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ASCENSION CHURCH Parish Center: 808 S. East Ave. Oak Park, IL 60304 Tel.: 708-848-2703 Fax: 708-848-2773 Office hours: M-Th: 8 AM - 8 PM Friday: 8 AM - 4 PM S/S: 8:30 AM -1:30 PM Bulletin Articles ascensiondome@msn.com E-Mail ascensionchurch@comcast.net Personnel can be reached by first initial last name @ascensionchurch.com Web-sites www.ascensionchurch.com www.ascension-school.com www.archdiocese-chgo.org Pastor Rev. Larry McNally 848-2703 Pastoral Associate Victoria M. Tufano 434-1533 Director of Institutional Advancement Lynn Fredrick 434-1558 Director of Music David Anderson 434-1535 Director of Religious Education Christine Ondrla 848-3099 Director of Youth Ministry Daniel Lawler 434-1555 School Principal Mary Jo Burns 386-7282 Parish Office Support Staff Financial Secretary: Mary Pat Landa (M-F) x221 Administrative Secretary: Rosemarie Nowicki (M-W) x231 Sacramental Secretaries: Joanna Cundari (PM: M,Th) x230 Deedee Ralston (PM: T,W) x230 Pastor Emeritus Rev. Robert A. Cross Weekend Assistants Rev. Jerry Bleem, OFM Rev. Ray Guiao, SJ Deacon Couples Lendell & Tina Richardson Roger & Betty Vandervest Joe & Kathie Walsh Infant & Toddler Care is available during the 9 & 11 a.m. Masses in the Cry Room of the Church. From the Pastor DEAR FAMILY OF ASCENSION, Summer Greetings! In your good name and mine, I welcome Fr. Gnanasekaram to our parish this weekend. Fr. Frank is joining us as part of the Archdiocesan annual Summer Mission Appeal of behalf of the Diocese of Mannar, Sri Lanka. Currently, Fr. Frank is an Associate Pastor at St. Catherine of Sienna Church in New York. Welcome, Fr. Frank, to our Parish Family of Ascension. I would like to welcome and thank our newest Ministers of our Parish, GREETERS. They had their first meeting last Sunday. Thanks to all of you for coming forward for this Hospitality Ministry. It is much appreciated and your ministry will greatly benefit our weekend guests. I thank you and our Stewardship Team for initiating this effort. I thank Bill Skalitzky, Bill Komala, Rich Hillengas and the painting crew for their good, hard and tedious work at Holy Angels School. Thanks for meeting the challenge head-on and making it happen. It wasn’t easy work, but you did it as promised. Thanks for giving up of a lot your time in getting it done. Thanks, everybody! Carol Ford, Mary Stapleton and their many helpers of all ages put together another successful Ascension PADS Summer Lunch. Thank your for your compassion and thoughtfulness, especially in light of the summer heat and humidity. One of our parish families, the Mosha family, moved back to Tanzania where they were originally from. Before they left, Raymond came by to see me on behalf of his wife, Joyce, and their three children to say thanks for ALL that Ascension Parish did for them since their arrival five years ago. Raymond shared that they felt right at home very shortly after their arrival from Tanzania. He also said they were met with such friendliness and openness, as if they had been here for ages. Raymond and Joyce wanted me to know how special the 600 block of Gunderson was to them and how much they appreciated the attention and dedication that was given to the liturgies here. I was so glad that he stopped to say good-bye, and I really want to pass on their good words about you, Our Family of Ascension, as your friendly and enthusiastic spirit continues inside and outside our Church. I thank you! May God bless you ALL for your continuing good works!! J U L Y 17, 2011— P A G E 2 (Continued on page 3)
(Continued from page 2) up the necessary form here in the Parish Center or Well now, we know why the Chicago Police Dept. beefed up their security at the Taste of Chicago. The two most popular menu items were turkey legs and various chicken parts. With this knowledge they must have suspected much more “fowl play” than previous years. This new week brings with it the opening night of Backyard Theology 2011. This Tuesday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m. in the Pine Room, our weekend assistant Fr. Jerry Bleem, O.F.M., who besides being a priest, is an artist and teacher, will be our presenter. Fr. Bleem’s talk is Beholding the Spiritual in Art. As we have come to know Fr. Jerry as a wonderful homilist, we can now see and hear the artist teacher in him as he shares his experience of faith and art. I hope you can join us. This coming Saturday, the 23rd, is the next PADS Summer Lunch in the Pine Room. If you can be a part of the team for this lunch it would be greatly appreciated. You can be part of the wait staff, you could donate food or drinks, you could be part of the clean-up crew. Please call Carol Ford at 848-3971 and tell her what you would like to do. Thank you in advance for your compassion. The PADS basket remains in the East Ave. vestibule for any donated toiletries as well as the PADS box for socks, underwear, tee shirts, caps etc. Thank you. Theology on Tap continues this week Tuesday for our parishioners in their 20s and 30s (married or single) over at St. Edmund’s Murphy Hall which is at 200 S. Oak Park Ave beginning at 7:30 p.m. The speaker is Jim Ivers; Jim and I went to school together. Jim’s topic is Faith: A Context for our Blessings and Burdens. Jim has experienced many a burden in his own life; I highly recommend him to our 20-30 crowd. I am getting several new dates on my calendar for our many sacramental celebrations, plus prep sessions, which reminds me that this strange weather month is moving right along. I ask ALL Parish Ministries and Organizations to please continue to submit your Space Requests for single or parish events for the 2011-12 calendar year. You can pick download one from our website: www.ascensionchurch.com. Rosemarie thanks you and I thank you! Getting back to our 2011 Priest Convocation, on Tuesday morning June 28, Msgr. Michael Meher gave a very affirmative talk on priesthood. I felt he was very encouraging and supportive about our priestly vocation and extremely positive in the good things that priest do in their ministry. I just felt it was a very good, affirming talk and I wasn’t the only one who asked for a copy. We walked out of the talk affirmed. In the afternoon, our speaker was Dr. Elizabeth Nagel, who is a Scripture Professor at Mundelein Seminary. Again, a fine talk in a series of good talks. She reminded us to really study the scriptures for our weekend homily, explain the passages, and tell how they can be lived out in our daily Christian journey as best we can. Dr. Nagel stressed once again that the Liturgy of the Word at Mass is as important as the Liturgy of the Eucharist. Overall, I enjoyed the convocation with the priestly camaraderie being #1. Our next one will be in Spring of 2014. Elsewhere in our DOME is a summary of last weekend’s Offertory collection. Thank your for your generosity. Thank you for ALL that you do for our Family of Ascension. I pray for you every day. I see where there is some doubt whether or not the Joffrey Ballet’s Season can be salvaged. The mood is not optimistic that a settlement can be reached. I think this is a good time for a “leap of faith.” Have a good week. GOD’S BLESSINGS! J U L Y 17, 2011-P A G E 3
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