Third Sunday of Lent-March 7, 2021 St. Anthony of Padua 3009 High Ridge Blvd. High Ridge, MO 63049 Business Hours Monday - Thursday 7:30 A.M. - 12:30 P.M. Phone (636) 677-4868 Fax (636) 677-2781 Website www.stanthonyhr.org Pastor Father John Reiker Parish Mission Statement Our mission is to be on fire with the love of Jesus Christ, and with the help of the Holy Spirit, to celebrate our community of faith in the Eucharist and to share God’s love and mercy with our neighbors through our ministries and evangelization. Mass Schedule Daily Monday - Friday 8:00 A.M Sunday Saturday 4:30 P.M. (indoors) Sunday 10:00 A.M. (indoors) Confessions Saturday 4:00-4:20 P.M. By appointment anytime Marriages: Make arrangements with Rectory Office Religious Instruction Priest or Deacon of your choice no less Father John Reiker Parish School of Religion than six months prior to proposed Pastor ext. 102 Phone (636) 677-4868 ext 118 Grades (pre-K through 8) wedding date. [email protected] Mrs. Kathy Joslin [email protected] Parish Help Line: St. Vincent de Paul Deacon Jim G’Sell Society, 1-877-238-3228, ext. 3329 [email protected] 314-484-2055 Adults - RCIA New Parishioners: Welcome! Please contact: Please register by contacting the rectory Mrs. Rusalyne Ahlemeyer Fr. John Reiker Office Manager, ext. 104 during business hours @ 677-4868 ext. 100 [email protected] Secretary, ext. 100 Baptism Preparation Meeting: Infant Change of Address or Telephone: Paula Mari Willenbrink Baptisms require parental attendance Please call the rectory during business [email protected] at a meeting prior to baptism,with the hours. 677-4868 ext. 100 Pastor in the rectory. Call rectory office Cafeteria for information 636-677-4868, ext. 100. Parish website: Ext. 212 stanthonyhr.org Bulletin Deadline Archdiocese of St .Louis Website: For submissions to our Facebook NO LATER than Monday 9:00 AM the www.archstl.org page, Website, or our Parish App please email Monica Becker at week you need it to be published in the Catholic Elementary School: [email protected] Please bulletin. Notices must be submitted in All of our parish children who wish to allow several days for submission to writing: email text to attend a catholic elementary school may be approved and posted. Thank You [email protected] do so at the school of their choice and still remain parishioners of St. Anthony of Padua. Call rectory. St. Anthony of Padua, High Ridge, MO Pastor’s Column Recorded Mass continues after Saturday Mass on our web- Saint of the Week page:www.stanthonyhr.org and Facebook Maria von Trapp Matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers (1905-1987) Maria Kutschera, who was orphaned at seven, grew up with no interest in religion; for the “holy water girls” in her class, she felt Scrutinies and Presentations only scorn. Yet, while studying to be a teacher, she stepped into a church one Palm Sunday and heard a sermon that Of Creed and Lord’s Prayer changed her life. Opening her heart to God, she decided at once to become a nun. We celebrate the first of 3 Scrutinies and the Presenta- In 1924 she entered Nonnberg Abbey, where, despite her good tion of the Creed and Our Father with our RCIA candi- intentions, her lively personality raised eyebrows. Frequently dates. To fully understand the purpose of the scrutinies, she was reminded not to whistle in the cloister, or slide down it helps to have a little history. The three scrutinizes that banisters, or skip up the stairs. In 1926 the mother superior we celebrate within the Rite of Christian Initiation of tested her vocation by sending her to serve a spell as tutor to one of the seven children of a widowed naval commander, Adults are derived, in part, from the fourth century Georg von Trapp. In time, and with the blessing of her abbess, church’s practice of exorcism. The word “exorcism” sets she left the convent, married Georg, and bore three additional many on edge, but these are not the “exorcisms” of Hol- children. lywood movies, instead they can be understood more Their story inspired the popular musical The Sound of Music— fully in the context of baptismal preparation. though with some poetic license. Yes, they fled Nazi rule in Austria, but there was no climb over the Alps; instead, a train to In a baptismal context, the unbaptized person is suscep- Italy and a boat to America. Maria consoled the children by tible to the temptations to evil that surround us every recalling the Holy Family’s flight from Herod to Egypt. After day. As baptized people, we are strengthened by the that, she felt that “Jesus was a member of the family.” After Georg’s death, Maria and three of her children became mis- grace of the sacraments to overcome temptations. The sionaries in Papua New Guinea. She died in Vermont on March unbaptized do not yet fully experience that sacramental 28, 1987. grace. So the scrutinies are used to strengthen the un- baptized elect on the final leg of their journey to initiation. “It will be very interesting one day to follow the pattern of our life as it is spread out like a beautiful tapestry...In looking back In today’s RCIA scrutinizes, the elect kneel and bow their we can discover how a red threat goes through the pattern of heads, while the words and actions of the exorcism are our life: the Will of God.” addressed to the Trinity. —Maria von Trapp ~~The first part of the exorcism is addressed the Father. Joke of the Week ~~The second part is a silent laying on of hands that is an invocation of the Holy Spirit. Higher Power ~~And the conclusion is addressed to Jesus. A Sunday school teacher said to her children, “We have been There is evil in the world, and, as part of the human con- learning how powerful kings and queens were in Bible times. dition, we are all injured and oppressed by it in some But, there is a Higher Power. Can anybody tell me what it is? way. The scrutinizes are the church’s remedy for the wounds the elect have suffered and a means of their One child blurted out, ‘Aces!’ liberation from the evil that ensnares them: Steve Cassady-sponsor: Randell Cassady Elizabeth Peters-sponsor: Tori Rynders James Stoeckel, Jr.-sponsor: Lacie Martin res them: Spread the Gospel, the Good News about Jesus and His St. Anthony Family A HOLY COMMUNITY THROUGH HOLY COMMUNION! Your brother in Jesus, March 7, 2021 Pastor’s Column St. Anthony of Padua, High Ridge, MO “Lent is the favorable season for renewing our encounter with Christ, living in his Word, in the sacraments and in our neighbor.” -Pope Francis Dear Parish Family of St. Anthony, During Lent our community will participate in CRS Rice Bowl, a faith-in-action program that invites us to en- counter our neighbor, as companions on the journey, through prayer, fasting and almsgiving. As we prepare for this holy season, it is especially meaningful to come together in prayer as a family. Reflect- ing on the crosses of hunger, poverty and war carried by our brothers and sisters forced to flee their homes, we have an opportunity to also reflect on our roles in caring for them as members of our human family. Please take home a Rice Bowl and calendar (included inside) today and begin using this during Lent. We will collect your CRS Rice Bowl at the end of Lent. Thank you for participating in CRS Rice Bowl with your family. P.S. Did you know that CRS Rice Bowl has a web page specifically for families? Visit crsricebowl.org/ families for activities that will help your family grow in our Catholic faith this Lenten season. Please consider these suggestions in your family’s Lenten plan: SUSTAINABILITY IN EL SALVADOR Drought has become a big problem across El Salvador, ✞ Pray the booklet daily: 5 Minutes with the Word: making it difficult for farmers to produce enough crops Lent 2021. to support their families. But new farming techniques— and a new generation of young farmers—are making a ✞ Use your CRS Rice Bowl and Lenten Calendar difference. What would you do if your livelihood was daily to guide your prayer, fasting and almsgiv- threatened? How can you support young people in your ing. community and around the world? Visit crsrice- ✞ Read the Rice Bowl Stories of Hope and daily bowl.org. reflections to inspire your Lenten journey - and guide your Lenten almsgiving. ✞ Prepare simple, meatless meals on the Fridays of Lent to eat in solidarity with our brothers and sisters around the world. ✞ Visit crsricebowl.org/stories to watch videos of the people and communities you support through your Lenten gifts to CRS Rice Bowl. March 7, 2021 Welcome to CRS Rice Bowl 2021! We are so happy you’re joining us on this Lenten journey to three countries, where we’ll learn how to help others through CRS Rice Bowl. When you donate to CRS Rice Bowl, you share your life and your abundance with our global family in need. Your generosity puts nutritious food on their tables and helps them lead healthy lives and reach their God-given potential! A Story of Hope from El Salvador New techniques and technology are changing the way farming is done to help restore the environment as well as reshaping the dreams of young people like Edwin Carlos. Some young people in Ahuachapan in eastern El Salvador think that being a farmer is a thing of the past.