JULY 04 2021 WELCOME! MASS SCHEDULE Daily Mass Monday - Friday | 8:30am Weekend Mass Saturday | 4:00pm @ St. Columbanus Worship Site Sunday | 8:00am & 10:30am @ St. Columbanus Worship Site Sunday | 9:00am @ St. Dorothy Worship Site Confession Saturday | 4:00pm Adoration (1st Friday of every month) 6:30pm GET IN TOUCH 331 E. 71st Street Chicago, IL 60619 (773) 224-1022 WELCOME! www.StMosesParish.org Twitter @StMosesParish Thank you for worshipping with us! We are so grateful you are here today! As the legacy parishes of St. Clotilde, St. YouTube Columbanus, and St. Dorothy have united together to St. Columbanus Church form St. Moses the Black Parish, we are a community Instagram focused on making disciples, building community, and StMosesParish inspiring witness! OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday | We hope you find a home here with us! 8:00am - 5:30pm 2 WELCOME TO OUR PARISH I recognize that change is not always PARISH STAFF easy. I acknowledge the hurt that exists through the process that has brought us to this moment. Most Pastor importantly, I stand firm in the Rev. Matthew S. O’Donnell | conviction that the Holy Spirit has [email protected] been guiding us through every twist Pastoral Associate and turn that has brought us to this Jennifer C. Reid | day. There has been a Catholic [email protected] presence in the Greater Grand Crossing, Chatham, and Park Manor Director of communities since 1909. We now Evangelization stand as the believers entrusted with Dr. Mark Nimo | the sacred task of telling the stories [email protected] of the past while walking with one Director of Community another towards the promises of Outreach tomorrow. The Akan people of Ghana Brianna Pierce | have the Sankofa symbol that, I [email protected] ORDER MY STEPS: believe, offers us an image for today. Administrative Assistant A Weekly Walk with Fr. Matt The Sankofa image is a bird taking an egg from its back with its feet Kimberly Johnson | Welcome to St. Moses the Black planted forward. [email protected] Parish! I am excited and grateful that Parish Secretary Cardinal Blase Cupich has trusted Our ministry is to reach back, drawing from the wisdom that has Staci Thomas | me with the great responsibility of been shared, with our feet moving [email protected] shepherding this new faith community. We now embark on this forward. This image reminds us that Sylvia Dawson | adventure of renewal and what was, what is, and what will be [email protected] unification. As the first parishioners are always inextricably bound Food Pantry Coordinator of this unified community, we are together. We are called to be the Kevin Morrissette | entrusted with the great mission of weavers and tellers of a most [email protected] forming something new. While we powerful story: the story of a God who never leaves nor forsakes; the Ministers of Music draw from the rich legacies of St. Clotilde, St. Columbanus, and St. story of a God whose love is Kevin Morris | Dorothy churches, we also enfleshed; the story of a God who [email protected] acknowledge that God is inviting us promises to always be with us. We Desmond Ausley | to be renewed in our lives of faith as are now St. Moses the Black Parish [email protected] we look towards the future! and while our parish name has Jakube Felton changed, we always remain God’s St. Moses the Black is a great patron Maintenance beloved. for our new parish community. He Walter Thompson | was a priest, a practitioner of St. Moses the Black, pray for us! [email protected] nonviolence, a man of deep faith, God’s peace, Marisol Real | and now a saint. He reminds us that [email protected] conversion is possible and that the transformative love of God is Resident Priest promised for each of us. I look Rev. William Vanecko forward to us, this community of faith, learning more about his life and seeking ways to allow his witness to inspire those we touch through our ministries. ST. MOSES THE BLACK PARISH | CHICAGO, IL PRAYER & WORSHIP 3 MASS INTENTIONS Sunday, 07/04 | Independence Day 8:00am | +Eulalia Robinson 09:00am | +Fr. George Clements 10:30am | +Fr. Rollins Lambert Monday, 07/05 | St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest; St. Elizabeth of Portugal 8:30am | +William Hall Tuesday, 07/06 | St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr 8:30am | +Doish Davis Wednesday, 07/07 | 8:30am | Victims of Abuse Thursday, 07/08 | 8:30am | Peace in the Holy Land Friday, 07/09 | St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs 8:30am | +Rita Wallace Saturday, 07/10 | Blessed Virgin Mary 4:00pm | +Timothy O’Donnell DAILY PRAYERS Walter Calhoun-Sylvester Daniels-Vivian Ester-John Hall, Jr.-Michael Harper-Gloria Ann Miles-Miriam Siriani- Earl Tillman-Yvonne Toliver-Carmelena Dunson-Irma Bridges-Ronnie Coleman-Laverne Brown-Pat Bell Brown-Daniel Murray-Catherine Dunson-Julius Dunson-Patricia Chapman-Vanessa Smiley-Helen Trussell Bozeman-Courtney Cusention-Beverly Allison-Gloria Mimms-Barbara Newby-Laura Thomas-Javan Deloney- Marvin Lloyd-Robert Bradley-David Escalante-Rosa Maria Santos-Gertie Wiley-Francine Watkins-Eurcille Allen -Etta Ree Moore-Karen Chachere-Henrietta Brown-Christine Best-Ronald Cole-James Porter-David Delgado- Dr. Lucy Chappell-Ed Gunt-Beverly Givens-Ivory Owens-Raymond Grey-Wesley Gray-Bertha Thompson- Carmelita Watson-Anthony Walker-Barbara Phillips-Daniel Tang-Savannah Watts-Renay Jordan-Sheila Arnold- Eloise Harris-Larry King-Donna Williams-Johnathan Coursey-Phyllis Houston-Gloria Coursey-Bess McKinnis-Cliff McNeal-Tracy Marie Daily-Carol Coursey-David Brown-Elaine Barrow-Patricia Barrow Brown- Gilarski Family-Stuart Woods-Louis Robinson-Bessie Gilmore Thomas-Gary S. Allen-Darnell Chess-Carrie Morris-Christina Dunson-Christian Mathews-Tina Martinez-Nelson Perkins-Nicole Wells-Alver Williams- Belinda Ollie - Kenneth Williams-James Porter-Joyce Allen-Carolyn & Harold Armour-Dolores Bell-Marcia Berry-Ella Buser-Archie Chaney-Jackie Dean-Gwen Downing-Mary Floyd-Renee Gardner-Mildred Gathings- Margaret Gill-John Godwin-Sonia Harvey-Marlene Howell-Donna Jackson-Gladys Jackson-Tommie Jackson- Vernice Jefferson-Sarah Jones-Jeff Kimbrough Jr/Sr-Imogene Kimbrough-Florence Lasenby-Freddie/Pauline Miller-Gwen Milrose-Kayrene Mimms-Pearl Monet-Eula Nora—Alvin Paul-Daniel Pullings-Margaret Richards- Darchelle Robertson-Jerome Robertson-Charlean Smith-Charlotte Sweeney-Nancy Turner-Luella Vaughn- Deborah Washington-Jean Welborn-Jackie Winter-Lela White If you would like to add you or a loved one to the prayer list or if you would like Fr. Matt to visit, please call (773)224-1022. JULY 4, 2021 | 14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 4 NEWS & EVENTS JULY JULY JULY 05 06 07 PARISH OFFICE FOOD PANTRY FOOD PANTRY CLOSED 5:30pm | St. Moses the Black 10:00am | St. Moses the Black In observance of Independence Our Food Pantry is open every Our Food Pantry is open every Day, the Parish Office will be Tuesday from 5:30pm-7:00pm. If Wednesday from 10:00am- closed. We will be open on you know of anyone in need, or if 12:00pm. If you know of anyone in Tuesday, July 5th from 8:00- you’d like to volunteer, be sure to need, or if you’d like to volunteer, 5:30pm, for our normal business come by on Tuesday evening. be sure to come by on hours. Wednesday morning. WORSHIP MASS WILL STREAM LIVE EACH WEEK! Visit our Facebook page, St. Moses the Black Parish, where the 10:30am mass will be streamed live. This mass will also stream to the St. Columbanus YouTube Channel each week! ST. MOSES THE BLACK BLOCK PARTY The 9:00am mass from the At St. Dorothy Church Worship Site! St. Dorothy worship site will also stream live on the St. Dorothy Church For the last 15 years, St. Dorothy Church has hosted a Block Party! This Facebook page! will be a time for all of us to gather together for food, music, and a good time! Join us on July 17th from 11:00am-5:00pm! ST. MOSES THE BLACK PARISH | CHICAGO, IL THIS WEEK AT ST. MOSES 5 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Thursday, 07/08 Gn 44:18-21, 23b-29; 45:1-5/Ps 105:16-17, 18-19, 20-21 OF JULY 4, 2021 [5a]/Mt 10:7-15 Friday, 07/09 Sunday, 07/04 Gn 46:1-7, 28-30/Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40 [39a]/ Ez 2:2-5/Ps 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 [2cd]/2 Cor 12:7-10/Mk 6:1-6a Mt 10:16-23 Monday, 07/05 Saturday, 07/10 Gn 28:10-22a/Ps 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15 ab [cf. 2b]/Mt 9:18-26 Gn 49:29-32; 50:15-26a/Ps 105:1-2, 3-4, 6-7 [cf. Ps Tuesday, 07/06 69:33]/Mt 10:24-33 Gn 32:23-33/Ps 17:1b, 2-3, 6-7ab, 8b and 15 [15a]/Mt Next Sunday, 07/11 9:32-38 Am 7:12-15/Ps 85:9-10, 11-12, 13-14 [8]/Eph 1:3-14 or 1:3- Wednesday, 07/07 10/Mk 6:7-13 Gn 41:55-57; 42:5-7a, 17-24a/Ps 33:2-3, 10-11, 18-19 [22]/ Mt 10:1-7 GOSPEL MEDITATION - ENCOURAGE DEEPER UNDERSTANDING OF SCRIPTURE It’s all so ordinary that we can easily miss it. The seagulls hunting and diving for mollusks at the beach offer a display of determination and precision as they gather their food for the day. It’s simply what these creatures do. Yet, there’s a magical artfulness and skill to their work that speaks volumes about the One who breathed life into their being.