TENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MASS INTENTIONS: 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 4 + Bobby Masters (Kathy King) 8:00 a.m. Sunday, June 5 + Mary Alderigi ( Georgia Martin) 10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 5 John Paul Sebastian (Birthday) (Sebastian Family) 8:00 a.m. Monday, June 6 + Tom Whaley (Blanche Champer) 8:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 7 Living & Deceased of the Sebastian Family (Jaga Sebastian)

8:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 8 Albert Grable (Donor) 8:00 a.m. Thursday, June 9 Evelyn Davison (Donor) 8:00 a.m. Friday, June 10 All Souls (Donor) 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 11 + Mary Oser (Keith & Renee Davison) 8:00 a.m. Sunday, June 12 + Fr. Regis Schlick (Donor) 10:00 a.m. Sunday, June 12 For the People

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES:

Sunday: Monday: Thursday: Saturday:

Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Norbert St. Ephrem; Julian Calendar Ascension St. Barnabas; Shavuot (Jewish observance) begins at sundown

Total collection: May 28/29: $2,517.50 Average expenses last 4 weeks: $2,866.32 Total in Capital Improvement: $51,333.55 DPSC Campaign: pledged $23,850.00 Goal $40,504.00 Attendance: 5:30 PM (86) 8:00 AM (96) 10:00 AM (92)

Pastor’s Notes We return to Ordinary Time readings this Sunday with the account of the Lord raising the son of the widow in Nain. This account is similar to Jesus raising Lazarus and the daughter of Jairus, but there is a significant difference. In raising this man, Jesus is not asked for help. Instead His only motivation is compassion for the unfortunate widow. In that society, woman were rarely if ever allowed to have property of their own. If they were widowed and had no children, they were forced to depend on the charity of others. In short they were often reduced to begging. Note how Jesus provided for His Blessed Mother by entrusting her from the Cross to the Beloved Disciple John. In the case of the widow in Nain, Jesus likely saw that the sudden death of this woman’s only son left her destitute. We see several contrasts between what Jesus did in Nain and what Elijah did in Zeraphath. Elijah did not act as much out of compassion as he did to simply bolster that other widow’s faith. Further, effected that other son’s resuscitation not by his own power but through his faith and prayers. Jesus, the Resurrection and the Life, called the young man in Nain back to life by His own command “Young man, I tell you, arise!” Jesus is the one who alone can call people to new life. Those in the crowd who cried out “God has visited his people” unwittingly spoke the truth in a way they could not yet understand. Of course Jesus did far more than call people back to physical life. He even more wondrously called and continues to call people back from spiritual death. Through His own Passion, Death, and Resurrection Christ frees us from sin and death and enables us to enter into eternal life. In the divine compassion which He has for all people, Christ gave His own life for us when as Saint Paul reminded the Romans we were still sinners. Jesus the Just One died for us the unjust out of that same divine mercy He showed the widow in Nain. Next week we hear the story of the sinful woman who cleansed our Lord’s feet with her tears and dried them with her hair. Following that, the next week Jesus will ask His disciples “Who do you say that I am?” Following that we will hear something about what discipleship does and does not mean. All of these accounts should enable us to see more clearly not only who Jesus really is, but also the limitless nature of God’s mercy and compassion for even the least worthy of his creatures, you and me. Father Tom

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SAT. JUNE 11 5:30 PM SUN. JUNE 12 8:00 AM SUN. JUNE 12 10:00 AM ____________ LILIA BABBITT MATT BOKOVITZ KEITH ELLIOTT_____________________ MARY KLINE ALICE DACHOWSKI DAVID STAPLETON__________________ GRETCHEN MCCONNELL GARRETT FRAZEE COLTON STAPLETON GABBY MCCONNELL GABE FRAZEE AYDEN STAPLETON_________________ USHERS: STEPHEN KLINE ED DACHOWSKI ALLEN WHITE ___ JACOB KLINE CHRIS DAVISON ALEX WHITE________________________ SMALL PLEASURES: Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. Georges Bernanos

FATHER THOMAS HAMM, JR. PASTOR

JUNE 5, 2016___________ HOPE AND LIFE

Today’s readings tell the story of two widows. The first reading relates the plight of the widow with whom the prophet Elijah stayed; the Gospel tells about the widow of Nain. In each story, the widow’s only son had died. For people who lived in those cultures, the son was the only support of a widow, and the carrying on of the family name by the son was equal to immortality. A widow whose only son has died could lose all hope. Elijah and Jesus are the restorers of hope; they bring the sons back to life. Saint Paul was metaphorically raised from the dead when he experienced the conversion and call from God that he describes in today’s second reading. What are Christians called to do today? We may not be able to raise the dead, but perhaps we can rekindle hope for a single parent. We may not be able to convert a persecutor like Paul, but if we speak the gospel openly and gently with our lives, we might touch a life with the Good News. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

ST. LOUIS CHURCH VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL STARTS MONDAY IN LOURDES HALL FROM 6:00-8:00 PM. MONDAY – FRIDAY. THE DIOCESAN PARISH SHARE FUNDRAISER. Thank you to everyone that has already made a payment or made a pledge. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. We still need to reach our Parish target set by the diocese which is $30,504. We are $6,654.00 away from that goal. Once we reach that goal everything else pledged comes back to us 100% which we have challenged you to help us with our own target of $40,504 with the extra $10,000 would go directly to our electrical project. You may use the envelopes in the pew and can return in the Sunday collection or you may mail to the parish office. The theme this year “Give to the Most High as he has given to you…” (Sir. 1:12) Once you have made your pledge and would like to make online payments you may go to onlinepayments.diosteub.org to schedule or make payments securely by credit/debit card. UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS: Monday-Friday, June 6th -10th Vacation Bible School in Lourdes Halls for all the children and invite your friends. Sunday, June 12th we will have a Welcoming Luncheon and the Knights of Columbus Awards in Lourdes Hall after the 10:00 AM Mass. Catholic Womens Club meeting on Monday, June 13 at 1:30 PM. Rosary will be said at 1:00 PM. Tuesday, June 14th Parish Council and Finance Committee will meet at 6:30 PM. Right to life meeting on Tuesday, June 14 at 7:00 PM. Spanish Mass on Saturday, June 18th at 9:30 AM with Fr. Tim Davison. Sunday, June 19th Father’s Day Breakfast hosted by the C.W.C. after the 8:00 & 10:00 AM Masses. Tuesday, June 21st St. Vincent De Paul meeting at 7:00 PM. NAMES ON THE PRAYER LIST WILL REMAIN FOR 30 DAYS AFTER 30 DAYS THEY WILL BE REMOVED UNLESS YOU NOTIFY THE OFFICE. These names will remain until June 30, 2016 Please pray for the health and the healing of our friends and relatives:

Karen Acker, Donna Altizer, Brett Bokovitz, Joseph Bokovitz, Blanche Champer, Richard Cooper, Don Crance, Carol Curry, Audrey Davison, Harriett Davison, Keith Davison, Josh Dillon, Betty Doerfer, Larry Fitzwater, Jonnie Lou Gabrielli, Albert Grable, Kelly Haas, Larry Haas, Betty Hamm, Lyda Hudson, Leonard Hurlow, Kateri Kalpakgian, Robert King, Noah Knackstedt, David Leport, Carla O’Dell, Bart Repass, Bobby Richie, Jeff Rider, Cameran Smith, Anthony Sola, Katy Sprow, Wendy Stiles, Irene Surber, Joyce Taylor, Marie Whaley, Barbara Wickline and Tombo Woodward.

BLESSED IS HE THAT CONSIDERETH THE POOR: THE LORD WILL DELIVER HIM IN TIME OF TROUBLE. Psalm 41. LOAVES AND

FISHES wish to extend a thank you to the following who donated to the dinner on Sunday, May 29th: Lilia Babbit, Joan Folden, Sue Freyberg, Kitty Griffith, Mary Louise Hennesy, Yolanda Howard, Kathleen Patrick Marchi, Janet North, Dorothy Polcyn, Remy Simon, Chrissy Stapleton, The Thompson family, and Joan Wittenberg. 310 Meals were served. RIGHT TO LIFE BABY BOTTLE CAMPGAIN. Please return your baby bottles by Sunday, June 19th (Father’s Day). Thank you everyone that has already returned them. Every bottle adds up with the bottles of other Christians around the area. The resulting donations are used in providing classes, diapers, pregnancy test, and more. Your one bottle is important to the future of a young woman and her child. WELCOMING LUNCHEON is for everyone in the Parish, so we can welcome into our Parish Family our R. C. I. A. Class of 2016 and any new registered families and families that have not yet registered. This luncheon will be Sunday, June 12 in Lourdes Hall following the 10:00 AM.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Unless Professor Einstein’s theory of relativity can be translated into any useful kind of time-travel, most of our clues about life in the early church will have to come from ancient letters and ancient prayer texts. A prayer text from a dusty library may yield, for example, an understanding of what “presbyters” actually did. We have such a prayer from the early third century from the hand of Hippolytus of Rome. While our modern prayers derive a great deal from his, some of the practices of the ancient church have fallen away. In his day, bishops were chosen by the people, and the other bishops merely consented. Presbyters, by contrast, seem to have been chosen by the bishops. This makes sense, since it allowed the bishops to hand-pick their most trusted advisers. It seems that bishops were at first reluctant to share their presiding at the Eucharist with presbyters. In fact, by the time of the fourth-century church’s growth spurt in Rome, the bishop sent deacons out with fragments of the host from his Eucharist to drop into the chalices of the presbyters at the outlying eucharistic celebrations. We still have a vestige of this fermentum in the Mass today, a reminder of the early bishops’ desire to give a powerful sign of the unity of all celebrations of the Eucharist with their ministry, and a clue to their reluctance to delegate a sacramental ministry to the presbyters. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.