St. John’s Omaha’s Jesuit Parish Located at Creighton University 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-3031 www.stjohns-creighton.org Cornerstone laid 1887—Established as a Parish 1897—Designated a City Landmark 1981 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time — June 27, 2021

Saturday 5:00pm, Sunday 8:00am, 10:30am Music

As we transition back to normal liturgical practice, please join in signing the Mass parts, found in leaflets at the main entrance of the Church.

A prayer to celebrate the Ignatian Year

God of all people, You were there when the cannonball shattered the leg of St. Ignatius, shattered his dreams, and shattered what he assumed his life would be. Even in a moment of pain and uncertainty, doubt and darkness, you spoke to Ignatius a word of peace and light. You showed him the path to you and the person he might become.

We may not be soldiers, standing in the path of a literal cannonball. And yet, we’ve been hit all the same. Cannonballs shatter our own hopes and dreams and expectations. Like Ignatius, may we hear the compassionate voice of your Son in the aftermath of these cannonball blasts. May we seek the face of Christ even when our dreams are shattered. May we turn and follow Jesus with the courage it takes to change and grow.

As we journey through this Ignatian Year, may we be shown the path to you, God of all people, and live out our vocation, becoming the person you have invited us to be. Give us the grace to work for reconciliation every day: with you, with others All peoples, and with your creation. Open our eyes so we might see all things new in Christ. Amen.

clap your hands. Find resources for the Ignatian Year: Jesuits.org/Ignatian-Year. Prayer Requests Cry to God Terry Moore Sarah McKito Tara Virgilito Julie Crotty Guile with shouts of joy! Alfred Emmanuel Charlotte Cullenward Peter Beth McGargill Mark

St. John’s parish is a Catholic Ignatian community committed to welcoming all, celebrating Eucharist, and empowering all to serve for the greater honor and glory of God. Psalm 30: I Will Praise You, Lord

COMMUNITY SAVE THE DATE — JULY 31ST Celebrating Sacraments Celebrating the Feast of St. Ignatius this week: 5:00 pm Mass Parish Picnic in the Jesuit Gardens after Mass. Sacrament of Marriage Food Trucks will be on site Thomas Dorwat & Julie Don Compliments of St. John’s. Jaeyon Park & Windy Vo

More info to come. Congratulations!

Welcome to the St. John’s Grade School Class of 1964 who will be celebrating their class reunion with us at the 10:30 AM Mass

The second collection this week is for: Peters Pence Please be as generous as you are able. Meeting and Events Calendar Weekly Offering Report for June 13, 2021

Friday—July 2 Weekly Budget Goal 8,326.95 Annual Budget Goal 441,328.40 2:00 PM—Dorwart & Don Wedding Weekend Contributions 2,949.00 Fiscal Year-to-Date Goal 424,674.50 Other 434.00 Saturday—July 3 ONLINE 1,680.00 2:00 PM—Park & Vo Wedding ACH 0.00

TOTAL 5,063.00

Above (Below) weekly goal -3,263.95 Amount Collected YTD 517,829.20 LEGEND Above (Below) YTD Goal -0.0 LSJ—Lower St. Johns CH—Church RSRM—Resource Room CFRM— Conference Room

DEADLINES FOR NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS Online Giving is available with the use Below are the deadline dates for upcoming Parish Newsletters of this QR code. A link to online giving Thursday July 1st for Sunday July 11th Friday July 9th for Sunday July 18th is also available on our webpage, Friday July 16th for Sunday July 25th www. Stjohns-creighton.org Please submit all requests to [email protected] AND Thank you for supporting the ministry [email protected] with the subject line: NEWSLETTER. and mission of St. John’s Parish. Masses at St. John’s This Week

Date Feast Readings Mass Time—Location—Intention

6/27 Thirteenth Sunday Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24 8: 00 AM—Church Sun in Ordinary Time 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15 10:30 AM—Church & Livestream Mk 5:21-43 All Sunday liturgies are offered for the people of the parish

6/28 , Gn 18:16-33 Noon—Church & Livestream—Keith Kucera Mon Bishop & Martyr Mt 8:18-22

6/29 STS. PETER & PAUL, Acts 12:1-11 Noon—Church & Livestream—Heather & Joe Crotty Tues APOSTLES 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18 Mt 16:13-19

6/30 Gn 21:5; 8:20a Noon—Church & Livestream—Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kuhl Wed Mt 8:28-34

7/1 Saint Junipero Serra, Gn 22:1b-19 Noon—Church & Livestream—†Lewis Kummer Thur Priest Mt 9:1-8

7/2 Sts Bernadino Realino, Gn 23:1-4, 19; Noon—Church & Livestream—†Rosemary Cogan Block Fri John Francis Regis, 24:1-8, 62-67 Francis , Mt 9:9-13 Bl. Julian Maunoir, Anthony Baldinucci, and Tiburcio Arnaiz, Priests

7/3 ST. THOMAS, Eph 2:19-22 NOON MASS IS SUSPENDED FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR Sat Jn 20:24-29 APOSTLE 5:00 pm—Church

7/4 Fourteenth Sunday Ez 2:2-5 8: 00 AM—Church Sun in Ordinary Time 2 Cor 12:7-10 10:30 AM—Church & Livestream Mk 6:1-6a All Sunday liturgies are offered for the people of the parish Regularly Scheduled Confessions Resume The sacrament is celebrated in the Resource Room of St. John’s Church, located immediately to the left of Our Lady’s Shrine during the following times: Monday through Friday from 12:30pm to 1:00pm and on Saturdays from 4:00pm to 5:00pm OMAHA FAITH FORMATION A Healing Retreat for Women Survivors of Abuse Registration is now open! The Archdiocese of Omaha Victim Outreach Ministry, in collaboration with the Victim Assistance Ministries in the Dioceses of Grand Island and Lincoln, are hosting the retreat July 23-25, 2021 at St. Benedict Center Schuyler, NE The Way is a 3-day guided meditation and prayer experience for women whose abuse by another has deeply affected their heart, mind, body, and soul. Space is limited, so if interested, see brochure at https://archomaha.org/safe-environment/victim-assistance/ For more information or to request an application, email [email protected] or call Mary Beth Hanus at 402-827-3798.

Join Catholic Charities of Omaha for a day of MUSIC, FUN, FOOD, and FAMILY FESTIVITIES during the Second Annual Essential Festival, Friday, July 2, 2021, at SumTur Amphitheater in “Ascending With Ignatius” Papillion. The event is benefitting Catholic Charities and celebrating the A 30 Day At-Home Retreat organization’s essential programs and services that help feed the As a way to learn, more about St. Ignatius and Jesuit hungry, raise people out of poverty, strengthen communities, and Spirituality St. Johns is offering the opportunity to pray with protect human dignity. Mark Thibodeaux, S.J.’s book and guide Music performances by The Emmett Bower Band, Finest Hour, “Ascending with Ignatius” Oye Como Va, The String Beans, Omaha Street Percussion, and during the month of July more are scheduled. Other activities include Cirque Du Soleil as a way to celebrate the Ignatian year. clowns, food, face painting, cheerleaders, and fire trucks. The book is designed to guide your daily at home Gates open at 3:00 pm, and the event finishes with a fireworks Experience. Then on August 6th at 6:00PM outside (TBD) we show, by Bellino Fireworks, at 10:15 pm. will have tapas and faith reflection on our month long More details and individual ($25) and couple/family ($50) tickets are available at www.essentialfest.org. experience and learn a bit more about Ignatian Spirituality. Facility COVID requirements will be followed. Either sign up with Fr. Snow, SJ by phone or email [email protected]. A suggested offering of $10.00 to Spirit Catholic Radio is bringing to St. cover the cost of the book and tapas appreciated. Church an up-close experience of the most studied artifact of all St. Johns will have the book available starting June 25th time – The Shroud of Turin, what many believe to be the authentic in the parish office. burial cloth of Christ. Their newest traveling exhibit, The Man of the Shroud, will include 42 beautifully-designed panels on display in the Mainelli Center from June 30 – July 4. Viewing times are Wed. June 30 – Fri. July 2, 9am – 5pm, Sat. July 3, 9am – 7:30pm, Sun. July 4, 9am – 3pm. This exhibit will raise the ques- tions, “Could the Shroud be the most important archaeological artifact ever found? Does it provide clues to what happened dur- ing the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus?” On July 3, at 12pm in the Church, Shroud expert, Jim Bertrand, M.Ed. of the American Confraternity of the Holy Shroud, will give a special presentation and a rare viewing of a Shroud replica, as well as replicas of the Crown of Thorns, whip, nails and Holy Sponge used in the Passion of Our Lord. For more information on this exhibit, visit spiritcatholicradio.com/shroud. LITURGY, PRAYER, AND WORSHIP Singing at Mass The Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul “Singing is the sign of the heart’s joy” (General Instruction From a sermon by St. Augustine, bishop of the Roman Missal, 39). When we praise God at Mass The martyrs realized what they taught each Sunday, we come with a joyful heart. We are grateful for the gift of life and all our many blessings. We leave the This day has been made holy by the passion of the blessed comfort of our homes and bring ourselves to church, where apostles Peter and Paul. We are, therefore, not talking about some obscure martyrs. For their voice has gone forth to all the we gather with others who have made the same sacrifice. world and to the ends of the earth their message. These martyrs There we do something we may not realized what they taught: they pursued justice, they confessed normally do. We sing. the truth, they died for it.

Singing has been a part of Mass ever since the Last Supper , the first of the apostles and a fervent lover of Christ, (Matthew 26:30). The first Christians sang psalms, hymns, merited to hear these words: I say to you that you are Peter, for and spiritual songs (Colossians 3:16). We echo them. he had said: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God. Then Christ said: And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I “Great importance should therefore be attached to the use will build my Church. On this rock I will build the faith that you now of singing in the celebration of the Mass” (GIRM, 40). Our confess, and on your words: You are the Christ, the Son of the living God, I will build my Church. For you are Peter, and the name songs are formed by the rhythms and melodies of old Peter comes from petra, the word for "rock," and not vice versa. traditions and contemporary cultures. They help us express "Peter" comes, therefore, from petra, just as "Christian" comes the joy in our hearts—as well as our sadness, our from Christ. wonderment, and our hope. As you are aware, Jesus chose his disciples before his passion Everyone is invited to sing at every Mass. “[E]very care and called them apostles: and among these almost everywhere should be taken that singing by the ministers and the Peter alone deserved to represent the entire Church. And people not be absent in celebrations that occur on Sundays because of that role which he alone had, he merited to hear the and on Holy days of Obligation” (ibid.). Some parishes have words: To you I shall give the keys of the kingdom of heaven. For a Sunday Mass at which no singing occurs, but the church it was not one man who received the keys, but the entire Church considered as one. Now insofar as he represented the unity and asks us to avoid this. Music belongs at every Mass. It helps universality of the Church, Peter's preeminence is clear from the us participate with body, soul, mind, and strength. words: To you I give, for what was given was given to all. For the fact that it was the Church that received the keys of the kingdom One of the purposes of the opening hymn is to “foster the of God is clear from what the Lord says elsewhere to all the unity of those who have been gathered”(47). When you apostles: Receive the Holy Spirit, adding immediately, whose sins arrive at church, heart filled with joy, you express your faith you forgive, they are forgiven, and whose sins you retain, they are in God and your unity with others in a beautiful way. You retained. open your mouth. And sing. Rightly then did the Lord after his resurrection entrust Peter with Bulletin Inserts for the Liturgical Life of the Parish: Gestures, Postures, the feeding of his sheep. Yet he was not the only to merit and Customs of the Liturgy © 2020 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy the feeding of the Lord's sheep; but Christ in speaking only to one Training Publications. All rights reserved. Written by Paul Turner. GIRM suggests the unity of all; and so he speaks to Peter, because © 2010, ICEL. Peter is the first among the apostles. Therefore do not be disheartened, Peter; reply once, reply twice, reply a third time. The triple confession of your love is to regain what was lost three “Give Us This Day” is Back times by your fear. You must loose three times what you bound We are grateful life is slowly returning to “normal”. three times; untie by love that which your fear bound. Once, and One gift from the past was the ability to receive the again, and a third time did the Lord entrust his sheep to Peter. publication, “Give Us This Day”, which includes not only the daily readings but also reflections. This monthly publication is a Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; wonderful way to enrich prayer life. and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this If St. John’s has a minimum of 5 subscribers, then we get a day made holy for us by the apostles' blood. Let us embrace what significant discount. they believed , their life, their labors, their sufferings, their The yearly discounted cost for 5-19 subscribers is $35.96 as preaching and their confession of faith. opposed to the individual cost of $44.95 The yearly discount for 20-49 subscribers is $31.50. The number of subscribers will determine our discount rate.

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