DIVINE MERCY PARISH Schuyler, NE St. Augustine’s Church - 619 Banner St. St. Mary’s Church -1019 Banner St. Parish Office - 308 West 10th St. May 16th, 2021 Divine Mercy Parish Office 308 West 10th Street SEVENTH SUNDAY Schuyler, Ne 68661 Phone: 402-352-3540 OF EASTER Fax: 402-352-5971 E-mail: [email protected] Web: divinemercyschuyler.com Pastor: Fr. Jairo E. Congote Retired Pastor: Fr. Gerry Gonderinger Deacons: Danny Hastings , Paul Doerneman Librado Maiz, Pablo Tovar Bookkeeper Secretary: Patricia Gonzalez Secretaries: Yenny Delgado & Sue Heavican DRE: Renee Blum CFF Secretary: Adriana Alarcon Facilities Mgr.: Deacon Danny Hastings Maintenance: Jim Gonsior Mauricio Rocha Rosary Crusade: Carol Hastings Mass Hours St. Augustine’s Monday Eng. 7:00 a.m. (Comm. Serv.) Sp. (No Mass) Wednesday Eng. 7:00 a.m. Sp. 8:15 a.m. Thursday Sp. 5:00 p.m. Friday Eng. 7:00 a.m. St. Mary’s Tuesday Eng. 12:10 p.m. Sp. 5:00 p.m Thursday Eng. 12:10 p.m. “I am not asking you to remove them from the Friday Sp. 8:15 a.m. world, but to protect them from the Evil One.” Weekends St. Augustine’s - Saturday Eng. 5:00 p.m. John 17: 11-19 Sunday - Eng. 8:00 Sp. 9:30 & 11:00 a.m. St. Mary’s - Saturday Sp. 5:00 p.m. Sunday Eng. 10:00 a.m. Sp. 1:00 p.m. Next week there will be a second collection for the Reconciliation: Saturday 4:00 - 4:45pm Catholic Communication Campaign. St. Mary’s and St. Augustine’s Church Divine Mercy Parish Mission Statement: Our mission is to be a living sign of God reflecting the Divine Mercy of Jesus Christ. From Father Jairo week, however, a pastor is bound to inform the local ordinary. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, this time I would like to talk about This means that a priest can take 30 days of the Law of the Church known as vacation. The Archdiocese of Omaha provides a Canon Law. The internal legal maximum of three weekends away. According to system of the Catholic Church the Archdioceses, “Active-duty priests are entitled affects our daily life of faith. to a maximum of 30 days of vacation per year, in Canon Law lies behind many things that we as addition to one day off per week (Canons 283§2, Catholics take for granted. We talk about important 533 §3 and, 550 §3). The priest can count the year ecclesiastical rights and obligations that might be based on either a calendar year (January 1 – going unrecognized in our lives. Occasionally a December 31) or a fiscal year (July 1- June 30). canon law issue comes directly into our personal Unused vacation days do not carry over into a new world, as might happen, say, in an annulment case. year.” Or canon law may gain our attention when it makes Like every large and complex society, the Catholic the headlines, as might happen, say, when a public Church, long ago, discovered that reasonable, figure is excommunicated. Most Catholics do not written rules were important for the smooth realize that what they see is only a small part of a functioning of the people and projects being under- complete legal system, a legal system that goes back taken in so many different lands and conditions. to the ancient Church. In short, a legal system about Over the centuries, the accumulated pastoral and which they might want to, and need to, know more. administrative wisdom of Church leaders was Some people might wonder how many masses recorded, organized, tested and commented upon by priests can celebrate a day; how many days off legal experts. Over time, these collections of priests can take; or how many days of vacation regulations were called “canons,” to distinguish priests have. Canon law provides the answer to them from civil laws. (The word canon comes from these questions: a Greek term meaning “a rule.”) Can. 900 §1. The minister who is able to confect After a long, worldwide consultation process, Pope the sacrament of the Eucharist in the person of John Paul II promulgated, in 1983, a revised Code Christ is a validly ordained priest alone. of Canon Law for the Roman Catholic Church. This Can. 905 §1. A priest is not permitted to celebrate document is the first place to which the church turns the Eucharist more than once a day except in cases for questions of a canonical nature for answers on where the law permits him to celebrate or such topics as church governance, sacraments and concelebrate more than once on the same day. teaching. This document is available in modern §2. If there is a shortage of priests, the local language translations, and represent the primary ordinary can allow priests to celebrate twice a day current legislation of the Catholic Church. for a just cause, or if pastoral necessity requires it, The Catholic Church conducts legal trials in courts even three times on Sundays and holy days of (called tribunals), which in turn play an important obligation. role in the canonical system. For that matter, canon I am supposed to celebrate one mass on weekdays. law has lawyers (called advocates), law schools to At this moment I have permission to celebrate three train its specialists (called pontifical faculties), law masses on Sunday and days of obligation. During reviews and commentaries, and indeed, in one way the pandemic I was granted permission to celebrate or another, just about everything that we might four masses on certain Sundays. expect to find in a Can. 533 §1. A pastor is obliged to reside in a modern legal system. rectory near the church. Nevertheless, in particular The 1983 Code of cases and if there is a just cause, the local ordinary Canon Law is available can permit him to reside elsewhere, especially in a online and in hard house shared by several presbyters, provided that copy. While canon law the performance of parochial functions is properly is, to be sure, a and suitably provided for. §2. Unless there is a technical discipline, it grave reason to the contrary, a pastor is permitted to was nevertheless meant be absent from the parish each year for vacation for to be read and applied at most one continuous or interrupted month; those by the faithful at all days which the pastor spends once a year in spiritual levels in the Church. retreat are not computed in the time of vacation. In order to be absent from the parish for more than a Continued …………. In 2013, I became more familiar with Canon Law when I needed to petition for an Indult of Exclaustration for the purpose of incardination into the Archdiocese of Omaha (canon 693). Using canon law Pope Francis granted me an indult of departure from the Benedictine order and following some We encourage you to keep your children in canons Archbishop Lucas incardinated me into the the CFF program & coming to classes. If you Archdioceses of Omaha and I became a diocesan priest. It is interesting that our Catholic Church has do not continue to enroll them, then want to this system to regulate things all over the world. This get them in when it’s time for Confirmation, way, a priest in the United States can take as many they will have to “make up” the years they days of vacation as a priest in France. And priests all missed. It is important to register early for over the world are supposed to take an annual five class placement. day spiritual retreat that is not computed in their time of vacation. If you have (or know of) children entering the st Fr. Jairo will be on an Annual Retreat 1 grade in school, now is the time to register May 17th - May 21st. There will be no daily them for CFF level 1/1YFC. If you have (or masses while Father is away on retreat. There will know of) children who have not been in be communion service on Monday morning and formal CFF classes or have not come since Adoration Wednesday evening. First Communion, encourage them to come to the CFF office ASAP so that we can get them started on catching up! Congratulations Baby Ross Matthew to Guadalupe Wright and family Zuñiga on her with Fr. Jairo. Quinceañera!!! Dylan Gael Carvajal and family with May 23rd - Pentecost Sunday Fr. Jairo. 10:00 Mass at St. Mary’s Church with Archbishop George Lucas. Brunch Reception in Church Basement after mass to meet with the archbishop (free will donation). May 22nd - 23rd / Confirmation 2:00 PM St. Angel Camey Mary’s Church. Abrajan and family with St. Benedict Center “Your Word is a Lamp Fr. Jairo. for my Feet ….Retreat. June 6-11, 2021 (More information for these events on flyers in the back of church.) Divine Mercy Parish Contributions: Mass Intentions May 15th- May 23rd Weekly budgeted income is: $ 7,211.54 Saturday, May 15th: Received : $ 7,920.25 (A) 5:00 PM Divine Mercy Parishioners. Envelopes: $ 3,456.00 Sunday, May 16th: Loose Cash: $ 1,675.25 (A) 8:00 AM † Sylvester Nepper / S.I. Electric Contribution $ 2,470.00 SCHS Graduating Class of 2021. Easter $ 130.00 (M)10:00AM † Ricky Vavra / S.I. Fuel &Maintenance $ 50.00 SCHS Graduating Class of 2021. Ascension $ 139.00 Monday, May 17th: __________________________________________ (A) 7:00 AM Communion Service. Archdiocese $ 35.00 Tuesday, May 18th: (M) 12:10 PM No Mass. Wednesday, May 19th: Holy Cross Cemetery: Many (A) 7:00 AM No Mass.