Catholic Church JUNE 28, 2020 FOCUS OF OUR RESPECT LIFE COMMITTEE FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE IS MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES RESPECT LIFE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISABILITIES BEATITUDES FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS BLESSED ARE YOU who take time to listen to difficult speech, for you help us to know that if we persevere we can be understood. BLESSED ARE YOU who walk with us in public places, and ignore the stares of strangers, for in your friendship we feel good to be ourselves. BLESSED ARE YOU who never bid us to "hurry up" and, more blessed, you who do not snatch our tasks from our hands to do them for us, for often we need time rather than help. BLESSED ARE YOU who stand beside us as we enter new and untried ventures, for our unsured- ness will be outweighed by the times when we surprise ourselves and you. BLESSED ARE YOU who ask for our help and realize our giftedness for our greatest need is to be needed. BLESSED ARE YOU who help us with the graciousness of Christ, for often we need the help we cannot ask for. BLESSED ARE YOU when, by all things, you assure us that what makes us individuals is not our particular disability or difficulty but our beautiful God-given personhood which no handicapping condition can confine. REJOICE AND BE EXCEEDINGLY GLAD for your understanding and love have opened doors for us to enjoy life to its full and you have helped us believe in ourselves as valued and gifted people. Visit us on the Internet at www.stpeterkirkwood.org or send your comments to: [email protected] WELCOME TO ST. PETER Sacrament of Baptism Please call the Rectory (966-8600) for details regarding participation in the preparation program. St. Peter Parish Prayer We encourage expectant parents to make arrangements for the preparation program at least a Lord, thank you for the rich history you have few months prior to the birth of their child. bestowed on our family of St. Peter in Kirkwood. Sacrament of Marriage Blessed by your grace, we ask that you be present Please contact the rectory office (966-8600) to in our parish today. Guide us as we celebrate our schedule your wedding date and for details gifts through worship, education and loving service. regarding the preparation program. In accordance with Archdiocesan policy, couples should contact a Holy Spirit, create within us a vision for the future that member of the parish clergy at least six months we live, witness and proclaim the good news of Christ. prior to their proposed wedding date. Amen Holy Orders and Consecrated (Religious) Life If interested, please call the parish rectory or the Archdiocesan Office of Vocations at 792-6460 Sunday Mass Schedule Rectory/Parish Office Saturday: 5:OOPM (Satisfies Sunday obligation) 243 West Argonne Drive Sunday: 7:30AM, 9:OOAM, 11:OOAM and 5:OOPM Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 966-8600 (Phone) Weekday Mass Schedule 966-5721 (Fax) Monday - Friday: 6:45AM & 8:15AM Saint Peter Elementary School Saturday: 8:15AM Pre-K thru Eighth Grade 215 North Clay Holy Day Mass Schedule Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 821-0460 Consult the bulletin for Mass times http://www.stpeterkirkwood.org Coordinator of Elementary Faith Formation Andrea Bonsanti, 822-1347, ext. 4208 Sacrament of Reconciliation Parish School of Religion Sacrament of Reconciliation is held before Susan Lueker, 821-0460, ext. 4212 5:00pm Mass from 3:45-4:45 pm. Religious Education Offices - Rectory Sunday Reconciliation is held after the 9:00am Mass Offices of Faith Formation following the Anointing of the Sick or by appointment Linda Doyle, 966-8600, ext. 1011 Eucharistic Adoration St. Peter Youth Ministry - Rectory Monday - Friday, 6:00AM to 10:00PM 314-966-8600 St. Angela Merici Chapel in Ursuline Hall Enter through the Garden Courtyard Pastoral Council Cheryl Flaherty Baptism Ron Jensen Baptisms are celebrated every Sunday of the month at 12:30PM. Larry Bommarito Please call the Rectory (966-8600) for details regarding Joan Turnure Gina Jensen participation in the preparation program. We encourage Alana Odenwald expectant parents to make arrangements for the preparation program at least a few months prior to the birth of their child. Finance Commission John Modder, Chairperson, 303-502-4564 Weekly Anointing and Prayer St. Vincent de Paul Society After the 9:OOAM Mass each Sunday, we will celebrate 314-289-6101 Ext. 2220 (Voice Mail) the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, for anyone Parish Center who has the need to receive this sacrament. This is meant 821-6219 to include such concerns as upcoming diagnostic tests, Bulletin Deadline!! limitations of aging, anxiety, depression, undue stress, Articles intended for publication in the Bulletin must be addiction, etc. for all ages. submitted to the rectory ([email protected]) by Monday, at 3:OOPM for the following Sunday’s Please gather in the pews at the front of church Bulletin. All announcements must be in writing with a and the priest will be with you approximately name and telephone number attached. 10 minutes after Mass is over. Please remember St. Peter Catholic Church in your will. 2 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time June 28, 2020 The Gospel of Matthew… Rough-hewn and impulsive Peter left his fishing nets The first gospel starts with “a genealogy of Jesus Christ, immediately to answer Jesus’ call. Later, during the son of David, son of Abraham.” With this opening the passion of Jesus, Peter made his denials just as impulsively, evangelist prepares us for this Jesus who will be the though he had pledged his loyalty to Jesus only that fulfillment of major figures of the Hebrew Scriptures. evening. Receiving Christ’s gracious forgiveness after the resurrection, Peter went on to become the rock-steady and Archeologists and textual experts usually date the writing of faithful leader of the disciples. Imprisoned three or four the Gospel of Matthew to around 80 AD. One piece of times, he eventually was crucified during the reign of the evidence for the dating of this gospel is that it contains Emperor Nero I 64 AD. Legend has it that he was hung on nearly all of the Gospel of Mark. From this we know that it the cross head down because he told the soldiers that he was was composed after 70 AD (near the time when Mark as a not worth to die in the same manner as Christ. source, the Gospel of Matthew shares a large chunk of material with Luke, material that appears neither in Mark or Once Paul, who had been a rigid and violent persecutor of in John. From this we assume that there was another source Christians, experienced the love of Christ, he grew meek – for Matthew, one that he and the writer of Luke used. though never shy. He founded many churches and was able Matthew also had his own information about Jesus that the to affirm the fledgling communities of believers even while other evangelists did not. he was admonishing them. Paul’s writings are the first Christian scriptures; they are older than the gospels. After The Gospel of Matthew is unique in its five-part structure: many imprisonments, Paul was executed during the reign of after the introduction (which contains the stories of the the Emperor Nero. Since he was a Roman citizen, he was annunciation to Joseph [not Mary, as in Luke] of Jesus’ beheaded instead of crucified. birth, his birth and manifestation to the magi [not shepherds, as in Luke], each part contains a long speech by Coastal countries like Chile and Paraguay remember Peter Jesus followed by actions that Jesus performs. Part one is the fisherman with nautical parades. In Hungary and in the Sermon on the Mount (chapters 5–7); part two prepares rural England, people braid straw from the wheat harvest the disciples for their missionary journeys (10); part three is into crosses and crowns to honor the two Roman martyr filled with parables (13); part four deals with church order saints. (18); and the fifth part concerns the end of the world (24- Monday, June 29th, is our parish feasts day. Why not attend 25). Scholars assume that the evangelist adopted this Mass that day or be sure to watch livestream as we structure from the Pentateuch, the first five books of the celebrate this feast of the Universal Church. And…did you Bible. This is a big clue about the portrait of Jesus in this know that our parish church is named for the saint himself gospel. and also the Basilica of Saint Peter in Rome? And…did Many of the people in the Church for which the Gospel of you know that the official title of that Basilica and our Matthew was written were Jews. One of the main purposes parish church is, St. Peter, the Prince of the Apostles? of this gospel was to provide consolation to those who Check out the cornerstone of our church on the west side wrestled with the compatibility of the Jewish heritage and entrance and you will see the inscription: their faith in Jesus. For this reason we find references to In honor of Saint Peter, Prince of Apostles – this church is patriarchs of ancient Israel from the very first verse. A erected to the glory of God. 1951 genealogy filled with Jewish ancestors begin the text, and the evangelist fills the narrative with quotations from the Most Reverend Joseph E. Ritter, Archbishop of Saint Louis, Missouri Hebrew scriptures. All of this seeks to reassure the hearers that Jesus of Nazareth was indeed the Messiah anticipated Joseph D.