Welcome to the Catholic Parish fàA BRIDGET OF KILDARE
March 15, 2020
MASS TIMES MONDAY — FRIDAY 8AM SATURDAY 5PM SUNDAY 8 & 10AM
PARISH STAFF Pastor Rev. Jim Holbrook [email protected] Deacon Rev. Dr. Michael Suden Michael Suden [email protected] Parish Secretary Rachel Mataya [email protected] School Principal Mrs. Anne Hanneken [email protected] PSR Coordinator Mrs. Michele Geatley [email protected]
ST. BRIDGET OF KILDARE 111 W. Union Street Parish & School Office 636-271-3993 School Fax 636-257-2504 Adoration: Website Tuesday 9:00am—7:00pm www.sbkparish.org Confession: Saturday 4:15—4:40pm Office Hours Mon-Fri Baptisms: Parishioners are asked to please call the Parish Office. You 8:00am-4:00pm must be registered in the parish three months prior to Baptism. ST. VINCENT DE PAUL Marriages: Parishioners are asked to make arrangements with the priest at least six months in advance. You must be registered in the parish for 1-877-238-3228 one year prior to the wedding. EXT. 3348 Bulletin Deadline Twitter @sbkshamrocks Please have articles in the office by Tuesday 12 noon. 3rd Sunday in Lent
Mass Schedule Mass Intentions Greetings, Mon. 3/16 8:00am Brian Brundick * Tue. 3/17 8:00am The Overmann Family * One of the many things that is encouraged during the season Wed. 3/18 8:00am Raymond and Geraldine Gawlak * of Lent is a good Confession. The Sacrament of Reconciliation Thur. 3/19 8:00am Jack Gloeckler is available at Saint Bridget on Saturdays from 4:15pm to Fri. 3/20 8:00am Gene Welsh 4:40pm. During Lent I am also in the Confessional every Sat. 3/21 5:00pm Bill and Charlotte Murphy Tuesday from 6:30pm until about 7:00 when we have Sun. 3/22 8:00am Pro Populi benediction at the end of the day’s adoration.
Sun. 3/22 10:00am Gary Hart * In addition to that, throughout the Archdiocese, Confession Liturgical Ministers St. Bridget Church is offered seven days a week in the many Catholic churches we have. The opportunity to receive the sacrament is SATURDAY, March 21, 2020 5pm abundant, hopefully people take advantage of this great EOM: John Burrington and John Overmann occasion of forgiveness. Taking time for examining your LECTOR: Jill Burleson conscience, and honestly answering the questions you put to SERVERS: Joseph and Elijah Beihle and James Imus yourself, you can make a good confession in the Sacrament of SUNDAY, March 22, 2020 8am Reconciliation. If you do not know what questions to ask, EOM: Renee Myers and Ruth Pritchard there is a guide to the Sacrament of Reconciliation in the LECTOR: Wayne Myers SERVERS: Jenna and Cole Mohesky vestibule to help you.
SUNDAY, March 22, 2020 10am After receiving absolution in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, EOM: Christy Gilcrease and Gayle Rogan a person leaves the confessional in a state of grace. It is in LECTOR: Jan Brokaw that state someone is truly prepared to receive communion, SERVERS: Gavin Lane, Troy Murphy and Caroline Tomlinson and to live the life of holiness they are called to. If you have not been to confession in sometime, take this as an invitation to return to a sacrament that, as Saint John Vianney said, FISH FRY DESSERTS NEEDED. “heals the wounds of our souls.”
Please consider making a dessert for our May God bless you all. fish fries each Friday. People love our Fr. Jim Holbrook homemade baked goods! Interested in helping out? We need a counter for the Volunteers Needed 2nd week of every month, to help us count the It’s that time of year again! offertory. If interested please call Rachel at the Fish Fries start February 28th and will parish office 636-271-3993 x201 be every Friday until the last one on April 3rd. Volunteers are needed starting February 27th for St. Bridget of Kildare School seeks a school secretary preparation. for the 2020-2021 school year. The School Secretary to the Principal provides secretarial, clerical and administrative support to the principal and faculty. Carry out orders for the Fish Fry The position enhances the principal’s effectiveness by 636-257-4533 ext. 116 and 636-249-3940 providing information-management support and by representing the school administration to parents, students, vendors, and interested guests. Please visit If you are volunteering for our weekly Fish Fries, we www.sbkparish.org and click on the School Secretary ask that you don’t drive on the school parking lot during link at the top of the page for the full details and how dismissal from 3:00—3:15pm for the safety of the kids. to apply. Thanks for your help!
SAVE THE DATE St. Joseph Neier will be hosting the annual Washington Men’s Club Breakfast Deanery Wedding Anniversary Mass and Dinner for 2020. March 22, 2020 Sunday September 20,2020 with Mass at 4:30 and dinner to 9am to 12pm follow. Reservations and details to come, so St. Bridget’s Cafeteria mark your calendars and Save the date! Please come and join us! 3rd Sunday in Lent
St. Bridget Stewardship DEACON’S CORNER 3/08/2020 Q. Deacon Mike, what special qualifications has the Catholic
Collection Envelopes 125 Church in the interpretation of Scripture? Our Weekly need is $5000.00 received $4916.10 A. It has very many and here are just a few. Online Donations $ 580.00 Europe $10.00 Easter Flowers $40 1. The New Testament was written by members of the Parish Improvement $580.00 1st Offering $5.00 Catholic Church. The Church existed before even one line of Scholarship $70.00 Ash Wednesday $5.00 SvDP $83.00 the New Testament was ever written. Protestantism came on the scene centuries afterwards. The Gospels are really the IN YOUR PRAYERS FOR ST. BRIDGET Please remember the sick: family papers of the Catholic Church and the Church alone Barbara Johnson, Sharon Trentmannn, Connie Hagedorn, Harry and possessing these family traditions, can correctly interpret Toni Strothkamp, Paul Lumpkin, Liam & Lauren Viotrain, Lawrence Dann, what those family papers really mean. David Mueller, Rosie Lewis, Bev Schneider, Lexi Williams, John Hudson, 2. The Catholic Church carefully and jealously preserved Fr. Bob Heimos, David Reincke, Gabrielle Heidorn, Rita Baker, Laura the Bible through the ages. Because of this, the Protestants Masson, Kris Sunshine, Harmony Sunshine, Jerry Stewart, Cecilia would have no Gospel whatsoever were it not for Catholicism. Mueller, Marge Phelan, Larry Morrison, Emilia Wieczorek, Patsy 3. The Church has been much more faithful to Holy Scrip- Jenning, Rosalie Buscher, Mike Clive, Gene Dorenkamp, Amber ture than any Protestant denominations. Catholicism has not Luetkemeyer, Joshua Carson, Meg Gallagher, Christine Floyd, Frank fallen into the trap of modernism to appear scientific to the Seiberich, Martha Sheerin-Speck, Ronni Kelly, Korey Tacchi, Mike world. God’s word must be accepted in the original sense in- Parks, Mike Rine, Rose Schuessler, Becky Coyner, LeRoy Hirth, tended by God. Marchello Sciortino, Robin Henry, Dave Whitt, Geraldine Carrico, 4. The Protestants owe their separate existences to the Laurie Donnelly, Gloria Schulte, Tim Brauer, Maria San Paulo, Debbie fact that each one of them denies something that Catholicism Price, Dan Gettemeier, Vickie Schnieder, Bill Drimped, Christine teaches which has been directly handed on by God. Eilman, David May, Jenny Gallagher, Bev Duncan, Kathy Doak, Steve 5. The Catholic Church was established by God and not by Wehmeier, Pat Gomez, Alice Thawley, Joe Quennoz, Lizzy Gann, some human being. That being said, the Catholic Church was Stephen W. Flannery Jr., Dan Witte, Brandon Huels, Belle established by God as the rule of faith and He declared that Tenny, Cleon Schneider, Ron Phillips, Christina Null, Jack a person should is to be regarded as a heathen if he/she will Drummond, Candy Cloak, Amy Short, Tina Ripper, The Mebruer not hear the Church. The Catholic Church is the only qualified Family, Pat Herbst, Monica Dabbs, Mary Bradford, Amanda interpreter of Scripture. Yahl, Sarah Gould, Dan McNamee, Dave Pedrotti, Mary Midden, I could go on but you get the picture. Deacon Mike can be and the home bound and nursing home patients. Also those who serve reached at [email protected]. our country: Corey Dorsey, Sgt. Jeremy Ross, Jennings Casey, Chief Petty Officer Mike Murphy, Isaac & Luke Wiersma, Aaron Scrip Orders Cooley, Alex Churchill, Jonathan Savala, Brandon Ell, Wade Iliff Jr., In previous years we have taken credit cards for orders, we are & Andrew Bornholdt now only accepting cash or check due to the high credit card fees for processing, it cancels out any profit we might make. If you St Bridget Parish Family Soup and Service Night will be have no other way to pay for your scrip purchase, we can order on March 18th from 6– 7:30pm, we will hold a Lenten through the site and use your credit card, but there will be a soup and service night. In order for this to be a 2.6% processing fee. Thanks for you understanding, if you have success we are asking that 10 parishioners volunteer to any questions contact Rachel at the Parish office 636-271-3993 x make 1 gallon of soup to share with other families that 201
evening. If you are willing to contribute to If you want to eat ice cream, explore the Magic House and help kids, this please contact Rachel in the parish Scoops of Fun on April 18 is for you! It’s an all-you-can-eat ice cream office(636) 271-3993 ext. 201. Also, mark social at the Magic House Children’s Museum with proceeds benefiting The Footprints Program at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children’s your calendars to attend this evening. Hospital. Tickets are $15 per person and available at glennon.org.
The 2020 dinner auction, Out of This World, will be here Belonging, Becoming and Connecting in a Digital Era Friday, March 20 before we know it. The date is set for April 18th. Invitations & Saturday, March 21 Friday, March 20, Pre-Retreat Talk 7:00- will be sent shortly. New raffle this year...instead of our 8:30pm: Join us as we endeavor to unpack the mysterious urgings in the normal liquor donation we will need the depths of our hearts. Led by Sr. Sue Mosteller, CSJ and Maria Fitzgerald, MSW, L’Arche St. Louis. Saturday, March 21 Retreat Day, 9:00am- mini shooters instead. Please consider 3:00pm Our hearts ache for love, community, belonging, courage, respect, donating as we will need many. A donation truth, and wisdom. We will ponder insights from the Gospel, the writings form is available in the back of church of Henri Nouwen, our own stories of living together with differences, and for all other donations. Please contact reflect upon what it means to “belong to a community” in the modern Julie Bukowsky at 314-799-9692 with world. Led by Sr. Sue Mosteller, CSJ and Nathan Ball, MDiv, L’Arche USA For more information, go to www.mercycenterstl.org Mercy any questions. Conference & Retreat Center 2039 N Geyer Rd 63131 Gateway PASSENGER TIRES • LIGHT TRUCK TIRES SEMI TIRES • ALL MAJOR BRANDS Glass Inc. Brakes • Tune-ups K C H Oil Changes • Minor Repairs Service All On-the-Farm Tire Service Window Manufacturers 301 Pine Street, Union, MO 636-583-5111 or 636-584-3868 636-271-9898
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