St. Mary Catholic Church Mechanicsville and St. Mary Catholic Church Tipton Liturgical Year A October 11-12, 2014 Contact information for Father Richard Okumu, Shared Pastor: Email: okumur@diodav.org 563-886-2506 563-432-6236 In the event of an imminent death, when Sacraments are required, you may reach Fr. Okumu at 563-321-7268. PLEASE use this phone number ONLY in the case of great emergency. Tipton 208 Meridian St., POB 309, Tipton, IA 52772 Email: tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone: 563-886-2506 Mechanicsville 302 Reeder ST., POB 457, Mechanicsville, IA 52306 Email: mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: 563-432-6236 Oct. 11 Sat. M 5:30pm Betty Wright Oct. 12 Sun. M 8:00 am For the Parish Oct. 12 Sun T 10:00 am Carl Agne Oct. 13 Mon. No Mass Oct. 14 Tues. T 8:00 am Bob & Marge Walsh Oct 15 Wed. M 8:00 am Anon Oct 16 Thurs T 8:00 am Nick and Margaret Beuter Oct 17 Fri. M 8:00 am Anon Oct 18 Sat. T 5:10 pm Edwin (Pete) Klinkkammer Oct 19 Sun. M 8:00 am For the Parish Oct 19 Sun. T 10:00 am Loretta Rosenow Confession Times: Mechanicsville Confession time: Second and Fourth Saturdays from 5:00 PM until Mass time Tipton Confession time: First, Third and Fifth Saturdays from 4:45 PM until Mass time. Website-information for BOTH parishes www.stmarystipton.net Please remember the Bishop s Annual Appeal. Last week Tipton attached a flyer and envelope for the Annual Appeal to the bulletin. You also may have received a mailing from the Diocese with information about the Annual Appeal. You will find additional Envelopes and Flyers at the church Entrances. You may deposit your donation in the weekly collection and we will mail to the Diocese for you, or you may mail your envelope directly to the Diocese in the envelope they have provided. Many thanks to those who have already This year s Parish Goal is: St. Mary Mechanicsville $12,089.00 St. Mary Tipton $25,666.00
Page 2 www.stmarystipton.net Mechanicsville 302 Reeder ST., POB 457, Mechanicsville, IA 52306 Email: mechstmary@diodav.org Phone: 563-432-6236 St. Mary Mechanicsville collection: October 4-5, 2014 $1,382.46 Father Okumu will be in Mechanicsville office on Wednesday and Friday. He will be available to meet with you these days. Please call in advance to set up a meeting time. You can reach him at 563-886-2506 OR 563-432-6236. Parishioners who have an intolerance to gluten, please notify priest before Mass. We now have lowgluten hosts available. October Ministries 2014 Eucharistic Sat Mary Juhl Sun Scott Schoreder Diane Schroeder Joe Kilburg Carolyn Kilburg Susan Pisarik Lector Sat Gretchen Sutherland Sun Donna Robinson Ushers Sat Jerry Ortman Everette Walshire Host Family Sun 10.5 Lee Crock 10.12 Jared Notz 10.19 Alice Snyder 10.26 Rick Swan Altar Set-up Sat Evelyn Walshire Money Counters Sun Shirley Jarzombek Sharon Boyd Please remember that if you are not able to be present on the day of your ministry, you will need to contact someone to take your place. THANK YOU! Tootsie Rolls are here! The Knights of Columbus have boxes of tootsie rolls for a $20 donation. Trick or Treat-ers will be coming soon! All proceeds go to people with disabilities in Cedar, Jones and Linn Counties. Pick up yours at the church entrance! Checks may be made to Knights of Columbus. 50th Anniversary for the Dedication of St Mary's Catholic Church in Mechanicsville: Our present church building was dedicated on June 17,1965 by Bishop O'Keefe and Fr Casey. The Parish Council in conjunction with the Women's Guild and Knights of Columbus would like to have a celebratory Mass, dinner and program to be held in June 2015. We are forming a committee to plan and execute this celebration. We are asking for volunteers to assist in this planning. We will need assistance in 1) bringing our church history up to date;2) plan our meal (potluck, catered, prepared by parishioners etc.); and 3) plan our program. If you would like to be a part of any or all of these committee segments, please contact Shirley Jarzombek via email rsjarzom@netins.net or phone Home:432-6526.or rectory office 432-6236. Sew Sew Ladies: The ladies have a few quilts for sale in different sizes and with different finishes. They are at the church entrance. Each would make a great gift or great keepsake from the church. Quilts are priced by size and finish. Checks can be made to St Mary's Guild and given to Nancy Walshire, Treasurer Beautiful bouquets: The two bouquets of flowers were donated from the Rita Wendler Family for last week's Mass. Her funeral and visitation were held here last Friday and Saturday. We pray that Rita's soul, and the souls of the faithful departed through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. DB Acoustics from Marion,IA: Our sound system has been repaired and improved this week. Hopefully you will hear the difference!
St. Mary s Tipton Church Collected October 4-5, 2014 81 Envelopes $ 3,409.75.15 Offertory 111.26 Total $ 3,521.01 Tipton 208 Meridian St., POB 309, Tipton, IA 52772 Email: tiptonstmary@diodav.org Phone: 563-886-2506 Altar Servers 10/5 Madelyn and Isabel 10/12 Charli and Bob 10/19 Isabel and Jamie 10/26 Paige and Caleb Women of St. Mary s Meeting: All women of the parish are invited to attend the Annual meeting of the Women of St. Mary s at St. Mary s Parish Hall on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6 PM. A free catered meal will precede the meeting. Please make your reservation by calling Buffy Johnson at 886-2398, by Saturday, November 1. St. Mary s Annual Christmas Bazaar: This year s bazaar will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2014 from 9:00am to 2:00 pm. There will be crafts, a cookie walk, and food stand with soups, sandwiches and pies. Each family is asked to bring 3 dozen cookies for the cookie walk. If possible, please avoid chocolate chip cookies due to the over abundance of these cookies receive in the past. If your cookies contain nuts, please label them as such with the kind of nut. The hall will be open Thursday and Friday before the bazaar from 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM if you would like to drop off your cookies. Tipton Faith Formation Schedule Grades K - 7: Sunday, October 12 and 19. Students may go to 10 a.m. Mass with their catechists on the 19th. Confirmation Class of 2016: Wednesday, October 22. Students participate in Mass together on Sunday, October 19. Grades 10, 11, 12: Wednesdays October 15 and 22. All classes meet in the parish hall. Calendars and registrations are on the website or contact Mary Barnum, Director of Religious Education, stmarymaryb@gmail.com, cell: 319.321.0715 if you have any questions or concerns
Six Areas of Ministry (Part 5of a several part series) Ministry of Family Life (In collaboration with the other five Ministry Areas: Church Life, Faith Formation, Finance and Administration, Liturgy, and Social Action) Not only would I say that the family is important for the evangelization of the new world. The family is important, and it is necessary for the survival of humanity. Without the family, the cultural survival of the human race would be at risk. The family, whether we like it or not, is the foundation. Pope Francis Radio Catedral Interview, July 27, 2013 The Christian vision of family life speaks about the family as a community of life and love. It proclaims that family life is sacred and that family activities are holy, that God's love is revealed and communicated in new ways each and every day through Christian families. Families work to build a community based on love, compassion, respect, forgiveness, and service to others. In family, we learn how to give and to receive love. Families share in the life and mission of the Church when the Gospel vision and values are communicated and applied in daily life, when faith is celebrated through rituals in the home or through participation in the sacramental life of the Church, when we gather as a parish family to pray, and when people reach out in loving service to others. The United States Bishop s document, A Family Perspective in Church and Society, describes family life as the basic community of believers, bound in love to one another, the family is the arena in which the drama of redemption is played out. The dying and rising with Christ is most clearly manifested. Here, the cycle of sin, hurt, reconciliation, and healing is lived out over and over again. In family life is found the church of the home: where each day two or three are gathered in the Lord s name; where the hungry are fed, where the thirsty are given drink; where the sick are comforted. It is in the family that the Lord s injunction to forgive, seventy times seven ' is lived out in the daily reconciliation of husband, wife, parent, child, grandparent, brothers, sisters, extended kin. The family plays a very important role in the life of the Church. A family striving to place Christ at its center becomes the most basic Christian community: a domestic church. In 1981 Pope St. John Paul II wrote, the family constitutes a special revelation and realization of ecclesial communion, and for this reason too, can and should be called the domestic church. (Familiaris Consortio #21). Families are church; they don t merely come to church. In Vatican II s Pastoral Constitution On The Church In The Modern World, we read, the family is the place where different generations come together and help one another to grow wiser and harmonize the rights of individuals with other demands of social life; as such it constitutes the basis of society. Everyone, therefore who exercises an influence in the community and in social groups should devote himself effectively to the welfare of marriage and the family. Civil authority should consider it a sacred duty to acknowledge the true nature of marriage and the family, to protect and foster them, to safeguard public morality and promote domestic prosperity. The Ministry of Family Life also extends beyond the doors of our churches and our homes into our society. The pastoral challenges to the family, in the context of evangelization, is the theme of the 2014 Extraordinary Synod of Bishops. Instrumentum Laboris provides a reflection on the challenges facing the family today and outlines topics that will be discussed at the Extraordinary Synod. The document states the need of establishing real, practical formation programs through which the truths of the faith on the family might be presented, primarily to appreciate their profound human and existential value (15). In the parish, the ministry of family life promotes a perspective that views individuals in the context of relationships, especially family relationships. Family relationships are the key criteria used to assess programs and policies in the parish. This sensitivity begs to ask the question: how does what we do affect traditional families, blended families, single parent families. Church leaders need to be more aware of how the Church s policies, programs, ministries, and services can either help or hinder families in fulfilling their own responsibilities. A Family Perspective in Church & Society United States Bishops, 1988 revised 1998
(Continued from page 4) - Family Life) RESPONSIBILITIES To evaluate the needs of families within the faith community. Page 5 To educate and enrich individuals and families through programs, workshops, retreats, newsletters, resource sites, etc. To advocate for family-friendly programs, policies, and services in parish planning. To create evangelization opportunities applicable to each stage in the family life cycle. To cooperate with other groups, agencies, and institutions in the community that work with families. To prepare a budget for family life activities and programs within the parish. To encourage participation in deanery/diocesan family life programs. To research and respond to the trends in society that impact families. To understand and support the diversity in family structures and cultures. To provide and encourage leadership training in a variety of areas of family ministry. No plan for organized pastoral work at any level must ever fail to take into consideration the pastoral area of the family. Familiaris Consortio. On the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World Pope St. John Paul II, 1981 St. Mary s TIPTON Christmas Bazaar Saturday, November 8, 2014 Parish Hall 9:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. Crafts of all kinds!! Cookie Walk ~ Food Stand SERVING: Chicken Noodle soup, Chili, Ham Sandwiches, Home Made Pies!! Mechanicsville Craft Show: Sun, Oct 12; 9am -2pm Memorial Building Crafts, Baked Goods and More!! Contact Evelyn Walshire, 432-6983 Peace Church Turkey Supper Wed, Oct 29,2014; 5-7 pm Bennett School Gym Adults: $10 Ages 4-10: $6 3 and under: Free Cedar County Public Health 2014 Flu Clinic Schedule DATE TIME LOCATION October 15 th -Wednesday 1:00pm-6:00pm Durant-Community Center October 21 st -Tuesday 3:00pm-6:00pm West Branch Methodist Church October 22 nd -Wednesday 7:30am-4:00pm Cedar County Courthouse October 29 th -Wednesday 7:30am-4:00pm Cedar County Courthouse Cost is $25 payable by cash or check No cost to those with Medicare Part B or Medicaid (You MUST present your card)
www.stmarystipton.net - website information for both St. Mary Mechanicsville and St. Mary Tipton J esus again in reply spoke to the chief priests and elders of the people in parables, saying, "The kingdom of heaven may be likened to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son. He dispatched his servants to summon the invited guests to the feast, but they refused to come. A second time he sent other servants, saying, 'Tell those invited: "Behold, I have prepared my banquet, my calves and fattened cattle are killed, and everything is ready; come to the feast." Some ignored the invitation and went away, one to his farm, another to his business. Step One: Listen to the Word As you listen once again to this familiar parable, what caught your ear in it today? What image lingers in your mind from this reading? Step Two: Look into Your Life Question for Children: Why is it important for you to do Question of the Week what Jesus asks of you? Question for Youth: Each week we are invited to participate in Mass. When you are at Mass, how well do you really participate? How could you be more present in heart, mind, and spirit? The rest laid hold of his servants, mistreated them, and killed them. The king was enraged and sent his troops, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city. Then he said to his servants, 'The feast is ready, but those who were invited were not worthy to come. Go out, therefore, into the main roads and invite to the feast whomever you find. The servants went out into the streets and gathered all they found, bad and good alike, and the hall was filled with guests." Matthew 22:1-10 Question for Adults: Using Jesus parable as your starting point, describe in your own words who will be welcome and why they will be welcome, at the eternal banquet of God. For we brought nothing into the world, just as we shall not be able to take anything out of it. 1 Timothy 6:7 It is only while we are alive that we can determine who will receive our worldly possessions when we are gone. When planning our Will we first think of caring for our family and those we leave behind. Please consider how much the parish is part of the family. You can leave a legacy of your faith by including your parish church in your Will.