ST. Mary / N E W S �CATHOLIC CHURCH �

PARISH MISSION STATEMENT�St. Mary Parish is a welcoming community, �

bonded by Catholic faith, serving God and one another�

In this issue:��� Pg. 3...This Week and KC’s News��� Pg. 4...WWJD �Ambition��� Pg. 6...Bounded by Our Spiritual Blindness�

October 28, 2018�

Clergy Rev. David M. Austin - Pastor E-mail: frdaustin1@gmail.com

Parish Staff Business Manager: Mrs. Barbara Russell…815-385-0024 Parish Secretary & Ministry Coordinator: Mrs. Mary Schneider…815-385-0024

Director of Faith Formation: Mrs. Tammy Miller….815-385-0024

Director of Music: Mrs. Celeste Mann…..815-385-9454

Parish Maintenance: Mr. Lou Mercieri…….815-385-0024 Mr. Dave Helmeid…...815-385-0024 Cemetery Director: Mr. Lou Mercieri…….815-385-0024

PARISH DIRECTORY

Pastoral Council Mrs. Maxine Cwiak Mrs. Kathleen Etten Mr. Scott Freund Mrs. Mary Kunz Mr. John Mercurio Mr. Ron Freund Mrs. Amy Whiteside Mr. Dave Bauer Mrs. Samantha Adams Finance Council Mr. Rick Bronars Mr. Joe Gilmore Mr. Tim Hying Mr. Charles Reilly

Montini Catholic School Primary Center..815-385-5380 Middle School….815-385-1022 Website: www.montinischool.com Marian Central Catholic High School School Office……815-338-4220 Website: www.marian.com

MINISTRY SAT 4PM SUN 8AM SUN 10AM

CLERGY Fr. Lapinski Fr. David Fr. David

LECTOR Ron Paluch Jennifer Gilmore Jeff Frank

COMMUN-ION MINISTERS

Maxine Cwiak/ Mary Joyner/ Fran Wiser

Dan Tonyan/ Amy Williams/ Stephanie Diedrich

Rich Bronars/ Herb Hansen/ Ken Loar

ALTAR SERVERS

Alexis Wirch Gretchen Gilmore Beth Taylor

MUSICIAN(S)

Celeste Mann Celeste Mann Celeste Mann

CANTOR Jan Nagel Mackenzie Lullo Bill Meath

USHERS Dave Bauer/ Jim Boger

Brian Haley/ Rich Williams

Bob Mrachek/ Karl Rindt/ Dan Curran

HOSPITAL MINISTRY

Marge Davis/ Elizabeth Simon

Ministry Schedule for the weekend of Novembe 3rd & 4th

Mass Times & Information

Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. Sat. Sun. Sacra-ment of Reconciliation Wed. 7:30 am Sat. 3:00 pm Ministry to the Sick & Homebound: Please call the parish office to arrange for a visit if you or a loved one is in the hospital, homebound or in need of the sacrament of anointing. Parish Registration: If you are new to St. Mary’s, welcome to our parish! We hope you will feel comfort-able and share the love of Christ here with us at St. Mary. Stop by the Parish Center during regular office hours and we will assist you in registering. If there is any way that we may be of assistance in help-ing you feel welcome here, please don’t hesitate to ask! Please notify the Parish Office of any ad-dress, phone, or email changes. Parish Center & Mailing Address: 1407 North Richmond Road McHenry, Illinois 60050-1459 General Contact Information: Office Phone………………(815) 385-0024 Office Fax........……..(815) 385-7809 Parish E-mail….stmarylady@aol.com Parish Website…stmarymchenryil.org Parish Facebook Page: www.facebook.com/St.MaryMcHenry Office Hours: Monday-Thursday: 8:00 am-4:00 pm Friday: 8:00 am-12:00 Noon

No Mass 9:00am during school year 8:00am during school summer vacation 8:00am 8:00am 8:00am 4:00pm 8:00am, 10:00am

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THIS WEEK�

Sun Oct 28...Priesthood Sunday, Masses 8am & 10am�

Mon Oct 29...No Mass�Tues Oct 30...9am School Mass�Wed Oct 31...Happy Halloween/8am Mass�Confession to follow.�Thurs Nov 1...All Saints Masses 8am/7pm Holy Day�Of Obligation.�Fri Nov 2...All Souls Day/Candlelight Mass 7pm/Marian Central Play 7pm.�Sat Nov 3...3pm Confession/4pm Mass/Parish Coun-cil Game Night Mary Hall following 4pm Mass./Marian Central Play 7pm/Fish Food Donations.�Sun Nov 4...Masses 8am & 10am/Marian Central Play 2pm/Fish Food Donations. �

KC’s News��

Knights Ask for Support of “Holiday Meals” � The KC’s will again be raising funds to provide holi-day meals to those in need in our com-

munity. This will be the 11th year the Knights will un-dertake this rewarding and much appreciated project through a partnership with Meijer Stores that helps to stretch the money that is donated. The distribution of the Thanksgiving meals will be on Saturday, November 17th and the Christmas meal distribution on Saturday, De-cember 15th at Holy Apostles Father Sherry Center. .� �Please contact Mike Dolak cell/text (847) 452�5960 or

Tom Bohn cell/text (815) 272�4290 with any ques-tions.� ��

Knights of Columbus will be selling raffle tickets to support our Vocations Program over the next few weeks. Proceeds are used to suppor t our seminarians in Illinois. Tickets are $1 each, or $15 per booklets.�Drawing is Dec 1st, 2018, winner need not be present.�1st Prize�$10,000/2nd prize �$2,500/3rd�6th prizes are�$1,000 each/7th�10th prizes are $500 each/11th �15th�prizes are $200 each /16th�20th prizes are $100 each.�Don Etten will be selling tickets after several of the Masses until then. Questions call Don at Cell/Text�815�245�9527. Thank you for your support of our semi-narians!�

Parish COUNCIL NEWS:�A FREE FAMILY GAME NIGHT WILL BE HOSTED BY THE St. Mary Parish Council in Mary Hall on No-vember 3rd immediately following the 4pm Mass. Bring mom, dad, kids and grandparents to enjoy a varie-ty of family friendly games. A light meal of pizza, soft drinks and snacks will be provided. COME JOIN THE FUN!!�

Candlelight Remembrance Mass�All Souls Day Fri Nov 2nd at 7pm�

You are welcome to bring a framed photo of your loved one to display on the memory table. You may also write the name of your loved in the Memory Book. We are in need of volunteers for this Mass. Please call the parish office if you would like to be a minister of communion, server, or bring up the gifts during offertory. �

CCW News: St. Mary’s CCW Christmas Dinner will be held Tuesday, Dec 4th at McHenry Country Club. Tickets for this event will be $26.50. Watch bulletin for sign up details.��

Save the Date: Dec 8, 2018 McHenry Deanery CCW’s 2nd Annual Women’s Half Day of Reflection.�Watch bulletin for more details�

Caregiver Needed: for female senior in Algon-quin. Live in, 24hr care. For more details please call�Dena at 773�561�3937. �

“Find Your Greatness” Dynamic Catho-lic is coming to St. Mary’s, Saturday, December 1st. What a great way to start the Advent Sea-son! Watch the bulletin for more details about the event.�

The Church of Holy Apostles welcomes,�Jaime Cortez, as the speaker at their Parish Mission, Nov 4 at 4pm & Nov 5 & 6 at 7pm. You are invited to hear this engaging, dynamic speaker and summate con-temporary master musician. His presentations are hu-morous, thought provoking and spiritually uplifting and are interspersed with joyful music appropriate for all generations.�

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Important dates for Marian Central:�8th Grade visitation: Fr i. Nov 16th�Open House: Sun. Nov 18th, 1pm to 3pm�

Freshmen Placement Test: Sat. Dec 1, 8:15am�

Fall Production of Much Ado About Will: Fri. Nov 2 & Sat Nov 3 at 7pm, Sun. Nov. 4 at 2pm. Box office opens 30min prior to each performance. Seat-ing is limited. For more details regarding the above call 815�338�4220 or website www.mariancom. ��

Schedule for October�31...NO CLASS �Schedule for November �7...Class Faith Formation� 14...Class Confirmation students only� 17...Confirmation Retreat�10am�3pm � Loyola Woodstock, Il� 21...NO CLASS Thanksgiving Break�

28...Class Faith Formation � �

FAITH FORMATION�

Readings for the Week of October 28, 2018�Sunday: Jer 31:7�9/Ps 126:1�2, 2�3, 4�5, 6 [3]/Heb 5:1�6/Mk 10:46�52��

Monday: Eph 4:32��5:8/Ps 1:1�2, 3, 4 and 6 [cf. Eph 5:1]/Lk 13:10�17��

Tuesday: Eph 5:21�33 or 5:2a, 25�32/Ps 128:1�2, 3, 4�5 [1a]/Lk 13:18�21��

Wednesday: Eph 6:1�9/Ps 145:10�11, 12�13ab, 13cd�14/Lk 13:22�30��

Thursday: Rv 7:2�4, 9�14/Ps 24:1�2, 3�4, 5�6 [cf. 6]/1 Jn 3:1�3/Mt 5:1�12a��

Friday: Wis 3:1�9/Ps 23:1�3a, 3b�4, 5, 6 [1 or 4ab]/Rom 5:5�11 or Rom 6:3�9/Jn 6:37�40��

Saturday: Phil 1:18b�26/Ps 42:2, 3, 5cdef/Lk 14:1, 7�11�Next Sunday: Dt 6:2�6/Ps 18:2�3, 3�4, 47, 51 [2]/Heb 7:23�28/Mk 12:28b�34�

St. Vincent de Paul Note: If you are making a check donation to St.Vincent de Paul please make the check out to St. Vincent de Paul Society not to St. Mary. Thank You!�

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Ambition�It’s natural that you have concerns for yourself. You want a happy family, friendships, financial security, and good health. In other words, you want a great life.��

It’s natural that you should have such ambitions. After all, society even encourages you to look out for “Number One,” to be all that you can be, and to work hard and get ahead.��

It’s only natural that you would want the best for yourself and that you would do everything necessary to attain that goal. But should you do it just because it comes natural-ly?�

What Would Jesus Do?�(To be continued next week) �*****************�

Prayer Therapy�If you want something, ask�Yourself. “Do I want what�

God wants?” God wants your�True good.�

Intercessions for Life: For the U.S. Catholic bishops, may the Lord grant them strength to be holy shepherds in protecting and leading their sheep....We Pray to the Lord.�

Word of Life: “To the survivors of abuse and the families who have lost a loved one to abuse, I am sorry. You are no longer alone.” Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston

�Houston. Present of the USCCB�

NOTE: CEMETERY NEWS:�Cemetery clean up will take place the week of November 5th. Please remove any decorations you wish to save before that date. New fall and winter decora-tions may be put up starting November 12th. Thank you Lou

Vendor of the Week�Thank you for advertising�

In Our Bulletin!�McHenry Villa�

A Senior Living Community�3516 W. Waukegan Rd. McHenry Il.�

815�344�0246�www.mchenryvilla.com�

Knights of Columbus Blood Drive:�Saturday, November 17th, 8am to 12pm, St. Mary Parish,�in Mary Hall. Call John at 815�347�8268 or www.veriti.org. Photo ID required. �

Call The Parish Office To:��� Add a family member��� Set up a Wedding or Baptism�

�� Register as a New Parishioner��� Change your phone number, ad-

dress or Email address��� Stop your weekly envelopes if

you leave the parish��� Call the parish office at 815�385�0024.��

Please pray for the deceased of our parish Please pray for our sick: Jean Roche, Rebecca Whiteside, Doris Basil, Lois Shea, Lois Kasper, , Patricia Conaghan, Joanne Hart, Joseph Tarzian, Paige Tarzian, Frank Neunthal, Mae Wagner, Linda Keith, Dave Boger, Raymond Brefeld, Dave Welter, Amber Keith, Amy Butler, Sandy Novak, Sheila Noland, Patti Bengston, Thad Tomaszewski, James Peterson, George Haegler, Anna Burger, Gary Gilpin, Wayne Zank, Darlene Briscoe, Diane Briscoe, , Scott Dehn, Sandy Diedrich Jim Tiffany, Barbara Coriaci, Lesley Curran, Kay Bauer, Claudia Friend, Joan Larkin, Mary Delia, Richard Biestek, Christopher Byrnes, Michael Person, (baby) Aboan Timmberman, Lynette Mosson, Shirley Freund, Diana Deufel, Irene Rutkowksi, Frank Sweeny. Please pray for our men and women serving in the armed forc-es, especially for.�� 2Lt. Eric Adams/Army Reserves� 2Lt. Mark Adams/Air Force� Matthew Kling/Marines� P03 Cameron D. Malcolm /Navy� SFC Martin D. Malcolm /Army� Lt. Col. Donna L. Hornberger/ Air Force� 1st. Lt. Zach Hornberger /Air Force � MAJ Gavin R. Laskowski /Army��

SERVICE ADDRESSES NEEDED!!�CCW is sending Christmas cards to the military listed in our bulletin. We need their addresses!�Please contact the parish office 815�385�0024 or �Celeste directly at 815�900�8277. Help us pray, thank and wish them a Merry Christmas.�

ASSISTANCE�Family Services………………...815�385�6400�Catholic Charities………………815�344�6956�Fish Food Pantry……………….815�344�4717�Pads Shelter…………………….815�338�5231�St. Vincent de Paul……………..815�385�5673�Senior Care Volunteer Network..815�455�3120�

St. Mary’s Sanctuary Lamp signifies the Eucharistic presence of the Lord Jesus in the tabernacle and burns continuously for seven days. �

This week October 28th thru �November 3rd the Sanctuary Candle �

burns in memory of � Christine Hiller �

If you or a loved one is in need of prayers, please call the parish of-fice 815�385�0024 or email us at: stmarylady@aol.com with your prayer request.�

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Gifts of Treasure October 21, 2018��

Sunday Budget� � $8,281.00�Loose: � � � $ 381.00� �

Envelopes: � � � $4,613.00� �

Votives: � � � $ 42.00� �

Total: � � � $5,036.00� �

�Deficit/Overage: � �$3,245.00 � �Deficit since 7/1/2018: �$37,057.00 �

Are you writing or rewriting your Will?�Designate a gift to St. Mary and give witness to your faith! Good stewardship comes from the heart. Memo-rials in memory of your loved ones are gifts that benefit our parish. Thank You!�

2018 Diocesan Stewardship Appeal�St. Mary’s Goal $45,308.00�

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Pledges: $27,715.00�Payments: $17,820.00�Needed for Goal: $18,193.00�% of Goal: 60%�

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For Sunday, October 28th, 2018 � 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time��� LPI Connection�

Jeremiah 31:7�9, Hebrews 5:1�6, Mark 10:46�52�

When I moved to Los Angeles from southern Indiana, one of the realities I had to adjust to was the large number of homeless people found in nearly every part of the sprawling city. And now, even after two years, I still sometimes find myself embarrassed and disconcerted by the extended hands or incoherent mumbling. This is a challenging reality, especially when I remember that as Christians we’re called to be people of en-counter. � With all this in mind, it’s easy to understand the discomfort that Jesus’ followers seemed to have felt in this Sunday’s passage from the Gospel of Mark. After all, the blind man, Bartimaeus, was causing a spectacle, shouting at Jesus. But even after the people in the crowd told him to be quiet, “he kept calling out all the more, ‘Son of David, have pity on me.’”� To really get a sense of the importance of this story � which is much more than just another account of one of Jesus’ miracles � we have to think about where it falls in the Gospel of Mark. The healing of the blind Bartimaeus is, in fact, linked to the healing of another blind man recounted only a few chapters earlier (Mark 8:22�26). These two stories form bookends for one of the most important sections of Mark’s Gospel, where Jesus tries to help his followers understand who he is and what his mission really is. But as we’ve discovered over the past several Sundays, the Apostles and the other disciples don’t seem to comprehend Jesus’ message or to understand the true cost and meaning of discipleship. After all, these are the same men who openly op-posed him when Jesus tried to teach them about his coming suffering and death.� But then this Sunday, we are given the story of this blind beggar who seems to be able to see what the Apostles cannot. In fact, the physical healing of Bartimaeus is a powerful reminder that when we open our-selves to God’s grace, we can be healed of that blindness of spirit that sometimes prevents us from following Jesus with freedom and joy, which is an important part of discipleship.� In a 2012 homily, Pope Benedict XVI reflected:�

“Bartimaeus represents one who has lost the light and knows it, but has not lost hope: he knows how to seize the opportunity to encounter Jesus and he entrusts himself to him for healing. In-deed, when he hears that the Master is passing along the road, he cries out: “Jesus, Son of Da-vid, have mercy on me!”, and he repeats it even louder.�And when Jesus calls him and asks what he wants from him, he replies: “Master, let me receive my sight!”�Bartimaeus represents one aware of his pain and crying out to the Lord, confident of being healed. In the encounter with Christ, lived with faith, Bartimaeus regains the light he had lost, and with it the fullness of his dignity: he gets back onto his feet and resumes the journey, which from that moment has a guide, Jesus, and a path, the same that Jesus is traveling. The evangelist tells us nothing more about Bartimaeus, but in him he shows us what discipleship is: following Jesus ‘along the way,’ in the light of faith.”�

St. Mark beautifully describes Bartimaeus’ excitement when Jesus finally calls for him:�“He threw aside his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.”�There is an energy in his response that powerfully exemplifies the enthusiasm that should be a hallmark of disciples. When the Lord calls, we must be ready to respond. And because of his faith and willingness to act, Jesus rewards the blind man by not only restoring his physical sight but by empowering him to live out his faith in the community of disciples.� The invitation for us this Sunday is to humbly reflect on the ways we might be spiritually blind by asking ourselves what habits, attitudes, and ideologies hold us back from becoming the disciples that Jesus is calling us to be.�

Br. Silas Henderson, S.D.S.��

BOUNDED BY OUR SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS�