Mater Christi Church 2401 S. 10th Avenue

North Riverside, IL 60546 www.materchristichurch.org

(708) 442-5611

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time January 20, 2019

Donna Accetta Pola Aguirre Mary Arvai Lisa Barreto Julian Betancourt Linda Bronsteader Janet Broucek Lee Brown Laura Buono Del Burns Dorothy Caduto Celeste Casper Catherine Costabile Geri Cozzi Raymond DeBoth Rose DeSimone Therese Dolmant Fr. David Dowdle Edward Dragosh Elaine Dul John Dunajcik Barbara Garbarski Anthony Gorski Elena Gorski Robert Green Barb Gurski Alex Hauser-Vandevort Debra Henley Larry Hersh Nancy Hicks Irene Horacek

Casimira Infante Rose Marie Jirasek Irene Kaminski Linda Kariotis

Katherine Karynicki Theresa Kledzik

Ally Koruna Nancy Koruna Jim Kratochvil

Royston Maddock Benicio Martinez

Jim Mehr Spencer Mehr

Licila Nash Steven Obremski Dean Pennacchio Beth Pennacchio Rob Piotrowski

Elsie Piszczor Donna Reisiger

Mark Rini John Rysz

Rosa Maria Santos Daniele Santucci

David Sheffer Margaret Shether

Sam Smetko Fran Smith

Nicholas/Mary Szalinski Carole Turek

Max Venchus

Please pray for...

Mass Intentions for the Week Monday, January 21 8:00 a.m. For the children in our community

Tuesday, January 22 8:00 a.m. For the seniors in our community

Wednesday, January 23 8:00 a.m. For all who are listed in our prayer list

Thursday, January 24 8:00 a.m. For our recently deceased

Friday, January 25 8:00 a.m. For our Ministers of Mater Christi Church

Saturday, January 26 5:00 p.m. Jim Burns Judy Novak Gene Krochman

Sunday, January 27 8:00 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 11:00 a.m.

For all the people of Mater Christi Church Homer Manfredi Theresa Wozniak Eric Paitl Daniel Mokrzycki Ed & Lillian Mokrzycki Donato Leone Antoinette Tuttle nee Leone Arsenia Lim

Please let the parish office know if any names in the prayer list should be removed to

accommodate additional requests. Thank you.

If you or a loved one needs anointing, or it’s an emergency and need to see the pastor but can not travel, please call the church office so we

may assist you as soon as possible. Thank you.

Reminder: The Rosary is said every

Monday through Friday at 7:30am in the Church.

COME PRAY WITH US!

Need to schedule a mass intention?

Please remember that space is available for Mass Intentions for loved ones, especially during our

weekday Masses. Please call the rectory at (708) 442-5611 at least two weeks prior to the Mass

that you would like the intention scheduled for. Thank you!

Is there any among you sick? They should call for the elders of the Church and have them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord. James 5:14

FROM FR. MATT’S DESK January 20, 2019 Here is a great article from Philip Kosloski from Aleteia about the Canadian saint may who may be one of the greatest healers the Church has ever seen.

--Rev. Matthew A. Nemchausky

It didn’t take long for St. André Bessette to become known as the “Miracle Man of Montreal.” He was a simple lay brother, not wanting much attention, but graced by God with a deep and abiding faith.

Similar to Bl. Solanus Casey, Bessette was a porter, the “door man,” for the seminary and daily went about his business with little fanfare. He spent long hours on his knees and constructed a small chapel in honor of St. Joseph, where he spent much of his free time.

It didn’t take long for visitors to Bessette’s small chapel to begin reporting cures and special heavenly favors. It soon caught the attention of the local Archbishop who said after visiting the chapel, “Shall I say that miracles are wrought in this shrine of St. Joseph? If I denied that such was the case, the ex-votive offerings in yonder pyramids would belie my words. I need make no investigation, I am convinced extraordinary occurrences have taken place; corporal cures, perhaps, although it; is quite easy to suffer illusion in such cases, and spiritual cures still greater have been wrought here. Sinners have come here, have prayed, and after prayer confessed their iniquities and gone away at peace with God.”

Crowds began to form and they started to ask Brother André for his personal prayers. Miracles continued to occur and they labeled him a “Miracle Man.” Bessette only laughed at the name and said, “It is St. Joseph who does these things, I am like you, simply a suppliant.”

While he never became a priest, Brother André sat with people, heard their many sufferings and prayed with them. Afterwards many were healed of their ailments, either physical or spiritual. According to some estimates, over 10,000 people were cured (with some estimates reaching as many as 125,000).

Even after his death in 1937, people continued to report cures (and still do today). Author Patricia Treece writes about one such miracle for Catholic Exchange.

Flash forward to 1954: Joe Audino began having health problems. By 1957 they had intensified. By the next year, 1958, the advanced form of reticulum cell sarcoma was throughout his body. Radiation could no longer keep pace with the cancer. Joe was face-to-face with death, his diagnosis “terminal” and his death expected within thirty days. He was in too much pain to make a confession or receive Communion, he says. He simply lay hopelessly in bed, too weak to walk, with a football-size liver. In his troubles he thought of Br. André. And no matter how bad he felt, he never stopped praying for Br. André’s help. “I knew he’d be able to help me,” he says.

He consented to an experimental treatment that never helped anyone else. But shortly after, he was cancer free. His doctor Philip Rubin, chairman of radiation therapy at the University of Rochester Cancer Center, says, “There is no clear scientific explanation for his cure.”

St. André Bessette was a simple man, with a simple faith, a “mustard-seed faith” which could move mountains. He knew in his heart God could heal people and perform miracles, never doubting the power of God.

With a faith like his, nothing was impossible.

MATER CHRISTI WOMEN’S GUILD

MARDI GRAS MISSION DINNER

DATE: FAT TUESDAY, MARCH 5th

PLACE: MARIAN ROOM

(Lower level of the church building)

ENTERTAINMENT BY:

Magician Trent James

TIME: 6:00pm (doors open at 5:30pm)

$30.00 PER PERSON

Everyone is welcome.

This event is not exclusive to Guild

members. Bring friends, spouses,

colleagues, neighbors, etc.

(No children, please)

For more information/ticket purchase contact:

Barb at (708) 769-8515

This event raises funds for local charities: Helping Hands, St. Vincent DePaul Society,

Catholic Charities, Sister House, and Housing Forward (PADS)

Mother of Mothers Shrine Engraved Bricks are available to order for this Spring. A 4” X 8” brick is available

with a gift of $200 to $500, and an 8” X 8” brick is available with a gift of $500 or more. If you are interested,

please stop by the Parish office dur-ing regular office hours. Monday

through Friday from 9a.m. to 5 p.m.

Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica Poland (December, 2013)

Eucharistic Miracle in Legnica Poland (December 2013) The miracle happened at the Christmas Mass of

2013, when a consecrated host fell to the ground during the distribution of the communion in the Shrine of San Jacinto, it is worth mentioning that St. Jacinto was a 13th century Polish Dominican religious, a great preacher of the Eucharist and the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

The host was collected and placed in a container with water (vasculum) so that it could dissolve, as the canonical norms command in those cases; however, once in the water, a red stain of singular texture appeared on the host, suggesting human tissue. The then Bishop of Legnica, Stefan Cichy, instituted a commission to investigate what happened with the sacred form and in February 2014, with the permission of the diocese, a fragment of host with the appearance of bloody tissue was removed and placed on a body. After that, samples were collected to be analyzed in laboratories of different forensic institutes. Physicians from the departments of legal medicine consulted verified that the collected fragments contained transverse striated muscle cells similar to those of the cardiac muscle. According to the Catholic Herald, the exams were conducted in the department of legal medicine, in Wroclaw (in German: Breslau), at the beginning of 2014. Another study was carried out later by the department of legal medicine of the Pomeranian Medical University, in Szczecin (in German: Stettin, in Spanish Estetino), and the laboratory concluded that the tissue is of human origin, and signs were suffered a long agony. " Considering the importance of medical legal opinions, in January 2016 D. Kiernikowski took the case to the Vatican, submitting it to the theological consideration of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. That important Vatican congregation declared itself in favor of exposing the miraculous host for public veneration, and recommended that the facts be well explained to the faithful. The host was exposed in a chapel of the sanctuary under the responsibility of the parish priest, Andrzej Ziombrze. In the proclamation document of the miracle, the bishop affirms: "I hope that this will serve to deepen the adoration of the Eucharist and have an unmistakable impact on the lives of the people. The hope of the bishop is of great importance for our time, when the Eucharist is intended to be delivered to public sin-ners, forgetting that in it the Body, Blood, soul and divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ are truly, real and substantially present. NOTE: Adoration is held every Monday from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at Mater Christi church.

You can still register for Online Giving. It’s a great way to be sure that your contribution

reaches us if you are unable to make it to Mass. If you would like to register for

Online Giving and need assistance, please call the rectory at (708) 442-5611,

Monday - Friday from 9am to 5pm.

Safe Family Resources

Emergency: 911

Domestic Violence Hotline: 800.799.SAFE(7233) www.ndvh.org and

www.batteredwomensnetwork.org

Catholic Charities Counseling: 312.655.7725

Alcohol Issues: www.aa.org and www.al-anon.org

General site: www.archchicago.org

Bryant’s Building Blog

I hope everyone had a great Christmas season! We have an update on the elevator! As of now, the installation of the elevator is tentatively scheduled to begin the week of February 11th. If all goes as planned, the work is projected to last about 2-3 weeks. This project will modernize the operating system, allowing for less breakdown and malfunctions. This will eliminate the fears of being stuck in the elevator car. If you are unable to make it to Mass without the use of the elevator, please call the rectory office and we will arrange for a home visit from a Minister of Care to bring the Eucharist to you. We thank you in advance for your cooperation with this project! For the convenience of our parishioners, we have scheduled this project before the start of Lent and the Easter Season.

The boiler is completed! We are all snug as a bug in a rug. Thank you, thank you, thank you for your cooperation, flexibility and support during this whole process. The installation of the new boiler has brought the Church building another step towards perfection! Stay tuned for the next issue of Bryant’s Blog!

Bryant Rouleau Facilities Manager musicman@materchristichurch.com

You are invited to a Holy Mass in Spanish at Mater Christi Church on Sunday,

January 27, 2019, at 1:00pm.

The celebrant for this Mass will be Fr. Marco Coloma, a visiting priest from Ecuador, and

con-celebrated by Fr. Matthew.

Immediately after this Mass, we will have hospitality in the Marian Room. There will be teaching and conversation on how we can grow

in our relationship with Jesus, our savior.

We will listen to the teachings given by Fr. Marco and Sr. Esther in order to understand how

we can have a closer relationship with Jesus.

Knowing and following Jesus is so important in our daily lives.

Thank you

This Mass is sponsored by: Mater Christi Church and

Couples for Christ/ Parejas Para Cristo

If you were unable to come to Mass and would like a weekly bulletin, copies of “The Word”

are in the parish office and are also available online at

materchristichurch.com

St. Barbara Parish in Brookfield is hosting its 2nd Annual Taste of St. Barbara on Saturday, January 26, 2019 from 6pm to 9pm in the Parish Center, 4015 Prairie Avenue, Brookfield. Sam-ples of foods from around the world made by St. Barbara parishioners will be available to all who attend. This is a family friendly event so admission is FREE. Food and drink tickets will be available at the door. There will be raffles of beautiful baskets and a “wooden spoon” raffle during the evening and attendees will have a chance to vote on their favorite food and booth. Come and sample foods from Colombia, Philippines, Spain, Italy, Ireland and more at this memorable event to help support the ministries of St. Barbara Parish.

Mater Christi Catholic Church @MaterChristiChurch

North Riverside/Riverside Golden Agers…

Join now and have fun all year long! The North riverside/Riverside Golden Agers are an active group of men and women who enjoy fun and friendship with others. The club was founded in 1969 for the purpose of sponsoring good fellowship. Membership is open to any resident, 62 years of age or older. A younger spouse may also become a member or attend as a guest. Dues are only $10 per year. Meetings are held from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Village Commons in North Riverside. Join us for lunch and see for yourself. Activities include: bingo, field trips, holiday parties and functions, informative speakers, community happenings, etc. For more information, please contact Dolores Rizzitiello, President of the Golden Agers at 312.343.0667 or the North Riverside Recreation Dept. at 708.442.5515

“Love does not tolerate indifference; love is compassionate. Love

means putting your heart on the line for others.”

Pop Tabs for Ronald McDonald House

Mater Christi Parish continues to collect pop-tabs from aluminum cans. Once recycled,

they help families struggling with their children’s serious illness. A collection bin is

available in the Church vestibule. Thanks for your help!

The Church Office will be

closed on Monday, January

21st in Observance of

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

MATER CHRISTI WOMEN’S GUILD

ANNUAL RETREAT

PLACE: CARMELITE SPIRITUAL CEN-

TER

DATE: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2019

TIME: 9:30 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

$35.00 PER PERSON

(includes continental breakfast and lunch)

Transportation is on your own

Everyone is welcome. Need not be a

Guild member.

For more information/ticket purchase contact:

Bern Gordus 708-447-5433

Rosann Lorenz 708-442-5888

Deadline for tickets is March 02, 2019

DAY/TIME PRESIDERS LECTORS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS

ALTAR SERVERS

CANTORS USHERS

Saturday, January 26

5:00 pm

Fr. Matthew Nemchausky

PJ Folz

Richard Kral Linda Johnson

Bonnie Krochmal

Yemaya Ramirez Melanie Guzman

Rosemary Santoro

Al Cimino Joe Messlein Ted Watylyk

Sunday, January 27 8:00 a.m

Fr. Matthew Nemchausky

Carry Behrendt

Carol Davidson Myra Zak

Olga Horacek

Iggy Bielobradek John Bielobradek

Jeanine Watylyk

Warren Binder John Bork Bill Lacey

K.C. Skama

Sunday, January 27 9:30 a.m

Fr. Matthew Nemchausky

Virginia Kott Richard Sima

John Augustine Kathy Ranieri Mike Zdarsky

Kevin Paitl Karen Paitl

Karen Paitl

Jim Cashin Nina Corrigan

Ed Dulik

Sunday, January 27 11:00 a.m.

Fr. Cy

Nemecek

Rosann Lorenz

Al Sarro

Don Zielonka Judy Moy

Bernadine Gordus

Bridget Roudebush Gavin Scheidler

Arlene Batek

Joe Edmonds Fernando Flores Gene Koszala

Tom Roudebush

Liturgical Ministers’ Schedule ~ January 26 & 27, 2019

January 21, 2019 ** Martin Luther King, Jr. Day** OFFICE CLOSED 6:00pm Eucharistic Adoration (C)

January 22, 2019 6:00pm RCIA (R)

January 24, 2019 6:00pm Pinewood Derby Set-Up (MH)

January 25, 2019 6:00pm Pinewood Derby (MH)

January 26, 2019 8:00am Faith Formation Classes (S) 8:00am Daily Mass— Intentions of the Mother of Mothers Shrine (C)

January 27, 2019 1:00pm Spanish Mass (C), Hospitality Following — Hosted by Mater Christi and ** All are Invited ** Couples for Christ/Parejas Para Cristo

~ EVENTS AT A GLANCE ~

2019 Annual Catholic Appeal “Come, Follow Me”

The theme for the 2019 Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA) will again be “Come, Follow Me.” Although you have received your 2019 Annual Catholic Appeal envelopes in your monthly mailings, additional Appeal brochures and materials will be in “The Word” in upcoming weekends. You can either send in your gift now or wait until the Commitment weekend of February 16-17 when our ushers will hand out the materials during Mass. Please look for the Appeal brochure and materials in future bulletins. Each gift is important, appreciated, and makes a difference. The Annual Catholic Appeal benefits parishes in need, faith formation for children and adults, peace-making in troubled neighborhoods, the formation of ministers who serve in the Church and through Catholic Relief Services who serve people throughout the world affected by natural disasters and war. On behalf of those who will be served by the ministries and services funded by the ACA, we thank you in advance for your gifts.

Mater Christi Church 2431 S. 10th Ave

North Riverside, IL 60546

Pastoral Staff Rev. Matthew Nemchausky Pastor Rev. M. Cyril Nemecek Pastor Emeritus Julie Paitl Faith Formation Coordinator Jeanine Watylyk Director of Music Bernadine Gordus Director of Baptismal Prep & Wakes

Office Staff

Kathleen Keen Business Manager Ann Weber Office Secretary Yolanda Infante Office Secretary

Facility Staff Bryant Rouleau Facility Manager

PARISH CONTACTS

Rectory/Parish Office (708) 442-5611 Fax (708) 442-1306 Convent (School Sisters of Notre Dame) (708) 447-0032 Fr. Cy Nemecek (708) 442-8168 Fr. Matthew Nemchausky frmatt@materchristichurch.com

Web Site: materchristichurch.org

https://www.facebook.com/MaterChristiChurch/

Contributions for January 13, 2018 Regular Sunday $3,941.00 Faith Formation $617.00 Mother of Mothers Shrine $737.00

300 CLUBRAFFLE WINNERS

December 30, 2018 1st Prize Joanne Suba 2nd Prize Belen Delgado

January 6, 2019 1st Prize John Augustine 2nd Prize Matt Radek

January 13, 2019 1st Prize Linda Escalante 2nd Prize Romano Family

Organizations Holy Name Society -- Women’s Guild

secretary@materchristichurch.com

MASS SCHEDULE Sabbath Liturgy Saturday 5:00p.m. Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00a.m. Daily Liturgy Monday thru Saturday 8:00a.m. Holy Day Liturgy 8:00a.m & 7:00p.m.

RECONCILIATION The Sacrament of Reconciliation is offered each Saturday from 4:15 - 4:40 PM or by appointment.

BAPTISM Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated at 12:30 on the first & third Sunday of each month but we gladly accept any requests. If you are celebrating the Baptism of your first child we ask you par-ticipate in a parent meeting. Please call the rectory to schedule your child’s Baptism.

MARRIAGE If you are recently engaged, Congratulations! Please call the rectory to set a date!

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION R.E. classes are held on Saturday mornings during the school year. Please contact the rectory office for further information.

MINISTRY OF CARE Ministers of Care visit the homes of the sick, homebound or hospitalized and bring Holy Communion to them. The Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick is administered by the parish priest upon request. Medical privacy laws necessitate the family’s notification of the Church if a patient would like to receive a visit. Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements.

Contribution Statements for 2018 will automatically be mailed this week to all our parishioners who donated $200 or more. If you would like a statement for donations less than $200, please call the rectory.

Mater Christi Church is blessed to have you all.

Thank you for your generosity!