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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, February 5, 4:30PM – Fr. Mick 7:30PM – Fr. Armstrong Saturday, February 7, 3:00PM – Fr. Mick
BABYSITTING FOR THE 9:30AM MASS, SUNDAY, February 8 Adult Volunteers: Theresa Heinzelman,
Gretchen Wrolstad
Students: Katie F., Leigha & Gabrielle K.
THANK YOU TO Kenton Tire Co. for advertising in our bulletin.
ADULT STUDIES Bible Study on Mondays from 7-8PM in the Holy Family Room in the church undercroft. For info call Mary Lynne Rapien at 922-0902.
SUNDAY COFFEE & DONUTS ON SUNDAY February 8, March 8, & May 10. |
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.
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FROM OUR PASTOR Dear Parishioners, What is a Life in the Spirit Seminar and why should I attend? A Life in the Spirit Seminar is a chance to experience God and the Holy Spirit in our lives. Each of us has a relationship with God. We all know who He is and what great things He can do… but have you actually felt Him in your life? We were all given gifts by the Spirit in Baptism and Confirmation, but how many of us use these gifts to improve our lives and the lives of our family, church and community? Through a series of six sessions consisting of talks, presentations, discussions, song, prayer services, and fellowship, the Life in the Spirit Seminar allows you to look at God as the Father, the Son and the Spirit. This seminar will help you to develop a better understanding of God, as Father and Son, but especially as the Spirit and the impact the Spirit can have in your life. Life in the Spirit is an opportunity for you to “step away” and take the time to deepen your personal relationship with God…which may change your life! The Life in the Spirit seminar begins on Saturday, March 13. More information will be forthcoming so watch the bulletin. -- Rev. Christopher R. Armstrong PILGRIMAGE TO IRELAND WITH
FR. CHRISTOPHER ARMSTRONG
on September 15-26, 2009. $3,650 + airtax per person/double occupancy. Air Taxes and Insurance not included. Brochures are on the greeting room shelf. For more info or brochures contact Best Catholic Pilgrimages, info@bestcatholic.com or 1-800-908-2378.
ANSWER THE CALL: Catholic Men’s Conference tickets are available thru Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 by Monday, February 2. Tickets are $40 each. Only tickets requested will be ordered.
SPIRITUAL CONFIRMATION SPONSORS
Next weekend the photos, names and addresses of our Confirmation candidates will be posted in the greeting room. Please consider taking a photo from the board and serving as a spiritual sponsor for that candidate. You will not replace their sacramental sponsor, but will pray for them, sending words of encouragement as they, and we, struggle to live for Christ more faithfully. Confirmation will be celebrated at St. Antoninus by Archbishop Schnurr on Thursday, March 12, 2009. |
Father Larry Mick Burse: A Living Legacy for 60-year Jubilee A burse is a permanently restricted endowment, with the interest used to help offset the cost of training local seminarians for the priesthood including tuition, room and board – about $30,000 a year. The goal of a burse is to fully endow one seminarian’s formation. A burse currently: * To be established requires a minimum pledged donation of $25,000. * Provides naming opportunity rights – benefactor or honoree, or as a memorial. * Is regulated by the board of trustees with interest presently allocated annually at six percent. Burses may receive additional capital over one’s lifetime, and even beyond, through inclusion in one’s will. Please make check out to St. Antoninus Parish and mark the memo line “Fr. Mick Burse.” The actual date of Fr. Mick’s 60th anniversary is March 12, 2009. We will celebrate it as a parish on Sunday, March 8, 2009, at the 11:30AM Mass.
VALENTINE ROUND-UP GALA will be on Saturday, February 14th, in the undercroft. If you wish to donate an item or service, call Sue Ulmer at 922-2159 for information.
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.
ALL MARRIED COUPLES CELEBRATING THEIR 25th, 50th, 60th, 70th and 75th Wedding Anniversaries during this year of 2009 should call the rectory office at 922-5400, Monday – Friday from 8AM to 3PM. Leave your name, address, wedding date and phone number by March 6.
2009 GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY MASS at Saint Peter in Chains Cathedral will be on Saturday, May 2, at 2PM. Principal celebrant will be Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk |
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Dear Parishioners, We have just concluded Catholic Schools Week and we are now registering new students starting after the 8:00, 9:30, and 11:30 Masses. During this time of registration we ask you to keep our school in your prayers. We know some families are faced with tough financial choices when committing to send children to Catholic schools. Fr. Armstrong, Peggy James, and our finance committee recognize this and have in-creased the parish contribution to the school’s operating expenses to keep increases in tuition down. Our increase for grades 1-8 is $100 total for those families with one or two children attending our school, and $150 for those families with three or more children at St. Antoninus School. I also want to thank the numerous faculty and staff members who volunteered countless additional hours before school, after school, and Saturday to ensure our Open House was a big success. St. Antoninus functions at a high level because of the teamwork on our faculty and the generosity of our volunteers and parishioners.
ADULT SOCIAL GROUP Note: Dues are due!! $5.00 per person. Friday, February 6: 1 PM Steering Committee Meeting, Holy Family Room Monday, February 9: Communion Service in chapel at 12:30PM followed by lunch and “Tax Review” in the undercroft. Early reservations of $9 per person due one week before luncheon. March: “The Lewis & Clark Expedition” April 22: Keenland Race Track; Phoenix Room plus buffet lunch. Limited to 40 people, get your reservations in early. Cost is $60 per person.
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
THE LESSONS IN CAROLS CD’S are available at the rectory office during normal business hours of 8AM to 3PM, Monday thru Friday . |
FROM DEACON DAVID ENDRES Last week we celebrated Catholic Schools Week here at St. Antoninus and throughout the nation. I am a proud product of now nearly countless years of Catholic education! I began as a first grader at St. Bartholomew School in 1986, attended Sacred Heart in Fairfield through the eighth grade, moved on to Badin High School in Hamilton, then Xavier University, three years of graduate studies at Catholic University, and finally four years at the seminary. I am hopeful that this twenty-third year of Catholic schooling will be my last as a student!
HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER GROUP This past Thanksgiving, the Willigs and nine others from Presentation Ministries went on a nine-day religious pilgrimage to several holy shrines in Italy. They visited Rome, Assisi and other exciting places to see. They joined a group led by Father Ed Duhon through Magnificat Travel out of Lafayette Louisiana. They even visited the shrine of Saint Padre Pio at San Giovanni Rotondo. How thrilling it must have been to attend Mass daily in holy places and be enriched in one’s faith. On Tuesday, Janet and Dave Willig will describe for us the beauty of making a trip that is a non-vacation but one filled with pleasure nonetheless. Join us in Chapel at 7:30 PM.
ARCHDIOCESAN DECREE ON CHILD PROTECTION ORIENTATION Wed. Feb. 18, 7PM; Wed. March 18, 7PM; Thurs. Apr. 23, 7PM; Tues. May 12, 1 PM. All meetings will be held in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft.
BASEBALL SIGNUPS E-mail your name, address, phone, grade and date of birth today to Howard.Hughes@Worxmart.net or call 616-6797.
UNIFORM AMNESTY! The baseball program is missing approximately 30 uniforms from last season. Please call Howard Hughes at 616-6797 for uniform return information.
MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER WEEKENDS will be on February 6-8, at the Comfort Inn in Erlanger, KY and March 20-22, at the Dayton Airport Hotel. For reservations call 1-800-547-1251 code 00 |
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1Corinthians Paul's first letter to the church of Corinth provides us with a fuller insight into the life of an early Christian community of the first generation than any other book of the New Testament. Through it we can glimpse both the strengths and the weaknesses of this small group in a great city of the ancient world, men and women who had accepted the good news of Christ and were now trying to realize in their lives the implications of their baptism. Paul, who had founded the community and continued to look after it as a father, responds both to questions addressed to him and to situations of which he had been informed. In doing so, he reveals much about himself, his teaching, and the way in which he conducted his work of apostleship. Some things are puzzling because we have the correspondence only in one direction. For the person studying this letter, it seems to raise as many questions as it answers, but without it our knowledge of church life in the middle of the first century would be much poorer.
Paul established a Christian community in Corinth about the year 51, on his second missionary journey. The city, a commercial crossroads, was a melting pot full of devotees of various pagan cults and marked by a measure of moral depravity not unusual in a great seaport. The Acts of the Apostles suggests that moderate success attended Paul's efforts among the Jews in Corinth at first, but that they soon turned against him (Acts 18:1-8). More fruitful was his year and a half spent among the Gentiles (Acts 18:11), which won to the faith many of the city's poor and underprivileged (1 Cor 1:26). After his departure the eloquent Apollos, an Alexandrian Jewish Christian, rendered great service to the community, expounding "from the scriptures that the Messiah is Jesus" (Acts 18:24-28).
While Paul was in Ephesus on his third journey (1 Cor 16:8; Acts 19:1-20), he received disquieting news about Corinth. The community there was displaying open factionalism, as certain members were identifying themselves exclusively with individual Christian leaders and interpreting Christian teaching as a superior wisdom for the initiated few (1 Cor 1:10-4:21). The community lacked the decisiveness to take appropriate action against one of its members who was living publicly in an incestuous union (1 Cor 5:1-13). Other members engaged in legal conflicts in pagan courts of law (1 Cor 6:1-11); still others may have participated in religious prostitution (1 Cor 6:12-20) or temple sacrifices (1 Cor 10:14-22).
The community's ills were reflected in its liturgy. In the celebration of the Eucharist certain members discriminated against others, drank too freely at the agape, or fellowship meal, and denied Christian social courtesies to the poor among the membership (1 Cor 11:17-22). Charisms such as ecstatic prayer, attributed freely to the impulse of the holy Spirit, were more highly prized than works of charity (1 Cor 13:1-2, 8), and were used at times in a disorderly way (1 Cor 14:1-40). Women appeared at the assembly without the customary head-covering (1 Cor 11:3-16), and perhaps were quarreling over their right to address the assembly (1 Cor 14:34-35).
Still other problems with which Paul had to deal concerned matters of conscience discussed among the faithful members of the community: the eating of meat that had been sacrificed to idols (1 Cor 8:1-13), the use of sex in marriage (1 Cor 7:1-7), and the attitude to be taken by the unmarried toward marriage in view of the possible proximity of Christ's second coming (1 Cor 7:25-40). There was also a doctrinal matter that called for Paul's attention, for some members of the community, despite their belief in the resurrection of Christ, were denying the possibility of general bodily resurrection.
To treat this wide spectrum of questions, Paul wrote this letter from Ephesus about the year 56. The majority of the Corinthian Christians may well have been quite faithful. Paul writes on their behalf to guard against the threats posed to the community by the views and conduct of various minorities. He writes with confidence in the authority of his apostolic mission, and he presumes that the Corinthians, despite their deficiencies, will recognize and accept it. On the other hand, he does not hesitate to exercise his authority as his judgment dictates in each situation, even going so far as to promise a direct confrontation with recalcitrant, should the abuses he scores remain uncorrected (1 Cor 4:18-21).
The letter illustrates well the mind and character of Paul. Although he is impelled to insist on his office as founder of the community, he recognizes that he is only one servant of God among many and generously acknowledges the labors of Apollos (1 Cor 3:5-8). He provides us in this letter with many valuable examples of his method of theological reflection and exposition. He always treats the questions at issue on the level of the purity of Christian teaching and conduct.
Certain passages of the letter are of the greatest importance for the understanding of early Christian teaching on the Eucharist (1 Cor 10:14-22; 11:17-34) and on the resurrection of the body (1 Cor 15:1-58). Paul's authorship of 1 Corinthians, apart from a few verses that some regard as later interpolations, has never been seriously questioned. Some scholars have proposed, however, that the letter as we have it contains portions of more than one original Pauline letter. We know that Paul wrote at least two other letters to Corinth (see 1 Cor 5:9; 2 Cor 2:3-4) in addition to the two that we now have; this theory holds that the additional letters are actually contained within the two canonical ones. Most commentators, however, find 1 Corinthians quite understandable as a single coherent work.
The principal divisions of the First Letter to the Corinthians are the following:
A. The Resurrection of Christ (1 Cor 15:1-11)
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The
Traveling Chalice wants to
FROM OUR
PRINCIPAL, MR. JACK COREY