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SAINT LUKE THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH JULY 8, 2018

MORGANTOWN, WEST VIRGINIA FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Mission Statement: With the help of the Holy Spirit, we seek to build a Christ centered community upon the foundation of a joyful liturgy, a welcoming hospitality, a celebrating people, a learning and nurturing atmosphere for all members, and a commitment to serve God and others, while spreading the Good News to those who seek to share in the blessings of our Catholic faith.

19 Jo Glen Dr., Morgantown, WV 26508

Main Telephone: 304-594-2353 Fax: 304-594-2359

Church Website: http://stlukemorgantown.com

Office Hours: Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 3:00pm

PASTOR—Rev. Biju T. Devassy [email protected] Phone: 304-780-9096 OFFICE SECRETARY—Angie Turner [email protected] FAITH FORMATION COORDINATOR—Lynn Johnson [email protected] Phone:304-290-5639 DIRECTOR OF LITURGICAL MUSIC—R.J. Nestor [email protected] PARISH BOOKKEEPER—Ruth Gibson [email protected] SACRISTAN & GROUNDS—Toni Southern [email protected] SAFE ENVIRONMENT COORDINATOR—Alison Leon [email protected] HOSPITALITY & WELCOME—Christine Robison [email protected] PASTORAL COUNCIL CHAIR-PERSON—Ray Jarr [email protected] FINANCE COUNCIL CHAIR-PERSON—Nathan White [email protected]

Sacramental Information

BAPTISM: You must attend Baptismal Preparation Classes prior to the baptism. Contact the pastor to arrange one. MARRIAGE: Please contact six months in advance. No date will be set over the phone. RECONCILIATION: Saturdays at 4:30pm, Week-days before

or after daily mass or by appointment.

MASS TIMES, INTENTIONS, AND ACTIVITIES

FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Saturday, July 7

7:00am Men’s Group

5:00pm Pray Rosary

5:30pm +Jean Nelson

Sunday, July 8

8:00am +Mary Oakes

11:00am For Parishioners

Monday, July 9-NO DAILY MASS

Tuesday, July 10-NO DAILY MASS Wednesday, July 11 6:00pm +Carol Mihallik

Thursday, July 12 8:00am For Linda Hoey Friday, July 13 8:00am For Jeanne Douthitt

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Saturday, July 14

7:00am Men’s Group

5:00pm Pray Rosary

5:30pm +Regina E. Skrobacz

Sunday, July 15

8:00am +Anna Gardella

11:00am For Parishioners

Baptism of Callie Shae Pomp

ST. LUKE’S WEBSITE

www.stlukemorgantown.com

IN CASE OF EMERGENCY

There is an

Emergency defibrillator (AED) located in the white box mounted on the wall by the sacristy door.

My soul is thirsting for you, O Lord,

thirsting for you, my God.



Bulletin Deadline by NOON, MONDAY. Please email bulletin

announcements to: [email protected]

If a parishioner is ill, hospitalized, or has lost a family member or loved one or if you know of anyone in

need of prayer, please contact Jackie Caserta, at 304-292-4992 or the Parish office 304-594-2353.

MASS INTENTIONS

The suggested stipend is $10 for a weekday Mass and

$20 for a weekend Mass. If you are interested, call the

Parish office at 304-594-2353.

Lectors

5:30pm 8:00am 11:00am

Joe Duda Shaly Alappat Carmie

O’Connor

Andy Nowak Charmaine

Steve Mary Minard

EMHC

Michele Nowak Michael Deely Bill Noel

Ray Murray Kathy Deely Norma

Shoemaker

Darlene Pallay Toni Southern

Altar

Servers

Sofia Wassick Emily Kraynak Berit Johnson

Cat Wassick Andy Cholock Toby White

Joseph Deiriggi Marie

Kritschgau Colin Duda

Gianna Deiriggi

Hospitality Margaret

Wassick

Margaret D. &

Turner Family Joseph Family

LITURGICAL MINISTRY SCHEDULE

July 14th-July 15th, 2018

If you are interested in becoming a St. Luke’s Parishioner, please pick up a Welcome Folder located on the desk in the Gathering Space.

Happy Birthday!

July

08……...Brent Robinson

Zachary Royce

Cullen Shaver

09……...Anne Marie Harper

10……...Conner Castle

Michael Miller

11……...John Ruppert

Carmen Shields

Ellyn Harper

12……...Rosemarie Sluciak

Mary Robinson

13……...Ema Zeglin

14……...James Crockett

Cam Fowler

AROUND THE PARISH

Collection for June 30-July 1, 2018 Weekly Collection-$4985.00

Building Fund-$182.00 School Envelope-$20.00

Total Attendance for Weekend Masses #296

Thank you for your continued support of our Parish!

Online Giving Collection Amounts

For June 2018

Regular Collection-$2410.00 School Envelope-$300.00

Building Fund-$345.00



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Our Deepest Sympathy goes to

Darlene Pallay on the loss of her

sister,

Mary Etta Nolf.

Eternal rest, grant unto her O Lord and let perpetual

light shine upon her. May her soul and all the souls of

the faithfully departed, through the Mercy of God, rest

in peace. Amen

AROUND THE COMMUNITY

We have surpassed our

Goal!

Thank you to everyone that

has donated so far. It isn’t too

late to donate to the 2018

Catholic Sharing Appeal. To

learn more visit the CSA

website, www.dwc.or /csa.

#AlmostHeaven #CSA18

66

gifts

$57,090

New Date: Monday, July 30th

St Luke’s raised a total of

$2575 for St. Peter’s Seminary

in honor of Father Carlos.

Thank you to everyone that

donated!

Ecumenical Gospel Music Workshop (With Composition of Praise Gospel

Choir from Washin ton DC) August 11th (Saturday) 11:30am

The workshop event is free.

Gospel Choir Concert COMPOSITION OF PRAISE Gospel Choir

(From Washington DC) Sunday August 12th at 4pm.

The concert is free.

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THANK YOU: This bulletin is furnished to the Parish without charge. The advertisements that appear completely defray all publishing costs with which the church would otherwise be burdened. Please patronize these sponsors as a thank you for their kind generosity.

If you would like to place an advertisement in our bulletin. Please contact the parish office.

ALERT—July 30 is WORLD DAY AGAINST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS. Human Trafficking is one of the great human rights challenges of this century.

U.S. Catholic Sisters Against Human Trafficking

sistersagainsttrafficking.org

FROM THE DIOCESE

The Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston is committed to the

protection of its children and young people. The Diocese complies

with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Charter

for the Protection of Children and Young People by maintaining an

Office of Safe Environment. To report an incidence of suspected

child sexual abuse, please contact your local law enforcement agency, or you

may confidentially contact the West Virginia Bureau for Children and

Families/Child Protective Services by calling the Child Abuse Hotline at

800.352.6513. To report suspected cases of sexual abuse by personnel of the

Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to the Diocese, please contact one of the

Bishop’s designees at 888.434.6237 (toll free) or 304.233.0880: Sister Ellen

Dunn, ext. 264; Mr. Bryan Minor, ext. 263; Msgr. Frederick Annie, ext. 267, or

Msgr. Anthony Cincinnati, 270. For more information on the Diocese’s Office

of Safe Environment, please go to www.dwc.org, then click the “Diocese” tab,

then click “Office of Safe Environment” under the “Offices” menu. To learn

more about the Catholic Church’s efforts in preventing sexual abuse of children

in the United States, please visit http://www.usccb.org. Under “Issues and

Action,” click “Child and Youth Protection” from the drop down menu.

St. Francis de Sales Parish seeks a

part-time Maintenance & Facilities

Coordinator. Sunday morning

availability is expected. Send a

cover letter, resume and

3 references to: St. Francis de Sales, Maintenance &

Facilities Coordinator, 1 Guthrie Lane, Morgantown,

WV 26508; or email: [email protected]

Birthright of Morgantown Needs You!

Birthright of Morgantown is in need

of volunteers for the Morgantown office.

Our volunteers help a pregnant women

in crisis find workable solutions so she

can give birth to her baby and face the

future with dignity and hope! Please

consider volunteering your time and call

Christine Robison at 703-505-2440 or

email [email protected].

Are you aware that 529 plans aren’t just for saving for college anymore? With new tax law provisions, 529 plans can now be used to include expenses for K-12 tuition. Learn more at: http://www.smart529.com

Please consult with your financial advisor to

discuss this option.



Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them out two by two and gave them authority over unclean spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey but a walking stick— no food, no sack, no money in their belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

GOSPEL MK 6: 7-13

READING 2 EPH 1: 3-14

READING 1 AM 7: 12-15

NEXT W EEK’ S READI NG S JULY 15, 2018

FIFTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens, as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, to be holy and without blemish before him. In love he destined us for adoption to himself through Jesus Christ, in accord with the favor of his will, for the praise of the glory of his grace that he granted us in the beloved. In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accord with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he has made known to us the mystery of his will in accord with his favor that he set forth in him as a plan for the fullness of times, to sum up all things in Christ, in heaven and on earth. In him we were also chosen, destined in accord with the purpose of the One who accomplishes all things according to the intention of his will, so that we might exist for the praise of his glory, we who first hoped in Christ. In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory.

Amaziah, priest of Bethel, said to Amos, “Off with you, visionary, flee to the land of Judah! There earn your bread by prophesying, but never again prophesy in Bethel; for it is the king’s sanctuary and a royal temple.” Amos answered Amaziah, “I was no prophet, nor have I belonged to a company of prophets; I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The LORD took me from following the flock, and said to me, Go, prophesy to my people Israel.”

Responding to the Word

Jesus’ neighbors were unreceptive because

they could not see beyond their rigid

stereotypes.

How might my familiarity with Jesus

make me miss what he is calling me to

discover?

Jesus, please help me...

Living with Christ this week

After our Eucharist, we are sent out to continue Jesus’ mission. The disciples’ challenge to carry on Jesus’ mission is seen this week in Matthew’s gospel. The disciples experience Jesus’ ability to cure the sick, drive out demons, and even raise the dead. The first readings from Hosea share the covenant relationship between God and Israel. God’s wrath and anger at covenant infidelity give way to loving mercy.



T HIS MONTH, ON THE 14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, we will hear Saint Paul make one of the most astonishing claims of his life. After complaining to the Lord about his famous “thorn in the flesh,” he reports the Lord’s reply: My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness. The revelation transforms Paul into a new creation who

proclaims, I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses, in order that the power of Christ may dwell with me. Therefore, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and constraints for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong (2 Cor 12: 7-10).

But why need it be this way?

A sacred strategy

The “thorn” in our life is any persistent bane that frustrates us, infuriates us, or makes us feel unworthy or ashamed… and over which we remain powerless. “Affliction hardens and discourages,” writes Simone Weil, “because it imprints the depths of the soul-like a branding iron-with contempt, disgust, and even repulsion of oneself. All innocent beings in affliction feel themselves cursed,”

So then why doesn’t the Lord accede to Paul’s three-time plea that this leave him? A different question provides perspective: What would I be like without the afflictions I bear? I would be unbearable.

Saint Thomas Aquinas interprets this experience of Paul’s to be a “remedy against pride-an inordinate desire for one’s own excellence that can fall into other vices, such as ambition, avarice, vainglory, and the like. Pride separates us from God, and is the root of all vices and the worst of them.”

The extremeness of the treatment betrays the enormity of the ailment. God’s tactic seeks to unseat our secret, insidious attachments. The source of our anxieties lies in misplaced trust in our own strength and understanding. We cling to presuppositions about what holiness should look like and feel like. But the truth is that we cannot be united with Jesus Christ and know the depth of his love to the degree that we keep on seeking things which conform to ourselves. And, without the thorn, we would do that all the time.

What hurts opens our heart, breaking us free from attachments that put us at odds with God. The purpose of the painful thorn is to persuade us that we have nothing to hope for in ourselves.

The blessing of the thorn

Well does Saint Jerome write that “the good Lord frequently does not grant what we wish in order to bestow what we should prefer.” Saint Thomas suggests that, inasmuch as a thorn in the flesh is “a means to virtue and an exercise of virtue, it should be desired,”

The virtue of the thorn is how it makes it impossible for us ever to become self-satisfied. Our defects stay essential to our development. God delights to use our imperfections to make us perfect. Aquinas takes up the medical analogy: “ A wise physician permits a lesser disease to come over a person in order to cure a greater one. This the Apostle shows was done to him by the physician of souls, our Lord Jesus Christ. For Christ, as the supreme physician of souls, in order to cure greater sins, permits them to fall into lesser, and even mortal sins.”

The personal miseries God permits aim at getting us to look at ourselves so as to identify the impediments we put in the way of grace. What glorifies Jesus is our realization of our dependence on him for everything.

The Apostle Paul, raised a pious Jew, would appreciate the divine genius of such a scheme. He would view it within the context of the Israelites enslaved in Egypt: the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied (Ex 1: 12).

God ordains the thorn, notes Saint Thomas, to “the good of our humility,” And “humility like this,” encourages Saint Ambrose, “does away with frailty.”

What to do about the thorn

What wonder of mercy: “There is consolation in affliction and grace in consolation” (Saint John Chrysostom). Allowing Christ’s grace to be sufficient means using the evil in us to drive us to God. We heed Saint Augustine: “This need of devotion we owe to the Lord: that, if God does not remove our troubles, we are not to think that he has deserted us but rather, by lovingly bearing evil, we are to hope for greater good. This is how power is made perfect in infirmity.”

Genuine Christian mortification consists in wanting at this moment only what God’s love brings us at this moment. We resist the temptation to make what pleases us the measure. For the more God’s love brings us at this moment. We resist the temptation to make what pleases us the measure. For the more God’s love conforms us to himself, it will disconform us to ourselves.

We unite ourselves to the certainty of Saint Basil the Great: “Do you see where affliction leads you? To hope that does not disappoint.”

EDITORIAL by Father John Cameron, O.P. Magnificat July 2018

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