THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY PARISH July 8 ~ Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 / THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY PARISH July 8 ~ Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Basil the Great Church Dushore, PA St. Francis of Assisi Church Mildred, PA Sugar Ridge, PA St. Francis of Assisi Chapel Eagles Mere, PA Mailing Address ~ P O Box 307, Dushore, PA Parish Office ~ 1 St. Francis Drive, Mildred, PA (570) Fax (570) ~ ihmparish@frontier.com Website ~ ihmdushore.com Mass Schedule Saturday 4:00 PM St. Basil s Church, Dushore Sunday 7:30 AM St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred 9:00 AM St. Basil s Church, Dushore 10:45 AM St. Francis of Assisi Chapel, Eagles Mere The Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays ~ 3:15 3:45 PM St. Basil s Church, Dushore Sundays ~ 7:00 7:15 AM St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred Or by appointment

2 A Welcoming Community: You enter this Church not as stranger, but as a guest of God. He is your heavenly Father. Come, then, with joy in your heart and thanks on your lips into His presence, offering Him your love and service. Be grateful to the strong and loyal ones who, in the name of Jesus Christ, built this place of worship, and to all who have beautified it and hallowed it with their prayers and praise. Ask His blessing on those who love His house of faith as the inspiration of their labor, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit, and may that blessing rest on you, both in your going out and your coming in. Parish Registration: You must be a registered member of The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish to receive Baptism, Confirmation, First Penance, First Holy Communion, Marriage and to receive sponsor letters from the pastor. New Members: Please stop by or call the parish office and register. (If you are relocating to a new parish, please notify the office before you move.) Thank you. Change of Address: Please notify the parish office as soon as possible if you have had a change of address. Inactive Catholics: As a welcoming parish, we ask every parishioner to ask God to put in your heart people whose hearts we need to reach out and touch with God s love. Before you talk to men about God, you talk to God about men. Please, call, write, leave in an envelope in the collection the name, address and phone number of the person. Father would be delighted to meet with them. SACRAMENTAL LIFE RCIA: The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a process to bring non-catholics into the faith. Anyone seeking information or interested in becoming a part of this community of faith can call the parish office. Sacrament of Baptism: Baptisms are scheduled for the 1 st and 3 rd Sundays of the month following the 9:30 AM Mass. In order to understand and better appreciate this special sacrament, parents are required to attend the Pre-Baptismal Program, which is held on the last Saturday of each month at 7:00 PM in St. Basil s Rectory. Please contact the rectory to schedule your child s baptism. Sacrament of Marriage: Couples contemplating marriage should notify the rectory at least six months prior to the date to allow necessary time for proper preparation. Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick: Urgent calls will be attended to at any time of the day or night. Visitation of the Sick: Please call the parish for visitation of the sick at home, in the hospital, or health care facility. Parish Mission Statement: We, the Catholic faithful of The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, in union with our Holy Father, the Pope, and our Bishop, are called through Baptism to share in the ministry which Jesus Christ has entrusted to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. As priest and lay faithful in a rural area, we utilize our energy to serve the spiritual needs of the Kingdom of God to promote a culture of life, justice, and peace to this generation and the generations that follow us. Prayer to the Immaculate Heart of Mary O Immaculate Heart of Mary, Heavenly beauty and splendor of the Father, you are the most valued Heavenly treasure. New Eve, immaculate in soul, spirit and body, created of the godly seed by the Spirit of God, you are the spiritual Mother of mankind. Pure Virgin, full of grace then and now, your whole being was raised Heavenly in full glory, to be elevate-d above all the hosts within the Kingdom of God. O Heavenly Mother, Queen of Heaven and earth, I recognize the glory of your highest title, the Immaculate Heart of Mary! Loving Mother, dispenser of endless blessings, you who continually intercede on our behalf, please present my need before your loving Son, Jesus. (Mention your request) O Immaculate Heart of Mary, I know that you are now presenting my need before Jesus, for you have never turned away those in dire need. Mother dearest, I await your favorable answer, submitting myself to the Divine will of the Lord, for all glories are His for ever and ever. Amen.

3 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, July 8, 2018 The First Reading is from the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel (2:2-5). The call and commission of Ezekiel are recounted in this brief reading: The spirit entered me and set me on my feet. The Spirit of God enables the prophet to stand tall. The Spirit will energize and empower Ezekiel to speak the word God places in his heart. The prophet is told that the Israelites, to whom he is being sent, are a rebellious people, hard to face, and obstinate of heart. Thus Ezekiel is being prepared for the resistance he will face when he delivers God s message. Even though the people will reject God s Word, they will know that a prophet has been in their midst. Ezekiel s role is to announce God s message. He is not responsible for Israel s lack of response. The Responsorial Psalm (123:1-4) This psalm opens with a statement of trust in God. The last stanza expresses the sentiments of one under a lot of stress: Israel in exile or Ezekiel s feelings when his message is rejected. The Second Reading is from the second Letter of Saint Paul to the Corinthians (12:7-10). So many of the people we regard as great have had tremendous obstacles to overcome along their respective paths to greatness. Paul speaks about his own struggles. We cannot know for sure what he means by the phrases thorn in the flesh and an angel of Satan to beat me. While Paul could have had some inner psychological weakness or physical problem, scholars tend to believe that thorn in the flesh is some outer problem he encountered in his opponents and critics. Whatever the problem, Paul prays three times for the Lord to remove it (recall that Jesus prayed three times in Gethsemane for God to let his cup of suffering pass from him). We can presume Paul was reluctant to accept his thorn in the flesh not because he did not want to suffer, but because he saw it as an impediment to his ministry. God s response to Paul is: My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. God wants to use Paul s crisis to keep him humble and dependent on God. Paul s supernatural visions and revelations could have led to spiritual pride. Gradually, Paul comes to see that he experiences divine power most when he is vulnerable, humble, and powerless before God. This experience leads Paul to boast or rejoice in his weakness or in the insults and hardships of his ministry because it is in those moments that he most of all experiences God s power, divine touch and sufficient grace. The Gospel Reading is from the Gospel of Mark (6:1-6a). Just as Ezekiel and Paul experience opposition and rejection in their ministry, so does Jesus. This Gospel passage tells us that it is the hometown people who reject him. This is a story of those who knew Jesus the most but understood him the least. They wrote him off. He is a thorn in the flesh to them. The hometown crowd could not believe that someone just like them could be the Messiah. Their small-mindedness, lack of openness, lack of faith, and their preconceived beliefs, are all an obstacle to Jesus working miracles in their midst. As with Ezekiel and Paul, Jesus continues to faithfully proclaim God s Word regardless of his rejection by the people. (The mention of Jesus siblings could have been a reference to his cousins.) Monday Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26 Tuesday Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38 Wednesday ~ Saint Benedict, Abbot Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt 10:1-7 Thursday Hos 11:1-4, 8c-9; Ps 80:2-3, 15-16; Mt 10:7-15 Friday Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17; Mt 10:16-23 Saturday ~ St. Kateri Tekakwitha, Virgin Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-33 FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Am 7:12-15; Ps 85:9-14; Eph 1:3-14; Mk 6:7-13 Patron of the Week The Sullivan Review Please support our patrons!

4 Liturgical Ministers for July Special Ministers of Communion 4:00 PM Dushore A. Hudzinski, D. Homer, T. Karaban 7:30 AM Mildred J. Doyle, J. Walsh, K. Bohensky 9:00 AM Dushore T. Hembury, B. Dillinger, J. Tourscher Lectors 4:00 PM Dushore K. Homer, R. Green 7:30 AM Mildred R. Gumble, S. Moyer 9:00 AM Dushore P. Ferrulli, J. Lambert Altar Servers 4:00 PM Dushore 7:30 AM Mildred R. Thomas 9:00 AM Dushore Z. & S. Pedro Weekly Liturgical Celebrations Saturday, July 7 8:15-8:30 AM Dushore Sacrament of Reconciliation 8:30 AM Dushore Jerry & Alice McCarty & deceased members of the family by Paulie Saxe & family 3:15 ~ 3:45 PM Dushore Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:00 PM Dushore Mass for the People Sunday, July 8 7:00 7:15 AM Mildred Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 AM Mildred Yvonne M. Evangelisti by Tom & Deb Evangelisti 9:00 AM Dushore Dr. Thomas Shoemaker by Michael & Christine Skurecki 10:45 AM Eagles Mere Michael C. Clemente by Debbie Stanton, Suzette O Neil, & Cindy Gavett Tuesday, July 10 9:00 AM Mildred Stephen Hoodak, Jr. by Louis & Lorraine Blasi Thursday, July 12 9:00 AM Mildred Helen Ottaviani by Eleanor Fowler, Beverly Pedro, & Toots 10:30 AM Highlands Eunice Richart by Marcella Hamilton Friday, July 13 9:00 AM Dushore Kitty Minier by Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Edward Sick Saturday, July 14 3:15 ~ 3:45 PM Dushore Sacrament of Reconciliation 4:00 PM Dushore Shirley Norconk by John R. & Jimmy McKernan Sunday, July 15 7:00 7:15 AM Mildred Sacrament of Reconciliation 7:30 AM Mildred Joseph Lang by Milo & Jeanne Clinton 9:00 AM Dushore Anna Berg by Dianna Bombero & family 10:45 AM Eagles Mere Mass for the People PARISH DATES TO REMEMBER July 8 IHM Parish Picnic 12:00 5:00 St. Basil s Picnic Grounds August 5 Mass at St. John Neumann Shrine August 31 Knights of Columbus Chicken BBQ September 2 Mass at St. John Neumann Shrine Our Weekly Parish Offertory Collection The Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish June 30 & July 1, 2018 $4, Offertory Breakdown St. Basil s Church, Dushore Total - $2, St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred Total - $1, St. Francis of Assisi Chapel, Eagles Mere Total - $ Total - $ Building & Maintenance St. Basil s Church, Dushore Total - $ St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred Total - $ St. Francis of Assisi Chapel, Eagles Mere Total - $ Total - $9.00 Care & Education of Priests St. Basil s Church, Dushore Total - $ St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred Total - $ St. Francis of Assisi Chapel, Eagles Mere Total - $ Total - $9.00 July Second Collections July 8 ~ Collection for the Holy Father July 15 ~ Building & Maintenance July 22 ~ Fuel Fund July 29 ~ Heat & Eat Fund Thank you for your generosity!

5 Vacation Bible School The camp runs from July 30th-August 3rd from 9-noon at St. Basil's Hall for preschool-junior high. The theme is Camp Moose on the Loose. Registration forms are in the back of St. Basil s Church in Dushore and St. Francis of Assisi Church in Mildred. Contact information for questions would be Megan Bohensky meggetz@epix.net or Summer Mass Schedule Our summer Mass schedule will be as follows until Sunday, September 2 nd : SATURDAY 4:00 PM St. Basil s Church, Dushore SUNDAYS 7:30 AM St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mildred 9:00 AM St. Basil s Church, Dushore 10:45 AM St. Francis of Assisi Chapel, Eagles Mere in Sugar Ridge are: Sunday, August 5 th and Sunday, September 2 nd. (Healing Mass) A Prayer for our Military God our Father, walk through my house and take away all my worries; and please watch over and heal my family. Heavenly Father, hold our troops in Your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in this, our time of need. These things I humbly ask in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. Amen. Please pray for: Darrin J. Denmon PMB 155; P O Box 30800, Honolulu, HI PVT Stephen MacElhaney Punisher 5 th Platoon 1-7bFABN P O Box 35524, Wainwright, Alaska Matthew J. Dailey 528 La Salle Drive Clovis, NM LtG Matthew C. McCandless U.S. Navy Helicopter Squadron MH 605 Norfolk, VA Mass in Remembrance of Victims of Violent or Tragic Death The Diocese of Scranton is offering the annual Mass in remembrance of victims of violent or tragic death. This Mass is offered for the families and friends of those who have died in tragedy, especially through murder, suicide, and accident. The Mass is scheduled for Thursday, July 12, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. in the Diocesan Pastoral Center, 330 Wyoming Avenue, Scranton. All persons who have lost a loved one through tragic and traumatic death are invited to this liturgy. We ask that the names of deceased loved ones are registered on registration forms which are available in the parish office or accessed on the Service and Social Concerns webpage on the Diocese of Scranton s website, Questions concerning this Mass may be directed to the Office for Parish Life at

6 Scranton Catholic Charismatic Renewal The Scranton Catholic Charismatic Renewal is sponsoring its 36th annual conference at the University of Scranton during the weekend of August 3-August 5. This year s theme is: He restores my soul! The Conference will feature inspiring speakers and uplifting music. Mass is celebrated each afternoon. A well-stocked book/gift store will be available. Separate tracks for Children and Youth are also available. The fullweekend Registration Fee is $50 up to and including July 23 and $65 after July 23. Single-day registration is also available on-site. Commuting and brown-bagging is encouraged, while dormitory housing and cafeteria meals are available at a moderate cost. For Registration Forms, please see the Bulletin Board on our website or ccrconference@comcast.net. You may also write to: CCR Conference, PO Box 3306, Scranton PA 18505, or call the CCR Office at ALL ARE WELCOME! Masses Mass at the will be held on August 5 th and September 2 nd at 2:30 PM. September 2 nd will be the Healing Mass. After the Masses on August 5 th and September 2 nd, the Knights of Columbus will provide a hot dog/hamburger picnic. Please bring a dish to pass if you plan on attending either picnic. Thank you! Bold Choices Young Adult Retreat (Finding Your Passion and Living It Fully) o Young adults (18-35) o Saint Gabriel s Retreat Center, Clarks Summit o August 3-4, 2018 o Cost is $65.00 o The 24-hour retreat will include presentations and interactive sessions on prayer, making choices based in faith, finding your passion, the art of discernment, small group discussion & more. o For more information and/or to register, visit vocations.dioceseofscranton.org or call