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CORCORAN’S CORNER Ash Wednesday… Morning Masses and the distribution of Ashes on Ash Wednesday, March 6, are at 6:30 AM and 9:00 AM. Liturgical prayer services are at 12 NOON, 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM. There will be an evening Mass and Distribution of Ashes at 7:00 PM.

The Holy Season of Lent… Lent, as a holy time of the year, leads us to deepen our faith relationship with the Lord, for us to be more attentive to Him in our lives. Once again we are distributing the “Little Black Book” of Lenten reflections, which offers many opportunities to reflect in prayer on God’s presence in our lives. This Lent our parish will offer a variety of ways to focus our attention on the Lord:

Lenten Morning Prayer Monday-Friday, 8:30 AM, Church

Morning Mass Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM, Church

Lenten Evening Prayer Wednesdays at 7:00 PM, Church

Lenten Stations of the Cross Fridays, 7:00 PM, Stations Chapel (Church)

Through our use of the Catholic Relief Services “Rice Bowl” coin banks distributed by our Social Action Ministry, and our Knights of Columbus sponsored Lenten Canned Food Drive (held on the second, fourth, and sixth weekends of Lent) to support local food pantries, we have opportunities to engage in the Lenten discipline of almsgiving, and show the Lord’s presence in our care for those in need. We seek to be people of generosity throughout Lent. Our Parish Lenten Reconciliation Service will be held on Sunday, March 31, at 7:00 PM. That assists us in turning our hearts to the Lord. Our parish Lenten Book Discussion Group led by Claudia Nolan, Director of Liturgy; our Scripture Study Group led by Fr. Bill Gubbins; the Sacred Space Prayer Group led by Sr. Liz Pardo, I.H.M.; our monthly Centering Prayer led by parishioner Marge Quinn; and new this year—a Young Adult Book Discussion group led by Kyle Groves—all offer opportunities for spiritual growth. In addition to our days of fast [Ash Wednesday and Good Friday] and abstinence [Ash Wednesday,

and all the Fridays of Lent] our Creation Care Team will offer a Lenten weekly calendar that encourages us to perform a variety of actions promoting good stewardship of the earth and encourage us to fast from waste. This year’s Lenten Parish Mission will be held from Sunday, April 7, Monday, April 8, and Tuesday, April 9, beginning at 7:00 PM. It will be led by Arthur Zannoni, a well-known theologian, speaker, author, and teacher. Our annual Mission promises to be a powerful week for us all. Holy Week begins with our liturgies on Palm Sunday weekend, April 13 and 14, and our annual treat of the Palm Sunday Concert/Cantata which will be held at 3:00 PM, and features our Teen and Adult Choirs, Lectors, Liturgical Dancers, and the Seton Symphony Orchestra. This musical gift to the community helps us move our hearts and spirits into the depths of Holy Week. The arts have a way of touching our souls sometimes even more effectively than our own mind’s thoughts do. The liturgies of Holy Week: the Commemoration of the Lord’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday, April 18, at 7:00 PM, the Walk with the Cross through Orland Hills at 1:30 PM, the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion at 3:00 PM, and the Living Stations led by out teen group, Branches, at 7:00 PM, all make for a prayer-filled Good Friday, on April 19. On Holy Saturday, April 20, the Easter Basket Blessings will take place at 12 Noon—sharp, and our Easter Vigil at 7:30 PM, lead us to the celebrations of Easter Sunday, April 21, with Masses at 7:15, 8:30, 10:00, and 11:30 AM. We celebrate the Holy Season of Lent with our hearts and spirits opened to the Lord’s saving grace. Our St. Patrick/St. Joseph Party… We continue to sell tickets in the Narthex after all Masses this weekend for our St. Patrick/St. Joseph Party to be held on Saturday, March 16 in our McBrady Center. Tickets are $30 per person for dinner and entertainment. Beer and wine tickets can be purchased for $2; water/pop tickets for $1. Start getting your tables together now as in the past these tickets have sold out fast. You can also call Anna Talley at 708-532-6731, to buy tickets and/or reserve a table. We plan on having “Mass Time” tables (a table for people who attend specific Mass times), as well as tables for Religious Education parents and Cardinal Joseph Bernardin School parents.

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Sat., Mar. 2 (5pm) Margaret Kapala; John Mirecki, Sr. Sun., Mar. 3 (7:15am) For All Parishioners; Lovie and Curt McGlashan (8:30am) Jozef Haber; Norm and Dee Gasior (10 am) Stanley Opalacz; Edward Sroka (11:30am) Dominic Russo; Margaret Lavery Mon., Mar. 4 (9am) Nora and William Corcoran; Kurt Weber Tues., Mar. 5 (9 am) Antonietta Roti; Michael Kelliher Wednesday, Mar. 6 (9am) NO INTENTIONS Thurs., Mar. 7 (9 am) Ann Pesavento; Evelyn Pavilionis Fri., Mar. 8 (9am) Ann Pesavento; The Purgatorial Society Sat., Mar. 9 (5pm) Eagney Family; Cathy (Cookie) Werner Sun., Mar. 10 (7:15am) Frank A. Hannigan; John Kot (8:30am) Margaret Kapala; For All Parishioners (10 am) Grace E. Beissel; Joseph Herman (11:30am) Michael Powell; The Purgatorial Society

We remember the sick, infirm, and those recommended to our prayers, that they may experience the healing power of Christ:

Pat Brooks Sharon Leone Kevin Fonte Donald Roberts Kay Carpenter Kathy Kurtzwell Josephina Wenko Jonathan Janda Kathy Hall Rita Martin Elizabeth Jimenez Cathy Baumann And for our deceased: Thomas Brownley Nay Salas Dionesio Diolazo Jack Karli “Heavenly Father, accept the prayers which we offer for them.”

STEWARDSHIP

COLLECTION FOR 2-24-19: $18,851.37

KIDS COLLECTION: $47.28

Thank you for your generosity.

Congratulations to these parents on the baptism of their child on Sunday, Feb. 17, 2019: Faith Ann, child of Brad and Dana (Small) Filipek Sonya Skye, child of James and Stephanie (Gannon) Grant

BAPTISMS

PLEASE PRAY FOR

Please pray for Jenna Witek and Nicholas Weidenaar as they prepare for the Sacrament of Matrimony on March 30, 2019.

WEDDINGS

MASS INTENTIONS

James and Florence Wilkins

WELCOME

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Catholic School… Recently, Ms. Mary Iannucilli, our long-time Cardinal Joseph Bernardin School principal, announced that she was retiring after generously and ably leading the school for 11 years. Her dedication to our students and their families, her pursuit of academic excellence, and her great leadership led our U.S. Department of Education Blue Ribbon School for Academic Excellence to thrive. Please pray for our regional school commu-nity during this time of transition, and ask the Lord to bless our school with continued good leadership as we search for a new principal.

Looking Ahead… Our Seniors of Seton will meet on Tuesday, March 5, at 10:00 AM, in the McBrady Center.

Our Men’s Club will meet on Wednesday, March 13, at 7:00 PM, in the McBrady Center.

Our Women’s Club will meet on Tuesday, March 19, at 7:00 PM, in the McBrady Center.

Our Parish Finance Council will meet on Tuesday, March 19, at 7:30 PM, in the Parish Office Conference Room.

Our Parish Pastoral Council will meet on Thursday, March 21, at 7:00 PM, in the Great Room.

Gone Fishing… I left on February 18th for Florida, and will return late this Sunday, March 3, rested and ready for Lent. As always, the only fish I hope to catch will be on a plate.

Keep Smiling,

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F ather Dan Berrigan was once asked: “What do you want written on your tomb-

stone?” The answer was vintage Berrigan: “May he never rest in peace!” While I have my own repu-tation for dissatisfaction, disquiet and questionable quest, my hope is for just the opposite on my grave-stone. Quest and dissatisfaction may never be an end. More than anything else, I hope one day to rest in peace. But Berrigan is onto something. There is a time for resting in peace, but that time is not yet, for any of us. Each age, it would seem, has its own strengths and weak-nesses. The ‘60s and’70s were a restless, violent time. People were dissatisfied and said so. This was true in the Church and in the world as a whole. Everywhere we looked we saw unrest. There was dissatis-faction a plenty, more than we could handle. There were sufficient mis-takes made, some precious things were wasted, lots of persons got hurt and much immaturity was able to justify itself behind a sense of flowing with the spirit of the times or being dedicated to a cause. But we were unable to be at peace. Today there is, certainly in the Church at least, more stability. That part is only partially good. We stand in a real danger of misread-ing the signs of the times. This is our temptation: we look back at the ‘60s and ‘70s and conclude that, for all the tur-moil and unrest, they were worth it, a necessary time of transition. The criticalness, the radicalness, the lack of peace, were necessary then. Now, it is believed, they are not as necessary. Now is a time to solidify, to be satisfied, to shore things up, canonically, liturgically, ecclesially, in-stitutionally, interpersonally. The dissatisfied time is over. The shoring up is steadily taking place. That outlook is beginning to pervade in the Church and you need to apologize now if what you say or write isn’t bubbling over with everything that is positive. I offer just a tiny example, it is the one which prompts this article. I have been writing this column for a year. Dur-ing this time I have received numerous letters, both from folks I know and from folks I don’t know; good folks, all of them. Many of them chide me and plead with me. Invaria-bly the bottom line is the same: Please write positive stuff. Please, don’t join the crowd who are always tearing things apart. I am partially in sympathy. There is too much nega-tivity around. We who preach, who write, who upset, too

often use causes, however valid, to vent our personal frustrations when we should be engaged in a much humbler and more difficult process called growing up. Moreover, all of us bear the scars of two decades of criticism. We are tired, justifiably so. More and more, at least so I gather, people are simply fed up with omni-present negativity. There is a real hunger again for what builds up. But my sympathy stops after that. There are other motives, less acceptable ones, operative in our impatience with criticism; namely, we are growing, again, as a Church community, easeful, apathetic, self-ish, inturned, narrow, insensitive and full of degenerative spiritual fat. In a word, we are growing ever more adept at resting in peace while oth-ers bleed. The wounds of others, injustice, degradation, interpersonal disharmony is old news and, as Ronald Reagan once put it, “it dis-turbs my breakfast very little!” We are growing skillful and easeful at being unreconciled. This callous-ness is true in our outlook on the world and in our personal relation-

ships. Regarding the latter, our lives are full of separa-tions, divorces, splintered friendships, betrayed relation-ships and psychological skeletons and we grow daily in an ease that shrugs and says:“C’est la vie. It’s sad, but noth-ing’s to be done!” The hurts, losses, divisions begin to dis-turb our breakfasts less and less.

M ay we never rest in peace; certainly not in that type of contentment. May we never be allowed to worship comfortably and exchange a false bol-

stering support with each other at undisturbed breakfasts, at ease, while a feckless fusion of insensitivity, selfishness and distraction, dulls our perception, dulls the truth and lets us live falsely insulated from the wounds of the heart and the world. The type of contentment we are entitled to must be based on a wider foundation and must be post-poned until later in the kingdom.

At present, we need constantly to have our false foundations shaken. In the shaking of

foundations comes the possibility of new building.

Now is the time for unrest, for work, for the tears and unease that open us to reconciliation, redemption, and a wider and more just community. I hope this disturbs you. We are entitled to peace, but not yet!

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Disturbing One’s Breakfast By Reverend Ronald Rolheiser

“As the test of what the potter molds is in the furnace, so in tribulation

is the test of the just.”

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“JESUS OF THE GOSPELS”

Teacher—Storyteller Friend—Messiah

“TELL ME YOUR STORY”

The Parables of Jesus

LENTEN BOOK DISCUSSION —TWO BOOKS—

“Jesus of the Gospels”

Mar. 4 Chapter 5 Jesus the Storyteller

Mar. 11 Chapter 6 At the Table of the Lord

Mar. 18 Chapter 7

The Death of the Anointed

One of God

Mar. 25 Chapter 8 He Has Risen as He Said

Apr. 1 Chapter 9 The Call to Discipleship

Apr. 8 Afterword

“Tell Me Your Story”

Mar. 4 Chapter 5 Luke’s Parables of the Kingdom

Mar. 11 Chapter 6 Parables about God’s Love

& Forgiveness

Mar. 18 Chapter 7 Parables of Poverty

& Riches

Mar. 25 Chapter 8 Parables about Praying

Apr. 1 Chapter 9

Table Fellowship & Compassion

Apr. 8 Chapter 10 Parables about Discipleship

Join us Mondays, beginning February 11

10:00 am in the Gubbins Center

— SCAM ALERT — FROM FATHER BILL CORCORAN

It has come to my attention that some crook has set up a false e-mail account in my name, asking you to respond. If you respond, they subsequently ask you to buy and mail gift cards to a family in need. This is a fraud. It has happened to another pastor in a neighboring parish as well. I have no idea how they got your e-mail address as my own e-mail lists have not been hacked. A word to the wise.

CARDINAL JOSEPH BERNARDIN SCHOOL JOB OPENING

The Cardinal Bernardin “SCRIP” team has a position available. The job consists of filling SCRIP orders, selling SCRIP, and keeping accurate inventory of SCRIP cards. (SCRIP cards are, essentially, “gift cards.”) Skills include working with the public, as well as creating spreadsheets and word documents. General bookkeeping skills are a plus. Applicants should be able to work 6-8 hours per week including one evening (alternate weeks). The major-ity of the work is done in the Cardinal Bernardin School office. During the pre-Christmas weeks, the team sells SCRIP at neighboring parishes. If interested, please con-tact Corinna Pytel at 708-478-0710.

NEW DAY AND TIME! You are invited to join in an hour of quiet time and learn about Centering Prayer!

Centering Prayer Monday, March 11, 1pm

Father Bill Gubbins Center for Faith Formation

The Centering Prayer Group has changed its meeting day and time to the second MONDAY of each month at 1pm in the Gubbins Center for Faith Formation located on the corner of 167th St. and 94th Ave. Questions? Call Marge Quinn at 708-460-5357.

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Lenten Young Adult Book Discussion

(For ages 18-35)

“Arguing Religion” Author Rev. Robert Barron

March 13-April 10 Consecutive Wednesday nights

8:30pm in the Great Room (Enter through the CJB School entrance)

$10 You must RSVP for your own copy

“Every day, millions of people fight about religion. Whether with friends, family, or on social media, we expend lots of energy, lots of sharp words, and lots of strong feelings. But very few know how to have a good religious argument a rational, respectful, and productive exchange of differing views.” “Bishop Robert Barron, one of the leading Catholic figures in the world

and among the most active on social media, has enjoyed thousands of fruitful

religious arguments. In this book based on talks delivered at Facebook and Google, he explains why religion at its best opens up the searching mind, and how we, all believers and unbelievers alike, can share better discussions about God.”

Please RSVP to Kyle Groves, Youth & Young Adult Minister 708-403-0101 x105 or kgroves@steseton.com

Calling All Teens in 5th Grade and older — and Adults!!! St. Elizabeth’s Youth Ministry invites you to join our 2019 Living Stations Cast

We have many roles to fill and need your help! We are beginning to prepare for the play.

We need to fill the following roles: *Speaking roles *Non-Speaking roles *Background roles

Our practices will be every Sunday in the church Narthex from 2:30pm to 3:30pm To RSVP or to collect more information, contact Kyle Groves, 708-403-0101 x105 or email at him at kgroves@steseton.com.

SAVE THE DATE—HARLAN, KENTUCKY 2019 MISSION TRIP— JUNE 23-29 $280 (includes food, housing, and transportation)

Our date for our summer mission trip is set. Our goal is to grow and bring more teens than last year. We have 30 spots open on a first come, first serve basis. After that there will be a waiting list for the trip. To register and save your spot, you must fill out the appropriate forms found on the website and pay at least $100 to reserve your spot. Email for further details: Kyle Groves, kgroves@steseton.com.

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CRS Rice Bowls are being distributed at all Masses March 2/3. Please return your donation

to the church on Palm Sunday, April 14.

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Please bring a dessert to share for our St. Joseph Sweet Table

Saturday, March 16 7:00 pm-12 Midnight

McBrady Center

$10,000 GRAND PRIZE “POT OF GOLD” RAFFLE

SECOND PRIZE: $1,000 10-$200 PRIZES 10-$100 PRIZES

Raffle: $20 each/6-$100 Available in the Parish Office

DINNER! Corned Beef, Mostaccioli, Bacon

cheddar potatoes, salad, coffee/tea

DANCING & ENTERTAINMENT! Fun, Fun, Fun! DJ and SHANNON ROVERS!

CASH BAR! No outside alcohol allowed.

1970’s prices: Beer/Wine only $2.00!

$30 per

person

Come on out for a great night of fun!

Dinner tickets sold after Masses THIS weekend, or reserve a spot by calling Anna Talley at 708-532-6731.

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Suffering from the Loss of a Loved One? Little Co. of Mary Hospital, Evergreen Park, offers two support programs for those grieving the loss of a loved one through death. For Adults: Living When A Loved One Has Died Six consecutive Wednesdays, beginning March 27, from 6-8pm. Support groups formed specific to loss. Registration is required with a one time registration fee of $25. For Children: The Heart Connection Eight consecutive Mondays, beginning March 4, from 6-7:30pm. The program is for children ages 3-21 years old who have lost a loved one. Program includes dinner free of charge for parents and children. Early registration is required with a one time $25 registration fee. For further information or registration please call the Pastoral Department, at 708-229-4929. Monday through Friday, 9am-4pm.

Bereavement Support at St. Michael For those who are grieving the loss of their loved one, the Service Ministry of St. Michael Church is offering a bereavement program, “How to Go On after a Loved One has Died,” beginning Thursday, March 7, and continuing March 14 and March 21, at 7pm, in the St. Michael Chapel, 14327 Highland Ave., Orland Park (enter through the church from the parking lot off of West Ave.). For further information, or to register, please call 708-873-4635.

A 2019 Golden Opportunities allows you to save thousands of dollars at a variety of your favorite LOCAL merchants that include: dining pleasures, Casual dining, entertainment, sports, retail, and more!

Available in the Parish Office and at monthly Seniors of Seton meetings!

PRAYER SHAWL REQUESTS If you would like to pick up a shawl for yourself or someone you know, please see the receptionist in the parish office. There are a limited number of shawls on hand. The Prayer Shawl Ministry requests that when choosing a prayer shawl, please be prepared to give the first name of the eventual shawl recipient so we can in-scribe it in our Prayer Intentions Book. There is no charge for the shawls, however, donations are gratefully accepted.

Thank you for your support.

2019 Golden Opportunities Books Now Only $10 & Good To 10-1-19!

Helpful Outreach for People seeking Employment (HOPE) Employment Ministry

NEXT MEETING: TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 7PM O’Mara Church Hall (lower level of church)

TOPIC: We will be addressing the importance of networking in the job search process and tips for networking.

The HOPE Employment Support Ministry provides job search guidance for the unemployed and those in career transition. Our monthly meetings include speakers who address various job search topics, including self- assessment, networking, resume review, interview skills. HOPE is open to the public, free of charge and we invite job seekers, employers and HOPE Alumni.

Employers and HOPE Alumni: We ask that you please share job openings with us. Send your staffing needs to Fred Zeilner at fredzeilner16@gmail.com, and they will be distributed to those who attend our monthly meetings.

VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: If you have expertise in the areas of Career Guidance, HR/Recruitment, Staffing, Applicant Tracking Systems, Resumes, Employee Networking or LinkedIn, please consider joining our team as a volunteer or as a guest speaker. Enjoy the satisfaction of providing your expertise in order to prepare job seekers for success. Contact Arnie Skibinski at askibinski@steseton.com.

B E C A U S E E V E R Y O N E C A N U S E A L I T T L E H O P E !

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Ashes will be distributed Ashes will be distributed Ashes will be distributed on Wednesday, March 6on Wednesday, March 6on Wednesday, March 6 at the following:at the following:at the following: 6:30am Mass6:30am Mass6:30am Mass 9am Mass9am Mass9am Mass Noon Prayer ServiceNoon Prayer ServiceNoon Prayer Service 3pm Prayer Service3pm Prayer Service3pm Prayer Service 4pm Prayer Service4pm Prayer Service4pm Prayer Service 7pm Mass7pm Mass7pm Mass

Your dried palms for ashes will be collected in Your dried palms for ashes will be collected in Your dried palms for ashes will be collected in baskets in the Narthex until Sunday, March 3. baskets in the Narthex until Sunday, March 3. baskets in the Narthex until Sunday, March 3.

1.Abstinence from meats is to be observed by all Catholics 14 years old/older on Ash Wednesday and on all the Fridays of Lent. 2. Fasting is to be observed on Ash Wednesday by all Catholics who are 18 years of age but not yet 59. Those who are bound by this may take only one full meal. Two smaller meals are permitted if necessary to maintain strength according to one’s needs, but eating solid foods between meals is not permitted. The special Paschal fast/abstinence are prescribed for Good Friday and encouraged for Holy Saturday.

“The season of Lent is a preparation for the celebration of Easter. The liturgy prepares the catechumens for the celebration of the Paschal mystery by the several stages of Christian Initiation; it also prepares the faithful, who recall their baptism and do penance in preparation for Easter.”

(General Norms for the Year, #27) By the threefold discipline of fasting, almsgiving and prayer the Church keeps Lent from Ash Wednesday until the evening of Holy Thursday. All of the faithful and the catechumens should undertake serious practice of these three traditions. Failure to observe penitential days totally or a substantial number of such days must be considered serious.

“On weekdays of Lent, we strongly recommend participation in daily Mass and self-imposed observances of fasting. In light of grave human needs which weigh on the Christian conscience in all seasons, we urge particularly during Lent, generosity to local, national and world programs of sharing of all things needed to translate our duty to penance into a means of implementing the right of the poor to their part of the abundance.” (US Bishops)

LENTEN REGULATIONSLENTEN REGULATIONSLENTEN REGULATIONS

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LLENTENENTEN L LITURGYITURGY OFOF THETHE H HOURSOURS Daily Morning Prayer in the church

Monday-Friday at 8:30AM Beginning March 7-8, March 11-15; March 18-22;

March 25-29; April 1-5; April 8-12; April 15-19

Lenten Weekday Prayer Opportunity

What Is Morning Prayer? Not many people are thoroughly familiar with this form of communal

prayer. Long ago, our ancestors in faith had ways for individuals and households to praise and thank God constantly, with the poetic richness of praying at morning and evening with hymns and psalms known by heart. As time went on we lost those forms of prayer. Along with the Lord’s Supper, fixed-hour prayer is considered the oldest form of Christian spirituality. The psalmist’s example to praise God seven times each day, were trying to follow St. Paul’s exhortation to “pray without ceasing.” The apostles too used psalms in their prayers, and the psalms remain the backbone of the Liturgy of the Hours today. Both the ending and the beginning of the day were, to the ancients, natural times for prayer. Morning prayer makes us rise and thank God for a restful night, for another day of life, and for the strength and courage to do God’s will. The spiritual practice of celebrating Morning Prayer is a way of consecrating the day to God.

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LENT is for Loving

Every year we read about how Jesus taught, healed people, and loved everyone. Then we come to a special time every year when we try to be more like Jesus. It is called Lent. We remember Jesus’ words, how he prayed, and how he acted toward others. He invited everyone to be his friend. It is not easy to be like Jesus and to follow his ways. One of the ways we can be more like Jesus during Lent is to “Do A Good Deed” every day beginning on Ash Wednesday.

Think about all the things you do in a week!

You can make your bed, help with the dishes, when at school sit with someone new at lunch, help someone in your neighborhood, pray for someone that you know is sick, walk your dog, clean your hamsters or guinea pig cage, don’t use your telephone or iPad for one night, or multiple nights, call your grandmother or grandfather on the phone and tell them how much you love them, be a good sport at your soccer, basketball, or lacrosse game. These are suggestions, but you can think of so many other ways you can do a “Good Deed.” LENTEN “GOOD DEEDS” ACTIVITY Each week we will provide a new Lenten Cross in the bulletin.

1. Cut out the Lenten cross (to the right) each week. 2. Write down your daily “Good Deed” on the Lenten Cross. 3. On the following weekend, we invite

you to bring to church your Cross filled in with your “Good Deeds” from the past week.

4. We will pin them on the “Presentation Boards” located in the Narthex.

If you do a Good Deed everyday during Lent, you will bring in seven different Lenten Crosses. Each one will be pinned onto the Presentation Board.

A LENTEN PRAYER Lord Jesus, you know each of us by name and have called us to follow you. Guide us in right ways as we begin our Lenten journey. Teach us how to respond anew in every opportunity each day will bring. We ask you this, you who loves us with the Father and the Spirit, for ever and ever. Amen.

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It is not easy to be like Jesus, but think

about 40 days of Good Deeds!

That is a very good start!

Please cut out this cross, follow the instructions to the left and return to the church each weekend.

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MEETING with LUNCHEON MARCH 5

TUES-1O AM MCBRADY CENTER

(Doors open at 9:30am.) After the meeting, the duet, SWEET REMINDER, will entertain with tunes of the Nifty 50’s/60’s. Luncheon will follow entertainment. Deadline to purchase luncheon was Feb. 26. There will be no ticket sales on the day of the luncheon.

DONATIONS FOR TOGETHER WE COPE SOS will be collecting canned goods and non-perishable food items for Together We Cope. Please bring to the March meeting. Your donation is appreciated.

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SAINT OF THE WEEK

SAINT MARIA BERTILLA BOSCARDIN

(1888-1922)

If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was today’s saint. But such trials only brought Maria

closer to God and more determined to serve him. BORN IN ITALY IN 1888, THE YOUNG GIRL LIVED IN FEAR OF HER FATHER, A VIOLENT MAN PRONE TO JEALOUSY AND DRUNKENNESS. Her schooling was limited so that she could spend more time helping at home and working in the fields. She showed few talents and was often the butt of jokes. In 1904, she joined the Sisters of Saint Dorothy and was assigned to work in the kitchen, bakery and laun-dry. After some time Maria received nurses’ training and began working in a hospital with children suffering from diphtheria. There the young nun seemed to find her true vocation: nursing very ill and disturbed chil-dren. Later, when the hospital was taken over by the military in World War I, Sister Maria Bertilla fearlessly cared for patients amidst the threat of constant air raids and bombings. She died in 1922 after suffering for many years from a painful tumor. Some of the patients she had nursed many years before were present at her canonization in 1961. COMMENT This fairly recent saint knew the hardships of living in an abusive situation. Let us pray to her to help all those who are suffering from any form of spiritual, mental, or physical abuse.

SENIORS OF SETON

ST. PATRICK’S/ST. JOSEPH’S DAY PARTY SATURDAY—MARCH 16—MCBRADY CENTER

Tables forming for SOS members. Reserve your seat when purchasing ticket.

See flyer in bulletin for additional information.

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE SHRINE MAY 14—TUES

Reservation with payment will be taken at the March 5 meeting. $59/pp. Details of event will be given at meeting.

UPCOMING EVENTS

SAVE THE DATE

UPCOMING TRIP

MUSIC FEST IN BRANSON, MO SOLD OUT! WAIT LIST FORMING!

APRIL 23—APRIL 27/5 DAYS—4 NIGHTS Leaves at 6:30am-April 23; Returns 7:30pm-April 27

$850/pp-dbl—$1015/pp single For information and questions

contact Anna at 532-6731.

CHICAGO GAELIC PARK MUSICAL LUNCHEON

MARCH 6—WEDNESDAY Transportation on own: 6119 W. 147th St., Oak Forest

Doors open: Noon. Lunch: 1PM; Musical entertainment until 4 PM.

Questions: Contact Ceil at 708-460-6004.

REMINDER

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MARIST REUNION/AWARDS DINNER Marist High School will host its Annual Alumni Reunion and Awards Dinner on Friday, March 8, at the school, 4200 W. 115th St., Chicago. The night will include Hall of Fame inductions, Time & Eternity Award presentations, and reun-ions for the classes of 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004. Awards Ceremony begins at 6pm and is free to attend. The Reunion Dinner runs from 7:30-10:30pm. Cost: $80 includes open bar, appetizers, and dinner buffet. Night of event tickets will cost $100 per per-son. The Marist Band will perform. School tours available. All alumni and friends 21-over are welcome. For tickets and details visit: www.marist.net.

Portiuncula Center for Prayer Opportunities

9263 W. St. Francis Rd, Frankfort

ANAM CARA I Mondays, March 11–April 8 (five week series)

1–3:30pm Fee: $100 To appreciate a relationship, you must first recognize your own inner light and beauty. The Celtic Christians believed that forming an Anam Cara friendship would help you to awaken your awareness of your own nature and experience the joys of others. Through conversa-tion and activities, we will learn to see ourselves as the Celtic Christian Church did. Please purchase John O’Donohue’s book: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom prior to the first session. Facilitator: Michael Jennings, Ph.D., studied with John O’Donohue.

ACTIVE HOPE Saturday, March 16 9am–3:30pm Fee: $40

Are you searching for a deeper sense of inspiration, hope, resilience and renewal in these challenging times? This session concept called Active Hope and is fueled by what we would love to see happen in the world and how we can be participants in bringing that about. Based on “The Work that Reconnects”, an innovative process developed by Joanna Macy, internationally ac-claimed author, eco-philosopher, and activist, the ses-sion includes experiential practices, such as The Coun-cil of All Beings (a profound ceremony of interconnec-tion with animals and plants), reflection, and inspira-tional readings and teachings. “The Work” instills a renewed sense of our ability to make a difference in our lives and in the world! Facilitator: Kathleen Rude.

Register by contacting 815-464-3880, info@portforprayer.org, or visit their website at www.portforprayer.org.

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LIVING the

WORD

LIVING the

WORD

NEXT WEEK’S FOCUS: CHOOSING TO REMEMBER AND NOT FORGET

How much we want all of life to be easy and pain free! Yet our experience of life teaches otherwise, and our faith shows us how the pain of the past can lead us to hopeful futures.

FIRST READING God brought us into this land flowing with milk and honey (Deuteronomy 26:4-10). The Israelites were to bring their offerings to the Lord and profess their faith in God who rescued them from slavery in Egypt. It was the Lord who did this for them. They did not save themselves with their own strength and cunning. This is the exact opposite of what Satan tempts Jesus to do in the Gospel. He seeks to force Jesus to use his powers to assist himself and not to trust in the Father. This is ultimately the difference between having true faith and living a self-centered life. With the former, one recognizes that all one has and all that one is comes from God. Everything is a gift for which we are profoundly grateful. With the latter, one thinks that all one has or is comes from one’s own efforts. SECOND READING The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart (Romans 10:8-13). We are reminded of the need to profess our faith in God. The word “faith” means that we trust in someone else. We believe in others and place our hope in them. Saint Paul states that if we believe in our hearts, we are justi-fied. This means that we are at peace with God, for we have accepted the peace and forgiveness that he offers. If we profess that Jesus is Lord, we will be saved.

Paul thought of salvation as something that occurs on the last day. We must live our faith if we expect to be saved in our final judgment. Lent is a time to ask two questions: What do I really express with my life? This is a time to transform both our hearts and our lives. GOSPEL READING Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led into the desert for forty days (Luke 4:1-13). The temptation in the desert marks a moment when Je-sus can purify the intentions for his public ministry. He is not going out into the world to gain fame or power. He is preaching and healing in order to obey the will of the Father. The temptations ask Jesus to misuse the power he has been given by the Father. Satan tells him to think of himself and to seek his own comfort. He tells Jesus to put the Father’s love to a test (trying to place doubt in Jesus’ heart). In all of this, Satan tries to show himself reasonable. But Jesus is not using the logic of this world. He has placed himself entirely in the Father’s hand. It is important to remember that Satan’s temptations often sound reasonable and even logical. They tell us that we are being fools for not thinking of ourselves, that we de-serve what we have, that God is at our beck and call. Je-sus reminds us that God’s logic goes beyond earthly logic and calls us to sacrifice and radical trust in God.

REFLECTION Do you remember the song, “The Way We Were”? Its lyrics reminded us that memories too painful to recall are those we choose to forget. These readings take the opposite view: painful things must be remembered. The pain of exile, division, and temptation is remembered in the light of scripture to offer homecoming, reconcilia-tion, and healing. Moses lead the people in a liturgy that recalls their oppression and Passover to freedom by God’s hand. Paul proclaims Jesus as Lord of all. Jesus is tempted by the devil to relieve human hungers for food, power, and presumption by focusing on them, not God. The devil misuses scripture to sway Jesus. Jesus does not fall for these interpretations and quotes scripture to focus on God. Only God can satisfy the hungry heart and give real strength. Trusting in God’s merciful love, not presuming it, offers real freedom. Our family history in faith were wandering Arameans who travelled from a foreign land. At times we wander from God. If you have not already, choose to recall what’s too painful to re-member this Lent. Invite God to bring homecoming, rec-onciliation, and healing by entering your pain and changing your mind and heart.

March 10, 2019

Scripture Reflections for NINTH SUNDAY

IN ORDINARY TIME

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Monday Sir 17:20-24 Mk 10:17-27

Tuesday Sir 35:1-12

Mk 10:28-31

Wednesday Jl 2:12-18

2 Cor 5:20—6:2 Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

Thursday Dt 30:15-20 Lk 9:22-25

Friday Is 58:1-9a Mt 9:14-15

Saturday Is 58:9b-14 Lk 5:27-32

Sunday Dt 26:4-10

Rom 10:8-13 Lk 4:1-13

READINGS FOR THE WEEK [March 4-10]

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ST. ELIZABETH SETON PARISH INFORMATION

New Parishioners We welcome new members. All are invited to participate in the life and mission of the parish. A complete listing of parish services and organizations is available in the parish office and on our parish website. Please visit the parish office to register or obtain the registration form on the parish website. Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered on Saturday, between 4:15-4:45pm. Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated twice monthly at 1pm. Reserve your time by calling the parish office early. Limit of six children per Sunday. Baptismal Preparation Couples preparing for the birth of their child should contact the Pastoral Center to register for a one night seminar, focusing on a parent’s role in faith development. This session is mandatory prior to the Baptism. Anointing of the Sick is available in the Church every Monday after the 9am Mass. For those who are ill or facing hospitalization, it is appropriate to receive the sacrament once every six months. Call 708-403-0101 for information. Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Adults, 18 and older, who wish to become Catholic are enrolled in a formation process (RCIA) that includes prayer, dialogue, instruction, and introduction to the Church’s life and values, rituals and traditions. For in-formation call the parish office 708-403-0101. Ministry of Care is available to give Communion to the housebound, to visit and pray for hospitalized and/or to arrange for the Anointing of the Sick. Please call the Pastoral Center for assistance. In the Hospital? Because of HIPAA Privacy regu-lations hospitals can no longer contact the parish re-garding your hospitalization. It is the responsibility of you or a family member to notify our parish. We desire to offer whatever spiritual support we can. Please call the Pastoral Center. Sacrament of Marriage Couples planning to marry are asked to make arrangements six months in advance. Wedding Workshops are offered throughout the year. They provide engaged couples with guidelines and suggestions for the celebration of the Sacrament of Marriage. The workshop covers topics ranging from readings and music to flowers and video taping. Adult Choir sings at all 10am Sunday Masses, as well as at a number of special liturgies. Teen Choir sings at the 11:30am Sunday Masses.

Moving? Please call the office at 708-403-0101.

9300 West 167th St., Orland Hills, IL 708-403-0101

www.steseton.com

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ST. ELIZABETH SETON PRAYER/OUTREACH MINISTRIES

Social Action Ministry How we serve: Soup Kitchen in Joliet; Sharing Parish with St. Procopius Church; Pro Life Ministry: COURAGE Program, Mother’s Day Flowers For Life, Life Chain Sunday, Diaper Drive; Respond Now Outreach; SWIFT (South West Interfaith Team); Environmental Ministry; Speaker nights.

Seton Rosary Group All are invited to pray the Rosary each Tuesday/Thursday in the church, by our statue of the Mary, after 9am Mass.

Chaplet of Divine Mercy Divine Mercy Chaplet each Wednesday following the 9am Mass.

Creation Care Team Ministry A cross-parish Renew My Church initiative taking action to pro-mote positive environmental change through education, individ-ual action and community outreach in the spirit of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si. Second Monday each month, Gubbins Center, 7pm. Call Andy Panelli, 708-301-8038.

Heart Warmers Meal Ministry Heart Warmers is an outreach program where Seton volunteers deliver homemade meals to people of our parish community when they are experiencing times with medical, health, new baby, recovery, or grief issues. To schedule receiving a meal or to become a meal provider contact Barb Cristofaro at 708-349-7493 or heartwarmers-ses@att.net.

Prayer Shawl Ministry Shawls are prayerfully created, blessed, and distributed to those who have a need for the spiritual, physical or emotional comfort. Knit or crochet in your home and/or at the twice-monthly meet-ings. To become a knitter or to obtain a shawl, call the parish office at 708-403-0101.

Seton Sowers-Newborns in Need If you knit/crochet/sew, your skills to make clothing/blankets for premature newborn babies at the University of Illinois Hospital. We meet monthly in the O’Mara Hall. Donations of yarn/fabric/baby toiletries/supplies accepted. For information/meeting dates, contact Carol Dimer at 708-479-6994.

HOPE Employment Ministry

HOPE is open to everyone. All of our services, to both job seek-ers and employers, are free. We meet the first Tuesday of each month in O’Mara Hall at 7pm. Our meetings consist of network-ing, resume review, guest speakers and open forums. Contact Arnie Skibinski at askibinski@steseton.com.

Alcoholics Anonymous If you have a problem with alcohol and feel a sincere desire to stop drinking, you are welcome to attend a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in the O’Mara Hall, Thursdays, 7:30-8:45pm. AA is a fellowship of men and women sharing their experience, strength, and hope so that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover. The only require-ment is a sincere desire to stop drinking.

Families Anonymous If your life has gone astray due to living with someone who has a substance abuse problem, attend a Families Anonymous on Mondays from 7-8:30pm at Palos Hospital, 123rd and 80th Ave., Palos Heights (Ambulatory Care Center, Rm. 1). Call 708-429-2507 or 708-269-9853.

St. Vincent de Paul Society Anyone within parish boundaries in need of assistance from SVDP, may call the parish office at 708-403-0101.

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A FINAL THOUGHT FOR YOUR WEEK Eighth Sunday In Ordinary Time

By Denise Simeone, Celebration Magazine

“ Stringing beads …” That is how William Barclay in his commentary The

Gospel of Luke (The New Daily Bible series) refers to this Sunday’s Gospel passage. He suggests Luke may have been weaving together some of Jesus’ sayings likening it to the Jewish method of preaching called charaz which means stringing beads. Another reference calls this kind of preaching “stringing pearls” or bringing together various images or teachings. In ones of these pearls Jesus says, “Why do you notice the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own?” Think about these images: splinter (also translated as speck or sawdust) and beam (log, plank). Can we imagine these images coming both with a sense of humor and from Jesus’ own experience as the son of a carpenter? Like so many of his parables Jesus uses images from his life experience to speak clearly to people who love stories. Sirach does something similar in the first reading. Using images such as a sieve or pottery molds or even the visible fruit of trees, he points out how the words we utter speak volumes. These metaphors from Sirach would have been a part of Jesus’ upbringing as a Jew. And these are easy images for me to imagine as I recall my own mother always sifting flour to make a better batter or my potter friend speaking about molding and firing clay. Jesus is speaking to disciples inviting them to reflect on how they would be his followers. What do these particular images have to offer us as a community of would be followers of Jesus Christ?

C an we examine our world in light of these images? How quickly do we sometimes declare instant judgment and even condemnation from a

few words offered in a social media post or spoken about someone in an article or story, words perhaps even taken out of context? How quickly do we criticize someone we hardly know after they have only offered an opinion or said a few words without even imagining

ourselves engaging in a dialogue to understand “this other” person better? But perhaps Jesus’ words probe and prod us even more deeply. Last week on the Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time, we heard Jesus say to his disciples: “To you who hear I say, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you” (Luke 6:27-28). What if this image of sawdust and logs applied to our “enemy.” What does that say to us, to me? We don’t often talk about enemies in polite circles; we use euphemisms. We talk about “that other group.” Or we talk about “those people.” Or we use phrases like their own kind, people like themselves. We do all we can to distance ourselves from those “others.” Yet inherent in all that Jesus said and did while walking among us as one of us is that all people — every single kind and every group of people — are all God’s kind.

All people are loved abundantly by God and God invites us to that same kind of loving.

That is at the heart of the judgment that Jesus invites us to look at today. Do we want to love like that? Do we want to get past the sawdust and see clearly not only how deeply we are loved, but how deeply we are called to love? There are indeed pearls in this Gospel passage, and they invite me to reflect on them in light of my baptismal promise to be a follower of Jesus.

A s we stand here on the edge of Ordinary Time ready to enter the impending Lenten season of reflection, maybe we should carry a splinter or

bag of sawdust around with us. That splinter might remind me that sawdust is nothing compared to the log that I should look at examining and removing for my daily Lenten practice. In doing so, I might discover love like I have never seen before.

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Lord, it is good to give you thanks. As I persevere in life,

I see already the good fruit born with the passage of time.

Because of your kindness and fidelity— virtues which I beg of you to grant to me—

The just person will flourish like the palm tree. Amen.

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

3/9 & 3/10 5:00PM 7:15AM 8:30AM 10:00AM 11:30AM

GREETERS J. Gaskey T. Grebenor C. Labus J. Lennon/S. Lennon C. Lennon D. Mires M. Pahl/K. Pahl G. Roy/G. Roy K. Roy/M. Roy

E. Briette J. Esposito C. Esposito D. Krieger B. Majer W. McGlashan A. McGlashan J. Niemiec

L. Allen C. Bannon F. Caputo M. Crance R. Cubalchini M. Cubalchini S. Giovanazzi O. Lopez, Jr.

D. Ahern W. Bric J. Grant D. Kujawa M. Moore M. Moore

A. Durkin E. Esparza E. Esparza M. Hattar J. Islas/L. Islas S. Klean F. McCarthy S. Potts T./A./J. Waters

LECTORS J. Bessette M. Hamilton

C. Nolan T. Shafer G. Shafer

Third Grade Family Mass

G. Rekar C. Steckhan

ALTAR SERVERS

C. Bueche T. Quinlan A. Durkin

G. Taupo S. Fratto M. Gregg

C. Jaeger J. Rediger D. Rediger

M. McMahan K. Soltys C. Soltys

L. Becker J. Laxamana J. Laxamana

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

J. Murphy T. Hanlon C. Hamilton L. Jeffrey L. Coe M. Gabrione K. Nanfeldt C. Lundgren T. Lundgren A. Sharp G. Yakes J. Para-Martin

D. Nykiel D. Flynn D. Skrzypiec L. Skrzypiec M. O’Connor F. Mankowski N. Sasso V. Patrizi

J. Austin L. Austin T. Krull K. Oliver S. Arcos E. Pawlak F. Scellato J. Scellato B. Kemp L. Kocsis L. Kocsis D. Gurka

M. Fehrenbacher M. Broderick E. Barin M. Ihnat P. Ihnat J. Weger R. Ulrich D. Ulrich E. O’Connor A. Weishaar E. Federico L. Gent P. Krueger

M. O’Connor D. Sigourney C. Holmquist J. Holmquist M. Miller T. Scorzo T. Wolski R. Dollah S. Villegas K. Hall

SACRISTANS T. Hanlon L. Jeffrey

D. Flynn M. Pawlak E. Pawlak

M. Fehrenbacher R. Dollah

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Pastoral Staff Rev. William T. Corcoran, Ph.D., Pastor Rev. John Zurek, Associate Pastor Rev. William Gubbins, Resident Priest Rev. William T. O’Mara, Pastor Emeritus Deacon: Frank Gildea Deacon: Dennis (Barb) Cristofaro

Claudia Nolan, Director of Liturgy

Linda McKeague, Director of Music

Parish Office Staff Donna Stolinski, Business Manager Darlene Raila, Communications Director Joan Nemec, Morning Receptionist Karen Mirecki, Afternoon Receptionist

Religious Education Staff Diana Barracca, Administration Mary Vlaming, Catechesis

Youth/Young Adult Ministry Kyle Groves, Director Bruce Hall, Coordinator

Athletics Bob Myjak, Director

Maintenance Staff Raymond Yanowsky, Director of Maintenance Laurie De Mik-Renn, CJB Day Maintenance Supervisor Marie Makuch, Staff Joseph Shake, Staff Dan Kosty, Staff

REGULAR MASS SCHEDULE Monday-Friday: 9:00 am

Saturday: 5:00 pm Sunday:

7:15, 8:30, 10:00, 11:30am

St. Elizabeth Seton Church 9300 W. 167th Street Orland Hills, IL 60487

Parish Office: 708-403-0101 Religious Education: 708-403-0137

PARISH OFFICE HOURS: MONDAY-FRIDAY: 8:30AM-4:30PM

SATURDAY: 1PM-6PM SUNDAY: 8:30AM-1PM

Cardinal Joseph Bernardin Catholic School WEBSITE: WWW.CJBSCHOOL.ORG 708-403-6525 Principal, Mary Iannucilli Administrative Assistant, Cindy Labriola Devlin