WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday: 4:30PM ∙ Sunday: 9:30 AM

WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE Tuesday 8:00AM Mass Wednesday 10:00AM Mass at Trinity Village Thursday 8:00AM Mass Friday 8:00AM Mass on First Friday

of Alexandria Catherine

CATHOLIC CHURCH

St.

8661 NORTH 76T H PLAC E MI LWAUK EE , WI S CONS IN 53223 -2697

PHONE NUMBERS Parish Office ................................................................................. 414-365-2020 Parish Fax Number ...................................................................... 414-365-2021 PARISH OFFICE HOURS Monday through Friday ....................................................... 8:30AM - 3:30PM INTERNET ADDRESS ............................................. www.stcatherinemke.org PARISH STAFF Debra Hintz .................................................................................... Parish Director Fr. Richard Mirsberger................................................................ Assisting Priest Fr. Joseph Hornacek ...................................................................... Assisting Priest Andy Kukec.................................................... Director of Liturgy and Outreach Lorrie Maples ..................................................... Director of Christian Formation Katy Young ..................................................... Director of Administrative Services Teresa Gross ...................................................... Parish Administrative Assistant PARISH OFFICERS Pat Lehman, Trustee-Secretary Sue Niemi, Pastoral Council Chair Rick Korpela, Trustee-Treasurer Sue Armacost, Council Vice Chair Jeff Jaroczynski, Finance Council Chair Les Paulson, Council Secretary NORTHWEST CATHOLIC SCHOOL Michelle Paris ............................................................................................. Principal Phone: 414-352-NWCS (6927) Website: www.nwcschool.org

Grades K4-8 7140 N. 41st Street, Milwaukee, WI 53209 SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM The preparation for baptism can begin before the baby is born. A preparation class and parish membership are required. Call the parish office to make arrangements. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturdays from 3:30 - 4:00PM or by appointment. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE Contact the Parish Office to begin the preparation process at least six months prior to the anticipated date. Parish membership is required. SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK Celebrated at Sunday Masses a number of times throughout the year. Watch the bulletin for the schedule. Also by appointment. SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION Contact the Christian Formation Office for First Communion, First Reconciliation, Confirmation or Rite of Christian Initiation into the Catholic faith (RCIA). COMMUNION FOR THE HOMEBOUND Anyone who cannot attend church because of illness or age, please contact the Parish Office so that arrangements can be made to bring Communion to you.

J U N E 2 4 , 2 0 1 8 · T H E N A T I V I T Y O F S T . J O H N T H E B A P T I S T

St. Catherine of Alexandria Milwaukee, Wisconsin

WEEKLY CALENDAR

SUNDAY: June 24

MONDAY: June 25

TUESDAY: June 26 1:00PM Senior Club - Granville Room 6:00PM Pastoral Council Potluck Dinner - Granville Room 6:30PM Pastoral Council Meeting - Granville Room

WEDNESDAY: June 27

THURSDAY: June 28

FRIDAY: June 29 9:30AM Overeaters Anonymous - Granville Room 9:30AM St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry - SVdP Office

SATURDAY: June 30 First Weekend of the Month - St. Vincent de Paul Food Collection

SUNDAY: July 1 First Weekend of the Month - St. Vincent de Paul Food Collection

SACRAMENTAL LIFE & PRAYER

SUNDAY: June 24 - The Nativity of St. John the Baptist 4:30PM Mass - Personal Health People of St. Catherine 9:30AM Mass - †Irene Weber †Clarence Cisewski

MONDAY: June 25

TUESDAY: June 26 8:00AM Mass 10:30AM Rosary & Communion Service - the Villa of Bradley Estates

WEDNESDAY: June 27 - St. Cyril of Alexandria 10:00AM Mass - Trinity Village

THURSDAY: June 28 - St. Irenaeus 8:00AM Mass

FRIDAY: June 29 - Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles

SATURDAY: June 30 - The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church 4:30PM Mass - †Steve Uebelacker People of St. Catherine

SUNDAY: July 1 - Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:30AM Mass - †Colleen McCarthy

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Sunday: Is 49:1-6/Ps 139:1-3, 13-14, 14-15 [14a]/ Acts 13:22-26/Lk 1:57-66, 80 Monday: 2 Kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18/Ps 60:3, 4-5, 12-13 [7b]/Mt 7:1-5 Tuesday: 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36/Ps 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 10-11 [cf. 9d]/Mt 7:6, 12-14 Wednesday: 2 Kgs 22:8-13; 23:1-3/Ps 119:33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 40 [33a]/ Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: 2 Kgs 24:8-17/Ps 79:1b-2, 3-5, 8, 9 [9]/Mt 7:21-29 Friday: Acts 12:1-11/Ps 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [5b]/2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18/ Mt 16:13-19 Saturday: Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19/Ps 74:1b-2, 3-5, 6-7, 20-21 [19b]/ Mt 8:5-17 Next Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24/2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15/Mk 5:21-43

WEDDING BANNS

Jacob Rammer & Sharifeh Roda - II Jose Mora & Socorro Resendiz - III

RECONCILIATION CANCELED FOR SATURDAY, JUNE 30 There will be no Confession on Saturday, June 30, at 3:30 p.m.

MASS AT TRINITY VILLAGE Effective July 4, Mass will no longer be celebrated on Wednesdays at Trinity Village due to the significant decrease in participants.

LITURGY NOTES

BEING A WELCOMING CHURCH

Our God is a welcoming God! God welcomes anyone and everyone into God’s family. While He lived on Earth, Jesus always welcomed anyone into His presence or to wherever He was preaching at the time.

With Jesus as our example, we should never be shy about welcoming others. Whether it’s welcoming friends into our home, visitors into our church, or just saying hello to a stranger on the street, as Christians we should display the welcoming attitude of God.

“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male or female, for you all are one in Christ Jesus.”

(Gal 3:28)

This verse epitomizes God’s welcoming attitude. In the early Church, it went against their culture to welcome people different from themselves. In today’s world, we too might find it hard to welcome everyone – but if people are believers, they are the same as we are and should be welcomed! It is not always easy to welcome the poor, the sick, or anyone we might consider “different.” Our kindness and openness to all is not only a reflection on Christianity as a whole, but it reflects on how we think of Jesus.

Go and make someone feel welcome today!

Andy

IN LOVING MEMORY

We commend to God Elizabeth “Betty” Stich whose funeral was celebrated here this past week. May her soul and the souls of all our faithful departed rest in eternal peace. Please remember Betty and her family in your prayers.

THE NATIVITY OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST JUNE 24, 2018

FROM THE DESK OF THE

PARISH DIRECTOR We welcome Fr. Ralph Gross this weekend. He hasn’t

been here for a weekend Mass in the past, but has celebrated a holy day and a few weekday Masses here in the last two years. Fr. Ralph and I worked together at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in New Berlin in the 90s. He was chancellor of the Archdiocese at the time and lived and helped out at the parish. He will be with us again next Sunday. Bishop Sklba will celebrate next Saturday’s Mass.

Included in today’s bulletin is the 2018-19 budget. A few highlights for you to consider:

· We have decreased the amount expected for weekly contributions/offertory collections given this year’s experience, but only slightly. Hopefully now that our Restoring Our Buildings campaign has ended, our weekly contributions might increase again and be closer to last year’s amounts. (We actually ended last year’s contributions more than $6,000 over budget.)

· Because we were not able to hire a new part-time maintenance person, we have had to outsource cleaning of the church and school, lawn care and snow shoveling. As you can imagine, those costs are greater than adding someone to our staff.

· As with our past school building tenants, The City School will pay 90% of school utilities, repairs and maintenance in addition to their rent.

· We have budgeted the installation of a new boiler for the church building. You will see that expense under Major Maintenance and Capital Expense. We have two boilers for the church. For most of the heating season, one boiler is a backup to the other. When it gets very cold outside, the heating load exceeds one boiler’s output and both boilers will run. One of them died at the end of the heating season and will be replaced this summer.

· Major Improvements - School Building includes new doors in the gym which need to be replaced due to asbestos and painting of the gym.

· The expenses of our Restoring Our Buildings campaign are not reflected in this budget.

You have been so very generous in giving to the Restoring Our Buildings campaign and that is greatly appreciated. However, our weekly giving is so very important to the daily operation of the parish and our many ministries. You will see in today’s bulletin that we are at a deficit of $19,025 for weekly contributions. There’s only one week left to the current fiscal year, although next weekend’s collection will be the start of the new fiscal year. Hopefully we can turn that trend around for the coming year. Restored buildings are wonderful, but if we don’t have the funds to do our work, they won’t really matter.

I mentioned above that our Restoring Our Buildings appeal has ended. We kicked that off in August 2017 with a goal of $60,000. We have pledges of $78,464 and already have $73,143.67 in hand. Most people who pledged have already made payment in full. Only a few continue making payments. Thank you again for that generosity!

In Christ’s peace,

Debbie

MAN WITH A SIGN If you were at our 9:30 Mass last weekend, you may have noticed a man sitting at the corner of 76th Place and Brown Deer Rd. He was holding a sign that said, “The People of this Church Hurt Me.” He has not contacted the parish, so we do not know what his issue is. If he returns, we will talk with him.

CONTRIBUTION ENVELOPE MIX UP If you receive a packet of contribution envelopes from Ascension Lutheran Church in Arizona make sure you open the envelope. They will most likely be your envelopes for St. Catherine. There was a mix up with some of the packets. Only the outside envelope was incorrect. If you threw this packet away thinking it was junk mail, please call the parish office and a new packet will be sent to you. We’re told only a few parishioners were affected.

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL MEETS JUNE 26, 2018 Our last Parish Pastoral Council meeting for the fiscal year is this Tuesday, June 26. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. We will welcome the newly elected members. Our council members welcome your input and questions. You may contact members directly and can find their contact information on our parish website or by calling the parish office.

Sue Niemi, Chairperson Sue Armacost, Vice Chair Debbie Hintz, Parish Director Les Paulson, Secretary Rick Korpela, Trustee-Treasurer Pat Lehman, Trustee-Secretary Ralph Boeckl Marie Brushafer Barb Holt Lyn Keever Jeanette MacMurdo Sue Wassenberg

SENIOR CLUB The next meeting of the St. Catherine Senior Club is this Tuesday, June 26. They meet the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 1 - 3:30 p.m. in the Granville Room. All are welcome.

SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL FOOD COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND Our first weekend of each month food collection will take place next weekend. If you prefer to give a financial contribution, please make checks out to St. Vincent de Paul and place in a separate envelope marked “St. Vincent de Paul”. Thank you for your continued support of the pantry. Your generous donations make it possible to feed needy families in our neighborhood.

PRAYER AND WORSHIP COMMITTEE - ARE YOU CALLED? The Prayer and Worship Committee is looking to add another faithful parishioner who would be interested in joining or learning more of what our mission is for serving our parish. Please contact the Chair, Kevin Senfleben, at 262-408-1543.

INTERESTED IN OUR COLUMBARIUM? As we’ve been announcing, we are considering the addition of a columbarium in our cemetery, a structure for urns holding a deceased’s cremated remains. Before we proceed, however, we need to know if there is an interest. The response thus far has been positive. If you would like to add your name to the list of people who may be interested in a niche, please contact Debbie Hintz. It would be helpful to do so within the next weeks. You will not be making a firm commitment, just expressing a possible interest. To view the bulletin insert that includes more information, go to the home page of our parish website. Additional copies are also available in the main entrance of church.

GARDENERS NEEDED Do you like to garden and have some time to help care for ours at the parish? Ginny Jacoby coordinates our gardening volunteers and is looking for a few more people. It's something you can do around your own schedule. Interested or have questions? Please contact Ginny at 414-354-7325.

COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENTS

NEW PERSPECTIVE SENIOR LIVING HEALTH FAIR New Perspective Senior Living located at 8875 N. 60th Street, Brown Deer, invites you to their Health Fair on Wednesday, June 27, from 1-4:00 p.m. Participate in one or all of the complimentary classes/activities, plus other health services resources from 1-3:00 p.m. From 3-4:00 p.m., enjoy listening to the featured Keynote Speaker, John Shier, RN & Ph.D, known as “That Guy Nurse”. Flyers for the event are available at both church entrances. For more information, please call 414-982-1418.

CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER FOR RECONCILIATION AND HEALING FROM RACISM Join us at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 812 N. Jackson St., Milwaukee, every Friday at 12:15 p.m. for a 30-minute communal contemplative prayer service with the intention of reconciling and healing racism in our city.

If you are not able to join in person, feel free to pray privately wherever you are in solidarity with those gathered at the cathedral. For more information, please contact Anne Haines, Respect Life Director for Urban Ministry, hainesa@archmil.org.

WORLD WIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Let God be the strength of your marriage. Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends are July 20-22 in Madison, WI; Sept. 7-9 in Geneva, IL or Oct. 19-21 in Brookfield, WI. Visit our website at: alifetimeoflove.org or call (888) 574-5653 for more information.

APPRECIATION LETTERS

FROM THE MILWAUKEE POLICE DEPARTMENT

To All,

On behalf of everyone here at District Four, we would like to thank each and everyone of you for treating us to food for the entire day. We truly appreciate all of the support, kindness and generosity you have shown us.

So again, thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

From All of us here at District Four!!!

Milwaukee Police Department Police Administration Building 749 West State Street Milwaukee, WI 53233

PARISH INCOME

AS OF JUNE 17, 2018 (WEEK 51)

LAST WEEK’S BUDGET $7,269

LAST WEEK’S ENVELOPES $5,453 LAST WEEK’S OFFERTORY $ 296 ELECTRONIC GIVING $ 990 $6,739 EXCESS/(SHORTFALL) $ (530)

YEAR-TO-DATE BUDGET $370,731 YEAR TO DATE ACTUAL $351,706 YTD EXCESS/(SHORTFALL) $ (19,025)

STAFF DIRECTORY

Parish Phone: (414) 365-2020

Teresa Gross x10 tgross@stcatherinemke.org Debra Hintz x11 dhintz@stcatherinemke.org Fr. Joe Hornacek hornacekj@wi.rr.com Andy Kukec x15 akukec@stcatherinemke.org Lorrie Maples x14 lmaples@stcatherinemke.org Fr. Dick Mirsberger dmirs39@gmail.com Katy Young x12 kyoung@stcatherinemke.org

JULY OPEN ENROLLMENT FOR 2018-19 The next Open Enrollment period for the 2018-19 school year

begins July 1 and ends July 20. To register your student, please complete the application online at:

https://apps4.dpi.wi.gov/ChoiceParent

Please contact Linda Goeden, at 414-352-6927, ext. 301, if you have any questions or need assistance

BOX TOPS FOR EDUCATION Remember to keep saving Box Tops during the summer months!

*Please note we no longer accept any milk tops or Campbell’s soup labels.

ENROLL AT NORTHWEST CATHOLIC SCHOOL TODAY!

To learn more about our school, visit www.nwcschool.org or call 414-352-6927.

Northwest Catholic is supported by St. Bernadette, St. Catherine of Alexandria and Our Lady of Good Hope parishes.

Respectful, Responsible,

Ready to Shine!

CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNERS

June 10 D.J. & Nicole Herrenbruck Grafton June 11 Ann Mumm Kaukouna June 12 Ralph Boeckl Brown Deer June 13 Betty Reuter Milwaukee June 14 Dan Muehlbach Colgate June 15 Emma Imig Thiensville June 16 Julie Stamm Brown Deer

CALLING ALL AMAZON SHOPPERS Did you know you can help support our parish community when you shop on Amazon? Simply go to smile.amazon.com and sign in with your regular Amazon login and password. It will ask you to select your charitable organization. You will find St. Catherine of Alexandria, Milwaukee, in that listing. Or, go to the link on the home page of our parish website and it will take you directly to St. Catherine on smile.amazon.com. That way you won’t have to search for us among almost a million other organizations. Amazon donates 0.5% of the price of your eligible AmazonSmile purchases to the charitable organization of your choice. AmazonSmile is also the same Amazon you know. Same products, same prices, same service. There’s no extra cost to you, but our parish benefits.