St. Cletus Catholic Church

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1 St. Cletus Catholic Church Welcoming Christ in the Face of Others PASTORAL TEAM: Rev. Jim Benz, Pastor - jbenz@saintcletus.org Deacon Mark McCarthy - mmccarthy@saintcletus.org Deacon Frank Olmsted - folmsted@saintcletus.org Deacon Frank Prideaux (retired) Ms. Rosann Doherty - rdoherty@saintcletus.org School Principal Mrs. Mary Olmsted - molmsted@saintcletus.org Religious Education Coordinator Ms. Carrie Wolf - cwolf@saintcletus.org Director of Liturgical Music Mr. Bob Hamer - bhamer@saintcletus.org Director of Youth Ministry Mr. Bill Matula - bmatula@saintcletus.org Business Manager Mrs. Cindy Clegg - cclegg@saintcletus.org Parish Secretary ADDRESSES & TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Rectory: 2705 Zumbehl, St. Charles, MO Parish Office: Parish FAX line: Parish School 2721 Zumbehl Road School FAX line: Parish School of Religion: Parish and School Website: St. Vincent de Paul Society: Stephen Ministry: SUNDAY MASSES: Saturday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 7:00, 8:30, 10:00 a.m. & 12 noon (Life Teen) Liturgy of the Word for Children at 10:00 a.m. Mass WEEKDAY MASSES: Monday - Friday: 7:00 a.m., Tuesday & Saturday 8:00 a.m. Holy Days: Please consult the bulletin or the parish website prior to each Holy Day. Legal Holiday: 9:00 a.m. (Rosary following Saturday 8:00am mass) MORNING PRAYER: Monday through Friday: 6:45 a.m. Saturday: 7:45 a.m. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Monday 4:30-5:30 p.m. Saturday 4:00-4:45 p.m. or by appointment BAPTISMS: Baptisms are celebrated the first weekend of each month During Mass. Parents must attend a preparation session. Please contact the parish office to arrange for date and time. MARRIAGES: Arrangements must be made six months in advance. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: First Saturday of the month at 8:00 a.m. Mass or by appointment HOMILIES: Our Sunday homilies can be found at * BULLETIN DEADLINE: Monday at 4:00 p.m. in writing or to: cclegg@saintcletus.org

2 Mon. June 3, St. Charles Lwanga and Companions 7:00 am Irene Rimmey Tues, June 4, Weekday 7:00 am Bob Henrich 7:45 am Perpetual Help Devotions 8:00 am Jeanette Echele Wed. June 5, St. Boniface, Bishop and Martyr 7:00 am Steve Taylor 8:00 am Shirley Orlando (All School Mass) Thur. June 6, St. Norbert, Bishop 7:00 am John Nacke Fri. June 7, The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus 7:00 am Vocations to the Priesthood & Religious Life Sat. June 8, Immaculate Heart of Mary 8:00 am Richard Deck 5:00 pm Mary Orf Sun. June 9, Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:00 am Our Parish Family 8:30 am Jeanette Echele 10:00 am Betty Augustyniak 12:00 pm Marian Mizgate PARISH COLLECTION May 26, 2013 Sunday Collection $18, Online Offertory..$4, Matching Gifts.. $ FEAST OF CORPUS CHRISTI They all ate and were satisfied. And when the leftover fragments were picked up, they filled twelve wicker baskets. (Luke 9:17) The story of the Loaves and Fishes shows us that when we share what we have - even if it doesn t seem like that much - miracles can happen! Do not think that your gift is too small or insignificant! God blesses all the gifts we offer and makes them wondrous. VOCATION CHALICE MINISTRY Ms. Colleen Paisley and Family will be taking the chalice on Sunday, June 2nd, at the 10:00 a.m. Mass. Sat. June 8 5:00 pm Andrew Kelch, Ben Scheve, Alex Sepe Sun. June 9 7:00 am Ava Greiner, Brett Greiner 8:30 am Anthony Buchholz, Liz Buchholz, Matthew Buchholz 10:00 am Chase Christy, Christina Martin, Cynthia Martin 12:00 noon Jared Ernst, Brandon Houska, Michael Houska Stephen Ministry Stephen Ministers care, support, listen, and share. To contact our St. Cletus Stephen Ministry, please call Readings for the Week Monday: Tb 1:3; 2:1b-8; Ps 112:1b-2, 3b-6; Mk 12:1-12 Tuesday: Tb 2:9-14; Ps 112:1-2, 7-9; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday: Tb 3:1-11a, 16-17a; Ps 25:2-5ab, 6-7bc, 8-9; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday: Tb 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; 8:4-9a; Ps 128:1-5; Mk 12:28-34 Friday: Ez 34:11-16; Ps 23:1-6; Rom 5:5b-11; Saturday: Lk 15:3-7 Tb 12:1, 5-15, 20; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Lk 2:41-51 Sunday: 1 Kgs 17:17-24; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; Gal 1:11-19; Lk 7:11-17 Bill Bass Laura Bathe Olivia Baum Elmer Bradbury Sue Brockelmeyer Glennon Bextermueller Kathleen Callahan Ann Choromanski Betty Costello Bernett Dunn Marilyn Gatermann Patrick Gorman Joyce Haas Mary Ann Hartigan Lucie Henderson Marie Henrich Bella Herman Jane Jefferson Debra Jones Diane Marzaloes Ruth McCarville Keith McCoy Joe McHale John Miller John Morris Kathleen Peper Pat Prinster Mitch Riordan Anna Rothermich Glennon Runde Jean Schaeffer Anna Shaughnessy Marsha Shaw Janet Simon Robert Thornhill Steve Tredway Paul Wappelhorst Rosanne Westhoff * indicates a new person added to list please keep us updated, thank you!

3 "A MYSTERY MASKED AS MISTAKE": On this Sunday which celebrates the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, I am sharing with you one of my favorite pieces of humorous yet meaning-filled writing. Composed by John Shea, it is simply called "The Prayer of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass": Those who do not believe in a higher harmony will balk when told an accident crunched in the parking lot at the very moment when the altar boy's nose began to bleed. He bled on the cassock, the surplice, the candle, the other altar boys, and the priest's unlaced shoe which huggingly carried an acebandaged ankle. The priest was stuffing a purificator up the altar boy's nose, damming the blood into his eyeballs, when the lector asked "how do you pronounce E-L-I-S-H-A," and the organist pounded the entrance "Praise to the Lord." They processed the bleeding, the halt, and the mute unto the altar of God. Now Saturday was late and liquored and delivered God's people sun-glassed and slumping to the epilogue of weekend life, the Gothic Church. They were not the community of liberal theology nor the scrubbed inhabitants of filmstrips. They were one endless face, and that face was asleep. "May the grace of our Lord...," a hungry pause for repentance, a quick feast of sins. The lector murdered the prophets once again and bypassed the section where a certain E-L-I-S-H-A was having a prophetic truck with a widow. The homily parleyed a fairly clear Gospel, "you're either with me or against me," into sentences of vacillation and paragraphs of doublethink. The priest ran to the Creed for refuge only to find that a special Creed was prepared for this morning's liturgy by Mrs. Zardak: "I believe in butterflies..." The courage of the President of the liturgical assembly drained out the bolt holes of Communion rail days. The Offertory gifts never made it; they were dropped by an elderly couple ("we never liked the new Mass anyway"). They had collided with a small but speedy child whose high-heeled mother was in clicky-clack pursuit and whose name was "Roger Comeback!" The Consecration was consistent. The priest lifted the host and said, "This is my blood." Instantly aware of his Eucharistic goof but also momentarily in the grip of a bizarre logic, he changed the wine into Jesus' body. Then with his whole mind, heart, and soul, he genuflected to a mystery, which masks itself as mistake, and a power, which perfects itself in weakness. I like this piece of writing because it is a great litany of all that can go wrong at a Celebration of the Eucharist, but it also highlights something that we always must keep in mind when any of these (and an infinite spectrum of other such goofs or irritations can happen at Mass, that is, what we are celebrating is a mystery, which masks itself as mistake, and a power, which perfects itself in weakness. TWO INSERTED PAGES IN TODAY S BULLETIN: First, the results of the Parish Survey from last year: The members of our Parish Council first began to solicit your input for this survey way back on August 19, As the members were well aware, we knew that this would be a monumental task not only to seek your thoughts and comments but, even more so, to tabulate your responses, to interpret them, to then take action on the items of importance, and then finally to report back to you on the survey s contents and action steps. I hope that you find this report to be very readable and to be very easily understood. Some action items have already been undertaken (that is, working on our sound system, changing the introductions and the way the announcements are done at our Sunday Masses, new carpet to be installed soon in our Weekday Day Chapel). Other points are still being considered and pursued, while others could be described as only in a perfect world, for example, there will always be crying babies; some folks are too hot in Church, some too cold; the second collections, though many, are largely mandated by the USCCB or by the Archdiocese and not ours to decide; and the desire for having large print missalettes in all pews is a good idea but is counterbalanced by those who have arthritic wrists. Again I thank the 432 of you who took the time to complete and return your surveys. The bottom line about this survey, as I see it, is that it is a call to us to be patient with each other and to remember what is most important about our Masses and our Parish is that we are a mystery, which masks itself as mistake, and a power, which perfects itself in weakness. Second, the Going to Mass: A Practical Guide : This guide was written by Father Nick Winker who is one of the Associate Pastors at Immaculate Conception Parish in Dardenne, and it is one of the practical results coming from the survey. There was a call for an increased appreciation of what we are doing and how we are to celebrate Masses on Sunday It offers a lot of food for thought, and I hope that you will take it to heart and share it with others. PLEASE NOTE the announcement in today s bulletin entitled FREE PERSONAL FINANCE SEMINARS AVAIL- ABLE. Please pardon the pun, but this is a "golden" opportunity to receive some very important information at a very affordable price---free! Please also pass along this information to folks that you know who could benefit from it. A TEN-DAY TRIP TO IRELAND FROM SEPTEMBER 23 TO OCTOBER 2, 2013: My friend Father Dennis Port and I are scheduled to lead this trip. If you may be possibly interested, please contact me for a brochure or visit The cost will be: $2,788.00, and we will visit, among other places, Galway, Killarney, and the Shrine of Our Lady of Knock. If you wish, you can contact Golden Frontier at (618) We still need a few more folks to register by mid-june for this trip to take place so please give it some thought. We ll have a great time!!

4 One of the major help programs of the St. Louis Council of the St. Vincent de Paul is a program called VINNIE'S AUTOS. Automobiles that have been donated are transferred to needy families to help them achieve greater independence. Our St. Cletus Conference has used the program to benefit the needy here in our own area of St. Charles. Vinnie's Autos continues to need volunteers to expand its donation base. Please telephone Greg Marino, program coordinator, at to discuss donating a car, boat, or motorcycle, or your time. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The Blessed Virgin speaking to St. Catherine Laboure - "Come to the foot of the altar. Graces will be shed on all, great and little, especially upon those who seek for them." "Whenever I go to the chapel, I put myself in the presence of our good Lord, and I say to him, Lord, I am here. Tell me what you would have me to do... And then, I tell God everything that is in my heart. I tell him about my pains and my joys, and then I listen. If you listen, God will also speak to you, for with the good Lord, you have to both speak and listen. God always speaks to you when you approach him plainly and simply." St. Catherine Laboure Please come and visit with Jesus anytime. The hours needed to be filled are Thursday, 3:00am and Friday 2x s a month at midnight. If you can help fill one of these hours please call or Thank you. Service Sprouts will be having a Lemonade Stand Sunday, June 9 after the 8:30 and 10:00 Masses. Cash donations this year will benefit Room at the Inn. Last summer we successfully raised over $120! Thank you and please look for our little helpers after Mass! St. Cletus Soccer and Volleyball Registration!! Soccer registration has begun for grades Pre-K thru 8 th and Volleyball grades 4 th thru 8 th. If interested in signing up for soccer please do so online or for any questions or concerns please contact Martin Severs at If interested in signing up for Volleyball please do so online. The deadline to register for Soccer or Volleyball is July 15, Online Registration will now be used for all Sports Sign-Ups Go to and click on online registration and create a family account. You will then be able to register for sports programs and volunteer positions. No Registrations will be accepted after July 15 th. We are in need of a Volleyball Coordinator for year! Please understand that our athletic programs are run by volunteers and without your help our sports programs wouldn't exist. If interested in volunteering please contact Scott Barton at New Stem Cell Research Technique: A Medical "Breakthrough"? On May 15th the scientific community heralded an alleged "breakthrough" in stem cell research technology. According to the journal Cell, scientists transferred the DNA of a human skin cell into a human egg, thereby producing an embryo. While this may seem a promising procedure, it nevertheless violates the Catholic Church's teaching on the sanctity of human life.the USCCB released a statement from the Cardinal Sean O'Malley, USCCB Pro-Life Chair: "Creating new human lives in the laboratory solely to destroy them is an abuse denounced even by many who do not share the Catholic Church's convictions on human life," said Cardinal Seán O'Malley, OFM Cap., of Boston. He said this way of making embryos will also be taken up by people who want to produce cloned children as "copies" of other people."whether used for one purpose or the other, human cloning treats human beings as products, manufactured to order to suit other people's wishes." He added, "A technical advance in human cloning is not progress for humanity but its opposite." Full Statement from USCCB and Cardinal Sean O'Malley Duchesne High School congratulates the following students from St. Cletus Parish who earned scholarships as members of the DHS Class of 2017! Dolores Boschert President s Scholarship Elizabeth Buchholz President s Scholarship Kevin Kerkemeyer Dean s Scholarship Connor Osthoff Alumni Association Scholarship Natalie Schroeder President s Scholarship Kingdom Rock VBS June am-Noon Enter the epic adventure that empowers kids to stand strong for God! We are offering online registration at Children attending and volunteers can register here. Attendees (K-entering 5th grade), please print off your form and turn it and your payment in to the school or parish office. If received by May 31st, the cost will be $30 per child/$45 family. After this date, the cost will raise to $35 per child/$55 family. For further information, please call Joan Papin at In our armed services: SCOTT HODGES DANIEL MORY RYAN CLOSE SEAN BELEW SCOTT FITZGIBBONS MARCELLA MELLICK SCOTT MELLICK JESSE COLLEY JEFFREY COLLEY JOSH MENNFEE CHRISTOPHER BREIG MARK BRAUN Please pray for them.

5 Open Gym: Tuesday from 7 8:30 pm Holy Hour every Wednesday from 6pm-7pm in the Eucharistic Chapel. Come and spend some time with Jesus.. New Summer Semester begins June 2nd. With our first annual mini-golf extravaganza. Go to for more info. Christpower and Steubenville retreats: Christpower is June 9-15 and Steubenville is July Contact Bob Hamer to register or for more information. Hearts on Fire Youth Conference Friday, June 7th- Saturday, June 8th St. Gianna Parish 450 E. Highway N Wentzville, MO Calling all teens (13+) and parents! Please join us for all or part of this dynamic Family Conference at St. Gianna parish. Featured speakers Fr.Timothy Elliott, Fr. Tom Miller, Fr. Fadi Auro, Denise Bossert, and David Williams will all discuss The Call to Purity and its application in our lives. The conference will also include Holy Mass (Friday evening and Saturday morning), adoration and benediction, Reconciliation, prayer, dinner, snacks, games, and fun - all for only $15!For more information, about the conference schedule and to register, please visit MEN S CLUB COUPLES NIGHT AT THE RACES When: Saturday, July 27, 2013 Where: Fairmount Race Track Cost: $25.00 per person Transportation, Entrance to Fairmount and Buffet Dinner included Questions or to sign up please contact: Dan Peters at or dpeters55@hotmail.com FREE PERSONAL FINANCE SEMINARS AVAILABLE Are you struggling with: Developing a realistic household budget? Ways to reduce debt and save money? Options for insurance? How to protect your identity from cyber-thieves? If so, your prayers have been answered! The Archdiocesan Stewardship Office is sponsoring personal finance seminars presented by Fifth-Third Bank. Learn how to make better financial decisions and become better stewards of all your financial resources. The seminars are free and will be held at St. Cletus in our Parish Hall on June 4 and June 11 from 7:00 8:15 pm. The June 4 seminar will cover household budgeting and reducing debt/saving money. The June 11 seminar will cover insurance planning and identity protection. Please call the St. Cletus Parish Office at or cclegg@saintcletus.org to reserve you spot! ACTIVITIES & MEETINGS THIS WEEK Monday JUNE 3 5:30PM MEN S BIBLE STUDY CLETUS Tuesday JUNE 4 8:30-9:30AM SENIOR EXERCISE CLASS HALL 9:00AM CENTERING PRAYER HALL LIBRARY 7:00PM LITURGY MEETING CALLAHAN 7:00PM EL SALVADOR DUCHESNE 7:00PM STEWARDSHIP FINANCE SEMINAR HALL Wednesday JUNE 5 9AM-2:00PM QUILTERS HALL 7:00-8:30PM CHARISMATIC PRAYER GROUP CHAPEL Thursday JUNE 6 8:30-9:30AM SENIOR EXERCISE CLASS HALL 7:00PM LEGION OF MARY CHAPEL Friday JUNE 7 9:00AM SMALL CHURCH CLETUS 6-11:00PM ADULT VOLLEYBALL GYM Saturday JUNE 8 6:30PM FUNDRAISER PARISHIONER TRIVIA GYM Sunday JUNE 9 6:30PM LIFE TEEN HALL 5-8:00PM ADULT VOLLEYBALL GYM There is a promise of marriage between: Sarah Schmuck and Joe Sweeney - III Please pray for them as they prepare. Bishop Robert E. Hermann celebrates First Friday Vigil Mass, June 7, 2013 Come share in a faith-filled devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary on First Friday at the Ascension Catholic Church in Chesterfield. Most Rev. Robert E. Hermann will be the celebrant for the First Friday vigil mass. Reconciliation and rosary starts at 7:30 p.m., Holy Mass at 8:30 p.m. All night confession, rosary, Divine Mercy Chaplet, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament allow worshiper to spend time with our Lord and the Blessed Mother. First Saturday Holy Mass is at 12:00 a.m. The Communion of Reparation provides the all-important elements necessary to restore holiness and unity in the home, parish, diocese, and society. Contact Ruby Casino (314) , Mary Hodge (636) or Felipe Manuel (314) For more info, visit us on Welcome New Parishioners! To receive a registration form or indicate an address change or move from the parish, please fill out the form below and drop it in the collection basket or mail it to the Parish Office. Name/s: Number in Family: Adults Children Address: Phone:

6 Thank you to everyone who donated baskets, items to put in the baskets, ladies who assembled baskets and workers on the day of the picnic. The basket booth is a favorite of fair goers. Thank you STITCHES FOR LIFE is in the process of making small bears for the St. Charles County Ambulance District and various fire departments. We are in need of batting--any size-- large or small. This will be used to "stuff" the bears. There will be a meeting at my home on Wednesday, June 19, at 9:00 am. For more info call JoAnn Cheli (636) or joannc6@aol.com. Please note: A Special Collection for the Oklahoma Tornado victims mentioned below in a letter from the Archbishop will be taken up next weekend, June 9. PASTORAL MINISTER AT ICD POSITION AVAILABLE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION PARISH (DARDENNE PRAIRIE) Pastoral minister needed for vibrant suburban parish. Some major components of the pastoral ministry would include bereavement ministry and ministry to the sick. Other components would include registration of families and making arrangements for baptisms. Must be willing to work in highly collaborative staff model with priests, deacons, and lay ministers under direction of pastor - many opportunities to collaborate with variety of staff for seasonal and other special events and projects. No degree requirements. Qualifications: loving heart, evangelizing spirit, knowledge of Catholic Faith, Roman Catholic fidelity. Application may be strengthened by background in evangelization, adult education, and/or stewardship. Approximately 32 hours a week. Salary based on background and experience. Please send cover letter, resume, and references by June 21 to john.leger@icdparish.org.

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