SACRED HEART CHURCH PRAYൃ † TEACHൃ †ൃ SERVE

June 6, 2021         Mission Statement We are a Eucharistic Community which recognizes and  values the dignity of each person by responding to the . We are called to  Pray, Teach and Serve.

Weekend Mass Saturday Vigil 5:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am   10:00 am  Daily Mass Monday 7:00 am Tuesday 7:00 am Wednesday 7:00 am Friday  7:00 am Saturday 8:30 am  Communion Service Thursday  7:00 am  Confession Monday 7:30 am Tuesday 7:30 am Saturday 9:00 am   4:305:15 pm  Adoration Friday  7:30 am Exposition   8:30 am Benediction  Please call the office to make arrangements for baptism at least 2 months in advance.  Matrimony Please call the parish office to make arrangements for marriage at least 6 months in advance.  Pastor Reverend Bruce Ludeke  Permanent Ken Funk

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Mass Intentions Reflections for St. Joseph, June, St. Joseph,  Mon. 06/07 7:00 am † Jim Foley  most Obedient and Head of the  Tues. 06/08 7:00 am  † Pamela Hallissey   Wed. 06/09 7:00 am  †Joanne Armoska   Good St. Joseph, faithful guardian of the holy family, Thurs.06/10 7:00 am  Communion Service  protect the chosen people of Jesus Christ and be our ally Fri. 06/11 7:00 am † Aldona Miloch  in our conflict with the powers of darkness. As you rescued the child Jesus from Herod, defend now the Universal Sat. 06/12 9:00 am  † Jim Foley  Church from all harm. Please listen to our prayers and help   5:30 pm † Kenneth & Erna Hudson  us in all our needs. ( Here we state our needs) . By your Sun. 06/13 8:30 am Sacred Heart Parishioners help and example, may we lead a holy life, die a godly 10:00 am Living and Deceased  death and attain to a blessed eternity in heaven. Amen.    members of the Robert & Taken from Novenas, edited by William G. Storey, Loyola Press    Mary Schuler Family    All authority is borrowed except for the Author himself. Sanctuary Lamp   Living and Deceased  One can only be a just head of a family, be it natural or    members of the Robert & religious, if one is first obedient to the Word    Mary Schluer Family  himself.Joseph’s perfect obedience rendered him the perfect Head of the Holy Family.

Prayer before Communion Solemnity of the Most Holy Dear Lord, may I receive you in this communion with open arms and a loving, contrite heart, so that I may be filled with Body and Blood of Christ your grace, for my good and Your glory! Amen.   The full name of this feast isCorpus et Sanguis Christior The Body and Thanksgiving After Holy Communion  Blood of Christ. The feast of the I thank you, Eternal Father, for giving me as Blessed Sacrament was established the food of my soul, the Body and Blood of in 1246 by Bishop Robert de Thorte of Your onlybegotten Son, our Lord Jesus Liege at the suggestion of St. Juliana Christ.May this Divine Food preserve and of Mont Carvillon. [It was] extended to the universal Church increase the union of my soul with you.May by Urban in 1264. The office composed by St. Thom- it purify me by repressing every evil as Aquinas and customary procession was approved by inclination.Grant that it may be to me a Martin V and Eugene IV. The Feast of Corpus Chris- pledge of a glorious resurrection on the last day. ti is a celebration of the real presence of Christ in the Holy Eucharist. O Sacred Heart of Jesus, I love you with all my heart.I am th sorry for ever having offended you, and I desire never to  St. Julianna of Cornillon lived in 13 century Belgium offend you again. Amen. From an early age, she had a deep devotion to the Eucha- rist. While living in the town of Liege Belgium, St. Juliana had a vision of the full moon darkened in one spot. She St. Michael Prayer heard a heavenly voice state that the moon was the Church St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our and the dark spot showed that there was a missing feast, protection against the wickedness and snares of the that of a feast to honor Corpus Christi (The Blessed Sacra- devil.May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, ment). She reported the vision to the Arch deacon of Liege, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast Jacques Panteleon. In 1246 the Bishop of Liege establish into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the the feast of the Blessed Sacrament and it was first celebrat- world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.  ed June 5, 1249. The celebration remained local to this diocese. In 1263 near the town of , Italy, a priest doubted the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. When next he celebrated Mass, at the moment of conse- cration, as the host was elevated, it began to bleed. Many witnessed this. The priest wrapped the bleeding Host in corporals and brought the Host and corporals to the Bishop at Orvieto. The Bishop consulted with Pope Urban IV, for- merly Archdeacon Jacques Panteleon, to whom St. Juliana had confided her vision. The miracle was affirmed, and the Corpus Christi Adoration Host and corporals remain in Orvieto for veneration to this  day. In 1264 Pope Urban IV issued a papal bull establish- Please join us immediately after the 10am Mass ing the feast of Corpus Christi for the universal Church. He this Sunday, June 6th for a half hour of adoration  commissioned St. to compose the Office of our Lord. of the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours for the new feast.  diocesecc.org/historyofthefeastofcorpuschristi/   Happy Birthday from Serve Fr. Bruce and the Sacred Heart Staff! 

th   June 7  Chase Wakefield th  June 13  Larry Farley June 10th Todd Heffelfinger Seamus  Shari Eddinger Jim Kenney  McDonnell  Brenda Reynolds John Loos th  June 8  June 11th Martha  Joshua O’Brien Carson Hogge  Williamson Nora Zolli  th th This weekend we thank the following people for the gift of June 9  June 12  their service in helping us reopen the church during Covid Caitlin Garcia Aubree Celestino through ushering and cleaning the church. We could not Jordan Lorenz Baylei Ferris have done it without you! ~ Father Bruce & Karen Nestor  Marley Brenda Van Horn

 Tracy, Dean & Nate   Denise & Gary Mosher    Ahlers   Geralyn Nash  Diocesan Stewardship   Amber Allen   Sue & Tom Nestor  Appeal 202122  Walter Asbury   Margaret & Greg    Julia Atilano    Nickrent  Goal: $34,212 Donated to date: $15,005  Tom Ausman   Jim & Sue Olson  Amount at this date   John Clark   Shelly Oltmans & last year: $0  Brenda & Jeff Gould   Brooke Schmidt   Michelle, Brian, Carver,  Colleen & Gregg   Reese & Max   Petrosky   Grummert  Thank you to the following donor who has   Peggy Potthoff  recently given to the 202122 Diocesan Appeal!  Leticia Guerrero   Carl & Mary Ann   Robert Porter  Doris Hageman    Rauenbuehler   Jan Hammes   Raul Sr., Raquel,   Beth Hollaway    Fernanda, & Raul Job Opening at Sacred Heart  Melinda & Anna  Jr. Reyes Sacred Heart has a job opening for a Director/Coordinator of  Hutchison   Eric, Susanna, Patrick Music & Liturgy. This position will be part time and salary is  Carlene Jenner   & Rebecca Riley  commensurate with experience. We would like to have this  Linda, Eric & Anna  Nancy Tran  person start in July in order to have on the job training be- fore our current director leaves. Applications and a detailed  Kuhns   Lyndsey Weber   Angel Montanez  position description can be found in the parish office or online at www.sacredheartparish.net. Contact Karen or Julie in the parish office for more details: 8156251134 or [email protected].   Military Prayer List This is an abbreviated list of the main job responsibilities for  the position:  Direction of all music & liturgical preparation for 3  Masses per weekend, holy days of obligation, Christ-  mas/Easter Masses, & special sacramental Masses  2nd Lt. Ryan Arndt  Marines Direction, preparation, & scheduling of choir & cantors 2nd Lt. Connor Brown  Air Force Scheduling & training for all liturgical ministries Dominic Burke  Army Funeral & wedding coordination Jacob Burke  Marines Keeping up to date & implementing all liturgical chang- PFC John M. Clark  Army  es from the Vatican, USCCB, and our Bishop  A1C Adam Hodge  Air Force The ideal candidate will have these characteristics and qual- Ryan Padilla  Navy ifications: Captain Zach Passini  Marines Possess a deep love for Jesus Christ and a desire to Joshua Sweeney  Army serve Him through music and liturgy Eric Thom  Army Proficient in piano and/or voice, with experience utiliz-  ing these gifts to enhance the celebration of the Mass AlmightyGod,We stand before you in supplication, asking Your Divine mercy and protection, to envelop Knowledgeable about the Mass and liturgical with Your invincible armor, our loved ones in all propers/seasons branches of the service. Give them courage and High level of attention to detail and organization strength against all enemies, both spiritual and Computer skills & experience with Microsoft Office physical, and hasten their safe journey back to products theirhomesand families. Amen. Technologically capable or trainable Available for all weekend Masses and special liturgies Parish Office Schedule of Ministers  Hours…...... Monday  Friday: 9:00 am  3:00 pm Saturday, June 12th & Sunday, June 13th Phone …………...……………………… 8156251134  Lectors: Fax………………...………………………8156251138  Rectory, Emergency Only ….………..…8156250631  5:30 pm Pat VanCoillie    8:30 am Tom Ausman  10:00 am Shawn Hanlon  Parish Staff Usher/Cleaners: Pastor   Rev. Bruce Ludeke……….…………….…….....ext. 3  5:30 pm Jan Hammes, Walter Asbury, Tom & Sue Nestor   Email…………………….…[email protected]  8:30 am 4 Volunteers Needed  10:00 am 4 Volunteers Needed Permanent Deacon   Ken Funk…………………………..…...8157784866 Please contact Karen Nestor at 8156251134 or [email protected] if you can  Email……………..…[email protected] help out in these roles!  Business Manager & Parish Secretary  Julie Massey….………………….………..…...... ext. 2 Penitential Act  Email………….….…[email protected] I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sis-  ters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my Director of Music and Liturgy  words, in what I have done and in what I have failed to do,  Karen Nestor.....………………………….…...... ext. 4 through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; therefore I ask blessed Mary ever, all the Angels  Email………………[email protected] and , and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me  to the Lord our God.  Coordinator of Religious Education   Melinda Hutchison Gloria  Email…………………[email protected] Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to people of good will. We praise you, we bless you, we adore you,  we glorify you, we give you thanks for your great glory, Lord Coordinator of RCIA God, heavenly King, O God, almighty Father. Lord Jesus  Gonzalo Reyes  Christ, Only Begotten Son, Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of  Email……….……….………[email protected] the Father, you take away the sins of the world, have mercy  on us; you take away the sins of the world, receive our Prayer Chain for Special Intentions prayer; you are seated at the right hand of the Father, have  Call………..……………….…………….8156251134 mercy on us. For you alone are the Holy One, you alone  Email…...……………..…[email protected]  are the Lord, you alone are the Most High, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of God the Father. Amen.  Bulletin Editor   Linda Kuhns……….………[email protected] I believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible. I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son of God, born of  the Father before all ages. 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Blood of Christ  Here the new law’s new oblation, By the new king’s  revelation, Ends the form of ancient rite: First Reading   Exodus 24:38  Now the new the old effaces, Truth away the shadow  When Moses cameto the people and related all the words chases, Light dispels the gloom of night. and ordinances of theLord, they all answered with one  What he did at supper seated, Christ ordained to be voice, “We will do everything that theLordhas told us.” repeated, His memorial ne’er to cease: Moses then wrote down all the words of theLordand, rising  And his rule for guidance taking, Bread and wine we early the next day, he erected at the foot of the mountain an hallow, making Thus our sacrifice of peace. altar and twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel. Then,  This the truth each Christian learns, Bread into his flesh having sent certain young men of the Israelites to offer he turns, To his precious blood the wine: holocausts and sacrifice young bulls as peace offerings to  Sight has fail’d, nor thought conceives, But a dauntless theLord, Moses took half of the blood and put it in large faith believes, Resting on a pow’r divine. bowls; the other half he splashed on the altar. Taking the  Here beneath these signs are hidden Priceless things to book of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who sense forbidden; Signs, not things are all we see: answered, “All that theLordhas said, we will heed and do.”  Blood is poured and flesh is broken, Yet in either Then he took the blood and sprinkled it on the people, wondrous token Christ entire we know to be. saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that theLordhas  Whoso of this food partakes, Does not rend the Lord nor made with you in accordance with all these words of his.”  breaks; Christ is whole to all that taste:

  Thousands are, as one, receivers, One, as thousands of Responsorial Psalm    116  believers, Eats of him who cannot waste.   Bad and good the feast are sharing, Of what divers R/I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name dooms preparing, Endless death, or endless life. of the Lord.   Life to these, to those damnation, See how like  How shall I make a return to theLord for all the good he has participation Is with unlike issues rife. done for me? The cup of salvation I will take up,  When the sacrament is broken, Doubt not, but believe ’tis and I will call upon the name of theLord. R/ spoken, That each sever’d outward token Doth the very  whole contain.  Precious in the eyes of theLǟǢǔ is the death of his faithful  Nought the precious gift divides, Breaking but the sign ones. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid; betides Jesus still the same abides, Still unbroken does you have loosed my bonds. R/ remain.  To you will I offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and I will call  Lo! the angel’s food is given To the pilgrim who has upon the name of theLǟǢǔ. My vows to theLǟǢǔI will pay striven; see the children’s bread from heaven, which on in the presence of all his people.R/ dogs may not be spent.  Truth the ancient types fulfilling, Isaac bound, a victim  willing, Paschal lamb, its lifeblood spilling, manna to the Second Reading  Hebrews 9:1115 fathers sent.   Very bread, good shepherd, tend us, Jesu, of your love Brothers and sisters: When Christ came as high priest of the befriend us, You refresh us, you defend us, Your eternal good things that have come to be, passing through the goodness send us In the land of life to see. greater and more perfect tabernacle not made by hands,  You who all things can and know, Who on earth such that is, not belonging to this creation, he entered once for all food bestow, Grant us with your saints, though lowest, into the sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but Where the heav’nly feast you show, Fellow heirs and with his own blood, thus obtaining eternal redemption. For if guests to be. Alleluia. Alleluia. the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of a heifer’s  ashes can sanctify those who are defiled so that their flesh is Gospel  Mark 14:1216, 2226  cleansed, how much more will the blood of Christ, who On the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, when through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to they sacrificed the Passover lamb, Jesus’ disciples said to God, cleanse our consciences from dead works to worship him, "Where do you want us to go and prepare for you to the living God. eat the Passover?" He sent two of his disciples and said to  For this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a them, "Go into the city and a man will meet you, carrying a death has taken place for deliverance from transgressions jar of water. Follow him. Wherever he enters, say to the under the first covenant, those who are called may receive master of the house, 'The Teacher says, "Where is my the promised eternal inheritance. guest room where I may eat the Passover with my Sequence  disciples?"' Then he will show you a large upper room  furnished and ready. Make the preparations for us there." Laud, O Zion, your salvation, Laud with hymns of exultation, The disciples then went off, entered the city, and found it Christ, your king and shepherd true: just as he had told them; and they prepared the Passover.  Bring him all the praise you know, He is more than you While they were eating, he took bread, said the blessing, bestow. Never can you reach his due. broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is my body."  Special theme for glad thanksgiving Is the quick’ning and Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and the living Bread today before you set: they all drank from it. He said to them, "This is my blood of  From his hands of old partaken, As we know, by faith un- the covenant, which will be shed for many. Amen, I say to shaken, Where the Twelve at supper met. you, I shall not drink again the fruit of the vine until the day  Full and clear ring out your chanting, Joy nor sweetest when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." Then, after grace be wanting, From your heart let praises burst: singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.  With Facilities OCTOPUS In BRUSHLESS CAR WASH Rock Falls 1514 W. 4TH STREET Many Hands to Serve You Where the world goes Sterling STERLING, IL 61081 Mon – Fri: 8am to 5:30pm 815/625-5949 Sat. 8:00am – 5pm • Sun. 8am – 1pm to look good. Serving Our faith community since 1984 ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS - 24 HR. SERVICE 407 E. 3rd St.

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