HOLY GHOST, VINITA PARISH STAFF ST. ANN, WELCH

FATHER MICHAEL E. CASHEN 918.256.2281

DEACON ANTHONY HICKS 918.559.9076

STEPHEN MILLER COORD. OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 918.791.5733 E-Mail: [email protected]

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HOLY GHOST Schedule of Masses Sunday, July 4 10:00 am Vinita Mass #1 14th Sunday Ordinary Time & ST. ANN PARISH Deacon Hicks Tuesday, July 6 7:00 pm St. Ann Mass 14th Sunday Ordinary Time COFFEE & DONUTS Wednesday, July 7 6:00 pm Vinita Mass #2 14th Sunday Ordinary Time Sunday, July 11 8:00 am St. Ann Mass 15th Sunday Ordinary Time TEMPORARILY Sunday, July 11 10:00 am Vinita Mass #1 15th Sunday Ordinary Time SUSPENDED Wednesday, July 14 6:00 pm Vinita Mass #2 15th Sunday Ordinary Time

MINISTRIES FOR NEXT WEEK TODAY’S READINGS First Reading: They shall know that a prophet has been among them (Ezekiel 2:2-5). 15th Sunday in Psalm : Our eyes are fixed on the Lord, pleading for his mercy (Psalm 123). Ordinary Time Second Reading: I am content with weaknesses and hardships for the sake of Christ (2 Corinthians 12:7-10). All ministries temporarily Gospel: “Where did this man get all this? Is he not the carpenter, the son of suspended due to Mary?” (Mark 6:1-6a). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy coronavirus pandemic. Corporation. All rights reserved.

RCIA SESSIONS See page 6 for upcoming changes in COVID protocol for our parishes, new Mass times, RCIA is a preparation process for JULY 11, 2021 and our Welcome Back Luncheon! those discerning to enter the Church. The next sessions are ALTAR OF THE WORD OF GOD being conducted one-on-one. In today’s Gospel, Jesus’ visit home is Contact Father for information. hardly marked by hospitality. He goes up to the bema, the elevated SACRAMENTS place for solemn public reading of the Torah, and his message is poorly CONFESSION: By appointment received. Today, we read from the only during pandemic. Call Father  Call the parish office or contact Father descendant of the bema, the ambo, Cashen at 918.256.2281. prior to attending Mass for the first almost an “altar of the Word of God.” Many ancient ambos are BAPTISM: Contact Father several time during the coronavirus pandemic. weeks in advance if you have a preserved in , decorated with marble, ivory, precious metal, and child or a relative to be baptized.  Pew assignments have been made to maintain social distancing. jewels. 600 years ago, the pulpit MARRIAGE: Contact Father six (6) came into use, meant for preaching months prior to the wedding. Do  Sanitizing procedures in the Church will rather than proclamation of not schedule a wedding date prior occur before each Mass. scripture. Before microphone systems, pulpits were often located to talking to Father.  The wearing of masks is encouraged. halfway down the church, amid the  Hand sanitizing stations are located in gathered people, and not so clearly EMERGENCY CONTACTS each vestibule. associated with the altar. Deacon Anthony Hicks 918.559.9076 Today, the ambo is an expected  Rosary, choir, music and lay ministries Cindy Allen 918.244.5707 feature of our worship spaces are currently suspended. because the Word is once again Fr. Valentine Ndebilie 918.825.4186  Missalettes, bulletins, hymnals, and proclaimed to the people. Before 1964, typically the readings were St. Mark, Pryor other handouts will not be distributed. done quietly by the priest at the altar Fr. Samuel Perez 918.542.5281  The collection basket is located at the in Latin, and optionally repeated in English from the pulpit. With the Sacred Heart, Miami entrance, or you may mail donations to: 120 W Sequoyah Ave, Vinita, OK restored place of scripture in our Fr. Valerian Gonsalves 918.786.9312 worship, a beautiful and worthy 74301. ambo, related in design to the altar St. Elizabeth, Grove  Take home prayer aids brought with table, has once again become a Fr. Leonard Higgins 918.534.3420 you. Do not leave items in the pews. prominent and familiar feature of Catholic architecture. St. Catherine, Nowata —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Treasures from PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY our traditions Navy Two small rites—or, as one liturgist has called them, “little mysteries”— Jason Williams, Mayport Naval Station Jacksonville, FL accompany the preparation of the Debbie Bailey, Jason Bliss, gifts. The priest or deacon takes a Air Force Sherry and Dewayne Cornwell, small cruet of water from the server Mae Davis, Nancy Keene, Zerek Albarez, Tiffany Calabasa, and adds a drop of water to the wine. Alice Nolen-Walston, Sgt. Adam Crane, Cale Schumacher Then, after the elevation of the Debbie Page, Kevin Pemberton, Michael Ecterhoff, Afghanistan , the priest washes his hands. Both of these actions were at first Jesse Rhodes, Carol Selby, Eric Wilks, Reserve, Tinker, OK practical realities: In the ancient world James Sweeney, Steve Willy Marines

the wine was usually quite thick, and HEARTSWORTH ASSISTED LIVING Lance Cpl. Gage Gardner, South Korea was generally mixed with water before Ramona Thornton it was drunk. And in the early church, HEARTSWORTH NURSING CENTER when the faithful brought forward a Donna Hebda great variety of gifts at this time, there was a definite need for the presider to wash his hands! Weekly Mass at But now these rites serve a purely Heartsworth Nursing Center remains suspended symbolic function. The mingling of due to the coronavirus. the water and wine is accompanied by a prayer that speaks of the wonderful exchange of the Mass, the mingling of Christ’s divinity and our ST. ANTHONY ZACCARIA 1502-1539 humanity. And as the priest washes Among the early movers of the his hands, he prays words of Counter-Reformation was Anthony supplication from Psalm 51, Zaccaria. He received a medical doctorate at 22, and while working acknowledging his own sinfulness in among the poor of his native the presence of the assembly before in Italy, was attracted to the religious he dares to approach the altar for apostolate. He was ordained a priest at Postponed until further notice. this most sacred action. 26. Called to , he laid the —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. Stephen Miller, CRE foundations of three religious congregations, one for men, one for women, and an association of married & SPECIAL OBSERVANCES couples. Their aim was the reform of Sunday: Independence Day the decadent society of their day, beginning with the clergy, religious, Monday: St. Anthony Zaccaria; St. Elizabeth of Portugal and lay people. Greatly inspired by St. Paul—his congregation is named Tuesday: St. Maria Goretti the , after the companion Friday: St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions of that —Anthony preached in church and street, conducted popular Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary St. Anthony Zaccaria missions, and was not ashamed of doing public penance. READINGS FOR THE WEEK AHEAD Anthony encouraged such innovations as frequent Communion, the Forty Monday: Gn 28:10-22a; Ps 91:1-4, 14-15ab; Mt 9:18-26 Hours devotion, and the ringing of Tuesday: Gn 32:23-33; Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b, 15; Mt 9:32-38 church bells at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays. His holiness moved many to Wednesday: Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a; Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19; Mt 10:1-7 reform their lives, but as with all saints, it also moved many to oppose him. Thursday: Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5; Ps 105:16-21; Mt 10:7-15 While on a mission of peace, Friday: Gn 46:1-7, 28-30; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mt 10:16-23 Anthony became seriously ill and was brought home for a visit to his mother. Saturday: Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a; Ps 105:1-4, 6-7; Mt 10:24-33 He died at Cremona at the age of 36.

On this July 4th The 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time 2021 Our Nation’s Birthday

The Marine Corps Motto is Semper Fidelis, from the Latin meaning “Always Faithful”.

Being Always Faithful to God should lead a person to be faithful to Country and Corps and all else that is for the greater good, no matter the cost, if you are truly living a life faithful to Christ.

It is here that we could learn yet another lesson from the Martyrs of the Church about being Always Faithful, a lesson of true discipline that they learned, and that every true warrior and disciple intuitively learns or learns from his mentors and must understand fully, and that is: No greater love does one have than to lay down one’s life for his friends. For his friends are his loved ones and they too are family; and yet more so because they are with him in the valley of death, clearing the path of the snares and booby traps that evil has placed there — both Spiritual and Physical. For these seek the lives of their Loved ones, and so forward they willingly go, as fear and trepidation attacks them and tries to dissuade them from the task at hand that Love has called them to… Yet no matter how wounded they are, they will remain loyal to that call.

They continue the battle, pressing forward in whatever ways are left to them, and the final one that survives. For it lies deep within and is what is held on to when all else is waning. That prayer within the heart and soul that no one can take, and here it’s given freely. And so the Spirit within us calls out for them as the body succumbs to the first death. May God have mercy on my brother’s soul, for it was not the evil that we feared, it was the fear of failing to achieve what God has asked of us! For He has given us every blessing in the heavens to use for His greater glory and honor in service for His family. And we must remember what this gift of life is for.

That unless a grain of wheat dies, it can produce no fruit. That death has many faces but only one face. One death brings salvation, and it is this death we are to seek. The death that those martyred in the early Church for Christ, embraced so willingly and lovingly for the sake of the fruit yet to come. May we never forget that we were created out the great love of God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, to Love the Lord our God with our entire being, and to Love one’s neighbor as one’s self. For we are created in God’s image and likeness. All true Love will flow forth from this if we remain true to Gods Liturgy of the Word, and the .

Deacon Anthony Hicks Semper Fidelis

PARISH PROTOCOLS IN EFFECT BEGINNING SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 The following new protocols for St. Ann and Holy Ghost parishes are being implemented to return some aspects of our weekly Mass to a degree of normalcy, including establishing the Wednesday night Mass as a Sunday Mass alternative for parishioners who wish to continue worshipping in a socially distanced format. - Fr. Cashen Weekly Mass Schedule (beginning 7/11/2021) Location Sunday 8:00 a.m. Mass St. Ann Sunday 10:00 a.m. Mass #1 Holy Ghost Wednesday 6:00 p.m. Mass #2 (socially distanced seating) Holy Ghost

 Socially distanced seating options: 1. 10 am Sunday: Front section to the left of the center aisle (pews in front of the Lector podium) are reserved for socially distanced ALL ARE INVITED TO OUR PARISH seating by parishioner or family. WELCOME BACK LUNCHEON !!! 2. 6 pm Wednesday: Pew seating assignments will remain in effect to maintain social distancing. SUNDAY, JULY 11

 Mass entrance at Holy Ghost through the west door; exit at both doors. Holy Ghost Parish Hall, Vinita  Sanitizing procedures in Church occur before each Mass. Hand sanitizing After 10:00 a.m. Mass stations remain at each entrance.

 The wearing of masks is encouraged.  Missalettes, bulletins, hymnals, and  Shout & Sack will cater the meat and sides. other handouts will not be used.  Ladies are asked to please bring a dessert  The collection basket will remain near the entrance, or donations may be of your choice. mailed to: 120 W Sequoyah Ave.  Drinks, tableware, and eating utensils will Vinita, OK 74301. be provided by the Church.  Take home prayer aids brought with you. Do not leave items in the pews.  Please call Lynnda Sooter at 918.244.9990  Rosary, choir, religious education and if you can help in the kitchen. lay ministries remain suspended.