Churches of St. Mary Mechanicsville - Tipton

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1 Churches of St. Mary Mechanicsville - Tipton November 2-3, 2013 Liturgical Year C Thirty-first Sunday In Ordinary Time Father Hitch, Shared Pastor hitchd@diodav.org Phone: or Tipton 1st, 3rd, 5th Saturday at 5:10 PM Every SUNDAY 10:00 AM Weekday Masses: Tuesday/Thursday 8:00 AM Mass Times Mechanicsville 2nd and 4th Saturday at 5:30 PM Every SUNDAY 8:00 AM Weekday Masses: Wednesday/Friday 8:00 AM Mass Intention for November 2-10 Nov 2 T Sat. 5:10 pm. All Souls Day Nov 3 M Sun. 8:00 am. Mary Salemik Nov 3 T Sun. 10:00 am Mark Burmeister Nov 4 No Mass Nov 5 T Tues. 8:00 am Clergy Day - No Mass Nov 6 M Wed. 8:00 am Clerty Day - No Mass Nov 7 T Thur. 8:00 am Special Intention Nov 8 M Fri. 8:00 am Special Intention Nov 9 M Sat. 5:30 pm The Sick Nov 10 M Sun. 8:00 am Youth of Parish Nov 10 T Sun. 10:00 am LaForest & Ruth Jedlicka I t seems to me.. On Monday noon through Wednesday noon the priests of the Diocese will gather in Iowa City for our Annual Clergy Days. Our presenter for the days will be Sister Dianne Bergante, a renowned Old Testament Scholar. Her topic will be the Psalms At each weekend Mass we pray one of the Psalms. They are written to be sung, but unfortunately, are spoken at some parishes. Many of the Psalms were composed by David. We might be familiar with the setting of the time the Hebrews were held in captivity by the streams of Babylon. We sat and wept. The Old Testament scriptures have 150 Psalms. We use them at various times during the church years. Check and see what Psalm we are using this weekend, especially the refrain. Christmas Mass Schedule: Mechanicsville: 4:30 PM Christmas Eve, Fr. Hitch 8:30 AM Christmas Morning, Fr. Hitch Tipton: 5:10 PM Christmas Eve, Assistant 9:00 PM Christmas Eve (The Midnight Mass), Fr. Hitch 9:00 AM Christmas Morning, Assistant St. Bernadette s Annual Fall Soup Supper and Bake Sale 507 Orange St. West Branch, Iowa Sunday, November 10, 2013 Serving from 3:00 to 7:00pm Featuring: Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, Chili, Pie, Cake, Ice Cream & Beverage Adults $6.00 Children 3-10 $3.00 Carry Out Available Sponsored by Catholic Order of Foresters Court 2176 Mechanicsville 302 Reeder ST., POB 457, Mechanicsville, IA mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: Tipton 208 Meridian St., POB 309, Tipton, IA tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone:

2 Page 2 St. Mary s Tipton WEB Info: ST MARY TIPTON 208 Meridian St., POB 309, Tipton, IA tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone: St. Mary s Tipton Church Collected October Envelopes $ 2, Offertory Total $ 2, Next Week Lectors November 9-10, 2013: 5:30 PM Mechanicsville 10:00 AM Jill Kofron SERVER LIST: nov 3 Charli and Sydney nov 10 Kaden and Kole nov 17 Haylee and Madelyn nov 24 Zoe and Paige Tipton s town-wide Thanksgiving Service will have a change this year. Instead of the service being on Thanksgiving Eve, it will be on the Sunday before Thanksgiving (November 24) at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church. Speaker for the service will be Father Hitch. dec 1 Charli and Sydney dec 8 Haylee and Kole dec 15 Haylee and Charli dec 22 Kaden and Bob St. Mary's Annual Christmas Bazaar: This year's bazaar will be held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013 from 9:00am-2:00pm. There will be crafts, a cookie walk and food stand with soups, sandwiches and pies. Each family is asked to bring 3 dozen cookies for the cookie walk. General Guild Meeting: All women of the parish are invited to attend the Annual Guild Meeting at St. Mary's Parish Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013 at 6:30pm. A free catered meal will precede the meeting. Please make your reservation by calling Julie Larson If your cookies contain nuts, please label them as such with the kind of nut. Please avoid bringing chocolate chip cookies. The hall will be open Thursday and Friday before the bazaar from 7:00am-7:00pm if you would like to drop off your cookies Betty Wright has invited her friends and fellow parishioners to share her CarePages. You may go to carepages.com. You will need to sign up for an account if you do not have one already. It is a very simple process! Once you are signed in, do a search for BettyWright (all one word, NOT case sensitive) and you will be able to both follow her journey with cancer as well as have opportunity to offer her prayers and encouragement. Betty thanks you in advance for joining her support system! Faith Formation-Tipton TIPTON FAITH FORMATION NOVEMBER K 8: 9 a.m. in the Hall, Sundays November 3, 10, 17 High School / Confirmation Class: 7 p.m. in the Hall, Wednesdays November 6, 13, and 20. Confirmation Class monthly Mass: Sunday, November 17, meet in the Hall at 9 a.m., then to Mass together at 10. Adults and interested High School Students: Shape of Worship class meets immediately following the 10 a.m. Mass this month on November 17. The calendars for the entire Faith Formation year can be found and downloaded from St. Mary s parish website The Shape of Worship All Welcome! November 17 immediately following Mass Parish Hall Eucharist; What happens on Sunday?

3 St. Mary s Mechanicsville WEB Info: Page 3 Page 3 St. Mary Mechanicsville Oct 26-27, 2013 collection: $ Operation BackPack: The "bagging session" for November will be on Thursday, Nov 21 at 2:30-3:45 at the Methodist Church. Volunteers are always welcome! Contact Shirley Jarzombek if you would like to volunteer! The MCC Food Pantry is planning to continue giving Thanksgiving Boxes to our clients in November. These distributions will be on Thurs, Nov 21 and Sat, Nov 23 at the regular distribution hours. We are preparing boxes for this event. The churches of Mechanicsville have offered to help with this project by collecting food items for these boxes. Methodists are collecting cans of pumpkin; Presbyterians are collecting boxes of instant vanilla pudding; St Mary's is collecting boxes of stuffing mix. For example, Stove Top Stuffing or any brand of a stuffing mix. There will be a box at the church entrance to "stuff with stuffing mix"! These need to be collected by Nov 10. November 2013 Ministries Eucharistic Sat John Donohoe Diane Schroeder Judy Aberle Sun Donna Robinson Rick Swan Jane Malaby Lector Sat Gretchen Sutherland Josh Poduska Ushers Sat Jerry Ortman Mike Koch Host Family 11/3 Jim Droll Family 11/10 Larry Platner Family 11/17 Alan Svatosch Family 11/24 Bob and Sharon Boyd Altar Set-up Sat Gretchen Sutherland Sun Patti Lehrman Money Counters Sun Vicki Bendixen Jerry Inman St Mary Mechanicsville 302 Reeder ST., POB 457, Mechanicsville, IA mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: MCC Food Pantry: During the month of October we served 45 families (consisting of 72 adults, 54 children and 20 seniors). We registered 2 new families and 24 of the 45 families utilized the pantry twice this month. Thank you to all of our volunteers that helped with the pantry this month. Our next HACAP order was placed for approximately 800 pounds of food. This order is scheduled for pickup on Tuesday, November 5 th at 2:00 pm. We will need help at the pantry unloading, bagging and shelving this order around 2:45 pm. We will be providing Thanksgiving baskets to our clients again this year. These baskets will be distributed on Thursday, November 21st and Saturday, the 23rd. We are planning to purchase even food for 80 Thanksgiving boxes. The baskets will contain a turkey or ham, potatoes, stuffing, gravy mix, veggies, ingredients to make a pumpkin cream pie. The pantry has graham cracker crusts. If anyone sees any of these items on sale, let Scott know. We will plan to assemble the boxes on Wednesday evening, November 20 th at 5:30 at the Pantry. The Scouting for Food drive took place on Saturday, October 12 th. Our pantry received the donations from the towns of Mechanicsville and Stanwood. We estimate that nearly 2,000 of food was donated through this collection. Thank you to the Mechanicsville and Stanwood Boy Scouts for their on-going support of our pantry through this project. --Scott Schroeder Upcoming Events and Programs at Benet House Retreat Center are posted on the bulletin board at the church entrance. Special Collection: A collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services will be taken up in conjunction with Veterans Day on November Please pick up a flyer and envelope for this special cause on the table at the church entrance. New Missalettes! We will be receiving new missalettes, Breaking Bread beginning with Advent. These are a full year missal which includes music and are published by Oregon Catholic Press. New practices; old traditions: 1) You will be given an opportunity to greet the people around you before Mass. 2) You are asked to hold hands during "Our Father" even across the aisle. 3) Toddlers and elementary aged students are asked to bring their offering up the center aisle with the gifts at Items for the Mechanicsville portion of the bulletin should go to Shirley by Wednesdays of each week. Shirley will send them to Maureen in Tipton by Thursday noon. You may contact Shirley by dropping off items to her home, by using either address: rsjarzom@netins.net or mechstmary@diodav.org. or home phone or church phone

4 Page 4 St. Mary s Mechanicsville WEB Info: Reading I : Wisdom 11:22-12:2 To God, the universe is a drop of morning dew. Wisdom literature in the Bible is a rich source of spirituality. In this passage, we are assure that God will have mercy on us always. We are reminded that God created all that is, and loves all that he created! Reading II : 2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2 We pray for you always. Paul prays that the community in Thessalonica may be faithful to the message preached about Jesus Christ. He addresses the rumor in the community that Christ would be returning soon, a common belief in the early years of the Faith. He urges them not to be agitated by this rumor, but to go on living their lives faithfully. Gospel : Luke 19:1-10 Zacchaeus wanted to see Jesus. Here we see Jesus' compassion and sense of justice reach a peak. He demonstrates his love of the sinner by eating with them, something that would have been seen by his detractors as very out-of-place for a rabbi such as Jesus. But as usual, he persists and teaches a valuable lesson: take in the outcast and sinner first and they will later be healed. Stewardship: A Way of Life And how could a thing remain, unless you willed it; or be preserved, had it not been called forth by you? Wisdom 11:25 These words from the Book of Wisdom, remind us that every single gift, skill, talent or blessing that we have has been called forth for us from God. The incredible abundance that surrounds us is all given to us by our heavenly Father for a reason. These gifts are not given for us to hoard but rather for us to share.

5 G St. Mary s Mechanicsville WEB Info: Page 5 A t that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man, was seeking to see who Jesus was; but he could not see him because of the crowd, for he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus, who was about to pass that way. When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said, "Zacchaeus, come down quickly, for today I must stay at your house." And he came down quickly and received him with joy. When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying, "He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner." But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, "Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor, and if I have extorted anything from anyone I shall repay it four times over." And Jesus said to him, "Today salvation has come to this house because this man too is a descendant of Abraham. For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save what was lost." Luke 19:1-10 R R Questions of the Week Theme: Jesus' love transforms all people and all things! Breaking Open the Word Suggested text for faith sharing: Today s Gospel Step One: Listen to the Word. As you listen to the familiar story in today s reading, what wordor phrase catches your ear? What image from the story strikes you? Step Two: Look into Your Life Question for Children: Jesus showed that he loved Zacchaeus by having supper with him. How does Jesus show his love for you? Question for Youth: Jesus saw Zaccheaus as he was mistakes and all. What masks, if any, do you hide behind so others won't see who you really are? Who do you trust to see your true self? Question for Adults: Why do you suppose Jesus was so kind to Zacchaeus? What lesson do you draw from this reading regarding those who are considered "public sinners" today? ZACCHAEUS AND THE SYCAMORE Jericho is a city of turning points. It is an oasis that serves as a crossroads between Galilee and Jerusalem and between Israel, Jordan and Egypt. It is here that Jesus will take the road that will lead to Calvary. It is also the home of a hated and rich, mercenary tax collector named Zacchaeus. His fellow Jews see him only as a collaborator with the Roman occupation forces. He has reached the peak of his career but is unsatisfied. He has few if any friends. His last chance may be to reform by turning to Jesus. Being short of stature, he climbs a sycamore tree. This is not the stately plant of America, nor that of Eurasia. It is a variety of fruit tree, often known as the "poor man's fig". There is a bit of satire in the fact that he climbs a plant grown for the impoverished

6 St. Mary Churches, Mechanicsville - Tipton Website information for both parishes: Refresh our information, PLEASE!! Parish:(circle 1) St. Mary Mechanicsville St. Mary Tipton New to St. Mary s? Old to St. Mary s but have a new , new cell phone #, new mailing address? We are always trying to keep our records up to date and would so very much appreciate having any/all of this information refreshed! Please , telephone, mail, or clip and drop this form in the basket. THANK YOU!!!!!! Name/s: Address: Phone: Cell Phone/s: /s: BISHOP S ANNUAL APPEAL: Please carefully consider your pledge to the Annual Diocesan Appeal. As your pastor, I would like to see all parishioners participate in this annual effort. If you do not have an envelope, you can clip below portion from the bulletin, fill it out and put it in a regular envelope to mail to the Diocese. You can also drop your contribution in our collection basket and we will mail your envelope to the Diocese for you. Our Goal for this year is: Mechanicsville $12,108 and Tipton $25,826 Diocese Mailing Address: Annual Diocesan Appeal Diocese of Davenport 780 West Central Park Avenue Davenport, Iowa