Ash Wednesday Mass Times:
7:00am at St. Isaac Jogues (Georgetown)
6:00pm at St. Mary's Church (Westville)
Fridays During Lent (at St. Mary's Church):
5:00pm Rosary
5:30pm Mass
6:00pm Stations of the Cross
Regulations for Lent & the Easter Triduum
1. Lent is the principal season of penance in the Christian year. Priests, religious and laity are strongly urged to develop and follow a program of voluntary self-denial, attentiveness to prayer, and especially to works of charity and mercy.
2. Everyone of 14 years of age or over is bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday (February 18th) and on ALL Fridays of Lent.
3. Everyone 18 years of age and under 59 years of age is bound to fast on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday of Lent.
4. On these two days (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday) of fast and abstinence, only one full meatless meal is allowed. Two other meatless meals, sufficient to maintain strength, may be taken according to each one's needs, but together they should not equal another full meal. Eating between meals is not permitted on these two days, but liquids (including milk and fruit juices) are allowed. When health or ability to work would be seriously affected, the law does not oblige.
To disregard completely the law of fast and abstinence is a serious matter.
Pray for the beatification of Fulton Sheen. Prayer is a wonderful talk that I cannot recommend enough.
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Upcoming Holiday Masses:
Christmas Eve Mass: 4:00pm at St. Mary’s
(Christmas Choir performing at 3:30pm)
Christmas Mass: 9:00am at St. Isaac Jogues
Christmas Mass: 9:30am at St. Mary’s.
New Year’s Eve Mass: 4:00pm at St. Mary’s
New Year’s Mass: 9:00am at St. Isaac Jogues
New Year’s Mass: 9:30am at St. Mary’s
Communal Penance Services:
Tuesday, December 9th at 6:00pm at St. Anthony’s (Hoopeston)
Monday, December 15th at 6:00pm at St. Isaac Jogues (Georgetown)
Tuesday, December 16th at 6:00pm at St. Paul’s (Danville)
Thursday, December 18th at 6:00pm at St. Mary’s (Westville)
Thursday, August 14th: St. Mary's Church at 6:00pm
Friday, August 15th: St. Mary's Church at 7:00am
Friday, August 15th: St. Isaac Jogues at 7:00am (Fr. Deus)
You are invited to St. Mary's for Mass and Eucharistic Procession on Corpus Christi Sunday, with a parish picnic following. Please bring a side dish to pass.
This coming Sunday is Corpus Christi, which means in English, the Body of Christ found in the Holy Eucharist--- His Body, His Blood, His Soul, and His Divinity. It is our belief that Jesus was most serious about His words at the last supper. This is My Body....This is My Blood. Take and Eat. He offers Himself so that we may participate in His One Sacrifice for sinners. So in order to be a part of Christ's sacrifice is to eat of the sacrifice.
I invite you to come to St. Mary's for our 10:30am Mass at the end of which we will have a Eucharistic Procession around the church and back in for Benediction. Following is a parish picnic at St. Mary's Hall. We will have Lee's chicken with mashed potatoes, cole slaw and biscuits. We do ask that you bring a dish to pass, as there will not be a lot of the sides from Lee's. If you have not registered, please call ASAP. We also need volunteers to deliver dinners to the home bound. If you want a dinner delivered, please call ASAP.
We will be having our Rummage Sale again this weekend at the Parish Hall.
Friday: 8:00am - 4:00pm
Saturday 8:00am - 2:00pm
If you have any more items you would like to drop off this week, please bring them by. If someone is not at the Hall, contact Jennifer at the Parish Office (217-267-3334).
Friday, June 13th (8:00am-6:00pm) and Saturday, June 14th (8:00am-2:00pm)
Proceeds will go to St. Mary's Altar & Rosary Society
Acceptable items: working appliances and electronics, hardwood furniture (tables, chairs, cedar chests, bookcases, etc.), outdoor furniture/patio sets, home furnishing items (pictures/paintings, decor, etc.), purses/handbags, toys and bicycles, kitchen items, and garden tools/equipment
Items we are not accepting: mattresses and bedding items, upholstered chairs, couches, etc., clothes, hats and shoes, broken or dirty items
We ask that you please clean up your items ahead of time. Thank you!
Drop-off Dates/Times:
Monday, June 9th- Thursday, June 12th
8:00am-11:00am and 3:00pm-7:00pm
*Doors will be unlocked all day if you are unable to drop off when someone is there*
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!!!
Please call the Parish Office at 217-267-3334 if you able to help set up, sort and work at the Rummage sale. Thank you!
Celebrate Divine Mercy on Sunday, April 27th at St. Mary's Church from 2:00-3:00pm.
Divine Mercy Chaplet
Eucharistic Exposition
Benediction
Homily
Veneration of the Divine Mercy Image
There are Divine Mercy and Novena Pamphlets located at the Church entrance. There will also be additional flyers available to anyone who needs one at the Good Friday Mass. Be sure to start praying the Novena starting on Friday, April 18th
September 11th is Patriot Day: A day to remember that over 3,000 lives were lost to Islamist's in the destruction of the World Trade Center's Twin Towers, the jet that crashed into the Pentagon, and the lost lives on United 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. To help remember and to teach new generations of Patriots, I have been inspired to write this song and produced this YouTube music video. It is called, "Please, Pick Up!" (sung by Jennifer Boyd featuring her daughter Elizabeth Boyd)
The song is told from a United Flight 93 passenger's perspective while leaving a phone message to her husband. While the song is fictional, it relates accurate actions taken that day and represents a composite of all victim heroes of United Flight 93.
If this song is moving to you, then please pass it along to your social sites, so other Patriots will hear it and remember their heroism. Finally, pray that God may bless the U.S.A. and world for peace.
Thank you,
Fr. Timothy Sauppé
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Prayer on a Beautiful Morning
Our Father in heaven, how we love you; how you love us. A new day unfolds, and we desire that it is infused with our worship of you. As we turn our eyes on the beauty of you, our spirits lift and find peace. Please pour out your Spirit upon us today, so we can worship in fresh ways.