This year s Parish Goal is: Thank you to those who have already responded to this appeal!

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1 St. Mary Catholic Church and St. Mary Catholic Church Liturgical Year A October Contact information for Father Richard Okumu, Shared Pastor: okumur@diodav.org In the event of an imminent death, when Sacraments are required, you may reach Fr. Okumu at PLEASE use this phone number ONLY in the case of great emergency. 208 Meridian St., POB 309,, IA tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone: Reeder ST., POB 457,, IA mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: Oct. 25 Sat. M 5:30pm Richard Crock Oct. 26 Sun. M 8:00 am Aleen Driscoll Oct. 26 Sun T 10:00 am Janice Timmerman Oct. 27 Mon. No Mass Oct. 28 Tues. T 8:00 am Raymond & Dorothy Crock Oct 29 Wed. M 8:00 am Spec Intention Oct 30 Thurs T 8:00 am Spec int/blessing of Family Oct 31 Fri. M 8:00 am Anon - All Souls Day Nov 01 Sat. T 5:10 pm Randall Sanders Nov 02 Sun. M 8:00 am Aleen Driscoll Nov 02 Sun. T 10:00 am Ruth Agne Confession Times: Confession time: Second and Fourth Saturdays from 5:00 PM until Mass time Confession time: First, Third and Fifth Saturdays from 4:45 PM until Mass time. Website-information for BOTH parishes Please remember the Bishop s Annual Appeal. You will find additional Envelopes and Flyers at the church Entrances. You may deposit your donation in the weekly collection and we will mail to the Diocese for you, or you may mail your envelope directly to the Diocese in the envelope they have provided. This year s Parish Goal is: St. Mary $12, Received to date: $6,970 St. Mary $25, Received to date: $19,295 Thank you to those who have already responded to this appeal! Remember that what we take in over goal is returned to each of our parishes for our use! St. Mary s Confirmation Class would like to invite EVERYONE to Turkey Trot St. Mary's Church Saturday, November 8, :00 AM Run for the Food Pantry Wear your best Turkey Costume! All participants get a t-shirt. Prizes for the top female and male! Entry Fees: Ages 4 and Under - 2 canned food item Ages 5 to 12 - $5.00 and 1 canned food item Ages 13 and up $10.00 and 1 canned food item. All proceeds go to the Food Pantry

2 Page Reeder ST., POB 457,, IA mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: St. Mary collection: October 18-19, 2014 $1, November Ministries Eucharistic Sat Sadie Stabenow Sun Brian Walshire Judy Aberle Donna Robinson Shirley Jarzombek Joan Garner Lector Sat Judy Aberle Sun Josh Poduska Ushers Sat John Donahoe Everette Walshire Host Family Sun 11.2Kerry Scharff 11.9 Jared Nolz Al Heinen RE students 11.30Harry Driscoll Altar Set-up Sat Sadie Stabenow Sun Donna Robinson $ counter Shirley Jarzombek Please remember that if you are not able to be present on the day of your ministry, you will need to contact someone to take your place. THANK YOU! Parish Council Meeting is planned for THIS Sunday, Oct 19 at 6pm in Confirmation Room. All parishioners are welcome to attend. Father Okumu will be in office on Wednesday and Friday. He will be available to meet with you these days. Please call in advance to set up a meeting time. You can reach him at OR Parishioners who have an intolerance to gluten, please notify priest before Mass. We now have lowgluten hosts available. Tootsie Rolls are here! The Knights of Columbus have boxes of tootsie rolls for a $20 donation. Trick or Treat-ers will be coming soon! All proceeds go to people with disabilities in Cedar, Jones and Linn Counties. Pick up yours at the church entrance! Checks may be made to Knights of Columbus. Thanks for your support! 50th Anniversary for the Dedication of St Mary's Catholic Church in : Our present church building was dedicated on June 17,1965 by Bishop O'Keefe and Fr Casey. The Parish Council in conjunction with the Women's Guild and Knights of Columbus would like to have a celebratory Mass, dinner and program to be held in June We are forming a committee to plan and execute this celebration. We are asking for volunteers to assist in this planning. We will need assistance in 1) bringing our church history up to date;2) plan our meal (potluck, catered, prepared by parishioners etc.); and 3) plan our program. If you would like to be a part of any or all of these committee segments, please contact Shirley Jarzombek via rsjarzom@netins.net or phone Home: or rectory office Sew Sew Ladies: The ladies have a few quilts for sale in different sizes and with different finishes. They are at the church entrance. Each would make a great gift or great keepsake from the church. Quilts are priced by size and finish. Checks can be made to St Mary's Guild and given to Nancy Walshire, Treasurer. Parish Council Nominations: Adult parishioners are asked to nominate 4 parishioners to serve a 3- year term on the Parish Council. Those persons going off the council are Shirley Jarzombek and Francis McCloy. Other current members are Ryan Crock, Tom Poduska, Patti Lehrman, Katy Kash. These nomination slips will be handed out and collected on Sunday, Nov 2. The four leading nominees will be on the ballot the following week-end. MCC Food Pantry: The Food Pantry will be giving 80 Thanksgiving food boxes to food pantry patrons and their families for the Thanksgiving Holiday. All churches in town are contributing to these boxes. St Mary's is asked to contribute 80 cans of pumpkin! The pumpkin can be any brand of 15.5 oz size. Please bring your can of pumpkin to the church entrance by Nov 9. Thanks for your support of this community project! North Cedar BackPack: We will have another bagging session on Thursday, Oct 30 at 2:30 at the Methodist Church in. If you would like to help, stop by! We usually need 8-10 volunteers and the session lasts about an hour. Thanks for your support! United Methodist Church in has invited all community members to a Thanksgiving Eve service at their church on Wednesday, November 26. More details will follow.

3 Page 3 St. Mary s Church Collected October 18-19, Envelopes $ 4, Offertory Total $ 4, Altar Servers 10/26 Paige and Caleb 208 Meridian St., POB 309,, IA tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone: For Faith Formation November K-7: Sundays, November 2, 9, 16, 9 a.m. - 9:50 a.m. in the Hall. Confirmation Class of 2016: Wednesdays, 5, 19, 7 p.m. at the Hall; Sunday, the 16th, Mass at 10 a.m. Grades High School Youth Ministers: Wednesdays 5, 12, 19, at 7 p.m. in the Hall. Coffee and Rolls This Sunday October 26 St Mary Parish Hall Ya ll come!! This Month s Sponsor is: 427 Cedar Street, Ia Below is a message that was in the bulletin earlier this year. This request has been well responded to, and tables are being purchased. However, we are still short of the final total needed for the purchase and encourage any wishing to contribute to do so in the next few weeks! THANK YOU!!! Dear St. Mary Parish members, I am working to replace some old tables and chairs in our Parish Hall that have come under disrepair after many years of use. Ten new tables and 40 new chairs would keep us ready for large funeral luncheons, fish fries and so forth. Should you like to make a contribution to this cause, no matter how large or small, please do so by putting it in a white envelope marked table donation and place it in the collection basket at any Mass. Should you have any questions or concerns regarding this, please contact me - Tom Petitgout- at Many thanks for your consideration. Tom Petitgout Women of St. Mary s Meeting: All women of the parish are invited to attend the Annual meeting of the Women of St. Mary s at St. Mary s Parish Hall on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6 PM. A free catered meal will precede the meeting. Please make your reservation by calling Buffy Johnson at , by Saturday, November 1. St. Mary s Annual Christmas Bazaar: This year s bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 9:00am to 2:00 pm. There will be crafts, a cookie walk, and food stand with soups, sandwiches and pies. Each family is asked to bring 3 dozen cookies for the cookie walk. If possible, please avoid chocolate chip cookies due to the over abundance of these cookies receive in the past. If your cookies contain nuts, please label them as such with the kind of nut. The hall will be open Thursday and Friday before the bazaar from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM if you would like to drop off your cookies. FFA s 2nd Annual Food Challenge November 12th, to 6 pm High School Cafeteria We will be packaging meals for the food shelter. We are looking for donations to help this great activity so we can host it again this year. Our goal is to raise $2,000. If you would like to donate send your donations to the school at 400 E 6h St., IA Any Questions or Concerns Contact our Advisor Amy Lutz at (563) ext. 334 or Amy.lutz@tipton.k12.ia.us WHY DOES GOD COMMAND US TO LOVE HIM? Jesus tells us that the greatest commandment is to love God totally. If you stop and think about it, this seems a strange demand. Is God such an egotist that he has to order us to love him? Or is it rather that love is essential to our salvation? Human beings are born without knowing how to love. We have to learn this from others: parents, friends, relatives, etc. One of the results of love is that we link with others in a personal relationship. Heaven is achieved through our bonding with God. It's nothing that we can earn or achieve. It can only come when we intimately know God on a personal level. Hence, love is necessary for our future survival. God commands us to love him for our benefit, not his by Father Richard Lonsdale.

4 Six Areas of Ministry (Part 7of a several part series) Ministry of Liturgy Mother Church earnestly desires that all the faithful should be led to that fully [or: full,] conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations which is demanded by the very nature of the liturgy. Such participation by the Christian people as a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people (1 Pet. 2:9; cf. 2:4-5), is their right and duty by reason of their baptism. Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy #14 Second Vatican Council, 1963 In the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy (CSL), the bishops gathered at the Second Vatican Council affirmed that the public worship of the Church is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is the font from which all her power flows (CSL #10). They stressed that every member of the community has the right and responsibility by virtue of his or her baptism of consciously and actively participating in the liturgy (CSL #14). There are to be no spectators in the liturgical assembly; we are all called to join as the Body of Christ with Christ our Head in offering our sacrifice of praise to God the Father. In liturgy, we participate in Christ s Paschal Mystery. Since Christian worship, in which the common priesthood of the Christian faithful is carried out, is a work which proceeds from faith and is based on it, sacred ministers are to take care to arouse and enlighten this faith diligently, especially through the ministry of the word, which gives birth to and nourishes the faith. (Canon 836). Liturgical actions are not private actions but celebrations of the Church itself which is the sacrament of unity, that is, a holy people gathered and ordered under the bishops. Liturgical actions therefore belong to the whole body of the Church and manifest and affect it; they touch its individual members in different ways, however, according to the diversity of orders, functions, and actual participation (Canon 837 1). Liturgy is not celebrated in a vacuum, but by a particular people: this assembly in this place at this time. Therefore, the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) states: The celebration of the liturgy should correspond to the genius and culture of the different peoples. In order that the mystery of Christ be made known to all the nations to bring about the obedience of faith (Rom 6:26), it must be proclaimed, celebrated, and lived in all cultures in such a way that they themselves are not abolished by it, but redeemed and fulfilled (#1204). At the same time, it is clear that diversity must not damage unity. It must express only fidelity to the common faith, to the sacramental signs that the Church has received from Christ, and to hierarchical communion (CCC #1206). As Pope St. John Paul II noted in his Apostolic Letter, Dies Domini (On Keeping the Lord s Day Holy): Each community, gathering all its members for the breaking of the bread, becomes the place where the mystery of the church is concretely made present (#34). The liturgy is the privileged place of encounter with the Divine. Christ is truly present, not only under the forms of bread and wine at the Eucharist, but in the word proclaimed, in the assembly gathered, and in the person of the ordained presider (CSL #7). In this divine encounter, we are transformed. Transformed, we are sent to life lives of sacrificial service, of constant self-offering to God (Sacramentum caritatis [SC] #72). Because of our intimate encounter with God in the Eucharist, we are able to see others not with our own eyes and feelings but with the eyes of Christ, who has compassion for all (SC #88). Our communities, when they celebrate the Eucharist, must become ever more conscious that the sacrifice of Christ is for all, and that the Eucharist thus compels all who believe in him to become bread that is broken for others, and to work for the building of a more just and fraternal world. Each of us is truly called, together with Jesus, to be bread broken for the life of the world Sacramentum caritatis (On the Eucharist as the Source and Summit of the Church s Life and Mission), #88 Pope Benedict XVI, 2007 RESPONSIBILITIES Foster the full (or fully), conscious, and active participation of all in the liturgical life of the parish a participation that is both internal and external, of the spirit and of the body (see CSL # 14, 19, 55, 99, 110). In particular, to be attentive to incorporating the diversity of peoples found in the parish in the parish s liturgies and liturgical ministries (e.g., ethnic groups, age groups, the homebound, people with disabilities, the marginalized, etc.) and reflecting that diversity in liturgical celebrations and in popular piety. Analyze the liturgical needs and evaluate the liturgical life of the parish in order to identify areas in need of development. In particular, to help ensure that the full spectrum of the Church s liturgies are being celebrated in the parish (e.g., the sacraments, the RCIA in its entirety, the Liturgy of the Hours) in accord with Diocesan, national and universal norms. Develop, plan and evaluate liturgical and spiritual development/formation programs that will enable the entire parish to grow into a deeper relationship with Christ and to learn more about the liturgical life of the Church. To keep the parish informed concerning liturgical norms and practice, in cooperation with the Diocesan Office of Liturgy. Invite and appropriately form lay liturgical ministers, in keeping with universal, national, and diocesan norms. To provide ongoing oversight, formation, and feedback to these ministers. For example: musicians and cantors, readers, extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion, altar servers, greeters and ushers, sacristans, ministers of art and environment. Furnish, decorate, maintain, and recommend appropriate changes to the liturgical environment in order to better support the liturgical life of the parish and in so doing to follow the diocesan policies regulating consultation with the Diocesan Liturgical and Building Commissions. Help members of the community live out the connection between liturgy and life, fostering the dynamic of moving from worship to works of justice, service, and evangelization and from life back to the liturgy. Assist with and coordinate the liturgies celebrated by sub-groups within the parish. Prepare a budget reflecting the liturgical needs of the parish. Foster and encourage participation by members of the parish in deanery-wide and diocesan celebrations, including (but not limited to): the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion, the Chrism Mass and Ordinations. Offer the gifts and talents of liturgical ministers from the parish to the deanery and Diocese. The liturgy is the work of the whole Christ, head and body. Our high priest celebrates it unceasingly in the heavenly liturgy, with the holy Mother of God, the apostles, all the saints, and the multitude of those who have already entered the kingdom. Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1187

5 Page 5 Question of the Week W hen the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." Gospel MT 22:34-40 Breaking Open the Word Step One: Listen to the Word As you listen once again to this familiar teaching of Jesus, what caught your ear in it today? What line or word from the reading lingers in your memory Step Two: Look into Your Life Question for Children: We show our love for Jesus by loving our friends and family. Share one way that you show your love. Question for Youth: Jesus tells us that we are to love others as we love ourselves. Do you love yourself? Can you see the good that God has put within you? Do you find it easier to love others or yourself? Question for Adults: Repeat the two commandments which Jesus teaches today in your own words? For each of them, share how it has become part of your life. Coats for Kids! Community Action's Coats for Kids Program is up and running again this year. To qualify, a family must bring photo verification to show they live in Cedar County. We are not asking them to provide any income documentation since these are used coats. We will only track how many coats are given out. We also have some hats, mittens, scarves available for the kids. Our office is located at 101 Lynn St, and hours are M,T, Th, F 8:00 am to 12:00 pm and 1:00 pm to 4:30 pm. Wednesdays are by appointment only. Also we would encourage you to have someone call ahead to make sure the office is open as it may closed for staff meetings, etc. and that information will be on the answering machine. Our office phone number is For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it. 1 Timothy 6:7 It is only while we are alive that we can determine who will receive our worldly possessions when we are gone. When planning our Will we first think of caring for our family and those we leave behind. Please consider how much the parish is part of the family. You can leave a legacy of your faith by including your parish church in your Will.

6 - website information for both St. Mary and St. Mary St. Mary s TIPTON Christmas Bazaar Saturday, November 8, 2014 Parish Hall 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Crafts of all kinds!! Cookie Walk ~ Food Stand SERVING: Chicken Noodle soup, Chili, Ham Sandwiches, Home Made Pies!! Church of St. Mary of Nichols Auction and Luncheon Sunday, November 2 Silent Auction 11:30-1:00 pm Regular Auction follows Doors open at 11:30 am for Chicken and Noodles and more. Peace Church Turkey Supper Wed, Oct 29,2014; 5-7 pm Bennett School Gym Adults: $10 Ages 4-10: $6 3 and under: Free FFA s 2nd Annual Food Challenge November 12th, to 6 pm High School Cafeteria We will be packaging meals for the food shelter. We are looking for donations to help this great activity so we can host it again this year. Our goal is to raise $2,000. If you would like to donate send your donations to the school at 400 E 6h St., IA Any Questions or Concerns Contact our Advisor Amy Lutz at (563) ext. 334 or Amy.lutz@tipton.k12.ia.us Busch-Dennis American Legion Post Annual Pancake Breakfast All you can Eat Pancakes Sausage Eggs Beverage Sunday, November 2, :30 AM to 11:30 AM Adults $6.00 Children 6-12 $3.00 Under 5 yrs Free Senior Center/American Legion Building To report child abuse contact: Iowa Department of Human Services Child Abuse Hotline: and if it involves church personnel also notify Alicia Owens, the Victim Assistance Coordinator, phone ; vadc@diodav.org