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St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church (214) One Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church www.stmarkindy.org Sunday, September 29, 2013


Parish Office Hours: Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 6:00PM Parish Center Phone: 317-787-8246 Pastor Fr. Todd Riebe Ext. 106 [email protected]

Administrative Assistant Chris Guedel Ext. 100 [email protected] Dir. Of Youth Ministry Julie Albertson Ext. 101 [email protected]

Business Manager Kevin Sweeney Ext. 102 [email protected]

Music Director Andy Eagan Ext. 105 [email protected] Director of Faith Formation Deacon Tom Horn Ext. 103 [email protected]

St. Mark Catholic School 541 E. Edgewood Avenue

Indianapolis, IN 46227 317-786-4013 School Principal Rusty Albertson Ext. 201 [email protected] School Secretary Peggy Mehalik Ext. 200 [email protected]

Sunday: Amos 6:1a, 4-7; 1 Timothy 6:11-16; Luke 16:19-31 Monday: Zechariah 8:1-8; Luke 9:46-50 Tuesday: Zechariah 8:20-23; Luke 9:51-56 Wednesday: Nehemiah 2:1-8; Matthew 18:1-5,10 Thursday: Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12; Luke 10:1-12 Friday: Baruch 1:15-22; Luke 10:13-16 Saturday: Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29; Luke 10:17-24 Sunday: Hebrew 1:2-3,2:2-4; 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14 Luke 17:5-10

Readings For The Week 9/29/2013 ~ 10/06/2013

Contacts / Information

Sunday, September 29-Twenty Sixth Sunday- Ordinary Time 7:30 a.m. — Parishioners of St. Mark 9:30 a.m. — Ralph Siebel 11:45 a.m. — Intentions of Katie & Mike Leach celebrating their 25th Wedding Anniversary

Monday, September 30 - Saint Jerome 9:00 a.m.— Communion Service Tuesday, October 1 - St. Therese of the Child Jesus 9:00 a.m. - Mary Berger Wednesday, October 2 - The Holy Guardian Angels 9:00 a.m. — Jim Berger Thursday, October 3 – Weekday - 9:00 a.m. — Edward Lamperski Friday, October 4 - Saint Francis of Assisi 8:15 a.m. - Fran Maguire Saturday, October 5- Weekday 5:30 p.m.— Marjorie Ann Gottemoeller Sunday, October 6-Twenty Seventh Sunday- Ordinary Time 7:30 a.m. — Mary Lynn Cavanaugh 9:30 a.m. — Libby Thomas 11:45 a.m. — Parishioners of St. Mark

Lorraine Braasch, Betty Swift, Helen Eckhart, Don Bundy, John Perkins, Linda Lilly, Don and Marybeth Bowling, Betty Mouser, Elaine Alexander Ron Shockey, Barbara Beaton, Betty Newman, Sarah Clements, Harold and Joan Matthews, Jim Reed, Sandra Wheeler, Lucinda Krupa, Noah Duffer, Kathleen Rapp, Barb Taylor, Lisa Engelking, Maddy Justice, Roland Daeger, Molly Brown, Mike Hendrickson, Carolyn Walters, Margaret Strack, Pat Hurley, Kim Huffman, Patty Schmalz, Melanie Brady, Penny Bowling, Lucy Hopkins and Tan-ja Wozniewski. MILITARY: Please pray for our women and men in the Armed Forces.

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Mass Intentions


Question of the Week Q. A common misconception about the Catholic Church is that the pope is infallible in all things. Is he? A. In a word, “No”! When it comes to what the weather will be or if the Green Bay Packers will win the Super Bowl, the pope has no ‘inside information’. The word ‘infallible’ means incapa-ble of being wrong or making mistakes. People sometimes mistakenly think that Catholics believe the dogma of papal infallibility applies to everything a pope says. That is certainly not the case. The biblical roots of the Church’s understanding of papal infalli-bility are found in Jesus’ promise in Matthew 6:18 that the Holy Spirit would guide the Church into all truth and in Luke 22:32 in which Jesus tells Peter to feed His sheep and that He had prayed for Peter so that his faith might not fail. From apostolic times the Church has understood that promise to guarantee that the Church will never fall away from Jesus’ teachings even if individual Catholics might. Confusion about infallibility often arises from confusing infalli-bility with impeccability. Impeccability is the inability to sin. Popes are sinners and Pope Francis was recently asked who Jorge Bergoglio (his name before becoming pope) is and he immediately responded, “A sinner”. Infallibility is not the inabil-ity to sin or to be wrong in personal or even theological opin-ions. Infallibility, as defined at the First Vatican Council in 1870, is a gift of the Holy Spirit given for the good of the Church in which when teaching on matters of faith or morals that are essential to our salvation, the Holy Spirit will not allow the pope in defin-ing the faith of the Church to error. The gift of infallibility is a gift that is given to the Church and exercised not only by the pope but by the bishops of the world who are in union with the bishop of Rome in teaching the faith. The exercise of infallibil-ity is very limited. Most doctrines of the Church have never been ‘infallibly’ defined. The Church’s faith that Jesus is the Son of God or that He is the Savior of the world have never been infallibly proclaimed because they are accepted as the faith of the Church. In modern times the dogma of the Immac-ulate Conception (1854) and the dogma of Mary’s Assumption into heaven (1950) are examples of popes defining the faith of the Church infallibly. Infallibility is a gift of God to the Church exercised through the Pope and the bishops of the Church as successors to the apostles guaranteeing that in those matters that are essential to salvation the Church cannot error. Bottom line: The Packers are on their own no matter how much Pope Francis might support them!

Dear friends, Heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped make our anni-versary celebration last Saturday such a beautiful and joy-filled event in the life of Saint Mark Parish. Thank you to Kevin Sweeney for carefully overseeing

the painting of the church and the new floor of the church. Thank you to Jill and Catalina Mendoza for helping design the floor and choosing the col-ors. Thank you to Bill Logan for expertly refinishing the altar and candle-holders. Thank you to Kathy Pierce and the members of our Art and Envi-ronment Committee for searching for and finding the new rug for the sanc-tuary and taking care of the thousand and one details that go into preparing the church for our parish liturgies. Thank you to Andy Eagan, our parish choir and musicians for the glorious music at the Mass of Thanksgiving and to Toni Hamilton and all who served as ministers at Saturday’s Mass. Very special thanks to Fr. John Geis, Deacon Danny Bedel and seminarians James Brockmeier and Josh Miller for joining us for the Mass and the anniversary celebration. Thank you to Donna and Chuck Kern and Marie Hibner of Val Vista for the delicious food enjoyed at the reception and to Julie Albertson and the parish youth who graciously served the food and drinks at the reception with great enthusiasm and care. Special thanks to Beth and Joel Groves for chairing the Anniversary Com-mittee and to Art Berkemeier for so ably serving as our Master of Ceremo-nies. Thank you to Dave Jackson and Jerry Gaydos for preparing and presenting the special gift to recognize Harold Matthews craftsmanship and generosity in building the altar, ambo, tabernacle and candleholders that grace our church. Thank you to Rusty Albertson for patiently editing the videos that had been made twenty years ago and to Fr. John Geis, the late Nolene Scott and Art Berkemeier for providing the historic material contained in the videos. Thank you to Patty and Larry Schmaltz for helping us recognize and thank Sister Marilyn Herber. Thank you to Deacon Tom Horn for helping present the anniversary plaques and to Sister Marilyn and Garod Cavanaugh for unveiling the plaques honoring Monsignor Lawler and Mary Lynn Cavanaugh. Thank you to Archbishop Tobin for the kind words he sent the parish in his letter of congratulations and to Micky Lentz for bringing and reading that message to us. And thank you to our parish Administrative Assistant, Chris Guedel, for being in a million and one places at the same time making sure that every-thing came off so well! But above all, we thank God for His gracious and faithful care of Saint Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church for the past 65 years! See you at Mass!

Question of Week Message from Ft. Todd


IT’S NEVER TOO LATE!!!

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Confirmation Prep SMRE (Sunday Morning Religious Ed) RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) If you have missed…..

Military St. Mark offers a unique resource for military families with sol-diers away, and returning soldiers disabled as a result of con-flict, who need to resume their lives as engaged and nurturing parents and family members.

St. Mark Inclusion Ministry

St. Mark will be represented by 47 youth and adults at this year’s National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) to be held Nov. 21-23. The St. Mark youth

ministry is asking for donations of Pop-Tarts, granola bars, sin-gle-serve pastries, trail mix and bottled juices. If you would like to donate, please bring your food items to the parish center. Thank you for all your generous support! Please contact Julie Albertson with any questions at [email protected] or call the parish office, 787-8246 ext. 101. NCYC meeting next Sun. Oct. 6th, 7-8:30pm

A new group is forming for young adults of St. Mark. All adults ages 22-35 are welcome to join us for our first meet-ing on Monday, October 7 from 6:30-7:30pm in the Courtesy room next to the sanctuary. Upcoming dates will include opportunities for spiritual renewal as well as social gatherings. Please direct any questions to Julie Al-bertson at [email protected]

BE THE MIRACLE TODAY Sept. 29 from 8:30am—1:30pm you will have the oppor-tunity to donate blood, here, at St. Mark.

Nocturnal Adoration Nocturnal Adoration is held the first Friday of each month in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel. For the coming month of October, it will begin on Friday, Oc-

tober 4, 2013 with the first hour at 7pm and will rotate every hour on the hour through the night. If you would like to know more about Nocturnal Adoration or if you would like to join a team, please call the parish office.

Pro-Life You are invited to be a part of National Life Chain Sunday, October 6 from 2:30-3:30pm. Join hundreds of other churches for ONE HOUR of prayer and be counted as one of thousands to stand up for the unborn in prayer before our Lord. We will stand on Meridian Street, down-town Indianapolis, in silent prayer. No food or drink please during Life Chain unless it is a medical need. If you cannot stand for one hour, you may bring a chair to sit (students should not be sitting.) If you are interested in carpooling to Life Chain, meet in St. Mark North parking lot by 2pm If you have questions, please call Sharon Shockey, 784-2690.

Hope and Healing Support Group Our suicide survivor support meeting will be on Thursday, October 10 at 7pm in the Media Center.

Elsie’s Hats and Gloves As you are out shopping, please remember to stock up on hats, gloves, and scarves for Elsie’s Hats and Gloves for Holy Cross. We distribute the items on the Monday before Christmas. If you are able to help us we would be happy to have more elves!

If you need for us to take your items (to make room for more), please call Cathy Weinmann, 317-697-1088 or send an email, [email protected] We will take your goodies off your hands at anytime. Thanks for all your support in this VERY much needed gift.

Parish Life

Inclusion Insight

Faith Formation

Youth Ministry

Young Adults


Pizza Sale St. Mark Pizza Sale - order some great fresh Gallagher’s Pizza during our St. Mark Catholic School Pizza Sale! Order forms and payment are due in the parish or school office by Oct. 2nd. You can pick up your fresh made Gallagher’s Pizza

at the school in the Art room (room 22) on Thursday, Oct. 10th form 4:30pm - 6pm. You can also purchase pizza cards so you can pick up your pizza from Gallagher’s when you wish! Order forms can be found in the Narthex, parish or school office. Thank you for your support!

Pumpkins, Mums and Bake Sale The eighth grade will be selling pumpkins, mums and baked goodies on Fri Oct 4th from 3-6pm and Sat. Oct 5th from 9am to noon. The sale location will be in front of Monsignor Schafer Hall.

Dine Out Night St. Mark Dine out night event at Chik-fil-A (Southport Road) is Thurs. Oct

10th., 4-8pm.

St. Mark Craft Fair: The PTG is sponsoring the Craft Fair on Saturday, Nov 9 from 8:00am to 3:00pm in Monsignor Schafer Hall. Christmas gifts, handmade crafts and homemade goodies will be available for you to pur-chase. If you are interested in participating as a vendor, registra-tion forms will be available in the school office or you may contact Tia Agresta at [email protected] or Abby Lowery at [email protected]. Booths are $20 for non electric booth and $30 for an electric booth.

School News Monday, September 30, 2013 Communion Service - Church (9:00 AM - 9:45 AM)

QUILTERS - Quilter Room (10:00 AM - 12:00 PM)

After Care - Media Center School (3:00 PM - 6:00 PM)

Men's Club - SH Gym (7:30 PM - 9:00 PM) Tuesday, October 01, 2013 MASS - Church 9:00 AM


Bell Choir in Church (6:00 PM - 7:00 PM)

Cursillo - Church (6:00 PM - 7:30 PM)

Liturgy Committee - Parish BR (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

SPRED - Media Center School (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM) Wednesday, October 02, 2013 School Pictures - SCHOOL (8:30 AM - 3:00 PM)

MASS - Church 9:00 AM


Small Church Comm. - Courtesy Room (7:00 PM - 8:30 PM)

School Commisssion in Parish BR (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

RCIA - Media Center School (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

QUILTERS - Quilter Room (7:00 PM - 9:30 PM)

Ensemble - Church (7:30 PM - 9:00 PM) Thursday, October 03, 2013 6th grade Camp Tecumseh - Off site (6:00 AM - 12:00 AM)



Brownies in Parish Cen. Basement Lg (6:30 PM - 8:30 PM)

Adult choir - Church (7:00 PM - 9:15 PM) Friday, October 04, 2013 6th grade Camp Tecumseh - Off site (6:00 AM - 12:00 AM)



Wedding/Rehersal in Church (5:00 PM - 7:00 PM)

Nocturnal Adoration - Church (7:00 PM - 7:00 AM) Saturday, October 05, 2013 Wedding Church/Schafer Hall/Gym (10:00 AM - 4:00 PM)

Cub Scouts - SH Gym (4:00 PM - 12:00 AM)

Cub Scouts - South Parking lot (4:00 PM - 12:00 AM)

MASS - Church 5:30 PM Sunday, October 06, 2013 MASS - Church 7:30 AM, 9:30 AM, 11:45 AM

SMRE - Parish Cen. Basement Lg (9:00 AM - 11:00 AM)

SMRE - SCHOOL (9:00 AM - 11:45 AM)

CRHP-Horn - Media Center School (1:00 PM - 2:30 PM)

Men's CRHP-Gossett - Media Center (6:45 PM - 8:45 PM)

NCYC Group - S.H Basement (7:00 PM - 9:00 PM)

Calendar Of Events


Young Adults A new group is forming for young adults of St. Mark. All adults ages 22-35 are welcome to join us for our first meeting, MONDAY, OCTOBER 7th from 6:30-7:30pm in the Courtesy Room next to the sanctuary. Upcoming dates will include opportunities for spiritual renewal as well as social gatherings. Please direct any questions to Julie Albertson, [email protected]

St. Vincent DePaul

We are looking for interested parishioners to help in the ministry of St. Vincent de Paul. Our meetings are held on the 3rd Thursday of each month. We would love for you to come and see what exactly it is that we do. Our current SVDP treasurer, Michelle Johnson, is retiring from the position at the end of this month. We have a need for a person to be our treasurer starting in October. There are approximately 6 financial transactions each month. The person do not need to do any home visits. If you are interested in learning more about this, you may call Paula Egenolf, Daryl Fry, Ron Mikkelson, or Michelle Johnson.

Birth Line If you have any baby items or baby furniture you no longer need, please think about donating them to our Birthline ministry. If you have any maternity clothing or large size clothing, this too is being accepted and you can place your items in the basket marked “Birthline”. Your support is greatly appreciated.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Out of the Darkness Walk was September 14th in Indianapolis. The Walk itself raised over $130,000 with the goal being $125,000. Mon-ies can be collected for this until December 31st of this year, so it may be even higher. Our Team FIREFLIERS’ raised around $17,000 with our goal being $15,000. Thank you for all you did whether it be monetary, walking, and/or prayers. Thank you. Indiana has the highest number of suicides in the country. This does NOT need to continue.

Parish Groups FREEDOM to be FAITHFUL Learn how our religious freedom is being threatened and what each of us can do to defend it. On Sunday, Sept. 29 from 1:30pm—3:30pm St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 8300 Rahke Road will be serving up two great American traditions, apple pie and Religious Freedom. The keynote speaker is Eric Scheidler, Pro-Life Action League along with a list of other speaker. All are invited. Painting, Praying and Playing with Watercolor Deepen your creative spirituality on Sat. Oct 5 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind. “Paining, Praying, and Playing with Water-color,” is a daylong retreat for all, regardless of are ability. Participants will be introduced to simple, playful tech-niques of painting with watercolor as a means to enter into and expressing prayer and spirituality. Sister Corlita Bonnarens, RSM will lead the retreat. Cost is $75. The event will begin at 9am and will end at 5pm. In Provi-dence Hall. Fro more information call 812-535-2952 or email; [email protected] or www.ProvCenter.org

St. Mark CYO is open to ALL registered children of the parish. St. Mark registration and CYO physical exam forms are available in the church narthex, parish office, school office, and the school and parish web sites. You must register for each sport using a St. Mark registration form PLUS complete a CYO registration. CYO registra-tion is performed online at www.cyoarchindy.org. Follow the “Register Child” link and complete the information re-quested. Please contact Patrick Collier at 881-0316 or [email protected] for more information.

Community


As a community of faith, we are committed to safeguard our children and youth, the most important gifts God has entrusted to us. The following rules and regulations reflect that commitment and apply to clergy, employees, and volunteers. All volunteers, CYO coaches, CYO concession workers, school volunteers, Men’s Club volunteers, Choir members Committee members and Eucharistic Ministers to mention only a few of our volun-teers.. In short, all who volunteer at St. Mark should participate in the Safe and Sacred program.

This program is designed to broaden the focus of the training to increase awareness of all forms of child abuse. Not mat-ter what your area of the parish volunteerism is, please sign up for the Safe and Sacred program. Safe and Sacred is an online line program designed to provide easier access to child protection training for clergy, employ-ees and all volunteers. There is 24/7 access on line with paper copies upon request. The program takes just 45 minutes to complete and covers all forms of abuse (sexual, emotion and physical) and neglect. Each volunteer will receive a certif-icate upon completion.

All volunteers the link to the Safe and Sacred Program, www.safeandsacred-archindy.org. This link is posted on the Archdiocesan website, www.archindy.org, under Child Safety and Misconduct Reporting. Thank you for all you do for the St. Mark Community! For more information please email [email protected].

Our Lady of Grace Monastery

Safe and Sacred-All Parish Volunteers

Our next come and See Voca-tion Retreat will take place Fri-day, evening October 25-Sunday afternoon, October 27,2013. It will give women the opportunity to spend a weekend with us and experience the Ben-

edictine life of prayer, community, work and hospi-tality. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to call 317-787-3287 ext 3032 or email to [email protected]

Prolife Ministry Eucharistic Rosary Rally for Faith

and Freedom September 29, 2013

A Eucharistic Rally for the Protection of Our Religious Liberty with a Living Rosary will be held at Marian College on the Ath-letic Field on Sunday, September 29th from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Please join with Fr. Michael O'Mara, Fr. Robert Robeson, Fr. Glenn O'Connor, religious, seminarians, school children & fellow Catholics in praying for religious liberty in our coun-try. The keynote will be given by international speaker Fr. James Kelleher, S.O.L.T., founder of the Eucharistic Family Rosary Crusade. For more information call 317-888-0873. "All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." ~Edmond Burke

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