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St. Mary Catholic Church
602 Marietta Street
Bremen, Ohio 43107
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Weekly Bulletin
March 7, 2010
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St. Mary Catholic Church |
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Monday, Tuesday & Friday (9 am - 2 pm) |
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740-569-7929 |
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Debbie Schmelzer |
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bremenstmary@verizon.net |
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Parish Staff
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Masses |
| Sunday |
8:30 AM |
| Monday |
8:15 AM |
| Tuesday |
8:15 AM |
| Wednesday |
8:15 AM |
| Thursday |
8:15 AM |
| Friday |
8:15 AM |
| Saturday |
6:00 PM |
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3rd Sunday of Lent
Today's Prayer
Father, you have taught us
to overcome our sins
by prayer, fasting, and works of mercy.
When we are discouraged by our weakness,
give us confidence in your love.
We ask this
through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son,
who lives and reigns
with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Pope Benedict's Prayer Intention for March
for the World Economy
that it may be managed
according to the principles
of justice and equity,
taking account of the real needs
of peoples, especially the poorest.
that the Churches in Africa
may be signs and instruments
of reconciliation and justice
in every part of that continent.
Ministers for Sunday Mass
This Week
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Saturday
March 6
6:00 PM |
Sunday
March 7
8:30 AM |
SACRISTAN / USHER |
John & Eleanor Schmelzer
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Cheryl Kallimanis
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LECTOR |
Linda Boch
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Paul Kunkler
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SERVERS |
Amanda Fleming
Rhett Sanford
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John Fernow
Cody Schmelzer
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EXTRAORDINARY
MINISTERS |
Sr. Christina Kraus
Leo Kunkler, Sr.
Annette Bell
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Deborah Schmelzer
Karen Wolfe
Barb VanFossen-Cook
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GIFTS |
Leo Ruff Family
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James Noll, Jr. Family
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MUSIC |
Marilyn McArthur
Pat Rowe
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Doug Roundhouse
Mary Beth Elbin
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Next Week
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Saturday
March 13
6:00 PM |
Sunday
March 14
8:30 AM |
SACRISTAN / USHER |
John & Eleanor Schmelzer
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Cheryl Kallimanis
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LECTOR |
Susan Foltz
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Jeanne Schmelzer
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SERVERS |
Cecilia Fleming
Diana Foltz
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Emily Shumaker
Tony Schmelzer
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EXTRAORDINARY
MINISTERS |
Neil Boch
Susan Foltz
Judy Mathias
Annette Bell
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Irene Kunkler
Damian Schmelzer
James Schmelzer
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GIFTS |
Leo Kunkler, Sr. Family
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Jeff Mathias Family
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MUSIC |
Marilyn McArthur
Pat Rowe
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Doug Roundhouse
Mary Beth Elbin
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Morning Prayer
BREMEN ST. MARY: MONDAY - FRIDAY @ 8 AM
ST. BERNADETTE: MONDAY @ 8:45 AM
"Catholic Insight" (1320 WLOH AM RADIO) is on every
Thursday from 12:35 to 1:00 PM
Catholic Online
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Part 1 of 1
Catholicmom.com:
www.www.catholicmon.com
Faith, family and fun from a catholic
perspective are all discussed here in the form of podcasts
and articles from various columnists and contributors.
Faith and Family:
www.faithandfamilylive.com
Magazine and daily blog features
articles on home life, a community forum and resources
for living a faith-filled family life.
St. Mary Parish -- Celebrating God's Gifts
Catholic Faith As A Package Deal,
A Seamless Garment
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There are a lot of ways people can be
tempted to use our Catholic Faith. They can take
it as a venerable, clear-cut authority structure.
They may use it to buttress Polish or Italian national
sentiments. They may see it as a support for good
ethical behavior. Some see it as a means to secure
adherence to old-fashioned cultural standards and life-styles.
For others it is a trove of delightful old folkways.
Sometimes it is seen as an impetus to artistic
creativity or as a source of well-appreciated fine art,
which delight the viewer or listener. Some folks
think of it as the sponsoring and funding agency for
hospitals and social services or for Catholic schools.
Others turn to it to provide a good source of
social life in a neighborhood parish or some other Catholic
institution.
Many of these, at one time or another,
overlap. All of them, and probably are good.
And each perspective draws some people to seek full
communion with the Church or other people to be respectful
admirers. I delight in each of these ways of
looking at Catholicism. But I know that to find the
point of our Faith, to take it seriously as a way of life
to live and die for, a person has to look beyond all that
usefulness. Not one of those remarkable things that
we can say about Catholicism is the point of our Faith.
Sometimes some people - including Catholics
- get that wrong. They look to our Catholic Faith to
provide particular blessings, but without paying attention
to the main point of that Faith. And it is that main
point that provides the only context that makes our
Catholicism make any real sense. That approach is
often referred to as the way of a "cafeteria Catholic."
The idea is that the person goes through the
cafeteria line and takes the items that attract him or her
and leaves the rest alone. That approach works for
cafeterias and buffets. It doesn't work for
faith. Our Catholic Faith is what you might call
a "package deal." Another way to say it,
more biblical and maybe more refined, is that our Faith
is a "seamless garment." Either way you
put it, it may sound like a burden to an outsider.
After all, when we shop, we like to have our choices.
In America we have become very much attached to our
choices. But I think it is also more beautiful and
more rewarding when we look at the bigger picture of the
Faith.
Taking what you like from our Faith and
passing up the rest is not really living the Faith at all.
We do it in the moral life when we say, "I will
take marriage, but not being open to having children.
Or I will have children, but I am not interested in the
long haul of child-raising." Or "I will take
citizenship, but not the military aspect ... or the
tax-paying." We do it in the Faith life when we
want the schools but not the doctrine; we take the devotions
or the ceremonies but not the law. We insist on the
social justice teaching, but not the teaching about sexual
restraint - or vice versa. We take Easter and its
joys, parties, eggs, lilies, and music, but not the Lenten
prayer, fasting, and alms-giving.
It amounts to saying "I will take
faith, but just the parts that appeal to me."
Our Faith is not a buffet table, it is not based on what
it can do for us right now. It can indeed do a lot
for us - culturally, socially, artistically, educationally,
medically ... in fact, so much, in so many ways.
But these must always be understood as the side-effects,
the extra blessings that come with living in the Church.
Pursuing Catholicism for what it can do for our
secular lives is like pursuing a friendship just for what
it could do for our economic life or marrying just for the
social status or sexual satisfaction that it can bring.
The main purpose can sometimes be elbowed aside by
the secondary effect. The effect can be good, but
its dominance corrupts the action or the membership,
whether in marriage or friendship or in adherence to the
Church.
The things that first attracted me to the
Catholic Faith had to do with school, kindly sisters who
taught there, beautiful music, pride in our school's
teams, pride in my Irish national identity, juvenile
fascination with the stories of heroic saints. All
of those things were good and are still attractive to me.
But none is a good basis for Faith. I believe
in Jesus Christ and the salvation he came to bring.
I believe that this gift is uniquely mediated through the
Catholic Church with her sacramental life, most especially
in the Holy Eucharist, and reliably and authoritatively
taught by the bishops who are in communion with the pope,
the successor of Peter.
If I like the pope, that is all to the
good. And I do; when I had the privilege of meeting
him nearly twenty years ago, I found him a very thoughtful
and impressively humble man. That does make it easier
to respect his office. But if I hadn't like him,
that would not have changed anything fundamental about my
adherence to the office of the Bishop of Rome.
If I am deeply impressed by the way the
sacraments are celebrated in the church, that makes it
easier to be drawn to them. But if the music
weren't to my liking, the building had a dirt floor
and the preachers of my youth were boring or actually
bad guys (they weren't), that would not have changed
the great gift that the seven sacraments are to my life.
It does my Irish heart good to know that
here were heroic men and women, my ancestors in Ireland,
who clung with courageous tenacity to their Catholic Faith
through the years of persecution which made them choose
apostatizing from their Catholic faith and embracing a
variation imposed by the civil ruler or losing their lands.
I think of that with pride when I sing "Faith
of Our Fathers." But I am not Catholic because
of my nationality. And reducing faith to that
national identity is a sad mistake.
I am proud of my Catholic education, and
I know the duty to be supportive of the efforts to teach
the truth about God and the truth about human beings.
But the schools I attended and the ways they were conducted
are not the reason for my being Catholic.
Jesus and his holy Catholic Church are the
reason. I hope to God I will never forget, will never
put one of the side-effects of Catholic life, real blessings
though they be, in the place of the Lord Jesus and of his
Holy Catholic Faith. And I ask the Lord's grace
to strengthen me to see to it that that Faith itself will
always be the point of what I teach and of the way I direct
the parishes assigned to my guidance.
Father Kessler
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Operation Rice Bowl
Address Change
St. Mary's mailing address has changed.
Please mail any parish items to:
St. Mary Church,
PO Box 85,
Bremen,
Ohio 43107-0085
Father Kessler's personal mailing address
remains the same:
602 Marietta St.,
Bremen, Ohio 43107
Parish School of Religion Schedule
PSR class schedule for March:
- PRE-KINDERGARTEN TO 6th GRADE
meet from 9:30 AM to 11 AM Sunday, March 7, 14,
21 and 28.
- GRADES 7 AND 8
meet 4 PM to 5:30 PM on Sunday, March 7, 14, 21
and 28.
- HIGH SCHOOL
meets two Sundays each month (generally the 2nd and
4th Sunday), from 4 to 6 PM. They will meet
on March 14 and March 28.
A PENANCE SERVICE, with individual penance, for PSR
students in GRADES 2 TO HIGH SCHOOL AND THEIR PARENTS will
be celebrated on Saturday, March 20 at 10 AM. Parents are
reminded to hand on to their children - by word and example - the
message that this sacrament is CENTRAL TO CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN
LIFE. Keep all our children and their families in your
prayers.
PARENTS, remember that, with such a limited
amount of time available for our young people's religious education,
ATTENDANCE AT EVERY SESSION MATTERS.
Miss a session and your child may miss the only opportunity to learn an
important aspect of the Faith. When absence is unavoidable, ask
your child's teacher with help for make-up work.
Stewardship
As of last Sunday we have received 89
COMMITMENT CARDS (from 54% OF OUR HOUSEHOLDS).
Thank you to all the families who generously made a commitment
to the parish. If you have not turned in your commitment
card, it's not too late. You can place it in the
collection basket or send it to the parish office.
St. Vincent de Paul In Bremen
The St. Vincent de Paul Society is OUR
PARISH'S AGENCY FOR ASSISTING THE POOR. Members
help those who are in need, whatever the need, as well as they
can, whenever they learn of their needs.
- They take up a cash collection at the church exits on the first
full weekend of the month. That's this weekend!
- They meet on the first Thursday of the month. Please
contact one of the members about joining in this join this
good work.
- They help the needy as well as they can whenever they learn
of their needs. Because of the generosity of our
parish, we were able to help two families during the month
of February.
New CDs In The Vestibule
Our parish participates in a program TO
HELP CATHOLICS KNOW THEIR FAITH, AND THEN SHARE THEIR FAITH.
Through Lighthouse Catholic Media we offer professionally
recorded CDs (and brochures) about the Catholic Faith. In
the vestibule now is: THE TRUTH by FR. LARRY RICHARDS.
What is the meaning of life? Fr. Richards tackles
life's biggest question with straightforward, timeless, and
often jolting answers. In this one-of-a-kind, life-affirming
reality check, he unlocks the mysteries of our existence and opens
our hearts and souls to the meaning of life. The Truth
will give you concrete answers about how to live. The CDs
are AFFORDABLE - a donation of $3 per CD ($.50 per brochures).
Purchase a CD, listen, and then pass on what you have learned!
Does Your Marriage Bring You Joy?
When love seems lost, when hurt or apathy
become part of life, or the only answer seems to be separation
or divorce, where do you turn? RETROUVAILLE is a
Catholic program that shares a message of listening, forgiveness,
and communication to help bring a troubled marriage to life again.
The next COLUMBUS RETROUVAILLE WEEKEND is April 16
to 18. Call 614-296-9704 for information and visit: www.retrouvaille.org.
DAY OF REFLECTION FOR SEPARATED AND DIVORCED
WORKING AT MOVING ON WITH OUR LIVES, a day of reflection for
separated and divorced persons, will be offered on Saturday, March
27, from 9:30 AM to 2 PM at St. Paul Church in Westerville.
Registration for the program is $10, and it includes lunch.
Registration is required, and the deadline is March 19.
Contact the Marriage and Family Life Office at 614-241-2560 or FLOMailbox@colsdioc.org for
information or to register.
An Ecumenical Brunch For Ladies
The Happy Heart's Group will be hosting
an ecumenical brunch at St. Mary on Saturday, March 13 at 10 AM.
If you plan to attend, sign up in the St. Mary vestibule
or call the parish office. All women are welcome.
Love ... Naturally
Did you know that Natural Family Planning
(NFP) is 99% effective and 100 % natural? Discover a
healthier way of life by enrolling in a diocesan NFP WORKSHOP.
A five-session workshop will begin Tuesday evening, April 27,
7 to 9 PM at SS. Simon & Jude Parish, West Jefferson, and
continue on May 11, May 25, June 15, and July 13.
Registration is only $60 per couple and includes all instructional
materials; financial assistance is available. For
information or to register for the workshop, contact the Marriage
and Family Life Office at 614-241-2560 or FLOMailbox@colsdioc.org.
Food Pantry Collection
This Sunday is THE FIRST SUNDAY OF THE
MONTH, the day for OUR MONTHLY COLLECTION of
non-perishable FOOD AND OTHER SUPPLIES (like toothpaste,
toothbrushes, deodorant, soap, and shampoo) FOR THE NEEDY,
for the Bremen Food Pantry. Place items in the baskets
beneath the bulletin board in the parish hall. Please be
generous.
The Bremen Food Pantry needs your help with
A SPECIAL FOOD COLLECTION. Our parish is asked to
collect BOXES OF BUTTER OR MARGARINE. Bring your
donation to the church by Sunday, March 14, placing it in one of
the refrigerators in the kitchen. This special food
collection will help the Pantry with an OPEN HOUSE on
Saturday, March 20, from 9 AM to 11 AM. Any family in
need can stop by the Pantry that day to receive assistance -
no prior registration or sign up is required.
Parish Directories
If you participating in the directory
(had your picture taken), please stop by the parish hall after
Mass to get your free directory. If you did not
participate in the directory but would like one, please
contact Pam Redding at 740-746-2076.
Bulletin And Announcement Deadlines
The DEADLINE FOR BULLETIN NOTICES HAS
CHANGED. Notices must be to the parish office by 9 AM
on the Friday nine days before the Sunday you wish your notice
to appear. For example, bulletin notices for the March 21
bulletin are due by 9 AM on Friday, March 12.
About Priesthood ...
During This year For Priests
The Church's consecrated men and woman can live a wide variety
of religious lives. This week we feature ...
DOMINICANS OF THE PROVINCE OF ST. JOSEPH
The DOMINICANS OF THE PROVINCE OF
ST. JOSEPH were founded in 1805 by Fr. Edward Dominic Fenwick,
OP. In 1806, the first priory of the Province was established
near Springfield, Kentucky. It was dedicated to the
Dominican saint, St. Rose of Lima. As early as 1808, Fr.
Fenwick began visiting Catholics scattered around Ohio.
The focal point of the Ohio missions was the settlement of
Somerset which had about twenty Catholics.
Four young men were ordained as the first
Dominican priests in the United States in 1816. The first
Catholic church in Ohio was built in 1818. St. Joseph's
in Somerset would soon eclipse the mother priory of St. Rose as
the center of life in the province. Beginning, in 1834,
it became the provincial House of Studies where for the next
seventy years, men would be trained for the priesthood.
Fr. Fenwick was chosen first bishop of
Cincinnati in 1822.
The intellectual life of the Province had a
turning point in 1905 with the building of a new House of Studies
in Washington, D.C. It was raised to the status of
Pontifical Faculty of Theology in 1941. Dominican commitment
to the intellectual apostolate continued with the establishment of
Providence College in 1917 in Rhode Island,
Beginning in 1990, the friars of St. Joseph
established a Dominican presence in East Africa. The
particular focus of their missionary activity is the formation of
candidates for the priesthood.
Presently, there are friars involved in
various ministries such as hospital chaplaincy, media work,
education, parishes and retreats - any ministry in which the
Word can be preached. The seed that was first planted
by Fr. Edward Dominic Fenwick has grown into a vigorous plant
that continues to bear fruit both here and abroad.
Our RCIA
Keep praying for the parishioners and
inquirers, catechists and sponsors who are involved in the RCIA.
The RCIA FOR BOTH PARISHES will meet Wednesday,
March 10, at 7 PM in the St. Bernadette Mary Good room.
For information, call Teresa Scarpitti at 740 468-1042.
Serra Club
Serra is an international group of laypersons
named for the Spanish Franciscan Friar, who was an early missionary
to California. Serrans SUPPORT AND PRAY FOR VOCATIONS
to the priesthood and religious life. The local Serra Club
meets on 2nd and 4th Tuesdays at Lancaster
St. Mary.
On Tuesday, March 9, the guest speaker
will be Diana Fisher. She is an associate of the Sister of
St. Francis of Penance & Christian Charity, and will talk about
her journey of faith. Then on Tuesday, March 23,
there will be a holy hour at Lancaster St. Mary with prayers for
vocations to the priesthood and religious life. A short
meeting will follow at 8:00 p.m. in the Spirit Center.
Come and bring a guest.
The Catholic Faith on 1320 WLOH
Tune in to CATHOLIC INSIGHTS, the
weekly Catholic radio evangelization program on 1320 AM AND
104.5 FM WLOH in Lancaster, every Thursday at 12:30 PM.
The hosts are Father Kessler and Father Walter.
The program spreads the Catholic message about Jesus and his
Church to the people of our community. Go to www.wloh.net and
listen to the archived programs any time.
Spiritual Life: Food For Thought
Are you a Catholic who stopped learning about
our faith after CCD, Catholic school, or Confirmation class?
Our education in faith is important. We cannot live an adult
faith with a child's understanding. Understanding what
we believe, and why we believe, enables us to grow in our spiritual
life. As Catholics we have such a rich heritage.
Explore the Catholic faith at these four presentations at St.
Bernadette (in the Mary Good Center) on these Thursdays at 7 PM:
- Thursday, March 18: "Stations of the Cross"
by Sr. Nancy and Brian McCauley
- Thursday, April 15: "Catholic Liturgical Music"
by Fr. Kessler and Brian McCauley
- Thursday, May 20: "Spirituality of Icons"
by Fr. Kessler and Fr. Reade
St. Bernadette School Registration
St. Bernadette School is holding registration
for new students (grades 1-5), kindergarten (1/2 day, Monday-Friday),
4-year old pre-kindergarten (morning or afternoon, Monday, Tuesday
& Thursday), and 3-year old preschool (mornings on Wednesday and
Friday). Bring the child's birth or baptismal certificate.
For information, call the school office at 654-3137.
Pilgrimage
There will be a pilgrimage to the Basillica and Shrine of Our Lady of Consolation in Carey, Ohio on Wednesday, May 5. Meet at St. Bernadette parking lot at 7 AM. Bus fare is $25 and paid reservations must be received by Sat, April 3. Make checks payable to and send reservation to
- Margaret Kronebitter
2700 Wayne Ridge Rd
Zanesville, OH 4701-9240.
For information call Rita Merk 654-3255 or Ann Messerly at 654-3447.
Praying Together
The LITTLE FLOCK CHARISMATIC PRAYER
group gathers every Wednesday at 7:30 PM in the St. Mary parish
hall. Everyone is invited to attend.
Bishop Campbell's Radio Show
Tune in ST. GABRIEL CATHOLIC RADIO 1580
AM for weekly REFLECTIONS FROM THE BISHOP air
from 4 to 4:15 PM on Tuesdays of the month. Streaming audio
is available at www.stgabrielradio.com.
$20,000 Could Be Yours ...
Yes, it could, if you buy your raffle ticket
for this year's FISHER CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL BID
O'LUCK, which will be held on Saturday, April 24.
Along with the $20,000 cash raffle, there will be a gourmet
dinner prepared by Hocking College Culinary School.
There are such great auction items as vacation and dinner
packages, women's jewelry, artwork, golf packages,
children's items, clothing apparel, gift certificates of
all kinds, electronics and much more. Cocktails and
silent auctions will start at 5:30 PM. The Grand Auction
preview will be between 5:30 to 7 PM. Dinner will be
served at 7 PM, followed by the Grand Auction. Proceeds
benefit Fisher Catholic High School. For info call the
school office at 740-654-1231.
If Not Now, When?
Lent is a season for penance, and that
certainly includes going to the sacrament of Penance or
Reconciliation. Please remember that the law of the
Church requires us to go to Confession at least once during
the year. But also remember that it is a privilege;
it is how the Lord wills for us to have our sins forgiven.
Each of the parishes in our deanery has scheduled a
Lenten Penance Service at which there will be several priests
available to hear confessions. If today you hear his
voice, harden not your hearts.
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Sunday |
March 21 |
at 3 PM |
St. Bernadette |
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Tuesday |
March 23 |
at 7 PM |
St. Mark |
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Thursday |
March 25 |
at 7 PM |
Logan St. John |
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Sunday |
March 28 |
at 3 PM |
Bremen St. Mary |
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Monday |
March 29 |
at 7 PM |
Sugar Grove St. Joseph |
Holy Fathers Message For Lent 2010
Pope Benedict XVI's message for Lent
2010 is "THE JUSTICE OF GOD HAS BEEN MANIFESTED THROUGH
FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST" (see Romans 3:21-23). In
this powerful message the Holy Father writes, "the Christian
is moved to contribute to creating just societies, where all
receive what is necessary to live according to the dignity proper
to the human person and where justice is enlivened by love."
To read the entire text of the Holy Father's message,
go to www.socialconcerns.colsdioc.org.
Way Of The Cross
On ALL THE FRIDAYS OF LENT at 7 PM
St. Mary and St. Bernadette parishes will both pray the Way of the
Cross, followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament.
You could join in! And please bring your kids.
This is an important part of their formation in the Catholic Faith.
What Have You Done For Your Marriage Today?
Visit www.ForYourMarriage.org
for resources to "prepare for" and "care for" your
marriage. You'll find DAILY MARRIAGE TIPS,
sources of encouragement, information on what makes marriage
work, as well as ways to nurture and strengthen your marriage.
This effort of the National Pastoral Initiative for
Marriage seeks to weave together the Catholic faith tradition
and its pastoral practice, the data of social science, and the
experience of married couples, and thus offer guidance and
resources in order to promote, strengthen, sustain, and restore
marriages.
Operation Rice Bowl
Today we hear the call of Moses to lead
his people from oppression to freedom. God promises to
be with them as they journey to a new life. Our
participation in Catholic Relief Services' Operation Rice
Bowl unites us in prayer, fasting, and giving with the millions
of people throughout the world who are oppressed by poverty,
injustice, war, disease, and lack of education and other
opportunities. Visit orb.crs.org for information.
Bremen St. Mary Parish Fish Fry
It's a Lenten thing. The St.
Mary, Bremen, Lenten Fish Fry will be Friday, March 12, from
4 to 6:30 PM in the Parish Hall. A donation of $5 is
requested for adults ($3 for those under 12). This will
benefit the Bremen Food Pantry. Let us know (on the sheets
in the vestibule or by calling the parish office) if you would
prefer fish or cheese pizza. We also need to know who can
donate a dessert or help with the set up or clean up. The
fish fry will be over just in time to allow us to attend the
Friday evening WAY OF THE CROSS at 7 PM.
Fish Fry
It's time for the Lancaster K of C
Annual Lenten Fish Fry Dinners. They will start on Friday,
February 19, and run every Friday through Good Friday, April 2.
Doors open at 4:30 PM and close at 7:30 PM. $7
@ adult and $5 @ child. Hope to see you there!
Spaghetti Dinners
BLESSED JOHN XXIII PARISH, CANAL
WINCHESTER, will host ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT MEATLESS SPAGHETTI
DINNERS in their social hall on March 12, 19, and 26 from
5:30 to 8 PM. They will also have a bake sale each Friday.
Ticket prices are $8 for adults and $4 for children 10
and under - with a family price of $25 for an immediate family
of 5 or more. Call the parish office at 614-920-1563 for
information.
Lenten Fast And Abstinence
During Lent, Catholics in the United States
- ABSTAIN FROM MEAT on Ash Wednesday and on all the
Fridays of Lent. Catholics 14 and older are bound
by the law of abstinence;
- FAST on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday - which means
eating only one full meal on those days. One or
two smaller meals may be taken on those days, but may not
total one full meal or eat anything between meals.
All adults are bound by the law of fast until they are 59.
Pastors and parents are to see to it that minors who are not bound
by the law of fast and abstinence are educated in an authentic
sense of penance.
Lancaster St. Marks Devotions
Talks sponsored by parish marriage and family
life ministries, Sundays, 7 PM. Speakers and topics:
- March 14: Pat Quackenbush, "Preserving God's
Wonders"
- March 21: Bill Pursley, "Praying the Psalms"
- March 28: Easter Cantata
"Out of gratitude we share our income for the works of God."
Charismatic Renewal Men & Women's Retreat
This retreat will take place the weekend of
March 12-14 at St. Therese's Retreat Center. Fr. Larry
Hess, pastor of St. Anthony of Padua Church in Reading, PA and
author of the HEAVENLY FATHER HOLY CARD FOR HEALING
is the guest speaker. For information or to register, call
the Catholic Charismatic Renewal Center at 614-237-7080.
Marriage Preparation (Pre-CANA)
Pre-Cana will happen Saturday, March 13 at St.
Mark, Lancaster. The program is from 9 AM to 4 PM, with sign-in
at 8:30 AM. A light breakfast and lunch are provided and dress
is casual. Cost for the program is $60 per couple. To
register, call Tim and Annie Deitz (740) 687-5610.
Men's Retreats
The Catholic Laymen's Retreat League invites
men to spend a weekend at St. Therese's Retreat Center at the
League's upcoming men's retreat:
March 26-28: SILENT WEEKEND
RETREAT FOR MEN; Father Wade Menezes, CPM, will be
retreat director and the theme is 'SIN, CONVERSION
AND THE CALL TO HOLINESS: A MESSAGE OF DIVINE MERCY.'
For information, call team captains Jack Dyas 614-580-7807 or
Bob Muetzel 614-299-7700.
Marriage Encounter Weekend dates:
April 23 - 25, 2010
July 23 - 25, 2010
September 24 - 26, 2010
November 5 - 7, 2010
For more information or to register, call Paul
& Marilou Clouse at 740-746-9003 or www.wwmecolumbus.org
Catholic Engaged Encounter Weekend dates:
April 9 - 11, 2010
June 11 - 13, 2010
August 13 - 15, 2010
For more information or to register, visit www.engaged.org or ColumbusEE@aol.com
or call Sherilynn Barley at 614-235-1143.
The Cum Christo Movement Weekend dates:
March 11 - 14, 2010 (Men's)
April 22 - 25, 2010 (Women's)
October 14 - 17, 2010 (Men's)
November 4 - 7, 2010 (Women's)
If you are interested in attending a weekend, please contact Ed Price
(614)314-1129 or visit the web site www.cumchristo.org.
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