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April 13, 2008 |
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April 13, 2008 |
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION After the 8AM Mass on Fridays in the chapel
ROSARY 7:00 PM Fatima Prayer Group on Monday After the 6:45 AM and 8 AM Masses Monday thru Friday and after the 8 AM Mass on Saturday.
Moms and children’s Rosary group every Friday from 10AM to 11:30AM. Call MaryAnn at 922-3461 before you come for the first time.
RECONCILIATION Thursday, April 17, 7:30PM – Fr. Mick Saturday, April 19, 3:00PM – Fr. Mick
LAST COFFEE & DONUTS
on Sunday, April 13.
READINGS FOR SUNDAY, APRIL 20 1st Reading: Acts 6: 1-7 2nd Reading: 1 Pt 2: 4-9 Gospel: Jn 14; 1-12
ADULT EDUCATION Monday Evenings, Adult Bible Study from 7:00 to 8:00p.m. in the school library.
THANK YOU to Excel Carpet Services for advertising in our bulletin.
Catholic Bible Study for adults every Monday at 7:00PM in the undercroft Holy Family Room.
PREP (Parish Religious Education Program) every Sunday, after the 9:30AM Mass. For info call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759
BABYSITTING FOR THE 9:30AM MASS, SUNDAY, April 20 Adult Volunteers: Mary Ann Catanzaro, Joan Gay
Students: Katie R., Brooke S. |
Designate a gift to Saint Antoninus Church in your will and give witness to your faith.
come to your home! We encourage parishioners of all ages, those with families and those living alone, to participate in this special mission of praying for vocations. Our new coordinators for the Traveling Chalice program is Joe and Mary Beth Nolan. Call them at 451-7435 or e-mail at MBNOLAN@cinci.rr.com.
Learn more about your Catholic Faith! Read The Catholic Telegraph. Call 421-3131 ext. 496 to order your copy today.
6TH, 7TH, & 8TH GRADE BOYS AND GIRLS are needed for the Sunday 9:30AM Mass Babysitting program. Call Beth in the rectory office at 922-5400 to sign up.
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FROM OUR PASTOR On April 2, Pope Benedict XVI celebrated the memorial mass for his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. He mentioned that Good Friday, 2005, when Pope John Paul was too ill to carry the cross at the Coliseum he did so in his room where it was broadcast to the faithful around the world. "Who could forget it, all that love and suffering?" said the present Pontiff. The April 4 edition of the Catholic Telegraph also ran a story on Pope John Paul II and said that for his canonization cause they needed more stories about the Pope from English speaking people. In my own case, since I was in Rome as a seminarian when he was elected and since I participated in as many Vatican ceremonies as I could, I myself could mention, above all else, his prayerfulness. At prayer he seemed to be completely absorbed in God. For example, I happened to be in Rome one year for the Feast of the Body and Blood of the Lord. As the pope was kneeling before the Blessed Sacrament on the back of a beautifully decorated truck, he seemed to radiate light! I was particularly struck by his eyes as they shone like sapphires! I mention the prayerfulness of Pope John Paul to encourage our own prayerfulness. For the past three years we met for Evening Prayer throughout the Easter season in different neighborhoods of the Parish. This year, we will ask specific neighborhoods to come to Church May 1-11 for the Novena to the Holy Spirit in preparation for Pentecost. We will celebrate the Evening Prayer of the Church and have some time for fellowship afterwards. Although we will invite neighborhoods, everyone is encouraged to come all nine nights to invoke the Holy Spirit for a fresh outpouring of His graces upon our parish. AND REMEMBER, FOR PENTECOST WEAR SOMETHING RED! -- Rev. Christopher R. Armstrong
This summer, the rectory office will be closed after 12 noon on Fridays starting on June 13, thru August 15. The office will resume normal business hours on Friday, August 22, 2008.
ATHENAEUM OFFERS FREE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS for The Athenaeum Magazine. Pick up a brochure and a postage paid envelope to use to order your free subscription.
PARISH CLEAN UP DAY starting at 9AM on Saturday, April 26. |
CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL 100% of your contribution goes to Catholic Social Services, campus ministries, lay and ordained ministries education, St. Rita School for the Deaf, support of our retired priests, and chaplains for our hospitals and prisons. You may drop off your donation at the rectory office or in the collection basket. Thank you.
Biggs and Kroger Gift Cards are on sale in the church elevator hallway after all weekend Masses, and at the rectory, M-F from 8AM to 3 PM.
Deacon Ordination: With praise and thanksgiving to Almighty God, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati joyfully announces the ordination of David Endres to the Order of Deacon on Saturday, April 26, at the Cathedral. All are invited to join in the celebration of Mass at which he will first serve as deacon at St. Antoninus on Sunday, April 27 at the 11:30 AM Mass. A reception will follow in the undercroft.
BIBLE STUDY will be on Mondays thru May 5th, from 7-8PM in the Holy Family Room. For info call Mary Lynne Rapien at 922-0902.
PARISH SPAGHETTI DINNER will be on Saturday, May 17, from 5:30-6:30PM. Cost is $5.00 per family. Send your reservation thru school or in the collection basket. Note name, number of people attending, and if you are bringing a dessert or a 2-liter soda drink. Mark envelope “Parish Spaghetti Dinner”. At the dinner, we will offer best wishes to Deacon Forrest Wallace and family on their upcoming move to Ave Maria University in Naples, FL. Call Mariellen Rectin for details at 467-1616. Volunteers are needed for set-up, serving and clean up. Call Julie Scott at 922-3015. |
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This week Pope Benedict XVI will make his first visit to the U.S. Along with other Cincinnati seminarians, I will have the opportunity to be present when the pope visits New York City’s St. Joseph Seminary. I have been blessed to have seen the Holy Father in the summer of 2005 as part of World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany. This summer I will also attend World Youth Day in Sydney, Australia with a group from St. Jude Parish. These papal visits remind us of the unity of the Church and that God still speaks to us today through the successor of St. Peter. Please pray that our country will be responsive to the message of the Holy Father and that the Church in America will be strengthened by his presence.
St. Antoninus Tuition Assistance Program donation request: Christ has called us to care for each other. To answer that call, St. Antoninus has developed a Tuition Assistance Program, supported by parishioners to help fellow parishioners pay their tuition. TAP is also supported by funds from PTO. Tuition assistance is provided to school families that are having financial hardship and apply for assistance. This is different from the “Parish School Support” or the School Endowment, in that the TAP donation directly pays the families’ current year school tuition bills. Please pray for its success.
Applications for Tuition Assistance are available for families having financial hardship this upcoming 2008-09 school year. In-parish school families with children in grades 1-8 may apply for assistance to offset part of their tuition. Note that this year there are changes in the tuition assistance program: St. Antoninus will use the common PSAS (Private School Aid Service) application and the assistance will be offered at the beginning of the school year. These applications are available on the St. Antoninus school web site. The application must be postmarked by Friday May 9th and these awards will be made one time per year, in early June. If this form has already been completed for High School assistance or for EDSAP (Elder Scholars Assistance Program), a transfer form (also available on the web site) can be submitted to PSAS (Private School Aid Service) for St. Antoninus to access that information. This form only needs to be completed once per family. If there are any questions, call the parish business manager Peggy James at 922-5400. |
One of our duties as a Catholic school is to teach our students that one’s vocation in life is more than deciding what we want to be when we grow up. Discerning one’s vocation is an active process where one must be willing to listen to God’s call. This Monday our fifth grade students will be going to the seminary. There, they will get a small taste of how seminarians live. One of our hopes is that our students see that people who are called to the priesthood or other religious life are ordinary everyday people called to do extraordinary work. The ability of our Church to spread the Good News is tied to the number of people who are willing to follow God’s plan in every vocation. Please pray for our fifth graders, that they will begin to listen to God’s calling.
VOCATION AWARENESS Do you agree that there is a great need for more vocations to the priesthood and to the vowed religious life? Would you care to assist the Holy Spirit in improving the current shortage? Serra International is a group of over 22,000 men and women world wide whose purpose is to foster vocations to the priesthood, the deaconate and the vowed religious life, and in so doing to assist its members in responding to the universal call to holiness in their lives. The Pope and the bishops support their work. The Cincinnati Serra Club has approximately fifty women and men as members. We meet in the undercroft of the Cathedral on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month at noon following the 11:30AM Mass. Our club promotes prayer, education, vocation activities, affirmation of clergy, as well as joyful Christian fellowship. We ask you to prayerfully consider our call to unite with us in this rewarding apostolate! We invite your inquiry and/or visit. Transportation is available. For further info please call the following Saint Antoninus parish members of The Serra Club of Cincinnati: Mary Claire Torbeck, 922-2694; Edgar Willig, 922-2945; Mike Schiller, 922-5362. |
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TAJCI
An Inspiring Concert Event
“Let It Be” Mary’s Story
Thursday, May 8, 2008 Saint Antoninus Church
7:00PM May Crowning 7:30PM Concert
TATIANA, I do believe.
More info available now at: Idobelieve.com Preview Tajci’s music on iTunes. |
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All Women in the Parish: PTO has secured a woman only survey with P&G as a fund raiser. There is NO one-on-one interview necessary. Please take a few minutes to complete the screener that can be found at saintantoninus.org and return it to school/church office by Friday, April 18th. If there are other women (sisters, mothers, neighbors) who would be interested, please have them complete the screener as well. Thank you for your participation.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
This weekend is the Spring Clothing Drive. The SVdeP truck will be on the lower parking lot on Sunday, April 13th, from 9AM to 3 PM. The 5th Sunday contributions for March totaled $755. The next 5th Sunday will be in June. The poor boxes at the church entrances are always available for your contributions. GIRL SCOUT TROOP 46572 would like to invite you to a Baby Shower on Sunday, April 13, at 12:30PM to benefit Pregnancy Center West. Please bring a baby gift to the undercroft and join us for cake and punch. If you are unable to attend but would like to donate a baby-present, please call Mary Schultz at 922-6242.
HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER GROUP Our seminarian, David Endres, will debunk myths about our Catholic Church history. Notice the time change from 7:30 to 7:00 PM. We’ll see you in the Chapel on Tuesday night.
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL was offered for George Buten and Gary Juengling. Please keep them and their families in your prayers.
PTO MEETING on Wednesday, April 16, starting with refreshments at 7PM in the undercroft. Everyone is invited.
ADULT SOCIAL GROUP
Friday, May 2 & June 6, Steering Committee Meeting at 1 PM in the St. Joseph Room . Noon Luncheons and Communion Service on the 2nd Monday; April 14 and May 12. No luncheons in June, July, August, due to renovation of the undercroft.
Watch for a possible boat ride in July or a lunch get together at a local restaurant.
Oglebay trip on November 16-18. Price is $349 per person, $100 p/p deposit due by August 1. Balance due before October 2.
YOUTH GROUP ACTIVITIES
Call Julie Heil at 922-3848 for info.
Family Rosary Rally on Sunday, May 18, 1:40PM at Elder’s PIT.
FESTIVAL BID-N-BUY BOOTH SEEKING DONATIONS: We need any baskets (any shape, size, or color), packing peanuts, shred/crinkle paper or ribbon, etc. Please call Cara Hester for pick up at 347-0545.
Your donations will be greatly appreciated.
MEN OVER 35 SOFTBALL; signup by calling Scott Lammers at 922-5130.
T-BALL SIGNUPS & PRACTICES- RAIN OR SHINE Every Friday from 6-7PM at Bosken Field on Crookshank Road, for boys and girls, 4-5-6 years old. Call Howard Hughes at 941-9538 for info.
SINGERS ARE NEEDED for the Rosary Rally at Elder Stadium on Sunday, May 8. To volunteer please call Carolyn Lally at 471-3644 before May 1. |
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The
Traveling Chalice wants to
A NOTE FROM OUR
SEMINARIAN
