St Jude Catholic Church

399 Barrow Street•pearl MS 39208

Office: 601-939-3181 fax: 601-939-3160

Website www.stjudepearl.org

Hours:

8:30 am -- 3:30 pm

Monday -- Friday

Fr. Lincoln Dall

Pastor

lincoln95@hotmail.com

Deacon Liturgy & Pastoral Care Faith Formation

John McGregor Rhonda Bowden Stacy Wolf

jmcgregor@stjudepearl.org Rbowden@stjudepearl.org ccd@stjudepearl.org

Administrative Assistant Music Director Youth Ministers

Kelly McGregor Pat O’Neil Betsy Walter 601-214-7378

kmcgregor@stjudepearl.org music@stjudepearl.org Mara Villa-Polk 601-421-3849

Mass Schedule

Saturday Vigil

5:30 pm

Sunday

8:30 am & 11:00 am

Friday

10:00 am

Tuesday, Wednesday,

and Thursday

6:00 pm

Adoration of the

Blessed Sacrament

Thursday 5:00 pm

First Saturday

Following Mass

Holy Days

of Obligation

Check bulletin

for times

Reconciliation

Saturday 4:45 pm

or by appointment

Our prayer chapel

is always open

Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time August 20 2017

Jesus and the Canaanite woman

Today’s Gospel about Jesus’ interaction with the Canaanite wom-an is not only intriguing, but it is shocking as well. Jesus embodies God’s love, compassion, and mercy, so why would he initially ignore that faithful woman’s pleas for him to heal her daughter? The Ca-naanite woman was from a place of tension and bitterness, living in the border territories between the Jewish settlements and the Gentile lands. Her people were the bitter enemies of the Jews. No wonder why Jesus did not want to help her and her daughter. Yet, in her te-nacious persistence, Jesus recognizes her as a woman of great faith. I believe that Jesus grows in his understanding of his ministry in his in-teraction with her, he grows in his understanding that salvation is in-tended for all. This interaction is not only a learning moment for the Canaanite woman, but for Jesus as well. The faith of this courageous Canaanite woman is in contrast to Peter’s faith in last week’s Gospel, which Jesus challenged his lack of faith when Jesus was walking out to him on the water. As Jesus opened his heart to really listen to what the Canaanite woman had to say, perhaps we need to do more listen-ing, too. In addition, as the Canaanite woman was so persistent in her search for God and her search for help for her daughter, some-times we need to be as persistent on our own journey of faith.

Parish Mission Statement

We, the family of St. Jude, Pearl, Mississippi are a vibrant, Eucharistic community with caring members that are empowered by baptism to serve God through the sacraments. We will proclaim the good news and pro-vide spiritual and moral guidance to parishioners and the community by creating a holy and comforting place that encourages active participation, service to each other, and love.

Mass Intentions

Saturday 5:30 pm — Joseph & Louise Pfieffer (RIP) Sunday 8:30 am— Bobby Brown (RIP) Sunday 11:00 am— People of St. Jude Tuesday 6:00 pm—Special Intention Wednesday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Thursday 6:00 pm— Special Intention Friday 10:00 am — Special Intention (AF)

WELCOME TO OUR CHURCH FAMILY We welcome to our Church family: Sheila Blakely, and grandson Teddy

James and Karen Fisher, and daughter Luna We are excited that you have made our family your family.

Sunday School classes for ages 3 years (by Sept. 1) through 12th grade begin this Sun-day, August 20th.

Classes meet from 9:45-10:45am. Don’t

miss out!

If you need to register your child, a table will be set up in the Sunday School Hall this Sunday (8/20) and next (8/28). Come early to register your child.

Classes will break 9/3 for Labor Day.

SMALL GROUP EXPERI-ENCE THE JOURNEY . . . A WAY TO DEEPEN YOUR EXPE-RIENCE OF JESUS

In 3 weeks our parish will provide everyone an opportunity to sign up for The Journey, a six-week process of sharing, prayer, and re-flection that can help everyone—active pa-rishioner or not—grow in faith. The Journey brings us into contact with those who knew and encountered Jesus; through videos and sharing, their experience becomes real in our day . . . in our personal lives . . . in our relationships with God and others. We hope that many parishioners will sign up and help our parish grow in faith—so that more of our parishioners see themselves as followers of Jesus. Stop by the Parish School of Religion registration table in the Parish Hall following each to preview The Journey! Sign up Weekends: September 9/10 and 16/17 following the Masses

About Fr. Lincoln Fr. Lincoln has a blog that he posts his homilies and other reflections on. CORRECTION: To follow Fr.

Lincoln’s blog: peregrinolincoln.blogspot.com Fr. Lincoln’s cell phone number in case of emergency is 662-571-1953. Fr. Lincoln’s email is lincoln95@hotmail.com

A GOOD PRAYER

A good prayer, though often used, is still fresh and fair in the eyes and ears of heaven.

—Thomas Fuller

PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS Remember in your prayers all those who serve our nation in the Armed Forces. We especially pray for: Christopher and La-mont Arnold, Meghan Bietzel, Jessup Boatner, Chris Curry, Dean Millette, Troy

Resurreccion, Emma Reuter, Steven Renslow, Ryan Roy, Inissa Zambrano.

Sunday, August 13, 2017 Weekly Collection: $6,370.00 Online Givers: $ 1,735.00 Children’s Collection: $33.19 Food Pantry: $ 240.00

Stewardship Thought In today’s second reading, St. Paul tells the Ro-mans, “God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.” To what is God calling me today? What gifts are mine to share? See Romans 11:29

Parishioners: Viola Allen, Brody Bokros, Ginger Brown, Asuncion Cannon, George Cox, Cathy Dunn, Ed Dunn, Charles and Mary Ann Goldsmith, Jane Kaiser, Katie Kirby, Joe Loomis, Mike Meadows, Kathy Moody, Ernie Murray, Charles Myers, Lois Pearce, Patricia Poole, Nell Ramsdell, T. Raymond, Phyllis Rogers, Mary Sauls, Florence Scanlon, Mike Siller, Scott Stat-ham, Charlie Thames, Jose Varela, Ignacio Zambrano, Mary Jo Zummo.

Family and Friends of Parishioners: Jonathan Boone (firend of Allen Lea), Peter Rippa, (husband of Mary Rippa) Jim Doud (friend of Mike and Diane Meadows), Lloyd Young (father of Cathy Dunn), Ed Peeples (husband of Karen Peeples), Joyce Overton (stepmother of David Overton), Faye Lea (wife of Allen Lea), Mary Bess Curry (mother of Mike Curry), Flora and Luis Martin (Daughter and Son-in-law of Mary Rippa), Missy Goodman (Daughter of Nick and Maureen Calico), Pearl Turner (mother of Sheilah Resweber), Jeremy McIntyre (son of Brenda and Dorian McIntyre), Cathy McWilliams (Sister of Anthony Marvelli), Flossie Fraiser (cousin of Linda Smith), Emily Bennett (daughter-in-law of Carol Denslow), Irene Jones (mother of Gail Dowdle), June Harkins (mother of Beth Bivens), Donna Neese (mother of Nicole Chapman), Marian Lyons (friend of John and Kelly McGregor), Karla Fidler (friend of Monique Augustus), Charles Downey (father of April McDonald), Kevin Thames (grandson of Charlie Thames), Jeannie Marvelli (Aunt of Anthony Marvelli), Ken Rainey, Mala Torrence, (friends of Sandra Walker), Veronica Womack (friend of Serie Barnhill), Barry Watts (friend of Sandra Walk-er), Tanya Harris (daughter of Phyllis Rogers.), Martha Young, (mother of Cathy Dunn), Tam-my May, (daughter of Carol Bourne), Robert Caskey (Husband of Riza Caskey), Clyde Cox (brother of George Cox), Phyllis Davis and Rosemary West (mother and sister of David Peters), Douglas Montague (nephew of San-dra Walker), Mildred Pavolini and Louis Garri-ga (sister and brother of Bill Garriga), and all

Flowers in the Church donated by

Jules and Angela Perret

In Memory of Betty Perret

And Rhea and Denise Vincent

In Celebration of their wedding anniversary

And

Ginger Brown In Memory of Bobby Brown

And

Kathleen Edwards In Memory of

Joseph and Louse Pfieffer

St. Jude has devices for the hearing impaired. Please contact the Sacristan if you need to use one of these devic-es.

WOMEN OF FAITH The Women of Faith would like to invite all the ladies

of our parish to be part of our awesome women's group. Through fellowship and fun we strive to grow spiritually as Catholic women through service and learning more about our faith. Please see the online schedule for meeting dates. For more infor-mation contact Jennifer Diez 601-750-9943 jen-nydiez79@gmail.com or Denise McKnight 601-953-9139 denisemcknight@msn.com.

St. Jude Parish School of Religion – Adult Education Opportunity

Course Offering: Christian Prayer and Spirituality: Intimacy with Christ

Instructor: Jill Hisaw

Dates: Sundays from 3-5pm – August 20th, September 10th/24th, October 1st/22nd, November 5th/19th, and December 3rd

Cost: $20 plus cost of book

Course Description: Whether you consider yourself an amateur or a pro at personal prayer, you will discover many new insights in this practical course. Using the popular text “Close to the Heart” from best-selling author Margaret Silf, the course will explore proven methods for entering prayer, learning to focus, using the Scriptures

as a gateway to prayer, and turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in lively discussions while relating the course material to their own prayer lives and reflecting on how prayer, in the words of Silf, "draws the pulse of your daily life into ever-deepening resonance with the heartbeat of God." Course Text: Close to the Heart by Margaret Silf (can be purchase – new or used – from Ama-zon)

This course can be taken by catechists for credit towards Level II Diocesan Certification or can be taken by persons simply wanting to grow in their knowledge of the Catholic faith. All are welcome to join!

Registration is required. Forms can be printed at this link (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3xQJYgA9iiTaFZtNC1CQ1B6LVU/view?usp=sharing ), on the tables in the back of the church, or contact Stacy in the office at ccd@stjudepearl.org / 601-939-3181.

Pray for Those Discerning a Religious Vocation

-Young People thinking about a vocation to priesthood or religious life;

-Andrew Bowden who is in the seminary discern-ing a vocation to the priesthood; -Married men who might be thinking about the Permanent Diaconate.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39- 40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17- 18; Jn 1:45-51 Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Mt 22:34-40 Saturday: Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17; Ps 128:1b-5; Mt 23:1-12 Sunday: Is 22:19-23; Ps 138:1-3, 6, 8; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. Pius X Tuesday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday: St. Rose of Lima Thursday: St. Bartholomew Friday: St. Louis; St. Joseph Calasanz Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary

August 26-27—Tickets for the Dine, Dance and Dash Sat-urday, September 30th. Officers: Grand Knight—Danny Nelson

Deputy Grand Knight—Calvin Torregano

August 20th-Sunday school begins. Faith formation is an important part of a teen's life and it begins at home! Parents, please encourage your teens to attend PSR classes every Sunday. If you have an incoming 9th grader or 10th grader, good attendance to Sunday school is a requirement for Confirmation. This is not a Confirmation year for St. Jude but our diocese says two years of good faith formation is required to receive a Sacrament.

August 23rd-Mass at 6:00 pm followed by activities in the youth room.

Are you an experienced , middle of the road, beginner or "want to learn" crocheter or knitter? We, the Crocheters of St. Jude invite you to our month-ly meeting and potluck, Wednesday, August 30 at 630 in the parish hall. Bring a skein of yarn, a J hook, scissors and your favorite dish to share and join us as we crochet items to donate to local hospitals and homeless shel-

ters. GREAT service hours for students. Questions, feel free to contact Linda Tynes at 601.573.8583 or email at lindatynes10@hotmail.com.

A Spiritual Journey

Symbolon is an Adult Faith Formation Program

that offers the necessary components in accord

with Church Teachings for RCIA (Rite of Chris-

tian Initiation of Adults). It is a journey of deeper

conversion and relationship to God and His holy

Bride, the Church.

RCIA is the process by which persons who were never baptized, or we baptized in

another Christian tradition, become full member of the Catholic Church. Classes

are open to everyone seeking spiritual growth and a deeper knowledge and under-

standing of our Catholic Faith and true Discipleship.

Join the journey as we begin Tuesday, September 5th at 6:30 pm beginning with at

light meal. Is these someone you should invite? Please feel free to bring a friend

of family member.

For more information contact Deacon John McGregor at jmcgreg-

or@stjudepearl.org.

When the spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all truth; for

he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever her hears he

will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

John 16:13

Adult Faith Formation

Join us beginning Sunday, September 10th from 9:45

—10:45am in the Parish Hall for Adult Faith For-

mation as we discover how to pray with Sacred Scrip-

ture.

Though prayer is one of the essentials of a thriving faith, we often feel

as if we’re talking to ourselves. Or, worse, we feel like we’re talking to

no one at all. How can something so vital to the faith be so elusive?

Now, the mystery of prayer is made clear through the engaging teach-

ing and cinematic artistry of the Augustine Institute in Prayer: Find-

ing Intimacy with God. In six sessions on three DVDs, renowned speak-

er Dr. Tim Gray masterfully uses the ancient Church's tradition of

lectio divina to show you the simple steps for making prayer an effort

of love and intimacy with God. Essential and accessible, this new

Lectio series is ideal for personal faith formation and small group

study.

Episode Listing:

1. Prayer: An Intimate Dialogue

2. Guigo’s Ladder: A Way of Ascent

3. Lectio and Meditatio: Climbing the First Rungs

4. Oratio: Conversation with God

5. Contemplatio: The Gaze of Love

6. Resolutio: Putting Love into Action

Catholic Charities Workshop Catholic Charities is sponsoring "Catholic Faith in Action" work-shops this fall in our diocese on the topics of Catholic Social Teaching, Parish Social Ministry, and Advocacy. Anyone involved

in parish leadership or social ministry activities or those who are wanting to learning more about living out the Gospel message in our lives and in our par-ish is invited to attend. It will be held at St Therese Catholic Church in South Jackson on Saturday, Sep-tember 16 from 8:30 am to 11:30 am. Father Lin-coln is planning to attend with any interested parish-ioners. Please contact Father Lincoln or Kelly McGregor if you are interested in attending.

Statement of Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia regarding Racial Violence in Charlottesville, Virginia Racism is a poison of the soul. It’s the ugly, original sin of our country, an illness that has never fully healed. Blending it with the Nazi salute, the relic of a regime that murdered millions, com-pounds the obscenity. Thus the wave of public an-ger about white nationalist events in Charlottesville this weekend is well warranted. We especially need to pray for those injured in the violence. But we need more than pious public state-ments. If our anger today is just another mental virus displaced tomorrow by the next distraction or outrage we find in the media, nothing will change. Charlottesville matters. It’s a snapshot of our public unraveling into real hatreds brutally expressed; a collapse of restraint and mutual respect now taking place across the country. We need to keep the im-ages of Charlottesville alive in our memories. If we want a different kind of country in the future, we need to start today with a conversion in our own hearts, and an insistence on the same in others. That may sound simple. But the history of our na-tion and its tortured attitudes toward race proves exactly the opposite.

AROUND THE DIOCESE

SAVE THE DATE! St. Joseph Catholic School is hosting their annual Open House, November 5. This is no ordinary school tour, but a student-inspired, performance-filled showcase. Incredible art, aca-

demics, theater, music and athletics - not to men-tion that one-of-a-kind spirit which makes St. Joe the exceptional place that it is. See for yourself the bright, shining soul of St. Joe. More details coming soon.

Save-The-Date: The 31th annual St. Joseph Catholic Church GermanFest is sched-uled for Sunday, September 24, 2017 from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Advance meal tick-ets are $6 and are available

from parishioners of St. Joseph Catholic Church. Ticket information is also available by calling the parish office at 601-856-2054. Meals the day of the festival will be $7.

As the school year gets underway, we ask for your prayers and support for the 11 seminarians who are

headed back to Louisiana to continue their formation. Catholic Extension is offering a $25,000 match for dioceses who raise $100,000 towards seminarian ed-ucation so if you have ever considered a gift, now is the perfect time. The diocesan Office of Stewardship and Development and Vocation Department is hosting three brunches to raise money for this effort. All are invited. Please make sure to RSVP. If you cannot attend a brunch, you can still offer a gift. To RSVP or donate, contact Pam McFarland at 601-960-8479 or email pam.mcfarland@jacksondiocese.org. A Mass and brunch will be held at St. Paul’s in Flowood at 9 a.m. on Saturday, September 9th.

THE POWER OF PRAYER

Much prayer, much power!

Little prayer, little power!

No prayer, no power!

—Anonymous

Diocesan Consecration to Immaculate Heart of Mary and

Pastoral Plan Kick Off

As this is the 100th Anniversary of the Fatima apparitions where Mary asked the three shepherd

children to pray for the conversion of the world. Bishop Kopacz would like for the Diocese as

we begin our Pastoral Plan to pray for God’s blessings on our efforts.

Saturday, Oct 7: Rosary Rally

Cathedral at 10:30 a.m. we will gather to pray the rosary. We ask distant parishes to pray rosary

simultaneously or if they would rather gather as an area that would be great. The bishop will

request Jackson Metro area parishioners (tri-county) to come to Cathedral.

Sunday, Oct. 8: Bilingual Parish Mass at Cathedral – 10:30 am

Sunday, Oct. 8: Mass of Consecration – 1:30 pm

Each parish is asked to send a representative to this Mass to receive the Diocesan Prayer Cards

for the Pastoral Plan. The Mass to be celebrated will be Our Lady of Sorrows which was the first

title of the Diocese of Natchez. At the end of the Mass the prayer cards will be presented to

representatives from the parishes of the Diocese to be carried back and distributed the next

weekend October 14th and 15th and prayed at all Masses.

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Knights of Columbus serve our community, our Church and our fellow man, in an effort to better

society as a whole. Meetings 4th Sunday of each month

Officers Meeting: 4:30 PM Council Meeting: 5:00 PM

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