MASS SCHEDULE:

Weekdays 7:00 or 9:30 a.m. (Convent)

8:00 a.m. (St. Ann Church)

Saturday 7:00 or 9:30 a.m. (Convent)

5:00 p.m. (St. Ann Church-Sunday

Fulfillment)

Sunday 8:00 a.m. (St. Ann Church)

11:00 a.m. (St. Ann Church)

BAPTISMS: By appointment. (Instruction

classes for Parents and God-parents on Monday

evenings by appointment. Contact the Rectory

early in pregnancy.)

CONFESSIONS: Sat. 4:00 - 4:45 p.m.

WEDDINGS: Prepare for your marriage.

Archdiocese guidelines must be followed.

Contact the Pastor at least 6 months in

advance to assist you. You must be attending

Sunday Mass.

7530 Natural Bridge Normandy, Missouri- 63121

www.stannchurch-stl.org School website: www.sacs-stl.org

Father Bill Kempf, Pastor, ext 855 Pat Marstall, Secretary- 385-5090, ext 851

Mary Jo Reichenbach, Principal School- 381-0113

Anna Hook, Preschool Director- 382-2974 Eileen Engelmeyer, Bookkeeper- 385-5090 ext 852

Parish Center Scheduling and Rental- 385-5090

PASTORAL CARE OF THE SICK: If you

are unable to attend mass for a prolonged

period of time, call the rectory to arrange for

Holy Communion at your residence. Likewise,

please inform the rectory staff if you

will be hospitalized so we can attend to your

spiritual health.

NEW PARISHIONERS: A warm welcome

to new parishioners. Please stop at the Rectory

and register. If you move, please let us know.

CHILDRENS LITURGY:

Grades K thru 6, Special Liturgy of the Word

at 11:00 a.m. Sunday Mass, Sept-May

BULLETIN DEADLINE: Noon on Tuesday

PARISH ORGANIZATIONS MEETINGS

Knights of Columbus - 2nd Wednesday - 7:30 p.m.

Rosary begins at 7:20 p.m.

Ladies’ Guild-Second Thursday– 8:00 p.m.

Men’s Club - Last Wednesday - 8:15 p.m.

Finance Committee Quarterly - 7:00 p.m.

School Board - 2nd Monday - 6:30 p.m.

Athletic Association - 4th Monday - 8:00 p.m.

Social Justice Committee-4th Monday-7:00 pm

SAPO……………………..1st Tuesday-7:00 p.m.

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

January 31, 2016

Lector Schedule February 6, 7, 2016 Saturday, February 6, 5:00 pm: Teresa Harris

Sunday, February 7, 2016: 8:00 am: Karen Hubbard 11:00 am: Greg LaFontain

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time

SANCTUARY LADIES : Friday, February 5, 2016 Rosemary Fischer & Audrey Hughes

From the Pastor’s Pen: From Pope Francis’s letter for Lent “God’s mercy transforms human hearts; it enables us, through the experience of a faithful love, to become merciful in turn. In an ever new miracle, divine mercy shines forth in our lives, inspiring each of us to love our neighbor and to devote ourselves to what the Church’s tradition calls the spiritual and corporal works of mercy. These works remind us that faith finds expression in con-crete everyday actions meant to help our neighbors in body and spirit: by feeding, visiting, comforting and instructing them. On such things will we be judged. For this reason, I expressed my hope that “the Christian people may reflect on the corporal and spiritual works of mercy; this will be a way to reawaken our con-science, too often grown dull in the face of poverty, and to enter more deeply into the heart of the Gospel where the poor have a special experience of God’s mercy” (ibid., 15). For in the poor, the flesh of Christ “becomes visible in the flesh of the tortured, the crushed, the scourged, the malnourished, and the exiled… to be acknowledged, touched, and cared for by us” (ibid.). It is the un-precedented and scandalous mystery of the extension in time of the suffering of the Innocent Lamb, the burning bush of gratui-tous love. Before this love, we can, like Moses, take off our san-dals (cf. Ex 3:5), especially when the poor are our brothers or sis-ters in Christ who are suffering for their faith. In the light of this love, which is strong as death (cf. Song 8:6), the real poor are revealed as those who refuse to see themselves as such. They consider themselves rich, but they are actually the poorest of the poor. This is because they are slaves to sin, which leads them to use wealth and power not for the service of God and others, but to stifle within their hearts the profound sense that they too are only poor beggars. The greater their power and wealth, the more this blindness and deception can grow. It can even reach the point of being blind to Lazarus begging at their doorstep (cf. Lk 16:20-21). Lazarus, the poor man, is a figure of Christ, who through the poor pleads for our conversion. As such, he represents the possibility of conversion which God offers us and which we may well fail to see. Such blindness is often accom-panied by the proud illusion of our own omnipotence, which re-flects in a sinister way the diabolical “you will be like God” (Gen 3:5) which is the root of all sin. This illusion can likewise take so-cial and political forms, as shown by the totalitarian systems of the twentieth century, and, in our own day, by the ideologies of monopolizing thought and technoscience, which would make God irrelevant and reduce man to raw material to be exploited. This illusion can also be seen in the sinful structures linked to a model of false development based on the idolatry of money, which leads to lack of concern for the fate of the poor on the part of wealthier individuals and societies; they close their doors, refusing even to see the poor. To be continued..

In the Gospel today, Jesus show us that we are called to place gospel values before any other values and to be willing to put our lives on the line for them. Taking care of God’s poor is indeed

living gospel values. In the month of January, through your gifts, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was able to assist 42 families, providing 24

with food, 18 with utility and other bills. Thank You!

Readings for the Week of January 31, 2016 Sunday: Jer 1:4-5, 17-19/Ps 71:1-6, 15-17/1 Cor 12:31--13:13 or 13:4-13/Lk 4:21-30 Monday: 2 Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13/Ps 3:2-7/Mk 5:1-20 Tuesday: Mal 3:1-4/Ps 24:7-10/Heb 2:14-18/Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22-32 Wednesday: 2 Sm 24:2, 9-17/Ps 32:1-2, 5-7/Mk 6:1-6 Thursday: 1 Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12/1 Chr 29:10-12/Mk 6:7-13 Friday: Sir 47:2-11/Ps 18:31, 47, 50-51/Mk 6:14-29 Saturday: 1 Kgs 3:4-13/Ps 119:9-14/Mk 6:30-34 Next Sunday: Is 6:1-2a, 3-8/Ps 138:1-5, 7-8/1 Cor 15:1-11 or 15:3-8, 11/Lk 5:1-11 ©Liturgical Publications Inc

January 31: Dynamic Catholic, Alive! – Rejecting Christ Through Sin: Today we heard about the rejection of Jesus at Nazareth. Those who rejected Jesus were rejecting the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6). How often do we reject God in our own lives, through our sinful actions and words? Have we em-braced the fullness of the faith, as taught by the Catholic Church, which was founded by Christ and is protected by the Holy Spirit? There is freedom in embracing the Truth. archstl.org/dynamic

Save the Date for the 2016 Dinner Dance and Auction St. Ann’s annual Dinner Dance and Auction is scheduled for Saturday, April 30th. Please reserve the date on your calen-dars today! If you have questions or would like to serve on the committee please call Kate Flatley at 518-5241 or email her at flatleyk@gmail.com.

You are invited to the seminary's annual Open House on Sunday, February 14 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. This is an oppor-tunity to meet our seminarians, tour the campus, learn about seminary life, and pray in the renovated Chapel of St. Joseph. Guided tours with our seminarians will begin at 1:00 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. Ample parking is available. We hope that you will join us for this event at 5200 Glennon Dr., St. Louis, MO 63119.

Congratulations to St. Ann School alumna Meagan Mohan (and parents Karen and Matt Mohan) who was selected as Incarnate Word Academy’s Mission Model for the month of December 2015. In addition to serving multiple organiza-tions, Meagan volunteers with our Children’s Liturgy Pro-gram. We are proud of Meagan for demonstrating values she learned from her parents, St. Ann School, and IWA.

Ignatian Spirituality Lecture Series event: Our next lec-ture event is Wednesday April 13, 2016. It will be held at SLUH in the Si Commons at 7:30 pm. Fr. Francis Ryan, S.J. will give a talk called "To Be of Some Help to My Neighbor" - A Jesuit in Hospital Chaiplancy. Registration will open next week at www.whretreat.org

CONFIRMANDI MEETING NEXT SUNDAY, FEB 7 in the PARISH CENTER, 9:30-10:45 am

St. Ann Church January 31, 2016

MONDAY, February 1 7:00 am Maria Nhai Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 8:00 am Mel Husmann, Sr.

TUESDAY, February 2 7:00 am Maria Bac Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 8:00 am Juliette Murray

WEDNESDAY, February 3 7:00 am Maria Hoa Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 8:20 am Margaret Kulage

THURSDAY, February 4 7:00 am Maria Nhai Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 8:00 am John Ngoc Nguyen

FRIDAY, February 5 7:00 am Brigida Emma (Good Shepherd Convent) 8:00 am Helen Sullivan

SATURDAY, February 6 9:30 am John Ngoc Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 5:00 pm John Merrill

SUNDAY, February 7 8:00 am The people of St. Ann Parish 9:30 am Maria Nhai Nguyen (Good Shepherd Convent) 11:00 am Bob Lacey

FINANCIAL REPORT

For the 4th week of January ending 1/24/2016

$6,060 Stewardship Goal: $28,400

Actual Monthly Parish Stewardship: $27,360 Money Counters: Monday, February 1: Team A

WEEKDAY MASSES Mon-Wed, Feb 1-3 Desiree Gigers & Payton Ligon Thurs, Fri, Feb 4, 5: Ethan Bulard & Justin Reese SATURDAY, February 6: 5:00 pm: Jack Garrett & Payton Ligon SUNDAY, February 7: 8:00 am: Alex Lawrence & Tahj Henderson 11:00 am: Christine Oyalo & Felix Opiyo

James Alexander

Katie Alexander Patrick Barry Alex Befort Dorothy Birdsong

Mary Leigh Britt Carl Brown Don Buchholz

Marie Buechert Marcia Buterin Walter Chadwick

Helen Craven Fr. Jim Edwards Rose Ann Emma Elaine Fitzgerald

Kathleen Fitzgerald Marie Gagnepain Bruce Gardiner

Julie Garcia Dominic Gaulden Fritzi Goodman

Wallace Goodwin Emily Habel

Shannon McLaughlin Healy

Mary Hof Cindy Hogan

Chris Holmes Mike Hubbard Betty Husmann

James Jakle Levi Jennings Maggie Jost Michael Jost

Jack Klein Pauline Lawler Barb Lynch

Kirk Markuly Dan McGraugh Bob Merritt W.D.M.

MaryLouise Montgomery Peggy Murry John Nikonowicz

Jack Niland Sheila Nunes Anne Parker

Kevin Putnam

Marcia Putnam Vi Rodgers Carol Ruth Roszhart Kimberly Ryan

Joan Schroeder Rose Marie Schroeder Al Schulte

Blain Selvidge Stephanie Selvidge Raymond Sharp

Fred Shea Michael Shea James E. Smith Barbara Ten Eyck

Martha Ten Eyck Sarah Trzeciak Joe Welsch

Nancy Whalen Barbara Williams Theresa Zlotopolski

Alfred Zlotopolski

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SAFETY AND WELL BEING OF ALL THOSE SERVING IN OUR MILITARY, especially

Matthew Collins Keith Campbell Dylan Hilliard Brandon Klink Justin Scott Robert Spilling Andrew Spilling and the sick, the hospitalized, home bound and

nursing home residents:

COMING EVENTS - MARK YOUR CALENDARS! CNC’S Wines Around the World……………...…..….Fri, Feb 5 St. Ann School/Preschool Trivia Night…….………..Sat, Feb 6 Superbowl Party…………………………………..….Sun, Feb 7 SAPO Progressive Dinner……………………….…Sat, Feb 20

Mark your calendar for Wines Around the World at the Newman Center on Friday, Feb 5. We will have wine tastings, food, and mu-sic by the Tail Lights Band. Cost is $35.00 per person. We are also selling raffle tickets to win a gourmet wine basket valued at $300.00. Raffle tickets are $5.00 for one or 6 for $25.00. You do not need to be present to win the raffle. See Kay Dieckmann or Fr. Bill with questions. As always, thank you for your support.

SAPO’s annual Progressive Dinner is scheduled for Saturday, February 20 from 6 pm until 1 am. The cost is $55 for a couple, $27.50 for a single. We need volunteers to host dinners (8-12 guests.) If you would like to host a dinner please note that on the reservation form. Paid reservations are required, by Friday, Febru-ary 7th. Reservation forms are available at the church exits. Ques-tions? Please contact Dana Aubuchon at 791-1904 or email grade3@sacs-stl.org.

ATTENTION SCHOOL PARENTS: The Today and Tomorrow Edu-cational Foundation has a new unified application form available online at NO COST TO PARENTS. This application will apply for all scholarships for which your child is eligible. Scholarships for the 2016-2017 school year will be awarded on a first come-first served basis, and applications will be accepted starting Febru-ary 1. Please visit www.ttef-stl.org for additional information pertain-ing to the scholarships available, questions you may have, and the application process.

SUPER TRIVIA NIGHT 2016 – RESERVE YOUR TABLE NOW for our annual Trivia Night to support St. Ann School and Early Child-hood Center. It's set for Saturday, February 6 at 7:15 p.m. (Super Bowl Saturday) with doors opening at 6:00 p.m. This event is spon-sored by St. Ann Parents’ Organization (SAPO), assisted by the St. Ann Men's Club. Get a table of 8-10 friends together and join us for an evening of fun and entertainment. $20.00 per person for a ten-round session, snacks and bar service, and cash prizes. To reserve your table, please call Bill Hook at (314) 382-5786 or Pat or Eileen at the Rectory at (314) 385-5090. Or you can e-mail table reserva-tions to whook2809@msn.com. Questions? Please call Bill Hook at 382-5786.

Bring the family and watch Super Bowl 50 on the big screen with St. Ann fans in the Parish Center Sunday, Feb 7. Doors open at 5:00 pm...Kick off is at 5:30. Free soft drinks, hot dogs and snacks. Feel free to bring your own snacks and drinks. Beer and wine is available for purchase.

COFFEE & DONUTS NEXT SUNDAY, February 7, in the Parish Center following the 8 and 11 am masses, hosted by the Knights of Columbus. Join fellow parishioners and any guests for refreshments and conversation.