MARY QUEEN OF PEACE CATHOLIC CHURCH 676 W. LOCKWOOD WEBSTER GROVES MISSOURI 63119 WWW.MQPWG.ORG 314.962.2311 MARY QUEEN OF PEACE PARISH 676 W. Lockwood Avenue SUNDAY EUCHARIST: ADULT INITIATION: Webster Groves, MO 63119 5:00 pm Saturday Vigil Adults are received into the Church 8:00 am, 10:30 am, and 5:00 pm Sunday through the Sacraments of Initiation 314-962-2311 www.mqpwg.org 8:00 am Mass on Facebook Live (Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist) OFFICE HOURS THIS WEEK usually celebrated at the Easter Vigil after Monday - Friday 8:30 - 4:30 WEEKDAY MASS THIS WEEK : participating in a process of Christian Saturday and Sunday CLOSED 6:45 am and 8 am Monday - Friday formation and education called the Rite of 9:15 am School Mass Wednesday Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). (not open to the public but on Please contact the Parish Office for more REV. JOHN ROGERS VIEN Facebook Live) information. Pastor [email protected] RECONCILIATION: CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE: x 113 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Saturdays Couples wishing to be married at MQP REV. TIM COOK should contact the parish as soon as EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: possible after engagement and at least six Senior Associate Pastor The Blessed Sacrament is exposed [email protected] months before the proposed wedding x 123 after 8:00 am Mass on the first and date. At least one of the couple should be third Mondays of the Month, Adoration a practicing Catholic, registered and living continues all day, concluding with in the parish. A program of marriage REV. MR. THOMAS MULVIHILL Benediction at 9:00 pm. preparation is required. Please contact the Deacon INFANT BAPTISM: Pastor or the parish secretary for more [email protected] Baptisms are celebrated on Sundays after information. REV. MR. JOSEPH WIENTGE the 10:30 am Mass, one family at a time. VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD AND Deacon Baptism Preparation Class is offered on the [email protected] RELIGIOUS LIFE: first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm at Any young man interested in the the Parish Office, and is required of first priesthood or any young person interested time parents. Contact the Parish Office to in the religious life is encouraged to JULIE SMITH register. School Principal contact the Pastor or to call the [email protected] ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Archdiocesan Vocation Office at 314-961-2891 x220 If you are anticipating surgery or are 314-792-6460. All Catholics are called to MELISSA HUNTER sick or homebound and would like to be pray for an increase in religious vocations. Director of Faith Formation and PSR anointed, please contact a Priest or the [email protected] Parish Office. x 223 DR. MARC STRATHMAN Director of Music Bulletin deadlines are Tuesdays at noon. [email protected] Please submit items to Anne at [email protected] x 114 SUE O’LEARY Business Manager [email protected] x 111 ANGELA FIORDELISI Weekly Offertory Summary Office Manager January 11 through February 1 [email protected] x 110 Last Four Week Offertory $ 139,960 ANNE STEFFENS Communications Coordinator Four Week Offertory Budget $ (126,824) [email protected] Surplus/ Shortfall: $ 13,136 x 121 MARY ANN ZIMMERMAN Four Week Average $ 34,990 Part-time Pastoral Associate Weekly Goal $ 31,706 [email protected] x 125 Please call the parish office, 314-962-2311, HEATHER O’KEEFE Safe Environment Coordinator if you are interested in enrolling for Online Giving. [email protected] x 122 MARY QUEEN OF PEACE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021 A NEW WEEK FR. JOHN VIEN * 6:45 am Mass, Church * 8:00 am Mass, Church Happy February! This cold winter month has many celebrations to * 7:00 pm Board of Education brighten its 28 days, including Groundhog Day, Super Bowl Sunday, Meeting Valentine’s Day, and Presidents Day. This month we also celebrate Mardi Gras and the beginning of Lent on Ash Wednesday, February 17. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2021 * 6:45 am Mass, Church Among other celebrations in our nation, February is Black History * 8:00 am Mass, Church month. As we recall the many prominent and lesser-known Black * 9:30 am Quilters, Msgr. Americans who have advanced our national history, during this Lubeley Room month, we Catholics can also learn about the many prominent Black * 6:45 pm PSR, School and African Saints of our Church, including St. Monica, St. Augustine, St. Martin de Porres, St. Charles Lwanga, Saints Perpetua and Felicity, St. Benedict the Moor, and WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2021 others. This coming Monday, February 8 is the Feast of one of the newest black saints, * 6:45 am Mass, Church Josephine Bakhita. She was born in 1868 in Darfur, Sudan. She recalled a happy early * 8:00 am Mass, Church childhood, but between the ages of seven and nine, she was kidnapped by Arab slave * 9:15 am All School Mass, traders. Because of the trauma, she forgot her own name, and was called Bakhita, which Facebook means “lucky” in Arabic. She suffered beatings at the hands of cruel owners and was * 7:00 pm First Communion branded as a slave by having salt poured into wounds cut by one of her mistresses. In Parent Meeting 1883, Bakhita was bought by the Italian Vice Counsel, Callisto Legnani, at Khartoum. For the first time since her capture, she was treated kindly, and when Legnani was recalled THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 to Italy, she begged to be taken along. Once in Italy, she was given as a gift to the * 6:45 am Mass, Church Michieli family, where she served as a nanny and returned to Sudan for a time. When * 8:00 am Mass, Church the Michieli family decided to sell their Italian estate and remain there, Bakhita was sent * 6:00 pm Cornerstone Scripture to live with the Canossian Sisters until all was settled, but when Signora Michieli came to Study retrieve her, Bakhita refused to leave. Italian law did not recognize slavery, and she was * 6:00 pm Choir Rehearsals, free for the first time to set her own course. She decided to remain with the sisters, was Church baptized in 1890 with the name Josephine and entered the novitiate of the Canossian Sisters in 1893. She was assigned as the porter or doorkeeper of the convent and FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 became well-known and loved in the local area for her holiness. Josephine Bakhita died * 6:45 am Mass, Church in 1947 and was canonized by Pope John Paul II in 2000. St. Josephine Bakhita, pray for * 8:00 am Mass, Church us! * 8:00 pm AA Meeting, Msgr. Lubeley Room There are also many Black Catholics who have helped shape Catholicism in the United States. Among them are some candidates for sainthood, including Pierre Toussaint, a SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2021 former slave who started a school for black children in New York City and helped serve * 3:45 pm Confessions, Church the city’s sick and poor. Augustus Tolton, believed to be the first black Catholic priest in * 5:00 pm Mass, Church the U.S., was forced to travel to Rome for seminary because no American school would accept him. Julia Greeley is another former slave who was beloved in Denver for SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2021 distributing charity to the needy. Henriette Delille in New Orleans and Mary Elizabeth * 8:00 am Mass, Church and Lange in Baltimore both founded religious orders. Sr. Thea Bowman was a teacher, Facebook Live writer, and evangelist, and a popular speaker on faith and spirituality who founded the * 8:30 am RCIA Meeting, Virtual National Black Sisters Conference. These black men and women of faith are already well *10:30 am Mass, Church known in the local Catholic communities that are championing their sainthood causes. * 5:00 pm Mass, Church In fact, Lange, Tolton, Greeley, and Bowman have been declared “Servants of God” by local bishops ― the first official step in the four-part canonization process. Delille and PRESIDENTS DAY, FEBRUARY 15 Toussaint have been declared “Venerable” by the Vatican, which means they’re at the The Parish Offices and School will second stage, awaiting miracles for beatification. be closed on Monday, February 15, in honor of Presidents Day. May all these holy men and women intercede for our Church and our society, especially, Daily Mass and Adoration of the during this Black History Month, to advance the cause of reconciliation and harmony Blessed Sacrament will still take among all races. place at the usual times. Photo: Father John LOVES fun socks! These are his St. Josephine Bakhita socks! FEBRUARY 7, 2021 |FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MARY QUEEN OF PEACE OUT OF THE MESS……. From Melissa Hunter, Director of Faith Formation “For this purpose I have come.” “Purpose” is the name of the program/curriculum we use to get our 8th graders ready for the Sacrament of Confirmation. “What’s the purpose?” is an exasperation that plagues many people. “I didn’t do it on purpose!” is commonly heard when the behaviors of children are called into question. Jesus uses that word in today’s Gospel to explain to His disciples why it is time to travel and do more teaching. He understands that doing so is the reason He is God Incarnate. He has a mission. He knows it. He lives accordingly. What about you and me? Are we willing to sit with the uncomfortable question of what our purpose might be, in order to discover the answer? Do we believe that God willed our existence intentionally? That He has something specific in mind for us? Do we let what God shows us about ourselves determine how we navigate the choices that make up our lives? HELP OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED! For what purpose are you called? Our Mary Queen of Peace Conference for the Society of St.