Christ Our Savior Catholic Parish

We welcome you to Christ Our Savior Catholic Parish. We trust that the message today will uplift you

and encourage you as we share in today’s Eucharist. Please know our doors and our hearts are always open to you.

May God bless you and may His light shine upon you.

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Weekend Masses: Saturday 4:00 PM Sunday 8:30 &10:30 AM

Weekday Masses: Tuesday & Friday 8:30 AM

Adoration: Tuesday 9:00 AM

Eucharistic Prayer: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:30 AM

Reconciliation: Saturday 3:00 - 3:30 PM

Christ Our Savior Catholic Parish

880 E. 154th St. South Holland, IL 60473

Office: 708-333-3550 Fax: 708-339-3336

Email: apostljude@aol.com

Website: christoursaviorparish.org

Rectory Office Hours

Monday & Wednesday 10 AM - 12 PM

Friday 12 PM - 2 PM

OUR PASTORAL STAFF

Rev. Gosbert Rwezahura, Pastor

Deacons Jim Renwick Tim Springer Mel Stasinski

Office Manager - Business Manager Brenda Griggs

Business Manager Linda Morgridge

Religious Ed - Youth Ministry Coordinator Marsha Johnson Office Assistant Janis Taliaferro

Maintenance Malcolm Moore, John Olson, Ronald Sostand

Saturday January 23 4:00 PM † Rev. Anthony Talarico Sunday January 24 8:30 AM † Rev. John Powers 10:30 AM † Sgt. William Lebovitz by Robert & Bettie Wallace † Pearl Klein (Birthday Remembrance) by The Klein Family Friday January 29 8:30 AM † Darrin Sulkowski (11th Anniversary) by The Family Juanita Ingram (Birthday) by Steven & Thelma Montgomery Saturday January 30 4:00 PM Deceased members of the Roberts & Nazimek Families by Mrs. Angelita Nazimek † Rev. Anthony Talarico by Mrs. Angelita Nazimek Sunday January 31

8:30 AM † Doris Harsma by Jim & Diane Ostarello 10:30 AM † Henry Granderson by Rosemary Watts † Maurx Daizo, Mary Clare Alapini, Kegnide Alapini by Diane Houessou

The wine used at Mass for the Eucharist for the month of January is for

Jim & Ellen Voce & Family From

Suzanne Voce

The host used at Mass for the Eucharist for the month of January is for

Jim & Ellen Voce & Family From

Suzanne Voce Contact the rectory office if you would like to be a donor.

Weekly Collection 01-17-21 $ 5,864.00 Christmas Collection $ 16,741.00

Thank you for your continued support of Christ Our Savior Parish.

Please continue to make checks payable to St. Jude Church

Go to our website www.christoursaviorparish.org to sign up for electronic giving.

All the information on MyEoffering is available.

The 2021 Mass Book is open for your special intentions. Contact the rectory office or put a note in the weekly collection. The stipend is $10.

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Gerard Azor Kathleen Bauer Angelique Carter Dolores Cox Franklin Crevier Bill Doptson Mary Faulkner Richard Freeman Beth Handy Ann Herman Ruby Ingram Robert Kelliher Mike Kelly Mary Kmak Walter Komanski Eason Lynch Sonia Martorell Daniel Mendez Joan Metzger Mable Moore Joanne Musial

Marian Peters Linda Powell Natalia Rehberg John Roberts Cindy Rogers Terry Ross Ava Rupp Thomas Ruvoli Barbara Ryan Tom Sheeran Ana Smith Martrell Smith Marty Smith Tim Spratte Teresa Spruiell Maryanne Sucharzewski Anna Szuts Duane Taylor Dolores Vanco Debra Worthy Vicente Zamora

To add someone to the prayer list notify the rectory office. Please contact the office when the name can be removed.

PRAY FOR OUR SICK

Worshipping at Christ Our Savior

We are grateful to have the opportunity to worship together. Please remember social distancing must be maintained at all times and masks are required while in the building. We appreciate your compli-ance to these rules as we work to keep everyone safe. Reservations for weekend masses on Saturday at 4:00 PM and Sunday at 8:30 & 10:30 AM must be made on our website or by calling the Rectory office at 708-333-3550 by Friday morning.

Reconciliation is available in McMahon Hall on Saturday at 3:00 PM. Come experience the gift of God’s boundless mercy. No reservation is required.

Volunteers to assist at mass. Please call the rectory office at 708 333-3550 if you can help.

This weekend we take up the Collection for the Church in Latin America! Many people in Latin America and the Caribbean do not have access to Church programs and ministries because of a rising secular culture, difficult ru-ral terrain, and a shortage of ministers. For over 50 years Catholics in the United States have expressed solidarity with the Church from Mexico to the Caribbean, to the southern tip of South America. Your donations fund cat-echesis, marriage and family life programs and seminari-an formation that makes it possible for our brothers and sisters to share in the life of the Church and grow closer to Christ.

Please be generous to the special collection! To learn more, please visit www.usccb.org/latin-america.

Moving Forward in Hope – evening of prayer, connection and hope

The Archdiocesan Commission on Mental Illness invites all to "Moving Forward in Hope,” an evening of prayer, connection and hope on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 7 - 8 p.m. Register via Zoom or contact Deacon Tom Lambert at olmcinfo2@aol.com. This is a monthly series offered on the fourth Tuesday of each month with a goal to create a safe place for those living with or those caring for someone with mental health concerns to come together to pray and share with one another.

Young people under the age of 18 can pick up chil-dren’s offertory envelopes at the exit door as you leave the church.

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Acts 22:3-16; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mk 16:15-18 Tuesday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 4:1-20 Thursday: Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-6; Mk 4:21-25

Friday: Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk1:21-28

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — The Ninevites turn from their evil ways in response to Jonah’s message (Jonah 3:1-5, 10).

Psalm — Teach me your ways, O Lord (Psalm 25).

Second Reading — The world in its present form is passing away (1 Corinthians 7:29-31).

Gospel — Jesus proclaims, “Repent, and believe in the gospel.” The new disciples abandon their nets and follow him (Mark 1:14-20).

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time A New Way, A New World When the people of Nineveh repented, they showed it by wearing sackcloth and fasting from food. Sometimes we might think that way: That re-penting means punishing ourselves or feeling sorry. Jesus sees things differently. He preached repentance that was a change of heart, a new way of looking at things, a new way of acting. In the gospel today, we see an example. The first people he calls to be disciples were fisherman. They would have considered their family, their partners, and their boat as the most important things in their lives. You need all of them to be a success-ful fisherman. Yet the disciples don't even hesitate when called by Jesus. They leave behind their boats, their nets, even their father, to follow Jesus. They don't worry about what they will do, or look back at what they are leaving behind. Now they are fishers of men. Their "repentance" was more than just giving up sins. They were beginning a new life and a new way of looking at the world. Saint Paul refers to this as a new world. When he talks about not using the world fully, he means not fully engaged in the world, but looking to a better one, where God is more important than any passing pleasure or pain. Is your marriage an example of God's love for your friends and relatives? When you are rejoicing, do you give thanks to God? When you are shopping, do you buy what you really need, or what you think will make you happy? Jesus calls us all to this new way of living. With Jesus, we can make a new world. Tom Schmidt, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

FEAST OF FAITH The Penitential Rite

Standing together in the presence of the Lord, we acknowledge our weakness, our sins and faults and fail-ings. But the penitential rite is really less about our sins than it is about God’s mercy. It is not a time for individual confession, like a mini-sacrament of reconciliation. It is, rather, a preparatory rite, preparing us to praise the mer-cy of Christ as we acknowledge our own weakness. When Simon Peter witnesses the miraculous catch of fish—when he realizes who is in the boat with him—he falls at Jesus’ feet with the words, “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man” (Luke 5:8). We are like Peter. The more aware of the Lord’s presence we become, the more awareness we also have of our sinfulness, our weakness. The penitential rite of the Mass takes several forms, from the traditional Confiteor or “I confess” to a litany, spoken or sung by the deacon or cantor with responses by the entire assembly. The penitential rite always includes the words Kyrie, eleison; Christe, eleison—Lord, have mer-cy; Christ, have mercy. This ancient Greek prayer came to the Roman liturgy from the East, and still echoes in many of the litanies of the Eastern Rite Churches. These words turn our gaze from our own weakness to the gen-tleness, the kindness, the forgiving love of Christ. —Corinna Laughlin, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

FAITH AT HOME

THE DAILY EXAMEN

The Daily Examen is a technique of prayerful reflection on the events of the day in order to detect God’s pres-ence and discern his direction for us. The method pre-sented here is adapted from a technique described by Ignatius Loyola in his Spiritual Exercises. 1. Become aware of God’s presence. 2. Review the day with gratitude. 3. Pay attention to your emotions. 4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it. 5. Look toward tomorrow.

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The word of the Lord came to Jonah…

My dear friends, God’s call to follow and serve Him often takes us to places we would never have dreamt of going. Jonah’s call in the first read-ing of this weekend took him to Nineveh. For the Jew of the 1st century BC, Nineveh represented the seat of godlessness, immorality and corruption. Ni-neveh was the capital of the Assyrian empire that had conquered and colonized the kingdom of Ju-dah, looted and destroyed the Temple, and carried the notables of the people into exile. It was a big metropolitan city where the social and economic law of the survival of the fittest reigned supreme. Materi-alism expressing itself in all forms of immorality, corruption and crime was the order of the day in Ni-neveh. For pious Jews like Jonah, Nineveh was the godforsaken city, the highway to perdition where evil reigned without any hope of change. For them Nineveh was a hopeless case, peopled by lost souls without the slightest hope of regaining God’s favor. No wonder Jonah objected to being sent there. The big surprise in the story is that as soon as the “godforsaken” people of Nineveh heard the word of God, they receive it with eagerness, repent-ed with sincerity, and regained God’s mercy and forgiveness. Even today God seeks men and women to send on the mission to Nineveh. Where is our Nine-veh today? Our Nineveh today is found in the back-streets and alleys of our cities festering drug and crime. It is found in the ivory tower of the corporate establishment where the destinies of half of the world are decided without any attention to their in-terests and welfare. Jonah was not sent to the peo-ple of Israel who were believers already, neither are we called to cater for the interest of good churchgo-ers alone. As Simon and his brother Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee were called by the Lord Jesus to become fishers of men in this week-end’s Gospel, God invites us to bring the Good News of salvation to unimaginable places and “impossible” situations. The Good News for us is that these “hopeless” cases are not too hopeless after all. For if even Nineveh could turn back to God so can they. The question is how will we do it with God’s grace? May the Lord bless us and keep us safe! In the Lord, Fr. Gosbert Rwezahura.

SHEDSOMELIGHT Christ Our Savior Catholic School

CONGRATULATIONS ARE IN ORDER

The list of students who earned honors in the First Semester at Marist High School in Chicago has been released. Those who made the Dean’s List are students who earned a GPA of 5.0 or better. Those students who received Honors earned a GPA of 4.5 to 4.9 out of a 5.0. Congratulations to the alumni students of Christ Our Savior School who earned this prestigious recogni-tion. WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU!!!

HONORS

Kaylen Baker

Santonien Flowers

VIRTUAL ART SHOW AT MARIAN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL

Visual Art Teacher, Ms. Hammons, (with student help) put together a Virtual Art Show at Marian Catholic High School in Chicago Heights celebrat-ing some of the students' favorite pieces that were created this past semester. The Visual Arts Pro-gram at Marian Catholic provides the tools essential for any young artist to challenge themselves and define their visual voice. Their goal is to ensure all students understand the value of their artistic voices and feel confident to pursue a career in the arts. Christ Our Savior School would like to congratu-late alumni Freshman, William Brown, & Senior, Deana Chambers, who are represented in the Virtu-al Art Fair. To visit the virtual Art Fair go to the Mari-an Catholic High School Facebook page.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU

Thank you to those of you who supported the Freddy’s Steakburgers in Homewood fundraiser on Tuesday, January 19. We appreciate your support to Christ Our Savior School!

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January 31 – February 6 In Christ’s Love, Karen Brodzik, Principal

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