BAPTISM: Please contact the Parish Office to fill out a baptismal registration form and to schedule with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty a date for your child's bap-tism. Note: If this is your first child being baptized, a bap-tismal preparation class must also be scheduled and taken with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty prior to the baptism.

MARRIAGE: Arrangements are to be made by contacting the Parish Office at least six months in advance of the pro-posed date. Couples must meet in person with Fr. Draper to set their date and are required to participate in a mar-riage preparation program prior to the wedding.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: If you or a fellow parishioner’s health is in danger due to sickness or old age, please contact the Parish Office to be anointed by Fr. Draper.

SICK VISITATION: If you are going to be hospitalized or are confined to your home and would like to receive Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Office to make ar-rangements.

PARISH STAFF

FR. TIMOTHY DRAPER, Pastor

DEACON KEVIN PRUNTY, Pastoral Associate

BEV HALSEY, Parish Secretary

CAROL PRUNTY, Parish Bookkeeper

SUSAN MCCOY, CRE

GERARD LEGNER, Custodian & Maintenance

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Meet 2nd and 4th Wednesday of

the month at 7:00 p.m. in the parish hall.

MASS SCHEDULE

FOOD PANTRY: Open the 3rd Wednesday every month at

9:00 a.m. in the basement of St. Patrick Church.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Meet 1st Saturday of the month at

9:00 a.m. and 3rd Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in the school.

† Communion Service led by Deacon Prunty: Mondays

at 5:00 p.m. at St. Patrick, Amboy.

WALTON

† Saturday 5:30 p.m.

HARMON

† Sunday 7:30 a.m.

AMBOY

† Saturday 4:00 p.m.

† Sunday 9:00 a.m.

† Tuesday 7:00 a.m.

† Wednesday 5:00 p.m.

† Thursday 7:00 a.m.

† Friday 8:00 a.m. Exposition of the

Blessed Sacrament & Adoration

Mass at 5:00 p.m.

AMBOY RECONCILIATION: Saturday 3:00 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Wednesday 5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

HARMON & WALTON RECONCILIATION:

Upon Request

THE THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

JUNE 29/30, 2019

First Reading: 1 Kings 19: 16b, 19-21

Response: Psalm 16: 1- 2, 5, 7-8, 9-10, 11

Second Reading: Galatians 5: 1, 13-18

Gospel: Luke 9: 51-62

Parish Center For: St. Patrick, St. Flannen, & St. Mary

32 North Jones Avenue Amboy, IL 61310 Amboy Office: 815-857-2315 Harmon & Walton Office: 815-857-2670 Rectory (Sacramental Emergency Only): 815-857-4172 Fax: 815-857-3485 Office Hours: Monday-Wednesday, 8:30-4:00 Thursday, 8:30-3:00 Friday, 8:30-12 noon Website: stpatrickamboy.org

CORPUS CHRISTI June 22/23, 2019

Monday, June 24th

5:00 p.m., Amboy “NO” HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE

Tuesday, June 25th

7:00 a.m., Amboy JOE APPLE †

By: Joe & Paula Cicchetti

ESTHER McCAIN †

By: Sue Duffy

Wednesday, June 26th

5:00 p.m., Amboy KEVIN POWERS †

By: His Friends

Thursday, June 27th

7:00 a.m., Amboy JANE HENLEY †

By: Her Family

Friday, June 28th

8:00 am, Amboy Exposition of the Blessed

Sacrament & Adoration

5:00 pm, Amboy BARBARA GOY †

By: Jr. Becker & Family

ELAINE FLESSNER †

By: Sue Duffy

Saturday, June 29th

4:00 p.m., Amboy RICK KETCHUM †

By: Rita Glenn

5:30 p.m., Walton PARISHIONERS OF ST. MARY,

ST. FLANNEN & ST. PATRICK PARISHES

Sunday, June 30th

7:30 a.m., Harmon DAN HALEY †

By: His Family

9:00 a.m., Amboy HAROLD & HELEN GLESSNER †

By: Bill & Linda Disney

MASS INTENTIONS

CONGRATULATIONS TO

JEFFREY BURGNER & BETH JONES

who were married at St. Patrick's on

Saturday, June 22nd, 2019.

May God bless their marriage abundantly.

LITURGICAL MINISTERS JUNE 29/30, 2019

Sunday, 9:00 a.m.

Servers: Natalie Pratt Brooklyn Whelchel

Lector: Kim Becker

Extraordinary Minister: Tim O’Laughlin

Sacristan: Frank Lachat Sr.

Music Ministers: Nancy & Stella

Saturday, 4:00 p.m.

Servers: Addison Shaw Marie Shaw

Lector: Don Clayton

Extraordinary Minister: Kaylee Jones

Sacristan: Kaylee Jones

Music Ministers: Nancy & Stella

There is NO Holy Communion Service Monday, June 24th. Deacon

Kevin is out of town.

Father Draper will be on vacation Monday, July 1st through Fri-

day, July 12th. Father Kramer will be celebrating Masses and

Confessions during the week. Fr. Hilary, OFM Conv, will celebrate

Masses and Confessions on July 6th & 7th for our annual Mission

Coop.

Franciscan Mission Appeal On the weekend of July 6-7, as part of the Diocese of Rockford’s annual Missionary Cooperative Plan, there will be a collection at each Mass to support the missions of the Conventual Franciscan Friars. Fr. Hilary Raduk, OFM Conv., will preach at all Masses about the work his Order is doing to spread the Gospel throughout the world. Father Hilary was born in the Kibera slums of Nairobi, Kenya and entered the Franciscan Order in 1999. He was ordained a priest in 2012. His studies have taken him to Tanzania, Zambia, and even Poland, where he studied theology for 4 years. Fr. Hilary currently serves as the Managing Editor of the Franciscan friars’ printing press (Franciscan Kolbe Press) in Nairobi. The Conventual Franciscans number about 4,000 friars living in 70 countries spread over 6 continents. While the Conventual Franciscans are blessed to count many saints in their history, they are perhaps best known for being the Order to which St. Maximilian Kolbe belonged. The proceeds of the collection will support the education of young friars throughout Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America as well as the friars’ work among the poor in these regions. If you would like to support the missions of the Conventual Franciscans with a check, please make out the check in the name of your parish. We ask that you generously share the gifts that God has given to you!

WE REMEMBER THOSE

SERVING IN OUR ARMED FORCES…

SR. Anna Albrecht SGT. Elise Hume

SGT. Keith Albrecht MA2 Jon B. Miller

PVT. Madeline Foster LTC Jerald Newman

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT ON FRIDAYS

AT ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH IN AMBOY

We have Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament every Friday from 8:00a.m. until 5:00p.m. If you would like to come spend 30 minutes or more with the Blessed Sacrament, the time slots that would be in need of more than one Adorer are: 10:30-11:00a.m., 11:00-11:30a.m., 11:30-12:00a.m., 12:30-1:00p.m. and 2:30-3:00p.m. Please contact Bev at the parish office to commit to a time slot. You are also welcome to come whenever it works for you.

My dear parishioners, In his First Letter to the Corinthians, St. Paul tells us that

“the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, ‘This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way also the cup, after supper, saying, ‘This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me’” (1 Cor 11:23-25). With these words Christ instituted the Sacrament of the Most Holy Eu-charist. Through Christ’s words and the action of the Holy Spirit, the entire substance of bread is converted into the substance of his body, and the entire substance of wine is converted into the sub-stance of his blood. Thus, after these words of consecration at Mass, what was bread and wine is now truly, really, and substan-tially the body and blood of the risen Christ. The Holy Eucharist is the most excellent sacrament; because, while all the sacraments contain and give grace, the Holy Eucharist is the very Author of grace himself, Jesus Christ.

So excellent is the Holy Eucharist that the Church gives to us each year this Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body of Christ), on which a plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who meet the usual conditions and devoutly participate in a solemn Eucharis-tic procession, held inside or outside a church. Additionally, on any day of the year, a plenary indulgence is granted to the faithful who meet the usual conditions and visit the Blessed Sacrament for adoration lasting at least a half hour.

As the Catechism of the Catholic Church teaches, an indul-gence is “the remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sin whose guilt has already been forgiven…. An indul-gence is partial if it removes part of the temporal punishment due to sin, or plenary if it removes all punishment” (CCC, 1471). The usual conditions are:

† going to sacramental confession (within 20 days), † receiving Holy Communion, † praying for the intentions of the Pope (e.g. an Our Fa-

ther and a Hail Mary). At the end of the 9 a.m. Sunday Mass in Amboy, there

will be a Eucharistic procession in the church, followed by a Eu-charistic Holy Hour (10 – 11 a.m.). Come, let us adore him! Fr. Draper

ST. PATRICK

Weekly Budget Need $3,728.00

Sunday Collection $3,416.75

Income Required to date $186,400.00

Sunday Collection to date $163,564.71

DSP Goal $21,799.00

DSP To Date $24,680.00 113.22%

ST. FLANNEN

Weekly Budget Need $915.00

Sunday Collection $820.00

Income Required to date $45,750.00

Sunday Collection to date $54,394.73

DSP Goal $6,351.00

DSP To Date $2,620.00 41.26%

ST. MARY

Weekly Budget Need $759.00

Sunday Collection $491.11

Income Required to date $37,950.00

Sunday Collection to date $32,446.14

DSP Goal $4,684.00

DSP To Date $3,000.00 64.05%

-STEWARDSHIP OF GOD’S BLESSINGS-

SUNDAY COLLECTION AS OF 06/17/2019

Pilgrimage Trip To Rome:

Join Fr. Timothy Draper and Fr. Jerome Koutnik, Thursday,

November 14 - Thursday November 21, 2019, on a Pilgrimage to

Rome. Visit the Historic Sites of the Eternal City! Attend a Papal

Audience with Pope Francis and much more! Early Bird Pricing

available if deposit, ($1,000), is made by July 14, 2019. For more

information go to the website: finisterratours.com using Pilgrimage

Code ROMENOV19, or email: finisterratoursltd@gmail.com.

ENCOUNTER RETREATS

The Vocation Office of the Diocese of Rockford is

sponsoring Encounter Retreats at Bishop Lane Retreat

Center this summer. These retreats are hosted by reli-

gious sisters, from 7 different communities for the girls

and by the Rockford seminarians for the guys with Fr.

Kyle Manno.

● The dates for young women in 7th grade through

college, are June 23-26.

● The dates for young men in 7th grade thru 9th grades,

are July 7-9.

● The dates for young adult males entering 10th grade

and thru college, are July 21-23 .

The cost is only $90. The retreats are meant for you to

have an encounter with Christ and to leave on fire to

spread His mission out into the world. So check out

more information and register online at :

www.rockforddiocese.org/encounter or at the

Diocesan Vocation Office (815)399-4300 ext. 375.

Totus Tuus Summer Camp July 14-19. Be sure to

pick up your forms in the back of the church today.

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