Pastoral Staff Pastor - Fr. Tony Bickett ftonyb57@ymail.com Deacon- Bob Higbee 270-589-7316 rhigbee95@gmail.com Deacon-Dale DePoyster 270-765-8754 dale54@live.com Office Manager - Missy Hart 270-259-3028 stjoseph1840@yahoo.com Pastoral Associate -T.J. Dennison 270-302-6257 tj.stjoseph@gmail.com Social Media - Paloma Culver pfalconstjoe@gmail.com Religious Education - Kim Smith 270-589-1789 kim.smith@grayson.kyschools.us Music - Meredythe Lee 270-929-7048 Homebound- Joanne Johnson 270-259-7599 Outreach - Linda Clark 270-287-3776 Altar Society -Dee Dee Johnston 270-723-2740 deedeej80@gmail.com Prayer Chain - Betty Miller 270-259-3303 bettymil@windstream.net

Masses: Sept 29-Oct 4 Monday 7:30 am Prayer/Communion Tuesday 12:05 pm †Mark Milliner Wednesday 7:30 am Betty Stone Thursday 12:05 pm †Ernest Speed Friday 7:30 am Special Intention(HAB) Saturday 4:00 pm †Frank Henning Sunday 7:00 am St. Joseph & St. John Sunday 11:00 am †Kay Burris

Confessions Anytime by request Saturday-3:00 pm

St. Joseph Catholic Church 204 North Main Street, Leitchfield, KY 42754 www.stjosephch.org

Office Hours: 8am to 4pm Mon-Fri Office 270-259-3028 Rectory 270-259-3028 Emergencies 270-863-1596

Pastoral Council Barbara Allen Edna Duggins

Jim Cecil Ann Marshall-Secretary

Jerry Clemons-Chair Chris Nelson

Kirk Collard Carolyn Thomason– Vice Chair Billy Dallas

Stewardship of Finance September 13 $4018 Outreach $333 Thank you for your generosity! July 1– August 31 Total Income $62,000 Total Expenses $51,000

Lector Schedule October 3—4pm October 4—7am October 4—11am Robin Embry Judy Warren Cathy Corbett

October 10—4pm October 11—7am October 11—11am Ann Marshall Jim Cecil Curtis Grant

October 17—4pm October 18—7am October 18—11am Harold Rhodes Kevin Collard Samara Heavrin

St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church 430 St. John Church Rd, Sunfish, KY 42210

Website: www.stjohnch.org St. John Thrift Store 270-597-1038 Pastor Fr. Tony Bickett 270-863-1596

B I R T H D A Y S Madelyn Highsmith 9/27 Jasmen Meredith 9/29 Saphire Dearing 10/03

Stewardship of Finance September 20 $1086 Thank you for your generosity! July 1– August 31 Total Income $7,500 Total Expenses $7,100

Pastoral Council Nancy Farmer, Secretary Joe Durbin Barbara Fitzhugh Shelia Durbin James Hughes-Chair Jim Sims-Vice Chair

St. John Prayer List: Shirley Bush, Joe & Joan Chil-dress, Jack Coop, Judy Dombrowski, Martha Durbin, Catherine Duvall, Alicia Ensing, Doug Farmer, Ken

Farris, Dwayne Fitzhugh, Laura Hamilton, Betty Jen-nings, Joe Lonsbery, Rosemary Kenney, Kathryn Sowders, Jim Vessels, Chris Wolfe

Mass Sept 29-Oct 4 Tuesday 5:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am †Warren, Phyllis, Irene Hayse

This Week At St. John

Sun 9:00 am Mass

Tue 5:00 pm Mass

Congratulations: This Tuesday, September 29, we congratulate Mason Brooks and Caleb Hall who will celebrate their First Holy Communion. We also want to congratulate Morgan Brooks who will celebrate the Sacrament of Confirma-tion. These are James and Donna Guest’s grand-children.

Since October is the month of the Holy Ro-sary, we will be praying the rosary on the four Tuesdays of the month at 5:00 pm, fol-lowed by Holy Communion. You are encour-aged to attend.

Minister’s Schedule Date Server Lector Sep 27 Brian Davis James H. Oct 4 Steven Kenney Susan B. Oct 11 Joe Durbin Cathy Canty Oct 18 Steven Kenney Rosemary K.

God is the Owner of Everything: God is the owner of everything including all that you currently have or ever will have. God says, “Every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills…and the creatures of the field are mine…the world is mine, and all that is in it” (Psalm 50:10-12). If we belong to Christ, it’s logical that everything we have truly belongs to Him. When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him.

St. Joseph Prayer List, Matt Alvey, Margaret Beck-ner, Jill Bradley, Glenn Braun, Melissa Willis Cilwok, Anna Critchelow, Beverly Eck, Steve Fey, Dixie Franklin, Carol Gatto, Dick Gatto, Carol Grider, Joyce Green, Ryan Harris, Linda Handzus, Debbie Haycraft, Ricky Howard, Jane Johnston, Patricia Lindsey, Jo-seph Lyons, Geral Dean Mattingly, Ashley Mckinney, Bill Meredith, David Pawley, Debbie Pierce, Janette Pierce, Mandy Egan Pierce, Winnett Powell, Harry Rhodes, Wanda Rickling, Steve Robertson, Veronica Robertson, Aaron Shull, John Shull, Buddy Smith, Betty Stone

A N N I V E R S A R Y Dale & Yvonne Depoyster 9/28 Phillip & Andrea Kemp 9/30 Brandon & Brooke Jaggers 10/03

B I R T H D A Y S Camila Ammons 9/27 Austin Killen 9/27 Jerry Clemons 9/29 Jordan Ray 9/29 Amy Kane 9/30 Keith Morris 9/30 Maddie Pierce 9/30 Emily Taylor 10/01

Bonnie Hill 10/02 Clay Vincent 10/02 Matthew Loughran 10/03 Ann Marshall 10/03

This Week at St. Joseph

Sun 7 & 11 am Masses

11:00 am Overflow in Parish Hall

11:00 am Mass Live Streamed

Mon 7:30 am Prayer/Communion

Tue 12:05 pm Mass

Wed 7:30 am Mass

Thu 12:05 pm Mass

Fri 7:30 am Mass

8:00 am Eucharistic Holy Hour

Sat 3:00 pm Confession

4:00 pm Mass

UPCOMING

October

6 12:30 pm Rosary

10 8:00 am Catholic Men’s Group

14 5:30 pm Religious Education

Begins

Since October is the month of the Holy Ro-sary, we will be praying the rosary on the four Tuesdays of the month following the 12:05 pm Mass. You are encouraged to join us.

How Will You Vote? Voting in the United States is a private act, a privilege and a responsibility. The Catholic Church encourages Catholics to study the issues and candidates and to vote their conscience. The Catholic Church does not favor one political party over another. A bishop or priest cannot tell his parishioners to vote for a Democrat or for a Republican. However, the Catholic Church does expect her members to ex-ercise their right to vote.

Parish Giving - Online Giving: We invite you to visit our parish website stjohnch.org to sign up for online giving in support of our parish community. Your contributions are received with a grateful heart.

INTO THE BREACH VIDEO SERIES The Knights of Columbus has produced a 12-episode video series entitled, “Into the Breach”. Each episode explore the virtues of Catholic masculinity. View the series at kofc.org/intothebreach or on FORMED.

Parish Giving: Parish Giving offers secure flexi-ble online giving for our parishioners who would like to make their donations online using a credit card or bank transfer. You never have to bring cash or checks to church. Giving electroni-cally also helps the church save money and plan the budget. Check out how easy it is by going to our parish website stjosephch.org and click do-nate.

Catholic Men’s Group: The next men’s group will meet on Saturday, October 10 at 8:00 am.

The day begins with an optional Mass at 7:30 am, we serve a light breakfast at 8:00 am fol-

lowed by a short video and some prayer and discussion. Come and join us!

Weekday Masses:

Tuesday & Thursday at 12:05 pm

Wednesday & Friday at 7:30 am.

Respect Life Month: The whole month of Octo-ber is Respect Life Month. Below is a good prayer to pray each day. Prayer for Respect Life: Heavenly Father, the beauty and dignity of human life was the crown-ing of your creation. You further ennobled that life when your Son became one with us in his incarnation. Help us to realize the sacredness of human life and to respect it from the moment of conception until the last moment at death. Give us courage to speak with truth and love and with conviction in defense of life. Help us to ex-tend the gentle hand of mercy and forgiveness to those who do not reverence your gift of life. To all, grant pardon for the times we have failed to be grateful for your precious gift of life or to respect it in others. We ask this in Jesus’ Name. Amen.

Religious Education Update Religious Education will begin on Wednesday,

October 14th. Classes will be for students in

grades kindergarten - 12th grade. If you have

not pre-registered, please plan to do so on the

evening of the 14th. Classes will take place on

Wednesday evenings, from 5:30-6:30. Please

come in the back parking lot door only...this will

be the only unlocked door, in order to ensure

temperatures get checked. Children will need to

wear a mask for classes. If you have any ques-

tions or do not feel comfortable sending your

child(ren) at this time, please let me know and

we will provide materials for at-home instruc-

tion. Please contact Kim Smith with questions/

concerns at 270-589-1789 (call or text).

COVID FATIGUE: Have you had enough of Covid? Most of us are experiencing covid fa-tigue. So many unknowns is exhausting. During this time, keep your family and friends close (figuratively of course), and pray together and give each other hope from afar. Until the time comes that we can gather and worship together as faithful servants of God, please consider sign-ing up for Parish Giving so we can continue the mission of the Church. Visit our website stjo-sephch.org to sign up today! Thank you for your generous support. Be safe. Be well. Be hopeful.

PLEASE CONSIDER ONLINE GIVING: Our par-ish is grateful for your continued support at this time. Thank you!

RCIA: If you know of anyone who is interested in learning more about our Catholic Faith or who wants to join the Catholic Church please contact T. J. or Fr. Tony and we will be happy to meet with them and help provide what they need.