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St. Margaret Mary Parish
November 16, 2014
Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time
1450 Green Trails Dr.
Naperville, IL 60540 630-369-0777
www.smmp.com
Masses:
Saturday:
Sunday:
5:00 pm
7:30 am
10:45 am
9:00 am
12:15 pm
Weekdays Monday-Saturday 8:15 am
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday 9:00 am to 5:00 pm
Parish Office:
369-0777
Fax:
369-1493
Religious Ed. Office:
369-0833
All Saints Catholic
Academy:
1155 Aurora Ave.
Naperville, IL 60540
961-6125 or
www.ascacademy.org
New Parishioners:
Anyone who welcomes you, welcomes me;
and those who welcome me welcome the
one who sent me.: (Mt 10:40)
St. Margaret Mary Parish wishes to welcome
everyone to our community as Jesus would.
For information, please call the parish office.
Sacrament of Reconciliation:
Confessions every Saturday from 3:30 to
4:30 PM or anytime by request.
Sacrament of Baptism:
2nd and 3rd Sundays of the month following
the 12:15 Mass. Please call Parish Office to
make arrangements for Baptism and required
Preparation Meeting.
Sacrament of Marriage:
Six months preparation required. Parish
music policies, which reflect Diocesan
guidelines, are to be followed.
Light for the Journey
Scripture Readings for the Week
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
Rv 1:1-4; 2:1-5; Lk 18:35-43
Rv 3:1-6, 14-22; Lk 19:1-10,
Rv 4:1-11; Lk 19:11-28
Rv 5:1-10; Lk 19:41-44
Rv 10:8-11; Lk 19:45-48
Rv 11:4-12; Lk 20:27-40
Ez 34:11-12, 15-17; 1 Cor 15:20-26, 28; Mt 25:31-46
September
Club
Christmas Fun
Pause … and in the stillness of your mind find space to
renew your spirit reflect, and reconnect with God’s
grace.
As our lives become filled with activity this holiday season, plan a
weekend to simply pause and reflect.
The women of St. Margaret Mary are invited to a weekend of renewal
Jan. 24 and 25, 2015.
The Christ Renews His Parish retreat is a wonderful opportunity to
pause from the busyness of our lives to nurture your spirit.
For more information or to register, please contact:
Susan Martin
630-390-7010
[email protected]
God’s Share
Weekly Collection
11/2/2014
Weekly Mass
Offerings:
Year to Date 7/1/2014 to
Present
$20,372
$349,567
6,596
113,724
Totals:
26,968
463,291
Budget Goal:
25,657
462,152,
1,311
1,139
Automated Giving:
Over/(Under) Goal:
2
Holiday Entertainment
Wednesday,
December 3 at 12 pm
In the Parish Center
Get into the Christmas
spirit with friends as
John Kleise entertains
us with Christmas
music.
Bring your favorite
appetizer or dessert
There is no cost, but
please RSVP by
November 30 to
Dolores Peterman at
630.955.9581
to tell her what you
are bringing.
Also bring a $5 grab
bag gift labeled for a
man or woman,
and an item for the
Christmas Giving
Tree
NO January
Meeting
Enrichment
Come to the Stable:
Personal Journeys to the
Nativity
Speakers: Kathy Morrison,
Peggy Nowicki and
Margie Reilley
Wednesday, December 10
Cultivating Stillness in
the Season of Advent
Speakers: Fr. Paul, Chris
Corbett, Patty Curran
Wednesday, November 19
7:30-9:00 pm
In the COR Center
9:15 to 11:15 AM
In the Upper Room
Advent At-Home
Directed Retreat
November 30-December 5
What is a directed retreat?
It is a personalized experience.
Instead of retreat talks given to an
entire group, you meet
individually each day/evening for
1/2 hour with a spiritual director
at a time that is convenient for
you.
How does this take place at St.
Margaret Mary?
A Christmas celebration for all men
and women!
This morning affords us the
opportunity to come together to
relax, take a deep breath, and
delight in this season of the Lord.
We do this through praying,
listening, sharing, singing Christmas
hymns and enjoying delectable
snacks and hot beverages
Fee: $5.00
In a frenetic world of electronic
devices, instant messaging, constant
noise and motion, human beings
have a basic need for spiritual rest,
renewal, and reflection. This
presentation will describe the
necessity of the Advent Season for
those seeking to follow Christ.
Practical ways of cultivating
stillness for individuals and families
will be suggested.
Reservations by
Friday, December 5
Call 630.369.0777
A team of certified Spiritual
Directors will come to SMMP for
five days (November 30December 5.) The retreat, which
is done at home, will begin with a
group meeting on Sunday,
November 30 from 7 to 8:30 pm
and will conclude on Friday,
December 5.
During the five days, each person
on the retreat will have a halfhour conversation with the retreat
director. The conversations will
be held at the parish during the
day or evening, at your
convenience. Your retreat
director will suggest material for
you to pray with and give you
assistance on how to pray with
scripture. The only requirement
is your commitment to pray for
approximately one half-hour each
day of the retreat and meet with
your retreat director.
Donation: $75
To register: call 630.369.0777 by
November 21.
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Youth Ministry
together with
The Mental Health and Wellness Ministry
Sponsoring
Ending the Silence Program
Monday Nov. 24th @ 6:30—7:30 p.m.
*** FREE ***
It is NAMI’s (National Alliance on Mental Illness) belief that this generation of students is well-positioned to
eradicate the stigma associated with mental illness through education and advocacy. It is also our repeated
experience, over six years of “Ending the Silence” presentations to tens of thousands of students in over half of
DuPage County high schools and now junior high levels, that students are aware of mental illnesses among
their classmates, family and friends...they are concerned about how to react and how to be of help...and they
react positively to having open discussion and access to additional information.
• Delivered by a trained two-person team, one of whom is a young adult living in recovery
with a mental health condition.
• Includes presenter stories, educational slides, videos and discussion.
• Provides pre-teens and teens with resources and tools to help themselves, friends or family
members who may be experiencing symptoms of a mental health condition.
Simultaneous adult panel discussion— A condensed version of the youth presentation will be given to the
adults, followed by witness sharing and Q&A. The presentation is very introductory in nature and focuses on
defining stigma, discussing what is within age-appropriate limits for thoughts/feelings/behaviors and what falls
into the clinical range for certain mental health issues. Please call the parish youth ministry office and register.
We hope to have some materials for parents/adults to preview before the evening of the event. The panel will
consist of clinical counselors, pastoral staff, a young adult who is in recovery and a parent who has journeyed
with their child.
Any youth in
Junior High or Senior
High School
is encouraged to
attend, and we
welcome ANY
interested adult !
Youth presentation will be in the Upper Room
Adult Panel Presentation will be in the COR Center
RSVP to Dan Lawler @ 369-0833 or
[email protected] by Wed. Nov. 19th
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Thanksgiving Donations Needed
Once again we are asking for donations of Thanksgiving
Food Certificates and turkeys to be given to needy
families. Food Certificate donations may be dropped in
the collection basket or brought to the parish office.
Turkeys may be brought to the parish office.
Please drop donations
off by November 24
For further information, or to donate a
turkey or food certificate, call Maureen
Guttosch,
630-347-8040 or [email protected]
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Some members of our parish are
going though difficult economic times
because of layoffs and other financial
crisis. As a parish with a heart we have
always reached out to help people in
need. This year we are asking
parishioners to also help members of
our parish family who need help.
If you know of a parish family that
could use financial help this Christmas
season please call Tom Cordaro at
369-0777.
If you would like to help parish
families in need please send $40 gift
certificates from Target, Jewel, K-Mart,
Sears, Kohl’s and Penney’s to
“Parishioners Helping Parishioners”,
St. Margaret Mary Parish, 1450 Green
Trails Dr, Naperville, IL 60540, or drop
them off at the parish office 9:00 am—
5:00 pm (Mon.—Fri.)
Healing Mass
Friday November 21
7:30 p.m.
In the Church our unforgiveness, our selfishness,
Come with expectant faith as
Christ and our Church Community our personal tendency to sin.
greet you with healing open arms. All are welcome to this
opportunity to open ourselves to
We all need healing! Whether it
is from physical, psychological or God’s healing graces.
emotional illness, our bad habits,
Don’t forget! The Catholic Campaign for Human
Development (CCHD) Annual Collection is
November 22nd and 23rd
CCHD provides funding to groups whose activities
reflect Catholic moral and social teaching on human life
and dignity. CCHD-funded groups work to change social
structures and policies which undermine life and dignity,
especially for the poor and powerless. We thank you in
advance for your contribution and supporting
organizations like the Southwest Suburban Immigrant
Project (SSIP) in Bolingbrook.
The monthly meeting for SMMP
Men's Club meeting will be held on
Tuesday 11/18 at 7:00 in the Parish
Center.
Men’s Club will also be hosting a
card night in the COR room at 7:30
PM CST on Friday, November
21st. Pizza, munchies, and beverages
will be provided. Cost is
$10.00. For more
information,
please call Dave
Schwartz at 630369-0929.
A Mass
of
Remembrance
The SMM Bereavement
Ministry of SMM invites you
and your family to a Mass of
Remembrance to honor
your loved one’s memory.
The Mass will be held on
Thursday Dec. 11, at 7:00 PM,
and will be followed by
light refreshments.
Please RSVP by phoning the
parish office, 369-0777, (after 6:00, call Patti McGehee,
at 305-9038 or email [email protected])
by December 8 to confirm that you will attend and
the approximate number of family members or friends
that will be joining you.
Christmas can be a particularly difficult time of the
year. We urge you and your family to come
together with other families that have experienced a
similar loss, to offer Eucharist and remember….
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Religious
Education
(Preschool—5th)
God, help us to use our talents in ways that become gifts for the good of others
First Reconciliation
The celebration of the sacrament is scheduled for December 2nd and 3rd at 7:00 pm. Each service will be followed by a
reception.
Children’s Liturgy
On Saturday, November 22nd, the 1st to 5th graders in our religious education program will be hosting the 5:00 Mass.
On-line registration will be available on the Education page of the parish website www.smmp.com. We will also be
emailing information to all of the parents of children in our program. Any adult interested in assisting with the Mass
please contact the Parent Coordinator at [email protected].
Thanksgiving Break
Classes will be canceled for the week beginning Monday, November 24th and will resume on Monday, December 1st.
Children's Choir Forming to Sing at 6:00 PM Christmas Eve Mass
Once again this year, our Music Director is forming a Children's Choir that will sing at the 6:00 PM Christmas Eve
Mass. 3rd to 8th graders are invited to participate. Mandatory attendance at three rehearsals scheduled for 5:30-6:30 PM
on Tuesdays, December 9th, 16th & 23rd would be required. Children would need to arrive at St. Margaret Mary no
later than 5:15 PM on Christmas Eve. If you are interested in having your child participate, please reply to Sue Davey no
later than Friday, November 21st, with your child’ name and grade level. We MUST have a minimum of 12 children
registered.
Christmas Eve Children’s Mass
Please also note that you will be receiving an e-mail in late November inviting your children (in Grades K-5) to have
roles as readers or characters in the nativity pageant presented during the Christmas Eve Mass.
First Communion Parent Retreat
We have created a half day retreat program that delves into the traditions of Baptism, Eucharist, and Confirmation.
Each presentation will challenge parents to understand how the sacred is woven into their lives. The remaining sessions
are Sundays, January 11th or February 1st from 12 -4 pm. We will begin with prayer and an introduction then lunch will
be served. We are asking that at least one parent from each family attend one session during the year. Pre-registration is
required.
First Communion
Registration information for First Communions will be mailed in January 2015.
Children’s Liturgy of the Word
The program is offered during the Saturday 5:00 Mass and the Sunday 9:00 and 10:45 Masses. After opening prayers
children are invited to attend "Liturgy of the Word." Children in kindergarten through third grade are invited to
participate.
Please contact Sue Davey at 369-0833 with any questions.
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Called to Live as Citizens of the Kingdom
With Open Hearts & Open Arms
Parish Social Mission Week: November 23-30
For the Church, advocating a just minimum wage is foundational.
Our Church teaches that the family is the fundamental cell
of society and where we first learn, love, and develop. A
living wage is a fundamental right of workers and a moral
imperative of employers because it provides workers with
the means and resources to form and support a family.
The Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church
points out, “In order to protect this relationship between
family and work, an element
that must be appreciated and
safeguarded is that of a
family wage, a wage
sufficient to maintain a
family and allow it to live
decently. Such a wage must
also allow for savings that
will permit the acquisition of
property as a guarantee of
freedom. The right to
property is closely
connected with the existence
of families, which protect
themselves from need
thanks also to savings and
to the building up of family
property”
Our US Catholic bishops remind us that, “The federal and
state minimum wage does not rise annually to adjust for
inflation or cost of living increases. As a result, workers at
the low end of the wage scale fall further behind every
year. The federal minimum wage has lost more than 30% of
its value and would be more than $10/hour today if it had
merely kept pace with the cost of living over the past forty
years. If it had kept pace with
worker productivity growth
over the same period, it
would be over $18/hour.”
Low-wage workers are doing
and making more with the
same amount of time,
working harder, but not
enjoying the fruits of their
labor. According to the
Social Security
Administration, half of all jobs
in this country pay $27,500 or
less. This is the lowest level
in 15 years. The job loss
during the most recent
recession was distributed
across the economy and
income levels. Since the recession, however, 58% of new
jobs have been in low-wage occupations like cashiers and
food preparation where the minimum wage sets many pay
scales.
Catholic Bishops in the United States have long supported
increases in the minimum wage to ensure that no full time
worker and their family lived in poverty. Last year, Bishop
Stephen Blaire testified on behalf of the US Catholic
Bishops Conference to the Senate Committee on Health,
Employment, Labor, and Pensions regarding Catholic
teaching on wages and the Church’s longstanding support
for raising the minimum wage, saying, “For the Catholic
bishops of the United States, advocating a just minimum
wage is foundational. Every time Congress or an
Administration has suggested raising the minimum wage,
the bishops have been supportive simply because it is
consistent with our teaching and we see the effects
firsthand in the families of our parishioners and our own
communities.”
There are over 10 million workers classified as “working
poor.” The ranks of the working poor are growing,
representing over seven percent of the total workforce--the
largest percentage of the workforce in over 20 years. The
minimum wage needs to be raised, not just for the financial
security of the worker but also for their dignity and health
of their families.
Work has a special place in Catholic teaching. Work is
more than just a job; it is a reflection of our human dignity
and a way to contribute to the common good. Saint John
Paul II called work “probably the essential key to the whole
social question” (Laborem Exercens, No. 15). Wages
earned from work are the primary way people meet their
material needs and contribute to the common good.
After all Masses on the weekend of Nov. 22/23 you are
invited to sign postcards to our state senators and
representatives asking them to support a raise in the state
minimum wage.
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Fr. Paul’s Homily
“Need for Wholehearted Faith”
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome Sunday, November 9, 2014
Ez 47:1-2, 6-8, 17; 1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17; Jn 2:13-22
10:45 AM
(Change is the inexorable call of the Spirit.)
This story of the cleansing of the
temple is really an important turning
point in the life of Christ. It’s a
“crossing the Rubicon” kind of event.
Just as Julius Caesar when crossing the
Rubicon became committed to the
destruction of the Roman Republic, so
Jesus now is committed to the
overthrow of temple worship. And I
hurry to add it’s not the same thing as
overthrowing Judaism. It has to do
with the nature of worship and what
it is and should be, and it shows a
different side of the Prince of Peace.
Ordinarily he is so gentle,
compassionate, and kind. Today he is
hopping mad, and about what? John
says that Jesus “found those selling
sheep and oxen and drove them out of
the temple area, with the sheep and the
oxen.” But if there were no sheep and
oxen, how could there be any
sacrifice? That’s the point. Animal
sacrifice is one of the most common
rituals in the history of religion. Its
origins are really lost in prehistory, but
it became almost universal. And yet
Jesus finds something wrong with it.
Mind you, so did the prophets.
So we might ask ourselves: Why did
Jesus disrupt the orderly carrying
out of this well-meaning, wellestablished, traditional ritual? I
believe the answer can only be found
in his own willingness to surrender
himself body and soul to the Father.
This surrender is not a substitution of
one thing for another. It’s not a sharing
of part of who he was or what he had,
like a tithe. It’s the giving of all. Jesus’
view is that’s the only pure worship,
the giving of all to the Father. So
from that viewpoint he really
intended to bring a substantial and
essential change to human behavior,
the human life on earth, to religion, to
religious ways. Unfortunately for the
most part, most of his friends,
coreligionists, wanted business as
usual. As he quoted in another case,
“The old is good,” referring to wine,
also referring to all our habits,
especially our religious habits.
Now he had told the woman at the
well, you will remember, “The time is
coming and is now here when one will
worship the Father neither on Mt.
Gerizim,” in Samaria, “nor in
Jerusalem, but in spirit and truth.”
That’s what he was all about: spirit and
truth, spirit meaning will, willingness,
freedom; truth: reality, fact, what is so.
So the time for well-meaning worship
in the Temple was over. So Jesus is
cleaning out the old to make room
for the new.
Kipper was poured out. He also
referred to his body as a temple:
“Destroy this temple and in three days
I will raise it up.”
So this gives those who want to follow
Christ quite a bit to work on. First of
all we have to realize that to follow
Jesus involves willingness to share in
his Cross. He already said that. He
said that clearly before: “Anyone who
would be my disciple must pick up his
or her cross and follow me.” And the
cross includes on the physical order all
suffering and death, and on the
spiritual order it includes rejection
and humiliation, which is sometimes
more of a cross than death itself. Here
the great issue is the health of the
human spirit. If the human spirit is
destroyed by humiliation and rejection,
then people cannot really be fully
human. And so Jesus sought to
redeem and to save and to restore
the human spirit. Toward that end not
only did Jesus become the acceptable
sacrifice in spirit and truth, but he
enabled his followers to share in his
gift, the gift of himself. The whole
intent of the Eucharist is that his
followers can share in the fruit of his
gift and join in it themselves, both as
givers and receivers. We gather to
give ourselves with Jesus to the Father.
That’s what Augustine meant when he
said “the whole Christ,” meaning all of
us with Jesus as our head, “offers the
whole Christ,” all of us with Jesus the
head, “to the Father.” That’s what we
do in the Eucharist. At the same time
we receive the whole Christ, the body,
the blood, the soul, and the divinity of
the risen Lord in the body and blood of
the sacrament, the bread and the wine
transformed by the Holy Spirit. So
every Eucharist is contributing to
our transformation.
Now of course this alienated the
Temple priesthood and all those people
who believed in what the Temple was
doing, the so-called “orthodox.” And it
actually hastened his own death
because now he became a public
enemy of the tradition of the elders.
But the inner meaning of his life—if
you study the evangelists, you can see
he had a deep, personal knowledge of
God that he wanted to share with
others that was unusual and more than
unusual, unique. And this alone put
him on a collision course with those
who thought they already knew, those
who thought they were right. When
people think they are right they
don’t want to change because they
are right already. And it would be no
exaggeration to say that Jesus
intended to replace the sacrifices of
the Temple with himself, his own
death, because he said on the night
before he died, “Take and eat; this is
my body given for you.” That’s
sacrificial talk. “Take and drink; this is
my blood poured out for you.” That’s a
sacrificial term; the blood of Yom
(continued on page 10)
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(continued from page 9) This presents us with two
different models that we have to choose one of. The first
model is traditional religion, Judaism for one, but there
are many others as well, measured with rules and rituals
and tithes. It’s good. It’s well meaning. But Jesus found it
inadequate. Secondly, the vision that Jesus had, the vision
of a God who is unreasonably loving, who so desires to
be with his creation that he gives himself in the mystery
we call the Incarnation, the pouring forth of himself into
the humanity of Jesus himself, who in turn gives himself
totally, body and soul, on the Cross for the
reconciliation of all people with each other and with
God. This of course requires something: a wholehearted
response, nothing halfhearted or partially-hearted but
wholehearted or nothing! This is the God Jesus talked
about. What Jesus was trying to do was to free us from our
own prisons of unforgiveness and vindictiveness and our
demands for revenge and our demands to win, to let go
of all that, to have something more—God himself!
Now this is an all-consuming kind of faith, but it’s utterly
liberating for those who choose it. Many do not. Many
people who call themselves Christians do not live by this
faith. But those who do are liberated and live therefore in
freedom from fear. Jesus said this often: “Fear not; Fear
is useless, what is needed is trust.” The angel Gabriel said
that to Mary at the moment of the Annunciation: “Fear
not.” If we follow this way, this vision of Jesus, if we give
ourselves to God, then social upheaval will not mean
anything. Oh, it will be inconvenient, but it won’t cause any
fear. Economic stagnation: unpleasant, but not something to
fear. Political gridlock: irritating, but not something to fear.
The same with wars and insurrections. These are just
different ways in which God can be God for us. But we
have to allow that. Recently our Holy Father Pope Francis
had to remind even bishops and cardinals not to fear, fear
change in the Church. Change is coming; it must. It is the
inexorable call of the Spirit. Indeed the old order is
passing away; but no matter what happens, we all can live
in God.
What does your calendar
look like for January 18?
If you can’t get to Washington, D.C. for the National March for Life, join other
mid-westerners in Chicago for the Chicago March for Life, Sunday, January 18,
2015 from 2-4 pm. The March will start at Federal Plaza and end at the State of Illinois Building.
Featured speakers include Archbishop Cupich, Congressmen Dan Lipinski and Peter Roskam. Former Miss
America, Erika Harold will emcee the event.
For more information go to the Facebook page for the March for Life Chicago.
Take a stand for raising the minimum wage.
Sign postcards after all Masses on
the weekend of Nov. 22/23 urging our state legislators
to raise the minimum wage in Illinois.
“Every worker, whether or not they are part of the formal system of paid
work, has the right to fair remuneration, social security and a pension.”
- Pope Francis
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Masses for the Week
Sacrament of Reconciliation
Saturdays, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.
November 22
November 29
Monday— November 17 — St. Elizabeth of Hungary
8:15— Carolyn Barzyk — Family
Tuesday— November 18
8:15— Betty Bostic — Gerry & Pat Ann Rotko
Wednesday— November 19
8:15— Thomas Krzesinski — Janice Krzesinski
Thursday— November 20
8:15— Purgatorial Society
Friday— November 21 — Presentation of the Virgin
Mary
8:15— Thomas P. — Family
7:00 — Healing Mass
Saturday— November 22 — St. Cecilia
8:15— Frances Parratore — Pat Dusek & Joann
Vanslobig
5:00— Virginia Pesavento — Family
Sunday— November 23 — Christ the King
7:30— Sophie Kijek — Kijek Family
9:00— Betsy Stiff — Family
10:45*— Florence Nowaczyk — Ed & Shirley Talbott
12:15— For The Parish Family
SMM Parish Notes
*Interpreted for the deaf
November
22 & 23
Lectors
Fr. Paul
Fr. Paul
•
Nursery—service for toddlers and preschoolers is available in Room 16 on the upper level during the 9:00 and
10:45 Sunday Masses.
•
Pastoral Care for the Homebound—Please notify
the parish office, 369-0777, of any parishioner who is
hospitalized or homebound so we can visit, bring the
Eucharist, and pray for them. Hospitals do not notify
us of parishioners’ admittance.
•
Audio Sets Available for Mass—Each of these units
is a small receiver with an ear piece and volume control.
Any audio transmitted through the microphones at Mass
is received and amplified through the ear piece. If you
are hard of hearing and would benefit from the audio set,
please see one of the greeters before Mass.
Eucharistic Ministers
Servers
Sacristan/
Facilitator/LOW
Deacon/Presider
L. Tomasello
D. Early
R. Presnak
M. & M. Kazlaouskas
M & S. Schroeder
A. Cronin
M. O’Hara
M. Graber
S. Gensler
Jannette Kazlauskas
Elaina Townsend
Austin Lynch
B. Ryan
Children’s Mass
Deacon Ken
Fr. Paul
7:30
G. Lynch
M. Stricker
C. Rigali
P. Napolski
P. Diekemper
B. Rurik
D. Kijek
M. Palmquist
R. Ruesch
T. Bleifuss
R. Meeker
Shannon Kosirog
Jessica Schoder
*
L. Reyes
Deacon Fred
Fr. Julian
9:00
J. Brand
S. Griffin
M. Gould
L. Riebold
B. McManus
N. Itzenhuiser
G. Purpura
R. Green
T. Fara
M. Doyle
W. Corbett
J. Buescher
J. Rossi
Mia Fernandez
Shawn Gregory
Sullivan Gregory
D. Dulik
M. Taylor
J. Blumberg
B. Zdon
R. Vidoni
R. Hansen
N. Taylor
J. Steury
I. Van Dril
L. Lucas
C. Ory
William Carlson
M. Sanchez Daniel Noble
L. Cap
Jennifer Schmitt
Quest
Quest
5:00
10:45
Quest
12:15
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Ann Schwartz
Deacon Fred
Fr. Paul
Jan Cote
Bianca Durkin
Deacon Terry
Fr. Jonathan
*
Deacon Terry
Fr. Paul
TODAY’S SCRIPTURE
READINGS
St. Margaret Mary Parish
First Reading — The woman who fears the
LORD is to be praised (Proverbs 31:10-13, 1920, 30-31).
Second Reading — Brothers and sisters, you
are children of the light (1 Thessalonians 5:1-6).
Gospel — Since you were faithful in small matters, I will give
you great responsibilities (Matthew 25:14-30 [14-15, 19-21]).
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Parish Staff
Art & Environment Coordinator
Mary Lou Krauss
Bookkeeper
Pat Henke
Business Manager
Michael Prus
NEXT WEEK’S SCRIPTURE READINGS
Building Manager
Bob Stezowski
First Reading — I will rescue my scattered sheep (Ezekiel
34:11-12, 15-17).
Second Reading — As in Adam all die, so too in Christ all shall
be brought to life (1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28).
Gospel — Whatever you did to the least ones, you did to me
(Matthew 25:31-46).
“Learn the heart of God from the word of God. “
—Pope St. Gregory
Custodian
Ziggy Owiesek
Deacons (Permanent)
Deacon Joe Ferrari
Deacon Don Helgeson
Deacon Ken Miles
Deacon Fred Straub
Deacon Terry Taylor
Justice/Outreach Minister
Tom Cordaro
Liturgy Coordinator
Deacon Ken Miles
Music Director
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
All Christians in both East and West embraced the care of the
sick as essential to church life. In the West, the importance of
the visit of the priest is stressed, while in the East, the sick
person is brought to the church for a full Liturgy of the Word.
Some, such as the Armenians, even call it the “Ritual of the
Lamp,” since the oil is poured out of the lamp by which the
Word is read. This may be why Eastern Christians sometimes
anoint the sick with this oil, since the trip to church might kill
them.
Our tradition in the West also unfolded in monasteries,
where it was possible for infirm monks to be attended with a
full and beautifully consoling liturgy. In 950 the monks of St.
Alban’s Abbey in Mainz produced a ceremonial book that
was instantly a pastoral hit everywhere. There were two
lengthy rituals for the sick, one an extended vigil, and the other a liturgy of anointing that included Communion under both
species. While this ritual was a house formula for monks, it is
easy to see how monks who had the care of parishes desired
to serve their parishioners in a similar way. The first form
included the chanting of penitential psalms, and the second
form required a confession beforehand. Both forms included a
laying on of hands, which everyone understood as being an
essential part of penance.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
John Schlaman
Parish Secretary/Bulletin Editor
Sue Carroll
Pastoral Associate
Sr. Madelyn Gould, S.S.S.F.
Pastoral Council President
Barbara Zdon
Priests
Rev. Paul Hottinger, Pastor
Julian von Duerbeck, OSB, Weekend Asst.
Jonathan Foster, OFM, Weekend Asst.
Receptionists
Rosalie Fall & Rita Thompson
Director of Religious Ed., Pre-school - 5
Sue Davey.
Director of Youth Ministry
Dan Lawler
Religious Education Secretary
Arlene Serio
Religious Education Staff Assistant
Debbie Brutlag
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