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1 Mass Schedule Umbarger Happy Mon, Jan 23 No Mass No Mass Tue, Jan 24 No Mass No Mass Wed, Jan 25 No Mass No Mass Thu, Jan 26 No Mass No Mass Fri, Jan 27 8 AM + Richard Keith No Mass Sat, Jan 28 5 PM - Christian Mothers No Mass Sun, Jan 29 4 th Sunday, Ordinary Time 8:30 AM - Parish Family 11:15 - Parish Family

ST. MARY S Date Lector Servers Eucharistic Ministers Gifts January 28, 2017 Saturday Laurie Wegman Volunteers Rick Auckerman Melvin Wieck Volunteers January 29, 2017 Sunday Roger Batenhorst Tatum

2 ST. MARY S Date Lector Servers Eucharistic Ministers Gifts January 28, 2017 Saturday Laurie Wegman Volunteers Rick Auckerman Melvin Wieck Volunteers January 29, 2017 Sunday Roger Batenhorst Tatum Keller Landon Finke Charles Russell Dustin Artho Mike Wegman Heath Henderson Volunteers Divine Mercy Chaplet: 1 st Sunday at 10 AM Anointing of the Sick: 2 nd weekend after mass Question and Answers w/ Fr Christopher: 2 nd Sundays at 10:00 a.m. in the hall CYO 4 th Sunday 6:00 pm. at the Hall No Daily Mass on Tues, Wed, or Thu - Fr. Christopher will be out of town. CYO Grades 7th - 12th is welcome to join St. Mary's Catholic Youth Organization. Questions - call Brandon or Tina (text or call) or by finkes5@sbcglobal.net Food Drive The Christian Mothers are sponsoring a food drive to benefit at the Catholic Student Center. The food pantry is especially in need of canned protein or other non-perishable main dish items. Other items that are appreciated are toilet paper, bars of soap, and shampoo. Items can be dropped off in the narthex or the parish hall. Weekly Bible Study, Apologetics and Social Group is back. We meet at the Dorsey s home on Thursdays at 7pm Brown Rd, Canyon, Flocknotes In case we have to cancel mass due to bad weather, we will notify everyone through Flocknotes. To sign up, text umbarger to Parish Finances January 15 Regular Collection: $887 Children s Collection: $16 Contribution statements for 2016 are available upon request. Contact Fr. Christopher or Valerie Kuhnert. Catholic Student Center Auction Get your tickets before we sell out! They are available online at or call Betty at to purchase them over the phone. Raffle tickets are are also still available for $20 each but we are selling out quickly. This year s prize is a trip to Rome and a tour of the Vatican. They can be purchased online, over the phone, or from Christina Wegman or Fr. Christopher. New ministry Sometimes parishioners would benefit from having a home-cooked meal brought to them; for example, when they are dealing w/ serious illnesses, the birth of a baby, or other major life-events. Terri Branum has graciously offered to coordinate this ministry. There s also an app for that at Contact Terri for more info and instructions on the app ( )

HOLY NAME OF JESUS Parish Finances January 15 Regular Collection: $393 No Mass on Thursday, No habra la misa el jueves.

Please show your support for this important issue. Catholic Student Center Auction Get your tickets before we sell out!

Raffle tickets are are also still available for $20 each but we are selling out quickly. This year s prize is a trip to Rome.

El sábado 28 de enero será la Misa del Respeto por la Vida en la Catedral de Santa María en Amarillo, seguida de una marcha y oración por los no nacidos.

3 HOLY NAME OF JESUS Parish Finances January 15 Regular Collection: $393 No Mass on Thursday, No habra la misa el jueves. Saturday, January 28 will be the Respect for Life Mass at St. Mary s Cathedral in Amarillo followed by a march and prayer for the unborn. Please show your support for this important issue. Catholic Student Center Auction Get your tickets before we sell out! They are available online at n or call Betty at to purchase them over the phone. Raffle tickets are are also still available for $20 each but we are selling out quickly. This year s prize is a trip to Rome. They can be purchased online, over the phone, or from Fr. Christopher. El sábado 28 de enero será la Misa del Respeto por la Vida en la Catedral de Santa María en Amarillo, seguida de una marcha y oración por los no nacidos. Por favor, muestre su apoyo a este importante asunto. We will have a short meeting after Mass on January 22 to plan the enchilada dinner. Tendremos una breve reunión después de la misa el 22 de enero para planificar la cena de la enchilada. Contribution statements for 2016 are available upon request. Los estados de contribución para 2016 están disponibles bajo petición.

NEWS FROM AROUND THE DIOCESE FOR BULLETIN NOTICES Bulletin Deadline: Thursday @ noon. For St Mary s please contact Lana Bracken cell: 806.640.4672; email: LanaSueBracken@gmail.com.

Christopher at least 1 month in advance for baptisms and 6 months advance for weddings. Natural Family Planning (NFP).

4 NEWS FROM AROUND THE DIOCESE FOR BULLETIN NOTICES Bulletin Deadline: noon. For St Mary s please contact Lana Bracken cell: ; LanaSueBracken@gmail.com. For Holy Name of Jesus please contact Fr. Christopher s.c.schwind@gmail.com Baptism or Wedding Please contact Fr. Christopher at least 1 month in advance for baptisms and 6 months advance for weddings. Natural Family Planning (NFP). Learn NFP at home and at your own pace with the Home Study Course from NFP International, Includes Ecological Breastfeeding (it really can space babies), a double-check system of fertility awareness, and Catholic teaching that s easy to understand. Work with a live instructor by . Completion certificate. Only $70. Sacrament of Reconciliation : Umbarger : Saturdays at 4:30 pm and Sundays at 8:00 am or by appointment. Happy : Sundays at 10:45 a.m. and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. or by appointment. FOR MASS INTENTIONS please call Fr Christopher or leave the intention in the collection basket. Please pray for all the sick in our parishes ST. MARY S: Mark Handing, Aline Stocker, Mary Kolac, Gene Schenk, John Wilson, Bill Stocker, Kyle Henderson, Donna Kuhnert, Jose Sanchez, Ashlee Trevino (Jose s & Ali s granddaughter), Audree Rose Gomez (Jeff & Faunette Stocker s granddaughter), Patsy Huseman, Mike Smith, Oscar Olvera, Collier Friemel, Marcella Brandt, Tuffy Schenk, Vince Meyer, Lusi Ortiz (Cheile Ortiz s sister), Severo Gomez HOLY NAME OF JESUS: Alice & Hipolito Saenz, Tony Flores, Malakye Grieve, Lena Cruz,, Irene Mings, Josh Mings Wednesday, February 1 at 11:00 AM St Joseph Parish in Amarillo will celebrate Mass with Bishop Zurek in honor of Catholic Schools Week. Please join us in celebrating our Catholic Education System. St. Ann s Catholic Church, Bovina will host their annual sausage dinner on Sunday, January 29 from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM in their parish hall at 401 3rd St in Bovina. Please support our brothers and sisters and their parish! To use or rent the church or parish hall, please contact Fr. Christopher or Debbie Batenhorst at least 3 months before the event.

6. Finally, abortion differs from other major social ills such as unemployment and divorce because of its relative invisibility. Abortion takes place behind closed doors, and is hushed in public.

5 6. Finally, abortion differs from other major social ills such as unemployment and divorce because of its relative invisibility. Abortion takes place behind closed doors, and is hushed in public. As in the case of slavery, ending the social injustice of abortion relies mainly on the courage and willingness of persons and institutions not directly involved in abortion to speak out. Catholic Social Thought s Specific Contribution to the Abortion Question Catholic social thought offers two distinctive elements to the abortion debate. First, it lays a bridge between moral theology and public discourse. Catholic Social Teaching often employs a natural-law vocabulary directed to all persons of good will, and frames its arguments using accessible concepts and constructions that can be brought to bear on moral discourse in a non-confessional environment. Second, perhaps more than any institution in the world, the Church in its social teaching has developed a series of principles to address the complex moral questions in the social order. As new situations have arisen from the rapidly changing socio-political landscape, the Church has shown admirable elasticity in accommodating new states of affairs while ever defending the essential dignity of the person and the family. Just as a mother or father dedicates a disproportionate amount of time and energy to a child who is sick, without for that reason loving their other children any less, Christians are called to focus their efforts preferentially toward the most needy and defenseless among us. Applying this principle to contemporary society, the social injustice that most cries out to Christian conscience, for the reasons we saw earlier, is the deliberate and massive attack on the most vulnerable members of society, the unborn. In its venerable tradition of standing up for society s most defenseless members, the Catholic Church is uniquely qualified to speak out authoritatively on the abortion issue. This, as John Paul the Great so clearly taught, is the number one priority for Catholic social thought today which must inevitably be expressed not only as social thought, but as social action. Father Thomas D. Williams L.C. is Dean of Theology and professor of Catholic Social Doctrine at Rome s Regina Apostolorum University and author of, most recently, Spiritual Progress: Becoming the Christian You Want to Be (New York: Hachette, 2007). The full-length version of this article is posted at Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 3211 Fourth Street, N.E. Washington, DC Tel: (202) Fax: (202) Website: Copyright 2007, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Washington, D.C. 0745

When the 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church first fell into my hands some months before its promulgation, one pleasant surprise was the text s specific treatment and forthright

6 When the 2004 Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church first fell into my hands some months before its promulgation, one pleasant surprise was the text s specific treatment and forthright condemnation of abortion in the context of human rights. The disconcerting fact is that, more commonly, the topic of abortion is seen as falling outside the discipline of Catholic Social Doctrine as it is taught in most seminaries and universities. In part, this silence stems from the relatively recent advent of abortion as a large-scale ethical problem. The number of abortions has risen alarmingly in the past four decades. Therefore the first mention of abortion in a social encyclical appears only in 1971, in Pope Paul VI s Octogesima Adveniens. Here Paul mentions abortion in the context of Malthusian solutions to the unemployment problem (no. 18). It was Pope John Paul II who effectively turned the tide, forcefully introducing abortion into the realm of Catholic social teaching. In his 1995 encyclical Evangelium Vitae he addressed the issue at great length, placing it in the context of social justice. Why Abortion Deserves Special Attention in Catholic Social Teaching Pope John Paul saw that abortion is an emblematic and singular socio-ethical problem, deserving central attention in Catholic social thought. To illustrate the uniqueness of abortion as a matter of social justice, here are six characteristics distinguishing it from related social phenomena: 1. Abortion deals specifically with the destruction of innocent life. This differentiates discussion of abortion from other related topics. This is why then- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in June 2004 wrote: There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia. Though all life is precious, moral theology has always differentiated the destruction of innocent life as particularly heinous and always and everywhere worthy of condemnation. 2. Another factor distinguishing abortion as a social phenomenon is the sheer magnitude of the problem: an estimated 46 million abortions performed worldwide each year, a figure that alone makes abortion a social problem of staggering proportions. The volume of abortions underscores the social nature of the problem, and makes abortion one of the most serious social justice issues of all time. 3. A third factor separating abortion from other justice issues is its legal status. Unlike other instances of massive killing of human life, like terrorism or serial killing, which stand clearly outside the law in advanced nations, abortion enjoys legal sanction. Pope John Paul wrote of the novelty of such scientifically and systematically programmed threats (Evangelium Vitae, no. 17). 4. A fourth distinguishing aspect of abortion is its arbitrary division of human beings into those worthy of life and those unworthy. Abortion deals not with the random killing of unrelated individuals, but with the circumscription of an entire class of human beings (the unborn) as non-persons, excluded from the basic rights and protections accorded to all other human beings. If human dignity depends on anything other than simple membership in the human race be it intelligence, athletic ability, social status, race, age, or health we immediately find ourselves having to distinguish between persons who count and those who don t. 5. Abortion even distinguishes itself from related questions of medical ethics, such as euthanasia and assisted suicide, by the absence of any possibility of informed consent. The status of the unborn as voiceless and most vulnerable adds a further dimension to discussions of the morality and gravity of abortion. Here the bioethical category of autonomy cannot be applied, since unborn children have no way of speaking for themselves.

Mass Schedule. Sunday, November 6, nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. Mon, Nov 7 No Mass 7 PM - All Saints Vigil. Tue, Nov 8 7 PM - No Mass

Mass Schedule. Sunday, November 6, nd Sunday of Ordinary Time. Mon, Nov 7 No Mass 7 PM - All Saints Vigil. Tue, Nov 8 7 PM - No Mass Mass Schedule Umbarger Happy Mon, Nov 7 No Mass 7 PM - All Saints Vigil Tue, Nov 8 7 PM - No Mass Wed, Nov 9 8 AM - No Mass Thu, Nov 10 St Leo the Great 8 AM - 7 PM - Vocations Fri, Nov 11 Veterans Day