May 22, 2011 Fifth Sunday of Easter SAINT GERALD CHURCH 9602 Q ST.-RALSTON, NE 68127 • LAKEVIEW CHAPEL 7859 LAKEVIEW ST.-RALSTON, NE 68127 Administrative Staff & Parish Rectory/Office 7859 Lakeview St. Phone: 331-1955 Fax: 339-8733 Email: [email protected]Hours: Mon-Fri, 7:30am-4pm Website: www.stgerald.org School 7857 Lakeview St. 331-4223 Religious Education 331-4223 Pastor Fr. Owen Korte [email protected]Assistant Pastor Fr. Anthony Espinosa Deacon Couples Lonnie & Mary Dinneen Ray & Sue Lukowski Tom & Kathy Valasek Doug & Carol Marsh Chris & Erika Hanson Mike & Valerie Conzett Business Administrator John Bolas Dir of Youth Ministry/Young Adults Kathy Kensinger Director of Music Ministry Mary Clare Mendick Parish Secretary Cheryl Bolin Parish Building Facilitator Nick Steinbach Development Director Deacon Chris Hanson [email protected]Pastoral Minister of the Sick Kathy Valasek Principal Dave Garland Religious Education Director Mike Witt Head Sacristan Victoria Hegarty Parish Council President Tim Mundorf Masses Church - 96th & Q Street Sat 5:00pm Sun 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am & 12:00pm Daily 12:15pm (M-F) Chapel - 78th & Lakeview St. Sun 7:00am Daily 8:15am (M-Sat) Rosary begins at 7:45 am For a recording of the Mass times please call 331-1955 ext 21. Reconciliation 96th & Q Mon-Fri: 12:00-12:15pm Sat 3-4:30pm Lakeview: First Fridays and Saturdays prior to 8:15am Mass Ministry to the Sick If you, a relative or friend are hospitalized or shut-in, short or long term, and would like a visit from a Priest, please call the parish office. SACRAMENTS Baptisms You must be a registered parishioner and attend two sessions of baptism classes. These sessions are held the first and third Thursday of every month. Please call the Business Office to schedule the baptism date and sign up for the classes. Marriage According to the Archdiocesan guidelines and to ensure adequate preparation for this very important Sacrament, you must make arrangements at least six (6) months ahead of the Marriage date. Special instructions are required for any Catholic party under 19 years of age. No date can be set for this marriage. A Civil Marriage License should be obtained two weeks in advance of marriage. To set a wedding date here at St. Gerald Catholic Church, you must be a registered parishioner for 3 months. We as St. Gerald Parish, are a Eucharistic Community who will help each other to be good and faithful stewards of God’s love. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we will accomplish this through prayer, worship, education and service. ST GERALD PARISH
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May 22, 2011
Fifth Sunday of Easter
SAINT GERALD CHURCH 9602 Q ST.-RALSTON, NE 68127 • LAKEVIEW CHAPEL 7859 LAKEVIEW ST.-RALSTON, NE 68127
Administrative Staff & Parish Rectory/Office 7859 Lakeview St. Phone: 331-1955 Fax: 339-8733 Email: [email protected] Hours: Mon-Fri, 7:30am-4pm Website: www.stgerald.org School 7857 Lakeview St. 331-4223 Religious Education 331-4223 Pastor Fr. Owen Korte [email protected] Assistant Pastor Fr. Anthony Espinosa Deacon Couples Lonnie & Mary Dinneen Ray & Sue Lukowski Tom & Kathy Valasek Doug & Carol Marsh Chris & Erika Hanson Mike & Valerie Conzett Business Administrator John Bolas Dir of Youth Ministry/Young Adults Kathy Kensinger Director of Music Ministry Mary Clare Mendick Parish Secretary Cheryl Bolin Parish Building Facilitator Nick Steinbach Development Director Deacon Chris Hanson [email protected] Pastoral Minister of the Sick
Kathy Valasek Principal Dave Garland Religious Education Director Mike Witt Head Sacristan
Victoria Hegarty Parish Council President Tim Mundorf
Masses
Church - 96th & Q Street
Sat 5:00pm
Sun 7:30am 9:00am 10:30am
& 12:00pm
Daily 12:15pm (M-F)
Chapel - 78th & Lakeview St.
Sun 7:00am
Daily 8:15am (M-Sat)
Rosary begins at 7:45 am
For a recording of the Mass times please
call 331-1955 ext 21.
Reconciliation
96th & Q Mon-Fri: 12:00-12:15pm
Sat 3-4:30pm
Lakeview: First Fridays and Saturdays
prior to 8:15am Mass
Ministry to the Sick
If you, a relative or friend are hospitalized
or shut-in, short or long term, and would
like a visit from a Priest, please call the
parish office.
SACRAMENTS
Baptisms
You must be a registered parishioner and
attend two sessions of baptism classes. These
sessions are held the first and third Thursday
of every month. Please call the Business
Office to schedule the baptism date and sign
up for the classes. Marriage
According to the Archdiocesan guidelines
and to ensure adequate preparation for this
very important Sacrament, you must make
arrangements at least six (6) months ahead of
the Marriage date. Special instructions are
required for any Catholic party under 19
years of age. No date can be set for this
marriage. A Civil Marriage License should be
obtained two weeks in advance of marriage.
To set a wedding date here at St. Gerald
Catholic Church, you must be a registered
parishioner for 3 months.
We as St. Gerald Parish, are a Eucharistic Community who will help each other to be good
and faithful stewards of God’s love. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we will accomplish this
through prayer, worship, education and service.
ST GERALD PARISH
First Friday Exposition: For the months of June, July
and August, First Friday Exposition will be held at 96th
and Q. The 8:15 mass on those days June 3, July 1, and
August 5 will be held at 96th and Q. Confessions will be
offered at 7:45 am and 11:45 am on these days. Exposi-
tion will begin at the end of the 8:15 mass and will contin-
ue until just before the 12:15 mass. It will conclude then.
I have given this devotion time to mature over the past 9
months but it has not garnered the support such a devotion
ought to have. The numbers who have chosen to spend
time with the Blessed Sacrament were so low that at times
the Exposed Blessed Sacrament was left unattended.
Next school year, beginning in September, we will re-
sume Exposition at the Lakeview Chapel and we will con-
clude Exposition when we have the 2:30 pm devotions
with the children.
The Practice of Saving Pews: It has become a practice
here to save pews at major liturgical and performance
events. Other than the pews that are saved that are actual-
ly purchased at the Angel Auction…the practice has got-
ten to be dissonant with the first priority of Stewardship:
Hospitality. Although a family may wish to sit together
there has to be some effort on the part of those for whom
the pew is being saved to come as soon as possible. Peo-
ple have become frustrated and have felt unwelcome
when they walk around the church 10 minutes before
mass to the various places that are open only to find they
are being held for someone. The reports of rudeness, foul
language, downright inhospitableness by some of the
guests at the Christmas Play both in the church and in the
parking lot is legendary. I brought this subject up for dis-
cussion with the Pastoral Council and found almost uni-
versal support in trying to eliminate the practice of pew
saving at major liturgical events. Some of our discussion
involved perhaps allowing pew saving but when it is 10
minutes or so before the event…all saving would stop. I
brought up the possibility of providing a shuttle between
the Hy-Vee parking lot and our own at the high attended
masses on Christmas and Easter. Right now we will deal
with the major performance events where it seems pew
saving has become rampant by keeping the doors of the
Church closed and locked until a certain time prior to the
event’s beginning…publishing this time and holding to it.
I would have no problem charging a healthy fee for the
saved pews but this might take some study before it is
implemented. Maybe as a way of supporting the Music
Program at the school we should treat the Christmas Pro-
gram in the same way a play at Ralston High is treated.
May 22, 2011 2 Welcome to St. Gerald Parish
Purchase tickets ahead of time. But this method will not be
used for Liturgical Events because it is dissonant with the prin-
cipal of Hospitality from another perspective. With this an-
nouncement the discussion will continue. But raising this issue
will, I pray, have us all look at ourselves and our practices to
see how it affects others. Maybe some conscience formation
will alleviate a lot of the problem. I know I will come to a de-
cision before I send out the next Advent/Christmas letter to the
general parish. So, think about what you are doing and how
you could solve the pew saving issue without actually having
someone from the family stake out a pew. If that one can get
there…why not the whole crew. Maybe we could look at how
our parking lot could empty or fill in a more organized fash-
ion—our security folks might want to look at this. Maybe we
could hire off duty police officers to direct traffic on and off of
96th and Q streets. For Christmas Day masses and Easter
masses you can’t be there any sooner than about 30 minutes or
less to get a pew saved anyway. And for sure….Midnight Mass
and the Easter Vigil have lots of room. Sooo, I am not ready to
lay down a new law about this….right now I am looking for
you to look at yourselves for a time.
Memorial Day: This major civic feast is coming up on us real
soon. Maybe when it gets here we really will be into the warm
weather. We will have only one mass that day and it will be a
9:00 am at 96th and Q.
A Little Color: We are going to put in a nice little planter
around the St. Gerald sign at the office and add a splash of col-
or with some nice annuals. I already have replanted my impa-
tience once…since, you see, I was impatient at getting my im-
patience in and so they froze. Now we will see how they do. I
know some of the volunteers who signed up to help with land-
scaping from the Stewardship Forms will be asked to help with
some of these projects including putting in a little outdoor patio
in front of the south door of my house. I am grateful for those
who volunteered to help me with my pottery shop: wiring and
construction.
Financial Report: I hope you liked getting the report that we
placed in the bulletin last week. If you did not get a chance to
view the charts and the letter then you can find the same on the
web site. After we close out the fiscal year we will share with
you a similar report. The good news is that we will probably
end the fiscal year in the black. There was an increase in col-
lections that took care of some maintenance items that pushed
that part of the expenses over what was expected.
Safe Environment Training
If you volunteer to work with the youth of our parish or
school, you must be Safe Environment trained. St. Gerald
parish is holding a training session on Wednesday, June
15, in the Fr Larry Dorsey Fellowship Hall from 6:30-
9pm. Please call the business office, 402-331-1955, to
register.
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Eucharistic Minister of
Holy Communion/Lector
If you are a registered mem-
ber of St Gerald Parish and
would like to become an
EMHC or a lector, please
call the business office, 402
-331-1955, to sign up for
the training and mandation
sessions. You must attend
one training session from
the list below, plus the man-
dation session and then be
trained in the parish.
Training Sessions: (must
choose one)
Tues, Aug 16, St Leo, 6:30-
9:30pm
Mon, Aug 22, St Vincent de
Paul, 6:30-9:30pm
Sun, Aug 28, St
Columbkille, 1:30-4:30pm
Mandation Session: (must
attend)
Thurs, Sept 1, St Cecilia
Cathedral, 7:30pm
Please call by August 1.
St Gerald Business Office
Closed
May 30: Memorial Day
June 9: Noon to 4pm
Memorial Day
Mass: May 30,
9am at 96th &
Q
Congratulations to the following children
who received their First Holy Communion
on May 1, 2011.
Carole Abalekpor Jenna Kramer
George Abalekpor Abigail Kudym
Hunter Ahrendt Zachary Malone
Miranda Ahrendt Caden Marek
Jacob Anzalone Ben Mayer
Corbin Augustine Joey McEvoy
Ethan Bailey Jason Nguyen
Skyllar Bolte Justin Nguyen
Elliot Brisky Cheyenne Pasewalk
Hailey Christensen Nick Patzner
Isabel Conway Jacob Phillips
Mikayla Craig Larissa Prokop
Breanna Elliott Justin Remar
Colin Hughes Trent Sheldon
Lilith Huse Jackson Stevens
Mikayla Jarecki Avree Zelasney
Congratulations to the following RCIA
candidates who made their Profession
of Faith into the Catholic Church on
April 23, 2011 during the Easter Vigil
celebration.
John Anderson
Keith Eschliman
Allison McKulsky
Michael McKulsky
Jeremy Kellison
Austin Reeves
Jocelyn Sheldon
Timothy Ultican
Joshua Wester
Endowment In Memory of or in Honor of Donation from
Fr Foster Carmen Rotella Family & Friends
Fr Foster In Honor of Jere Detter Dr & Mrs Glenn Dalrymple
Fr Foster Kenny Pick Dennis & Dorothy Wiebelhaus
School Dr Michael Haller Jim and Mary Benes
School Patrick Sheridan Jim and Mary Benes
School Patrick Sheridan Paul and Trudie Nelsen
Fr Foster Patrick Sheridan Dennis & Dorothy Wiebelhaus
Fr Foster Joe McDermott Dennis & Dorothy Wiebelhaus
School Patrick Sheridan Family & Friends
School Patrick Sheridan Tom & Susan Tierney
School Patrick Sheridan Jim & Lynn Svoboda
School Patrick Sheridan Ron & Jean Thompson
School Patrick Sheridan Friends
Fr Foster William Vacek Ray & Dorothy Zagozda
Fr Foster Mary Jane Garnatz Lou Kerndt
Fr Foster Mary Jane Garnatz Larry & Jan Schmitz
Fr Foster Mary Jane Garnatz Warren & Marinell Garnatz
School Patrick Sheridan Ralston Bridge Evening Group
Fr. Foster Irene Salamone Jan Hawkins
Fr. Foster Irene Salamone Joseph & Pamela Holewinski
Fr. Foster Irene Salamone Friends
More names for the En-
dowments will be listed in
next week’s bulletin.
Donation Report Sunday(5/15/11)……. .. $26,789.82
ACH……………………….$00.00
Week Total………....…$26,789.82
Weekly Budget……….$21,045.00
YTD Total…………$1,235,069.84
YTD Budget……….$1,237,450.00
Variance……………. $(2,380.16)
May 22, 2011 4 Welcome to St. Gerald Parish
Youth Ministry
The Knights Corner
May 27th: $10.00 PROM —
NOTE CHANGE OF DATE! High school students are invited
for an evening of dancing, food,
and games. Dress is formal, while
paying no more than $10.00 for
your attire, but it is suggested that
you bring a change of clothing for
the games. The cost is $10.00 per
person or couple. All proceeds
will go to the Youth Group NCYC
trip.
Totus Tuus,
July 10-15. 7-12th graders are en-
couraged to participate in this ex-
citing new program. Come for one
or all five evenings for $5/ session.
Registrations are now in progress.
Contact Kathy, 402-880-9717, if
you need a form.
Please check our website at
www.stgerald.org for more infor-
mation about youth activities.
Mystery Dinner Theater
Join us for dinner and entertainment that promises to keep you laughing
until the culprit is revealed. If you like, volunteer to be one of the suspects
in the mystery. Plan now to attend, June 12, Sunday, 4pm at the Garden
Café in Rockbrook Village, 2800 S 110th Ct. Cost is $35 per person. For
more information, contact Margaret, 402-331-1309, or Fran, 402-339-
3240. Clip this form today and return with your reservation and payment
