MASS TIMES

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH

Main Church at White Pine Canyon Road & Highway 224

English
Saturday: 5:30 PM
Sunday: 8 AM & 10:30 AM
Mon-Fri: 8 AM

Children's Ministry at most Sunday 10:30 AM Masses

Español
Domingo: 1 PM

Latin
Sunday: 3 PM


ST. LAWRENCE MISSION

English
Saturday: 5 PM
Sun: 10 AM
Mon & Thurs: 9:30 AM
*
*No daily Mass Oct. 8-Nov. 10

Español
Domingo: 12 PM
Miércoles: 6 PM
*
*No habrá Misa entre semana desde Oct. 8 a Nov. 10


Bilingual
Sunday: 8 AM*

No Daily Mass or bilingual 8 AM (Sunday) Mass from 10/7 thru 11/10.


OLD TOWN CHAPEL

Open daily for all to visit, pray at, and worship, St. Mary’s Old Town Chapel is the Oldest Catholic Church in Utah. It’s a special and revered establishment of the community, a precious reminder of our roots, and a landmark for our town. Learn more and support the Chapel at StMarysParkCity.com/Chapel.





CONFESSION

Also available by appointment

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH

Tues: 4:30-5:30 PM
Thurs: 4:30-5:30 PM*

Sat: 4:30-5:30 PM
*No Confession Thursday, November 7.

ST. LAWRENCE MISSION

Mon: 10 AM*
Wed: 5-6 PM
*
Thursday: 10 AM
*
*No Confessions Oct. 8-Nov. 14





ADORATION

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ST. MARY'S CHURCH

Mondays 5-6 PM
Thursdays 8:30-9:30 AM*
First Fridays 7 PM - Sat. 7 AM
*No Adoration Thursday, October 31.


ST. LAWRENCE MISSION

Wednesdays 5-6 PM*
*No Adoration Oct. 8-Nov. 10






DIRECTIONS


ST. MARY'S CHURCH

1505 White Pine Canyon Rd
Park City, UT 84060
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Visiting Hours
Daily: 7:30 AM - 6 PM


OLD TOWN CHAPEL

121 Park Ave
Park City, UT 84060
click here for directions

Visiting Hours
Daily: 7 AM - 7 PM


ST. LAWRENCE MISSION

5 S 100 W
Heber City, UT 84032
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Visiting Hours
Mon - Thurs: 10 AM - 5 PM

If Church is closed, go to office.


THRIFT STORE

84 South 100 West
Heber City, UT 84032
(click here for directions)

Hours
Wed - Fri: 10 AM - 6 PM
Sat: 10 AM - 5 PM





TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - OCTOBER 6, 2024

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ST. MARY'S BULLETIN ST. LAWRENCE BULLETIN

CELEBRATE SUNDAY

WITH ST. MARY'S

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

God's divine love is something to be reflected in this world.

TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

As humans, we desire to encounter the Divine in our own lives because we look at the world in which we live and consider it mundane or temporal. If there is a God and He loves His creation, we want to experience that love as intimately as possible. When God remains apparently silent to our prayers or inactive in our undertakings, we struggle to hold onto our faith. Our mistake in such cases is not realizing how God invites us to participate in His Divinity: He went so far as to become one of us in the person of Jesus Christ to indicate how this world, and also how we, play a role in the communication between Heaven and Earth.


READ THIS SUNDAY'S MESSAGE

Take a look at your life and consider your greatest desires, your greatest goals, and your greatest achievements. The most important among all of them is your sanctity and the sanctity you instill in those for whom you are responsible; in a family, our greatest strengths and weaknesses are brought to the forefront because we are no longer living for ourselves, and we actually become responsible for the well-being of others. For most of us, the impetus for such a life begins with marriage, choosing one person to be the recipient of our love so that it may multiply throughout our lives for others. We can misunderstand marriage in a few ways: first, we might consider it only a social expectation that we ought to do simply because everyone else does it. Second, we might mistake the attraction or even the infatuation that exists at the beginning of a romantic relationship for love itself. Third, we might focus so much on the other person that we deify them, ignoring our responsibility to love our neighbors or to love God also. In each of these cases, we take something divinely ordained and debase it into something mundane or temporal. In reality, marriage is the perfect reflection of our relationship with God in Heaven; God the Son became man to entwine Himself eternally to what would become His Heavenly Bride - the Church. That marriage was consummated on the cross when Christ was stabbed in his side and blood and water spilled forth, an image prefigured in the creation of Eve who was brought forth into this world through the side of her husband Adam. This is how we participate in the Divine in this world: we must reflect the Wedding Feast in Heaven by participating in the Church here on earth, either in the community of believers at the sacrifice of Mass or in the Domestic Church, the family, loving our spouses and sanctifying our children.

Christ never had an earthly marriage because his Bride was his Church. This does not mean that no Christian should marry if they want to model themselves after him; in fact, Christ exalts marriage as that primordial sacrament which humans were created to participate in, again either through the Church (consecrated life) or the Domestic Church (marriage and family). But when he quotes and explains the words of Genesis in this Sunday’s Gospel, he speaks of marriage uniting two individuals into one flesh, and also intentionally leads into a discussion about children. That one flesh extends beyond the love or the relationship between these two or the mere marital act; if you have any doubt that we participate in the Divine, we only need to look at the soul of the human person. Each soul was instilled at the moment we were conceived, meaning that God respected and obeyed two humans’ mutual decision to behave in such a way as to bring life into the world. He crafted an everlasting soul based on our decision-making. If you question God or if he’s really there, look at yourself, look at your relationships with others, your marriage, and your children, whether they be biological or spiritual. Each one is a reflection of the Divine, not just symbolic but efficacious and meaningful. These things we may at times consider mundane or temporal are actually the languages of love, the languages with which God speaks to us.