St. John the Baptist Catholic Church

Sunday, October 7, 2018 WEEKEND MASSES

ST. JOHN’S CHURCH 6:00 p.m. — Saturday 8:00 a.m. — Sunday

RIVERSIDE RESORT AND CASINO DON’S CELEBRITY THEATRE

4:00 p.m. — Saturday Physical Address: 3055 El Mirage Way 10:00 a.m. — Sunday Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31230 12:00 noon — Sunday Laughlin, Nevada 89028.1230 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. WEEKDAY MASSES Monday through Friday ST. JOHN’S CHURCH Telephone: 702.298.0440 F a x : 702.298.0279 8:00 a. m.

E-MailAddress:[email protected] Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Website: LaughlinCatholic.com and First Saturday of the month.

REV. CHARLES B. URNICK, ADMINISTRATOR Deacon Richard Lambert - Pastoral Support - Deacon Dan McHugh

MISSION STATEMENT: To serve the needs of the growing faith community in this part of Southern Nevada, composed of residents, weekend visitors and snowbirds who pray together, work together so as to build up the body of Christ; to be witnesses likewise, to the historical legacy of the first recorded Catholic Mass in Nevada celebrated in Laughlin in 1776 by Father Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary.

Confessions: 15 minutes before each Mass Holy Day Masses: Please refer to St. John’s Bulletin

Rosary: Recited before each Mass First Friday and First Saturday Mass and Devotions: St. John’s at 8:00 a. m. Baptisms: Baptisms are normally celebrated on Weddings: Weddings are normally celebrated on Saturdays Saturdays at 11:00 a. m. Registered and active at 11:00 a. m. Registered and active parishioners should con- parishioners should contact the priest one tact the priest at least six months in advance to make the month in advance to make the arrangements. arrangements.

Directions to St. John the Baptist Church: From Casino Dr. go west on Bruce Woodbury Drive (across from the Edgewater Hotel). Continue approximately 3 miles to Needles Highway, turn left. At El Mirage Way (the first traffic light), turn right. Drive approximately 2 blocks, St. John’s is on the corner of El Mirage Way and Banyon Drive.

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SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS CATHOLIC CHURCH

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ADVISORY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ...... STEVE FORTIER 702.298.5288 FATHER CHARLIE’S PAGE 7! EM COORDINATOR ...... BERNIE THOMPSON 928.404.2316 Future Dates to think about , , , GIFT SHOP COORDINATOR ...... MAUREEN MULLIN 702.298.1048 GUILD COORDINATOR ...... TRISH NEVIUS 702-420-6242 USA Coast-to-Coast Rosary HIV/AIDS OUTREACH ...... REV. JOSEPH O’BRIEN 702.564.4224 St. John the Baptist Parish Picnic DIR. OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ...... HOPE CASTILLO 702-726-7014 ______TROOP OUTREACH COORDINATOR ...... KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GRAND KNIGHT RON SURVILLAS 928-404-4444 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INSTRUCTION LECTORS/COMMENTATORS………… ...... RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS DIRECTOR OF MUSIC ...... LUANN KRUZ 928.754.2650 PRAYER CHAIN ...... YVONNE FATHERREE 702.298.0690 Read Page 5!

SUPPORT GROUP ...... HOPE CASTILLO 702.726.7014 ______SECRETARY/SAFE ENVIRONMNT COORD WAUNITA MARO 702.298.0440

5:00 PM BIBLE STUDY MEETING

WEDNESDAY’S OF EACH MONTH TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY Leader: Rod Johnston 928/444-3790

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“JOURNEY THROUGH SCRIPTURE” TODAY’S READINGS Wednesdays: 8:00 - 9:15AM First Reading - The man said, “This one is bone of Would you like to grow more deeply in your faith? Do you my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be have the desire to learn more about scripture? Would called ‘woman’ “ (Genesis 2:18-24). you like to meet other members of our parish family?

Psalm - May the Lord bless us all the days of our Come and read the Sunday Scriptures and discuss how we lives (Psalm 128). can apply them to our daily lives. Our text, “At Home With the Word”, has helpful insights that encourage a Second Reading - He who consecrates and those practical response. Everyone is invited! who are being consecrated all have one origin Rosemary Nichols 806/236-1991

(Hebrews 2:9-11). ______

Gospel - Whoever does not accept the kingdom of ST. JOHN’S GUILD God like a child shall not enter it (Mark 10:2-16). Read Page 4!

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HE EMBRACED THEM AND BLESSED THEM LOVING HANDS/KNIT & CROCHET GROUP

BROKEN ROSARIES Today Jesus stresses how children embody Read Page 4! the reign of God. They are trusting and lov- ______ing and have hearts that are open to love. FINGERPRINTING PROCEDURE FOR VOLUNTEERS They are joyful when they are made aware of Call the office to set up an appointment date & time with God’s love for them, and are eager to return Waunita, Secretary for SJB. that love.This is the model Jesus holds out to Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM us if we want to welcome the reign of God. Phone: 702/298-0440 We need to have open, loving hearts. We Volunteer packet has to be completed in the office PRIOR to Metro fingerprinting. must drop our defenses, however we came by ______them, and welcome Christ’s love for us with joy. This is impossible for us on our own. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS / ST. JOHN’S GUILD Only the grace of God will enable us to do Parish Picnic this, but that grace is freely and generously Read Page 4! given. We have only to accept it.

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October 6, 2018 PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF through SICK RELATIVES AND FRIENDS October 14, 2018 Charlene Bearden - Olga Benavides - Courtney Berry - George Brakel - Gloria Brown - Estelle Conant - Don Coyle -

Kash Commers - Don Cowin -Tammy Davis - Donna & Charlie Saturday 8:00 a.m. Paul Even Del Nero - Stephanie Dikemann - Angie Elena - Maria Esh- October 6 4:00 p.m. Alex Boksa naur - Polly Gabaldon - Michael Gifford - Jo Ann Gordon - 6:00 p.m. †Joyce Frank Naileah Handlin - Ted Hardy - Trista Bell Haze - David Hem- melspack Jr. - Philip Herrich - Michael Iannantuoni - Tony Sunday 8:00 a.m. All Parishioners of St. John Kapaldo - Dick Kosters - Thomas Koral - Sean Lenhart - October 7 the Baptist Dottie Lewis - David Lopez - Jeanette Martin - Raphael & 10:00 a.m. †Joyce Frank Natalie Martiney - Betty Marx - Alissa Marx - Roger 12 Noon Joe and Sally Gabaldon Mattson - Jeff Moniz - Joe Nava - Amalia and Sam Quesada - Pat Moulzolf - Betty Najaka - Kameron Persaud - Judy Pol-

hill - John Reed - Larry H. Rose - Colleen Ross - Cindy Rou- Monday 8:00 a.m. Dan Hayden quie - Yolanda Sandoval - Mike and Rebecca Schliskey - October 8 Lynda Seare - Patty Shawd - James W. Sneed - Marie Southard - Barbara Survillas - Jeffrey Survillas - Steve Tuesday 8:00 a.m. †Maria Theresa Pham Szymanski - George and Amy Taboada - Bob Terrian - October 9 Dwayne Thiel - Kay Thompson - Zack Trimmen - Darren Weeda - Jeff Whitehead - Charles Williams - Karen Friday 8:00 a.m. Paul Even Wischnack October 12 Names remain on our list 2 months and then are removed. Call the office 702-298-0440 when the health of you or

your loved one has improved or if a name needs to be re- † Saturday 4:00 p.m. Bob Hodapp moved. October 13 6:00 p.m. †Antonia Adamos For many years, on page 3 of our bulletin, we have listed the names of relatives and friends for whom prayers have been Sunday 8:00 a.m. Deceased Members of the requested. While we try to keep that list updated, some of October 14 Valdez-Gonzalez Family the names have remained there for years and occasionally we 10:00 a.m. All Parishioners of St. John learn that one or several have died years ago. The list is the Baptist really designed for those in immediate and serious need of 12 Noon †Raymond Baker the prayers of our parishioners and visitors. Also, in view of the current privacy laws in our nation, indi-

viduals may not wish to have their names published at all. We have tried to be careful about this and respect their privacy. READINGS FOR THE WEEK We must continue to do so. Monday: Gal 1:6-12; Ps 111:1b-2, 7-9, 10c; In an effort to accomplish the goals of keeping the list cur- Oct. 8 Lk 10:25-37 rent, immediate, and within the privacy laws, a completely Tuesday: Gal 1:13-24; Ps 139:1b-3, 13-15; new list will be begun on the first weekend of July 2018. No Oct. 9 Lk 10:38-42 names will be carried over from the current list. Only members of a person’s immediate family (parent, child, sib- Wednesday: Gal 2:1-2, 7-14; Ps 117:1bc, 2; ling, grandparent) or the person himself/herself may add a Oct. 10 Lk 11:1-4 name to the list by submitting the name in writing and sign- Thursday: Gal 3:1-5; Lk 1:69-75; Lk 11:5-13 ing that you have permission to add the name. Names will Oct. 11 remain on the list for 2 months and will then be removed

Friday: Gal 3:7-14; Ps 111:1b-6; Lk 11:15-26 automatically. If you wish to renew a name on the list for another two months, you will need to notify the church of- Oct. 12 fice one week before the name expires. Saturday: Gal 3:22-29; Ps 105:2-7; Lk 11:27-28 Oct. 13 ST. JOHN’S PRAYER CHAIN Sunday: Wis 7:7-11; Ps 90:12-17; Heb 4:12-13; If you want a particular petition prayed for, Oct. 14 Mk 10:17-30 please call Yvonne Fatherree at 702.298.0690.

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ST. JOHN’S GUILD 1:00p.m. St. John’s Church Every First Thursday of the Month (September through May)

For information regarding the Guild, please call Trish Nevius 702-420-6242 or Ethel Neuens at 928-763-6167. New members are Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to all prac- ticing Catholic gentlemen 18 years or older. For information, always welcome—please join us. We are in- please call Grand Knight Ron Survillas @ 928-404-4444 or volved in many charitable works for our par- visit www.facebook.com/kofc12690. ish, as well as in our community.

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LOVING HANDS KNIT & CROCHET GROUP

The loving hands of many community women are helping so many in our community with prayer shawls for those needing prayers and hugs. Hats, mitts slippers & scarves for the Colorado River Food/Clothing Bank, afghans for the Bullhead City Domestic Violence Shel- ter, baby layettes & blankets for WARMC & MONTHLY DEVOTIONS KRMC nurseries, stoles & stress balls for Sunridge Village, lapghans for veterans & any SACRED HEART OF JESUS Every First Friday of the Month other requests. Beginners to experienced After the 8:00 a.m. Mass crocheters/knitters are welcome. Donations is the Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Holy of yarn, hooks & needles are always appreci- Hour, and Benediction, followed by Hourly Adoration: ated. For more information, call Kathleen 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.; 11:00 - Whitehead at 702-357-9372. 12:00 noon; 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Sign up for an hour in the vestibule of church. How beautiful it would be to have several people keeping watch with The Lord. BROKEN ROSARIES

IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY If you need your rosary fixed, it can be dropped

off at the church office or call Kathleen Every First Saturday of the Month After the 8:00am Mass Whitehead at 702-357-9372. Please put the Devotional prayers to the rosary in an envelope with your name and Blessed Virgin Mary following number in case of questions or to call when The 8:00 am Mass. the rosary has been repaired. There is no charge to repair your rosary.

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BASIC CATHOLIC PRAYERS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

OUR FATHER FIRST COMMUNION AND CONFIRMATION Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hal- CLASSES ARE SCHEDULED TO BEGIN ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7, AND CONTINUE lowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom THROUGH SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2019. come, Thy will be done on earth as it A copy of Baptismal Certificate must be pre- is in Heaven. Give us this day our sented for First Communion. All children should daily bread, and forgive us our tres- be at least seven years of age. passes as we forgive those who tres- A copy of First Communion Certificate must be pass against us; and lead us not into presented for Confirmation. Candidates must be thirteen years or older. temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Registration forms are available in the Pamphlet Rack in the vestibule of the church. HAIL MARY ______

Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION with thee. Blessed are thou among Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist are sacra- women and blessed is the fruit of ments of Christian initiation. They ground the thy womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother common vocation of all Christ’s disciples, a voca- tion to holiness and to the mission of evangeliz- of God, pray for us sinners now and ing the world. They confer the graces needed at the hour of our death Amen. for the life according to the Spirit during this ACT OF CONTRITION life as pilgrims on the march toward the home- O my God, I am heartily sorry for land (CCC # 1533). God bless you! having offended Thee, and I detest Hope Castillo, DRE ______all my sins because I dread the loss REMINDER of heaven, and the pains of hell; but What does it mean to “accept the kingdom of most of all because they offend God like a child” (Mark 10:15). Does it mean that Thee, my God, who are all good and we should be immature in our faith, ignorant to deserving of all my love. I firmly re- our knowledge, and blind in our obedience? Or solve with the help of Thy grace, to does it mean we must acknowledge that there are some things beyond human understanding? confess my sins, to do penance, and As intimate as our connection to God may be, we to amend my life. Amen. are still as dependent as a child is to her/his GLORY BE TO THE FATHER parents, so we are called to be as trusting as a child. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as in the beginning is now, and ever shall these. - Mark: 10:14 be, world without end. Amen.

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September 30, 2018 Collection

Stewardship (183) ...... $2893.00 Loose ...... $3018.01 Catholic Stewardship Appeal ...... $1318.00 Gift Shop ...... $303.00 Poor Box ...... $47.25 Votive Lights ...... $27.00 US Troops ...... $20.00 TOTAL ...... $7,626.26

Attendance: 989 CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS ______

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION for the TROOPS

One of our great treasures is the way the Church If you have relatives or friends in the mili- has frequently flourished under unfavorable condi- tary who would like to receive some Christ- tions, like the grape ivy on the mantel that refuses mas Stockings to share with their military to die no matter how infrequently you water it or units, please drop off their precise military open the drapes. Like the apartheid laws in South addresses to the church office, along with an Africa in the last century, the penal laws of Ireland were aimed at depriving the majority population of approximate number of Christmas Stockings basic human rights. The protestant parliament of to be sent to them. Military addresses are Ireland enacted laws limiting the practice of Catholi- very precise, please be accurate so the cism. The goal was to force conversion from Christmas Stockings will get to the right peo- “popery” to the Church of Ireland, and additional ple and places on time. laws took aim at Jews, non-Anglicans, and Quakers.

There were laws against intermarriage, laws against Catholics being lawyers (there was a one-hundred- Small items are needed for the Christmas pound fine), a law granting lifelong income to priests Stockings. We are seeking snacks, playing who became Protestant, and a ban on weapons. In cards, toiletries, pens, notepads, and other fact, until 1793, a Catholic man had to recruit and useful items for the men and women who pay a Protestant man to serve in the local militia in serve our great American nation. You may his place! As if family life is not complicated enough in any age, the sons of a deceased father could di- also donate money to help with these ex- vide his land equally, unless one became Protestant. penses as well as postage expenses.

In that case all would go to him! When allowed, new Catholic churches had to be built of wood, not stone, 2018 Second Collection Schedule be off a main road or city square, have no steeple October 6 and 7 ...... Building Fund or bell, and be called a “chapel.” Catholic October 13 and 14 ...... Catholic Stewardship Appeal “Emancipation” was largely secured by 1829, but October 20 and 21 ...... World Mission Sunday even up to the founding of the Irish State in the October 27 and 28 ...... Building Fund 1920s, some effects of the laws endured. No won- der that poor Irish immigrants to the United States frequently built gloriously beautiful churches as their first act on free soil!

BURY YOUR TROUBLES When I dig others out of trouble, I find a place to bury my own.

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“See You In Church” USA COAST-TO-COAST Future Dates to think about... ROSARY Sunday, November 18th 5:00 PM at the Church SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7th “The Return of Andrew Norelli” Awesome comedy right here at St. John’s 1:00 PM to benefit our Troop Outreach Program We are joining with hundreds of parishes and the Colorado River Food Bank. Tick- across the USA in praying the Rosary on ets will be on sale soon at $15.00 each, Sunday, October 7th, at exactly the same or TWO (2) for $25.00. time. Here in the Pacific Time Zone, we will begin the Rosary at the church precisely at Thursday, November 22nd 1:00 PM. Please join us in this beautiful celebration of the Most Blessed Virgin Thanksgiving Day Mass Mary, Patroness of our nation. 8:00 AM at the Church Giving thanks to Almighty God for the “Let us now turn to the powerful prayer blessings He has bestowed on our Ameri- of the Holy Rosary, asking Mary Immacu- can nation is a beautiful way to begin late to intercede with Our Lord to bring Thanksgiving Day. Our collection on healing to our nation and to inspire in her Thanksgiving will be given to the Colorado citizens the holiness of life which alone River Food Bank. can transform our nation.” (Cardinal Ray- mond Burke) Friday, December 7th St. John the Baptist Christmas Party For more information, please check the na- Starview Room - Riverside Resort tional website for this event at: Tickets will be on sale during November. Rosarycoasttocoast.com Individual tickets will be $25.00 each. A table of ten (10) may be reserved for * * * * * * * $250.00. Think about getting a group to- St. John the Baptist gether for the most awesome Christmas Party on the Colorado River! Parish Picnic SUNDAY, October 21st Christmas is coming… At the Church Tuesday, December 25th Our Mass schedule will be posted soon. 1:30 PM - 4:00 PM Come on out for an afternoon of food and fun. It’s hard to believe that Christmas is only Hamburgers and hot dogs will be provided. Please about two and a half months away! bring a salad, side dish, or dessert to share.

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