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Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time August 27, 2017
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TwentyTwentyTwenty---first Sunday in Ordinary Timefirst Sunday in Ordinary Timefirst Sunday in Ordinary Time
August 27, 2017August 27, 2017August 27, 2017
Phone: 314-781-1199 www.epiphanystl.org
Epiphany of Our LordEpiphany of Our LordEpiphany of Our Lord
Catholic ChurchCatholic ChurchCatholic Church
6596 Smiley Avenue
St. Louis, Missouri 63139
Pastor The Rev. Michael Rennier [email protected]
Pastoral Associate Pamela Bruce [email protected]
Deacon James Tetreault [email protected]
Music Director Elizabeth Wildman
Plant Manager John Ellison [email protected]
Parish Secretary Trish Nerviani [email protected]
Staff
Mass & Sacraments Sunday Masses: 8:00 & 10:30 am
Weekday Masses
Monday through Friday: 8:00 am
Tuesday Evening Mass: 5:30 pm
Saturday Masses 8:00 am and 5:00 pm
Sacrament of Penance:
Saturday, 7:30-7:50 am
Sundays, 10-10:20 am
Tuesdays, 5-5:25 pm OR by appointment
Baptisms: Meeting first Thursday of the
month. Preregistration required.
Marriages: Contact the priest at least 9
months prior to the wedding date.
Funerals: To be arranged by contacting
the Parish Office.
Change of Address or Telephone
Number: Please call the Parish Office.
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LIVING OUR FAITH
Thank you to the Epiphany Class of 1957 for inviting me to your party for the 60th Reunion. If any other Classes have re-unions in the future and would like to attend Mass as a group and be recognized, let me know. We would love to cele-brate with you. We need a new piano. Our piano is starting to not work correctly anymore, so we need to purchase a new one. We cur-rently don't have any money in the budget for one, so I'm hoping that some of you will be willing to contribute and we can raise the money for it. The cost is approximately $6,000.00. If you can contribute, please place your donation in the marked envelopes located at the entrances of church or note on the memo section of your check, “Piano” and drop it in the collection basket. I thank you for your generosity and I know that Elizabeth and the choir thanks you! Interested in becoming Catholic? Let me know, we can talk. Don't forget the PSR parent meeting this Tue! 6:30 pm in the Church for registration, questions, and time for the kids to meet their teachers. Tue Night Mass Time-Change Beginning in September, our Tuesday night confession time will change to 6-6:20 pm and our Mass time will change to 6:30 pm. This is so our PSR can attend the Mass with us. Mass Explanations - Why do priests and deacons wear fancy vestments? Priests, you may have noticed, don’t wear jeans and t-shirt to celebrate Mass. We have a specific attire that is required of us that comes down through history from the same attire that the high priest was instructed to use by God in the Tem-ple worship in Jerusalem. This attire also fits with the descriptions that St. John gives us of heavenly worship after his vision of the throne room of God. Here, he says, the saints wear long white robes, chant the sanctus, and use lots of in-cense. Because we are not at complete freedom to choose our attire, it is clear that a priest is not representing a private person but rather is standing in place of Christ. The human body itself is meant for resurrection, meaning that what we do with it and how we clothe it matters. When we clothe ourselves in beautiful garments, particularly for attendance at mass, we anticipate this future glory. Pope Benedict XVI applies this theology of clothes specifically to vestments when he recalls how the Prodigal Father calls for the very best robe to be put on his son who has returned. The robe, he says, is symbolic of the return of our human dignity after Adam had lost it with the original sin. O Lord, may we daily clothe ourselves with your presence.
Fr. Michael
FROM THE DESK OF FR. MICHAEL RENNIER
We welcome into our parish family our newly baptized:
Reese Hayden Griffin
Congratulations to the proud parents and families of our newest members! May the blessing of the Lord be al-ways upon them!
Stewardship
“Or who has given the Lord anything that he may be repaid?” - ROMANS 11:35 St. Paul reminds us of a central fact of stewardship. We cannot give the Lord anything, because God already owns it all. God made everything. All that we can do is return a portion of God’s many gifts back to Him. Sincere gratitude for our gifts opens our hearts to joyful generosity!
Want to spend the day with a current student? Meet teachers? Visit classes? Take a tour? Learn about our co-curriculars? See our new gym, student commons, dance studio and innovative classrooms that just opened up this fall? See if Cor Jesu is the right fit for you? Then please make sure you sign up for an 8th Grade "Get Charged!" Visit Day at Cor Jesu! Many dates have already filled up, so please register soon to reserve one of our remaining timeslots! For more information on Cor Jesu's "Get Charged!" 8th Grade Visit Day Program and to register online, please visit www.corjesu.org/getcharged. If you have any additional questions, please contact Director of Advancement, Katie Thiemann at [email protected] or (314) 842-4429 ext. 115. We look forward to seeing you on campus!
Cor Jesu "Get Charged!" 8th Grade Visit Program
Sept. 18th thru Friday, Nov. 10th, 2017
Bulletin Article - Covenant Network For inspiration listen to AM 1080 WRYT, Catholic radio. Hear daily Holy Mass, the Holy Rosary and the Divine Mer-cy Chaplet. For a program schedule and a free CD, please call 314) 752-7000 or toll-free 1-877-305-1234.
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LIVING OUR FAITH
P rolife August 27th “May the infinite depth and breadth of Christ’s Divine Mercy remind us that no wound is too great for God to heal.” Pray for Life: April 2016, https://goo.gl/rgX7jH. USCCB Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities Sign up for monthly reflections at www.usccb.org/prayforlife!
“There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.” Henry Longfellow. The grief over an abortion experience is often so deep that it seems to be silent. Women and men may bear this burden for years thinking that there is no hope of forgiveness or peace. Project Rachel/Project Joseph offers private, professional counseling at no charge for anyone who is suffering because of an abortion experience. Call Project Rachel/Project Joseph at 314-792-7565 to begin your journey of healing and reconciliation.
Shadow Visits and Family Tours at R-K
Check out Rosati-Kain and schedule your family tour today!
All 8th grade girls and a parent must schedule a family meeting prior to shadowing in the Fall. This is a casual meeting with Laura Schulte, Director of Enrollment Management, to have
a personal tour of the campus and fill out our student questionnaire. By meeting each family personally, we are able to provide a unique shadow experience for your daughter. We discuss the application process and answer any questions you might have about Rosati-Kain. This also eliminates any interview after applications are submitted. For more information or to schedule your tour, please contact Laura Schulte at [email protected] or call 314.533.8513 x 2215.
If you are a 7th grade family, visit our website for information about Kougar for a Day in the Spring.
WINE Fall Book Club at Pauline Books
The Daughters of St. Paul and Pauline Books & Media will host WINE: Women in the New Evangelization and their Fall Book Club on Wednesdays, 1-2 pm, Aug. 30 –Nov. 15 at
Pauline Book’s & Media, 9804 Watson Rd. in Crest-wood. WINE is a creative and inspired ministry to invigorate Catholic women through encouraging, supporting, and nurturing them in their faith and by equipping and mobi-lizing them as intentional disciples of Jesus Christ. Stay connected with your faith and friends this Fall as we read “Blessed, Bold and Bodacious” by Pat Gohn. For more information call 314-965-3512.
Enkindle, a ministry run by the Office of Natural Family Planning, Archdiocese of St. Louis, has available ½ hour free counseling sessions monthly for anyone trying to conceive a child. The sessions are with a licensed pro-fessional counselor and a registered nurse. On September, 13th from 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM, Enkindle Ministry will host an event called, Maintaining Hope. Come talk, listen and meet with other individu-als and couples who are sharing your journey trying to conceive a child. (RSVP’s for this event are appreciat-ed).
For more information on Enkindle, or these events, please contact the Office of Natural Family Planning at 314.997.7576 or [email protected].
Attention Single Leaders Interested in helping lead a 50 year old Catholic singles organization? The Catholic Alumni Club of St. Louis is looking for lead-ers! We provide a group dedicated to social, cultural, civic and spiritual relationships in a Catholic setting. For more information, please check out www.csacstlouis.org or contact Steve at [email protected]
Spend the day at UA! Ursuline Academy invites 8th grade girls to experience a day filled with academic excellence, faith, and sisterhood. We would love to have you meet our students and staff—and lunch is on us! Join us and see what is new at UA! Please call 314-984-2882 or register online to schedule your visit at www.ursulinestl.org/visit
Life Teen Attention All Highschoolers! Join us this Wednesday, August 30th from 7-9pm at Bishop DuBourg High School as we start our new fall series! We are excited about all that God is going to do this year - hope to see you there! Please see saintlouislifeteen.org for more infor-mation. FALL RETREAT! We are excited and grateful to be taking any interested 9th-12th graders on a fall retreat Oct. 20-22nd. More information (and signups!) can be found at saintlouislifeteen.org/fall-retreat
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LITURGIES & SCHEDULES
Sunday, August 27
10:30 am - Liturgy with Children, RBB
Sunday, August 27 8:00 am Katie Bach 10:30 am Parishioners
Monday, August 28 8:00 am Jim Saali
Tuesday, August 29 8:00 am Enrollees & Benefactors of Epiphany Memorial Fund 5:30 pm Ellen Dell
Wednesday, August 30 8:00 am Betty Jangels
Thursday, August 31 8:00 am Madeline S.M. Toney
Friday, September 1 8:00 am Mary Link
Saturday, September 2 8:00 am Thelma Boggiano 5:00 pm Diane Campbell
Sunday, September 3 8:00 am Parsihoners 10:30 am James Turner
Readings for the week of August 27, 2017
Mass Intentions For The Week Our Parish This Week
Monday, August 28
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Msgr. Sullivan Field
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Gym
7:00 pm - Boy Scouts, Upper Hall
Sunday, September 3
10:30 am - Liturgy with Children, RBB
11:30 am - Liturgy Committee Meeting, CMR
Tuesday, August 29
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Msgr. Sullivan Field
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Gym
6:30 pm - PSR Parent Meeting, Church
6:30 pm - PSR Open House, AR and UH
6:30 pm - Blue Knights/Little Flowers Open House, Gym
Wednesday, August 30
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Msgr. Sullivan Field
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Gym
Thursday, August 31
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Msgr. Sullivan Field
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Gym
Friday, September 1
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Msgr. Sullivan Field
7:00 am - 5:00 pm - GSA, Gym
3:30-6:30 pm - Dance, UH
8:30 am - Exposition & Adoration, Church
Saturday, September 2
Sunday: Is 22:19-23/Ps 138:1-3, 6, 8/Rom 11:33-36/Mt 16:13-20 Monday: 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10/Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b/Mt 23:13-22 Tuesday: 1 Thes 2:1-8/Ps 139:1-6/Mk 6:17-29 Wednesday: 1 Thes 2:9-13/Ps 139:7-12ab/Mt 23:27-32 Thursday: 1 Thes 3:7-13/Ps 90:3-5a, 12-14, 17/Mt 24:42-51 Friday: 1 Thes 4:1-8/Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12/Mt 25:1-13 Saturday: 1 Thes 4:9-11/Ps 98:1, 7-9/Mt 25:14-30 Next Sunday: Jer 20:7-9/Ps 63:2-6, 8-9/Rom 12:1-2/Mt 16:21-27
Monday - Saturday August 28—Sept 2
7:30 am - Rosary, Church
Please Pray For the Homebound & Sick Of Our Parish
Korey Tacchi Sheryl McPherson Dorothy Lauman
Dominic Caputa Jade Nesselhauf Becky Lott
Vivian Pippin Ethan Sonderman Kathleen Price
Mary Hipskind Ethan Strauss Toni Berberich
Daniel J. Barr Eric Frazier David McCain
Dave Ortbals Nanette McPherson Mary Murphy
Observances for the Week of August 27, 2017
Sunday: 21st Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Tuesday: Passion of Saint John the Baptist Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation Saturday: Next Sunday: 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Sunday Collection General Fund ........... $3,383.00 General Fund Loose ..... $338.36 General Fund Online ...... 592.00 Total ................... $4,313.36 Assumption ............... $135.00 Latin America Online ...... $20.00 Maintenance & Repair .... $10.00 SVDP ......................... $20.00 SVDP Online .............. $120.00 Votive ....................... $28.00 Tuition Assistance ......... $15.00 ........ $242.00(YTD) Endowment Fund ................ $ ......... $29.00(YTD)
Our Offering For the Week Of August 19-20, 2017
Auditions for The Young Catholic Musicians The Archdiocesan-wide choir and orchestra of The Young Catholic Musicians are holding auditions in preparation for their 44th Year of service to the Church. These young people [aged 10-17] represent over 50 parishes and schools in the St. Louis area. They learn quality liturgical music and lead the music for Mass once each month at different parishes. Singers and instrumentalists (Brass, Woodwinds (especially clari-nets), Strings (especially cellos and bass), call Fr. Bruce Forman (314-231-7464) or Mrs. Mary Smith (314-962-9260) for additional information and to schedule an audition. Visit our web page at www.archstl.org/musicians or www.youngcatholicmusicians.com.
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PARISH COMMUNITY NEWS, NOTES & EVENTS
Dance Dance Dance Dance Classes are held on Fridays in Epiphany Upper Gym for ages 3 thru 14 - 5pm to 6pm. Dance Tuition: $30 per Month. Offering: Tap, Ballet, Jazz, Pom, Musical Thea-ter, & Hip Hop. Dance Director: Tina Stemmler is Dance Master Certified with BA in Dance from Webster Universi-ty. Please Contact Ms Tina for more Information at (314) 680-2613.
Our Annual Fall Festival (formerly Homecoming) is just THREE short weeks away! Starting this year, Epiphany will be hosting our annual Fall Festival along with our neighbors Gateway Science Academy (GSA). Epiphany Homecoming will now be known as Epiphany/GSA Fall Festival. While GSA will be in charge of our children’s game booths and helping out in some other areas of Fall Festival, ALL of our main raffle proceeds directly benefit Epiphany of Our Lord. Last week you received a letter in the mail with two raffle tickets. We would like to encourage you to purchase a ticket. If the cost of a whole ticket is too much for you to incur then we suggest you participate in our, “Ticket Sharing Plan,” which allows you to purchase a ticket with 9 others by sending your name and $10 to the parish office. If your ticket is chosen, you get to split the winnings! Having a successful homecoming requires many volunteers! Even an hour or two of your time would be a great help. To volunteer to work one of our booths or for questions about fall festival, please contact Trish at the parish office, 314-781—1199 or visit us at: epiphanystl.org. Some booths that may need help include our outside and inside food booths, refreshment booths, country store, gambling booths, and of course our set up/tear down/clean up crews.
Friday, September 15th 6-11:00 pm Dinners from 5:30-8:00 pm
Saturday, September 16th Noon - 11:00 pm Parade at 11:00 am
Dinners from 4-8:00 pm
Rides~~Music~~Games~~Dinnes~~Snacks~~Drink $10,000 Raffle
(Don’t be left out! Purchase your ticket online today!) www.epiphanystl.org. We hope you will plan
to join us for the festival.
G S EPIPHANY FALL FESTIVAL
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Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Registra-tion is open! CGS is a Montesorri-based approach to reli-gious education. Beginning in September, we're offering 1 session on Tuesdays 10-11:30 am for 3-6 year old chil-dren. There are only 12 spots total, so don't wait. Regis-tration and more info is online here: http://epiphanystl.org/catechesis-of-the-good-shepherd
PSR, Blue Knights, and Little Flowers reg-istration is open We love our PSR and our Catholic scouting groups. Not sure which option is the right one for your children? Come to the parent meeting on Tues-day, August 29th at 6:30 pm in the Church. Ask any ques-tions then or email me before then and I'm happy to help: [email protected] Registration is online at: Epiphanystl.org/psr-1
Children's Choir is now at Epiphany All chil-dren in PSR will be automatically enrolled, but the choir isn't limited to PSR. If you are a child anywhere from pre-school to high-school and want to join, practice will begin in September and meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday from 6:30-7:45. Our hope is to sing at the Tuesday night Mass and eventually once a month at the Sunday 10:30 along with the adult choir.
September 9 & 10, 2017 On Saturday, September 9, 2017 join us for an Outdoor Mass beginning at 6:30 pm under the tent. Open-Air Dance will be starting at 8:00 pm featuring Onyx. On Sunday, September 10, 2017. We will be serving Deep Fried Chicken & Roast Beef Dinners from 11:00 am till 6:00 pm in the Grade School cafeteria, Second & Cedar Street, Washington, MO. The cafeteria is air conditioned and handicapped accessible. Dinners are served family style with sides including mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans, slaw, homemade tomato relish and desserts. Cost of tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for children ages 6-11 (under 6 are free). Carry-outs are available. Fun for the whole family with live entertainment, bingo, handmade quilts, country store, Babaloo, Lollypop Balloon Lady, Princess & Super Hero characters, inflatables and games for the kids. St. Francis Borgia Parish is located at 115 Cedar Street, Washington, MO 63090. For more information call the parish office 636-239-6701 or check the webpage at www.borgiaparish.org.
St. Francis Borgia Parish Fall
Ste. Genevieve Parish Picnic on Parish Grounds Saturday, September 9 after 5 pm Mass -Beer Garden with Pork Burgers, Pulled Pork and BBQ Nachos and Refresh-ments -Music by "Roadhouse" from 7 to 11 pm Sunday, Sep-tember 10 -Chicken Dinner w/all the trimmings beginning at 11 a.m. @ DuBourg Centre -All Quilt Social will start at 1 p.m. in the School Cafeteria -Games of Chance for Adults & Children, Washer Tournament, Music, Bake Sale and more.
