ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CROATIAN PARISH ON STRAWBERRY HILL

708 N. 4th Kansas City, Kansas 66101 OLDEST CROATIAN CHURCH WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI - 1900

Pastoral Staff

Fr. Peter M. Jaramillo, S.S.A. Pastor Fr. Joseph Arsenault, S.S.A.

Fr. John Melnick, S.S.A. Sr. Mary Michael MacChesney

Phyllis Hampton, Parish Secretary

Office Hours Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Church Office 913-371-0627

FAX & E-mail 913-342-3324

Weekday Mass Including Adoration: Thursday 8:00 a.m.

Weekend Mass Schedule: Saturday 5:15 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m.

Confessions: Saturday 4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Rosary: Saturday 4:45 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m.

Marriage Preparation: Notify the parish eight months prior to the wedding.

Pastoral Care of the Sick: Crisis Prayer Line: 913-281-4448 or 913-608-5600 Anointing and Pastoral Visits: Contact Church Office

Parish Contact Information: Finance Council President Nick Tomasic Parish Council President Don Taylor Altar Society President Kelly Moutray St. John's Senior Citizens President Mary Ann Fanning St. John Catholic Club, 913-371-9690 Ken Yarnevich St. Cecilia Choir / Organist Matt Winterhalter

WEEKLY COLLECTION

April 11-12

Week: $ 4,660.00

Loose: $ 326.00

Maintenance: $ 365.00

Poor box: $ 87.50

APRIL 19TH, 2015 - 3RD SUNDAY OF EASTER

WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS Thursday, April 23

8:00 a.m. Tom Lally, Ike Modrcin Gojmerac Family Saturday, April 25

5:15 p.m. Mladen Stancic, Anna (Milka’s Sister), Ivan Vancas, Milka Soptic, Ivan & Ana Brajkovic, Mirko, Ivan & Mary Zeljeznjak. Sunday, April 26 9:00 a.m. Parish Members

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Mother’s Day Breakfast St. John’s Catholic Club is having a Mother’s Day breakfast on May 10 after 9:00 am mass. Tickets are $5.00 each. For tickets contact John Mikesic at 913-441-8135, the club at 913-371-9690 or see Phyllis at the rectory. Hope to see you there!

LITURGICAL MINISTERS

April 25 - 26, 2015

5:15 p.m. 9:00 a.m.

Lectors B. Horvat B. Horvat

M. Viskovic R. Sambol

Eucharistic Ministers

M. Garcia G. Garcia T. Jaksetic

P. Mikesic F. Soptic J. Ciliberti

Cantor L. Garcia Choir

Servers N. Garcia I. Garcia

L. Viskovic N. Viskovic

If you have a family member who is hospitalized or homebound and would like to have a visit or receive commun-ion, please contact the Church Office. Hospitals do not inform us of a parish-ioner being admitted to the hospital. Call Phyllis at 913-371-0627.

REMEMBER THE SICK OF OUR PARISH IN YOUR PRAYERS.

Fr. Frank Horvat Sept. 7, 1932 - April 14, 2015

May he rest in Peace

Funeral Mass was held at 10:00 a.m.

Saturday, April 18th, 2015 Burial at Mt. Calvary Cemetery.

NATURE'S LESSONS Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters. --St. Bernard of Clairvaux

St. John the Baptist Choir Director “Matt Winterhalter, will present a Masters degree recital on Tuesday, April 28th, at 7:30pm. The recital will be held in Lawrence at the Bales Organ Recital Hall. 1600 Stewart Dr., on the KU campus. The performance will include classic Bech and Bohm, fiery Reger, Luscious Widor and Vierne, and eccentric Bovet. Please contact mattmwin@gmail.com with any questions.”

You alone, O Lord, Bring security to my dwelling. --Psalm 4:9

APRIL 19TH, 2015 - 3RD SUNDAY OF EASTER

ARCHDIOCESAN EVENTS Attention! Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 2015 Archdiocesan 50th Wedding Anni-versary Celebration, June 14, 2015, 2:30 p.m., Cathedral of St. Peter. To receive your invitation from Archbishop Naumann, please call the parish office and give us your name, address, phone number and date of your wedding. Please do this as soon as possible.

Resurrection Catholic School, 425 N. 15th Street, has an opening for a school nurse for the 2015-16 school year. Inter-ested candidates should be a licensed RN in the state of Kansas and have a desire to work in a school setting.

To apply for this position, please email a cover letter and resume to lhiggins@rcskck.org.

ARCHDIOCESAN EVENTS

Pilgrimage to Philadelphia! Sept. 21 - Sept. 28, 2015 World meeting of families. For more information call Denise Hay at Grand View Tour & Travel. Call 800-737-6739. Archdiocesan contact Deacon Tony Zimmerman at the Family life office, 913-647-0329. Bishop Ward - It’s a Fit! Join us for an open forum on April 23, 6:30-7:30pm. You will be able to ask question, learn how bishop Ward can be affordable, and discover fun faith opportunities available to our students. The University of Saint Mary will hold an Information Session at its Overland Park Campus, 11413 Pflumm Road, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 23. Meet with faculty and advisors to learn about USM’s accelerated under-graduate and graduate programs in Business, Education and Psychology. RSVP by calling 913.319.3003 or visit www.stmary.edu/success. Come join us on Sunday, April 26 from 1-3pm. For a 3 mile walk from Hope to Peach in KCKS to pray for an end to violence. We will stop along the way to pray par-ticularly where there has been violence in the city. We pray for peace and for the Spirit of God to come and bring reconciliation. Our walk will begin at Sanctuary of Hope, 2601 Ridge Ave. KCKS and end at the Shalom Catholic Shelter, 13th Street & Parallel, where we will pray with the men who stay there.

TurnStyles Jewelry Sale – April 27th TurnStyles in Overland Park is hav-ing a Jewelry Sale on Monday, April 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hun-dreds of sterling silver

and vintage pieces will be available; previous one-day events generated $3500 in sales. Please consider donating jewelry you no longer wear to be included in this sale event. All TurnStyles proceeds go to support your neigh-bors in need through Catholic Charities’ programs. Save the Date for the 34th Annual Golf Classic Catho-lic Charities Foundation of Northeast Kansas is proud to host the 34th Annual Golf Classic founded by the Ben and Betty Zarda Family on Monday, May 11, at the Lake Quivira Country Club. Don’t miss this opportunity to “chip in” and join us for a day of fellowship on the course. Golfers will enjoy lunch, a round of golf, dinner reception and awards ceremony. Learn more and register online at www.catholiccharitiesgolfclassic.org.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

With the Easter season well under way, we now resume our survey of the sacrament of the sick. The pastoral care of the sick will be misunderstood if we start from the vantage point of the sickroom. Begin with the Sunday assembly, from which the

sick person has been separated by the crisis of illness, and whose absence is given expression in prayer and ser-vice. The goal is to extend the consolation of the Lord's presence at the table to those who are apart from it, and for the assembly to enfold them in prayer. Secondarily, the goal is to teach people what the Church desires for all those who are sick. Seeing ministers dis-patched to the sick from Mass every Sunday might help a caregiver realize that their dear one can also receive Communion. Witnessing the anointing of a woman fac-ing surgery might help another person to overcome hesi-tation and ask for the sacrament's healing and strength. Society's impulse may be to marginalize the sick, but the tradition of our community is to see them at the center of our life. When Roman persecutors ordered St. Lawrence the Deacon to hand over the jewels of the church, he as-sembled a motley crew of the sick and the infirm and an-nounced with all humility, "Behold, my lord, the treas-ures of the church of Christ." --Rev. James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.