St. Bernadette Catholic Church
1343 Wheeling Road
Lancaster, Ohio   43130
 
Tel:  740-654-1893
Fax:  740-687-5926
 

 
 

 

Weekly Bulletin
May 18, 2008

 


Bulletin Deadline:   Monday, 12:00 Noon.

Two Weeks, Sunday June 1:   Our new Summer Sunday Mass Schedule starts - 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

The Most Holy Trinity

      Their experience of the risen Jesus did several things to the disciples:   It drew them into a deeper recognition and awe of the God they worshiped in the temple.   It transformed their understanding of Jesus.   It made the Spirit of God a reality they struggled to put into words but also could not deny.   It changed the paths of their lives forever.   It shocked and then changed their understanding of who God is.
      The God of Sinai led Moses and the chosen people out of slavery in Egypt and into freedom.   Their feet slipped out of their chains, but their deepest freedom would be shaped through laws cut into stone.   Their hearts were often made of stone too.   So God shaped and wrote their freedom there as well.   Long years, stubbornness, thirst, complaining, wandering, hunger, a barren horizon-circled desert, exhausted steps; none of these kept God from creating a people who could enter the land - enter the place where they could settle and build, worship and rest.
      God uses human stuff.   Nothing is wasted.   One of the most famous verses in the Bible insists on reminding us that God so loved the world he entered it on foot (John 3:16).   This was not an easy step; an easy love could not connect here.   The world is not used to light.   We're not apt to recognize that the Divine is present, walking with our own steps, even when it is God's own Spirit that sinks into our deepest longings to stir us and pull us up.
      In God's Son, the disciples experienced death, life, and new hope - shaping them, fusing their experiences of Jesus and the Divine. The God they worshipped, the friend they followed, the Spirit that stirred their hopes - the Lord shocked them into recognition.   He is risen!

Dan Finucane      


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We Welcome New Members:   For Parish Registration, please fill a Form for Registration/Information Changes, available in the lobbies of the Church and School and return it in the mail to our Church Office or place in the collection basket on the weekend.   Also available we have a list of our Parish Ministries.   Please take one.

Parishioner: If you have any changes (members, address, phone no., etc.), please fill out a Form for Registration/Information Changes and place it in the collection basket on the weekend.   Please notify us if you are moving away.

Coming Events
  • Sunday, May 18   -   Most Holy Trinity
    • Parish Council Election this weekend at all the Masses
    • 9:00 am   Graduating Senior Mass and Teen Mass for Ronald Whitehead   (Merk)
    • 10:00 am   Graduating Senior Breakfast (must RSVP by May 13th) with their family in the Parish Hall
    • 10:15 am   P.S.R. Social – Parents invited in the Mary Good Center MPR.   (Start of Summer Break for P.S.R.)
    • 11:30 am   Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners
    • 6:00 pm   WOSU 98.1 FM will be broadcasting portions of the St. Joseph Cathedral Choir's February 2008 concert.

  • Monday, May 19
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Celebrant's Intention
    • 7:30 pm   Lancaster Alzheimer's Support Group at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church, 125 N. Eastwood Ave.

  • Tuesday, May 20
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Angie Gildow   (Schehl)
    • 10:00 am   Scripture Study with Sr. Nancy in the Mary Good Center MPR

  • Wednesday, May 21
    • 2:00 pm   Mass at LanFair Nursing Home
    • 6:00 pm   Mass for Wilford & Loretta Beiter   (Family)
    • During the month of May, members of the St. Vincent de Paul Society are leading the praying of the Rosary at St. Bernadette Church on Wednesday after the 6:00 pm Mass.   All are invited.
    • 7:00 pm   Finance Committee Meeting in the Mary Good Center
    • 7:00 pm   2008-08 Kindergarten Parent Meeting in the School Meeting Room
    • 7-9 pm   Adult Choir in the School Meeting Room

  • Thursday, May 22
    • 8:20 am   School Mass, Grade 4 for Betty Runco   (Dowd)
    • 6:30 - 7:30 pm   "Be More Mindful of Mary".   WINGS presents a guided contemplation on the historic stained glass windows in St. Mary Church.   Please bring along your friends and family.
    • 6:30 - 8:30 pm   Finance Training by Diocese at St. Mary, Lancaster

  • Friday, May 23
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Bill Cotter   (Cotter)

  • Saturday, May 24
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Pope's Intention
    • 8:30 am   Confessions
    • 10:00 am   Ordination of Stanley Stash Daily, David Anthony Schalk & Victor Wesolowski at St. Joseph Cathedral
    • 3:30 pm   Confessions
    • 4:30 pm   Vigil Mass for Body & Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) for Viola Gaskill   (Waits)

  • Sunday, May 25   -   Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi)
    • 9:00 am   Mass for Mary Ann Van Meter   (Brown)
    • 11:30 am   Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners

    • NEXT SUNDAY, JUNE 1:
      Our new Summer Sunday Mass Schedule starts - 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Sanctuary Flowers for May 10 & 11   are for Elizabeth Barrett from Ann Essman and Catherine Guenther's 17th Birthday from the Guenther Family.

Sanctuary Lamp   for the week of May 11 is in memory of Loretta Beiter from her family.

"Jottings" from Sister Nancy

Dear God,
      Trinity Sunday's Theme:   For some, the notion of believing may at this point lean toward the cerebral.   Believing may be associated solely with dogma, and dogma may be perceived as an intellectual assent to a revealed truth.   Although it is true that our human intellect is indeed a significant aspect of our responsiveness to God, there is more than the mind at issue here.   Today, our celebration of the Trinity summons forth, from deep within each of us, a quality of believing that integrates mind and heart, hands and voice, feet and willpower.   Our faith response to the mystery who is our God becomes spiritual and physical, emotional, psychological and even philosophical so that faith professed becomes faith lived.   Love expressed in words becomes love expressed in deeds.   Hope that wells up within cannot remain there, but rather it becomes a hope that reaches out to embrace others with its contagion.

Sr. Nancy, O.P.      

St. Bernadette Parish -- Celebrating God's Gifts

DEATHS

Wilma Marie Schreiner Hartung, 87.   She dies May 8, 2008.  : She is survived by her sons: Rick and Tom and daughters: Mary and Mickey.   She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Art Hartung.   Graveside service for the family took place on Thursday, May 15 at the Grandview Cemetery.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord.   And let perpetual light shine upon her.

St. Bernadette School is pleased to announce the addition of a 3-year-old preschool class to its successful Preschool program.   This introduction to school will be offered two mornings per week (Wednesdays and Fridays) from 8:30AM - 11:00AM.   The annual tuition cost for 2008-09 school year is $650.   Your "potty-trained" 3-year-old will be introduced to social play, sharing & cooperating with peers, drawing, painting, Bible stories, pretending, and music; as well as an introduction to academics of numbers and letters.   For more information, please call the school office at 654-3137.

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is supporting the relief efforts of Caritas Internationalis in Myanmar in response to the devastation caused by Cyclone Nargis.   CRS is the official humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic Church.   To donate, call 1-877-425-7277, online at www.crs.org, or send a check to Catholic Relief Services, P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, MD, 21203-7090.   Memo Line: Southeast Asia Natural Disaster.   Please keep them in your prayers.

Living the Gospel from Maintenance to Mission is the theme that has been chosen for the diocesan pastoral planning process.   All parishes and deaneries will participate in the planning process.   Local planning groups will be established at each parish to assist in the discernment and development of a diocesan pastoral plan.   The planning process is intended to help parishes evaluate their current ministries, plan for ways to enhance them, and collaborate in order both to share and conserve resources so that ministries can be more fruitful.   As each parish begins to assemble a leadership team and organize themselves, it will be keeping these goals in mind and alerting you to how we are doing in meeting the goals.
     
Our Leadership Team
  Jeffery Carpenter Dennis Forquer
  Deacon Paul Deshaies Kent Kerns
  Pam Eltringham, Chair Brian Shonk
  Susan Eyerman Father Walter

Please Pray for:
  Mike Adams Martha Kidder  
  Virginia Bright Diana Krile  
  Luke DeRolph Nancy Mason  
  Gerald & Theresa Dunaway Sean Murnane  
  Ruth Faulkner Jason Snider  
  Timothy Heck Lillian Zack  
  Doug Henwood    
       
and those in the hospital and nursing homes
  
       
For prayers on the Intercessory Prayer list, call Kathy at 654-9696.

Eucharistic Adoration Adorers Needed   on Tuesday, 4 pm; Wednesday, 1 am and 2 am.   Please call Marti Gundelfinger at 654-2277.

Relay for Life   Do you know someone whose life has been touched and changed by cancer?   Please consider joining our Relay team or donating funds to fight cancer in honor of your loved one.   You can register online: http://events.cancer.org/RFLlancasterOH.   Just look for St. Bernadette "Catholics for the Cure" and then register to join us.   We'll have a table with Relay materials set up at Donut Sunday on May 4.   Watch for information on our fundraisers with Texas Roadhouse on June 9, Pampered Chef and Longaberger.   Relay is June 27 & 28 at the Lancaster Fairgrounds with funds benefiting the American Cancer Society.   Questions?   Please Call Donna Menigat at 687-0441.

Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC).   TV, radio, Internet, newspapers, magazines - all are places people go to get news and entertainment.   But what do we get, exactly, when we turn on "the tube" or log on to the internet?   As a result of your support of the CCC, Catholics and all media consumers have increased opportunities to find Gospel-grounded messages and resources to strengthen their families and their faith.   Half of all donations received will remain in our diocese to fund local Catholic communication efforts.   Visit www.CatholicCommunicationCampaign.org for national program information.   The CCC – it's how the Good News gets around.   Thank you for your generous response.

1st Annual Brenden P. Krannitz Scholarship 5K Run/Walk   to be held at Fisher Catholic High School on Saturday, May 31 at 9 a.m.   The Run/Walk is in loving memory of Brenden, son of Brett and Amy Conrad of St. Mary Parish, who died of Melanoma at age 15 on December 2, 2007.   Proceeds to benefit the Brendan P. Krannitz Scholarship Fund.   Registration brochures available in the Church entrances.   For more information call (740) 438-0689 or e-mail at brendenpkrannitz@yahoo.com.

Join the Great Cell Phone Drive.   Donate your inactive cell phones today   (no accessories, chargers, etc.).   You'll be helping the Lancaster Marian Center.   Bring your cell phones to:
      St. Bernadette Church Office or
      St. Bernadette School lobby.

For more info: Call Rita Merk 654-3255 or Betty Huston 653-1195

The Diocese of Columbus Announces the Ordination of

Stanley Stash Lisska Dailey
David Anthony Schalk
Victor Ray Wesolowski

to the Priesthood by His Excellency The Most Reverend Frederick F. Campbell, D.D., Ph.D., Bishop of Columbus - RITE OF ORDINATION - on Saturday, May 24, 10 a.m. at St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 E. Broad St., Columbus, Oh.   Light refreshments will be served immediately following Mass in the undercroft of the Cathedral.

Ben Thimmes Van Fund.   Ben Thimmes, former teacher and baseball coach at Fisher Catholic H.S. was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) in 2007.   This disease has confined him to a wheelchair, but that is not going to stop Ben and his family from accomplishing his dream of traveling to several baseball stadiums this summer.   Of course Ben's special needs require a special vehicle. This is where you can help!   Fairfield National Bank has set up a special account entitled the Ben Thimmes Van Fund.   Donations can be made at any FNB location or you can mail your donation to:
      Fairfield National Bank
      Attn: Dusty Miller
      P.O. Box 607
      Lancaster, OH 43130

Attention All Married Couples Celebrating Their 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, 55th, 60th Anniversary and every year thereafter: Jubilee of Anniversaries 2008   on Sunday, June 22 at St. Peter Church, 6899 Smoky Row Rd., Columbus at 3:30 pm.   The occasion includes a Mass celebrated by Bishop Frederick F. Campbell and a reception in your honor.   Registration forms are available from the parish office or you may call the Marriage and Family Life Office at 614-241-2560 or register online at www.FamilyLife.colsdioc.org.   Reservations for you and your guests are necessary and must be received by Monday, June 9.

Newark Catholic Girls Volleyball Camp at the high school on July 21-24 for grades 2-12.   Cost: $75 includes T-shirt.   Call 740-366-1551 or helfer@newwavevbc.org.

Mike Helfer Summer Basketball School at the YMCA in Newark, OH on July 14-18 for boys in grades 3-8.   Call 740-366-1552 or mrhelfer@bvaldosta.edu.

Bishop's Annual Appeal

    Week Two
------------		   Total
------------		  
  Envelopes 69   163  
  Pledges $10,415   $31,206  
  Payment Received $  7,275   $13,571  
           
        Target:   $44,886  

"Thank You to our Advertiser this Week":
St. Vincent de Paul Society

"Out of gratitude we share our income for the works of God."

Annual Senior Citizen's Day with the Bishop   on Tuesday, May 20 at St. Andrew Church, 1899 McCoy Rd, Columbus.   The day begins with Mass at 10:30 am, followed by lunch and entertainment, and then the annual raffle of door prizes.   Cost: $10.   Register by May 14 by calling the Office of Social Concerns at 614-241-2540.

Be More Mindful of Mary in the Month of May!   The women of WINGS present a guided contemplation on the historic stained glass windows in St. Mary Church on Thursday, May 22, 6:30-7:30 pm.

Parish Hall & Mary Good Center Multi-Purpose Room Reservations:   Please contact Darlene for the Parish Hall and Irene for the Mary Good Center MPR.   We need the exact times the facilities will be used including set-up, tear down, and clean-up time (not just the time the event is scheduled to occur).   We have policies and paperwork that need to be completed.   The Diocese of Columbus is no longer providing insurance for certain events.   If you use the facilities without permission, you will be responsible for any insurance problems that arise.

FLOWER CHART:   Please sign up to sponsor flowers for the altar.   There are plenty of spaces left on the two sign up sheets in the school hallway.   More than 1 person can sign up per week.   Make our altar beautiful each Sunday.   The cost is $30.

RELIGIOUS BOOKS that are for sale in the book rack in the back of the Church, please put money in an envelope and drop it in the offertory basket on the weekend.   Thank You.

Marriage Encounter Weekend dates:

      April 18-20, 2008
      July 18-20, 2008
      September 26-28, 2008
      November 14-16, 2008

For more information or to register, call Paul & Marilou Clouse at 740-746-9003 or www.wwmecolumbus.org

Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend dates:

      April 11-13, 2008
      June 6-8, 2008
      September 5-7, 2008

For more information or to register, visit www.engaged.org or ColumbusEE@aol.com or call Sherilynn Barley at 614-235-1143.

Cathedral Book Shop New Address and Information:
      209 E. Broad Street
      Columbus, OH 43215

Phone:   614-221-6981   800-479-9021   Fax:   614-241-2566
Email: mmurphy@cathedral-bookshop.com
www.cathedral-bookshop.com

 

 

 
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