St. Mary Catholic Parish WORSHIP AND SERVE GOD WITH US IN SACRAMENT AND PRAYER IN OUR FAMILY OF FAITH PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday Thursday 8:00 12noon Friday Closed 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Closed Saturday & Sunday August 15, 2021 PARISH OFFICE CONTACT INFO MASS SCHEDULE www.stmaryspokane.org [email protected] Saturday Mass: 5:00pm 304 S ADAMS ROAD, SPOKANE VALLEY, WA 99216 Sunday Masses: 7:30am, 9:00am, 11:30am Weekday Masses: Monday, Tuesday 5:30pm PARISH CLERGY Wednesday, Thursday 7:00am Parish Office Number 9283210 Friday 7:00am & 5:30pm Rev. Jeffrey R. Lewis, Pastor x 109 First Saturday 9:00 am Fr. Michael Kwiatkowski, (Priest in Residence) Confessions Deacon Mike Miller 9283210 Wednesday 4:305:30pm Deacon Dan Glatt 9283210 Friday 6:007:00pm Saturday 3:304:30pm Emergency Anointing of the Sick x 9 First Fridays 7:308:30am (afterhours) Adoration PARISH OFFICE 9283210 Friday 6:00 7:00pm Suzie Frei, Office Manager x 150 First Friday 7:30am 12pm Marie Bricher, DRE & Faith Formation x 111 First Saturday 9:30am 10:30am Sharon Greany, Business Manager x 107 NEW PARISHIONERS Mark VanDriel, Maintenance Manager x 7 Welcome to St. Mary Parish Community. If you would like to register Emma Smith, Youth Director x 112 with the parish please fill out form on website, stop by the Parish Office or call (509) 9283210. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Craig Smentek, Grand Knight (509) 9914692 CARE OF THE SICK John White, Faithful Navigator (509) 9941023 Communion is taken to the sick and elderly on a regular basis. Please call Karen Grewe (Homebound Ministry) at (509)9274941 CHOIR DIRECTOR Diana Thomas (509) 3852663 SACRAMENTS SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Baptism: The family should be registered and active in St. Mary Bill Flerchinger, President (509) 7037867 Parish. For arrangements call the Parish office, 9283210. Marriage: Couples must contact the parish at least six months prior ST. MARY SCHOOL 9244300 to their desired wedding date. Ben Walker, Principal x 202 Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) or Chelsea Weiler, School Secretary x 200 RCIC (for children over 7) Lou Turner Advancement Director x 206 Have you thought about becoming a Catholic? Do you know some- Sharon Greany, Business Manager x 204 one who is thinking about it? Please call Marie Bricher at 9283210 ext. 111 for more information. For the convenience of those with hearing difficulties, Masses at St. Mary can be heard on personal FMband radios or in the car in the parking lot. Tune to 89.9 FM. Prayer Requests All those feeling lonely and isolated, those who are ill William Foster , Susan C., Ella M, Matt C, Alma B., Traci P., Jerry D. Sr., Steve N., Cecilia J. To have a name listed in the bulletin call Suzie in the office at 9283210. Names will be listed for 3 weeks, then removed unless requested again. If a member of your family is admitted to a local hospital, please call the parish office at 9283210 if you would like a priest To add someone to the prayer chain or to be part of the prayer chain ministry please join the Prayer Chain group in Flocknote or call the parish office. For those not “online” call Bobbie Bailey at 9289584. Calling all altar servers! Fr Lewis will be conducting altar server training on Saturday September 18, at 11 AM in the church. This training is for every- one already trained and for anyone not yet trained but who would like to be an altar server. Training will begin at 11 AM in the church, followed by a pizza lunch and kickball on the school field. Please contact the parish office for St Mary Council 4196 with assistance from the local council, the Supreme council, and ForUS helped purchase a $32,000 state of the art ultrasound machine for Life Services of Spokane. A dedication will be held at Life Services tentatively scheduled for 8/26/21. We have been collecting newspapers for many years as a fraternal activity to provide financial as- sistance to local seminarians at Bishop White Seminary. Our trailer is broken and the cost of repair is significant. We are asking any parishioner to help with this project with ideas or equipment. Please call Craig Smentek: 5099914692 if you can help with this. Your St. Mary St. Vincent de Paul conference members continue to assist our neighbors with food, hygiene prod- ucts, utility & renal assistance. It is expected that rental assistance requests will increase. The emergency assistance message line is (509) 7037867; a member will return your call. Monetary contributions to our ongoing assistance can be dropped in the designated 3rd Sunday basket or donated online at : www.stmaryspokane.org (tap on “Give”, then “Donation Designation” and scroll down to “St Vincent de Paul”. We thank you!! Parish Collection Report August Income Week Ending Aug 1 : $16,285.00 Income Month of August $ 16,285.00 Yearly Income (Jan Aug): $ 400,088.49 PRIESTS MASS INTENTIONS 8/16 MONDAY Pat Ewers 8/17 TUESDAY Alice Quinn + 8/18 WEDNESDAY Mary Ilgen + Can you help? A parishioner living in the Revel 8/19 THURSDAY Defane Dewolf + complex is seeking someone to pick them up for 9:00 8/20 FRIDAY Sandy Majeskey + Mass on Sundays. Please call the office if you are 8/21 SATURDAY Mary Ilgen + 8/22 SUNDAY 7:30am Ed Muzatko + Pray for the Unborn 9am Pro Populo 11:30am Anthony Merlitti + Please join the St. Joan of Arc ProLife Group to pray 7:00pm Matt Cornwell the Rosary for the end of abortion in front of Planned Parenthood in Spokane (123 E. Indiana Avenue) on To have a Mass offered by the priest for a deceased person or another Saturday August 21st intention, please call the parish office 12:00 noon. at (509) 9283210 or email Pastor’s Column= = St. Mary Catholic Parish= = August 15, 2021 8 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time= Saint of the Week We continue our Pastor Column series “Saint of the Week,” and our Saint of the Week this week is Pope Saint Pius X, whose Memorial is August 21st. On June 2, 1835, Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto (the future Pope Pius X) was born at Riesi, Province of Treviso, in Ven- ice. Two of the most outstanding accomplishments of this saintly Pope were the inauguration of the liturgical renewal and the restoration offrequent communionfrom childhood. He also waged an unwaveringwaragainst theheresyand evils of modernism, gave great impetus to biblical studies, and brought about the codification ofCanonLaw. His overriding concern was to renew all things in Christ. Above all, hisholinessshone forth conspicuously. FromPope Pius X,we learn again that “the folly of the Cross,” simplicity of life, andhumilityof heart are still the highestwisdomand the indispensable conditions of a per- fectChristianlife, for they are the very source of all apostolic fruitfulness. His lastwilland testament bears the striking sentence: “I was born poor, I have lived in poverty, and I wish to die poor.” Pope Pius Xserved as Pope August 1903 to his death in 1914. He followed Pope Leo XIII and was succeeded by Pope Benedict V. He was devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary under her lesserknown title “Our Lady of Confidence.” One of his papal encyclicals,Ad diem illum, took on a sense of renewal that was reflected in the motto of his pontificate. He advanced theLiturgical Movementby formulating the principle ofparticipatio actuosa(active participation) of the faithful in his motu proprioTra le sollecitudini(1903). He encouraged the frequent reception ofHoly Communion, and he low- ered the age for First Communion, which became a lasting innovation of his papacy. Like his predecessors, he pro- motedThomismas the principal philosophical method to be taught in Catholic institutions. As pope, he vehemently opposedmodernismand various 19thCentury philosophies, which he viewed as an intrusion of secular errors incompatible withCatholic dogma (including socialism and communism). He also undertook a re- form of the Roman Curia, much as Pope Francis is doing in our own day and age. Pope Pius X was known for his firm demeanor and sense of personal poverty, reflected by his membership of theThird Order of St. Francis. He regularly gave homily sermons in the pulpit, a rare practice at the time. After the1908 Messina earthquake,he filled theApostolic Palacewith refugees, long before the Italian government act- ed. He rejected any kind of favors for his family, and his close relatives chose to remain in poverty while living near Rome. On August 20, 1914, Pope Pius X died and entered into his eternal reward. After his death, a strong cultus of the faithful’s devotion followed his reputation of piety and holiness; one aspect of this devotion is that his hometown was renamed “Riese Pio X” soon after his death. He was beatifiedin 1951 by Pope Pius XII, and in May of 1954, he was canonized by that same pope, and he became the two hundred fiftyninth pope to be canonized. Pope Saint Pius X…pray for us. ~ Fr. 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