Curé of Ars (Saint John Vianney) Catholic Church

February 26, 2017 Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

CONTACTS Organist/Choirmaster: Chuck Wiltsch Parish Administrator: Cindy Wayland Office Hours: Mon: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Wed: 8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m. Fri: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. Adult Religion Coordinator: Tom Block 314.962.0772 Email: cureofarsparishoffice@gmail.com Website: www.cureofarsparish.org

670 S. Laclede Station Rd.

HOLY MASS Saturday 8:00 a.m. 4:30 p.m. (For Sunday) Sunday 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Week Days 8:00 a.m. Holy Days 8:00 a.m. & 5:30 p.m. (No Vigil Mass)  

CONFESSIONS Saturday afternoon 3:45-4:15 p.m. Monday - Saturday 7:45 a.m.-7:55 a.m.  

SOLEMN EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Every Thursday following the 8:00 a.m. Mass

DEVOTIONS

OUR LADY of FATIMA First Saturday of month after 8:00 a.m. Mass

OUR LADY of PERPETUAL HELP Every Tuesday after 8:00 a.m. Mass

ROSARY

Monday - Saturday 7:30 a.m.

Pastor Reverend James Byrnes

cureofshrewsbury@priest.com

In Residence Reverend Robert Dorhauer

Permanent Deacons Patrick G. Monahan

Theodore J. Rodis, Retired

WORSHIP GENERAL INFORMATION

MASS INTENTIONS MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27 THURSDAY, MARCH 2 8:00 A.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+ 8:00 A.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28 Chapel at Laclede Groves 8:00 A.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+ 3:00 P.M. Bill McGuire WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 FRIDAY, MARCH 3 8:00 A.M. For the People of the Parish 8:00 A.M. Therese Elfrink 5:30 P.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+

SATURDAY, MARCH 4 8:00 A.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+ 4:30 P.M. For the People of the Parish

SUNDAY, MARCH 5

8:30 A.M. Mark Bording 10:30 A.M. Parish Purgatorial Society+

LITURGICAL MINISTRIES SCHEDULES

USHERS (MARCH) SAT. 4:30 P.M. Nat Basta, Richard Slais, John Nolan, Robert Monnig SUN. 8:30 A.M. Jim & Mary Struckel, Al Ripper, Floyd Thomure 10:30 A.M. Bruce Kurka, Mel Mebruer, Gary Mesnier, Tony Walsh

LECTORS WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 SATURDAY, MARCH 4 5:30 P.M. G. Prante 4:30 P.M. I. Benden SUNDAY, MARCH 5 8:30 A.M. T. Duda 10:30 A.M. J. Geerling

ANGEL DUSTERS March 10 Carol Weger & Ann Rowland

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 5:30 P.M. A. Rowland, D. Heine SATURDAY, MARCH 4 4:30 P.M. K. & T. Richard (JIC A. Rowland) SUNDAY, MARCH 5 8:30 A.M. J. Vietmeier, D. Barnes (JIC Sr. T. M. Eagan) 10:30 A.M. C. Kurka, J. Dunkel (JIC T. Steck)

READINGS FOR THE WEEK February 26, 2017—March 5, 2017

Sunday: Is 49:14-15 Ps 62:2-3,6-9 1 Cor 4:1-5 Mt 6:24-34 Monday: Sir 17:20-24 Mk 10:17-27 Tuesday: Sir 35:1-12 Mk 10:28-31 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18 Ps 51:3-6b, 12-14,17 2 Cor 5:20-6:2 Mt 6:1-6 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: Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 Ps 51:3-6, 12-13,17 Rom 5:12-19 Mt 4:1-11

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26 Soup Supper, 4:00 p.m.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Prophets Bible Study, 7 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1 Prophets Bible Study, 8:30 a.m.

FRIDAY, MARCH 3 Sacred Heart

Devotions, 8:30 a.m.

Stations of the Cross, 5:30 p.m.

Fatima Vigil, 7:00 p.m.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: By appointment with Pastor. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Contact the clergy-man of your choice at least six months prior to desired date. WEDDING ANNIVERSARY BLESSINGS: Couples from our parish celebrating a significant wedding anni-versary, please contact Fr. Byrnes. NEW PARISHIONERS: The Pastor would like to welcome new families. Please register at the Rectory Office at your earliest convenience or fill out and return form on page 3 of bulletin. BULLETIN DEADLINE: Please submit to the rectory office by Monday at 10 a.m. before the weekend.

Kenny Evans, Lorna Shaw, John Wirth, Pat Barta, Helen Stoller, Leroy Barta, and the resi-dents of Laclede Groves and Mary, Queen & Mother Nursing Home.

STEWARDSHIP February 19 Collection

General……………………………………………. $2,106.29 Loose Cash………………………………… 403.00 Loose Checks……………………………… 137.00 For the Poor……………………………….. 48.00 St. Louis Review…………………………… 40.00 First Offering………………………………. 10.00 Votive Candles………………………… 94.00 Poor Box……………………………………… 33.00 Lighthouse Media………………………… 8.00 TOTAL…………………… $2,879.29

STEWARDSHIP REFLECTIONS “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon (material wealth).” MATTHEW 6:24 For many people, God and money run “neck and neck” as their first priority. Making money and spending money becomes the center of their life and they actually become a slave to money. The solu-tion– become more generous. Giving money to church and charity frees us from slavery to money and from making money a “god” before God.

DYNAMIC CATHOLIC, ALIVE!

Generosity. Could there be a more perfect Gospel for understanding generosity and the manner in which God provides for all of our needs? The heart of gen-erosity is seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness (Mt. 6:33). We seek God and His righteousness by being generous with our time, resources, and gifts that He has given to us. God tends to our needs as a good Father and knows all of our needs before we even tell Him.

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on March 1st. Mass times with distribution of ashes will be at 8:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Ash Wednesday is a day of fast and abstinence. Stations of the Cross will be held each Friday during Lent at 5:30 p.m. Come experience this beautiful Catholic devotion commemorating our Savior’s last day on this earth as a man. Sacrament of Reconciliation will be offered every Monday evening during Lent at 7:00 p.m. (concluding when all are heard). Confessions will be heard Mon-day of Holy Week also.

LENTEN REGULATIONS Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (April 14) are days of abstinence for all Catholics over the age of 14. On these two days, fast, as well as abstinence, is also obligatory for those from the ages of 18-59. Abstinence means refraining from meat. Fast means one full meal a day, with two smaller meals and nothing between meals (liquids are permitted). No Catholic will lightly excuse himself or herself from this obligation. All Fridays in Lent are days of abstinence from meat. Again, Catholics will not hold themselves lightly ex-cused, but if there is a serious health problem, this obligation would not apply. We should strive to make all days of Lent a time of prayer and penance.

CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES RICE BOWLS Pick up a rice bowl on the table in the vestibule to help us prepare to encounter our neighbors and God!

FROM THE OFFICE COMMUNITY EVENTS SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

LENT

2017 GUIDE BOOK Does our church database have your family membership record correct? Here is your chance to update your record for our annual Guide Book & Directory. Have you changed your phone number? Have you moved? Are you preparing to move soon? Please call the parish office for any additions, deletions, etc. Thank you!

ANNUAL LENTEN DAY OF RECOLLECTION Cathedral Basilica

Saturday, March 11th, 10 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Parishioners, their guests, and all throughout the Archdiocese are invited to join Archbishop Robert Carlson for a special day of reflection, recollection, and reconciliation. First conference begins at 10:00, with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament following. Confessions will be heard from 10:45 –noon. Rosary will be prayed at 11:45 a.m. Lunch in Boland Hall will be served at 12:05. The second conference begins at 1:30 p.m., followed by Sta-tions of the Cross at 2:15 p.m., as well as more Confessions until 4:40 p.m. Evening Prayer will be held at 4:30 p.m. then Mass at 5:00 p.m. will close the day. This special gathering is free to all, how-ever a good will offering will be accepted to offset the cost of lunch. Please register in advance so that organizers can properly prepare worship ma-terials and set up for lunch. Call Mary Ann Fox at 314-373-8208. Please join us during this reflective period where we contemplate our own lives as we journey towards the expectation of Easter Resur-rection.

CHURCH IN CENTRAL EUROPE

Your support of this collection pro-vides a strengthening of the life of the Church for those who live in Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of communism in 1989. The Catholic Church has the freedom to worship openly, but much of the infrastructure is gone. Please be generous!

BLACK and INDIAN MISSION March 5th our parish will take up this collection for the support of the church in African American, Native American, and Alaska Na-tive communities from coast to coast. Schools, parish religious education programs, and diocesan ministries depend on your generos-ity to help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Thank you for your support!

EVANGELIZATION Share Great Resources with Others

You do not need to have the answers to every single question about Catholicism to be a powerful and in-spiring evangelist. However, you do need to think about how you act and what you say in interactions with people who struggled with faith and Catholicism. If we don’t have the answer to a question, it is ok. We must say that we do not have an answer instead of pro-

viding a dreadfully insufficient answer. There are plenty of resources with answers to the questions posed to Catholicism for the last 2,000 years. Become familiar with the following works: Search and Rescue and Envoy for Christ by Patrick Madrid, or Rome Sweet Rome, by Scott Hahn.

WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS

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PARISH LIFE

Tickets for the annual St. Patrick’s Day party will be on sale this weekend and next, March 4-5th. The din-ner will be held Saturday, March 11th right after the 4:30 p.m. Mass. Tickets are $14 for adults and $7 for children between the ages of 4-10.

NEW DATE! Parish Appreciation Party

Due to a conflict, the party will be held on April 22nd, not April 29th. Save the date!

BIBLE STUDY A reminder to Bible Study partici-pants...we will resume on Tuesday eve-ning, February 28th at 7:00 p.m. and Wednesday morning, March 1st at 8:30 a.m. Even if you didn’t attend fall classes you are welcome to join us for the DVD discussions. There is a slight change in schedule because I have re-ceived a great Lenten program entitled Forgiven, that I will present the first two meeting dates. TUESDAYS, 7:00 PM FEB 28: Forgiven episodes 1 & 2 MARCH 7: Forgiven episodes 3 & 4 MAR. 14, 21, 28, APR. 11: PROPHETS WEDNESDAYS, 8:30 AM MARCH 1: Forgiven episodes 1 & 2 MARCH 8; Forgiven episodes 3 & 4 MAR.15,22,29, APR. 5,12: PROPHETS

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