August 26 2018

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME LASTING JOY The opening prayer tells us what to consider in our reflection on the readings: “the values that will bring us lasting joy in this changing world.” What are our values? What is important to us? To put it another way: Who or what is our god? The Israelites were tempted to serve other gods, for they were in a new land occupied by the worshipers of idols. Joshua challenged them to serve only Yhwh, and they accepted the challenge: “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord for the service of other gods.” Jesus challenged his followers to be- lieve in the one, true God: “Does it shake your faith?” he asked them. Peter responds for the others, saying that they will not forsake Jesus, who has the words of eternal life. Jesus challenges us also to remain faithful to the one God. There are many in the world who worship other gods: power, money, pleasure, comfort, securi- ty, self-interest. Our prayer is that “all these attractions of a changing world serve only to bring us the peace of your Kingdom which this world does not give.” We want to say with Joshua and his people: “We will serve the Lord.” If certain forms of modern ‘imperialism’ were considered in the light of these moral criteria, we would see that hidden behind certain decisions, apparently inspired only by economics or politics, are real forms of idolatry: of money, ideology, class, technology. Pope John Paul II, Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, 1987: 37 A UGUST 26, 2018 IN PRAYER AS YOU PRAY THIS WEEK Remember Those Who Are Sick Bill Hendricks Jim Walsh Amy Coulman Peggy Connelly William Aubuchon Loretta Muessig Karen Hoffman Kyndel Dasenbrock Bonnie Hicks Barbara Duncan Ean Morgan Denice Haverstick B. J. Mattingly Hal Cart Melanie Wille Vernon Duncan Aggie Mathis Barbara Youngstrom Steve Dunne Philip Brown Julie McIntyre Chad Knepp Mary Ball David Hoffmann Mary Schreiber Don Eickhoff Janie Card Long Pat Curran Daniel Wheeler Dan Schuette Mary Shive Scott Quick Cory Rolwes Ken Woods Noah Williams Jerry Coonan Mary Lou Bequette Liz Wheeler Scott Lowe Bob Berry Marianna Schmidt Betty Cawvey Remember Those Who Serve Our Country MASS INTENTIONS & READINGS Chris Hardy Brian Cox Scott Engelhard Monday, August 27 Katie Alsup Adam Boode Blake Bennett St. Monica Nicholas Knudtson David Lewis Austin Bennett 2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12 Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5 Mt 23:13-22 Michael Duncan Robert Thum Allan Campbell 6:30 am † Kathleen Tippett Robert Ottinger Kirsty French Jake Pijut 8:00 am † Lynn Broemmelsick Scott Ottinger Ryan O’Fallon Wendell Reiter Tuesday, August 28 Kurtis Colona Joseph Petersen John G. Thien St. Augustine, Bishop, Doctor of the Church Carl Degenhart Ryan Miller 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17 Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13 Mt 23:23-26 6:30 am † Bertha Mason 8:00 am † Anselmo Bueno FOLLOW US ON-LINE Wednesday, August 29 Passion of St. John the Baptist There you will find an abundance of addi- 2 Thes 3:6-10, 16-18 Ps 128:1-2, 4-5 Mk 6:17-29 tional information about the parish includ- 6:30 am Special Intention ing details on many of the organizations 8:00 am † Kathleen Tippett and activities and you could even listen to a Thursday, August 30 Seasonal Weekday previous homily! 1 Cor 1:1-9 Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 Mt 24:42-51 6:30 am † Kathleen Tippette 8:00 am Dolores and † Peter McGauly’s 27th Wedding Anniversary WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS 11:00 am Meramec Bluffs Special Intention Friday, August 31 TO ACRED EART S H Seasonal Weekday If you are searching for a place to call “home,” why not join 1 Cor 1:17-25 Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 10-11 Mt 25:1-13 our Parish Family? 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($4,446.21) 5:30 pm Parishioners 2 | SACRED HEART FROM OUR HOLY FATHER, POPE FRANCIS happened, in itself this is not all those who perpetrate or cover POPE ADDRESSES CLERGY SCANDAL enough. Today we are challenged up these crimes accountable. We ROCKING PENNSYLVANIA as the People of God to take on the have delayed in applying these pain of our brothers and sisters actions and sanctions that are so “If one member suffers, all The Lord heard that cry and once suffer together with it” (1 Cor again showed us on which side he 12:26). These words of Saint Paul stands. Mary’s song is not mistaken forcefully echo in my heart as I and continues quietly to echo acknowledge once more the suffer- throughout history. For the Lord ing endured by many minors due remembers the promise he made to to sexual abuse, the abuse of power our fathers: “he has scattered the and the abuse of conscience perpe- proud in their conceit; he has cast trated by a significant number of down the mighty from their clerics and consecrated persons. thrones and lifted up the lowly; he Crimes that inflict deep wounds of has filled the hungry with good wounded in their flesh and in their necessary, yet I am confident that pain and powerlessness, primarily things, and the rich he has sent spirit. If, in the past, the response they will help to guarantee a greater among the victims, but also in their away empty” (Lk 1:51-53). We feel was one of omission, today we culture of care in the present and family members and in the larger shame when we realize that our want solidarity, in the deepest and future. community of believers and nonbe- style of life has denied, and contin- most challenging sense, to become Together with those efforts, lievers alike. Looking back to the ues to deny, the words we recite. our way of forging present and every one of the baptized should past, no effort to beg pardon and to With shame and repentance, future history. And this in an envi- feel involved in the ecclesial and seek to repair the harm done will we acknowledge as an ecclesial ronment where conflicts, tensions social change that we so greatly ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to community that we were not where and above all the victims of every need. This change calls for a per- the future, no effort must be spared we should have been, that we did type of abuse can encounter an sonal and communal conversion to create a culture able to prevent not act in a timely manner, realiz- outstretched hand to protect them that makes us see things as the Lord such situations from happening, ing the magnitude and the gravity and rescue them from their pain does. For as Saint John Paul II but also to prevent the possibility of the damage done to so many (cf. Evangelii Gaudium, 228). Such liked to say: “If we have truly start- of their being covered up and per- lives. We showed no care for the solidarity demands that we in turn ed out anew from the contempla- petuated. The pain of the victims little ones; we abandoned them. I condemn whatever endangers the tion of Christ, we must learn to see and their families is also our pain, make my own the words of the integrity of any person. A solidarity him especially in the faces of those and so it is urgent that we once then Cardinal Ratzinger when, that summons us to fight all forms with whom he wished to be identi- more reaffirm our commitment to during the Way of the Cross com- of corruption, especially spiritual fied” (Novo Millennio Ineunte, ensure the protection of minors posed for Good Friday 2005, he corruption. The latter is “a com- 49). To see things as the Lord does, and of vulnerable adults. identified with the cry of pain of so fortable and self-satisfied form of to be where the Lord wants us to many victims and exclaimed: “How blindness. Everything then appears be, to experience a conversion of 1. If one member suffers… much filth there is in the Church, acceptable: deception, slander, heart in his presence. To do so, In recent days, a report was and even among those who, in the egotism and other subtle forms of prayer and penance will help. I made public which detailed the priesthood, ought to belong entire- self-centeredness, for ‘even Satan invite the entire holy faithful Peo- experiences of at least a thousand ly to [Christ]! ple of God to a penitential exercise survivors, victims of sexual abuse, How much of prayer and fasting, following the the abuse of power and of con- pride, how much “We showed no care for Lord’s command.[1] This can science at the hands of priests over self- the little ones; we awaken our conscience and arouse a period of approximately seventy complacency! our solidarity and commitment to a years.

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