SUNDAY MASSES Saturday 4:00 PM

Sunday 8:30 AM & 11:00 AM

THE HOLY ROSARY Saturday 3:30 PM

Sunday 8:00 AM & 10:30 AM

WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE No Mass - Monday ~ Wednesday & Friday ~ 8AM Tuesday, Thursday ~ 12 Noon (St. Vincent’s Chapel)

SPECIAL DEVOTIONS: THE SACRED HEART OF JESUS

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY First Friday of the Month

Devotion: 7 - 8 AM ~ Mass: 8 00 AM First Saturday of the Month

Devotion: 7:30 AM ~ Mass: 8:00 AM

CONFESSIONS First Friday ~ 7:00 - 8:00 AM

First Saturday ~ 7:30 - 7:50 AM Saturday ~ 2:30 - 3:30 PM

Sunday - 8:00AM Before 8:30AM Mass Or By Appointment

OFFICE HOURS Monday - Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Office Phone: 501-623-3233 Fax: 501-609-9524

Email: stmcc@hotsprings.net Fr. George Sanders: frgeo.stmcc@hotsprings.net

Sacramental Emergencies Only: 501-763-0704 WEBSITE: www.stmaryofthesprings.org

OFFICE PERSONNEL Diane Pollock, Office Manager

Jan Gray, Secretary

DIRECTOR of FAITH FORMATION & YOUTH MINISTER Natalie Evans 501-545-3064

Email: stmarys.cym@gmail.com

MARRIAGE Contact the parish priest at least 6 months in advance to begin marriage preparation.

No Date can be scheduled before this preparation begins.

BAPTISM Contact the parish priest to schedule a baptism

Administrator: Fr. George Sanders Deacons: Lee Leckner & Joe Harrison

St. Mary of the Springs Catholic Church 100 Central Ave., Hot Springs, AR 71901

Established in 1869

October 4, 2015 - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Today is October 4, 2015 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

MINISTRY SCHEDULE Saturday, 4PM October 10, 2015 Lector: ** Kathy Webber, Tom Baroni EMHC: * Jan Gray, Margarite Rhodes EMHC: Ruth Rhodes Altar Servers: Nate Webber, David Peters Altar Servers: Joseph Gallaher Sunday, 8:30AM October 11, 2015 Lector: ** Charles Smith, Bonnie Newman EMHC: * Bart Newman, Mary Gallimore EMHC: Steve Gallimore Altar Servers: Austyn Van Wagner, Matthew Kalahiki Altar Servers: Collin Gallimore, Brianna Gallimore Altar Servers: Alberto Mejia Sunday, 11AM October 11, 2015 Lector: ** Bruce Burton, Catherine Wade EMHC: * Ron Sliger, Ruth Sliger EMHC: Tina Sliger Altar Servers: Landry Cate, Elena French, Hunter Speas Altar Servers: Peyton Speas, Teresa Valdivia

PRAY FOR THE SICK

Christine Andreski Dean Ballard Sylvia Bevill Lisa Caldwell Paul Caudle

Sheilah & Daryl Clark William Confer

Frankie DeGeorge Quentin Dooley

Dave & Barbara Elmore Donna Folson Haley Gloria

Dorothy Gossage Jim Greene

Steven Hadlock Lou Ann Hall

Tina Harbert & Family Dylan Harrison Jimmy Kolasch

Marie Krenzelok

Dc Lee Leckner Dorothy Longinotti

Penny Martin George Meggers

Agnes Mohr Teagan & Lois Murphy

Tony Pollock Stella Porter

Lindsay Powell Lellie-Beth Rhodes

Ruth Rhodes Fr. Alan Rosenau Raymond Sanchez

Peggy Smith Donna Stevens Rick Stewart

Rick & Deb Stricker Thyra Lynn Sullivan

Alfred Watson Joan Wright

Dr. Michael & Mary Ann Young

10/3/2015 Sat 8AM Elodie Hinshaw + 10/3/2015 Sat 4PM Dwight Conway + 10/4/2015 Sun 8:30AM Our Parishioners 10/4/2015 Sun 11AM George Reindl + 10/5/2015 Mon Private Ronald Czarnecki Birthday 10/6/2015 Tues 12Noon Msgr. James P. Gaffney 10/7/2015 Wed 8AM St. Anonymous/Haiti Mission 10/8/2015 Thurs 12Noon Annetta Talbot + 10/9/2015 Fri 8AM Charlie Adams + 10/10/2015 Sat 4PM Our Parishioners 10/11/2015 Sun 8:30AM James Sturman + 10/11/2015 Sun 11AM Chase King Spec Intention

MASS INTENTIONS

HOLY FAMILY PRAYER GROUP Meetings are on Tuesdays in the Church

October 6th 6:30 PM Contact for prayer requests - Ruth Sliger: 282-5292

STEWARDSHIP

CHILDREN OF GOD PRAYER GROUP

Every Thursday, 10:30AM - Roland Room @ Women’s Center CHI St. Vincent’s

All 12 Noon Masses are at CHI St. Vincent Chapel

CHILDREN’S COLLECTION

Sept. 27, 2015 $135.00

SEPTEMBER COLLECTION Sept Collection as of Sept. 27th $28,550.00 Budget Sept 2015 $32,292.00 Amount Sept (Short) ($3,742.00)

SECOND COLLECTION - OCT. 10th & 11th

SEMINARIANS

CHILDREN’S NURSERY 11 AM Mass

Sit-up age to 3 Years * Church Building Classroom

CHILDREN’S LITURGY 11 AM Mass

Ages 4 thru Pre-1st Communion Will process out during Mass to hear their own gospel

reading and child friendly reflection Follow us on Facebook for updates

Please contact Jennifer Marvin, 501-762-3191

GRIEF SUPPORT CARE Are you experiencing difficulty in grieving the death of a loved one? A safe, supportive group meeting on a weekly basis is starting at St. Mary of the Springs

Tuesday, October 6th * 6PM-7:30PM St. Mary’s Carroll Room

Nationally Certified Grief Counselor Melissa Saylor, M.S., GC-C Angel’s Wings Grief Care, (501)454-7045

ALTAR CARE TEAM 2nd Week, Friday, Oct. 9th

* Martha Dooley * Cynda Piper * Bonnie Newman

SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE REPORT

Change Point: 44 babies have been saved so far. This is 10 more than the final total of 2014! Thanks be to God!

HANDS OF MARY SAVE THE DATE

CRAFT DAY October 6, 2015 - St. Mary's Parish Hall

1:00PM to 3:00PM Call Janet Borchert for information at 501-416-7952

PICK UP STICKS CALVARY CEMENTARY

Saturday, October 17th 10AM to Noon

PRAY FOR THOSE IN THE MILITARY and FOR THOSE WHO SERVED

Doug Fires Jyrlyn Greene Tony Guanella Nicholas Hanna Andrew Hanna Blake Heller Edmund Jaskiewicz Ryan Jordan Tristan Jordan Michael Elmore

John Long Nick Madson Ryan McCabe Nicholas Mueller Morgan Patterson Sean Patrick Bee Stamps Matt Steinhaus Patrick Steinhaus Walker Vaughn

Emmanuel Alvarez Evadne Anderson James F. Anderson II Darren Bemis Katherine Brock Colt Davis A. J. Dierks Stephen Drakes Sandy Vongsiri-Jordan

Fr. George Blog www.chat-cat.org

Beau Admire Oct 6 Danna Strozyk Oct 7 Charles Cook Oct 8 Kevin Kowalkowski Oct 8 Jonathan Sanchez Oct 8 Kayla Kalahiki Oct 9 Edward Lawton Oct 9 Eric Sliger Oct 9 Jared Hanig Oct 10 Larry Stidman Oct 10 Kaleigh CanterburyOct 11

NO COFFEE CAT ON

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4th

ACCOUNTING STAFF POSITION St. Mary of the Springs in Hot Springs is looking for a staff accountant. Must be experienced in Excel & Word for preparation of monthly budget reports for Parish Council & Finance Council, as well as all areas of payroll preparation & QuickBooks Software; three years experience preferred. Individual should be well organized & enjoy working in a team environment, helping in other areas as needed besides accounting. Job hours possibly 14-28 hours per week. Actual hours & salary will depend upon skills & expertise. Please send resume with references to 101 Whittington Place, Hot Springs, AR 71901, Attn: Fr. George Sanders or email to stmcc@hotsprings.net, Subject line: Accounting Position

CANTORS St. Mary’s needs cantors for our weekend liturgies. Training will be provided. If you are interested in this ministry, please contact Karen Goodman 501-538-3654 or call the church office.

CHOIR MEMBERS St. Mary’s is in need of choir members. We will soon have a new Music Director and will begin preparing for Advent and Christmas. If you are interested and want to sing for the Lord, then please call Karen Goodman 501-538-3654 or the Church office to arrange for an audition.

Tristan Jordan Oct 3 Randi Newman Oct 3 Thi Kim Nguyen Oct 3 David Sluppick Oct 3 Judith Burchfield Oct 4 James George Oct 4 Barbara Moore Oct 4 Charles Moore Oct 4 Ron Czarnecki Oct 5 Michael Lyford Oct 5 Katelin VanWagner Oct 5

OUR LADY OF FATIMA ROSARY 2015 PUBLIC ROSARY CRUSADE

Saturday, October 10th 12Noon At the Grotto of St. Mary’s

HANDS OF MARY YOU HAVE DONE IT AGAIN!!!

Thank you for pitching in before, during, and after the It's Time dinner. Just a few days after our phenomenal parish picnic we rocked out a BBQ dinner. You make this job look so easy, we have been asked to serve refreshments at the Advent Mission called Life in the Spirit held Nov 8-12. More details later. Save the date! You ladies truly have the heart of Mary!

HANDS OF MARY TAILGATING PARTY

ARKANSAS vs ALABAMA COME CALL THE HOGS!!!

Saturday, October 10, 2015 After 4PM Mass in the Parish Hall

All men and women of the parish are invited. Bring you favorite tailgating appetizer or dessert as well as your beverage of choice. We will have a nacho bar with tea and lemonade. Call Mary Jo @ 501-622-0004 for more information.

GO HOGS GO!

TOWARD HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS From the beginning of creation, God intended for people to live together in relationship with one another. Much of scripture shows us how to do this as it illustrates and clarifies God’s plans. The readings this weekend guide us in the value and care of our relationships. Specifically, the Gospel focuses on the circumstances of failed relationships. Unlike the Pharisees, we would do well not to focus on the laws that pertain to failed relationships, but concentrate instead on what God really intended for us. Healthy bonds require a lot of our time and energy. They certainly require trust and honesty. Jesus demonstrated a deep commitment to his friends and to us. As our brother, he gave his very life for us. Children work hard at friendships. They trust, forgive, and love without conditions. The final words of today’s Gospel invite us to welcome Jesus and the people of our relationships with the fresh enthusiasm of a child. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Sunday, October 4, 2015 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION The old world of what we call canonical penance, or the extraordinary one‑time public repentance of sinners, began to collapse with the conversion of Constantine in the early fourth century. It tottered for a hundred years or so and then virtually disappeared. It served an isolated and persecuted church well, but once people began seeking baptism for economic and political privilege, a real pastoral crisis exploded. There were more lukewarm Christians afoot, and some “barbarians” rampaging through the ruins accepted baptism just because their leaders did. As the old structures collapsed, people who still sought some sort of public conversion scampered off to the desert to live in monastic isolation. Penance disappeared from the parish scene, and the old bench where hungry penitents used to beg for prayers was empty. Some bishops faced the crisis by inventing alternate means of discipline, all more private than public. A person might be asked to refrain from receiving Communion for a time, or even to accept some sort of corporal punishment (the pedigree of the stocks and scarlet letters of colonial America). This had the effect of separating the sinner from the prayerful intercession of the gathered church, and made an already bad situation worse. Before long, the pastoral system of penance was in a shambles, and sadly irrelevant to ordinary Christians. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD Of all the events and circumstances that draw people together, it would seem that marriage is the most universal and obvious manifestation of that longing to be one. Though some may sacrifice marriage for what they deem to be a greater good or need, and others may never find their heart’s way to that dream, all of us long to be touched by the magic of committed love. There is something woven into the warp and woof of our lives that passionately searches for it. More than anything, it is the ideal of marital love that reveals what we are meant to be—all of life and love so united to one another that there is nothing to divide, since there is no longer anything but pure oneness. Then we are no longer two simply because we are one, one flesh. That is what makes divorce such a sadness, such a personal and even communal tragedy—that it shatters the vision of what we are meant to be. That is also why it causes such pain, such a wrenching; for if marriage fails, might not then also God’s dream of who we shall be? That seems to be too unbearable even to dare consider. Into such fragile human becoming, then, comes the Lord Jesus, among the married and the divorced, among the sad and the joyful, among the lost and the hopeful, into what we are no matter what we are. He is the most profound and transforming revelation of that unity to which we are called simply because he unites and embodies both the human and the divine in such a way that it can never again be alienated. —Rev. Joseph J. Juknialis Copyright © 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

LIVING GOD’S WORD It is the Lord Jesus who is God’s radical commitment to creation and to the human race. In him the human has become divine and the divine has become human. In spite of our own sinfulness all is becoming one. In Jesus the journey has begun.

Copyright © 2014, World Library Publications. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jonah 1:1 - 2:2, 11; Jonah 2:3-5, 8; Luke 10:25-37 Tuesday: Jonah 3:1-10; Psalms 130:1b-4ab, 7-8; Luke 10:38-42 Wednesday: Jonah 4:1-11; Psalms 86:3-6, 9-10; Luke 11:1-4 Thursday: Malachi 3:13-20b; Psalms 1:1-4, 6; Luke 11:5-13 Friday: Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2; Psalms 9:2-3, 6, 16, 8-9; Luke 11:15-26 Saturday: Joel 4:12-21; Psalms 97:1-2, 5-6, 11-12; Luke 11:27-28 Sunday: Wisdom 7:7-11; Psalms 90:12-17; Hebrews 4:12-13; Mark 10:17-30 [17-27]

ENCOURAGEMENT As vital as oxygen is to the body, so is

encouragement to the soul. —Anonymous

ST. MARY’S FAITH FORMATION

Contact Natalie Evans: 501-545-3064 Email: stmarys.cym@gmail.com

Facebook: St. Mary’s CYM

Junior High & Senior High Youth Sunday, Oct. 4th from 6-8PM, in the Carroll Room

CHI ST. VINCENT’S PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL

Open Hours: Sun: 7AM, 7PM Mon: 8AM & 11AM, Wed: 8AM & 7PM Fri: 6AM & 6PM - Sat: 6PM & 8PM There are also overnight hours where an Adorer in needed. Please call Shelly at 623-6201 to volunteer.

St. John’s Catholic School Pre K 2 1/2 through 8th Grade 501-624-3171 - www.sjshs.org Mrs. Angela Isaacs, Principal

ST. JOHN’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL

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Stephen Ray emphasizes that unless we understand the innate “Jewishness” of Christianity and our Old Testament heritage, we will never fully understand our Faith, the Church, or even salvation itself. These are rooted not only in the early Church, but 2000 years before that, in Abraham. With his infectious enthusiasm, Stephen helps us to learn the deep truths of scripture that God taught through Abraham.

SOCIETY of ST. VINCENT de PAUL Members of the Society are men and women who strive to grow spiritually by offering person-to-person service to individuals in need. Call 501-538-1062, if you or anyone you know need assistance The society meets every Wednesday in the Carroll Room from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM.

In today’s Gospel, Jesus tells his disciples, “Let the children come to me…for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” This week, please help the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to bring the love and mercy of Jesus to children who are hungry and cold.

Join us this Thursday

Our modern world has lost its story. We don’t know from where we came, why we are here, where we are going. But God has a plan for each of our lives that reveals the true meaning of our existence and leads to eternal happiness.

It’s Not Too Late, come for just one class or all– 6:30PM in the Parish Hall

Welcome non-Catholics and Catholics all are encouraged to attend!

OCTOBER - THE MONTH OF MARY In celebration of the Month of the Rosary (October), St. Mary's will begin the Pilgrim Virgin Family Rosary program. We are asking parishioners to sign up to take the Pilgrim Virgin in to your home for a week with a commitment to say the Rosary daily or at least one decade a day. We have two complete sets of materials, so we are asking one family a week to sign-up. On your assigned weekend, you will bring up the Gifts and Father will hand you the case and give you a blessing. Return the case to the front of the alter on the next weekend. The case will contain all the materials you need to have a successful week with Mary and the Rosary. Sign-ups will be in the back of the church or you can contact Stephaine Nehus at nehuss@hssd.net for more information.

SAVE THE DATE Advent Parish Mission: Life in the Spirit

Sunday, Nov. 8th through Wednesday, Nov. 11th in St. Mary's Parish Hall facilitated by Deacon Larry Oney of Louisiana. For more information contact Christy Miller 501 318-9242 or Mary Gallimore 501 282-1383.

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE CHURCH ANNUAL KEIMESSE(Carnival)

35 Kennedy Cutoff Rd., Glenwood, AR Saturday, October 10th - 10AM-6PM

You are invited to come and enjoy our Annual Keimesse (Carnival). There will be Mexican and Salvadorian Food to enjoy. Come and enjoy the food and games! There will be a basketball and a soccer tournament for the young at heart. Buy a raffle ticket for $5 per ticket or $20 for 5 tickets and try to win 1st prize of $500, 2nd prize is $250 and 3rd prize of $100. Come try food from El Savador or buy some baked goods to take home and enjoy!

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