July 1, 2018

St. Christopher Catholic Church Very Rev. Aidan Hynes, V.F., Pastor and James Parrilli, Deacon

12001 SE Federal Hwy, Hobe Sound, FL 33455 772-546-5150, office 772-546-8820, fax office@stchrishs.com Website: www.stchrishs.com

Office Hours: Monday thru Friday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Weekday Mass: Monday through Friday at 9:00am

Confessions on Friday, following the 9:00am Mass or by appointment Saturday Vigil Masses: 3:30pm and 5:00pm Sunday Masses: 7:30am, 9:00am, and 10:30am

Saturday, June 30, 2018

3:30 PM † Harold Culligan / † Marion A. Dooner / † Jose Dominguez / Intention of Audrey Camacho / † Living and Deceased Members of Magrogan and McMahon Families

5:00 PM † Loretta and Frank J. Burgert / † Julian Matkowski / † Jeffrey Boyce / Special Intention

Sunday, July 1, 2018

7:30 AM † Barbara Fahey / † Joseph Varone / † Robert Keller / Intention of People of St. Christopher

9:00 AM † The Charles and Sophie Lomangino Family / † James Daly / † Michael Gearde / † Richard Urmston

10:30 AM † Dennis March / Intention of Denise Doonan / Intention of Robert Wilhelm / Intention of Joy Fitzgerald

Monday, July 2, 2018

9:00 AM † Ron Woolfenden / † Barbara Fahey / † Kate Bowyer / † Michael Tufariello

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

9:00 AM † Francis Queally / † Marie Checco / Intention of Mary Hopkins / Intention of Marietta and Richard Tierney

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

9:00 AM † Florence Brennan / † Sheila Ryan Foley / † Heather Campbell / Intention of Bohan Family

Thursday, July 5, 2018

9:00 AM † Kathy Heuvelman / † Carlo Liccardi / Intention of Larry Day / Intention of Sarah Page

Friday, July 6, 2018

9:00 AM † Teresa Ann Waterson / † Chris Macaulay / Intention of Mary Russo / † Thomas Feerst / Intention of The Mariner Sands Prayer Group

Saturday, July 7, 2018

3:30 PM † Mary E. Dunn / † Robert Keller / † Martin Bogdan / † Carol Livingston

5:00 PM † Bob Gaffney / † Kate Bowyer / Intention of Mike Banyas / † Jean DeVito

Sunday, July 8, 2018 7:30 AM † Ralph Scheidt / † Ann Amen / † Reggie Hopkinson / Intention of People of St. Christopher

9:00 AM † Lois Morahan / † Justin Deges / † Lucille Dolce / † Joan Kelly

10:30 AM † Jerry Brinkworth / † Kerry Dillon / † Stephen Hance / Intention of Anna Markert

Altar Flowers

For the Parish Family of St. Christopher

Sanctuary Candles Intention of James Daly at the request of his family.

Parishioners and visitors remark on the arrangements adorning our sanctuary.

They are always fresh cut flowers, replaced weekly.

You can help with cost involved by using the floral arrangements to honor the living or memorialize the dead. An acknowledgment of those being honored or memorialized and

also the name of those arranging it will be placed in the bulletin each week.

A similar arrangement can be made for the sanctuary lamp. Please contact the parish office at 772-546-5150 for details.

First Reading, Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24 Death entered the world through the work of the devil.

Responsorial Psalm, Psalm 30:2,4,5-6,11,12,13 A prayer of thanksgiving to God for having rescued us

Second Reading, 2 Corinthians 8:7,9,13-15 As Christ became poor for our sake, so must we share with those in need from our abundance.

Gospel Reading, Mark 5:21-24,35b-43 Jesus heals a woman afflicted with a hemorrhage and raises Jairus’s daughter from death.

Background on the Gospel Reading

For today’s Gospel, we continue to read from the Gospel of Mark. Last Sunday we heard about Jesus calming the storm, the first of four miracles that Jesus performs in the vicinity of the Sea of Galilee. Each of these four miracle stories offers us a glimpse at Jesus’ power. This week we hear about the third and fourth miracles, skipping the second miracle, the healing of a man from Gerasene who was possessed by a demon.

Today’s Gospel reports two stories of healing. One story tells us about a father’s great love for his dying daughter. The other story tells us about a desperate woman who risks much as she seeks healing from Jesus. In each story, the request for healing is itself a courageous act of faith, and yet very different circumstances are represented by the lives of each suffering person.

Jairus is described as a synagogue official, a man of considerable standing in the Jewish community. Distraught over his daughter’s poor health, he approaches Jesus and asks him to heal her. Although Mark doesn’t provide many details, we can imagine that his daughter has been ill for some time and that her condition is deteriorating.

As Jesus leaves with Jairus, Mark describes a second person who seeks healing from Jesus, a woman with a hemorrhage. This woman secretly touches Jesus from behind and is immediately cured. In response, Jesus turns and asks who touched him. Jesus’ disciples, always a little clueless in Mark’s Gospel, help us envision the scene. The crowds are pushing in on Jesus, and yet he, knowing that power has gone out of him, asks who touched him. The woman could have remained anonymous, yet at Jesus’ question she steps forward and acknowledges what she has done. Jesus responds by acknowledging her as a model of faith and sends her away in peace.

At this point, we can imagine Jairus’s impatience with Jesus; his daughter is dying and Jesus hasn’t helped him yet. As if to build a sense of urgency, messengers suddenly arrive and confirm Jairus’s worst fear: his daughter has died. Jesus curiously ignores their message and reassures Jairus. When they arrive at Jairus’s home, they find family and friends mourning the girl’s death. Jesus enters the room of the dead girl, takes her by the hand, and instructs her to arise. Jairus’s faith in Jesus has not been in vain; his daughter is restored to life.

The contrasts between Jairus and the woman with the hemorrhage are stark and revealing. One is a man, the other is a woman. One is a public official, an important person in the community. The other is a woman who has lost everything to find a cure to a condition that separated her from the community. One approaches Jesus publicly. The other approaches Jesus secretly. Yet in each case, faith leads them to seek out Jesus in their time of need.

The Gospel concludes with Jesus’ instructions to remain silent about this miracle. This is typical of Mark’s Gospel and is sometimes referred to as the messianic secret. Repeatedly, those who witness Jesus’ power and authority are instructed to not speak of what they have witnessed. These instructions appear impossible to obey, and it is difficult to understand the purpose of these instructions. But in each case, they seem to emphasize the fact that each individual, including the reader of Mark’s Gospel, must, in the end, make his or her own judgment about Jesus’ identity. Each individual must make his or her own act of faith in affirming Jesus as God’s Son.

July 1, 2018 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

St. Christopher Catholic Church

Dollars and Sense

“Give to the Most High as He has given to you, generously, according to your means.” ~ Sirach 35: 7 - 9

Offertory, June 24, 2018 .....................................................................................$12,745.34

Last year ................................................................................................................................. 12,892.00

St. Vincent de Paul, June 24, 2018 ...................................................................... $2,515.00

This Week’s Second Collection, July 1, 2018

The second collection will be the customary start of month collection for Major Maintenance.

Next Week’s Second Collection, July 8, 2018

The second collection will be for Catholic Relief Services.

St. Christopher Council of Catholic Women , 30 Week Fundraiser

We are happy to announce the return of our popular 30 Week Club . Now is your chance to be a big winner. There will be 30 weekly drawings held from Sept thru April for 3 weeks at $30 and one week at $60 respectively for 29 consecutive weeks.

The 30th final drawing in May will be for $600! Everyone is eligible for each drawing even if you are a winner the previous week. Please join us in making this fundraiser a success. It provides needed funds which we share with various charitable organizations . Membership forms are available at the doors of the church. Thank you again for your continued support.

Catholic Relief Services…. Second Collection, July 8

Next week, our parish will take up The Catholic Relief Services Collection (CRSC). Funds from this collection help provide food to the hungry, support to displaced refugees, and bring Christ’s love and

mercy to all people here at home and abroad. Next week, please give generously to the CRSC, and help Jesus in disguise. Learn more about the collection at www.usccb.org/catholic-relief.

The clergy and staff of St. Christopher wish all of you a happy and safe July 4th!

The parish office will be closed on

Wednesday, July 4th in observance of the holiday!

July 1, 2018 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Prayer to Avert Hurricanes The Most Reverend Gerald M. Barbarito, Bishop of Palm Beach, is asking all parishes and schools in the

diocese to join him in a united prayer effort in thanksgiving for helping us through the past hurricane season, and for our protection from devastating storms in the 2018 Hurricane Season. Below is a Prayer to Avert

Storms that you and your families can use throughout the hurricane season. Thank you for your support of our prayer effort to ask God to keep us safe from hurricanes in this upcoming season.

God our Father, Creator of the Universe and Lord over all creation, we humbly stand before you as your children in thanksgiving for your loving care and protection. We ask that you keep us safe from all hurricanes which may threaten us in the coming seasons. Protect us from all fear and anxiety of storms and give us an ardent trust and hope in Your love and mercy. You alone have the power to command the sea, the wind and the rain. You alone bring peace, calm, and safety. Father, we thank you in advance, for you are our only Refuge. We ask this through Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen. Mary, Queen of the Apostles, and Patroness of our Diocese, pray for us.

Letter from our Bishop June 30, 2018

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ: On the Fourth of July, we celebrate the birth of our great nation, which came into existence recognizing that all people are created equal and are endowed by God with the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. At a time when there are so many challenges to these rights from the threat to the very right to life through legalized abortion to that of an inability to freely practice our faith in God, we, as American Catholics, stand united and committed to what our nation was founded to be. Our great nation, from its very beginning, has also been a home to those from other lands who have come here to live their God given rights. The Statue of Liberty beckons, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." We are aware of the many challenges that present threats to the immigrants presently coming to our country especially through a fractured system of laws that has long been poorly addressed and now calls for more adequate reform to protect the rights of immigrants as well as the security of our nation. As we celebrate the Fourth of July, we give thanks to God for our nation and pray that we may unite to protect it from laws which disregard the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We unite to welcome the immigrant and stranger to our land, as so many of our ancestors were, in a manner that is generous, protective of all, and keeps families together without separating parents and children as they come. We are a nation under God and we must do all we can to keep it that way. May the Fourth of July bring many blessings to all as we recognize and protect our freedoms and values for which our great nation was born two hundred forty-two years ago.

With every prayerful wish, I am Sincerely yours in Christ, Most Reverend Gerald M. Barbarito Bishop of Palm Beach

St. Christopher Catholic Church, Contacts

Religious Education Coordinator: Susan Kirch

772-546-5150 ext: 210 religioused@stchrishs.com

Each morning is an opportunity for us to begin again. Find a new prayer to say this week every morning when you begin your day.

Each day be a walking Gospel message.

You do not have to say anything, just live with joy.

Catechists be sure to let me know if you will be returning. We will be needing a few more assistants this coming year. Please consider joining the team.

This Week's 5 Questions:

1. Which Gospels tell the story of Jesus feeding 5,000? 2. Name the wood Noah used to build the Ark.

3. What was the name of the man who asked Jesus to heal his daughter? 4. Who did Jesus say would inherit the earth?

5. What two things were part of John the Baptist's diet?

Last Week’s 5 Questions:

1. Where did Jacob send his sons to get food or grain? Egypt (Genesis 42:1-2) 2. What did Moses have with him when came down from Mount Sinai? The Ten Commandments (Exodus 32:15)

3. What sign did Judas use to show the chief priests which man was Jesus? A kiss (Matthew 26:48) 4. Paul taught Christians to owe no one anything but what? Love (Romans 13:8) 5. How were Esau and Jacob related? They were twin brothers (Genesis 25:24-26)

St. Christopher Staff Mary Stevens, Office Manager

Diane Busch, Parish Bookkeeper Kathy Wildes, Secretary

(772) 546-5150

St. Christopher Choir Bernadette Lindell, Director

(561) 308-3724

Religious Education Sue Kirch, Coordinator of Religious Education

Kirch.susan@yahoo.com (772) 546-5150

St. Vincent de Paul

Financial Assistance Office (772) 546-2492

Monday thru Friday, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM

Thrift Shop (772) 546-5070 Monday thru Saturday 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Bible Study

As scheduled seasonally, watch the bulletin.

Eric Wolf, (772) 932-7969 Ken and Connie Ziesman

(772) 463-0858

Bingo

Every Wednesday, doors open at 11:00 AM and play starts at 12:30 PM in the Parish Hall

Diocesan Cemetery Our Lady Queen of Peace

(561) 793-0711

Senior Singles Group Monday at 4:00 PM

In the Hospitality Room. October-April

For information, please contact Lois at (772) 341-4654

St. Christopher Men’s Group

Meets monthly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday , 8:00 AM

Deacon Jim Parrilli (561) 644-3721

Rosary Group

Monday thru Friday 8:30 AM in the Church

Charismatic

Prayer Group Ken & Connie Ziesman

(772) 463-0858 Tuesday 9:30 AM in the

Hospitality Room

Legion of Mary

Sandra Johnson (561) 729-3104

Wednesday 9:30 AM in the Hospitality Room

Knights of Columbus Eric Wolf, Grand Knight

(772) 932-7969 Meetings 1st Tuesday each

month, 7:30 PM in the Parish Hall.

James F. Collins, F.I.C., Benefits Advisor, (772) 546-9910

Council of

Catholic Women Linda Duggan, President,

508-272-0914 Meetings the 2nd Tuesday

each month, Sept thru May, 1 PM in the Parish Hall

Home Bound Ministry

Kathy Wildes, Director 772-546-5150

Nursing Home Ministry

Saturday, 10AM at the Manors of Hobe Sound Please call,

772-546-5150