St. John the Baptist

Sunday, March 10, 2019 WEEKEND MASSES

ST. JOHN’S CHURCH 6:00 p.m. — Saturday 8:00 a.m. — Sunday

RIVERSIDE RESORT AND CASINO DON’S CELEBRITY THEATRE

4:00 p.m. — Saturday Physical Address: 3055 El Mirage Way 10:00 a.m. — Sunday Mailing Address: P.O. Box 31230 12:00 noon — Sunday Laughlin, Nevada 89028.1230 Office Hours: 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. WEEKDAY MASSES Monday through Friday ST. JOHN’S CHURCH Telephone: 702.298.0440 F a x : 702.298.0279 8:00 a. m.

E-MailAddress:[email protected] Monday, Tuesday, Friday, Website: LaughlinCatholic.com and First Saturday of the month.

REV. CHARLES B. URNICK, ADMINISTRATOR Deacon Richard Lambert - Pastoral Support - Deacon Dan McHugh

MISSION STATEMENT: To serve the needs of the growing faith community in this part of Southern Nevada, composed of residents, weekend visitors and snowbirds who pray together, work together so as to build up the ; to be witnesses likewise, to the historical legacy of the first recorded Catholic in Nevada celebrated in Laughlin in 1776 by Father Francisco Garces, a Franciscan missionary.

Confessions: 15 minutes before each Mass Holy Day Masses: Please refer to St. John’s Bulletin

Rosary: Recited before each Mass First Friday and First Saturday Mass and Devotions: St. John’s at 8:00 a. m. Baptisms: Baptisms are normally celebrated on Weddings: Weddings are normally celebrated on Saturdays Saturdays at 11:00 a. m. Registered and active at 11:00 a. m. Registered and active parishioners should con- parishioners should contact the priest one tact the priest at least six months in advance to make the month in advance to make the arrangements. arrangements.

Directions to St. John the Baptist Church: From Casino Dr. go west on Bruce Woodbury Drive (across from the Edgewater Hotel). Continue approximately 3 miles to Needles Highway, turn left. At El Mirage Way (the first traffic light), turn right. Drive approximately 2 blocks, St. John’s is on the corner of El Mirage Way and Banyon Drive.

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SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS CATHOLIC CHURCH

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ADVISORY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN ...... STEVE FORTIER 702.298.5288 FATHER CHARLIE’S PAGE 7! EM COORDINATOR ...... BERNIE THOMPSON 928.404.2316 Fridays of Lent: Tiger Mass/ GIFT SHOP COORDINATOR ...... MAUREEN MULLIN 702.298.1048 GUILD COORDINATOR...... TRISH NEVIUS 702-420-6242 Father Moore—Parish Lenten Mission HIV/AIDS OUTREACH ...... REV. JOSEPH O’BRIEN 702.564.4224 DIR. OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION...... HOPE CASTILLO 702-726-7014 Nation Conference of Catholic Bishops About Lent RITE OF CHRISTIAN INIT. (RCIA) ...... REUBEN CASTILLO 702-726-7014 Have a GOOD LENT! TROOP OUTREACH COORDINATOR ...... ______KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS GRAND KNIGHT RON SURVILLAS 928-404-4444 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION INSTRUCTION NEWS LECTORS/COMMENTATORS………… ......

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC ...... LUANN KRUZ 928.754.2650 RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS PRAYER CHAIN ...... YVONNE FATHERREE 702.298.0690 Read Page 5! ______SUPPORT GROUP ...... HOPE CASTILLO 702.726.7014 SECRETARY/SAFE ENVIRONMNT COORD WAUNITA MARO 702.298.0440 5:00 PM BIBLE STUDY MEETING

WEDNESDAY’S OF EACH MONTH

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT Leader: Rod Johnston 928/444-3790 ______“JOURNEY THROUGH SCRIPTURE” TODAY’S READINGS Wednesdays: 8:00 - 9:15AM First Reading - God brought us into this land flow- Would you like to grow more deeply in your ing with milk and honey (Deuteronomy 26:41-10). faith? Do you have the desire to learn more Psalm - Be with me, Lord, when I am in trouble about scripture? Would you like to meet other (Psalm 91). members of our parish family? Second Reading - The word is near you, in your Come and read the Sunday Scriptures and dis- mouth and in your heart (Romans 10:8-13). cuss how we can apply them to our daily lives.

Gospel - Filled with the Holy Spirit, Jesus was led Our text, “At Home With the Word”, has into the desert for forty days (Luke 4:1-13). helpful insights that encourage a practical re-

ALMSGIVING, PRAYER, FASTING TEMPTATION sponse. Everyone is invited! Rosemary Nichols 806/236-1991 As we begin our season of fasting, prayer, and ______almsgiving, the reading from Deuteronomy reminds ST. JOHN’S GUILD us of our duty of almsgiving, that we “set (our of- Read Page 4! ?______ferings) before the Lord, (our) God, (and) shall bow RCIA down in (God’s), presence” (Deuteronomy 26:10). The Rite of Sending The reading from Romans refers us to our prayer, Read Page 5! reminding us that “The word is near you, in your ______mouth and in your heart . . . For everyone who LOVING HANDS/KNIT & CROCHET GROUP calls on the name of the Lord will be BROKEN saved” (Romans (10:8, 13). These are comforting Read Page 4! words, and encourage us to ask God for what we ______FINGERPRINTING PROCEDURE FOR VOLUNTEERS need and to aid us in our prayer. Finally, the Gos- Call the office to set up an appointment date & time with pel of Luke shows us a fasting Jesus, who was Waunita, Secretary for SJB. tempted as we are, and who know what it means to Monday - Friday: 8:30 AM to 2:00 PM be human. Someone once said that temptation Phone: 702/298-0440 arises when you’re tired and weary, and the devil Volunteer packet has to be completed in the office PRIOR comes along and makes a perfectly reasonable sug- to Metro fingerprinting. gestion. Jesus shows us that, with his help, we too can overcome our temptations, reasonable as they may sound.

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March 9, 2019 PRAY FOR THE HEALTH OF through SICK RELATIVES AND FRIENDS March 17, 2019 Olga Benavides - Eusaolia Beres - Courtney Berry - George Brakel - Estelle Conant - Kash Commers - Donna & Charlie Del Nero - Angie Elena - Maria Eshnaur - James Fotis - Polly Saturday 4:00 p.m. All Parishioners of St. John Gabaldon - Louie Garcia - Brodhi Gardner - Michael Gifford - March 9 the Baptist Jo Ann Gordon - Naileah Handlin - Ted Hardy - Trista Bell 6:00 p.m. †Dallas Edwards Haze - Sandy Heimer - David Hemmelspack Jr. - Philip Her- rich - George Huggins - Michael Iannantuoni - Kai Jackman - Sunday 8:00 a.m. †Mickey Wilson Tony Kapaldo - Thomas Koral - Sean Lenhart - Dottie Lewis - March 10 10:00 a.m. Val Petersen (80th Birthday) David Lopez - Lori Luallen - Joey March - Jeanette Martin - 12 Noon Mian Gamboa and Family Raphael & Natalie Martiney - Betty Marx - Alissa Marx - Pat Moulzolf - Donna Moyer - Betty Najaka - Joe Nava - John Monday 8:00 a.m. †Edward Cannon and Lyn Opalka - Kameron Persaud - Judy Polhill - Dan Puett - Amalia and Sam Quesada - Teri Quintanilla - Terisita March 11 Roberto - Schliskey - Patty Shawd - Marie Southard - Bar-

bara Survillas - Jeffrey Survillas - Steve Szymanski - Tuesday 8:00 a.m. †Jerry Block George and Amy Taboada - Bob Terrian - Dwayne Thiel - Kay March 12 & Charlie Thompson - Zack Trimmen - Darren Weeda - Charles Williams - Karen Wischnack - George Woodward - Friday 6:00 a.m. Philip Buettgen Vicki Zumwalt March 15 8:00 a.m. †Raymond Plante Names remain on our list 2 months and then are removed. 6:00 p.m. Stations/Soup Supper Call the office 702-298-0440 when the health of you or your loved one has improved or if a name needs to be re- Saturday 4:00 p.m. †Mary Jane and †Harlan moved.

March 16 Walker For many years, on page 3 of our bulletin, we have listed the 6:00 p.m. All Parishioners of St. John names of relatives and friends for whom prayers have been the Baptist requested. While we try to keep that list updated, some of the names have remained there for years and occasionally we Sunday 8:00 a.m. †Gail Senk learn that one or several have died years ago. The list is March 17 10:00 a.m. †Guy Barrow really designed for those in immediate and serious need of 12 Noon Alberto and Cecilia Glonek the prayers of our parishioners and visitors. Also, in view of the current privacy laws in our nation, indi- viduals may not wish to have their names published at all. We have tried to be careful about this and respect their privacy. READINGS FOR THE WEEK We continue to do so. In an effort to accomplish the goals of keeping the list cur- Monday: Lv 19:1-2, 11-18; Ps 19:8-10, 15; Mt 25:31-46 rent, immediate, and within the privacy laws, a completely Mar. 11 new list will be begun on the first weekend of July 2018. No Tuesday: Is 55:10-11; Ps 34:4-7, 16-19; Mt 6:7-15 names will be carried over from the current list. Only Mar. 12 members of a person’s immediate family (parent, child, sib-

Wednesday: Jon 3:1-10; Ps 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19; Lk 11:29-32 ling, grandparent) or the person himself/herself may add a Mar. 13 name to the list by submitting the name in writing and sign-

ing that you have permission to add the name. Names will Thursday: Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25; Ps 138:1-3, 7c-8; remain on the list for 2 months and will then be removed Mar. 14 Mt 7:7-12 automatically. If you wish to renew a name on the list for Friday: 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19 another two months, you will need to notify the church of- Mar. 15 fice one week before the name expires. Saturday: Dt 26:16-19; Ps 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8; Mt 5:43-48 Mar. 16 ST. JOHN’S PRAYER CHAIN Sunday: Gn 15:5-12, 17-18; Ps 27:1, 7-9, 13-14; If you want a particular petition prayed for, Mar. 17 Phil 3:17 — 4:1; Lk 9:28b-36 please call Yvonne Fatherree at 702.298.0690.

Page Four St. John the Baptist Catholic Church March 10, 2019 ST. JOHN’S GUILD 1:00p.m. St. John’s Church Every First Thursday of the Month (September through May) For information regarding the Guild, please call Trish Nevius 702-420-6242 or Ethel Neuens at 928-763-6167. New members are always wel- come—please join us. We are involved in many

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charitable works for our parish, as well as in our Membership in the Knights of Columbus is open to community. all practicing Catholic gentlemen 18 years or older.

For information, please call Grand Knight Ron Sur- LOVING HANDS KNIT & CROCHET GROUP villas @ 928-404-4444 or visit www.facebook.com/ kofc12690. The loving hands of many community women are

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shawls for those needing prayers and hugs. Hats, mitts slippers & scarves for the Colorado River MONTHLY DEVOTIONS Food/Clothing Bank, afghans for the Bullhead

SACRED HEART OF JESUS City Domestic Violence Shelter, baby layettes & blankets for WARMC & KRMC nurseries, stoles & Every First Friday of the Month stress balls for Sunridge Village, lapghans for After the 8:00 a.m. Mass veterans & any other requests. Beginners to ex- is the Exposition of the Blessed Sacra- perienced crocheters/knitters are welcome. Do- ment, Holy Hour, and Benediction, followed nations of yarn, hooks & needles are always ap- by Hourly Adoration: preciated. For more information, call Kathleen 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.; Whitehead at 702-357-9372. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.;

11:00 - 12:00 noon; BROKEN ROSARIES 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Drop off at the church office or call Kathleen Sign up for an hour in the vestibule of Whitehead at 702-357-9372. Put the in church. How beautiful it would be to have an envelope with your name and number in case of several people keeping watch with The questions or to call when the rosary has been re- Lord. paired. No charge to repair your rosary. ______

Expediency Is No Justification

No one is justified in doing evil on the ground

of expediency. Past and Future Every First Saturday of the Month after There is no saint without a past—and no sinner the 8:00am Mass. without a future. Devotional prayers to Ill Habits the Blessed Virgin Mary Ill habits gather by unseen degrees—as brooks following the 8:00 am Mass. make rivers, rives run to seas.

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BASIC CATHOLIC PRAYERS RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS!

OUR FATHER Four First children and three Confirma- Our Father, Who art in Heaven, hal- tion youth continue receiving their catechesis for- mation to receive their sacraments in the parish lowed be Thy Name; Thy Kingdom religious education program. come, Thy will be done on earth as it The Church strongly encourages the faith commu- is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily nity, to pray, witness, and help these children as they grow in knowledge and practice of the Catho- bread, and forgive us our trespasses lic faith. “The parish...is called to be a fraternal as we forgive those who trespass and welcoming family where Christians become aware of being the people of God...it must how- against us; and lead us not into tempta- ever, continue to be the prime mover and pre- tion, but deliver us from evil. Amen. eminent place for catechesis.”...General Directory for Catechesis #257. HAIL MARY More updates will be forthcoming in April and Hail Mary full of Grace, the Lord is May. with thee. Blessed are thou among Hope Castillo, DRE ______women and blessed is the fruit of thy RCIA THE RITE OF SENDING womb Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of MARCH 10TH AT THE 8:00 AM MASS The Catechumans currently in the process of be- God, pray for us sinners now and at the coming Catholics will be sent on their journey to hour of our death Amen. the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Las Vegas for ACT OF CONTRITION the Rite of Election presided by our Bishop George Leo Thomas. They shall be pronounced the O my God, I am heartily sorry for hav- “ELECT” as they begin their final preparations for ing offended Thee, and I detest all my the reception of their sacraments and full com- munion with the church. sins because I dread the loss of ______TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION heaven, and the pains of hell; but most Often, when a family keeps vigil around a person who is of all because they offend Thee, my preparing for death, they may notice three interwoven activities. First, the dying person may become more God, who are all good and deserving of prayerful and reflective than ever before, reviewing life’s journey in gratitude to God, or seeking forgiveness all my love. I firmly resolve with the and making amends for wrongs. Second, as death ap- help of Thy grace, to confess my sins, proaches, the need to eat and drink is lessened until even an ice cube brushed against the lips is satisfying. to do penance, and to amend my life. Third, persons who are dying often make plans to give Amen. their possessions away, making bequests handing treas- ures down, providing for favorite charities.

GLORY BE TO THE FATHER Prayer, fasting, and almsgiving: with these three Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, “pillars” of Lent, we rehearse our death every year in this season, and anticipate the final work we will do in and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the this life. And every year, at the end of our journey, is beginning is now, and ever shall be, the joy of Easter and the experience of the victory of Christ over death’s darkness and power. Annually, we world without end. Amen. remind ourselves that the Christian experiences the same power and presence at the end of life’s journey: Christ to the rescue and the lasting joy of heaven.

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March 3rd Collection

Stewardship(217) ...... $5351.00 Loose ...... $5112.30 Catholic Stewardship Appeal ...... $2213.04 Gift Shop ...... $435.00 Poor Box ...... $160.25 Votive Lights ...... $0.00 Troop Outreach ...... $20.00 TOTAL: ...... $$13,291.59 Attendance: 1426 CHRISTMAS STOCKINGS FOR THE TROOPS ______THANKS SO MUCH! REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD As of the end of January, 2019, we have I suspect that the real reason we avoid the desert is completely paid off all of the purchases and all because in all that monotony there are no hiding places, of the shipping costs associated with the no paths to crawl our way behind some kink of hill, no busyness that allows us to duck beneath the rippling Christmas Stockings for the Troops for the surface of honesty, no phone calls to undo the silence Christmas 2018 Season! Thank you so much for that echoes our real selves. Curious that we should be all of your generosity for this patriotic pro- afraid of the nothing rather than of something. Yet it gram. is the nothing, in the end, that makes the happen. Such is the unsettling power of any desert, to Any money collected for the Troop Outreach reveal what we most fear in life, the real self that is Program from now on will be set aside as a perhaps less known and more imposing than anyone downpayment for the purchases and shipping else’s self. Deserts do that, and so we avoid them like costs for the Christmas Stockings for the kids dancing about their homework. Troops at Christmas 2019.

Over the years we learn that it’s safer to fritter about on the fringe of Lent than to get lost in its vast and We pray for our military forces at all of our desert emptiness. We’ve grown good at frittering, at weekend Masses every weekend. Please re- tinkering with days stripped of television or meals that member the men and women serving in our have surrendered their dessert. This frittering goes on Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and Ma- simply because when it’s all over and done we are able to rines in your own prayers as well. go back to the lives we’ve come to enjoy and treasure and nothing has been redone, least of all our real selves. 2019 Second Collection Schedule Jesus, however, risked the desert. Never just a tink- March 9 and 10 ...... Building Fund erer, he dared to trek about the emptiness for forty March 16 and 17 ...... Catholic Stewardship Appeal days and nights. This week’s first scripture is a piece March 23 and 24 ...... Catholic Stewardship Appeal from Noah’s tale in the bobbing ark. Thus we might won- March 30 and 31 ...... Catholic Relief Services der which desert was more daunting, forty days and nights of Noah’s deluge or of Jesus’ drought. Yet both found themselves in new and different worlds, neither of which had ever before been mapped.

Living God’s Word It’s time to decide in our own minds who we are and wish to be, to confess it to our God and to ourselves and to the whole world. Do not fear those places of desert; they are where you will recognize your truest self.

March 10, 2019 St. John the Baptist Catholic Church Page 7 FATHER MICHAEL MOORE “See You In Church” PARISH LENTEN MISSION MARCH 11th - 14th FRIDAYS OF LENT Father Michael Moore of the St. Patrick’s Fathers, Days of Fast and Abstinence will once again be conducting our Parish Lenten Mis- sion this year. Father Michael will be preaching at Just a reminder that the Fridays of Lent all the Masses on the First Weekend of Lent are days of ABSTINENCE. Catholics from (March 9th and 10th), and then conducting the the age of 14 and older do not eat any Mission from Monday through Thursday (March MEAT on these six Fridays in remembrance 11th through March 14th). The Mission talks will be incorporated into daily Masses at 8:00 AM and of the Lord’s Passion on the first Good repeated at the Mass at 6:00 PM each of the four Friday. Some of us are old enough to re- days of the Mission. member when we did this EVERY Friday throughout the year. But now it is re- DAY ONE - God, One Loving Father served as a requirement only for the six DAY TWO - Give Us Our Daily Bread Fridays of Lent. On Good Friday, we also DAY THREE - Forgive Us Our Trespasses observe a day of fasting - limiting the DAY FOUR - Not “My Will Be Done” * * * * * * * amount of food we consume. FROM THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF

CATHOLIC BISHOPS ABOUT LENT 6:00 AM - TIGER MASS Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are For the Fridays of Lent, we will once again obligatory days of fasting and abstinence celebrate the 6:00 AM TIGER MASS at for Catholics. In addition, Fridays during the church. You really have to be “tough Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. as a tiger” to get up so early! Come and join us in this unusual Lenten devotion and For members of the Latin Catholic Church, proudly display your tiger tails throughout the norms on fasting are obligatory from the season. And if you attend at least age 18 until age 59. When fasting, a per- THREE of these TIGER MASSES, you will son is permitted to eat one full meal, as receive a “Tiger Prize” at the end of Lent. well as two smaller meals that together are not equal to a full meal. The norms 6:00 PM concerning abstinence from meat are bind- STATIONS OF THE CROSS ing upon members of the Latin Catholic Church from age 14 onwards. And Soup Supper * * * * * * * Each Friday evening at 6:00 PM at the Have a GOOD LENT! church, our deacons will lead us in cele- brating the Stations of the Cross, followed Do something for the Lord that will by a light soup supper. The Stations of the Cross are a beautiful traditional Lenten make a difference in your life during devotion. these 40 days of Lent.

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