SAINT BERNARDINE PARISH Forest Park, Illinois

The Chimes MISSION STATEMENT

To minister to the spiritual needs of its faith community through worship, service and

education and to provide outreach, support, and welcome in an affirming environment. All are called to evangelize and be

stewards on the journey, to model the life of Jesus while

striving to develop a spiritually active and financially stable

faith community.

107 YEARS

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MASS SCHEDULE

SATURDAY: 8:30 AM & 5:00 PM SUNDAY: 8:00 & 10:30 AM WEEKDAY: Monday thru Friday 6:30 AM HOLY DAY: Check Mass Schedule CIVIC HOLIDAY: Check Mass Schedule

HOLY SACRAMENTS

RECONCILIATION: Saturday: 9:00 AM and 4:00 PM or call the Rectory for an appointment

WEDDINGS: Please call the rectory and make arrangements with a priest at least six months in advance.

BAPTISM: Baptisms are held on the second Sunday of each month during the 10:30 mass. Mandatory meeting for parents and godparents is held the 1st Wednesday in the Convent Dining Room at 7:30 PM. Call 366-0839.

CARE OF THE SICK: Please inform rectory of anyone confined at home or hospitalized.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Classes for public grammar school students: Sundays, 9:00 - 10:15 AM (K thru 8th grade) Tel: (708) 366-3553

RECTORY: Tel: (708) 366-0839 Fax: (708) 366-3136 Parish E-Mail Address: st.bernardinechurch@gmail.com Pastor’s E-Mail Address: skucastbern@gmail.com Web site: www.stbern.com

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SPRED: (708) 771-3567

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Saint Bernardine Church 7246 W. Harrison Street, Forest Park, IL 60130

Pastor Rev. Stanislaw Kuca

Deacon Couple Lendell and Tina Richardson

Business Manager Della DeSonia

Parish Secretary Kathy Teska

Director of Religious Education Ann Stauffer

Director of Music Jurate Lukminas

Parish Council Chairperson Julie Doloszycki

Finance Council Chairperson Michael O’Brien

St. Bernardine Organizations Please join one of your organizations:

ALTAR SERVERS: Father Stan, (708) 366-0839 BAPTISM CLASS: Helen Kreidermacher, (708) 771-3567 BOOK CLUB: Lin Beribak, (312) 882-3386 BUILDINGS & GROUNDS: Kevin Hibbitts, (708) 488-1075 EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Julie Doloszycki, (708) 366-4382 FIL-AM PARISHIONERS: Josephine O’Brien FINANCE COUNCIL: Michael O’Brien, (708) 366-2898 HOSPITALITY: Kathy Capron Jankun, (773) 882-1605 ITALIAN CATHOLIC FEDERATION: Al Cimino, (708) 345-4173 KINGDOM RETREAT: Jim Murray, (708) 366-8427 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Wally Westervelt, (708) 488-9434 LECTORS: Mary Beth Beal, (708) 366-7567 LITURGY COMMITTEE: Fr. Stan, (708) 366-0839 MUSIC MINISTRY: Jurate Lukminas, (708) 257-0645 PARISH COUNCIL: Julie Doloszycki, (708) 366-4382 PRAY & PLAY: Kathy Capron Jankun, (773) 882-1605 PRAYER GROUP: Betty Huebner PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY: Helen Kreidermacher, (708) 771-3567 R.C.I.A.: Father Stan, (708) 366-0839 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Ann Stauffer, (708) 447-6894 RESPECT LIFE COMMITTEE: Leslie Huzyk, (708) 366-7441 ST. VINCENT DePAUL: Jim Murray, (708) 366-8427 SPRED: Helen Kreidermacher, (708) 771-3567 USHER: Tom Gill, (708) 848-6454 WOMEN’S CLUB: Patty Mullin, (708) 848-1214 YOUTH GROUP: Kathy Capron Jankun, (773) 882-1605

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Dear Parishioners, We take a short break from Sundays in Ordinary Time this weekend for a solem-nity that is celebrated on June 24 every year, no matter the day of the week; The Nativity of

Saint John the Baptist. Before he was born, John was chosen by God to pre-pare the world for the Son of God. Today, as we remember the birth of St. John the Baptist, let us recall our own baptism and our initiation into the Christian faith. Next week, our second collection will be for Peter’s Pence, which provides Pope Francis with the funds he needs to carry out his charitable works around the world. The Peter’s Pence Collection has ancient roots, linking back to New Testament times when people would provide material sup-port to the preaching of the Gospel for distribution to those in need. The collection is the way we, as members of the Catholic Church, unite our-selves to the concerns of the Holy Fa-ther. The proceeds benefit our broth-ers and sisters on the margins of soci-ety, including victims of war, oppres-sion, and disasters. Please be gener-ous. For more information, visit www.usccb.org/peters-pence.

As you may know, my regular day off is on Friday, and I have made ar-rangements for the morning mass on this day to be celebrated by a visiting priest. Since my coming to St. Ber-nardine, we have been blessed to have Fr. Krzysztof Swierczynski who helped us in saying mass on Fridays. This July (2018), Fr. Krzysztof will be leaving for Canada to study for his degree in Canon Law. Consequently, we will lose him as a mass celebrant. I would like to thank Fr. Krzysztof for his help and wish him God’s blessings in his studies. I have not been able to find another priest who can replace Fr. Krzysztof on my day off, so similarly to many parishes in the Archdiocese, on Friday mornings we will not have a Mass but will have Communion Service instead. This will be in effect beginning Friday, July 6. Please remember that after the 4th of July, masses will be celebrated in our Summer scheme; Saturday 5:00 P.M. and Sunday 10:30 A.M. mass will be celebrated in Fearon Hall. Sunday 8:00 A.M. mass will be celebrated in the Church. Many people shared with me recently their appreciation of the beautiful flowers and plants we enjoy in and around the church. A big thanks to Carol Good who takes care of all of them. God bless you, Fr. Stan

From the Pastor’s Desk

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Weekly Calendar—June 24-July 1, 2018 Sunday, June 24 Nothing Scheduled Monday, June 25 CD Youth Group 10-12 CD Parish Council 7-9 pm Tuesday, June 26 CD Diaconate 6:30-8:30 pm RB St. Vincent de Paul 7:30 pm Wednesday, June 27 CD Men’s Bible Study 8:30-11:30 am Thursday, June 28 C ICF 7-10 pm Friday, June 29 Nothing Scheduled Saturday, June 30 Nothing Scheduled Sunday, July 1 Nothing Scheduled

CD=Convent Dining Room CH=Church ANX=School Annex RB=Rectory Basement C=Cafeteria K=Kitchen RD=Rectory Dining Room FH=Fearon Hall

Are You Registered?

All Catholics who worship at our parish or who are a part of our parish services are requested to register. In registering, you are becoming an active member of St. Bernardine Parish. If you have not registered, please complete the following and give the slip to one of the Church Ministers of Hospitality (ushers), priests, or put it in the collection basket and registration forms will be mailed to you. If you would like to phone for these forms, call 708-366-0839.You are not considered registered until the Pastor receives your completed registration form.

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Welcome New Parishioners

All are invited to a Holy Hour of

Eucharistic Exposition and Benediction: 1st Monday of Every Month

7 pm in the Chapel

BOOK CLUB Do you choose summer reading for its ability to take you away to a different time and place? Our choice for July book discussion should do just that: A Tale for the Time Being is a novel by Ruth Ozeki narrated by two characters, a sixteen-year-old Japanese American girl in Tokyo who keeps a diary, and a Japanese American writer living on an island off British Columbia who finds the diary washed up on shore some time after the 2011 tsunami that devas-tated Japan.

We will meet at 7 pm, Monday, July 9, at Lin's home, 1529 Elgin. Enjoy reading!

SUMMER LUNCH FOR THE NEEDY

Ascension Parish will be serving free hot lunches on these Saturdays

this summer:

June 9, 16, 23 30 July 7, 14, 21

August 4, 11, 18

10:30 a.m.—1:30 p.m.

Ascension Parish 808 East Avenue

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school)

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Pray For Our Sick Carl Wisdom, Chester Witt, Carol Deboth, Kevin Powell, Walt Fletcher, Dorothy Lockwood, Charles Parker, Brenda Nalepka, Corrine Jembrzycki, Ann Stauffer, Rachell Entler, Ronald Beribak, Mary White, Lendell Richardson, Frank Martone, Flora Martini, Barbara Entler, Jennifer Stewart, Ann Mes-serschmidt, Bernice Schawel, Rita Daniello, Michael Doloszycki, Laura Hogan, Vince Pusateri, Mary Sladek, Grace and Jack Belmonte, Carmella Bielawski, Doris Keating, Rich Murphy, Therese Martone, Wally Solberg, Sr., Teresa Meyer, Martin & Eileen Hudik, Shirley Hamilton, Helen Kreidermacher, Dan Martone, Betty Maslauskas, and Fr. Frank Grady. Please pray for these parishioners, their families and caregivers. Please call the parish secretary to add or delete names on the list. Names will automatically be removed after 3 months unless renewed.

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED COUNSELING?

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YOUTH GROUP NEWS We are asking parishioners to save their coupons for us and drop them in the box in back of church. Our mission is to collect coupons to purchase food and other items to donate to the food pantry. We need help to clip out the coupons every Monday from 10:00 a.m. to noon in the convent dining room. Please bring your own scissors. If you have any questions please call Kathy at 773-882-1605. THANK YOU!

WE ARE LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS!

All are welcome! 5 years old to 100. St. Bernardine Parish Council and Youth Group will be packing food for “Feed My Starving Children.” We are looking for 24 people to join us on Saturday, July 14th from 9 a.m.—11 a.m. at

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To join us register at https://volunteer.fmsc.org/Register/Group/JoinGroup.aspx?gid=1417834 If you have any questions, please call Kathy at 773-882-1605.

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June 24-July 1, 2018 Sunday, June 24 8:00 am † Leslie Kratz † Anthony Jumaoas 10:30 am † John Baptist Rego † James Kuschel Monday, June 25 6:30 am † Vincent Trungale Tuesday, June 26 6:30 am † Kevin Kohl Wednesday, June 27 6:30 am † Julio & Manuela Rios Thursday, June 28 6:30 am Intentions of Parishioners Friday, June 29 6:30 am † Rita Sperber Saturday, June 30 8:30 am † Rita Marcantonio 5:00 pm † Jack Tavolacci The Trindle Family Sunday, July 1 8:00 am † Rosita Lambke † Sebastian & Isabel Lona 10:30 am Chandler Cardis

June 30 & July 1 , 2018 Celebrants 5:00 pm Fr. Stan Kuca 8:00 am Fr. Stan Kuca 10:30 am Fr. Stan Kuca Readers and Lectors 5:00 pm Caitlin McNulty 8:00 am Krystyn Raza 10:30 am Francis Espedido Eucharistic Ministers 5:00 pm Kathy Rush, Michael O’Brien Helen Kreidermacher 8:00 am Donna Dorney, Debbie Espinosa, Kristin Robins 10:30 am Marsha Boblitz, Kristin Westervelt, Isaac Beal Cantors 5:00 pm TBA 8:00 am TBA 10:30 am TBA Servers 5:00 pm Anisha Athmanathan, Charlie Lock, Molly Lock 8:00 am Katherine Brooker, Nora Brooker Ella Petersen 10:30 am Ava Scollard, Jhanlo Espedido, Roberto Marquez

06/17/18 COLLECTION ENVELOPES (114) ………………………….. $3,591.00 LOOSE CHECKS & CASH …………………. $972.00 SUNDAY COLLECTION TOTAL ………….. $4,563.00 BUDGET COLLECTION……………………. $5,000.00 DEFICIT…………………………………….. $437.00 BUDGET TO DATE ………………………… $250,000.00 SUNDAY INCOME TO DATE……………… $256,318.71 SUNDAY COLLECTION SURPLUS TO DATE $6,318.71

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Weekly Readings

ELECTRONIC CONTRIBUTION Electronic contribution is an automatic

transfer program which allows you to make contributions without writing checks.

Forms are available in the back of church. If you have any questions you can call Kathy

at 366-0839.

Monday: 2 Kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18; Ps 60:3-5, 12-13; Mt 7:1-5 Tuesday: 2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36; Ps 48:2-4, 10-11; Mt 7:6, 12-14 Wednesday: 2 Kgs 22:8-13; 23:1-3; Ps 119:33-37, 40; Mt 7:15-20 Thursday: 2 Kgs 24:8-17; Ps 79:1b-5, 8, 9; Mt 7:21-29 Friday: Vigil: Acts 3:1-10; Ps 19:2-5; Gal 1:11-20; Jn 21:15-19 Day: Acts 12:1-11; Ps 34:2-9; 2 Tm 4:6-8, 17-18; Mt 16:13-19 Saturday: Lam 2:2, 10-14, 18-19; Ps 74:1b-7, 20-21; Mt 8:15-17 Sunday: Wis 1:13-15; 2:23-24; Ps 30:2, 4-6, 11-13; 2 Cor 8:7, 9, 13-15; Mk 5:21-43 [5:21-24, 35b-43]

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TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

It’s midsummer day! We have the advantage of celebrating one of the great hidden treasures of our liturgical calendar on a Sunday this year. There are only three “nativity” feasts on our calendar: for the Lord, the Blessed Mother (September 8), and today’s birth of the Baptist. Today’s date is anchored by the Annunciation (March 25), when Mary learns not only of her own child’s advent, but of Elizabeth’s child. We are exactly half a year away from Christ-mas Eve. There are strong traditions around this feast. Just as the winter solstice provides a rich vocabulary for Christmas, so does the abundance of light at midsummer inform this celebration. Just as at Christmas, a religious festival spills over into culture. As summer light reaches its peak, the sun-drenched zones of northern Europe see people staying up all night, lighting “St. John’s fires” in the long summer twilight. Bonfires seem to be the uni-fying force in all these celebrations, kindled along the shores of the St. Lawrence in Que-bec and Montreal, with harbor illuminations in France. You may be most interested in the cus-tom in San Juan, Puerto Rico, the Baptist’s own city. People there will leap into the sea between midnight and dawn to honor John. Why not find your way to a pool, a lake, or a sandy beach today and plunge in to recall your baptism? It’s a tradition! —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

RESPECT LIFE In November 2017 the American Journal of

Psychiatry published a study titled “Association of Hormonal Contraception with Suicide At-tempts and Suicides.” For an average of 8.3 years, the study followed nearly 500,000 Danish women who took hormonal contraceptives in-cluding the “Pill,” the patch, the Nuva ring, Mirena IUD and oral progestin-only drugs.

The study concluded that not only were women who took hormonal contraceptives more likely to attempt suicide, they were much more likely to succeed. Compared to women who did not use hormonal contraceptives, risk of suicide was twice as likely.

But the most telling data revealed that sui-cide attempts were most likely to occur after just two months of hormonal contraceptive use. Ma-turing young women and girls take some time to adapt to the changes in body chemistry that by themselves cause mood swings; with the intro-duction of additional hormones intended to make the body dysfunctional, the mind and body struggle even more. Because the study controlled for previously diagnosed psychiatric conditions and other co-factors in suicidal ideation, it proved that the Pill itself—not any other pre-existing psychiatric problem—was the cause of suicidal behavior.

But the study contained one flaw: induced abortion was not considered a “confounder”—that is, something that might skew statistical analysis. Over half of women who seek an abor-tion have used contraception in the cycle that resulted in a pregnancy. A previously published study of Finnish women by Mikka Gissler found a three-fold increase in suicide among women with a history of induced abortion.

As we approach the 50th anniversary of Hu-manae Vitae, the prophecies of Blessed Pope Paul VI in this encyclical have come to fruition. The objectification of women cannot be more tragically expressed than in self-murder than can result from maiming and deforming her sexual nature. Source: Steven W. Mosher, “The Way the Pill Kills—This One Makes Five,” Population Research Institute Newsletter, May/June 2018.

ST. BERNARDINE CLASS OF 1967 REUNION

If you know someone who graduated from St. Bernardine School in 1967,

please ask them to contact Jim Torney. He can be reached at

708-655-2271 or tornknee365@sbcglobal.net.

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JOHN THE BAPTIST Since June 24 falls on a Sunday this year, the Church has the opportunity for a more intense celebration of the birth of John the Baptist, who is often described as the last of the Old Testament prophets and the bridge between Judaism and Christianity. More commonly, John is known as the “precursor” of our Lord Je-sus Christ. All the Gospels report John’s basic message: Repent, the kingdom is near at hand. One greater than I is com-ing. Though he was a wandering preacher who dressed in camel skins and ate grass-hoppers, John’s legacy is one of true roy-alty. His origins are similar to those fore-told by God through the prophet Isaiah: “You are my servant, he said to me, Israel through whom I show my glory” (Isaiah 49:3). John’s humility—“I am not he”—was surpassed only by that of his Lord Jesus, the humble servant

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