St. Benedict Parish Atchison, Kansas St

St. Benedict Parish Atchison, Kansas St. Benedict Church St. Joseph Church St. Patrick Church 1000 North 2nd Street 8th & Spring Garden Street 19384 234th Road

Parish Office — 1001 North 2nd Street — 913-367-0671 — www.stbenedictatchison.org Second Sunday of Lent March 17, 2019

Holy Mass

Monday - Saturday 8:15 a. m. St. Benedict Church

Saturday (Vigil for Sunday) 5:00 p. m. St. Benedict Church

Sunday 7:00 a. m. St. Joseph Church 8:30 a. m. St. Patrick Church

9:00 a. m. St. Benedict Church 11:00 a. m. St. Benedict Church Father Jeremy Heppler, O.S.B. Pastor [email protected] Confession

Perpetual adoration of Jesus in the Wednesday 6:00 - 7:00 p. m. St. Benedict Church Blessed Sacrament is available in our Saturday 4:00 p. m. St. Benedict Church

parish. Enter the Adoration Chapel through the north entrance of Confession is also available by appointment; please call the parish office. St. Benedict Church.

Do you wish to become a member of our parish? We welcome you! Please contact the parish office for more information. Registration forms can be found online at our parish website.

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14th St. Pat’s Irish Fest Annual at historic St. Patrick Church

Next Saturday, March 23

Join fellow parishioners in this day of fun events! Time Event Details 8:00 a.m. 5k and 10k Registration $30 Entry Fee  Entry Fee includes breakfast 5k and 10k Trail Run 9:00 a. m.  To register, call parishioner

Anne Corpstein at 913-426-2841. Pancake Breakfast  $5 Sponsored by the Derek and Kelly Franklin Families  Includes pancakes, sausage, 8:30 - and Thrivent Financial Action Team Program homemade pie, and drink 11:00 a. m.  Take a closer look at this historic, Church Open House andd stone church dedicated in Heritage Display December 1866  1st prize = $300 gift card Buy Raffle Chances for  2nd prize = $200 gift card Van Dyke’s Grocery 8:30 - 11 a. m. and  3rd prize = $100 gift card meat gift cards 6:30 - 8 p. m. To purchase raffle tickets, contact a fellow $1 for 1, $5 for 6, or parishioner or stop by the parish office until $10 for baker’s dozen noon on Friday, March 22 6:30 - ? Concession Stand  $25 donation Registration for 6:30 p. m.  Cash payouts Texas Hold’em Tournament  Tournament begins at 7:30 p. m. 7:30 p. m. Bunko  $5 donation and cash payouts 8 p. m. Raffle Drawing  Need not be present to win

To St. Patrick Church From Atchison: 6 miles south of Atchison on Hwy. 73. Turn right at sign on 234th Rd. The proceeds from this annual fundraiser benefit our entire parish. For information about walk/run registration, to sponsor the walk/run, and to order a t-shirt, contact parishioners Anne Corpstein 913-426-2841 or Pete Corpstein 913-426-2941

Second Sunday of Lent page 3 Stewardship Information

Our Weekly Sacrificial Offerings to God New Donut Sunday Coordinator Thank you to parishioner and SBCS teacher Annie Week Collection Hart for stepping up to be our Donut Sunday Feb. 16 - 22 $10,010.77 Coordinator. If you or your organization are interested in volunteering to host Donut Sunday, please contact Feb. 23 - Mar. 1 $13,069.67 Annie Hart at [email protected]. SBCS Enrollment Now Open! Looking for First Holy Communion St. Benedict Catholic School has opened enrollment and Confirmation Gifts? for 2019-2020 for preschool through 8th grade. To  The Raven Store on the Benedictine College receive an enrollment packet, please contact the school campus. Choose from jewelry, rosaries, keepsakes, office at 367-3503 or contact Principal Diane Liebsch at greeting cards, and more. Located in the Haverty [email protected]. Tours are always available – Center. Shop Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. – come see SBCS in action! 4:00 p.m., Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and We wish to extend a warm Saturday 11:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.  welcome to newly registered The St. Benedict’s Abbey Gift Shop inside the parishioner: Abbey Guesthouse, which is open following Mass on Sundays, by appointment, or shop online at: https:// Emilee Ostertag www.kansasmonks.org/shop.  The Benedictine Sisters of Mount St. Scholastica Lenten Rice Bowls at SBCS Gift Shop, which is located at 801 South 8th St. Join St. Benedict Catholic School students in the Open 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday thru Saturday. Catholic Relief Service’s Rice Bowl Project. Foldable Rice Bowls are available in the school office for any family desiring to participate. Stop in the office and pick “God loves those who find joy in giving.” up a Rice Bowl! - Pope St. John Paul II This Sunday is the third Sunday of the month, and Would you Like to Tithe Online? the ushers will take up a second collection for the Poor Go to our parish website www.stbenedictatchison.org and Needy. Use your pink envelope. When you donate and scroll down. On the right towards the bottom, click to this monthly collection, the funds are distributed on the green “DONATE NOW myEoffering” button. locally as follows: 90% to Hunger Task Force; 5% to If you have done electronic transfers in the past on Loaves and Fishes; and 5% to Sleep in Heavenly Peace. Parish Support, click “Forgot password” as shown on the MEO help guide. If you have never done any Area Lenten Dinner Information electronic transfers, click “Register.” Contact the parish office for assistance.  St. Francis Xavier, St. Joseph, MO - March 15, 22 and April 5 - a different tasty menu each evening; $10 Maintenance Help Needed for adults, $5 for children, $25 per family. All Periodically there are small maintenance issues proceeds benefit the St. Francis Xavier Council required at the churches such as changing light bulbs, #15126. At the parish center from 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. vacuum maintenance, closet door off the hinge, etc.  St. Joseph, Nortonville, KS - Fridays now through There are 5 vacuums which need routine cleaning and April 12 from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - fried and baked maintenance every few weeks. If you are interested in fish, fried shrimp, potato, salad, roll, tea / coffee, and volunteering to assist with the maintenance issues and dessert; $12 ages 11 and up, $5 ages 4 to 10, free for check the vacuums every few weeks, please call ages 0 - 3. Proceeds benefit St. Joseph Church. parishioner Michelle Urban at 913-426-0020. Thank you!

On the cover: “The Transfiguration of Christ” (1605) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640). Oil on canvas. Located in the Museum of Fine Arts in Nancy, France.

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Please pray for our deployed, Mass Intentions for March 18 - 24 active duty military family and friends: Date Time Mass Intention Richard Brady Justin Phillips Mar. 18 SB 8:15 In honor of Joseph’s Baptism Brandon Kistler Steve Westerman Wade Madden Kyle Wilson Mar. 19 SB 8:15 Health of Larry & Emily Pickman Please remember in your prayersayers Mar. 20 SB 8:15 Martin Seager † those who are sick or suffering*: Senior Village 4:00 Millard Miller † Gretchen Bieber Jerry and Joyce Pruett Mar. 21 SB 8:15 Gloria Seager † Josh Blasi Patty Ralston Medicalodge 4:00 Dorothy Mullins † Paul Blodig Nicole Rapanal Mar. 22 SB 8:15 Rafaella Stroik † Jamie Boos Sara Reavis Mike and Olive Burns Ann Ruhlman Mar. 23 SB 8:15 Pete † & Donna † Urban Helen Carroll Jane Schuele SB 5:00 Sean Mahoney, Sr. † Pat Cavanaugh John Shankman Mar. 24 SJ 7:00 Bob Weber † Cindy Dooley Larry Siebenmorgen SP 8:30 Jean Wilson † Residents of the Dooley Center Ralph Simmons SB 9:00 Becky Harper † David Downing Sharon Smith SB 11:00 Welfare of the parishioners Vicky Felton Carole Brady Stempien Kelly Franklin Harold Vandeloo Upcoming Events Ed Gellings Tom Wagner Martin Joseph Gering To advertise a parish event on this calendar, please email Brother Robert Weinmann Nancy Diebolt at [email protected]. Gary & Kathy Handke Mel Whitlock Mike Horton Chris & Norine Wilderson Mar. Youth Group, 7:15 p.m. MH-MA Mara Hug Edna Mae Wolters 17 Happy Feast of St. Patrick! Infirmed Monks of the Abbey Alvin Wood Mar. First Class Relic of St. John Vianney in St. Benedict’s Maggie Luckert Lori McKinney Young 18 Atchison, see p. 5 for details Abbey Gerald Penning Special Intentions (7) Mar. Knights of Columbus #818, 8 p.m. SP School IMPORTANT: Please note that prayer list names and 19 special intentions are automatically removed from the Mar. William T. Jochems 4th Degree SJ Church bulletin prayer list 30 days after submission. To 20 Knights of Columbus Assembly, 7:30 Basement re-submit a name or special intention, simply contact the p.m. parish office. *Prayer list current as of March 8 Mar. Men’s and Women’s Bible Study, 7 p.m., contact 21 parishioner Terrance Coots at 913-203-4559 Stations of the Cross Join fellow parishioners each Friday Mar. Stations of the Cross, 7 p.m. SB Church of Lent (except Good Friday) at St. 22 Benedict Church at 7:00 p.m. for Stations Mar. Irish Fest, see p. 2 for details SP Church of the Cross. 23 grounds Mar. Youth Group, 7:15 p.m. MH-MA Early Bulletin Submission Deadlines 24 Please note that, due to Easter, bulletin submissions Mar. Women’s Parish Bible Study, 7:30 p.m., SBCS are due as follows: 28 see details on p. 5 Library Bulletin Submissions for the Are due by Mar. Stations of the Cross, 7 p.m. SB Church following bulletin: 5 p. m. on: 29 April 14 Friday, April 5 Mar. Young Adult Group Chili Dump and SJ Church April 21 Friday, April 5 31 Game Night, 3:00 p.m. Basement

Second Sunday of Lent page 5 Events, News, and Information

To help you have your best Lent ever... Bible Study for Men and Women The School of Love's PIER program is a collection 7 p. m. on 1st and 3rd Thursdays of each month of daily Mass Gospel readings - with reflections - that Contact parishioner Terrance Coots come daily to your inbox. They are designed to be easy, at 913-203-4559 for details. digital, quick, beautiful and faithful aids for family Next meeting date: Thursday, March 21 prayer. In just a few minutes a day, with no prep or expertise, you can greatly improve your prayer and grow Women’s Lenten Bible Study closer with God. Sign up for FREE at Please join the women of our parish for a Lenten www.schooloflovekc.com/pier-lent-2019. Bible Study on the Gospel of John. Remaining meetings are Thursdays March 28 and April 11 at 7:30 p. m. in the SBCS library. Contact parishioner Susan Draftz with Scholarship Available for Parishioners questions at [email protected]. The Tony Regan Scholarship awards funds to assist with the cost of undergraduate studies too high school Major Relic of St. John Vianney in Atchison seniors or college students of our parish. Applicants A first class relic, St. John Vianney’s incorrupt heart, must be current parishioner high school seniors or will be at St. Benedict’s Abbey on Monday, March 18. college undergraduates who will be attending college for The relic will be part of the 12:10 p.m. Mass procession the 2019-2020 academic year. and then will be available for veneration until 10:00 Criteria used to determine winners includes financial p.m. The 5:30 p.m. Mass will be celebrated in the need, academic achievement, and involvement in main Abbey Church that evening, instead of Guadalupe Catholic social concerns. Application deadline is April Chapel. The sacrament of Reconciliation will also be 19. Application forms are available at the parish office. available for the duration, except during Mass. Please Donations to help sustain this Scholarship Fund may be come ask for the intercession of the patron saint of directed to the St. Benedict Catholic School priests. Endowment. Maur Hill - Mount Academy Admission Maur Hill-Mount Academy is still accepting applications for the 2019-2020 school year. Complete the application, then apply for scholarships (including the four-year, full-tuition Haverty Family Scholarship) by March 30. Visit www.mh-ma.com for more information or contact the Admissions office with questions at 913-367-5482.

We thank the following parishioners who are serving our parish at our upcoming Masses: 5 p. m. Saturday 7 a. m. Sunday 8:30 a. m. Sunday 9 a. m. Sunday 11 a. m. Sunday

(SB) (SJ) (SP) (SB) (SB) S: Begley(3) S: Adams(2) S: M. & J. Martin S: Jirak(2), Klingele S: Peitsch(2), West Mar. L: Randall L: Adams L: S. McCoy L: Jirak L: West EM: Randall, Riley, C. EM: Schuetz, EM: J. Johnson EM: Jirak, Falk(2) EM: Peitsch(2), West 24 Coleman Volunteer U: J. Funk G: D. Wagner family S: Humburg(3) S: Schramp, Kerr S: G. & E. Johnson S: Maderak(2), Campbell S: Koechner(3) Mar. L: Dutton L: Schramp L: A. Corpstein L: tenBroek L: Gardner EM: Kentzler, EM: Schramp, Kautz EM: J. Funk EM: Worman, Lager, EM: Gardner, 31 Humburg(2) U: R. Funk Wilkerson Lewman, Scott G: R. Kane family S = Server L = Lector EM = Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion U: Usher G: Gifts

Upcoming Baptism Dates: Upcoming Anointing of the Sick Opportunity: March 24 May 12 and 26 (after the 11:00 a. m. Mass at St. Benedict Church) April 7 June 9 and 23 May 19

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Young Adult Board Games and Chili Dump Sacks to Mats Update Join St. Benedict Parish's Young Adult Group for a We continue to Chili Dump and Board Game Party on Sunday, March complete mats for the 31 at 3:00 p.m. in the basement of St. Joseph Church. homeless (made from Bring a gallon of gluten free / dairy free chili to be plastic sacks) at the rate of dumped into one large pot for a great shared meal. If one per month. All mats making chili is not your forte, contact Diane Holly at go to Catholic Charities and are woven in the 913-370-2413 or [email protected] to Hildegard Room at St. Benedict Church. If you would coordinate bringing condiments, bowls and spoons, like to help work, at your convenience, on weaving the drinks, or other food options. Bring a favorite board mats on the loom, call Mary Catherine Vollmer at 913- game/card game to share. If you have other dietary 370-0242 or Jovita Anderson at 913-367-0449 for more needs, or for more information about the group or this information. The next meeting to cut and tie the strips event, contact Diane or see the parish Facebook page. is Tuesday, March 19 from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. at the First The Parish Young Adult Group is intended for Christian Church at 301 N. 7th Street. Please park in the young people ages 21 and up, including singles, couples, rear and enter the basement on the Santa Fe Street and young families. Kids are welcome to join. side. Thank you!

A Reminder about Using Parish Space Please call the parish office at 913-367-0671 to schedule use of all three churches, St. Patrick School, St. Joseph Basement, or “the Hild,” (the basement of St. Benedict Church) for your group meetings. It helps us when people call in to know whether a location is available for a specific date and time. Thank you!

See Unplanned in Theaters March 29 Unplanned is the inspiring true story of one woman’s journey of transformation. As one of the youngest Planned Parenthood clinic directors in the nation, Abby Johnson was involved in more than 22,000 abortions, until the day she saw something that changed everything. She has become one of the most ardent pro-life speakers in America. Take a friend and go see this movie in theaters March 29. Learn more at www.unplannedfilm.com. Parish Novena to St. Benedict Concludes this Week From Fr. Jeremy: I encourage all of us to pray the following novena from March 12 - 20, asking St. Benedict to pray for our parish and for each of us. The Solemnity of the Passing of St. Benedict is March 21:

Parish Novena to St. Benedict Holy Father St. Benedict, blessed by God in grace and in name, while standing in prayer with your hands raised to Heaven, you yielded your spirit into the hands of your Creator. Protect us as we approach this great Solemnity commemorating your holy death. Intercede for us that personally and as a parish we may grow in holiness and unity by preferring nothing to Christ, that the Lord would call many men and women from our parish to serve Him through the priesthood and the consecrated life, and that God may hear our own personal intentions. Fulfill your promise to defend us against the snares of the enemy, now and in the last struggle of death, as we daily remind you of your glorious departure and heavenly joys. By your holy blessing, protect us this day and every day that we may never be separated from our blessed Lord, from your company and the company of all the blessed. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.

Pray daily from March 12 through March 20.

Second Sunday of Lent page 7 Archdiocesan and Area Opportunities

Upcoming Events At a Glance:  iCare provides adapted liturgies, religious education, and sacramental preparation for persons of all ages with March 19 developmental disabilities and their families. Please visit Grief Support Sessions and 26 www.icarenek.org for dates and locations of upcoming iCare Masses, Socials, and other events.  If you or someone you know could benefit from March 23 Mass with Anointing of the Sick opportunities provided by our Archdiocesan Deaf Ministry, please contact Katie Locus at [email protected] March 23 NFP Introduction Grief Support Sessions Atchison Hospital Hospice is offering Grief Support March 30 “Called and Gifted” Workshop sessions on upcoming Tuesdays March 19 and 26 from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at the Atchison Hospital Cafeteria Conference Room. Call Atchison Hospital Hospice at 913-360-5520 to make your reservation. April 4 “Made for More” Event

Joint Diocesan Mass with Anointing of the Sick April 6 “Men Under Construction” Men’s Conference The Order of Malta will sponsor a Mass for Catholics of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. Archbishop Naumann will be the Principal Celebrant and Bishop NFP Prescription for a Long and Happy Life Johnston will be the homilist at 10 a. m. Saturday, Dr. Laurie Heap looks at the medical benefits of March 23, at Curé of Ars Church, 94th and Mission natural fertility management systems Saturday, March 23 Road, Leawood, Kansas. Confession will be available from 1:30 - 5 p. m. at Holy Trinity Parish in Lenexa. from 8:45 to 9:30 a. m. Pre-register for anointing of the Light appetizers and drinks will be served. This session sick at 816-579-1370 or [email protected]; fulfills and engaged couple’s Archdiocesan requirement leave your name and correct spelling. For more for NFP introduction. For more information, contact information, contact Bob Fitzgerald at 816-622-2323. the Office of Marriage and Family Life at 913-647-0301 or [email protected]. Register at www.archkck.org/ prescription. “Called and Gifted” Workshop Come and begin to discover the mission God has “Made for More” Event for you. The “Called & Gifted Workshop” is the first “Made for More” is an inspired blend of teaching, step in the process. Saturday, March 30 at Divine live music, and art. Join Christopher West and Mike Mercy Parish in Gardner, KS. Mangione as they offer a vision of the Gospel through Register at www.jp2kc.org. Lunch is provided. the lens of Saint John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. April 4 • 7:00 - 9:30 p. m. • $20 Prince of Peace Catholic Church - Olathe, KS Men Under Construction—Men’s Conference Get your tickets now at: www.corproject.com/kc 7:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 6 This event is appropriate for ages 15 and up. Con- Church of the Ascension, Overland Park, KS tact Larissa Smith at [email protected] or 913-747- Includes breakfast, vendors, speakers, confession, 7746 if you would like more information. See a video of lunch and Mass with Archbishop Naumann. the 2018 “Made for More” event at https:// Cost - $40 adults, $20 students. www.youtube.com/watch?v=owbFBh2hRns. Register at www.ksmuc.org