Prayer for Fortnight For Freedom ST. MICHAEL & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCHES PASTOR: FATHER LARRY GEARHART Parish 834-2664 - Fr. Larry’s cell: (937) 414-7977 Sunday, June 30, 2013 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME ST. MICHAEL CHURCH 40 Walnut Street Mechanicsburg, OH 43044 MASS Sunday - 8:00 am Wed - 5:15 pm Reconciliation TBD IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: 10:30 AM - SUN., JULY 7 Extraordinary Minister - Gene Leiter Lector - Ed Kise Servers - Mary Ellen Johnson & Shelley Moore SAINT MICHAEL: 8:00 AM - SUN., JULY 7 Extraordinary M. - Maria Hoewischer & Sondra Chester Lector - Maria McNicol Servers - Gus Hoewischer & Max Hoewischer ST. MICHAEL NEWS IMMACULATE CONCEPTION P.O. Box 444 164 West Elm Street North Lewisburg, OH 43060 MASS Sunday - 10:30 am Tuesdays - 5:15 pm Reconciliation TBD Family of Richard “Dick” Bacon Jennifer Bonnell Robbie Dillow Ron Hesson Chris Pearson Kate Kahler Jerri Taylor Ellie Herdman Ernest Drake Missy Masters Lisa Gartin Newman Brittany Schaffner Gevoden Lisa Newman Bernie Zoppa April Carsey Norman Wyatt Marcy Bauman Brenda Shonkwiler Bruce Chester Anita Smith Jill Vanuch Kathryn Randall Tricia Deere Cathy Lynch Brian Schneider Vickie Bowers Vickie Kendall Patti Baker Rick Anderson Charlene Murray Emily Smith Jim & Jan Knapp John Weller Rick Gill Elijah hands on the yoke of his office to Elisha, his successor. We stand upon the shoulders of those who have come before us as we will pass the message on to those who will follow after us. (1 Kings 19:16,19-21) VOCATION VIEW Offerings: SM: (6/23/13) $536. 00 (6/30/13) $. 00 IC: (6/23/13) $ 812. 00 Please let Chris (IC) or Peg (SM) know of prayer list changes. • Parish Council: Our next meeting is July 10 at 7:00 PM . With the changes that are taking place, this will be an important meeting. • Please pray for fellow parishioner Mary Ann Bacon and her family. She lost her husband Dick this past Tuesday. Her address is 6305 Pleasant Chapel Road, Mechanicsburg, OH 43044. • Father will be moving to the rectory at St. Mary’s. After he departs the rectory, the parish will need to clean, paint and prepare the house for rental. Once the details are worked out by the Parish Council, parishioners will be asked to help. Taking care of the house as soon as possible will bring MUCH needed income for the parish. 2013—2014 Saint Michael Parish Council Annie Colliflower, Chair............... 834-3784 Peg Baltes, Secretary .................... 834-2516 James Dietrich ..................... (614) 307-0532 Roger Geers ......................... (740) 506-1171 Jerry Love ..................................... 834-2840 Jeff Lyons ............................. (937) 390-2015 Garth McNary ...................... (614) 679-4406 Scott Spinner ....................... (513) 508-6574 NEXT Parish Council Meeting: July 10 PRAYER NEEDS: Peg Baltes 834-2516 - [email protected]ST. VINCENT de PAUL GUILD Scott Spinner 834-1710 CARING KITCHEN Jennifer Dietrich (614) 361-9104 MASS MINISTRIES: Diane Ziegler 834-3498 - [email protected]CHURCH NEWS & CALENDAR: Kay Miller 834-5120 - [email protected]MASS INTENTIONS Sunday, June 30 5:00 PM Saturday BVM’s Intentions 8:00 A.M. Dick Chester 10:30 A.M. Liz (Wagner) and John Kirschenheiter and family Mon., July 1 SM Noon PM At St. Mary’s Tues., July 2 IC 5:15 PM Pro-Populo Wed., July 3 SM 5:15 PM Pro-Populo Thurs., July 4 Independence Day 10:00 AM At St. Mary’s (end of Fortnight for Freedom) For Liberty, Feder- alism and Respect for Conscience PRAYER LIST MAJOR BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT DEADLINE CHANGE : Announcements are now due Friday 9 days before the Sunday in which you would like the announcement to appear. The deadline for Annie, Kay and Mary Ann for July 14 bulletin is July 5 . O GOD OUR CREATOR, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God, and your Son, Jesus Christ. Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit, you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world, bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel to every corner of society. We ask you to bless us in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty. Give us the strength of mind and heart to readily defend our freedoms when they are threatened; give us courage in making our voices heard on behalf of the rights of your Church and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith. Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father, a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters gathered in your Church in this decisive hour in the history of our nation, so that, with every trial withstood and every danger overcome— for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, and all who come after us— this great land will always be “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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Prayer for Fortnight For Freedom
ST. MICHAEL & IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC CHURCHES
PASTOR: FATHER LARRY GEARHART Parish 834-2664 - Fr. Larry’s cell: (937) 414-7977
Sunday, June 30, 2013
THIRTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME ST. MICHAEL CHURCH 40 Walnut Street Mechanicsburg, OH 43044 MASS Sunday - 8:00 am
Wed - 5:15 pm
Reconciliation TBD
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION: 10:30 AM - SUN., JULY 7
Extraordinary Minister - Gene Leiter
Lector - Ed Kise
Servers - Mary Ellen Johnson & Shelley Moore
SAINT MICHAEL: 8:00 AM - SUN., JULY 7
Extraordinary M. - Maria Hoewischer & Sondra Chester
Please let Chris (IC) or Peg (SM) know of prayer list changes.
• Parish Council: Our next meeting is July 10 at 7:00 PM. With the changes that are taking place, this will be an important meeting.
• Please pray for fellow parishioner Mary Ann Bacon and her family. She lost her husband Dick this past Tuesday. Her address is 6305 Pleasant Chapel Road, Mechanicsburg, OH 43044.
• Father will be moving to the rectory at St. Mary’s. After he departs the rectory, the parish will need to clean, paint and prepare the house for rental. Once the details are worked out by the Parish Council, parishioners will be asked to help. Taking care of the house as soon as possible will bring MUCH needed income for the parish.
Scott Spinner ....................... (513) 508-6574
NEXT Parish Council Meeting: July 10
PRAYER NEEDS: Peg Baltes 834-2516 - [email protected] ST. VINCENT de PAUL GUILD Scott Spinner 834-1710 CARING KITCHEN Jennifer Dietrich (614) 361-9104 MASS MINISTRIES: Diane Ziegler 834-3498 - [email protected] CHURCH NEWS & CALENDAR: Kay Miller 834-5120 - [email protected]
MASS INTENTIONS
Sunday, June 30 5:00 PM Saturday BVM’s Intentions
8:00 A.M. Dick Chester
10:30 A.M. Liz (Wagner) and
John Kirschenheiter and family
Mon., July 1 SM Noon PM At St. Mary’s
Tues., July 2 IC 5:15 PM Pro-Populo
Wed., July 3 SM 5:15 PM Pro-Populo
Thurs., July 4 Independence Day
10:00 AM At St. Mary’s
(end of Fortnight for Freedom)
For Liberty, Feder-alism and Respect
for Conscience
PRAYER LIST
MAJOR BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENT DEADLINE CHANGE: Announcements are now due Friday 9 days before the Sunday in which you would like the
announcement to appear. The deadline for Annie, Kay and Mary Ann for July 14 bulletin is July 5 .
O GOD OUR CREATOR, from your provident hand we have received our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You have called us as your people and given us the right and the duty to worship you, the only true God, and your Son, Jesus Christ. Through the power and working of your Holy Spirit, you call us to live out our faith in the midst of the world, bringing the light and the saving truth of the Gospel to every corner of society.
We ask you to bless us in our vigilance for the gift of religious liberty. Give us the strength of mind and heart to readily defend our freedoms when
they are threatened; give us courage in making our voices heard on behalf of the rights of your Church
and the freedom of conscience of all people of faith.
Grant, we pray, O heavenly Father, a clear and united voice to all your sons and daughters gathered in your Church in this decisive hour in the history of our nation, so that, with every trial withstood and every danger overcome— for the sake of our children, our grandchildren, and all who come after us— this great land will always be “one nation, under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
• We need people to clean the church, please, consider offering your 'elbow grease.'
• Gather for Bible Study led by Ed Kise at 9:00 A.M. at our church on each second Sunday of the
month. All are welcome!
• Immaculate Conception Parish continues to take do-nations from the basket in the church entrance to the Caring Kitchen! Thanks for continued generous food donations.
• Sycamore House/Blessings in a Bottle; This annual fundraiser supports the work of the Sycamore House Preganancy Center of Champaign County. Persons willing to support are asked to take a bottle (or more than one!) and put any spare change in it over the next two months-we'll gladly take any spare cash or spare checks made out to "Sycamore House" as well. Please contact Ed Kise for more information on the agency and its work. The bottles will be available in the back of the church beginning today, June 30. We are asking that any contributions be returned by August 25. They may be given directly to Ed or taken to Sycamore House in Urbana on Tuesdays and Thursdays between 12:00-6:00p.m. Thank you for your support!
• It has been suggested by several parishoners that the first-of-the-month- brunch be moved to the second Sunday for July only. Mary Fogle-Kise is also asking that on that Sunday (July 14) all persons assisting with the Ice Cream Social gather for a few minutes after
Mass to discuss preparations. Thanks to all for your help.
FORTNIGHT FOR FREEDOM: It has begun! June 21 through July 4
On April 12, an Ad hoc Committee on Religious Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) issued a document, “Our First Most Cherished Freedom,” outlining the bishops’ concerns over threats to religious freedom, both home and abroad. The bishops called for a “Fortnight for Freedom,” a 14-day period of prayer, education and action in support of religious freedom, from June 21-July 4. During this period, parishioners are encouraged to take part in various opportunities for prayer and action to ensure the integrity of this most cherished freedom. One concrete example of this challenge to our religious freedom is the mandate by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for religious institutions such as universities, hospitals and charitable organizations, to facilitate access to contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs, which would be contrary to religious beliefs. It is an unprecedented action by the federal government to define which religious institutions are “religious enough” to merit protection of their religious liberty. Another example are laws (e.g. in Alabama) that forbid the Church form offering basic charity and pastoral care to undocumented immigrants. Regardless of anyone’s status, the Church cannot hold back access to the sacraments or basic human needs to any child of God. The Fortnight for Freedom is an opportunity for people of all faiths to remember that we should not confine our faith to just the worship space, but we have a human right to bring it to the public square for the common good of all who live in this land. To learn more and to access resources for participation, please visit www.catholiccincinnati.org and click on the “Preserving Religious Freedom” link under resources menu.
Additional information can be found at www.usccb.org/conscience.
Remembering Religious Liberty on Independence Day This is the last week of the second “Fortnight for Freedom” called by the U.S. Catholic bishops to draw special attention to current threats to religious liberty. As we approach the celebration of the
birth of our nation, people of faith are encouraged to remember that our nation’s founders embraced freedom of religion as an essential condition of a free and democratic society. They enshrined this vision in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, which guarantees that “Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” This has meant that churches and religious institutions are not only free to worship in their own way, but they are
also free to exercise ministries of education, charity and social justice that reflect their fundamental beliefs and serve all people, regardless of faith, economic position, or immigration status.
We encourage all parishioners to consider participating in Mass on July 4th - 10:00 AM at St. Mary’s - to pray for the preservation of religious freedom.
To learn more, go to www.catholiccincinnati.org and, under the RESOURCES menu click on the “Preserving Religious Freedom” or visit www.usccb.org/conscience.
These will be the pro-populo Masses for Immaculate Conception and St. Michael's parishes,
respectively. (The new schedule will take effect the week of July 7th. The week of June 30th is
going to be very hectic, given the moves on July 1st and 2nd as well as the Independence Day
holiday.) They are, of course, in addition to the Sunday Mass schedule as well as in addition to a
Saturday daily Mass once a month at times yet to be chosen by our two parishes. Depending on
need, it is possible that a Saturday daily Mass may be preempted by a funeral or a wedding.
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