Pastor: Rev. Charles P. Tichacek SACRED HEART CHURCH
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SACRED HEART CHURCH 714 Lincoln Street Elsberry, Missouri 63343 573-898-2202 Website: www.SacredHeartElsberry.org Pastor: Rev. Charles P. Tichacek Sunday Mass Baptisms by appointment 8:00 am Devotion Week Day Masses Rosary at 7:40 am on Tuesday and Perpetual Monday 7:00 pm Communion Service Thursday 7:30 am Help Devotions. Tuesday 8:00 am Communion Service Friday 7:30 am Marriages To be arranged at least 6 months prior to the wedding Adoration is the third Tuesday of each month beginning after the 8:00 am Mass and concluding Confession Parish Office Hours with Benediction at 7:00 pm Sunday 7:30 am Tuesday 10:00 am until 5:00 pm EPIPHANY OF THE LORD January 3, 2021 www.SacredHeartElsberry.org MASS INTENTIONS LECTORS Jan. 4- Jan. 10 Mon. 7:00 pm K or C - Living & Deceased Sun. Jan. 10 Ed O’Brien Tues. 8:00 am Philip Schmidt Jr. Sun. Jan. 17 Rachele Presley Thurs. 7:30 am Communion Service Fri. 7:30 am Communion Service ALTAR SERVERS Sun. 8:00 am Poor Souls Sun. Jan. 10 Gavin & Jillian Reller & The DISPENSATION Connues Rio Gonzalez Sun. Jan. 17 Kevin & Meagan Seely & Feast Day Gabe Gonzalez Mon. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Tues. St. John Neumann GREETERS Wed. Blessed Andre Bessette Thurs. St. Raymond of Penyafort Sun. Jan. 10 Dwayne & Lindsey Heitman Sun. Jan. 17 Bob Smith & Dan Heitman Offertory: Dec. 20, 2020 Envelopes: $ 1,415 Loose: $ 60 Parish Imp. $ 10 WEAR A MASK!!! Total: $ 1,485 PLEASE FOLLOW THE MANDATES FROM THE Offertory Report for Dec. 27th will be in Jan. 10 bulletin ARCHBISHOP FOR COMING TO MASS AT archstl.org or our parish website Stewardship Awareness “. .they fell down and worshipped him. Then they The Special Intentions of Pope Francis for opened their treasures and offered him gifts of gold, January 2021 frankincense, and myrrh. “ -Matthew 2:11 Dear Lord Jesus, Notice the order of events in the Magi’s visit. First, they As we start a new year, we pray for evangelization and knelt before Jesus and prayed to Him. Then they present- for human fraternity. Lord, give us the grace to live in ed Him with their gifts. We, too, must take time to pray full fellowship with our brothers and sisters of other before we present our gifts to the Lord. We never know religions, praying for one another, open to all. what God may be asking us to share! Sacred Heart Calendar of Events Pray For Sun. Jan. 3: Mass 8:00 am Margaret Bartold Terry Martin Mon. Jan. 4: Mass 7:00 pm Joe & Mary Buescher Cecile Mesker Tues. Jan. 5: Mass 8:00 am Kim Tobiasz Jerry Heitman Thurs. Jan. 7: Communion Service Nancy McCullough Charlie DeMoulin Fri., Jan. 8: Communion Service Jack Burkemper Phyllis Galati Sun. Jan. 10: Mass 8:00 am Leroy Schramm Eric Mueller Andrew Heitman John C. Shaffer Raymond Geosling Bonnie Kindred Take The Word Among Us for January 2021! Megan Schramm Teresa O’Driscoll Cloyd Bridges Richard Eggering The Merriman Family Mike O’Brien Bob Smith Joe Galati Sherrie Galati Bill Lagemann Jimmy Henry Addison Mayes Margaret Lagemann Donna Bange Weekly Masses at St. Alphonsus Earl Rolen Bernard Bange Wednesday Mass 8:15 am Friday Mass 8:15 am Steve Dunlap Vernon Eisenbath Saturday Mass 8:15 am Sunday Mass 10:00 am Diane DeMoulin Chuck Bull ST. ALPHONSUS PHONE #: 573-384-6223 Mary Heitman Makenzie Hagemeier Need a Priest? Rose Dwiggins Mary Hagemeier Fr. Lydon, Sacred Heart Troy 636-528-8219 Theresa Keeteman Kaye Byers Fr. Rath, ICOM 636-661-5002 Megan Schramm St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Monday, January 4 This wife, mother and foundress of a religious congregation HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 was born on Aug. 28. 1774 in New York City. Brought up as an Episcopalian, she received an excellent education, and from Thanks for all who donated Poinsettias! her early years she showed concern for the poor. In 1794 Eliza- beth married William Seton, with whom she had five children. Thanks for all who cleaned and decorated the church at The loss of their fortune so affected William’s health that in Christmas time. It is beautiful! 1803 they went to stay with Catholic friends at Livorno, Italy. William died six weeks after their arrival, and when Elizabeth Reading for Jan. 4 - Jan. 10 returned to New York City six months later, she was already a convinced Catholic. She was baptized a Catholic on March 4, Mon. 1 John 3:22-4:6; Matthew 4:12-17, 23-25 1805. Abandoned by her friends and relatives, Elizabeth was Tues. 1 John 4:7-10; Mark 6:34-44 invited by the superior of the Sulpicians in Baltimore to found Wed. 1 John 4:11-18; Mark 6:45-52 a school for girls. Although she did not neglect the ministry to Thurs. 1 John 4:19-5:4; Luke 4:14-22a the poor, and especially to Negroes, she actually laid the foun- Fri. 1 John 5:5-13; Luke 5:12-16 dation for what became the American parochial school system. Sat. 1 John 5:14-21; John 3:22-30 Sun. Isaiah 55:1-11; 1 John 5:1-9 St. John Neumann - Tuesday, January 5 Mark 1:7-11 Born on March 28, 1811 in Prachatitz, Bohemia (now in the Czech Republic), John Neumann realized a long cherished EPIPHANY dream when he came to the United States and was ordained a priest in New York City in 1836. Four years later he joined the 528 The Epiphany is the manifestation of Jesus as Redemptorist. In 1852, at the age of 41, he was ordained bishop Messiah of Israel, Son of God and Savior of the of Philadelphia, where he worked zealously for the establish- world. The great feast of Epiphany celebrates the ad- ment of parochial schools and of parishes for immigrants from oration of Jesus by the wise men (magi) from the Europe. He inaugurated the Forty Hours Devotion in the U.S. East, together with his baptism in the Jordan and the By the end of his life he had mastered twelve languages. He wedding feast at Cana in Galilee. In the magi, repre- composed two catechisms in German and a Bible History for sentatives of the neighboring pagan religions, the use in the parochial schools. He is the first bishop from the Gospel sees the first-fruits of the nations, who wel- United States to be canonized a saint. come the good news of salvation through the Incarna- tion. The magi’s coming to Jerusalem in order to pay Blessed Andre Bessette - Wednesday, January 6 This Holy Cross Brother, has been credited with thousands of homage to the king of the Jews shows that they seek cures. He was the founder of St. Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, in Israel, in the messianic light of the star of David, Canada, perhaps the world’s principal shrine in honor of St. the one who will be king of the nations. Their coming Joseph. When he died at the age of 91, it was estimated that means that pagans can discover Jesus and worship close to a million people came to the Oratory to pay their last him as Son of God and Savior of the world only by respects. He was beatified in 1982. Andre was the eighth child turning toward the Jews and receiving from them the in a family of 12. Orphaned at the age of 12,he tried his hand at messianic promise as contained in the Old Testament. various trades but was not successful in any of them. He could The Epiphany shows that “the full number of the na- barely read and write and was sickly most of his life. At the age tions” now takes its “place in the family of the patri- of 15 he became a Brother of Holy Cross but was rejected at archs,” and acquires Israelitica dignitas (are made the end of the novitiate. At the insistence of the bishop of Mon- treal, however, Brother Andre was allowed to make religious “worthy of the heritage of Israel”). profession. For 40 years he worked as porter at the College of Notre Dame, until he was needed full time a the shrine of St. THE YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH Joseph. People from all over Canada came to him for cures or Pope Francis has announced a Year of St. Joseph in for spiritual direction. honor of the 150th anniversary of the saint’s proclama- tion as patron of the universal Church. The year began St. Raymond of Penyafort - Thursday, January 7 Dec. 8, 2020 and concludes of Dec. 8, 2021, according A renowned expert in canon and civil law, St. Raymond also to a decree authorized by the pope. Pope Francis said worked assiduously for the formation of priests and the evange- lization of Jews and Muslims. He encouraged missionaries to the aim of his apostolic letter which announced the de- learn Arabic and to study the Koran in order to enter into dia- cree was to increase our love for this great saint, to en- logue with Islam. Born at Penyafort, near Barcelona, Spain, courage us to implore his intercession and to imitate his between 1175 and 1180, he took his early studies at the cathe- virtues and his zeal. A plenary indulgence will be grant- dral school in Barcelona and then proceeded to Bologna, where ed to Catholics who recite any approved prayer or act of he became an outstanding professor of canon law. He was a piety in honor of St.