Pot of Gold Winners! Grand Prize $20,000: Roy A

Thank you for helping to make St. Ann’s Largest Annual Fundraisers a success!

933 Tickets Sold - Prize Payouts Pot of - Expenses Gold

Net Profit: $63,850.00

Congratulations to Our 2018 Pot of Gold Winners! Grand Prize $20,000: Roy A. Valle 2nd Prize $5,000: Pat Quayle 3rd Prize $2,000: John Giemzik 4th Prize $1,000: Phill & Lynn 5th Prize $500: John B. Evans, Jr. Sell Five/Win $500: Rose & Bill Weinand

414 Tickets Sold + Sponsorships + Raffle Baskets + Tip Chances & Gift Card Sales + Auction Proceeds

Net Profit: $28,172.00

March 18, 2018 St. Ann Parish ESTABLISHED 1913 3010 Ridge Road, Lansing, IL 60438 708-895-6700 Reverend William McFarlane, Pastor www.saintanncatholicparish.com

Masses Parish Staff Monday-Thursday: 7:45 a.m. Barb Antoskiewicz, Pastoral Associate/DRE Friday Communion Service: 7:45 a.m. Debbie Bona, Ministry Coordinator First Friday Mass: 7:45 a.m. Sue Dawson, Parish Office Secretary Finance Council Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sandy Farmer, Parish Bookkeeper Robert Dabrowski Sunday: 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Jennifer Gray, Development/Bulletin Editor Sandy Farmer Confessions: 3:00 p.m. Saturday Chris Hutter, School Secretary Brian Kozlowski Brian Kozlowski, Director of Operations Fr. William McFarlane Parish Office Hours Director of Music & Liturgy Bonnie Murach Monday-Friday: 8:00-Noon & 1:00-4:00 p.m. Pam Lepczynski, Parish Office Receptionist Kelly Rojas Office closes at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays Kelly Rojas, School Principal Closed Saturday & Sunday Janice Summerrise, School Business Manager Contact Information Parish Office: 708-895-6700 Pastoral Council School Board Parish Office Fax: 708-895-6877 Barb Antoskiewicz Dan Podgorski, President School Office: 708-895-1661 Wade Cooper Nicole Hillegonds, VP Religious Ed. Office: 708-895-5970 Brian Farlow Laurie Glowacki, Secretary St. Vincent DePaul: 708-745-4760 Jane Farlow Bernard Chukwulebe Fr. Bill’s email: [email protected] Ken Kot Robert Dabrowski Parish email: [email protected] Dominic Podsiadlik Fr. William McFarlane Bulletin email: [email protected] Erin Meegan Polanski Kelly Rojas Prayer Tree: [email protected] Ashley Sypole School Website: www.saintannschool.com Jesse Terrazas Parish Website: www.saintanncatholicparish.com Liturgy Committee Barb Antoskiewicz, For Ministry of Care to the homebound or hospitalized, Religious Education, RCIA/RCIY please call the Parish Office. Debbie Bona, Lectors

Bulletin articles are due 10 days in advance of the Sunday Brian Kozlowski, Music Ministry & Liturgy you would like them to run. During holidays, deadlines Cindy Hope, Altar Servers are accelerated. To add items to the calendar or to sched- Kim Jacobson, Art & Environment ule the Narthex or other meeting spaces, forms must be Don Schiller, Ushers filled out in the Parish Office. Ed Sochacki, Eucharistic Ministers Gerrie Szewczyk, Sacristans

St. Ann Parish Mission Statement We are called by a loving God to make St. Ann of Lansing a Catholic community of faith. We are a family of diverse people with various ministries: healing the body and spirit, teaching of God and His love, united in sacraments and prayer, reaching out to the extended community. With God’s revelation of Himself in Scripture as our guide, we strive to grow in His Spirit and to fulfill the promise of Christ’s Kingdom.

This Week’s Activities

Monday, March 19 LENTEN RECONCILIATION Monday, March 19 (St. Joseph) 7:45 a.m. Mass Mass 7:45am Chapel † People of the Parish Reconciliation Service 9:00am Church Tuesday, March 20 Religious Education 4:00 - 5:30pm Classrooms 7:45 a.m. Mass Reconciliation Service 7:00pm Church † Dorothy Rossi (Malenki Family) Wednesday, March 21 Tuesday, March 20 7:45 a.m. Communion Service Mass 7:45am Chapel 9:00 a.m. School Mass Art & Environment All Day Church † People of the Parish Jedi Soccer Drills 5:30 - 7:00pm Parish Hall Thursday, March 22 St. Vincent de Paul Meeting 6:30pm Parish Office 7:45 a.m. Mass Cub Scouts 7:00pm Classrooms † People of the Parish Choir 7:00pm Church Friday, March 23 Throne of Grace Prayer Group 7:00pm Parish Office (St. Turibius of Mogrovejo) 7:45 a.m. Communion Service Wednesday, March 21 Saturday, March 24 (Blessed Oscar Romero) Communion Service 7:45am Chapel 4:00 p.m. Mass School Mass 9:00am Church † People of the Parish Sewing Club 9:00am Parish Office Sunday, March 25 Li’l Roughriders Playgroup 9:00am Ext. Day (C3) (Palm Sunday) Rosary 7:00pm Chapel 8:30 a.m. Mass School Board 7:00pm Parish Office † People of the Parish A.A. Meeting 8:00pm Parish Hall 10:30 a.m. Mass † People of the Parish Thursday, March 22 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Mass 7:45am Chapel Jedi Soccer Drills 5:30 - 7:00pm Parish Hall March 18, 2018 Alive in Our Hearts Scripture Study 7:00pm Parish Office I will place my law within them and Choir 7:00pm Church write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be Friday, March 23 my people. Communion Service 7:45am Chapel Stations of the Cross 1:30pm Church — Jeremiah 31:33 Stations of the Cross 7:00pm Church

New Members Welcome! Saturday, March 24

We would love to have you join us! Mass 4:00pm Church Please fill out the information below, and place in the Offertory Collection or send to Sunday, March 25 PALM SUNDAY the Parish Office. You may also request a registration form at 708-895-6700. Masses (Children’s Liturgy @10:30) 8:30 & 10:30am Church Religious Education 8:45 - 10:15am Classrooms Name For calendar updates, please visit www.saintanncatholicparish.com and click on the Calendar tab. Address Street Town/Zip Lenten Phone Reconciliation email Services Monday, March 19 9:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.

Many Today’s Readings First Reading — I will place my law within them and Blessings . . . write it upon their hearts. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or Ezekiel 37:12-14. For" God so loved the world, that He gave His only Psalm — Create a clean heart in me, O God Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish (Psalm 51) or Psalm 130. but have eternal life. John 3:16 Second Reading — Christ became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him (Hebrews 5:7-9) or Ro- What is your first recollection of Easter? Is it bunnies, mans 8:8-11. Easter baskets, your Easter outfit, attending Easter Gospel — If a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, Mass, or learning about Jesus and how He died for us it produces much fruit (John 12:20-33) or John 11:1-45 on the cross? [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]. The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna-

tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. For me, it was about looking into my Easter basket with its treats and knowing someone really did care about me. When I was a child, I remember sitting at Mass Readings for the Week with my mom and feeling peace in being there with her. Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; It took a few years for me to relate Easter and that Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or peaceful feeling with religion or spirituality. Since my Lk 2:41-51a mom died when I was nine and my dad was not reli- Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 gious, I basically continued my spiritual journey on my Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 own with the support of religious education classes. Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Jn 8:51-59 Learning about God opened up a whole new world for Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 me. Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; (procession) It is through my struggles in life and through my grow- Is 50:4-7; Ps 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24; ing faith in God that I became more spiritually enriched Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 — 15:47 [15:1-39] and more empowered to live a good Christian life. We have all gone through our own journeys in growing up and learning about God. We can all reflect on Jesus’ Saved By God’s Love life and death this Lenten season and what that means Because the people broke the old covenant, God promised for us. We can also reflect on our own lives and how a new covenant, not in the blood of oxen and other ani- they have evolved through faith and through our life mals, but in the blood of the Son, Jesus Christ. This new experiences. We can ponder how our journeys have covenant, foreseen from afar by Jeremiah and the proph- brought us to where we are now, and can bring us to ets, was not to be engraved on stone, or written on paper, where we want to be in living with God in our lives. but carved on our hearts, so that we might know God inti- mately. Not by keeping many laws are we to be saved, but I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, by the love of God, living and real in our hearts through but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, the sacrifice of Christ. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. Galatians 2:20 Our Eucharist is the pledge of that indwelling of Christ, and of our response of praise and thanksgiving to God for the mercy, love, and kindness shown to us in forgiving our Many Blessings, sins and cleansing our hearts of everything evil. God is- Debbie Bona, Ministry Coordinator sues this invitation to intimacy by offering us the chance to have our sufferings transformed into the perfect love of the Savior, who first loved us. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

At all weekend Masses, you may submit your Lenten prayer intentions to the Miss Me—But Let Me Go

basket in the Narthex to be brought up with our offer- In Loving Memory of ings each week and prayed Kathy Jones for during the intercessions.

WEEKLY BUDGET: $12,000.00

SUNDAY COLLECTION: 10,802.04 $ -1,197.96

ST. ANN 50-50 CLUB: $ 1,303.26 BUILDING FUND: $ 1,267.56 3-4-18 Thank you for your continued support.

St. Ann’s 50-50 Club

Our March 4 winning number was 2118. 2118 WOULD HAVE WON $651.63. DON’T MISS OUT ON YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!

To be eligible, both your 50-50 ($5.00) and weekly collection envelopes (no limit, but at least $5) with separate payments must be in the parish office by 9:00 a.m. Monday.

Candy, eggs & gift cards For Thank you to the members of the the baskets St. Ann Women’s Club for hosting our this year! hospitality after Masses last weekend! Use gift cards for your regular purchases or give them as presents, and you can help out with needed projects Catholic Chicago Men's Conference 2018 around St. Ann’s, or assist a family with school or R.E. A Catholic Conference for Men of All Ages tuition! We offer a selection of cash and carry gift cards at the Parish Office, or you can place a weekly order from April 7, 2018 (Saturday after Easter) a larger selection. You pay face value and a credit will - St. Rita of Cascia High School go to Parish Maintenance, Tuition Assistance, or the 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Doors Open 8:30 a.m. School or Religious Ed. Family of your choice. Pay- Includes Breakfast, Presentation, Group Discussion ment by check (register in the Parish Office) or cash. and Mass with Bishop Perry. Forms are in the Office or in the Ministry 411 Center in Keynote - Father Bradley Zamora the Narthex. The office is open M-Th 8:00-4:00, closed “Living Emmaus in Everyday Life" for lunch from Noon-1:00 p.m. and for the day at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays. Call ahead for availability: 895-6700. Synopsis: Christ encountered the disciples on the road to Emmaus following the Resurrection. As we live our lives amazon.com GFS Red Lobster following the Resurrection, how have we encountered AMC Theaters Gus Bock Hardware Speedway Christ and how has that encounter inspired us and chal- Applebee’s Home Depot Starbuck’s lenged us to live the faith as Catholic men? Bath & Body Works iTunes Stephano’s Bed, Bath & Beyond J. J. Kelley’s Strack’s Beggar’s Pizza Jewel Subway There will be NO Eucharistic Best Buy Kmart Target Buffalo Wild Wings Kohl’s Toys R Us Adoration on Wednesday, Carson’s Meijer Walgreen’s March 28 due to the preparations Chili’s Menards Walmart/ Chipotle Mobil/Exxon Sam’s Club for Holy Week and Easter. Dairy Queen Noodles & Co. Whole Foods Likewise, there will be no Rosary Dunkin’ Donuts Olive Garden/ said that evening. GameStop Panera 5

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4th Grade,--•--/Mrs. Hunter rd th Dear Friends, The 3 quarter of the year just finished, and 4 graders at St. Ann wrapped up some projects. As we continue through the season of Lent, let us keep in mind the commitments that were made on Ash Wednes- We just finished a major writing assignment – the Persua- day. Please continue to keep the families who lost loved sive Essay. Students chose topics that were important to ones on Feb. 14th, 2018 in your prayers. them, and included “We Need Better School Lunches” 1-2-3 Let’s GROW! We are very excited to have had 21 and “Phones Should be Allowed in School.” Going new families tour our school, and 3 of those families have through all of the important steps in the writing process, already registered their children. We are expecting more students thought of three convincing reasons why their families to register as soon as the allocated funds from readers should agree with their opinions. After planning Empower Illinois have been awarded. Thank you all for their essays with a prewrite, writing a first draft, and re- continuing to be an advocate for St. Ann School. You play a very important role in helping our school continue vising with the help of a classmate, students completed to be a sensation in our community! their final drafts of this 5-paragraph formal essay on their Google Chromebooks. Using the Google Drive, students Empower Illinois Tax Credit Scholarship Empower Illinois were able to submit their final assignment online to Mrs. has begun sending emails to families who applied with the next steps. Parents will then have seven days to com- Hunter. plete the application. Remember to check your email The 4th graders also recently completed the 3rd quarter often. If you need assistance with the next steps, please book report. This is an independent project, and students do not hesitate to call Mrs. Summerrise or me for assistance. We are more than happy to help you! chose their own novel to read for the exercise. Students had to show their comprehension of the novel’s plot by A Night at The Palace This fundraiser has left me speech- completing one of these two options: either create a less! (And THAT is hard to do!) What an amazing event! It “scrapbook” of hand-drawn pictures with captions, or was so nice seeing our St. Ann families all dressed up en- joying themselves as we shared a delicious meal! Many write detailed journal entries from the main character’s had the opportunity to catch up with old friends and point of view. Students were able to work at their own make some new ones as well! If you missed out on the pace. They turned in such creative projects and did a event this time, please join us next year--we missed you! great job. ACT Aspire Grades 3-8 are preparing for the ACT Aspire Finally, we just began reading a novel together as a class: tests in April. These exercises help ready the students for Lois Lowry’s Number the Stars. One of Mrs. Hunter’s the test in specific ways, however, everyday curriculum favorite books from over the years, Number the Stars tells instruction and retention is the real indicator. We encour- age parents to please continue to review skills at home the story of a young girl living under Nazi occupation in and monitor homework completion with your student to Denmark during World War II. support him/her towards achieving academic success.

th We’re looking forward to a fun and productive 4 quar- Girls Volleyball Teams Shine on the Court! HUGE Congrat- ter! ulations to the SAS Girls Volleyball teams in their season- end tournaments! We are so proud of the TEAMWORK and determination you put into the sport! 5th Grade took 2nd in the "White Division" 6th Grade took 3rd in "B" Division 7th/8th Grade Team took 3rd in "AA Division"

Tours and Shadow Opportunities If you are interested in an excellent, vital, Catholic education for your children, please come and meet us! We are happy to take you on a tour, answer your questions, or set up a Shadow Day for your child in the classroom with his/her peers. Please give us a call at 895.1661.

Have a wonderful week!

Kelly Rojas, SAS Principal 6

Join Us For Our Easter Traditions! Upcoming Events

Saturday, March 31 Li’l Roughriders Playgroup: March 21

Bring your Easter feast and the Youth Group Shadow Stations: March 30 kids’ baskets for a special blessing in the Chapel at 1:00 p.m. Immedi- Basket Blessing/Easter Egg Hung: March 31

ately after, we’ll head outside for Spring Break: April 2 - 9 our annual Easter Egg Hunt for kids up to 4th Grade/10 years old. Li’l Roughriders Playgroup: April 11 & 25

Bring the whole family! Mother/Son Bowling: April 13

First Reconciliation: April 14

Women’s Club Spring Luncheon: April 22

Youth Group Can Collection: April 22

Confirmation: May 3

Third Quarter Honor Roll GraFFiti Youth Group

We’re very proud of ALL of our students at St. Ann ANNUAL EASTER EGG HUNT School! The following each achieved honor roll status Donations of plastic eggs, candy and during the Third Quarter of the 2017-2018 school year: small trinkets are needed for St. Ann’s “A” HONOR ROLL “B” HONOR ROLL Annual Easter Egg Hunt. Please place your donations in the designated bin in GRADE 4 GRADE 8 GRADE 6 the Narthex beginning March 3-4. Cameron Ingram Maya Correa Bianca Loera The hunt will take place immediately Daisy Oparanozie Mia Dabrowski Cameron Nelson following the Easter Basket Blessing on Holy Saturday, Miley Podgorski Jack Foster Daniel Roa Louis Gray Connor Schuljak March 31. All are welcome to meet on the school lawn GRADE 5 Diego Lopez at 1:30 p.m. to join in the fun. Bianca Carter Manuel Lopez GRADE 7 Ava Dabrowski Jonathan DeMay Anthony Mangano Grace Foor Angel Manrique ALUMINUM CAN COLLECTION DATE Natalie Gray GRADE 8 Kiernan McSwiggan Terimoluwa Akinola GraFFiti Youth Group members Gianna Hillegonds Caden Podgorski Murphy Barnum will collect aluminum cans in GRADE 6 Lucas Seymour Samuel Cruz Teju Akinola Alejandra Vasquez Dami Ogunyoye the church parking lot up near the school building after Sunday Mass- Micheal Bailey GRADE 4 Madeline Sombong Giselle Gomez Ava DeMay es on April 22. Jaidyn Guthrie Ricardo Guajardo Jimi Ogunyoye Luis Ibarra Max Sombong Lilliana Lara Roman Lopez GRADE 7 Isabel Alvarez GRADE 5 Makayla Gilbert Rolando Carter Kailey Latham Grey Giemzik Nicolas Mangano ChiChi Ibekwe Leah Mondragon Kelechi Kau-Mbah Nicholas Rincon SaMya McCaa Additionally, KINDNESS AWARDS went to Caleb Re- blin (Kind.), Mi’Khayla Primous (1st), Jonathan Lara (2nd), Jennifer Lomeli (3rd), J-Cub Perez (4th), Gianna Hillegonds (5th), Bianca Loera & Leo Wieczroek (6th), Makayla Gilbert (7th), and Maya Correa (8th). 7

Saturday, March 24, 2018 Sunday, March 25, 2018 Sunday, March 25, 2018 4:00 p.m. Mass 8:30 a.m. Mass 10:30 a.m. Mass USHERS SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE LECTORS LECTORS LECTORS 4:00 p.m. Mass Ted Cap - L1 Bonnie Murach - L1 Mike Johnson - L1 Bob Cole (Leader) Steve Hausier Elayne Tyderek - L2 Virginia Podgorski - L2 Maria Arteaga - L2 Mike Kabala Olivia Candelaria - Com Jacob Hope - Com Deborah Bona - Com Tom McDermott Phill Stewart EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS Carol Ann Surufka Debbie Wright Gail Bobic Sharon Starks-Wells Wally Szulczewski Mike Kabala Linda Fogarty Helen Torres John Truby (Leader)

Ellen Horn Joann Baltrus Chioma Ezechukwu 8:30 a.m. Mass Anna Jaworowski Rich Baltrus Martes Benne Anthony Cusimano Gail Lee Jack Roe Kathy Corbett Tony DeLaurentis (Leader) Fran Miller Vera Seymour Abbey Gorny Tony Kaim Howard Morrison Emily Hollifield Cheryl McNamara Paulette Lofrano Carl Nejman Peter Tydereki Aurora Patrick Carmen Padilla Art Sobczak (Leader) Seamus Polanski Al Torres Stan Wohadlo Judy Rogala

10:30 a.m. Mass LEADER LEADER LEADER Bernard Chukwulebe (Leader) Cynthia Hope Phyllis Duffield Mark Nadalin Nina Rose Duda Ron Fisher (Leader) ALTAR SERVERS ALTAR SERVERS ALTAR SERVERS Andrew Johnson Gianna Hillegonds Lucas Seymour Chidozie Ezechukwu Greg Morris Jonathan Hausier Bianca Loera Anthony Nweke Larry Mueller Dom Ramirez Andrew Zamudio Julianna Hilditch Mate Cuadra Eugene Sanchez

Michael Sanchez CANTOR CANTOR CANTOR Sam Scheppe Georgina Tyderek Molly Roe Jennifer Gray Don Schiller

Please Join Us for Stations of the Cross Every Friday Evening During Lent at St. Ann’s at 7:00 p.m. in the Church

There will also be Stations of the Cross at 1:30 p.m. on March 16 & 23. The special Shadow Stations presentation by GraFFiti Youth Group will take place on Good Friday, March 30 at 7:00 p.m.

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We Meet Wednesday Mornings at 9:00 a.m. Upcoming: March 21, April 11, 18, & 25

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