MASS INTENTIONS

 

FOR THE WEEK OF

July 25th through July 31st

Saturday, July 24

4:00 P.M.        William Fiore, 8th Anniversary

Sunday, July 25

7:00 A.M.        André Thys Glinnen, Memorial

9:00 A.M.        For Our Living and Deceased Parishioners

  11:00 A.M.       Angel Valdivia Sr., 1st Anniversary

                        Keishla Rivera, Thanksgiving

                        Delfina Caicedo, Memorial

                        Jaime Carvajal, 17th Anniversary

Monday, July 26

  8:00 A.M.         Rosita Villarreal Villamil, Memorial

Tuesday, July 27

  8:00 A.M.         Msgr. Jerome V. MacEachin, Memorial

Wednesday, July 28

  8:00 A.M.         Special Intention

   7:00 P.M.       Angel Valdivia Sr., Memorial

Thursday, July 29

  8:00 A.M.                     Clara O. Stapleton, 18th Anniversary

Friday, July 30

  8:00 A.M.         Special Intention

Saturday, July 31

  8:00 A.M.         Paul and Albertine Stankard, Memorial

 

A ROSE FOR LIFE IN OUR SANCTUARY

The rose this week is sponsored in memory of Clara O. Stapleton by Clara and Norma Stapleton.

 

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Father Chava Gonzalez of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate will be here with us this weekend, July 24th and 25th, for the Annual Mission Appeal program of the Archdiocese. We welcome him and are very interested in hearing about the work they do in the mission fields. Because of this appeal, the collection for Central and Eastern Europe will not be taken July 25th, but has been postponed until the weekend of July 31st and August 1st. Please hold on to your envelopes for this collection until the appointed weekend. The collection for the weekend of August 7th and 8th will be for Catholic Relief Services. Your usual generosity would be appreciated.

 

 

MASS INTENTIONS

 

FOR THE WEEK OF

August 1st through August 7th

Saturday, July 31

    4:00 P.M       Maria & Ignacy Jakubiak, Memorial

Sunday, August 1

    7:00 A.M       Agnes Collins, Memorial

   9:00 A.M.       For Our Living and Deceased Parishioners

Monday, August 2

  8:00 A.M.         Irene and Frank Kelley, Memorial

Tuesday, August 3

  8:00 A.M.         Julienne St. Amant, Memorial

Wednesday, August 4

  8:00 A.M.         Clara Stapleton, Special Intention

  7:00 P.M.         Nancy Roxana Alfaro, Month's Mind

Thursday, August 5

  8:00 A.M.         E.J. Slack, Birthday

Friday, August 6

    8:00 A.M       Carlos Ortiz, Memorial

Saturday, August 7

8:00 A.M.           Thanksgiving

 

A ROSE FOR LIFE IN OUR SANCTUARY

The rose this week is sponsored in memory of The Unborn by Laury Henry.

 

 

PARISH FAMILY DAY ‑ St. Stephen Parish will hold its annual Family Day in the parking lot behind the Church on Sunday, August 22nd. The day will feature an outdoor bilingual Mass at 11:00 a.m., followed by live music, food tables, and games for children. Note that there will be no 9:00 or 10:00 Mass in the Church that day. Your help would be welcomed in helping to set up the parking lot on Saturday, August 21st.

 

 

Donations for "FAMILY DAY" We are already accepting donations of bottled water and can sodas for our Family Day. If you wish to cooperate in this way, bring your donations at your convenience from Monday to Friday during office hours, and once again, thank you for your generosity.

 

 

 

 

"Lord, teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples."  He said to them, "When you pray, say: Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come.  Give us each day our daily bread." -      Lk 11:1b-3

 

 

WELCOMING OUR LADY OF FATIMA

On the weekend of August 14th and 15th, we will welcome to St. Stephen Parish the Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima at the 4:00 and 11:00 Masses. This beautiful image of Our Blessed Lady will remain in our parish for one year, and families will have the opportunity to take the statue to their homes each week and to spend the week with family and friends praying for our parish, our country, our Church, and the world.

The statue will be accompanied by books, prayer cards in English and Spanish, rosaries, scapulars, DVDs, and other religious items for use by the host families. Everything but the rosaries and scapulars must be returned with the statue. You will receive further instructions at the time you pick up the statue.

Our Lady's statue will be on display in the parish for the first week, and then it will be available for host families to take it home with them, starting the weekend of August 21st and 22nd. To sign up for the statue, you must call Gloria at the Rectory and she will pass the information to Dennis Glinnen. who is the coordinator for St. Stephen Parish.

Once your offer to host the statue has been accepted, you must pick it up at either the 4:00 or 11:00 Mass and then return it before the 4:00 Mass the following Saturday so that the next family may take the statue home. It is very important that the statue be returned prior to the 4:00 Mass.

 

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"But God said to him, 'You fool, this night your life will be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?' Thus will it be for all who store up treasure for themselves but are not rich in what matters to God." -                                 Lk 12:20-21

 

 

 

Family Consecration Prayer

to the Immaculate Heart of Mary

 

Most Blessed Virgin, Immaculate Queen and our Mother Mary, refuge and consolation of all miserable creatures, prostrate before your throne with our whole family, we choose you for Our Lady, Mother and Advocate with God. We consecrate ourselves, with all who belong to us, forever to your service and beseech you, O Mother of God, to receive us into the number of your servants by taking us all under your protection, helping us in life, and still more at the hour of death.

O Mother of Mercy, we appoint you as Lady and Ruler of our whole house, of our relatives, of our interests, and of all our affairs. Disdain not to take charge of them, dispose of all as it pleases you. Bless us, then, and all our families, and do not permit that any of us should offend your Son. Defend us in temptation, deliver us from dangers, provide for us in our necessities, counsel us in our doubts, comfort us in our afflictions, assist us in our infirmities, and especially in the sorrows of death.

Never allow the Devil to glory in having in his chains any of us who are now consecrated to you, but grant that we may go to Heaven to thank you, and together with you to praise and love Jesus our Redeemer for all eternity. Amen.