THOUGHTS FROM FR. SCOTT January is usually a time to catch our breath after the holidays. This year it has been anything but an opportunity for quiet. Lent will be here before we know it and the weather has been cold. People seem a bit on edge and we could all use a moment to collect our thoughts. A spiritual deep breath is in order. Still, we must press on knowing that the work we do for the Lord is our focus and our joy. To this end we, at the office, are always planning and praying for blessings from our God and for the strength serve joyfully. Rest assured we are here to announce the Mercy of God and our joy at following Him with humble hearts. Visiting the sick and lonely is a work of mercy and pleasing to the Lord our God. January is a time when things begin to get lonely for some people and illnesses tend to become more pronounced for some reason. All of us know people that are elderly or physically not well. Perhaps we can remember some people who need a visit or to hear a friendly voice on the phone just to say we are thinking of them. These moments of grace are beneficial to those who are remembered and to those doing the visiting or calling. Our Lord implores us to remember the infirm, lonely and elderly. The winter months provide us with an opportunity to act on this invitation from Him. Yes, we are all very busy, but taking the time to visit the elderly, ill or lonely is part of our Christian calling especially in these days of social isolation beyond any we have ever experienced. So, please make some time for those who need to hear a friendly voice and do not hear it often enough.

This week we hear about the call of the first disciples by the Lord. They are exhorted to follow Him unreservedly and with great hope. This invitation by Jesus is fundamental and telling at the same time. Many people need to be “invited” to live extraordinary lives. Stepping out of the norm and following the movement of the Spirit is often times difficult. We, the people of God, need to invite everyone to follow their vocation in Christ and particularly to invite young men to follow a vocation to the priesthood. Inviting men to follow a call to the priesthood is vital in our world today and yet rarely done. I challenge everyone to make such an invitation to a young man; that is to invite him to become a priest. Many young men around us have a vocation to follow Christ as a priest but simply need a “nudge” in the right direction. Your invitation and support might be what is needed to motivate his call to service in the priesthood. Jesus invited the first apostles to follow Him and know greatness. We, the people of God, need to be the “voice of Christ” in our world today by inviting many men to consider a vocation to the priesthood for the Church and salvation of souls. If we will not support these vocations and invite men to live this great life then who will? Our prayers are great but our verbal support and gentle invitation is even greater! Jesus calls the first apostles to come after Him so He can make them fishers of men. We could use a few more young men who will leave everything and follow Jesus Christ by serving in the priesthood!

God Bless and have a great week! Fr. Scott

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OUR PARISH LIFE TOGETHER WELCOME NEW PARISHIONERS We welcome our newest members of our parish family:

Jane Kennedy

Introduce yourself to new faces in church to help us welcome our new Lakers!

REST IN PEACE Remembering those who have gone before us:

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.

May the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.

Amen. Tom St. Dennis

WEEKLY WEDNESDAY ROSARY We invite all to join us each Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. for a Rosary with our Blessed Mother in the Our Lady of the Lakes Chapel. Hope to see you there!

Get How-Tos and more at OLLONLINE.ORG/ROSARY

MONTHLY EUCHARISTIC ADORATION The next Eucharistic Adoration is Tuesday, February 16. Following the 8:15 am Mass and ending with Rosary and Benediction at 7:00 pm.

FR. SCOTT’S THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK May God grant us many happy parish priests;

willing to serve the great Body of Christ.

CALLED TO VOCATIONS Are we, like Eli, Samuel, or the Apostles, Peter, John, and Andrew, open to the Lord’s prompting in our lives?

If you believe God is calling you to the priesthood, the Office of Priestly Vocations, (313) 868-7040 or detroitpriest.com, can assist you with discernment.

Women interested in religious life may contact the Office of Consecrated Life at (313) 596-7143. Men seeking information about the permanent diaconate should also call that office, but at (313) 596-7142.

Learn more about Vocations in the Archdiocese of Detroit at AOD.ORG/VOCATIONS

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MONDAY, JANUARY 25

8:15 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Emily Zubalik by Anne Zubalik

♱♱♱♱ Karen Ann Braun by Husband Tom TUESDAY, JANUARY 26

8:15 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Jacob Jarman by Fluegel Family

♱♱♱♱ Vanessa Schaefer by Melissa Swanson WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27

8:15 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Al Serra by Family

♱♱♱♱ Alexander Lawson by Tenuta Family THURSDAY, JANUARY 28

8:15 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Catherine Sutherland by Mary Alfes

♱♱♱♱ Catherine Chomiak by Geri & Don Hrcka FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

8:15 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Emily Zubalik by Anne Zubalik

♱♱♱♱ Alexander Lawson by Bellows Family SATURDAY, JANUARY 30

5:00 PM | ♱♱♱♱ Vince Ciavaglia by Wife, Kids & Grandchildren

♱♱♱♱ Keith Kerton by Daughter SUNDAY, JANUARY 31

8:00 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Deceased members of Connarn & Mazzaro Families

Parish Family of Our Lady of the Lakes

9:30 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Deceased members of McMahon Family by Tess McMahon

♱♱♱♱ Dan Konczal by Nancy Glazer

11:00 AM | ♱♱♱♱ Jerome Lasinski by Pat Lasinski

♱♱♱♱ Jeffrey Gelil by Pat Lasinski

12:30 PM | ♱♱♱♱ Shirley Pitts by Doug & Mary Beth Ritter

♱♱♱♱ Marvin Fuller by Gumbko Family

READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 24 Sunday Third Sunday in Ordinary Time Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31; Mk 1:14-20 Monday Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul the Apostle Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Ps 117:1bc, 2; Mk 16:15-18 Tuesday Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a. 10; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday Saint Angela Merici, Virgin Heb 10:11-18; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4; Mk 4:1-20 Thursday Memorial of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Priest and Doctor of the Church Heb 10:19-25; Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6; Mk 4:21-25 Friday Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday Heb 11:1-2, 8-19; Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28

THIS WEEK’S LITURGIES

LITURGICAL MINISTERS NEEDED We are currently in need of additional liturgical ministers here at Our Lady of the Lakes. If you are interested in becoming a lector, Eucharistic minister, sacristan or an usher here at Our Lady of the Lakes, please contact the parish office with your name and contact information and we will reach out with information regarding training. You can also contact us by sending an email to BULLETIN@OLLONLINE.ORG with “Liturgical Ministry” in the subject line. In the body of the email please include your contact information and which ministry of ministries you would like to join. Remember, no prior experience is necessary!

CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS If you require a 2020 contribution statement for income tax purposes, please contact the parish office by calling us at 623- 0274, or send an email to ParishOffice@ollonline.org. Please include your Name, Envelope Number, and how you would like to receive it.

Statements should be ready by the beginning of February.

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Join us at we pray the novena together as a parish from Thursday, January 21

- Friday, January 29:

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A PRAYER FOR LIFE Father and maker of all, you adorn all creation with splendor and beauty, and fashion human lives in your image and likeness. Awaken in every heart reverence for the work of your hands, and renew among your people a readiness to nurture and sustain your precious gift of life. Grant this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever. Amen.

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Wednesday, January 27 | Lansing, MI Rally @ 1 pm | March @ 2 pm

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MOTHER AND UNBORN BABY CARE Life chairperson Doug Ritter and Grand Knight Chris Scheuer recently visited with MAUBC Executive Director Nancy Peterson, Director of Client Services Nicole Hendryx and Ultrasound Technician (and OLL parishioner) Marion Sioma. They sincerely appreciated the diapers and wipes that our parish provided recently for their new mother support store, which is free for new mothers. Mother and Unborn Baby Care is dedicated to preventing abortions by helping mothers to continue their pregnancies through Christ-centered peer counseling, ultrasound and

significant material support. They receive no government funding and depend on donations to cover the costs associated with their lifesaving services.

KNIGHTS KORNER LIFE CHAIN Sunday January 24th at 2pm there will be a Life Chain in Front of Neiman’s on Dixie Hwy at White Lake. Please take a moment to stop by and pray for the sanctity of life with us.

2021 MARCH FOR LIFE This year’s March for Life is a stay-at-home virtual event, which begins 11:00 a.m. on Friday, January 29th. Please RSVP to watch the livestream virtually. marchforlife.org/statement-on-2021-march-for-life

FAT TUESDAY RAFFLE It’s that time of year again, Paczkis and the Fat Tuesday Raffle. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased after each Mass starting on January 24th, in the Parish Office, or by calling Mike Swillum at (248) 673-7454 to make other arrangements. Over $1,400 in prizes are up for grabs, and tickets are limited so get yours before they are gone! Drawing is February 16th after morning Mass.

JOIN THE KNIGHTS We are having a special membership promotion for all men over the age of 18 interested in becoming a Knight and you can join online.

For additional information please contact:

Grand Knight Chris Scheuer GK5436@mikofc.org

Deputy Grand Knight Michael Mandziuk MD5436@mikofc.org

STEWARDSHIP THOUGHTS

“Follow me and I will make you fishers of men. ”

- Mark 1:17

Forgiving Jesus’ call to “Follow me” is a call to all Christians! The call is in the here and now, in our present circumstances, not when we think we are “ready” or have everything in order. Good stewardship of our God-given gifts means that things aren’t always going to go according to our schedule and that God has a much better plan in store for each of us.

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FAITH FORMATION NEWS

FAMILY CONNECTION Today’s Gospel describes how Jesus called His first disciples and the immediacy with which these men dropped everything to follow Him. We can only begin to imagine what Jesus’ presence must have been like to invoke such a response in these first disciples. While a few of us might relate to such a radical conversion, many of us would find such a sudden change in ourselves or in another person unsettling. There are few things for which we would willingly drop everything. And yet this is the immediacy with which these first disciples responded to Jesus. These first disciples were willing to drop everything in order to make Jesus and the Kingdom of God the most important things in their lives.

Gather as a family and talk about circumstances in which you have had to “drop everything.” (the call to pick up a sick child from school, the cry of a hurt or angry child) How did you feel about having to change your plans in each of these situations? How do we feel when someone asks us to drop everything to help him or her? For many of us, it is not easy to drop everything to respond to the needs of another.

Invite your family to imagine what Jesus’ presence and invitation to these first followers must have been like that they responded by leaving their livelihood to become His disciples. How might our life change if we understood the Kingdom of God to be as important and immediate in our lives? Ask

God to help you experience the Kingdom of God with such immediacy. Pray together the Lord’s Prayer.

Just as the first were called to be fishers of men, so are we. We are also called to drop everything and follow Him. I’ve been in the schools during reading month and the have “drop everything and read” times throughout the school day. I remember one day hearing the announcement over the PA to “drop” (which meant the teachers had to stop whatever the lesson is and everyone picked up a book and began to read) and I thought, that is what I need, I need at various times throughout the day to be told to “drop” but instead of grabbing a book, I’d drop in prayer. I’d drop and follow Christ by spending time praying and listening to Him. How do you “drop” everything for the Lord? How do you follow Him in the convenient times and the inconvenient times? If we are doing that, and others see us, then we become fishers of men. Others will see what we are doing and how it gives us up and joy and they will want that too. So today I urge you to drop what you are doing throughout the day and spend time following Him through prayer.

Peace and prayers,

Jean, DRE

Excerpt from: loyolapress.com/catholic-resources/liturgical-year/sunday-connection/third-sunday-of-ordinary-time-b-

sunday-connection/

ST. PAULA

Feast Day – January 26

347-404 The patron saint of widows, Paula was a wealthy Roman widowed with five children at age 32. Another widow introduced her to St. Jerome, a priest and papal secretary to St. Damasus. Jerome became her spiritual director, urging a life of asceticism and charity. When he learned she was fluent in Greek, he enlisted her help in translating Greek biblical texts for his new Latin version of the Bible. Paula had joined the circle of nobility-born Roman women in Jerome’s orbit, and followed him to the Holy Land when he left Rome. She taught herself Hebrew, and exhausted her wealth building a monastery, three convents and a hospital in Bethlehem.

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PARISH SCHOOL THANK YOU KNIGHTS A special thank you to the Knights of Columbus, one of our many supporters, for their donation to the Our Lady of the Lakes Catholic School Resource Room. OLL Catholic School provides an opportunity to support students with a wide range of learning needs within our resource room setting. The Anchor Program (Achieving New experiences in a Christ-centered, Holy Spirit driven, Opportunity filled, and Rewarding environment) is a special education program that supports students that have special learning needs with individualized content and curriculum, integrating into the general education classes, and support with special therapies. Our resource room also allows students a quiet place to work, academic support, and an alternative testing location.

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PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL

CW3 Jacob Beno Army Capt Kelsey Beno Army † Jenna Beno died 10/15/12 AMN Stewart Blaquiere Air Force † PFC Damian Bushart died 11/22/03 Army SSGT Francisco Cantu Caceres Marines Eddy DeRocher Jacob Dumont Army SFC Scott Emanuel 2LT William Gischia Army SSGT Dennis Haskins, Jr. Army Dillan Johnson Air Force Jackson Jones Army Msgt Justin Jones Air Force Matt Koetting Marines Robert Maher & Crew Navy † Sgt. Joseph Martin died 8/16/18 Army Francesca Meno Army Karolyn Meno Air Force † PFC Joseph Miracle died 7/5/07 Army LCP Derek Monday Marines Gunnar Ottman Army Amanda Paczynski Army Capt. Adam Renkiewicz Army Capt. Matthew Richards Army Katie Rounds CPTN Daniel Schasser Anthony Schmidt Marines Lt. Col. Nick Strelchuk Air Force Cory Vaught Army James Whitlow Navy

If your son, daughter or grandchild is serving us in troubled places, please let us know at the parish office.

Beverly Armstrong Joe Batwinas Christian

Bodenmiller Mikela Bodenmiller William Bodenmiller John Boncella Margo Brown Gene Bucek Chuck Campbell Janet Cobert Dean Coleman

Kevin Dalley Ben Darmofal Irene Delasko Joyce Delasko Maria Deliro Patty Fincannon Jennifer Gaffey Jean Gannon Bill Grace Suzanne Grimminger Karen Haines Linda Hemphill

Kathy Horn Maureen Hubbel Patrick Hull Tara Isaac Lucas Isaac Bill Keul Grant Kheno Ethan Lewis Larry Lovejoy Bill Martin Cindy McConnell Jean Messing

Tim Nepjuk Cam Pardington Frank Pardington Carol Pawlowski Irene Pawlowski Karen Phelps Marie Phillips Mark Pidgeon Tania Price Scott Przybylowicz Shawn Randazzo Dennis Ritter

Roxxy Ryan Holly Sanders Roger Smith Joe Sommerville Joe Sutherland Kenneth Turner Richard Untener Ernesto Valderas Theresa Villereal Ralph Vogan Lucy Wilhelm Norm Wood

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Congratulations to Emma on her baptism!

Time Presiders Servers Lectors Captains

Saturday, 5:00pm* Fr. Scott Mary Zednik Tom Brown

Sunday, 8:00am Fr. Christopher Tom Scholler Rob Ratz

Sunday, 9:30am* Fr. Christopher Steve Robak Brad Hasenfratz

Sunday, 11:00am Fr. Scott Mike Mulligan John & Evelyn Clark

Sunday, 12:30pm Fr. Scott Flora Burke

5481 Dixie Highway Waterford, Michigan 48329

(248) 623-0274 | Fax: (248) 623-2723 ollonline.org | Social Media @ollwaterford

Pastor Rev. Scott Thibodeau Associate Pastor Rev. Christopher Muer Permanent Deacon Deacon Paul Nickels

Director of Christian Service ........................ Artha Horowitz Director of Music Ministry ..................................... Tim Smith .............................................................................. (248) 821-8443 Director of Faith Formation ........................... Jean Hartman Bulletin Editor ................................................... Claire Boomer ................................................................. bulletin@ollonline.org Bulletin Deadline ........................................... Mondays, Noon Parish Email ............................... ParishOffice@OLLonline.org Prayer Requests .................... ollprayerteam@OLLonline.org

SACRAMENTS Masses Saturday Vigil .................................................................. 5:00pm Sunday ............................ 8:00am, 9:30am, 11:00am, 12:30pm Monday through Friday ................................................. 8:15am Baptisms Parents must pre-register and attend a Baptism Class. Contact the parish office for more information. Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays from 3:30pm until all are heard.

Eucharistic Exposition 3rd Tuesday of the month after 8:15am Mass until Rosary and Benediction at 7:00pm Faith Formation Ages 4/5 ........................................................ Sundays | 9:30am Mondays ................................................... Grades 1-8 | 6:15pm Family Catechesis ..........1st Sunday of Each Month | 1:30pm RCIC & RCIA .................................................. Tuesday | 7:00pm Weddings Arrangements must be made at least 6 months in advance. Couples must attend the Pre-Marriage Workshop. Registration Register online at OLLonline.org/join or stop by the office Please notify the parish of all address, phone, email changes by phone or online at OLLonline.org/update Project Rachel Post Abortion Ministry ...... 1-888-722-4355 National Domestic Violence Hotline ......... 1-800-799-7233

PARISH SCHOOL 5495 Dixie Highway Waterford, MI 48329

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Principal & Head of School ................... Jeanine Kenny Admissions Director ......................... Nichole Campbell Athletic Director ..................................... Jared Kullman

OUR LADY OF THE LAKES PARISH

NEXT WEEKEND JANUARY 30 & 31

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Altar Help

January 28, 2021 Theresa Elliott

February 6, 2021 David Diffenderffer, Pat Hannum