St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church of Boerne, TX 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 25, 2021 St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church Mission We are an ACTIVE, GROWING, WELCOMING, SPIRIT-FILLED Roman Catholic community nourished by the Liturgy to serve God and others. Nuestra Misión Somos una comunidad Católica Romana, ACTIVA, CRECIENTE, ACOGEDORA Y LLENA DEL ESPIRITU alimentada por la liturgia para servir a Dios y al prójimo. MASSES / MISAS (*also live streamed online) (*también transmisión en vivo en línea) Saturday .................... 5:30 pm Sunday ....................9:00 am*, 11:00 am & 5:00 pm En español Domingo ...................1:00 pm* Daily Masses (*in English, also live streamed online) Monday .....................6:30 pm* Tuesday-Thursday ....8:00 am* º Friday ......................10:00 am* RECONCILIATION (confession) Tuesday ............. 6:00-7:00 pm Saturday ........ 10:00-11:00 am RECONCILIACIÓN (confesión) Martes ................ 6:00-7:00 pm Sábado .......... 10:00-11:00 am Live Streams St. Peter’s Facebook page facebook.com/stpetersboerne St. Peter’s YouTube channel youtube.com/stpetersboerne St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church │ stpetersboerne.com St. Peter the Apostle Catholic School Feasibility Study Update What the Catholic Church Has to Offer in the Highly Competitive Educational Environment of Boerne What the Archdiocese of San Antonio and St. Peter the Apostle Parish have St. Peter the Apostle to offer with a possible new Catholic School in Boerne includes: 1) recognizing each student as a child of God with inherent, God-given Catholic Church unique gifts, talents, skills, and aptitudes to be developed, fostered and Main Campus • Campus principal complemented for a life-time; 202 West Kronkosky Street 2) our long history in Catholic education from Pre-K to university and post- Boerne, TX 78006 graduate studies as seen in Catholic educational institutions throughout Upon this Rock Campus the world; 416 W. Highland Drive 3) academic rigor and holistic formation of children in body, mind, soul and Boerne, TX 78006 spirit; (830) 816-2233 4) our unique and highly developed Catholic Biblical Studies, Church history, Fax (830) 249-6175 Tradition, theology, sacraments, morals/ethics, spirituality, Catholic Social [email protected] Doctrines/Teachings, and pastoral practice; stpetersboerne.com 5) virtues-based training for life, and teaching children the Gospel-mandate Monday through Friday to love God, neighbor and self equally; Lunes a Viernes 9:00 am-5:00 pm 6) we welcome the registration of children from the larger ecumenical Open during lunch community; Abierto durante el almuerzo 7) we understand Catholic education as evangelization forming the next Deacon Del Office Hours generation of children as Christian disciples for active engagement and Wednesdays 11:30 am to 4:00 pm leadership in society and the world; 8) teaching children to focus their lives on God, Church, family, local community, country, world and the building of the Kingdom of God as servant-leaders. Did you know... In our ever-changing cultural and business environment, we provide the foundation of faith and morals, and are cognizant that any learning ...that weekend environment today must be based on the understanding that children and readings can be youth will need to be prepared mentally, academically, psychologically, downloaded using the emotionally and morally, to change their professions/careers four to five times QR codes in the Narthex? in a lifespan. This will require that the school environment and academic Use your phone to scan the QR formation establish in each child the mindset and habits for a lifelong love of code for the readings; a sign is multi-disciplinary learning and skills development, inter-or multi-disciplinary available in the Narthex at the learning and focus, and the harnessing of the traits of adaptability, flexibility, beginning of each weekend Mass. multitasking and self-reinvention as they maintain their strong grounding in Some phones will require you to faith, morals and virtues. download a QR code reading app. As we continue with our School Feasibility Study and the visioning process, There are many that are free. I ask, as last weekend, that we all utilize this as a time of parish-wide prayer The QR code for the readings will and discernment of God’s will for our parish’s future. Please use the special redirect you to the USCCB website prayer written for this study period by Mary Ann Hawn (printed after this page that contains that day’s posting) and all our other Catholic prayer-traditions discussed in last week’s readings. bulletin. At this time, we are only Fr. Norman A. Ermis, Pastor providing this for weekend Masses. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Wednesdays 3:00 pm—6:30 pm in Day Chapel Fridays 11:00 am - 5:00 pm in Day Chapel 2 St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church │ stpetersboerne.com CALL TO PRAYER to the entire parish for the success of the School Feasibility Study Whether you are just visiting or looking for a permanent church home, we are happy you stopped by. We are a family friendly parish and have something for people of all ages. No matter what your background is, there is a place for you here. We invite you to join us for one of our Liturgies. When you decide to make St. Peter’s your church home, please consider making it official by filling out a New Parishioner Registration form, Prayerr of DisceDiscernmentcerrnm nt which can be downloaded from our website. You may also pick a form DuringDurinngng up in our parish office. Registering St. Peter the Apostle Parish School Feasibility Studydy helps us know how we can best serve your family’s needs. Please have a look at our Faith Formation Prayer of Discernment During and Ministries pages to see the different ways you can be St. Peter the Apostle Parish School Feasibility Study nourished and get involved. We are so glad you visited and hope to see Eternal Father, we come before those who are members of the you again! you as a parish community seeking Feasibility Study, the Parish Council your blessing and guidance for the and the parishioners of St. Peter’s, Ya sea que esté de visita o esté possible building of a Catholic School the Archdiocese of San Antonio, buscando una iglesia permanente, in our area. We are grateful for the including the Superintendent of nos complace que haya venido. ministries with which you have Catholic Schools, the Archbishop and Somos una parroquia familiar y blessed our parish, and the many Auxiliary Bishops. Help these your tenemos algo para personas de parishioners who are constantly servants to follow your lead on this todas las edades. No importa cuál serving your people. They generously path. sea su origen, aquí hay un lugar reach out to the greater community Holy Spirit you give us wisdom and para usted. Lo invitamos a unirse a showing your Love and Compassion. strength. Help us in this discernment nosotros en una de nuestras Now we are facing the opportunity process as we study and learn the liturgias. Cuando decida hacer de to step out further to offer a Catholic facts and requirements that a St. Peter's su hogar en la iglesia, School where the children of the Catholic School would need and how considere hacerlo oficial llenando parish and wider community may it enhances our vision for the future of un formulario de Registro de learn and grow in deeper our parish. May our parishioners be Nuevos Parroquianos, que puede understanding of Your Truth. A place motivated to share their creative descargar de nuestro sitio web. that may form them as conscientious ideas and feedback during this También puede recoger un leaders and stewards for the future of process. Help each of us to seek your formulario en nuestra oficina Your Kingdom. We give you thanks divine will and find us willing to parroquial. El registro nos ayuda a for the family who has made a proceed and respond generously to saber cómo podemos atender gracious and generous offer of “seed your call. We ask this in the name of mejor las necesidades de su money” to initiate this project. May the Father, the Son, and the Holy familia. Por favor, consulte a each of us seek your will in this Spirit. nuestras páginas de Ministerios y endeavor. Formación de Fe para ver las St. Peter, pray for us. Amen. diferentes formas en que puede Jesus, our Teacher and Savior, you nutrirse e involucrarse. Estamos show us the way to live as your muy contentos de que nos haya disciples. We ask your blessing on —written by Mary Ann Hawn visitado y esperamos volver a verlo. July 25, 2021 │ 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time 3 - Kathy Hossenlopp, our Liturgical the ministries and volunteers who Environment Committee Director, made this happen. And, as the caption will be stepping down after many on the pictures say — #weareback years of amazing service! She and #sundayhospitality. her husband, Pete, along with other +Another Teams of Our Lady volunteers, have worked so hard in Information Night will be held on making our environment special for Wednesday, July 28th, at 7:00 pm in all our Sunday Masses and other the Family Life Center, Rooms liturgical events. We are looking for 151/153. Deacon Brad Wakely and his a new director. Anyone interested wife, Mary Kay, will again present on From the Pastor’s Desk should have a vast knowledge of this inspirational marriage support liturgy and be open to working with ministry. So far, we anticipate enough +You may remember that during the other volunteers. If you are couples for two Teams. As we receive height of the pandemic, you may have interested, please contact Fr.