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Our mission is to love God and neighbor by prayerfully celebrating the Sacraments, generously serving others, and intentionally engaging in lifelong faith formation.
a special Welcome
parishioner, a visitor, a Catholic returning to
the Church or someone seeking faith, we hope you find your time among us inviting and welcoming. Please feel free to ask anyone
for assistance.
St. Monica Parish Office Parish Office/STME Ministry Center: (414) 332-1576 5681 N Santa Monica Blvd. Whitefish Bay WI 53217 Hours: Monday—Friday 8:30am—4:00pm
Website: st-monica.org smoffice@stme.church
St. Monica School 5635 N Santa Monica Blvd. Whitefish Bay WI 53217 School Hours: 8:00am-4:00pm Website: StMonica.school (414) 332-3660
Jordan Last School Principal (414) 420-6200 jlast@stmonica.school
Amy Hawley School Administrative Assistant ahawley@stmonica.school
For a pastoral or sacramental emergency, call the parish office at (414) 332-1576 and dial 9.
Pastoral Staff Fr. Paul Hartmann Pastor (414) 332-1576 frpaul@stme.church
Fr. Jordan Berghouse Associate Pastor (414) 420-6160 frjordan@stme.church
David Bonofiglio Director of Music & Liturgy (414) 420-6161 dbonofiglio@stme.church
Sue Devine Director of Administrative Services (414) 420-6162 sdevine@stme.church
Anne Rice Director of Stewardship & Communication (414) 420-6166 arice@stme.church
Meaghan Turner Director of Adult & Youth Ministries (414) 420-6167 mturner@stme.church
Thaddeus Loduha Associate Director for Youth Ministry (414) 420-6165 tloduha@stme.church
Jeanette Lambrecht Director of Child Ministry (414) 420-6164 jlambrecht@stme.church
Parish Trustees John Schreiber johnschreiber@att.net
Juliet Kersten juliet.kersten@gmail.com
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SUN 10/24
TUE 10/26 7:30am Fr. Paul Hartmann Mass at St. Eugene
WED 10/27 8:30am Fr. Paul Hartmann † Genevieve Harris
THU 10/28 7:30am Fr. Jordan Berghouse † Deceased Members of Richard Rozek Family
FRI 10/29 8:00am Fr. Jordan Berghouse † Donald Hirsch
SAT 10/30
Reconciliation: Saturdays at 8:30am or by appointment
5:00pm Fr. Paul Hartmann † Rosemary Van Lieschout
SUN 10/31
10:15am Parishioners of St. Monica
The prayers and sympathies of our parish community are with the family of Barbara Corcoran. May her soul and the souls of all the
faithfully departed through the mercy of God rest in peace. Amen.
THIS WEEK October 24th—31st
SUN 24
3:00pm Rosary STME Ministry Center Shrine Outside
MON 25
THU 28
8:00am- 8:00pm
FRI 29
3:00pm Rosary STME Ministry Center Shrine Outside
Wedding Banns: III Colleen Cannon & Dele Adedapo
We welcome Joseph Michael Kinateder & Isabelle Josepha Gleischmann to the Church as they celebrate the sacrament of
baptism. May the seeds of faith grow always stronger in their hearts and may our prayers support their parents & godparents in their
responsibility of raising them in the Catholic faith.
SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF October 24th, 2021
Sunday: Jer 31:7-9/Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 [3]/Heb 5:1-6/ Mk 10:46-52 • Monday: Rom 8:12-17/Ps 68:2 and 4, 6- 7ab, 20-21 [21a]/Lk 13:10-17 • Tuesday: Rom 8:18-25/Ps 126:1b-2ab, 2cd-3, 4-5, 6 [3a]/Lk 13:18-21 • Wednesday: Rom 8:26-30/Ps 13:4-5, 6 [6a]/Lk 13:22-30 • Thursday: Eph 2:19-22/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [5a]/Lk 6:12-16 • Friday: Rom 9:1-5/Ps 147:12-13, 14-15, 19-20/Lk 14:1-6 • Saturday: Rom 11:1-2a, 11-12, 25-29/Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 17-18 [14a]/Lk 14:1, 7-11 • Next Sunday: Dt 6:2-6/Ps 18:2-3, 3- 4, 47, 51 [2]/Heb 7:23-28/Mk 12:28b-34
Our next two Bulletin Deadlines: October 27th for the November 7th Bulletin
November 3rd for the November 14th Bulletin To submit a request, visit the website
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CUB SCOUT MEETING
All boys in grades 1-5 are invited, with their parents, to
attend the monthly Cub Scout Pack meeting. This month's
meeting will be held in Donovan Hall on October 25th
from 7:00-8:00pm. This month, we will be decorating
pumpkins and playing Halloween-themed games. Please email
allanklotsche@gmail.com with any questions.
St. Eugene 7:00pm
St. Monica 5:30pm
PASTOR’S CORNER
Friends,
In preparation for this column, I did an internet search for “most popular children’s Halloween costumes Among the many lists I found were plenty of superheroes and Disney characters; a good number of the classics (nurse, firefighter, etc.,) which
are now grouped as “first responders”; and some of the old stand-bys (soldier, cowboy, and yes, the ever-easy white sheet for a ghost). With all but the last, I am not seeing the concern raised often in recent years that celebrating Halloween is merely a veiled plot to lure our kids into devil-worship and the occult. Even with a Casper the Friendly Ghost costume, I am not seeing these as the last step before needing to call in an exorcist.
Please don’t get me wrong. I do believe that there are many things in our world which try to subtly convince us that the works of the devil and the presence of evil are merely superstitious tropes of ages past. But a child dressing up like Captain America or a doctor, might not be the way that Lucifer is working today.
We also need to understand the origins, history, and purpose of celebrating All Hallows Eve (aka Hallowe’en) as the vigil to our celebrations of All Saints and All Souls Days. University professor and Dominican priest, Fr. Augustine Thompson, once opened a column on the subject clearly stating that. “Halloween’s origins are, in fact, very Christian. Halloween falls on October 31 because of a Pope, and its observances are the result of medieval Catholic piety.”
With All Saints Day being the celebration of all the souls already in heaven, and All Souls Day being a remembrance of all those in purgatory, Fr. Thompson tells us that the Irish in particular were inclined to remember and pity the souls which may have been damned to hell. “After all, if the souls in hell are left out when we celebrate those in heaven and purgatory, they might be unhappy enough to cause trouble. So it became customary to bang pots and pans on All Hallows Eve to let the damned know they were not forgotten.”
In the Middle Ages, Catholic faithful would visit churches and shrines to honor the saints, and then go to cemeteries and mausoleums to remember the souls in purgatory. Many would honor saints, heroes, and ancestors by wearing the garb of their lives and their times in history. Even the giving of treats is traced back to begging at the doors to churches or gates to cemeteries, or even going home to home, asking for a small bit of food in exchange for a promise to pray for the deceased loved ones of the givers.
It is in the melting pot of America that, like other holidays and Holy Days, the traditions of varied cultures and ethnic groups have been blended together into much of what we do now for Halloween and the holy days which follow. Most of this is fine for celebration by the children. But all should give equal consideration to honoring and celebrating all the faithful souls who have gone before us and praying for the souls in purgatory or hell.
The last thing to mention in our considerations of All Hallows Eve, All Saints, and All Souls Days, is that we should all take seriously these reminders of mortality. There is a Latin phrase “memento mori” which means “remember your death.” We don’t do this to be morbid or to allow fear to well up within us. Rather, we remember the fact of our impending death so that we might properly live and make the most of the lifetime we have and to increase our attentive trust that Christ’s Resurrection was for all of us a victory over death.
So, let the children celebrate Halloween, and then let the family celebrate All Saints Day (a Holy Day of Obligation) and All Souls Day.
Blessings to all.
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what God wants us to be.”
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The students and staff of St. Monica School would like to acknowledge and
honor all active and retired veterans for their service to our country at our school
mass on Wednesday, November 10, 2021. If there is a veteran in your life
(relative, friend, neighbor) that we could recognize verbally at our Veterans’
mass, please send their name to Anne Swoboda at aswoboda@stmonica.school by Monday, November 8th. If you did so last year, there is no need to resubmit;
we will include those names. While they cannot be with us in person due to COVID restrictions, we would be honored to acknowledge them.
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