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 Larry Huber, Pastor Pastor: frhuber@stjojo.net Reverend Mr. Fielding Harrison, Deacon Parish Office/Secretary: trish.seaman@stjojo.net Dwight Elmore, Principal School Office/Principal: dwight.elmore@stjojo.net MASSES: Weekday: Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. and Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Sunday: Saturday 5:15 p.m., Sunday 7:30 and 10:00 a.m. Holyday: To be announced as scheduled CONFESSIONS: Tuesday 7:00-7:20 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.-7:30 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.

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.

April 24, 2011 RESURRECTION OF THE LORD

42ND SUNDAY OF CURRENT FISCAL YEAR…..............$7,418 42ND SUNDAY OF LAST FISCAL YEAR……..................$9,692

July 1 thru June 30 Year-to-Date CURRENT FISCAL YEAR……………………..……$385,885 LAST FISCAL YEAR……..………...…..…….…...…$390,301

Building Fund/Capital Campaign APR. 17TH, 2011……….......................................................$196

April 25 through May 1

Mass Intentions

Mon 8:00 a.m. Communion Service Tue 8:00 a.m. Vince & Pat Knaust Tue 7:30 p.m. Dorothy Brown Wed 8:00 a.m. Delores Freymuth Schneider Thu 8:00 a.m. Ernest & Clementine Zerr Fri 8:00 a.m. Mary Theresa Botkin Sat 5:15 p.m. Parish Sun 7:30 a.m. Vicky Brodg Sun 10:00 a.m. Kent Pollman & Nathan Doerr

Server’s Schedule

Monday thru Friday 8:00am Gregory Klein, Kyle Bampton, Ben Cornett Sat 5:15pm Daniel Schroer & Jacob Schultz Cross Bearer: Kaleb Schultz Sun 7:30am Gregory Klein & Conner Knaust 10:00am Matt Luetkenhaus & Luke Marut Cross Bearer: Steven Bender

Lectors

Sat 5:15pm Rita Schulte Sun 7:30am David Billing Sun 10:00am Nathan Doerr & Kent Pollman

Ushers

Sat 5:15pm David Mennemeier & Darin Orf Sun 7:30am Dave Richardson & Jim Brugmann Sun 10:00am Harry Wilmes & Joseph Wanko

Gifts

Sat 5:15pm Brian Aston Family Sun 7:30am Nick & Vicki Gilb Sun 10:00am Don & Bonnie Roettger

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion Sat 5:15pm Esther Aston, Sheila Dove, Judy Orf Sun 7:30am Nathan Doerr, Kent Pollman, Larry Bean Sun 10:00am Deacon Harrison, Margie Wilmes, David Lopez

Rosary Sat 4:50pm Rita Schulte

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY Next Sunday, May 1st, is Divine Mercy Sunday. Ways to pre-pare for and observe the Feast of Mercy are:

1. Pray the Chaplet of Divine Mercy Novena. 2. Celebrate the Feast on the Sunday after Easter. 3. Place complete trust in Jesus. 4. Go to confession, preferably prior to that Sunday. 5. Receive Holy Communion on the Feast Day. 6. Venerate the Image of The Divine Mercy. 7. Be merciful to others through actions, words, and

prayers on their behalf. St. Joseph Church in Cottleville will be celebrating Divine Mercy Sunday with Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Con-fessions, and the Rosary beginning at 2:30pm followed by the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated at 4:00pm. For more information call Alice Sinak at 636-300-4465.

Congratulations to Chelsea Bollinger, Sarah Eberle and T.J. Savage III in receiving the Sacraments and joining in full Communion with the Catholic Church. We welcome you with great joy to our parish family. May your love for our Eucha-ristic Lord and His Church grow stronger in the days to come.

Many people think that Christmas is the most important day in the Catholic liturgi-cal calendar, but from the earliest days of the Church, Easter has been considered the central Christian feast. As Saint Paul wrote in 1 Co-rinthians 15:14, "If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain." Without Easter—without the Resur-rection of Christ—there would be no Christian

Faith. Christ's Resurrection is the proof of His Divinity. Easter is not only the greatest Christian feast; it is the fulfillment of our faith as Christians. Through His Death, Christ destroyed our bondage to sin; through His Resurrection, He brought us the promise of new life, both in Heaven and on earth. His own prayer, "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven," begins to be fulfilled on Easter Sunday.

Save your aluminum cans and drop them off in the small red pump house between the rectory and the playground. Proceeds benefit the St. Joseph FED Youth Group.

Kim Alexander Sherri Aston Rosalie Avis Jim Brugmann Angie Courtois Raymond Eden Jake Franzel Amanda Greer Bernice Haddock Jim Healey

Bert Heitman Mikayla Hoff Ed Josephson Bill & Wilma Kennedy Mason Louzader Craig Miller Joe Miller Joshua Miller Adam Mueller Delight Mulderig

Pat Parr Roberta Perotti Bob Roettger Romie Rothermich Rich Schneider Glenn Schroer Gail Stock Delores Wilmes Gavin Wilmes Kevin Zumwalt

Stewardship Awareness “If then you were raised with Christ, seek what is above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Think of what is above, not of what is on earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 Easter is a good time to recommit ourselves to a simpler lifestyle - concentrating more of our efforts on what God wants from us and less of our efforts on what we want for ourselves. Jesus sacrificed every-thing for us. What can we sacrifice, not just at Lent, but every day, so that we can better serve Our Lord?

Women’s Evening of Recollection - Wed., Apr. 27 from 7:30-9:30pm at St. Gianna Church in Lake St. Louis. Includes Bene-diction, meditations by two priests and confessions. For more info call 636-926-9290. Singles Again Support Group - Thu., Apr. 28 at 7:15pm at St. Cletus Church in St. Charles. Open to divorced or widowed or anyone going through a divorce. For more info call 636-946-7782. The Grape Escape Benefit & Dance - Sat., Apr. 30 from 3-10pm at St. Stephen’s Church in Richwoods, MO. BBQ, Enter-tainment, Free Wine & Beer Tasting, Raffles, Horseshoe Tour-nament and more. For more info call 573-678-2442. Annual Spring Dinner & Craft Show - Sun., May 1 at Holy Rosary Church in Warrenton. Chicken & Kettle Beef Dinners served from 11am-5pm. For more info call 636-456-3698.

NO SCHOOL - Apr. 25-26. School will resume on Wed., Apr. 27.

CRUSADE FOR CANCER BRACELETS are being sold by Student Council for $2 each. Order forms are in the back of Church and are due on Apr. 29. Proceeds will benefit Cancer Care. JACK-N-JILL SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT - Sat., May 7 at 6:30pm at Flint Hill Ballpark. Come cheer on our eighth graders who will be competing against St. Theodore eighth graders. Concessions will include chicken dinners, hamburg-ers, hotdogs and brats. Proceeds will benefit the St. Theodore 2012 Pro-Life trip to Washington D.C.

Parish Garage Sale Parents Club is sponsoring (including advertising) a Garage Sale on the parish parking lot next Sat., Apr. 30 (with a rain-out date of May 7). Each spot is 20 feet x 9 feet. Must pay and reserve your spot in advance and take any unsold items with you at the end of the sale. One spot $20, two spots $35, three spots $50. Open to any parishioners and vendors and can in-clude livestock and produce. Set up time will be from 6am-7am. Sale runs from 7am-12:30pm. Lunch will be sold. To reserve your spot or for more info call Tonya 636-332-1121.

EIGHTH ANNUAL APPRECIATION BANQUET A Special Tribute to Our Priests

The Serra Club is hosting a banquet to honor all the priests in the St. Charles Deanery on Tue., May 3 at the Columns Banquet Center in St. Charles, MO. Doors open at 6pm. Dinner at 7pm. Keynote Speaker will be Colleen Carroll Campbell. Tickets are $42 per person. Registration is required. To be seated at a table with other St. Joseph parish-ioners, call Walter Tochtrop at 327-6430. Proceeds go towards supporting vocation programs of the St. Charles Serra Club.

Congratulations to the winners of the Parents Club Raffles!

1st Prize - John & Becky Bross won the Weekend Get-Away. 2nd Prize - Maggie Steitz won the O’Reilly’s Gift Basket. 3rd Prize - Bob Purcell won $25 worth of scrip. Thanks to all who participated! Proceeds will go toward the new playground. ***Nancy Battis won the Chad’s Coalition Raffle consisting of certificates for dinner and a movie for two. Proceeds from that raffle will go towards depression awareness in our community.

ANNUAL CATHOLIC APPEAL At Mass the priest concludes the consecration with the words “Do this in memory of Me.” This is a powerful moment of redemption when Christ is made present to the world. The Eucharistic Celebration is the promise of heaven. In it we find strength, and we receive the grace to perform sacrificial acts of charity - great and small. The Annual Catholic Appeal en-ables us and emboldens us, as the Catholic Community, to make known the love of Christ in the world. Every charitable act is rooted in this love, rooted in the Eucharist. The Annual Catholic Appeal will take place the weekends of April 30-May1 and May 7-8. Please prayerfully consider making a courageous and generous gift. “In our words and deeds, day by day, let us stand together and say to the world: We are followers of Jesus Christ.” -Most Rev. Robert J. Carlson.

In gratitude for their service to our parish, a Farewell Reception will be held for our seminarians Mr. Kent Pollman & Mr. Na-than Doerr. It will be held on their last Sunday with us, May 1 immediately after the 10am Mass in the cafeteria. Ladies So-dality will be serving a light lunch and all parishioners are in-vited. No RSVP is necessary.

VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL Registration is open for the 2011 VBS “Totally Catholic Pan-damania - Where God is Wild About You.” VBS will be held at St. Theodore School June 20-24 from 9am-12pm for 3 yr. olds (and potty trained) thru fifth graders (Fall 2011). Cost is $25 for the first child and $15 per additional siblings. This includes a VBS shirt for each child and a CD for each family. Forms are located in the front entrance of Church. Registration closes at approx. 200 children or May 20. Come share our faith and fun! Contact Pam Riggleman at 636-639-6093 for questions or more info.