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SAINT MARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION 203 Fourth St. · Aurora, Indiana 47001 · www.mystmarys.com
St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception
Welcome in God’s Name! Through our loving and praying family may you find friendship, peace and serenity in this, God’s house. If you are a visitor interested in joining our parish or the Catholic Faith, please call our parish office for information. If you are returning after being away . . . Welcome Home!
September 26 & 27, 2020 26th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Mission
We, the people in the area served by St. Mary of the
Immaculate Conception Parish, Aurora, Indiana, called
to faith and salvation in Jesus Christ in the Roman
Catholic tradition, strive to live the Gospel by
worshipping God in word and sacrament, learning,
teaching, and sharing our faith with those in our parish
ourselves to stewardship through the generous and
responsible use of our spiritual, physical, and material
resources for today’s and tomorrow’s needs.
Holy Mass – Schedule Wednesday & Friday @ 9:00 AM
Saturday @ 4:00 PM
Office Hours Monday thru Friday from 9:00 AM until Noon
Reverend Ben Syberg, Pastor Email: [email protected] St. Mary’s Office: (812) 926-0060
St. Lawrence’s Office: (812) 537-3992 After Hours Emergencies: (812) 537-1297
Anna Townsend, Secretary/C.R.E. – [email protected] Tony Vincent, Facilities & Maintenance Jim Waldon, Director of Music [email protected] Mollie Leibecke, Bookkeeper [email protected]
St. Mary’s School – (812) 926-1558 fax (812) 926-2590 Randy Dennis, Principal [email protected] Ann Hutchinson,School Secretary [email protected]
Pastoral Council Members Jonathon Andrews - Chairman [email protected] Randy Tyler – Co-chair [email protected] Patty Lohmiller – Secretary [email protected] Lyndsay Hays [email protected] Kathy Simon [email protected] Beth Hyde [email protected] Rick Schuler [email protected] Julie Strasemeier [email protected] George Schewe [email protected] Greg Ramsey [email protected] Sara Dennis [email protected]
Finance Committee Mark Neff, Chairperson [email protected]
School Commission Beth Legge, Chairperson [email protected]
Homebound Ministry: Eucharistic Ministers are available to bring Holy Communion to the homebound. Mrs. Emily Beckman [email protected]
Anointing of the Sick: Call anytime (812-926-0060 or 812-537-3992) or see Fr. Ben. Given at home, nursing home, hospital or at church.
Knights of Columbus Bill Ullrich, Grand Knight [email protected]
Pregnancy Care Center (812) 537-4357 St. Vincent de Paul Society (812) 926-1637
*Aloisia Mattl, *Louis Hill, Jr., *Vernon Myers; *Jodi Jerger, *Travis Miller, *Becky Meyer Clark, *Christina Nelms, Gary Manford, Tim Heller, Neil Selley, Caroline Seaver, *Brenda Murr, ,*Marilyn “Jane” Borth, Hayle Brashears, Jared Hodgkins, Stefanie Veale, Nate Groh, Michael Renner, Larry Hagan, McKayla Schmits, Kelly, Gary Wainscott, Ruth Kern, Colton Mattingly, Agnes Kelnhofer, Tinker Walston, Ron Brunner, Payton Maurice, Kate Grossmann, Joan Fuch, Karen Kistner, Mark Chase, Velinda Seaver, Rose Donk, B&L Dunseth, Jessica McKittrick, Kristie Bockhorst Gilb,*Candi Elsen, Barb McMurray, Chris Strautman, *Mary Leyendecker, Rebecca Oelker, Debbie Walker Russell, Dottie Fedroff, Judy, Brenda O’Neal, Liz Day, *John P. Hinrichs, Pam Dean, Graham, Tim Smith, John Hobson, Tom Brown, Betty Tyler, Mary Ann Edwards, Susan Dausch & family, Mike Heller & Family, Ray Brown, Clyde Perfect, Sandy Schmits, Lizzie Kelnhofer.
Please remember our Police Officers, MilitaryTroops, Doctors, Nurses, First Responders
and their families in your prayers.
St. Mary’s Parish Collection Information September 12 & 13, 2020
Weekly Collection 4,622.00 School 140.00 SVDP 105.00 Right To Life 5.00 Attendance - 123
September 19 & 20, 2020 Weekly Collection 7,025.00 School 60.00 SVDP 245.00 Right To Life 5.00 Attendance - 132
Please consider our online giving. Just go to our parish website @ www.mystmarys.com and click the blue box “online giving” to register. Thank you. COUNTERS: Since we only have one mass on a weekend, there is NO need for you to come in on Mondays. Stay safe and we will keep you posted. Thank you.
St. Mary School
Mr. Randy Dennis/St. Mary’s Principal
St. Mary School Giving Basket started last Wednesday during the School Mass. Students brough their canned goods during offertory. It was such a kind and unselfish gesture from our St. Mary’s students. All items will be blessed and will be given to St. Vincent De Paul! God Bless our students and teachers!
Cafeteria/Playground volunteers needed at school for the month of September. Interested please call
An Hutchinson @ 812-926-1558.
The Right To Life
Melissa Ohden, an abortion survivor, will be the guest speaker a the 47th ANNUAL CELEBRATION FOR LIFE, on Sunday September 27, at Cincinnati Airport Marriott. Offering the invocation will be Fr. Matthew Cushing, Pastor of All Saints Church, Walton. At 1:00 PM, exhibits and refreshments will be available, along with
viewing a pro-life film; and the guest speaker at 2:00 PM. Tickets are $10.00 and can be obtained from Stan Barczak
(859-431-6380) or at the door. Free childcare will be available.
Faye Ann (Wright) Hoffmeier
(May 11, 1931-September 19, 2020
Our Deepest Condolences to the Family of
Faye An Hoffmeier. May the support of
your family and friends be a blessing to
you in your grief. May her soul rest in
peace.
September 26, Saturday 4:00 PM @ St. Mary (Intention: Randy Iverson & Christopher & Viola Powers) September 27, Sunday 8:30 AM @ St. Lawrence (Inside) 10:30 AM @ St. Lawrence (Outside) September 28, Monday NO PUBLIC MASS September 29, Tuesday (St. Michael, Gabriel and Rafael, Archangels) 9:00 AM @ St. Lawrence September 30, Wednesday (School Mass) (St. Jerome, Priest & Doctor of the Church)
9:00 AM @ St. Mary (Intention: Rev. Benjamin D. Syberg) October 01, Thursday (School Mass) (Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor of Church)
9:00 AM @ St. Lawrence October 02, Friday (The Holy Angels) 9:00 AM @ St. Mary (Intention: †Christopher & Viola Powers) October 03, Saturday (Simon Brute Weekend) 4:00 PM @ St. Mary (Intention: † Gerhard Oevermeyer & Christopher & Viola Powers) October 04, Sunday (Respect Life Sunday) 9:00 AM @ St. Lawrence (Inside) 11:00 AM @ St. Lawrence (Outside) Reminder: Starting the first weekend of October until the last weekend of November Mass times for St. Lawrence will be changed to 9:00 AM Indoor & 11:00 AM Outdoor. Saturday Mass time for St. Mary’s remain the same at 4: 00 PM. Thank you for your patience
Mass Times and locations are subject to change, please check our parish website @
www.mystmarys.com for up to date information .
IMPORTANT DIRECTIVES ON COVID19
♦If you, or anyone you live with or anyone you care for is SICK, you MUST remain at home and not come to church. ♦ If you are 65 years of age or older, or have a pre-existing health condition, you SHOULD stay home and watch Mass online. ♦ If you are not comfortable being out, you CAN stay home. Archbishop Thompson has extended the dispensation from Mass until August 15. ♦ If you test positive with COVID-19 within 14 days of being at Church for Mass, Confession or Personal Prayer, PLEASE NOTIFY THE PARISH IMMEDIATELY BY CONTACTING THE PARISH OFFICE BY PHONE OR EMAIL.
Holy Water Bottles: Please take just one holy water bottle for your household. When it’s empty, bring it back and fill it from the holy water container in the back of church. Thank you!
Dispensation from the obligation of Sunday Mass attendance
"While commending our pastors and pastoral life
coordinators who have gone to great lengths to
assure safe worship spaces in our churches, due to
the increase in the COVID-19 cases in our state, the
Indiana bishops have decided to extend the
dispensation from the obligation of Sunday Mass
attendance beyond August 15 until November 1, 2020, unless further developments
determine otherwise."
Source: https://archindy.org/archbishop/dispensation2020.html
Resources for Weekend Catholic Mass
on Your Local Channels
Sunday @ 8:30 AM WKRC/CintiTheCW Ch.12.2
Sunday @ 5:00 PM WLWT/CintiME TV Ch. 5.2
EWTN Mass
Sunday @ 8:00 AM
DishNetwork Ch 261 or Direct TV Ch 370
►WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Enjoy a Marriage Encounter Weekend from the comfort of your own home! We would not expect a car, or a house heating/air conditioning system to run for years without any servicing, so why do weexpect our marriage relationship to keep running smoothly without a little maintenance? The Virtual Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend gives married couples the tools to keep their relationship in top running condition. Forthcoming Weekends are from 9-11 October, 6-8 November, 13-15 November and 20-22 November. You can also enjoy the Experience mid-week, from 15 -16 September. Visit www.wwme.org for further information. Quote from a couple who made a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend: “Our Weekend will be a dramatic high point in our lives for years to come.”
St. Mary’s Living Rosary
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Monday, October 12th (Outside) Monday, November 2nd Tuesday, December 8th Inside St. Mary’s Church Starts @ 7:00 PM
Save the Date and Please Join Us
With the pandemic, economic distress and racial unrest going on in the world, let’s all pray together that the days ahead are filled with healing, blessings, growth, new opportunities, love, and recovery for our COUNTRY, our CHURCH and the WORLD. Please come and pray with us. If you want to help out organizing this event, please call Anna Townsend @ 812-926-0060.
To All St. Mary’s & St. Lawrence Parishioners
A visit from Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary next weekend At all Masses next weekend, Oct 3/4, we welcome Reverend Andy Syberg, Formation Dean at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary, located here in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Fr. Andy will share with us an update about the seminary and their work in the spiritual formation of seminarians, preparing them for a priestly vocation.
The Discovering Program A Junior High Parish Religion Program
Younger teens (Grades 7th & 8th) need a religious education program that addresses real-life teen issues and different learning styles. The Discovering Program is a comprehensive set of 14 minicourses and teaching resources that help you create religion classes focusing on relationship-building, active student participation, and sound religious principles.
We will start with our first book called Being Catholic which identifies specific aspects of
Catholicism. It will enable adolescents to consider what it means to be a Catholic
Christian, and helps them integrate a sense of Catholic identity with their identity as
persons.
If you haven’t sign up yet, please call Anna Townsend call at 812-926-0060. We will be meeting twice a month after
the 4:00 PM mass. Our first session will start on Saturday, October 24!
From the Desk of Fr. Ben Syberg Greetings my fellow covidians, a covidian being one who has entered a new or even post-covid reality. (I hope to trademark this phrase, and make a fortune - all the rich people seem to make their money randomly too, so why not)? Are we indeed headed into a new phase of covid-life?? I hope so. But will all things ever return to normal? This I doubt. We would have plunged our head deep in the sands if we think that nothing will change in the near future. What will change, who knows? As prescient covidians I hope we have learned the one important truth that this crisis can teach us: NO ONE KNOWS THE FUTURE. But for fun we can at least guess. Your trigger-happy pastor decided that it’s time to flip the Sunday morning outdoor and indoor masses. So, this weekend: 8:30am is inside, and 10:30am is outside. Next week, the first official weekend of October (you know the month with the beer and pumpkins and stuff) Mass is 9am and 11am. 9am will be inside. 11am will be outside. And we'll roll with this pumpkin policy as long as we can. I suspect that sometime in November or December, we will permanently locate inside St. Lawrence on Sunday mornings, and both masses will be indoors. I hope to give you more heads-up when that happens; I am sorry for the sudden announcement. That’s not my favorite way to communicate. It’s just that at the time I couldn’t feel my fingers. Quick (and random) Hits As of this writing, we await an announcement from Gov. Holcomb about next steps for Indiana. I suspect that things will be opening up more and more. And if they open up the bars, hopefully they open up churches too. St. Lawrence and St. Mary’s are well underway in their brick and mortar moments. Long-needed but manageable work is happening to the exteriors of both campuses. Good stuff and more to come. In the 1500s, China demanded that all their international trade-ships be burned, and the outside world be shut-out of the empire. Which led to 400 years of Europe’s dominance over China and everyone else. Lesson to be learned: engage the world, don’t hide from it. There’s an election coming. (Have you heard about this thing?) Let’s remember that all politics is local. As Catholics we believe in subsidiarity, which elevates government and leadership on the smallest level. So, while the whole country screams over who will be the next president, state, county and local elections matter too. Christmas will be here before we know it. Tentative plans are: 5:00pm Mass at a neutral site capable of holding (safely) a large number of people 10:30pm Mass at St. Lawrence 9:00am Mass at St. Mary’s God Bless.
The Word This Week (26th Sunday of Ordinary Time
“Once a sinner, always a sinner.” That seems to be the attitude of the self-righteous in the first reading and the Gospel; they object that God is unjust, because he gives sinners another chance. But God tells them quite clearly that such attitudes are the real injustice - to allow prejudice and hardness of heart to come between repentance and forgiveness. The words of Christ in the Gospel must have struck a chill into the hard hearts of the so-called righteous chief priests - even today they can make us stop and think: “Prostitutes are making their way into the kingdom of God before you.” All our outward show matters little, if it does not correspond with what is deep
in our hearts; all our words are meaningless, if they do not correspond with the way we live our lives. Source:
https://www.salfordliturgy.org.uk/ordinary26a.htm
NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING CLASSES
Is your “contraceptive” really killing your babies? Many are unaware that the IUD and, at times, the pill are abortifacients, working by not allowing the 5-7 day old child to implant in the womb. Have you informed your conscience on the moral evil of artificial birth control? Come learn the Christian Way. A Natural Family Planning class will be held Sunday, Oct. 4th, from 9:00 AM until 12:00 Noon at St. Louis Parish Office, Batesville, IN. (13 St. Louis Place, the building between the school and church.) The Sympto-Thermal method is 98% effective, natural, and safe. There is a $40.00 fee for books and materials. For reservations call or text 812-212-4951 or 812-212-2719.
Life Chain 2020
The Knights of Columbus, Respect Life Committee members and all Pro-Life Christians are asked to participate in our local Life Chain 2020 on October 4th, which is Respect Life Sunday. The Life Chain will be between 2 pm and 3 pm, lead by Knight of Columbus and Respect Life members in solidarity along U.S. 50 in Lawrenceburg. Life Chain IS NOT political or confrontational. Life Chain IS a silent prayer vigil by Christians to communicate their opposition to Abortion. Participants prayerfully display signs which state the truth about abortion. It is an opportunity for local churches to unite in prayer and stand up for the rights of the unborn.
Life Chain 2020 will be along U.S. 50 between Walnut and Front Street in Lawrenceburg. Everyone who believes in the protection of the unborn children and their mothers is invited to participate. Signs will be provided, or bring your own. (No political signs; everyone already knows where Biden and President Trump stand on this issue.) James 2:26 tells us that “Faith without Work is Dead”. If we believe Abortion is wrong, let’s take action and be a part of Life Chain 2020. Go
St. Mary's Swag is now available!!👈 Help us with our school fundraiser with sporting
shirts, hats, face masks, sweatshirts etc... Here's the link to shop online: https://www.athfundraising.com/st-mary-s
