SAINT AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH JANUARY 7, 2018 The Epiphany of the Lord And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them, until it came and stopped over the place where the child was. They were overjoyed at seeing the star, and on entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother. 5130 Wilson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110 Matthew 2:9-11 Parish Office Hours Monday Friday 8am - 4pm Phone: 314.771.1228 FAX: 314.771.0454 St. Ambrose School Phone: 314.772.1437 PARISH MISSION STATEMENT We, the members of St. Ambrose Parish, believe that, through our faith and baptism, we have been called to give witness to the values of Jesus as expressed in the Gospel and teachings of our Church. www.stambroseonthehill.com
SAINT AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH PARISH STAFF IMPORTANT INFORMATION Msgr. Vincent Bommarito........Pastor Rev. Mr. Daniel Tracy...Deacon Rev. Mr. Joseph Fragale.Deacon Sharon Gambaro..Bookkeeper Jenn Kelly....Secretary Parish Office Directory: 771-1228, mailbox #: Msgr. Vincent Bommarito... 1.....frvinceb@gmail.com Jenn Kelly.2.....jkelly@stambroseonthehill.com Sharon Gambaro 3...sgambaro@stambroseonthehill.com Masses Monday - Friday...6:30 am School Masses (While School is in Session) Tuesday & Friday.8:00 am Weekend Masses Saturday.........5 pm Sunday....7, 9 and 11 am Communion Service Saturday 7:30 am Holy Day Mass Schedule 6:30 and 9 am, 12:00 noon Confession Saturday 4:00-4:30 pm Adoration Each Friday 8:30 am-12 pm when school is in session. Rectory Office Hours: Monday - Friday - 8 am - 4 pm Use entrance located between rectory and school. St. Ambrose School 5110 Wilson Ave. (314) 772-1437 http://school.stambroseonthehill.com/ Barbara Zipoli.......Principal 114...bzipoli@stambroseonthehill.com Linda Gambaro........Secretary 116 Marriage Call the pastor to discuss your wedding arrangements. You may have a wedding at St. Ambrose if you have been an active member of the parish for at least six months. RCIA Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults If you are interested in learning more about the Catholic faith, please speak with Deacon Joe Fragale at 314-282-0739. Classes are on Wednesday evenings, beginning Oct. 18 and continuing until Easter. Eucharistic Ministers/Lectors If you would like to volunteer to help with this ministry, please call the rectory. St. Vincent de Paul Society For more info please call 289-6101, ext 1131. Choirs To join the Sunday choir, contact Gary Scott at the rectory. Bulletin Articles are due at least 8 days before distribution. E-mail articles to Jenn Kelly jkelly@stambroseonthehill.com PSR Contact the South City Deanery PSR Nancy Haselhorst at 314-773-3070. Leave a message. Children s Liturgy of the Word This is a short worship service for children aged 3-10 years. The service is offered during each 9 am Sunday Mass during the school year.
MASS INTENTIONS FOR THIS WEEK Monday, January 8 6:30 am Lillian Sanders Tuesday, January 9 6:30 am Antonia Gualdoni 8:00 am Gina Marciano Wednesday, January 10 6:30 am Robert Sommer Thursday, January 11 6:30 am Guiseppe & Maria Mereghetti Friday, January 12 6:30 am Nelda Smith 8:00 am Frank Consolino Saturday, January 13 7:30 am Communion Service 5:00 pm Mark & Louis Aiazzi Sunday, January 14 7:00 am For the People 9:00 am Jim Valli 11:00 am Ida Carnaghi St. Ambrose Sacrificial Giving Summary 2017/18 Goal (July 1 June 30) $520,000 Weekly information Week ending: 12/24/2017 Amount budgeted: $ 10,000.00 Amount collected: $ 14,390.00 Surplus (Shortfall): $ 4,390.00 Year-to-date information Amount budgeted: $ 260,000.00 Amount collected: $ 267,625.00 Surplus (Shortfall): $ 7,625.00 St. Ambrose Paver Program We are accepting orders for brick and stone pavers. Please pick up an order form, located on the church radiators, or contact the rectory for more information. The order form is also available on the parish website at https://www.stambroseonthehill.com/2016/08/29 /brick-paver-program/ Interested in meeting new neighbors? Please contact the rectory if you have some free time to help welcome new residents to the Hill neighborhood. Current activities include preparing informational folders, calling newly registered parishioners, and delivering welcome packets. WEEKEND OF JANUARY 13 & 14 5:00 pm 7:00 am 9:00 am 11:00 am Lector: M. Ventucci T. Buckley Students L. April Eucharistic L. Tohlinson E. Barni J. Kelly M. McKeever Ministers: V. Calcaterra C. Crowe A. Biondolino L. April R. Brissette C. Sanders Sr. Jude A. Danter M. Neri R. Winkler Servers: B. Stewart Buckleys B. Begley G. Steck H. Winter B. Mazzola A. Steck F. Winter J. Knobbe L. Will
PARISH CALENDAR Tuesday, January 9: 6:30 pm Mt. Carmel CH Wednesday, January 10: Ladies will clean the church after the 6:30 am Mass 6:30 pm RCIA CH-Ed Room All organizations who use the Church Hall or Cafeteria for their meetings are asked to contact the rectory to confirm their meeting dates, times, and locations for the upcoming year. Thank you! Friday, December 29: 8 am-12 pm Eucharistic Adoration 10 am-12 pm Crochet/Knitting CH Sacrament of Baptism Baptismal classes (for the first child only) will be held on the second Sunday of the month after the 9 am Mass. Baptisms will be scheduled after completion of baptismal classes. For information and to schedule a class, please contact Deacon Joe Fragale at 314-282-0739 or by email jfragale@stambroseonthehill.com. Baptisms are performed on the first and third Sunday of the month at Noon, and at 12:30 pm for visiting priests/deacons. Recent Baptisms Josephine Kealani Madalon, Daughter of Michael and Leilani Madalon. Please pray for those who have requested prayers: Donna, Mary, Diane, Sandy, Marianne, Caroline, Larry, Candice, Terry, Minnie, Cindy, Diane, Maggie, Ron, Liz, Kevin, Sue, Josephine, Leonard, Steve, Corey, Mindy, Ann, Martin, Madeline, Luca, Maureen, Angela, Jacquelyn, Linda, Jane, Shirley, Barb, Mike, Paul, Tina, Kirby, Jane, Jeff, Carol, Diane If you have a prayer request, please contact Jenn Kelly at 771-1228 or e-mail her at jkelly@stambroseonthehill.com. Each prayer request will be honored for a month. Recent Deaths Please pray for Jack Ostermeyer. May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed rest in peace. WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN ST. AMBROSE PARISH? If you are not currently registered in another parish and wish to join our parish, please complete this form and place it the collection basket or mail it to: St. Ambrose Rectory, 5130 Wilson Ave., St. Louis, MO 63110. We will see that you receive a registration form. NAME: ADDRESS: ZIP CODE: PHONE #: E-MAIL
St. Ambrose Society Special Thanks! Happy New Year! The St. Ambrose Society had a great year with the St. Patrick Center Sandwich Program in 2017. We donated close to 20,000 sandwiches over the course of the year, and recently learned from the staff at St. Patrick Center that we are their largest donor of sandwiches in the St. Louis area. This includes church and non-church based organizations. Thanks so much to all the volunteers and financial donors who make this possible! As a parish this is something we should all be very proud of. Providing food for the homeless is truly living our gospel values. Thanks again for your continued support! Upcoming Activities St. Patrick Center Sandwich Program Monday, January 15, 6:00pm Make sandwiches for the homeless in the Church Hall. Missionaries of Charity Soup Kitchen Saturday, January 27, 8:30-11:00am Work with St. Teresa of Calcutta s Sisters at the Soup Kitchen. Fr. Dempsey s Home Prep Wednesday, February 7, 6:30-8:00pm Make meal for homeless veterans in the Cafeteria. Fr. Dempsey s Home Thursday, February 8, 3:30-5:00pm Serve meal to homeless veterans at Fr. Dempsey s Home. Monthly Meeting No meeting in January! Contact To volunteer, please contact Deacon Joe at jfragale@stambroseonthehill.com or 314-282-0739. Visit SAS on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stambrosesociety/. Mt. Carmel Line Dancing Event! Tuesday, January 9, 2018 6:30 pm Church Hall Dust off your dancing shoes, get ready to shake and slide! Move to the beat of the music and line dance to the Electric Slide & River Waltz. No partner required. Lessons will be taught by the 2016 National Living Legends of Dance Inductee Sam Martorelli and partner, Terry Berg. Not a dancer, come and watch! Refreshments will be served. RSVP: Dani Cusumano 314-712-0009 Gloria Openlander 314-488-3085 Vicki Calcaterra 314-776-7466 Margaret Randazzo 314-776-7466 ANNUAL ST. VINCENT DE PAUL REPORT 2017 St. Ambrose Conference Thank you for your continued and most generous support of our conference mission to assist those in need. With your contributions we were able to visit 60 households within the parish boundaries. Some visits were a repeat visit. Financial aid was given for rent and mortgage [8]; utilities [26], food [27]; medicine [2] and miscellaneous; water, bus pass, gift cards, sewer and vouchers for our thrift store [6]. With the help of our Central SVDP office, we were able to assist in procuring a used car for a family. God bless you for all you do. Please remember us and those we assist in your prayers.
SCHOOL NEWS St. Ambrose School s website and Facebook pages are a great way to learn more about all of the exciting experiences happening in our school! Check them out at http://school.stambroseonthehill.com/ The STEM Lab has been a busy place. The middle school has been completing a wide variety of projects and labs. The sixth grade used the lab space to create geologic timelines showing eons, eras, and periods of the geologic history of the Earth. The seventh grade explored how heat moves by completing two labs showing conduction and convection. The 8th grade investigated the presence of carbon dioxide in various air samples. They used the air around us as the control group and then tested the air in a ziploc bag in which they had grown a yeast culture along with the air they exhaled. They added each air sample to a bottle of limewater and observed the limewater turn milky in the presence of carbon dioxide.
Worldwide Marriage Encounter Worn out from the holidays? Are you looking for a way to avoid the winter blahs? How about a special weekend just for the two of you that will reinvigorate your marriage? Attend a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend on Feb 2-4, 2018 or Apr. 20-22 in St. Peters, MO; and Mar. 23-25, 2018 at the Chiara Center in Springfield, IL. If you would like to apply or get more information, go to www.stl-wwme or call 314.649.7317. Calling all sacraments who have ever attended a Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekend, no matter how long ago. You are invited to celebrate with other encountered sacraments at the Marriage Encounter Valentine's Dance and fun night. The WWME Sweetheart Mass and Dance will be on Saturday, February 10, 2018, at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, 1420 Sappington Rd. in Crestwood. Mass begins at 6:30 pm, followed by pot-luck dinner and dance. BYOB, please bring a dish/appetizer to share. Cost $25/couple in advance. $30/couple at the door. Invited prospective Marriage Encounter guests are FREE. Questions? Call 314-803-7895, or email wibbfamily@yahoo.com Marriage On Tap STL Married couples are invited to an evening out, just call it a date night! Be with other couples who care about strengthening their marriage, and want to enrich themselves. Tuesday, January 16, 2018, at The Pasta House Company at 8213 Delmar Blvd, University City, 63130 (just East of I-170). 6:00 PM dinner, $20 per person with a new menu for buffet dinner (cash bar available); at 7:00 PM is a dynamic talk by Jerry & Julie Cinco, parishioners at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in St. Charles. Jerry & Julie have been married 47 years and have two grown daughters. They have faced many ups and downs in their marriage adventure, and attribute their strong marriage to God's patience, His constant love for them, and their Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend. This evening is open to all married couples. RSVP required: marriageontapstl@gmail.com Visit our Facebook page: Marriage On Tap STL SAVE THE DATE!! Hope all of you will attend! An Adult Understanding of the Four Last Things: Heaven, Hell, Judgment, and Purgatory Saturday, January 20 th 10am-12pm Guild Center at Our Lady of the Snows Presenter: Fr. Johan Mark Ettensohn, OMI We are people who are all on the journey of life. Usually one of our biggest questions on this journey centers around just where exactly the journey is leading. Sister may have taught us well in the fifth grade what she knew about life after death, but now we are adults capable of deeper reflection. In the words of St. Paul how might the God who began a good work in you continue to bring it to completion? As adults we can search the Scriptures, the richness of our Catholic tradition, and our understanding of the world for clues as to what we call the last things: death, heaven, hell, judgment, purgatory.