Mass Intentions for the Week

Sunday, August 1    

     8:00 a.m. Albert Lauer † Lauer Family

    10:00 a.m. Robert Endres † Roger & Margaret Muller

    12:00 p.m. The People of St. Mary

Monday, August 2

    7:00 a.m. Mass

Tuesday,  August 3

    7:00 a.m. Perry Peery † Gwen Neff

Wednesday, August 4

    7:00 a.m. Rose Herman † Marcia Burger

Thursday, August 5

     7:00 a.m. Bill Gearhart † Carol Gearhart

Friday,  August 6

     7:00 a.m. Lucille Ballard (L) Noma Taylor

    12:10 p.m. Marion Fehringer † Ray & Maggie Degenhart

Saturday, August 7

     7:00 a.m. Salvatore Signorino † Schmalhorst Family

     5:00 p.m. Thersa Doll † Norma & Roland Wegher

Sunday, August 8

     8:00 a.m. The People of St. Mary

    10:00 a.m. Irene Gusaras † Gusaras Family

    12:00 p.m. Rita Griffith †

Offertory for July 18th - $13,265

envelopes $9,327

Loose checks $2,966

Loose cash $971

This represents 15% of registered parishioners

Parish Scrip:

For the week ending July 18th was $4,175 with a total profit for the parish of $214

Eucharistic Adoration

Every Tuesday 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Let us love being with the Lord! There we can speak with Him about everything, We can offer Him our petitions, our concerns, our troubles, our hopes, our gratitude, our disappointments, our needs and our

aspirations. Above all we can remember to pray: Lord send laborers into Your harvest! Help me to be a good worker in                                               Your vineyard!‟

Join us in the chapel for Adoration. Benediction follows at 7:00pm.

Please remember in your prayers all those who are sick or in the hospital:

George & RoseMarie Doxsee, David Gerk, Bob Pink, Lillian Eck, Cheryl Palumbo, Mary Henning, Julie Ludwig, Duane Jojola, Cathy Freemeyer, Kathy Rees, Shorty Nichols, Mitzi Burch, Leona Scantland, Kathleen Pickering, Ben Brackney, Joyce Bian- cucci, Ray Jojola, Jr., Leone Freemeyer, Margaret Humphries, Margaret Lindeen, Evelyn McDougal, Carlotta Baladez, Linda Hauer, Manuel Villarreal, Kimberly Nelson, Beth Anderson, Murray Lounsberry, Helen Hafelfinger, Terry Waters, Delores Marx, Florence Ortiz, Cody Lounsberry, LoRita Wachsman, Mil- dred Price, Araceli Arispe, Nick Kosmicki, Gilbert Trujillo, Sr., Laura Glanz, Roy Swedlund, Merv Seay, Sandy Foxhoven.

We will leave the names of your loved ones on the list for 4 weeks. Please call and renew your request if there is still a special need for prayer.

The Phoenix Group

The Phoenix Group is open to anyone who has experienced a loss — whether recently or in the past. For more information, please call Kathy Tegtman, 353-0518.

SCRIP AVAILABLE

Monday -- Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM @ Parish Office

$50 increments — King Soopers & Safeway

$25 Increments — Kohls, Lowes, Chilis, Coyote, Kenny’s Steak, Old Chicago, Red Lobster/Olive Garden, Texas Roadhouse, Red Robin, Macy’s

$10 Increments — Egg & I, Starbucks

PLEASE SUPPORT THE VENDORS

THAT SUPPORT US.

Thank you to the parishioners and friends of St. Mary for your support.

THE MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA

Every Tuesday night at 7 pm we pray for the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Catherine LaBoure, to whom Mary gave the Miraculous Medal.

Mary promised that anyone who wore this medal and prayed for her intercession would receive great graces. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament follows the novena prayers. Please join us.

St. Clare’s Group

St. Clare’s Group members knit and crochet items for the Guadalupe House, the Pregnancy Center, Catholic Charities and Prayer Shawls. All parishioners are welcome to join. The group meets the 3rd Thursday of each month.

For further information call Gwen Neff at 339-8178

My Dear Family in Christ;

       The Scripture readings are challenging because they call us to examine our fundamental preoccupation: the necessity of money to live in today’s world. Our nation and the whole western world is experiencing the pain that has effected a wider swath of people. We are based on the need to buy and consume that money stays in circulation.

In the readings that we read and hear for this the 18th Sunday money was rare and possessions consisted of land for survival for the majority. I should also like to point out that the readings are proclaimed to awaken us to the true priorities that matter.

      The opening words from the second reading offer us a guide on living, even, in our present world. “If you were raised with Christ, seek what is above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God....For you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God” (Col. 3: 1,4). We are to live with the new gift that was offered at baptism where we are to gaze, ultimately on what counts, our heavenly home.

      Money and possessions, in and of themselves, are not evil in our culture; we can’t manage without them. It is only when they become what we worship that reality is blurred.

May I suggest a simple exercise. Write on a piece of paper the ten things/values you can live without. After you have done this, number them as to their importance.

Fr. Ron

This sweater & hat was made by Elaine Waag for the nursery  at NCMC.

The group would appreciate donations of yarn, especially washable yarn. Call Gwen if you have some.

St. Mary / St. Peter Food Bank

People are in desperate need of food for this summer. Donations are down and there is a great need for more. Garden produce is also accepted. Non-perishable foods may be dropped off at the parishes when the offices are open or at the churches.

Stewardship Reflection

“Above all, let your love for one another be constant, for love covers a multitude of sins. Be mutually hospitable without complaining. As generous distributors of God’s manifold grace, put your gifts at the service of one another, each in the measure you have received.” (1 Peter 4:8-10)

RCIA registration

is continuing for the upcoming year. RCIA is open to those who would like to become Catholic, Catholics who have not been confirmed or received the sacraments of initiation and parishioners who would like to learn more about their faith. Contact Deacon Joe for more information.