St. Michael & St. Francis Xavier Bulletin February 18th & 19th, 2017 Pastor: Fr. Harry Tully .
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
WISDOM OR FOOLISHNESS?
Sometimes the idea of “repentance” can seem oldfashioned, naïve, even foolish. But if you’re looking for real foolishness, you’ll find it in today’s readings.
We begin with Leviticus and the admonition “Take no revenge and cherish no grudge” (19:18). We’ve heard that message before, of course, so we might forget how far it is from the socalled practical realities of life. St. Paul warns us about being practical, though. Whoever considers himself wise had better become a fool, because “the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God” (1 Corinthians 3:19).
This “foolishness” continues in today’s Gospel: “Offer no resistance to one who is evil” (Matthew 5:39). In fact, turn the other cheek when you’ve been slapped. Hand over your coat as well as your shirt. Be like God, who sends sunshine and rain on the bad as well as the good. “Be perfect,” Jesus says, “just as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).
THE “FOOLISHNESS” OF THE GOSPEL
The socalled “wisdom” of this world tells us that it is foolish to keep working for peace, to keep up the struggle for life against the many and various merchants of death. It is foolish to keep siding with the poor and downtrodden against the economic forces of the marketplace. It is foolish, also, to “give to the one who asks of you” (Matthew 5:42). Or so goes the wisdom of this world.
It is foolish to “love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you” (Matthew 5:44). It is foolish to let someone get away with striking you in the face, to give in when someone sues you for the very clothes off your back, to let someone make you work without pay. Yet that is what Jesus encourages us to do.
Why? Maybe only the poets, the prophets, and the socalled “fools” can answer, because “the wisdom of this world is foolishness in the eyes of God” (1 Corinthians 3:19). It does seem, however, that if we want to follow the path of Jesus, we must eventually come down firmly on the side of what the world deems “foolishness.”
Today’s Readings: Leviticus 19:1–2, 17–18; Psalm 103:1–4, 8, 10, 12–13; 1 Corinthians 3:16–23;
Matthew 5:38–48
Fr. Harry Tully, PastorEmergency #812-218-9219 or 502-931-1499
Website - www.stmichaelstfrancis.com E-Mail -
St. Michael - 101 St. Michael Drive, Charlestown, In 47111 Ph. 812-256-3200
Office Hours – 9:00 am-1:30 pm Tues. Wed., & Fri.
St. Francis Xavier – 101 North Ferguson, Henryville, IN 47126, Ph. 812-294-4682
Office Hours – Thursday 10:30am-2:00pm
Reconciliation – 4:00 pm Saturday or call the Rectory
Marriage – Please contact the pastor a year in advance. Advent and Lent are not times for celebrations.
Baptisms of Infants or Adults Joining the Church – Must be a practicing/registered member for three months. Please contact the DRE: St. Michael–Juliann Eickholtz, St. Francis–Father Tully
New To The Parish: Please call the office to register. Please introduce yourself to the pastor at mass.
Parishioners Who Are Ill: Please call the pastor if a relative or friend is sick.
Bulletin Announcements: Get all bulletin announcements to the office in writing by Tuesday evening.
Los Enfermos Es muy importante comunicarse con el Padre (debido a las leyes privadas, los hospitales no se comunican con las iglesias).
Doctrina Cristiana: Las clases de educación religiosa para niños son cada domingo de 9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. en la escuela. Recuerden que la Arquidiócesis requiere que los que van a recibir los sacramentos estén inscritos en las clases de religión.
Monaguillos: Los niños que quieran ayudar como monaguillos en el altar tienen su ensayo el segundo domingo de cada mes después de la misa de 11:00 a.m. Estos niños y niñas tienen que haberhecho la Primera Comunión. Los interesados comunicarse con Pbro.
Mass Schedule Mass Intentions
St. M / 2/20 / Mon / No MassSt. FX
St. M / 2/21 / Tue / No Mass
St. FX
St. M / 2/22 / Wed / 5:00 PM / Mass
St. FX / 2/23 / Thurs / 4:30PM / Mass
St. M / 2/24 / Friday / 12:00 PM / Mass
St. M / 2/25 / Sat / 4:30PM / Leonard Eickholtz
St FX / 2/26 / Sun / 9:00AM / Red & Frances Furnish
St. M / 11:00 AM / For the People of St. Michael & St. Francis Xavier
12:30PM / En Español
Prayer of Self Motivation
Omnipotent God, Vitality of life, Your strength supplies my motivation. I am stirred in the path of Your will. Maintain my self-motivation to always search, find, examine, will and act upon the truths placed before me. May I become a driving force for others, encouraging them to pick up their crosses and follow the virtuous road of life? I thank you for Your continued vigor that coexists in my whole being, my soul, my spirit and my body! Amen
Ref: Think About God
ST.MICHAEL
EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
812-256-3503 Rita Poff Director
Mon-Fri. 7AM-6PM
Infant Care/Day Care: Full or part time
Before & After Care: ages 6-12
Summer Camp: ages 6-12
Pre-School: 9-11:30AM Tues. & Thurs.
Pre-K: 9-11:30AM or 12:30-3PM Mon. Wed. & Fri
ST. MICHAEL CHARLESTOWN
Eucharist
Sat – 4:30 pm
Sun – 11:00 am
La Misa en Español
Domingo – 12:30 pm
St Michael parish is in need of Mass Intentions
Mass Intentions
Saturday Evening: Florence & Calvin DeVary
Sunday 11:00 am: Arthur Marking
Gift Bearers for this week’s Masses:
4:30 Alex Latuch Family
11:00 Alan Kopp Family
Faith Formation Classes are held on Sunday mornings for children three years of age up through high school. If your child does not attend a Catholic school, they should be enrolled in the FF program. Registration forms are available on the parish website. www.stmichaelstfrancis.com.
Pre-school to Grade 12. There is still time for additional students to join us. We are learning and deepening our knowledge of our Catholic faith-So we encourage parents who might be thinking about it, to go ahead and enroll their children and teens in our program. Our calendar and registration forms are available at www.stmichaelstfrancis.com.
Classes begin at 9:30 Please be on time & Arrive 5-10 minutes early.
Assistants are needed each week. We encourage parents to attend Mass with their children. This enables the children to integrate what they learn in their Faith Formation classes with weekly participation in the liturgy.
Thanks to last week’s assistant: Cheryl Mann
Thanks to our Youth Choir Organist (Nancy Kinder) our Youth Choir Director (Jessica Sarver). Also to the Choir Members for the February Youth Mass: Kimberly Doherty, Megan Jackson, Adalyn Lathem, Maelyn Sarver, Cameron Wimsett, Lilliana Mendiola & Aurora Mendiola. Thanks to the Gifts Bearers: Tyler Mendiola, Lilliana Mendiola, & Aurora Mendiola.
Faith Formation Calendar:
February 18th & 19th- Sophomore Retreat
February 19th-Session Twenty –Three
February 19th-First Eucharist Parent/Child Retreat 2:00pm. in the Church
February 26th-Session Twenty-Four
February 26th-Confirmation Lesson 19 & 20 in
Multipurpose Room at 2:00pm.
March 5th-Session Twenty-Five
Date Change
Faith Formation Commission Meeting: Thursday, March 2nd at 6:30pm. In Rectory Meeting Room!
Confirmation News:
One must be in the state of grace to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, which means receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation before being confirmed. Retreats, reconciliation, service hours, homework and attendance for class sessions are a must to be completed during this sacrament preparation time. Parents and Sponsors please talk to your candidate and check on their progress. Our next Lesson is Sunday, February 26th @ 2:00pm., in the St. Michael Multipurpose Room.
Please be working on those 20 service hours. Don't forget to read Lesson 19& Lesson 20. Please have your homework up to date. We will be asking for service hours update.
Please keep in your prayers our Confirmation Candidates: Ky Baltz( RCIA), Abigail Banet, Jacob Coomes, Madison Coomes, Jovanny Alexis Guzman, Amanda Hernandez, Gage Higdon, Megan Jackson, Johnie Wayne Kinser, William Martin, , Aaron Ulrich.
First Eucharist News
Parent/Child Retreat Sunday is February 19th at 2:00pm. –will end with a luncheon. Please bring your banner to Retreat along with a covered dish. Inscription Sunday is February 26th at 11:00am. , Mass and at 12:30pm. Spanish Mass. Prayer Partner signup sheets for First Eucharist are in the back of church.
Please keep in your prayers our First Eucharist students: Luis Gomez, Andres Gomez, Ernesto Hernandez & Ava Lathem.
St. Michael Ministries Schedule
Sat Feb. 25, 4:30 pm– St. Michael
Eucharistic Ministers: S. Seals & G. Minnick
Servers: C. Ledbetter
Gift Bearers: Darrell Lyons Family
Cantor: S/S Buit
Musician: Carolyn Eickholtz
Lector: Carolyn Stauffer
Sun. Feb. 26, 11:00 am – St. Michael
Eucharistic Ministers: S. Fouts, J. Kinder & M. Cox
Servers: Volunteer
Gift Bearers: Alan Barker Family
Cantors: J/M Wafford Musician: Nancy Kinder
Lector: Michael Howard
We ask parishioners to please bring a non perishable item to be donated to the North Clark Outreach Center. There is a wooden box for donations in the church lobby. Thank you for your contribution.
Collection
February 11& 12
St. Michael $ 2,625.00
St Francis Xavier $ 1,536.00
The Rosary is said at St. Michael at 4:00 before Saturday Evening Mass and at 10:30 before Sunday Mass
The Rosary is said at St. Michael for Vision of our Lady of Guadalupe on the 12th of each month.
ST. FRANCIS XAVIER
Henryville
Eucharist
Sunday
9:00am
Saturday Mass Intention:
Michael Rothbauer
Gift Bearers for this week’s Mass:
1st & 2nd Grade Faith Formation Class
St. Francis Faith Formation Calendar:
February 19th Class
February 26th Class
March 5th Class
St. Francis Xavier Ministries Schedule
Sun. Feb. 26, 9:00am
Eucharistic Ministers: Kim Young, Toni Allen & Gino Couch
Servers: Samantha Smith, Kate Smith & Kayla Martin
Ushers: Anthony Harbeson & Mike Harbeson
Gift Bearers: Jim & Jeanne McReynolds Family
Lector: Joe Banet
Live Joyfully’ with the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, invite single Catholic women ages 18-42 to the upcoming “Live Joyfully!” retreat, on March 31-April 2, at Saint Mary-of-the-Wood. During the free weekend retreat, you can deepen your prayer life and focus on living joyfully in the day-to-day. Explore where God is calling you. Meet the newest Sisters of Providence and ask questions you may have about religious life. Learn more about our foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Guerin, and spend time renewing your soul. For more information or to register, visit ComeandSee.SistersofProvidence.orgor contact Sister Editha Ben at 812-230-4771 or .
HTTP://www.catholicfamilyfaith.org/ This is a good website. It is new & filled with catholic resources. It’s easy to navigate, so go & explore.
To everything there is a season and a time to every
purpose under heaven a time to be born a time to love a time to heal a time to die and a time of peace.”
PLEASE PRAY FOR HEALTH & STRENGTH: Aubree Aguirre, Della Allen, Bruce Blair, Alicia Blair, Kayla Bowling, Sherry Buit, Bobby Caudill, Glen Cole, Liz Cooper, Ted Dean, Bernice Donahue, Erik Furnish, Adam Drury, Jeanette Drury, Dorothy Faris, Barbara Garrett, Rita Hamerla, Don Hamerla, Chris Harvey, Sandy Hostettler, Brenda Karns, Nathan Koons, James Korty, David Lerster, David Long, Jennifer Lynch, Terri Lynn Maples, Mary Ann Mattingly, Terry Mattingly, Carol Maymon, John McCoy, Mary McMillen Aldine McRae, Kathy Missi, Michael Murphy, Esther Toby Nelson, Ian Newland, Mitch Newland, Willard Nolan, Larry Oberlies, Dylan Patton, Bobby Perdue, Ms. Peyton, Katelyn Phillips, David Puzon, Carroll Schafer, Clarence Schaftlein, Estelle Scott, Danielle Shipley, Michael Shipley Family, Spear Family, Clarence Smith, Dorothy Smith, Miriam State, Christy Stepp, Isabella ‘Izzy” Stepp, Jack Stewart, Mark Thise, Bonnie Uptain, Joseph Douglas VanDyke JR., Melissa Villegas, Lynn Vogt, Isabell Wade, Chris Wafford, Flo Wessel, Logan Westerhouse, Agnes Withers, George Wimsett, Rose Wimsett, Kay Yotter, Emma Yount, Donnie Zollman. Names will remain on the list for 6 months unless you tell us to remove them or request that they be kept longer.
Save the Date
The New Albany Deanery Catechetical Ministry & Aquinas Center will host their 11th Annual Spring Tea and Silent Auction at 300 Spring St. Jeffersonville, on Sat. March 11thfrom 12:30-3:00pm. Tickets are $30 per person or a Table of 8 is $220. Tea & foods by “Savor This” and desserts by “Sweet Stuff”: Invite you “sister or friends for a fun filled afternoon! St Michael parish will be donating a basket for the “Silent Auction”. We are asking for donations. Ideas are seeds, bulbs, small spade, shovel, rake, bird feeder, gloves, statues, plant markers, hand lotion, towels, small flower pots, fertilizer, or a book on flowers/gardening. There will be a Live Auction, Silent Auction and door prizes. We appreciate your support! The Deanery Representative for St. Michaels is Glenda Minnick.
Looking Ahead
Sometime after Easter, St. Michael will be having a “Parishioner Talent” Bazaar. If enough people sign up, we can plan to advertize to help sell items. Please store up your talents (sewing, jewelry, cooking, etc.) Please contact Marjorie 812-256-7066 to sign up!
Lenten Program
Alive in the word- Virtues for Disciples
This is a new study from Little Rock Scripture Study.
Each study is 2 or 3 sessions so it’s perfect the busy person who still wants to spend time reflecting on God’s word in their life experience. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00, March 15, 22, 29 & April 5& 12. Cost is $15.00 for study materials. Childcare provided upon request. It will be held in the school Building of St. Joe Hill Campus of St. John Paul II Parish.
Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time
Theme: God’s love invites us to wholeness.
Step 1: As you hear this reading what words or phrases strike you? What in this reading touches your heart?
Step 2: Look into your life.
Children: What can you so at home or at school to show that you follow Jesus’ Commandments?
Youth & Adults: Do you think Jesus was serious when he said to love your enemies? Why & why not?
PROVIDENCE TO PRESENT LES MISERABLES
Our Lady of Providence Jr.-Sr. High School’s Providence Players will present the beloved musical “Les Miserables” in the Sam and Paula Robinson Performing Arts Center at Providence the first two weekends in March. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the operetta-style musical is set in early 19th-century France and follows the story of French peasant Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption after serving nearly 20 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child.