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Today’s Readings: 998 September 16, 2018 • 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time A plaque will be blest at the 10:15 AM Mass today to hon- or the memory and the last- ing legacy of our much beloved parishioner, Katie Thorne. Katie, who died last October, served the parish as a catechist for more than fifty years. She continues to in- spire all who teach our parish children to Live Jesus.

Catechetical Sunday September 16, 2018 Leavenworth Interfaith Community of Hope PARISH STAFF Annual Meeting Today! Father William McEvoy PASTOR The meeting is open to the public and will be held at the St. Paul Lutheran [email protected] School gymnasium, 320 N 7th St. in Leavenworth. Please come and hear Office: (913) 727-3742 about the past adventures of Welcome Central, the Day Shelter and the Rectory: (913) 727-1930 Shelter of Hope night shelter as well as plans for our future. There will be time for questions and an opportunity to submit suggestions. Sister Josephine Macias, CDP DIRECTOR OF FAITH FORMATION After the meeting, the new facility at 311 Kiowa (the blue building) will be [email protected] open for tours. Come see our beautiful facility and learn about our services and opportunities to join the group of dedicated volunteers and donors who Sharon Kermashek make the Community of Hope an asset to our local community. PARISH LIFE COORDINATOR [email protected] Joan Leonard Celebrating the Feast of St. MUSIC DIRECTOR [email protected] Thursday, October 4th is the feast day of the pa- tron of God’s Creation: Saint Francis of As- Jeanne Im sisi. A good way to honor the Il Poverello is to RESOURCE MANAGER come together with fellow Catholics, answering [email protected] the call of the Holy Father’s encyclical letter Christopher Klepper Laudato Si’, and immerse ourselves into the spirit MAINTENANCE and vision of St. Francis of Assisi. John Shively, [email protected] the coordinator of Justice, Peace and Integrity of creation office for the Sisters of Charity of Leav- Bulletin Deadline: Please submit bulletin re- quests to the parish office by noon Friday at least enworth will be hosting a presentation on St. one week prior to the week for desired publication. Francis and Catholic teaching on caring for the earth. The event will be held on October 4th at Scripture Readings for Next Week 7:00 PM in Martz Hall at St. Francis de Sunday, Sept 23, 2018 Wis 2:12, 17-20 • Jas 3:16 – 4:3 Sales Church. All are welcome. Mk 9:30-37 XAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL Attention 8th Graders!! 541 Muncie Road Leavenworth, Kansas 66048 Maur Hill-Mount Academy 8th Grade Night! All current 8th grade students (913) 682-3135 are invited to the Raven Homecoming football game at 7 PM on Friday, Sep- tember 28th. Please contact Deke Nolan at [email protected] to be added to the pass list for free admission.

Family Day at Prairie Star Ranch Prairie Star Ranch is offering you the chance to step away and enter into a day of prayer, adventure, outdoor activities, and time to reconnect. Families, friends, and communities are invited to join us on September 23rd from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM! Opportunities include Horseback Riding, Canoeing, Ropes Activities, and time for prayer. The experience will culminate with the celebration of the Holy Mass in our beautiful St. Kateri Chapel. Let us jour- ney together on this day of Christ-centered adventure! Register online now or contact the Team at Prairie Star Ranch: archkck.org/ranch, (785)-746-5693, or email: [email protected]

The church is open every weekday from 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM for your personal prayer. WEEKLY SCHEDULE MINISTRY SCHEDULE Parish Contributions for: Sept 4-10 For Sept 22/23 MONDAY, SEPT 17 –––––––––– Total Envelope Cash 1:00 PM – Legion of Mary & Online Receipts: $18,209.17 Saturday at 5:00 PM ––––––——-———–––– GREETERS ––———–———–—––– 6:30 PM – Adult Bible Study Built on Rock: ($1,492.00) Archdiocesan Assessments Larry & Joyce Moore ––––––——————–-––– USHERS ––—-——–———-–—––– T UESDAY , SEPT 18 –––––––––– and Charitable Causes: ($1,539.00) Maggie Brewster, Russell Craft 8:30 AM – MASS Remaining for Parish Operations: $15,178.17 ––––––————-—-––– GIFT BEARERS ––———–—-–—––– 1:00 PM – Adult Bible Study Average Weekly Bill & Patty Pfannenstiel 6:30 PM – Book Club with Operating Expenses: $8,295.48 ––––––————--––– ALTAR SERVERS ––———–—-–—––– Sister Susan Rieke Difference: $6,882.69 Kira Honey, Cameron Sumpter

DULT LTAR SSISTANT WEDNESDAY, SEPT 19 ––––––– We are grateful for your monetary offerings ––––––—––– A A A ––———–—- given with sacrifice. We promise to be good Mike McCoy 8:30 AM – M ASS for the Poor Souls in Purgatory stewards of the contributions you entrust to ––––––——————–-––– LECTORS ––—-——–———-–—––– our care and oversight. Don Studnicka, Michaela Bremser 9:00 AM – Rosary for Priests FATHER BILL & FINANCE COUNCIL –––-–––– EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS ––—-——– 1:00 PM – Prayer Time with For more info: StFrancisLansing.org Rosemary Wasserman, Matt Brewster, Jennifer Sister Mary Pat Johnson Brewster, Susan Daze, Yoshiko Bogard, Prayer List: If you would like to have a name Mary Sue Wilson, LuAnn Cummins THURSDAY, SEPT 20 ––––––––– added or removed from our prayer list, please ––––––——————–-–– SACRISTAN ––———–———-–—––– 8:30 AM – MASS Frank Buhagiar † contact the Church Office. Our Parish Prayer Murrays 9:00 AM – Eucharistic Adoration Ministers invite you to join them in praying for the following: Sunday at 8:00 AM Willam , John Ahlstead, Joyce Ahlstead, Melissa FRIDAY, SEPT 21 ––––––––––– Anthony, Araceli, The Ash Family, Bernice Bodde, Lee ––––––——-———–––– GREETERS ––———–———–—––– 10:00 AM – Communion Service at Bradley Family, Megan E Brill, Betsy Brothers, Jack Silvana Boyd French, Joan Nye Cain, Caroline Camp, Theresa Carroll, Janie Caudle, ––––––——————–-––– USHERS ––—-——–———-–—––– Lansing Care & Rehab Phil Chavez, Ben Christopherson, Olivia Connealy, Nina Cooper, Frances Cooper, Ilka Csizmagia, Curtis Tom Lewis, Edd Hingula SATURDAY, SEPT 22 ––––––––– Cummins, Sharnice Cyprien, Sr. Regina DeEucharist, ––––––————-—-––– GIFT BEARERS ––———–—-–—––– Dan & Kathy Dillon, Nick Earls, Roy D. Earls, Wilma Tom & Julie Novak 9:30 AM – St. Mary’s Food Kitchen Eiche, Bridget Flaaen, Frandsen, Rachel Fritz, 4:30 PM – Confessions Beverly Frock, Hakime, Gene Hammer, Becky Her- ––––––————--––– ALTAR SERVERS ––———–—-–—––– mosillo, Natalia Hermosillo, John Holtgrefe, Jeanne Im, Andrew Im, Matthais Erickson 5:00 PM –MASS For the People Janas, Rosemary Janas, Lee Jewell, Katie Kelley, ––––––—––– ADULT ALTAR ASSISTANT ––———–—- of the Parish Connie Koerin, Liz Lemley, Liley Family, Louise Lisac, Maria Teresa, Canyon Martin, Robert Martz, Marzluff Robert Schafer SUNDAY, SEPT 23–––––––––– Family, Jason Moritz, Ardeth Tingler-McCann, Rebecca ––––––——————–-––– LECTORS ––—-——–———-–—––– McGhee, Virginia McQuillan, Steve O, Khloe Papousek, Alice Keohane, David Bresser 8:00 AM – MASS Katie Thorne † Dorothy Pendleton, Bob , Rebecca, Sam R, Jane Reineke, Gillian Schmidt, Betty Schrandt, Bill –––-–––– EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS ––—-——– 8:45 –10:10 AM – 8th Gr. Religious Ed Schrandt, James Sloan, Snježana, Kimberly Sosa, Ron Jim Sherer, Peggy Tunink, Mary Ferguson, 9:00 AM – Religious Ed (K-5) & (6 -7) T, Jennifer Tainatongo, Larry Thibault, Chris Thompson, Mike Keohane, Ann Soby, Marty Brown, Tiff, Juliet Tjaden, Melina Tomacruz, Trevor, Lonnie Ron Mazzia 10:15 AM – MASS Joe Fargo † Trowbridge, Dave Turner, Jack Twohig, Vander- staay, Monica Vanderstaay-Sparks, Jerry Whitaker, Fr. ––––––——————-––– SACRISTAN ––—-—–———-–—––– 11:15 AM – Religious Ed (K-5) Jim White, William, Donna Wiseman, Gene & Ada Brzustowicz Young, Ena Young, Peggy Young, Pat Zink, Michael Xavier Zito Sunday at 10:15 AM Advertiser of the Week ––––––——-———–––– GREETERS ––———–———–—––– THE LEGION OF MARY Greg Penfield Family Country Care, Inc. ––––––——————–-––– USHERS ––—-——–———-–—––– Meets Monday at 1pm Dave Young, Jim Zimmerman in Robert Martz Hall Skilled Nursing & Rehab ––––––————-—-––– GIFT BEARERS ––———–—-–—––– RLENE IGHTMAN 913–773–5517 A W David & Juanita Gwartney President (913) 727-3407 ––––––————--––– ALTAR SERVERS ––———–—-–—––– JJ & Carson Zimmerman, Kayla Blacketer Flowers For September 16th KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ––––––—––– ADULT ALTAR ASSISTANT ––———–—- In memory of Meets 2nd Wednesday Cassady Giefer of each month at 7:30pm my beloved daughter in Robert Martz Hall ––––––——————–-––– LECTORS ––—-——–———-–—––– Audrey Grace Yadrich edd Hingula Sr. Susan Chase, Todd Giefer Grand Knight (913) 758-1509 –––-–––– EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS ––—-——– Donna Yadrich Debbie Beall, Michelle Bell, Diane Garlock, Vera Daniels Joan Pfannenstiel, Why Make A Visit to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament? Janie Craig, Jeannine Edmonds You must propagate veneration of the Most Blessed Sacrament with all your –––––——————–-––– SACRISTAN ––———–———-–—––– might, for the devotion to the Holy Eucharist is the queen of all devotions. Beth Sanford –Pope Benedict XV Eucharistic Adoration: Thursday 9 AM - 5:30 PM StFrancisLansing.org Sunday, September 16, 2018 biography says. are always available. Pray TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME to them for help and let them serve as examples We evolve. This is one of the most grateful things of love and service in your life. Today’s Readings:1 Rest in Peace about existence, that we’re not required to remain Corinthians 12:31—13:13; Luke 7:31-35 We lift up into God’s loving arms stuck in our stuff. We grow, learn, and adapt the soul of through the years. Our relationship with the Holy Thursday, September 20 OF ANDREW KIM TAE-GON, PRIEST, One evolves too. So, when Jesus asks us once PAUL CHONG HA-SANG, AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS BLAYNE CELESTINE more—Who do you say that I am?—our reply infant son of “Love makes the whole difference between an exe- may well be different this time. Is Jesus still the ROB & JOYEL GRAETZ God someone gave us long ago? Has Jesus become cution and martyrdom,” Evelyn Underhill once said. more real and necessary: as a friend, brother, As one of Christianity’s renowned commentators and brother of healer, teacher, fellow sufferer, or champion? Is on , she should know. The saints we call PENELOPE Jesus Lord of our lives, judge, irritant, role model, mystics are hailed for their utmost trust in God’s or inspiration? Today’s Readings: 50:5-9a; love, their sheer abandonment to its power. But May he rest in peace James 2:14-18; Mark 8:27-35 martyrs take it one step further—abandonment to even the point of death. Such devotion is “not an and rise in glory. Monday, affair of red cassocks and authorized hymnbooks,” MEMORIAL OF ROBERT BELLARMINE, , Underhill wrote, “but a burning and consuming fire.” As we remember today nearly 10,000 Korean The Italian Jesuit Robert Bellarmine (d. 1621) is martyrs, most of them laypeople, who were tor- rightly remembered for his brilliance—he was tured and killed for their love of Christ, whose blood built the church in Korea, reflect on what real Dear Pa d r e made a cardinal by Pope Clement VIII on the grounds that “he had not his equal for learning.” love looks like and what helps it grow.Today’s Read- If , for economic reasons, a couple But while Bellarmine wore the red hat and had an ings: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11; Luke 7:36-50 wants to purchase a home together apartment in the Vatican, he refused to live the Friday, September 21 before they marry, is it permissible high life. He maintained his austere disciplines, EAST OF ATTHEW APOSTLE EVANGELIST Q for them to live together? F M , , spending the bare minimum on his own needs and Before Matthew was an apostle, he was a tax col- eating only the food available to the poor. It is said In recent past, it would have been lector. Tax collectors as a rule are not the most pop- rare to find an unmarried man and that he even used the tapestries he found in his ular people on the block, but they were despised in Vatican apartment to clothe poor people, remark- woman living together as roommates. Roman-occupied Jewish lands, where they did the Today, however, it’s fairly common. ing, “The walls won’t catch cold.” Pray that all the dirty work of collecting the Empire’s taxes. Jesus’ leaders of the church share Bellarmine’s vision of Sometimes these arrangements are desire to mingle with such people scandalized the dictated by finances–a homeowner or what it means to be a . Today’s Read- religious authorities, but Jesus was more interested ings: 1 Corinthians 11:17-26, 33; Luke 7:1-10 renter finds he or she can’t afford to in being with “tax collectors and sinners” than with live alone so the person seeks a room- Tuesday, September 18 the righteous, who felt they had nothing to learn mate. Other times it’s a result of from Jesus and no need to reform their lives. If we One of Jesus’ greatest gifts was his ability to com- friendship. In many ways this is a want Jesus to feel comfortable in our homes and positive development––it shows fort people who were suffering. He did that by hearts, it is good for us to guard against right- performing miracles, of course, but also by simply we’ve learned to have intimate friend- eousness, the temptation to elevate ourselves by ships that don’t involve sex. accepting each person he encountered. Jesus’ judging others. Today’s Readings: Ephesians 4:1-7, method was simple, but 2,000 years later it is 11-13; Matthew 9:9-13 There’s nothing immoral about in- apparent that we still have much to learn about habiting the same home. However, how to treat the most fragile and vulnerable Saturday, September 22 when a joint real-estate venture is more among us. The French geophysicist Xavier Le Pi- MEMORIAL OF THE BLESSED MARY than a business deal and involves even- chon, in a profoundly personal and moving essay The spiritual life is often described in sporting tual marriage, there are hazards. It’s im- titled “Ecce Homo” (“Behold Humanity”), writes terms: Fight the good fight, run the race, win the portant for the couple to be very clear that when people turn toward the suffering ones crown. These come from an ancient Greek culture about what they are doing. Buying a in their midst, the entire community is trans- immersed in the excitement of athletic games and home is a huge commitment. They formed.Take some time today to read Le Pichon’s competition. But there are other ways to triumph, should remember that real estate is one essay and hear his extraordinary life story at on- spiritually speaking. Mary of Nazareth employed commitment, marriage is another, and being.org. You won’t be sorry. Today’s Readings: 1 the paradox of the weak surpassing the they aren’t interchangeable. It would be Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31a; Luke 7:11-17 strong through utter reliance on God’s promises. easy for one partner to insist on the Her “race” involved domestic life, birth and death, house for economic reasons when the Wednesday, September 19 security and danger and challenge. Competition joint purchase is really an attempt to MEMORIAL OF JANUARIUS , BISHOP , MARTYR isn’t the only way to win. Today’s Readings:1 seal the marriage deal in advance. The bishop Saint Januarius, who died near the Corinthians 15:35-37, 42-49;Luke 8:4-15 Buying a house together could cre- beginning of the fourth century, is known primarily ate marriage pressures, making it diffi- for the San Gennaro festival named after him and cult to back out due to a change of for a famous phenomenon: the liquefying of a vial heart. Such arrangements are full of said to be his blood that has been going on several “Think often of the Lord possibilities for misunderstanding, times a year in Naples, for centuries. Appar- for He will enable you disappointment, and anger. Unless it’s ently, he was an inspiring presence even before to bear your troubles clear that joint home ownership is— that. When Saint Paulinus of Nola was dying in patiently.” until marriage—just a business deal 431, he called out to Saints Januarius and Martin of (and clear legal contracts are drawn), Tours, “who a little while ago were speaking to me –ST. it’s not advisable. and promising me that soon I would join them,” a – Ligouri Publications Upcoming Parish Events Father Bill leads Sept 18 – Book Club Meeting the Lord’s Prayer Sept 19 – Spiritual Prayer Time during Mass at Oct 5/6 – Parish Basement Sale Twin Oaks Health Oct 7 – Blessing of the Animals and Rehab. On Oct 13 – Chili Cook-off most Friday mornings he cele- brates Mass at a Lansing residen- tial care facility. Classes start this weekend If you missed Enrollment for Re- Basement Sale • October 5/6 ligious Education, please call the parish office to enroll. Volunteers needed! Reminder: two years of instruction Clothing, housewares and toys … oh my! All those donations that we in Religious Education are needed expect to arrive for our parish big Basement Sale need to be sorted for the Sacraments of First Com- and priced. Your help is needed to make this parish fundraiser a suc- cess. If you would like to volunteer to help sort and price items, please munion and Confirmation. Please sign up at the back table in the church for the date and time that is plan ahead so that your child is convenient for you. Donations will be accepted September 27th-29th, fully prepared in his/her faith more information on times in next week’s bulletin. formation. Eighth grade students will have an extended class time in prepara- tion for Confirmation on Sunday mornings. Class will run from 8:45 to 10:10 AM. Adult Faith Formation A series of mini courses will be offered throughout the year on Sundays from 9 to THANK Thank you to everyone for your 10 AM in Robert Martz Hall. All adults, YOU! continued support of our church’s especially parents, are invited to attend. Youth Group. As we start the new The first two sessions will take place on To Everyone school year, we invite all youth September 23 and September 30. The fo- who worked so grades 6-12 to join our group. cus will be: Defining “FAITH” and Taking a Our next Youth Mass is on Sunday closer Look at the CREED. Subsequent ses- hard to make our October 7th at 10:15AM. We are sions will take place on October 28th, looking for volunteers to serve as November 4th and 11th; and December Parish Picnic lectors, choir members, ushers, al- 2nd and 9th. Topics to be determined. such a Fun Event! tar servers and gift bearers. Sign- Mrs. Olive Greene will be the facilitator. ups in the back of church.

Upcoming Youth Events Sunday,

PM Sept 16: Mass at Saint Mary’s at 5 October 7th followed by dinner and faith discussion. Youth willing to 4:00 PM participate in the Mass should show up no later than 4:30 PM St. Francis de Youth and parents are invited. Sales Church Sept 22: Fun activity TBD Lansing, Kansas