The Spirit. Respect Life Sunday. Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church. October 2, Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

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1 The Spirit Our Lady of Ransom Catholic Church October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Respect Life Sunday

2 October 2, 2016 Mass Intentions 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday, October 3 6:30 a.m. Purgatorial Society 8:15 a.m. Michael Gullo Tuesday, October 4 (St. Francis of Assisi) 6:30 a.m. Otto Rengel 8:15 a.m. Walter Scott; Edward Slezak; Robert Iwicki; Santina Panzeca Wednesday, October 5 6:30 a.m. Domenic DiNucci 8:15 a.m. Biagio Gattuso Thursday, October 6 (St. Bruno, Priest; Bl. Marie Rose Durocher, Virgin) 6:30 a.m. John Pat 8:15 a.m. Mary Catherine Sweeney Friday, October 7 (Our Lady of the Rosary) 6:30 a.m. Frank Randazzo 8:15 a.m. Ponciano Vapor Saturday, October 8 8:15 a.m. Leo devenecia; The devenecia Family; Emily Loret Bedran; Aubery Gold; Janina Dudzik; Marion Smolucha; Int. of Gerri Carda 5:00 p.m. Michael Parisi Sunday, October 9 (Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time) 7:30 a.m. Henry Dobosiewicz 9:00 a.m. Gregory Cairo 10:45 a.m. Justine & Rudolph Zittman 12:15 p.m. George & Dorothy Gagliano 5:00 p.m. For the People of OLR PARISH DIRECTORY CHURCH: 8300 N. Greenwood, Niles, IL PARISH OFFICE - Ministry Center, 8624 W. Normal Phone: Fax: Rev. Christopher M. Gustafson Pastor Rev. Paul Reczek, O.F.M. Sunday Celebrant Rev. Mr. Charlie O Donnell Deacon Rev. Mr. James Frugé Deacon Mrs. Cathy Williams Office Manager Mr. Richard Gargul Business Manager Mr. Rob Sadlowski Music Director Mr. Jim Potthast Youth Minister Mr. Bob DiSandro Maintenance Engineer Mrs. Kathleen Sass Bulletin Typist RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM Mrs. Maureen Valvassori Director o.ransom@att.net SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Let the children come to me Lk 18:16 Baptisms are ordinarily celebrated on the 2nd and 4th Sundays at 1:30 p.m. in the Church. A preparation meeting is required. Please call the Ministry Center to arrange. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: God s mercy is ever near. Confessions are heard every Saturday from 11:00 a.m. to Noon in the Church and by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Congratulations! Weddings are ordinarily celebrated on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. Please be sure to consult a priest before setting the date for your wedding. MINISTRIES CHAIRPERSONS Mrs. Deborah Bosco Parish Pastoral Council Mr. Steve Dolan Parish Finance Committee Mrs. Nancy Stranczek Ministry of Care Mrs. Gigi Bialko Bereavement Ms. Reneda Mittman Lectors Mr. & Mrs. Jack Eichstaedt Communion Ministers Mr. Andy Thelen Ministry Scheduler Mr. Vince Milito Ushers Mrs. Terry Uselmann St. Matthew Circle Ms. Heidi Mergenthaler & Mrs. Julie Galluzzi & Ms. Marilyn Kirschten Wedding Ministry Coordinators EUCHARISTIC CELEBRATION SUNDAY MASSES: 5:00 pm (Saturday) 7:30, 9:00, 10:45 am, 12:15, 5:00pm Weekday: 6:30 & 8:15 am; Saturday 8:15 am Holy Day: 6:30, 8:15 am, 7:00 pm RECONCILIATION: Saturday, 11:00 am - 12 noon and individually as requested. HOPELINE: For Pregnant Women HOPE CARING FOR THE SICK: If you or a loved one are ill and would like prayers or to receive the Sacrament of Anointing, Holy Communion, or a visit, please do not hesitate to call the Ministry Center. A communal celebration of the Sacrament of Anointing follows the 8:15 a.m. Mass on the first Saturday of the month. FIRST FRIDAYS: Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place throughout the day, ending with Holy Hour and Benediction from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. NEW PARISHIONERS: Welcome to the Parish! We are glad you are here. Please come to the Ministry Center to register or call:

3 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Three From the desk of the Pastor... Feast Day/Service Day Last Saturday, September 24th, we celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of Ransom. We remembered the feast in our Sunday worship with prayers and hymns to our Patroness, but we also commemorated it in a special way with our Parish Service Day. Over 100 volunteers of all ages came together to offer their time and labor to help those in need and help care for our own parish grounds. Decked out in this and last years T-shirts, all assembled in church to begin the service projects in prayer and then set out to their various cites. After about 3 hours of work, we all returned to Paluch Hall to reflect on the varied experiences, attended 5pm Mass together, and then reassembled downstairs for some pizza and fellowship. A great team of volunteer landscapers (who got an early start) attacked the grounds weeding, hoeing, trenching, trimming. Within a few hours of hard work they had amassed 18 large black plastic bags full of debris cleared from our grounds. Two other teams set out to visit, sing with and play bingo with patients at Avantara and Presence Nursing Homes. Another team stayed here writing letters of care and hope to our service personnel/veterans. Another group went off to help organize and present for sale items to benefit persons with disabilities at Avenues for Independence. Another group headed out to Catholic Charities in Des Plaines armed with bread, meat, cheese, pears and all needed to prepare lunches for those in need. Here back at the parish many of our young people scraped and painted the fence and garage at the north breezeway as well as the ramp railing leading to the Ministry Center and the yellow safety curb. Some went around the grounds picking up garbage. Others cleaned, scoured and polished our parish hall kitchen. Even the brass church door handles and altar railings got polished. The common refrain of all involved is that it was a wonderful, worthwhile day that helped us, as one boy reflected to the group, to remember how fortunate we are and how important it is to help others in need. Many thanks to all who participated and, in a special way, to all who worked so hard organizing and making it happen including Chris Paolelli, Marilyn Kirschten, Deborah Bosco, John Dobbins and Angie Ruggero. Have a blessed week,

4 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Four Liturgical Ministers for Next Week s Liturgies Date/Time Commentator Lector Communion Ministers Cantors Saturday, October 8 5:00 p.m. Lydia LaScola Reneda Mittman Joan Del Medico, Steve Dolan, Jack Eichstaedt, Maria Eichstaedt, Patricia Lawlor, Carol Mozgowiec, Mary Mundt, David Nellessen, Andy Thelen Sunday, October 9 7:30 a.m. George Colgan Rosanne Dulski Joan Karwoski, Tom Kleeman, Patricia Lucas, Eleanor Mueller, Dennis Ramirez, Phyllis Ranalli, Terry Uselmann Jody Schuth 9:00 a.m. Nancy Grabowski Isabel DuPont Joe Annunzio, Terry Annunzio, Nancy Bobowski, Marilyn Cairo, Josephine Fragale, Linda Garnett, Joey Randazzo, Mary Ann Malartsik, Filomena Randazzo Jody Schuth 10:45 a.m. Barbara Kopec Tom Muszynski Josephine Bax, Maureen Bell, Robert Bell, Anna Benedetto, Toni Brana, Mick Merchut, Jerry Merkel, 2 subs needed Youth Choir 12:15 p.m. Estelle Pahati Ben Paolelli Angelita De Paz, Eduardo De Paz, Maria Galluzzi, John Gierum, Judith Vee, Matilde Yates, 2 subs needed 5:00 p.m. Kathleen Deveau R. Scott Flick, (sub needed), (sub needed), (sub needed) WEDDING BANNS II - Anna Pullara & Christian Cicirale I - Ninah Hernandez & Patrick Tiangson Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Friday, October 7 Adoration begins following the 8:15am Mass, with Benediction at 7:00 pm Spend an hour with our Eucharistic Lord A sign-up sheet is in the Gathering Space Rob Sadlowski New Spirit Choir Rob Sadlowski Servers

5 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Five COMING - QUEEN OF PEACE GUILD HOLIDAY CRAFT & BAKE SALE November 12-9:00am to 6:00pm November 13-8:30am to 2:00pm The call of the Holy Spirit to consider a vocation may sometimes be a gentle voice stirring the soul or a personal longing in our hearts. It may be the urging of a friend or spouse. It can also find birth in the invitation of pastors, deacons, and parish leaders to pursue such an inquiry. No matter the source of our questions, each of us needs to be affirmed and encouraged to bring a call to a vocation to prayerful discernment. Our first meeting of the new year began with a meaningful Mass where Father Chris stressed that we need to help all people here and all over the world, including some right in our area. A Bingo Bash was held with fun prizes! Tickets for the Four Winds casino trip were sold; and there are just a few seats left for this event on October 18th. In November Chef Jose of Sunset Grill will demonstrate four easy hors douvres to prepare for the coming holidays. And we will get to taste them! Dues remain at $10.00 Please consider joining us! Catholic Women s Club We have sought your assistance over the past so many years to keep our pantry to a level that we can offer food packages to the poor in our area that need our help, and you have been so generous in providing that help. We thank you greatly for that. But our assistance needs keep increasing because of the lack of job opportunities, mothers without husbands to support them and their children, and other dire situations that require our help. Our pantry is in such a state that we are in need of most items that we regularly inventory. This may sound like a broken record, but your help in donating canned foods of all types (veggies, soups, fruit, beans, etc.) and more is urgently needed. Thank you for understanding our needs, St. Vincent de Paul Society

6 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Six Tootsie Roll Fund Drive October 1-2 Knights of Columbus Fr. Linden Council All donated money will stay in the community to aid the Intellectually Disabled. Please stop by and look at what we have. It s good for Halloween and for the grandchildren. All donations will be accepted and appreciated. Thank you for your support. SUGGESTED DONATIONS Brick of 50 Tootsie Rolls $5.00 each Tootsie Banks $2.00 each or 3 for $5.00 Box of 100 Tootsie Pops $1500 each Tootsie Pops $0.25 each or 5 for $1.00 World s Finest Chocolate Bars $1.00 each Youth Group Meeting NEXT SUNDAY 3:00 to 5:00pm The OLR Youth Group meets in Room 7 of the School Building. All high school teens and their friends are invited! OCTOBER IS THE MONTH OF THE ROSARY SOUL ~ The Spirit of Unending Love Prayer Group has moved to Room #1 in the north wing of the school building. There is a sign posted on the window listed as SOUL. Please knock on the window and someone will let you in Entrance #10 (the door on the north side of the school building). All are welcome on Wednesdays7:30pm. Pray the Rosary! BABY BOTTLE PROJECT October 2-23 We are participating in The Baby Bottle Project benefiting the Women s Centers of Greater Chicagoland. This non-profit organization directly assists mothers and families experiencing crisis pregnancies by offering emotional, financial, material, and spiritual support through counseling, clothing and monetary provisions, prayer, and other aid. Each year the three locations together have over 5,000 appointments with expecting mothers. By God s Grace, The Women s Centers have saved over 40,000 babies - and their mothers from abortion since opening in Please take a Baby Bottle home with you this weekend, fill it with your spare change during the next few weeks, and return it the weekend of October This is a simple, but crucial fundraising effort for The Women s Centers. Note that the Baby Bottles cost almost $1.00 per bottle and are recycled afterwards, so please return upon completion of the project. Thank you for helping defend life, and remember to keep all pro-life undertakings in your prayers. Please remember to pray for the sanctity of life at all of its stages.

7 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Faith in action is love, and love in action is service. St. Theresa of Calcutta Page Seven

8 October 2, 2016 Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Page Eight R E S T I N P E A C E Please continue to pray for the following people who have recently died: For All the Faithful Departed Lord, for your faithful people, life is changed not ended. --Rite of Christian Burial SACRIFICIAL GIVING Our response to God s command to take care of the community with the gifts, talents and resources God entrusts to us. STEWARDSHIP OF RESOURCES Sunday Collections September $ 12,237 (Week 13) Year-to-date.....$ 175,559 We are grateful. P R A Y F O R T H E S I C K Rita Alderman (4) Andy Cairo (3) Mary Ann Griffin (2) Frank Albrecht (2) Paula Brady (2) Dorothy Mathisen (2) William Terwey (2) Janet MacNaughton (2) Juanita Dominick (1) Peter Franz (1) We pray for all the sick at every Mass and in our private prayers. Persons who have a change in their health (traumatic event, surgery, critical stage of disease, etc.) will be mentioned by name (if they or a family member request) at Sunday Masses. Thereafter, for one month the name will be published in the bulletin and then placed on our website: olransom. org. OLR MILITARY God keep you safe! A.I.C. Michael Gonzales Sgt. Vito Deiure Gunny Sgt. Paul J. Vee, USMC Lt. 1st Class Jared Kandell Staff Sgt. Michael Osterlund PFC Darren Keifer PO2 Patrick Wurster II Staff Sgt. Anthony LaScola, USMC Cpl. Brian Michael Bell BM3 Kristin Kaufmann Specialist Conrad Sewinski ENFR Joshua Torres 1st Lt. Joseph John Gullo, USAF Cpl. Giselle Obcemea Gayapa, USMC PFC Ezekiel M. Trimble PFC Edrian Fernandez, USAFC Cpt. Jason Lovallo 2nd Lt. Timothy F. Eddy, Jr. 1st Lt. Catie LaScola, USMC Michael Allbright If you know of any Our Lady of Ransom parishioners who are serving in the military and would like to include them in our prayer intentions, please call the Ministry Center ( )

9 From: Our Lady of Ransom Parish Niles, IL Contact: Cathy Williams Bulletin # Date: October 2, PAGES PLUS COVER SHEET Publisher 2007 Printer HP Laser Jet CP3525