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THIS IS LENT THE TIME OF FULFILLMENT. THE KINGDOM St. Columbkille OF GOD IS 73 North Mulberry Street AT HAND. Wilmington, Ohio 45177-2277 Mass Times: Sat., 4:00 PM; Sun., 8:15 AM/11:00 AM Mon., Thurs., & Fri., 9:00 AM; Wed., 7:00 PM Communion Service: Tues., 9:00 AM REPENT, AND Holy Name Chapel BELIEVE 746 S. State Route 133 Blanchester, OH 45107 IN THE GOSPEL. Mass Time: Sat., 6:15 PM Communion Service: Wed., 9:30 AM MARK 1:15

Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 AM-3:00 PM Parish Office: (937) 382-2236 Faith Formation Office: (937) 382-1596 Fax: (937) 382-3234 Web Site: www.stcolumbkille.org Parish e-mail: [email protected] Bulletin Deadline: Monday, 10:00 AM (unless otherwise noted in the bulletin), in writing, or at [email protected]

Rev. Michael J. Holloran, Ext. 20 [email protected], Laurie Stroebel, Ext. 11 [email protected] Pastor (937) 728-2198 Administrative Assistant

Robert G. Baker, Deacon [email protected] Tim Brausch, Maintenance [email protected] Colleen Germann, Ext. 10 [email protected] For Liturgical Scheduling Needs [email protected] Parish Secretary Debbie Valley, DRE Ext. 14 [email protected] Herb Mayer, [email protected] (937) 382-1596 Parish Council Chairperson (937) 313-9248 Jacki Walters, Bookkeeper Ext. 13 [email protected] St. Vincent de Paul Society (937) 382-6851

• HOLY DAY MASSES: Please check the bulletin for Mass times and locations or call the Parish Office. • SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION/CONFESSIONS: 3:00 PM-3:45 PM on first Saturday of Month at StC; 7:30 PM Wed. at StC; by appointment only at HNC. • PARISH MEMBERSHIP: We bid a hearty welcome to all new parishioners! Registration forms are in the vestibule of the church and chapel. • : Please call the Parish Office during regular business hours to schedule a Baptism. A workshop is required for all first-time parents. • ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Catholics with serious illness, preparing for serious surgery or suffering from age are encouraged to receive this sacrament. Call the pastor. • MARRIAGE: Catholics must be married before a Catholic or deacon. Preparation must begin at least six months in advance of wedding. Call Parish Office. • HOLY COMMUNION/VISITS TO OUR SICK AND SHUT-INS: Please notify the Rectory when a parishioner is in the hospital or is unable to attend Sunday Mass regularly due to illness. • EXPOSITION AND CONFESSION: Exposition, Confessions & Benediction follow the 7:00 PM St. Columbkille Mass on Wednesday. EXPOSITION ONLY: Friday, 9:30 AM-3:00 PM, St. Columbkille

PARISH MISSION STATEMENT Saint Columbkille Parish is an extension of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati; a “People called together” by to be His flesh and blood representatives; To be like Him as a priest (to worship), as a prophet (to teach) and as a king (to serve). – Adopted June 1, 1998 ST. COLUMBKILLE CATHOLIC CHURCH Wilmington, Ohio HOLY NAME CHAPEL Blanchester, Ohio

MARCH 21, 2021 – 5TH SUNDAY OF LENT VOCATION VIEW Strangers come to Philip with the simple request: “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.” In your actions and words, are you able to show the love of Christ to the stranger in your midst? (John 12:21) If you want to talk about your discernment, please contact Fr. Dan Schmitmeyer, Director of Vocations at [email protected].

WELCOME! We are so happy that you are here to worship with us! To learn about our parish life, please visit stcolumbkille.org or our FB page: facebook.com/stcolumbkillecatholicchurch.

4th SUNDAY OF LENT MASS TIMES AND INTENTIONS MARCH 14th March 20th-27th Sunday Gifts $ 6,115.00 Saturday, March 20th – Vigil: 5th SUNDAY of Lent Online Sunday Donations $ 2,191.00 4:00 P.M. StC Julie Ann Thompson Holy Day $ 15.00 (Alan Thompson & Family) TOTAL SUNDAY COLLECTION $ 8,321.00 6:15 P.M. HNC Darrell Baggott (Shannon Christian) TOTAL SUNDAY & HOLY DAY COLLECTION (FISCAL Y.T.D.) $ 378,611.47 7:15 P.M. HNC Stations of the Cross & Confessions NEEDED FROM SUNDAY & HOLY DAY COLLECTION (FISCAL Y.T.D.) $ 340,844.00 Sunday, March 21st – 5th SUNDAY of Lent Building Repairs & Maintenance $ 30.00 8:15 A.M. StC Frank Lopez (Fred & Vivian Tennison) Catholic Relief Svcs $ 3.00 Overflow in Parish Center Church of Africa (Ash Wed) $ 100.00 11:00 A.M. StC For the Spiritual & Temporal Welfare First Offering $ 5.00 of All Members of the Parish Good Friday $ 2.00 Monday, March 22nd Poor & Needy 9:00 A.M. StC Alice Sawyer (Tom & Anne Sawyer) • Hope Emergency $ 69.00 Tuesday, March 23rd – St. , • St. Vincent de Paul $ 331.00 9:00 A.M. StC Communion Svc Retirement Fund for Religious $ 100.00 Wednesday, March 24th 9:30 A.M. HNC Communion Svc 7:00 P.M. StC Bill Bowers (Betty Bowers) SCRIPTURE CORNER StC Evening Eucharistic Exposition & Confessions immediately following Mass. Thursday, March 25th – The Annunciation of the Lord 9:00 A.M. StC John Perhot (Janet Morris) Friday, March 26th 9:00 A.M. StC Bob Germann (Charles & Kelly Ely) 7:00 P.M. StC Stations of Cross Excerpt from this Sunday’s Gospel, Jn 12:20-33 Saturday, March 27th – Vigil: “I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ‘Father, save me from Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. 4:00 P.M. StC Bob Germann (Members of SVDP) Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven, “I 6:15 P.M. HNC Noble Baggott (Shannon Christian) have glorified it and will glorify it again.” Sunday, March 28th – Please visit Fifth Sunday of Lent | USCCB to view the readings! Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord 8:15 A.M. StC Lula & Irvin Holland WEEKEND REMINDER (Bonny & Frank Kanyuck) ALL MEN HIGH SCHOOL AND UP ARE WELCOME! – Overflow in Parish Center LUNCHEON WITH FR. DAN SCHMITMEYER 11:00 A.M. StC For the Spiritual & Temporal Welfare Sunday, March 21st, 12:00 P.M., Parish Center Basement of All Members of the Parish Please join us! PARISH COUNCIL RECORDING SECRETARY Judy Morris has been recording secretary of the parish council for FAITH FORMATION NEWS many years and has decided it’s time to step down. She has done Contact Debbie Valley in the Faith Formation Office a wonderful job and we will miss her efficiency and organizational at 937-382-1596 or [email protected]. skills. In brief, this job entails: Looking to dive deeper into the Sunday readings with your o Taking the minutes of each meeting – on the first Monday kids? Visit the Faith Formation website and click on Liturgy of of October, Decemeber, February, April & June. the Word for Families. o Working with office staff on duplicating and distributing minutes and other communications to members. The Family of Faith page on the Faith Formation website o Assisting the Council Chair with setting agendas, meeting has some great ways to grow personally and as a family this procedures and requirements of the Parish Council Lent. Everyone is welcome to check out the page. Guidelines. The Faith Formation website contains Information as well o Coordinating the annual process of recruiting and seating as the school calendars for each grade. Please check the new Parish Council Members. website frequently so you can always be up-to-date. Please A more complete description of duties is available, and Judy is go to St. Columbkille Catholic Church | Wilmington, OH and more than willing to train her successor. The recording secretary click the link on the homepage to access the website. is not a voting member of Council and is not term limited. If interested, please feel free to call Judy at 937-382-6009 or Fr. If you have any questions about this school year, please do Mike at 937-728-2198. Thank you for your consideration. not hesitate to contact Debbie Valley.

LENTEN STATIONS OF THE CROSS ONLINE FAITH FORMATION At St. Columbkille REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE!! Held at 7:00 P.M. on March 26th. Please visit 2020-2021 Faith Formation Registration, St. At HNC Columbkille Catholic Church, Wilmington, OH, to register Held at 7:15 P.M. on March 20th your student! Register now so you do not miss out on the Will not be held March 27th due to the vigil of Palm Sunday. Fr. latest news. Mike will also be available for Confessions during the Stations of Registration and Permission Forms are available on the Faith the Cross at HNC. Formation website for all events.

During the Easter season, St. YOUNG ADULT FELLOWSHIP GROUP Columbkille Parish adorns the Meets every Sunday at 6:00 P.M., Parish Center Basement altars at both church locations If you are a young adult and are interested with beautiful potted lilies. To in growing in your faith, check out our help defray the cost of the flowers, you are welcome to donate in Young Adult Fellowship Group for memory of a loved one that will go into the overall Easter flower fellowship, prayer, and study. POC: Patrick fund. An individual flower will not be available for each name, but Farr at [email protected]. the names of the loved ones will be listed in the bulletin. We welcome donation in 3 ways: Please include the names of your loved one(s). (1) A flower donation envelope has been included in your weekly donation envelopes. (2) Don’t have a weekly envelope? No problem. Please send in cash or a check made out to St. Columbkille in an envelope ADULT FAITH FORMATION NEWS marked “Easter Lilies.” TUESDAY NIGHT ADULT EDUCATION CLASS (3) Online payments can be made at stcolumbkille.org/online- Meets every Tuesday at 7:00 P.M., Parish Center Basement giving. Please select “Easter Flowers.” We are following Lectio: Peter – Cornerstone of Catholicism. You can place the envelope in the Sunday collection basket or POC: Dave Copsey at 937-728-0717, [email protected] or drop it by the parish office. We need the memorial names by Jennifer Gress at 937-725-8488, [email protected]. Sunday, March 21st, but we happily accept donations anytime. The suggested donation is $15.00, but any amount is welcome. Thank WOMEN’S ENCOUNTER you for your consideration. Questions?? Please call the parish Meets every Thursday at 9:30 A.M., Bosco Room office at 937-382-2236 or email:[email protected] . Have you heard about the worldwide phenomenon The Chosen? Have you been wanting to HEALTHY LIVING WITH GOD SUPPORT GROUP watch it? Join Women’s Encounter Meets the 2nd and 4th Mondays, 6:15 P.M., Parish Center as we explore the first season. Come A scripture-based support group to help one another draw closer encounter Christ, fully God and fully to God through our struggle to achieve a healthier lifestyle. man. Please join us! All are welcome! POC: Deacon Bob Baker at 937-725-2213, deaconbobbaker@ POC: Carol Bedinghaus at 239-290- stcolumbkille.org or Denise Heckler-Roberts at 419-953-5587, 3649 or [email protected]. [email protected]. LENTEN WORDS OF WISDOM STC RIGHT TO LIFE NEWS If we are going to have a good Lent, we must realize that the heart of Lent is not resolutions but repentance. – Sam Guzman Source: Preparing for a Good Lent, 02-11-2015, • Reprint permission by Catholic Exchange This Lent, Greater Cincinnati is uniting with hundreds of cities If you practice no other devotion in the spiritual life, pray the around the world! 40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign . Through it, you will obtain all that you need and will with a vision to access God’s power through prayer, fasting, and vanquish the enemies of your soul. Through it, you will find peace peaceful vigil to end abortion. Help save lives in Greater Cincinnati. and joy in the trials of life. Conquer the devil – pray the Rosary! – MAIN CINCINNATI CAMPAIGN Sam Guzman Source: A Powerful Weapon: 15 Quotes on the Holy Rosary, February 17th (Ash Wednesday)-March 28th (Palm Sunday) 10-07-2014, Reprint permission by Catholic Exchange The location is outside the Planned Parenthood Facility at 2134 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH. Vigil hours are 7:00 A.M.-7:00 P.M. FROM “INSPIRATION” BY REV. JIM WILLIG If interested in participating in the Main Cincinnati Campaign – Deacon Bob Baker recently used these inspirational thoughts in a StC Right to Life POC: Lyn Dobyns at 937-527-1676 or lyndobyns@ homily and wanted to share! gmail.com. Someone once said: -- I’ve learned that being kind is more than being right. 40 DAYS FOR LIFE StC PARISH ROSARY DEVOTION In conjunction with the National 40 Days for Life Campaign -- I’ve learned that you should never say no to a gift from a child. underway now, St. Columbkille Parish will pray a pro-life Rosary -- I’ve learned that I can always pray for someone when I don’t from February 17th (Ash Wednesday)-March 28th (Palm Sunday) have the strength to help them in some other way. 30 minutes before each daily Mass or Communion Service and -- I’ve learned that no matter how serious your life requires you weekend Mass at St. Columbkille/Holy Name Chapel. Please come to be, everyone needs a friend to act goofy with. early to Mass and pray with us for babies in the womb. NEW LIFE CLINIC BABY BOTTLE UPDATE WANT TO HAVE A TRULY LIFE-CHANGING LENT? – Download the NLC has collected just over $20,000 for the 2021 Baby Ultimate Guide to Lent free from The Catholic Telegraph. Visit The Bottle Campaign. There are still bottles to be turned in, Ultimate Guide to Lent (mailchi.mp) to get your free copy. and we would appreciate your help in that. Would you please be able to return all bottles (filled or empty) by April 1st? This will help NLC tremendously as they close out the Bottle Campaign and move into the Walk for Life. Please remember that you are welcome to place those in the collection basket at both StC and HNC or drop it by the parish office during regular business hours.

27th ANNUAL NEW LIFE CLINIC WALK FOR LIFE 2021 Saturday, April 17th – Begins 9:00 A.M., Rain or Shine CHRISM MASS Wilmington Church of Christ, Not open to the public. 909 W. Locust Street, Wilmington, OH Tuesday of Holy Week This is one of the largest fundraisers for the New Life Clinic and March 30th, 1:30 P.M. the walk supports a huge portion of their annual budget. All funds St. Peter in Chains Cathedral raised stay local. Come and show your support. The Chrism Mass manifests the unity of the with their COVID-19 Changes: No registration time before the walk. Individual Bishop. Here the Bishop blesses three oils – the oil of catechumens walkers can register online at New Life Clinic – Wilmington, OH (oleum catechumenorum or oleum sanctorum), the oil of the infirm – Home (newlifesupport.org). Group walkers can register with (oleum infirmorum) and holy chrism (sacrum chrisma) – which will their team captain. Registration forms are available at StC on be used in the administration of the sacraments throughout the the front and back radiators and on the pamphlet table at HNC. diocese for the year. This tradition is rooted in the early Church as You are welcome to drop the registration form in the Sunday noted in the Gelasian Sacramentary (named after Pope Gelasius I, collection basket or bring it by the parish office during normal d. 496), but was later absorbed into the Holy Thursday evening business hours. POC: Amy Brausch at 937-681-5606. Mass; Pope Pius XII issued a new Ordinal for Holy Week, which Also, walkers who raise $150.00 by March 24th are welcome to call reinstituted a special Mass of the chrism distinct from the evening NLC at 937-382-6588 to order an event T-shirt. Thank you for your Mass. Due to the ongoing pandemic and restrictions of social consideration. distancing, attendance at the Mass will be limited to priests and invited representatives from other groups. The Mass will be live- WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES streamed through the Cathedral and Archdiocesan webpages. Were you married in? 1946 (75 years)? • 1951 (70 years)? • 1961 (60 years)? EVERYONE HITS A HOME RUN 1971 (50 years)? • 1996 (25 years)? WITH ONLINE GIVING! If so, please notify the Parish Office by May 1, 2020 so that we Visit stcolumbkille.org/online-giving to make a can notify the Archdiocese for your scrolls. Congratulations to all one-time, weekly, or monthly recurring donation! couples who are celebrating these and all wedding anniversaries. Thank you so much for your support. Please call 937-382-2236 or [email protected]. INTERESTED IN THE LIFE OF THE PARISH?? Please consider the ministry of the Parish Council. You are invited THE WEEK AHEAD… to nominate yourself or any parishioner that you feel would serve Sunday, March 21st our parish family well in this ministry. Nomination forms can 9:20-10:50 A.M. Faith Formation (PC) be found online at Parish Council Nomination, St. Columbkille 12:00 P.M. Vocations Luncheon (PCB) Catholic Church, Wilmington, OH. Paper nomination cards can be 2:00 P.M. NFP Class (PC CR 6) found in the pews and on the front and back radiators at StC and 6:00 P.M. Young Adult Fellowship in the pews and on the pamphlet table at HNC. Please place the Group (PCB) completed card in the collection basket or drop it by the rectory Monday, March 22nd office by Wednesday, March 31st. 4:30 P.M. AHG Troop Meeting (PCB) THE PURPOSE OF THE PARISH COUNCIL 6:00 P.M. Cub Scouts (Upper-Level PC CRs & -- To represent the people of the parish community in the process PCB CRs 10 & 13) of making evaluations and recommendations that will help the 6:15 P.M. Healthy Living with God Pastor and pastoral staff, as the primary administrators of the Support Group (PC) parish. 7:00 P.M. Boy Scouts (PCB & PCB CRs) -- To make recommendations for the improvement of the quality 7:30 P.M. AA Meeting (PC CR 7/8) of parish life and the effectiveness of parish services and Tuesday, March 23rd policies. 7:00 P.M. SVDP (PC) FUNCTIONS OF THE PARISH COUNCIL 7:00 P.M. Adult Education Class (PCB) -- To present opinions and evaluations as part of the initial input Wednesday, March 24th to the consultative process of decision making. 1:30 P.M.-4:00 P.M. Homeschool Group Meeting (PCB) -- To discuss and analyze any data gathered (demographics, StC Eucharistic Exposition & surveys, etc.) Confessions immediately -- To discuss the merits of proposals, alternatives, and following Evening Mass. recommendations. Thursday, March 25th -- To generate alternatives. 9:30 A.M. Women’s Encounter (Bosco Room) -- To prioritize alternatives or recommendations. 7:00 P.M. K of C Officer’s Meeting (CU) -- To bring up matters of concern relating to the effect pastoral Friday, March 26th administration or policy is having on the parish. 9:30 A.M.-3:00 P.M. Eucharistic Exposition (StC) -- To recommend courses of action on the strength of the AND BEYOND… information available. Sunday, April 4th: PARISH COUNCIL MEETINGS Family Life HNC Easter Egg Hunt (HNC Church Grounds) -- The Parish Council meets on the first Monday of October, December, February, April, and June. Additional meetings Sunday, April 11th: may be called by the Pastor or by the Parish Council with the Family Life StC Easter Egg Hunt (StC Church Grounds) approval of the Pastor. To visit our online calendar, please go to Calendar, ATTENDANCE, REPLACEMENT, St. Columbkille Catholic Church | Wilmington, OH. REMOVAL FROM THE PARISH COUNCIL -- Two (2) absences from meetings in one Council year are cause Reminder: CL=Choir Loft; CU=Church Undercroft; PC=Parish for removal from the Parish Council. Council year begins Ctr; PCL=Parish Center Library; PC CR=Parish Center after the June Council meeting and ends at the close of the Classroom; PCB=Parish Ctr Basement; PCB CR=Parish Ctr subsequent year’s June meeting. Basement Classroom; HNCSH=Holy Name Chapel Social Hall

FAMILY LIFE EASTER EGG HUNTS • Sunday, April 4th after the 11:00 A.M. HNC ST. MARTIN DEANERY CENTURY FARM AWARD Easter Sunday Mass on HNC Church Grounds Once again, the Catholic Rural Life Conference of St. Martin • Sunday, April 11th at 12:00 P.M. on StC Church Deanery would like to honor Catholic families who have farmed Grounds and nurtured the same land for 100 years or more. Presentation Both hunts will be held outside to provide for of the awards will be made at the Fall Farm Mass. To qualify, the social distancing. Children from 3 years old to owner must be a practicing Catholic, the farm must be in St. Martin 12 years old are welcome to hunt for eggs. Brown bags will be Deanery and a copy of the original deed needs to be attached to provided, but please feel free to bring your own basket or bag. the application form and submitted by May 28th. Applications There will be one prize for each age group. Rain date for StC Egg can be obtained at Catholic Rural Life – Archdiocese of Cincinnati Hunt will be Sunday, April 18th at 12:00 P.M. For more information, (catholicaoc.org). Please scroll down to the application link. please contact Hillary Gunn at 937-371-0829. Questions may be referred to Marilyn Fryer at 937-378-4583.

Please take a few minutes to look at the 2020-2021 edition of the sponsor page of this bulletin. It is through the generosity of our area sponsors that we get our bulletin printed free of charge to the parish. We ask you, our parish family, and guests, to consider these advertisers as a source of future business. Please mention you saw their ads on our bulletin! We would like to thank our local advertisers for their support and encourage everyone to shop local to support our local economy. HOLY WEEK SCHEDULE Holy Thursday SAINTS CELEBRATED THIS WEEK Thursday, April 1st Mass of the Lord’s Supper March 23rd – St. Turibius of Mogrovejo (1538-1606) 7:30 P.M. StC When the archdiocese of in required a new leader, Turibius was chosen to fill the Good Friday post. Although he was not ordained, he cited all Friday, April 2nd the canons that forbade giving laymen Ecumenical Service ecclesiastical dignities, but he was overruled. 12:00 P.M. Location TBD He was the one person with the strength of The Celebration of the Passion of the Lord character and holiness of spirit to heal the scandals that had 3:00 P.M. HNC infected that area. Turibius was ordained priest and bishop 7:30 P.M. StC and sent to Peru, where he found colonialism at its worst. The Spanish conquerors were guilty of every sort of Holy Saturday oppression of the native population. Abuses among the Saturday, April 3rd clergy were flagrant, and he devoted his energies and Vigil of Easter suffering to this area first. He began the long and arduous 8:45 P.M. St. Columbkille visitation of an immense archdiocese, studying the language, staying two or three days in each place, often with neither Easter Sunday bed nor food. Turibius confessed every morning to his Sunday, April 4th chaplain, and celebrated Mass with intense fervor. Among 8:15 A.M. St. Columbkille those to whom he gave the Sacrament of Confirmation was 11:00 A.M. Holy Name Chapel* the future Saint , and possibly the future Saint 11:00 A.M. St. Columbkille . After 1590, he had the help of another *Fr. Ron Williams will be presiding at this Mass. great missionary, , now also a saint. of Latin American and Native People’s rights. QPR: QUESTION, PERSUADE, REFER Source: Saint Turibius of Mogrovejo | Franciscan Media SUICIDE PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR ADULTS Upcoming Training – Thursday, March 25th, 5:00-7:00 P.M. March 25th – Annunciation of the Lord American Legion, 140 E. Locust Street, Wilmington The feast of the Annunciation, now recognized In collaboration with Talbert House as a solemnity, was first celebrated in the fourth QPR Gatekeeper Training is an evidence-based universal or fifth century. Its central focus is the prevention strategy to reduce deaths by suicide. Presented Incarnation: God has become one of us. From all by certified instructors, each QPR training aims to increase eternity God had decided that the Second awareness and warning signs of suicide and help a person Person of the Blessed Trinity should become human. Now, know how to respond. It shares techniques to intervene at a as Luke 1:26-38 tells us, the decision is being realized. Christ critical moment and to connect the individual to mental health embraces all humanity, indeed all creation, to bring it to God professionals. Training is appropriate for all adults. Available FREE in one great act of love. God became man to reconcile us to to workplaces, schools, faith-based or community organizations God, even to the point of suffering and death. “No one has in Clinton or Warren County. POC: Zach.mcdaniel@talberthouse. greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s org. friends” (John 15:13). Source: Annunciation of the Lord | Franciscan Media THANK YOU!! March 28th – Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord February 25th Mass Readings: 1st Reading: Is 50:4-7; Dear St. Columbkille Parish, 2nd Reading: Phil 2:6-11 Thank you all so much for your generous contribution of $6,522.00 for the Retirement Fund for the Religious that was WINTER 2020 UPDATE taken up in December. You truly all have “given to those who Catholic Community Foundation for the Archdiocese have given a lifetime.” Our retired religious are still here being of Cincinnati Homepage: One Faith One Hope One a presence and working among God’s people. Fewer members Love (1FHL): Home | 1FHL News (1faith1hope1love. entering most communities make this collection more important org) for caring for our retired and older members. The infirm and Campaign Reaches 137 Million in Pledge Payments: elderly serve us through prayer and suffering. These members Semiannual Distributions – December 31, 2020 often show us how to live and how to pass on to our Lord. In our 1. Catholic Schools society, there is a real value to the witness of our care of the aged 2. (Tuition Assistance & Endowment) $ 934,302 members. Thanks again! 3. Distributions to Parishes $ 1,364,677 4. Fostering Vocations/Mt. St. Mary’s Seminary $ 208,518 Sincerely, 5. Retired Archdiocesan Priests $ 186,860 Maria J. Reinagel 6. Catholic Charities of SWOH $72,046 Archdiocesan RFR Coordinator 7. Catholic Charities of MV $ 49,291 PRO-LIFE THOUGHTS Prayer for Vocations “Abortion and racism are both symptoms of a fundamental Almighty Father, human error. The error is thinking that when someone stands You have created us for some definite purpose. Grant in the way of our wants, we can justify getting that person out of our lives. Abortion and racism stem from the same poisonous us the grace to know the path you have planned for us root, selfishness.” in this life and to respond with a generous “Yes.” – Alveda King Source: Pro-Life Articles (pro-lifearticles.org) Make our archdiocese, parishes, homes, and hearts “To celebrate the Gospel of life means to fruitful ground for Your gift of vocations. May our celebrate the God of life, the God who young people respond to Your call with courage and gives life… In every child who is born, zeal. and, in every person, who lives or dies we see the image of God’s glory. We Stir among our men a desire and the strength to be celebrate this glory in every human being, a sign of the living God, an icon of Jesus good and holy priests. Bless us with consecrated Christ” (The Gospel of Life 84). religious and those called to a chaste single life, May all who suffer from the wounds of permanent deacons, and faithful husbands and wives, abortion be filled with the hope that does not disappoint and be who are a sign of Christ’s love for His Church. healed by Christ. We pray to the Lord. We commend our prayer for vocations to You, Father, REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT SERVICES NEEDS YOUR HELP! through the intercession of Mary, our Mother, in the Catholic Charities Southwestern Ohio is recruiting volunteers to serve as mentors to refugee youth ages 15-24. Work with refugee Holy Spirit, through Christ our Lord. Amen youth to promote social and civic engagement and support Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr academic and vocational advancement. Volunteers must be 18 or older and commit two hours a week. No foreign language Prayer to St. Michael skills required. Contact Donald Foley at 513-672-3824 or dfoley@ St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle, be our ccswoh.org for more information. Affordable housing needed for refugees resettling in the Greater Cincinnati area. For more protection against the wickedness and snares of the information, contact Annie Scheid at 513-672-3784 or ascheid@ devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do ccswoh.org. thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, thrust into Hell Satan and the other evil spirits 5th Sunday of Lent who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls. Amen. Entrance Antiphon Give me justice, O God and plead my cause against a Closing Hymn nation that is faithless. From the deceitful and cunning O God, Our Help In Ages Past, #557 rescue me, for you, O God, are my strength. O God, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come, Psalm Response Our Shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal Home. Create a clean heart, a clean heart in me, O God. Before the hills in order stood, Apostles Creed Or earth received her frame, I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Creator of From everlasting thou art God, heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, To endless years the same. our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born A thousand ages in thy sight of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was Are like an evening gone; crucified, died and was buried; he descended into Short as the watch that ends the night hell; on the third day he rose again from the dead; he Before the rising sun. ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from there he will come to O God, our Help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, judge the living and the dead. Be Thou our Guard while life shall last, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy Catholic Church, And our eternal home. the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting. 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