The Roman Catholic Churches of

St. Helen & Our Lady of the Caves

Parish Staff Pastor Rev. Kenneth Soroko, CPM…...sthelen@glasgow-ky.com Parochial Vicar Rev. Thomas Reagan, CPM…...treagancpm@gmail.com Deacon Rev. Mr. Lee Bidwell……………...270-629-2761 Deacon Rev. Mr. David Smith…………….270-932-3547 Parish Council Chairperson Dr. Richard Clouse………………….rmcmd197975@gmail.com Finance Council Chairperson Dcn. Mr. Lee Bidwell……………….270-629-2761 Parish Secretary/Bookkeeper/Office Manager Ms. Therese Beakes ………………sthelen@glasgow-ky.com ….…………..270-651-5263 Director of Religious Education Dr. Cheryl Whitlow……………………...cherob6@gmail.com Parish Center Rental Coordinator Rev. Kenneth Soroko, CPM……… sthelen@glasgow-ky.com Knights of Columbus-Grand Knight Mr. Jerry Baker………………………..baker_g@comcast. com Our Lady’s Auxiliary-President Mrs. Emily Coleman…………………..knoerr7@scrtc.com Bereavement Committee Mrs. Joyce Pufahl……………………...270-678-2002 Food Pantry Coordinator Leonette Chapman……………………..270-590-6385 St. Helen Parish Office : Location: 230 Cavalry Drive Hours: Mon: 8am-3pm, Wed: 8am-11am, Fri: 9am-3pm St. Helen Food Pantry Location: 230 Cavalry Drive Hours: Monday 9-11:30am

Prayer to St. Joseph O Glorious Patriarch St. Joseph, whose power can render possible even things which are impossible,

come to our aid in our present trouble and distress. Take under thy protection the important and difficult affairs which we entrust to thee, that they may end happily. For financial assistance and guidance of both

the “Our Lady of the Caves rebuilding project and the St. Helen building project.” Our beloved Father, all our confidence is in thee. Let it not be said that we invoked thee in vain;

and since thou art able to obtain everything before Jesus and Mary, show us, that thy goodness equals thy power.

Sacramental Life Holy Mass Schedule-St Helen Saturday Vigil: 5:00 pm Sunday: 8:00am(Spanish), 10:00am, 11:30 am, 1:00pm (EF) Monday & Wednesday: 12:05pm Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8:00am Saturday: 8:00am (EF) First Friday: 5:15pm Holy Mass Schedule-Our Lady of the Caves (Physical Address:1010 S. Dixie St. Horse Cave, KY 42749) Sunday: 8:00am Monday & Wednesday: 9:00am Friday: 6:30pm Eucharistic Adoration-St. Helen Sunday: 4-5pm Monday & Wednesday: 11am-12pm, Saturday: 9-10am Friday: 3-9pm First Friday: 7am-9pm Sacrament of Confession Confessions are heard for about 30 minutes before each Mass and anytime by request. Saturday: 4-4:55pm Wednesday: 7:30pm at Parish Center Sacrament of Baptism Please contact the pastor one month in advance. Sacrament of Matrimony Please contact the pastor at least six months in advance. Sacrament of Anointing Available by request. When anyone is admitted to the hospital, be certain to contact the priest. For after-hour emergencies requiring the sacraments, please call 270-619-1638 Faith Formation-Why be Catholic? If you or anyone you know is interested in learning about the Catholic Faith please contact Fr. Kenneth Soroko, CPM

103 W. Brown Street Glasgow, Kentucky 42141

270-651-5263 www.sthelenolc.org

sthelen@glasgow-ky.com

“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces... never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again. That's the beauty of being alive... We can always start all over again. Enjoy God's amazing opportunities bestowed on us. Have faith in Him always…”- St. Bernadette Soubirous

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time, January 14th, 2018

Mass Intentions

Altar Flower Schedule: Jan. 14th Greg & Sarah McCord in Thanksgiving Jan. 21st Celso Hernandez and Adi Cardona Jan. 28th Jim & Kathy Kintz Feb. 4th Ulakey Family—Thanksgiving Parish Discernment Process: The discernment process, outlined in Archbishop Kurtz’s Pastoral Letter, provides sequential movements to help prepare and guide the parish’s discernment activity. Prayer: The entire process, from beginning to end, is rooted in prayer. A Pastoral Letter study guide will be available to help individuals and small groups Celebrate the parish’s gifts and strengths, while also reflecting on where they believe God is calling the parish to focus for the future. Listen: To hear God’s call, the parish will hold a listening session so parishioners can listen to one another, with the ears of Christ, so God’s will for the parish is revealed regarding Family Life, Education and Lifelong Formation, and Service and Outreach. Decide: After the listening session is concluded, a Core Team of parishioners will assist the pastor in considering the information gathered at the listening session and decide upon 2 or 3 goals in each of the three areas where discernment has taken place. Develop: In the last movement of the discernment process, the Core Team will determine the resources necessary to respond to the goals identified during parish discernment. Archdiocesan agencies can provide assistance and resources, where applicable.

+AMDG+ Schedule of Parish Events For This Week: Sunday January 14th 3pm Sunday Mass offered in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel 4-5:00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at SH Monday January 15th 6pm Finance Council Meeting 6:30pm RCIA Class 7pm Parish Council Meeting Tuesday January 16th 12:00pm Noon Mass offered in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel 6:30 - 8:00pm Adult Class at the Parish Center Wednesday January 17th 6pm Children’s Catechism Friday January 19th 3:00-9:00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at SH —————————————————————————————— Upcoming Events Sunday January 21st 2pm Pro-Life Prayer Rally at the Parish Center - K of C Monday January 22nd 5:30pm Our Lady’s Auxiliary Meeting Monday February 5th 7pm Knights of Columbus Meeting Sunday February 11th 3pm Sunday Mass offered in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel Wednesday February 14th - Ash Wednesday 12:05pm Mass SH 9:00 am Mass OLC 6:00 pm Mass SH 6:30pm Mass OLC Thursday February 22nd 9:30 - 10:30am Week 1 of Lenten Bible Study Sunday February 25th 1-3:00pm NFP Class #1 - in the Library at the Parish Center Register on-line at http://register.ccli.org/ __________________________________________________ March for Life: The Youth Group will again be traveling to Washington, D.C. to participate in the March for Life on Friday Jan. 19th. Members of the Youth Group will be accepting donations after Mass on Sun. Jan. 14th. Please consider supporting our youth in their effort to represent our parish community and give witness to the Pro-Life effort. Courtesy Reminder: Finance council Members are reminded that we will be having a meeting on Monday January 15th at 6pm at the parish center. Parish Council Members are reminded that we will be having a meeting on Monday January 15th at 7pm at the parish center. Adorers: Looking for 4 parishioners who would be willing to spend one hour a week in adoration before the Blessed Sacrament, on Tuesday afternoon, throughout the season of Lent, in Our Lady of Fatima Chapel. Pro-Life Prayer Rally: Our annual Pro-Life Prayer Rally, sponsored by the Knights of Columbus, will take place at the parish center on Sunday January 21st, beginning at 2pm. The event will include a Rosary Procession and Divine Mercy Chaplet. The event will conclude with a chili dinner provided by the Knights of Columbus. Please join us as we give witness to the Pro-Life effort and pray for an end to abortion. Opportunities for Life: Volunteers are needed to staff the 24 hour helpline from their homes. Volunteers offer hope, compassion, options, counseling and resources to callers who find the courage to seek help. To learn more about this ministry and a training workshop in your diocese, please call (888) 496-3638. Birthdays this week: Jan 14 Adam Birge, Gregory McCord, Barbara Oswald Jan 15 Irene Lucheck, Kitty Ritchie, Bruce Sullivan, Kevin Thompson Jan 16 Michael Burd, Jack Irwin Jan 17 Coy Meadows, Spencer Swope Jan 18 Ann Ford, Sharon Meadows Jan 19 Hannah Weedman Jan. 20 Sharon Clouse, Larry Oswald

Date Location Mass Time Mass Intention

1/13 SH Sat. Vigil (5 pm) Carl Morris Hunt+

1/14 SH Sun. 8 am Ignacio Lorenzana+

1/14 OLC Sun. 8 am Mary Ellen Kestler+

1/14 SH Sun. 10 am People of the Parish

1/14 SH Sun. 11:30 am Donald Holmes+

1/14 SH Sun. 1 pm (EF) Thanksgiving

1/15 OLC Mon. 9 am Giuseppe Silvia+

1/15 SH Mon. 12:05 pm Food Pantry Volun-teers

1/16 SH Tues. 8 am Nell Sissy Bale+

1/17 OLC Wed. 9 am Fr. Larry Gelthaus+

1/17 SH Wed. 12:05 pm Vincent Simon+

1/18 SH Thurs. 8 am Special Intention

1/19 SH Fri. 8 am Betsy Jones+

1/19 OLC Fri. 6:30 pm Poor Souls

1/20 SH Sat. 8 am

1/20 SH Sat. Vigil (5 pm) Luc Violette+

1/21 SH Sun. 8 am Maria Escamilla Galvan+

1/21 OLC Sun. 8 am Jeff Brock

1/21 SH Sun. 10 am Wayne Smith

1/21 SH Sun. 11:30 am People of the Parish

1/21 SH Sun. 1 pm (EF) Jeanne Connolly

Prayer List Please remember those for whom parishioners have requested your prayers. Scott Pufahl Col. J. Pruneski Paula Baysinger Marianne Blankenship Julie Younkin Nash Carter Hamilton Jeff Gibson Diane Fisher Claudia Campos Cruz Echeverría María de Jesús Quezada Mayra Eugenia Villalobos Díaz Melecio Orozco Richard Hughes Lynda MacGuire Judith A. Rodriguez Lois Perryman Johnson and Chapman Families Julia Ochoa George Sibalich

Ruby Huff Ronnie Brown Hugo Orozco Diego Orozco JB Logsdon Ryan Bales Emily Sullivan Buren Aurora Jaimes Sonya Thompson Families affected by natural disasters Jason Campbell Madeline Hale Erin Phillips Judy Holmes Scott DeBoer and Family Patty Imrie Linda Mansfield Mary Kay Bilczo Lois A. Lane Evelyn Nicholson Michael Nicholson Janet Dyer Larry Adams Spencer Bradley Jimmy Jones DuWayne Gilchrist Lanell Gilchrist Dorothy Sweat

Please pray for our Military men and women who are serving oversees:

John & Chris Metzger David Kent Cooper Stanson Roach Joshua Matheney Sgt. Brewer Chris Davidson Shawn Emberton Matthew Chenault Cameron Brown Kimberly Lee Lt. Col. Richard Tylicki Cameron Lynch

Church Cleaning Schedule St. Helen 1/15 - 1/20 Debbie Sanders 1/22 - 1/27 Robert & Cheryl Whitlow 1/29 - 2/3 Yolanda Lorenzana & Family Our Lady of the Caves 1/15 - 1/20 Murphy Family 1/22 - 1/27 Dcn. David & Theresa Smith 1/29 - 2/3 Suzanne Ochoa

Pariate ribbons, floral picks and bazaar items for this building fundraiser, it would be greatly

appreciated. Call Ann Marie Hemmer for info. at (270) 774-7542.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS NEWS: The Knights of Columbus will meet on Nov. 13th at 7pm at OLOC. To car pool meet at St. Helen’s at 6:30pm. The agenda is: food/fruit baskets for the holiday season, Christmas float?, Forty Hours Devotion- dates and times, success of the Tootsie Roll Program and Annual Yard Sale. All Knights are encouraged to attend, we need your input. Thanks.

PICTURES ARE HERE If you ordered pictures from Funtime Photography please pick them up in the rectory basement after Mass or call Fran at 646-8590.

Our Lady of the Caves Rebuilding Project (1)The building committee met on Tuesday January 9th to continue discussing the preliminary design and review the latest revision of the drawings made by the architect. (2)The inventory list of church furnishings has been reviewed and updated. (3)A letter was written to the Archbishop requesting his approval for the proposed design for the main altar. (4)A proposed design of the working sacristy and altar boy sacristy has been created and is being reviewed.

+JMJ+

Collection report: Jan. 7 St. Helen Our Lady of the Caves Sunday Collection $3,410.66 $971.00 Actual to date $97,622.62 $29,621.99 Budget to date $90,461.56 $29,615.60 Difference $7,161.06 $6.39 Additional contributions: St. Helen Building Fund $1,327.18 Food Pantry $105.00

Thank you for your ongoing support and generosity! Special Second Collection: Next weekend, Jan. 20th & 21st, the annual collection to support Opportunities for Life will be taken up in our parish, as a second collection. Opportunities for Life is a life affirming ministry of the Bishops of Kentucky which is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to offer confidential, emotional support and information to those dealing with an untimely pregnancy. To learn more about the Opportunities for Life ministry, please call (888) 496-3638. Your generosity is most appreciated! What is Parish Discernment? Parish discernment is an opportunity to gather as a parish family, and through prayer and reflection, call upon God to reveal His Will for the parish community. While there are similarities to strategic planning processes, what makes discernment unique is that parishes are not beginning by asking, “What do we think is best?”, and instead asking, “What is God’s hope for our parish?” While strategic plans are good and important, they are also devised and directed. A discerned plan is received from God, and is an invitation to respond to the one who calls us all, and in this case, through the life of the parish. At the end of the process, the parish community together will have prayed, celebrated its gifts and heritage, listened for God’s call, decided how to move forward together, and ultimately develop the gifts, charisms, and resources needed to respond to God’s call for the parish. Recognizing that God’s will is often revealed with and through people, a process has been created to facilitate discernment about parish life in the areas of Family Life, Education and Lifelong Formation, and Service and Outreach. Your Parish: The Body of Christ Alive in Our Midst: Following is an excerpt from Archbishop Kurtz’s pastoral letter: “Pope Francis in his apostolic exhortation on the Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium), paragraph 28, addressed the parish as the primary location for evangelization – the announcing of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Quoting Saint John Paul II from paragraph 26 of his 1988 apostolic exhortation, On Christ’s Faithful People (Christifidelis Laici), Pope Francis describes the parish as “… the church living in the midst of the homes of her sons and daughters.” Evoking an image dear to Saint John XXIII from the meeting of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:4-42), the Synod Fathers of the XIII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops described the parish as the village fountain, where individuals meet Jesus and have their thirst quenched and from which they are sent to serve the broader community. All of these images speak to the central mission of the parish as an evangelizing community that exists not for itself but for the mission of Christ. While many priorities emerge as part of the parish mission of evangelization, in this time, three in particular stand out. These include family life, education and formation, and service and outreach.”

Please pray for the deceased:

Christopher Bastien Joe Kirn Gary Green Justin Shive Richard Sims Sylvia Osar Ron Thomas Lorraine Cameron Theresa Jones Debbie Perkins Annette St. Charles Dr. Dolores Beckham Barbara Limerick Les Jenkins DeLores Dunk Alvinia D. Newell

Raymond Stevens Rigoberto Hernandez Angelina Klein Herbert Mattingly, Jr. Sebastian Quezada Barbara Cummings Francisco Alarcón Anne Marie Soroko Don Holmes Bob Morrison José Gómez Moya Philip Bernard Thomas Merritt Suzanna Pritchard Suzanne Diver Peter Leo Serafin Hernandez William Matney