SAINT SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA SACRED HEART STEINAUER , NE BURCHARD, NE Reverend Sco Reverend Scott M. Courtney 310 Hickory Street Telephone: 402- p parish 402.869.2256 cell 402.326.0325 Steinauer, NE 68441 [email protected] ST. ANTHONY’S/SACRED HEART WEBSITE – www.pcocatholics.com cacccacdf

ST TH SACRED LITURGY SCHEDULE FOR AUG 31 – SEPT 6 (YEAR B) FEAST DAYS WEEK DAY MASSES IN THE PARISH MON 31 7:15 AM (Saint Anthony’s) + Alice Merrifield requested by the Family TUE 01 7:15 AM (Saint Anthony’s) + Leona Lierz requested by Paul & Theresa Schmit WED 02 7:30 PM (Saint Anthony’s) + Becky Rowland requested by the Charles Bausch Family THU 03 7:15 AM (Saint Anthony’s) + Mike Donahue requested by the Family St Gregory the Great FRI 04 7:15 AM (Saint Anthony’s) + Francis Klein requested by the Bernadt Family 8:00 AM ADORATION OF THE SAT 05 8:00 AM (Saint Anthony’s) + Bishop Conley’s Intention (Bishop Conley visiting parish) ND 22 SUNDAY IN TIME SAT 05 5:30 PM (Saint Anthony’s) + Willard Wenzl requested by the Family SUN 06 8:00 AM (Sacred Heart) + Ed Kalin requested by Evelyn Pettinger 10:00 AM (Saint Anthony’s) For the People of our Parishes #GOCARDSGO #GOCUBSGO The Chaplet at 6:20 AM – Morning Prayer at 6:30 AM – Holy Rosary at 6:50 AM every weekday.

CONFESSION SCHEDULE Saturdays: 4:30 to 5:15 PM at St. Anthony’s Sundays: Sacred Heart: 7:30 to 7:50 AM & St. Anthony’s 9:30 to 9:50 AM or please contact Fr. Courtney to set up a time.

Saint Anthony’s & Sacred Heart CCD & YG Program CCD AND YG CLASSSES BEGIN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND. CCD CLASS 5:15 TO 6:45 PM YG GROUP 7:30 TO 9:30 PM.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MEETING – MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14TH

SACRED LITURGY ASSIGNMENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 5TH AND SEPTEMBER 6TH Servers Gifts Rosary Greeter ST A Sat 5 :30 PM Bryce Gyhra Brian B M Gyhra J Bailey’s V Faesser’s D Blecha’s SH Sun 8:00 AM C Wenzl ------L Wenzl S Coudeyras’s S Coudeyras’s J Hegemann’s ST A Sun 10:00 AM Ayden C & Andy M D Gyhra H Ray G Bernadt’s K Kroll’s S Bohling’s

STEWARDSHIP FOR AUGUST 22ND AND AUGUST 23RD Adults Plate Adults Plate St. Anthony’s $787.00 $185.00 Sacred Heart $218.00 $50.00

NEXT WEEK’S READINGS September 6th – Twenty-Third Sunday in – Isaiah 35:4-7a. Psalm 146:6-7, 8-9, 9-10. (Praise the Lord, my soul!) James 2:1-5. Mark 7:31-37.

First Friday Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament in the Parish Church Beginning Friday, September 4th, 2015 we will be begin monthly adoration from 8am Friday until 8am Saturday We will expose our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament after the Friday and have adorers come pray for 24 hours until Saturday Morning Mass. If there is a certain hour you would like please contact Heather Ray @ (402) 432-5579 or sign up this weekend after all the Masses!

THE NEXT MOTHER TERESA FOOD PANTRY IS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25TH AT THE AMERICAN LEGION HALL, PAWNEE CITY FROM 3:30 TO 4:30 PM. WE NEED PEOPLE TO HELP STARTING AT 2:30 PM TO UNLOAD THE TRUCK. This past Monday, Catholic Social Services called me to inform me that the last Food Pantry will be next month on the 25th. Due to many reasons they have decided to discontinue the rolling food pantries…so next month will be our last one. I want to thank all those who have helped these last 3 years.

THANK YOU – to all who volunteered to deliver the “Meals on Wheels” in Pawnee City in August.

ST. ANN’S SOCIETY: The Officers are working on the raffle ticket and door prizes for St. Anthony’s “Dinner & Bazaar” (October 11th). If anyone would like to donate money for the meat certificates, or a prize or cash ($25.00 value or more) for the raffle ticket please contact one of the officers. The Officers are Tiffini Cumro – 402-839-2005, Kris Blecha – 402-239-5625, Judeen Bursovsky – 402-335-0233 and Angela Schmit – 402-852-2365. Every Sunday speaks at the Angelus (Regina Coeli at Easter)! This was his mediation from last Sunday!

"Believing in Jesus, means making Him the focal point of our lives. Christ is not an accessory: He is the 'Living Bread.' He gives us irreplaceable nourishment. To be with Him, in a deep relationship of faith and love, doesn't mean being chained to Him, but rather completely free, always taking part in the journey.”

"Now I kindly ask you, let us take a moment of silence, and each one of us, in silence, in his or her heart, ask yourself this question: "Who is Jesus for me?” In silence, everyone answer in his or her heart. "Who is Jesus for me?”

BREAKING: Is Returning to Ad Orientem Worship! The Prefect of the Congregation for the Divine Worship, Robert Cardinal Sarah, has called for a worldwide return to Ad Orientem worship. Although published two months ago, the english version of the document penned by Cardinal Sarah has just been released (HERE).Here is the portion of the document that specifically calls for Ad Orientem worship to return once again …

“Contrary to what has sometimes been maintained, it is in full conformity with the conciliar Constitution—indeed, it is entirely fitting—for everyone, priest and congregation, to turn together to the East during the penitential rite, the singing of the Gloria, the orations, and the Eucharistic prayer, in order to express the desire to participate in the work of worship and redemption accomplished by Christ. This practice could well be established in cathedrals, where liturgical life be exemplary” (cf. §41).

Many have longed for the day our Catholic Church would return to this more Christ-centered focus, and here it is. Of course, many still may need to wait a bit longer as an anti-authority mood among clergy has been baked into the cake of Catholicism over the past 50 years. Many who have embraced the notion that the Catholic Church must be severed from its past (modernism) and look more like our Protestant brothers and sisters when we worship (indifferentism), will not likely accept this universal call without pushing back.

Personally, after a few years of offering the Oridnary Ad Orientem, I can attest that it has made all the difference in the world! Those who attend cannot stop speaking positively about how it has completely shifted their understanding of the Most Holy Eucharist. All speak of a deepening of their faith in our Eucharistic Lord. In one way or another, each speaks of these ten advantages of Ad Orientem worship:

1. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is experienced as having a theocentric direction and focus.

2. The faithful are spared the tiresome clerocentrism that has so overtaken the celebration of Holy Mass in the past forty years.

3. It has once again become evident that the (Prex Eucharistica) is addressed to the Father, by the priest, in the name of all.

4. The sacrificial character of the Mass is wonderfully expressed and affirmed.

5. Almost imperceptibly one discovers the rightness of praying silently at certain moments, of reciting certain parts of the Mass softly, and of cantillating others.

6. It affords the priest celebrant the boon of a holy modesty.

7. I find myself more and more identified with Christ, Eternal High Priest and Hostia perpetua, in the liturgy of the heavenly sanctuary, beyond the , before the Face of the Father.

8. During the Canon of the Mass I am graced with a profound recollection.

9. The people have become more reverent in their demeanour.

10. The entire celebration of Holy Mass has gained in reverence, attention, and devotion.