MAY 2, 2021 5th Sunday of Easter ... a pilgrim church coming to know the kingdom of God by being Christ to the world. 3722 S. 58th Street | Milwaukee, WI 53220-2053 | (414) 545-4316 EUCHARIST: PARISH DIRECTOR CONNECT: SAT 5:00 PM NANCIE CHMIELEWSKI WEBSITE ololmke.org SUN 8:00 AM|10:30 AM Office: (414) 545-4316 x113 EMAIL office@ololmke .org Cell: (414) 335-5264 Capacity limited to 200 FACEBOOK /ololmke people during social INSTAGRAM /ololmke distancing. Reservation required to attend Mass. FAX (414) 541-2251 FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP UPDATE Parish Support - April 2021 Improvement Fund Updates 2021 Catholic Stewardship Appeal (4/5/2021) ACTUAL BUDGETED Beg. Balance 7/1/20 $69,882.96 as of 4/23/21 for April Donations $ 28,262.43 Donations: ......................... $20,079.00 Reg. Envelopes ........................... $61,759.19 $65,000.00 Expenses $ 2,027.87 Goal is $42,844.00 ............. 46.87% Offertory ......................................... $1,489.01 $5,000.00 Balance (4/23/2021) $96,117.52 THANK YOU! Donors: ............................................. 130 Budget Updates Fiscal Year: April 2021 Our Lady of Lourdes is grateful Goal is 1,078 ........................ 12.06% ACTUAL BUDGETED for your continued support DECIDE TO LEAD Operating Income ..................... $836,089.35 $748,116.66 of all our ministries. www.CatholicAppeal.org Operating Expenses ................. $630,266.42 $741,910.15 We are blessed by your generosity! FROM THE PASTORAL COUNCIL VIRTUE OF THE WEEK Radical Kindness LOYALTY While in the library, I was searching for a DVD that would challenge me. By chance, I came across Black Like Me, a memoir of John Howard Griffin, a white Loyalty is unwavering commitment journalist who choose to darken his skin, immerse himself in the Deep South in to the people and ideals we care 1959 and experience what it was like living as an African American under about. We are steadfast through racial segregation. His journey caused him to be both venerated and vilified. good times and bad. Even when Given the present racial tension, I wondered, 60 years later, what is the impact others disappoint us, we are resilient of his story today? Does it matter? I thought, what a radical decision Griffin and forgiving. We invest in our made, to try to experience the life of a black person during that time and relationships and do what it takes to place. Some may argue he had a choice, but the person whose skin color is keep them whole and strong. We different, does not. True, yet this is the action he chose, to try and understand stand by our true friends whatever the life of a black person. I honestly don’t know if we are called to such the cost. Above all, we must be true extreme measures to understand another person’s life. to ourselves and loyal to what we What are we called to do in today’s conflicts? I believe I am called to live know is right. radically in other ways, for example, radical kindness. Considering the many Jesus explains love and friendship catastrophic problems in the world, kindness may seem like an insignificant in the Gospel. This reading provides response to make a difference. Kindness is an act underrated and its impact an antidote to hate so needed in our underestimated. It is not equivalent to weakness. “No act of kindness no matter world today. Read the Gospel how small is ever wasted,” Aesop. We can ponder scripture and the Good slowly, maybe twice, John 15:1-8. Samaritan who was the only kind “neighbor” to the man assaulted. His act of Who has shown you that kind of love kindness made all the difference to this man. Jesus challenges us, “Go and do and loyalty? What and where can the same” to help make a difference in the world. you improve? Jacqueline Dombrowski, Parish Council Member SUN 2 MON 3 TUE 4 8:00 am Liturgy Church Building Closed Building Open RESERVATION REQUIRED 9:00 am–3:00 pm 10:30 am Liturgy Church 6:30 pm Discipleship Institute RESERVATION REQUIRED Closing Prayer Food Pantry Drop-off in Thanksgiving Garden Inside Only Sunday Mass Video on ololmke.org 10:00 am SVDP Mtg. Rm 3 2:00 pm Blood Drive Hall 6:45 pm Boy Scouts - Tr. 612 Rm 10 COMMUNITY LIFE FORMATION In Memoriam Confirmation 2021 In loving memory of Saturday, May 1, at 10:00 am Jaclyn Brockman Bishop Jeffrey Haines From Don Brockman Our Lady of Lourdes In loving memory of Samantha Barth – Catherine Lorraine Spahn Isabelle Felber – Gemma From Stuart Goldsmith – Gregory Michael & Patricia Ball Luis Gonzales – Sebastian Thomas & Mary Jane Berndt Craig & Julie Hopfensperger Annemarie Graham – Anne Priscilla Malek Lukas Jones – John Sally Olewinski Demis Juarez - Martin Chuck & Sharon Thimmesch Bryce Marifke – Francis Gavin Marifke – Thomas Tyler Muchka – Peter Tess Oldenborg – Christine Devin Pendergast – Francis Ayla Petri – Lawrence Miya Petri – Margaret Isaac Porter – Thomas Wrenly Porter – Aelred Dominic Setum – Sebastian Gita Shiltz – Terese Mala Shiltz – Elizabeth Caleb Yatchak – Bernard Richard Zarling – Matthew St. Gregory the Great Ashlynn Banks – Asella Nailea De La Torre – John Guadalupe Manuel Hernandez – Anthony Maxwell Steele – Sebastian WED 5 THU 6 FRI 7 Building Open Building Open Building Closed 9:00 am–3:00 pm 9:00 am–3:00 pm 6:00 pm TAG Mtg. Virtual Food Pantry Drop-off Food Pantry Drop-off Inside Only Inside Only 10:15 am Faith Group Social Hall C 7:00 pm Liturgy Team Mtg. Virtual WORSHIP OUTREACH A Poem: I am the vine; a sonnet by Malcom Guite From St. Vincent de Paul How might it feel to be part of the vine? In the Gospel today, Jesus says Not just to see the vineyard from afar “Whoever remains in me and I in him Or even pluck the clusters, press the wine, will bear much fruit, because without But to be grafted in, to feel the stir me you can do nothing.” Indeed, by Of inward sap that rises from our root, helping the poor we can “bear much Himself deep planted in the ground of Love, fruit” and we find that with Jesus we To feel a leaf unfold a tender shoot, can do everything. Your gift to the Society of St. As tendrils curled unfurl, as branches give Vincent de Paul will show that you A little to the swelling of the grape, are indeed the disciple of Jesus as it In gradual perfection, round and full, will bring your love to those who live To bear within oneself the joy and hope in fear and doubt, loneliness, and Of God’s good vintage, till it’s ripe and whole. dread. What might it mean to bide and to abide In such rich love as makes the poor heart glad? Blood Drive Tuesday, May 4 A Reminder 2:00 pm–6:00 pm We no longer need to make reservations for weekend liturgy beginning in There is an urgent need for blood. June! Please continue to make reservations until then. Donors can call the Blood Center at (877)-232-4376 or go online to And a Thank You tinyurl.com/OLOLBD050421. Profound thanks to all who have taken part in the hospitality ministries of ushering, spritzing, chair sanitizing and checking-in. Your ministry is sacred—you Food Pantry have kept us safe. We are all so very grateful. If you would like to join in this Please drop off bagged food ministry (we always need ushers), please contact Deb Steppe. inside the east entrance, Tuesday– Thursday, 9:00 am–3:00 pm. Most needed items: canned beets, carrots, and mixed vegetables; fruit; Hamburger Helper, and cereal (no oatmeal) (Updated 4/22/21). Please watch the expiration dates. Non-perishable items only, please. Learn more at ololmke.org/food-pantry. Looking for a few good nurses The Lazarus Ministry, is connecting to the Nightingale Tribute for certified registered nurses and licensed practical nurses who are buried from the parish. The tribute SAT 8 SUN 9 recognizes the nurse's commitment to patients and dedication to the 5:00 pm Liturgy Church 8:00 am Liturgy Church nursing profession. This short service is RESERVATION REQUIRED RESERVATION REQUIRED presented by a nurse during the 10:30 am Liturgy Church funeral liturgy or at the funeral Sunday Mass Video on ololmke.org RESERVATION REQUIRED home. We are looking for a small pool of registered nurses who would Sunday Mass Video on ololmke.org be willing to help with this ministry. If interested, please contact Rick Cesar, R.N. at (414) 659-0182 or [email protected] for more information. SPOTLIGHT Notes from Nancie: Sexual Violence Awareness Month: Ending Rape Culture As we complete this month of awareness, I offer ideas on how you can end rape culture: Speak out. Rape culture is allowed to continue when we see violence and dominance as “strong” and “male”, and when women and girls are less valued. It is also underpinned by victim-blaming. A victim’s sobriety, clothes, and sexuality are irrelevant. Counter the idea that perpetrators must obtain power through violence and question the notion of sex as an entitlement. Redefine masculinity. Establish policies of zero tolerance for sexual harassment and violence in the spaces in which you live, work, and play. Hold leaders accountable to this. Broaden your understanding. Rape culture goes beyond the notion of a man assaulting a woman alone at night… words, actions and inaction can normalize sexual violence and harassment. Understand the impact. Rape culture affects all, regardless of gender identity, sexuality, economic status, race, religion or age. Know the history of rape. Rape has been used as a weapon of war and oppression throughout history as a means to degrade women, their communities, for ethnic cleansing and genocide.