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June 6, 2021 55 Jefferson St. Monument, CO 80132 Petertherock.Org ST St. Peter Parish is a welcoming community of different backgrounds living the joy of Catholic faith in the Diocese of Colorado Springs. MASS AND RECONCILIATION SCHEDULE Memorial Day Celebration The Town of Monument held a ceremony to honor those Reconciliation Schedule Veterans who’s final resting place is Monument Cemetery. Tuesday evening 4:45-5:15pm The beautiful ceremony began with our Knights of Thursday evening 4:45-5:15pm Columbus. Father Gregory gave the Benediction, and some Saturday 3-4 pm , Or By Appointment of our St. Peter choir members provided music. Weekend Mass Schedule Saturday 5pm Sunday 8am, 10:30am , 5pm Daily Mass Schedule Monday 8am, Tuesday 8:15am & 5:30pm Wednesday 8am Thursday 8am & 5:30pm Friday 8am Holy Hour Wednesday 5:30pm Ad Orientem Mass 5:30pm June 10 17 July 1,8 August 5,12,19, 26 Observances for the week of June 6, 2021 June 6, The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ: June 9, St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church June 11, The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus June 12, The Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary Upcoming Second Collections June 13• Upon This Rock June 27• Peter’s Pence June 30• Campus Ministry Center June 6, 2021 55 Jefferson St. Monument, CO 80132 petertherock.org ST. PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH MONUMENT, CO Dear parishioners and guests, I would like to share few reflections for the solemn Feast of Corpus Christi. It is three feasts in one: the feast of the Eucharistic sacrifice, the feast of the Sacrament of the Eucharist and the feast of the Real Presence of Jesus in this Sacrament. Corpus Christi is a doctrinal feast established for three purposes: 1) to give God collective thanks for Christ’s abiding presence with us in the Eucharist and to honor Him there; 2) to instruct the people in the Mystery, Faith and devotion surrounding the Eucharist, and 3) to teach us to appreciate and make use of the great gift of the Holy Eucharist, both as a Sacrament and as a sacrifice. Although we celebrate the institution of the Holy Eucharist on Holy Thursday, the Church wants to emphasize its importance by a special feast, formerly called “Corpus Christi.” Pope Urban IV first extended the feast to the universal Church. This is one of the few feasts left in which we observe a procession and a sung “Sequence." Dominic Tang, the courageous Chinese archbishop, was imprisoned for twenty-one years for nothing more than his loyalty to Christ and Christ’s one, true Church. After he had spent five years of solitary confinement in a windowless, damp cell, his jailers told him that he could leave it for a few hours to do whatever he wanted. Five years of solitary, confinement and he had a couple of hours to do what he wanted! What would it be? A hot shower? A change of clothes? Certainly, a long walk outside. A chance to call or write to family? What would it be? The jailer asked him. “I would like to say Mass,” replied Archbishop Tang. The Vietnamese Jesuit, Joseph Nguyen-Cong Doan, who spent nine years in labor camps in Vietnam, relates how he was finally able to say Mass when a fellow priest-prisoner shared some of his own smuggled supplies. “That night, when the other prisoners were asleep, lying on the floor of my cell, I celebrated Mass with tears of joy. My altar was my blanket and my prison clothes my vestments. But I felt myself at the heart of humanity and of the whole of creation.” In the early 1900s, there were 18 families in Monument who desired Mass. The first Masses for that community were celebrated in a private building where a piano with three legs served as the altar. Our now-restored chapel was their first official place of worship in 1918. The Feast of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Jesus constantly calls us beyond ourselves to sacrificial love for others. Scripture readings for Corpus Christi contain three themes: the Eucharist as blessing or praise of God (action of Melchizedek in Gn 14:18-20), the Eucharist as memorial of what Jesus did at the Last Supper (1 Cor 11:23-26) and the Eucharist as food for the multitudes (Lk 9:11b-17). The never-ending supply of bread with which Jesus fed the multitude prefigured his own Body, the consecrated Bread that sustains us until he comes again. The Eucharist is also a re-enactment of Christ’s sacrificial Self-giving. The Eucharist is the Mystery of our Faith, the mystery of our Hope, the mystery of our Charity. The Eucharist gives us a mission: “Go in peace, glorifying God by your life.” The Eucharist, (the Body and Blood of Christ), teaches us the importance of community, the bond that results from this sacrifice. By receiving Holy Communion we become Christ-bearers as Mary was, with the duty of conveying Christ to others at home and in the workplace, as love, mercy, forgiveness and humble and sacrificial service. With prayer, Fr. Gregory 2 ST. PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH MONUMENT, CO PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL Olivia Burtwistle Maria Bartos Judy Beacon Sharon Linsky Valerie Tomm Peyton Wilkinson Fred LaClair Earl Depner Alaina Bohler Kay Hawkins Stella Nelson Sue Cameron Louis Annmar Cecilia Martin Gordon Barker Saturday June 5 James Cordoba Madeline Franki Mary Anne Kaelin 5pm Leon Michon † Harriett Tom Tami Ressler Ernie LaClair Melanie Seiter Mike Nicholson Marvin Emerich Laura Delohery Dani LaClair Barbie Henry Sunday June 6 Lexi Stewart Meredith Clabaugh Henrietta Moody- 8am For all our departed loved ones and Christy Gaughan Cathy Nowak Ron Logan friends, especially for those who Ed Barrett Maurice Meier Margaret Nealon Dona Sorenson Rick Arnold Steve Steele served our country. Marsha Zmuda Andrea Crunkhorn Rosario Coronado Cathy Hoffman-Chess Jim Kimble Monica Thomas 10:30am Darren Henry Viola Hale Anne Bush Jean Mickelson Sue Podczervinski Donna DeYoung Patricia Brewster 5pm St. Peter Parishioners Emily Sumner Beau Gent Joe Bohler Nancy Simpson Christine Coleman Michael Lyons Monday June 7 Vicki Anderson Susan Hess-Catalano Shelley Moreno 8am Earl Matson † Scott Sutherland Brenda Roberts Frank Cawley JC Strutzel Chris Strutzel Paul Dickard Kevin Yoss Tuesday June 8 PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED 8:15am Fr. Stanley Golyzniak † Joseph Gentile Eleanor Harrigan Maria L. Colosimo Shane Wilkinson Karen Fostey Trish Fleischer 5:30pm Algis Andrukonis † Jim & Joan Burns Chris Maniscalch Ronald Henrikson Audrey MacDonald Jack Novascone Carl Anderson Sr. Wednesday June 9 Pat Anderson Dirk Edwards John Lacson 8am Jeannie Ulm † Rita Simpson Nancy Russo Eads Lisa Ferraro Charles Brannan Lina Caragao Richard Haberkorn Jim Matthews William E. Flinn Jr. Michael F. Murphy Thursday June 10 Virginia Smaldino Taylor Hannah Annie Russo 8am Mabel Annette Miller Susan Flesch Adelaide Stein Mary Souza Don Roush James Hopkins John Doyle 5:30pm Joan Durbin † Carol Shottes Susi Berry Robert Mandarich Jim Pepper Nancy Dorwart CeCe LeClair Friday June 11 Fred Wolfe Dante Valori Dick Williams Bill Nealon Bill Brickner Frieda Rever 8am Sara Brousseau † Karol Citti Paula Bush Lloyd Nicholson Madeline Mae Johnson Robert Carubia Pat O’Callaghan Saturday June 12 Ronald Phillips Joan Durbin Ramona Feliciano John Sebben Doreen Weber Steve Hess 5pm Scotty & Cathie Bowen Peggy Heitz Bob Hartinger Sondra Regan Bill Seffers Gary Simco John Gleason Sunday June 13 Rosalie Pounder Elizabeth (Bettina) Zimmerman 8am Marilyn Beckman † 10:30 St. Peter Parishioners WEEKLY READINGS 5pm Marcos & Nonita Nasi † Sunday: Ex 24:3-8/Ps 116:12-13, 15-16, 17-18 [13]/Heb 9:11-15/Mk 14:12-16, 22-26 Offering May 30, 2021 Monday: 2 Cor 1:1-7/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [9]/ Offertory Collection $ 26,660.24 Mt 5:1-12 Tuesday: 2 Cor 1:18-22/Ps 119:129, 130, 131, 132, Improvement Fund $ 242.50 133, 135 [135a]/Mt 5:13-16 School Subsidy $ 637.50 Wednesday: 2 Cor 3:4-11/Ps 99:5, 6, 7, 8, 9 [cf. Second collection Student Center $ 2,259.27 9c]/Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: 2 Cor 3:15—4:1, 3-6/Ps 85:9ab and 10, PMC Mo. Mortgage Payment $ 9,648.24 11-12, 13-14 [cf. 10b]/Mt 5:20-26 Upon this Rock Funds Received $ 25,640.92 Friday: Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/ Eph 3:8-12, 14-19/Jn 19:31-37 Student Center Capital Campaign Saturday: 2 Cor 5:14-21/Ps 103:1-2, 3-4, 9-10, 11- Goal $ 266,034.00 12 [8a]/Lk 2:41-51 Pledged $ 222,462.85 Next Sunday: Ez 17:22-24/Ps 92:2-3, 13-14, 15-16 Funds Needed to reach goal $ 43,571.15 [cf. 2a]/2 Cor 5:6-10/Mk 4:26-34 3 ST. PETER CATHOLIC CHURCH MONUMENT, CO The Green Thumb Ministry will have a “Spruce Up” Wonderful Memorial Day Weekend the Church and School event on Saturday, June 12 from 9am Blood Drive! to Noon. Anyone who would like to participate is most Vitalant was so pleased to receive 31 pints welcome. We will meet in the alley between the church and of life saving blood. Thank you special school next to the west entrance to the church. For more donors, and for those who attempted to give information, please contact Steve Hadfield at blood. [email protected]. Please join us for our next blood drive on July 11. THANK YOU FATHER BOB Roe v.
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