STS. CYRIL & METHODIUS CATHOLIC CHURCH – MARAK
Church Office: 20120 Fm 485, Burlington, Texas 76519
Rectory (254) 985-2280 Church (254) 697-4861
Parish Website: http://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 No Mass
Wednesday No Mass
Thursday No Mass
Friday No Mass
Saturday 5:30 p.m. For all Parishioners
Sunday 8:15 a.m. Wes Plumlee by Bill Smetana
MINISTRIES SUNDAY July 13th
Eucharistic Donald Hanel
Lector Amy Vansa
Offertory Robert Vansa Family
Altar Server K Hrozek, Michael Gelner, Tanner Thompson
Ushers George Dohnalik & Johnny Winkler
Offering Reg. Offering $ Peter’s Pence (Pope’s Charities)$
CHURCH CLEANING FOR Sunday Listed for July
July 13 Rhonda Fincher, Rebecca Barton & Andrea Ellison
July 20 Anissa Hubnik, Susie Hubnik & Kristi Hubnik
July 27 sarah Goeres, Monica Marek & Debbie Shelton
SANCTUARY LIGHT 6/30 – 7- 13 In thanksgiving for 3rd Anniversary – Julie Ann (Dirba) and Jeff Johannsen
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.
We welcome Fr. Angelo Bertini for this Sunday. Fr. Angelo resides at Cedabrake.
NO SCRIPTURE CLASSES UNTIL AUGUST
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
Things to do
Saturday, 7/19—Vacation Bible School “A Rainforest Adventure” St. Joseph’s Hall
PICNIC NEWS:
Managers of Picnic Booths: Workers list to be turned in to Jeannine or Merlene ASAP
Auction, Altar Society, REP, etc----Start pulling your donations together.
Clean up and set up day --Two weeks before the picnic ----Saturday, August 9th.
Potato Salad Making Day.—Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 21st. Need volunteers to come together to help make the potato salad for the picnic. Also, we need about 10 Turkey Fryers with Full gas tanks to cook the potatoes. Contact Ethel or Cecelia for more information.
THE RAFFLE FOR THE PICNIC IS READY to be distributed for sales.. If you are unable to sell the tickets---please return to Thomas or Julie Motyka Thank you to the following for cash donations and/ or prizes ----Marak REP also contributed to the cash donations.
Please save your Harlan Grocery Cash Receipts. A collection box will be in the church entry. Harlans’s, formerly Keith Minimax will donate 1%of all Harlan’s Food Market Cash Receipts to Churches or Charities.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart: and you will find rest for yourselves. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:29-30.
The ancient rabbis used to refer to the mosaic Law as a kind of yoke. But Jesus’ metaphor is different because the central to his “yoke” or wisdom or law is the Lord himself. He practiced what he preached. He was gentle toward the people he served and humbly obedient to the will of his Father. He called us to love one another and laid down his own like for us.
What makes Jesus’ yoke “easy?” A good yoke is carefully shaped to reduce chafing to a minimum. Jesus promises that his yoke will be kind and gentle to our shoulders, enabling us to carry our load more easily. That is what he means when He says his burden is “light”. Actually, it might be quit heavy, but we still find it possible to carry our responsibilities. Why? Because Jesus will help us. Usually a yoke joined a pair of oxen and made them a team. It is as though Jesus tells us, “Walk alongside me: learn to carry the burdens by observing how I do it. If you let me help you, the heavy labor will seem lighter.” Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, The Gift of Peace.
Country Funeral -----------As a young minister, I was asked by a funeral director to hold a grave-side service for a homeless man, with no family or friends. The funeral was to be held at a cemetery way back in the country, and this man would be the first to be laid to rest there.
As I was not familiar with the backwoods area, I became lost; and being a typical man did not stop for directions. I finally arrived an hour late. I saw the backhoe and the crew, who was eating lunch, but the hearse was nowhere in sight.
I apologized to the workers for my tardiness, and stepped to the side of the open grave where I saw the vault lid already in place. I assured the workers I would not hold them up for long, but this was the proper thing to do. The workers gathered ‘round, still eating their lunch. I poured out my heart & soul. As I preached the workers began to say “Amen,” “Praise the Lord”, and “Glory”! I preached, and I preached, like I’d never preached before, from Genesis all the way to Revelations.
I closed the lengthy service with a prayer and walked to my car. As I was opening the door and taking off my coat, I overheard one of the workers saying to another, “I aint never seen anything like that before and I’ve been putting in septic tanks for twenty years.”