MASS INTENTIONS & MASS SCHEDULE

FOR THE WEEK OF

Monday, August 22, 2016

Through

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Mon. 5:15PM Mary Lou Torgerson

Tues. 7:00AM Vincent Frohne

Weds. 5:15PM Margaret Bruzek

Thurs. 7:00AM Irene Billeter

Fri. 9:15AM Special Intentions-School Mass

5:15PM Dec'd members of Women's Guild

Sat. 5:15PM Joel Horejsi

Sun. 8:00AM Special Intentions

10:30AM People of the Parish

COLLECTIONS
Income needed Fiscal YTD / $41,538.00
Offertory received Fiscal YTD / $47,619.00
Offertory needed each week / $6,923.00
Offertory / $5,361.00
Roof Fund / $25.00
Building Fund / $925.00
Cemetery Fund / $10.00
(Includes “Online Giving”)

NEXT WEEK’S READINGS

22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

1st Reading: Sirach 3:17-18, 20, 28-29.

2nd Reading: Hebrews 12:18-19, 22-24a.

Gospel: Luke 14:1, 7-14.

Calendar of Upcoming Events
Sunday / 2PM / Pray the Rosary
Friday / 3PM / Pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet
Saturday / Before Mass / Pray the Rosary
August 27 / Women's Guild Meeting
Sept. 11 / Sunday / Elementary Religious Classes begin
Sept 23-24 / Fall Rummage Sale
Oct. 2 / Life Chain at Chandler Park
Dec. 3 / 9th Annual Cookie Walk

BULLETIN DEADLINE is Monday by 10:00AM

Music for The Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time

August 20 & 21, 2016

Entrance: Gather Us In - 302

Prep. of Gifts: One Bread, One Body - 342

Recessional: Take the Word of God With You - 381

Women's Guild Meeting

Women's Guild Meeting thisSaturday, August 27 at 9 a.m.in the Narthex. The new officers will be installed onFriday, August 26at the5:15 p.m.Mass. This mass will be offered for deceased Guild members. The Benediction will be at5:05 p.m.

Loaves and Fishes Needs Donations

At its meeting on August 8th, the board of Loaves and Fishes Etc. voted to reduce food voucher amounts for households to a maximum of $15 instead of $25, beginning on Monday, August 15th. This is due to high demand over the summer and fewer cash and food donations. For example, in July, the pantry expended $17,673 on food purchases and vouchers and yet took in just $5,531. During the month of June, the pantry served 520 households and in July, 467 households.

Donations may be mailed to Loaves and Fishes Etc., 400 E. Carroll Street, Macomb, IL 61455. Food donations may be left at First Presbyterian Church at the same address. Loaves and Fishes is a non-profit organization supported by eleven churches in McDonough County.

PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY

Prayer shawls are available for you to give to someone you know in need of prayers and whowould be comforted by having one. Often they are given to those recovering from surgery, dealing with an illness, or those who have lost a loved one. If you know of someone in need who would benefit from this ministry, please contact Sue Corey at 833-2337 or email her at: Thisshawl is given with a prayer card enclosed.

We also make blankets, booties, and hats for Birthright, and scarves for WIRC. Thanks again for all your yarn and monetary donations!

Workforce for Fall Rummage Sale

We welcome everyone to help with the rummage sale.

Saturday, September 17, Set-up starting at9 a.m.. and hopefully finished by11 a.m.

Monday, September 19;Tuesday, September 20; andWednesday, September 21will be the days that we will be sorting the items from8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Just plan to stay a hour or two when you drop off your rummage. You can leave your clothing on wire or plastic hangers because we are having all adult clothing now.

Thursday, September 22we will price all items starting at8 a.m. Last spring we only had 12 volunteers on this day and we would like a least 20. The Women's Guild will provide pizza at5:30 p.m.on this day for everyone who helps with the sale throughout this week.

If you would like to be a cashier onFriday, September 23, the shifts are:9 a.m. to noon;Noon to 3 p.m.and3-6 p.m.;Saturday, September 24, 9 a.m. to noon.

Clean-up isSaturday, September 24starting atnoon. If we have 18-25 people, we will be finished by1:30 p.m.Our chairpersons are Jackie Sullivan and Barb Connor along with committee members: Gloria Hurh, publicity; Shirley Adams, Carla Ainslie, Joanne Arnold, Colleen Carlson, Rosemary Parks, Judy Yeast and Theresa Young.

Bake Sale; We will be having a bake sale as part of the Rummage Sale on Friday, September 23. We have lots of requests for homemade pies. You can bring the baked goods onThursday, September 22to the school kitchen or on Friday morning between8-9 a.m. Please bring in disposable containers.

What’s in your heart?

At Masses around the world every day, millions of people, in the words of the gospel, “eat and drink” with the Lord—would Jesus disown any of them, the way the master does in the gospel story? Maybe more than most folks would assume. He didn’t want followers who tagged along for a meal and a few pieces of wisdom; he wanted disciples to walk next to him on the hard road to Jerusalem and beyond. Not merely people to “do” the ritual and say that’s good enough but those willing to embrace him, his Way, and his fate. Which one of those people will you be?

Lessons drawn from the readings

Jesus reminds us in this Sunday’s gospel that “some who are first will be last, and some who are last will be first.” The Olympics are about more than winning and losing, as Pope Francis pointed out. Yes, they showcase great athletic skill but they also transcend sport. They offer a vision of athletes from around the world uniting in a common effort, “striving together” not only to be the best athletes they can be but also to be model citizens. Though occasionally an athlete or even an entire nation will fall short of the ideal, the vast majority enter into the true spirit of the games as a time to compete fairly and to celebrate what unites us rather than what divides us.

If you think you are first you may be last

In “Revelation,” Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor tells the story of the surprising revelation that comes to Mrs. Turpin, a righteous Southern Christian who constantly judges others for their shortcomings.

In her doctor’s waiting room one day she is sizing up the riffraff around her when a teenaged girl hurls a book at her and calls her a "wart hog from hell!” Still shaken that evening from such mistreatment, Mrs. Turpin watches the sun go down over the family pig farm, sorely grieved. Then in a vision she sees a "vast swinging bridge extending upward from the earth through a field of living fire. Upon it a vast horde of souls were rumbling toward heaven."

Bringing up the end of this procession "of freaks and lunatics" being purged and made ready for eternity, Mrs. Turpin recognizes people like herself, who "had always had a little of everything and the God-given wit to use it right." She leaned forward to observe them closer. They were marching behind the others with great dignity, accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behavior. . . . Then she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.”

Quote of the Week

“In times as uncertain as these, it is easy to resort to division. It's simple to prey on people's fears. That stuff sells, but it doesn’t stick. It doesn’t last. Most of all, it doesn’t work.”

—House Speaker Paul Ryan, speaking August 9 after winning his Wisconsin Republican primary race,CNN