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March 7, 2010 |
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March 7, 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.
THANK YOU to Esterkamp Automotive for advertising in our bulletin.
CONFESSIONS SCHEDULE Because of Confirmation on Thursday, March 11, there will be no Confessions. Saturday, March 13, 3:00PM – Fr. Mick
BABYSITTING FOR THE 9:30AM MASS, SUNDAY, March 14, 2010 Adult Volunteers: Susan Fluegemann, Leslie Keller 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. + The parable in today’s Gospel clearly warns that we, like the fig tree, will be judged by our fruit. While God mercifully provides us with time and opportunity, let us give witness to our faith with deeds of kindness and generosity! +
come to your home! If you would like the Traveling Chalice for one week, please call Debbie at 922-2414.
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Were you married outside the Church? You can have your civil marriage celebrated (convalidated) in the Catholic Church. Call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 to set up a confidential appointment. |
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Dear Parishioners, I read a story once about a Mass server who made it to church during a snow storm. When the priest expressed surprise, the server exclaimed: "But, Father, who will wash away your iniquity?" What he was referring to was the prayer the priest says as the server pours water over his hands after he has offered the bread and wine: "Lord, wash away my iniquity and cleanse me of my sin." In fact, there are many opportunities during the liturgy during which the priest prays quietly for the forgiveness of his sins, such as before and after proclaiming the Gospel and as he purifies the vessels after Holy Communion. Nevertheless, the priest like all the faithful needs to go to confession on a regular basis. This third Sunday as well as the fourth and fifth Sundays of Lent, the Gospel readings will be about sin and its forgiveness. They are meant to dispose us to receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation devoutly and fruitfully. To that end and published in this bulletin is an examination of conscience. In the pews is a small "take with you" card which invites us to respond to God's grace by going to confession. Fr. Christopher R. Armstrong
MEASURING ENGAGEMENT ME 09: "I speak words of kindness to those in need of encouragement." Of the 614/625 parishioners who responded, 51% strongly agreed, 37% agreed, 10% neither agreed nor disagreed, 2% disagreed and 1% strongly disagreed, giving a mean average of 4.37/5. Among all Catholic respondents, the mean average was 4.40/5 and among all denominations it was 4.38/5. According to Growing an Engaged Church, that statement measures compassion, a key component of Christian spirituality. That statement also has the highest area of agreement and the author wondered if that was because it was the least demanding or if compassion is a fundamental human trait. Be that as it may, "a large number of individuals don't speak words of kindness to others and so, the compassion of spiritually committed individuals stands out."
THE OBERAMMERGAU PASSION PLAY: See the Pentecost Tours brochures in the greeting room. The price goes up $100 after March 27, 2010. Please mention Fr. Armstrong's name, should you call Pentecost Tours at (800)713-9800. |
Were you married outside the Church? You can have your civil marriage celebrated (convalidated) in the Catholic Church. Call Deacon Bob Schroeder at 922-4759 to set up a confidential appointment.
Jeff Thomas representing Diocesan Publications will be renewing present advertisements and seeking new ones. Please call the rectory office M-F, from 8AM to 3PM.
TATIANA’S CONCERT at St. Antoninus on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:00p.m. She will present “I Thirst,” a highly professional and artistic musical experience of Christ’s walk on Calvary told through songs. There is no admission fee or tickets. A free-will offering will be taken up.
ANSWER THE CALL -- CATHOLIC MEN’S CONFERENCE will take place on Saturday, March 20, 2010, at Music Hall. If you would like tickets for this event, order forms are available from Deacon Bob Schroeder. Please call him at 922-4759.
Please take the Traveling Chalice into your home for one week as a reminder to pray for vocations to the priesthood and to the religious life by calling Debbie at 922-2414. Thank you to Ben and Karen Klaene who took the Traveling Chalice into their home for one week.. |
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The Gift Card Program now has on hand the $25 Bed, Bath & Beyond; $10 Cracker Barrel, $25 Hallmark; $25 O’Charley’s; $25 Walgreens; $50 Biggs gift card and the Kroger re-chargeable cards; $10 Chipotle; $20 Holy Grail Tavern cards; $5 Price Hill Chili; $10 Ron’s Roost; $5 Skyline; and $25 Allison’s cards before/after weekend Masses, thru the order form, or from the Rectory daily 8:00-3:00 M-F.
TRY ELECTRONIC FUNDS (EFT) through your bank, you can set up specific dates and withdrawal amounts. Simply call Steffany Reid, the Business Manager, at 922-5400, and she can help you get set up.
EDUCATION COMMISSION meeting will be on Monday, March 15, at 7:30PM in the school conference room. Visitors are welcome. If you need to be added to the agenda, please call Marty Ludwig at 451-5270 before Monday, March 8.
ADULT SOCIAL GROUP Mar.8th: Communion Service @ 12:30, followed by luncheon in the undercroft and a DVD presentation of “Thank You America” a musical salute to the Great American People by the Irish Tenor Cahal Dunne. April luncheon: Talk on Mohammedanism by Matt Robben. April 21st: Trip to Keenland . Cost: $60 pp. Includes transportation and buffet lunch in Phoenix Room at the track. Trip is limited to 40 people, so get your reservation and money in early, “first come—first served”. Bus will leave at 9:00am and return between 6 & 7pm.
SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY As of March 1, approximately 250 items of non-perishable food have been collected for the Holy Family Food Pantry. Your contributions will be gratefully received throughout the remainder of Lent.
HOLY SPIRIT PRAYER GROUP On Tuesday Father Armstrong will continue the course on “Sharing Christ’s Priesthood.” We use the booklet by Mike Aquilina called a Bible Study for Catholics. We will be studying the next session and continue each week in March and April. Consider this program as a good Lenten practice for enlarging our appreciation for Scripture and discovering God’s plan for priesthood from Genesis right up to today. In Chapel, 7:30 PM. |
JACK COREY This week we started our fundraising for the Shoulder to Shoulder program. As some may remember from a previous article, our students listened to a presentation made by Drs. Lawrence and Jan Tepe DDS during Catholic Schools Week. They are a husband and wife team who go to Honduras to provided dental services in places where people have no other access to dental care. The Shoulder to Shoulder program can buy nearly-expired medications and supplies at a quarter of the cost and use them before they expire. The student council is sponsoring a penny war during Lent in order to raise money to give to the Shoulder to Shoulder program. Twice a week each homeroom teacher has a container in the lunch room for students to put their change in. This coming week our seventh graders are making their confirmation. Please pray for them as they continue their journey in the faith. All students this past week from grades 2-8 received the Sacrament of Reconciliation. On Friday, March 12, the school and school office will be closed for a teacher in-service day. 2010-2011 returning student registration begins Thursday, March 11. Look for the registration form to come home with your youngest child on Thursday, March 11. It is due back to the school office by Friday, April 16, with a $100 per student registration fee. School policy requires that tuition be paid in full before registration can be accepted for the new school year. Tuition for the current school year is due March 10. Also, if you are not planning to return to St. Antoninus School for the 2010-2011 school year, please call the school office or e-mail Mrs. Bepler at bepler@saintantoninus.org
DEAR EDWINA JR. PLAY TICKETS: Performances will be on Fri, 3/19, 7pm, Sat. 3/20, 1 pm and Sat. 3/20 at 7 pm in the St. A school gym. All tickets are $4. Please see order form on the St. A website for more details or call Cathy Neville at 451-9422.
Boy Scout Troop 614 Fish Fry will be served from 5 – 7 p.m. in the Church Undercroft on every Friday during Lent. Thank you for supporting the Boy Scout Program. |
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MATTHEW ROBBEN Thank you to all who prayed for me during my recent retreat. It was a blessed opportunity to read, pray, and reflect upon a book entitled Beatitudes Eight Steps to Happiness by Raniero Cantalamessa, O.F.M. Cap., the preacher to the pontifical household. Over the course of the next few weeks, I would like to share some of his insights on the beatitudes and how to use them as an examination of conscience. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 5:3) Blessed are the poor.” (Luke 6:20) Who are the poor in spirit? Theologically, Luke places an emphasis on social condition while Matthew places more emphasis on interior disposition. Which is correct? St Paul writes “Jesus Christ…though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.” (2 Cor. 8-9) Cantalamessa contends that Christ took on material poverty that we may be enriched spiritually. However, this material poverty affects Christ to the core of his being. By becoming man, He strips himself, not of His divine nature, but of all the glory, wealth, and splendor it could afford him…all to make us children of God. Christ’s poverty shines through him not in his being poor, but in making himself poor, making himself a servant of love for our sake. Here are a few points to ponder this week. Have I abandoned everything to God, making myself poor for His sake?” How attached to earthly things have I become? Where in my life can I simplify for the gospel? Do I respond to the poverty of others around me?
ATHLETIC CLUB GOLF OUTING AND FESTIVAL The Golf Outing will be at Hidden Valley on Friday, May 14th. The Summer Festival will be on June11, 12, and 13. Volunteers are needed for both events. Please call Dave Bengel at 922-3535 to sign up. |
They were stolen from across an ocean, taken from their homes, locked in chains and brought to a new land. For more than 200 years, their blood and sweat would help to build the richest and most powerful nation the world has known. But when slavery ended, their welcome was over…according to some of America’s bigoted leaders who then decided it was time for these people to disappear and they were not particular about how it might be done. The plan that was set in motion 150 years ago is still being carried out today: now eugenics and legalized abortion combine as America’s deadly force that has reduced the black population in the US by about 25%! Some of the most powerful leaders of the socialist and humanist movements of the 20th century are some of the worst racists, on the same level as Adolph Hitler but they’re much more devious. Planned Parenthood’s racist origins (formerly Margaret Sanger’s American Birth Control League) are attributed to this goal of exterminating the black population. Abortion is the #1 killer of blacks in America. In 2004 legalized abortion killed 2.8 times as many blacks than HIV/AIDS, heart disease, gang violence, cancer and accidents combined. Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry position their death sites within the minority communities and near their schools. It is 5 times more abortion-threatening for a black unborn baby than a white unborn child. Today, your pro life civil rights advocates are strongly encouraged to view this eugenics plan in the exceptional film, MAAFA 21, Black Genocide in the 21st Century. (www.MAAFA21.com). MAAFA is Swahili for “tragedy/disaster”. This timely documentary is a very carefully reasoned and well produced expose of the abortion industry, racism and eugenics. Thankfully, the evil of slavery is now understood in our culture to be despicable, absurd. So, why isn’t it so with abortion, sold through the “choice” propaganda? For a parallel look consider this Lent, reading Edward P. Jones’ Pulitzer Prize winning historical novel, The Known World. Family/school/parish discussions are perfect. Black History month is just completed…so for the sake of our country let’s commit to becoming better tools for God to utilize in rectifying this horrific social injustice. (www.BlackGenocide.org). Meantime, keep sending those calls/emails/letters to our U.S. Senators and Representatives. Your efforts remain vital to stopping any “Health” Care Bill from institutionalizing the culture of death into our America: Abortion and Euthanasia are NOT HEALTHCARE! Pray. God is good! Jane Hoffman, St. Antoninus Pro Life/Pro Family Committee |
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Solemn Parish Novena to St. Joseph, husband of Mary
From March 11 to March 19, there will be a solemn Parish Novena to St. Joseph. I suppose my own devotion to St. Joseph began when I saw his statue in our Christmas crèche when I was a child. I chose “Joseph” as my Confirmation name when I was in the third grade. The one and only time I ever was the last student standing in our 4th grade Friday morning “spell down” I won a St. Joseph’s medal. My devotion to St. Joseph grew in the seminary, especially when I began to work with the Little Sisters of the Poor. They would tell the most wonderful stories of God’s providential care for them through the intercession of St. Joseph. When I became pastor I placed all of our temporal affairs under his patronage because he was responsible for the material welfare of the Holy Family. But even more than that, God himself chose St. Joseph to be His foster father here on earth. St. Joseph taught Jesus how to pray and how to earn a living. It is said that Jesus has never ceased to obey St. Joseph even in heaven. It is with such confidence that we turn to him now. In these uncertain economic times, in the face of homes foreclosure, job losses and real-estate transactions, we commend those and all of our material needs to that most loving of fathers, St. Joseph. But more than that, we turn to him with our spiritual needs: to teach us to pray and to be faithful to Sunday Mass; to protect our families; to protect our chastity; to bless the work of our hands. Please join us in saying the Novena prayer everyday from March 11 to March 19 for yourself and for all the members of our parish. On March 19, the Solemnity of St. Joseph we will have a St. Joseph’s table in church to collect can-goods for the hungry.
Novena Prayer St. Joseph March 11- March 19 O gentle, loving God, you chose Saint Joseph to watch over the Divine Child and Our Blessed Lady, knowing that his care would be loving and sure, constant and wise. We seek his care and his protection, entrusting our spiritual and temporal needs to his fatherly intercession.
Saint Joseph, strengthen our faith, renew our hope and keep us steadfast in God’s love. Surround us with His unseen light, and we will walk in your footsteps with trusting hearts that are ready to accept God’s Will and carry it out with courage and trusting confidence.
Carmel Des Plaines
Fr. Christopher R. Armstrong |
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The
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FROM OUR
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Dear Fellow
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