Pastoral Staff Father David Lemkuhl, Pastor fr.dave@fuse.net

Nathan Eten, Coordinator of Youth & Family Ministry nathaneten@fuse.net

Paula Voborsky, OFS, Pastoral Associate, paulajv@fuse.net

Mary Mathers, Parish Secretary marymathers@fuse.net

Michelle Boehl, Parish Secretary michelleboehl@fuse.net

Keith Minnery, Music Director kminnery@gmail.com

Masses

Saint Margaret of Cortona Saturday, 4:30 pm Sunday, 9:00 am & 11:00 am Saint Anthony, Madisonville Sunday, 8:30 & 11:30 am Saint Cecilia, Oakley Saturday, 4:00 pm Sunday, 8 & 10 am

Confessions Call the Parish Office for an appointment

Faith Formation Regular classes K-8 9:50—10:55 am 1st,2nd & 4th Sundays at SMC

Baptisms & RCIA Call the Parish Office

Parish Office 4100 Watterson

Street Cincinnati, OH 45227 Phone: (513) 271-0856 Parish Fax: (513) 271-1513 Office Hours 8:30 am — 3:00 pm www.smsjparish.com

The Mission of St. Margaret - St. John Parish is to spread the good news and blessings of Jesus Christ to our community. We gather together to grow closer to Jesus Christ, to worship at the Eucharistic Table, to serve our children, the poor and the needy among us, and to celebrate our diverse community.

Please call the parish office if you, or a member of your family, is ill or in the hospital so a member of our Pastoral Staff can visit and

6000 Murray Road

Monday, September 28, No 7:00 pm Mass @ SMC Spiritual Renewal Presentation 7 pm Tuesday, September 29, 9:30 am Mass @ The Barrington— † Deceased Friends of the Ursuline Sisters Wednesday, September 30, 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony Thursday, October 1, 9:30 Mass @ St. Theresa—Fr. Pat † Marie & John Esswein & family— L Esswein

Thursday, October 1, 9:30 am Mass @ In-diansprings † Grace Welfel—Joan Doggett Friday, October 2, 8:15 am Mass @ SMC † Margaret Peters—Rosemary Bagby Saturday October 3, 4:30 pm—Fr. Dave † George W. Smith—Jim Harmon Sunday, October 4 , 9:00 a.m. Mass—Fr. Dave - † Paul Lamping—Ted & Lori Sentker Sunday, October 4, 11:00 a.m. Mass Fr. Dave † Michael Knechtly—Ron & Bert Bihlman

St. Margaret of Cortona Church

Saturday, October 3, 4:30 pm

Presider: Fr. Dave Servers: T Heitker Lectors: J Heitker/T Wood Gifts: Heitker Family Eucharistic Minister: R Miller/A O’Connor/ C Sullivan/A Wittrock Greeters: J Heitker/J Wood

Sunday, October 4, 9:00 am

Presider: Fr. Dave Servers: need volunteer Lectors: L Esswein/J Lane Eucharistic Minister: D Hoying/M Mathers/ J Mullan Greeters: M Bates/K Douthit

Sunday, October 4, 11:00 am

Presider: Fr. Dave Servers: S Castleman, J Miller Lectors: J Kramer/B Losekamp Eucharistic Ministers:N Losekamp/H Davis M Brusman/D Crabb/J Doggett Greeters: ML Donoghue/B Ferrara Gifts: Rosing Family

September 26 & 27, 2015 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

September 19 & 20 $2682 Env. 83

THANK YOU!

Monday—Wednesday—Spiritual Renewal Sessions @ 2 pm & 7 pm THURSDAY BINGO Welcome Comm mtg 7 pm

This week in our parish

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time September 27, 2015 The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul; the decree of the LORD is trustworthy, giving wisdom to the

Fr. Bill Cieslak, OFM Cap from Chicago will preside and preach at our weekend Masses this weekend. He then will lead our Renewal (this week) September

27-30. Please make every effort to participate. Our future depends on it, i.e. on being renewed in grace to follow Jesus and to continue his mission through our parish ministries. We cannot give what we don’t have. Strengthening our faith and rekindling our zeal to share it will be assured through participation in this Renewal. Everyone is welcome! Please do the inviting! I expect you to say Yes to God, thus have resolve to overcome obstacles, the usual excuses, enduring some hardship because your faith – our parish – means a lot to you. The Pastoral Region Plan draft is ready for review by each Pastoral Council. A presentation was made at our Pastoral Council meeting on Tuesday September 22nd, 7:00 p.m. in the St. Francis Meeting Room. Before it goes to the Archbishop in January, parishioners of each parish will have a chance to review it as well.

Our thanks and appreciation goes to Larry Kahles who does many varied tasks for our parish. Larry is always the first one here to open doors, turn on lights and heat/air conditioning, prepare our church for Mass, etc. Larry also serves as Mass coordinator, Eucharistic Minister, Server, etc., at our liturgies and many other behind the scene tasks.

SM-SJ Four Grand Club

Our Four Grand Club is an easy and fun way to support our parish. The way it works is each week a $40 winner is pulled and at the Annual Turkey Dinner the 4—$1000 winners are pulled. So you have a chance each week to win $40 and also a chance to win one of the $1000 at the Turkey Dinner. The cost is one payment of $48 or two payments of $25 or you can pay $1 a week. The more members we have the more it helps our parish so we invite neighbors and friends to join also. Please consider being a member of our Four Grand Club and help our parish at the same time. There are membership forms at both doors. Thanks to all our loyal Four Grand members through the years!

PUT ON YOUR CALENDAR…

SM-SJ Annual Turkey Dinner November 8,

2015

Sung Vespers – October 4 Sung Vespers will be held on Sunday, Oc-tober 4 at 7:00 PM in the chapel of Mount St. Mary's Seminary, 6616 Beechmont Ave-nue, Cincinnati, 45230. The service will be led by faculty member, Fr. Timothy Schehr. The service includes settings of psalms, can-ticle and hymns for congregation and choir with choral music sung by the Athe-naeum Chorale. The public is invited and all are welcome to attend.

PAULA’S CORNER…

Today is an exciting time; the beginning of our Parish Renewal. You have seen and

heard Fr. Bill at Mass and now attend the Renewal to get yourself and our parish back on track. Opening session: 4 pm Sunday Sept 27, 2015 (That is this afternoon) followed by a light supper and time to visit with friends, family, visitors, guests, and Fr Bill. Monday-Wednesday: We offer two options and you can attend the one that fits your schedule the best. 2 pm or 7 pm each is followed by hospitality. Again this is a time to meet new people, renew old friendships and talk with Fr. Bill. Pope Francis has called us to be part of a New Evangelization in the Catholic Church. Put simply, God needs us to do our part, as baptized members of the Church, to bring the word of mercy, peace and reconciliation to the world! St. Margaret-St. John needs you as a parishioner to do your part in making this a dynamic and growing parish. The starting point is here at the parish renewal.

Bring your friends, your family and your neighbors to the Renewal and experience God’s love, mercy and peace!

Kroger Community Rewards Program (an easy way to help our parish)

You can make money for our parish if you shop at Kroger and have a Kroger Plus Card by being involved in the Community Rewards Program (it will not cost you anything to be involved).

You do not need to purchase gift cards or reload them in the future. You will need to register your Kroger Plus Card by going to krogercommunityrewards.com and click on Sign In/Register and New Customer. Our NPO number for St. Margaret—St. John Parish is 82580. •To verify you are enrolled correctly, you will see

our organization’s name on the right side of your information page.

•REMEMBER, purchases will not count for our parish until after you register your card.

•Do you use your phone number at the register? Call 800-576-4377, select option 4 to get your Kroger Plus card number.

Parishioners must swipe their registered

Kroger Plus card or use the phone number that is related to their registered Kroger Plus card when shopping for each purchase to count.

If you do not have an email address and

would like to be involved in this fundraiser, please call the parish office and we will enroll you.

This does not cost you any money

and helps the parish.

IN our parish St. Margaret-St. John

Bob Barlage,

Bro. Norbert Bertram, OFM,

Nikki Best, Mary Beresford,

Tom Blankemeyer,

Fr. James Brookes—St. Margaret of York,

Don Cafferky, Nancy Callahan,

Lorraine Carney, Gina Clark,

Robert Davis, Tammy Davis,

Matthew Dickason, Kelly Flanigan,

Margie Forsthoefel, Pat Forsthoefel,

Joan Fricker, Emma Gough, Brad Giesting,

Mary Greis, Jim Griffin,

Heather Griffin, Barb Hervey,

Lucilia Hock, Grover Hord,

Marge House, Clare Jones, Larry Kahles,

Jane Kaeser, Joe Kaeser,

Dee Kaiser, Steve Keeney, Marian Kleiman,

Steve & Mary Knepfle, Margie Lemkuhl,

Kevin Mahoney, Debbie Malicoat,

Mary (Marasco)LeRoy, Rosemary Martin,

Rosemary McQueary, Ruth Miller,

Molly Montgomery, Martha Muchmore,

Betty Nerl, Margaret Nerl, Dick Nichols,

Steve O’Connor, Elaine Otto,

Barb Pennucci, Esther Quinn,

Katie Rahn, Pat Rardin, Paul Rosing,

Steve Ruwe, Ted Sentker, John Sheehy,

Jacob Salamon, Louise Spahn,

Helen Steele, Tom Suddendorf,

Kenzie Suddendorf, Alberta Sullivan,

Mary Twigg, Patti Weikert,

Teresa K Wilson, Jani Wood,

Frances Yunker

We try to update our Prayer List. If we took someone off that s ll needs our prayers, Please call the parish office.

THIS WEEK’S READINGS SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

First Reading — Moses said, “Would that all the people of the LORD were prophets!” (Numbers 11:25-29). Psalm — The precepts of the Lord give joy to the heart (Psalm 19). Second Reading — Come now, you rich. The wages you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying aloud (James 5:1-6). Gospel — Whoever is not against us is for us (Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48).

NEXT WEEK’S READINGS OCTOBER 4, 2015

First Reading — The man said, “This one is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one shall be called ‘woman’ ” (Genesis 2:18-24). Psalm — May the Lord bless us all the days of our lives (Psalm 128). Second Reading — He who consecrates and those who are being consecrated all have one origin (Hebrews 2:9-11). Gospel — Whoever does not accept the kingdom of God like a child shall not enter it (Mark 10:2-16 [2-12]).

Our weekly

$40 Four Grand winners for 2015 are Jim & Judy Tekulve.

Four Grand Club

OUR PRODIGAL GOD We keep having to relearn how prodigal God is. It is as if God cannot quite manage to say no. We think it is surely fine when God is prodigal with us—rich in mercy and forgiveness, generous in grace. But what about the other—the enemy, the sinner, the heretic, the outsider? Well, we expect God to be as stingy with that person as we are. Moses and Joshua wanted such a cozy world, too. They wondered how the spirit of God could be given to the two who did not show up at the meeting tent—today’s church. And the apostles in the Gospel complained because there were some miracle workers who were clearly not followers of Jesus. God’s great free wheeling generosity confounded them all. Let this be, says Jesus. Just see to it that you who lead continue to be worthy of your calling.

“Dedicated to helping young people and their families grow in the faith”

EDGE and EPIC Sessions Resume October 4th: Remember, no sessions this Sunday morning, September 27th. We hope to see you next Sunday

morning beginning at 9:50AM and finish at 10:55AM in SMSJ Office and Cortona Hall located on 4100 Watterson St. The next session will be next Sunday, October 4th. Love One Another: At the next EDGE session we’ll be exploring the Corporal Works of Mercy (Matthew 25) and the fundamental understanding of the call to love one another (and see each other’s value) in order to meet Christ in our neighbor to ful-ly function as brothers and sisters in the Body of Christ. It’s Never Too Late to Register for EDGE and EPIC: Parents, please register your child(ren) for EDGE or EPIC by going to www.smsjsacym.weebly.com, filling out the two forms, and bring them to the first session. EDGE by LifeTeen is the name of the comprehensive ministry for all students in grades 5-8 and 9-12. EPIC is the name of the Children’s Ministry for grades K-4. For legal and liability reasons, every student must be registered and have a signed form beforehand in order to participate in the first session. Please take the time to pre-register and bring forms to the first session Questions about EDGE or EPIC, contact Nathan Eten at nathaneten@fuse.net. NCYC 2015: “Here I Am Lord” Thank You!: Many thanks to all of you who made a gen-erous donation to support our youth to go on the pilgrimage to Indianapolis in late November. We will be remembering you in our prayers and plan to share with you about our pilgrimage when we return. Please keep us in your prayers, too. Those going on the pilgrimage will be Tyler Heitker, Grace Scheid, Laura Heitker, and Nathan Eten. “Here I Am Lord” Pilgrimage: In order to prepare ourselves for the pilgrimage to Indy we’re inviting all high school students and their parents for icebreakers, prayer, a short bible study, and group discussion. The next two nights will be on Wednesdays, 10/7, and 11/4 from 6:30PM-8:30PM in the St. Anthony Parish Center. JH Youth in Grades 6th-8th Grade and Their Parents Are Invited to “CHOSEN”: “Becoming The Heroes The World Needs” with Hundreds of Other Youth from All Around the Archdiocese

WHAT: A high energy youth rally for Catholic teens that include music, skits, adoration and talks led by nationally-known presenter/singer Steve Angrisano from Denver, Colorado. WHO: Catholic parish and school youth in 6-8th grade, PLUS a separate session for their parents. WHEN: Saturday, October 17, 2015, 5:30 – 9:30PM (Doors open at 5PM) WHERE: Moeller High School, 9001 Montgomery Road Cincinnati, OH 45242. COST: $15, 6-8th grade youth and chaperones, $5 for parents attending the parent track. I would love to see all of the youth in grades 6th-8th to participate along with their parents. This’ll be something you won’t want to miss out on. Steve Angrisano is amaz-ing! Contact Nathan Eten for registration information.

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9:30 am Mass @ Barrington

2 Fr. Dave returns

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3 9:30 am Mass @

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9:30 am Mass @ Indiansprings—Fr. Dave

BINGO

Welcome Comm mtg 7 pm in St. Francis mtg

4 8:15 am Mass @ SMC w/First Friday Adora on following—

5 4:30 pm Mass Fr. Dave

6 Twenty-Third

Sunday in Ordinary Time

9 am Mass 11 am Mass Fr. Dave

7 Labor Day 10:00 am Mass @ SMC

8 9:30 am Mass @ Barrington

9 8:15 am Mass @

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Youth Ministry Core Leadership 7-9 pm

Bible Study 6:30-8 pm in St. Francis mtg rm

10 9:30 am Mass @ St. Theresa - Fr. Dave 9:30 am Comm Serv @ Indiansprings BINGO PRCC mtg 6-9 in St.

11 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony

12 4:30 pm Mass Fr. George Wilson

13 Twenty-Fourth

Sunday in Ordinary Time

9 am Mass 11 am Mass w/choir—Fr. Paul EDGE & EPIC ses-

14 7 pm Mass @ SMC Fr. Paul

15 9:30 am Mass @ Barrington

One Faith, One Hope, One Love 7 pm in cafeteria

16 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony

Choir prac ce 7 pm

EDGE Core Group mee ng 7 pm Parish Renewal 7 pm

17 9:30 am Mass @ St. Theresa Fr. Pat 9:30 am Mass @ Indiansprings Fr. Dave

18 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony

19 4:30 pm Mass Fr. Dave

20Twenty-Fi h

Sunday in Ordinary Time

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21 7 pm Mass @ SMC Fr.

22 9:30 am Mass

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Pastoral Council 7pm in St. Francis

23 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony

Choir prac ce 7pm

Bible Study 6:30-8 pm in St. Francis mtg rm

24 9:30 am Mass @ St. Theresa - 9:30 am Comm Serv @ Indiansprings BINGO

25 8:15 am Mass @ St. Anthony

26 4:30 pm Mass Fr. Bill Cieslak, OFM

27Twenty-Sixth

Sunday in Ordinary Time

9 am Mass 11 am Mass Fr. Bill Cieslak, OFM

4:00 pm session w/lite dinner to follow

28 NO MASS @ 7 pm 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm sessions

29 9:30 am

Mass @ Barrington 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm sessions

30 8:15 am Mass

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SEPTEMBER 2015 Parish community of

St. Margaret—St. John

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Sept 13—EPIC classes 9:50-10:55am for Grades K-5 at Cortona Hall; EDGE session -Grades 6, 7 & 8 at Cortona Hall Sept 20—EPIC classes 9:50-10:55am for Grades K-5 at Cortona Hall; EDGE session -Grades 6, 7 & 8 at Cortona Hall Sept 27—EPIC classes 9:50-10:55am for Grades K-5 at Cortona Hall; EDGE session -Grades 6, 7 & 8 at Cortona Hall

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