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PARISH COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULED The next Parish Council meeting will be Tuesday, October 13, 2015, following 5:30 Mass. GREENBUSH DAY St Aloysius Historical Society 22nd Annual Greenbush Day is this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. See the church bulletin board for more information. PRAYERS FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH Please pray for parishioner Verna Versalona and Judy Smerchek who are ill. RESPECT LIFE PRAYER REQUEST The diocesan Respect Life and Social Justice Office is requesting all SEK Catholics pray a 31-day Seven Sorrows Rosary Novena through the month of October to close the two clinics in our diocese that perform abortions: Southwind Abortion Center and Planned Parenthood, both in Wichita. For more information, go to their link on the diocesan website: http://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/rlsj- events/october-events. AN IMPORTANT DATE GOES UNNOTICED When I was in school, September 17, Constitution Day, was still considered worthy of recognition. I recall that we’d often have an assembly in early afternoon, followed by an early dismissal! We were taught to honor our founding fathers who, in 1787, framed a WRITTEN government, the first of its kind, that has lasted to this day, making it the oldest continuing government in the world. It was signed that year, 1787, on September 17, and the date has traditionally been called “Constitution Day”. Some of our calendars continue to list it that way. According to our constitution, power is passed by a vote of the people rather than by a king or by a war. This is something that we need to cherish and protect. The founding fathers were, for the most part, Christian. Often, books will list some as Deists or even non-church goers, but most of them acknowledged Christ as their Savior. The ACLU, an ultra liberal organization that promotes separation of church and state, uses Thomas Jefferson and his 1802 letter to the Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, as proof that he intended church and state to be separate. Yet, two days after writing that letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson attended public worship services in the U.S. Capitol, and he continued this practice throughout his two terms as President. He signed legislation that gave land to Indian missionaries, put chaplains on the government payroll, and sent Congress an Indian treaty that set aside money for a priest’s salary and the construction of a church. Another interesting aspect of Jefferson’s behavior: he dated most official documents with the phrase: “In the year of Our Lord Christ”, rather than the official, “In the year of Our Lord”. I would say that he was anything but irreligious and certainly not an enemy of the Christian faith. In fact, he was a student of Scripture, attended Church regularly, married in church and supported his church monetarily. His Danbury letter to the Baptists invoking the wall of separation meant that we should have freedom OF religion, not a ‘State’ religion, a reason many came to America for. He certainly did NOT mean freedom FROM religion as the ACLU would have us believe. All of that business came about much later in the 1940s when the U.S. Supreme Court began ‘legislating’ rather than interpreting the Constitution. I’d say that Jefferson, the real one, not the Jefferson of ‘separation of church & state fame’, if he were alive today, he’d be the ACLU’s worst nightmare! For the sake of our youth, we should embrace our freedoms by noting the importance of days like Sept 17, demonstrating our pride in a democratic government that is the oldest among nations! - Marcel Normand 100 South 8th Street Arma, KS 66712 (620) 347-4525 Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz St. Joseph Catholic Church MASS SCHEDULE GIRARD ARMA Saturday 5:30 pm 4:00 pm Sunday 10:00 am 8:00 am CONFESSION GIRARD ARMA Saturday 2:00-2:30 pm 3:15-3:45 pm Weekdays before Mass, anytime by appointment STAFF Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz Secretary: Georganne Galichia Bookkeeper: Janel Scales Bulletin Editor: Nancy Bauer PARISH WEBSITE: www.stjosepharma.com UPCOMING EVENTS: Finance Council Parish Council TBA Tues., Oct. 13 6:00pm 6:00pm in rectory St. Ann Altar Society Knights of Columbus Wed., Oct. 21 1st Tuesday of Month 6:00 pm 7:00pm, St. Michael hall Collections Last Week July 2015 to date Contributions $1,250.10 $13,485.25 Expenses - August $8830.03 $11,433.82 Over / (Under) $2,051.43 RECTORY HOURS & INFORMATION Wednesdays: 9:00 am - Noon Rectory: (620) 347-4525 Fr. Max’s cell: (316) 708-9473 Fr. Max’s email: [email protected] PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL OFFICERS: Pat Westhoff - Chair, Karen Pryer - Secretary, Debbie Amershek, Dustin Ashmore, Joe Broyles,, Debbie Shaub EUCHARISTIC ADORATION: Thursdays from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm WORSHIP COMMITTEE: Chair - Karen Pryer EMEs - Joann Black Ushers/Greeters - Bill Harman Altar Society - Judy Smerchek Lectors - Marcel Normand Music - Jan Harman PARISH FINANCE COUNCIL: Fred Bogina - Chair, Members: Joe Polhlopek, Judy Wingebach, Linda Broyles Saturday (9/26/15) Sunday (9/27/15) 4:00pm 8:00am Altar Servers: Jack & Eve Bertoncino Volunteer EMHC: Sharon Giacometti Cindy Ashmore Lector: Pat Westhoff Carol Cole Gift Bearers: Mike & Virginia Jill & Henry Buche Ashbacher Usher/Greeter: Mike Ashbacher & Dave & Dustin Dave Petrey Ashmore 206 N Weichert • Brazilton, KS 620-395-2141 www.derailedcommodity.com DERAILED DERAILED COMMODITY COMMODITY A big “Thank You” to our advertisers. Please support them! Our Hometown Pharmacy for Over 80 Years Pharmacist, Owner 504 E. Washington Street Arma, Kansas 66712 Phone: 620-347-8311 email:[email protected] www.armadrug.com Laurie S. Graham, Pharm.D. Improve Your Land - Increase Your Worth 952 W. 47 HWY Girard, KS 66743 Jim O’Toole 620-724-8536 620-724-3225 c Ronnie O’Toole 620-632-5165 620-724-2754 c Tim O’Toole 620-724-8990 620-238-0430 c From Pastor Altar Ministers for Sept. 26 & 27 Dear Parish Family: The following is continued from last weekend’s excerpt from the catechism’s beautiful teaching on marriage, paragraphs 1602-17: The nuptial covenant between God and his people Israel had prepared the way for the new and everlasting covenant in which the Son of God, by becoming incarnate and giving his life, has united to himself in a certain way all mankind saved by him, thus preparing for "the wedding-feast of the Lamb." On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first sign - at his mother's request - during a wedding feast. The Church attaches great importance to Jesus' presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an efficacious sign of Christ's presence. In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the beginning: permission given by Moses to divorce one's wife was a concession to the hardness of hearts. The matrimonial union of man and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined it "what therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder." This unequivocal insistence on the indissolubility of the marriage bond may have left some perplexed and could seem to be a demand impossible to realize. However, Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy - heavier than the Law of Moses. By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of God. It is by following Christ, renouncing themselves, and taking up their crosses that spouses will be able to "receive" the original meaning of marriage and live it with the help of Christ. This grace of Christian marriage is a fruit of Christ's cross, the source of all Christian life. This is what the Apostle Paul makes clear when he says: "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify her," adding at once: "'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one. This is a great mystery, and I mean in reference to Christ and the Church." The entire Christian life bears the mark of the spousal love of Christ and the Church. Already Baptism, the entry into the People of God, is a nuptial mystery; it is so to speak the nuptial bath.111 which precedes the wedding feast, the Eucharist. Christian marriage in its turn becomes an efficacious sign, the sacrament of the covenant of Christ and the Church. Since it signifies and communicates grace, marriage between baptized persons is a true sacrament of the New Covenant. Mass Schedule and Intentions for Sept. 19 - 27 Sept. 19 Saturday 4:00pm Bob Pazzie Arma 5:30pm Patricia Haderlein Girard 20 Sunday 8:00am Jim Davied Arma 10:00am For the People Girard 21 Monday 7:00am Joseph Hofer Girard 22 Tuesday 5:30pm No Intention Arma 23 Wednesday 6:30pm Arlene Schulte Girard 24 Thursday 8:00am No Intention Arma 8:30am-3:00pm Adoration Arma 25 Friday 7:00am Arlene Schulte Girard 8:00am-6:00pm Adoration Girard 26 Saturday 4:00pm Jim Davied Arma 5:30pm Betty Sponsel Widner Girard 27 Sunday 8:00am No Intention Arma 10:00am For the People Girard
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