May 17, 2020 • Sixth Sunday of Easter

General Information

Parish Membership: Register online or at either par ish office

Mass Schedule: Mass schedule & intentions are inside on pg. 2

Adoration: Perpetual Adoration Chapel is located at St. Joe

Confessions: Mon, Tue, Wed, & Fr i 10am-11:30am

Baptisms: Classes are held the 2nd Monday of the month in the Office (English) and the 2nd Sunday of the month in the church (Spanish). Scheduling takes place at the end of class.

Marriage: Marr iage preparation is available for registered members. Arrangements should be made at least 6 months in advance. Contact Fr. Mike or Sr. Joan.

Anointing of the Sick: 1st Tuesday of the month after the 8:15am Mass (SJ), or call Fr. Mike for a visit. Call anytime.

Fr. Mike make homebound visits every First Friday.

Vocations: Contact Fr . Mike or Sr . Joan

Rosary: Saturday 4:30pm (SJ) & Wednesday 5:30pm (SV)

Religious Education, Faith Formation & Youth: See pg. 8

St. Joseph & St. Vincent De Paul

St. Joseph Catholic Church

Parish Center: Address…………………...…….....228 E Hendricks St. Phone & Website…….(317) 398-8227 stjoeshelby.org Office Hours……..Mon-Fri: 8am-4pm, Tues: 8am-5pm

School: Address……………………….…..127 E Broadway St. Phone & Website…(317) 398-4202 sjsshelbyville.org Office Hours…………..……….….Mon-Fri: 8am-3pm

Perpetual Adoration Chapel: Address……………………….………...228 E Hendricks St Phone & Website…..(317) 398-8227 stjoe.weadorehim.org

Staff (all emails are @sjsshelbyville.org): Fr. Mike Keucher, VF, Pastor.....(812) 391-0047…....frmike Fr. Adam Ahern, Priest in Residence ………………………. Sem. Tyler Huber, Seminarian in Residence ………....……. Dcn. Tom Hill, Deacon………………...………..……...thill Billy Cross, Pastoral Associate…………...…..……...bcross Bryan Fischer, Buildings & Grounds………....……bfischer Fr. Mike Keucher, VF, Interim Principal………….....frmike Jan Lux, Parish Secretary……………………..…………jan Rebecca Makowski, Business Manager…….….….....rebecca Gaye McKenney, Parish Council President…...…….…gaye Kathleen Simpson, School Secretary…......simpson.kathleen Bill Turner, Facilities Manager…………………...turner.bill James Velez, Hispanic Ministry Director……..……...james

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church

Parish Center: Address…………………..…………...4218 E Michigan Rd Phone & Website………….…(317) 398-4028 svdpcc.com Office Hours………………….…...…………..Call Sr. Joan

Staff: Sr. Joan Miller, PLC....(317) 398-4028...joanm1213@gmail.com Billy Cross, Pastoral Associate….bcross@sjsshelbyville.org JJ Jones, Cemetery(317)364-2827 weimar63rn@fastmail.com Larry Haunert, Parish Council President….lhaunert@tds.net Eileen Settles, Hall Rental…………….……..765-525-9956

SVdP Society of Shelby County

Contact Information: Help Line……………………….……....…(317) 395-7027 Website……………………….…….….......svdpshelby.org Store Address……………….…….……..424 E Jackson St. Store Hours………………..…….………....Sat. 10am-2pm Warehouse Address……….…….….….…....628 Hodell St. Warehouse Hours………….…………...1st Sat. 9am-11am

Contacts: Email……………………....shelbycountysvdp@gmail.com

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Mass Schedule & Intentions

Schedules, Counts, & Prayers

Readings for the Week

Sunday: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20; 1 Peter 3:15-18; Jn 14:15-21 Monday: Acts 16:11-15; Ps 149:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6A, 9B; Jn 15:26-16:4A Tuesday: Acts 16:22-34; Ps 138:1-2AB, 2CDE-3, 7C-8; Jn 16:5-11 Wednesday: Acts 17:15, 22-18:1; Ps 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14 Jn 16:12-15 Thursday: Acts 18:1-8; Ps 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4; Jn 16:16-20 Friday: Acts 18:9-18; Ps 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Jn 16:20-23 Saturday: Acts 18:23-28; Ps 47:2-3, 8-9, 10; Jn 16:23B-28 Sunday: Acts 1:1-11; Ps 47; Eph 1:17-23; Mat 28:16-20

Prayer List

If you would like to place a name on our Bulletin Prayer List, please send an email with your loved one’s name along with your name and phone number to: Bulletin@sjsshelbyville.org or call the Parish Office at 317-398-8227. Be sure you have their permission before sub-mitting their name.

Jan Chandler Ronnie Chandler Leonardo Leon Chavez Kathleen Chudzinski Rick Comstock Alice Cossairt Danielle DeWitt Sandy Fisher Kate Freeman Marcelino Gob Leopoldo Gomes Diane Hargitt Colleen Hradnansky Greg Jones Jan Jones Liam Kapfhammer Jim Knecht Betty Knight

Jerry Lawrence Rico Mangalindan Rose Mary Martin Randy McQueen Millie McVey Pat Miller Elizabeth Morgan Mary Myers Richard Oyerbides Ruth Pennycuff Grant Plue Dixie Redelman Michael Schreiner Sue Schuck Sloan Wayne Sparks Jerry Thomas Char Rene’ Thompson Rosie Young

Weekly Numbers—May 10/11

Livestreaming Mass Attendance 5:00pm……..418 10:00am....…...521 8:30am……..N/A 12:15pm…….. 321

Total: 1,260

St. Joseph Sunday Collection Budgeted Sunday Collection..……………..........$14,500.00 Sunday Collection…..……………..……....……..$15,081.18 Sunday’s Surplus (Deficit)…………..….…………...$581.18

St. Joseph Year-To-Date Collection at St. Joseph YTD Collection Budget…………………………..$652,500.00 YTD Collection Total……………………….……$716,137.95 TD Surplus (Deficit).…..………..........................$ 63,637.95

St. Vincent de Paul Collection Sunday On-Line Collection.…………………..$1,436.57 Sunday Mail-In Collection…………………….$4,180.00 Total Collections……………………………….$5,616.57

Thanks for your generosity!

It is amazing what God can do when we are generous. Please be sure to remember your parish in your will!

Church @ Home Resources

www.stjoeshelby.org/churchathome/

Sat., May 16

5:00pm

Paul and Kathleen Scheidler

St. Vincent

Sun., May 17 10:00am 12:15pm

For the Parishioners Sarvelio Leon Leon

St. Joseph St. Joseph

Mon., May 18 12:00pm Martha Spalding St. Vincent

Tues., May 19 12:00pm Marian Westermann St. Joseph

Wed., May 20 12:00pm

Kelly Wheeler Chesebrough St. Vincent

Thur., May 21 No Mass St. Joseph

Fri., May 22 12:00pm Elinor Firsich Hall St. Joseph

Sat., May 23 5:00pm Elaine Hall Arnold St. Joseph

Sun., May 24 8:30am 10:00am 12:15pm

Bradley Meriwether Helen Richards For the Parishioners

St. Vincent St. Joseph St. Joseph

Daily Masses Intentions

Mass will be celebrated each day (except Thursdays) and include a Mass Intention. We will do our best to reschedule the un-published Mass Intentions. Thank you for your understanding.

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St. Joseph News

Pastor’s Column

Dear Parish Families,

This weekend will be the last weekend without public Masses for a long, long time. That is my prayer and my hope! We have been without public Masses for a long time now. March 21/22 was the first weekend we couldn’t have public Mass. By my count, this makes 9 weekends straight without public Mass.

I hope everyone has truly MISSED the Mass. It seems to me that one fruit of this thing is that it will help us be a little less lukewarm I hope, and I include myself in that. We take so much for granted, even the most important stuff. Like the Sacraments.

Last Friday was the last day of school at St. Joe School. Thank you for supporting our school. It is the most important ministry of our parish. We contin-ue to pray for growth. If you have a child who is of the age that could go to our school, prayerfully consider it. It is well worth the while. You can see on page three our student of the year, Charlie Fischer. The current 5th grade is filled with AMAZING kids. I love them each dearly.

Seminarian Tyler Huber arrived last week. Wel-come, Tyler! It will be a different summer for him and for all the other seminarians in parishes given the current state of things. I hope that by July we can resume parish life as we know it. I don’t want to miss out on all the trips Billy and I plan and lead each year.

Blessings and prayers, Fr. Mike

Last Day of School—May 15

Our teachers and staff greeted our kids as they dropped off their Chromebooks and textbooks and received their items from their classrooms. How we miss our kids!!

Fearless 365—Sign Up!

Did you know that the Bible says “Do not be afraid” 365 times? Deacon Tom, Fr. Mike, and perhaps a few others will be offering a reflection EVERY DAY in a new series called FEARLESS 365. We will take a look at the 365 Bible verses—one a day—and see what they have to say to us in our own day and age. We’ll send them out on Flocknote. See page 9 on how to join Flocknote.

Our Lady of Fatima & Opened Doors

It was no coincidence that our church doors were unlocked on Our Lady of Fatima’s feast day on May 13!!! Thank you MARY! Be sure to take a look at the Our Lady of Fatima posters by the main stairwell.

Livestream Schedule—May 16/17

We will livestream the following Masses at http://facebook.com/stjoeshelby. You can also watch them later on Flocknote.

Saturday—May 16 5:00pm Mass at St. Vincent, Fr. Adam

Sunday—May 17 10:00am Mass at St. Joseph, (w/ music), Fr. Mike 12:15pm Mass at St. Joseph in Spanish, Fr. Mike

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St. Joseph News

A Note from Our Summer Seminarian

Dear Parishioners,

My name is Tyler Huber, and I am looking forward to spending my summer with you all at St. Joseph. As far as my own story goes, I grew up in Floyds Knobs, Indiana. My home parish is St. Mary of the Knobs, and I grew up playing sports, hunting, fishing, participating in youth ministry, and working on a family friend’s farm. After high school, I went to Purdue University to study engineering, and it was at an adoration chapel in Lafayette, Indiana where I first began to think about the priesthood. This revelation in my prayer life started during my sophomore year, but it took me several years to act on it.

During these early stages of discernment, I got more involved at the Newman Center on Purdue’s cam-pus, St. Tom’s. My sophomore year I helped lead a college aged men’s group, and my junior year I served as the youth minister for the middle and high school youth of the parish. After my junior year, I had my dream internship working for a structures firm up in Michigan. During that summer, God gave me everything I could have asked for... great friends, a strong Catholic community, a job I loved, and yet, I was still longing for something more.

It was through these experiences that God slowly prepared me to answer his invitation, and I am so glad I finally said yes to seminary following that sum-mer internship. I applied for St. Meinrad during my senior year, and I entered seminary the fall after my graduation. That was 2017, so I have been in semi-nary formation for three years now. I studied two years of philosophy before starting theology this past school year, and this will be my third summer assign-ment. I spent my first summer at Holy Spirit Parish on the eastside of Indianapolis, and I spent last sum-mer learning Spanish in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

During my three years of seminary, God has truly transformed me. I have grown in ways I never could have imagined possible, and I have made some of the closest friendships of my life. Saying yes to seminary has led to an incredible journey, and I am excited to see what God has in store for me during my time at St. Joseph’s.

Tyler

Our Pastor at Prayer

Jennifer Lindberg took this picture of Fr. Mike praying.

30-Day St. Joseph Novena—All MAY

Each day we have been praying at the 3:00pm Holy Hour the 30-day St. Joseph novena.

You can subscribe to get the reflections in your email here: https://stjosephnovena.com/

Daily Rosary—All MAY

We continue to pray the Rosary during the 3:00pm Holy Hour during the month of May since it’s Mary’s month. Remember that Our Lady of Fatima asked us all to pray the rosary every day.

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St. Vincent News

St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery Clean-Up

During this time that you cannot be around other people, please plan to take a walk by yourself in St. Vincent Cemetery. While you are there please take the decorations off of your loved one’s grave. The winds have blown many around. You might even pick up some fallen branches and sticks and put them on the brush pile by the Pollinator Habitat Plot. May God bless you and keep you healthy.

St. Vincent Parish Picnic Cancelled

St. Vincent’s Parish Picnic has been cancelled for this spring due to COVID-19. We look forward to our combined parish picnic with St. Joseph on Wednes-day, August 19th.

Sr. Joan’s Corner

Dear Parishioners,

Have you ever wondered if you really love God? How does a person show that they love God? Well, in this weekend’s Gospel Jesus tells us how to know if we love God. Jesus says, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments.” And his greatest commandment is this, “Love one another.” And said another way, “Love your enemies.”

In these days of COVID-19, the way to show that we love one another is to stay away from each other. If a person is going to be around other people, the way to show that we love them is to wear a mask. Both of these actions are very difficult at times. We don’t want to stay away from our friends. We don’t like the inconvenience of wearing a mask, but we do it be-cause we love our neighbor.

For the next few weeks, even though Mass will be publically celebrated on May 24th, people over 65 years of age and those with underlying health conditions are asked to continue attending Mass on line. This is most difficult for me. I look at myself as being very healthy and don’t often think of my age, until now. It has always been my policy that I never ask anyone to do anything that I am not willing to do myself. Therefore, because of my age, I will not be attending the public Mass on Sundays. I say it again, it is most difficult for me. Love often asks us to do difficult things. We do them because we love God and other people. This is how we prove that we love God.

This week as we pray, pray for all of those who are having a very difficult time dealing with COVID-19: those who have it; those who are afraid of catching it; those who have to work in unsafe conditions; those who are missing out in their education because of it; and those who are caring for those who are seriously ill and those who are working to create a vaccine against it.

Sr. Joan

Today’s Readings—May 17

First Reading — Peter and John are sent from Jeru-salem to Samaria to be ministers of the coming of the Spirit to the new converts in that town (Acts 8:5-8). Psalm — Let all the earth cry out to God with joy. (Psalm 66:1). Second Reading — Beloved: Sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts. Always be ready to give an expla-nation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope (1 Peter 3:15). Gospel — Jesus said “Whoever has my command-ments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him” (John 14:21).

Face Mask Available

If you are in need of a mask or two, please call Joan Knight 765-461-7833. She and a few ladies are mak-ing them.

June Newsletter Deadline

The deadline for the June newsletter is Sunday, May 24th. Please share your joys and sorrows with your Parish Family. Call Pat 765-265-7195 or email pat.barley49@gmail.com

On-Line and Mail-In Giving

Thank you to all who have mailed in or used our on-line giving during this past week. It is easy to give on line. Go to our website: www.svdpcc.com. Here is another new opportunity: If you want to drop off your collection envelopes, you are welcome to drop them into the new mail slot in Sister Joan’s kitchen door at any time. You may also mail your donations to St. Vincent Church, 4218 East Michigan Road, Shel-byville. This will be very much appreciated. If you have any questions or want to contact me for any rea-son call 812-455-9348 instead of the office number. - Sr. Joan

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News for Both Parishes

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St. Joseph News News for Both Parishes

Amazing Possibilities —Sept. 15

Matthew Kelley will be speaking at East Central High School Performing Arts Center, St. Leon, Indiana, on September 15th, 2020 (his first stop on his North American Tour) at 7:00pm. To purchase a ticket/tickets go to www.dynamiccatholic.com. Tickets are $39.00 each and are available now. They will sell out fast. If there are enough people interested, there is a possibility of taking the bus from St. Joe to this event but tickets must be purchased online.

About this event: God is constantly trying to open your eyes to the amazing possibilities that he has enfolded in your being. Matthew Kelly’s inspiring, high-energy event will help you take time to reflect. To look deeper. To seek out the unseen opportuni-ties that you have overlooked at first glance. Possi-bilities abound. You are capable of incredible things. While you might underestimate yourself, God never does.

Joint Parish Picnic—Aug. 19

Mark your calendars. The annual St. Joseph and St. Vincent Joint Parish Picnic will take place on Wednesday, August 19th!! It will be at Blue River Park shelter house. Let’s celebrate being able to gather together!!!!

Joint Parish Mission—Aug. 12-14

St. Joe and St. Vincent parishes will join together in hosting the 2020 Parish Mission! More details to come, but please mark your calen-dars. We are in for a treat!

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News for Both Parishes

Vacation Bible School On Hold

Sadly, we have made the decision to delay Vacation Bible School because of the Covid-19 virus. More information about VBS will be available soon in the bulletin or online at www.stjoeshelby.org.

Join Flocknote

Join Flocknote to receive updates, reflections, an-nouncements, etc. There are three ways to join:

Via text messaging: Text: sjparish to 84576 Visit: flocknote.com/parishioners Visit our website: scroll down all the way www.stjosephshelby.org

Society of St. Vincent de Paul Update

The Shelby County SVDP store is closed. A reassessment will be made after April, 2020. Hope-fully this will help mitigate our little part in this effort to fight the pandemic of Covid-19 Coronavirus. Signs are posted at the store.

Client Needs: We have delivered a few food cards and food. Fortunately, due to your past generosity, we have funds available to serve our clients. We will be limited, but we will do our best.

Major Hospital: Denise Holland has provided us with a link to better serve Shelby County. We thank them. www.healthyshelbycounty.org. Click the link when you first open the site where it says “To view regularly updated list of community resources”.

Donations: Still no product donations accepted.

Warehouse/Store Entry: Still no access to either building.

Questions: SVdP Help Line: 317-395-7027 Email: shelbycountrysvdp@gmail.com Website: www.svdpshelby.org

Donations may be accepted through: St. Joseph Catholic Church or St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church

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School Staff Updates

Ms. Rose Rosales will no longer work here. She is moving to Georgia. We will miss her!

Mrs. Kristin Schoettmer will no longer be the fourth grade teacher. She will instead be an aide.

Mrs. Amy Johnson will be the new two-year-old preschool teacher, taking Rose’s place.

Mrs. Imelda Joseph will be the new Spanish teacher, taking Rose’s place.

Fr. Mike Keucher will no longer be principal but will of course remain involved in the school daily.

Mrs. Beth Borland will be the new principal.

We are currently looking for candidates for the fourth grade teaching position and the two-year-old posi-tion. If you are interested, please contact Mrs. Beth Borland at borland.beth@sjsshelbyville.org or Fr. Mike at frmike@sjsshelbyville.org or 812-391-0047.

Upcoming Events & Meetings

Many events and meetings are taking place online using Zoom.

Knights of Columbus News

Monday thru Saturday Lunch from 11:00am - 1:00pm

Phone: 317-398-9914

Dinners Friday evening from 6:00 - 8:00pm

2nd Sunday of each month from 11:00 - 1:00pm

Wing and Shrimp Night Wednesday evening from 6:00 - 8:00pm

Served Hot, Honey Garlic and BBQ

Bingo Thursday evening from 7:00 - 10:00pm

Knights of Columbus Meeting Dates Council Meeting: 8:15pm (1st & 3rd Wednesday) Finance Meeting: 7:00pm (1st Wednesday) Columbian Homes Mtg.: 7:00pm (3rd Wednesday)