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MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Vigil: 5:00 pm (The end of Oct. until May)

Sunday: 8:00am & 10:30 am Weekdays: See schedule Holy Day: Contact Parish Office

PASTORAL STAFF Pastor: Rev. Shaiju Thomas Shaiju.Thomas@pastoral.org (270) 625-9514

DRE/Youth Minister: Nick Higdon nick@stmarymagd.org

Minister of Music: Jacob Hein jacob_hein@hotmail.com Secretary: Nancy Greenwell nancy.greenwell@yahoo.com Bookkeeper: Susan Calhoun

PASTORAL COUNCIL Shannon Offerman; Scott Burden; Julie Ebelhar; Perry Warren; Beth Miles; David Cecil FINANCE COUNCIL Kenny Knott; Rebecca Schwartz; Rita Wood; Sarah O’Bryan SACRAMENTS BAPTISM: Contact Pastor at least a month before the baptism for instructions. CONFESSIONS: Saturdays at 3:00pm (one hour before Mass time); anytime by appointment. MARRIAGES: Contact the pastor six months in advance to begin marriage preparation. ANOINTING OF THE SICK: By Appointment Only

7232 KY 56, Owensboro, KY 42301

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The funeral of a dead church: A new Pastor in a small Oklahoma

town spent the first four days making personal visits to each of the

members, inviting them to come to his first services. The following

Sunday the church was all but empty. Accordingly, the Pastor placed

a notice in the local newspapers, stating that, because the church was

dead, it was everyone's duty to give it a decent Christian burial. The

funeral would be held the following Sunday afternoon, the notice

said. Morbidly curious, a large crowd turned out for the "funeral." In

front of the pulpit, they saw a closed coffin, smothered in flowers.

After the Pastor delivered the eulogy, he opened the coffin and invited his congregation to come forward

and pay their final respects to their dead church. Filled with curiosity as to what would represent the

corpse of a "dead church," all the people eagerly lined up to look in the coffin. Each "mourner" peeped

into the coffin then quickly turned away with a guilty, sheepish look. In the coffin, tilted at the correct

angle, was a large mirror.

There is story about a visiting pastor who attended a men's breakfast in the middle of a rural farming area

of the country. The group had asked an older farmer, decked out in bib overalls, to say grace for the

morning breakfast. "Lord, I hate buttermilk", the farmer began. The visiting pastor opened one eye to

glance at the farmer and wonder where this was going. The farmer loudly proclaimed, "Lord, I hate lard."

Now the pastor was growing concerned. Without missing a beat, the farmer continued, "And Lord, you

know I don't much care for raw white flour". The pastor once again opened an eye to glance around the

room and saw that he wasn't the only one to feel uncomfortable. Then the farmer added, "But Lord, when

you mix them all together and bake them, I do love warm fresh biscuits. So Lord, when things come up

that we don't like, when life gets hard, when we don't understand what you're saying to us, help us to just

relax and wait until you are done mixing. It will probably be even better than biscuits Amen." Within that

prayer there is great wisdom for all when it comes to complicated situations like we are experiencing in

the world today. Stay strong, my friends, because our LORD is mixing several things that we don't really

care for, but something even better is going to come when HE is done with it. AMEN. A perfect prayer

for our Picnic in this strange situation.

THANKS to Sam Knott and his picnic team to go forward and do our 105th picnic. Thanks to all

those who helped them. It is not how much we make but how we do it matters.

Mass Time on Fr idays is changed to noon due to the less attendance.

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Office of Communications

June 18, 2020

It has been brought to the attention of the Diocese of Owensboro that a former employee of three

western Kentucky parishes is part of a larger civil suit alleging abuse against minors in the Archdi-

ocese of Agaña. Based on archived Diocesan directories, Ray Caluag served as the music direc-

tor at the following locations in the Diocese of Owensboro:

• 1999 – 2000: St. Mary of the Woods, Whitesville

• 2004 - 2005: St. Mary of the Woods, Whitesville

• 2005 - 2009: St. Mary Magdalene, Sorgho

• 2006 - 2010: St. Elizabeth, Curdsville

When Mr. Caluag left the Diocese of Owensboro he returned to Guam, which is where the civil

suit was filed. In that suit, Caluag is accused of grooming/abusing minors in the 1990s. The Dio-

cese of Owensboro is not aware of any reports of abuse while serving here. Because the

Church's first obligation with regard to all victims, whether alleged or substantiated, is for healing

and reconciliation, the diocese will reach out to every person who alleges that he or she was

abused by anyone acting in the name of the Church, whether the alleged abuse was recent or

occurred many years in the past.

To report suspected abuse, call the Kentucky Child Protection Hot Line: 1-877-KYSAFE1 or 1-

877-597-2331 (Toll Free) or contact your local Commonwealth Attorney. To report abuse to the

diocese, current or past, by anyone acting in the name of the Church, please call and speak to

someone confidentially at one of our Pastoral Assistance Coordinators on our 24-hour phone

lines: 270-852-8380 for Louanne Payne in English and 270-880-8360 for Susan Montalvo-

Gesser/Miguel Quintanilla in Spanish. You may also visit our Office of Safe Environment for more

information.

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Monday, June 29

No Mass

Tuesday, June 30 7:00 a.m. Charlotte Kamuf

Wednesday, July 1 7:00 a.m. Dorothy Knott

Thursday, July 2 Noon Jason Roberts

Friday, July 3 Noon John and Patsy Hartz

Saturday, July 4

5:00 p.m. Margie Merimee

Sunday, July 5

8:00 a.m. Parishioners

10:30 a.m. Gladys Peters

CHRISTIAN HOSPITALITY

Day in and day out, we are required to make judg-

ment calls informed by tough, durable, serviceable

Christian love. We do what we can do, and God takes

notice. God is in charge of rewards, and a glass of wa-

ter will do when that is what we have to offer with a

glad and open heart.

Paul gives us a clear theology for the missionary

work we do whenever anybody is close at hand. He

reminds us that our work, our ministry, is carried on in

concert with Christ. We have been baptized into his

death and life. In any given moment both life and

death are there, a kind of play of shadow and light.

Sometimes it’s difficult to tell where shadow leaves

off and light begins. God will take care of that, too.

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TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — Elisha promises a baby son to the

hospitable woman (2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a).

Psalm — For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord

(Psalm 89).

Second Reading — We shall live in newness of life

as Christ was raised from the dead (Romans 6:3-4, 8-11).

Gospel — Whoever gives but a cup of cold water to

another will surely be rewarded (Matthew 10:37-42).

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from

Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Internation-

al Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation.

All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9;

2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19

Tuesday: Am 3:1-8; 4:11-12; Ps 5:4b-8; Mt 8:23-27

Wednesday: Am 5:14-15, 21-24; Ps 50:7-13, 16bc-17;

Mt 8:28-34

Thursday: Am 7:10-17; Ps 19:8-11; Mt 9:1-8

Friday: Eph 2:19-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Jn 20:24-29

Saturday: Am 9:11-15; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Mt 9:14-17 Sunday: Zec 9:9-10; Ps 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14;

Rom 8:9, 11-13; Mt 11:25-30

SAINT JUNÍPERO SERRA (1713-1784) July 1

No one who has stood before the quiet

majesty of Mission San Juan Ca-

pistrano, or the altogether different but

no less lovely Mission Dolores in San

Francisco, or any of the missions from

San Diego to Sonoma can fail to bless

the Franciscan padre who, while not

founder of each, was inspiration for

them all, Saint Junípero Serra. Aban-

doning the comfortable academic life to which his doctor-

ate in theology entitled him, Serra journeyed to the New

World where his tireless traveling, dramatic preaching, and

penitential austerity converted thousands of native peoples.

Saving souls and celebrating the sacraments were Padre

Serra’s primary mission but not his only one. Education in

letters and crafts, trades and agriculture transformed the

people, while roads and irrigation systems transfigured the

landscape. His more than thirty years of ministry were not

free from conflict with authorities or without controversy

in the retrospectively critical eye of history. But when John

Paul II beatified him in 1988, he praised Padre Serra for

assisting his converts to use their new faith to advance their

true human development. —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

WEEDEATING CREW FOR JULY 2nd and 3rd: Mark Payne and Barry Hardy

What needs to be done: The ditches along Hwy. 56 and Knott Road; Around the curbs and parking lot;

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TRIP MOUNT RUSHMORE, THE BADLANDS & BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA

The Kentucky Travelers of Owensboro has scheduled a bus trip to Mount Rushmore, the Badlands

& Black Hills of South Dakota, on Sept. 12 - 20, 2020, cost is $890.00 , (double occupancy) and in-

cludes motor coach transportation from Owensboro, eight nights, 9 days lodging, 14 meals, 8 break-

fasts and 6 dinners. Visit to the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, Tour of Wildlife Loop road at

Custer State Park, Visit the amazing Crazy Horse Memorial, Visit to the spectacular Badlands Na-

tional Park, with a guided tour of Deadwood and admission tour of the Unique Journey Museum and

much more. $75.00 due upon signing and final payment due on July 7, 2020. Contact Martha Hard-

esty 270-683-2157 or 270-925-6920, for more information and to make your reservation.

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IN SPECIAL NEED OF PRAYER

HOME BOUND/RETIREMENT HOMES: Patty Beyke; Ruth Ann Hardy; Mag Kaelin; Sarah Kamuf; Jean McCarty;

Benita Riney; Patrick Vowels.

We ask that you pause a moment and say a prayer for the sick in our

community.

Alice Boarman; Nicole Brey; Sydney Clouse; Maria Daugherty; Savannah

Dean; Kelly Dean; Allan Ebelhar; Jennifer Ebelhar; Margie Elder;

Miles Evan; Sylvester Fischer; Jackie Freels; Patrick Fulkerson; Jim

Hamilton; Melissa Hamilton; Kelly Hayden; Barbara Magan; Margie

Merimee; John Morton; Jessica Oberst; Larry Oller; Sandra Posey; Steve

Raley; Donnie Risse; Clayton Roberts; Juanita Smith; Norbert & Helen

Rose Smith; Hillary Thomas; Brian Thompson; Alma Topper;

Jim Warnock; Linda Warren; Paula Wilson; Rita Woodall

*Please note: Names will remain on the list for one month.

PRAYERS FOR OUR MILITARY: As a parish family, we at St. Mary

Magdalene pray for all the members of our parish. We especially pray for

our parishioners and their relatives who are currently on active duty in the

military.

Jackson Brett; Zachary Brett; Cody Byrne; James Calhoun; Cameron

Ebelhar; Chris French; Adam Howe; Austin Moser; Chad Norris;

Ryan Offerman; Aaron Staples.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

Parishioners celebrating

birthdays this week:

June

24-John Clancy

28-Matthew Keller

30-Joe Blandford

30-Austin James

July

1-John Ebelhar

2-Claire Bartley

4-Lane Hundley

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!! Parishioners celebrating wedding anniversaries

this week:

June

28-David and Patti Bartley

30-Sean and Jennifer Byrne

We wish all our parishioners celebrating

Wedding anniversaries this week a happy and

blessed anniversary!!

If your birthday is omitted from this list, or

incorrectly dated, please call the parish

office.

Narthex/Vestibule Update: June 14, 2020

Total amount needed for project: $260,000.00

Total amount that has been collected to date: $260,136.00

(additional brick donations $ 8,300.00)

this amount is of the $305,828.00 pledged over the next 5

years.

Please write in the memo or for section of your check Narthex

when donating. Thank you to all that have generously

donated, it is deeply appreciated.

OFFERINGS: June 21, 2020

Weekly Actual Weekly Budget $ 7,285.00 $ 8,494.00

Year to Date Actual Year to Date Budget

$394,000.07 $ 433,194.00 (Week 51)

Weekly Deficit Year to Date Deficit

$1,209.00 $39,193.93

July Money Counters:

Sherleye Goff, Larry Elder, John Hartz

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