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St. Mary Church St Personnel 34 Oak St 29 North St Rev. Msgr. Robert H Aucoin, Pastor PO Box 187 PO Box 68 Deacon Daniel B. McGrath, Deacon Assistant Waddington, NY 13694 Madrid, NY. 13660 Carmel Rastley, Faith Formation - Madrid 315-388-4466 315-322-5661 Anne-Marie Young - Faith Formation - [email protected] [email protected] Waddington http://mwcatholics.org http://mwcatholics.org Trustees Facebook.com/ facebook.com/ St. Mary - Julie Moots & Mark Scott StMaryWaddington StJohntheBaptistMadridNy St. John - Carol Garvey & Carmel Rastley Sixteenth Sunday of the Year - July 17-18

SUMMER RAFFLE 2021: Saturday, July 17, 4:30 pm (SJ) St. James School, Gouverneur In Memory of & Denise Griffin by Anne Griffin For tickets contact St. James Parish Sunday, July 18, 8:30 am (SJ) 315-287-0114 GRAND Prize: $10,000 2nd Prize: $5000 The Intentions of Parishioners 3rd Prize: $2500 4th Prize: $1500 Sunday, July 18, 10:30 am (SM) 5th Prize: $500 Plus 5 Early Bird drawings for $100 each, will be Miller by Tom & Fran Nelson drawn July 4th Monday, July 19, 7:30 am (SM) GRAND PRIZE DRAWING WILL BE HELD SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th Grace Barton by Connie & Mark Miller Tuesday, July 20, 9:00 am (SJ) All tickets will remain “in the drum” and be eligible for EVERY prize drawing!! Only 350 Our Mothers and Fathers Living and Deceased tickets will be sold. Donation price of $100 each. Wednesday, July 21, 7:30 am (SM) John Fallon by Billy & Marcia Tiernan Summer Faith Adventure August 9-13 Thursday, July 22, 9:00 am (SJ) 3-5:30 pm Our Mothers and Fathers Living and Deceased Parish Center ADORATION (5-6 pm at SM) Children who are in our census will soon receive an invitation to participate in this wonderful Friday, July 23, 7:30 am (SM) summer program. They should receive the Mary McGee by Her Mother and Family invitation and registration Saturday, July 24, 4:30 pm (SJ) form in the next ten days The Deceased Members of the Rocker & LaVere Families o r s o . Sunday, July 25, 8:30 am (SJ) Registration d e a d l i n e i s The Intentions of Parishioners July 27. If your child did Sunday, July 25, 10:30 am (SM) not receive one in the mail, the registration form June McQueeney by Pat Sharlow & Family will be on the parish website. The Sanctuary Light at St. Mary’s burns in loving memory of the deceased members of the Valois, Free Community Duffy, & Leonard Families. Dinner Monday, July 19 We will continue for a few weeks presenting the 8:30 am &10:30 am St. Mary’s Parish Masses on Facebook. Center 4:30 to 6 pm All are invited Sponsored by St. Mary’s Family Circle who faithfully enhance the parish and community. Sixteenth Sunday of the Year - July 17-18

the faithful of our diocese to learn about Latakia while supporting their relief programs. They are experiencing a large influx of refugees which has doubled their relief efforts but depleted their resources to do so effectively. Our financial sacrifices will assist with their marriage preparation program as well as faith formation programs for children and adults. The Missionary Projects of the Diocese of Ogdensburg collection will also continue to be used to provide financial support of our former mission in Mollendo, Peru, support the Bishops’ annual appeal for Latin America Waddington Pavilion and assist with other missionary projects For parishioners of throughout the world as part of our evangelization St. John the Baptist - Madrid efforts. St. Mary - Waddington I am very grateful for your gift to this August 15, 2021 year’s MPDO collection. God bless you for your • 10:30 am Mass at the Pavilion generous support of the Church’s missionary • Followed by Grace before Meals led by the efforts. children who have participated in the Faithfully yours in Christ, Summer Faith Adventure • Hot Dogs, Hamburgers, drinks, tableware, Most Reverend Terry R. LaValley ice cream dessert provided by the parishes. Bishop of Ogdensburg • Families are asked to bring a dish to pass • Open to all parishioners and their guests • Registered parishioners will receive an invitation in the mail that they can use to win the special door prizes. • Horse and buggy rides for the children We are hoping that this event will be a great opportunity for parishioners to reach out to one another especially after the long siege of the pandemic. I look forward to seeing you "God dwells in our midst, in the Blessed there and celebrating with you. As church, Sacrament of the altar." - St. our strength comes from one another. "Do you realize that Jesus is there in the Dear Friends in Christ, tabernacle expressly for you - for you alone? He Missionary enthusiasm has burns with the desire to come into your always been a telling sign of the heart...don't listen to the demon, laugh at him, vitality of the in and go without fear to receive the Jesus of peace the Diocese of Ogdensburg. The and love... annual collection for the "Receive Communion often, very often...there Missionary Projects of the you have the sole remedy, if you want to be Diocese of Ogdensburg (MPDO) cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your offers us the opportunity to further our own zeal in heart for nothing..." supporting the ministry of our missionaries who "The guest of our soul knows our misery; He faithfully serve in often forgotten places in our comes to find an empty tent within us - that is all world He asks." - St. Therese of Lisieux The parishioners of St. Lawrence, It is there in His that He says to me: "I Jefferson, and Lewis Deaneries will be given an thirst, thirst for your love, your sacrifices, your opportunity to support our missionaries during the sufferings. I thirst for your happiness, for it was to weekend Masses of July 24th and 25th. This save you that I came into the world, that I year, our focus continues to be the Diocese of suffered and died on the Cross, and in order to Latakia in Syria where our twinning initiative console and strengthen you I left you the continues. Located on the shores of the Eucharist. So you have there all My life, all My Mediterranean Sea, Latakia is home to the oldest tenderness." - Mother Mary of Jesus, foundress Christian settlements on earth. Our “Solidarity in of the Sisters of Marie Reparatrice Faith” endeavor will provide concrete ways for American Born -Part 3 Two more American-Born Servants of God may soon be designated Venerable and closer to becoming canonized. Emil Kapaun Fr. Emil Kapaun was born on a farm in Kansas in 1916, was ordained a priest in 1940, and entered the U.S. Army Corps in 1944. He served in WWII, then again in the when he was taken prisoner and died in a POW Camp. He was sometimes called the Good Thief because he would steal coffee, tea, and a pot to heat them in from the guards at the POW camp and would also help smuggle dysentery drugs to the doctor. Fr. Kapaun died of malnutrition and pneumonia in the camp in 1951 and was buried in a mass grave near the Yalu River. In 2013, he was posthumously awarded the for his actions in Korea.

“When I was ordained, I was determined to ‘spend myself’ for God. I was determined to do that cheerfully, no matter in what circumstances I would be placed or how hard a life I would be asked to lead.” -Fr. Kapaun to his bishop in 1944.

Servant of God, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop () Rose Hawthorne was born in Massachusetts, the third daughter of the great American writer, . Nathaniel died when she was 13, and her mother died a few years later. At age 20, she married George Parsons Lathrop. They had a son who died at the age of 5 from diphtheria, and their marriage broke up soon afterward due to George’s alcoholism. He died a few years later from cirrhosis. Alone, Rose served alongside the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent DePaul. She was inspired by their motto, “I am for God and for the poor.” She obtained her nursing degree and became a Dominican tertiary known as Mother Mary Alphonsa. She founded an order in December 1900 now known as the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. She died in her sleep on July 9, 1926 at the motherhouse of her congregation at age 75. “I am trying to serve the poor as a servant. I wish to serve the cancerous poor because they are more avoided than any other class of sufferers; and I wish to go to them as a poor creature myself.” Rose Hawthorne Judy Pearson