February 7, 2010
February 7, 2010
February 7, 2010
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
YEAR OF THE PRIEST
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PARISH STAFF
Karen Hanish, Pre-School Jan Waas, Pre-School Aide Michelle Iwinski, Kindergarten Aide
Our Planned Parish Offering Program is one very important way to express our self-giving for the
good of others and for God’s greater glory. This week, each registered household will receive a
summary letter and Declaration of Intention Card. This program will conclude next two weekends
with Commitment Sunday. Please pray about this and return your intention card in next Sunday’s
offertory collection.
Your donation aids the parish in forecasting revenue for the next year. Reflect on your spending
priorities, consider where your parish is currently placed within them, and consider making a
planned, proportionate and sacrificial gift to our offertory program. Please respond lovingly and
generously, as you are able, giving from your first fruits in gratitude to God.
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As we celebrate our Jubilee year, all are invited to a Mardi Gras Party and Dance at 7:30pm on February 13. A variety
of Hors d'œuvre, snacks, desserts and beverages will be served. You are invited to bring a bottle of your favorite wine
or spirits. Archival exhibits from various organizations of our parish will be on display. Music and entertainment will be
provided by People’s Choice DJ. Please RSVP to Eileen Maggiore, 630.396.6076 or 50anniv@ctklombard.org.
Our call is more than a summons to faith; it is a call to ministry. Isaiah is called in order to be sent; the fisher-
men are called in order to gather others to Jesus. So it is with us. We are called to be sent out to the world.
This call comes to us in the ordinariness of life. It will usually come to us as we wash our nets or our dishes,
as we teach or raise children, as we prepare a brief for trial or examine a patient; as we repair cars or work at
the computer. The call of God comes to us in the ordinariness of life.
We are called to proclaim the message of the resurrection by any and every means possible. Some, like
Isaiah and the disciples of Jesus, will witness in open and dramatic ways. They will teach and preach; they
will nurse the sick and care for the elderly. Others will witness in less conspicuous ways. They will insist on
fair practices in their own workplaces; they will weed out expressions of prejudice and violence so that a new
and just world can be fashioned for themselves and for their children. Called in the ordinariness of their lives,
they will witness to the death and resurrection in that very ordinariness, thus transforming everything into ex-
traordinariness.
Mass Intentions
Pray for Healing
Saturday, February 6 5:00 Elizabeth Wiendzendis
St. Paul Miki and His Companions; Jean Brzezinski, Diana Crue, Peter Christoff, Roberta
First Saturday Dirschl, Joan Frichtl, Cathy Castro, Frank Nelson, John
1 Kgs 3:4-13; Mk 6:30-34
Sheehan, Denis Perry, Joan Temborius, Lorraine Wick,
Marilyn Melichar, Carmen Giacalone, Isabel Carey, Efren
Sunday, February 7 8:00 Erin Myscofski Iraola, Mary Lou LeRoy, Esther Sassi, Sam Battaglia,
5th Sunday in Ordinary Time 10:00 Anthony Caruso Sharon Barsaloux, Robert Balteskonis, Karen Schumann,
Is 6:1-2a, 3-8; Ps 138; 1 Cor 15:1-11 12:00 Special Intention
Kevin Stellmach, Maurice Vandenbroucke, Jodie Garri-
[3-8, 11]; Lk 5:1-11
son, Jeffrey McLaughlin, Brian Millsap, Eleanor Conforti.
Please pray for all the sick in our parish, our families, our
Monday, February 8 8:30 Special Intention friends, our community.
St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine
Bakhita; 1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13; Mk 6:53-56
Feb 13, 5:00 PM Feb 14, 8:00 AM Feb 14, 10:00 AM Feb 14, 12:00 PM
Irene Boutiette, M. Brudnicki, M. Gonzalo, E. Lay, E&O Manicad, L. Michalik, G. Doretti, S. Pierscionek,
Ministers of Care E & E Mears
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The theme for the Census is "Census 2010: It's In Our Games, games, games, who doesn’t like to get out of the
Hands." Please do your part to complete the Census house in these winter months, enjoy the company of other
form. Thank you. parishioners and play a little Bunco? Well, CCW’s Febru-
ary meeting will be a “Bunco” evening, so plan to join us.
If you don’t know how to play, not a problem – we can
help you.
** PLEASE CHECK AND FILL FORM OUT COMPLETELY. INCOMPLETE REGISTRATION FORMS NOT ACCOMPA-
NYING REGISTRATION FEE WILL NOT BE PROCESSED AND WILL BE RETURNED TO YOU FOR COMPLETION.
STUDENT’S ADDRESS:____________________________________________
CITY:_____________________ ZIP:__________________
HOME PHONE:__________________________________________
***THE ILLINOIS SCHOOL CODE REQUIRES THAT ALL CHILDREN MUST HAVE A HEALTH EXAMINATION BY A
PHYSICIAN WITHIN ONE YEAR BEFORE ENTERING SCHOOL AT THE BEGINNING OF KINDERGARTEN. (Forms
in school office)
***** ALL FAMILIES MUST PARTICIPATE IN MANDATORY FUNDRAISING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
Being involved in this event has proven to be very rewarding. Plan Where: Bellyrub Klub
to attend, help if you can, come enjoy good food, fun, community, 612 E. Western Ave.
and help those in need. What a wonderful feeling you will have - Lombard, IL
we guarantee it! May St. Joseph guide and protect your family. 630-54-BELLY
Father Peter, Mary Ellen Clish, St. Joseph Table Chairman, and
the St. Joseph Table Committee
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Spiritual Communion
Do you feel too busy to make time for our Lord? An Act of Spiritual Communion can help! No matter what your day is like, Je-
sus can help make it better, or at least more bearable, if you ask him for His help and guidance in prayers such as this one,
composed by St. Alphonsus Liguori in the 18th century:
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the most Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things and I desire to receive You
into my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace You as if You
have already come, and unite myself wholly to You. Never permit me to be separated from You. Amen.
The best way to receive Christ is in Holy Communion at Mass. (The picture above from a 19th century holy card commemo-
rates the first Communion given out by our Lord Himself at the Last Supper.)
Yet for those times you can’t make Mass, or can’t take Communion because of an unconfessed mortal sin (for which you can
ask for and receive God’s forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance), you can still reach out to Him by making a Spiritual Com-
munion in prayer!
St. Thomas Aquinas once defined a Spiritual Communion as “an ardent desire to receive Jesus in the Most Holy Sacrament [in
Communion at Mass] and in lovingly embracing Him as if we had actually received Him.”
You can only receive the Lord in Holy Communion once a day (twice in special circumstances such when attending wedding,
funeral, or baptismal masses). However, you can make a Spiritual Communion whenever and wherever you'd like, using the
prayer given above, others like it such as the one below, or your own heartfelt thoughts.
It is an important part of Church teaching that the consecrated bread (in the form of wafers we call hosts) becomes what is
known as the Blessed Sacrament, referred to in St. Alphonsus’s prayer above.
Those hosts not used in Holy Communion at Mass are placed in a special box known as the Tabernacle to be given out later to
the sick or the dying who cannot attend Mass, and to be exposed otherwise for adoration in what is known as the Rite of Eu-
charistic Exposition and Benediction.
You can make a Spiritual Communion such as this one below during Mass, or before our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, or
anywhere else where the Spirit moves you.
Oh Jesus, I turn toward the holy tabernacle where You live hidden for love of me. I love you, O my God. I cannot receive you in
Holy Communion. Come, nevertheless, and visit me with Your grace. Come spiritually into my heart. Purify it. Sanctify it. Ren-
der it like unto Your own. Amen.
Lord, I am not worthy that Thou shouldst enter under my roof, but only say the word and my soul shall be healed.
This last sentence is drawn from Matthew’s Gospel (Matt 8:6), in which a Roman Centurion expressed his deep faith in our
Lord’s healing powers (in this case to cure his servant rather than his soul). Jesus was quite moved by the soldier’s faith, and
healed his servant at once.
Christ might not answer us quite so instantaneously, but rest assured, He can and will respond to anyone who comes to Him in
love and humility for His Divine assistance. After all, didn’t he say in the Sermon on the Mount, concerning the power of prayer,
“Ask, and it shall be given you: seek, and you shall find” (Matt 7:7)?
Indeed, our Lord loves each of us so much that he gives us great opportunities to be with Him on a daily basis. If the Pope
came to your parish, you’d probably have to elbow your way through crowds of people
to catch a glimpse of him.
And yet, think of it! You can have your own private “audience” with Christ at Mass in Holy Communion or in Spiritual Commun-
ion in front of the Blessed Sacrament! Countless Saints and theologians throughout the centuries have extolled the virtues and
great spiritual benefits we can receive from this time spent with our Lord.
Remember, however, that you can “turn toward the holy tabernacle” and receive Jesus in your heart from anywhere you might
happen to be, at any time, day or night!
You just need to approach Him with sincerity, humility and a desire to follow in His footsteps in acts of faith and charity. And
He’s delighted when we do so! The Baltimore Catechism notes that a Spiritual Communion “is an act of devotion, and one very
pleasing to God.”
St. Jean-Marie Vianney, a French priest famous for converting countless souls to Christ in his parish of Ars in the 19th century,
once said “when we feel the love of God growing cold, let us instantly make a Spiritual Communion. When we cannot go to the
church, let us turn towards the tabernacle; no wall can shut us out from the good God.” We can indeed be grateful for that!
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Jubilee Events:
Feb 13, 2010: Mardi Gras celebration (7:30 p.m.) Apr 25, 2010: Spirit of Life Concert
50th Anniversary Memories Display
May 9, 2010: May Crowning following the 10:00 mass
Mar 7-17: Pilgrimage to the Holy Land
w/ Fr Peter June 6, 2010: Feast of Corpus Christi Procession
Mar 21, 2010: Family Fun Fair Sept 18, 2010: 50th Anniversary Dinner Dance
RECORD REVIEW: One of the responsibilities of deans during their annual parish visitations is to
check parish records, including compliance with safe environment requirements. Deans review files
to make sure that documentation (background check, attendance at Protecting God’s Children and
signed acknowledgement of the Pastoral Policy Regarding Sexual Abuse of Minors and the Stan-
dards of Behavior for Those Working with Minors) is on file for all employees and volunteers.
To facilitate record review, the pastor is asked to appoint one person at the parish, Eileen Maggiore
whose duty, along with the Pastor is to make sure that records of all parish, school and religious
education employees/volunteers reflect compliance with safe environment requirements.
These are instructions from Bishop Sartain to all Pastors that I want to share with you. The staff at
Christ the King assures you that we have a safe environment not only for our children and teens but
also for the adults. We strive daily to maintain the instructions and guidelines from the Joliet dioce-
san Chancery office and the United Sates Conference of Catholic Bishops. Any questions or clarifi-
cations, please contact my designate, Eileen Maggiore, Pastoral Associate. Let us pray through the
intercession of St. Joseph, the protector of the Universal Church that He with Mary may guide and
protect the church of Christ the King. ~ Fr. Jarosz, Pastor
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Gold 38 $482.50
* Thank you for reaching the goal this past week!
Seniors Invited to Defer Property Taxes Let’s try to reach our goal of $2,500 weekly to bring down our debt!
SUNDAY THURSDAY
MONDAY
FRIDAY
SVDP Food Pantry 12:00pm ER
Prayer Group 7:00pm ER
TUESDAY
SATURDAY
Children’s Choir Rehearsal 4:45pm Church
Rosary and Chaplet 5:30pm Church
Teen Ensemble Rehearsal 6:30pm Church Marti Gras Celebration 7:30pm PLC
NEXT SUNDAY
WEDNESDAY
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