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Vocation Chalice
Please stop by the Rectory Office during the week and pick up one of the vocation chalices.  Take it home for a week and pray for more vocations to the priesthood.  Your prayers and participation are needed.

A Humble King
Like a tonal center in music, the note to which we keep returning in today’s readings is humility. We wait in joyful expectation for the coming of our Lord as King. But what we are told to expect and rejoice over is a meek and humble king, riding on an ass. Not horses or chariots of the great and mighty, but a humble beast carries the Ruler whose dominion stretches “from the River to the ends of the earth” (Zechariah 9:10). This King comes to banish the tools of the warrior and bring peace. No wonder that a weary world rejoices and gives thanks to God!                © Copyright, J. S. Paluch Co.

Treasures from our Tradition
It’s Independence Day weekend, and we are in the middle of a series on the Eucharistic Prayer. There is a link worth tracing between the Declaration of Independence and the language of liturgy. One of the signers of the Declaration on that July 4 long ago was Charles Carroll, probably the wealthiest man in the colonies and one of the few Catholics on the political scene. As a flourish to his signature, he sought to distinguish himself from other prominent citizens bearing the same name by penning “Charles Carroll of Carrolltown”—a defiant “come and get me if you dare” postscript aimed at the British.

Carroll’s brother John was a priest and patriot who in 1789 was given the task of organizing the Catholic Church in this country. By 1791 he had assembled a synod, or assembly of delegates, to launch that task formally. Archbishop Carroll wanted to gain acceptance of our faith by American people who mistrusted our customs and could not comprehend our liturgy. He made the amazing proposal to Rome that our liturgy should be prayed not in Latin, but in the vernacular, English. His wish was denied, but one hundred sixty years later, his deep desire helped the American bishops and scholars at the Second Vatican Council to win the vote in favor of the vernacular not just for the United States, but for the Church throughout the world.

        —Rev. James Field, © Copyright, J. S. Paluch Co.

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Sunday July 06, 2008 - Today’s Readings - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
Today's Readings
First Reading — Rejoice heartily, O Jerusalem! For see, your savior comes (Zechariah 9:9-10)
Psalm — I will praise your name for ever, my king and my God (Psalm 145)
Second Reading — The one who raised Christ from death will give life to your mortal bodies also(Romans 8:9, 11-13)
Gospel — Come, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest (Matthew 11:25-30)