Weekly Parish Activities

August 1 - August 7

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sunday, August 1

St. Mary

8:30 am..…………………..………………….… Confession

9:00 am…….……………....………………....… Holy Mass

Our Lady of Guadalupe

10:00 am….…….…………...……..………….. Confession

10:30 am……......………….……….….….…... Holy Mass

Sacred Heart

11:00 am……………………..…………………..Confession

11:30 am…………….……………..…………… Holy Mass

St. Brendan

4:30 pm………………...………..….……..…… Confession

5:00 pm…………...……………..…...……........ Holy Mass

7:00 pm…………………………………Al-Anon Meeting

Monday, August 2

8:00 am…...…..…….....……Daily Mass (St. Brendan)

Tuesday, August 3

8:00 am……….…...…...……Daily Mass (St. Brendan)

12:00 pm………... Al-Anon Meeting (St. Brendan)

Wednesday, August 4

6:30 pm…...…..…….....……Daily Mass (St. Brendan)

Thursday, August 5

8:00 am…...…..…….....……Daily Mass (St. Brendan)

6:00 pm…………………………….Rosary (St. Brendan)

7:00 pm……..….....Al-Anon Meeting (St. Brendan)

Friday, August 6

8:00 am…...…..…….....……Daily Mass (St. Brendan)

5:00 pm……………………..Adoration (St. Brendan’s)

Saturday, August 7

4:30 pm..………….…..…... Confession (St. Brendan)

5:00 pm...……….…….....…..Holy Mass (St. Brendan)

7:00 pm……………………..….. Confession (St. Mary)

7:30 pm…...…...…...…............ Santa Misa (St. Mary)

Weekly Mass Intentions

Sunday, August 1, 2021

9:00 am..………………Larry & Marie Barker Anniv.

THE BREAD OF LIFE August 1, 2021

Today’s Gospel has the crowd asking Jesus three questions. First,

“When did you get here,” to which Jesus responds by rebuking them for

their failure to grasp his miracle as a “sign,” an occasion to put faith in

him. Their second question about accomplishing the “works of God”

has Jesus respond that faith is the “work” that God wishes. Many

scholars believe this is John’s answer to the faith-works dichotomy

emerging in the early Christian community. Faith is the work of God in

the believer, John would have us understand. The third question asked

by the crowd is a request for a “sign” that would allow them to put faith

in Jesus, as the manna in the desert allowed the Israelites to put faith in

the Lord God. Jesus answers by revealing himself as the “bread of life”

that “comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.”

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Nm 11:4b-15; Ps 81:12-17; Mt 14:13-21 Tuesday: Nm 12:1-13; Ps 51:3-7, 12-13; Mt 14:22-36 or Mt 15:1-2, 10-14 Wednesday: Nm 13:1-2, 25-14:1, 26-29a, 34-35; Ps 106:6-7ab, 13-14, 21-23; Mt 15:21-28 Thursday: Nm 20:1-13; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Mt 16:13-23 Friday: Dn 7:9-10, 13-14; Ps 97:1-2, 5-6, 9; 2 Pt 1:16-19; Mk 9:2-10 Saturday: Dt 6:4-13; Ps 18:2-4, 47, 51; Mt 17:14-20 Sunday: 1 Kgs 19:4-8; Ps 34:2-9; Eph 4:30 — 5:2; Jn 6:41-51

EL PAN DE VIDA 1 de agosto de 2021 El Evangelio de hoy presenta a la gente haciéndole tres preguntas a

Jesús. Primero: “¿cuándo llegaste acá?”, a la que Jesús responde con

una reprimenda por su incapacidad para entender el milagro como una

“señal”, una ocasión para poner la fe en él. La segunda pregunta tenía

que ver con la realización de las “obras de Dios” a la que Jesús responde

que la fe es la “obra” que Dios desea. Muchos eruditos creen que esta es

la respuesta de Juan a la dicotomía fe-obras que estaba surgiendo en la

primera comunidad cristiana. La fe es la obra de Dios en el creyente,

Juan nos quiere hacer entender. La tercera pregunta que hace la multitud

es una “señal” que les permita poner su fe en Jesús, como el maná en el

desierto permitió a los israelitas poner su fe en el Señor Dios. Jesús

responde con la revelación de que él es el “pan de vida” que “baja del

cielo y da la vida al mundo”.

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Office: Open M-F from 9-3.

Please call (254-965-5693) or

email stbrendancc@gmail.com

with questions or to make an

appointment.

Giving: During this challenging time, we depend on donations to keep our parish family going.

Please take advantage of online giving by visiting our parish website at www.stbrendanscc.org and

click Donate Now-Online Giving.

Prefer Mail? Make check payable to your parish and mail to 1444 W. Washington St. Stephenville, TX 76401.

Monthly Baptism Preparation Classes: Monthly English Baptism classes are for children UNDER the age of 7. Classes are on the Second Saturday of the month. Please contact the office (254) 965-5693 for information/enrollment.

Clases para preparación de Bautismo Mensual: Clases de Bautismo mensuales (Inglés y Español) son para niños que tengan MENOS de 7 años. Las clases suelen ser del penúltimo viernes del mes. Comuníquese con Irma Chacón (254) 965-2078 o (325) 642-4473 para el horario de clases

PRAYER CORNER: Please pray for the different intentions of each person this week for: Myra Chacon (RIP), Florin Schlautman, Isaac M (RIP), Mr. & Mrs. LaBarbera (RIP), Eddie Dunn, Julie Vecera, Mike Coggins, Paul, Gordon, Pelletier Family, Vicki Rawlings, Alfredo Pulido, Richard Petronis, Lou Hinzman, Carter Brown, Bill O’Neal, Norman Moore, Bill Svadlenka, Mike Hill, Ranisa, Bole Family, Jody Cornell, Tye Coapland, Laurie Tolboom Martin, Neide Gonsalves, Jackie Demetruk, Natal Mello, Poplin family, Carl Volleman, John McCarthy, Irma Lopez, Jennifer Lancaster and Family, Della Munson and Husband, Ismael M, Mack McCormick, Ann Blair, Paulette Jones, Paul and Jami Dominguez, Amanda Nicholson, Jocelyn Lewis, Rudy Guerrero, Nursing Home Patients, all the homebound and ill, and for all the souls in purgatory.

Safe Environment classes in English and Spanish have been scheduled for August.

Please check your status if you are up for renewal (posted in each church), or register

if you are a new volunteer. Contact the office if you have questions.

The Knights of Columbus will sponsor two special prayer services this week to begin the month of

August.

The 1st Thursday Rosary will be prayed August 5 at St. Brendan’s at 6:00 p.m. The Lay Apostles

Group will hold an open discussion following the rosary.

The 1st Friday Eucharistic Adoration will be held August 6 at St. Brendan’s Church from 5:00 p.m.

until 7:00 p.m.

All are invited to join!

FEAST OF FAITH The Preface: Thanksgiving

The preface of the Mass has been called “a poem, the cry of joy and recognition, the song of the world discovering its salvation . . . the certitude of faith making hope spring forth” (Philippe Béguerie, quoted in The Mass, Lucien Deiss, The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, MN, 1992, p. 70). The preface takes up the last words of the dialogue, and expresses briefly and simply why we are grateful, why it is right and just to give thanks and praise to God. On feast days, the preface sings of the specific mystery or saint we celebrate; in Ordinary Time, the Sunday and weekday prefaces express our gratitude for God’s gift of the Son, Jesus Christ, in whom we have redemption and newness of life. The prefaces offer a succinct account of what God has done for us in Christ; they express the mystery of faith, always relating it to us, to our lives. “By his birth we are reborn,” we hear in Preface IV for Sundays in Ordinary Time. “By his suffering we are freed from sin. By his rising from the dead we rise to everlasting life.” Yes, we have cause to give God thanks and praise. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

FIESTA DE LA FE: Presencia real por excelencia

Una vez que los dones han sido consagrados por la acción del Espíritu Santo y que el sacerdote ha concluido la narración recordando las acciones y palabras de Cristo, el pan y el vino han dejado de ser pan y vino y se han convertido en el Cuerpo y Sangre de Cristo. ¿Qué pasó? No fue una transformación, porque no hubo cambio de forma; no fue una transfiguración, porque no hubo cambio de figura; fue una transubstanciación porque hubo un cambio de sustancia, manteniendo así la misma forma y la misma figura. Esta presencia de Cristo, total y real, bajo las acciones de pan y de vino es la presencia real por excelencia y constituye la enseñanza principal de la Iglesia en torno a la presencia de Cristo. Así nos lo recuerda el Concilio de Trento: Por la consagración del pan y del vino se realiza la conversión de toda la sustancia del pan en la sustancia del Cuerpo de Cristo, Señor nuestro, y de toda la sustancia del vino en la sustancia de su sangre”. Se le llama presencia real, “no por exclusión. . . sino por antonomasia. . . porque por ella ciertamente se hace presente Cristo, Dios y hombre, entero e íntegro” (Ecclesia de Eucharistia, 15). —Miguel Arias, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY (1786-1859)

August 4

A busy pastor jokingly suggests the secret of John Vianney’s holiness: “He died seventeen years before

telephones!” Call they didn’t, but visit they did, keeping Vianney eighteen hours a day in the confessional. Stories

abound of reading hearts and exorcisms, but Vianney’s first miracle was getting ordained. Difficulty with studies

delayed him, prompting the rector’s apology to the bishop, “So far to ordain just one, especially this one!” The

bishop, who could not know he was ordaining the future patron saint of parish priests, replied, “No burden to ordain

one good priest!” In Ars, only an elderly handful attended Mass, “praying,” one told Vianney, “for a priest with

brains.” But he stayed forty-two years, fulfilling the promise he made the day he arrived. In a sculpture just outside

the village Vianney points skyward: “Show me the way to Ars,” he tells a boy, “and I’ll show you the way to heaven.”

To someone who feared there was no heaven beyond the grave, Vianney smiled, “My child, it would have been

heaven enough to have lived as Jesus’ disciple on earth.”

—Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.