Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church
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Holy Childhood of Jesus Catholic Church
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March 2, 2008
FATHER'S TWO-CENTS WORTH
I just want to tell you about our Soup Supper's speakers. The past two times, with Msgr. Carl Scherrer and Fr. Elmar Mauer have been tremendous. You are really missing a great evening when you do not attend. There were about 65 persons who attended this past week to learn about the “Resurrection”. Fr. filled out his talk with a mixture of personal experiences, jokes, and puns, which made it very educational and entertaining. Monday, March 3rd, will be the last of our special speakers, and will feature Msgr. Bill Hitpas, who helped us with Sunday Mass, here at Holy Childhood, from l974 to l982. I am sure all of us will be truly enlightened and entertained by his talk. Please come and help yourself. The meal begins at 6:30 P.M., and the talk at 7:00 P.M. in the parish center.
I also wish to thank all those who have been coming to Lenten Mass on Wednesday and the Stations of the Cross on Friday evenings. It is consoling to see so many families and individuals making the extra effort to grow in Christ and to pray extra. God bless all of you who are making good use of this Lenten Season. Mass on Wednesday is at 8:00 A.M. in the morning (school Mass), and 5:30 P.M. in the evening. Stations are at 5:30 P.M. on Friday evenings. The time was chosen so that people come home from work and go straight to Lenten Service, and then have the evening free. Try it!
Monday, we have a Confirmation Retreat for our students who will be confirmed this year. Confirmation will be May 2nd. The retreat is MANDATORY for those who wish to be confirmed. It will be held in the parish center, and is conducted by a team who specializes in these retreats from St. Louis. Parents, make sure your child attends.
Thursday is our March Red Cross Blood Drive for the Mascoutah Community. It begins at 2 P.M. and continues to 7 P.M. If you can give blood, please come because someone is depending on your gift of blood to live. It is almost like donating an organ to a person who needs one. Much simpler, less painful, and you can do it many, many times! Even if you have high blood pressure, or diabetes, you can give blood if you are not on blood-thinners. We will have pizzas from PIZZA HUT in the food department, along with the other assortments of home baked cookies, pretzels, raisins, and juice. Babysitting will be available at school also. The “Make-Up” drive is Saturday, March 15, from 9-2.
I continue to ask your prayers for all of the sick, and for all of our doctors and healthcare workers who take care of the sick. I often have people asking me to pray for them, or for their surgery, for good results and a speedy recovery. I ask them if they ever pray for their doctors who are taking care of them. Why not? We really depend on their wisdom, skills & diagnosis to prescribe the right remedies and procedures, do we not? They all need our prayers, like the human body needs all of its parts to work together. By the way, say a prayer for me that my right eye, which has been a problem, gets better. Pray for my doctor in this regard also.
Don’t forget your help (pledge) to the Catholic Ministry and Services Appeal! Be a part of this life and soul saving program in our Diocese. Are you one of the 253 donors needed from our parish? This is continuation of the heritage we have received.
Please pray for all of the sick, and for their doctors and health care persons who work to bring them back to health. Pray for those who have been hurt by violence and war. Pray for peace, and the justice that is necessary to bring peace and healing and forgiveness. We may not have been touched so far. That is no assurance that it cannot happen to us. Do unto others as you have them do for you!
Announcement for Parents Monday, March 3rd, the Confirmation class is having their retreat. Pray for them that the Holy Spirit guides them to a fulfilling day.
Lenten Project PSR will be collecting dry goods for the Food Pantry as a Lenten service project. The 8th grade will be heading up this project and will be responsible for collecting and assigning items to each grade. The food pantry is in need of paper towels, tooth paste & brushes, dish soap, face soap, toilet paper, lotion, shampoo, etc. PSR will be collecting these items during the six weeks of Lent. Thank you for your help.
News IN OUR PARISH
LAST CHANCE We will have the last of our Soup Supper & Speaker Series on this coming Monday, March 3rd. Our guest speaker will be Msgr. William Hitpas, pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in O'Fallon. He is well-know to many of the people in our parish and an excellent speaker. Please plan to attend and bring a friend. Soup will be served at 6:30 pm and Msgr. Hitpas will speak beginning at 7:00 pm.
HCCCW QUILTERS will be carpooling; Monday, March 3rd to the Lively Grove Quilters annual Quilting Bee and Luncheon held at the St. Anthony parish center from 9 am to 4 pm. "All you can eat" turkey dinner will be served. If you'd like to join them, meet on the east side of the parish center at 8 AM. They are hoping to have as many quilters as possible attend as two Lively Grove women have been faithful in helping HCCCW quilters as often as they can. More information call Ruth Wilhelm 566-2885.
ATTENTION ALTAR SERVERS There will be a training session for the Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil services. The training will be held at 10:00 am on Holy Thursday, March 20th. If you are not able to attend the training please call Mrs. Schneider at 566-2871 or Mr. Grawitch at 566-4319. Training session will take approximately one hour.
Calling all men! The 2008 Catholic Men for Christ conference for the Archdiocese of St. Louis will take place on Saturday, March 15th and will feature dynamic speakers, including Richard Lane and Deacon Alex Jones. The church has chartered a bus to go to and from the conference. The conference is open to all men high school aged and older, and if fathers bring their sons, the sons get in free! Approximately 35 men from the parish have registered so far and we have room for about 20 more. Our next registration deadline is March 9th. Please contact Bill Huff, 566-4357, George Harne, 566-9362, or Tom Norrenberns, 566-8531. For more details, you can also visit www.catholicmenforchrist.com.
CFL MEETING A meeting of the Catholic Fraternal Life Council 24 members will be held Monday, March 3rd at 7:30 PM in the Holy Childhood School cafeteria.
EASTER FLOWER MEMORIALS Now is the time to send in your request for Easter Flower memorials for your deceased loved ones. For $10 you can list one or two individual names or one or two family names. The Holy Childhood Council of Catholic Women (HCCCW) is sponsoring this program. The money is used for the purchasing of the Easter flowers and any other items needed for the altar. For your convenience, there is an Easter Flower envelope (dated March 2) in your church envelopes or use a white envelope and address it to HCCCW Easter Flowers. Make sure you list who the memorial is for and the donor's name on the envelope. Please make checks payable to HCCCW. Donations are needed by March 19th, to insure your loved one's names are included on the list displayed at all entrances to the church. For more information contact Pat Bowker 566-7089.
HCCCW Norbert Zinck, a Holy Childhood graduate, will speak at the HCCCW meeting on March 11th at 7:00 PM. He has some interesting tales of his travels since his school days.
HC BOOK CLUB For a great Lenten read join us on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:00 in the parish center as we discuss The Day Christ Died by Jim Bishop. It's an inspiring classic on the last 24 hours of Jesus' life. It opens at 6 pm--the beginning of the Hebrew day--with Jesus and 10 apostles enroute to Jerusalem and the Last Supper. It closes at 4 pm of the following afternoon, when Jesus was taken down from the cross. Several copies are available through the library system; if you would like one contact Susan Anderson at 746-4775. AN INVITATION TO PRAYER Recently, a number of families in the parish have been getting together to pray the rosary. This usually takes about twenty minutes and then we have some snacks while the children play. It's been good for the children as well as the adults. We would love to have more families join us. (We have "cheat sheets" with the prayers and can share some of our extra rosaries.) To find out more about where we will be meeting next and when, email Tiffany Wright at tiff_wright75@yahoo.com. ATTENTION FRESHMEN & SOPHOMORES coming up March 8-9, there will be a Quest experience held at St. Dominic parish in Breese, IL. For more information/application contact Ron Hulliung or Kathy Renth.
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION "Could you not then watch one hour with me?"
"The Eucharist is one of the most tangible ways God is present in our world today. If confusion or loneliness weights too heavily on our hearts, if we struggle with meaninglessness, if we long to step off life's frantic treadmill and slow down to ponder the direction of our lives - Jesus invites us, "Come to Me."
The blessed Sacrament is exposed every Tuesday following the 8 o'clock Mass until 7 PM and on Saturdays from 9-10 AM. Come spend any amount of time you can give with our Lord as He waits patiently for us.
If you have questions, please call Mary Ellen Mueller 566-9529
Mass Intentions
Tuesday, March 4, 8:00 AM Marie Rolves
Wednesday, March 5, 8:00 AM Norbert Friederich 5:30 PM People of the parish
Thursday, March 6, 8:00 AM In Thanksgiving the Mueller Family
Friday, March 7, 8:00 AM Debi Kulish
Saturday, March 8, 5:30 PM Special Intention
Sunday, March 9, 8:00 AM People of the parish 10:30 AM Nancy Ebberts
TITHE FOR February 24, 2008
THIS COMING WEEK
MONDAY, March 3, 8:30 AM-3:00 PM Confirmation Retreat-pc 2:30 PM-Mass for Confirmation Retreat 6:30 PM Soup & Speaker Series-pc 7:30 PM Athletics Committee Mtg.-hcs
Tuesday, March 4, 8:00 AM Mass followed by Adoration until 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Quilting & 6:00 PM Quilting 1:30 PM SVDP mtg.-pc 6:30 PM HOPE mtg.-hcs
Wednesday, March 5, 8:00 AM Mass 5:30 PM Mass 7:30 PM Choir practice
THURSDAY, March 6, 8:00 AM Mass 9:00 AM Quilting 2-7 PM Blood Drive-hcs cafeteria
FRIDAY, March 7, 8:00 AM Mass 5:30 PM Stations of the cross
SATURDAY, March 8, 9:00 AM Adoration 2-7 PM Eucharistic Miracles Display-pc 4:30 PM Confessions 5:30 PM Mass
SUNDAY, March 9, 8:00 &10:30 AM Masses 8 AM-1 PM-Eucharistic Miracles Display-pc 9:00 AM PSR-hcs 9:15 AM PSR Penance Service
HOLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL
WEB SITE:
holychildhoodschool.com
Wayne Miller/Mary Hirl Scholarship 2008
Monies have been donated to Holy Childhood School in memory of Wayne Miller and Mary Hirl. The funds have been combined and invested in the Catholic Community Foundation with the Diocese of Belleville (approximately $12,000 at this time). Interest earned on the account will be used to provide two scholarships. One scholarship will be given to a family who has a child in K-4 and one scholarship to another family who has a child in 5-8. The scholarships will be awarded based on need.
Guidelines: the amount of monies awarded for the scholarships will be determined by the amount of interest earned and the decision by the School Board. Part or all of the interest may be awarded. Any amount not awarded will be invested back into the corpus of the scholarship fund.
The students who receive the scholarships will be determined by the information provided by TASS and the application for scholarship funds. The determination of the recipients will be done by the tuition committee. Only the recipients, scholarship committee and school board will know who receives the awards. Only one award will be granted to a family each year.
Any family who pays less in tuition than the award amount will be ineligible for the award. Forms will be given out to all those who complete a TASS application.
The first award will be two - $200 awards for the 2008-2009 school year. This will be the first year of the award. It will be a yearly award. Donations will be accepted to the fund so that the interest earned can increase each year. For further information please contact the school office at 566-2922.
Announcing Holy Childhood's Pre-school! Our 1/2 day preschool will be offered to 4 year olds on Monday, Wednesday and Fridays and 3 year olds on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Holy Childhood parishioner, Mrs. Judy Schneider, will be the director. (We will be accepting applications for aides February 11th.) The funding for our preschool comes from the Dinner Auction, Annual Fund Drive and our Before and After Care program. Open House will be March 11th at 7 PM. Mark your calendars!
MARCH CALENDAR
March 6 7:00 pm Blood Drive take down-HELP! March 12 7-8:30 pm Meeting March 15 7:30 am Set-up for Make-up Blood Drive 2:00 pm Take down March 20 7:30 pm Mass followed by Egg Hunt and prayer service at Jamie Norrenberns' house. Bring flashlights. March 21 11:45 am Living Stations -- Meet at St. John's UCC March 23 Happy Easter! March 26 7-8:30 pm Meeting March 28 6:00 pm Meet at HCS for DYC. March 30 5:00 pm Return from DYC
ATTENTION FRESHMEN AND SOPHOMORES Coming up March 8th & 9th there will be a Quest experience held at St. Dominic parish in Breese, IL. For more information/application contact Ron Hulliung or Kathy Renth.
YOU'RE INVITED to join the Most Reverend Edward K. Braxton as he celebrates a special Mass for his Mother Dear on her 88th birthday Tuesday, March 11th at 10:30 a.m., Cathedral of St. Peter (The Blessed Sacrament Chapel). All are welcome.
St. Elizabeth's Hospital announces the addition of a Behavioral Healthcare Evaluation Center to its many services available to the community. The office is located on the main floor of the hospital in room 2300 and is open from 1-9 PM Monday through Friday. Anyone suffering from depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide, alcohol or drugs can be evaluated by a counselor at the Center. To schedule a free evaluation call 618-234-2120 ext. 1555. This line is answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week. All calls are confidential.
TRIVIA NIGHT, Saturday, March 8th. St. Ann parish center; 675 S. Mill St.; Nashville, IL. Doors open at 6:30 pm and game begins at 7:00 pm. Teams of 4 to 8 players per table. $10 per person. Cash prizes for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place. Best decorated table contest. RSVP by March 2nd and be entered in early bird drawing. Contact Lynn 327-9767, Kim 327-9161 or Kathy 327-9187. All proceeds to support 2008 VBS.
ALL YOU CAN EAT BREAKFAST BUFFET at Corpus Christi parish, Shiloh, IL, on Sunday, March 9th from 8-11 AM in the parish center. Featuring bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes, French toast sticks, biscuits & gravy, fried potatoes, fruit, pastry & drinks. Cost is $6 per adult, $2.50 per child 6-12, and under 6 free.
"An Irish Aire" Concert & Celebration featuring the World Champion St. Louis Irish Arts at Corpus Christi Catholic Church, Shiloh, IL. Sunday March 9th at 7 PM. $10 admission includes refreshments and entertainment. Seating is limited. Reservations available by calling 632-7614.
Spring Quilt & Cash Bingo at St. John the Baptist church, Smithton, IL. in the Munier parish center on Sunday, March 9th at 1 PM. Roast pork, dressing, gravy, green beans, applesauce dinner (includes tea or coffee). Served from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm. Desserts also available.
GOLDEN EGG RAFFLE St. Dominic church is having a Golden Egg Raffle with a grand prize of $20,000!!!!! Second prize is $5,000! And there will be 2 consolation prizes of $500 each. Only 2,000 tickets will be sold for $50 each. Drawing will be held on Easter Sunday, March 23, 2008. To get your name entered in the raffle, send your name, address, and phone number along with $50 to St. Dominic Church, 493 North Second St., Breese, IL 62230. For more information, call St. Dominic parish office at 526-7746.
World Marriage Day Jesus came into the world so that we could see the truth and not be blind. Sometimes we are blinded in our marriage by the cares of the modern world. The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend in this area is April 11th to 13th. To register or for more information call 888-889-9963 or go online to www.aweekendofdiscovery.org.
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