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

 
 

 

Weekly Bulletin
June 1, 2008

 


Bulletin Deadline:   Monday, 12:00 Noon.

June 1 (This Weekend):   Our new Summer Sunday Mass Schedule starts - 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m.

Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time

      Tefillin are small, leather boxes worn by Orthodox Jewish men on their foreheads and arms during ordinary weekday-morning prayer (not on the Sabbath or holidays).   (In some Christian sources, tefillin are referred to as phylacteries, but the word tefillin is actually proper.)   The boxes contain verses from the Torah (the books of Moses).   Selected verses are written out from Exodus and Deuteronomy to remind those praying of what God has done and what God has offered.
      On this day in the Church calendar, we have now completed the Easter season and are back to "ordinary" time.   We can learn a great deal from our elder brothers and sisters in faith about how to live in the ordinary world.   How best should we remember what God has done so that, in season or out, especially during ordinary times, we won't forget?   How do we keep the words of God in front of our eyes?
      We have just experienced the serious, sobering reflections of Lent followed by the surprise and delight of the resurrection at Easter.   Pentecost, Trinity, and Corpus Christi Sundays have unfolded before us like the glimpse the transfiguration gave to the disciples of Christ - a look at where we are headed.   It might be tempting to ask to camp at the top of the mount where we have found extraordinary revelations.   But from the liturgical heights of our biggest season, we climb back down to our usual, ordinary patterns.
      If we drive down billboarded highways or watch an hour or two of television, dozens of advertisements ask for a place among our priorities.   In the regular world we live in, we have some basic, important choices to make.   The temptations are sometimes large.   Sometimes they are subtle.
      When will we worship?   Which gods will we choose?

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, June 1   -   9th Sunday of Ordinary Time
    • Our new Summer Sunday Mass Schedule starts
    • 8:30 am   Mass for Sr. Barbara Jean Welker  (Welker)
    • 10:30 am   Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners
    • 2:00 pm   Fisher Catholic High School Graduation
    • 2:00 pm   Lancaster High School Graduation
    • 6:00 pm   Fairfield Union High School Graduation
    • 9:00 pm   The Office of Compline on the 1st Sundays of the month the men's choir of St. Joseph Cathedral

  • Monday, June 2
    • 8:00 am   Mass for LaVerne Faulkner   (Shonebarger)

  • Tuesday, June 3
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners
    • 10:00 am   Scripture Study with Sr. Nancy in the Mary Good Center MPR

  • Wednesday, June 4
    • 6:00 pm   Mass at Wilford & Loretta Beiter   (Family)
    • 7:00 pm   Prayer Shawl Meeting -- Mary Good Center MPR.   Please come and join us!   Want to learn to knit or crochet?   Teachers will be available!   Call Ginny Frank at 653-1345.

  • Thursday, June 5   -   (First Thursday)
    • 8:00 am   Mass, for Celebrant's Intention
    • Last Day of School for St. Bernadette Students

  • Friday, June 6   -   (First Friday)
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Margaret Kilis   (Sears)

  • Saturday, June 7   -   (First Saturday)
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Angie Gildow   (Schehl)
    • 8:30 am   Confessions
    • 3:30 pm   Confessions
    • 4:30 pm   Vigil Mass for 10th Sunday of Ordinary Time for Donna Abbott – Birthday   (Family)

  • Sunday, June 8   -   10th Sunday of Ordinary Time
    • 8:30 am   Mass for Ron Whitehead   (Bush)
    • 9:30 am   Cantor Meeting in the Church
    • 10:30 am   Mass for Saint Bernadette Parishioners


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.

You're Invited to a Party!   On Tuesday, June 3 at 7 PM in the Parish Hall, "Catholics for the Cure" will be hosting a Pampered Chef party to benefit Relay for Life.   Consultant is parishioner Christina Messerly.   Bring friends, co-workers and family members and join us for luscious desserts.   RSVP to 687-0441 by June 1.   Luminarias for the Relay on June 27, to honor your loved ones are available for $10 per name from any St. Bernadette team member or can be purchased on-line at http://events.cancer.org/RFLlancasterOH.   Just go to our St. Bernadette Catholics for the Cure team first to make your purchase.   Please mark your calendar for June 9 Fundraiser at Texas Roadhouse!

"Jottings" from Sister Nancy

      This inner drama at each Mass contributes to the process of our spiritual transformation into Christ.   It all takes time.   When we receive Communion, we need to remember that we are not changing Christ into ourselves.   Jesus is transforming us into himself.   This requires a proper understanding of the Real Presence of Jesus under the appearance of bread and wine.   It is not simply a symbol that merely points to Jesus.   Nor is Christ's presence just a projection on our part in the sense that we make him present when we receive him.   As Pope Benedict XVI told the young people gathered for the Twentieth World Youth Day:

      The Body and Blood of Christ is given to us so that we ourselves will be transformed in our turn.   We are to become the Body of Christ, his own Flesh and Blood.
      We all eat the one bread, and this means that we ourselves become one.   In this way, adoration, as we said earlier, becomes union.   God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other.   He is within us, and we are in him.   His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outwards to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world. (Benedict XVI, Homily at Marienfeld, Twentieth World Youth Day [August 21, 2005])

Sr. Nancy, O.P.      

St. Bernadette Parish -- Celebrating God's Gifts

When Grandma and Grandpa Grew Up verses a Postmodern Mentality.   Grandma and Grandpa knew the "primacy of truth and values over feelings, of intelligence over the will, of the spirit over the flesh, of unity over pluralism, of asceticism over life, of the eternal over the temporal.   In our world there is a spontaneous preference for feeling over the will, for impressions over intelligence, for an arbitrary logic and the search for pleasure over an ascetic and prohibitive morality.   This is a world in which sensitivity, emotion and the present moment come first.   Human existence, therefore, is a place where there is freedom without restraints, where a person exercises, or believes he can exercise, his personal empire and creativity."
      Cardinal Martini suggests these four remedies:
            1.   Spiritual Reading to discover in the biblical text the living word that challenges us, directs us, which gives shape to our existence.
            2.   Self-mastery.   We need to learn anew that the frank opposition to desires is sometimes more joyful than endless concessions to everything that seems desirable but ends in boredom and satiety.
            3.   Silence.   We need to move away from an unhealthy slavery to rumors and endless chattering, from characterless music that only makes noise, and find each day at least one half-hour of silence and half-day each week to think about ourselves, to reflect and pray for a longer period.
            4.   Humility.   Leave room for the Holy Spirit, who works better than we do and more deeply.
--by Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, S.J., the retired archbishop of Milan Italy.   This article is adapted from a talk he gave at the 44th General Chapter of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian School in Rome on May 3, 2007.   From the Archives, Cardinal Martini on "A Christian Community: Toward the Third Millennium," at americamagazine.org.   Copyright America Magazine, May 12, 2008.

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  
       
and those in the hospital and nursing homes
  
       
For prayers on the Intercessory Prayer list, call Kathy at 654-9696.

The Sanctuary Lamp and Altar Breads are in memory of Helen Powers from Pauline Brown.

The Sanctuary Flowers are in memory of Connie DeMastry from the DeMastry Family.

From Father Walter:
      "Amen" before Communion is very meaningful!   Before one receives Holy Communion, the response "Amen" is answered when the priest or Minister of Communion says, "The Body of Christ."   This is also done before taking the precious "Blood of Christ." This becomes a great moment of professing what you believe, that Jesus Christ is truly present.   Also, one bows the head slightly in adoration of Christ while the person ahead is receiving Communion.   This reminder I hope is helpful to you and it highlights these sacred moments of being a Communicant.

Our Very Popular Potluck Parish Picnic is Back!   Please mark your calendars for Sunday, June 29th after the 10:30 AM Mass.   Hotdogs and hamburgers provided as well as family games, a bounce house and a performance by St. Bernadette's own Expressive Sign team.   White Elephant bingo.   Donate an item as a prize and play bingo in the parish hall.   We need volunteers.   Please call Ginny Frank at 653-1345.

Eucharistic Adoration Adorers Needed on Tuesday, 4 pm; Wednesday, 1 am and 2 am; Thursday, 7 am and 2 pm.   Please call Marti Gundelfinger at 654-2277.

Married Couples!   Romantic Dinner for Two on June 20 at 7 PM at St. Mark Church in Lancaster.   Soft music, delicious food, romantic atmosphere!   Cost is Free!   Make your reservations today: Bruce & Patty 614-833-6156.

2008 Irish Alumni Golf Outing on Saturday, June 14 at Pleasant Valley Golf Course at 9 AM Shotgun, 3 Person Scramble, Fees: $40 per player ($120 team) First 42 teams.   Teams 43-46--$132 team.   Make check payable to Fisher Catholic Alumni, c/o Mike Wolshire, P.O. Box 961, Lancaster, OH 43130-096.   740-653-7955

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

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

Today's Catholic Home Missions Appeal offers Catholics across our country a wonderful opportunity to help fellow Catholics to practice their faith in such rugged areas as Alaska, Appalachia, the Deep South, the Rocky Mountain states, the Southwest, Puerto Rico, and island dioceses in the Pacific and Caribbean.   Over 95 cents of every dollar donated to the Appeal goes directly to the mission to keep church doors open, to support pastors in their priestly ministry, and to provide basic pastoral services like religious education for children.   Please give generously to assist fellow Catholics here in America.

Attention All Married Couples Celebrating Their 25th, 30th, 35th, 40th, 45th, 50th, 55th, 60th Anniversary and every year thereafter: Jubilee of Anniversaries 2008 will be held 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.

The Christian Band "Everyday Sunday" --known for Christian rock song of 2007 -- "Wake up! Wake up!" will perform free outdoor concert "under the big top" (rain or shine) on Sunday, June 29, Noon-5 PM on the grounds of St. Catharine of Siena Church, 500 S. Gould Rd. Columbus.   Also the local praise & worship band "The Fiery Fish", free food, free inflatable games, and personal discernment stories presented by religious women and recently ordained diocesan priests.   Created especially for high school students, but open to families and your of all ages.   Information at www.seekholiness.com or contact Bob at 614-221-5565 x293.

Bishop's Annual Appeal

    Week Four
------------		   Total
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  Envelopes 20   210  
  Pledges $  8,805   $43,511  
  Payment Received $     $15,521  
           
        Target:   $44,886  
    Needed to reach goal:    $1,375  

"Thank You to our Advertiser this Week":
Frank E. Smith Funeral Home

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

The Power Of Intercessory Prayer.   Come learn, see and experience the amazing power of intercessory prayer at the 2008 Catholic Charismatic Renewal Men's & Women's Retreat.   We will gather under the anointed direction of Rev. Clifton E. Bishop, Jr.   Join us for the weekend of June 20-22 at St. Therese's Retreat Center, 5277 E. Broad St., Columbus, OH   43213.   For information or to register call the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Center at 614-237-7080

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.   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.

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.

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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