Sa int Catherine of Siena Church

February 28, 2010                                                                   

MONDAY – March 1^st                         

            8:00 a.m.   Roy Hiser

TUESDAY – March 2^nd      

8:00 a.m.   Rosemary Wehby

WEDNESDAY – March 3^rd  

            6:30 p.m.   Greg Thiel

THURSDAY – March 4^th  

            8:00 a.m.  Raymond & Loretta Burr

FRIDAY – March 5^th       

            8:45 a.m. Betty Tearny

SATURDAY – March 6^th                      

            8:00 a.m.  Edna Schultz

            4:30 p.m.  Members of the Parish

SUNDAY – March 7^th

9:00 a.m.   Al Howe

          11:30 a.m.  Tep McCafferty

GIFT BEARERS   March 6^th & 7^th            

  4:30 p.m.   Dave & Jan Klocke

  9:00 a.m. Ben & Carrie Bleser & Family

11:30 a.m.  Kevin & Kelly Hergott & Family

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE EUCHARIST     March 6^th & 7^th       

4:30 p.m.   Madison Freeman, Michele Clark, Matthew Beck, Elizabeth Hamberg, Mary Jamell, Cathy

                  Halloran, Dave Glaser, Don Gerrein

9:00 a.m.  Ceil Dorger, Debbie Truesdell, Sam Koehl, Kaitlyn Owens, Rita Byrd, Kim Dunn, Kelsey

                  Dunn, Don Greis

11:30 a.m. Greg Hoffman, Jenny Rath, Kelley Glaser, Seth Connolly, Kelsey Feeback, Olivia Guth,

                   Cliff Perkins, Sue Perkins

LECTORS       March 6^th & 7^th     

4:30 p.m. Rosemary Wormald, Jeff Rosenstiel

9:00 a.m.   Dennis Hicks, Mary Chris Hiance

11:30 a.m.  Amy Bass, David Placke

SERVERS SCHEDULE    March 1^st – 7^th  

8:00 a.m.   - Monday              

                          Jonathan Murrin, Paul Grosser

8:00 a.m. – Tuesday

                          Evan Mohr, Alexandra Guth

6:30 p.m. – Wednesday

                          Kelsey Thiel, Maria Hils

8:00 a.m. – Thursday

                          John Lampe, Hannah Cox

8:45 a.m. – Friday

                          Caroline Holmes, Sydney Kroger, Cheryl Johnson  

8:00 a.m. – Saturday

                          Will Lampe, Sarah Rath

4:30 p.m. – Saturday

                          Ellie New, Mac Franzen, Mackenzie Freeman

9:00 a.m. - Sunday

                        Emily Hicks, Erin Hochleutner, Devin Dupont

11:30 a.m. - Sunday

                        Mark Hans, Megan O’Brien, Taylor Anne Walz

GREETERS SCHEDULE    March 6^th & 7^th       

4:30 p.m.  Betty Mohr

9:00 a.m.    Ken & Lori Greis, Chuck & Nancy Miller, Stan & Cathy VanLierop

11:30 a.m. Lois & Patti Hoffman, Tom & Marcia Adkins

SUNDAY COLLECTION RECAP  

2/14/2010                    2/15/2009  

Weekly Offering                                            $22,812                       $24,262

Weekly Budget                                              $18,533

Number of Registered Families                    671

Number of Families Contributing                  212

Fiscal Year-to-Date Collections                    $563,239

Fiscal Year-to-date Budget                           $577,613

Pledges received as of 2/2/2010                     477 Families              $824,390  

CCD Registration                                          56 students

School Registration                                       71 students                                                                

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK   Pat Walsh, and Paula Riedmatter Perrino.  Also, remember our parishioners in nursing homes as well as those confined to their homes in your prayers.

PLEASE PRAY FOR THE FOLLOWING SOLDIERS SERVING OUR COUNTRY  

Jonathan Klingenberg, Patrick Collopy, Wes Diehl, and Kevin Booher

NEXT SUNDAY’S READINGS

Ex 3: 1-8a, 13-15                                 1 Cor 10: 1-6, 10-12               Luke 13: 1-9 (30)                                

THIS WEEK

TODAY         

                        Children’s Liturgy of the Word, 9:00 a.m.

                        Tile Painting, McCrystal Hall

                        AA/Al-Anon, 7:00 p.m. , LIB           

MONDAY     

                        Charismatic Prayer Group, 7:15 p.m.    

                         Men’s Group, 8:00 a.m. , McCrystal Hall                                                                                                                       

TUESDAY

                        Exposition, 8:30 a.m.

                        Confession, 5:30 p.m.

                        Benediction, 6:45p.m.

                        Board of Education, 7:00 p.m. , LIB

                        Rosary Prayer Service, 7:00 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

                        Mass, 6:30 p.m.           

                        Parish Night – “Sharing Christ’s Priesthood”                   

THURSDAY 

                        Foresters, 7:00 p.m. TWR

                        RCIA, 7:00 p.m. , LMR

                        Choir, 7:30 p.m. , Church.

 FRIDAY        

                        Stations of the Cross, 7:00 p.m.                                  

SATURDAY

                        Mass, 8:00 a.m.

                        Confessions following mass        

NEXT SUNDAY                   

                        Blood Pressure Screening

IN OUR PARISH

ANNUAL LENTEN SERVICE PROJECT    The bags to fill for the agencies are in the back of church and ready to be filled with the items requested.  There are 400 bags to fill and if every family would take one we would have all of them filled. The items needed are listed on the bags.  Just purchase the items and return the bags filled and labeled before Good Friday when they will be distributed.

LITTLE BLACK BOOKS     Booklets of daily Lenten devotions are available in the back of church.  Inside each book is a bookmark listing all of our Lenten events.  Please be sure to pick one up as you are leaving.

HOMILIES ON CD       The Sunday homilies from ordinary time are now available on CD in the back of church.  

ATTENTION PLEASE    The new schedules for servers and Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion are available in the back of church.   

DIOCESAN DAY OF PRAYER FOR PRIESTS    Bishop Foys has declared Thursday, March 4^th “Prayer for Priests Day” in the diocese.  Every church will remain open during the day to allow the faithful to pray for all priests, especially the priests that serve them in the Diocese of Covington. Every parish will also expose the Blessed Sacrament for a period of time on this day.  Here at St. Catherine, we will have Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament beginning immediately following the 8:00 a.m. mass and ending with Benediction at 5:30 p.m.   If you would like to sign up for a time of adoration, there is a sign up sheet at the Rossford Ave. entrance. Also, Bishop Foys has designated 10 churches to host a Holy Hour for Priests beginning at 7:00 p.m. and all are strongly encouraged to attend.  The complete list can be found in the Messenger.

ST. CATHERINE’S FEATURED SOLDIER     Each week in the bulletin, we will be publishing a list of soldiers for whom to pray.  If you know of a soldier you would like to be included in this new program, please e-mail his or her name to cdorger@fuse.net or call Ceil Dorger at 781-4334.

CCD TEACHERS: needed for the 2010-2011 school year. The time for discernment is now. We are in search of a third and eighth grade teacher. Interested persons must be active in their faith and ready to answer the call. Diocese requires applicants to be, or to become, Virtus trained and willing to begin work on teaching certification for religious education teachers. Contact David Kohrs at 859-653-4398 or kohrssd@fuse.net with your willingness to serve in this ministry.

ST. CATHERINE MEN'S GROUP  Our next meeting is this Monday, March 1^st, at 8:00 pm in McCrystal Hall. Our guest speaker will be Barry Jones, the Executive Director of Campbell Lodge Boys' Home, who will share with us the challenges and rewards of assisting at-risk young men. We'll also be planning our cornhole/euchre/sports-on-the-big-screen event and starting trash talk for our NCAA tournament pool. All men of the parish 21 and older are welcome to attend.

ARE YOU A CRAFTER OR DO YOU KNOW SOMEONE WHO IS?   DON 'T MISS OUT, TABLES ARE GOING FAST !  St. Catherine of Siena Catholic Order of Foresters will be hosting a Spring Craft Show on March 20th from 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. and we are looking for crafters. Booths are $25.00 for a 10 ft space. If interested, please call Margie Schnelle at 859-409-9909.   Proceeds from the Craft Show will be used to create a scholarship program for Catholic education.

ATTENTION CRAFTY PARISHIONERS     At the Spring Arts and Crafts Show on March 20th, our parish will have a craft table with all proceeds going to the Forester Scholarship Fund. At this time we are looking for parishioners who would like to donate hand crafted items. Whether you have 1 item or 10 items, we are interested in your donations.  Please contact Jan Hamilton at 781-2837 or 757-3460.

TALE OF THREE PRIESTS THROUGH SONG AND SHARING   On Palm Sunday, March 28^th, at 7:00 pm in church, three priests will share the journeys of their priesthood as we celebrate this the "Year For Priests" dedicated by our Holy Father. Join Fr. Stef Bankemper (opera), Fr. Norman Fischer (rapper and youth minister) and Fr. Raymond Guiao (singer/composer whose voice condition ended his fruitful voice career) as they share their personal joys and sufferings of priesthood.

ST. BERNARD FOOD PANTRY    The February items for the food pantry are canned soup and crackers.  You can drop off your donation to church, the parish office or the school office.

IN OUR DIOCESE

THE SISTERS OF NOTRE DAME   are celebrating 135 years in Covington , Ky and 85 years as the Covington Province .  Please join us on Saturday, March 6^th from 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. for and Open House, including tours of the Provincial House and refreshments.  For further information, please call Barbara Kruze at 39-8228 or go to www.sndky.org.   

BENEFIT FOR ROB DAMES      Rob Dames, a graduate of Newport Catholic, is battling a cancer known as Multiple Myeloma. Rob and his wife Beth Manyet Dames and their three young boys have mapped out a road to recovery with the help of Rob’s incredible doctors. However, the road will be both challenging and financially overwhelming. Rob’s treatment will require that he be hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester , MN for approximately 6-8 weeks beginning in January of this year. The medical treatment and protracted stay at the Mayo Clinic will be more that any couple can handle alone. Friends and loved ones of Rob & Beth want to lend a helping hand by holding a benefit for Rob. Please join us for a funfilled evening! You can make a donation payable to “FBO Rob Dames”, which can be deposited at any Greater Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Fifth Third Branch.  Benefit to be held at Newport Central Catholic High School on Saturday, March 6^th from 7 to 11 PM. Cost is $20 per person includes Wine, Beer Set-ups. Silent and Live Auction, Raffles and DJ. Contact: Phil Ciafardini 491-1625, Pinky Dupont Dressman 781-7091, Becky Manyet Schneider 781-7359 or Jenny Baker 513-807-2580.  

CUSTODIAN NEEDED   The Sisters of Notre Dame are currently seeking a custodian. This is a full time M-F 1^st shift position. Qualified applicants will have floor care experience and a valid driver license.  If interested in working in this loving home environment, please contact the HR Department. Sisters of Notre Dame, 1601 Dixie Highway , Covington , KY 41011 , 859-291-2040 or humanresources@sndky.org. 

TAKE A TRIP TO ITALY    Join Fr. Bob Rottgers and Fr. Gregory Bach on a tour of Italy from November 8^th - November 18^th, 2010 . You will visit Venice , Padua , Florence , Assisi and Rome .  Cost is $2599 and includes round trip airfare from Cincinnati , accommodations, most meals, tour escort, sightseeing and all local hotel taxes.  Brochures with more information and a reservation form are available in the parish office.

ELSEWHERE

ANSWER THE CALL   Catholic Men’s Conference will be held at Music Hall on Saturday, March 20^th from 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.   Please consider attending or encourage the men in your family to attend.  The day is filled with inspirational speeches, praise music, reflection time and an opportunity to celebrate the sacrament of reconciliation and the Eucharist in the context of a special Mass with our regional bishops.  For more information, contact Jim Stegman at 441-3561.

YEAR FOR PRIESTS

JUNE 19, 2009 – JUNE 19, 2010

This week, please pray for Rev. Msgr. Gilbert Rutz, Vicor General and Rev. James Ryan, St. Henry Parish.