NOVEMBER 26, 2017 OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, KING OF THE UNIVERSE Saint Patrick C A T H O L I C C H U R C H 120 Fifth Street N.W. Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52405 Parish Phone Number Parish Office... (319) 362-7966 Office Hours Hours... Mon-Fri 9:00 am-4:00 pm Staff Pastor...Father Ivan Nienhaus i.nienhaus@dbqarch.org Deacons..Deacon Dan Hoeger deacondan@stpatrickscr.org..deacon Sean Smith deaconsean@stpatrickscr.org Pastoral Ministers... Penny Ackerman packerman@stpatrickscr.org... Cindy Koczo ckoczo@stpatrickscr.org Director of Religious Ed... Geralyn Ward gward@stpatrickscr.org Youth/Young Adult Minister Kristin Soukup ksoukup@stpatrickscr.org Bookkeeper... Tom Hanley thanley@stpatrickscr.org Secretary... Shannon Bear secretary@stpatrickscr.org Music Director... Sue May... smay@stpatrickscr.org Adult Choir Director... Sue May Children s Choir Director Kellie Jorgenson... kellies16@outlook.com Maintenance/Custodian...Larry Pesek lpesek@stpatrickscr.org Prayer Line Phone... (319) 365-2364 The ARK Book & Gift Shop Phone... (319) 200-4591 Metro Catholic Outreach... www.metrocatholicoutreach.com
Weekly Scripture Readings for the Week of November 26, 2017 Sunday: Ez 34:11-12, 15-17/Ps 23:1-3, 5-6/1 Cor 15:20-26, 28/Mt 25:31-46 Monday: Dn 1:1-6, 8-20/Dn 3:52-56/Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Dn 2:31-45/Dn 3:57-61/Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28/Dn 3:62-67/Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Rom 10:9-18/Ps 19:8-11/Mt 4:18-22 Friday: Dn 7:2-14/Dn 3:75-81/Lk 21:29-33 Saturday: Dn 7:15-27/Dn 3:82-87/Lk 21:34-36 Next Sunday: Is 63:16b-17, 19b; 64:2-7/Ps 80:2-3, 15-16, 18-19/1 Cor 1:3-9/Mk 13:33-37 Financial Stewardship For the week of November 19, 2017: Contribution Envelopes: $ Stewardship Needed: $12,500.00 Received Fiscal Year To Date: $ Needed Fiscal Year To Date: $262,500.00 Remember St. Patrick in your last will and in memorials ROSARY FOR THE PILGRIM VIRGIN for the week of Nov 26th Dec 1st will be at the home of Rich and Marcia Morio, 1741 Applewood Place NE at 7:30 PM. If you'd like to host, call 377-4197. Organ Campaign 2017 For the week of November 19, 2017: Capital Campaign Goal: $75,000 Received to Date: $ Yet to Collect: $ Liturgical Assignment Weekday Mass Server for Nov. 28 Dec. 1 David Byrnes Mass Intentions Saturday, November 25 4:00 PM Pete and Dorothy Hilby Sunday, November 26 8:00 AM Ormaline Kemble 10:00 AM Jim Schliemann 12 Noon For the People Tuesday, November 28 8:30 AM Otto & Mary Novak Wednesday, November 29 8:30 AM John & Agnes Lynott Thursday, November 30 8:30 AM Jim & Bernard Gross Mary & Ed Kalkhoff Friday, December 1 8:30 AM Bruce Ackman Saturday, December 2 4:00 PM Jim Bruner Sunday, December 3 8:00 AM Patti Goins 10:00 AM Kenny & Josephine Krumbholz 12 Noon For the People EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER SCHEDULE DECEMBER 2 @ 4:00 PM Servers: Luke Ockerlander Lector: Mike Tilson Eucharistic Ministers: Sandi Haman, Rose Hays, Lee & Connie Hutchison, & LaDonna Jacobson December 3 @ 8:00 AM Servers: Art Grainger Lector: Dan Rouse Eucharistic Ministers: Jeffrey & Julie Brehm, Pat Casey, Max Emerson, & Mike Fandel December 3 @ 10:00 AM Servers: Aubrey Luck & Niko Mason Lector: Dawn Martin Eucharistic Ministers: John & Julie Ely, Shelley Helms, Mike Himmelsbach, & John Jorgenson December 3 @ 12NOON Servers: David Byrnes & Carey Cavanaugh Lector: Teresa Wake Eucharistic Ministers: David Byrnes 2
We start Advent on December 3. Advent this year will be all of three weeks due to the fact that Christmas Eve will fall on the Fourth Sunday of Advent. Instead of a normal 28 days to spiritually prepare for Christmas we are looking at 21 days this year. St. Patrick Parish is going to offer BINGO to the greater Cedar Rapids community beginning on Monday, January 8, 2018. We will play every Monday. The doors will open at 5 PM and we will start promptly at 6 PM. The income generated will go to replacing the roof on our Church. We are currently forming teams of workers. Each team will work once a month. If you would like to be apart of this exciting new venture, please call Cindy at the Parish Office 362-7966. The word Advent is from the Latin adventus for "coming" and is associated with the four weeks of preparation for Christmas. Advent blends together a penitential spirit, very similar to Lent, a liturgical theme of preparation for the Second and Final Coming of the Lord, called the Parousia, and a joyful theme of getting ready for the Bethlehem event. Since the 900s Advent has been considered the beginning of the Church s liturgical year. This does not mean that Advent is the most important time of the year. Easter has always had this honor. The traditional color of Advent is purple or violet which symbolizes the penitential spirit. This is reflected by the vestments worn by the priest and the color of those candles on our Advent Wreaths. My hope and prayer for you is that you would embrace the Season of Advent with a firm and focused attitude. More and more, Christians are so enthralled with the sounds and the lights of Christmas that we pretty much ignore the whole point of Advent. Please consider an Advent that is focused on prayer and penance. Consider doing Eucharistic Adoration an hour a week, going to Confession or something as simple as remembering the greatest gift we make at Christmas is a gift to the Church. All of these things help us to spiritually prepare our souls so that we might experience to the joy of Christ s birth at Christmas Sincerely, Rev. Ivan Nienhaus THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2017 HOLY DAY OF OBLIGATION The Mass Schedule is as follows: 8:30 AM IN THE CHURCH 12:05 PM IN THE CHURCH 5:30 PM IN THE CHURCH 4TH SUNDAY OF ADVENT WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE Saturday, Dec. 23: 4PM Sunday, Dec. 24: 8AM, 10AM, & 12noon DECEMBER 30/31 MASS SCHEDULE Saturday, Dec. 30 4PM Sunday, Dec.31 8AM, 10AM, & 12noon CHRISTMAS IS COMING: With the upcoming Holiday Season, beginning, November 18th the ARK CATHOLIC BOOKS AND GIFTS STORE will be using the sitting room in the Rectory for additional merchandise. For parents with children, please use the room off of the altar as a cry room (if you need one) until after the holidays. Thank you! CHRISTMAS MASS SCHEDULE Christmas Eve (Sunday, Dec. 24) at 4PM and 6:30 PM Christmas Day (Monday, Dec. 25) at 8AM & 10AM THE SOLEMNITY OF MARY EVE: Sunday, December 31 4PM DAY: Monday, January 1 9AM 3
FISH FRY MEAL PUNCH CARDS are are back this year. Punch Cards will be sold prior to the start of the first Fish Fry (February 16, 2018). You buy the card for the price of 6 meals and get the 7th meal for free. This card is valid for dine in or drive thru. An adult meal punch card is $60. A senior meal punch card is $54. And a child meal punch card is $36. Cards will be sold after the Masses during the month of December except December 24/25 as well as in the Parish Office during regular business hours. WHAT A GREAT IDEA FOR CHRISTMAS! 4
PLEASE JOIN US FOR THE 3 RD ANNUAL ANGEL OF HOPE PRAYER VIGIL on December 6th at 7p.m. at the Angel of Hope Statue located at Xavier High School. The vigil is a public gathering for anyone who has lost a loved one. Our prayers will join with others throughout the United States who host a candlelight ceremony at all The Angle of Hope Monuments on December 6th, at 7p.m. Come pray for all seeking Hope and Light. CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE WEEKEND (CEW) IN FEBRUARY 2018: Experience this special weekend and grow in your faith! The women s weekend is from Friday evening, Feb. 2 nd through Sunday afternoon, Feb. 4 th. The men s weekend is from Feb. 23 rd through the 25 th. Visit www.crcew.org to register, or see the parish office for registration forms. What a great way to continue your faith journey! KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS 909 KEEP CHRIST IN CHRISTMAS POSTER CONTEST. A great way to prepare children for the upcoming celebration of the birth of Christ is through the Keep Christ in Christmas poster contest. Children age groups 5-7, 8-10, 11-14 are invited to reflect on the significance of our Savior s birth, as they participate in the season of Advent. Contest rules and 11 x 17 paper available at the Parish Office or through your Religious Education coordinator. Finished posters are due back to the parish office by noon December 8th. Regarding this request to make Mary s Immaculate Heart known and loved, Jesus and Mary asked Lucia to establish the 5 first Saturday devotion. On October 10, 1925, Mary once again appeared to Lucia holding the child Jesus. Mary showed Lucia a heart encircled by thrones. At the same time the child Jesus said: Have compassion on the Heart of your most holy Mother covered with thorns, with which ungrateful men pierce it at every moment, and there is no one to make an act of reparation to remove them. Then Mary said, Look, my daughter,at my Heart surrounded with thorns with which ungrateful men pierce me every moment by their blasphemies and ingratitude. You at least try to console me and say that I promise to assist at the hour of death, with the graces necessary for salvation, all those who on the First Saturday of five consecutive months shall 1) confess theirs sins 2) receive Holy Communion 3) recite five decades of the Rosary and keep me company for fifteen minutes while meditating on the fifteen mysteries of the Rosary with the intention of making reparation to me. This request was made on December 10, 1925, eight years after the Fatima apparitions. The importance of this request is made clear by Jesus s appearance to Lucia on February 15, 1926 two months later. Jesus was reassuring Lucia that she would be given the grace to carry out this mission. There seems to be no doubt that this devotion has great merit and that Jesus wants Mary s Immaculate Heart known and loved by us. 5
Religious Education & Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Religious Education Calendar Catechesis of the Good Shepherd () Wednesdays 6:00-7:30pm & Thursdays 9:30-11:00am 1-8 Grades & Confirmation 6:15-7:30pm November 29 November 30 December 6 - Feast of St. Nicholas Confirmation Christmas Pageant Rehearsal December 7 December 13 Reconciliation 3-8 grades December 14 December 20 Reconciliation 3-8 gr December 21 December 27 NO CLASSES CHRISTMAS BREAK December 28 NO CLASSES CHRISTMAS BREAK Holy Family School News HF Parent Association Christmas Spectacular Vendor Fair When: Saturday, December 2nd, 2017 Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm Where: St. Jude Gym Join us for one stop holiday shopping! Vendors/Crafters/Donations Wanted - The Parent Association is looking for vendors to showcase their products and crafts at the Christmas Spectacular Vendor Fair. We are also looking for donations of crafts and baked goods to sell at the Parent Association booth. For more information, please contact lasallepa@holyfamilycr.org. Christmas Pageant If your children or grand-children would like a role in our annual Christmas Pageant please let Geralyn know. Christmas Pageant Rehearsal: December 6 6:15-7:30pm in the church. Christmas Pageant: December 13 th 6:30-7:00pm in the church followed by Christmas cookies in the large hall and a special guest! Youth Activities High School & Eighth Graders: Sign up for Steubenville July 20-22, 2018! Registration is beginning for Steubenville 2018! We will be attending one of the regional conferences over the weekend of July 20-22. What is Steubenville? A Steubenville Youth Conference is a weekend-long conference/retreat experience for high-school students. It is packed with engaging Catholic speakers and musicians, the Sacraments, Eucharistic Adoration and break-out sessions, and small group time. There are 25 conferences across the country, and each one has a few thousand youth participants each summer! The theme for the 2018 Conference is REVEALED: In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 1 John 4:9 Who can attend? Current 8 th -12 th graders are eligible to attend the conference in Summer 2018. How do I sign up? E-mail Kristin at ksoukup@stpatrickscr.org if you are interested, or pick up and return the forms to the Parish office! A deposit and registration forms are required to reserve your spot. 6
Mon.: Tues.: CALENDAR OF EVENTS For the week of November 27 December 3, 2017 Pietra Fitness 5PM Parish Hall Friends in Faith Book Study 9-10AM Celtic Grounds Cindy: MethWick 10:30 AM Senior Citizen 500 Card Players 12:30 PM St. Patrick Wed.: Padre Pio Prayer Group 9AM Celtic Grounds Joyful Hearts Book Club 10AM Ad. Ed. Rm. Thurs.: Fri.: Sat.: Sun.: Young Adult Ministry 7:30 PM Celtic Grounds First Sunday of Advent Young Adults and Young Professionals of Cedar Rapids (21-39) Anyone in their 20's & 30's is welcome to join us on Saturday nights from 7:30-9PM for Adoration, Evening Prayer, and discussion. For more information, contact Kristin Soukup at ksoukup@stpatrickscr.org. Our next Souper Senior Luncheon will be held on Thursday, December 7. Bring quarters to play Bingo. We will play a quarter a card and the winner will receive half of the money that was taken in for the game. You do not need to come for Bingo to stay for lunch. Lunch will be served at 11:30 AM. Lunch is $3.00 a person. We will have the Ding-A- Lings play Christmas music. OUR PROGRAM FOR DECEMBER 10:15 11:30AM Bingo and Fellowship 11:30 AM Lunch 12:15 12:45PM Ding-A-Lings SEE YOU THERE! 7 Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday 4PM; Sunday 8AM, 10AM and 12Noon Weekday: Tuesday Friday 8:30 AM in the Chapel Eucharistic Adoration Seven Days A Week: 9AM 9PM in the Chapel Sacraments Confessions Weekdays: (Tuesday Friday): 7:45 8:15 AM Saturdays: 3:00 3:45 PM Baptisms Parents must be registered in the Parish and have attended a Baptismal class. Please call the Parish Office for a schedule of classes and to schedule baptisms. Weddings Arrangements should be made at least six months in advance of the wedding date. Ministry to the Sick Please notify the Parish Office if you know of a parishioner who is homebound. ST. MATTHEW CHURCH would like to invite everyone to view the Nativity display in Kearn Hall on Saturday, Dec. 2 from 3-6 and Sunday, Dec 3 from 7am - 2 pm. There will be Nativity sets for children to touch and interact with and cookies and cocoa. Join us for mass at 4pm Saturday or 8 and 10:30 am on Sunday or feel free to stop by after attending mass at your church. Bring the entire family. Enter through the lower level doors for handicap accessibility and be sure to bring the children. There will be a raffle to win an adult Nativity set and a children's set. Hope to see you at St. Matthews on Dec 2 and 3. GET YOUR HOLY FAMILY SCHOOL GALA 2018 TICKETS NOW! Join us, for the Fifth Annual Holy Family School Gala, Friday, February 2, 2018 at the St. Ludmila Social Hall, 211 21st Avenue SW, Cedar Rapids. Doors open at 5:00 pm for this special evening of dinner, music, live and silent auctions, fun and fellowship! Our four west side parishes of St. John XXIII, St. Jude, St. Ludmila and St. Patrick come together to sponsor this fundraiser that benefits tuition assistance for current and future Holy Family School System families. Reserve your tickets before Dec. 1 to receive the special ticket price of $40 per person or $400 for a table seating eight. Contact Dee Hanson at St. Ludmila Church, 319-362-7282, to purchase your tickets or for more information. Thank you for your support of Catholic education!