GUARDIAN ANGELS PARISH Parish Office: 1310 Westport road Kansas City, MO 64111 (816) 931-4351 phone (816) 531-6396 fax

Office Hours: Monday- Thurs ...... 8:30AM- 4:00PM Friday...... CLOSED

Parish Website: guardianangelskc.org

Reconciliation: Saturday ...... 3:15 PM—3:45 PM

Liturgy Schedule: Saturday ...... 4:00 PM Sunday...... 8:30 AM & 9:45* AM ...... and 11:00 AM

*The 9:45 am mass is new and added for the Our Lady of Hope Ordinariate Community. Guardian Angels Parish- ioners are invited to attend this mass . It is a beautiful ser- vice and all are welcome. Mass Intentions The Week Ahead………... Saturday, June 29 4:00 pm...... Sr. Linda Barringer We have no activities scheduled the coming two weeks — Sunday, June 30 we wish you a happy and safe summer. 8:30 am ...... Parishioners and Benefactors 9:45 am ...... 11:00 am...... For an awareness that we all have ...... the power to change Saturday, July 6 Readings for the week of June 30, 2019 4:00 pm...... Leon Lozada Sunday, July 7 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:16b, 19-21/Ps 16:1-2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11 8:30 am ...... Cecil Torres [cf. 5a]/Gal 5:1, 13-18/Lk 9:51-62 9:45 am ...... Monday: Gn 18:16-33/Ps 103:1b-2, 3-4, 8-9, 10-11 [8a]/ 11:00 am...... For Refugees everywhere Mt 8:18-22 Tuesday: Gn 19:15-29/Ps 26:2-3, 9-10, 11-12 [3a]/Mt 8:23 “Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, -27 worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual Wednesday: Eph 2:19-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Jn 20:24- 29 experience of living every minute with love, grace Thursday: Gn 22:1b-19/Ps 115:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 8-9 [9]/Mt 9:1- and gratitude.” 8 Friday: Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67/Ps 106:1b-2, 3-4a, Denis Waitley 4b-5 [1b]/Mt 9:9-13 Saturday: Gn 27:1-5, 15-29/Ps 135:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6 [3a]/Mt 9:14-17 PRAY FOR OUR SICK & MILITARY Next Sunday: Is 66:10-14c/Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20 [1]/Gal Please pray for those who are sick or recuperating: 6:14-18/Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 or 10:1-9 Shirley Andrade, Angela & Henry Barbosa, Bill Breeden, Kelly and Joseph Chambers, Larry Clark, Aurora Davis, Cathryn Dugan, Jose Padilla Enriques, FOOD PANTRY Marie Furlong, Pat Garcia, Shawn Gaupp, Bill Getz, We are fortunate at Guardian Angels to have a Food Pantry to Charles Gurera, Sylvia Harral, Frankie Hernandez, Nick help with the needs of the hungry in the Westport/Roanoke area. and Rita Hernandez, Adri Jordison, Freddie Juarez, While we do utilize Harvesters for the majority of our food Jackie Kallman, Mary Komoroski, Ermaline Lopez, supplies, we also depend on the generosity of parishioners. Michael Lucas, Frankie Magana III, Steve McCray, Michael McCunniff, Andy McEachron , Harper McLean, Current Needs in the Food Pantry: soup, cereal, canned Fr. Joe Miller, Kathy Neal, Cathy Norbury, James vegetables, dried pasta, pasta sauce, canned ravioli, tuna, Norbury, Christopher Pacheco, Celia Padilla, Rose and shampoo. Joe Padilla, Ashley Parton, Margaret Reid, Guadalupe Reyes, Valeria Ricu, Theo Stephen Ridenour, Teresa SCHOOL SUPPLY NEEDS Rivera, Jessie Ruiz, Betty and Tom Ryan, Michael While we realize school recently ended, this is the time of year Schlueter, Kelli Seiler, Genevieve Substine-Lewis, we gear up for fall and start to stock up on school supplies for Marigene Suellentrop, Susan Tarwater, Warren Toms, children who will be in school in the fall. Items we will need Beverly Tumberger, Soccorro Velo, Kay Ward, Michael include the following. We will have collection baskets set up, Weaver, Jim Wood and for all the sick and infirmed. beginning in July. Please pray for those serving in the military: composition notebooks (wide ruled) colored pencils Ryan Asbury (Air Force), Carlos Garcia III (Navy), pencils pink erasers Joshua Kappler (Navy), Nick Malott, Michael Mathews pocket folders highlighters (Army), Joe Penniston, Nikolas Ramirez (Army), James colored construction paper dry erase markers Reyes (Marines), Geoff Schultz (Air Force), Richard Sowders (Army), Bill Suellentrop (Army), Garrett watercolor sets tissues Trowbridge (Army), Connor Wiltse (Air Force). hand sanitizer pencil boxes ear buds pens plastic folders calculators

2|Guardian Angels Parish Kansas City, MO Pizza with Padre Parish Financial Support On June 30th, following the 11 am Mass, we will enjoy the first Pizza June 23, 2019 with Padre, theme-based times of Envelopes ...... $1,136.50 fellowship. Plate ...... $381.00 This first Pizza with Padre will be Total for the weekend...... $1,517.50 an opportunity for everyone to ask questions and offer suggestions. Do you have an idea Thank you for your generosity! that might improve our worship or outreach? All ideas and suggestions will be submitted to the Parish Council for prayer and discernment. Pilgrimage to Italy

Save the Date There are a few last-minute spots for Fr. Ed Wills’ 15 day pilgrimage to Italy (October 3-17 2019). Get The Holy Name Society will host ready to enjoy 4 days in Rome and 2 full days in Dinner and Horse Races on Assisi. Pilgrims will also visit Venice, Florence, Saturday, August 10 at 5:00 pm Siena, Padua, Verona, San Gimignano, and the in Our Lady of Hope Cafeteria, Italian countryside. Enjoy shopping in out of the 4232 Mercier, next door to the way hamlets and wine tasting in the Tuscan church. The cost for the Taco countryside. Mass will be held daily in some of the Plate is $6.50. This is always a popular event and all most beautiful basilicas in the world, including the Basilicas of St. Francis, St. Anthony, St. Clare, St. are welcome. Mark, and St. Peter. An audience is also scheduled with the Pope during the visit. Some tours just seem Ordinary Time to be all hustle and bustle. However, free time, as well as time for prayer and reflection, will be The term ordinary in English means not special or important elements of this pilgrimage. All under the distinctive, so why do we call this current period spiritual direction of Fr. Ed Wills. To view or Ordinary Time in the calendar of the Catholic Church? download a brochure go to http://www.edwills.net/ It does not mean that are unimportant. Ordinary Time rome2019/. refers to all of those parts of the Catholic Church's liturgical year that aren't included in the major seasons Greater Kansas City Worldwide Marriage of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter. Ordinary Time Encounter thus encompasses two different periods in the Church's calendar, since the Christmas season immediately We are looking forward with great anticipation to the follows Advent, and the Easter season immediately next Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend. We follows Lent. In any given year, there are either 33 or currently have 11 couples and one priest registered to 34 Sundays in Ordinary Time. Because Easter is a attend, but certainly have room for more! Please lift moveable feast, and thus the Lent and Easter seasons them up in prayer asking that St. Michael protect them "float" from year to year, the number of Sundays in from the traps laid by the evil one who would keep them each period of Ordinary Time vary from the other from growing deeper in love. The mission of Worldwide period as well as from year to year. Marriage Encounter is to proclaim the value of Marriage and Holy Orders in the Church and in the world. We provide couples, priests and religious with the opportunity to enter more deeply into their sacrament We wish you a through a weekend experience designed to enhance the skills needed for living out God’s plan for a fruitful and Happy and Safe loving relationship. The remaining weekends for 2019 are scheduled for July 12-14, October 4-6 and November Independence Day!! 15-17, 2019. Help Wanted Seeking Bowls, Pots and Pans Seeking help cleaning a small house in Westport. Please call Robert at 816-786-3298. We are seeking glass mixing bowls and pots and pans Do you Knit or Crochet, or would you like to learn how? in good shape for A Knitting and Crocheting Group meets each Tuesday the Parish Hall. evening from 6:30 to 8:00pm at the Keeler Women’s These items will be Center in Kansas City, KS. Come to learn or to teach. used for activities On the first night, learn a basic stitch and decide on a at Guardian Angels project; then join the circle of women to have fun, relax and for funeral lunches. Some of our current with new friends, and weave away. Needles, hooks, and items are quite old and need to be replaced. yarn are provided. (Donations are always welcome!) The Thanks for your consideration! Center is located at 2220 Central Street in Kansas City, Kansas 66102 All are welcome. Thoughts from Guardian Angels

Therefore, with angels and archangels and all the company of It is right and just. Or, It is meet and right so to do. heaven, we praise and glorify thy Holy Name. Then follows the Preface (unique to each Mass and Beloved, commemorating the season, mystery, or occasion celebrated) wherein we glorify the Father and In the sixth chapter of book of Isaiah, the prophet recounts his render thanks for the work of salvation. calling in a vision of the Lord God Almighty: It is then that we leave earth. In our spirits and with our voices we join the heavenly choirs of I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and saints and angels. his train filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim; each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with Therefore, with Angels and Archangels and with all two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called the company of heaven, to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts; we praise and magnify thy glorious Name saying: the whole earth is full of his glory.” – Isaiah 6:-3 Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God of hosts. Heaven and earth are full of your glory.

In Catholic worship this is the very moment when, at every celebration of the Mass, we bow with the angels at the This is the heavenly song Isaiah heard, as well as threshold of heaven and then kneel for our own vision of God St. John the Apostle when he wrote this heavenly – He who is revealed anew in the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar vision in his Revelation. And so, the Church joins and made manifest in the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of the heavenly song of eternal praise. the incarnate Logos, crucified and resurrected. Already, even before the Consecration of the Before the Sanctus, though, before we behold the “Pierced Sacred Elements and before our reception of Holy One” risen to new life for our souls’ Food, hidden under the Communion, we unite ourselves to Christ in appearances of Bread and Wine, the faithful make ready to offering our own lives to the Father. We close the enter to the Holy of Holies. The Priest begins the “Preface song with a line from Psalm 118, “Blessed is he Dialogue” and bids us to lift our hearts high: who comes in the name of the Lord.” It is Christ who comes to us at the altar. It is also we who come to Christ in the Lord’s Name, as we bless Lift up your hearts. ourselves with the sign of the cross and go toward We lift them up unto the Lord. our own share in His Passion through our Let us give thanks unto the Lord our God. participation in the Mass. Truly, it is meet and right and just.

4|Guardian Angels Parish Kansas City, MO Yours in Christ, Fr. Ed Procedures, Sacraments and Information for Guardian Angels Parish

Baptism subject to approval. Contact Fr. Ed in the parish office after your baby is born, in order to schedule the baptismal class and the date of the Newcomers baptism. Registration Forms are located in the literature holders in the back and at the north entrance to the church. When Confirmation, Eucharist & Reconciliation completed, these can be returned to the parish office or Preparation for this sacrament is offered yearly. Contact placed in the collection baskets at Mass. Welcome! the parish office for more information. Mass Intentions Funeral Please call the office during business hours. Contact the parish office at the time of the death. Our Lady of Hope Catholic School Marriage (next door to Guardian Angels on Mercier) Please contact Fr. Ed in the office, preferably nine months Mary Delac, Principal before your proposed marriage date. Note that it is wise 4232 Mercier, Kansas City, MO 64111 not to make other arrangements until you know your Office: (816) 931-1693; Fax: (816) 931-6713 wedding date is available here at our church. Guardian Our Lady of Hope is a Deanery school, not a parish school Angels does have a wedding planner for an additional cost, (it is made up of six parishes). please let us know if you are interested in this service. Sacrament of the Sick Penance Please contact the parish office if you or a loved one is ill Saturday afternoon between 3:15 and 3:45 pm. or if you have surgery scheduled, to arrange for an anointing. Religious Education Sessions for children and families are held monthly. Quinceanera Contact Sr. Linda in the parish office for more Please contact the office nine (9) months in advance to information. schedule a preparation class. ` ` ` ` ` ` Interested in Becoming Catholic? Sexual Abuse This process is called Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults The Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph is committed to (RCIA). Call Sr. Linda Barringer at the parish office for combatting sexual abuse in the church. If you are a victim information on this process. of sexual abuse, or if you observe or suspect abuse: • Call the Missouri Child Abuse Hotline at 1-(800) Sick or Hospitalized 392-3738, if the victim is under 18 years of age. Contact the parish office when your loved one is sick or • Contact your local law enforcement agency or call 911 admitted to the hospital. • After reporting to the aforementioned law enforcement authorities, report suspected sexual abuse of a minor or Parish Hall Rental vulnerable adult to the Diocesan Ombudsman, at Parishioners who have been registered for one year or 816.812.2500; if the abuse involves a priest, deacon, more, should contact the parish office for rental employee or volunteer of the Diocese of Kansas City- information. St. Joseph. The Diocese has a sincere commitment to providing care School Cafeteria Rental and healing resources to victims of sexual abuse and their Contact the parish office for availability and cost. families. Please contact Kathleen Chastain, Diocesan Victim Advocate at (816) 392-0011 or Bulletin Announcements [email protected] for more information. Items to be included in the bulletin need to be sent to Kate Riha in the parish office no later than Monday before that Sunday’s intended inclusion date. Announcements are

Thirteen Sunday in Ordinary Time June 30, 2019| 5 Stewardship of Guardian Angels The definition of Stewardship is “the responsible overseeing and Guardian Angels Staff Members protection of something considered worth caring for and preserving.” Parish Office (816) 931-4351 All Catholics need to work in Stewardship of our church. There are many different ways to volunteer and become a steward for Guardian Angels. Within the next few weeks, we will be introducing Time and Talent forms, which lists jobs that need to be done relative to our Fr. Ed Wills church. In the coming weeks, please think about your personal gifts. Pastor What talents do you possess that you would be willing to share with [email protected] our parish? Our time and talents are gifts from God. What we do with our time and talents are our gift to God. Please remember that 100% of those who are baptized are called to be stewards of our Sr. Linda Barringer, MMB church. Associate lbarringer @guardianangelskc.org Grief Support Weekend

Widowed, Divorced or Separated? One weekend can make all the Dr. Hyunki Yoon difference with how you feel! A seminar dealing with grief will Music Director take place June 28-30, 2019 at the Precious Blood Renewal [email protected] Center, 2120 St. Gaspar Way in Liberty, MO 64068. To register

or for additional information, go to [email protected]. Mrs. Iulia-Anca Istrate Emergency Assistance Coord. Shakespeare In Love [email protected] The 2019 Heart of America Shakespeare Festival (816) 768-6575 presents “Shakespeare in Love” this year. Takes place weekly on Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Ms. Kathy McLouth This play began on June 18 and will run until July Finance Coordinator 7. [email protected] The performances take place at Southmoreland Park, located at 47th and Oak (located between the Plaza and the Deacon Scott McKellar Nelson Atkins Museum). There is no admittance fee, but freewill Evangelization donations are appreciated

Upcoming Events Ms. Kate Riha Administrative Assistant Sunday, June 30 [email protected] After 11:00 am mass ...... Q & A Session with Fr. Ed Saturday, August 10 Mr. Leo Hernandez 5:00 ...... Horse Races and Taco Dinner* Maintenance Coordinator Thursday, August 15

6:00 pm ...... Bunko September 13-15 ...... Catholic Charismatic Conference To report abuse in the Diocese: Thursday, September 19 Omsbudsman 6:00 pm ...... Bunko (816) 812-2500 Saturday, October 12 5:15 pm ...... Bingo Thursday, October 17 6:00 pm ...... Bunko Please visit our parish website at https://guardianangelskc.org/ 6|Guardian Angels Parish Kansas City, MO