ST PAUL

THE APOSTLE Catholic Church

and School

18 Woodlawn Joliet, Illinois 60435

815-725-1527

www.stpauljoliet.com

February 2, 2014

The Presentation Of

The Lord

St. Paul the Apostle Parish Office: 815-725-1527 Parish Fax 815-730-9907 School: 815-725-3390 Religious Education 815-725-6927 Youth Ministry: 815-730-8599 RCIA (Roberta Lemke) 815-725-1403 Parish Email: parishsec@stpauljoliet.com

Rev. John Klein, Pastor frjohn@stpauljoliet.com x243 Rev. John Belmonte, S.J., Resident x230 Rev. James Lennon, Weekend Celebrant Deacon William Bevan, III Deacon John Freund jfreund@dioceseofjoliet.org Lynne Passarella, Parish Secretary parishsec@stpauljoliet.com x200 Denise Rowan, Business Manager drowan@stpauljoliet.com x203 Mary K. Robbins, Principal mrobbins@thestpaulschool.org x401 Sr. Karen Marie Lanigan, O.S.F., D.R.E. srkaren@sbcglobal.net x301 Jeremy Hylka, Dir. Of Liturgy & Youth Min. stpaulsliturgy@sbcglobal.net x320 Tanya Rand, Dean of Development & Mrktg. TRand@thestpaulschool.org x201 Raymond Kaufmann, Director of Music raykaufmann@aol.com

St. Paul�’s is now on Facebook and Twitter!

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Saturday: 4:30 PM Sunday: 7:30 AM, 9:00 AM, 10:30 AM Weekday mass: 7:30 AM Monday through Friday except Wednesdays are 8:30 AM when school is in session Holy Days: Varies by Holy Day of Obligation

SACRAMENT OF PENANCE

Saturday: 3:00-4:00 PM or by appointment

BAPTISMS Baptisms are scheduled on the Second Sunday of the month at 11:45 AM based on parental requests. Participation in a Parent Preparation Program is mandatory before the baptism of the child. Our preparation Program is held on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM. Attendance at Sunday Mass on the day of the Baptism is Mandatory. Please call the Parish office to schedule a baptism.

WEDDINGS All weddings are scheduled by the Pastor of the Parish. Office staff cannot schedule a wedding and a wedding is not consid-ered to be officially scheduled until the couple receives written confirmation from the Pastor of the Parish. Couples desiring to be married need to speak directly with the Pastor BEFORE re-serving a hall. Only the Bride or Groom may request a date for their wedding. Diocesan policy requires that a 6 month (minimum) preparation process be completed prior to the cele-bration of all weddings. Weddings are not scheduled on Sun-days.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK Parishioners who are seriously or critically ill, or have surgery scheduled should receive the Sacrament of Anointing and Heal-ing. Please call the parish office to request this sacrament. Reg-ular visits are also made by our Pastoral Staff and Ministers of Care to bring Holy Communion to hospitalized or homebound parishioners. Anyone desiring such a visit should call the Parish Office.

R.C.I.A. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is an ongoing for-mation process for adults who are interested in becoming a Catholic and adult Catholics who would like to receive the sac-raments of Confirmation and/or First Eucharist. Please call the Parish Office for additional information.

PARISH REGISTRATION New parishioners are always welcome! You may register in person or by calling the Parish Office.

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE week of Feb 3rd

MONDAY St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr 7:30 AM Philip Anselmino TUESDAY Weekday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM William & Julia Minard WEDNESDAY St. Agatha , Virgin & Martyr 8:30 AM Oliver Topliff THURSDAY St. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs 7:30 AM Oscar & Laura Stephen FRIDAY First Friday 7:30 AM Stella Dumser SATURDAY Vigil Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 4:30 PM Ken Parker SUNDAY Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 AM The People of St. Paul the Apostle 9:00 AM Madison Ann Bohn 10:30 AM Florian Knick

SUNDAY OFFERING THANK YOU !

Offering for Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014�…�…�…�…�…$14,329.00 Collection Amount Budgeted�…�…�…�…�…�….�…$16,731.00 Week�’s Budget (Shortfall)/Overage�…�…�…�….. $ (2,402.00) Year to Date (Shortfall)/Overage�…�…�…�…�…. $(14,702.00) Our Parish depends on a weekly collection of $16,731.00 to meet our budget. Thank you for your generous support of our parish. Your donations of time, talent, and treasure enables us to provide many ministries and services for the benefit of our parishioners and the local community. God bless you and your family!

From Father John�….. I want to update you on where things stand in our search for a new Principal for our parish school, St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School. Our Principal Search Committee began the process of recruiting outstanding candidates for the position of school principal in mid-December. The process has been thorough, vigorous and exhaustive. We have received many applications for the position and a number of them are outstanding candidates. To date, the committee has done the following:

Developed the formal process we would follow in our search.Developed and published a parent, staff and parishioner survey to gather input from our community that we would use in

selecting a new principal.Developed initial criteria, characteristics and attributes to help us define what an outstanding candidate would be.Studied the survey results to understand the community�’s input and the specific needs that our school has at this time.Developed Interview Rubric design .Developed Questioning Protocols including questions based on the input from the survey results.Selected those applicants who fit our criteria and rubrics for interviewsBegan the interview process.

Please be aware that our single, greatest priority in this search is what is, overall, best for our school children. I want to thank everyone who responded to our parent, staff and parishioner survey and assure you that I, and the entire search committee, value your input very much. Your response to the survey has been excellent. We had 154 respondents and I think the results are a good representation of the thoughts of the school and parish community. The following are the top seven areas of importance from the survey. These were the areas where more than 50% of the respond-ents thought they were of importance and they are listed in order of importance, highest (79%) to lowest (51%).

Ability to understand children and to communicate with them in a loving and nurturing manner. A commitment to academic excellence that is reflected in a strong academic background and successful experience in curricu-lum development, implementation, and assessment. Ability to form the staff into a cohesive team with clearly recognizable written goals. Openness to differing points of view. Ability to facilitate communication and to develop positive human relationships within the school, the parish, and the commu-nity at large. Ability to provide a school atmosphere that is identifiably Catholic. Recognition of extra-curricular activities (art, music, PE, drama, sports, band, etc.) as important components of the total school program.

The search committee and I agree with this list of priorities for our school but would also expand the list with additional items from the comment sections of the survey. We had two comment areas in the survey and we received a total of 94 responses which is quite good in this type of survey. The search committee and I have studied and analyzed the comments thoroughly in order to un-derstand them completely. We found the comments to be, overall, serious, well thought out and credible. We have used all of the survey input as focal points throughout the search process. Different items on the survey (numbers 3 and 5 above), and many of the comments, point to one thing our school needs going for-ward. Namely, someone who is extremely strong in building relationships, in bringing people together, in building a strong and cohesive team, in building up the community, in bringing the school and the parish communities closer together, in building an environment that says to everyone that we are a family, a community of faith, and that we are in this together. We hope to have a new principal hired in the next few weeks. We will then embark on a process of introducing the new principal to the school and parish community. I want to thank all of you for your prayerful support. I ask that you keep all of us in your prayers as I keep you and your families in my prayers.

Parish News St. Paul�’s �‘FOLLOW�’ Youth Ministry Members always welcome. You must be confirmed and/or in high school! Contact Youth Minister Jeremy Hylka at 815-730-8599 or stpaulsyouth@sbcglobal.net Website: www.stpaulyouth.com Facebook: St. Paul�’s Youth Ministry Joliet Twitter: stpaulsfollow Instagram: stpauljolietyouth Text Message News Reminders: text @drstp to 815-207-8341

FOLLOW Night �– Tues., Feb. 4, doors open at 5:30pm; meeting from 6:30-9pm; Theology of the Body.

Steve Angrisano Mission�– Feb. 9-11 with St. Jude�’s New Lenox Youth Ministry.

R.E.P. NEWS In need of information about

Our Religious Education Program? Please call the REP office at 815-725-6927

On Monday, February 3, the second of two Confirmation es-says for 7th graders will be assigned in both school and REP. The tile is �“What is the Catholic Church? Why do I belong?�” REP will also begin the safe environment curricu-lum during REP class time. February newsletters will be dis-tributed on February 3. On Monday, February 10, there will be a mandatory Confir-mation 2015 family meeting from 7:15 until 8:30 in Church. All candidates for Confirmation 2015 must be in at-tendance with a parent or sponsor. For more information, please call Sr. Karen at 815-725-6927.

St. Paul the Apostle Catholic School News

We have completed Catholic Schools Week with celebrations each day, including a meeting of Faith Families to share the emblems from each of their patron Saints, a prayer/music/dance assembly, our wonderful social studies fair, a pair of very special Masses, and the annual staff vs. Student Council volleyball game, to name a few. It was good to see so many at the Open House last Sunday to kick off the week. If you know of a family that might be interested in Catholic education, en-courage them to call the school for a tour and information about financial aid that can make it possible. This coming week, our 5th and 8th graders will take the annual nation-wide religion exam which we use throughout the Dio-cese to measure growth in both knowledge of the Faith and attitudes that reflect putting the Faith into practice in daily life. These exams provide solid evidence that our graduates are meeting the goal of Catholic education. Our first ever Annual Fund is coming to an end. There is still time to be a part of something big as our many generous do-nors have provided over $26,000 in pledges and over $25,000 in donations to-date. As always, we are grateful for the sup-port of our parishioners.

-Mrs. Robbins

Protecting God�’s Children

Workshop

At St. Paul the Apostle

Feb. 18, 2014

6:15pm to 9:00pm

Activity Center Room A 4

For information please contact Sr. Karen Marie Lanigan at

815-725-6927

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Thursday, February 6 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:00pm Children�’s Choir Church 3:45pm Interviews w/ Diana A 2 3:45pm Basketball Practice Gym 6:30pm Adult Choir Practice Church 7:00pm Spirit & Truth Convent/Church Friday, February 7 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:45pm Basketball Practice Gym Saturday, February 8 9:00am Basketball Practice Gym 3:00pm Confessions Church 4:30pm Mass Church 5:30pm Music Ensemble Church Sunday, February 9 7:30am Mass Church 9:00am Mass Church 10:00am RCIA Convent 10:30am Mass Church 11:30am Baptisms Church 12:00pm Basketball Practice Gym

Sunday, February 2 7:30am Mass Church 9:00am Mass Church 10:00am RCIA Convent 10:30am Mass Church Monday, February 3 7:30am Mass Church 3:45pm Basketball Practice Gym 5:45pm REP School/All AC 7:00pm A A Meeting A 1 Tuesday, February 4 7:30am Mass Church 8:00am Eucharistic Adoration Church 3:45pm Basketball Games Gym 5:00pm Youth Ministry Convent 6:30pm Boy Scouts School Hall 6:30pm Baptismal Prep. A 1 Wednesday, February 5 8:30am Mass Church 3:45pm Basketball Games Gym 6:15pm Rainbows School 6:00pm Paulite�’s Social A 4

Pray for the Sick Please remember the following people in your prayers who are seriously ill

or who are suffering from long-term illnesses:

For the most current calendar information please go to www.stpauljoliet.com

Patricia Balla Erin Bartel Gerri Bertino Mason Briese Patricia Burda Noemi Canales Laura Criel Sally Drauden Jean Fabich Judith Gahala Harn Family

Matt Gross Sami Henderson James Hickey, Jr. Ann Juhlmann Ann Kane Mary Kaplan Helen Locher Carol Malnar Shirley Max Helen Meyer Terry Meyer

Betty Modlin John Mowbray Jeanie Nunuue Kurt Palmer Kay Prock Walter Ratkovich Amy Remallard Lisa Savero Barbara Schreiner Richard Schreiner Meta Semitekol

Tony Simone Louis Toka Sal Ventura Lorraine Welch

NEXT WEEKEND�’S LITURGICAL CELEBRATIONS TIME READERS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS

Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:30 PM A Kokosz/ R Lemke P Larrangaga/ R Baskerville/ R Ward G Wheeler/ E Cora/ J & K Anzalone Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:30 AM C Hinkleman/ A Henderson G Dollinger/ A Prock/ C Schultz/ C Lehman K Briick/ L Briick/ C Lukowski 9:00 AM A Theobald/ K Denardo P Bowden/ P Gimbel/ L Nichols/ M Walsh M Kucek/ D Bailey/ S Smith 10:30 AM M L Crossen/ B Bodach P Bodach/ M Knorr/ L Garcia/ J Hatfield D Fonza/ N Louck/ B Bayci

Next Weekend�’s Servers: Saturday, February 8, 2014 4:30 PM S Rand/ P Kasheimer/ J Kollross Sunday, February 9, 2014 7:30 AM N Brozyna/ Z Offerman/ J Bolek 9:00 AM T Sarcletti/ A Sarcletti/ G Hardin 10:30AM M Benton/ I Todd/ G Sigler

DEAR LORD WE PRAY FOR THE RETURN OF

OUR TROOPS TO SAFE SHORES

For Information or to register Contact Deacon John

Call: 630-212-6002 Email: jfreund@dioceseofjoliet.org

Discovering Christ Coming to St. Paul the Apostle Parish!

Enjoy a light dinner, listen to dynamic teaching and join in a small group discussion about the meaning of life in Jesus Christ. Discovering Christ is a seven-week series that will begin Wednesday January 22nd at 6:30pm and includes a life-changing retreat on Saturday, March 1st. Wednesday meeting dates are 1/22, 1/29, 2/12, 2/19, 2/26, 3/19 and 3/26.

This course is designed for you to revitalize your faith or to bring your friends and family who have been away from the church and are open to exploring the meaning of life in Jesus Christ. Check out the You Tube video at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-QPh2_3n2k

Special Offer: If you are a baptized Catholic, age 18 or over, have received First Eucharist, but have never been confirmed this program could serve as preparation for the Sacrament of Confirmation. Con-tact Deacon John for more information.

Mary and Joseph were Faithful to the Law of Moses let us be faithful to God�’s law. En-rich your Sacrament of Marriage. Attend the next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend on February 14-16, 2014. Contact Jim and Kris McCulloch, 630-577-0778. For more information visit our website at: wwwmejoliet.org.

FACTS GRANT AND AID Applications are now being accepted by FACTS for grants and aid for education. You should apply online at www.factsmgt.com/aid Please make sure your application is submitted with all required attachments no later than February 28, 2014. If you have any questions you may call Lynne at the Rectory at 815-725-1527 ext. 200.

Tuition Assistance for Catholic School Students The Catholic Education Foun-dation (CEF) for the Diocese of

Joliet distributes hundreds of needs-based scholarships each

year. Students enrolled in K-12 are eligible to apply for financial assistance to help cover the cost

of tuition. This school year 1742 students received

$1.8 million in financial aid. Families are encouraged to complete the on line fi-nancial aid application through FACTS Grant and Aid by the March 1 deadline. More information and links can be found at the Catholic Education

Foundation website: www.dioceseofjoliet.org/edfoundation

or directly through the FACTS grant and aid website at https://online.factsmgt.com/aid

COOKIE DOUGH

The school has tubs of cookie dough available for sale at $10 per tub. Just spoon out the dough and bake. Types avail-able are:

Choc. Chip (no nuts)

Strawberry Shortcake Cranberry Oatmeal Mint Choc. Chunk

Oatmeal Raisin Triple Chunk Snickerdoodle Peanut Butter

Macadamia Nut Brownie Rounds Brownie�—Pan

Pretzels Please contact Christine Merriman at the school at 815-725-3390

The Diocese of Joliet Voca-tion Office will be sponsoring a trip to St. John Vianney College Seminary for all young men ages 16-24. February 13 �– February 15, 2014 - St. John Vianney Seminary in St. Paul, MN. There is no cost for this event. Fr. Bill Vagenas, parochial vicar of St. Michael Parish in Wheaton will be leading this trip along with one or two of our current seminarians. Thursday, February 13th 9am �–leave from the Home Depot at Butterfield and I-355. We should arrive at the seminary between 3-4pm. Saturday, February 15th We will leave the seminary after Mass and breakfast in the morning and arrive at the Home Depot around 5pm The next trip will be in November 2014. 1) Fill out the attached permission form and return it to me. Please return a copy to Fr. Burke at frburke23@aol.com or fax it to 815-727-4675, or by mail: Fr. Burke Masters, Blanchette Catholic Center, 16555 Weber Road, Crest Hill, IL 60403. 2) Fill out the attached registration form and return it to me AND Mary Frame (information is on the bottom of the form) For more information visit - http://www.stthomas.edu/vianney/vianneyvisit/

Administra ve Assistant �– Diocese of Joliet

The Diocese of Joliet�’s Development O ce is seeking a full-me Administra ve Assistant. The Administra ve Assistant is

responsible for all administra ve aspects of the Development O ce and performs work necessary for the e cient and e ec ve opera on of the Department. This posi on also plays an important role by providing support and par cipa-

on in special event ac vi es. Must be able to handle and maintain conden al informa on. A minimum of three to ve years�’ experience in an administra ve posi on is re-quired. Knowledge of basic o ce management and organiza-

on is required. In addi on to handling many di erent secre-tarial du es, must be able to prepare Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presenta ons and develop a working knowledge of the Development Department database por olio. Must be organized and able to priori ze work and meet deadlines with the ability to work independently with minimal supervi-sion and have excellent verbal and wri en communica ons skills. Bilingual in Spanish and English a plus. To view a com-plete job descrip on check the Diocese of Joliet website at: www.dioceseo oliet.org, under employment. Applicants mee ng the necessary qualica ons must submit a cover le er, resume and salary requirement to: humanresources@dioceseo oliet.org.