ST. JOHN VIANNEY PARISH February 21, 2016

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ST. JOHN VIANNEY PARISH
2415 BAGLEY STREET ~ FLINT, MICHIGAN 48504-4613 ~ PHONE: 810.235.1812
CATHOLIC COMMUNITY OF FLINT
St. John Vianney
St. Mary
St. Matthew
St. Michael
OUR MISSION
We, the faith community of St. John Vianney, are called by God to be a
people of prayer, to live the Word, and to celebrate the Sacraments. We
commit ourselves to become a warm and welcoming community,
reaching out to others in need. By calling forth the varieties of gifts,
talents and ministries, we seek to provide an open environment with
opportunities for all to grow in holiness and loving service.
Rev. Fr. Tom Firestone, Pastor
Fr. James Mangan, Parochial Vicar
Fr. Zachary Mabee, Parochial Vicar
Fr. Dan Kogut, Powers Chaplain
Deacon Anthony Verdun, Sr.
Deacon Paul Donnelly
Youth Director: Maureen Kelsey
Music Director: Meg Waddell
Parish Financial Director: Jenny Snellgrose
Administrative Coordinator: Melinda Holm
Secretary: Cathy Wenzel
Bulletin Editor: Pat Gardner
School Office: Diane Deitering
School Principal: Lara Daniel
Day Care Center: Nancy Gallagher
Parish Office Hours
Monday - Friday
8:30 AM - 4 PM
Websites
www.sjvflint.com
www.sjvkids.org
Contact Information
Fax
SJV School
Day Care Center
Powers High School
235.4911
235.5687
234.9410
591.4741
Outreach Ministry
N.E.W. Life Center
239.8710
Sr. Judy Blake & Sr. Carol Weber
Angel’s Outreach Ministry
655.4059
Deacon Anthony & Susan Verdun
Please call the Parish Office for Parish registration, Communion to shut-ins, anointing of
the sick, funeral arrangements, Mass intentions, sacramental preparation for children not
enrolled in the school and inquiries about
becoming Catholic.
Prayer Chain Ministry
For spiritual,
physical or emotional
need. Please call
Karen
732.7582
Pat
635.3716
Parish Office 235.1812
Confidential
Reconciliation
Saturday 3:30 PM
Sunday 10:30 AM
Eucharistic Liturgies
Daily Mass: Monday- Friday: 10:30 AM
Saturday: 4:00 PM
Sunday: 8:00 AM & 11:00 AM
7:00 PM
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Saint John Vianney Parish
MEN’S RETREAT
The men of St. John Vianney Parish are
scheduled for their annual retreat at St.
Francis Retreat Center on March 4th
through March 6th. The theme for Retreat 2016 is “Christ Is Counting On You:
Deepening Your Relationship With
Christ.” You may register by calling the
Retreat Center at 866.669.8321 or you may register online
at www.stfrancis.ws. The suggested donation for the weekend is $145.
LENTEN FISH DINNERS
Don’t forget to support our Knights of Columbus who once
again are offering their Lenten Baked Fish Dinners. Mac
and Cheese dinners are also available. Dinners include
fish, fries, cole slaw, bread and butter, dessert and drinks
(coffee, tea, punch and water).
CONFESSION TIME CHANGE
During Lent, we will be offering two opportunities each weekend for confession at SJV.
They will be at 3:30 PM on Saturday (before
the 4 PM Mass) and at 10:30 AM on Sunday
(before the 11 AM Mass). This will begin this
weekend, February 13th & 14th. There will
be no 5 PM confessions on Saturdays.
PARISH SCHOLARSHIPS
Parish scholarship forms are available
for the 2016-2017 school year.
Applications will be accepted for any
parish children enrolling in St. John
Vianney School or Powers High
School. Forms are available in the
church office; please stop by to pick
yours up or call 235.1812 to have it
mailed. Deadline to return it is April 8,
2016.
CATHOLIC WOMEN’S SCHOLARSHIP
The Daughters of Isabella, Regina Coeli Circle 1095, is offering two $500 scholarships to any Catholic woman seeking a higher education. Please call 810.744.1948.
A special thank you to everyone
who was here for me during my
time of illness; for the prayers,
cards and visits. Thank you to Mary
for taking my place at the St. Luke
Women’s Center, etc. There aren’t enough words to express how grateful I am. Thank you, thank you, thank you to
Fr. Tom, Fr. Zachary and Deacon Tony. Josephine White
OUR WEEKLY OFFERING FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Stewardship of Treasure
$4,805.00
Loose Collection
601.00
Children’s Stewardship ~ 16 Envelopes
31.00
Visitors ~ 30 Envelopes
406.00
Worldwide Evangelization Appeal
5.00
Black and Indian Collection
40.00
Ash Wednesday
575.00
Online Giving
1,716.00
Total Weekly Collection
$8,179.00
St. Vincent de Paul
$19.08
DSA 2016
COMMITMENT WEEKEND
This weekend is our Diocesan Services
Appeal Commitment Weekend. I invite all
members of our parish community to join
in support of our annual appeal. Our parish
goal is $42,828. I would like to remind you
that all paid pledge monies received, over and above our
parish goal, will be returned to our parish for our local use
here at SJV Parish. No gift is too small; every dollar donated helps us meet, and even exceed, our parish goal. You
can submit your DSA pledge envelope during Mass this
weekend or take your DSA envelope home, prayerfully
consider your gift amount, and return your completed
pledge form, in the DSA envelope, to our parish office. I
encourage every one of our parish households to reflect on
the many blessings we have received from the Lord and
share these blessings through a generous gift to DSA.
LENTEN SPEAKER SERIES BEGINS
Please join us on Wednesday, February 24th, at 1 PM in
the Social Hall as we begin our Lenten Speaker Series.
Fr. James Mangan, Parochial Vicar of St. Matthew’s, will be
our first speaker. His topic
will be: “Fasting: Solidarity
with the Suffering.”
Fr. James will be speaking
about how to move from
fasting as simply a physical
exercise of abstaining from
food, to a spiritual exercise
of uniting oneself with those who are suffering. Come learn
how one’s fasting can become an act of love which empowers us to pray with our bodies for those who are most in
need.
OUT AND ABOUT
St. Mark’s Goodrich Annual Spring Crop will be held on
Friday and Saturday, March 11th and 12th. The event includes snacks, breakfast, lunch and dinner, lots of prizes
and vendors. Contact Cindy at [email protected] or
call Sue at 248.627.3100.
St. Robert’s Flushing CCW are hosting their 39th Annual Spring Craft Bazaar on Saturday, March 12th, from
9 AM - 4 PM. There are over 100 tables of Michigan-made
items, along with baked goods, raffles and lunch.
EASTER SHUT-IN TREE
Christian Service would like to invite you
to join us in extending our community to
the individuals who are sick or shut-in and
unable to attend Mass (due to extended
age or medical conditions). This Lenten
Season is a great time to take a small
amount of time to send an Easter card to a shut-in. We
need the names of individuals who would like their name
included on the tree. If you have a family member or friend
whom you would like included, please call the office at SJV
and give them the name, address and phone number of the
individual. We need to obtain permission to place their
name on the tree. We are now calling individuals, so please
call the office as soon as possible at 235.1812.
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Saturday, February 20th
8:30 am-2:30 pm Faith Formation Class
4:30 pm Reconciliation
Sunday, February 21st
Parish Breakfast
9-11 am Confirmation Class
10:30 am Reconciliation
12 Noon Living Stations Practice
Monday, February 22nd
5-8 pm Mercy Monday ~ Confessions at
St. Matthew Parish
6:30 pm PPC Meeting
7 pm Commissions
Tuesday, February 23rd
6 pm Cub Scouts
7 pm Financial Peace University
7 pm Generation Change
Wednesday, February 24th
8 am St. Joseph Guild
1 pm Lenten Speaker Fr. James Mangan
Thursday, February 25th
6:30 pm Choir
Friday, February 26th Day of Abstinence
10:30 am School Mass
11 am-1 pm Grief Support Group
11:30 am Stations of the Cross/Exposition of
the Blessed Sacrament until 4 pm
3:30-7 pm K of C Fish Bake
Saturday, February 27th
4-8 pm YG Mass & Movie Night
4:30 pm Reconciliation
Sunday, February 28th
10:30 am Reconciliation
12 Noon Living Stations Practice
Altar Servers for This Week
Adult: February 22nd ~ February 26th ~ Ann Saunders
Saturday, February 27th, 4 PM
Adam & Emma Burgess
Sunday, February 28th, 8 AM
Mike McCarthy and Michael Mulqueen
Sunday, February 28th, 11 AM
Gabriel, Adam, Julian & Alyssa Lovett
Sunday, February 28th,7 PM
Taylor, Nolan & Colin Lawrence
MCLAREN MINISTRY
February 21st
Mike Brewer, Richard Black, Cindy McNea
February 28th
Connie McClanahan, John Kirk, Ethel Hooker
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of
those in it who are evil, but because of those
who don’t do anything about it.”
Albert Einstein
Saturday, February 20th
3:30 pm
Confessions
4:00 p.m.
+Teresa Schaffer by Family
Sunday, February 21st Second Sunday of Lent
8:00 a.m.
+Bill Gardner by Dave & Liz Alunno
10:30 am
Confessions
11:00 a.m.
+Zachary Rivera by St. Elizabeth
Guild
7:00 p.m.
+Clarence Riedy ~ 35th Anniversary ~
by Family
Monday, February 22nd
10:30 am
+Bill Gardner by Hank & Mary Jo
Thoma
Tuesday, February 23rd
10:30 am
Patrick Callahan by Maureen
Wednesday, February 24th
10:30 am
+Barbara Haggard by Shirley Seidel
Thursday, February 25th
10:30 am
+Doris Wenzel by Cathy
Friday, February 26th School Mass
Day of Abstinence
10:30 am
+Stephen Borowicz by SJV School
Staff
11:30 am
Stations of the Cross
Saturday, February 27th
3:30 pm
Confessions
4:00 pm
+Lorena Zeilinger by Family
Sunday, February 28th Third Sunday of Lent
8:00 am
All St. John Vianney Parishioners
10:30 am
Confessions
11:00 am
+Lola Mitchell by Michael Blain
7:00 pm
+Imogene George by Ronnie Legutko
U OF M CONCERT AT ST. MATTHEW’S
On Tuesday, February 23rd, St. Matthew’s will be hosting the Wind Symphony and Chamber Singers from the University of Michigan Flint. The concert will
begin at 7:30 PM in the church; tickets,
which are $5, will be sold one half hour
beforehand, at 7 PM. Bring friends and
family as all are welcome for an evening
to celebrate the beauty of music.
ALTAR CARE
Team 4 is scheduled for the week of
February 22nd-February 26th