October
Year of the Eucharist
Month of the Most Holy Rosary
ADULT FAITH FORMATION RETURNS
Adult faith formation is starting again in our cluster:
Time: 7:15
p.m., biweekly from October 6, 2005 through May 4, 2006.
Place: Parish hall at Sweetest Heart of Mary
Subject: The Gospel of Mark
Materials: Study guide to Ignatius Catholic Study Bible ($10.00)
HALLOWEEN PARTY!
 Family
fun in our cluster! On
Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 1:00 pm, St. Joseph Church is sponsoring
a Halloween Party for children in the parish hall. All families in our
cluster are invited to attend. There will be fun activities, games, prizes
and refreshments. Why not spend an afternoon enjoying Halloween activities
with your children? The donation for children and their parents, grandparents
or other adult is $5.00 per person. Tickets will be available after Masses
on Sundays or from the parish office. Children and adults are encouraged
to wear costumes.
CLUSTER BLOOD DRIVE
Sunday, Oct. 16 at Sweetest Heart of Mary
9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
We need at least 50 volunteers from throughout the cluster
in order for the Red Cross to come and set up a blood bank. Sign up deadline
is October 9th. Help save a Life!
WE
NEED ADVERTISERS for our bulletin. Ads cost $300 per year.
Parish Publications is losing money on our bulletin for lack of advertisers
and is considering dropping our business. Ads can be commercial or
personal. If you know of businesses who might be good candidates to
place ads in our bulletin please notify the bulletin editor, Patrick
Degens at 586 463-6178 or call the business office 313-831-6659 and
give the information to our secretary, Chris Hubbard. Many thanks!
WE STILL NEED USHERS!
Mike
Singelyn is the interim
captain of the ushers' club. Men and women who are able to usher at our
regular Sunday Masses and the monthly German Mass are asked to call Mike
at 313-885-5333 to volunteer their services.
Choral Mass schedule
November 13
November 27
December 11
Christmas Midnight Mass (Jakub Jan Ryba, (1765-1815) Missa
Pastoralis in B-Flat (first American performance)
New Organist and Choir Director
Welcome to our new organist and choir director, Dr. David Wagner. Those
of you who know him from the radio and from other places realize how
lucky we are to have him.
New choir members -- trained or not -- are
very welcome!
News: October 30, 2005
THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Special thanks to Justin and Leslie
Karr, Marian Burns and all of their
many helpers who made the Halloween party such a great success. Our tiny
one-page bulletin could not hold all the names of everyone who contributed
time, talent and funding to bring about this first cluster Halloween
party. We sold out! The Bishop Plagens Council of the Knights of Columbus
funded a large part of the event. This is possible because of the numerous
fund raising activities that the Knights sponsor throughout the year.
Christmas in July, the cook-out during the Freedom Festival Fireworks,
and the sale of Christmas Cards enable the Knights to contribute to the
activities in our three parishes that include our annual summer picnic
and dinners within the cluster. Christmas cards are now on sale in
the church
vestibule, a fund raising activity of the Knights. The annual Tootsie
Roll sale benefits the mentally impaired. The Knights also contribute
to seminarians, as well as victims of national calamities besides the
support given within our three-parish cluster.
ALTAR CLOTHS
Our altar cloths are in poor condition. Many were cast-offs from other
churches and do not fit our altars properly. People or groups can donate
an altar cloth in memory of, or in honor of another person, or in their
own name. Altar cloths that are donated will have a label sewn in with
the name of the donor(s). Donations can also be made to a general
altar cloth fund. Anyone interested in this endeavor can make a donation
marked for that purpose and put it in the collection basket or send
it to the parish office. Idea: anniversary, birthday, or Christmas
gifts etc. for the person who has everything, donate toward an altar
cloth in their name.
Prices: High altar $300; Mary altar $350; Saint Joseph altar $350; movable
altar $250. The side altars require specially fitted cloths because of
the unique construction of those altars. Naturally we need more than
1 cloth for each altar so that while one is being laundered, another
takes its place.
News: October 23, 2005
THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
150th ANNIVERSARY MASS
COME! Join in thanksgiving and praise for 150 years of blessings from
Almighty God.
On Saturday, October 29 a special
4:00 p.m.orchestral Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Adam Maida to begin
a year-long observance of the 150th anniversary
of the founding of our parish. A reception in the hall will follow the
Mass. Please invite your friends and relatives to this once-in-a-lifetime
event.
HARVEST DINNER
SUNDAY, NOV. 6 AT 1:30 p.m.
Tickets are available after Masses or from the parish
office at Sweetest Heart of Mary (313) 831-6659.
MENU
Chicken Breast breaded and baked, served with lemon wedges.
Pork Cutlets breaded, slowly baked served with apple wedges.
Tossed Salad leaf & iceburg lettuce, slivered carrots, cherry tomatoes,
red onions, cucumbers & croutons. Ranch & Italian dressing
on
the side.
Green Bean Casserole Fresh cut green beans in a creamy mushroom
sauce with French fried onions and bacon crumbs slowly baked.
Gourmet Potatoes Idaho potatoes sliced and baked with a garlic
butter sauce and topped with grated parmesan cheese and fresh
parsley.
Misc. Hot and cold beverages, dinner rolls, cake and Father Mark’s
Madonna wine ( his gift).
Price ………………..$10.00.
Children 6-12 yrs.….$5.00.
Children 5 and under who are eating from the buffet...$2.00.
Thanks from a parishioner
Carol Varga wishes to thank everyone for their prayers
while she was on the sick list. Carol is doing well with her radiation
following her chemotherapy. She attributes being able to remain active
in the choir during her recovery from surgery and follow-up treatment
to the prayers offered in behalf of the sick. Deo Gratias!
News: October 16, 2005
TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
- Saturday, October 29, Special 4:00 p.m. orchestral Mass celebrated
by Cardinal Adam Maida to begin a year-long observance of the 150th
anniversary of the founding of our parish. A reception in
the hall will follow the Mass. Please invite your friends and relatives
to this once-in-a-lifetime event. We all know how important it is
for the Cardinal to see a filled church.
- Sunday, November 6, is the date for our annual Harvest Dinner.
Details will follow in a later bulletin.
- Sunday, November 13, we will host our 2nd bake sale.
Because of the Harvest Dinner, we cannot have the bake sale on the
first Sunday of November.
Baptized into Christ, Oct. 9, 2005, Joseph
Carl Hyndman, son of Todd
Carl and Donna Marie Hyndman. Godparents: Robert & Lucia Rossi. We
welcome Joseph into the Christian community.
CLUSTER BLOOD DRIVE
TODAY at Sweetest Heart of Mary 9a.m. to 3p.m.
LAST CHANCE for tickets!
On Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 1:00 pm, we are hosting a Halloween Party
for the children of the cluster, 12 and under, in our parish hall.
There will be activities, games, prizes, hot dogs and chicken salad
sandwiches along with other refreshments. Come spend an afternoon enjoying
Halloween activities here at St. Joseph’s. The donation for parents,
grandparents or other adult is $5.00 per person. Children’s tickets
are free and are sponsored by our Bishop Plagens Council of the Knights
of Columbus. Tickets are available after Masses on Sunday or from the
parish office. Children and adults are encouraged to wear costumes
to the noon Mass at St. Joseph Church on the day of the party.
Go To Joseph!
In 1977 a hospitality kitchen and clinic run by a Catholic
group in Los Angeles needed $64,000 to purchase the building they were
renting. After receiving an eviction notice, they set out to raise the
money. Mother Teresa of Calcutta happened to visit. She told the community
to petition St. Joseph, to write out their petition and tie it to a statue
of St. Joseph. The parishioners got the pastor’s permission and
tied a note to the finger of St. Joseph’s statue at the local parish.
And they prayed! Within two weeks they had received
$55,000, with the largest gift of $5,000 coming from someone in Alaska
whom they
did not even know.
There are petition slips in front of our statue of Saint Joseph and a
basket just inside the communion rail where they may be placed. Our parish
archives are filled with answers to prayer through the intercession of
St. Joseph. Countless people both Catholic and Protestant have made donations
to this church as acts of thanksgiving in appreciation for these favors.
The most recent came last month when a bus load of pilgrims came from
Belle River, Ontario.
News: October 9, 2005
TWENTY-EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
IMPORTANT CALENDAR OF EVENTS
- Monday, October 10, 7:00 p.m., Parish Council Meeting
- Saturday, October 29, Special 4:00 p.m. orchestral Mass celebrated
by Cardinal Adam Maida to begin a year-long observance of the 150th
anniversary
of the founding of our parish. A reception in the hall
will follow the Mass. Please invite your friends and relatives
to this once-in-a-lifetime
event. We all know how important it is for the Cardinal to see
a filled church.
- Sunday, November 6, is the date for our annual Harvest Dinner. Details
will follow in a later bulletin.
- Sunday, November 13, we will host our 2nd bake sale. Because of
the Harvest Dinner, we cannot have the bake sale on the first Sunday
of November.
$389.00 Profit!
Special thanks to all of our parishioners who supported our first bake
sale. Great job!
News: October 2, 2005
TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
BAKE SALE TODAY
Today in the Social Hall there will be a bake sale to raise money for
the restoration of the electric candelabra at the rear of the church.
One
candelabra
has
returned
after
being hopelessly smashed by an act of vandalism. We hope to raise the
$500 deductible that the parish had to pay the insurance company for
its restoration and to polish and lacquer its twin so that they match
once more. Bake sales will continue on the first Sunday of each month.
Everyone is asked both to bake and to buy an item.
The Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary
Friday, October 7th. Bishop John M. Quinn will celebrate a Solemn Pontifical
Mass at Sweetest Heart of Mary with a Eucharistic Procession and Benediction
of the Most Blessed Sacrament. Bishop Quinn will rededicate the newly
restored main altar. A reception will follow in the parish hall. Everyone
in the cluster is invited to attend. What a beautiful way to honor
Our Blessed Mother during the month of the Holy Rosary. “Pray
the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world.” -- Our Lady
of Fatima, 1917
In the charity of your prayers, remember
the sick
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