SAINT JOAN OF ARC PARISH STAFF Pastor: Rev. Stephen Vrazel 1260 ELMIRA STREET Parochial Vicar: Rev. Cecil Spotswood MOBILE, ALABAMA 36604 Deacon: Douglas McEnery 251-432-3505 OFFICE HOURS: MON, WED, FRI., [email protected] 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM www.stjoanofarcmobile.com Organists: Richard Jones, MaryAnne Cieutat Parish Secretary: Lynn Anderson Finance Council: Chairman: Jim Robertson; Brian Blanchette, Steve Guerin Parish Council: Mike Kersten, Carolyn Provost, Elizabeth Blanchette, Clay Rucker; SCHEUDLE Ex-officio member: Jim Robertson : Vigil 4:00 pm, Sunday 9:00 am Confessions: 3:00-3:45 pm before Saturday Fr. Vrazel can be reached by calling 251- Vigil Mass, and any time by appointment. 432-8678 (no calls after 9:00 p.m.) Baptisms & Marriages: Please call the office at 251-432-3505. PURGATORIAL SOCIETY Call or email Carolyn Provost to sign up Saturday 7/31/21 –Vigil of the Eighteenth or add names to the book. 251-382-0508 Sunday in Ordinary Time [email protected] 4:00 pm – Souls in Sunday 8/1/21 –Eighteenth Sunday in CIRCLE OF PRAYER Ordinary Time Sign up at: [email protected] 9:00 am – Parishioners Or call 251-445-2670

Saturday 8/7/21-Vigil the Nineteenth PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK: Sunday in Ordinary Time Rebekah Kersten, Jack Faggard, Daniel 4:00 pm – Kersten Family Sunday 8/8/21 –Nineteenth Sunday in Lawrence, Infant Graham Steadman, Ordinary Time 9:00am – Parishioners William Pugh, Brother Celestine Headphones for the hearing impaired are Algero, Gayle Conner, David Delmas, located in the vestibule. Raymond Zoghby, Juanita Brincat, Dani (No Daily Mass until further notice.) Stafford, Pope Francis

Stewardship Report for Last Week PRIEST SCHEDULE Offertory $1,949.00 Sat 7/31 @ 4:00pm Fr. Vrazel Sun 8/1 @ 9:00am Fr. Vrazel Sat 8/7 @ 4:00pm Fr. Spotswood Sun 8/8 @ 9:00am Fr. Spotswood HOLY FATHER’S INTENTION FOR with Exposition and Benediction and AUGUST Chaplet to close. Let us pray for the Church, that she may receive from the Holy Spirit the grace ST. JOAN OF ARC COOKBOOK and strength to reform herself in the light The ladies of St. Joan of Arc are of the Gospel. compiling a cookbook which will be available for purchase by Christmas. ALTER SERVER TRAINING Please email your favorite recipe to Mandatory training at St. Mary Parish [email protected] or bring a copy for current Alter Servers and those to Mass. Deadline is October 1st. wishing to become Alter Servers is as follows (Grades 5 & up): SPECIAL COLLECTION FOR THE Retraining for returning servers CHURCH IN LATIN AMERICA August 9th 9am – 12pm This week we take up the Collection for Training for new servers the Church in Latin America! Many August 10th, 11th & 12th 9:00am – 12pm people in Latin America and the Fun day (for all altar servers – lunch Caribbean do not have access to Church included) programs and ministries because of a August 13th 10am – 12pm rising secular culture, difficult rural Please email Laurel Wallace at St. Mary terrain, and a shortage of ministers. if you plan to attend Your generosity makes it possible for [email protected]. our brothers and sisters in Latin America and the Caribbean to share in the life of SUNDAY SOCIAL the Church and grow closer to Christ. Please join us for a light brunch Please be generous to the special following the 9:00 Mass on Sunday in collection! To learn more, please visit the Hall of Angels. This week’s fare is www.usccb.org/latin-america provided by Cynthia Parham, Jane Radka and Maureen Shirah. We look MARK YOUR CALENDAR forward to what Kathleen Gerard & BJ 8/9/21-8/13/21Alter Server Training for Robertson will bring next week. Thank grades 5 & up at St. Mary you to all who work hard to make this 8/11/21 St. Joan of Arc Book Club possible. gathering at Blacksher Hall 8/16/21 – 9/29/21 St. Michael’s Lent PURGATORIAL SOCIETY 8/19/21 First Day of School St. Mary The Purgatorial Society will have First 9/2/21 RCIA Classes begin at St. Mary Friday Adoration in the chapel at St. 9/8/21 Birthday of Our Blessed Mother Mary on Friday, August 6th at 3:00pm 9/10/21 Blue Mass, Cathedral