St. Vincent Depaul Church Dutzow, Missouri Established 1856

St. Vincent DePaul Church Dutzow, Missouri Established 1856

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PARISH MISSION STATEMENT

St. Vincent DePaul at Dutzow, high above the surrounding countryside, shares with its faithful a rich heritage of Catholic belief. As God’s people our mission is - to make Jesus Christ present in our daily lives through Divine worship, Christian education and service to our neighbor. - to strive through ethical conduct, generous hearts, and industrious lives, to give glory and honor to GOD.

ABOVE ALL WE ARE A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. SMALL ENOUGH TO CARE, HUMBLE ENOUGH TO SERVE, STRONG ENOUGH TO NOURISH Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Saint Vincent de Paul Parish Parish/Rectory 13497 S. State Hwy 94 • 433-2678 - School 13495 S. State Hwy 94 • 433-2466 Parish Office and School Fax 636-433-2924 Parish email—[email protected] • School email—[email protected] Bulletin email—[email protected] Parish Website—www.svdutzow.org • School Website—Under Construction. Available soon! Archdiocese Website—www.archstl.org Fr. Gene’s Website—www.fugentus.com • Fr. Gene’s Email—[email protected] Pastoral Staff Pastor—Rev. Eugene Robertson Principal—Miss Diane Smith Office Manager—Mrs. Jacquie Schaper Music Coordinator—Mrs. Lorraine Struckhoff, 636-433-2722 School Secretary—Mrs. Donna Sahm Bulletin Editor—Mrs. Michele Voss Parish Council Mass Schedule Sally Jasper—Chair Randy Kleekamp—Vice Chair Saturday 5:00 pm Tony Ballmann—Secretary Mike Wessel Sunday 7:30 am, 10:00 am John Matlick Jeff Gildehaus Monday 8:00 am Larry Ballmann Tom Herbst Tuesday 7:30 pm Coletta Hakenewerth Carl Borgerding Wednesday 8:00 am Thursday 8:00 am Finance Committee Friday 8:00 am Lorraine Struckhoff Karen Holtmeyer (During the school year Wed-Fri Masses are school Masses) Gena Mayer Dave Meyer Holy Days 8:00 am, 6:00 pm Rick Gratza

Sacramental Preparation Sacrament of Reconciliation Tuesday 7:00—7:15 pm Marriage Preparation—Couples should contact the Saturday 4:15—4:45 pm parish office as soon as possible to prepare for Any other time by appointment classes, at least 6 months prior to the wedding date.

Baptism Preparation—First-time parents and par- Eucharistic Adoration ents who have never taken a Baptism preparation Thursdays from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm class need to contact the rectory to arrange for a class. Once the class has been attended a Baptism Mother of Perpetual Help Devotions may be scheduled for the 2nd or 4th Sunday of the Tuesdays after evening Mass month. Baptisms are celebrated immediately follow- ing the 10 am Mass. St. Vincent de Paul at Dutzow, high above the sur- Christian Initiation of Adults—For more informa- rounding countryside, shares with its faithful a rich tion on becoming a Catholic, call Fr. Gene at the heritage of Catholic belief. parish office. As God’s people our Mission is: Holy Orders and Consecrated (Religious) Life—If To make Jesus Christ present in our daily lives interested, please call the parish office or the Archdi- through Divine worship, Christian education and ser- ocesan Office of Vocations at 314-792-6460. vice to our neighbor. To strive through ethical conduct, generous hearts, and industrious lives, to give Parish School of Religion (PSR) Please Contact— glory and honor to GOD. Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish—New Melle 636-398-5270 ABOVE ALL WE ARE A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish—Washington SMALL ENOUGH TO CARE. 636-239-3520 HUMBLE ENOUGH TO SERVE. STRONG ENOUGH TO NOURISH September 4, 2011

Mass Changes, Continued The Confiteor

Old Text… I confess to almighty God, New Text... I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have sinned that I have greatly sinned through my own fault in my thoughts and in my words, in my thoughts and in my words, in what I have done in what I have done, and in what I have failed to do, and in what I have failed to do; through my fault, and I ask blessed Mary, ever virgin, through my fault, all the angels and saints, through my most grievous fault; and you, my brothers and sisters, therefore I ask blessed Mary ever-Virgin, to pray for me to the Lord our God. all the Angels and Saints, and you, my brothers and sisters, to pray for me to the Lord our God.

The Penitential Act immediately follows the greeting dialogue. Important changes occur in the first form of the Penitential Act, which is the commonly used formula called the Confiteor. “Confiteor” is Latin for “I confess,” and comes from the first line of the prayer.

Most of this text remains the same as the version we presently use. However, there are two key modifications. The first replaces our current wording of “I have sinned through my own fault” with “I have greatly sinned.” The new text reflects the Latin wording by incorporating the adverb “nimis,” which means “very much.”

The second set of changes occurs about halfway through the Confiteor, and is more significant. The words removed from the first section (“through my own fault”) are being returned to their proper place here, but with the expression’s full content. “Through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault” is a direct translation of the Latin phrase “mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.” As a well-known line from the old Latin Mass, “mea culpa” has even be- come a familiar part of our secular parlance, by which one admits having made a mistake.

Some might wonder, why this seemingly heavier emphasis on sin in the revised English Confiteor? Looking beyond sim- ple fidelity to the Latin, language that calls to mind our fallen human nature is actually very important in the Sacred Lit- urgy. The great Apostle of Christ, St. Paul, spoke of his complete and continual reliance on God’s grace in vivid terms well after his conversion: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Of these I am the foremost” (1 Tim 1:15).

It is good to acknowledge our sinfulness at particular times, just as we should do at sacramental Confession. Unlike Reconciliation, we are not sacramentally absolved of our sins at this point during the Holy Mass. Nevertheless, it is an appropriate way to “prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries,” as the Priest says at the beginning of the Peni- tential Act. We must strive to approach the altar of God with humble dispositions, and should receive the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ free from grave sin, and in a worthy fashion, as St. Paul exhorts us in 1 Corinthians 11:23-29.

During the Confiteor, the faithful should “strike their breast” while saying, “through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault.” This prescribed “striking” is a symbolic tapping of the chest with a clenched fist over one’s heart, signifying remorse. This is part of the beauty of our Catholic liturgy – sacramental words are complemented by sacramental actions. This action also recalls the penitent tax collector in Luke, chapter 18, who “beat his breast and prayed, ‘O God, be merciful to me a sinner.’”

The Confiteor ends with the individual asking for the prayers of the rest of the assembly and the Saints, led by the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose sinlessness and humility are the perfect model for our own Christian lives.

SPECIAL EVENT — Speaking of making our parish campus looking awesome, we are going to be having a PAINTING DAY on Saturday, September 17. We will be painting the cross down in the lower parking lot, Mary & the Fatima children, the angel at the entrance to the old school, the ledges on the old school, the festival booths and other things. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! The painting will begin at 8am. Lunch provided. Please brings brushes, scrapers, some old tarps if you have them. We could use ladders also. Our confirmation class or high school students could use this for service hours; we also need adults to help and supervise too. If you can volunteer, please contact Jim Napier at 636-433-5036. Thanks for your time and talents! Come help spruce up our campus before our Fall Festival. Should it rain that day, we tentatively have Saturdays October 1 or 8 as alternates. Come join us!

Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Sunday, September 4, 2011 Monday, September 5 Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:00 a.m. Rita Marquart

“You, son of man, I have appointed watchman for the house of Tuesday, September 6 7:30 p.m. Isabelle Holtmeyer Israel.” (EZEKIEL 33:7) Wednesday, September 7

8:00 a.m. All Souls How well are you watching over God’s house and all that He has left in your care? Thursday, September 8 8:00 a.m. Kevin Gratza

Your Gift to Parish & Support Friday, September 9 Week of August 28, 2011 8:00 a.m. Wilbert Jasper

Offering $4,715.00 Saturday, September 10 Budgeted Goal $6,000.00 5:00 p.m. Parishioners Weekly Over (Under) ($1,285.00) Month to date Over (Under) ($2,209.70) Sunday, September 11 Fiscal Year to date Over (Under) ($7,940.04) 7:30 a.m. Lucille Dieckhaus 10:00 a.m. Marion Pohl Assumption Offering $5.00 Tuition Assistance $20.00 SPIRITFEST—Once again, the Catholic Youth St. Vincent Pallotti Mission $627.75 Apostolate & the Knights of Columbus will be host-

ing SPIRITFEST at Camp RockyVine on Saturday, Capital Campaign goal $1,000,000.00 September 24 from noon to 6pm. The day will be Pledges to Date $990,270.00 filled with live Christian music from local bands, games, fun activi- Collected to Date $389,658.60 ties, and opportunities for Confession. Archbishop Carlson will be celebrating Mass at 4pm to conclude the days events. Please join us! This event is a faith-filled family day. As last year, there will be NO 5PM MASS here at St. Vincent’s that day, so more folks MUSIC MINISTRY can join in the events at RockyVine. As you know, we are in the process of

changing many of the responses we RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF have at Mass. This also means we ADULTS — We will be beginning our RCIA need to change many of our sung responses. We are looking for classes shortly. Anyone who would like to join new cantors, or people who like to sing to come learn the new our Church through the Sacraments of Baptism, responses and help sing in the pews. We also desperately need Eucharist, and Confirmation, or any Catholic who has not been NEW CHOIR MEMBERS. We’re getting kinda sparse. We could Confirmed, please contact the parish office or Fred Roesner at 636- use choir members for funerals as well as for our upcoming Ad- 228-4472. vent, Christmas, Lent & Easter services. If you are interested in any of these music ministries, please contact Lorraine Struckhoff at 636-433-2722. We appreciate your consideration in this im- This Week portant ministry of making a joyful sound unto the Lord. Sunday, September 4 First Sunday Breakfast Baptism Katelyn Stauffacher

Nancy Berg, John Elbert, Monday, September 5 Labor Day—No School Bonnie Engemann, Audrey Mass at 9am Wagener, Mary Dierkies, Tim Short, Barb Schaper, Robert Eisenbath, Mary Ballmann, Lucille Tuesday, September 6 Rosary, Mass, Devotions, 7:15pm Ballmann, Rosemary & Herman Engemann, Amy Heggemann, Knights of Columbus 8:15pm

Bob Gremaud, Teresa Schmitt, Sophie Ruether, Ann Wessel, Thursday, September 8 Eucharistic Adoration 8:30am-5pm Lisa & Dan Stacy, Ken Iborg, Barb Sutorius, Steve McCoy, Har- Rehearsal 6pm vey Quinn, Theresa Schwoepppe, Kenneth Roesner Sr., Patricia Klinkhardt, Mike Goll, Norman Eckerle, Linus Westhoff, Betty Saturday, September 10 WEDDING at noon Schulte, Marie Gremaud Jennifer Ballmann & Carl Schroer September 4, 2011

Liturgical Ministers September 4—SV 1st Sunday Breakfast from 7:30-11:30am Servers for the week of September 5: September 9—SFBRHS senior class dinner 4-7pm in the high Jade Ruether, Mady Aholt school cafeteria Saturday, September 10, 5:00 p.m. September 10—St. Ann’s in Clover Bottom dinner auction, call Servers: Kaylee & Wil Heggemann, Kyndel 239-3222 for reservations Hagedorn Ushers/Greeters: Dan & Aimee Wessel September 11—Holy Rosary Golf Tournament, call 636-734- Lector: Nick Eckelkamp 7979 for info or reservations Gift Bearers: Nathan & Katie Nowak

SFB Fall Festival 11am-6pm dinner, music, games, and more Eucharistic Ministers: Michael Molitor, Katie Nowak, Jo Anne Ruether, Jim Struckhoff, OLL breakfast serving from 8-11:30am Evelyn Busch

Sunday, September 11, 7:30 a.m. The Festival Committee is asking for donations to the Country Servers: Amy Frisella, Jade & Tommy Ruether Store and Cherry Booth for our Fall Festival. Country Store dona- Ushers /Greeters: Carl & Bernice Borgerding tions can be homemade items, canned goods, garden items, baked Lector: Aurie Meyer goods, etc. Cherry Booth items can be small toys, books, stickers, Gift Bearers: Randy & Laurie Gildehaus crayons, etc. There will be tubs placed in the foyer of school for your Eucharistic Ministers: Gary Kleekamp, contributions. Cherry Booth items need to be received by September Jeanne Micke, Rick & Sandy Mueller, Harold 23 by noon. Country Store items can also be brought in the day of Roehrig the festival. We appreciate your generosity. Also, the signup sheets for dessert/cash donations can be found in the entrance to church. Sunday, September 11, 10:00 a.m. Thank you, The Festival Committee Servers: Monica Holtmeyer, Brendan Hanne- ken, Megan Micke We are looking for a volunteer to help with the Altar Linens. If in- Ushers/Greeters: Jim & Brenda Napier terested please call Sue Lenzenhuber at 433-2652. Lector: Becky Adams Gift Bearers: Kurt Breckenkamp Family Promises, Promises Eucharistic Ministers: Bernie & Sally Jasper, The Bible certainly contains a lot of promises. John Kluesner, Korine Krieftmeyer, Darren Jesus himself made quite a few. But I wonder Holtmeyer how many of them we take seriously. The gospel today gives a few promises that could be chal- lenging for us. The first one is about “binding and loosing.” We usually understand this as referring to the forgiveness of sins, espe- MISSOURI CATHOLIC cially in this passage where the previous verses were about con- CONFERENCE fronting sinners. It’s easy to ask for forgiveness if the sin is not very ANNUAL ASSEMBLY serious. But sometimes we really mess up and commit a grave sin. We need something more concrete than just a private wish to know Will Take place on Saturday, October 1, at the Missouri we are forgiven. So we use the sacrament of Reconciliation. We tell State Capitol Building in Jefferson City. If you are not our sins to God by confessing them to the priest. He uses that familiar with this one-day event, it includes a keynote “binding and loosing,” handed down from the apostles, to make that presentation and choice of workshops. Admission is forgiveness real. free and includes lunch. The day concludes with bish- Jesus’ next promise proves this: He says if two of us ops from all four Missouri dioceses celebrating Mass at agree on anything we pray for, it will be granted. (Mt 18:19) So if St. Peter’s across the street from the Capitol. you and the priest are praying for forgiveness, you know God has forgiven you. When you hear the prayer of absolution, you experi- The theme for this year’s event commemorates the th ence forgiveness in concrete way. All the sacraments work that 150 anniversary of the start of the Civil War by posing way. Why? Because Jesus’ third promise says that he is present the question: How do we unite a divided nation? The when two or three people gather in his name. A church full of people keynote speaker is Fr. Michael Witt, who celebrated gathered in Jesus’ name is a sure sign that he is in their midst. Mass here at St. Vincent’s last year. The Archbishop is That’s why we have confidence that we “do this in remembrance of” asking for representation from every parish in the Arch- Jesus, when we celebrate the Eucharist. He is present in the bread diocese. If you are interested in attending, please con- that is his Body, the wine that is his Blood, because Jesus always tact Fr. Gene. You may also visit the website for more keeps his promises. information about the days’ events at Mocatholic.org. Twenty-Third Sunday in Ordinary Time ST. VINCENT DE PAUL CATHOLIC SCHOOL 13495 South State Hwy. 94 Marthasville, MO 63357

Serving families from Dutzow, Augusta, Defiance, Femme Osage, Foristell, Lake Sherwood, Marthasville, New Melle, Washington, and surrounding areas.

5th & 6th Grade News—The school year is off to a great start in 5th and 6th grade. On the first day of school, we filled out a paper called "All About Me". We save these until the end of the school year. The students are amazed at how much they have changed in such a short time.

The students are working hard to get back into the routine. Early work in reading and spelling has been outstanding. In Science, we made barometers to measure changes in air pressure.

SAVE THE DATE: The 5th and 6th grade will be hosting a spaghetti dinner on November 12, 2011, after the 5:00 PM Mass. We will be trying to raise funds to help cover the cost of the Leadership Camp we will be attending in March 2012. Mark your calendars. More information will follow. Thank you for your support.

Pasta House—When you dine at The Pasta House Company in Union on Saturday’s & Sunday’s and bring and in our church bulletin you will get 10% off your entire bill, and they will also donate $0.50 back to St. Vincent’s.

Save These—Please keep saving these items to help SVS: Labels for Education (Campbell’s, Post cereals, Bic, etc.) Box Tops for Education (General Mills, Betty Crocker, Hanes, etc.) Sunny D Labels Used printer cartridges Scrap paper that is clean on 1 side with no staples

Substitutes—Anyone interested in adding their name to the PK-8 substitute teacher list please contact Miss Smith at 636-433-2466 or [email protected].

Keep Score winners for week 21 are—Gary & Karen Holtmeyer the high score winners with 131 total runs (Los Angeles Dodgers, Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies); and Gena Mayer the low score winner with 50 total runs (Arizona Diamondbacks, Washington Nationals, St. Louis Cardinals). Con- gratulations to all!

Volunteers—We are looking for volunteers to help serve lunch and help out with before school supervi- sion. If you are interested please contact the school office.

Date Changes—The date for the Christmas Program has been changed to December 16 at 7pm.

Parade—SVS will be participating in the Marthasville parade on September 11. We will be meeting at the elementary school at 11am. The parade will begin at noon.

Protecting God’s Children Classes: SFB in Washington—September 13th, 6:30-9pm call 636-239-6701 for reservations St. Ignatius in Concord Hill—September 29th, 7-9:30pm call 636-932-4805 for reservations please leave a message with your name and phone number if there is no answer. September 4, 2011 September 2011

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FIRST SUNDAY LABOR DAY Rosary, Mass, Devo- Eucharistic Adoration WEDDING BREAKFAST tions 7:15pm 8:30am-5pm Jennifer Ballmann & NO School Carl Schroer Baptism Knights of Colum- Noon Katelyn Elizabeth Mass at 9am bus, 8:15pm Stauffacher

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Baptism Active Seniors Rosary, Mass, Devo- Eucharistic Adoration 8th Grade Healthy PAINTING DAY! Hailey Jade Maune 1:30-3pm tions 7:15pm 8:30am-5pm Lifestyles 8AM

Marthasville Parade School Picture Day 8th Grade Healthy Lifestyles

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FALL FESTIVAL! Faculty Meetings NO Rosary, Mass, NO 8am Mass NO 8am Mass NO 8am Mass NO SCHOOL Devotions Eucharistic Adoration Fr. Gene gone trout 8:30am-5pm fishing after 8am Mass till Friday