24th and Last Sunday after Pentecost,-- November 24
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: November 29th -Vigil of St. Andrew
Fr. Dominic Rollins.......................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: November 30th - 1st Sunday of Advent (sd)
Missa Pro Populo............................................................ 7:00 a.m. Mass
Dube Families................................................................. 9:00 a.m. Mass
MONDAY: December 1st - St. Andrew, Ap (d2cl)
† James David Lowrey.................................................... No Scheduled Mass
TUESDAY: December 2nd
Eileen Cavilla.................................................................. 8:00 a.m. Mass
WEDNESDAY: December 3rd - St. Francis Xavier, C (dm)
Godchildren and Confirmands of Matt & Mary Klejeski...8:00 a.m. Mass
THURSDAY: December 4th - St. Peter Chrysologus, BpcD (d)
†James David Lowrey..................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
FRIDAY: December 5th - Ferial Day
† James David Lowrey.................................................... 6:00 p.m. Mass
SATURDAY: December 6th - St. Nicholas, BpC (d)
Ben Zarn......................................................................... 8:00 a.m. Mass
SUNDAY: December 7th - 2nd Sunday of Advent (sd)
Missa Pro Populo............................................................ 7:00 a.m. Mass
Special Intention of Debbie Klejeski..................................... 9:00 a.m. Mass
Sanctuary Lamp is burning for Special Intention of Debbie Klejeski.
~ Confession Schedule ~
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 ~
Nov 30 —1st Mass: Eliahs Bogner & Zachary Drewes
2nd Mass: Dominic Skierka & Blane Lightner
Dec 7 — 1st Mass: Maurice Marshall & Alexander Bogner
2nd Mass: William Lightner & Quentin Skierka
Dec 8 — 1st Mass: Stephen Rollins & Brentlee Bomgardner
— 2nd Mass: MC - Blane Lightner Th - Jacob Lightner CB - Everett Fleshman
Ac - Quentin Skierka & Peter Skierka
TB - Charles Lightner, Augustus Bradshaw, Eliahs Bogner
TB - Martin Skierka, Zachary Lightner, Anthony Rollins
Dec 14 — 1st Mass: Augustus Bradshaw & Adam Lowder
— 2nd Mass: Callen Skierka & Blaise Skierka
~ Rosary Leader ~
Nov 30 —1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
Dec 7 — 1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Damian Skierka
Dec8 — 1st Mass: Brian Drewes — 2nd Mass: Stephen Skierka
Dec 14 —1st Mass: Tim Riley — 2nd Mass: Cole Lowder
~ Church Cleaning Schedule ~
Nov 30 — Jeanette Kalafat & Regina Marshall
Dec 7 — Daneal Lightner & Allie Quincer
Dec 14 — Melissa Bradshaw & Mary Drewes
~ Treat Schedule ~
Nov 30 —Mary Drewes, Melissa Bradshaw, Regina Skierka
Dec 7 — Bake Sale
Dec14 — Laura Lightner, Bernadette Dube, Jess Skierka
~ Announcements ~
Parish Caroling: We will be hosting a day of Christmas caroling, Sunday aftrnoon on December 14. Please see flyers for details or contact Theresa Koch or Christina Bogner.
Blessing of Religious Articles: On the First Sunday of the Month.
Holy Day of Obligation: December 8 is a Holy Day of Obligation.....if you must work on that day, make arrangements with your employer to have off for Mass that day, or at the very least, worst case scenario, that morning.
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.
6 Day Votive Lights: The price per candle is $3.00: $70 per case; the small 8 hour votive lights are 50¢ each.
Reliquaries on the Altar: contain the reliques of St. Stephen King, St. Gregory the Great, St. Maria Goretti and St. John Bosco.
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.
Bible Needs the Church
Non-Catholics Would Like to Know Series
But many, failing to take into account the foregoing facts, ask why Catholics need the Church when they have the Bible. A glance at the Bible will answer this question:
The Bible teaches that Christ founded a teaching, not a Bible-reading church.
Rom. 10-17: So then faith cometh by HEARING and hearing by the word of God
Matt. 28-19: Go ye therefore and TEACH all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
Mark 16-20: Ane they went forth and PREACHED everywhere the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.
Mark 16-15: And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world and PREACH the gospel to every creature.
Comment: The fact is that Christ Himself never wrote a line, nor did He ever command His disciples to write; only a few of them ever did write and those wrote but part of Christ’s teaching.
The Bible is Incomplete
The Bible itself teaches that the Bible does not contains all of Our Lord’s doctrines.
John 20-30: And many other signs truly said Jesus in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book.
John 21-25: And there are also many other things which Jesus did the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written . Amen.
Comment: Since the Bible is incomplete, it needs something else to supplement it; i.e., the spoken or historically recorded word which we call Tradition.
Hence— Tradition
The Bible teaches that many Christian truths were handed down by word of mouth.
2 Thes. 2-15: Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught. Whether by word, or our epistle.
2 Tim. 2-2: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others.
Comment: Hence not only Scripture but other sources of information must be consulted to get the whole of Christ’s teaching. Religions founded on “the Bible only” are therefore necessarily incomplete.
The Bible Needs an Authorized Interpreter
The Bible teaches that individuals are not of themselves competent to interpret the Scriptures.
2 Pet. 1-20: Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation.
2 Pet. 3-16: As also in all this epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
Acts 8-30: And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Isaias, and said, understandest thou what thou readest? 31. And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? And he desired Philip that he should come up and sit with him.
Comment: Thus falls the whole foundation of Protestantism which is private interpretation of the Bible by each individual according to his own ideas.
The Bible teaches WHO are the official interpreters of God’s law and God’s word.
Luke 10-16 He that Heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
Matt. 16-18: and I say also unto thee, That thou are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mal. 2-7: For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.
Comment: As in our country the official interpreter of the Constitution and the laws in the Supreme Court and the judges, so in the Church the official interpreter of God’s law and Christ’s teaching is the head of the Church and his assistants.
But if the system of each one interpreting the Bible for himself were correct, then why are there so many churches?
Today there are so man Protestant churches because there is so much different interpretation of the Bible, there is so much wrong interpretation of the Bible because there is so much wrong interpretation of the Bible. And there is so much wrong interpretation because the system of interpreting is radically wrong. You cannot build a church by starting at the steeple; neither can you have one fold and one shepherd, one faith and one baptism by letting every man and every woman distort and pervert the Scriptures to suit their own pet theories.
The key or solution to the Scriptures is not some one’s pet hobby, but an infallible teaching church. Christ’s system was teaching and preaching ; not writing and reading. Christ did not command His apostles to write and to read, but to teach and to preach. Indeed, accuse Christ of founding a Bible-reading church, and you destroy faith in His divinity.
In our day, there is no whim, fad or fancy that someone does not claim to prove from the Bible. Almost any man or woman is conceited enough to set himself up as a competent interpreter of the word of God. “I think the Bible means this, therefore it does mean this,” is their modest position. These men or women want it thoroughly understood that our forefathers in the faith were all fools; that for the last nineteen hundred years, the Christian world was in inky darkness. With then, however, light has come into the world. The truth is that no book in the world today is falsified, distorted, misapplied one tenth so much as the Holy Scriptures.
Some, like the early heretics, will prove from the Bible that Christ is only God, not man. Others like modern Unitarians, will prove from the Bible that Christ is only man and not God.
Some, like the Methodists, will prove from the Bible that in the New Law Christ shared His priesthood with NO ONE. Others, Presbyterians, will prove from the Bible that in the New Law, even women are priests; hence the name Presbyters or priests, form which “Presbyterian” is derived.
Baptists will prove from the Bible that baptism is unnecessary for children, but is necessary for adults. Others will prove from the Bible that baptism is necessary for no one; that it is only a ceremony, an initiation as when joining a lodge.
Campbellites or “First Christians” will prove from the Bible that to be really baptized, one must be totally immersed in water. Others prove form the Bible that the whole thing is a superstition and ought to be abandoned.
Russelites prove from the Bible that there is going to be a millennium, a thousand years when everyone will get a second trial. Calvinists prove from the Bible that a large part of mankind do not even get a first trial, but are predestined to damnation irrespective of their merits.
Some sects prove from the Bible that eternal punishment is going to be meted out to nearly everyone. Only the little handful of their particular sect is going to escape. But others prove from the Bible that everyone is going to be saved. To even murderers, adulterers, and those who rob widows and orphans — and never repent — will Christ hold out His arms and: “Come, Blessed of My Father, and possess the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.”
Reduced to practice, their theory means this: Read the Bible and believe as you like; if you like Martin Luther’s theory, follow it; if you prefer John Calvin’s theory, embrace it. If you think that Campbell, or Dowie or Mrs. Eddy or Pastor Russell have “discovered” the truth, have succeeded in doing what Christ must have failed to do, then take them as your guide. If no one of their theories suits you, make up one yourself.
Mrs. Eddy will prove from the Bible that man is all soul, the body is practically a delusion, and does not really exists. “Bible Students” will prove from the bible that the soul is all a delusion, you really have none; the soul which God gave Adam was only air and nothing more.
In the Bible, we are told to serve the Lord in fear and trembling, and so we have the shakers, the mourners and the weepers. Again in the Bible, we are told to rejoice in the Lord always, again I say rejoice. And so we have the singers and the jumpers and the rollers. Surely you think that there is a sufficient variety to suit everyone, but it seems not, for a new sects are springing up constantly.
All these claim to prove their version of Christianity from the Bible; all these are willing to swear that their little handful are the only ones who are right and that everyone else is wrong. Christ’s Church for nineteen hundred years was a complete failure, but fortunately they have finally come to set it aright. Meanwhile the Bible warns us:
“There shall come a time when men will no longer endure sound doctrine, but as with itching ears, will run after their own desires.”
Again referring to the epistles of St. Paul, the Prince of the Apostles tells us:
“As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.”
For whosoever preaches any other but the accepted Christian faith of past centuries, by that very fact proves himself to be a false teacher, a false prophet, who as Christ says, “Comes in the garb of a shepherd, but inwardly is a ravening wolf.” The true faith must be and necessary is that which has been believed for centuries and centuries, or, as St. Augustine puts it: “Semper et ubique,” i.e. always and everywhere — by at least the vast majority of Christians. Of that accepted Christian faith, therefore, we can say what St. Paul did of his own teachings: “Though an angel from heaven preach to you a different doctrine let them be accursed.”
To say that Bible-reading is an intensely Christian practice, si to enunciate a beautiful truth; to say that Bible-reading is the sole source of religious faith is to make an absurdly foolish statement.
Here are ten children. Give them all the same simple problem in arithmetic. Imagine that each gives you a different answer. Of those ten answers, you know that at least nine are wrong. Perhaps also the tenth. Here are four hundred sects. Ask them all to solve the problem, “what does the Bible teach?” Each gives you a different answer. But you know that only one can really be correct. All the rest are wrong. Two and two are always four. There may be a thousand wrong answers to every problem, but only one correct reply.
Christ’s School of Religion
To perpetuate His mission, Christ had to confide His religious and moral teaching to some definite vehicle of transmission. Otherwise it would become vague, distorted or completely perish. Teaching, capable of influencin human conduct in all ages, cannot exist by itself and impart itself; it requires books, schools and a competent system of solving questions that must inevitable arise.
Hence Christ established a church or “school of religion” to perpetuate His religious and moral truths; the New Testament, when written, became that school’s most precious text book; that school or Church acts with Christ’s authority and while she adapts herself to new conditions, she does not change her doctrine to suit a changing world; unity and stability of faith are necessary attributes of truth. For truth is always the same; two and two are always four; only error changes.
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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