Mother of Good Counsel Parish & School ~ March 25, 2018

Mother of Good Counsel Parish and School March 25, 2018

Mother of Good Counsel Parish & School ~ March 25, 2018 6924 W. Lisbon Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53210 ~ Main Number: 414-442-7600 website: mgcparish.org ~ Parish FAX: 444-0408 ~ School FAX 442-0644 Weekend Masses: Sat. 5:00 PM, Sunday 10:00 AM, Misa Noon ~ Weekday Masses: Tuesday & Sat. 8:15 AM, Thursday 8:45am Individual Reconciliation after Saturday morning Mass. Exceptions noted on calendar. Calendar for the week of March 25 Palm Sunday Sunday, March 25 ~ Palm Sunday 10:00am Mass 11:00am GS #8933 Cookies Sale ~ Vestibule 11:30am Spanish Rosary ~ Church 12:00pm Spanish Mass ~ MGC Church 2:00pm 8th Grade Musical ~ Pius High School Monday, March 26 ~ 6:30pm Addictions Prayer Group ~ Parish Living Rm 7:00pm AA/Al-Anon Meeting ~ Paulik Hall Tuesday, March 27 ~ 8:15am Mass 9:00am Bible Study ~ Parish Living Room Wednesday, March 28 ~ 5:00pm Practice: Bell Choir ~ Church 6:30pm Athletic Board ~ CYM Room 6:45pm Practice: Adult Choir ~ Church Thursday, March 29 ~ 11:30am Early Dismissal ~ School 7:00pm Holy Thursday Mass ~ MGC Church 8:00pm Men s Basketball ~School Gym Friday, March 30 ~ 7:00am No School ~ Easter Break 1:00pm Good Friday Services ~ MGC Church Saturday, March 31 ~ 8:00pm Easter Vigil ~ MGC Church Sunday, April 1 ~ Easter Sunday 10:00am Mass ~ MGC Church 11:30am Spanish Rosary ~ Church 12:00pm Spanish Mass ~ MGC Church Linen Ministry pickup for April 1 ~ Ann Lappen Milwaukee Westside Catholic Parishes MGC, St. Catherine, and St. Sebastian United in: God, Community, Mission, and Vision Our Parish Mission Statement Mother of Good Counsel is a Catholic community committed to the teachings of Jesus Christ through Worship, Ministry, Stewardship, and Outreach. Parish Office Hours Monday - Thursday: 8 to Noon, 1 to 4 Friday: 9 to Noon Sunday, March 25 10:00AM Charlie Smith Tuesday, March 27 8:15AM Mary Kreitzer Thursday, March 29 7:00PM For MGC Parish Saturday, March 31 8:00PM Irene Pelt Sunday, April 1 10:00AM Ossie Fernando's Soul Remember your loved one with a Mass intention Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. Readings for the Week of March 18, 2018 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16/Is 50:4-7/Ps 22:8-9, 17-18, 19-20, 23-24 [2a]/Phil 2:6-11/Mk 14:1--15:47 or 15:1-39 Monday: Is 42:1-7/Ps 27:1, 2, 3, 13-14 [1a]/Jn 12:1-11 Tuesday: Is 49:1-6/Ps 71:1-2, 3-4a, 5ab-6ab, 15 and 17 [cf. 15ab]/Jn 13:21-33, 36-38 Wednesday: Is 50:4-9a/Ps 69:8-10, 21-22, 31 and 33-34 [14c]/ Mt 26:14-25 Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper: Ex 12:1-8, 11-14/Ps 116:12-13, 15-16bc, 17-18 [cf. 1 Cor 10:16]/1 Cor 11:23-26/Jn 13:1-15 Friday: Is 52:13--53:12/Ps 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25 [Lk 23:46]/Heb 4:14-16; 5:7-9/Jn 18:1--19:42 Saturday: Vigil: Gn 1:1--2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a/Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 13-14, 24, 35 [30] or Ps 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20-22 [5b]/Gn 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18/Ps 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11 [1]/Ex 14:15--15:1/Ex 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18 [1b]/Is 54:5-14/Ps 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13 [2a]/Is 55:1-11/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [3]/Bar 3:9-15, 32--4:4/Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11 [Jn 6:68c]/Ez 36:16-17a, 18-28/Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4 [42:2] or Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 [3] or Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19 [12a]/Rom 6:3-11/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23/Mk 16:1-7 Next Sunday: Acts 10:34a, 37-43/Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23 [24]/ Col 3:1-4 or 1 Cor 5:6b-8/Jn 20:1-9 or Mk 16:1-7or Lk 24:13-35

Good Steward Weekly Report Week 38 Weekly YTD Budgeted 03/18/18 03/18/18 Week 38 Envelopes $4,144 $175,517 $171,731 Offertory $407 $12,734 $10,596 School $211 $5,155 $5,481 Totals $4,761 $193,406 $187,808 Ahead of budget $5,598 Those who serve March 31 & April 1 Saturday, March 31 ~ 8:00pm Servers: D. Koth Lectors: C. Amuhngwa & C. Nunez Eucharistic Ministers: C. Nunez, E. Perez Sunday, April 1 ~ 10:00am Servers: E. Gleesing & L. Dompke Lectors: Sr. C. Thresher & K. Sullivan Eucharistic Ministers: M. Bowen, M. Cook, K. Sullivan, L. Sullivan, J. Winter ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekdays, Tuesday, March 27 ~ K. Berthold & T. Baldwin Thursday, March 29 ~ 7:00pm Servers: E. Gleesing Lectors: L. Rieden & C. Nunez Eucharistic Ministers: L. Rieden, M. Cook, K. Kohut, C. Sandoval, C. Nunez Friday, March 30 ~ 1:00pm Servers: N. Boeding & B. Boeding Lectors: G. Dompke & M. Parks Eucharistic Ministers: M. Bowen Please note: No Scrip will be sold after Easter Vigil or Easter Sunday Mass PASTORAL STAFF: MGC Main Number 414-442-7600 Parish Director: Deacon Andy Meuler...x125 meuler@mgcparish.org Parochial Vicar: Fr. Reed Christopher Mungovan SDS 414-331-9687 cell or ext 103 for messages only reedcmungovan@hotmail.com Deacon Dean Collins... 262-782-0535 dcollins@wi.rr.com Director of Faith Formation: Richard Mason...x107 mason@mgcparish.org Director of Music: Marco Melendez... x117 melendez@mgcparish.org Business Manager: Sue Puls... x105 puls@mgcparish.org Director of Facilities: Adolfo Delgado... x168 delgado@mgcparish.org Parish Secretary: Theresa Boeckeler...x102 boeckeler@mgcparish.org SCHOOL STAFF Principal: Regina Shaw... x119 shaw@mgcparish.org School Secretary: Barb Berthold... x118 berthold@mgcparish.org Director of Extended Care: Denise Schienke.. x123 schienke@mgcparish.org Cafeteria Director: Lisa Klug....x122 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Trustees Mary Moritz & Bob Ninnemann Pastoral Council Chairperson: Ed Kovochich..414-550-0563 St. Vincent DePaul:.414-442-7600 x155 Eucharistic Minister to the Homebound Mary Betzwieser 414-445-8766 Other Ministries: Contact the Parish Office at 414-442-7600 x102 or the School Office x118. For a more complete listing of our ministries check our website at mgcparish.org. Sisters of the Divine Savior (Salvatorians) March 25~ Jada Tate March 27 ~ Jalacia Mills March 28 ~ Justin Daniels Happy Birthday to our MGC Kids and Teens March 29 ~ Layla Lee March 30 ~ LeBron Hartley March 31 ~ Morgan Martin We are very grateful to all our fellow MGC parishioners who listened to our Sister Talks during National Catholic Sisters Week. We especially enjoyed sharing hospitality with you after Masses, and hearing your memories about Catholic Sisters you ve known over the years.

From the Desk of Deacon Andy Dear Friends, As we enter into Holy Week, we again are prepared to commemorate Jesus passion, death, and resurrection during the three most solemn days, known as the Triduum. This sacred commemoration consists of one ritual that happens over the period of three days. It begins with the Mass of the Lord s Supper on Thursday evening. On this evening, we commemorate the institution of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in which Jesus gives himself to us, just as he did in the sacrifice on Calvary. Also a sign of Christian love and mutual service is evident during this liturgy as the gesture of the washing of feet takes place, to remind us of our identity as a servant people. After communion that evening, the Blessed Sacrament is taken in solemn procession to an altar of repose and everyone is asked to leave in silence as the altar is stripped and laid bare in preparation for the second part of the Triduum ritual. On Good Friday afternoon, we enter the church and begin the liturgy in silence, just as we left the prior evening. We then listen to the account of Christ s Passion. Our prayers of intercession are solemn and more elaborate than usual. We take time to venerate the cross on which hung the Savior of the world. We then receive communion that was reserved from Thursday s Mass, and again we leave in silence. The third part of the Triduum is celebrated on Holy Saturday. The Easter Vigil begins in the dark before the new fire, the Light of Christ, is blessed --- and the Paschal Candle, lit from that new fire, leads everyone back into the church. The solemn hymn, Exultet (Rejoice) is proclaimed and we then listen to the story of our salvation in a series of scriptural readings. The baptismal water is blessed anew and those who have been preparing to enter into communion with the Church are baptized and confirmed, while all in the congregation renew their own baptismal promises. The Mass continues in a most solemn, yet festive, manner as we proclaim and celebrate with great joy the Resurrection of Our Lord, and the Mass ends fittingly with the singing of the solemn Alleluia. These three days of the Triduum are, without a doubt, the crowning point of the liturgical year. All are invited to join us in this great celebration... Meditation and prayer for Holy Week: How might you follow the example of Jesus in emptying yourself for the sake of someone else? Let us pray O Lord our Redeemer, may we not only remember your passion, death, and resurrection this Holy Week, but may we also enter, heart and soul, into your Passover from death to life. Let the example of your humility guide our faltering steps as we struggle to follow you from Jerusalem to the Upper Room, from agony to trial, from crucifixion to burial. Help us to empty ourselves of our own hurts and wants in order to become vessels of your compassion for others. Amen. Peace, Deacon Andy How to Turn in Your CRS Rice Bowl Donations Method 1: Count the money in your cardboard Rice Bowl and write out a check for that amount made out to Mother of Good Counsel. Write CRS Rice Bowl on the memo line and put the check into a plain white envelope labeled CRS Rice Bowl and put the envelope into the collection basket at any Liturgy during Holy Week. Method 2: Bring your full cardboard Rice Bowl to Church during Holy Week (especially Holy Thursday) and put it into the box labeled CRS Rice Bowl in the church vestibule. On Holy Thursday, the CRS Rice Bowl contributions will be brought up to the altar to be blessed Method 3: If you have not been using the cardboard rice bowl, then just write out a check for the amount that you want to give to indicate your commitment to help the poor and hungry of your community and of the World. Make the check out to Mother of Good Counsel with CRS Rice Bowl on the memo line and put it into a plain white envelope labeled CRS Rice Bowl and put it into the collection basket at any liturgy during Holy Week.

PRAYER LIST Please remember in your prayers: Anne Bauer, Brenda Beaumier, Lou Betzwieser, Valerie Bradford, Rose Brindel, Richard Bowd, Grace Callen, Kathy Chovanec, Mary Joan Dally, John Dolan, Harold Dallapiazza, Elaine Fernando, Ron & Arlyne Fleissner, Chrissy Fleissner, Mary Gebert, Ginny Hack, Mary Ann Halter, Ed Kovochich, Art Kreitzer, Theresa Nadolski, Kris Nehrbass, Joel Rivera, Janet Schlicht, Mary Uhlenkamp, Paul Willmering If you know of someone who needs or would appreciate a visit from Fr. Reed please call 414-442- 7600 ext 103. Military Prayer list Air Force; Louis Cruz, nephew of Robert & Mariza Konzal Senior Chief Petty Officer U.S. Coast Guard Kenneth Seefeld, grandson of Elaine Seefeld Army Ranger First Lieutenant Christopher Wiesneski, an MGC Graduate & son of Paul and Judy Wiesneski Marine Sergeant Dwain J. Burke, nephew of Brenda Beaumier Army Ranger Master Sergeant James Cook, son of Mary & Michael Cook Air Force Sergeant Kurt Buckawiecki, grandson-in-law of Mary & Arthur Kreitzer Special Forces Army Sergeant Joshua Kohut, an MGC Graduate & son of Kathy Kohut Army Sergeant Coleman Harrington, an MGC Graduate & son of Kevin and Kathy Harrington Air Force Captain Brian Kass, nephew of Kathy Mymudes Army Sergeant Bradley Dompke, Godson of Tony and Gail Dompke Marine Master Sergeant David John Winter, son of Joan M. Winter and John F. Winter Please keep them and all people affected by war in your Prayers and thoughts! Contact us in the Parish Office if you have any family members or friends who are currently serving and we will add their names to our prayer list. @ MGC Palm Sunday, March 25: Mass @ 10am & Misa ~ noon Holy Thursday, March 29: Mass of the Lord s Supper @ 7pm Good Friday Service, March 30: @ 1pm Easter Vigil, March 31: @8pm (All Parishioners are invited to stop by after the Easter Vigil to welcome our new RCIA graduates, join in fellowship, enjoy punch, and cake to celebrate the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ as a parish community) Easter Sunday Mass, April 1: 10am & Misa ~ noon Lenten Disciplines of Fasting and Abstinence All Catholics over the age of 14 years must abstain from meat on Good Friday and all Fridays of Lent. Catholics in good health between the ages of 18 and 59 are obliged to fast on Good Friday. Fasting consist of eating only one meal. In Loving Memory God has called to Himself the following Paul Somers Carol Wuerl Let us pray as a community of faith that they may experience the joy and peace of eternal life. Our deepest assurance of prayer in this difficult time for their families. Father Michael Newman, SDS (MGC Alumni class of 1953) A Memorial Mass will be held on Friday, April 6, 2018 @10:30am St. Anne s Salvatorian Campus St. Vincent de Paul Today is Palm Sunday and the beginning of the holiest of Christian weeks. Let us pray for the grace to take up our own cross and to follow Jesus through death to new life. Please remember the Southside Meal Program, it s participants, and faithful volunteers with your prayers and donations. MGC participates monthly preparing and serving a hot meal to those who struggle to make ends meet. If you are interested in participating in this mission, please email us at mgcparish@mgcparish.org. Volunteers are needed to greet and serve monthly.