W ! P , F V BLESSED SACRAMENT CATHOLIC CHURCH

DIOCESE OF LAREDO 2219 Galveston St., Laredo, TX 78043‐3002 • Phone: (956) 722‐1231 • FAX: (956) 722‐2823

Website: www.blessedsacramentlaredo.org Bulle n announcements e‐mail: bulle n@blessedsacramentlaredo.org 

Reverend Fr. Wojciech Przystasz, Administrator Deacon Roger Mar nez, Jr., Permanent Deacon Reverend Msgr. Stanley A. Sliwiak, Ph.D., Re red

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday through Friday 8:00 A.M to 12:00 N.N.

and 1:00 P.M.- 5:00 P.M.

SUNDAY MASSES

Saturday: 6:00 P.M. Sunday: 8:00 A.M. (Español) 10:00 A.M. 12:00 N.N. 5:00 P.M.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Parents MUST be registered parishioners (considered registered parishioners if have actively been attending Sunday Masses prior to baptism). Baptisms are administered on the 3rd Sunday of each month. Baptismal instruction is offered on the preceding Thursday.

PARISH STAFF Mrs. Josie R. Arellano, Bookkeeper

Ms. Gloria B. Sandoval, Parish Secretary Mrs. Consuelo M. Perez, Bulletin Editor

Mr. Manuel Ponce, Director of Music

DAILY MASS Mon., Tue., Thu. and Fri. 7:00 A.M. Wednesday 7:00 A.M. & 6:00 P.M.

FIRST FRIDAY: 5:30 P.M. FIRST SATURDAY ONLY: 9:00 A.M.

SACRAMENT OF HOLY MATRIMONY

Couples should inquire about premarital prepa-ration and available church dates at least six (6) months prior to planned wedding date. Do not make any arrangements before contact-ing the parish office.

BLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL Mrs. Selma J. Santos, Principal

1501 North Bartlett Avenue Laredo, TX 78043

Phone: (956) 722-1222 Fax: (956) 712-2002

NOVENA TO

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP Wednesday after the 6:00 P.M. Mass.

ADORATION OFTHE BLESSED SACRAMENT First Friday 5:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.

Third Thursday of each month 7:00 A.M . - 6:00 P.M.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday, 4:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M.

Wednesdays, 30 min. before the evening Mass By appointment (Please call the Parish Office)

ANOINTNG OF THE SICK By appointment (Please call the Parish Office)

In case of emergency, any time

ACTS CORE Blas A. Martinez 722-1231 ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Miss Hope Gonzalez 722-1231 ALTAR SERVERS (Training on Saturday mornings at 9:30AM in the church) Miss Suzie Schafer 722-1231 ALTAR SOCIETY (Meet 2nd Monday at 3:30PM in the parish hall) Mrs. Rosie Cavazos, President 722-1231 ADULT & CHILDREN’S CHOIR Mr. Manuel Ponce 722-1231 CUBMASTER FOR PACK 192 Mr. George Valdez 645-0675 COMMUNION FOR HOMEBOUND Call the Parish Office 722-1231 EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION Mr. David Treviño, Scheduling 712-6294 GIRL SCOUT TROOP 9150 Mrs. Naomi C. Arredondo 236-8672 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL #10939 (Meet 2nd & 4th Tuesdays of the month at 7:00 P.M.) G.K. Mr. Lawrence Bruni (956) 898-8813

FOURTH DEGREE K.C. ASSEMBLY (Meet 4th Tuesday of the month at 6:30 P.M. in the parish hall) Mr. Jaime A. Garcia 645-7037 LECTORS Mr. David Treviño, Scheduling 712-6294 PARISH COUNCIL Mr. George P. Kazen, President MEN’S FAITH SHARING Meet every Mon. at 7:00PM in the parish hall LADIES’ FAITH SHARING Meet every 1st & 3rd Tue. at 6:30PM in the parish hall QUINCEAÑERA COORDINATOR Mrs. Patsy Salinas 722-1231 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM Mrs. Maria Teresa Hinojosa, Coordinator 286-2842 Ms. Gloria B. Sandoval, Secretary 722-1231 ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Miss Yolanda Valdez 722-1231 YOUTH GROUP “LIFE IN CHRIST” (Meet every Wed. @ 7PM in the P.H.) Mr. & Mrs. Felipe & Lali Martinez 722-1231 YOUTH LECTORS Deacon Roger Martinez, Jr. 722-1231

Mass Intentions for the Week

Our Lady of Guadalupe Candles

will be burning this week in Loving Memory of. . .

Cristela G. Reed

Saturday, July 27, 2019 - Weekday [16]; Blessed Virgin Mary 6:00PM †David C. Leyendecker By Wife & Family †Deacon David Vargas By Wife & Family †Alicia M. Charles By Son Glenn Charles †Benjamin Botello & William C. Simpson By Hans & Adriana Nunemaker †Gerri Nunemaker By Hans & Adriana Nunemaker Sunday, July 28, 2019 – SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8:00AM †Lydia Barrera By Family 10:00AM †Pablo Albidrez (A) By Family 12:00PM †Deacon David Vargas (A) 5:00PM For Parishioners

Monday, July 29, 2019 - Saint Martha 7:00AM †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children Tuesday, July 30, 2019 - Weekday [17]; St. Peter Chrysologus, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 7:00AM †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children Wednesday, July 31, 2019 - St. Ignatius of Loyola, Priest 7:00AM †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children 6:00PM †Cristela G. Reed (B) By Daughter, Son & Family

†Artemio Eustaquio (A) By Family †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children †Pablo Mayers, Jr. By Amparo Garcia & Daughters †Maria Josefina L. Navarro By Amparo Garcia & Daughters Thursday, August 1, 2019 - St. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 7:00AM †Mr. & Mrs. Martin & Angela Acevedo (B) By Amparo A. Garcia & Daughters Friday, August 2, 2019 - Weekday [17]; St. Eusebius of Vercelli, Bishop; St. Peter Julian Eymard, Priest; First Friday 7:00AM †Maria T. Garcia (B) By Amparo A. Garcia & Family 5:30PM †Victor A. Uribe (A) By Family Saturday, August 3, 2019 - Weekday [17]; Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday 9:00AM †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children 6:00PM For Parishioners Sunday, August 4, 2019 – EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 8:00AM †Alicia Esparza By Family †Edmundo Cavazos H. (B) By Family In Thanksgiving for Ernesto Ibarra, III By Family All the Souls in Purgatory By Roberto J. Santos & Fam. †Dr. Joaquin G. Cigarroa By His Wife & Children 10:00AM †Dinora Eliza Fuentes (B) By Mrs. Josefa Fuentes & Family 12:00PM †Edmundo Cavazos By M.T. Garza 5:00PM †Lamar L. Davis (A) By Family B)=Birthday (A)=Anniversary

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time July 28, 2019

You were buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the power of God, who raised him from the dead. — Colossians 2:12

The Sanctuary Lamp will be burning this week in Loving Memory of:

Deacon David Vargas

ASKING FOR HELP

The Beatitudes praise the poor in spirit. One character-istic of those who are poor in spirit is their ability to ask for help; they know when others can provide what they lack. Today’s readings encourage us to practice poverty in spirit by asking God for what we need. What could be more nat-ural than to ask God for good things? God is, after all, the inventor of goodness and the giver of all good things. Asking God for help puts us in conversation with God. These conversations take many forms. The reading from Genesis shows Abraham bantering with God like a skilled negotiator, while Saint Paul’s letter to the Colossians prais-es God for answering us even when we don’t deserve it. In Saint Luke’s Gospel, Jesus not only gives us words to use in our conversations with God (the Our Father), but also promises that God always listens to our prayers.                  Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.  

PIDIENDO AYUDA Las beatitudes alaban al pobre de espíritu. Una de las características de quienes son pobres de espíritu es su habili-dad para pedir ayuda; ellos saben cuando otros pueden pro-veerles lo que les hace falta. Las lecturas de hoy nos animan a practicar la pobreza de espíritu pidiéndole a Dios aquello que necesitamos. ¿Qué podría ser más natural pedir a Dios que buenas cosas? Dios es, después de todo, el hacedor de la bondad y el dador de buenas cosas. Pidiendo ayuda a Dios nos pone en una conversación con Dios. Esta conversación o conversaciones pueden ser de muchas formas. La lectura del libro del Génesis muestra a Abraham negociando con Dios de una manera graciosa, pero como un hábil negociador; por otro lado la carta de san Pablo a los colosenses alaba a Dios respondiéndonos aún cuando no lo merecemos. En el Evangelio de san Lu-cas, Jesús no solo nos da las palabras y frases para usar en nuestras conversaciones con Dios (el Padre Nuestro), sino también promete que Dios siempre escuchará nuestras ora-ciones. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

BIRTHDAY WISHES . . . . . .and God’s many blessings to all those celebrating a birthday or anni-versary this week.

P ray For. . .

Adriana Craddock 28-Jul Balt Vichareli 28-Jul Alberto Leza, Jr. 29-Jul Beatriz Nix 29-Jul Mario Martinez 30-Jul Andrew S. Garza 30-Jul Daniela Rossell 30-Jul James R. Rendon, Sr. 31-Jul John Gallagher 01-Aug

Megan Kromminga 01-Aug Martina Salinas 01-Aug Jorge Brizuela 02-Aug Teresa Lucia Cabello 02-Aug Elysee Aguero 02-Aug Alice Ovalle 02-Aug Bella Dancause 03-Aug Neal Hill 03-Aug

Weekends of:

Thank you for your continued support & generosity!

We especially pray every Wednesday after the evening Mass during the Novena of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Let us pray also for those whom God has called home recently especially Jose Gonza-lo Cardenas, Irma Valle Ancira & Maria del Socorro Paez. As we mourn their passing, let us rejoice at their birth to eternal life.

Teodoro Aguero, Sr. Baby Graciela Bernal Yolanda G. Cantu Wayo Cavazos David Charles Mrs. Joaquin Cigarroa Jr. Pamela M. Cortez Patsy Dees Easton Louie Deleza Erika M. Deleza William Dickinson Jose Duarte Maria del Carmen Duarte

Angel Flores Cayetana Flores Christian Flores Giovanni Flores Jose M. Garza Maria Yolanda Gonzalez Jesus Gonzalez Reagan Goodman Megan Gribble Yvonne Gribble Emiliano Ibarra Lidia S. Laurel Servando E. Laurel, Jr. Anthony Leija, Jr. Nancy K. Leyendecker Gilberto Maldonado Nora McCain

Humberto Perez, Jr. Mrs. Josefina Requejo Jose Luis Requejo Rodolfo Requejo Gabriel Ethan Rodriguez Eduardo Alfonso Santos Baby Jose Alberto Serna Msgr. Stanley Sliwiak Jim Switzer Nora G. Urbach Raymond S. York Zulie York Sabas Zapata, III Barbara Zepeda

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Processions are life’s journey distilled. We move with companions, aware that Christ accompanies us, as we move to the altar for Communion or to the font for baptism, or carry a loved one to a place of rest. In Europe, the season of pilgrimage is beginning now, and tens of thousands of people are moving by foot on well-worn paths. Some take as long as six weeks to walk the last few hundred miles of the medieval pilgrimage route to the Shrine of St. James the Apostle in Compostella, in northern Spain. Those who make the journey by foot, hiking, or by bicycle, have a kind of passport stamped at villages and monasteries on the road. When they present this document at the cathedral, they are given the emblem of a pilgrim, the scallop shell of St. James. High over their heads at Mass, a huge botafumero twirls clouds of sweet incense through the cathedral. Cynics say it is to mask the odor of smelly feet. The pilgrims know better. Seeing through the clouds the happy faces of those they met along the road, they recognize a foretaste of the welcome into heaven, and the joy of meeting loved ones in the Kingdom of God.                                                         —James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

June 29 & 30, 2019

Envelopes $6,330.00 Loose 1,047.53 School Mass (Vacation) .00 CCD 16.82 TOTAL $7,394.35

Second Collection Peter’s Pence: $1,886.37

July 6 & 7, 2019 Envelopes $7,713.00 Loose 978.83 School Mass (Vacation) .00 CCD 45.16 TOTAL $8,736.99

July 13 & 14, 2019

Envelopes $6,043.00 Loose 834.93 School Mass (Vacation) .00 CCD 22.80 TOTAL $6,900.73

Second Collection School: $1,844.70

July 20 & 21, 2019 Envelopes $5,623.55 Loose 1,265.09 School Mass (Vacation) .00 CCD 16.00 TOTAL $6,904.64

Blessed Sacrament School Second Collection

Next weekend, August 3 & 4, 2019

Thank you so much for your continued support & generosity!

PREPARING FOR CATECHISM

REMINDER! We will soon start registration for our CCD program. Please remember that we accept only children whose parents are registered parishioners and active members of Blessed Sacrament Church. Children preparing for First Holy Communion must be 7 years old by Sept. 1st . Teenagers preparing for Confirmation must be 14 years old by Sept. 1st. If you have any questions, please call Mrs. Maria Teresa Hinojosa at (956) 286-2842.

ADULT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REMINDER! Registrations will begin soon. Students must be 21 years of age or older AND registered parishioners of Blessed Sacrament Church. More information will be posted in future Sunday bulletins.

First Friday Devotion & Holy Hour and Benediction

Please join us Friday, August 2nd - after 5:30 p.m. Mass

First Saturday Devotion to Our Lady Please join us at Holy Mass for this beautiful devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Saturday, August 3rd at 9:00 a.m.

G 9150. . .

. . . proudly announce the opening of their new Children’s Mini Library. This is a li-brary with books on a “Take one Bring one” or “Return after reading” library. It is lo-cated on the Westside of the Parish Hall.