Saint Joseph Church
Welcome to Saint Joseph Catholic Church 106 North Meramec Avenue Clayton, Missouri 63105-3788 Rev. Nicholas E. Kastenholz, Pastor e-mail: nicholaskastenholz@archstl.org 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 8:00 am and 12:00 noon Saturday 8:00 am 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 Rectory Hours: 8:30-4:00 pm, Mon-Fri Parish e-mail: pat_stj@hotmail.com Parish website: www.stjosephclayton.org 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 8:00 am Mass Perpetual Help Devotions Tuesdays after 8:00 am 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.
Fifth Sunday of Lent March 18, 2018 Notes From The Pastor's Pen Hello, Well this weekend we get the blessing of the feast days of two saints, St. Patrick and St. Joseph. Since I know I have talked about St. Joseph in the past (since not even getting into a hierarchy of saints, he is the patron saint of our parish) so I thought I would mention a bit about St. Patrick today. One difficulty in finding out anything about St. Patrick is that since he is so popular there are many legends that grew about him. Most of what we feel we really know about him come from two of his writings, his Confessions and his Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. One thing we know is he was not the first evangelist to hit the shores of Ireland. St. Palladius was sent to Ireland by Pope Celestine in 431, but not much is known about him and obviously he wasn t nearly as successful of a missionary as St. Patrick. (How many have even heard of St. Palladius?) But St. Patrick is remembered because he not only converted and baptized so many, but so many of them became monks, or clergy, or nuns, living their faith in a manner that would also encourage the generations of Christians to come after. The first thing we always have to be sure people know about St. Patrick is that he isn t from Ireland, he s from Great Britain and actually likely from a fairly well off family that had an estate and even slaves on that estate. (I have to admit I never read that before, but this is according to Butler s Lives of the Saints, where I corroborated most of this information.) The part many of us know is that he was taken as a slave by a raid of their estate where they took some of their slaves and also Patrick, when he was about 16 years old, and he would live as a slave for the next six years in either the northern Ireland. This would be a blessing and a curse for him later as a missionary as he knew he had missed out of many years of education at this time that may have served him well in spreading the faith later, but he also realized that this period of service and imprisonment served him well in developing his prayer life and a missionary heart. When he escaped from his slavery he had to travel almost 200 miles to find a ship to take him home, (and Ireland isn t that big of an island), and then the ship got lost landing somewhere and searching almost a month to just find food. He would soon begin his studies and be ordained a priest and then a bishop with the intent to return to Ireland as a missionary. It is estimated that it was in the 430 s or 450 s (432 is the very earliest anyone guesses, so after St. Palladius) that he made it back to Ireland and as we know, he was very successful as a missionary in spreading the faith. Actually so successful that some of the British bishops began to question what this lone missionary was doing. Some consider the British bishops were upset with Patrick s Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus. It was written in response to a raid by British in Ireland where they took some of the new Christians to sell as slaves and Patrick essentially excommunicated these soldiers, who were British subjects. So considering what we know about St. Patrick, in addition to having some corned beef or green beer, maybe sharing our faith with others would be a great way to remember and honor him. Peace, Fr. Nick Mass Intentions Monday, March 19 St Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary 6:30 am Dr Sam Hardy Dennis & Mildred Bernardo-Spec Int Tuesday, March 20 8:00 am Fr David Walter Patricia Wright Wednesday, March 21 6:30 am Helene Schweitzer Richard Klein Thursday, March 22 8:00 am Poor Souls Dr Claro N Floro Friday, March 23 6:30 am Ana Maria C. Arribas Fr Tom Schaab Saturday, March 24 8:00 am Angelo Magli 5:00 pm Edward Gardner Sunday, March 25 Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord 7:30 am Ozzie Barron 9:00 am St Joseph Parishioners 11:00 am Helen Gardner
We Pray For Our Loved Ones May God provide health and comfort to Judy Bencke Eugene Shalhoob Joy Fischer 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 Schedule for the Sacrament of Reconciliation during Holy Week READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or Lk 2:41-51a Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Jn 8:51-59 Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 Saturday: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday 11:00-11:50 am No Confessions on Holy Thursday Good Friday Following the Noon and 7 pm Services Holy Saturday No Confessions 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-Mar. 10-11, 2018 Sunday Envelopes $15,628.00 Loose $763.00 Online Giving $1,484.00 Weekday noon Masses $619.21 Total for week $18,494.21 YTD Budget $409,222.00 YTD Actual $390,845.10 YTD Operating Surplus/(Deficit($18,376.90) Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; (procession) Is 50:4-7; Ps 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24; Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 15:47 [15:1-39] March 29, Holy Thursday 10:00 am Chrism Mass at Cathedral Basilica 7:00 pm Mass of the Lord's Supper at St. Joseph Adoration following until 11 pm March 30, Good Friday 12:00 noon and 7:00 pm The Passion of Our Lord March 31, Holy Saturday 8:00 pm Easter Vigil 8:00 pm Easter Fire started in courtyard April 1, Easter Sunday Masses Masses at 7:30, 9:00 & 11:00 am Rest In Peace Let us pray for all of our deceased parishioners, relatives, benefactors and friends. We remember all of our loved ones who have gone before us and pray that they are celebrating with our Lord in heaven. A Peek at the Week Ahead Monday, March 19 5:15 pm PSR, School 6:30 pm Children s Choir, Music Rm 7:00 pm Lenten Program Pivotal Players, Centennial Rm Tuesday, March 20 7:00 pm RCIA, Centennial Rm Wednesday, March 21 9:30 am Cornerstone Bible Study, PH Babysitting in MR 1:00 pm Lenten Program Pivotal Players, Centennial Rm 7:00 pm Adult Choir Practice, CH 7:00 pm Parish Council, Centennial Rm Friday, March 23 7:00 pm Stations of the Cross and Confessions Saturday, March 24 9:00 am Church Cleaning, Meet PH 6:00 pm Trivia Night Avian Society, Parish Hall 9:30 am PSR, School Sunday, March 25 7:00 pm High School Youth Group, PH
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Over the next two weeks, as we hear of the interior anguish of Jesus, we are led to the Garden of Gethsemane, the scene of a night of suffering, failure, and loss. In Hebrew, the word means olive press, and it was an olive grove, although only a few trees remain. Olives can t be eaten off the trees, they need to be cured knocked from the trees at harvest time, scooped into a stone basin, and cracked open by a heavy millstone. The crushing stone weight was itself called a gethsemane, and once it was lowered onto the olives, oil from the fruit and the inner stone would drip into a groove and flow into jars. The night before his death, Jesus experienced such anguish that scripture says his own blood perspired from him, an image no one who understands olive oil production could miss. Today, the Mount of Olives is within the city of Jerusalem and the site of the Church of All Nations, also known as the Basilica of the Agony. It was built in 1924, funded by Catholics in twelve different countries. An open-air altar on the grounds is used by Anglicans on Holy Thursday every year. Nearby is the Russian Church of Mary Magdalene, built by the czar in 1888, its magnificent golden domes a distinctive landmark. There is also another tiny Catholic Church, called Dominus Flevit, or The Cry of the Lord, built in a teardrop shape in the mid-1950s. For centuries, the Franciscan order has had the care of the shrines of the Holy Land, and our Good Friday collection helps sustain these precious sites. Rev. James Field, Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. It s time to clean let s make our Church shine for Easter! The annual Church cleaning to prepare for Holy Week and Easter will be Saturday, March 24, beginning at 9:00 a.m.. Bring your rags, mops, buckets, elbowgrease, and together we ll be done in no time and it will be fun! Meet in the Parish Hall, Saturday, March 24th at 9:00 am. Deacons for Diapers This weekend, March 17 th & 18 th, the Permanent Deacons in the Archdiocese of St. Louis will begin a Diaper Drive as part of their Third annual diocesan-wide Pro-Life service project. Please bring disposable diapers for infants and toddlers and drop them in the bins at any church entrance. All diapers collected at St. Joseph s will be donated to the fantastic organization, Nurses for Newborns, for distribution. The Deacon s for Diapers Drive will conclude on Easter Sunday. It is being conducted in conjunction with the diocese s Respect Life Office, and coordinated by St. Joseph s St. Vincent De Paul Society. Last year the Deacons collected more than 185,000 diapers to assist St. Louis families in need. Thank you in advance for your generosity. Magnificat Women's Breakfast March 24, 2018 at the Cardinal Rigali Center. 8:30 a.m. registration, 9:00-12:00 breakfast and speaker. Carol Razza, EdD, author of ʺSonblock-How Christians Unknowingly Shield Themselves from Graceʺ and ʺParent Me, Please!ʺ will be speaking on ʺGod Has a Plan for Your Life!ʺ Registrations accepted until 3/20, cost $20. Call 314.731.6100 or email catholicrenewal@archstl.org to register.
Parish School of Religion Update Over these last few weeks of Lent most of our classes will be participating in an ancient practice of the Church, the Via Dolorosa. Tradition holds as well as the written testimony of St. Jerome that many pilgrims to the Holy Land would trace the Via Dolorosa or Way of the Cross throughout Jerusalem from the second century. In the middle ages the Moslem Turks had blocked access to the Holy Land, but the popularity of the devotion did not diminish. Bishops all over Europe began erecting Stations of the Cross as a way for all Catholics to experience the Way of the Cross. Over time, Popes encouraged the building of the stations in all churches as a way for the faithful to offer themselves up with the sufferings of Christ. The Via Dolorosa can be a beautiful spiritual devotion anytime, but especially during Lent and Holy Week. Stations of the Cross are available to everyone here at St. Joseph on Fridays in Lent at 7pm. 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 Sunday Worship Mar. 24-25, 2018 5:00 pm Volunteer Rosemary Pickle Tom O;Keefe Liz Rainey Rosemary Hardy Ramon Floro 7:30 am Mark & Gigi Gaertner Larry Glynn Frank Hackmann Sharon Skrivan Volunteer 9:00 am Kateri & Claudia Gutting Betsy Sampson John Gillis Mary Carver Roy Blair Thoughts from the Loft: The choir of St. Joseph is performing John Rutter's Requiem on Sunday, March 18th at Our Lady of Lourdes with the choirs of Our Lady of Lourdes and Christ the King. This concert is open and free to the public. As a way to introduce and preview, the choir will do one of the seven movements each week before 11:00 Mass. This week fifth week of Lent we will sing Pie Jesu, Domine, "Blessed Jesus, Lord I pray". This is the first of the two soprano solos, asking our Blessed Jesus for the eternal rest of our beloved. Graced by sparse orchestration and accompaniment, the piece reflects the prayerful nature of a quiet prayer, laced with gentle choral echoes and lofty ending of she who prays. 11:00 am Ava Purcell Flora Wilsker Carmen Leonardi Thom Schwetye Larry Stewart To become a minister call 726-1221.
Catholic Sisters Exhibit at St. Louis Public Library Celebrate the contributions Catholic Sisters have made to the St. Louis community for the last 200 years and counting by visiting the St. Louis Public Library s upcoming exhibit, Catholic Sisters: The Spirit of St. Louis on display March 3 through April 28 at the Central Library at 1301 Olive Street. The exhibit is open Mondays through Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The free exhibit, which corresponds with National Catholic Sisters Week from March 8-14, will represent 15 religious communities who have had an impact on education and healthcare, as well highlight the services they have provided those in need. You can find more information about the exhibit, co-sponsored by the Communicators for Catholic Sisters, at stlcatholicsisters.org. AQUINAS INSTITUTE OF THEOLOGY Religious Life with Today's Younger Nuns A Panel Conversation with Authors of ʺIn Our Own Words-Religious Life in a Changing Worldʺ - A conversation with Authors Juliet Mousseau, R.S.C.J., Sarah Kohles, O.S.F. and Thuy Tran, C.S.J. - Women are still being called to religious life and are finding the courage to answer that call. But the face of women religious is changing. This presentation by some of the contributing authors will share ideas of younger women religious - from different congregations and charisms - exploring their values, their realities, and their hopes. - Learn how younger women religious understand their role in the world today, and how they work together to promote the Kingdom of God. - Date: Sunday, April 8, 2018 - Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Admission is free and open to the public - No registration required - Copies of the book will be available for purchase - Location: Aquinas Institute of Theology - 23 South Spring Ave. - St. Louis, MO 63108