Prayer List Policy. WEEKDAY MASSES 8:15am (Monday - Saturday) 8:15am, 12:00pm & 7:00pm (Holy Days)

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1 February 4, 2018

2 Saturday, February 3 ~ First Saturday & St. Blaise 8:15 am Rose Garro 4:30 pm Jerry Sylvester Donald Pilch Sunday, February 4 ~ 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time 7:30 am Nina Johnson 9:30 am People of the Parish 11:30 am Doris Karl Peggy Garvey Andreou 7:00 pm Paul Husemann Monday, February 5 ~ Memorial of St. Agatha 8:15 am Janina Wasilewska Tuesday, February 6 ~ Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions 8:15 am John Noonan Wednesday, February 7 ~ Memorial of Saint John Bosco 8:15 am Janina Wasilewska Thursday, February 8~St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita 8:15 am Intention of Luke Tyler Friday, February 9 8:15 am Loretta Pipek Saturday, February 10 ~ Memorial of St. Scholastica 8:15 am Rose Garro 4:30 pm Jerry Sylvester Donald Pilch Sunday, February 11 ~ 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time 7:30 am Nina Johnson 9:30 am People of the Parish 11:30 am Doris Karl Peggy Garvey Andreou 7:00 pm Paul Husemann SUNDAY MASSES 4:30pm (Saturday Evening) 7:30am - 9:30am - 11:30am 7:00pm (Sunday Sept. - May only) WEEKDAY MASSES 8:15am (Monday - Saturday) 8:15am, 12:00pm & 7:00pm (Holy Days) CONFESSIONS 3:15-4:15pm (Saturday) ADORATION CHAPEL The Blessed Sacrament is accessible for adoration 24 hours each day. The door is open from 5am - 10pm. Please call parish for information to gain access during night hours. BAPTISIMS 2nd & 4th Sunday after 11:30am Mass. Before a Baptism, contact the parish office to arrange for parents and godparents to attend a Baptismal Prep Class held on the 1st Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm. WEDDINGS Arrangements should be made six months in advance. Please call the parish office. FUNERALS The Funeral Director will contact the parish regarding arrangements. Those who are sick, in need of the Lord s healing: Joan Novak Virginia Korzenecki Louise Miller Grace Enzbigilis Monty R. Lucero Mary Beth Baryl Cizma Dana Pelz Hannah Taylor Regina Leinweber Gary Rubik Wilson Gregory Rosemary Mikrut Eric Randolph Frank Randolph Deborah S. Sollitt Todd Baryl Barbara Beachem Hank Miller Barbara Smith Delores Catania Ryne Baird Tanya Baird Carol Cratin LaVerne Lapiezo Clara Pagels Prayer List Policy In the interest of keeping our Prayer List up-to-date, names are typically placed on the prayer list for 4 weeks. To request to be on the list, or to remove a name from the list, please notify the Parish Office at Thank you! Fran Possidoni John Rossi Jim Wright Rick Christy Joan Sapyta Midge Zielinski Catherine Halliwell Blanca Cruz Rita Ciotola Paxton Melnanik Andrew Maslankowski Angela Schuman Cathy Rippel Ed Wojciechowski Mary J. Kramer Theresa Frederick Collin Johnson Isabela McMath Tom Doran Eugene Glowania Betty Miller Joseph Horwath Phyllis Brooks Marilyn Pellegrini Save the date for Holy Trinity s Lenten Mission with Reverend-Know-It-All. Fr. Richard T. Simon (aka Reverend Know-It-All ) is the pastor at St. Lambert s Parish in Skokie, IL. Fr. Richard Simon s expertise is in apologetics with a concentration on the early Christians. Theme: "Repentance and other unpleasant topics" When: March 6 and 7, 2018 Where: Holy Trinity Parish Time: 7 PM Put it in your calendar and make sure to attend. Make of this Lent a closer encounter with Christ. It is not only what we give up it is also the good things we do. ATTENTION! Lectors, Eucharist Ministers, and parents of Altar Servers: Please update your ministries schedule. The schedule runs from February 12 to May 27 and includes Palm Sunday, Holy Week, and Easter. The Ministry volunteers should log in to the ministry database or call the Parish office. HOLY TRINITY CATHOLIC PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Committed to living out the endless love of the Trinity, we are a welcoming, faith-sharing Catholic family of believers, centered on the Holy Eucharist as the source of our life in Christ. 2

3 PARISH CENTER GOAL 3.5 MILLION Through your generous giving, the project currently has 1.1 million in cash on hand with an additional 200,000 in pledges for a total of 1.3 million towards our goal. We are confident based on our conversations and financial history with the Diocese of Joliet that, once we reach 2.8 million in cash and pledges or 80% of our goal -- we will be able to secure the remaining 700,000 in the form of a loan from the Diocese and break ground on our new Parish Center. For those of you that have made a donation or pledge, we are extremely grateful for your dedication. We ask that you review your commitment and, if possible, consider an increase to your gift. Please keep in mind that the Diocese counts confirmed pledges the same as cash received. So we are well on our way to reaching our total goal of 3.5 million! Thank you for your time, dedication and generosity to the Future of our Parish Community. Sunday: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7/Ps 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 [cf. 3a]/1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23/Mk 1:29-39 Monday: 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13/Ps 132:6-7, 8-10 [8a]/Mk 6:53-56 Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30/Ps 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11 [2]/Mk 7:1-13 Wednesday: 1 Kgs 10:1-10/Ps 37:5-6, 30-31, [30a]/Mk 7:14-23 Thursday: 1 Kgs 11:4-13/Ps 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40 [4a]/Mk 7:24-30 Friday: 1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19/Ps 81:10-11ab, 12-13, [11a and 9a]/Mk 7:31-37 Saturday: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34/Ps 106:6-7ab, 19-20, [4a]/ Mk 8:1-10 Next Sunday: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46/Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11 [7]/1 Cor 10:31--11:1/ Mk 1:40-45 Every gift to the CMAA makes a difference! The opening report for the 2018 Catholic Ministries Annual Appeal (CMAA) in today s bulletin details the many ways our annual appeal helps us do God s work here on earth and be His partners in caring. As you will read in the opening report, the CMAA supports thirty ministries that benefit so many throughout the Diocese of Joliet. Your gifts to the CMAA will make a difference to members of our parish, friends and neighbors, and our brothers and sisters in need. Please complete the pledge card you received from the Diocese of Joliet and return it in the provided envelope or bring it with you to Mass next weekend. Our parish s goal for the 2018 CMAA is 83,900. If we raise more than this goal, 70% of the amount paid over goal will be returned to us for our use. This is a great benefit for our parish! Thank you for prayerfully reflecting on your gift to this year s CMAA, and making the most generous pledge possible. January 27/28, 2018 Envelopes, loose cash & E-giving 14, Parish Center 2, Thank you for your generous support of our parish. May God bless you and your family! HOLY TRINITY STEWARDSHIP UPDATE Year to Date Sunday Offering Budget July 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017 % chg. FISCAL YEAR 2018 TOTALS Actual Revenue: 454,287 Budget: 471,464 BELOW Budget (17,177) -3.6% Prior Year: 466,301 BELOW Prior Year (12,014) -2.6% Thank you for your generosity over the past 6 months reflected in the totals above. Please consider increasing your Sunday giving in May God continue to bless you and our parish! Please remember Holy Trinity Parish in your will and estate planning. Please call the Parish Office at for more information and thank you for your generosity! 3

4 Religious Education Families February FCFF classes meet this week on Monday, February 5 th and Wednesday, February 7 th. Please notify the RE office if your family cannot attend your assigned session and needs to switch. Parents of Holy Trinity School and RE First Communicants: Please follow the schedule in the blue First Communion Activity Booklet as you prepare your child to receive First Holy Communion. This week, read together Chapter 25, The Holy Mass, in the Jesus Our Life Book and help your child complete the review pages in the activity book. Begin using The Holy Mass booklet during Sunday Mass and help your child fill in the missing words to the responses. Confirmation 2018 Candidates: Next Sunday, February 11, is the Confirmation Retreat 11:00 AM until 5:30 PM in Holy Family Hall. Students will attend Mass during the Retreat, and lunch will be provided. All Junior High Students should be continuing to work in their independent study with the respective handbooks: Sixth Grade students be sure to check out the videos on the RE website under 6 th Grade Salvation History tab while you begin your February study on the Exile, Return and Maccabean Revolt, pages 31-33; Seventh grade students should be completing their Doctrine Review handbooks this month Doctrine Game Night is Monday, February 26 th ; and Eighth grade students are working towards completing their Confirmation Handbooks and Student-Sponsor Activity Booklet together with their sponsor! Prayer Nights are back on Thursdays at 7pm. The Holy Trinity Young Adult Ministry welcomes all young adults, ages 18-39, at any6 stage in their Catholic Faith. We emphasize community as we grow together in Our Faith and in the Lord. We hold spiritual, service and social events throughout the year. Contact Chris at csimon@holytrinitywestmont.org or visit us on Facebook at Holy Trinity Catholic Parish: Young Adult Ministry. Parish Twinning Program Notre Dame de Lourdes Parish in Haiti Youth Ministry Events & Updates This Sunday, February 4th, we will be talking about how to prepare our hearts for Lent. We will meet in Holy Family Hall from 5-6:45pm. Next Sunday, February 11th will be the NET Confirmation retreat for all 8th graders from 11:30am-5:30pm. There will be no regular YM meeting next week. Next Parish trip to LaVoute is March 1 5, Questions? Thoughts about going? Please contact Deacon Pat now. Answer the call. Contact Deacon Pat Blaney blaneydds@yahoo.com World Day for Consecrated Life (Sunday Feb. 4): God of all goodness, you have called people to follow you faithfully. Humans have heard that call and many choose to follow your call in varied and faithfilled lives. Some follow your call in private, silent lives as hermits; some choose to follow you with lives lived as virgins and widows; while others choose public lives of vowed men and women as religious brothers and sisters. Abundantly give to these men and women the courage to follow their call as witnesses to your gifts and faith and se vice to the world. We ask this in faith through the name of Jesus our Savior. Amen.

5 February School Spirit Tastes Great! Take the night off from cooking and join us for a fundraiser to support Holy Trinity Catholic school. Come to Chipotle at 300 E. Ogden Avenue, in Westmont on Tuesday, February 6th between 4pm and 8pm. Bring in this bulletin, show it on your smartphone or tell the cashier you are supporting Holy Trinity to make sure that 50% of the proceeds will be donated to Holy Trinity Catholic School. Online orders will not be included in the fundraiser total. To ensure your purchase is counted in the fundraiser, be sure to order and pay in-restaurant. Gift card purchases during fundraisers do not count towards total donated sales, but purchases made with an existing gift card will count. Adorer s Corner "The sufferings and death of our Divine Redeemer on the Cross did not satisfy the love of His Sacred Heart. When about to ascend to His Heavenly Father, His infinite power and wisdom invented a means by which He might be in Heaven with His Father and at the same time, remain here on earth with His beloved brothers and sisters. The Blessed Eucharist is this Divine intervention! It was the last and greatest expression of the burning love of the Sacred Heart of Jesus before His Passion. It was His last legacy to us in fulfillment of His promise not to leave us orphans." -taken from Devotion to the Sacred Heart- Become a registered adorer! Contact Joe or Maureen Garro at mojo.garro@gmail.com or Seeking nominations for the Parent School Organization (PSO) The Holy Trinity PSO is currently seeking nominations for the Executive Board positions of President and Vice President. The term for each position is two years beginning in May Please submit nominations to Holy Trinity Catholic School Principal, Dr. Pam Simon. Vice President Preside at meetings in the absence of the President. Help to coordinate new programs, socials and/or services. Serve the Executive Board as parliamentarian and by-laws review and revisions committee chairperson. Liaison for social/program/service committees. Perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Executive Board from time to time. President Preside at all meetings of the PSO and its board. Serve as a liaison between PSO and the school principal, school board and most parent-run programs. Attend school board meetings with voting authority on the fundraising committee of the school board. Oversee the Development/Fundraising Standing Committees. Appoint a replacement in the case of a PSO Associate Board vacancy. Receive and review monthly Development/Fundraising reports. Perform such other duties as may be prescribed by the Executive Board from time to time. 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time For most of us, the dynamic between prayer and action is imperfect. Breakfast needs to be made and the kids dressed. Work demands our energy and additional responsibilities fill our evenings and weekends. Then there's the football game or a new TV series to stream. After all, don't we need to relax? We're all busy. But just imagine Jesus' situation in today's Gospel. He heals Peter's mother-in-law, drives out demons, and cures diseases late into the night. With very little sleep, he arises before dawn to capture some peace and quiet, only to find "those who were with him pursued him." How often do we feel pursued by the harried commitments, even when we try to seek rest? Perhaps we can learn something from the response of Jesus. Jesus models two key things: the essential nature of prayer and the essential call of vocation. "He went off to a deserted place, where he prayed." Despite inevitable exhaustion, Jesus prioritizes time with the Father. We might not have easy access to deserts and mountaintops, but today's Gospel challenges us to take intentional time set apart for God. We can designate a "prayer chair" in a corner of our home or leave a little earlier to pick our children up from school so we can snatch time in a nearby chapel. We can pray the rosary on our commute or take the dog for a long walk in silence. However, when the Apostles arrive, Jesus doesn't linger overlong in the deserted place or make an excuse for why he can't return with his friends. Jesus is true to his calling. He continues on in his state of life, serving the people nearest to him. Like Jesus, we are invited to set intentional time for communion with God so that we can be refreshed and empowered for our communion with others. 5

6 FEB. 5 MONTHLY MEETING - 7:00 p.m. Program: Holy Trinity s Haiti ministry Location: People s Resource Center, 104 Chestnut, Westmont All women of the parish, age 18 and over, belong to CCW and are invited to come together for prayer, companionship and fun at monthly meetings from September through May. Events and activities bring women together for charity work, personal and spiritual growth and friendship. All women are encouraged to attend and actively participate. Join us! UPCOMING MEETINGS & EVENTS: Feb. 5 - Meeting Presentation on Haiti March 5 Meeting Soup & Learn Presentation on the Rosary For more information contact: Jan Bartel, jbartel@sbcglobal.net, , or Jeanne Pantke, jpantke@sbcglobal.net, Please support the Knights of the Holy Temple as they sell snack-sized Viola s Granola Viola s Granola in the back of church after Mass to raise money for the Knights program and so that they can offer a small scholarship to a Holy Trinity student who is an altar server. St. Josephine Bakhita The saints are more than lovely pictures on a holy card. If we dig a little deeper, their lives can challenge and transform our own. On February 8th, the Church celebrates St. Josephine Bakhita. As a young girl, St. Josephine was kidnapped from her family in Darfur and sold into slavery at age nine. She was introduced to Catholicism as an adolescent and experienced a profound love for Jesus Christ. St. Josephine eventually gained legal freedom and entered religious life. Though she bore over one hundred scars beneath her habit, St. Josephine forgave her enemies and became known in the convent for her humility and joyful spirit. Author Fr. Jeff Kirby writes, "Saint Josephine gives us all a scarred and human face to the evils of human trafficking, racial tension, and of the brutality found in the peripheries. Her life demands a response." As we approach the season of Lent, let us recall our own call to conversion and an active concern for those who suffer. St. Agatha According to very pious tradition and legend, St. Agatha was born in the island of Sicily on about the year 230 of noble parents and was martyred in Catania, in the year 251. When the Roman emperor Decius issued a decree persecuting Christians, the local consul Quintian (governor of Sicily), who had long harbored lustful feelings for Agatha, tried to force his attentions on her and desired to obtain her inheritance, used the opportunity to bring her to trial on suspicion of being a Christian and force her to renounce her faith. Quintian tried to break Agatha's vow of purity by having her live for a month in a brothel. All efforts to dissuade Agatha failed. Despite the pressures place upon her, Agatha survived this ordeal, placing all her trust in the power of God. The consul then ordered that she be beaten and that her breasts be crushed an cut off. Afterward, Agatha was consigned to prison where Saint Peter appeared to her in a dazzling light and healed her wounds. 6

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