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Volume 18, Issue 2 March/April 2019 Why do we lose Jesus in our ordinary, everyday lives? As I write this, we are in one of those “ordinary times” in the Church calendar, the time between Christmas and Easter when we can slip into an attitude that says “nothing happening here.” In reality something is always happening in our lives and in our worship. There are no throw-away days. All we have heard and experienced throughout Advent and Christmas has given us graces that we are to reflect on and learn from. In fact at the end of the Gospel of Luke’s infancy narrative, we have the recounting of Mary and Joseph losing Jesus (age 12) in Jerusalem and finding him in the Temple. Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them. He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. Luke 2:41-51 St. Luke has given the only account of the boy Jesus, a story he could have only heard from Mary. This occurs at Passover in the “hidden years,” when scripture tells us nothing about the family life of Jesus. No family letter on a high feast day, no Facebook posts, no tweets, no updates…silence. Why was the Blessed Mother prompted by the Holy Spirit to tell this family story out of all of the days Mary and Joseph cared for Jesus? Why was this particular story preserved for you and me to read and what does it say to us now? When this takes place, Mary and Joseph, as well as most of their community, family and friends were journeying to Jerusalem to celebrate the High Feast of Passover. Imagine (continued page 3) St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish 5890 Buckwheat Road Milford, Ohio 45150 Address Service Requested Setonotes is a publication of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish and is intended for all friends and parishioners of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Parish groups who wish to submit articles or pictures for publication in Setonotes must submit the information to the parish office by the 15th of each month for publication the following month. If you have questions or comments regarding Setonotes, please contact the parish office at 575-0119. Editorial/Contributing Staff Fr. Michael L. Cordier, Pastor Fr. Christopher M. Geiger, Parochial Victor Valerie Hofmann Sue Boruszewski Patty Norris Setonotes • March/April 2019 Spring Clothing Giveaway Seton’s St. Vincent de Paul Society is having their annual Spring Clothing Giveaway on Saturday, May 4th, from 9:00 until 11:30 a.m. in the Seton cafeteria. Your donations of spring and summer clothing will make this day special for those in need in our community. We will also be accepting small household items and toys. Clothing and items can be dropped off to the cafeteria on Friday, May 3rd between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. We ask that you come to the back of the cafeteria, near the dumpsters, to drop items off. For high school students needing service hours, this is a fun and rewarding way to help those less fortunate. If you would like to donate items or your time to this wonderful cause, please contact Jeanne Wahl, 513-503-1475.

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Volume 18, Issue 2March/April

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Why do we lose Jesus in our ordinary, everyday lives? As I write this, we are in one of those “ordinary times” in the Church calendar, the time between Christmas and Easter when we can slip into an attitude that says “nothing happening here.” In reality something is always happening in our lives and in our worship. There are no throw-away days. All we have heard and experienced throughout Advent and Christmas has given us graces that we are to reflect on and learn from. In fact at the end of the Gospel of Luke’s infancy narrative, we have the recounting of Mary and Joseph losing Jesus (age 12) in Jerusalem and finding him in the Temple.

Each year his parents went to Jerusalem for the feast of Passover, and when he was twelve years old, they went up according to festival custom. After they had completed its days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus remained behind in Jerusalem, but his parents did not know it. Thinking that he was in the caravan, they journeyed for a day and looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances, but not finding him, they returned to Jerusalem to look for him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions, and all who heard him were astounded at his understanding and his answers. When his parents saw him, they were astonished, and his mother said to him, “Son, why have you done this to us? Your father and I have been looking for you with great anxiety.” And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” But they did not understand what he said to them. He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was obedient to them; and his mother kept all these things in her heart. Luke 2:41-51

St. Luke has given the only account of the boy Jesus, a story he could have only heard from Mary. This occurs at Passover in the “hidden years,” when scripture tells us nothing about the family life of Jesus. No family letter on a high feast day, no Facebook posts, no tweets, no updates…silence. Why was the Blessed Mother prompted by the Holy Spirit to tell this family story out of all of the days Mary and Joseph cared for Jesus? Why was this particular story preserved for you and me to read and what does it say to us now? When this takes place, Mary and Joseph, as well as most of their community, family and friends were journeying to Jerusalem to celebrate the High Feast of Passover. Imagine (continued page 3)

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St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish5890 Buckwheat RoadMilford, Ohio 45150 Address Service Requested

Setonotes is a publication of St. ElizabethAnn Seton Parish and is intended for allfriends and parishioners of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Parish groups who wish tosubmit articles or pictures for publicationin Setonotes must submit the informationto the parish office by the 15th of each month for publication the following month. If you have questions or comments regarding Setonotes, please contact the parish office at 575-0119.

Editorial/Contributing Staff

Fr. Michael L. Cordier, PastorFr. Christopher M. Geiger, Parochial VictorValerie HofmannSue BoruszewskiPatty Norris

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Attention Runners & Walkers• of All Ages The St. Vincent de Paul Society will host the 26th Annual RUN FOR THE POOR 5K and Health Walk Fundraiser Saturday, June 9th, starting at 9:00am on the parish grounds of St. Elizabeth Seton. All are invited to participate in this charity event to help SVDP help the poor in this region. See their webpage at www.runforthepoor.org. Awards to the top 15% of each age division (male and female) based on pre-registration. Randomly selected door prizes awarded to registered participants. Refreshments provided. Call 513-474-1399 or visit www.racedmc.com for registering on-line or other information. The cost: adults $20 per person ($10 under 18) if pre-registered (postmarked) by Friday, June 1st or online by Wednesday, June 6th; or $25 on race day for adults ($15 under 18). Registration forms may be found near the front doors of the church or on the table just inside the narthex. Mail entrance form and check or money order to Run For The Poor; P.O. Box 54424; Cincinnati, Ohio 45254-0424 (the address shown on the form). • Walkers may walk for time or at their own pace (pushing strollers allowed). Anyone who would like to just walk, including families, are welcome. If you have a business and would like to donate a door prize or gift certificate for this year’s race or be a sponsor in 2019, call Marv Hudson at 513-575-1246.

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Spring Clothing Giveaway Seton’s St. Vincent de Paul Society is having their annual Spring Clothing Giveaway on Saturday, May 4th, from 9:00 until 11:30 a.m. in the Seton cafeteria. Your donations of spring and summer clothing will make this day special for those in need in our community. We will also be accepting small household items and toys. Clothing and items can be dropped off to the cafeteria on Friday, May 3rd between 4:00 and 7:00 p.m. We ask that you come to the back of the cafeteria, near the dumpsters, to drop items off. For high school students needing service hours, this is a fun and rewarding way to help those less fortunate. If you would like to donate items or your time to this wonderful cause, please contact Jeanne Wahl, 513-503-1475.

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From the Pastor’s Desk… Dear St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parishioners, We begin the solemn season of Lent with Ash Wednesday on March 6th. It is a time of preparation for the joyous celebration of Easter and the Easter season. During Lent, we embrace the practices of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. It is a time of doing less (acts of self-denial) and doing more (prayer, and acts of charity). The forty days of Lent are followed by fifty days of celebrating the Easter season. Please remember that during Lent we are praying the Stations of the Cross in church every Friday night at 7:30 p.m. Immediately following, confessions will be heard. Receiving the sacrament of Reconciliation is a wonderful way to prepare oneself for the glory of Easter. We will have a joint penance service with St. Andrew on Thursday, April 11th, at 7:00 p.m. at St. Andrew. Mark your calendars for a Lenten Parish Mission from April 8 – 10 at St. Andrew. The theme is of this Mission is God’s Mercy with Fr. Thomas Blau OP, our mission speaker. This promises to be a spiritually rewarding mission for all who come. Please see the flyer in the bulletin for more information. Please plan on joining us. During Lent, we remember in a special way all RCIA candidates. They have made important life decisions and are making a great act of faith as they journey to full membership in the Catholic Church. We pray for them in a special way as they get closer to the Easter Vigil when they will be able to join us at the altar of God. If you have never been to an Easter Vigil Mass, consider coming this year. It is the most beautiful and meaningful Catholic liturgy there is. This year, the Easter Vigil begins at 8:45 p.m., on Saturday, April 20th. It will last about two hours. We look forward to springtime and Easter time. We look forward to celebrating our Lord’s Resurrection, so beautifully symbolized by the new birth of spring. Enjoy the fifty days of Easter. And finally, I have a note to remind me that the month of March is dedicated to St. Joseph – whose feast day is March 19th. He is the patron of the Universal Church, and patron of fathers, workers and carpenters. St. Joseph – pray for us.

God bless you, Fr. Michael L. Cordier

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Youth Group Our Junior High group has the opportunity to attend AWAKE, a youth rally put on by the Archdiocese on March 2. The High School group has a similar event called Encounter on March 9. If you would like to register, please call the Youth Office. Please keep our High School students and adults in your prayers as we attend our retreat March 29-31 at Camp Campbell Gard. We hope the time away from busy routines will be fruitful and allow everyone to re-center themselves. There is always room for a few more students – call the office today to register! Attention 6th grade students: Mark your calendars to try out a Junior High meeting on May 3! Eighth grade students are welcome to join our High School group on May 5. March 1 JH Meeting, Seton Parish Meeting Room, 7-9pm 2 AWAKE: JH Event @ Roger Bacon 3 High School Meeting, St. A Church Hall, 7-9pm 9 Encounter (High School), Holy Spirit Center 17 High School Meeting, St. A Church Hall, 7-9pm 21 Game Night at SEM Villa, 6:30-8pm 29-31 High School Retreat, Camp Campbell Gard April 5 JH Meeting, Seton Parish Meeting Room, 7-9pm 7 High School Meeting, St. A Church Hall, 7-9pm 18 Game Night at SEM Villa, 6:30-8pm 21 NO SMILE Meeting – Easter Sunday Catherine Fasano

First Reconciliation Congratulations to our 27 Seton students who made their First Reconciliation on Tuesday, February 12th. They were joined by many siblings, parents, and extended family and friends, as well as their PRP Catechists, Sarah McGrath and Paula Vonderbrink, and their SASEAS 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Krista Jones. The children were well prepared and had participated in a Reconciliation Retreat the prior weekend. What a delightful group of children. Please continue to pray for them as they move toward their reception of Holy Communion in May. Patty Norris

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Saint Joseph ~ A Man for Today ~ Feast Day ~ March 19th The Bible pays Joseph the highest compliment: he was a “just” man. The quality meant a lot more than faithfulness in paying debts. When the Bible speaks of God “justifying” someone, it means that God, the all-holy or “righteous” so transforms a person that the individual shares somehow in God’s own holiness, and hence it is really “right” for God to love him or her. In other words, God is not playing games, acting as if we were loveable when we are not. By saying that Joseph was “just,” the Bible means that he was one who was completely open to all that God wanted to do for him. He became holy by opening himself totally to God. The rest we can easily surmise. Think of the kind of love with which he wooed and won Mary, and the depth of the love they shared during their marriage. It is no contradiction of Joseph’s manly holiness that he decided to divorce Mary when she was found to be with child. The important words of the Bible are that he planned to do this “quietly” because he was “a righteous man, yet unwilling to expose her to shame.” The just man was simply, joyfully, wholeheartedly obedient to God – in marrying Mary, in naming Jesus, in shepherding the precious family to Egypt, in bringing them to Nazareth, in the undetermined number of years of quiet faith and courage. The Bible tells us nothing of Joseph in the years after the return to Nazareth except the incident of finding Jesus in the Temple. Perhaps this can be taken to mean that God wants us to realize that the holiest family was like every other family, that the circumstances of life for the holiest family were like those of every family, so that when Jesus’ mysterious nature began to appear people couldn’t believe that he came from such humble beginnings: “Is he not the carpenter’s son?” “Is not his mother named Mary...” It was almost indignant, “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” St. Joseph was chosen by the eternal Father as the trustworthy guardian and protector of his greatest treasures, namely his divine Son and Mary, Joseph’s wife. He carried out this vocation with complete fidelity until at last God called him, saying: “Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of your Lord.” (St. Bernadine of Siena) Taken from Saint of the Day, St. Anthony Messenger Press St. Joseph, patron of husbands, pray for us. St. Joseph, patron of fathers, pray for us. St. Joseph, protector of Holy Church, pray for us. Fr. Michael Cordier

Friday Nights at Seton Lenten Fish Fry and Stations of the Cross

Each Friday night during Lent from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria

The Men of Seton host and prepare our annual fish fry dinners and the Ladies of Seton provide the desserts. The menu will include all of your favorites…fish, shrimp, crab cakes, baked tilapia and baked salmon with all of our fabulous side dishes, desserts and drinks. Also on the menu, a Jr./Sr. dinner. For our complete menu with prices, go to the Seton website homepage: www.setonmilford.org

Adults, children’s and ala carte menus – takeout is also available.

Also each week we will have Stations of the Cross in the church at 7:30 p.m. Immediately following, Father will hear confessions.

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the preparation required. The feast was celebrated and they head home only to discover Jesus has gone missing. We are often asked to imagine their concern. Why did they lose him? Was it complacency, distraction, presumption that he was around somewhere, we are not told. The real question we should be asking ourselves is why do we lose Jesus in our ordinary, everyday lives? We may experience Him at big celebrations or times of great sorrow or joy, but we often can move on and he is gone from our daily living. Of course, we can look for Jesus, as Mary and Joseph did, “with great anxiety.” Yet where did they find him…the temple. We often try to blame Jesus for wandering away from us, when it is always us who head off down the road without him. This small part of sacred scripture gives us God’s Plan for our Ordinary times. Make sure you’ve got Jesus onboard, and if you forget and lose him, you will always find him at Mass. Go back to the temple. Finally, the last line is the very best advice we can hear…” and his mother kept all these things in her heart.” Every word of Sacred Scripture and every action at Holy Mass is meant to be held in our hearts. We are to ponder what we hear and what we receive. We are approaching Lent. The first Christians said that God writes the world like men write words. God has not finished writing the world. He has a plan and we all have our part to play. The rhythm of life reflected in each human life is connected to the Divine Author by the thread of grace, supernatural love. No time is Ordinary and each season calls us to receive and ponder the riches we have been given and will be given until we celebrate the wedding feast of the lamb forever in heaven. Patty Norris

Seton Summer Camp Can you feel it? The promise of warm and lazy summer days is in the air. But at Seton Summer Camp, we are anything but lazy! We have a summer full of swimming, arts and crafts, and field trips planned. Trips to the new Milford Library, Cincinnati Nature Center, Castle Skateland, and Eastgate Bowling Lanes are on the calendar. We will go swimming at Milford High School and bring in presenters from the Cincinnati Children’s Museum Center. Kona Ice will also visit us a couple of times for a tasty, refreshing treat. Have your kids join the fun! Seton Summer Camp is open June 10 – August 9 from 7:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. The registration form and pricing can be found on the parish website under SASEAS School. Please contact Sandy Vollman at 513-787-2571 for more information. If you would like a part-time summer job working at camp and are 18 or over, let us know! We would love to talk to you! Sandy Vollman

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CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT The Capital Improvement envelope is important for our parish to be able to keep up with all the needed maintenance and improvements of our facilities and grounds. Just as each family does this with their own home and property, our parish needs to do the same. We rely on your generosity to do this. We plan and budget for preventative maintenance and some improvements, but sometimes we have to do more than what was planned. Below are several items that Seton is actively pursuing as Capital Improvement for 2019:

Landscaping (on-going) – The parish contracted with a landscaping company this past year. They were able to maintain the courtyard, bell tower, marque and all the flower beds at the school, church and rectory (April – October). We have plans to update some of the flower beds in the spring.

Lake Seton – Our parish conducted a fundraiser last November/December asking for additional funds to go towards a project to prevent flooding on the east side of the school building during heavy rains. An engineering firm was employed, and they recommended a new underground drainage pipe be laid from the flood area to the ditch along Buckwheat. At the present, we don’t have funds to do this project. Another option we are exploring is to pipe the flood water to a pit and use a large sump pump to move the water to a storm water drain. Hopefully, we will move forward on this soon.

Gym Heating Unit – The heating unit for the gym is 24 years old and over the past month or more, it has been failing to work properly. We are exploring whether A/C can be added. Bidding is in process.

Electric Panels – The old wing of the school has five electric panels that date back to 1960 and need to be replaced. Bidding is in process.

Parking Lot – There are several areas that are deteriorating and need to be professionally repaired. Bidding process has not begun yet.

Other Projects that need to be considered in the next couple years:

School Roof (new wing) – Many will remember that we replaced the roof on the old wing of the school in the summer of 2009. The new wing roof is in need of replacement soon. It is deteriorating and repairs are becoming more frequent.

School Windows (old wing) – The old wing school windows are original, single pane and not energy efficient.

Completed Capital Improvement Projects from 2018:

School blinds – the cafeteria, parish meeting and conference room blinds replaced – $4,100 Bell tower – power washed, bricks replaced, tuck pointing and sealed – $11.5K Key pad entry for the church side chapel – safety for the parishioners during Adoration – $1,700 School and pavilion doors – the school kitchen door, the hot water heater door and pavilion door were

replaced and the frames repaired – $7K Church HVAC, removal of trees, concrete pads, new fence, rebuilt water pumps – $61K New awning over exit door on south side of church – $650 Four new security cameras for pavilion – $2,500 New window for conference room in school – $26,400

Please consider giving each month to the Capital Improvement fund so that we can continue to maintain and improve the facilities and grounds. If you are already giving monthly, please consider an increase. If you would like to donate monthly through EFT for the capital improvements fund, please call the parish office for a form.

Valerie Hofmann

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ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON PRESCHOOL GETS READY TO “MARCH INTO SPRING” Start looking for early signs of spring in the preschool classrooms as the children get ready for warmer and sunnier days by making art projects such as kites, flowers, butterflies and, of course, green shamrocks to hang up in the classroom. However, past experience warns us not to be too hasty in putting away our hats and mittens…snow may still be in the forecast! It was great to see so many preschool parents at our Catholic Schools Week Open House held in January. A special thanks goes to all of you who shared your good thoughts about our school to your friends and neighbors. Your support means a great deal to all of us at the preschool as we strive to make this the very best preschool possible. In February the preschoolers learned all about their bodies and how to keep them growing strong through exercise and healthy foods. They have also learned how to keep their teeth clean and healthy when our classes were visited by Dr. Rob Reineck, a dentist at Milford Dental Excellence, in late February and early March. The children really enjoyed learning about “sugar bugs” and loved the goody bags with toothbrushes and toothpaste. Thank you Dr. Reineck! Registration for the 2019/2020 school year is complete. We have a few preschool openings left in our program, so if you are interested in enrolling your child for the 2019/2020 school year, please give me a call at 575-9900 or email me at [email protected]. The remaining openings are filled on a first come first serve basis. Spring Break and Easter are just around the corner here at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Preschool. We are anxious to be outside more often and to welcome the signs of spring. God’s earth seems to reawaken during the months of March and April with blossoming tulips and warm gentle breezes. Our Spring Break is in March this year, from March 18th-22nd. We have our classroom Easter parties April 17th and 18th. We wish all of you a sunny, warm spring, a relaxing spring break, and a blessed, happy Easter.

Aimee Limberg PRP News Our PRP program is moving along with good attendance (even considering some horrible weather), good kids and good volunteers. Thank you for trying to push against the grain of society and giving your children the opportunity to learn about their faith. Upcoming Events: 3/10 Lenten Family Day: All families gather with children to prepare for Lent (9:30-10:45 a.m.) 3/24 No Class 4/6 Confirmation Retreat: Jesuit Spiritual Center (more details to follow) Patty Norris

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Titan Mardi Gras 2019

Mark your calendars and join us for our annual fundraiser on Saturday, March 2, 2019, at 6:30 p.m. on the Seton Campus. Don’t worry about reservations … walk-ins are always welcome! It is sure to be an evening of fun with raffles, auctions, games and good food! For more information, please contact Angela Foulks at [email protected] or at 513-575-0093, ext. 1207.

SASEAS Vocations Day

Celebrating Catholic Schools Week 2019

spent the day with Fr. Chris and the seminarians. They toured and talked about what it was like to live at the seminary, prayed together, had Mass, lunch and finished the day with Adoration. The 8th grade girls spent a day with the Children of Mary sisters as a part of their Vocations Day. They are a semi-cloistered, contemplative order of women who call the Holy Spirit Center their home. While there, they celebrated the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, toured the Reliquary, listened to their stories over lunch and ended the day in Adoration with them. It was such a deeply moving experience for all!

The 8th grade class enjoyed their Vocations Day! Eighth grade boys went to the Athenaeum and

As part of our Catholic Schools Week celebration, we celebrated Mass with all 108 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese. The St. Andrew student council represented our school by attending the Mass.

Members of St. Andrew student council at the Mass, left to right, are Luke Westerkamp, Noah White, Aaron Watson, Nora Meier, Hannah Burkhardt, Marcella Wenstrup, Bella Macias, Abby Cunningham.

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Respect Life Committee At our February meeting, Mrs. Catherine Fasano, Director of our SMILE Youth Group, shared information about their trip to Washington D.C. for the March for Life. She and her infant daughter were with three students and Fr. Chris Geiger. Thank you all for representing St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish! We are hoping to combine the efforts of SMILE and Respect Life to help each other with upcoming projects. Thank you to everyone who participated in the Baby Bottle Campaign for A Caring Place. Three hundred thirty-three bottles were distributed between Seton and St. Andrew. We do not yet have a total of how much was received as of this writing. And, please, if you have not returned your baby bottle yet, it would save money for the cause if you did, even if it’s empty. The Baby Shower for Pregnancy Center East is scheduled for March 10. It is always so encouraging to see how generous our parish is for this important way we can support little ones in need and their parents who have chosen life! “Take a Stand for Life: From March 6 to April 14, our community will take part in 40 Days for Life – a groundbreaking, coordinated international mobilization. We pray that, with God’s help, this will mark the beginning of the end of abortion in our city – and beyond.” (from 40daysforlife.com) Seton parishioners are invited to join this event on Saturday, April 6, from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Those wishing to carpool from Seton’s parking lot should be prepared to leave at 7:15 a.m. Holy Mass and prayers for the women and workers of Planned Parenthood will begin at Holy Name Catholic Church (2448 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45219), followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, a peaceful Rosary procession to the nearby Planned Parenthood facility (2314 Auburn Avenue), and then back to the church for Benediction. Please email, call, or text, me between 3:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. any afternoon or evening, ahead of the event so that we have an idea of how many participants to expect. Although the Respect Life Committee’s monthly meetings are the first Wednesday of each month at 7:15 p.m. in the school conference room at Seton, the March meeting will be on the second Wednesday – March 13. For more information, call 513-575-4545 (home), text 513-288-8645 (mobile), or email me at [email protected].

Laurie Balbach Abu-Khdaier

Personal Care Items Drive for St. Vincent de Paul The Men of Seton and the Knights of Columbus are collecting personal care items for our parish’s St. Vincent de Paul food pantry. Please consider filling and returning a bag being distributed the weekend of March 16/17. They will be collecting items the following weekend. If you didn’t get a chance to pick up a bag, items in low supply include: bar soap, shampoo, deodorant, toilet paper, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. Thank you for your generosity for the less fortunate.

Men of Seton and Knights of Columbus

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Lenten Schedule Ash Wednesday, March 6th ~ Mass schedule: 6:45 a.m./8:00 a. m./9:00 a.m./7:00 p.m.

(a day of fast and abstinence) Weekday Mass Schedule

8:00 a.m. Mondays, 1st, 3rd and 5th Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays 9:00 a.m. School Mass on Tuesdays (except March 19th, spring break)

Eucharistic Adoration Each Friday beginning at 9:00 a.m., concluding with Benediction Saturday morning just before 8:00 a.m. Mass Stations of the Cross Every Friday evening during Lent at 7:30 p.m. in the church Reconciliation

Every Friday night at 8:00 p.m., immediately following Stations of the Cross Every Saturday from 3:30 – 4:30 p.m., or by appointment The Light is ON for You, Tuesday. evening, March 19th, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Joint Lenten Reconciliation Service at St. Andrew on Thursday, April 11th, 7:00 p.m. ~ several priests

available to hear confessions

Seton Fish Fry Dinners ~ March 8th through April 12th Fish Fry each Friday night during Lent from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in the cafeteria, takeout available, find our complete menu and prices on our parish website, www.setonmilford.org Lenten Mission ~ April 8th through April 10th ~ held at St. Andrew Our Parish Mission for St. Andrew and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton will be given by Fr. Thomas Blau OP. Fr. Blau is a priest of the Order of Preachers, a Dominican. The Lent Mission is at St. Andrew beginning the weekend of April 6 & 7. More details to come.

Holy Week Palm Sunday, April 14th ~ Mass schedule: 5:00 p.m. (Saturday)/ 8:00 a.m./9:30 a.m./11:00 a.m.

Ladies of Seton Easter Raffle Drawing Tuesday of Holy Week, April 16th

7:00 p.m. Chrism Mass at the Cathedral Holy Thursday, April 18th ~ no morning Mass

7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper at Seton Adoration following Mass until 10:45 p.m., closing with Night Prayer

Good Friday, April 19th ~ no morning Mass, a day of fast and abstinence 1:30 p.m. The Passion with Holy Communion and Veneration of the Cross at St. Andrew 7:00 p.m. Veneration and outdoor Stations of the Cross at Seton

Easter Vigil, April 20th ~ no morning or 5:00 p.m. Masses, and no confessions 8:00 a.m. Preparation Rites and Easter Vigil Rehearsal 8:45 p.m. Easter Vigil Mass with reception following in the cafeteria

Easter Sunday, April 21st ~ Mass schedule: 8:00 a.m./9:30 a.m./11:00 a.m.

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Baptisms Levi Scott Pels, son of Jacob and Toni Liam Wayne Pels, son of Jacob and Toni Giulana Nicole Placa-Griffin, daughter of Joshua and Nicole John Julian Potesta, son of John and Jacquelyn Alex John Lindenberger, IV, son of Alex and Hong

New Parishioners

Christian and Christienne Rogiers Penny Coffey Sean and Samantha Edwards Marcus and Abigail Williams Alex and Allison Kellerman Wallace and Karen Webb Jeremy and Morgan Borggren Enzo and Darlene Miller Christopher and Renata Fuhrman Jon and Audrey Rothweiler Bruce and Cynthia Shivers Deaths Alice Munninghoff Bob Brookens Edna Middleton Kathleen Mudd Shirley Fields

The Christian community

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Prayer for Lent

O God, bless us during this season of spiritual renewal. Fill our minds and hearts with love,

that we may be a sign of Jesus to all those living in our midst. Amen.