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HOLY MASS Saturdays | 4:30 PM Sundays | 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM Weekdays Tuesday | 6:30 PM (Mass & St. Joseph & St. Jude prayers) SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 2020 Wednesday - Friday | 6:45 AM FIRST FRIDAY Adoration | 2:00 PM Benediction | 5:15 PM Mass | 5:30 PM SECOND SATURDAY 8:00 AM (Healing Mass) THIRD SATURDAY 7:30 AM (Men of St. Joseph) HOLY DAYS Schedule Varies. Consult bulletin or call rectory. Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday | 3:30 - 4:15 PM Sunday | 7:30 - 7:45 AM Anointing of the Sick Call the rectory to schedule an appointment. PARISH STAFF Monsignor William McGhee, Pastor Deacon Gerry Bach Deacon Jim Law Mary Zeveski, Business Manager Sandy Cange, O9ce Assistant CONTACT US 1910 West Belle St. Belleville, IL 62226 Phone: 233-3813 | Fax: 233-3946 [email protected] www.stasaints.org Like us on Facebook at St. Augustine of Canterbury Church NOTRE DAME ACADEMY FAMILY FAITH ALTHOFF CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL Cathedral School Campus (Preschool - 8th Grade) FORMATION CENTER 5401 West Main Street, Belleville, IL 62226 200 South Second Street Belleville, IL 62220 1900 West Belle Street Phone: 618-235-1100 | Fax: 618-235-9535 Phone: 233-6414 | www.notredamebelleville.org Belleville, IL 62226 www.althoffcatholic.org Mrs. Linda Hobbs, School Principal Parish School of Religion: 234-4958 Mr. David Harris, School Principal Before and after school care is available. RCIA: 233-3813 [email protected] PARISH NEWS & HAPPENINGS FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK ST. JOSEPH’S TABLE The collection of nonperishable food Dear Parish Family of St. Augustine, home remember those who must items continues through this week- choose between preserving their health end. Stop in the Gathering Space to BUILDING AND GROUNDS: Many thanks or making the rent. May we who have visit the beautiful display in honor of to “B/G” for their hard work from the flexibility to care for our children St. Joseph and learn the history of this afternoon to late night on Friday, March when their schools close, remember tradition. Help those in need while 13th as they took down the old “walk-in those who have no options. May we showing your devotion to Our Lord’s freezer” which was formerly in the who have to cancel our trips remember earthly father. All donations will be school courtyard and also tree removal those who have no safe place to blessed by Father Bill and given to our in the school courtyard on Sunday go. May we who are losing our margin Food Pantry. Fifty families each week morning March 15th along with several money in the tumult of the economic receive assistance. On behalf of all the other projects. God bless you for your market remember those who have no Food Pantry clients, we thank you for hard work! margin at all. May we who settle in for your generosity. a quarantine at home remember those who have no home. As fear grips our CORONAVIRUS PRAYER: A friend sent VOCATION CORNER country …Let us choose love. During this recently on Facebook, which I share this time when we cannot physically Today’s first reading from the Book of with you in this unsettled time: Samuel recounts one of the great wrap our arms around each other, Let “PRAYER FOR A PANDEMIC”: May we “calls” in our Church history – the us find ways to be the loving embrace of who are merely inconvenienced anointing of King David. He was the God to our neighbors. AMEN.” remember those whose lives are at youngest son of Jesse, tending the stake. May we who have no risk factors sheep during Samuel’s visit. But he is MAY THE LORD BE WITH US ALL. remember those most vulnerable. May the one the Lord wanted anointed. we who have the luxury of working from Fr. Bill Jesse sent for his son to fulfill God’s plan. God has a call for each of us to follow, even the youngest. Encourage everyone to be attentive to their voca- Please pray for the repose of the soul tion – their call - for it is from the Lord. of the recently deceased: Jane Pusa Rita Neff Our Parish Partners Also, please keep their families in your prayers. St. Henry Church SUNDAY’S READINGS First Reading: “Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart.” (1 Sm 16:7b) Psalm: The Lord is my shepherd; there is nothing I shall want. (Ps 23) Carry outs only— Second Reading: Full menu available “Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, including desserts. and Christ will give you light.” (Eph 5:14b) Gospel: Fish Fry Dates: When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, March 27, April 3 and 10 he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” (Jn 9:35) Serving 4-7:30 PM Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass ©2001, 1998, 1970 CCD. The English translation of Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. By the plate $9.75 or by the pound $12 ALTAR SERVERS TRAINING Cod, Baked Salmon and Shrimp SUNDAY, MARCH 22 AFTER THE 10:30 MASS New servers and those who wish to have a refresher are welcome to Tasty side dishes including soup attend. Deacon Gerry will help you “learn the ropes”. Bring a friend Come and get it! and serve the Lord and your parish family together. Girls and boys as well as family groups are welcome. PARISH NEWS & HAPPENINGS Keep in touch! Not able to attend Mass? Keep up on the latest announcements at our web page (stasaints.org) on Facebook (St. Stations of the Cross in church at 6:30 PM every Friday of Lent Augustine of Canterbury Church) and have the Sunday bulletin delivered to St. Joseph’s Table Food Collection through this weekend in the Gathering Space your email inbox through Spring Cleaning of Church, April 4 from 9-Noon parishesonline.org. Pregnancy Care Center baby care item collection through Easter Sunday. Respect Life Corner- Open my eyes, Got Candy? Donate to the Easter Egg Hunt. Individually wrapped please. Lord. Help me to see as you see! In Leave in Community Service Room. Thank you. the Gospel of John, society assumed that the man was blind because he was a sinner. When Jesus healed NOTRE DAME ACADEMY him on the Sabbath, the Pharisees also thought Jesus was a We are working hard to prepare our Please pray for everyone during this health sinner as He broke the Law of Moses. students for Distant Learning during this crisis, especially those who have Jesus saw something different in the time of mandated school closure. All contracted COVID - 19 and for those at blind man; not a sinner, but a man in students were sent home with educational most risk. This affects everyone somehow need of healing and redemption. The material to work on during their time and we will get through this through blind man, in turn, saw Jesus, not as away. Also, our teachers will check in daily prayer, kindness, and patience. a sinner who broke the law, but as with their students to make sure learning the Messiah who frees us from sin and restores us back to right is continuing. Linda Hobbs relationship with our Father. He was Principal so moved that he worshipped him. How does this gospel relate to us and our view of others? Do we see PARISHES’ SCHOOL OF RELIGION our fellow brothers and sisters as sinners, or companions on a journey In light of the decision by the Governor of Parishes’ School of Religion. When we also in need of God’s saving grace? Illinois to cancel Public and Private collect the money from your Rice Bowl, Learn, Act, Connect and Pray- Let’s School attendance from March 17 – March 75% supports programs around the world, work together this week to withhold 30, we will be cancelling the Parishes’ 25% helps alleviate hunger and poverty in judgement and to show kindness School of Religion between these dates. our Diocese of Belleville. Through the instead of mercy to others; the same kindness and mercy that we would Hopefully, we will be returning to PSR on Rice Bowl we reach 127 million people like shown to us. Ask God to heal our Wednesday April 1. The Governor will let with lifesaving support. Thank you for changing lives this Lent. view of the world and to see the us know when children can return to world as He does, through His eyes! school. Let us continue to pray for each other as we make these changes in our Sister Theresa Markus, S.S.N.D Sister Carol Markus, S.S.N.D. QMS Bus Trip to Perryville, MO on May Religious Education Program. 27, Feast Day of St. Augustine of Co-coordinators of the Parishes’ School Canterbury —Men and women are of Religion We encourage you to use the Rice Bowls invited to visit the Shrine of Our Lady that we gave to each family in the of the Miraculous Medal and the Missouri National Veteran’s Memorial Vietnam Wall replica by air-conditioned bus. Full itinerary and details on the LIVE THE LITURGY - INSPIRATION FOR THE WEEK green registration forms at church Seeing is much more than just a function of our eyes. We can look at something with entrances. 40 seats available. Decision clear vision but not really see it. Often what we think we see is colored by our presup- on any cancellation/postponement positions, prejudices, assumptions, and needs.