Bulletin_20180603

Saint Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church
600 South Main Street, Atmore, Alabama 36502
Rectory: (251) 368-3615 Office/Fax: (251) 368-1801
E-Mail: strobertparish@frontiernet.net
Reverend Arulappan Jayaraj, Pastor (251-229-5071)
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ
June 3, 2018

WEEKEND:
Saturday:
Vigil Mass…………………………..5:00 PM
Sunday:
Mass………………………………...9:00 AM
CCD (Sep—May)…………………10:15 AM
Hispanic Mass (1st Sun)…...……11:00 AM
Church Schedule
WEEKDAY:
Monday: Mass……………………5:30 PM
Tuesday: Mass………………….. 5:30 PM
Wednesday: No Mass
Thursday: Mass……………...…..5:30 PM
Friday: Mass……………………...5:30 PM
First Friday Exception
Mass………………………………..5:30 PM
Adoration follows Mass
Reconciliation: 15 minutes before Saturday and Sunday Mass or by appointment
Sacrament of Baptism: Requires one month prior notification
Marriage: Requires a six-month notice in advance of the marriage date
Hispanic Mass
Sunday, June 3rd, 11:00 AM
Parish Meetings
None Scheduled
Stewardship
LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION
Regular Collection $976.00
Building Fund $25.00
Catholic Communications $ 20.00
Candles $1.00
Special Collections
Building Fund—June 2nd / 3rd

News and Announcements
Welcome Home
Father Jay
We missed you and it’s good to
have you back in St. Robert
Bellarmine Parish
dinner and a different fun activity each
week. No reservation is needed. For details,
call 251-343-3662 or check our website
(CSAjags.com) for this and information
about other Summer activities
(Bible study, Adoration/Benediction, book
study, etc.). We look forward to meeting
you!!
Calling all College Students: Calling all
college students who are home for the
Summer break (or preparing to enter college
this Fall): Join your peers for an evening
of fun, food & fellowship every Monday
(from June 4-July 23) at the University of
South Alabama Catholic Student Center
(6051 Old Shell Road, Mobile). We will
begin with Mass at 6:00 PM (confessions
are available from 5:30-5:50), followed by

Most Holy Body and
Blood of Christ
While they were eating, he took bread, said the
blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said,
"Take it; this is my body." Then he took a cup,
gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they all
drank from it. He said to them, "This is my blood
of the covenant, which will be shed for many."
Where the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
Christ is not observed as a holy day, it is assigned
to the Sunday after Trinity Sunday, which
is then considered its proper day in the calendar.
Corpus Christi Sunday
Corpus Christi (Body and Blood of Christ) is a
Eucharistic solemnity, or better, the solemn
commemoration of the institution of that sacrament.
It is, moreover, the Church's official act of
homage and gratitude to Christ, who by instituting
the Holy Eucharist gave to the Church her
greatest treasure. Holy Thursday, assuredly,
marks the anniversary of the institution, but the
commemoration of the Lord's passion that very
night suppresses the rejoicing proper to the occasion.
Today's observance, therefore, accents
the joyous aspect of Holy Thursday.
The Week Ahead
Monday
Mass: 5:30 PM
Tuesday
St. Boniface, Bishop & Martyr
Mass: 5:30 PM
Wednesday
St. Norbert, Bishop
No Mass
Thursday
Mass: 5:30 PM
“Knit Pickers”: 6:30 PM
Friday
Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
Mass: 5:30 PM
Saturday
Immaculate Heart of the
Blessed Virgin Mary
Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM
Sunday
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Community Rosary: 8:30 AM
Mass: 9:00 AM
The Mass and the Office for the feast was edited
or composed by St. Thomas Aquinas upon the
request of Pope Urban IV in the year 1264. It is
unquestionably a classic piece of liturgical work,
wholly in accord with the best liturgical traditions.
. . It is a perfect work of art.
— Excerpted from The Church's Year of Grace,
Pius Parsch.

In the words of St. Thomas:
"How inestimable a dignity, beloved brethren, divine bounty has bestowed upon us
Christians from the treasury of its infinite goodness! For there neither is nor ever has
been a people to whom the gods were so nigh as our Lord and God is nigh unto us.
"Desirous that we be made partakers of His divinity, the only-begotten Son of God has
taken to Himself our nature so that having become man, He would be enabled to make
men gods. Whatever He assumed of our nature He wrought unto our salvation. For on
the altar of the Cross He immolated to the Father His own Body as victim for our reconciliation
and shed His blood both for our ransom and for our regeneration. Moreover, in
order that a remembrance of so great benefits may always be with us, He has left us
His Body as food and His Blood as drink under appearances of bread and wine.
"O banquet most precious! O banquet most admirable! O banquet overflowing with every
spiritual delicacy! Can anything be more excellent than this repast, in which not the
flesh of goats and heifers, as of old, but Christ the true God is given us for nourishment?
What more wondrous than this holy sacrament! In it bread and wine are changed substantially,
and under the appearance of a little bread and wine is had Christ Jesus, God
and perfect Man. In this sacrament sins are purged away, virtues are increased, the
soul is satiated with an abundance of every spiritual gift. No other sacrament is so beneficial.
Since it was instituted unto the salvation of all, it is offered by Holy Church for the
living and for the dead, that all may share in its treasures.
"My dearly beloved, is it not beyond human power to express the ineffable delicacy of
this sacrament in which spiritual sweetness is tasted in its very source, in which is
brought to mind the remembrance of that all-excelling charity which Christ showed in
His sacred passion? Surely it was to impress more profoundly upon the hearts of the
faithful the immensity of this charity that our loving Savior instituted this sacrament at
the last supper when, having celebrated the Pasch with His disciples. He was about to
leave the world and return to the Father. It was to serve as an unending remembrance
of His passion, as the fulfillment of ancient types — this the greatest of His miracles. To
those who sorrow over His departure He has given a unique solace."

Mass Intentions
Sunday, June 3rd:
St. Robert Parishioners
Monday, June 4th:
Special Intention
Tuesday, June 5th:
Special Intention
Wednesday, June 6th:
No Mass
Thursday, June 7th:
Special Intention
Friday, June 8th:
Special Intention
Saturday, June 9th:
Special Intention
If you are interested in having a Mass offered up for
a special intention or for a deceased person, contact
Father Jayaraj. The suggested stipend is $10.00.
Voices of the Church
“God will not deny
mercy to anyone.
Heaven and earth
may change, but
God’s mercy will
never be exhausted.”
- St. Faustina Kowalska
Prayer Requests
General Intentions
Blessed Virgin’s Intentions, Pope
Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope
Francis I, Archbishop Rodi, Father Jayaraj,
Father Milsted, Father Charles, Father Mesa,
Priests of the Archdiocese, Bonnie Latino,
Phyllis McGee, Tim DiVincenti, Curt Beck,
Gene Santarelli, Brigitte Crenshaw, Richard
and Mary Powers, Bob Vale, Persecuted
Christians, Ken & Maria Engleson, The USA,
Susan & Carl Bowen, Ron & Blinda Smith,
Maria Ewing, Catherine Lambert, Mary
McPherson, Ray & Joyce Bolden, President
Donald J. Trump & Family, Theresa Scott, Tony
Cossa, Kathy Slay, William Stanhope,
Betsy Moates, Clyde & Iva Burkett, Amanda
Matta, Mazie Burkett, Dianne Kent, Sherry
Lucas, Jerry & Jean Searcy, Lois Smith &
Family, Debbie Angeles, Robert J. Odom, Jr.,
Juanita Smith, Katherine Stephens, The Stephens
Family, Burton Roton, James Holley,
Chris Black, Brad;ey Byers, Patrick Byers,
David Peterson, The Twilley & Lami Families,
Mary Ann McCabe, Carl Anderson, Dorothy
Dorriety, All Altar Servers, The Unborn, Kathy
Quinn, James L. Worrell II and Family, Mike &
Anita Worrell, Rosa Davis and Emile (Mary
Powers’ Daughter).
Our Military Family
Brock Houghton (USMC), Zachary Gooddwin
(USAF), Dan Markush (USAF), Scott Stanford
(USN), Andrew Markush (USN), Will Markush
(USN), Joshua Wilson (USAF), Anthony
Berneche (USN), Byron Tims, Jr. (USN) and
Gary Shelley (USN).
Repose of Souls
Loraine Weinmann.

The Sacred Heart of Jesus
FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
"I promise you in the excessive mercy of my Heart that my all-powerful love will grant to
all those who receive Holy Communion on the First Fridays in nine consecutive months
the grace of final perseverance; they shall not die in my disgrace, nor without receiving
their sacraments. My divine Heart
shall be their safe refuge in this last
moment" (Jesus to St. Margaret
Mary).
Sixteenth century Calvinism and seventeenth century Jansenism
preached a distorted Christianity that
substituted for God's love and sacrifice
of His Son for all men the fearful
idea that a whole section of humanity
was inexorably damned.
The Church always countered this
view with the infinite love of our Savior
who died on the cross for all men. The institution of the feast of the Sacred Heart was
soon to contribute to the creation among the faithful of a powerful current of devotion
which since then has grown steadily stronger. The first Office and Mass of the Sacred
Heart were composed by St. John Eudes, but the institution of the feast was a result of
the appearances of our Lord to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in 1675. The celebration of
the feast was extended to the general calendar of the Church by Pius IX in 1856.
The Immaculate Heart of Mary
SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
In the midst of the second world war Pope Pius XII put the whole world under the special
protection of our Savior's Mother by consecrating it to her Immaculate Heart, and in
1944 he decreed that in the future the whole Church should celebrate the feast of the
Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is not a new devotion. In the seventeenth century, St.
John Eudes preached it together
with that of the Sacred Heart; in the
nineteenth century, Pius VII and Pius
IX allowed several churches to celebrate
a feast of the Pure Heart of
Mary. Pius XII instituted today's feast
of the Immaculate Heart of Mary for
the whole Church, so as to obtain by
her intercession "peace among na-
tions, freedom for the Church, the
conversion of sinners, the love of pu- rity and the practice of virtue"
(Decree of May 4, 1944). In
1942 during the ravages of World
War II, Pope Pius XII dedicated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary and set the
feast for August 22nd. In 1969, Pope Paul VI moved the celebration of the Immaculate
Heart of Mary to the day, Saturday, immediately after the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart
of Jesus