St. Bernard Parish 2040 Hillside Ln. Green Bay, Wisconsin 54302 (920)468-4811 - www.stbernardgb.org May 2 & 3, 2015 Whether you are a member or a guest, we thank you for joining us! Parish Office (920) 468-4811 FAX 468-1396 Religious Education Office (920) 468-4390 Hours: Monday-Thursday 8:00 am-4:30 pm Friday - 8:00 am-noon School Office (920) 468-5026 Pastor Fr. Mark Vander Steeg Deacon Keith Holschbach Deacon John Laurant Deacon Larry Mastalish Pastoral Associate Sr. Caroline Castellini OP Music & Liturgy Coordinator Joe LeBeau Business Manager Ginny Gigot School Principal Crystal Blahnik Parish Nurse Ann Kaufmann Director of Religious Education Adam Horn Adult Education/RCIA Joanne Griesbach Youth Minister Callie Kowalski R.E. Assistant Jeannine Hadzima Receptionist/Office Tina Drewiske Publications/Office Lori Froelich Kylie Adrians Daniel Balch Trenton Bauer Nicole Biskner Jake Brenzel Andrew Broeckel Madelyn Brusda Lauren Campshure Nathan DeKeyser Eric Erb Brianna Gaulke Christina Greetan Jena Gutzman Sophie Harpt Andrew Holzmann Emily Johnson Shannon Kaufmann Benjamin Krysiak Zachary Krysiak Jacob Morz Nathan Prevost Mauri Princl Samuel Pyatt Andrew Quigley Meagan Rapp Lauren Reidinger Tyler Renier Nicklaus Robinson Anthony Ruonavarra Evan Saharsky Avery Schwab Stephanie Staed Heidi Swanson Jackson Swisher Megan Taylor Elizabeth Templeton Hannah Treichel Victoria Vandersteen Kambria Ward Olivia Watermolen Evan Watzka Hayley Winzenreid Confirmed in the Spirit April 15, 2015 By The Most Reverend Robert F. Morneau
ST. BERNARD PARISH PAGE 2 Mass Intentions The saving graces of the Mass are for: Monday, May 4 8:45 am Word/Communion Service Tuesday, May 5 8:45 am Word/Communion Service Exposition immediately following 8:45 am Liturgy of the W/C, private adoration in the Chapel until 6:30, Holy Hour and Closing with Benediction in the Church 6:30-7:30. Wednesday, May 6 8:45 am the souls of Mary & Austin Roberts the soul of Laura Goering Thursday, May 7 8:45 am Deceased Members of the Radosavljevic, Kugel and Jadin Families Friday, May 8 8:45 am Special intention for Joӓn Birder 2:00 am Bornemann Nursing Home Mass Saturday, May 9 1:00 pm Muck/Best Wedding 2:30 pm Confessions 4:00 pm the soul of Galen Vincent the soul of Joseph Suess the soul of Cletus Pierquet Sunday, May 10 8:00 am the soul of James DePrey the George Raymaker Family 10:00 am the soul of Esther Blohowiak the soul of Josephine Mathu 6:30 pm the soul of Robert Peot the soul of Sandy Schultz Baptisms We welcome those who were baptized recently: Molly Kate McGowan Sawyer Paul Harry Wedding Announcements: III Rebecca Muck & Steven Best In Sympathy We extend our sympathy to the families and friends of Wencil Krines, Dave Smits and Ella VandeHei. Please remember them in your prayers. Your Financial Stewardship For the week ended April 26, 2015 Weekly Joyful Giving Envelopes...... $ 20,298.00 Offertory Collection......... $ 1,520.00 Budgeted Weekly Joyful Giving $22,660 This weekend we welcome our children who are making their First Holy Communion! We will likely be a little more full than usual this weekend so we beg your gracious patience as we welcome extended families from other parishes to join us here. This weekend the children will be bringing up the gifts, and sometimes doing the readings, so you may have to bend your ear a bit more than usual. The kids are very excited. I am excited too. Any time we celebrate a child s sacrament it is often an opportunity for God to bless the whole family of the child. Seeing the openness of a child to God reawakens a spark within the hearts of Mom and Dad to seek God anew. I have seen more families renewed in faith, start again, and reshuffle their busy schedule to include some Mass time that works for them. They begin again in picking up the challenge to pass on the experience of our good God. Parenting is not easy and we want to help as a parish. Making sure our kids have a living experience of prayer, God, the Church and music is all essential to a great childhood. So well done in bringing them here and know that we pray for our families! All of us can deepen our appreciation of the Eucharist. One way is to participate occasionally in our St. Bernard monthly Holy Hour. In response to a request from Bishop Ricken that each parish in the Diocese provide a Eucharistic Holy Hour each month, our Holy Hour at St. Bernard is held the 1st Tuesday of each month. (Except the 2nd Tuesday in June on the 9th). The Tuesday Holy Hour follows a full day of Adoration in the little Chapel after which the Holy Eucharist is moved to the main Altar in the big church at 6:30 PM. The Holy Hour concludes by 7:30pm with a formal prayer and then a Eucharistic Blessing (Benediction). We are especially graced with the talent of ten year-old, Izabella Sand who provides beautiful background harp music during some of our Holy Hour reflection time. Everyone is invited to participate in this special time in our parish. Any questions, please contact Deacon Larry at 468-4922. Fr. Mark Vander Steeg The Parish Office will be closed Thursday May 7, 2015. The Office staff will be attending a Diocesan Stewardship Day. We will be open again on Friday May 8. Bishop s Appeal Total as of April 28, 2015 $ 88,335.70
May 2 & 3, 2015 PAGE 3 Reigious Education News Adam Horn R.E. Director The Week Ahead: May 6. May 6 is our final class of the year! It was wonderful getting to know so many great students, and I am already looking forward to meeting more next year. I would like to thank the Catechists for all the hard work they put into passing the faith on to St. Bernard s students and the subs who were able to step in to teach. Please try to get registrations for next year in before August. This will give us time to determine how many Catechists will be needed for each grade at each time. Thanks for the great year, and have a great summer! Grades 1 8: Review Major Themes From Throughout the Year. St. Bernard School News Sarah Pethan-Teacher News Flash... We are proud to have over 100 girls participating in Girl Scouts! On Thursday, April, 23rd, we celebrated the accomplishments these girls have made over the last year. Thank you to the wonderful leadership of our girls! Congratulations to 5th grader Cadence Maxfield who took 1st place at the GRACE Science Fair with her project "Freeze First-Melt First." Two, yes two, of our Destination Imagination teams are going to the Global Tournament in Knoxville, TN! Way to go Creative Kids and The Cosmos teams! Follow St. Bernard at #FlatFrancis on Twitter and our Face Book feed as we join the nation in welcoming Pope Francis to the U.S. this coming Fall. Current Events... God bless our First Communicants this weekend! May your journey with Christ be filled with joy and peace! May 6 is the St. Bernard Athletic Banquet. Time to celebrate our wonderful student athletes! GO Bears! May 8 is our Morning with Mom at 8:00 am. God bless our wonderful mothers and grandmothers! Market Day During May, Market Day is featuring pizza and cookie dough bonus days. St. Bernard School can earn a higher profit on these items. Order guides are available in the narthex or at www.marketday.com. Paper order forms are due by Wednesday, May 13. Online orders are due by Saturday, May 16. Pick up is from 3:45-4:45 on Thursday, May 21 in the school cafeteria. If you have any questions or need assistance placing an order please call Jeannine at 406-0556. Youth Ministry Callie Kowalski HIGH SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY SHINE Service Trip Formation Meeting Sunday, May 10. 5:00 to 6:15 pm. For those attending our summer service trip to Rochester, NY, please attend this formation meeting. There will be a topic of faith, fellowship, and snacks. You will also have an opportunity to meet all of our chaperones! Summertime Sundaes! Sunday, May 24- After 6:30 pm Mass Middle school and High school students are invited out for Summertime Sundaes happening once a month during the summer months! We will have a build your own sundae bar and a fun activity to follow! DODGE BALL TOURNAMENT!! Sunday, June 7 12 pm We are looking for teams to play in the St. Bernard s Corpus Christi Celebration Dodge ball Tournament! First and second place teams will be awarded prizes. Teams may consist of 5-7 players from 8 th grade to college-aged. Registration forms are located on the youth ministry website. Registration forms along with $10 team sign-up fee, are due by Friday, June 5 at 12 pm! Stay up-to-date with events and details by visiting the website: stbernardgb.org/youth-ministry.html MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH MINISTRY CANCELED: Next DROP-IN date -Thursday, May 21. Due to the field trips happening for the middle school students, we won t be having Drop-In. Be sure to check out our Lock-in happening in JUNE! SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 19. Youth Lock-in! For current 8 th graders through seniors in high school! There will be dodgeball, outdoor games, pizza, a midnight scavenger hunt, and opportunities for prayer! Doors are locked at 7 PM and won t be reopened until 7 am! RSVP by responding to the Facebook event! ST. BERNARD TEACHER HONORED BY GOLDEN APPLE Autumn DeCleene, Kindergarten teacher at St. Bernard School is a 2015 Golden Apple Teacher of Distinction presented by the Greater Green Bay Chamber Partners in Education. Autumn joined the St. Bernard teaching staff in 2007. In addition to her excellent teaching, Autumn possesses skills as an autism line therapist and a reading recovery tutor. She was previously nominated for a Golden Apple Award in 2004-2005. Congratulations to an outstanding St. Bernard teacher, Autumn DeCleene!
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER PAGE 4 ROSES IN HONOR OF THE GIFT OF LIFE Mother s Day Weekend May 9 & 10 $2 Donation per Rose Proceeds Benefit Respect for Life Projects Please call Helen @ 468-6960 to assist! All Catholic Women Join us for our 30th Annual Marian Day Stella Maris-Our Lady, Star of the Sea St. Jude the Apostle Church 1027 W 5th Ave., Oshkosh, WI May 21, 2015 Registration and continental breakfast begins at 8:30 am. Our day continues with Mass, reflections of Mary, the Rosary, Benediction and Adoration. Our Keynote speaker is Rev. Peter Mitchell, pastor of St. Mary, Greenville. Lunch will be provided. Final farewell is at 3:00 pm. The cost of the day is $15.00. To register, please contact Paula Freimuth at 920-756-2535 or e-mail to: paula@holyfamily-parish.org. Or call Janet Piontek at 920-468-1596. Registration deadline is May 8, 2015 Congratulations To The Raffle Winners! April 19 Joshua Bodreau April 20 Alice Reynolds April 21 Romaine Juneau April 22 Amy Buresh April 23 Donna Vetter April 24 Katie Ellingson April 25 Linda Shimek Winners will be notified by mail! STROLL THROUGH SWANSTONE MAY 13, 2015 AT WALLY S SPOT Doors open at 5:00 Dinner at 6:00 Enjoy a dinner of Chicken Cordon Bleu, Blended Rice, Green Beans Almandine, Salad, Rolls and Dessert. Tickets ($20) will be sold after Masses April 25-26 and May 2-3. You may purchase them individually or by tables of 8. Come early to browse and bid on the silent auction and raffle tables. Take a chance on the wine raffle. After dinner you will enjoy speaker David Calhoon, owner and operator of Swanstone Gardens. David, who has been a guest on The Wisconsin Gardener on Wisconsin Public TV, teaches classes on garden art at Swanstone. A variety of crafters and artists offer other options. He will bring samples of projects and talk about the fun and benefits of taking workshops. We welcome any new or handmade items you wish to contribute for the silent auction. Margaret Mary Circle members are asked to contribute wine by April 31 for the wine raffle. You may drop off contributions at the Parish office. Be sure to designate that they are for this event. If you still have items to contribute for the silent auction you may drop them off at the parish office or call Julie Radosavljevic (468-3455) or Karol Cole (406-9676). ANOINTING OF THE SICK We will celebrate the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick on: Saturday, May 16, 2015 At a 9:00 AM Mass Fr. Mark and several others will assist. As we marvel at God s healing touch at so many moments of our lives, this sacramental encounter with the compassionate Christ focuses all of our love on those who need to be strengthened at this very point on their life s journey. Let us all rejoice in the presence of our God who accompanies us each step of the way. Please call the Parish Office, 468-4811 to let us know that you will be attending.
WWW.STBERNARDGB.ORG WWW.STPHILIPGB.ORG PAGE 5 WWW.STBERNARDGB.ORG PAGE 5 St. Bernard School Auction for Education THANK YOU!!! Thanks to your support, the St. Bernard School Auction for Education was a huge success! Your support helps fund an education for approximately 400 students here. Winners of the cash raffle 1 st Prize: John Balza 2 nd Prize: Tia DeLeers 3 rd Prize: Donald Kaye 4 th Prize: Tanya Gorder 5 th Prize: Nancy Vanness 6 th Prize: Mary Ann Beyl 7 th Prize: Michaele Kulick Winner of the tuition raffle sponsored by the St. Bernard Altar Rosary Society: Heidi Hoslet Congratulations to all and thank you again for your support of St. Bernard School, students, faculty and staff! Auction co-chairs: Laura Neumann & Michelle Massart. Help Support St. Bernard Parish and School Buy Scrip AREA CONFESSION SCHEDULE St. Bernard Sat. 2:30-3:30 pm Holy Cross Prince of Peace Thurs. 5:00-6:00 pm Resurrection Sat. 3:15-3:45 pm St. Francis Xavier Cathedral Sat. 2:15-3:30 pm Wed. 6:00-8:00 pm St. Mary of the Angels Sat. 11:00 am St. Matthew Sts. Peter and Paul Sat. 3:30 pm Sun. 7:30 am, 9:30 am, 12pm St. Willebrord Mon.-Fri.7:00 am, 11:30am, Shrine of Our Lady Sun.-Fri. 10:00-10:45 am Of Good Help Sat. 9:15-10:45 am Moved, Dropped your land line or changed your e-mail address? PLEASE contact: the St. Bernard Parish Office at 468-4811 tina@stbernardcong.org. Listen to Fr. Mark s homily on our website at: www.stbernardgb.org.