Parish Weekly Bulletin

2007-2008

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL

Chairperson Gerald Shannon 791-9313

Vice-Chairperson Barry Auer 984-1041

Member-at-Large Bill Mountel 793-7634

Member-at-Large Mary Kay Lynch 731-7155

Member-at-Large Peg Halpin 631-7301

Member-at-Large Conrad Neuman 793-3165

Athletics Rick Sanz 791-0545

Building & Finance Ray Bauman 984-4239

School Comm. Denis McGrath 733-9264

Worship Debbie Kamp 891-4168

Development Comm. Tom Kronenberger 792-0109

Community Life Sandie Wubbolding 561-1911

Social Justice Comm. Chris Homan 745-9958

Festival Comm. Patti Lowe 793-1112

Communication & Volunteer Recruitment Comm.

Gerald Shannon 791-9313

Communion Visits to the Homebound -Members of this ministry take Holy Communion and visit with parishioners who are unable to attend Mass. This service is available for short and long term convalescence. Please call the Parish Office (791-9030).

Driving Ministry– For parishioners needing transportation to weekend Mass, for health related appointments and grocery shopping. Please call Donna Piening (791-7449) or the Parish Office (791-9030).

Prayer Chain – To request prayers for a special intention call the Parish Office (791-9030).

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Friday, September 28, 2007

Monday, September 24, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Friday, September 28, 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

A magnet draws certain objects to itself. Jesus tells a parable about how, like magnets, people can be drawn toward self-interests and thinking of themselves first. Many things are like magnets that draw us to think first of ourselves instead of the needs of others. Worries about our reputation, financial security, and personal comfort can draw us toward the things the world considers important – and away from real and lasting security in the Kingdom of God.

Prayer Moment: When I long for and fret over the things of this world, Lord, pull my heart toward the security of your goodness.

Stewardship is gratitude in action; by sharing what we have (time, talent, treasure), we acknowledge our own dependence on the Lord, our indebtedness to His goodness, our awareness of His kindness and our call to serve as agents of His care of others. All registered SVF parishioners should have received a copy of the financial report for the past fiscal year.

I will be on retreat the week of September 24-28. During the days that I am away a Communion Service will be held each morning at 8:30 a.m. in the Chapel. On Wednesday September 26^th there will be a school Mass at 8:30 a.m. in the Church - Fr. Chris Coleman will celebrate Mass. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament will be held on Monday September 24^th from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Please pray for me – and each of you and the intentions of our parish will be in my prayers as I spend several days on Retreat.

Thursday, October 4^th is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. In recognition of this saint who loved all of God’s creation, we will have a special blessing service for pets and animals on Wednesday evening October 3 at 6:30 p.m. and Thursday afternoon October 4 at 2:00 p.m. The Wednesday evening service will be in the driveway area by the main entrance of the Church. The Thursday afternoon service will take place in the upper parking lot by the school. We are looking forward to blessing the variety of dogs, cats, birds, turtles, snakes, goats, horses, etc. that make up the animal kingdom in our parish.

During the month of October, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati requires each parish to keep a count of the number of parishioners attending Sunday Mass. Thanks to all of our Ushers for helping to keep an accurate October Count again this year beginning on October 6 & 7 weekend.

Doors open at 12:30 p.m.; instants are sold at 1:00 p.m.; first Bingo game begins at 1:30 p.m.; Bingo will end by 5:00 p.m.

Brenda Hauser needs 2-3 additional volunteers to count bingo cards. This will be at the parish, and at your leisure, but we would like a weekly, or bi-weekly commitment. It's a sitting job, and would be fun to do with a friend, or daughter/son. Please contact Brenda Hauser for more information at 984-8446, 618-5429, or b.hauser@remax.net.

The baptism preparation class is for parents who are having their first child baptized. The next class will be offered on Sunday, November 18 at 1:15 p.m. in the Community Building Chapel. You must call the parish office 791-9030, to register.

You cannot serve two masters. Whom do you choose to follow? You have to make a choice. (Luke 16:1-13)

Please welcome the newest member of our faith community: Lucy Ann Perkins, daughter of Michael & Lori Perkins who was recently baptized. Congratulations to the proud parents.

Please welcome the following families that recently joined St. Vincent Ferrer Parish.

Several Ushers are needed for the Saturday 5:00 p.m. Mass and Sunday 12:00 noon Mass. This is an opportunity to serve your Church in a worthwhile ministry. Please call Ed DeGregorio at 791-1160 if interested.

STEWARDSHIP OF OFFERING

Sunday September 16, 2007

Sunday Collection $12,168

Monthly EFT $2,760

Other Donations $905

Weekly Donation Total $15,833

Fiscal Year Offertory

Offertory FY Budget to Date $211,892

Offertory FY Received to Date $167,828

Offertory Budget Deficit FY to Date -$44,064

St. Vincent for the Poor collection $765

Finance Fact: Do you use a St. Vincent Kroger Card when you shop for groceries? Your parish receives 4% of everything you spend at Kroger when you use the card, and it costs you nothing. Pick up a St. Vincent Kroger card at the parish office today!

In your envelopes for September is "Capital Improvement" Special Offering envelope. These funds will be used to maintain and improve our parish buildings, grounds and other facilities. One example is the parking lot, which is in need of repair and resurfacing. Even a simple resurfacing will cost over $6,000 - and this is just one of many improvement projects we need to complete soon. Please be as generous as you can when making a gift with your Capital Improvement envelope this month.

Thank you for the monthly donation of $765 to the St. Vincent for the Poor Society. Your generosity is appreciated.

COAT & CLOTHING COLLECTION COMING SOON! The St. Vincent for the Poor’s annual fall coat, clothing & canned food drive will be held the weekend of October 27^th & 28^th. This is a good time to not only clean closets, but also simplify your wardrobe, and help the needy in doing so. Plan now!

So that as a parish we can keep in our prayers those in our community who are ill, St. Vincent Ferrer Parish would like to publish the names of those parishioners and their families who are in the hospital, recovering from an illness or going through treatments. We ask that you contact the Parish Office at 791-9030.

Florence Bailey, Glorianne Barbacane, Marion Blohm, James Boyatt Sr., Ann Corder, Joe Crachiolo, Bob Ford, Ferd Forney, Audrey Hanley, John Hill, Virginia Howd, Jean Johannigman, Mary Langemeier, Dan Leland, Harry McCormick, Les Meldon, Marilyn Naehring, Ginny Partusch, Mary Speed, Tom Sweeney, Tom Tressler, Phyllis Villari.

Great ideas and resolution all come to fruition through communication and having someone “OUT THERE” for you to go to. To this point, don’t forget your Parish Pastoral Council at large members. We are here to serve you and are working to make your parish experience a lifetime experience. At large members: Barry Auer, Peg Halpin, Mary Kay Lynch, Bill Mountel, Conrad Neuman, Gerald Shannon.

ALL ST. VINCENT FERRER

FALL VOLUNTEERS & CHAPERONES

must participate in a Child Protection Workshop and be Fingerprinted prior to volunteering

and/or by September 30^th.

Workshop & Fingerprinting Dates

New parish volunteers who will be working with children this school year, or those who have not yet had a chance to be fingerprinted or take the workshop will have the opportunity to participate in them at neighboring parishes.

WORKSHOPS: Call to confirm!

Immaculate Heart of Mary–Beechmont–388-4466

2^nd Monday of each month @7:30PM

3^rd Wednesday of each month @ 4PM

PERMANENT FINGERPRINTING SITES:

Archdiocese of Cincinnati - 421-3131

100 E. 8th Street

Mon. ~ Fri., 9:00AM - 4:00 PM

Holy Trinity, Norwood – 366-4400

Mon. ~ Thurs., 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

St. John, West Chester – 777-6433

Wed., 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM

Mon. & Tues., 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Sat., 9:00 AM – 11:00 AM

Additional Child Protection Orientation Workshop and Fingerprinting dates and times can be found at www.catholiccincinnati.org , the Archdiocesan website. Click on “Fingerprinting Information”, then onto “Sites” and “Calendar.”

For further information please call Marc Greenberg in the Parish Office at 791-9030.

If you have been thinking about becoming Catholic, updating your Catholic faith or being confirmed, perhaps this summer would be a good time to find out more about these issues of faith. Here at St. Vincent we have “GIFT” which is a “come and see” process for adults who desire to know more about the Catholic faith. Sessions began September 10^th. For more information please call the Director of Faith Formation, Karen McMichael, at 791-6321.

We are very grateful to the following individuals who stepped forward and offered their time and talent as PREP Teachers. Returning are Kathy Muenz & Becky Petri, and new to our PREP program is Dottie Kampman.

For more information, please call Early Childhood Coordinator, Teresa Majchszak at 791-0115

BOOKSHELF SPOTLIGHT

Consider taking one of our spiritually renewing companions for a leisurely break on a quiet evening or afternoon. Stop by the ushers’ room located near the main entrance of the church to browse the wide selection of reading material in the bookcase.

Yearly membership dues of $10.00 are now being accepted throughout the summer. Make checks payable to SVF and mail or drop off at the Parish Office (Mark envelope H.W.)

Social Justice & Outreach Commission Meetings
The next SVF Social Justice and Outreach Commission meeting will be held at 7:00 pm on Wednesday, September 26 in room 124 in the SVF school building (use the main double doors facing the soccer fields) All are invited to attend. During the meetings we discuss and select Social Justice and Outreach activities to sponsor/promote. Meeting time is also spent planning events that will raise awareness of social action concerns supported by the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and Catholic Relief Services. If you are interested in joining or have any questions, please call Chris Homan at 313-2843.

Saturday, October 6^th is our next scheduled workday. Volunteers to work on the house and to provide lunch are needed. We begin work at 8:30 a.m. at 690 Glenwood Avenue. If you don’t know how to build a house but would like to learn, here’s your chance! Call Pete Broome at 984-2473 for more details.

Ministry Trip to Appalachia
The Social Justice and Outreach Commission is looking for individuals who would be interested in participating in a 4-day Outreach event this Spring in which we will refurbish homes in Appalachia. We want to assess the level of interest in such a trip so that we can determine the size and type of program that would best fit our parish. There will be an entry for this category under the Social Justice and Outreach Heading on the Stewardship Survey being distributed at all masses on Stewardship Sunday September 23. If you are interested in participating or helping to plan this trip please be sure to check this box on your Stewardship form. You can also contact Chris Homan at 607-5996 or Connie Dunn at 791-7506.

Did You Know??

raiser. We are working with QSP/Reader's Digest selling magazine subscriptions. Here's a chance for all of our SVF families to support our children and school. You can renew any of your current subscriptions at a good price or subscribe to a new magazine if you like!

Please call our school office at 791-6320 if you'd like to help our children with your order. Thanks!!

Know any crafters? The St. Vincent Ferrer PTO still has booths available for its 24^th annual Arts & Crafts Fair on November 17. Booth prices range from $40-$55. Please call Maria Barrett for more information (891-7699).

On Friday, October 5, 2007, there will be an enjoyable evening of dining and dancing for the benefit of St. Vincent Ferrer School children who need tuition assistance. The festivities begin at 6:30 pm, and the location is the Newport Syndicate, 18 East 5th Street in Newport, KY

(See www.newportsyndicate.com) Cost is $50 per person, or $450 to reserve a table of 10. Included is a gourmet buffet dinner and 4 hour open bar. Music will be provided throughout the evening for listening and dancing by the Pete Wagner Orchestra, with vocals by our own Matt Snow. Call 576-9766 to make reservations. Net proceeds from this event go to the Snow Tuition Assistance Fund, which provides tuition aid to St. Vincent Ferrer School families.

With your help, the students of St. Vincent Ferrer School would like to find out. For the past several years, the students have been collecting pop can tabs to donate to the Ronald McDonald House by Children’s Hospital. This year, we will continue to collect in the hopes of reaching one million and thereby earning a visit from Ronald McDonald himself! If you can help us with your donation of pop can tabs, please place them in the labeled bin in the back of church. Thanks in advance for helping with one of our school’s charitable outreach programs.

Registration is available online at www.svfathletics.org. Any boy interested in playing basketball on an SVF team this fall should register online by Monday October 1st, 2007. The Season starts the week of December 1, 2007, practices will begin in November 2007. Contact Steve Schaefer if you have questions 792-9455 or steve@mismicro.com

The Athletic Commission is looking for two additional members to add to our great team! We have an opening in Communications and we also need a Basketball Coordinator. This is a great opportunity to serve the members of our parish as well as join a great group of folks looking to help the needs of our children and athletics. If you would like to join our commission or to obtain more info about the open positions, please call Steve Schaefer @ 792 -9455 or Martha Capannari @ 891 -1471.

If you forgot to sign up at the festival there’s still time to join the Ladies of Sturbridge for a night of fun and frolic with the “girls”, Friday, October

Sturbridge Drive. $25.00 donation to SVF, payable at the door. RSVP by 9/28 to Peggy at 891-8035.Hosted by the SVF Ladies of Sturbridge: Peggy Berger, Martha Capannari,

Mikki Dunkley, Nancy Durban, Kara Feltrup, Ellen Florentino, Betty Fox, Michelle Frost, Bridget Glaescher, Sue Harder, Laura Johnson,

All men are invited to the Men's Club meeting Wednesday September 26th, at 8:00pm in the cafeteria. Corn hole tournament - fried chicken for lunch.

MOMS: Do you enjoy cooking for your family or want to learn to make some new quick and easy meals? You should come join the SVF MOMS GROUP at My Girlfriends Kitchen on Wednesday October 3, 2007 from 6:30 to 9pm. We will be making some dinners to take home and eat with our families. You will need to call (513) 770-3260 or email www.mgfk.com to reserve your menu for the night. If you can't make this meeting please mark your calendar for November 7, 2007 for our Mommies Time Out meeting in Hamilton Hall. If you have any questions please call Heather Leland (513) 985-0617 or email dhleland@fuse.net. We look forward to seeing you soon!

Please come and join us for a Catholic Bible Study this fall. We will be meeting on Friday mornings, from 9:30-11am in room B, starting September 28th. The study we will be doing this fall are the New Testament books of Galatians and Ephesians, by Ignatious Press. The study will run for about 7 weeks. Please call Kathy Revalee at 891-6352 or Ann Sidor at 984-5456 to order your books. The cost is about $11. Hope to see you in the fall!

Like many other scouting units in the area, St. Vincent's Cub Scout Pack 619 will be selling popcorn throughout the month of September to raise money to fund our local parish-scouting program. You'll probably see Cub Scouts from other area packs selling the popcorn door-to-door or at Kroger, but at SVF, the Cub Scouts take orders first (in September) and then deliver the popcorn in November, just in time for holiday treats and gift giving. Many different kinds of popcorn products are available, including gourmet chocolate-coated and caramel corn in decorative tins, as well as a wide variety of microwaveable popcorn.

If you would like to order popcorn to support Catholic Cub Scouting at St. Vincent Ferrer, please contact Cubmaster George Bryce at mountain4@gmail.com or 489-2792 for more information on items/pricing.

Every group or organization that regularly meets or hosts events should submit to the parish office in writing their desired dates, times and rooms the group wishes to reserve for the 2007-2008 year (July 2007-June 2008). Please list a contact person who will be responsible for clean up and security and if set-up time is needed. Should any conflicts arise throughout the year this person will be contacted. Thank you in advance for your cooperation and assistance.

Dee Printing, the publisher of our bulletin would like to re-emphasize the importance of deadlines. In order for them to provide us with a professionally printed bulletin we need to receive all articles in writing by Monday at 3:00 p.m. You should indicate the dates you would like your bulletin article to appear. Unless otherwise indicated, all articles will run for 2 weeks.

Please call the parish office to get your bulletin insert on the calendar. All inserts must be put on the insert calendar as soon as possible. (The number of inserts are limited to 2 per week) and the copies need to be in the Parish office by Thursday morning. This will allow the bulletin stuffers ample time to adjust their calendar for volunteer time. A special thanks to our volunteer bulletin stuffers, we appreciate your help!

Don’t forget to notify the parish office of your new address and phone number when moving.

Sat., Oct. 13 at Moeller High School. Register teams of four for $60/team in grades 4-8. Approximate playing times are: 8:00-11:00 – 4^th, 10:00-1:00 – 5^th, 12:00-3:00 6^th, 2:00-5:00 – 7^th, 4:00-7:00 – 8^th. Call now! Entry deadline is Oct. 10. For questions, or to register a team, call Scott MacEachen at 702-1052.

“Come and See” discernment event, October 26-27. Single women who are interested in exploring their vocational call are invited to join the Sisters of Divine Providence for an evening and day of reflection and prayer on the topic of call. There will be input on discernment and on religious life and opportunities to interact with sisters and with women discerning a call to religious life. Event takes place at St. Anne Convent/Moye Spiritual Life Center in Melbourne, Kentucky beginning at 7 PM on Friday and ending at 8 PM on Saturday. For more information contact Sr. Fidelis Tracy, CDP at 859-441-0700 ext. 324 or vocation@cdpkentucky.org.

St. Michael’s annual Spaghetti Dinner will be held Sunday, October 7 from 12:30-7:00 p.m. at St. Michael’s, Creek Road & Oak Street (Sharonville). Carryout available.

5-K Run or Walk to support the ministry of the Poor Clare Sisters of Cincinnati who reside at the Franciscan Monastery of St. Clare. Saturday, October 6 at Winton Woods Park, Harbor Point. Register on-line at sprunning.com

Communion Visits to the Homebound -Members of this ministry take Holy Communion and visit with parishioners who are unable to attend Mass. This service is available for short and long term convalescence. Please call the Parish Office (791-9030).

Driving Ministry– For parishioners needing transportation to weekend Mass, for health related appointments and grocery shopping. Please call Donna Piening (791-7449) or the Parish Office (791-9030).

Mass Intentions & Readings

for the Week

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Friday, September 28, 2007

Calendar for the Week

Monday, September 24, 2007

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Friday, September 28, 2007

Sunday, September 30, 2007

PARISH LIBRARY

BOOKSHELF SPOTLIGHT

HAPPY WANDERERS

Did You Know??