PARISH COMMUNITY

PastorFR. JEREMY PAULIN, O.M.V.

FR. DAVID BEAUREGARD, O.M.V. FR. JOHN LUONG, O.M.V.FR. JOHN WYKES, O.M.VBR. LOU FALBO, O.M.V.

DEACON JIM SCHWARTZKOPF

PARISH OFFICE

618-465-4284Fax: 618-463-4637

Hours: Mon.-Fri.8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

MASS SCHEDULE

Weekdays & Saturdays: 6:30 a.m. & 8:00 a.m.

During School Year: Fri. 8:15 a.m.

Saturdays: 5:15 p.m.(For Sunday Obligation)

Sundays: 6:30, 8:00, 9:30,11:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m.

Day Before Holy Day: 5:15 p.m.Holy Days: 6:30, 8:00 a.m.,12:00 noon and 5:15 p.m.

(if announced)First Fridays: 5:15 p.m.

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CONFESSIONSFirst Fridays: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.

Saturday: 4:00 to 5:00 p.m.7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

BAPTISMSOn Sundays after the

11:00 a.m. MassPlease make an appointment.

MARRIAGESTo be arranged at least six months

before marriage. Call the Parish Office.

SCHOOL OFFICE

618-465-8523Middle School 618-465-9719

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THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF

CHRIST(CORPUS CHRISTI)

JUNE 3, 2018

MASS INTENTIONSMonday, June 4

6:30 am Albert Water†

8:00 am John McCarthy†

Tuesday, June 5

6:30 am George W. "Bill" Shake†

8:00 am Edith Carter†

Wednesday, June 6

6:30 am Betty Garvey†

8:00 am Int of Jayce Maag

Thursday, June 7

6:30 am Henry Beiser†

8:00 am Int of Mike & Peggy Maher

Friday, June 8

6:30 am T. Patrick Kane†

8:00 am Int of Ken & Mary Wendle

Saturday, June 9

6:30 am Intention of Julie Cheek

8:00 am Leo Metzen†

5:15 pm Int of Tom Fahnestock Carolyn Fahnestock†

Sunday, June 10

6:30 am The People of the Parish

8:00 am Joan Wittman†

9:30 am Int of Fr. Jim Walther, OMV

11:00 am David Zorger†

6:00 pm Patrick & Margaret Sugent†

Learning and Living Our Catholic FaithDear Brothers and Sisters in the Eucharistic Lord Jesus,

Happy Feast of Corpus Christi!

Today we celebrate the Body and Blood of Jesus in a special way and with a Eucharistic Procession after the 11AM Mass. Please join us! Jesus in the Eucharist is the Source and Summit of our lives and indeed of all creation, and today highlights his love for us and how we should live in response to him. I hope you find the following homily of the great Medieval Dominican priest, philosopher and theologian, St Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274) enlightening as to the nature of God's love for us, his Real Presence in the Holy Eucharist and also that you find deeper reason and inspiration for coming to Mass and therefore for holiness! Worthily received Holy Communion makes Saints! God love you!

- Fr Jeremy OMV

"Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men gods. Moreover, when he took our flesh he dedicated the whole of its substance to our salvation. He offered his body to God the Father on the altar of the cross as a sacrifice for our reconciliation. He shed his blood for our ransom and purification, so that we might be redeemed from our wretched state of bondage and cleansed from all sin. But to ensure that the memory of so great a gift would abide with us forever, he left his body as food and his blood as drink for the faithful to consume in the form of bread and wine.

O precious and wonderful banquet, that brings us salvation and contains all sweetness! Could anything be of more intrinsic value? Under the old law it was the flesh of calves and goats that was offered, but here Christ himself, the true God, is set before us as our food. What could be more wonderful than this? No other sacrament has greater healing power; through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is enriched with an abundance of every spiritual gift. It is offered in the Church for the living and the dead, so that what was instituted for the salvation of all may be for the benefit of all. Yet, in the end, no one can fully express the sweetness of this sacrament, in which spiritual delight is tasted at its very source, and in which we renew the memory of that surpassing love for us which Christ revealed in his passion.

It was to impress the vastness of this love more firmly upon the hearts of the faithful that our Lord instituted this sacrament at the Last Supper. As he was on the point of leaving the world to go to the Father, after celebrating the Passover with his disciples, he left it as a perpetual memorial of his passion. It was the fulfilment of ancient figures and the greatest of all his miracles, while for those who were to experience the sorrow of his departure, it was destined to be a unique and abiding consolation."

Our 2nd collection NEXT weekend will be for the support of our school

PLEASE PRAY FOR THESE AND ALL MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES

Jordan Cook, Eddie Clark, Kris Drake, Kyle Gray, Brian Gehm, Alaina Gehm, Johnny Braun, Grant Wanamaker, Trenton Brown, Michael Lucas, Drew Hargus, Steven Layne Blair, Jr., Danielle Crites, Joseph Brakeville, Keith Johnson, Joseph Buehlman, Teresa Buehlman,

Jess Houk, Austin Knebel, Megan Schuette, Eric Hoehn, Daniel Chartrand, Morgun Yogore, Thomas Haine, William Kerr, Alex Geisen, Nick Dunphy, Matthew Gonzales, Dree Anna Dixon, Jacob Allen, Jacob Dunse, Matt Jouett, Gary Clark, Patrick Admire McDill, Tamara Cardenas, Emily Keith, Lisa Haegele, Kyle Ontis, Kaleb Selock, Caleb Rench, Danny Geringer, Zach Meyer, Jeff Schlobohm

RECENT BAPTISMSGeorge Allen Brown

Son of Kyle and Mary Kate BrownWe welcome him as the newest member baptized into our Catholic Faith. May God bless them as they grow

together in God’s love.

THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRISTFocus: We cannot afford to take the gift of the

Eucharist for granted.There are many reasons people give for no longer going to church. There is one great reason to attend. It is here as a community of believers we receive the most precious and sacred of all gifts from our God this side of heaven. It is here we receive the most sacred gift of Jesus in the Eucharist.

In our reading from Exodus, Moses and the people commit to the Lord and his covenant. In Hebrews, the author uses the image of a mediator in describing Jesus’ role in the new covenant we have with the Father. The Gospel recalls the first Eucharistic meal.

PART ONE - THE PROFESSION OF FAITHSECTION ONE - "I BELIEVE" - "WE BELIEVE"

God Comes To Meet Man – Christ Jesus – “Mediator and Fullness of All Revelation”

God has said everything in his Word65. "In many and various ways God spoke of old to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son."26 Christ, the Son of God made man, is the Father's one, perfect and unsurpassable Word. In him he has said everything; there will be no other word than this one. St. John of the Cross, among others, commented strikingly on Hebrews 1:1-2:

In giving us his Son, his only Word (for he possesses no other), he spoke everything to us at once in this sole Word - and he has no more to say. . . because what he spoke before to the prophets in parts, he has now spoken all at once by giving us the All Who is His Son. Any person questioning God or desiring some vision or revelation would be guilty not only of foolish behavior but also of offending him, by not fixing his eyes entirely upon Christ and by living with the desire for some other novelty.27

There will be no further Revelation

BANNS OF MARRIAGECongratulations to –

Ethan Sievers & Kendra HunterAnd

Garrett Tepen & Alexis BollingerAnd

Shaun Dockery & Abigail HayWho will be married during the month of June.

We offer our best wishes and prayers that the peace of Christ may live always in their hearts and in their homes!

Your prayers are requested for the souls ofDottie Kane, Bill Peipert

and Betty Garvey“May their souls and the souls of all the faithful departed through the mercy of God rest in peace.”

Please remember our brothers and sisters,who are in need of prayer.

Baby Olivia, Darlene Huebener, Shirley Dunphy, Peggy Wheaton, Mary Jenniches, Abigail Stephenson, Owen Stephenson, Ella Curry, Sean Michael Donahue, Phyllis Milford-Rill, Kailey Almeter, Barb Maher, Lucy Rose Lucas, Bill Haine, Larry Greenwell, Sofia Sciacca, The Gray Family, The Sciacca Family, Ed Dorsey, Marge Ridder, Mike Mihalich, Florence Sabaj, Bertha Lavitus, Lois Wuellner, Sue Imming, Sharon Thompson, Al Nolte, Cheryl Lucas, Karen Huff, Brian Scheffel, Amy Terhaar, Evan Carey, Christina Weirich Phillips, Brenda Nolan, Jim Clark, Joan Gulotta, JoanAnn Springman, Tad Holt, Mary Buckley, Amanda Runtz, John White, John Lake, Chuck Engdale, Liam Monahan, Eva Perica, Barb Cronn, Debra Houghton, Deron Griffin, Helen Bensman Smith, Nancy Redman, Becky Roberts, Devon Neal, Georgia Price, Mable Rench, Eleanour Dubetz, Catharine Williams, Tod Eaton, Donald Miller, Frances Mormino, Bernie Militello, Pat Gorman, Salvatore Manescalco, Pat Brown, Jane Colbert, Oliver Haworth, Michael Oldershaw, Karen Behney, Corey Bazzell, Rosemary Matifes, Arvid & Kathleen Engdale, Sue Cooper, Bill Cox, Robert Lucas, Catherine Telkamp, Mary Ruder, Jan Manns**We want to continue praying for every person that you request. If you have submitted a name for prayers in the bulletin they will remain for one month. If you would like to ask the parish to continue praying, please let the parish office know by calling (618) 465-4284. Thank you for understanding!

BAPTISMAL PREPARATION CLASS(2nd Sunday of each month)

The next Baptismal preparation class will be NEXT Sunday, June 10 after the 11:00 a.m. Mass. This class meets in the MaryAnn Room in the basement of the Church. Please call the Parish Office at (618) 465-4284 to register for this class.

FATHER’S DAY NOVENAFather’s Day is Sunday, June 17. Consider enrolling your father in the spiritual bouquet of Masses to be celebrated at St. Mary’s for the 5 days after Father’s Day. Cards can be picked up in the back of church or at the parish office. Please write your father’s name on the envelope and return it with your free-will offering to the parish office. If your father is deceased you need only take the envelope to list his name. You may list more than one name on each envelope. The envelopes will be tied together and placed on the altar during the novena.

ST. VINCENT DePAULTenth Sunday in Ordinary Time In the Gospel we see how Jesus was moved with pity and said to the widow, “Do not cry,” and the people knew that “God had visited his people.” When you hear the cries of the poor and reach out to help them, deep in their hearts the poor know that “God has visited them.”

Won’t you hear the cry of the poor and drop a coin in the poor box?

Boxes are located at the entrances to the Church.

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THE KIOSK CORNERHow to Share Your Faith with Anyone

Recent popes have challenged all Catholics to participate in the New Evangelization. But most Catholics feel ill-equipped to take up the challenge. Terry Barber, founder of St. Joseph Communications, has written a practical guide that takes much of the pain and uncertainty out of sharing one's faith. Based on Barber's decades of personal experience as an effective evangelist and masterful communicator, and drawing on the perceptions, examples, and lessons of other great evangelists and apologist, How To Share Your Faith With Anyone informs, entertains, and inspires would-be, as well as, seasoned evangelists and teachers.

"Terry Barber has long been one of the Church's finest evangelists. His excellent book shows us how the New Evangelization requires new apologetics—a new way to explain why the Church's teachings are true and why Jesus is the answer to the deep desires of the human heart."

–Most Reverend Jose Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles

COFFEE & DONUTSWe know that so many of our parishioners will be traveling this summer, so we will not be offering our monthly coffee and donuts fellowship during the summer months (June, July, August). Please join us once again in September!

ARE YOU GOING ON VACATION?Many of our Parish families are planning to get away for some summer fun and relaxation in the next few months. We pray that your vacation time will be safe and a source of many wonderful memories. To find a Church and Mass times while away from home, please visit www.masstimes.org.

RCIAThank you, thank you to all who volunteered and brought snacks to the RCIA meetings. I could not do this by myself. I so appreciate every one of you! Wishing each of you a safe and blessed summer and hope to see you all in September. Hugs, – Mary Ann Wojo

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BETHALTO KC’sSPAGHETTI MEATBALL DINNER

The Bethalto Knights of Columbus invite you to a spaghetti meatball dinner on Sunday, June 3 from 11:30am – 2:00pm at Our Lady Queen of Peach Church. Cost: Adults $8 / Children ages 5-10 $4. Adult carry outs are available. Proceeds to benefit the Bethalto K of C Charities and OLQP Parish.

MCHS SPORTING CLAY EVENTMarquette Catholic High School will host

their 15th annual sporting clay event on Sunday, June 23.

Registration begins at 7:30am and shooting time at 8:30am sharp!

Registration fees: $110 for adults, $70 for Junior Division and $160 for parent/guardian & student combo.

To register/pay, please visit www.marquettecatholic.org/sportingclay or mail to:

MCHS Development Office, 219 E. 4th St., Alton, IL 62002. Any questions, please call (618) 463-0585.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

2018

GODCRAFT – THE BEATITUDESVBS will be held July 9-13 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 Noon. The theme this year focuses on teaching the Eight Beatitudes that Jesus embodied in His Life. Children entering grades K-7th are invited to join. Registration is available in the parish office or online at www.stmarysalton.com. All forms and payment are due no later than Tuesday, July 3. The fee is $25 per child, $20 for the second child and $15 for the third child and any subsequent children. Families in need of financial assistance for VBS are asked to stop by the parish office. No child will be refused.

VBS VOLUNTEERSAdult volunteers are needed for VBS 2018. We cannot do this without assistance. If you are interested in volunteering, please download and fill out the adult volunteer form at www.stmarysalton.com and return it to the office no later than Friday, June 22. For more information, please contact Fr. John Luong, OMV or VBS@stmarysalton.com.

Every year we are blessed with an abundance of youth volunteers (entering 8th grade or older). If you are interested in volunteering this year, please download and fill out the youth volunteer form along with the Code of Conduct at www.stmarysalton.com and return it to the parish office no later than Friday, June 22. We will limit youth volunteers to 35 and volunteers are chosen on a first come, first serve basis.

ST. MARY’S SCHOOL TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES

Because our school continues to grow and more families are registering their children for Pre-K and Kindergarten, our school has several openings for

the 2018-2019 school year:

* Full-time Middle School Science Teacher * An endorsement in Science or

teaching experience in this field is required

* Full-time PreK-8th Grade Music Teacher ** Part-time Preschool Teacher *

(M-W-F mornings)

* 3 Part-time Preschool Aids *Interested candidates should send resumes and letters of interest to kschwegel@smsalton.com

Please contact the main school office with any questions (618) 465-8523.

ST. FRANCIS HOLY GHOST JOB OPPORTUNITY

St. Francis Holy Ghost Catholic School in Jerseyville is accepting applications

for a new seventh/eighth grade * History Teacher *

Responsibilities include teaching History/Social Studies to middle school students as well as Religion and Confirmation preparation

to eighth graders.

Interested applicants can email resumes to: janet.goben@sfhg.org or steve.menke@sfhg.org

or mail resumes to:

St. Francis Holy Ghost School 412 S. State Street, Jerseyville, IL 62052

Attn: Janet Goben/Steve Menke

RESERVE YOUR VIP PARKING!You can reserve a parking space in

the upper school lot (at 4th & Langdon)

with a $20 donation. Contact the parish office or Fr. John Luong, OMV to

reserve your spot. Only 11 spots

remaining!

WELCOME NEW OMVNext week the OMV community and St Mary's welcome two new members to Alton! Deacon Paul Nguyen OMV and Br Brenden Bell OMV.

Deacon Paul will be ordained a priest on August 4 at the OMV parish of St Peter Chanel in Hawaiian Gardens, CA (His home parish) and will be a permanent addition to our St Mary's Family.

Br Brenden, also a California native, will be with us for about two months before returning to his theology studies at our OMV seminary in Boston.

Deacon Paul is originally from Long Beach, CA and is the eldest of four children. He met the OMV at St. Peter Chanel parish near there and began to sense the call to priesthood and religious life based on prayer and the example of the OMV there. He completed a B.S. in Computer

Science and then entered the Oblate seminary in 2010, professing first vows in 2014 and final vows this past February. He was ordained a deacon the next day and completed his theology studies this May, including an M.A. on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius.

During formation, Deacon Paul also served for a summer at St. Mary's, obtained a certificate in spiritual direction, and served for a pastoral year at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Retreat Center in Florida.

Br. Brenden hails from Hemet, CA, and has one older brother. He went to Saint Mary’s College of California where he earned his B.A. double major in Theology and Philosophy. Later, Br. Brenden worked as a Writing Center tutor at the College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas.

Feeling called to the religious life, Br. Brenden was introduced to the Oblates through St. Clement Shrine in Boston. He entered in September of 2015 and professed his first vows on August 5, 2017.

Please welcome them to St Mary’s

when you see them!

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Lectors, Eucharistic Ministers and Servers:All Saturday Evening and Sunday Masses Please check your MSP App or e-mail

SATURDAY, June 95:15 p.m.Music: Cathy Droste/Sandy Goeken

SUNDAY, June 108:00 a.m. Music: Anna Haine/Theresa Gratton

9:30 a.m.Music: Mindy Cochran/Theresa Gratton

11:00 a.m. Music: Mary Kate Brown/Sr. Julie

6:00 p.m.Music: Sara Crammond/Charlie Brockus

WEEKDAY SERVERWeek of June 4 – Joseph ScyocWeek of June 11 – Alan Van Booven

WEEKDAY LECTORWeek of June 4 – Nick MoehnWeek of June 11 – Thomas Haine

PRAYER CORNERCome Holy Spirit, fill the hearts

of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love.

Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.

O, God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit, did instruct the hearts of the faithful, grant that by the same

Holy Spirit we may be truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolations, Through Christ Our Lord, Amen.

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