Mission Statement. MARCH 20, 2016 Palm Sunday S. Oneida Street Green Bay, Wisconsin Fr. John H. Harper-Pastor.

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1 Mission Statement Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Community welcomes all searching for God while growing together in faith by God s grace through prayer, service and sharing S. Oneida Street Green Bay, Wisconsin w w w. n a t i v i t y p a r i s h. c o m MARCH 20, 2016 Palm Sunday Pastoral Team Fr. John H. Harper-Pastor Social Concerns Director Deacon Kevin DeCleene Family Life Directors Laurie Johnson Deacon John Bundra Stephen Ministry Director Laurie Johnson Worship Director Wayne Efferson Faith Formation Director Dr. Robert Berchmans Faith Formation /Youth Ministry Coordinator Stephanie Rottier Parish Staff Business Administrator Steve Wery Senior Deacon Deacon Michael Schmidt Parish Secretary Bobbie Skalecki Volunteer Coordinator Deb Langenhuizen Accountant/IT Specialist Vicki Matuszak Housekeeper Mary Greene Maintenance Supervisor Mike Wightman Faith Formation Staff Secretary Charmaine Berchmans Early Childhood Coordinator Heidi Stubb Sunday & Tuesday Coordinator Barb Torreano Parish Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM Phone (920) Fax (920) natscene@nativityparish.com Faith Formation Office Phone (920) Mass Schedule Monday & Thursday 9:00 AM (Communion Prayer Service) Tuesday & Friday 9:00 AM Wednesday 8:00 AM Weekend - Saturday 5:00 PM Sunday 8:30 AM & 10:15 AM Holy Day Eve 6:30 PM, Day 9:00 AM Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 4:00 PM or by appointment Eucharistic Adoration Mondays 9:30 AM - 1:00 PM Holy Hour Service Second Mondays 12:05 PM - 1:00 PM

2 All Masses celebrated at Nativity of Our Lord Parish are offered for the living and deceased members of our parish. Up to five special intentions can be remembered at each Mass. Saturday, March 19 5:00 Lloyd Tobin & Family Robert F. Irish Bob Henderson Donald Burns Bernice Maul Rev. Steven Sherer Sunday, March 20 8:30 Doug & Aaron Frase Anton, Martha & Karen Ledvina Robert McCarthy Russell & Cleora Gillis Rev. David Bestul 10:15 Randel J. VanLanen Merlian Bero Mary Vercauteren Esther Koltz Rev. James Gilsoul Monday, March 21 9:00 Communion Prayer Service 2:00 (Maple Ridge) Rosary 2:20 Lawrence Vanderperren Tuesday, March 22 9:00 John & John Jr. Aulik Dorothy Vannieuwenhoven Rev. Dennis Bouche Wednesday, March 23 8:00 Alec Thomas Norbert Sell Rev. William Zimmer 2:00 (Woodside) Anton LeComte Patrick Hull Rev. Charles Fredericks Thursday, March 24 (Holy Thursday) No Communion Prayer Service 7:00 Members of the Parish Friday, March 25 (Good Friday) No Morning Mass 1:00 Celebration of the Lord s Passion 7:00 Celebration of the Lord s Passion Saturday, March 26 (Holy Saturday - Easter Vigil) NO 5:00 PM MASS 8:00 Edward Johnson & Family Rita & Jerry Delsart Members of the Parish Sunday, March 27 (Easter Sunday) 8:30 Church 8:30 Bona Hall Kathleen Lemley Bob & Audrey Miller Lloyd & Ellen Strebel Bob & Betty Steffes Michael Gee Thomas Lohuis Eleanore Polly Edmund Adamczak Rev. Earl Brouchoud Rev. Charles Duerr 10:15 Church 10:15 Bona Hall Frank & Ione Pietras Irene Hockers Patricia Robertson Adam DeGrave Lenore Miller Larry & Shirley Younk Joyce & Royal Capelle Thomas Udvig Rev. Roy Crain Rev. Donald Feller READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Is 42:1-7; Ps 27:1-3, 13-14; Jn 12:1-11 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6; Ps 71:1-6, 15, 17; Jn 13:21-33, Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a; Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31, 33-34; Mt 26:14-25 Thursday: Chrism Mass: Is 61:1-3ab, 6a, 8b-9; Ps 89:21-22, 25, 27; Rv 1:5-8; Lk 4:16-21 Lord s Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14; Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18; 1 Cor 11:23-26; Jn 13:1-15 Friday: Is 52:13 53:12; Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25; Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9; Jn 18:1 19:42 Saturday: a) Gn 1:1 2:2 [1:1, 26-31a]; Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35; or Ps 33:4-7, 12-13, 20-22; b) Gn 22:1-18 [1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18]; Ps 16: 5, 8-11; c) Ex 14:15 15:1; Ex 15:1-6, 17-18; d) Is 54:5-14; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; e) Is 55:1-11; Is 12:2-6; f) Bar 3:9-15, 32 4:4; Ps 19:8-11; g) Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28; Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3-4 or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; h) Rom 6:3-11; i) Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Lk 24:1-12 Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43; Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23; Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8; Jn 20:1-9 or Lk 24:1-12 or (at an afternoon or evening Mass) Lk 24:

3 STEWARDSHP AND CALENDAR RAFFLE Please see next week s bulletin for a full listing of Stewardship Updates and Calendar Raffle Winners. HOLY WEEK MASS SCHEDULE Holy Thursday: Good Friday: Easter Vigil: 7:00 PM 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM 8:00 PM Easter Sunday: 8:30 AM (2 Masses, 1 in Church & 1 in Bona Hall) 10:15 AM (2 Masses, 1 in Church & 1 in Bona Hall) The Parish Office will be CLOSED at noon on Good Friday, March 25. SUNDAY COFFEE & DONUTS SAT: SUN: MON: TUES: WED: THUR: FRI: SAT: SUN: 5:00 PM Mass - Song Leader/Organist 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:15 AM 10:15 AM 9:30 AM 10:00 AM 6:30 PM Palm Sunday Sunday Hospitality RCIA - Lounge Mass - Nativity Choir/Organist Childcare - Nursery Mass - Children s Choir/Organist Church Time, Grades 1 & 2 Eucharistic Adoration - Chapel Quilting Group - Lounge Stations of the Cross 9:00 AM Pray & Play - Lounge 8:00 PM Youth Group - St. JP2 Room 7:00 PM 1:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:00 AM 9:45 AM 8:00 PM 9:45 PM 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 8:30 AM 10:15 AM 10:15 AM Holy Thursday No Communion Prayer Service Members of the Parish Good Friday - Celebration of the Lord s Passion Nativity Choir New Life Easter Vigil Reminder: No 5:00 PM Mass Church Decorating RCIA - Lounge Mass - Vigil Choir/Organist RCIA - Lounge Easter Sunday RCIA - Lounge Mass - Nativity Choir/Organist Church Mass - Song Leader/Organist Bona Hall Mass - Children s Choir/Organist Church Mass - Song Leader/Organist Bona Hall Please join us today in Bona Hall after Sunday Masses for coffee, donuts and conversation. REMINDER: THERE WILL BE NO 5:00 PM MASS ON SATURDAY, MARCH 26, ONLY THE 8:00 PM EASTER VIGIL. 3

4 WORSHIP NEWS Contact: Wayne Efferson, Director of Worship , x206 or AFRICAN PALMS USA Since 1976, this outreach program of St. John s Church, Olney, MD sells more than 15 million (to 2,600 churches) annually. Over the years, the grants support East African countries like Tanzania with self-help programs and community projects, such as (HIV/AIDS). The crosses are made by Africans from native palms. Since 1995, the Worship Commission has made these available every Palm Sunday and collected donations well over $5,700. Again, thank you for your donations to carry on this important mission work. FIREWOOD NEEDED In preparation of the Holy Fire that begins the Great Easter Vigil (Saturday, April 4 at 8:00 PM), we are looking for firewood. If you d like to donate some, please contact Wayne Efferson at natwe@nativityparish.com / , x206. FAST AND ABSTINENCE Catholics are to keep the Lenten fast and abstinence according to the following directives: Catholics who have celebrated their 14th birthday are bound to abstain from meat on Ash Wednesday, all the Fridays of Lent, and Good Friday. On these days of complete abstinence, meat or soup or gravy made from meat are not to be eaten. Catholics who have celebrated their 18th birthday, in addition to abstaining from meat, are bound to fast as well on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting means eating only one full meal per day. Smaller amounts of food may be taken at two other meals, but no food should be eaten between meals. The obligations to fast ceases with the celebration of one s 59th birthday. VEILING THE STATIONS OF THE CROSS and other religious icons will take place after the stripping of the altar on Holy Thursday; this is in preparation of Good Friday which requires that only one cross be visible (our main cross will be used in the veneration). PASCHAL TRIDUUM (HOLY WEEK) EASTER SUNDAY SIGN-UP SHEETS As we approach these most sacred days, all Liturgical Ministers are requested to assist at these liturgies: Holy Thursday: 7:00 PM Good Friday: 1:00 PM & 7:00 PM Easter Vigil: Easter Sunday: Sign up sheets are in the Sacristy 8:00 PM 8:30 AM & 10:15 AM (Bona Hall & Church) EASTER VIGIL CHOIR (Easter Vigil Mass - 8:00 PM, March 26) Calling all Easter Vigil Singers! If you have sung/played with this group before, you know how exciting it is and if you haven t you might want to check it out. The Easter Vigil is the mother of all vigils and there is a lot of music, with a great varieties and styles. We will begin our rehearsal on Wednesday, March 23 at 6:30 PM. If interested, contact Wayne Efferson: natwe@nativityparish.com/ , x206 or Michael Raught: mrfr920@aol.com / NEW LIFE CHOIR (GRADES 7-12) The following dates are listed for when New Life will lead song or assist the Children s Choir at Mass: March 20 (Palm Sunday - 10:15 AM), March 25 (Good Friday - 7 PM, March 27 (Easter Sunday - 10:15 AM, May 14 (Confirmation - 7 PM). If you wish to join the group, please contact Tami Hockers at / tami.hockers@gmail.com or Wayne Efferson, Director of Worship at , x206 / natwe@nativityparish.com. EASTER DECORATIONS The Worship Commission is preparing for Easter and needs your assistance so that our church reflects the joy of CHRIST S RESURRECTION. We will begin at 8 AM on Saturday, March 26; please come for as long as your schedule allows. Lunch will be provided. If you can t help on Saturday there may be something you could do during the week (Monday - Wednesday) in preparation of Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Please call Wayne Efferson ( , x206) or natwe@nativityparish.com with your name and number of people if interested in assisting. Thank you!! BEHOLD THE WOOD OF THE CROSS HOLY THURSDAY COLLECTION - MARCH 24 For the Poor in our Community. This is one of three collections that the Social Concerns Commission distributes to our local poor. We need 8-10 people to carry our large cross in procession for the Veneration of the Cross on Good Friday, at the 1:00 PM and 7:00 PM services. Please sign-up in the Sacristy, or call the Parish Office at

5 Sense of the Season The word Triduum comes from the Latin and means three days. It is commonly pronounced TRIH-doo-uhm and is usually used in reference to the Easter Triduum, the three most sacred days in the church year. The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord s Supper on Holy Thursday, reaches its high point at the Easter Vigil and concludes with evening prayer on Easter Sunday. Often there is confusion about how that block of time can be counted as three days. The traditional Jewish practice of counting days from sunset to sunset is used during the Triduum. Thus, Holy Thursday evening to Good Friday evening is the first day, Good Friday evening to Holy Saturday evening is the second day and Holy Saturday evening to Sunday evening is the third day. After centuries of neglect, Pope Pius XII in 1955 restored the Triduum liturgies to their rightful place as the culmination of the entire liturgical year. Although we talk of the three days, our Triduum prayer is best understood as one liturgy in three interlocking movements. The death and resurrection of the Lord cannot be separated. The meaning of these days is distorted when we imagine that the liturgy re-enacts the final events in the life of Jesus in a sort of historical review. We miss the point in that case. The mystery of Jesus death and resurrection is a present reality; the boundaries of time, and the boundaries of death, have no power here. Our past, present and future are irrevocably marked by our own immersion into this mystery through Baptism. We wash one another s feet, reverence the cross, light fires in the night and proclaim the stories of our salvation with an awed awareness that this is what it means to be baptized. The Easter Vigil then is the premier time to welcome new members into the church through Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist. Ideally, no other parish events are scheduled on these three days; the presence, time and energy of every person in the community are needed for what we do here. Yes, this may be inconvenient, but birth and death are rarely convenient! Our forty days of prayer, fasting and almsgiving lead us to the Triduum beyond its history, into its mystery. Copyright 1997 Archdiocese of Chicago: Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Avenue, Chicago IL ; Text by Kathy Luty. Art by Rita Corbin. Holy Thursday, March 24-7:00 PM Good Friday, March 25-1:00 & 7:00 PM Easter Vigil, March 26-8:00 PM Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016 Masses: 8:30 AM - Church & Bona Hall 10:15 AM - Church & Bona Hall 5

6 Good Friday Collection For The Holy Places Peter was born there. So were Andrew and Phillip. In fact all the Apostles called it home. Home an almost magic word. Even when we move away. The place we were born, the place we grew up that s home, that is all that word means. For Catholic Christians there is a special home across the sea in the Holy Land. This is the place where Christ was born, lived, preached, worked His miracles and died. Here is a perpetual prayer in the holy places associated with Christ s life and death and the beginnings of our Catholic Religion. Today, however, home is in need. Most of the Christians who live near and care for the Holy Places in Jerusalem and Palestine are very poor or foreign missioners in a foreign land. For over 800 years since the 13 th century the Franciscan Friars have been charged with the care of the Holy Places. Each year, on Good Friday we take up a collection in every church in the United States to support their ministry. Here at Nativity Parish we will take up the collection on Good Friday. Every penny collected goes for that work nothing is kept here at Nativity Parish. The Holy Land, despite the troubles and war which seem to plague its history, is Christ s favorite place. He chose it as His birthplace when He could have chose any place in the world. The Shrines, in the Holy Land are a constant reminder that Christ, Our Savior, did live, did walk this earth, did sit and eat and preach and was crucified for our sins. Lent is nearly over. Your time, God willing, has brought you closer to Him as you kept these six weeks of prayer and fasting. Please be as generous as you can with this special act of almsgiving, the collection for the Holy Land. God has promised us a reward for even a cup of water given in His name. You can imagine His response when you have shown your concern for the land of His birth with a gift for the many men and women missioners who live and work there at the Holy Places. You may use the Good Friday Collection envelope stapled to this sheet or the one in your Church Envelope Packet. The Holy Land Franciscans Washington, D.C. 6

7 Obtain a plenary indulgence A rare opportunity for the Jubilee Year of Mercy SUNDAY, APRIL 17, 2016 Booyah & Sandwiches in Bona Hall after 10:15 a.m. Mass Gather at the Cathedral at 12:30 p.m. RSVP by APRIL 3, 2016 (We need the count for lunch)

8 NURSING HOME VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We are in need of adding to our volunteers who assist with our weekly Thursday Mass at Maple Ridge Nursing Home. You would assist with helping residents from their rooms to the commons where Mass is celebrated each week. This commitment is from approximately 1:45 to 3:30 PM. If interested, please contact: Wayne Efferson, Director of Worship , x206 or HUNGERING TO BUILD COMMUNITY We follow Jesus this week on our Lenten journey as He enters Jerusalem, a community He knew well. CRS Rice Bowl asks us to prayerfully enter into our own communities, to find those who are hungry and thirsty, those who need our help. How does our Lenten journey motivate us to serve those we encounter in our daily lives? Visit crsricebowl.org for more information. PAVE THE WAY TO PRAYER We will be ordering our next batch of bricks for our Prayer Garden soon. If you would like to remember your loved one, someone special or buy a brick for yourself, please go to our website, at and click on the brick picture. Order forms are also available in the Narthex and Parish Office. If you have any questions, please call Vicki at Deadline to order is April 1, WOMEN S GUILD ANNUAL RUMMAGE & BAKE SALE This will be held on Friday, April 15 from 8:30 AM to 4 PM and Saturday, April 16 from 8:30 AM to Noon. Lunch will be available on Friday, April 15. Please think about donating your clean usable items to our sale, no electronics please. We accept clothing and shoes in good condition. We will also have a book sale, so please think about donating your used books. Please mark your bags or boxes Rummage Sale and bring to Bona Hall from now until Thursday, April 14. We appreciate your help to make this rummage sale a success. Questions? Call Mary at or Marge at We are also looking for donations for the bake sale that will be held in conjunction with the rummage sale. Attention Parishioners, we will be collecting the Rice Bowls at all Masses this weekend (Palm Sunday). Also, bring to church with you on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. This collection helps to prevent hunger and poverty around the world. Thank you for helping those in need. WOMEN S GUILD MOTHER/DAUGHTER PROGRAM MAY 5, 2016 Looking for a way to Honor Mom/Grandma in May? Contribute one of your favorite mom quotes to the Pearls of Wisdom: What Mama Said program of the annual Nativity Women s Guild Mother/Daughter program on May 5. We will need the quote, the story behind the quote and a photo of you and your mom/grandma (photo will be returned unharmed). Then, come to the event on May 5 and see all the wisdom shared. Quotes / Photos are due by April 15. We have made it easy by designing a template for you to fill in and submit (blank templates are available in the Parish Office or by to): carolfountain@sbcglobal.net or online at nativityparish.com. You re the oldest, you should know better! ~ ~What Mama Said Thank You!!! 8

9 REPORTING SEXUAL ABUSE If you know of an incident of sexual abuse of a person who is now under the age of 18 by a priest, deacon, employee or volunteer, PLEASE IMMEDIATELY CALL THE CIVIL AUTHORITIES AND THEN THE DIOCESE. If the person was abused as a minor but is now an adult, please contact: Jayne Stefanic, Diocesan Assistance Coordinator, Diocese of Green Bay or (toll free) We also encourage you to report the incident to local civil authorities. YOU MATTER TO US THERE IS HOPE! Crisis Center Pregnancy Hotline BAPTISMS Parents may schedule their BAPTISMS child s Baptism after they have completed Parents may two-part schedule preparation their child s program. Baptism after Call the they Parish have Office completed at least a two-part 60 days before preparation Baptism program. for interview Call and the Parish preparation Office at least session. 60 days before Baptism for interview and preparation session. BAPTISM DATES BAPTISM December DATES 20 April 10, May 8, June 19, July 17 and August 21 SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK (Following SACRAMENT 8:30 AM OF Mass See ANOINTING dates listed OF below) THE SICK This (Following Sacrament 8:30 is AM offered Mass See to anyone dates in need listed of below) Christ s healing touch. This Sacrament The Anointing is offered of the to Sick anyone is a in sacrament need of Christ s for those healing who are touch. in need The Anointing of physical, of emotional, the Sick is or a spiritual sacrament healing. for those Think who of friends are in need and of loved physical, ones who emotional, may want or spiritual to receive healing. this sacrament Think of and friends invite and them loved to ones this Mass. who may want to receive this sacrament and invite them to this Mass. ANOINTING OF THE SICK DATES 2016 ANOINTING OF THE SICK DATES May 29, July 31 and October 30 RCIA RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION RCIA RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS Do you want to know more FOR about ADULTS the Catholic faith? Are you or someone Do you want you to know know interested more about in becoming the Catholic baptized faith? or Are confirmed you or as someone Catholic? you know For more interested information in becoming about this baptized process or confirmed call Wayne as a Catholic? Efferson For ( more information ext. 206) about or this process call natwe@nativityparish.com. Wayne Efferson ( , ext. 206) or natwe@nativityparish.com.

10 CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Nativity of Our Lord Church # South Oneida Street Green Bay, WI TELEPHONE CONTACT PERSON Bobbie Skalecki SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2007 Adobe Acrobat X Windows 7 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS