Wedding Banns ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 7/31/2016 LITURGICAL MINISTERS PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD. Readings for August 7, 2016

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1 PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS Monday, August 1 8:30 a.m. Al Schell/Butch & Cookie Stenger Tuesday, August 2 8:30 a.m. For the residents Wednesday, August 3 8:30 a.m. Special Intention of Bob & Marilyn Zerhusen/Paul & Mary Haas Thursday, August 4 8:30 a.m. Viola Marie Mastrullo/ Don & Carole Ehling Friday, August 5 8:30 a.m. Joan Rumpke/Richard & Mary Frey Saturday, August 6 4:30 PM For the Parish Sunday, August 7 8:30 a.m. Jim Franxman/Sandy 11:00 a.m. Steve Lierer/Mom PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD Readings for August 7, 2016 Wisdom 18:6-9 The people prepare to be liberated by the Lord from their oppressors in Egypt. Hebrews 11: Abraham and Sarah placed their trust in God s promises. Luke 12:32-48 All are warned to be ready for the master s return. PARISH INFORMATION Parish Library Spot St. John Paul the Great: His Five Loves by Jason Evert is divided into two parts. The first part presents a succinct biography of the man Karol Wojtyla. The second part explores St. John Paul s five loves the young, human love, the Blessed Sacrament, the Virgin Mary, and the cross. It is a told through stories that Jason Evert had heard over the years Evert says My prayer is not merely that you will grow in appreciation for this great saint by reflection upon what captivated him, but that similar loves will be enkindled with you own heart. Check it out!! LITURGICAL MINISTERS Saturday, August 6, 4:30 PM Mass Servers: A. Threm, V. Smith, L. Smith Lectors: JoEllen Sunderhaus, Steve Bissmeyer Eucharistic Ministers: Teresa Gagnon, Diane Henschen, Philip Bissmeyer, Jerry Schmidt, Lynn Cracchiolo, Sue Hines Sunday, August 7, 8:30 AM Mass Servers: E. Gardner, B. Gardner, D. Wolterman Lectors: Betty Dirr, Bob Reynolds Eucharistic Ministers: Bill Kist, Lynn Kist, Erin Siemer, Phil Moore, Sue Siegert, Sandi Kasee Sunday, August 7, 11:00 AM Mass Servers: G. Lees, L. Dorsch, J. Tewell Lectors: Matt Molony, Terri Molony Eucharistic Ministers: Renee Gilmore, Joyce Behrmann, Jorge Naciff, Begona Naciff, Amanda Naciff, Nancy Ziegler, Alyssa Molulon, Ben Molulon, Tabitha Peters, Caroline Middendorf Wedding Banns I Dana Christine Hammerle & Patrick Killian Listermann II Jessica Baltes & Anthony Paganelli TABLE OF CONTENTS Bulletin Sponsors Page 10 & 11 Festival News Page 5 Finance Report Terri s Tidbits Page 4 Liturgical Ministers Page 1 Mission Appeal Page 2 Musician s Notes Page 6 Office of Christian Formation Page 7 Parish Information Page 2 & 3 Shopping Cent Page 4 This Week in our Parish Page 2 YM Junior High Camp Page 8 1

2 THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH MISSION APPEAL Monday, August 1 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Adoration, 9:15 a.m. Monday Martha s Group, 9:30 a.m. Rosary, 7:00 p.m., Chapel Theology of the Body, 7:00 p.m., YM Room Tuesday, August 2 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Northgate Atria Young Adult Ministry, 7:00 p.m., YM Room Wednesday, August 3 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Thursday, August 4 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Garden Group, 9:15 a.m., Outside Church Joseph s Group, 9:00 a.m., POMR #2 Shopping Cent, 9:00 a.m., POMR#1 Homeless Meal Prep., 3:11 p.m., Cafeteria Thursday Martha s Group, 3:30 p.m., GS Friday, August 5 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Saturday, August 6 Reconciliation, 2:30 p.m., Eucharistic Chapel Mass, 4:30 p.m., Church Sunday, August 7 Mass, 8:30 a.m. Mass, 11:00 a.m. This Weekend - July 30 & 31 Fair Trade Product Sale - Fair trade coffee, tea, cocoa, olive oil, and other goodies will be available in the Parish Library Room located off the Gathering Space after all Masses. Your purchases support the Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Program. Thank You! Fifth Sunday St. Vincent de Paul Collection - If you forgot your envelope this weekend, please drop off in the collection basket next weekend. Thank you! Annual Missionary Appeal on August 12/13 International Help of Missionaries, INC International Help of Missionaries, Inc. (IHM) is a 501(C) (3) tax exempt organization which grew out of a Cincinnati parish twinning relationship with Ghana, West Africa. A group of parishioners visited Ghana and from that a deep love for the people and country developed, along with a desire to improve everyday living conditions. The mission of IHM is to provide clean, healthy, disease-free water to the people of Ghana as well as assisting in the education of children. 100% of your donation goes directly to projects in Ghana. More information can be seen on their website: We will take a second collection for IHM. 2

3 CHILDREN S LITURGY WE NEED YOU!!! Really and so do the children of our parish read more to see how Are you interested in helping to teach the kindergarten through 4 th grade children about Jesus? If so, we would love to have your help with our Children s Liturgy! And we will train you so don t be shy we really need you!!! And it is easy EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Server Training Children s Liturgy takes place at each Mass during the liturgy of the word. All children will process out from the main church and gather in the daily chapel to hear God s word present just for THEM! But we really need your help we are looking for adults who would be willing to teach and to assist with teaching. In order for our parish to have Children s liturgy, we must have a Virtus trained liturgist and another Virtus trained adult, not related to the liturgist, in the chapel with them. This is an absolute requirement of the archdiocese. Virtus training consists of attending one meeting, reviewing the short, one page Virtus training bulletins once per month and a background check. Virtus training is required of anyone working with children. Plus, once you have this, the possibilities of volunteering to help in any capacity, is greatly increased! What a wonderful way to be of service to those in our parish and also our parish school! Please contact Deacon Ken Schnur at for more information or Anne Johns at ljohns@cinci.rr.com. We look forward to hearing from you!!! Welcome!! Let the children come to me.(luke 18:16) This is one way you, the youth of our parish, can come and serve the Lord by becoming an Altar Server. What does an Altar Server do? The two main duties of a server are to assist the priest and deacon during the celebration of Mass and help the people pray by your example. Who can become an Altar Server? Anyone who is in the 4 th grade on up and has made your First Communion is eligible toserve any of the 3 week-end Masses about 1-2 times per month. Procedures: Before Mass Arrive 15 minutes before the start of Mass. Dress into alb, cincture, and appropriate cross or medal. Stand in back of church until Mass starts. During Mass Carry crucifix during beginning procession. Hold Sacramentary book for priest. Assist in setting the altar table. Carry candles during offertory procession. Hold pitcher & finger bowl so the priest can wash his hands. Clear altar after communion. Carry crucifix during ending procession. After Mass Replace crucifix in Sacristy. Replace alb, stole, and cross or medal. Time Commitment: Trainings: Our next training will be on Sunday, August 28 th from 2-4 in the church. For more information or questions please contact Anne Johns at ljohns@cinci.rr.com. 3

4 STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE JULY 24, 2016 COLLECTION REPORT Adult Collection (includes Electronic Donations) Children Collection St. Vincent de Paul Debt Reduction Memorial Flower Fund Assumption Amount needed each week Amount over/under Adult Envelopes Children Envelopes Electronic Donators Thank You! 9, , (10,328.25) TERRI S TIDBITS DID YOU KNOW THAT we have 11 members of our Catholic Order of Foresters (1513) are celebrating 50 years as a member? They are Carl Anderson, James Dorrmann, Stephen Hatke, Anthony Johnson, Raymond Kelhoffer, Nickola Kelhoffer, Bernard Lengerich, Jane Martinelli, Paul Naberhaus, Margaret Pletikapich and Jacquelyn Weibel. Congratulations! DID YOU KNOW THAT we are interested in your new phone number, address and ? Help us keep our files up to date. Please call or the Parish Office with the information. Call or stjohns@stjohnsdr.org. DID YOU KNOW THAT we are looking for a 30 hour a week Maintenance worker? Go to Human Resources, Career Opportunities, School Related Openings, scroll down to St. John the Baptist. All the details are listed there. If you have any questions, please contact Tom at STEWARDSHIP FOR THE WEEK SHOPPING CENTS Back to school sales are already starting. Shopping Cent carries Meijer, Wal-mart, Target, Walgreens, Kohl's, Macy s and many more gift cards for uniform and other school needs. We can also special order Staples, LL Bean and Lands End for supplies, backpacks and school uniforms. Just leave a message on the hotline ( ext. 240) by Sunday evening and your order will be ready on Thursday or the weekend. Have a student going to college? We also carry Bed, Bath & Beyond gift cards for college dorm needs. Send your student to school with gas and fast food gift cards too! We still need one more new face to join our team. It only takes less than hour per month. We have one opening before and after 4:30 Mass on third Saturday of the month. Please call the hotline ( ext. 240) if you can help out! Take care to guard against all greed, for though one may be rich, one s life does not consist of possessions. Luke 12:15 The Gospel message today is so contrary to our modern culture where advertising continually tries to convince us that our value lies in the things we possess. Jesus showed us that our true value lies in the way we live our lives. He challenges us to not store up or h o a r d m a t e r i a l possessions, but rather to live a grateful and generous lifestyle. Shopping Cent is on sale every Thursday morning starting at 9:00 a.m. at the Parish Office. 4

5 EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME Festival News Blue Jay Reverse Raffle The third and final early bird drawing was held on July 22. The lucky winners were Justin Zaffiro and his family. Congratulations. We still have many tickets left to be sold before the festival. Please, if you haven t purchased or would like to purchase additional tickets, the Ticket Request Form can be found on our website ( in the Gathering Space or in the parish office. REMEMDER: If you have a group you meet with regularly, such as a sports team, card club. purchase a group ticket. Ten people on a ticket for only 10...image what kind of party you could have if you won!! As all of us should know by now, Dale Bosse has been out selling raffle tickets. My question is this...why only Dale? Can t we all get out there and sell some tickets for our Parish. Together we can have them all sold before the festival even begins. Who is up for the challenge? Ticket request forms can be found in the Gathering Space or on our website. This Week s Festival Highlight We need volunteers for the Parish Festival! Moms, Dads, and students, keep in mind that St. John the Baptist Church subsidizes part of your school tuition for your volunteer efforts. What better way to offer your time and talents than to sell a few tickets and catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Please use the links below. The first link is to sign-up for various booths. The second link is for set-up. A big THANK YOU to all those who have already signed up and to you who will be signing up soon. go/30e0944aaae28a0f58-festival go/30e0944aaae28a0f58-setup You can always call the parish office to volunteer as well. 26 more days until Festival. Please volunteer for your parish. Please express your interest in helping by sending an to stjohnsdrfestival@gmail.com Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Corn day went so smoothly thanks to the many volunteers who came to help. We shucked, cleaned, cooked, cooled, cut, and froze 290 dozen ears of corn! We started at 9 and were out by 2:30. You are all awesome. Now we are on to festival preparation and chicken dinner. We can use your help to make it a success. Please consider volunteering some time. Special thanks to Shannon Meyer and Patti Rice. Marcia Schmidt 5

6 I recently had the opportunity to spend a week in Houston with about 2000 other pastoral musicians from around the country when we gathered for the annual convention of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians (NPM). This is the largest association of professional pastoral musicians in the country. Each summer many of us gather together for a week to renew our commitment to pastoral ministry and spend time with friends whom we often see only one time a year. The theme of this year s convention was The Church Sings: One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic. The week consisted of many opportunities for us to grow in our understanding of our ministry through plenum addresses, breakout sessions, choral reading sessions of each of the major publishers of liturgical music, and of course prayer each day including the liturgy of the hours and other offerings such as Taizé prayer. The highlight of each year s convention is the celebration of the Eucharist. It is an amazing experience to celebrate the Eucharist with 2000 other musicians, all raising their voices in song (often in constant four part harmony.) It is one of those events at which you need to be present to really grasp the magnitude of how wonderful it is. As technology has become ever prevalent, many of the events were live-streamed over the internet, including the opening event and each of the choral reading sessions. During the reading sessions, major publishers, like the publisher of our Gather hymnal, put together a choral packet of their newest releases of music and then all of us sing through that packet of music in about an hour. It s like a choir rehearsal, but on a much larger scale and again, with all present immediately singing each of these pieces in harmony. I was able to speak with someone who had streamed the GIA and WLP reading sessions online, but unfortunately the sound that came via the internet was not even close to what it sounded like in that room full of musicians. We sang through many nice pieces of new music written for use in Catholic liturgy. In fact, one of the pieces that we sang during the GIA reading session was a new Mass setting by another friend of mine, Tony Alonso, entitled Christ Light of the Nations, which we will be learning this coming fall at St. Johns. The convention, was a wonderful time of EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY OF ORDINARY TIME MUSICIAN S NOTES BY DOUG SCHMUTTE 6 professional development, prayer, and f e l l o w s h i p with musicians from not only o u r o w n archdiocese, b u t f r o m around the country as well. Having worked in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati for 22 years now, I ve been t o m a n y conven tions and, as it is with almost everything, some years conventions are better than others. But, even on the off years, it is a wonderful time to gather as an association of musicians all with the goal of fostering the art of musical liturgy. I am also very excited that next year the convention will be in our own back yard. Yes, for the fourth time, the national convention will be here in Cincinnati. Interestingly enough, Cincinnati has hosted the convention more than any other city in the country. The other years were 1985, 1995, and I was in high school during the first one in 85, but was present both in 1995 and in 2003, and of course plan to attend next summer. The main reason I wrote about the convention on this page today is because I wanted to share with you a little more how I spend some of my time here at St. John s, but more importantly to let you, the parishioners know that I am constantly striving to become the best pastoral musician that I can be and always looking for ways to continue in my professional development. Houston was truly a wonderful, but HOT week. I had a very nice time reconnecting with old friends and making some new ones as well and most importantly brought back with me a renewed understanding of my role as a pastoral musician and how to continue to foster that art of musical liturgy here at St. John s. Have a great week!!

7 OFFICE OF CHRISTIAN FORMATION BY: AMANDA WEICKERT Hello again, I m back! I have had a blessed and busy summer and I took a month off from some of the typical things I do, including writing this column, to focus on new opportunities and to refresh and rejuvenate myself (more on this to come!) I m happy to be writing again and I look forward to settling back into the rhythm of the school year. One of the summer s many blessings was the opportunity to participate in a conference on Theology of the Body. In a series of Wednesday audiences Saint Pope John Paul II spoke about the beauty and dignity of our whole human person, body and soul. These audiences were collected together and form the Theology of the Body. (If you want to learn more about Theology of the Body Rod Dunlap is a great resource; I m sure he would be delighted to talk to you more about it as well!) On the last day of the conference we ended with Mass in the auditorium where we had been gathering all week. As we were leaving I asked one of the people who worked at the retreat center if they had a chapel I could pop in to pray for a moment. She answered that they did but that it did not have the Eucharist reserved in it. In one of those moments where words fly out of my mouth before I completely think through the wisdom of sharing them I blurted out That s fine. Christ is in us because we just received the Eucharist. The funny looks I received prompted me to ponder the truth about what I had just said. I didn t mean to imply that it isn t literally awesome that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist and in all the tabernacles around the world. On the contrary, I often turn to God s presence there to help me talk to him openly and freely (I feel a little silly at times talking to someone who I know is there but isn t physically there, that I can t see and hear and touch. We can always grow in faith!). But after spending so much time reflecting on the beauty, gift, and sanctity of our bodies I was struck by the breadth of God s presence within each of us after we accept him into ourselves in the Eucharist. Is Christ not more present within us, who are made in God s image and likeness, when we receive the Eucharist than when he sits in divine splendor in the tabernacle? Or do we truly believe as Catholics that we denigrate and lessen God s gift of himself to us by receiving it? 7 I think we could all benefit by reflecting on God s extraordinarily vivid life within each of us as His children, particularly after receiving the Eucharist. If we truly believe that God is really present in the consecrated Body and Blood, how much more present is Christ within us after we receive him in the Eucharist? We are blessed with our bodies, which animate our free will and give us the capacity to love and relate to others. This combination the vitality of Christ s presence within our souls and the freeing gift of our bodies truly incarnates God in our world! I in no way wish to imply that Christ is not truly, awesomely, uniquely present in the consecrated host. Nor do I want to give the impression that any human person divided from God s grace and presence is complete in isolation. Rather, I hope to emphasize how deeply nourishing and completing God s self-gift to us in the Eucharist is. We are both body and soul, and it is God s grace and life which animates the fullness of our humanity; Christ gives us his body so that we can both receive it and become it! Every Mass when the priest pours a bit of water into the wine he says: By the mingling of this water and wine may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who humbled himself to share in our humanity. We the Church mean this! And it certainly gives us a lot to pray about. As we look around the gathering space after Mass next week may we be filled with the joy and wonder we have when looking at the Eucharist! Christ, Divinity Enfleshed, help us to recognize within ourselves the divine spark planted within us at baptism. Nourish our divine life with your Word and your Flesh! Help us to appreciate what you truly gave us on Calvary and continue to give us at every Mass. You are our true joy! Amen.

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