ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH

RIVERSIDE, OHIO MARCH 3, 2019

READINGS FOR March 9 & 10

Deuteronomy 26:4-10

Romans 10:8-13

Luke 4:1-13

With heartfelt thanks for your

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE

February 23 & 24

$12,224.43

of which $5,529.00 via Faith Direct

2019 CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL 2019 Catholic Ministries Appeal (CMA)

Archbishop Schnurr sends his thanks to everyone

from St Helen Parish who has supported the 2019

Catholic Ministries Appeal. If you have not yet made

your pledge, please consider doing so this week. For

more information and to pledge online, please visit

CatholicAppeal.info. Thank you!

JOIN US

IN THE SMITH BUILIDNG

AFTER MASS THIS SUNDAY

FOR COFFEE & DONUTS

Children’s Liturgy of the Word (CLOW) is in need of

volunteers in order to continue this ministry.

We will be hosting a meet and greet during Donut

Sunday. Please talk with the CLOW volunteers

to see how you can help in this ministry.

LEARNED WISDOM Our first parish grief support series just end-

ed. It was quite well received, and we plan to offer

the gatherings again come April. One universal

thought that came from those participating

though: Please! if you know someone who has suf-

fered a loss, a neighbor or relative or friend, check in

on them frequently. They don't need food or flowers -

they need you. They need to know someone is think-

ing of them, and they still matter! Be brave and take

the initiative to call or stop by. It doesn't matter what

you say, just be there with them, and offer some love!

SPRING SENIOR DINNER We are beginning preparation for our Annual

Spring Senior dinner. This is a dinner celebrating our

parishioners 80 years old and better for their service

to their families, our church, and our community. We

provide dinner, a raffle, and entertainment. Anyone

interested in helping make this a great evening for

our seniors is invited to join us at our planning

meeting. March 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Helen Room. as we make arrangements for this event.

Please call Ann Huber at 937-903-2186. If

you have any questions

FROM THE ST. HELEN SCHOOL LIBRARY…. Ohio author, Michelle Houts, will be visiting our school April 8, 9 & 10. She

will present a three-day STEM Science and Writing Lab to grades 1-3, and

will also talk to preschool, kindergarten, and 4th grade classes. Her first novel,

The Beef Princess of Practical County, received the 2010 International Read-

ing Association Children’s Book Award for intermediate fiction, the 2011 Ne-

braska Agricultural Children’s Book of the Year, and was a finalist for the

2010 Buckeye Children’s Book Award and the 2011-12 Indiana Young Hoosi-

er Book Award.

To learn more about Houts, go to https://michellehouts.com. Families will have a chance to order her

books and then have them autographed during her visit. This visit is funded by our fall book fair profits, the Sum-

mer Challenge Award by Vectren, and a generous donation in memory of parishioner Doris Issenmann. Thanks to

everyone who makes it possible for our students to meet and interact with wonderful children’s authors.

LENT IS UPON US! See the full page fliers in this week’s bulletin listing

our Ash Wednesday services and all

special parish offerings

to help us grow closer to God

during this season of

purification and enlightenment!

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

CALENDAR OF EVENTS MONDAY, MARCH 4

Novena-BSC 9:00 am

Festival Ticket Turn-In-SB 7:00 pm

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

Rosary-CH 9:00 am

Shrove Tuesday Evensong/Celebration CH 7:00

pm

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6

Liturgy of the Word with Distribution of Ashes

-CH 6:30 am & 12:00 Noon

Ash Wednesday Mass-CH 8:15 am & 7:00 pm

Centering Prayer-HR 3:15 pm

CtBS Meeting-SJA 7:00 pm

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

Regional Mass at Immaculate Conception 8:15 am

Stations of the Cross-CH 7:00 pm

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

5:00 pm Mass-Fr. Bob Jones

SUNDAY, MARCH 10

8:00 am Mass-Fr. Satish

10:30 am Mass-Fr. Bob Jones

WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS SUNDAY, MARCH 3

8:00 am Louis Ciambro (Nephew)

10:30 am Al Berberich (Fred & Debbie Pence)

MONDAY, MARCH 4

8:15 am Leonard Aveck (Knapke Family)

TUESDAY, MARCH 5

8:15 am Santina Tarlano (Son)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6

8:15 am Maria Burkhardt (Peggy Burkhardt)

THURSDAY, MARCH 7

8:15 am Joan Knpake (Knapke Family)

FRIDAY, MARCH 8

8:15 am Regional Mass at Immaculate Conception

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

5:00 pm Charles Maloney (Tootie Maloney &

Family)

SUNDAY, MARCH 10

8:00 am Kathy Woods (Leisure Club)

10:30 am James, Susan & Lydia Monell (Elaine

Monell)

HELLO, HELLO, HELLO!!!

WHAT TIME IS IT??? ITS TIME FOR THE FIRST

ST. HELEN FESTIVAL

TICKET TURN IN for 2019!

YES, THATS WHAT TIME IT IS!

MONDAY~ MARCH 4TH ~ 7:00-8:30

in the SMITH BUILDING

You may also drop them in an envelope in the

collection basket, drop them in the mail or bring them

to the parish office. Remember our first $50 Early

Bird drawing will also be at 8:30pm that evening.

Please contact your AREA COMMAND-

ER (listed on the letter enclosed with your tickets)

if you need more tickets or have questions or call

DeDe Moran @ 254-4432 FAIR TRADE During Donut Sunday today stop by the Fair

Trade table to see all of the delicious items

ready for you to purchase! MANY varieties

of ground coffee, whole bean coffee, single

serve coffee, tea, hot chocolate, baking chocolate,

chocolate chips, chocolate candy bars and olive oil

are available. Not only are all of the items delicious,

but they are all organically and sustainably pro-

duced, with small farmers getting a fair price for

their products. Stop by and check us out!

LET’S STAY IN TOUCH We are such mobile people – and the

years just keep going by. Perhaps you

have a loved one, a relative or friend

or neighbor, who has moved out of our parish but

would maybe like to hear from us and share updates

now and again? We would love to be in

touch! Please call the parish office with their name

and info, and have them put on our “stay in contact”

list so we can reach out to them once in a while.

And, as always, if your loved one in the area

becomes infirm or ill, and is unable to get out, let us

know that also so we can have someone visit once in

a while or bring Communion. We are blessed to have

wonderful volunteers who minister regularly in this

way.

NEW BOOKS Some terrific, short Scripture

studies as well as other new

books, have been put in the book

kiosk in the church vesti-

bule. Take a look at them! This would be an easy

and inexpensive way to grow in your faith, on your

own time and at home, during Lent!

ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH

RIVERSIDE, OHIO MARCH 3, 2019

Eucharistic Minister Eucharistic Minister Altar Server Lector

Saturday, 5:00 PM March 9

Steve Bacher Irene Bacher Judy Decker

Linda Heckman Alfonso Torres (sub req.)

Mary Heider Jacob Schaefer

Donna Krile (1) (sub req.) David Krile (2) (sub req.)

Sunday, 8:00 AM March 10

Deborah Danner Nicole Harpenau April Lezanic

Todd Tayloe James Whitney Phyllis Whitney

David MacLeod Donald MacLeod

Kathy Snyder (1) Thomas Weese (2)

Sunday, 10:30 AM March 10

Mary Finnegan John Finnegan Drew Hilgeford Mindy Hilgeford

Diane Maus Lynn Middy Nicole Miller Billie Jean Szydlik

Nichole Huber Dimitri Perez Lucas Perez

Mary Havens (1) Lester Small (2)

If you were planning

on donating chips,

cheese, salsa, sour

cream, jalapenos,

baked goods, or sodas

or juice boxes, we still

welcome them! Bring

them to the parish of-

fices by Tuesday at

3:00 p.m.

KAIROS

COOKIES

REMINDERS: We still have some

bags left in the vesti-

bule for Kairos cook-

ies donations! All in-

structions are included. Cookies are due to the

parish offices by Mon-

day, March 11.

Thank you for your care of

those who are in prison

and seeking wholeness

and forgiveness!

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Lenten Opportunities for Prayer, Fellowship,

Reconciliation, and Service!

ASH WEDNESDAY

MASSES With Distribution of Ashes

8:15 a.m., 7:00 p.m.

Liturgy of the Word With Distribution of Ashes

at 6:30 a.m. and NOON

(no Communion)

STATIONS OF

THE

CROSS

Fridays 7:00 p.m.

March 8, March 15,

March 22, March 29,

April 5, and April 12

PASTA + PIZZA +

STATIONS!

Friday, March 22

6:00 p.m.

A FAMILY EVENT! These Stations of the Cross will be

geared to children, and they will be able

to follow along

with the cross bearer if they like!.

Dinner in the Smith Building

followed by

Stations of the Cross in the church.

Register online via the parish website or

by calling the office by

Wednesday, March 13.

There is no cost for this event.

RECEIVE THE

SACRAMENT OF

RECONCILIATION “The Light in ON for YOU” on

Tuesday, March 19, from 7:00 to 9:00

p.m., in the church.

Communal reconciliation ser-

vices will also be held at Ascension on

Monday, March 25, at 7:00 p.m., and

at St. Helen on Thursday, April 4, at

7:00 p.m.

OUR ANNUAL

LENTEN SOUP

SUPPER! Monday, March 18

in the Smith Building

6:15 p.m. to 7:00 (Register for this free event

online via our website!)

followed by

FINDING

LIGHT

IN DARKNESS:

THE PASCHAL

MYSTERY

AND YOU What does Jesus’ life, suffering,

death and resurrection have to do

with your own daily work, struggles

and “rebirths”? How and where do

we find hope in a world that some-

times seems upside down?

Join us for this three-part

Lenten series on the Paschal Mys-

tery presented by Dr. Sue Sack be-

ginning Monday, March 18th . The

series will continue on Monday,

March 25th, and April 1st from 7-

8:30 p.m.

LOOKING FOR AN INDIVIDUAL

OR FAMILY OR GROUP-OF-FRIENDS

SERVICE PROJECT? Every year parishioners pitch in to clean our

church...wash down the chairs and pillars in the chap-

els with oil soap, clean glass, and oil the Stations of the Cross

and some of our precious statues. There are 548 chairs in the

nave, 44 on the east side, 34 on the west side, 45 in the

Blessed Sacrament Chapel, and 48 in the loft, not to mention

all the pillars and glass! Join us on Monday, April 8, any

time from 6:00 to 8:30. We will provide the cleaning liquids

and snacks; you bring buckets and rags! Watch for more de-

tails in the bulletin!

NEW Lectio Divina Study Group beginning

Wednesday, March 13th

9:30-11 in the St. Julie

Center. We will be

praying with the Sunday

Gospel as a group, and

then watching and dis-

cussing Bishop Robert

Barron’s six-part DVD

series on God.

Look for our Lectio

Divina and other prayer

resources at the church

doors beginning Ash

Wednesday!

ST. HELEN CATHOLIC CHURCH

RIVERSIDE, OHIO MARCH 3, 2019

Living Lent 2019 Purposefully

The first readings from Scripture for the season of Lent offer us repeated examples of God’s

faithfulness and our need to hope and trust in God. Paul entreats us to live as followers of

Christ. And the Gospels give us beautiful stories of “climbing the holy mountain of Easter.”

Jesus is tempted by the devil and he is transfigured. He calls us to bear fruit, to forgive even

terrible wrongs, and not to “cast stones.” For our Lenten “take home” this

year, then, along with the Little Black Books and other prayer resources, we

offer two additional tools to help each of us be mindful of these things as we,

too, climb the holy mountain of Easter:

A wallet or pocket card and a cross to take on our “journey,”

both reminding us to hope in the Lord.

Ash Wednesday, March 6, and Good Friday, April 19, are days of abstinence from meat

and also days of fast, that is, days limited to a single full meal. With regard to Good Friday,

the teaching of the Second Vatican Council should be recalled. "Let the paschal fast be kept

sacred. Let it be celebrated everywhere on Good Friday and, where possible, prolonged

throughout Holy Saturday, so that the joys of the Sunday of the Resurrection may be attained

with uplifted and clear mind." Constitution on the Liturgy, No 110. The other Fridays of the

season of Lent are days of abstinence from meat. The law of abstinence binds all Catholics 14

years and older. The law of fasting binds all Catholics from their 18th birthday until their

59th birthday (canons 97 and 1252).

WHAT IS GOD INVITING ME TO CHANGE THIS LENT?

What would help me grow in freedom? That's the question to ask. For some of us, it

could be, committing ourselves to give up judging others, every single day of Lent. For oth-

ers, it could be giving up a bad habit we've developed. For still others, it is obvious what

seems to be the important choice for me during Lent.

For many of us, the choice may not be to give something up, but to add something

to our daily lives during Lent. We may commit ourselves to extra prayer time. We may de-

cide to do some service to the poor, once a week during Lent. We may choose to increase our

almsgiving to the poor - perhaps related to something we choose not to do, e.g., some might

choose not to go out to eat one night a week, and to give that total amount to the poor. Wheth-

er it is fasting, abstaining, or other acts of penance, the whole desire we should have is to

use these means to help us grow closer to our Lord and prepare ourselves "to celebrate

the paschal mystery with minds and hearts renewed." (First Preface of Lent) May our

Lord bless us all on this journey ahead. http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Lent/fast-

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

CREDIT UN-

ION NEWS Did you know

that you can do

your shared branching transactions at the

St. Helen branch for ANY credit union that

you use, that participates in shared branch-

ing? Firefighters & Company Federal

Credit Union's St. Helen's branch (located

on parish grounds) can now not only offer

their members the convenience of free ac-

cess to 5,000 branch locations, but now

even if you are not a member, you can use

the St. Helen branch for shared branching

for free! Not sure if your credit union par-

ticipates in shared branching? Call us at

937-252-7477 or go to https://

coopcreditunions.org/locator/ to see if your

credit union is part of the shared branching

network.

@sthelenparish

Follow us!

Also, check out our website

for even more information and resources!

www.sthelenparish.org

BRIGID'S PATH: THE STORY OF

NEWBORN DRUG EXPOSURE The Incarnation Church Respect Life Committee

invites you to join us for our Spring educational

event. Brigid's Path will introduce us to their innovative

services for drug exposed newborns and their fami-

lies. Join us at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 19 at Incar-

nation-Room 104. We are located at 7415 Far Hills Ave-

nue, Centerville, Ohio 45459.

ATTENTION LIFELONG LEARNERS: The University of Dayton Osher Lifelong Learn-

ing Institute (UDOLLI) has announced the availability of

their Spring Program brochure. The program starts March

18 and covers over 85 subjects with no exams, grades or

formal education required. A single registration fee of $80

entitles you to register for as many of the seminars as you

wish. To read our brochure online, visit go.udayton.edu/

udolli. For more information or to be added to our mailing

list please call the Office of Special Programs and Contin-

uing Education at 937-229-2347.

CJ PERFORMING ARTS PRESENTS:

RODGERS & HAMMERSTEIN’S

CINDERELLA Fri, Mar 8 - 7 p.m. and Sat, Mar 9 - 2 p.m. and 7 p.m.

All are invited to CJ to see Rodgers and Hammerstein's

Cinderella - the classic fairy tale brought to life on the

stage. As adapted for the stage, with great warmth and

more than a touch of hilarity, the hearts of children and

adults alike still soar when the slipper fits. Tickets may be

pre-purchased online at cjeagles.org.

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RIVERSIDE, OHIO MARCH 3, 2019

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