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th The 19 Sunday in Ordinary Time August 9, 2020 We Pray for the Sick Coming to Mass? Don’t Forget… (Covid patients marked with a (C). Russ and Rita Are you coming to Mass? Please don’t forget: Hildebrand, Linda Lee Panlilio, Melanie Crawford, • NOT to sing! Ron Ruiz (C), Tom Harris (C), David Krall (C), Michael • To take your temperature before leaving home Breese, Laura Dugan, Pam Wyatt, Okie Son Breese, • To wear a mask Paul Woods, Angela Smith, Matthew Godwin, Ben To bring a blanket or chair to sit on for the 11:30 Paepcke, Claire Murphy, Betty Bodwine, Rick Montoni, • Mass in the Marian Garden, weather permitting Jerome DeLucia, Ellen Adajian, Dave Earhart, Felicidad Deiparine, Sr. Mary Margaret Pignone, Angela Morton, • To be mindful of others and to social distance Marisu DeLeon, Deanna Ross, Carroll Celentano, Jean • To receive Communion, center aisle only, remove Dugan, Shelly Godwin mask only when accepting the Host in your hand, put the Host in your mouth and immediately Mass Intentions for the Living replace your mask. Melanie Crawford, and Audrey Cox Weekend Mass Schedule Offering at Mass We will not be collecting from the pews. Please place Saturday, 5pm your envelopes or cash donations into the boxes at the Sunday, 7:30 back of the church and front of the chapel on your way Sunday, 9:00 am into or out of Mass. You can also donate electronically by Sunday, 11:30 am using the postcards in the pews. Open the camera app on your phone and hold it up to the black and white square Weekday Mass and on the postcards in the pews. Your phone will use this Communion Service Schedule code to pull up the Vanco website where you can make a Monday – Friday, 12 Noon secure online donation. This can be a one time donation or you can also set up a recurring donation if you wish. Thank you for considering this safe and secure alternative Readings for the Week: way of donating!" Monday – 2 Cor 9:6-10/Jn 12:4-26 (618) Tuesday – Ez 2:8-3:4/Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 (414) nd Wed – Ez 9:1-7;10:18-22/Mt 18:15-20 (415) 2 Collections August Thursday – Ez 12:1-12/Mt 18:21-19:1 (416) Aug 9 – Black and Indian Missions Friday – Ez 16:1-15,60,63/Mt 19:3-12 (417) We Are Live !!! Celebrants Aug 15 and 16 We are live streaming every week now at 5pm!!! Just go to: 5pm – Fr. Brown http://theshrine.org/virtualparish - to tune in! We are very 7:30 am – Fr. Brown excited to share Mass with you in this medium! 9:00 am – Fr. McKearney 11:30 – Fr. McKearney Your Church is Here! Offerings Needed You can find us virtually online at: Although our church has reopened attendance and giving http://theshrine.org/virtualparish have dropped We have been relying on a PPP small facebook.com/ShrineSacredHeartMtWashington/ business loan which has made it possible for us to remain operational. Once that loan is depleted the church will have great difficulty meeting its expenses. We Volunteers Needed for Livestream appreciated your thoughtful and kind generosity. Committee! **Donate by Mail: Shrine of the Sacred Heart, 1701 [**You DON'T need to be tech savvy!] We are thrilled Regent Rd., Baltimore, Md. 21209 that we now have the capability to livestream our weekend **Donate Online: http://theshrine.org/donate The Mass! We are currently livestreaming the 5pm Saturday and plan to shortly add the 11:30am Sunday. It does take St. Jane Frances de Chantal - one person to manage the livestream process - and so we're forming a new committee ASAP. You do not need August 11th to be tech savvy - just tech comfortable! The process will Jane Frances Fremiot de Chantal was the involve using a tablet during Mass (from the sacristy or foundress of the Order of the Visitation of Mary. She was sitting in a pew) and following a script of buttons to move born in 1572 and came from a the camera during the flow of Mass. For any questions or noble family, her father gave her to express interest, please contact Chrissy Kelleher in marriage to the Baron von at [email protected]. Thank you! Chantal in 1592. As mother she most zealously instructed the children in the ways of virtue and Women's Prayer Group piety and in the observance of When: August 18, 2020 and July 21 @ 7:00 PM every divine precept. With great Location: via Zoom generosity she supported the poor For Information and to join: Contact Lourdes White @ and took special joy in seeing how [email protected] for the Zoom meeting details. divine Providence often blesses and increases the smallest Book for this summer: Praying Your Experiences, by larder. Therefore she made a vow never to refuse anyone Joseph F Schmidt who asked for alms in the Name of Christ. **The Women's Prayer Group The death of her husband, who was accidentally meets on the first and third shot while on the chase (1601), she bore with Christ-like Tuesday of every month at 7pm, composure and with all her heart forgave the person who typically in the Chapel - and now had killed him; then she acted as sponsor for one of his via Zoom! This is the perfect children in order to show her forgiveness openly. There time to join this group and try out was a holy friendship between her and her spiritual guide, a new prayer support - all women Francis de Sales; with his approval she left her father and are welcome! Come join a group of women who want to children and founded the Visitation nuns. grow into a deeper prayer life and enjoy the unique Thus, too, it should be with us—firm yet forgiving, friendships that develop when praying together. and each at the proper place and in the proper measure. To join at any time, contact Lourdes White at Our zeal must not make us hard, fanatic; neither may love [email protected] for the Zoom meeting details. degenerate into sentimentalism. In fundamentals, in faith, Theshrine.org/events/list and in the commandments we must be firm, immovable, with no trace of tolerance; but in our contacts with men, patient, forgiving, tender, conciliatory. The Christian ought be firm and resolute as a father, mild and self- Update Your Contact Info sacrificing as a mother. This tension between If you have not been receiving emails or even texts, complementary virtues we find exemplified in a heroic please send us an email to: [email protected] or call: degree in St. Jane Frances de Chantal. 410-466-6884, ext.10. We will be happily to send you this info ! Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace, Pius Parsch. .
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