My Jesus, 
I believe that You are present in the Most Holy Sacrament. 
I love You above all things, 
and I desire to receive You into my soul. 
Since I cannot at this moment receive You sacramentally, 
come at least spiritually into my heart. 
I embrace You as if You were already there 
and unite myself wholly to You. 
Never permit me to be separated from You.

Amen.

Hello from Father Callahan

First we are very proud of Father Mitchell Baer, a spiritual son of our parish.  He was ordained a priest Saturday, May 29th at the new cathedral at 10 am and he will have a Mass of thanksgiving here tomorrow Sunday May 30th at 4:30 pm.  You are all invited to the Mass and also Father will be giving first blessings after the Mass on Sunday.  Bring lawn chairs and a cooler and also enjoy hamburgers and hot dogs through the generosity of our Knights of Columbus.   What a wonderful weekend for our parish.

On another note--After receiving many questions about the mask mandate, I would like to reiterate the Mask mandate that the Archbishop of St. Louis, Archbishop Rozanski has given to all Catholics of the archdiocese of St. Louis. 
if parishioners are fully vaccinated, they are no longer required to wear a mask during Holy Mass.  If there are parishioners who have not received the covid 19 vaccine, either unable to receive or by choice, the mask mandate remains in place.

And we have been asked to add that there are no changes to the following protocols.  The offering of the Precious blood is still suspended.  The sign of peace is permitted, but only in a non-contact manner (a head bow or hand wave, but no hand shaking is permitted).  We still cannot have gathering of choirs, no Holy water fonts, and no offertory baskets passed. 

The archbishop also still leaves in place the dispensation for Sunday Mass at this time, but will be re-evaluating the need for the dispensation in the coming weeks.

These are very different and difficult times.  And we do not want to add to the divisions that have already occurred. So as we pray in the Prayer to our Lady of Guadalupe, at the end of our petitions, at every Mass—let us make this prayer our own.   We pray that in this time of trial and testing, teach all of us in the Church to love one another and to be patient and kind.  Help us bring the peace of Jesus to our land and to our hearts.  We need that peace.

In this time, we are reminded the importance of loving each other and being considerate of others.  We are called to think of others and give respect to all.  We are all in this together and we will get through all of this.

So please pray for peace and unity and an end to this virus.

But especially today let us pray in thanksgiving for Father Mitchell Baer.  For his saying yes to God to serve as a Priest of God.

Please know that you are in our prayers and that we love all of you. 

God bless
St. Paul, pray for us

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GOD’S TIME

    We either pay attention to or ignore “clock time” as we play in the summer sun and note the earth’s tilt and the lengthening days. We live by time. We reckon time in seconds and minutes and hours, or we use broader chunks like suppertime and summertime.
    God keeps another sort of time. God speaks to us of “saving time,” that is, the time of salvation. This sense of time is called kairos, and this time is always now, always present and available, always revealing, often surprising. 
    This Sunday’s readings alert us to the reality and the import of God’s time. Ezekiel and the Gospel of Mark remind us that our labor and our plotting and our planning rest in God. For God takes our smallest efforts and makes of them great works. Paul points us to the “harvest” time, urges us to be watchful for its coming, and calls us to recognize that we must spend our time pleasing God.

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Mass Intentions for June 7-13, 2021
            6:15 a.m.                  8:00 a.m.          
Mon  Frank Mueller                  Communion Service
Tue   Communion Service       Joseph Block 
Wed  Communion Service       Bill Vize
Thu   Communion Service       Pat Johnson
Fri     Louise Smith                  Communion Service      Sat                                           Jim Caswell                           5:00 p.m.             Michael Dillon
Sun 7:00 a.m.             Missa pro populi                                 8:30 a.m.            Beverly Pullen                                    10:00 a.m.            Marvin Dahlhauser
      11:30 p.m.            Purgatorial Society

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