Solemnity of Corpus et Sanguis Christi–External Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Sunday Mass: Anticipated Saturday 4:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 a.m. (Ancient Rite Latin Mass), Sunday 9:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.
Confessions: Wednesday 6:30-6:55 p.m., Saturday 7:30-7:55 a.m., Saurday 2:30-3:30 p.m. and 6:30-7:30p.m.
The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
Tuesday, 25 June: St. Prosper of Reggio, Bishop
8 AM for Fr. Edmund J. Morelle+ requested by estate
Holy Rosary for the Unborn & Newborn
Wednesday, 26 June: Saints John and Paul, Martyrs
7 PM for David Charles Hanley+ requested by Mr. & Mrs. Allen Kraeger
Thursday, 27 June: OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP
8 AM for Special Intention, requested by Christopher van Lieshout
Friday, 28 June: MOST SACRED HEART OF JESUS
8 AM for Donald & Bernice Vlack+ requested by Kathleen Kitt
Saturday, 29 June: SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, Princes of the Apostles
8 AM for Special Intention
4 PM for Parishioners of OLGCC
Sunday, 30 June: XIII Sunday of the Year (New Calendar), III Sunday after Pentecost (Traditional Calendar)
8 AM for The Deceased of the George Dorsey Family, requested by Mr. and Mrs. William Glover
9:30 AM for Robert McCauley+ requested by Family
11 AM for Kenneth Buehner+ requested by Wife
Servers for the weekend of 29-30 June
Saturday 4 PM: L. Lohr, B. Johnson
Sunday 8 AM: J. Murnane, T. Murnane
Sunday 9:30 AM: I. Martin, C. Martin
Sunday 11 AM: N. Vaccaro, J. Vaccaro
Solemnity of Corpus et Sanguis Christi (The Body and Blood of Christ)
Please join us in adoring and proclaiming Our Lord in the Most Holy Eucharist as we process with Him down our Main St. on this most beautiful Feast.
Training for New Altar Servers: Thursday at 6 PM, Church
Any young man, going into fourth grade or older, is welcome to serve on the Altar for Holy Mass and other ceremonies.
Pro-Life Leadership Camp for Youth: Camp Esther
NYS Right to Life offers a pro-life leadership weekend for youth interested in changing the world. This is a weekend of intensive training with lots of opportunity for fun and building friendships with other pro-life students. Presentations will be given on pro-life issues such as abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, stem cell research and more. The weekend costs $150, but if any parish youth wishes to attend, we would pay $100 of that cost for you. The cost includes tuition, supplies, room, meals and t-shirt. Deadline for application is 12 July. If you would like more information, or would like to attend, please call 518.434.1293 or admin@nysrighttolife.org. The program is called Camp Esther, and takes place at the Good News Center in Utica, N. Y., 2-4 August 2019.
Worship the Lord in Holy Attire
One way we manifest our belief in the presence of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament is to dress appropriately in His presence, both for Holy Mass and any other time we come to church. Shorts, except on young children, tank tops, tube tops, bare shoulders and midriffs are NOT allowable in church.
Stone Soup Supper: Thursday, 27 June 4:30-6 PM
This month’s community supper is served by Verona Methodist Church. It is a free supper, but a freewill offering is accepted to benefit the Food Pantry. The supper takes place at the Verona Presbyterian Church, corner of E. Main St. and Rock Rd.
They Begged Jesus to Leave
If Christ is a present event, we meet Him every day. Yet we do not realize it because we are distracted. We meet Him every day. He crosses our path and calls us friends. But alongside a kind of moved acknowledgment and a vague emotion that most people feel when they hear the name Jesus Christ, there is a hostility toward Him today that there has never been before, except in the earliest days, when they crucified Him and killed His martyrs, when they outlawed His witnesses (which is what the word “martyr’ means) in the first centuries. It is a generalized hostility, fed and produced systematically, so well supported theoretically that we get accustomed to it day by day without realizing it, and this reveals how distracted we are. And when we do realize it-and this is worse-we pretend not to hear and not to see: we don’t consider it important…. This hatred characterizes human history. It is, as it were, the ongoing result of the mysterious wound of original sin in human history. It articulates and becomes concrete day by day, through all the powers, as an enormously evil and mendacious possibility. For it is power that takes up and personifies this possibility, gives it life, intelligence , and weapons, and makes a wicked plan of it. It is in this hatred that the father of lies works, making use of all the powers, that father of lies described by Jesus when He speaks of Satan to the Pharisees. Hatred for Jesus is the theme necessary for every power that does not consciously draw its humble and dramatic origin from obedience to the supreme power of the Father… In this state of affairs, which would be the norm without God’s intervention, the initiative of Christ present continually makes His people live and renews it.
The Servant of God, Msgr. Luigi Giussani, Founder of the Communion and Liberation Movement, lived from 1922- 2005.