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Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time August 3, 2014

Clergy Fr. Salvador Guzmán, Pastor Fr. Eugene Azorji, Parochial Vicar Deacon Patrick A. Hayes

Mass Schedule Sunday: 9:00 am - English Mass 12:00 pm - Spanish Mass Thursday: 9:00 am - Daily Mass

Holy Family Catholic ChurchHoly Family Catholic ChurchHoly Family Catholic Church

Mailing Address: P O Box 482 Van Alstyne TX, 75495 Parish Office: 903-482-6322 For a Priest: 972-542-4667 Website: www.holyfamily-vanalstyne.org

Family Prayer

Lord, bless our family, all of us now together, those far away, all who are gone back to you. May we know joy. May we bear our sorrows in pa ence. Let us be grateful to each other. We have all made each other what we are. O Family of Jesus, watch over our family.

Amen.

Eighteenth Sunday of Ordinary Time August 3, 2014

SACRAMENTS Baptism

Baptisms in English: 2nd Sunday of each month Baptisms in Spanish: 1st Sunday of each month

Pre Baptismal Class Registration: Registration required by the Sunday before class begins. Classes are held on the 3rd Tuesday of each month. Parents: Bring copy of child’s birth certificate. Both parents must attend class. Godparents: Must be practicing Catholics. Copy of marriage certificate through the Catholic church. Both godparents must attend class. As a courtesy, please do not bring children to class.

First Communion

2015 to be Scheduled

Confirmation:

2015 to be Scheduled

Anointing of the Sick

Please call the Parish.

Reconciliation/Confession

Immediately following the 1st Mass

Marriage/Wedding

Both must be free to marry in the Catholic Church. Arrangements should be made at least 6 months prior to planned Wedding date.

Holy Orders/Priesthood

Talk to your Parish priest or call Father James Swift, C.M., Rector of Vocations of the Diocese of Dallas at 214-379-2860.

Weekly Calendar

Sunday, August 3 8:30 am Rosary 9:00 am Mass 12:00 pm Spanish Mass Monday, August 4 9:00 am Rosary Tuesday, August 5 Wednesday August 6 Thursday, August 7 9:00 am Mass Bible Class Following Mass 7:00 pm Talleres De Oracion Y Vida 7:30 pm Adult Bible Class 7:00 pm Spanish Youth Choir 7:30 pm Bible Class Friday, August 8 7:00 pm Spanish Adult Choir Saturday, August 9

Rita Christian Karen Elliott Toby Mills Louis Lesmes Bill Holder Rosa Turczynski Soloman High Jeanie Wood Don Saunders Jerrell Jones Ann Lageose

Arnie Clark Tommie Rosenthal Brooklyn Schulze Rita Turner Dave Parker Eddie Parker Stella West Jerry Phillips Johanna Kroeger Jack Tyler Anonymous Barbara Heath Debbie Hooper

Courtney Hicks

A endance: July 27, 2014 380 Offerings: July 27, 2014 $ 1,441.45 Building Fund: July 27, 2014 $ 870.86

Offering

PRAY For

G S GG S GG S G The Holy Family Grief Support Group meets on the 2nd Tuesday of the month from 10:00 AM to 11:30

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Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 12th Room 1 Come and meet with two trained grief facilitators who will listen, pray, and support you during a difficult time in your life. Lost a loved one? Lost a job? Lost a relationship? Stressed? Just need to talk? We are here to listen.

If you would like to attend, please contact: Susanne Hayes 214-636-1915

Attention Parishioners Prayer Names Submitted to Request Prayers For

Names submitted will remain for four weeks. If the individual needs to remain we request that we receive a call from the person who submitted the name to request that they remain for another four weeks, should they remain in need of prayers for recovery. This is the normal procedure in all parishes through out the Diocese. We are not asking you to remove ones name that is still recovering or perhaps has cancer or other life threatening diseases. Often we forget to remove as they have improved or considered well. Bless you for your cooperation.

Expansion Progress

We anticipate the new restrooms will be complete by the end of August. HOWEVER You are needed as a volunteer to help this happen. Check back page of this bulletin to find where your Talent can HELP!!!!

Prayer and Humility

Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes. -St. Dominic

Diocesan Information /DCYC /Miscellaneous Invite From: Bishop Kevin J. Farrell

Diocesan Silver and Gold Mass The first annual diocesan Silver and Gold Mass is on Saturday, September 6th at 2:00 p.m. at the Cathedral Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at 2215 Ross Avenue in downtown Dallas. Bishop Farrell will celebrate this Mass, and couples who have been married 25, 50 and 50+ years are invited and encouraged to attend. Families are always welcome to join their loved ones at this joyous celebration, and there is a festive reception following. To register, please visit https://www.cathdal.org/pages/Wedding_Anniversary_2014?from=control panel or call the diocese at 214-379-2896. Registration is important to help in planning for an accurate number of participants. Participating couples will receive a

special gift.

Need Catechist- Catechist Aides- Hall Monitors- Sundays-2014-2015 Faith Formation

TRAITS OF A TEACHER All who undertake to teach must be endowed with deep love, the greatest patience, and most of all, profound humility. The Lord will find them worthy to become fellow workers with Him in the cause of truth. -St. Joseph Calasanz

Does the fact that we are the largest consumer of drugs and provider of arms play a role in the Unaccompanied Minors crises on our borders?

It is a natural tendency to blame others for our troubles, as individuals and as a na on. However, occasionally we will take our self-serving blinders off and look in the mirror to discover the real culprit. I am reminded of Walt Kelly’s play on words regarding Commodore Perry’s famous quote in his Pogo column, “We have met the Enemy and he is Us.”

Last week President Juan Orlando Hernandez of Honduras was in Washington with the presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador at the invita on of President Barak Obama. The reported inten on of the mee ng was to ask the Central American presidents to do more to stop the flow of unaccompanied children from their countries to the United States. Apparently, the assump on is that our Central American neighbors were encouraging, or at least, not discouraging the thousands of children seeking refuge in our country.

President Hernandez, in an interview with the Washington Post, reminded North Americans that to a large extent we share responsibility for the situa on. President Hernandez said, “Your country has enormous responsibility for this. The problem of narco cs-trafficking generates violence, reduces opportuni es, generates migra on because this [the United States] is where there’s the largest consump on of drugs.”

He suggested later that American officials believe that drugs “is a health problem. For us, it is a ma er of life and death, and that’s not fair. What’s fair is that we work together dealing with our own responsibili es.”

We must take ownership of our share of responsibility for the influx of refugees. The violence from which the children are fleeing is to a large extent of our making because the market for illegal drugs is greatest in the United States. The guns that are sold to gangs and drug traffickers and the mo va on that are at the root of the violence in Mexico and Central America come from our country.

The blame game is a dishonest a empt to avoid sharing responsibility for the problem and for our failure to adequately address the root causes.

Finally we must stop demonizing the vic ms who are seeking refuge in the United Stated. This is a moral problem not just a poli cal one. We must remember the words of the Holy Father, that “This humanitarian emergency requires, as a first urgent measure, these children be welcomed and protected.” They are children who need to be treated with mercy and compassion, not merely a problem to be disposed of.

It is the love of Christ that mo vates us.

U.S. Shares Responsibility for Border Crisis By Bishop Kevin J. Farrell

Knights of Columbus/ Dignity Memorial/ UDMC/ Shalom Fes val

Attention all Knights of Columbus Members, active or inactive from any council or anyone interested in the future of the Knights here at Holy Family

We are planning a short meeting after the English mass on Sunday, August 3 for all men of Holy Family and their families. If you are a current Knights of Columbus member from any council or are just interested in the Knights, this is a meeting for you. We would like to start our very own council here at Holy Family but we need to see if there is enough interest to do so. Please join us after mass August 3 (Room # 1 South East Corner). Your family's are welcome at this meeting in which we will discuss the requirements for us to start this process, A Knights Council here at Holy Family would be of great benefit to our parish in both service, fraternal and social means. Please come hear what we have to say and start laying the groundwork for the Knights at Holy Family. Holy Family has become a vibrant growing catholic community, and the Knights of Columbus can offer a great deal to assist in that growth. If you have any questions or cannot attend the meeting and want to be counted as supporting our effort, please contact either Robert Franze, (franzerm@aol.com, 903-433-1389, or Scott Shaw, scott.shaw@kofc.org,

Thank you and God Bless

On behalf of our Bishop, Kevin Farrell and our pastor, Fr. Salvador.

Since 1999 Dignity Memorial Network has managed the Diocesan Cemeteries offering a full range of funeral an burial services. A Funeral Home and Chapel is even available at Calvary Hill Cemetery.

A very generous discounted funeral and cemetery program is being made available through the eighteen Dignity Memorial Funeral Homes to all Diocesan employees, school teachers and staff, their families, deacons and all clergy. Each of you is encouraged to take advantage of this generosity. This is an opportunity to receive substan al savings and experience the peace of mind knowing that your loved ones who remain have been relived of this burden.

University of Dallas Ministry Conference

The 8th Annual University of Dallas Ministry Conference will be held from October 23rd – 25th, at the Irving Conven on Center. Registra on fee is $57.00 per person. Please consider having someone from your parish sign up all your par cipants so that everyone can be registered in a mely manner. More informa on and details are available at www.udallas.edu/udmc.

( PLEASE, ) Volunteers NEEDED Check Out Below Where YOU Can Help!!!!!

We need volunteers to help us put up the Stations of the Cross, The Sacred Oil Receptacle, hang rods for the Seasonal Banners. Also, soon to paint the stripes on the parking lot. Contact Leighton Hicks at 903-870-6200 or give your name and phone # to Janis Hicks ****Necesitamos volutarios para ayudar a colgar los Via Crucis, el recipiente del Aceite Sagrado, los cortineros de las banderas de cada temporada. tambien, pronto se estaran pintando las rallas en el estacionamiento. Habla con el Sr. Hicks al 903-870-6200 o dale tu nombre y telefono a Janis Hicks. Who likes Landscaping? Who likes to do Stain Work? Who wants to volunteer for any Ministry in the Parish? Drop your name, phone #, and Talent you want to share in any collection basket. OR See Lino Hernandez after Mass. ****A Quien le gusta trabajar en el jardin? A quien le gusta pintar? A wuirn le gustaria ser voluntario para este ministerio en la iglesia? Deposita en la canasta de la colecta tu nombre, numero de telefono, y en que te gustaria ayudar. o habla con Lino Hernandez despues de misa. Our Septic Pump will be installed by our zealous Parish members. If you can help please call Bob Helmberger 972-342-1376 **** Nuestro tanque sanitario sera instalado por nuestros feligreses entusiastas. Si puedes ayudar por favor llama a Bob Helmberger 972-342-1376

Estados Unidos Comparte Responsabilidad en la Crisis de la Frontera

¿Que seamos el mayor consumidor de drogas y proveedor de armas está relacionado a la crisis de Menores No Acompañados en nuestras fronteras? Como individuos y como nación tenemos la tendencia natural culpar a otros de nuestros problemas. Sin embargo, de vez en cuando nos despojamos de nuestros anteojos egoístas y, al ver al espejo, descubrimos al verdadero culpable. Esto me recuerda la rima tantas veces mencionada en la columna de Pogo, “¡Hemos encontrado al enemigo y somos nosotros!” La semana pasada, el Presidente de Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, estuvo junto a los presidentes de Guatemala y El Salvador en Washington invitados por el Presidente Barak Obama. El obje vo de la reunión fue pedir a los Presidentes Centroamericanos a realizar un esfuerzo por detener el flujo de niños no acompañados de sus países hacia los Estados Unidos. Al parecer, se supone que nuestros vecinos centroamericanos están alentando, o por lo menos, no están desalentando que miles de niños busquen refugio en nuestro país. Durante una entrevista con el Washington Post, el Presidente Hernández recordó a los norteamericanos que en gran parte compar mos responsabilidad en esta situación. El Presidente Hernández expresó, “Su país ene una enorme responsabilidad en esto. El problema del narcotráfico genera violencia, reduce oportunidades y genera la migración porque aquí [en los Estados Unidos] es donde existe el mayor consumo de drogas.” Más adelante sugirió que los funcionarios estadounidenses creen que las drogas “son un problema de salud. Para nosotros, son una cues ón de vida o muerte, y eso no es justo. Lo que es justo es que realicemos un trabajo conjunto y nos ocupemos de nuestras propias responsabilidades.” Debemos reconocer nuestra propia responsabilidad en la afluencia de refugiados. La violencia de la cual huyen los niños es, en gran parte, generada por el mercado de drogas ilegales, el cual es mayor en los Estados Unidos. Las armas que son vendidas a las pandillas y traficantes de drogas, junto a la mo vación que cons tuye la violencia en México y América Central, provienen de nuestro país. El juego de culpar a otros es un intento deshonesto de evitar compar r responsabilidad por el problema y de nuestra incapacidad de abordar adecuadamente las causas. Finalmente, debemos dejar de demonizar a las víc mas que buscan refugio en los Estados Unidos. Este no solo es un problema polí co, es también un problema moral. Debemos recordar las palabras del Santo Padre, quien nos recuerda que “tal emergencia humanitaria reclama en primer lugar intervención urgente, que estos menores sean acogidos y protegidos.” Son niños que necesitan ser tratados con misericordia y compasión, no solamente como un problema que debe ser eliminado.

El amor de Cristo es lo que nos impulsa. By Bishop Kevin J. Farrell

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Holy Family Quasi-Parish

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Date: Sept 18, 2011

Janis Hicks 903-744-7999

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