"You alone, O Jesus, could satisfy a soul that needed to love even to the infinite." -St. Thérèse of Lisieux

MASS TIMES

Saturday - Vigil Mass 4pm

Sunday - Mass at 7am, 8:30am*, 10am,11:30am

Fr. Rudy's Homily

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Our Vigil Mass is available online at 4pm on Saturday.

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Masks are recommended at all Masses.

*Masks and Social Distancing is required at the 8:30am Mass

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Romance, Marriage and Parenting

These three features of parenting—providing, guiding, and protecting—are essential for the flourishing of children. How children think about God, love and family is rooted in their experience of loving committed Catholic parents.

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TOMORROW October 2nd,

9:00am, **CHURCH COURTYARD**

Please have your pets leashes/crated/contained. Photos of your pets work also!

TIME CHANGED: Tuesday's Our Mother of Perpetual Help Devotion and Adoration Moved to 6:30 PM

The Catholic Daughters' Advent Reflection for Women will be held Friday, December 3rd. Members are in the courtyard before and after all Masses this weekend to provide you with information and to sign you up for this special event.

Poverello House: Annual FundraiserThe Poverello House in Tucson is currently hoping to raise funds to continue serving homeless men. The program offers services like food, showers, rest, washing clothes, and more. It's annual dinner will be held Oct. 4th, 2021. Read More

Faith and Family

Little habits for little prayers

Building prayer into our daily lives as a family is a great way to live out your faith in the little moments of life. Habits seem to 'stick' better when they are anchored to something - like a meal, time of day, place, or event. Here are a few other examples of 'little reminders' we can use to stop and pray. Kids especially love ones that you have to 'be on the lookout for'. It connects the world around them with prayer.

Little reminders for short little prayers:

When you hear an ambulance or sirens
When you see your favorite animal or plant
When driving by a church or hospital
When you see a first responder, healthcare worker, or military personnel
When you zip or unzip your backpack

Discuss as a family: What little reminder could you use to create a new prayer habit?

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Every Monday in October, 5:30pm in the Church

Msgr. John Lyons, our Judicial Vicar Emeritus and respected Canon Lawyer, unravels the seeming mysteries of the Tribunal, Annulment, and Reconciliation with a heart for ministry for the wondering.

Join St. Mark Parish by preparing for the resumed practice of your Faith by attending our prayerful seminar on Marriage, Divorce, and Reconciliation. All are welcome!

We need more trunks!

We need more families to sign-up to decorate a trunk for our well-attended Trunk or Treat, this year on October 30th.

There will be prizes for best decorated/themed trunks!

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No Longer Two But One Flesh

Many of Jesus' teachings were challenging to his followers.

When asked about divorce and why Moses would allow for this reality, Jesus seemingly evades the question, but his actually pointing back to the beginning of Genesis to how God created marriage to be:

"...from the beginning of creation, God made them male and female.

For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother

and be joined to his wife,

and the two shall become one flesh.

So they are no longer two but one flesh.

Therefore what God has joined together,

no human being must separate."

Explore this dimension of marriage as a sign of God's unbreakable love in this clip from Bishop Barron's series The Sacraments:

Questions for Additional Reflection:

How is our culture struggling to define marriage and the purpose of sexuality?
Christ is after the transformation of the human heart. Why?
According to the Bishop Barron video, why are Marriage and Holy Orders connected as sacraments?

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Note for MyParish App Users

65% of our parishioners that responded to our parish survey do not use our MyParish App. We are working on finding alternative resources for those that do and will be discontinuing our subscription at the end of December 2021.

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