March 15, 2015

THANK YOU! Collection for 03-09-15 Week 1:

$20,360.00 31% of Goal: $64,959.00

Thank you to everyone who has shared

the many blessings they have received,

with your generous gift to our Diocesan Services Appeal.

Our gifts to DSA will support adoption services, counseling

services, services for the aging and the blind and sight

impaired…programs for those who are deaf and hard of

hearing…programs for those who are struggling in their

marriage – as well as exciting programs like our Diocesan

Youth Leadership Camp, training teens in our diocese to

serve as Disciples of Christ. These are but a few of the more

than 100 ministries in our diocese that are made possible by

our contributions to DSA.

If you have not made a gift or a pledge, I invite you to join

the faithful of our parish community who have taken an

active role in the mission of the Church. Your gift to our

DSA will enable our diocese to continue providing the vital

services and ministries that help bring the love of God to

those who face hardships.

ADULT CONFIRMATION

To be fully initiated into the Catholic Church, the faithful

receive the Sacraments of Baptism, Eucharist and

Confirmation.

If you are an adult Catholic, High School graduate or

older, and have not yet been confirmed, and you desire to be

fully initiated, it is never too late.

This year Adult Confirmation preparation will take place

in each home parish. There will be a six week preparation

period beginning Tuesday, April 14th, here at St. Mary

Parish, in Conference Room B, at 7PM.

Adult Confirmation will take place on the Feast of

Pentecost, May 24th

,, at St. Mary, Pinckney, at the 11:30AM

Mass.

If you are interested, have questions or would like more

details, please contact the parish office at 734-878-3161.

HELP GLORIFY THE LORD VISUALLY

Have you been blessed with creativity? Do you want to find a special way to honor the Lord? Do you have a few hours every few months? Do you want to increase your own spirituality and make some wonderful friends at the same time? If the answer to these questions are “Yes, Lord” then we welcome you to join us and to learn the art of liturgical decorations for the Church year. No experience needed. We will teach you the way of telling Christ's story from birth to death through nature and symbolic ornamentation. What better offering can you give to the Lord than to present the creativity he gave to you back to Him as a gift to glorify Him? If you are interested in joining our team you can call Priscilla Deleruyelle 734-878-5286 or Marion Manners 734-426-3581.

Stations of the Cross will be prayed Friday evenings during

Lent at 7pm in the church.

Lent Reconciliation Services 2015

March 15: St. Agnes 3pm March 18: St. Mary 7pm March 19: St. Augustine 7pm March 19: St. Joseph 7pm March 23: Holy Spirit 7pm March 25: St. John 7:30pm March 28: St. Patrick 9am March 30: St. Mary Magdalen 7:30pm

God Gives New Life “Where has God’s new life been working in you this Lent?”

Ephesians 2:45

March 15, 2015

St. Mary Parish Men’s Club Presents

FRIDAY FISH DINNERS

Serving From 4:00-7:00 PM Dinner Includes:

Baked or Beer Battered Fried Fish, Choice of Potato

(French Fries, Scalloped, or Baked) Beets, Cole Slaw,

Macaroni & Cheese, Cut Veggies, Homemade Rolls,

Homemade Desserts, Jell-O, Milk, Coffee, Tea, & Punch

NEW: For our younger guests individual size cheese pizza

Join us each Friday during Lent

February 20 & 27, March 6, 13, 20, & 27

Adults $10.00 Seniors $9.00

Children $5.00 (Under Age 12)

Family $35.00 (Immediate Family Only)

Take-outs Available!

WE NOW ACCEPT VISA, MASTERCARD, & AMERICAN EXPRESS!

ATTN: ADULT MEN OF ST MARY PARISH Are you saying to yourself, “I want to get involved in this

wonderful Parish of ours but I’m not really sure what is right

for me”? Consider the Men’s Club. We meet at 7:30pm; the

3rd

Thursday of the month in the Multi-Use Room. The

purpose of the Men’s Club is to provide assistance and

cooperation with the other organizations within the Parish as

well as provide an avenue to generate funds for special needs

within the Parish and local community. Our events are some

of the most well received and attended events in the area and

have raised thousands of dollars for various causes such as

Christmas Food Baskets, Parish Youth Ministry, and School

Auction Team. Sure it’s work, but the friendships are

forever and the reward for helping those who need our

assistance, is well; priceless. We are very proud of our

Stewardship and the service we provide to our Parish

Community. Come check us out this Thursday, March 19th

.

Light snack and a feeling of making a difference provided. If

you have any questions please feel free to contact Bob at

(810) 623-0300.

Save the Date! Catholic Men’s Conference

Accept the Challenge

April 25, 2015

8:30am-3pm

St. Mary Magdalen, Brighton

Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University

Learn God’s ways of handling money

This 9 week course begins April 12, 2015

Class will be held here at St. Mary

Start time of 1:00pm

Contact Rick & Maggie Andrus

H 517-223-0165 C 810-293-7311

KITCHEN SPRING CLEANING DATES

Thursday, April 9 -and-

Saturday, April 11 During School Spring Break!

Stop in to help either day from 9am to 11am!

Tickets on Sale! Livingston County Catholic Charities celebrates 30 years at

our Annual Salute to the Star and Celebrity Dance

Competition in addition to honoring our two community

stars: Pregnancy Help Clinic and Barbara Lynch!

Our celebrity dance teams are:

Heather & Paul Menosky(Pinckney Vlg. Trustee &

Loc Performance)

Courtney (Frontal Lobe & Heart of Howell) and

Fabrizio Tarara (Frontal Lobe and C&B Machinery)

Erica Karfonta & Richard Lim (Director OLHSA &

Richard Lim Photography)

Chief Andy and Luann Pless (Howell Fire Dept. &

Treasurer Oceola Twp)

There will be one overall winning team that night based on

the judge’s scores and a community favorite award which

will be awarded to the team with the most votes both on-line

and at the event. On-line voting opens March 1st, 2015.

The event will be held on March 21, 2015 at The Johnson

Center at Cleary College with Mass celebrated prior at St.

Joseph Church in Howell with Bishop Boyea. Tickets are

$60/person or $440/table of 8 – deadline to purchase is

March 17. For more information, to sponsor the event or to

purchase your tickets, contact Julie Amman at 517-545-5944.

Platinum Sponsors: St. Joseph Mercy Livingston Hospital,

Dr. Edward Loniewski.

Help Jesus In Disguise Catholic Relief Services Collection March 14-15

Through humanitarian aid, resettling displaced individuals and families, and providing legal and advocacy services for migrants, the Catholic Relief

Services Collection allows us to see every encounter with a person who is suffering as an opportunity to

help Jesus In Disguise!

March 15, 2015

SHROUD OF TURIN DISPLAY

AT HOLY SPIRIT Make plans now for you and/or your group to visit Holy

Spirit Catholic Church on Holy Saturday, April

4th from Noon - 6:00pm. Over 20 panels will be on display,

including several that will present new research that would

seem to date the shroud back to biblical times and locate it to

the holy lands, explaining every aspect of the Passion of

Christ as seen through the Shroud, The Reputed Burial Cloth

of Christ. There will be a 3:00pm Presentation as well as newly

released videos that reveal the latest findings with our life

sized photographic reproduction of the actual Shroud of

Turin. Mark your calendars now. Free Will Offering. Holy Spirit Catholic Church is located at 9565 Musch &

Winans Lk Rds in Brighton, MI. 48116. Please call 810-231-

9199 for more info or visit our website at www.hsrcc.net

FOR YOUR MARRIAGE Celebrate your good marriage by making it even better during the "Year of Marriage!" How? Attend a Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend! WWME has been helping couples fall in love all over again for nearly 50 years. 2015 Weekends will be held March 20-22 at St. Gerard in Lansing, April 28-30 at Weber Center in Adrian, August 7-9 at St. John in Fenton, and October 16-18 at Center for Ministry in Saginaw. During in-parish weekends, you sleep at home. To apply for a weekend, contact Harry & Karen Porter at 800-628-7433 or apply online at www.wwme.org.

3 GREAT DATES for married and engaged couples!

Friday evenings, March 27, April 17, and May 29.

Held at St. Francis Retreat Center in DeWitt

from 5:30-9:15pm and includes dinner.

Cost is $75 per couple. The topics in order of

dates are Communication, Commitment, and To

Love & To Honor. Given by Tony Sperendi. Please register with the retreat center at 517-669-

8321 or http://www.stfrancis.ws/.

QUARTER MANIA

Benefit For St. Louis Center in Chelsea

Join us at the Dexter KofC on Wednesday, March 25th

6:00pm Registration & Shopping

7:00pm Mania begins

YOU MUST BE 16 OR OLDER TO ATTEND

Quarter Mania – a cross between an auction, bingo, and a

home party. Purchase bidding paddles $3 for 1, $5 for 2, and

$8 for 3. Auction will include Dexter Green Day Plant sale

participates - St. Joseph Plant Sale and the Dexter Garden

Club. Dexter Green Day is May 16. Hosted by the Dexter

Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary.

Inaugural Golf Outing

Benefitting

LOVE INC

Love In the Name of Christ

Saturday, May 9, 2015

Whispering Pines Golf Club – Pinckney, MI

9am Shotgun Start

LIVINGSTON COUNTY ULTRASOUND INITIATIVE

SPRING RAFFLE 2015

PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES

TICKETS $5 EACH -OR - 5 FOR $20

Single Ticket wins all 3 prizes

Drawing Thursday, April 16, 2015

Pregnancy Help Clinic Fundraiser

Tickets available from Rod Forman 810.599.7349

Prize #1 Planes: B-17 one hour flight for two

Flights are usually on Wednesdays from Willow Run.

They will allow family members to climb into the plane on

land to check it out - Once the plane is off the ground,

passengers (2) are able to move around inside to check out

the gun turrets, the bomb bay, etc.

http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/ - $900 value

Prize #2 Trains: Round Trip for 4 Adults from Ann Arbor

or East Lansing Amtrak to Chicago on Friday or Sat. (TBD

by winner). 4 Adults for Dinner at one of three Italian Village

Restaurants. 1 night stay Quad room JW Marriott Chicago -

$1200 value

Prize #3 Automobiles: Detailing of 2 VEHICLES - interior

exterior and engine compartment - Auto One Brighton,

MI - $400 value

Aquinas College Fine Arts Visit Day

Friday, March 20th

Aquinas College in Grand Rapids is hosting a Fine Arts

AQDay for high school students interested in Theatre,

Music, Art and Creative Writing. Discover what

studying fine arts is like at AQ as you attend breakout

sessions, view an exhibit of current students’ work, tour

our beautiful 117-acre campus and chat with faculty

from your specific area of interest. Please visit

aquinas.edu/fad for more details or to register for the

event on Friday, March 20th.

END OF YEAR CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE!

Please call the parish office at 734-878-3161 to request your statement or email Kim: khogan@stmarypinckney.org or

Heather: hshamp@stmarypinckney.org

March 15, 2015

Report for March 9, 2015 Parishioner Donations - Giving Back To The Lord

YTD 07/01/14 – 03/09/15 Weekly YTD Offertory $ 13,885.09 $ 566,976.97 Operating Budget Reqmnt. $ 15,940.00 $ 573,840.00 Variance $ (2,054.91) $ (6,863.03)

Debt Reduction/FaithQuest Collected $ 52,059.52 Ring the Bell Campaign $ 60,012.39 $132,481 needed to reach goal

Mortgage Payment Requirement $ 300,120.00 Mortgage Amount Paid $ 160,000.00 Shortfall $ (140,120.00)

RCIA RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITATION OF ADULTS

Do you know someone who may be interested in becoming

Catholic? Have you ever invited another to explore the

Catholic faith? Please join us for our upcoming meetings.

All are welcome to join us for any

subject meeting listed below!

03/15 SECOND SCRUTINY 9am Mass

Holy Spirit 10:15-11:15am

03/18 PENANCE SERVICE 7pm

03/21 RCIA RETREAT 8:30am – 5pm

THIRD SCRUTINY 5pm

Dinner Celebration 6:15pm

03/29 PALM SUNDAY 11:30 Mass

NO MEETING

Religious Education K-8 & 2nd Grade Sacrament Prep

3/15 10:15-11:20am Class (K-8) 3/22 10:15-11:20am Class (K-8) 3/29 NO Class: Palm Sunday 4/5-4/12 NO Class: Christ Is Risen! /Spring Break 4/19 10:15-11:20am Class (K-8)

Confirmation 3/15 10:00-11:15am Confirmation 3/22 10:00-11:15am Confirmation 3/29 NO Class: Palm Sunday 4/5-4/12 NO Class: Christ Is Risen! /Spring Break 4/19 10:00-11:15am Confirmation During No physical Class times Teens should continue to work on homework and write in their Mass Journals! Please ensure they stay connected! Check out the Confirmation Information Hub:

http://www.stmarypinckney.org/#/faith-formation/confirmation-info-hub

Middle School Youth Group Schedule Date: Time: Event: 3/15 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 3/17 7-8:30pm Youth Night – 3/22 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 3/24 7-8:30pm Youth Night – 3/29 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 3/31 7-8:30pm Youth Night – 4/5 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 4/7 NO YOUTH GROUP

High School Youth Group Schedule

Date: Time: Event: 3/15 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 3/18 7-9:00pm Youth Night – 3/22 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 3/25 7-9:00pm Youth Night – 3/29 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 4/1 7-9:00pm Youth Night – 4/5 7-8pm Adoration “Here I am Lord” 4/8 NO YOUTH GROUP

Website: http://www.stmarypinckney.org/#/youth/

If you have any questions please call 734-878-2217 or email rkeiser@stmarypinckney.org

Calling Interested Teens

for Living Stations Have you witnessed the Living Stations of the Cross that the

teens bring to you on Good Friday? Would you like to be a

part of it? You do not have to have any “acting” ability just

the willingness to open yourself up to become the person

who witnessed Jesus on the road to Cavalry. It is not just

some part that you read. It is a part that you witness and

become. The stations are a prayer, prayed with our parish

family on Good Friday. It truly is a beautiful ministry. You

must be willing to put time in and truly be open to this

wonderful gift. You must also be available Good Friday!

Please contact Rebecca Keiser at

rkeiser@stmarypinckney.org (preferred)

or 734-878-2217 ext. 203

Our Hidden Life With God

“Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth, for you have died, and

your life is hidden with Christ in God.” -Colossian 3:3

March 15, 2015

MASS INTENTIONS

Sunday, March 15th

9:00am: For Our Parish

11:30am: In Memory of Patricia Kurzawa by Bernie

Kurzawa

Monday, March 16th

9:00am: Communion Service

Tuesday, March 17th

9:00am: Communion Service

5:00pm: In Memory of Ervin Nemeth by family

Wednesday, March 18th

9:00am: In Memory of Bob Pauline by Jeffrey & Mary

Hinkle

Thursday, March 19th

5:00pm: In Memory of Irvin & Martha Wisniewski by the

Bensinger family

Friday, March 20th

9:00am: In Memory of Jessica Callaghan by the Dzombak

family

Saturday, March 21st

5:00pm: For Our Parish

Sunday, March 22nd

9:00am: In Memory of Robert Partyka by Iwanski family

11:30am: In Memory of Jessica Callaghan by Jasinski family

WEEKLY READINGS: March 15th

-21st

Sunday:

Fourth Sunday of Lent 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137; Eph 2:4-10;Jn 3:14-21

Monday:

Lenten Weekday

Is 35:17-21; Ps 30; Jn 4:43-54

Tuesday:

St. Patrick, Bishop

Ez 47:1-9, 12: Ps 46; Jn 5:1-16

Wednesday:

St. Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop and Dr. of Church

Is 49:8-15 Ps 145; Jn 5:17-30

Thursday:

St. Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary

2 Sm 7:4-5, 12-14, 16; Ps 89; Mt 1:16, 18-21, 24

Friday:

Lenten Weekday

Wis 2:1, 12-22; Ps 34;Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30

Saturday:

Lenten Weekday

Jer 11:18-20; Ps 7; Jn 7:40-53

We always keep our military

family close and far in our

thoughts and prayers, especially

for Joshua Kolnitys.

LAY MINISTERS: March 21st & 22

nd

Communion Service Leaders

March 16: L. Lichwala March 17: R. Boos

March 23: D. Hall March 24: T. Burke

Extraordinary Ministers of the Eucharist

5:00pm 9:00am 11:30am

*Self-Scheduling by Sign-Up.

*Sign-Up In Meeting Room A.

Altar Servers

5:00pm: M. Haynes, D. Haynes, J. Peltier

9:00am: L. Cross, L. Hall, A. Schlaff

11:30am: A. Domen, M. Miller, S. Miller

Proclaimers of the Word

5:00pm: J. Helmboldt, S. Jasinski

9:00am: P. Candy, D. Hall

11:30am: L. Read, R. Young

Greeters

5:00pm: Watson family

9:00am: M. Nemeth

11:30am: R. Young

Ushers

*Please sign up if you’re available.

Offertory Gifts

*Please sign up if you’re available.

Home Chalice Program *Please sign up if you’re available.

Linens

March: K. Leonard, L. Wack

Cleaning the Altar

March: V. Bensinger

Collection Counters:

March 16: R. Bartkovich, L. Wallce,

N. Rickelmann, C. Hazel

March 23: J. King, R. Miller, B. Zielinski,

L. Hazel

OUR PRAYER LIST

Hannah Campbell, Peggy Curtis, Denise Day, John Dinkel,

Agnes Dzombak, Linda Ferendt, Michael Grossmeyer,

Larence Hurtubise, Richard Jesionowski, Don Keiser,

LaVerne Keiser, Sr. MaryKelly, RSM, Elaine LaMontagne,

Dick Laws, Paul Martus, Adeline Penrod, Angela

Raffensperger, Linda Schneider, Allan Steinaway

Prayer For the Sick

“Heavenly Father, we lift up all those who are facing various illnesses. Give them the hope and courage they need today and every day. Comfort their pain, calm their fears, and them with Your peace.

(Please contact the church office to add your loved one to

our prayer list).