VOL. 55 NO. 24 – JUNE 14th, 2020 THEME FOR THE MOST HOLY BODY AND BLOOD OF CHRIST: The cup we share, is it not the

blood of Christ? And the bread we break, is it not his body? Just as God fed the Israelites with manna from heaven, so too do we feed on the best of wheat, the bread of angels, food for the pilgrim journey.

UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE THERE WILL BE NO PUBLIC MASSES SAID HERE AT ST. AUGUSTINE’S. THE MASS INTENTIONS THAT WERE ALREADY SCHEDULED FOR SPECIFIC DATES, WILL BE

RESCHEDULED AS SOON AS WE CAN. FR. VON DEEKE PLANS TO SAY A PRIVATE MASS EACH DAY FOR ALL PEOPLE, LIVING AND DECEASED.

ST. AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY HECKER, ILLINOIS 62248

REV. VON C. DEEKE, PASTOR PARISH OFFICE 473-2217 FAX 473-9141

E-MAIL ADDRESS: staug@htc.net PARISH WEBSITE: https://www.staugustineofcanterburyhecker.com To contact Father Von when not in Parish Office, Cell #618/214-6852

St. Vincent de Paul Help Line 618/792-4059 House of Neighborly Service Help Line 618/939-8680

Confessions: are heard each Saturday night from 4 to 4:45 pm and each Sunday from 8 to 8:20 am. Parish Office Hours: Mondays and Thursdays, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Closed from 12 noon to 1:00 pm for lunch.

OUR SACRIFICE MADE TO GOD: 6-7-2020 Sunday Envelopes (39) - $2,340.00

Scholarship Fund - $1,239.00

(Total Donated since 8/1/2019)

Thank you very much for your generosity!

Printed copies of bulletins placed in plastic bins each week…bins

located at the doors of church & Parish Office. The bulletins are also

posted on our website!!!

Fr. Von will be live streaming Masses at 5pm on Saturdays and

8:30am on Sundays. See St. Augustine’s Facebook Page.

If you wish to have your name added to our Parish Email List,

please let me know via staug@htc.net or 473-2217 & leave a

message.

Please pray for the following:

Darlene Frisch, John & Ellen Daniels, Maxine Linnertz, Alice Krysnoski, Jeanelle Dinan, Marge Abel, Cheryl Zanders, Madalyn Killebrew, Stephanie Amann Stosberg, Bill Cowell, Angie Parker, Wylma Wachtel, Dave Bruss, Ruth Cortner, Steve Davis, Aria Wagner, Vickie Van de Riet Minden, and Pat Karban. Please call the Parish Office 473-2217 to submit names for the prayer list. We started a new list on January 12th, 2020.

SS PETER & PAUL PARISH, WATERLOO ** GOLD RUSH RAFFLE **

The Ss. Peter & Paul (Waterloo) Gold Rush raffle fundraiser started off with a bang! Due to the circumstances, we moved ticket sales online. Tickets are $100 each, and you have 9 chances to win $1,000 or more. For details, click here – https://GoldRush1.givesmart.com. If you or someone you know needs to purchase with a check or cash or if you have any questions, please contact Staci Wittenauer at wittens@mac.com or 618-791-7131. Thank you for your support of our local parishes!!!

PSR NEWS…

Registration for the 2020-2021 PSR School Year at Ss. Peter & Paul, Waterloo, has begun. To register please visit: https://ssppcc.org/psr-registration---fees Please contact Catherine at Ss. Peter & Paul Parish Office with any questions, at 939-6426 Ext. 15.

DIOCESAN EVENTS

RESPECT LIFE CORNER “My flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.” (John 6:55) During the COVID pandemic we have had to go without our spiritual food for an extended period of time. Jesus tell us in today’s Gospel that His body and blood are just as vital to us as food and drink. How we have waited for the nourishment of the life-giving Eucharist and the graces it produces upon our souls. How good it is that as our Churches reopen we can receive the body and blood of Christ with gratitude as we pray for healing in our souls and in our country. Learn, Act, Connect and Pray—“Jesus, thank you for the

life you give us in your Body and Blood.” May we always be mindful of His healing

presence.

Please find below the link to Bishop-Elect McGovern’s parish website; you may watch videos of his Masses.

https://straphaelcatholic.org/

DIOCESE OF BELLEVILLE LAUNCHES PROJECT RACHEL

A few weeks ago, Project Rachel was relaunched as an active ministry in the Diocese of Belleville!!! While we have been home under our stay at home orders, Planned Parenthood has continued to see women (some report one woman every 20 minutes six days a week). It is so vital that we be there for these women to offer free and confidential help in their time of need. It is our hope to continue to foster a sense of compassion in our communities making them a safe place to welcome those who suffer after an abortion and encourage reconciliation and healing in Jesus Christ. Those in need of help and counseling can confidentially contact someone by phone or email. Here’s a link to Project Rachel on the diocesan website with additional information: https://www.diobelle.org/respectlife/project-rachel.

The Fifth Joyful Mystery

THE FINDING OF JESUS IN THE TEMPLE

1. When Jesus is twelve years old, He goes with His parents to Jerusalem

for the feast of the Passover.

2. After the feast of the Passover, Joseph and Mary unknowingly set out

for Nazareth without Jesus.

3. At the end of the first day's journey they discover Jesus is missing.

4. His parents return immediately looking for Him.

5. This loss causes grief and anxiety beyond our understanding to the

hearts of Mary and Joseph.

6. On the third day they find Jesus in the Temple among the Doctors who

were astonished at His wisdom.

7. Mary: "Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been

searching for you in sorrow."

8. Jesus: "Why did you search for me? Did you not know that I must be

about my Father's business?"

9. Jesus goes down with them to Nazareth, and is subject to them.

10. Mary keeps all these things in her heart.

Spiritual Fruit: Let us pray for all who are working on the front lines that

they stay safe. Let us also pray for the repose of the souls that have died

during this crisis.

ORDINATION PROFILE

Please pray for: Deacon Nicholas Fleming

He is 28 and is from St. Clare Parish in O'Fallon.

He will be ordained a priest on July 11, 2020.

Attended Kenrick Seminary in St. Louis, MO.

To write a letter of support, please send to:

Immaculate Conception Parish

411 Palmer Rd

Columbia, IL 62236

HAVE YOU HEARD OF SERRA CLUB? The Serra Club of St. Clair County is an organization of

Catholic men and women, dedicated to foster and affirm vocations to the Priesthood and vowed

religious life. Our purpose is to inform our community of the need for all vocations. We honor

our religious with an annual Nuns Luncheon, a Deacon Dinner, a Priest Picnic and a new Priest

Dinner. We pray for our seminarians and help them celebrate their birthdays.

Our club meets every first and third Friday of the month at the Shrine of our Lady of the Snows.

There is a Mass at 11:45am, lunch, a brief meeting, and a guest speaker. You are welcome to

join us as our guest. For more information please contact Marvin Winkeler (402-214-1155) or

Mel Lucash (618-531-4244). PRAY FOR VOCATIONS!

The Catholic Service and Ministry Appeal 2020 …Blessed to receive, chosen to give

A most heartfelt thanks to all those who have responded with a gift to The 2020 Catholic

Service and Ministry Appeal; we are truly grateful. If you have not already done so, there’s

still plenty of time…one-time donations or pledges – in any amount – are needed. Our

seminarians, people served by Catholic Urban Programs, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul

and Daystar Community Program, the youngsters at Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School

and 12 other ministries and programs are counting on your support. Donations can be made

through your parish or online at www.diobelle.org. Please consider making your gift today

or at any time in the coming months. Thank you and may God bless you for your

generosity.

Our parish financial target was $4,721.00 & we have met our goal!!!! Pledges to Date: 32 $6,520.00 138% of Total Goal

Life in Christ – from The Catechism of the Catholic Church Last week, we saw that we have a natural right to freedom and that we are responsible for the free choices we make. This week, we look at the Catechism’s teaching on our free will in God’s plan of salvation: 1739 Freedom and sin. Man's freedom is limited and fallible. In fact, man failed. He freely sinned. By refusing God's plan of love, he deceived himself and became a slave to sin. This first alienation [isolation, in this case, from God] engendered a multitude of others. From its outset, human history attests the wretchedness and oppression born of the human heart in consequence of the abuse of freedom. 1740 Threats to freedom. The exercise of freedom does not imply a right to say or do everything. It is false to maintain that man, "the subject of this freedom," is "an individual who is fully self-sufficient and whose finality is the satisfaction of his own interests in the enjoyment of earthly goods." (Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, 1986) Moreover, the economic, social, political, and cultural conditions that are needed for a just exercise of freedom are too often disregarded or violated. Such situations of blindness and injustice injure the moral life and involve the strong as well as the weak in the temptation to sin against charity. By deviating from the moral law man violates his own freedom, becomes imprisoned within himself, disrupts neighborly fellowship, and rebels against divine truth. 1741 Liberation and salvation. By his glorious Cross Christ has won salvation for all men. He redeemed them from the sin that held them in bondage. "For freedom Christ has set us free." (Galatians 5:1) In him we have communion with the "truth that makes us free." (John 8:32) The Holy Spirit has been given to us and, as the Apostle teaches, "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom." (2 Corinthians 17) Already we glory in the "liberty of the children of God." (Romans 8:21) 1742 Freedom and grace. The grace of Christ is not in the slightest way a rival of our freedom when this freedom accords with the sense of the true and the good that God has put in the human heart. On the contrary, as Christian experience attests especially in prayer, the more docile we are to the promptings of grace, the more we grow in inner freedom and confidence during trials, such as those we face in the pressures and constraints of the outer world. By the working of grace, the Holy Spirit educates us in spiritual freedom in order to make us free collaborators in his work in the Church and in the world: “Almighty and merciful God, in your goodness take away from us all that is harmful, so that, made ready both in mind and body, we may freely accomplish your will.” (Collect, Opening, Prayer of the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time) So, we see that Jesus has won for us the grace we need to use our freedom to choose to follow the will of God rather than to choose to sin.

- Fr. Von Deeke

The Letter to the Hebrews:

Here is chapter nine of the Letter to the Hebrews, from which our second reading has been taken for this Sunday, from the Good News Translation: The first covenant had rules for worship and a place made for worship as well. 2 A tent was put up, the outer one, which was called the Holy Place. In it were the lampstand and the table with the bread offered to God. 3 Behind the second curtain was the tent called the Most Holy Place. 4 In it were the gold altar for the burning of incense and the

Covenant Box all covered with gold and containing the gold jar with the manna in it, Aaron's stick that had sprouted leaves, and the two stone tablets with the commandments written on them. 5 Above the Box were the winged creatures

representing God's presence, with their wings spread over the place where sins were forgiven. But now is not the time to explain everything in detail. 6 This is how those things have been arranged. The priests go into the outer tent every day to perform their duties, 7 but only the high priest goes into the inner tent, and he does so only once a year. He takes with him blood which he

offers to God on behalf of himself and for the sins which the people have committed without knowing they were sinning. 8 The Holy Spirit clearly teaches from all these arrangements that the way into the Most Holy Place has not yet been opened as long as the outer tent still stands. 9 This is a symbol which points to the present time. It means that the offerings and animal sacrifices presented to God cannot make the worshiper's heart perfect, 10 since they have to do

only with food, drink, and various purification ceremonies. These are all outward rules, which apply only until the time when God will establish the new order. 11 But Christ has already come as the High Priest of the good things that are already here. The tent in which he serves is greater and more perfect; it is not a tent made by human hands, that is, it is not a part of this created world. 12 When Christ went through the tent and entered once and for all into the Most Holy Place, he did not take the blood of goats and bulls to offer as a sacrifice; rather, he took his own blood and obtained eternal salvation for us. 13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a burnt calf are sprinkled on the people who are ritually unclean, and this purifies them by taking away their ritual impurity. 14 Since this is true, how much more is accomplished by the blood of Christ! Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will purify our consciences from useless rituals, so that we may serve the living God. 15 For this reason Christ is the one who arranges a new covenant, so that those who have been called by God may receive the eternal blessings that God has promised. This can be done because there has been a death which sets people free from the wrongs they did while the first covenant was in effect.

16 In the case of a will it is necessary to prove that the person who made it has died, 17 for a will means nothing while the person who made it is alive; it goes into effect only after his death. 18 That is why even the first covenant went into effect only with the use of blood. 19 First, Moses proclaimed to the people all the commandments as set forth in the

Law. Then he took the blood of bulls and goats, mixed it with water, and sprinkled it on the book of the Law and all the people, using a sprig of hyssop and some red wool. 20 He said, “This is the blood which seals the covenant that God has commanded you to obey.” 21 In the same way Moses also sprinkled the blood on the Sacred Tent and over all the things used in worship. 22 Indeed, according to the Law almost everything is purified by blood, and sins are forgiven

only if blood is poured out. 23 Those things, which are copies of the heavenly originals, had to be purified in that way. But the heavenly things themselves require much better sacrifices. 24 For Christ did not go into a Holy Place made by human hands, which was a copy of the real one. He went into heaven itself, where he now appears on our behalf in the presence of God. 25 The

Jewish high priest goes into the Most Holy Place every year with the blood of an animal. But Christ did not go in to offer himself many times, 26 for then he would have had to suffer many times ever since the creation of the world.

Instead, now when all ages of time are nearing the end, he has appeared once and for all, to remove sin through the sacrifice of himself. 27 Everyone must die once, and after that be judged by God. 28 In the same manner Christ also

was offered in sacrifice once to take away the sins of many. He will appear a second time, not to deal with sin, but to save those who are waiting for him.

Scripture taken from the Good News Translation – Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society.

Used by Permission

ANNUAL KIRCHENFEST WAS SCHEDULED FOR

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15TH, 2020 CANCELED FOR THIS YEAR!

Perhaps you hadn’t heard or received the email regarding our annual Kirchenfest…the picnic chairmen decided on June 1st, 2020, that we should cancel our Kirchenfest due to the current & near future restrictions outlined by the State of Illinois as it pertains to Covid19. So many of our workers are in a confined work space and would not be able to keep 6’ apart nor would we be able to serve the large number of people we anticipate coming each year and keep 6’ apart etc. It is a much better plan to stay safe and put our efforts into making the 2021 Kirchenfest even better! Thank you for everyone’s past support and continued support in the future!!!!

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STATION 90.3 FM or 1080 AM - FOR THE MASS,

TALK PROGRAMS, MUSIC, AND FAITH SHARING.

2020 SUMMER LUNCH PROGRAM SPONSORED BY HOUSE OF NEIGHBORLY

SERVICE

The 2020 SLP started this week…I continue to deliver 5 lunch bags to families in the Hecker area each week. The response from the Monroe County community has been wonderful…we are receiving the necessary supplies to feed about 125 families within Monroe County. Donations can be monetary or food items and may be dropped off at HNS Office, 1331 Jamie Lane, Waterloo (Next to the DMV office), Valmeyer City Hall, Waterloo & Columbia Police Dept. Lobbies. You can call 939-8900 to make sure someone is in the office. Normal office hours are Monday – Thursday, 9am-3pm. Thank you for your support! Signed: Joan Powell

St. Vincent de Paul Needs Children’s Clothing

The Belleville Council Office of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul NEEDS

YOUR HELP in providing essentials to the poor they serve. At the present

time there is a desperate need for gently-used children’s clothing – all sizes –

infant through teens.

Items can be dropped off at:

St. Vincent de Paul Office

13 Vieux Carre Drive, East St. Louis (across from the Save-A-Lot store on

Hwy. 157)

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 9:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

or

SVDP Thrift Store/Soup Kitchen

3718 State Street, East St. Louis

Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Saturday 9:00 a.m.-12 Noon

If you have questions or need additional information, please call the Council

office at

618-394-0126.

YOUR DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE AND WILL BE A

BLESSING FOR SOMEONE IN NEED! THANK YOU SO MUCH.