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May 24th, 2020 Vol. 38 No. 42

St. Stephen’s Catholic Church 4601 Neely Avenue Midland, Texas 79707 (432) 520-7394 Fax (432) 520-7395

www.ststephensmidland.com

Rev. Rodney White, Pastor Assistant Pastor: Rev. Freddy Perez

Deacons: Leonard Hendon, Luis Mata, Fidel Saldivar, Larry Salazar Director of Religious Education: Gretchen Lara

Music Director: Gabriel Salgado Youth Director: Crystal Villareal

We have implemented safety protocols that you should still be aware of:

• If an individual is sick, they are asked to watch Mass online • Those aged 65 and older are urged to view Mass online. • The “cry room” will be reserved for those over 65. • All people at Mass over the age of 2 must wear a face mask, please bring your own. • Communion will be distributed in the hand only. • Every other pew is to be blocked off and seating will keep 6 feet between family groups. • There will be no hand holding.

• There will be no congregating after Mass is complete. • The collection plate will not be passed around but to contribute there will be a basket at the front of the Church. • All choir members must maintain 6 feet separation and wear masks.

We are looking forward to seeing everyone! Please be patient that Mass will be a bit different, we are all trying to figure this out together.

Fr. Rodney White Fr. Freddy Perez

Faith in the time of coronavirus

PLEASE STAY IN TOUCH WITH US AND VISIT THE PARISH WEBSITE FREQUENTLY

FOR WEEKEND MASS AND IMPORTANT PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DOSA

UPDATES

Know you are in our prayers during these concerning and challenging times.

St. Stephen's parish is a caring faith community. You are invited to contribute your intentions so that we may all join in lifting them in prayer, please visit our website to submit a

prayer request. https://ststephensmidland.com/prayer-requests

PARISH OFFICE HOURS OPEN TO PUBLIC

Monday –Tuesday- Thursday

8:00 AM - 6:00 PM (closed 12:00 PM- 1:00 PM for Lunch)

Wednesday

8:00 AM– 5:00 PM (closed 12:00PM—1:00PM for Lunch)

FRIDAY

Office Closed

The parish office has gone back to normal business

hours.

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ST. STEPHEN’S CONFESSION SCHEDULE

Monday - Tuesday - Thursday

- Friday 6:45 am - 7:00 am & 5:00 - 5:30

pm

Wednesday 6:45 a.m.-7 a.m.; 5-5:30 p.m.

Saturday

7:45 am - 8:00 am; 4:00 - 4:45 pm

Sunday

8:15 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.; 11:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.; 4:15 p.m. -

4:45 p.m. Anytime by appointment.

Last Week’s Collection Mailed In / Dropped Off May Online

Regular

Collection $15,635.00 $5,525.00 Second Collection $3,387.00 $570.00 Other Income: $1,121.00

**Includes contributions for: Helping Hands, Catholic Communications Campaign, Catholic Home Missions, Catholic Relief

Services, Easter Flowers, Holy Land, Poor Parish/Mission Assistance, Mother’s Day Remembrance Memorials

Monday, May 25th– St. Bede the Venerable

Tuesday, May 26th– St. Philip Neri, Priest

Wednesday, May 27th-St. Augustine of Canterbury, Bishop

Thursday, May 28th-Easter Weekday

Friday, May 29th-Easter Weekday

Saturday, May 30th– Easter Weekday

Sunday, May 31st-Pentecost Sunday

Mass Intentions For the week of May 24th, 2020

If you would like to make an announcement for your ministry or event please email : Bulletin@ststephensmidland.com

as far in advance as possible. The bulletin deadline is Tuesday at 10am. We encourage you to get any announcements to us the week before

to ensure we have space for your message. Thank you!

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May 24 Eduviges Aguirre Enrique Catalan

Celinda Hernandez Mary Medrano Angie Sanchez Melissa Tejada Enrique Urias

Bryan Velasquez May 25

Ricardo Barrera Jr. Jaime Carrasco

Daniel Cervantes Hermelinda Galindo

Jonah Garcia Veronica Griego

Yanely Hernandez Rick Moreno

Manessa Smith Nicklaus Stewart

Sofia Torres Damian Vasquez Jr.

Alizay Vasquez-Rodriguez

Michael Vizcaino May 26

Carmen Barto Debora Buchanan

Jesse Galindo Daniel Garcia Jesse Galindo Lauren Klein

Alex Krol Alexandria Leyva

Ted Meade III Natalee Primera Jaime Ramos Maleny Ramos Maria Esther

Reynosa Neri Vengas

May 27 Aldo Aranda Jacob Boss

Mike Edward Cardenas

Lee Cardone Nadyeli Castillo

Alma Chavarriars Waylon Corley

Joseph Gallegos Jaxen Hill

Emmanuel Ortega Charles Perry

May 28 Larry Armador Martha Aranda

Maria Flores Larry Galindo

Stetson Gonzalez Jacqueline Marquez

Gabriel Moreno Steve Mueller Juan Sanchez

Ricardo Sanchez Holly Waugh

May 29 Waddy Altman Vincent Egely Flor Gonzalez Maria Licon Lluvia Loya

Ace Marquez Richard Mast Kathryn Orth

Caitlin Clare Pause Sonya Santiago Matthew Stice Keith Trasko

May 30 Zavyan Nicholas

Alvarado Gina Kollar

Mirella Medoza Emma Padja Beatriz Urias

May 31 Armando Acosta

Bobby Amalla DeeDee Arnzen

Aj Gomez Debra Gonzales Liam Guzman

Natalie Jordaan Art Lopez

Kimberleigh Lujan Marco Manriquez Madalyn Marquez Stephanie Rivas

Griselda Rodriguez Jo Ann Viney

Bob Breeze, Brenda VladyKo, Mona, Fran, Gerry & others , Noah Garcia, Yulisa Garcia, Crystal Garcia, Emma Valdez, Yolanda Rodriguez & Garcia Family, Joe Munoz lll, Terisa Garza, Jesus Munoz, Ana Morin, Julio Rodriguez, Mingo Lujan, Stephanie Mendoza, Anna Marie

Lunsford, Ignacio (Jr.) Villegas, Zaman Kachir, Raquel Ramirez, Katherine Kirwan, Elia Sauceda, Goyo Valeriano, Selena Jaquez, Enzo Villa, Michelle Franco, Denisse Feregrino, Juan Miguel Flores, Lisa Esther Punete, Olivia Anzures, Maria Esther Estrada, Felix Munoz ll, Jose Martinez Jr. ,Precious Medires, Julian Rodriguez, Ruth Alvardo, Burdette Family, Vasquez Family, Isaiah V., Carlota V., Rod T., Judy D., Mary Helen Smith, Candace Rosas. A.J Garrett, Dolores Higgins, Alexia Aguirre, Larry White, Arthur Garcia, Domingo Carrizales, Colter Marcum, Joe Teagarden, Raul Lujan, Adamari Rosas, Gloria K, Magdalena Mendoza, Stella Torres, Alma Garcia, Joe Teagarden, Dayton Martinez, Natalie Gamboa, Ruby Morales, Alfonso Marquez, Avery King Jr., Dora Lopez, Mary Bryan, Elida Rodriguez, Mendoza Family, Christian Molina, Claudia Molina, Valerie C., Andy Stone, Daniel & Alicia, Isaiah V., Julia G, Julia H.

Email Frontdesk@ststephensmidland.com or call the office at 520-7394 to be added to the prayer list! If someone needs to be removed from prayer list

please contact the office to remove request. Thank you!

Envíe un correo electrónico a frontdesk.sscc@att.net o llame a la oficina al 520-7394 para ser incluido en la lista de oración! Si alguien necesita ser

removido de la lista de oración, por favor comuníquese con la oficina. Gracias!

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Youth News

PEEK AT THE MONTH… ALL TEENS INVITE

May: • We have activities still going on for the youth on Zoom. If

your youth is interested please send us an email. for grades 6th-12th. Thank you and God Bless!

Crystal Villareal : Ph: (432)-520-7394 youthministryststephens@gmail.com

Munch-N-Lunch Tuesday’s!

Munch-N-Lunch has been

postponed until further notice.

Young Adults/

Jovenes Adultos

Romans 15:13 Beautiful One, I pray that You – the God of hope – fill me with all joy and peace as I

trust in You, so that I may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Righteous God, I declare that I remain filled by You so that I can continue to walk in Your authority wherever I go. There is no God above or beyond You, so Lord, please

continue to manifest Yourself in me, Amen

We invite everyone to Pray the Rosary from your home every Monday at 7:30pm. With the COVID-19 going on we are supposed to be practicing social distancing but that doesn't mean you can’t continue to Pray the Rosary where ever you are.

Vacation Bible School 2020

With so many unknowns and the safety and health of our kids and volunteers being of utmost

importance, we have decided to cancel St. Stephen's Vacation Bible School for the summer

of 2020. It is disappointing, as we always look forward to VBS, seeing God work in the lives of our kids and through our volunteers, but we are

confident this is the right decision. We made this decision now so that we can work

on other fun and impactful ways to reach our kids and families during our current situation.

Thank you for your prayers and your continued support of our Kids Ministry!

*ATTENTION PARENTS OR GRADUATES OF 2020* Please check out the ststephenscatholicchurch.com

website for a form to fill out for the Graduate to receive a Graduation gift.

Scroll over to Events & News for a drop down menu to select a English or Spanish Graduation form.

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St. Mary’s Central Catholic School in Odessa, Texas is accepting applications for the position of

principal for grades PreK-8 grades for the 2020-2021 school year.

Qualifications: The applicant must

have a Master’s degree in education and 3-5 years teaching

experience. The applicant should have integrity, vision, strong

communication and interpersonal skills, and experience with budget disbursement. The applicant must

be an active, and practicing Catholic.

St. Mary’s Central Catholic School

is committed to quality and excellence in developing the whole

child in a faith environment. Applications are

available on the SMCCS Odessa, TX website: Careers, Employment

The Engaged Encounter scheduled for June 5-7, 2020 will be held via ZOOM on June 6 & 7, 2020. If you are interested in attending this

session, please register as soon as possible. Packets with information and materials needed

for the ZOOM session will be mailed to each couple prior to the weekend. Certificates of completion will be mailed after the Engaged

Encounter weekend.

The cost of the Engaged Encounter ZOOM weekend in June is $150.00. Couples can

register using the attached form or on the San Angelo Diocese website using the link below: https://sanangelodiocese.org/ee-registration-

form

If you have any questions regarding this, please contact Gladys at the Parish office, 432-520-

7394 or directly to: Susan Counts Secretary

Christ the King Retreat Center 325-651-5352

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www.helpinghandsmidland.com

Because we feel it is important that you know how and where your donations to Helping Hands are spent, here is what was done in the past week: Electric 1 Family $467.95 Water 2 Families $1,122.63 Rent 35 families $46,067.11 Total $47,657.69

Helping Hands of Midland 1301 Brinson Lane

(432) 520-8900

Beginning this week our new store days will be Wednesdays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. We will no longer be open on Tuesdays.

Thank you!

It’ a Family Affair! With school out early this year, Helping Hands cashier Ana Gamino had better plans than to let her kids stay home for the summer. 9-year-old Arturo, 8-year-old Mia, and 5-year-old Jose Hernandez come to Helping Hands with mom each day, and after schoolwork is done, they help out in the store. Arturo helps customers take their purchases to their cars when the store is open and makes sure all carts are brought back in. Mia and Jose have proven to be invaluable in helping to sort the small toys that we receive (sorting by whether they are for girl, boy or baby), and then they bag them up to be sold. In their free time when they are not busy riding scooters in the back, they can be found piecing together puzzles that we have gotten in that need to be checked for completeness. What a blessing it is to have this wonderful family helping us out. We honestly don’t know what we would do without them. Great job, kids (and you, too Ana)!