St. Joseph Catholic Church Josephville

Founded 1852 1390 Josephville Road Rectory/Office: 636-332-6676 Wentzville, MO 63385 www.stjojo.net School: 636-332-5672

Reverend Robert Samson, Pastor Email: frsamson@stjojo.net Sacramental Emergency: 314-606-2023 Deacon Fielding Harrison & Deacon David Billing Email: DavidBilling@archstl.org Trish Seaman, Parish Secretary Parish Office/Secretary: trish.seaman@stjojo.net Jill Nance, School Principal School Office/Principal: jill.nance@stjojo.net

MASSES: Weekday: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. and Tuesday 7:00 p.m. Sunday: Saturday 5:15 p.m., Sunday 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. Holyday: To be announced as scheduled

CONFESSIONS: Tuesday 6:30-6:50 p.m. Friday 7:30-7:50 a.m. Saturday 4:30-5:05 p.m. Sunday 7:00-7:20 a.m.

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT: NEW PARISHIONERS: Tuesday 8:30 a.m.-7:00 p.m. Please call the Rectory to register

BAPTISMS: By appointment MOVING: Please let us know.

PERPETUAL HELP DEVOTIONS: PRIESTHOOD AND RELIGIOUS LIFE: After Tuesday Masses If interested, please contact the parish rectory or the Vocation Office at 314-792-6460 MARRIAGE: Arrangements must be made at BULLETIN: Deadline is Tuesday at Noon least six months in advance.

Pipe Organ $300,000 Stained Glass $150,000 Total Church Building $1,777,599 Rectory Building $372,975 Preschool Building $319,744 Bus Garage $117,092 School Building $2,264,704

Dynamic Catholic, Alive! Mary as a Model

We may know a lot about the Blessed Virgin Mary - celebrating her Immaculate Conception, her birth, the Annunciation, her glorious Assumption, etc. How can we sum it up? This way: Mary is the only human creature who shows us that God’s original plan for us - that we could always choose in accord with His Divine Will - was possible. Think about it - without Mary, how many of us would be wondering if any of us could get close? Let her “yes” inspire us. (CCC 484-507)

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St. Joseph Parish Mission Statement In response to our baptismal call from Jesus Christ, we the people of St. Joseph Parish, as members of the Roman Catholic Church,

desire to live and teach our faith in our families, school, and workplace, relying on the Word of God and the grace of the sacraments, especially the Holy Eucharist.

December 4, 2016 SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT

December 5 through 11

Mass Intentions

Mon 8:00 a.m. Paul Rothermich Tue 8:00 a.m. Betty Piel Tue 7:00 p.m. Robert Mennemeier Family L & D Wed 8:00 a.m. Charlie Wilmes & Andrew Norton Wed 7:00 p.m. Clara Panke Thu 8:00 a.m. Fr. Ike Thu 7:00 p.m. Frances Westhoff Fri 8:00 a.m. Todd Heppermann Sat 5:15 p.m. Leanne Wortmann Sun 7:30 a.m. Parish Sun 10:00 a.m. Grace Cornett

Server’s Schedule

Monday thru Friday 8:00am Maddie Mulnix & Aidan Blair Sat 5:15pm Aidan Blair, Lillian Blair, Jackson Blair Sun 7:30am Maddie Mulnix & Tate Mulnix 10:00am Grace Harr & James Harr Cross Bearer: Andrew Schwerdt

Lectors

Sat 5:15pm Vickie Gilb Sun 7:30am Dolores Fitzgerald Sun 10:00am Carolyn Richardson

Ushers

Sat 5:15pm Bill Luetkenhaus & Sean Martin Sun 7:30am Joe Kersting & Ted Eggering Sun 10:00am Ray Orf & Jerry Fischer

Gift Family

Sat 5:15pm Jennifer & Richard Zolper Sun 7:30am John & Leanne Hoff Sun 10:00am Chris Schneider Family

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

Sat 5:15pm Steve Thielker, Donna Thielker, Norm Ritter Sun 7:30am Tom Schaefer, Alice Roettger, Rita Schulte Sun 10:00am Deacon Billing, Bonnie Roettger, Larry Bean

Rosary

Sat 4:50pm Tom & Lorraine Wilmes

Vocation Prayer Chalice If you are willing to have the Vocation Prayer Chalice in your

home for a week, please call the parish office.

When we reflect on how blessed we are to have our basic needs met such as food, shelter, water,

and electricity, we need to keep in mind our neighbors who are not as fortunate. I want to thank all those who gave donations last weekend to help the needy in our community. We have already begun providing assistance to those in need. As you can see from the offering report below, we are behind in meeting our parish budget at this time. If you are behind in your tithing, the end of the year is a good time to catch up. Recently the Archdiocese had our parish assets ap-praised. This is done every five years. Below are the results of what the replacement value is at this time: Let us pray for each other this week.

Father Bob Samson

Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception Holy Day of Obligation

Mass Schedule Wed., Dec. 7 at 7:00pm

Thu., Dec. 8 at 8:00am & 7:00pm

SCRIP CONTEST— Now through Dec. 19. Students have a chance to win free scrip by having

the most sales! First place will win $30 in scrip, second place will win $20 in scrip, and third place will win $10 in scrip. CHRISTMAS PARADE & FUNDRAISER - Sun., Dec. 4. St. Joseph School will have a float in the Wentzville Christmas Parade. The parade will begin at 5pm at Budget Towing on Luetkenhaus Blvd, travel south on Luetkenhaus Blvd, then head west on Pearce Blvd, ending at the Wentzville Firehouse. Be-fore the parade, visit Ellbee’s General Store located at 6 W. Main St. between 1-5pm. Our St. Joseph teachers will be man-ning the soda and drink shop for the afternoon. Stop by and purchase a warm drink and snack and a portion of your pur-chase will be donated back to the school.

William Bartold Lucille Bean John Brugmann Parker Calbreath John Dungan

Karla Haddock Alice Heppermann Mikayla Hoff Donny Kopmann Lucy Menne

Bob Roettger Grace Roettger Jim Rothermich Mary Tepen Tim Tuschhoff

Stewardship Awareness “Therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.” Matthew 3:10 Do you bear good fruit for Christ? Or do you spend your time, talent and treasure constantly acquiring more toys, clutter and junk. Our time, our talent and our treasure are gifts that God has given us. What we do with them is our gift back to God. What gifts are you planning to give to the Lord during this upcoming Christmas season.

Euchre tournament There will be a Euchre Tournament sponsored by the Knights of Columbus next Sat., Dec. 10 at 7pm in the cafeteria and every second Saturday through March 2017. These tourna-ments are open to the public. Cost is $10. Keep your partner. For more information call Ralph Orf at 636-485-5306.

Attn: Ladies of the Parish The Annual Ladies Christmas Party will be Mon, Dec. 5. All ladies of the parish are invited to at-tend! Cocktails start at 6:00pm and dinner is at

6:30pm. Please bring a covered dish. Meat, bread, and des-sert will be provided. If you would like to attend but have not yet RSVP’d, call the parish office. Enjoy an evening of Christmas cheer with your parish family!

Breakfast with Santa Bring your children to our Breakfast with Santa on Sat., Dec. 10 from 8:30am-11am! Menu includes pancakes, sausage, muffins, bananas, juice, milk & coffee. In addition to a visit and photo with Santa, there will also be crafts, games, face painting, let-ter writing to Santa, and more. Cost is $5 for adults and chil-dren (ages 2 and under are free). Please register by Dec. 7 by filling out the registration form located in the vestibule or on our website at www.stjojo.net. For questions call 636-332-5672. Proceeds will benefit St. Joseph School.

Christmas Poinsettias Each year forty poinsettias are purchased to decorate the Church for Christmas. If you would like to make a donation for a poinsettia in your honor or in memory of a loved one, please send $10 in an envelope along with the name to be rec-ognized and place it in the collection basket, mail it, or bring it to the parish office by Mon., Dec. 19. The names will be printed in the bulletin the weekend after Christmas.

Lectors, ushers, extraordinary ministers, and gift bearers are needed for the Christmas Masses. Please let us know when you would be available. Sign-up sheet is in the vestibule.

National Night of Prayer for Life On the evening of Dec. 8th, the Feast of the Immaculate Con-ception, prayer vigils will be held across the country to pray for an end to abortion and all other sins against life. St. Paul Church in St. Paul, MO will have four hours of prayer to Our Lady of the Americas beginning at 8pm. Join in prayer across America to seek the Lord’s mercy and restore life, liberty, faith and peace.

To the people of St. Joseph Parish, We served just over 1,200 dinners, and your pies put a sweet touch to the holiday. Thank you for your generous donations.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Food Pantry • Come to the cafeteria after Mass next Sun., Dec. 11 for

coffee, donuts, and fellowship. Donations received will benefit Wentzville Birthright.

• There will be no more quilting until after the holidays. Quilting will resume on Mon., Jan. 2.

• Uncooked sausage from the Fall Festival that has been fro-zen into 5 lb. packages is now available for $10 each. We also have 10 lb. tubs of lard for $7.50 each. To purchase, stop by the school between 9am-3pm Mon.-Fri. or call the parish office.

Choir practice for the Christmas Eve 10:00pm Mass will begin Monday evening Dec. 12 at 7pm. All singers welcome! For more information call Connie at 332-6492.

THE GREAT COMMISSION: Key to Evangelization By Michael Horn, Archdiocesan Evangelization Coordinator

Keys are an important image in the Bible. Jesus gave keys to Peter to show his authority in the nascent Church. Keys signified the Steward of the Davidic Kingdom and His author-ity (Is 22:22). The High Priest used his keys for opening the doors so people could enter the Temple. The Holy Spirit gives us keys to use to reach the people we want to evangelize. Hu-mility is one of those keys. Jesus tells us to learn from Him for He is meek and humble of heart (Mt 11:29). St. Bernard of Clairvaux identified the three most important Christian virtues as “Humility, humility, humility.” St. Thomas Aquinas taught us that the inverse of humility, the Deadly Sin of Pride, brings with it disobedience, hypocrisy, contention, obstinacy, discord, and love of discord – things which are obstacles to evangeliza-tion! So in our approach with others, let us be gentle and de-velop friendships. Theological knowledge and good intentions mean nothing if we are not humble like Jesus.

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