February 17, 2019 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Mass Schedule Weekend: Saturday 4:00 pm; Sunday 8:30, 10:30 am Weekday: Monday--Thursday 8:15 am Communion Service: Friday & Saturday 8:15 am Holyday: See announced times in bulletin. Bulletin Deadline Monday by Noon Sacraments Baptism: Call parish office for appointment and preparation. Confession: 1st Sat. each month following 4:00 pm Mass or by appt. Marriage: Please contact priest at least six months in advance. ST. STEPHEN MARTYR 2931 PINDELL AVENUE • LOUISVILLE, KY 40217 www.ssmartyr.org Parish Office ......................................... 635-5813 School ................................................... 635-7141 Cafeteria............................................... 635-6895 .......................... 635-3505 Activities Center .................................. 635-3505 St. Vincent de Paul ............................. 635-4414 Parish Nurses/HOSS ......................... 635-4415 ([email protected]) Staff Pastor Rev. Harry J. Gelthaus [email protected]Permanent Deacons Mr. Steve DaPonte [email protected]Sr. Deacon Mr. Syl Nitzken Director of Music Stuart Wicke [email protected]Business Manager Mrs. Celeste Fautz [email protected]Principal Mrs. Bridget Britt [email protected]CRE Stacey Smith [email protected]Parish Council Pastor, Fr. Harry Gelthaus Chairperson, Kurtis White………….…..637-5603 Administration/Finance, Ray Brown.648-5667 Formation/Education, Susan Abel...637-7191 Parish Life, Patty Norton……….……….773-6356 Worship, Mary Lotz…………………..…...634-9676 Recording Secretary, Mary Lotz………..634-9676 Rob Greenwell……………………………...314-4008 Michelle Herberger………………………..637-5744 Cherri Just…………………………...……….635-0101 Karen Lotz………………………………….... 638-0125 Heather Schardein………………………..387-9096 Brian Seay………………………………….... 634-8216 St. Stephen Martyr Parish Vision: To be a community that loves and serves God and one another St. Stephen Martyr Parish Mission Statement: To worship God as a Catholic faith community for the salvation of all
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February 17, 2019 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Mass Schedule
Weekend: Saturday 4:00 pm; Sunday 8:30, 10:30 am
Weekday: Monday--Thursday 8:15 am Communion Service:
Friday & Saturday 8:15 am Holyday: See announced times in
bulletin.
Bulletin Deadline
Monday by Noon
Sacraments Baptism: Call parish office for appointment and preparation.
Confession: 1st Sat. each month following 4:00 pm Mass or by appt.
Marriage: Please contact priest at least six months in advance.
ST. STEPHEN MARTYR
2931 PINDELL AVENUE • LOUISVILLE, KY 40217 w w w . s s m a r t y r . o r g
Parish Office......................................... 635-5813 School ................................................... 635-7141 Cafeteria ............................................... 635-6895
.......................... 635-3505 Activities Center .................................. 635-3505 St. Vincent de Paul ............................. 635-4414 Parish Nurses/HOSS ......................... 635-4415 ([email protected])
Parish Council Pastor, Fr. Harry Gelthaus Chairperson, Kurtis White………….…..637-5603 Administration/Finance,Ray Brown.648-5667 Formation/Education, Susan Abel...637-7191 Parish Life, Patty Norton……….……….773-6356 Worship, Mary Lotz…………………..…...634-9676 Recording Secretary, Mary Lotz………..634-9676 Rob Greenwell……………………………...314-4008 Michelle Herberger………………………..637-5744 Cherri Just…………………………...……….635-0101 Karen Lotz…………………………………....638-0125 Heather Schardein………………………..387-9096 Brian Seay…………………………………....634-8216
St. Stephen Martyr Parish Vision:
To be a community that loves and serves God
and one another
St. Stephen Martyr
Parish Mission Statement:
To worship God as a Catholic faith
community for the salvation of all
Time, Talent and Treasure
Fostering Stewardship as a Way of Life
Collection for week ending 2/8/19: $ 18,422.50 Collection budgeted weekly 11,153.85 Year to Date Collections: 322,267.02
Year to Date Budget: 349,487.18 Year to Date Deficit: <27,220.16>
A will provides an excellent opportunity to remember St. Stephen Martyr. A gift to
the church through your will serves as a testament to your heirs of your faith in
God and exemplifies what it means to be a good steward.
....and for all our sick and homebound.
Join us in welcoming the newest members to our church family:
Truett & Christie Underwood and daughter Liza, Janis Meffert,
and Angela Blair and son Gunner
Lenten Retreat Day
Encountering Jesus on Holy Thursday,
Good Friday and Easter
Presenter: Mr. Art Turner, Director of the Office of Faith Formation DATE: Saturday, March 2, 2019 TIME: 9 am until 3 pm
PLACE: Marteen Room COST: $25 Registration Fee (includes lunch) To register contact Lynn McDaniel at [email protected] or call her at 636-0296 ext. 1267. 2 St. Stephen Martyr
“Blessed are those who trust in the Lord; the Lord will be their trust.” Jer 17:7 We know that we are called to serve our brothers and sisters in Christ. If we trust in the Lord, how can we not be good stewards of all that has been entrusted to us in this life? St. Francis of Assisi instructed that, “For it is in giving, that we receive” which includes receiving abundant blessings from our Heavenly Father.
Cindy Arnold Patrick Barker Jane Becht Ellen Bidwell Brad Bohannon Cecelia Brand Chuck Byrd Allen Cassin Charlie Cecil Mary Conway Marty Elms Robin Evernham Wanda Francis Heather Frazier Kenneth Gibson Rita Elaine Hamilton Steven Head Doug Heil Patsy Hewett David Hoagland Ann Huso
Mary Isen Janet Jacobi Janet Jarboe Bertha Kamer Damien Kline Betty Krekel Kaye Lashley Thurman Lear Jan Lewis Beth Mans Betty McGill James Meyers Diane Modes Rev. James W. Murphy Joan Nitzken Mary Rita Noonan Ellie Nunn Liz Nussbaum Ryan Northcutt Sydney Partee Terry Phelps
James Price Julia Radonich Patricia Ringswald Phyllis Schultz Herman Seadler Vivian Seger Frances Skees Richard Sohan, Jr Tom Steinbock Joey Sullivan Lisa Swikert Lydia Turner Tish Wagner Bruce Wallace Bill Welch Cheryl Westbay Janet White Mary White Belinda Willinger Ralph Withrow Sandy Wright
Do You Want to Know the
Feeling of Real
Satisfaction?
Communion Ministers are needed to take Communion to Audubon Hospital. Taking Communion to those who cannot take part in the Eucharistic Assem-bly brings unity between the parish com-munity and its sick members. To the patients, it means everything, and to those who take Communion to them, what a feeling to know, no matter what happens to them, through your ministry you are able to offer the sick the opportunity to receive and be prepared for our Lord. Need train-ing to get your Communion Minister Certifi-cation? Training Sessions are coming up at St. Albert the Great, 1395 Girard Dr., from 7:00 pm-9:00 pm on Monday, March 18th and Monday, March 25th. Both ses-sions must be completed for certification. You must register online at ww.archlou.org under the Office of Worship/Communion Minister Formation Program or call them at 636-0296, ext. #1260. If you already have your certification or complete the training, just call the parish office and we’ll get the information to the coordinator.
MINISTRY SPOTLIGHT
FISH FRIES Could you work a 1-1/2 hour shift for one or more of our upcoming Fish Fries? Your stewardship of time is needed and greatly appreciated. Our Lenten Fish Fries will begin March 1st with the Fish Fry that benefits the 8th grade class trip. If you can help, please call Bill Wieneke @ 419-3437 or you may e-mail him at [email protected].
Readings for the week of 2/17/19
Sun: Jer 17:5-8/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4, 4, 6
[40:5a]/1 Cor 15:12, 16-20/Lk 6:17, 20-26
Mon: Gn 4:1-15, 25/Ps 50:1 and 8, 16bc-17, 20-21 [14a]/Mk 8:11-13 Tues: Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10/Ps 29:1a and 2, 3ac-4, 3b and 9c-10 [11b]/Mk 8:14-21
Wed: Gn 8:6-13, 20-22/Ps 116:12-13, 14-15, 18-19 [17a]/Mk 8:22-26 Thurs: Gn 9:1-13/Ps 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 and 22-23 [20b]/Mk 8:27-33
Holst’s The Planets, which had been composed about
seventy years earlier. In 1907, Henry Van Dyke
penned the words to “Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee”,
borrowing the music from Beethoven’s Symphony No.
9, which had premiered eighty-three years earlier. In 1520, French
composer Josquin des Prez wrote the Missa (Mass of) Pange Lingua, using
music from the (at the time) well-known hymn “Pange lingua gloriósi
córporis mystérium”, which had been written by Saint Thomas Aquinas
nearly three centuries earlier. Music has a way of sticking with us that plain spoken word simply doesn’t.
This is why, when learning the alphabet, most of us didn’t grow up speaking
the letters to memorize them. We put it to music – specifically to “Twinkle
Twinkle Little Star”, a tune which most of us had already heard before. By
setting new information to a familiar tune, we don’t have to work as hard to
recall that information, we just have to remember the tune (although most
of us probably know our ABCs well enough now, maybe a better example
would be found in Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements”?).
Hymn-writers understand and take advantage of this fact of music. By using
a recognizable tune, they can leave you with a more lasting impression of
the text, which can help you recall and learn the scripture that inspired it –
consider how a song like “What Child Is This” (originally an English folk song
from the 16th century) helps us remember and understand the story of
Christmas.
There is also a deliberate choice made in the music as well – in some cases
our musical memory can serve as a shorthand for the message of the text.
For “O God Beyond All Praising”, Michael Perry chooses the music from
Jupiter, the most majestic of The Planets, and the center of Holst’s portrayal
of the solar system, around which the other planets were focused. For
“Joyful, Joyful”, Henry Van Dyke chose Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, a tune which
was explicitly written to evoke joy and praise. And for Josquin des Prez’s
mass, what better than to reference St. Thomas Aquinas’s hymn, which
translates literally as: “Sing, my tongue, the Savior’s glory, of His Flesh, the
Mystery sing”.
3 Louisville, Kentucky
Sports Sign-Ups Online
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TRACK
K-8th Gr., Girls/Boys Cost: $35 per child Signups
end 2/25, practice begins early March.
GIRLS SOFTBALL
3rd-8th Gr., Cost: $50 per child Signups end 2/25, practice begins early March.
SOCCER
3rd-8th Gr., Girls/Boys Cost: $50 per child Signups end 2/25, practice begins early
March.
INTRAMURAL SOCCER
K-2nd Gr., Girls/Boys Cost: $25 per child Signups end 2/25, practice begins soon after.
PRE-K SOCCER CLINIC
Pre-K Girls/Boys Cost: $25 Signups end 2/25 and practice begins soon after.
TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR
2019/2020 SCHOOL YEAR
The Catholic Education Foun-dation (CEF) and the Archdio-cese of Louisville are helping
more families than ever who cannot af-ford the full cost of educating their chil-dren in a Catholic elementary school. Tui-tion assistance applications should be submitted between December 15, 2018 and February 28, 2019. You must apply for tuition assistance every year and fami-lies must use the online application avail-able on the CEF website www.ceflou.org. Complete only one FACTS application for all students in the family (elementary and high school) on the same form. You must submit your 2017 federal income tax return and 2017 W-2 information. Com-pleted applications received by February 28, 2019 will participate in the initial grant awards. A much smaller amount of tuition assistance may be available for forms submitted after that date. Tuition assistance award letters will be mailed to families no later than June 15, 2019. For questions, please call the Catholic Educa-tion Foundation at (502) 585-2747 or visit them online at: (www.ceflou.org).
DO WE HAVE YOUR 2019 STEWARDSHIP FORM?
Your 2019 Stewardship From is due back to the church office by March 1, 2019. It is important that we receive yours so we can
verify the information you provide with our database. Perhaps you have moved, or a child has now left home or turned 18 so they should be listed separate from your household, Have you changed phone numbers? Have a new e-mail address? The stewardship drive also gives you the opportunity to consider how you can give back to your parish. Perhaps you are only able to pray daily for our parish, that is just as important to us as you physically doing a ministry. Fill your form out and drop it in the collection basket, put it in the drop slot next to the parish office door, or mail, e-mail to [email protected] or fax it to us at 635-5888.
4:00 pm Carter Hicks, April & Tom Kute, Mary Lotz, Jason Cebe, Norma Heitz 8:30 am Tim & Janice Norton, Regina Hunt, Bridget Britt, Jan & Al Huber 10:30 am Mary & Pat Petrosky, Don Seadler, Kim Koenig, Joan Nitzken, Linda Hill Lectors
4:00 pm Mary Ann Schubert 8:30 am Jim Sohan 10:30 am Jim Stayton
Gift Bearers
4:00 pm Kelly, Konnor & Kinzie Denton 8:30 am Kevin & Sarah Brian, Theresa Barmore 10:30 am Rob & Christy Greenwell, Martha Hartman
Hospitality Ministers
4:00 pm Beverly Hicks, Barbara Sharp 8:30 am Jean Johnson, Carol Davis 10:30 am Colleen & Mary Kay Hilliard
Ushers 4:00 pm Mike Willinger, Mary Nitzken 8:30 am Steve Feldkamp, Ken Hunt 10:30 am Mike Hartman, Bruce Renn
Sacristans
4:00 pm Vernon Weickel 8:30 am Jim Stayton 10:30 am Kim Koenig
Altar Servers for the Week of 2/18/19—2/24/19 Monday
8:15 am Konnor Denton, Joseph Kelty Tuesday
8:15 am Madalynn Carter, Kira Woo Wednesday 8:15 am Chris Hairgrove, Cameron Moses Thursday 8:15 am Devin Moses, Duke McCluskey Saturday
4:00 pm Konnor & Kloie Denton Sunday
8:30 am Abby Britt, Ava Schardein 10:30 am Katelyn & Aiden Ritchey
Tuition Help Fund—Thank you for your continuing support to our Tuition Assistance Fund. You are helping a child attend our school for a quality Catholic education. If you would like to make a contribution, put it in an envelope clearly
marked that it is for School Tuition Help and mail it to the office, drop it in the Collection Basket during Mass or drop it in the drop box by the Parish Office door.
4b 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses for the Week of 2/18/19—2/24/19 Monday,
8:15 am Shirley Nitzken † Tuesday,
8:15 am Mary Plappert † Wednesday,
8:15 am David Meffert † Thursday,
8:15 am Blanche & Anthony Heun †
Irene & Bill Antill † Friday,
8:15 am Communion Service Saturday,
8:15 am Communion Service 4:00 pm Bill & Rita Mueller †
Garnetta Norris † Sunday,
8:30 am Stella Elias †
†=deceased
Parish Calendar Monday, 2/18
7:30 pm Men’s Rosary Church 8:00 pm M.O.S.S. Club Marteen Rm Tuesday, 2/19
9:30 am Quilters SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 10:00 am Caring Hands SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 11:30 am Brown Bag Weiker Rm 6:00 pm RCIA Weiker Rm 6:00 pm RCIC SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 Wednesday, 2/20
4:00 pm Carter Hicks, April & Tom Kute, Mary Lotz, Jason Cebe, Norma Heitz 8:30 am Tim & Janice Norton, Regina Hunt, Bridget Britt, Jan & Al Huber 10:30 am Mary & Pat Petrosky, Don Seadler, Kim Koenig, Joan Nitzken, Linda Hill Lectors
4:00 pm Mary Ann Schubert 8:30 am Jim Sohan 10:30 am Jim Stayton
Gift Bearers
4:00 pm Kelly, Konnor & Kinzie Denton 8:30 am Kevin & Sarah Brian, Theresa Barmore 10:30 am Rob & Christy Greenwell, Martha Hartman
Hospitality Ministers
4:00 pm Beverly Hicks, Barbara Sharp 8:30 am Jean Johnson, Carol Davis 10:30 am Colleen & Mary Kay Hilliard
Ushers 4:00 pm Mike Willinger, Mary Nitzken 8:30 am Steve Feldkamp, Ken Hunt 10:30 am Mike Hartman, Bruce Renn
Sacristans
4:00 pm Vernon Weickel 8:30 am Jim Stayton 10:30 am Kim Koenig
Altar Servers for the Week of 2/18/19—2/24/19 Monday
8:15 am Konnor Denton, Joseph Kelty Tuesday
8:15 am Madalynn Carter, Kira Woo Wednesday 8:15 am Chris Hairgrove, Cameron Moses Thursday 8:15 am Devin Moses, Duke McCluskey Saturday
4:00 pm Konnor & Kloie Denton Sunday
8:30 am Abby Britt, Ava Schardein 10:30 am Katelyn & Aiden Ritchey
Tuition Help Fund—Thank you for your continuing support to our Tuition Assistance Fund. You are helping a child attend our school for a quality Catholic education. If you would like to make a contribution, put it in an envelope clearly
marked that it is for School Tuition Help and mail it to the office, drop it in the Collection Basket during Mass or drop it in the drop box by the Parish Office door.
4b 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time
Masses for the Week of 2/18/19—2/24/19 Monday,
8:15 am Shirley Nitzken † Tuesday,
8:15 am Mary Plappert † Wednesday,
8:15 am David Meffert † Thursday,
8:15 am Blanche & Anthony Heun †
Irene & Bill Antill † Friday,
8:15 am Communion Service Saturday,
8:15 am Communion Service 4:00 pm Bill & Rita Mueller †
Garnetta Norris † Sunday,
8:30 am Stella Elias †
†=deceased
Parish Calendar Monday, 2/18
7:30 pm Men’s Rosary Church 8:00 pm M.O.S.S. Club Marteen Rm Tuesday, 2/19
9:30 am Quilters SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 10:00 am Caring Hands SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 11:30 am Brown Bag Weiker Rm 6:00 pm RCIA Weiker Rm 6:00 pm RCIC SSAC-Mtng Rm #1 Wednesday, 2/20
