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July 5th, 2020 Vol. 38 No. 48

St. Stephen’s Catholic Church 4601 Neely Avenue Midland, Texas 79707 (432) 520-7394 Fax (432) 520-7395

www.ststephensmidland.com

Rev. Rodney White, Pastor Assistant Pastor: Rev. Freddy Perez

Deacons: Leonard Hendon, Luis Mata, Fidel Saldivar, Larry Salazar Director of Religious Education: Gretchen Lara

Music Director: Gabriel Salgado Youth Director: Crystal Villareal

Upcoming Baptismal Classes:

Próximas clases bautismales

July 12th, 2020 / 12 de julio del 2020

English : 2:00 - 4:30pm Español: 2:30 - 5:00pm

Please come by the Office and present a Driver’s

License to Register

Por favor vengan a la oficina parroquial y presenten la licencia para registrarse.

Immigration Services Clinics WHO: Accredited Representatives for the Diocese of San Angelo

WHERE: Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church 1401 E Garden Lane

Midland, Texas 79701 WHEN: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

July 15th,October 21st ,August 19th,November 18th, September 16th, December 16th

CASES ACCEPTED: Adjustment of Status Advance Parole Affidavit of Support Application to Immigrate Family Members Consular Processing/Waivers DACA Applications I-90 Renewal (Green Cards) Naturalization Pardons Refugee/Asylee Processes Remove Condition on Residency Travel Documents U Status Applications for Victims of Crime VAWA for Victims of Domestic Violence Work Permits/Renewal Applications APPOINTMENTS & INFORMATION (Please do not call Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish) Diocese of San Angelo Immigration Services Patricia Stokes Santana (325) 212-6192

OFFICE AND TELEPHONE CONSULTATIONS AND IMMIGRATION SERVICES ARE PROVIDED FOR NORMAL

FEES.

If your kids were in RCIC classes (Kids only) and had their sacraments at our

Christian Initiation's Mass Saturday, June 20th, their certificates are ready to be

picked up at the Parish office. Should you have any questions, please

feel free to call us at

ST. STEPHEN’S CONFESSION SCHEDULE

Monday - Tuesday - Thursday -

Friday 6:45 am - 7:00 am & 5:00 - 5:30

pm

Wednesday 6:45 a.m.-7 a.m.; 5-5:30 p.m.

Saturday

7:45 am - 8:00 am; 4:00 - 4:45 pm

Sunday 8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.; 4:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

Anytime by appointment.

Last Week’s Collection Collections/Mailed in/Dropped off: Regular Deposit $10,373.25 Other Income $342.00 Second Collections $2,904.75*

June Online Contributions: Regular Deposit $16,565.00 Other Income $0.00 Second Collections $1,285.00*

*Includes contributions for: Helping Hands, Father’s Day Remembrance, Building Fund,

Peter’s Pence & Honduran Partnership Diocese Monday, July 6th– St. Maria Goretti, Virgin & Martyr

Tuesday, July 7th

Wednesday, July 8th

Thursday, July 9th-St. Augustine,Zhao Rong, Priest & Companions, Martyrs

Friday, July 10th

Saturday, July 11th- St. Benedict, Abbot

Sunday, July 12th– Fifteenth Sunday In Ordinary Time

Mass Intentions For the week of July 5th, 2020

If you would like to make an announcement for your ministry

or event please email: [email protected]

as far in advance as possible. The bulletin deadline is Tuesday at 10am. We

encourage you to get any announcements to us the week

before to ensure we have space for your message. Thank

you!

July 5 Pete Alcazar

Jesus Armendariz Maria Barrera Derian Deras

Luis Dominguez Florinda Gomez Karla Gutierrez William Prucka Martin Ramirez

Ana Ramos Rodriguez Andrea Ross

Oscar Tarango Maria Torres

Michael ValVerde Donny Ybarra

July 6 Sienna Cardona Betty Casarez

Alejandra Renee Garcia

Bradley Gibson Jacob Hernandez Jr.

Jose Leyva Beatrice Lopez

Andrew McIntosh Alexis Mendoza Julio Montoya Lucia Morales Izabella Nieves Yolanda Ramos

Nathaniel Rodriguez Kylie Saenz

Jennifer Sanchez Cipriana Williamson

July 7 Jose Baeza

Shelby Lynn Bass Biak Cung

Rebecca Dehlinger Annabell Diaz

Mary Virginia Dowdle John Filip

Pedro Gomez Favour Idahosa

Kylie Lebario Sonia Leyva

Nathlay Martinez Valerie Martinez

Lizeth Riley Xavier Torres

July 8 Bryan Bustamante

Joey Grace Chaparro Isaac Gallegos Veronica Goni Nicholas Lyles Eva Sanchez

Angilina Wright Juan Zaragosa

July 9 Elizebeth Arredondo

Juana Escamilla Carl Gonzales Jose Gonzales Yesenia Loya Gileem Molina Deborah Owen Terry Repman

July 10 Roman Cabello Amala Carrasco Julian Delgado Greg J. Folger Victoria Griego Brianna Hartter Amalia Herrera Nathan Lopez

Barbara Martinez Lindsey Orth

Minnie Sustaita

July 11 Dania Benavides Hayden Bunch Louise Kuzmich Angel Medina Jr. Manuel Monteil Nathan Perez

Leticia Renteria David Reyes

Isaiah Joshua Torres Marisela Villanueva

Hannah Wakley

July 12 Aidan Aguirre Gerald Alvin Juan Ardila

Nancy Flores Cavin Garza

Gracida Gonzalez Gracie Heredia Maria Jimenez Daniel Lopez

Alexander Lyssy Alyson Lyssy

Angelica Morales Gabriel Ortega Tony Pallanez Melanie Reyes

Alessandro Saenz Thomas Shows Lorena Toscano Shelton Viney

Fran, Gerry & others , Noah Garcia, Yulisa Garcia, Crystal Garcia, Emma Valdez, Yolanda Rodriguez & Garcia Family, Joe Munoz lll, Terisa Garza, Jesus Munoz, Ana Morin, Julio Rodriguez, Mingo Lujan, Stephanie Mendoza, Anna Marie Lunsford, Ignacio (Jr.) Villegas, Zaman

Kachir, Raquel Ramirez, Katherine Kirwan, Elia Sauceda, Goyo Valeriano, Selena Jaquez, Enzo Villa, Michelle Franco, Denisse Feregrino, Juan Miguel Flores, Lisa Esther Punete, Olivia Anzures, Maria Esther Estrada, Felix Munoz ll, Jose Martinez Jr. ,Precious Medires, Julian Rodriguez, Ruth Alvardo, Burdette Family, Vasquez Family, Isaiah V., Carlota V., Rod T., Judy D., Mary Helen Smith, Candace Rosas. A.J Garrett, Dolores Higgins, Alexia Aguirre, Larry White, Arthur Garcia, Domingo Carrizales, Colter Marcum, Joe Teagarden, Raul Lujan, Adamari Rosas, Gloria K, Magdalena Mendoza, Stella Torres, Alma Garcia, Joe Teagarden, Dayton Martinez, Natalie Gamboa, Ruby Morales, Alfonso Marquez, Avery King Jr., Dora Lopez, Mary Bryan, Elida Rodriguez, Mendoza Family, Christian Molina, Claudia Molina, Valerie C., Cory & baby Javier, Andy Stone, Daniel & Alicia, Isaiah V., Julia G, Julia H. ,Jerome Hoelscher, Margaret Rios, Erick Baeza, Oscsar Gonzalez.

Email [email protected] or call the office at 520-7394 to be added to the prayer list! If someone needs to be removed from prayer list

please contact the office to remove request. Thank you!

Envíe un correo electrónico a [email protected] o llame a la oficina al 520-7394 para ser incluido en la lista de oración! Si alguien necesita ser

removido de la lista de oración, por favor comuníquese con la oficina. Gracias!

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle.

Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the

Devil. May God rebuke him, we

humbly pray, and do thou,

O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits,

who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls.

Amen

Youth News

PEEK AT THE MONTH… ALL TEENS INVITE

July: • We have activities still going on for the

youth on Zoom. If your youth is interested please send us an email. for grades 6th-

12th. Thank you and God Bless!

Crystal Villareal : Ph: (432)-520-7394 [email protected]

Loving God, please protect our youth from the

dangers present in our world today.

Be with them through sickness and health,

sorrow and joy, loneliness and friendship,

success and failure. Give them the courage and strength to make the right

decisions. We ask this through Christ, Our Lord.

Amen

Hello everyone! As some of you may know two of our youth will be doing NET

(National Evangelization Teams) this upcoming year. NET is such a great program. It will help them with their

relationship with the Lord, help relationships with others, and they also will be evangelizing to the youth. The

Lord calls all of us to serve, but not all of us can go out to mission, nevertheless we can still be a part of the mission by

giving/praying/supporting our missionaries. With that being said,

Charlie Cisneros and Belinda Baeza need your help. You can help by praying

for them, giving a donation, or both. If you choose to donate please let us (staff) know or you can go online

netusa.org/donate the link will bring you to a page where you will click "support a

missionary" under the "donation information" tab, a box which says "I'd like to join the mission of" you'll simply

put Charlie or Belinda's name. We thank you so much for taking the time to read

this. Also thank you in advance for prayers and donations. If any questions please call the front office at 432-520-7394 ask for Crystal. She will be more than happy to help you out. May God

bless you!

Young Adults/

Jovenes Adultos

The next Quinceañera class is scheduled for Saturday,

July 11, 2020. If you have scheduled a Quinceañera celebration

Mass for your daughter, she and one of her parents

must attend a formation Quinceañera class.

Please call the office to pre register at 432-520-7394.

We invite everyone to continue to Pray the Rosary from your home every Monday at 7:30pm. With the COVID-19 going on we are supposed to be practicing social distancing but that doesn't mean you can’t continue to Pray the Rosary where ever you are.

REGISTRATION FOR RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASS WILL BEGIN AUGUST 3RD-31ST. MONDAY-THURSDAY 1PM-5PM. SPACE IS VERY LIMITED. PLEASE CONTACT GRETCHEN LARA, [email protected] TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT TO REGISTER FOR THE

2020-2021 SCHOOL YEAR. THANK YOU.

www.helpinghandsmidland.com

Because we feel it is important that you know how and where your donations to Helping Hands are spent, here is what was done in the past week: Electric 5 families $2,512.19 Water 2 families $669.14 Rent 23 families $29,977.73 Medical 2 families $2,244.00 Total $35,403.06

Helping Hands of Midland 1301 Brinson Lane

(432) 520-8900

Our helpline is still ringing off the wall! It is not at all unusual to get in excess of 80 calls each day from people needing assistance. While it

is true that unemployment benefits are starting to kick in with those people who were able to get through quickly, there are still so many out there who are still waiting on their first check. Another concern we are facing right now is the high number of people who still have jobs but

whose hours have been cut in half (or even more), and it is not unusual to hear of cuts in pay. Yes, they still are fortunate enough to still have

jobs, but they do not earn enough to pay for rent, utilities and food. It is still so hard out there….

But on a positive note, because of your donations we are still able to respond to many of those calls for assistance. In fact, below is a

summary of what we have been able to do for those in need just in the first six months of this year:

Electricity 75 families $27,653.94 Water 38 families $15,312.19 Rent 692 families $777,631.41 Medical 16 families $11,477.35 Transportation 6 families $3,736.63 Home Repairs 3 families $968.76 Christmas Food (for 2019) $10,394. Misc. (IDs etc.) 16 families $2,842.75 TOTAL 846 families $850,017.77

Again, absolutely none of what we do would be possible without the

support of the people and the charitable foundations of Midland who are making it possible to help so many in need. What a blessing it is to live in this remarkable city where so many kind and caring people are willing

to reach out to help their neighbor in need. May God bless you abundantly for your generosity!