ST. LOUIS CATHOLIC CHURCH DECEMBER 1, 2019 www.stlouis-batesville.org 2 News & Notes Blessing of Nativity Figures Holiday Bulletin Deadlines At all Masses on the weekend of December 7 & 8, December 1st Bulletin: Articles are due there will be a blessing of Nativity figures. You are in the parish office by 9:00am, Monday, welcome to bring your figures to church and they will November 18th be blessed after communion. December 8th Bulletin: Articles are due in the parish office by 9:00am, Wednesday, November 27th A Year With Mary - Begins December 8th December 15th Bulletin: Articles are St. Louis Church will begin a year dedicated to the Blessed Virgin due in the parish office by 9:00am, Mary with a prayer service on Sunday, December 8th at 6:30pm. Thursday, December 5th Light refreshments will be served after the service. Each month we December 22nd Bulletin: Articles are will focus on a Marian feast or devotion. The year will conclude by due in the parish office by 9:00am, consecrating our parish to Jesus, through Mary, on the Feast of Our Wednesday, December 11th Lady of Guadalupe on Saturday, December 12, 2020. December 29th Bulletin: Articles are due in the parish office by 9:00am, Mary Statues Available Tuesday, December 17th Would you like a statue of our Blessed Mother for your home? The January 5th Bulletin: Articles are due in statues are 2 feet tall, concrete, and are available painted or plain the parish office by 9:00am, Thursday, white. The cost is $40, which includes delivery to your home. A 3 December 19th foot tall statue is available for $80. If you are interested please call Mike Gerstbauer at 812-212-4965 or 812-934-2088. Adoration Chapel The open hours for the Adoration Chapel Families Helping Families are: Sunday – 10:00am, 12:00pm, Gift tags are available for Families Helping Families (FHF). Many of the tags are for 1:00pm; Monday—5:00am; gift cards for teenage children, who can be difficult to buy for. Monetary donations Wednesday—8:00am; Thursday— are also welcome by writing a check payable to St. Louis Church and specifying 4:00am; Friday – 1:00pm. If you are "FHF" on it. Please return all gifts to church or the parish office by Sunday, able to fill an open hour, call Christy 812 December 8th. Thank you for your generosity. -239-9164. Second Collection - Retirement Fund for Religious Natural Family Planning Next weekend, December 7th & 8th, is the collection for the Retirement Fund for A Natural Family Planning Class will be Religious Sisters and Brothers and Religious Order Priests. Please share in their held on Sunday, January 5th, from care and be as generous as possible. They have given us so much, now is the time 9:00am to 12:15pm at St. Louis. There for us to say thank you. is a $40.00 fee for books and materials. For reservations call or text Aly at 812- Christmas Flower Memorial 212-4951 or Mike at 812-212-2719. Anyone wishing to memorialize a loved one at Christmas, may do so by donating to the flower fund. An envelope is included in your packet of church envelopes. Baptism Preparation Class Names must be received in the parish office by Wednesday, December 11th to The Baptism preparation class is for be included in the December 22nd bulletin. parents who are having their first child Baptized. The next class will be offered Poinsettia/Wreath Pick-Up on Tuesday, December 17th at 7:00pm If you placed an order for poinsettias, wreaths or Yankee candles from the St. in the Prickel Building at St. Louis. Louis Mission Team, the orders will be ready for pick-up at St. Louis School in the Please call the parish office to register old gym on Saturday, December 7th after Mass, and Sunday, December 8th 812-934-3204. from 8:45am-12:30pm. If you are unable to pick up your items at this time, call Carrie at 812-934-3204 or email [email protected]. The Feast of the Immaculate Conception is Advent Penance Service Our Advent Penance Service will be Wednesday, December 18th, 7:00pm at St. NOT a Holy Day of Louis Catholic Church. Obligation this year. Fr. Stan’s Book Club The feast is transferred to The next book for the book club is “The Complete Father Brown Mysteries,” by G. Monday, December 9th K. Chesterton. Books are available in the parish office for $10.00. Discussions for and we will have our regular the book club will be Tuesday, January 14th at 9:30am and 6:30pm. morning Mass at 8:10am. Parish Calendar 3 Mass Intentions Altar Servers Greeters Saturday, November 30 Monday, December 2 Saturday, December 7 5:00 pm Louis & Laura Firsich 8:10 am SCHOOL SERVERS 5:00 pm Betty Frey, Mary Jane Kuntz Sunday, December 1 Tuesday, December 3 Sunday, December 8 8:00 am Jerry Lake 6:00 pm C.J. & Calvin Grote 8:00 am Joe & Marlene Greiwe 9:30 am Doris Fledderman Wednesday, December 4 9:30 am Thomas & Lisa Brown 11:00 am For the Parish Community 8:10 am SCHOOL SERVERS 11:00 am Bob & Kathy Mattucci Monday, December 2 6:30 pm Henry Koehne, Madilyn 8:10 am Ruth Hoff Prewitt & Avery Kuntz Tuesday, December 3, St. Francis Xavier Thursday, December 5 Lectors 6:00 pm Alvin & Lois Laudick 8:10 am SCHOOL SERVERS Wednesday, December 4, St. John Saturday, December 7 Friday, December 6 5:00 pm Bill Koehne Damascene 8:10 am SCHOOL SERVERS 8:10 am Flora Meyer Dennert Sunday, December 8 Saturday, December 7 8:00 am Alan Waechter 6:30 pm Dan Hillenbrand 5:00 pm John, Paul & Olivia Meer Thursday, December 5 9:30 am Megan Raab Sunday, December 8 11:00 am Ken Wanstrath 8:10 am Marie Wessling 8:00 am Catherine Streator, William Friday, December 6, St. Nicholas Huber & Kalli Obermeyer 8:10 am Marian Muckerheide 9:30 am Corrine Volk, Olivia & Isabel Saturday, December 7 Raab Ushers 5:00 pm Jeremy Fasbinder 11:00 am Carson Meyer, Marc & Saturday, December 7 Sunday, December 8, Second Sunday Vincent Meneses 5:00 pm Gary Kuntz, Scot Harmeyer, of Advent Jerry Eckstein, Bob Prickel 8:00 am For the Parish Community Sunday, December 8 9:30 am Cliff & Elvira Timke Rosary & Holy Hour 8:00 am Todd Tekulve, Jim Scheele, 11:00 am Rosemary Holtel Sunday, December 1 Larry Enzinger, Bob 5:00 pm SPANISH MASS 7:00 pm Volunteers Needed Obermeyer, Bruce Miller 9:30 am Eugene Laker, John Vogelsang, Mike Weigel, Rosary & Holy Hour 1 Volunteer 11:00 am Jeff Bedel, Ted Telles, John Sunday, December 1st Wilson, Jake Wilson 7:00pm Readings for the Week Sunday: Is 2:1-5/ Ps 122:1-2, 3-4, December Prayer Intention 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [cf. 1]/Rom Extraordinary Ministers of 13:11-14/Mt 24:37-44 of Pope Francis Holy Communion The Future of the Very Young Monday: Is 4:2-6/Ps122:1-2, 3-4b, Saturday, December 7 4cd-5, 6-7, 8-9/Mt 8:5-11 That every country take the measures 5:00 pm Deb Weigel, Betty Frey, necessary to prioritize the future of the Dave Meyer, Lisa Tuveson, Tuesday: Is 11:1-10/Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, very young, especially those who are Carolyn Dieckmann, Mary suffering. 12-13, 17 [cf. 7]/Lk 10:21 Sitterding, 1 Volunteer -24 Sunday, December 8 Wednesday: Is 25:6-10a/Ps 23:1-3a, 8:00 am Ed Gerdowsky, Ken Rudolf, 3b-4, 5, 6 [6cd]/Mt 15:29- John Gerstbauer, Amy Saturday Morning 37 Streator, Janet Maple, Mary Prayer Service Thursday: Is 26:1-6/Ps 118: 1 and 8- Sitterding, 1 Volunteer December 7th at 8:05am 9. 19-21, 25-27a [26a]/ 9:30 am Beth Hoog, John Brelage, Mt 7:21, 24-27 Meet in the Adoration Chapel Bertie Schmidt, Kathy Friday: Is 29:17-24/Ps 27:1, Wagner, Nancy Werner, Let us bring all of our thoughts and 4, 13-14 [1a]/Mt 9:27-31 Christy Moenter, 1 Volunteer prayers to the Immaculata - The Saturday: Is 30:19-21, 23-26/Ps 11:00 am Ken Bohman, Tyler Myers, woman chosen by God Himself. 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6/Mt Rita Schneider, Mary Jo 9:35—10:1, 5a, 6-8 Sunderman, Kathy Come Pray with Us! Next Sunday: Is 11:1-10/ Ps 72:1-2, 7- Mattucci, Nelson French, 8, 12-13, 19 [cf. 7]/Rom Mark Masavage 15:4-9/Mt 3:1-12 6 W h a t ’ s News & Notes H a p p e n i n g December 1 Advent Materials RCIA—St. Louis Parish Office, With the beginning of Advent, please take a copy of the Advent materials located in 9:00am. “Sacraments, the back of church. Take just a few minutes a day and use these materials to help Sacramentals, and Grace” make Christmas much more meaningful for you and your family. Sausage and Pancake Breakfast— St. Mary’s of the Rock, 7:00am— “Letter to a Suffering Church” noon. Freewill donation benefits the Why stay Catholic with so much scandal? Bishop Robert Baron wrote this book to St. Mary’s of the Rock preservation reach out to fellow Catholics who feel, demoralized, and angry with the scandal in society. the Church. He urges them to stay and fight—for themselves, their families, and December 3 those who have suffered at the hands of wicked people.