Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 9, 2020 St. Catholic Church 7232 KY 56, Owensboro, KY 42301 www.stmarymagd.org Ph: 270-771-4436  Fax: 1-866-856-7191

MASS SCHEDULE PASTORAL COUNCIL Saturday Vigil: 5:00 pm (The end of Oct. until May) Shannon Offerman; Scott Burden; Julie Ebelhar; Sunday: 8:00am & 10:30 am Perry Warren; Beth Miles; David Cecil Weekdays: See schedule Holy Day: Contact Parish Office FINANCE COUNCIL

PASTORAL STAFF Kenny Knott; Rebecca Schwartz; Rita Wood; Sarah O’Bryan Pastor: Rev. Shaiju Thomas [email protected] SACRAMENTS (270) 625-9514 BAPTISM: Contact Pastor at least a month before the baptism for instructions. DRE/Youth Minister: Nick Higdon [email protected] CONFESSIONS: Saturdays at 3:00pm (one hour before Minister of Music: Jacob Hein Mass time); anytime by appointment. [email protected] MARRIAGES: Contact the pastor six months in advance to Secretary: Nancy Greenwell begin marriage preparation. [email protected]

Bookkeeper: Susan Calhoun ANOINTING OF THE SICK: By Appointment Only [email protected]

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The readings for this Sunday speak of God’s saving pres- ence among His people, our need for trusting Faith in our loving and providing God who always keeps us company, and our need for prayer in storms of life. The first reading tells us of how the prophet who had defeated the 450 false priests of Baal with the help of just such a trusting Faith in the power of Yahweh, fled to the Lord God for help and strength on Mt Horeb, and en- countered Him there in His mercy. In the second reading, Paul laments and mourns over the Jews who, having lost their Faith in Yahweh and His prophets, had rejected their promised Messiah, . Paul tells us later (11:7-24), that God’s plan allowed the Jews to reject Jesus so that a few believers, like Paul, would be free to carry the Good News outside Judaism, evangelizing the Gentiles. The episode occurred during an unexpected storm on the Sea of in the early morning hours. As Jesus ap- proached the apostles, miraculously walking on water, he allayed their fears by telling them, “It is I.” The Gospel episode also explains how Peter lost his trusting Faith in Jesus for a few seconds, failed his attempt to walk on water, but was rescued when he called on Jesus for help. So, we all need to call Jesus in the storms facing us in the Church and in our lives. Let us ap- proach Jesus with strong Faith in his ability and willing availability to calm the storms in the life of the Church and in our own lives. Church history shows us how Jesus saved his Church from the storms of persecution in the first three centuries, from the storms of here- sies in the 5th and 6th centuries, from the storms of moral degradation and the Protestant reformation movement in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the storms of sex abuse scandals of the clergy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We need to realize that it is the presence of Jesus which gives us peace even in the wildest storms of life: the storms of anxiety and worries about the future we are suffering now in the ongoing Corona Virus Pandemic (Covid-19), storms of sorrow, storms of doubt, tension and uncertainty, storms of anger and despair, storms of temptations, and storms in family relationships. We are expected to pray to God every day with trusting Faith for strengthening our personal relationship with Him and for acknowledging our dependence on Him. But when we have no time or mental energy for formal prayers, let us use the short prayers in the like Pe- ter’s prayer: “Lord, save me!” or the prayer of the mother of the possessed girl: “Lord, help me!” or the blind man’s prayer: “Son of David, have mercy on me!” or the repentant sinner’s prayer: “Lord, have mercy on me a sinner!” We get plenty of time during our travels to say the short prayers like the “Our Father”, “Hail Mary” and “Glory be….” Keeping a on our table will encourage us to read at least a few words of the Bible and thus listen to what God is telling us to do. A personal relationship with God, with Jesus, enhanced through prayer, meditative reading of Scripture and active participation in the Holy Mass and recep- tion of the Sacraments would help us to experience God’s saving presence and Peace in our lives.

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THE PRESENCE OF GOD After the of Jesus walking on water, the disci- ples exclaimed, “Truly, you are the ” (:33). Most Christians will probably never experience such a dramatic miracle. Like Elijah, we await the mani- Monday, August 10 festation of God in other moments. Perhaps the biggest No Mass challenge for the believer is to be constantly attuned to the possible presence of God in the everyday events of life. Tuesday, August 11 This is a stance that takes some people years to develop. 7:00 a.m. Bill Knott 

Others seem to find the Lord easily in the simple things. Wednesday, August 12 As the week unfolds, let us look for the presence of God 7:00 a.m. Charlotte Kamuf  in the little things around us. Perhaps, like Elijah, we will be surprised at what we find. And, like the disciples, we Thursday, August 13 can add our voice to the confession, “Truly you are the Noon Vincent and Mary Phoebe Son of God.” Ebelhar  Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. Friday, August 14 TODAY’S READINGS Noon Bobby Collignon  First Reading — The LORD said to Elijah: “Stand on the mountain; the LORD will be passing by” Saturday, August 15 (1 Kings 19:9a, 11-13a). 5:00 p.m. Mike Goff  Psalm — Lord, let us see your kindness, and grant us your Sunday, August 9 salvation (Psalm 85). 8:00 a.m. Sydney Clouse Second Reading — To the Israelites belong the cove- 10:30 a.m. Parishioners of St. Mary nants, the law, and the patriarchs; and from them comes Magdalene the Christ (Romans 9:1-5). Gospel — As Jesus walked on the sea, the disciples were terrified (Matthew 14:22-33). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Internation- SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS al Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. (EDITH STEIN) (1891-1942) READINGS FOR THE WEEK August 9 Monday: 2 Cor 9:6-10; Ps 112:1-2, 5-9; Jn 12:24-26 “Come,” Edith gently whispered, taking her Tuesday: Ez 2:8 — 3:4; Ps 119:14, 24, 72, 103, 111, sister Rosa’s hand, “let us go for our people!” 131; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 These were Edith Stein’s last words as the Wednesday: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22; Ps 113:1-6; Mt 18:15-20 Nazis, enraged at the Dutch bishops’ Thursday: Ez 12:1-12; Ps 78:56-59, 61-62; condemnation of their genocide, took into Mt 18:21-19:1 custody all Catholic converts from Judaism. Friday: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 [59-63]; Is 12:2-3, Born Jewish, but non-practicing from her teens, 4bcd-6; Mt 19:3-12 Edith’s search for truth led to a doctorate in Saturday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; philosophy, a brilliant career as professor and Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14; 1 Cor 15:54b-57; author and, finally, to the Autobiography of Saint Lk 11:27-28 Teresa of Ávila, which she read in one sitting, Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; then declared, “That is the Truth!” Baptized on Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 January 1, 1922, observed then as the feast of Sunday: Is 56:1, 6-7; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Jesus’ initiation into the covenant of Abraham, Rom 11:13-15, 29-32; Mt 15:21-28 confirmed on February 2, the feast of Jesus’

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Presentation in the Temple, Edith entered the Sunday: Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time; cloistered Carmelites in Cologne, transferring to Nagasaki Memorial Day a convent in Holland when she realized that, Monday: St. Lawrence because of the Nazi persecution of the Jews, Tuesday: St. Clare her presence could imperil the safety of the Wednesday: St. Jane Frances de Chantal other nuns. She died in the gas chambers of Thursday: Ss. Pontian and Hippolytus Auschwitz as a daughter of Israel and of the Friday: St. Maximilian Kolbe Church. Saturday: Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!! Parishioners Celebrating Birthdays This Week:

August 11-Bryan Ebelhar 11-Sherry Holinde 11-Michael Howard 11-Larry Oller 12-Matt Madej 12-Mollie Stephen 12-Tony Wallace 13-Max Byrne 13-Benita Drury 13-Paige McGhee 14-Patty Kaelin 15-Sherry Durham 15-Judi Head

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HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! Parishioners Celebrating Wedding Anniversaries This Week: Narthex/Vestibule Update: July 19, 2020 Total amount needed for project: $260,000.00 August 10-Peter and Sarah Ebelhar Total amount that has been collected to date: $263,994.00 13-Dan and Beth Greenwell

(additional brick donations $ 8,300.00) May you have a Happy and Blessed this amount is of the $305,828.00 pledged over the next 5 years. Anniversary! Please write in the memo or for section of your check Narthex when donating. Thank you to all that have generously donated, it is deeply If your birthday is omitted from this list, or incorrectly dated, please appreciated. contact the parish office.

OFFERINGS: For August 2, 2020 Weekly Actual Weekly Budget August 2 $6,145.00 $ 8,343.94

Year to Date Actual Year to Date Budget $34,491.00 $ 41,719.70 (Week 5)

Weekly Deficit Year to Date Deficit ST. MARY MAGDALENE CEMETERY $ 2,198.94 $7,228.70 ______Please contact church office to Money Counters: August: David and Rose Marie Cecil, Mary purchase a cemetery plot. Ann Knott, Sherleye Goff (270) 771-4436.

WEEDEATING CREWS for August 14th and 15th James Gilles Family and for August 21 and 22nd Danny, Tony, and Bryan Ebelhar. What needs to be done: The ditches along Hwy. 56 and Knott Road; Around the curbs and parking lot; Around the church, sidewalks around the rectory, parish office, and parish hall. We are thankful for the generous parishioners donating their time to keep the parish grounds neatly trimmed. THANK YOU!!

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“Anyone who RCIA

seeks truth, Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a process of preparing the seeks God, unbaptized, and those un-formed by Christianity (termed, uncatechized), for whether or acceptance of Christ, of the Catholic not he Faith, and reception of the Sacraments of Initiation. Full initiation normally realizes concludes with the Vigil (the night before Easter Sunday). The process it.” usually takes a year, although there may St.Teresa Benedicta of the Cross be exceptions, due to age or infirmity. Catholic initiation (outside of the R.C.I.A.) indicates that a person is already validly baptized, already accepts Christ, and now wishes to be a Roman Catholic. This catechesis (learning the Faith) can be THE ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN adapted to the specific needs and MARY August 15 Pope Pius XII defined the Assumption of Mary circumstances of the individual. as a dogma of the Catholic faith on November 1, 1950. If you know of anyone interesting in "The Immaculate Mother of God, ever Virgin Mary, learning about the process please let Fr. having completed the course of her earthly life, was Shaiju know. assumed body and soul into heavenly glory." (Dogma of the Assumption, 44). Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

PRAYER OF POPE FRANCIS DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC O Mary, to you always shine on our path Haley James and Ryan Richeson as a sign of salvation and of hope. who were united in marriage this We entrust ourselves to you, Health of the Sick, weekend. May God’s grace who at the cross took part in Jesus’ pain, keeping your faith continue to strengthen their love firm. for each. You, Salvation of the Roman People, know what we need, “What God has joined together, no and we are sure you will provide human being separate.” :9 so that, as in of Galilee, we may return to joy and to feasting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ after this time of trial. Help us, Mother of Divine Love, Congratulations to to conform to the will of the Father Andrew Brooks who became a and to do as we are told by Jesus, member of the Catholic Faith and who has taken upon himself our sufferings St. Mary Magdalene Parish this and carried our sorrows weekend. to lead us, through the cross, to the joy of the resurrection. Amen. May God bless Andrew and his Under your protection, we seek refuge, Holy Mother of God. Do family on the special occasion. not disdain the entreaties of we who are in trial, but deliver us from every danger, O glorious and blessed Virgin.

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URSULINE SISTERS TO OFFER QUILT AUCTION AUGUST 24

TRIVIA SEPTEMBER 12

50TH MOUNT RAFFLE

If you are a visitor to St. Mary Magdalene, we want to welcome “ESCAPE TO THE MOUNT” is back this fall, with you. If you are new to the parish, please call the office at some modifications. Last year featured an (270-771-4436) to register in the parish. extremely successful Quilt Bingo at Maple Office Hours: Monday and Tuesday Mount. Quilt Bingo will return in 2021, but there 7:30 a.m.—2:00 p.m. will still be plenty of opportunities to bring home Thursday 8:00 a.m.– 2:00 p.m. a beautiful quilt from the Mount this year with our first online Quilt Auction! Quilts on the auction block will be posted on our website and IN SPECIAL NEED OF PRAYER Facebook page for you to preview. There is a

HOMEBOUND/RETIREMENT HOMES: two-day bidding window for each quilt. Bidding Patty Beyke; Ruth Ann Hardy; Mag Kaelin; Sarah Kamuf; Jean will begin on August 24 and close on McCarty; Benita Riney; Patrick Vowels. September 11. Keep checking our website for details: www.ursulinesmsj.org. We ask that you pause a moment and say a prayer for the sick in our community. TRIVIA NIGHT will take place on Saturday, Alice Boarman; John Boarman, Nicole Brey; Sydney Clouse; September 12. This year it will be held at the Maria Daugherty; Savannah Dean; Kelly Dean; Allan Ebelhar; Immaculate Parish Hall, 2516 Christie Place, Jennifer Ebelhar; Margie Elder; Miles Evan; Sylvester Fischer; Owensboro. Get your team together and join us Jackie Freels; Patrick Fulkerson; Jim Hamilton; Melissa from 6-8 p.m. for a fun evening of trivia, food Hamilton; Kelly Hayden; Barbara Magan; John Morton; Jessica and drinks. Prizes will be awarded to the top Oberst; Larry Oller; Sandra Posey; Steve Raley; Donnie Risse; three teams. There is a $25 entry fee per person. Juanita Smith; Norbert & Helen Rose Smith; Hillary Thomas; The deadline to register is Aug. 24. Note: We Brian Thompson; Alma Topper; Jim Warnock; Linda Warren; will be following the physical distancing and Paula Wilson; Rita Woodall safety guidelines recommended for group *Please note: Names will remain on the list for one month. gatherings.

PRAYERS FOR OUR MILITARY: THE MOUNT RAFFLE has been a tradition for 50 As a parish family, we at St. Mary Magdalene pray for all the years and is an important source of funding for members of our parish. We especially pray for our parishioners the Ursuline Sisters of Mount . and their relatives who are currently on active duty in the Tickets are still $5 each. Our top prize is military. $10,000! A new prize was added – a diamond Jackson Brett; Zachary Brett; Cody Byrne; James Calhoun; ring valued at $5,000! We also have a handmade Cameron Ebelhar; Chris French; Adam Howe; Austin Moser; queen-size quilt valued at $1,000 and cash prizes Chad Norris; Ryan Offerman; Aaron Staples. of $3,500, $1,000, $500, $250, and $100. The drawing will take place on Sunday, September 13. Due to coronavirus concerns, the Ursuline SAFE ENVIRONMENT Sisters’ ability to sell tickets in person will be To report suspected abuse, call the Kentucky Child limited this year. We encourage supporters to Protection Hot Line: 1-877-KYSAFE1 or 1-877-597- 2331 buy tickets online: visit https://ursulinesmsj.org/ (Toll Free) or contact your local Commonwealth Attorney. mountraffle. If you would prefer to order To report abuse to the diocese, current or past, by anyone tickets by mail, write your check to the Ursuline Sisters and mail to: Mount Raffle, 8001 acting in the name of the Church, call Louanne Payne, Cummings Road, Maple Mount, KY 42356. Pastoral Assistance Coordinator (English) at 270-852- 8380, Questions? Contact Carol Braden-Clarke, or Nuria Elizondo, Pastoral Assistance Coordinator director of development, at 270-229-2008 or (Spanish) at 270-880-8360. You may also visit the Office of [email protected]. Thank Safe Environment (owensborodiocese.org/safe) for more you for your support of the Ursuline Sisters. information.

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