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**The church office is closed every Saturday, Sunday, and Monday**

Friday, May 12
St. Nereus and Achilleus
8:15 AM - Robert Earley+

Saturday, May 13
St. Robert Bellarmine
7:30 AM - Lisa Molloy+
(Traditional Latin Mass)
5:00 PM - People of the Parish (Sunday Vigil Mass)

Sunday, May 14
Sixth Sunday of Easter

8:00 AM - James & Margaret Carroll+
10:00 AM - Bill Prichard+

Monday, May 15
St. John Baptiste de la Salle
7:30 AM - Frank Ockenfels+
(Traditional Latin Mass)

Tuesday, May 16
Easter Weekday
5:00 PM - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
6:00PM - Michael Earley+

Wednesday, May 17
Easter Weekday
8:15 AM - Don Garrison+

Thursday, May 18
Pope St. John I
7:30 AM - Dick Benson+

Friday, May 19
Easter Weekday
8:15 AM - Fr. John Leitner+

Saturday, May 20
St. Bernardine of Sienna
7:30 AM - Monsignor Roy Wm. Caldwell+
(Traditional Latin Mass)
5:00 PM - Grace Smith+ (Sunday Vigil Mass)

Sunday, May 21
The Ascension of the Lord

8:00 AM - Deceased members of the Manning family+
10:00 AM - People of the Parish

MASS INTENTIONS - If you have a relative you would like to have a Mass said for their special intention (living) or for the repose of their soul (deceased), please contact the rectory, 660-646-0190. Suggested stipend is $10/Mass.

SPECIAL MASS EVENTS:

ASCENSION AND ASSUMPTION SOLEMNITIES

  • The celebration of the Ascension of our Lord (Ascension Thursday), until further notice in our ecclesiastical province, is celebrated on the Seventh Sunday of Easter.
  • Celebrated every year on August 15, the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary commemorates the death of Mary and her bodily assumption into Heaven, before her body could begin to decay - a foretaste of our own bodily resurrection at the end of time. Because it signifies the Blessed Virgin's passing into eternal life, it is the most important of all Marian feasts and a Holy Day of Obligation.

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION - Every First Friday of the month, we offer Eucharistic Adoration following the 8:15 a.m. Mass and ending at 5pm. In order that the Eucharist is never left alone when exposed, every time slot needs to have AT LEAST two adorers signed up. That way, when someone can't make their time and cannot find a substitute, someone is still there. The time slots are for 30 minutes, except for the first slot which begins whenever Mass is finished and ends at 9:30. If you would like to sign up for a slot or multiple slots, please contact Kim with your preferred time(s) and a current phone number. Our current Adoration Schedule is available here on the website.

HOLY HOURS
There are different ways to "watch one hour" with the Lord. One of the most powerful and fruitful ways is to spend an hour in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. We call this a Holy Hour because it is an hour spent in the presence of the Holy Eucharist: Christ, Himself, the One who alone is Holy.

There are also different ways to make a Holy Hour: you can pray, alone or with others, before Jesus in the Tabernacle; or you can pray in the presence of the exposed Blessed Sacrament, privately or at a public service led by a priest.

The Church strongly encourages both private and public devotion toward the Eucharist and teaches that prayer before the Lord sacramentally present in the Eucharist  actually "extends the union with Christ which the faithful have received in communion." It helps them to live in a more Christian way, trying "to maintain in their lives what they have received by faith and by Sacraments" (The Rites of the Catholic Church).

The most important thing to realize about making a private Holy Hour is that you don't have to do anything. You don't have to say any particular prayers, or read, or sing, or anything else. All you have to do is be present to the One who is present to you. Many times we need to be silently present - not analyzing, thinking, or saying prayers with our lips. Even a few short moments of this silent presence to the Lord is a precious treasure, for it is in this silence that the Lord speaks to us.

Consider making a Holy Hour (or shorter) on First Friday.

THE BENEFITS OF EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
  • The only time our Lord asked the Apostles for anything was the night He went into agony. Not for activity did He plead, but for an Hour of companionship. (Archbishop Fulton Sheen)
  • Every Holy Hour we make so pleases the Heart of Jesus that it is recorded in Heaven and retold for all eternity! (Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
  • The spiritual lives of our families are strengthened through our Holy Hour. (St. John Paul II)
  • Each time you approach the Blessed Sacrament remember that Jesus has been waiting for you for twenty centuries for this personal visit from you. (St. Josemaria Escriva)
  • By being faithful to a Holy Hour of Adoration you can teach by example. "The young should be taught the value of Eucharistic Adoration." (St. John Paul II )
  • Do you want the Lord to give you many graces? Visit Him often. Do you want Him to give you few graces? Visit Him rarely. Do you want the devil to attack you? Visit Jesus rarely in the Blessed Sacrament. Do you want him to flee from you? Visit Jesus often! (St. John Bosco)

MASS INTENTION POLICY - In keeping with Canon Law: 1) an intention requested for a Mass, must be fulfilled in a year's time of accepting the stipend; 2) the customary stipend amount is $10 per Mass; 3) only one request may be accepted per Mass.

WHY A MONETARY DONATION?
There are a number of rules and canons applying to this to ensure it's done for the right reasons. Historically and firstly a monetary offering or similar was given by the person requesting the Mass said for an intention because this was in part what a priest lived off of (i.e. Eat and drink what is set before you for the laborer deserves his payment. Lk. 10:7). In most places in the world now, it's the parish that receives it not the priest. In order to make sure the practice of receiving a donation per Mass intention wasn't abused, it became the practice that a Mass was said for one intention only so that multiple donations wouldn't be collected and easily consolidated into only having to say one Mass. Secondly and primarily, the giving of something concrete and tangible (in our diocese $10 per Mass intention) represents an offering\contribution of ourself along with the Mass we have requested to be said. This idea of gift and contributing to the worship of God is reflected in the words of Jesus when He says: if you bring your gift to the altar, and there recall that your brother has anything against you, leave your gift there at the altar, go first and be reconciled with your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Mt. 5:23-24). It also is a means by which a person contributes to furthering the necessary and salvific work of the Church. Symbolically, we also express this notion of giving of ourself and contributing to our worship of God when the priest says at Mass "lift up your hearts," we respond by saying "we lift them up to the Lord."

LOW GLUTEN HOSTS AVAILABLE - If you need to receive a low gluten host for communion, please notify Father before Mass.

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Phone: 660-646-0190

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