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JULY 18, 2021

Father Bill Kempf, Pastor

Father John J. Johnson,

Retired Archdiocesan Priest, in Residence

Deacon Mark Jaeger

11910 Eddie & Park Rd, Sunset Hills, MO 63126

https://stjustinmartyr.org

SUNDAY LITURGIES

Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:30 9a.m. & 11 a.m.

WEEKDAYS

Monday thru Friday: 6:30 a.m., 8:00 a.m. Mass

Saturday: 8:05 a.m.

HOLY DAY MASSES

On the day 6:30 a.m., 8:0oa.m., 7:00 p.m.

(Exceptions will be noted in the bulletin.)

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

Saturday: 4:00 - 4:45 p.m.

Anytime by appointment.

SACRAMENTS OF BAPTISM AND MARRIAGE

Please call the Parish Office (314) 843-8482

ext. 0 to make arrangements for these sacra-

ments.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK AND

HOMEBOUND VISITATION

Please call the Parish Office (314) 843-8482 if

anyone is homebound, in the hospital, criti-

cally ill or wishes to receive the Eucharist or

the Anointing of the Sick

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NEW PARISHIONERS

We warmly welcome new parishioners and

visitors. Let us know how we may be of ser-

vice to you. Our Parish believes in the Stew-

ardship Program committing to serving the

Lord with our God-given time, talent and

treasure. You may register by calling the

Parish Office at (314) 843-8482 x0

ST. JUSTIN MARTYR RECTORY

314-843-8482 | 314-843-8507 (fax)

ST. JUSTIN MARTYR SCHOOL

11914 Eddie & Park Rd.

314-843-6447 | 314-843-9257 (fax)

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE

11914 Eddie & Park Rd

314-843-6447, ext. 2499

BULLETIN DEADLINE

10:00 a.m. on Monday

[email protected]

2 | WELCOME TO SAINT JUSTIN MARTYR CHURCH

MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 18, 2021

MON: 6:30 am: Jerry Adlon

8:00 am: Richard Schmidt

TUE: 6:30 am: Shirley Weinmann

8:00 am: Bill Schroeder

WED: 6:30 am: William Radman

8:00 am: Celebrant Intention

THR: 6:30 am: Celebrant Intention

8:00 am: Catherine Zimmerly

FRI: 6:30 am: Maddie and Jim Ebeling

8:00 am: Lawrence Kaiser

SAT: 8:00 am: Celebrant Intention

5:00 pm: Tammy Green

SUN: 7:30 am: Celebrant Intention

9:00 am: People of the Parish

11:00 am: Carol Belloli

Stewardship

“He said to them, “Come away by yourselves to a de-

serted place and rest a while.” MARK 6:31

Do you spend time, every day, alone and in silence listen-

ing to how God is calling you? If not, you are missing out

on a wonderful opportunity to develop a more personal

relationship with Him. Unless we talk and more im-

portantly, listen to God every day, how else will we know

how He is calling us? Consider making a retreat this year,

spend some “alone” time with God.

SUNDAY, JULY 18, 2021 /SIXTEETNH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 3

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General Fund Donation

Month of July: $ 62,328.00

Please pray for the repose of the soul of:

Walter (Wally) Bush

Died Sunday, July 4, Husband of Karen

Take him home, fill him, with peace and bless those who will miss him.

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Please remember to let the Parish Office know

of changes to the prayer list by calling

843-8482 x0. Thank you!

Homebound/Nursing Home Parishioners

Jane Betteken

Dee Christian

Mary Ann Grigone

Christopher Hack

June Hirlinger

Julian Najbar

J. Harvey Stark

Rose Wahlig

Parishioners

Carol Bell

Janice Berchelmann

Don Binz

Mary Bolesta

Dolores Bradford

Deborah Busch- Cejka

Rheal & Kit

Desrochers

Barbara Divincen

Loretta Duncan

Tina Evers

Marie Favazza

Daniel & Mary Beth

Foley

MaryLeeAnn Giardina

LaVerne Gyaky

Robert Hirner

Ginny Kelly

Mary Alice Kissel

Mary Ann Kochanski

Amanda Kulikowski

Polet Lara

Fran Lee

Lorraine Leicht

Arleen Lutz

Bill & Sylvia Marsh

Norm Merlo

Kelly Murawski

Craig O’Mara

Joseph Pazdernik

Dorothy Pfaff

Amy Polokonis

Garry & Lee Robben

Rosemarie Sabatini

Frances & Joey

Scharenborg

Art Schuermann

Marylyn Simpson

Geraldine Steyns

Justin Stratmann

Jan Tedoni

Mike Tennant

Mayda Vigil

Mary Wainscott

Jeanne Wanner

Friends and Family

Ed Bersche�

Mark Breihan

Betty Casey�

Brendyn Driver�

Fran’s Family�

Mimi & Steve Haag�

Jennifer Knapczyk

Janet Malon

Vicki Mansfield

Christi Riley

Kelly Ross�

Josh Stephens

John Willett

Mark Woodson

Looking for a fun and easy way to help your

parish? The St. Justin Martyr Greeter and

Usher ministry could use your help. The

smiling face of a greeter or usher is among

one of the first faces a parishioner or visitor

sees when entering the Church, and has an impact. It is a

great way to get to know more people of the parish. You

may offer your services at the Mass you usually attend.

We hope to have enough ushers to form two teams for

(most) Masses, then be on duty only alternating months.

If not able to serve regularly, we also maintain a staff of

substitutes to fill in when an usher requests. If interested,

or would like more info, contact Mike Koehler at 314-821-

1871, or email [email protected].

Parish Library

New books have been accumulat-

ing in the library holdover (aka the

librarian’s casa) during the pan-

demic shutdown, so we’re anxious

to get them out in the library.

Look for these biographies and

other new additions on our “New

Additions” shelf:

BERNADETTE SPEAKS—A Life

of Saint Bernadette Soubirous in

Her Own Words

SAINT EDITH STEIN—A Spiritual Portrait

WOMEN SAINTS—Lives of Faith and Courage Forty

women saints who may be familiar and many who aren’t.

Just a note, please return all library materials to the YEL-

LOW BASKET on the shelf so they can be sanitized before

they’re put back in circulation. Thank you.

Dynamic Catholic, Alive!—the Word �

Many of us have heard the jokes that Catholics don’t

read the Bible. While it is true that the sacramental life

of the Catholic Church is wonderful and surpasses the

power of Scripture alone, it is imperative for us to read

and pray with Scripture. Jesus, the Word made flesh,

reminds us in His words to the disciples how important

it is to hear the Word of God, to meditate on it, and to

implement its truths into our daily lives. He reminds us

of the necessity to be rooted in it and to allow it to be-

come the wellspring from which all of our thoughts,

words, and actions flow. We should read Scripture every

single day of our lives, whether that means going to daily

Mass and listening to the readings, praying lectio divina,

or praying a daily Bible verse on one of the various apps.

St. Jerome once said that ignorance of Scripture is igno-

rance of Christ. We come to a fuller knowledge and rela-

tionship with the Lord when we read the Scriptures.

archstl.org/dynamic

Faith Direct

As businesses and churches

reopen, we are beginning

the summer season. It is

during these months that

we depend the most on

online giving to continue

our ministry. We prayerfully

invite you to use eGiving to set up a recurring donation or

make a one-time gift. Sign up today using your computer,

smartphone, or tablet by visiting https://

faith.direct.MO884 or text ‘Enroll’ to (443) 981-2064.

hank you for your continued support of our parish family.

Just a heads up for all those parishioners who need to receive the low

gluten hosts, I realized once we made the change to THREE lines for com-

munion, I would need to have THREE pixes with those hosts in them. So,

two weeks late, every line for communion now has that option available

to you. Thank you for your patience as we continue to iron out all the

details of Mass in the time of Covid...

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I found out last Friday (7/9) that I was exposed to someone who had an

active case of Covid. I was surprised to find that out, as they were in the

over 65, at risk group, and I just presumed they had been vaccinated.

They were not. Thus, what should have been a somewhat quiet after-

noon was taken up at the Urgent Care center, being tested, so that I

would know if it would be safe for you to have me be the celebrant at the weekend Masses. Fortunately, I tested neg-

ative.

I bring this up because I (and other pundits) believe that we are at a different, and somewhat awkward stage in the

pandemic. We know that the vaccines work, and that they work at a near miraculous rate. (98-99% is a crazy level of

effectiveness for any medication, much less a vaccine.) We also know that not everyone has been vaccinated, some

because they cannot be and some because they will not be. And that the delta variant of the virus is much more con-

tagious than the original corona virus strain (and that one was pretty dang contagious in itself) and that it is the pre-

dominant strain found in the new cases in Missouri (and the U.S.).

Add to that mix that people are tired of the pandemic. It has been politicized by both parties and used as driver for

all kinds of political ends and agendas to tragic results on both sides of the aisle. One of my good friends is an ER

room doctor at Boone Hospital in Columbia, MO, and she is worried, less for herself now she is vaccinated, but more

for the patients she sees ever more frequently. The ‘long haul’ symptoms for people who have recovered from even

slight cases of Covid are beginning to be problematic in her practice. “It is not a nice disease to catch, even if it is a

mild case” she says simply. “And for those that get the full blown case... it is downright nasty.”

No one wants to go back to the lockdowns of last year. I get that. I love NOT having to wear my mask as I preside at

the altar. And yet...I will do it in a heartbeat if that is what it takes to keep people safe. A parishioner sent a picture of

a button being worn inside of a church in Indiana which read: “I am fully vaccinated. I wear a mask as a charitable way

to protect the vulnerable and to care for the common good.”

That message resonates with me. That is why you have seen me and will continue to see me wearing a mask in the

gathering space in the back of church and as I process down the aisle. I understand that as a vaccinated person, I am

at lower risk for getting the virus and passing it on. But it is not a zero risk. And I am ‘exposed’ to a lot of people in

the course of a week’s time – between hospital visits, Masses and people dropping in to the rectory. I don’t know eve-

ry one’s status. Nor do I ask. So, to protect others, to keep the risk of me being an unwitting transmitter of the virus

to others, I will continue to wear the mask, doing my part to keep people as safe as I can.

The USCCB issued this comment back in January. It remains true today.

“Receiving the COVID-19 vaccine ought to be understood as an act of charity toward the other members of our community,"

they said. "In this way, being vaccinated safely against COVID-19 should be considered an act of love of our neighbor and

part of our moral responsibility for the common good.”

Charity to protect the vulnerable and to care for the common good sometimes is as simple as wearing a mask in-

doors or getting a vaccine when available. Please do your part as we struggle here in Missouri to keep this pandemic

under control. �

4| WELCOME TO SAINT JUSTIN MARTYR CHURCH

From the Desk of:

Father Bill Kempf

Seeking four more St. Justin

Martyr PSR teachers! Do you

enjoy working with children

and youth? Do you have an

interest in growing in and

sharing your Catholic faith? If

so, please consider being a

catechist for the Parish School

of Religion program. This role

involves you to bring our

young people closer to Jesus

and grow in their faith as Catholics. Classes meet on

Sunday mornings from 9:30-10:45am. Please contact

Marge Meiners for further information

at [email protected]

SUNDAY, JULY 11, 2021 /FIFTEETNH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME | 5

July 24-25: Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lector Server

Mass

Coordinator

Extraordinary

Minister

Cele-

brant

Deacon

Usher / Seater

Saturday, 5:00 PM

Ann

Ludlow

Max Golden

Riley Mosby

Not Filled

Al Hauser Tom McCarthy

Edward Shaver

Father

Kempf

Kurt Ahrens

Timothy Kinealy

Sandra Hauser

Sunday, 7:30 AM

Carol Craft Kaelin Pytlinski

Mary Wilke

Not Filled

Bonnie

Bausano

Megan Onder

Steve Ringkamp

Mary Anne

Vitale

Father

Johnson

Rich Bland

Steve Ringkamp

Glenn Zipfel

Sunday, 9:00 AM

Martin

Lipic

Michael Bersche

Not Filled

Not Filled

Jeannine

Szatkowski

Mary Gioia

Margaret

Sommer

Father

Kempf

James Book

Doug Farmer

Daniel Szatkowski

Sunday, 11:00 AM

Liz Miller Rose Miller

Not Filled

Not Filled

Bob Cejka Elizabeth Boll

Mark Jaeger

Molly Jones

Father

Jonson

Thomas Van Mierlo,

Jr.

Not Filled

Not Filled

PSR Enrollment is now OPEN

PSR Enrollment is now OPEN for the 2021-2022 School

Year. We will be offering in-person classes on Sunday

mornings (9:30am-10:45am) beginning in late August for

students entering 1

st

-8

th

grades. Please register on the

Faith Direct website. Contact Marge Meiners

at [email protected] with any ques-

tions. Website Link: https://membership.faithdirect.net/

events/details/6700

Faith Alive in the Home supports

parents in being the first teachers

of the faith, using methods that

incorporate faith into children’s

daily lives. Faith Facilitators are

trained parishioners who:

Provide In-home visits monthly —Help parents set faith

goals and form friendships with other Catholic families

Serving Families with toddlers (18 mos-4 years)

Are you interested in becoming a trained facilitator?

Contact: Marge Meiners 314-635-2499

[email protected]

We are eager to gather back together and start making a

difference again! St. Justin parishioners are ready to bring

back our Social Justice Ministry. If you are interested in

getting back involved or are new and want to join—please

contact Marge Meiners at [email protected] .

We will schedule a planning meeting over the summer.

6| WELCOME TO SAINT JUSTIN MARTYR CHURCH

Garden Team

Some parishioners have asked about the tall purple flow-

ers in the corner garden across from the front entrance

of church. We are passing on this interesting bit of in-

fo. This perennial is called Lythrum and a web search

indicated they are invasive and not to be sold or planted

in the state of Missouri. The gardeners met this past

week to trim, deadhead, weed and water. Questions

about the Garden Team, call Laura at 729-7360.

Needles and Knots

Stop in the Rectory basement Monday evening 7-9(ring

the doorbell at the basement level) or Thursday 10-2 if

you need a unique gift to welcome a new arrival. We

have several baby quilts available for purchase. Pro-

ceeds from sales are given to the parish. For more info

contact Laura at 729-7360.

A CHANCE TO MEET NEW FAMILIES AND SEE OLD

FRIENDS WHILE STILL MAINTAINING SOCIAL DISTANCE

THURSDAY AUGUST 12 @ 6:30 PM-TROPICAL

MOOSE SHAVED ICE (150 E Argonne Dr KIRKWOOD)

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT JENNY

BLANKENSHIP @ (314) 578-2028 OR

[email protected]

*IF RAINING, THE EVENT IS CANCELLED*�

Save the Date!

Saturday, August 28 �

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Let’s get together and end the summer

with some fun! Hope to see you there!

**Look for registration details in August.�

We are in need of hosts. If you can help

with this HSO Fundraiser,�

please contact Jennifer Richter at jen-

[email protected]�

or Sheila Vita at [email protected]

for more information. Thank you!�

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