St. Church 131 Rohde, Cincinnati, Ohio

Fr. Thomas King, Pastor

In residence: Fr. Carl Wollering

Pastoral Administrator: Ron Kienzle

Office 5858 Kellogg Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45230 (513) 231-7042

Office Hours: 1 – 5 PM Monday – Thursday 1 – 3 PM Friday

www.st-jerome-cinci.org

St. Vincent DePaul: (513) 624-3147

131 Rohde Street The Thirty-Third Sunday in Mass Schedule Ordinary Time Saturday evening 5:00 PM XVI Novembris MMXIV Sunday 9:30 AM Weekdays 7:30 PM Tuesday and First Friday

Reconciliation before weekend Masses and by appointment

Pregnancy assistance services (nationwide) 1-800-848-LOVE

Baptisms and Weddings: Call the Rectory (513) 231-7042

How to register at St. Jerome’s: New member registration packets are under the table to the right as you leave church. Fill out the registration form and return that form by dropping it in the collection basket, or mailing it to the Rectory at 5858 Kellogg Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45230. If you have any questions, please call the Rectory at 231-7042. Mass Schedule Date Time Petition Petitioner Sat 11/15 5:00 PM C. Noble Kathryn Triplett Sun 11/16 9:30 AM Rose Klotz Norm Klotz Tue 11/18 7:30 PM Elena Galella Meg Coogan and Family Fri 11/21 10:00 AM Personal Petitions The Assembly Sat 11/22 5:00 PM Julie Piliaris Norm Klotz The Intentions of Louis Sun 11/23 9:30 AM Patti Prugh Bucheit Tue 11/25 7:30 PM Mike Davis Mike McCabe

Minister Assignments for November 22nd and 23rd, 2014 Communion Date/Time Lector Servers Ushers Minister Saturday 11/22 Jim Tuke Ron Hermann Bill Ellis Tim Hogan 5:00 PM Vince Andres Mike Molloy Sunday 11/23 Zach Auer Cindy Richmond Carol Simons Bro. Julian 9:30 AM Todd Spitzmueller Mike Adams

What’s Happening? Monday 11/17 St. Gregory the Wonder Worker* Monday 11/17 7:30 PM Come and Savor in the rectory Friday 11/21 Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary** Saturday 11/22 5:00 PM Entire collection is for CCHD Sunday 11/23 9:30 AM Entire collection is for CCHD Sunday 11/23 4:00 PM Ecumenical Prayer Service & Dinner in the parish hall†

Collection 11/8 and 11/9, 2014 $1,728.79 You are Gre aaaat!

†As our tradition continues, we will celebrate Thanksgiving with our dear friends from the California Columbia United Methodist Church. Together, we will pray, sing, and feast. The Methodists will bring beverages, salads, and desserts. We should bring a side dish. Our wonderful volunteers have again stepped forward to donate and cook turkeys, ham, dressing, and potatoes. Please join us at 4 PM Sunday November 23rd (the Sunday before Thanksgiving Day).

Words of Wisdom from Catholic Online *St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (better known as St. Gregory the Miracle Worker or Wonder Worker) was born about 213. Gregory was elected by the seventeen Christians of the city of Neocaesarea (in what is now ). It soon became apparent that he was gifted with remarkable powers. He preached eloquently, made so many converts he was able to build a church, and soon was so renowned for his miracles that he was surnamed Thaumaturgus (the wonderworker). It is reported that at his death at Neocaesarea, only seventeen unbelievers were left in the city. He is invoked against floods and earthquakes (he reportedly stopped the flooding Lycus River). We, here at St. Jerome Church, repeatedly ask for his intercession to protect our little church – so far, he is doing a great job. His is hanging above the back steps facing the Ohio River. His feast day is November 17th along with St. Elizabeth of Hungary.

The Marzeuser Lecture: Priests and the Jewish People at the time of the Holocaust will take place on Monday, November 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Bartlett Pastoral Center at the Athenaeum.The guest speaker will be Father Paweł Rytel-Andrianik, a renowned scripture scholar who grew up 3 miles from the notorious Nazi death camp of Treblinka where his grandfather was imprisoned. Fr. Rytel is driven by indebtedness to those who risked their lives to save others and will share his new research and reflections.

You Have Questions; We have answers **Friday, November 21st, is the Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. What? Where is that in Holy Scripture? There are writings which the leaders of the early Church decided to exclude from the Bible. These documents are called “apocryphal” or of doubtful authenticity. One of these books is the Protoevangelium of James, which, while quite interesting, does not seem to have been inspired by God. In it, the writer describes the birth and infancy of Mary and how her parents, Joachim and Anna, took her to live in the temple when she turned three. It also contains a weird story about how Mary was betrothed to Joseph. Although we are quite sure that these events are not historical, we believe that the anniversary feast of the Presentation of Mary is a continuation of our devotion to the Mother of God.

CCHD (the Catholic Campaign for Human Development) is the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic . Its mission is to address the root causes of poverty in America through promotion and support of community-controlled, self-help organizations and through transformative education. The purpose of CCHD efforts in the Archdiocese is two-fold. It seeks to educate parishioners about poverty in the U.S. and equip them to work for change, and to fund groups in the archdiocese who are working to end poverty. It funds groups through the donations you make to the CCHD collection.

Among the many accomplishments in the Archdiocese, CCHD funding helped to provide:  employment;  job training  education  educational programs and leadership training  life skills, leadership, and advocacy training  recovery of wrongfully withheld wages  protection of neighborhood residences from blight.

Across the 19-counties of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, about 1 in every 8 people live in poverty. In our urban counties, it can be about 1 in every 7; and in some rural counties, it can be 1 in nearly every 4!

The entire collection next weekend (11/22 and 11/23) will be sent to the Archdiocese for distribution to local agencies who make a positive difference in the poverty picture.