Pastor: Rev. Fr. Bryan Amthor Parish Secretary: Jean Falke Phone: 816-633-7475 Bookkeeper: Kate Root Phone: 816-633-7475 stgeorgeodessamo.org Sacristan: Jean Falke Phone: 816-263-7945 Choir: Calvin Snow Phone: 816-230-5245 Email: calvin.snow@gmail.com Pastoral Council: Cory Laboube, Chairman 816-263- 2827 John Carmody, Vice Chair 816-263-0659 Cathy Dandurand, Secretary 816-262-2718 Donna Macek 816-633-4956 Cliff Flynn 816-565-3282 Angela Gregson 816-263-1676 Debbie Stevens: 522-1098 Church Contacts Dawna Schlickelman 582-6503 Prayer Chain: Jean Falke 816-263-7945 Toni Hellums 816-633-4362 Director of Religious Ed: Caitlin Mastin 816-633-7475 Altar/Rosary Society: Dawna Schlickelman 816-852-6503 Knights of Columbus: Larry Lackamp 816-690-8098 Continuing Adult Ed: Maureen Carey - 816-565-2105 Prime Timers: Donna Macek 816-633-4956 Social Justice: Maureen Carey - 816-565-2105 Newsletter: Rheta Snow 816-230-5245 Newsletter Deadline is Feb 15 for Mar/Apr 2019 issue. Contact Rheta Snow: 816-230-5245, or doraeme55@gmail.com Sharing the Word St. George Catholic Church Newsletter 714 S. Third Street, Odessa, MO 64076 www.stgeorgeodessamo.org January/February 2019 Trudy Ogden: 816-263- 1007
Remember your Valentine Feb. 14 January Anniversaries 1/09 John & Trudy Ogden 1/10 Dan & Linda Cobb 1/11 Salvador & Mary Garcia 1/13 Caleb & Whitney Ray February Anniversaries 2/02 Sam & Carol Summers 2/10 Harvey & Karen Bolten 2/11 Jerry & Julie Stever 2/20 John & Mary Roberts 1/25 Don & JoAnn McCarty 1/29 Joseph & Jeanette Kleoppel Please send any birthday/anniversary updates to Rheta Snow; doraeme55@gmail.com. 2 11
A Prayer to the Holy Family January Birthdays 1/01 Helen Hotmer Amanda Rae Wohletz 1/02 Lillian Hart 1/04 Mark Bliss 1/05 Emily Gregson Weston Snow Glenda Weber 1/06 Lewis Monteil 1/08 Jeane Massey Mark Schwartzhoff 1/09 Lisa Alexander 1/11 Bill Brown Caleb Volmer 1/12 Joshua Cockrell Teresa Peters 1/13 Erin Stein 1/16 Morgan Hamilton Justin Koenig Tucker Starner 1/17 Suzie Stevens 1/19 Drew Schaberg 1/22 Cynthia Gillroy 1/23 Alyssa Heatherly 1/27 Emillie Bass 1/30 Keith Gass February Birthdays 2/02 JoAnn McCarty 2/03 Samantha Tribble 2/06 Betsy Leininger John Sprofera Betsy (Mary) Switzer 2/07 Ellen Ryan Debbie Stevens Rex Watkins 2/9 Brooke Smith 2/11 Carl Gieselman Kiersten Tribble 2/14 Marcus Crawford 2/15 Kate Root Rheta Snow 2/16 Victoria Dorhaur Irma Gaudutis Scout Schaberg 2/18 Jeannie Pemberton 2/19 Samantha Gamble 2/20 Erin Madrueno 2/21 Dave Hritz 2/22 Michele Hamilton 2/23 Mike Stevens 2/24 Rachelle Egen 2/25 Clayton Carl Courtway Heavenly Father, You have given us a model of life in the Holy Family of Nazareth. Help us, O loving Father, to make our family another Nazareth where love, peace, and joy might reign. May it be deeply contemplative, intensely Eucharistic, and vibrant with joy. Help us to stay together in joy and sorrow through family prayer. Teach us to see Jesus in the members of our family, especially in His distressing disguises. May the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus make our hearts meek and humble like His and help us to carry out our family duties in a holy way. May we love one another as God loves each one of us more and more each day, and forgive each other s faults as You forgive our sins. Help us, O loving Father, to take whatever You give and to give whatever You take with a big smile. Immaculate Heart of Mary, cause of our joy, pray for us. Saint Joseph pray for us. Holy Guardian Angels be always with us, guide and protect us. Amen Mother Teresa From Meditations from A Simple Path 10 3
Prime Timers activities By Donna Macek Prime Timers held their annual Christmas Party on December 13 at 4:00 p.m. with 23 in attendance. Hostesses were Mary Garcia and Donna Macek. A delicious meal catered by Nadlers from Wellington was served. A fun time was had playing bingo. Also, a wonderful collection of diapers and wipes for Baby Grace was donated by the attendees. Thank you to all Prime Timers for your donations. The next Prime Timers luncheon meeting will be February 14 at noon at the meeting hall. Please bring a covered dish. Hosts will be Ruth Flynn and Mary Donovan. Bring nonperishable food and/or cleaning supplies for donation to the Community Service Center. Everyone 55 and older is invited to join. Time has changed for the Bunco game from 6:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. for the 2019 year, but still will be on the first Wednesday of each month. The next Bunco day will be Wednesday, January 2, 2019, and the next one after that will be February 6. As usual bring your own drink and a snack to share and of course, your $5.00. All are invited to attend. Funny Bones Endangered Species Lost in the woods, a hiker spends two days wandering around with no food. Finally, he spots a bald eagle, hits the bird with a big rock and eats it. A park ranger stumbles on the scene and arrests the man for killing an endangered species. In court, the hiker explains that he was on the edge of starvation and had no choice. Considering the circumstances, I find you not guilty, says the judge. But I have to ask what did the eagle taste like? Well, Your Honor, the hiker replies, it tasted like a cross between a whooping crane and a spotted owl. Saving grace My niece made some food for another family at church. She prayed over it, asking the kids if they d like to add anything. Her 3-year-old daughter, Boston, said, Thank you, God, that we didn t give them all of our food. Are Prayers answered? When my granddaughter Keilei was 8, she asked me, Grandma, does God answer prayers? Yes, he does, I replied. Then she asked, Will he give you whatever you ask for? Again, I replied yes. Then Keilei lifted her arms and yelled, Thank you, Jesus! Grandma s getting me a dog! A special name I took our 4-year-old granddaughter, Halle, to the corral on pregnancy testing day to watch as the veterinarian did ultrasounds on our cows. After a positive test, the vet shouted out, Call it good! I explained to Halle this meant there was a baby in the cow s tummy. She replied, I don t want to call the baby Good; I want to call it Queen Elsa. 4 9
Adult Continuing Education/ACE Altar Society Activities By Maureen Carey Starting in January, Pivotal Players, a close look at the Church s most influential people, will be studied. Here is a list of the players you will meet: St. Francis of Assisi St. Thomas Aquinas St. Catherine of Siena Bl. John Henry Neuman G.K.Chesterton Michelangelo Social Justice Thank you to this very generous community for your donations so that our Odessa families could have a very, merry Christmas. MORNING CLASS will take place at 9:00 on Thursdays at the YEC. EVENING CLASS will take place at 7:00 on Thursdays also at the YEC. There will be 10 sessions, each with a DVD lesson from Bishop Robert Barron. Call, text, or email Maureen to order study guide, $30. mcarey1955@aol.com or 805 208 3442 By Dawna Schlickelman After the flurry of pre- Holiday activities with filling out the Angel Tree tags, and filling and delivering the Parish Shut-in baskets at Christmas, in January we will take a breather from any annual projects. Main activity will be working with replenishing the Altar linens. February will also be a quiet month with the only project planned is preparing for the King Cake sale on March 2nd and 3 rd. There will be advance notice in the Bulletin for taking orders and all the details. We continue to be responsible for cleaning the church on the last Friday of each month at 9 a.m. All help is welcomed. All the women of the Parish are invited to come to our monthly meetings and/or help with various projects we do to support Parish life. We also are more than happy to have you join even if meeting attendance is not possible at this time. We offer an electronic members only option and you will receive by email the monthly minutes and any other Altar Society correspondence. Our monthly minutes are also posted on the St. George Catholic Church website. We meet the third Wednesday of every month at 7 p.m. in the Meeting Hall. 8 5
Your Social Committee at work Contributed by: John Carmody, Cathy Dandurand, Mike Haskins, Donna Macek, Kate Root and Janet Tirschel On the evening of November 17, all was said and done, this event we held our annual fall Chili and raised over $700 for the St. Bingo social, which we had slight- George Altar Project. A big ly over 60 parishioners and friends THANK YOU to all who attended attend. A chili buffet and all the and contributed to the cause. trimmings were served along with Since there are so many church activities during the holiday In February, we plan to cele- Until next time, we will keep season, we brate the Valentine season and the good times moving right take a pause to enjoy an evening of Italian Din- along for our parish family and the social ner and Bingo with our parish- hope you will have an oppor- events pre- ioners and friends. This is an tunity to join us at future pared by oth- all time favorite event for events we have planned for ers and turn many during the winter you. our attention months. Once the date has In the meantime, if you have to outside dec- been confirmed, we will begin any social ideas you would like orating. Be- advertising and hope to have to share, please feel free to for- low, you will another great evening for our ward your comments to any of numerous desserts and beverages. see some of the handy work our parish family. As always, this the committee members. We The big hit for the evening was social committee provides for all will be a free will offering appreciate your continued sup- the popcorn cart, which kids of all to enjoy, which adds a little sea- event, with all funds raised to port and look forward to you ages enjoyed. Needless to say, the sonal beautification to our build- go toward the St. George Altar attending our next event. bingo portion of the evening was ings. Project. competitive and full of fun. After 6 7