St. Ignatius of Loyola Weekly Bulletin

Monday, January 7
7:00 a.m.                              Edward Witsken – Bill & Janet Nieman
9:15 a.m.                              James Massa – Fred A Nemann Co.

Tuesday, January 8
7:00 a.m.                              Loretta Helmes (Anniversary) - Glenn
9:15 a.m.                              The Dec’d Members of the Sunderhaus Family – The Sunderhaus Family

Wednesday, January 9
7:00 a.m.                              Paul Burns – Bill & Elizabeth Dowdy
9:15 a.m.                              Joseph Rack II – Vincent G Rack Family

Thursday, January 10
7:00 a.m.                              Richard Mueller – The Tengler’s
9:15 a.m.                              Mark Schnorbus – Sue Hurley & family

Friday, January 11
7:00 a.m.                              Andrew Helm - Family
9:15 a.m.                             George Fox, Sr. – Mary Ellen Koehne

Saturday, January 12
7:00 a.m.                              Communion Service
9:15 a.m.                              Int. of June & George Coors – 59th Wedding Anniversary
4:30 p.m.                              Mary Flagg – Cindy & Karen

Sunday, January 13
6:30 a.m.                              Ethel Topicz
8:30 a.m.                              Living & Deceased Members of St. Ignatius Parish
10:15 a.m.                           Kerry Pies (Anniversary) – Mickey & Walt
12:00 noon                          Antoinette Enneking – Rudy & Barb Jansen
7:30 p.m.                              Joseph Michel – Bernice & Colleen Karwisch

Servers For the Week of January 7

Monday, Tuesday
7:00 a.m.                              J Averbeck, A Wood, D Weber, J Volmer
9:15 a.m.                              C Criswell, K Lovett, H Geckle

Wednesday
7:00 a.m.                              M Woodard, M VanSant, A Urig
9:15 a.m.                              S Glassmeyer, B Anderson, S Massengale

Thursday, Friday
7:00 a.m.                              L Cummings, E Cherry, S Smith
9:15 a.m.                              S Wagner, T Vogelpohl, C Specht

Saturday, January 12
9:15 a.m.                              E Wuestefeld, J Taphorn
4:30 p.m.                              J Brinkman, E Eveleigh, M Hautman (Fr. Wall)

Sunday, January 13
6:30 a.m.                              D Wagner (Fr. McCarthy)
8:30 a.m.                              D Bonavita, E Zernich, J Kathmann, A Guck (Fr. McCarthy)
10:15 a.m.                           D Hart, A & A Hart, P Leonhardt (Fr. Wall)
12:00 noon                          C Spears, S Pieper, A Kemble, A Scherch (Fr. St. George)
7:30 p.m.                              E Garbon, Z Kuhn, J Garbon, D Weber (Fr. St. George)

The Tabernacle Flowers this week are in Celebration of
Christmas Memorial
Family & Friends

The Best New Years Resolution Ever! If you are interested in
learning more about or reviewing basic Christian beliefs, attending the Alpha course may be for you. This free, nondenominational program is open to all and starts this coming Monday January 7. Alpha is enlightening, whether your faith is strong or lukewarm. Flyer/registration forms are available at all the church exits or at the Parish Office. Questions? Call Deacon Tony.

Legion of Mary: Are you interested in sharing your faith with others? Would you like to visit non-Catholic homes? Would you enjoy welcoming new parishioners in their homes? If yes, this will cost you 2-3 hours of your time each week – all under the auspices of the Legion of Mary. All age adults are invited to prayer meetings which are held on Tuesday nights at 7:00pm in the Fr. Seaman room beginning January 8.

Adult Volunteer Appreciation Celebration for Bingo Workers, Choir, Music Groups, Church Cleaners, Bereavement, Coaches, Scout Leaders, Collection Counters, Envelope Stuffers, Social Outreach Volunteers, RCIA Team, Baptism and Marriage Preparation, Pastoral Council and Commissions, School and PSR Volunteers, etc. will be Saturday, January 26 after the 4:30pm Mass. Call the Parish Office (661-6565) by Tuesday, January 22 for reservations. No cost for the dinner.

Retirement Fund for Religious: The second collection on January 19/20 benefits elderly women and men religious. More than 19,000 religious have less than 20% of the amount needed for projected costs of living and health care. Dan Hueckel representing Diocesan Publications (our Bulletin Publisher) will be at the parish soon. He will be renewing present advertisements and seeking new ones. If interested, please call the parish office. We feel this is an excellent service and that the sponsors get good coverage with their ads. THANKS TO YOU and DIOCESAN PUBLICATIONS, the bulletin is published weekly at no cost to the parish.

Dan Hueckel representing Diocesan Publications (our Bulletin Publisher) will be at the parish soon. He will be renewing present advertisements and seeking new ones. If interested, please call the parish office. We feel this is an excellent service and that the sponsors get good coverage with their ads. THANKS TO YOU and DIOCESAN PUBLICATIONS, the bulletin is published weekly at no cost to the parish.

Banns of Marriage
Bryan Crowley, St. Ignatius and Mary Ellen White will marry on January 26 at St. Ignatius.

Welcome all St. Ignatius women! The Annual Women’s Retreat is January 25th – 27th, 2008 at the Moye Spiritual Life Center. Retreat directors are Brother Allan Schmitz and Susan Schmitz. Retreat is open to non-parishioners after January 1st. Fee is $110.00. Financial assistance is available. Reservations: Angie Otis. For more information call Carol Pieper or Louise Redden . A short planning meeting will be held Thursday, January 3rd for those willing to help with the retreat.

RCIA: On the Feast of the Epiphany, the catechumens and candidates will be dismissed during the 10:l5 Mass. Greg Niehaus is the catechist for "Break Open the Word." On Wednesday, January 9th, Fr. Peter St. George is the catechist and the lesson is "Sacrament of the Eucharist." Class begins at 7:30pm for the participants, personal sponsors, and parish sponsors. Please remember to keep RCIA members in your daily prayers.

Young Christian Hearts: A spiritual program for special needs adults will meet on Friday, January 18 from 7 – 8pm in Room A. Other meeting dates for Young Christian Hearts are: February l5, March 14, April l8, May l6, and June 20. For more information about the group, call Geri Tengler

Thank you to those taking the Vocation Chalice. To have a Vocation Chalice in your home, call the Parish Office or to help with our Vocation Committee call Dennis Halaby. We encourage all parishioners (young, old, single, married, etc.) to participate in this ministry.

SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE
The school is hosting an Open House on Sunday, January 27th from 1:00 to 2:30 to kick-off Catholic Schools Week. Take a tour, meet the staff and peruse the student activity booths in the cafeteria. Due to limited space, it is very important that families who want to enroll for the Fall, submit an enrollment form and $50 registration fee before their category deadline. Enrollment forms for the 2008-2009 school year will be available in the School Office at Open House and may be turned into the School Office at any time. Children will be enrolled in the following order of priority. Priority within a category will be determined by the date of parish registration. Children not registered during their appropriate registration period will lose their respective priority.
Registration
Period Category
1/7 – 1/25 1 - Families/students currently enrolled in school
1/27 – 2/8 2 - Parishioners inside school boundaries
2/11 – 2/22 3 - Parishioners outside school boundaries
Begins 2/25 4 - Private students

School Open House: As mentioned above, all are welcome to visit St. Ignatius School during the annual Open House on Sunday, January 27 from 1-2:30pm. School ambassadors will show you the highlights of our facility. School Committee volunteers and staff will be on hand. Learn about the many extra-curricular activities offered in the cafeteria.
Attention School and Parish Organizations: Please present your group or organization at our annual School Open House on January 27 from 1-2:30pm. Each group will have a table in the cafeteria to display your group’s information. You set up at 12:30 that Sunday and man your station during the open house. To reserve a table please register your group by calling Todd Meeks or Carol Pieper by Friday, January 18.

ADOPTION- Have you considered adoption as a way to bring children into your family? The world of adoption is changing and so are the programs at Catholic Social Services. Those interested in international, special needs and domestic infant adoptions are invited to attend an information meeting to discuss the opportunities and options. There are waiting children who need families in both the United States and other countries. The meetings will be held in the Parish Center of Corpus Christi Church at 2014 Springfield Rd. 45231 on Tuesday, January 29th at 7-8:30 pm. Please call Barbara Wentz to register the meeting.

My Dear Friends,
I want to especially acknowledge our Music Ministry. I want to express a heartfelt thank you to Patty Stretch, our Music Director, for coordinating all the magnificent music on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. All the groups were tremendous and brought great joy to our parishioners, families and guests. Thank you, Patty.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
This past Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Holy Family of Nazareth. I address with joy all the families of the world, wishing them the peace and love that Jesus brought us in coming among us at Christmas.

In the Gospel we do not find discourses on the family but an event which is worth more than any words: God wanted to be born and to grow up in a human family. In this way he consecrated the family as the first and ordinary means of his encounter with humanity.

In his life spent at Nazareth, Jesus honored the Virgin Mary and the righteous Joseph, remaining under their authority throughout the period of his childhood and his adolescence (cf. Lk 2: 41- 52). In this way he shed light on the primary value of the family in the education of the person.

Jesus was introduced by Mary and Joseph into the religious community and frequented the synagogue of Nazareth. He learned to make the pilgrimage to Jerusalem, as the Gospel passage offered for our meditation by today's liturgy tells us. When he was 12 years old, he stayed behind in the Temple and it took his parents all of three days to find him. With this act he made them understand that he "had to see to his Father's affairs", in other words, to the mission that God had entrusted to him (cf. Lk 2: 41-52).

This Gospel episode reveals the most authentic and profound vocation of the family: that is, to accompany each of its members on the path of the discovery of God and of the pla that he has prepared for him or her.

Mary and Joseph taught Jesus primarily by their example: in his parents he came to know the full beauty of faith, of love for God and for his Law, as well as the demands of justice, which is totally fulfilled in love (cf. Rom 13: 10).

From them he learned that it is necessary first of all to do God's will, and that the spiritual bond is worth more than the bond of kinship.

The Holy Family of Nazareth is truly the "prototype" of every Christian family which, united in the Sacrament of Marriage and nourished by the Word and the Eucharist, is called to carry outthe wonderful vocation and mission of being the living cell not only of society but also of the Church, a sign and instrument of unity for the entire human race.

Let us now invoke for every family, especially families in difficulty, the protection of Mary Most Holy and of St Joseph. May they sustain such families so that they can resist the disintegrating forces of a certain contemporary culture which undermines the very foundations of the family institution. May they help Christian families to be, in every part of the world, living images of God's love.

Bagel Strips: the 7th grade Girls Scouts are selling bagel strips from Panera Bread for $12.00 each. The strips are good for free bagels or breads, brownies or cookies, and the proceeds are used to fund activities for the girls pursuing their Marion Award next year. The strips make great Christmas gifts. If interested, contact Beth Kemble.

Our sincerest sympathy is extended to the family of Georgiana Hull. May her family find comfort in knowing she is with God.

Total Cost of Project 2000 Construction
Part 1, Part 2, Parking Additions, Interest, etc.        $ 8,142,596.98
Debt to the Archdiocese as of 12/23/2007              $    217,376.00
Fund Drive received last week                                   $         2,002.00
Current Debt to the Archdiocese                                $ 215,374.00

JUST A REMINDER: ALL STUDENTS who lector and serve at Mass – PLEASE SIGN IN.

STEUBENVILLE:We have set the dates for our preferred Steubenville weekend. We will be attempting to get our group registered for the June 13-15 conference. If you still haven't turned in your registration request, you need to do that as soon as possible. You can pick them up at the parish office, or go to the "Forms" link at www.saintiyouth.com Registration forms must be into the parish office by JANUARY 2.

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St. Vincent DePaul is looking for a kitchen table and 4 chairs for a formerly homeless single mother with 3 kids. We also need lamps and an end table for them. Please contact the Parish Office if you can help. Thank you for your response to our request for beds for the family. Everyone is off of the floor and sleeping on a bed and their clothes are in dressers thanks to the generosity of our parishioners.

The Scarf It Up Club: Please drop off at the Parish Office your hats, gloves, scarves, mittens, and yarn. Every child deserves to be warm during the winter. Bless you.

St. Ignatius Babysitting Schedule for January 13
Miller Hoernschemeyer Smith Coleman

PULL FOR THE RONALD McDONALD HOUSE: Ronald McDonald House provides a supportive "home away from home" for families and their children who are receiving treatment at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, regardless of their ability to pay. The little tab you pull to open your soda, soup or any other aluminum can make a significant impact on the Ronald McDonald House. They recycle the tabs to generate funds to offset House expenses. Families are asked to send in tabs to school or bring to the Parish Office, just like boxtops, Campbells UPC codes and Tyson labels. Thanks for your help.

YES - WE COLLECT THESE: The school participates in several programs such as: Box Tops for Education, Campbell Labels for Education and Tyson Project A+. Simply clip the Box Top coupons from your favorite brands like General Mills, Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Ziploc, Kleenex and more. Each coupon is worth 10 cents. Clip the UPC code from Campbell products and redemption labels from Tyson products. You may send these items to the school or Parish. With everyone's help, we can make thousands of dollars for our school.

Adult Collection                                                             $ 31,422.00
Children's Collection                                                   $         93.00
Total Collection                                                             $ 31,515.00
Budgeted amount for Sunday                                    $  24,500.00

Bingo                                                                              $    1,079.33
Concession Profit                                                        $          40.00

P.A.C.E.
Sales                                                                              $ 24,676.00
Profit to St. I's                                                                 $    1,233.00

PACE Drawings are the last Sunday of each month. Every $50 purchase earns you 1 ticket in the monthly drawing. PACE Certificates are available at the Parish Office and from the PACE coordinators – Heidi Kemper, Julianne Smith, Sue Newland, Leslie Odioso.

Bingo Workers for January 6
Ann Boeckermann                Kevin Miller
Karen Burgoyne                     Rina Garrison
Katie Gilkey                             Paul Volz
Ray & Carol Heyob                Gina Schweir
Christine Eichhold                Julie Casey
Debbie Berling                       Jim Blaut
Tera Wolf                                 Mike Harter
Dave Lohbeck                        Lisa Thompson
Rita Wood                               Christy Barford
Jodi Louder

*It is imperative you work your assigned week. For bingo questions, call Barb Campbell (661-6565).

Bingo is in need of additional workers. You will be scheduled to work only once every nine weeks, at the most six times a year. Please call Barb Campbell (661-6565)

Wellness Tips:
BODY: Talk with your physician about your prescriptions and any reactions that could occur if used with another medication.
MIND: Watch a movie.
SPIRIT: Find clarity in your life.

Is Your Marriage Hurting in any way? Has your marriage grown cold, distant, unloving or uncaring? Then please consider Retrouvaille – a program designed to help heal and renew marriages. Retrouvaille is for marriages that have lost some of their spark, for marriages having difficulties in communication and even those marriages on the edge of separation or divorce. The next program begins January 11, 12 & 13, 2008. For more information call.

Bridges meets this Monday evening, January 7th in the Parish
Office from 7-8:30pm. Topic: praying through your changing image of God. Next session is January 21st (“Doing God’s Will”). Questions? Call Sr. Lucy (661-6565).

Mark your calendar for our first session of Journeying with St. Paul: His Life and Theology on Monday, January 14th. Topic: “The Flesh and the Spirit.” For more information, call Sr. Lucy (661-6565).

Angel Food: Do you know someone on a fixed income? Maybe you could place an order for that individual and give them the food. It's true, for $30.00, you will receive between $60.00 - $75.00 worth of food! Our Parish Office is taking orders for Angel Food during day time hours. Questions? Call the Parish Office (66l-6565). Thanks to all the volunteers.

Parish Health Ministry: We invite you to a dynamic presentation by Rev. Percy McCray Jr. that will challenge you to deepen your knowledge on visiting someone with cancer. It will take place on Friday, January 11, 2008 from 9:30-11:00am at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, 2944 Erie Ave. Cost is $5.00. Pre-registration is required. Call Barb Evans.

The Early Stage Strategy Group (ESSG) is an 8-week program designed for persons in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease or a related dementia and their primary family caregiver. The weekly sessions provide education about the disease process as well as the opportunity for participants to share their experiences and concerns with others facing similar challenges. The first three sessions focus on education. For more information contact Ms. Von Hoene.

LaSalle High School Drama presents “FAME” January 10th- 13th. No reserved seating. General floor seating - $10 and bleachers - $5. Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday – 8:00pm (7:30 pre-show), Sunday – 7:00pm (6:30pm pre-show). Questions?

Mike Davis will be bringing his Elvis and Friends’ Tribute Show and Dinner to the Meadows on Sunday, January 27, 2008. The Meadows is located at 59 E Main St. in Addyston. Doors open at 5pm, Dinner is at 5:30pm and the show starts at 6:45pm. Tickets are $25 per person which includes the show and dinner. Limited seating available. Proceeds benefit the Taylor HS Raise the Curtain Fund.

St. Lawrence is scheduling a Cornhole Tournament to help offset funds in order to defray costs of the 5th graders going to Camp Campbell Gard. It takes place on Saturday, January 12 from 5:30pm-12:00am. For further details, call Becky & Gary Rogers

Runners/Assistant Track Coaches Needed
The St. Ignatius Track & Field Program – an all inclusive track and field program for young men and women in Grades 1 through 8 – is in need of Assistant Coaches who love to run. No coaching experience is needed. However, a willingness to run during practice and share your enthusiasm about running is required. Assistant Coaches are needed at all levels. For more information, please contact Jim Waters

True Life not subject to decay has been born!
Into darkness, comes Light –
The Light which dispels shadows has dawned.
Into ignorance, comes Truth –
The Truth before which falsehood and pride cannot stand has
been spoken.
Into fear, comes Love –
The Love that consumes all selfishness, anger and pride has
been given.
Into sadness, comes Joy –
The Joy that can never be taken has been proclaimed.
Into misery, comes Glory –
The Glory that lifts weary hearts is before us.
Let Heaven and Earth accept and rejoice in the treasure that
has been given –
And glorify His Name.
May all these treasures be given abundantly
To you and all those you hold dear!

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