Father Richard J. Rego, Chaplain
Fr. Isaac Fynn, Weekend Associate
PO Box 14257 Tucson, AZ 85732-4257
Office Hours 10:00-12:00 Mon-Fri
Phone: (520) 205-4096 * Fax: (520) 205-4097
Email: frrichardrego@comcast.net
Website:  www.saintgianna.net

“Put on then, as God’s holy and beloved people, compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, and patience.  Forgive one another; and if one has a complaint against another, as the Lord has forgiven you, so must you also forgive.  And above all these things put on charity, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.  And let the peace of Christ reign in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in the one body.  And always be thankful - - - And whatever you do in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3: 12-15,17).

Latin Mass Schedule                        MASS INTENTIONS        
Daily Mass 12:15 pm                        Sun 6:30 Pauline Darrah, RIP
Saturday 8:30 am                            Sun 1:45 Pro Populo
Sunday Masses                            
6:30 am, 1:45 pm                             Mon 12:15 Dr. Whitacre
Rosary                                              Tues Dr. Whitachre
Sundays 1:30 pm                              Wed  Dr. Whitacre
                                                         Thurs VA Tech Victims
Confessions Schedule                     
Mon-Fri 11:00am to 12:00 Noon     Saturday: As in St. Ambrose Bulletin
Saturday 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm                    
Sunday 4:15 pm to 4:45 pm                     Readings Pentecost Sunday  

Devotions Schedule                        Introit - - - Ps 80: 17, 2
Fatima Devotions every                     Epistle - - -1Cor 11: 23-29
1st Monday of Month 7:00 pm                                  Alleluia - - John 6: 56-57
Saint Joseph Devotions                 Gospel - -  John 6: 56-59
Wednesday after 12:15 Mass                            
                                    


June 10 - - -  External Solemnity of Corpus Christi
Mon, June 11 - - -St. Barnabas, Apostle
Tues, June 12 - - St. John of San Fecundo
Wed, June 13 - - -St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor & Doctor
Thurs, June 14 - - St. Basil the Great, Bishop & Doctor
Fri, June 15 - - - - Sacred Heart of Jesus
Sat, June 16 - - - Saturday of Our Lady

Gospel Words of Jesus Christ Our Divine Savior
 6 From the beginning of creation, God made them male and female. 7 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. 8 And they shall be two in one flesh.  Thus now they are not two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder. 10 In the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing. (Mark 10: 6-10)

From the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans
 21 Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good. (Rom 12: 21)

Spiritual Thought Of The Week
From Blessed Are The Pure In Heart by Bishop Robert W. Finn: “Those who treat others as objects might experience some passing pleasure but they are not going to be happy. Chastity exists not to prevent happiness but to allow happiness to mature and blossom. Chastity helps us to see people as they really are. It helps to ground us in truth.  Chastity does not stand in the way of love but rather exists to protect it. Chastity expresses love.  Before he became Pope John Paul II, Karol Wojtyla wrote a book entitled, Love and Responsibility. This writing emerged through his pastoral work with university students, which included marriage preparation. While some would say that the opposite of love is hate, he taught that the opposite of love is use. The idea is that if you do not love someone, you will end up using that person. This is known as the Personalistic Norm. Negatively stated, it means that one may never use another person as an object for one’s own pleasure. Positively stated, it holds that the only proper response to a person is love.”

From The Imitation Of Christ By Thomas A Kempis
Book Three The Thirty-Seventh Chapter - - -  THE VOICE OF CHRIST: I have said to you very often, and now I say again: forsake yourself, renounce yourself and you shall enjoy great inward peace. Give all for all. Ask nothing, demand nothing in return. Trust purely and without hesitation in Me, and you shall possess Me. You will be free of heart and darkness will not overwhelm you. Strive for this, pray for this, desire this -- to be stripped of all selfishness and naked to follow the naked Jesus, to die to self and live forever for Me. Then all vain imaginations, all wicked disturbances and superfluous cares will vanish. Then also immoderate fear will leave you and inordinate love will die.
From The Teachings Of The Second Vatican Council

SACROSANCTUM CONCILIUM  (Vatican II On the Sacred Liturgy) - - -  #7: To accomplish so great a work, Christ is always present in His Church, especially in her liturgical celebrations. He is present in the Sacrifice of the Mass, not only in the person of His minister, "the same now offering, through the ministry of priests, who formerly offered Himself on the cross", but especially under the Eucharistic species. By His power He is present in the sacraments, so that when a man baptizes it is really Christ Himself who baptizes. He is present in His word, since it is He Himself who speaks when the holy scriptures are read in the Church. He is present, lastly, when the Church prays and sings, for He promised: "Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them" (Matt. 18:20).

From The Code Of Canon Law Canon 333 §1. By virtue of his office, the Roman Pontiff not only possesses power offer the universal Church but also obtains the primacy of ordinary power offer all particular churches and groups of them. Moreover, this primacy strengthens and protects the proper, ordinary, and immediate power, which bishops possess in the particular churches entrusted to their care.  §2. In fulfilling the office of supreme pastor of the Church, the Roman Pontiff is always joined in communion with the other bishops and with the universal Church. He nevertheless has the right, according to the needs of the Church, to determine the manner, whether personal or collegial, of exercising this office.
Catechism Of The Catholic  #2334 "In creating men 'male and female,' God gives man and woman an equal personal dignity.” "Man is a person, man and woman equally so, since both were created in the image and likeness of the personal God."

SPECIAL NOTICE
Please be advised that donations to Saint Gianna’s can be made through our website: www.saintgianna.net.  By so doing, one can contribute using their credit card.  We appreciate your financial support and also ask your prayers for our continued success.  Also, please note that we are now set up with PayPal so that our parishioners and friends can automatically contribute a designated amount each month toward your support of Saint Gianna’s.  Check our website for details: www.saintgianna.net.
   
PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE WILL NOT BE LATIN MASSES ON FRIDAY, JUNE 15TH & SATURDAY, JUNE 16TH

Pope Benedict XVI Prayer Intention For June
General - - - - That the Lord protects mariners and all those who are involved in activities on the sea.
Mission - - - - That through its presence and action the Church in North Africa be a witness of God’s love for every individual and people.





One of the soldiers thrust a lance into his side, and immediately blood and water flowed out. (Jn 19:34) June is the month dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Perhaps no other devotion can be said to be as central to our Christian faith as this devotion because it is rooted entirely in the central mystery of our faith, the death and resurrection of Jesus. Truly, the Sacred Heart stands at the very heart of our world and calls to all men to draw near. God did not just stand afar off in heaven to raise us out of our sins; He actually came to us and embraced the heartbreak that those sins bring into every single life. His Heart is a broken, pierced and torn heart that can console every person in his suffering.
In the apparitions of the Sacred Heart to St. Margaret Mary Alocoque in the 1670s, Jesus promised that all who would simply go to Mass and receive Communion on the First Fridays of nine consecutive months would have the grace of "final perseverance," that is, the grace of being faithful to the very end of life no matter what the challenges. Those who never think of the hour of death may presume that this moment will come and go with ease, but our enemy does not think so, and it is to this reality of spiritual combat in the final moments of life that the Lord directs His promise.
I learned how necessary the grace of final perseverance was when my grandfather passed away in 1974. This faithful Catholic man, a daily communicant into his eighties, in a coma on his deathbed, was put upon at that moment by some spiritual force that sought to snatch him from Christ. According to the eyewitness account, my grandfather was interiorly struggling for a significant length of time, moving up and down in his bed for dear life, with some deadly thing that came to claim his soul. Although he was totally unconscious, he was nonetheless fighting to the very end, and apparently he won. Soon after that experience he was at peace again and died shortly thereafter in grace. Or shall we say, grace won him. Grandpa had made the First Fridays - many times.
Jesus made other promises to those who would devote themselves to His Heart: that He would give them all the graces necessary for their state in life; give them peace in their families; console them in all their troubles; be their refuge in life and especially in death; abundantly bless all their undertakings; and bless those places wherein the image of His Sacred Heart would be exposed and venerated. My favorite promise of the Sacred Heart was the one for priests - "I will give to priests the power to touch the most hardened hearts." It is hard to think of a better return on an investment than the rewards promised for attending Mass and receiving Communion nine times!
Jesus also said that sinners would find in His Heart an infinite ocean of mercy; that tepid souls would become fervent and that fervent souls would rise speedily to great [spiritual] perfection. All persons who propagate this devotion "shall have their names eternally written in my Heart."
In an age so full of sin and heartbreaking human evils, we need recourse to the Heart that pumps life into the world. Jesus' Heart was pierced and opened so that all would see that He is not a heartless, cruel God but stands with us in our sorrows, pains and agonies of life, not just temporarily, but to the very end: "My Heart will be their secure refuge in that last hour." May we take special refuge in His Heart this month and renew our devotion to Him who is so devoted to us. 

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President of Human Life International