THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF Okmulgee Welcomes You

Rev. Joshua E. Litwack, Pastor Email: [email protected] Twitter: Soulscapes@JLitwack

St. Anthony Martyrs Find us on FACEBOOK: of Padua Catholic Community of Okmulgee

St. Church 515 South Morton Ave., Okmulgee, OK 74447 Phone: 918-756-4385

Uganda Martyrs Church 808 E. 3rd St., Okmulgee, OK 74447 Phone: 918-756-4385

Mailing Address: P.O. Box 698 Okmulgee, OK 74447

Email: [email protected]

Office Manager - Theresa Thomason

Office Hours: Tuesday: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Wednesday through Friday: 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Ministry Contacts Closed for Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 pm Food Pantry Coordinator Chipper Baughman Daily Masses: Tuesday 5:15 pm - St. Anthony Adult Faith Enrichment Ramona Vogt Wednesday & Friday 7:30 am - Youth Religious Education Coordinator Terry Dillsaver St. Anthony Thursday 7:30 am - Uganda Martyrs St. Anthony of Padua Parish Altar Society Ramona Vogt Weekend Masses: Catholic Daughters Paula Moen Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm - St. Anthony Finance Council Frank Taylor Sunday 8:30 am - Uganda Martyrs Knights of Columbus Kenneth Anderson 11:00 am - St. Anthony Organist/Choir Larry Sparkman Pastoral Council Angie Craig

Holy Days of Obligation: Uganda Martyrs Parish 7:30 am - Uganda Martyrs Altar Society Catherine Williams 6:30 pm - St. Anthony Finance Council Carolyn Calip

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Knights of Gary Calip Saturday 4:00 pm - St. Anthony Ladies Auxiliary of Peter Claver Beverley Cazenave Sunday 7:45 am - Uganda Martyrs Organist/Choir Galian Murphy All other Sacraments by appointment Pastoral Council Catherine Williams

JULY 4, 2021 ● 14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Ministry Schedule This Week’s Mass Intentions July 10, 2021 5:00 pm Anthony Live-streamed and open to everyone (No music or Tues, July 6 Communion Service choir due to streaming copyright restrictions). 5:15 pm (SA)

Lector: Rose Ann Bivin Wed, July 7 Communion Service E.M. Mary Lee Wallick 7:30 am (SA) Server: IN NEED OF Thur, July 8 † James Cazenave Sr. July 11, 2021 8:30 am Uganda Martyrs 7:30 am (UM) Given by: Jimmy & Sharon Lector: Madison Parsons Cazenave E.M. Angie Craig Fri, July 9 † Jim O’Neil Brenda Marzette E.M. 7:30 am (SA) Given by: Larry & Freida Biddle Server: Taurino Medina Sat, July 10 † Dwain Bivin July 11, 2021 11:00 am Saint Anthony 5:00 pm (SA) Given by: Morgan Owen Lector 1: Ruth Tisdale Lector 2: William Thornhill Sun, July 11 E.M. Jeanne Thornhill 8:30 am (UM) † Marvel Williams E.M. Pandee Ramirez Given by: Charles Gouthier & Family Servers: Cadence Mordecai Katey Mims 11:00 am (SA) † Denay, Grady & Tracy Roy Given by: June Roy

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION & The Prophecy of You and Me RECONCILIATION Prophet. There’s a heaviness to this word. It’s weighted After the Sunday 11 am Mass, there will be down with meaning. We think of prophets and we think Eucharistic Adoration and the Sacrament of of Charlton Heston with wild hair and a booming voice, Reconciliation until 1:00 pm in St. Anthony Church. reaching out his hand to work wonders of nature by the grace of God. We think of prophets and we think of an- cient Biblical history — someone far away, someone so removed from our everyday life. A prophet is someone Food For Thought in Uganda Martyrs Church after the who knows something we don’t. Thursday 7:30 am Mass, followed by: Eucharistic Adoration, Scriptural reflection (Lectio Divina) on the When I let you in on this secret, it might scare you at coming weekend’s readings, and conversation over the first: in a way, God is calling you to be a prophet. He is readings and other Spiritual Topics.. calling me. He is calling anyone who hears the truth of Food For Thought usually runs from 8:05 am- 9:40 am the Gospel. However, there is no need for the mega- phone and the wild locusts. This prophet gig might not be what you’re thinking.

Please Pray For... What does a prophet do? He hears and testifies to the (1) Dick Lofton; Robbie Marek; Judy Wilkins truth, even when it’s uncomfortable, even when it’s un- (2) Catherine Williams popular, even when it results in, as Paul says, (3) Larry Catlett; Marlene Strenge; Delta Truby “weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions and con- straints.” A prophet doesn’t have to be smart or rich or For the health of our chronically ill members, ordained; heck, he doesn’t even have to be particularly family & friends, those in the nursing homes and willing. all our homebound parishioners; also those serv- ing in the military at home and abroad May our prayer All a prophet has to do is listen to the truth. The truth and God’s grace be with them. Names will be listed for 4 we receive from Christ, through the Gospel and the sac- weeks. If a name is removed they can be added back if you raments, is a mighty gift. But it is a gift that we are not call the office and make a request. meant to simply keep for ourselves. In possessing it, we are compelled to also pass it on, to share it, to let the Spirit set us on our feet. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi Page 2 ٠ The Catholic Community of Okmulgee Weekly Offering Feature in Faith S.A. U.M. 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time June 20, 2021 $2,918 $1,418 Maintenance Fund $ 160 $ 35 It’s all so ordinary that we can easily miss it. The sea- gulls hunting and diving for mollusks at the beach of- Upcoming Special Collections: fer a display of determination and precision as they gather their food for the day. It’s simply what these 1 August Maintenance Fund creatures do. Yet, there’s a magical artfulness and skill 15 August to their work that speaks volumes about the One who breathed life into their being. This is pretty much the Happy Birthday way it is with God’s presence. God comes in common ways through common things and ordinary people. 4 July Jean Gouthier Sadly, we are so engulfed in our little worlds of order 5 July Morgan Owen and ideas to notice the beauty and wonder of it all. 6 July Beulah McGuire Many have numbed themselves to the Divine spark at 8 July Angie Craig the essence of all life because that’s just the way it is. Makayla DeJear What’s so special about it? A sunset is a sunset and a Peter Foegelle seagull is a seagull. That’s precisely what they thought 11 July Riley Alexander about Jesus too. After all, isn’t he just the carpenter’s son? What merit can his words possibly have?

If we’re looking for God to come in an event that is so Happy Anniversary dramatic and intense that it knocks our socks off, then think again. When pondering God’s relationship with 4 July Jake & Maxine Hinshaw (52) His people and God’s action in our lives, we have to Daryl & Jacqueline Lyons (25) go back to the stable and the recurring, creative, un- 25 July Don & Denise Williams (41) ending power of God’s presence. It was a quiet, run of 28 July Art & Marge Porter (59) the mill kind of night. There was nothing spectacular Fr. Josh celebrates his 21st year or extraordinary. To the naked eye, a woman gave being ordained to the Priesthood birth to a child and there wasn’t anything extraordi- nary to see. We have a hard time understanding God’s ordinary-ness. Jesus grew up in an ordinary town, had neighbors and did normal human things. Perhaps that’s why we don’t always like the Gospel. It doesn’t dazzle us with extraordinary things but simply challenges us to take a different look at our ordinary stuff. That makes us uncomfortable. We prefer things as they are. Our lack of faith can even cause us to take offense at what Jesus says and does, dismissing it as folly.

God’s life-giving presence continues to sustain that seagull in flight and keep all things in being regardless of whether we have the faith to see and understand this. Our personal agendas, preconceived ideas, mis- conceptions, and expectations can often cause us to be hardened and blinded to what God is doing or desiring to do. While God continues to do what he has done for all eternity, faith is needed for God’s presence to bear fruit. The blinders we wear and the expectations we Religious Education bring to life can often prevent us from seeing graced moments that radiate with God’s graceful presence. Contact the Church Office for information. They also prevent God’s transforming, healing, and

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) hope filled vision for our world from being realized. Adult Faith Enrichment Without faith, God won’t be able to do much for us either. ©LPi Youth Religious Formation

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