WELCOME TO HOLY CROSS PARISH

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1 WELCOME TO HOLY CROSS PARISH 309 Desnoyer Street Kaukauna, WI Parish Ministry Staff PASTOR...Fr. Tom Pomeroy Deacon/Pastoral Associate Deacon Bruce Corey Faith Formation Coordinators Jackie Wallace, Gloria Ackerman Liturgy Coordinator/Bulletin Kim Corey Music Coordinator Ellen Scheibe Office Manager Tammy Schmahl Principal Larry Konetzke Receptionist/SCRIP Coordinator Bonnie Fischer Mass Times Saturday... 4:30 pm Sunday... 7:30, 9:15 & 11:00 am Weekdays... 7:00 am daily Holy Days Will be noted Phone Numbers Rectory Office Fax Scrip Office Faith Formation Center Holy Cross Campus St. Al s School Campus RCIA Coordinator, Gloria Schuh Confirmation Xavier High School KCSS Website H O L Y C R O S S P A R I S H M I S S I O N W H A T W E R E A L L A B O U T We, the members of Holy Cross Parish, continue the mission of Jesus Christ through the building of a vibrant Catholic community of word, worship Rectory Office Hours and Scrip Hours Mon-Thurs. 8:00-12:00, 1:00-4:00 Friday... 8:00-12:00 Noon SEPTEMBER 23, TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YR B)

2 2 Welcome to Holy Cross Parish Kaukauna, Wisconsin SCRIP FOR SCHOOL SCRIP is sold in the Gathering Space after 7:30 and 9:15 Masses. Look for the table in the corner. Don t know how to use SCRIP? Call or stop in at the Parish Office. A friendly SCRIP person will help you! Holy Cross Parish Phone: Office Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 am-noon and 1:00-4:00 pm; Friday 8:00 am-noon Local Merchant of the Week O Connell Funeral Home National Merchant of the Week Noodles & Company Please remember to visit all of our merchants. Visit us online at Click on SCRIP. Readings for the Week of September 23, 2012 Sunday: Wis 2:12, 17-20/Jas 3:16---4:3/Mk 9:30-37 Monday: Prv 3:27-34/Lk 8:16-18 Tuesday: Prv 21:1-6, 10-13/Lk 8:19-21 Wednesday: Prv 30:5-9/Lk 9:1-6 Thursday: Eccl 1:2-11/Lk 9:7-9 Friday: Eccl 3:1-11/Lk 9:18-22 Saturday: Dn 7:9-10, or Rv 12:7-12a/Jn 1:47-51 Sunday: Nm 11:25-29/Jas 5:1-6/Mk 9:38-43, 45, Liturgical Publications Inc Parish Contributions Amount Needed Weekly $12, Sacrificial Giving Received.$ 4, Loose Offering Received.$ TOTAL RECEIVED..$ 5, Amount Short... $6, Bishop s Appeal Keep it coming! $50 each? A Message From Fr. Tom Let s Celebrate Our Ministries One of the things I love to do as Pastor here at Holy Cross is celebrate the ministries in our parish. We have longstanding ministries, like our Catholic School and Faith Formation Program. We have new ministries, like the Holy Cross Pilgrimage and Christ Renews His Parish retreats. Parishioners are now stepping up in another new area, a great benefit for our community a group that we call The Holy Cross Heroes. It s a group of volunteer parishioners who gather every Tuesday morning after Mass to help around the parish. In the past, we always had good parishioners step up and do things when they saw a need, but it was never organized. This group gathers to fix things, clean things and work in an organized way. In the past four months, since they began, their small group has already worked over 170 hours. This goes to show that a group working together on a regular basis can do a lot of work. You may have noticed some of their projects. All of our bushes and trees have been trimmed and pruned, and they have worked on some landscaping. If you come into the church at the ramp entrance, I am sure you noticed they painted the railing, cleaned out the years of piled-up leaves and gave it a good cleaning. They even power-washed the carport entrance. They have also done some less visible projects. Using materials they found in our garages, they built shelving units for the garage and for the Oktoberfest space above the stage. At last, we can start to keep things organized! The Heroes cleaned all the cold air return vents in the church and school. You also may have noticed that many of the chairs are missing from the narthex (gathering space). 24 chairs were broken. Rather than paying $300 each for new chairs, the Heroes are fixing and re-upholstering them. This is saving us a lot of money! As I was talking to them today, they were about to paint the front door to the rectory which has needed paint since I came to the parish. I can t list all they ve done so far. I think it s so important to celebrate parishioners who share their time and talent. Not everyone wants to read at Mass or be on a committee. Some know how to fix things and want to share those talents. When I told them I was writing this article, I was told bluntly: Don t use names. We re not doing this for recognition. Some of the Heroes come every Tuesday. Some come every now and then. Others are on a list, so if we need help, the Heroes will call them. If you are available on Tuesday mornings, I would encourage you to come and help. With a few more hands, we could make our parish even more beautiful. Peace. Fr. Tom

3 IMPORTANT MESSAGES: 1. Please take time to say a prayer for the 11 Holy Cross men who are now on their Christ Renews His Parish retreat weekend in the Faith Formation Center. Go, men! 2. The Golden Faith Group, for ages 50+, kicks off next Sunday, September 30 (after 11:00 Mass) in Friendship Hall. Lunch/speaker for $7.00. Pay at the door. Register: Buy Oktoberfest Raffle Tickets and Maybe Win Two Tickets To Italy! ROME * Visiting ASSISI * FLORENCE Hosted by Fr. Tom Pomeroy, Deacon Bruce and Kim Corey 10 Days: March 4-13, 2013 For only $3199 per person from APPLETON (Air/land price is $2,544 plus $655 government taxes/ airline fuel surcharges) FOR A BROCHURE AND MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Deacon Bruce Corey at (920) (office) or (920) (cell) or kcorey@holycrosskaukauna.org III Can You Operate a Glue Stick? Then We Need You! Our parish songbooks have song sheets pasted in them, and some are missing or loose. If you re available next Friday, September 28, please come to the Church after morning Mass (7:35ish) to help re-paste. Heroes? Queen of Peace Choir? Retirees? We need all the help we can get to accomplish our mission as quickly as possible, so please come if you can! Coffee, doughnuts and glue sticks will be provided. Erin Heindl and Matt Smith Thank You To All Past and Present Prayer Shawl Knitters! Thank you so much to all those who have been knitting prayer shawls over the years. More than 400 shawls have been blessed and shared with those who need our prayers, with those who are hurting in some way or simply can use the comfort of a warm shawl. Holy Cross Parish is blessed to have such wonderful people spreading the love of God through the work of their hands. Keep on knitting! SEPTEMBER 23, th SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (B) 3 Things Going On Here and Elsewhere (Call Kim at the Parish Office, , for more details) Sept Fall Men s CRHP Retreat Mon, Sept. 24 KCSS Home/School Mtg 7pm St. Al s Wed, Sept. 26 8th Grade Xavier Day Thur, Sept. 27 All-System Liturgy 8:45 am HC Thur, Sept. 27 Matthew DVD series with Fr. Jerry 1:00 pm St. Mary Social Hall or 6:30 pm St. Al Upper Lounge (To order optional study guide ($30) call Fr. Jerry at no pre-registration required.) Sessions are 9/27, 10/4, 10/25, 11/1, 11/29, 12/6, 1/3, 1/24, 2/7, 2/28, 3/7, 4/4. Fri, Sept. 28 Xavier Homecoming Sun, Sept. 30 Golden Faith Group Kick-off! 12:00-FH Mon., Oct 1 Mon, Oct. 1 Tues, Oct. 2 Tues, Oct. 2 Mon, Oct. 8 Tues, Oct. 9 Oct. 6-7 Mon, Oct. 8 KCSS Calendar Raffle Starts Catholicism series DVD #1 6 pm-gs (No pre-registration necessary) Catholicism series DVD 1 7:45 am-gs Grandparents/Special Persons Day Catholicism series DVD #2 6 pm-gs Catholicism series DVD 2 7:45am-GS Note: Remaining dates are October 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, November 5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, December 3, 4 Fall Women s CRHP Retreat Cross and Crown Seminar St. Paul Combined Locks Speaker: Deacon Dave Van Eperen 7:00 8:30 pm Wed, Oct. 10 KCSS Athletic Association-6:30 pm-hc Wed, Oct. 10 Fox Valley Warming Shelter Fundraiser Tues, Oct. 11 The Year of Faith begins Fri, Oct. 12 Sat, Oct. 13 Sat, Oct. 13 Kaukauna Homecoming No School Annual Meeting after 4:30 Mass GS (Please join us for an informational hour) Fr. Tom s Birthday Happy birthday! Sun, Oct. 14 OKTOBERFEST!! Mon, Oct. 15 Cross and Crown Seminar St. Paul Combined Locks Speaker: Fr. Willie Van De Loo 7:00 8:30 pm Oct th Grade Girls Volleyball Tourney-HC Mon, Oct. 22 Cross and Crown Seminar St. Paul Combined Locks Speaker: Fr. James Walling 7:00 8:30 pm Mon, Oct. 29 Cross and Crown Seminar St. Paul Combined Locks Speaker: Bishop Robert Morneau 7:00 8:30 pm

4 4 Welcome to Holy Cross Parish Kaukauna, Wisconsin OKTOBERFEST 2012 Countdown Just 21 Days Away! Sunday, October 14 Keep working on the items for the craft and chance booths. Items for the This n That Flea Market may be dropped off Monday through Friday between 7:30 am 3:30 pm in the school parking lot garages. If you need someone to haul larger items, call Jerry Elliott at PLEASE NOTE THAT APPLIANCES, MICROWAVES AND COMPUTERS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. CRAFT BOOTH: Any seasonal crafts or new storebought crafts would be appreciated. Please call Kay Weins ( ) or Sue Helms ( ). The Craft room is co-sponsored by Catholic Family Life Insurance. BOO-YAH: Please remember us as you harvest your gardens. If you have vegetables to donate, please call Cristina or Kevin Heindel at We need glass quart jars, ice cream pails and half-gallon buckets for boo-yah; please bring them to the school cafeteria on Friday, October 12. Confirmation and high school students looking for volunteer hours we need you! We also need volunteers to work in the kitchen; please contact Gloria Ackerman at VEGGIE CLEANING: Come to help us clean vegetables on Friday, October 12, starting at 8:00 am in the cafeteria kitchen. Please bring a knife and a cutting board. Both men and women it s lots of fun! COUNTRY STORE: Is in need of pumpkins and corn stalks. Please call Brian Rameker at if you have some you can donate. BAKING NEEDS: We would like to have families with last names beginning A thru J provide cakes for the Cakewalk, K thru R provide items for the Country Store and S thru Z provide pies for the dinner. (This may be different from last week, so please make a note.) VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP SHEETS: Volunteer sign-up sheets will be available in the back of church. The areas in which we are looking for help are: the Craft Room, Pie Booth, Dining Room, Country Store, This n That, Kitchen, Chance Booth, Kids Games, Setup/Cleanup and Paddle Raffle. Lots of fun opportunities! Let s make this a really great year. We need all of you! Bravo 2013 News! Time for celebration and singing BRAVO! is celebrating its 10th anniversary! This year s show, The Best of BRAVO!...for the Past 10 Years will bring back favorite hits from musicals such as Phantom of the Opera, Footloose, Wicked, Annie, The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and many more. Check out our website (will be updated soon): The first rehearsal is Sunday, September 23, at 6:00 pm in the Holy Cross cafeteria. If you are interested at all, please attend this first rehearsal. You can find out more about the show and what to expect. Show dates are set for January 18 and 19, 2013, at the Xavier Fine Arts Center in Appleton. We have tons of openings for participation in the show. Along with performers, we need behind-the-scenes help: backstage, classroom, child supervision, lobby sales, ushers, etc. Contact a committee member with questions or to get involved. Or, simply info@kcssbravo.org. Janice Welhouse Andrea Maher Jennie Eggleston Nicole Ebben Jennifer Van Elzen Danielle Van De Hey Jill Estermann Lawrence Ortner Linda Pitt jmwn571@aol.com amaher@new.rr.com jeneggleston@new.rr.com Nicoleebben@yahoo.com jvanelzen@yahoo.com meadowview@athenet.net jestermann@new.rr.com lortner@new.rr.com luvs2syng1959@yahoo.com BRAVO! features a wide variety of music, from old-time favorites to today's hits. Along with providing a great opportunity for area students (from kindergarten through college age) and adults to perform on stage, proceeds from BRAVO! benefit the educational programs of KCSS, such as fine arts and technology. We welcome performers from throughout the community. You do not need to be affiliated with KCSS or one of our member churches to participate, so join in the fun! CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS Week of September 9, /10/12 Jonathan Berkers Garden Grove, CA $ /11/12 Mrs. Katharine Otto Kaukauna $ /12/12 Mark/Debbie Haen Gilbert, AZ $ /13/12 Mary Ellenbecker Kaukauna $ /14/12 John Pagel Menasha $ /15/12 Bill/Mary Derricks Pulaski $ /16/12 Maria/Luke Hartzheim Kaukauna $25.00

5 SEPTEMBER 23, TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (YR. B) 5 Next Year! Mark Your Calendars. September 13, 14 and 15, Be Part of the THIRD Annual Holy Cross Pilgrimage! Save your vacation days so you can join us on your feet, your motorcycle, your bike or the bus! We re already planning and finding ways to make it even bigger and better! We are rarin to go again. Featured above are many of the brave pilgrims who walked three days to Our Lady of Good Help Shrine. We ll show pictures of the other groups soon. We missed all of you who walked last year and couldn t be with us. We hope you ll join us again next year! There s plenty of room for more. Front, left to right: Terry Van Zeeland, Mary Ebben, Annette Schultz, Peggy Eiting, Ginny Wallace, Jenny Van Helvoirt, Trisha Tetzlaff, Jerry Elliott. Back, left to right: Mark Tetzlaff, Robin Van Zeeland, Ed Sypek, Kim Corey, Deacon Bruce, Fr. Tom, The Blessed Mother and Baby Jesus, Brian Rameker, Mike Van Helvoirt, Elmer Eiting, Jim DeMerit Not pictured: Laura Buchholz, Ron Geurts, Valerie Ingersoll, Kate and Bill Lefler, Kathryn Schultz, Karen Vanevenhoven Thank you to all the men and women who joined us on Friday morning to send us off, to those who prepared and delivered food to us, to our beautiful pilgrimage choir and to all of you who came on your motorcycles, bikes, the bus and in your cars. The church was almost filled! Bishop Ricken was impressed! Way to go, Holy Cross, Kaukauna! Thank you to those who donated vehicles and trailers and water and food and blister relief. Thank you to our excellent and attentive drivers of the three support vehicles. You are awesome and very much appreciated! And thank you to Fr. Tom and Deacon Bruce who brought a wonderful spirituality to the weekend. This year we had six walking pilgrims joining us from different parishes. Last year we had one. Fr. Jim Lucas even joined the motorcycle group and sang in the choir. That was pretty special! Thank you to our volunteer altar servers and lectors. I think the Blessed Mother was happy with such a great turnout. WE sure were! It was a joyful event because Mary led many more people to her son through a parish pilgrimage. Remember! Mark your calendars now to join us next year! Start Taking Your Nativity Sets Out of Storage Saturday and Sunday, December 1 and 2, is the beginning of Advent, We invite you to bring your nativity set, or sets, to Friendship Hall to share your beautiful treasures. Fr. Tom will bless them after 11:00 Mass on Sunday so you can take them home and begin Advent with your families. Set up your own special table with decorations of your choice and make up a little card to point out special information about your set. People will view your treasures before and after each Mass throughout the weekend. Call Kim at to register! We already have five people signed up. Watch for further details in future bulletins.

6 6 Welcome to Holy Cross Parish Kaukauna, Wisconsin Monday, September 24 7:00 am Orville Vanevenhoven Tuesday, September 25 7:00 am Richard Skalmusky Wednesday, September 26 7:00 am Ethel Femal 6:00 pm Faith Formation Students, Parents and Catechists Thursday, September 27 7:00 am Eileen Pendergast 8:45 am KCSS Students, Parents and Staff to have a safe and healthy school year Friday, September 28 7:00 am Judy Schuh Saturday, September 29 4:30 pm Fritz and Gloria DeBruin Sunday, September 30 7:30 am Norma Van Eperen 9:15 am Floyd Sprangers and John Brice 11:00 am Parish Family MASS INTENTIONS FOR YOUR LOVED ONES If you would like to have a Mass offered for a special intention, you may contact the parish office at The usual offering for a Mass is $ Note: If a Mass intention is for your loved one and you would like to present the gifts at the offertory, simply contact an usher before Mass. They ll be happy to help. Here s What s Happening in the Parish During the Week of September 23, 2012 Sunday, September 23 7:00 9:00 pm Confirmation Orientation and Enrollment Meet in Friendship Hall Monday, September 24 8:00 am 4:00 pm Vocation Prayer Vigil in Church 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Friendship Hall 7:00 pm Home and School Meeting St. Al s Tuesday, September 25 6:00 pm Pray and Walk 6:30 pm Women s CRHP planning meeting FF Wednesday, September 26 6:00 pm Faith Formation Liturgy and Open House 6:00 pm Men s CRHP Follow-up meeting Thursday, September 27 7:00 pm Celebrator Choir Practice FH Saturday, September 29 11:00 am Noon Reconciliation in Church 2:00 pm Wedding Erin Heindl and Matt Smith Blessings on your Marriage! Sunday, September 30 12:00-2:00 pm Golden Faith Group lunch/speaker FH Holy Cross Parish Be a Part of Us Reconciliation Saturdays: 11:00-12:00 Noon or by appointment. Contact Fr. Tom Pomeroy at if you would like to make an appointment. Baptisms We share in your joy as your child is baptized. Baptisms are the second Sunday of each month ($10 stipend). Call the parish office to set a date or to get further details about this beautiful milestone in your family s life. Baptism Preparation meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the third Tuesday of each month. First Friday Eucharist Calls Please inform us if you, or someone you know, cannot make it to Mass and would like to receive Holy Eucharist on the first Friday of each month. How to Register as a New Parish Member Want to become a parish member? Simply stop in at the parish office, and we ll get you registered. Fast and easy. Change of Phone, Address or Family Status? If you re moving permanently or temporarily, or have changed any family information, please give us a call at so we can update your census information. Thanks for taking the time to call! Would You Like to Put Something in the Bulletin? The deadline is Monday noon (Friday before holidays). Holy Cross Prayer Relay for Your Prayer Needs If you or someone you know needs prayers, call Your parish family is here for you. We ll start praying immediately! Holy Cross is Grateful For Your Gifts The generosity of our parishioners by giving of time, talent and treasure is what sustains this beautiful parish. We are grateful for all the times Holy Cross Parish has been remembered through memorials, donations and wills. We can t begin to thank those who have been generous in their final wishes, large or small. We have so much to be thankful for, here at Holy Cross, and it s because of the people who love their parish. Please continue to think of us in this way, and keep us in your prayers as we continue to grow our parish family. Our prayers continue to go with all of you and your families.