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Pastor Rev. Steven Zehler 904-692-1366, ext. 3 [email protected] Weekend Schedule Saturday Vigil 5:00pm Sunday 9:00am and 11:00am Daily Mass Schedule M,T,F 8:00am Wednesday 6:00pm Thursday 9:00am Confessions Saturday 4:00 – 4:30pm Wednesday 5:00 – 5:30pm Church Staff Office Manager: Terri Sowards Office Assistant: Marybeth Gaetano Religious Ed. Coordinator: Christine Humphries Music Director: Tom Rivers Youth Ministry Coordinator: Chris Fisk Office Hours Monday – Thursday 9:00am to 2:00pm Church Address 6070 Church Rd. July 11, 2021 | Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Elkton, FL 32033 Office: 904-692-1366 Year of Saint Fax: 904-692-1136 choffice1@saintambrose- Living the Gospel of Jesus Christ church.org in the Catholic tradition since 1875 saintambrose-church.org

Ministry Contact List Youth Summer Board Game Night! Servers: Office 904-692-1366 Saturday, July 24 Frank DuPont 904-814-2276 Fair Chairman: 6:00 - 9:00 pm Finance Council: Larry Clark [email protected] Parish Hall Music Director: Tom Rivers [email protected] Office Manager: Terri Sowards Sign-up in the Vestibule [email protected] by July 19! Office Assistant: Marybeth Gaetano [email protected] Saint Ambrose Parish Calendar Youth Ministry Coordinator: Chris Fisk [email protected] Monday, July 12 Pastoral Council: Nancy Dupont, Church Office 904-692-1366 8:00 am Morning Mass † Prayer List: Donna Rogero [email protected] 386-325-5230 Intention: La Laney Porter RCIA: Parish Office 904-692-1366 Tuesday, July 13 Respect Life: Ana Martin 904-692-4927 & Kathleen Quinones 8:00 am Morning Mass Religious Education: Christine Humphries Intention: Anthony Ryan (SI) [email protected] Wednesday, July 14 Sacristan: Maggie Hill 904-797-2733 5:00 pm Confessions (until 5:30 pm) 6:00 pm Evening Mass NEW PARISHIONERS Intention: Esteban Merkt-Navedo (SI) Welcome! Please take a few minutes to complete a confidential registration form which can be found in the Church lobby. You Thursday, July 15 may hand the completed for to a Welcome Minister or mail it to 9:00 am Morning Mass the office. Thank you. Intention: Katherine Stacy (SI) SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Friday, July 16 Parishioners should contact the Pastor before setting a wedding 8:00 am Morning Mass date. Normal preparation time is 8 months which includes a Intention: Pat Ryan † Diocesan marriage preparation program. Saturday, July 17 SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM 4:00 pm Confessions (until 4:30 pm) Parents must be registered and active members of the Parish for 5:00 pm Vigil Mass at least six months prior to the Baptism. A Baptismal Class for † the parents and godparents is required. Please call the office for Intention: Jo-Ann Barkoskie more information. Sunday, July 18 SPIRITUAL OR MEDICAL EMERGENCY 9:00 am Morning Mass If you have a spiritual or medical emergency, please call Father Intention: For the Parish Steven at the emergency number: 904-436-3056. No texting 11:00 am Morning Mass please. Intention: Mary Agatha Bell † HOMEBOUND MINISTRY For those parishioners who can no longer attend Mass, you can Birthday Celebrations July still receive Holy Communion. Our Extraordinary Ministers are available to bring the Lord to your home. Father Steven also 10 – Christine Demeo makes First Friday visitations to provide the Sacrament of the 11 – Margaret Gleman Sick and Confession. Call the office at 692-1366 to arrange a visit. 12 – Thomas Dula 13 – Kathleen Barnard; Katherine Dula

15 – Catherine Albert

16 – Ramona Selenski; Viola Wilson

We ask everyone in the parish to pray for the people on the prayer list. Blessings! Giving Donations July 3 & 4, 2021 Chris Barnes Family, Jackie & Dan Barry, Laura Boyd, Sharon Brown, Betty Jo Brubaker, Carrie Brubaker, Johnny Colson Sr., Not available due to early bulletin deadline. Chad Corbett, Jim Devlin, Maureen Devlin, Joan Dietrich, Fred This information will be included in Duquette, Eggland, Gerald Eubanks, Rik Freeney, Baby Girl Feibel, Gail Freeman, Annalee Freund, , Ashley and the July 18 Bulletin Baby Fulford, Pat Gay, Mary Geer, Kathleen Green, Phyllis Thank you for your understanding. Greer, Robert Hall, Sherry Herrington, Valorie Kline, Sybil LaFountain, Athena Leach, The Ludas Family, Evelyn Kennedy, Lucy Kirk, Dr. Robert McLendon, Juliana McCumbers, Sandy McCumbers, Biil, Gwen & Pat Mead, Andrea Novak, Jim Rogero, Reminder: Online Giving is Easy to Use Walter Rogero Family, Alicia Stratton, Stuart Stratton, The family Using , we are able to receive online of Keith Taylor, Asya Welz, Erin Wilson ParishSOFT Giving donations. Go to www.saintambrose-church.org and click Please notify Donna Rogero at (386) 325-5230 or on the online giving link, or go to MyParishApp and click on [email protected] with your prayer request. We have the Giving icon. This is a convenient and safe way to make a updated our list and anyone wishing to be put back on the one-time or recurring with either your debit or credit list that was previously listed please contact Donna. card. Thank you for your generosity! All A-Board! Announcing the St. Ambrose Youth The Strong Faith of Native Americans Summer Board Game Night! History shows that the faith of Native Americans was akin to that Youth, ages 10 to 16, are invited to join the fun on Saturday, of early Christians. Their strength and devotion to is July 24 from 6:00 to 9:00 pm in the Parish Hall. We start with a to be admired. Currently, we await the cause for canonization of Pizza dinner before tackling classic Board Games— Scrabble, our first La Florida . Hopefully, they will follow in the foot- Checkers, Chess, & Monopoly to name a few. You are welcome steps of our first Native American Saint, . to bring one of your own games. This will be a digital free Kateri (named for ), the first member of a event. Please no video games. Digital devices will be set aside. North American tribe to be declared a saint, was known as “The Enjoy “Face-to-face Fellowship” with your peers. Secure your Lily of the Mohawks.” She was born in 1656 in a village along space by July 19 using the signup sheet in the church vestibule. the Mohawk River now called Auriesville, New York. Her father was a Mohawk chief, her mother a Christian Algonquin. Protecting God’s Children Class, July 31 At four years of age, a smallpox epidemic claimed her parents The Protecting God’s Children (PGC) class is now a requirement and baby brother. Although Kateri survived, her face was for all volunteer positions where fingerprinting is required. This disfigured and her vision impaired. She was raised by her anti- class will be held in the Saint Ambrose Parish Hall from 10:30 am Christian uncle. In 1676, after meeting with Catholic priests, to 1:30 pm on July 31. Lunch will be provided. Take advantage of Kateri was baptized. From that point, her family and village this convenient opportunity. If you are a fingerprinted volunteer ostracized and ridiculed her. A year later, Kateri fled to Canada and have not taken this class, please sign up on the registration taking refuge at St. Mission on the St. Lawrence sheet provided in the vestibule. River, about 10 miles from Montreal. It was here she made her first Communion on Christmas day in 1677. Discernment Retreat, July 31 - August 1 Kateri embodied a deep spirituality and was devoted to the The of St. Augustine is hosting its annual retreat for men Blessed Sacrament. She took a private vow of virginity and ages 16 & up discerning a vocation to the priesthood at Mary- devoted herself to teaching prayers to the children and helping wood Retreat and Conference Center. The cost for this retreat the sick and elderly of Caughnawaga. is $15. If interested, please contact the Office of Vocations at Kateri died in 1680 at 24 years of age. According to eyewitness- [email protected] or (904) 262-3200. es, the scars on her face suddenly disappeared after her death. Catholics soon reported favors and that had been Men’s Group of Saint Ambrose obtained through her intercession. Native Americans made appeals to the Church for her recognition as early as the late Our recent parish communications survey revealed a desire by 1800s. Documentation for Kateri’s cause for sainthood was sent men in the parish for a Men’s Group. Prayer is always the first to the Vatican in 1932. She was declared venerable in 1942 and step in preparing for any group or ministry. This Year of Saint beatified by John Paul II in 1980. Joseph is a perfect opportunity to form a Saint Ambrose Men’s Group. If you are interested in being a part of this group, please In July 2009, records of the needed for her canonization email [email protected] or call the were sent to the Vatican. They reported the full recovery of a office at (904) 692-1366. young Seattle boy, part Native American, whose face was disfigured by, and nearly died from, a flesh-eating bacteria. His Seeking Rosary Leaders family prayed for Kateri’s intercession. On December 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI signed the recognizing the miracle, Saint Ambrose is seeking individuals 12 years of age and up clearing the way for her canonization on October 21, 2012. Her interested in leading the Rosary. We begin one-half hour prior to feast day in July 14. each of our weekend Masses. The Rosary is scripture based leading us to contemplative prayer allowing us to enter into the Prayer to Cacique Luis, Florida & silence of our hearts, where Christ’s spirit dwells. Procedural training is available. For more information, call (904) 692-1366 or email [email protected]. Cacique Luis, you who came to know, love, and serve God and freely gave your life in National Natural Family Planning Awareness defense of the faith together with your family and friends, pray for us. Your whole life was a Week, July 25 to July 31 testament to the grace and mercy of God. National Natural Family Planning Awareness Week is an educa- You lived out your devotion to God and his tional campaign and awareness initiative sponsored by the U. S. people by serving, teaching, and leading oth- Catholic . Visit www.usccb.org for more information. ers to the faith. We do not know much more than these things about you, but in them we know all we need to look toward your selfless love for God as an example to be inspired by and aspire to, in the hope that we would have the courage and dignity that you did as we face our own sacrifices and surrender in service to God and his ATTENTION: The Diocese of St. Augustine treats all allegations kingdom. By the grace of God, pray for us who now live and thrive of sexual misconduct seriously and deals with all allegations in a prompt, where you once did, joining your prayers to ours in thanks, praise, confidential, and thorough manner. To Report Abuse call the police or the and petition for God’s mercy. We ask this through Jesus Christ, Department of Children and Families at (800) 962-2873. Or call the our Lord and Savior. Amen. Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator at (904) 208-6979 or email [email protected]. To report abuse by a , call (800) 276-1562 St. Ambrose parishioners are asked to graciously adopt this mar- or visit www.reportbishopabuse.org. tyr and Servant of God, Cacique Luis, in their daily prayers and devotions, asking for his intercession as appropriate, and making particular note of any occasions of miraculous intercession by contacting the office at [email protected] or (904) 692-1366. For more information, please go to: https:// martyrsoflafloridamissions.org/ James E. Bedsole, Esq. ATTORNEY AT LAW Probate Law • Trust Law • Real Estate Estate Planning • Guardianships 2450 Old Moultrie Rd. 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