In the Peace of Christ
Transcript of In the Peace of Christ
SAINT JOHN VIANNEY AUGUST 3, 2014
Catholic Church
In the Peace of Christ
Saint john Vianney
Catholic Church
Archdiocese of Galveston — Houston
625 Nottingham Oaks Trail Houston, TX 77079
Tel.: 281-497-1500
Fax: 281-584-2024
www.stjohnvianney.org
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PARISH CLERGY
Rev. R. Troy Gately Pastor
Rev. Charles J. Talar
Rev. Daniel L. Warden
Priests in Residence
Deacons Dale Steffes
Al Vacek
Fred Kossegi
Randy Graham
Louis Provenzano
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PASTORAL STAFF
Adult Forma$on Yvonne Gill
Youth Forma$on Daniel Marcantel
Music Ministry Michael Madrid
Pastoral Care/
Spiritual Life Louis Provenzano
Parish Life/
Ac$vity Center Richard Fairly
Social Service
Ministries Deborah Montez
Business Office C.J. Pete Prados
Dear friends in Christ:
This Monday, we celebrate our patronal feast day, the Feast of St. John Vianney. The life of John Vianney is one of faith, struggle and victory. St. John Vianney’s life is an inspiration for each of us in our daily struggles. The life of this wonderful saint is a challenge to each of us in how we live our lives. St. John Vianney challenges each of us in what we take for granted and what we do with the blessings that we have received. St. John Vianney challenges us. In fact, he dares us, in how we prioritize what is important to us and how we live it out concretely day to day.
The main points of his life are fairly well known to those who know of him. (I hope all of you know the basic narrative of his life! Here is a link to a biography: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08326c.htm. We also have some nice biographies in our parish library – located in the Youth Formation Building). He struggled with his studies, he struggled to be ordained, he struggled with parishioners and their irreligious attitudes and habits and he even struggled with the devil. In all of these struggles throughout his life, St. John Vianney held on tightly to his faith in God. It was his faith that led him to overcome each and every obstacle that he faced. As he struggled, his faith was tested and grew stronger. There were no magic moments per se. He worked at it. He struggled to keep his faith. When things got tough, he prayed harder. When things did not work out right, he prayed harder and worked harder. When people did not understand him, accept him or support him, he did not give up or give in. He prayed harder and re-doubled his efforts. In time, God’s will won out and John Vianney’s faith was rewarded by the Lord whom he loved so much and who loved him even more.
Some of the incidents of St. John Vianney’s life may seem quaint or even foreign to many of us today – the saint’s hostility to the parishioners’ dancing for example, his seemingly over the top dedication to mortification and fasting, his ardent devotion to the saints and his confrontation with the devil. For us to depict the saint or dismiss him as merely being quaint or anachronistic would be wrong. There is great truth and wisdom in the very facts of his life and in what he considered important and why. His choices and actions had real consequences for himself and others. John Vianney was serious and he recognized the seriousness of life. I do not get the impression that he was a “sour puss” or “curmudgeon” or lacked a joie de vivre. Rather, I see in St. John Vianney that he saw the need for himself and others to keep our eyes always open to the bigger and more important truths and joys of life. He did not want his parishioners or himself to be distracted by the insignificant and peripheral. His mortifications and sacrifices allowed him and others to see the joys and beauties that God places around us constantly. In a word, St. John Vianney wanted people to see and love the flowers and not the weeds.
I have several favorite stories of St. John Vianney, but there is one that I especially like. It has encouraged me and given me solace in my role as a pastor. Upon the death of his mentor, Abbe Balley in 1818, the relatively new priest, Jean Marie Vianney was re-assigned to the tiny backwater village of Ars. Having arrived with a cart of his few meager belongings, he found the place in disrepair. Yet, one of the first things he did was to get a new and more beautiful altar, new vestments, altar linens and new candlesticks. He wanted God to have the finest and best! He wanted God to be first! He then set out to convert the people of the parish to love God with greater passion. He chastised them about their erratic mass attendance and working on Sundays, and their dancing and casual language (cursing and gossiping). He challenged them to care for the poor and the lowly. He challenged the adults and the children to learn their faith better. And of course, he encouraged them to come to confession! From the outset, he set his agenda – God First! For John Vianney, faith, struggle and victory were in essence, all the same. When we have faith, we will have God. When we have struggles, we will still have God. And when we have God, we have Victory!
Happy Feast Day!
St. John Vianney, pray for us!
In Pace Christi,
18th Sunday in ordinary time
Let us Pray
For the souls of the recently deceased,
Eternal rest grant unto them
O Lord and let Perpetual light shine upon
them.
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Saturday Vigil
5:30 p.m.
Sunday
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11:00 a.m.,
12:30 p.m., 5:30 p.m.
Spanish: 2:00 p.m.,
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9:00 a.m.
Tuesday & Thursday
7:00 p.m.
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NOVENA & ROSARY
Our Lady of
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Wednesdays 6:30 p.m.
Novena of the
Sacred Heart
1st Fridays following
9:00 a.m. Mass
Divine Mercy Chaplet
and
Rosary a er 9:00 a.m.
daily Mass _________________________________________________________
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Sunday
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Let us Rejoice and Pray for these
soon-to-be married couples:
Carolina Cas2llo and Chris Smith
Gresilda Yamon and Kendall Broussard
Diana Mendez and Nicolas Drago
Greeters
For the month of August:
Pastoral Care and Spiritual Life
Mass Intentions Monday, August 4, 2014
9:00 a.m. † Dick Porcaro
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
9:00 a.m. † Madelin Gill
7:00 p.m. Candi & Richard Boyce
Wednesday, August 6, 2014
9:00 a.m. † Elynor Brann
Thursday, August 7, 2014
9:00 a.m. † Heinrich Joseph Rauch
7:00 p.m. † Frank Hoffman
Friday, August 8, 2014
9:00 a.m. † Digna Arrufat
Saturday, August 9, 2014
5:30 p.m. † Dean Wenske
Sunday, August 10, 2014
8:00 a.m. Trather Sebas2an, M.C.
9:30 a.m. Missa Pro Populo
11:00 a.m. † Madelin Gill
12:30 p.m. † Wilfred J. Banse
2:00 p.m. Ana Samuel
5:30 p.m. Gail Nevlund
7:00 p.m. † Federico Mora
Other Remembrances
S. Bockholt, Ursuline H. Smith, †Andy Urban
Weekly Readings
Monday Jer 28:1-17; Ps 119; Mt 14:22-36
Tuesday Jer 30:1-2, 12-15, 18-22; Ps 102;
Mt 14:22-36 orMt 15:1-2, 10-14
Wednesday Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97;
2 Pt 1:16-19; Mt 17:1-9
Thursday Jer 31:31-34; Ps 51; Mt 16:13-23
Friday Na 2:1, 3, 3:1-3, 6-7; Dt 32;
Mt 16:24-28
Saturday Hb 1:12–2:4; Ps 9; Mt 17:14-20
Sunday 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a; Ps 85;
Rom 9:1-5; Mt 14:22-33
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collec2on will be taken following communion.
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will be at all the masses to give a presenta2on
aHer the gospel.
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50th Wedding Anniversary
Jubilee Mass
Honoring couples celebra2ng
their Golden (50th) Anniversary
of marriage in the Catholic Church will be held on
Sunday, October 26, 2014 at the Co-Cathedral of
the Sacred Heart at 3 pm. Whether or not a
couple aFends the ceremony, they are eligible to
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recogni2on. Deadline for registra2on is
September 29 at midnight.
Registra2on will not be processed if the
informa2on about the Catholic Wedding cannot
be verified and/or if the fee of $25 dollars per
couple is not received before September 29. Each
couple will be able to bring a maximum of 6 family
members or friends to the Mass.
50th Wedding Anniversary
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ADULT FORMATION
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The Feast of
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Saint John Vianney Cure of Ars
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called to be involved in the mission of the Church to sanc2fy the world through prayer. We are mothers
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18th Sunday in ordinary time
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begun! This includes First Reconcilia$on and Communion,
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CCE REGISTRATIONCCE REGISTRATIONCCE REGISTRATIONCCE REGISTRATION for the 2014for the 2014for the 2014for the 2014----2015 school year is now open!2015 school year is now open!2015 school year is now open!2015 school year is now open!
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the parish website. On-line registra2on is available.
New day, new time, same great program.
That’s right, starting during the 2014-2015 school year we are adding a new session to our
CCE program.
In addition to the current session days and times, we will also offer CCE for K thru 5th grade
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ANen$on Texas A&M and Blinn (Bryan)
Incoming Freshman and Transfer Students St. Mary’s Catholic Center at Texas A&M University in College
Sta2on invites each incoming freshman and transfer student to
one of the two Connect 2014 Retreats: Monday, August 25
through Tuesday, August 26; OR Friday, August 29 through
Saturday, August 30. Learn about the dynamic Catholic presence
at TAMU and make new friends. Call 979-846-5717 or visit
www.aggiecatholic.org/connect.
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Student Organiza2on at your University. Newman Centers exists
all over the country. The Office of Young Adult and Campus
Ministry represents the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston to the
colleges and universi2es located within the archdiocese. Through
campus Newman Centers we seek to evangelize the academic
community. See our local Catholic centers below. For informa2on
www.archgh.org/yacm
Catholic Newman Center University of Houston Main Campus. Contact: Rev. Joseph Lam Nguyen, C.S. Sp.
([email protected]) 713-748-2529
Rice University / TX Medical Center Catholic Student Center. Contact: Sr. AntoineFe Carter, O.P.([email protected]) 713-526-3809.
Catholic Student Center Sam Houston State University Contact:
Dr. Joseph Magee ([email protected]) 936-291-2620
Galveston Newman Center: UTMB/Galveston College/Texas
A&M Univ./College of the Mainland. Contact: Carl Erickson
([email protected]) 409-740-3797
TSU Catholic Newman Center. Contact: Dcn. John Lane
([email protected]) 713-747-7595
Prairie View A&M University Catholic Newman Center. Contact:
Dcn. Irvin Johnson ([email protected]) 832-372-8056
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18th Sunday in ordinary time
Social Ministries
A Prayer for Migrant Children
Good and Gracious God, we thank you for the gi of children.
We are grateful for all of the joy and love that they bring into our lives, and we ask that you provide special protec-on
for those children who face hardships and danger today.
As we reflect upon the difficult journey that the Holy Family faced as refugees in Egypt, help us to remember
the suffering of migrant families. Open our hearts so that we may provide hospitality for all who come in search of refuge.
Give us the courage to welcome the stranger as Christ in our midst.
Through the intercession of our Blessed Mother Mary and St. Joseph, the Protector of the Holy Family,
we pray for the comfort of children who are alone and afraid because their families have been torn apart by violence and injus-ce.
We pray that they will be led to a place of safety and reunited with their loved ones. “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me” (Mt. 25: 35).
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The poor and the vulnerable hold a special place both in
Scripture and in the Catholic moral tradition. Throughout
his mission Jesus held children in particular in high regard,
at once rebuking the disciples for not allowing the children
to come to him and declaring that we must all become like
children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven (MK 10:14). At
another point in his ministry, Jesus issued a much sharper
word of warning that it would be better that a millstone be tied around a
person’s neck, than for that person to cause a child to sin. We have a special
obligation to ensure that children are given the protection and support due to
them.
This call is of particular importance today, given the humanitarian situation
that is taking place along the U.S./Mexico border.
“Indeed, Jesus Himself was a child migrant fleeing violence. Jesus, Mary,
and Joseph were asylum-seekers and faced the same choice as the one
facing thousands of children fleeing to the U.S. each year. Jesus also told
us: ‘Whoever receives a child such as this in my name receives me’ (Mt.
18:5). Jesus surely loves the little children. We are called to do the same.”
Bishop Mark Seitz, Diocese of El Paso
HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Catholic Chari2es of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston is
desperately in need of pro bono aForneys, translators, and
foster care parents. For more informa2on about volunteering,
please contact the SJV Social Service office at 281-497-4434 or
To learn more about becoming a foster parent through Catholic
Chari2es, visit www.CatholicChari2es.org or call 713.526.4611. All
foster parents must meet eligibility requirements and pass a
background check.
Monetary dona2ons are also needed. To donate to Catholic Chari2es
of the Rio Grande Valley, send your check to P.O. Box 1306, San Juan,
TX 78589. Please write “immigrant relief” on the memo line. Online
dona2ons can be made at www.cdob.org/catholic-chari2es135/
donate-now.
To find out more about volunteer opportuni2es with Catholic
Chari2es (both in Houston and the Brownsville area), visit
their website at www.catholicchari2es.org/uac.
MEDICATION SORTING PARTY!
for our medical mission to El Salvador
Help us prepare vitamins & medica2ons for the
mission trip— sort, count, and package!
When: Saturday, August 9th 12:30 pm
Where: St. Thomas More Catholic Church
in Servant Hall, 10330 HillcroH St.,
Houston, TX 77096
RSVP: 281-497-4434 or [email protected]
Service hours available!
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