St. Patrick & Immaculate Conception Church October 25, 2015 Administrator 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Pastoral Associate Seaneen Prendergast Fr. Patrick Beretta Office Manager Julie Brinton Masses Saturday 4:30 p.m. St. Patrick Sunday 9:00 a.m. I. C. 11:00 a.m. St. Patrick 7:00 p.m. I. C. Weekday 7:00 a.m. St. Patrick (Tu-F) Lauds (Morning Prayer) following Mass (W,Th,F) following Devotion (Tu) Sacraments For all Sacraments please contact the Parish Office. Anointing of the Sick Communal Anointing following 7:00 am & 12:10 pm Mass on 1st Friday or please contact the Parish Office Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. St. Patrick or by appointment with the priest Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament St. Patrick Church 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Tu, W,Th,F) Our Mother of Perpetual Help Devotion Tuesday after 7:00 a.m. Mass St. Patrick Parish Office 102 S. Washington Street Butte, Montana 59701 Phone: 406 723-5407 Fax: 406 723-5408 E-mail: [email protected] Website: ButteCCN.org .. Parish Notices Community Notices BIBLE STUDY Harvest Bingo Fundraiser Every Thursday from 11:30 am to St. James Hospital Auxillary will host a Harvest Bingo Fundraiser at 7:00 pm Tuesday, October 27, at St. Ann’s 12:30 pm at the Newman Center. Parish hall, 2100 Farragut. The cost is $5.00 for twelve Please consider joining Kathy games of bingo. There are also three special games. Walter who will give insight Cash prizes will be given to the winners. Refreshments will be served. Proceeds go to toward scholarships for on Sacred Scripture. those entering the medical field and for hospital equipment. COME AND SHARE IN THE FUN!!! FALL PANCAKE BREAKFAST Please join us for a pancake breakfast and silent auction in support of our youth ministry trip to NCYC in Indianapolis at the end of November. The Butte Central Foundation is in the process of restoring the Little Theatre which is located right inside the This is our final fundraiser, please support Galena Street Entrance. It even has a box office! Several our youth and spread the word. alumni have contributed to replace the stage draperies and the sound and lighting systems. We are now in the process of Sunday November 8th, at 9am-1pm “selling” the auditorium seats. Joe McBride developed this idea St. Ann’s Social Hall & Kitty Brilliant is taking orders for the seats. There are 450 seats in the theatre. Each seat will have an engraved metal Questions?: Please call youth minister plate on the arm signifying who is being honored: e.g. Dolly Kristina Larson 406-202-3683. Harrington Cowan, class of 1933. So, if you have a senior who is graduating this year or have a “Senior” who graduated in 1954, a sibling, cousin, friend, or even someone who you would like to remember but who didn’t graduate from either of the Centrals that is a good way to do so. The donation for each seat is $50.00. Checks should be made out to the Butte Central CARING AIDE funds are running Foundation with a notation re: Theatre Seats. Enclose a note low. Please prayerfully consider with the name of the honoree and the year of his/her graduation. Mail to Butte Central Foundation PO Box 634, giving to this fund for it is very Butte 59703. Attn: Joe McBride. We are looking forward to much appreciated. many more years of fine productions in the Little Theatre. Colored containers are in front There are still some seats available; if you have any questions, please call Kitty Brilliant at 494-8110. and back of the church. Again, Thank you for your consideration. MONTANA ORTHOPEDICS Please see advertisement on the back of the bulletin! .. Mon Oct 26 St. Patrick, 7:00am NOMASS Tue Oct 27 St. Patrick, 7:00am Lou Kearney rb Jim & Marg Leary Wed Oct 28 St. Patrick, 7:00am Jean O’Brien (5th Ann) rb The Family Thu Oct 29 St. Patrick, 7:00am Virginia Dennehy rb Bob McCarthy Fri Oct 30 St. Patrick, 7:00am Isobel Bonner (6th Ann) rb Dr. & Mrs. John T. Bonner & Family Sat Oct 31 St. Patrick, 4:30pm Living & Deceased Members of the Parish Sun Nov 01 IC, 9:00am Living & Deceased Members of the Parish St. Patrick, 11:00am Living & Deceased Members of the Parish IC, 7:00pm Living & Deceased Members of the Parish Collection on The Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London. Oct. 17 & 18 - Week 16 Kolbe’s recognition as a Christian martyr also created some controversy within the Catholic Church. While his Envelopes $3,038.00 ultimate self-sacrifice of his life was most certainly saintly Loose $1,865.00 and heroic, he was not killed strictly speaking out of Other Income 0 odium fidei (hatred of the catholic faith), but as the result of Total $4,903.00 Christian charity. Pope Paul VI himself had recognized at Total this Fiscal Year $134,283.24 his beatification by naming him a Confessor and giving him the unofficial title “martyr of charity”. Pope John Paul Budget Amount $500,000.00 II, however when deciding to canonize him, overruled the Needed to Make Budget $365,716.76 commission he had established (which agreed with the Weekly Goal $9,600.00 earlier assessment of heroic charity), wishing to make the Weekly Average To Date $8,392.70 point that the systematic hatred of (whole categories of humanity propagated by the Nazi regime was in itself inherently an act of hatred of religious (Christian) faith, Thank You for your generous support! meaning Kolbe’s death equated to martyrdom. RELICS First-class relics of Kolbe are hairs from his head and St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe - conclusion beard, preserved without his knowledge by two friars at On May 12th 1955, Kolbe was recognized as the servant of Niepokalanow who served as barbers in his friary between God. Kolbe was declared venerable by Pope Paul VI on 1930 and 1941. Since his beatification in 1971, more than January 30th 1969, beatified as a Confessor of the Faith by 1,000 such relics have been distributed around the world the same Pope in 1971 and canonized as a saint by Pope for public veneration. Second-class relics such as his John Paul II on October 10th 1982. Upon canonization, the personal effects, clothing and liturgical vestments, are Pope declared St. Maximilian Kolbe not a confessor, but a preserved in his monastery cell and in a chapel at martyr. The miracle which was used to confirm his Niepokalanow, and may be viewed by visitors. beatification was the July 1948 cure of intestinal OUR PATRON, ST. MAXIMILIAN KOLBE, INSPIRES US WITH tuberculosis in Angela Testoni, and in August 1950, the HIS UNIQUE MARIOLOGY AND APOSTOLIC MISSION, WHICH cure of calcification of the arteries/sclerosis of Francis IS TO BRING ALL SOULS TO THE SACRED HEART OF CHRIST Ranier was attributed to Kolbe’s intercession. THROUGH THE IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY, CHRIST’S MOST PURE, EFFICENT AND HOLY INSTRUMENT OF After his canonization, St. Maximilian Kolbe’s feast day EVANGELIZATION - ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST ESTRANGED was added to the General Roman Calendar. He is one of FROM THE CHURCH. the 20th-century martyrs who are depicted in statues .