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October 4, 2015 Twenty-Seventh
Sunday In Ordinary Time
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SACRED HEART PARISH
UPCOMING EVENTS
Founders’ Day Weekend October 24th & 25th
Sacred Heart Men’s Retreat October 30th-November 1st
OKTOBERFEST 2015
Hearts Making a Difference The nation doesn’t simply need what we have. It needs what we are.
(St. Teresia Benedicta , Edith Stein)
ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE Tuesdays and Thursdays during the School Year Tutor Elementary students at St. Columbanus School. Leave SH at 9am, return by 1:30pm. Wednesdays St. Columbanus Food Pantry: Packing of Food at 7am at St. Columbanus Rectory Garage; Distribution of Food at 10am. Thursdays Shadow a Minister of Care at Lake-Cook Nursing Home or Glen Oaks Nursing Home. Contact the Parish Office for more information. Third Sunday of Every Month A Just Harvest Community Kitchen: prepare casserole and/or serve din-ner. Arrive by 4:30pm, and be home before 7:00pm. Contact Patty San-filippo for more information. [email protected]
A THANK YOU FROM A GRATEFUL ST. COLUMBANUS PARISHIONER
For those of you who have read about the St. Columbanus parishioner who needed some financial support to return to her Senior year of High School at Mother McAuley on the South Side, here is the text of the thank you note her mother wrote to the many parishioners who generously made donations to her cause. Quote from the front of the card: “Each small kindness, like a seed, grows tall in memory.”
Text: I am so grateful that people like you exist. Words can not tell you or explain how thankful and appreciative your kindness bestowed on Natasha and myself. Thanks to your kindness and generosity, Natasha has been given the chance to graduate from Mother McAuley. At the time when all hope, faith and belief was exhausted, you helped us. Thank you. I hope I, along with Natasha, will be able to return and help as you all have done for so many. God bless, Regards, Gina Johnson
Thank you to all of you here at Sacred Heart who made this possible for Natasha. You changed her life.
SAVE THE DATE: SHARING MASS AT ST. COLUMBANUS OCTOBER 18th at 11am The parishioners of Sacred Heart have been invited by Fr. Matt O’Donnell and the parishioners of our sharing parish, St. Columbanus, for Mass on Sunday, October 18th at 11am. There will be a special reception after Mass to dedicate the School Hall to Mrs. Wilson, who was their principal for nearly 40 years. Please consider attending and getting to know St. Columbanus a little better. You’ll truly enjoy the experience. The church is beautiful, the music phenomenal, the people warm and welcoming and the Pastor (Matt O’Donnell) extremely enthusiastic about all the new & good things happening at St. Columbanus. If you have ever donated to St. Columbanus appeals, worked at the Food Pantry, tutored at the school or participated in the Christmas Sharing Project, consider going to St. Columbanus to celebrate Mass. It’s a wonderful opportunity to put faces to the outreach we do. You won’t regret it! If you are interested in attending, please contact Judy Pyke at [email protected] or 847-446-0856.
HEART TO HEART pastor to parish
Parish Transformation Two weekends ago, I wrote about this process in which our parish is currently engaging. Here is a bit more information on Parish Transformation. (I’ve taken this information from the Archdiocesan website and adapted it somewhat.) The process is divided into two parts. In the first part, the team is given the opportunity to identify strengths or “pearls of great price” that give the parish its distinctive character and definition. At the same time, in the first part of the process, the team identifies those areas in parish life and ministry that may be weak or ripe for new development. A self-assessment tool is provided which outlines parish foundations and those key elements that comprise a parish for the team’s discussion and planning. In the second part of the process, the team focuses on financial and material aspects of parish life through benchmarking. Helpful tools are provided by which a parish reviews in detail its financial and material resources, personnel, budget, and facilities in light of the
best practices of the Archdiocese. at
regular intervals. Our team will also have available to them the results of the Long Range Planning Committee that met for three years. The results of the committee will be re-examined in light of what transpires during
Keep the Dates In the weeks ahead, there are a number of important dates to mark in your calendar. They are—
October 18 Sacred Heart parishioners are invited to attend the 11:00 a.m. Mass at St. Columbanus, our sharing parish.
October 24/25 Founders Day will be celebrated with a reception after each of our weekend Masses.
November 1 Father Matt, the pastor of St. Columbanus will preside and preach at our 10:30 a.m. Mass, while I will be presiding and preaching at St. Columbanus’ 11:00 a.m. Mass.
November 8, 15, 22 Weekends for Christmas sharing Adopt-a-Family, on the east side of the church in the cloister walk.
Dec 1 Advent by Candlelight in the school gym at 7:00 p.m.
December 12/13 Drop off weekend for Christmas sharing.
part one of the Parish Transformation process. The ultimate goal of Parish Transformation is to learn new ways of looking at parish life, to adopt new pastoral and fiscal practices where advantageous, and to initiate an ongoing review and refinement of the mission and vision of the parish
at regular intervals.
SPARKED HEARTS One Voice started on Sept. 13! Contact Carol or Kathy Janega Keenan if you would like to sing and/or play an instrument with our great teen ensemble! One Voice provides music for the 4:30 Mass twice a month during the school year and is open to high school students. Come and join us with any skill level; our only requirement is you love to make music! Interested in getting involved at Sacred Heart? Ask Carol for opportunities! There are so many ways to share your gifts! JUNIOR HIGH NIGHT is open to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. We meet the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month from 6:30-7:30 in the Teen Room, located in the basement of the Parish Center. (unless otherwise indicated) Oct 13 Project Linus is our first service project of the year! Bring with you 1-1/2 yards of polar fleece and a pair of scissors. That is all we need to make a blanket for a child in a hospital! We will be meeting at St. Philip the Apostle who we are teaming up with this year. They are generously letting us use their space for this great project! Exciting news! Our junior high youth ministry is teaming up with St. Philip the Apostle, who want to get youth ministry going in their parish! We will be trading spaces and working together to make an even stronger ministry! Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter @SparkedHearts and find us on Facebook! Contact Carol anytime 847-446-0856 x. 132 or [email protected]
Parents picking up their children prior to 10:15 am will also be asked to identify themselves.
We ask parents to remain in the entry hallway of the school until sessions are over.
If you need to take your child out early, you will be asked to sign them out.
Thank you for your cooperation!
SCHOOL NEWS The Giftwrap/Mixed Bag sale is in full swing! We have broadened our choices from not only giftwrap, to kitchen and home designs as well as an assortment of accessory and duffle bags. Look for all these great designs in the catalogs that came home last week. The sale will conclude on Friday, October 16th. Thank you again, for supporting the PTO of Sacred Heart School! It’s time for a Box Top and Grand Receipt Contest! September 23rd through October 23rd each homeroom will be collecting Box Tops and Grand Receipts. The classroom who raises the most money for Sacred Heart School will receive an OUT OF UNIFORM DAY! If you don’t have a student here at Sacred Heart School please either give them to one you know or simply drop the receipts/box tops off at school or in the Gathering Space at church. Thank you! There will be No School Monday, October 12th in observance of Columbus Day. Enjoy the long weekend!
Hearts Nurtured by Faith If God can work through me, he can work through anyone
(St. Francis of Assisi)
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
Do you know about Children’s Liturgy of the Word? Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) is an age-appropriate Liturgy of the Word offered for ages 5 through 3rd graders at the 10:30 AM Mass. No pre-registration is necessary. All children are
welcome and encouraged to attend. Just before the Liturgy of the Word begins for
the assembly, these children are invited to go with the weekly leaders from the church. During this special time, the volunteer teacher leads the children through prayers, songs and readings that are simplified for children. The children learn about the same Scripture readings as the rest of the assembly. They are taught a simplified main message of the readings and are encouraged to share that message with their parents after Mass.
New Security Procedures We have implemented a new security plan for the safety of our children. Student entry is by the front door of the school. Our back doors will be locked except for a short window for our catechists to enter.
The front door will be locked at 9:00 am and late students will need to be buzzed in.
If you need to enter the school building after 9:00 you will be asked to identify yourself.
Hearts Alive in Worship
Baptism By Appointment We celebrate Baptisms on Sundays following the 10:30 Mass. Our Baptism Guidelines and Baptism Information Forms are available on our website www.sacredheartwinnetka.com. For further information, please contact Trish O’Toole in our Parish Office at 847-446-0856.
Baptism Preparation 4th Sunday of the month 9:15 - 10:15 am in the Parish Office Conference Room.
Sacrament of Matrimony Contact a priest or deacon 6 months prior to the anticipated date of marriage.
Sacrament of Anointing Please call one of the priests at 847-446-0856.
Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday 9:00-9:30 am http://www.careerresourcecenter.org
Hearts Connected for Community Love is the beauty of the Soul
(St. Augustine)
Thank You to our Oktoberfest Volunteers and Attendees!
A huge thank you to Kristin and Rob Levoy, our Oktoberfest Co-Chairs who spent countless hours over the past months getting ready for another fantastic Oktoberfest celebration! A special thank you to the many, many volunteers who assisted with all of the tasks that need to be addressed in order to make our 4th annual Oktoberfest a rousing success: All-day set up volunteers, decorators, food coordinators, beer servers, carnival game volun-teers, dunk tank dads, root beer garden servers, volunteer and check-in coordinators, ticket sellers, raffle ticket sellers, t-shirt sellers, take down volunteers, Mass sacristans, lectors, servers, Eucharistic minis-ters, ushers. Wow! That’s a lot of people! Thanks also to the sup-port provided by everyone in the parish office and to the School and Religious Ed for promoting the event. We truly appreciate all of the sponsors for our event: Sylvester Con-struction Services, Inc., Grand Food Center, Mathnasium, Donnellan Family Funeral Services, Joseph Mullarkey Distributors, Anonymous Sacred Heart Family, The Bauer Family, The Burden Family, The DeCillo Family, the Fleming Family, the Hamman Family, the Levoy Family, the Jim O’Brien Family, the Daniel O’Bryan Family, the Steve Olson Family, the Vabakos Family, the Muhlenkamp Family, and Rich-ard & Marilee Wehman. And, of course, we are grateful for the beautiful weather with which we were so blessed. It wouldn’t have been nearly as much fun if it had been cold and rainy! Until next year…
THIS WEEK AT SACRED HEART
Monday, October 5 Scripture Reflection Group 9:00AM/POFR RE Board Meeting 7:00PM/POCR Tuesday, October 6 Mom & Tot 8:20AM/PCR Prayer Group 9:00AM/POFR Wednesday, October 7 Fire Prevention Week 9:30AM/PCR Thursday, October 8 Cheerleading Practice 11:20AM/PCR Choir Rehearsal 7:30PM/PCMR Sunday, October 11 No Religious Ed Classes
Hearts Connected for Community Love is the beauty of the Soul
(St. Augustine)
Annual Catholic Appeal Update Donor Count 169 2015 Goal $72,703 Pledged $75,654 Amount Paid $67,419 Balance Due $ 8,235
PARKING AT WEEKEND MASSES Please do not park in the Jos. A. BANKS’ parking lot, when coming to mass on the weekends. They have evening and Sunday hours to service their customers. Please respect our local merchants’ private parking areas.
Attention Ladies
Is your husband a bear? Would you like to turn him into a lamb? “When you give the gift of a retreat you are really giving the spiritual gifts of peace & solitude; rest & contemplation; support & guidance. This enables a deeper and more fulfilling time to pray; connection with Jesus; silence of worldly distractions. Which provides the most important and meaningful gifts of all: awareness of God’s ever present love and grace in our lives”. Ballarmine Men’s Retreat October 30-November 1 , 2015.
BULLETIN DEADLINE Please submit your bulletin articles by Tuesday 9:00AM.
Any articles received after the deadline will be placed in next week’s bulletin. Thank You.
Hearts Connected for Community Love is the beauty of the Soul
(St. Augustine)
STEWARDSHIP GIVING Actual Sunday Collection $218,805 Budgeted Sunday Collection $242,902 Shortfall $ (24,097) We are behind budget. We appreciate any help you can give us-it’s not inexpensive to operate a five-building campus!
PARISH TRANSFORMATION SURVEY Sacred Heart is undertaking the Parish Transformation process this Fall. About 50 parishioners from all age groups are partici-pating in two months of meetings and re-flection to develop a plan to enable Sacred Heart to more effectively bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to our community. We want and need your participation, which you can provide by completing this sur-vey. Your candid views are very important to us and will help our parish more vibrantly and effectively live out the mission of Christ. If you know someone who has left Sacred Heart, please share this with them as we value their opinion as well. All answers are anonymous. We request that you please complete this survey no later than October 12. Please note that all questions marked with an as-terisk are required. Hard copies of the survey and pre-addressed envelopes are available in the gathering space and vestibule. Please seal your com-pleted survey in an envelope and drop it in the basket or at the parish office. If you prefer to complete the survey electronically, please click on the QR code below, or click
on the link in this week’s parish eblast.
SCHEDULE
Monday, October 5 7:00am Communion Service 8:30am The Residents of Glen Oaks & The Grove Nursing Homes Tuesday, October 6 7:00am Communion Service 8:30am Intentions of the Prayer Group Wednesday, October 7 7:00am Communion Service 8:30am Joan Forte Thursday, October 8 7:00am Communion Service 8:30am Mimi McNulty Friday, October 9 7:00am Communion Service 8:30am Jim O’Toole Saturday, October 10 8:30am Intentions of the Nowacki Family; Intentions of Joe & Maggie Bramblet 5:00pm Coradini Family Sunday, October 11 7:30am Parishioners of Sacred Heart 9:00am Fernando Iturrino 10:30am Bruno Mantoan 4:30pm Parishioners of St. Columbanus
October 8 Lake Cook/Cathy Lehman Glen Oaks /Pat Broadbridge, Marge Kalsch
5:00pm Saturday October 10 Presider Fr. Semmer Greeter(s) Virginia Laura, Patty Sanfilippo Servers Johnny Joyce Lector(s) Ludy Mariano Eucharistic Ministers Catherine Lehman, Robert Maganuco, Ludy Mariano, Patty Sanfilippo, Lamarr Tyler Cantor Saturday Choir 7:30am Sunday October 11 Presider Fr. Semmer Greeter(s) Rae Fritz Servers TBA Lector(s) Trip Lane Eucharistic Ministers Bernadette Broccolo, Roberta Olshansky, Pete Wais Cantor Tim Stadler 9:00am Presider Fr. Semmer Greeter(s) Sally Hoban, Mary Newton Servers Michael Essig, Owen Gardner, Caroline Southwell Lector(s) Barbara Joyce Eucharistic Ministers Ryan Gardner, Sally Hoban, Roseanne Madden, Mary Newton Cantor Renee Gott Haring 10:30am Presider Fr. Lanza/Deacon Keenan Preaching Greeter(s) Jim Harrington, Christine Kengott Servers Apolline MacNab, Berenice MacNab Lector(s) Suzanne Gerlits Eucharistic Mnisters Mary Jo Bushell, Christine Kengott, Mark Kengott, Christine Pompizzi, Mike Pompizzi Cantor Sacred Heart Choir 4:30pm Presider Fr. Lanza/Deacon Keenan Preaching Greeter(s) Marion Powers Servers Molly Dillon, Evan Dobsch, Charlotte O’Bryan Lector(s) Chris Hartman Eucharistic Ministers James Collins, Lynn Finneke, Marion Powers Cantor One Voice Altar Servers Daily Mass 8:30am October 12 Charlie Skelly October 13 Izzie Schario October 14 Jack Craddock, Ryan Craddock October 15 Joe Bramblet, Maggie Bramblet October 16 Chris Loucks October 17 TBA
LITURGICAL MINISTERS—October 10-11 Mass Intentions
MINISTERS OF CARE
SACRED HEART PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION
Pastoral Staff Rev. Steven M. Lanza, Pastor—[email protected] Associate Pastor-Rev. Dean [email protected] Pastor Emeritus—Rev. Robert E. Ferrigan—847-647-6557, Rev. Robert J. Heidenreich—[email protected] Pastoral Associate—Judy Pyke—[email protected] Permanent Deacons—Michael J. McNulty—[email protected]—Gerry Keenan—[email protected] 773-251-6626 Director of Music—Todd Gresick—[email protected] Liturgy Coordinator/Children’s Choir—Kathy Janega Keenan—[email protected] 847-736-3198 Business Manager/Administrative Assistant to the Pastor—Michelle Wasielewski—[email protected] Sacristan Coordinator—June Hocter—[email protected] Youth/ Religious Education Minister—Carol Nowatzke—[email protected] Director of Stewardship, Marketing & Development-Mindi [email protected] Principal—Kristen Fink — 1095 Gage Street—847-446-0005—[email protected] Director of Religious Education—Sue Lehocky—1077 Tower Road —847-446-6535—[email protected] Support Staff Administrative Assistant & Bulletin Editor—Trish O’Toole—[email protected] Accounting/Census/Contributions/Tuition—Cindy Atsaves—[email protected] Bookkeeping—Suzie Danstrom—[email protected] Parish Office 847-446-0856/Fax 847-501-5311/www.sacredheartwinnetka.com Monday—Friday 8:30am—4:30pm School Office : 847-446-0005 Religious Education Office: 847-446-6535 Visit our website www.sacredheartwinnetka.com.
Find us on Facebook & Follow us on Twitter: @SHWinnetka
CHURCH NAME AND NUMBER —
Sacred Heart Church #862
ADDRESS —
1077 Tower Road
Winnetka, Illinois 60093
PHONE —
847-446-0856
CONTACT PERSON —
Trish O’Toole x 101
SOFTWARE —
Microsoft Publisher 2007
Adobe Acrobat 8.0
Windows XP Professional
PRINTER —
HP Laserjet 1022
NUMBER OF PAGES SENT = 12
SUNDAY DATE OF BULLETIN
October 4, 2015
THANK YOU!
