16th Sunday after Pentecost
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.\
SATURDAY: September 12th - The Most Holy Name of Mary (dm)
Robert Alvira, Sr. .......................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: September 13th -16th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
Missa Pro Populo........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Special Intention.........................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: September 14th - Exaltation of the Holy Cross (dm)
Robert Alvira, Sr. .......................................................................No Mass Scheduled
TUESDAY: Sept. 15th - Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary (d2cl)
Maria Alvira...............................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
WEDNESDAY: September 16th - Sts. Cornelius, P & Cyprian BpMm (sd)
† Edward Devanney....................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
THURSDAY: September 17th - Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis, C (d)
† Thomas Devanney...................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: September 18th - St. Joseph of Cupertino, C (d
Poor Souls.................................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
SATURDAY: September 19th - St Januarius, Bp & Comp., Mm (d)
Reparation to the Sacred Heart.................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: September 20th - 17th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
Missa Pro Populo........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
† Mr. & † Mrs Griesmer...............................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
~ Sanctuary Lamp ~
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for the souls of Ron & Mary Tihista.
~ Confession Schedule ~
Saturday, 7:30 a.m. - 7:55 a.m. — 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 13 — 1st Mass: Thaddeus Bradshaw & Augustus Bradshaw
— 2nd Mass: Blaise Skierka & Charles Lightner
Sept 20 — 1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Everett Fleshman
— 2nd Mass: Blane Lightner & Jacob Lightner
Sept 27 — 1st Mass: Alexander Bogner & Seamus Dube
— 2nd Mass: Callen Skierka & Peter Skierka
~ Rosary Leader ~
Sept 13 — 1 st Mass: Andrew Dubé — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
Sept 20 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Sept 27 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Sept 13 — Christina Bogner & Michelle Bogner
Sept 20 — Monica Whall, Rebecca Lightner & Regina Skierka
Sept 27 — Maria Fleshman & Angela Skierka
~ Treat Schedule ~
Sept 13 — Bryar Rollins, Hannah Shawhan, Sydney Lapp
Sept 20 — Sarah Rollins, Jennifer Springer, Jeanette Kalafat
Sept 27 — Lisa Skierka, Theresa Koch, Nicole Bogner
~ Announcements ~
Blessing of Religious Articles: On the First Sunday of the Month.
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $3.00, $70 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 50¢ each.
Sanctuary Lamp: If you would like to have the Sanctuary Lamp burning for the repose of soul, anniversary or remembrances, fill out a request and return. The usual donation is $15.
Confessions: Priority should be given especially the last thirty minutes of confessions to those who drive a great distance, have little children, elderly and or are disabled. Those living in closer proximity please be here early; Confessions begin at 8:00 a.m. Of course, and I think that it goes without saying, that those who live in close proximity to the church, should come for confessions on Saturday morning if at all possible.
If you or a loved one is admitted to the hospital, please let your parish priest know.
Fr. Jenkins online instructions: wcbohio.blogspot.com
Our church is dedicated to the practice of the traditional Roman Catholic religion. This includes the traditional Latin Roman Rite of Holy Mass and the sacraments. We do not regard the New Mass created after Vatican Council II to be a true Catholic Mass. Only those who regularly attend exclusively the traditional Latin Rite of Mass, who are properly dressed (see below), and are in the state of Sanctifying Grace may receive.
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Why I am a Cathoiic
Shall we let each and every citizen decide for himself what his civic rights and duties are, and act accordingly? Nonsense, you say. That may be the method of the anarchist; it does not appeal to sane men. Our Constitution and form of government may not be perfect; but they are good, and in their main out-lines are as near perfection as human wisdom has been able to go. We must have civil authority in national, state, county, city and town; we must have gov-ernors, legislators, mayors, judges and other guardians of the public peace. To reform means to clean house; not to tear it down. We who are good citizens must unearth corruption; hunt the dishonest out of office and put trustworthy me in their place.
This, you will doubtless tell me, is common sense; and the right way to solve the problem of corruption in the state.
Reformation in the Church then must needs run along the same general lines. We have granted, not as a matter of indubitable historical truth, but for the sake of getting to bed-rock common sense without delay, that the priesthood of the early sixteenth century was very far from reaching the standard of personal excellence demanded by that holy calling. Reformation was sorely needed. How bring it about? By removing unworthy priests from their places? No! said the Protestantism, we'll do away with the offices they hold, and the authority con-nected therewith! We'll overthrow the government, and devise another that will have no authority, no right to enforce its teaching, no power to make laws. We will not try to reform the men who have done wrong; we will not try to put good, reliable men into their places; we will simply upset the established order of things, though it has prevailed for 1,500 years; though it has carried the name and gospel of Christ around the globe; though it was instituted by Christ Himself. We will reject all the teachings of the Church which imply authority on her part, or in her priests. We will reject every teaching which they have turned to their own advantage. The sacrifice of the Mass must go, though from the days of Christ is has been the central feature of Christian wor-ship. Purgatory and prayer for the dead must go, though they are reasonable teachings; though all the great fathers of the early Church, and the martyrs of old believed them. The forgiveness of sins through the priests of the Church must go, though Cyprian, Jerome, Augustine, Chrysostom, Athanasius, yes, all the early Church asserted that God had given that power to men. All these beliefs must go with a host of others, because they ascribe power and authority to the priesthood or because they are teachings that have been misused.
Reformation: No! revolution! anarchy! and so far as men could effect it, a destruction of the very institutions, and Church of Christ. If this be the way to set about the correction of abuses, one will have to say that a mother should destroy her every jar of jam, and make the whole family go without that delicious food to cure her boy of his tendency to help himself out of due time, and that a man should tear down his splendid mansion because some of his servants had failed to keep the windows clean or had left finger marks on the wall and muddy foot tracks on the stairway.
If I cannot say these things and hope to have my intelligence respected then neither can I say that the casting aside of Christ's gifts and the destruction of Christ's works is the way to bring about reform in the Church of God. We must leave the Church's constitution alone; that is the work of Jesus Christ. We must not disregard its fundamental principles and laws; they are the outward manifestations of the will of Christ and of the Father. We must not deny its doctrines; they are guaranteed by the Holy Spirit of Truth. We must not reject its institutions; they are the gifts of Christ, and the agencies whereby salvation is brought home to men. Constitution, laws, doctrines and institutions must be let alone, when we seek reformation. They are of Christ. Our efforts at reformation must be confined to the abuses that have crept into the church. They are of men.
The Catholic view of the sins which are committed even by those who hold positions of authority, trust and honor in the church, is sensible and in perfect accord with the prophecies of Our Lord that scandals should come. Christ did not build His Church on the shifting sands of humanity; but upon a rock whose stability He guaranteed, and effects. He foresaw all the human frailty and sin of His representatives. He compared His Church to a net which drew forth from the sea good fish and bad; and to a field in which both wheat and cockle should grow together until the harvest. In the full light of that keen, sure, vast knowledge, He deliberately promised that the gates of hell would not prevail against His Church. In that promise we trust. How can any believer in Christ do otherwise? Is it not a proud, insulting, lying thing for men to say in either thought, word or deed that, through the sins of the Catholic priesthood and people, the Church Christ built had been so undermined as to be uninhabitable; so weakened that it must of necessity be torn down and another of entirely different plan and principles erected in its stead? Unless you are willing to make these assertions, unless you are willing to tell Christ to His face that His Church has failed despite His promises, you must admit that Protestantism is fundamentally and essentially a mistake. Call it an honest mistake, one made in good faith, if you will. It is for all that a sad, grievous error, and you who love Christ must free your soul from its trammeling, deadly influence. You must enter into the holy Church that He has built to be your refuge and home.
The old Protestant creeds are crumbling. Some men are trying to revise them in the vain hope of prolonging their now feeble breath of life, but most men care nothing at all about them; they have long since ceased to believe them. As Dr. Briggs affirms: "The greatest movement now going on in the world is the Catholic reaction; it is too great a movement to be guided or controlled by any leadership. God's Holy Spirit is breaking the way for the revival, the re-Catholicization and the reunion of Christendom in holy love."
Yes! He is breaking the way quietly, and with the slowness of Divine patience, showing the Protestant world that its departure from His Church was a sad error; making it clear that in His Church alone is there certainty and peace. The homeward march has begun. Thousands entering the doors from which their fathers blindly rushed so long ago, have found the Church a thing of strength and grandeur, so compactly knit together that there is on every hand evidence that a Divine architect and builder designed and put together its mighty walls. Multitudes as yet have not turned towards it. They are indeed deserting the wrecked and ruinous churches built by their fathers or else trying to save them by substituting new for old and worthless timbers. They have not grasped the truth that it is not for man to devise religions, churches or creeds. God grant they may soon see their folly, and lifting up their eyes behold afar in shining majesty, the Church of the living God; the Church that fears no storm because it is built on a rock; the Church that alone can give peace, security, salvation.
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Great Falls: (Black Eagle - Immaculate Heart of Mary)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m
Helena: (Holy Cross)
Mass every Sunday, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m.: Holy Days, 7:00 & 9:00 a.m See Church Bulletin
Missoula: (East Missoula - Holy Shroud)
Mass 2nd, 4th & 5th Sundays of the month 1:00 p.m.
Holy Days 6:00 p.m.
Billings: (Pompeys Pillar - St. Martin de Tours)
Mass 1st, 3rd & 5th Sundays of the month 4:00 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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