10th 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.
SUNDAY: August 2nd -10th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
Missa Pro Populo...........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Amir & Elizabeth Sadaghiani and family.........................................9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: August 3rd - Finding of the Body of St. Stephen, First Martyr (sd)
Stephen & Lisa Skierka and Family...............................................No Mass Scheduled
TUESDAY: August 4th - St. Dominic, C (dm)
Stephen & Lisa Skierka and Family...............................................8:00 a.m. Mass
WEDNESDAY: August 5th - Dedication of the Church of Our Lady of the Snows
Mary Koch.....................................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
THURSDAY: August 6th - Transfiguration of Our Lord (d2cl)
Mary Koch.....................................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: August 7th - St. Cajetan, C (d)ii
Holy Souls in Purgatory.................................................................6:00 pm. Mass
SATURDAY: August 8th - St. Cyriacus & Comp., Mm (sd)
Holy Souls in Purgatory.................................................................8:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: August 9th - 11th Sunday after Pentecost (sd)
Missa Pro Populo...........................................................................7:00 a.m. Mass
Killian & Riley Skierka....................................................................9:00 a.m. Mass
~ Sanctuary Lamp ~
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for the soul of Father Francis E. Fenton S.T.L..
~ Confession Schedule ~
First Friday — 5:30 p.m. - 5:55 p.m.
Saturday — 7:30 a.m. - 7:55 a.m.
Sunday — 6:30 a.m. - 6:55 a.m. — 8:10 a.m. - 8:55 a.m.
~ Altar Boy Serving Schedule ~
Aug 2 — 1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Alexander Bogner
— 2nd Mass: Robert Skierka & Anthony Rollins
Aug 9 — 1st Mass: Jeremy Lowder & Adam Lowder
— 2nd Mass: Charles Lightner & Martin Skierka
Aug 15 — 1st Mass: Zachary Drewes & Everett Fleshman
— 2nd Mass: Peter Skierka & Blaise Skierka
Aug 16 — 1st Mass: Jeremy Lowder & Adam Lowder
— 2nd Mass: Robert Skierka & Anthony Rollins
~ Rosary Leader ~
Aug 2 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
Aug 9 — 1 st Mass: Andrew Dubé — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
Aug 15 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Aug 16 —1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Aug 2 — Hannah Lowder & Tiffany Skierka
Aug 9 — Bryar Rollins, Hannah Shawhan, Sydney Lapp
Aug 16 — Sarah Rollins & Jennifer Springer
~ Treat Schedule ~
Aug 2 — Mary Drewes, Melissa Bradshaw, Regina Skierka
Aug 9 — Katrina Skierka, Mary Klejeski, Amy Tolbert
Aug 16 — Amy Lightner, Josie Lightner, Rachel Lightner
~ 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.
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.
WHY I AM A CATHOLIC
In giving some reasons for my deep-set conviction that the Catholic is the one only true Church of Jesus Christ, I must take certain truths for granted. One cannot in a short space examine and prove all those principles and beliefs that culminate in the Catholic faith. Nor is there need of such labor now. All Christian people admit and hold as true all that I take as granted - the necessity of religion - the fact of a divine revelation to men - the truth of pure and undefiled Christianity - the reliability of the Sacred Scriptures, and the validity of sound reasoning. My question, therefore, narrows down to this: Why am I a Catholic and not a Protestant?
To answer this question, I will go straight to the heart of the differences between Catholicity and Protestantism. I will state some of their conflicting fundamental principles with you in the light of reason and in the light of Holy Scripture. Minor differences will be set aside for the present; because of their almost interminable variety, their secondary importance, and the impossibility of solving them definitely until the right method of deciding such issues has been clearly established.
Fundamental Principles as Shown by Reason and Scripture.
The most vital and important question one who would be a follower of Jesus Christ can ask himself is this: "What are the means that Christ provided for the spread of His gospel? What plans did he devise, what agencies did He establish that men and women might always be able to know clearly and with certainty the gospel that He preached and wants them to believe?" In answering that question, Protestantism and Catholicity part company. They go indeed, a certain distance side by side; both of them revering and treasuring as the imperishable Word of God our Holy Scriptures; holding them to be sound and reliable, insisting upon the acceptance and preservation of every doctrine they teach. That is the very limit of the mutual agreement in this fundamental matter between Protestantism and Catholicity. Protestantism tells me that the Bible is the sole authority in matters of religion; that absolutely nothing is to be insisted upon as a matter of Christian faith unless it can be proved by the Bible alone. When I make inquiry of Protestantism as to the ways and means whereby we men may glean from the Scriptures the truth they contain, I am told that it is by our own personal reading, study and interpretation of the Scriptures, joined with honest prayer to God, the Holy Spirit of Truth, for enlightenment. It assures me that I am under no obligation whatsoever to submit the findings of my intellect in these matters to the judgment, or to the decision of any group of men or any institution on the face of the earth. God has given me the right to decide these things for myself. A God-given right, it is unalienable - it must not be given up. "Did not Christ establish a supreme court," I ask Protestantism, "for the deciding of religious disputes and the settling of difficult points of Christian doctrine and practice?" and Protestantism, the latest sects together with the oldest, the weakest in unison with the strongest, assures me that He did not set up on earth any tribunal, any court, other than the Bible itself for the settlement of these questions and the solving of these problems. Catholicity, on the other hand, tells me that though the Bible is a good and holy book, to be revered and to be reassured, even at the cost of my life-blood, yet it is not the sole authority in matters of religion. Some things are to be believed, to be held firmly as matters of Christian faith, that are not clearly demonstrable from its testimony. More especially does it tell me that neither I nor any other man has the right of private judgment as to the meaning of the Scriptures, in opposition to the teaching of the Church that Jesus Christ established - that while I may read, and study, and think, and form judgments, I must always be willing to submit my own opinions about the Bible to revision and correction at the hand of that Church which Christ set up on a rock as the "pillar and ground of the truth," to preserve, to champion, to explain His written word, and to preach His gospel to all the nations of the world even to the end of time.
Here we have undoubtedly the most serious and far-reaching difference between the Catholic Church and all her Christian opponents. If, in her answer to this question, Protestantism has gone wrong, the error is fatal to her claims. She is but a blind guide, whom I must not follow.
THE VERDICT OF REASON IS AGAINST THE PROTESTANT DOCTRINES THAT THE BIBLE ALONE SUFFICES; AND THAT PRIVATE INTERPRETATION IS OUR WAY TO TRUTH.
Our Lord Himself, as we all know, preached His gospel only within the narrow limits of a small state and for only a few short years. It was, however, His will that what He taught should be made known to all the nations of the earth, through all ages until the consummation of time. Neither time nor space were to raise effectual barriers between His revelation and the souls of men.
The same obligations were to be laid on the men of the twentieth century as on the men of the first; and the same judgment was in store for them if they refused to believe, that awaited the unbeliever who would not take the word of Christ or of His Apostles. Our Lord Jesus Christ then, as all Christian bodies admit, before His departure from the world, planned wisely for the spread of His gospel. He saw in spirit the nations of the world, those that are dead and buried and well-nigh forgotten, those that now fill the earth with their pomp and their power, those that shall rise up upon the ruins of present-existing states; He saw and knew them all. Their history in every detail was present to His all-seeing Eye-the Eye of the Mind of God. More than that: He knew the life-story, down to the minutest detail, of each and every individual in that mighty throng. He knew; He kept in mind; He weighed exactly their natural gifts and their advantages, as well as their trials and the hindrances that stood in their way. He loved them all, for they were all children of His heavenly Father. He wanted them all to be brought to a knowledge of the truth. It was His intention to provide a way and a means whereby they all might come to know clearly and with certainty what He wanted them to believe and what He wanted them to make the rule of their lives. "What means will He provide?" I ask, and Protestantism, to which I look for a reply, tells me again: "He will give the Bible, and the Bible alone."
Now I turn to my reason and I ask it to tell me what it thinks the true reply to that question. My reason, taking account, as intelligent men must, of the facts of human history and daily life, assures me that whatever the worth of the Bible, however good and holy a book, it is not, nor could it have been, the means provided by One Who is All Good and All Wise as the sole means for instructing that vast multitude in the truths of the gospel. It says to me: Here in this multitude are millions upon millions, who lived before the art of printing was known; in whose days upon earth, books were few and costly, who were all their days utterly unable to read. Jesus Christ, the Wise and Good had them in mind as well as those who could read and were more favored. He was furnishing a means whereby they, as well as others, might come to know the saving truth of the Gospel. A book which they are unable to read, surely cannot be that means.
So, too, is it, my reason says, with those other multitudes, who though they had a better education yet were little better off so far as the Bible was concerned, since they lived before men knew what works were the inspired Word of God, and what works should be set down on a lower level, as of purely human composition. Some of them, thousands of them, lived before a single word of the New Testament was written; and yet they lived after the death of Jesus Christ, and they were under obligation to hear and to receive His Word. The Bible not yet written! Not yet identified! The written Word of God surely could not have been the means which He provided for their instruction. . . . . . . .
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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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