Coffee & Donuts - Join us after the 10am Masses today for Coffee and Donuts in the Social Hall in the basement of the School Building behind the Church.

Chant Camp—Registration Table Today - This summer,  July 30 - August 3, we will host a chant camp for children led by Patrick Torsell.  A registration table will be set up after both Masses today.  Direct any questions to Patrick Torsell at Music@MaterDeiPA.com

External Solemnity of the Sacred Heart - The External Solemnity of the Sacred Heart will be celebrated at today’s 10am Mass.

Vespers Tonight - Vespers and Exposition with Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament will be tonight from 5:30pm–6:30pm.  Sheets will be provided for all to follow along.  We have Vespers every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month.

Seminary Burse Collection - There will be a second collection today for Our Lady of Guadalupe Seminary, the FSSP seminary in Denton, Nebraska.

Choir Season Ending - Today is the last Sunday of Choir season.    Throughout the summer, the 10am Sunday Mass will be a Low Mass with hymns.  The choir will resume singing the first Sunday of September.  We thank the choir members for their dedication to the Sacred Liturgy and the beauty that they add.

Church Cleaners Needed - We are still in need of 7-8 new volunteers to help clean the church.  Currently there are about 4 members in each of the five cleaning crews.  But more are needed, so please help if you can.  Contact Elaine Rainey at Seabhj3@gmail.com

Father’s Day Mass Novena Cards - Please return your envelopes today, June 10.  The Mass Novena begins next Sunday, June 17 (Father’s Day).

 Adult Chant Workshop - Join Mater Dei Music Director, Patrick Torsell, for a one-day intensive Gregorian Chant Workshop at St Lawrence geared toward adults wishing for an introduction to reading, interpreting, singing, and directing Gregorian Chant! This workshop is open to anyone interested in Gregorian Chant over 18 and mature teens accompanied by an adult. Participants are invited and encouraged to sing for a High Mass the next day, Sunday, 7/22, at 10am.  Registration fee is $20, and a light lunch will be provided.  To register or to inquire further, please email music@materdeipa.com.

 High School Graduates Mass - This Friday, June 15, the 6:30pm Mass will be offered for our High School Graduates.  Pleased direct any questions to Dawn Forbeck at forbecks@comcast.net

Young Ladies Tea Coming Up - Girls of the parish (ages 13-18) are invited to a morning  Tea at St. Lawrence with a talk from Fr Eichman on Monday, July 9.  For more details or to RSVP contact us at YouthGroup@MaterDeiPA.com

Youth Group—Bonfire & Farewell to Seniors - Teenagers (ages 13-18) are invited to join our Youth Group on Saturday, July 14 from 6pm - 9pm as we say goodbye to our senior graduates.  Contact  us at YouthGroup@MaterDeiPA.com for information.

Parking - Do not park in the spaces behind or beside the gray building on the corner of Front St. and State St (407 Front Street).  The hours of operation for the new lessee’s includes evenings and weekends.  The other parking spaces formerly used do remain available as before.  Contact the office with any questions or see the diagram in the church vestibule.

The Example - The Voice of Christ

My child, he who attempts to escape obeying withdraws himself from grace. Likewise he who seeks private benefits for himself loses those which are common to all. He who does not submit himself freely and willingly to his superior, shows that his flesh is not yet perfectly obedient but that it often rebels and murmurs against him.

Learn quickly, then, to submit yourself to your superior if you wish to conquer your own flesh. For the exterior enemy is more quickly overcome if the inner man is not laid waste. There is no more troublesome, no worse enemy of the soul than you yourself, if you are not in harmony with the spirit.

It is absolutely necessary that you conceive a true contempt for yourself if you wish to be victorious over flesh and blood.

Because you still love yourself too inordinately, you are afraid to resign yourself wholly to the will of others. Is it such a great matter if you, who are but dust and nothingness, subject yourself to man for the sake of God, when I, the All-Powerful, the Most High, Who created all things out of nothing, humbly subjected Myself to man for your sake? I became the most humble and the lowest of all men that you might overcome your pride with My humility.

Imitation of Christ, Book III, Chapter 13