Parish Contacts Pastor Rev. Rob Lathrop................... 641-636-3883

E-mail: lathropr@diodav.org

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Sigourney

JoEllen O’Rourke ....................... 641-622-2316

E-Mail: stmarysgrnyia@iowatelecom.net

Fax....................................................... 641-622-2389

Keota

Kara Sobaski ........................... 319-461-4501

kmdotski@gmail.com

St. Mary Parish Office Hours

Monday - Thursday

8:30 AM - 12 noon

Parish Office Phone

641-622-2316

Holy Trinity Office Hours

Wednesday & Friday

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Office Phone - 641-636-3883

Bulletin deadline -

Wednesday at 9:00 A.M.

For ease in relaying messages for

bulletin, send via email to:

stmarysgrnyia@iowatelecom.net

AUGUST 9, 2020 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

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Eucharistic Celebration Saturday - 8/8 - 5:00 PM (K) † Bud/Verna Dempsy Sunday - 8/9 - 8:30 AM (K) † Genevieve Altenhofen

Sunday - 8/9 - 10:30 AM (S) † Ron/LeaAnn Strohman

Tuesday - 8/11 - 9:00 AM (S) † Herbert Peiffer

† Richard Weber

Wednesday - 8/12 - 9:00 AM (K) † Ron Merz

Thursday - 8/13 - 9:00 AM (S) † Myron Herman

Friday - 8/14 - 9:00 AM (K)

† Brian Cave

Saturday - 8/15 - 5:00 PM (K)

† Henry Greiner Sunday - 8/16 - 8:30 AM (K) † Albert/Anna Sieren Family

Sunday - 8/16 - 10:30 AM (S) † Jeff Patzner

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To schedule a Mass intention, please contact Jo O'Rourke during her office hours of 8:30-noon, M-Th. 641-622-2316 or stmarysgrny-ia@iowatelecom.net Mass stipends for the Davenport Diocese at $5 per Mass.

Parish Staff Religious Education St. Mary Office 641-622-2316 Shannon Greiner - Holy Trinity Cell 641-660-3063

keotaholytrinitydre@diodav.org Altar & Rosary

St. Mary Parish Office

641-622-2316 Kathy Greiner - Holy Trinity 319-330-6166 Ruth Johnson - HT Parish Center Rental - 641-799-1678-Leave Message Prayer Line

Sigourney - Nancy Weber 622-2877

Bibi Glandon 622-3232 Keota Jeanette Besser 641-635-2303 Keota Connie Sieren 641-636-3856

St. Mary Ministers

St. Mary Parish Ministers - for the month of August Volunteer Eucharistic Minister and Lector for Tuesday & Thursday morning Masses Sunday 8/9 10:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Mary Sue Votroubek LECTOR Holly Martin Sunday 8/16 10:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Connie McLaughlin LECTOR Connie McLaughlin Sunday 8/23 10:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Cheryl Monroe LECTOR Cheryl Monroe Sunday 8/30 10:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Donna Bair LECTOR Janis Collins

Holy Trinity Ministers

Holy Trinity Parish Ministers - for the month of August Volunteer Eucharistic Minister and Lector for Wednesday & Friday morning Masses Weekend of Aug. 8 & 9 Saturday, 8/8, 5:00 PM Sunday, 8/9, 8:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Kevin Greiner Kathy Davis LECTOR Erin McGuire Scott Sieren Weekend of Aug. 15 & 16 Saturday, 8/15, 5:00 PM Sunday, 8/16, 8:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Kathleen Greiner Larry Davis LECTOR Don Conrad Tim Sieren Weekend of Aug. 22 & 23 Saturday, 8/22, 5:00 PM Sunday, 8/23, 8:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Cindy Weber Scott Sieren LECTOR Erin McGuire Scott Sieren Weekend of Aug. 29 & 30 Saturday, 8/29, 5:00 PM Sunday, 8/30, 8:30 AM EUCHARISTIC MINISTER Kevin Greiner Nadine Greiner LECTOR Don Conrad Tim Sieren

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St. Mary Stewardship

Envelopes Weekly Budget ............................... $2,307 Received ........................................... $1,229 Envelope Budget to Date ............. $11,535 Actual to Date ................................ $11,786

Offertory Weekly Budget .................................. $240 Received ............................................... $40 Offertory Budget to Date .............. $1,200 Actual to Date ....................................$440

Announcements—St. Mary

Thursday - 8/13

Catechist Meeting @ HTP, 6:30 PM

This is an important meeting. All new and current

catechist are encouraged to attend.

Our condolences to the family of Rosemary Shannon, who passed away on Sunday, August 2. Her funeral will be at a later time.

Being Human is to Doubt

Humans doubt. It’s what we do. We doubt ourselves and we doubt others.

Before any of us say anything about Peter’s doubting the words of Jesus that told him he could get out of his boat and walk on water, we need to get real with ourselves: How would I respond in the same situation? I remember when I was child taking swim-ming lessons. One day I simply tightened up my muscles and sank. The lifeguard pulled me up and asked what happened. I said I did not know. The truth is that I was sinking under the weight of my own doubt. I did not believe I could do what clearly, I was told I could. That was only in five feet of water in a pool! Now that I’m older, I can look back and laugh. But an adult, the swim-ming pool is life, and I would be lying if I said that there are no longer times I find myself sinking due to new doubts.

Much of our doubt comes about because of a lack of trust in God. We place our trust in material things, wealth, or imperfect people instead of the One who is worthy of our trust 100 percent of the time. Our stewardship is often hampered by our doubt that God will provide all that we need. If I give more, I may not have enough to survive! When we place all our trust in God, not only do we find that we have been given all we need – our doubt that cause us to sink in the pool of life fades away. We don’t suddenly become perfect in our trust, and there will be times when we find ourselves with concerns again. However, it is in those moments we find that He is still there, speaking the words we need to hear: “Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.”

BIBLE TRUTH Each person marvels to find in the divine scriptures truths which they themselves have thought out. —St. Thomas Aquinas

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Be still and know that I am God. Silence is sacred. Silence speaks the language of the soul and is the foundation of all life and eter-nity itself. Silence takes us beyond the limits of our minds and allows us to seek and to love the essence of all love, perfect love, and being. In silence, we can be non-verbally present to things and to God in ways that words cannot accomplish. We can dis-cover, encounter, and be present to truths that our minds struggle to conceive and then set aside the boxes we put around things when comprehending them is challenging. We can know the un-knowable and touch eternity when we encounter the core silence in our souls.

We can do this even on a noisy street and in the midst of the greatest distraction. Once we have made friends with silence, the rambling noise of the world no longer seems to matter, and we can carry a deep forgiving peace within us, even when physical silence cannot be found. We know that we are loved, cared for, sustained, nourished, embraced, and carried. There is nothing to fear in silence, and I can be present to myself in the same way that God is present to me. I can see myself as God sees me. All of my faults, weaknesses, imperfections, failings, and sinfulness melt away in the abundance of God’s mercy. All of the worldly things we see as being important no longer are.

It is in silence that all of the barriers that divide us disappear. There is no more “yours” and “mine” but only the oneness of “ours.” There is no longer a need to “figure things out,” and we tap into our desire to simply let things be. Silence is creative and powerful and gives us hope. Silence is God’s greatest blessing. God became one with humanity in silence. It allows us to be one with all of creation, with the moon and the stars and all of the creatures God has made. The smallest particle of creation radiates with beauty. Silence allows us to soar beyond ourselves and con-nect in ways that the mind can only imagine. When all is quiet, we begin to see that it is only our fear that keeps us from the Lord. It is our fear that causes us to sink and to fail. We can hear the gentle whisper that tells us to reach for God’s hand. We dis-cover that we yearn for the salvation and wholeness that only God can give to us. Be still my soul and be at peace.

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Announcements—Holy Trinity

Holy Trinity Stewardship - No Report Available

Thursday - 8/13

Catechist Meeting @ HTP, 6:30 PM

This is an important meeting. All new and current

catechist are encouraged to attend.

NOTHING TO FEAR A rabbi was asked why God sends trials and troubles into human lives. “Because God gets lonely for his people” was the reply. There is some resonance with this wisdom in today’s Gospel, as Jesus makes his disciples get into a boat without him and goes off alone while they venture into stormy waters. Of course, neither Jews nor Christians believe that the Almighty plays this sort of whimsical game with them, but there is some truth in the statement that we don’t turn to God for saving help until we’re in a bind. Peter’s role today, as it is throughout the New Testa-ment, is to be a sign or to represent each member of the church and the whole church. Our story is the tale told about Peter’s faith today. What can bolster our faith is that even when Christ calls us to face bravely the tempests of life, if we are walking through them with our eyes fixed on him in faith, we have nothing to fear. Even when we falter or sink, simply crying “Lord, save me!” is enough to help us know the steady grasp of God’s hand. Then, shel-tered inside the walls of faith, the storms we endure lose their power over us.

WHAT I KNOW As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. —Socrates

Holy Trinity Catholic Church Monday, August 17th 2:30 pm to 7:30 pm

Largos Acres Golf Course 2010 Keokuk-Washington Rd Keota

To Donate Contact: Cindy Weber

319-330-6349 caweber@windstream.net

PLEASE READ DO NOT GIVE BLOOD IF: • you have been diagnosed with COVID-19 UNTIL 28 days after your recovery (no fever, cough or other respiratory symptoms and no need for oxygen); • you are wait-ing for a test result for COVID-19. If it is negative and you are well, you may donate. If it is positive you must wait 28 days from your testing date and be well; • in the last 14 days you have been within six feet of someone who has the virus or is being tested for the virus for greater than 15 minutes without use of personal protective equip-ment; • you have fever, cough, or shortness of breath. Call 800-747-5401 or text 999-777 and we will determine when you will be eligible to give blood.

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Readings for the Week of August 9, 2020 Monday: 2 Cor 9:6-10/Jn 12:24-26 Tuesday: Ez 2:8—3:4/Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 Wednesday: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22/Mt 18:15-20 Thursday: Ez 12:1-12/Mt 18:21—19:1 Friday: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63 Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 /Mt 19:3-12 Saturday: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/1 Cor 15:20-27/Lk 1:39-56 Next Sunday: Is 56:1, 6-7/Rom 11:13-15, 29-32/Mt 15:21-2

To report child abuse contact: Iowa Department of Human Services Child Abuse Hotline: 800-362-2178 and if it involves clergy or church personnel also notify Alicia Owens, the Victim Assis-tance Coordinator, 563-349-5002; vac@diodav.org or PO Box 232, Bettendorf, IA 52722-0004.

Reconciliation - By appointment only.

FROLICSOME Anyone who wishes to frolic with the devil cannot re-joice with Christ. —St. Peter Chrysologus