Sept. 20, 2020 • 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Church 15408 Leavenworth Road Basehor, Kansas 66007

Holy Angels

Pastoral Staff Pastor ............... Rev. Richard McDonald

................ pastorholyangels@gmail.com

Parish Secretary/Charity Coordinator

........................................ Joyce Bowlin ..................holyangels1866@gmail.com

Pastoral Assistant ............ Dana Beinlich

............. holyangelsbasehor@gmail.com

Director of Religious Education

Cathy Kern ................... (913) 481-5447 ......................... cathy.kern@gmail.com

Director Adult Education & Formation

RCIA Coordinator

Christine Brown ........... (913) 724-1665 holyangelscatholicformation@gmail.com

Youth Ministry Coordinator

Paul Stallbaumer ................ paulstallbaumer@gmail.com

Music Director

Laura Beeves ................ (913) 441-8489 ............................... LaBeeves@aol.com

Finance Council Chair

Craig Gaffney ................ (913) 449-0730

Pastoral Council Chair

David Hornick .............. (816) 830-5679

VIRTUS Coordinator

Sara Steinlage .............. (913) 745-6294

Food Kitchen Coordinator

Nick Gaspers ............... (913) 724-1186

Legion of Mary

Janice Gaspers ............ (913) 724-1186

Special Needs Advocate

Shauna ....................... (913) 721-1249

Cemetery Sales

Keith Creten ................ (913) 788-2096

Organizations

Cathy Gilewitch, CWO . (913) 416-3996

............................ clmg583@gmail.com

Chuck Whipple, K of C.. (816) 835-2740

Dan Clegg, 4th Deg. K of C ................... .................................... (816) 805-4028

Confessions welcomed by appointment, and Saturdays 3:45 - 4:15 pm.

Baptisms Three months notice before baptism. Baptisms are held on

the 2nd Sunday of the month. Baptismal Preparation Classes are re-quired and scheduled individually with parents (only). Call Chris at the office (913) 724-1665 to schedule a class time.

Weddings Contact Chris Brown nine months before proposed wedding

date. Call the office to make an appointment, (913) 724-1665.

Church Office ......... (913) 724-1665

15438 Leavenworth Road

Fax ....................... (913) 724-4148

Office Hours

Monday thru Thursday ............................ 8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Friday ..................................................... 8:30 am - 2:00 pm

Rectory.......................................................... (913) 724-3122

15440 Leavenworth Road

Daily Mass will be on Monday through Thursdays at 8:00 am

in the main church.

Rosary after weekday Mass

Our Lady Queen of the Holy Angels Adoration Chapel open 24/7

with key card availability to those signing up for a holy hour.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard." Mt. 20: 1

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Monday, Sept. 21 St. Matthew, Apostle

8:00 am † Dorothy Bemis

Tuesday, Sept. 22

8:00 am † Joseph Nick, Sr.

Wednesday, Sept. 23 St. Pius of Pietrelcina

8:00 am Conversion of Sinners

Thursday, Sept. 24

8:00 am † Jan Stallbaumer

Friday, Sept. 25 No Mass

Saturday, Sept. 26 Sts. Cosmas & Damian

4:30 pm Lourdes Forbes

Sunday, Sept. 27

8:00 am All Parishioners of Holy Angels

10:30 am † Allen Goens

M a s s e s T h i s W e e k

G i f t s F o r G o d

Weekly Collection Income Needed …...$12,300.00

Sept. 5/6……………………………………$13,872.00

Excess (Shortfall)from weekly average for the month ............ ………………………...…..$1,572.00

Sept. 12/13……………………………………$8,684.00

Excess (Shortfall)from weekly average for the month ........... ………………………...…..($1,722.00)

Our sincere thanks to those who are doing their part!

Collection Counters:

Sept. 21 - Eileen Dreiling, Janice Gaspers &

Bill Loechler

Sept. 28 - Beverly Brown, Linda Land &

Marlene Goll

M i n i s t r y S c h e d u l e

Liturgical roles for Lectors, EMHCs and ushers will be done by Signup Genius on our website at this time.

M a s s e s T h i s W e e k

Please pray for the following people listed

on the prayer chain…, Steve Burghart, Joan

Keefer-Bowden, Kelli Burris, James Cope, Nancy Davis, Lloyd Dreiling, Serena Gagliardi, Bridget

Gilewitch, Casey Grey, Warren Kearney, Herschel Keithline, Joe Kennedy, Darelene Logsdon, John McClain, Tricia Mitchell, Steve Mulcahy, Kelly Naugle, Cathy Oliver, Vivian Rastok, Michael Reibel, Sandy Riniker, Jan Rooney, Tammy Scheibe, Jennifer Schreiner, Scott Sellmeyer, Brian Snyder, Alberta Welch, Jackson, JoAnn, and special intentions.

Prayer Chain Requests

Pat Scheibe, 913-724-2364, PatScheibe@aol.com;

Barbara Randolph, 913-662-0007,

randobj77@gmail.com;

Judy Goens, 913-724-1816, judithgoens@gmail.com

+Pax+

JMJ

Memorial of Our Lady of Sorrows

Dear Parishioners and Friends of Holy Angels,

This is the last bulletin letter to be written during the

season of Summer now fleeting to a mere memory by Sep-tember 22 when the Autumn Equinox occurs. While, like

Spring 2020, Summer 2020 has been a Summer like no

other before it, there have been great graces and blessings

afforded. One of the greatest fonts of grace and blessings for

a few of us occurred a week ago Sunday, Sept. 13.

We enjoyed a Confirmation ceremony standing on its

own outside of Mass and a subsequent celebration for our

beautiful, young parishioner, Emma Shay, whose accompa-

nying photos are in the bulletin. Emma’s parents and won-

derful brothers and grandmother presented Emma for the

Holy Sacrament of Confirmation with her godparents and sponsor and a few family friends in Our Lady Queen of Holy

Angels Adoration Chapel. His Excellency, Bishop James D.

Conley of Lincoln, NE. presided and conferred the Holy

Sacrament on this adopted daughter of Almighty God. It

was simply a radiantly happy, beautiful day in which all persons participating, I believe, felt strongly the Presence

and Love of God. Emma is that rarest of God’s beloved

children who is so radiantly beautiful inside and out, whose

loveliest sound of laughter you ever heard would melt even

the most hardened of hearts. Emma looks much like photo-

graphs of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face at that same age with her golden hair.

Just before the ceremony began, Emma’s mother,

Brieanna, asked what relics were on the altar. I answered

that they were of St. Francis of Assisi and of St. Clare of

Assisi. I volunteered that relics within the altar were of St. Bruno, Founder of the Carthusians, and St. Lucy, Virgin

and Martyr. Brieanna and her own mother gasped and said,

“That’s what we were thinking of having Emma take,

besides Valentine, as her Confirmation name, Lucy, as she

is patron of the blind!” Emma continually is taking vision,

speech, occupational and physical therapy on a regular basis. Bishop Conley agreed to confirm her as Valentine

Lucy, as St. Valentine is the patron saint of both love—with

which Emma is filled—and patron saint of epileptics, from

which Emma suffers. Emma, born with brain abnormalities,

specifically a right front heterotopia and who has many cysts in the center of her brain, suffers from Aicardi

Syndrome, fights epilepsy on a daily basis, is wheelchair

dependent, and does not eat by her mouth, and bears low

muscle tone.

Her FaceBook page is https://www.facebook.com/

EmbracingEmma/

The wonderful friends of Emma’s family, one with their

lovely daughters, and others, joined the family and Bishop

and me in the rectory backyard after the Sacrament was

conferred where usually there are all kinds of flowers

blooming. I was miffed, thinking, wow! no flowers on this

day for Emma! What’s with this God?—until the Holy Spirit

informed me no mere flower in a regular garden could

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CONGRATULATIONS TO EMMA MARIE SHAY, daughter of Nathan & Brieanna Shay, who was confirmed on Sept. 13 by Bishop James Conley. Thank you also to all those who partici-pated in the silent auction to raise funds for the family. Over $10,000 has been raised to help the family purchase a van.

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As those of you who attended Masses last weekend learned,

the Holy Angels Music Guild is a group of private individuals

whose current goal is to acquire the world-class Gober Opus 5 pipe organ for Holy Angels through the use of private dona-

tions. You can hear the full presentation on the recorded Sept

13 10:30 a.m. Sunday Mass on the Holy Angels Catholic

Church Basehor KS YouTube channel.

We were excited at the marvelous response and interest from

parishioners to this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Guild members will be in the narthex again after all three Masses

this weekend to answer questions and hand out flyers. The

photo poster of the organ and informational flyers will remain

in the narthex. They provide information on the organ, show how it will look in our church, provide information

on how to contribute to this project, and explain how the organ will be an amazingly enhancing addition to Holy

Angels as has been our Adoration Chapel.

For more information about the organ go to YouTube and search for Holy Angels Music Guild. Then click on the video interview of Dr. Kevin Vogt about this phenomenal instrument. Please feel free to contact Donna

Thomas at 913-558-4133 (text or call) or dtdonna55@gmail.com. While we need monetary donations, we appre-

ciate everyone’s prayers as well! The monetary goal is approx. $150,000.

News from The Holy Angels Music Guild

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YOUR PRAYERS ARE REQUESTED FOR:

Eileen Choutka, mother of Janet Johnson

Raymond Surbaugh, father of Kathryn Bach

Dale Murray, uncle of Laura Beeves

R e s t i n P e a c e

t o H o l y A n g e l s

Rustin & Mary Bobzien, Abigale & Henry

Chris & Courtney Garlick, Caitlin & Landon

Brianna Szymanski

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compete in God’s garden of souls with this new

“Little Flower” who is Emma Marie Valentine Lucy Knight Shay. Like, St. Therese of the Child

Jesus and of the Holy Face, we can see in Emma

the Child Jesus, and in whose face one can see

the beauty of the Holy Face of Jesus. Emma

steals everyone’s heart—she who was that late

summer day in the rectory garden, the most beautiful Last Rose of Summer. Both Bishop

Conley, all those present, and I know that special

day with this most special of parishioners will

live in our hearts and memories for years to

come.

Blessings, grace, mercy, peace and joy,

YOUR ROLE AS A CATHOLIC VOTER This November Catholics across the nation will

have the responsibility to make their voices

heard. Many issues are at stake, some more

important than others. No issue can be ignored

but no issue is more crucial to the foundation of

our country then life, faith and family. The family

must be strengthened not redefined. Human life

is paramount and must be protected from con-

ception to natural death. Religious freedom must

be regarded as one of our basic freedoms. Now

more than any other time in history, you must

stand for truth. VOTE YOUR CONSCIENCE!

VOTE PRO LIFE!

Interested in the Catholic Faith? Please join us for RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults)! Classes begin this month – it’s not too late! For more information, contact Chris Brown

at: 913-724-1665, or

HolyAngelsCatholicFormation@gmail.com

PASTORAL COUNCIL ELECTION RESULTS Tom Johnson & Ruth Gore will serve the next four years on our Pastoral Council. Our thanks

also to Jenny Alden & Greg Beck for also run-

ning for these positions.

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE PARISHION-ERS who donated and shopped at the Knights of

Columbus 4th degree garage sale. A special

thanks to all of the Knights that donated their

time, and those that were with us in prayer and

spiritual support. The sale raised over $2000.00 to support our Veterans and Seminarians.

Faithful Navigator

Dan Clegg Assembly 3629

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES:

St. Patrick Catholic School has an opening for a part-time day custodian. Hours are 9:00 -2:30pm

when school is in session. To apply please sub-

mit a request for a job application to Patty Dick-

inson at pdickinson@stpatrickkck.org.

OPEN GATE SERIES AT PRAIRIE STAR

RANCH Did you know that Prairie Star Ranch,

home of Camp Tekakwitha, is open year-round?

Are you looking for opportunities to get out of the

house and enjoy some COVID-friendly time to-

gether as a family? On select Saturdays in the

months of September and October, the gates of

Prairie Star Ranch will be open for families to

enjoy some casual, open-air fun. Come fish

(bring your own poles!), picnic, hike, and more!

On each Open Gate day, a different staff-

facilitated camp activity will be offered for a small

fee. Otherwise, the experience is free, and dona-

tions are welcome. Gates will be open from 10am

to 4pm, and no registration is required. Upcom-

ing Open Gate Days include September 26, Octo-

ber 3, and October 10!

For a full schedule of events, the staff-facilitated activity for each weekend, our COVID-19 precau-

tions, and more, visit our website at

archkck.org/ranch.

FOOD KITCHEN NEWS: On Sept. 1st, 400

sack lunches were taken to the food kitchen to help serve 560 adults and 123 children. Eleven

parishioners helped to prepare the sack lunches

with donations from parishioners. Your support

is greatly appreciated.