STS. CYRIL & METHODIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH – MARAK
Church Office: 20120 Fm 485, Burlington, Texas 76519
Rectory (254) 985-2280 Church (254) 697-4861
Parish Website: www.marakchurch.org Diocesan Website: WWW.austindiocese.org
Deacon Bob Snigger bjsni@hotmail.com or phone 254. 913.1125
Bulletin information: Merlene Slavik (254) 697-3801 or slavik@farm-market.net
MASSES:
Monday No Mass
Tuesday 7:00 a.m. Jerome Green by Della Green
Wednesday 6:00 p.m. (Marak) August & Mary Hubnik by M/M Arvell Jungmann
Thursday 7:00a.m. Lucille Greener by M/M Randolph Green
Friday 7:00 a.m. Ronnie White by M/M Ed Hesse
Saturday 5:30 p.m. Living and Deceased Members of Brenek and Vasicek Families
Sunday 8:15 a.m. Joe Lee Schneider by M/M Stanley Hubnik
MINISTRIES SUNDAY June 29th
Eucharistic Cindy Strmiska
Lector Suzanne Doskocil
Offertory George & Linda Dohnalik
Altar Server K Laurence, A Laurence, Caleb Tomek
Ushers Mike Fulton & Duane Smith
Offering Reg. Offering $ 1,333.00
2ND Collection next Sunday 6/29 –Peter’s Pence (Pope’s Charities)
CHURCH CLEANING FOR Sunday Listed for June/ July
June 29 Marguerite Michalka, Jill Stermer and Martha Hertenberger
July 6 Melanie Crook, Rhonda Gelner, Susanne Gelner
July 13 Rhonda Fincher, Rebecca Barton & Andrea Ellison
SANCTUARY LIGHT 6/16 – 6/29 In memory of Monroe Marek by Evelyn Marek
PRAYER CHAIN: For peace, for our serviceman, parishioners in Nursing homes, homebound and those on our prayer chain. Thanks to the prayer chain for numerous prayers. Each of you is a blessing to many in need of prayers. Continue the good work.
Thursday 6/26 Scripture Class 7:00 p.m. St. Joseph’s Parish Hall.
Thursday, 6/26 –Rural Life Mass at 6:30 P. M. St. Joseph’s in Bryan.
Sunday, 6/29 –Sts Cyril & Methodius Granger Annual Picnic. ---serving begins at 11:00
Saturday, 7/19—Vacation Bible School “A Rainforest Adventure” St. Joseph’s Hall
PICNIC NEWS:
Managers of Picnic Booths: Please get your workers list ready early –Turn in to Jeannine or Merlene ASAP
Clean up and set up day --Two weeks before the picnic ----Saturday, August 9th.
CEDARBRAKE RETREATS ----Call 254.780.2434 for more information
Marriage Preparation Dates –August 1st – 3rd; November 21st – 23rd.
Marriage Encounter July 18th – 20th
Retrovaille For struggling couples------Oct 24th -26th Call 512.267.6127
ALTER SERVERS ----Please take time to hang your robes properly after you have served the masses.
A Disturbing Prayer
Let me witness the vengeance you take on them………Jeremiah 20:12
Jeremiah’s response to his enemies is harsh: May God take vengeance on them! As if this weren’t disturbing enough, Jeremiah’s opening words—“You duped me, O Lord,” --accuses God of leading him into trouble. (20:7)
Does Jeremiah love God? Loving God involves trusting that God has our best interests at heart, loving our enemies, enduring hardships patiently. The hostility and treachery that Jeremiah encountered have exposed his lack of love, lack of trust. But at least he isn’t masking his resistance with pious formulas. He loves God enough to tell him honestly what he thinks and how he feels. And amid his angry cries, Jeremiah’s prayer – like the man himself—is not all of one piece. As one responding to God’s grace, Jeremiah seems to be very much a work in progress.
The book of Jeremiah does not record God answering Jeremiah’s outcry. But it does show that God continued to work within him. And that is very encouraging for us, who are also works in progress. Kevin Perotta
Lord, Prop us up….
Every time I am asked to pray, I think of our deacon, who always prayed,
“Lord, prop us up on our leanin’ side.”
After hearing him pray that prayer many times, someone asked him why he prayed
that prayer so fervently.
He answered, “Well sir, you see, it’s like this……I got an old barn out back. It’s been there a long time, it’s withstood a lot of weather, it’s gone through a lot of storms, and it’s stood for many years. It’s still standing, but one day I noticed its leaning to one side a bit. So I went
and got some pine poles and propped it up on its leaning side so it wouldn’t fall.
Then I got to thinking ‘bout that and how much I was like that old barn. I been around a long time, I’ve withstood a lot of life’s storms, I’ve withstood a lot of bad weather in life,
I’ve withstood a lot of hard times.
And I’m still standing too. But I find myself leaning to one side from time to time, so I like to ask the Lord to prop us up on the leaning side. ‘cause I figure a lot of us get to leaning,
at times.”
Sometime we get to leaning toward anger, leaning toward bitterness, leaning toward hatred, leaning toward cussing, leaning toward a lot of things that we shouldn’t, so we need to pray,
“Lord, prop us up on our leaning side, “ so we will stand straight and tall again,
to glorify the Lord.