MARY QUEEN OF PEACE

676 W. LOCKWOOD WEBSTER GROVES MISSOURI 63119 WWW.MQPWG.ORG 314.962.2311

MARY QUEEN OF PEACE 676 W. Lockwood Avenue SUNDAY EUCHARIST: ADULT INITIATION: Webster Groves, MO 63119 5:00 pm Saturday Vigil Adults are received into the Church 8:00 am, 10:30 am, and 5:00 pm Sunday through the Sacraments of Initiation 314-962-2311 www.mqpwg.org 8:00 am Mass on Facebook Live (Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist) OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK usually celebrated at the Easter Vigil after Monday - Friday 8:30 - 4:30 WEEKDAY MASS THIS WEEK : participating in a process of Christian Saturday and Sunday CLOSED 6:45 am and 8 am Monday - Friday formation and education called the Rite of 9:15 am School Mass Wednesday Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). (not open to the public but on Please contact the Parish Office for more REV. JOHN ROGERS VIEN Facebook Live) information. Pastor [email protected] RECONCILIATION: CHRISTIAN : x 113 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Saturdays Couples wishing to be married at MQP REV. TIM COOK should contact the parish as soon as EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: possible after and at least six Senior Associate Pastor The Blessed Sacrament is exposed [email protected] months before the proposed x 123 after 8:00 am Mass on the first and date. At least one of the couple should be third Mondays of the Month, Adoration a practicing Catholic, registered and living continues all day, concluding with in the parish. A program of marriage REV. MR. THOMAS MULVIHILL Benediction at 9:00 pm. preparation is required. Please contact the Deacon INFANT BAPTISM: Pastor or the parish secretary for more [email protected] Baptisms are celebrated on Sundays after information. REV. MR. WIENTGE the 10:30 am Mass, one at a time. VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND Deacon Baptism Preparation Class is offered on the [email protected] RELIGIOUS LIFE: first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm at Any young man interested in the the Parish Office, and is required of first priesthood or any young person interested time parents. Contact the Parish Office to in the religious life is encouraged to JULIE SMITH register. School Principal contact the Pastor or to call the [email protected] ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Archdiocesan Vocation Office at 314-961-2891 x220 If you are anticipating surgery or are 314-792-6460. All Catholics are called to MELISSA HUNTER sick or homebound and would like to be pray for an increase in religious vocations. Director of Faith Formation and PSR anointed, please contact a Priest or the [email protected] Parish Office. x 223 DR. MARC STRATHMAN Director of Music Bulletin deadlines are Tuesdays at noon. [email protected] Please submit items to Anne at [email protected] x 114 SUE O’LEARY Business Manager [email protected] x 111 ANGELA FIORDELISI Weekly Offertory Summary Office Manager January 11 through February 1 [email protected] x 110 Last Four Week Offertory $ 139,960 ANNE STEFFENS Communications Coordinator Four Week Offertory Budget $ (126,824) [email protected] Surplus/ Shortfall: $ 13,136 x 121 MARY ANN ZIMMERMAN Four Week Average $ 34,990 Part-time Pastoral Associate Weekly Goal $ 31,706 [email protected] x 125 Please call the parish office, 314-962-2311, HEATHER O’KEEFE Safe Environment Coordinator if you are interested in enrolling for Online Giving. [email protected] x 122

MARY QUEEN OF PEACE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021

A NEW WEEK FR. JOHN VIEN * 6:45 am Mass, Church * 8:00 am Mass, Church Happy February! This cold winter month has many celebrations to * 7:00 pm Board of Education brighten its 28 days, including Groundhog Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Meeting Valentine’s Day, and Presidents Day. This month we also celebrate Mardi Gras and the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, February 17. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 * 6:45 am Mass, Church Among other celebrations in our nation, February is Black History * 8:00 am Mass, Church month. As we recall the many prominent and lesser-known Black * 9:30 am Quilters, Msgr. Americans who have advanced our national history, during this Lubeley Room month, we Catholics can also learn about the many prominent Black * 6:45 pm PSR, School and African of our Church, including St. Monica, St. Augustine, St. , St. Charles Lwanga, Saints , St. Benedict the Moor, and WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 others. This coming Monday, February 8 is the Feast of one of the newest black saints, * 6:45 am Mass, Church Josephine Bakhita. She was born in 1868 in Darfur, Sudan. She recalled a happy early * 8:00 am Mass, Church childhood, but between the ages of seven and nine, she was kidnapped by Arab slave * 9:15 am All School Mass, traders. Because of the trauma, she forgot her own name, and was called Bakhita, which Facebook means “lucky” in Arabic. She suffered beatings at the hands of cruel owners and was * 7:00 pm First Communion branded as a slave by having salt poured into wounds cut by one of her mistresses. In Parent Meeting 1883, Bakhita was bought by the Italian Vice Counsel, Callisto Legnani, at Khartoum. For the first time since her capture, she was treated kindly, and when Legnani was recalled THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 to Italy, she begged to be taken along. Once in Italy, she was given as a gift to the * 6:45 am Mass, Church Michieli family, where she served as a nanny and returned to Sudan for a time. When * 8:00 am Mass, Church the Michieli family decided to sell their Italian estate and remain there, Bakhita was sent * 6:00 pm Cornerstone Scripture to live with the Canossian Sisters until all was settled, but when Signora Michieli came to Study retrieve her, Bakhita refused to leave. Italian law did not recognize slavery, and she was * 6:00 pm Choir Rehearsals, free for the first time to set her own course. She decided to remain with the sisters, was Church baptized in 1890 with the name Josephine and entered the novitiate of the Canossian Sisters in 1893. She was assigned as the porter or doorkeeper of the convent and FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 became well-known and loved in the local area for her holiness. Josephine Bakhita died * 6:45 am Mass, Church in 1947 and was canonized by John Paul II in 2000. St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for * 8:00 am Mass, Church us! * 8:00 pm AA Meeting, Msgr. Lubeley Room There are also many Black Catholics who have helped shape Catholicism in the United States. Among them are some candidates for sainthood, including Pierre Toussaint, a SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021 former slave who started a school for black children in New York City and helped serve * 3:45 pm Confessions, Church the city’s sick and poor. Augustus Tolton, believed to be the first black Catholic priest in * 5:00 pm Mass, Church the U.S., was forced to travel to Rome for seminary because no American school would accept him. is another former slave who was beloved in Denver for SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021 distributing charity to the needy. Henriette Delille in New Orleans and Mary Elizabeth * 8:00 am Mass, Church and Lange in both founded religious orders. Sr. was a teacher, Facebook Live writer, and evangelist, and a popular speaker on faith and spirituality who founded the * 8:30 am RCIA Meeting, Virtual National Black Sisters Conference. These black men and women of faith are already well *10:30 am Mass, Church known in the local Catholic communities that are championing their sainthood causes. * 5:00 pm Mass, Church In fact, Lange, Tolton, Greeley, and Bowman have been declared “Servants of God” by local bishops ― the first official step in the four-part process. Delille and PRESIDENTS DAY, FEBRUARY 15 Toussaint have been declared “Venerable” by the Vatican, which means they’re at the The Parish Offices and School will second stage, awaiting miracles for . be closed on Monday, February 15, in honor of Presidents Day. May all these holy men and women intercede for our Church and our society, especially, Daily Mass and Adoration of the during this Black History Month, to advance the cause of reconciliation and harmony Blessed Sacrament will still take among all races. place at the usual times.

Photo: Father John LOVES fun socks! These are his St. Josephine Bakhita socks!

FEBRUARY 7, 2021 |FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MARY QUEEN OF PEACE OUT OF THE MESS……. From Melissa Hunter, Director of Faith Formation

“For this purpose I have come.”

“Purpose” is the name of the program/curriculum we use to get our 8th graders ready for the Sacrament of Confirmation.

“What’s the purpose?” is an exasperation that plagues many people.

“I didn’t do it on purpose!” is commonly heard when the behaviors of children are called into question.

Jesus uses that word in today’s Gospel to explain to His disciples why it is time to travel and do more teaching. He understands that doing so is the reason He is God Incarnate.

He has a mission. He knows it. He lives accordingly.

What about you and me?

Are we willing to sit with the uncomfortable question of what our purpose might be, in order to discover the answer?

Do we believe that God willed our existence intentionally? That He has something specific in mind for us?

Do we let what God shows us about ourselves determine how we navigate the choices that make up our lives? HELP OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED!

For what purpose are you called? Our Mary Queen of Peace Conference for the Society of St. Vincent de Paul is looking for more volunteers Melissa Hunter serves as the Director of Faith to help us help our neighbors in need. We are looking Formation at MQP. She spends most days trying to for sort through the mess of her life so she can see Je- people who can help us in a variety of ways. The only sus. You can reach her via email at prerequisite is that you have a desire to help others. [email protected] Let us know if you’d like to share your time and talent by emailing Jonathan Igoe at [email protected]

We also encourage any parishioner who has a need or knows of a neighbor in need to reach out to our hotline for assistance. Our contact number is 314- 286-5212.

Laverne Hoff Cheryl and John Johnson Henley Jane Lewis

We pray for the repose of the souls of If you would like to add a name to the list, please call the parish Robert O'Brien office at 314-962-2311 or email Mary Ann at mazimmer- Father of parishioner Maura Houseworth [email protected] May God welcome him home, fill him with peace, and bless all those who mourn his loss.

FEBRUARY 7, 2021 | FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7 READINGS: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7 ASH WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 Because of the pandemic, the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday Mk 1:29-39 will be different this year. Instead of the minister placing ashes on 8:00 am Mary Breight each individual forehead, the minister will sprinkle ashes on top of 10:30 am Jack Uhlenbrock each person’s head, in silence. Sprinkling ashes on the head is not a 5:00 pm People of our Parish common practice in the United States, but it is common in Europe and elsewhere. MONDAY St. Emiliani

8 St. Josephine Bakhita, READINGS: Gn 1:1-19 The primary reason why the Vatican and the United States Conference Mk 6:53-56 of Catholic Bishops has called for the sprinkling of ashes on our head 6:45 am Mary Lou Boersig in silence, instead of placing them on our foreheads using the tradi- 8:00 am Gabe Corino tional words, is to minimize the necessity of physical contact between the minister and recipient and to remove the need for the minister to TUESDAY READINGS: Gn 1:20—2:4a speak while in close proximity to the recipient. 9 Mk 7:1-13 6:45 am Bernard Baldwin The sprinkling of ashes on the crown of the head is a very ancient 8:00 am Joe Grimm symbol which recalls the biblical method of putting on sackcloth and ashes as a sign of penance. As we read in the Book of Nehemiah, “On WEDNESDAY St. Scholastica, Virgin the twenty-fourth day of this month, the people of Israel gathered 10 READINGS: Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17 Mk 7:14-23 while fasting and wearing sackcloth, their heads covered with 6:45 am Claudene Chunn dust” (9:1). 8:00 am Frank Wolf 9:15 am Special Intention for Brady Of course, the tradition of placing ashes on the forehead allows the Smith ashes to be visible to others so the penitential focus of the day is more observable. This year, adhering to the Gospel of Matthew which THURSDAY Our Lady of Lourdes we hear proclaimed at Mass on this day, the communal, penitential 11 READINGS: Gn 2:18-25 Mk 7:24-30 nature of the day will be kept more private. 6:45 am Ed Brown 8:00 am Special Intention for Masses on Ash Wednesday will be celebrated at 6:45am, 8:00am, Winnie and Dave Docter 9:15am (closed to the public but on Facebook Live) and at 7:00pm.

FRIDAY READINGS: Gn 3:1-8

12 Mk 7:31-37 6:45 am Chuck VanCamp FAST & ABSTINENCE 8:00 am Donald A. Gibson Ash Wednesday (February 17) and Good Friday (April 2) are days of fast and abstinence. Fasting is required of Catholics aged 18-59 and SATURDAY READINGS: Gn 3:9-24 means having one full meal, two smaller meals, and nothing in 13 Mk 8:1-10 between meals, though water and medicine are always permitted. 5:00 pm Lucille Barnidge Abstinence is abstaining from eating meat for all Catholics over the age of 14. No Catholic should lightly excuse himself or herself from this obligation. SUNDAY Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time World Marriage Day 14 Valentine’s Day All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Here again, READINGS: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46 Catholics will not hold themselves lightly excused, but if there is a 1 Cor 10:31—11:1 serious health problem, this obligation does not apply. Catholics Mk 1:40-45 should strive to make all days of Lent a time of prayer and penance. 8:00 am Joseph Brawer 10:30 am Special Intention for Brenda Barnett Lonsberg 5:00 pm People of our Parish

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