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.
SUNDAY: December 3rd - 1st Sunday of Advent (sd)
Special Intention Nina DiGiovanni........................................ 7:00 a.m. Mass
Missa pro Populo................................................................ 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: December 4th - St. Peter Chrysologus, BpcD (d)
Special Intention Nina Di Giovanni....................................... No Scheduled Mass
TUESDAY: December 5th - Ferial Day
† Anthony DeGiovanni........................................................ No Scheduled Mass
WEDNESDAY: December 6th - St. Nicholas, BpC (d)
In Thanksgiving for favorable results regarding health...... No Scheduled Mass
THURSDAY: December 7th - St. Ambrose, BpCD (d)
Dubé Family........................................................................No Scheduled Mass
FRIDAY: December 8th - Immaculate Conception of the BVM (d1cl))
Special Intention Nina DiGiovanni...................................... 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Souls in Purgatory.......................................................... 9:00 a.m. Mass
SATURDAY: December 9th - Within the Octave of th BVM (sd)
Special Intention Nina Di Giovanni..................................... No Scheduled Mass
SUNDAY: December 10th - 2nd Sunday of Advent (sd)
Special Intention Nina DiGiovanni...................................... 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Souls in Purgatory......................................................... 9:00 a.m. Mass
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for In Thanksgiving for good health.
~ 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 ~
Dec 3 — 1st Mass: Thaddeus Bradshaw & Augustus Bradshaw
2nd Mass: Quentin Skierka & Blaise Skierka
Dec 8 —1st Mass: Alexander Bogner
2nd Mass: MC - Dominic Skierka Th - Blane Lightner
Ac - Brennan Skierka & Thaddeus Bradshaw CB - Zachary Lightner
TB - Peter Skierka, Augustus Bradshaw Eliahs Bogner
TB - Adam Lowder, Simon Lighter, Theodore Bradshaw
Dec 10 — 1st Mass: Jeremy Lowder & Adam Lowder
2nd Mass: William Lightner & Blane Lightner
Dec 17 — 1st Mass: Stephen Rollins
2nd Mass: MC - Stephen Rollins Th - William Lightner
Ac - Louis Lightner & Blaise Skierka CB - Everett Fleshman
TB - Samuel Kalafat, Maurice Marshall, Jeremy Lowder
TB - Alexander Bogner, Robert Skierka, Zachary Lightner
~ Rosary Leader ~
Dec 3 —1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Dec 8 —1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Dec 10 —1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
Dec 17 —1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Dec 3 — Kelsey Farrenkopf & Julie Skierka
Dec 10 — Maria Fleshman & Angela Skierka
Dec 17 — Church cleaning and decorating December 23rd
~ Treat Schedule ~
Dec 3 — Donated Treats
Dec 10 — Church Bake Sale
Dec 17 — Michelle Bogner, Christina Bogner, Regina Marshall
Please go to "Mass Location" tab on top of the page for details for each Mission, for the month.
Questions of Catholic Answered
by
The Rev. Winfid Herbst
copyright 1938
Is it a sin for one to be angry, and against which Commandment?
Yes; it is a sin, and against the Fifth Commandment of God. A brief explana-tion will be very helpful here.
Anger is one of the capital sins. Intemperate anger is such a deformity in man and renders him so beastly that common parlance likens it to the rabies, common to dogs; as in the improper expression, “He got mad.”
Everybody is subject to anger. Tiny children sulk and get spunky; the little girl makes faces and calls names; the boy fights and throws stones; the young lady gets huffy and spiteful and won't speak; the man fumes and rages and swears' the woman's tongue becomes sharper than a serpent's tooth. A little reflection should make everybody blush for shame!
What is anger? It is a feeling of dis-pleasure and discontent arising in our hearts against an offender, with a desire to punish him for the injury done.
What is anger? There is a powder magazine in the human heart, it seems. Now, from that heart the little devil of pride sometimes peeps out. Injure his feelings ever so little, and he will spitefully draw in his head, and spit fire right and left into the powder, and it will explode, and that’s anger!
What is anger? It is a stone cast into a wasps nest. It is the last argument in a lost cause; “You are angry; therefore you are wrong. “Flying off the handle,” flaring up, losing one’s head— that’s anger. It is a case of throwing the reins to the animal instincts and allowing them to gallop away with the better man in a mad career. Anger is sometimes less fiery, but more bitter not bellicose, but choleric. That inordinate love or desire of revenge is often quiet and deep and dark and broods out well-laid plans in a devilish way.
There are two kinds of anger, Just and unjust. Anger is just when the commotion within the heart is moderate and subject to reason; when the punishment we desire is proportioned to the offense; when we are actuated by no ill-will or spirit of revenge, but by zeal for the glory of God. In fact, this holy anger is simply zeal for the things of God; and it is directed only against sin. Hence, he that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin; for instance, excesses, injustices, scandals, frauds. Just anger, far from being sinful, is often a sacred duty, especially for those in authority.
Passionate anger, which implies a desire of revenge, is of its own nature a mortal sin: because it is contrary to the spirit of the Gospel, which is a spirit of meekness and patience; because Jesus says, “Whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment,” and that he who goes so far as to call his brother offensive names shall be in danger of hell fire; because it is the source of so many other sins, leading even to murder; because wrath is numbered by St. Paul among the works of the flesh that exclude from heaven. However, anger is not always a mortal sin. As in all other vices, there are in anger various degrees of malice.
Anger is usually looked upon too lightly. But as Holy Writ tells us, “A stone is heavy, and sand weighty; but the anger of a fool is heavier than them both.” (Prov. 27:3.) Countless evils follow in the wake of this so common sin for “As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire so an angry man stirreth up strife.” (Prov. 26:21.)
And alas! hot-tempered people simply will use their mouths as safety valves to let off the steam of offensive utterance when the pressure of anger becomes too great. They simply will let their tongues generate bile faster than their mouths can let it out. And we know, the voice of an angry man is the death rattle of reason in the throat. Oh, what a shame!
And the remedy against anger? The remedy is delay. The remedy is repression of first movements. The remedy is the imitation of our Model, the meek and humble Savior. The remedy is the salutary remembrance that God will take us at our word when we say, “Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.”
“To be angry about trifles is mean and childish to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”
Great Falls: (Black Eagle - Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 9:00 a.m
Helena: (Holy Cross)
Mass every Sunday and Holy Days: 8:00 a.m. See Church Bulletin
Missoula: (East Missoula - Holy Shroud)
Mass 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month 12:30 p.m.
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Billings: (Pompeys Pillar - St. Martin de Tours)
Mass 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month 3:00 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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