Welcome to Saint Joseph Catholic Church 106 North Meramec Avenue Clayton, Missouri 63105-3788 Rev. Nicholas E. Kastenholz, Pastor Rev. Thomas J. Schaab, Senior Associate Deacons Albert Williams and Del Leonardo Parish Office: 314-726-1221 Parish Fax: 314-721-5110 Mass Schedule Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am, and 11:00 am Mon, Wed, Fri 6:30 am, 12:00 noon Tues, Thurs 8:00 am and 12:00 noon Saturday 8:00 am and 5:00 pm (Sunday Vigil) National Holidays See bulletin Holy Days of Obligation See Bulletin Eucharistic Adoration Monday, Wednesday 7:00 am until 12:00 noon Tuesday, Thursday 8:30 am until 12:00 noon Marriage Preparation Couples are asked to contact the Parish Office 6 to 12 months before setting the date. St. Joseph Parish Council Members Fr. Nick Kastenholz, Pastor Parish Council Chairperson Frank Hackmann, Education Commission Al Barbieri, Finance Commission Sharon Skrivan, Social Concerns Commission Betsy Barbieri, Marion O Gorman, Anne Shapleigh Denny Staub, Barbara Summers, Christie Murphy Parish e-mail: pat_stj@hotmail.com Parish website: www.stjosephclayton.org Rectory Hours: 8:30-4:00 pm, Mon-Fri Religious Education PSR Terri Venneman, CRE School Office: 314-727-9059 School Fax: 314-727-2271 Music Director Tom Taylor 314-726-1221 Director of Maintenance -- Steve Topping 314-726-1221 Sacrament of Reconciliation Weekdays 11:15-11:50 am Saturday 4:00-4:45 pm Rosary Weekdays 11:40 am Thursday after the 8:00 am Mass Perpetual Help Devotions Tuesdays after 8:00 am and Masses Baptism The Sacrament of Baptism is administered on Sunday at. To register for the Baptismal Instruction Program and schedule a Baptism, please call the Office. St Vincent de Paul Emergency Assistance - For assistance for food, utilities etc., please call 289-6101, box 2208. Our St. Vincent de Paul Society will respond promptly. You may make an appointment to meet with a member on Wednesday morning through the same number. Make, track, and schedule parish donations directly from your computer. Just log onto our website www.stjosephclayton.org www.stjospehclayton.org and follow the link. OR, you can scan this code and it will take you directly to the site. If you are new to Online Giving, register by entering our church ID of 1593. Download Our FREE Parish Phone App! St. Joseph app is now available to download for iphone and Android smart phones. Stay connected with our parish throughout the week with instant notifications, an easy-to-access event calendar, and the ability to quickly reply to or share messages via Facebook or Twitter. Also enjoy a bunch of additional features like prayers, daily readings, helpful reminders to silence your phone before Mass or Confession, and much more. Download our app today at myparishapp.com or search your phone's app store for myparish. OR, EVEN EASIER, go to our website, Stjosephclayton.org and click on the icon, it will take you directly to the app.
Hello, Third Sunday of Lent February 28, 2016 I was woken by a phone call early this morning, (it is Wednesday when I am writing this) it was an automated call telling me that the Rigali Center (where our archdiocesan offices are) would have a late opening due to the snow and weather this morning. I knew what the forecast was so this didn t surprise me, and just a listen to the wind and a look outside confirmed that this was probably a prudent move, St. Louis would have a slow start with the morning commute. We are two and a half weeks into Lent, and it might be going well, or it might have been a slow start for some of us. Some considering that they really haven t gotten into what they had hoped to for this Lenten season and possibly thinking of writing it off that this Lent hasn t gone as they had hoped, so maybe next year. If that is your situation I would ask that you consider it like Wednesday, OK, the day may not have started that well, and that might have been within your control or not, but either way, what is preventing us from getting a late start? I know some years I might have been overly ambitious in my thoughts starting out, thinking that I would change all of these things in my life, and then getting disappointed a few weeks in when I realized I wasn t keeping up with all of my good intentions. But trimming them back a bit made it something that I could do, that I did do, and was able to maybe not change the world, but at least start with a bit of myself. Other times something changes in our lives. I know an obvious related example I had of this was when I was working as an engineer and we had to make goals for the upcoming year. And the goals may have been very good ones and appropriate at the moment, but then a special project came up that took priority, or maybe I was even moved to a different program, I really couldn t keep the same goals then. Or sometimes it ended up that I actually accomplished my goal immediately, so do I just leave things as is for the rest of the year or maybe it would make sense to consider what else can I also do? I know the first Friday of Lent this year we had 5 people show up to pray the Stations of the Cross, a few less than I was expecting. I thought maybe I should remind people about it and I mentioned it at the Masses the First Sunday of Lent, that week we had 25 people. Next weekend we have two means to possibly kickstart your Lent, or to help it keep going along well: Friday evening and Saturday we are joining with neighboring parishes and a priest will be available for confession Friday from 6-9pm and Saturday from 9am-4:45pm at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish. Then on Sunday through Tuesday (March 6-8 th ) we are having a parish mission here at St. Joseph parish from 7-8pm each evening with confessors available from 6-7 each night. So whether things got started as we had hoped or not, let s take advantage of the opportunity we still have to have a great Lent. Peace, Fr. Nick Notes From The Pastor's Pen Mass Intentions Monday, Feb. 29 6:30 am Marilyn Kastenholz Margaret Kurrus Tuesday, March 1 8:00 am St Vincent de Paul Benefactors Mike Proctor Intention Wednesday, March 2 6:30 am Helene Schweitzer Georgia Casey Thursday, March 3 8:00 am Tim Myers Poor Souls Friday, March 4 6:30 am Leahy-Wuennenberg Families Claro Floro Saturday, March 5 8:00 am Respect For All Life 5:00 pm Al Holmes Sunday, March 6 7:30 am Francis Flynn & Family 9:00 am St Joseph Parishioners 11:00 am Healing of Bebe Kennedy
We Pray For Our Loved Ones May God provide health and comfort to Bebe Kennedy Mike Proctor Douglas Purdy Gene Mackey Tracy Petit Louise O Farrell Betty Notter Dave Rowan Joanne Deddens Joan Rice Layne Knight LaJuana Hinch Joy Fischer Shirley Toon Eugene Shalhoob Mary Jane Zoernig Sr. Eleanor Barbara Lindsay Maria Guehlstorf Madelyn Ibeling Michael Phelps Colleen Woodard The Deadline to submit an ar cle for the bulle n is Monday at 10 am READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15ab; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; Lk 4:24-30 Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6, 7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Lk 11:14-23 Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34 Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18:9-14 Sunday: Jos 5:9a, 10-12; Ps 34:2-7; 2 Cor 5:17-21; Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 Alternate readings (Year A): 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 [1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38] Parish Mission - St. Joseph - Clayton March 6-8 Title of the Mission: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith! First Night: Made to Become God's Children Second Night: Becoming Another Christ Third Night: Becoming a Temple of the Holy Spirit This year's parish mission will center around our call as baptized Christians not only to know and love Jesus but actually to become his actual presence for our world. Saint Joseph's Catholic Church has invited Fr. David Meconi, SJ from his teaching early Church History at Saint Louis University to lead us in three nights of prayer and reflection. For three nights in a row at 7 p.m., we will expose the Blessed Sacrament for a few minutes of silent adoration. Around 7:10 each evening Fr. Meconi will speak until 8, and we shall then conclude with Benediction. The Sacrament of Reconciliation will be available each night at 6 p.m. as well. A parish mission is a unique time for us to grow as a family in Christ and an opportunity for each of us to have a bit of needed silence and prayer. Please come to all or any of the nights you can. ARCHDIOCESAN LENTEN REGULATIONS Ash Wednesday (February 10, 2016) and Good Friday (March 25, 2016) are days of abstinence for all Catholics over the age of 14. On these two days, fast, as well as abstinence, is also obligatory for those from the ages of 18-59. Abstinence means refraining from meat. Fast means one full meal a day, with two smaller meals and nothing between meals (liquids are permitted). No Catholic will lightly excuse himself or herself from this obligation. All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Here again Catholics will not hold themselves lightly excused, but if there is a serious health problem, this obligation would not apply. We should strive to make all days of Lent a time of prayer and penance. Rest In Peace As a parish family, let us pray for Claro Floro, brother of Ramon Floro, who died recently. May our Heavenly Father welcome Claro into His eternal home and may He send the comfort only He can to his family and friends. The food pantry is getting a little sparse on toiletries such as tooth paste, laundry detergent, dish and hand soap, paper products. We could also use some coffee, tea and cereal for our families. Thank you as always, St. Vincent de Paul Society
Sunday Offerings-February 20-21, 2016 Sunday Envelopes 4,175.00 Loose 1,090.44 Online Giving 1,658.50 Holy Day 0.00 Weekday noon Masses 423.30 Total for week 7,347.24 YTD Budget 341,435.89 YTD Actual 366,136.07 YTD Operating Surplus/(Deficit) 24,700.18 Stations of The Cross We will pray The Stations of the Cross together each Friday during Lent at 7:00 p.m. in the Church. Please join us! Sunday Worship March 5-6, 2016 5:00 pm Helen Love Ingrid Stahl Fred Yap Jubilee Year of Mercy February 28, 2016 Third Sunday of Lent Pope Francis wants Twenty-four Hours for the Lord, around-the-clock availability of the sacrament of reconciliation, implemented worldwide this Friday and Saturday. Celebrated with his oft-recommended tenderness, the sacrament is a source of true interior peace, says Francis, enabling people to touch the grandeur of God s mercy with their own hands (Misericordiae Vultus, 17). In Luke s Gospel, Jesus warns us against judging others. Focus instead, Jesus says, on deepening or restoring our own relationship with God, for during this Lenten springtime that Master Gardener can use even life s manure (the parable s fertilizer ) to coax fresh fruit from a tree that seems hopelessly barren us! Parishes preparing catechumens may choose John s Gospel, which likewise cautions against judging. Imagine what the Samaritan woman s lifelong neighbors thought of her multiple relationships. But by discovering Jesus, then sharing her good news and Jesus with those very neighbors, she whom they had probably judged quite sinful became instead their evangelist and missionary of mercy. Peter Scagnelli, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Papal quotes Copyright 2015, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission On March 12 th and 13 th, the Permanent Deacons in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, in conjunction with the Respect life office, will be collecting diapers for infants and toddlers as part of a diocesan wide service project to assist families in need. We would ask that you please consider placing the purchasing of infant or toddler diapers on your shopping list and bring them to the barrels at the entrances to the Church. All diapers collected will be donated to assist families in our parish community. For more information speak to Deacon Al Williams. We ask you to pray for the success of this project and to please be as generous as possible. Amy David Ramon Floro Deacon Del 7:30 am Volunteer Greg Browne Betty Torno Frank Hackmann Sharon Skrivan 9:00 am Lia Favazza Veronica Hilyard John Gillis Brad Heger Deacon Al 11:00 am Katie & Max de la Paz Carolyn Dickmann Rosemary Pickle Roger Drone Larry Stewart Julie Gerwitz To become a minister call 726-1221.
March 17 Fr. Paul Hoesing Schedule 8:00 a.m. Gathering (coffee provided) 8:15 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Speaker, Discussion, and Rosary Location Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, 5200 Glennon Drive, St. Louis, MO 63119 SSM Health DePaul Hospital is currently seeking adult volunteers to serve as Eucharistic Ministers to patients. Substitute Eucharistic Minister volunteers are also needed on an on-call basis. For more information, please contact Barbara Toulster, Director of Auxiliary/Volunteer Services at (314) 344-7083. SSM Health DePaul Hospital is located at 12303 DePaul Dr, Bridgeton, MO Forming Men for Christ - A Monthly Men's Mass and Coffee with Father James Mason Reverend James Mason, President-Rector of Kenrick-Glennon Seminary, invites all men for Mass and refreshments at St. Joseph s Catholic Church in Clayton, every second Thursday of the month. The next meeting will be on Thursday, March 10th, 2016. Father Mason's talk is entitled "Acedia: The Noon Day Demon." Mass will be in the Church at 6:30 a.m., coffee, refreshments and talk from 7 a.m. until 7:45 a.m. Plenty of free parking is available on the Church lot. See http://kenrick.edu/resources/formingmenforchrist/ for more information. Week of Guided Prayer A Retreat in Everyday Life Meet one-on-one with a prayer guide 30 minutes each day, afternoon or evening, Monday through Friday. Annunziata Catholic Church Starts March 13 For more information, or to register, visit www.weekofguidedprayer.org or contact Clarence Heller at 314-258-9066 or clarenceheller@gmail.com The Five First Saturdays Devotion Our Lady of Fatima Promised all the Graces Necessary for Heaven if a Catholic Finished the Five First Saturdays Devotion "Whether the world has war or peace depends on the practice of this devotion, along with the consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. This is why I desire its propagation so ardently, especially because this is also the will of our dear Mother in Heaven." - Sr. Lucy (March 19, 1939) During her July 13 apparition at Fatima, Our Lady said to Lucia, "I shall come to ask...that on the First Saturday of every month, Communions of reparation be made in atonement for the sins of the world." On December 10, 1925 Our Lady completed her request for the Five First Saturdays and gave her great promise. "...Tell them that I promise to assist at the hour of death with the graces necessary for salvation all those who, in order to make reparation to me, on the First Saturday of five successive months, go to confession, receive Holy Communion, say five decades of the Rosary and keep me company for a quarter of an hour, meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary."
March 2016 1 2 6 pm Knights and Dames of Malta, Church 7 pm Baptism Class, Centennial Rm 7:30 pm St Vincent de Paul, MR 3 4 7-8 am St Thomas More Soc, PH 7:30 pm Cursillo, PH 5 6 9:30 am PSR, S 11:00 am CLW, CR Parish Mission Confessions 6-7 pm Mission Talk 7-8 pm 7 1 pm Prayer Group, MR 5:15 PSR, S 7:30 Adult Choir, Music Rm Parish Mission Confessions 6-7 pm Mission Talk 7-8 8 12:45 pm 2nd Tues Lunch Bunch, PH Parish Mission Confessions 6-7 pm Mission Talk 7-8 9 10 6:30 am Mass, Forming Men for Christ, followed by talk in Parish Hall 6:30 pm Bridge Group, in Clayton Library 11 12 13 9:30 am PSR, S 11:00 am CLW, CR 7:00 pm HS PSR, Centennial Rm 14 5:15 pm PSR, S 7:30 pm Adult Choir, CH 7:30 pm Knights of Columbus, MR 15 16 17 18 7:30 pm Cursillo, PH 19 20 Palm Sunday 11:00 am CLW, Centennial Rm Spring Break 21 1 pm Prayer Group, MR Spring Break 7:30 pm Adult Choir, CH 22 23 24 Holy Thursday Mass of the Lord s Supper At 7:00 pm 25 Good Friday Noon Passion of the Lord 7:00 pm Passion of the Lord 26 Holy Saturday Easter Vigil at 8:00 p.m. 27 Easter Sunday Masses at 7:30, 9 & 11 am NO HS PSR Easter Break 28 Easter Break No Adult Choir 29 30 31 CH=Church MR=Madonna Rm CR=Centennial Rm PH=Parish Hall S=School