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REV. JAMIE WEBER, PASTOR  871-5757 EXT. 201, [email protected] REV. JACOB WILLIG, PAROCHIAL VICAR  871-5757, ext. 205, [email protected]

JOE GROTE, Regional Director of Finance & Operations Ext. 204, [email protected]

SARAH SCHMID, DIRECTOR OF SACRED MUSIC | 322-9459, [email protected]

MARY MATHERS—ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT 271-0856, [email protected]

WEEKLY SCHEDULE WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS Daily Mass—Monday—Friday—11:45 am Sixth Sunday of Easter Rosary—Monday-Friday 11:15 am Monday, May 10 Weekend Masses—Saturday 3:00 pm PRINT PAGES 2,7 Sunday—10:00 am 11:45 am - Our Lady of Angels Fraternity—Carol Sullivan First Friday—Holy Hour 10:30—11:30 am Tuesday, May 11 OTHER PAGES ARE Every Tuesday of the month—Exposition of the 11:45 am - Greg Donovan—Fr. Jacob Blessed Sacrament & Confession—7:00 pm Wednesday, May 12 THE SAME IN 11:45 am— Anna Mae Keys—Sue, Bill & Angie Breving Bingo has restarted as of March 4. If you are able Thursday, May 13 ST. ANTHONY AND 11:45 am— Bert Sullivan—Lois Esswein to volunteer, please call the Parish Office. Friday, May 14 ST. CECILIA AND 11:45 am— Pat Fiora—Marge Rupp SACRAMENT OF GO BACK WITH Saturday, May 15 RECONCILIATION 3:00 pm — Intentions of Deacon Louis Jacquemin ST. CECILIA Saturday - 2:00—2:30 PM Sunday—9:00—9:30 am Ascension of the Lord Weekdays—following the 11:45 am Mass Sunday, May 16 WE WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS 10:00 am - Chris Mullan—Sue & John Mullan

There are forms available on the table in the vestibule if you would like to join our parish, or call the parish office and we will email you the information. Questions ? Call or email the Parish Office if you would like to Call Mary Mathers at 271-0856. add a name to our Prayer List. OUR REGION

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Beacons of Light MAY 9, 2021

All of the priests in the diocese gathered for a convocation on Zoom last week. That means we gathered together over the computer. One of the many things we talked about was the initiative in the diocese called “Beacons of Light.” For those who have not heard, this PRINT PAGES 2,7 initiative is one that addresses the concern that the diocese is spread too thin. This means that there are far too many parishes and not enough pastors to effectively lead them. In the convocation, they explained that on June 4 all priests will gather again to get the OTHER PAGES ARE results of the data accumulated by all of the parishes in the diocese. This data has been tabulated and compared by a paid consultant company. I have talked to many experts in the field of market research and they feel the consultant’s practices are sound. The way they read and scrutinize the date will be the most important job. Altogether there will be much input before a plan is implement- THE SAME IN ed. The consultant will make initial recommendations based on their experience. The data will give us a better sense of how many regions of churches there should be at this time, and what they consist of. The effort has also afforded us to look at what a parishioner ST. ANTHONY AND should expect of their regions of churches to make them strong and consistent with church teachings. ST. CECILIA AND GO BACK WITH Rome Experience Tony Losekamp, the seminarian from our region, will be going to Rome this summer to study. This is a great chance for him but he needs some financial support to be able to afford the trip and expenses. If you can, and ST. CECILIA are so inclined, please be generous at our second collection on May 15-16 at all the Masses. I know our parish- ioners would love to support our seminarian. He has always been willing to help at all of our special liturgies at St. Cecilia and SMSJ and I’m thankful for all of his support. Deacon Louie Jacquemin Becoming a Priest Deacon Louie will be ordained a priest on May 15th at the cathedral and his first Mass at St. Cecilia will be held on May 23 at 11:30 PM. The parishioners from our region are welcome to celebrate this Mass that Deacon Louie will be presiding over as a priest! Please keep him in your prayers as he prepares for this new vocation!

Help us honor our Blessed Mother in a special way this month! All are invited to bring flowers and leave them at Mary’s altar. You may bring in your own vases with your flowers or if needed, there will be vases available on the side of the altar. Novena to the Holy Spirit begins this Friday, May 14. This Friday marks the beginning of the oldest of all novenas, the novena to the Holy Spirit. It occurs nine days before Pentecost. This is actually when the first novena began, as the apostles huddled in the upper room praying for nine days after the Ascension of Our Lord until the Holy Spirit descended upon them on the ninth day. Novena booklets are available at the doors of church if you’d like to pick one up. PASTOR’S RAMBLINGS | 4

1, 2, 3 | WELCOME CHILDREN OF GOD. Welcome Margaret Clare, daughter of Adam and Sarah Crowell. Welcome Emily, daughter of Ronald and Candelaria Toruno. Welcome Leo Thomas, son of Andew and Aris Quatkemeyer.

4, 5, 6 | CONGRATULATIONS! Congratu- lations Lindsey and Justin Lisena who cele- brated the sacrament of matrimony on Sat., 1 2 3 April 24. Fr. Jamie presided over their wed- ding. Congratulations Abigail and Michael Castleman who celebrated the sacrament of marriage on Sat., April 24. Msgr. Lane pre- sided over their wedding. Congratulations Cara and Grady Gordon who celebrated their PRINT PAGES 2,7 wedding on Sat., April 17. Deacon Nathan OTHER PAGES ARE Beiersdorfer presided over their ceremony. 7 | NEW DEACON! Congratulations to Fr. THE SAME IN Jacob’s brother, Deacon Michael Willig who 4 5 6 was ordained a transitional deacon on Sat., April 24, 2021. Deacon Michael will now con- ST. ANTHONY AND thechurchwanderer from Photo tinue his studies to prepare for the ordination of priesthood next year, 2022. Please keep him ST. CECILIA AND and all of the new deacons in your prayers. 9 | PILGRIMAGE. Recently Fr. Jacob trav- GO BACK WITH eled to Joppa, Tennessee with eight of our

on Instagram. young adults and both of his parents for a Mission Trip with the Glenmary Missioners. ST. CECILIA Fr. Jacob personally had many life changing experiences doing mission work and wanted to share the experience, especially in this year of St. Joseph. With the two Mission Leaders from Glenmary the team of 12 worked on projects including landscaping at a Children’s Home, building a wheelchair 7 8 ramp for a woman with a broken hip and replacing a roof for someone in need. One special job they were involved in was helping to build a new Catholic Church! St. John Paul II is the only Catholic church in Grainger County. While the trip was full of work, there were also many laughs with multiple parties (one with a local latino family involving a piñata!) and much prayer as they be- gan each morning with Mass and ended with a Holy Hour and Rosary. I hope we can continue to send out missionaries from our region in the future!

8 | CONFIRMATION. On April 25, we welcomed Archbishop Schnurr to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation on our 7th graders in the region. Congratulations to all 23 of the newly Confirmed. Thank you to all of the parents and teachers who helped prepare them for the sacrament. May God complete all 9 the good work he has begun in each of you! EASTSIDE FAITH | 5

“Let the Creed be like a mirror for you. Look at yourself in it to see whether you really believe all that you claim to believe. And rejoice every day in your faith.” – St. Augustine

Catechesis (kat’i-ke’sis) n. Understanding the Mass Part 2: Invisible Realities The first article in this series referred to the seven Sacraments as the most powerful way of having a personal encounter with Jesus. We all have experienced the Sacraments but few have a good under- PRINT PAGES 2,7 standing of them. While we know what each of the seven is named, do we know what makes them a Sacrament? What is the common thread that OTHER PAGES ARE binds them together as sacraments? The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines a sacrament as “an efficacious sign of grace, instituted by Christ and THE SAME IN entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us through the work of the Holy Spirit” (CCC 1210). Know your Saints That is a great deal to digest! I find a definition by Karl Rahner, S.J. Blessed Claudio Granzotto ST. ANTHONY AND more helpful. He says sacraments are all, “visible signs that participate in invisible realities.” A personal encounter with Jesus is one of these invisible (1900-1947) ST. CECILIA AND realities. We can only see these invisible realities with eyes of faith. As St. Born in Santa Lucia del Piave near Venice, Claudio was Paul says, “We walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor 5:7). This is one of the the youngest of nine children and was accustomed to difficulties in understanding the sacraments. The realities they produce hard work in the fields. At the age of nine he lost his GO BACK WITH are invisible but we still participate in them. They do not simply indicate father. Six years later he was drafted into the Italian or point to other realities but allow us to actually be part of or take part in army, where he served more than three years. ST. CECILIA other invisible realities. His artistic abilities, especially in sculpture, led to An example of an invisible reality that we all take part in is love for studies at Venice’s Academy of Fine Arts, which award- another person. We cannot see love but we can feel it and know that it exists ed him a diploma with the highest marks in 1929. Even beyond any doubt. Some invisible realities are feelings while others are then he was especially interested in religious art. When events or places. Claudio entered the Friars Minor four years later, his Examples of invisible realities within the Mass include the Last Supper, parish priest wrote, “The Order is receiving not only an Jesus’ death on the cross, the Supper of the Lamb and the Mass in Heaven artist but a saint.” Prayer, charity to the poor and artis- with the angels and saints. We participate in all of these invisible realities tic work characterized his life, which was cut short by whenever we attend Mass, the Celebration of the Holy Eucharist. a brain tumor. He died on the feast of the Assumption The remaining articles will discuss our participation in these realities and was beatified in 1994. as well as others. Becoming Catholic Curious about the Church? Want to learn more? Call us today at 513-871-5757, ext. 215. NEWS & NOTES | 6

DIOCESAN PRIESTS AVAILABLE FOR ASSIGNMENT AS PASTORS NET CHANGE IN CATHOLIC PARISHES BY STATE, 1971 TO 2018

PRINT PAGES 2,7 OTHER PAGES ARE ACTIVE DIOCESAN Gold = growth Blue = loss PRIESTS IN THE THE SAME IN ARCHDIOCESE OF CINCINNATI Why now? Many factors lead us to recognize an urgent need to organize parish life more ST. ANTHONY AND effectively for our future. Our parishes need to be vibrant communities of faith in 25 of our 149 priests order that we might fully grow as disciples of Jesus Christ. We face the decline of are 70 or older ST. CECILIA AND religious practice in the United States and changing demographics in the 9 of the 149 priests Midwest. And, while we are blessed with an increased number of men who have been ordained to the priesthood in the past few years or who are currently in are 75 or older GO BACK WITH seminary formation, we have even more still serving as pastors who are at or 19 of our 102 pastors beyond retirement age or who will be eligible to retire in the next few years.1 are 70 or older ST. CECILIA 7 of our 102 pastors BEACONS LIGHT: From Surviving to Thriving are 75 or older of Beacons of Light will be a unique experience of pastoral planning for the 3 ordinations Archdiocese of Cincinnati. There are two essential elements of the process, which in 2020 will take place simultaneously and will lead us to move from maintenance to mission, from surviving to thriving. Strategic Planning: involves data gathering, 8 retirements analysis, and the identification of the best possible parish groupings throughout in 2020 the Archdiocese. Pastoral Planning: includes meetings and processes through which parish leaders will discern the shape of parish life for their grouping and 52 possible create a pastoral plan for the future. retirements in 2021-2025

What’s Next? Prayer and Planning

*7 religious order priests We invite you to join us in prayer as we enter into this new phase of pastoral planning. Monthly prayer and reflection resources, as well as updates on the serve as pastors in 2020 process, will be available at www.catholicaoc.org/beacons

1 Map: CARA, https://nineteensixty-four.blogspot.com/2019/02/where-parish-doors-have-closed-and.html

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April 25, 2021 Please pray for the Collection- $1826.00 sick, homebound and Online— $855.00 nursing home in our Mail — $535.00 Parish especially Denisa Kaiser, Joan Knechtly Joe Hopster, Randy Total $3216.00 Mays, Diane Berling, Janie Wood, To meet our expenses we need $4800 weekly. Marge Rupp, Betty Nerl, Ken Dorschug, Thanks to all who generously support our Joyce Scharringhausen, Elaine Best, Parish. Linda Gwaltney, Carol Goins, Herb Noll, If you would prefer to give online, you can sign Pat Kemme, John Petrie, Ben Gruen. & up by going to our website and click on the Barb Rosenberger. PRINT PAGES 2,7 above icon. OTHER PAGES ARE Please remember our Vincent de Paul group who help those in the 45227 If you have been zip code. coming to our church, we welcome you THE SAME IN and ask that you call the Parish Office Donations can be mailed to the to register. There are many ways in our ST. ANTHONY AND Parish Office. If you are able to donate food Parish to get involved and help out. We need lectors and Eucharistic please bring it to the church or Parish Office ST. CECILIA AND Ministers especially at our 3:00 pm and we will see that it gets to those in need. Mass. Training will be provided. We GO BACK WITH Thanks to all who give generously to our also are always in need of help at our ST. CECILIA parish’s Vincent de Paul! weekly Thursday night Bingo. We are also in need of volunteers to help with

home visits and delivering food. Please call the

Parish Office if you are available to help.

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