MASS INTENTIONS

March 26th, thru March 31st, 2019

Tuesday 8:00 a.m. No Mass Thursday 6:30 p.m. Noah & Mary Klipfel+ Friday: 8:15 a.m. Frank Brands+ Saturday 5:00 p.m. Annie M. Brands+ Sunday 8:00 a.m. Florence Scherer+

PRAYER LIST Luke Jones, Billie Durbin, Georgia Avilia, Rick Cochran, Brenda Bonee, Maggie Disher, Laura Clark, Tim Williams, Trisha Klipfel, Tina DeLisle, Sadie Farrenburg, Bobby Gee, Peggy Underwood, Curtis Birch, Wanda Morgan, Shirley Aprill, Avery Kilmer, Emily Nolen, Terry McCrate, Logan Birdwell, Joanna McCrate, Liam Carter, Paul Noland, Heather Burge, Leland Phillips, Rosemary Nabors, Bill Thacker, Barbara Lindsey, Rachael Nabors Oberg, Mike McCrate, David Nelson, Mary Lynn Kellams Stafford, Bill Hobbs, Bobby Eftink, Patricia Scherer, Anna Tate Miller, Mary Lou Priggel, Cookie Hoggard, Janet Shelly, Wilma Eftink, John Haverstick.

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

Liturgical Ministries

March 30, 2019 Saturday 5:00 p.m.

Lector Judy Scherer

Gifts E.P. & Doris Priggel

Communion Jo Beth Williams, Stephen Barnett,

Joanie DeLisle

Servers Beth Ann Stafford, Kearsten Musgrave

Greeters Edward Burge Family

Ushers John Klipfel, Glenn Lenand Jr.,

Martin Lenand, Mike Priggel

March 31, 2019 Sunday 8:00 a.m.

Lector Kaki Long

Gifts John Priggel, Family

Communion Ryan Wilson, Mary Jane Wilson,

Becky Hoggard

Servers Emma Jeffries, Robert Tye Miller

Greeters Jamie Saenz Family

Ushers Ron Klipfel, Denis McCrate,

Neil Priggel, Rick Wade

Collection Counters: Phillip Schwendemann, Bob Darst

PARISH CONTRIBUTION

March 17th, 2019

Weekly Parish Goal $ 3,600.00

This Week’s Offering $ 1,840.16

The Mirror $ 28.00

Easter Flowers $ 20.00

Masses $ 20.00

TOTAL $ 1,908.16

LENTEN PARISH PENANCE

Immaculate Conception, New Madrid. Sunday, March 31st. @ 5:00 p.m. SES Confessions Portageville: Tuesday, April 2nd @ 9:00 a.m. St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville. Tuesday, April 2nd. @ 6:00 p.m. St. Cecilia, Kennett, Mo. Sunday, April 7th @ 5:00 p.m. Sacred Heart, Caruthersville. Sunday, April 14th @ 5:00 p.m.

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

BIRTHRIGHT CAPE GIRARDEAU

THANK YOU NOTE

P.S. We will have a Second Collection on Saturday April 6th and Sunday, April 7th for Birth-right Cape Girardeau, as one of our Lenten observances, as Bishop Edward Rice asked to do all parishes in our diocese. All the money from your fasting, Bishop Rice is asking to put in this parish collection.

OUR LADY’S SODALITY

PARISH-WIDE YARD SALE

PARISH CENTER

SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2018

7:00 A. M. until ?

Items to be donated can be brought to the Parish Center on Friday, April 5th 9:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.

We will be accepting furniture, household items, working appliances, jewelry, purses and other miscellaneous items.

No clothes or shoes will be accepted.

Please price your items before you bring them for the sale. All unsold items will be taken to Goodwill on Sunday.

Volunteers, needed Friday, Saturday or Sunday. If you can volunteer a few hours of your day, please call Charlotte Coleman @ 379-0333. It will be greatly appreciated.

STEWARDSHIP MESSAGE

March 24th-Third Sunday in Lent “ He said to the gardener, ‘For three years now I have come in search of fruit on this fig tree but have found none.’ “ (Luke 13:7) We can all be like the barren fig tree at times. Do you cling to what you have or do you generously share with others? How will you respond when God asks you what you have done with all the gifts He has given you? Re-member, not only are we called to be gener-ous, we are called to develop and nurture our gifts and return with increase.

CATHOLIC RELIF SERVICE

COLLECTION

Our Parish is taken up The Catholic Relief Services Col-lection to help Jesus in dis-guise. This collection help six Catholic agencies provide re-lief and support to strug-gling communities and work

for peace and reconciliation among our mar-ginalized brothers and sisters here and around the world. Please prayerfully consider how you can support the collection. Learn more about the collection at www.usccb.org/nationalcollections, and click on the :How to give” link in the left.

STATION OF THE CROSS

Every Thursday of Lent at 6:00 p.m.

Join us in prayer and meditation

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

HIGH SHOOL PSR

March March 27th-NO CLASS SPRING BREAK

Classes resume

April April 3rd

Mrs. Lynda Priggel

HEARING DEVICES

If you have mistakenly carried home one of our Telex Assisted Hearing/Listening devices, please return it to the Church. We are missing three.

Thank you.

St. Eustachius Parish

PRACTICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR A BETTER ORGANIZED MASSES

1. Please, turn off/silent your cell phones be-fore Mass.

2. Don’t talk in the sanctuary, respect others who want to remain in prayer.

3. Chewing gum is not allowed in church at any time.

4. Don’t be afraid to pick up your hymnal and praise the Lord, you don’t have to be a profes-sional singer.

5. The Missalette is a great help for all of us. Please, arrive early, go through the readings, and kindly give your attention to lectors when the Word of God is being proclaimed.

6. The Cry Room at the entrance of Church is reserved ONLY for parents with small chil-dren.

7. Don’t leave church after communion, wait for the closing prayer, blessing, and closing hymn.

RCIA CLASS

Thursday, March 28th

SCHEDULE

Safe Environment Opportunities will be held a the following locations:

Thursday April 25th. 6—9 p.m. St. Denis Benton, Mo

Monday, May 13th. 6-9 p.m. St. Vincent Cape Girardeau

Saturday, June 1st. 9 am –12 Noon Immac-ulate Conception, Jackson, Mo.

Thursday, June 6th. 6-9 p.m. Sacred Heart, Poplar Bluff

EXODUS 3:1-8A, 13-15

Take off your sandals. Enter into silence. Live in wonder.

A dear friend of mine likes to pray discalced, espe-cially when it is possible to do so before the Blessed Sacrament. No, she’s not a Carmelite. She just has a beautiful sense of wonder. “Remove the sandals from your feet,” God says to Moses, “for the place where you stand is holy ground” (Ex 3:5). Moses encounters something — someone — wholly other than himself and is filled with wonder. “When Moses saw [the burning bush] he wondered at the sight” (Acts 7:31). And, at the command of God, he “incarnates” his wonder by removing his shoes.

We priests do the same. On Good Friday, as I come to encounter the mystery of the God who died for me, I take off my shoes as I wonder at such great love. Wonder allows us to “see” God. Wonder is the appropriate response to His pres-ence.

How then do we cultivate wonder? By silence. When Moses encounters God at the burning bush, he had by this time spent 40 years in the desert. He had, over those 40 years, spent an untold num-ber of quiet nights under the stars and quiet days guiding the sheep. St. Gregory of Nyssa declares, “It is upon us who continue in this quiet and peace-ful course of life that the truth will shine, illumi-nating the eyes of our soul with its own rays.”4

If we desire to see God, if we desire wonder, we must, so to speak, take off our sandals. “Sandaled feet cannot ascend that height where the light of truth is seen,” says St. Gregory.5 We must take off the sandals of noise. We must take off the sandals of distraction. We must enter into the blessed desert of silence that God might speak to our hearts (cf. Hos 2:14).

So how’s our Lent? In the past three weeks, have we encountered God more or less? This week, has our devotion to our Lenten penances begun to fade? Or maybe we haven’t yet gotten around to making any? Wherever you are is where you are. It’s okay to be there. But it’s not okay to stay there. As we begin the third week of Lent, do we need to “take off our sandals”?

What would it look like if you turned off the radio for your commute and said, “God, I just want to be with you right now”? What would it look like if you only got onto Instagram or Facebook or Snapchat every other day? Whatever our Lenten penance was or wasn’t, what if we committed today to at least five minutes of that “quiet and peaceful course of life” which allows us to wonder at God?

If we want our lives to be transformed — if we want to capture the joy of wonder — we must learn to take off the sandals of our noisy world. For tru-ly, the Kingdom of God is within us (Lk 17:21). Truly we are temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19). Truly we are standing on holy ground because we are the holy ground.

Fr. Brice Higginbotham, Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux in Louisiana.

DDF

Our Diocesan Development Found will take place in all the parishes of our diocese the first weekend of May (May 5th. and 6th.).

Thank you for your support to my pastoral work through the Diocesan Offices.

Bishop Edward Rice

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

“…it may bear fruit in the future. If not you can cut it down.'"

Lk:13: 1-9

God is giving another opportunity to get closer to Him with every single day we received on our daily life.

PRAY FOR A SUCCESFUL DIOCESAN YOUTH GATHERING

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

St. Eustachius Parish, Portageville, MO. March 24th, 2019. Third Sunday in Lent.

Pastor: Fr. Daniel Robles 573-391-4228

SES Principal: Mrs. Tricia Rone 379-3525

High School PSR: Mrs. Lynda Priggel 379-9216

Choir Director: Mrs. Lesley Rone or Chris Stinnett

Parish Council President: Mr. Tommy Halstead 573-380-2332

Lady’s Sodality: Mrs. Joanie DeLisle 573-391-3911

Senior Activities Coordinator: Mrs. Charlotte Coleman 573-379-0333

Baptism Preparation Class: Mrs. Martha Rone 573-379-0191 & Mrs. Emily Wilson

Prayer Line: Mrs. Loretta Kellams 573-379-3915 / 573- 225-7504

Bookkeeper: Mrs. Charlotte Coleman

Secretary: Mrs. Christie Childers 379-5247

Church Office Fax: 573-391-2156

Parish Hall: Mr. Bob Darst 573-576-6129

St. Eustachius Catholic Church

200 West 4th Street

Portageville , MO. 63873 (573) 379-5247 eustachius@sbcglobal.net

Baptism-Call the church office or Mrs. Martha Rone/Emily Wilson for a baptism preparation class. Matrimony– Contact father Daniel at least six months prior to the date of the wedding. Anointing of the sick– Notify the parish office if you wish to have the Sacrament of Healing, or visits and communion calls. Confessions-Thursday 6:00-6:20p.m. and Saturday 4:00-4:45p.m. Any other time by request, please contact Fr. Daniel. Hospital Visits-Please inform the church if you are hospitalized, remember, hospitals no longer provide this information. Funeral Arrangements– Please make a personal appointment with Fr. Daniel. Parish Office Hours– Secretary will be in Tuesday 8:00 –12:00 p.m. Wednesday 1:00-5:00p.m. and Friday 8:00 a.m. –12:00 p.m.