St.

Marys Catholic Church

July 19, 2015

www.SaintMarysMalta.org

P.O. Box 70
Malta, MT 59538
Email: [email protected]

Fr. Cory Sticha-Pastor

Office:
(406) 654-1446
RE Center : (406) 654-1311
Fax:
(406) 654-1467

Mass Schedule
M. July 20: Malta- 5:30 PM:
T. July 21: Malta 8:30 AM:
W. July 22: Malta 8:30 AM:
Th. July 23: Hi-Line-10:00 AM:
F. July 24: Malta- 7:00 AM:

For the r epose of the soul of Nancy Boothe r /b The Maynar d LaFonds
For the r epose of the soul of Ger tr ude Sims r /b J er r y Depute
For the r epose of the soul of Fr . Dennis
For the r epose of the soul of Ger tr ude Sims r /b Steve Sims
For Gaylor d LaFond r /b The Maynar d LaFonds
Eucharistic Adoration after mass for 1 hour followed by Benediction
S. July 25: Malta 5:30 PM: For Ann Her tzen r /b The Maynar d LaFonds
Su. July 26: Dodson- 8:30 AM: For the r epose of the soul of Roxann Simanton r /b The Ulr ichs
Malta 10:00AM: For all par ishioner s
Saco
12:15 PM: For the r epose of the soul of Ger tr ude Sims r /b Helen Depuydt
Lay Ministers please come early for greeters. Hospitality Ministers please hand out bulletins after mass.

Saturday, July 25-5:30 PM

Sunday, July 2610:00 AM

Lector: J ulie Howell

Diane Salsbery
Music: Volunteer s
Volunteer s
Altar Servers: Ken Ulr ich
Tamela Abrahamson & Turk Salsbery
EHMCS: Lana Ulr ich & Gina Webb
Diane Liebel, Devyn Salsbery, Karen Salsbery
Sacristant: Lana Ulr ich
Diane Liebel
Hospitality: Volunteer s
Abrahamson Family
Gift Bearers: Volunteer s
Abrahamson Family
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Sacred Heart Ministries

Lector: Wendy
EHMCS: Bonnie & Ken
Gift Bearers: Myr na Williamson
Church Cleaning: Wendy Hopkins

Lay Ministers, please come early and greet.

Email Addresses at St. Marys

(just like the parish website):
Parish office: office@SaintMar ysMalta.or g
Fr. Cory: fr cor y@SaintMar ysMalta.or g
Lana:
lana@SaintMar ysMalta.or g
Brenda: br enda@SaintMar ysMalta.or g

Collection Totals For Last Week

MASS AT THE
PHILLIPS COUNTY FAIR
Mass will be held in the grandstand at 9:00 AM,
Sunday August 2nd. No other masses will be celebrate that weekend at St. Marys, Sacred Heart or
St. Francis of Assisi.

Malta:

2,572.01

2,721.58

Dodson:

338.00

441.31

Saco:

180.00

Adoration of the Blessed

Sacrament

(Matt 26:40)

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Pope Francis Prayer Intentions

July

192.31

Care and Share - 2015

7:30 AM to 4 PM
Join us on 1st Friday, August 7, 2015

Can you not spend one hour with me?

Goal
Malta:

Remaining

$ 21,529.00

$13,006.00

Dodson: $ 3, 773.00

$ 1,897.00

Saco:

$ 2,275.00

$ 2,275.00

Figures through June 30, 2015

Thank you for your support of Care & Share

Universal: That political responsibility may be

lived at all levels as a high form of charity.
Evangelization: That, amid social inequalities,
Latin American Christians may bear witness to
love for the poor and contribute to a more fraternal
society.

Stewardship Thoughts
July 19, 2015 - 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time
"...come away by yourselves to a lonely place and
rest awhile." (Mark
6:31)
Do you spend time listening for God? Most of the
time, He speaks in soft whispers. Open your heart
and hear the Lord. Take time in silence every day
and ask God what it is He wants you to do. Consider making a retreat this year.

[email protected]

New to the Parish?

Welcome! Were glad youll be joining us! If you
would like to register with the parish, please fill out
this form and drop it in the collection basket. You
can also bring it by the parish office or send it to us.
Name:
Address:
Phone number:
Email address:
Current parishioners: you can use this form to notify
us of any change of address or phone number.
Thanks!

HEALING SERVICE
with
Deacon Melvin Rutherford
Servant of the Healer
Sunday July 26 at 7:00 PM
Sacred Heart Church, Fort Belknap
All Are Welcome!!!!

CARE & SHARE:

2015 Care and Share Prayer: Almighty and loving
God, you alone are the source of every good gift.
We thank you for all these gifts: Our lives, Our
loved ones, All that we have and All that we are. It
is through these gifts that we Proclaim Christ, your
Son, who is Our Redeemer and who came among us
to show us the way to eternal life. Fill our minds
with His truth and our hearts with His love that, in
His Spirit, we may be bonded together as a people
of faith throughout our diocese. Amen.
[email protected]

Let nothing disturb you,

Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.

____________________
Past Due Care & Share
St. Mary's:

$38, 368.87

Sacred Heart:

8, 808.79

These are current figures as of 6/30/2015

Care & Share is a Parish obligation

-- St. Teresa of Avila

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PCCW BULLETIN UPDATE:

Knights of Columbus
Council # 2124
Knight will be raffling a 4 wheeler this season.

PCCW Update:
PCCW will not hold regular meetings during the
summer and encourage band members and others to
contact CoChairs Toni Ziegler and Mary Lundstrom
if they have questions or concerns regarding monthly duties and special events.

For further information: Michael Fred Ereaux

[email protected]
406-658-2613

Catholic Womens Luncheons will resume on the

second Friday at 1:00, Sept.14, 2015. Ladies feel
free to offer suggestions about this event or changes
you may want.

Youth & Young Adult Ministry

Youth and Young Adults are the future of our
Church in this diocese! The Catholic Foundation of
Eastern Montana is currently raising funds to launch
a new, dedicated diocesan-wide ministry for Youth
and Young Adults. This is a deeply-felt void in our
diocese and one that many people are asking to see
filled. Because of the charitable gifts received to
date, our diocese is currently interviewing candidates
to fill the role of a dynamic, new director. None of
this would be possible without the generosity of
anonymous donors who offered a challenge to match
up to $100,000 from gifts given by people throughout our diocese. Will you help us meet this challenge?
All gifts help! Currently, we have raised $52,000 toward our $100,000 goal. To make a gift that will be
matched, simply send to the Catholic Foundation of
Eastern Montana, PO Box 1399, Great Falls, MT
59403-1399 and note that it is for Youth and Young
Adult Ministry. You will receive a tax receipt for
your contribution. You may also designate your gift
to the new Youth and Young Adult Ministry Endowment, if you prefer.
Questions? Please call the Foundation at 800-3329998, ext. 120. God bless you for helping us build a
strong future for God's Church in our diocese!

Confessions: Satur days 4 - 5 p.m., 1/2 hour before

daily Mass (Mon.- Fri.) or by appointment
Anointing of the Sick: Please contact Fr . Cor y as
soon as possible for anointing.

St. Marys - World Youth Day

Fundraiser for Trip

2016 Krakow Poland

Raffle Prize Items:
1st: Lil Tex Traeger BBQ Grill ($750 Value)
2nd: Gateway Laptop Computer ($549.00 Value)
3rd: $200.00 gift card bundle
All items from local merchants: (1)Ezzies, (2) Radio Shack, (3) local merchants
Coffee & Tea for Sale
In the back of the church

Parental sessions are required.

Marriages: Six month couple pr epar ation per iod
required. Please contact Fr. Cory before scheduling
marriage date.

Baptism: Normally celebrated at Sunday Mass.

To reserve the Parish Basement or other St. Marys

facility, please contact Fr. Cory or Lana at the Parish
Office (email [email protected]).

Any announcements for next Sundays bulletin need

to be in by 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday

Precepts of the Catholic Church

1. Attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation, and rest from servile labor.
Attendance at a weekly Sunday Mass (as distinguished
from the reception of the Eucharist, which is not required) is obligatory for all Catholics. While obligatory, there are a number of factors that would excuse
Sunday Mass or Holy Day Mass attendance: for example, a personal illness or the need to take care of someone suffering illness; significant travel situations; certain jobs affecting public safety or welfare. The lack of
a priest to celebrate Mass at a parish is an obvious excusing cause though it is still important to gather as a
community of faith with the Sunday Celebration in the
Absence of a Priest.
Servile labor is work primarily oriented to sustaining
our earthly existence. This is a bit complicated in todays society and probably better understood, not so
much in terms of the physical exertion, but rather in
terms of the orientation of the work. An accountant, for
example, might find digging in the garden or cutting
the grass to be more recreational, than work. Basically,
the Church's prohibition of servile work on Sundays is
fidelity to the divine commandment to keep holy the
Sabbath. This means avoiding activities that would hinder renewal of soul and body, e.g., needless work or
business, unnecessary shopping or housekeeping.
2. Confess your sins at least once a year. Catholics
above the age of discretion, (about seven years of age)
are required to confess their grave sins to a priest in
individual confession at least once per year, at any time
during the year, though usually during Lent. Strictly
speaking, persons free of grave sin are not required to
make an annual confession, but all Catholics are
strongly encouraged to bring even their venial sins to
confession. Persons conscious of having committed
grave sins should not delay in seeking absolution notwithstanding the annual nature of the precept.

The Sacrament of Penance is a gift from the Lord to

concretely address sin in our lives and know spiritual
healing.
3. Receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least
during the Easter season. This pr ecept may seem
strange to Catholics now days given that most Catholics receive communion at the Masses they attend.
It is yet a precept because it is through the reception
of the Eucharist that we are bound to Christ and
others in the Church. This particular reception of the
Eucharist can take place within or outside of Mass,
but it is best to receive at Mass. For Catholics in the
United States, the period for satisfying this precept
has been extended beyond what is the Easter season,
to run from the First Sunday of Lent to Trinity
Sunday (after Pentecost).
4. Observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church. The Chur chs laws of
fast and abstinence have probably never been lighter.
Fridays throughout the year and the season of Lent
are penitential times, but since shortly after the Second Vatican Council, the external discipline of
abstaining from meat on Fridays has been adjusted to
allow Catholics to perform some other self imposed
penance. Only on Fridays in Lent are Catholics, aged
14 and older, bound to abstain from meat. On Ash
Wednesday and Good Friday, Catholics aged 18 to
59 inclusive, are bound to fast which means they may
take one full meal during that day, and two smaller
meals. In reality, this is all that many people eat daily
throughout the year.
5. Help provide for the needs of the Church. The
Church has the divine right to seek from the faithful
whatever is necessary to support the legitimate temporal activities of the Church. This is normally
accomplished through fund drives, financial appeals,
the Sunday collection, etc. Catholics are left
prayerfully to discern precisely when and how they
will assist with the temporal needs of the Church.
This lack of specificity should not be taken as a sign
that, for all practical purposes, the precept may be
ignored. Support of the Church on a parochial, diocesan and universal level, is a moral requirement of
Catholics. Sunday collections, annual appeals, spontaneous offerings, bequests and wills, and so on
are all ways by which Catholics have available to satisfy this precept of support. Offerings given for a
specific purpose can be used by Church authorities
only for the purpose intended.

Please keep in your prayers:

Malcolm Clouse, Delmar LaBrie, Jean Perry, Nancy
LaBrie, Evelyn Starkey, Jerry Depute, Sandy Lett,
Corky LaBrie, Gloria Coombs, Karen Boos, Bud &
Wilma Mavencamp & Family, Eli Murray, Doug
Goodheart, Linda Berg, Terry McKeon, those from
our local area serving in the military, and the Poor
Souls in Purgatory.

Scripture Readings
7/207/26/2015
July 20 Ex 14: 5-8, (Ps) Ex 15: 1b-6, Mt 12: 3842
July 21Ex 14: 2-15:1, (Ps) Ex 15: 8-10, 12, 17,
Mt 12: 46-50

Anyone who needs to have prayers said for someone

can call: Brenda Rummel at 301-0936; Jean Niebur
at 654-2822. Names will be listed in the bulletin for
one month unless specified.

July 22Ex 16: 1-5, 9-15, Ps 78: 18-19, 23-28, Jn

20: 1. 11-18 23
July 23:- Ex 19: 1-2, 9-11, 16-20b, (Ps) Dn 3: 5256, Mt 13: 10-17
July 24Ex 20: 1-17, Ps 19: 8-11, Mt 13: 8-23
July 252 Cor 4: 7-15, Ps 126: 1b-6, Mt 20: 2028
July 26 2 Kgs 4: 42-44, Ps 145: 10-11, 15-18,
Eph 4: 1-6, Jn 6: 1-15

Year of Consecrated Life 2015

Dear brothers and sisters, in the finest traditions of
the Church in this country, may you also be the first
friend of the poor, the homeless, the stranger, the
sick and all who suffer. Act as beacons of hope, casting the light of Christ upon the world, and encouraging young people to discover the beauty of a life given completely to the Lord and his Church.
Pope Benedict, Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral 2008

Mass Intentions
As Catholics, we have a long tradition of having Masses celebrated for those we wish to offer up in prayer.
The Mass is the ultimate form of prayer, and each Mass is celebrated for an intention. We ask $10.00 per
mass intention.
Please consider having Masses celebrated for family and friends on special occasions and anniversaries, as
well as those who are in need of prayers. Masses are also encouraged in memory of those loved ones who
have died, especially on the anniversaries of their deaths. Contact Fr. Cory for more information!
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