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08-06-2017.Pdf 2 LIVING THE GOSPEL, ENCOUNTERING JESUS IN THE EUCHARIST, BRINGING OTHERS TO CCHRIST.HRIST. Vol. 11, No. 5 Welcome to Most Blessed Sacrament Parish! ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES Whether you are a first-time visitor or a longtime resident searching for a welcoming faith community, we have much to offer. LOCATED AT 449 HIGH AVENUE Whatever your life situation, we provide opportunities for you to grow spiritually and to engage in social, educational and community Monday - Thursday: 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM service projects. Friday: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM (Dial 920-231-9782 for after-hours emergencies and If you have any questions or would like more information on what our answering service will direct your call) Most Blessed Sacrament Parish has to offer, please contact Deacon Rick Hocking at [email protected] or 920-231-9782. FIND US ON FACEBOOK Most Blessed Sacrament, Oshkosh, WI In the event you are unable to attend Mass at Most Blessed PASTORAL TEAM Sacrament, please consider visiting one of our other Oshkosh Area Father Jerry Pastors, Pastor Catholic parishes. Rick Hocking, Deacon, Parish Administrator ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE [email protected] Saturday - 4:30 PM (Oregon Street) Peter Cheskie, Deacon Sunday - 7:30 AM (Knapp Street) Lyn Zahorik, Pastoral Assistant 9:30 AM (Oregon Street), 11:00 AM (Knapp Street) [email protected] Monday & Tuesday - 7:30 AM (Oregon Street) - EVANGELIZATION & DISCIPLESHIP Wednesday & Friday 7:30 AM (Knapp Street) Reconciliation - 3:30 PM Saturday (Oregon St.) Shannon Ausloos, Director [email protected] ST. RAPHAEL THE ARCHANGEL JoAnne Brown, Assistant Rel. Ed. Coordinator Mass - Saturday, 5:00 PM, [email protected] Sunday, 7:30, 9:00 & 11:00 AM, 5:00 PM SERV (Special Education) Reconciliation - Saturday and Sunday, 4:00 PM Tom Mentele, Director 426-5682 ST. MARY - OMRO SUPPORT STAFF October 1-March 31 Saturday - 6:00 PM, Sunday - 8:30 AM Angela Gajewski, Bookkeeper Reconciliation - Saturday 5:30 PM [email protected] Spanish Mass - 2nd & 4th Sundays at 1:00 PM Laurie Pollack, Pastoral Administrative Assistant [email protected] ST. MARY - WINNECONNE Doug Hirte, Director of Maintenance October 1-March 31 Marshall Potter, Director of Music Saturday - 4:00 PM, Sunday,10:30 AM Reconciliation - Saturday 3:30 PM PARISH COMMITTEES Parish Pastoral Council - Toni Cheskie, Chair PARISH OUTREACH: If you or a family member have Finance Council - Tracey Domiter, Chair recently been hospitalized, or if someone’s living situation has Faith Formation Committee - Peg Larson, Chair changed, please remember to contact the parish office so the person may receive the Sacrament of Anointing, the Holy Eucharist, and a Human Concerns - Cathy Fraunfelder, Chair visit from Fr. Jerry or Lyn, our Pastoral Associate. Parish Life - Lisa Davis, Chair Parish Trustees - Dave VanSpankeren, John Dorcey If you or your family member is in need of a listening presence or spiritual companionship, a Care LOURDES ACADEMY 426-3626 Minister can also help to provide that comforting measure. Please call Laurie at the parish office at 231-9782. WORSHIP 3 MASS INTENTIONS: Our book of LITURGICAL WORSHIP & PRAYER SCHEDULE Mass Intentions for October, November and December is now open. The volume of MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 requests for Mass Intentions has grown FOR THE LIVING thru significantly since the inception of our & THE DECEASED SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 parish. For that reason, it has become necessary to put some guidelines in place. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 5 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 6 We must limit intentions to one weekend +George Cooper, +Judith Bauer, +Bud & Lucille Krohn, The People of Holy Sacrifice of Mass and two weekday Masses per quarter. Most Blessed Sacrament Parish Community the Mass The stipend for a Mass Intention is $10. MONDAY 6:30A Morning Rosary (SM) If you do desire a specific date that we are not able to 7:00A LWC (SM) honor, our retired and mission priests are able to accept TUESDAY 6:30A Morning Rosary (SM) your intentions through the Leo Benevolent Association 7:00A LWC (SM) and offer them at the Masses they pray. This can be 5: Divine Mercy Chaplet/Evening Rosary (SP) arranged through our parish office. 5:50P Confession (SP) 6:30P +John Muza (Mass SP) BREAD AND WINE: If you are interested in sponsoring WEDNESDAY 6:30A Morning Rosary (SM) the Bread and Wine for a given weekend, please contact the 7:00A +Marian Frank (Mass SM) Parish Office at 231-9782. The stipend is $30 for Bread 10: LWC (Evergreen Manor) and Wine. 10: LWC Northpoint Medical & Rehab) THURSDAY 6:55A Morning Rosary (SP) 7:30A +Raymond & Catherine Hayes (Mass SP) DIVINE MERCY FRIDAY 6: Confession (SM) ADORATION CHAPEL 6: Morning Rosary (SM) OF OSHKOSH 7:00A +Frances Scheibinger (Mass SM) SATURDAY 7:05A Confession (SP) Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed 8:00A +Deceased members of the Parkin & Sacrament is held at the Divine Mercy Handel Families (Mass SP) Adoration Chapel of Oshkosh located 2:45P Confession (SP) at Most Blessed Sacrament’s St. Mary 3:00P Divine Mercy Chaplet/Rosary (SP) Worship Site, 605 Merritt Avenue, 4:00P *(Mass SP) Oshkosh. The chapel is open 24 hours SUNDAY 7:30A *(Mass SM) a day, seven days a week. For more information and key code 9:00A *(Mass SP) - - 10:45A *(Mass SM) access, please contact Kathie Reed at 920 539 6871 or 3: Divine Mercy Chaplet/Rosary (SM) [email protected] or Deacon Rick Hocking at [email protected]. *SATURDAY, AUGUST 12 & SUNDAY, AUGUST 13 +Richard W. Holzer, Living & Deceased Members of the Sacred Heart OFS Fraternity, +Marian & Harland Gumz, The People of Most Blessed Sacrament Parish Community LOCAL PARISH HOLY HOURS All weekend Mass intentions are read at all Weekend Masses +Deceased Most Blessed Sacrament Parish HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION FOR AUGUST St. Peter site - 449 High Avenue, Oshkosh ARTISTS: That artists of our time, through their ingenuity, may help 6:00 PM First Friday of each month everyone discover the beauty of creation. For the Pope’s urgent prayer requests please visit St. Jude the Apostle Parish www.apostleshipofprayer.org/2017-intentions Sacred Heart site - 519 Knapp Street, Oshkosh - 6:00 PM Second Wednesday of each month The bread and wine for this weekend’s Liturgies St. Raphael the Archangel Parish have been donated by Mike Niemczyk 830 S. Westhaven Drive, Oshkosh in honor of THE NIEMCZYK FAMILY. 3:00 PM - Third Thursday of each month 4 A WEEK IN THE LITURGY EIGHTEENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME TODAY’S SAINT: St. Dominic (1170- 1221), a contemporary of St. Francis of MONDAY, August 7 Weekday Assisi, founded a mendicant order, Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs; called the Order of Preachers or Saint Cajetan, Priest Dominicans, to preach against Nm 11:4b-15; Ps 81:12-13, 14-15, 16-17; Mt 14:13-21 theological error. One of the pressing issues facing the newly established FIRST READING: God has provided manna to nourish the order was the Albigensian heresy, people in their wanderings. There is an abundance of this claiming that matter, specifically the mysterious food from heaven, but the people begin to long body, is evil. Contrary to this heretical for meat, fish, and vegetables—in short, for variety in their thinking, the Black Friars, as they were commonly known, diet. As Moses moves through the camp, he hears family went from town to town preaching the goodness of the after family grumbling about the food, and he also senses body. In order to preach sound doctrine with clarity, St. God's growing anger. At the end of the reading, we can feel Dominic exhorted his sons to engage in rigorous academic Moses' own frustration, caught between the people and study. He eventually started a contemplative female branch God, and begging for relief. of the Dominicans to support the apostolate of the men GOSPEL: In this Year A, the Gospel reading for Tuesday through prayer. is read, since Matthew 14:13-21 was read yesterday. After feeding the multitude, Jesus dismisses them, and sends the WEDNESDAY, August 9 Weekday disciples off in a boat. Then he takes time for prayer, planning to meet the disciples on the other side of the lake. Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr In the middle of the night, in a strong wind, Jesus comes Nm 13:1-2, 25—14:1, 26-29a, 34-35; Ps 106:6-7ab, 13-14, walking toward them over the water. The disciples are 21-22, 23; Mt 15:21-28 terrified, but when they realize who it is Peter confidently FIRST READING: The journey of the people of Israel walks toward him over the water, until the strength of the seems to be coming to an end. As they draw near to the wind frightens him and he begins to sink. The disciples are land of Canaan, God tells Moses to send out scouts to beginning to understand who Jesus really is: the Son of explore Canaan. After forty days, they return to report that God, with power to command the wind and the waves. the land is all God has promised, but that the inhabitants are tall and fierce and the towns carefully defended. Only TUESDAY, August 8 Memorial Caleb confidently says that they can take the land; the rest Saint Dominic, Priest are discouraged. God 's response to their lack of trust is Nm 12:1-13; Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 6cd-7, 12-13; Mt 14:22-36 swift and harsh: for every one of the forty days the scouts reconnoitered the land, the people will spend a year in the or 15:1-2, 10-14 desert, until all of them have died.
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