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St. Joseph Catholic Church

MASS SCHEDULE GIRARD
Saturday
5:30 pm
Sunday
10:00 am

ARMA
4:00 pm
8:00 am

CONFESSION
GIRARD
ARMA
Saturday
2:00-2:30 pm 3:15-3:45 pm
Weekdays before Mass, anytime by appointment
RECTORY HOURS & INFORMATION
Wednesdays: 9:00 am - Noon
Rectory: (620) 347-4525
Fr. Maxs cell: (316) 708-9473
Fr. Maxs email: thomas.becket.fan@gmail.com
STAFF Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz
Secretary: Georganne Galichia
Bookkeeper: Janel Scales
Bulletin Editor: Nancy Bauer
PARISH WEBSITE:
www.stjosepharma.com
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION:
Thursdays from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Finance Council
Parish Council
TBA
Tuesday, Dec. 1
6:00pm
6:00pm in rectory

!St. Ann Altar Society

Wed., Nov. 18
6:00 pm

Knights of Columbus
1st Tuesday of Month
7:00pm, St. Michael hall

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4:00pm
5:30pm
Sunday
8:00am
10:00am
Monday
7:00am
Tuesday
5:30pm
Wednesday 6:30pm
Thursday 8:00am
8:30am-3:00pm
Friday
7:00am
8:00am-6:00pm
Saturday 4:00pm
5:30pm
Sunday
8:00am
10:00am

From the Pastor

Poor Souls
Jim Peak
Jim Davied
For the People
Joseph Hofer
No Intention
Special Intention
No Intention
Adoration
Sponsel family
Adoration
Mike & Francis Gallagher
Barbara Doue
Jim Davied
For the People

Altar Ministers for Nov. 28 & 29

Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard
Girard
Arma
Girard
Arma
Arma
Girard
Girard
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard

Saturday (11/28/15)
!Altar Servers: 4:00pm
Grant Waterman

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EMHC:
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Lector:
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July 2015 to date

Contributions

$1,196.00

$24,902.60

Expenses - October

$4,630.90

$21,546.41

Over / (Under)

Dear Parish Family,

Because of an obligation made nearly a year ago, I will not be able to celebrate the great Feast
of Christ the King with you all, a loss which causes me the greatest sorrow. However, I am confident
that Father McElwee will do a splendid job in my place. He is a priest whom I admire very much.
But I thought that I would share some of my thoughts on this great feast day in my column since I
will not be able to use the homily to do so. The Feast of Christ the King was established in the year
1925 by Pope Pius XI in response to the terrible threat of Communism. In 1925, Communism had
conquered Russia and several of her neighbors, and these countries were suffering horrific atrocities
at the hands of the mad communists. Priests were killed, monasteries burned down, millions of
peasants starved to death on worthless collective farms. Young persons could be killed for merely
making a sign of the cross or cracking a joke about the government. There were spies everywhere
who reported both real and fake offenses. Basically, the Communist government in Russia was trying
to set itself up as a god unto itself. It wanted the same absolute devotion, worship, and total selfsacrifice that were formally given only to God. Government in itself is a good thing but it is
blasphemy for government to claim equal authority with God or with Jesus Christ.
To combat this madness, Pius XI wanted to remind the world of who the True King and True
God is; that is Jesus Christ, the King of Kings. He alone is absolute sovereign over the whole earth.
He alone can demand the total loyalty and obedience of every man, woman, and child on the
planet. He alone has the right to judge what is moral and what is immoral. If Christ has forbidden a
certain thing, then it is forbidden no matter how popular it might become. And if Christ has made
obligatory a certain thing, then it remains binding for all of us no matter how much it might be
resented. Christ has every right to make these demands because he created the entire universe; he
created the human race, and individually creates each and every human being uniquely and
unrepeatable endowing him or her with an immortal soul. (So basically we would not exist without
him). Christ furthermore became a human like us, being both fully God and fully man, and
deliberately suffered and died on the cross to redeem each and every human being from eternal
death. All this gives Jesus absolute and awesome Kingship, the beginning and end of all things, the
supreme ruler of the entire earth and of each individual human.
Of course his kingship is a kind kingship, and he prefers to administer mercy rather than justice,
and wants to love him not fear him. But none of that subtracts from the absolute nature of his
Kingship. Jesus wants us to love him in a mysterious two-fold way. He wants us to love him like our
dearest friend, AND, he wants us to respect his absolute kingship and full regal power. It is possible
to love him in both ways at the same time and it is best to do so.
Thus we should remember that though he shares power with earthly men, there is a limit to
their authority since Jesus Christ is the True King and his Law cannot ever be changed by mere
human law. A reasonable human law which does not contradict Gods law is recognized by God as
valid. But if a human law ever attempts to contradict the Law of Christ the King, then that law is
automatically invalid and all Christians are obliged to disobey it. This is perhaps the most important
topic of our times and so I will take it up in more detail in my next column. For now, let us all hail
Jesus Christ, the KING of KINGS!

Mass Schedule and Intentions for Nov. 21 - 29

Nov. 21 Saturday

100 South 8th Street

Arma, KS 66712
(620) 347-4525
Pastor: Fr. Max Biltz

Last Week

Gift Bearers:

Sunday (11/29/15)
8:00am
Cody Burns

Linda Carpino

Joan Black

Anna Meyer

Carol Cole

Eve, Jack & Denise

Bertoncino

Usher/Greeter: Wally Rons &

Mike Ashbacher

Frank Grano &

Mary Jo Anderson
Ron Black &
Dan Cole

PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL

OFFICERS:
Pat Westhoff - Chair, Karen
Pryer - Secretary, Debbie
Amershek, Dustin Ashmore,
Joe Broyles,, Debbie Shaub

$3,356.19

PARISH FINANCE COUNCIL:

Fred Bogina - Chair, Members: Joe Polhlopek, Judy Wingebach,
Linda Broyles

FATHER MAX AWAY

Fr. Max will be out of town November 21st & 22nd. Fr.
McElwee will fill in to offer the Masses and hear confessions.

MASS SCHEDULE CHANGES

There will be NO Mass on Thanksgiving day. Also, the Wed.

(11/25) Mass will be at 8am in Girard, not 6:30pm as usual.

COMMUNITY PANTRY

We will be filling boxes for the Community Pantry and are in

need of can goods, non-perishable food items, new or unused
small toiletries, lotions, toothbrushes, and toothpaste. During
November, place your items in the back of the church. Call
Helen Normand, 347-8563, with questions. Thanks!

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS & POINSETTIAS

Donations are now being accepted for our Christmas flowers

& poinsettias in memory of a family member or special friend.
We will be purchasing larger poinsettias and arrangements for
the altar this year and publishing a list of the memorials in the
Christmas bulletin. Any size donation is appreciated. Please
place your donation and the memorial names in an envelope
marked Christmas Flowers and place it in the collection
basket. In order to publish the list of memorial names, we
need to have your request no later than Sunday, December 13.

K of C NEWS

The Girard/Arma Knights of Columbus will be saying a

rosary the 5th Sunday of the month.

ST. MICHAEL MOVIE NIGHT

The St. Michael November movie night is this Saturday, Nov.

21, starting with a baked potato bar after 5:30 mass, followed
by the movie Faith Like Potatoes. The movie is free, but
freewill donations will be accepted for the meal. Please join us
for an evening of food, fun and fellowship!

CHRISTMAS CANTATA

A beautiful Christmas Cantata will be presented on Sunday

evening, Dec. 6, at 6:00 p.m. at Arma's United Methodist
Church. It is sponsored by the Arma Methodist and Catholic
Churches and will feature area musicians directed by Mike

WORSHIP COMMITTEE:
Chair - Karen Pryer
EMEs - Joann Black
Ushers/Greeters - Bill Harman
Altar Society - Judy Smerchek
Lectors - Marcel Normand
Music - Jan Harman

Doue. A freewill offering will be accepted to benefit the

Community Pantry that supplies food and other gifts for area
needy. Refreshments will be served in the church basement
immediately following the musical program.

PARISH COUNCIL MEETING

The next meeting for St. Joseph Parish Council will be

Tuesday, December 1, following 5:30 Mass.

PSR NEWS

Reminder: There will be no PSR at St. Michaels Wed, 11/25

or Sun, 11/28, as we break for Thanksgiving.

STEWARDSHIP: GODS NOT STINGY

(Continued from last weekends bulletin) Some, when told

they should tithe, reply, I dont gotta do anything except die
and pay taxes. These are two well-known gottas and you, no
doubt, have heard this said. However, there is another gotta
which says: We are ALL stewards, not owners, of whatever
time, talent, or treasure that we have. God entrusted this to us,
expecting us to make good of our time, skills, and whatever
wealth we have. Its a gotta that expects us to use it according
to Him who provides it. As Fr. Max told us in last weeks
homily, we owe our very existence to Him.
When you tithe, you give back to God, telling Him, I know
that all I have comes from you, and to prove it, I give back the
share of it you have asked for. Have you ever thought how
little God asks from us? It is much LESS than man asks. If I
use a mans land for growing wheat, I must give the owner
around a third of all the wheat I grow there. We owe a debt to
God far MORE urgent and necessary than any debt we could
possibly owe our neighbor! God should come first when we
budget our finances. That is how Fr. John Reinkemeyer taught
us: fill your tithing envelopes first, then the other necessities.
He said, In this way, you never cheat God. He doesnt come
in second. This is also a good way to teach tithing to your
children. Give thought in the days ahead about what your gifts
to God will be in the coming year.
- Marcel Normand

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