St. John Vianney St. Paschal

Catholic Catholic Parish August 9, 2020 Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Spokane’s Poor Clare Monastery and Community —Poor Clare nuns have been in Spokane, praying for the Church, the world, and the needs of people in our area, since 1914 (4419 N Hawthorne St; 509 327- 4479; clockwise from back left: Srs. Rita Louise, Colleen, Jane, and Debbie, and Abbess Marcia Kay)

Welcome! Office 926-5428 / 926-5553 Prayer Chains To make St. John Vianney or St. Pastor: Fr. Kevin Oiland SJV: Jayne Seaboldt 921-0945 Paschal your parish home, regis- ter with the office or online! Office Manager/Bookkeeper: If unavailable: Mary McLeslie 926-0460 Kristi Sampica Receiving Our Music Coordinator: Bridgid Burgard Emails? Bulletin deadline: Wed. 10am Assistance Program: If you need assis- To start receiving Flocknotes (occasional emails about news tance with food, utilities, or prescriptions, and events), call the office to SJV Parish School 926-7987 please call the SJV office Tues.—Thurs., give us your address, or sign up Principal: Nick Senger 9am to noon online! Secretary: Joan Olson Consider Website: www.st.johnvianney.com Catholic Family Service Counseling Online Giving! Online giving has many ad- vantages. See the website to read more about them and to sign up!

Office: (509) 926-5428 SJV / (509) 926-5553 SP Mailing Address: P.O. Box 141125, Spokane Valley, WA 99214 SJV Location: 503 North Walnut Road / SP Location: 2521 North Park Road Website: www.sjvchurch.org / Email: [email protected] / Facebook: StJohnVianneyCatholic

Mass Times Masses during COVID SJV: Sat. Vigil 5pm; Sun. 10am SP: Sun. 8am, Noon Masks are required at Mass. If you don’t have your own, Daily Mass: SJV 8am Mon.-Th. we will give you one! Mass is live-streamed on our Face- book page. Obligation to attend Mass is still dispensed. SJV School Student Mass: 8:15am Wed. during the school year Plans are underway for options to help Eucharistic Home Visits kids continue to learn well regardless of If you are homebound or ill, and want to receive COVID. To find out more, contact SJV Holy Communion, please call the office. School Principal Nick Senger

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Sacraments of Baptism and Holy Matrimony Parents seeking baptism for their child or engaged What Would be Helpful to You in the Bulletin? couples seeking marriage should contact Fr. Oiland through the office at least five months in Some items previously in the bulletin were removed so the advance to arrange preparation. font size could increase. Let us know what you’d like to see

First Communion and Sacrament of Confirma- as we move forward! You can put comments in the offerto- tion ry, call the office, or email [email protected] Baptized Catholics who have not yet received ______First Holy Communion or Confirmation, please contact the Director of Catholic Formation ______through the office.

Interested in Becoming Catholic? ______Interested in becoming Catholic, or want to ask about our RCIA program? Please call Charlie Pfeifer, 924-8791, or Mike Heywood, 999-8374. ______

St. John Vianney - Jul 25-26 Daily Mass continues to be Mon.-Th., instead of Tues.-Fri. Friday Mass intentions are shifted to Monday of the same Offertory: $ 6097 week. If you scheduled a Friday Mass and this change poses Assistance Program: $ 145 any concern to you, please call us at the office. Building Fund: $ 68 Mass Intentions School: $ 25 Offered for Requested by Special Projects: $ 25 Sun. 8 Vocations St. Paschal - Jul 25-26 Sun. 10 SJV & SP parishes Offertory: $ 596 Mon Harold Warren+AD (8/13) (shifted from Fri.) Assistance Program: $ 40 Mary Ann Warren Tues. Craig Smith Wed. Thanksgiving Judy Rhea Devera Liturgical Minister Schedule Thurs. Shirley Cosby+AD Rita Cosby EMHC = Extraord. Minis. of Holy Comm. Sat. Tom Groce+ Groce Family U = Ushers; AS = Altar Servers; L = Lectors. Sat., Aug. 15 Readings for the Coming Week SJV 5pm: EMHC: P. Schmidt; U: J. Gonzalez, Mo 2 Cor 9:6-10; Jn 12:24-26 M. Tibbals; L: S. Manfred Tu Ez 2:8-34; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 We Ez 9:1-7, 10:10-22; Mt 18:15-20 Sun., Aug. 16 Th Ez 12:1-12; Mt 18:21-19:1 SP 8am: L: M. Foster Fr Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63; Mt 19:3-12 SJV 10am: EMHC: A. Spragg; U: J. Scrivner, Sa Rv 11:9a, 12:1-6a 10ab 1 Cor 15:20-27 Lk 1:39-56 N. Durgan; L: N. Durgan Next Sunday’s Readings SP Noon: L: D. Picone Is 56:1, 6-7 Rom 11:13-15, 29-32 Mt 15:21-28

Announcements Catholic Culture Corner

1. Saturday this week is the Solemnity of the As- This week we celebrate the feast of St. Clare, foundress sumption! We celebrate Mary’s being taken up, of the Franciscan Poor Clare nuns…. body and soul, to heaven when her earthly life was Just over 800 years ago on Palm Sunday, St. Clare left finished. her family home to become a religious according to the This feast not only reminds us ideals of St . From one tiny monastery about the wonderful things God has in Italy there began a new community of nuns who have done in history; it also foreshadows thrived and spread throughout the world. what He will do at the end of time. In In her day, monasteries were supported by land hold- history, Christ rose from the dead ings and endowments. St. Clare, however, wanted to in- and then ascended into heaven. Later troduce a new way of monastic life, one that had Gospel He called His Mother, body and soul, living, poverty, and unity in community life at its center. to be with Him at the end of her life. Her monasteries were totally supported by alms Finally, at the end of time, the souls (donations). This was radical in her time—and still is. of all the dead will be reunited with Today Poor Clare life is much the same (with allow- their resurrected bodies. ances for 800 years of history and growth, of course). Just like Jesus and Mary, as our bodies shared Our community still has Gospel living, poverty, and uni- in the good works and sins of our earthly lives, so ty in community as our center. We strive spiritually to they will share in what we merit in the afterlife support the Church from our little corner of the Pacific (heaven or hell). Thus, all those in heaven will Northwest. Our day begins and ends with prayer, and then praise God not only in their souls, but also in there’s laughter, work, and of course more prayer sand- their glorified bodies, as is the case with Mary wiched in between. We are struck with just how much now. Let us pray for each other, and strive to live we are called to be witnesses to Gospel living from the holy lives, so that we may follow where she has monastery and how countercultural our way of life is. St gone! Clare is an example to all, in and out of the monastery, to Normally, the Assumption is a Holy Day of Ob- live our Catholic Life to the fullest, as we witness to the ligation; because it falls on Saturday this year, the good news of Jesus. obligation has been dispensed. Nonetheless, it is a St. Clare lived in a time of political and social unrest. worthwhile thing to pick some way to honor and She once told her sisters not to be afraid (of an advancing celebrate Mary in a special way this day. A Hail army), but to trust in God through the power of the Risen Mary, a , a Marian film, some special time Lord present in the . She held up a with her in prayer, flowers for her in church or in in the monastery window, the army retreated, and her front of a statue or picture of her, the Little Office monastery and the city of Assisi were saved. This is why of the Blessed Virgin Mary—there are many possi- many pictures show her holding a monstrance. That bilities and these are just a few options! event is still commemorated in Assisi every year. 2. Watch for auction dates for items donated for We ask St Clare to intercede for us all as we celebrate the Rummage Sale at the website spokaneauction- her life. Please be assured of our prayers, especially at sllc.hibid.com. All proceeds will go to the parish! this special time. In a particular way, we will remember To donate items, email spokaneauction- you in the novena (Aug. 2-10) before her feast day, Aug. [email protected]. To make a monetary donation, 11, and in our private community Mass that day. (Our mark it "Rummage Sale" and put it in the collec- annual public tion plate. A big “Thank You” again to all who outdoor Mass worked so hard to put the sale together! will not be held this year due to 2. Charismatic Prayer Group: No meeting on COVID re- Tuesday nights. Please see website: strictions.) catholicrenewalministry.org. Blessing of 3. If you need assistance with food, utilities, or pre- Peace & Good scriptions, please call the SJV office Tues.— to All! — The Thurs., 9am to noon.4. Poor Clare Sis- ters of Spokane

Prayer Intentions Please pray for Arlene McTague, and all in the prayer intention books in the church vestibules. Feel free to write prayer requests there, too. For a name to appear in the bulletin, please call the office.