St. Laurence Parish 225 Jewett St. | Elgin, IL 60123

Parish Office - 225 Jewett St. 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM Tuesday - Thursday Phone - 847-468-6900 Rectory - 226 Orchard St. After-Hours Emergency: 847-468-6100 https://stlaurenceelgin.org EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION Saturday - 4:00 PM, 6:00 PM Spanish Sunday - 7:15, 9:30, 11:30 AM Spanish Monday - Friday 8:00 AM SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Tuesday 5:00 - 7:00 PM Special times upon request. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE & BAPTISM Check our website for more information. Stlaurenceelgin.org/parish-information

PASTORAL STAFF Fr. Andrew Mulcahey - amulcahey@rockforddiocese.org Fr. Robert Camacho - Priest in Residence Deacon Joe Bermea - deaconjoe@stlaurenceelgin.org Business Manager Belinda Bermea belindab@stlaurenceelgin.org Religious Education Thomas O’Leary, DRE - thomasodre@stlaurenceelgin.org Antonia Ramirez, CRE - antoniarcre@stlaurenceelgin.org Finance Council Joe Malas, Chairman

My House Shall Be Called A House of Prayer Please help us keep a prayerful and reverent atmosphere in the Church before and after Mass.

Let Us Build a House…We welcome you! We invite you to journey with our St Laurence Community as we seek to grow in faith and love for one another and to bring the GOOD NEWS of Salvation to all we meet. Visitors, those considering a return to the faith, and our faithful members…All are welcome in this place.

Construyamos una casa ...¡Te damos la bienvenida! Te invitamos a viajar con nuestra comunidad de St Laurence, mientras seguimos creciendo en la fe y el amor mutuo, llevando las BUENAS NOTICIAS de Salvación a todos los que conocemos. Visitantes, aquellos que están considerando un regreso a la fe, y nuestros miembros fieles...Todos son bienvenidos en este lugar.

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For the strengthening in faith of all who are afflicted in body, mind or spirit please pray for: Anonymous Female, Miguel Arellano, Loretta Barth, Sergey Bolotov, Kathleen Camarena, Alexandra Dillon, Karen Hoffman, Gerald Lee, Gin Lossau, Elizabeth Obradovic, Del Parsons, Bonnie Penera, Ashley Pettis, Maria Delores Ramirez, Ashley Wiatrak

Mass Intentions, June 28-July 4, 2021

May God protect our members who serve in the armed forces and return them safely to their families: ARMY: Staff Sgt. Jennifer (Clough) Korfmacher ARMY BRAVO 1-178 INF RC: Mario Troy Vasquez AIR FORCE: Major Victoria L. Cramer COAST GUARD: Ensign Allison Rychtanek

Lord, Hear our Prayer.

Please Pray For:

Adoration/Adoracion

Monday 8:00 AM Birthday Blessings for Christen Bolotov offered by Joe & Belinda Bermea

Tuesday 8:00 AM For all souls in purgatory

Wednesday 8:00 AM Deacon Bob Plazewski offered by Kate & Roy Thompson

Thursday 8:00 AM Faithful Souls Departed

Friday 8:00 AM In honor of their anniversary for Patti & Bruce Anderson offered by Family

Saturday 4:00 PM Douglas G Burbury offered by Diana Quesada

& Mary Bero

6:00 PM St Laurence Parish Community

Sunday 7:15 AM Rhett Lundy offered by Family

9:30 AM Victor Jozefowicz offered by Sharon Josefowicz

11:30 AM En memoria de Marta de Cotto offered by

Familia

Monday Gn 18:16-33; Ps 103:1b-4, 8-11; Mt 8:18-22

Tuesday Vigil: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 19:2-5; Gal 1:11-20; Jn 21:15-19 Day: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19

Wednesday Gn 21:5, 8-20a; Ps 34:7-8, 10-13; Mt 8:28-34

Thursday Gn 22:1b-19; Ps 115:1-6, 8-9; Mt 9:1-8

Friday Gn 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8,62-67; Ps 106:1b-5; Mt 9:9-13

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

Sunday Ez 2:2-5; Ps 123:1-4; 2 Cor 12:7-10; Mk 6:1-6a

Weekly Readings

God did not make death, nor does God rejoice in the destruction of the living

(Wisdom 1:13-15; 2:23-24).

Oh San Lorenzo, generoso servidor de la Iglesia y diácono del pueblo de Dios, patron amoroso de nues-tra parroquia, inspira en nuestros corazones el amor total y valiente por Cristo. Fortalecenos e intercede para que nosotros también demos nuestras vidas, poco a poco, hacia el avance de la misón de la Iglesia y la salud espiritual de nuestra parroquia. Ayúdanos a no temer el costo del disipulado, sino enfocarnos con fe en los gloriosos efectos de tu gracia en nuestras vidas. ¡San Lorenzo, ruega por nosotros!

O St. Laurence, generous servant of the Church and deacon of God’s people, most loving patron of our parish, inspire our hearts with your total and coura-geous love for Christ. Encourage us, and intercede that we too give away our lives, little by little, toward the advancement of the Church’s mission and the spiritual health of our parish. Help us not to fear the cost of discipleship, but focus with faith on the glori-ous effects of your grace in our lives. St. Laurence, pray for us!

Religious Education - Tom O’Leary, DRE

Altar Flowers

In memory of Ethel Reinhardt

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Stewardship

Weekly: June 19 & 20, 2021

Received $ 5,612.00

Budget $ 7,200.00

You changed my mourning into dancing; O LORD, my God, forever will I give you thanks.— Psalm 30:13

Registrations are being taken for the coming year, Kinder-garten through 8th grade. The calendar and registration forms are on the parish website. THE EASIEST WAY TO REGISTER is online. On the parish website, go to the reli-gious education tab, scroll down to "Religious Education Program Application" and start with "parent information." Foreseeable volunteer needs for the coming year include a catechist for 7th grade and an aide for 2nd grade. Please consider the ministry of passing the religion to the younger generation. If you have questions, please contact Thomas O'Leary, Director of Religious Education 815-914-7333.

Our monthly Youth Ministry meeting is today, June 27, at 12:30 in the parish cafeteria. This meeting is open to all students of the parish from 6th grade through high school. Feel free to bring a friend. Contact Erika Gomez @ 224-629-2760 for information.

Youth Ministry

Office hours are Tuesday through Thursday, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm. The parish office is closed to visitors and calls on Monday and Friday. Voicemail will be returned as soon as possible when we reopen on Tuesday. In an emergency requiring a priest, you may reach Father Andrew by calling 847-468-6100.

Parish Office

Thanks to everyone for their generous giving to St Vincent de Paul. Every penny of your donation stays right here in our community and your support is very welcome and appreciated. When donating by check we ask that you make the check directly to St Vin-cent de Paul. Doing so helps us be compliant with Dioce-san regulations but also allows for the organization to re-ceive the funds faster. Again, thank you for your kind generosity.

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O God of life, again and again you change our mourning into dancing.

Be with us now as we make these prayers, and graciously grant them according to your will,

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Parish Liturgy Ministry, June 28-July 4, 2021

Feast of Faith

Pan

El pan es un alimento ordinario, es propio de ricos y pobres. Hay que trabajar para conseguirlo. Así como es de real, tiene mucho de simbólico. Papá y mamá se alegran en poder llevar a casa el pan de los hijos, para compartirlo con todos, indistintamente de su grado de bondad. Para los judíos del Mediterráneo, el pan, mezclado con aceite era el elemento más común de su alimentación. El pan de trigo lo comían los ricos, mientras que los pobres comían el pan de cebada. Aún así, el pan es sabroso y lleva en él la provi-dencia divina que cuida de nosotros. Se recibe, incluso, de manos de los pobres, quienes comparten su propio pan porque saben lo que es carecer de él. Al compartirlo, cum-plimos el mandato de Jesús: “tomen y coman”. Por eso es que nuestro pan se ha de poner en la mesa, para ser com-partido, sólo así tiene sentido. Alimentados todos del mis-mo pan, en la misma mesa, esperando la misma promesa. Comer o no comer. ——Miguel Arias, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Preparation of the Gifts The altar is prepared, the gifts are received. Several brief rites follow with accompanying prayers, some prayed silently by the priest and deacon and others said aloud. We call this part of the Mass the “preparation.” What kind of preparation is happening? First, the presider holds up the paten or bowl containing the hosts, and says words that Jesus must have said many times, since they derive from ancient Jewish meal prayers: “Blessed are you, Lord God of all creation!” We have brought forward our gifts, our of-fering to God, and now we acknowledge that they are not really ours—the gifts that we give are God’s gift to us. It is “through your goodness” that we have gifts to offer. It is significant that we offer not wheat and grapes, but bread and wine; “fruit of the earth and work of human hands.” Bread and wine are both God’s work, and ours. These pre-paratory rites also prepare us for what we are about to do in the Eucharist, a mystery in which divine and human meet; a holy collaboration in which our action is caught up into God’s divine plan. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

Readings for Today, Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Convertiste mi duelo en alegría te alabaré por eso eternamente.— Salmo 30 (29):13

Como siempre en los domingos del Tiempo Ordinario, la lectura del Antiguo Testamento ilumina el Evangelio de hoy. En el texto completo Jesús realiza dos curaciones y, la lectura del libro de la Sabiduría proclama que nuestro Dios es el Dios de la vida que “creó todo para que subsistiera” y formó a los humanos “a imagen de su propio ser” para “la inmortalidad” (Sabiduría 1:14; 2:23). Por lo tanto, las personas de fe eligen vivir en la justicia de Dios porque “es inmortal” (1:15) en esta vida mortal, comenzando así, incluso ahora, la vida inmortal para la que fuimos creados. Elegir lo contrario es elegir el otro lado “por envidia del diablo entró la muerte en el mundo” (2:24). Marcos presenta las dos curaciones como una historia dentro de otra historia, una “historia sándwich”, un recurso literario que refuerza su mensaje para aquellos que lo debieron de haber escuchado en lugar de haber leído la historia. Marcos quiere enfatizar una verdad esen-cial de su Evangelio, que Jesús no hace milagros para imponer la fe, sino que la fe precede a la curación. SÓLO TEN FE Jairo tiene una hija, él es un hombre importante y privilegiado quien busca públicamente a Jesús, proclama intensamente y de-muestra su fe “cayendo a los pies de Jesús y suplicándole de todo corazón” (5:22-23). La mujer anónima prácticamente “se acerca a hur-tadillas” a Jesús y, aunque evidentemente tiene fe, se guarda esa fe hasta que Jesús le saca “toda la verdad” después de que ella es cu-rada (5:27-28, 33). Así pues, resulta aún más impresionante que Jesús retrase la curación de quien parece ser la mujer joven y “más im-portante” por la desconocida y sinceramente, por la mujer mayor y marginada. Volviendo a la “iglesia doméstica”, por así decirlo, siendo la casa de Jairo el lugar público donde ocurrió la curación de la mujer mayor, Marcos nos dice que la hija de Jairo murió. Ante esta desespe-ranza aún más definitiva que la de la mujer hemorroisa, la gente le dice a Jairo “¿para qué molestas más al maestro?” (5:35). Pero Jesús no considera que su respuesta a la fe de Jairo sea desesperanzadora o molesta: “No tengas miedo, solo ten fe” (5:36). A pesar del apa-rente triunfo de la muerte en la casa de Jairo, Jesús toma la mano de la niña -aunque la ley prohibía tocar a los muertos- y le dice: “talitha kum” (que significa: Niña, a ti te hablo, levántate). ¿PARA QUÉ MOLESTARSE? Así parece que Marcos nos está preguntando: como Jairo en su camino a su casa o como la mujer hemorroisa después de doce años, nos preguntaremos: ¿para qué molestarnos? ¿O seguiremos caminando con fe en Jesús? ¿Será suficiente -una oración íntima con fe- con tocar sigilosamente el manto de Jesús? Ante la aparente desesperanza, ¿elegiremos la fe en lugar de la desesperación a pesar de las burlas de la multitud, recordando que Jesús nos ha tomado de la mano en el bautismo y nos ha ordenado que nos levantemos? Pon atención en el final del Evangelio, después de ordenar a la hija de Jairo que se levante, Jesús les ordena que le den de comer (5:43), Así también, Jesús nos invita ahora a festejar en su banquete y sacrificio eucarístico. Lecturas de hoy: Sab 1:13–15; 2:23–24; Sal 30 (29):2, 4–6, 11–13; 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13–15; Mc 5:21–43 [21–24, 35b–43] Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

As always on Sundays in Ordinary Time, the Old Testament reading illumines today’s Gospel. In the longer form, Jesus performs two healings; and the Book of Wisdom proclaims our God the God of life, who “fashioned all things that they might have being” and formed human beings in “the image of his own nature,” to be “imperishable” (Wisdom 1:14; 2:23). People of faith, therefore, choose to live God’s “undying justice (righteousness)” (1:15) in this mortal life, thus beginning, even now, the undying life for which we were created. To choose otherwise is to choose the other side: the devil and death (2:25). Mark presents the two healings as a story within a story, a “story sand-wich,” a literary device that reinforces his message for those who originally would have heard, not read, the story. Mark wants to empha-size an essential truth of his Gospel: that Jesus does not perform miracles to compel faith, but rather that faith precedes healing. JUST HAVE FAITH Jairus’ daughter is the child of an important, privileged man, who publicly seeks out Jesus and loudly proclaims—and demon-strates—his faith, “falling at Jesus’ feet and pleading earnestly with him” (5:22–23). The anonymous woman virtually “sneaks up behind” Jesus and, though clearly filled with faith, keeps that faith to herself until Jesus draws “the whole truth” out of her after her cure (5:27–28, 33). All the more impressive, then, that Jesus delays his healing of the seemingly “more important” and younger woman for the unknown, truly marginalized older woman. Returning to the “domestic church,” so to speak, of Jairus’ house from the public setting of the older wom-an’s cure, Mark tells us that Jairus’ daughter has died. In the face of a hopelessness even more definitive than that of the hemorrhaging woman, people tell Jairus “why trouble the teacher any longer?” (5:35). But Jesus does not consider his response to Jairus’ faith hopeless or a bother: “Do not be afraid; just have faith” (5:36). Despite death’s apparent triumph at Jairus’ home, Jesus grasps the child’s hand—even though the law prohibited touching the dead—and bids her, “Talitha koum—Little girl, I say to you, arise!” (5:41). WHY BOTHER? So Mark seems to be asking us: Like Jairus on his way home or like the woman after twelve years, will we wonder, why bother? Or keep walking in faith with Jesus? Is a silent touch of Jesus’ garment—a quiet prayer of faith—enough for us? In the face of apparent hopelessness, will we choose faith over despair despite the ridicule of the crowd, remembering that Jesus has grasped us by the hand in baptism and commanded us to rise? Note the Gospel’s ending: after bidding Jairus’ daughter rise, Jesus commands that she be given something to eat (5:43). So, too, Jesus invites us now to feast at his eucharistic sacrifice and banquet! Today’s Readings: Wis 1:13–15; 2:23–24; Ps 30:2, 4–6, 11–13; 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13–15; Mk 5:21–43 [5:21–24, 35b–43] Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

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