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

 
 

 

Weekly Bulletin
June 29, 2008

 


Bulletin Deadline:   Monday, 12:00 Noon.

Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Apostles

What do apostles offer?
      Not something built by humans or that typically even makes sense to humans.   The apostles' message speaks of a new life with God, but that is very much something given by God, not by the apostles.   What does that mean?   What does that look like?   It is put into human hands.   Christ builds his Church out of human stuff.
      What do his apostles have to work with?   Peter has enthusiasm.   He is given the insight to see that Jesus is the Christ.   Does Peter know what all that means?   What we see of Peter's story show a mixture of success and failure.   Still, he is made an apostle.   He is promised he will have responsibilities - and he is promised that the Spirit that led him to recognize Christ will stay with him.
      Paul is a fighter.   He has tremendous fervor for God - enough to grapple with and try to destroy the upstart group he sees threatening the work of God.   At the end of his life, he is used up from battling - but by then he has been fighting to spread the same Gospel, preaching the same Christ that grabbed him and drove him to bring the message to everyone he could find.
      We see enough of Peter and Paul in the New Testament to get a sense of what they're like, to sense their energy and their temperaments.   They are real, with real ambitions, real ideas, and real emotions.   At times they disagree with each other: Paul gets in Peter's face over the question of keeping (or not keeping) the Jewish Law.
      The passion that drove each of them was steeped in the passion of Christ.   They both ended up in Rome the center of the known world, where they faced the stark power and authority of human rule.   They both died at human hands, witnesses - in Greek, martyrs - foundation stones for a different sort of leading and a different sort of authority.

Dan Finucane      


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Imprimatur: Most Rev. Robert J. Hermann, Archdioceses of St. Louis

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 29   -   Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles
    • 8:30 am   Mass for John Joseph Bolster   (Bolster)
    • 10:30 am   Mass for LaVerne Faulkner   (Gallagher)
    • After Mass   ST. BERNADETTE PARISH PICNIC

  • Monday, June 30
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Angie Gildow   (Schehl)

  • Tuesday, July 1
    • 8:00 am   Mass for Msgr. Edward F. Spiers   (Walter)
    • 10:00 am   Scripture Study with Sr. Nancy in the Mary Good Center MPR

  • Wednesday, July 2
    • 8:00 am   Mass at SunBridge Nursing Home
    • 6:00 pm   Mass for Mary Ann Van Meter   (Stemble)

  • Thursday, July 3   -   Joseph, apostle
    • 8:00 am   Mass   (First Thursday) for Bob Guinan   (Family)
    • 7:00 pm   Family Holy Hour and Eucharistic Benediction

  • Friday, July 4   -   Elizabeth of Portugal
    • 8:00 am   Mass   (First Friday) for Edward & James Ziska   (Yarmesch)

  • Saturday, July 5   -   Anthony Zaccaria, priest
    • 8:00 am   Mass   (First Saturday) for Harold Schwendeman   (Arnold)
    • 8:30 am   Confessions
    • 3:00 pm   Griggs Baptism with Deacon Mark
    • 3:30 pm   Confessions
    • 4:30 pm   Vigil Mass 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time for Saint Bernadette Parishioners

  • Sunday, July 6   -   Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
    • 8:30 am   Mass for Wilford & Loretta Beiter   (Family)
    • 10:30 am   Mass with Fr. Kessler, for St. Bernadette Parishioners
    • 11:40 pm   Baptism: Deaglan John Neighbor with Fr. Walter
    • 7:30-10:30 pm   Square Dance at Schmelzer's Grove

The Sanctuary Flowers for this week are in memory of Fred and Virginia Guenther from the Guenther Family.

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.

On Sunday, July 13, we welcome Fr. John Bentz as celebrant of the 10:30 AM Mass.   Fr. Bentz will be newly retired in July from his pastorate in Morrow County.   He will be living at Hide-Away-Hills and is willing to assist parishes in the Lancaster area.   He served as associate pastor of St. Mary Lancaster from 1966 to 1969.
      It will be helpful for Fr. Walter to have some assistance on Sundays and for vacation time, and it will be good to have a variety of Mass celebrants.   Thank God for these generous priests and please welcome them.
Father James Walter      

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 Expressive Sign team.   White Elephant bingo.   Donate an item as a prize and play bingo in the parish hall.   We are in desperate need for volunteers for both June 28th after the 4:30 PM Mass to put the tent up (sledge hammers needed to drive in tent pegs) and June 29th after the 8:30 AM Mass to set the tables up.   Please contact Ginny Frank at 503-8484.   ANY help would be greatly appreciated.   Thank You.

Suggestion Box is in the Church Lobby.   Parishioners are able to utilize this for making suggestions for the good of the Parish.   Please sign and add your phone number if you wish to get a response or wish to discuss your suggestion with one of our Parish Staff.
Thank you      

There is a new Mailbox outside the door of the Mary Good Center for your convenience when the office is closed.   When you put something in the box, please raise the red flag on the right side of the box.
Thank you      

"Jottings" from Sister Nancy

Sermon Starters
Deacon Dick Folger

      If you went into your bathroom, closed the door and stared at yourself in the mirror, who would be looking back?   Do we really know who we are?   Some people do this on a regular basis as a kind of reality check in an attempt to keep themselves grounded.
      Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM, once told a convention of diaconate directors that after they ask themselves who they are, they might also want to ask themselves "whose" they are.   Who do we belong to?   Who do we follow?
      Like Saints Peter and Paul in today's Gospel, we too are part of the rock upon which the church is built, and indeed the keys to the kingdom of heaven are promised to us all.

Sr. Nancy, O.P.      

St. Bernadette Parish -- Celebrating God's Gifts

Baptism Congratulations

Cruz Makell Short, daughter of Shawn and Rene'e Short, on Sunday, June 15 at the 10:30 a.m. Mass with Father James Walter as celebrant.   We welcome Cruz into the spiritual family of St. Bernadette Church.

Deaglan John Neighbor, son of Matthew & Mitzi Neighbor, will be baptized on July 6 at 11:40 a.m. with Father James Walter as celebrant.   We welcome Deaglan into the spiritual family.

Marriage Congratulations

Congratulations to Elizabeth "Libby" Leigh Wilson, daughter of Steven and Deborah Wilson of our Parish, and Corey Lane Guenther, son Frederick and Claudia Guenther, of St. Patrick Church, Oak Grove, MN.   They were married on June 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM Wedding Mass at St. Bernadette with Father James Walter as celebrant.

Death

Charles Milton Hecker 66, of Lancaster, died Friday, June 20 at Fairfield Medical Center.   A Mass of Christian Burial was Monday, June 23 at 2:00 PM at St. Bernadette Church with Father James Walter officiating.   Burial took place at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Richmond, Va., with Monsignor John Williams officiating.   He is survived by his wife of 39 years, Linda Henderson Hecker.

New Church Directory Coming:   Life Touch will be at St. Bernadette in the Mary Good Center taking pictures on August 5, 6, 7 from 2:30-9 PM and October 1, 2, 3 from 2:30-9 PM and October 4 from 10:00 AM- 5:00 PM.   Please plan to participate; we would like to have everyone in the parish represented.   A current church directory is very helpful.   To schedule your photography time, there will be a link on the St. Bernadette web page or you can sign up after all the masses (dates will be given later).   Keep looking in the bulletin for more information and a price sheet.

Welcome to Fr. Thomas Kessler, Mass celebrant today at 10:30 AM.   Fr. Kessler is pastor of St. Mary Parish in Bremen.   Fr. Walter has invited him to "lend-a-hand" occasionally on Sundays here at St. Bernadette.   Fr. Kessler has Mass in Bremen at 9 AM on Sundays and can thereby assist us occasionally at our second Mass.   He will be with us on July 6, July 20 and July 27 for the second Mass.
Fr. James Walter      

On July 13, Sunday, we welcome Fr. John Bentz as celebrant of the 10:30 AM Mass.   Fr. Bentz will be newly retired in July from his pastorate in Morrow County.   He will be living at Hide-Away-Hills and is willing to assist parishes in the Lancaster area.   He served as associate pastor of St. Mary Lancaster from 1966 to 1969.
      It will be helpful for Fr. Walter to have some assistance on Sundays and for vacation time, and it will be good to have a variety of Mass celebrants.   Thank God for these generous priests and please welcome them.
Fr. James Walter      

Please Pray for:
  Virginia Bright Martha Kidder  
  Luke DeRolph Diana Krile  
  Ruth Faulkner Cole Smith  
  Diana Harris Lillian Zack  
       
and those in the hospital and nursing homes
  
       
For prayers on the Intercessory Prayer list, call Kathy at 654-9696.

Foundation Dinners Volunteers Needed, 1000 W. Fifth Ave., Lancaster.   We are looking for groups or individuals that would be willing to have a skit, singing, storytelling, miming, readings, etc. from 4 -4:30 pm every day at Foundation Dinners.   It would be helpful to these people to have a message of hope and love to these who may feel they have very little hope and live in despair.   Sometimes a kind word can go a long way when it seems so dark.   If you or your group would be interested in doing a program for these people, please contact me, Gary Clum at 740-653-3233 or 740-407-6102 and I can schedule you a time to come.   I know they would really appreciate it.   Check out www.hungryhomeless.org.

Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are July 18-20 and on September 26-28.   For more information or to register contact Paul & Marilou Clouse at 740-746-9003 or www.wwmecolumbus.org.

The 2008 Catholic Woman (30 & over) / Young Catholic Woman (16-30) of the Year Awards Banquet on Sunday, August 24th at Berwick Manor Restaurant & Party House, 3250 Refugee Rd., Columbus at 5 PM (doors open at 4 PM).   Dinner: $23 per person.   Nomination forms are available in the parish office or online at www.dccw.colsdioc.org.   These nominations are for special women who, out of love for God and all His people, give unselfishly to Family, Parish and Community.   When writing a nomination, be sure to list and describe any specific qualifications of the nominee that addresses these areas.   Your remarks should be as descriptive as possible, using a maximum of 500 words.   (It's not how much you write – but WHAT you write.)   If there is someone in the parish that you would like to nominate, please submit a nomination form and letter to the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women, 197 E. Gay St., Columbus, OH 43215.   For more information contact the DCCW office at 614-228-8601.   Nominations must be postmarked no later than July 22, 2008.

From the Marriage and Family Life Office

Natural Family Planning (NFP) Workshop on Wednesday evenings, 7-9:15 PM on July 2, 16, 30; August 27, and ending September 24 at St. Paul the Apostle Parish, Westerville; couples are expected to attend all five classes.   Diocesan NFP workshops are open to Catholic and non-Catholic couples who desire to learn a safe, effective and morally acceptable method of family planning.   For more information and registration forms, contact the Marriage and Family Life Office at email: FLOMailbox@colsdioc.org, 614-241-2560 or go to www.familylife.colsdioc.org to print a brochure.

Divorce Workshop, 8-weeks beginning Thursday evenings from 7-9 PM on July 10, 17, 24, 31; August 7, 14, 21, 28, at the Catholic Center, 197 E. Gay St., Columbus.   Fee is $40 and scholarships are available.   Call 614-241-2560 or www.familylife.colsdioc.org and click on Hurting Families.

Retrouvaille....a lifeline for Marriages – A program to Help Couples Heal and Renew their Marriages.   Do you feel lost, alone or bored in your marriage?   Are you frustrated, hurt or angry with your spouse?   Are you constantly fighting?   Or do you simply shut down?   Have you thought about separation or divorce?   Does talking about it only make it worse?   Retrouvaille provides marriage help!   The upcoming weekend begins August 1-3.   You may call 614-296-9704 or go to www.retrouvaille.org.

Mike Helfer Summer Basketball School   at the YMCA in Newark, OH on July 14th-18th.   Open to boys in grades 3-8.   For information call 740-366-1552 or e-mail mrhelfer@valdosta.edu.

Volleyball Camp at Newark Catholic High School on July 21st-24th for
Grades 2-4: 9 AM-Noon;
Grades 6-8: 1 PM-4 PM;
Grades 9-12: 6 PM-9 PM.

Cost: $75 includes t-shirt.   Camp is open to girls of all skill levels from all schools.   For information call 740-366-1552 or e-mail helfer@newwavevbc.org.

Diocese of Columbus Religions Education and Catechesis Consultant.   Qualifications:   The position requires a master's degree in religious education, theology or related field, and experience in the field of religious education.   Organizational, communication, technology, planning and teaching skills are essential.   Knowledge of Spanish is most desirable.   The candidate must be flexible and willing to travel.   The candidate must be a practicing Catholic.   Start date: July/August 2008.   Please send resume to
      Catholic Diocese of Columbus,
      Personnel,
      197 East Gay St.,
      Columbus, OH 43215

We are an equal opportunity employer.

"Thank You to our Advertiser this Week":

Stebelton, Aranda, Snider, LPA


Please patronize the advertisers found in our Weekly Sunday Bulletin.   They're generousity makes it possible for us to receive the bulletin free of charge.

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

CHURCH ETIQUETTE

      - Please turn off your cell phones!
      - Wear appropriate dress!
            NO shorts or halter tops.
            Please remove hats while in Church.
      - Avoid talking in Church   (a whisper is OK when necessary).
      - No gum chewing.
      - Remember the one-hour fast before Holy Communion.
            Water and medications are permitted.
      - Get to Church on time.

St. Mary Bremen, CYC sponsors Square Dances at Schmelzer's Grove (four miles south of Bremen) during the summer.   Dances are from 7:30 pm until 10:30 pm on June 22, July 6, July 20, August 3, August 17 and August 31.   Everyone is invited!

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:

      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:

      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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