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St Jude Catholic Church
399 Barrow Street•pearl MS 39208
Office: 601-939-3181 fax: 601-939-3160
Website www.stjudepearl.org
Hours:
8:30 am -- 3:30 pm
Monday -- Friday
V. Rev. Jeffrey Waldrep Rev. Joseph Le
Pastor Associate Pastor
[email protected] [email protected]
Deacon Liturgy & Pastoral Care Faith Formation
John McGregor Rhonda Bowden Stacy Wolf
[email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
Administrative Assistant Music Director Youth Ministers
Kelly McGregor Pat O’Neil Nicole Chapman 601-741-0001
[email protected] [email protected] Betsy Walter 601-214-7378
Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil
5:30 pm
Sunday
8:30 am & 11:00 am
Tuesday, Wednesday,
and Thursday
6:00 pm
Friday
10:00 am
Adoration of the
Blessed Sacrament
Thursday 5:00 pm
First Saturday
Following Mass
Holy Days
of Obligation
Check bulletin
for times
Reconciliation
Saturday 4:45 pm
or by appointment
Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time August 21, 2016
Really Lord? Really!
St. Paul writes, “Endure your trials as ‘discipline’…Make straight paths for your feet, that what is lame may not be disjointed but healed” (Hb 12: 7, 12). As we all know trials do make us lame, disjointed and confuse the heart, mind and soul. It might be an illness, handicap or trouble. It might be a hard week. It might be family stuff. It might be some personal shortcomings. But, endure? Really Lord? Really! The reality is that God does allow evil, if we choose or others choose. Sometimes bad things just happen. St. Paul says that it feels like a trial, we think we are being disci-plined. The truth is that God doesn’t cause the trial or difficulty, but He is using the difficult situation to bring about a better good; to make straight paths for each of us. Unfortunately our instinct is to rebel, the Lord’s gate is too narrow and we start looking for shortcuts: prayer suffers; attitudes are more stubborn; limitations harder to accept; letting go feels impossi-ble. Today, God is reminding us that there are no shortcuts; His will dur-ing trials and difficulties is a narrow gate. God constantly arms us to re-sist those temptations and “make straight paths” for our feet. This means that when we all of a sudden realize that we are in the middle of a trial to stop and look around – where are the blessings, where are God’s graces, where are the angels of God slowly directing us? Because behind every tribulation is God’s wisdom and love. Let us promise Him this week, that there are no shortcuts. We must look for His grace. Who and what is God calling us to embrace, where are his angels guiding us, in order to help us to stick to the sure path of His will no matter the trials or difficulties. Really Lord? Yes, really!
Parish Mission Statement
We, the family of St. Jude, Pearl, Mississippi are a vibrant, Eucharistic community with caring members that are empowered by baptism to serve God through the sacraments. We will proclaim the good news and pro-vide spiritual and moral guidance to parishioners and the community by creating a holy and comforting place that encourages active participation, service to each other, and love.
Mass Intentions
Saturday 5:30pm— Bobby Brown (RIP) Sunday 8:30 am— People of St. Jude Sunday 11:00 am— Sr. Lucy Freibert, SCN (RIP) Tuesday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Wednesday 6:00 pm—Special Intention Thursday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Friday 10:00 am— Special Intention
PRAY FOR OUR TROUPS Remember in your prayers all those who serve our nation in the Armed Forces. We especially pray for: Christopher and Lamont Arnold, Me-ghan Bietzel, Jessup Boatner, Voyed
Couey, II, Chris Curry, Troy Resurreccion, Steven Renslow, Emma Reuter, Ryan Roy, Inissa Zambra-
We welcome to our Parish Family: Kristin Klucz and son Ethan Guadalupe Rodriguez and daughter Adelaide Alicia Lopez We are so happy to have you as part of our
Faith community.
SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES
Sunday: Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Tuesday: St. Rose of Lima
Wednesday: St. Bartholomew
Thursday: St. Louis of France; St. Joseph Calasanz
Keep you information current! If your phone number, work number, cell number, address, email , name changes, additions to the family, please notify the office by emailing Kelly McGregor at [email protected].
WOMEN OF FAITH
The Women of Faith would like to invite all the ladies of our parish to
be part of our awesome women's group. Through fellowship and fun
we strive to grow spiritually as Cath-
olic women through service and learning more about our faith. Please see the online
schedule for meeting dates. For more information contact Jennifer Diez 601-750-9943
[email protected] or Denise McKnight 601-953-9139 [email protected]. We are so excited to begin our
2016-2017 school year for the Parish School of Religion!
Class time – Sunday mornings, 9:45-10:45am
Classes begin this Sunday, August 21. Please be sure to arrive promptly for Sunday School. For dismissal, par-ents must come inside the building to pick up children from the Atriums (Level I – III).
If you have not registered your child for Sunday School please arrive early (no later than 9:30) to the next scheduled class so that the registration process can be completed prior to the start of class. Children must be registered for Sunday School in preparation for the Sac-raments of First Eucharist (2nd grade & up) or Confirma-tion (10th grade & up).
Sunday School Schedule:
August 21 – Classes meet
August 28 – Classes meet
September 4 – Labor Day Holiday
September 11 – Classes resume
WORTHY TEACHERS
All who undertake to teach must be endowed with deep love, the greatest patience, and, most of all, pro-found humility. The Lord will find them worthy to be-come fellow workers with him in the cause of truth.
—St. Joseph Calasanz
Sunday, August 14, 2016
$ 6,037.00 Online Giving
$ 2,074.00 Children’s Collection
$ 29.00
Food Pantry $ 145.00
Stewardship Thought
Today’s reading from Isaiah describes the Israelites bringing their offering to the Lord “in clean vessels.” The gift of myself — my patient endurance and fideli-ty to the will of God — is as important as the mone-tary gift I offer. See Isaiah 66:20
Please remember in your daily prayers the sick and suffer-ing of our parish family.
Parishioners:
Brody Bokros, Ginger Brown, Kenneth Brown, Asuncion Cannon, George Cox, Grace Dunn, James, Dunn, Jr., Charles Goldsmith, Jane Kaiser, Katie Kirby, Walter Loepke, Joe Loomis, Margaret Major, Mike Meadows, Kathy Moody, Ernie Murray, Charles Myers, Lois Pearce, Patricia Poole, Kevin Rayborn, T. Raymond, Mary Rippa, Phyllis Rogers, Florence Scanlon, Mike Siller, Scott Statham, Ron-nie Smith, Charlie Thames, Jose Varela, Ignacio Zambrano, Mary Jo Zummo.
Family and Friends of Parishioners:
Joyce Overton (stepmother of David Overton), Faye Lea (wife of Allen Lea), Keith Tonkel (friend of Riza Caskey), Mairead Noonan, (sister-in-law of Fr. Patrick Noonan), Flora and Luis Martin (Daughter and Son-in-law of Mary Rippa), Louis Garriga (brother of Bill Garriga), Missy Goodman (Daughter of Nick and Maureen Calico), Pearl Turner (mother of Sheilah Resweber), Michelle and Cassandra Garza (daughter and granddaughter of Sharon Siller), Jere-my McIntyre (son of Brenda and Dorian McIntyre), Cathy McWilliams and Thomas Marville (Sister and Brother of An-thony Marvelli), Flossie Fraiser (cousin of Linda Smith), Emily Bennett (daughter-in-law of Carol Denslow), Irene Jones (mother of Gail Dowdle), June Harkins (mother of Beth Bivens), Hazel Cooley (former parishioner) Caron Gal-
loday (former parishioner), Marian Lyons (friend of John and Kelly McGregor), Karla Fidler (friend of Monique Augus-tus), Charles Downey (father of April McDonald), Kevin Thames (grandson of Charlie Thames), Carolyn Arnold (friend of Roxi Quirin), Jeannie Marvelli (Aunt of Anthony Marvelli), Larry and Jean Everhart, Mala Torrence, and Inez Storr (friends of Sandra Walker), Reagan Madere (Father of Eric Madere), and all those in nursing homes or homebound.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12; Ps 96:1-5; t 23:13-22 Tuesday: 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17; Ps 96:10-13; Mt 23:23-26 Wednesday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18;
Jn 1:45-51 Thursday: 1 Cor 1:1-9; Ps 145:2-7; Mt 24:42-51 Friday: 1 Cor 1:17-25; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 10-11; Mt 25:1-13 Saturday: 1 Cor 1:26-31; Ps 33:12-13, 18-21; Mt 25:14-30 Sunday: Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Ps 68:4-7, 10-11; Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14
Jubilee Year of Mercy
August 21, 2016 Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
This Jubilee Year of Mercy and Pope Francis’ ministry have renewed our understanding
that the Church’s heart is
open wide to all, and the heart of the gospel is God’s mercy. Flooded with God’s mercy,
our hearts should overflow as channels bringing to wounded and weary
hearts Jesus’ healing mercy. For Jesus warns, our own sal-vation is not guaranteed by the Liturgy of the Word (“you
taught in our streets”) nor by the Eucharist (“we ate and
drank in your company”) (Luke 13:26). People far from that banquet, “from the east and the west and from the north
and the south . . . will recline at table in the kingdom of God” (13:29). Rather, showing mercy is key to obtaining
mercy ourselves (Matthew 5:7). So we should never dare
ask what “someone” asked Jesus, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” (Luke 13:23).
The crucial question is “Will I be saved?” And Jesus’ answer is another question: “Have you shown mercy to everyone,
freely, gladly, no limits, no conditions, no exceptions?” —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
Watch Your Giving Grow as You Help Us Grow Our Min-istry! If you give through Online Giv-ing—our secure giving pro-gram, accessible from the
church website www.stjudepearl.org or the St. Jude Parish App—you can watch your giving grow this sea-son… and throughout the year! When you create a login, your gift and pledge history will be stored so that you can access it at anytime. This will allow you to accurately assess how much you’re giving to what so that you can make informed decisions and plan your future gifts. It also helps us in the church office; there’s much less processing for online gifts than for envelope gifts!
TEMPTATION
The average number of times that people say “no” to temptation is about once, weakly.
—Anonymous
Pray for Those Discerning a Religious Vocation
-Young People thinking about a vocation to priesthood or religious life;
-Andrew Bowden who is in the seminary discern-ing a vocation to the priesthood;
Quiet Prayer Before and After Mass
Fr. Jeffrey would like to encourage everyone after they come into the Church to go to a pew in prayer as they wait for Mass to begin. Instead
of visiting and talking before Mass begins, this would be espe-cially a good time to tell the Lord what you seek or pray in gratitude to the Lord for his blessings. It would also be a good time to read over the readings for the Mass. Likewise at the end of Mass, instead of dashing out as soon as Fr. Jeffrey or Fr. Joseph passes by, stop and kneel in prayer of thanksgiving. It doesn't take but a minute. Reverence in the Church is para-mount in being blessed and to being a blessing to others.
Protection of Children The Diocese of Jackson is committed to ensuring that no one being served by the church be (is) at risk of sexu-al abuse or exploitation by clergy, religious or lay church personnel. The spiritual well-being of all the victims, their families and others in the community is of particular con-cern to the church. In accordance with our policy, all victims are of-
fered counseling and pastoral care.
Anyone who has been a victim of abuse or exploitation by clergy, religious or lay church personnel and has not yet reported it is encouraged to do so. Our victim assis-tance coordinator, Valerie McClellan, a licensed social worker, is available to assist in making a report. Please contact her at 601- 326-3728.
For more information about diocesan policies and proce-dures and to learn what the diocese is doing to create a safe environment for everyone, please visit the diocesan website at www.jacksondiocese.org and click on “Protection of Children.”
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADI-TION In recent decades, attention has shifted away from headgear as a symbol of a bishop’s authority to a more sub-stantial symbol: the chair, called the cathedra. The word comes from the Lat-in word for a chair with armrests. It is exactly the reason why dining room sets were marketed in this country a few years ago with only one chair with arm-rests, the captain’s chair. In many rec-
tories of a certain vintage, you will see only one chair with arms at the dining table, a sign to the assisting priests of their proper place in the constellation. For us, as with most Anglicans and some Lutherans, the cathe-dra is a sign of the teaching authority of the bishop. We inherited the symbolism of the chair from Roman civil life in the fourth century. A church that houses a cathe-dra is called a cathedral, and the chair may be used only by the bishop of that diocese. Priests who preside at liturgy there must use a different presidential chair. You may find the cathedra in its most traditional place at the head of the apse, or against a side wall as was favored in medieval times. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
Interested in becoming Catholic or
receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation?
Join us for RCIA on Tuesdays at 6:30 pm
beginning September 6th.
For more information Contact Deacon John McGregor at 601-
497-8483 or by email at [email protected] or call the Church
Office at 601-939-3181.
Already Catholic and want to be involved? Join the Hospitality
Team by preparing a meal for the participants and the team.
Sign-up after Masses this weekend.
Upcoming Events:
August 21, 2016-Welcome Back BBQ @5:00 pm. In the Parish hall
Parents and teens join us to celebrate the be-ginning of the school year. Supper will be served and this years youth schedule will be discussed. We will also be filling out all of the forms we will need for youth this year. Please let Mrs. Betsy or Mrs. Nicole know if you plan to attend.
August 28, 2016-Canoe/Kayaking the Okatoma
Mark your calendars Sunday, August 28th for our annual Kayak and Canoe trip down the Okatoma River! The rental cost for a canoe is $30 (canoe fits 2 people) and for a kayak is $30 (fits one 1 person unless you get a double kay-ak). We prefer that you bring cash for the ca-noe or kayak rental. We plan to go to 8:30 Mass then depart for Seminary, MS. Bring ex-tra clothes, shoes, and lunch. Also, you'll need to bring additional money ($5-10) for dinner/snack. We need adventurous adult chaperones. Please let us know if you and/or your youth plan to attend! Text or call Mrs. Mara (601-421-3849) or Mrs. Betsy (601-214-7378). Prior to the Kayak/Canoe trip, every youth is required to have an updated Diocesan Form A and Form E. We will have those available soon! This event is for rising 7th-12th graders.
Happy Birthday!!!
Laina Jackson 8/5 Jack Riordan 8/6
Jasmine Nguyen 8/7 Max Steuer 8/8
Lainee Burnham 8/9 Gianna Altamirano 8/11
Diana Estevane 8/12 Colton Leist 8/16 Riley Aguilar 8/20 Kevin Michel 8/23
Austin Murillo 8/23
Youth Leaders’ Contact Information Mrs. Betsy Walter-601-214-7378 Email: [email protected] Mrs. Mara V. Polk-601-421-3849 Email: [email protected]
Young Apostles
News
St. Jude Catholic Church August 21, 2016
Pray It!!! Prayer for a Virtuous Life
Good and gracious God,
When I feel the lure of excess and crave too much of a good thing, help me to develop temperance, the self-
control that gives my life balance and wholeness
When I feel driven to act on impulse, give me prudence, the wisdom to stop and think before I act.
When I find that I am preoccupied with myself, my own wants and worries, help me to see others with eyes of
compassion and to reach out to them with loving justice.
When I face obstacles to living morally that tempt me to move away from you, give me fortitude, the courage to
overcome the temptation.
Amen. (The Catholic Faith Handbook for Youth)
Flowers in the Church donated by Ginger Brown
In Memory of Bobby Brown and Danny Brown
And
Kathleen Edwards In memory of Louise and Joseph Pfeiffer
And
Rhea and Denise Vincent In celebration of their wedding anniversary
Staying connected to our parish throughout the year by downloading our parish app. Downloading the app is as simple as texting the word APP to phone number 88202. Again text
APP to 88202. You can receive notifications from our parish and access Mass Readings, Prayers, and many other great features.
It’s Not too late to sign up to have flow-ers placed in the Church. Are you looking for a way to re-member or recognize a special person or event? Do it with flowers in the church! Providing the flowers for the church for the weekend Masses is a won-
derful way to memorialize or honor a loved one or to celebrate an occasion. And, it is so easy! Select the date and the particular flower arrangement you want. Put a check or cash in one of the Flower Guild enve-lopes for the specified amount and place it in the offer-ing basket. Then the St. Jude Flower Guild does the rest! All flower donations are acknowledged in the bul-letin and in the narthex. 3 Options: 2 arrangements by the tabernacle - $75 1 arrangement in the narthex - $30 All 3 arrangements - $100
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call
Rhonda in the office.
FALL ADULT FAITH FORMATION SESSIONS Being Catholic takes more than simply believing in God or doing what he asks of us. Jesus wants you to be more than just a believer—he wants you to be his disciple and friend. To help you answer this call to deeper friendship with Christ, St. Jude will begin Follow Me: Meeting Jesus in the Gospel of John on Sunday, September 11 at 9:45 am. For more information contact Deacon John McGregor. You will not only benefit personally from being part of this sturdy; you will also help us to grow in fellowship as a parish as we grow closer in Christ together. Follow Me invites you to experience the joy of a renewed friendship with Christ. You will learn what it takes to follow him. You will experience the joy of divine friendship, and you will see how God—and only God—can satisfy the deepest desires of your heart. Participants of Follow Me will be able to purchase a workbook for $15 and will meet every week to view an engaging video presentation followed by a time of lively group discussion and fellowship. The eight 30-minute videos, presented by Dr. Edward Sri, will guide you through the Gospel of John. Dr. Sri will explain how Christ’s encounters with others in the Gospel are examples of how he lovingly and persistently calls each of us to a more intimate and life-changing relationship with him.
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