5th Sunday after Easter May 10
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: May 10th - 5th Sunday after Easter (sd)
Missa pro Populo............................................................................. 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: May 11th - Ferial Day — Rogation Day
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. No Scheduled Mass
TUESDAY: May 12th St. Nereus & Comp., Mm (sd) — Rogation Day
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. No Scheduled Mass
WEDNESDAY: 13th St. Robert Bellarmine, BpCD (d)— Rogation Day
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. No Scheduled Mass
THURSDAY: May 14th - Ascension Thursday (d1cl)
Missa pro Populo............................................................................. 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: May 15th - St. John Baptist de la Salle, C (d)
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. No Scheduled Mass
SATURDAY: May 16th - St. Ubaldus, BpC (sd)
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: May 17th - Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension (sd)
Missa pro Populo............................................................................. 7:00 a.m. Mass
† Gregorian Mass............................................................................ 9:00 a.m. Mass
~ Sanctuary Lamp ~
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for the soul of Peter & May Tihista.
~ 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 ~
May 10 — 1st Mass: Alexander Bogner & Eliahs Bogner
—2nd Mass: Dominic Skierka & Jacob Lightner
May 14 — 1st Mass: Jeremy Lowder & Seamus Dube
—2nd Mass: MC - Peter Skierka Th - Callen Skierka CB - Zachary Lightner
Ac - Thaddeus Bradshaw & Jacob Lightner
TB - Augustus Bradshaw, Zachary Drewes, Martin Skierka
TB - Theodore Bradshaw, Robert Skierka, Aiden Lightner
May 17 — 1st Mass: Stephen Rollins & Brentlee Bomgardner
— 2nd Mass: Blane Lightner & Samuel Kalafat
May 24 —1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Zachary Drewes
— 2nd Mass: MC - Samuel Kalafat Th - Peter Skierka CB - Everett Fleshman
Ac - Eliahs Bogner & Adam Lowder
TB - Simon Lighter, Theodore Bradshaw, Zachary Lightner
TB - Owen Skierka, Seamus Dube, Levi lightner
~ Rosary Leader ~
May 10 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
May 14 —1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
May 17 —1st Mass: Andrew Dubé — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
May 24 —1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
May 10 —Bryar Rollins, Hannah Shawhan, Sydney Lapp
May 17 — Monica Whall, Rebecca Lightner, Regina Skierka
May 24 — Sarah Rollins & Jennifer Springer
~ Treat Schedule ~
May 10 —Katrina Skierka, Mary Klejeski, Amy Tolbert
May 17 — Amy Lightner, Josie Lightner, Rachel Lightner
May 24 — Party for 2026 Graduates
~ Announcements ~
Annual Work Day: May 30th Please keep this day open to as a scheduled work day.
Altar boy Servers: I need all the Altar Boys to come to the Sacristy after Mass today.
Rogation Days: Please see me to make arrangements for the blessing of fields which done on the three days preceding Ascension Thursday.
Parish Registration: I need to update our parish registration. It’s been some time since this has been. Please fill out the Registration Card and return it this Sunday.
Graduation party/BBQ: There will be a graduation party/BBQ to celebrate our parish's 2026 high school graduates on Sunday, May 24th after Mass at 11:00AM. Everyone is welcome to attend!
The Roman Catholic magazine is available after Mass, please feel free to take a copy home.
Purgatorian Society: On the second Sunday of each month, members of the Purgatorian Society offer their Holy Communions for the poor souls and for the souls of those enrolled in the Mass League at the regular meeting. This month the souls are: Fr. Leo Carley, Robert Gormley, and Lanette Sanders.
Summer School: The dates for Summer School are the weeks of June 7-14, Monday through Friday both weeks, with First Communion on Sunday, June 21 following by the parish picnic
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.
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.
Please read "Word of Introduction" on the Home page.
Catholic Living by Hugh J. O’Connell
DUTIES TO GOD AND HIS CHURCH
What to do About Temptation
One of the questions you must have asked often, if you want to be a good Catholic and to save your soul, is this: Why do I have to experience so many and such great temptations when I sincerely want to obey God’s laws and to do what I know to be good? Why cannot I decide once and for all that I want nothing except what God wants for me, and then be free from strong inclinations to do or consent to the opposite?
Such questions arise in the minds of all human beings, because all are tempted, now and then, to do something or to consent to something that is contrary to what they know to be the commanded will of God. But especially are they tempted who have fallen into sin, or contracted habits of evil which they now desire with all their heart to overcome. After they have made a good confession, and expressed true sorrow for the past, and made a stalwart resolution to be done with their sins forever, they find themselves powerfully assailed to go back to the sins that brought momentary pleasure or gain before. The ex-drunkard is sorely tempted to take one more drink, which will mean ten or fifteen drinks. The repentant adulterer feels wildly inclined to see his paramour once more. The reforming youthful lovers have to head off constant incentives to indulge in the sinful actions that they know changed their love into lust in the past. The reader of bad books is tempted to give his curiosity another fling. Why?
Answers to these questions must be a conscious part of the convictions of all true Catholics. The answers must include three things: 1) and understanding of the reasons for temptations in general; 2) a recognition of the different kinds of temptations; 3) a knowledge of what can and must be done to keep every temptation from becoming a sin.
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The reasons for temptation in general may be listed in the form of three axioms, that are based on both the nature and the destiny of man, and the plan and the will of God. To make yourself ready for and equal to temptation, you must carefully ponder these truths.
1. Temptations constitute both a proof of your freedom of will, and an opportunity for rightly exercising that freedom.
There is no freedom where there is no choice; there is no choice where they are not alternatives offered to the will; there would be no alternatives offered to the will if you never felt an inclination to do something contrary to the will of God.
Every temptation should therefore make you conscious of the glory of your freedom to choose your own path and to decide your own destiny forever. It should make you realize how far above the brute animals you have been created, which have no choice, no alternatives, no freedom, no temptations, but which act according to a predetermined plan im-posed on them by God and limited to fulfillment in his world alone.
Each time a temptation assails you, therefore, whether to the bodily pleasure of lust, or the material gain of greed, or the gratification of self-esteem, it should be recognized as saying to you: “You can have what I offer, or you can have God. You cannot have both. You can see and feel what I offer; you cannot see and feel God. Take your choice you were created to make such a choice. It is a choice of time against eternity; it is the visible against the invisible; it is your body against your soul. What you choose will be yours.” if no such choice were ever offered to you, you would not be the image and likeness of God.
2. Temptations are necessary to make the practice of virtue and obedience to God’s law meritorious, i.e., deserving of the eternal reward of heaven.
Everything in the Gospels makes it clear that heaven is to be won only by a struggle. The eight beatitudes point out the battlefields on which you must struggle, and, therefore, the sources of your temptations: between greed and poverty of spirit; between meekness and anger;
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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