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PLACE AND REST A WHILE.”SO THEY WENT OFF IN THE BOAT BY
THEMSELVES TO A DESERTED PLACE. - MARK 6:31-32
St. Mary’s Catholic Church
P.O. Box 70 Fr. Cory Sticha - Pastor Office: (406) 654-1446
Malta, MT 59538 RE Center: (406) 654-1311
office@SaintMarysMalta.org Fax: (406) 654-1467
July 22, 2018 — Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time www.SaintMarysMalta.org
Mass Schedule
7/23: Malta 8:30 AM: Special Intentions r/b Lana Ulrich
7/24: Malta 8:30 AM: Repose of the soul of Lester Metz r/b Julie Howell
7/25: Malta 8:30 AM: All Knights of Council 2124 r/b KofC Council 2124
7/26: HiLine 10:00 AM: Repose of the soul of Ken Ulrich r/b The Gary Bjorklund's
7/27: Malta 8:30 AM: Repose of the soul of Don Nevrivy r/b The Howell's
7/28: Malta 4:00 PM: Repose of the soul of Willis McKeon r/b John & Terry McKeon
7/29: Dodson 8:30 AM: Repose of the soul of John Doney r/b Leona Kienenberger
Malta 10:00 AM: For the Parishioners
Saco 12:00 PM: Repose of the soul of Mariane Askvold r/b Helen DePuydt
Knights of Columbus # 2124 Parish Council of Catholic Women
Meets First Tuesday of the month Meets Second Sunday of the Month
Weekly Eucharistic Adoration
Every Friday from 9 to 10 AM (following daily Mass)
Confessions: Saturdays Noon 1p.m., 1/2 Baptism: Normally celebrated at weekend
hour before daily Mass (Tues., Weds., and Masses. Parental sessions are required.
Fri.) or by appointment Marriages: Six month couple preparation
Anointing of the Sick: Please contact Fr. period required. Please meet with Fr. Cory
Cory as soon as possible for anointing. before scheduling marriage date.
Collections Totals For 7/15
Monthly
Goal Remaining Past Due 7/15 Needed Online
Malta: $22,961.00 $17,951.75 $69,839.37 Malta: $1937.50 $2721.00 $445.00
Dodson: $2,684.00 $979.00 $0.00 Dodson: $357.00 $441.31 $0.00
Saco: $5,015.00 $4,600.00 $0.00 Saco: $171.00 $441.31 $225.00
Please send bulletin announcements to frcory@SaintMarysMalta.org by Thursday evening. Thanks!
Daily Scripture Readings
7/22 — Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 23:16; Psalm 23:16; Ephesians 2:1318; Mark 6:3034
7/23 — Monday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; St. Bridget, Religious
Micah 6:14, 68; Psalm 50:56, 89, 1617, 21, 23; Matthew 12:3842
7/24 — Tuesday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; St. Sharbel Makhluf,
Priest
Micah 7:1415, 1820; Psalm 85:28; Matthew 12:4650
7/25 — St. James, Apostle
2 Corinthians 4:715; Psalm 126:16; Matthew 20:2028
7/26 — Sts. Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Jeremiah 2:13, 78, 1213; Psalm 36:611; Matthew 13:1017
7/27 — Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Jeremiah 3:1417; (Psalm) Jeremiah 31:1013; Matthew 13:1823
7/28 — Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; BVM on Saturday
Jeremiah 7:111; Psalm 84:36, 8, 11; Matthew 13:2430
7/29 — Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
2 Kings 4:4244; Psalm 145:1011, 1518; Ephesians 4:16; John 6:115
Please Pray For
Joyce Boos, Leona Keinenberger, Makayla WilkeHofeldt, Michael Fred Ereaux, C.J.
Bishop, Bruce Hould, Cleo Phillips & her daughter, Bobby Ereaux, Janeen Brookie,
Linda Berg, Myrtle Hould, Jeanie Engebretson, John Murray, Terry Stiles, Payton Kill
Eagle, Mary Kelly, Roberta Pospisil, and those from our area serving in the military.
For the repose of the souls of the Poor Souls in Purgatory, and for comfort and peace for
their families.
Anyone who needs to have prayers said for someone can call Dianne Salsbery at 6541443 or 6544675;
Jean Niebur at 6542822. Names will be listed in the bulletin for one month unless specified.
you have no time left, you cannot give that.
If you have no energy left, you cannot give
that. Finally, if you find yourself agitated
and overwhelmed, you cannot give that
Everyday Stewardship which others benefit from the most: YOU!
My daughter can easily become Even when we plant seeds in a garden after
overwhelmed by having so much to do. tilling and watering the soil, we must rest
She recently graduated from high school, and wait for there to be growth. If we do
and many times during those four years, not take time to rest and recharge, we are
she found herself going crazy from being not allowing time for God's grace to bring
involved in so many things. Sports, drama, forth new life in us. We fear that things will
youth group, homework, friends, and more suffer without us, but the truth is that no
all demanded a slice of her attention. one is benefiting from our fatigue. We can
Sometimes the slice of time that remained think we are giving but really we are
wasn't much and one does have to sleep! empty. Take some time and rest in your
God. Retreat and recharge. Then you will
A good everyday steward can get caught be able to share once again.
up in doing so much and giving so much
that he or she loses sight of the fact that Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
you cannot give what you do not have. If
Mass Intentions
Mass Intentions: As Catholics, we have a
long tradition of having Masses celebrated
for those we offer up in prayer. The Mass is
the ultimate form of prayer, and each Mass
is celebrated for an intention. We ask $10.00
per mass intention.
Please consider having Masses celebrated Parish Council
for family and friends on special occasions Regina Webb (Malta)
and anniversaries, as well as those who are Charlie Mears (Malta)
in need of prayers. Masses are also Shawn Bleth (Malta)
encouraged in memory of those loved ones Cliff Merriman (KofC)
who have died, especially on the Wilma Mavencamp (PCCW)
anniversaries of their deaths. Please contact Tom DePuydt (Saco)
Fr. Cory for more information. Leona Kienenberger (Dodson)
From Fr. Cory really is the closest connection to the
traditional understanding of tithing, giving
Last week, I wrote about being generous to
the firstfruits back to God.
God, recognizing that everything we have,
including our finances, are gifts from Him For those of us who earn a regular salary,
that we are to return to Him out of love for we can dedicate the first 10% of our income
Him. This ultimately is the meaning of to charity. In fact, a good guideline for
stewardship. tithing from a salary is 5% to the parish,
and 5% to other charities.
When discussing stewardship, generosity of
our finances must be part of the discussion. We give to the parish so that it will be able
It's important, then, to see understand to guide us to salvation, as well as be
concretely what that looks like. continue that mission for future
generations. We give to other charities to
There is an ancient idea that dates back to
support those who are doing the Works of
the time of the Old Covenant and the
Mercy in ways and places where we cannot.
Mosaic Law of the tithe. In the Old
Ultimately, we give out of love for God and
Covenant, the tithe was the sacrificial
a desire to thank Him for His gifts in our
offering of the firstfruits of the harvest,
lives.
generally the first 10% of your production.
This tithe was given to God out of As disciples, stewardship is an important
thanksgiving for the harvest. part of living as followers of Christ. Tithing
is how we do that with our financial lives.
While our particular circumstances of life
change how it works in our lives, we can Live The Liturgy
use the concept of the tithe today to guide The many images we have of God help
us in our financial stewardship. frame our relationship with Him. Have we
For farmers and ranchers, tithing often ever imagined Jesus so deeply moved with
shows itself by dedicating a load or two of emotion and engulfed with pity for us? We
their harvest, or a head or two of cattle often are sheep without a shepherd who are
shipped off to market, and having the lured by the emptiness of worldly attractions
proceeds sent directly to the parish. This and superficial desires. We become lost.
God, in the depth of His being, is deeply
Pope’s Universal Intention moved by our pain, loneliness, and
heartache. God does not judge or condemn.
For July: Priests and their Pastoral He loves and is mercy itself. He knows
Ministry. That priests, who experience firsthand the pain that comes with being lost
fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral and alone and desires to teach us about His
work, may find help and comfort in their merciful love. Do we want to be taught?
intimacy with the Lord and in their Listen to God's word and be open to God's
friendship with their brother priests. presence in the Eucharist.
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Gospel Meditation have it taken away abruptly, perhaps we
surmise what the Apostles might have been
"Now what?" It's a difficult thing to hear,
feeling in that moment. But Jesus isn't being
isn't it? The train comes late, a child
inconsiderate of the Apostles needs. He
unexpectedly cries, and the latest public
offers them and us a lived lesson. St.
policy debate flares up in the news. Life
John Paul II wrote, "The whole of Christ's
throws us curveballs, and we have no choice
life was a continual teaching: his silences,
but to adapt. Jesus and the Apostles find
his miracles, his gestures, his prayer, his
themselves in that exact situation in today's
love for people, his special affection for the
Gospel.
little and the poor, his acceptance of the total
The Apostles have returned from their two sacrifice on the Cross for the redemption of
bytwo missionary journey. As Jesus hears the world" (On Catechesis in Our Time, 9).
all of their stories, he knows they need time In Jesus' choice to teach, we see all of these
to recover and refresh. "Come away by things: sacrificial love, concern for the
yourselves to a deserted place and rest a marginalized, and priority of people's needs
while." Their wilderness retreat is short over personal preference. These aren't
lived, however, as eager crowds discover abstract ideals. They're lived realities as we
their location. Jesus is well aware of the strive to live and love like Jesus. When a
needs of his disciples. Still, as he looks out new obstacle confronts you in your life, how
at the crowd, "His heart was moved with do you respond?
pity for them, for they were like sheep
without a shepherd." The rest break is over.
"He began to teach them many things."
For those of us who have experienced a
taste of muchneeded relaxation only to
Why Do We Do That? - Catholic devotional dimension of the community.
Traditions Explained James' infancy gospel begins with the
Question: July 26 is the feast of Joachim parents of Mary and their desire for a child.
and Anna. Who are they and what do we In their prayer and petitions to God, they are
know about them? heard and given the blessings of a child,
whom they named Mary. The fact that we
Answer: Joachim and Anna are the parents celebrate the feast of Joachim and Anna
of Mary, the mother of Jesus, yet there is indicates that the bond of family love is
absolutely no biblical reference to them important in the Christian life.
whatsoever. So where do we get their
names, and what is their story? Long before Grandparents' Day was
established, the church had a feast that
Their names are found in an apocryphal honored the grandparents of Jesus. While
(hidden) gospel known as "The Infancy their names are part of noninspired
Gospel of James." Apocryphal, or hidden apocryphal legends, the fact of the Savior's
gospels, consist of accounts of Jesus' life human ancestry is not. Christ, the incarnate
that were ultimately not accepted as inspired Word, dwelt among us in the flesh in a
works, and thus were not included in the human family. In honoring the grandparents
Bible. However, they sometimes captured of Jesus, we really proclaim our faith in the
the Christian imagination, spilling into the Incarnation God becoming human!
4th Annual Eucharistic Conference
Saint Anthony Parish is pleased to announce that the 4th Eucharistic Conference will be
held in Laurel, MT, August 5 10, 2018. The theme is “The Splendor of Truth”,
celebrating the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae: God’s Vision for Marriage, Love, and
Life. Special guest speakers include Bishop Michael W. Warfel and many distinguished
presenters from the Priestly Fraternity of St. Joseph. Now is the time to unleash the
power of this teaching for the healing of our society.
The Eucharistic Conference promises to be intellectually, liturgically, and spiritually
enriching. Experience the Solemn High Mass in the Extraordinary Form, Sacred Music,
Eucharistic Devotion & Procession. Dinner is provided each evening and families will
enjoy activities planned just for them! All are invited!
Please visit www.SaintAnthonyCatholicChurch.org for more information.
Catholic Quotes
With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
Catherine Doherty
St. James, Pray for Us!