Weekly Mass Schedule For the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church
Please go to "Mass Location" tab on top of the page for details for the Mass Schedule for each Mission, for the current month.
SUNDAY: September 24th - 17th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
† Joseph Heisdorf ......................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Missa pro Populo ...................................................... 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: September 25th - Ferial Day
Roger Dean Colvard ............................................... No Scheduled Mass
TUESDAY: September 26th - St. Isaac Jogues & Companions, Mm (d1cl)
Special Intention ...................................................... No Scheduled Mass
WEDNESDAY: September 27th - Sts. Cosmas &n Damian, Mm (sd)
Betty Zarn .............................................................. No Scheduled Mass
THURSDAY: September 28th - St. Wenceslaus, M (sd)
Dubé Family ........................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: September 29th - Dedication of the Church of St. Michael (d1cl)
† Teresa Skierka ..................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
SATURDAY: September 30th - St. Jerome, CD (d)
† Teresa Skierka......................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: October 1st -18th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
† Teresa Skierka ................................................... 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Betty Zarn............................................................ 9:00 a.m. Mass
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for the repose of the soul of Hertha Larson.
~ Confession Schedule ~
Saturday — 8:30 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
Sunday — 6:30 a.m. - 6:55 a.m.
— 8:10 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
~ Altar Boy Serving Schedule ~
Sept 24 — 1st Mass: Jeremy Lowder & Adam Lowder
2nd Mass: Brennan Skierka & William Lightner
Oct 1 — 1st Mass: Nathan Rollins & Brentlee Bomgardner
2nd Mass: MC - Stephen Rollins Th - Quentin Skierka CB -Zachary Drewes
Ac - Peter Skierka & Maurice Marshall
TB - Alexander Bogner, Simon Lighter, Theodore Bradshaw
TB - Robert Skierka, Zachary Lightner, Everett Fleshman
Oct 8 — 1st Mass: Zachary Drewes & Maurice Marshall
2nd Mass: Dominic Skierka & Jacob Lightner
~ Rosary Leader ~
Sept 24 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes —2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
Oct 1 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Oct 8 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes —2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Sept 24 — Jacquelynn and Jordee Bomgardner
Oct 1 — Sarah Rollins, Jennifer Springer, Hannah Shawhan
Oct 8 — Christina Bogner & Michelle Bogner
~ Treat Schedule ~
Sept 24 — Hannah Shawhan, Laura Lightner, Bernadette Dube
Oct 1 — Regina Skierka, Rebecca Lightner, Monica Whall
Oct 8 — Church Breakfast
Please go to "Mass Location" tab on top of the page for details for each Mission, for the month.
~ Announcements ~
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $2.50, $62 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 25¢ each.
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Sanctuary Lamp: If you would like to have the Sanctuary Lamp burning for the repose of soul, anniversary or remembrances, and who requests it, the usual donation is $10. Fill out a request an return to Fr. Skierka
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Please Keep in your prayers: The deceased, ill and the injured and those that are in special need of prayers, particularly of our parish.
Adult Class: Adult Class: is scheduled is cancelled for the Summer. This class is open to high school students and adults
Questions of Catholic Answered
by
The Rev. Winfid Herbst
copyright 1938
A Protestant girl who is a very dear friend of mine expects to be married soon and has asked me to be her bridesmaid. The wedding will take place at the bride’s home. Would I be committing a sin if I acted as her bridesmaid, as I would not have to enter the church?
Your question shows that you have the proper Catholic consciousness, the feeling that you should have nothing to do with what concerns the Protestant religion. This is very praiseworthy. In our day and country (when, for instance, the radio brings non-Catholic preachers even into our very homes) we Catholics cannot be too careful in preserving untarnished the purity and freshness of our faith. There is constant danger of that fatal broad-mindedness which would make one religion as good as another.
Holy Mother Church is very solicitous in this regard. In Canon 1258 we read, “It is unlawful for Catholics to assist actively in any way at, or to take part in, the religious services of non-Catholics. A passive or merely material presence may be tolerated, for reasons of civil duty or honor, at funerals, weddings, and similar celebrations, provided no danger of perversion or scandal arises from this assistance. In doubtful cases the reason for assisting must be grave, and recognized as such by the bishop.”
From this law of the Church it can be seen that a passive or merely material presence may be tolerated on certain occasions. One such occasion is the case in question. Provided there be no danger of scandal or perversion, you would not be committing any sin by acting as your friend’s bridesmaid. This would be true even if the wedding were held in church. However, the fact that the wedding is to take place at the bride’s home is an extenuating circumstance.
Accordingly, with the modifications mentioned above, it is no sin. But Holy Church, even while tolerating it, frowns upon all such participation, and so do we. Catholics should be so trained as to feel uneasy and unhappy at anything like a Protestant service and hence never par-ticipate in it.
We believe that this breaking down of barriers, this ultra broad-mindedness, this meeting each other half way, is the cause of many of our mixed marriages with their attendant train of miseries and defections from the true Church. This is one way of explaining our lamentable “leakage,” which is perhaps greater than our gains.
Is it wrong for a Catholic party to keep steady company with a non- Catholic?
Yes; it is wrong. Canon 1060 of the Church law says: “The Church most strictly forbids mixed marriages everywhere.” And if explicitly she “most strictly forbids mixed marriages,” she implicitly forbids courtship between Catholics and non-Catholics. Such courtship on the part of a Catholic is the wilful and unwarranted exposure of self to the loss of the faith; and, since the Catholic faith is divine, any such exposure of it to the danger of loss is forbidden by divine and, we may add, by the natural law, which latter commands us to strive for our last end by employing means proportionate to it, which end can be obtained in the supernatural order only by divine faith. Hence, needlessly to endanger this bulwark of salvation is contrary to the divine and to the natural law.
Such company-keeping is, accordingly, against the First Commandment of God. That commandment enjoins upon us the worship of God; whatever contravenes the true worship of God is a sin against the First Commandment.
This is a practical matter the importance of which is apparently only too often not fully realized by our Catholic young people and their parents. We therefore repeat that the Church earnestly warns her children against mixed marriages and even strictly forbids them. No sensible Catholic will marry a person belonging to another religion. The nature and purpose of marriage demand true piety and virtue in both parties, in order that they may assist and sanctify each other. Therefore, the Catholic who knowingly and willingly marries a person having no religious or moral convictions, or professing a false religion, does wrong. There can be no true unity of mind and heart, no harmony between husband and wife, least of all in the upbringing of children, if they differ in this most essential matter of religious belief. But the Church’s opposition to mixed marriages rests upon a more important consideration even than that. She regards the Sacrament of Matrimony as a symbol of Christ’s union with His Church and a nursery of souls. Hence she is perfectly justified in disapproving of mixed marriages and forbidding them. When she does permit them by granting special dispensation, it is only with the greatest sorrow and reluctance and under certain well defined conditions. We say: only under certain well defined conditions; for the divine law forbidding these marriages when there is proximate danger to the faith of the Catholic party or the children cannot be dispensed by any human authority whatsoever.
Great Falls: (Black Eagle - Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 9:00 a.m
Helena: (Holy Cross)
Mass every Sunday and Holy Days: 8:00 a.m. See Church Bulletin
Missoula: (East Missoula - Holy Shroud)
Mass 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month 12:30 p.m.
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Billings: (Pompeys Pillar - St. Martin de Tours)
Mass 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month 3:00 p.m
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Lethbridge: (St. Theresa the Little Flower)
Mass 2:00 p.m. 3rd Sunday of the month
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