HOLY CROSS CHURCH

1050 WILBER STREET

SOUTH BEND, IN 46628

please visit our website http://www.hcssparish.org

HOLY CROSS PARISH

PARISH STAFF Rev. Robert L. Epping, csc, Pastor Rev. Edmund J. Sylvia, csc, Associate Pastor Rev. Vincent J. Coppola, csc, Associate Pastor

Amy Noble and Mary Catherine Levri Liturgical Music Coordinators

Kristen Hempstead McGann, Catechetical Leader

Karen Trzaskowski Business Manager

Administrative Assistants Nancy Takach Eva Clark Kathy Dawson HOLY CROSS SCHOOL Angela Budzinski, Principal Michele Daugherty, Administrative Assistant 1020 Wilber Street, (574) 234-3422 www.holycrosscrusaders.org MISSION STATEMENT As disciples of Jesus who are inspired by the Holy Spirit, we, the Roman Catholic Community of Holy Cross and Saint Stanislaus Parish, strive to glorify God by using our time, talent, and treasure in worship and in service to all our brothers and sisters. BULLETIN DEADLINE 12:00 p.m. Tuesday

PARISH OFFICE 920 Wilber Street South Bend, IN 46628 (574) 233-2179 Parish Office Hours: Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MASS SCHEDULE

Weekdays M through F 8:15 a.m., Smith Center Mary Chapel, 920 Wilber Street Saturday 8:15 a.m. followed by Holy Hour, Smith Center Mary Chapel Sunday Schedule 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. Holy Cross RECONCILIATION Saturday after the 8:15 am Mass or by appointment. BECOMING A CATHOLIC Individuals interested in becoming Roman Catholic, please call the parish office. SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION For information on the sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist, Reconciliation or Confirmation, please call the parish office. MARRIAGE Couples must contact the pastor and be registered in the parish six months prior to their proposed wedding date. ANOINTING OF THE SICK Please contact the parish office before surgery, during hospitalization, or if a person’s health declines.

PRAYER LINE - (574) 232-7664

MASS INTENTIONS

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 29th Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 53: 10-11 / Heb 4: 14-16 / Mk 10: 35-45 H.C. 8:30am: For Our Parishioners 10:30am: Dennis & Katherine Kish [Kathy Kish] 7:00pm: Kelly Sult Lockwood [Carole Daher]

MON., OCTOBER 19 Sts. John de Brebeuf & Isaac Jogues Rom 4: 20-25 / Lk 12: 13-21 Mary Chapel 8:15am: Marilyn Prue [Daniel/Siobhan Szakaly]

TUES., OCTOBER 20 St. Paul of the Cross

Rom 5: 12, 15b, 17-19, 20b-21 / Lk 12: 35-38 Mary Chapel 8:15am: Intention of the Presider

WED., OCTOBER 21 Weekday Rom 6: 12-18 / Lk 12: 39-48 Mary Chapel 8:15am: Intention of the Presider

THURS., OCTOBER 22 Blessed John Paul II Rom 6: 19-23 / Lk 12: 49-53 H.C. 8:15am: Ronald Szczepenski [Tom/Kathy Kowalski]

FRI., OCTOBER 23 St. John of Capistrano Rom 7: 18-25a / Lk 12: 54-59 Mary Chapel 8:15am: Ronald Rutkowski [Mother, Mary Niezgodski]

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 St. Anthony Mary Claret Rom 8: 1-11 / Lk 13: 1-9 Mary Chapel 8:15am: Intention of the Presider

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 30th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jer 31: 7-9 / Heb 5: 1-6 / Mk 10: 46-52 H.C. 8:30am: Joseph Muellner [John/Kathryn O’Hara] 10:30am: Rosemary Molnar [Anne Gapczynski] 7:00pm: For Our Parishioners

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A nnual Bishop’s Appeal: Thank You! —To all those who have already pledged to the 2015 Annual Bishop’s

Appeal. Your gifts have helped our diocesan Church to continue teaching, preaching and serving those most in need of food, counsel, and security. The Church needs everyone’s help. Please be as generous as you can to the Annual Appeal. Pledge cards are available at the church entrances.

T o help stock our St. Vincent de Paul Pantry, please bring jelly/jam to Mass next week and place them in the

SVDP basket.

TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME OCTOBER 18, 2015

THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH

TODAY: Enjoy the beautiful Fall weather!

MON: 6:30pm: RCIA / SCDR

WEDS: 6:30pm: Religious Ed. Classes 7:00pm: Choir Practice / HC Church

SAT: 8:45am: Confessions and Adoration / SC

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A dult Formation Group: Gabriel Griggs, a postulant at Moreau Seminary, will be leading a study group of

adults to discuss the encyclical, Laudato Si, at 10:00 am Saturdays, in the Smith Center, after morning Mass and adoration. Please call the parish office if you are interested in attending this group. Class will begin on October 17th.

H oly Cross School Class of 2016 will be hosting a Trunk or Treat and

Halloween Party on Friday, October 30 from 6:00-9:00 pm. Trunk or Treat will take place in the parking lot from 6:00-7:00 pm with the party to follow from 7:00-9:00 pm in the gym. We are looking for individuals or

groups who would be willing to be our Trunk or Treat participants. For more information or to reserve your Trunk or Treat spot, please contact Julie Knight at 574-850-4451. All are welcome to attend.

M ark your Calendar: BLACK FRIDAY TRIVIA, Friday November 27 in Holy Cross School gym.

Cost is $100 for a table, up to 10 players per table. Doors open at 6:00pm and games begin at 7:00pm. The first five tables reserved get a special prize. Ask about the VIP package at athletics @holycrosscrusaders.org .

H oly Cross teacher Jennifer Sosinski is once again offering Powell the Florist Flower Cards for

sale. The cards are $20 each and you get a flower bouquet every month for 12 months from Powell the Florist, 1215 Liberty Drive, Mishawaka, IN. The money raised will be sent to By Grace Orphanage in Africa. If you are interested please send a note to school for Mrs. Sosinski or call the school at 234-3422 and leave a message. Mrs. Sosinski will call you back. Redeemer Radio Strengthen the Family Sharathon: Redeemer Radio’s Fall Sharathon is Tuesday, October 27 - Friday, October 30 from 7 am - 7 pm on station 95.7 FM. The Holy Cross Parish hour is on Thursday, October 29th from 8am to 9am. Tune in to 95.7 FM and donate during the Redeemer Radio’s Strengthen the Family Sharathon by calling 888-436-1450 or securely online at RedeemerRadio.com during the Holy Cross Parish hour. A representative will be at the church entrances this weekend and next weekend to make sure that your pledge is counted toward the Holy Cross Parish hour.

PARISH CONTRIBUTION DATA July 2015 through June 2016

Week of October 11, 2015

Envelopes: $6,177.00 On-Line Giving: $1,085.00 Amount needed to date: $155,850.00 Amount collected to date: $122,662.00 Variance: - $33,188.00 Needed Weekly: $10,390.00

Catholic Communication Campaign: $362.00

FEATURED SPONSOR OF THE WEEK RICK’S AUTO SERVICE—255-4724

for the Nations, for she projected into the world, by prayer, fasting and patience, the Light of Christ. Pope Francis showed himself a great missionary, engaging people of faith and people of no faith, rallying all to the Gospel of mercy and love and calling all to responsible action for the good of others. He spoke the message. Even more he also lived the message, some-times his actions speaking even more eloquent than his words. In his message to the Church for this World Mission Sunday, he wrote:

“…we ask ourselves: “Who are the first to whom the Gospel message must be proclaimed?” The answer, found so often throughout the Gospel, is clear: it is the poor, the little ones and the sick, those who are often looked down upon or for-gotten, those who cannot repay us (cf. Lk 14:13-14). Evangelization directed pref-erentially to the least among us is a sign of the Kingdom that Jesus came to bring: “There is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them” (Evangelii Gaudium, 48).

At Holy Cross Parish, we are set precisely at the right place to be missionaries and evangelizers who proclaim the Gospel loudly and strongly. We are summoned by the Lord and sent forth by him, armed only with the Gospel and conviction. All we have to do is step across the street!! I hope you will be generous to the World Mission Day collection, an annual collection for the Propagation of the Faith that supports the missionary work of the Universal Church. Even more, I ask your prayers for all missionar-ies, but most importantly for the missionary work of our parish. May we reach out and go out to those around us who hunger to know the Christ.

Fr. Bob

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Theology on Tap—Downtown South Bend. Every 3rd Tuesday at 6:30pm at Finnies Next Door, 233 S. Main St. South Bend. Join us for a Catholic speaker series for young adults in their 20’s and 30’s. Hosted by the St. Joe Parish young professionals. Annual Right to Life benefit dinner will be held on Thursday;, October 29, 6:30pm, at the ND Joyce Center. This year’s theme is “Adoption and a Celebration of Families”. Reserve tickets or table by Oct. 23rd by visiting www.prolifemichigana.org/2015dinner or by calling 574-232-5433. Bishop Rhoades will celebrate Mass at St. Therese, Little Flower Church, on Saturday, October 31, at 5:30 pm to celebrate the canonization of the parents of St. Thersa of Liseux: Louis & Zelie Martin. Father Shoemaker extends an invitation to participate in the month-long celebration of events. A full list of events can be found at http://littleflowerchurch.org/canonization.

Being a Missionary

Today we celebrate World Mission Sunday. October 1

st celebrated the Memorial of St. Thérèse of

the Child Jesus. We know her better as St. Thérèse of Lisieux, or popularly as, “the Little Flower”. She died at the age of 24 of tuberculosis in her Carmelite Convent in 1987. She was canonized on May 17, 1925 by Pope Pius XI. The Discalced Carmelites are a cloistered community of nuns, that is, they live their lives in prayer behind the convent walls. Interestingly today, the Holy Father, Pope Francis will canonize her parents, Louis and Zelie Martin, the first couple ever to be canonized together. Their canonization takes place during the Synod on the Family. From the age of 15 until her death, she lived behind the walls of the Carmelite Convent of Lisieux in Normandy, France. Yet two years after her canonization, on December 14, 1927, responding to the petition of many missionary bishops, Pope Pius XI proclaimed St. Thérèse the Patron of the Missions, to stand along with St. Francis Xavier, the Jesuit missionary to India. Unlike St. Francis Xavier who traveled from Portugal to India, the East Indies, and Japan to preach the Gospel, b St. Thérèse never left her convent. How did the Church ever proclaim her the Patron of the Missions? She was a missionary at heart. She wanted to go to Vietnam, but her poor health prevented her from making such an arduous journey. Instead, from her poor convent and her solitary, prayerful life, she offered her prayers and her sufferings for missionaries around the world. On World Mission Sunday, October 19, 1997, St. John Paul II preached these words at the Mass at which he proclaimed St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face with the title “Doctor of the Church”

“Thérèse Martin, a discalced Carmelite of Lisieux, ardently desired to be a mis-sionary. She was one, to the point that she could be proclaimed patroness of the missions. Jesus himself showed her how she could live this vocation: by fully practicing the commandment of love, she would be immersed in the very heart of the Church’s mission, support-ing those who proclaim the Gospel with the mysterious power of prayer and communion. Thus she achieved what the Second Vatican Council empha-sized in teaching that the Church is mis-sionary by nature (cf. Ad gentes, n.2). Not only those who choose the mission-ary life but all the baptized are in some way sent ad gentes.”

On this World Mission Sunday we are reminded of our own role as a MISSIONARY. Whether we travel near or far, by the way we live, we are proclaiming the Gospel, for the good of others and the glory of God. If not, we are contrary to the light of the Gospel; we are dispelling darkness. St. Thérèse, following her “little way” of charity, was truly a giant of a missionary, a Light