St. Mary’ s Immaculate Conception Parish Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time JULY 5, 2020 7176 Esker Road, Custer, WI 54423 Phone: 715-592-4330 Website: www.stmaryscuster.com Pastor - Fr. Alan Guanella (715) 592-4221 [email protected]In case of emergency only please call 715-629-9952 Senior Priest in Residence Fr. Roy Witucki Secretary-Donna Wierzba [email protected]Bookkeeper-Diane Wysocki [email protected]CCD Coordinator-Jessica Bielen [email protected]Custodian-Jeanne Hintz Maintenance/Grounds keeping Josh Genskow CLERGY PARISH STAFF Parish Mission Statement St Mary’s Parish is a practicing Catholic Community providing spiritual, social and educational opportunities for all God’s people that we may deepen our love of God and one another through prayer and deed. The bishop has given permission to resume weekday Masses at 25% capacity. We will start at SH and SMIC on Tuesday, July 7 with the normal Mass schedule. There is no need to register/sign up for Wednesday & Friday Masses Reminder. Since weekend Masses cannot exceed 25% capacity and seating is limited, please remember to call the parish office, 715-592-4330 every week to sign -up to attend the weekend Mass. ~ Thank you Tuesday, June 7 @ SH 8:15am †Jeannette Orlikowski by Family Wednesday, July 8 @ St. Mary’s 8:15am †Denny Stransky by Kirk & Jacquie Wille Thursday, July 9 – St. Augustine Zhao Rong @ SH 8:15am †Dorothy Perzewski by Chester & Conrad Perzewski Friday, July 10 @ St. Mary’s 8:15am †Ron & Ruth Werachowski by LeRoy & Pat Wierzba Saturday, July 11 – St. Benedict @ SH 8:15am †Esther Zinda by Ernest & Carol Kezeske 2:45pm Confessions 4:00pm †Romona Lilla by Russell & Anita Garski Sunday, July 12 – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:00am @ SH Sacred Heart & St. Mary’s Parish Families 10:00am @ St. Mary’s †Adolph & Sally Somers by Family
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St. Mary’ s Immaculate Conception Parish
Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time JULY 5, 2020
7176 Esker Road, Custer, WI 54423 Phone: 715-592-4330
Website: www.stmaryscuster.com
Pastor - Fr. Alan Guanella (715) 592-4221 [email protected] In case of emergency only please call
Parish Mission Statement St Mary’s Parish is a practicing Catholic Community
providing spiritual, social and educational opportunities for all God’s people that we may deepen our love of God
and one another through prayer and deed.
The bishop has given permission to resume weekday
Masses at 25% capacity. We will start at SH and
SMIC on Tuesday, July 7 with the normal Mass
schedule. There is no need to register/sign up for
Wednesday & Friday Masses
Reminder. Since weekend Masses cannot exceed 25% capacity and seating is limited, please remember to call the parish office, 715-592-4330 every week to
sign -up to attend the weekend Mass. ~ Thank you
Tuesday, June 7 @ SH
8:15am †Jeannette Orlikowski by Family
Wednesday, July 8 @ St. Mary’s
8:15am †Denny Stransky by Kirk & Jacquie Wille
Thursday, July 9 – St. Augustine Zhao Rong @ SH
8:15am †Dorothy Perzewski
by Chester & Conrad Perzewski
Friday, July 10 @ St. Mary’s
8:15am †Ron & Ruth Werachowski
by LeRoy & Pat Wierzba
Saturday, July 11 – St. Benedict @ SH
8:15am †Esther Zinda by Ernest & Carol Kezeske
2:45pm Confessions
4:00pm †Romona Lilla by Russell & Anita Garski
Sunday, July 12 – Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00am @ SH Sacred Heart & St. Mary’s Parish Families
**You can mail your weekly contributions to St. Mary’s I.C. 7176 Esker Road, Custer, WI 54423 or dropped in collection box. Thank you for your continued support.
Dear Friends in Christ,
Today we celebrate the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. In our
Gospel passage today, we hear strong language from Jesus about the
relationship he has with God the Father. Jesus openly addresses God as his
Father and gives thanks that it is the lowly ones to whom all has been
revealed. Jesus then speaks of the intimate knowledge he and the Father
have of one another. He brings in the simple disciples by saying that
anyone whom the Son chooses can share in that knowledge.
This type of knowledge that Jesus speaks of is not the intellectual
knowledge that we might first imagine. Rather, the knowledge that Jesus
speaks of us relational knowledge. In other words, the basic requirement
of receiving the knowledge from the Father is receiving the messenger,
and through the messenger—who is Jesus Christ, of course—we are
introduced into his relationship with the Father. This type of relational
knowledge goes beyond intellectual knowledge. We are saved not because
of how much we know, but because of the relationship we have with God
and his son, Jesus Christ. One might expect that the first to recognize
Jesus as the Christ would have been the teachers of the Law, for the Law
and the Prophets announce Christ. Unfortunately, their spiritual
knowledge had grown dull under the weight of subtle reasoning,
intellectual concepts, and disputes over interpretation—and their pride.
Jesus wills that the lowly and the humble—the opposite of the wise and
the learned—should be able to identify the One who loves and saves them.
It’s not about the intellectual knowledge, even though that is good, but
rather the relational knowledge that saves us. The intellectual knowledge
should always lead to relational knowledge: it’s about faith seeking
understanding.
The end of today’s Gospel is a well-known verse. Jesus directs an
invitation to anyone who will listen: Come to me, all you who labor and
are burdened, and I will give you rest. For my yoke is easy, and my burden
light. Most of us aren’t used to seeing oxen wearing yokes very often, but
the yoke was seen, in Jesus’ time, as a symbol of oppressive power. In this
passage it could also refer to the Law as understood by the scribes and
Pharisees: imposed and oppressive. In the New Covenant—the New
Law—the Law is not oppressive, but freeing. St. John Chrysostom
remarks: “This is how Christ treats us. He shows pity when a sinner
deserves punishment. When the race that angers him deserves to be
annihilated, he addresses the guilty ones in kind words.” For those who are
willing to follow Jesus, his yoke truly is easy and his burden light.
Fr. Guanella
Mass Readings for the Week of July 5th:
Sunday: Zec. 9:9–10; Ps. 145; Rom. 8:9–13; Mt. 11:25–30