Thank you for helping to make St. Ann’s Largest Annual Fundraisers a success! 933 Tickets Sold - Prize Payouts Pot of - Gold Expenses Net Profit: $63,850.00 Congratulations to Our 2018 Pot of Gold Winners! Grand Prize $20,000: Roy A. Valle 2nd Prize $5,000: Pat Quayle 3rd Prize $2,000: John Giemzik 4th Prize $1,000: Phill & Lynn 5th Prize $500: John B. Evans, Jr. Sell Five/Win $500: Rose & Bill Weinand 414 Tickets Sold + Sponsorships + Raffle Baskets + Tip Chances & Gift Card Sales + Auction Proceeds Net Profit: $28,172.00 March 18, 2018 St. Ann Parish ESTABLISHED 1913 3010 Ridge Road, Lansing, IL 60438 708-895-6700 Reverend William McFarlane, Pastor www.saintanncatholicparish.com Masses Parish Staff Monday-Thursday: 7:45 a.m. Barb Antoskiewicz, Pastoral Associate/DRE Friday Communion Service: 7:45 a.m. Debbie Bona, Ministry Coordinator First Friday Mass: 7:45 a.m. Sue Dawson, Parish Office Secretary Finance Council Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sandy Farmer, Parish Bookkeeper Robert Dabrowski Sunday: 8:30 & 10:30 a.m. Jennifer Gray, Development/Bulletin Editor Sandy Farmer Confessions: 3:00 p.m. Saturday Chris Hutter, School Secretary Brian Kozlowski Brian Kozlowski, Director of Operations Fr. William McFarlane Parish Office Hours Director of Music & Liturgy Bonnie Murach Monday-Friday: 8:00-Noon & 1:00-4:00 p.m. Pam Lepczynski, Parish Office Receptionist Kelly Rojas Office closes at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays Kelly Rojas, School Principal Closed Saturday & Sunday Janice Summerrise, School Business Manager Contact Information Parish Office: 708-895-6700 Pastoral Council School Board Parish Office Fax: 708-895-6877 Barb Antoskiewicz Dan Podgorski, President School Office: 708-895-1661 Wade Cooper Nicole Hillegonds, VP Religious Ed. Office: 708-895-5970 Brian Farlow Laurie Glowacki, Secretary St. Vincent DePaul: 708-745-4760 Jane Farlow Bernard Chukwulebe Fr. Bill’s email: [email protected] Ken Kot Robert Dabrowski Parish email: [email protected] Dominic Podsiadlik Fr. William McFarlane Bulletin email: [email protected] Erin Meegan Polanski Kelly Rojas Prayer Tree: [email protected] Ashley Sypole School Website: www.saintannschool.com Jesse Terrazas Parish Website: www.saintanncatholicparish.com Liturgy Committee Barb Antoskiewicz, For Ministry of Care to the homebound or hospitalized, Religious Education, RCIA/RCIY please call the Parish Office. Debbie Bona, Lectors Bulletin articles are due 10 days in advance of the Sunday Brian Kozlowski, Music Ministry & Liturgy you would like them to run. During holidays, deadlines Cindy Hope, Altar Servers are accelerated. To add items to the calendar or to sched- Kim Jacobson, Art & Environment ule the Narthex or other meeting spaces, forms must be Don Schiller, Ushers filled out in the Parish Office. Ed Sochacki, Eucharistic Ministers Gerrie Szewczyk, Sacristans St. Ann Parish Mission Statement We are called by a loving God to make St. Ann of Lansing a Catholic community of faith. We are a family of diverse people with various ministries: healing the body and spirit, teaching of God and His love, united in sacraments and prayer, reaching out to the extended community. With God’s revelation of Himself in Scripture as our guide, we strive to grow in His Spirit and to fulfill the promise of Christ’s Kingdom. 2 This Week’s Activities Monday, March 19 LENTEN RECONCILIATION Monday, March 19 (St. Joseph) 7:45 a.m. Mass Mass 7:45am Chapel † People of the Parish Reconciliation Service 9:00am Church Tuesday, March 20 Religious Education 4:00 - 5:30pm Classrooms 7:45 a.m. Mass Reconciliation Service 7:00pm Church † Dorothy Rossi (Malenki Family) Wednesday, March 21 Tuesday, March 20 7:45 a.m. Communion Service Mass 7:45am Chapel 9:00 a.m. School Mass Art & Environment All Day Church † People of the Parish Jedi Soccer Drills 5:30 - 7:00pm Parish Hall Thursday, March 22 St. Vincent de Paul Meeting 6:30pm Parish Office 7:45 a.m. Mass Cub Scouts 7:00pm Classrooms † People of the Parish Choir 7:00pm Church Friday, March 23 Throne of Grace Prayer Group 7:00pm Parish Office (St. Turibius of Mogrovejo) 7:45 a.m. Communion Service Wednesday, March 21 Saturday, March 24 (Blessed Oscar Romero) Communion Service 7:45am Chapel 4:00 p.m. Mass School Mass 9:00am Church † People of the Parish Sewing Club 9:00am Parish Office Sunday, March 25 Li’l Roughriders Playgroup 9:00am Ext. Day (C3) (Palm Sunday) Rosary 7:00pm Chapel 8:30 a.m. Mass School Board 7:00pm Parish Office † People of the Parish A.A. Meeting 8:00pm Parish Hall 10:30 a.m. Mass † People of the Parish Thursday, March 22 FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT Mass 7:45am Chapel Jedi Soccer Drills 5:30 - 7:00pm Parish Hall March 18, 2018 Alive in Our Hearts Scripture Study 7:00pm Parish Office I will place my law within them and Choir 7:00pm Church write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be Friday, March 23 my people. Communion Service 7:45am Chapel Stations of the Cross 1:30pm Church — Jeremiah 31:33 Stations of the Cross 7:00pm Church New Members Welcome! Saturday, March 24 We would love to have you join us! Mass 4:00pm Church Please fill out the information below, and place in the Offertory Collection or send to Sunday, March 25 PALM SUNDAY the Parish Office. You may also request a registration form at 708-895-6700. Masses (Children’s Liturgy @10:30) 8:30 & 10:30am Church Religious Education 8:45 - 10:15am Classrooms Name For calendar updates, please visit www.saintanncatholicparish.com and click on the Calendar tab. Address Street Town/Zip Lenten Phone Reconciliation email Services Monday, March 19 9:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m. 3 Many Today’s Readings First Reading — I will place my law within them and Blessings . write it upon their hearts. (Jeremiah 31:31-34) or Ezekiel 37:12-14. For" God so loved the world, that He gave His only Psalm — Create a clean heart in me, O God Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish (Psalm 51) or Psalm 130. but have eternal life. John 3:16 Second Reading — Christ became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him (Hebrews 5:7-9) or Ro- What is your first recollection of Easter? Is it bunnies, mans 8:8-11. Easter baskets, your Easter outfit, attending Easter Gospel — If a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, Mass, or learning about Jesus and how He died for us it produces much fruit (John 12:20-33) or John 11:1-45 on the cross? [3-7, 17, 20-27, 33b-45]. The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, Interna- tional Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved. For me, it was about looking into my Easter basket with its treats and knowing someone really did care about me. When I was a child, I remember sitting at Mass Readings for the Week with my mom and feeling peace in being there with her. Monday: 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16; Ps 89:2-5, 27, 29; It took a few years for me to relate Easter and that Rom 4:13, 16-18, 22; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24a or peaceful feeling with religion or spirituality. Since my Lk 2:41-51a mom died when I was nine and my dad was not reli- Tuesday: Nm 21:4-9; Ps 102:2-3, 16-21; Jn 8:21-30 gious, I basically continued my spiritual journey on my Wednesday: Dn 3:14-20, 91-92, 95; Dn 3:52-56; Jn 8:31-42 own with the support of religious education classes. Thursday: Gn 17:3-9; Ps 105:4-9; Jn 8:51-59 Learning about God opened up a whole new world for Friday: Jer 20:10-13; Ps 18:2-7; Jn 10:31-42 me. Saturday: Ez 37:21-28; Jer 31:10, 11-13; Jn 11:45-56 Sunday: Mk 11:1-10 or Jn 12:12-16; (procession) It is through my struggles in life and through my grow- Is 50:4-7; Ps 22: 8-9, 17-20, 23-24; ing faith in God that I became more spiritually enriched Phil 2:6-11; Mk 14:1 — 15:47 [15:1-39] and more empowered to live a good Christian life. We have all gone through our own journeys in growing up and learning about God. We can all reflect on Jesus’ Saved By God’s Love life and death this Lenten season and what that means Because the people broke the old covenant, God promised for us. We can also reflect on our own lives and how a new covenant, not in the blood of oxen and other ani- they have evolved through faith and through our life mals, but in the blood of the Son, Jesus Christ. This new experiences. We can ponder how our journeys have covenant, foreseen from afar by Jeremiah and the proph- brought us to where we are now, and can bring us to ets, was not to be engraved on stone, or written on paper, where we want to be in living with God in our lives. but carved on our hearts, so that we might know God inti- mately. Not by keeping many laws are we to be saved, but I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, by the love of God, living and real in our hearts through but Christ lives in me.