Mission Statement. FEBRUARY 1, 2015 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time S. Oneida Street Green Bay, Wisconsin 54304

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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 FEBRUARY 1, 2015 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Pastoral Team Pastor Fr. John H. Harper Social Concerns Directors Deacon Michael Schmidt Deacon Kevin DeCleene Family Life Commission Directors Laurie Johnson Deacon John Bundra Stephen Ministry Director Laurie Johnson Worship Director Wayne Efferson Faith Formation Director Jamie Whalen Faith Formation /Youth Ministry Coordinator Stephanie Rottier Parish Staff Business Administrator Steve Wery Parish Secretary Cindy Kapla 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 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 (Benediction when a Deacon leads)

2 PARISH STEWARDSHIP UPDATE JANUARY 24-25, 2015 Sacrificial Offering....$9, Loose Offertory.....$ On-Line Giving $2, Total..$12, To meet our budget, we need an average of $16, each week Maintenance & Improvement $ Investing in our Youth $ CANCELLATION POLICY MASS/COMMUNION PRAYER SERVICE Severe winter weather conditions can make driving dangerous. Sometimes we need to make cancellations. Please know that if local school classes are cancelled for the day, OR if they are delayed then there will be no Mass or Communion Prayer Service that morning. Welcome Our warmest welcome to all who celebrate with us, whether visitors, long-time residents, or newly arrived in the Parish. If you would like to join Nativity of Our Lord Parish please call the Parish Office at If you are already a registered Parish member and need to make changes, you may use this form to update your records. Please complete this form and place in the collection basket or return to the Parish Office. Thank you. Name Phone Address City Zip Code New address New phone number Moving, please remove from membership list CONGRATULATIONS CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS FOR JANUARY 21th Bob Wetzel...$ th Beth Polomis.$ nd Michelle Leuck...$ th Joe Leisgang.. $ rd Sarah Johnson...$ th Monica Kaminski...$ th Dolores Truskowski.$25.00 Please allow 2-3 weeks for processing payment. STEWARDSHIP CORNER WITH POPE FRANCIS POPE FRANCIS IS BEGINNING TO USE TWITTER TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE CHURCH. WE WILL BE POSTING HIS TWEETS IN OUR BULLETIN FOR YOU TO FOLLOW. The mystery of the Cross, a mystery of love, can only be understood in prayer. Pray and weep kneeling before the cross. (Pope Francis tweeted 10/10/13) Will I spend more time in prayer this week to more fully understand this great mystery of love? PRAYER CORNER The prayer corner is to support the initiative for growing our prayer lives. Consider joining a small prayer group on Thursday mornings at 6:30 AM in the Nativity Chapel. The format is Liturgy of the Hours. This is open to men and women. Prayer 6:30-6:50 AM. Fellowship and sharing 6:50-7:15 AM. ON-LINE GIVING We offer an on-line option that compliments our offering envelope use. By signing up to give your weekly offertory and special collections, you will help the parish more accurately forecast our finances and plan more strategically. On-line Giving is a safe, secure and dependable means of income for the parish. To sign up go to or call Vicki at if you need more information. LIONESS GROUP COLLECTIONS Lioness Group is collecting Christmas cards to be sent to Florida to create Christmas decorations for our troops. Drop them off in the office by February 7. They are also collecting yarn to make caps for infants and sweaters for the needy. If they get surplus yarn they send it to Algoma where knitters there also make items for donation. $CRIP PROGRAM Before you leave Church today please stop and pick up $crip to do your weekly shopping. Dedicated volunteers are in the Narthex before and after all Masses. $crip can also be purchased in the Parish Office during the week from 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM. The week of January 19 - January 25 $crip sold $4, Profit - $ Thank you! 2

3 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. SAT: 5:00 PM Mass - Song Leader/Organist Saturday, January 31 5:00 Patrick Ryan Dorothy Vercauteren David White Donald Cyganek Sunday, February 1 8:30 Jorge F. Lee Alvina Hanna Walter Jauquet 10:15 Mike Glodoski Living Intention - Kim Thiry Patricia White Monday, February 2 9:00 Communion Prayer Service Tuesday, February 3 9:00 Special Intention(47th Anniversary) Erv & Judy Hooyman Wednesday, February 4 8:00 Robert Tetzlaff Elaine Theroux Edward Tombal 2:00 Albert Delebreau Sr. (Woodside) Thursday, February 5 9:00 Communion Prayer Service 2:00 Ruth Woelz (Maple Ridge) Friday, February 6 9:00 Gerald Vercauteren Eugene Williams Grace Williams Saturday, February 7 5:00 Ralph Schneider Gertrude Wilson Leonard Wisneski Sunday, February 8 8:30 Bernard Milliren Wilbert Verhagen Gordon Wolff 10:15 Evelyn Corkin Ron Vieau Hollis & Marie Vieau Edward & Virginia Ciesielczyk SUN: MON: TUES: WED: Readings for the Week of February 1 Monday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32] Tuesday: Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-28, 30-32; Mk 5:21-43 Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a; Mk 6:1-6 Thursday: Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 48:2-4, 9-11; Mk 6:7-13 Friday: 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:15 AM 9:30 AM 10:00 AM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 6:30 PM 7:30 PM THUR: 6:30 AM 6:00 PM 6:30 PM 7:00 PM SAT: SUN: Hospitality after all Masses RCIA - Lounge Mass - Song Leader/Organist Childcare - Nursery Mass - Song Leader/Organist Church Time/RE Grades 1 & 2 Eucharistic Adoration - Chapel Quilting Group - Lounge Baptism Prep - Lounge RE Grades 3-5 1st Communion Parent/Child Meeting In Bona Hall RE Grades 6-10/Confirmation Youth Group - St. JP2 Room Prayer Group - Chapel Stephen Ministry Women s Guild Meeting - Bona Hall Nativity Choir - Church 5:00 PM Mass - Song Leader/Organist 8:15 AM 8:30 AM 10:00 AM 10:15 AM Hospitality after all Masses RCIA - Lounge Mass - Nativity Choir/Organist Childcare - Nursery Mass Song Leader/Organist Baptism & Bread Sharing Weekend Church Time/RE Grades 1 & 2 Heb 13:1-8; Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9; Mk 6:14-29 Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-6; Mk 6:30-34 Sunday: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23; Mk 1:

4 FAITH FORMATION INCLEMENT WEATHER POLICY Poor winter conditions sometimes make cancellations necessary. For Religion Education Sessions, please know that if Ashwaubenon public school classes are cancelled for the day, then there will be no Religion Education Sessions that evening. Late starts will not affect evening sessions. If weather worsens during the day, notification of any cancellation will appear on the major TV stations, or call the Religion Education Office at NOTRE DAME ACADEMY MARK YOUR CALENDAR TritonFest 2015 is set for Saturday, February 21 at the Lambeau Atrium. Come out and celebrate the 25 th Anniversary of Notre Dame Academy. For more details, contact Minnie Bouche, Director of Development at Youth Ministry Desk: There s a special kind of sunshine in a smile. ~Author Anonymous I am smiling ear to ear as I watch the generous hearts of Nativity Parish parishioners Invest in our Youth. Thank you so much for your willingness to financially and spiritually support the youth in their many activities here at Nativity. The youth and I are so grateful to have the opportunity to partner with you in prayer. If at any time, you would like the youth to lift a specific prayer intention up for you, please send your intention to Stephanie at natsr@nativityparish.com, and the youth will take time to pray over that intention during their Faith Formation classes. UPCOMING SUMMER TRIPS The DEADLINE for all pre-registration slips and fees is Monday, February 2, If the registration fee is a financial challenge for your family, please contact Stephanie in the parish office at 4(920) x 215. She would love to discuss different options with you and how to make the trip financially affordable for your family. LEARN MORE ABOUT IT! Thursday, February 5, 6:30 PM Annunciation Church, 1087 Kellogg Street Come hear Luca Fagundes, Attorney and Counselor at Law whose focus is Immigration Law and Advocacy. Luca will tell us the truth of what is going regarding the immigration issue. He will update us on recent immigration trends and reforms, new policies what they mean and what they really mean, how this immigration issue is a call to justice. Enter Door #1. For Handicapped entrances go to Doors #6 & 7 off the playground. Come with questions, and bring a friend! YEAR OF CONSECRATED LIFE: DAYS WITH RELIGIOUS As we celebrate this special year, religious communities are hosting open houses on Sunday, February 8, We five sisters who are living in community at St. Agnes Convent in Green Bay, will sponsor an open house from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM on Sunday, February 8. Come and join us, tour the convent, talk with a sister, visit our chapel, and have a snack. Parking is available on South Fisk Street or in the parish parking lot. People of all ages are welcome. For further details call MIDDLE SCHOOL LATE-IN AT THE KROC CENTER All Middle School youth are invited to take part in the Late-In hosted at the Kroc Center on Friday, February 6, The Late-In will take place from 5:00-11:30. The night will encompass many activities, much food, and tons of fun. If you are interested in participating, please fill out and return a permission form along with your $15.00 registration fee. This event is hosted by West Side Youth Ministry, so there will be Middle School Youth from all over Green Bay joining us. I am looking for High School and Adult Volunteer Leaders for the evening at the Kroc Center. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Stephanie by phone at (920) x 215 or by at natsr@nativityparish.com as soon as possible. There is NO registration fee cost for volunteers, and community service forms will be signed and handed out the night of the event. Thanks in advance for considering this. May God bless you this week in the ordinary and extraordinary! ~Stephanie Rottier 4

5 WORSHIP NEWS NEW LIFE CHOIR-(7TH - 12TH GRADES) For the past year we have been looking for a Choir Director to lead the New Life Choir; however, up to this point we have not been successful. Many of the members, especially the seniors, approached Ms. Teresa Schroepfer, AHS Choral Director, asking if she would lead them for a limited number of Masses. After some consideration, Teresa said yes and offered these tentative Mass Dates (5:00 PM): February 21, March 28, April 3 (Good Friday-7:00PM) and May 9 (Confirmation-7:00 PM). If you wish to join the group, please contact Ms. Schroepfer at Taschroep@new.rr.com or Wayne Efferson, Director of Worship, natwe@nativityparish.com, ext GOOD NEWS Capernaum, hometown of Simon and Andrew, became Jesus home base too. On the Sabbath, he went out to the synagogue to teach with authority over physical and spiritual evils. He dramatically cast out devils, curing Simon s mother-in-law and healing many other sick people. Jesus went about the messianic work. That labor came to fruition as he cast out death itself in his passover to resurrection. Bolstered by prayer, Jesus single-mindedly set out to spread the good news. How do we join him? Text, Philip J. Sandstrom, STD 2000, OCP. All rights reserved. Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B. Illustration 1999 S Erspamer WINTER/SPRING 2015 SCHEDULE The Winter/Spring Liturgical Ministers Schedule (January 31/ February 1-May 24/25) is currently in place. If you did not get yours via our website or a hard copy from the Narthex please contact Wayne ext. 206 or natwe@nativityparish.com TAIZE PRAYER Taize Prayer which was scheduled on February 18 has been moved to February11 because of Ash Wednesday. Taize (pronounced-- Teh-ZAY) is an ecumenical, peaceful way to pray, using easy to learn musical chants, silent meditation, and scripture readings...a meditative, common prayer. BLESSING OF THE THROATS Tuesday, February 3 The Feast of St. Blasé will be celebrated with the Blessing of Throats after Mass. St Blasé was the bishop of Sebaste in Armenia (Turkey). Before dying as a martyr to the Christian faith, he is said to have healed a boy who was choking. Since then, St. Blasé has been venerated as the patron of those who suffer from diseases of the throat. We pray in a special way on this day for protection from afflictions of the throat and other illnesses. Fr. Jack will offer this blessing as the final blessing to this weekend s Masses. PRESENTATION OF THE LORD is celebrated every February 2; this year it falls on Monday. This feast has been named Candlemas or Light Mass because the symbol of candles and lights are a sign of the divine splendor of the one who comes to expel the dark shadows of evil and to make the whole universe radiant with the brilliance of his eternal light. (Sophrainus, on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord). From the manger to Jerusalem, this feast flows from the Nativity narratives proclaimed weeks earlier and sets the stage for the Lent/Easter Season. Since this feast is on Monday, we will bless any church and home candles on Tuesday, February 3 during the 9:00 AM Mass. So we invite you to bring your candles (put your name on them) and place them on the table at the front step of the altar. Also, there will be blessed candles available for you to purchase at $3/pair. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION The celebration will take place this year on February 15. If you might be available and interested in helping with this event, please call Laurie Johnson, Family Life Director, at , ext. 209, or natlj@nativityparish.com. SAVE THE DATES FOR SOUP AND SUBSTANCE! During Lent, we schedule three Thursday evenings to gather for homemade soup and a speaker on a Lenten topic. Our dates this year are March 12, March 19 and March 26 at 6:00 PM. More details about speakers and topics will follow. SUNDAY CHILDCARE We are offering childcare for children 0-4 years during the 10:15 a.m. Mass on Sundays when there are Faith Formation classes. The nursery is located in the 200 hallway of the classroom wing. We are in need of adult and teen volunteers who could help approximately once a month. If you are available, please call Kim Lubenow, at or Klubenow@netnet.net. SECOND FRIDAY FOR SENIORS Friday, February 13 - Time: 9:00-11:00 AM Dr. Robin Goldsmith Anesthesiologist, President of the Gianna Molla Guild of Northeastern Wisconsin Joe Tremblay Adult Faith Formation Coordinator Place: St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Topic: Gospel of Life at the End of Life (Moral & medical issues & insights with theological considerations relating to end of life issues) Please keep the families of Cleora Gillis & Marlene Wolf in your prayers. 5

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8 I M TRYING TO FIT IN AND FOLLOW CHRIST My church is composed of people like me. I help make it what it is. It will be friendly, if I am. Its pews will be filled, if I help fill them. It will do great work, if I work. It will make generous gifts to many causes, if I am a generous giver. It will bring other people into its worship and fellowship, if I invite and bring them. It will be a church of loyalty and love, of fearlessness and of faith, and a church with a noble spirit, if I, who make it what it is, am filled with these same things. Therefore, with the help of God, I shall dedicate myself to the task of being all the things that I want my church to be. REVERSE COLLECTION THIS WEEKEND JANUARY 31/FEBRUARY 1 During January and February, the Social Concerns and Family Life Commissions will collaborate to collect infant clothing, supplies and equipment to be given to needy families. At Nativity this endeavor is called Rosebud, which gives items to the Lovelife Program housed at St. Joseph Parish. Although the collection will take place during the entire month of February in the Narthex (please place your donations in the cradle), it will be highlighted this weekend January 31/February 1 with a Reverse Collection. You will have the opportunity to take a slip from a basket which will indicate a needed item. Always needed are Good Start Formula (orange label), new infant clothing, blankets, and diapers newborn to size ESTO VIR MEN S CONFERENCE FACT: FACT: Nearly 80% of men in federal prison are from fatherless homes. The culture needs Catholic men to step out of the shadows and witness to the Truth! Join 600 of your brothers in Christ at the 10th Annual Esto Vir Men s Conference on March 7, 2015 at St. Pius X Parish in Appleton. Bishop David Ricken will be joined there by Steve Ray, Curtis Martin and Relevant Radio s Chuck Neff. To learn more and to register, please visit Your family needs you! The culture needs you! Be Not Afraid! Cathedral Book & Gift 131 S. Madison Street, Green Bay CLEARANCE SALE February 2 14, % off select books and gifts $1 - $5 Items Older titles, Overstock, Slightly Damaged, and Just Because! Thank you for your patronage! LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. PANCAKE & PORKIES BREAKFAST Sunday, February 15, 9:00 AM - Noon Annunciation, 401 Gray Street, Green Bay Free-will offering. Sponsored by the KC #

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 child s Baptism after they have completed a two-part preparation program. Call the Parish Office at least 60 days before Baptism for interview and preparation session. BAPTISM DATES 2015 February 8, April 19, May 10 and June 21 SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK (Following 8:30 AM Mass See dates listed below) This Sacrament is offered to anyone in need of Christ s healing touch. The Anointing of the Sick is a sacrament for those who are in need of physical, emotional, or spiritual healing. Think of friends and loved ones who may want to receive this sacrament and invite them to this Mass. ANOINTING OF THE SICK DATES: March 1, 2015 and May 31, 2015 RCIA RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS Do you want to know more about the Catholic faith? Are you or someone you know interested in becoming baptized or confirmed as a Catholic? For more information about this process call 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 Cindy Kapla SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2007 Adobe Acrobat X Windows 7 PRINTER HP Laserjet P1606 TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 1:50 pm SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION February 1, 2015 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 9 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS Please perforate pages 6-7