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March 1, 2020 First Sunday of Lent - Year A March 1, 2020 St. Anthony of Padua 3009 High Ridge Blvd. High Ridge, MO 63049 Business Hours Monday - Friday 7:30 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. Phone (636) 677-4868 Fax (636) 677-2781 Website www.stanthonyhr.org Pastor Father John Reiker Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be on fire with the love of Jesus Christ, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, to celebrate our community of faith in the Eucharist and to share God’s love and mercy with our neighbors through our ministries and evangelization. Mass Schedule Sunday Saturday 4:30 P.M. Daily Sunday 8:15 A.M., 10:00 A.M. Monday - Friday 8:00 A.M Holy Days Confessions 8:00 A.M. - 7:00 P.M. Saturday 4:00-4:20 P.M. RECTORY CLOSED ON ALL HOLY DAYS By appointment anytime Rectory Office Religious Instruction Marriages: Make arrangements with Father John Reiker Parish School of Religion Priest or Deacon of your choice no less Pastor ext. 102 Phone (636) 677-4868 ext 118 than six months prior to proposed [email protected] Grades (pre-K through 8) wedding date. Mrs. Kathy Joslin Parish Help Line: St. Vincent de Paul Deacon Richard L. Stevens [email protected] Adults - RCIA Society, 1-877-238-3228, ext. 3329 [email protected] Please contact: New Parishioners: Welcome! The Rectory Office 636-677-4868 ext. 100 Deacon Jim G’Sell Please register by contacting the [email protected] Sacramental Preparation rectory during business hours @ 677- 314-484-2055 4868 ext. 100 Baptism Preparation Meeting: Infant Mrs. Rusalyne Ahlemeyer Baptisms require parental attendance at Business Manager, ext. 104 Change of Address or Telephone: a meeting prior to baptism. Meetings Please call the rectory during business [email protected] will be held with the Pastor in the hours. 677-4868 ext. 100 Mrs. Jackie Dostal rectory. Call rectory office for Secretary, ext. 100 information 636-677-4868, ext. 100. Archdiocese of St .Louis Website: [email protected] Baptisms: After 10:00 AM Mass on a www.archstl.org Sunday of mutual arrangement. Call Cafeteria rectory office to schedule 636-677-4868, Catholic Elementary School: Ext. 212 ext. 100. All of our parish children who wish to For submissions to our facebook page, the attend a catholic elementary school Bulletin Deadline website, or our parish app may do so at the school of their choice Monday 9:00 a.m. the week you need it to be please email Mike and still remain parishioners of St. published in the bulletin. Notices must be at [email protected]. Or phone: 314 Anthony of Padua. Call rectory for submitted in writing: email text to details. -401-3334 [email protected]. Please allow several days for submission to be approved and posted. Thank You St. Anthony of Padua, High Ridge, MO Pastor’s Column JOURNEY TO THE FOOT OF THE CROSS - 10 THINGS TO REMEMBER FOR LENT 1. Remember the formula. The Church does a good job capturing certain truths with easy-to-remember lists and formu- las: 10 Commandments, 7 sacraments, 3 persons in the Trinity. For Lent, the Church gives us almost a slogan—Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving—as the three things we need to work on during the season. 2. It’s a time of prayer. Lent is essentially an act of prayer spread out over 40 days. As we pray, we go on a journey, one that hopefully brings us closer to Jesus Christ and leaves us changed by the encounter with him. 3. It’s a time to fast. With the fasts of Ash Wednesday and Good Friday, meatless Fridays, and our personal disciplines interspersed, Lent is the only time many Catholics these days actually fast. And maybe that’s why it gets all the attention. “What are you giving up for Lent? Hotdogs? Beer? Jelly beans?” It’s almost a game for some of us, but fasting is actually a form of penance, which helps us turn away from sin and toward Jesus Christ. 4. It’s a time to work on discipline. The 40 days of Lent are also a good, set time to work on personal discipline in gen- eral. Instead of giving something up, it can be doing something positive. “I’m going to exercise more. I’m going to pray more. I’m going to be nicer to my family, friends and coworkers.” 5. It’s about dying to yourself. The more serious side of Lenten discipline is that it’s about more than self-control – it’s about finding aspects of yourself that are less than Christ-like and letting them die. The suffering and death of Christ are foremost on our minds during Lent, and we join in these mysteries by suffering, dying with Jesus Christ and being resur- rected in a purified form. 6. Don’t do too much. It’s tempting to make Lent some ambitious period of personal reinvention, but it’s best to keep it simple and focused. There’s a reason the Church works on these mysteries year after year. We spend our entire lives growing closer to God. Don’t try to cram it all in one Lent. That’s a recipe for failure. 7. Lent reminds us of our weakness. Of course, even when we set simple goals for ourselves during Lent, we still have trouble keeping them. When we fast, we realize we’re all just one meal away from hunger. In both cases, Lent shows us our weakness. This can be painful, but recognizing how helpless we are makes us seek God’s help with renewed ur- gency and sincerity. 8. Be patient with yourself. When we’re confronted with our own weakness during Lent, the temptation is to get angry and frustrated. “What a bad person I am!” But that’s the wrong lesson. God is calling us to be patient and to see our- selves as he does, with unconditional love. 9. Reach out in charity. As we experience weakness and suffering during Lent, we should be renewed in our compassion for those who are hungry, suffering or otherwise in need. The third part of the Lenten formula is almsgiving. It’s about more than throwing a few extra dollars in the collection plate; it’s about reaching out to others and helping them without question as a way of sharing the experience of God’s unconditional love. 10. Learn to love like Jesus. Giving of ourselves in the midst of our suffering and self-denial brings us closer to loving like Jesus Christ, who suffered and poured himself out unconditionally on cross for all of us. Lent is a journey through the desert to the foot of the cross on Good Friday, as we seek him out, ask his help, join in his suffering, and learn to love like him. Spread the Gospel, the Good News about Jesus and His St. Anthony Family. A HOLY COMMUNITY THROUGH HOLY COMMUNION! Your brother in Jesus, March 1, 2020 Me llamo Maria Ana. Welcome to CRS Rice Bowl 2020. My name is Maria Ana. Maria Ana is 16 years old. Seri- ous and kind, she lives with her We are so happy to have you join us on this Lenten journey as we parents, four brothers and one sister in Honduras, a country in travel around God’s beautiful world to meet three girls and their fami- Central America. Her village, El Pinal, is surrounded by hills. lies. When you donate to CRS Rice Bowl, you share your life and Maria Ana speaks Spanish. your abundance with these families and others like them. Your gener- Tên tôi là Nguyen Thi Trinh. osity puts nutritious food on their tables and helps them lead healthier My name is Trinh. Trinh is a hard-working, ener- lives. As Jesus teaches us in the Gospel story of the loaves and the getic 12-year-old. She lives in fishes, your small offering can feed many, and what may seem like a the farming community of Binh Dao, located outside of the city little, can actually be a lot. of Hoi An, Vietnam with her parents, two older brothers and younger sister. Her country is in Meet our global family Southeast Asia and is sur- rounded on three sides by wa- ter. Trinh speaks Vietnamese. Now it’s time to meet three girls from three different parts of the world. As you read about each girl and her family, think about what Jina langu ni Yvone. My name is Yvone. you might have in common with them. Ambitious and intelligent, Yvone is 11 years old. She lives with her grandparents, her aunt, three siblings and three cousins in Konjiko, a village in Kenya. REFLECT Her community is located near Lake Victoria, the largest lake During the 40 days of Lent, as you get to know Maria Ana, Trinh in Africa. The village is also and Yvone, remember them in your daily experience of prayers, close to the Equator, so it is fasting and almsgiving. very hot there. Yvone and her family speak Kiswahili and English. Lent and CRS Rice Bowl Lent is a 40-day journey of prayer, fasting and almsgiving. Each day during Lent, we have the opportunity to be inspired by the stories of people and communities from around the world, and to take time to set aside a little of ourselves to make room for a stranger. This Lent, CRS Rice Bowl invites you, your family and commu- nity to journey with Christ through fear to fortitude, recognizing God’s invitation to reach out beyond ourselves to encounter the needs of all.
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