Welcome to Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church

Mass Schedule Saturday: 4:00 pm Sunday: 8:30 am & 10:30 am Holy Day: 5:30 pm

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Rev. Michael Brown Parochial Administrator

Dave Lang Parish Manager

Rev. Joseph Newman, OSFS Rev. Alan Zobler, OSFS

Weekend Celebrants

Gary Thrun Deacon

Sr. Ritamarie Miller, OSF/T Director of Liturgy & Music

Lisa Pierson Office Manager, CRE

PARISH OFFICE: 419-865-2345 OFFICE HOURS: Monday-Friday

8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. & 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

ADDRESS: 6149 Hill Ave., Toledo, OH 43615

REGISTRATION: New members should call or visit the

Parish Office

RECONCILIATION:

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. every Saturday or by appointment

BAPTISMS:

Call Parish Office

MARRIAGES: Please contact Parish Office

6 months in advance

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults): Call Marty Charney at 419-865-7252

Christian Formation Program

(classes for public grade school children) Call the Parish Office

MASSES:

Saturday: 4:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:30 a.m. & 10:30 a.m.

Holy Days: 5:30 p.m.

ST. BENEDICT CATHOLIC SCHOOL Martha Hartman,

Principal/ St. Benedict Catholic School Diane Spetz,

Secretary/ St. Benedict Catholic School

SCHOOL PHONE - 419-536-1194 SCHOOL FAX - 419-531-5140

Parish Activities for This Week

Sunday, February 11: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Heartbeat Baby Bottle Campaign World Marriage Day Mass: 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. RCIA: 9:30 a.m., Lourdes Room Monday, February 12: Deadline for February 18 Bulletin: Please submit

articles in email format to Parish Office by noon. Prayer Shawl Ministry: 1:00 p.m., Lourdes Room Elizabeth Ministry: 2:30 p.m., Lourdes Room RCIC: 6:00 p.m., Parish Office St. Vincent de Paul: 6:30 p.m., Parish Life Center Tuesday, February 13: Parish Endowment: 4:00 p.m., Parish Office Bible Study: 6:30 p.m., Lourdes Room Wednesday, February 14: Ash Wednesday Valentine’s Day Mass: 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. Hospitality Kitchen: 10:00a.m.-12:00p.m., Parish

Life Center Thursday, February 15: Bingo: In the Parish Life Center. Doors open at

10:00 a.m. Hard Card and Paper Lightning at 11:00 a.m. Series at 1:00 p.m. To volunteer call 419-865-2345.

Choir: 7:00 p.m., Music Room Friday, February 16: Stations of the Cross: 7:00 p.m., Church Saturday, February 17: Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order Wine and Cheese After Mass Reconciliation: 3:00-3:30 p.m. Mass: 4:00 p.m. Sunday, February 18: 1st Sunday in Lent Donuts and Coffee After Masses Mass: 8:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. RCIA: 9:30 a.m., Lourdes Room

The Parish Office will be closed on Monday, February 19th in observance of President’s Day.

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SACRIFICIAL GIVING REPORT Offertory: Sunday/Holy Day/Initial Offering: 2/4.....$ 9,301.80 Weekly Sunday Offering Budget……….$ 9,500.00 Over (under) for the week #33– 2/4.......$ (198.20) Year-to-date thru 2/4/2018….................$ 277,544.50 Year-to-date budgeted thru 2/4/2018….$ 304,000.00 Over (under) thru 2/4/2018…................$ (26,379.85)

THANKS so much to all who support our parish.

Call the parish office or drop us a note if you would like to receive contribution envelopes. Please call the Parish

Office if you have any changes in your address, phone, household, etc.

Mass Intentions

Sat. 2/17 4:00 p.m. Stephen Swiczkowski, Sr. Stephen Swiczkowski, Jr. Casimir & Alice Rudzinski Paul Leonhardt Sun. 2/18 8:30 a.m. OLL Parishioners Sun. 2/18 10:30 a.m. OLL Parishioners

Church Laundry: February 11-17: Mary Alice McGuire

February 18-24: Judy Hartranft

Church Cleaners: February 12: Mary Bulone February 19: Sandy Earl

Ministry of Praise Petitions

1) Prayerful Lent 2) Vocations to Church Ministries 3) Divorced and Separated

February 17 & 18, 2018

4:00 p.m. Mass CELEBRANT: Fr. Joseph Newman EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Mike Wood, Mike Peiffer,

Debbie Corson, Barb Schmiedebusch, Connie Kuyoth, Volunteer, Volunteer

LECTOR: Barb Schmiedebusch SERVERS: Madalyn Dudek, Eileen Tippin 8:30 a.m. Mass CELEBRANT: Fr. Michael Brown EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Deacon Gary, Margaret

Adams, Ray or Glenda Hawley LECTOR: John McDonough SERVERS: Annie & Samantha Giovannucci

10:30 a.m. Mass CELEBRANT: Fr. Michael Brown EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS: Deacon Gary, Janell Toth,

Jason Toth, Tom Urban, Donna Urban, Jennifer Ruiz, Roz Needham

LECTOR: Marty Paskiet SERVERS: Caroline, Shelby and Cacee Salatin

Liturgical Ministers

The Sanctuary Lamp burns to remind us of the presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament. Sponsorship this

week is in memory of OLL Parishioners.

Readings for the Week of February 11, 2018 Sunday: Lv 13:1-2, 44-46/Ps 32:1-2, 5, 11 [7]/1 Cor 10:31--11:1/Mk 1:40-45 Monday: Jas 1:1-11/Ps 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76 [77a]/Mk 8:11-13 Tuesday: Jas 1:12-18/Ps 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18- 19 [12a]/Mk 8:14-21 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18/2 Cor 5:20--6:2/Ps 51:3-4, 5 -6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17 [cf. 3a]/Mt 6:1- 6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 [40:5a]/Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a/Ps 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19 [19b]/Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14/Ps 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6 [11ab]/ Lk 5:27-32 Next Sunday: Gn 9:8-15/Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [cf. 10]/1 Pt 3:18-22/Mk 1:12-15 © Liturgical Publications Inc

Mass on Ash Wednesday, February 14th will be celebrated at 9:00a.m. and 5:30 p.m.

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Please pray for the soul of Rita Polaski who passed away on January 29th. May God grant her eternal rest. Amen.

Church Directories will be distributed to all parishioners who had their portrait taken the end of March, the first anniver-sary of the dedication of the new church. If you have not yet received your free

portrait that was taken in the fall, please stop by the parish office during business hours to pick it up.

If you do not wish your name and contact infor-mation to be included in the new parish directo-ry, please notify the parish office.

The Baby Bottles Are Here! Change for Life "Baby Bottle Campaign" Please take a baby bottle for Heartbeat of Toledo as you leave church today. Fill it with your spare change, cash or checks and return it in two weeks on February 24 & 25. Your donation helps pay for pregnancy tests, ultrasounds, parenting classes, dia-pers, formula and so much more. For more information on Heartbeat call 419-241-9131 or visit www.heartbeatoftoledo.org.

Congratulations to the following students who earned honors at their school: St. Francis de Sales Devin Corson President’s List Roman Pensinski Second Honors Ashton Serres Second Honors Notre Dame Academy Madeline Miller Second Honors Samantha Grohowski Second Honors Meghan Miller Third Honors

Most Blessed Sacrament Parish Fish Frys Feb 16, 23, March 2, 9, 16, 23, 4:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. or until sold out ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT Baked and Deep Fried Alaskan Pollock Fries or Baked Potatoes, Salad, Homemade Coleslaw, Mac and Cheese, Rolls, Bev-erage and a Dessert Adults: $9.00 Seniors: $8.00 Children 6-12 : $7.00 Age 5 and under: free

Regina Coeli Fish Frys Regina Coeli Parish, Toledo Feb 16, 23, March 2, 9, 23 from 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm Hand Breaded Fish - Alaskan Pollock, Steak Fries, Dinner Salad, Cole slaw, Mac & Cheese, Roll, Beverage, Dessert, & Ice Cream Sundaes! *Marcos cheese pizza also available. Adults: $10.00 Children 12 and un-der : $5.00 Carry-out available

Daughters of Mary Meeting/Baby Shower Our February meeting will be on Thursday February 22. We will be having a baby shower for Heartbeat. Please bring an unwrapped gift to the meeting. Anyone else is also welcome to bring baby items to Church and we will get them to Heartbeat.

A Catholic education is not out of reach with a scholarship from the Northwest Ohio Scholarship Fund Need-based Scholarships worth up to $1,500 per child are available for Catholic schools or $500 for homeschooling expenses for students who reside in Allen, Crawford, Defiance, Erie, Fulton, Hancock, Henry, Huron, Lucas, Ottawa, Paulding, Putnam, Richland, Sandusky, Seneca, Van Wert, Williams, Wood or Wyandot County for grades K-8th for the 2018-2019 school year . For example a family of five with a household income of $77,706 is eligible. To apply online or for more information about the pro-gram visit WWW.NOSF.ORG or contact the North-west Ohio Scholarship Fund office at (419) 720-7048. The deadline to apply is Friday, April 27, 2018.

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Whenever a county/city within the Diocese of To-ledo is placed under a Level 3 Snow Emergency, during which all roadways are closed to non-emergency personnel, the Catholic Churches within that geographic region will cancel the scheduled Sat-urday Vigil, Sunday, or Holy Day Masses. Roman Catholics in that region, therefore, are dispensed from the obligation to attend Mass. If Masses are can-celled, Catholics are encouraged to participate in Ho-ly Mass via television, radio, or internet, making a spiritual Communion. When Mass is cancelled, all other diocesan, parish, or school events in that geo-graphic region are also cancelled.

The Stations of the Cross Please join us every Friday during Lent as we pray the Stations of the Cross at 7:00 pm in Church.

The Via Dolorosa, the “Way of Sorrows” or the “Way of Suffering,” is a winding path not quite a half mile long through the cobblestone streets of the walled-in Old City of Jerusalem. It is the path that Je-sus walked from His condemnation in the Pretorium at the hands of Pontius Pilate to His Crucifixion on Calvary. Along the route there are fourteen stations marking the places and events that took place on the day He would die. Today, nine of those stations are on the way to the Church of the Holy Sep-ulchre, with the remaining five stations located within the Church itself. They are a stark reminder of what Christ went through out of His love for us and his obedience to His Father. Praying the Stations is a devotional practice that early Christians engaged in as a way of commemo-rating and “remembering” the infamous events of Good Friday. Eventually portrayals of the chief scenes along the Via Dolorosa were placed on the walls of our Catholic/Christian Churches so all of the faithful would have the opportunity to actively participate in praying the “stations.” As we pray and contemplate on Christ’s suffering, we are reminded of the hate, violence, and all of the suffering that is on-going in our world today. But more importantly, we are reminded of Jesus’ ultimate victory over sin and death, recognizing that His “Way of Suffering” is our “Way of Salvation.” During the Season of Lent, praying the Stations of the Cross with a sincere and contrite heart can be a powerful tool in helping us to seek God’s forgiveness in our lives, and in helping us to extend His forgiveness to others. One of the best known prayers for The Way of the Cross is one com-posed and first published in Italian by St. Alfonsus Liguori in 1761. In this prayer, at the beginning of each station, we give thanks to God and affirm His saving action. The priest or dea-con says, “We adore You, O Christ, and we praise You. And the people respond, “Because, by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world.” Peace, Deacon Gary

Anyone in 1st through 8th grade interested in playing spring soccer, please complete the fol-lowing forms and return to the St Benedict School of-fice.

Soccer Registration

CYO Contract

Emergency Medical Form

Acknowledgement of Concussion Information Parent/Player Sudden Cardiac Arrest Signature Form Forms can be found at StBenedicttoledo.org website. Deadline is March 2nd 2018

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Society of St. Vincent de Paul Our Lady of Lourdes Conference

January 2018 Report: During the month of January our volunteers answered calls from those in need:

Calls from within our parish boundaries: 21 Calls referred to other Parishes: 20 Total phone calls answered: 41

Services provided:

Rent Assistance: 8 Utility Assistance: 20 Food Assistance: 3 Furniture needed: 1 Total family members served: 41

Referrals made to other agencies for assistance: 2 Number of home visits made: 4

Thanks to your generosity, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, Our Lady of Lourdes Conference is able to contin-ue to serve those in need within our parish boundaries. Thank you, so very much for your support. Lent begins this coming Wednesday. As part of our Lenten sacrifices and penitential practices we can continue not only our financial support for our neighbors in need but also offer our daily prayers for them, and consider volunteering time answering their calls for help (one shift about every three months). For more information about joining the Our Lady of Lourdes Conference please contact Paul Conrad at 419-297-7270 or e-mailing your in-quiry at ololsvdp@outlook.com.

"The Holy Land - PART 2"

GREECE — In the Footsteps of St. Paul with Msgr. William Kubacki

October 7 - 17, 2018 Bring your Bibles as you join Msgr. Kubacki traveling through the New Testament in the Footsteps of St. Paul in Thessaloniki, Athens, Philippi, Corinth, and other sites in which St. Paul preached to some of the world’s first Christians! Our pilgrims will include a breathtaking 3-day cruise of the Greek Isles visiting Ephesus (and the location of the home of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Beloved Disciple), the Island of Crete, and Santorini. $4389 per person cash/check discount with air from Detroit. For more information contact Maggie at 419-290-8782 or maggie@catholicfaithjourneys.com or visit CatholicFaithJourneys.com and check Open Pil-grimages. Informational meeting: March 3, 10:30 AM, Rosary Cathedral Office, 2535 Collingwood Blvd.

The Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA) is the annual fund-raising campaign which supports many of the educa-tional, spiritual, and service ministries of the Diocese of Toledo.

Every Catholic family or individual is asked for their financial and prayerful support.

Gifts to the ACA can be sent to PO Box 917, Toledo, OH 43697.

For questions call 419.244.6711

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