29th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 18, 2020
IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY PARISH MISSION STATEMENT The parish of Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church, located in South Saint Louis City, comprised of small neighborhoods filled with multi-generational families, strives to answer God’s call to………
+ COMMIT to live the Gospel; +CELEBRATE Eucharist as a community; +SERVE the needs of others; + PARTICIPATE in parish life and ministries; +STRIVE to be a sign of God’s love!
Contact Information
Rectory - 4092 Blow Street, St. Louis, MO 63116-2796 314-481-7543 Website: www.ihm-stl.org Fax 314-481-6316
Parochial Administrator Rev. Aaron Nord 314-481-7543 [email protected] Deacon Rev. Mr. Jim Murphey 314-481-7543 [email protected] Pastoral Associate Mrs. Debbie Gartner 314-481-9385 [email protected] St. Louis LifeTeen Lauren Scharmer 314-288-8873 [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul 314-289-6101 ext. 1187
Celebration of the Holy Mass Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick Saturday 4:30 p.m. (Sunday Vigil) Please call the Rectory to make an appointment with the parish priest. Sunday 7:30 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.
Weekdays Monday-Friday 8am Mass (Daily Chapel) Care for those who are homebound, hospitalized, or in nurs- 1st Saturday of the Month 8:00 a.m. (Daily Chapel) ing home. Please call the Rectory to arrange for Communion to Holydays As announced inside bulletin be brought to any parishioner who is unable to come to Mass. Please inform the Rectory as soon as any parishioner is admit- Eucharistic Adoration ted to any hospital or nursing home. 1st Saturday of the month following 8:00 a.m. Mass until 11:30 a.m. Devotions Sacrament of Reconciliation Perpetual Help Following Tuesday 8:00 a.m. Mass Saturday 3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Rosary Following weekday Masses
Sacrament of Baptism Becoming a Catholic Please call the Rectory. First time parents will need to attend Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults/Youth or Catechumen Meet- one meeting prior to the baptism. ings are weekly from September thru May to discuss your ques- Sacrament of Confirmation tions and the Catholic Faith. Call the Rectory for information. The sacrament of Confirmation is normally organized by the parish school or PSR program attended by the candidate. Oth- South City Deanery PSR ers are invited to contact the parish priest for preparation to Catholic Religious Education for children attending public or pri- vate non-religious schools. Call 314-773-3070. receive this sacrament. Sacrament of Matrimony New Parishioners Please schedule an initial meeting with the priest or deacon at Please register as soon as possible by calling the Rectory. least 6 months prior to the tentatively planned date for the cere- mony. Bulletin items are due no later than 10 a.m. Monday for the Holy Orders and Consecrated (Religious) Life following week’s bulletin. (Holiday deadlines can change without Those discerning a call to the priesthood or religious life may contact the parish priest or the Archdiocese Vocations office at notice.) 314-792-6460. 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 18, 2020 THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH
TUES Oct. 20 Boy Scouts FKC
Mon. 10/19 8:00 a.m. Lauretta Mersinger IMPORTANT! Tues. 10/20 8:00 a.m. Walter Pierzynski Meetings in the FKC are limited to 50 people Wed. 10/21 8:00 a.m. Parish Purgatorial and meetings in the RMR are limited to 15 Society Thurs. 10/22 8:00 a.m. Honce Gieser people. Social distancing must be practiced. Fri. 10/23 8:00 a.m. Don Brocklemann Sat. 10/24 4:30 p.m. Joe & Mary Hiller WE PRAY FOR THOSE SERVING Sun. 10/25 7:30 a.m. John & Lottie OUR COUNTRY IN THE ARMED Bargielski FORCES. WE HOLD THEM IN OUR 10:00 a.m. Our Parish Family HEARTS AND AWAIT THEIR SAFE RETURN……...
Lance Cpl. Andrew Ceriotti, U.S. Marines LORD HEAR OUR PRAYER Pvt. David Walters, U.S. Army Pray for those who are sick and their care- LT. Benjamin D. Stolarski, U.S. Navy givers. Pray for Brenda Bucher, Glen Spec 4 Ian R. Larson, U.S. Army Zapf, Joyce Huelsmann, Jerry Brendel P2 Derek Ryan, U.S. Army (husband of JoAnn, father of Jason), Edna Sgt. Lou Bollasina, U.S. Army Walters, Stacey Long, Sandy Ceriotti, A1C John Pipes USAF Juanita Bischop, Sr. Sheila Brennan, Alene May Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Clark U.S. Force (mother of Annette DeGreef), Evelyn Vetz, Steve Todd Bruemer, U.S. Navy Baum (nephew of Jean Provaznik), Sandy Ceriotti, M.K. 2 Brett Winkelmann, Coast Guard Bob Simmons, Frank Sandrowski, William Noll, Cpl. Matthew T. Straub, U.S. Marines Dorothy Seper, Rosemary Young, Don Smith, Jerry Sgt. Victor A. Will, U.S. Army Brendel (husband of JoAnn), Gary Vance, Therese Sgt. James A. Will, U.S. Army Shurig, Kathleen Moody (daughter of Charlie & Tech Sgt. James Dobrynski, U.S. Air Force Julie), Deacon Jack Burke (brother of Joan SSgt. Steve Appelbaum, U.S. Air Force Mowery), Stephanie Hagan (wife of Barry), Anna Prvt First Class Troy Smith, U.S. Marines Corson, Nick Corson Lammert and those parishion- ers who are homebound, living in Assisted Living or Nursing Homes, and all in our Prayer Book. May COLLECTION FOR THE WEEKEND OF: our Lord Jesus bring them comfort and healing. October 11, 2020 If someone has been left off the prayer list or if you would like to add someone, please contact the rec- tory office. Envelopes: $3510 Loose: $160 Maintenance Fund: $325
• Thank you to all who make our IHM Parish th Family strong & caring! October 25 10:00 a.m. Mass • Thank you to all who give of their time and for Officer Tamarris Bohannon talent, helping out in so many ways! • Thank you to all who give back to God so We will remember Officer Bohannon at the generously with your hard-earned donations 10:00 a.m. Mass next Sunday. Officer Bo- hannon was killed in the Line of duty on August 29th 2020. PARISH OFFICE HOURS Local police officers have been invited. The pews of the east side transept (Blessed Monday through Thursday Mother side) will be reserved for visiting 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M. officers. 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 18, 2020 PARISH NEWS
IN LOVING MEMORY Everyone must wear a mask entering and Monday, November 2 exiting the church. Parents with children 6:00 p.m. Mass nine and under may determine when the Immaculate Heart of Mary cele- child is old enough to attend Mass and can brates our annual Mass of Re- abide by the safety guidelines. membrance, calling to mind all our dead, with special remem- We ask you to please sit in the open pews brance of those who have died this past year. away from the aisles. Pause for a moment and join us in praying for your loved ones and for those in our parish community Please use your own best judgement con- who have died. cerning when you will return to Mass. Do not In Memoriam jeopardize your health.
Dee Dee Evans 05/30/2009 If you have any questions David Evans 04/14/2013 or concerns, please call Raphael Spink 03/05/2018 the rectory. Gina Ventucci 07/08/2019 Carl Bellers 10/29/2019 Martha Buck 11/07/2019 Marcella Jones 12/02/2019 Theresa Powers 12/03/2019 Genevieve Grieshaver 12/20/2019 LaVelle Slocum 01/16/2020 Theresa Winkler 02/12/2020 Helen Perzinskas 02/12/2020 Bernice Bock 02/20/2020 Chris Pfaender 02/21/2020 Jean Burke 03/13/2020 Adolph Wuenscher 03/16/2020 ELECTION MASS NOVENA Don Broekelmann, Sr 04/13/2020 Ann Donohue 05/10/2020 AVE MARIA! Edward Bauer 05/15/2020 John Patrick Scannell 05/02/2020 The Alliance of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immac- Alma Scheble 05/23/2020 ulate Heart of Mary invite everyone to par cipate in the Lillian Tosie 05/30/2020 novenas of masses for the coming elec on. One of the Marguerite Mann 06/02/2020 masses will be held in our parish church on Wednesday John Reiter 06/06/2020 October 21, 2020 star ng at 6:30 PM. A patrio c rosary Joe Gioia 06/12/2020 John Schniedermeier 06/15/2020 will be prayed at 6:30 PM during the Exposi on of the Lauretta Mersinger 06/19/2020 Blessed Sacrament, and Holy Mass will follow. Confes- Joan Schlueter 07/02/2020 sion will be available before Mass. The novenas will Deacon Joseph Streckfuss 07/12/2020 begin on October 13, 2020, the anniversary of the Im- Clementina Spink 08/01/2020 maculate Heart of Mary’s appari on at Fa ma, and Matt Caldwell 08/02/2020 masses will take place through November 2, 2020. A Mary Theresa Thornton 08/04/2020 novena mass will be celebrated by our new Archbishop Catherine Ortinau 08/14/2020 Ed Macarthy, Sr 08/26/2020 Mitchell Rozanski at Carmelite Church. Steve Zoricici 09/02/2020 Main Celebrant: Rev. John Hansen, Director of the Socie- Rose Marie Horejes 09/13/2020 Eric Sullentrup 09/21/2020 ty of Our Mother of Peace; Confessor: Rev. Chris Adinu- Celeste Lambing 09/24/2020 ba, Chaplain of MoBap Hospital; Benedic on Celebrant: Judith Lambayan 09/25/2020 Deacon Jim Murphy. Songs for the Mass will be sung by Mary Broekelmann 09/25/2020 Country Music Ar st Greg Hulub and Anne e DeGreef. Contact Person: Alma Bright 314-353-2372. 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 18, 2020
I thought you should know-October 18, 2020
Here’s the last installment of our ongoing homily series about faith in Jesus letting us live like most people don’t and most people can’t, but we can, by God’s love overflowing.
Overflowing – Week 5 – You can have unlikely friends.
The reason why it is so darn easy to waste time on the internet is because the internet is like college. At col- lege, or on the internet, someone shares your interest. Do you like making chainmail and dueling with foam swords? There’s a group for that. Is one genre of music which is the best ever? You can go to a party where that’s all they play. Whatever the conspiracy theory or hobby or cause that is your passion, there’s a club to tell you that you are so right. The more obvious danger of youtube and college catering to every slice of life is that the fun there makes it easy to lose a lot of time. The more subtle danger is that you might live in a bub- ble where everyone is a lot like you. In the past few weeks during our Overflowing homily series here at Im- maculate Heart of Mary, we’ve looked at specific ways faith in Jesus can let you live like most people don’t and most people can’t, but you can, because of God’s love overflowing. Today the Gospel says that you can have unlikely friends.
In the Gospel, Jesus told a story about a king hosting a party, a wedding party for his son, and he makes his first guest list like a 21st century wedding planner: a carefully selected list of guest chosen to craft a curated experience and an unforgettable event. But when the plan goes sideways and invited guests refuse to come, the king gets mad and rips up his 21st century playbook. Instead, he tells his servants to do something crazy: “Go out into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find”, with the result that the hall is filled with an unlikely hodgepodge of people who have little in common, but who are having a grand time together, “the bad and the good alike”.
Jesus told this story to make a point about God, and heaven, and God’s family. God’s family is like your fami- ly: filled with people you did not get to pick, including a lot of strange characters. Walking the path to heaven means finding among our traveling companions some unlikely friends. It’s not just that God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit love sinners--that would already be great news. That is good news; God really does love sinners, and that’s great news, at least it is if you are like me and so often fail to live by the values to which you aspire. But it’s not just that Jesus, the Son of God, who reveals the Father and gives us the Holy Spirit, loves sinners; he also likes them. This is one of those crazy things that we know because it’s what people saw when God chose to live like us and walk around us on earth: he liked sinners. Jesus liked talking with them, he liked eating with them, he liked relaxing with them, and he liked feasting with them--and, yes sometimes they drove him nuts--but he liked them. And people who were nothing like Jesus liked Jesus.
Brothers and sisters, shouldn’t disciples be like the teacher? So you and I should aspire to be like Jesus. We should aspire to be joyful, humble, courageous, wise, good humored, friendly, considerate, attentive, genu- inely interested, the sort of people who like people and who are liked by people who are nothing like them. The good news is that “having unlikely friends” isn’t just something that we should like to do or we would like to do; with faith in Jesus, having unlikely friends is something we really can do!
Let me tell you two facts about friendship. First, a friendship’s foundation is a common interest, a goal in common. Second, a friendship grows by time.
Faith helps with the first fact. By faith, even with people who are nothing like you, there is always something to talk about. Let me explain how this works. Say there is a person over here who is nothing like you; be- cause that person is a human being, they are intensely interested in themselves; it’s human nature. And be- cause you are a Christian, you are intensely interested in them, too. See, you have have a common interest- -them! :) Ok, I’m joking but only a little. I mean, faith pushes us to take seriously Jesus’ words, “Love your neighbor as yourself”; and so be interested in what’s interesting to others. St. Paul told us this last week: “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. … then the God of peace will be with you.” Faith pushes you to care about and pay attention to other people’s per- spective, their good, and their interests, and so also for unlikely people, faith gives you a foundation for friendship.
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Faith helps you with the second fact, too, the fact that a friendship grows by time. Take any friendship--you want it to grow? Give it time. You want it to fade? Cut time off. Now the big problems with taking time to make a friend or be a friends is that you are so busy you got no margin in your life. But faith in Jesus gives you that margin, because faith tells you Jesus is guiding you through your day, so you have time to pause and be friendly with someone you don’t know. Faith in Jesus tells you that God knows you and is abundant to bless you. So when you feel like there’s no margin your life, in the long term, faith helps you check your priorities to see if something has gotten out of whack. And faith helps you in the short term, too because it gives you some freedom from that relentless pressure that builds up inside when you feel like you have no margin your life, the pressure that tells you, “You have to get something that feels good in your heart, you have to get something entertaining in your mind, you have to get something in your pocket, you have to get something good in your life to escape this pressure”, and so pushes you to be selfish. By faith, right in that moment when you feel that pressure, you can have the freedom and courage to take time for that first step to grow an unlikely friendship. You can say what St. Paul said: “I can do all things in him who strengthens me.” So I invite you this week: strike up a conversation with someone whom you normally wouldn’t.
Can you imagine what it would be like to have a heart that genuinely liked people who were nothing like you? By faith in Jesus, you can have a heart like that. You can have unlikely friends, by God’s love overflowing. -Fr. Aaron Nord
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Saint of the Week Celebrating World Priest Day Sunday, October 25
World Priest Day Prayer
Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your blessing on our brothers, whom you have called to the Sacrament of Holy Orders and in Priesthood. Lord Jesus, we ask that you support them with your presence and fill them with grace to serve Saint Hilarion You faithfully.
Saint of the Day for October 21 Gracious Spirit, unite us in service with those Saint Hilarion’s Story whom you have called. Open our hearts to en- Despite his best efforts to live in prayer and soli- courage our brothers tude, today’s saint found it difficult to achieve his and sons to pursue deepest desire. People were naturally drawn to Hi- your calling and open larion as a source of spiritual wisdom and peace. their hearts to hear He had reached such fame by the time of his death Your call to this most that his body had to be secretly removed so that a shrine would not be built in his honor. Instead, he Holy Sacrament. was buried in his home village. Amen. Saint Hilarion the Great, as he is sometimes called, was born in Palestine. After his conversion to Chris- tianity, he spent some time with Saint Anthony of Egypt, another holy man drawn to solitude. Hilarion JOKE OF THE WEEK lived a life of hardship and simplicity in the desert, where he also experienced spiritual dryness that included temptations to despair. At the same time, miracles were attributed to him.
As his fame grew, a small group of disciples wanted to follow Hilarion. He began a series of journeys to find a place where he could live away from the world. He finally settled on Cyprus, where he died in 371 at about age 80.
Hilarion is celebrated as the founder of monasticism in Palestine. Much of his fame flows from the biog- raphy of him written by Saint Jerome.
Reflection
We can learn the value of solitude from Saint Hilarion. Unlike loneliness, solitude is a posi- tive condition in which we are alone with God. In today’s busy and noisy world, we could all use a little solitude. 29th Sunday of Ordinary Time October 18, 2020
ROSES FOR EXPECTANT MOMS!!! If you are expecting a child, we as a MINISTRY SCHEDULE Parish would like to pray for you throughout your pregnancy. There are LECTORS red roses on the table in front of the October 17/18th Blessed Mother’s statue in the back of 4:30 p.m. Art Benjamin Church. Please write the parents-to-be 7:30 a.m. Glenn Mertens names and due date on the card attached to one of 10:00 a.m. Kevin O’Sullivan the roses asking for prayers until the delivery. After baby(ies) arrive, please call Kathy at 314-832-6553. October 24/25th We will then share your blessing in our bulletin. 4:30 p.m. John Ruzicka 7:30 a.m. Mike Kuhlman Keep the following couples in your prayers: 10:00 a.m. Lynn Repka Stephen & Leslie November Jesse & Ken December October 31/November 1st Jessica & Patrick December 4:30 p.m. John Ruzicka Shannon & Andrew March 7:30 a.m. Cindy Wright 10:00 a.m. Rita Springer Congratulations to Julie & Brian on the birth of their daughter Riley!
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