TWENTY SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

KidsRelig 2012-2013 Calendar--click here

September 23--10AM:  Mass, Open House, Reception for First Graders & Families

October 2, 3, 4:  First Days of KidsRelig

Welcome Back!--that’s the message of today’s gospel as Jesus stares down the religious leaders with all their roadblocks to being right with God.  It’s not the outside stuff, but the inside stuff that makes the difference.  And that inside stuff can be tapped into any time.  Whenever we’re ready, Jesus is there to say, “Welcome back.”

What a perfect gospel for this Labor Day Weekend, which has become a sign of new beginnings in our culture.  We shake off the summer and get ready for the fall and a new academic year--new experiences, new learning, new achievements.  It’s a time to make better what we’ve made right and to make right what we’ve made wrong. 

Today’s Gospel tells us that it’s always that time, and Jesus is ready for us.  Maybe we haven’t crossed every Catholic “t” or dotted every Catholic “i.”  Jesus is ready for us.  Maybe there is a missed Mass or two, a child who hasn’t been baptized, a marriage that hasn’t been blessed.  Jesus is ready for us. 

So don’t sweat the outside stuff; tap into the inside stuff, and get in touch with any of us at St. John and St. Mary.  Get in touch; get connected again.  And welcome back!

KidsRelig Registration

Keep it coming!!!

PLEASE REGISTER NOW!  Go to the Religious Education Page of the Parish Website where you will find a welcoming letter and important links at the top of the page. There are two links:

• 2012-2013 Registration Form
• 2012-2013 Fees & Payment Options Page with credit card payment program. 

Here's the link to the Religious Education Page. Click here>>>ReligEdPage

For newcomers, it’s quick and easy.  For veterans, it’s as easy as ever.

(Bus registration will come later, once we see how many have registered for KidsRelig.)

KidsRelig First-Timers

REGISTER & GET CONNECTED

Are you new to the parish or is your #1 going into First Grade?  It is so important that you register as soon as possible.  Registration gets you into our email address book, which is the lifeline of communication for KidsRelig.  You won’t know what’s happening unless you are connected online.

 Sacramental & Enrollment Record

When you register your child for KidsRelig, you will receive a Confirmation Email for each child registered.  The email will request that you complete one more form—KidsRelig Sacramental and Enrollment Record.  The link to the form is right in the email; click on it and please fill in the form.  It takes just a few minutes.

This new form will be a big help in organizing and updating our records. 

Also, the Confirmation Email is a way of making sure that we have your most recent email in our KidsRelig address book.

Love,

Deacon Charlie

TWENTY FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Another summertime story about Hudson and Pop!

We were on our way to the beach; Hudson was running ahead, and Pop was lagging behind when his flipflop caught a crack in the sidewalk.  Hudson did a quick about-face to help Pop up from the concrete.  Nothing more than scraped hands and knees, but they inspired a Hudsonism for the day:

“Pop, bad things happen; you just keep going.”

In today’s gospel, many of Jesus’ disciples didn’t keep going.  They heard hard things to accept; even some that shocked them.  The irony is that they didn’t even stick around long enough to see and hear the hardest things of all.  For those who stayed, things were just as hard and just as shocking, but with Peter, they asked, “Master, to whom shall we go?”

Why do we stay?  It’s all so hard, and some is downright shocking.  There can only be one reason; the Father has drawn us to the One who speaks Spirit and life.  Everything else is just everything else.  After all, “Bad things happen; you just keep going.”

KidsRelig Registration

WOW!!!  Momentum is building.

PLEASE REGISTER NOW!  Go to the Religious Education Page of the Parish Website where you will find a welcoming letter and important links at the top of the page. There are two links:

• 2012-2013 Registration Form
• 2012-2013 Fees & Payment Options Page with credit card payment program. 

Here's the link to the Religious Education Page. Click here>>>ReligEdPage

For newcomers, it’s quick and easy.  For veterans, it’s as easy as ever.

(Bus registration will come later, once we see how many have registered for KidsRelig.)

KidsRelig First-Timers

REGISTER & GET CONNECTED

Are you new to the parish or is your #1 going into First Grade?  It is so important that you register as soon as possible.  Registration gets you into our email address book, which is the lifeline of communication for KidsRelig.  You won’t know what’s happening unless you are connected online.

 Sacramental & Enrollment Record

When you register your child for KidsRelig, you will receive a Confirmation Email for each child registered.  The email will request that you complete one more form—KidsRelig Sacramental and Enrollment Record.  The link to the form is right in the email; click on it and please fill in the form.  It takes just a few minutes.

This new form will be a big help in organizing and updating our records. 

Also, the Confirmation Email is a way of making sure that we have your most recent email in our KidsRelig address book.

FIRST DAYS for KidsRelig

October 2, 3 and 4

Full-year’s Calendar Coming Soon.

Watch for it!

Love,

Deacon Charlie

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Ordinary XX

                                                Love hosts guests

                                                With bread broken

                                                And wine passed

                                                To change guests

                                                To host

                                                Unbroken memory

                                                Of love without passing.

                                                Memory feeds on

                                                Bread and wine,

                                                Only to eat and drink

                                                Body and blood,

                                                Given, not taken,

                                                For giving

                                                To all who take.

                                                Break and pass

                                                Seek to satisfy;

                                                Memory becomes not enough.

                                                Eat and drink

                                                Disturb;

                                                Body and blood change host

                                                To guest within us Love.

KidsRelig Registration

Getting there!!!

PLEASE REGISTER NOW!    Go to the Religious Education Page of the Parish Website where you will find a welcoming letter and important links at the top of the page. There are two links:

• 2012-2013 Registration Form
• 2012-2013 Fees & Payment Options Page with credit card payment program. 

Here's the link to the Religious Education Page. Click here>>>ReligEdPage

For newcomers, it’s quick and easy.  For veterans, it’s as easy as ever.

(Bus registration will come later, once we see how many have registered for KidsRelig.)

KidsRelig First-Timers

REGISTER & GET CONNECTED

Are you new to the parish or is your #1 going into First Grade?  It is so important that you register as soon as possible.  Registration gets you into our email address book, which is the lifeline of communication for KidsRelig.  You won’t know what’s happening unless you are connected online.

 Sacramental & Enrollment Record

When you register your child for KidsRelig, you will receive a Confirmation Email for each child registered.  The email will request that you complete one more form—KidsRelig Sacramental and Enrollment Record.  The link to the form is right in the email; click on it and please fill in the form.  It takes just a few minutes.

This new form will be a big help in organizing and updating our records. 

Also, the Confirmation Email is a way of making sure that we have your most recent email in our KidsRelig address book.

Love,

Deacon Charlie