PAXCHRISTINEWS Monthly Magazine of Pax Christi Catholic Community in Eden Prairie September 2016 HELP MAKE A DREAM COME TRUE Participate in the Habitat for Humanity build this fall. Page 16 WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE! Do Justice, Love Tenderly, Walk Humbly. –Micah 6:8 Pages 6–10 2 TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2016 4 12100 Pioneer Trail, Eden Prairie, MN 55347-4208 Phone: 952-941-3150 Website: www.paxchristi.com The Many Paths to Service by Fr. Marc Paveglio Office Hours Monday–Thursday 8:00am–4:30pm Friday 8:00am–12:00pm Mass Schedule Weekend Masses Saturday 5:00pm Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am, 5:00pm Nursery available at all weekend Masses. Interpreter for hearing impaired at 11:00am. Weekday Masses 6 7 Mondays 8:30am Tuesdays 8:30am with Rosary to follow What's in Your Toolbox? Called to Serve: Safely Wednesdays 6:00pm Thursdays 8:30am Fridays 8:30am Sacrament of Reconciliation (private) Saturdays 4:00–4:30pm The Pax Christi News is printed monthly by the Church of Pax Christi of Eden Prairie. We accept unsolicited manuscripts and photos from parishioners but reserve the right to edit and publish such material at our discretion. Email submissions, photos, and/or questions to Melissa Nault, 8 9 Communication Arts Director, [email protected], or 952-405-7221. All contributions become the property of Pax Stewards of Service Stories of Service Christi Catholic Community. TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR SEPTEMBER 2016 3 10 11 16 17 Parishioner News and Helping to Build a Dream Called to Serve Faithful Citizenship This Month’s Readings 12 18 Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about What's Going On Twelve Baskets at Pax Christi 14 20 21 Faith in the Home Month at a Glance.... psst, tear this page out! Contact Information 4 FR. MARC PAVEGLIO THE MANY PATHS TO SERVICE The stage was set. The lights of hours the week prior, and WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE: were on. The audience was now with acting and musical AS A FAMILY pressing against the door to the accompaniment, they retold theater, not as much a line as a one of the greatest moments Even though a solo performance is a special kind of art, when Fr. Marc Paveglio clump. They bit their lips and of the Gospel. The culmination Parochial Vicar tapped their toes in anticipation was the ending where the a whole cast of characters of when the wait would be over. merciful father invited everyone takes the stage, things get The production was months in into the party, and the younger exponentially more interesting. the making — some even said it and older sons embraced in When The Prodigal Son was was years. The actors were ready. reconciliation. They did an being acted out, each person Inside the door the finishing amazing job, and I was deeply on our Drama Team had a part touches were wrapping up, and touched by how they let the to play. They had to help each it was time. Showtime. Suddenly Word of God come alive in and other and care for each other. the door swung open, and the through themselves for others. They had to have the same rabble outside burst into the purpose in mind so that their theater, quickly taking their These wonderful youths of our production would communicate places as their eyes eagerly took parish didn’t just put on this God’s message; they weren’t in the backdrops, the sounds, play because it would be fun — concerned about who had and the performers. they did it in order to serve their the most lines or the coolest younger brothers and sisters in costumes. Was this the latest hit play at Christ. And hey, it definitely was the Orpheum on opening night? a lot of fun, too! In the same way, when we serve Nope. It was the Garden Room our neighbor we do it not simply at Pax Christi. The audience? When I saw our Drama Team as individuals but as a family. 2nd and 3rd graders. The at work this past summer, I We were reborn into this family production? The Prodigal Son instantly thought of our parish’s of faith by the grace of God, and (Luke 15:11-32.) The actors? annual theme starting this fall: we surrender our lives to our Our very own Vacation Bible We are Called to Serve. Father in heaven. God gives all Camp Drama Team! of us gifts from the Holy Spirit, WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE. but no one person possesses Each day at Bible Camp, the all of them. We as a family have Drama Team put on four Serving—it’s what Jesus did. to join hearts and hands. We different showings of a Bible Serving—it’s the stuff we are have to be united. We have to story that reveals God’s mercy made out of as Catholics. Serving: love each other for the common for us. The team, comprising 13 it’s in our DNA at Pax Christi. purpose of God’s glory, humbly students in grades six through Serving—a command, a gift, and refusing the temptation to make 11 had practiced for scores an art given to us by the Lord. it about our own glory. FR. MARC PAVEGLIO 5 WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE: WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE: they serve (Mark 10:42–45). For WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE: AS A VOCATION AS A WORK OF LOVE Jesus, leaders are those who AS PAX CHRISTI serve. Leaders serve not to get Each of our Drama Team Even the pre-school children ahead themselves but to help As we enter into the fall season members was called to serve got to see The Prodigal Son others get ahead. We actually together, may our new parish on the team. Someone asked at Vacation Bible Camp. They do receive something when theme penetrate our hearts each one of them somehow. definitely enjoyed it, yet, since we do this — we receive Christ, and minds. May we always be Maybe it was mom or dad, or they are so young, we know since it is Him living and moving a people who serve together as a friend, or someone from our that they don’t fully understand within us when we serve in love. family, who serve as a response faith formation staff. Maybe it everything that happened in Communion with Christ is life to God’s call, and who serve as was an announcement or a flyer. the parable. And that’s okay. itself, joy itself, and love itself. a work of love! Whatever the method, there What they did understand was was a call — a vocation — and that forgiveness and love won each of them said, “Yes!” over anger and alienation. What they did experience was that It’s the same thing with us. The these “big kids” put on this play Lord calls each of us to serve for them as a work of love — one another. No one is exempt! because they cared! Each person’s call is a little different, but God calls each of When God calls us to serve, us, and he wants us to respond He calls us to undertake a with gratitude, humility, and joy. work of love. This means that He wants us to say, “Yes!” Each sometimes those we serve do day we can listen for His voice. not or will not fully appreciate Every day He calls us to serve our efforts. But love does not with small acts of love; some expect rewards; love does days He calls us to lifelong not calculate the return on missions of service that take investment. Jesus reminded years to unfold. We never know us that worldly leaders love when He will choose to speak to to “lord it over” those below our hearts, so let us be vigilant. them. Yet, Jesus’ disciples are How is He calling me today? only great to the extent that 6 SEPTEMBER 2016 WHAT’S IN YOUR TOOLBOX? WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? –Micah 6:8 My father-in-law was a man who lived by the maxim, “Got to have The concept of having the right tool to answer the need that is the right tool for the job.” For example, his workshop didn’t have presented to you when we consider being called to serve all we one hammer, but several, and not because he hoarded hammers but encounter. WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE is our annual community- because he would use one for a particular kind of job and another wide theme for this upcoming year. for a completely different use. Each hammer might have a similar look, but one might weigh more, have a different grip, a deeper claw, Last year, you may recall, we opened wide the doors to celebrate a different style of face or head. All of Bernard’s hammers were the Year of Mercy and encouraged all members of Pax Christi to carefully tended, hung on a pegboard with outlines for quick return not only come in to the church but to go out and “BE” church to all after use. In fact, after his funeral, his sons and three of the cousins we encounter. Each ministry area was challenged to consider how each grabbed a hammer of Bernard’s, and we snapped a photo that their programs and ministries could answer the challenge to Open I like to think embodies the question, “What’s in your toolbox?” A Wide the Doors.