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January 10, 2010 |
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January 10, 2010 |
Eucharistic Adoration On Fridays 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.
PARISH DIRECTORIES, in limited quantities, are available at the rectory during office hours for $5.00 each
THANK YOU to Heil Home Improvement, LLC for advertising in our bulletin.
CONFESSIONS SCHEDULE Thursday, January 14, 7:30 PM – Fr. Mick Saturday, January 16, 3:00PM – Fr. Mick
BABYSITTING FOR THE 9:30AM MASS, SUNDAY, January 17, 2010 Adult Volunteers: Joan Gay, Sue Koch
Students: Roc R., Sydney S.
ADULT BIBLE STUDY every Monday from 7:00 to 8:00PM 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. CHOIR PRACTICE Regular scheduled rehearsals will be on the 2nd and 3rd Wednesday evenings of each month from 7-8:30PM in the school music room. Please call Peg Delaney at 922-5400 for information and to set up an audition time. MOM’S ROSARY CIRCLE GROUP is every Friday from 10AM to 11:30AM at Mary Ann Baverman’s home, 5327 Quailwood off Sylved Ln. All Moms and all kids are welcome. Rosary instruction is available. Call before you come the first time 922-3461. LITURGY OF THE WORD for children in grades 1 and 2 (until they have received their First Holy Communion), at the 9:30 Mass every Sunday. 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. + Jesus, whom God called “my beloved Son,” is also the “servant” of whom Isaiah speaks in the first reading. We who are baptized in Christ must follow His example and use our time and resources in the service of God and neighbor. See Luke 3:22. +
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Dear Parishioners,
Today we celebrate the
Feast of Baptism of the Lord, which concludes the Christmas season. It
is a reminder that we as believers live in a different time zone which
is liturgical and eternal. That time zone is to remind us that all time
is holy, or as Thomas Merton put it, sacramental. We will each render
an account for how well we used the time which was allotted to us on
earth. Fr. Christopher R. Armstrong
THE OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY: As of the beginning of January, 63 pilgrims are going. Pentecost Tours sent new brochures, which are in the greeting room. The price goes up $100 after March 27, 2010. Please mention Fr. Armstrong's name should you contact Pentecost Tours at (800)713-9800 or travel@pentecosttours.com.
MASS OF CHRISTIAN BURIAL has been offered for Carol Socrates. Please keep her and her family in your prayers.
STOCK DONATIONS If you wish to contribute stock to Saint Antoninus Parish Church, please contact Mrs. Steffany Reid, our business manager, at 922-5400 for instructions. |
MEASURING ENGAGEMENT.
Last October, our
Parish took the Measuring Engagement Survey (hereafter, ME 25), which
consisted of 25 questions. I published the results in the bulletin and
made an announcement from the pulpit the week-end before Thanksgiving.
I also stated that I would begin to publish an individual commentary on
each of the questions and their metrics. Remember the survey was based
on a 5 point scale: 5= strongly agree; 1= strongly disagree. This is
the first in that proposed series. |
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Gift Card Program Update: THANK YOU to all the parishioners and friends who purchased gift cards through St. Antoninus during the Christmas season. The Scrips Gift Card program alone, new this year, created almost $2000 in profit for St. A. Thank you!! You feed your soul daily in prayer and weekly at Mass. Consider feeding your family using the Biggs $50 gift card or the Kroger re-chargeable card on a regular basis. Eat out? Consider using Price Hill Chili, Ron's Roost, The Holy Grail, Skyline or Chipotle! These vendors, plus Allison Landscaping, are in-stock and available before/after mass, thru school order form, or from the Rectory, daily 8:00-3:00 M-F. The pre-order Scrips program will continue in 2010 as well. Orders will be placed twice a month, on the 2nd and 4th Mondays. Review the list of vendors -- Doing some remodeling? Do you have an upcoming birthday? Eat out at a restaurant listed on the order form? Plan ahead and order your cards thru St. A. The order form will appear in the bulletin twice a month, and can be turned in before/after mass at the gift card table, submitted through school, or dropped off at the rectory. These programs are a no-cost fundraiser for the parish.... it costs you nothing! Yet, it pays back to the parish a percentage every time you use the cards. Take a minute and support the program! Thank you, again, for making the program a great success!
Last chance to buy 2010 Entertainment Book or Zone coupon book! Save dollars at O'Charley's, Willie's, Steak n’ Shake, TGI Friday's, GFS Marketplace, Dick's Sporting Goods and many more. Still only $20! Books are sold after all weekend Masses with the gift cards, daily at the rectory, or call Larry Hurley @ 608-7604 for FREE delivery to your home or office. All proceeds benefit St. Antoninus Church and School. HURRY - SALE ENDS SUN., JAN 17TH !!!
PARISH DIRECTORIES, in limited quantities, are available at the rectory during office hours for $5.00 each.
ADULT SOCIAL GROUP Jan. 11th: Communion Service @ 12:30, followed by Luncheon in the Undercroft. And a presentation on German Beer Steins by Fred Kellerman. Cost: $9 pp for lunch. |
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY Annual Report Income $29,612 Poor Boxes $ 8,594 Special Gifts 11,627 5th Sundays 4,825 Twinning 1,865 Special Collections 1,263 SVdP Council 1,438 Carry-over from FY2008 $2,191
Disbursements $30,567 Client Aid $28,809 Twinning 1,400 Administration 358
Balance on December 31, 2009 $ 1,236
We are very gratefully for the contributions, both large and small, which permit us to serve the needy.
HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER GROUP In mid-December we viewed one part of the video “Marian Apparitions of the 20th Century” with particular emphasis on Medjugorje and other recent apparition sites. As promised, we will cover the other sites on Tuesday. Because of a lack of media attention, these ten sites are not well-known throughout the world. Our video of the sites and their seers is fascinating and challenging. Are we listening to her warnings and her call to conversion and prayer? Seven of these sites have been approved by the Church as worthy of belief. Do we even know where they are, when they occurred, and that some are going on today? Come and be informed. In Chapel, 7:30 PM.
SAINT ANTONINUS PARISH MAIN- A- VENT “An Evening at the Sweetheart Ranch” Saturday, February 13, 2010 6:30PM to Midnight Look for more details in future bulletins. |
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ST. ANTONINUS PARISH SCHOOL TUITION RAFFLE CHANCES are 1 Chance for $50, 3 chances for $100. A year’s tuition for St. Antoninus Parish School will be raffled off at the Gala on February 13, 2010.
THE MAIN-A-VENT needs vacation homes, get-away packages or weekend packages for the live auction. To discuss details, please call Mark Baker at 451-0982.
JACK COREY Vocation Awareness Week starts today and continues until the 16th. For more resources or information, we are blessed to have an excellent online resource sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati at www.cincinnativocations.org. Mr. Robben, our seminarian intern, will be visiting classes to discuss vocations. A simple way to reinforce vocation awareness is to ask one’s children or grandchildren what they think God is calling them to do. Steer them toward prayer to discern what God wants. This week also begins our Everybody Counts program which will culminate with our Everybody Counts Mass on Friday, January 22. The primary purpose of Everybody Counts is to emphasize that all human life is precious from conception to natural death.
MARRIAGE ISSUES THAT DIVIDE THE CHURCH… Are you currently divorced but not remarried? Are you or your spouse remarried after experiencing a divorce? Were you married outside the Church? In September 2009, Archbishop Dennis Schnurr held several public meetings concerning these issues. You may still have questions or perhaps you could not attend one of those sessions. Whatever your circumstances, we would like to help you! Having information about marriage cases is a good first step which could lead to current civil marriages being celebrated (convalidated) in the Catholic Church. We invite any parishioners who are affected by these issues to contact us. Please call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 to set up a completely confidential appointment. May God bless you. |
Today we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord and the beginning of his public ministry. This it is a good time to reflect upon the ministry of Christ and his call for men and women to dedicate their lives to ministry within his Church as priests or religious brothers or sisters. It has been said that it is the duty for every young Catholic to ask if he or she has a vocation to serve Christ’s Church. This question is often posed, but the answer is muddled in today’s cultural values. This is where you come in! Is there someone you believe might have a vocation to the priesthood or the religious life? Have you given such a one any encouragement? If not, this weekend you have the chance to do so by participating in the Called By Name program here at St. Antoninus. We ask that you either fill out a form in Church or email the names of those you believe have a religious vocation to saintantoninus@fuse.net. Father Armstrong will send a personalized letter to each person so that lines of communication can be opened and hopefully clear the confusion. Remember, all of us are responsible for the promotion of vocations to the priesthood and religious life. God makes the call. But to one afraid to answer, we need to give help.
ST. JOSEPH K OF C will sponsor a PANCAKE BREAKFAST on Sunday, January 31, from 8AM to 1 PM in the Taylor High School Cafeteria, across from St. Joseph Church. A child 5-10 years of age is $3 and adults are $5. The proceeds will benefit the Pregnancy Center West. For tickets call Dave Willig at 451-6192.
Seton High School is hosting Power of the Purse – Girls’Night Out on Thursday, January 14, 6:30 p.m. in the Seton Commons and Gymnasium. The night promises lots of fun and laughter with your friends and great purses! Designer handbags from Coach, Prada, Donney & Bourke, Liz Claiborne, Fossil and many more will be featured in live and silent auctions. Enjoy delicious hors d’oeuvres, desserts and cocktails featuring the Setontini, beer, wine and soft drinks. Live entertainment by Excalibur. The cost is $40 a person. Reservation forms are available at www.setoncincinnati.org or call Kelley Neu at 471-2600 x188. Must be 21years old or over to attend. |
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