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St. Cyriacus St. Vitas St. Ac Atius St. Eustace St July 25, 2021 1345 Indian Church Rd, West Seneca, NY 14224 (716) 6742374 • [email protected] • www.14hh.org • fax (716) 6754864 MASS SCHEDULE: Effective 7/10/2021 ALL MASSES WILL BE CELEBRATED IN THE CHURCH Saturday Vigil: 4:30pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am, 10:30am, 12:00pm Weekdays: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8:00am Wednesday 7:00pm Eucharistic Adoration Chapel: Currently ClosedPlease visit our drive up Eucharistic Adoration Chapel located at the back of the Rectory Confession: Saturday 3:003:30 pm, First Wednesday 5:306:30pm in the Church Sacristy & by appointment Readings for the week of July 25, 2021 Rectory Office Hours: Sunday: 2 Kgs 4:4244/Ps 145:1011, 1516, 1718 [cf. 16]/Eph 4:16/Jn 6:115 Temporary Hours: Monday: Ex 32:1524, 3034/Ps 106:1920, 2122, 23 [1a]/Mt 13:3135 MondayThursday 9am1pm % by appointment Tuesday: Ex 33:711; 34:5b9, 28/Ps 103:67, 89, 1011, 1213 [8a]/Mt 13:36 43 Religious Ed: (716) 6742180 Wednesday: Ex 34:2935/Ps 99:5, 6, 7, 9 [cf. 9c]/Mt 13:4446 Facebook: Thursday: Ex 40:1621, 3438/Ps 84:3, 4, 56a and 8a, 11 [2]/ • Fourteen Holy Helper Parish Jn 11:1927 or Lk 10:3842 • Fourteen Holy Helpers Religious Friday: Lv 23:1, 411, 1516, 27, 34b37/Ps 81:34, 56, 1011ab [2a]/Mt 13:5458 Education Church Phone: Saturday: Lv 25:1, 817/Ps 67:23, 5, 78 [4]/Mt 14:112 (for recorded updates, Scripture and Next Sunday: Ex 16:24, 1215/Ps 78:34, 2324, 25, 54 [24b]/Eph 4:17, 2024/ prayers): 6752592 Jn 6:2435 St. Denis St. Barbara St. Catherine St. Christopher St. Erasmus St. Giles St. Pantaleon St. Cyriacus St. Vitas St. Achatius St. Eustace St. George St. Blaise St. Margaret Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 25, 2021 Fourteen Days of Prayer With the Fourteen Holy Helpers July 25th August 8th Leading up to the Feast Day of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (August 8th) we will be spending fourteen days in prayer Dear Friends in Christ, invoking the aid of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. Two weeks away is our parish feast day, August 8th. On the following page you will find a prayer to a different Holy In preparation for our feast we will be doing fourteen days of Helper for each day this week. Next week we will publish the prayer starting today. Each day we will be praying to one of remaining seven prayers. the Fourteen Holy Helpers. The prayers are in todays Please join your prayers with your parish family’s by starting bulletin. I strongly encourage you to pray for an end to the out each day with the Preparatory Prayer (below), followed by Pandemic, which is still raging in parts of our world, and for the prayer for the specific day (next page) and end with the them to become a healing force against all the anger and concluding prayer (below). discord that is engulfing so many people. We don’t always see the effects of our prayers and the Church reminds us that Preparatory Prayer by St. Alphonsus Liguori prayer is very important. Great princes of heaven, Holy Helpers, who sacrificed to God all your earthly possessions, wealth, preferment, and even life, The Our Father teaches us that we need to pray for and who now are crowned in heaven in the secure enjoyment God’s kingdom to come and for all that we and our world of eternal bliss and glory; have compassion on me, a poor needs. It reminds us to trust in God our loving parent. The sinner in this vale of tears, and obtain for me from God, for Incarnation of Jesus teaches us that we are copartners in the Whom you gave up all things and Who loves you as His work of salvation. Therefore, prayer needs to be combined servants, the strength to bear patiently all the trials of this life, with our efforts to do God’s will. to overcome all temptations, and to persevere in God's service to the end, that one day I too may be received into May God give us the wisdom to know what we need your company, to praise and glorify Him, the supreme Lord, to do and the conviction to pray with all of our hearts for a Whose beatific vision you enjoy, and Whom you praise and brighter tomorrow. Fourteen Holy Helpers pray for us! glorify forever. Amen Peace and healing, Concluding Prayer MY LORD and my God! I offer up to Thee my petition in union Fr. David with the bitter passion and death of Jesus Christ, Thy Son, together with the merits of His immaculate and blessed Mother, Mary ever virgin, and of all the saints, particularly with those of the holy Helper in whose honor I make this novena. Happy World Day For Grandparents and Elderly! Look down upon me, merciful Lord! Grant me Thy grace and Pope Francis hasestablished throughout the Church Thy love, and graciously hear my prayer. Amen. thecelebration of the World Day for Grandparents and Elderlybeginning in 2021 on thefourth Sunday of July, near What’s Happening Around the Diocese the liturgical memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. The announcement of this celebration Our Lady of Charity Parish,260 Okell Street, Buffalo, NY coincides with the celebration of the Year of Amoris Laetitia is holding a Summerfest on July 31, 2021, from 4:00 pm Family, which began on the Solemnity of Saint Joseph the 11:00 pm. Events include 4:00 pm outside Mass, 5:00 husband of Mary, on March 19, 2021, and will conclude at the pm7:00 pm Chiavetta’s chicken dinners, 7:00 pm Irish World Meeting of Families in Rome in June of 2022. dancers, 8:00 pm Dennis George WNY Quiz Master. A bounce house, theme baskets, and 50/50 splits will be drawn throughout the evening. St. Anne & St. Joachim, Jesus’ grandparents & the Patron Saints Nativity Of Our Lord Catholic Church is going to of Grandparents, pray for our sponsor a Pro Life table at this year's Erie County Fair. If grandparents, the elderly people, you are interested in helping out please call Bill at 6756714. especially those who are all He is looking for people to volunteer for two hour shifts to alone, and our family. Amen. staff the table, answer questions etc. Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 25, 2021 Sunday, July 25th of the sacrilegious confessions and to evil, to avoid every occasion of sin, INVOCATION OF ST. GEORGE communions they made, and of all the and thus to preserve spotless the robe of FAITHFUL servant of God and invincible sins they committed since then, so that innocence and sanctifying grace, and to martyr, St. George; favored by God with they may receive pardon, the grace of bring it unstained to the judgmentseat of the gift of faith, and inflamed with an God, and the remission of the eternal Jesus Christ, that I may forever enjoy the ardent love of Christ, thou didst fight punishment. Amen. beatific vision of God which is promised to the pure of heart. Amen. valiantly against the dragon of pride, Tuesday, July 27th falsehood, and deceit. Neither pain nor INVOCATION OF ST. ERASMUS Friday, July 30th torture, sword nor death could part thee HOLY martyr Erasmus, who didst INVOCATION OF ST. from the love of Christ. I fervently implore willingly and bravely bear the trials and CHRISTOPHORUS thee for the sake of this love to help me sufferings of life, and by thy charity didst GREAT St. Christophorus, seeking the by thy intercession to overcome the console many fellowsufferers; I implore strongest and mightiest master thou didst temptations that surround me, and to thee to remember me in my needs and to find him in Jesus Christ, the almighty God bear bravely the trials that oppress me, intercede for me with God. Staunch of heaven and earth, and didst faithfully so that I may patiently carry the cross confessor of the Faith, victorious serve Him with all thy power to the end of which is placed upon me; and let neither vanquisher of all tortures, pray to Jesus thy life, gaining for Him countless souls distress nor difficulties separate me from for me and ask Him to grant me the grace and finally shedding thy blood for Him; the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Valiant to live and die in the Faith through which obtain for me the grace to bear Christ champion of the Faith, assist me in the thou didst obtain the crown of glory. always in my heart, as thou didst once combat against evil, that I may win the Amen. bear Him on thy shoulder, so that I crown promised to them that persevere thereby may be strengthened to Wednesday, July 28th unto the end. overcome victoriously all temptations and INVOCATION OF ST. PANTALEON resist all enticements of the world, the Monday, July 26th ST. PANTALEON, who during life didst devil, and the flesh, and that the powers INVOCATION OF ST. BLASÉ have great pity for the sick and with the of darkness may not prevail against me. ST. BLASE, gracious benefactor of help of God didst often relieve and cure Amen. mankind and faithful servant of God, who them; I invoke thy intercession with God, for the love of our Saviour didst suffer so that I may obtain the grace to serve Him Saturday, July 31st many tortures with patience and in good health by cheerfully fulfilling the INVOCATION OF ST.
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