Maternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Weekly Mass Schedule For the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
Please go to "Mass Location" tab on top of the page for details for the Mass Schedule for each Mission, for the current month.\
SATURDAY: October 17th - St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, V (d)
Dube Families.............................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: October 18th - ST. LUKE, Ev (d2cl)
Missa Pro Populo........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Special Intention of Debbie Klejeski........................................... 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: October 19th - St. Peter of Alcantara, C (d)
Special Intention of Debbie Klejesk............................................No Mass Scheduled
TUESDAY: October 20th - St. John Cantius, C (d)
† Poor Souls in Purgatory............................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
WEDNESDAY: October 21st - St. Hilarion, Ab (sp)
† Poor Souls in Purgatory...........................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
THURSDAY: October 22nd - Ferial Day
Josh & Melissa Godchildren.......................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: October 23rd - Ferial Day
2026 Graduates..........................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
SATURDAY: October 24th - St. Raphael the Archangel (dm)
Josh & Melissa Family................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: October 25th - KINGSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST (d1cl)
Missa Pro Populo........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Olivia Lightner.............................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
~ Sanctuary Lamp ~
The Sanctuary Lamp is burning for the repose of the soul of Brenden Rollins.
~ Confession Schedule ~
Saturday, — 8:30 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
Sunday — 6:30 a.m. - 6:55 a.m. — 8:10 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
~ Altar Boy Serving Schedule ~
Oct 18 — 1st Mass: Everett Fleshman & Seamus Dube
— 2nd Mass: Martin Skierka & Shawn Skierka
Oct 25 — 1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Zachary Drewes
— 2nd Mass: MC - Peter Skierka Th - Jacob Lightner CB - Owen Skierka
Ac - Thaddeus Bradshaw & William Lightner
TB - Anthony Rollins, Aiden Lightner, Levi lightner
TB - Shawn Skierka, Roman Marshall, Jordan Skierka
Nov 1 — 1st Mass: Thaddeus Bradshaw & Augustus Bradshaw
— 2nd Mass: MC - Samuel Kalafat Th - Martin Skierka
Ac - Zachary Drewes & Alexander Bogner CB - Seamus Dube
TB - Zachary Lightner, Everett Fleshman, Audie Bogner
TB - Bristan Lightner, Christopher Farrenkopf, Robert Fleshman
~ Rosary Leader ~
Oct 18 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
Oct 25 — 1 st Mass: Andrew Dubé — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
Nov 1 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Oct 11 — Bernadette Dube, Katrina Skierka, Mary Klejeski
Oct 18 — Lisa Skierka & Jess Skierka
Oct 25 — Hannah Lowder & Tiffany Skierka
Nov 1 — Julie Skierka, Josie Lightner, Rachel Lightner
~ Treat Schedule ~
Oct 18 — Hannah Lowder, Tiffany Skierka, Becky Lowder
Oct 25 — Mary Drewes, Melissa Bradshaw, Regina Skierka
Nov 1 — Saint's Day Potluck
~ Announcements ~
All Souls Day: All Souls Day envelopes are in the pew, please return by Nov 1.
All Saints Day Party: 1st Sunday of Nov., All Saints day, we are having an All Saints Day party for the children, it will take place following the parish potluck, for further information, contact Tiffany Skierka.
Blessing of Religious Articles: On the First Sunday of the Month.
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $3.00, $70 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 50¢ each.
Sanctuary Lamp: If you would like to have the Sanctuary Lamp burning for the repose of soul, anniversary or remembrances, fill out a request and return. The usual donation is $15.
Confessions: Priority should be given especially the last thirty minutes of confessions to those who drive a great distance, have little children, elderly and or are disabled. Those living in closer proximity please be here early; Confessions begin at 8:00 a.m. Of course, and I think that it goes without saying, that those who live in close proximity to the church, should come for confessions on Saturday morning if at all possible.
If you or a loved one is admitted to the hospital, please let your parish priest know.
Fr. Jenkins online instructions: wcbohio.blogspot.com
Our church is dedicated to the practice of the traditional Roman Catholic religion. This includes the traditional Latin Roman Rite of Holy Mass and the sacraments. We do not regard the New Mass created after Vatican Council II to be a true Catholic Mass. Only those who regularly attend exclusively the traditional Latin Rite of Mass, who are properly dressed (see below), and are in the state of Sanctifying Grace may receive.
Please read "Word of Introduction" on the Home page.
Some notes for The Guidance of Parents
by Father Daniel Lord S.J. (1944)
A woman who makes a success a dress shop is regarded as a remarkable woman; a mother who beautifully dressed two little daughters on a carefully worked-out bud-get is a nobody who can be treated with amusement. It is praiseworthy for a wo-man to be an interior decorator and furnish the homes of other women; it is nothing meriting for a woman to make her own home a thing of joy and loveliness.
Contempt for Motherhood
Each year when one or other of the magazines or national polls selects the country’s ten most outstanding women, you may be perfectly sure that two professions will be ignored: No one will pick a nun or a mother. If a married woman who has children happens to be on the list, it will not be because of her achievements in motherhood but rather for the truck she drives, the surgical oper-ations she performs, her radio broadcasts, or her part in a movement that is working to eliminate children and make mother-hood, not a career, but an accident.
Indeed the young married woman these days begins almost on the day of her marriage to be bombarded with advertisements telling her how stupid she is to have children at all. Any woman who has to her eternal credit four children is regarded by her contemporaries — always the pagans, often the Catholics — as clearly a stupid ninny who hasn’t sense enough, wit enough, ro courage enough to protect herself against the aggression of children.
Motherhood is distinctly a minor profession. Even the woman who breeds terriers or Persian cats is encouraged to regard with condescension the woman who gives birth to what once we all considered the children of God and the springtime of our race.
Rival Jobs
Even the good mother these days, the one who regards her profession with respect and affection, is likely to be harassed to the point of inefficiency. Once on a time motherhood was easily a woman’s whole career, her full-time job. Now she may have to earn a living, not through any desire or greed on her part, but simply to keep the family together.
Or she is forced by the current of modern living into varied time-consuming activities. She must belong to clubs. She has to take in charity work. She is asked to serve on committees or even to renew her youthful love of the amateur stage. She must be hostess to her husband’s business associates, or she must travel with him when he goes on those tours which blend vacation with the making of “important contacts.”
She is a busy woman, this American mother of the present ear. Even the enslavement f electricity to her service has, far from making life simpler for her, opened the possibility of more and more varied demands upon her time and energies.
Untrained
Again, as in the case of the father, she may feel toward her job of motherhood that fear and apprehension and desire for flight that is common to all unprepared people. If anyone were to ask me to go out onto the flying field and take a bomber up, I should bet to be excused. Quite obviously I am totally unprepared for the job. Indeed a perfect nightmare would consist in my finding myself in the air at the controls of a plane, which I know myself utterly unable to handle. We do with joy the job we feel prepared to do and adequate to handle. We are miserably ill at ease in any situation for which we know ourselves to be unfitted.
That is always true of untrained people, whatever the situation into which we are catapulted. So why be surprised that modern mothers shy away from the job of motherhood and are abjectly conscious of their lack of ability to handle it?
Girls in college will get splendid biology courses that make no slightest reference to the life of children.
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They will be trained to be excellent librarians or secretaries or teachers or laboratory technicians, and they will take up those jobs with relish. Then they transfer to marriage and motherhood, their real job, with the alarming realization that no one has given them any preparatory help for the doing of this all important job even passably well.
Love is too Easy
Modern mores have done much to develop a destructive sort of maternal selfishness. I am not thinking of the unnatural woman, too common today, who renounces motherhood entirely in the hope that she will preserve her figure or remain a girl, when she should be a grown woman giving new life to the world. I am thinking instead of the mother who looks to her child merely for the love she can find ther and for the gratification of her own desire for affection. She will not correct the child because she is afraid that then it will not want to run to her arms. She will spoil it and pamper its vanity and make a doll and plaything of it — as if she herself were a child — not rear a strong young character, but drain from the baby or the little boy or girl adulation and easy affection for herself.
It is so easy to be easy with children. It is so hard to be strong enough to love to discipline the little ones we love.
Competition From Schools
Now there is another factor that has nade for parents’ distrust of themselves: the unfair competition presented by the schools.
Seldom these days does it happen that a group of public-school teachers meet in solemn convention without there rights be taken a away from the parents and given to the e schools. In high educational councils parents are regarded as positive menaces to the progress and development of their children. The school, backed by the unlimited taxes of the state and in large part controlled by what someone has unkindly but truly referred to as “old maids of both sexes,” demands aan almost exclusive suzerainty over the youngsters. Home are regarded as places from which the school must rescue the children: parents are those incompetents who should be obliged to yield up their boys and girls to the real experts who know what to do with them.
So the magnificently equipped school competes with the poor or plain little home. Parents are told to deliver up their children to be taught not merely the elements of formal education but all those things that the school was never remotely intended to handle: how to play, care of the health, good manners, even the most personal matters of private living.
Children are pulled away from home in the early hours under the dawn and returned at the end of so long and strenuous a day that they come to look at their parents only through drowsy eyes and to use their homes as mere hotels where they park for the night.
You’d think that all homes were like some of the backwoods from which children have to be snatched as quickly as possible before they become incurably infected with disease and ignorance and bad language and vermin.
All of this is clearly enough wrong and against the plan of nature and the deigns of God. If some educators had their say, parents would bear the children only to deliver them over to the state educational systems, where experts would encase them in human–sized test tubes until they had sufficiently developed to resist the love and examples and training which, parents might otherwise have tried to inflict upon them.
And even Catholic parents have been infected by this unnatural heresy.
Parents Walk Out
The attitude has of course a twofold effect upon parents. The constant repe-ition of the charge that they are unfit to train their children breeds inevitable doubt in their own minds.
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Great Falls: (Black Eagle - Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m
Helena: (Holy Cross)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m See Church Bulletin
Missoula: (East Missoula - Holy Shroud)
Mass 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month 1:00 p.m.
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Billings: (Pompeys Pillar - St. Martin de Tours)
Mass 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month 4:00 p.m
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Lethbridge: (St. Theresa the Little Flower)
Mass 2:00 p.m. 3rd Sunday of the month
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