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Visit us on the Internet at www.stpeterkirkwood.org or send your comments to: parishsitemanager@stpeterkirkwood.org Sacrament of Baptism Please call the Rectory (966-8600) for details regarding participation in the preparation program. We encourage expectant parents to make arrangements for the preparation program at least a few months prior to the birth of their child. Sacrament of Marriage Please contact the rectory for details regarding the preparation program. In accordance with Archdiocesan policy, couples should contact a member of the parish clergy at least six months prior to their proposed wedding date. Holy Orders and Consecrated (Religious) Life If interested, please call the parish rectory or the Archdiocesan Office of Vocations at 792-6460 Rectory/Parish Office 243 West Argonne Drive Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 966-8600 (Phone) 966-5721 (Fax) Saint Peter Elementary School Pre-K thru Eighth Grade 215 North Clay Saint Louis, Missouri 63122 821-0460 Offices of Faith Formation Linda Doyle, 822-1347, ext. 3001 Parish School of Religion Jan Hartmann, 822-1347, ext. 3004 Office of Youth Ministry Robby Francis, Director of Youth Ministry 822-1347, ext. 3003 Office of Music Ministry Carol Bauer, Liturgical Music Coordinator 822-1347, ext. 3005 Pastoral Council Mr. Bill Carmody, Chairperson 984-0534 Mrs. Sue McAtee, Vice Chairperson 965-5203 Mrs. Patty Boyd, Secretary 966-3835 Finance Commission Mrs. Diane Hadler, Chairperson 822-0422 Mr. Dave Patritti, Vice-Chairperson 835-1170 St. Vincent de Paul Society 314-289-6101 Ext. 2220 (Voice Mail) Calendar Coordinator Cathy Herrmann, 822-1347, ext. 3002 Parish Center 821-6219 Bulletin Deadline!! Articles intended for publication in the Bulletin must be submitted to the rectory by Monday, at 3:OOPM for the following Sunday’s Bulletin. All announcements must be in writing with a name and telephone number attached. Please remember St. Peter Catholic Church in your will. 2 YEAR OF PRAYER ST. PETER PARISH PRAYER Lord, thank you for the rich history you have bestowed on our family of St. Peter in Kirkwood. Blessed by your grace, we ask that you be present in our parish today. Guide us as we celebrate our gifts through worship, education and loving service. Holy Spirit, create within us a vision for the future that we live, witness and proclaim the good news of Christ. Amen Sunday Mass Schedule Saturday: 5:OOPM (Satisfies Sunday obligation) Sunday: 7:30AM, 9:OOAM, 11:OOAM and 6:OOPM Weekday Mass Schedule Monday - Friday: 6:45AM & 8:15AM Saturday: 8:15AM Holy Day Mass Schedule Consult the bulletin for Mass times http://www.stpeterkirkwood.org Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturday: 3:45 to 4:45PM or by appointment Eucharistic Adoration Monday - Friday, 6:00AM to 10:00PM St. Angela Merici Chapel in Ursuline Hall adjacent to the Church building For more information or to sign up for a weekly Holy Hour of prayer contact Kathy Fotouhi at 821-4347 Baptism Baptisms are celebrated every Sunday of the month at 12:30PM. Parents are expected to participate in a Baptismal Preparation Program. Please call the rectory to arrange for the Baptismal Preparation Program and a date for Baptism. Weekly Anointing and Prayer After the 9:OOAM Mass each Sunday, we will celebrate the Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick, for anyone who has the need to receive this sacrament. This is meant to include such concerns as upcoming diagnostic tests, limitations of aging, anxiety, depression, undue stress, addiction, etc. for all ages. Please gather in the pews at the front of church and the priest will be with you approximately 10 minutes after Mass is over.
Twenty-fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 18, 2011 Ordinary Time: Autumn (A Sense of the Season) All of our days are numbered. Now that Christ has risen from the dead and ascended into heaven, we count down the days until he returns in glory to judge the living and the dead. Ordinary time is ―ordinal‖ time: numbered days, days in which we lay out the scriptures and the prayers to bide our time until Christ returns. Although the Church makes no official distinction between the days of Ordinary Time from Pentecost until Advent, in our lives we experience the subtle shift from the relaxed days of summer to the increasingly active days of autumn. For some of us, the shift comes with the end-of-summer holiday or the beginning of school. Others see work activities shift, from tending to harvesting, from stocking shelves to increasing sales, from cashing out an old fiscal year to digging into a new one. From the “Hooray and Halleluia” Department… Charles Lucier, our Blood Drive Coordinator reported that last month’s blood drive was one of the best. Sixty-three people were registered to donate with sixty-one units of life-saving red cells collected. In addition, two units of platelets were collected. Thanks so much to all who donated and especially to Charles Lucier and his committee for their fidelity to our quarterly blood drives at St. Peter. Thanks, too, to McArthur’s Bakery who provided once again many tasty treats for our donors and to our wonderful Boy’s Scout troop #323 for their help in both setting up and taking down for the drive. In addition three local restaurants provided gift certificates for the ―Bring-a –Buddy‖ drawing. They were: Dewey’s Pizza, Texas Roadhouse Restaurant, and Citizen Kane’s Steak House. The Church’s calendar contains some subtle shifts, too. On September 14 we celebrated the Triumph of the Holy Cross, and the waning of the natural world around us points us to the mystery of suffering and redemption. At the end of September we invoke the Holy Archangels to guard us in the encroaching twilight. And if we listen closely to the scriptures in October, we begin to hear talk of the last days and the final things. These thoughts reach their culmination with the great festival of saints and souls, November 1st and 2nd. We spend November remembering the dead, preparing for the end and celebrating Christ, the firstfruits harvested of the new creation, the firstborn from the dead. Thanks one and all! At last some really cool weather! This Friday, September 23 rd , is the first day of Fall. How sweet it is! Missouri’s most beautiful season. Have a good week and I’ll see you in church! Msgr. Jack 1-3-5 This is the extraordinary opportunity that Autumn’s Ordinary Time opens up for us. Blessing Prayer at the Completion of the Harvest . . . (From Edward Hays’ Book, Prayers for the Domestic Church) Lord and Bountiful Creator, give of grains and seed, of fruits and berries and all that grows from the earth, we thank you and we bless you for this year’s harvest. We lift up our hearts in gratitude for the sun, which, together with rain, wind and earth, worked in harmony to produce this bountiful harvest. We are grateful to all those who labored in these fields together with mother earth so that this harvest time might come to fullness. Lord, as Your Son, Jesus, knew: harvest is hard work! Yet, it is also richly rewarding to see the fruit of our labor, to take pride in this completed harvest. We thank you, our Lord and God, for Your protection and care in this season of harvest. We bless you for the weather given to us for our work. This harvest, Lord, was not without its difficulties: no harvest is, but we rejoice that those times of trouble did not prevent us from the completion of the task. The sun smiled us, the wind cooled us, and the earth laughed as we caressed her skin, collecting the fruits of this harvest. Come, Lord of the Harvest, Lord of Rejoicing, come and join us in our festive celebration. May our joy at this harvest be a taste of the joy we shall share when we celebrate the final harvest of heaven, that day of days when all that You have begun will be matured to completion. Blessed are You, Lord our God, who has given to us this harvest. Amen 3
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