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Pray For Our Sick and Deceased Relatives and Friends

"Life is precious, handle with prayer." For the sick, especially Sharon Flanagan, Karen Horting, Carol Nolan, Joanne Foster, Evelyn Lopezalles, Renee DiVicino, Marshelle Santoro, Donald Kremer, Louise Karkula, Dolores Inboden, Eleanor Findlay, Mary Ellen Ryan, Nancy Ludwig, Leona Altman, Lorraine White, John Logsdon, Ericka Heilmann, Rich Waliczek, Jr., Shawn Felgenhauer, and Virginia Flaherty.

+ + + + "For those who have died, life has changed, not ended."

For the deceased, especially Dorothy Dwyer (mother of Joan Rojek), and all of the faithful departed, that they may rest in the peace of Christ.

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Mass Intentions For the Weekends of

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February 17/ February 18

SATURDAY, February 10 St. Scholastica 4:30 PM - Bruno Nowobilski Albert J. Stasko SUNDAY, February 11 Sixth Sunday Ordinary Time

8:30 AM - Hedwig Olszewski Jozefa & Boleslaw Podsiad 10:00 AM - Kathleen & Eleanor Bandera 11:30 AM - Grace Musselman

SATURDAY, February 17 7 Holy Founders of Servite Order

9:30 AM - Irene Thelan 4:30 PM - 55th Wedding Anniversary James & Darlene Cahill Lorry Cronin SUNDAY, February 18 First Sunday of Lent 8:30 AM - Simone Radde 10:00 AM - Larry George & Tony Musso 11:30 AM - Peg Finnegan Mary Burger

Mass Intentions for the Week of February 12 - February 16

MONDAY, February 12 9:30 AM - Ed Manikowski TUESDAY, February 13 9:30 AM - Mary Lou Zambrano

WEDNESDAY, February 14 Ash Wednesday 9:30 AM - Tom Foley 7:30 PM - James McNicholas THURSDAY, February 15

9:30 AM - The People of St. Bernard’s FRIDAY, February 16 9:30 AM - Geneva Russell

Today’s Readings

First Reading - The leper will dwell apart, making an abode outside the camp. (Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46) Psalm - I turn to you, Lord, in time of trouble, and you fill me with the joy of salvation. (Psalm 32) Second Reading - Do everything for the glory of God. (1 Corinthians 10:31 — 11:1) Gospel - The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean. (Mark 1:40-45) The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

Readings For The Week

Monday: Jas 1:1-11; Ps 119:67-68, 71-72, 75-76; Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Jas 1:12-18; Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19; Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 — 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Gn 9:8-15; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Pt 3:18-22; Mk 1:12-15

Father Joe McCormick, OSA Pastor Email: jmccosa@gmail.com Cell phone : 708-789-3609

Father John Merkelis, OSA Weekend Assistant

Deacon Kevin Ryan Email: deaconkib@comcast.net

Deacon Chris McCaffrey Certified Spiritual Director Email: chrism@stbernardshg.org

Mrs. Patricia Bass Director of Religious Education Email: st.bernardsrep@comcast.net

Mrs. Julie Kane Director of Music Ministry Email: music.saintbernard@gmail.com

Mrs. Mary Ponschke Parish Secretary Email: st.bernardsrectory@comcast.net

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Confessions will be heard Sat., February 17, at 3:30pm.

St. Bernard’s Ministry News

This Week at St. Bernard’s: (*See Article)

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12 6:00pm Lent Decorating 7:00pm CLW Meeting 7:00pm Parish Council

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13 4:30pm Peace & Social Justice* 7:00pm Theology of the Body

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14 ASH WEDNESDAY* 9:30am Mass* 4:00pm Service* 7:30pm Mass* THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15 9:30am Mass 4:30pm Children’s Choir 7:00pm Adult Choir FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16 10:00am Stations of the Cross* SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 9:30am Mass 1:00pm Baptism Prep* 3:30pm Confessions* ANNUAL APPEAL ANNOUNCEMENT SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18 ANNUAL APPEAL ANNOUNCEMENT 12:30pm Choir Practice 2:00pm Theater Ministry

Liturgical Ministers for the Weekend of February 17th and 18th (names subject to change)

Date Saturday, February 17

4:30pm Sunday, February 18

8:30am Sunday, February 18

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Presider Fr. Joe McCormick* Fr. Joe McCormick* Fr. John Merkelis*

Deacon Kevin Ryan Kevin Ryan

Proclaimers Jim Gow Mary Gow

Deborah Hoekstra Linda Conrath

Carol Wojciechowski Jessica Brewer

Eucharistic Ministers

Mary Beth Hipke Frank Kowalik Jennifer Prince Sharon Moses Jeanie Pecor

Lois Durling Lourdes Vatch Lori Paruszkiewicz Jim Paruszkiewicz Joyce Cwik Joe Bard

Dennis Nowak Lynn Nowak Jurate Harris Mary Jo O’Connor Jim Weglewski Rose George

Altar Servers

Rebecca Kazmierczak Hanna Rasmussen

Kamryn, Kortnee, & Kaicee Nissen

*Homilist

Sunday, February 18 11:30am

Fr. John Merkelis*

Judy Timmel Sharon Garbacz

Tom Kozak Carol Pearce Joanne Kozak Mary Ponschke

Jillian George Sophia Hutera

Men’s Club Fish Fry!

Friday, February 23 the Men’s Club will host a Fish Fry. Tickets on sale now and must be purchased by February 11. There will be no tickets at the door! An Adult dinner is $11 and includes fish, baked potato, salad, roll, but-ter. Children’s dinner is $5.00 and has mac & cheese, dessert, drink. You can purchase the mac & cheese for $2.00 as a side.

Altar Servers, Eucharistic Ministers, Proclaimers

Beginning with the April, May, June schedules, we will be emailing the schedules to you. Please send your email address to: stbdeacon@comcast.net and then enter that same email into your address book so the attachment with your schedule does not end up in your spam folder. If you do not have an email account, please give Deacon Kevin your correct mailing address. To save the trees, we only want to mail to those that do not have email. There will be no schedules to be picked up in the foyer starting with the new schedule. We would like your help on Ash Wednesday, Holy Week and Easter. Please sign up in the Foyer to serve as Eucharistic Ministers, Proclaimers and Altar Servers for these important times in our Church.

Baptism Preparation Classes

Classes last no more than two hours and are held at the Church. The next class dates are Saturday, February 17, 2018 at 1:00pm and Monday, Tuesday March 20, 2018 at 7:30pm. No dates for baptism will be accepted until after you have attended one of the classes. Please call the rectory at 301-3020 for further information or to register.

Peace & Social Justice Peace must start in ourselves, one soul at a time.

Act & Pray for Peace

“Never be so busy as not to think of others.” ― Mother Teresa, The Joy in Loving: A Guide to Daily Living

February Intention – Be a Person for Others.

Being a person for others means that we are willing to shift focus and actually notice others and care about them. Here are just a few ideas: • When I’m around someone who is behaving badly, rather than think of how the behavior irritates or upsets me, I

wonder what might be triggering that person to act like this. A child in the hospital? Job loss? Relationship prob-lems? A string of faulty decisions?

• I pray as much—probably more—for others than for myself. • Rather than turn away and distract myself from others’ suffering, I make some move to help. Ignatian Spirituality. Act - Pay more attention to the needs of others.

Pray - Precious Lord Jesus, may I always have a kind, caring, understanding, and sympathetic heart towards others. Amen.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thoughts/Suggestions: Any suggestions for increasing peace?

This can be dropped in the collection basket. God bless you as we journey together. St. Bernard Peace and Social Justice Ministry Meetings are the second Tuesday of the month at 4:30 pm. (February 13)

Respect Life Spiritual Adoption Update

Week 24 "My auditory functions are done developing and my inner ear has grown to its full size. That means that when people talk, I can hear them completely. I enjoy the sounds of my parents' voices, and even the sounds of mu-sic and rain. Please pray that I will experience the most precious gift of all, LIFE!”

ABORTION MYTH #3: "ABORTION SAVES LIVES. A common pro-abortion chant claims, "Pro-Life, that's a lie; you don't care if women die." It might be catchy, but is it true? According to former abortion provider Anthony Levatino, "In most such cases, any attempt to perform an abortion 'to save the mother's life' would entail undue and dangerous delay in provid-ing appropriate, truly life-saving care...I managed hundreds of such cases by 'terminating' pregnancies to save mothers' lives. In all of those cases, the number of unborn children that I had to deliberately kill was zero." As far back as 1967, Alan Guttmacher, M.D., "the father of Planned Parenthood," wrote, "Today it is possible for almost any patient to be brought through pregnancy alive, unless she suffers from a fatal illness such as cancer or leukemia, and, if so, abor-tion would be unlikely to prolong, much less save, life." --- 40 Days for Life

Hospitality

St. Bernard’s will offer Hospitality after all the Masses this weekend, February 10 and 11. Please stop by and enjoy the goodies as well as the compan-ionship of fellow parishioners. NOTE: There will be no hospitality during Lent. Help is always appreciated. Please contact the recto-ry or speak with Leticia Roppo for more information.

Respect Life HELPSAVELIVESINDownersGrove!

You can protect mothers and children by joining this worldwide mobilization! Through prayer and fasting, peaceful vigils and community outreach, 40 Days for Life has inspired 750,000 volunteers! With God’s help, here are the proven results in 21 coordinated campaigns:

• 13,998 babies saved from abortion

• 170 abortion workers con-verted

• 90 abortion centers closed

Here’s how to take part: Vigil location: Outside Access Health Center, 1700 75th St. Downers Grove

Vigil hours: 7 am to 7 pm daily St. Bernard’s: 11AM – 12 PM EVERY MONDAY at Ac-cess Health. Or, any time you can stop by!. Local contact: Bob - 40DaysDG@gmail.com Bill Jacobs - WRJ @thejacobsonhline.com Learn more and get involved by visiting our campaign at the ad-dress below!

40daysforlife.com/downersgrove

Tithing Your Gift To God

Envelopes Used on Sunday, February 4, 2018

Weekly Need…………………………....…..$11,051.00 Weekend Collection………………………..$10,826.00 Candles…………………………………...………$86.50 Parish Improvement…………………………....$444.00

Diocesan Loan for Parking Lot (4.00% interest)

January 2017 Borrowed $70,000.00 Balance as of February 1, 2018 $43,770.00

We Give Thanks to the Lord for your Generosity!

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

Today’s Gospel centers on the plight of a leper and Jesus’ response of healing. In Hawaii, the bacterium that causes lep-rosy probably entered from China in the mid-1800s, and the native islanders were susceptible to the dreaded disease. In 1866, the government literally dumped the sufferers on a remote and virtually inaccessible island peninsula with towering cliffs. Thrown off ships into the sea, the sick people were told to swim for the beach and head for caves, and for seven years the only supplies were similarly cast into the sea to drift ashore. It was then, 1873, that a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest, Damien de Veuster, went voluntarily to Kalaupapa. Before long, he cajoled the government into funding his mission and its hospital, built a village with proper homes and sanitation, and recruited Mother Marianne Cope to bring sisters from Syracuse, New York, to nurse the sick. Damien, who eventually died of leprosy, has been canonized, and Mother Marianne as well. Although leprosy has been curable since the 1940s, today a few patients remain in their lifelong home, now a national historic site. The peninsula is still utterly isolated from the outside world, and the speed limit for the few cars there is 5 mph since there’s nowhere to go! The hospital is still well-staffed and equipped, but access is regulated and visitors must take an official tour, often involving a descent down the cliffs by “Molakai mule.” There are few places on earth that evoke the healing power of Jesus, or our call to follow the Healer, more than Damien’s beloved island mission. - Rev. James Field, Copy-right © J. S. Paluch Co.

JOYFUL AGAIN!

The Joyful Again! Program brings understanding and hope to help you on your new life’s journey. “I felt welcome.” “Found hope.” “am more at peace.” Dates: March 3 & 4, 2018 April 21 & 22, 2018 For more information contact us at Joyful Again! Widowed Minis-try Phone: 1-708-354-7211 Email: joyfulagain7211@gmail.com Website: www.joyfulagain.org

Important: register early, space limited.

Catholic Ministries Annual Appeal

The Diocese of Joliet is mailing information about the 2018 Catholic Ministries Annual Appeal (CMAA) this month to all CMAA donors at PARISH NAME. The CMAA supports thirty ministries that benefit every par-ish in the Diocese, including ours, as well as our friends and neighbors most in need. Our parish’s goal for the 2018 CMAA is $54,900.00. If we raise more than this goal, 70% of the amount paid over goal will be returned to us for use. This is a great benefit for our parish! Please re-view the information you receive and prayerfully reflect on your gift to this year’s CMAA. If you do not receive a mailing from the Diocese about the CMAA, please contact the parish office.

ASH WEDNESDAY - A MESSAGE FROM THE BISHOP

“This year Ash Wednesday and Valentine's Day coin-cide (February 14). For adult Catholics Ash Wednesday is a day of fasting and abstinence from meat, to signify the beginning of Lent. Valentine's Day is a wonderful occasion to express love and appreciation but not signifi-cant enough to override the seriousness of Ash Wednesday. Priests and bishops do not grant individual dispensations from the discipline of fasting and abstinence. An individual could judge in conscience, on his or her own, that there is a serious enough reason to excuse oneself. Maybe this year people could celebrate Valentine's Day on Tuesday or Thursday.

LENTEN REGULATIONS

1. Abstinence from eating meat is to be observed by all those 14 years old and above on Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and all the Fridays in Lent. 2. Fasting is required of those ages 18 - 60 on Ash

Wednesday and Good Friday. Fasting is defined as one full meal and two smaller meals not equaling another full meal together. Snacking is not permitted. People may be excused from these practices for cer-tain reasons, e.g. pregnancy and illness.

Special Ash Wednesday Services

9:30am Mass with Ash Distribution 4:00pm Service with Music, Prayer, and Ashes, 7:30pm Mass with Ash Distribution

Peace & Social Justice

Pick up "Lenten Prayers for Hungry People" on a table near each entrance at church. There are prayers for each week of Lent. "The tax bill passed by Congress at the end of 2017 is expected to make progress toward ending hunger in the United States and around the world much harder to achieve. Hunger and poverty are likely to increase in the months and years ahead as the tax bill takes effect." Taken from Bread for the World January-February 2018 Newsletter. For more information visit bread.org/act St. Bernard's Peace and Social Justice Ministry

RECTORY (PARISH OFFICE): 14135 Parker Road, Homer Glen, IL 60491-9692 Tele: (708) 301-3020 Fax: (708) 301-0738 Email: st.bernardsrectory@comcast.net Fr. Joe’s email: jmccosa@gmail.com Website: stbernardhg.weconnect.com Office Hours: Monday through Friday 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OFFICE: 14135 Parker Road, Homer Glen, IL 60491-9692 Email: st.bernardsrep@comcast.net

Sunday and Holy Day Masses celebrated at St. Bernard’s Pastoral Center, 13030 W. 143rd St., (just west of Bell Rd.) SATURDAY EVENING MASS: 4:30 PM SUNDAY MASSES: 8:30, 10:00 and 11:30 AM. HOLY DAY MASSES: As announced in bulletin. WEEKDAY MASS: 9:30 AM (communion service on Thursday) at the Pastoral Center RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CLASSES: Contact Office

the Baptism. You are strongly encouraged to attend the program before the baby is born. Call the rectory a few months in advance.

MARRIAGE: Marriages should be arranged at least 6 months in advance. CHURCH ARRANGEMENTS ARE TO BE MADE FIRST. Hall and other social arrangements are to be made after the Church date has been set. Weddings are not performed on Sundays. If either party is under 19 years of age, Diocesan policy requires special instruction and a date cannot be given until the instructions have been completed and the Chancery Office has granted permission.

time or date is set with the Funeral Director.

let Father know. Family members may request to take communion to other members confined at home.

CONFESSIONS: On Saturdays as scheduled in the bulletin (generally first and third Saturdays at 3:30pm) and at any time upon request. PARISH BOUNDARIES: North: 135th Street; East: Will-Cook Road; South: 151st Street; West: King Road and its extension. NEW PARISHIONERS: All new families are welcome and should be registered in the parish. This may be done by visiting or calling the Rectory. ST. BERNARD’S MEMORIAL FUND: Bequests or special donations to our Parish Memorial Fund may be made by contacting the Rectory.

Parish Collection at the Offertory of the Mass.

CHURCH NAME & NUMBER — ST. BERNARD’S #809 ADDRESS — 14135 PARKER ROAD, HOMER GLEN, 60491 PHONE NUMBER — 708-301-6952 CONTACT PERSON — MARY SOFTWARE — MSPUBLISHER 2003 PRINTER —HP PHOTOSMART 8400 SUNDAY DATE OF BULLETIN — February 11 PLEASE KEEP PRODUCTION AT 700 BULLETINS.