ST. GEORGE CATHOLIC CHURCH 4980 Heege Road Affton, MO

May 10th, 2015
ST. GEORGE
CATHOLIC
CHURCH
4980 Heege Road
Affton, MO 63123
314-352-3544
LITURGICAL SERVICES
A high-school junior recently pointed out that the word
“friend” has lost its meaning. “Isn’t there a difference between having a real friend and thousands of Facebook
‘friends’?” Indeed there is, and the difference is trust. A true
friend is someone who knows your heart because you have
opened it to him or her. This takes trust. It’s risky to let yourself be known deeply. But this is just what Jesus does in
these hours before his Passion: “I have called you friends,
because I have told you everything I have heard from my
Father.” How do you respond to Jesus calling you his
friend? What do you expect of a friend? What do you think
Jesus expects of you, his friend?
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: Acts 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48; 1
John 4:7-10; John 15:9-17 (56). “This is my commandment: Love one another as I love you.”
”Prepare the Word (©2014), www.PrepareTheWord.com.
PARISH STAFF
Fr. Thomas Robertson, Pastor
352-3544, ext. 1
Deacon Robert S. Penberthy
Deacon Leonard Sisul
Mrs. Karen Lebb, Parish Bookkeeper, 352-3544, ext. 4
Mr. Ed Haessig, Parish Office, 352-3544, ext. 3
Monica Johnson, Parish School of Religion, 352-3544, ext. 97
Michael Nigh, Music Director, 498-5150
PARISH INFORMATION
Rectory Office:
Monday - Thursday 8:00am - 3:30pm
Rectory Phone: (314) 352-3544 Rectory Fax: (314) 832-6916
Parish e-mail st.george-affton@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.saintgeorgeaffton.com
St. Vincent de Paul Help Line: 352-3544, ext. 6
Affton Christian Food Pantry: 580-3138
Adoration Chapel: 352-3544, ext. 7
Sunday Masses: Anticipated on Satur day at 4:00pm
Sunday mornings: 7:00, 9:00 and 11:00am
Holidays of obligation: As announced
Weekday Masses:
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Articles need to be at the rectory by noon on Monday to
be considered. All requests are subject to available
space. Bulletin articles may be sent by e-mail to
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Tuesday: Our Lady of the Mir aculous Medal Novena
after 8:00am Mass
Mass Intentions for the Week
Monday,
8:00am
May 11, 2015
Harry Sommers
Tuesday,
8:00am
May 12, 2015
Louis Roberts
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
8:00am
Thomas Joseph Sahr
Thursday,
8:00am
May 14, 2015
Marie Labus
Friday,
8:00am
May 15, 2015
Francis Marty
Saturday,
8:00am
4:00pm
Sunday,
7:00am
9:00am
11:00am
May 16, 2015
Special Intention
John Wickman
May 17, 2015
Fr James Pavlik
Mary Roussin
Parishioners
Next Sunday’s Readings
May 17, 2015
Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 Even after the Resurrection,
the disciples concern themselves with earthly power.
Psalm 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9 Above every principality and
power, God rules over the earth.
Ephesians 4:1-13 or 1:17-23 Paul describes the offices
of service that will lift up the community of faith.
Mark 16:15-20 Snake-handling, poison-drinking, and
tongue-speaking find their origins here.
Dynamic Catholic, Alive!
Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments, also called the Decalogue, sum up the Law given by God to the people
of Israel, which Christians are also obliged to follow. “Imagine all of the misery that could be avoided,” writes Matthew Kelly, “if we all just lived by
the life-giving wisdom found in the Ten Commandments.” Not only should we follow the Ten
Commandments, but we should be Alive in Christ!
Which commandment did Christ identify as the
most important, and which commandant flows
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Ministers of the Liturgy
May 16 & 17
Saturday,
Servers:
Lectors :
Greeters:
Sunday,
Servers:
Lectors:
Greeters:
Sunday,
Servers:
Lectors:
Greeters
Sunday,
Servers:
Lectors:
Greeters:
May 16, 2015 – 4:00pm
Natalie Pistone
Jan Arbutti
Joan Wickman
May 17, 2015- 7:00am
Steve Willey
Ken Gebken
May 17, 2015 - 9:00am
Michael Johnson
Ray Heine
Tom Mendel
May 17, 2015 - 11:00am
Chandler Young
Tim Howard
Cathy Byer
Schedule of Events
Sunday,
May 10, 2015
Parish School of Religion
9:30-10:45am
Monday,
Food Pantry
May 11, 2015
Noon—2:30
Tuesday,
Bible Study
Food Pantry
May 12, 2015
8:30am priest house mtg. rm.
4-6:30pm
Wednesday,
Lifeteen
May 13, 2015
7-9pm Bishop DuBourg H.S.
Thursday,
May 14, 2015
Food Pantry
6:00-8:00pm
Scripture Study
7:00pm
Friday,
May 15, 2015
Church cleaning
after 8:00am Mass
Saturday,
Food Pantry
May 16, 2015
9:30am-12pm (noon )
Sunday,
May 17, 2015
Parish School of Religion
9:30-10:45am
Anointing of the Sick
after 11am Mass
Grief Holy Hour
3pm church
05/03/2015
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Sixth Sunday of Easter
Today’s Scriptures
Everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows
God. To know someone is to love them, the old saying
goes, but as scripture points out in so many words, the
reverse is also true: To love is to know. In love God is
revealed, the First Letter of John says—in fact God is
revealed to be love, especially in God’s Son, who in turn
loves his “friends” who believe in him.
With all this love given out, however, comes a command: to love. Love reveals who knows God and who
does not. What does that love look like? How can you
“know”? It is a sacrificial love. “No one has greater love
than this,” Jesus says, “to lay down one’s life for one’s
friends”—a love, as Saint Peter learned, that also
“shows no partiality.”
Prepare the Word (©2014), www.PrepareTheWord.com.
The inner word: What’s in your heart?
Scripture’s powerful messages about love offer a number of opportunities for reflection.
 God loved you first. Where do you see God’s love
in your life?
 Love reveals God. What does faith teach you about
love?
 The love of God goes out to all. How do you decide
whom and whom not to love?
Prepare the Word (©2014), www.PrepareTheWord.com.
Perfect joy comes from ultimate love
Today is Mother’s Day. An appropriate day to consider the ultimate possibilities of love. Through the centuries, women take the risk of love to bring children into
the world. Often in terrible circumstances, under difficult, lonely, economically strained conditions. Women
became mothers at the risk of their lives in times past
and still in many parts of the world where medical care
is sketchy or non-existent. And once the children are
born, good mothers continue to put the welfare of their
children above their own need for rest, for recreation, for
all they might have had without the burden of care for
dependent lives. Whether they stay at home with their
children or must work outside to provide their care,
mothers remain the primary paradigm of constancy in
our world. Even mothers who neglect or deny their children prove the paradigm because we expect them to do
otherwise. A mother’s love is mythic. If we got it from
our mothers it needs no explanation; if we didn’t get it,
we may spend our lives looking for it or suffering its
lack.
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(continued from previous column).
Father-love, of course, can be equally heroic and is
certainly as mythic, if in distinct ways. Psychologists
have only begun to explore how we need our parents,
and how we seek to supply parent figures if one or another was absent or inadequate. The happy adult will
originally have had, or restored for themselves through
mentors, the mythic sources of love and constancy we
seem to require at the root of ourselves. And maybe this
isn’t so strange, since God is love, and we are God’s
children. Love is literally at the root of our identity. We
seem to know this and need it as much as air and food
and shelter. We’re made from love, and for happiness,
according to the most basic catechisms. Unless and until we discover this love for ourselves, we won’t really
be happy. Like Augustine said, we’re restless until we
rest in ultimate love. So Jesus tells us: Remain in me, as
I remain in my Father.
How do we find our way to this kind of love, especially if we didn’t experience it originally or lost it
along the way? Jesus points us to the one unshakeable
command of his Kingdom: Love one another as I love
you. It’s no good to lament that we didn’t get the love
we needed or don’t get it now if we’re unwilling to give
it to those who need it from us. Jesus doesn’t invite us
to love each other. He doesn’t recommend that we do.
He doesn’t think it’s a good idea. He commands it.
Love is an imperative, because the fulfillment of life is
impossible without it.
—Alice Camille
Prepare the Word (©2014), www.PrepareTheWord.com.
Earthquake Collection
On the morning of April 25, 2015 a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, toppling buildings
and homes, causing widespread panic, and claiming thousands of lives. Our Church mourns the terrible suffering of our brothers and sisters affected
by this powerful earthquake. Please join with the
Catholic community across the United States in responding to our brothers and sisters.
We will take up a special collection for the work
of the Catholic Relief Services in Nepal. Catholic
Relief Services is the official humanitarian agency
of the Catholic community in the United States and
is already responding to the urgent needs for shelter, water and food in Nepal. For more information
please go to www.crs.org.
There will be a second collection
next weekend, May 16/17,
for this relief service.
MAY 10TH 2015 SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Questions Catholics Ask
2015
Year of Consecrated Life
How does the church view other religions?
TODAY we inhabit a global community that is
drawing ever-more closely together. It’s as if the world
got shrink-wrapped in a single generation and we’re all
breathing the same limited and interdependent air now.
Theologians at the Second Vatican Council saw this
new reality on the horizon and recognized that the
church had to reexamine and clarify its interfaith stance.
In the Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non
-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate, 1965) it formally
opened the issue to further exploration.
Nostra Aetate, while not a perfect document, had
some remarkable things to say. It asserts unequivocally
that humanity is one community with a common destiny
in God. People turn to different religions in search of
the same answers to fundamental questions: What is the
purpose of life? What is good and evil? Where does suffering come from and what is its meaning? What leads
to happiness? What lies beyond death?
Then the document makes its boldest claim: “The
Catholic Church rejects nothing of what is true and holy
in these religions” (no. 2). While Christians are bound
to witness to “Christ, who is the way, the truth, and the
life” (John 14:6), they should also “acknowledge, preserve, and encourage the spiritual and moral truths
found among non-Christians.
Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling
toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I already possess.
Vocation does not come from a voice "out there"
calling me to be something I am not. It comes
from a voice "in here" calling me to be the person
I was born to be, to fulfill the original selfhood
given me at birth by God.
—Thomas Merton
–Alice L. Camille
Adapted from Questions Catholics Ask for VocationNetwork.org. See the original article for additional resources on this topic here.
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Welcome to Saint George Church
To find more quotes and many more complimentary
materials, please visit
http://www.vocationnetwork.org/articles/
article_sections?q=year_of_consecrated_life
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one’s own beliefs. Rather it
condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
—John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
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MAY 10, 2015 SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
100th Anniversary BBQ
June 13th
served:
5:00pm – 6:30pm
menu:
Pork Steaks
Hamburgers
Hot Dogs
Potato Salad
Cole Slaw
Baked Beans
Anointing of the Sick
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Starting in Mid-May 5/17
Last Day to turn in June 7th
he World Apostolate of Fatima is sponsoring the annual novena in honor of Our
Lady of Fatima from May 5 – May 13,
2015 at Saint George Church. The novena begins at 7:00 P.M. with the recitation of the Rosary followed by Holy Mass at 7:30 P.M. There
will be a different celebrant/homilist each evening
including: Bishop Robert Hermann, Rev. Thomas
Robertson, Rev. Bradley Modde, Rev. David Wichlan, Rev. Albert Mattler, Rev. Robert Dorhaufer,
Rev. Abe Arganiosa and Msgr. Timothy Cronin.
For more information please call, (314) 352-0229.
BLESSED ARE THEY WHO MOURN
The Annual HOLY HOUR for those
grieving the loss of a loved one
Will be held on
Sunday, May 17, 2015, beginning at 3p.m.
St. George Catholic Church,4980 Heege Road,
Affton, MO 63123
The service includes a prayer service
and Stations of the Cross for the Grieving
which are specifically meaningful
in the healing process.
Everyone is invited,
especially if you lost a loved one in the last year.
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Welcome to St. George Church
Duke Ajemian
Fr. Edwin Albers
Etta Rose Andrews
Al Anthony
Margaret Antonic
June Baraba
Dolores Bazzetta
Joe Benz
Sug Beier
Katie Bloss
Michael Boehm
Mary Ellen Bown
Ruth Brown
Joan Buchmann
Cathy Byer
Colin Byington
Donovan Byington
Laura Camp
Marie Cassani
Mary Jo Castellano
Bonnie Chapman
Joshua Cilufo
Dottie Coleman
Jerome Coleman
John Coleman
Mason Cook
Joseph Curran
Julie Devlin
Mary Dillon
John Dirkers
Jim Doerr
Lilia Doerr
Mary Dougherty
Helen Eiserle
Suzanne Elder
Mary Beth Ericson
Juanita Fernandez
Paula Fischer
Ann M. Forthaus
Kathy Gallagher
Caroline Garcia
Thomas George
Betty Graceffa
Donna Gratza
Larry Griffin, Sr.
Jane Grote
Janette Haller
Pam Hardebeck
James Harris
Jesse Harris
Keith Hasenfratz
John Hivner
Peggy Holden
Betty Holjevic
Arline Hollenbaugh
Rose Hook
Toni Horst
Eileen Immken
Julie Isaak
Marge Johnson
Cynthia Kahn
George Knapstein
Theresa Kuturovac
Pat Lake
Art Lampe
Teresa Lawrence
Evelyn Lassa
Sandy Lebbing
Al Leifeld
Betty LeMatty
Eileen Linder
Joe Lonero
Virginia Lynn
Ron Macke
Rose Macher
Marie Ann Mayer
Anne McGowan
Shirley Melber
Barbara Mena
Marie Merlotti
Jennifer Murphy
Lucille Neri
Thao Nguyen
John Nieman
Emma O’Brien
Eleanor O’Kelly
Wilhelimina
Ortmann
Sophia Piotrowski
Kathleen Politte
Tom Pollard Sr.
Cyril Polley
Agnes Pratt
Lawrence Puffer
Edward Richter
Dennis F. Robertson
Nancy Rolfes
Shirley Rosso
Helen Rueffer
Georgia Saffa
John Schifko
Sharon Schmidt
Will Schuchardt
Deacon Len Sisul
Kathryn Sonderman
Erika Stasiak
Virginia Sweeney
Joan Torretta
Ken Torretta
Anne Vigil
Elizabeth Walsh
Evely Weilbaecher
Chorlisha West
Melba White
Theodore Willey
Theresa Winkeler
Alan Young
Bradley Young
Attention all
8th graders
AND highschoolers!
Now What: A Life of Discipleship. What does it
really mean to be a follower of Jesus? What does it
look like? How do we do it? All 8th graders and
highschoolers are invited to join us this Wednesday, May 13th from 7-9pm at Bishop DuBourg
High school to find out! Food, fellowship and fun
are promised. Questions? Contact Lauren at
314.288.8873 or lauren@saintlouislifeteen.org
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Mother’s Day
The following prayer may be used with the table
blessing. All may stretch out their hands over the
mother in a gesture of blessing.
May God,
the source of life,
give you joy in the love, growth
and holiness of your children.
R. Amen
The following prayer may also be appropriate:
Loving God,
as a mother gives life and nourishment to her
children,
so you watch over your Church.
Bless our mother.
Let the example of her faith and love shine forth.
Grant that we, her family,
May honor her always
with a spirit of profound respect.
Grant this through Christ our L:ord
R. Amen
Taken from Catholic Household Blessings & Prayers; National Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCC Washington
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NEW OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG ADULTS
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he Society of St. Vincent De Paul is looking to establish its fourth chapter for twenty- and thirtysomethings at Immaculate Conception Parish in Maplewood. Volunteers will visit the needy of the local area
in teams to provide rent, utility, clothing, and job/
resource referral; volunteer work will be flexible to accommodate multiple schedules. To find out more,
please contact Bryan Kirchoff at bryankirchoff@att.net
or (314) 640-4366.
The Adoration Chapel of St. George
needs more committed adorers.
There are currently 11 open hours that
must be filled, Sunday 2am; Monday
12am, 3am, 6am; 10pm; Thursday
7:00am; 1:00am; Friday, 12am,
1:00am; Saturday 12am, 3am; Call
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