St. Aloysius Catholic Church

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1 Jesus said to them, A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house. Mk 6:4 Sunday, July 8, th Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Aloysius Catholic Church Mailing Address: 211 W Mason Ave Buckley, WA Office: Fax: Website: office@saint-aloysius-catholic-church.org Priest Administrator: Fr. Anthony Davis Sacred Heart Enumclaw: Cell: fr.davis@sacredheartenumclaw.org Parochial Vicar: Fr. Clarence Jones Cell: frclarence211@gmail.com Deacon: Ray Daigh (Karen) Cell: rdaigh1@gmail.com Administrative Assistant: Patty Rumpza Bookkeeper/Administration: Judy Zeober Custodian: Daryl Miller Children s RE: Chris Korolsky Youth Ministry: James & Rita Deady Pastoral Council: James Plowden Stewardship Committee: Bea Wilson Finance Committee: Deryl Ross Weekend es: Saturday - 5pm Sunday - & 10:30am Daily : Tue - Fri Holy Day Schedule: Check Bulletin or Website Rosary: After daily Before Weekend es Monday at 3pm Adoration: Every First Friday - 9:00am 8:00pm Reconciliation: Saturday 3:30-4:30pm or by appointment Information: For Registration, Baptisms, Confirmation, RCIA, RCIC, Faith Formation, Sacrament of the Sick, First Communion, Communion Visits to the homebound and those in care facilities, Reconciliation, Marriages, Annulments, Funerals, and Christian Burial, please call Fr. Jones or the parish office. Welcome To Our Growing Parish Community! Our mission at St. Aloysius Catholic Church is to Celebrate and Live the Eucharist, Educate in the Catholic Faith, and be faithful Stewards of God s Blessings.

2 Reading 1: EZ 2:2-5 Reading 2: 2 COR 12:7-10 July 8, 2018 Fourteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time Psalm: 123:1-2, 2, 3-4 Gospel: MK 6:1-6 "Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe." St. Augustine UNDERSTANDING THE SCRIPTURE First Reading The Lord sends the prophet Ezekiel to the Israelites. Responsorial Psalm A prayer to God for mercy Second Reading Paul bears insults and weakness for the sake of Christ. Gospel Reading Jesus is rejected in his hometown. BACKGROUND ON THE GOSPEL READING Today s Gospel describes what many believe to have been the typical pattern of Jesus ministry: teaching in the synagogue followed by acts of healing. In his hometown of Nazareth, the people are amazed by what they hear, but they also cannot comprehend how someone they know so well might move them so powerfully. In this Gospel, we learn some interesting details about Jesus and his early life. Jesus kinfolk know him to be a carpenter, an artisan who works in wood, stone, and metal. He probably learned this trade from his father. Family members of Jesus are also named. Mark describes Jesus as the son of Mary, which is an unusual designation. Adult males were more typically identified with the name of their fathers. It is unclear why Mark deviates from this custom. Brothers and sisters of Jesus are also named. Scholars are divided on how to interpret this. As Catholics, we believe that Mary was and remained always a virgin, thus we do not believe that this Gospel refers to other children of Mary. Others explain this reference by noting that the words brother and sister were often used to refer to other types of relatives, including cousins, nieces, and nephews. This Gospel tells us that Jesus is hampered from performing miracles in Nazareth because of the people s lack of faith. Jesus is said to be surprised by this. He did not predict or foresee this rejection. In this detail we find a description of the very human side of Jesus. This passage unfolds a continuing theme of Mark s Gospel: Who is Jesus? His kinfolk in Nazareth might know the carpenter, the son of Mary, but they do not know Jesus, the Son of God. Mark is foreshadowing Jesus rejection by his own people, the people of Israel. He is also reflecting on and trying to explain the situation of the community for which he wrote. While many of the first Christians were Jewish, Christianity took hold and flourished in the Gentile community. Mark s community was mostly a Gentile community, who may have been experiencing persecution. By showing that Jesus himself was rejected, Mark consoles and reassures his first readers. He also prepares us to accept this possible consequence of Christian discipleship. PRAYER REQUESTS Please pray for those who have asked for our prayers. Bonnie Broek-Sambila Prayer request must be made through Cindy Guillot JULY INTENTION EVANGELIZATION Priests and their Pastoral Ministry ~~That priests, who experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother priests. ~~ Pope Francis FAMILY CONNECTION Our family plays an important role in shaping us and forming our self-identity. In family life, we find a safe place to discover who we are and who God calls us to be. But sometimes the influences from outside our family can make us unrecognizable to those who know us best. These outside influences can lead us away from God, or they can lead us toward a deeper relationship with God. In today s Gospel, we see that the people of Nazareth could not recognize Jesus as the Son of God. They could know him only as the son of Mary. We hope that through our family life we will be encouraged to filter the many influences on our lives through the lens of faith so that we will become the person that God calls us to be. ~~ Loyola Press

3 CALENDAR FOR THE WEEK Monday Ju1 9 No Rosary Tuesday - Ju1 10 Knights of Columbus Wednesday - Ju1 11 St. Benedict, Abbot w/fr. Davis Thursday - Ju1 12 AA meeting Friday - Ju1 13 Saturday Ju1 14 St. Kateri Tekakwitha USA 4th Degree KC Confession Sunday - Ju1 15 AROUND THE PARISH 6:30pm 7:00pm 9:00am 3:30pm 5:00pm 10:30am THANK YOU!!! Thank you to all who came and helped with the grounds clean up, your Stewardship of Time and Talent shows. Take a look around, new lava rock by the hall, bushes and some low tree limbs were trimmed, weeds pulled and the new Time board was installed by the driveway. Thank you to Theo Weymiller and family for your Stewardship of Time and Talent making the sign. We do need constant help keeping areas under control, the Garden of Gethsemane behind the rectory needs many volunteers to get it in shape. Please contact the office. PARISH PICNIC BLAST! The annual parish picnic and celebration of our patron St. Aloysius had a great turnout and the weather was perfect. There was terrific food, thank you to everyone for bringing your special items. Bingo was exciting as usual! A big thank you to the Knights of Columbus for the hamburgers and hotdogs, the Altar Society for the kitchen organization and Chris Korolsky for the FUN games. Next year the Trivia contest will have to be even harder! DEVOTION OF THE MONTH MONTH OF THE PRECIOUS BLOOD The month of July traditionally honors the Most Precious Blood of Jesus. It is the blood of Christ, the Lamb of God, which cleanses from sin, therefore the Church developed a devotion to Jesus' physical blood and its mystical power, just as it did for his Sacred Heart from which his blood poured out on the Cross. The Precious Blood of Jesus courses through the Church spiritually, giving eternal life to the Body of Christ through the sacraments. Many saints had a devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus, most notably St. Catherine of Siena. Devotion to the Precious Blood spread greatly through the preaching of Saint Gaspar del Bufalo, a 19th century priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, and was later approved and recommended by the Holy See. The feast day of the Most Precious Blood of Jesus was July 1st. The Knights of Columbus will lead 5th Sunday Rosary s throughout the year. The next 5 th Sunday will be on July29th. Please join the Knights before 10:30a mass at 10:00a to pray our most precious prayer to Mary. SUMMER VACATION Sundays and other Holy days of Obligation, the faithful are obliged to participate in the. (Code of Canon Law 1247) Traveling this summer and want to find the nearest Catholic church? Visit times.org for listings, maps, and directions. St. Aloysius does not take a summer vacation and we need to continue to pay bills. Please remember your offertory while you are away from St. Aloysius. FOOD DRIVE The Knights of Columbus will have a Food For Families drive starting July 21st running through July 29th. Please bring nonexpired non-perishable food to church or the hall. Thank you in advance! Items needed are canned meats, vegetables, and fruits, peanut butter and jelly. Thank you for your generous Stewardship of Treasure, NEW BUDGET GOALS will be entered in August. Totals for New Fiscal Year St. Aloysius Weekly Revenue Fiscal YTD 3 OFFERTORY GIFTS Actual $5, $5, Budgeted Variance

4 ACA 2018 & CALLED TO SERVE as CHRIST CAMPAIGNs ACA 2018 Your gift to the 2018 Annual Catholic Appeal is needed! Thank you to all who have responded to the needs of our Church in Western Washington through the 2018 Annual Catholic Appeal. Our goal amount for St. Aloysius this year is: $29,995.00, pledged $13, We are at 46 % of goal with ONLY 5% participation. 100% of gifts received after we reach our goal will be rebated back to our parish. Thank you for pledging. How Do We Know the CtSaChrist Campaign Will Sustain the Priest Pension and Medical Plans? The Archdiocese undertook an actuarial study which resulted in the following estimates: A $40 million increase in Priest Pension Plan assets will yield an adequate return to fund payments of pension benefits to 110 senior priests and administrative costs of the plan. Key assumptions and data supporting the goals for the priest pension and retired priest medical plan: 1. Number of retirees receiving benefits will be Funding objective is to provide adequate resources to pay benefits for existing and future retirees. 3. Pension benefit is $1,943 per month, per priest. 4. Retired priest medical costs are $800 per month, per priest. 5. The Archdiocese wishes to significantly reduce the billings to parishes and eliminate the portion of Annual Catholic Appeal goals which are annually earmarked for the pension and post-retirement medical costs. Annual amounts: a. $1.6 million in additional Annual Catholic Appeal goals. b. $950,000 ($9,400 per parish) in additional parish billings. Additionally, absent a successful campaign, these billings will increase by $600 per parish, per year for the foreseeable future. If nothing is done, the plans will never reach a suitable funded percentage. Parishes will continue to face steep, regular increases to their contributions and the plans will need increasingly larger percentage of donations from the Annual Catholic Appeal. So far St. Aloysius has raised $28, Everyday we re getting closer to our goal of $218, We are looking for 100 percent participation EVERY pledge is important and EVERY gift makes a difference to our 15% rebate until we reach goal, then 85%. If you would like more information or to make a gift, please visit the campaign website at calledtoserveaschrist.org or our parish website. MATCHING DONATIONS ARCHDIOCESE OF SEATTLE Annual Catholic Appeal AND Called the Serve as Christ Campaign This is a list of companies that matched gifts in not all inclusive. Donors are encouraged to ask their employer if they have a matching gift program. GUEST SPEAKER St. Aloysius welcomes Sister Jude Connelly, Sister of St Francis, to speak about the Called to Serve as Christ" campaign, next weekend July 14/15th at all masses. Sr. Jude, graduated from Fife High School, she is presently serving as Administrator of the Sisters Retirement facility, Tacoma. The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia founded St. Joseph Hospital, Tacoma's first Catholic hospital. Please come listen to her speak of her call to serve at Christ and how you can assist this campaign. Adobe Systems Incorporated Altria Apple, Inc Arch Mortgage Insurance Company Bank of America Matching Gifts Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gift Cambia Health Foundation Carillon Point Account Costco Wholesale Expedia Inc F5 Networks Genentech Getty Images Google Matching Gifts Program Ilahie Holdings, Inc. Lam Research Employee Gift Match Program Microsoft Corporation Nintendo of America Inc Norton Corrosion Limited, LLC Portland General Electric Co Precor Incorporated Progressive Casualty Insurance Company Puget Sound Energy Puget Sound Energy Foundation Quanex Starbucks Symetra Synsor Corporation T-Mobile USA, Inc. Truist UBS Wealth Management USA US Bank Foundation Verizon Foundation

5 COMMUNITY BOARD RACHEL S CORNER HOPE AND HEALING AFTER ABORTION God was so faithful to heal me. I literally came out of the grave I had put myself in when my baby died. I cannot wait to see where God will lead me with this New Beginning. I m so encouraged and alive. Thank you, Jesus my Savior and Lord!!! He rolled back the stone and set me free. Testimonial Have you felt like your own heart and soul died the day you had an abortion? Did you place yourself in a cave and roll a stone across the front? God is asking you if you are willing to let Him remove that stone and is inviting you back to life again. Will you accept? Come on a Rachel s Vineyard Retreat and let him show you His merciful love. August 24-26, 2018 Call Valerie: HOPE (4673) You are loved with an everlasting Love! A program of Catholic Community Services WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTERS Let our Savior Jesus Christ bring life and light to your Marriage. Sign up today to attend an upcoming Worldwide Marriage Encounters at the Sheraton Hotel, Bellevue on August 10-12, Apply atwww.wwme.org. For more information leave a message at Early application is highly recommended. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Come to All Saints Parish in Puyallup for our summer musical "Beauty and the Beast." There will be eleven performances from July 20 to August 4. Be our guest to enjoy this tale as old as time. ASTRA (All Saints Theatrical Repertoire Association) is a theatre ministry of All Saints Parish. Our volunteers produce remarkable live theatre that your entire family will enjoy. Buy your tickets at or info@astramusical.com. VERSE OF THE DAY And this is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and people loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil. For all who do evil hate the light and do not come to the light, so that their deeds may not be exposed. But those who do what is true come to the light, so that it may be clearly seen that their deeds have been done in God. ~John 3:19-21 MEDITATION I was sure that it was better for me to give myself up to your love than to give in to my own desires. However, although the one way appealed to me and was gaining mastery, the other still afforded me pleasure and kept me victim. I had no answer to give to you when you said to me, Rise, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will enlighten you. When on all sides you showed me that your words were true, and I was overcome by your truth, I had no answer whatsoever to make, but only those slow and drowsy words, Right away. Yes, right away. Let me be for a little while. But Right away right away was never right now, and Let me be for a little while stretched out for a long time. St. Augustine, Confessions of St. Augustine SUMMER READING Faith-filled summer reading recommendations by Northwest Catholic (current issue) Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti- Catholic History by Rodney Stark ~~~~Recommended by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain Catholics have grown accustomed to conventional accounts of important periods in Church history, such as the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Dark Ages and World War II. Often these accounts are biased or seriously flawed. As one who loves history, I flinch when I read such inaccurate accounts and even more when I hear them repeated, even by Catholics, as true. Stark, a sociologist, sets the record straight with detailed research and analysis. Significantly, he writes, I am not a Roman Catholic, and I did not write this book in defense of the Church. I wrote it in defense of history. What Happens at by Jeremy Driscoll, OSB ~~~~Recommended by Deacon Eric Paige This is the kind of book that changes the way we see things. Don t let the title fool you into thinking this is some kind of entry-level book just meant for newcomers to the faith. It s much more than that. It lets Catholics old and new appreciate the in a way they never did before. And it does this using language familiar to laypeople in just 144 pages. Read this book and you won t regret it! BULLETIN COVER ART James Tissot (French, ). The Pharisees Question Jesus (Les pharisiens questionnent Jésus), Brooklyn Museum, Purchased by public subscription. No known copyright restrictions, (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, _PS2.jpg)