EUCHARISTIC ADORATION

Every Friday after the 8AM Mass

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.

THE PARISH LIBRARY is open every Sunday morning in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft.

CONFESSIONS SCHEDULE

Thursday, September 24, 7:30PM – Fr. Mick

Saturday September 26, 3:00PM – Fr. Mick

BABYSITTING FOR THE 9:30AM MASS,

SUNDAY, September 27

Adult Volunteers: Julie Ashe, Joan Gay

Students: Laura N., Carly N., David N., Alyse P.

ADULT BIBLE STUDY every Monday from 7:00 to 8:00 in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft. If you have questions please call Mary Lynne Rapien at 922-0902.

RCIA on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft. Questions call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759.

PREP classes for Catholic students in public schools are on Sundays. To register please call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759.

ST. ANTONINUS SUNDAY SCHOOL for 4 and 5 year-olds will be held in the school cafeteria during the 9:30 Mass on Sundays starting October 4th. Students registered for the 4 year-old group must be eligible for Kindergarten in the fall of 2010. Call Deacon Bob at 922-4759.

Remember St. Antoninus in your will. 

FROM OUR PASTOR

     I continue to consider each phrase of the vision statement in turn:  "I see a day when every member of St. Antoninus Parish engages in Divine Worship...when every member goes to confession every month."  The Lord has ordained that the ordinary means of receiving His grace is through His sacraments. By confessing our sins we acknowledge Him as our Lord and Savior.  A great danger that we face as believers is "hardness of heart," which frequently manifest itself in a disregard for going to confession.  The church commands us to go to confession at least once a year in order to full our Easter duty, that is, to receive Holy Communion during the Easter Season.  In order to make sure that we are properly disposed to do so, the Sacrament of Penance is enjoined upon us.  Again, hardness of heart can manifest itself: when we think we have no sins to confess; when we think that if we do confess them, we will  be back again soon with the same sins; when we either presume on God's goodness or despair of His mercy for the sins we have committed.  By going to confession on a regular basis, for example, once a month, we are given the grace to grow in Christian holiness and virtue, something we can never achieve on our own. "Come to Me all you who are weary and find life burdensome and I will refresh you" in the Sacrament of Penance.

Fr. Christopher R. Armstrong

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Today’s second reading warns that a heart consumed with avarice and envy leads to jealousy, strife, conflicts, and disputes. A giving heart, in contrast, can sing instead with the psalmist, “Freely will I offer you sacrifice; I will praise your name, O Lord, for its goodness.” See Psalm 54

Biggs, Kroger, Price Hill Chili and The Holy Grail Gift Cards are available during rectory office hours of Monday-Friday 8AM to 3PM and after all weekend Masses.

START SAVING $ TODAY!

Entertainment 2010 books and Zone coupon books are now on sale daily at the rectory and after all weekend Masses with the other gift cards. Still only $20! Save hundreds of dollars at local merchants and restaurants. Call Larry Hurley at 608-7604 for FREE express delivery to your home or office. All proceeds benefit St. Antoninus Church and School. Thank you for your support!

“LETTERS FROM FR. ARMSTRONG” has been mailed to all parishioners in connection with our Renewal Appeal. We appreciate your prompt and favorable reply. Also, please use the special envelope to indicate your new level of giving and then, in succeeding weeks, return to your regular envelope packet. The objectives of the Appeal are: 1) to promote the concept of Catholic Stewardship “God loves a cheerful giver” and, 2) to request a slight weekly increase in the offering by all members of the parish. We hope that all those who are able to make a modest financial increase on the part of the parish will respond in the next two weeks.

CISE APPEAL

You may use the envelope or use the poor boxes at the church entrances. Please make checks out to St. Antoninus Church with the notation in the memo line, CISE Appeal. Thank you.

LITURGY OF THE WORD WITH THE CHILDREN will begin on Sunday, September 20. We will offer the opportunity for children in grades 1 and 2 (until they have received their First Holy Communion), to participate in their own Liturgy of the Word at the 9:30 Mass.

EDUCATION COMMISSION meeting will be on Monday, September 21, at 7:30 PM in the school conference room. Visitors are always welcome. The next meeting will be on November 16.

THE ST. ANTONINUS PRO-LIFE/PRO-FAMILY COMMISSION will meet in the church undercroft on Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 7 PM. All interested persons are welcome. For more info, call Joan Loebker at 922-0348

ATTENTION SINGERS!

Lift up your voice in song and become a part of the new St. Antoninus Adult Choir. We invite all interested singers (age 18 or older) to join. This group will lead the singing at the 11:30 a.m. Masses on the 3rd and 4th Sundays of each month. Regular scheduled rehearsals will be twice a month on Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30pm in the school Music Room, with the first meeting on Wednesday, Sept. 23rd. Please call Peg Delaney at the rectory (922-5400) for info and to set up an audition time. Come and help us give glory to God through prayer and song.

THE HEAVENS DECLARE THE GLORY OF GOD! (Psalm 19:1) St. Antoninus has been awarded a new telescope by the Cincinnati Observatory. You are invited to a Jupiter night at Schott field on Saturday, September 26, beginning at 8:30pm.

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT SEMINAR begins on Saturday, October 3. Call Susan at 227-0844. See the brochure in the church pews.

COFFEE & DONUTS ON will be on October 11, November 8, December 13, January 10, February 14, March 14, April 11, and May 9.

PCW BABY BOTTLE CAMPAIGN

Please return your baby bottle with your monetary donation to the greet room during the weekend Masses on October 10 and 11th.

ORIENTATION MEETING ON CHILD PROTECTION DECREE will be in the Holy Family Room of the undercroft at 7:30pm, October 12, and November 19. If you have attended an orientation meeting since August, 2003, you do not need to repeat it. For further info about these meetings and the background checks, please call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759. HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOME CONSTRUCTION ON FYFFE AVE. From 8:00am to 3:00pm or any hours you can help, on October 17, and November 21. Call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 or send e-mail to: w8cro@arrl.net.

TRAVELING CHALICE

Thank you to Dave and Janet Willig Family who took the Traveling Chalice into their home for one week to help pray for vocations to the religious life. If you would like the Traveling Chalice for one week, please call Debbie at 922-2414.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY

In the past two months, through your gifts, our Conference has been able to bring the peace of God to the poor by providing $330 for food/household items, $625 for rent, $190 for medical bills, and $1,150 for utility bills (gas/electric, water, phone). Thank you!

ADULT SOCIAL GROUP

Oct 2nd, Steering Committee meeting at 1PM in the Holy Family Room. All are welcome.

Oct 12th, Communion Service at 12:30PM, followed by lunch in the undercroft and Fred Kellerman’s “Funky Bingo”. Cost is $9 per person, get in your reservation by October 7th.

December 1-3 – Trip to “Our Lady of the Snows Shrine” to see the Christmas Displays and “Way of Lights.” Leave Tues, Dec. 1st, return Thur. Dec. 3rd. Stay 2 nights at the Shrine hotel. Tour will also include a sightseeing trip to the St. Louis Arch: Noon Mass at the Basilica: and a tour of the Anheuser Bush Brewery. Cost $175 per person, deposit $75 per person due now, full amount by November 1st. Includes the transportation, lodging and continental breakfast. Additional food, fees and souvenirs are at one’s own expense. Four spaces left.

FROM OUR PRINCIPAL – JACK COREY

Many times as a Catholic school we are called to be counter-cultural. Turn on almost any advertisement and one will be bombarded by a company claiming to make life effortless. A pill will melt away fat. This gadget will clean your house, and this one will cook dinner for you, “just set and forget.” Our media driven culture makes one feel work, effort and self-denial are not necessary. A few years ago, many were made to believe that money and a good job were not necessary to own a big house. Of course we see where that ended. In Catholic schools we teach how Joseph did not disown Mary as the culture allowed, but became the foster-father of Jesus. We teach how Mary denied herself to follow God’s plan. We also teach about Christ’s ultimate act of self-denial, the acceptance of the cross, allows us to attain Heaven. We teach many forms of self-denial for their own benefit as well. For many students it is not playing a video game when there is a test to study for. This week the In-Control program teaches our 7th and 8th grade students about chastity, a form of self-denial that is seems to be more and more counter-cultural. We also teach that we need to go to Church every Sunday even when we would rather stay in bed, go to a sporting event, clean the house, etc. When we delay gratification and practice self-denial for the greater benefit, we become better people. In this way we also become a better community. A year after the near collapse of our economic system, this is a message we should want to impart to future generations.

HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER GROUP

Many have favorite books that aid in their time of prayer daily. Perhaps, it might be the Magnificat, the One Bread One Body, the Liturgy of the Hours, a favorite rosary meditation, or other prayers that have special meaning. Of course, the Bible is always a source of challenge and inspiration. This Tuesday evening we will share with one another those materials that have helped us in establishing a fruitful prayer life. Our hope is that by sharing what has worked, it will give each of us encouragement and new insight as we strive to enter more fully into life with Christ. In Chapel, Tuesday 7:30 PM.

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY LUNCH for the Habitat for Humanity construction volunteers on Saturday, October 17. If you would like to help, please call Julie Heil at 922-3848 in the evening.

FROM OUR SEMINARIAN INTERN, MATTHEW J. ROBBEN

Bitter Blessings: In grade school, I just knew that I would be a priest. My teenage years, however, brought a whole new experience, women. It was a post-concert party during my junior year when Amy and I met. We dated the rest of the school year and throughout the summer. We discussed every aspect of our future, including education, family, and marriage. The only area we disagreed upon was the number of children, and ultimately, God decides that one. Before Christmas of our senior year, Amy asked me to spend the holidays down south, getting acquainted with her grandparents. But I declined, so that I could spend time with my family. Arriving at her grandparents, Amy was immediately sent to the store to pick up a gallon of milk. On the way, she was broadsided by a drunk driver, forced off the road, hit a tree, and killed instantly. I could have responded to her death by turning to God and seeking support of family and friends. I chose however, to hide my emotions, pretend to be strong, and blame God. For years I was angry and tangled with God. I remember thinking that this was God’s way of “getting back” at me for not embracing my call to the priesthood. As I look back, I can see that Amy was and is the greatest blessing I could ever have received. A new profound sense of love and loss in my life has allowed me to take stock of the many blessings that the Lord has bestowed on me and continues to bestow upon me. I believe my love for and relationship with Amy will make me a more compassionate and understanding priest in the future, and for this, I am most grateful and blessed. This week I pray the Lord grants you the same grace, the ability to recognize the blessings He bestows upon you as you continue to live the Gospel message!

THE YEAR FOR PRIESTS ST. MICHAEL PRAYER WARRIORS presents a Call of the King Conference with Archbishop Dennis Schnurr on Sunday, September 27, at 7:30PM at Our Lady of the Holy Spirit Center in Norwood. Hear the Archbishop speak about fostering a culture of vocations in the home and parish. Adoration of Our Eucharistic Lord from 6-7PM. Refreshments will be served at the conclusion of the Conference.

VOLLEYBALL SIGNUPS now for all grade school and high school girls. Call Mary Nie at 451-4490 or chrisnie@yahoo.com or Jenny Allison at 251-4940 jallison@cinci.rr.com.

ST. JOHN VIANNEY AUGUST 4 (A.D. 1859)

From Butler’s Lives of the Saints Continued from last week… In 1821 the district of Ars was made a succursal parish, and in 1823, it became part of the revived diocese of Belley. This was an occasion for slanderous attacks on M. Vianney (whose reforming zeal naturally made enemies for him) and his new bishop, Mgr. Devie, sent the dean to enquire what it was all about; but the bishop soon learned to have confidence in the Cure of Ars and later offered him an important parish elsewhere which he refused only after a good deal of hesitation. In the meanwhile the reputation of his holiness and achievements was also becoming known, and he was asked to give several parochial missions, when his confessional was always besieged. In 1824 there was opened at Ars by the enterprise of the cure a free school for girls, run by Catherine Lassagne and Benedicta Lardet, two young women of the village whom he had sent away to a convent to be trained. From this school sprang, some three years later, the famous institution of La Providence, a shelter for orphans and other homeless or deserted children, neither babies nor adolescent girls were turned away. Not a halfpenny was accepted from the inmates, even from girls who could pay, and neither Mlle Lassagne, Mlle Lardet, nor any other helper received any salary; it was a charity, run on alms, and its final end the saving of souls. At times there were sixty people thus being provided for, and the cure was hard put to it to support such a family. On one occasion the loft was found full of wheat under circumstances that clearly indicated a miracle, and on another occasion the cook testified to making ten 20lb. loaves from a few pounds of flour, at the prayer of M. Vianney. Such works as these slowly and surely brought about a change of heart among his parishioners, and visitors noticed and commented on their orderly appearance and good behavior; and it was the personal influence and example of the man himself that moved them in the first place: “Our cure is a saint and we must obey him”. “We are no better than other people, but we live close to a saint”. Some of them doubtless never got beyond that, to “It is the will of God, we must obey Him”, but still they persevered in obeying the cure precisely because he was a good man.

And he, while his people were slowly and painfully coming back to a Christian life, was being the object of manifestations which would appear to be nothing less than a persecution by the Devil himself, as M. Vianney believed them to be. To be continued next week…

THE ATHLETIC CLUB IS LOOKING FOR volunteers to fill the open positions for Basketball Tournament Coordinator. Please call Brian Bohan at 922-4313 or Mike Rolfes at 451-6704 to inquire about either position.

First meeting for Setonsation 2010 will take place on Tuesday, September 22! Join us to volunteer for this worthy event! Sign up for a committee and find out more about Setonsation! Park in the garage and enter the building through the connector. Meeting is at 7:00 p.m. in the Seton Library. See you there! For more information call 471.2600 ext.108.

ANNUAL BLUE MASS CELEBRATION on Sunday, September 27th, at 11AM at the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Chains, for all the Greater Cincinnati police, fire and public safety personnel and the entire community.

PROJECT RACHEL RETREAT on September 25-27, in Cincinnati. Call 784-0531 for registration, specific location, and information. The retreat is open to the hearing impaired.

Seton High School will hold their annual Walk on Sunday, October 4th. Sign-in begins at 8:30 a.m., Mass is at 9:00 a.m. and the Walk is at 10:00 a.m. All alumnae, students, parents and friends are invited. The cost is $25 and includes a t-shirt and lunch. New this year is a Children’s Mini-Walk. Kids ages 3-12 can participate in a walk on campus and receive a t-shirt and lunch. The cost is $10 per child. For those who do not want to walk, come and socialize in the Seton commons and enjoy lunch with friends. For more info call Ceil Lundy at 471.2600 ext. 210. Registration forms are available at www.setoncincinnati.org. All proceeds benefit the Seton Alumnae Assistance Fund