Our Lady of Sorrows Church

Our Lady of Sorrows 5020 Rhodes Avenue St. Louis, MO 63109 www.olsorrows.org

Business Hours Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Phone (314) 351-1600

Fax (314) 351-1602 Pastor

Fr. Sebastian Mundackal

Mass Schedule

Daily Monday—Friday 7:00 a.m.

Holy Days 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m.

Rectory closed on all Holy Days

Sunday Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Confessions Tuesday 6:45—7:00 a.m.; Saturday 4:00—4:45 p.m.

By appointment anytime

PARISH STAFF Rev. Sebastian Mundackal, Pastor

sebastianosb@yahoo.com Rev. Andrew Sigmund, Retired

andrewjsigmund@gmail.com Deacon Dan Skillman, Pastoral Associate

skillmand@olsorrows.org Mrs. Cathy Newhouse, Business Manager

olscan@sbcglobal.net Mrs. Mary Ann Rachas, Bulletin Editor

rectory@olsorrows.org Mr. Greg Schweizer, Director of Music

gregschweizer@hotmail.com

SOUTH CITY CATHOLIC ACADEMY Mrs. Laura Hirschman, Principal

lhirschman@sccastl.org 5821 Pernod Ave St. Louis, MO 63139 314-752-4171 www.stlsouthcitycatholicacademy.org

OTHER HELPFUL NUMBERS Corinne Bardgett, Parish Council 481-0335 Prayer Chain 330-9275

Parish Helpers 351-4673 Medical Equipment Needs 752-4660 Martha Ministry (funeral luncheons) 351-4673 St. Vincent de Paul (assistance line) 289-6101 mailbox 1123 Eucharistic Adoration: The Adoration Chapel, locat-ed in the South Sacristy, is open on weekdays; call the rectory for specific hours. Please come & spend some time in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Sacramental Policies: For details on sacramental policies for infant baptism, adult initiation, anointing of the sick, Christian mar-riage, or religious vocations, stop by the rectory or visit our website: www.olsorrows.org. Bulletin Articles: Should be submitted by 9am Tuesday morning prior to the weekend the article is to run. Articles may be emailed to bulletin@olsorrows.org, faxed to 314.351.1602, or dropped off at the Rectory office.

Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Year A July 5, 2020

From the Pastor’s Desk

Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Louis, MO

During the U. S. Independence Day celebrations yester-day, Americans probably heard all or part of Emma Lazarus’ poem inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…. Send these, the homeless tempest-tossed to me.” Today’s readings, especially the Gospel, give the same message in a more powerful way: "Take my yoke . . . and you will find rest." Scripture lessons summarized: In the first read-ing, the prophet Zechariah consoles the Jews living in Palestine under Greek rule, promising them a “meek” Messianic King of peace riding on a donkey, who will give them rest and liberty. The Responsorial Psalm (Ps 145) praises and thanks a kind and compas-sionate God Who “raises up those who are bowed down” under heavy yokes. In the second reading, Paul tells the first-century Christian community in Rome about two yokes, namely, the “flesh” and the “Spirit,” and he challenges them to reject the heavy and fatal yoke of the flesh and accept the light yoke of the Spirit of Jesus. Christian spirituality, according to Paul, proceeds from the initiative of the Holy Spirit and means living in the realm of the “Spirit” as opposed to the “flesh." In the Gospel, Jesus offers rest to those “who labor and are burdened” if they will accept his “easy yoke and light burden.” By declaring that his “yoke is light,” Jesus means that whatever God sends us is made to fit our needs and our abilities exactly. The second part of Jesus’ claim is: "My burden is light." Jesus does not mean that the burden is easy to

carry, but that it is laid on us in love, that it is meant to be carried in love, and that love makes even the heavi-est burden light. Life messages: #1 We need to unload our burdens on the Lord. This “unloading” is the main purpose of our personal and family prayers and is one of the functions of Divine Worship in the Church. During our daily prayers in the evening, we ask God’s forgiveness for the sins and fail-ures of day and receive the consoling assurance that we are reconciled with God and our fellow human be-ings. During the Holy Mass in our parish Church, we place our stress-filled lives on the altar and allow Jesus to cool down the overheated radiators of our hectic lives. We also unload the burdens of our sins and wor-ries on the altar and offer them and ourselves to God during the Holy Mass. #2 We need to be freed from unnecessary bur-dens. Jesus lays the light burden of his commandment of love on us and yokes us with himself, giving us his strength through the Holy Spirit to fulfill that command-ment. Jesus is also interested in lifting off our backs the burdens that suck the life out of us, so that he can place around our necks his own yoke that brings to us and to others through us, new life, new energy, and new joy. We are called, not only to find peace, refresh-ment and rest for ourselves, but also to live the kind of life through which others, too, may find God's peace, God's refreshing grace, and the joy of placing their lives in God's hands.

July 5, 2020

SUN 7/5

MON 7/6

TUE 7/7

WED 7/8

THU 7/9

FRI 7/10

SAT 7/11

SUN 7/12

Monday, July 6 St. Maria Goretti, virgin and mar-tyr Readings: Hos 2:16, 17b-18, 21-22; Ps 145:2-9; Mt 9:18-26

7:00 a.m. †Marilyn & Michael Breeding Tuesday, July 7 Weekday Readings: Hos 8:4-7, 11-13; Ps 115:3-10; Mt 9:32-38

7:00 a.m. †Gene Brammeier Wednesday, July 8 Weekday Readings: Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-7; Mt

10:1-7 7:00 a.m. †Jerry Knobbe Thursday, July 9 St. Augustine Zhao Rong, priest and companions, martyrs

Readings: Hos 11:1-4, 8e-9; Ps 80:2ac, 3b, 15-16; Mt 10:7-15

7:00 a.m. †Mary Jane Mahoney Friday, July 10 Weekday

Readings: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 51:3-4, 8-9, 12-14, 17; Mt 10:16-23

7:00 a.m. †Richard Dieckmann Saturday, July 11 St. Benedict, abbot Readings: Is 6:1-8; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mt 10:24-

33 5:00 p.m. †Linda Piasecki servers: J. Christians, L. Meyer, A. Paulus lectors: J. Svejkosky & K. Pluff

Sunday, July 12 Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings: Is 55:10-11; Ps 65:10-14; Rom 8:18- 23; Mt 13:1-23 [1-9]

10:00 a.m. †Dan Reinarman servers: C. Brunner, C. Mouser, K. Wilkinson

lectors: M. Heisohn & J. Phelps

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Parish Mission Statement: We, the Catholic community of Our Lady of Sorrows, are disciples of Jesus Christ through our Bap-tism. Nourished by Word and Sacrament we seek to form adults, teens, and children in the ways of the Gospel, while welcoming new members to our parish and our Catholic faith. As a Eucharistic people, guided by the Holy Spirit, we minister to all, especially the ill, elderly, and those in need, through works of fellowship, charity and justice. We strive to continue the mission of our parish begun a

century ago through the prayerful intercession of Mary, Our Mother.

Sharing our Faith in Jesus, Caring for our Community, Building on Tradition

Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Louis, MO

Welcome! We welcome our devoted and faithful parishioners, neighbors who come regularly to support our mission, all St. Louisans of all faiths, and our visitors. Serving you in this beautiful church of Our Lady of Sorrows is a great privilege.

— Fr. Sebastian Mundackal, pastor — Fr. Andrew Sigmund, retired in residence — Deacon Dan Skillman, permanent deacon

Online Giving Sign up for Online Giving by visiting our parish website at www.olsorrows.org and selecting the online giving link. If you need technical support, you can contact Our Sunday Visitor at 1-800-348-2886, option 4, or contact Cathy Newhouse in the rectory: 351-1600.

Baptismal Preparation The next Baptismal Preparation Evening is MONDAY, JULY 6 from 7:00-8:00 p.m. in the Rectory. If you need to have your child (under 7) baptized, please call 351-1600, to sign up for our next preparation oppor-tunity.

Pray for the Sick Please remember the following people in your prayers:

Carl Brown Audrey Kohnen Bob Reichelt Mike Cebulski Kenny Mehring Jack Reilly Mary Ann Chibnall Richard Messmer Audrey Sambo Mary Lou Goedeker Julia Michalka Robert Seeber Gary Harbstreet John Moran Pat Taylor

E-mail Account for Bulletin Submissions If you wish to submit content to the bulletin via e-mail, please use the new address: bulletin@olsorrows.org. This account will strictly be for bulletin articles. Please direct all other inquiries for the parish staff to rectory@olsorrows.org or olscan@sbcglobal.net.

Join us in praying for the deceased members of our par-ish community:

Yolanda Downey

To all who mourn their loss, we extend our deepest sympathy and prayers during this difficult time. We call on Mary, Our Lady of Sorrows, to comfort you in your grief.

Contributions In lieu of dropping your contribution envelopes in the collection basket at Sunday mass, you can mail them to the rectory, drop them in the mail slot located on the interior rectory door, or set up Online Giving. If you need technical support to set up Online Giving, you can contact Our Sunday Visitor at 1-800-348-2886 option 4. Thank you for your continued generosity, prayers, and patience as we all navigate through these unprece-dented times together.

Our Lady of Sorrows, Pray for Us

Prayer for the Dead

In your hands, O Lord, we humbly entrust our brothers and sisters.

In this life you embraced them with your tender love;

deliver them now from every evil and bid them eternal rest.

The old order has passed away: welcome them into paradise,

where there will be no sorrow, no weeping or pain,

but fullness of peace and joy with your Son and the Holy Spirit

forever and ever. Amen.

THE RIGHT DIRECTION

If we walk one step toward God, God will run ten steps toward us.

—Anonymous

Due to an early publisher’s deadline for the July 5 bulletin, the Sunday Offering for June 28 will be

published in next weekend’s bulletin.

July 5, 2020

July 5: Ordinary Time – True Kingship

Dynamic Catholic, Alive! – True Kingship Jesus is a walking contradiction in many ways. He is the lion and the lamb, the victor and the victim, God’s son and the carpenter’s son. The nature of His kingship is also perplexing. He is the gentle and meek one who takes all of our sins, problems, afflic-

tions, and weaknesses upon Himself as the suffering servant (Isaiah 53). Yet he is also the almighty God who has au-thority over the wind and the sea (Mark 4:39). Jesus shows us that we are never as powerful as He is but that we can share in His power by surrendering to His grace. Jesus gently invites us to fol-low Him and to cast all of our cares and

burdens upon Him so that He may help us to bear them successfully.

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Eucharistic Adoration Chapel

Please Note: Beginning the week of June 29, 2020, the Eu-charistic Adoration Chapel will only be open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday until fur-ther notice. This change is due to a recent decline in Adorer’s attending the Adoration Chapel on Mon-day and Friday, and the Blessed Sacrament being left exposed without Adorers present. Thank you for your understanding.

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Pass on the Good News! What good news? The Good News of Jesus Christ and our Catholic faith! This fall, over 100 children and young people, will sign up to learn more about Jesus and the Catholic Faith. You can help them learn and grow in faith by becoming a catechist for the South City Deanery PSR. Classes are on Monday’s from 6:20 – 7:40 PM, held on the campus of St. John the Baptist. As you nurture the faith of our young, you will learn and grow as well. As one long time catechist put it: “I learn so much from the children!” Training and support will be provided. If interested or for more information, contact Deacon George Watson at 314-773-3070.

Auditions for The Young Catholic Musicians

Vocal and Instrumental auditions for The Young Catholic Musicians orchestra and choir (www.youngcatholicmusicians.org) will be held dur-ing July. Ages 10 – 17 are welcome to audition. The YCM has 2 rehearsals a month and leads the music for Mass once a month. Contact Fr. Bruce Forman, Director, at 314-231-7464 or revycm@charter.net to schedule an audi-tion.

Prayer to Saint Benedict

O Glorious St. Benedict, sublime model of virtue, pure vessel of God's grace! Behold me humbly kneeling at

your feet. I implore you in your loving kindness to pray for me before the throne of God. To you I have

recourse in the dangers that daily surround me. Shield me against my selfishness and my indifference to God and to my neighbor. Inspire me to imitate you in all things. May your blessing be with me always, so

that I may see and serve Christ in others and work for His kingdom. Graciously obtain for me from God those favors and graces which I need so much in the trials, miseries, and afflictions of life. Your heart was always full of love, compassion, and mercy toward

those who were afflicted or troubled in any way. You never dismissed without consolation and assistance anyone who had recourse to you. I therefore invoke

your powerful intercession, confident in the hope that you will hear my prayers and obtain for me the spe-

cial grace and favor I earnestly implore (mention your favor). Help me, great St. Benedict, to live and die as a faithful child of God, to run in the sweetness of His

loving will, and to attain the eternal happiness of heaven.

Amen.

July 5, 2020

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