Holy Ghost and SS. Mary and Jude Parish

Holy Ghost 700 E. 170th St.

South Holland, IL 60473 708-333-7011 Office 708-333-1996 Fax

St. Mary Queen of Apostles 207 W. 145th St.

Riverdale, IL 60827 708-849-4901 Office 708-849-5903 Fax

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St. Jude the Apostle 880 E. 154th St.

South Holland, IL 60473 708-333-3550 Office 708-339-3336 Fax

Email: apostljude@aol.com

Christ Our Savior Catholic School 900 E. 154th St. South Holland, IL

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February 10, 2019 Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

We welcome you to our parish community of Holy Ghost and SS. Mary and Jude. We trust that the message today will uplift you and encourage you as we share in today’s Eucharist.

Please know that 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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Sat., Aug. 24 4:00 PM St. Jude the Apostle 4:30 PM Holy Ghost

Essie David Pearson by Wife Louise Renz by Mary Kozlowski Tom & Helen Lanigan by Marilyn Lanigan

Sun., Aug. 25

8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle 10:00 AM St. Mary Queen of Apostles 10:30 AM Holy Ghost 10:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

Fr. John Powers Fred Powell & Family Travis & Kelly Read & Family People of Our Faith Community Mary Ann Todd by Holy Ghost Sanctuary Guild Evelyn Pulaski by M/M Don O’Barski Rhonda Henning Dedo by Family Maureen Sweeney by Noel & Linda Morgridge

Mon., Aug. 26 7:30 AM Holy Ghost 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

Mother’s Day Intentions Alice Gajewski by Ron & Pat Slusarski

Tues., Aug. 27 7:30 AM Holy Ghost 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

People of Holy Ghost People of Our Faith Community

Wed., Aug. 28 7:30 AM Holy Ghost 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

Mary Ann Todd by Rosemary Dombrowski George Samaan by Wife Dorothy Biernacki by Family People of the Parish

Thur., Aug. 29 7:30 AM Holy Ghost 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

Bill & Mary Maloney by Mary Ellen Quinn Prayer Service

Fri., Aug. 30 7:30 AM Holy Ghost 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

Erwin Mack by Joseph & Edmund Szubka Purgatorial Society Ralph & Dolores Cox

Sat., Aug. 31 4:00 PM St. Jude the Apostle Bernie & Marie Russell by Marilyn Lanigan Essie

Sun., Sep. 1 8:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle 10:30 AM St. Jude the Apostle

People of Our Faith Community Art Nylen by Joan Elliott Tim Springer (70th Birthday) by Family Carrie M. Mitchell by Sondra Watts Fr. John Harvey

Our Pastoral Staff Rev. Gosbert Rwezahura Pastor

Holy Ghost Deacon Couple James & Mary Ann Renwick Secretaries Marilyn Lanigan, Ellen Voce

St. Mary Queen of Apostles Deacon Gerald Hahn Business Manager Brenda Griggs Organist Cathy Szczech Faith Formation Ann Hilsen

St. Jude the Apostle Deacon Tim Springer Deacon Mel Stasinski Business Manager Linda Morgridge RE & Youth Ministry Coordinator Marsha Johnson Office Assistant Sylvia Stasinski

Maintenance Malcolm Moore, John Olsen, Ronald Sostand

MASS TIMES Monday 7:30 AM HG 8:30 AM SJA Tuesday 7:30 AM HG 8:30 AM SJA 9 :00 AM Holy Hour Wednesday 7:30 AM HG 8:30 AM SJA Thursday 8:30 AM SJA Prayer Service 7:30 AM HG 6:00 PM Holy Hour Friday 7:30 AM HG 8:30 AM SJA Saturday 4:00 PM SJA 4:30 PM HG Sunday 8:30 AM SJA 10:00 AM SMQA 10:30 AM HG 10:30 AM SJA

Holy Days Watch bulletin for schedule

Rosary Monday - Friday 8:00 AM SJA

Confessions Saturday 3:30 - 4:15 PM HG Saturday 3:15 - 3:45 PM SJA Baptisms & Weddings Please contact your rectory office

Saturday August 31, 2019 4:00 PM Sunday September 1, 2019 8:30 AM 10:30 AM

Masses will only be celebrated at the St. Jude worship site. Let us celebrate as one faith community.

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Lord, will only a few people be saved?

What a beautiful question! Now, let me ask you my brothers and sisters, have you ever asked yourself this question whether a few people will be saved or not? We may not ask ourselves this

question in life but we may be wondering whether our loved ones who have gone before us made it to heaven or not. Jesus in his public ministry met people with different questions. Some questions were about earthly things like marriages and divorce (whether it was lawful for a husband to divorce his wife for any cause what-soever- Mat. 19: 3-9), inheritance (as we heard two weeks ago, somebody from the crowd asking Jesus to tell his brother to share the inheritance with him Lk 12: 13), and others were about heavenly realities like the young man asking Jesus what he should do to obtain eternal life – Mat. 19: 16-22. In this weekend’s Gospel, someone whose name is not mentioned wants to know if few people will be saved. This question reminds me my early years in the seminary. Some teachers would give us quizzes or exams and for one to know if he had passed would ask a question like; Father, have you gone through our papers? If the priest answered “Yes”, then the next question would be “have many passed the test?” Now, the answer does not give the questioner the certainty of having passed the exam or not but if the answer was YES then the student would hope that he might be among those who have passed. Lord, will only a few people be saved? Jesus’ response to this ques-tion was very simple, smart and of course an intelligent one: “strive to enter through the narrow gate…! Rather than occupying oneself with arguments about the number of those to be saved, it is better to work hard in order to be saved. Through this, Christ reminds us that the invitation to His Feast is open to all. However, each person must struggle to be there. We must do what we have to do by playing our roles well. This is the only way we can be guaranteed a place in the feast of the Kingdom of God. In other words, it be-hooves us as individuals to make an effort to be at the glorious gathering of the saints. We have a part to play in Christ’s redemptive work. God created us without our contribution but He will not redeem us without our contribution. By His death on the cross Christ has inaugurated the process of our salvation. The second reading from the Hebrews reminds us that it is obedience and discipline that will help us respond, and effectively return to the Lord. The path to this return will definitively not be easy. In it, we shall encounter thorns and pains. As a loving father, God will also reprimand and punish us. However, this is in order to correct and guide us through the right path.

In the Lord, Fr. Gosbert Rwezahura

A Call To Action

As we read/listen to the scriptures these final weeks of our church year, we find that Jesus is calling us to action. We are to accept the invitation to be His disciples and He ex-plains what we must do. May I suggest that we read and meditate on each Sunday Gospel each day of the following week to hear the Lord calling us to action.

Jesus gives us a plan to follow to enter into the Kingdom of God. Each of the readings contains a step to follow in the plan. We must act on each step of the plan to follow Jesus and be his disciple.

I suggest that we accept the challenges of forming our new parish. We all have God’s gifts to use to construct the new parish. Have each of us accepted the call to minister to the parish through our organized ministries?

Deacon Gerry

SPOTLIGHT ON: Donna Ramusack

Donna is a resident of South Holland and became a member of Holy Ghost in 1967.

The Ramusack’s have been mar-ried for 54 years and are the par-ents of 2 children and 3 grandchil-dren. They love to travel and are avid skiers.

She is a retired registered nurse. Donna teaches CPR and talks to groups about developing healthy lifestyles. She is also a speaker for Gift of Hope and as the recipient of a heart and kidney transplant, she encourages all to become an organ and tissue donor and give the Gift of Life. As a member of the Choir, she frequently serves as a cantor and looks forward to participating in the new parish.

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TODAY’S READINGS First Reading -- Brothers and sisters of every race and language will be brought to Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:18-21). Psalm -- Go out to all the world and tell the Good News (Psalm 117). Second Reading -- Strengthen your drooping hands and your weak knees (Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13). Gospel -- People from east and west, north and south recline at table in the kingdom of God (Luke 13:22-30). READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 1 Thes 1:1-5, 8b-10; Ps 149:1b-6a, 9b; Mt 23:13-22 Tuesday: 1 Thes 2:1-8; Ps 139:1-6; Mt 23:23-26 Wednesday: 1 Thes 2:9-13; Ps 139:7-12ab; Mt 23:27-32 Thursday: 1 Thes 3:7-13; Ps 71:1-4-6ab, 15ab, 17; Mk 6:17-29 Friday: 1 Thes 4:1-8; Ps 97:1, 2b, 5-6, 10-12; Mt 25:1-13 Saturday: 1 Thes 4:9-11; Ps 98:1, 7-9; Mt 25:14-30 Sunday: Sir 3:17-18, 20, 28-29; Ps 68:4-7, 10-11; Heb 12:18-19, 22-24a; Lk 14:1, 7-14

Thank You Dear Family of Faith of St. Jude,

Thank you. I am short of words to express my gratitude to each of you who attended the Mass of installation at St. Mary. I was highly impressed with the large number of parishioners from St. Jude. St. Jude parishioners continue to amaze me. As I have told you sev-eral times, and continue to say to you, “I know I do not say, ‘Thank you’ enough. The fact that I do not say it often, does not mean I do not have it in mind. From my heart I thank you.”

May the reward promised in Matthew 10:42 be yours in abundance. Amen. From a grateful heart, Fr. Ignatius

PRAY FOR OUR SICK

Please pray for the physical and spiritual well-being of parishioners and friends who are ill and recovering. If you would like to add a name to the list fill out a form at the back of church and return in the basket provided. Robert Kelliher Joyce Musial Ann Herman Walter Komanski Beth Handy Gerald Dewitt Mary Faulkner Ruby Ingram Earline Mebane Dolores Vanco

Tom Sheeran Dolores Cox Daniel Mendez Richard Mebane Linda Powell Janet Shone Vicente Zamora Mary Lee Becker Marian Kelliher Karen Murdaugh

Eleanor Sheeran Kathleen Bauer Ann Dobias Barbara Ryan Bonnie Jackson Joan Metzger Delores Jerome Angela Johnson Videllia Vann

SHEDSOMELIGHT Christ Our Savior Catholic School

The theme for the Archdiocese of Chicago Catholic Schools 2019-2020 school year is “Angels Among Us.” As we live out our educational ministry, we know we are surrounded by many Angels. Some of these An-gels are heavenly, and they provide us with inspiration, guidance and protection. We know that Angels are pre-sent throughout scripture, from the many proclamations of the Old Testament to the celebration of Christ’s birth at the nativity as well as many other angelic witnesses and experiences. We are so grateful to all other earthly Angels. Our Catholic schools benefit deeply by the tal-ents and support of our dedicated teachers, staff, volun-teers and other supporters. We sincerely thank the pa-rishioners of St. Jude, Holy Ghost and St. Mary Queen of Apostles Parish who over the years have been AN-GELS to us!

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS

A VIRTUS TRAINING class (Protecting All God’s Children) is scheduled for Thurs., Sept. 26 at 6:30 P.M. in McMahon Hall. ALL employees of the Archdiocese of Chicago, substitute teachers, religious education teachers, volunteers, and chaperones must complete this training. This class is not exclusive to those affiliated with Christ Our Savior Catholic School. If you would like to volunteer at COS in some capacity this school year and you have not registered for a Virtus class in the past, please sign up. We would love to have you as a volunteer. Please register online at www.virtus.org be-fore the evening of the class. Marsha Johnson will be the presenter for this session.

FREE BOOK EXCHANGE

We now have a Free Book Exchange by the School Of-fice. Like many of the little book exchanges that you see in the area and in towns that you may visit on your trav-els, feel free to take a book or leave a book. We are ac-cepting donations of children’s books or adult novels for our Book Exchange. Even if you do not have a book to donate as you look through our selection, just take a book to enjoy. Share the love of literature!

In Christ’s Love, Karen Brodzik Principal

Special Intentions Prayer requests may be placed on Mary’s Altar at St. Mary Queen of Apostles, in the prayer box in the church lobby of Holy Ghost and at the Shrine of St. Jude at St. Jude the Apostle.

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Our Weekly Offering

Holy Ghost Worship Site 8 - 18 - 2019 $ 2,140.00

St. Mary Queen of Apostles Worship Site 8 - 18- 2019 $ 1,251.00

St. Jude the Apostle Worship Site 8 - 18 - 2019 $ 3, 084.55

We thank you for your financial support of our parish community.

The wine used at St. Jude Church for the Eucharist for the month of AUGUST

is in memory of Lorraine Ferris From Friend of St. Jude. We are grateful for their donation.

SMQA ANNUAL PICNIC

St. Mary Queen of Apostles site final Annual Picnic will be Saturday, September 14, 2019. Search your homes for items you have received but aren’t using. Bring them to the rectory for our “White Elephant” prizes for Bingo and the Raffle.

List of Picnic Items Needed Hot Dog Buns Barbeque Sauce Hamburger Buns Mayonnaise Potato Chips Bottles of Water Candy / Piñata Ketchup Juice Boxes/Pouches Garbage Bags Mustard Onions Gift Cards Relish Plates Donations Lettuce Cups Napkins Tomatoes Plastic Silverware Side Dishes (Enough to feed 10 or more people) Non-Perishables Groceries Items (for the Bowling for Groceries game).

The picnic committee is selling donuts and raffle tickets on Sundays in the school foyer after mass.

Donuts are $1 each Raffle tickets are $1 per ticket or 6 for $5.

Donuts & Raffle tickets will be on sale thru Sept. 8th.

Bible Study at St. Mary Queen of Apostles When: Every Tuesday Time: 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Where: Rectory Conference Room

Thank you to all those who have so gener-ously given to the To Teach Who Christ Is campaign. Our parish has received scholar-ships for youth to attend the Holy Fire re-treat in Chicago and the National Catholic Youth conference in Indianapolis. Funds also have been received for the youth min-ister certification program. Please continue

to support this worthy endeavor.

Holy Ghost Church Amount Pledged Actual Collections $203,265 $126,010

St. Mary Queen of Apostles Church Amount Pledged Actual Collections $108,445 $ 61,766

St. Jude the Apostle Church Amount Pledged Actual Collections $619,410 $385,055

What are you doing on September 6th?

Teens of our parish community are invited on Friday, September 6th at 6 PM to get together at the St. Jude worship site.

Genoa Council # 1659 of the Knights of Columbus is sponsoring a Bakers Square fundraiser to benefit the council. Date & Time: Monday, August 26, 2019 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM

Place: 3545 Ridge Rd, Lansing, IL The Council will earn 20% of your guest check. Please bring the flyer with you. Enjoy a piece of pie.

“MAKING DISCIPLES OF CHRIST” Religious Education will begin at the St. Jude worship site on September 30, 2019. Registration will begin on Sunday, September 1st. Classes will be held for students in Grades 1-8 for ongoing faith formation and sacramen-tal preparation on Monday evenings.

CELEBRATING ST. MARY QUEEN OF APOSTLES CHURCH 2011 - 2019 FINAL MASS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 10:00 AM

Rev. Gosbert Rwezahura will deliver the final homily. Please share this information with present and former St. Mary Queen of Apostles parishioners.

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