St. Francis of Assisi CATHOLIC COMMUNITY

4300 Meeks Drive, Orange TX 77632 Office: 409-883-9153  Fax: 409-883-9154 Web: www.stfrancisorangetx.orgOffice Email:[email protected]

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Parish Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am-3pm

Religious Education Office Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-3pm Wednesday 3-7pm during RE

PASTOR: Rev. Sinclair K. Oubre, J.C.L. [email protected]

Deacon Hector Maldonado [email protected] Deacon Tommy Ewing [email protected] Deacon Keith Hebert [email protected] MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5pm  Sunday: 8am Bilingual 10:30am

DAILY MASS Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:30am  Wednesday: 6:00pm

RECONCILIATION: Saturday: 3:30-4:30pm

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Please call the Pastor to make arrangements for Infant Baptisms. Baptism class is held the third Thursday of each month at 6:00pm. This can be done at least seven (7) months before the birth in order to make proper sacramental preparations.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Diocesan policy requires a minimum of six (6) months of sacramental preparations for marriage. Engaged couples are invited to call the Pastor for an appointment.

HOLY COMMUNION OR ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please call the Pastor if you or any family members are ill or plan to be hospitalized to arrange the reception of the Sacraments.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS - Catechumenate Those interested in becoming a Catholic or in completing their initiation are invited to contact Deacon Keith Hebert at the Church office to learn more about the Catechumenate Process.

PARISH MEMBERSHIP Welcome to St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Community! Please register by obtaining a census form from the Parish Office or at one of the two front entrances to the Church. Please return the census form to the Parish Office or drop in the collection basket. You may also register online at www.stfrancisorangetx.org. From the home page, click on the registration form. We look forward to the opportunity to know and serve you and it is our prayer that you will bless St. Francis Catholic Community with your time, talent, and treasure.

EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 2, 2020

OUR DEEPEST NEEDS READINGS FOR THE WEEK

The word of God serves up a tremendous feast for us today. Isaiah beckons all who hunger and thirst to come to the Lord for August 3-9 satisfaction. The psalmist cries out, “The hand of the Lord feeds us; he answers all our needs” (Psalm 145:16). Saint Paul tells us that MONDAY Jer 28:1-17 nothing can separate us from the love of God. Finally, in the Gospel, we hear the story of the miraculous feeding of over five 3 Ps 119:29, 43, 79, 80, thousand people from a mere five loaves and two fish. Most of us 95, 102 have our material needs met on a day-to-day basis. These Mt 14:22-36 scriptures, nevertheless, have much to say to the contemporary believer. We must ask ourselves, “Where are my deepest hungers? TUESDAY Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, Where are my thirsts?” After material needs are satisfied and, in 18-22 some cases, over-satisfied, many people still experience a deep 4 longing for spiritual balance and well-being. As the loaves and fish Ps 102:16-21, 29, are multiplied in today’s Gospel, perhaps our prayer can be a 22-23 longing for the satisfaction of the deepest needs that only God can Mt 14:22-36 fill. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. WEDNESDAY Jer 31:1-7 5 Jer 31:10-12ab, 13 Mt 15:21-28 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES THURSDAY Dn 7:9-10, 13-14

Sunday: Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 6 Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9 Tuesday: St. John Vianney 2 Pt 1:16-19 Wednesday: Dedication of the Basilica of St. Mary Major Mt 17:1-9 Thursday: The Transfiguration of the Lord; Hiroshima Memorial Day FRIDAY Na 2:1, 3; 3:1-3, 6-7 Friday: St. Sixtus II and Companions; St. Cajetan; First Friday 7 Dt 32:35cd-36ab, Saturday: St. Dominic 39abcd, 41 Mt 16:24-28

SATURDAY Hb 1:12 — 2:4 SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY (1786-1859) August 4 8 Ps 9:8-13 Mt 17:14-20 A busy pastor jokingly suggests the secret of John Vianney’s holiness: “He died seventeen years before telephones!” Call they SUNDAY 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a didn’t, but visit they did, keeping Vianney eighteen hours a day in the confessional. Stories abound of reading hearts and exorcisms, 9 Ps 85:9-14 but Vianney’s first miracle was getting ordained. Difficulty with Rom 9:1-5 studies delayed him, prompting the rector’s apology to the bishop, Mt 14:22-33 “So far to ordain just one, especially this one!” The bishop, who could not know he was ordaining the future patron saint of parish priests, replied, “No burden to ordain one good priest!” In Ars, only an elderly handful attended Mass, “praying,” one told Vianney, “for a priest with brains.” But he stayed forty-two years, fulfilling the promise he made the day he arrived. In a sculpture just outside the village Vianney points skyward: “Show me the way to Ars,” he tells a boy, “and I’ll show you the way to heaven.” To someone who feared there was no heaven beyond the grave, Vianney smiled, “My child, it would have been heaven enough to have lived as Jesus’ disciple on earth.” —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. St. Francis of Assisi Stewardship of Treasure

July 26, 2020

$5,840.00

Saturday August 1 5:00 p.m. Frank & Josephine Shick (D) Online Giving

Sunday August 2 $4,365.99 8:00 a.m. Ruth Pousson (D) 10:30 a.m. People of the Parish Thank you for your continued support!

Monday August 3 No Mass Weekly Church Schedule Tuesday August 4 8:30 a.m. Taylor Pousson (L) Sunday, August 2

Wednesday August 5 8:00 a.m. Bilingual Mass 6:00 p.m. Viola Watson (D) 10:30 a.m. Mass

Thursday August 6 Monday, August 3 8:30 a.m. Helen Buran (D) No Mass 9:00-6:00 Church open Friday August 7 8:30 a.m. David and Kevin Wilson (D) Tuesday, August 4 Saturday August 8 8:30 a.m. Mass 5:00 p.m. Nancy Ehrman (D) 9:00 a.m. Morning Prayer and Exposition 9:00-5:45 Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Sunday August 9 5:45 p.m. Evening Prayer and Benediction 8:00 a.m. Angela Pousson (L) 10:30 a.m. People of the Parish Wednesday, August 5 9:00-6:00 Church Open 6:00 p.m. Mass

Thursday, August 6 August 2, 2020 8:30 a.m. Mass 9:00-6:00 Church Open Altar Flowers Donated by: Friday, August 7 8:30 a.m. Mass 9:00-6:00 Church Open Paul & Becky Daniels in honor of Our children and grandchildren Saturday, August 8 3:30-4:30 Confessions Blessed Mother Flowers 5:00 p.m. Mass Donated by: Sunday, August 9 Kathy Arceneaux in memory of 8:00 a.m. Bilingual Mass 8:00-1:00 BLOOD DRIVE in SDC Charles Arceneaux 10:30 a.m. Mass

St. John Vianney Blood Drive Feast day: August 4

Sunday, August 9, 2020 Prayer of St. John Vianney

I love You, O my God, and my only desire is to love You St. Francis of Assisi until the last breath of my life. Semi-Annual Blood Drive I love You, O my infinitely lovable God, and I would ra- ther die loving You, than live without loving You. LifeShare Blood Center will be here at the San I love You, Lord and the only grace I ask is to love You eternally... Damiano Center from 8:00-1:00 p.m. My God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I love You, I want my heart to repeat it to You as often as I draw breath.

Rosary for Religious Freedom

Sunday, August 2, 2020 7:00 p.m.

What is religious freedom?

Religious freedom protects people’s right to live, speak, and act according to their beliefs peacefully and publicly. It protects their ability to be themselves at work, in class, and at social acvies. Religious freedom is more than the “freedom to worship” at a synagogue, church, or mosque. It makes sure they don’t have to go against their core values and beliefs in order to conform to culture or government. Diocese of Beaumont Catholic Clerical Student Fund

You can remember a loved one, living or deceased, with an enrollment to the Beaumont Clerical Student Fund for $5.00 and up, or a memorial for $10 and up.

This is an endowment fund for the education of men for the priesthood for the Beaumont Diocese.

Enrollments are sent for any special occasion, such as births, illness, a special favor, graduations, anniversary, weddings, etc.

For more information, please call Cathy Manshack at (409) 988-5159.

Monthly Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Twelve Biblical Reasons for Wanting to Spend One Hour with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament

1. He is really there! 2. Day and night Jesus dwells in the Blessed Sacrament because of His Infinite love for you! 3. The specific way that Jesus asks you to love Him in return is to spend one quiet hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. 4. When you look upon the Sacred Host, you look upon Jesus, the Son of God. 5. Each moment that you spend in His Eucharistic Presence will increase His Divine Life within you and deepen your personal relationship and friendship with Him. 6. Each hour you spend with Jesus will deepen His Divine Peace in your heart. 7. Jesus will give you all the graces you need to be happy! 8. Jesus is infinitely deserving of our unceasing thanksgiving and adoration for all He has done for our salvation. 9. For peace in our country! 10. Each hour you spend with Jesus on earth will leave your soul everlastingly more beautiful and glorious in heaven! 11. Jesus will bless you, your family, and the whole world for this hour of faith you spend with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. 12. Each moment you spend with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament brings joy, pleasure, and delight to His Sacred Heart!

St. Mary Catholic School 2600 Bob Hall Road Orange, TX 77630 409-883-8913 A Catholic Education since 1924

Registration for the 2020-2021 School Year is now open!

St. Mary School offers a place where children can grow spiritually, academically, and socially in a loving and challenging environment.

Pre-Kindergarten~8th Grade

The principal, Katie Sanders, welcomes any prospective family to call and schedule a visit to learn how St. Mary Catholic School can benefit their family.

The summer office hours are Monday through Thursday 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., and please leave a message if need be.

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