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THE TOWER
April 12, 2015
Second Sunday Of
Easter
SACRED HEART PARISH
Hearts Contemplating Christ
Hearts Contemplating Christ
HEART TO HEART
pastor to parish
AdvancEd
AdvancEd conducts rigorous, on-site
external reviews of over 32,000 PreK
through 12 schools and school systems
across the United States. The
Archdiocese is now using AdvanceEd
in its own schools.
Fun in Front of the
Footlights
I had a great time at the school musical,
Robin and the Sherwood Hoodies.
Clearly, a lot of work went into this
production. It takes tons of time and
effort to learn lines, practice
choreography, work with props and
costumes, and the myriad of details
associated with a full-blown musical
production.
Congratulations to the cast and crew, to
the directing staff and to everyone who
helped create this show. After seeing
my first Junior Tower Players
production, I can’t wait to see what’s in
store for us next year.
Holy Week
Thanks to all those dedicated lay
ministers, volunteers and staff members
who worked so hard to make the Holy
Week and Easter Sunday liturgies so
beautiful! All that work helped to make
our public prayer fruitful and effective.
A special mention is in order for the
hard work that went into the music of
Holy Week and Easter Sunday. All our
music over those special days was
uplifting and certainly enhanced the
liturgical experience. Music, indeed, is
the beating heart of liturgy by which it is
given real heft because, in a unique way,
music speaks directly to our hearts.
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Our parish school is currently going
through the AdvancEd review process.
This Monday, April 13, I have a pastors’
meeting at the Quigley Center Pastoral
Center as part of the AdvancEd process.
Please keep our school administrative
staff and teachers in your prayers as
they continue to navigate the AdvancEd
review process.
Search Process
The two search processes for principal
and DRE are continuing. More
interviews are scheduled for the next
few weeks.
Thanks so much to all the school and
religious education parents, teachers
and catechists who are part of the
interviewing process. They’ve put in a
lot of time and effort.
Ultimately, that time and effort will
result in two new leaders, one for our
school and one for our religious
education program—leaders who will
build upon the fine work of our current
principal, Sr. Kathleen and our current
DRE, Sr. Luanne.
Easter
The Easter season lasts for fifty days,
until Pentecost. We continue to
celebrate the Risen Lord these fifty
days.
We continue to contemplate the
mystery of the resurrection and how
that singular event not only changes the
course of history but of our own lives.
Blessings to all in this season of joy.
Hearts Nurtured by Faith
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone
(St. Francis of Asssi)
SCHOOL NEWS
SPARKED HEARTS
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
Welcome back to Sacred Heart School!
We will be back to school from Easter
break tomorrow.
BE A KAIROS LEADER If you have been on
any Kairos retreat you are welcome to
apply to be a leader on the next North
Side Kairos July 17-20! Check the website
for more details and an application.
Contact Carol with any questions. The
deadline has passed, so if you want to be
a leader apply right away!
We're back this week after Spring
Break.
Our 8th graders have dance class
immediately after school at Faith Hope
& Charity on Monday, April 13th.
There will be a SHAC meeting at 7pm in
the Faculty Room at school Monday
evening.
Tuesday, April 14th there will be a PTO
meeting in the Parish Center at 8:30am.
Please come join the group!
There will be a School Board meeting
Tuesday evening at 7:15pm in the
School Faculty room.
Thursday, April 16, 2015, will be early
dismissal for our Faculty meetings. JK
will be dismissed at 1pm while K-8 will
be dismissed from school at 1:20pm.
Nite Lites is Saturday night April 18th at
Skokie Country Club ! Sacred Heart
School thanks all of you for your
generosity and support.
We are having a new contest for Grand
Receipts and Box Tops! The contest
begins tomorrow, so please bring in
your Box Tops and Grand Receipts now!
You can drop off at either the school
office or the Gathering Space at church.
Thank you for your support to Sacred
Heart School.
SUMMER SERVICE TRIP will be to
McAllen, TX July 26– Aug. 1, where we
will work with Habitat for Humanity and
Sacred Heart Humanitarian Respite
Center. Please contact Carol if you are
interested in going on the trip, and
adults, I need you, too!
JUNIOR HIGH NIGHT is every second and
fourth Tuesday of the month. All seventh
and eighth graders welcome, AND NOW
6th grade as well! Welcome 6th graders!
BYOI Bring Your Own Iron: April 14 we are
taking the next step in our studentplanned service project—ironing on the
artwork for our ASPCA fundraiser. We will
be selling dog shirts with our student
design after masses on April 26.
Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter
@SparkedHearts and find us on
Facebook! Contact Carol anytime 847446-0856 x. 132 or
[email protected]
No classes will be present at the 9:00
Mass this weekend as well as on April
26. Next Sunday the 6th graders will be
present at 9:00.
Religious Education Board meets
Monday, April 13 at 7:00 PM in the
Library.
Registration for the 2015-2016 school
year will begin shortly.
Catechists are needed for the 20152016 school year. If you are interested,
please call the religious education office
to volunteer. (847-446-6535) Classes
are Sunday mornings 9:00-10:15 most
weeks.
Continued blessings on your Easter
season journey.
Hearts Making a Difference
The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
(St. Teresia Benedicta , Edith Stein)
ST. COLUMBANUS
FOOD PANTRY
The St. Columbanus Food Pantry is always
in need. The pantry serves between 400
and 500 families every week. How can you
help?
ELIZABETH MINISTRY ROSARY
OUTREACH OPPORTUNITIES
The Elizabeth Ministry will say the
Rosary in the Chapel
upstairs in the Parish
offices once a month
at 9am on the
following Thursday
mornings:
Tuesdays and Thursdays during the
School Year
Tutor Elementary students at St.
Columbanus School. Leave SH at
9am, return by 1:30pm.
April 16
May 14
June 4
1) Bring a few cans of food to Mass next
Sunday as a way to remember the
poor.
2) Donate your time and energy by
volunteering at the Food Pantry any
Wednesday morning. Food is packed
at 8:00am in the Rectory Garage, and
distributed in the Courtyard at 10am.
3) OR gather a group of friends and go
down some Saturday morning to pack
non-perishable foods. Call Judy Pyke
to coordinate. A great activity for a
group of families or friends to do
together.
The Rosary lasts 20-30 minutes and is a
lovely way to connect with other
women/moms in the parish.
MINISTERS OF CARE TRAINING
We are in need of Ministers of Care to
bring Communion to the sick, homebound and hospitalized of our parish.
A training session will be offered this
summer and fall at St. Benedict
Nursing and Rehabilitation Center
Hollbrook Hall 6930 West Touhy
Avenue Niles, Illinois.
This course is designed with the person in mind who is new to parish ministry. Each session will focus on a particular aspect of the Ministry of Care;
however, the unifying thread woven
through all is a commitment to helping
you develop the skills and confidence
needed to be a source of comfort to
those who are sick.
St. Columbanus can always use our help. If
you have a free Wednesday morning,
consider spending the time helping others!
Sessions will run two hours and will
include a talk given by an experienced
facilitator accompanied by group discussion and/or an exercise to help you
practice a particular skill.
If you have any questions regarding
the Ministers of Care Ministry, please
contact Mike McNulty or Judy Pyke at
847-446-0856.
Wednesdays
St. Columbanus Food Pantry: Packing
of Food at 7am at St. Columbanus
Rectory Garage; Distribution of Food
at 10am.
Thursdays
Shadow a Minister of Care at LakeCook Nursing Home or Glen Oaks
Nursing Home. Contact the Parish
Office for more information.
RESPECT LIFE MINISTRY
Join our Respect Life Ministry in our
weekly prayer for life:
That as we recognize Jesus in the broken bread, so may we recognize Him
in broken lives, including those we
consider burdensome, inconvenient
and unwanted.
We pray to the Lord!
Hearts Alive in Worship
My only desire is to unite myself to God
(St. Paul of the Cross)
THE SARTO FUND
Remember the Sacred Heart Sarto Fund
established by Msgr. Reynold
Hillenbrand? The Fund enables our
parish to assist members in need without
causing them undue embarrassment.
Many have been so grateful that they
have later reimbursed the fund, although
to do so is not required. As you know our
parish supports many worthy outreaches;
but this one is reserved for our own.
Currently the Sarto Fund is somewhat
depleted; we appreciate any financial
support you can provide.
CAREER RESOURCES
Of the many resources available for
persons seeking employment, here are
just a few that we thought might be of
interest:
Holy Cross in Deerfield and St Gregory
Episcopal have a joint ministry called
Career Renewal, which meets at Holy
Cross every other month. Its website is:
http://www.careerrenewal.org/
home.html
Career Transitions Center, of which
Old St Pat's is one of about 20
interdenominational sponsors, is a full
time career counseling/skills assessment,
etc. operations. Some of its services are
free, but some require payment. Holy
Name, Old St Pat's, OLPH, St Josaphat,
Loyola U, DePaul U, and Kenilworth
Union Church are among the sponsors.
The center’s website is: http://
www.ctcchicago.org/index.asp
We feature private coaching by industry
professionals and a wide variety of
education and training programs. Our
services are individualized, resultsfocused, and affordable.
Visit www.CareerResourceCenter.org or
call 847-295-5626 and ask us about
coming in for a tour.
Baptism By Appointment
We celebrate Baptisms on Sundays
following the 10:30 Mass. Our Baptism
Guidelines and Baptism Information
Forms are available on our website
www.sacredheartwinnetka.com.
For further information, please contact
Trish O’Toole in our Parish Office at
847-446-0856.
Baptism Preparation
LENTEN MISSION THANK YOU
Many thanks to all who attended our
Lenten Mission this year. Parishioners
seemed to enjoy the discussion sessions
(and dinner!) held after the 4:30pm
Mass on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Sundays of
Lent. Special thanks to our three guest
presiders & leaders of our Lenten
Mission this year: Fr. John Clemens,
Pastor of Our Lady of Hope Parish in
Rosemont, Fr. Pat McGrath, SJ,
President of Loyola Academy, and Fr.
Michael Sparough, SJ, Retreat Director
with the Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat
House. Each Presider shared wonderful
insights with us regarding the Sunday
readings and led terrific discussion
sessions for the participants after Mass.
Thanks also to Dan Hagedorn, Jennifer
D’Souza, Rachel Hohner, Theresa
Cherone and our Youth Minister, Carol
Nowatzke for their help in coordinating
efforts with the children’s breakout
sessions.
4th Sunday of the month 9:15 - 10:15
am in the Parish Office Conference
Room.
Sacrament of Matrimony
Contact a priest or deacon 6 months
prior to the anticipated date of
marriage.
Sacrament of Anointing
Please call one of the priests at
847-446-0856.
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturday 9:00-9:30 am
http://www.careerresourcecenter.org
Hearts Connected for Community
Love is the beauty of the Soul
(St. Augustine)
SAVE THE DATE
STEWARDSHIP GIVING
April 5, 2015
Fr. Kisaka’s Farewell Mass &
Reception Sunday, May 17th
10:30 AM.
YTD Actual Sunday and Christmas
Collection: $865,103
YTD Budgeted Sunday and Christmas
Collection: $926,813
Shortfall: ($ 61,710)
Actual Easter Collection
$ 44,194
Budgeted Easter Collection
$ 62,000
Shortfall: ($ 17,806)
If you haven’t already made your Easter
Contribution, it’s not too late! Please help
us eliminate our overall collection shortfall.
STEWARDSHIP
Andrew was born with mild Down syndrome.
He loved to go to religion class after Mass on
Sunday. Nine other children there learned,
laughed, and played together. Andrew was
not really part of the group. He did not
choose to be different; he just was, and his
classmates mostly ignored him. On the first
Sunday after Easter his teacher arrived with
ten plastic eggs. She gave one to each child
and they all went outside to find symbols of
new life to put into their eggs. They ran
around the church grounds in the spring sunshine and brought their treasures back inside. The children gathered around and the
teacher opened the first egg: it held a beautiful flower, and they “ooh-ed” and “aah-ed.”
She opened another and there was a little
butterfly. In the third egg they saw a fresh
green leaf. The fourth egg had nothing inside. The children, as eight-year-olds will,
said, “That’s stupid! Somebody didn’t do it
right.” The teacher felt a tug on her shirt and
looked down. “It’s mine,” Andrew said. The
children cried, “You don’t ever do things
right, Andrew. There’s nothing there!” “I did
so do it right!” said Andrew. “The tomb is
empty!” There was sudden silence. From
that time on, Andrew became a part of the
group. He was set free from the tomb of his
difference. Andrew died last summer of an
infection that most children could have
quickly shrugged off. At his funeral Mass,
nine eight-year-old children, together with
their teacher, marched up to the altar, not
with flowers to cover over the stark reality of
death, but with an empty egg—an empty,
old, discarded pantyhose egg—and placed it
on the altar steps. The tomb is empty!
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Hearts Connected for
Community
Love is the beauty of the Soul
(St. Augustine)
THIS WEEK AT SACRED HEART
Monday, April 13
SHS Classes Resume
Grade 8 Dance Class 3:00PM/Faith Hope &
Charity Parish
SHS Enrichment 3:15PM/PCR Kitchen
RCIA Workshop 7:00PM/PCR
Religious Ed Board Meeting 7:00PM/School Library
SHAC Meeting 7:00PM/
Sacred Heart Men’s Club Meeting 8:00PM/POFR
Tuesday, April 14
PTO Meeting 8:30AM/PCR
Sacred Heart Prayer Group 9:00AM/POFR
Sacred Heart School Girls Club 3:15PM/PCR
Kitchen
8th Grade Washington, DC Trip 7:00PM/PCR
School Board Meeting 7:15PM/Teacher’s
Lounge
Wednesday, April 15
Scripture Study 11:00AM/POFR
SH Enrichment 3:15PM/PCR Kitchen
Thursday, April 16
JK Dismissal 1:00PM
K-8 Dismissal 1:20PM
Saturday, April 18
Nite Lites 6:30PM/Skokie Country Club
Sunday, April 16
Religious Ed Classes 9:00AM/PCR
SCHEDULE
Mass Intentions
Monday, April 13
7:00am Intentions of Charlie Gardner
8:30am Tom Rupp
Tuesday, April 14
7:00am Harry Staffileno Jr.
8:30am Carl Anderson
Wednesday, April 15
7:00am Parishioners of St. Columbanus
8:30am Julie Zanotti
Thursday, April 16
7:00am Helen Pierson
8:30am The Residents of Glen Oaks & The Grove
Nursing Homes
Friday, April 17
7:00am Jim Murphy
8:30am Christine Czarkowski
Saturday, April 18
8:30am Linda Beiser
5:00pm Maurice O’Brien
Sunday, April 19
7:30am Genevieve Conway
9:00am Mimi McNulty
10:30am Intentions of Vivek & Alison Bushell-Mali
4:30pm Parishioners of Sacred Heart
MINISTERS OF CARE
April 16
Lake Cook/Marijo Erzinger
Glen Oaks /Sally Hoban, Mary Newton
LITURGICAL MINISTERS—April 18-19
5:00pm Saturday April 18
Presider
Fr. Lanza
Greeter(s)
Dee Hanlon, Ed Kuffert
Servers
Sarah Cullinane, Mary Bridget Jones, Johnny Joyce
Lector(s)
Barbara Anderson
Eucharistic Ministers
Dee Hanlon, Cathy Leonard, Claudia Mann, Patty
Sanfilippo, Lamarr Tyler
Cantor/Choir Saturday Choir
7:30am Sunday April 19
Presider
Fr. Nyache/Deacon Michael McNulty(PR)
Greeter(s)
Gerry Sunko
Servers
TBA
Lector(s)
Chris Lane
Eucharistic Ministers
Bernadette Broccolo, Roberta Olshansky, Gerry
Sunko
Cantor/Choir Amy Guinn-Becker
9:00am
Presider
Fr. Lanza
Greeter(s)
David James, Mary Newton
Servers
Bailey Byrnes, Owen Gardner, Ian Graves
Lector(s)
Chris Hartman
Eucharistic Ministers
Kris Byrnes, Ryan Gardner, John Madden, Roseanne
Madden, Mary Newton
Cantor/Choir Amy Guinn-Becker
10:30am
Presider
Fr. Lanza
Greeter(s)
Frieda Baker, Christine Kengott
Servers
Scott Grodecki, Maeve Murdock, Cara Murdock
Lector(s)
Jim Harrington
Eucharistic Ministers
Frieda Baker, Julie Conte, Robert Conte, Christine
Kengott, Mark Kengott
Cantor/Choir Sacred Heart Choir
4:30pm
Presider
Fr. Nyache/Deacon Michael McNulty(PR)
Greeter(s)
Marion Powers
Servers
John Hession, Margo Hession, Rory Hession
Lector(s)
Brian Norton
Eucharistic Ministers
Mary Jo Bushell, Catherine Lehman, Marion Powers
Cantor/Choir Children’s Choir
Altar Servers Daily Mass 8:30am
April 20
Ryan Craddock
April 21
Bailey Byrnes, Maureen Hines
April 22
Rory McGuire, Izzie Schario
April 23
Scott Grodecki
April 24
Emily Yager
April 25
TBA
SACRED HEART PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION
Pastoral Staff
Rev. Steven M. Lanza, Pastor—[email protected]
Associate Pastor—Rev. Collins Kisaka Nyache—[email protected]
Pastor Emeritus—Rev. Robert E. Ferrigan—847-647-6557, Rev. Robert J. Heidenreich
Pastoral Associate—Judy Pyke—[email protected]
Permanent Deacons—Michael J. McNulty—[email protected]—Gerry Keenan—[email protected] 773-251-6626
Director of Music—Todd Gresick—[email protected]
Children’s Choir—Kathy Janega Keenan—[email protected]
Business Manager/Administrative Assistant to the Pastor—Michelle Wasielewski—[email protected]
Sacristan Coordinator—June Hocter—[email protected]
Youth Minister—Carol Nowatzke—[email protected]
Principal—Sr. Kathleen Donnelly , O.P.— 1095 Gage Street—847-446-0005—[email protected]
Religious Education Director—Sr. Luanne Wilhelm, SLW— 1095 Gage Street—847-446-6535—[email protected]
Support Staff
Administrative Assistant & Bulletin Editor—Trish O’Toole—[email protected]
Accounting/Census/Contributions/Tuition—Cindy Atsaves—[email protected]
Bookkeeping—Suzie Danstrom—[email protected]
Parish Office
847-446-0856/Fax 847-501-5311/www.sacredheartwinnetka.com
Hours: Monday & Tuesday 8:30am—8:00pm, Wednesday—Friday 8:30am-4:30pm
School Office : 847-446-0005
Religious Education Office: 847-446-6535
Visit our website www.sacredheartwinnetka.com.
Find us on Facebook & Follow us on Twitter: @SHWinnetka
CHURCH NAME AND NUMBER —
Sacred Heart Church #862
ADDRESS —
1077 Tower Road
Winnetka, Illinois 60093
PHONE —
847-446-0856
CONTACT PERSON —
Trish O’Toole x 101
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Microsoft Publisher 2007
Adobe Acrobat 8.0
Windows XP Professional
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SUNDAY DATE OF BULLETIN
April 12, 2015
THANK YOU!