St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish 5361 Dry Ridge Road Cincinnati, OH 45252 (513)385-8010 Fax (513)385-8080 www.stjohnsdr.org MASS SCHEDULE Saturday 4:30 pm Sunday 8:30 am & 11:00 am Weekday & Holyday - See Bulletin PARISH OFFICE Rev. Timothy S. Kallaher, Pastor Deacon Ken Schnur, Pastoral Associate Deacon Vincent Lutz Douglas Schmutte, Pastoral Associate for Music/Liturgy Amanda Weickert, Director of Religious Education Rod Dunlap, Director of Youth Ministry Terri Reder, Business Manager Tom Cunningham, Plant Manager/Maintenance Supervisor Michelle Zerhusen, Administrative Assistant PASTORAL COUNCIL Al Grote, Chairperson, 245-9943 Ryan Vitolo, Vice-Chairperson, 519-1518 Valerie Nimeskern, Secretary, 288-3254 David Eby, Member at Large, 385-7675 Steve Bissmeyer, Member at Large, 923-2633 Gene Culman, Member at Large, 385-6669 Shannon Meyer, Member at Large, 385-6970 John Stehlin, Member at Large,476-9665 Kevin Wood, Member at Large, 885-9860 Heather Smith, Development Commission Rep., 923-2893 Betty Dirr,, Faith Formation Comm. Rep., 385-3954 Sharon Bachman, Finance Commission Rep., 385-8267 Patti Rice, Worship Commission Rep., 385-5410 Larry Weinheimer, Communications Comm. Rep, 652-2563 RECONCILIATION: Saturday at 2:30 p.m. & Seasonal Service MARRIAGE: Call the Parish Office at least 6 months prior to your wedding. BAPTISMS: Call the Parish Office ANOINTING OF THE SICK/COMMUNION: Call Parish Office WELCOME NEW MEMBERS. Please contact the Parish Office CURRENT PARISHIONERS: Moving? New email? Contact the Parish Office. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL - 513-301-6881 1 Monday, April 4 8:30 a.m. Charles Diedling/Lois & Cliff Kist Tuesday, April 5 8:30 a.m. John M. Zerhusen/Family Wednesday, April 6 8:30 a.m. Jeanne Kavanaugh/Hazel Luken Thursday, April 7 8:30 a.m. Charlene Bosse/Dale & Marlene Friday, April 8 8:30 a.m. Salvatore Seta/Rita & Dave Ball Saturday, April 9 4:30 PM Raymond Schaefer/Jim & Judy Isadori Sunday, April 10 PRIEST S MASS INTENTIONS 8:30 a.m. Ralph Focke/Margie 11:00 a.m. For the Parish Bulletin Sponsors TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Finance Report Terri s Tidbits Page 4 Liturgical Ministers Page 2 Musician s Notes Page 5 Office of Christian Formation Page 6 Parish Information Page 3 Shopping Cent Page 4 This Week in Lent Page 9 You believe in me, Thomas, because you have seen me, says the Lord; blessed are they who have not seen me, but still believe! Youth Ministry Page 7 & 8
THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH LITURGICAL MINISTERS Monday, April 4 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Adoration, 9:15 a.m., Chapel Monday Martha s Group, 9:30 a.m. Rosary, 7:00 p.m., Chapel Tuesday, April 5 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Northgate Atria Young Adult Group, 7:00 p.m., POMR #2 Wednesday, April 6 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Church Thursday, April 7 Mass, 8:30 a.m., Chapel Joseph s Group, 9:00 a.m., POMR #2 Shopping Cent, 9:00 a.m., POMR#1 New Hymnal Blessing, 7:00 p.m., Gathering Space Friday, April 8 All School Mass, 8:30 a.m., Church Saturday, April 9 Reconciliation, 2:30 p.m., Reconciliation Chapel Mass, 4:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10 Mass, 8:30 a.m. Mass, 11:00 a.m. PREPARE TO HEAR GOD S WORD Readings for April 10, 2016 Acts 5:27-32, 40-41 The apostles obeyed God by continuing to teach and preach in the name of Jesus in spite of a warning from the Sanhedrin. Revelation 5:11-14 The Lamb that was sacrificed is given glory by heavenly hosts, by humanity and by the whole of creation. John 21:1-19 Jesus appears to the disciples while they are fishing, and the catch is bountiful after he instructs them. They are re-commissioned to be his witnesses in the world. Saturday, April 9, 4:30 PM Mass Servers: A. Toelke, H. Murphy, L. Smith Lectors: Joe Siefert, Steve Bissmeyer Eucharistic Ministers: Shirley Fehrenbach, Larry Fehrenbach, Mary Ann Lennon, Annette Arzman, Marcia Schmidt, Patrick Bissmeyer Sunday, April 10, 8:30 AM Mass Servers: G. Vidourek, M. Karwisch, D. Karwisch Lectors: Bob Carle, Matthew Fay Eucharistic Ministers: Lynn Kist, Bill Kist, Bob Engel, Carolyn Engel, Dale Bosse, Phil Moore Sunday, April 10, 11:00 AM Mass Servers: A. Burke, Z. Bernecker, M. Zipperer Lectors: Nisrene Langenbrunner, Tim Lees Eucharistic Ministers: Ben Peters, Jonathan Molulon, Ben Molulon, Alyssa Molulon, Mary Ellen Moeller, Abigail Kreimer, Sam Kreimer, Joyce Behrmann, Mike Burke, Michael Langenbrunner Parish Library Spot Lent is over and you ve come to the final page of the Little Black Book. What aid can you find to continue the daily ritual of meditation? Glimpses of God s Grace by Anita Corrine Donihue might be an option. The daily meditations begin with a brief scripture passage followed by thoughts to ponder. There is an entry for each day of the calendar year. In the introduction to the book Donihue says My prayer is that God will bless and encourage you during your twelve month journey with Him and that you will experience His surprising, amazing mercy and grace. Check it out!! 2
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER PARISH INFORMATION Senior s Meeting is April 13 1 pm in the Gathering Space Being a friend and snack to share. GARDENERS - it is that time of the year and we could really use your help planting, weeding, trimming or your input on the gardens. We start April 7 at 9 am. Come and join us. For more information, please call Carolyn Engel at 741-7406 or Mary Ann Bowling at 874-3749. THRESHOLD BIBLE GROUP starts on Wednesday, April 6 after the 8:30 am Mass. We meet in the Bride s room. We will be studying The Resurrection and The Life. Please join us for coffee, fellowship and lively discussion. FESTIVAL TIME - the festival is only 4 1/2 months away. Don t forget to call the Parish Office to volunteer to be a booth chair. REUNION MASS St. John the Baptist is putting together a REUNION MASS for all high school students graduating this year. Here is your chance to catch up on your St. John friends before you graduate and conquer the world!! This Mass will be held on Sunday, May 22 after the 11:00 a.m. Mass. A reception will follow after Mass. Please join us for a great day of memories!! For more information or to let us know you will attend, please contact Anne Johns at ljohns@cinci.rr.com. NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION THE LAY PASTORAL MINISTRY PROGRAM is sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and helps lay Catholics grow in faith, knowledge and skills needed for evangelization, catechesis and service. Since 1975, the LPMP has helped ordinary Catholics accomplish extraordinary things in the name of Christ. Weeknight and Saturday classes, flexible formation components and a supportive environment help busy adults fit theology and pastoral studies into work and family commitments. Classes forming for fall in Cincinnati and Dayton. Call 513-231-1200 for information or attend an Information Meeting on April 16 th 10 AM at our main campus, 6616 Beechmont Avenue in Cincinnati. THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! Thank you to everyone who made our Holy Week Liturgies so beautiful! From the Parish Staff 3
STEWARDSHIP OF FINANCE TERRI S TIDBITS MARCH 20, 2016 COLLECTION REPORT Adult Collection (includes Electronic Donations) Children Collection St. Vincent de Paul Good Friday Easter Flowers Adult Envelopes Children Envelopes Electronic Donators Thank You! 12,359.03 MARCH 27, 2016 COLLECTION REPORT Adult Collection (includes Electronic Donations) Children Collection St. Vincent de Paul Easter Flowers Debt Reduction This Year to Date Last Year to Date Comparison to Last Year * Adult Envelopes Children Envelopes Electronic Donators Thank You! Note: *Easter was April 4 last year. AFD Update Total Pledged 120,909 Total Collected 113,717 3.00 181.00 20.00 335.00 185 3 59 25,461.06 4.00 167.00 125.00 227.00 574,064.26 556,814.30 17,249.96 170 families have responded to the AFD. Thank you so much for your generous donation to the parish. 386 4 54 DID YOU KNOW THAT the tree planted in front of the Parish Office was planted in memory of Jean Tetzner by the Martha s Group? Jean was a long time member who passed away in 2001. A memorial plague has been placed at the base of the tree. DID YOU KNOW THAT we sent 110 baskets to St. Francis Seraph School last week? Thank you to everyone who donated baskets and to those who organized it. DID YOU KNOW THAT we are getting a new floor in the Parish Center and Foyer? It will be installed this summer. I will publish all the details in next week s bulletin. Thanks to the committee who has done an outstanding job! Words of wisdom from your neighbor: We use duct tape to fix everything. God fixed everything by using nails. Amen and thank you Jesus. STEWARDSHIP FOR THE WEEK Jesus said to them again, Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. JOHN 20:21 Peace the first gift of the risen Lord. Just as Jesus sent the apostles out into the world to share His peace and Good News, so too, He sends us. As disciples of Jesus, we are called to be grateful and generous. We should look for opportunities to share His peace with our brothers and sisters not only within our local parish boundaries, but outside of them as well. In giving, you will receive the peace of Christ. SHOPPING CENTS Don t forget to purchase your Shopping Cent gift cards. The proceeds go to the School. Your support is appreciated. Check out our Facebook page at St. John the Baptist Catholic Parish - Dry Ridge, OH. Like us! 4
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F irst of all, I would thank everyone who made all of our Holy Week, Triduum, and Easter Liturgies very prayerful and solemn occasions worthy of the celebration of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you to all of YOU who came to celebrate some or all of the liturgies of Holy Week and Easter Sunday. Thank you for coming to pray, not only with your fellow parishioners, but the entire Church, and join in these very sacred days. Thank you to all of the ministers during those days, from all who welcomed and greeted those who came to the many other various liturgical ministers (lectors, extraordinary ministers of the eucharist, art and environment ministers, ushers, music ministers, servers ). You all helped to make our liturgies very prayerful for all who attended. Next, I am glad to announce that our new hymnals are here!! This coming Thursday evening at 7:00 in the Gathering Space we will have a blessing of the hymnals and then place the hymnals in church. We invite everyone to come to the blessing, especially, for those who donated hymnals. We invite you to come to the blessing, and then, you may take the hymnal(s) that you donated and place them in church where you normally sit. Many people have told me they want to donate, but, keep forgetting to bring their checkbook with them. You may donate to the hymnal fund at any time, and we will then make a plate and place it in the hymnal for you, but only those who have donated by TOMORROW, MONDAY, APRIL 4 will have their book labels imprinted by Thursday. Thanks to all who have already donated hymnals! Again, we will have a hymnal blessing this coming Thursday in the Gathering Space at 7:00. SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER MUSICIAN S NOTES BY DOUG SCHMUTTE 6 The hymnals will be in the pews for the first time next weekend. One thing you will notice is that this hymnal is set up almost exactly the same as our current hymnal. So, navigating our way through the book should be relatively easy. I am going to take time in learning new hymnody, but we will use a couple of new pieces during the Easter Season. I want all of us to see what wonderful new Alleluia! Christ is risen! Let us celebrate the feast! music is in the books right away, while at the same time, not overwhelming us with a lot of new music. Thanks again to all for making our Triduum celebrations such joyous celebrations of the resurrection of Jesus Christ. May we continue to celebrate during these great 50 days of Easter and may the words of last week s psalm continue to be on our lips throughout the entire Easter season: This is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoiced and be glad. Have a great week. Week by Week Through the Year of Mercy ast year on this Sunday, Pope Francis declared this L year a Jubilee Year of Mercy. Francis challenges us to make that comfort we receive a gift we gladly share: We are called to show mercy because mercy has first been shown to us. The clearest expression of merciful love, says Francis, is pardoning others. At times how hard it seems to forgive! he acknowledges. And yet pardon is the instrument placed into our fragile hands to attain serenity of heart. The necessary condition for living joyfully? To let go of anger, wrath, violence, and revenge. May Divine Mercy Sunday in this Jubilee Year of Mercy remind us that Jesus made mercy our life s ideal and a criterion for our faith s credibility: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy (Matthew 5:7). Peter Scagnelli, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. Papal quotes Copyright 2015, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. Used with permission.
Merciful like the Father This is the opportune moment to change our lives! This is the time to allow our hearts to be touched! When faced with evil deeds, even in the face of serious crimes, it is the time to listen to the cry of innocent people who are deprived of their property, their dignity, their feelings, and even their very lives. To stick to the way of evil will only leave one deluded and sad. True life is something entirely different. God never tires of reaching out to us. He is always ready to listen, as I am too, along with my brother bishops and priests. All one needs to do is to accept the invitation to conversion and submit oneself to justice during this special time of mercy offered by the Church. Excerpt from Misericordiae Vultus, p. 19, Pope Francis Apostolic Letter in which he proclaimed the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy. Vatican Translation. NOTE: FOR EASTER SEASION, START WITH P 15 Office of Christian Formation Amanda Weickert aweickert@stjohnsdr.org Do you need to talk through something or have and questions about our faith? It would be my joy to meet with you! Please feel free to call or schedule an appointment any time! Interested in joining a small group? We are all in a relationship with God right now - it is our joy and privilege as God s baptized children! But it can be hard to know how to live this out in our daily lives. One great way to grow in our loving relationships with God and others is by joining a small group. It can be very helpful to meet with others seeking to grow as well. There are no prerequisites we are all imperfect people who are trying to accept God s grace and become the best we can be for ourselves, our families and our friends! Contact me if you are interested in learning more! - Amanda Weickert, aweickert@stjohnsdr.org 7 to LOVE as GOD LOVES By Amanda Weickert Today it can seem that we are completely surrounded by violence and hatred. Even in just the past couple of weeks we have the horrific examples of people bombing Brussels and kidnapping and torturing a priest. The joy of Easter and the coming of Christ s kingdom can seem much too far away. It is easy to allow ourselves to be discouraged and think that peace is an unattainable goal, a fanciful wish only appropriate for beauty pageant interviews, but Christ reminds us in today s readings that he freely gives us, like the apostles, his peace. The first reading from Acts 5 describes how Many signs and wonders were done among the people at the hands of the apostles. Crowds of people were lining the streets hoping even the shadow of an Apostle would fall on them, and all those who came were cured. God is no less active within our own world! Like the Apostles, we are called to be Christ s peace in the world and within our own lives. Just as Jesus sent out the apostles after the resurrection he says to us Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you. (John 20). I tend to underemphasize or avoid thinking about the spectacular things God can do through me. At least part of this is due to my own shame at how I have rejected God s grace through the many little (and I try to convince myself unimportant) ways on a day to day basis I choose to serve myself rather than allowing God to make me a convincing sign of His kingdom. But in my core I know that God s transformative grace is so much stronger than my own weakness. Even when the world seems dark and peace an unattainable goal we can echo the psalmist: Give thanks to the LORD for he is good, his love is everlasting! We too can be Christ s apostles of peace, giving hope for God s promised kingdom! Son of Mercy, Bearer of the Resurrection, gift us with the imagination to picture our world as you wish it would be. Help us to act always from within this vision of your kingdom so that each thing we do every day brings your peace. Grace us with the humility to accept your help in each moment and the hope we need to remember to ask for it as your apostles of peace.
SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER High School Ministry A big THANKS to all of our high school youth who took time out of their busy schedules to be a part of the Living Stations of the Cross. This was the 17th consecutive year that the youth of the parish have put on this performance. They did an excellent job this year and it always gives our parishioners an opportunity to walk with Jesus during his Passion and draw closer to him. Young Adult Ministry The Young Adult Group at St. John s continues to meet on Tuesday nights at 7pm in the Youth Ministry room. We meet for Gospel reflection, great discussion, then fellowship afterwards. If you are in your 20 s or 30 s and wish to join us, please contact Rod at 513-614-1789 or just show up on Tuesday night! Also this Sunday night, our high school youth will continue on with the CHOSEN program. Starts at 7pm in the Youth Ministry room. Please continue to pray for them as they learn more about their Catholic faith and grow deeper in their love for Christ. Junior High Ministry Junior High Ministry Our 8th graders will continue on with their Theology of the Body class this Wednesday at 7pm in the Youth Ministry room. This is an awesome journey that they have been on which they are learning more about who they are and what their physical bodies have to do with their faith. Please pray for them during these last couple of weeks as they continue to learn and grow! A big THANKS as well to all of our junior high and middle school youth who were a part of the Living Station. They did an excellent job and were so thankful that they took time to put on this performance for the parish! 8
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You are cordially invited to the Blessing of our new Hymnals Thursday, April 7 7:00 p.m. Church After the blessing the hymnals will be placed in church. Those who have donated a book are welcome to place their book in their favorite pew. 11