St. John’s Omaha’s Jesuit Parish Located at Creighton University 2500 California Plaza Omaha, NE 68178 402-280-3031 www.stjohns-creighton.org Cornerstone laid 1887—Established as a Parish 1897—Designated a City Landmark 1981 1st Sunday of Lent, March 1st, 2020

Order of Worship for Sunday Liturgies Spoken responses and prayers for the Mass can be found at the beginning of the Glory & Praise hymnal. Entrance Antiphon: When he calls on me, I will answer him; I will deliver him and give him glory, I will grant him length of days. —Ps 91:15-16 Saturday 5:00 pm & Sunday 10:30 am Music

Gathering: #279 Seek the Lord Kyrie: #800 Mass of Charity and Love Psalm 51: P. 2 Be Merciful, O Lord Gospel Acc.: #822 Mass of Light Intercessions: #814 Mass of the Body of Christ RCIA: #825 May You Cling to Wisdom Offertory: #280 Turn to Me Eucharistic Acc.: #801-806 Mass of Charity and Love Communion: #606 On Eagle’s Wings #828 Be Still, and Know that I Am Sending Forth: #272 Led By the Spirit Sunday 7:00 pm Music Prelude: #888 Our Darkness Gathering: #471 Gather Us In Kyrie: #800 Mass of Charity and Love Psalm 51: P. 2 Be Merciful, O Lord Gospel Acc.: #85 Celtic Mass Intercessions: #10 Byzantine Chant Offertory: #573 Christ In Me Arise Eucharistic Acc.: #801-806 Mass of Charity and Love Communion: #854 Jesus, Be In Our Hearts During this Lenten season we reflect on our #877 Ubi Caritas Sending Forth: #760 Lead Me, Lord baptismal call as we listen through intentional silence. -St. John’s Liturgy Committee Sunday 9:00 pm Music Gathering: #584 In Christ Alone How has Christ been present to you in this Mass? (Acclamations for the Eucharistic Prayer are on the Mass card) How will you respond? Communion: #846 O Come to the Altar #635 Sacred Silence Sending Forth: #873 10,000 Reasons Prayer Requests

Jack Walsh Colleen Davis & Family Linda Baker Terry Moore Edward J. Dugan Jr. Mary McMahon Cheryl Saker Martha Granados Tanya Little

St. John’s parish is a Catholic Ignatian community committed to welcoming all, celebrating Eucharist, and empowering all to serve for the greater honor and glory of God. 1. Have mercy on me, God, in your kindness, in your compassion, blot out my offense. O wash me more and more from my guilt and my sorrow, and cleanse me from all of my sin. 2. My offenses, truly I know them, and my sins are always before me; against you alone have I sinned, O Lord, what is evil in your sight I have done. 3. Create in me a clean heart, O God, put your steadfast spirit in my soul. Cast me not away from your presence, O Lord, and take not your spirit from me. 4. Give back to me the joy of your salvation, let your willing spirit bear me up and I shall teach your way to the ones who have wandered, and bring them all home to your side. Meeting and Events Calendar COMMUNITY Sunday—Mar 1 Hospitality Committee Meeting 8:00 am Adult Formation (LSJ) The Hospitality Committee will meet on Monday, March 9th at 9:00 am—1:00 pm Coffee & Donuts (LSJ) New Cassel Retirement Center (one-half block North of 90th 9:00 am Religious Ed (LSJ & CFRM) and Dodge) at 7:00 pm. New members are always welcome. 11:30 am Creative Care Team (RSRM) Compassionate Response 8:15 pm Student Examen Group (RSRM) If you know of someone in the parish who is ill or in rehab or Monday—Mar 2 assisted living and who would appreciate prayers and/or cards of support from the Compassionate Response Tuesday—Mar 3 group, please contact Lorry Feldhausen at 402-331-0856 or [email protected]. Wednesday—Mar 4 7:00 pm Novena of Grace (CH) Celebration Corner

Thursday—Mar 5 Please share your joyful news with the parish community! Birth 7:00 pm Novena of Grace (CH) announcements, special birthdays, anniversaries, jubilees,… For 9:00 pm SCSJ Send-off for service trips (CH) inclusion in the newsletter, please forward your request to Lorry Feldhausen 402-331-0856 or [email protected]

Friday—Mar 6 Religious Items Exchange 4:30 pm Stations of the Cross (CH) You are invited to participate in our second annual religious 6:30 pm AA Meeting (CFRM) items “exchange!” Do you have Catholic items that you no 7:00 pm Novena of Grace (CH) longer need and would like to find a good home for? All Saturday—Mar 7 religious items in good condition may be left in the sacristy or 9:00 am 12-step program (CFRM) dropped off at the parish office by March 22. Items will then be 5:00 pm Novena of Grace during mass (CH) organized and available for no charge after all Masses on the weekends of March 28-29 and April 4-5. All are welcome to Sunday—Mar 8 donate and also to take home items! If you have any questions, 8:00 am Adult Faith Formation (LSJ) please contact Chase Becker, [email protected]. 9:00 am—1:00 pm Coffee & Donuts (LSJ) 10:30 am Mini Book Fair (LSJ) 7:00 pm Novena of Grace with confessions (CH) Weekly Offering Report for Feb 16

Weekly Budget Goal 8,086.79 Annual Budget Goal 428,600.00 LEGEND Weekend Contributions 4,478.87 Fiscal Year-to-Date Goal 274,950.90 LSJ—Lower St. Johns CH—Church Other 863.85 ACH HC—Haley Chapel RSRM—Resource Room TOTAL 5,342.72 CFRM— Conference Room Above (Below) weekly goal -2,744.07 Amount Collected YTD 288,899.80 DEADLINES FOR NEWSLETTER SUBMISSIONS Above (Below) YTD Goal 13,948.91 Below are the deadline dates for upcoming Parish Newsletters Friday March 6th NOON for Sunday March 15th Friday March 13th NOON for Sunday March 22nd The second collection this week is for: Friday March 20th NOON for Sunday March 27th Black and Indian Missions Please submit all requests to [email protected] AND Please be as generous as you are able. [email protected] with the subject line: NEWSLETTER. Masses at St. John’s This Week

Date Feast Readings Mass Time—Location—Intention

3/1 1st Sunday of Lent Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7 8:00 am All Sunday liturgies are in the Church and Rom 5:12-19 or 10:30 am Sun offered for the people of the parish 5:12, 17-19 7:00 pm Mt 4:1-11 9:00 pm 3/2 Lv 19:1-2, 11-18 7:00 am—Church Mt 25:31-46 Noon—Church Mon 5:00 pm—LSJ’s Haley Chapel 3/3 Is 55:10-11 7:00 am—Church Mt 6:7-15 Noon—Church—†Timothy T. Dalton Tues 5:00 pm—LSJ Haley Chapel 9:00 pm—Church 3/4 Jon 3:1-10 7:00 am—Church Wed Lk 11:29-32 Noon—Church 5:00 pm—LSJ Haley Chapel 9:00 pm—Church 3/5 Est C:12, 14-16, 23- 7:00 am—Church 25 Noon—Church—†Dr. Cecil Marie Zielinski Thur Mt 7:7-12 5:00 pm—LSJ Haley Chapel 3/6 Ez 18:21-28 7:00 am—Church Mt 5:20-26 Noon—Church—†Mike Mooney Fri 5:00 pm—LSJ Haley Chapel—Colleen Davis & Family 3/7 Dt 26:16-19 7:00 am—Church Mt 5:43-48 Noon—LSJ Haley Chapel—Tran Family Sat 5:00 pm—Church (Anticipatory) 3/8 2nd Sunday of Gn 12:1-4a 8:00 am All Sunday liturgies are in the Church and Lent 2 Tm 1:8b-10 10:30 am offered for the people of the parish Sun Mt 17:1-9 No 7:00 Mass, Spring Break No 9:00 Mass, Spring Break

Reconciliation: Mon-Fri 12:30—1:00 pm Sat 4:00—5:00 pm

Sunday’s during the Academic Year 8:00 pm Liturgical Ministry Schedule Mar 7-8

Saturday 5:00 p.m. Sunday 8 a.m. Sunday 10:30 a.m. PRESIDER Fr. Snow Fr. Amidon Fr. Santos LITURGICAL ASST. Thomas Carlin Dick Cleary Pam Yenko LECTOR 1 Larry Brennan Emma Curran Kerry Tupper LECTOR 2 Joan Lanahan Leo Heinz Neil Bastien PRAYERS Catherine Kuper Lacey Wendl EUCHARISTIC Richard Braun Bob Austria Neil Bastien MINISTERS Linda Daly Grace Ende Jack Berg Terry Finney Melanie Garibay Fran Berg Mary Alice Howick Kathy Blecha Diana Keane Jonathan Chiacchere Jean May Amy Haddad Sue Selde Lorna Hummel Bill Selde James Nguyen Eileen Wirth Mary Jane Slightam OUTREACH LENT AT ST. JOHNS Climate Change Advocacy: Catholic Social Teaching and Public Policy March 1st and 15th Lower St. John’s 11:45 am In response to the climate crisis, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops supports H.R. 763: The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. On Sunday, March 1 and March 15, volunteers from Citizens’ Climate Lobby and students from Creighton University will offer presentations about this bill considering Catholic social teaching. Presentations will take place from 11:45 am – 12:45 pm in Lower St. John’s. For We reflect on our baptismal call through intentional silence. questions, contact Dr. Dan DiLeo, assistant professor and Each week of Lent, we will explore different aspects of both our director of Creighton’s Justice and Peace Studies Program and baptismal call and how to engage this call through intentional consultant with Catholic Climate Covenant: silence. On this first Sunday of Lent, it seems appropriate to [email protected]. return to the physical place where this call began: at the baptismal font. OTOC Celebrating Community March 28, 2020 at 6-9:30 pm Our font at St. John’s is rich in symbolism and is an excellent Omaha Design Center, 1502 Cumming starting point for our reflections. Added during the most recent Join OTOC for the annual Celebrating Community fundraiser at renovation in 2007, our font stands near the entrance of the our new location, Omaha Design Center! church building. This placement reminds us that baptism is our own entrance into Christ’s body, the Church and the gateway to Tickets will be sold after the 5 pm Masses on March 14th and 21st all the other . Each time we pass the font, we bless and 10:30 Masses on March 15th and 22nd ourselves with its water as a reminder of our baptism. Or, call the office at

402-344-4401 to reserve your tickets. The rectangular shape of the font with its black interior is meant to invoke the image of a tomb, echoing Paul’s theology of baptism, found in his letter to the Romans: UNIVERSITY Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Apply today for Hands of Hope 2020-2021! Jesus were baptized into his death? We were indeed Applications due by Sunday, March 8, 2020. Volunteer buried with him through baptism into death, so that, weekly with hospice patients and meet twice a month with a just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of community to reflect on service experiences. A great the Father, we too might live in newness of life. (6:3-4) opportunity of service for students considering careers in the healthcare field or looking to build relationship with Our font is designed for the full immersion of both adults and others! Find more information and applications on the infants so that this theology of being buried with Christ truly Campus Ministry webpage. becomes evident.

Notice that the tomb-like baptismal font is placed within an OMAHA octagonal design in the floor. This eight-sided shape was frequently used for baptismal fonts in the early church to Please join us for a Lenten, indicate the connection of baptism with Christ’s “Morning of Reflection” resurrection. The “eighth day” referred to Sunday – the day of March 7th at Mercy High School. the resurrection. For us at St. John’s the combination of tomb “Letting Jesus Prepare Us for the Gift of Lent” and octagon together point to the resurrection and the presented by Fr. Andy Alexander S.J. perfection of all creation. Saturday, 9:00 to 11:30. Doors open at 8:30. Finally, notice the brown-colored stone ledge on the baptismal Coffee and donuts will be provided. A free will donation is font. This very same color of stone is also found on the top of greatly appreciated. Please register for this event at the altar, the top of the ambo, and in the pillars surrounding www.ivcusa.org/omaha or call Anne Mollner at 402-658-0586. the tabernacle, indicating the intimate liturgical and theological connection between each of these furnishings. “Our Savior, Not Superman” Join the Institute for Priestly During this Lenten season, all unnecessary items around our Formation for a Lenten Morning baptismal font have been removed to allow the of Reflection, Saturday, March baptismal font to truly stand as the center of our Lenten 14th at Christ the King Church. The morning begins with the observance. What comes to mind for you as you see this 8:15 parish Mass, includes a continental breakfast, a font? As you touch its waters? presentation by Deacon James Keating, time for silent reflection, and concludes at noon. There is no charge for the event. For planning purposes, please register on-line at PriestlyFormation.org or call Linda at 402-280-3901. WORSHIP FAITH FORMATION Pick up a Lent 2020 trifold at the entrances of the church to see the full schedule of prayer and devotions for Please join us for our Lenten Lent on campus! Adult Faith Formation Book Series. We will be reading Living Gently in a Violent World Novena of Grace in Honor of St. by Jean Vanier and Stanley Hauerwas. Catholic Social Teaching in a Political World March 4-12 at 7:00pm except Saturday Our first meeting will take place on Sunday, March 1 from March 7 at 5:00pm Mass 9:15-10:15 am in the conference room in the northwest corner Join St. John's Parish for nine consecutive days of prayer in of Kateri Hall. There is a time for socializing at 9 AM. honor of Saint Francis Xavier. It is customary to pray the novena Contact Coco Osborne at [email protected] if you have any questions. for a particular intention: for your own needs, those of your loved ones, or the needs of the world. Parishioners will have the What am I doing for Lent this year? opportunity to inscribe your intentions for the novena in a book How do you plan to use this opportunity for spiritual growth and of prayer at the Saint’s shrine, and a light reception afterwards. renewal? To help you prepare for and reflect on this This year, both lay and religious preachers will explore the season, we have the booklet, What am I doing for theme, “Catholic Social Teaching in a Political World.” Details Lent this Year? by Paul Turner available for free near are available at stjohnscreighton.org or in the flyer available at the church entrance. This helpful booklet will guide the entrances of the church. you in conducting a self-assessment, making resolu- Wednesday Mar. 4—7pm Evening Prayer tions about prayer, fasting, and almsgiving and then “Rights and Responsibilities” - Sara Schulte-Bukowinski translating these resolutions into commitments.

Thursday Mar. 5—7pm Evening Prayer Please take one home and pray through it to help you sharpen “Care for God’s Creation” - Eric Krakowski your focus during this holy season!

Friday Mar. 6—7pm Evening Prayer “Call to Family, Community, and Participation” Dr. Julia Fleming

Weekend Mar. 7-8—5pm & 10:30am Mass “Life and Dignity of the Human Person” St. John’s Youth Group Sr. Kathleen Erickson, RSM th Join our youth group for grades 9-12 on Wednesday, March 4 Sunday Mar. 8—7pm Evening Prayer from 7:15-8:30 p.m. for food, fun, and faith sharing. Email our and Communal Reconciliation Service parish life director Sara [email protected] Fr. Lorn Snow, SJ with any questions.

Monday Mar. 9—7pm Evening Prayer Religious Education “Preferential Option for the Poor and Vulnerable” Religious education classes will not meet on Sunday Sr. Kathleen Erickson, RSM March 8th or Sunday March 15th due to spring break. nd Tuesday, Mar. 10—7pm Evening Prayer Classes will resume on Sunday, March 22 . “Solidarity” - Debbie Sheehan

Weds. Mar. 11—7pm Evening Prayer “Dignity of Work and Rights of Workers” - Paul McGreal

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