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Unless noted, all daily Masses are at St. John Nepomucene in Pisek June 14, 2020 – Corpus Christi Reconciliation – ½ hour before daily Mass; 1 hour before 5:00 p.m. Vigil Mass on Saturday; after 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass upon request; or, by appointment. Adoration – 7:00 a.m. on each Friday – Pisek Before Sunday Mass – Pisek & Lankin Morning Prayer – Weekdays at 7:00 a.m. Evening Prayer – Weekdays at 5:00 p.m. Baptism – Please call 2 to 3 weeks prior to date requested for baptism. Wedding – Contact pastor 6 months to 1 year in advance of anticipated date. New to Parish – Please register at the parish office THIS WEEKEND’S MASS INTENTIONS 06/13 – Saturday – Lankin – CONFESSION – 4:00 pm – MASS – 5:00 pm – † Gary Pecka – Ed & Eunice Pecka 06/14 – Sunday – Bechyne – MASS – 8:30 am – † Rudy Kram – Pat & Karen Restad 06/14 – Sunday – Pisek – MASS – 10:30 am – pro populo (for the people) MASS INTENTIONS – (June 15 – June 21) 06/15 – Monday – 8:00 am – Fr. Lefor's Intention 06/16 – Tuesday – 5:00 pm – † Aloys Lutovsky – Ray & Linda Lutovsky 06/17 – Wednesday – 8:00 am – † Marge Praska – Dan & Joel Dub 06/18– Thursday – 8:00 am – † Dorothy H. Novak – Pat & Karen Restad 06/19 – Friday – Pisek – ADORATION – 7:00 am – MASS – 8:00 am – † Joe Zikmund – Mike & Karen Splonskowski 06/20 – Saturday – Lankin – CONFESSION – 4:00 pm – MASS – 5:00 pm – † Fr Leo Kinney 06/21 – Sunday – Bechyne – MASS – 8:30 am – † Keith Knudson – Todd & Stacey 06/21 – Sunday – Pisek – MASS – 10:30 am – pro populo (for the people) PRAYER LIST Please pray for the members of our Tri-parishes who are sick or hurt: Joann Ryba, Polly Dusek, Ron Nord, Paul Greicar, Norman Kaste, Lorraine Zikmund, Elaine Swartz, Elinor Grabanski, Ron Dvorak, Robert Gemmill, Heidi Gustafson, John Beneda, Hadler Ellingson, Charles Waechter If you would like a name added to the prayer list, please contact the Parish Office. After 4 weeks names will be removed unless resubmitted. Thank you. ST. JOHN NEPOMUCENE, Pisek ST. JOSEPH, Lankin ~ STs. PETER & PAUL, Bechyne Pastor – Rev. Jason Lefor Email: [email protected] – Cell: 701-520-0369 PO Box 27 – 167 Newton Ave – Pisek, ND 58273 Telephone: 701-284-6060 [email protected] www.plbtriparish.org www.facebook.com/NepomuceneOfPisek FUTURE MASS SCHEDULE June 2020 Lankin – 5:00 pm – Saturday Bechyne – 8:30 am – Sunday Pisek – 10:30 am – Sunday July 2020 Bechyne – 5:00 pm – Saturday Lankin – 8:30 am – Sunday Pisek – 10:30 am – Sunday Holy Father’s Prayer Intentions for June The Way of the Heart: We pray that all those who suffer may find their way in life, allowing themselves to be touched by the Heart of Jesus. 06/14/20 06/15/20 06/16/20 06/17/20 06/18/20 06/19/20 06//20 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Corpus Christi Saint Adelaide Alexa Carter Saint John Francis Regis Saint Albert Chmielowski A-Gary & Kristi Brintnell Saint Romuald A-Maynard & Phyllis Kadlec Sacred Heart of Jesus Andrew Zikmund A-Mike & Shawna Hodek Immaculate Heart of Mary Ginger Peterka WEEKLY BIRTHDAY, ANNIVERSARY, EVENTS & SAINT of the DAY CALENDAR St. John’s Stewardship Report Total Budgeted 2020 Sunday Collection $54,080.00 Budget to Date 23,920.00 Actual Sunday Collection to Date 22,926.45 Excess/(Shortfall) (993.55) Weekly Budget $1,040.00 Past week (Total 59 Households Registered) 9 Households Gave past Week 1,065.00 Online Giving Loose Plate 357.00 Total 1,422.00 Past Week’s +Excess/(Shortfall) +382.00 The Eucharist is given to us as a challenge and a promise. That’s how Jesus presents it in today’s Gospel. He doesn’t make it easy for those who hear Him. They are repulsed and offended at His words. Even when they begin to quarrel, He insists on describing the eating and drinking of His flesh and blood in starkly literal terms. Four times in today’s reading, Jesus uses a Greek word—trogein—that refers to a crude kind of eating, almost a gnawing or chewing (see John 6:54, 56, 57, 58). He is testing their faith in His Word, as today’s First Reading describes God testing Israel in the desert. The heavenly manna was not given to satisfy the Israelites’ hunger, as Moses explains. It was given to show them that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God. In today’s Psalm, too, we see a connection between God’s Word and the bread of life. We sing of God filling us with “finest wheat” and proclaiming his Word to the world. In Jesus, “the living Father” has given us His Word come down from heaven, made flesh for the life of the world. Yet as the Israelites grumbled in the desert, many in today’s Gospel cannot accept that Word. Even many of Jesus’ own followers abandon Him after this discourse (see John 6:66). But His words are Spirit and life, the words of eternal life (see John 6:63, 67). In the Eucharist we are made one flesh with Christ. We have His life in us and have our life because of Him. This is what Paul means in today’s Epistle when He calls the Eucharist a “participation” in Christ’s body and blood. We become in this sacrament partakers of the divine nature (see 1 Peter 2:4). This is the mystery of the faith that Jesus asks us to believe. And He gives us His promise: that by sharing in His flesh and blood that was raised from the dead, we too will be raised up on the last day. Biblical Theology ~ Sunday Bible Reflections with Dr. Scott Hahn ~.www.salvationhistory.com REFLECTION ON TODAY'S LITURGY
