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GIRARD Sat. 5:30pm Sun. 10:00 am Sat. 2:00-2:45pm

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Weekdays before Mass; anytime by appointment.

STAFF Fr. Roger Lumbre Pastor Janel Scales Bookkeeper/Bulletin Editor Faith Paoni Secretary Rectory Office Hours Tues-Fri 9AM-Noon Closed on Mondays Tel. (620) 724-8717

As we end the Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, let us continue to pray that more people especially Catholics would accept and take some time to study and apply the NFP teaching in their married life. Some people thought that God would understand if we fail to do it because of our human weakness. Without the couples serious effort to do it, this is a sin of presumption presuming Gods mercy and continuing to commit the sin of acting against the will of Gods design for procreation. Of course, no doubt God is merciful! But it is another thing when we indulge ourselves with worldly pleasures without any taking responsibility according to Gods will. There are more to reflect on this teaching, so let us continue to pray for one another, that more and more couples will open their hearts to Gods grace to be able discern and accept His will in their lives. Our Totus Tuus was a success! Thanks be to God! It would not be more successful without our kids. So thank you to all our kids who came and join us during the week, and also a big thank you to our parents for taking the time to take them to our hall. Grateful for the team that facilitated the event let us pray for them as they take a little vacation before going back to school: Virginia Brungardt, Melissa Davied, Adam Grelinger, and Jacob Jirak. Thank you also to our parish coordinators: Nancy Bauer and Teresa Davenport. We also thank our dinner sponsors: Mary Ann Duling, Mary Beth Otto, Rick and Barb Duling, Dan and Ruth Duling, Wayne and Ruth Leritz, and Butch and Mary Reif; and our lunch sponsors: Connie Sponsel, Michelle Puckett, Beth Wilson, Bernadette Coomes, and Nancy Hofer. Thank you to our drivers as we transport our kids to Arma and back to Girard: Bob Moore, Bernadette Coomes, Michelle Puckett, Teresa Davenport, and Nancy Bauer. Thank you to all our parents who joined us in the potluck and Dave Garret and the fire department for providing us water for the kids activity. And to all those who in one way or another made Gods plan to happen, thank you! Reminder again, with Totus Tuus over, our liturgical schedule will be back to normal this week. Also, I am encouraging everyone who has not taken Virtus Training yet to take this training. You have nothing to lose but everything to gain. Aside from getting yourself volunteer ready, you will learn things that are applicable at home and outside of home that involve the safety of our kids and everybody. So please call the parish office or Linda Moore to register. The training will be this Wednesday, August 1 st, at 6:30 PM at the hall and it would last around two hours and it is free! May God bless you all! Fr. Roger

Next Saturday(8/4/2012) Altar Servers: 5:30 PM Rose Brake & Luke Martin

Next Sunday(8/5/2012) 10:00 AM T. Paoni, J. Duling, M., M., M. Adams

Benefit Breakfast There will be a benefit breakfast for Steve VanLeeuwen, who is undergoing cancer treatments. The breakfast will be held on Sunday, July 29th at the St. Francis Parish Hall in St. Paul. Breakfast will be served from 8am to 11:30am. Freewill donations will be accepted: biscuits & gravy, eggs, sausage, pancakes, coffee & juice. A Meal in His Name The Knights of Columbus have volunteered to help clean up every fourth Thursday of the month. Any Knights who are available to help are asked to show up from 6-8pm. Angels Among Us St. Michaels Altar Society ladies. We need your help for Angels Among Us at the Fair Grounds on Friday, August 3rd. We need homemade pies. Please sign up in back of church if you can help. Please have pies to hall by 9:00am on Friday, August 3rd. Thanks so much for helping out. All proceeds from this event and other Angel Among Us events goes to help cancer patients in our area. Teresa Davenport (362-3042), Barb Siebert (724-6448) and Jo Peak will make pies if you need someone to make one for you, so feel free to call them. Thanks again, St. Michaels Altar Society Officers

E. M. H. C. Lectors: Gift Bearers:

Volunteer Volunteer Volunteer

Volunteer Volunteer Cliff & Janel Scales Family

Mass Schedules & Intentions for July 28th-August 5th:

July 28 29 30 31 01 02 03 04 05 Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday 4:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 AM 10:00 AM 7:00 AM 5:30 PM 6:00 PM 8AM-6PM 8:00 AM 8:30AM-4PM 7:00 AM 4:00 PM 5:30 PM 8:00 AM 10:00 AM Beverly Talarico Jenkins Marion Lowe Joseph A. Klinkon Pro Populo Donna January Garcia Julia LaSora Thomas Cussimanio Eucharistic Adoration Julia LaSota Eucharistic Adoration Tony Kavcich Emma Marchetti Mary Davied Pro Populo Dave Gall Arma Girard Arma Girard Girard Arma Girard Girard Arma Arma Girard Arma Girard Arma Girard

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COLLECTIONS Last Week Contributions Children's Offering Expenses Over/ (Under)

Saint Michaels Upcoming Events Finance Council Tony Stonerock-Chair 2nd Thursday of Month, 5pm Rosary Altar Society Next meeting, Aug. 27th At 6pm in the Hall. Helping Hands Need help or want to volunteer, Call Carrie Smith, 724-6684 Parish Council Dale Coomes-Chair Next Meeting, TBA Knights of Columbus 1st Tuesday of Month, 7pm St. Michael Parish Hall Daughters of Isabella Call Marilyn Bradshaw, 724-7133 That Man in You Friday mornings at 6am

July 2012 to date $11,040.63 $140.76 $0.00 $11,181.39

$3,225.00 $23.26

The No Holiday Month Did you realize that August is the only No Holiday month on the calendar? We dont need hats, horns, eggs, parades, flags, or anything of that sort to get through this month. Maybe thats why Arma insists on keeping the Homecoming celebration at this time. If you try, you can find some good things about August: you survived your vacation, the grass is brown and doesnt need cutting, its too late to diet for bathing suits and too early to start Christmas planning. Its too hot to cook and too dusty to clean the garage. Thank goodness for this leisurely time with no holidays. Even the creators of National Pickle Week, Plastic Furniture Month, and Miss Junk Food Princess tend to leave August alone. So, take advantage of this month, relax and realize theres no occasion to rise to except one: Dont forget the Arma Homecoming, August 1719. Its been around since WWII and still draws crowds from all over this area. St. Josephs will sponsor a Homecoming Breakfast on August 19th after the 8:00am Mass. Support our Church and the Homecoming and come for breakfast. Tell a friend.

St. John Vianney: Patron of Priests In October, 1986, Pope John Paul II made a four-day visit to France. He saw many cathedrals and visited shrines of saints, but those who traveled with the Holy Father reported that his most moving, and significant visit was to the town of Ars, where he commemorated the 200th Important Dates anniversary of the birth of St. John Vianny, the Cure (pastor) dArs. August 1 - Virtus Training -6:30PM at St. Michael Hall, Girard. John Baptiste Mary Vianney was born at Dardilly in 1786 to poor, GodThose who have not attended this training yet, please call the par- fearing parents of peasant stock, whose home was a place from which ish office to register! Gods presence was never absent. August 12 Junior HS Catechists meeting after the 10AM mass The future Cure dArs first became aware of the urge to devote his life at the hall to Gods service when, as a boy, he saw the aftermath of the French August 19 HS Catechists meeting after the 10 AM mass at the Revolution--when priests were hunted relentlessly and religion was hall forced underground. What he saw inspired him to enter the seminary. As August 26 all catechists are invited to attend the Catechists Fair a student, he was not distinguished, and he had to seek private coaching. at Our Lady of Lourdes After ordination, he was sent by his bishop to Ars, the place where his September 8/9 Bishop Jackels will be visiting our parish and name would be forever associated. He arrived at Ars in 1818 and soon will celebrate the weekend masses with us; realized the task that confronted him, for the people there seemed to September 9 Mass will be at 10:30 AM with Bishop Jackels; have turned their backs on God. He took at as his mission to recover installation of our catechists within the mass; Parish Picnic folthem for Christ. He transformed the godless parish of Ars by holiness, lows at the hall and church ground food, band, and games! preaching, prayers, and penances. He was so driven that he slept only Please plan ahead and unite with one another! one hour each night. Soon, people came from all over France and many September 12- CCD Classes starts other countries, too, until Ars became the focus of pilgrimages due to its holy pastor. He would hear confessions for 16 hours a day, devoting the Midwest Catholic Family Conference remaining hours to saying Mass and the Divine Office. Only say the word and my soul shall be healed. These words He did what every priest does and he became a saint by doing it exare taken from the new translation of the Roman Missal, which tremely well. He expressed his religious attitude in this way: Worldly we have now been praying for the past several months. These people say it is too difficult to save ones soul. Yet, there is nothing easisame words will serve as the theme for the 13th Annual Midwest er; keep the Commandments of God and the Church, and avoid the SevCatholic Family Conference, August 3-5, as they express the en Deadly Sins. To put it another way, do good and avoid evil. Here is a Churchs humility, asking Jesus to cleanse us of our sins by the good rule of conduct--do only what one can offer to God. St. John Vihealing power of His Word, so that we may receive Him fruitfully anny died on Aug. 4, 1859 and was canonized by the Church in 1925. in the Holy Eucharist. For more information visit Articles by Marcel Normand www.catholicfamilyconference.org.

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