St. Paul the Apostle Church

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1 St. Paul the Apostle 18 Woodlawn Avenue Joliet, Illinois April 4, 2010 Easter Sunday: Resurrection of the Lord This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad. Psalm 118 Faith is the beginning and the end is love. Parish Office: Parish Fax: School: Religious Education: Youth Ministry: RCIA: (Roberta Lemke) Parish ... We remember You, O Risen Lord. Rev. George Klepec, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Gregory Rothfuchs, Pastor... x240 Rev. James Lennon, Weekend Celebrant Deacon William Bevan, III Ellen Fischer, Parish Secretary... x200 Sr. Grace Henneberry, Administrator of Finance... x203 Mary Kay Robbins, Principal... x401 Sr. Karen Marie Lanigan, D.R.E.... x301 Jeremy Hylka, Liturgical and Youth Minister... x320 Lindsay Ermey, Development... x201 Weekday Masses: Monday Friday 7:30 AM (Fridays 8:30 AM during school year) Saturday Vigil: 4:30 PM Sunday Masses: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 AM Holy Day Masses: Variable check bulletin Reconciliation: (Confessions): Saturday 3 4 or by appointment Baptisms: Usually the 2nd Sunday of the month after the 10:30 Mass; a preparation meeting for parents is mandatory. Call the parish office before making any arrangements. Weddings: Engaged parishioners must contact the parish office at least 6 months before intended date. Call the Parish Office before making any arrangements. Homebound: Regular sacramental visits are provided to homebound parishioners upon request; please call the parish office. Hospital: Father makes regular sacramental visits to Provena St. Joseph Medical Center; please notify the hospital of your parish at registration. RCIA: Classes are offered from September to Easter for those interested in becoming Catholic. Becoming a Parishioner: Please contact the parish office to register; All Are Welcome!

2 St. Paul the Apostle 18 Woodlawn Avenue Joliet, Illinois Easter Sunday April 4, 2010 INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Holy Saturday, April 3 8:00 PM Intentions of the Adult Confirmandi Easter Sunday, April 4 7:30 AM Intention of the Celebrant 9:00 AM For The People of St. Paul the Apostle 10:30 AM Intention of the Celebrant Monday, April 5 7:30 AM Richard Devine Tuesday, April 6 7:30 AM Jack Fitzgerald Wednesday, April 7 7:30 AM William Murdock Thursday, April 8 7:30 AM William Crossen III Friday, April 9 8:30 AM Alfonso Bichara Next Saturday, April 10 4:30 PM Nicholas Portegys Next Sunday, April 11 7:30 AM Edward & Catherine Tierney Joseph Kozar 9:00 AM Jean Czajkoski 10:30 AM For The People of St. Paul the Apostle 3:45 PM Intentions of Divine Mercy NEXT WEEKEND S LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS TIME LECTORS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS Saturday, April 10 4:30 PM - A Kokosz/ M Schlegel C Soyao, L Ermey, R Ward, R Lemke, A Stiff, P Larranaga, Sister Seeley, P/C Wilda Sunday, April 11 7:30 AM - L Deiss/ A Henderson L Hilke, C Schultz, A Prock, M Schwerha, P Stroud, J Peceniak, C Borio, C Lukowski, T Ciesla 9:00 AM - J Bene/ L Hoffman L Nichols, M Theobald, D/M Gross, J/R Nahas, P Gimbel A/F Theobald 10:30 AM - C Nowak/ B Bodach P Bodach, M/M/E Knorr, B Bayci, R DiGiulio, J Hatfield J Mangun, J Bebar Next Weekend s Servers: Saturday, April 10 4:30 PM - A Bebar, C Alejos, N Ciarlette, B Kohler Sunday, April 11 7:30 AM - R Kasheimer, A Orlando, J Simon, E Cora 9:00 AM - N Brozyna, K Knorr, R Slattery, T Taylor 10:30 AM - A/V Hir, A Hylke, K Rand READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 2:14, 22-33; Mt 28:8-15 Tuesday: Acts 2:36-41; Jn 20:11-18 Wednesday: Acts 3:1-10; Lk 24:13-35 Thursday: Acts 3:11-26; Lk 24:35-48 Friday: Acts 4:1-12; Jn 21:1-14 Saturday: Acts 4:13-21; Mk 16:9-15 Sunday: Acts 5:12-16; Ps 118; Rv 1:9-11a, 12-13, 17-19; Jn 20:19-31 Reflection on Stewardship As stewards of God's Good News of the Resurrection, let us live as a people of life, giving thanks for the Faith we celebrate today. March 14 : $16, ( This amount includes Direct Donation.) Budgeted per week: $20, SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Easter Sunday: Resurrection of the Lord Monday: Easter Monday Tuesday: Easter Tuesday Wednesday: Easter Wednesday Thursday: Easter Thursday Friday: Easter Friday Saturday: Easter Saturday

3 Easter Sunday April 4, 2010 To Him all prophets bear witness, that everyone who believes in Him will receive forgiveness of sins through His name. Will you recognize Him? The gospel accounts of Easter morning have always perplexed me. In John s telling of the story, Mary Magdalene caught sight of the Risen Jesus and mistook Him for a gardener. In Luke s account, the women who went to the tomb saw two men in dazzling garments who told them that Jesus had risen, but the women did not see Jesus. Later that same day, two disciples walked and talked with Jesus on the road to Emmaus, but did not recognize Him until He later broke bread with them. Mark provides an account of that day in which the Risen Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene and later on, as two of His followers were walking to the country, He was revealed to them completely changed in appearance. Grief, anxiety, fear, and self-centeredness all distort our perception of reality. Our past experiences, good or bad, affect the way we respond to the present. Could it be that even the closest followers of Jesus were so wrapped up in grief, fear, and past misperceptions that they could not recognize the Risen Lord for who He truly is? Will you recognize Him if you see Him this week? Can you see His face in the people you meet who long for the Hope of Easter: in the small child begging for attention; in your squabbling kids in the back seat on a long car ride; in the sullen neighborhood teenager struggling to come to grips with a family break-up; in your spouse or best friend who wants some attention from you; in the lonely resident of a nursing home; in the desperate faces of disaster victims on the news? It seems that our world is full of people who are desperately in need of the hope of new life that only the Risen Christ can give. Jesus said that He came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill it and that LOVE is the fulfillment of the law! Jesus did the unimaginable, turning an instrument of horrible torture into a sign of hope for all the ages. The cross is a symbol of the Perfect Love that overcame death and sin to give hope and new life to us all. As Catholic Christians, we are called to bring others closer to Christ by recognizing Him in everyone we meet, and bringing His love to them all: the ignored child, the squabbling kids, the sullen teenager, the neglected spouse or friend, the lonely nursing home resident, the overwhelmed disaster victim. Reach out in love and Christian charity to those in need, and be the face of Jesus to them. Happy Easter! - Mary Kay Robbins Pray for the Sick Please remember in your prayers, the following people who are seriously ill and others who are suffering with long-term illnesses: Sami Henderson, Eugene Oetter, Helen Locher, Michael Fieterer, Gary Pausen, Isabelle Tyrell, Jodie Adler, Erin Bartel, Mary Madden, Gilbert Dumyahan, Gerard Colagrossi, Linda Klover, Jeanie Nunuue, Marianne Gulas, David Dorke, Tom Mowbray, Amy Remallard, Laura Criel, Kurt Palmer, Jay Gentile, Kathy Peterson, Nancy Zimmer, Louis Toka, Marie Richards, Kay Prock, Lisa Savero, John Mowbray, Mason Briese, Peter Hylka, Marian Jehle, Shirley Max, Sally Drauden, Anthony Bebej, Jamie Hakey, Bernie Hastings, Joe Bertino, Rev. George Klepec May they and their families be comforted by our prayers and Our Lord s compassion

4 Parish News Notes from REP... Easter is an Alleluia Day! Hope you all have many ALLELUIA-PRAISE GOD moments throughout this 50 day celebration. Happy Easter from all the REP staff and volunteers. There are no REP classes on Monday, April 6, due to the Easter break. Classes will resume on Monday, April 12 at 5:45 pm. This weekend, Easter Sunday, the Offertory gift bearers are the Bailey family at 9 am and the Anderson/Perez family at 10:30am. Next weekend, April 10-11, the Escobedo family will carry the gifts at 4:30 pm on Saturday, the Bartelt family at 9 am and the Regal family at 10:30 am on Sunday. Paulite Reminder: April 7 at 5pm The Diocese of Joliet will give the presentation A Guide to my Last Wishes Rooms A 2-3 of the Activity Center. Copies of the booklet will be given to all who attend. Help Needed for Works of Mercy Every Tuesday morning several of our parishioners go to Villa Franciscan to bring the Eucharist to the Catholic residents there. This is an important spiritual work of mercy since without this weekly visit, the residents would not be able to receive our Lord as frequently. There is a need for more people to help with this ministry. You do not have to be a current Eucharistic Minister and, since it is a team ministry, you will receive the necessary training and will not have to do it alone. Please call Fr. Greg if you can help. Please join in praying the DIVINE MERCY NOVENA, This started Good Friday, April 2 and continues until April 10. This is in preparation for a special celebration of the Feast of Divine Mercy on Sunday, April 11 at St. Paul the Apostle: with 2 p.m. confessions, 3pm prayers, and 3:45pm Mass. Call for novena prayers. St. Paul s FOLLOW Youth Ministry Some upcoming events in Youth Ministry: Open Night Mon., Apr. 12 from 7:30 to 9:00pm. Peer Ministry Meeting Tues., Apr. 13 from 5:00 to 5:45pm. FOLLOW Night Tues., Apr. 13-5:45 to 7pm Social, 7 to 9pm FOLLOW...Rosary before meeting at 6pm. Confirmation Ushering Fri., April 16 starting at 6pm. Pro-Life Rally in Aurora Sat., April 17 from 8am to noon. FOLLOW Weekend Retreat April for all high school students. Go to the website for flyers and forms! New Address for St. Charles Pastoral Center: 101 W. Airport Rd. Romeoville, Il

5 Calendar News Easter Sunday, April 4 9:00am Mass 10:30am Mass Monday, April 5 (All Buildings/ Offices are closed ) Tuesday, April 6 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration 9:00am K/C prepare for Paulite Dinner AC Kitchen 3:00pm Volleyball 6:30pm Boy Scouts SH 7:30pm Baptismal Prep A-1 Wednesday, April 7 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration 3:00pm Volleyball 3:00pm Paulite Set Up A-4 5:00pm Diocese presentation to Paulites A 2-3 5:30pm Paulites Dinner A-4 Reminder: All buildings close at 9pm. After use of rooms, please be sure to leave them clean and turn off all lights! Confirmation, Friday, April 16, 7pm. First Holy Communion, Saturday, May 1, Noon Anointing Mass, Saturday, May 29, 8am. Thursday, April 8 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration 3:00pm Volleyball 3:30pm Interviews By Dianna A 2-3 5:00pm Wedding Reh. 6:00pm Choir Practice Friday, April 9 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration 4:30pm Wedding Saturday, April 10 10:00am Volleyball 3:00pm Confessions 4:30pm Vigil Mass 5:30pm Music Ensemble Sunday, April 11 9:00am Mass 10:30am Mass 11:30am Baptisms 11:30am Book Fair A 2-3 Noon Private Party A-4 2:00pm Divine Mercy Confessions 3:00pm Divine Mercy Chaplet 3:45pm Divine Mercy Mass 7:00pm Adult Men s Basketball Please remember our Parish in your will Contact Lindsay Ermey # 201 GIANT$100,000 RAFFLE Drawing is May 16th at the Ice Cream Social It is time to promote the raffle! Take those tickets around to every event you attend. Have them at hand as people emerge from their homes in the neighborhood. Give them the good news! Raffle tickets are available for as little as a $10 share of a ticket. Sellers Raffle Remember, for every 2 tickets you sell you receive a chance in the Seller s Drawing for $5,000 in prizes. For every 10 tickets sold, you receive a free ticket in the Giant Raffle as well as 5 chances in the Seller s Drawing. Additional Tickets Available from: Parish Office School Office

6 Statement by Cardinal Francis George, OMI -The Cost is too High; the Loss is too Great March 16, 2010 The Catholic Bishops of the United States have long and consistently advocated for the reform of the American health care system. Their experience in health care and in Catholic parishes has acquainted them with the anguish of mothers who are unable to afford prenatal care, of families unable to ensure quality care for their children, and of those who cannot obtain insurance because of preexisting conditions. Throughout the discussion on health care over the last year, the bishops have advocated a bipartisan approach to solving our national health care needs. They have urged that all who are sick, injured or in need receive necessary and appropriate medical assistance, and that no one be deliberately killed through an expansion of federal funding of abortion itself or of insurance plans that cover abortion. These are the provisions of the long standing Hyde amendment, passed annually in every federal bill appropriating funds for health care; and surveys show that this legislation reflects the will of the majority of our fellow citizens. The American people and the Catholic bishops have been promised that, in any final bill, no federal funds would be used for abortion and that the legal status quo would be respected. However, the bishops were left disappointed and puzzled to learn that the basis for any vote on health care will be the Senate bill passed on Christmas Eve. Notwithstanding the denials and explanations of its supporters, and unlike the bill approved by the House of Representatives in November, the Senate bill deliberately excludes the language of the Hyde amendment. It expands federal funding and the role of the federal government in the provision of abortion procedures. In so doing, it forces all of us to become involved in an act that profoundly violates the conscience of many, the deliberate destruction of unwanted members of the human family still waiting to be born. What do the bishops find so deeply disturbing about the Senate bill? The points at issue can be summarized briefly. The status quo in federal abortion policy, as reflected in the Hyde Amendment, excludes abortion from all health insurance plans receiving federal subsidies. In the Senate bill, there is the provision that only one of the proposed multi-state plans will not cover elective abortions all other plans (including other multi-state plans) can do so, and receive federal tax credits. This means that individuals or families in complex medical circumstances will likely be forced to choose and contribute to an insurance plan that funds abortions in order to meet their particular health needs. Further, the Senate bill authorizes and appropriates billions of dollars in new funding outside the scope of the appropriations bills covered by the Hyde amendment and similar provisions. As the bill is written, the new funds it appropriates over the next five years, for Community Health Centers for example (Sec ), will be available by statute for elective abortions, even though the present regulations do conform to the Hyde amendment. Regulations, however, can be changed at will, unless they are governed by statute. Additionally, no provision in the Senate bill incorporates the longstanding and widely supported protection for conscience regarding abortion as found in the Hyde/Weldon amendment. Moreover, neither the House nor Senate bill contains meaningful conscience protection outside the abortion context. Any final bill, to be fair to all, must retain the accommodation of the full range of religious and moral objections in the provision of health insurance and services that are contained in current law, for both individuals and institutions. This analysis of the flaws in the legislation is not completely shared by the leaders of the Catholic Health Association. They believe, moreover, that the defects that they do recognize can be corrected after the passage of the final bill. The bishops, however, judge that the flaws are so fundamental that they vitiate the good that the bill intends to promote. Assurances that the moral objections to the legislation can be met only after the bill is passed seem a little like asking us, in Midwestern parlance, to buy a pig in a poke. What is tragic about this turn of events is that it needn t have happened. The status quo that has served our national consensus and respected the consciences of all with regard to abortion is the Hyde amendment. The House courageously included an amendment applying the Hyde policy to its Health Care bill passed in November. Its absence in the Senate bill and the resulting impasse are not an accident. Those in the Senate who wanted to purge the Hyde amendment from this national legislation are obstructing the reform of health care. This is not quibbling over technicalities. The deliberate omission in the Senate Bill of the necessary language that could have taken this moral question off the table and out of play leaves us still looking for a way to meet the President s and our concern to provide health care for those millions whose primary care physician is now an emergency room doctor. As Pope Benedict told Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel H. Diaz when he presented his credentials as the United States government s representative to the Holy See, there is an indissoluble bond between an ethic of life and every other aspect of social ethics. Two basic principles, therefore, continue to shape the concerns of the Catholic bishops: health care means taking care of the health needs of all, across the human life span; and the expansion of health care should not involve the expansion of abortion funding and of polices forcing everyone to pay for abortions. Because these principles have not been respected, despite the good that the bill under consideration intends or might achieve, the Catholic bishops regretfully hold that it must be opposed unless and until these serious moral problems are addressed.

7 News from other Parishes & Organizations April 12, 6-8pm, Discernment Group for men thinking of being a Priest at the John Paul II house in Joliet. Call April 14 at 7am, Spring Prayers Breakfast at Joliet Franciscan Center. Call #116 for info. April at St. Charles Pastoral Center for troubled marriages. Call May at the Bellarmine Jesuit Retreat House, a St. Raymond sponsored silent retreat for women. Call April 25 at 10am, Open House at Resurrection Cemetery. Diocesan Pastoral Council, seeking one male rep. 3x/yr meetings to discuss issues facing the with the Bishop. Call hr Catholic Radio Station WAUR 930 AM/ Catholic Charities needs volunteers 55 & Over to aid in many areas. Call # 125 for details. On behalf of Fr. George, Fr. Greg, Fr. Jim, Deacon Bill and the Staff of St. Paul the Apostle, we wish all many Blessings during this Easter Season. St. Paul the Apostle School One in faith, one in service, one in Christ Take a CLOSER look at our Preschool Program New for Extended All Day Preschool for 3& 4 yr. olds We offer a preschool program to fit everyone s need: 5-Day (Morning Session with Extended Day Care) (3&4 year olds. 5-Day (Afternoon Session) Preschool (4 Year Olds) 3-Day (Morning Session) Preschool (3&4 year olds) 2-Day (Morning Session) Preschool (3year olds) Call ( TODAY for a tour & more information. Now registering for school year. Call (815) TODAY for a tour & more information.