Saturday, March 3, 2018 Vigil – Third Sunday of Lent

5:00 PM Faye Hatfield (Ron Wrobel) Ron Tabert (Elaine Banka)

Sunday, March 4, 2018

Third Sunday of Lent 9:00 AM

Emilio Cosentino (Wife, Irma & Family) Tony Jachym (Jachym Family)

Ron Tabert (Terri Kaisling) Elaine Banka

11:00 AM

Fortunata & Lillian Pierotti (Flo & Bill) Laura Rigoni (Flo & Bill)

Pietro Pisello (wife, Emma & Family) Barbara Muske (The Friendship Club)

Ronald Tabert (Sonny & Barbara Annoreno) Victoria Moniak (Sister)

Josephine Carollo (Daughter, Sally & Family)

Monday, March 5, 2018 8:30 AM

Maria Fosco (Terri Kaisling)

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 8:30 AM

Krystyna & Marcin Bartosz

Wednesday, March 7, 2018 St. Perpetua & St. Felicity

8:30 AM Joseph M. Ross (Jo Ann Prais) Anthony Fiore (Jo Ann Prais)

James Zembron (Joan Zembron) John Catanese, 5 year Anniversary

(Sally & Family)

Thursday, March 8, 2018 St. John of God

8:30 AM For Parishioners

Friday, March 9, 2018 St. Frances of Rome

8:30 AM Joseph & Catherine Rzepka (Dolores Rzepka)

Robert A. Johnson (Rogers Family)

Saturday, March 10, 2018 Vigil – Fourth Sunday of Lent

5:00 PM Stanley Rzepka (Dolores Rzepka)

Loretta Koziel (Alice & Mary Ellen Gruszka) Nicola & Rita Scalise (Children)

Jim Misiti (Josephine Misiti) Ron Tabert (Corrine & Joe Slowik)

Elena & Thomas Pontarelli (Speranza DiPaolo) Al & Lucille Bednarz (Frances Fountas)

Sunday, March 11, 2018

Fourth Sunday of Lent 9:00 AM

Lillian Johnson (Rogers Family) Jozef Jachym (Jachym Family)

Bill & Marty Hogan Marilyn Deering, in appreciation

Ron Tabert (Marianne Aiken)

11:00 AM Donato Parente (Wife, Caterina) Helena & Andrzej Sowa (Family)

Celina Salazar (O’Connor Family) Celestino & Carmen Banal (Emilie Pecson & Family)

Pietro Pisello (wife, Emma & Family) Angela Lepore (Son, Nick) Victoria Moniak (Brother)

Dolores Grzeszczak (Josephine Jezier)

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**Changes in Presider, Deacon or Ministers may occur without notice

DATE PRESIDER DEACON EXTRAORDINARY MINISTER

ALTAR SERVER LECTOR

SATURDAY March 10 5:00 PM

Rev. Andrzej Bartosz

Sonny Annoreno Allison Shuttleworth Jillian Shuttleworth Barbara Annoreno

Jayden Lekarczyk Nathaniel Lekarczyk

Patty Khadka

SUNDAY March 11 9:00 AM

Rev. Andrzej Bartosz Vince Vitucci Marlene Vitucci Christopher Tolomeo Debbie Tamas

Danny Flynn Gail Henderson

SUNDAY March 11 11:00 AM

Msgr. Charles Lang Chris Virruso Rosina Onofrio Emily Aspi Christine Szymanski

Antonino Ventimiglia Rosa Ventimiglia

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Emanuele Appari, Brody, alice Baxter, Jack Beckman, Bob Biala, Joseph Bladek, Sebastian Bongiorno, Scott Brassea, Donna Brennan, Tom

Burton, Mary Lou Burton, Ging Capio, George Capps, Celso Castor, Charles cimino, sr., Anna marie colatori, Jerome Compell, Mary Davis, Speranza DiPaolo, Donna Esposito, Dorothy Fahy, Rosa Favia, Maria

Flores, Genevieve Giglio, Grazia Guercio, Mark Gutierrez, Anna Hartzell, Virginia Hadary, Katharina Hoog, Jerry Johnsen, Harry Krawczyk,

Taylor Lewandowski, Raffaela Loizzo, Kelly Lowery, Antonietta Lullo, Genevieve Mallardi, Thomas Michaels, Kiana Marconi, Paul Masciopinto,

Marcia Mathes, Rosemary Misiolek, Salvatore Modica, Tony & Carol Molinaro, Maria Carmela Morrone, Leo Navickis, Nancy Nee, Michelle Nigro, Vittoria Nudo, Hector

Ramos, Michael & Rachal Ricchio, Allison Rini, Gloria Romero, Don Sanders, Helen Schultz, Donna Skowronski, Mary Smith, Linda Spychala, Lavergne Suchor, Hector &

Milagros Torres, Fred Tuytens, Eugenio & Ida Vitaro, Dolores Wilk, Paul Wolek, Joyce Wolter, Ken Woods, Joseph & Lorraine Wuss, Brittany Yedla, Kurt Yedla.

If you are hospitalized or have additions or updates to the list please contact the rectory.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Third Sunday of Lent; First Scrutiny Wednesday: Ss. Perpetua and Felicity Thursday: St. John of God Friday: St. Frances of Rome; Abstinence

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: 2 Kgs 5:1-15b; Ps 42:2, 3; 43:3, 4; Lk 4:24-30 Tuesday: Dn 3:25, 34-43; Ps 25:4-5ab, 6-7bc, 8-9; Mt 18:21-35 Wednesday: Dt 4:1, 5-9; Ps 147:12-13, 15-16, 19-20; Mt 5:17-19 Thursday: Jer 7:23-28; Ps 95:1-2, 6-9; Lk 11:14-23 Friday: Hos 14:2-10; Ps 81:6c-11ab, 14, 17; Mk 12:28-34 Saturday: Hos 6:1-6; Ps 51:3-4, 18-21ab; Lk 18:9-14 Sunday: 2 Chr 36:14-16, 19-23; Ps 137:1-6; Eph 2:4-10; Jn 3:14-21 Alternate readings (Year A): 1 Sm 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ps 23:1-6; Eph 5:8-14; Jn 9:1-41 [1, 6-9, 13-17, 34-38]

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Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, People of Our Lady, Mother of the Church,

Last Sunday I must have really been looking for spring for I mistakenly an-nounced the move of clocks to be done on the first weekend of March; however, we give up one hour of night on the second weekend of March!

Anyway, we look for spring and for expanding daylight. Changes in nature en-courage us to make progress in spiritual development. The natural world inspires us to find symbols to express the supernatural world. Jesus is the light of the world. One very significant part of the liturgical celebration on Easter Vigil is the Lucernarium (from Latin: the time when the lamps are lighted). At the beginning

of the liturgy is the blessing of the fire, then, the blessing and the lighting of the Paschal Candle followed by the lighting of candles which all the faithful carry in their hands, and finally, the lighting of the whole church interior. This symbolic way expresses what happens inside of us. Nothing should be left in dark-ness.

Some of you may remember Mass on Saturday (2/17) with an electricity outage and Fr. Britto preaching just by candles. As soon as Fr. Britto finished preaching the entire church was enlightened; enlightened in both meanings: physical and spiritual. There are no coincidences, just God’s incidences.

Some of you remember the days when in the whole Catholic Church around the world, the Mass was cel-ebrated only in the morning hours. That practice was very symbolic. Jesus is the dawn of our new life. Jesus breaks the kingdom of darkness.

Some of you know the examples of oriented churches which were built centuries ago. In the oriented church the main point of interest is toward the east (Latin: oriens). That architectural trend also symbol-ized Jesus as the dawn. We are enlightened by His word and by His resurrection. We open ourselves to the coming of Jesus.

Now is the time, now is the acceptable time, the time of forgiveness, the time of repentance. Even the clock allows us longer sleep, the approaching Paschal Mystery calls us to wake-up!

May God bless you!

Fr. Andrew photo by AB

Our Lady, Mother of the Church Mission Statement

We, the members of Our Lady, Mother of the Church, are drawn together through baptism as a part of the Body of Christ. We are a caring Catholic community, working together as instruments through which Jesus, our risen Lord and Head, continues His mission. Linked to Christ as His Body, we believe that the risen Jesus still proclaims God’s word, gives thanks and praise, welcomes, nurtures, comforts and reaches out to all people. Using the hands and hearts of the members of the parish, with a growing sense that each of us is gifted and has an important part to play in our Parish, Church and World, we renew our call: ♦ to be a Parish diligent about Word and Eucharist, the primary source of our nourishment and spiritual growth... ♦ to be “missioned” - sent forth in the person of Jesus, to bring His Word and Eucharist to family, friends, neighbors and workplace... ♦ to reach out to the sick, the homebound, the persecuted, the lonely, the poor and the bereaved… ♦ to find time to share laughter, joy, friendship, at times, tears; and always to share the goodness of each other...

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Financial Stewardship This week’s

Sanctuary Lamp Is in memory of

Marcin Bartosz

Our Lady, Mother of the Church In your Estate Plans

Imagine a gift that gives forever. That is exactly what your planned gift to

Our Lady, Mother of the Church can do. What you give today will

strengthen our community by provid-ing perpetual financial support. Learn

how by contacting the Rectory, Fr. Andrew or the Diocesan Office of

Stewardship & Development at 312-534-7615.

Arrangements At the time of a family member’s death, if you would like memorials to be made to Our Lady, Mother of the Church Parish, please instruct the Funeral Home to use the follow-

ing in the death notice:

“In lieu of flowers, a memorial may be made to Our Lady, Mother of the Church”

Envelopes can be provided by the Funeral Home.

February 25, 2018 Collection:

Regular Sunday Envelopes: $ 4,172.00

Loose: $ 461.00

Children’s Envelopes: $ 21.00

Total: $ 5,904.00

Budget: $ 5,800.00

WeShare Online February: $ 1,250.00

The Regular Collection was $104.00 OVER BUDGET for this week.

Vigils: $ 321.00

Rest In Peace

Anna Tabor

Please keep the Tabor Family in your prayers.

Mass Requests/Memorial Requests Important While we try our best to honor all Mass Intentions, all Mass requests must be completed at least 3 to 4 weeks in advance due to various printing deadlines. No Mass requests are accepted for March 29, 30, 31, April 1, May 12, 13, June 16, 17, November 2, 22, December 24 Vigil Masses and Decem-ber 25, 2018. Suggested donations per Mass are $10. Please note that the Sanctuary Lamp and Bread & Wine requests fill-up quickly and we have a number of dates available. The suggested donation is $50 for the Bread and Wine and $20 for the Sanctuary Lamp. Please contact the rectory for availability All Mass or remembrance requests can be made in person at the rectory or by completing the Mass request envelope that can be found in the Narthex. Please contact the Rectory for availabil-ity. Please insert your payment in the envelope and drop it in the collection basket or the mail slot at the Rectory. While we try to accommodate different situations, especially with our home-bound parishioners, we cannot honor mass intentions over the phone. Mass cards are available.

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Please join us on Fridays during Lent for Stations of Cross.

9:00 am in Polish 7:00 pm in English 8:00 pm in Italian

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SPRING FORWARD! Remember Daylight Savings Time begins on

Sunday, March 11, 2018 at 2 AM. Don’t forget to set your clocks one hour ahead!

Easter Bags filled with Easter Love It is Lent! A time to fast pray and give to the poor.

The Human Concerns Committee of OLMC will be filling Easter Bags

for the Kindergarten to 3rd grade children of St. Anselms’ Church.

The goodie bags are filled with religious activity books, pencils, a toy and some candy.

Please place donations in the Little Easter Basket in the Narthex.

Our goal is to give 100 kids these easter goodie bags! If you have any questions

Please call Lonnie at 773-895-4553 God bless you for your thoughtfulness and have a great Lent!

Lenten Food Drive Next weekend, the fourth week of Lent, please donate non-perishable, unexpired juices. They can be fruit juices or vegetable juices, in juice box containers or plastic bottles. Just put your donation in a paper or plastic grocery bag (which will be recycled), and set it in one of the baskets in the narthex or south entrance. “Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me…” Matthew 25:34-35

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Hospitalized or when making Prayer List Requests

Please notify the Rectory or the Parish Nurse, at 773-625-3369 when you or a family member is hos-pitalized. Because of HIPPA (privacy) laws, hospi-tals are not permitted to notify us when parishioners are admitted to the hospital. Also due to privacy rules, the individual themselves or immediate fami-ly member must give permission to have the name placed in the bulletin on the prayer list. If you know of any member of our Parish who is homebound or temporarily homebound and they would like a Minister of Care to bring them the Eu-charist please contact the Rectory or Parish Nurse at 773-625-3369.

Women’s Morning of Reflection: “Springtime: Putting some ‘spring’ into our Soul”

Saturday, April 14th 8:30 am to Noon in Hayes Center Dr. Laura Dejmek, OP, D.Min in Preaching,

will be our speaker. Tickets are $10 in advance (includes a light lunch) and are available at the Rectory. Tickets will be sold in the Narthex at a later date. Please save the date and hope to see you there!

(The event is being hosted by OLMC, Divine Savior, St. Beatrice, St. Gertrude, and St. Maria Goretti)

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Serving Our Country Let us pray for protection of those serving in the military and for a peaceful and just solution to conflicts and vio-lence. Please remember in your prayers the following peo-ple who are serving our Country: • Comm. OFC. Michael Wood • Lt. John Stuber • Bryan Medema • Cpt. Jason Fabijanowicz • Rev. Cpt. Paweł Zemczak • PFC. Dominic Rangel, USMC

Please notify the Rectory of any additions or changes.

Contribution Envelopes The Parish pays over $3,600 annually to print and mail contribution envelopes to all our Parishioners. In order to update our records and reduce expenses, if a Parishioner has not used their envelopes since 2015, we are changing their status to inactive in our system. Another way to help reduce expenses is to consider online giving, which allows automatic debit from a credit card or bank with a frequency defined by you. You also can go online and contribute as you like. If you sign-up and wish to stop receiving envelopes please contact the Rectory. Further information regarding WeShare, our online giving system, is listed on the following page, or you can get information in the narthex or by visit-ing our website at ourladymotherchurch.com. If you should have any questions, or need further information, please contact the Rectory at 773-625-3369 or at olmc.rectory@outlook.com. Please remember if changes occur to contact us to update your parish record.

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Our Lady, Mother of the Church Lenten

March 20, 2018 at 7:30 pm

Please join us

This is the final opportunity to receive the sacrament prior to Easter.

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Please join us for ‘A Conversation with Chicago Radio Legend Kevin Matthews’ on Sunday March 4th at 3:30 pm at St. Juliana Church in Chicago, to discuss Kevin Mat-thews’ legendary career and his spiritual journey, featuring his new book, ‘Broken Mary’, followed by a Meet & Greet and book signing afterward. All are welcome! St. Juliana Church is located at 7201 North Oketo Avenue in Chicago. For more info, visit stjuliana.org.

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