Don't Look Back!
Just as Elijah calls Elisha to be the next prophet, putting his cloak around him (a symbol of his authority passing on), Jesus calls us to put on his yoke and follow him in discipleship.
The yoke that holds oxen together was a well-understood metaphor in the ancient world. St. Paul tells us not to "submit again to the yoke of slavery" (Gal. 5:1), but it's easy to look back to a life of comfort and pleasure, especially when faced with the prosecution that following Christ entails. But when God calls us, we must follow for there lies the only path to life in abundance!
"Even if our dwelling place here below is wasting away, we have an eternal dwelling place which God has already prepared in Christ, in his body."
Mark Your Calendars
Wednesday, June 29th
- Grab your tickets for our night out at the Sioux City Explorers baseball game with Holy Cross Parish. The first pitch is 7:05 PM at Mercy One Field. Tickets are just $10.00 and can be purchased by calling the Explorers Box Office (712) 277-9467.
Friday, July 1st
- Share your blooms! Help decorate Blessed Sacrament & St. Michael Churches this summer with your fresh floral blooms. Every Friday morning place your fresh cut stems in the identified water bucket at either Church. Then enjoy them at our weekend Masses!
Monday, July 4th
- Parish Office closed for the holiday.
- Mass schedule: 6:45 AM (BS), 9:00 AM (SM), No 5:30 PM (SM)
LOOKING AHEAD
- Cone Park Summer Tubing! Our parish is planning to be there on Thursday, August 11th. Get your tickets early by clicking here!
- The 2022 Catholic Women's Conference is Saturday, Aug. 13 from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. in Carroll. Registration is now open! Click here to register.
Events we are excited about:
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Exposition of Sacred Relics
Holy Cross Blessed Sacrament Parish Center
Sunday at 1:00 PM
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Join Holy Cross Parish on Wednesday, June 29th for a night out with the Sioux City Explorers as they take on the Sioux Falls Canaries! The first pitch is 7:05 PM at Mercy One Field.
Tickets are just $10.00 and can be purchased by calling the Explorers Box Office (712) 277-9467.
Father Zachary Jones was ordained yesterday!! Catch the replay by clicking the button below.
We are excited to be starting weekly Adoration!!
Call or text Mary Egan (712-253-5035) to
sign-up for an hour! We would like to have 2 people per hour as well as a substitute list.
Who are we praying for:
Prayer for Father Zachary Jones
O Jesus, our great High Priest, hear our humble prayers on behalf of your priest, Father Jones. Give him a deep faith, a bright and firm hope, and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of their priestly lives.
In his loneliness, comfort him; in his sorrows, strengthen him; in his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified. Show him that he is needed by the Church, he is needed by souls, he is needed for the work of redemption.
O loving Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination, and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christ in a world which needs him so much. Be his comfort, be his joy, be his strength, and especially help him to live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy.
Amen.
What are we watching:
Pray About It? Or Just Do It?
Have you heard the phrase, “Ora et Labora” before? What about the maxim, “Pray as if everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.”
Today Fr. Mike breaks down the Benedictine charism of prayer AND work and offers us some food for thought when tempted to fall into fatalism or quietism and remove our will from the equation.
What are we listening to:
This Catholic Life
This Catholic Life is a show about Ordinary Catholics having a relaxed, informal, and genuinely searching conversation about current issues, the challenges and hardships of life and what light “This Catholic Life” brings to these things.
**Parents this is a great podcast for your teens! Check it out and share it with them.
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