Immaculate Conception, Mattoon St. Columcille, Sullivan Sunday in Ordinary Time: July 4, 2021

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JULY 5 -11 JULY 4, 2021 MONDAY -St. Anthony, St. Elizabeth FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:00AM – Wayne & Madonna Fuller TUESDAY - St. 5:30PM – Sr. M. Melanie Roetker, OP – WEDNESDAY 7:00AM - The Roepke Family

THURSDAY – 5:30PM – Jim Snow FRIDAY – St. Augustine Rong 7:00AM – The Roepke Family “A prophet is not without honor SATURDAY – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Vigil – except in his native place.” 4:00PM Don White SUNDAY – 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mark 6:1 -6 – 8:00AM The Cox Family Prepare For Next Sunday’s Readings 10:30AM – Fields & Mansfield Families Next Sunday’s Gospel, (July 11) describes how 5:00PM - People of Our Parish Jesus sent the disciples to minister in his name and the disciples’ return to Jesus afterward. Jesus’ instructions to the apostles are very specific. He repeats the mission that they are sent to preach and Your Parish & Faith Stewardship to share his authority to heal and to drive out OUR GIVING demons. Jesus sends them in pairs, establishing his 513 Registered Families mission as a communal endeavor. Jesus also Fiscal Year – July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021 instructs them to travel lightly, without the customary food, money, and extra set of clothes. The basket for your donations at is in the These instructions mean that the Twelve will be center aisle near the Baptismal font. Thank you dependent on the hospitality of others, just as Jesus depended on others to provide for his needs. The Weekly Budget 10,500.00 Christian message can only authentically be - proclaimed in and through the community of faith 06/27/21 Parish 7,398.00 that is the Church. In our work with others, we - Deficit/Surplus for Weeks 3,102.00 build this community of faith and can invite others - - Year To Date Budget 546,000.00 to share in it. Year -To -Date Collected 548,734.54 SCRIPTURE READINGS Deficit/Surplus for Year + 2,734.54

- 7:12 15: The prophet Amos is sent from IC CHURCH BALANCE Bethel. OF PREVIOUS PROJECTS= $14,915.75 Ephesians 1:3 -14: Paul teaches that we were chosen for Christ before the creation of the PLUS 1/3 OF NEW PARKING LOT=$36,333.77 world. Amount Owed: $51,249.52 - Mark 6:7 13: Jesus instructs his disciples and sends them to preach repentance. Major Project Funds: $ 508.00 Unpaid Balance: $36,777.97

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A Pilgrim’s Progress The hope of a new USCCB document is to encourage a Eucharistic Revival in our nation with a Earlier this week I visited the National WWI Museum reawakening of the truth about the amazing gift Christ and Memorial in Kansas City, with Frs. gave us on the night before he died. By nurturing a Marty Smith (a wounded veteran of Operation Iraqi greater love and familiarity with the Real Presence of Freedom) and Seth Brown. In light of our Sunday Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist in each individual, Mass readings on this Independence Day (i.e. : 1 - family, parish, and diocese our nation can become a God’s call for us to be prophets to a rebellious house, freer, safer, more responsible, and more charitable 2- finding Christ’s grace amidst our human weakness, home for all of us. 3- God’s call to be prophets to our own family), I was continually reminded that “FREEDOM ISN’T FREE.” May this Independence Day bring us all closer to pledging our sacred honor along with that of the Against all hope, WW I did not become “the war that Declaration’s signers to living the freedom intended ended all wars” any more than it definitively “made the for all the children of “nature’s God.” world safe for democracy.” Arguably it did just the opposite on many levels. As history reminds us: “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” Deo Vindice, fr john

Bl. Franz Jagerstatter, the Austrian husband and father, guillotined by the Nazis for refusing to sign a loyalty oath to Hitler, responded to an official who informed St. Columcille: him that he would be freed if only he put his signature to the document; “But I am free.” As a Catholic, who Wed., July 7th Mass at 5:30: Sanctity of Life unapologetically took the teachings of Jesus Christ and his Church seriously, Jagerstatter lived and has now 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time Vigil achieved the fullness of a freedom incomprehensible to Saturday, July 10th at 6:00 pm: Adeline Strehl most of us. Freedom is not free. Freedom is the fruit of fidelity and as St. taught us, it is also the fruit Recent Regular Collections: $1,755.00 of humility and obedience to the Word of God. Thanks to your generosity, St. Columcille recently collected and sent $670.00 to the Diocese for the The above thoughts impact, I believe the current Retired Diocesan Priest Collection. discussion in the Church around “Eucharistic Coherence” as the U.S. bishops prepare a new teaching The monthly Rosary for Life will be prayed NEXT document. Predictably, much of the media presentation weekend before Mass. Thank you for your about this issue has been off base. The prayerful witness.

Conference of Catholic Bishops teaching documents Sullivan Prayer List : Sam Slaughter, Dave Hudspath, are addressed to all Catholics and it is up to individual Ron & Gayle Moody, Geri Lanham, Carole Blasche, Fr. bishops to make decisions for each diocese. In a Sohm, Donna Walker, Marvene Walker, Art Welsh, USCCB document published in 2006, “Happy Are Gary Smith, Ron & Marylyn Crnich, Toby Howard, Those Who Are Called to His Supper,” and available Kathy Frier, Kelly Sullivan, Steve Loveall, Fritz New, Phil Littleton, the Cook Family and Rebecca. on their website the bishops wrote with clarity: “If a Catholic in his or her personal life were knowingly and obstinately to reject the defined doctrines of the Eucharistic Adoration & Exposition: Church, or knowingly and obstinately to repudiate her definitive teaching on moral issues, however, he or she Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, re- would seriously diminish his or her communion with served in the tabernacle, is available every day. Our the Church. Reception of Holy Communion in such a parish churches are open during daylight hours. Eucharistic Exposition on Wednesdays at IC from situation would not accord with the nature of the - - Eucharistic celebration, so that he or she should 5:30 6:30 A.M. and 7 8 PM And from 8:30 A.M. the Friday before First Saturday refrain.” In the past bishops have asked political until 8:00 A.M. on First Saturday. leaders supporting racial segregation and laws For August this will begin on Friday, August 7th permitting and financing the destruction of unborn following the 7:00 AM Mass. children to refrain from the Holy Eucharist. At St. Columcille on Wednesday following 5:30 3 P.M. Mass until Benediction at 6:30 P.M.

Knights of Columbus: Immaculate Conception Calendar of Events :

Please pick up your raffle tickets Sun., July 4: Doughnuts Sunday after 8:00 am & 10:30 am

in the back of Church over the Masses next few weekends. There are Mon., July 5: Parish Office closed in observance of July 4th Holiday several changes this year so Wed., July 7: Adoration from 5:30 —6:30 am & please read the information guide 7:00 —8:00 pm in Church that is attached. Thank you! Fri., July 9th: Fr. Tolton Blessing Event 6:30 -7:30 pm in PC Widows Lunch Sun., July 11 -Wed., July 14th: HS Mission Trip to Appalachia Widows of Immaculate Conception and St. Columcille join us on Wednesday, July 21st at IC Parish Center at 11:00 am for our monthly Widows Lunch. Lunch will be provided with a collection taken up. Thank you!

Peace Meal Delivery:

Immaculate Conception will be providing Peace Meal delivery to seniors in Mattoon the week of July 26 -30. We deliver to 2 routes. If you can help please indicate by signing with a name and phone number on the bulletin board in the entrance of church. Thank you! Potential NEW Servers:

Are you (or your recently Confirmed An Hour With Ven. Father Augustus Tolton

children) interested in attending server Friday Evening July 9 th Immaculate Conception training but need a flexible time that will Parish Center 6:30 -7:30 P.M. work with your families schedule? Contact the parish office at 217 -235 -0539 and we In honor of the 124 th anniversary of the death of Ven. will work with you to schedule a one -on -one Father Tolton, Fr. Peter Chineke will be here to bless the recently completed Tolton statue. The new image, training! sculpted by Teresa Clark, of Terre Haute, Indiana, will remain in the Parish Center, until such time as Fr. IC/St. C. Van Trip Tolton is beatified, when the hope is he will join the St. Mother Theodore Guerin statue, also sculpted by On Thursday, July 15th the parish van will be Clark, in the sanctuary on the “Quincy” side of the going to visit Forty Martyrs Church in Tuscola, reredos. enjoying lunch at Flesor’s Candy Kitchen and making a stop at the Outlet Mall. Van will leave the PC at 9:30 AM. Please call the parish office to An original script, prepared especially for this event, reserve your seat. TOLTON, MY LIFE, will be read by its author Thank you! Patrick Coulton of Charleston and our own Deacon Paul Lesupati. Refreshments and live music will be Immaculate Conception, featured. At this time challenging time in our Thank you for hosting another concert at I.C. The nation’s history we need an awareness of Fr. Tolton’s feedback I got from the event was very positive witness and example, now more than ever. All are and we’d love to come back again sometime. invited to come and share in this historic moment for Thank you, God be Praised! The J. Mette Family, MJM7 Band 4 our parish.

The National Conference for Single Catholics (NCSC) Join hundreds of single Catholics from across the country at the 20th National Conference for Single Catholics - August 20th -22nd, 2021 at the Omni Interlocken hotel in Broomfield, CO. The weekend includes talks by dynamic speakers (Fr. Nathan Cromly, Fr. Thomas Loya, Mary Beth Bonacci and others!) as well as music, social events, Mass, adoration, opportunities for confession, fellowship, food and more. Visit www.NationalCatholicSingles.com for more information and to register. (Can’t find your question answered on the website? Call 512 -766 -5798.)

Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat

There will be a Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat for people affected by abortion August 13-15, at the Villa Maria Retreat Center. Scholarships are available for those not able to pay the full registration fee. Information and registration at: www.dio.org/plasm/projectrachel .

“Viable” For the MANY people hurting, in silence, from a past abortion that desperately need to hear a message of HOPE and HEALING, or for those interested in knowing about the effects of abortion, there are several opportunities to see the life-altering play – “Viable”! The play, "Viable” is showing in Effingham, Bethalto, and Alton July 10- 12. This FREE stage production follows a journey of forgiveness, renewal, and hope through the eyes of one woman who carried a burden of despair. UPDATE: For more information about the play and its main sponsor, and to register to attend, go Mother Mary Joseph and the Carmelite sisters of to: www.SupportAfterAbortion.com/viable/ .For any questions contact Donna Terre Haute have sent notice that they will not be Moore, [email protected] or 217-321-1161. able to have the July novena to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel this year and they look forward to its return Readings for the Week of July 4, 2021 next year. The monastery chapel is open (59 Allendale Rd.) and passersby are welcome to stop in Monday: Gn 28:10 -22a/Ps 91:1 -2, 3 -4, 14 -15 ab/Mt 9:18 -26 - - - - for a “visit” with Our Lord. Tuesday: Gn 32:23 33/Ps 17:1b, 2 3, 6 7ab, 8b&15/Mt 9:32 38 Wednesday: Gn 41:55 -57; 42:5 -7a, 17 -24a/Ps 33:2 -3, 10 -11, 18 - - 19/Mt 10:1 7 Brookstone Rosary: Thursday: Gn 44:18 -21, 23b -29; 45:1 -5/Ps 105:16 -17, 18 -19, 20 - 21/Mt 10:7 -15 Friday: Gn 46:1 -7, 28 -30/Ps 37:3 -4, 18 -19, 27 -28, 39 -40/Mt Great news! We will once again be 10:16 -23 praying the Rosary with our Saturday: Gn 49:29 -32; 50:15 -26a/Ps 105:1 -2, 3 -4, 6 -7/Mt 10:24 parishioners and neighbors at -33

Brookstone South every second Wednesday of each month at 10:00 am. Natural Family Planning Classes: This will begin on July 14th. They would love to have others join them for prayer Friday, July 23rd 6:00 -7:30pm on WebEx. and visiting. Please note: masks must be worn and temperatures will be taken. To register call or text Kate Pruemer at 217 - 821 -1840 or email: [email protected] 5

Starting July 1, 2021, Confirmation and First Holy Communion for children in third grade will take place at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception : Immaculate Conception in Fr. John Sohm, John Lawson, Bonnie Kinney, Springfield. We are Shelley Snow, Ryan Hardin, the Cook Family, Christopher Kermis, Patty Lawson, Geri Lanham, including FAQs regarding Max Rose, Karen Robinson, Liz Slater, Sunny this change. Henne, Mike Kuncl, Pat and Guy Levingston, Celeste Webb, Michael Brinza, Jared Brown, Mary But how can children receiving O’Dell, Ruby Anne Kovack, Mary Ann White, Kent Confirmation earlier in their life help Metzger, Sharon Kuhns, Chris Bugle, Zack them? Davisson, Molly Grady, Michael Grady, Angie Fox, Addison Graham, Wesco Family, Sara Clayhorn, Bishop Paprocki summed it up best, Mark Buran, Don Clark, Ann Clark, Louise Farrell, Wendy Carter, Virginia Kastl, Edna Probst, Rich saying: “Given what our children are Fafara, Lynden and Margie Henning, Karl Rabe, confronting in society, why would we Sheila Rosine, Betty Bailey, Max Ohm, Zale Vincent delay the grace of Confirmation — a Walk, Mary Magnotta, Lois Neff, Gwen Johnson, grace that can protect them from those Jim Pendell, Tammy Howard, Ralph Vanneste, dangers.” Wyatt Edwards, Eddie Sullivan, Alice Farmer, Loretta Tucker, Teresa Miller, Kelly Sullivan, Elisa Gonzalez, Liz Newton, Dennis James, Don Clark, Jr., Our children are facing an Joyce and Joe LaFleur unprecedented barrage of threats to their emotional well-being and moral If you have a loved one who should be added to our clarity. parish prayer list, please call the parish office.

Deferring Confirmation deprives our TO REPORT ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL children of special graces that can help ABUSE OF A MINOR BY CLERGY -EVEN IF them withstand the spiritual challenges IT IS IN THE PAST – individuals are encouraged to of this new reality. Further, deferring call the Diocesan Child Abuse Reporting and Confirmation until they are already Investigation number (217) 321 -1155. Individuals may also contact Illinois Department swimming in these waters also increases of Children and Family Services Child Abuse the likelihood that they will experience barriers to the sacramental grace. After Hotline at 1.800.25.ABUSE , or contact your local police authority. all, as St. teaches us, there are three obstacles to grace: lack of faith/insincerity; lack of repentance; and Sacrament of presence of demons (STL III 66-68). Contact Parish Office to schedule a Baptism. New parents seeking the Sacrament of Baptism for an infant or child are - Therefore, delaying Confirmation is asked to attend ONE pre baptism session. Call the parish a double-edged sword: It deprives our office at 235 -0539 for information and to register. Sacrament of Marriage children of grace they badly need at a Contact Parish Office at least (6) months before the date to younger age; and it likely decreases the make arrangements. effectiveness of the sacrament in their CHOICES Pregnancy & Health -234 -3312 lives. Www.choices4pregnancy.org

Project Rachel -888 -456 -4673 Diocesan Child Abuse Reporting and Investigation Number 217 -321 -1155 D P B - Monday at 10:00AM

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PARISH ORGANIZATIONS AND CONTACT PEOPLE

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION Finance Council St. Vincent de Paul Society Pat Dust 217 -235 -4279 Cheryl Smith 217 -258 -NEED Pastoral Council Social Committee Todd Farris 217 - 273 -0502 Tim Knepple 217 -273 -8991 Communion To The Sick/Homebound Debbie Reinhart 217 -234 -3439 CALVARY CEMETERY Director of Christian Formation Moni Sheehan 217 -246 -3643 Carla Will 217 -235 -0431 Linda Wente 217 -235 -2488 Golden Hearts Madelaine Masse 217 -294 -1885 Knights of Columbus St. Columcille Organizations and Contact People Kelly Scott 217 -273 -5788 Ladies Guild St. Elizabeth Council of Catholic Women Julie Robinson 217 -235 -0539 President: Kris Evans 217 -358 -3490 Liturgical Roles [email protected] Deacon Gene 217 -235 -2189 Share The Word Pastoral Council : Kathy Woodworth Sue Auer 217 -317 -4924 Finance Council: Mike Mossman Spanish Speaking Outreach Rosa Olvera 217 -205 -6498

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