CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, PLATTSMOUTH,

The Nativity of St. John the Baptist June 24, 2018 : Rev. Michael Houlihan Totus Tuus – this week! 520 South 18th Street Plattsmouth, NE 68048 Rectory Phone: (402) 296-3139 9:00am - 3:00pm for those entering grades 1-8, Mon - Fri. Parish office email: [email protected] Website: www.holyspiritplattsmouth.com 8:00pm - 10:00pm for those entering grades 9-12 School website: www.stjbcatholic.com (graduating seniors also welcome), Sunday - Thursday. Parish Facebook page: facebook.com/CHSPlattsmouth

PARISH WEEKLY SCHEDULE Not registered yet? Check their table in the Commons after ENTER THE MASS! Receive the Lord! Mass this weekend, or call Vicki, 296-5226. Totus Tuus (Latin Monday, June 25 for Totally Yours) is a fun and energetic parish-based summer 11:30 a.m. +Bobbie & Jean Traxinger catechetical program for our youth. The program puts college Tuesday, June 26 11:30 a.m. +Louis & Cecile Hoppe students and seminarians into teaching teams of four. The Wednesday, June 27 teachers’ youthfulness, energy, and ability to witness to the Faith 11:30 a.m. +Marvin Fujan make them particularly effective with children and young adults.

Thursday, June 28 11:30 a.m. +Arvilla Scanlan Mass time note: For June 25-29, the daily Mass time Friday, June 29 11:30 a.m. +Marie Zuccarini will be 11:30am, rather than the normal 8:00am. This Saturday, June 30 is for the week of Totus Tuus. 8:00 a.m. +Mary Olberding 5:00 p.m. People of the Parish Are you traveling this summer? You can find the Mass Sunday, July 1 times for most anywhere you go: www.masstimes.org

8:00 a.m. +All Souls Day Intentions 10:30 a.m. +Gerald Vap Conley has implemented a program that allows the

CONFESSIONS: men and women of parishes across the diocese to spend time in Weekdays: Before Mass fellowship while growing in their Faith. Our parish has recently Saturdays, 3:30 - 4:45 PM Sundays, 7:30 -7:45 AM and 9:30 -10:15 AM begun the men’s group known as “Saints on Tap.” They will

meet once a month for six months to discuss different saints who Head Count at Mass last weekend: 603 are known to have a special devotion to the rosary. The goal is Contributions for June 17, 2018 General Collection at Mass $ 8,759.87 for people to deepen their love of Mary and the rosary, and for General Online Giving $ 2,178.00 people to get to know each other better. No need to call first, Debt Reduction $ 665.00 register, or bring anything. Just show up! Debt Reduction Online Giving $ 15.00 Teachers/Staff $ 171.00 Men! Come check it out: Teachers/Staff Online Giving $ 15.00 Meet at David Brink’s home, 14513 Elder Circle in Copper Dollar Peter’s Pence $ 483.00 ______Cove, on Thursday, June 28 at 7:00pm.

Prayer requests? Please call 296-4404 or 296-3039 or email [email protected]

Do you know of anyone who is no longer healthy enough to be able to come to Sunday Mass and would like to be on the Sunday Communion Call list?....

Do you have a new address or phone number?....

…Please let us know at the parish office. 296-3139

Are you new to the parish? Welcome! Come in to the rectory office to register, or…Registration Forms are in the Commons. Bring or mail it in, or put it in the collection basket at Mass!

To be on the Holy Hour of Adoration schedule, please leave a message for Sue at 296-5047.

Church cleaning reminder: For June 30 (at

9:00am): Hobscheidt, Hobscheidt, Hobscheidt,

Holstein, Horn, Houchin, Howell, Isham

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Win $1,000 cash or a pair of Nebraska Peter’s Pence This weekend we encourage the Peter’s Pence football season tickets for 2018 and help Collection, a worldwide collection that supports the charitable works of Catholic Social Services in Lincoln serve the Pope Francis. Funds from this collection help victims of war, poor! Raffle tickets are 1 for $10 or 3 for $20. oppression, and natural disasters. Take this opportunity to join with Drawing is August 10, need not be present to Pope Francis and be a witness of charity to our suffering brothers and win. Tickets available after Mass next week. sisters. Envelopes are in your mailed packet, or you can donate to this fund through your online giving. See Father Houlihan.

This week’s featured Sisters in Formation: St. John the Baptist School Band… We are building From the Marian Sisters of the Diocese of up our band program and would like to have a variety of Lincoln: Sr. Amy Marie from Crete, NE, who will instruments on hand for the students to try out. If you happen to have a band instrument that you would like make her final vows this July; from the School to donate to the school’s program, we would so greatly appreciate it. Sisters of Christ the King: Sr. Mary Ignatia Fritz from Brighton, IA, who is a novice; and Sr. Some upcoming dates: Marie Amata D’Amico from St. Albans, VT, who June 23/24 – Register for Totus Tuus summer camp has made her 1st Vows. Please pray for all our June 24-28 – Totus Tuus for high school sisters in formation, and for our seminarians, June 25-29 – Totus Tuus for kids entering grades 1-8 especially Adam Bohan from our parish. June 25-29 – Daily Mass time change to 11:30am for this week July 8-9 – Set up / donate for PCCW Rummage Sale St John the Baptist Golf Classic I want to July 11-13 – PCCW Rummage Sale in school gym express my sincere appreciation for the July 15 – Knight’s free-will donation Breakfast in the gym after Masses support our parish gave to the golf classic.

We are still adding up the receipts and bills and will provide an update soon. We had 16 Saturdays! Seven great opportunities!!! teams, 33 hole sponsors, and around 100 people at the post golf dinner. My thanks to Besides two hours on Friday, and one on Sunday, we the Knights of Columbus, PCCW, CHS have seven opportunities for you to expand and/or Catering (especially Ruth Vanek), Paul and solidify your prayer time with a quality hour of prayer in Patty Lambert, Barb Toman, Marlene Haller, the presence of Jesus Himself! Velora Riese, Patti Wynne, Gloria Sykes, Marilyn Weber, Kirsten Woodcox, Linda Do you want/need to be more structured and dedicated Monahan, Deb Walton and of course my wife, Pat Vaughn. This team did a great job to a prayer routine so that too much time doesn’t slip by organizing the event and covering every without remembering to sit still in prayer and detail. My additional thanks to the scores of contemplation of God’s goodness, generosity and volunteers who, grilled, cooked, baked, mercy, or maybe God’s gifts to you – past, present and bartended, sold raffle tickets, helped on the future? golf course and with the dinner…Mike Vaughn, Golf Tournament Chairman If so, please consider the opportunity our parish

My Neighbor’s Closet Thrift Store, provides with mutual cooperation of scheduled “Christmas in July.” Every Thurs/Fri/Sat Adoration Hours which allows us the privilege of having all through July: 1st bag – FREE, 2nd bag - rd Perpetual Adoration, with the Blessed Sacrament $2.00, 3 bag - $4.00. The store is open exposed in the monstrance! 10am – 2pm.

Knights of Columbus – Council 1966 / Pat The seven Saturday opportunities are seven hours each Carroll GK (402) 296-4706 Saturday because we currently do not have a regularly Officer’s Meeting – Thursday, June 28th, scheduled adorer for them: 2am, 3am, 4am, 9am, 7:00pm in SJR. Noon, 2pm,& 9pm. We must get substitutes each week Golf Tournament – We want to thank all the as it is a Church requirement to have someone in parishioners and businesses that supported the St. John’s Golf Tournament. The attendance at all times. It gets to be a little hectic some participation and support was fabulous. weeks, to arrange this. Thank you to the PCCW and the Catering Group for their support and efforts. Thank So… to help lessen the hecticness, as well as to add to you to Mike Vaughn for chairing this event. your prayer time, would you please consider signing up The Golf Tournament was a big success for for one of these weekly hours to be YOUR hour? our school! Please call Sue at the rectory office, 296-3139 or at 214- July Rummage Sale Collection of donations is Sunday, July 8th and Monday, 4967, and let her know which hour you would like. (The July 9th. Sale dates are Wednesday, non-Saturday open hours are Sundays at 11:30am-1:00pm Thursday and Friday, July 11th thru and Fridays at 1am & 2am.) May God bless you, and 13th. Complete details attached to this may God bless our parish! bulletin.

PASTOR’S NOTES: The Pope’s Universal Intention for July: witnesses, and that “the Church,” the Body of Christ Priests and their Pastoral Ministry. That priests, who and the people gathered by the Head, Jesus Christ, experience fatigue and loneliness in their pastoral is the means by which we received that faith. For work, may find help and comfort in their intimacy most of us, that connection was through parents, a with the Lord and in their friendship with their brother spouse, a friend. Someone passed the light of faith priests. The Priest Day Intention: Pray for chaplains to us. Someone was the instrument of the Lord. We and spiritual directors. Thank you for your prayers! received the gift of faith from God, of course, but He Today, June 24, even though it falls on a uses other people as His instruments. It might be Sunday this year, is the celebration of the Nativity of good for each of us to reflect on how we came to the John the Baptist, the namesake of our parish school faith and to pray for those who were those and the name of one of the two parishes (the other instruments in our own lives—maybe your being Holy Rosary) that came together to form the baptismal/confirmation sponsors, for example, as Church of the Holy Spirit in 1971. Other than our well as the others that I mentioned. The example of Lady (Sept. 8) and the Lord Himself (Dec. 25), the someone’s actions, of course, will be the biggest Church does not celebrate the birthday of anyone part of it, and that is a reminder to each of us also to else. For most of the saints, including St. John the be instruments of God to others. We do not have to Baptist (Aug. 29) and the Blessed Virgin Mary (Aug. get up in front of other people and make a speech 15), the day of their death or transitus—Mary’s (although Peter, a simple fisherman, did so on “passage” to eternity, is the usual day to Pentecost Sunday and convinced three thousand commemorate that particular person, the “birthday people to seek Baptism), and we do not have to be into heaven.” The Lord Himself said: “Amen, I say “preachy,” but like Peter and Paul, we can make a to you, among those born of women there has been big difference in the lives of others. One of our none greater than John the Baptist” (Mt. 11:11a; cf. former , Bishop Glennon Patrick Flavin Lk. 7:28a). John was the “forerunner,” the one who (1967-1992) used to remind us that our job is not to prepared the way for the Lord. He is regarded in “keep” the faith, but to spread it. It is not a delicate Christian reckoning as the last and greatest of the family heirloom to be passed from one generation to Old Testament prophets. His birthday, near the another, just to be kept in a trunk in the attic, but a longest day of the year as far as sunlight (in the dynamic force which has the power to transform the Northern Hemisphere), reminds us of one of his world, and certainly the lives of the people that we prophecies regarding his cousin Jesus, Whose meet or with whom we share most of our lives. We birthday falls near the shortest day of the year: “He ask God the Holy Spirit, our parish patron, to help us must increase; I must decrease” (Jn. 3:30). The “to renew the face of the earth.” Peter and Paul days decrease after the birthday of John and remind us that anyone can be an instrument of God. increase after the birthday of Jesus. Marking this This week, we are happy to have the Totus solemnity does not decrease the “Lord’s” Day, but Tuus team with us to engage the hearts and minds increases it. And we are happy to be at the of our young people. One recent national survey beginning of summer! said that the average age that a person “opts out” of Friday is another great solemnity of the the Church in particular or Christianity in general is Church, a “holy day,” but without the Mass obligation 13. Our young people are also the “secret weapon” in the United States. It is the Solemnity of Saints that we have to challenge the sadder religious Peter and Paul, Apostles. This is the primary day to trends of our wealthy Western countries. Pope St. remember the two founding Apostles of Rome and John Paul II recognized this and started and to remember that the word “Catholic,” which helps to popularized the World Youth Days that are held in define who we are as a people, means that we are various countries periodically. Totus Tuus was his in communion with the successor of the apostles, papal motto—it refers to his to the the Bishop of Rome—we share his faith and the faith Mother of God. He said to Mary that he was “totally of Peter and Paul, who witnessed to the risen Christ, yours.” Thank you for being with us! testifying to His Cross and Resurrection. In an age Father Houlihan of “following my own way” or “doing my own thing” or “blazing my own path,” it is helpful to remember that our faith comes to us from the original