ST. JOSEPH

PARISH

Celebrating 177 Years 1841-2018

Vanderburgh County

www.stjoeco.org

A community of joyful, active, faith-filled people who give thanks to God by generously sharing their

individual gifts and talents to serve the needs of all.

WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE

Saturday—5 PM Sunday—8 & 10:30 AM

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILATION

SATURDAY 4-4:30 PM

PARISH OFFICE

6202 W. Saint Joseph Road

Evansville, IN 47720

SCHOOL

6130 W. Saint Joseph Road

Evansville IN 47720

Parish Office: (812) 963-3273

School: (812) 963-3335 School Fax: (812) 963-3335

Prayer Requests: (812) 963-3149

Parish Staff Fr. Gene Schroeder—Pastor E-mail gschroeder@evdio.org

Julie Kempf—Secretary E-mail jkempf@evdio.org

Kristan Gilles Director of Liturgy

E-mail kgilles@evdio.org

Nathan Winstead—Principal E-mail nwinstead@evdio.org

Mrs. Becky Dosher School Secretary

E-mail bdosher@evdio.org

Mrs. Jessica Reckelhoff Coordinator of

Religious Education E-mail jreckelhoff@evdio.org

JULY 1, 2018 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Dear friends, I was talking to our new school principal, Nathan Winstead, about going to school in Owensville. Years ago, they had their own high school and their mascot was the Kickapoos. What’s a Kickapoo? Actu-ally it’s not a “what” but “who.” The Kickapoos were (and are) a Native American Indian Tribe that lived in southern Indiana.

They were one of many different Indian tribes who lived in the Ohio Valley. The Chippewa, Delaware, Shawnee, Iroquois, Miami, Potawatomi, Illinois were some of the many different Indian tribes who lived in the Ohio Valley in the 1700’s. Even before them, in the 1600’s the people of the Missis-sippi Indian Nation lived here. The burial mounds they built can still be seen at Angel Mounds. When our ancestors came to live here, they came to a land where people were already living. To the Native Americans who were already living here, I’m sure it must have seemed that their land was being invaded by foreigners. Now, I’m sure the folks who were coming to this land at the time, did not feel like they were invaders. They were coming to build a new life. I think about the members of my family who came to this are in the 1830’s. We’ve been spending time trying to understand what motivated them to leave the country they knew and come to a place they knew very little about. What we have come to understand is that they left their country because there was little chance of them owning their own land and being able to control their own destiny. So many were willing to risk everything to go to a land they knew nothing for the chance to escape a life of poverty. This was especially true of the thousands of people who immigrated from Ireland in the early 1800’s. When our ancestors came, they often came with extended family members and sought to buy land that was close together. It made sense to them. But what seemed simple to them, no doubt felt threatening to the Native American tribes who were living here. Per-haps there were even some that wanted to build walls to keep all the foreigners out. You would think that there would be efforts to try to get everyone to be able to live to-gether in peace and no doubt many people tried to do that. But this history is also filled with countless treaties made between our government and Indian tribes only to be broken and ignored. And when Native Americans tired to unite to defend their rights, they were often overwhelmed by our government. You can read about this in the story of the Shawnee Chief Tecumseh (name sake of our local Tecumseh High School in Lynnville) and his dealings

with William Henry Harrison, the governor of the Vincennes Territory which lead to the Battle of Tippecanoe (near Lafayette, Indiana). Or you can read about it through the sad story of the Trail of Tears when many of the Native Americans who lived in our area were forcibly relocated to reservations in Oklahoma and Texas. This is all part of our

nation’s history as well. It’s not always pretty. But what can make it understandable is when we realize that the history of coun-tries often mirrors the history of our human lives. There are things about our lives that we are proud of and things that we hope no one knows. Sometimes we act out of the angels of our better nature and sometimes fear domi-nates the things we do. The words of St. Paul ring true for all of us “the good that I want to do I don’t do and the bad that I don’t want to do I do anyway.” Maybe we can take to heart the words of President Abraham Lincoln at his second inau-guration: “With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds,…., to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.”

Leaning into the journey of life

Fr. Gene Schroeder

Not like the brazen giant of Greek

fame, with conquering limbs astride

from land to land -

­Here at our

sea-washed,

sunset gates shall

stand a mighty

woman, with a torch

whose flame is the

imprisoned lightning, and her name,

Mother of Exiles. From her beacon

hand glows world-wide welcome; her

mild eyes command the air-bridged

harbor that twin cities frame. 'Keep,

ancient lands, your storied pomp!' cries

she, With silent lips. 'Give me your

tired, your poor, your huddled masses

yearning to breathe

free, the wretched

refuse of your teeming

shore. Send these, the

homeless, tempest-tost

to me­ I lift my lamp beside the

golden door."

CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST

SATURDAY, JUNE 30 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

5:00 PM MASS Leo & Bernard Gumbel, Edward, Helen, James, Kathleen & Marty Loehr, Drexel, Sr. & Jerry Brothers, Kaysie McGe-hee & Mossberger Infants, Infant Bahl (1865), Infant Reis-ing (1865), Sr. Germana, OSF (Elizabeth Effinger, 1885), Henry Prior (1890), Joseph Ochsner (1924), Joseph Hillen-brand (1935)

SUNDAY, JULY 1 THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

8:00 AM MASS Cecilia Weber, Andy Kelley, Kathleen El-lenbacker, Stanley, James, Jenny and Kathy Reneer, Jeff Fleck, Jack Mills 10:30 AM MASS Margaret Bahl (1865), Angela Rexing (1858), M. Seib (1890), Fr. Sylvester Ziemer (17th Pastor of St. Joe, 1952), John Rexing (1957), Virginia Conner (1990)

MONDAY, JULY 2

MONDAY OF THE THIRTEENTH WEEK OF THE YEAR 6:30 PM MASS Alex Riedford (1861), Henry Rexing (1882), Francis Berendes (1892), Priscilla Quinlin (2012), Lawrence Ubelhor (2012)

TUESDAY, JULY 3 SAINT THOMAS

7:30 AM MASS Elisabeth Schieli (1909), Frank Effinger (1923), Yvonne Kautzman (1982), Guy Smyth (2015), Larry Chapman (2017)

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4 WEDNESDAY OF THE THIRTEENTH WEEK OF THE YEAR

7:30 AM MASS Jeannette Kissel, Francis Will (1873), Jo-seph Hartlein (1888), Gulieliuus Bayer (1894), Mary Bar-nett (1985)

THURSDAY, JULY 5 SAINT ANTHONY ZACCARIA and

SAINT ELIZABETH OF PORTUGAL NO MASS Maria Steinmetz (1861), Catharine Lunken-heimer (1865), Infant Ochsner (1868), Dorothy Kraft (1972), Norma Moutoux (1982)

FRIDAY, JULY 6 SAINT MARIA GORETTI

NO MASS Bernard Rexing (1882)

SATURDAY, JULY 7 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

5:00 PM MASS Ann & Robert Jenkins, Joe Stith, Justina Weiss, James & Ida Greenwell, Rose Acton, Sam Feather-stone, Jim Blanford, John J. Blume, Infant Schilly (1865), Anthony Weigand (1869), George Kawe (1873), Maria Hel-frich (1893), Sr. Rosalia OSB (Clara Reising, 1965), Jacob Lannert (1985)

SUNDAY, JULY 8 FOURTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

8:00 AM MASS Living & Deceased members of St. Anne’s Altar Society, St. Joe Men’s Club & Knight’s of St. John,

Rosalie Corbett, Herman & Veron-ica Behnner, Paul P. Schapker 10:30 AM MASS Ray Wilma Voelker, Anthony and Severine Martin, Mariana Elpers, Anthony MartinMeghan Elpers, Joseph Macke (1932), Rowen Enlow (1958), Mary Kibby (1989), Carolyn Garvin (2001)

PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOMES

PINE HAVEN: Jean Johnson, Bob Angermeier Harold and Esther Niemeier HERITAGE CENTER: Brenda Koester PARK TERRACE VILLAGE: Mark Fleeger OASIS CARE CENTER: Gus Bender RIVER POINTE: Barbara Shurtleff SOLARBRON TERRACE: Mildred Rexing, Margaret Kafel, Berta Waninger

CYPRUS REHABILITATION CENTER (NEWBURGH): Larry Hoefling, Steve Hasselbrinck HOLIDAY VILLAGE: Anita Rexing

JULY 1: Mackenzie Douglas, Nolan Eickhoff, Becky Harl, Laura Symon JULY 2: Caroline Back, Nicole Davenport, Jerad Eickhoff, Judy Gries, Jacob Hahn, Rodney Lincoln, Mallorie Will JULY 3: Anna Glaser, Ella May Kroeger, Andrew Nimnicht, Deborah Schulze JULY 4: Sadie Kassenbrock JULY 5: Paula Gibson, Bud Jarboe, Iyla Laugel, Ethan Schnur, Dolores Sudholt JULY 6: Blake Bishop, Amy Elpers, Jackie Elsner, Alma Scheller, Tom Wannemuehler JULY 7: Matt Coughlin, Michael Coughlin, Kevin Elpers, Rylee Paul, Eva Shumate, Kathy Weinzapfel JULY 4: Ray & Charlene Schapker

STEWARDSHIP: The Lord’s Way

Today’s reading from St. Paul explains the “divine econ-omy” of stewardship—”The relief of others ought not to impoverish you; there should be a certain equality. Your

plenty at the present time should supply their need to that their surplus may in turn one day supply your need.”

JUNE 24, 2018 $ 19,682.00 JUNE 30, 2018 Auto Draft Collection $ 1,905.00 WEEKLY BUDGET $ 20,723.00 TOTAL INCOME TO DATE $ 952,647.24 BUDGET TO DATE $1,077,596.00 MAINTENANCE COLLECTION $ 80.00 CHILDRENS COLLECTION $ 33.48 YOUNG STEWARDS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE COLLECTION LAST WEEK: Carson, Jack & Sam Arnold, Blake Bishop, Gretchen, Heidi, Karl & Kurt For-cum, Chase & Troy Gerteisen, Samuel, Sierra & Theodore Heldt, Beatrice & Peter Reckelhoff, Caleb, Carly & Chloe Stock, Grant & Lauren Voelker, Taylor Vogt

MISSION OUTREACH HAITI $ 70.00 HAITI HIGHER EDUCATION $ 200.00 PETER’S PENCE $ 10.00

St. Matthew Mt. Vernon July 8 St. John (Daylight) July 15

St. John (New Boston) July 15 St. James August 5

St. Francis of Assisi (Mariah Hill) August 12

MATER DEI TRADITION JUNE LOTTERY WINNERS: $10,000 - Bar-bara Kuebler & Shiela Whitaker, $1,500 - Chris Render, $1,000 - Beth Meeks, $500 - Dustin & Alisha Lannert

LITURGICAL MINISTERS SCHEDULE (EM=Eucharistic Minister, L=Lector, S=Servers, GB=Gift Bearers)

SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JULY 7 & 8 5:00 PM (EM) Bob & Mary Kay Fehrenbacher, Dolores Sudholt, Eric & Karen McDonald (L) Jan Hermann (S) Piper & Finley Fehrenbacher (GB) John & Jane Luigs 8:00 AM (EM) Chick & Jean Duncan, Bryan & Ann Craney, Marcia Frey (L) Donna Blankenberger (S) Landon Smith, Parker Baumeyer (GB) Alan & Donna Blankenberger 10:30 AM (EM) Paul Hillenbrand, Amy Cody, Jena Wessel, June Beverly, Rachel Schnaus (L) Jane Scheller (S) Katelyn & Zach Bishop (GB) Randy & Darlene Appler

MONDAY: 7 am-6:30 pm Eucharistic Adoration FRIDAY: NOON Senior Citizens Lunch at St. Joe Inn 1 pm Senior Citizens Gathering in the Meeting Room SATURDAY: 4 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Food Pantry Collection

SCRIP SELLERS SCHEDULE: July 7, 5 pm: Jennifer Fehrenbacher

July 8, 8 am: Julia Baumeyer July 8, 10:30 am: Julie Forcum

For Scrip questions, please contact Paula Baehl (pbaehl@yahoo.com) 812-598-9056

Pope Francis recently wrote a special letter (called an Apos-

tolic Exhortation) which he enti-tled “Rejoice and Be Glad.” In this letter he shares his reflec-

tions on our common call to holiness. Here’s some

of what he said.

Within the framework of holi-ness offered by the Beatitudes and Matthew 25:31-46, I would like to mention a few signs or spiritual attitudes that, in my opinion, are

necessary if we are to understand the way of life to which the Lord calls us. I will not pause to explain the means of sanctification already known to us: the various methods of prayer, the inestimable sacraments of the Eucharist and Reconciliation, the offering of personal sacrifices, different forms of devotion, spiritual direction, and many others as well. Here I will speak only of certain aspects of the call to holiness that I hope will prove especially meaningful. The signs I wish to highlight are not the sum total of a model of holiness, but they are five great expressions of love for God and neighbor that I consider of particular importance in the light of certain dangers and limitations present in today’s culture. There we see a sense of anxiety, sometimes violent, that dis-tracts and debilitates; negativity and sullenness; the self-content bred by con-sumerism; individualism; and all those forms of ersatz spirituality – having nothing to do with God – that dominate the current religious marketplace.

PERSEVERANCE, PATIENCE AND MEEKNESS The first of these great signs is solid grounding in the God who loves and sustains us. This source of inner strength enables us to persevere amid life’s ups and downs, but also to endure hostility, betrayal and failings on the part of others. “If God is for us, who is against us?” (Rom 8:31): this is the source of the peace found in the saints. Such inner strength makes it possible for us, in our fast-paced, noisy and aggressive world, to give a witness of holiness through patience and constancy in doing good. It is a sign of the fidelity born of love, for those who put their faith in God can also be faithful to others. They do not desert others in bad times; they accompany them in their anxiety and distress, even though doing so may not bring immediate satisfaction. Saint Paul bade the Romans not to repay evil for evil, not to seek revenge, and not to be overcome by evil, but instead to “overcome evil with good”. This attitude is not a sign of weakness but of true strength, because God himself “is slow to anger but great in power”. The word of God exhorts us to “put away all bitterness and wrath and wrangling and slander, together with all malice”..

We need to recognize and combat our aggressive and selfish inclinations, and not let them take root. “Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger”. When we feel overwhelmed, we can always cling to

the anchor of prayer, which puts us back in God’s hands and the source of our peace. “Have no anxiety about anything, but in everything, by prayer and sup-plication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts...”. Christians too can be caught up in networks of verbal violence through the internet and the various forums of digital communication. Even in Catholic media, limits can be overstepped, defamation and slander can become com-monplace, and all ethical standards and respect for the good name of others can be abandoned. The result is a dangerous dichotomy, since things can be said there that would be unacceptable in public discourse, and people look to compensate for their own discontent by lashing out at others. It is striking that at times, in claiming to uphold the other commandments, they completely ig-nore the eighth, which forbids bearing false witness or lying, and ruthlessly vilify others. Here we see how the unguarded tongue, set on fire by hell, sets all things ablaze . (Continued next week)

Mark and Kelley Messal Social Chair Couple

(812-963-1905) Email: Messkimoor@aol.com

142 families have returned their sold raffle tick-ets. Keep them com-ing! Every little bit helps! You can put your sold tickets in the collection basket at mass on the weekends or put it in the white mailbox next to the front door of the parish office. We still have some social post-ers that you can post wherever you think is a good place where people gather. Thanks for helping us spread the word. Thanks to Randy Fehrenbacher who got a group of folks together to put out our large social signs. And thanks for allow us to put yard signs in your yard. Every little bit helps in getting the word out about our social. Remember we can still use more theme baskets and craft items for our craft booth. We

have lots of creative people in our parish so we know we’ll have lots of exciting prizes to give away! Thanks to Ron and Tenielle Schell, we now have seven quilts to give away at our social—each one a special treasure you’ll be sure to love. Remember too, we are looking for more St. Joe Bobcat Theme Baskets.

THANKS TO THOSE WHO HAVE RETURNED THEIR

SOLD TICKETS Tom & Delores Folz

David & Betty Fehrenbacher Marlon & Ella May Kroeger

Donna Helfrich-Busan David & Michelle Duncan

Eric Reffett Mark & Kelly Messal Glenn & Julie Conley Jim & Susan Helmer Bryan & Ann Craney Mike & Katy Drone Khris & Kathy Seger John & Jane Luigs

Homer & Doris Taylor Philip & Kyla Kares

Rich & Connie Harpenau Jerry & Beth Spaetti Don & Renee Werner Bob & Betty Singer

Stephen & Anne Lannert Fred & Mary Happe Bud & Sis Jarboe

Dave & Kim Spaetti Betty Polk

Michael & Donna Hiestand