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You are a stranger but once; you are a child of God, redeemed Rev. Ray Guthrie, Administrator 332-9220 ext 160 email:………………..………...……[email protected] by our Savior, the Lord Christ. We bid you welcome Rev. Enrique Hernandez ...... 332-9220, ext 112 Associate 414-801-7495 (cell) in His name. Through our loving and praying family may email: ...... [email protected] you find friendship, peace and serenity in His house. Elizabeth Cleveland ...... 332-9220 ext 121 Business Manager LOVE GOD ● LOVE OTHERS ● MAKE DISCIPLES email: ...... [email protected]

Amy Kern ...... 332-8175 ext 200 Parish School Principal email: ...... [email protected] David Liccione…………………...…414-573-9292 (cell) Director of Religious Education 332-8156 ext 230 email: ...... [email protected]

Caitlin Raether…...... 332-9220 ext 133 High School Youth Minister email: ...... [email protected]

Donna Shriner ...... 332-1164 ext 3045 RCIA/Coordinator of Adult Confirmation email: ...... [email protected]

Larry Theiss…………………………….332-9220 ext 140 Director of Liturgy & Music email: ...... [email protected]

Kerstein Center - Parish Offices ...... 332-9220 4825 North Wildwood Avenue, 53217-6013 Parish email: ...... [email protected] Carolyn Sanger, Parish Secretary ...... ext 120 email: ...... [email protected]

Sarah Kelsch, Liturgy Ministry Assistant……... ext 155 email: ...... [email protected]

Parish School Office ...... 332-8175 4849 North Wildwood Avenue, 53217 Sue Riedijk, Secretary ...... [email protected] fax:…………………………………………………..414-727-1838

Religious Education Center ...... 332-8156 4849 North Wildwood Avenue, 53217 email: ...... [email protected] Betsy Deakin, Religious Ed. Secretary ...... ext 231 email: ...... [email protected]

Youth/Young Adult Ministry ...... 332-9220 Aliah Taylor, Ministry Assistant ...... ext 151 email: ...... [email protected]

Bob Kowalsky Trustee ...... 414-793-6621 email: ...... [email protected] Bob Roenitz Trustee ...... 414-962-6709 email: ...... [email protected]

October 13, 2019 • 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time AROUND THE ALTAR Friday — Oct 18 St. Luke Monday — Oct 14 St. Callistus 2 Tm 4:10-17b/Ps 145:10-11, 12-13, 17-18 [12]/Lk 10:1-9 Rom 1:1-7/Ps 98:1, 2-3ab, 3cd-4 [2a]/Lk 11:29-32 *8:15 am †Mary Lou McCormick Tuesday — Oct 15 St. Teresa of Jesus by Deborah & Jim Quirk Rom 1:16-25/Ps 19:2-3, 4-5 [2a]/Lk 11:37-41 Saturday — Oct 19 Sts. John de Brebeuf and *8:15 am †Trish Karolek by Penny Kelsey Rom 4:13, 16-18/Ps 105:6-7, 8-9, 42-43 [8a]/Lk 12:8-12 Wednesday — Oct 16 St. Hedwig 4:30 pm People of Holy Family

Rom 2:1-11/Ps 62:2-3, 6-7, 9 [13b]/Lk 11:42-46 Sunday — Oct 20 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:15 am In thanksgiving for answered prayers Ex 17:8-13/Ps 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 [cf. 2]/2 Tm 3:14-4:2/ by a parishioner Lk 18:1-8 Thursday — Oct 17 St. 8:00 am †Dan & Joanne Wycklendt Rom 3:21-30/Ps 130:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6ab [7]/Lk 11:47-54 by Karl & Claire Wycklendt 10:30 am †Heather Stettler by Carole Stettler *8:15 am †Elaine Pandl by Janet Petesch * These weekday Masses are in the Kerstein Center Chapel

This week’s Mass schedule at St. Robert is Tuesday - 8:15 am, Wednesday - 8:15 am, Thursday - 8:15 am, and Friday - 8:00 am. The weekend schedule is Saturday - 4:30 pm and Sunday—8:30 & 11 am, & 5:30 pm. Holy Family parishioners are welcome to attend. St. Robert offers Eucharistic Adoration every Friday from 9 am to 9 pm in their Parish Center Chapel. Enter Door #9 on Capitol Drive THIS WEEK’S ANNOUNCEMENTS

RCIA – Becoming Catholic Holy Family School Open House Holy Family Parish is looking for all Please join us on Tuesday, October 29th, those who would like to become from 8:15 am to 3:00 pm to visit our Catholic. Now is a great time to look school. Tour guides will be available. All into the “RCIA” (Rite of Christian classrooms will be open and Principal Kern Initiation of Adults), because sessions will be available to answer any questions. will be starting very soon. The RCIA is a If you are interested in attending, contact process for those not baptized, those from other faith Kris Brienza at [email protected]. traditions, and those baptized Catholic, but not raised in the faith. We welcome you to join our Catholic community!

The “Adult Confirmation” program is for those adult Catholics STEWARDSHIP CORNER who have received First Eucharist, but for some reason were not confirmed. This program will lead you into a deeper The word of God fills us with joy and this joy is our strength. connection with your faith. We are joyful Christians because we have welcomed the Word of God in our hearts. Please contact Donna Shriner at [email protected] or 414- Francis 332-1164, ext. 3045 for more information. All inquiries are welcome. OCTOBER 6, 2019

Women's Silent Preached November 8-10 Envelopes ...... $22,154.02 Offertory ...... $511.76 This is a great opportunity to reflect on your spiritual life while Total ...... $22,665.78 an all-new staff at the Redemptorist Retreat Center preaches on "The Four Pillars of the Catechism of the Goal for October 2019 ...... $66,462.00 Income for October 2019 ...... $22,665.78 ." (Creed, sacraments, morality Funds Needed to make October goal ...... $43,796.22 and prayer.) We leave late Friday afternoon for the Oconomowoc facility and return Sunday afternoon. Goal thru October 31, 2019...... $266,332.00 All rooms are private with private bath, and you Fiscal Year-to-Date Actual thru 10/6/19 ...... $215,081.91 Funds needed to reach goal thru 10/31/19 ...... $51,250.09 will have time to walk around the grounds on Crooked Lake if you wish. There will be chances to Goal thru Fiscal Yr. (7/2019 to 6/2020) ...... $866,350.00 participate in sacraments and sacramentals and to meditate. Funds needed to make Fiscal Year goal ...... $651,268.09 The fee is $215, with a $50 deposit due with registration. Flyers are available on the table at the entrance to church. For Please remember Holy Family Parish in your will. additional information, you can visit redemptoristretreat.org, or contact Penny Kelsey at 414 254-4149. Please let Penny know if you plan to go; we generally carpool and stop for dinner on our way to the Center.

HOLY FAMILY PARISH 2 WHITEFISH BAY, WI PARISH NEWS AND NOTES Early Risers Small Faith Group THE WEEK AHEAD AT HOLY FAMILY Please join us on Thursday mornings in the Kerstein Center Library from 6:00-7:30 am Mon Eucharistic Adoration, 9 am-3 pm in KC Chapel SVdP Meeting, 5:30 pm in KC East through November 21st. We will gather, Tues Choir Rehearsal, 7 pm in Church pray together, read and discuss the coming Wed Finance Council, 6 pm in KC East weekend's readings, share faith and discuss Family , 7:30 pm in KC Chapel what is happening in our lives and in the parish and Sat Soles for Catholic Education Walk at Mount Mary community around us. If you have questions please contact Hospitality in McCormick Hall after Mass Sue Wustrack, Pat Koppa or Bob Kowalsky, or call the parish Sun Religious Ed Classes, 9:10 am office at 414-332-9220 Rosary for the Middle East, 6 pm in KC Chapel Diaper Drive in October Holy Family will participate in a Diaper Drive for the Women's Support Center of Milwaukee. The Center is a very busy Catholic, pro-life HUMAN CONCERNS & PARISH LIFE Pregnancy Center on 21st & Wisconsin serving approximately 150 women a month. All services they offer are 100% free and include Adult Religious Education pregnancy testing, ultrasounds, counseling, Deepen your knowledge of the Catholic faith. Come join others baby supplies, teaching Natural Family as Fr. Ray leads sessions on some fundamentals of Catholi- Planning and much more. In 2018, they cism. These sessions will be held in the St. Robert Community served nearly 1,700 women! We will be collecting donations Room (Church basement) starting at 7:00 pm. Mark your cal- of diapers and diaper wipes after Masses on each weekend of endars for the following fall dates. All are welcome! October. The diaper sizes most needed are newborn, 1, 4, 5, October 24: The Scriptures and the Word of God and 6. You can drop your donation off in a box in the back of November 7: The Many of the Church the Church. Thank you in advance for your generosity! Please November 21: The Rites of Initiation: Baptism and more call Mary Johnston at 414-238-4883 for questions. December 5: The Forming of the Body of Christ: Church Homebound or Hospitalized? If you or someone you know from Holy Family is in the hospital Book Club Welcomes New Members or nursing home & would like a priest to visit for Anointing or Please join the Holy Family Book Club on Tuesday, Confession, please call the parish office at 332-9220. Privacy October 29th at 7 pm in the Kerstein Center laws prevent healthcare organizations from notifying us. Library. We will be sharing our impressions of the very interesting book “Across the Nightingale Floor” HIGH SCHOOL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION by Lian Hearn, a novel about Japanese warlords and their villagers with stories of loyalty, honor, revenge and love in their ancient communities. Third Class – This Sunday, Oct. 13th 6:30pm at St. Robert Parish WE ARE: Ignatian Associates Remember to bring your CHOSEN book with you. WE are… men and women from all walks of life who are • 9th grade meets in the Community Room. formed by the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola. We • 10th grade -- in Room 205 of the school. are men and women who gather in community to share our • 11th/ Confirmation class -- in Reilly Hall. faith and our lives within the Promises of Simplicity of Life, Fidelity to Values, and Service to the community and Note for 11th/ Confirmation families one another. Permission forms for our Confirmation Retreat are due in November. Be sure to turn yours in to join us for the weekend WE are… companions in faith, who gather in small faith of Feb. 14th – 16th at Camp Gray. Can’t make these dates? See sharing groups for prayer and encouragement. As a our website for possible alternative retreats offered by various community we gather monthly as a large group for enrichment Milwaukee parishes. and fellowship. Discover the Ignatian spiritual experience and a community of lay people who live the Ignatian Spiritual Find forms, the class calendar, and more information at our Exercises in their daily lives. Ignatian Associates share a website: https://hsreligioused.weebly.com commitment to continue growing in the Spiritual Exercises, , faith sharing and service to others. Sharing Sunday For more information pertaining to the Milwaukee community Please bring peanut butter and jelly to our contact Ron Mejia, Ignatian Associates Outreach Coordinator, food pantry collection next weekend. [email protected] (414) 852-0034) or visit the website at www.IgnatianAssociates.org

OCTOBER 13, 2019 3 28TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Respect Life Month From the earliest days, PARISH INFORMATION we Christians have always struggled with Worship the way the world Weekend Liturgies: values the lives of ALL Saturday at 4:30 pm & Sunday at 8 am & 10:30 am. people, not just the Weekday Liturgies powerful and wealthy. We see this in multiple ways, such as the cult of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday at 8 am the widows in Christianity that helped the widow to survive in a (During the school year Wednesday Masses are at 8:15 am) (Check the bulletin for schedule changes.) community that viewed woman who lost family and friends through death as outcast. Christians had a support system for these widows, Baptism giving them sustenance and shelter. Holy Family Parish takes its sacramental life most seri-

Our view of children in the womb and in early birth brought much ously. Parents and godparents who wish to celebrate the sacrament of Baptism are required to attend a one rejection. Commonly practiced in the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and -session preparation program. The next class at Holy Persian cultures was the practice of abandoning a child born Family will be held on Saturday, Sept 21, 10:30 am in deformed. Included was the two issues of a child in the womb, the the Kerstein Center. Please call the parish office to first if the child would create a moral issue (wrong man’s child) or register. Sessions last about two hours. Baptisms are financial issues, the child could be terminated. Christians in the first celebrated during the weekend liturgies. century condemned this practice in the general society and were unwelcome in gentile communities. However, there is another area of Reconciliation The Sacrament of Reconciliation (Confession) is Respect for Life for ALL people that was at the center of much available on Saturdays from 3:30 to 4:00 pm. Please theological debate for over 400 years and was what could be called an arrive promptly. The Sacrament may also be celebrat- in-house issue that seems to have reared its head again in the Church ed by appointment. Seasonal communal celebrations the past many years. of Reconciliation are observed in collaboration with all the North Shore parishes. Early in our history, as Christianity became more part of society, there were a number of religious leaders who began to believe that we have Matrimony taken on too much of the world and society. They are a group in At least six months preparation is required. Please Christianity who are called Rigorists. Elected Pope supported contact the parish office for more information. this view. , the first Christian Doctor to write on the Trinity and to defend many Christian practices to the Roman Senate, also highly Parish Membership All interested Catholics are invited to register as active pushed for this rigorous view. In this view, if one was not morally acting members in our parish. Registration occurs in McCor- as a Catholic at all times or was involved in the ways of the , such mick Hall the 1st weekend of the month after all Mass- as in the Army or a merchant who made money by selling products, es or call the parish office to schedule a time for regis- you were not worthy to be part of the Body of Christ. With the support tration. Non-Catholics are invited to call for information of Pope Cornelius, St. of Carthage, used intensely in the on the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA). writings of St. Augustine over 100 years later, used a word that St. Ignatius of Antioch had used in the first century but would be redefined Parish School Registration by St. Cyprian, St. Cyril, St. and finally St. Augustine, which is Families interested in our Parish School, grades K4-8, please contact the School Office. Half day and full day “Catholic.” options are available for both K4 and K5. Please call the school office at 332-8175 for more information. In opposition to the bishops under Novatian, the writings of Tertullian and many other famous Parish Office − Kerstein Center rigorous writers (monks and bishops) and Phone: 414-332-9220 supported by many members of the Church, St. Hours: 8:30 am to noon and 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm, Cyprian said we are Catholic, which means the Monday thru Thursday; 8:30 am to noon on Friday. universal acceptance of the perfect and imperfect as full members of the Body of Christ. Cyprian, Bulletin Deadline Noon on Monday prior to publication, but subject to referring to St. Paul, said like St Paul in the change due to holiday printing schedules. Send arti- Corinthian letters, the Body of Christ is universal with many parts but cles to [email protected]. Submission of an arti- one body in Christ. The Universalism (Catholic) of our Church to these cle does not guarantee it will appear in the bulletin. early saints and theologians was about us being a Church filled with saints and sinners (read some of St. Ambrose’s sermons on this point), Pastoral Council Information a church filled with those active in the physical world and those more As a parishioner you have a vital role to play in the life of your parish. If you would like make a suggestion active in the spiritual world. We are Roman Catholics - a word for us regarding an important aspect of Holy Family Parish not to use lightly in the House of God but to fully understand as our please contact one of the parish trustees listed on the great orthodox teachers taught, so we can truly respect life from the front of the bulletin. Thank you and may God bless womb to the tomb. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us. you.

Fr. Ray

HOLY FAMILY PARISH 4 WHITEFISH BAY, WI