Welcome to St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church

610 West Ripa Avenue St. Louis, MO 63125

Mass Schedule Monday-Saturday 8 a.m. Saturday 4 p.m.

Sunday 7:30 & 10 a.m.

Mass on Holy Days National Holidays

Consult Sunday Bulletin

 

Sacrament of Penance

Saturday 3:00-3:45 p.m.  

Eucharistic Adoration Wednesdays from

8:30 a.m.-noon Also 1st Thursdays to

Saturdays of the month  

Marriages Contact parish office at least six months prior to

wedding  

Baptisms Contact parish office

to register for a baptism preparation class

 

Parish Contact Info Phone: 314-544-5664 Fax: 314-631-3118 saintmartinoftours

@yahoo.com   

Website http://

stmartinoftours.com

Society of St. Vincent DePaul

314-296-3733

Parish Office Hours Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

St. Martin of Tours Parish extends a Warm Welcome to all who have come to worship with us. We are honored by your presence. If you would like to join the parish, please contact the parish office. God Bless You!

LITURGICAL MINISTERS April 6 — April 7

Saturday 4:00 p.m. Sunday 7:30 a.m. Sunday 10:00 a.m.

Lectors

Ken McWhorter Bobbi Villani Lisa Hale

Eucharistic Ministers Jeanne & Jim Heisner Stephanie Parker Greg Hrbacek

Cathy Swoboda Bill Grahl

Carol Ritter Carol Mueller Marge Fedke Mary Ann Justin

Gift Bearers: Anne & Joe Hensiek Barbie & John Swalina Maria Fendler

Ushers

Lea Goolsby John Schmitt Mike Economon

Loretta & Larry Skaggs Bill Grahl Greg Buck

Harry Albers Art Brinkmeyer Norm Kistner Ray Busiek

Servers

Tom Tettamble Ken McWhorter, Jr.

Bobbi & Bob Villani John Benedick Kyle Kiser

ALTAR SOCIETY: April 5

Audrey Erbs Barb Muich

MASS INTENTIONS

8.00 a.m. - Monday April 1 Donald Liebman+ 8:00 a.m. - Tuesday April 2 Ray Austermann, Jr.+ 8:00 a.m. -Wednesday April 3 Walter Zenk+ 8:00 a.m. - Thursday April 4 Jack Geraci+ 8:00 a.m. - Friday April 5 Patrick Kertz+ 8:00 a.m. - Saturday April 6 Florence Gramann+ 4:00 p.m. - Saturday April 6 Barb Brockhaus+ 7:30 a.m. - Sunday April 7 People of the Parish 10:00 a.m.- Sunday April 7 Jim Gruber

MONEY COUNTERS: April 7

Greg Hrbacek John Schmitt, Bob Eike

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Is 65:17-21; Ps 30:2, 4-6,      11-13b; Jn 4:43-54  Tuesday: Ez 47:1-9, 12; Ps 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9;      Jn 5:1-16  Wednesday: Is 49:8-15; Ps 145:8-9,      13cd-14, 17-18; Jn 5:17-30  Thursday: Ex 32:7-14; Ps 106:19-23;      Jn 5:31-47  Friday: Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:     17-21, 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30  Saturday: Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7:2-3, 9bc-12;      Jn 7:40-53

Pastor Rev. Noah Waldman

314-544-5664 frwaldmansmt@yahoo.com

Deacon Rev. Mr. Edward Fronick

edfronick@charter.net

Business Manager Ms. Donna McKay

Administrative Assistant Mrs. Felice Nighbor

Religious Education Deacon Alan Boedeker

314-631-0691 aboedeker@sluh.org

Maintenance Mr. Rick Jobin

Mrs. Bridget Gabel

SUNDAY CONTRIBUTIONS

General $2539

Special Collections $ 29

Loose $ 669

Subtotal $3237

On-Line Giving $ 505

(Mar 18- Mar 24)

Total: $3742

Ouch! The offertory is getting

thin — please help!

THANK YOU!

To the many parishioners

who so generously support

ST. MARTIN of TOURS

PARISH

 

Pastor’s Pen Dear St. Martin of Tours Parishioners, Many adages can be ascribed to Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, the great 19th century English Man of Letters and convert to the Catholic Faith. Later in this bulletin you will read one which is a principle of the moral life: “To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.” Later, Winston Churchill will modify Newman’s dictum slightly by substituting one word: “To improve is to change ….” But the saying of Newman’s is far more profound because it implicates not merely a kind of qualification of human life, but a definition of human life: human life is change, which necessarily implies: To not change means to not live. Once one decides to settle in to a static, all-too-comfortable, and non-self-examined routine, one may as well give up the ghost. Now, what I have discovered over the years – a discovery that I think is due to the fact that I came from a world without God, and I now exist in a world em-braced and imbued by Him – is that true change, and therefore true human life, is rarely possible without an express knowledge and love of God. This fact became most apparent to me when I returned for my 25th college re-union in 2016. It was clear to all (by my Roman collar) that I had changed con-siderably, and entirely for the better. Old acquaintances found me to be far more enjoyable, fun, open, compassionate, and youthful than I was as an under-graduate. By contrast, most of my class brothers and sisters were, with little exception, the same people I knew long ago, only a bit grayer and wrinklier. “You certainly are a moving target to say the least!” my old roommate David quipped. David is one of the most brilliant and energetic individuals I have ever met. An atheist as he was in college, he nevertheless remains as joyful, popular and fun to be around. But he hasn’t, to my mind, changed much. In contrast, to David I’m virtually unrecognizable. That’s the work of God. Let me ask each one of you: If you were to reflect upon who you are today and who you were many years ago, In what ways would you say you the same per-son, and in what ways have you changed? If you have changed (and we take it for granted it is in the right direction!), How so? And in what ways did God intervene to make this change happen? And, if you haven’t changed much, you need to ask yourself: What happened? What didn’t happen? Why did you stop changing? Why did you stop living? I began this reflection with the profound Newman, so indulge me by conclud-ing with this “little ditty” from a song from my youth by John Mellencamp, which contains this gem: Oh yeah, life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.

If the thrill has gone out of your life, then you have not been living. Change! In Christ,

PRAY FOR OUR SICK Recently added are in bold

Mark Breihan Helen Alonzo Charlotte Brown Jack Bettag Clare Hudson

Joyce Taylor Clarence Heller Gerry Jansen Lois Cliffe Carolyn Machino

Terri Morrison Ken McWhorter Virginia Matecki Donna Fichtenmeyer Ruth Renz

Jackie O’Connell Kathy Steppig Kathleen Warth Carol Venverloh Jack York

Kathy Raterman Larry Volk Richard Volk Susan Schaap Slake

PEACE WITH THE LORD

In your charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of Barb Brockhaus and all our faithful departed. Requiescant in pace.

ADORATION IN 2019

Would you be willing to commit an hour of adora-tion time next month, from Wednesday, April 3 following the 8:00 a.m. Mass until Friday, April 5 at 3:00 p.m.? Notice the extended time. Please consider giving to the Lord one hour.

To schedule your time slot, sign up in the church vestibule, on our

parish website, or please call:

Barb Muich: 314-892-6284 or Betty Koch: 314-775-7534 or

CONFESSION NIGHT

AT SAINT MARTIN’S

TUESDAY OF HOLY WEEK, APRIL 16

6:00 P.M. – 8:30 P.M.

Three priests will be available to hear your confessions: Fr. Noah Waldman, Fr. Stu King, and Fr. Andrew O’Connor.

Catholics are required to go to the Sacra-ment of Confession at least once a year, preferably during Lent. Thank you for your participation.

DURING LENT

Every Wednesday: Chaplet of Divine Mercy with Benediction at Noon. Every Friday: Stations of the Cross at 3:00 p.m.

“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed

often.”

—BL. John Henry Cardinal Newman

March 31

Chairman: Kenny Harangozo and Lar ry Skaggs Captains: Mar ia Fendler

Caller: Greg Gillick; Cashiers: Kathy Tucker , Nancy Zoia, Sue Chambliss Paper: Janice Austermann, Ter r ie Morse; Pull Tab Counters: Lar ry Skaggs

Pull Tab Booth: Bob Eike; Floor Workers: Sue Jones, Mike Zoia, Andy Vaporean, Kevin Hale, Kenny and Carol Kundert

(Workers please report by 3:30 p.m.) - Can’t work. Call Captain/Hotline 645-1877 White Progressive: $5,500; Purple: $1,000

Thank you to workers and players for your support.

ST. MARTIN OF TOURS PARISH BAR-B-Q April 6th & 7th

10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 14 oz. pork steak—$9 (2 sides)

1/2 chicken—$9 (2 sides) 1/2 slab of ribs—$13 (2 sides)

Whole slab of ribs—$22 (3 large sides) Whole slab of ribs—$19

Bratwurst Dinner—$5.00 (2sides) Choice of sides

Mustard potato salad/Mayonnaise potato salad Sweet/sour slaw

Baked beans To order ahead or for free deliveries

CALL: LARRY @314-435-1626

The Easter Bunny is asking for CANDY DONA-TIONS (NUT-FREE) for the Easter Egg Hunt on April 20 at 10:00a.m. sponsored by the Wom-en’s Club. There will be a container in the back of church to place your donation. Deadline for dona-tions is April 14.

WEEK 5

Recitation of the Rosary

9:30a.m. Sunday, April 7

WOMEN’S CLUB MEETING

April 11 @ 7:00 p.m. in Runge Hall. We will be voting for new officers at this time and are looking forward to having a large turnout. After the meet-ing, we are having a Guest Speaker from St. Louis Crisis Nursery.

The 34th Annual Corned Beef and Cab-bage dinner was a huge success! On behalf of the SMT Men's Club, we want to extend a huge thanks to all of our volunteers who put in long hours, pre-paring, setting up, serving, and cleaning up after the event.

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1

2 3 Adoration begins @ 8:30 a.m. SVDP mtg. @ 7:00 p.m.

4 Adoration continues

5 Benediction @ 2:45 p.m. Adoration ends @ 3:00p.m. Stations @ 3:00 p.m.

6 Men’s BBQ @ 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

7 Men’s BBQ @ 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m.

8

9 10 50+ mtg. @ 11:30 a.m.

11 Women’s Club mtg. @ 7:00 p.m.

12 Stations @ 3:00 p.m.

13

14 Palm Sunday Fellowship/Donut Sunday

15

16 Fill eggs in Runge Hall @ 6:30 p.m. Confessions @ SMMA 6:00 - 8:30 p.m.

17 18 Holy Thur. Morning Prayer @ 8:00 a.m. Mass @ 7:00 p.m.

19 Good Friday

Morning Prayer @ 8:00 a.m. Liturgy of the Word @ 3:00 p.m.

Stations @ 7:00 p.m.

20 Holy Sat.

Morning Prayer @ 8:00 a.m. Easter Egg Hunt @ 10:00 a.m. Easter Vigil @ 8:00 p.m.

21 Easter Sunday Masses @ 7:30 a.m. & 10:00 a.m.

22 23 24 25 Parish Council @ 6:30 p.m.

26 27 Cornhole Tournament @ 7:00 p.m.

28 Women’s Club Communion Break-fast @ 11:00 a.m. Divine Mercy Novena @ 3:00 p.m.

29 30 50+ Board mtg. @ 9:00 a.m. Finance mtg. @ 7:00 p.m.

April 2019

Dash’s den Dear Humans, It’s that time for OUR NEW SAINT MARTIN OF TOURS PICTORIAL DIRECTORY! I’m excited because I love getting my picture taken. WOOF! YIP! BARK! It is important that every one of you make an appointment to get a photo taken. That way we can all know one another better and stay connected better. The photo session is free, and you also get a free 8 x 10 portrait. So it’s a great thing to do. You can sign up by stopping by one of the tables after weekend Masses, by phoning the parish office during office hours to have Donna set up your appointment, or you can go online and register: h ps://booknow-lifetouch.appointment-plus.com/ypzjkqe2/

  What to Expect

Less than 60 minutes is all it takes! The phots session is completely FREE. You can bring items that show your personality, and you can bring your pets. The photog-raphers will guide you through and capture the joy of the moment. About Your Session

After a quick check-in, we will start your session. Then you can view your and select what you want for the St. Mar-tin of Tours directory.

You will receive

One FREE 8x10 standard print! If you like, you can pur-chase additional photo-graphs, greeting cards, etc. PLUS receive $30 to spend at Shutterfly.com with any Life-touch photography purchase.

I’m waiting for

my close-up,

Mr. DeMille!

Here are the days and times available: Tuesday May 14 2 – 9 p.m. Wednesday May 15 2 – 9 p.m. Thursday May 16 2 – 9 p.m. Friday May 17 2 – 9 p.m. Saturday May 18 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. Tuesday May 28 2 – 9 p.m. Wednesday May 29 2 – 9 p.m. Thursday May 30 2 – 9 p.m. Friday May 31 2 – 9 p.m. Saturday June 1 9 a.m. – 3 p.m.