Life Teen: See Bulletin Or Call the Parish Office to See If There Is a Mass
Mass Schedule
Sunday: - Pianist: 7:30 am
St. Helen Choir: 9:15 am
Testify: 11:00 am
Saturday Vigil Mass - Pianist 5:00 pm
Life Teen: See Bulletin or call the Parish Office to see if there is a Mass.
Monday - Friday: 8:00 am
Friday (During the school year) 9:00 am
Saturday - Mass 8:00 am
Pray for our seminarians: Phillip Lewandowski and Bobby McWilliams
/Holy Day Mass Schedule
(See Bulletin for Vigil and Holy Day Mass Schedule)
Confession Schedule
Saturday: 3:30 to 4:30 pm
Sunday before each Mass by request
Baptisms: By Arrangement - Please call the Parish Office
Marriages: By Arrangement - Please call the Parish Office
Visitation of Our Sick: We are concerned and want to be advised when someone is ill at home or in the hospital or in a long term care facility. Please call the parish Office to have the shut in place on our Friday calls.
Pregnancy Hot Line 1-800-395-HELP (4357)
THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR
Mon Sep 28, 2015
8am - 8:30am Mass /CH
1:00pm-3:00pm Book Discussion
2:30pm - 9pm Boosters/Gym
5pm - 7pm Prayer Shawl Ministry/TL
6:15pm - 7:30pm PSR/EDGE
/K,2,3,4,5,6,PMR,CH
7:30pm - 9:30pm Testify practice/CH
Tue Sep 29, 2015
8am - 8:30am Mass /CH
9am - 12am Adoration Exposition /A
2:30pm - 9pm Boosters/Gym
7:00pm-9:00pm Teen Advisory/LTC
7pm - 9:30pm Womens Renewal/Cafe
7:30pm - 9:30pm RCIA/Webers
Wed Sep 30, 2015
8am - 8:30am Mass /CH
8:30am - 10:30am Legion of Mary/ BR
10:30am - 11:30am Fatima Hour /A
2:30pm - 4:30pm Dance/PMR
4:30pm - 10pm Retreat planning/LTC
5pm - 11pm Bingo /G
7:15 pm Men’s Book Study/PMR
Thu Oct 1, 2015
8am - 8:30am Mass /CH
2:30pm - 9pm Boosters/Gym
6pm - 7:30pm Music planning/CH
7:00pm-8:30pm Healing Ministry/BR
7pm - 9pm Geauga Teens for Life/LTC
7pm - 8pm Men's renewal/A
7:30pm - 9:30pm choir/CH
8pm - 11pm Men's renewal/Music
Fri Oct 2, 2015
9am - 10am School Mass/CH
2:30pm - 9pm Boosters/Gym
2:30pm - 4:30pm Dance/PMR
8:00 pm Covenant of Love/PMR
Sat Oct 3 2015 SVdP Collection
8am - 8:30am Mass /CH
9am - 1pm Boosters Volleyball/Gym
3:30pm - 6pm Confessions & Mass /CH
5pm - 6pm Mass 5:00/CH
Sun Oct 4, 2015 SVdP Collection
7am - 12pm Donuts & Coffee/ K,C.
7:30am - 8:30am Mass /CH
9:15am - 10:15am Mass /CH
11am - 12pm Mass /CH
2:00pm - 4:30pm Dance/PMR
5:30pm - 9pm Mass lifenight,CH, LTC
6pm - 9pm AA /C
A =ADORATION CHPL BR =BRIDES ROOM C =CAFETERIA CF =CONFERENCE RM CH = CHURCH G = GYM GCSC = Geauga County Safety Center LTC = LIFE TEEN CENTER M = Music Rm. OLCH = OLD CHURCH R =RECTORY S =SOCCER FIELD SC =SCHOOL TL =TEACHER’S LNGE PO = PARISH OFFICE PMR=Parish Meeting Room
Masses for the Week
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, TWENTY-SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Nm 11:25-29, Jas 5:1-6, Mk 9:38-43 45, 47-48
7:30 – Marilyn Jackson – (Pat Nowak and Family)
9:15 – Nick Artino – (St. Helen Choir)
11:00 – Beverly Haas – (Serafina Tirabasso)
5:30 – Kenzie O’Connor (Living) – (Lifeteen)
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, WEEKDAY, SAINT WENCESLAUS, MARTYR, SAINT LAWRENCE RUIZ AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS Zec 8:1-8,/Lk 9:46-50
8:00 – David Suhy – (Bill and Alyce Molnar)
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, SAINTS
MICHAEL, GABRIEL, AND RAPHAEL,
ARCHANGELS
Dn 7:9-10. 13-14 or Rv 12:7-12a, Jn 1:47-51
8:00 – Genevieve and Jay Placko –
(The Oleksiak Family)
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, SAINT JEROME, PRIEST AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH Neh 2:1-8, Lk 9:57-62
8:00 – Agnes Madden (Birth Anniv.) –
(The Family)
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, SAINT THERESE OF THE CHILD JESUS,
Neh 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12, Lk 10:1-12
8:00 – Cy Koster (Birth Anniv.) –
(Joanne and Robert Wilson and Family)
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, THE HOLY
GUARDIAN ANGELS Bar 1:15-22, Mt 18:1-5, 10
9:00 – Deborah Koster Hupp (Birth Anniv.) –
(Joanne and Robert Wilson and Family)
CHILDREN’S MASS
7:00 – Donna Ingram (Living) –
(Len and Sue Smith) FIRST FRIDAY MASS
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, WEEKDAY
Bar 4:5-12, 27-29, Lk 10:17-24
8:00 – Parishioners of St. Helen
5:00 – Genevieve Szydlowski –
(Tom and Judy Szydlowski)
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Gn 2:18-24, Heb 2:9-11, Mk 10:2-16 or 10:2-12
7:30 – Della and Joseph Jerman –
(Bill and Joanne Majeski)
9:15 – Mary Henkel (Anniv.) – (Ethel Pikus)
11:00 – Jim and Helen Paryzek – (The Family)
5:30 – Jim and Mary Beth O’Neill (Living) –
(Lifeteen)
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STEWARDSHIP
The offering for the week of Sept. 20, was $13,439.36 with 1,104 of our faithful parishioners in attendance and 280 envelopes were used. Thank you all for your continued generosity and support of our parish.
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A Reflection from Deacon Will:
The grace of God poured out upon each of us is not ours to keep or wield as a bludgeon upon the unsuspecting. If it’s of God it’s always life-giving. Life-giving could very well be not of this life here on earth but in union with the heavenly hosts at the banquet we are all striving to reach.
Don’t water it down, clearly the message of Mark’s Gospel. “Whoever is not against us is for us.” Friday with my trip to hospital this time as a patient rather than a visitor drove this message home. God’s hand was in the entire day. It started with a little nagging chest pain that wouldn’t go away. The ER Doctor did an EKG returned to the room with a strip of paper with glyphs that compared with the Dead Sea Scrolls. Her smile stated well before words that everything was going to be OK, “you did not have a heart attack.” Another Doctor appears and says we need to wait for the blood work before you can go home. Five minutes later she reappears and states your having a massive heart attack we’re moving you to ICU now. Lots of poking, jabbing, sticking, and testing, surgery and supper a quiet night and discharge. A bit watered down, each of those people realizing it or not were of God and NOT WATTERED DOWN.
Fr. Jay often says that to gain the kingdom of Heaven you need to do three things, Know, Love, and Serve the Lord. So deeply entwined those three little words an entire way of life, to Know you must Love, to Love you must Serve, to Serve you must Know. Be careful to not allow any part of your being let any part of those three little words become watered down. You are the cup of water being offered to the body of Christ because you belong to Christ.
Pray Always
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PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE ILL: Wayne Ardo, Ed Bieznieks, Sally Boyer, Laurie Bucar, Annette Cillian, Bill Csonka, Bob D’Aurelio, George Edgar, Lisa Gragg, Len Hosmer, Paul Kovary, Katarina Kekedy, Sara Koval, Diane Lionti, Mary Ellen Martin, Brendan McMeechan, Anthony Montagna, Linda Mulacek, Helen Nelson, Bill O’Brien, Mary Ann O’Brien, Dave Omerza, Lucy Pishnery, Martin Polomsky, John Rakoczy Sr., Candace Ramsey, Bob Rasmussen, Evelyn Rowlands, Mona Grysho Shirk, Jackie Stebnicki, John Strzalka, Liz Szuszkiewicz, Derek Turk, Ida Urbancic, and Terry Williford.
PRAY FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED: Dave Omerza (husband of Linda and father of John) and for Florence Silvernail (mother of Mary Ann Hawkins).
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BANNS OF MARRIAGE
II – ANTHONY WANNER AND MARISSA ZASTAWA
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ELIJAH CHALICE SCHEDULE
Sept 27 – The Fender Family
Oct 4 – Bob and Sue McIlroy Family
Oct 11 – Aaron and Clara Murray
If you are interested in joining this vocation prayer ministry, please contact: Marsha Sallee 440.338.8649.
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Five Minute Bible Study
Mark 9:38-43; 45; 47-48
Jesus uses a “surgical metaphor” to speak about the importance of avoiding the “occasions of sin.” Jesus is not proposing self-mutilation of hands, feet and eyes. Rather, he is saying that if there is anything in our lives which is coming between us and our relationship with God, it must be rooted out. The rooting out may be as painful as a surgical operation. It may seem like cutting out a part of our own body, but if we are to experience happiness and peace, it must be done. Jesus ends by saying that spiritual surgery is certainly preferable to Gehenna (Hell).
Sometime this week, whether on your own, while sitting at the family dinner table or talking with friends, reflect on the following question : What needs to be cut out of your life to bring you closer to God?
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LADIES GUILD NEWS: Come join us while we celebrate Father Jay’s ??? birthday on October 8th at Mary Yoders. We will start with Mass at 8:00 a.m. then breakfast at Mary Yoders afterwards. For only $15.00, you will enjoy the unlimited breakfast bar, beverage, birthday cake, tax and gratuity are included, however, you will be able to watch our very own Father Jay blow out the candles on his birthday cake…priceless. Reservation forms are by the kiosk in the gathering space. Take one and return it no later than Oct. 5th, either in the collection basket or at the parish office.
THE SISTER CHRISTIN WING: We are naming the former church, currently under renovation, the Sister Christin Wing. The campaign for funding the Sister Christin Wing is in progress. Many parishioners have asked how to donate in memory of Sister Christin. Please mark your donation "Sister Christin Wing" and drop it off or send it to St. Helen School, 12060 Kinsman, Newbury, OH 44065. We welcome all donations. Thank you so very much for all your support of St. Helen Catholic School. Please send your tax-deductible donation by Sept. 30th in order to be named on our donor plaque. Thank you for your generosity.
SINGING PARISHIONERS: Choir members are needed and welcome. If you love to sing and love our Lord, than please consider joining the Choir. We begin singing at 9:15 Mass Sunday, September 20. All voice types welcome from ages 12 on up. (Ages 12 to 17 with parent or guardian present) Questions? Call Jack Tayek 440-724-3218.
SAINT HELEN’S WOMEN’S MINI-RETREAT “Mary, our Mother, our Hope and Help on Life’s Journey” God is calling to the hearts of women! Mary, the Mother of our Savior will help you on your journey in Life! She has many graces to pour out on you and your Family! Come to be refreshed by God’s love through the help of our Blessed Mother at our Mini-Retreat on Saturday, November 7th starting at 12:30. Information and registration will be in the Gathering Space starting Oct. 3rd-4th. Don’t miss this opportunity to receive all that God is waiting to give you!
SYRIAN REFUGEES: Pope Francis has asked all European Churches to help support the thousands of refugee families fleeing Syria. While the United States is deciding if and how many families we will allow into this country, we at St Helen Parish have decided that the need in Europe is immediate, and feel we need to do our share. We have contacted a Parish in Kettering, England, that is in the process of trying to adopt a family, and hope to help them aid and support this family. We hope to have details in the very near future.
PARISH MEETING ROOM: We have turned to old 5th and 6th grade unit into our new parish meeting room, called the PMR. This room is available to all parish groups for meetings. We will also be using the new school music room for smaller meetings. Please call Mary at the parish office ext 206 to schedule your meeting. Since we are all sharing these rooms, pictures will be posted in each space showing how you are responsible for leaving the room set up. There is also a list of instructions on caring for these spaces available in the office.
FIRST FRIDAY MASS AT SAINT HELEN’S ON OCTOBER 2ND AT 7:00PM: All are invited to celebrate the First Friday of October Gather your family and come for this wonderful opportunity. Jesus promises: In the excess of the mercy of my Heart, I promise you that my all powerful love will grant to all those who will receive Communion on the First Fridays, for nine consecutive months, the grace of final repentance: they will not die in my displeasure, nor without receiving the sacraments; and my Heart will be their secure refuge in that last hour.
THE HEALING MINISTRY will have healing prayer teams available after the First Friday 7:00 pm Mass on Friday, October 2, 2015. If you would like to schedule a healing session on another day, please contact Sue White : 440-213-9242, or send an email request to .
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"IT'S A MATTER OF LIFE..."
The legislation to defund Planned Parenthood passed the House. Its passage is being acclaimed by politicians and national prolife groups. The bill is seriously flawed. Its language creates a class of human beings who are excluded from protection by the bill. It defunds all abortions except those of children conceived in rape or incest. For these children, their dismemberment will continue unabated. These children face execution solely for the sins of their father and killing them will still not "unrape" their mother, will serve to destroy the evidence of the violent crime to which she was a victim, and will protect the criminal who committed the crime.
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40 DAYS FOR LIFE: From September 23 through November 1, you are invited to join other Christians for 40 Days for Life – 40 days of prayer and fasting for an end to abortion. If you would like more information call Bill and Clare O’Brien at 440-840-0008. Or visit the website at www.40daysforlife.com/cleveland.
BABY BOTTLE "CHANGE FOR LIFE" The annual Baby Bottle spare change campaign for HELP, our Pro-Life Apostolate begins on October 3and will conclude on the weekend of October 31-November 1. Monies collected are the sole financial support for our mission to defend the sanctity of all human life.
FIRST SATURDAY MASS at the Benedictine Abbeyfollowed be a prayer vigil at Preterm abortion mill. Car pool leaves St. Helen Upper lot at 8 AM on Oct. 3rd and returns at 12:30
ST. VINCENT DE PAUL-the September collection at the exits will be 9/26 and 9/27. Thank you.