210 ext. 111 for more information.

For the convenience of those with hearing difficulties, Masses at St. Mary can be heard on personal  FM
band radios or in the car in the parking lot. Tune to 89.9 FM.  Prayer Requests
All those feeling lonely and isolated, those who are ill

William Foster , Susan C., Ella M, Matt C, Alma B., Traci P., Jerry D. Sr., Steve N., Cecilia J.
To have a name listed in the bulletin call Suzie in the office at 9283210. Names will be listed for 3 weeks, then removed unless requested again.
 If a member of your family is admitted to a local hospital, please call the parish office at 9283210 if you would like a priest
 To add someone to the prayer chain or to be part of the prayer chain ministry please join the Prayer Chain group in Flocknote or call the parish office.
 For those not “online” call Bobbie Bailey at 9289584.

Calling all altar servers!
Fr Lewis will be conducting altar server training on Saturday September 18, at 11 AM in the church.
This training is for every- one already trained and for anyone not yet trained but who would like to be an altar server.
Training will begin at 11 AM in the church,
followed by a pizza lunch and kickball on the school field.
Please contact the parish office for

St Mary Council 4196 with assistance from the local council, the Supreme council, and ForUS helped purchase a $32,000 state of the art ultrasound machine for Life Services of Spokane. A dedication will be held at Life Services tentatively scheduled for 8/26/21.   We have been collecting newspapers for many years as a fraternal activity to provide financial as- sistance to local seminarians at Bishop White Seminary. Our trailer is broken and the cost of repair is significant. We are asking any parishioner to help with this project with ideas or equipment. Please call Craig Smentek: 509
991
4692 if you can help with this. 

Your St. Mary St. Vincent de Paul conference members continue to assist our neighbors with food, hygiene prod- ucts, utility & renal assistance. It is expected that rental assistance requests will increase.

The emergency assistance message line is (509) 703
7867; a member will return your call. Monetary contributions to our ongoing assistance can be dropped in the designated 3rd Sunday basket or donated online at : www.stmaryspokane.org (tap on “Give”, then “Donation Designation” and scroll down to “St Vincent de Paul”.

We thank you!!

Parish Collection Report

August Income Week Ending Aug 1 : $16,285.00

Income Month of August $ 16,285.00
Yearly Income (Jan  Aug): $ 400,088.49
PRIESTS MASS INTENTIONS

8/16
MONDAY
Pat Ewers
8/17
TUESDAY Alice Quinn +

8/18
WEDNESDAY Mary Ilgen +
Can you help? A parishioner living in the Revel 8/19
THURSDAY Defane Dewolf +
complex is seeking someone to pick them up for 9:00 8/20
FRIDAY
Sandy Majeskey +

Mass on Sundays. Please call the office if you are 8/21
SATURDAY
Mary Ilgen +
8/22
SUNDAY

7:30am
Ed Muzatko + Pray for the Unborn

9am
Pro Populo


11:30am
Anthony Merlitti +
Please join the St. Joan of Arc ProLife Group to pray
7:00pm
Matt Cornwell
the Rosary for the end of abortion in front of Planned
Parenthood in Spokane (123 E. Indiana Avenue) on
To have a Mass offered by the priest
for a deceased person or another Saturday August 21st
intention, please call the parish office 12:00 noon.
at (509) 9283210 or email

Pastor’s Column= = St. Mary Catholic Parish= = August 15, 2021 8 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time=


Saint of the Week

We continue our Pastor Column series “Saint of the Week,” and our Saint of the Week this week is Pope Saint Pius X, whose Memorial is August 21st.



On June 2, 1835, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (the future Pope Pius X) was born at Riesi, Province of Treviso, in Ven- ice.



Two of the most outstanding accomplishments of this saintly Pope were the inauguration of the liturgical renewal and the restoration of
frequent communion
from childhood.
He also waged an unwavering
war
against the
heresy
and evils of modernism, gave great impetus to biblical studies, and brought about the codification of
Canon
Law.
His overriding concern was to renew all things in Christ.

Above all, his
holiness
shone forth conspicuously.
From
Pope Pius X,
we learn again that “the folly of the Cross,” simplicity of life, and
humility
of heart are still the highest
wisdom
and the indispensable conditions of a per- fect
Christian
life, for they are the very source of all apostolic fruitfulness.

His last
will
and testament bears the striking sentence:
“I was born poor, I have lived in poverty, and I wish to die poor.”

Pope Pius X
served as Pope August 1903 to his death in 1914.
He followed Pope Leo XIII and was succeeded by Pope Benedict V.

He was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her lesserknown title “Our Lady of Confidence.”
One of his papal encyclicals,
Ad diem illum, took on a sense of renewal that was reflected in the motto of his pontificate.
He advanced the
Liturgical Movement
by formulating the principle of
participatio actuosa
(active participation) of the faithful in his motu proprio
Tra le sollecitudini
(1903).
He encouraged the frequent reception of
Holy Communion, and he low- ered the age for First Communion, which became a lasting innovation of his papacy.
Like his predecessors, he pro- moted
Thomism
as the principal philosophical method to be taught in Catholic institutions.

As pope, he vehemently opposed
modernism
and various 19thCentury philosophies, which he viewed as an intrusion of secular errors incompatible with
Catholic dogma (including socialism and communism).
He also undertook a re- form of the Roman Curia, much as Pope Francis is doing in our own day and age.

Pope Pius X was known for his firm demeanor and sense of personal poverty, reflected by his membership of the
Third Order of St. Francis.
He regularly gave homily sermons in the pulpit, a rare practice at the time.
After the
1908 Messina earthquake,
he filled the
Apostolic Palace
with refugees, long before the Italian government act- ed.
He rejected any kind of favors for his family, and his close relatives chose to remain in poverty while living near Rome.

On August 20, 1914, Pope Pius X died and entered into his eternal reward.
After his death, a strong cultus of the faithful’s devotion followed his reputation of piety and holiness; one aspect of this devotion is that his hometown was renamed “Riese Pio X” soon after his death.
He was
beatified
in 1951 by Pope Pius XII, and in May of 1954, he was canonized by that same pope, and he became the two hundred fiftyninth pope to be canonized.

Pope Saint Pius X…pray for us.  

~ Fr. Lewis

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