Holy Family Catholic Church

Sunday, MAY 20

10:30 a.m. – Alumni Mass

11:30 a.m. – Inaugural Holy Family School Alumni Social

Monday, MAY 21

8:30 a.m. – Legion of Mary (PAC)

Tuesday, MAY 22

8:45 a.m. – Scripture Study (PAC)

Wednesday, MAY 23

9:00 p.m. – Hour of Power

Thursday, MAY 24

6:00 p.m. – String Rehearsal

Sunday, MAY 27

PENTECOST

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Love consists in this: not that we have loved God, but that God first loved us.

Dorothy Day, Servant of God and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was living with a professed atheist and anarchist in a common law marriage on Staten Island when she discovered she was pregnant. In her autobiography she wrote that up to that point in her life she enjoyed a kind of natural happiness. She adored the Englishman Forster Batterham even though she knew he would never marry her. She got her energy from championing all sorts of causes, moving in anti-establishment circles, and being Forster’s companion. But she admits there was a restlessness in her heart.

Her pregnancy brought her self-absorbed lifestyle to an end. When she decided to accept the life God had entrusted to her, her lover left her. In her biography she says that the acceptance of the gift of a child sparked a mysterious conversion in her. The gift of motherhood was her first step on a spiritual journey which opened her heart outwards towards the love of Jesus and the least of his brothers and sisters, the poor. Eventually she and her daughter were baptized in the Roman Catholic Faith.

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• The Hour of Power this Wednesday is canceled due to my vacation. We will be back on again May 23.
• Did you attend Holy Family School anytime from 1954 until now? If so, next to the bulletins, we have invitations for you to attend a first-ever Alumni Social next Sunday, May 20th. We will have a special blessing at the 10:30 AM mass, and then a small lunch reception for you, and your immediate family in the cafeteria. There will also be a bounce house, weather permitting, in the front of school for the small kiddos. In the bulletin, we mistakenly left off the May 20th date. Call the school office for more information (812) 944-6090.
• The bulletin, website, and facebook page are updated regularly with important information. Please check out all three to stay informed of what is happening.
• MEMORIAL MASS – There will be a Memorial Mass for one of our past teachers, Pat Ricke. It will be held Saturday, May 19 at 11:00 a.m. (Not 1 p.m. as in the bulletin.) Fr. Paul Peterson will be presiding. All are welcome and there will be a reception in the cafeteria immediately following Mass. As there will be only a communion service on the 19th because of my vacation you may want to attend this Mass.

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MONDAY, MAY 14 through FRIDAY, MAY 18 - 8:00 a.m. Communion Service Each Day

• VACATION MASS COVERAGE – Fr. Dan will be on vacation May 13-23. He tried to find a priest to cover for him and found someone to cover the weekends but was not able to cover the weekdays. We need to change the Mass intention on these dates.- Norma A. Graf from Tuesday, May 15 to Wednesday July 25, 2012
  - Thomas Kreilein from Thursday May 17 to Friday, June 15, 2012
  - Carolyn McCain from Tuesday, May 22 to Friday, July 20, 2012
  - Todd Denison from Wednesday, May 23 to Thursday, May 24, 2012

  Sorry for any inconvenience. There will be Communion Services on all of the weekdays that Fr. Dan will be gone. Call the parish office if you have any questions regarding the changes. 944-8283 ext. 223.

• We would like to thank the Marian Guild for their generosity in purchasing the gift for Deacon Seth Gogolin, whose last weekend was April 29. Deacon Set will become Father Seth Gogolin after his June ordination. Congratulations to Seth on the occasion of his ordination. Father Dan chose the Priest’s Sick Call Set so that Seth may start his priestly duties with the right tools. We hope to see Father Seth at Holy Family on a visit in the future!

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Remember that Monday, May 14-18, there will be Communion Service only (No full Mass), each morning at 8:00 a.m. Come join us for Holy Eucharist!

Monday, MAY 14

8:30 a.m. – Legion of Mary (PAC)

Tuesday, MAY 15

8:45 a.m. – Scripture Study (PAC)

6:00 p.m. – THAT Meeting

Wednesday, MAY 16

5:00 p.m. – CFF Commission Mtg

CANCELED – Hour of Power (Due to Vacations)

Thursday, MAY 17

6:00 p.m. – String Rehearsal

Saturday, MAY 19

CANCELED – Youth Ministry Spaghetti Dinner

11:00 a.m. – Memorial Service for Pat Ricke

Sunday, MAY 20

11:30 – 1:30 p.m. – Inaugural Holy Family School Alumni Social

11:30 a.m. – Baptismal Prep Class

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Just because we can’t wait for Deanery Picnic season, and we just received the 2012 Brochure, we have to share…

Click here for the PDF to print and share of the schedule of wonderful food and fellowship with the New Albany Deanery Catholic Church picnics this year!

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• The Resurrection Choir which sings for parish funerals is in need of some new members. If you are interested please contact Jeannine Newcomb.
• Next Sunday is Mother’s Day! Remember mothers and grandmothers next Sunday, May 13, with beautiful, long-stemmed red roses from Right to Life of Southern Indiana. Roses will be available following each Mass on Mother’s Day at a cost of $2 per rose. Profits from the rose sale will help us to continue the life saving work of the Right to Life of Southern Indiana. We appreciate your prayers and ongoing support as we work together to protect life.

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Holy Family Parish Vacation Bible School 2012

Join us as we sing, dance, play, pray and discover that everything is possible with God.

Monday, June 25 through Friday, June 29

For children age 4 – incoming 5th graders

Monday – Thursday:

• Gathering and registration – 5:50 p.m.
• Activities – 6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Friday only: Closing night festivities and ice cream social – 7:00 p.m.

REGISTRATION & FEE: Click here for a registration form.

Register early, April 29 – May 11, for the reduced price of $12.00 per child.

Also during this time, a third child in a family can register for $10.00.

Late registrations will be accepted May 12 – 25 for $15.00 per child.

Fee includes: snacks, supplies, and t-shirt

Registration will begin after the masses on the weekend of April 29!

Look for your chance to sign up in the cry room lobby or take a form and return with the enrollment fee to the Holy Family Parish Office, Holy Family School Office, or through the Holy Family School Wednesday Envelope.

For more information or to volunteer to help, please contact:

Julie Hallal at 502-592-0762 or jhallal@holyfamilyeagles.com OR
Theresa Shaw at 812-944-8283

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May 6, 2012

By Father J. Daniel Atkins, Holy Family Catholic Church, New Albany, Indiana

“I am the vine; you are the branches. Remain in me and you will bear much fruit.”

When the bishops of the world convened in Rome in 1962 for the Second Vatican Council there was much speculation about what they would be doing. Many of them wondered why the pope was even calling a council. Hadn’t the doctrine of papal infallibility made it unnecessary for the pope to confer with them? After all, he could speak for the whole Church. Some of the bishops thought that the Holy Father was preparing to announce a new dogma about Mary and wanted their active assent. At the very beginning of the Council Pope John XXIII announced just the opposite. “We are not here to define new teaching; we are here to find new ways to convey our teaching to the world.” One of the very first things that the council fathers set about to do was to describe in to the modern world what it means to be church: what it means to be in union with Christ, what it means to be branches of the one true vine from whom all life and fruitfulness flow.

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Monday, MAY 7

8:30 a.m. – Legion of Mary (PAC)

6:00 p.m. – Disaster preparedness Planning Team Mtg

7:30 p.m. – Christian Service Commission Mtg

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