Celebrating 100 Years of Serving the Catholic Church

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The J.S. Paluch Company began in 1913 as Merchants Press on Ashland Avenue on Chicago’s north side. Founder John S. Paluch initially printed church forms, baptismal and marriage certificates, parish newsletters, and assorted fund-raising materials for local Catholic parishes. As the business progressed, he soon added devotional items and increased the company’s

religious selections. His repertoire continued expanding, but John didn’t know just how far his little company would grow!

Following the Great Depression, John’s sons Chester and Joseph worked with the Paluch brothers and sisters at Merchants Press, keeping the company thriving.

In 1942 Merchants Press became J.S. Paluch Company, Inc. (JSP). Parish newsletters became advertising-supported bulletins, resulting in financial support for Chicagoland parishes. In 1952 JSP’s sales manager, Joseph Paluch, and his sons published Christian Art Magazine and moved the company to a new location on Winnemac Avenue. Business continued to grow, reaching beyond the Chicago area. In the early 1960’s Chester began opening regional offices, starting in East Brunswick, New Jersey. Corporate headquarters moved to northwest suburban Schiller Park in 1984 and to the current location in Franklin Park in 2004. Today we have offices across the United States and serve Catholic parishes in every state and Puerto Rico.

During the 1960’s following Vatican Council II’s significant changes, Chester introduced the weekly Missalette®. Guided by numerous clergy, religious, and lay liturgists in the Archdiocese of Chicago, he developed this essential resource for Sunday Mass. Missalette® in hand, parishioners began actively sharing meaningful prayer dialogue, in English, with the celebrant. Today Seasonal Missalette®, We Celebrate®, ¡Celebremos!/Let Us Celebrate! ®, and Word & Song have become important components in parish liturgical celebrations. New worship resources, Rejoice Music Edition and Missal and Misal Parroquial, are the latest additions to the J.S. Paluch’s offerings in this area.

As the role of music grew in the worshiping community, Chester sought ways to add music to JSP’s publications. In 1971 he purchased World Library of Sacred Music in Cincinnati. Today, this company is World Library Publications, the music and liturgy division of J.S. Paluch Company, Inc. WLP offers comprehensive liturgy and music resources and pastoral support services for priests, liturgists, music directors and parish musicians, RCIA catechists and catechumens, youth and young adult ministers, and other parish ministers.

After Chester’s death in 1980, his wife Margaret A. Paluch assumed a more active role in the company. Under her direction, publications expanded significantly. Margaret held a deep commitment to creating awareness of and developing financial support for vocations. She helped establish the National Vocations Awareness Division (NVAD) in 1985 and the Paluch Family Foundation in 1995. In 1994, Margaret was joined by her daughter Mary Lou Rafferty who became the third-generation owner of J.S. Paluch along with her husband William J. Rafferty, our company President. Under their leadership, JSP continues to meet the Catholic community’s changing pastoral needs in an ever changing economy. The Rafferty’s have worked hard to stay current with not only the church’s needs, but to also provide the newest technology such as online tools and support for customers.

J.S. Paluch remains a family-owned business. In one hundred years of service to the Church, our company has grown from a devotional booklet printer into a major Catholic publisher of bulletins, calendars, liturgical and inspirational music and art, pastoral support products, and worship resources. Our continued service to the Church is more than what we do — it is who we are. Please join us and let us be your partner in ministry.

Who We Are

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Where Was the World in 1913? January1 – Post office begins parcel post

deliveries

February 2 – nyC’s Grand Central Terminal open17 – 1st minimum wage law in uS takes

effect (Oregon)19 – 1st prize inserted into a

Cracker Jack box

MarCh4 – Woodrow Wilson inaugurated

as 28th president and holds the 1st presidential press conference eleven days later

24 – Palace Theater opens at 1564 broadway nyC

aPril21 – Gideon Sundback of Sweden

patents the zipper

July10 – Death Valley, California hits 134 °F

(~56.7 °C), highest temperature recorded in the united States

auGuST13 – invention of stainless steel by

harry brearley20 – 1st pilot to parachute from an

aircraft

OCTOber7 – henry Ford institutes moving

assembly line31 – 1st uS paved coast-to-coast

highway, the lincoln highway is dedicated

nOVeMber 3 – The uSa introduces an income tax.

DeCeMber1 – 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)16 – Charlie Chaplin began his film

career at Keystone for $150 a week21 – 1st crossword puzzle (with 32 clues)

printed in ny World

 J.S. Paluch Company began as Merchants Press, located on Chicago’s north side. It was founded by John S. Paluch.

John initially printed religious materials for local Catholic parishes, including baptismal and marriage certificates. With business quickly expanding, he soon added devotional pamphlets to the services the Paluch Company provided.

Merchants Press became the J.S. Paluch Company, Inc.

J.S. Paluch is and continues to be a family- owned company. A Christmas party in the lunch room of the first J.S. Paluch building.

With the company expanding outside of the Chicagoland area and the production of advertising bulletins spreading across the country, J.S. Paluch moved into a new and much bigger building at West Winnemac Avenue in Chicago.

One of the first J.S. Paluch printed bulletins.

Vocations booklets were also very popular at this time.

John S. Paluch dies on June 6, 1955. John’s son, Chester J. Paluch, assumes leadership of company.

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Where Was the World in 1963? January4 – The uS/uSSr race to the moon is on.

Soviet luna (4) reaches earth’s orbit but fails to reach Moon

7 – First class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents

11 – First discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in la

February11 – Julia Child’s show the French Chef

premieres25 – beatles release their first single in

uS, “Please Please Me”

MarCh17 – elizabeth ann Seton of new york is

beatified (canonized in 1975)21 – alcatraz federal penitentiary in San

Francisco bay is closed

aPril8 – 35th academy awards - “lawrence of

arabia,” wins seven awards including best Picture

May1 – First american (James Whittaker)

conquers Mount everest

June10 – JFK signs law for equal pay for equal

work for men & women21 – Pope Paul Vi (Giovanni battista

Montini) succeeds John XXiii

July1 – uS postal service institutes the Zone

improvement Plan (zip code)8 – uS bans all monetary transactions

with Cuba

auGuST28 – Martin luther King Jr. gives his

famous “i have a Dream” speech at lincoln Memorial

nOVeMber16 – Touch-tone telephone introduced22 – american President John F. Kennedy

assassinated by lee harvey Oswald in Dallas, TX. lyndon b. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th uS president

Mass booklets containing the Latin responses were popular before the Second Vatican Council.

Following the implementation of the Second Vatican Council, the first Monthly Missalette® was published. This new resource engaged parishioners in active and meaningful dialogue, in English, with the celebrant. This is the original copy of the first edition signed by all the participating Paluch personnel, including Chester Paluch.

With the new liturgical guidelines of Vatican II, J.S. Paluch holds a country-wide search for a new sung Mass that will provide quality and ease of singing for the Monthly Missalette®. The Mass that was chosen was David Kraehenbuehl’s “Mass of the People of God/Missa Plebs Dei.”

The new monthly missal Celebrate is published, which later expands into the We Celebrate® program.

Wanting to expand the music repertoire, Chester Paluch purchased World Library of Sacred Music in Cincinnati. This is now World Library Publications, the music and liturgy division of J.S. Paluch that publishes liturgical music and other resources used all over the world.

AIM: Liturgy Planning magazine is available to help music directors plan their repertoire each week. This resource is still available today!

In light of the growing Hispanic Catholic community, Paluch creates a Spanish missal — Misalito Parroquial®.

To expand the music repertoire Paluch and World Library Publications offers to parishes, the company publishes the first edition of the We Celebrate® missal and hymnal program.

Chester Paulch dies on September 14, 1980. Chester’s wife, Margaret A. Paluch (Mickey), assumed leadership of company after Chester Paluch’s death.

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JSP TurnS 50!

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Where Was the World in 1988? January3 – Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-

serving british Prime Minister of the twentieth century

26 – “Phantom of the Opera” opens at Majestic Theater in new york City for over 4000 performances

aPril 23 – The Federal Smoking ban goes into

effect during domestic airline flights of 2 hours or less

June3 – The movie “big” starring Tom hanks

hits the box office in the uS5 – The first Children’s Miracle network

Telethon raises $590,00025 – roger rabbit Cartoon Character

debuts in “Who Framed roger rabbit?”

auGuST 16 – ibM introduces software for artificial

intelligence

SePTeMber 17 – The 24th Summer Olympic games

open in Seoul, KoreaCarl lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 meters in 9.78 sec Florence Joyner runs the 100 Meter in a new women’s world record of 10.49 seconds Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets women’s heptathlete record of 7,215 points

OCTOber27 – “eT” released to home video31 – The first Monday night nFl game is

hosted in indianapolis, indiana. Colts beat Denver 55-23

nOVeMber 8 – George bush beats Mike Dukakis for

presidency

DeCeMber30 – CDs out sell vinyl records for the first

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J.S. Paluch extends its services. The first Paluch Catholic Family Calendar is published.

The first edition of Living the Word is published. This resource recently celebrated its 25th year, and has become popular with RCIA programs.

Monthly Missalette® becomes Seasonal Missalette®, published four times a year. The National Vocations Awareness Division (NVAD) is established to foster and support Church vocations.

With the establishment of NVAD brings a renewed focus on vocations. J.S. Paluch publishes the first Vocation Calendar “Come, Follow Me”.

The National Conference of Religious Vocation Directors (NCRVD) presents Margaret Paluch with the John Paul II Vocation Award for her commitment to vocation ministry

through the creation of the National Vocation Awareness Division of the J.S. Paluch Company.

J.S. Paluch celebrates 75 years of serving the church.

The first Paluch Vocation Seminar is created to promote vocations awareness and to assist diocesan and religious/vocation directors in the their ministry.

The National Conference of Diocesan Vocation Directors (NCDVD) bestowed its Stewardship Award on Margaret and, in 1995, established the Margaret A. Paluch Award in her honor. This award is given to individuals who make outstanding contributions to vocation ministry.

The Margaret and Chester Paluch Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary was established to foster theology studies and provides financial support to its recipients each year.

JSP TurnS 75!

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Where Was the World in 2000?

January 1 – Gisbourne, new Zealand is first city

in the world to welcome in the new millennium. y2K does not strike

February 13 – The last original “Peanuts” comic

strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies

MarCh 4 – The PlayStation 2 is released in

Japan, and in north america. Several months later it becomes the best- selling game console of all time

aPril 14 – Metallica drummer lars ulrich

files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon napster. This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs

May 2 – President bill Clinton announces

that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the united States military

11 – The billionth living person in india is born

June26 – a preliminary draft of genomes, as

part of the human Genome Project, is finished

auGuST21 – Tiger Woods wins golf’s PGa

Championship to become the first golfer since ben hogan in 1953 to win three majors in a calendar year

SePTeMber10 – The musical Cats closes on broadway

OCTOber1 – Closing ceremony of the 27th

Summer Olympics in Sydney, australia united States wins the most medals (97), and the most gold medals (40)

nOVeMber17 – Controversial uS presidential

election that was later resolved in the bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case

The daughter of Chester and Margaret Paluch, Mary Lou Paluch Rafferty, and her husband William Rafferty purchase the company.

The Paluch Family Foundation is established to fund liturgy, stewardship, and vocations projects.

Margaret is honored at Paluch Family Foundation brunch as a surprise for her 75th birthday. Every year since then, new recipients are honored at a Recognition Dinner.

The vibrant annual worship resource Word & Song is published, as well as the bilingual hymnal and missal program ¡Celebremos!/Let Us Celebrate!®.

The first edition of Liturgy of the Word is published, providing parishes with a Sunday readings resource.

The contemporary music program, Voices as One®, Volume 1 is published and becomes a popular hymnal collection in parishes across the country.

Margaret Paluch was the first recipient of the Serra Club’s Outstanding Lay Person of the Year Award.

The J.S. Paluch Company moves to a new and bigger building at 3708 River Road in Franklin Park, Illinois where the company is currently located.

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2 0 0 6 This new logo bridges our past with our future. The original JSP logo featured the Chi-rho, which invokes the crucifixion of Jesus. The new mark has a more modern version of the Chi-rho, with the “P” also standing for Paluch. The two colors, divided by a strong diagonal, show the forward movement of a company that has been serving the Church for 100 years, and will continue to serve for many more. The new look is contemporary and shows the company’s commitment to keeping up-to-date with the changing face of technology while never wavering in our support of the Church.

The second collection, Voices as One, Volume 2 is published containing some of the best that Catholic music has to offer.

Margaret Paluch is honored by the Park Ridge Catholic Women’s Club for her years of dedicated service to the Church.

National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) presented its John Paul II Seminary Leadership Award to Margaret Paluch in recognition of her distinguished service to the Roman Catholic seminaries of the United States and Canada.

Margaret “Mickey” Paluch dies October 8, 2009. One of the last pictures taken of Mickey, on August 18, 2009, at the Paluch Vocation Seminar.

The First Mickey Paluch Music Festival at Mundelein Seminary is held.

Bill and Mary Lou Rafferty travel to Rome to present Pope Benedict XVI with the 2012 special edition Treasures of the Vatican Library calendar created with manuscripts and illuminated art from the Pope Benedict XVI’s private collection. (December 17, 2010)

The new English translation of the Roman Missal is implemented resulting in some of the biggest changes to the Order of Mass since Vatican II. WLP publishes the award-winning edition of The Roman Missal, Third Edition, along with several musical settings of the Mass.

VoicesAsOne.com is established for music directors, youth ministers, and lay people who enjoy contemporary music.

J.S. Paluch celebrates 100 years of serving the Catholic Church! A new logo was designed in light of the 100th anniversary.

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JSP TurnS 100!

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