ST. BENEDICT PARISH AND PREPARATORY SCHOOL TheMARCH 12, 2017Steward I SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Christ Jesus . destroyed death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel. -- 2 Timothy 1:10b Lord, It Is Good That We Are Here Geoff Pautsch, Director of Finance This Sunday, our Gospel reading recounts the Transfiguration of Jesus. St. Thomas Aquinas considered this miracle to be the greatest of miracles because it happened to Jesus himself. It is very appropriate that the Church provides us this reading during the season of Lent. The Transfiguration of Jesus gave the disciples a foretaste of what the glory of heaven will be. The Transfiguration of Jesus, like the Baptism of the Lord, are pivotal events in our Catholic faith where human nature meets the divine, a bridge between heaven and earth. During our time in Lent, we put additional focus on transforming our lives. In our case, however, it is our inward self that needs transforming rather than our outward self. God asks us to seek conversion of our mind and heart. God is calling us to share what he has given us However, we must be open to conversion for it with others. to occur. God has blessed our parish with many gifts. In Stewardship is closely associated with this just three weeks, our parish will begin celebrating conversion. People who give of themselves to the 100th birthday of our church building, a long- build the kingdom of God are disciples of the anticipated event in the life of our parish. There Lord. To be a disciple, we must follow Jesus’ has been an enormous amount of time and energy example and teachings. His way of life literally donated for the planning of this celebratory time. becomes our way of life. For that to happen, This includes not only the events, but also the we must transform. That transformation can restoring and protecting of the church building present challenges, but it also offers extreme joy. for another 100 years. Stewardship challenges us to make conscientious For the last several months, the church decisions about our lives. Stewardship calls exterior has received a major “face-lift.” In each of us to account for what God has the next few days, the exterior work on given us, not only for the sake of knowing the church will be finished. Due to your how much we have and how God has generosity to the Forward in Our Faith blessed us, but also to know how much capital campaign, the following is a list of ST. BENEDICT PARISH & PREPARATORY SCHOOL 2215 W. IRVING PARK ROAD CHICAGO, IL 60618 WWW.STBENEDICT.COM MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9 AM, 10:30 AM, 12 Noon & 6:30 PM RECONCILIATION Saturdays: 11 AM completed projects on the church building: Completion of the interior work will be by the end of March. • Remove and replace the underlayment and slate on the upper roof and conical roof on All of this comes with a price tag of nearly the south side of the church; installation of $1.7 million. This was possible because of the new snow guards, copper flashing, gutters, stewardship of many parishioners who provided and downspouts their financial resources, knowledge, talent and • Remove and replace the underlayment energy for countless meetings, and time in prayer and copper on the lower aisle roofs, flashing, to ensure that the campaign and the project were gutters and downspouts successful. This is what stewardship is all about, • Major tuck pointing repairs around giving of oneself with all the different gifts God several parts of the church, largely on the has shared with each of us. Thank you to all of you north, south and east sides of the church for using your gifts to make this project possible. • The removal of the paint from the façade As Peter says in today’s Gospel, “Lord, it is of the church, restoring the original good that we are here.” It IS good that we are here! limestone Let us always take these words to heart every time • The opening and assessment of the front we gather for Mass in the grandeur of our church. limestone steps of the church Let us always be good stewards and make our • Re-establishment of the lightning rods prayer life a priority for it is always good to give at the top of the bell tower and at the top thanks to the Lord for all his goodness to us. of the roof copper cross. • The repair and replacement of clay gutter sewer pipes located underground along the church • Additional costs were incurred for scaffolding, mechanical lifts, construction administration, and engineering studies and progress assessments • The final part of the project is the restoration of the failing paint and plaster in the church. March 12, 2017 parish.stbenedict.com page 2 Music for Communion Antiphon March 12, 2017 SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT Antiphon Text: © 2010 ICEL Entrance Music: Entrance Offertory and 465 The Cross of Jesus Communion Chants © 2012 Peter R. Johnson Kyrie 208 Chant Daily Readings 1030 Responsorial Psalm 45 Let Your Mercy Be on Us Offertory 881 How Good Lord to Be Here 591 Praise to You, O Christ, Our Savior Holy, Holy, Holy 214 Chant Memorial Acclamation 215 Chant Great Amen 218 Chant Lamb of God Congratulations to all of our catechumens and candidates coming into the 311 Cantus Missae church during the Easter season. Pictured here at the Rite of Election and Communion Antiphon Call to Continuing Conversion are: Top row: Collins Hunter, Scott Cooper, right John Perkins, Michael Hortatsos. Bottom row: George Tobin, Mary Deletioglu, Lynn Pappadimas, Clark McCarthy Communion Song 931 One Bread, One Body Recessional 466 Forty Days and Forty Nights 641 What Wondrous Love Is This (Sun. 6:30pm) This week, SHARING PARISH will be included in our regular collection The Youth Leadership Award recipients together with Fr. Jason at the immediately following Leadership Banquet held on March 5th. St. Benedict Parish is blessed by Communion. Thank you our young leaders. for your generosity. March 12, 2017 parish.stbenedict.com page 3 Head and Heart Discipleship For the past year, this page has focused on all the ways that we grow closer to Jesus on our journey of faith. As we, at St. Benedict, have had a more intentional and specific focus on growing as disciples of Jesus, our Catechetical Commission and Spiritual Life Commission articulated that sometimes we grow closer to Jesus because of what we learn (Head) and sometimes we grow closer to Jesus because of our prayer, retreat experience, mission or some encounter (Heart). So not only will we hightlight the ways that we learn (Head) about Jesus in our Catechetical Conversations, we will also hightlight the ways we experience Jesus (Heart). 1 Spiritual Life Gatherings 2 Catechetical Please mark your calendars now and join your Conversations friends and community in what will be beautiful Beginning at 7PM in the Church faith-filled gatherings. All are welcome and feel free to bring something to share in one of our March 20th Family Life night Spiritual gatherings. Who knows where the Spirit How do we talk to our children will take us… about the dignity of Human Life and all the conversations that proceed from there? March Lenten Small Faith Sharings March 18th St. Joseph Table - Noon April 3rd It takes a Village March 26th – 28th St. Benedict and St. Andrew We are all called to make our parish the Parish Mission safest, most secure place possible. April 1st and 2nd Christ Renews His Parish Come hear how that is happening April 10th – 15th Holy Week every day! April 1oth Lent Reconciliation - 7PM 3 4 Family Mass Family Mass will be celebrated one Sunday each month at BOTH the 9:00AM and 10:30AM Masses! During each Mass, Save the Date: parish children can volunteer to participate as greeters, Lenten Parish Mission gift bearers and bulletin "Your Story, Our Story" distributors as well as host Finding Belonging in the Church hospitality in the Beaven Hall through story (See page 9). after both Masses. Family Mass Sunday, March 26- Tuesday, March 28 6:30PM on April 2nd will be hosted by the 3rd Grade. From the Archdiocese of Chicago Dear St. Benedict Parish, Thank you for your generous donation of $2,319.50 on 12/30/16 to the 2016 Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection. Your contribution will go towards funding organizations throughout our archdiocese that are working to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. We hope you will continue to support the mission and work of the CCHD. For more information please visit:www.chicagopeaceandjustice.org/cchd. Sincerely, Elena Segura, CCHD Director March 12, 2017 parish.stbenedict.com page 4 Youth Young Adult Senior Ministry Ministry Ministry TODAY! March 12th-May 14th Thursdays, 7:30-9:00pm March 22nd 2017 CYO Spring Lenten Small Groups March Senior Breakfast Basketball League. The young adult Lenten small group On March 22nd at Dappers on St Benedict’s Youth Ministry offers will be meeting once a week on Addison Street. Bus will leave from this opportunity for Freshman and Thursdays from 7:30-9pm in the the front of the church after 8:30AM Sophomore High School Boys. The rectory for six weeks (last session Mass. You can also meet us at Catholic Youth Organization has will be April 6). Please join us for Dappers at 9:30AM. Come and swell invited St Benedicts to participate in some or all of the sessions. No the crowd! a Spring Basketball League, giving us preparatory reading required.