Worship and Word. The Most Holy Trinity Sunday, June 3, 2012 MONDAY June 4, 2012

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1 The Most Holy Trinity Sunday, June 3, 2012 MONDAY June 4, :00 a.m. Daniel Oprish by Nash Family Worship and Word This Sunday s Readings Next Sunday s Readings Deuteronomy 4:32-34, Exodus 24:3-8 Romans 8:14-17 Hebrews 9:11-15 Matthew 28:16-20 Mark 14:12-16, Gather Book 975 Gather Book 978 Weekend of June 3, 2012 How does the uniting love of the Most Holy Trinity Father, Son, and Holy Spirit flow out into the world? One way is through us disciples. We received that love at our Baptism, we are nourished by it regularly at Mass, and we act out of it in our lives. In every place we are called to safe-guard the dignity of all, to care for the poor and vulnerable, and to act for the common good. Gospel: Matthew 28: Theme: The Trinity. Question for Children: Why do you think Catholics make The Sign of the Cross when we pray? Question for Youth: How often do you think about God as Trinity? How do you relate to each member of the Trinity? Question for Adults: As each of us is called and sent by Christ, how have you incorporated this into your own life, whether married, single, in religious life, or ordained? Readings for the Week of June 3, 2012 Monday 2 Pt 1:2-7; Ps 91; Mk 12:1-12 Tuesday Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18; Ps 90; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday Saint Norbert, Bishop 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Ps 123; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday 2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps 25; Mk 12:28-34 Friday 2 Tm 3:10-17; Ps 119; Mk 12:35-37 Saturday Saint Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor of the Church 2 Tm 4:1-8; Ps 71; Mk 12: nd Pub Brian Burton & Jennifer Vallely 1st Pub Matthew Barker & Amber Owens TUESDAY, June 5, :00 a.m. Wanda Nagel by Ed Nagel & Family WEDNESDAY, June 6, :00 a.m. Mary Dugan by Regina Haltom & Family THURSDAY, June 7, :00 a.m. Anna Lou Zore by The Family FRIDAY, June 8, :00 a.m. Marianne Oprish by Nash Family SATURDAY, June 9, :00 a.m. Communion Service 5:30 p.m. Anna Lekse by Carrico Family SUNDAY, June 10, :00 a.m. Frances Pella by Anna Marie Provenzano 8:30 a.m. John Chlapik, Sr. by Son 10:30 a.m. Richard Kurzawa by Diane Schwanekamp Noon Sr. Sue Bradshaw by Robert Goodin 5:30 p.m. For the Parish Prayer List Illness Judy Adams, Delores Boston, Megan Bozarth, Thomas Burrin, Michelle Chasteen, Randy Collins, Debbie Courtney, Lisa Crawford, Abela Dicen, Harry Elliott, Eileen Garrett, Gerald Glassing, Dennis Goldsberry, William Greenlee, Phyllis Gunderson, Norma Haley, Mary Heinrich, Laura Henneberry, Michael Hession, Bob Hilton, Sharon Holmes, Stephen Jensen, Jan Jordan, Frank Klepek, Karen Kober, Joseph Kocha, Jeffrey Lafata, Barbara Lee, Rita McAtee, Brad McLaughlin, Mary Maillet, Diane Metheny, Mark Miller, Jennifer Moore, Kim Newman, Madeline Owens, Rita Paradise, Mary Lou Pearson, Mary Phillips, Jim Poole, Rita Portish, Ralph Rancourt, Patricia Rains, Michael Robertson, Pat Salata, Caitlyn Sears, Judy Sieferman, Theresa Simmons, Carl Sutton, Elmer Szhlensker, Colleen Theofanis, Maggie Jean Treis, Joe Valentine, Joan Vondersaar, Vicki Walker, Linda Weilhamer, Brenda Williams, Duane Zishka Deaths Mary Phillips

2 Resources & Development Faith Formation Bingo June 8, 2012 Callers; J Csenar, R Brooks, D Kochell Team #4 Captains; F Rendes: Early Setup; M Zore, T Kappel: Supply; A Endres: Salad; K/L Smith: Fryer; H Eaker: Workers; K Diaz, B Evans, K Matter, P Pontones, C Reese, J Zore, L Zore: Bakers: J Bechinski, J Eisele, A Keys, N Malatestinic, R McCullough: Biscuits; S Evans Parish Stewardship of Treasure Week of May 27, 2012 Weekly Budget $26, Weekly Offering $8, YTD Actual $1,219, YTD Budget $1,264, YTD Gain (Loss) ($44,882.41) Race Parking $2, SPECIAL COLLECTION TODAY For The Education of Future Archdiocesan Priests. Thank you for your generosity to these worthy missions. Save the Dates!!! July 19, 20 & 21, 2012 For all the details and additional information join us on Facebook (St. Christopher Festival) or go to the website Please remember your loved ones with Mass Intentions. Grades 9-12 are invited to a Lock-In June 9, 2012 Where: St. Christopher (PAC) Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 A.M. Invite your friends for a night of fun and games at St. Christopher, it is only $10 and includes dinner. Call Tom Steiner Ext. 125 for more details. JR. HIGH YOUTH MINISTRY SUMMER KICK-OFF PARTY Join the St. Christopher Jr. High Youth Group on Sunday, June 10 at 1:15 p.m. for an afternoon at Incredible Pizza Company. While we are at Incredible Pizza Company, challenge your friends to race in the go-carts, make a team for laser tag, or try and beat Mr. Steiner at putt-putt golf. For just $20, you get unlimited food and drink, a $10 arcade card, and two hours of unlimited play on the go-karts, mini bowling, mini golf, laser tag and bumper cars. Drivers and Chaperons are needed. The cost will be $20. We will be returning at approximately 5:00 p.m. We will have your child call before we leave Incredible Pizza Company. For more details contact: Tom Steiner , ext. 125 or tsteiner@saintchristopherparish.org For those of you who have registered for Vacation Bible School: June 11-15, :00 a.m. to Noon SCRIP is being sold this weekend after all Masses with distribution June Remember Gift Cards make the perfect gift!

3 Faith Formation Christian Services ADULT FAITH CORNER: Today, June 3- Christian Platonist (Jacobs Well) June 10- Confessions-The Search for Wisdom (Damascus) Augustine: Philosopher and Saint: In this lecture series, from "The Great Courses" we examine the life, works, and significance of Augustine, the most influential Christian writer outside of the Bible. We look at him both as Church Father (interpreter of the Bible and teacher of Christian doctrine) and philosopher (one who has given us new concepts of the human heart and its depths). Men's Saturday Scripture Study: This group meets the first and third Saturdays of the month in the lower level of the church beginning at 8:00 a.m. All men of the parish and their guests are invited to attend. They read and discuss the scripture readings for the following Sunday. Come and join the men for lively discussions. Coffee and donuts are provided. There is a Communion Service available to attend at the end of the session if you are interested. For additional information contact Kevin Deardorf at June 10, 2012 Sunday, 8:30 a.m. Richard Wieser Sunday, 10:30 a.m. Tom Burger We are an informal small group who meet once a month to discuss a book with spiritual meaning. Contact betty.reagan@yahoo.com if you are interested or have any questions. St. Christopher Explorations in Faith Book Club meets the first Thursday every month at 7 p.m. The June meeting will be held on June 7 and the book discussion will be Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo. (Some books are available at the Marion County Public Library) Liturgical Commission The Most Holy Trinity The Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, One God. Creator, Healer, Emissary, One God. Three persons, One God. Love flowing as a waterfall from The Most Holy Trinity, Wrapping all in the protection of One God. Unconditional love, forgiveness and grace, One God. Father, Son, Holy Spirit, The Most Holy Trinity. By Trudy Bledsoe The SAM-Substance Addiction Ministry is leading a twelve step study using the material and study guide in Breathing Under Water Spirituality and the Twelve Steps by Richard Rohr. Everyone, the addicted and the afflicted, has the opportunity to participate in this book study which is held the second Monday of each month. The next meeting will be held on June 11 in Damascus from 7-8:30 p.m. For additional information, contact Norine Chastain or Theresa Donahue St. Chris Food Pantry Information: As you are planting your garden again this year, please keep the pantry in mind. We would love to serve fresh vegetables to our patrons later this summer. Thank you for all that you do. St. Christopher Food Pantry June 9-5:30 p.m. June 10-7:00 a.m. June 10-8:30 a.m. June 10-10:30 a.m. June 10- Noon June 10-5:30 p.m. M Miranda/S Peterson M Matter/J Warner K Endres/C Sweeney K/Z Bechinski E Grider/J King Z Evans/Z Sayre ST. VINCENT DEPAUL NEED: From time to time different requests are called in to St. Vincent De Paul Society. If someone has a reliable car or van, a client would be ever so thankful. This then would assist the person to have work transportation which is a good 20 miles from their home. If you have a vehicle to donate please call Paul or padeceje2@aol.com.

4 Christian Services Opportunities to work with Saint Vincent de Paul to help people living in poverty: 2nd Saturday each month June 9 - SVdP Indy Food Pantry 4th Saturday each month - June 23 - Help Feed the Hungry. Pass out food and clothes to homeless people Saturday, June 30 Help at the SVdP Distribution 1201 East Maryland Street. We work until about noon. We need help every Saturday at the SVdP Food Pantry and Distribution Center. The hours are flexible to fit your availability. We especially need people to drive trucks and help pick up furniture. Contact Paul Guenin at or padeceje2@aol.com for further information and times and places to meet for carpooling. Sleeping on a hard floor is Painful! We Need Your Beds! Thanks for your bed donations! Please donate your extra beds to SVdP so they can be given to parents and children who are now sleeping on the hard floor. We will quickly pick them up deliver them to people who really need them. To donate beds contact Paul or padeceje2@aol.com. We have received 159 beds since we started in October Thanks! SVdP Donation Options: To donate other furniture and appliances call the SVdP Donation phone line, Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Washers and dryers are also in short supply, and the SVdP Distribution Center will accept units for checkout and repair regardless of condition. If you have a reliable car or van you would be willing to donate, please contact Paul Guenin at or padeceje2@aol.com Parish Life The Mid-Summer Festival Committee is in need of a Chairman or Family that would be willing to run the Lemon Shake Up Booth at Festival. The Chairs responsibility would include staffing & overseeing the booth operations during the three-day festival. To volunteer or find out additional information, please c o n t a c t A. J. P l o u g h e a t o r ajploughe@sbcglobal.net. Important Dates to Remember: Pre Cooking will take place on Monday June 25th starting at 9:00 am - We will be preparing our famous hand-pulled pork BBQ and Coney Sauce! Fish Battering will be MONDAY July 16th Starting at 2:00 pm. Last year we were short-handed on volunteers so please mark your calendars as it takes many volunteers to do this project. Parish Life COFFEE & DONUTS will be served this weekend, Sunday, June 3, after the 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Masses. It is being hosted by Volunteer Committee. You're Invited to the St Christopher 75th Anniversary Gala! Join the Catholic Community of St. Christopher on Saturday, September 15th as we celebrate our Diamond Anniversary with a special evening at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The evening will include dinner, dancing, and a celebration that commemorates the first 75 years of St. Christopher Parish. Stay tuned for more details about this special evening and the Diamond Anniversary Mass that will take place on the following day - September 16th. We're also still compiling a memory book that will be published in time for the Diamond Anniversary. You can submit pictures and stories at stchristopher75th@gmail.com or drop them off in the parish office. You can also keep up with the latest information at facebook.com/stchris75. MEMORY WEEKEND This weekend we will be asking all parishioners to share a memory of St. Christopher that may be added to our Memory Book recalling the last 75 years. Instead of a homily all parishioners will be asked to write down a memory that you wish to share. Please think about an experience that was touching to you or your family that may be added to our Memory Book celebrating 75 years. In case of a medical emergency during Mass please see an usher, do not call 911 from your cell phone because the call will go directly to Indianapolis instead of Speedway Fire Department. The number for Speedway Fire Department is Thank you.

5 Around the Archdiocese The Holy Angels Music Festival, Holy Angels Catholic Church is sponsoring their annual Music Festival Friday, June 8, 2012 from 5 pm-10 pm Saturday, June 9, 2012 from 3 pm-10 pm at 740 West 28 th St (317) There will be: Live Music, Food & Merchandise Vendors, Children Activities, Games of Chance, Community Information Booths. Right to Life of Indianapolis will be joining over 60 other cities across the country on June 8 at noon in hosting a Stand Up For Religious Freedom Rally in opposition to the HHS mandate at the Indiana State Capitol building. For more information contact Marc Tuttle , marc@rtlindy.org. SUMMER CAMPS FOR GIRLS - Make plans now for Camp Marian, Summer Camp filled with fun, food, fire and friends. This Camp is for girls who are currently in 5-8 th grade and is June Camp takes place by Lake Marian at our Benedictine Monastery in Ferdinand, Indiana. Call Sister Michelle at ex. 2830, or vocation@thedome.org. Cost: $45. A $10 non-refundable deposit is required. Camp size limited to 50 campers. Register online at Message from Fr. Dave Today is the Feast of the Holy Trinity, a dogma of our church as is our feast next Sunday Corpus Christi. A dogma is a doctrine promulgated with the highest authority and solemnity and as Catholics we are invited to embrace the mystery freely and fully, not only with our minds, but also with our hearts and souls. Throughout the centuries many have tried to explain the dogma/mystery of the Trinity in different ways. There have been many right-brain illustrations and symbols of the Trinity. The most famous being the Story of St. Patrick and the Three-Leaf Clover to represent, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, thus why we wear the green on March 17. On the other hand, there are other people with developed left-sides of the brain and they too try to explain the Trinity to us. Perhaps the one we accept more than others is Thomas Aquinas, the thirteenth century Dominican Priest known as the Angelic Doctor. St. Thomas has been an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in our church and his teachings we call Scholasticism. Every Catholic priest has studied Thomas Aquinas and, I might add, he is often very difficult to understand. He talks about the tremendous love of God, the Creator-God, the Mother-Father God, and their projected love, which created the Son of God. The Son, in loving the Father, created the Holy Spirit. All of this we try to express in our Profession of Faith. But neither the symbols of the right-side of the brain, nor the theology of the left-side of the brain takes us anyplace. All the knowledge in the world is not going to affect anything. It is only when you and I step through the Gateway in the concept of prayer and contemplation, that we find understanding of the Trinity. Yes, a dogma of faith but it is faith seeking understanding. All through the scriptures, both Old and New Testaments, we have these little vignettes, these little seeds that can activate our minds and hearts to be able to enter into prayer with The Holy Trinity. In Proverbs 8:22-31, the author talks about the creation of the world and says that when God created the clouds and the water, and the mountains and all that we know as nature, I was there. Then God danced on his creation, and looked upon this human race and He was very pleased. What a beautiful statement! And a dancing God! Has that ever been part of your prayer life, thinking about God dancing on His world, in creation and in the valleys and in the sunrise and in the sunset? Then He looked on His creation and God sees you and me, with our freedom and our humanity, with the gifts and abilities that we have been given to us and God was pleased. I suggest this is a strong motive for prayer and to enter into the mystery of the Holy Trinity. This is what we are to do with our theology and our dogma. Many times we are tempted to intellectualize them, and go through church history books and theology books and try to memorize every line and every fact. But this is not prayer. Prayer is recognizing a mystery and making it part of our spiritual journey and prime examples are The Trinity and The Body and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi). We do not and we cannot understand either dogma but it doesn t matter if we understand it or not. The mystery of the dogma is necessary for our faith. We recognize that there is something we do not understand and that we just have to take on faith, and we believe it to be part of the Unknown God. What does God look like? We think of God the Father as the old man with the white beard. We think about Jesus Christ as the one who walked around with a beard and long hair. And as we reflected last weekend we think of the Holy Spirit as a dove. But it is not important that we have a fixed concept of what the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit looked like. What is important is that we recognize the love that God has for us, and the invitation that is extended to us to come and play and dance in His creation. Our faith gives us that opportunity to have God look at us as we are, our fears, our joys, our sadness, or whatever it might be, and know that God is pleased with us. Now that is real prayer.