ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST CROATIAN PARISH ON STRAWBERRY HILL

708 N. 4th Kansas City, Kansas 66101 OLDEST CROATIAN CHURCH WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI - 1900

www.stjohnthebaptistcatholicchurch.com

Pastoral Staff

Fr. Peter M. Jaramillo, S.S.A. Pastor Fr. Joseph Arsenault, S.S.A.

Fr. John Melnick, S.S.A. Sr. Mary Michael MacChesney

Phyllis Hampton, Parish Secretary

Office Hours Monday - Friday

8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Church Office 913-371-0627

FAX & E-mail 913-342-3324

Weekday Mass Including Adoration: Thursday 8:00 a.m.

Weekend Mass Schedule: Saturday 5:15 p.m. Sunday 9:00 a.m.

Confessions: By Appointment. Call 913-371-0627

Rosary: Saturday 4:45 p.m. and Sunday 8:30 a.m.

Marriage Preparation: Notify the parish eight months prior to the wedding.

Pastoral Care of the Sick: Crisis Prayer Line: 913-281-4448 or 913-608-5600 Anointing and Pastoral Visits: Contact Church Office

Parish Contact Information: Finance Council President Mark Calvert Parish Council President Don Taylor Altar Society President Kelly Moutray St. John's Senior Citizens President Mary Ann Fanning St. John Catholic Club, 913-371-9690 Ken Yarnevich St. Cecilia Choir / Organist Matt Winterhalter

NOVEMBER 01, 2015

WEEKLY COLLECTION

October 24 & 25

Week: $ 3,540.00

Maintenance: $ 243.00

Loose: $ 318.25

Poor: $ 61.85

Candle: $ 177.49

NOVEMBER 1, 2015 - SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS

WEEKLY MASS INTENTIONS Thursday, November 5

8:00 a.m. St. Theresa Circle deceased members, Al Kovac, Albert Sachen, Pat Fracol & James Ciliberti. Saturday, November 7

5:15 p.m. StJepan & Ana Jagodic, Ana Krajl, Branimir Dukovcic, Michael, Josip, Roza & Nikola Krznaric. Sunday, November 8 9:00 a.m. Parish Members

LITURGICAL MINISTERS

November 7 - 8 , 2015

5:15 p.m. 9:00 a.m.

Lectors

Eucharistic Ministers

Cantor

Servers

S. Stalker D. Stalker

M. Viskovic D. Kozar

P. Campbell D. Peattie M. Foster

R. Sambol J. Jaksa

C. Schneider

Choir

M. Campbell L. Viskovic N. Viskovic

If you have a family member who is hospitalized or homebound and would like to have a visit or receive commun-ion, please contact the Church Office. Hospitals do not inform us of a parish-ioner being admitted to the hospital. Call Phyllis at 913-371-0627.

Coffee & Donuts following 9am Mass In Church Basement.

Everyone Welcome

December Coffee & Donuts will be on the 13th of December after 9am Mass.

NOT THE FIRST WEEKEND OF DECEMBER

PARISH EVENTS November - December Schedule

November 1, 2015 - after 9:00 a.m. Mass

Coffee & donuts

November 10, 2015 - 7:00 p.m. Parish Council Meeting

Rectory

November 14, 2015 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Altar Society - Spaghetti Dinner

December 6, 2015 - after 9:00 a.m. Brunch

Altar Society Christmas Party At Strawberry Hill Museum

Altar Society - Spaghetti Dinner November 14, 2015 5:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Tickets $10.00 Volunteers are needed to help prepare the meatballs. We will meet Thursday, Oct. 29th at 5:00p.m. in the Auditorium. Your help will appreciated! November 14th - At the Spaghetti Dinner - Pick up your Apple Strudel’s ordered earlier this month. Also pickup before & after weekend Mass Nov. 14 - 15. Thank you for all the support!

LIMITS TO SAINTHOOD

All saints can do miracles,

but few of them can keep a hotel.

--Mark Twain

NOVEMBER 1, 2015 - SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS

ARCHDIOCESAN EVENTS Craft Fair - Holy Angels Parish - Basehor Nov. 7th 8am-4pm 154th & Leavenworth Rd. Basehor, KS. Call 913-724-2212 for more information.

Come Support Team Mackenzie!

Friends and Family of Stacy Cowan are hosting a Fund-raiser for her daughter Mackenzie.

Stacy is the CYO Director for Resurrection Catholic School at the Cathedral. Please join us on November 21st in the Parish Center at the Cathedral from 5pm to 11pm. We will be serving a Taco Dinner, Sponsoring a Silent Auction, lots of fun raffles, and dancing. We are asking for a good will donation of $10. All proceeds will go to

help the Cowan family. For tickets please contact: Amy Maloy 708-3399, Kristi Hill 940-8387, Joe Quinn 963-2224 or Bernie Asher 683-5253

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Eight hundred years ago, the church's practice of penance under-went major revision as theologians, called scholastics, reflected on the practice of their day. By then, pen-ance was normally a very secret rite, celebrated completely apart from the community. Public penance had mostly disappeared behind the walls of monasteries and the cloister grills of convents. The scholastics trimmed penance down to bare es-

sentials, even sweeping aside age-old traditions like a laying on of hands and prayers of absolution. All that was left was the confessor's simple statement, "Ego te absol-vo," "I absolve you." In 1614 a new ritual book tried to make penance more public and solemn. It suggested, but did not require, that the priest wear a surplice and stole, and hear the confes-sion in a confessional. For the first time, we have the di-rective that the priest be separated from the penitent by a screen, a rule that some bishops applied very strictly. By the 1940s, large numbers of Catholics availed themselves of the sacrament of confession every Saturday, and most people thought confession was a prerequisite for Com-munion. In some urban parish churches, confessionals were staffed, usually by the junior priest, for several hours every day, even during the celebration of Mass. It is remarkable how quickly things changed, but as we have seen, the system has collapsed before and what of-ten comes next is an impulse of the Spirit, new life, and a fresh start. --Rev. James Field, Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.

A Christian Group from Bethlehem in the Holy Land will be visiting our Church the weekend of, November 14th and 15th. They come to us to sell the olive wood carvings and crafts that are handmade by the Christians in the Ho-ly Land. Shepherd Field Group

Steak Dinner at St. John’s Catholic Club

Nov. 7th, 2015 after 5:15 Mass.

The Club. $15.00 per person

For more info. Please call Larry at 913.956.2096

Send a Card Thinking of you

Dolly Eskina 5701 West 1110th St.

Room 230 Overland Park, Ks 66211

Holy Family Altar Society Chili Supper - Turkey Bingo

Saturday, November 14th, 2015 Supper: 6:15 p.m. - 7:15 p.m.

Bingo : 7:30 p.m. $15 donation

No one under 21 admitted For tickets call 913-371-1561

WE LONG TO SEE GOD'S FACE

"Lord, this is the people that longs to see your face." This antiphon for today's responsorial psalm of-fers the focus for today's readings. As we on earth celebrate the tri-

umph of all the saints--the ones officially canonized by the Church, and the countless others who have also reached heaven--we add nothing to their glory. But we give ourselves reason to hope. We too long to see the face of God and believe that we can one day be counted among those whose robes, as John tells us in the book of Revelation, are washed "white in the blood of the Lamb." The passage from John's First Letter offers further assur-ance: we are God's children who will one day see God. But today's Gospel pulls us past longing and reassurance into action. Jesus clearly tells us what we must do to be counted among the saints. We must be poor in spirit, hun-gry for holiness, merciful, single-hearted, and peacemak-ers! Then we too will see the face of God. Copyright (c) J. S. Paluch Co.