ST.

JOSEPH PARISH
306 Iowa, PO Box 165, Olpe, KS 620-475-3326
Parish email: st.joseph_olpe@yahoo.com
Facebook: “St. Joseph Catholic Church”
Fr. Brandon Farrar, Parochial Administrator
Fr. Ratna Swamy Nannam MSFS, Parochial Vicar
fatherratnaswamy@gmail
March 10, 2019 – First Sunday of Lent

Celebration of the Eucharist: Reconciliation: Saturdays @ 4:30 PM

Saturday @ 5:00 PM Baptisms/Anointing of Sick/Counseling AND
Sunday @ 8:30 AM Marriages/Annulments: – contact Rectory
Sunday mass at St. Mary’s (Hartford) – 10:30 AM

St. Joseph Parish Contacts:

Accounting/Office Adm: Laurie Schmidt 475-3326
(office hours - Wednesdays/Fridays 9-12 )
Bulletin deadline-TUESDAY @ NOON
Sat. 03/09 5:00 pm +Mel Reed
Altar Society: Carolyn Cole 340-3766 Sun. 03/10 8:30 am For the people of the parish
Cemetery: Terry Taylor 340-5062 Mon. 03/11 NO MASS
Family Life Ministry: Kay Schmidt 475-3767 Tues. 03/12 5:00 PM Bob Hohne
Finance Council Brian Schmidt 475-3767 Wed. 03/13 7:30 am +August Redeker
Funeral Dinners: Linda Dieker 475-3567 Thur. 03/14 7:30 am +Dave Schneider
Knights of Columbus: Brian Flott 343-9241
Fri. 03/15 7:30 am +Ida Joy Brown
Outreach Arlene Redeker 475-3414
Pastoral Council: Diana Kuhlmann 475-3784 Sat. 03/16 5:00 pm For the people of the parish
Religious Ed: Rose Redeker 475-3403 Sun. 03/17 8:30 am +Charles Lutz

ST. JOSEPH PRAYER LIST

Mary D Brinkman, Montana Cole, Paul Frizell, Dave Goodell, Leonarda Henderson, Bob Hohne, Sharon Lake, Evelyn Musick, Benedict
Nannam (Father Swamy father), Bev Schaefer, Jim Wecker, Sonny Wendling, & all battling cancer.
United States Army: SFC Matthew S. Richter, Sgt. Austin Burenheide, Pvt. Johnnie Bell, Captain Jacob Haag, Pvt. Brandon Raybourn
Air Force: Master Sgt. Andrew Stevenson Marines: Lt. Colonel James Bechtel Navy: Robert King

COLLECTIONS Mark your calendars……

Plate $ 96.00 Mar. 13 Stations of the cross – 7:10 PM (Note change)
Envelopes 1,626.00 (33 envelopes) NO CCD due to Spring Break
Social Support 530.00 (18 “ ) Mar. 19 Blood pressure/sugar screening & bingo –
Capital Improvements 20.00
Plaza – 10:30 AM
Central Europe coll. 50.00
Mar. 19 PARISH WIDE Meeting – St. Joseph
Leaven 36.00
TOTAL ……… $2,358.00 School Basement – 7 PM
Mar. 27 Server training – 6-7 PM – Church
THANK YOU! As a reminder, LEAVEN payments of (4th-6th grades)
$18 were due in February and SOCIAL SUPPORT OF April 11 Penance Service – 6:00 PM
$30 is due in March. Envelopes for both of these are
in your packets. Thanks so much to our faithful and
generous supporters!

Congrats to our 2nd graders who received the Sacrament of Reconciliation: Thomas Arnold, Destiny
Cole, Delaney Davis, Evie Jackson, Easton MaGuire, Luke Music, Amber Soyez, Haiden Ziglar,
 LITURGY SCHEDULE
Saturday, March 16 Sunday, March 17
Servers: Reese Johnson, Garrett Cole Servers: Eli and Lucas Blankley
Lector: Jade Cole Lector: Michael Ratcliff
Ministers: Melanie Kerwin, Alan Nuessen, Cindy Kehres Ministers: Aaron & Michelle Cole, Barb Kuhlmann
Gift Bearers: Kim Irwin, Arlene Redeker Gift Bearers: Connie and Gary Murphy

Sacristan: Alice Bechtel

 During Lent (Ash Wednesday til Holy Thursday) Adoration will be in the chapel in the church
basement.
 Stations of the Cross will be held each Wednesday during Lent at 7:10 PM, beginning March 13.
 A Penance service will be held on April 11 at 6:00 PM at St. Joseph. Penance services will be held at
Sacred Heart on April 4 at 7 PM and at Didde Campus Center on March 27 at 8:30 PM.

Parish-Wide Meeting
All parishioners are invited and encouraged to attend an open-meeting at 7:00pm on Tuesday, March
19 in the school basement. The three proposed construction options and campaign procedures will be
discussed in detail. A question and answer session will then follow. Please play a part in this
important discussion about our future.

Spring Festival is right around the corner. If you would like to donate a prize, cash, gift card or
certificate, please contact me, or leave a message at, 620-475-3580. Thank you in advance for your support
and generosity. Kathy Redeker Raffle chair

The 6th grade class would like to invite parish members to help with the last service
project of the year. Our class will be taking donations of food during the Lenten Season
to give to Food for the Poor. The items that are needed most are nonperisable food
products such as; noodle, mac/cheese, and rice cups, pop top cans of ravioli, spaghetti,
pasta sauce, canned fruit, and etc, small boxes of pasta, pudding and fruit cups, shelf
stable milk, cereal, pancake mix made with water, small containers of syrup, and
breakfast bars. Healthy snacks are needed also. We encourage everyone to check the
grocery isles for good tasteing, healthy items that will satisfy a hungry student.
Donations can be placed in the book bags in the back of church. Our class is looking
forward to doing our part to help this service project be successful.
…………………Amanda Arndt and the 6th grade CCD class

Give your children the gift of participating in a summer camp at Prairie Star Ranch. It could
help them know the difference between fleeting happiness and enduring joy. It will help give
them the opportunity to begin to experience an authentic joy that can sustain them for a
lifetime. To check it out and/or register, go to www.archkck.org/camp
“St Joseph Catholic Church CCD parents! Please apply for scholarships to send your kids to one of these camps this
summer! We can also raise additional money with a “fun”raiser after Mass soon! Ask me for more information!”
……….Kay Schmidt
  Sacred Heart Boy Scout Troop 158 will host their 7th annual pasta dinner on Friday, March 29 in the parish
hall from 5-7 pm. Tickets are $8 per meal and available at the door.

 MEN UNDER CONSTRUCTION will be held on April 6 at Church of the Ascension in Overland Park. More info.
can be viewed on the bulletin board in the church vestibule.

 The 13th annual “WOMEN’S SPIRITUALITY CONFERENCE” will be held on April 6 at St. Thomas More Parish
Commons in Manhattan, KS. Registration fee is $35 for adults and $20 for students. Please check out more
information on the bulletin board in the church vestibule.

 Young Women (grades 5th-10th) along with their mothers or guardians are invited to “Look to Him and Be
Radiant” on April 7 from 2-4 PM at the Sacred Heart parish hall. Two women from Benedictine College will
address topics of self-respect, beauty, and theology of the body. Please RSVP to Kellie at
kellie.vajgrt@gmail.com by April 1.

FEBRUARY 2019 Lottery Winners – Knights of Columbus

2/01 Olivia Pimple 2/11 Camden Hoelting 2/21 Devon Benton
2/02 Addyson Broyles 2/12 Trey Stead 2/22 Daniel Schmidt
2/03 Mike Petitjean 2/13 Yvette Bolz 2/23 Sophia Blaufuss
2/04 Gavin Hoelting 2/14 Randy Hagemann 2/24 Michael Nunley
2/05 Erica Waechter 2/15 Adam Hagemann 2/25 Lucille Schneider
2/06 Kathy Orear 2/16 Elaine Musick 2/26 Leanna Schmidt
2/07 Connie Coble 2/17 Alex Kuhlmann 2/27 Leanna Schmidt
2/08 Kannon Hoelting 2/18 Kent Schade 2/28 Maddie Blaufuss
2/09 Aaron Kuhlmann 2/19 Ashton Temple
2/10 Beth Schmidt 2/20 Jerry Olmstead

“The Spirit immediately drove him out into the wilderness. And he was in the wilderness forty days,
tempted by Satan.” -----Mark 1:12-13

In Jesus’ 40 days of solitude in the wilderness, he confronts Satan and unmasks his temptations and
conquers him. Lent is a time of combat! A spiritual combat against the spirit of evil. We place
ourselves decisively on the path of Jesus, the road that leads to life. Jesus’ path passes through the
dessert, the place where the voice of God and the voice of the tempter can be heard, where our destiny is
truly played out, life or death. And how do we hear God’s voice? We hear it in his Word. For this
reason, it is important to know Scripture, because otherwise we do not know how to react to the snares
of the Evil One. So read the Gospel every day! Meditate on it for a little while, for 10 minutes. And also
carry it with you in your pocket or your purse. The Lenten desert helps us to say “no” to worldliness, to
the “idols”, it helps us to make courageous choices in accordance with the Gospel and to strengthen
solidarity with others.

DON’T FORGET TO MOVE YOUR CLOCKS FORWARD ONE HOUR THIS SATURDAY
NIGHT BEFORE GOING TO BED for DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME!!

DONDON