St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 29th, 2018 Year B

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1 MASSES & SACRAMENT SCHEDULE Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 9 and 11:00 a.m., 5:00 p.m. Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri., 8:00 a.m. Holy Days Consult the bulletin Adoration 1st Friday of the month 8:30 a.m. 6:30 p.m. Reconciliation Saturday 3:30-4:45/appointment Baptism 1st Sunday of the month noon Call Parish Office prep necessary Wedding 6 months preparation necessary (Call Parish Office) Anointing 1st Saturday of every month Funeral Call Parish Office PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION Parish Office nd St. SE Kentwood, MI Fax address witness@stmmagdalen.org Website address Facebook St. Mary Magdalen Parish Pastor Fr. Peter Vu ext. 100 pvu@stmmagdalen.org Parish Secretary Laura Moore ext. 107 lmoore@stmmagdalen.org Administrative Assistant Michelle Mason ext. 112 mmason@stmmagdalen.org Business Manager Joseph Hakeem ext. 102 jhakeem@stmmagdalen.org Director of Music Emily Rushmore ext. 105 erushmore@stmmagdalen.org Coordinator of Faith Formation Molly Wisdom ext. 103 mwisdom@stmmagdalen.org Coordinator of Christian Services/Volunteers Ruth Bush ext. 106 rbush@stmmagdalen.org Coordinator of Youth & Young Adults Allison Hawkins ext. 104 ahawkins@stmmagdalen.org Pastoral Support Staff: Deacon Sacristan Mike Wood Joseph Nguyen Wednesday, August 15, 2018, is the 25th Anniversary of the Pope St. John Paul II Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Saint Isidore Church, 628 Diamond Ave Ne, Grand Rapids. Bishop David Walkowiak will celebrate Mass at 6:30 pm in the Church, with a reception immediately following in the Parish Life Center Gym. All are welcome. St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church Seventeenth Sunday of Ordinary Time July 29th, 2018 Year B New Missal for Weekend Masses Father and the Finance Council have tasked me to research and recommend a permanent missal for use at weekend Mass. We currently use a subscription missalette, which needs to be replaced and re-purchased every year. The reasons for this were to eliminate monetary and paper waste and to increase the number of missals available in the church. After I gathered information, I presented it to the Finance Council and a missal was chosen. However, shortly after this decision, a publisher reached out to me, asking me to preview a new missal that hadn t yet been published. The missal is called Word of the Lord. It is published by International Liturgy Publications (ILP). A few highlights of the book are: Price: $15 (All other missals were at least $20) Size of font: Enlarged type is easy to read Order and Clarity: The three year cycle of readings is organized by year (A, B, C). Included are two sewn-in ribbons to keep place from week to week. The 400 missals will cost $6,000. We invite you to sponsor a missal in your name, or in honor of someone else or a charity. A beautiful bookplate will be placed on the inside with your name and the person you wish to honor. A book sponsorship costs $15. After its first publishing in September, I will have samples for people to view, but you may sponsor before that by visiting the Parish Office or stopping by a table in the back of church after the Aug 14 and 15 Masses in honor of the Assumption. Thank you. Emily

2 ST. MARY MAGDALEN PARISH First Friday Eucharistic Adoration On August 3rd we will have Exposition starting after the 8 am Mass and closing with Reposition at 6:30 p.m. Please consider the benefits of spending one hour in prayer with our Lord with the Blessed Sacrament on the Altar. Sign up form is in the Gathering Area. THANK YOU to everyone who came to our Parish Festival to enjoy delicious food, share fun times with good company and to celebrate our Parish s Patron Feast, St. Mary Magdalen. I appreciate all the hard work of the Festival Committee and wonderful help of countless volunteers. Hopefully, you had a fabulous time. If you have not been to this event before, please make a note on your calendar and reserve this date in July for your family and friends to come next year. It is going to be July 19th through the 21st. I also am grateful for your votes in an effort to have my latest book, Living For a Higher Purpose have a chance to be made into a mini-movie through Cine-Books. There are 46 more days for you to vote. This project, with enough votes to bring it to fruition, will make Living for a Higher Purpose available in a very powerful way to see, listen and read. It will be available nationwide. This is a time when we need to have good materials out there for the public to choose from. There can only be one vote per address so it is very important that we get the word out and ask friends and family, near and far, to vote. Thank You. Fr. Peter Vu ND ST SE, KENTWOOD, MICHIGAN MASS INTENTIONS Saturday July 28, :00 pm Rose Gallina by Gallina Family Sunday July 29, 2018 The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 am Joseph Sutherlin by Shefferly s 11:00 am Betty Miles by St Mary Magdalen Parish Family 5:00 pm Davor Lucic by Angelina Lucic Monday July 30, :00 am Our Parish Community Wednesday August 1, :00 am Elmer & Rita Zinn by Teri Zinn Thursday August 2, :00 am All Souls in Purgatory by Huyen Nguyen Family Friday August 3, :00 am For all who are homebound & in nursing homes Saturday August 4, :00 pm Anthony & Marie Lam Nguyen by Hua & Muoi Nguyen Sunday August 5, 2018 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 am Kathleen & Peter Huizenga by Family Jerry McAffrey by Judy McAffrey 11:00 am Visitors of St Mary Magdalen 5:00 pm Davor Lucic by Angela Lucic Reserve a Mass for your Intentions Would you like to give this gift of prayer? We have Masses available for a free will offering (suggested donation $10). Please visit the church office to reserve a Mass Readings for the Week of July 29, 2018 Sunday Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 2 Kgs 4:42-44; Ps 145:10-11, 15-16, 17-18; Eph 4:1-6; Jn 6:1-15 Monday Saint Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Jer 13:1-11; Dt 32:18-19, 20, 21; Mt 13:31-35 Tuesday Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest Jer 14:17-22; Ps 79:8, 9, 11 & 13; Mt 13:36-43 Wednesday Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Jer 15:10, 16-21; Ps 59:2-3, 4, 10-11, 17, 18; Mt 13:44-46 Thursday Saints Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; Saint Peter Julian Eymard, Priest Jer 18:1-6; Ps 146:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab; Mt 13:47-53 Friday Jer 26:1-9; Ps 69:5, 8-10, 14; Mt 13:54-58 Saturday Saint John Vianney, Priest Jer 26:11-16, 24; Ps 69:15-16, 30-31, 33-34; Mt 14:1-12 Sunday Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Ex 16:2-4, 12-15; Ps 78:3-4, 23-24, 25, 54; Eph 4:17, 20-24; Jn 6:24-35 Let us pray for one another with one mind and heart to the Lord our God Kyle Friar Barbara Kuhn David Jean Camden Keeley Paul Toohey Rick Murtuscelli Pat Wingeier John Chirco Robert Church Kathy Fraher Andrew Downey Dorothy Terpak Mary Schauer Oliver Jeremiah Herrmann Max Witgen Matt Potter Potter Family Caroline Lemke Colleen Antiel Warner Frisbee Dorothy Nelson Sally Downey

3 July 29, 2018 The Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B YOUTH MINISTRY FAITH FORMATION 2018 SMM Elementary Retreat! AUGUST 6TH 10TH 9am to 11:30am Hope to see you there!!!! K-5 students are invited to join this year s adventure! Friday Night Youth Night was great fun! Saturday Night Festival Fun: Dinner & Auction! Good Food! 4 Queens & A King! July Anniversaries On July 30th, Tim & Deb Pelletier will celebrate 36 years of Marriage. Join us in congratulating them.

4 ST. MARY MAGDALEN PARISH CHRISTIAN SERVICES ND ST SE, KENTWOOD, MICHIGAN FINANCIAL NEWS FINANCIAL REFLECTIONS Date Contributions Budget Over(Under) July 21 & 22 $10,900 $13,700 ($2,800) Year to date $46,694 $54,800 ($8,106) 258 envelopes & electronic contributions Benevolent Fund Envelope donations for the fiscal year ended June 30 - $8,490 Maintenance Fund Envelope donations for the fiscal year ended June 30 - $6,090 Your continued support of the parish and its mission through these special envelopes is greatly appreciated! To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike. Horace Mann CATHOLIC SERVICES APPEAL ~ 2018 WOW!! What a weekend! I would like to say THANK YOU to Allison Hawkins, Teri & Tony MacDonald, Michelle Mason, Jan & Tim Olexa, Knights of Columbus rep Tyler Reiser, Emily Rushmore, Pat & Mike Snyder, Boy Scouts rep Mark VanderVoord, and Molly Wisdom for the endless hours they put into the festival. I would like to say Thank you to the Men s Group and Women s Guild for their help through out the weekend. Also want to say thank you to EVERYONE who volunteered. We could not have done it without you. THANK YOU!! Help is needed next Saturday, August 4 th, at 10:00 a.m. when we prepare a warm meal at God s Kitchen. You can park in the Cathedral Outreach parking lot or the Cathedral Square parking lot and enter by the front door. We are done by 3:00 p.m., enough time to get to 5 pm Mass if you wish. We would like you to stay the full time, but if your schedule only allows you a couple of hours that s OK. Come see the face of God in those less fortunate and let them bless you. +++ Give the Gift of Life at our next Blood Drive on Sunday, August 5 th in the Family Center, 8 a.m. 1 p.m. Assessment $ 108,631 Pledged to date $ 93,302 (85.9% of goal) Needed for Goal $ 15,329 No. of Responses 302 out of 1,157 Families Through your donation to CSA, you are able to further the great ministry of the Church, and communicate God s mercy. With your contribution, you reach thousands through support of priestly vocations, Catholic education, cultural ministries, Catholic charities, catechist training and diocesan-wide communications. Anything raised in excess of our assessment is returned to the parish. Help support our seminarians and priests - Bishop Walkowiak wants your feedback! The Diocese of Grand Rapids will be conducting a feasibility study throughout July and August, and Bishop Walkowiak would like to hear from you. The study will gather feedback on a potential diocesan-wide capital campaign to support our seminarians and priests. A high level of responses from Catholics throughout West Michigan is needed to aid the bishop in making an informed decision on whether to move forward. Potential campaign goals include investing in the education of our growing number of seminarians, supporting specialized education for our priests, and funding the Priest Retirement Fund. The Steier Group, a Catholic development and fundraising firm, has been hired to conduct the study. A final recommendation on the viability of the campaign will be made in the early fall. Visit dioceseofgrandrapids.org for additional details on how you can participate. Stay tuned to the bulletin throughout the study for regular updates. Lectors for the Weekend of August 4th & 5th Saturday: 5 p.m. Don Paszek(1) & Dave Molyneux(2) Sunday: 9 a.m. Chris Maday(1) & Peggy Jacobs(2) 11 a.m. Elizabeth LoPiparo(1) & Laurie Emelander(2) 5 p.m. Stephen Herman(1) & Deanna McGowan(2)

5 July June 29, 24, 2018 THANK YOU FROM OUR FESTIVAL COMMITTEE In sports, a very good team can have a bad day or not be as inspired as an average team they are scheduled to play. Chances are this top-rated team has a good chance of losing. Many of our festivals have similar scenarios. As a Committee member, the evening before the event I see a depressing forecast for the morning and the better part of the next day. Then try to get some sleep. As 4:30 a.m. arrives, it becomes hectic switching channels looking for the most optimistic weather forcast. The concern is not about the effort in planning and set up. It is more that many will be encouraged to stay away due to weather not cooperating. As early arrivals to the church parking lot, the weather begins to get worse. (Now don t get the idea that I m trying to make a movie out of this!) Steadily, familiar cars arrive. These are the inspired volunteers representing numerous ministries in our parish. Sleeping in was not an option for them; they are also very dedicated. In the rain they set up signs, install tent walls, direct traffic, unload vendors cars, and make and serve breakfast. And they do it with a smile. Then later in the evening, it s time to rest a little and repeat it all over the next day. Aren t we blessed to have a festival with all these volunteers? Aren t we blessed to have such a diverse, caring, giving, dedicated, and faithful parish family. Well this team is already planning for next season. Tryouts are always open The Seventeenth The Nativity Sunday of in John Ordinary the Baptist, Time, Year B THIS WEEK IN THE PARISH Monday, July 30, 2018 Wednesday, August 1, :00 pm Leaders of Elementary Retreat Meeting 7:00 pm. Men of Emmaus Thursday, August 2, 2018 Friday, August 3, :30 am Eucharistic Adoration Saturday, August 4, :00 am Baptism Preparation Class 3:45 pm Confession Please remember the family of Betty Miles, whose passing was commemorated on July 23rd, keep them in your prayers.