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Confession TimesSUNDAY - After Sunday Mass at 11:30 or by appointment. Please call 307-746-4219
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UPDATE FROM FATHER BRIAN
Parish update 5/28/20
Blessed Pentecost, everybody!
I hope the Holy Spirit enlightens you the same way He enlightened the apostles at Pentecost 2000 years ago and emboldened them to preach the gospel to all nations. Starting in June, the capacity at our masses will increase, and that will affect some of our sign up procedures, so please read on for the details. This is starting in June, NOT the weekend of May 30-31.
RESUMING PUBLIC MASSES
-Masks will be required for all in attendance, including all children old enough to handle the.
-The bishop has dispensed all Catholics from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass right now. If your health is vulnerable, I strongly encourage you to stay home for now.
-We will continue to broadcast Sunday Mass on Facebook Live, but it’ll now be broadcast live at 8 am.
-A recording of Saturday night Mass will be broadcast on AM 1240 KASL at 7 am.
JUNE MASSES AT CORPUS CHRISTI
-Starting in June we can have as many people as possible at mass, if six feet of distancing is maintained between households. Reservations will still be required for mass.
-Based on the size of our pews, a pew can hold two single people (two people from separate households) sitting at opposite ends of the pew, or a pew can hold a single family or household.
-If you are a single person coming to Mass by yourself, reserve one spot and you’ll sit on one end of a pew. Another single person will sit on the other end.
-If you are a couple coming to Mass, reserve two spots and you’ll have an entire pew for yourselves.
-If you are a family coming to Mass and you can fit in a single pew, reserve two spots and you’ll also have an entire pew for yourselves.
-The Eventbrite system is set to not allow more than two reservations per person in June, since two reservations can accommodate an entire household.
JUNE MASSES AT ST. ANTHONY’S AND ST. PAUL’S
-We will continue to plan to have masses outside.
-Reservations will not be necessary since our space is basically unlimited.
-In the event we have to have mass inside due to weather, we’ll have a friendly conversation among those who show up, and invite inside those who have been away from mass the longest. We’ll let charity prevail!
-Bring your own chairs.
-Even though we’re outdoors, we must still practice distancing.
CONFESSION AND ANOINTING OF THE SICK
-All Anointings of the Sick will be by appointment, as is normal.
-Confessions in Newcastle will be by appointment (call me!), and we’ll use the screened side of our normal confessional.
-Confessions in Sundance and Upton will take place after Sunday Mass in the pews of the main body of the church, with 6-8 feet between you and me. Face-to-face will be the only option.
THE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS
YOUTH BACKPACKING TRIP
-As of now, our youth backpacking trip on June 29-July 3rd is still on, and there’s still room to sign up. Last I heard from COR (Catholic Outdoor Renewal), they’re planning to restart all their programs in mid-June. COR is working with NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) and other outdoor industry leaders to create new policies and procedures to be safe and healthy in the backcountry.
FAITH FORMATION
-Our bible study via Zoom continues to go well. You’re always welcome even if you can’t make all the classes. Join the Remote Bible Study group on Flocknote to receive updates and information.
-Daily reflections posted to the Corpus Christi website will now come a bit later in the morning because they’ll just be the homily from 7 am Mass.
GIVING
-Thank you for your continued generosity to our parishes. If you are unable to attend Mass but would like to donate to your parish, the instructions remain the same:
-For Corpus Christi, please mail your offering to the church at 19 W. Winthrop St.
-For St. Anthony’s please mail your offering to PO Box 177.
-For St. Paul’s, please mail checks to PO Box 28, or take cash to Sundance State Bank and have the tellers put it into the regular checking account or building fund checking account. Ask the teller to put your name on the receipt so that we can record it on the donation sheet.
MY THOUGHTS
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I am praying for an outpouring of the Holy Spirit for our parishes this Pentecost weekend. I’ve been struck by how much Jesus in the Gospels spoke about the Holy Spirit, especially near the end of his ministry. My friends, we need the Holy Spirit if we are going to live the mission that Jesus sent us on, to baptize all nations. The Holy Spirit empowers us and strengthens us to fulfill this gospel mandate.
Priest moves in Wyoming were announced last weekend in parishes around the state, and I’m grateful to God I wasn’t on that list. So, I’m sticking around Weston and Crook counties! I want the Holy Spirit to set our hearts on fire, so that we can bring everyone we know in our corner of the world into a life-saving relationship with Jesus Christ. So many of our friends and neighbors do not know Christ, do not have the Holy Spirit active in their hearts, and do not know the love of the Father. Join me in begging the Holy Spirit to strengthen us so that we can introduce them to our loving Trinitarian God. This is what I long for, my friends.
Begging for a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit for our counties is a little bit scary, if I’m completely honest. Because what if it happens? I would have to give up my sinfulness and selfishness that impedes the work God is already trying to do. If he gives us a fresh outpouring of the Spirit, it’ll be all the more important that each of us have hearts freed from sin in order to respond to that outpouring. Yet this is what we need, I feel this very deeply in my prayer, so this is what I’m praying for: a new outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Will you join me in that prayer?
-Fr. Brian -
Mass Times
- Sunday: 10:30 AM EnglishEnglishEN
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Today's Readings
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Reading 1 Gn 11:1-9Responsorial Psalm Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30Reading 2 Rom 8:22-27Gospel Jn 7:37-39
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Saint Thomas Aquinas defined “spiritual communion” as “an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Holy Sacrament and a loving embrace as though we had already received Him. Saint Teresa of Avila wrote: “When you cannot receive Communion and cannot attend Mass, you can make a spiritual communion, which is a most beneficial practice; by it the love of God will be greatly impressed on you.”
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