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Saint Twenty-fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2020

 Welcome Visitors and Guests If you are a visitor to Jude the Apostle Parish, we want you to know how very welcome you are. If you are interested in joining Saint Jude or simply would like to learn more about our parish, please feel free to call Gary Heun, our pastoral minister, at 4142588821.

Pastoral Staff

PASTOR ……………………………………….…...4142588821 MAINTENANCE ………………………………..…4143180485  Fr. Charles Conley  Mr. Rick Anderson, Supervisor  *[email protected]  *[email protected]  Fr. Emmanuel Udo (In residence from Nigeriaon Sabbatical)  *[email protected]; 4142588821 x229 PASTORAL COUNCIL OFFICERS & TRUSTEES  Fr. Mark Obeten (In residence from NigeriaDoctoral Studies)  Mrs. Mary Voelker, Pastoral Council Chairperson  4142588821 x231  Mr. Jack Raue, Pastoral Council Vice Chairperson  Mr. Benjamin Mather, Secretary PERMANENT   Mr. Steven Gorzek, Trustee/Secretary  Deacon Don Borkowski  Mr. Tom Mullooly, Trustee/Treasurer PARISH OFFICE ….4142588821……FAX: 4142587371 LITURGY/MUSIC OFFICE …………...…………4142588821  Office Hours 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM MondayFriday  Mr. Crawford Wiley, Director of Liturgy & Music  Mr. Gerald Stilp, Director of Administrative Services  *[email protected]  *[email protected]  Mrs. Melinda Morris, Director of Finance RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE …….……4142588821  *[email protected]  Mr. Gary Heun, Director of Religious Ed/Pastoral Associate  Sr. Dianne Engelhart, SSND Parish Office Assistant/Secretary  *[email protected]  *[email protected] THRIFT SHOP …………………………………….4142590975  Mrs. Patricia (Patty) Turdo, Accounting Assistant  Mrs. Roberta Dollhopf, Manager  *[email protected]  *[email protected] SCHOOL ……4147711520………FAX: 4147713748  Mrs. Catherine LaDien, PrincipalNPresident  *[email protected]  Ms. Mary Ferguson, Assistant Administrator  *[email protected] 

Intentions the Readings for the Week of Sept. 13, 2020 Wednesday, September 16NSS. Cornelius and Cyprian 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Sir 27:30N28:7/Ps 6:45 † John L. Toohey 103:12, 34, 910, 1112 [8]/Rom 14:79/Mt 18:21 35 Friday, September 18NWeekday Monday: Nm 21:4b9/Ps 78:1bc2, 3435, 3637, 38 [cf. 9:00 The McElwee Family 7b]/Phil 2:611/Jn 3:1317 Saturday, September 19NMass of Anticipation for Sunday Tuesday: 1 Cor 12:1214, 2731a/Ps 31:2 and 3b, 3cd4, 5:00 † Kevin Roels 56, 1516, 20 [17]/Jn 19:2527 or Lk 2:3335 Sunday, September 20N25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday: 1 Cor 12:31N13:13/Ps 33:23, 45, 12 and 8:30 For the Parish 22 [12]/Lk 7:3135 11:00† Alexia Stilp Dudley Thursday: 1 Cor 15:111/Ps 118:1b2, 16ab17, 28 [1]/ Lk 7:3650 Let Us Hold In Prayer . . . Friday: 1 Cor 15:1220/Ps 17:1bcd, 67, 8b and 15 [15b]/Lk 8:13 The Infirm and the Homebound Saturday: 1 Cor 15:3537, 4249/Ps 56:10c12, 1314 As always, let us pray in a special way for all those who are [14]/Lk 8:415 homebound or recovering from an illness or surgery. Fr. Jeff Loebl, S.J., Carmen Singleton, 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time: Is 55:69/Ps 145:23, 8 Caesar Prospero, Catherine Schmanski, 9, 1718 [18a]/Phil 1:20c24, 27a/Mt 20:116a Frances Fischbach, Pat , Don Washburn, Sasada, Elizabeth Handrich, Polly Westfall, All Those Who Serve to Protect Louise Stemo, Dorothy SchneiderFuelling, Please pray for our service men and women, who are serving  Our Faithful Departed both at home and overseas, and their families. Darlene Wolf, mother of Kristine Eisenreich If you would like to add the name of a St. Jude parishioner to our Born to Eternal Life on September 2, 2020 prayer lists, please call the parish office at 4142588821.

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Sunday Mass Please Continue to PreRegister Listecki has chosen to not extend his For Weekend Masses dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass and Our Weekend Mass schedule is Saturday, 5:00 PM and Holy Days of Obligation beyond the weekend of September 13th. To quote from his directive dated August 25th: Sunday, 8:30 & 11:00 AM. “If a person is ill, especially during this pandemic, they You need to preregister to participate at Mass. To do so, should remain at home. Likewise, if a person is at risk go to SignUpGenius found on our parish website: because of age, underlying medical conditions or a www.stjudeparishwauwatosa.org It is necessary to pre compromised immune system, one would be excused from register so that we will have a listing of names for each the obligation. If a person is caring for a sick person, even Mass, are able to control the number of people who enter if they are not sick, they would be excused from the church and have correct reserved seating. obligation out of charity. Fear of getting sick, in and of Preregistration opens each Wednesday morning at 10:00 itself, does not excuse someone from the obligation. However, if the fear is generated because of atrisk factors, AM and closes on Friday at 12 noon. This allows us to such as preexisting conditions, age or compromised tabulate numbers and assign seating. If the number of immune systems, then the fear would be sufficient to excuse persons who choose to walkin without preregistering from the obligation. exceeds the number of our allowed restricted seating It is up to each individual to weigh their own capacity, we would need to turn them away, which we truly circumstances through an examination of their conscience wish to avoid doing, and would be sorry to have to do. and determine, by use of their conscience, whether or not they are excused from the Sunday obligation. Remember, a Weekday Mass Time wellformed conscience is upright and truthful.” And so, brothers and sisters, let your conscience be your With the resumption of school, there is a need for guide. As I said to you early on, please don’t feel any multiple drop off locations for the students with varied pressure to return for Sunday Eucharist until the time is right times. Because of this, the Friday morning Mass will begin and safe for you. Our Lord loves you just as much if you at 9:00 AM. The Wednesday morning Mass time continues decide it best to stay home. My primary concern is for your to be 6:45 AM. health, safety and protection during this pandemic time. I continue to hold you in prayer, Religious Education 20202021 Fr. Charlie The Religious Education Program is currently accepting registrations for grades K4 M 11 for the 20202021 school year. Parish YouTube Channel If you would like to register your son/daughter or have any The Liturgy of the Word for each Sunday questions regarding the program, please contact Gary Heun at will continue to air on our parish YouTube 4142588821 x230. channel. Other episodes include Resuming Mass at St. Jude's and Exploring the Pipe Organ . . . with Crawford Wiley. We are grateful to Bill Armstrong for producing all of these. Go to the homepage of  our website: www.stjudeparishwauwatosa.org. You’ll find the Let us welcome: link to our channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/ Molly McNally Niemer UCHmltjkUDOipNnDZqc43G_A Gratitude Expressed for Outreach Funds Parents interested in having their child baptized should Dear St. Jude Congregation, register with Gary Heun, Pastoral Associate, at 4142588821. Thank you so much for your outreach donation to Kids Matter. Because of friends like you, we have been able to those you have helped in our missions. Please visit our maintain uninterrupted services for our families throughout the website to see more emails and pictures of the missions your Covid19 pandemic. You are helping us to meet many critical contribution helps: www.SalvatorianMissionWarehouse.org. needs. Yours in Christ, Heather Holton, SDS, Director Sincerely, Susan Conwell, J.D., Executive Director   To our friends at St. Jude Congregation: Dear St. Jude Congregation, Dignity is critical to the mission and ministry of Fr. Gene’s Thank you for the very generous donation to the Help Center. We’ve keenly focused our efforts to create a Salvatorian Mission Warehouse! Because of donations like client shopping experience that fosters the growth of dignity. yours, we were able to provide Fr. Sebastian with 100 bags of One way that we’ve been able to do that is through new emergency rice in Ghana. The current Covid19 situation has underwear. This might seem like a small thing, but for our caused additional difficulties for the marginalized in Ghana clients, new underwear is an incredible blessing. Your and around the world. During this time, monetary donations contribution was used to purchase these items from a such as yours have become especially needed to cover wholesale distributor that will help our clients feel even more shipping costs and rice. dignified in their experience in shopping at the Help Center. We are very grateful for your help, and you can be assured You and your intentions are in our thoughts and prayers. of a remembrance in the prayers from all of us here and from Best, Jessica Luibbering, Executive Director Twentyfourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2020 Bible Study Starting September 15 Food Pantry Updates The next Bible Study session will start online on We are resuming our monthly food pantry collections for the House of Tuesday, September 15, 2020, at 7:00 PM. We Peace and Tosa Food Pantry. Nonperishable items may be placed in the will study the Gospel of Luke. The Gospel of Luke collection baskets located near the south entrance of the church. Please, no demonstrates the universal nature of ’ mission expired items. Our boxes for monetary donations will be located on the and the compassion of God. Luke’s focus on communion rails at the Masses of October 3rd and 4th. God’s faithfulness will encourage you to trust. The Tosa Food Pantry also welcomes perishable fruits/ This is an 11week session, meeting online, Tues vegetables from your garden. Please drop off your perishable day nights through November. We follow the items directly at the pantry, located at St. Bernard Parish, on Little Rock Bible Study program. New members Saturdays at 9:00 AM or on Mondays at 1:00 PM. are most welcome. Come and enjoy lively dis If you wish to offer further monetary assistance by writing a check, cussions. For more information contact Paul please make it out to Tosa Community Food Pantry and send to: Tosa Lorenz at 4144768111 or [email protected]. Community Food Pantry c/o St. Bernard Parish, 7474 Harwood Ave., Wauwatosa, WI 53213.  Virtual Offerings at Siena Center Thank you for your generosity!!! Programs at Siena Retreat Center, 5637 Erie St., Racine  call 2628982590 for more information Forgiveness Is an Act of Freedom or visit www.SienaRetreatCenter.org and click on Retreat Programs. Health screening required on What right do we have to limit the amount and degree of forgiveness we arrival; masks mandatory. show to others when we are so desperately in need of it ourselves? In not Women for Women, Saturday, Sept. 26th, 9:30 M wanting someone who hurt us to downplay or forget the gravity of their 11:30 AM, Pat Shutts. wrong, we cling to anger, resentment, and wrath as a way of maintaining Join a circle of women’s wisdom and mutual control. It is a way to acknowledge and express our deep hurt. We fail to support. Catch your breath, connect with other realize that in doing so we hold ourselves hostage to these destructive women, connect with the Divine. We will have feelings and actually become mired in the bondage of . All we gain is time for prayer, meditation, and reflection. Join us further alienation from ourselves, others, and especially God. We are no as we take the journey to grow and share our lives longer free but tethered to all of this unresolved negativity. Don’t we really with each other. Cost: $10. want to let it go? The fact is that we need to. Supportive Grief Companioning Workshop, A good selfreflective posture will quickly show us that when the shoe Saturdays, Oct. 3rd and 17th, 8:30 AM M 4:30 PM, is on the other foot and we are the ones in need of forgiveness, we desire it Grief team. The Supportive Grief Companion Workshop is a above anything else. This is especially true with our relationship with God. yearly educational opportunity offered by Siena It is hypocritical to want one thing for ourselves and something else for Retreat Center to advance participants’ skills in another. Yet, many act in precisely this way. companioning the bereaved. This year’s topic of Perhaps we think that in offering forgiveness, even for the most focus is rituals. This workshop will offer those grievous of wrongs, somehow excuses the person of their wrong and makes who companion the bereaved an understanding of it almost acceptable. This is what makes revenge, retaliation, and how grief rituals can assist the bereaved in punishment so attractive. We see forgiveness as being an eraser that easily mourning their losses and move towards healing. wipes away the offense without consequence. Or, we may believe that in Cost of $155 includes $55 non refundable deposit, two training offering forgiveness I must somehow forget the wrong and open myself as days, meals, book, and 1.6 a victim of even greater possible hurts in the future. In fact, forgiving my Continuing Education Units. sister or of their wrongful actions or attitudes involves none of this. It does not erase anything or position me vulnerably as a doormat to be Scholarship to Provide walked on. Financial Help to Students Forgiveness is an act of freedom that restores honest dialogue, shares St. Jude the Apostle Parish and School truly is true, and heartfelt feelings and acknowledges the consequences of an our "Faith Family". With that in mind, we have action. It admits that the wrong has caused a hurt that must be healed and initiated a new scholarship fund to provide squarely positions responsibility on the offender. The act of forgiveness financial support in our school community to those recognizes our sinfulness and brokenness. It also admits that the most who have been impacted by Covid19. saintly among us is capable of doing very grave and deep harm to another You can donate to the St. Jude Lighting the Way person. It sees that we all can be victims of our passions and that we are Educational Scholarship by going to our website works in progress that deserve unlimited chances to get it right. With www.stjudeparishwauwatosa.org. Click on forgiveness, I release myself from the bonds of negativity and pursue a Support Us. Go to Online Giving and then click on path of restoration, wholeness, and healing. I do not forget the wrong nor We Share. You can also donate by sending a check do I dismiss it. Sometimes, we have to stay far away from the one who payable to: St. Jude the Apostle School, 800 Glenview hurt us. But we can still heal internally and be free. Avenue, Wauwatosa, WI 53213. Please mark For the one who wants to be forgiven and the one who needs to offer Lighting the Way Educational Scholarship forgiveness, the journey can be an adventure in learning what brought us to in the memo notation. this place and what is needed to move forward. This is exactly how God Thank you very much!!! treats us. Why would we not want to do the same for others? ©LPi Twentyfourth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 13, 2020 Milwaukee Archdiocese Archdiocesan Coronavirus Emergency Fund To Recognize Wedding Anniversaries The Archdiocese of Milwaukee Coronavirus Emergency We are sad to share that our annual Archdiocese of Fund has provided more than $50,000 to organiza Milwaukee Jubilee Mass and luncheon are cancelled this tions to help people with everything from food to utilities. year due to the pandemic and our desire to keep safety a One parish reported, “We helped a family where BOTH the priority. If you or someone you know in your parish mom and dad ended up in the hospital at the same time!” community are celebrating a 25th, 50th, or 50+ wedding , St. Vincent de Paul conferences, and anniversary we would love to recognize this beautiful parish food pantries are all experiencing increased demand for accomplishment. For a commemorative certificate and/or to assistance. Please, if you are able, consider making a donation be featured in an article in a Catholic Herald spotlight series, now to help alleviate the growing financial hardship caused by please contact Merridith in the Marriage and Family Life the pandemic in our area at archmil.org/Giving. office at [email protected] or 4147582201. Congratulations to all those celebrating this year The St. Jude Gala is our and thank you for your inspirational example! parish’s largest fundraiser. Through the efforts of Human Concerns Collecting School Supplies hundreds of volunteers and In connection with the Capuchin House of benefactors over the last Peace Community, the Human Concerns fifteen years, we have raised Committee is sponsoring a "Back to School necessary funds to support Supply Drive". A list of items needed are: the vital ministries of St. backpacks, child safety scissors, looseleaf Jude. We are grateful to each paper, pkg. #2 pencils, colored markers, 3ring and every one of you who binders, pink erasers, index cards, spiral have continued to support us notebooks, ball point pens, combination locks, construction with your commitment of paper, pencil sharpeners, pocket folders, scotch tape, time, talent and treasure. calculators, Kleenex, crayons, hilighters, rulers, glue sticks & We understand these are Elmer's Glue, hand sanitizer, sanitary wipes, masks. unprecedented times, and St. Jude, like many of you, have There will be a container with a sign in the vestibule of the felt the strain. Given that the inception of our illustrious church for your donations. JoAnn and Mary Jo will deliver the parish began during one of the most trying financial times donations to the House of Peace, so there’s no need for donors in history, we are confident that our faithful parishioners to deliver items themselves. Supplies may be donated until the will once again rise to the challenge. middle of September. We ask that if you are in a position to give M whether it’s Please call JoAnn at 4142587212 or Mary Jo at 414534 financially through underwriting and sponsorship, or 2868 if you have questions, or are interested in learning more through a donation of an auction item M that you please about the Human Concerns Committee. Thank you in advance consider giving. This year, more than ever, no gift is too for your generosity! small, and all gifts are gratefully appreciated! We hope you will join us virtually for our Sweet 16th To make an online donation to the House of Peace, go to:  Gala on Saturday, October 24. Please watch for further https://www.capuchincommunityservices.org/waystohelp/ updates in parish communications, the St. Jude website specialdrives. On this site there are opportunities to purchase (www.stjudewauwatosaparish.org) and FaceBook (St. Jude items from Target or Amazon. Simply click on the desired the Apostle Gala). In the interim, if you have any store and begin shopping for the drive. Thank you!!! questions, or are able to assist us with a financial St. Jude Parish Safety and Security contribution or auction item, please do not hesitate to Unfortunately, here at St. Jude the Apostle, we are unable contact the Gala Coordinators: Terri Alioto and Lisa Blair to have the parish church unlocked for private prayer because ([email protected]). of security and safety issues. Our thanks to each and every one of you for prayerfully The Sacrament of Reconciliation considering how you can support our mission. If you desire to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Gratefully yours, please call the parish office/rectory to make an appointment Fr. Charles Conley, Pastor and arrangements will be made for either Fr. Charlie or one of Catherine LaDien, President/Principal the resident Nigerian to assist you. 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