Bulletin - Church of the Visitation

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
January 17, 2015
Saturday, 6:00pm
Intentions
January 18, 2015
January 18, 2015
January 24, 2015
Sunday, 8:00am
Saturday, 6:00pm
+Melvin Frei
+John Lingnau
+Helen Lingnau
+Charlotte Ann
Thornton
Poor Souls
Parishioners
Special Intentions for
the
Ray & Grace Hoelscher
Family
Reader
Tammy Ryan
Tammie Frenzel
Jennifer Ordner
Offertory
Paul Doskocil Family
Calvin Wilde &
Craig Ordner
Melvin Ranly
Family
Todd Doskocil &
Jeff Hering
Walton Hering, Jr.
Family
Mike Heise & Michael
Heise
Janet Loden
Connie Petru
Mallory Wright
Ushers
Communion
Mass & Shut-ins
Organist
Weekdays
Monday
January 19th
No Mass
Vocations Cross
Altar Servers
Kerri Meier
Mallory Wright
January 25, 2015
Sunday, 8:00am
Parishioners
“Announcements”
Catholic School
Students
Catholic School
Students
Catholic School
Students
Geraldine Kahlig
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
January 20th
January 21st
January 22nd
January 23rd
7:20am
8:00am
8:00am
8:00am
Living and
Special Intentions for
+Charlotte Ann
+Frank Jansing
Deceased Members A.T. & Doris Voltin
Thornton
+Clara Jansing
of the Alois Fuchs
Family
1/18
Charles & Cindy Moeller
1/25
Chris & Peggy Hrabal
1/18-1/24
Kolby Kosel, Ben Ford, Kelby Kosel, John Blake Arndt
Altar Servers
Communion
Collection
Ministers
January
Rosary Leaders
Clean Church
1/25-1/31
1/19 -1/23
1/18
1/25
Saturday’s
Sunday’s
1/24 & 1/31
Visit the Sick
1/19 thru 1/25
John Meyer, Logan Hare, Delaney Wilde, Helen Heese, Kaiden Kahlig
Greneta Ordner
Ronnie & Rita Kleypas and Clifford & Susan Neumann
Ronnie & Lonnie Ranly and Bill & Kitty Reid
Mary Jane Hubik
Chris & Peggy Hrabal
Peggy Hrabal, Laura Hrabal, Eileen Lewis, Barbara Hoelscher,
Kimberley Klaypas, Tina Locklin, Paula Niemeyer
Gary Herwald
Meetings:
Collections:
High School Religion today @ 9:00am
1/11----$1,681.00
RCIA Class today @ 9:00am
Girls Scouts Tuesday, January 20th @ 6:30pm
Liturgy Commission Tuesday, January 20th @ 7:00pm
Adult Choir Practice Wednesday, January 21st @ 7:00pm
WVFD Wednesday, January 21st @ 7:00pm
The Sanctuary Candle is burning the month of January in Memory
of Herbert F. and Helen W. Hoelscher and in Memory of
Geraldine Merryfield
Please pray for the sick & suffering: Andy Field, Eddie Koenig, Brenda Hancock, Darrell
Engel, Cleavie McCollough, Connie (Buckholt) Smiser, Nelson Coker, Kenneth Bernsen, Terri
Hoelscher, JoAnn Kalmbach, David Michalewicz,, Kenneth Green, George Wright, Tim Friesen,
Doug Landry, Pattie Pletzke, Charles Ordner, Edwin Green, Johnnie Thornton, Jr., Craig Thornton,
Lori Meyer, and Grace Hoelscher.
Extra Parish Directories are available for $10.00 to purchase one contact the church office on
Fridays, or call Cindy Moeller at 721-1562.
The bi-annual blood drive & pancake/sausage breakfast sponsored by the Knights of
Columbus and Scott & White Blood Center will be held today from 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM @ the
Parish Hall. All parishioners & non-parishioners are invited to come out & enjoy the pancake/sausage
breakfast and donate blood for the Blood Center if possible. There will be a sign up sheet in back of
the church for the blood drive & pancake/sausage breakfast. Be sure to sign up.
The annual KC #13902 Domino Tournament is scheduled for Sunday, January 25th, with
registration starting at 11:30am continuing until 12:30 with play starting shortly after. Each player
will draw for a partner and will play four (4) thirty-minute rounds. It is a great way to enjoy the
afternoon and spend time getting to know some neighbors. Food and drinks will be available starting
at 11:00. Prizes will be awarded to the top players. Please make plans to attend.
The Knight of Columbus #13902 will host their annual Food for Families food drive on
February 15th. Please bring food items to donate that weekend to Mass or leave them in the back of
Church anytime the week before the drive.
Texas Catholic Pro-Life Day in Austin will be Saturday, January 24. (Prayer Vigil, 7am, at
Planned Parenthood, 201 E. Ben White Blvd) (Rosary for Life, 9:15am; then Diocesan Pro-Life
Mass 10:00am celebrated by Bishop Joe Vasquez at St. Vincent de Paul) (March for Life, 1pm, 1600
N. Congress to State Capitol) Everyone is invited & encouraged to attend, to help establish the culture
of life!!
The Diocese of Austin is pleased to announce the establishment of the Gabriel Life Assoc. It is
the unified Catholic response to those facing pregnancies in Central Texas. We work together to
maximize services to families, avoid duplication & shepherd women to available resources to ensure
comprehensive care, even beyond pregnancy. Our vision is a culture in Central Texas that provides
every woman the support she needs to embrace life. If you would like to work towards this vision
with us or are in need of assistance, please contact any of the member organizations of the GLA. You
can find us at GLA | Catholic Diocese of Austin Texas or call 877-WE-CARE.
Rosebud Knights of Columbus Breakfast will be held today, at St. Anne’s Center in Rosebud
from 7:00 to 10:00am. Sausage, Pancakes and more. Donations accepted.
SECOND Sunday in Ordinary Time
Brothers and Sisters in Christ, St. John the Baptist, the first to preach Christ, the last and greatest of the
prophets, could not contain himself and cried out "Behold, the Lamb of God!" to the two disciples with
whom he stood. (John 1:35, RSV CE) Truly filled with the Holy Spirit, St. John overflows with the
divine love in which he shares, a love which seeks ever to pour itself out and embrace every soul. He
cannot help but shout aloud the fantastic news of salvation in Christ, the perfect paschal Lamb who will
offer himself in the perfect sacrifice of the Cross. The two disciples, having heard the Word proclaimed,
are capable in faith of recognizing the Lord as "Rabbi", teacher, with the humility of authentic
discipleship. They follow the Lord, as he invites them to "come and see" the place where he stays. One
of these two among the first disciples was St. Andrew.
He too, filled with the Holy Spirit and unable to keep the news of the Messiah to himself, "first found
his brother Simon, and said to him, 'We have found the Messiah' (which means Christ). He brought him
to Jesus." (John 1:41-42). The missionary impulse, the desire to proclaim Christ with burning charity for
the salvation of others which we see in Saints John and Andrew, is at the core of the Christian message,
and has been present from the beginning. In recent remarks the Holy Father spoke of the missionary
impulse of authentic faith, seeking to spread itself, and of the work of the Church for the Jubilee Year
2000. Evangelization, he said, is the normal way in which the Church makes the light of Christ visible to
the world. This light - "of love, of truth, of beauty" - cannot be imposed by force but must "illumine the
spirit and attract the heart". Evangelization flows from the Eucharist which is the center and the
nourishment of the Church's missionary activity. The Holy Father speaks of the supernatural desire of
those who love Christ to preach the Gospel and to lead others to meet Christ in the sacraments,
particularly the Eucharist.
The Church teaches that the faithful cannot be silenced, that the impulse to spread the Gospel, to
proclaim Christ as Messiah, is not an option, but rather an obligation. The Church is not "catholic", not
universal, if the Church is not also missionary. " 'Having been divinely sent to the nations that she might
be 'the universal sacrament of salvation,' the Church, in obedience to the command of her founder and
because it is demanded by her own essential universality, strives to preach the Gospel to all men': 'Go
therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and
of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you
always, until the close of the age.' (Matthew 28:19-20) " (CCC 849) Christ has commanded that the
Church grow to embrace all peoples, languages and cultures. God's love is satisfied only by reaching out
to every single human being. There are some Christians who have the odd idea that it is somehow an
imposition upon others to speak of one's faith in public places, in schools, at work, in the marketplace.
The truth is quite the opposite. From the beginning authentic Christians did not hesitate to proclaim
Christ as Lord in word and action. The host of martyrs who have the illuminated the way for the Church
for nearly two millennia witness to this by their blood. You and I are not Christians in the authentic,
wholehearted, sense unless we receive from Christ the fire of His love which cannot be stamped out, and
which seeks to spread itself and to consume other souls in a conflagration which will light the way to
salvation for all the world. Let the Church's preparation for the two thousandth anniversary of the
Incarnation be the opportunity to discover and practice a love which is an undeniable sign of and sharing
in God's own love. Preach, teach and live Christ. Do not keep the Messiah a secret. If you truly have his
love, you will speak of him. You will not be able to keep silent. "Come and see; we have found the
Messiah!" I look forward to meeting you here again next week as, together, we "meet Christ in the
liturgy",
Church of the Visitation
Westphalia, Texas
144 County Road 3000, Lott, Texas 76656
254-584-4983
Website: www.churchofthevisitation.org
Email: [email protected]
Diocese website: www.austindiocese.org
Rev. Walter Dhanwar, IMS - Pastor
Bishop Joe S. Vásquez – Diocese of Austin
Deacon Bill Smetana
Deacon Charlie Wright
Deacon Julian Tyboroski
Saturday Mass – 6:00 pm
Sunday Mass – 8:00 am
Reconciliation: Sat. 5:20 pm - 5:50 pm and Sun. 7:20 am – 7:50 am

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