Parish Announcements

PRAYER REQUESTS: Please pray for all the individuals on the Prayer List. If you know of any others who are ill, and would like to include them in the list, contact Suzette Murphy at 916-487-3840. For sick calls, contact Mrs. Andrea Witt at 916-486-4961 or 530-798-4028

SECOND COLLECTION: The second collection this week is for the Priory. The second collection next week is for the Building Maintenance Fund.

MEN’S WORK DAY: Since it is a holiday, the work day normally scheduled for the First Saturday of the month will be rescheduled to Saturday, July 11, 2020 starting at 9 am. Please meet in the parish hall. Thank you for all your help in keeping the Chapel in good working order.

ROSARY CRUSADE: A new US District Rosary Crusade in response to the pandemic. In response to the COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) pandemic, Fr. Jurgen Wegner, the District Superior of the U.S. District of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), is launching a Rosary Crusade for relief from this affliction and for all of the souls who have been affected by it. This Rosary Crusade, which will run from Sunday, April 26, 2020 (“Good Shepherd” Sunday) until the Feast of the Assumption on August 15, 2020, is being called in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. Here is the link to read the entire article describing the Rosary Crusade: https://sspx.org/en/news-events/news/new-us-district-rosary-crusade-response-pandemic-57498 Read Fr. Wegner’s letter in its entirety here: https://sspx.org/en/salve-regina-mater-misericordia-vita-dulcedo-et-spes-nostra-salve

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church

INSTAURARE OMNIA IN CHRISTO

4524 Garfield Avenue

Mailing: 4005 Manzanita Ave. Ste.6 #149 Carmichael, CA 95608

saintmichaelschurch@sspx.org http://sarh.ca.sspx.org/en/saintmichaelschurch

Church: 916-486-4961 Death: 408-568-1171

Reverend Father Michael Sheahan, SSPX, Pastor

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

July 5, 2020

St. Aloysius Camp and Retreat Center 19101 Bear Creek Road

Los Gatos, CA 95033 408-354-7703

Reverend Father Thomas Asher, SSPX, Prior

St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church Welcomes all Roman Catholics

Extend mercy towards others, so that there can be no one in need whom you meet without helping.  For what hope is there for us if God should withdraw His Mercy from us?       - St. Vincent de Paul 

Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

July 5, 2020 8:00 am Low Mass 10:00 am Low Mass

Mon. July 6 Monday after the Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

8:00 am Low Mass

Sat. July 11 Blessed Virgin Mary on

Saturday 5:30 pm Low Mass

Sun. July 12 Sixth Sunday After

Pentecost

8:00 am Low Mass 10:00 am Low Mass

PARISHIONERS: Please take a census card from the vestibule to enroll at St. Michael’s.

It may be submitted in the collection or at the office door. HOLY ROSARY: Prayed 30 minutes before each Mass.

CONFESSIONS: Heard 45 minutes before Masses, except on Mondays. NOVENA TO ST. JOSEPH: Prayed after Monday morning Mass.

ARCHCONFRATERNITY OF ST. STEPHEN: Practice is on 2nd Sundays after the second Mass. Contact: Chris Hamm

SPIRITUAL CONFERENCES: The second Sunday of each month after the second Mass in the Church basement. All are encouraged to attend.

BLESSING OF ITEMS: Second Sunday of each month. Place your items in the basket to be blessed. They will be ready the following Sunday. Please put your name on your items.

St. Therese Chapel 1749 Spruce Ave, Chico, CA 95926

(530) 332-8180 Mass on 1st & 3rd Sundays at 3 PM

Upcoming Masses Sunday, July 5, 2020

Sunday, July 19, 2020

Liturgy: Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Be Reconciled to Thy Brother “If thou offer thy gift at the altar, and thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee, leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shall offer thy gift, alleluia”

This Sunday's liturgy is concerned with the forgiveness of injuries, with brotherly reconciliation. It takes its cue from a passage of one of the epistles of St. Peter the Apostle, whose feast is kept this month, and from a portion of the Sermon on the Mount, recorded in St. Matthew’s Gospel.

Jesus condemns not only the external act of murder, but also the interior motive of anger which leads us to it, for in this is the desire of ridding ourselves of our neighbor. “This anger has three degrees,” says St. Augustine. The first is when one retains in the heart the disturbance that has been created there (Postcommunion), the second when one expresses his indignation, and thirdly, when one openly reviles him who caused it (Epistle). Corresponding to these three degrees are three punishments of an increasingly grave character. “The true sacrifice is reconciliation with our brother,” says St. John Chrysostom. “The first sacrifice necessary to offer to God,” adds Bossuet, “is a heart free from all coldness and unfriendliness towards one’s brother” (Meditations, 14th day). The best way to come to the possession of charity is to love God, to desire the good things of eternity (Collect) and the possession of happiness in heavenly places, where entrance is only to be had through the continual practice of this fair virtue. “One thing have I asked of the Lord, and this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life” (Communion).

Source: Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, OSB, 1945, adapted and abridged.