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ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL 18 Woodlawn Joliet, Illinois 60435
ST PAUL THE APOSTLE CATHOLIC CHURCH AND SCHOOL
18 Woodlawn Joliet, Illinois 60435
St. Paul the Apostle Parish Office: 815-725-1527 Parish Fax 815-730-9907 School: 815-725-3390 Religious Education 815-725-6927 Youth Ministry: 815-730-8599 RCIA (Roberta Lemke) 815-725-1403 Parish Email: [email protected]
Rev. John Klein, Pastor [email protected] x243 Rev. John Belmonte, S.J., Resident x230 Rev. James Lennon, Weekend Celebrant Deacon William Bevan, III Deacon John Freund [email protected] Lynne Passarella, Parish Secretary [email protected] x200 Denise Rowan, Business Manager [email protected] x203 Corie Alimento, Principal [email protected] x401 Sr. Karen Marie Lanigan, O.S.F., D.R.E. [email protected] x301 Jeremy Hylka, Dir. Of Liturgy & Youth Min. [email protected] x320 Tanya Rand, Dean of Development & Mrktg. [email protected] x201 Raymond Kaufmann, Director of Music [email protected]
Saturday: 4:30 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM Weekday mass: 7:30 AM Monday through Friday except Wednesdays are 8:30 AM when school is in session Holy Days: Varies by Holy Day of Obligation
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Saturday: 8:30-9:30 am or by appointment
BAPTISMS Baptisms are scheduled on the Second Sunday of the month at 11:30 AM based on parental requests. Participation in a Parent Preparation Program is mandatory before the baptism of the child. Our preparation Program is held on the first Tuesday of each month at 7:00 PM. Attendance at Sunday Mass on the day of the Baptism is Mandatory. Please call the Parish office to schedule a baptism.
WEDDINGS All weddings are scheduled by the Pastor of the Parish. Office staff cannot schedule a wedding and a wedding is not consid-ered to be officially scheduled until the couple receives written confirmation from the Pastor of the Parish. Couples desiring to be married need to speak directly with the Pastor BEFORE re-serving a hall. Only the Bride or Groom may request a date for their wedding. Diocesan policy requires that a 6 month (minimum) preparation process be completed prior to the cele-bration of all weddings. Weddings are not scheduled on Sun-days.
ANOINTING OF THE SICK Parishioners who are seriously or critically ill, or have surgery scheduled should receive the Sacrament of Anointing and Heal-ing. Please call the parish office to request this sacrament. Reg-ular visits are also made by our Pastoral Staff and Ministers of Care to bring Holy Communion to hospitalized or homebound parishioners. Anyone desiring such a visit should call the Parish Office.
R.C.I.A. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is an ongoing for-mation process for adults who are interested in becoming a Catholic and adult Catholics who would like to receive the sac-raments of Confirmation and/or First Eucharist. Please call the Parish Office for additional information.
PARISH REGISTRATION New parishioners are always welcome! You may register in person or by calling the Parish Office.
LITURGICAL SCHEDULE week of October 6th
MONDAY St. Bruno, Priest 7:30 AM Carol Marchio Terry Pasteris TUESDAY Our Lady of the Rosary 7:30 AM Ann Pavnica WEDNESDAY Weekday 8:30 AM Dean Quoss THURSDAY St. Dennis, Bishop & Companions Martyrs 7:30 AM Frank Lukas FRIDAY Weekday 7:30 AM Catherine Ryan SATURDAY Vigil, Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30PM Catherine Anselmino SUNDAY Twenty-Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM The People of St. Paul the Apostle 9:00 AM Louise Bucciarelli 10:30 AM Colleen Kapsch
SUNDAY OFFERING THANK YOU !
Offering for Sunday, September 21 2014.….…$14,254.00 Collection Amount Budgeted……………….…$16,731.00 Week’s Budget (Shortfall)/Overage………….. $ (2,477.00) Year to date (Shortfall)/ Overage……………...$(25,872.00) Our Parish depends on a weekly collection of $16,731.00 to meet our budget. Thank you for your generous support of our parish. Your donations of time, talent, and treasure enables us to provide many ministries and services for the benefit of our parishioners and the local community. God bless you and your family!
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FROM FATHER JOHN: “We cannot stand idly by, enjoying our own riches and freedom if, in any place the Lazarus of the twen-tieth century [or any century] stands at our doors.” (St. Pope John Paul II)
St. Paul the Apostle Parish and all of our parishioners are abundantly blessed. We are a vibrant parish offering all of the sacraments to our people, particularly, the daily reception of the Eucharist as well as offering valuable educational, liturgical and other ministe-rial services to members of our community. We strive to meet the needs of our parish and do so through the exemplary work of our teachers, lay and religious leaders, catechists and volunteers. We are a blessed parish, and I thank you for your presence in our faith community.
God has granted each of us unique gifts, graces, and resources that are to be shared responsibly and wisely with others. We may be blessed financially, we may have time to share, or we may have special abilities. Whatever our gifts, God calls us to be good stew-ards of them, cognizant of the priority with which we use them and the measure of gratitude in how we give them.
I want to take this opportunity to present the financial condition of St. Paul the Apostle Parish to all the people of our parish. I decid-ed to do this in my bulletin article in order to, one, give everyone from our parish the opportunity to receive the same update that everyone else receives and, two, I want to put the details in a form that the people of our parish can take home and study and, three, I want to make sure that the details are placed before everyone in a consistent manner so that we can all be on the same page vis-à-vis our parish’s financial condition. You will find the 2013/2014 Financial Report enclosed in this bulletin.
Our last fiscal year ended on June 30th. Our total collections in Fiscal 2013/2014 were $951, 998. Our Sunday collection was $832,102 and we had additional special collections of $119,896. These additional special collections included the Christmas collec-tion, the Sunday collection and two one-time donations of $60,000 and $20,000, respectively. We cannot expect to receive such gen-erous one-time donations each year. Our Sunday collections are critical to the financial viability of our parish. Relying on special one-time gifts to our parish would not be a wise way to steward our resources.
You will notice in our Financial Report that we had a deficit of $226,457 for the fiscal year. This was due to the HVAC project in the school and the decline we have seen in our Sunday collections. Our capital expenditures were $ 354,844 for the fiscal year. We are projecting higher capital expenditures during this fiscal year because many of the invoices associated with the HVAC project will be paid during this fiscal year. Our current shortfall in our Sunday collections (as of 9.21.14) for the current fiscal year is $25,872 or $2,156 per week. This pro-jects to an annual deficit in our collections of $112,112. The Parish Finance Council and I will have to take a hard look at our ex-penses with the goal of decreasing them dramatically if we do not increase our Sunday collections. Unfortunately, we have seen a steady decline in our parish collections over the past six years as the following graph illustrates.
I would like to ask everyone who is able to increase their weekly/monthly gift to our parish to be as generous as possible and to be intentional in planning what you are able to give to the parish given your financial resources. I realize that the poor state of our econ-omy has impacted many people from our parish negatively. But, I also realize that it has not impacted others as much or even at all. That is why I am asking for each member of our parish to seriously consider increasing their donations to our parish. This will ena-ble those who can give more to offset what our financially troubled brothers and sisters are unable to give. For those who have lost jobs or businesses and are struggling in these difficult times, I understand why you can’t give more at this time, I empathize with you, I pray for your financial success and I ask that you support our parish with your prayers and with your time and talent. For those of you who can give more, I ask that you do, that you prayerfully consider what you can give and that you increase your dona-tion based on that prayerful consideration.
Parish News St. Paul’s ‘FOLLOW’ Youth Ministry Members always welcome. You must be confirmed and/or in high school! Contact Youth Minister Jeremy Hylka at 815-730-8599 or [email protected] Website: www.stpaulyouth.com Facebook: St. Paul’s Youth Ministry Joliet Twitter: stpaulsfollow Instagram: stpauljolietyouth Text Message News Reminders: text @drstp to 815-207-8341 Pro-Life Chain at Six Corners – Sun., Oct. 5 from 3:00-4:00pm. Peer Ministry Meeting – Tues., Oct. 5 from 5:00-5:30pm. FOLLOW Night – Tues., Oct. 7 doors open at 5:30pm; meeting from 6:30-9pm; Theology of the Body Night.
R.E.P. NEWS In need of information about
Our Religious Education Program? Please call the REP office at 815-725-6927
On Monday, October 6, there will be a mandatory meeting for Confirmation candidates for 2015 and their sponsors in Church from 7:15 until 8:30. Jere-my Hylka will be the guest speaker. There will be no REP classes on Monday, October 13, due to the Columbus Day holiday. Classes will re-sume on Monday, October 20 at 5:45 in the school.
DEAR LORD WATCH OVER
OUR MILITARY
SCHOOL NOTES Student Council- Congratulations to our 1st Semester Student Council Officers who were inducted into Student Council after mass last week. Thank you for taking on these important lead-ership roles in helping to serve our students, our school, our parish, and our community. President: Allison Raymer Vice-Presidents: Isabel Reid and Alex Zawacki Secretary: Mitch Misischia Homeroom Reps: Ryan Reid, Emma Jay, Bailey Papesh, Ava Tomich, Adam Simon Patrol Captains: Abby Ragusa and Natalie Franchini
Adult Formation Opportunity Sacraments-Feeding the Flame of Faith
6:30pm Tuesday, October 14th
Come and join us for our regularly scheduled adult formation opportunity. Our next session is scheduled for Tuesday, October 14th at 6:30pm in the Activities Center (A-4). Deacon John Freund will be sharing a reflec-tion on the Sacraments. The Sacraments are the means of “growing in grace” and living out the Christian life. Don’t miss this great opportunity. The session will begin at 6:30pm with a meal and conclude by 8:30pm. Please join us and bring a friend. For more information you can contact Deacon John at 630-212-6002 or at [email protected].
White Mass
All Health Care Professionals are cordially invited to celebrate
the White Mass and receive a special blessing from
Bishop Joseph Siegel on
Sunday, October 19, 2014 11:00 AM Mass
Cathedral of St. Raymond 604 N. Raynor Ave.
Joliet, IL 60435
Calendar News
Thursday, Oct 9 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:45am Interviews W/ Diana A 2 5:00pm Volleyball Games Gym 6:30pm Adult Choir Church 7:00pm Parents/Sponsor Confirmation Mtg. Church Friday, Oct 10 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 5:00pm Volleyball Practice Gym Saturday, Oct 11 8:30am Confessions Church 4:30pm Sunday Vigil Mass Church 5:30pm Music Ensemble Church Sunday, Oct 12 7:30am Mass Church 9:00am Mass Church 10:00am RCIA Convent 10:30am Mass Church 11:30am Baptisms Church 4:00pm Volleyball Practice Gym
Sunday, Oct 5 7:30am Mass Church 8:30am Boy Scout Popcorn Sale Narthex After all masses 9:00am Mass Church 10:00am RCIA Convent 10:30am Mass Church 4:00pm Volleyball Practice Gym Monday, Oct 6 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 2:00pm Living Rosary Church 3:45pm Volleyball Practice Gym 5:45pm REP Classes School/AC 6:00pm Parent /Sponsor Confirmation Mtg Church 7:00pm A A Meeting A 1 Tuesday, Oct 7 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:45pm Volleyball Practice Gym 5:00pm Youth Ministry Convent 6:30pm Boy Scouts # 15 A 4 6:30pm School Board Meeting A 2 Wednesday, Oct 8 8:30am Mass Church 3:45pm Volleyball Practice Gym 5:30pm Paulites A 4 6:00pm Rainbows 1st flr School & S.H. 6:30pm Paulites’ Executive Board Mtg. A 2
Pray for the Sick Please remember the following people in your prayers who are seriously ill
or who are suffering from long-term illnesses: Erin Bartel Gerri Bertino Mason Briese Laura Criel Jean Fabich Judith Gahala Harn Family Susan Gentile Matt Gross
James Hatfield Sami Henderson James Hickey, Jr. Ann Juhlmann Ann Kane Mary Kaplan Terri King Helen Locher Mary Maloney
John Matejcak Shirley Max Terry Meyer John Mowbray Jeanie Nunuue Kurt Palmer Kay Prock Amy Remallard Lisa Savero
Richard Schreiner Don Senffner Tony Simone Paityn Sims Jennifer Stephen Louis Toka Salvatore Ventura
For the most current calendar information please go to www.stpauljoliet.com
NEXT WEEKEND’S LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS TIME READERS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS
Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 4:30 PM A Kokosz/A Devine J Pultorak/RLemke/ J Anzalone K Anzalone/ K Roolf/ J Cassani/ L Jenco Sunday, Oct. 12, 2014 7:30 AM E Dollinger/ C Hinkleman L Deiss/ K Briick/ L Briick J Peceniak/ G Dollinger 9:00 AM D Skorupa/D Gross E Cora/ M Kucek/ L Laux/ Kaitlyn Sawyer A Theobald/ F Theobald/ D Bailey 10:30 AM N Louck/ L Hoffman B Bodach/ P Bodach/ L Freund/ S Hobbs M L Crossen/ T Jordan/ S Graham
Next Weekend’s Servers: Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 4:30 PM A Ardough/ Jenna Bolek/ G Hardin Sunday, Oct. 12,, 2014 7:30 AM H Bebar/ N Brozyna/ D Tubongbanua 9:00 AM N Bartelt/ M Cullen/ K Krall 10:30AM C Castillo/ S Horn/ J Scherf
VOCATIONS
COLLEGE SEMINARY VISITS - The Vocation Office will be sponsoring a trip for all men who are 16 years of age and older to St. John Vian-ney College Seminary in St. Paul, MN. There is no cost for this trip. These are great opportunities to visit the seminaries, meet seminarians and see seminary life first-hand. We will be leaving Thursday morning November 13 at 9am and return about 5pm on Saturday, November 15.
Please RSVP to Fr. Burke at ((815 221-6171) or [email protected] by November 6th if you are interested. Each participant will need to fill out a permission form and waiver.
Dear Parishioners, On Sunday, November 9th, Very Rev. Michael Lane, who served here at St. Paul the Apostle, Joliet from 1974—1978, will celebrate his Fortieth Jubilee of Ordination. Fr. Lane extends to you a most heartfelt invitation to join him and his family in a Mass of Thanksgiving. Sunday, Nov9th at 2:00pm St. Jude Catholic Church 2212 McDonough Street Joliet, Illinois A reception will follow the liturgy from 1:00pm until 4:00pm at St. Jude Catholic School. Please R.S.V.P. to 815-725-2209 or [email protected] by Wed, Oct 22nd, if you plan to attend.
2014 Public Square Rosary
Join Us as We Commemorate the 97th Anniversary
of the Fatima Apparition
When: Saturday, October 11, 2014 at Noon Where: Essington Road at Black Road (in front of Fred C. Dames Funeral Home on the public sidewalk)
Come pray with us to Our Lady of Fatima to return America and the world to moral values and peace.
WHO WILL FILL THESE SHOES?
Fr. Victor Ivers was celebrating Mass one Sunday in 2007 at St. Joseph Parish in Libertyville. It was his final mass before retiring after more than sixty years as a priest of the Archdio-cese of Chicago. The church was packed because Fr. Ivers was well-loved. Something odd happened as Fr. Ivers was processing out of Mass. A strange look came across his face. He stopped about halfway down the center aisle and returned to the altar. He bent over, took off his shoes, laid his shoes at the foot of the altar, turned to the assembly and asked the stunned congregation a very simple question, “Who will fill these shoes?” He then walked out of the church (in his socks!). It really is a simple question, “Who will fill these shoes?” More importantly, it’s a shocking image, the image of empty shoes, a priest’s shoes, laying there by the altar. It is a sharp reminder to all of us that without priests there will be no Eucharist.
