St John Vianney Cleburne, TX

A Catholic Church under the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter

Saturday, Sunday Masses & Confessions

Marti Elementary School, 2020 W. Kilpatrick, Cleburne, TX

Monday - Friday Daily Mass & Confessions

Our Lady of Victory Chapel, 501 N. Nolan River Rd, Cleburne, TX

Contact us at stjohnvianneycleburne.com

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What Is the Story of Knock Marian Shrine?

The story begins on 21 August 1879, when 15 people from the village witnessed an apparition of Mary on the gable wall of the parish church. They said she appeared with St Joseph, St John the Evangelist, a lamb and a cross. They watched in pouring rain for two hours, reciting the Rosary, a Marian prayer.

The story goes that the watchers were soaked in rain but the gable wall and the apparition remained dry. The witnesses, aged between five and 74, gave their testimony to a Commission of Enquiry later in 1879. It found their words "trustworthy and satisfactory".

In 1936, a second Commission of Enquiry heard from the two surviving witnesses, Mary O'Connell and Patrick Byrne. Mary O'Connell ended her sworn statement with the words: "I am clear about everything I have said and I make this statement knowing I am going before my God." She died later that year.

Click here to read the rest of the story

Assumption of Mary, Where Science and Theology are Met

I’ve never understood why people who have no problem with Elijah and Enoch being assumed into paradise have a problem with Mary — the greatest, and most blessed of all created creatures — being assumed into heaven. “It’s not in scripture” doesn’t cut it, (as Msgr. Charles Pope demonstrates here) because what did the early Christians reference before the bible as we know it finally came into being in the fifth century? Teachings and traditions, as Saint Paul writes to the Thessalonians, “…stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.”

(2 Thessalonians 2:15)

While the dogma was only made definitive by Pope Pius XII in 1950 (Munificentissimus Deus), the tradition of Mary’s assumption after her death at Ephesus is an old, old one that, as demonstrated by early-fourth century Ethiopian apocrypha, Liber Requiei Mariae (The Book of Mary’s Repose), pre-dates the Bible.

 Click here for the rest by Elizabeth Scalia

THIS COMING WEEK'S MASS TIMES

OFFICE CLOSED ON TUESDAYS

Wed - Aug 17 

5:45pm Confessions

6:00pm - Rosary

6:30pm - Mass

7:00pm - Sun Choir Rehearsal

Thurs - Aug 18 

8:30am Mass

6:00pm - Sat Choir Rehearsal

Fri - Aug 19 - Fourth Apparition of Fatima; St. John Eudes, Priest

11:00am - Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament

Noon Mass

Saturday - Aug 20 - B.V.M. St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church

Marti Elementary

4:15pm - Confessions (closet in back of stage)

5:00pm - Mass

Sun - Aug 21 - 10th Sunday after Trinity 

Marti Elementary

8:15am Confessions (closet in back of stage)

9am Sung Mass

Mon - Aug 22 - The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

11:45am Confessions

Noon Mass - Victory Bldg

Tues - Aug 23 - St. Rose of Lima, Virgin

Office closed No Confessions No Mass

7:00 - 9:00pm - #10 Class - Consoling the Heart of Jesus (CTHJ)

Led by Paul & Mary Vinson with Fr. Michael Gaitely via formed.org

Wed - Aug 24

5:45pm Confessions

6:00pm Rosary

6:30pm Mass

7:00pm - Sun Choir Rehearsal

This Week's Events:

    August 21 – Monthly Potluck directly after Mass (Brunch theme)

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SAVE THE DATE:

• Men's Cross Walk Retreat see flyer below - Sept 15 - 18

• St. John Vianney & the Knights of Columbus will hold their annual Golf Scramble fundraising event Friday, September 30, 2022 at the Squaw Valley Lakes Golf Course in Glen Rose, Texas. Contact Earl Lutz or Steve Franklin to sign-up as a sponsor or player. See flyer below

• Science Tests Faith - Sun Oct 16, 11:30 - 1:00pm following 9am mass & potluck. INVITE FRIENDS & FAMILY! SCIENCE TESTS FAITH - CLICK HERE

• Veteran's Day Special Presentation: Sun Nov 13 during Potluck. Sen Brian Birdwell - lone survivor of 9/11 plane crashed into the Pentagon.  60% burns on body. Miraculous stories of near death and  survival. Pray & Plan to invite friends. Watch for more information coming!

The SJV Women's Group would like to thank you for your generous donations of school supplies to our Marti Elementary School teachers.  With those and your monetary donations, we were able to fill, label, and decorate 40 boxes and donate them to the teachers.  Thank you for helping to show our teachers that they are a valued part of the community. 

Update on Fr. Christopher Stainbrook:

Fr Stainbrook continues to heal. Please keep him in your prayers.

"Pray for your shepherds. They are your bridge to heaven."

 - BVM, Medjugorje

The month of August is traditionally dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The physical heart of Mary is venerated (and not adored as the Sacred Heart of Jesus is) because it is united to her person and is the seat of her love (especially for her divine Son), virtue and inner life. Such devotion is an incentive to a similar love and virtue.

St. John Vianney and Knights of Columbus

Golf Tournament

Feast Day: August 14 

Fr. Maximilian Kolbe offered to take the place of another prisoner who was a married man with a family. He was one of ten men chosen to die in punishment for one prisoner who had escaped. The married man survived and eventually in the 1990's came to Fort Worth to tell his story.

Click here to read the rest about this martyr. 

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