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September 14, 2014 St. Ann Parish ESTABLISHED 1913

3010 Ridge Road, Lansing, IL 60438 708-895-6700

Reverend William McFarlane, Pastor www.saintanncatholicparish.com

St. Ann Parish Mission Statement We are called by a loving God

to make St. Ann of Lansing a Catholic community of faith. We are a family of diverse people with various ministries: healing the body and spirit, teaching of God and His love,

united in sacraments and prayer, reaching out to the extended community. With God’s revelation of Himself in Scripture as our guide,

we strive to grow in His Spirit and to fulfill the promise of Christ’s Kingdom.

Finance Committee Richard A. Baltrus Robert Dabrowski, Chairperson Matthew P. Martinez Kathleen J. Schroeder

Masses Monday-Thursday: 7:45 a.m. Friday Communion Service: 7:45 a.m. First Friday Mass: 7:45 a.m. Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Confessions: 3:00 p.m. Saturday

Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday: 8:30-Noon & 1:00-5:00 p.m. Closed every day from Noon to 1:00 p.m. Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Contact Information Parish Office: 708-895-6700 Parish Office Fax: 708-895-6877 School Office: 708-895-1661 Religious Ed. Office: 708-895-5970 St. Vincent DePaul: 708-745-4760 Fr. Bill’s email: frbill@saintanncatholicparish.com Parish email: parishoffice@saintanncatholicparish.com Bulletin email: bullstannch@aol.com School Website: www.saintannschool.com Parish Website: www.saintanncatholicparish.com

Liturgy Committee Barb Antoskiewicz, Religious Education, RCIA/RCIY Debbie Bona, Lectors Brian Kozlowski, Music Ministry & Liturgy Cindy Hope, Altar Servers Kim Jacobson, Art & Environment Don Schiller, Ushers Ed Sochacki, Eucharistic Ministers Gerrie Szewczyk, Sacristans

Pastoral Staff Barb Antoskiewicz, Pastoral Associate/DRE Brian Kozlowski, Director of Music & Liturgy Sandy Farmer, Parish Business Manager Debbie Bona, Ministry Coordinator Jennifer Gray, Development/Bulletin Editor Sue Dawson, Parish Office Secretary Georgette Olson, Religious Education Secretary Pam Lepczynski, Parish Office Receptionist Bonnie Hall, Principal Janice Summerrise, School Administrative Assistant Chris Hutter, School Secretary

Pastoral Council Barb Antoskiewicz Wade Cooper Brian Farlow Jane Farlow Ken Kot Dominic Podsiadlik Erin Meegan Polanski

For Ministry of Care to the homebound or hospitalized, please call the Parish Office.

Bulletin articles are due 10 days in advance of the Sunday you would like them to run. During holidays, deadlines are accelerated. To add items to the calendar or to sched-ule the Narthex or other meeting spaces, forms must be filled out in the Parish Office.

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Monday, September 15 (Our Lady of Sorrows) 7:45 a.m. Mass † John & Johanna Hanacek (Bernadette Hanacek) Tuesday, September 16 (St. Cornelius; St. Cyprian) 7:45 a.m. Mass † People of the Parish

Wednesday, September 17 (St. Robert Bellarmine) 7:45 a.m. Communion Service 9:00 a.m. Mass † People of the Parish Thursday, September 18 7:45 a.m. Mass † People of the Parish Friday, September 19 (St. Januarius) 7:45 a.m. Communion Service † People of the Parish Saturday, September 20 (St. Andrew Kim Tai-gon; St. Paul Chong Ha-sang & Companions) 4:00 p.m. Mass † John & Alice Tiltges (June Tiltges) † Robert & Dorothy Bednarek † Edward Daley (Gerrie Szewczyk) Sunday, September 21 (Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time) 8:30 a.m. Mass † Barbara Cummins (George Cummins) † Elsie Necastro (Tom & Mary Golden) † William Mitchell (Mary Clark) 10:30 a.m. Mass † Remo Verta (Eva Verta) † Annette Gleghorn (Nancy Boomsma) † Thomas Eich (James Byrne)

Monday, September 15 Mass TRIP Religious Education Classes SPRED Catechists

7:45am 9:00am 4:00 - 5:30pm 7:00pm

Chapel School Library Classrooms Narthex/Chapel

Tuesday, September 16 REPTILE SHOW Mass Cub Scouts Pack Meeting (Reptiles!) Throne of Grace Prayer Group

7:45am 7:00pm 7:00pm

Chapel Parish Hall Narthex

Wednesday, September 17 SCHOOL PICTURE DAY

Communion Service School Mass Rosary A.A. Meeting

7:45am 9:00am 7:00pm 8:00pm

Chapel Church Chapel Parish Hall

Thursday, September 18 PROGRESS REPORTS

Mass High School Recruitment Day Baptism Parent Gathering Women’s Club Meeting Choir

7:45am 8:30 - 11:30am 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:00pm

Chapel Church Chapel/Church Narthex Church

Friday, September 19 Communion Service 8th Grade Retreat

7:45am 9:00am - 1:00pm

Chapel Irons Oaks

Saturday, September 20

Market Day Pickup Mass

8:00am - Noon 4:00pm

Chapel/Narthex Church

Masses Religious Education Classes Baptisms

8:30 & 10:30am 8:45 - 10:15am 11:30am

Church Classrooms Church

Sunday, September 21

This Week’s Activities

RCIA Intro Night Tuesday, September 30

7:00 p.m. in the Parish Office

Anyone interested in becoming Catholic or completing their

sacraments is invited.

FMI, please call Barb in the Parish Office at 708-895-6700.

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Miss Me—But Let Me Go

In Loving Memory of Our Faithful Departed

Readings for the Week Monday: 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33; Ps 40:7-10, 17 or Ps 31:2-6, 15-16, 20; Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35 Tuesday: 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a; Ps 100:1-5; Lk 7:11-17 Wednesday: 1 Cor 12:31 — 13:13; Ps 33:2-5, 12, 22; Lk 7:31-35 Thursday: 1 Cor 15:1-11; Ps 118:1b-2, 16ab-17, 28; Lk 7:36-50 Friday: 1 Cor 15:12-20; Ps 17:1bcd, 6-8b, 15; Lk 8:1-3 Saturday: 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49; Ps 56:10c-14; Lk 8:4-15 Sunday: Is 55:6-9; Ps 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18; Phil 1:20c-24, 27a; Mt 20:1-16a

Today’s Readings First Reading — Whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, they lived (Numbers 21:4b-9). Psalm — Do not forget the works of the Lord! (Psalm 78). Second Reading — Christ Jesus, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God something to be grasped (Philippians 2:6-11). Gospel — God so loved the world that he gave his only Son so that those who believe might have eternal life (John 3:13-17). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Today is the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, September 14th. I had to look up exaltation, and it means to raise high, to elevate by praise: glorify. The Responsorial Psalm is, “Do not forget the works of the Lord!” (Psalm 78:1bc-2,34-34,36-37,38) The Gospel according to St. John tells us that “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

ONE SOLITARY LIFE (Author Unknown)

He was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman. He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He never traveled 200 miles from the place where he was born. He did none of these things one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was only 33 when public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies and went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. When he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on earth. When he died, he was laid to rest in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race, the leader of mankind's progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together, have not affected the life of man on earth as much as that One Solitary Life.

We are all so very blessed to have Him in our lives. Lives of questions, love, service, prayer and accountabil-ity and lives in which we try to be the best that we can be.

Serving Him Together, Barb A.

Together Let Us Cause God Joy

Artifacts on loan in the display cases in the Narthex are now available for retrieval after Masses. We thank you so much for sharing your treasures with the parishion-ers of St. Ann’s as we celebrated our centennial year! If you are unable to pick up your items then, please call the Parish Office at 708-895-6700 to make other ar-rangements.

We are in need of a

Catechist to teach 3rd Grade Religious Education

classes on Sundays from 8:45 - 10:15 p.m.

Free training provided! Please call Barb at the Parish Office: 895-6700.

THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS September 14, 2014

Christ Jesus emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness.

— Philippians 2:7

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SUNDAY COLLECTION SUNDAY: $9,765.35 ST. ANN 50-50 CLUB: $1,390.26

Thank you for your continued support of our parish.

St. Ann’s 50-50 Club

Our August 31 winning number was 5145. 5145 won $5,507.59. CONGRATULATIONS!

DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

To be eligible, both your 50-50 ($5.00) and weekly collection envelopes (no limit, but at least $5) with separate payments must be in the parish office by 9:00 a.m. Monday. If you donate by check, you need to write two separate checks.

Look for the winners in each bulletin, on our facebook page, or on the parish website:

www.saintanncatholicparish.com

St. Ann Women’s Club meetings will resume on Thurs-day, September 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Narthex, where Margaret and Anne will present their rendition of “Sunday School Revelations.” Refreshments will be served. Please join us for a new year of fun and friendship! Dues will remain at $10 per year. FMI, call Anne at 474-3067.

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We now offer a selection of “Cash and Carry” gift cards through the Parish Office. We buy the gift cards from our vendor at a discount, you pay face value for them, and the difference comes back to us to use for needed projects around St. Ann’s (such as paying off our $32k snow plowing bill from this past winter). School and Religious Ed. families and their friends can also choose to designate the credits to their TRIP accounts. Registered users may pay by check or cash (forms are in the Parish Office); unregistered walk-ins must pay by cash only. The office is open M-F, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., closed for lunch from Noon-1:00 p.m. Call ahead for availability, 895-6700.

amazon.com AMC Theaters

Applebee’s Bath & Body Works Bed, Bath & Beyond

Beggar’s Pizza Buffalo Wild Wings

Chili’s Chipotle

CVS Dunkin’ Donuts

GFS Gus Bock Hardware

Home Depot iTunes

J. J. Kelley’s

Jewel Kmart Kohl’s Meijer

Menards Mobil/Exxon

Olive Garden/Red Lobster Panera

Speedway Starbuck’s

Stracks/Ultra Foods Subway Target

Walgreen’s Walmart/Sam’s Club

Help St. Ann School get off to a great start! We earn up to 20% on each Market Day purchase every month. Now, more than ever, your order

can make a big difference.

Pickup will be Saturday, Sept. 20 from 10-11:00 a.m. in the Narthex.

Parish Gift Card Program

September Market Day Orders Are Due in Church by Sept. 14, in School by Sept. 15,

or Online at marketday.com by 11:00 p.m. Sept. 17.

“At first I purchased from Market Day to support my kids’ school. I discovered that there are some really great meal options . . . at a reasonable price. I love supporting my school and getting my (groceries) at the same time.”

―StaceM29, OH

School Maintenance

Life Style Catalog Sale At Market Day Pickup on September 20,

a er Masses September 27-28, and online at marketdayfundraising.com

(Sale ID: 212761 • Student ID: 3649616 • First Name: St. Last Name: Ann • Ph: 895-1661 • Leader: Monica Scheppe)

Our goal is to raise $10,000 so we can con nue to remove damaged carpet and replace with new le in the

classrooms. Choose from a wide variety of gi and household items, wrapping paper, nuts and candy, maga-

zine subscrip ons, and more! Over 70 items are under $10. Our profit is at least 52% on all sales. If you know a

St. Ann Student, ask to see his or her catalog.

Women’s Club

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September 13-14, 2014 Dear St. Ann Parish Family,

Safety First! Special thanks to our Lansing Fire Department, who will be bringing their Fire Safety Trailer to our school parking lot for our K-2 stu-dents on Monday. Lansing’s Finest will give our stu-dents home safety tips and practice in exiting safely in case of a home fire. We pray for our fire department, police department, first responders and our Nation’s mil-itary daily.

Smile, Picture Day is Wednesday Our students are usually pretty happy campers, but on Wednesday they will bring their extra big smiles for Picture Day. We’ll start with our little ones and work our way up to junior high, concluding with photographing our leaders of the school. I hope my hair cooperates.

Progress Reports Thursday Yes, you read correctly…it’s already progress report time! While students’ grades are online on PowerSchool, we send home a mid-term progress report to all students. I like to think of it as “half-time.” We are all works in progress; it’s excellent data to assess how our students are doing and what areas need improvement.

High School Recruitment Day―Thursday Area Cath-olic high schools within the Archdiocese of Chicago will send representatives to St. Ann School to give our 7th and 8th graders information about continuing their Catholic education. It’s always nice to see our Alumni come back for these presentations to inform our students about what lies ahead.

8th Graders to Learn Team-Building Skills at Irons Oaks―Friday Our leaders of the school will venture out to the beautiful forest preserves of Irons Oaks in Olympia Fields to participate in team building skills. Slathered in bug spray and armed with sunscreen, the Class of 2015 will engage in various activities to puzzle, challenge, and then unite.

I leave you this week with Rough-rider Moments…snapshots of our school family at work.

If you know of someone that would like to join our school fami-ly, please spread the good word of St. Ann. God bless our Parish! Serving the Lord with Gladness,

Mrs. Bonnie Hall, Principal

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nn Supper Club Wednesday,

September 17, 2014 St. Ann Supper Club is a

monthly fundraiser in which local establishments return

to us a percentage of all food purchases made by St. Ann

community members and friends.

BOTTOMS UP BAR & GRILL 1696 Thornton-Lansing Rd., 708-418-3877

Treat yourself to a nice lunch or dinner out, and take a well-deserved break from cooking. Come in any time between 11:00 a.m. and 10:00 p.m., turn in the St. Ann Supper Club voucher when you order, and our friends at Bottoms Up will donate back 20% of all St. Ann sup-porters’ dine-in and carryout purchases!

Are you a parent, grandparent, relative or friend of St. Ann’s who is interested in helping our children ages 18 and under in any way? In order to be a volunteer, coach, Religious Ed. instructor, Scout leader, field trip chaperone, lunch room helper or serve in any other ca-pacity with children present, you need to be Virtus trained and complete a background check with the Archdiocese. You only need to do this once, and it is recommended that all school parents take care of the requirements as soon as possible.

UPCOMING VIRTUS TRAINING Tuesday, September 16, 7:00 p.m.

Infant Jesus, 1131 Douglas Avenue, Flossmoor

Thursday, September 18, 7:00 p.m. Christ Our Savior (St. Jude), South Holland

Please visit www.archchicago.org and click on the Protecting Children tab to get started. Online registra-

tion is available under the Training tab.

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Ministry Fair: September 13-14

Youth Group Can Collection: September 21

Halloween Pancake Breakfast: Oct. 25

Upcoming Events

pennies for plowing WE DID IT! Our last week was our biggest ever, bring-ing in over $1200 total! You guys have been amaz-ing, and I hope you had as much fun seeing the weekly results as we did. Because of you, we can knock over $7,000 off that snowplow debt! Congrat-ulations to the 4:00 p.m. Saturday Mass, winner of the special hospitality and bragging rights. We will an-nounce a date soon.

keep saving those pennies! We will leave one of the collection bottles in the Nar-thex to collect future donations for our plow bill. You’ve demonstrated how nicely those pennies can add up. Thank you so much for your generosity!

St. Ann 2014 penny drive

WEEK ELEVEN 4:00 8:30 10:30 Totals Coin 176.23 90.91 73.83 340.97 Bills 108 352 158 618

Checks 260 20 10 290 544.23 462.91 241.83 1248.97

As of 9/7 3229.96 2580.32 1449.16 7259.44

MOTHER’S DAY ULTIMATE PAYDAY! OUR NEXT EARLY BIRD DRAWING IS NOV. 23!

We’re asking all parishioners to try to purchase or sell at least two tickets. If you haven’t received your tickets in the

mail, or would like to request more to sell/buy, please call the Parish Office at 895-6700. Payments and filled-in stubs can be sealed in an envelope and dropped in the col-lection basket at weekly Masses, or mailed or dropped off to the Parish Office, 3010 Ridge Road, Lansing, IL 60438. Don’t forget to fill out both sides of the stubs, as there will also be a prize for the seller of the Grand Prize winning ticket! Our next Early Bird drawing is Sunday, Novem-ber 23, just in time for Black Friday!

GRAND PRIZE $25,000 2ND PRIZE $5,000 3RD PRIZE $2,500 4TH PRIZE $1,000 5TH PRIZE $500

Seller of the Grand Prize Ticket will receive $500

TWO EARLY BIRD DRAWINGS LEFT: • Thanksgiving Bonanza $1,000 • Super Bowl Bonus $500

Cub Scout Pack 247 Presents

The Traveling World of Reptiles

Tuesday, September 16 7:00 p.m. in the School Hall

All kids & their families are invited to join us as we welcome the Traveling World of Reptiles and its cold-blooded menagerie for this fun presentation. There will also be information and applications on hand for anyone interested in Cub Scouts. Boys do not have to be St. Ann students or parishioners to join, so bring your friends! FMI, call or text Cub Master Steve Po-lanski at 708-227-5497 or email lansingcspack247@gmail.com.

ALUMINUM CAN COLLECTION

GraFFiti Youth Group members will collect aluminum cans in the church parking lot after Sunday Masses on September 21.

St. Victor Trivia Night Saturday, September 20

Our neighbors to the north have been running successful Trivia Nights for years. Wouldn’t it be fun to have one at St. Ann’s? The next one at St. Victor is coming up on September 20. Let’s all go check it out together!

Admission is $5 per person, and doors open at 6:30, with the game starting at 7:30. Teams may have up to six players. Don’t have a team? They will find one for you! Bring your own snacks; there will be beer, wine, pop, water, and one food item available for purchase.

St. Victor is located at 553 Hirsch, Calumet City, IL. FMI, contact George Grenchik at 708-862-1568 or gjgrenchik@aol.com.

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Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014 4:00 p.m. Mass

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 8:30 a.m. Mass

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Sunday, Sept. 21, 2014 10:30 a.m. Mass

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

USHERS SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

LECTORS Bonnie Hall - L1 Mike Kabala - L2 Annette Leber - Com

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Frank Pollachek Gail Lee Paulette Lofrano Jim Neff Georgette Olson Dan Owles

LEADER

Fran Miller

ALTAR SERVERS Sebastian Manrique Kayla Schassburger Robert Vasquez

CANTOR Clarita Morris

LECTORS Gerrie Szewczyk - L1 Enid Wells - L2 Charles Bentley - Com

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Ann Beese Linda Fogarty Diane Miller-DeSoto Pat Kranc Dominic Podsiadlik Vera Seymour

LEADER

Phyllis Duffield

ALTAR SERVERS Emily Farlow Claire Farlow Aidan McSwiggan

CANTOR Mary Beth Benson

LECTORS Chris Jacobson - L1 Tammy Ahern - L2 Gabriel Jacobson - Com

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Martes Benne Amir Abu-Ghazaleh Nicole Jablonski Laura Pich Pam Mizwicki Ann Mossak-Johnson Sharon Nadalin Mark Nadalin Penny Rellis Kathy Sandrick

LEADER Cynthia Hope

ALTAR SERVERS Ian Ahern Connor Gill Jeremy Gill

CANTOR John Sandrick

4:00 p.m. Mass Archange Cadichon Bob Cole (Leader) Tom McDermott Frank Novak Frank Pollachek (Leader) Phill Stewart Carol Ann Surufka Wally Szulczewski

8:30 a.m. Mass Norm Abbott Joe Cardenas Anthony Cusimano Tony DeLaurentis (Leader) Tony Kaim Mary Louise MacKenzie Art Sobczak (Leader) Gene Stein Al Torres

10:30 a.m. Mass Bernard Chukwulebe Ron Fisher (Leader) Ana Johnson Larry Mueller Eamon Polanski (Leader) Dom Ramirez Don Schiller Matthew Shapiro Wally Shatkowski (Leader)

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE PARISH OFFICE! LACE, The Lansing Association for Community Events is hard at work planning the 3rd Annual Autumn Fest to take place October 10-12. Raffle tickets are $20 for a chance to win $10,000 or one of several other cash priz-es. St. Ann's is once again selling the raffle tickets, and we earn back a portion of every one purchased from us.

Last year, three of our parishioners won top prizes with tickets they bought from St. Ann's!

(Pay by cash or checks made payable to L.A.C.E.)

October 10-12, 2014

WOULD YOU LIKE TO GET INVOLVED? LACE is planning a picnic for Lansing Autumn Fest volun-teers on September 16th from 5 to 7 p.m. at Park Plaza. Come out and enjoy a hot dog, chips and a beverage if you register to volunteer at the fest! Sign up to work four hours during the Fest, and you will also get a Lan-sing Autumn Fest volunteer t-shirt.

St. Ann Catholic Church Bulletin #038050 Bulletin Editor Jennifer Gray 708-895-9972 Sunday, September 14, 2014 Microsoft Office Publisher 2010

St. Ann Parish 3010 Ridge Road Lansing, IL 60438