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Saint Michael Parish Mission Statement:

MASS SCHEDULE
GIRARD Sat. 5:30pm Sun. 10:00 am ARMA 4:00pm 8:00 am

We the parishioners of Saint Michael the Archangel, through leadership and strong traditions are faithful disciples of the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church. We commit ourselves to be generous stewards of our faith, our parish, and our community. We strive to involve all members to be united in one parish family for the salvation of all. Notes from the Pastor: I hope and pray you would read this as a sign of the time: it is fast moving forward! Its now March and even our clock will Spring Forward next Sunday! We always hear the expression how time runs fast! And we agree with that! With this in mind and with our faith in God, we should also realize that Gods call for us to change our ways is urgent and should not be postponed! Once again we will be entering into the season of Lent, a season of grace to repent and usher in a new opportunity for spiritual growth. March 5th is Ash Wednesday and the season of Lent starts. Once more we are invited to fasting and abstinence especially this Ash Wednesday and Good Friday and abstinence at least from meat on all Fridays of Lent. You may include abstinence from activities that you fancy most for the sake of opening up your life for the grace of God. These Lenten observances help us to dispose ourselves to the grace of God to see ourselves in humility and repent for our faults and failures and consequently change ourselves! We are also blessed this Lent with the different opportunities for spiritual growth: our Parish Mission is starting this Saturday, March 8th. Those who want to come for the dinner on Saturday at the hall and have not signified your attendance yet, you still have the chance to drop the attendance paper at the drop box at the entrance of the church. The following is our schedule for Ash Wednesday and the entire season of Lent: For Ash Wednesday: 7:00 AM - Girard - Mass and Imposition of Ashes 12 Noon - Arma - Mass and Imposition of Ashes 3:30 PM - Girard - PSR Kids Station of the Cross and Imposition of Ashes Note: this is open to everybody- so the imposition of ashes might be around 4PM except if you want to join the kids stations of the cross, then come at 3:30; PSR Kids Station of the Cross is every Wednesday on Lent 6:30PM - Girard - Mass and Imposition of Ashes Next Sunday(03/09/14) 10:00 AM CCD Students
Marilyn McCracken CCD Students CCD Students

CONFESSION Sat. 2:00-2:45pm 3:15-3:45pm Weekdays before Mass; anytime by appointment.

STAFF Fr. Roger Lumbre Pastor Janel Scales Bookkeeper/Bulletin Editor Faith Paoni Secretary Rectory Office Hours Tues-Fri 9AM-Noon Closed on Mondays Tel. (620) 724-8717

Walk in Sisters Shoes St. Katharine Drexel, whose feastday is this Monday, March 3, was born into a Last Week July 2013 to date prominent family from Philadelphia in 1858. Her father, Francis Drexel, was a Contributions $2,237.00 $88,987.70 wealthy banker. Her mother died one month after Katharines birth. Two years Children's Offering $41.40 $589.52 later, her father married Emma Bouvier, who was a devoted mother to her and Expenses $74,686.91 her two sisters. Both parents instilled into the children by word and example that their wealth was simply loaned to them and was to be shared with others. Over/ (Under) $14,890.31 They attended Mass daily while being educated privately at home. Early in life, Katharine became aware of the plight of the Native Americans and the African Saint Michaels Upcoming Events Americans. She inherited over twenty million dollars from her parents and resolved to devote her wealth to helping these disadvantaged people. In 1885, she Finance Council Parish Council established a school for Native Americans in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tony Stonerock-Chair Dale Coomes-Chair Soon after, in an audience with Pope Leo XIII, he recommended that she begin TBA TBA at 6:30pm training for religious life and in 1891, with a few companions, Mother Katharine founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and African Americans. Rosary Altar Society Knights of Columbus She dedicated herself and her congregation to the material and spiritual wellNext meeting, TBA 1st Tuesday of Month, 7pm being of these people. From this time until her death on March 3, 1955, she deAt 6:30pm in the Hall. St. Michael Parish Hall voted her life and fortune to this work. Other schools followed the first at Santa Fe, NM. During her lifetime, about 60 schools were opened by her nuns for these Helping Hands Daughters of Isabella Need help or want to volunteer, Call Marilyn Bradshaw, two deprived American groups. The most famous was the founding of Xavier Call Carrie Smith, 724-6684 724-7133 University in New Orleans, the first such institution for African Americans. In 1935, Mother suffered a heart attack and two years later, she gave up her office That Man in You Friday mornings at 6am of superior general of the Blessed Sacrament congregation. She spent her last years with Eucharistic Adoration. She died at age 96 and was canonized a saint by Pope John Paul II in 2000 to become only the 2nd recognized American-born Daughters of Isabella saint after Elizabeth Ann Seton. The February meeting has been cancelled. Our next meeting will be on Our former Bishop Michael Jackels established the St. Katharine Drexel CathoTuesday, March 11th at 7:30pm in the parish hall in St. Paul. lic School Fund in 2005 to assist parishes struggling to fund Catholic education where parishes had many low income school families. In 2010, it was named Spaghetti Dinner Walk in Sisters Shoes, an appeal throughout the dioceses classrooms where a St. Joseph, Arma, will be serving its annual Spaghetti Dinner on Sunday, shoebox is present and students can deposit their gifts, one penny at a time, if March 9, from 11-1:30p.m. Menu includes Spaghetti and Meatballs, they choose. Thus, they can emulate St. Katharine who once wore the same pair lettuce salad, green beans, dessert and drink. Donations: Adult, $6. Children (ages 7-12), $3. Carry-outs, $6. Tickets available at the door. Raffle of shoes for 10 years rather than spend money to replace them. It also engages parents, teachers and school officials to walk in St. Katharines shoes to edutickets are also available for prizes including cash and donated items. cate the poorest children in the Catholic faith. It caught on and in the first year, 2010, $22,774 was raised and by 2013, the total was $89,586. The appeal ends Homemade Soup/Chili Dinner March 3, her feastday, and it foreshadows the words of Pope Francis to all of us First Christian Church cooks present a homemade soup/chili dinner on to exercise a special generosity to those who have the least. Since its inception in Sunday, March 9th from Noon-1:30pm and the First Presbyterian 2005, the Drexel Fund has distributed more than $2 million to diocesan parishes. Church Fellowship Hall, 202 N. Summit.

COLLECTIONS

Next Saturday (03/08/14) Altar Servers: E. M. E. Lectors: Gift Bearers 5:30 PM Volunteers Linda DeGarmo Beth Wilson Dean &Geneva McGown

For Girard: Fridays during Lent 7:00 AM - Mass 7:30 AM 5:50 PM Adoration 5:50 PM - Benediction 6:00 PM or right after Benediction - Station of the Cross For Arma: Station of the Cross will be every Tuesday at 5:30PM and Mass follows right after. Exceptions will be during the Souper Fridays: March 14 Friday - Arma will have their Souper Friday at 6PM at the St. Joseph Hall. Adoration at Saint Michael will end at 5:00 followed by Benediction. No Stations at Saint Michael as I have to run to Arma. You may make your private stations of the cross. March 28 - Friday, Adoration will end at 5:25 and Benediction follows; Stations of the cross will be around 5:30, and Souper Friday follows right after at Saint Michael Hall. Spaghetti Feed this Sunday, March 9th in Arma at Saint Joseph Hall. They will be serving from 11AM to 1:30PM. Raffle tickets will be drawn before noon! Please come and enjoy the company of everybody! God bless you all! Fr. Roger

Diocesan Catholic Youth Conference The annual Diocesan Catholic Youth Conference will be March 22-23 at the Double Tree Hilton Wichita Airport. The keynote speaker is Chris Stefanick. He is a great speaker and is putting out some amazing videos. We are really excited that we have 10 youth signed up to go this year. Thanks to everyone in our parish for helping us with our fundraisers so that we are able to send our youth to great Catholic events and retreats like this. This is a great way for our youth to meet other Catholic students in our diocese and to renew and strengthen their Catholic faith.

St. Michael, defend us in all our battles!

Mass Schedules & Intentions for March 1st-9th:

Mar 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 Saturday 4:00 PM 5:30 PM Sunday 8:00 AM 10:00 AM Monday 7:00 AM Tuesday 5:30 PM Wednesday 7:00 AM Noon 6:30 PM Thursday 8:00 AM 8:30AM-3PM Friday 7:00 AM 8AM-6PM 6:00 PM Saturday 4:00 PM 5:30 PM Sunday 8:00 AM 10:00 AM Henry Yartz Jack McClaskey Barb Doue Pro Populo Pete Masser Henry Yartz Don Born Ad Dantis Helen OToole Peggy Davied Eucharistic Adoration Ed Perrin Eucharistic Adoration Station of the Cross Barb Doue Mary Davied Pro Populo Verdan Davied Arma Girard Arma Girard Girard Arma Girard Arma Girard Arma Arma Girard Girard Girard Arma Girard Arma Girard

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Remember, Man, that you are Dust and to Dust you shall Return This coming Wednesday, March 5, is Ash Wednesday, signalling the beginning of the 40 days of Lent. We begin the season by having our foreheads spotted with ashes--an ancient custom and one that we take for granted. The ashes remind us that we have only one short life on earth out of a whole eternity. Those words said, as the ashes are applied to our foreheads, should cut deep into our souls. Sooner than we think, our bodies will be nothing but dust and ashes. This is a sobering thought--calling us to seriously examine how we are living this short life that weve been given. What a tragedy it is if we waste it! We watch hundreds of TV commercials about cosmetics and soaps and deodorants and now we see what these ads have done to us--made us superconscious of how we look and vain about our faces, out teeth, etc. The ashes we receive will remind us that weve spent a bit too much time on superficial, unimportant matters for all things external soon turn to ashes. What really counts is character and beauty of the heart-our concern for others, our honesty, etc. Those ashes should call us to pull away the mask of external beauty and look at the reality underneath: our weaknesses as humans such as sin and neglect of others. We should think of those ashes well receive as a call to repentance, a change of heart. Lets make a U-turn with our lives starting on the first day of Lent, 2014. Like the humble tax collector, we strike our breast and say, O, God, be merciful to me, a sinner. Lent is a time of sorrow for sins and of asking forgiveness. It is the season for the prodigal son/ daughter to come back home for God is waiting to welcome us back. The ashes on our foreheads are a public declaration that this Lent will not be wasted, and mentally, we will keep them on our brows all during Lent! We have a journey to make under the sign of that Cross and we have 40 days to accomplish it! Bear in mind, even those not observing Lent will observe death. Articles by Marcel Normand