1233 S. 45TH ST. WEST MILWAUKEE, WI 53214

AUGUST 26, 2018 Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time

MASSES Saturday (Anticipated) ....................... 4:00 pm

Sunday ............................................... 8:00 am

Monday thru Friday ............................. 5:00 pm (celebrated in Our Lady’s Chapel)

Evening before Holy Day (Anticipated)

........................................................... 7:00 pm (celebrated in the Main Church - no 5:00 pm Mass)

Holy Day ............................................... 8:00 am (celebrated in the Main Church - no 5:00 pm Mass)

Holidays ................................................ 8:00 am (celebrated in Our Lady’s Chapel - no 5:00 pm Mass)

CONFESSIONS Saturdays ............................................... 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm (or upon request at the parish office)

FOOD PANTRY 3rd Monday of month ............................. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm (in Carmel Hall)

HELPING HANDS Outreach for the elderly & homebound. Elaine Croft ............................................. 615-7124

Mary Queen of Saints Catholic Academy (Our Parish Cluster School) Greenfield Ave. Campus

1435 S. 92nd St. • West Allis, WI 53214 ... 476-0751

PARISH STAFF Administrator: Fr. Ralph-Elias Haddix, O.C.D. Parish Secretary: Miriam M. Acevedo

ST. FLORIAN PARISH OFFICE 1210 S. 45th St.

Phone ...................................................... 383-3565 ext. 0 Fax .......................................................... 383-2708 Email .................... stflorian@archmil.org Website ...................... www.stflorian.org

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Parish Office Closed on Mondays Tuesday thru Friday

9:00 am - 1:00 pm

PASTORAL COUNCIL Chairperson: Kate Klister ...................... 350-9217 Vice Chair: Mary Costello ..................... 383-0513 Trustee: Russell Miller........................... 671-2385 Trustee: Sandy Kania ............................. 672-0364

MUSIC DIRECTORS Joseph Carpenter - 4:00 pm Sat. choir….. 430-3425 Diane Bersch - 8:00 am Sun. choir……... 541-8109

CHRISTIAN FORMATION OFFICE DRE - Director of Religious Education High School/Confirmation Program RCIA-Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults RCIC-Rite of Christian Initiation of Children Barbara Krieger ...................................... 541-7515 ext.39 2318 S. 61st St. , Milwaukee, WI 53219

SACRAMENTS Baptism Parish registration and parental instruction required. Please contact the parish office.

Marriage Please arrange for a date and instructions at least six months in advance at the parish office. Parish registration is required.

Anointing of the Sick

PARISH MEMBERSHIP Each family or single adult 18 years old or older living at home or alone is invited and expected to be registered in our parish family at the parish office. Please call the parish office.

“Please Remember St Florian Parish in your will”

Saint Florian Staffed by the Discalced Carmelite Friars

A CONSIDERATION FROM YOUR ADMINISTRATOR

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ST. FLORIAN PARISH - AUGUST 26, 2018

Saturday, Aug. 25 - Twenty-First Sun. in Ordinary Time 4:00 pm Peter Cychosz Family

Sunday, Aug. 26 - Twenty-First Sun. in Ordinary Time 8:00 am †Kate Finunovic

Monday, Aug. 27 - Saint Monica

5:00 pm Nguyen Family

Tuesday, Aug. 28 - Saint Augustine, Bishop & Doctor of the Church

5:00 pm †Reno Kucharski

Wednesday, Aug. 29 -The Passion of Saint John the Baptist

5:00 pm †Dale King

Thursday, Aug. 30

5:00 pm †Marty Palm

Friday, Aug. 31

5:00 pm †Anna Nghiem

Saturday, Sept. 1- Twenty-Second Sun. in Ordinary Time

4:00 pm †Homer & Phyllis Mikolajczak

Sunday, Sept. 2 - Twenty-Second Sun. in Ordinary Time

8:00 am †Gene Croft

S ome of Jesus’ disciples refuse to accept His command to eat His Body and drink His Blood. He Who is the Bread from Heaven; that is, the Food of

God, Who is God! Jesus is God become man (Incarnate); from this understanding, this realization, all else falls into place. The gift of God’s Self in our midst, Who becomes for us the Witness, the Example, the Model, the Offering, the Sacrifice, from God to God, Who is God. Jesus requires His disciples to accept His words because it is He Who has spoken them. The disciples are to have faith to believe because of the authority of God Himself Who reveals them and Who can neither be deceived nor deceive. Jesus says that His disciples cannot accept this mystery, this wonder, because they think of it in a too human way, in a too earthly understanding. Only someone who listens to His words and receives them as God’s revelation, which is “Spirit and Life”, is in a position to accept them! Those disciples who went away had closed themselves to divine grace; they were not ready to accept anything, which went beyond their very limited horizons (understanding). St. John Chrysostom helps us to understand such extraordinary requests. He advises us thus: “Let us in everything believe God…though what is said be contrary to our thoughts and senses…let us act likewise in respect to the mysteries, not looking at the things set before us, but keeping in mind His words. For His word cannot deceive.” MyLove&Prayers,

Fr. Ralph-Elias

Sun: Jos 24:1-2a, 15-17, 18b/Ps 34:2-3, 16-17, 18-19, 20-21, 22-23 [9a]/Eph 5:21-32 or 5:2a, 25-32/Jn 6:60-69 Mon: 2 Thes 1:1-5, 11-12/Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 4-5 [3]/Mt 23: 13-22 Tues: 2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17/Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13 [13b]/Mt 23:23-26 Wed: 2 Thes 3:6-10, 16-18/Ps 128:1-2, 4-5 [1]/Mk 6:17-29 Thurs: 1 Cor 1:1-9/Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7 [1]/Mt 24:42-51 Fri: 1 Cor 1:17-25/Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 10-11 [5]/Mt 25:1-13 Sat: 1 Cor 1:26-31/Ps 33:12-13, 18-19, 20-21 [12]/Mt 25: 14-30 Next Sun: Dt 4:1-2, 6-8/Ps 15:2-3, 3-4, 4-5 [1a]/Jas 1:17-18, 21b- 22, 27/Mk 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

August 25th - August 31st

In loving memory of:

†Frances Kania

ETERNAL FLAME

August 21st

Von Roberts

CALENDAR RAFFLE WINNER

READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF AUG. 26th

MASS INTENTIONS

August 25th ~ Sept. 2nd

CATHOLIC QUOTES - WORDS TO INSPIRE THE FAITHFUL

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

-- St. Augustine

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ST. FLORIAN PARISH - AUGUST 26, 2018

Sunday, August 26 8:00 am ............... Mass

Wednesday, August 29 1:00 pm ............... Jubiliation Choir in Fellowship Room 3:00 pm ............... Divine Mercy Group in Fellowship Room

Thursday, August 30 4:00 pm ............... Eucharistic Adoration in Our Lady’s Chapel

Saturday, Sept. 1 2:00 pm ............... Bell Choir in Carmel Hall 2:30 pm ............... Confessions in the main church 4:00 pm ............... Mass

Sunday, Sept. 2 8:00 am ............... Mass Monday, Sept. 3 - Labor Day 8:00 am ............... Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel No 5:00 pm Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel

Tony Acevedo Pat Balistrieri Tom Beale Catherine Becker Diane Bersch Mike Best Brinley Bilke Michelle Bilke Kate Borchardt Joshua Catania Maribeth Catania Richard Centner, Jr. Beth Cesar Chris Cesar Sharon Craige Judith Culver Sr. Geraldine Dalhman Denise De Lopez David Demos-Kuehl Dorothy Dietrich Barbara DiGiorgio Gregg Dufek Steve Dufek Susan Dufek Paula Duncan Janean Enriquez Dixie Fengier Adeline Flintrop Gerald Gauthier Camille Ginski Rita Godejohn Steve Goesch

Kathy Grabowski Gloria Gunderson Ralph Haas June Hankey Arlene Horton Jill Jenear Romaine Kaiser Mary Ann Kania Denyel Karlovich John Kischefsky Kathy Kleisath Marisa Kleisath Stanley & Audrey Klescewski Paul Klister Michael Kolodzyk Ruth Kressl Leroy Krygiel Dennis & Nancy Kuhs Kristopher Kyrola Dorothea Lannin Jerry & Rosie Lemmermann James McGivern Russell Miller Greg Milo Lillian Montgomery Candy Netterfield Family Janet Omick Vinny Pena Barbara Peterson

Mary Philbert David Potter Mary Puls Tiffany Ramos Patrick Redmond Nolan Reise Sr. Colombiere Revelant, CSA Joseph & Karen Rice Joel Rivera Sue Robertson Robert Roy Michelle Schipae Mr. & Mrs. Frank Schultz Richard & Nancy Schupp Mary & Jim Shawlin Ernest Terrien Carolyn Toby Betty Vogel Dorothea Wais Gilbert Walter Jennifer Welch Edie Wurcer Mary Joyce Wustrow Gloria Zelazek Daniel Zeller Susan Zielinski Bernie Zimney John Zuehlke

MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Nothing to do during the cold months? Then come and join us -

St. Florian’s non-traveling Darball Leaque

1st & 3rd Thursday of the Month

From September thru April

7:00 pm - 9:30 pm

(In Carmel Hall)

$3.00 a night

To sign up, contact Mary Costello: (414) 383-0513

DARTBALL LEAQUE

Monday, September 3rd

8:00 am........ Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel

(No 5:00 pm Mass in Our Lady’s Chapel)

LABOR DAY

PLEASE PRAY FOR...

MELISSA HOEFFLER & BRIAN TAMEZ

EMILY WOOD & JAMES HOEFFLER

September 22, 2018

Father, please hear the prayers for Melissa & Brian and for Emily & James who will be united in marriage before Your altar. Give them Your blessings, and strenghthen their love for each other.

We, Your people of St. Florian Parish, ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, One God forever and ever. Amen.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

- Norman Cousins

WEDDING BANNS

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME ST. FLORIAN PARISH - AUGUST 26, 2018

Eucharistic Adoration is held here in our Parish at Our Lady’s Chapel every Thursday at 4:00 pm. (One hour before the 5:00 pm Mass) All parishioners are encouraged to come together in prayer before the Real Presence of God found in the exposed Blessed Sacrament. Please be generous with your time and join the other faithful in experiencing Christ’s greatest gift given to the Church, the abiding presence of Jesus who desires to feed us, heal us, strengthen us and mold us into his own body. -Fr. Thomas Otanga, O.C.D.

Does the parish have your current address? Are you receiving the quarterly packets of your “Church Offering Envelopes” and other parish mailings? Please help save the parish the added expense of “Postage Due” fees from the returned envelope packets. Please remember to notify the parish office of any address and phone number changes. THANK YOU!

Have You Moved Within The Last 6 Months?

Eucharistic Adoration

Magnificat® A Ministry to Catholic Women

You’re Invited! Join us on Sat, Sept. 22 from 9:00 am - 12:00 pm for a Special Morning Breakfast with Suzanne Fournier, a newly published author: Her memoirs, “Life After Diapers,” is her journey from a stay-at home mother with seven children into the workforce at the age of forty. Hilton Garden Inn, 11600 W. Park Pl., Milwaukee $18 if postmarked before Sept. 15 $25 if postmarked after Sept. 15

Mail a check with a self-addressed, stamped envelope to Karen Lambie, Magnificat, 1025 Silverwood Pl., West Bend, WI 53090 (please include phone # on check) Call Terri Biertzer at 262-853-3349 All ticket orders must be postmarked by Sept. 18 Tickets cannot be purchased at the door without prior reservation. Order online at: www.magnificat-wb.com

The Sunday after Labor Day, the Alumnae Association at Mount Mary University, a 4-year Catholic university located in Milwaukee, annually sponsors the Starving Artists’ Show. This year’s show will be held on Sunday, Sept. 9 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the grounds of Mount Mary. The show features over 200 artists who specialize in pottery, jewelry, painting, glass, sculpture and more. Admission is $10 and helps support student scholarships.

Starving Artists’ Show

The Greater Milwaukee Dental Association along with Marquette University School of Dentistry will again host the Give Kids A Smile Dental Day. The event will take place at Marquette University School of Dentistry on Saturday, October 6th from 8:00am to 12:00pm noon. This event is a collaboration with the Milwaukee area Head Start Programs and includes the volunteerism of Milwaukee area dentists, dental hygienists, dental students, and community organizers. On October 6th, children ages 3-16 will receive FREE dental exams, toothbrush polish, and fluoride varnish. Children will also have treatment completed on a first come first serve basis. We will also schedule children for follow-up and routine care at participating dental providers throughout the month of October.

Give Kids a Smile Dental Day

St. Florian Parish has had the Scrip Fundraising Program in place for over 20 years and has appreciated the steady profit the program has earned. It seems, however that many parishioners are not familiar with the program. The concept is simple:

Scrip Fundraising Program

1. St. Florian’s purchases gift cards, or scrip from popular retailers at a discount.

2. Parishioners then buy the gift cards at face value.

That’s it. The profit is generated by difference in price from the discount the retailer gives to the full face value that you purchase the card at. These are the

same gift cards you see at the store. You’re probably familiar with giving them as a gift. However, these gift cards/scrips can also be used on your own spending. The retailers are happy to give the discount because they’re guaranteeing themselves customers and some goodwill advertising and parishioners are raising money for St.

Florian’s without any additional out of pocket cost. The only cost is the effort you put forth to stop and purchase the cards. Scrip is available in the back of church afte Mass and at the parish office, Tues. thru Fri. from 9am - 1pm.

For those who remember our dear Sister of St. Agnes, Sister Annettte Herr, her address is:

375 Gillett Street, Fond Du Lac, WI 54935