Bulletin_20180729

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
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
Sunday, August 5th, 11:00 AM
Parish Council—Friday, August 3rd, 10:00 AM
Parish Finance Committee—Saturday, August 4th, 10:00 AM
LAST WEEKEND’S COLLECTION
Regular Collection $800.00
Candles $9.00
Building Fund—August 4th / 5th
Church in Latin America—August 4th / 5th

Dear brothers and sisters in Jesus Christ,
Greetings to you in the sweet name of Jesus
Christ. I am very happy to reach out to
Him through our bulletin after quite a long
time due to some unforeseen circumstances
and I am sure you are very aware of
them. I am now back home and at your
disposal. Thanks to all of you for your valuable
prayers, concern and love.
As you well know, one of the greatest
events of our parish community is our Fall
Festival. It’s the talk of the town. So, also,
our Yard Sale which always goes hand-inhand
with the festival as it provides the
seed money for the latter. I, therefore, earnestly
ask you to extend your helping
hands in whatever way possible. Our parish
community is well known for its generosity,
cooperation and hard work to insure
the success of these events.
Good news!! Our parish community has
grown by the arrival of new born baby boy
that Jocie Franco gave birth to. Both mom
and the child are doing well. Let us welcome
the child and pray for him. Thank
you.
Please feel free to contact me for anything.
I wish you all the best and may God bless
you.
—Father Jayaraj
Parish Yard Sale: It’s getting to be that
time of year again—Yard Sale time—as
we lead up to our annual Fall Festival. We
don’t yet have a specific date for the sale,
but this is a good time to begin sorting
through your “stuff” and setting items
aside to donate to the sale. As you know,
this event provides “seed money” for the
festival, so it’s very important. You can also
now begin to bring your donated items
to Boland Hall to store for the sale.
Important CCD Information: In preparation
for the upcoming CCD school year,
we need a lot of help from our parishioners.
We are in need of teachers for the
program and specialty coordinators in
specific areas. Please prayerfully consider
giving of your time and talent to this program.
Parish Council: The Parish Council will
meet Friday, August 3rd at 10:00 AM in
Boland Hall. All members please make
plans to attend.
Parish Finance Committee: Our parish’s
next Finance Committee meeting will be
Saturday, August 4th at 10:00 AM in Boland
Hall. There is much to discuss as we
approach this year’s stewardship drive, so
it is important that all members be present.
Mark your calendars now, please.
Saturday, July 28th, is the Feast Day of
Bl. Stanley Rother. He was martyred on
this date in 1981 in Guatemala. He was
a seminary classmate of Fr. Milsted.
Please pray for his canonization to
sainthood. Information cards are available
at the back of the church.

Jesus then took the loaves, and when he had given
thanks, he distributed them to those who were
seated; so also the fish, as much as they wanted.
And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples,
"Gather up the fragments left over, that
nothing may be lost." So they gathered them up
and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the
five barley loaves, left by those who had eaten (Jn
6:11-13).
Today is the feast of St. Martha which is superseded
by the Sunday Liturgy.
Sunday Readings
The first reading is taken from the Second Book
of Kings 4:42-44. We have here an incident from
the life of Elisha, the prophet in Israel who inherited
the mantle of the great Elijah. He prophesied in
Israel during the second half of the 9th century. By
anointing Jehu as king of Israel, he helped to bring
about the overthrow of Achab's dynasty which had
introduced the worship of Baal into Israel and had
almost paganized the whole northern kingdom.
This reading describes a miracle worked by Elisha
The second reading is from the Letter of St. Paul
to the Ephesians 4:1-6. St. Paul lays great stress
on Christian unity which is the essence of the faith.
In these six verses he gives a sevenfold formula of
unity on which the various aspects of true Christian
unity are based.
The Gospel is from St. John 6:1-15. Although Jesus
had the intention of preparing the minds of the
multitude for his discourse on the heavenly food
which he would make next day, his principal motive
in working this miracle was pity and compassion.
He knew that they were hungry—they had
been away from home all day and some for many
days.
Monday
St. Peter Chrysologus
Mass: 5:30 PM
Tuesday
St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest
Mass: 5:30 PM
“The Mass Readings Explained:
6:00 PM
Wednesday
St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop &
Doctor of the Church
No Mass
Thursday
St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop
St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest
Mass: 5:30 PM
“Knit Pickers”: 6:30 PM
Friday
Parish Council: 10:00 AM
Mass : 5:30 PM
Saturday
St. John Vianney, Priest
Parish Finance Committee: 10:00 AM
Vigil Mass: 5:00 PM
Sunday
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Community Rosary: 8:30 AM
Mass: 9:00 AM

They were willing to suffer this inconvenience but he did not want them to do so. Even
though he knew there were some among them who would never accept him, and perhaps
even some who would be among the rabble that demanded his crucifixion on Good Friday;
yet he made no distinction. He had compassion on them all.
This miracle should surely convince us that Christ is interested in our daily needs too, just
as he was interested in those of his contemporaries in Palestine. Our principal and only real
purpose in life is to be saved and Christ is ever ready to help us. However, we have first to
travel through our earthly life so, of necessity, we have to take a passing interest in the affairs
of this world. We have to provide for our earthly needs and for those of any others who
may depend on us. For many, in fact for the vast majority of men, this has always been and
will be a struggle against great odds. Here, too, Christ is ever ready to help us. He has a
true interest in our progress through life and if we turn to him trustfully and sincerely, he will
help us over our difficulties.
This does not mean that we can expect or demand a miracle whenever we find ourselves in
difficulties. If, however, we are true to Christ and to the faith in our daily lives, he will find
ways and means of freeing us from difficulties which would otherwise overcome us. If we
look back over our past we may notice occasions when we were saved from grave difficulties
by some unexpected intervention. We may not even have called on Christ to help us
but he knew our needs and he answered our unspoken request. Those five thousand hungry
people had not asked him for food, but he knew their needs. He knew too that their
needs were caused by their desire to be in his presence—so he gave them what they had
not thought of asking for. If we are loyal to him we, too, can trust that his mercy and power
will be with us in our hour of need. He may not remove the cause of our difficulty. Remember
St. Paul who had some bodily infirmity which he thought impeded his effectiveness as a
missioner? Three times he pleaded with Christ to remove this 'infirmity, but Christ assured
him: "my grace is sufficient for you." He would prove all the more effectively that he was
Christ's Apostle by preaching in spite of that infirmity: "for my power is made perfect in
weakness" (2 Cor. 12: 7-9). Thus it may be that Christ will use the very difficulty from which
we are suffering, to bring us and others into more intimate union with him. Many of the
saints suffered great hardships and afflictions during their years on earth—these very afflictions
were Christ's gifts to them. Without these, and the virtues of patience, faith and trust
which they had to practice, they might not be among God's elect today.
We must rest assured then that Christ is intimately interested in our daily lives on earth. We
must not expect that this interest of his will remove all shadows from our path. This would
not be for our eternal good—and our eternal happiness is Christ's first interest in us. It
should also be our own first and principal interest too. It will help us, too, to bear with our lot,
if we look about us and see so many others who are worse off, or at least as badly off as we
are especially with regard to the snags of life. Christian charity will move us to help them;
we may not be able to give them any material help, but we can help to lighten their load by
showing our sincere interest in them and by offering words of comfort and consolation. This
is the only charity that the poor have to offer to their fellow sufferers, but if it is Christinspired
its effects will reach to heaven.
—Excerpted from The Sunday Readings by Fr. Kevin O'Sullivan, O.F.M.

Mass Intentions
Sunday, July 29th:
St. Robert Parishioners
Monday, July 30th:
Special Intention
Tuesday, July 31st:
Special Intention
Wednesday, August 1st:
No Mass
Thursday, August 2nd:
Special Intention
Friday, August 3rd:
Special Intention
Saturday, August 4th:
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
“Before you had a being, God
loved you. Before your father or
mother was born, God loved you:
yes, even before the creation of the
world, God loved you. And how
long before creation has God
loved you? Perhaps for a
thousand years, or for a
thousand ages. It is needless to
count years or ages; God loved
you from eternity!.”
- St. Alphonsus Liguori
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, Richard and
Mary Powers, Bob Vale, Persecuted Christians,
The Engleson Family, 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, Lois Smith & Family, Debbie Angeles,
Robert J. Odom, Jr., Juanita Smith, Katherine
Stephens, The Stephens Family, Bradley Byers,
Patrick Byers, David Peterson, Mary Ann McCabe,
Carl Anderson, The Unborn & their Families,
James L. Worrell II, Mike & Anita Worrell, Paul
Peck & Family, Sue Ann Roberts, Alex Seagle,
Cruz Angeles, Trey Holder, Mark Holder, Logan
Holder, Pia Gorme, Crystal Darnell, Family of Stephen
Bailey, Emma McCacken, Michael Coley,
Drew Sells, Julia Gordon Hubbard, All Government
Leaders, Anissa Ledkins, Eileen Lehman, The
Hoffman Family (Safe Travels), Christian Martyrs
Everywhere, Joan & Andy Bogdan, Rosa Davis, Fr.
Jay’s Family, Shelby Marlin Holcomb, Elizabeth
Graehn, Dolores Taylor, Clyde & Iva Burkett,
Amanda Matta, Mazie Burkett, Sherry Lucas, Dianne
Kent, Renee Rathbun, MaryLee LeCocq,
Carolyn Cuevas, Carl Anderson, Gregg Akins and
Pat Phillips.
Our Military Family
Brock Houghton (USMC), Zachary Godwin
(USAF), Dan Markush (USAF), Scott Stanford
(USN), Andrew Markush (USN), Will Markush
(USN), Joshua Wilson (USAF), Anthony Berneche
(USN), Byron Tims, Jr. (USN), Gary Shelley (USN)
and Alex Jones (USN).
Repose of Souls
Ken Engleson, Pat Conn, Paul Crenshaw, Stephen
Bailey and Rev. Dr. Jose Kaimlett.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 4TH
St. John Baptist Mary Vianney (1786-1859) was born in Dardilly and died in Ars, France.
Although his talents were limited and his education meager, he was ordained a priest in
1815. After three years at Ecully, he was appointed parish priest of Ars. Here he spent almost
forty-two years of his life, devoting himself to prayer, mortification, and pastoral works.
His success in directing souls made him known throughout the Christian world. Men of all
ranks and conditions of life sought his guidance and advice. He was beatified by Pope St.
Pius X, himself once a parish priest, and canonized by Pope Pius XI.
St. John Vianney
During the French Revolution a small band of Ursuline nuns was imprisoned in the Bastille.
To cheer her disconsolate companions, one of the group passed wheaten discs of bread,
cut from the loaf of the daily rations, to memorialize the happy days when they were free
and could receive Our Lord in Holy Communion. At that time all religious schools and
churches were closed, and those who harbored priests were imprisoned.
At the Vianney farmhouse near Dardilly, France, fugitive priests were offered a refuge. Here
their son was prepared in his tenth year for the reception of Holy Communion by a hunted
priest.
While tending his father's sheep, John Vianney fashioned a small statue of Our Lady out of
clay. He hid it in the hollow of an old tree with this petition: "Dear Lady Mary, I love you very
much; you must bring Jesus back to His tabernacles very soon!"
On a visit to his aunt at Ecully, John listened to her praises of Father Balley, the parish
priest, and he sought the Father's advice regarding his vocation to the priesthood. The pastor
appraised the overgrown, awkward youth of faltering speech and devoid of general education.
Though John was unable to answer the questions pertaining to earthly science
which Father asked him, yet, when the priest put to him the questions of the catechism, his
face became luminous with lively interest. He answered every question correctly, and in a
manner beyond his years. The amazed pastor took this evidence as a sign from heaven,
prophesying, "You will become a priest!"
The ensuing years brought many trials to John. He was conscripted; his mother died; he
failed often in his studies. Ordained as a Mass priest, August 12, 1815, he remarked to Our
Lady, Queen of the Clergy: "Here is your priest, O Blessed Mother! Stay close to me. Help
me to be a good priest!"
As a curate and as a pastor, St. John Vianney's daily instruction on the catechism found an
inspired audience, among whom were noted orators such as Père Lacordaire, O.P., the
famed preacher of Notre Dame. The saintly pastor performed many miracles, but the greatest
was his own manner of Eucharistic living. It was his Lord, living in Father Vianney, who
made him "spend and be spent" in ceaseless service for both sinner and saint in the sacred
tribunal of penance.
— Rev. Vincent F. Kienberger, O.P.