During COVID-19, the Mass schedule is as follows: SUNDAY MASS DAILY MASS St. Catherine Sat 10:30am St. Catherine Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri 6:30pm 5:00pm Field St. Ignatius Sun 8:30am CONFESSIONS ADORATION St. Catherine Sat 4:00-4:45pm Field St. Catherine Mon-Fri 5:30-6:30pm St. Ignatius Sun 7:45-8:15am St. Catherine Thu 5:30-6:15pm St. Ignatius of Loyola Established 1859 Hilltop, Maryland St. Catherine of Alexandria Established 1911 Port Tobacco, Maryland July 12, 2020 ~ 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
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During COVID-19, the Mass schedule is as follows:
SUNDAY MASS DAILY MASS St. Catherine Sat 10:30am St. Catherine Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri 6:30pm 5:00pm Field St. Ignatius Sun 8:30am
CONFESSIONS ADORATION St. Catherine Sat 4:00-4:45pm Field St. Catherine Mon-Fri 5:30-6:30pm
St. Ignatius Sun 7:45-8:15am St. Catherine Thu 5:30-6:15pm
St. Ignatius of Loyola Established 1859 Hilltop, Maryland
St. Catherine of Alexandria Established 1911
Port Tobacco, Maryland
July 12, 2020 ~ 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time
OFFICE & STAFF
Mail: P.O. Box 278
Port Tobacco, MD 20677 www.stcsti.org
Street Address: (no mail)
7640 Port Tobacco Rd. Port Tobacco, MD 20677
Phone: 301-934-9630 Flocknote: Text “ROUTE6” to 84576
Leon Higgs Bill Higgs Lionel Gray Mike Hancock Joe Cooper Marie Boteler Marcella Palmer Hank Galotta Ramona Dobry Ignatius Cooper Kelly Welch John Shifflett Avery Sandiford Bobby Vermillion Marcus Elam
Robert Ansell
Robin Proctor Sarah Smith Daniel Jameson Sissy Cooper Craig Doshen Irene Proctor Aubrey Proctor Jennifer Hancock Jean Carter Michael DeLane Dawn Walters Brenda Greer Raymond DiGiovanni
Hailey Sellers Linda D. Welch Vincent Jamieson Clarke Hettel Jean Ambrose DeAngelo Ball Carina Gibbs Kayla Kiley Xenia Hernandez Steve Pavlot Joe Raub Logan Willey Robert Cecil Lisa Tuono
Please keep in your prayers those with long term illnesses and their caregivers. To have names added to or removed from the prayer list or if you need a priest at the hospital, nursing home or assisted living facility, call (301) 934-9630. Please leave your name, phone number, person's name, facility and room number.
Sacrificial Giving
Weekend of July 5, 2020
Thank you for you generous support of our church & ministries.
St. Catherine Offertory: $2,322
St. Ignatius Offertory $1,565
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Mass Intentions and Readings
Sunday July 12 – Fifteenth Sunday in
Ordinary Time
8:30am Claude Houck
Is 55:10-11 Rom 8:18-23 Mt 13:1-23
Monday July 13– Weekday
6:30pm Sterling E. Barbour
Is 1:10-17 Mt 10:34, 11:1
Tuesday July 14 - Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Is 7:1-9 Mt 11:20-24
Wednesday July 15 — Saint Bonaventure
No Mass at St. Catherine’s
Is 10:5-7, 13b-16 Mt 11:25-27
Thursday July 16 – Weekday
6:30pm Kevin L. Johnson
Is 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 Mt 11:28-30
Friday July 17 – Weekday
6:30pm Daryll Johnson
Is 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 Mt 12:1-8
Mass In Time of Pandemic
Reminders for St. Catherine 5pm Vigil Mass • Bring your Missalette • Bring your chair and sit with your household • Remain in place for communion Reminders for St. Ignatius 8:30am Mass • Bring your Missalette and mask • Sit with your household in designated pews • Remain in place for communion Reminders for St. Catherine 10:30am Mass • Bring your Missalette and mask • Social Distance every other pew • Remain in place for communion
Bible Timeline Bible Study The third stage of our journey begins on July 12 of our parish Bible study in St. Catherine's parish hall at 9:00am. We welcome new members! This session will be a review so new members can catch up! We are taking a "big-picture" ap-proach to understand the sweep of the whole biblical story. The fee for materials is $50. Con-tact the Rectory for registration at 301-934-8630.
Special thanks to Ed Landicho and the Boy Scouts who helped move and replace the furniture in our Rectory to make way for our new flooring! Great Job! We couldn’t have done it without you!
Memorial Mass for
Thomas John Miller, Jr.
St. Ignatius Church
Celebrant Fr. Robert Kosty
Saturday, July 18 at 12:00 noon
Reception following at FOP Lodge, LaPlata, Maryland
Mass at St. Catherine Parish
The 10:30am Mass at St. Catherine’s will resume next Sunday, July 19. Masks will be required as well as social distancing. Please stay seated for Communion.
From Fr. Q’s Desk
Dear parish family,
It was one year ago—last July 10—that I
showed up at the door of our parish rectory
and Fr. Gill handed to me the keys of the king-
dom (so to speak) to my first pastorate! I was
excited then, and to be honest, I’ve only grown
more excited as the year has gone by. Fr. Gill
bequeathed me a well-functioning parish, a
dedicated staff, and a pleasant place to live.
But all of that—as grateful as I am for it—isn’t
what has pleased me the most.
No, what has pleased me the most about my
assignment here at St. Catherine and St. Ignati-
us is… wait for it… YOU! I feel so blessed to be
among you, and I have seen your goodness
and your faith shine for the over and over dur-
ing this first year here. Truly Jesus is present
here: in your evident pride for your our par-
ishes, in your concern for one another and our
wider neighborhood, in your generosity of
time and material support that so many of you
have shown. What a blessing to have such a
flock!
I guess every year brings its challenges, but I
think it’s fair to say that COVID has topped
them all. I’ll admit that it has been a frustrating
experience to be “socially distant” from my
congregation throughout this crisis, and many
of my dreams for the parish have been post-
poned or cancelled. But we are weathering the
crisis together, and I’ve been especially
touched by your faithful generosity in keeping
our parishes afloat, even when gathering for
Sunday Mass has proven difficult or impossi-
ble. I pray that we will emerge from this crisis
renewed in our dedication to living the Lord’s
Paschal Mystery here in our corner of the
world.
One this first anniversary of my arrival, then, I
recite this beautiful prayer with gratitude to
our Lord who has sent me here: “For what has
been, thanks; for what is to come, yes.”
Theological Reflection
St. Augustine on Psalm 121
Jerusalem is being built as a city (Ps 121:3). Breth-ren, when David was uttering these words, that city had been finished, it was not being built. It is some city he speaks of, therefore, which is now being built, unto which living stones run in faith, of whom Peter says, You also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house(1 Peter 2:5); that is, the holy temple of God. What does he mean, you are built up as living stones? You live, if you believe, but if you be-lieve, you are made a temple of God; for the Apostle Paul says, The temple of God is holy, which temple are you. (1 Cor 3:17). This city is therefore now in building; stones are cut down from the hills by the hands of those who preach truth, they are squared that they may enter into an everlasting structure. There are still many stones in the hands of the Builder: let them not fall from His hands, that they may be built perfect into the structure of the temple. This, then, is the Jerusalem that is being built as a city: Christ is its foundation.
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Catechism of the Catholic Church MARY - MOTHER OF CHRIST, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
970 "Mary's function as mother of men in no way obscures or diminishes this unique mediation of Christ, but rather shows its power. But the Blessed Virgin's salutary influence on men . . . flows forth from the superabundance of the mer-its of Christ, rests on his mediation, depends en-tirely on it, and draws all its power from it.""No creature could ever be counted along with the Incarnate Word and Redeemer; but just as the priesthood of Christ is shared in various ways both by his ministers and the faithful, and as the one goodness of God is radiated in different ways among his creatures, so also the unique mediation of the Redeemer does not exclude but rather gives rise to a manifold cooperation which is but a sharing in this one source."
II. DEVOTION TO THE BLESSED VIRGIN
971 "All generations will call me blessed": "The Church's devotion to the Blessed Virgin is intrin-sic to Christian worship." The Church rightly honors "the Blessed Virgin with special devotion. From the most ancient times the Blessed Virgin has been honored with the title of 'Mother of God,' to whose protection the faithful fly in all their dangers and needs.... This very special de-votion ... differs essentially from the adoration which is given to the incarnate Word and equal-ly to the Father and the Holy Spirit, and greatly fosters this adoration." The liturgical feasts dedi-cated to the Mother of God and Marian prayer, such as the rosary, an "epitome of the whole Gospel," express this devotion to the Virgin Mary.
EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Recognize God in your Everyday Moments
Focus on the Good
When I was a child, my mother had a set of sculptures resembling three human heads. One head had hands over the ears, one had hands over the eyes, and one had hands over the mouth. Of course, they depicted the phrase, “Hear no evil; see no evil; speak no evil.” I have seen these images repeated many times since then, usually as the monkey heads from a Japa-nese proverb, which would have probably seemed a little less creepy to me when I was a small child. Apparently, there is no consensus about the full meaning or certain origin of these three images nor the phrase. At the very least, it causes us to reflect on the need to avoid evil and look for the good in things.
As I have lived my life, I have come to believe there are more people who lives their lives in a contrary manner to these images. It is not that they seek evil, but it is as if they “see no good, hear no good, and speak no good.” Gossiping is the way they pass the time, and they always seem to find the negative in people and situa-tions. Being a good steward certainly means that we do not seek evil, but more than that, it means that we see the abundance of good things all around us. These gifts of God are big and little, profound and ordinary. By seeing the world in this way, we begin to change our personalities and our overall disposition. We always need to follow a new proverb: see all the good, hear all the good, and speak about the good. Amen.
— Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time July 12, 2020
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READ: Conquering Coronavirus by Teresa Tomeo
Whether the coronavirus still threatens you, your friends, and your family or has harmed someone you love, these pages will ease your fears, heal your wounds, quench your sorrow, and bring you the consolation God provides to all who seek Him in pestilential times like these — times that are, in fact, not foreign to our an-cient Faith.
For in Christianity’s two-thousand-year history, cruel persecutions and sudden, uncontrollable plagues like COVID-19 have time and again struck mankind, challenging Christians to rise up spiritually against evils that cannot immediately be conquered materially.
Here celebrated Catholic author and media host Teresa Tomeo has drawn forth from Scripture, the lives of the saints, and contemporary sources a healing balm for souls — believers and unbe-lievers alike — who have been shaken by the frightening evils thrust upon us by this corona-virus.
Prayers appropriate for the unique threats — material and spiritual — that we face today
• Advice to help you bear gracefully the many unexpected burdens that are suddenly yours to carry, including those you never asked for and do not want.
• Surefire ways you can — and should — ease the burden the virus has placed on others (and simultaneously ease your own)
• Creative ways to respond at home and else-where to the limitations the virus has im-posed on your days and ways, and to the in-vitation from God that is implicit in each of those limitations.
Catholic Counseling Available
Locations available: La Plata (Sacred Heart), Hyattsville (St. Jerome’s), and Telehealth (online video sessions).
Session fee: Sliding scale based on income. We want to ensure finances are not a barrier to any-one receiving mental health services.
Meet the therapist: Caitlin Langreich is a cradle Catholic who grew up in Maryland with her mom. She got her BA in psychology from Salis-bury University in 2015 then graduated with her MA in clinical mental health counseling from the University of the Cumberland in May 2019. She is a licensed professional counselor (LGPC) and has a certification as a certified clinical trau-ma professional (CCTP). I n addition to working in parish counseling with the St. Jerome’s coun-seling program, she also works as a therapist in a crisis intervention center. There, she works with individuals affected by trauma such as do-mestic violence, sexual assault, multiple forms of abuse, divorce, suicide, and grief. She special-izes in working with both children and adults suffering with mental health issues such as anxi-ety, depression, trauma, etc. using Cognitive Be-havioral Therapy (CBT) methods. She knows God has called her to this vocation to help oth-ers be their true, authentic selves that God creat-ed them to be.
