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Congratulations Chirstifideles Award Winner Colleen Dunlavy! Award Congratulations Chirstifideles Saint Anne is a welcoming, loving community. We live out our faith with open arms. As disciples of Jesus, we embrace diversity Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Twenty-Seventh 16801 Dixie Highway, Hazel Crest, Illinois 60429 16801 Dixie Highway, and share our gifts and talents, as we journey to live, grow and share in God’s love. Saint Anne Parish Family Saint A Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Chicago Roman Catholic Church of the A Sunday, 3 October 2021 Saint Anne Parish Family Please tag your social media posts: #saintannehazelcrest 22 Page 2 W e A ll V alue E ach other! INDY My Dear and Precious Parish Family, cheer leader, reminding all of us of the incredible From the power of our parish to make a real difference Pastor’s Desk This weekend during a special ceremony on in each other’s lives and in the lives of those Sunday afternoon at Holy Name Cathedral, around us. our very own Colleen Dunlavy will receive the Christifideles Award from Cardinal Cupich. Most recently, Father Pat wrote about how The award recognizes laity from across the Colleen, who is a fifth-grade Catholic school archdiocese for their outstanding faithfulness teacher, told her class about the appeal to send and contributions to the ministries of their goats to Burundi and Rwanda some months parishes. As a parish family we thank Colleen ago: for her loving and dedicated service to our parish over the years, and we offer our congratulations ”The kids were so interested they started raising on being chosen to receive this award! money for goats, emptying their piggy banks, grabbing up loose change lying around the Colleen has been a driving force in helping our house, in the sofa cushions and from the table parish family reach out to each other and to our where their parents were playing cards. The kids whole community. After our parish completed raised enough money to buy 5 goats but they the many weeks of meetings in our parish had lots of questions. Colleen got in touch with transformation process, Colleen came forward Father Mark to ask whether he would be willing to offer her time and her talent to continue to to meet the kids on their Facebook page. He ensure that the many goals established by was; they met. (The kids had to teach Mark how www.saintanneparish.org that process would continue to be met. That to get on from his end…) The kids wondered facebook.com/saintanneparish “process” became our Parish Transformation whether Mark was in Africa (no), whether they Team, which met three times a year to review could name their goats and other fun stuff. twitter.com/saintanneparish our goals and to create new ways to make Today the kids are hearing about a new appeal Fr [email protected] the attainment of those goals a reality. She for the kids in the Kibera slum in Nairobi. God led our “Service Saturday” initiative, which bless Colleen!” Masses performed much needed service projects here at our parish and reached out to those in our God bless Colleen for all that she has done and Saturday surrounding community who needed assistance is doing to bring the love of Christ into our parish 4:30 PM with the upkeep of their property, helping to family, into our community, and into our world! beautify the whole neighborhood in the process. Congratulations to Colleen, to her parents Jim Sunday The program became immediately identifiable and Peg, to her children and her whole family! 9:30 AM by their bright green shirts which became the We thank God for answering our prayers for sign of our parish family’s love at work. The her ongoing recovery. May God grant her many Tuesday and Friday Parish Transformation Team would establish a more years of good health and much happiness (Communion Service) monthly outreach ministry to Pine Crest Health as she continues to bring His Love to us all! 8:30 AM Center, bringing much joy to its residents, many In Awe and Wonder of the Power of God’s Love of whom would otherwise have no one coming and Divine Mercy, and madly in love with all of Reconciliation to visit them. Colleen not only led our Parish you, your brother always, Transformation Team, she was our ministerial Saturday after the 4:30 PM Mass and by appointment Saint Anne Pastoral Directory Father Ralph H. Zwirn Taffany Speller Baptisms Rectory Office Pastor Carmen Fox New parents are expected (773) 599-9476 Sebastiana Mendoza to participate in a baptismal preparation session. Baptisms 16802 Lincoln Street Samone Fisher Father J. Patrick Murphy are normally on Sundays at (708) 335-1792 Early Learning Center Weekend Assistant 12 PM. Please call our parish (708) 335-1953 (Fax) (708) 335-4831 office to make arrangements. Father Leonard A. Dubi (708) 335-4861—fax Hours: Retired Pastor William Rosas Marriage Monday thru Thursday Couples are expected to be 9 AM to 3 PM Deacon Gary Michael Director of Liturgical Music properly prepared for their Closed Friday thru Sunday Deacon Monica Elsey marriage. Arrangements must be made at least four months in Elaine Bulanda Youth Ministry Coordinator advance, preferably as soon as Pastoral Assistant (708) 432-5300 Saint Vincent the engagement takes place. Andrew Ortiz Deanna Vera de Paul Society Religious Education Parish Administrative Assistant Sick Visitation Coordinator Please call our parish office to (708) 335-1766 (708) 335-1792 (708) 335-2286 (708) 335-1953—fax arrange for visitation to the sick. S M I September 26, 2021 Saturday, October 2—Vigil: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday Envelope Collection $1,861.00 4:30 pm Hedy & Ed Bobrowicz by Elly Bzdyl Weekly OneParish Collection $0.00 Margaret Orozco by Bill & Natalie Rosas Number of Envelopes Used 39 7Sunday, October 3—Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Average Per Envelope Used $46.97 Time 9:30 am Richard Rountree by Barb Maher Other Collections John & Colleen Murphy by Maureen Gasik Building Fund/One Parish $100.00/$0.00 Leonard Owens by Sheri Bradshaw St. Paul Sharing/One Parish $0.00/$0.00 Monday, October 4—St. Francis of Assisi St. Vincent de Paul Society/One Parish $397.00/$0.00 8:30 am No Services Today $0.00 Tuesday, October 5—Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos $0.00 8:00 am Recitation of the Rosary 8:30 am Communion Service S R F Wednesday, October 6—St. Bruno & Blessed Marie Rose P Durocher , : 8:30 am No Services Today Thursday, October 7—Our Lady of the Rosary Debbie Baker Naima Jeffries Jimmie Bernstein Kate Kohut Hal Black Mary Kraft 8:30 am No Services Today Jerry Bosco Mary Leonas Carolyn Collins Walter Maney Friday, October 8—Weekday Gradling Collins Joanne Nason Helen Cook Karen Ochwat 8:00 am Recitation of the Rosary Jim Driscoll John Rodriguez Colleen Dunlavy Natalie Rosas 8:30 am Communion Service Dave Erickson Chris Sawyer 9:30 am Eucharistic Adoration Marge Fasani Sharon Scanlon Mary Fernandez Sam Sciabica Saturday, October 9—Vigil: Twenty-eighth Sunday in Patrick Forde, Jr. David Sinwelski Ethel Gaines Tony Tovo Ordinary Time Vern Glaenzer Robert Van Slette 4:30 pm Pete Bzdyl by Elly Bzdyl Karen Griffin Mia Wakefield Molly Hobbs Audrey Winfrey 7Sunday, October 10—Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Marge Isom Mary Zwirn Time Vesta Jamison 9:30 am Richard Rountree by Sheri Bradshaw Lucio “Nick” Arenas by Bill & Natalie Rosas Mary Christ by Sarah Rice Please Pray for our Renew My Church Parish Grouping: St. Anne St. Emeric Infant Jesus of Prague St. Irenaeus I M St. Joseph St. Lawrence O’Toole The parish family of St. Anne expresses our condolences to the families of: Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time October 3, 2021 Let the children come to me; do not prevent Please note that we have removed a number of names from our list of “Relatives and Friends” above. We removed the names them, for the kingdom of God belongs because we did not know the current status of their need for prayers. If we removed the name of someone that you know still to such as these. needs prayers for healing, please contact the Parish Office and — Mark 10:14 we will gladly place the person back on the list. October 3, 2021 - Page 3 - Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time A P... LITURGY CORNER STEWARDSHIP CORNER THE TRUSTING CHILD EQUAL BEFORE GOD Specialists in the psychological development of children In today’s Gospel Jesus tries to lead his questioners be- tell us that an infant or child can go immediately from cry- yond the letter of the Law, with its many human interpreta- ing to laughing and back to crying again because the child tions, to the spirit in which it was given. The basic law from has complete trust in the person who is holding him or the beginning, he says, is that all human beings were cre- her. The child has no inhibitions about expressing the ated equal in the image of God. Thus, a man and woman swing of emotions because the child knows that the em- in marriage have equality and a fullness that is expressed brace will continue despite the expression of emotion. in their relationship with each other. (In speaking against divorce, Jesus is actually protective of women, who at that PLACING OUR TRUST IN GOD time could be divorced by their husbands, but could not obtain a divorce themselves.) The disciples attempt to In today’s Gospel story, the Lord Jesus embraces and keep some children and their parents from disturbing Je- blesses the children whom the apostles tried to prevent sus, probably thinking that women and children were not from coming to him.