Lumen Christi CATHOLIC

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1 Lumen Christi CATHOLIC COMMUNITY 2055 Bohland Avenue Saint Paul, MN Phone We are called to be the Light of Christ in the world. Mission Statement January 6, 2019 The Epiphany of the Lord

2 JANUARY 6, 2019 Calendar Sunday, January 6 Epiphany National Migration Week Food Market Collection Music Ministry: Handbell Choir at 8:30 Mass Faith Formation Family Celebration 9:00 am CR Children s Liturgy of the Word at 10:30 Mass Music Ministry: Adult Choir at 10:30 Mass Epiphany Concert 2:00 pm CH Monday, January 7 Eucharistic Adoration 8:15 - Noon Tuesday, January 8 Pastoral Care Ministry Day of Reflection 1:00 pm 1CON Parish Council Executive Comm. 5:30 pm 1CON Wednesday, January 9 6th Grade Family Mass Noon Prayer Shawl 5:30 pm GA Adult Choir 6:30 pm CH RCIA 6:30 pm Rm 237 Ch Thursday, January 10 Senior Yoga 2:00 pm CR Adult Faith Formation Comm. 6:30 pm Rm 237 Handbell Choir 6:30 pm CH Friday, January 11 Men s Group 6:30 pm 1CON Saturday, January 12 Confession 3:30-4:00 pm CH Baptisms at 4:30 Mass Music Ministry: Adult Choir at 4:30 Mass Coffee & Donuts New Parishioner Registration Sunday, January 13 Coffee & Donuts New Parishioner Registration Faith Formation 9:00 am 2nd Fl. Classrooms Children s Liturgy of the Word during 10:30 Mass Families Moving Forward Arrives Grief Group, Thurs., January 10, 9:00 10:00 am We welcome all who have suffered a loss of someone or something of value, recognizing that grief is individual, yet it is often eased when shared with others. Lumen Christi and Nativity meet together monthly at Nativity in the Bride s Room, located in the lower level of the church. The group is guided by trained grief facilitators. Contact Torrey Cramer-Elsner with questions. Parish News Epiphany Concert This Weekend! Sunday, January 6, 2:00pm Lumen Christi Catholic Church Celebrate the culmination Today s of Readings the Christmas season by attending the Epiphany Concert, featuring the music ministers of Lumen Christi. The Adult, Youth, Handbell Choirs and Instrumentalists will perform works from Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany, and the audience will have the opportunity to sing some carols, as well. The concert is free and open to the public, so invite your friends and family! A reception with homemade treats and hot cider will follow. Please pray for the following parishioners who have died recently: Jim Johnson Maxine Donovan May they rest in peace with our risen Savior. Thank you Music Ministry! I want to thank the members of our Music Ministry for all their talent, dedication, and hard work to our Adult Choir, Cantors, Handbell Choir, Instrumentalists, Junior Choir Cherub Choir and Worship Aide Crew. Our Christmas Masses were enriched by the sharing of your gifts. We are blessed. - Mary Poepping, Director of Music Food Market Collection, January 5/6 Thousands of St. Paul families face hunger. Every day, children in our community go to bed hungry because their families can t afford the food they need to grow. Right here in St. Paul, one in five families struggles with hunger. Neighborhood House is committed to providing fresh, healthy foods to participants at their Food Markets, but the need is great. Help to ensure that hungry children, families, and seniors in our neighborhood have the food they need to be healthy and happy. Thank you for your support. Thank you for your donations of 850 lbs. of food December Families Moving Forward Arrives January Lumen Christi will support and house families who are experiencing homelessness starting next week. If you have not signed up yet check out: LumenChristicc.org for the link to Sign Up Genius or Get Involved/Families Moving Forward to find out more about this program.

3 LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Pastoral Musings ~ Christmas 2018 The shadows fall. The stars appear. The birds begin to sleep. Night embraces the silent half of earth. A vagrant, a destitute wanderer with dusty feet, finds his way down a new road. A homeless God, lost in the night, without papers, without identification, without even a number, a frail, expendable exile lies down in desolation under the sweet stars of the world and entrusts Himself to sleep. -Thomas Merton, Hagia Sophia n pastor time, the cycles which nourish I happen only after the child has been born. Once the Christmas machine has wound down, I can find time to warmly recall the people who have nurtured this little life of mine. I am completing twelve years in the parish, 40 in the ministry. It has been an unexpected, and increasingly exhilarating ride. Much has changed in the Church since ordination -- along with my own journey, and this mysterious world in which we live. Good friends and colleagues have passed away this year and yet they remain a part of me and I am for ever grateful for having them in my life. Change methinks is all about endings and beginnings and the necessary relationship between the two. I am hopeful that what I may have lost is now found in bits of wisdom. Christmas always causes me to delight in the little of life the brilliant sunshine on bitter cold winter days, the always unexpected response of parishioners to the needs of those on the margins, the hints and guesses of maturity I see in my grandniece and grandnephews, the challenge and support of my priestbuddies, the ever-faithful love of my family and the many kindnesses of God all of which I so often take for granted. I do not want to overlook you. I pray that amid the general harriedness of a homeless God in a wearied world that he might have found a home in your heart this season. Father Paul Today s Readings Finding God The splendid magi, all sparkle and dash and solemnity, march right up off the pages of Matthew s Gospel and into our churches today. Matthew alone tells us this grand and seductive story so that we might see the light and know that the child these magi visited is the fulfillment of prophecy, the king of the world that stretches to the magi s home country and beyond, right down the ages to us. We too see and understand anew. Like the magi, our patron saints for this day, we see in the newborn child the king of the universe and light of the world. Like the magi, we find in ourselves a new faith and a new life. Like them, we return to our home by a new route. We are asked to come away from this festive season ourselves renewed and awake to the presence of God among us. We are asked to find God where God is to be found, to be attentive and surprised and ready to bow down in adoration and to offer our gifts. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. Prayer for the New Year God of every time and season, you give us another year to fill with new beginnings. We have so many dreams for this year, so many promises we want to keep, so many new habits we want to learn. Yet so much from last year is still left undone. Erase our failings of the old year, clear away the decay left by our complacency, and wipe clean the slate of broken covenants from the year gone by. As the calendar changes and the old gives way to the new, help us not to dwell on the past but to use its memory to move us ever forward to your kingdom. Renew our hope and strengthen our resolve so that we may serve you faithfully through every season and walk joyfully each day of the year. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. Diana Macalintal Financial Stewardship Thank you for your gift of $6, for the Missionary Cooperation Plan. You personally share in the Good News of Christ proclaimed to the world. Archdiocese of St. Paul & Mpls Center for Mission Your donation to Lumen Christi helps us continue our ministries. Thank you.

4 LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC COMMUNITY National Migration Week Check the Social Justice bulletin board and lumenchristicc.org to learn more about Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration, including a link to the USCCB website with many resources. Refugees: La Sagrada Familia By Kelly Latimore Immigration 101, Sunday, Jan. 10, 11:45 am Join us in the First Floor Conference Room for an objective, non-partisan look at issues of asylum, how migrants enter and stay in the U.S., and deportation. Presented by the Immigration Law Center of MN. Seniors PRIMETIMERS FEBRUARY EVENT The James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History Wednesday, February 6 We will start our day with lunch at Olive Garden Restaurant, then proceed to the Bell Museum for a one hour guided tour. Walking through the University of Minnesota s Bell Museum is like walking through space, history and time. It features remarkable dioramas from Minnesota s woods and prairies and stars a life size woolly mammoth. There is also a curiosity shop for your shopping pleasure. Board the bus: 10:45 am Leave Lumen Christi: 11:00. Return about 3:45 pm Cost: $48 per person includes bus, tours, & lunch Please pay $15 dues (9/1/18 to 6/1/19) if not yet paid. Make check/reservation slip to Lumen Christi Prime- Timers and send or bring to the church office. Reservation Deadline: Monday, January 21 Questions? Call Shellee or Pat PRIMETIMERS FEBRUARY EVENT The James Ford Bell Museum of Natural History Wednesday, February 6 Name(s): Phone: Amt. enclosed: Lunch Choice (Please pick 1): Italian Meatball Sandwich with fries Chicken Parmigiana Sandwich with fries Spaghetti with Meat Sauce Bowl Council Connections The Discipleship and Parish Life Ministry Council has been reflecting on how to build a better understanding of what it means to be a more welcoming community. This is the true calling of a Disciple, to bring God s presence to others through our own gentle actions of warmth and regard to all. The Ministry Council is also exploring how Lumen Christi can be more involved with supporting young adults in the parish and their spiritual development and fellowship. There are also discussions about further drawing connections between Highland Catholic School and Lumen Christi by planning another event in early There was great success with the new school year welcome in early September, and the Ministry Council wishes to continue that partnership building. Faith Formation Council discussed remarks from large group meeting re: it s not all about what to do but how we do it. - How are we welcoming to people and families who may feel marginalized in our programs, and in pain because of this? Finance Ministry Council Follow up to Fall Stewardship responses including second mailing for those that did not respond. - Planning for integrating Welcoming Strategic goal into our ministry work, leadership development and wider parish and staff opportunities. School Ministry Council - School headcount is 416. Preschool is 80, with about half continuing on to Highland Catholic. - Consider connecting Kinder parents with Preschool word of mouth. - Discussing Men s Club involvement in Block Party and larger concept party. - Ministry Council is working on framework of a Strategic - Parish connection need to understand perceptions of school and parish community; start with research. - Plan should be shared with parish to make sure we understand where we need to go and that we re going there together. Social Justice/Pastoral Care (SJ/PC) - Parishioner David Miller spoke about Listening House and its needs. LCCC s annual collection is the biggest collection it gets; organization needs skilled board members. - Discussing how to prioritize activities. What we collect on weekends says something about this. Should MC have more of a say in this? - Discussed strategic vision presentation by Torrey - New Pastoral Care documentation system; Befrienders volunteer recruitment/training. Worship Ministry Council 1. Welcome parents, as well as children, to serve at Mass. 2. Recruit more participants to serve Mass, by personal interaction with families at events like Coffee and Doughnuts. 3. Sr. Jeanne has 18 new volunteers to serve Mass and will train them, after she receives some information from families.

5 LUMEN CHRISTI CATHOLIC COMMUNITY Faith Formation Baptism Class Baptism class this month is at St. Thomas More on Saturday, January 12. If you d like to attend, please contact Phyllis Hamill-Little in the Lumen Christi parish office. Faith Formation Faith Formation classes resume next Sunday. Perhaps the new year will open up some time for you to teach once or twice a month. Our 4 th and 6 th graders would welcome you! Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little for details. Lumen Christi Library Located down the main hallway SHARING THE WISDOM OF TIME by Pope Francis and Friends. This beautiful book shares wisdom carved from life experience of elders in more than 30 countries. From a blind basket-weaver in Kenya to a centenarian midwife who has delivered 10,000 babies, every story is a testament to the power of faith, perseverance, human resilience, and love. Visit our library at the end of the hallway on the east end of the building. Save the Date: Catholic Schools Week Celebrate Hi-C! January 27 - February 2 10:30 Mass January 27 Highland Catholic Showcase in the Gathering Area Twin Cities Survivors Peace Circle Saturday, January 19, 12:30 2:00 pm Pierre Bottineau Library Meeting Room (First floor, east side of building), 55 Broadway St. SE, Mpls. Open to all who have experienced the trauma of clergy sexual abuse. An opportunity to gather victims/survivors/ thrivers in a safe, supportive environment to share their experiences, listen to others, and explore healing. All are welcome and privacy is respected. Contact Jim with questions, concerns or comments: Community Volunteer Opportunities St. Mary s Health Clinics St. Mary s Health Clinics, a ministry of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondolet, provides free health services to many uninsured persons. Services provided include the patient s visit to the clinic, lab tests, diagnostic tests and most medications. The clinics are staffed by volunteer licensed physicians and nurses, as well as admissions personnel and interpreters. Needs include: physicians or nurse practitioners, nurses, admitting, Spanish interpreters, and drivers. To discuss these opportunities, please call Chris Hanson, Abria Pregnancy Resources Abria Pregnancy Resources offers a safe, nonjudgmental and supportive environment for women and couples facing an unexpected pregnancy. Our clients experience friendship, hope, and encouragement through positive and life-affirming medical and personal support services, education, and resources. Abria Pregnancy Resources seeks volunteers to join in their mission of helping women and couples facing an unexpected pregnancy. We greatly need volunteers in Resource Navigation and Parent Education. Resource Navigators are a source of connection and support for clients. Parent Education Facilitators support clients by providing curriculum-based learning that empowers them to confidently assume their parenting role. Training provided. Locations in St. Paul and North Minneapolis. Info: Gwen, , supporters.abria.org. East Side Learning Center The East Side Learning Center is looking for reliable volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring for students in grades K-3 who currently read below grade level. ESLC staff prepare personalized lesson plans that are delivered by our volunteer tutors in 30 minute sessions. We offer services at five sites on St. Paul s east side and our programs run from 8:00-4:30 Monday - Thursday. Help a student succeed, even for just 1 hour a week. Contact Erin.Koegel@eslcmn.org,

6 MASS INTENTIONS Saturday 5 4:30 pm Clair Galdonik Sunday 6 8:30 am 10:30 am Lumen Christi Monday 7 7:45 am Tuesday 8 7:45 am Wednesday 9 7:45 am Thursday 10 7:45 am Friday 11 7:45 am Michael Campion Saturday 12 4:30 pm Celeste O Donnell Sunday 13 8:30 am Lumen Christi 10:30 am Millie Sanders THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD HYMNAL 899 TODAY S READINGS First Reading Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! The Lord shines upon you (Isaiah 60:1-6). Psalm Lord, every nation on earth will adore you (Psalm 72). Second Reading The Gentiles are coheirs, copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel (Ephesians 3:2-3a, 5-6). Gospel Magi from the east arrived, looking for the newborn king of the Jews (Matthew 2:1-12). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 1 Jn 3:22 4:6; Ps 2:7bc-8, 10-12a; Mt 4:12-17, Tuesday: 1 Jn 4:7-10; Ps 72:1-4, 7-8; Mk 6:34-44 Wednesday: 1 Jn 4:11-18; Ps 72: 1-2, 10, 12-13; Mk 6:45-52 Thursday: 1 Jn 4:19 5:4; Ps 72:1-2, 14, 15bc, 17; Lk 4:14-22a Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13; Ps 147:12-15, 19-20; Lk 5:12-16 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21; Ps 149:1-6a, 9b; Jn 3:22-30 Sunday: Is 40:1-5, 9-11; Ps 104:1b-4, 24-25, 27-30; Ti 2:11-14; 3:4-7; Lk 3:15-16, 21-22

7 Lumen Christi Catholic Community 2055 Bohland Ave., St. Paul, MN cc.org Pastor Fr. Paul Feela x102 Highland Catholic School 2017 Bohland Ave., St. Paul, MN Jane Schmidt, Principal Please call for a tour. Staff Parish Records Paula Almer palmer@lumenchristicc.org x108 Office Manager, Communications Michaela Bisanz x117 mbisanz@lumenchristicc.org Maintenance Supervisor Lindell Blanchette x112 lblanchette@lumenchristicc.org Pastoral Care Coordinator Torrey Cramer-Elsner x105 tcramer-elsner@lumenchristicc.org Faith Formation Asst. Jan Fuchs jfuchs@lumenchristicc.org x119 Faith Formation Phyllis Hamill-Little x103 phamill-little@lumenchristicc.org Maintenance Ron Johnson x115 rjohnson@lumenchristicc.org Youth Ministry Karen Kirkhoff x120 kkirkhoff@lumenchristicc.org Music Mary Poepping x107 mpoepping@lumenchristicc.org Parish Director Ryan Rehkamp x114 rrehkamp@lumenchristicc.org Principal Jane Schmidt x106 j.schmidt@highlandcatholic.org Liturgy Sr. Jeanne Wiest, OP jwiest@lumenchristicc.org x116 Mass Schedule Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 am Monday - Friday 7:45 am Sacrament of Penance Saturdays from 3:30-4:00 pm or by appointment Office Hours Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm New Parishioners Registration for new parishioners is offered after all Masses the second weekend of every month, Sept - June. Please join us! To Find Out About Becoming Catholic Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little Sacramental Prepara on Baptism A Baptism Preparation class for new parents is offered monthly and Baptisms are celebrated once a month. Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little First Penance & Eucharist Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little Confirmation Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little Christian Marriage Contact Fr. Paul Feela before setting your wedding date, at least 6 months in advance of the wedding date you would like. Pastoral Visits / Communion for the Sick Contact Torrey Cramer-Elsner Sacraments for the Sick & Dying Contact Fr. Paul Feela Anointing of the Sick At the onset of serious illness or before serious surgery. Sacrament of the Dying (Viaticum) At the beginning of the dying process or after a terminal diagnosis. Funeral Arrangements Contact your funeral home first and they will make the arrangements with the parish. Liturgical Ministers, Environment, Intercessions Contact Sr. Jeanne Wiest, OP Adult, Junior, Handbell Choirs, Cantors, Instrumentalists Contact Mary Poepping Parish Library Located down the main hallway from the Gathering Area. Prayer Line Call , x101 or volunteer@lumenchristicc.org Announcements Bulletin Articles are due by Thursday at noon, a week before the article is in the bulletin. texts to mbisanz@lumenchristicc.org. Mass jwiest@lumenchristicc.org by Tuesday at noon for the coming weekend. Limit announcements to weekend events in the Gathering Area or parish-wide events in the coming week. VIRTUS Training All adult volunteers and employees who have regular contact with youth are required to receive background checks and VIRTUS training. Contact Phyllis Hamill-Little or register at SafeCatholicSPM.org If you or someone you know has been abused, your first call should be to law enforcement of child protection officials. Archdiocesan Vic m Assistance Hotline:

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