Mass Times: Sat., 4:00 PM; Sun., 8:15 AM/11:00 AM St. Columbkille Catholic Church Mon., Thurs., & Fri., 9:00 AM; Wed., 7:00 PM 73 North Mulberry St., Wilmington, Ohio 45177-2277 Communion Service: Tues., 9:00 AM Mass Time: Sat., 6:15 PM Holy Name Chapel Communion Service: Wed., 9:30 AM 746 S. State Route 133, Blanchester, OH 45107 Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM Parish Office: (937) 382-2236 Faith Formation Office: (937) 382-1596 Fax: (937) 382-3234 Web Site: www.stcolumbkille.org Parish e-mail: [email protected] Bulletin Deadline: Monday, 10:00 AM (unless otherwise noted in the bulletin), in writing, or at [email protected] Rev. Michael J. Holloran, Ext. 20 [email protected], Laurie Stroebel, Ext. 11 [email protected] Pastor (937) 728-2198 Administrative Assistant Robert G. Baker, Deacon [email protected] Tim Brausch, Maintenance [email protected] (937) 218-6342 Colleen Germann, Ext. 10 [email protected] Parish Secretary For Liturgical Scheduling Needs [email protected] Debbie Valley, DRE Ext. 14 [email protected] Todd Novak, (724) 322-3962 (937) 382-1596 Parish Council Chairperson Jacki Walters, Bookkeeper Ext. 13 [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul Society (937) 382-6851 • HOLY DAY MASSES: Please check the bulletin for Mass times and locations or call the Parish Office. • SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/CONFESSIONS: 3:00 PM-3:45 PM on first Saturday of Month at StC; 7:30 PM Wed. at StC; by appointment only at HNC. • PARISH MEMBERSHIP: We bid a hearty welcome to all new parishioners! Registration forms are in the vestibule of the church and chapel. • BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office during regular business hours to schedule a Baptism. A workshop is required for all first-time parents. • ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Catholics with serious illness, preparing for serious surgery or suffering from age are encouraged to receive this sacrament. Call the pastor. • MARRIAGE: Catholics must be married before a Catholic priest or deacon. Preparation must begin at least six months in advance of wedding. Call Parish Office. • HOLY COMMUNION/VISITS TO OUR SICK AND SHUT-INS: Please notify the Rectory when a parishioner is in the hospital or is unable to attend Sunday Mass regularly due to illness. • EXPOSITION AND CONFESSION: Exposition, Confessions & Benediction follow the 7:00 PM St. Columbkille Mass on Wednesday. EXPOSITION ONLY: Friday, 9:30 AM-3:00 PM, St. Columbkille PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Columbkille Parish is an extension of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati; a “People called together” by Jesus to be His flesh and blood representatives; To be like Him as a priest (to worship), as a prophet (to teach) and as a king (to serve). – Adopted June 1, 1998 ST. COLUMBKILLE CATHOLIC CHURCH Wilmington, Ohio HOLY NAME CHAPEL Blanchester, Ohio JULY 5, 2020 14th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME VOCATION VIEW We are to live a life in the Spirit, putting to death the works of the flesh. Ask God to help you always live as a child of the Light. (Romans 8:13) WELCOME! We are so happy that you are here to worship with us! To learn about our parish life, please visit stcolumbkille.org or our FB page: facebook.com/stcolumbkillecatholicchurch/. 5th WEEKEND BACK – June 28th Greetings fellow parishioners! GIFTS 13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Our Mass attendance continues to nudge up to our social-distance JUNE 28, 2020 capacity of 90 at St. Columbkille. It’s worth remembering that 90 is an Sunday Gifts $ 5,955.55 estimate presuming a mix of family members sitting close together and Online Sunday Donations $ 655.00 singles and couples sitting further apart. Holy Days $ 0.00 TOTAL SUNDAY COLLECTION $ 6,610.55 At the 4:00 Mass this past Saturday, June 27, we allowed 100 in the TOTAL SUNDAY & HOLY DAY COLLECTION (FISCAL Y.T.D.) $ 494,303.13 pews because forty or more were visitors celebrating a double golden NEEDED FROM SUNDAY & HOLY DAY COLLECTION (FISCAL Y.T.D.) $ 485,004.00 anniversary. They were sitting close together in reserved pews. The rest Building Repairs & Improvements $ $180.00 of the church had enough space for others to sit further apart. Missionary Co-op Plan Speaker $ 50.00 At Holy Name, there were 32 attending, well within the COVID capacity. Peter’s Pence $ 1,025.00 Poor & Needy: Sunday at the 8:15, there were 82 in church and 10 in the overflow. At • Hope Emergency $ 44.00 the 11:00, 82 were in church and none in the overflow. (Just a reminder • St. Vincent De Paul $ 66.00 that the overflow meets in the first level of the Parish Center Classroom 7/8.) SCRIPTURE CORNER Considering the use of the overflow these past weeks, it appears that Jesus speaks to us through the Scriptures. offering one overflow per weekend may be sufficient. This would also WHO DWELLS IN ME? ease the demand on volunteers needed to have each overflow. We will continue to monitor this and give advance notice about reducing to one overflow. A continuing bright spot is the financial support that continues to come through, even with weekend attendance about half of pre-COVID levels. Thanks go out to all you generous parishioners who keep pitching in, “Brothers and sisters: You are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in some in the Sunday basket, some electronically, some mailing it in, and the spirit if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have others coming to Mass during the week. I was a little worried about this the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. If the Spirit of the one who when the shutdown started. I did not need to be! raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that Can we see the light at the end of the tunnel? There has been concern dwells in you. Consequently, brothers and sisters, we are not debtors to recently about some states having an increase of new cases, but this seems the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the to be among younger people who are resuming their activities and who flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the are much better able to throw off the infection with minor symptoms. body, you will live.” Go to usccb.org/bible/readings/070520.cfm. Increased testing may also be at work, revealing more infections. The SC PARISH CENTER NEWS trends to watch would be numbers of hospitalizations and deaths. If July 17 & 18, 2020 – SC YDisciple Event will be held and the entire these continue to decline, we’re in good shape. Parish Center will be closed these two days. Keep praying and doing those commonsense things that reduce the risk of infection, especially if you are at elevated risk. July 27 – July 31, 2020 – Vacation Bible School will be held and the entire Parish Center will be closed for the week Fr. Mike ARCHBISHOP JOHN CARROLL’S PRAYER MASS TIMES & INTENTIONS FOR GOVERNMENT JULY 4-JULY 12, 2020 Composed by Archbishop John Carroll on the Inauguration of George Washington as the First SATURDAY, JULY 4 – Vigil: President of the United States. 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:00 P.M. Virginia Kistner (Doris Pease & Family) [SC] “We pray you, O God of might, wisdom, and justice, 6:15 P.M. Parish Family [HN] through whom authority is rightly administered, laws are enacted, and SUNDAY, JULY 5 – 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time judgment decreed, assist with your Holy Spirit of counsel and fortitude Stephen Kanyuck (Frank & Bonny Kanyuck) [SC] 8:15 A.M. the President of these United States, that his administration may be Kathy, Mark & Kara Geraci 11:00 A.M. conducted in righteousness, and be eminently useful to your people, over (Pete & Judy Brown) [SC] whom he presides; by encouraging due respect for virtue and religion; by MONDAY, JULY 6 – St. Maria Goretti, Virgin & Martyr a faithful execution of the laws in justice and mercy; and by restraining 9:00 A.M. Kyle Curran (Rich & Nancy Curran) [SC] vice and immorality. Let the light of your divine wisdom direct the TUESDAY, JULY 7 – deliberations of Congress, and shine forth in all the proceedings and Blessed Emmanual Ruiz & Companions laws framed for our rule and government, so that they may tend to the 9:00 A.M. Communion Svc [SC] preservation of peace, the promotion of national happiness, the increase WEDNESDAY, JULY 8 – St. Elizabeth of Portugal of industry, sobriety, and useful knowledge; and may perpetuate to us 7:00 P.M. Cynthia Losey (David & Linda Ulmer) [SC] the blessing of equal liberty. We pray for the governor of this state, Evening Eucharistic Exposition & for the members of the assembly, for all judges, magistrates, and other Confessions follow Mass [SC] officers who are appointed to guard our political welfare, that they may THURSDAY, JULY 9 – be enabled, by your powerful protection, to discharge the duties of their St. Augustine Zhao Rong & Companions, Martyrs respective stations with honesty and ability. We recommend likewise, 9:00 A.M. Agnes Zitney (Bob & Marie Zitney) [SC] to your unbounded mercy, all our fellow citizens throughout the United States, that we may be blessed in the knowledge and sanctified in the FRIDAY, JULY 10 – St. Veronica Giuliani observance of your most holy law; that we may be preserved in union, 9:00 A.M.