SUNDAY: September 28, 16th Sunday after Pentecost
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: September 27th - Sts. Cosmas &n Damian, Mm (sd))
Sr. Mary Veronica.............................................................. 8:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: September 28th - 16th Sunday after Pentecost (sd
Dube Families................................................................... 7:00 a.m. Mass
Missa Pro Populo.............................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: September 29th - St. Michael the Archangel (d1cl)
† Donald Billard................................................................. No scheduled Mass
TUESDAY: September 30th - St. Jerome, CD (d)
Laura Lightner................................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
WEDNESDAY October 1st - St. Remigius, BpC (sp)
Jim and Laura Lightner Family...........................................8:00 a.m. Mass
THURSDAY: October 2nd - Holy Guardian Angels (dm)
† Betty Zarn...................................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: October 3rd - St. Theresa of the Child Jesus, V (d))
Special Intention of Nina DiGiovani...................................6:00 p.m. Mass
SATURDAY: October 4th - St. Francis of Assisi, C (dm)
Special Intention of Nina DiGiovani.................................. 8:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: October 5th - 17th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
Special Intention of Nina DiGiovani.................................. 7:00 a.m. Mass
Missa Pro Populo.............................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for Father Mario Blanc.
~ Confession Schedule ~
Friday — 5:30 p.m. - 5:55 p.m.
Saturday — 7:30 a.m. - 7:55 a.m.
Sunday — 6:30 a.m. - 6:55 a.m. — 8:10 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
~ Altar Boy Serving Schedule ~
Sept 28—1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Zachary Drewes
2nd Mass: Samuel Kalafat & Robert Skierka
Oct 5 — 1st Mass: Alexander Bogner &Anthony Rollins
2nd Mass: Dominic Skierka & William Lightner
Oct—12 1st Mass: Stephen Rollins &Brentlee Bomgardner
2nd Mass: Blane Lightner &Quentin Skierka
~ Rosary Leader ~
Sept 28 —1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
|Oct 5 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Oct 12— 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Sept 28— Lisa Skierka & Jess Skierka
Oct 5 — Josie Lightner & Rachel Lightner
Oct 12 — Maria Fleshman & Angela Skierka
~ Treat Schedule ~
Sept 28— Bryar Rollins, Hannah Shawhan, Sydney Lapp
Oct 5 — Sarah Rollins, Jennifer Springer, Jeanette Kalafat
Oct 12 — Brunch
~ Announcements ~
If you or a loved one is admitted to the hospital, please let your parish priest know.
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $3.00: $70 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 50¢ each.
Reliquaries on the Altar: contain the reliques of St. Stephen King, St. Gregory the Great, St. Maria Goretti and St. John Bosco.
Fr. Jenkins online instructions: wcbohio.blogspot.com
Blessing of Religious Articles: Following both Masses next Sunday
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $3.00, $70 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 50¢ each.
Altar boy Servers: I need all the Altar Boys to come to the Sacristy after Mass today,
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.
MEANING OF “ORIGINAL SIN”
Non-Catholics Would Like to Know Series
Whenever God acts, He acts with divine efficiency. And so when He created man, He made him in a state of holiness and physical perfection. There was no sin in the world as God made it; there was no suffering or sickness in the world as God first planned it. Nor was there physical death. All these things came later.
Man was not free in his creation. God did not ask him, shall I create you? No, God simply made him according to his own designs; but thought man was not free as to the beginning of his existence he was free in the way he used that gift. Would man continue to be perfect, even in his physical body? That also depended upon himself.
Law Necessary for Exercise of Free Will
Now a free moral being such as is man, supposes a law that he can follow or not follow. Hence God had to supply that law. In fact, we may say that God was force to give Adam and eve a commandment. For if God is to remain God, then every creature must have the duty to obey him. If there were a single bing in the whole world entirely independent of God, then He would no longer be supreme, and in that case, He would no longer be God.
And so the commandment which God gave to Adam and Eve was the test of their obedience. The Book of Genesis puts it something like this: — “You may partake of the fruit of every tree, in the garden of Paradise except one. In whatsoever day thou shalt eat of that tree thou shalt die the death.”
The Test
But our first parents were subjected to trial. The evil spirit, under an attractive form came to Eve, and asked her why she did not eat the fruit of this particular tree. Eve replied that God had forbidden it under penalty of death. “In whatsoever day thou shalt eat of it thou shalt die.” the devil must have laughed at her “for being so foolish,” for he said to her: “Thou shalt not die the death.” by being disobedient, he also told her, she would not only gain her liberty, but she would profit in other ways. “God Himself knows,” said the devil, “That when you shall eat of this fruit, you shall be like to God, knowing both good and evil.” disobedience, pride, ambition — these were the motives on account of which our first parents fell. Theirs was the bold defiance of the fallen angels. “I will not serve Thee.” so true to life is this that we can almost imagine we hear the ha-ha” of the evil one and his caustic words to the first woman: “Don’t be a fool — you won’t die — on the contrary — you will begin to live; to see and know things.”
The Devil in Action
Now the same thing happens today. Good, pure, young women and young men, who are treading the narrow path of virtue; Christian fathers and mothers, who are bringing up their children in the feat and love of God: These are often laughed at by others. Why don’t you have a good time, why don’t you be independent? Why don’t you do like the others? And when they answer: “God and the church forbids us,” they are laughed at: “Why don’t you make your own laws, why don’t you be your own gods?”
And this is exactly what many do. But the angel of God is writing down their sins; the clouds of Gods wrath are collecting over their heads. Like a storm, it will burst upon them in all its fury, and they will experience what Adam and Eve learned — that God is still the Master and that they are still the servants.
Penalty of Sin
Now God punished Adam and Eve in many ways. First of all, they lost his friendship, for they had committed mortal sin. So that if God had been as strict with them as he was with the fallen angels, He would have cast them forthwith into hell. Moreover their human nature become corrupted. Their lower passions became aroused. And because Eve had been instrumental in causing her husband to sin, a special curse was place upon her. Her sorrows were to be multiplied; she would bring forth her children in aguish and travail; she should be subject to her husband, he would have dominion over her.
Morever holy scripture tells us that God said to Adam: “Because thou hast eaten of the tree whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work. With labor and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall It bring forth to thee . . . In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return to the earth, out of which thou wast taken; for dust thou art, and into dust thou shalt return.”
Inheritance
Now Adam and Eve were the heard of the human race. They were in the position of every father of a family, who can transmit health and wealth or poverty and sickness to his offspring. If that father si sober, industrious and provident, the children will be benefitted. But if the father has not these qualities, the children will suffer. It is the doctrine of the Church therefore that we all share in the punishment of our first parents, as we would have shared in their reward had they remained faithful. You ask perhaps is not that unjust. No, it is not unjust, and for many reasons. One reason is because the gifts that Adam and Eve lost for us were purely gratuitous. God did not have to give them; they do not belong to our nature, and we have no right to them. If a rich man made someone a present of a million dollars, it would no doubt be very acceptable. But when he does not do so, he is not depriving that person of something to which he has a right.
Privation of Grace
Now what are the effects of the sin of our first parents upon us? They have regard to the soul and they have reference to the body. One consequence to the soul is that at birth we have not sanctifying grace. And that means that God does not then adopt us as his children. In this state, we have no right to heaven, and if one remains in that condition, he will never reach heaven. As a bird cannot fly without wings, so no one can ever get to heaven without sanctifying grace.
Man Reverts to Natural Order
If Adam and Eve had not sinned, then God doubtless would have created all the souls of their children in this state of sanctifying grace; but as it is, they are created without this state of grace. But the evil effects of our first parents’ sin were transmitted to their posterity also in other ways. As Holy Scripture says, the sins of the fathers are visited upon their children. And so our physical nature lost its preternatural gifts. It was corrupted by the sin our first parents. We are prone to evil, and subject to sickness and death. This is and has always been the teachings of the Church. It was expressly declared to be a dogma of faith in the fifth century against Pelagius, and again in the sixteenth century against the so-called Reformers. Which doctrine is but the reflex of the words of St. Paul when he said: “Wherefore as by one man sin entered into the world and by sin death, and so death has passed upon all men . . . because in one man . . . all have sinned.”
Too Severe
some one may say: Surely these are dreadful effects to follow from one sin. And so this thought may occur: What a dreadful punishment for so small an offense? But this is a serious and a dangerous error. On the one hand, it was not a question of taking an apple, or whatever the fruit was. It was a question of deliberate disobedience to the one and only commandment that almighty God had given. Supreme contempt therefore, absolute rebellion was implied in the act. On the other hand, because the command was simple and easy, this was ll the more reason why they should have kept it. For the breaking of an easy commandment is far worse than the violation of one that is hard and difficult.
Rise Greater Than Fall
After Adam and Eve sinned — their only hope was in a redeemer, and God, as we know, promised them that redeemer. He repeated this assurance to the patriarchs and the prophets who sighed and prayed: “Rorate cœli desuper and nubes pluant Justum, aperiature terra et germinet Salvatorem.” “Ye heavens drop dew from above, ye clouds rain down the Just one. Let the earth be opened and bud forth the Savior.” these were the words of Isaias, and the Church during the holy season of Advent repeats them over and over in order to prepare us for the new rebirth of Christ, by whom such new graces and blessings were given to mankind that the Church in her solemn office of Holy Saturday can well exclaim: “O felix culpa quæ meruit talem Redemptorem. “Oh happy fault that merited such a Redeemer.”
Great Falls: (Black Eagle - Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 9:00 a.m
Mass every Sunday and Holy Days: 8:00 a.m. See Church Bulletin
Mass 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month 12:30 p.m.
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Mass 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month 3:00 p.m
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Mass 2:00 p.m. 3rd Sunday of the month
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