ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST 08/02/2015 PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS LITURGICAL MINISTERS PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD TABLE OF CONTENTS

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1 PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS Monday, August 3 8:30 AM Carol Wurzelbacher/Bill & Pat Stites Tuesday, August 4 8:30 AM For the Residents Wednesday, August 5 8:30 AM Pat & Jessica Lutz/Anonymous Thursday, August 6 8:30 AM Kathryn Nieder/Theresa & Lewis Caddell Friday, August 7 8:30 AM Ollie & Jean Blust/Gary, Jan, Gerry & Don Saturday, August 8 4:30 PM For the Parish Sunday, August 9 8:30 AM Joe Boeing/Jean Purtell 11:00 AM Len Dourson/St. John s Seniors LITURGICAL MINISTERS Saturday, August 8, 4:30 PM Mass Servers: M. Threm, A. Threm, M. Gehring Lectors: Elaine Reardon, Steve Bissmeyer Eucharistic Ministers: Kathy Wood, Nancy Schuster, Ed Brutz, Tom Sunderhaus, Frank Sunderhaus, Mary Ann Lennon Sunday, August 9, 8:30 AM Mass Servers: M. Gabriel, MJ Gabriel, S. Keil Lectors: John Stehlin, Roger Smallwood Eucharistic Ministers: Donna Sunderhaus, Meghan Gabriel, Sophie Betsch, Bob Engel, Carolyn Engel, Sandie Kasse Sunday, August 9, 11:00 AM Mass Servers: A. Dorsch, G. Lees, E. Gerbus Lectors: Kristin Watson, Jack Hart Eucharistic Ministers: Joyce Behrmann, Janet Lees, Hailey Tensing, Amanda Naciff, Candisse Fejer, Matthew Fejer, Andrea Neff, Michelle Burke, Mike Burke, Amanda Burke PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD READINGS FOR AUGUST 9, 2015 NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 1 Kings 19:4-8 Elijah complains that he has suffered enough. God feeds him and sends him on his way. Ephesians 4:30 5:2 We are encouraged to stop our bad behavior and to follow Jesus example. John 6:41-51 Jesus told the people to stop complaining and to look for real food, the living bread that guarantees eternal life. TABLE OF CONTENTS Are You Aware Page 3 Bulletin Sponsors Page 10 & 11 Festival News Page 6 Finance Report Page 3 Food Pantry News Page 8 Liturgical Ministers Page 1 Musician s Notes Page 4 One Faith, One Hope, One Love Pages 7 Youth Ministry Page 5 1

2 THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH Monday, August 3 Adoration, 9:00 AM, Chapel Monday Martha s Group, 9:30 AM Rosary, 7:00 PM, Chapel Tuesday, August 4 Mass, 8:30 AM, Northgate Park Young Adult Group, 7:00 PM, POMR#2 Wednesday, August 5 1F1H1L Meeting, 7:00 PM, Gathering Space Thursday, August 6 Shopping Cent, 9 AM, POMR#1 Joseph s Group, 9 AM, POMR#2 Thursday Martha s Group, 3:30 PM Friday, August 7 Saturday, August 8 Mass, 4:30 PM Sunday, August 9 Mass, 8:30 AM Mass, 11:00 AM PARISH LIBRARY SPOT A parishioner, who recently checked out Through the Year with Fulton Sheen compiled and edited by Henry Dieterich, commented that it was a delightful book! Bishop Sheen was the first to introduce media television and r a d i o i n t o C a t h o l i c evangelization. In this book Bishop Sheen is at his best master storyteller, preacher, and faithful servant of Christ with words of encouragement, counsel, and direction for each day of the year. CHECK IT OUT!! VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Thank you...thank you...thank you... There are not enough thank you s for all of the wonderful people who made Vacation Bible School 2015 such a blessed success To the teachers for your time, talent, and treasures Mary Ellen Thome, Sarah Roettker, Annie Frazee, Amanda Dreyer and Eileen Molulon. To their assistants for all of your help to make things go so smooth Trisha Maddux, Michelle Burke, Sandi Kasse, Julie Dietsch, Cathy Dreyer, and Mary Workman. To our Craft lady, Patty Dailey, who gives lots of time and funds to make our crafts great To Nathan Hart who kept us entertained with songs, and skits and Caroline Middendorf, Cameron Middendorf, Amanda Burke, Sarah Dreyer for helping in a variety of ways.. To all of the student helpers who gave their time during summer break to help out. And to all of the parents Who brought your children each day to learn more about Jesus And to the children who attended VBS For allowing us to be blessed by your unconditional love for Jesus Christ!!! And mostly Thanks to God for His unwavering love and for all that He gave us to make the week so very special. Many, many thanks to all the children and parents who donated school supplies for those in need which will be distributed by our Food Pantry. Corpus Christi Blood Drive... Our semiannual blood drive is just around the corner...aug. 14, 2015, 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm, in Francis Hall. You may sign-up after Mass on the weekends of Aug. 1 & 2 and again Aug. 8 & 9 [in the Gathering Space]. Let's exceed the goal set by Hoxworth of 65 units. You may call Hoxworth at or on line a at or call the Corson's at The Little Sisters of the Poor are hosting an Open House on Sunday, August 30, 2015 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm. The Sisters home is located at 476 Riddle Road in Clifton, OH For nearly 150 years the Little Sisters have provided a Home for the elderly poor of our community. The Open House offers an opportunity to learn about the Sisters history and mission; as well as tour the Sisters convent, gaining a glimpse into their daily life of prayer and service. For more information call or visit littlesistersofthepoorcincinnati.org.

3 STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE JULY 26, 2015 COLLECTION REPORT Adult Collection (includes Electronic Donations) Children Collection Debt Reduction Flower Fund St. Vincent de Paul This Year to Date Last Year to Date Comparison to Last Year Adult Envelopes Children Envelopes Thank You! 10, , , , ARE YOU AWARE BY DONNA SUNDERHAUS ARE YOU AWARE that last week was corn day? We tried something different this year; we got 100 dozen on Friday and 200 dozen on Saturday. Had a good crew on Friday and just shucked and cleaned the corn; that way we were able to begin cooking right away on Saturday where in the past we had to wait on corn to get ready to cook. We still got a little behind but nothing like in years past. Saturday was wonderful; over 70 great folks showed up and many hands made for a lighter load for us all. We were finished shucking, cleaning, cooking, cooling, packing, freezing, cleaning up and all tarps washed and put away by 2:30 pm. Thanks is not enough for all of you who added this function to your calendars. Thank you so much!!! RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT SHOPPING CENT Back to school sales are already starting. Shopping Cent carries Meijer, Wal-mart, Target, Toys R Us, Walgreens, JC Penny, Kohl'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! SHOPPING CENT is sold 1/2 hour before and after each Mass on Saturday and Sunday. STEWARDSHIP Each day the people are to go out and gather their daily portion; thus will I test them, to see whether they follow my instructions or not. Exodus 16:4 When the Israelites gathered more than their daily portion of manna, the surplus became wormy and rotten. In the same way today, God calls us to be content with a fair portion and to be willing to share the rest. ARE YOU AWARE that while we are on Festival preparation; let me add that workers are needed in many booths, chicken dinner and donations are appreciated. There is a list in the gathering space of items needed. We are also looking for items to help stuff baskets for the Tisket A Tasket Booth. ARE YOU AWARE have set the goal of 5,000 food items to help with Food for All: Be Multiplied campaign to collect items from now to June of That sounds like a long time but that would be almost 100 items a week. We currently average from items so we need to step it up if we want to do our share. The items will go to Corpus Christi Food pantry. So check your cupboards, check the sales and let s see if we can get that number up some. See page 8 of the bulletin for more details. Thank you. I HAVE LEARNED that line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships. 3

4 THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME MUSICIAN S NOTES BY DOUG SCHMUTTE This weekend we sang the same gathering hymn as last weekend, All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly. Two weeks ago, we sang the hymn Come To Me, O Weary Traveler. Over these three weeks I have NOT used the melody or tune that is written in our Gather hymnal. For the past two Sundays we have used the hymn tune HYFRYDOL and today we used the hymn tune IN BABILONE. You may ask the question, why not just sing the tune written in our hymnal. I ll use this weekend s hymn as an example. All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly is a hymn text written by Sylvia Dunstan, whom I wrote a bit about last week. The tune in Gather is by liturgical composer Bob Moore. I think it s a very nice tune, but in subsequent editions of the Gather hymnal, this text is set to other hymn tunes. So, I figure why learn this specific tune, when at some point we will get new hymnals and this text is written to an entirely different tune. So, the past two weeks, I used the hymn tune HYFRYDOL and this weekend we sang the tune IN BABILONE ( There s a Wideness in God s Mercy. ) So, you might wonder how that works? I wish I could say I just do it, but it s actually pretty simple. Every hymn tune has a meter. Now remember a hymn tune is different than a hymn. An example I used a few weeks ago is Alleluia, Sing to Jesus is the name of the hymn and the text but not the name of the melody or HYMN TUNE. If you would look at the bottom of every hymn in Gather it will almost always in very small print say text and underneath that say tune. Next to text it will give you the name of the person who wrote the words to the hymn and the dates they lived. Or it may just have a b. and then a date. That simply is the date of their birth and given that there is no end date, it means that composer is still living (at least at the time the hymnal was put together). Next to tune you will normally see the name of the hymn tune to which this text was ascribed, and then usually some numbers. Again, I ll use the example of Alleluia, Sing to Jesus. The tune is HYFRYDOL and then it has the numbers D. This is the meter of the hymn. It s actually very simple. The numbers are the number of syllables in each phrase of the hymn. For example, in this hymn there are 4 phrases. The first one has 8 syllables, the second 7, the third 8 again, and the fourth 7 again. Then the D simply means double(d). So, in Alleluia Sing to Jesus there are 4 phrases with the above meter which is doubled. The great thing about hymns and meters is that you can use any hymn tune with a meter of D and sing any text to that hymn tune. That is why we were able to sing All Who Hunger, Gather Gladly to HYFRYDOL, because it has that meter. As I stated above this weekend (because I didn t want to sing HYFRYDOL three weeks in a row), I changed the hymn tune to IN BABILONE which also has an D meter. So, if you re ever wondering why what I m playing doesn t match what you re reading in Gather, that is why. I hope you found this helpful and have a better understanding of how hymn texts and tunes differ and how each tune has a specific meter which can be used for multiple texts. Have a great week!! ATTENTION 2015 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES God has blessed you and guided you so far along your journey. Please join your fellow St John the Baptist graduates as we give thanks for His many blessings at the 11:00 mass on August 9, Following Mass we will continue the celebration with lunch. Don t miss this chance to reconnect with friends before you move onto the next phase of your life! We are asking that you please arrive at 10:45 and sit in the green chairs to the left of the altar. Father Tim will be delivering a special blessing for all of you. Please RSVP to Michelle Burke at mmburke@fuse.net or text to I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me - Philippians 4:13 4

5 Young Adult Ministry This past Tuesday night our Young Adults met for a Gospel reflection, awesome discussion, and fellowship afterwards. They also discussed some future service opportunities and outings for the summer. If you are in your 20 s/30 s and wish to join us please contact Rod Dunlap at rdunlap@stjohnsdr.org or Junior High Ministry This past week several of our Junior High School students attended a camp with other students from St. Ignatius and St. Ann s. They had an awesome week of fun and games as well as opportunities for spiritual growth! More information and pictures will be provided for in next week s bulletin. A more detailed update will be provided in next weeks bulletin. Pictures from the High School Field Day and the Jr. High camp will be posted. Thank you.. 5

6 THE EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FESTIVAL NEWS More Festival Supplies Needed Please see the two displays in the Gathering Space highlighting the items needed. Please note that the need for 2 Liters are for name brands only such as Coke, Mountain Dew, etc. The 2 Liters are used in the Ring Toss booth. Cathy Ulrich, who chairs the Basket Booth, is also requesting donations for this booth. Please contact Cathy at with any questions. When festival rolls around we will be in need of home grown tomatoes and cucumbers...also those fantastic deserts...items are for the best Chicken Dinner in town!! Want to help in some way but not sure how? Call Michelle in the Parish Office at !!! CHICKEN DINNER VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!! Can you help this year? If so, please Marcia at marciaschmidt@cinci.rr.com. Please...if you plan on helping, please let Marcia know. Many people have said She knows I always come... Well, just make sure Marcia knows you are coming by giving her a quick call or . If you have never worked the dinner before, don t be shy. Sign up and join us. The dinner is a lot of work but is also a lot of fun. Great a group of friends together and work a table together Blue Jay Reverse Raffle Up To 20,000 Grand Prize Pool Awarded on Sunday, August per ticket Ticket Request Forms are available in the Parish Office, Gathering Space or send an to bluejay@theowensgroup.net. The winner of the July 31 Early Bird drawing will be announced next week. 100 tickets remaining!! Get your 2nd/3rd ticket now before they are gone!! Festival Dates & Times Friday, August 14-7:00 pm - 12 am Saturday, August 15-6:00 pm - 12:00 am Sunday, August 16-12:00 pm - 10:00 pm Festival Help Still Needed Only One Booth Chair needed for: Ring Toss Get a group together and have some fun!! For more information on what is involved in being a booth chair, please contact Michelle in the Parish Office at ext

7 Our Parish St. John the Baptist s Parish was established in 1860, due to the large number of Catholic families in Colerain Township. Though, at the time, the distance to the nearest Catholic church was only five miles away, the residents wanted a church to call their own. Now, 155 years later, the Catholics of Colerain Township continue to call St. John the Baptist their own. One Faith, One Hope, One Love Building a Strong Diocese and Strong Parishes Parish Projects S t. John s is a growing community of faithful families, vibrant with the presence of God. We believe deeply in worshipping god in a way that is reverent, joyful, beautiful, and welcoming to all. We look, to one another as family when we join in prayer and share our time generously with each other and God. We look ahead to the blessings and challenges that await us as we continue to minister to our unique Catholic community. We look forward with hope and pledge to continue to serve and grow as a faith community. An enduring quality of many people who call St. John the Baptist their spiritual home is their commitment to charity and sacrificial giving. Our generosity is well known and this has allowed our parish to continue to respond to the changing needs of the Church. We now have an excellent opportunity to raise funds for our parish through the efforts of the archdiocesan campaign, One Faith, One Hope, One Love. This campaign will enable the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and St. John s to raise significant funds towards the current needs of our beloved parish. Our minimum need is 950,000 over a five-year period. St. John s will receive (20%) of these funds. Our share of funds will be used towards: Ensuring the church and school facility is environmentally sustainable by reducing our use of electricity Rehabilitation the parish center flooring Ensuring the church facility is handicap accessible Paying down on our outstanding debt Our Parish Goal: 950,000 Pledges to date: 586,570 Percentage of Goal: 62% 7

8 CORPUS CHRISTI FOOD PANTRY NEWS Food for All: Be Multiplied Archdiocese Response to Hunger Inspired by Pope Francis Pope Francis has made a call to action to end hunger by In conjunction with this upcoming visit to Philadelphia in September, we, as an archdiocese, will present the pope with a spiritual bouquet of 1,000,000 food items to be collected between now and next June. This food items will go to local food banks. In the Sign of the Multiplication of Loaves and Fish (as St. John called it in last week s gospel), Jesus fed over 5,000 people. A young boy gave Jesus a little (five loves and two fish) and he multiplied it to feed an impossible number of people. Each parish of the archdiocese is asked to collect 5,000 food items during this time for our food pantry at Corpus Christi. If everyone would give just a little a few times, we would easily match and even surpass this amount. Imagine how we would impact hunger in our own backyard! Thank you for your Support Simply Give Campaign Our Pastoral Area Food Pantry has been selected to participate in the Meijer 2015 Fall Simply Give Campaign at the Meijer Store in Colerain on Stone Creek Boulevard. The campaign begins on Sunday, July 19 and ends on Saturday, September 12. There will be donation cards at each parish and also at check-out aisles at Meijer. When you make a 10 donation with these cards at the check-out, Meijer matches that donation to be 20. Double Match Days will be September 3 thru September 5. When a 10 donation is made these days, Meijer matches with 20 and this comes back to the Food Pantry as 30. The Simply Give Campaigns have always been a very successful fund raiser for our pantry. During last Fall s campaign we earned 26,820 thanks to all of the parishioners and others in the community making a donation while shopping at Meijer. We re hoping to earn even more money with this campaign!! Pantry Items Needed The Pastoral Area Food Pantry is in need of the following items: noodles (in particular egg noodles), canned fruit, jelly, soup (any kind), Chicken Helper, canned ravioli and condiments such as mayonnaise, ketchup and mustard and personal care products of shampoo/conditioner, deodorant and facial tissues. Any help you can provide with obtaining the above products is greatly appreciated and will count toward our goal. 8

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