The Parishes of Mary of the Fields - Grand Ridge, - Seneca, & Saint Theresa - Earlville

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

   St. Mary’s of the Fields St. Patrick’s St. Theresa   176 West Union Street    221 West Union Street Grand Ridge, IL 61325 Seneca, IL 61360    Earlville, IL 60518 815R357R6239 815R357R6239 815R246R4321   Cemetery 815R357R8816 stRtheresaRearlville.com senecastpatricks.com Mass Times Mass Times  Mass Times

Saturday ~ 5:30 p.m. Saturday ~ 4 p.m. Saturday ~4 p.m. Sunday ~ 10 a.m. Sunday ~ 9 a.m. Sunday ~ 8 a.m. Tues ~ Fri ~ 8 a.m. Mon ~ Fri. ~ 8 a.m. Confessions Confessions Confessions S - 3 Before Mass on Sunday, or by aturday ~ 3:00 :45 p.m. or by Saturday ~ 3:00 - 3:45 p.m. or by appointment appointment appointment Religious Education for Students Religious Education for Students Religious Education for Students Classes are held on Sundays. Please Classes are held on Sundays. Please CCD Classes are held on Sundays contact the CCD Coordinator, Mrs. contact the CCD Coordinator, Mrs. from 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Please contact Pat Duffield for details at 815.488- J. Doloski for details at 815.357.8509 Pat Evers for details. 7365 Deacon Mike Evers 815-414-1193 [email protected]

Father Ghislain Inai, SMA Pastor Father Augustin Kassa, SMA Parochial Vicar 176 West Union Street 221 West Union Street Seneca, IL. 61360 Earlville, IL. 60518 Office - (815) 357-6239 Office - (815) 246-4321 Email address:[email protected] Email address:[email protected] Sunday, March 17, 2019 SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT, YEAR C  ST. MARY’S CHURCH ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH

Mass Intentions for the Week Mass Intentions for the Week ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH ST. MARY’S CHURCH Tue. Mar. 19 8:00 am Joan Coss Sat. Mar. 16 5:30 pm Robert & Anna Marie Miller By: The Coss Family By: Mike & Elaine Sheridan Wed. Mar. 20 8:00 am. Joan Reardon Sun. Mar. 17 10:00 am Marcia Hughes By: Jay Reardon & Family By: Pat & Cal Duffield Family Thurs. Mar. 21 8:00 am Richard Virgo Sat. Mar. 23 5:30 pm Sheila Rawlins By: Donna Virgo By: James D. Brown Fri. Mar. 22 8:00 am Joan Coss Sun. Mar. 24 10:00 am Joe & Freeda Mish By: The Coss Family By: Bill & Phyllis Durdan Sat. Mar. 23 4:00 pm Bob Heath By: Gail Heath Minister, Lector, Altar Servers Sun. Mar. 24 9:00 am Fred Berta By: Peg Berta Sat. Mar. 23 5:30 pm Lector: Lily Killian Eucharist Minister, Lector, Altar Servers Altar Servers: Wyatt Hettel Sun. Mar. 24 10:00 am Saturday Mar. 23 4:00pm Lector: Cindy Mickelson Eucharistic Minister: Jackie Nusbaumer Altar Servers: Emma Thomas Lector: Nusbaumer Altar Servers: Caleb/David Doloski & Gavin Nus baumer Weekly Collection ~ St. Mary Sunday Mar. 24 9:00am Eucharistic Minister: Tracy Ellis March 10, 2019 Stays in Parish Lector: Kathy Baker Envelopes $ 495.00 (23 Envelopes) Altar Servers: Carter/Braden Ellis & Landon Harty Loose $ 112.00 Total $ 607.00 Weekly Collection ~ St. Patrick

Central/E. Europe $ 267.95 (12 Envelopes) March 10, 2019 Stays in Parish School $ 45.00 Sunday Collection $ 2790.03 Loose Cash $ 188.00 Ash Wednesday $ 301.00   Needed each week to pay expenses $1332.00 Total $ 3279.03

Altar Servers and Readers needed. Please contact Eastern Europe $ 519.00 Joyce Hettel at 8152289134. Capital Improvement $ 197.00 Food Pantry $ 526.00

SCHOOL ENVELOPES Any contributions put in the ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH N VOLUNTEERS school assessment envelopes will be put aside for St. Mary’s Volunteers needed to help clean up the grounds around Church scholarships for students going to Marquette the church and rectory on April 13 at 9am, weather Academy.  permitting. Rain date will be April 20 at 9:am. Please bring ADA: The Diocese of Peoria is made up of 156 parishes rakes, brooms, shovels, and trash cans. Students that and over 55,000 registered Catholic families. There are need community hours can get credit for helping. This many ministries and apostolates that the Diocese can offer past winter has left the grounds a mess. We would like to that we as a single parish cannot.  Catechetical training for schools and CCD teachers, recruitment and training of see it cleaned up for Easter. The more volunteers we get priests, medical care for retired priests, ministry to our the quicker we'll get done. If it's too cold on the 13th, we'll students on college campuses, evangelization, administration go for the rain date. If the weather is questionable, or if of many of the details of parish finances… these are just a you have any other questions please contact Ray Eich at few of the many services we receive from the Diocese of 8153571820. If no answer leave a message and he will  Peoria. Your support, in prayer and through your sacrificial  get back to you.  gift, make it possible to provide these services.  ST. THERESA CHURCH  STATIONS OF THE CROSS

Mass Intentions for the Week St. Theresa, Earlville Fridays, 5:00pm  Staons 

St. Mary, Wednesdays, Mon. Mar. 18 8:00 am Shirley Widimer Mass & Staons GrandRidge 5:30pm By: Doris Jessen Tues. Mar. 19 8:00 am Jerry Zimmerman St. Patrick, Seneca Fridays, 5:30pm Staons By: Judith Konitzer St. , Wed. Mar. 20 8:00 am Rich Konitzer Fridays, 5:30pm Staons Marseilles By: Ted & Margaret Seed Thur. Mar. 21 8:00 a.m. Gladys Kipper St. Patrick, Ransom Thursdays, 5:00pm Mass & Staons By: Judith Konitzer Fri. Mar. 22 8:00 am Rich Konitzer Confessions will start 1 hour prior to staons in all Churches By: Frank Mylan Sat. Mar. 23 4:00 pm Ron Wartella There are “Guides to Confession” in the vestibules of all By: The Coveyau Family Churches. Please take one to help you make a good Sun. Mar. 24 8:00 am Elise Donato confession during the Easter season. By: Joanna & Dan McConville LENTEN PROGRAMS AT ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH Eucharist Minister, Lector, Altar Servers  Please join us for 2nd in a series of Lenten talks about the lifechanging message of Divine Mercy, given by Himself, and proclaimed by the Church in the Sat. Mar. 23 4:00 pm year 2000, The second session will be held at St. Minister Deacon Mike Lector: Lisa Harness Patrick’s Church on Tues. March 26th from 7 to 8pm. Altar Servers: Meghan/Emily Harness Will include prayer, Messages of Divine Mercy (given Sun. Mar. 24 8:00 am by Jesus Himself from the Diary of St. Faustina), the Minister Deacon Mike importance of the essence of Divine Mercy, the limits to Lector: Diego Vazquez the Mercy of Jesus and how wer can obtain His Mercy Altar Servers: Elizabeth/Loren/ Vazquez before He sends the Time of Justice, How to pray during the Hour of Mercy, The Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy and Confession. Weekly Collection ~ St. Theresa  Dr. Gaile Nellett, PhD will present “The March 10, 2019 Stays in Parish Calendar.” We are in Year C of the three year cycle Sunday Collection: $ 1288.00 (Year A, Year B, Year C). This will be a fairly short Loose $ 277.00 presentation. The presentation will be held on Ash Wednesday $ 169.21 Thursday April 4, 2019 at 7:00pm in the Parish Hall. Easter Flowers $ 82.00 ST. PATRICK’S CCD Total $ 1816.21 **No CCD  Spring Break  March 31** Cemetery $ 40.00  ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH, SENECA  Needed each week to pay expenses: $2,267.00   2nd Sunday of month for Food Pantry Collection  4th Sunday of month for Cemetery Collection Bible Study Bible Study every Thursday, with Father Kassa, at 6:30 pm in the St. Joseph’s Church CCD Library. Parishioners from all five of our linked churches are welcome to participate. Hope to see you there!   Homebound We are very proud of Fr. Kassa and his new book For parishioners who are sick, please call the parish rectory ‘Suffering in The World Who’s Responsible: God or and arrangements will be made to bring them Holy Com- Humanity?’. Fr. Kassa’s book is available online at munion. Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. Congratulations Sacrament of Baptism  Fr. Kassa! Please contact the Rectory. You must be a registered pa- rishioner or have the written permission of your own pastor Suffering in The World Who’s to be baptized. Responsible God or Humanity? Sacrament of the Sick  By  Please call anytime, day or night Fr. Augustin Kassa, SMA  Sacrament of Marriage We cannot deny the presence of suffering in Please contact the rectory before making any arrange- the world. Sometimes suffering is so vicious ments, typically at least 8 months are required for the mar- that those who go through it keep wondering, and asking riage preparation program. questions about its origin. Am I suffering because of my  Parish Registration Welcomed own doing, that of my family…etc.? Or is this God’s There are registration sheets in the back of the Church on action? In the book of 180 pages, I have explored the the tables, but it is also helpful to call the Rectory for more biblical response to humanity’s suffering and pain. Quite information. Thank you. often we only look at the book of to have a glimpse of HOPE LIFE CENTER FUNDRAISER BANQUET what the Bible says on suffering. However, the reality is that one of the themes that run through most of the books In, April, Hope Life Center is holding a fundraising banquet. of the Bible is suffering. Check the first chapter of the The mission of Hope Life Center is to eliminate abortion from book. the Illinois Valley. Deacon Ron is sponsoring a table and would love to have you come to this dinner to learn more In the second chapter, I explored the thoughts of about the organization and about the vital work they are two great classical theologians on the mystery of human doing to serve women considering abortion and protect the suffering. These are: St. and St. unborn. You will be asked to consider making a contribution . They established the principle of the two during the dinner; however, there is no minimum and no evils (evilsuffered and evildone) in their effort to explain maximum gift requested. It will be the job of the the presence of suffering in the world. For them, while God organization, and the Holy Spirit, to inspire you to want to may not be responsible for the pain and the suffering in give. The dinner will only take one hour and is guaranteed the world, he certainly has a role. What is that role? to be one of the best spent hours in your week. This event is Middle age spiritualties were very instrumental in Thursday, April 11th, 7:00pm at Starved Rock Lodge. It helping people identify with the suffering Christ as a way would be nice to have all parishes represented at the of demonstrating their love to God and the neighbor. It banquet. There are flyers in the church vestibules regarding was this period that the phenomenon of receiving the the Hope Life Centers fundraiser. Call Deacon Ron,815712 5882 if you would like to fill his table. Please join Deacon (the marks and pains of the Cross of Jesus) Ron & Fr. Odilon to help fight abortion. started. Find out who influenced this movement of the Humanization of Christ, and the impact it made on the  PRAYER FOR AN END TO INFANTICIDE Church, in the third chapter. The U.S. Senate recently failed to pass the BornAlive Edward Schillebeecks (19142009) a Flemish Abortion Survivors Protection ActNlegislation that prohibits theologian, and Marthe Robin (19021981) a French infanticide by ensuring that a child born alive following an stigmatic mystic two contemporaries had different views attempted abortion would receive the same degree of care to on God’s share of responsibility in human suffering. The preserve her or his life and health as would be given to any fourth and fifth chapters of the book are, therefore, an other child born alive at the same gestational age.Please join exposé of Schillebeecks' thoughts in which he suggests us in prayer for an end to infanticide:  that God is not responsible for the suffering of humanity “Jesus, Lord of Life, transform the hearts of our elected just as he wasn’t responsible for the suffering of his Son leaders to recognize that infanticide is wrong and must not be more than two thousand years ago. In his words, “[N]o one tolerated. We especially pray for our Senators Richard Durbin should ascribe to God what has, in fact, been done to  and Tammy Duckworth. Open their hearts and minds to Jesus by the history of human injustice.” And Marthe  recognize and defend the precious gift of every human life.” Robin, who strongly believed that God had a share of responsibility in her suffering. She went as far as calling “This is my beloved Son, hear him” Is our Lord asking you herself “the little victim of the Lord.”  to invite someone you know to follow Him in tending His flock as a priest, sister or brother? Call Fr. Timothy Hepner, Does God have or not a share of responsibility in  3096711550, or writ: [email protected] humanity’s suffering? See the last chapter of the book.   Homebound We are very proud of Fr. Kassa and his new book For parishioners who are sick, please call the parish rectory ‘Suffering in The World Who’s Responsible: God or and arrangements will be made to bring them Holy Com- Humanity?’. Fr. Kassa’s book is available online at munion. Amazon.com or Barnesandnoble.com. Congratulations Sacrament of Baptism  Fr. Kassa! Please contact the Rectory. You must be a registered pa- rishioner or have the written permission of your own pastor Suffering in The World Who’s to be baptized. Responsible God or Humanity? Sacrament of the Sick  By  Please call anytime, day or night Fr. Augustin Kassa, SMA  Sacrament of Marriage We cannot deny the presence of suffering in Please contact the rectory before making any arrange- the world. Sometimes suffering is so vicious ments, typically at least 8 months are required for the mar- that those who go through it keep wondering, and asking riage preparation program. questions about its origin. Am I suffering because of my  Parish Registration Welcomed own doing, that of my family…etc.? Or is this God’s There are registration sheets in the back of the Church on action? In the book of 180 pages, I have explored the the tables, but it is also helpful to call the Rectory for more biblical response to humanity’s suffering and pain. Quite information. Thank you. often we only look at the book of Job to have a glimpse of HOPE LIFE CENTER FUNDRAISER BANQUET what the Bible says on suffering. However, the reality is that one of the themes that run through most of the books In, April, Hope Life Center is holding a fundraising banquet. of the Bible is suffering. Check the first chapter of the The mission of Hope Life Center is to eliminate abortion from book. the Illinois Valley. Deacon Ron is sponsoring a table and would love to have you come to this dinner to learn more In the second chapter, I explored the thoughts of about the organization and about the vital work they are two great classical theologians on the mystery of human doing to serve women considering abortion and protect the suffering. These are: St. Augustine of Hippo and St. unborn. You will be asked to consider making a contribution Thomas Aquinas. They established the principle of the two during the dinner; however, there is no minimum and no evils (evilsuffered and evildone) in their effort to explain maximum gift requested. It will be the job of the the presence of suffering in the world. For them, while God organization, and the Holy Spirit, to inspire you to want to may not be responsible for the pain and the suffering in give. The dinner will only take one hour and is guaranteed the world, he certainly has a role. What is that role? to be one of the best spent hours in your week. This event is Middle age spiritualties were very instrumental in Thursday, April 11th, 7:00pm at Starved Rock Lodge. It helping people identify with the suffering Christ as a way would be nice to have all parishes represented at the of demonstrating their love to God and the neighbor. It banquet. There are flyers in the church vestibules regarding was this period that the phenomenon of receiving the the Hope Life Centers fundraiser. Call Deacon Ron,815712 5882 if you would like to fill his table. Please join Deacon stigmata (the marks and pains of the Cross of Jesus) Ron & Fr. Odilon to help fight abortion. started. Find out who influenced this movement of the Humanization of Christ, and the impact it made on the  PRAYER FOR AN END TO INFANTICIDE Church, in the third chapter. The U.S. Senate recently failed to pass the BornAlive Edward Schillebeecks (19142009) a Flemish Abortion Survivors Protection ActNlegislation that prohibits theologian, and Marthe Robin (19021981) a French infanticide by ensuring that a child born alive following an stigmatic mystic two contemporaries had different views attempted abortion would receive the same degree of care to on God’s share of responsibility in human suffering. The preserve her or his life and health as would be given to any fourth and fifth chapters of the book are, therefore, an other child born alive at the same gestational age.Please join exposé of Schillebeecks' thoughts in which he suggests us in prayer for an end to infanticide:  that God is not responsible for the suffering of humanity “Jesus, Lord of Life, transform the hearts of our elected just as he wasn’t responsible for the suffering of his Son leaders to recognize that infanticide is wrong and must not be more than two thousand years ago. In his words, “[N]o one tolerated. We especially pray for our Senators Richard Durbin should ascribe to God what has, in fact, been done to  and Tammy Duckworth. Open their hearts and minds to Jesus by the history of human injustice.” And Marthe  recognize and defend the precious gift of every human life.” Robin, who strongly believed that God had a share of responsibility in her suffering. She went as far as calling “This is my beloved Son, hear him” Is our Lord asking you herself “the little victim of the Lord.”  to invite someone you know to follow Him in tending His flock as a priest, sister or brother? Call Fr. Timothy Hepner, Does God have or not a share of responsibility in  3096711550, or writ: [email protected] humanity’s suffering? See the last chapter of the book.