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March 16, 2008

Monday
7:00 a.m.                John Pierson – Paula June
9:15 a.m.                Janice Maddox – Mary Lou Angus
7:00 p.m.                Tenebrae

Tuesday – ALL SCHOOL LITURGY AT 9:15AM
7:00 a.m.                Martha Della Torre – The Angus Family
9:15 a.m.                James Griffin – Jerry & Karen Bachman

Wednesday
7:00 a.m.                Gene Hamons – Ted & Joanne Hyle
9:15 a.m.                Lawrence Bolte – Martha Blum

Holy Thursday
7:00 a.m.                No Mass
9:15 a.m.                No Mass – Morning Prayer
1:30 p.m.                Reenactment of the Passion
7:30 p.m.                Mass of the Lord’s Supper - In Thanksgiving For The Eucharist

Good Friday
7:00 a.m.                No Mass
9:15 a.m.                No Mass – Morning Prayer
12:00 noon            Stations of the Cross
1:30 p.m.                Celebration of the Lord’s Passion with Communion
7:30 p.m.                Reenactment of the Passion

Holy Saturday, March 22
7:00 a.m.                No Mass
9:15 a.m.                No Mass
8:45 p.m.                Living, Deceased, & Newest Members of the Parish

Easter Sunday, March 23
6:00 a.m.                Thyra Hoell – Bob & Janet Hewald
8:00 a.m.                Living & Deceased Members of St. Ignatius Parish
9:30 a.m.                Anthony Goehr (Birthday) – Family
11:00 a.m.              (Church) Daniel Johnson – Love from the Family
11:00 a.m.              (Gym) Len Briede (Birthday) – Verna & Family
12:30 p.m.               Adam Lambing – The Clifton’s
7:30 p.m.                Paul Krueger – Mary Ellen

Servers For the Week of March 17

Monday, Tuesday
7:00 a.m.                J Calardo, A Urig, M Hartinger, S Wright
9:15 a.m.                A Hart, J Burger, E Massa

Wednesday
7:00 a.m.                M Creutzinger, E Ginn, K Weeden
9:15 a.m.                M Barlag, J Schaffer, Z Wagner

Holy Thursday
7:00 a.m.                No Mass
9:15 a.m.                Morning Prayer
7:30 p.m.                S Fronk, T Barrens, J Burger, J Stevens (Fr. St. George)

Good Friday
6:30 a.m.                Stations of the Cross
9:15 a.m.                Morning Prayer (Fr. Wall)
12:00 noon             J Lewnard, S Stroube, K Siegel (Deacon Tony)
1:30 p.m.                A Hart, E Massa, B Mercer (Fr. St. George)
7:30 p.m.                Reenactment of the Life & Death of Jesus

Holy Saturday
7:00 a.m.                No Mass
9:15 a.m.                Morning Prayer (Fr. McCarthy)
8:45 p.m.                Special Servers for Easter Vigil (Fr. St. George)

Easter Sunday
6:30 a.m.                D Wagner (Fr. McCarthy)
8:00 a.m.                C Talbot, B Witzgall, M McPhillips, S Archdeacon (Fr. Wall)
9:30 a.m.                M Blevins, D Strawser, J Keckeis, M Davey (Fr. St. George)
11:00 a.m.              (Church) Paul Powers Family, J Hoeh (Fr. Wall)
11:00 a.m.              (Gym) A, A, D Hart (Fr. McCarthy)
12:30 p.m.               K Ruberg, J Tenkman, S & C Cranor (Fr. St. George)
7:30 p.m.                 (Fr. McCarthy)

The Tabernacle Candle this week is in Remembrance of
Georgiana Hull
From Betty, Corinne, Dottie, Rose & Lil

Wedding Banns
Bill Schwab & Janine Gassaway will marry March 29 at St. Ignatius.
David O’Connell, St. Ignatius and Meghan Hayden, St. Sebastian, will marry on March 29 at St. Monica/St. George.

The 8th grade graduation DVD’s are ready and able to be picked up in the School Office between 9:00am-4:00pm.

St. Ignatius Babysitting Schedule for March 23
Miller               Winchester               Smith               Thole

Respect Life News: Project 5000 – Thank you for taking bags and lists at the door this weekend for our annual collection to help families in our city who don’t always have a means to serve meals. You are encouraged to double the bags to reinforce, so the weight of the items doesn’t split the paper. Please return the grocery gifts on Holy Thursday evening before Mass. Volunteers will be waiting by the truck to accept your donation.

Way of Love: Walk with us beginning at 2:00pm this Sunday at Burnet Woods. Join the large crowd to pray for all victims of abortion. This prayerful event lasts one hour, and is especially meaningful in Lent.

Sweet Cherry Pies!.....and delicious brownies, and sticky buns…ah, the aroma! Please be a part of our annual fund raiser for our local pregnancy centers by baking something tasty and bringing it to the Parish Office April 12 and 13. Walk through the foyer after masses and choose a fancy cake or decorative cupcakes for dessert! Your donations are appreciated!

The Legion of Mary, Our Lady of Mercy, has recently formed at St. Ignatius and is looking for new active and auxiliary members. Our mission includes welcoming new parishioners and sharing the Faith with non-Catholics, with a special devotion to the Blessed Mother. The Legion of Mary has weekly prayer meetings on Tuesday evenings at 7:00pm in the Fr. Seaman room and our Spiritual Director is Fr. McCarthy. For more information, call Kara Tencza.

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.

Vocation Chalice for Week of March 16
Mrs. Geckle’s Grade 2 Rm. 114

Baptized on March 9; we welcome:
Isabel Katheryn Brown, daughter of Shannon, Lauderdale Dr.

St. Vincent de Paul - Bundle Sunday - March 29/30: The St. Vincent de Paul trucks will be in the Church parking lot on March 29/30. SVDP is particularly interested in clothing and non perishable food items. They are unable to accept donations of large appliances, mattresses, furniture with rips. The trucks will be manned before & after the 4:30pm Mass on Saturday, March 29th and before and after all Sunday Masses March 30th except 7:30pm.
Would you believe that the average age of our SVDP Committee is over 39? We could use some additional muscle power to load the trucks. Could you spare 20 minutes before or after the Mass that you normally attend? If so, please contact Bob Gervers and let him know the times you can help. Thank you.

Catholic Teaching on Solidarity: We are one human family. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Pope John Paul II insists, “We are all really responsible for all.” Loving our neighbor has global dimensions in a shrinking world. At the core of the virtue of solidarity is the pursuit of justice and peace. Pope Paul VI taught that “if you want peace, work for justice.” The Gospel calls us to be “sentinels of peace” in a world wounded by violence and conflict. – USCCB Administrative Committee, Faithful Citizenship: a Catholic Call to Political Responsibility, p. 15.

Please pledge your support for six of our very important regional church ministries, through the Catholic Ministries Appeal. 100% of your contribution goes to Catholic Social Services, campus ministries, lay and ordained ministries education, St. Rita School for the Deaf, support of our retired priests, and chaplains for our hospitals and prisons. Our parish goal this year is $44,500.00. Please be generous.

Our sincerest sympathy is extended to the families of Joyce Bishop, wife of Robert, mother of Randy (Jamie), grandmother of Rikki and Katie; and Alice Duenhoft, mother of Janet (Robert) Hewald, and Marilyn (Dennis) Heffron, grandmother of Kristen (Matt) Staarmann, great-grandmother of Grace & Jack. May their families find comfort in knowing they are with God.

From Our Pastoral Associate

A group of us here at the parish have been “Journeying with Saint Paul” since last October, taking a closer look at his life and his theology. One of the things we’ve learned is that many of the Church’s most respected Scripture scholars say Paul’s writings are easily misinterpreted, especially today. They say that we live in a time that emphasizes the individual. Paul, on the other hand, writes from a different perspective. He understood that all human beings are caught up in a much bigger “story” than their own. And for Paul, that “bigger story” which we’re all caught up in is Christ’s own.

Just about a week ago, we finished our Parish Mission. During those four evenings, seven extraordinarily generous women and men gave witness to us about their own participation in that “Bigger Story.” It was quite clear to everyone present that each of these sisters and brothers of ours have walked their own “Via Dolorosa” on their way to a modern-day Calvary. They have known what it feels like to be crucified, sealed in a tomb, and “descend into hell.” But every one of them also knew they did not trod this Passion walk alone; that somehow—every awful step of the way—Jesus was with them.

It’s precisely because we don’t journey through life alone, because each of us—from our birth—are caught up and swept along in a Life much bigger and stronger than our own, that our own “little” stories are able to eventually wind up in the very same place that Jesus’ own did. Our witnesses testified to that, too: we heard seven different “rising from the dead” experiences during our Mission Week, and every one of them was an Easter story that left us with a lot to pray about. Often, they left us in a very precious kind of tears. Thank you, dear wonderful and generous parishioners who shared your souls with us during our Mission week. What—no, Who—you offered us was a priceless gift. You offered us Christ.

For Paul, Jesus’ life reveals the pattern that every human life must take. We all walk our own Via Dolorosa; we all die. But because we are all also swept up into the “Bigger Story” that is Christ’s own, we can be sure that, just as crucifixion didn’t have the last word in Jesus’ life, neither will it have the last word in our own. The great truth is that we human beings are a people swept up into a “Bigger Story” that astonishingly leads to Resurrection and Eternal Life! And perhaps the greatest truth of all (as Paul knew) is that Jesus is the one who not only reveals the pattern that we all participate in; Christ IS that very Mystery! And so whatever road we walk, we are never alone: Christ is “with us always, even until the end of time.”

As we spend this coming week remembering the
Passion and Death of Our Lord, perhaps it’s a good time to ponder our own share in that Mystery, and even the way others around us (and throughout the world) share in that Mystery as well. To be sure, the details of our “little” personal stories differ from those of the “bigger” Jesus story that we’ll hear unfold during this holiest of weeks. Still, in any human life the patterns of those stories will match. “We have been given the wisdom to understand fully the Mystery…” says Saint Paul (Ephesians 1:9). That Mystery is Christ…the One who gave himself to us so that we, too, could “have life—and life to the full.”
Wow!
A Blessed Holy Week to all,
Sister Lucy

AN EVENING OF FREE ADVICE: Ever wonder what goes on in that big red building next to the West Fork Library? Johnson Investment Counsel is hosting an Open House on April 9th between 7:00 and 9:00. JIC’s Portfolio Managers will answer any questions you might have about saving for high school and college, saving for retirement, tax planning, insurance and wills and trusts. RSVP for the Open House by calling 661-4399 ext. 324 by April 2nd. Questions? Call parishioners, Jay Wertz, Director of Wealth Advisory Services or Maria Leonhardt

St. Ignatius Fall 2008 Football Meeting for 7th and 8th grade parents only are asked to attend an important informational meeting regarding options for 7th and 8th grade football this fall 2008 on March 17th in the Wildcat Room at 8:00pm. Please contact Greg Barlag or Greg Tankersley

Total Cost of Project 2000 Construction
Part 1, Part 2, Parking Additions, Interest, etc.        $ 8,142,596.98
Debt to the Archdiocese as of 03/12/08                   $     192,049.00
Fund Drive received last week                                   $             535.00
Current Debt to the Archdiocese                                $     189,425.00

Thank You For Your Support!

YOUTH NEWS

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

Bingo                                                                  $    4,127.00
Concession Profit                                            $          77.25

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.

ATTENTION KROGER SHOPPERS: Instead of awarding one full year's tuition to one Kroger shopper each year, PACE will now be awarding two tuition credits of $250 each at the end of each quarter, based only on that quarter's reloads. The first drawing will be held in April for reloads made in January, February and March. One entry for every $100 in reloads. Please check your Kroger Community Rewards card and call Leslie Odioso if the last nine digits on your card are: 364-927-573; 376-886-817; 459-033-410; 459-033- 477; 459-033-485; 459-035-175; 459-035-373; 459-036-488; 459-036-561; or 523-395-159.

St. Ignatius Class of 1973 Reunion: Are you or do you know of someone who graduated from St. Ignatius in 1973 (high school 1977)? If so, there is a 35th Reunion being planned. The date is April 19, 2008 in St. Ignatius’ Fr. Hilvert Hall. Please contact Dave Ballman, or Shirley Fisher Crooker. Classmates can also go to www.stignatius1973.myevent.com and submit information, or checkout who else has responded.

St. Ignatius Golf Outing: Sweep the dust off the clubs & bring them into the house to get warm because 2 months from now you’ll need every one of them when you face the challenges of the Miami-Whitewater Golf Course and the competition in the 12th Annual St. Ignatius Golf Outing. The big event is scheduled for May 12th so clear your calendars, save up your sick days. Stay tuned right here for more info. Interested in working on this year’s committee or sponsor a portion of the event, please call Ron Kathmann.

You need to know what “UCCF” is! It’s the program entitled “Understanding the Church Christ Founded”! It is a follow up to the Alpha Course BUT is open to ANYONE interested in getting answers to questions they may have about the Catholic Church. Starts on March 31st. Pick up a flyer at the exits of Church or at the Parish Office for more information. Questions? Call Deacon Tony.

Charismatic Healing Mass on the 2nd Thurs. of each month at 7:30pm at St. Teresa Church, Glenway Avenue. Info call Sue Fruediger or Fr. Tom Bolte (921-9200).

A Rachel’s Vineyard weekend retreat for spiritual and emotional healing after abortion will be held in Cincinnati on April 25 – 27, 2008 at the Milford Retreat Center. For more info, please call Peggy. Visit www.rachelsvineyard.org or call a national toll-free hotline at 1-800-HOPE-4-ME.

Prayer Shawl Ministry has a prayer shawl for anyone experiencing medical or emotional difficulties. A prayer shawl is a knitted or crocheted garment that has been prayed over and is beautifully wrapped with a prayer card attached. If you would like to receive one or become part of the ministry, please contact Lora Huhn.

The Scarf It Up Club: If green is not your color; it may be the best color for someone else. Those less fortunate need your kindness. Please drop off at the Parish Office your hats, gloves, scarves, mittens, and yarn.

McCreary County Quick Facts: McCreary County persons with a disability 5+ years – 5536 -31.9% of population; Hamilton County persons with a disability 5+ years – 139,082 – 16.9%.

The McCreary Outreach Committee is collecting formal prom dresses for the McCreary County HS Prom. Last year we were able to provide 47 dresses. Please consider donating any dresses you may no longer wear. Formal dresses can be any color, length, size, and up-to-date style. Dresses should be in good condition & have been cleaned. Call Melissa Berling to arrange pick-up or drop-off at her home. Prom is Sat. May 3rd.

McAuley Alumnae Father/Daughter Dance Cancelled Due to the snow has been rescheduled for Friday, March 28, from 8-12 p.m. in the school cafeteria. Alumnae interested in bringing their dads should contact Brenda Geiser.

Are you scared of moving on after the death of your loved one? These are all perfectly normal. Come listen, share, and learn how to grieve for what you have lost and believe in better tomorrows. Bereavement Sessions for all Denominations “We all have one thing in common; we have lost someone we love”. Here at St. Ignatius Monthly – second Tuesday 10:00am to 12:00 Noon.

Festival Kick-Off Party is Sunday, March 30th from 2-4:00pm in the Rectory. These contributions give a tremendous start to the Festival. Call the Parish Office by March 26 to make your reservations. All are welcome.

RCIA: The Easter Vigil begins at 8:45pm on Holy Saturday. Thank you to the 10:15 Contemporary Music group for providing the music ministry for the Easter Vigil.

RCIA: On Wednesday, there is an Easter Vigil Walk thru in church for the "elect," personal sponsors, parish sponsors, and team members. Other services for RCIA members include the following: Tennebrae on Monday evening, Chrism Mass at the Cathedral on Tuesday evening, Mass on Holy Thursday evening, and Good Friday Reenactment.

St Leo's Food Pantry: In January, the pantry served a total of 608 people, including 317 children and 202 families. The pantry's inventory is low on the following items: canned meats, toilet tissue, shampoo, toothpaste, powered laundry detergent, tuna, peanut butter, and the funds to operate the freezers. The above items can be dropped off in the metal drawers inside the vestibule of the Parish Office. Checks should be made payable to St. Leo's Food Pantry. Thank you.

Clean Up Day is Saturday, April 5th from 8:00am-12:00 noon. As preparation for a new load of mulch that is about to be delivered, we need to turn over the old mulch, edge the beds, dig out a few weeds, and more. Please make an effort to stop by and pitch in. Bring gloves, rakes, shovels, wheelbarrows, hedge trimmers…and the whole family. Questions? Call Greg Witzgall. SERVICE HOURS!!

A Night in Vegas with Mike Davis - Thursday, March 20th at Jim & Jack's. Come join us for an unforgettable evening of music, fun and laughter as Mike brings his popular Las Vegas Revue to Jim & Jack's, 3456 River Road, paying tribute to Elvis and other Vegas greats. Showtime is 7:00-9:00 pm. Admission is $10 each. (Partial proceeds to benefit The Little Sisters of the Poor). A full dinner menu is available. Call 251-7977 for tickets and concert information. Reservations are strongly suggested.

Enjoy games of chance, food, fun and Elvis at Casino Night at Roger Bacon High School in Fogarty Hall, 4320 Vine St., on Saturday March 29, 2008, from 8-midnight. The $20 admission includes food, drinks and Paul Halverstadt's Memories of Elvis Show. Proceeds benefit the Roger Bacon Spartan Band. For information and reservations, call 513-353-2836 or visit www.rbbic.org.

Wellness Tips:
BODY: Eat several small meals a day, including healthy snacks, instead of three or less large meals.
MIND: Have a heartfelt conversation with someone close.
SPIRIT: Realize your errors, celebrate your achievements.