St. Jude the Apostle Church 880 E. 154th St. South Holland, IL Established 1957 Rev. Ignatius I. Anaele Pastor Rev. John J. Powers Pastor Emeritus Mel Stasinski Deacon Timothy Springer Deacon Linda Morgridge Business Manager Shawn Perkins Music Minister Marsha Johnson Coordinator of Religious Education & Youth Ministry Kenneth Ziolkowski Parish Finance Council Chair John Turton Parish Pastoral Council Chair Weekend Masses: Saturday 4:00 PM Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 AM Weekday Masses: Monday thru Friday 8:30 AM Holy Day Masses: Holy Day 8:30 AM & as announced Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturday 3:15 to 3:45 PM Baptisms: Arrangements must be made in advance for catechesis and reception of the sacrament. Families must be registered parishioners. Contact the Rectory office at 708 333-3550. Office Phone: 708 333-3550 Fax: 708 339-3336 Rel. Education Ofc : 708 225-1180 Website: www.stjudetheapostle.org Email: apostljude@aol.com CHRIST OUR SAVIOR CATHOLIC SCHOOL 708-333-8173 www.christoursaviorcatholicschool.org Mrs. Karen Brodzik Principal Rev. Ignatius I. Anaele Executive Pastor MISSION STATEMENT We, the family of faith of St. Jude the Apostle Catholic Church in South Holland, nourished by the Word of God and Sacraments commit ourselves to know, love, live, and celebrate Jesus the Christ.
Page Two June 3, 2018 MASS INTENTIONS Sat., June 2 4:00 PM John Krolo Requested by Marilyn Krolo Terri Von Schaumburg Requested by Family Sun., June 3 8:30 AM 10:30 AM Romeo Lanuza Requested by Abner & Maria Palevino Inez Bertrand & Bertha Wonzer Requested by Cultural Diversity Team Mon., June 4 8:30 AM Jo Anne Ruvoli Requested by Ron & Pat Slusarski Tues., June 5 8:30 AM Phillip Steinbach Requested by Sister Mariquita Oblepias (Birthday) Requested by Oblepias Family Wed., June 6 8:30 AM Bernice A. Bercik Requested by Nat Stasinski Thur., June 7 8:30 AM Ruth Ziolkowski (Birthday) Requested by Ziolkowski Family Fri., June 8 8:30 AM Joseph Adducci Requested by Wife Sat., June 9 8:30 AM Rita Roe & Tim Roe Requested by Family Sun., June 10 8:30 AM 10:30 AM Bonnie Ostarello Requested by Mildred Williams-Reid Nwankwo Family Requested by Obidike Family In thanksgiving and for strength Requested by Liliane Bolly St. Jude Parish Calendar WEEKDAYS MON FRI 8:00 AM Rosary 8:30 AM Mass 9:00 AM Divine Mercy Chaplet Monday - June 4, 2018 Church Cleaning After Mass Tuesday - June 5, 2018 Holy Name Society 7:30 AM Saturday - June 9, 2018 Prayer Shawl Ministry 10 AM Reconciliation 3:15 3:45 PM Mass 4:00 PM Sunday - June 10, 2018 Masses at 8:30 & 10:30 AM Monday - June 11, 2018 Church Cleaning After Mass Knights of Columbus 7 PM Saturday - June 16, 2018 Reconciliation 3:15 3:45 PM Mass 4:00 PM Sunday - June 17, 2018 Masses at 8:30 & 10:30 AM 5-27 - 18 5-28 - 17 $4,918.05 $4,019.00 Fiscal Year to Date: $243,235.20 $ 244,751.85 Thank you for your support of the parish. Registered Families - 548 The wine used at the Eucharist for the month of JUNE is in memory of Sir Samuel Agboifo From Mr. & Mrs. Ogbodu & Family Our warmest welcome to all those who celebrate with us, whether visitors, longtime residents, or newly arrived in the parish. We thank God for you. Taste of St. Jude A Celebration of Our Multi-cultural Parish Sunday, June 3, 2018 11 AM 3PM Please join us in the gym for this annual event. There will be a variety of food selections available. If you are new in the parish, please fill out a registration form found at the church entrances and drop it in the collection or return to the Rectory Office. You may also call the Office at 708 333-3550. Amount Pledged $616,410 Amount Received March balance $304,314 (through APRIL) $312,279 Thank you to those who have so generously given to the To Teach Who Christ Is campaign. Please continue to support this worthy endeavor that helps to support our local parish. We are grateful for all that you do to support St. Jude the Apostle Parish. DATE/MASS LECTORS EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS ALTAR SERVERS June 9 4:00 PM Andrea Cross Jo Ann Ziemkowski, Mark Ziemkowski Nick Ziemkowski June 10 8:30 AM Michele Brown Carol & Dan Wojciechowski Osarumen Ogbodu, Omoregie Ogbodu June 10 10:30 AM Gerald Edeh Catherine Byrd, Audrey Mitchell Eric Lwanyaga, Nancy Onuchukwu
June 3, 2018 We are grateful for your non-perishable dona ons that will be collected this weekend, June 2nd & 3rd for the St. Mary, Queen of Apostles Food Pantry. Dona ons may be le at the entrances to the Church. Be sure to stop by the Media Center in the lobby of the church this weekend. There are a variety of items available for your spiritual enrichment. The Senior Hospitality Group will meet for lunch on Wednesday, June 6th at The Station at noon. Please meet at 151 Glenwood Ave. in Glenwood. All are welcome. We invite experienced cra ers as well as people that would like to learn to knit or crochet to join our prayer shawl group. Join us on Saturday, June 9th in the Li le House at 10 AM for this rewarding ministry. Shawls are distributed to those in need of a spiritual li. Joyful Again Retreat for widows and widowers on June 23 & 24, 2018 at St. Julie s 7399 W. 159th St. Tinley Park Feeling Stuck? Learn how to move from confusion to new hope. To register call 708 354-7211 or email joyfulagain7211@gmail.com St. Andrew the Apostle Family Fest June 23rd 6 10 PM Live 60 s, 70 s & 80 s music by The Relics June 24th 1-9 PM Live Polka music by Tri-City Drive 3-8 PM Games and ac vi es for kids including Jumper/Obstacle Course/Face Pain ng Bingo for adults, Cash & Gi Basket Raffles Big Raffle: 2 sets of Chicago Bears Club Seat ckets w/ parking, overnight at Blue Chip Casino Variety of food & drink available both days 768 Lincoln Calumet City, Il 60409 708 862-4165 Have you started doing your spring cleaning? Items are needed for our Annual Grandma s Attic Garage Sale. We would appreciate your donations of unwanted treasures, clean useable clothing, small household items, books, toys & other miscellaneous items. Items can be placed in the boxes in the lobby or dropped off at the rectory on the weekdays 10:30AM 4PM. SHEDSOMELIGHT Page Three Christ Our Savior Catholic School CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2018 Congratulations to our 8 th Grade students who graduated from Christ Our Savior Catholic School on Friday, June 1. We are very proud of all of their accomplishments during the time they have spent with us. Some of our students have been at COS for ten years! Some joined us just this past year. Emmanuel Abankwa Jaden Adams Jarrell Burston Gabrielle Cottrell Quintin Hale Darryl Hawkins Ismael Hounnou Donald Johnson Deron Murphy Jordan Perdue Trinity Rodgers Wayman Sanders Joseph Smith Toby Thornton Kameron Williams SOUTH HOLLAND GOVERNMENT NIGHT The South Holland Village Board held its 30th annual Student Government Night on Monday, May 21, at the South Holland Community Center. Four of our 8 th grade students were selected to interview and present biographical information about various officials of the Village. The following are the students and Village officials represented by COS students: Jaden Adams: Mayor Don DeGraff; Jordan Perdue: Trustee, Cindy Nylen; Darryl Hawkins: Trustee, Andrew Johnson and Quintin Hale: Fire Chief, Brian Kolosh. Our students were then able to observe an actual Board Meeting which included reports by Mayor Don DeGraff, the Village Trustees, Village Engineer and Attorney. This annual event is a wonderful way to expose our young adults to local government. We congratulate our 8 th grade students on their research and the poised, articulate manner in which they represented their Village official and Christ Our Savior Catholic School. YOUTH SUMMER CAMP AT COS A Youth Summer Camp will be held at Christ Our Savior from June 11 29 from 9 AM until 4 PM. Students who are 5 to 14 may register. You do NOT have to be a Christ Our Savior student to attend. Activities include art and crafts, sports, chess, academic lab, music and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math). For further information call Cook Williams at 708-792-3252 or visit the website: www.brightknightschess.com You may also contact the school office at 708-333-8173. In Christ s Love, Karen Brodzik Principal
Page Four June 3, 2018 TODAY'S READINGS First Reading -- This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you (Exodus 24:3-8). Psalm -- I will take the cup of salvation, and call on the name of the Lord (Psalm 116). Second Reading -- Christ is the mediator of a new covenant (Hebrews 9:11-15). Gospel -- This is my body. This is my blood of the covenant (Mark 14:12-16, 22-26). READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Pt 1:2-7; Ps 91:1-2, 14-16; Mk 12:1-12 Tuesday: 2 Pt 3:12-15a, 17-18; Ps 90:2-4, 10, 14, 16; Mk 12:13-17 Wednesday: 2 Tm 1:1-3, 6-12; Ps 123:1b-2; Mk 12:18-27 Thursday: 2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps 25:4-5ab, 8-10, 14; Mk 12:28b-34 Friday: Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Is 12:2-6; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; Jn 19:31-37 Saturday: 2 Tm 4:1-8; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-8abcd; Lk 2:41-51 Sunday: Gn 3:9-15; Ps 130:1-8; 2 Cor 4:13 -- 5:1; Mk 3:20-35 The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ What's New? I never noticed it before, but our reading from Mark's gospel is similar to the story in John's gospel of the wedding feast at Cana. They begin with a problem presented to Jesus: Lack of wine (John) and a place for Passover meal (Mark.) They both involve jars of water. Jesus responds to both by giving orders: to the waiters (Jn) and to the apostles (Mk.) And both have miraculous changes: water into wine (Jn) and bread and wine into Jesus' Body and Blood (Mk.) Now the wedding feast showed Jesus using the water meant for purification and changing it to wine for a wedding. The Jews needed to purify any dishes in order to keep the kosher laws. But Jesus replaced those laws with a new one, the law of love, symbolized by the wedding. In our gospel today, Jesus replaces ordinary food with spiritual food. He is doing something new, beyond the requirements of the Old Testament. What does that mean for us? Jesus is showing God's love for us in a new way. You might say he is replacing the way he comes to us. The bread and wine at the last Supper were signs of Jesus' body being broken and his blood poured out for us on the cross. When he gave his life for us, he rose from the dead to give us hope. And now we have the Eucharist, in which he becomes our new food and drink. Just as the Passover meal became a sign of Jesus' real death on the cross, our Eucharist is the sacrament of his real presence among us today. Do we really believe that the Eucharist is Jesus, the Son of God? The way to measure that is to ask, how has Jesus changed your life? Do you love others more because you know God loves you? Do you have less fear of the future, because the Holy Spirit gives you courage? Do your children know Jesus, because you share your faith with them? In the Eucharist, God gives us a new way to be with him. Let us look forward to being renewed in spirit whenever we receive the Body and Blood of Christ. Tom Schmidt, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.
June 3, 2018 Page Five The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ THE NEW COVENANT Perhaps this year we could refer to this feast day as "The Blood and Body of Christ," since the readings we have today use the word "blood" so frequently-eight times to one use of the word "body." The New Testament authors, when referring to the sacrificial aspect of Jesus' death on the cross, never refer to him giving his body as a sacrifice for our salvation, but only speak of the shedding of his blood. In both Testaments, it is blood that is the primary source and sign of the covenant between God and people. In our day, while we speak quite a bit about the Mass as a sacrifice, it is a bit of an anomaly that we focus so much (almost exclusively, sometimes) on the symbol of the bread become Body rather than the wine become Blood to give the life of the New Covenant. Here, as in almost every part of life, we would benefit more from living in a "both/and" and not an "either/or" mode. A BLOODLESS BODY? We have been given a deep and rich pair of symbols to express the fullness of Jesus' self-gift on the cross. In its celebration of the Eucharist, even when reception of Communion by all the faithful was infrequent and when the emphasis was on looking upon (called "ocular" communion) rather than receiving the elements, the Church has always preserved the duality of these symbols, since the sacrifice of Christ would not have been possible without both blood and body. So, too, is it for us who are sent from the eucharistic celebration. We are not merely "Christ-ed" bodies in the world; we need to be the very Blood of Christ coursing through the veins of daily life at home, in the workplace, at school-wherever the Spirit leads us and guides us. As we pray "Lord, send your Spirit on these gifts," we must also pray that the same Spirit is sent upon us through the thanksgiving of our Eucharist, so we may become Body-and Blood-for the life of the world. Copyright (c) 2005, World Library Publications. All rights reserved. PRECIOUS BLOOD On this solemnity we focus our a en on on the Body and Blood of Christ. We listen to the story of the renewal of the old covenant, which Moses sealed by splashing the blood of animals on the altar of sacrifice, as well as on the people. Jesus, whose blood is the blood of the new covenant, shed that precious blood on the cross, saving us from sin and promising us everlas ng life. Blood is the life source that courses through our bodies. The precious blood of Christ is the life source for our spirits. Today may we, like the psalmist, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, whose Body and Blood strengthen us to bring the Good News to everyone we meet. Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
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