Twenty-Fourth Sunday In Ordinary Time 09-16-2018 MASS INTENTIONS & SCHEDULE OF SERVICES Sept. 23rd—Religious Educaon Class Sept. 17th—Parish Life Mtg at St. Joseph at 7pm Sept. 20th—Senior Meals start again! 55yrs+ come for food & fellowship in St. Joseph’s parish hall at Noon. Quesons please call Gretchen Brune at 260-403-0365. Sept. 22nd—Men’s Mtg at St. Joseph at 8:30am Sept. 22nd & 23rd— St. Vincent DePaul Truck at SJ Sept. 24th—St. Catherine Rosary Mtg at 7pm Lector Extraordinary Minister Ushers Servers September 22 (SJ)4:00PM J. Neher J.&D.Osterholt/K. Schneider D.Dietsch/G.Rudolf M. & K. Melcher September 23 (SJ)7:30AM D.Snodgrass J. Haifley/J & T Sorg T.Winans/D. Heit E. & A. Sorg September 23 (SC)9:15AM C. Greulich J. Hilligoss/M. Frazier W. & C. Trabert M. Lickey September 23 (SJ)11:00AM M. Ely R. Neher/L. Sckell/B. Miller L.Smart/D.Meitzler E. Neher Monday September 17 (SJ) 8:00 AM Edna Babcock M/M Leonard Babcock Monday September 17 (VN) 11:00AM Susie & Leonard Keesling M/M Chris Fenimore Tuesday Septmeber 18 (SJ) 8:00 AM Pat Vining Paul Vining Tuesday September 18 (VN) 11:00AM Mrs. Ann Leingang Wednesday September 19 (SJ) 8:00 AM Sally Peppler M/M Ted Sorg Thursday September 20 (SC) 7:00PM Janet Hinen Wilma Fry Friday September 21 (SJ) 8:00AM For the Intenons of James VanDych M/M Thomas VanDych Saturday September 22 (SJ) 4:00PM For the People Sunday September 23 (SJ) 7:30 AM Walter Kehmeyer Kurt Kehmeyer Sunday September 23 (SC) 9:15 AM Gaylen Ed Smith Shirley Smith Sunday September 23 (SJ) 11:00 AM For the Intenons of M/M John Nelson (SJ) St. Joseph (SC) St. Catherine (VN) Victory Noll Sisters Support of Our Parishes St. Catherine St. Joseph Weekly Budget Goal: $1,700.00 $3,900.00 Adult envelopes $1,215.00 $4,897.00 Offertory Income Loose $107.00 $728.00 Children envelopes $9.00 $7.00 Preservaon-Building $727.00 $1,170.00 Voves $16.00 $65.00 Catholic Communicaons $75.00 $285.00 Urgent Prayer Request from our Diocese: The U.S. Bishops urge our parcipaon each Friday in a naonwide Novena for the Legal Protecon of Human Life, August 3-Septhember 28. Parcipants will receive weekly email or text reminders to pray and fast, along with lile-known facts about Roe vs. Wade to share with others. Sign up at www.usccb.org/pray ~~At St. Joseph every Friday (through September 28) aſter 8am Mass you can join fellow parishioners as we pray the rosary to help answer the prayer request from our Bishop~~ Sponsor of the week: The generous sponsors who adverse on the back page help to de- fray the cost of prinng our weekly bullen. Please thank them when you patronize their business. This week our featured sponsor is “S. A. Boyce Corp.” Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend original statement regarding the Grand Jury Report: Read the full statement at hp://www. Diocesefwsb.org/Bishop-Statements Bishop Rhoades response contained within Grand Jury report: To view Bishop Rhoades’ response to excerpts of the foreth statewide invesgang Grand Jury Report number 1. Please keep all the vicms in your prayers. 2018 Annual Diocesan Appeal: To view the 2018 Annual Bishop’s Appeal Video and the various ways to donate (including online via credit or debit card) please visit the following website: hp://diocesefwsb.org/aba Please help make possible the good deeds we (as a Diocese) are able to accomplish with the Diocesan Appeal contribuons. Please help us meet our goals this year to show we understand this money is used for the greater good in our community. Any quesons about the an- nual appeal please let us know at 260-672-2838 M-Thur. 9am to Noon. St. Joseph Rosary Society Members: There will be NO September Meeng. The next Rosary Society meeng will be Tuesday October 9th, so mark your calendar! Cemetery Clean-up: It’s me to remove the Spring and Summer flowers from your loved ones stones; and decorate them with Autumn flowers. Thank you for your connued efforts to make our cemeteries a sacred place and a beauful space. –Fr. Dale Annual Diocesan Appeal: Before watching the Annual Diocesan’s Appeal video, it is im- portant for our diocese to address these painful past few weeks. The horrible revelaons about Archbishop McCarrick and the Pennsylvania grand jury report have brought forth a lot of anger and righteous indignaon. So many have been shaken and dis- turbed upon learning of the awful sins and crimes that have oc- curred within our beloved Church. You are not alone in asking the queson: how do we move forward despite anger and disap- pointment? In the words of Saint Paul: “The love of Christ urges us on.” This theme of the Annual Bishop’s Appeal this year has parcular relevance. It is faith in God and the love of Christ that impelled faithful Catholics to move forward. When there were mes of scandal and corrupon in the 2000-year history of the Catholic Church, the grace of the Holy Spirit moved powerfully, leading the Church to reform and calling her to greater fidelity to the Lord. Urged on by the love of Christ, we are all called to in- crease our prayer, our good works, and our efforts to purify the Church. Saint Paul clung to Jesus in the midst of many tribula- ons that he experienced before his martyrdom. Trusng in the Lord’s love and mercy, we must move forward with the mission that we received from Him: our mission to evangelize, to educate and form our children and young people, to support priestly voca- ons, to serve the poor and needy, and to build up the Body of Christ in our Diocese. That is precisely what your support of the Annual Diocesan’s Appeal helps the diocese to do. Thoughts for the week: “Love more than others think necessary; Trust more than others think wise; Serve more than others think praccal.” -Anonymous “Trust the past to God’s mercy; The present to God’s love; And the future to God’s providence.: - St. Augusne Growing in Faith Giving from a grateful heart In Old Testament mes, a faithful farmer gave the first of his harvest to the temple for God’s use. He under- stood that it was through God’s bless- ing that he had a harvest at all. We, too, can give to God from our grateful hearts . Give God the first, best moments. Many of us rush through our day from the moment we open our eyes. We forget that it is by God’s grace that we are even able to see a new day. Instead, give the first moments of the day to God in prayer. Give thanks to the Lord for He is good. Pay God first. Most of us pay pressing bills first—housing, food, insurance, - and give to the Church from what is leſt. Then we grumble when our parish fundraises to meet its needs. Yet all we have is through God’s blessing in the first place. In face, if we each give to the Sunday collecon for God’s use a first poron of our income—the Biblical 10% for example—all our important needs will be met. God of endless love, hear our cries as we agonize over the harm done to our brothers and sisters, breath wis- dom into our pray- ers, soothe rest- less hearts with hope, steady shak- en spirits with faith: Show us the way to jusce and wholeness. Grant us courage and wisdom, Humility and Grace, so that we may act with jusce and find peace in you.— adapted from the USCCB @Groonetwork