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BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH July 25, 2021
BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH July 25, 2021
BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH
Mass Appointments Saturday, July 31 Mass 4:00 p.m. Readers: Ray Barnes and Lara Voglewede Servers: Volunteers E.M. Holy Communion: Delphine Zugel Sunday, August 1 Mass at 8:30 a.m. Readers: Gail Lewis and Sue Kucharski Servers: Jacob Clearwater, Lili Garcia and Adrian Dulac E.M. Holy Communion: Andrea Dulac
Charlotte Baird Alyce Baker Rosa Bazan
Judy Buckles Maddison Burke
Leo Cassidy Ryder Carlon Emery Celina
Anthony Christman Loretta Cone
Sam Edgerton
Jessica Kelly Green Rhonda Grinell
Butch Harris Mark Harris
Richard Harris Dan Heckman
Fr. Jerome Heyman Jill Mele-Jackson
Tammy James Rita Jones
Lynn Kamens David Krause Jr.
Ed Larsen Dick Majewski
Bennett Meyers Elizabeth Jean Molloy
Lisa Zugel Moul Christine Pilarczyk
Clif Sage Maya Shreve Ted Stough
Norris Watkins Graham Weber Joe Ziolkowski
And our homebound
and for the special intentions in our Parish Book of
Intercessions on our prayer altar.
Weekly Financial Reporting COLLECTIONS June 18, 2021 Budgeted Amount …………..……...……….. .$4,550.00 Collection ………………………………………$3346.71 Capital Improvements ………………….…......$63.00 Votive Candles…………………….....……...….0 Number of contributions………………………50
The Sanctuary Light will be burning during the wk of July 25-31
in memory of Jennie Benson Req. by Rodger /Rita Jones
Sponsor of the Week: Peterson’s Riverview Nursery - Allegan Jerry and Anne Peterson - Parishioners
Please patronize our Sponsors who make the bulletin possible!
SCHEDULE OF MASSES FOR OUR COLLABORATIVE
Monday, July 26 9:00 a.m.† Joseph Fechik Req. by Lou/Barb Thierwechter
Tuesday, July 27 No Mass Mass at St. Margaret at 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, July 28 9:00 a.m. † Doug Gardiner (wedding anniv.) Req. by Lynn Gardiner Thursday, July 29 No Mass Friday, July 30 No Mass Mass at St. Margaret at 9:00 a.m. Saturday, July 31 4:00 p.m. † Margaret Pazanin Req. by Mary Ann Pedersoli Mass at St. Margaret at 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, August 1 Mass at 8:30 a.m. Offered for Blessed Sacrament Parishioners Mass at St. Margaret at 10:30 (summer schedule)
Mission Statement: Blessed Sacrament welcomes everyone to experience the gifts, joy and personal growth through Christ’s teachings.
Celebrate your life by listening, adopting and practicing Christ’s message.
PASTOR: FR. SIMON MANJOORAN 110 N. Cedar St. Allegan, MI 49010 Phone: (269) 673-4455 email: [email protected] Website: www.blessedsacrament-allegan.org Parish office hours: M-Th: 10-3:00 Closed Fridays Fr. Simon’s email: [email protected] Deacon Fred Wall: 610-462-4898 [email protected] Deacon Gene Haas: 269-838-8432 [email protected]
If anyone has reason to suspect physical, sexual or emotional abuse of any person of any age, please contact Protective Services (855-444-3911) or the police, as appropriate.
Summer Frozen Pie Sale The CCW Pie Ladies will be selling a limited number of pies after the weekend masses of 8/7 and 8/8. Only Strawberry/Rhubarb and Cherry will be available. Large pies are $12 and small pies $10. As always the Pie Ladies appreciate your support of this CCW project.
August 22 Mass at 10:30, with Eucharistic procession
to Jaycee Park Food, fun, fellowship!
Games for kids, prizes, bingo, etc!
Watch for further details, but...
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JULY 25, 2021 SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Greetings of peace, joy and hope to each one of you. On July 26th, the Church celebrates the feast of St. Ann and St. Joachim. We are pretty familiar with the Feast of the Holy Family that is celebrated on the Sunday after Christmas, a day set aside to honor the Holy Family into which Jesus was born, a family that provides a model for families today. But in reality, there was an earlier Holy Family of Nazareth, the family into which Mary, the immaculately conceived Mother of
God was born, the family of Ann, Joachim, and Mary. While it is common to relate to Ann and Joachim as the grandparents of Jesus and the parents of Mary, it is good to consider the first Holy Family of Nazareth. Much of what we know about Ann and Joachim comes to us through tradition based upon the Protoevange-lium of St. James. Ann and Joachim were perhaps around the age of Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist, who tradition holds was the first cousin of Ann. So, here we have the first Holy Family - Ann, Joachim, and Mary. To understand this family, it is important to understand Ann and Joachim as individuals, as a couple, and as parents. They were faith-ful, prayerful, devout, trusting, confident, and hopeful. These adjectives tell us a lot about them and also about our own vocational calls. But let's think, too, about what we don't often focus on, the preoccupations, concerns, and worries they must have had as they raised Mary and as they grew older. We can see them participating in the rituals and worship of the Jewish tradition on a regular basis. We can see them relying on the Scriptures of the Torah, and engaging in the psalms as their way to connect with the Most Sacred God. We can imagine them working daily and toiling to sustain a home where God was all and all lived for God and one another. We can see Ann and Joachim raising their daughter to be a woman who would be betrothed to a man of God. Could they ever have imag-ined that she in fact would be the Spouse of the Holy Spirit and bear in her own body the Savior of the World? In that way, Ann and Joachim are beautiful models for parents and caregivers today. They provide us with real life people who dealt with all the unknowns life has to offer and faced the uncertainties of life with trust, faith, confidence, hope, and surrender. It's really impossible to appreciate fully the Holy Family who we celebrate at Christmas without getting to know better the first Holy Family of Nazareth, and it's limited in meaning to honor the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus if we don't recognize the Holy Family of today, the families in which we find ourselves, whether they are blood families, spiritual families, religious families, or cho-sen families. Take some time to contemplate the family of Ann, Joachim, and Mary and what treasures of faith and wisdom that Holy Family offers me and you. Consider how this family was essential to the Holy Family of Mary, Joseph, and Jesus. Thank God for the Holy Family of Today, the many Holy Families that we encounter every day. The Feast of Saints Ann and Joachim, the First Holy Family of Nazareth, teaches us about our own vocation and the Lord's invitation to follow Him daily. In Christ, Fr. Simon
Prayer for Grandparents As we celebrate the feast day of St. Joachim and Anne
HEAVENLY FATHER,
may saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of your Son, Jesus, be an everlasting model for
grandparents. Your wisdom and word are eternal, meant for all generations. Help grandparents, we
pray, as they pass on the rich traditions of the faith to their beloved family members, especially their
grandchildren. We are all your children. Help us to know you better each day, ultimately leading us with
our family members into eternal life with you. Amen.
