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ANNUNCIATION PARISH May 7, 2017 FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER www.annunciationcatholicchurch.org PASTOR: Fr. Tony Rinaldo, 573-796-4842 [email protected] Emergency Contact for Fr. Tony: St. Andrew's Church 660-433-2162 DEACON: Ed Schepers, 573-694-9331 [email protected] PARISH OFFICE: 573-796-4842 or [email protected], Hall 796-3568 Open Mondays 8 AM to1 PM & Tuesdays 8:30 AM to12:00 PM Phone and Email messages always welcome PASTORAL MINISTER: Sr. Mary Ruth Wand, [email protected] 796-2654 PARISH COUNCIL PRESIDENT: Evelyn Jobe, 301-4945, [email protected] MASSES @ ANNUNCIATION: SATURDAY @ 4 PM, SUNDAY @ 10:30 AM, and SPANISH MASS @ NOON MASSES @ ST. ANDREW: TIPTON: SATURDAY @ 5:30 PM, SUNDAY @ 8:30 AM BAPTISMS: By appointment. Please call for Parental Sacrament Preparation WEDDINGS: Please contact at least 4 months in advance RECONCILIATION: Saturdays @ 3:15 PM before Mass – Sundays @ 9:30 AM or by appt. MASSES FOR THE WEEK Sat. May 6 4 PM Leon Deraps Sun. May 7 10:30 AM Maria Santos Garcia Tue. May 9 8 AM Vocations Thu. May 11 8 AM Tony Taube Sat. May 13 4 PM Parish Sun. May 14 10:30 AM Tina Hoback/ Jimmy Bax Sun. May 14 NOON Spanish MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK Mon. May 8 5:45 PM Prayer of the Holy Rosary 8 PM AA-ALNON Tue. May 9 6:30 PM K of C Meeting Wed. May 10 8:15 PM Mustard Seed Thur. May 11 7 PM Parish Council 7 PM Holy Hour Sun. May 14 MOTHERS DAY 8 -11:30 AM K of C Breakfast (Mothers Eat Free!) STEWARDSHIP – OUR GIFT TO GOD Monthly Goal: $23,100.00 1 st week: $ 4,487.00 2 nd week: $ 7,474.50 3 rd week: $ 3,025.14 4 th week: $ 6,648.60 5 TH week: $ 3,524.29 Rice Bowls: $ 10.25 Building Fund: $ 225.00 Infirm Priests: $ 10.00 Stipend: $ 15.00 Home Missions: $ 507.00 Exceeded Goal: ($ 2,059.53) Pray for the Sick: Stephany Labuary; Steve Ciolli; Myrene Hoellering; Don George; Mark Bardwell; Patricia Taylor; Sheryl Sullins; Rick Wingate; Steve Lee; Andrew Phipps; Rachel Frank; Alfred Kirkweg; Mary Ann Kenning; Robert Wolken (Jo Wolken’s nephew); Gladys Mertens; Andrea Tilbury; Betty Edwards; Michael Wiseman; Delores Bardwell; Abraham Baepler; Teresa Kirchhoff; Joel Rivera; Betty Gombkoto; Carol Rackers; Charlotte Baker; Carol Baker; Doug Distler; Mary Wood; Lena Beydler; Joe Goedde; Rita Harris; Tom LePage; and Travis Peck. God’s blessings and congratulations to Addilynn Nicole Taylor, daughter of Tiffany Fifer and Gary Lee Taylor, Jr. who who received Holy Baptism here at Annunciation on April 30 th . Our prayers and sympathy go out to the Roger Pringer family for the death of his mother Geraldine Pringer. May her soul be granted eternal rest and comfort be granted to the family PASTOR’S NOTES . . . May 7, 2017 This Sunday is World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Here is a short version of Pope Francis’ homily from May 7, 2016. Fr.Tony All Christians are called to be missionaries of the Gospel! As disciples, we do not receive the gift of God’s love for our personal consolation. We are simply men and women touched and transformed by the joy of God’s love, who cannot keep this experience just to ourselves. For “the Gospel joy which enlivens the community of disciples is a missionary joy. ‘Whom shall I send and who will go for us?’, and I answered, ‘Here am I, send me’ (Is 6:6-8). In the depths of their heart, all disciples hear this divine voice bidding them to “go about”, as Jesus did, “doing good and healing all.” I have mentioned that, by virtue of baptism, every Christian is a “Christopher”, a bearer of Christ, to his brothers and sisters. This is particularly the case with those called to a life of special consecration and with priests, who have generously responded, “Here I am, Lord, send me!” With renewed missionary enthusiasm, priests are called to go forth from the sacred precincts of the temple and to let God’s tender love overflow for the sake of humanity. The Church needs such priests: serenely confident because they have discovered the true treasure, anxious to go out and joyfully to make it known to all. I wish heartily to encourage this kind of profound friendship with the Lord, above all for the sake of imploring from on high new vocations to the priesthood and the consecrated life. The People of God need to be guided by pastors whose lives are spent in service to the Gospel. I ask parish communities, associations and the many prayer groups present in the Church, not to yield to discouragement but to continue praying that the Lord will send workers to his harvest. May he give us priests in love with the Gospel, close to all their brothers and sisters, living signs of God’s merciful love. Dear brothers and sisters, today too we can encourage young people in particular to take up the path of Christian discipleship. Our young people desire to discover Jesus, to be challenged by his words and actions, and to cherish the ideal that he holds out of a life that is fully human, happy to spend itself in love. Mary Most Holy, the Mother of our Savior, had the courage to embrace this ideal, placing her youth and her enthusiasm in God’s hands. Through her intercession, may we be granted that same openness of heart, that same readiness to respond, “Here I am”, to the Lord’s call, and that same joy in setting out, like her, to proclaim him to the whole world. Building Fund -- Monthly Mustard Seed -- Monthly Picnic Donation – May 14 Trinity Dome – May 14 Comm. & Education – May 28 May 7 May 14 ACTS 2:14,36-41 ACTS 6:1-7 1 PETER 2:20-25 1 PETER 2:4-9 JOHN 10:1-10 JOHN 14:1-12
