SACRED HEART CATHOLIC CHURCH 542-3423 17 N WALNUT ST- DU QUOIN, IL 62832 876050

HOLY MASS: See Mass Schedule RECONCILIATION: See Mass Schedule or anytime by appt. BAPTISM: During weekend Masses by appt. Must be a registered member and attend baptismal preparation session. MARRIAGE: At least six months prior notification to the pastor. Church Secretary : Sacred Heart & Immaculate Conception Kelly Paxton Maintenance: Sacred Heart & Immaculate Conception: Tony Kellerman Parish Council President: Sacred Heart: Jeremy Cornett 542-6298 Immaculate Conception: Tiffany Kujawa 618-559-1078

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church 100 West Main Street, Du Quoin, IL 62832 Phone 618-542-3423 fax 618-542-5061

sacredheartduquoin@gmail.com www.sacredheart-duquoin.org

Immaculate Conception Church 533 W. 2nd North Street, Tamaroa, IL 62888

Phone 618-496-5867 Rev. Joseph Oganda

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Third Sunday of Advent Reasons to Rejoice Saint Paul seems to be throwing out a handful of sayings that may sound overly optimistic, but are actually very practical. "Rejoice always? Who can do that?" It sounds absurd, but the next two lines give it context: If we pray con-stantly and thank God for all that happens to us, we have reason to rejoice. Whatever happens is the will of God for us. Even the bad things, things we don't like, can be allowed by God, so that God can bring good out of them. God allows sin because it leads to forgiveness, an experience of God's love for us. And God allows even death, because God can bring us to eternal life. The next two sayings may be a little obscure. When Paul tells us not to quench the Spirit, he means we should be open to what the Holy Spirit moves us to do. "Prophetic utterances" refer to things that other people were inspired to proclaim. If we pray constantly (1 Thessalonians 5:17) we won't be so distracted by the things of this world that we can-not hear the promptings of the Holy Spirit in us. We won't be so critical of others that we miss what the Spirit is telling us through them. How do we know if something really is from the Spirit? The next phrase helps with that: Test everything. Retain what is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21). Use the scriptures, the teachings of the Church, and your conscience to decide whether the Spirit is moving you, or if advice you hear is worthwhile. And most of all trust God to help with all this be-cause God wants us to be holy. God will make us holy if we only allow it. Then we will be ready for the coming of the Lord, whether through the sacraments, the celebration of Christmas, or God's final coming in glory. I'd say that's a rea-son to rejoice. Tom Schmidt, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

ADVENT PENANCE SERVICE COMBINED SERVICE AT SACRED HEART

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17TH, 3 PM December 25th - Midnight Mass (12 am) at Sacred Heart Church

LITURGICAL MINISTERS Sacred Heart

USHERS for the Month of December: Saturday, 5:00 PM: Mike Krisfaluzy; Allen Reaves; Jim Campanella; Jeremy Cornett Sunday, 8:30 AM : Don Harsy; David Martin; Joe Cucchi; Scott Harsy Saturday, December 23; 5:00 pm Gift Bearers: Kathy Krisfaluzy & Carol Collins Servers: Guy Alongi & Ron Mann Lector: Lisa Mohr Extraordinary Ministers: Donna Mann; Tony Kellerman; Michael Poiter; Rex Duncan(choir) Sunday, December 24; 8:30 am Gift Bearers: Brenda Sims & Liz Thompson Servers: Grace & Gabrielle Alongi Lector: Cara Alongi Extraordinary Ministers: Lisa Cochran; Tim Cobin; Cyrilla Prusacki; Margie Born (choir) Christmas Children’s Mass, December 24; 6:00 pm Gift Bearers: Steve & Suzanne McCrary Servers: Katie Smith & Blayke Spencer Lector: Shonna Spencer Extraordinary Ministers: Rose Numi; Pete Riggio; Kelly Paxton; Allen Martin; Henry Born; Margie Born Christmas Day Monday, December 25 - Midnight Mass 12:00 am Monday, December 25 - 9:00 am

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

SACRED HEART - DU QUOIN Mass & Intentions

Sunday, December 17 - THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8:00 am Rosary 8:00 - 8:15 am Confession 8:30 am Mass: Dominic & Mary Cucchi by Olga Chereso Monday, December 18; Advent Weekday 6:45 am Mass Catholic Extension Society Joe Wolfe by Della Tuesday, December 19; Advent Weekday 6:30 am Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Extension Society Ann Paxton by Lindon and family Wednesday, December 20; Advent Weeday 5:00 pm Rosary 5:30 pm Mass William Isom by Joe & Rita Riggio Harold & Lola Pundsack by Jon & Debbile Olinger family Thursday, December 21; Advent Weekday; Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor of the Church 6:45 am - Mass Verna Epplin by Nancy Genisio Friday, December 22; Advent Weekday 8:00 am Mass James A. Genisio, Jr. Saturday, December 23; Advent Weekday Saint John of Kanty, Priest 4:30 - 4:45 pm - Confessions 5:00 pm Mass: Emil Mossa by JoAnn Mossa Aloysius Epplin by Verna Lee Epplin Sunday, December 24 - FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8:00 am Rosary 8:00 - 8:15 am Confession 8:30 am Mass: Cucchi Family by Olga Chereso Doris Vettese by her Loving Family Sunday, December 24 - VIGIL OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD 4:00 pm Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Extension Society Martha Rulevish by Betty Ogilvie 6:00 pm Children’s Mass at Sacred Heart Mimi Alongi by Dorothy Alongi Family Margaret Rosenberger by Aaron Atkins Monday, December 25; THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD CHRISTMAS - Holy Day of Obligation 12:00 am - Midnight Mass at Sacred Heart Joe Wolfe by Della 9:00 am Mass Mike Majewski by Suzanne & Family

Weekly Happenings Sunday, December 17 Decorate church after mass 3:00 pm Advent Penance Service Monday, December 18 - Office Closed 8 am - noon: Quilting at Haffner Hall day, December 19 8 am - noon: Quilting at Haffner Hall 6:00 pm Parish Council meeting at Haffner Hall Wednesday, December 20 5:00 pm Rosary at church Thursday, December 21 6:00 pm - RCIA at Sacred Heart: Topic - Practice of Faith - How to Live Faith in the World 6:00 pm Choir practice Friday, December 22 Saturday, December 23 9:00 am Rosary at Fairview Nursing and Healthcare Sunday, December 24

Sacred Heart Weekly Collections December 9th & 10th

Envelopes $3,480.00 Loose $ 299.00 Christmas Flowers $ 198.00 Retired Religious $ 849.00 Bible Gift Env. $ 20.00 Immaculate Conception Env. $ 540.00

Thank You for your generosity!

DECEMBER 17, 2017

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION - TAMAROA Mass & Intentions

Sunday, December 17- THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT 10:00 am Mass Second Collection for Food Baskets Catholic Extension Society Helen & Ken Kurtz by Steve & Janet Harris Decorate church after mass 3:00 pm Combined Penance Service at Sacred Heart Monday, December 18; Advent Weekday Tuesday, December 19; Advent Weekday 6:30 am Mass at Sacred Heart Catholic Extension Society Ann Paxton by Lindon & family Wednesday, December 20; Advent Weeday 5:00 pm Rosary at Sacred Heart 5:30 pm Mass at Sacred Heart William Isom by Joe & Rita Riggio Harold & Lola Pundsack by Jon & Debbile Olinger family Thursday, December 21; Advent Weekday; Saint Peter Canisius, Priest, Doctor of the Church Friday, December 22; Advent Weekday Saturday, December 23; Advent Weekday Saint John of Kanty, Priest Sunday, December 24- THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT 10:00 am Mass Catholic Extension Society Our Parish Family Sunday, December 24 - VIGIL OF THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD 4:00 pm Mass at Immaculate Conception Catholic Extension Society Martha Rulevish by Betty Ogilvie 6:00 pm Children’s Mass at Sacred Heart Mimi Alongi by Dorothy Alongi & Family Margaret Rosenberger by Aaron Atkins Monday, December 25; THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD CHRISTMAS - Holy Day of Obligation 12:00 am - Midnight Mass at Sacred Heart Joe Wolfe by Della 9:00 am Mass at Sacred Heart Mike Majewski by Suzanne & Family

LITURGICAL MINISTERS Immaculate Conception

Sunday, December 24 - 10:00 am Mass Extraordinary Ministers: Eileen Koenegstein, Kathy Rulevish; Mary Nippe Lector: Krista Piotrowski Sweet Treats: Kathy Rulevish Sunday, December 24 - 4:00 pm Mass Vigil of the Nativity of the Lord Extraordinary Ministers: Diana Majewski; Susan Heape; Gary Reidelberger Lector: Krista Piotrowski

Immaculate Conception Weekly Collections - December 10

Church Envelopes $1,965.00 Church Loose Collection $ 78.00 Sweet Treats $ 61.00 Christmas Flowers $ 125.00 Religious Retirement Fund $ 197.00 Immaculate Conception $ 192.00

Thanks for your generosity!

WELCOME VISITORS! Thank you for celebrating mass with us today! For more infor-mation on our mass schedule and parish news, please visit www.sacredheart-duquoin.org.

Nursing Home: Marcia Stacey, Mary Powless, Geraldine Kowzan, Evelyn Bechlofft, Lynn Finn, Regina “Jeannie” Davison, Connie Horst, Sam Chapman, Phyllis Ferguson, Helen Chitwood, Mildred Fisher, Lindsay Lynch.. Sick: Josh Ritter, Janet George, Kevin McCrary, Sally Fontana, Linda Meyer, Amanda Evans, Aydan Zoller, Karl Mohr, James Feger, John Croessman, Vincent Deering, Penelope Sophia Hawkins, Jim Davis, Steve Benson, Adelyn Jones, Carl Campanella, Larry Hutson, Don Polczynski, Lowell Lee, Travis Helsley, Juanita Ray, Cindy Thorpe, Tina Lamke, Diana Buza, Tammy Holford, Richard Anheuser, Devoney Alvis, Bob & Helen Keller, Susan Bundy, Dodie Holmes, Dar-rell Thorpe, Scherry Baker, Larry Hagene, Rose Malonowski. Names will remain in bulletin for 1 month. Military Personnel: Col. Aaron S. Cowley, SSgt. Jordan Keller, MGunnerySgt. Thomas D. Sims, Sgt. Derek S. Sims, ITS1(SS/AW) John Kelley, SSgt. Patrick Kelley, SPC Mark Yanez, PV2 Jared Albers, Major Carly Sims, Major Cory Jones, Sgt. 1st. Cl. Caleb VanVoorhis, SSgt Tyler Jeffers, Lance Cpl. Drew Ferguson, Petty Ofc. 3rd Class Clay-ton Wyciskalla, Private Noah Mabry U.S.M.C., Major Andrew Martin.

DuBois K of C Du Bois KC would like to wish Immaculate Conception Parish, its family and community a very Blessed Merry Christmas and a joyful Happy New Year. May God Bless all of us!

NEWS & EVENTS FOR EVERYONE….

THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT

Thank You from CDA Catholic Daughters would like to thank everyone who bought/sold tickets, donated items to the raffle and spent time folding all the tickets - all of which made our quilt raffle a huge success & will fund future charitable contributions. Congratulations to Dorothy Bailey who won the hand-made quilt this year and to all the other prize winners. We would also like to recognize the mem-bers of our youth group who assisted at our Christmas dinner: Ethan Shepard, Vianey & Jesus Sanchez, John & Gabby Alongi, and Megan Dale. Thank you for joining us to help serve & clean up - we truly appreciate it!

M L The annual bus trip to Washington, DC for the 45th Annual National March for Life will be January 18-19-20, 2018 (Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.) Join us and thousands of oth-ers from across the nation for this huge pro-life gathering in the nation’s capital. Go to http://dps.diobelle.org/respectlife for the Registration Forms and Fact Sheet.

Retirement Fund for Religious Collection Religious give thanks. A religious sister writes, “When we see the generous response of so many thou-sands of persons in order to help us, religious men and women, we are left speechless.” Senior sisters, broth-ers, and religious order priests across the country send heartfelt thanks and prayers for our donation to last week’s Retirement Fund for Religious collection.

The Giving Tree… The Giving Tree is again placed in the vestibule with the names of our nursing home residents and sug-gestions for gifts. Please take an ornament and place your purchased item under the tree wrapped or un-wrapped with the ornament/name by Wednesday, De-cember 20th. If you would like to donate monies which are placed on the account to purchase haircuts at the beauty shop you can do so by designating for who and amount. You can give monies to Barb Craft, Carolyn Williams, Gi-na Cushman or give to Kelly in the office. This is some-thing they really enjoy and sometimes do not have money left to spend on this. Anything you would like to do is most appreciated.

The Catholic Service and Ministry Appeal… join us as Partners in Hope The true joy of Christmas is in the everlasting love of Christ. May you find His peace, love and joy now and in the coming New Year. With deepest gratitude for your prayers and generosity, -Ministries and Programs Funded by The Catholic Service and Ministry Appeal

How can I help bring a “year of favor” to the world, to the community, to those I know?

R L C R L C Advent - Preparing for Jesus – This week Thursday is the winter solstice, when we experience the shortest day and the longest night of the year. Advent is about waiting in the uncertainty of darkness. Learn, Act, Connect, Pray: Ponder the times you have waited in the dark with a family member. Perhaps it was illness, or maybe fear, or simply a power outage that kept you in vigil together. Disperse the darkness by keeping your Advent candles burning a bit longer. Pray the Ro-sary and meditate on the Joyful Mysteries.

December 17th @ 3:00 pm: Sacred Heart & Immaculate Conception combined Penance Service at Sacred Heart December 19th @ 6:00 pm: St. Bruno Penance Service December 20th @ 9:30 am: St. Bruno School Penance Service @ 6:15 pm: St. Bruno PSR Penance Service December 24th @ 4:00 pm: Immaculate Conception Christmas Vigil Mass @ 5:00 pm: St. Bruno Children’s Mass @ 9:00 pm: St. Bruno Christmas Vigil Mass December 24th @ 6:00 pm: Sacred Heart Children’s Mass December 25th @ 12:00 am: Sacred Heart Midnight Mass @ 9:00 am: Sacred Heart Christmas Mass

Third Sunday of Advent – How will I answer? Questions are put to John the Baptist today. Who are you? What do you have to say for yourself? Worthy questions for each of us. • What truth, what goodness will I voice this

week? • What will I do to back up these words? • How can I lead this person, __________________,

to Jesus, the Light of the World?

Diocesan Christmas Collection The 40th Annual Diocesan Christmas Collec-tion will be taken up at all Masses on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Parishes and agencies throughout the diocese request monies from this collection to assist those who are in need with food, clothing, shelter, utility payments, healthcare and medications, funeral and buri-al expenses, transportation and emergency assistance of all types. Please consider giving as you are able; thank you so much!

DECEMBER 17, 2017

“THE WINDOWS OF SACRED HEART” Project “The Windows of Sacred Heart” is a project to help establish a fund for the restoration of our beautiful Sacred Heart Church windows. Betty Eastman has pho-tographed our priceless stained glass windows here at Sacred Heart and has done an amazing job of creating beautiful greeting cards. If you are interested in purchas-ing these cards, please contact the office at 542-3423 or sacredeartduquoin@gmail.com or Betty Eastman at 542-5611.

MASS INTENTIONS… Mass intentions refer to the particular purpose for which a specific Mass is offered. This may be to honor God or thank him for blessings received. It can also mean that the sacrifice is offered for some person(s) liv-ing or dead. The more often the sacrifice is offered the more benefit is conferred. If you would like to offer a mass for a loved one, please contact the office. (A mass stipend of $10 is suggested for each intention)

Pizza, soda, movie….. Calling all youth of Sacred Heart & Im-maculate Conception- we are having a pizza & movie party on Saturday, January 6th at 10:30 am at Haffner Hall!!! Everyone - PSR - High School - St. Bruno students - please mark it on your calendar and come spend time to-gether as a faith community!

QUEST Attention freshmen and sophomores coming Jan. 20-21, there will be a Quest experience held at St. Mary parish in Mt. Carmel IL. Quest focuses on the rela-tionships in our lives. For more information/application contact your Al Martin 534-5227 or the parish office at 542-3423.

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EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The adorers, the people who pray before the Blessed Sacrament during Eucharistic Adoration, would love to pray for the needs of the parish. Each Wednes-day, a book will be positioned near the front of the church during Adoration. Anyone who has a prayer need may write it in the book. Each person who comes into the church to pray during Adoration, will read the prayer in-tentions, and will lift those prayers to the Lord during their hour of Adoration. We will keep the book and add to the prayer list each week. If you have a prayer request, con-tact any of the adorers or Chris Kelley at 559-6581.

St. Bruno Catholic School News

http://stbrunoschool.com

Upcoming Dates

12/18 & 12/19/17—Santa’s Cottage 12/18/17—Last Day to order not stocked gift cards

12/21/17—School Christmas Play 1:00 & 7:00 12/22/17—Class Christmas Parties

12/22/17—Dismissal @ 12:20 12/23/17—1/3/18—Christmas Break

1/3/18—Girls Basketball vs. Steeleville @ St. Bruno 8th Grade night

Gun of the Month Raffle tickets on sale now! First drawing for 2018 - January 5th!!

Gun of the Month Raffle tickets on sale now! First drawing for 2018 January 5th!!

Tickets for the 2018 gun of the month raffle are on sale now. $20 per ticket - you are in the drawing each month

- even if you have already won. Different gun each month or choose the $400 cash. For a ticket—see any St. Bruno student or contact the school @ 357-8276.

Newest Parish Council Members… Congratulations to Margie Born and Betty East-man for being elected as Sacred Heart’s newest Parish Council members in the December 9th & 10th election! They will be seated at the January 16th Parish Council meeting. Thank you to everyone that voted.

Perry County Marketplace Receipts St. Bruno School is still participating in the Perry County Marketplace Apples for the Students program again. All you need to do is save your Perry County Mar-ketplace receipts and drop them in the container in the church vestibule, send them to the school or give to any St. Bruno student. These funds allow us to purchase PE and sports equipment and school and office supplies. Thank you!

St. Bruno School Catholic Baptismal Bonus Any kindergartener that enrolls at St. Bruno school for the 2018/2019 school year, AND has been baptized at St. Bruno Church or one of the following par-ishes (Tamaroa, Todd’s Mill, Sacred Heart, or Sparta), and whose family is an active member of the church will receive a $500 incentive per family for the 2018/2019 school year. For any questions please contact St. Bruno Catholic School Principal, Mrs. Goldman, at 357-8276.

Rejoice always. Pray without ceasing. -- 1 Thessalonians 5:16-17

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS Sacred Heart Church #876050 17 N. Walnut Street Du Quoin, IL 62832 TELEPHONE 618 542-3423 CONTACT PERSON Kelly Paxton EMAIL: sacredheartduquoin@gmail.com SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2010 Adobe Acrobat X Windows 7 TRANSMISSION TIME Wednesday 12:00 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION December 17, 2017 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 1 through 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS