St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish 5361 Dry Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45252 (513)385-8010 Fax (513)385-8080 www.stjohnsdr.org MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am & 11:00 am Weekday & Holyday - See Bulletin PARISH OFFICE Rev. Timothy S. Kallaher, Pastor Deacon Ken Schnur, Pastoral Associate Deacon Vincent Lutz Douglas Schmutte, Pastoral Associate for Music/Liturgy Amanda Weickert, Director of Religious Education Rod Dunlap, Director of Youth Ministry Terri Reder, Business Manager Tom Cunningham, Plant Manager/ Maintenance Supervisor Michelle Zerhusen, Administrative Assistant PASTORAL COUNCIL Al Grote, Chairperson, 245-9943 Ryan Vitolo, Vice-Chairperson, 519-1518 Valerie Nimeskern, Secretary, 288-3254 David Eby, Member at Large, 385-7675 Steve Bissmeyer, Member at Large, 923-2633 Gene Culman, Member at Large, 385-6669 Shannon Meyer, Member at Large, 385-6970 John Stehlin, Member at Large,476-9665 Kevin Wood, Member at Large, 885-9860 Heather Smith, Development Commission Rep., 923-2893 Betty Dirr,, Faith Formation Comm. Rep., 385-3954 Sharon Bachman, Finance Commission Rep., 385-8267 Patti Rice, Worship Commission Rep., 385-5410 Larry Weinheimer, Communications Comm. Rep, 652-2563 RECONCILIATION: Saturday at 2:30 p.m. & Seasonal Service MARRIAGE: Call the Parish Office at least 6 months prior to your wedding. BAPTISMS: Call the Parish Office ANOINTING OF THE SICK/COMMUNION: Call Parish Office WELCOME NEW MEMBERS. Please contact the Parish Office CURRENT PARISHIONERS: Moving? New email? Contact the Parish Office. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL - 513-301-6881 1 Monday, May 23 8:30 a.m. Diane Kraemer/Dale & Marlene Tuesday, May 24 8:30 a.m. For the Residents Wednesday, May 25 8:30 a.m. Dorothy A. Kalkhoff/ Carl & Shirley Franke Thursday, May 26 8:30 a.m. Charlote Zerhusen/Family Friday, May 27 8:30 a.m. Al Becker/Zerhusen Family Saturday, May 28 4:30 PM Anthony A. Aday Sr./ Charles & Rosalyn McCafferty Sunday, May 29 PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS 8:30 a.m. For the Parish 11:00 a.m. Mary Kappner/Hazel Luken We extend our sincerest sympathy to the family and friends of Richard (Dick) Wurzelbacher May God give them strength during this difficult time. TABLE OF CONTENTS Area Information Page 6 Bulletin Sponsors Page 11 & 12 Family Fun Fest Page 4 Finance Report Terri s Tidbits Page 3 Liturgical Ministers Page 2 Musician s Notes Page 7 Office of Christian Formation Page 8 Parish Information Page 5 Save the Dates Page 6 Shopping Cent Page 3 This Week in our Parish Page 2 Youth Ministry - JH Camp Page 9
THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH LITURGICAL MINISTERS Monday, May 23 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Adoration, 9:15 a.m., Chapel Monday Martha s Group, 9:30 a.m. Rosary, 7:00 p.m., Chapel Tuesday, May 24 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Northgate Atria Young Adult Group, 7:00 p.m., POMR #2 Wednesday, May 25 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Thursday, May 26 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Garden Group, 9:15 a.m., Outside Church Joseph s Group, 9:00 a.m., POMR #2 Shopping Cent, 9:00 a.m., POMR#1 Thursday Martha s Group, 3:30 p.m., GS SJB 8th Grade Graduate Mass, 7:00 p.m., St. John Neumann Friday, May 27 All School Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Saturday, May 28 Reconciliation, 2:30 p.m., Reconciliation Chapel Mass, 4:30 p.m., Church Fair Trade Coffee Sale, 5:30 p.m., Parish Library Sunday, May 29 Mass, 8:30 a.m. Fair Trade Coffee Sale, 9:30 a.m., Parish Library Mass, 11:00 a.m. Fair Trade Coffee Sale, 12:00 p.m., Parish Library Youth Ministry, 7:00 p.m., YM Room Parish Library Spot In Keep it Simple, Emmanuel de Gibergues starts out helping us to understand what simplicity is. Then de Gibrgues explains how to practice simplicity toward God, one s self, and in all things. He concludes by stating how to be attentive to God s presence and how to learn simplicity from Mary and the Holy Spirit! This book brings the calming, transforming virtue of simplicity into every part of our busy life. Check it out. Saturday, May 28, 4:30 PM Mass Servers: M. Threm, L. Smith, H. Murphy Lectors: JoEllen Sundehaus, Joe Siefert Eucharistic Ministers: Taylor Greene, Diane Henschen, Frank Sunderhaus, Mary Ann Lennon, Philip Bissmeyer, Tom Sunderhaus Sunday, May 29, 8:30 AM Mass Servers: E. Gardner, B. Gardner, D. Wolterman Lectors: Amanda Weickert, Heather Gabriel Eucharistic Ministers: Bob Engel, Carolyn Engel, Matthew Fay, Dale Bosse, Sophie Betsch, Claire Sillies Sunday, May 29, 11:00 AM Mass Servers: J. Stidham, L. Stidham, J. Stidham Lectors: Jeanne Kreimer, John Gilmore Eucharistic Ministers: David Benkert, Renee Gilmore, Candisse Fejer, Matthew Fejer, Michelle Burke, Sam Moeller, Jonathan Molulon, Ben Molulon, Alyssa Molulon, Machell Kroner Wedding Banns II Melissa Parkinson & Zak Carlson PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD Readings for May 29, 2016 The Blood and Body of Christ Genesis 14:18-20 Melchizedek, as priest of God Most High, brings bread and wine. 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Jesus offers his disciples bread and wine as a memorial of himself. Luke 9:11-17 Jesus blesses the loaves and fish and hands them to his disciples to distribute among the crowd. 2
STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE MAY 15, 2016 COLLECTION REPORT Adult Collection (includes Electronic Donations) Children Collection St. Vincent de Paul Debt Reduction This Year to Date Last Year to Date Comparison to Last Year Adult Envelopes Children Envelopes Electronic Donators Thank You! SHOPPING CENTS Shoppers - new services to save you time! Call your order in on the hotline (699-6960 ext. 240) by Wednesday night and we will have it ready for pickup before/after weekend masses. Cash or check payment only. Sign up for ShopWithScrip and PrestoPay to order ecards or reload current cards (limited etailers). ShopWithScrip recently announced a mobile website so you can manage your ecards and Reloads and redeem them right from your Apple or Android device! If you would like more information please contact Linda Threm at lthrem01@gmail.com. We still need one more new face to join our team. It only takes less than hour per month. We have 1 openings before/after 4:30 Mass on 3 rd Saturday of the month. Please call the hotline (699-6960 ext. 240) if you can help out! 10,955.48 22.85 70.00 250.00 671,321.73 664,714.26 6,607.47 208 4 55 St. John West Chester Custodian Job Opening St. John West Chester is seeking motivated and qualified applicants for the full-time position of Custodian for their parish with over 2,500 families and a campus of 5 buildings. This position is listed on their website at www.stjohnwc.org/jobopenings.html. Please see website for job description and how to apply. TERRI S TIDBITS DID YOU KNOW THAT we patched the hole in the driveway by the cemetery last week? The orange cones where still up this morning because the blacktop still was soft. Someone took it upon themselves to move the cones and drive over the patch. The patch now has a nice big hole in it. So we get to try again. DID YOU KNOW THAT parishioner, Lois Warburg Sterwerf, was inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Basketball Hall of Fame on May 4 th? Lois played at McAuley High School. She was the first player to score 1,000 points in the Girls Greater Catholic League. She also played college basketball at Wright State where she scored 1,229 points, 702 rebounds and 67 blocked shots. She was also inducted into the Wright State Hall of Fame. Congratulations, Lois! DID YOU KNOW THAT Saturday was the Yard Sale for Help-A-Student? Thanks to everyone who donated such wonderful items and to all those who came to purchase something. A big thank you to Shannon Meyer and her team! Any items that were left were donated to St. Vincent de Paul. We made 555.14 for HAS. STEWARDSHIP FOR THE WEEK But when he comes, the Spirit of truth, he will guide you to all truth... JOHN 16:13 Jesus sent the Holy Spirit to help us know and live the truth. To prepare ourselves, we need to open our hearts to receive this gift before we can give it. Develop a daily prayer routine to ask the Holy Spirit to help guide our thoughts and actions. 3
THE MOST HOLY TRINITY St. John the Baptist Family Social Night Saturday, June 4 5:30pm -? St. John the Baptist ball fields Hot dogs, popcorn, water, lemonade all provided! Please bring side dish to share REDS game on the TV, activities for the kids Who should come? All St. John s families Why? To have fun meeting other families in the parish!!! Questions? Please contact Heather Smith at hbsmith@fuse.net 4
PARISH INFORMATION Memorial Day at St. John s Monday, May 30 Mass: 8:30 a.m. in the Daily Chapel Cemetery Service: 9:30 a.m. in the Cemetery (weather permitting) Wedding Anniversary If you are celebrating a 25 th, 40 th, 50 th, 60 th, 70 th or 75 th Wedding Anniversary in 2016, please call the parish office at 385-8010 by June 15. The 2016 Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass for couples celebrating their 50 th wedding anniversary will take place at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral on Saturday, August 27 at 4:30 pm. Most Reverend Archbishop Dennis Schnurr will be the principal celebrant. Vacation Bible School When: July 18 - July 22, 2016 9:00 a.m. - Noon Where: Drop off at Church Cost: 20 per child Catholic Order of Foresters A reminder : Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month. Starting this month, meetings will be held at St. John s Athletic Complex at 8:00 p.m. Feeding God s Children Event When: June 5, 2016 Where: Stehlin s Meats from 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Foresters will be collecting items listed as well as monetary donations for Healthy Moms and Babies. A light cookout will be offered. Items needed: Baby gates, cups, wipes, onesies, sunscreen; For moms: gift cards, personal hygiene items, umbrellas, ponchos. All parishioners are invited!! FOOD PANTRY NEWS Our Pastoral Area Food Pantry will be participating in the 13 Annual Freestore Foodbank Hunger Walk and 5K Run on Monday, May 30. Lace up your shoes and join us at 9:00 a.m. for the start of this year s race/ walk. The race begins near Paul Brown Stadium, goes over the Ohio River and ends at Smale Riverfront Park (detailed map is on line). To register or make a tax deductible donation in support of our team, log into Freestorefoodbank.org. Select donation to the Hunger Walk. Our team name is Corpus Christi Food Pantry and our team captain is Phil Arnold. All donations made to our Team will be put into our fund at the Freestore Foodbank to purchase food items throughout the year. 5 Registration forms and medical forms can be found on our website: www.stjohnsdr.org. For more information, please contact Anne Johns at ljohns@cinci.rr.com St. Vincent de Paul Next weekend, May 28 & 29 there will be a second collection for our St. Vincent de Paul Society. Just a reminder that second collections are taken on the fifth Sundays throughout the year to help fund this important ministry. FAIR TRADE PRODUCT SALE Fair trade coffee, tea, cocoa, olive oil, and other goodies will be available in the Parish Library Room located off the Gathering Space after Masses the weekend of May 28 & 29. Not only does your purchase support the Catholic Relief Services Fair Trade Program, the goodies make great gifts!! Thank You! Blue Jay Reverse Raffle Information Reminder: May 27 is the first Early Bird Drawing...GET YOUR TICKETS IN BEFORE THE 27TH!! We now accept credit cards. Forms may be found in the Gathering Space or on our website.
AREA INFORMATION Special Movie Event Two atheists, two terminally ill patients, an addict, a police officer, and a widower all journey to Medjugorje to investigate the claims surrounding the alleged Marian apparitions. What they discovered may surprise you. Learn how a veteran filmmaker documented an unlikely group of pilgrims as they investigated the world s greatest paranormal mystery in 2015. Coming to Xscape Theatres 14 Northgate on Monday, May 23rd at 7:00 PM. This special, one night only screening of the film, Apparition Hill, will benefit Pathway to Peace: The Patricia and Jessica Lutz Foundation. For tickets (10.00 each), please contact JanWolterman@gmail.com or call Jan at 513.478.5395. Annual McAuley Golf Invitational Calling all McAuley Alumni and all golfers!! It s time for the Annual McAuley Golf Invitational When: Friday, June 3 rd Cost: foursome-460, single-115 Includes: Buffett Lunch, Golf (Shotgun start), Shirt, door prize, Dinner, and awards. Help support athletics at McAuley, reconnect with friends, and sign up a foursome! Registration is at: www.mcauleyhs.net/golf2016 HEALING SERVICE with MASS- June 4, 2016 at 7:30 pm in St. Ignatius Church, 5222 North Bend Rd. Healing includes the physical, spiritual, emotional, psychological and relational aspects of our lives; it is not limited to a physical cure. You can receive prayer for yourself or any of your loved ones. God wants to give us far more than we can dream or imagine, so come and experience Jesus' healing power! Sponsored by Lighthouse Renewal Center. Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, Fiat Discernment Retreat June 9-12 A retreat for young Catholic women, ages 18-28, who want to learn more about consecrated life. Retreat will be held at St. Ann s Retreat Center in Melbourne, Kentucky. No fee. For more information or to reserve a room, please contact Sister Patricia Jean at 859-485- 6444 or sjwvocations@gmail.com before the deadline May 30. SAVE THE DATES St. John s Day Celebration Sunday, June 26 @ Noon In celebration of our patron saint, St. John the Baptist, we will grill out in front of Church after the 11:00 am Mass. We hope you join us for food and fellowship. St. John s Annual Summer Picnic Stricker s Grove Thursday, June 9 5:00 pm - 10:00 pm Park opens at 5:00 pm Rides open at 6:00 pm Food & drinks* available for purchase. *Please note that no alcohol may be brought into the Park. All bags are subject to search. Volunteers are needed to help in the food booth. Please consider donating an hour or two to help. To sign up, call contact Patti Rice at 513-919-6334 or via email at pattirice@fuse.net 6
T his weekend we celebrated the Feast of the Most Holy Trinity. The Church gives us this feast and next Sunday s Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ to sort of ease us back into Ordinary Time after the long ninety day stretch of the Lent and Easter. This is the longest stretch of Ordinary Time of the year, lasting 28 weeks. As we enter into this period of Ordinary Time, I will gradually introduce some newer hymns from our new Gather Third Edition hymnal. It s hard to believe that we ve had the hymnals in our pews for over two months now. During Easter Time, I used as much old music as possible to allow us to get acclimated with the basic layout of the book. Hopefully, you have noticed that it is pretty much laid out the same as our previous hymnal, and that has made navigating the hymnal very easy for you. However, during Easter I used two very nice new hymns. The first was entitled Ubi Caritas by composer Bob Hurd and the second was by Scott Soper entitled, Spirit Wind. Ubi Caritas was new to everyone in the parish. As I wrote a few weeks ago, Ubi Caritas is the title most used in our Gather hymnal. This setting is very flexible and can be used in many different places at Mass. We sang it as a communion hymn twice during the Easter Season. It actually worked out very well, because I had planned to use another piece, but with our choir rehearsal schedule, we were unable to prepare that piece. Then I came across Ubi Caritas with its simple, but beautiful refrain. This is a hymn we will use for a very long time. Last Sunday we sang Spirit Wind, for the preparation of the offerings. To most of our parish this was another new hymn, but some of you may have been thinking, I know I ve heard this piece before, but I just can t remember when. Well, if you have been to the Easter Vigil here over the last 16 years, you have sung this piece, only in a somewhat different setting. At the Vigil we use it as the psalm after the reading from Genesis about the creation of the world. When Mr. Soper wrote this piece, he wrote two different versions the one we use for the Vigil and the one in our Gather hymnal. The refrain is the same the verses are very different. So, if you heard this piece last week and thought it sounded familiar, that is why. We will use this piece quite frequently. THE MOST HOLY TRINITY MUSICIAN S NOTES BY DOUG SCHMUTTE 7 Now regarding today s feast of the Most Holy Trinity: most of the hymns we sang were very traditional hymns: O God, Almighty Father, How Great Thou Art, and Holy God, We Praise Thy Name. I guess when it comes to hymnody, it doesn t get too much more traditional. I mean that in the very best sense. They are some of my favorite hymns to sing and, like many of you, I have known them since I was a young boy going to church with my parents. We also sang a new piece (even to me!) with very Trinitarian themes by composer Paul Melley entitled, Let There Be Light. This hymn is written in a very contemporary setting very different from the other hymns. It has a very catchy refrain and very nice verses as well. I hope you liked it. It s one of those refrains that will continue to stay with you throughout the week. If you don t recall, the refrain was Holy and blessed Three, glorious Trinity, Wisdom, Love, and Might! Let There be light! Let there be light! This hymn may take a little longer to catch onto because of the style in which it is written, but it is another really nice text with not only Trinitarian themes, but also themes of light and love as well. Many, many months ago, I wrote about selecting music each week for our Masses. Each week I try to find a mix of both traditional and more contemporary hymns for us to sing. So, today, we sang mostly traditional hymns with one new hymn as well. Again, each week I am planning music to engage, hopefully, all the members of our assembly, ranging from ages 8 80. I try to select a broad range of hymns that will appeal to all members of our gathered community. So, over the last two months since we have had our Gather hymnals in our pews we have sung three new pieces Ubi Caritas, Spirit Wind, and today Let There Be Light. Over this long span of Ordinary Time, I will continue to add slowly new hymns to our parish repertoire. I hope you are becoming acclimated with our new hymnal and like it. As we learn more new hymns, the hope is that you will like it even more. I am very happy that we now have this wonderful new hymnal to help us worthily celebrate the paschal mystery each week as we gather together as a parish family. Have a great week everyone.
Office of Christian Formation Amanda Weickert aweickert@stjohnsdr.org It would be my joy to meet with you; please feel free to call or schedule an appointment any time! FORMED IN FAITH REGISTRATIONS DUE If you have a child in grades K-8 who does not attend a Catholic school please register them ASAP for one of our Formed in Faith opportunities. We have Summer, Sunday, and home-study options available. Please contact me if you have any questions or if there is anything I can do to support you in the faith formation of your child! The JOY of LOVE Within the family which could be called a domestic church (Lumen Gentium, 11), individuals enter upon an ecclesial experience of communion among persons, which reflects, through grace, the mystery of the Holy Trinity. Here one learns endurance and the joy of work, fraternal love, generous even repeated for giveness, and above all divine worship in prayer and the offering of one s life (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1657). The Church is a family of families, con stantly enriched by the lives of all those domestic churches. In virtue of the sacrament of matri mony, every family becomes, in effect, a good for the Church. From this standpoint, reflecting on the interplay between the family and the Church will prove a precious gift for the Church in our time. The Church is good for the family, and the family is good for the Church. The safeguarding of the Lord s gift in the sacrament of matrimony is a concern not only of individual families but of the entire Christian community. Exerpt from paragraphs 86 & 87 from Pope Francis post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation on the family titled Amoris Laetitia, or The Joy of Love. Find the full document online at vatican.va. to LOVE as GOD LOVES By Amanda Weickert Originally posted on theintrovertedevangelist.com The Eucharist, and the Mass in general, isn t really about Christ. We are certainly offered the opportunity to draw close to Jesus in a real and remarkable way, but this is the how not the what at the core of the Mass. What is the primary action of the Mass? We, the Church, unite with Christ to worship and draw close to the Father. We participate in Christ s salvific sacrifice on the Cross in our Eucharistic sacrifice; we too die to ourselves in obedience to the Father. We offer not only bread and wine but also our own dreams, joys, sufferings - our whole lives - as Christ did on the cross. Christ s sacrifice on Calvary so many centuries ago forged a new path: a path offering not only forgiveness and mercy but deification! This is the path to the Father we too follow at the Mass and in the Eucharist. Today s Feast of the Most Holy Trinity reminds us that we do not seek Christ alone, but God in each of the three persons of the Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit! As we choose to unite ourselves to Christ and accept God s grace in the Mass, the Holy Spirit transfigures us on our own crosses, drawing us into a more loving and trusting relationship with the Father! This week let s try to ask Jesus help whenever we are struggling (even if this means asking for his help to remember to ask for his help - I certainly pray that a lot!) Seek the Father - Be an Evangelist! Jesus Christ, Sacrifice of the Mass, thank you for opening a new horizon of life with your Father to us! Help us to grow each day in love and humility so that we can love as God loves: patiently, generously, selflessly, eternally. Help us to grasp the hope you offer us - the hope that we too in all our fallibility can truly become just like you. Amen! 8
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