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WWW.STANDREWCATHOLICCHURCH.ORG | (843) 448-5930 | 3501 N KINGS HWY, SUITE 102, MYRTLE BEACH, SC 29577 July 25, 2021 Dear Friends in Christ, “To have ... To hold ... To honor: Natural Family Planning, Supporting God’s gifts of love and life in marriage” is the theme of this year’s National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, which will begin this Sunday, July 25. Natural Family Planning Awareness Week is an educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops along with our own Diocesan Office of Family Life, which helps us to understand and celebrate God’s vision for marriage and promote the methods of Natural Family Planning. Please go to our parish website or the website for the Diocese of Charleston for information on the educational opportunities available this week, both online and in person. The start date is not accidental; July 25th is the anniversary of the publication of Humanae Vitae, written by Pope Saint Paul VI in response to the development and widespread availability of the contraceptive pill, first approved by the FDA in 1960. In Humanae Vitae, Saint Paul VI reaffirmed the ancient and constant teaching of the church on the nature of married love, responsible parenthood, and the rejection of unnatural forms of birth control, such as the contraceptive pill. The social situation in which Humanae Vitae was written and received was tumultuous to say the very least. The widespread availability of the birth control pill was but one aspect of the Sexual Revolution of the 1960’s, which brought about a variety of radical changes in our cultural attitudes toward sex, homosexuality, monogamy, marriage, and family. This, along with the perennial concerns regarding the difficulties involved with bearing and raising many children, as well as widespread concerns of world overpopulation, resulted in Pope Saint John XXIII calling for a commission to study the question of contraception. The commission, known as the Pontifical Commission on Birth Control, was expanded by Paul VI to include over 70 theologians, physicians, laywomen, bishops, and cardinals. Ultimately, the Commission came to a divided conclusion, with the majority of members recommending that contraception be allowed under certain circumstances, and a minority of members urging that the Church should not, indeed, could not, change its perennial teaching. Paul VI received these reports in 1966 and considered their findings. When Humanae Vitae was published in 1968, the Pope upheld the long-standing teaching of the Church, which rejects contraception as destructive to the nature of marriage and the marital act, as well as contrary to the dignity of the human person. On the other hand, he explicitly condoned various forms of natural family planning. We should note well that this was no innovation; it was simply continuous with what the Church had always held and taught. Nevertheless, those who wanted a different answer did not have ears to hear. Sad to say, many Catholics, both lay and clergy, openly rejected the teaching, often referring to the majority finding of the Commission as their justification. But we must remember that the Holy Spirit does not guide or guarantee the findings of any commission, council, focus group, or board of experts. The Spirit guides the Church into all truth through the magisterial teachings of the Bishops and especially of the Vicar of Christ. That the Spirit in writing Humanae Vitae guided Pope Saint Paul cannot today be doubted, considering the prophetic power present in the document. In this document, Paul warns of four particular negative results, which the acceptance of contraception would bring about. Next Sunday at the conclusion of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, we will continue with a consideration of these predictions, and how they have each come to pass. Fr. Morgan ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH JULY 25, 2021 17H SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME THIS WEEK IN ST ANDREW MASS SCHEDULE Weekend Saturday LITURGIES 10am (First Saturday) | 4:30pm | 6:15pm SAT 07/24 4:30PM Marion Nevin † Sunday 6:15PM Joseph † 7:30am | 9:15am | 11am | 5pm | 7pm (Spanish) 8:00PM Vietnamese Mass Daily Mass SUN 07/25 7:30AM Antoinette DiFabbio † Monday - Friday | 9am 9:15AM Rosemarie Frondi † 11:00AM Pro Populo RECONCILIATION 5:00PM Mary Greenhalgh † Tuesday & Thursday | 8:15am* 7:00PM Brittany Garcia - Wednesday | 5:30pm* Feliz cumpleaños Saturday | 2:30pm First Saturday | 9am MON 07/26 9:00AM Dan Schommer † *with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament TUE 07/27 8:00AM Exposition & Confessions PARISH STAFF 9:00AM Tim Roth & Family Rev Roger Morgan Pastor WED 07/28 9:00AM Donald Belda † 5:30PM Holy Hour Rev Jacinto Vera Mejia Priest in Residence THU 07/29 8:00AM Exposition & Confessions 9:00AM Mary Ellen Sugrue † Deacon Robert Barlow Deacon George Ferland Deacon Scott Ross Deacon Anthony Russo FRI 07/30 9:00AM Winifred C. Grealish † 7:00PM Massa Gregory S. Allen, MA Pastoral Associate SAT 07/31 4:30PM Angelo Marcotrigiano & Tom Kovacik † Madeleine Elswick 6:15PM Rogelio Dacanay † Parish Business Manager SUN 08/01 7:30AM Kevin P. Grealish † Ceferina Meli 9:15AM Rosemarie Frondi † Parish Administrative Assistant 11:00AM Pro Populo 5:00PM Bernadette Garvey † Laura Allison, 7:00PM Santa Misa Barbara Bowers Jennifer Diaz Christian Formation Scott Bowen MINISTRI25 Youth Ministry SUNDAY 07/25 5PM Práctica Musica (Foyer) Francesca Schaeffer MONDAY 07/26 Music Director 10AM Divine Will Cenacle (CLC) 7PM Cursillo (Gym) Clark Slawecki TUESDAY 07/27 Facilities Manager 1:30PM Faith Sharing (REC) 7PM Brazilian Community (Gym) THURSDAY 07/29 6PM Young Adult Ministry (REC) OFFICE HOURS 7PM Summer Come & See (CLC) Mon to Thu from 9am to 4pm | Fri from 9am to 12n FRIDAY 07/30 7PM Family Life Workshop (CLC) PAGE 2 ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH JULY 25, 2021 17H SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PARISH & AROUND THE DIOCESE NEWS... NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING AWARENESS WEEK (JULY 25 TO 31, 2021) “To have … To hold … To honor, Natural Family Planning, Supporting God’s gifts of love and life in marriage” is the theme of this year’s National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, an educational campaign of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to celebrate God’s vision for BACK TO SCHOOL marriage and promote the methods of Natural Family Planning. The dates of Natural Family Planning ASSISTANCE 2021 Awareness Week are July 25–31, 2021. The Diocese of Charleston Family Life Office joins with the U.S. bishops in highlighting the benefits of NFP as ethical methods to help married couples live God’s design for their marriages. For information and to register in advance for virtual NFP talks with Q&A Series on Facebook or Zoom as well as a schedule of local and virtual NFP classes can be found as a link in our church website under Faith Formation/Natural Family Planning. The only prayer that our Lord Jesus taught us was the Lord's Prayer. In the fulfillment of that prayer we learn that His Will is expected to be lived here on earth as it is in Heaven. The knowledge of how to achieve living in His Will is revealed. Monthly meetings are held every last Monday of the month from 10-11:30am . The next meeting is July 26th in the Community Life Center. Contact John Keenan (803) 840 4101 for further details. Visit our church website at www.standrewcatholicchurch.org, click Join/Registration or pick up a form in the narthex of the church and drop off the completed form in either the collection basket or at the parish office. Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. I am a student of St Andrew Catholic (check one): _____Grade School FISCAL YEAR 2021-2022 ____Religious Ed in grade _____. Description July 18, 2021 Sunday Collection ............................................. $21,7501 _________________________________ Weekly Budget Needs ...................................... $21,5001 Student’s Signature Year-to-Date Total ............................................ $61,7881 Year-to-Date Budget Needs ............................. $64,5001 Being a Good Steward of God’s Gift of Time. I am Surplus/Shortfall-to-Date ................................ ($02,712) attending Church on the Lord’s Day on _________________ at _________________(time) Mass. Please drop in collection basket or mail slip to: This Week’s Collection Madeleine Elswick SOCIAL OUTREACH St Andrew Catholic Church 3501 N Kings Hwy #102 Next Week’s Myrtle Beach, SC 29577 DISASTER ASSISTANCE PAGE 3 ST ANDREW CATHOLIC CHURCH JULY 25, 2021 17H SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME PARISH & AROUND THE DIOCESE NEWS... 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