October 24, 2010 ST. PETER LITURGICAL MUSIC MINISTRY Join your fellow parishioners who share their gift of music by helping to lead our liturgical prayer. LUNCH AT KIRKWOOD HOUSE Come join us for lunch. A good, nutritious meal is served each weekday at Kirkwood House, 385 S. Taylor at 11:30AM. The price is $3.25. Call 314-965-1002 to make your reservation and to find out what will be served on the day that you plan to come for lunch. READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 24, 2010 Sunday: Sir 35:12-14, 16-18/2 Tm 4:6-8, 16-18 Lk 18:9-14 Monday: Eph 4:32-5:8/Lk 13:10-17 Tuesday: Eph 5:21-33 or 5:2a, 25-32/Lk 13:18-21 Wednesday: Eph 6:1-9/Lk 13:22-30 Thursday: Eph 2:19-22/Lk 6:12-16 Friday: Phil 1:1-11/Lk 14:1-6 Saturday: Phil 1:18b-26/Lk 14:1, 7-11 Next Sunday: Wis 11:22-12:2/2 Thes 1:11-2:2/Lk 19:1-10 ©Liturgical Publications Inc You are invited to join us for ~ Christmas Seasonal Choir Join us for Wednesday night rehearsals beginning Nov. 3rd (exception: Tuesday, November 23 instead of Wednesday, November 24th). We are very welcoming, and we meet in Ursuline Hall, in the Deutschmann Room from 7:00-9:00PM. We’re preparing to sing at the Midnight and 9:00AM Masses on Christmas. For more information, please contact Carol Bauer, Coordinator of Liturgical Music, cbauer@stpeterkirkwood.org. THE TRAVELING VOCATIONAL CHALICE PROGRAM - TO PRAY FOR VOCATIONS Many parishioners have signed up to take the chalice home and display it in a place of honor, where it can be noticed by all during the week. These parishioner (s) will pray around the chalice every night for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. Prayers for vocations will accompany the chalice. Listed below are the dates and the families who will be taking home the Traveling Vocational Chalice after the Sunday 11:00 Mass during the month of October/November: October 24 October 31 November 7 November 14 November 21 November 28 Maureen Reed Luanne Flick Brigid Shea Dave & Rosemary Augsburger Matt & Margie Huggins Dennis & Susan Buchheit If you are interested in signing up for a week please call Cheryl Elder at 314-965-1573 for more information. 8 STS. TERESA & BRIDGET FOOD PANTRY (FR. GARY’S PARISH) "Come, you who my Father has blessed, take for your heritage the kingdom prepared for you since the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food; I was thirsty and you gave me drink; I was a stranger and you made me welcome; naked and you clothed me, sick and you visited me, in prison and you came to see me" "I tell you solemnly, in so far as you did this to one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did it to me" MATTHEW 25 <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Peter</strong>'s donations for October to Fr. Gary's food pantry totaled an amazing 1,196 items. On Sunday morning only 590 items of food had arrived. By evening, the count was 1,050. More arrived early Monday to be delivered. Thank you for responding to our call for help. The next delivery date is Monday NOVEMBER 15. <strong>St</strong>art collecting your donations now. The boxes being prepared by <strong>St</strong>s. Teresa & Bridget pantry for Thanksgiving will be distributed the same week. Let us continue our generous donations, plus some. Let's make sure our friends at the pantry have a feast on their tables just as we will. Thank you to the Backer family for helping us sort and bag food this month. They have volunteered along with the Augsbugers and Bieles to be our helpers. Thanks for pitching in! <strong>St</strong>s. Teresa & Bridget parish sends us a big THANK YOU! DROP OFF LOCATION ~ Candy and John Behl, 319 East Adams, Kirkwood (block and a half east of the YMCA). Please donate cans that are no larger than 30 ounces, anything larger is difficult to carry for all of us. ROOM AT THE INN <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Peter</strong> Parish hosted 8 homeless guests on Friday, Oct. 15. Our guests were a mom and her three children, ages 4 to 18 years old, and two single women. Thanks to the following parish volunteers who so generously donated their time and talent: Marsha Bauer, Brian Fitzgerald, Scott Seaton, Susan Masi and family, Judy Jackson, the girls from Girl Scout Troop 341, Christian Trevino, Seth Roethemeyer, Adam Scott, Jack Veldey, Pat Torrillo and members of the Bryan, Anderson, Rogers and Snider families. Our guests received a welcome smile, clean and ready bed, delicious food, and fun company for the evening. The Room at the Inn program is a great opportunity to practice stewardship by sharing some of our time and blessings with those who are not as fortunate. Volunteers are always welcome, especially men and women willing to stay overnight with our guests. If you are interested in knowing more about the program, call Jim (965-1939) or Larry (821-7929). We host guests every third Friday of the month. Please remember the deceased and their loved ones in your prayers: Sue Perry, wife of Bob Perry, mother of Margaret Clodius, Barbara Beckermann, Tim, James and Dennis Perry.
October 24, 2010 Saturday, November 6, 2010 7:00PM (Doors open at 6:30PM) <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Peter</strong> O‟Donnell Parish Center <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Catholic</strong> <strong>Church</strong> Beyond Housing Ministry $150 per table, or $15 per person Have fun & support a good cause! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Make check payable to <strong>St</strong>. <strong>Peter</strong> <strong>Church</strong> 9
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