St. Malachi Parish, Cleveland, OH
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Saturday,
Sept. 13 |
4:30 pm- |
Connolly, Gallagher, & Kielty Family |
Sunday,
Sept. 14 |
9:30 am- |
Charles White |
11 am- |
Stephanie Taylor-Ayers |
12 noon- |
Special Intention (RES) |
Monday,
Sept. 15 |
7:00 am- |
St. Malachi Living and Deceased |
12 noon- |
Mary Josephine & Edmond Bangert |
Tuesday,
Sept 16 |
7 am- |
Charles Klick (Anniv.) |
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12 noon- |
Ella Kilcoyne Madden (Dec) |
Wednesday,
Sept. 17 |
7:00 am- |
Coletta Stopp |
12 noon- |
Franjo Klasterka (Dec) |
Thursday,
Sept. 18 |
7:00 am- |
Gaylord Kerr |
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12 noon-
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St. Malachi Volunteers
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Friday,
Sept. 19 |
7:00 am- |
Mary Jo Scanlan (M/M) |
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12 noon-
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Adeline & Walter Reardon |
Saturday,
Sept. 20 |
4:30pm- |
Eleanor |
Sunday,
Sept. 21 |
9:30 am- |
St. Malachi Living and Deceased |
11:00 am- |
Catechists |
12:30 pm- |
Angela Patton |
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SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION (PENANCE)
Saturday: 3:00-4:00 p.m. Sunday: 8:45-9:00 a.m.
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Offertory Report
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Sunday Collection ..................
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......... $ 2,871
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Amount Budgeted..................
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......... $ 3,154
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Budget to date ($3,154/week x 10
weeks)
........... $ 31,540
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Collections to date .........
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........ $ 30,832
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Collection surplus/(deficit) to date
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.......... $ 708
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Thank you for your generous support!
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Please Pray for the Deceased: Marguerite (Peggy) Clark, Sr. M. Electa Coleman HM
Also for the Sick: Andrea Churnega, Janice Cavoli, Janice Cavoli, Mary Mayo, Diane Peterson
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ST. MALACHI REVERSE RAFFLE
Tickets are available for the annual St. Malachi Reverse Raffle on Friday, October 3 at Brennan's Party Center. Tickets are $100 for dinner for two & a chance for the main board prize of $3,000. Tickets are available at the back of church & in rectory. We need & are looking for people to put together a table of 4 or 5 couples & help the committee. Please see insert for details on how to have your name in our Patron's Page or a Memoriam in the program. Call Mary Jane Treichel at (216) 861-5343
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VOL.
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RCIA -- THE JOURNEY BEGINS THIS WEEK!
Do you know someone who is not Catholic but has expressed interest in the faith? Do you know someone who was baptized Catholic but never raised in the church? Do you know someone who is searching spiritually, but has no church home? The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is a journey of faith for adults interested in the Catholic faith. The first RCIA session will be at 7 PM this Monday, September 15, at St. Patrick Church (Bridge Ave). For information, call the rectory (216) 861-5343.
MAX & ERMA'S FUNDRAISER NEXT WEEK
The sixth FUNdraiser benefiting St. Malachi Center at Max & Erma's Restaurant, 30105 Detroit Rd., Westlake is on Thursday September 25th.
Bring a coupon and all your friends and family to lunch or dinner. Carry-out sales count too! Max & Erma's will donate 20% of all food and beverage sales that day to St. Malachi Center.
Coupons are available by calling Ginny Suhr at 216-771-3036 or
download one from
www.stmalachicenter.org. Coupons can be photocopied and distributed freely except on Max & Erma's property. We hope to see you there!
PRAYING
WITH ST. IGNATIUS
Praying with St. Ignatius, a Parish Retreat of the Jesuit Retreat House
starts Sunday, September 28 at St. Malachi hall from 7:00-8:30 pm. The Praying with St. Ignatius retreat
is adapted from The Spiritual Exercises to foster a heartfelt knowledge of
Jesus. For 8 Sundays, trained spiritual directors from the Jesuit Retreat House will guide you through different methods of prayer, meditation, journaling, and small group sharing. Participants are asked to commit a ½ hour a day for private prayer. Is God calling you to a closer relationship? The cost is $50; registration deadline is Tuesday September 23. Flyers are at the doors of the church. St. Malachi Spiritual Development Committee sponsors this retreat. Please contact Jan Leitch or Jackie Bluett for more information.
MALACHI HOUSE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE
Malachi House is celebrating their 20th anniversary with an Open House on Sunday September 28 from 2 PM - 4 PM. Refreshments will be served.
SAMARITAN MINISTRY
The fall Samaritan Ministry Workshop of St. Malachi Church on alcoholism and addiction will be held at St. Malachi Center from 6-8:30 pm on the four Thursdays of October (2-23) During each FREE session, a speaker will discuss relevant topics including:
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Addiction as a brain disease
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Effects of drinking/using on others
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Treatment and assessment tools
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12 step programs of recovery
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Resources in the community
Please contact the Rectory (216) 861-5343 to reserve a seat.
“CALLED AND GIFTED” - WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
In an effort to help us see how we are “Called and Gifted” during this clustering process, we look to those who have struggled through similar situations for ideas and guidance. Sr. Mary Schrader CSJ begins the series on Wednesday, September 24 by sharing her personal & communal experience in the merging of 7 Communities of the Congregation of St. Joseph Sisters. Her talk, A Second Chance, will begin about 7:15 pm in St. Malachi Hall, allowing us to pray the Labyrinth (at 6 pm). This is a St. Malachi Spiritual Development Committee event. For more information, call Jackie Bluett (440) 590-0394, Jan Leitch (216) 521-6376, or Charlene McElwee (216) 861-5343.
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TWENTY-FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
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September 14, 2008
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Weekly Activities
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Sunday, September 14,
Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross
Monday, September 15
Monday Night Meal 6 PM
RCIA St. Patrick's 7 PM
Spiritual Development Committee 6PM
Wednesday, September 17
Bridges to Contemplation 6 PM
Thursday, September 18
Holy Hour 11 AM
CSM Choir 7:30 PM
FutureChurch Benefit
Friday, September 19
Weekly Church Cleaning
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“CALLED AND GIFTED” - WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
To help us see how we are “Called and Gifted” during this clustering process, we look to those who have struggled through similar situations for ideas and guidance. On Wednesday, September 24, Sr. Mary Schrader CSJ will share her personal & communal experience in merging 7 Communities of the Congregation of St. Joseph Sisters. Her talk, A Second Chance, will begin about 7:15 pm in St. Malachi Hall, following Praying the Labyrinth at 6 pm. Sponsored by the Spiritual Development Committee. For information, call Jackie Bluett (440) 590-0394, Jan Leitch (216) 521-6376, or Charlene McElwee (216) 861-5343.
FAMILY DAY - SEPTEMBER 22
Monday, September 22 is Family Day! All families are encouraged to eat dinner as a family. Family meals are the perfect time to talk with children & listen to what's on their mind. The more often children eat dinner with the family, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.
Through shared prayer (grace) & conversation, parents the can help continually feed their child's mind, body &
soul. For more about Family Day & join parents across America in the Family STAR pledge,
www.CASAFamilyDay.org.
FUTURECHURCH BENEFIT
The Annual FutureChurch Benefit, An Evening with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, is this Thursday, September 18, at Landerhaven in Mayfield Heights, with social & silent auction at 6 pm, followed by dinner & program at 7 pm. Tickets are $75. Order tickets phone (216) 228-0869 or online www.futurechurch.org
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ST. JOSEPH PRAYERLINE -- 30TH ANNIVERSARY
The Sisters of St. Joseph Prayerline offers callers an opportunity to talk with a Sister & offer prayer intentions. The intentions are shared with the entire community at daily Mass & at twice-weekly Holy Hours. Sr. Mary Ann Lavelle, current Prayerline director, said, “We are honored to be a reconciling presence to our neighbors as we join them in prayer. Their intentions are our intentions; their prayers are our prayers.” Prayerline number:
216-252-0548
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Sisters of Notre Dame Prayer Line
Ministry
440-279-1163 - from 10 AM-4 PM, Monday-Friday.
Weekends and holidays you may leave your requests on their answering service. These requests will also be remembered in prayer.
The sisters in Assisted Living look forward to praying for you needs and requests.
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Poor Clares' Prayer Line
Do you need prayer today? Are your loved ones, co-workers or neighbor in need of God's loving guidance? Call the
Poor Clares' Prayer line (216-361-0783) and leave your intentions with the Sisters, confident you will receive a blessing from the Lord!
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Our diocese will host the National Conference on Catholic Youth Ministry, Formed by Living
Water, December 4-7 at the Cleveland Convention Center. The Youth & Young Adult Ministry Office is
seeking 200 volunteers to help conference participants experience hospitality - Cleveland style! Tasks include: welcoming participants at the airport & hotels; guiding attendees at the conference; ushering; counting collections after Masses; selling program wear and working the information booth. Volunteers receive one day free admission to the conference on the day they help out.
Go
to: www.clevelandcyo.org
to download a volunteer sign-up
form.
For information, call Mark
Delsander (216) 334-1261 x25; mxdelsander@clevelandcatholiccharities.org
FALL PRISON MINISTRY WORKSHOP
The Fall Prison Ministry workshop will be held on Saturday, October 4, (the feast of St. Francis of Assisi)
at the Center for Pastoral
Leadership, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, concluding with the Sunday Vigil Mass at 4 pm. For details, please call (216) 696-6525, ext. 3070.
ST. MALACHI CENTER'S ANNIVERSARY RAFFLE
This year, the
Center is offering a “progressive” raffle, with drawings every month! August winners are: Mary Jane Colleran, $250; Paul Lumsden, $150; Katie Schuerger, $100. The next drawing is Tuesday September 30th after noon Mass. Tickets are only $12/each or three for $30! Buy your ticket at the back of Church or at Coffee Hour to have a chance in this month's drawing! Winning tickets go back into the “hopper” to be eligible to win the other monthly and the grand or runner-up prize. The grand prize is $5000 and the runner-up prize is $1000. The drawings for these prizes are in November
URBAN COMMUNITY SCHOOL FALL BENEFIT
The 40th Anniversary
Urban Community School benefit, Follow the Leader, is Saturday, September 27, 6-11 pm at the school, 4801 Lorain. It will be an elegant evening of fine food including dinner by Doug Katz of Fire, live & silent auctions and much more! Cost is $250 per ticket. Call Michelle Arquillo at
UCS, (216) 939-8441
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"And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life." For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so he who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
- Jn. 3:14-16
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Readings for the Week of
September 14, 2008
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Sunday: •
Nm 21:4b-9/Phil 2:6-11/Jn 3:13-17
Monday • 1 Cor 11:17-26, 33/Jn 19:25-27 or Lk 2:33-35
Tuesday • 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a/Lk 7:11-17
Wednesday • 1 Cor 12:31-13:13/Lk 7:31-35
Thursday • 1 Cor 15:1-11/Lk 7:36-50
Friday • 1 Cor 15:12-20/Lk 8:1-3
Saturday • 1 Cor 15:35-37, 42-49/Lk 8:4-15
Sunday • Is 55:6-9/Phil 1:20c-24, 27a/ Mt 20:1-16a
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