Dear Friends in Christ, Every so often I like to take the opportunity to answer common questions we receive in this space in the bulletin. I like to call these articles “checking the mailbag,” and so here is our latest mailbag questions:

• What’s the deal with all of the envelopes in our envelope packets? As everyone is aware, we have now been mailing out our envelopes every so often throughout the year and these packets include the usual collection envelopes that help keep our Parishes open—the weekly envelopes—and a number of extra “special envelopes.” We are required to include envelopes for national collections or certain larger causes (this month there are two: the collections for the Church in Central and Eastern Europe and the Church in Latin America). These funds go towards general projects in those designated areas supported by the Bishops of the US. The other envelopes are for local ministries that have a direct impact in our Parishes and in the Fremont area (think St. Vincent de Paul, or Adult Faith Formation, or music, etc.). While we certainly like to support all of the good work being done everywhere, we invite Parishioners to make use of all of the “special envelopes” as they see fit.

• Since Pat Heyman has retired, who is taking on her role? Pat did a phenomenal job in the new role we created when I arrived—Evangelization and Parish Life Coordinator. Over time, we have realized that in order accomplish the steep goals in our Strategic Plan and to continue the positive momentum we are experiencing as Parishes, we need to make this position full-time. We hope to begin the process of hiring a new Director of Evangelization and Parish Life in the very near future. Please pray for the success of this effort!

• How have the Pints with Priests been going and where will the next one be? Fr. Jeff and I have both thoroughly enjoyed are first three Pints with Priests events. This past week we held our third event at Casa Fiesta and had about 80 people in attendance. It is always wonderful whenever we can get together as a Church Family, and so we look forward to future events. We hope to announce the next date very soon and we hope you can join us.

While we regularly receive many questions, these three seem to be the most common recently and we hope this helps. Thanks to our new & improved website (growinholiness.org), you can always send your questions/concerns via an online form. As we continue to move forward and seek ways to grow in holiness together, I hope everyone feel the same excitement and fulfillment as I do. We are truly blessed at St. Ann and St. Joseph Catholic Parishes! Sincerely Yours in Christ, Fr. Michael Pastor

Sunday, January 12 Baptism of the Lord Is 42:1-4, 6-7 Acts 10:34-38 Mt 3:13-17

8:30 a.m. Mass - Mary Ellen Cooley (SAC) 10:30 a.m. Mass - Daniel Stein (SJC) 11:30 a.m. RCIA (HFR) 1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass - St. Ann & St. Joseph Parishes (SJC) 5:30 p.m. Mass - Janet Gabel (SAC) 6:30 p.m. FACT Unite (SHC)

Monday, January 13 St. Hilary 1 Sm 1:1-8 Mk 1:14-20

8:00 a.m. Mass - Herman, Edith, Edna, & Richard Eilrich (SAC) 9:15 a.m. Mary Queen of Peace Prayer Group & Marian Movement of Priests Meeting (SJC) 7:00 p.m. Social Concerns Committee Meeting (FRR) 7:00 p.m. St. Vincent DePaul Meeting (HFR)

Tuesday, January 14 1 Sm 1:9-20 Mk 1:21-28

9:00 a.m. Eucharistic Adoration (SJC) 9:00 a.m. Centering Prayer Group (HFR) 4:00 p.m. Youth Choir Practice (SPX) 5:30 p.m. Mass - Eugene & Cecelia Babione (SJC) 6:30 p.m. Contemporary Choir Practice (SAC) 7:00 p.m. First Reconciliation (SJC)

Wednesday, January 15 1 Sm 3:1-10, 19-20 Mk 1:29-39

8:00 a.m. Mass - Dr. & Mrs. Stierwalt (SAC) 12:00 p.m. 55+ Potluck (SJH) 6:30 p.m. Power Hour (SAC) 6:45 p.m. CCD (FLC) 7:00 p.m. St. Joseph Choir Practice (SPX)

Thursday, January 16 1 Sm 4:1-11 Mk 1:40-45

8:00 a.m. Mass - John Anspach (SAC) 10:00 a.m. Tri-Parish Women’s Bible Study (SHC) 6:30 p.m. Love is Stronger than Death Study (FLC) 7:00 p.m. St. Ann Adult Choir Practice (SAC) 7:00 p.m. First Reconciliation (SAC)

Friday, January 17 St. Anthony 1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a Mk 2:1-12

8:00 a.m. Mass - Mary Mosser (SJC)

Saturday, January 18 Blessed Virgin Mary 1 Sm 9:1-4, 17-19, 10:1 Mk 2:13-17

6:30 a.m. Fremont Area Catholic Men’s Group (SJH) 8:30 a.m. Mass - Deceased Members of Ben Gleba Family (SJC) 12:30 p.m. Widows & Widowers Potluck (Sandusky Township Fire Station) 4:00 p.m. Mass - Ruth Smith (SJC) 5:30 p.m. Charismatic Leaders Meeting (SJH)

Sunday, January 19 Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 49:3, 5-6 1 Cor 1:1-3 Jn 1:29-34

8:30 a.m. Mass - Joanne Harrington (SAC) 9:00 a.m. CRHP Breakfast Fundraiser (SJH) 10:30 a.m. Mass - Living and Deceased Members of Joseph & Mary Naderer Family (SJC) 11:30 a.m. RCIA (HFR) 1:00 p.m. Spanish Mass - Rosalin Stotz (SJC) 5:30 p.m. Mass - St. Ann & St. Joseph Parishes (SAC)

Mallory Abbot, Lavonne Babione, Paul Barnum, Mary Benner, Pat Merrill Bergmoser, Carol Butzier, Paul Colavincenzo, Jeanne Darr, Phillip Darr, Phyllis Dowling, Virgil Faulkner, Scott Forgatsch, Doug Fought, Erin Furlong, Therese Gabel,

Maria Garcia, Raul Garza, Paul Gonya, Raul Gonzales, James Haas, Claire Hampshire, Tom & Sandy Harman, Sue Homler, Dave Jenkins, Bob Kanan,

Kathy Koch, Genevieve Kowaleski, Carol Kromer, Alison Lauer, Bea Lorenz, Steven Link, Judy McKinney, Don Miesle, Mary Miesle, David Miller,

Dick Morley, Virginia Poseler, the Price Family, Nicholas Reed, Marylou Reyna, Bill Rimelspach, Dick Ross, Eva Sanchez, John & Carolyn Spieldenner, Steve Szymanowski, Sr., Terry Szyperski, Kay Tischler, Virginia Valle, Margaret Wagner,

Wendy Wehring, Ken Weickert, Deacon Norb Wethington, and Rev. Richard Wurzel

Altar Servers January 19 8:30 a.m. — Fiona & Rob Burgess 5:30 p.m. — Gabby Santiago and Erin Hausman Readers January 19 8:30 a.m. — Kathy Stierwalt 5:30 p.m. — Marian Miller Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion January 19 8:30 a.m. — Ailish Masterson, Dennis Reinbolt, Tim Meyer, and Christy Brudzinski 5:30 p.m. — Marie Hausman, Kim Cope, and Phil Daubel Communion Distributors Parkview Care Center January 12 Tim Meyer January 19 Deacon Jim Heyman Bethesda Care Center January 19 Ed Chimahusky ProMedica Memorial Hospital January 17 Pat Cutcher

Altar Servers January 18/19 4:00 p.m. — Candence & Makena Waleryszak, Nadia Gutierrez, and Abby Krumnow (MC) 10:30 a.m. — Cooper Talikka, Nayeli Vasquez, Israel Martinez, and Parker Smith (MC) 1:00 p.m. — Erika Gonzalez, Alexis Flores, Reyna Guardiola, and Giovanni Castro-Arriaga Readers January 18/19 4:00 p.m. — Lynne Eisenman 10:30 a.m. — Denny VanWey and Steve Neiling 1:00 p.m. — Maria Ysasi & Gilberto Gutierrez

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion January 18/19 4:00 p.m. — Susan Smith, Sharon Chudzinski, Melanie White, and Susan, Pam, Andy & Tom Luc 10:30 a.m. — Kelsea Hess, Matthew Boyer, Caroline Luc, Teresa Celek, Jean Foos, and Lilly & Tim Walters 1:00 p.m. — Concepcion Hinojosa and Mara Gutierrez

January 5, 2020 204 Envelopes $ 8,248.00 Loose Cash $ 255.00 Children’s Offerings $ 2.00 Total Sunday Offerings $ 8,505.00 Amount Needed Each Week $ 5,600.00 Amount OVER Budget $ 2,905.00 Year-to-Date Needed $151,200.00 Year-to-Date Received $139,499.00

January 5, 2020 266 Envelopes $ 9,110.00 Loose Cash $ 1,808.00 Children’s Offerings $ 15.50 Total Sunday Offerings $ 10,933.50 Amount Needed Each Week $ 11,350.00 Amount UNDER Budget $ 416.50 Year-to-Date Needed $306,450.00 Year-to-Date Received $298,089.63

Thank you for your sacrificial giving that supports our mission!

St. Ann—Tom, Bill, & Howard Stierwalt, Calvin Fought, and Jeff Miller St. Joseph—Jim & Mary Yeager, John & Alison Lauer, Marc & Patti Schulz, Jenny Dorobek, John & Carol Wasserman, and Dick & Cathy Celek A huge THANK YOU to our January cleaners!

Thank You! We continue to take donations towards the projects underway at each Parish. To date, St. Ann has collected $50,864 and St. Joseph has collected $148,002. Thanks for your continued investments in the future of our Parishes! Christmas Offerings- Thanks to everyone’s kind holiday generosity, St. Ann & St. Joseph received a substantial amount of donations during our Christmas Masses. As of our counts on January 7th, St. Ann collected $15,054 and St. Joseph collected $34,314.50 Calling all people heading for warmer weather this winter - we want you to stay connected while away! Keep up to date by following us on Facebook and Instagram @SASJFremont. If you would like to read the weekly bulletin, check out our new website at growinholiness.org or, if you don’t have access to a computer and would like a paper copy, please call Courtney at 419.334.2638. If you would like your envelope packets sent to a different address, call your respective Parish Office. And if you want to sign up for the easy-no worries electronic giving/withdrawal, please call Nancy at 419.332.7472. Please know how much we’ll miss you!

January 10 - January 16 — at St. Ann Parish In Memory of Jim Quaintance - Given by Barb Quaintance

January 10 - January 19 — Blessed Sacrament Chapel at St. Joseph Parish

For Expecting Mothers - Given by Anonymous

December 10 - January 23 — Main Church at St. Joseph Parish For Jesus Cruz - Given by Maria Alaniz

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The more we contemplate in the light of faith the great gifts of baptism, the more we are astounded by the munificence of God’s bounty. Moreover, it would be a mistake to regard the effects of this initial grace as a passing phenomena. The Trinity of baptism is with us all the days of our life. The Father is always present, providentially watching day and night over His adopted children. The Word is always present, guiding them through the cares and hardships of this life, toward their eternal destiny. All three divine Persons of the Trinity unceasingly watch over us with their all-powerful protection. Here, in the indwelling of the Blessed Trinity, lies a truth that ought never to be overlooked. Perhaps we are too much accustomed to weighing only the personal efforts of the soul in the quest for perfection. Such personal effort is certainly necessary, but we should not forget the unceasing impulse and direction of the Holy Spirit, or the primordial and precursive action on the part of God. Jesus has said: If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. Is it clear, then, that not only the Word comes to the soul. How, as a matter of fact, could the Father and the Son be separated from the Spirit of Love? And if all the Trinity come to dwell in the Christian soul, is it not to abide inactive. My Father, said Jesus, works even until now, and I work. This continuous action of the Trinity is what keeps the physical world from falling into nothingness, and it operates all the more in this supernatural world of souls. The course of divine life which proceeds from the Father to the Son and binds them together in the Holy Spirit, is continued externally in those mysterious and invisible missions that transform souls to the image of the Trinity. All holiness is but allowing oneself to be made Godlike. It is God that leads to God.

From Magnificat (Vol. 21, No. 11), written by Father M.M. Philipon

You probably have seen this joy filled family around our parishes: Cori & Tony Foos have been lifelong members of St. Joseph. They both graduated from SJCC and were married at St. Joseph Church. Cori works for SJCC as a Counselor and is also an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion. Tony works for Moser Construction as Superintendent. Both are always willing to lend a helping hand and get involved in both Bishop Hoffman Catholic Schools and the parish. They have four daughters:

Savannah, Katie, Isabelle, and Lilly who all sing in the Youth Choir. Savannah, Katie and Isabelle are Altar Servers ... I’m sure Lilly will be serving in the near future! They all help with the parish fish fry, and you most likely will see them at parish activities and being part of our community life at St. Ann and St. Joseph. Thank you, Foos Family, for all you do for our parishes and school. You are such light to us all by your loving example.

Tracy, Marguerite, & Morley Families

Family Of Diane Kepler

Sheehan & Zaleski Families

Deceased members of Lawrence & Marie Slaughterbeck Family

Ray Ronski Jr.

Jim Quaintance

Deceased members of the

Meyer & Evans Family

Deceased members of

Ted Hoffman Jr. Family

Mark Satornino

Jean R. Cornelius

Ross McElreath

Marjorie Cronquist

Marvis Wells

Parents of Brian & Cindy Burroughs

Mark Kleinhans

Tom, Rhea.& Shirley Keating

Jeff & Judy Good Families

Fr. Philip Haslinger

Dustin Hick

Don & Stella Smith

Ralph & Loretta Hoffman

Eileen Ohms

Kelly Wagner

Douglas Michael

Robert L. Beck

Chudzinski & O’Neal Families

Paul & Mary Eisenman

Sister Florence Simonis

Bud & Joanne Young

Bob & Mary Hotz

Richard “Bill” & Mary Ruth Miller

Paul & Lucy Daubel

John Lotycz

Ronald Whitcomb

William & Florence Wagner Family

Thomas & Rhea Keating

Shirley Keating

Deceased Members of the Family

of Tom & Barb Swedersky

Willis & Irene Foos

Harry & Irma Hughes

Mr. & Mrs. Payton Young

Mr. & Mrs. James Marinis

Kathy Miles

Bernadette Overmyer

George Rospert

Deceased Members of

Mary & Charles Herman Family

Deceased Members of Don Miller Family

Jack & Naomi Eilrich

Frank & Maribel Hetrick

Joseph Kuzma

Louise Visconti

Family of Ann Shetzer

Tom Byers

The Family of Gary & Ann Zimmerman

St. Ann Catholic Parish - Christmas Flower Offerings In Honor or In Memory of:

Thank you for helping bring

beauty to our Churches!

~ ~

James Ackerman

Eugene & Cecilia Babione

Gerald & Loretta Babione

Tim Miller

Roman & Lavina Gabel

Eugene & Cecelia Babione

Lynette (Gabel) Fate

Gerard J. Gabel

Gary (Lee) Gabel

The Miller & Barbour Families

Jack & Patsy Barrington

Franklin C. Bender

Robert Bisnette

Curley & Alice Rectenwald

Robert & Evelyn Rodenhauser

Stanley Chlosta

Lowell, Evelyn, & Amy Henry

Koypsh Family

Joyce Ross

Chuck Collins

Deceased Family Members

of John & JoAnn Cook

Gilbert A. & Marie C. Wagner, Sr.

Rod & Kelly Cutcher

Sam & Esther Barbour

Richard Dickman

Michael Dohanos

Evelyn Eakin

Theodore “Pete” Luc

Margie & Dan Rodenhauser

Marvin Wells

Maria & Robert Widman

Parents of Ron & Mary Ellen Mayle

William Mayle

Leon & Kathy Meyer

Tom & Tina Rimelspach & family

Dan & Jeff Miller

Matthew & Jeremy Miller

Jim & Dorothy Neiling

Fred & Clementine Otte

Joe & Jean Overmyer

Walter & Gladys Oxley

Kenneth Post

Luisa Ramirez-Johnson

Mrs. & Mrs. Narciso & Jucrita Avodos

Mrs. & Mrs. Jose & Alicia Rodrigues

Emily Prokop

Gerald Rodenhauser

Clayton & Ella Stults Family

Glenn Saller

Schooch Family Members

Parents of Jeanne & Jerry Schoch

Marc & Patty Schulz's Families

Ed Smith

Patricia Clark

Deceased Members of the Smola &

Macielwicz Families

Bill & Helen Herb

Oscar Rellinger

Stan & Bea Otoski

Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Lance & family

Louis & Ethel Burkett

Chuck, Charlie & Mary Lenhart

The Robert & Loyola Ritzman Family

David & Maria Fernandez

Charles R. Spieldenner

Franklin Bender

Thomas Rich

Francis & Helen Staib

Ben & Cecilia Hoffman Family

Tischler, Thomsen, & Courtney Families

Guzman, Nieset,& Voneitzen Families

George & Rose Rodenhauser

Albert Wagner

Abby Johnson

James Wammes

Don Wasserman

Aloysius & Ida Horn Family

Mr. & Mrs. A.S. Woolf

St. Joseph Catholic Parish - Christmas Flower Offerings In Honor or In Memory of:

Marilyn, Don, & Stella Wurzel

Robert & Eleanor Wyss

Albert, grandparents, & other family of

Albert & Marty Zamora

Edward B. Chudzinski

Family of Tom & Marlene Wolf

Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Smith

JoAnn & Jim Oddo

Ray & Olivia Baumann

Edward Streacker

Bill & Dorothy Reineck

Clet & Mary Haubert

Ralph & Anna Marie Gabel

Mr. & Mrs. George D. Reinbolt

Bob & Helen Raubenolt

Elizabeth Hiser

Clayton & Mary Ellen Fisher

Joe & Monna Reed

Kenneth L. Foos

Parents of Norman & Jean Foos

Tom Freeh

Jeanne Swartz

Family Members of Gary & Joan Godfred

Joe & Laurene Halm

Ed & Pat Haaser

Bernard & Fannette Dickman

Marion Mike, & Walter Golamb

Deceased Members of Szakovits & Hamons Families

Carl & Loretta Miller

Joseph G., Helen R., Joseph R.,& James Lauer

Jeffery Weickert

Gary, Spence, & Emily Carlough,

Cy & Bonnie Widman

John & Christine Horn

Edward & Henrietta Tight

Rev. Aloysius Horn

Marcia Liwaj

Family of Virginia Wright

St. Joseph Catholic Parish - Christmas Flower Offerings In Honor or In Memory of:

Employment Opportunity: Part-Time Bus Driver

Bishop Hoffman Catholic School is seeking to hire a

Bus Driver for before school transportation and after

school activities. If you have a passion for working

with children, and are dedicated to providing the

best care to our students, then we want you to be a

part of our team.

The position is approximately 24 hours per week.

Work schedule is Monday through Friday from

5:30am - 8:15am and 2:15pm – 4:15pm and some

after school high-school athletic activities with hours

to be determined.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Must be 21 years of age

• Must have high school diploma equivalent

• Must complete school application and physical

examination

• Must obtain driving record (abstract)

• Must complete criminal record check (BCI/FBI)

• Must have C.D.L. license with passenger and

school bus endorsements or be willing to attend

required classes to receive C.D.L.

• Must have strong mechanical background

• Must be able to work independently without

supervision and have excellent decision-making

skills

• Must have desire and ability to work construc-

tively with others

Interested candidates should send their resume

and cover letter to Anthony Fontana at

afontana@bishop-hoffman.net