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1507 S. Vann PO Box 576

Pryor, OK 74362 Phone 918 825-4186 Rectory 918 824-4470

Office Hours:

Monday—Thursday 8:30-3:00 pm

St. Mark Catholic Church Pryor, Oklahoma

Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 21, 2021

Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth.— Revelation 1:5

MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday English 10:00 am Sunday Spanish Mass 1:00 pm WEEKDAY MASSES Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 8:15 am CONFESSIONS: 15 Minutes before Mass

Pastor

Fr. Valen ne Ndebili Rectory: 918-824-4470

Hispanic Contact Conchita Landeros 918-803-7225 Secretary Jeff Kent - office:

- cell: 918-825-4186 Home Ministry Celene Windle 918-825-3303 918-214-1998 Men’s Club Mike Considine—President 918-825-1076

Adult Bible Study Core Group

Mary Butler 918-640-9427 Parish Council Dave Pilmaier—President 918-697-2589

Cursillo Mary Butler 918-640-9427 Family Life Sally McCoy 918-637-5134 Altar Society/Lady’s Club Phyllis Buffo 918-230-0557 Family Life Shirley Keith 918-458-7020

Religious Education Katrina Ballou (Pre-K-12th) 918-855-8981 RCIA Shirley Keith 918-458-7020

Music Ministry Susan Brosky 918-284-4602 Stewardship Becky Gore 918-825-1269

We extend a warm welcome to our visitors and those joining us for the first time. If you attend our Parish regularly or consider this your Parish, we welcome your prayer, time, and talents as an active member. Please contact the Pastor for information or to register. It’s safe, secure and easy to tithe online. Go To https://dioceseoftulsa.org/donate-to-support-a-specific-parish Be sure to choose St. Mark Pryor from the dropdown menu. Thank YOU for your offerings.

Responsorial Psalm: The Lord is King; he is robed in majesty.

Psalm 93:1, 1-2, 5

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Dn 1:1-6, 8-20; Dn 3:52-56; Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Dn 2:31-45; Dn 3:57-61; Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28; Dn 3:62-67; Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Dn 6:12-28; Dn 3:68-74; Lk 21:20-28 Thanksgiving Day, Suggested: Sir 50:22 -24; Ps 145:2-11; 1 Cor 1:3-9; Lk 17:11- 19 Friday: Dn 7:2-14; Dn 3:75-81; Lk 21:29-33 Saturday: Dn 7:15-27; Dn 3:82-87; Lk 21:34-36 Sunday: Jer 33:14-16; Ps 25:4-5, 8-10, 14; 1 Thes 3:12 — 4:2; Lk 21:25-28, 34-36

TODAY’S READINGS First Reading — One like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship (Daniel 7:13-14). Psalm — The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty (Psalm 93). Second Reading — Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead (Revelation 1:5-8). Gospel — For this I came into the world, to testify to the truth (John 18:33b-37).

CHRIST, THE KING The selection from the book of Daniel presented in today’s first reading was part of an attempt to weave a vision of ultimate success for the Jews under persecu-tion. Exactly whom the author had in mind when he refers to “one like a Son of Man” is hotly disputed by scholars today. The fact is, we simply do not know if the author meant anyone in particular or if this is a col-lective, figurative image of Israel’s triumph. What we do know is that the early Christian community seized upon this passage and recog-nized it as a messianic proph-ecy, a foretelling of the ulti-mate triumph of Jesus as the Christ of God. The Lection-ary’s juxtaposition of this text with today’s Gospel narrative of Jesus before Pilate is a wonderful example of how the liturgy “layers” passages with new meaning by inserting them in a particular context. The celebration of Christ the King allows us to hear these passages with a new depth of meaning in light of our contemporary under-standing of how, in Jesus and his resurrection and ascen-sion, we have seen the fulfill-ment of Daniel’s vision of ulti-mate deliverance. The veiled admission of Jesus before Pilate that he did indeed have a kingdom “not here” takes on new meaning against the cosmic vision of Daniel, who allows us to glimpse the “Ancient One” on his heavenly throne.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Although our Puritan forebears at Plymouth Rock were almost a hundred years removed from their Catholic roots, the old liturgical calendar still had an unconscious claim on their hearts. We’ve al-ready seen how on Saint Martin’s Day, November 11, medieval continental Europe observed a great harvest day of Thanksgiving, with games, dances, parades, and a festive dinner of roast goose. With the goose went ample draughts of “Saint Martin’s Wine,” the first wine of the new harvest. Martinmas celebrated full barns and larders stocked for the win-

ter. Even after the Refor-mation, the tradition of eat-ing goose on Saint Martin’s Day was retained in Hol-land, and it was there that our Pilgrims encountered this tradition. When Gover-nor Bradford sent four hunt-ers out into the Massachu-setts wilderness in the au-tumn of 1621, they did in-deed find some geese and ducks, and were persuaded by the indigenous people to try turkey, too. Just as the liturgical calendar has been tweaked over the years, President Roosevelt moved Thanks-giving to the third Thursday in November in 1939, prob-ably to extend the Christ-mas shopping season. The protest was so great that in 1941 the day established by President Lincoln, the last Thursday in November,

was restored. If the Pilgrims had known of the Mar-tinmas connection, they might never have celebrated at all!

November 27 2021 Greeters: 1 needed

Lectors: Mary Megginson Offertory: Volunteers Needed

Eucharistic Ministers: Richard Powell Volunteers are needed for

All of the spots SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

November 28, 2021 Donuts: Nicole Cates

Greeters: Sandy Collier Lectors: Sally Bair, Gonna Grossman

Offertory: Nicole Cates Eucharistic Ministers: Shirley Keith, Celene

Windle Servers: Bella Cates, Greg Cates

It is a pious and praiseworthy custom for the faithful to have Masses offered for their particular inten-tions, special celebrations and especially for the departed friends and loved ones. We have open-ings for mass requests on Saturdays, Sundays, and weekdays. The suggested offering is $10. These gifts are greatly needed and appreciated. Thank YOU very much for your generosity

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November 20—November 26 Birthdays & Anniversaries

Maria Trujillo November 20 Ramon Diaz November 22 Lenny Cravens November 23 Karin Grossman November 23 Susie Kent November 23 Karynne Lopez November 25

If your name is not on our list please update your rec-ords in the office.

Stewardship November 14, 2021

Collection: $ TBA.00

(Needed weekly): $ 3,800.00 Total: $ TBA.00 Capital Improvement:$ TBA.00

Building Maintenance Fund:$ TBA.00 Alter Candles: $ TBA.00

Coffee & Donuts: $ TBA.00 Mass Intention: $ TBA.00

YOUTH LEADERS Parents and youth leaders have identi-fied 23 St. Mark teenagers. Each one of them has at least one parishioner gener-ously supporting him or her with prayers for a year. Thank you for caring about our future leaders!

Saturday

November 20 4:15 pm 4:30 pm

Confessions Saturday Vigil Mass Intention for the Repose of the Soul ~ of David Megginson by Ellen Eaton

Sunday November 21 8:45 am 9:45 am

10:00 am 1:00 pm

RICA Resumed September 12 Confessions Mass ~ English Mass Intention for the Repose of the Soul ~ of Hurst Swiggart Jr. by the Swiggart Family Mass ~ Spanish

Monday November 22 6:00 am

Adoration

Tuesday

November 23 6-8:00 am 8:15 am

Adoration Mass Mass Intention for the Repose of the Soul of ~ Pat Grossman by Mary Gann

Wednesday November 24 6-8:00 am 8:15 am

Adoration Mass Mass Intention for the Spiritual Benefit of

Helen English & Mary Gann by Mary Gann

Thursday November 25 6-7:00 am

Adoration THANKSGIVING DAY

Friday November 26 6-8:00 am 8:15 am

Adoration Mass

Saturday November 27 4:15 pm 4:30 pm

Confessions Saturday Vigil Mass Intention for the Spiritual Benefit of ~ the Beverley Dieker by Ellen Eaton

Sunday November 28 8:45 am 9:45 am

10:00 am

1:00pm

RICA Resumed September 12 Confessions Mass ~ English Mass Intention for the Repose of the Soul ~ Barbara Duwel by Celene Windle Mass ~ Spanish

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We also pray for the homebound and sick

Nonie Schultz Ovie Almonds Mary Misiak Mirta Beyer

Bruce Kucharski Gladys Chidester

Please pray for the repose of the soul Marie Dardugno Ron Sedgwick

Paula Charqueno Deloris Ackerman

Tony Morris Sau Nguyen

Stanley Proctor Joyce Saffell Earl Gregory

Hurst Jefferson Swiggart Jr Leon Hurst

Parish Schedule

From Father Valen ne’s Desk Of all the tles we could bestow on Jesus, the tle of 'King' would seem one of the most inap-propriate. It smacks of the kind of things he rejected. When we think of a King we think of a crown, a palace, great wealth, power, pres ge and of course an army. When we look at Jesus what do we see? There is no throne, no crown, no army. We see him walking the dusty roads of Pales ne with a li le band of disciples. He is surrounded by the poor and the sick, sinners and outcasts.

And yet the tle 'King' is appropriate and it stands for something true and real in Jesus. He was the greatest source of goodness, light and hope in a dark world. His presence could change beyond recogni on the lives of those around him. There is a great person who makes everybody feel small. But the really great person makes everybody feel great. In that sense Jesus really was a King.

Look at the following examples from the past century and ask: Who are the more living examples of this type of kingship? Think of Mahatma Gandhi, Pope Francis, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, and local community leaders who make daily sacrifices in endless service to those around them. We some mes ask: Where is God? Today we are given an answer: God is on the cross, in a broken body asking us to climb up there with him and to look at the world from an en rely different perspec ve.

Reflect with me 'It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait un l you're ready. I have this feeling now that actual-ly no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a me as any.' ~ Hugh Laurie

FEAST OF FAITH Procession “The Mass is ended, go in peace.” At the be-ginning of Mass, the ministers entered in solemn procession, an emblem of the diverse community that comes together around the altar each week to celebrate the Eucharist. As Mass ends, another procession forms, and the ministers go forth from the church. This concluding procession also acts as an emblem of the entire assembly, who, nour-ished by the Eucharist, will now go forth to our scattered homes and places of work to be a trans-forming leaven of the gospel in the world. At the beginning of Mass, the priest kissed the altar as a sign of greeting, a gesture of reverence for Christ. Now, the priest reverences the altar again, this time in a gesture of farewell. We gather our things and go forth as we entered—but not quite. Through our celebration of the Eucharist, we have renewed our commitment to service of Christ our King, and we go forth nourished, strengthened, renewed—changed.

All Day Adoration All Day Adoration is Friday, December 3, 2022 from 9:00 am — 3:00 pm. You may reserve your time slot by signing up using the sheet in the nar-thex.

TRUE GRATITUDE Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds. —Theodore Roosevelt A THANKFUL HEART A thankful heart is not only the greatest vir-tue, but the parent of all the other virtues. —Cicero

Together in Holiness Conference

Saturday, February 5, 2022. This is a day of marriage enrichment and prayer. Hosted by the St. John Paul II Institute and the Diocese of Tul-sa. Childcare available. More info to come.

Creighton Practitioner Natural Family Planning Class

From the 19-26 of March, 2022 the Diocese of Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma will host a Creighton Model NFP Practitioner training ses-sion 1 of 2. This is a 13-month intensive course requiring client follow ups, case studies and practicums. Scholarship Available. For more info email: Audrey.stubblefield@dioceseoftulsa.org

Retrouvaille Revival The Diocese of Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma is looking to revive the weekend program Retrouvallie. This is a nationwide weekend pro-gram with follow-ups that are solely dedicated to providing the necessary support to help save marriages on the brink of separation and di-vorce. If you have been involved or attended Retrouvaille before and would like to help bring it back to Tulsa, please email: Audrey.stubblefield@dioceseoftulsa.org

Anima Christi

Soul of Christ, sanctify me; Body of Christ, save me; Blood of Christ inebriate me; Water from the side of Christ, wash me; Passion of Christ, strengthen me; O good Jesus, hear me; Within your wounds hide me; Separated from you, let me never be; From the evil one protect me; At the hour of my death, call me; And close to you bid me; That with your saints, I may be praising you for-ever and ever. Amen

ON THIS DAY— November 21 164 BC During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus re-captures Jersusalem and re-dedicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jew-ish festival Hanukkah 1818 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1906 China prohibits the opium trade 1970 General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup

1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by the Mukti Bahini, Bengali guerrillas, defeat the army of Pakistan

2017 Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's par-liaments during impeachment proceedings

Christmas Schedule 2021

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"Oh my heavens! What an amazing resource FORMED is. Every time I log in there is some-thing new and wonderful for our parishioners." —Silvia DRE FROM GAINESVILLE, TX

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Tue 6:30 12/15

Wed 6:00 Church Deco-

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12/24 Fri 5:30

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12/24 Fri 10:00

12/24 Fri 6:00

Christmas Day 12/25 Sat 10:00

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8:00 am (no Sat Vigil

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