St. Michael & St. Francis Xavier Bulletin February 25Th & 26Th, 2017 Pastor: Fr. Harry Tully

St. Michael & St. Francis Xavier Bulletin February 25th & 26th, 2017 Pastor: Fr. Harry Tully

Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

LIVE TODAY FULLY There is an old saying that life is what happens to us while we are busy making other plans. How often do the people and events of today pass unnoticed because we are preoccupied with concerns about the future? Sometimes after a death in a family, one hears the survivors lament all that they did not do for the deceased. “I was so busy with my career plans, I never spent time with her.”‘ “I put so much energy into establishing my place in the community, I forgot he was lonesome.” One would suppose that the birds in the sky do not spend a great deal of time mapping out a lifetime flight plan. They seem to fly where they need to go today, trusting that that will eventually bring them where they must be tomorrow and next winter. Similarly, the wildflowers do not appear to bemoan their plot of earth or jockey for position. Rather, each accepts the sun and rain given it today and grows, imperceptibly perhaps, but beautifully.

I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU It is a wonderful gift for someone to say, “I will never forget you!” We want to be remembered, to have made a lasting difference. Perhaps some of our anxiety about what we will wear and what we will accomplish tomorrow can be traced to this desire. “Will anyone remember me?” “Will I contribute anything of lasting value?” In today’s first reading from the prophet Isaiah, our God says: “I will never forget you” (Isaiah 49:15). Before we ever see tomorrow, before we ever achieve any of our lofty goals, God declares us eternally valuable and unforgettable.

Today’s Readings: Isaiah 49:14–15; Psalm 62:2–3, 6–9; 1 Corinthians 4:1–5; Matthew 6:24–34

Fr. Harry Tully, Pastor [email protected] Emergency #812-218-9219 or 502-931-1499 Website - www.stmichaelstfrancis.com E-Mail - [email protected] St. Michael - 101 St. Michael Drive, Charlestown, In 47111 Ph. 812-256-3200 Office Hours – 9:00 am-1:30 pm Tues. Wed., & Fri. St. Francis Xavier – 101 North Ferguson, Henryville, IN 47126, Ph. 812-294-4682 Office Hours – Thursday 10:30am-2:00pm Reconciliation – 4:00 pm Saturday or call the Rectory Marriage – Please contact the pastor a year in advance. Advent and Lent are not times for celebrations. Baptisms of Infants or Adults Joining the Church – Must be a practicing/registered member for three months. Please contact the DRE: St. Michael–Juliann Eickholtz, St. Francis–Father Tully New To The Parish: Please call the office to register. Please introduce yourself to the pastor at mass. Parishioners Who Are Ill: Please call the pastor if a relative or friend is sick. Bulletin Announcements: Get all bulletin announcements to the office in writing by Tuesday evening. Los Enfermos Es muy importante comunicarse con el Padre (debido a las leyes privadas, los hospitales no se comunican con las iglesias). Doctrina Cristiana: Las clases de educación religiosa para niños son cada domingo de 9:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. en la escuela. Recuerden que la Arquidiócesis requiere que los que van a recibir los sacramentos estén inscritos en las clases de religión. Monaguillos: Los niños que quieran ayudar como monaguillos en el altar tienen su ensayo el segundo domingo de cada mes después de la misa de 11:00 a.m. Estos niños y niñas tienen que haber hecho la Primera Comunión. Los interesados comunicarse con Pbro. should be enrolled in the FF program. Registration forms are available on the parish website. Mass Schedule Mass Intentions www.stmichaelstfrancis.com. St. M 2/27 Mon No Mass Pre-school to Grade 12. There is still time for St. FX additional students to join us. We are learning and St. M 2/28 Tue No Mass deepening our knowledge of our Catholic faith-So we St. FX encourage parents who might be thinking about it, to St. M 3/1 Wed 5:00 PM Mass go ahead and enroll their children and teens in our program. Our calendar and registration forms are 4:30P Ma available at www.stmichaelstfrancis.com. St. FX 3/2 Thurs M ss Classes begin at 9:30 Please be on time & Arrive 5-10 St. M 3/3 Friday 12:00 PM Mass minutes early. Assistants are needed each week. We encourage St. M 3/4 Sat 4:30PM Randy Jones parents to attend Mass with their children. This enables the children to integrate what they learn in their Faith St FX Ryan Embry Formation classes with weekly participation in the 9:00AM liturgy. For the People of St. St. M 3/5 11:00 AM Michael & St. Francis Sun Xavier Thanks to last week’s assistant: Kim Stamper 12:30PM En Español Faith Formation Calendar: February 26th-Session Twenty-Four February 26th-Confirmation Lesson 19 & 20 in Multipurpose Room at 2:00 pm. March 5th-Session Twenty-Five ST.MICHAEL EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER Date Change 812-256-3503 Rita Poff Director Faith Formation Commission Meeting: Thursday, Mon-Fri. 7AM-6PM March 2nd at 6:30pm. In Rectory Meeting Room! Infant Care/Day Care: Full or part time Before & After Care: ages 6-12 Summer Camp: ages 6-12 Pre-School: 9-11:30AM Tues. & Thurs. Confirmation News: Pre-K: 9-11:30AM or 12:30-3PM Mon. Wed. & Fri One must be in the state of grace to receive the sacrament of Confirmation, which means receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation before being confirmed. ST. MICHAEL CHARLESTOWN Retreats, reconciliation, service hours, homework and Eucharist attendance for class sessions are a must to be completed Sat – 4:30 pm during this sacrament preparation time. Parents and Sun – 11:00 am Sponsors please talk to your candidate and check on La Misa en Español their progress. Our next Lesson is Sunday, February Domingo – 12:30 pm 26th @ 2:00pm., in the St. Michael Multipurpose Room. Please be working on those 20 service hours. Don't St Michael parish is in need of Mass Intentions forget to read Lesson 19& Lesson 20. Please have your homework up to date. We will be asking for service Mass Intentions hours update. Saturday Evening: Leonard Eickholtz Sunday 11:00 am: For the People of St. Michael & St Please keep in your prayers our Confirmation Francis Xavier Candidates: Ky Baltz( RCIA), Abigail Banet, Jacob Coomes, Madison Coomes, Jovanny Alexis Guzman, Gift Bearers for this week’s Masses: Amanda Hernandez, Gage Higdon, Megan Jackson, 4:30 Darrell Lyons Family Johnie Wayne Kinser, William Martin, , Aaron Ulrich. 11:00 Alan Barker Family

Please keep in your prayers our First Eucharist students: Luis Gomez, Andres Gomez, Ernesto Faith Formation Classes are held on Sunday mornings Hernandez & Ava Lathem. for children three years of age up through high school. If your child does not attend a Catholic school, they St. Michael Ministries Schedule Gift Bearers: Craig & Connie Mull Family Sat March 4, 4:30 pm– St. Michael Lector: Sara Becher Eucharistic Ministers: C. DeVary & G. Minnick Servers: J. Worley Gift Bearers: Ralph Cecil Family HTTP://www.catholicfamilyfaith.org/ This is a good Cantor: J/M Wafford website. It is new & filled with catholic resources. It’s Musician: Carolyn Eickholtz easy to navigate, so go & explore. Lector: Steve Buit Sun. March 5, 11:00 am – St. Michael To everything there is a season and a time to every Eucharistic Ministers: M. Edmond, C. Dunn & M. Cox purpose under heaven a time to be born a time to love Servers: Volunteer a time to heal a time to die and a time of peace.” Gift Bearers: Neal Bryant Family PLEASE PRAY FOR HEALTH & STRENGTH: Cantors: S/S Buit Aubree Aguirre, Della Allen, Bruce Blair, Alicia Blair, Musician: Nancy Kinder Kayla Bowling, Sherry Buit, Bobby Caudill, Glen Lector: Stephen Dumeyer Cole, Liz Cooper, Ted Dean, Bernice Donahue, Erik Furnish, Adam Drury, Jeanette Drury, Dorothy Faris, We ask parishioners to please bring a non perishable Barbara Garrett, Rita Hamerla, Don Hamerla, Chris item to be donated to the North Clark Outreach Harvey, Sandy Hostettler, Brenda Karns, Nathan Center. There is a wooden box for donations in the Koons, James Korty, David Lerster, David Long, church lobby. Thank you for your contribution. Jennifer Lynch, Terri Lynn Maples, Mary Ann Mattingly, Terry Mattingly, Carol Maymon, John McCoy, Mary McMillen Aldine McRae, Kathy Missi, Collection Michael Murphy, Esther Toby Nelson, Ian Newland, February 18& 19 Mitch Newland, Willard Nolan, Larry Oberlies, Dylan St. Michael $ 2,555.00 Patton, Bobby Perdue, Ms. Peyton, Katelyn Phillips, St Francis Xavier $ David Puzon, Carroll Schafer, Clarence Schaftlein, Estelle Scott, Danielle Shipley, Michael Shipley Family, Spear Family, Clarence Smith, Dorothy The Rosary is said at St. Michael at 4:00 before Smith, Miriam State, Christy Stepp, Isabella ‘Izzy” Saturday Evening Mass and at 10:30 before Sunday Stepp, Jack Stewart, Mark Thise, Bonnie Uptain, Mass Joseph Douglas VanDyke JR., Melissa Villegas, Lynn Vogt, Isabell Wade, Chris Wafford, Flo Wessel, Logan The Rosary is said at St. Michael for Vision of our Westerhouse, Agnes Withers, George Wimsett, Rose Lady of Guadalupe on the 12th of each month. Wimsett, Kay Yotter, Emma Yount, Donnie Zollman. Names will remain on the list for 6 months unless ST. FRANCIS XAVIER you tell us to remove them or request that they be Henryville kept longer.

Eucharist Save the Date Sunday The New Albany Deanery Catechetical Ministry & 9:00am Aquinas Center will host their 11th Annual Spring Tea and Silent Auction at 300 Spring St. Jeffersonville, on Saturday Mass Intention: Sat. March 11thfrom 12:30-3:00pm. Tickets are $30 per Red & Frances Furnish person or a Table of 8 is $220. Tea & foods by “Savor This” and desserts by “Sweet Stuff”: Invite you “sister Gift Bearers for this week’s Mass: or friends for a fun filled afternoon! St Michael parish Jim & Jeanne Mc Reynolds Family will be donating a basket for the “Silent Auction”. We are asking for donations. Ideas are seeds, bulbs, small St. Francis Faith Formation Calendar: spade, shovel, rake, bird feeder, gloves, statues, plant February 26th Class markers, hand lotion, towels, small flower pots, March 5th Class fertilizer, or a book on flowers/gardening. There will be a Live Auction, Silent Auction and door prizes. We St. Francis Xavier Ministries Schedule appreciate your support! The Deanery Representative Sun. March 5, 9:00am for St. Michaels is Glenda Minnick. Eucharistic Ministers: Janice Furnish, Anne Harbeson & Mike Harbeson Looking Ahead Servers: Abby Banet, Madison Coomes & Aaron Ulrich Sometime after Easter, St. Michael will be having a Ushers: Victor Jett & Cindy Murphy “Parishioner Talent” Bazaar. If enough people sign up, we can plan to advertize to help sell items. Outreach Center in Charlestown and the Community Please store up your talents (sewing, jewelry, Care Project in Henryville. Our communities need your cooking, etc.) Please contact Marjorie 812-256- support. Thank you for your support. 7066 to sign up! Live Joyfully’ with the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Lenten Program Indiana, invite single Catholic women ages 18-42 to the Alive in the word- Virtues for Disciples upcoming “Live Joyfully!” retreat, on March 31-April 2, This is a new study from Little Rock Scripture Study. at Saint Mary-of-the-Wood. During the free weekend Each study is 2 or 3 sessions so it’s perfect the busy retreat, you can deepen your prayer life and focus on person who still wants to spend time reflecting on God’s living joyfully in the day-to-day. Explore where God is word in their life experience. Wednesdays 6:30-8:00, calling you. Meet the newest Sisters of Providence and March 15, 22, 29 & April 5& 12. Cost is $15.00 for ask questions you may have about religious life. Learn study materials. Childcare provided upon request. It will more about our foundress, Saint Mother Theodore be held in the school Building of St. Joe Hill Campus of Guerin, and spend time renewing your soul. For more St. John Paul II Parish. information or to register, visit ComeandSee.SistersofProvidence.org or contact Sister Lenten Penance Services Schedule Editha Ben at 812-230-4771 or at [email protected]. St. John Paul II School - (Friday) March 4th at 9:30 am. OLPH School-(Tuesday) March 7th at 9:30 am. OLPH Parish Retreat- (Friday) March 10th at 8:30 pm. Become a Providence Associate St. Mary of the Knobs- (Saturday) March 11th at 9:00 Looking for spiritual renewal? A sense of mission? An am. intentional community? The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, invite you to become a Providence Associate. Applications are being accepted Eighth Sunday of Ordinary Time until May 31. Contact Debbie Dillow at 317-250-3294 Theme: God is always present on our lives. or email [email protected] to request an application. Step 1: As you hear this reading what words or Learn more at ProvidenceAssociates.org. phrases strike you? What in this reading touches your heart? Step 2: Look into your life. Children: What do you worry about? What can you do to stop and rely on God? Youth & Adults: Do you serve two masters? If so, what can you so to stop and serve only one God? Who really is your master?

PROVIDENCE TO PRESENT LES MISERABLES Our Lady of Providence Jr.-Sr. High School’s Providence Players will present the beloved musical “Les Miserables” in the Sam and Paula Robinson Performing Arts Center at Providence the first two weekends in March. Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, the operetta-style musical is set in early 19th- century France and follows the story of French peasant Jean Valjean and his quest for redemption after serving nearly 20 years in jail for having stolen a loaf of bread for his sister's starving child. Show dates and times are Saturday, March 4, at 7:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 5, at 2:00 p.m.; Friday, March 10, at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, March 11, at 7:00 p.m. and Sunday, March 12, at 2:00 p.m. Tickets are $15. Tickets may be purchased at the door, online at www.providencehigh.net by clicking on the Buy Tickets Now button, or by calling (812) 945-2538 ext. 301.

Special Information: The 5th Sunday Collection Envelope donations are to support the North Clark Special Information: The 5th Sunday Collection ask questions you may have about religious life. Learn Envelope donations are to support the North Clark more about our foundress, Saint Mother Theodore Outreach Center in Charlestown and the Community Guerin, and spend time renewing your soul. For more Care Project in Henryville. Our communities need your information or to register, visit support. Thank you for your support. ComeandSee.SistersofProvidence.org or contact Sister Editha Ben at 812-230-4771 or at [email protected]. Explanation of our Special Collection Black and Indian: Exits to help Local African Charlestown book by Chuck E. Ledbetter, Sr. on sale American and Native American Diocesan at Charlestown High School: The recently-released Communities throughout the United States, book celebrating Charlestown’s boys’ basketball’s spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ and 100 years is available. “The Charlestown High respond to real and pressing needs on the School Varsity Boys’ Pirates: Centennial Basketball ground. 1917-2017 can be purchased in the Charlestown High School athletic office for $25.00. All proceeds from the sale of the book will be going to the CHS Athletic Servers: Some insight of the duties as an altar server Department. Congratulations Chuck! will involve everything from assisting the priest to Parishioner Update lighting candles, carrying the books used at Mass and Joan Corbett shared her talent and friendship for many saying prayers. We are in need of Servers at St. Michael years here at St. Michaels. She played the organ and -Adults or Youth!! Please contact Fr. Tully for Altar showed her support in many ways. She has recently Server Training. moved to Texas to live with her daughter. If you would like to reach out and let her know we are thinking of her, her new address is 25802 Timben Lake Dr. Springs, Texas 77380. Phone number: 281-221-8218. She has expressed how much she misses everyone. Please keep her in your prayers.

St. Michael Parish Fall 2016 Special Information: The 5th Sunday Collection Parish Goal $10,651 Envelope donations are to support the North Clark Amount Pledged $8,880 Outreach Center in Charlestown and the Community Total $’s Received $4,090 Care Project in Henryville. Our communities need your support. Thank you for your support. % of Goal 83%

Parish Households 193 # of Pledges 57 Explanation of our Special Collection Parish Participation 30% Black and Indian: Exits to help Local African American and Native American Diocesan Communities throughout the United States, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ and respond to real and pressing needs on the ground.

Live Joyfully’ with the Sisters of Providence The Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Francis Xavier Parish Fall 2016 Indiana, invite single Catholic women ages 18-42 to the upcoming “Live Joyfully!” retreat, on March 31-April 2, Parish Goal $5,448 at Saint Mary-of-the-Wood. During the free weekend Amount Pledged $3,595 retreat, you can deepen your prayer life and focus on Total $’s Received $2,125 living joyfully in the day-to-day. Explore where God is % of Goal 66% calling you. Meet the newest Sisters of Providence and Parish Households 90 Aquinas Center: 812-246-5044 # of Pledges 20 [email protected] Parish Participation 22% The New Albany Deanery Youth Ministry and the Aquinas Center makes available to all its members a host of activities. Please consider taking advantage of these programs either on your own or form a group and go together. There are too many to list every week in the bulletin go to their websites for more information.

St. Michael and St. Francis Xavier Sacrament Preparation: The Faith Formation Commission, the Confirmation News: Pastor, and the Archdiocese state that a child must be Please be working on those service hours. Don't forget enrolled and attend classes the YEAR BEFORE and to read Lesson 17"Who’s calling?" and Lesson 18 "Are YEAR of receiving the Sacrament of First you talking to me?" Please have your homework up to Reconciliation, First Eucharist or Confirmation. date. We will be asking for service hours update. Baptism of children under school age requires the Retreats are an important part of the Confirmation parents to meet with the pastor before the sacrament is process and our candidates need to sign up with the New received. Albany Deanery (WWW.NADYOUTH.ORG). The If your child is going to be absent from class on parish picks up ½ of the cost. Parents and sponsors Sunday, please call 812-256-3503. We ask parents to please talk to your candidate and bring registration to please contact the Catechist to get the current lesson Juliann. plan & homework. We appreciate your cooperation in helping your child stay current with their studies Remember Sacrament Preparation, the Faith Formation & continuing their religious education. Commission and the Archdiocese states that a child must be enrolled and attend classes a year before receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation, First Eucharist, or Adult Confirmation Program beginning in February, Confirmation. For Confirmation you must be in Grade 2017 This is a 7 session program designed for many of 10, registered and attend Faith Formation this year. our Adult Catholics who still have not been confirmed and is free to all registered parishioners of the New Albany Deanery. The classes will be held at the Aquinas Proverbs Bible Study: Studying Proverbs people articulate what they have learned about the art of living. Center from 6:30-8:30 on the following dates: 2/27, Simply, Proverbs spur us to think about life. Every 3/13, 3/27, 4/10, 4/24, 5/8, 5/22 Adult Confirmation is Proverb beckons us to try to "complete" it-to connect it Pentecost Sunday, June 4th at the Cathedral in with a situation. Our group will meet the 4th Monday of Indianapolis. Please call Christina Flum at 812-246-5044 October, November, January, February, March, April & or go to the Aquinas Center Website May. We meet from 7-9p.m. at St. Joe Hill Campus. (www.aquinascenter.org) for more information. Pre- Please Contact Michele Ashby (502-592-3791) if you would like to join the group and for more information registration is requested. about your book for the program. Catholic Story Time! We meet from 10:00 – 11:30 at Servers: Some insight of the duties as an altar server the Aquinas Center on the 3rd Wednesday of each will involve everything from assisting the priest to month. Each month will have a theme based on the lighting candles, carrying the books used at Mass and liturgical year and the morning will include prayer, saying prayers. We are in need of Servers at St. Michael stories and activities – January 18th is our next -Adults or Youth!! Please contact Fr. Tully for Altar gathering. This is open for children age 2 and up. If you Server Training have any questions please call or email Cindy at the Aquinas Center: 812-246- 5044/ [email protected] Catholic Story Time Returns! We will meet from 10:00 – 11:30 at the Aquinas Center on the 3rdWednesday of each month. Each month will have a theme based on the liturgical year and the morning will include prayer, stories and activities. "Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. This is open for children age 2 and up. If you have Where there is hatred, let me sow love; any questions please call or email Cindy at the Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith;for conscious of our sinfulness, Where there is despair, hope; but aware that we gather in your name. Where there is darkness, light; Come to us, remain with us, Where there is sadness, joy. and enlighten our hearts. Give us light and strength O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to know your will, To be consoled as to console, to make it our own, To be understood as to understand, and to live it in our lives. To be loved as to love; Guide us by your wisdom, For it is in giving that we receive; support us by your power, It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; for you are God, sharing the glory of Father and Son. It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life." You desire justice for all; enable us to uphold the rights of others; do not allow us to be misled by ignorance or corrupted by fear or favor. We ask the parishioners to bring nonperishable food Unite us to yourself in the bond of love items to be donated to the North Clark Outreach and keep us faithful to all that is true. Center. There will be a wooden box in the church for As we gather in your name, may we temper justice with donations. Thank you for your contributions. love, On Friday, September 9, the intention will highlight so that all our words and deeds the National Day of Prayer for Peace in Our may be pleasing to you, and earn the reward promised to good and faithful stewards. Communities and the focus for the remaining nine We ask this of You who live and reign with the weeks will be on the upcoming elections. In Father and the Son, one God, forever and ever. addition to the current invitation to fast on Fridays, Amen. participants will be encouraged to pray one Our Adapted from a Prayer of the Second Vatican Council Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be for the week's and contributed by Barbara Dowding, Archdiocese of intention and for our civic leaders and upcoming Vancouver, Canada elections.

Would you like to know more about the Catholic A Message to Our Graduates. Faith? Have you found yourself asking questions Christian graduates, whatever you do about Catholicism on your faith journey and want to in life, you’ve been formed into learn more? Do you want to become a Catholic but are more than professionals. You’ve unsure of the next step? Please contact Fr. Tully or been formed into disciples of Jesus Juliann about the RCIA process. We would love for Christ. We were born to make manifest the glory of God you to join us at RCIA on Tuesday evenings from 7- that is within us. There is something you can give the 8:30pm starting on August 2nd. Ask Juliann about world that ordinary graduates cannot. It’s something that registration forms. 12 simple men brought to the world in 33 AD. As you go, you bring the light of Christ, the light of civilization, Prayer for Our Troops” the light of human dignity, the light of hope. Dear Lord… We thank you for the lives and service of Remember what your parents see and what God sees in our men and women in the Armed Forces. Strengthen you. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our them and give them guidance as they stand in harm’s deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. way to protect our nation and way of life. May they face We need you to remind us who He is and who we are. each day of their service the same way Your Son Jesus did: with courage dignity and faith. And if it be Your will when their work is through bring them safely home. Holy Days of Obligation and their Meaning Lord please also bless the families of our troops. Mary, Mother January 1 Commemorates Reward them generously for their sacrifices which are of God Mary’s known only to You. May we never forget those who Motherhood have paid the ultimate price for our freedom and safety: Ascension of 40 days after Commemorates th those who have died in the service of our country. May the Lord Easter or the 7 Jesus’ return in they rest in peace forever with You in Your kingdom. Sunday of glory to his Amen Easter Father Assumption of August 15 Celebrates the Blessed Mary’s entrance We stand before you, Holy Spirit, Virgin Mary into glory All Saints November 1 Celebrates all prayer on those who enjoy Easter Sunday the eternal Easter After evening White presence of God prayer on Immaculate December 8 Celebrates Easter Sunday Conception of Mary’s through the Blessed sinlessness from Pentecost Virgin Mary her first Ordinary Time Monday after Green moment of life Pentecost to Nativity of the December 25 Celebrates first Sunday of Lord Jesus’ birth Advent

Our service project is to bring non perishable food items to be donated to the North Clark Outreach Center. Every person should have a special cemetery lot in There which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. will be a wooden box in the church for donations. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake Matthew Beer, Brandon Beswick, Donald Bloss ,Asher has forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32 Boch, Michael Bower Jonathan Dean, Cathy Jo Donahue, Christopher Donahue, Joseph Kyle Donahue, John Emery, David Fouts, Sam Goffinet, Bradley Confirmation strengthens the gift of sanctifying grace Guernsey, Christopher Hahn, Steven Hahn, Alex we receive in Baptism. It unites us more fully to the Henson, Christopher Jackson, Joseph Brent Kaelin, Church. It gives us a special strength of the Holy Spirit Dustin Kavanaugh, Cody Kelshaw, Kyle Kelshaw, to share our faith as witnesses of Christ and to never be Brittany Kraft, B. J. Meredith, Brian Meredith, Stephen ashamed of the cross or our faith. During the Sacrament Mulhall, Thomas Mulhall, Joshua Mullins, Roman of Confirmation, prayers are said that God will pour out Nalley, Ashton Napier, Jay Rutledge, Olivia Vessels, his Holy Spirit so that we may be more like Christ by the Travis Williams If you know someone who needs to way we live our lives. be put on this list please call PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR MEN & WOMEN WHO ARE SERVING IN Memorial Day was first observed on May 30, 1868 THE MILITARY when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. On this day we honor all who have died in service to our nation. Please take a The Liturgical Year moment to reflect and pray. Season Time Liturgical Color Advent Four weeks Violet St. Michael and St. Francis Xavier Sacrament rd preceding Rose-3 Preparation: A child (grade 1 through high school) Christmas Sunday must be enrolled and attend Faith Formation classes the Christmas Christmas Eve White YEAR BEFORE and YEAR of receiving the Sacrament through the of First Reconciliation, First Eucharist or Confirmation.. feast of Jesus’ Baptism of children under school age requires the Baptism parents to meet with the pastor before the sacrament is Ordinary Time Monday Green received. following Jesus’s Baptism Remember Faith is a gift from God. Faith Formation to Ash is a life-long growth process. We encourage parents to Wednesday attend Mass with their children this enables the children Lent Ash Wednesday Violet to integrate what they learn in their Faith Formation th to Mass of the Rose-4 Sunday classes with weekly participation in the liturgy. Lord’s Supper Red-Palm on Holy Sunday If your child is absent on Sunday morning, please give Thursday the office a call at 256-3503. If your children have been Triduum Mass of the White absent, please contact the catechist to keep up with their Lord’s Supper Red-Good current assignment. through evening Friday St. Michael and St. Francis Confirmation Update Confirmation deepens our relationship with God and strengthens us to live lives of faith and mission. As a parent you will want to talk with your son or daughter about preparation for the celebration of Confirmation. If you will be a junior or senior in the next 2013-2014 year, and have attended Faith Formation classes or a Catholic High School and are currently enrolled in class, you will be eligible to be confirmed. We need another catechist for preparation for Confirmation, if interested talk to Juliann. The first planning meeting will be June 5th at 6:00pm in the Rectory Chapel. If you are an adult wanting to be confirmed, please contact Juliann to register for the RCIA class starting in August.

The Eucharist and Unity Imagine a person who receives Communion, accepts the Host when the priest says, "The Body of Christ," says "Amen," and then breaks off a piece, hands it back, and says, "Except this piece, Father!" This is what the person who rejects other people may as well do. In receiving Christ, we are to receive the whole Christ, in all his members, our brothers and sisters, whether convenient or inconvenient, wanted or unwanted, born or unborn. As St. John remarks, Christ was to die "to gather into one all the scattered children of God." Sin scatters. Christ unites. The word "diabolical" means "to split asunder." Christ came "to destroy the works of the devil" (1Jn.3:8). The Eucharist builds up the human family in Christ who says, "Come to me, feed on My Body, become My Body." Abortion, in a reverse dynamic, says, "Go away! We have no room for you, no time for you, no desire for you, no responsibility for you. Get out of our way!" Abortion attacks the unity of the human family by splitting asunder the most fundamental relationship between any two persons: mother and child. The Eucharist, as a Sacrament of Unity, reverses the dynamic of abortion.