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St. Joseph Catholic Church

MASS SCHEDULE GIRARD
Saturday
5:30 pm
Sunday
10:00 am

ARMA
4:00 pm
8:00 am

CONFESSION
GIRARD
ARMA
Saturday
2:00-2:30 pm 3:15-3:45 pm
Weekdays before Mass, anytime by appointment
RECTORY HOURS & INFORMATION
Wednesdays: 9:00 am - Noon
Rectory: (620) 347-4525
Fr. Maxs cell: (316) 708-9473
Fr. Maxs email: thomas.becket.fan@gmail.com
STAFF Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz
Secretary: Georganne Galichia
Bookkeeper: Janel Scales
Bulletin Editor: Nancy Bauer
PARISH WEBSITE:
www.stjosepharma.com
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION:
Thursdays from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Finance Council
Parish Council
TBA
Tues., Oct. 13
6:00pm
6:00pm in rectory

!St. Ann Altar Society

Wed., Oct. 21
6:00 pm

Knights of Columbus
1st Tuesday of Month
7:00pm, St. Michael hall

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4:00pm
5:30pm
Sunday
8:00am
10:00am
Monday
7:00am
Tuesday
5:30pm
Wednesday 6:30pm
Thursday 8:00am
8:30am-3:00pm
Friday
7:00am
8:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 4:00pm
5:30pm
Sunday
8:00am
10:00am

Dear Parish Family:

The following is continued from last weekends excerpt from the catechisms beautiful
teaching on marriage, paragraphs 1602-17:
The nuptial covenant between God and his people Israel had prepared the way for the
new and everlasting covenant in which the Son of God, by becoming incarnate and giving
his life, has united to himself in a certain way all mankind saved by him, thus preparing for
"the wedding-feast of the Lamb." On the threshold of his public life Jesus performs his first
sign - at his mother's request - during a wedding feast. The Church attaches great
importance to Jesus' presence at the wedding at Cana. She sees in it the confirmation of
the goodness of marriage and the proclamation that thenceforth marriage will be an
efficacious sign of Christ's presence. In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the
original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the
beginning: permission given by Moses to divorce one's wife was a concession to the
hardness of hearts. The matrimonial union of man and woman is indissoluble: God
himself has determined it "what therefore God has joined together, let no man put
asunder." This unequivocal insistence on the indissolubility of the marriage bond may
have left some perplexed and could seem to be a demand impossible to realize. However,
Jesus has not placed on spouses a burden impossible to bear, or too heavy - heavier than
the Law of Moses. By coming to restore the original order of creation disturbed by sin, he
himself gives the strength and grace to live marriage in the new dimension of the Reign of
God. It is by following Christ, renouncing themselves, and taking up their crosses that
spouses will be able to "receive" the original meaning of marriage and live it with the help
of Christ. This grace of Christian marriage is a fruit of Christ's cross, the source of all
Christian life. This is what the Apostle Paul makes clear when he says: "Husbands, love
your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, that he might sanctify
her," adding at once: "'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be
joined to his wife, and the two shall become one. This is a great mystery, and I mean in
reference to Christ and the Church." The entire Christian life bears the mark of the
spousal love of Christ and the Church. Already Baptism, the entry into the People of God,
is a nuptial mystery; it is so to speak the nuptial bath.111 which precedes the wedding
feast, the Eucharist. Christian marriage in its turn becomes an efficacious sign, the
sacrament of the covenant of Christ and the Church. Since it signifies and communicates
grace, marriage between baptized persons is a true sacrament of the New Covenant.

Bob Pazzie
Patricia Haderlein
Jim Davied
For the People
Joseph Hofer
No Intention
Arlene Schulte
No Intention
Adoration
Arlene Schulte
Adoration
Jim Davied
Betty Sponsel Widner
No Intention
For the People

Altar Ministers for Sept. 26 & 27

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Saturday (9/26/15)
Sunday (9/27/15)
8:00am
!Altar Servers: 4:00pm
Jack & Eve Bertoncino Volunteer

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EMHC:
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Lector:
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Gift Bearers:

July 2015 to date

Contributions

$1,250.10

$13,485.25

Expenses - August

$8830.03

$11,433.82

Over / (Under)

From the Pastor

Mass Schedule and Intentions for Sept. 19 - 27

Sept. 19 Saturday

100 South 8th Street

Arma, KS 66712
(620) 347-4525
Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz

Last Week

Sharon Giacometti

Cindy Ashmore

Pat Westhoff

Carol Cole

Mike & Virginia

Buche

Usher/Greeter: Mike Ashbacher &

Dave Petrey

Jill & Henry

Ashbacher
Dave & Dustin
Ashmore

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL

OFFICERS:
Pat Westhoff - Chair, Karen
Pryer - Secretary, Debbie
Amershek, Dustin Ashmore,
Joe Broyles,, Debbie Shaub

$2,051.43

PARISH FINANCE COUNCIL:

Fred Bogina - Chair, Members: Joe Polhlopek, Judy Wingebach,
Linda Broyles

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING SCHEDULED

The next Parish Council meeting will be Tuesday, October

13,2015, following 5:30 Mass.

GREENBUSH DAY

St Aloysius Historical Society 22nd Annual Greenbush Day is

this Sunday, Sept. 20, 2015. See the church bulletin board for
more information.

PRAYERS FOR THE SICK OF OUR PARISH

Please pray for parishioner Verna Versalona and Judy
Smerchek who are ill.

RESPECT LIFE PRAYER REQUEST

The diocesan Respect Life and Social Justice Office is
requesting all SEK Catholics pray a 31-day Seven Sorrows
Rosary Novena through the month of October to close the
two clinics in our diocese that perform abortions: Southwind
Abortion Center and Planned Parenthood, both in
Wichita. For more information, go to their link on the
diocesan website: http://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/rlsjevents/october-events.

AN IMPORTANT DATE GOES UNNOTICED

When I was in school, September 17, Constitution Day, was

still considered worthy of recognition. I recall that wed often
have an assembly in early afternoon, followed by an early
dismissal! We were taught to honor our founding fathers who,
in 1787, framed a WRITTEN government, the first of its
kind, that has lasted to this day, making it the oldest continuing
government in the world. It was signed that year, 1787, on
September 17, and the date has traditionally been called
Constitution Day. Some of our calendars continue to list it
that way. According to our constitution, power is passed by a
vote of the people rather than by a king or by a war. This is
something that we need to cherish and protect.
The founding fathers were, for the most part, Christian.
Often, books will list some as Deists or even non-church goers,
but most of them acknowledged Christ as their Savior. The
ACLU, an ultra liberal organization that promotes separation

WORSHIP COMMITTEE:
Chair - Karen Pryer
EMEs - Joann Black
Ushers/Greeters - Bill Harman
Altar Society - Judy Smerchek
Lectors - Marcel Normand
Music - Jan Harman

of church and state, uses Thomas Jefferson and his 1802 letter
to the Baptists in Danbury, Connecticut, as proof that he
intended church and state to be separate. Yet, two days after
writing that letter to the Danbury Baptists, Jefferson attended
public worship services in the U.S. Capitol, and he continued
this practice throughout his two terms as President. He signed
legislation that gave land to Indian missionaries, put chaplains
on the government payroll, and sent Congress an Indian treaty
that set aside money for a priests salary and the construction
of a church.
Another interesting aspect of Jeffersons behavior: he dated
most official documents with the phrase: In the year of Our
Lord Christ, rather than the official, In the year of Our
Lord. I would say that he was anything but irreligious and
certainly not an enemy of the Christian faith. In fact, he was a
student of Scripture, attended Church regularly, married in
church and supported his church monetarily. His Danbury
letter to the Baptists invoking the wall of separation meant that
we should have freedom OF religion, not a State religion, a
reason many came to America for. He certainly did NOT
mean freedom FROM religion as the ACLU would have us
believe. All of that business came about much later in the
1940s when the U.S. Supreme Court began legislating
rather than interpreting the Constitution.
Id say that
Jefferson, the real one, not the Jefferson of separation of
church & state fame, if he were alive today, hed be the
ACLUs worst nightmare!
For the sake of our youth, we should embrace our freedoms
by noting the importance
of days like Sept 17,
demonstrating our pride in
a democratic government
that is the oldest among
nations!
- Marcel Normand

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