Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

more than keepers of the aquarium.

What Do I Say?

How Do I Say It?

What are Apologetics?

Happening this Wednesday, February 7th from 6-7:30 pm in the

parish center. Craig will be presenting “Apologetics:” All are

welcome. Let’s show Craig our enthusiastic interest.

PARISH STAFF

Pastor .............................................. Fr. Anthony J. Strouse Deacon ......................................................... Dave Jansen

School Principal .............................................. R.J. Kaplan

Religious Education Director .............. Cindee McColley

Minister of Music .......................................... Maria Sutara

PARISH PHONE NUMBERS

Parish Office ......................................................... 235-8574

School Office ....................................................... 235-8572

Religious Education ............................................. 235-8574

Minister of Music .................................................. 235-8574

Powers Catholic

High School .......................................................... 591-4741

E-Mail .............................................. spxparish@gmail.com

Prayer Warrior Ministry ............................... (810) 487-0871

SUNDAY MASSES

4:30 p.m. (Sat.); 9:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m.

WEEKDAY AND HOLYDAY MASSES

Consult weekly bulletin.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

Parents must be registered members of the parish and

must attend a workshop in preparation for Baptism. Call

the rectory office to make arrangements. SACRAMENT OF PENANCE (RECONCILIATION)

Saturdays 3:00 to 4:00 p.m., Tuesdays 5:30-6:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY

Contact the parish priest at least 9 months in advance.

One of the couple must be a registered member of the

parish. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK

Saturdays following the 4:30 p.m. Mass or call the rectory. COMMUNION TO THE HOMEBOUND

Call the rectory if you are aware of anyone who is

homebound.

BULLETIN DEADLINE

Monday, 9:00 a.m., in writing!

Hearing difficulties?

Please ask an usher for a Personal PA receiver.

St. Pius X Parish PARISH MISSION STATEMENT:

We, the community of St. Pius X in Flint rejoice in our communion with our bishop and brothers and sisters

in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lansing. Together, we worship, we teach, we serve.

G-3139 Hogarth Avenue, Flint, MI 48532

Parish/School Website: spxparish.com

Lenten Series from Renew/Arise

Follow Me begins Feb 14, 2018

There are two groups:

Thursday 12:30-2 pm and 6-7:30 pm. Both groups meet in

the Parish Center

ST. PIUS X PARISH FLINT, MICHIGAN

The Weekly Calendar

5th Sunday In Ordinary Time (†Mass Intention)

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4, Feast of St. Blase,

blessing of throats after Mass

Bring old palms to church for burning 9:00 † The parish 9:00 Adult Choir (church)

11:00 † Mary Ann Wells by Paul Wells and family 6:00 No Confirmation Prep

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 8:15 † Mark Klein by Lavern and Marjorie Klein 1:00 Altar Society meeting (parish center)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 8:15 † Wayne Partridge by Mary Cox

8:45 Tuesday Toasters (parish center)

12:30 Bible Study (parish center)

5:30 Confessions

7:00 K of C meeting (parish center)

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, SCHOOL MASS

8:15 † John Anderson by Mary Kay Anderson 6:00 Bible Study (parish center)

6:00 CCD (parish convent)

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8

6:45 Adult Choir practice (church)

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 8:15 † Edward Browning by Denise Williams

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, Mardi Gras dinner dance

K of C selling raffle tickets after Mass

10:00 SPX Worship Committee (choir room) 3:00 Confessions

4:30 † The parish

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, K of C selling raffle tickets

after all Masses

9:00 † Irene Starr by Dick and Doreen Schummer 9:00 Adult Choir (church)

10:00 K of C pancake breakfast (comm room)

11:00 † Frank Sowa by Sharon Welch

Altar Servers for February 10 & 11

4:30 L Decker, L Decker, S Jamison

9:00 D Stacy, D Dickson, volunteer

11:00 S VanCamp, A VanCamp, N VanCamp

Lectors for February 10 & 11 4:30 A Jamison 9:00 E Fitzgerald

11:00 C Smith

Don Antonio's Dispatch…

I hope to see you all at our Mardi Gras Dinner Dance on Saturday, 10 February. You don’t have to be married to attend, but if you are married, we’d love to honor your marriage at that dance. If you can, submit your wedding picture to the parish and it will be part of the decorations of the Bishop Povish Community Room. Believe it or not, Lent starts next week. Ash Wednesday is 14 February. I have already had a few questions about Ash Wednesday falling on St. Valentine’s Day. No, you are dispensed neither from fasting nor from abstaining from meat because Ash Wednesday is on St. Valentine’s Day. I would suggest doing all the chocolate and nice meal celebration on Fat Tuesday. Lent also begins our Soup Suppers. Alice Fritz is organizing the weekly events, but I know we can also use volunteers to provide some non-meat soup. If you or a group you’re with is interested, please call our parish office. We also had a “bring your own wine” option, that seemed to mysteriously increase the attendance at soup suppers. You don’t have to bring alcohol, and we don’t want anyone drinking drunk or buzzed, but if you’d like, I think this tradition may continue. This year I think I’m going to have a theme to my weekly Lenten reflections (last year they were very spur of the moment). Our theme for this year’s reflections will be “Praying Like Jesus.” We may have one week or two off this topic, but I’ll plan on sticking mainly to this theme. We also have Stations of the Cross which follows my talk. The Stations I use were composed by St. Alphonsus de Liguori, and are familiar to most people who have prayed the Stations. It’s a beautiful way to spend your Friday evenings, and we’ll begin the Friday after Ash Wednesday, 16 February. See you there!!

Week of: Jan 28, 2018 Year-to-Date

Budgeted income $ 9,600.00 $ 372,000.00

Actual income $ 8,836.00 $ 343,432.31

Surplus (deficit) $ (764.00) $ (28,567.69)

OUR WEEKLY COLLECTION

Get your tickets! SPX Mardi Gras Dinner Dance is Saturday, February 10, 2018. Doors open

at 5:30 pm/Dinner at 6:15 pm. Enjoy dancing, great company, spectacular colors and Fr. A as DJ!! You can purchase your ticket in the church office at any

time. Don’t forget to email or send in your wedding photo!

Men’s Annual Retreat Weekend at St. Francis Retreat Center from March 2 through March 4, 2018—The theme for this

retreat is “Entering the Heart of God: Praying the Lord’s Prayer in our Day”. For more information or to register, visit www.stfrancis.ws, call (517) 669-8321 or contact your parish representative. The suggested donation for the weekend is $175. Please prayerfully consider if God is calling you to set aside time for this encounter opportunity!

St. Pius X Altar Society— All ladies of the parish are welcome to attend the St. Pius X Altar Society meeting on Monday, February 5th at 1:00 pm. Snacks and beverages will be provided. We will also be holding a White Elephant sale (which was postponed from January). Bring your new or gently used treasures and join us for a fun afternoon!

Sr. Kathy Avery (former principal) and Sr. Mary Peter Caito (former teacher), Servants of Mary 125 Days of Prayer—Between February 16 and June 20, 2018 we invite you to email your intentions to us at: servites125@gmail.com or mail to: Servants of Mary 125 Days of Prayer, 7400 Military Ave, Omaha, NE 68134. Intentions will be collected and placed in a large prayer bowl near the altar in our Motherhouse chapel. Our sisters will pray for your individual intentions and a special petition for all intentions will be read at each Motherhouse liturgy. We wish to honor this history and our spiritual connection with you by offering prayers for you.

FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FEBRUARY 4, 2018

ST. PIUS X CATHOLIC SCHOOL

FAITH MOVING FORWARD Website: www.spxparish.com

Lighting a Fire at SPX

This past we week we celebrated Catholic Schools Week. It was a wonderful week filled with prayer, worship, a Grandparents’ breakfast, and funny dress up days. I always try to blend fun with our faith in hopes that the beauty of what we are doing is learned and not just lectured. Currently, I am in the process of reading a book by Bishop Barron titled: To Light a Fire on the Earth. One of the ways he tells us to spread the word of God is to explain the beauty in it and not necessarily the theology in it. Sure the theology must come, but hooking someone into following God can only come by showing them the beauty in why we love it so much. Let me explain it like this: I cannot tell teachers how to lead this school in my absence. I cannot sit them down and go through the procedures and protocols to ensure that things such as speeches, presentations, meetings, recess, responsibilities, and all the other things we have to do to operate, as if I were here doing it with them. But, what I can do is show them the beauty in making a difference in the children’s lives, how I try and reach out to all the families and greet them, and how to feel the Holy Spirit in this building and inside of each of them. Over time something as complex as a Mass for grandparents followed by a pancake breakfast runs perfectly. People were complementing me left and right with how I run things, how everything is done so perfectly here, and how my staff is so wonderful. What they do not know is that I was out sick and had ZERO input into the grandparent’s Mass. Teachers did everything and what people are seeing is the beauty in it because teachers saw the beauty in it first. Leadership sometimes means to light a fire but not to keep it going; others are supposed to do that. This week I am looking forward to getting some data about how our students are doing on their academics. They are taking their NWEA and ACT assessments and my hope is to share some successful news with you in the weeks ahead. Keep the Faith (1 Timothy 6:12) R.J. Kaplan Principal

ALTAR CARE-Team 3

Pam Warren, Janet Matuszewski

Tuesday afternoon Bible Study meets 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm in the parish center— February 6 & 20-2 Thessalonians and 1&2 Timothy

Come join us. Just prep for the class you plan to attend.

Wednesday evening Bible Study meets 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm in the Choir room. Please enter through the community room/gym doors between the parish center and the church. There is great

parking there as well. February 7 & 21-2 Thessalonians and 1&2 Timothy

Religious Education Department

“Keep your children connected to their faith” There is no CCD February 7, so all parents and catechists may join our speaker Craig Pohl in the parish center. Craig will be discussing Apologetics. February study is: Jesus. Parents may register their children anytime-- there is no deadline to learning about Jesus. Please keep our second grade students in your prayers as they begin their sacramental prep for Reconciliation and Eucharist.

The Divine Mercy Apostolate is a Eucharist Apostolate active at SPX. You may join this Apostolate at any time. The study does not build on the previous week. You will need the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a bible and the first manual and of course, the Diary of St. Faustina. The

Chaplet is sung on the first Thursday of the month with the school children at 9:45 a.m. in the church. Check the bulletin and join us. Our next cenacle meeting is Monday, February 6th from 6-7:30 p.m. in the parish center. We will be in week 16 in the manual. The extra reading is in the diary, pages 160-169.

So, what’s this Morning Glory Retreat all about anyway? Well it’s about a 3- month retreat to prep for Consecration to Mary shortened to an individual 33 day retreat.; Mary’s special role in drawing us into the heart of Jesus; and, Mary’s important mission given to her by Jesus at the foot of the cross. It helps us understand how important Mary is to our Catholic faith and the understanding of Jesus’ deep love for each

of us. We will read about four great saints, their love for Mary and their Consecration to her. (three of them male). Our next Morning Glory retreat will begin with the intro the week of March 19 and Consecration day will be on May 13. Please keep this opportunity in prayer and continue to look to the bulletin for reminders.

We are beginning a Mary book study, February 14 on Ash Wednesday. The group meets at 11:30 a.m. in the parish center. We will be reading the book called, “The Life of The Blessed Virgin Mary” from the Visions of Anne Catherine Emmerich. You can pick up the book at Barnes & Nobles, Wal-Mart, Google play for under $20.00 and TAN Publishing who has the ebook for .99. The group will only

meet once a month. The dates are: February 14, March 14, April 11, May 9 and June 13. It’s ok if you have to miss. Check the website under Adult Formation for the reading assignments. https://spxparish.com/book-study-1

St. Pius X/St. Robert’s Youth Group: For current schedule/details please contact Nick Pobocik at (810) 659-2501 or at: npobocik@strobertschool.com

Lenten Soup Suppers at St. Pius X—Beginning on Friday, February 16th and the following Fridays of Lent, we will be having Soup Suppers in the Bishop Povish Community Room at 5:45 pm. Following this time of socializing and good food, Fr. Anthony will share a Lenten reflection at 6:30 pm and lead Stations of the Cross at 7:00 pm. All parishioners are welcome. If you would like to provide a soup for any of these six evenings, please call Alice Fritz at (810) 695-7990.

Powers Catholic High School—Save the date, April 14, 2018. Join us for a night of reconnecting with Powers friends, families and alumni at Fenton Winery & Brewery at 6:30 pm, 1370 N. Long Lake Road, Fenton, MI. Contact the Powers Catholic Office of Advancement at (810) 591-0100. Invite and details to follow.