Saint Joseph Church Clayton, MO Remember, you are dust, and to dust you will return February 11, 2018
Welcome to Saint Joseph Catholic Church 106 North Meramec Avenue Clayton, Missouri 63105-3788 Rev. Nicholas E. Kastenholz, Pastor Rev. Thomas J. Schaab, Senior Associate Deacon Del Leonardo Parish Office: 314-726-1221 Parish Fax: 314-721-5110 Mass Schedule Sunday 7:30 am, 9:00 am, and 11:00 am Mon, Wed, Fri 6:30 am, 12:00 noon Tues, Thurs and 12:00 noon Saturday and 5:00 pm (Sunday Vigil) National Holidays See bulletin Holy Days of Obligation See Bulletin Eucharistic Adoration Monday, Wednesday 7:00 am until 12:00 noon Tuesday, Thursday 8:30 am until 12:00 noon Marriage Preparation Couples are asked to contact the Parish Office 6 to 12 months before setting the date. St. Joseph Parish Council Members Fr. Nick Kastenholz, Pastor Frank Hackmann, Education Commission Al Barbieri, Finance Commission Sharon Skrivan, Social Concerns Commission Larry Stewart, Anne Shapleigh Denny Staub, Barbara Summers, Christie Murphy, Fred Yap Parish e-mail: pat_stj@hotmail.com Parish website: www.stjosephclayton.org Rectory Hours: 8:30-4:00 pm, Mon-Fri Religious Education PSR Debbie Wilmarth, CRE, PSR Principal deb.cre.stj@gmail.com School Office: 314-727-9059 Director of Music Dr. Adam Thomé stjmusicclayton@gmail.com Director of Maintenance Steve Topping 314-726-1221 Sacrament of Reconciliation Weekdays 11:15-11:50 am Saturday 4:00-4:45 pm Rosary Weekdays 11:40 am Thursday after the Mass Perpetual Help Devotions Tuesdays after and Masses Baptism The Sacrament of Baptism is administered on Sunday at. To register for the Baptismal Instruction Program and schedule a Baptism, please call the Office. St Vincent de Paul Emergency Assistance - For assistance for food, utilities etc., please call 289-6101, box 2208. Our St. Vincent de Paul Society will respond promptly. You may make an appointment to meet with a member on Wednesday morning through the same number. Make, track, and schedule parish donations directly from your computer. Just log onto our website www.stjosephclayton.org www.stjospehclayton.org and follow the link. OR, you can scan this code and it will take you directly to the site. If you are new to Online Giving, register by entering our church ID of 1593. Download Our FREE Parish Phone App! St. Joseph app is now available to download for iphone and Android smart phones. Stay connected with our parish throughout the week with instant notifications, an easy-to-access event calendar, and the ability to quickly reply to or share messages via Facebook or Twitter. Also enjoy a bunch of additional features like prayers, daily readings, helpful reminders to silence your phone before Mass or Confession, and much more. Download our app today at myparishapp.com or search your phone's app store for myparish. OR, EVEN EASIER, go to our website, Stjosephclayton.org and click on the icon, it will take you directly to the app.
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time February 11, 2018 Notes From The Pastor's Pen Hello, In Pope Francis message for Lent this year he warns us against false prophets, that we need to stay faithful amidst the temptations they may present and the cold heart they can encourage in us. The Pope suggests that the Church has the Lenten season and the practices it prescribes to help us in this challenge as he stated below: What are we to do? Perhaps we see, deep within ourselves and all about us, the signs I have just described. But the Church, our Mother and Teacher, along with the often bitter medicine of the truth, offers us in the Lenten season the soothing remedy of prayer, almsgiving and fasting. By devoting more time to prayer, we enable our hearts to root out our secret lies and forms of self-deception, [5] and then to find the consolation God offers. He is our Father and he wants us to live life well. Almsgiving sets us free from greed and helps us to regard our neighbour as a brother or sister. What I possess is never mine alone. How I would like almsgiving to become a genuine style of life for each of us! How I would like us, as Christians, to follow the example of the Apostles and see in the sharing of our possessions a tangible witness of the communion that is ours in the Church! For this reason, I echo Saint Paul s exhortation to the Corinthians to take up a collection for the community of Jerusalem as something from which they themselves would benefit (cf. 2 Cor 8:10). This is all the more fitting during the Lenten season, when many groups take up collections to assist Churches and peoples in need. Yet I would also hope that, even in our daily encounters with those who beg for our assistance, we would see such requests as coming from God himself. When we give alms, we share in God s providential care for each of his children. If through me God helps someone today, will he not tomorrow provide for my own needs? For no one is more generous than God. [6] Fasting weakens our tendency to violence; it disarms us and becomes an important opportunity for growth. On the one hand, it allows us to experience what the destitute and the starving have to endure. On the other hand, it expresses our own spiritual hunger and thirst for life in God. Fasting wakes us up. It makes us more attentive to God and our neighbour. It revives our desire to obey God, who alone is capable of satisfying our hunger. I would also like my invitation to extend beyond the bounds of the Catholic Church, and to reach all of you, men and women of good will, who are open to hearing God s voice. Perhaps, like ourselves, you are disturbed by the spread of iniquity in the world, you are concerned about the chill that paralyzes hearts and actions, and you see a weakening in our sense of being members of the one human family. Join us, then, in raising our plea to God, in fasting, and in offering whatever you can to our brothers and sisters in need! [5] Cf. BENEDICT XVI, Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi, 33. [6] Cf. PIUS XII, Encyclical Letter Fidei Donum, III. Peace, Fr. Nick Mass Intentions Monday, Feb. 12 6:30 am Helene Schweitzer Fr Donald Dalton Tuesday, Feb. 13 Georgia Casey Edward Gardner Wednesday, Feb. 14 ASH WEDNESDAY 6:30 am Dr Sam Hardy Thomas N Taylor Pat Friedman 12:10 pm Stephan Topping 5:30 pm Joseph Balota Thursday, Feb. 15 Steve Stogel William Henry Wagner Matthew Craig Parsons Friday, Feb. 16 6:30 am Francis Flynn Family Poor Souls Saturday, Feb. 17 Margaret Kurrus 5:00 pm Dr Francis & Kathleen Burns Sunday, Feb. 18 First Sunday of Lent 7:30 am Rick Feldman 9:00 am Richard Meyer 11:00 am St Joseph Parishioners
We Pray For Our Loved Ones May God provide health and comfort to Dr Carr Worland Kisa Minardi Jeff Miller Sue Clancy Chris Tinker Mike Proctor Barry Andrews John Welch Sr. Eleanor Maria Guehlstorf LaJuana Hinch Michael Phelps Joan Harrison The Deadline to submit an ar cle for the bulle n is Monday at 10 am Stations of The Cross We will pray The Stations of the Cross together each Friday during Lent at 7:00 p.m. in the Church. Please join us! Sunday Offerings-Feb. 3-4, 2018 Sunday Envelopes $6,647.00 Loose $647.00 Online Giving $741.50 Weekday noon Masses $478.50 Total for week $8,514.00 YTD Budget $358,577.00 YTD Actual $336,240.21 YTD Operating Surplus/(Deficit($22,336.79) He Said She Said Trivia returns March 9, 2018! He Said She Said Trivia to benefit St. Patrick Center returns Friday, March 9, 2018 at Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark. Gather your team for 8 rounds of "He Said She Said" trivia featuring local Power Couples. Register your table of 8 for $500 and enjoy a fun night of entertainment including parking, food and beer/wine/soda. Contact Maggie Kloppenberg at 314-802-5418 or mkloppenberg@stpatrickcenter.org. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119:67-68, 71-72, 75-76; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Jas 1:12-18; Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Gn 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15 Ash Wednesday Schedule February 14, 2018 Masses will be at 6:30 & 8:00 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:10 p.m. (in parish hall) and 5:00 p.m. Ashes will be distributed during Mass. NO CONFESSIONS WILL BE HEARD ON ASH WEDNESDAY During the rest of Lent confessions will be available on the regular schedule Rest In Peace In your charity, please pray for the sick in our parish family, and for those who have died, may our Heavenly Father welcome them into His eternal home and may He send the comfort only He can to their family and friends. Run for Life and Learning - Friends of Birthright, STL Saturday, March 31 at Creve Coeur Lake Park 6K chip timed run and fun run with Fredbird! Perfect event for the entire family! Register and details at run4lifeandlearning.eventbrite.com Questions: email: Run4LifeAndLearning@gmail.com A Peek at the Week Ahead Monday, February 12 5:15 pm PSR, School 6:30 pm Children s Choir Practice, School Music Rm 7:30 pm Knights of Columbus, PH Tuesday, February 13 7:00 pm RCIA, Centennial Rm Wednesday, February 14 Ash Wednesday Masses at 6:30 &, 12:00, 12:10 (in parish hall) and 5:00 pm Fish Dinner from 4-7 pm 7:00 pm Adult Choir Practice, CH Friday, February 16 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross and Confessions Sunday, February 18 9:30 am PSR Family Activity Day, Parish Hall
Parish School of Religion Update Today we congratulate some of our Confirmation students on their Confirmation today at Our Lady of Lourdes. Miguel Buitrago, Langston DeHart, Natalie Holtzman, Ethan Immer, Michael O Neill, Lanie Rueter, and Nico Salias all are receiving Confirmation today! This week s classes will focus on helping the students understand what the season of Lent is all about. Lent is a penitential time that should help us set aside the material things of our lives and turn toward God. This is so we can trust more deeply in God s love and mercy. When we truly have a Lent full of sacrifice and prayer, the joy of the risen Lord comes with great intensity at Easter. PSR students will be given Rice Bowls and encouraged to give up some things during Lent, then give the money they would have spent in the Rice Bowl. In this way they put need of others before themselves. Pray for the students of PSR as they learn more about the love of God! This is the last week to bring in donation items for the PSR service project. We will be putting together our packs for those we encounter that are in need on Sunday and Monday, February 18th and 19th. Please donate travel size personal items like; toothpaste, toothbrushes, soap, shampoo, deodorant, or lotion. Gloves, hats, and packaged snacks are also very helpful. Thank you! Lenten Program offered at St. Joseph Catholicism The Pivotal Players Bishop Robert Barron s CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players is a multi-part film series that illumines a handful of saints, artists, mystics, and scholars who not only shaped the life of the Church but changed the course of civilization. In the CATHOLICISM series, an epic ten-part documentary, Bishop Barron took viewers around the world and deep into the Catholic Faith. But there is still more of the story to tell. Now, he unlocks the truth behind the Catholic Church s most influential people. From St. Francis of Assisi to St. Catherine of Siena, from St. Thomas Aquinas to Michelangelo, all the way to Blessed John Henry Newman and G.K. Chesterton, Christ s Incarnation is on display through the minds and lives of His Church s members. Sessions will be offered: Monday Evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Parish Hall OR Wednesday Afternoon at 1:00 p.m., Parish Hall Dynamic Catholic, Alive! The Desert Lent has officially begun. Into the desert we go. The desert is a place we find ourselves in at various points in life, sometimes intentionally and sometimes not. During Lent, we choose to enter the desert of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. These practices impel us to rely more on God and to trust in His faithful love. We face many challenges in the desert and sometimes feel as if God is not with us, but entering prayerfully into penance and self-denial just as Christ Himself did, we are able to be transformed and to grow in the ways that are most necessary for our spiritual progress. How do we need to repent this season? How can we proclaim the saving message of the Gospel? archstl.org/dynamic Sunday Worship Feb. 17-18, 2018 5:00 pm Ingrid & Wilson Stahl Fred Yap Rosemary Hardy Amy David Ramon Floro 7:30 am Mark & Gigi Gaertner Laurent Torno Phil Bolian Betty Torno Annette Cytron Stuart Cytron 9:00 am Volunteer John Gillis Susan Hackmann Roy Blair Terry Carmack 11:00 am Jack & Nicole Chelew Anne Pokoski Joe Dickmann Linda Orso Carolyn Dickmann Deacon Del To become a minister call 726-1221.
ARCHDIOCESAN LENTEN REGULATIONS For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:16-17) The Church has always helped us fulfill these words of Jesus by prescribing very definite penance for all Catholics, so that we too might have Eternal life. Accordingly, the Pope and the American Bishops have outlined obligatory fast and abstinence as follows: Ash Wednesday (Wednesday February 14, 2018) and Good Friday (March 30, 2018) are days of abstinence for all Catholics over the age of 14. On these two days, fast, as well as abstinence, is also obligatory for those from the ages of 18-59. Abstinence means refraining from meat. Fast means one full meal a day, with two smaller meals and nothing between meals (liquids are permitted). No Catholic will lightly excuse himself or herself from this obligation. All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Here again Catholics will not hold themselves lightly excused, but if there is a serious health problem, this obligation would not apply. We should strive to make all days of Lent a time of prayer and penance. Following are several resources that can aid in finding different forms of prayer and penance. Living the Eucharist Lenten program: http://www.livingtheeucharist.org/. Best Lent Ever daily reflections from Dynamic Catholic: http://dynamiccatholic.com/bestlentever/#signup USCCB: http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/liturgical-year/lent/prayer-resources-for-lent.cfm Each Lent, we are invited into a season of spiritual reflection and renewal. CRS Rice Bowl is one way for families and faith communities to experience the season of Lent. Rice Bowl is the Lenten program of Catholic Relief Services, the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. CRS Rice Bowl is now in its fifth decade and begins on Ash Wednesday February 14, 2018. 75 percent of your Rice Bowl donations support CRS s humanitarian relief programs in nearly 100 countries. Additionally, Catholic Relief Services allows each diocese that participates to keep 25% of the collection in the local community to be used for hunger and poverty alleviation programs. In the Archdiocese of St. Louis, these funds support food pantries and other programs. Come and learn more about life as a seminarian at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary's Open House on Sunday, February 25, 2018 from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Take a seminarian-guided tour throughout the halls, classrooms, living spaces, library, and chapels. Experience seminary life, meet your future priests, and pray in the Chapel of St. Joseph. All are welcome! Seminary location: 5200 Glennon Drive, St. Louis, MO 63119.
Ash Wednesday (February 14th) at St. Joseph 10th Annual Shrimp Baked or Fried Fish Dinner St. Joseph Knights of Columbus Call Rectory Office at 726-1221 or email to pat_stj@hotmail.com Reserva ons preferred Walk-ins welcome Carry-outs available Dinners served from 4:00 -- 7:00 p.m. Please detach and return with payment to the Rectory Office. Please make checks payable to the Knights of Columbus 106 N. Meramec, 63105, drop in collec on basket, or pay at the door Name Phone Fried Fish ($10) # of adults # of children Baked Fish ($10) # of adults # of children Shrimp ($12) # of adults # of children Fish & Shrimp ($15) # of adults # of children ENCLOSED $ DUE $ Children $5.00 (12 years or younger) Eat-in Carry-out Meals include Salad, Roll, Mostaccioli, Green Beans, Dessert & Beverage Thanks to those who make our delicious homemade desserts!