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106 N. Western Ave.

Girard, KS 66743
Tel. (620)724-8717
Weekly Bulletin
of
Saint Michael Church, Girard
www.stmichaelgirard.com
COLLECTIONS
Last Week July 2013 to date
Contributions $3,324.00 $98,909.95
Children's Offering $16.59 $667.27
Expenses-March $17,611.42 $97,735.30
Over/ (Under) $1,841.92
Saint Michael Parish Mission Statement:
We the parishioners of Saint Michael the Archangel, through leadership and strong traditions
are faithful disciples of the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church. We commit our-
selves to be generous stewards of our faith, our parish, and our community. We strive to involve all
members to be united in one parish family for the salvation of all.

Notes from the Pastor: Thanks be to God and praise be to Him as we enter into this Holy Week!
The highest point of this week is the celebration of the Sacred Paschal Triduum. It is the three most
solemn days of the liturgical year; Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. These most
holy days celebrate the Paschal Mystery, first, the passion, suffering, and death of the Lord Jesus,
followed by his resurrection, the triumph of the holy cross, and Christs decisive victory over sin and
death. These days rank at the head of the liturgical calendar. They celebrate the most sacred myster-
ies of our faith, and they ought to be celebrated with the community at liturgy. The Jews have three
high holy days, three pilgrimage feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and Booths, and those who lived outside
of Jerusalem made pilgrimage to the Temple to celebrate these solemn occasions. The three days of
the Triduum are our high holy days, our pilgrimage feast, and we ought to make pilgrimage from
our homes to church to commemorate and honor how the Lord Jesus laid down his life for us, his
friends, for our salvation.
Please make it a top priority to go to church to celebrate the Triduum this year. Reserve the time.
Rearrange your schedule if necessary. Take some personal time off from work. Suspend errands or
jobs around the house. Drop everything. Plan to attend the Mass of the Lords Supper on Holy
Thursday, the Passion of the Lord on Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. These
days may be optional, but none are more important. I am posting here again our Holy Week Sched-
ule, with one additional mass in Arma at 8AM, Holy Wednesday:
Palm Sunday: - Saturday Vigil Masses 4PM Arma, 5:30 PM Girard;
Sunday Masses 8:00AM Arma, 10:00 AM Girard
Holy Monday - 7:00AM Girard
Holy Tuesday - 11:00AM Chrism Mass- Cathedral

Altar Servers:


E. M. E.
Lectors:

Gift Bearers
5:30 PM
E., A., C. Doherty


Rhonda Stonerock
Tony Stonerock

Chris & Connie Sponsel
Family
10:00 AM
G. Born, L. Arthur, Volunteer


Marilyn McCracken
Denny Heidrick

Chris & Nancy Hofer Family
Next Sunday(04/20/14) Next Saturday (04/19/14)
Apr

12

13

14
15

16

17


18


19

20

Saturday

Sunday

Monday
Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday


Friday


Saturday

Sunday
4:00 PM
5:30 PM
8:00 AM
10:00 AM
7:00 AM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
8:00 AM
6:30 PM
8:00 AM
8:30AM-3PM
7:00 PM
12:00 PM
6:00 PM
8AM-6PM
4:00 PM
8:30 PM
8:00 AM
10:00 AM

Geno Marchetti
Greg Evans
Jim David
Verl Diskin
Special Intention
NO Stations of the Cross
NO MASS
Ad Dantis
Verl Diskin
NO MASS
Eucharistic Adoration
Don Born
Ad Dantis
Shirley Foster
NO Eucharistic Adoration
NO MASS
Don Born
Pro Populo
Pro Populo
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard
Girard
Arma
Arma
Arma
Girard
Arma
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard
Girard
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Mass Schedules & Intentions for April 12th-20th:
Saint Michaels Upcoming Events

Finance Council Parish Council
Tony Stonerock-Chair Dale Coomes-Chair
TBA TBA

Rosary Altar Society Knights of Columbus
Next meeting, TBA 1st Tuesday of Month, 7pm
At 6:30pm in the Hall. St. Michael Parish Hall

Helping Hands Daughters of Isabella
Need help or want to volunteer, Call Marilyn Bradshaw,
Call Carrie Smith, 724-6684 724-7133

That Man in You Friday mornings at 6am
Girard Community Blood Drive
The next blood drive will be this Tuesday, April 15th, from Noon to 5:30pm,
in St. Michaels Parish Hall. Walk-ins welcome!

Altar Society Meeting
If you are interested in running for an officers position for next years St.
Michaels Altar Society, please call Nominating Committee Coordinator,
Teresa Davenport at 362-3042. Nominations and election will be held at the
May 5th meeting. Please join us at 6:00pm at the Mexican restaurant in
Girard.

**Attention**Save the Date!
On April 26th, we will celebrate the 28th Anniversary of Father Rogers Or-
dination to the Priesthood. Mass will be at 5:30pm followed by a celebration
to benefit the victims of the Philippine Hurricane. Free will donation. Please
join us for a fun night of music, food, games, dancing and fellowship.

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
There will be a Formation Session on May 4th at 1:00pm at St. Francis
Church in St. Paul. This session if for individuals who are either renewing
their 5-year commission or are requesting a mandate for the first time. If you
are interested please contact Father Roger or the parish office, so you can be
registered.

Thoughts During Holy Week
This weekend, we enter the holiest week of the Church Year with PALM
SUNDAY, when Jesus began His final preparations for our redemption. This
little story illustrates its importance:
Two men are sentenced to die in the electric chair. At the last moment, their
sentence is commuted to life. They fell on their knees and cried out, Thank
you, Jesus! We were under the SAME sentence. In fact, we were ALL sen-
tenced to death. But Jesus came and died for us. He commuted our sentence
to LIFE!
Palms are sacramental, the equivalent of any other blessed article such as
water or candles. Be sure to take one home with you and place a piece in
every room of your home. They will remind you through the year that our
triumphal entry into Heaven will come through the Cross.
On HOLY THURSDAY, the Church relives the mystery of the institution
of the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders, as well as the night of the Passion of
Our Lord. We focus on the humility of Jesus, as he tells us to love one an-
other and if you do, you should serve one another. When Christ instituted
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, St. John Vianney wrote: All our good works
put together can never equal the Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the
works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Even Martyrdom is nothing
compared with the Mass, for martyrdom is the sacrifice which Man makes to
God for his life, while the Mass is the sacrifice which God offers for man of
His Body and Blood. How sublime (inspiring) is the office of the priest! If
we had faith, we should discern (recognize) God hidden in the person of the
priest, like a light behind a glass And then comes GOOD FRIDAY, and I
always recall Fr. Donald Thissens description: What a way to love a Son,
Son though He was, He learned obedience from what He suffered. All His
trust was in God. God loved His Son through it all! On Calvary, He gave us
the power to live. We must wait now to see why the Father loved the Son so
much. On the Cross, the Church was born.!
HOLY SATURDAY EVENING, the night our Savior arose triumphantly
from the dead, is the holiest night of the year and the liturgical ceremonies of
the Easter Vigil are the most beautiful and symbolic of the entire week. It is
the victory of Christ over the darkness of sin and death. The Church comes
back to life! RCIA ends, the catechumens are baptized, we repeat our baptis-
mal vows, all receive the Eucharist, the Triduum ends, and we begin a 50 day
celebration known as Easter! Article by Marcel Normand









We Thank our advertisers for their support!
Holy Wednesday Arma, Mass at 8AM
Girard, Mass at 6:30PM
Holy Thursday - Girard, 7PM -Mass of the Last Supper,
Washing of the Feet, and Adoration of the Eucharist until
midnight
Good Friday: Arma - 12 Noon - Stations of the Cross fol-
lowed by Veneration of the Cross and Communion
Girard - 3PM Stations of the Cross
6PM - Veneration of the Cross and Communion
April 19
th
-Saturday Night, Easter Vigil Girard 8:30PM
Easter Sunday Masses: 8:00AM Arma, 10:00AM
Girard

Note: Easter Egg hunt in Arma right after the 8AM Mass
and Girard right after the 10AM mass on Easter Sunday,
April 20
th
!

Congratulations to four of our kids at Saint Michaels in
Girard who made their first reconciliation Saturday, April
12
th
: Kolton Droessler, Anne Martin, Carly Reif, and Jake
Towner. Congratulations also to their parents for making
this possible and for fulfilling their promise to the Church
during their wedding and when the kids were baptized to
bring them up in the Catholic faith. Congratulations and
thank you also to all our catechists especially to our second
graders cathechist, Janel Scales, for their sacrifice of their
time, talent, and treasure to teach these kids every Wednes-
day! God bless you a hundredfold as He has promised!
These kids and four from Arma will be receiving their first com-
munion on Sunday April 27
th
. Include them in your prayers.
Better late than never: Congratulations to Cooper Puckett for
being awarded as Outstanding Catholic Youth for Region 1 last
March 23 during the Diocesan Youth Conference in Wichita.
May God bless you always Cooper and may other youth follow
your good example!
This April 18
th
, is my 28
th
year anniversary of ordination to the
priesthood. Pray for me and all the priests as we thank God for
the gift of the priesthood for the community. As it falls on Good
Friday, we are moving the celebration on April 26
th
, Saturday at
the 5:30 mass at Saint Michael and the banquet following the
mass at Saint Michael grounds. We will be having food (Asian
and American; my friends will be roasting two whole hog-with
the head on it-yikes!) and lots of activities for a free will dona-
tion. All the proceeds will be added to the money we have re-
ceived since November last year for the victims of Hurricane
Haiyan in the Philippines. I will take the donation myself when I
visit the Philippines on May 12 and make sure it will go to where
it is mostly needed. Come all and join the celebration!
God bless you all! Fr. Roger


ST. MICHAEL, DEFEND US IN ALL OUR BATTLES!

Hickory Bend, LLC

MA55 5cHbUL
GIRARD ARMA
Sat. 5:30pm 4:00pm
Sun. 10:00 am 8:00 am

cOHf55lOH
Sat. 2:00-2:30pm 3:15-3:45pm

Weekdays before Mass;
anytime by appointment.

STAFF
Fr. Roger Lumbre
Pastor

Janel Scales
Bookkeeper/Bulletin Editor


Faith Paoni
Secretary

Rectory Office Hours
Tues-Fri 9AM-Noon
Closed on Mondays
Tel. (620) 724-8717

106 N. Western Ave.
Girard, KS 66743
Tel. (620)724-8717
Weekly Bulletin
of
Saint Michael Church, Girard
www.stmichaelgirard.com
COLLECTIONS
Last Week July 2013 to date
Contributions $3,324.00 $98,909.95
Children's Offering $16.59 $667.27
Expenses-March $17,611.42 $97,735.30
Over/ (Under) $1,841.92
Saint Michael Parish Mission Statement:
We the parishioners of Saint Michael the Archangel, through leadership and strong traditions
are faithful disciples of the teachings of Jesus Christ and His Catholic Church. We commit our-
selves to be generous stewards of our faith, our parish, and our community. We strive to involve all
members to be united in one parish family for the salvation of all.

Notes from the Pastor: Thanks be to God and praise be to Him as we enter into this Holy Week!
The highest point of this week is the celebration of the Sacred Paschal Triduum. It is the three most
solemn days of the liturgical year; Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. These most
holy days celebrate the Paschal Mystery, first, the passion, suffering, and death of the Lord Jesus,
followed by his resurrection, the triumph of the holy cross, and Christs decisive victory over sin and
death. These days rank at the head of the liturgical calendar. They celebrate the most sacred myster-
ies of our faith, and they ought to be celebrated with the community at liturgy. The Jews have three
high holy days, three pilgrimage feasts, Passover, Pentecost, and Booths, and those who lived outside
of Jerusalem made pilgrimage to the Temple to celebrate these solemn occasions. The three days of
the Triduum are our high holy days, our pilgrimage feast, and we ought to make pilgrimage from
our homes to church to commemorate and honor how the Lord Jesus laid down his life for us, his
friends, for our salvation.
Please make it a top priority to go to church to celebrate the Triduum this year. Reserve the time.
Rearrange your schedule if necessary. Take some personal time off from work. Suspend errands or
jobs around the house. Drop everything. Plan to attend the Mass of the Lords Supper on Holy
Thursday, the Passion of the Lord on Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday. These
days may be optional, but none are more important. I am posting here again our Holy Week Sched-
ule, with one additional mass in Arma at 8AM, Holy Wednesday:
Palm Sunday: - Saturday Vigil Masses 4PM Arma, 5:30 PM Girard;
Sunday Masses 8:00AM Arma, 10:00 AM Girard
Holy Monday - 7:00AM Girard
Holy Tuesday - 11:00AM Chrism Mass- Cathedral

Altar Servers:


E. M. E.
Lectors:

Gift Bearers
5:30 PM
E., A., C. Doherty


Rhonda Stonerock
Tony Stonerock

Chris & Connie Sponsel
Family
10:00 AM
G. Born, L. Arthur, Volunteer


Marilyn McCracken
Denny Heidrick

Chris & Nancy Hofer Family
Next Sunday(04/20/14) Next Saturday (04/19/14)
Apr

12

13

14
15

16

17


18


19

20

Saturday

Sunday

Monday
Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday


Friday


Saturday

Sunday
4:00 PM
5:30 PM
8:00 AM
10:00 AM
7:00 AM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
8:00 AM
6:30 PM
8:00 AM
8:30AM-3PM
7:00 PM
12:00 PM
6:00 PM
8AM-6PM
4:00 PM
8:30 PM
8:00 AM
10:00 AM

Geno Marchetti
Greg Evans
Jim David
Verl Diskin
Special Intention
NO Stations of the Cross
NO MASS
Ad Dantis
Verl Diskin
NO MASS
Eucharistic Adoration
Don Born
Ad Dantis
Shirley Foster
NO Eucharistic Adoration
NO MASS
Don Born
Pro Populo
Pro Populo
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard
Girard
Arma
Arma
Arma
Girard
Arma
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard
Girard
Arma
Girard
Arma
Girard




Mass Schedules & Intentions for April 12th-20th:
Saint Michaels Upcoming Events

Finance Council Parish Council
Tony Stonerock-Chair Dale Coomes-Chair
TBA TBA

Rosary Altar Society Knights of Columbus
Next meeting, TBA 1st Tuesday of Month, 7pm
At 6:30pm in the Hall. St. Michael Parish Hall

Helping Hands Daughters of Isabella
Need help or want to volunteer, Call Marilyn Bradshaw,
Call Carrie Smith, 724-6684 724-7133

That Man in You Friday mornings at 6am
Girard Community Blood Drive
The next blood drive will be this Tuesday, April 15th, from Noon to 5:30pm,
in St. Michaels Parish Hall. Walk-ins welcome!

Altar Society Meeting
If you are interested in running for an officers position for next years St.
Michaels Altar Society, please call Nominating Committee Coordinator,
Teresa Davenport at 362-3042. Nominations and election will be held at the
May 5th meeting. Please join us at 6:00pm at the Mexican restaurant in
Girard.

**Attention**Save the Date!
On April 26th, we will celebrate the 28th Anniversary of Father Rogers Or-
dination to the Priesthood. Mass will be at 5:30pm followed by a celebration
to benefit the victims of the Philippine Hurricane. Free will donation. Please
join us for a fun night of music, food, games, dancing and fellowship.

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
There will be a Formation Session on May 4th at 1:00pm at St. Francis
Church in St. Paul. This session if for individuals who are either renewing
their 5-year commission or are requesting a mandate for the first time. If you
are interested please contact Father Roger or the parish office, so you can be
registered.

Thoughts During Holy Week
This weekend, we enter the holiest week of the Church Year with PALM
SUNDAY, when Jesus began His final preparations for our redemption. This
little story illustrates its importance:
Two men are sentenced to die in the electric chair. At the last moment, their
sentence is commuted to life. They fell on their knees and cried out, Thank
you, Jesus! We were under the SAME sentence. In fact, we were ALL sen-
tenced to death. But Jesus came and died for us. He commuted our sentence
to LIFE!
Palms are sacramental, the equivalent of any other blessed article such as
water or candles. Be sure to take one home with you and place a piece in
every room of your home. They will remind you through the year that our
triumphal entry into Heaven will come through the Cross.
On HOLY THURSDAY, the Church relives the mystery of the institution
of the Holy Eucharist and Holy Orders, as well as the night of the Passion of
Our Lord. We focus on the humility of Jesus, as he tells us to love one an-
other and if you do, you should serve one another. When Christ instituted
the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, St. John Vianney wrote: All our good works
put together can never equal the Sacrifice of the Mass because they are the
works of men; but the Mass is the work of God. Even Martyrdom is nothing
compared with the Mass, for martyrdom is the sacrifice which Man makes to
God for his life, while the Mass is the sacrifice which God offers for man of
His Body and Blood. How sublime (inspiring) is the office of the priest! If
we had faith, we should discern (recognize) God hidden in the person of the
priest, like a light behind a glass And then comes GOOD FRIDAY, and I
always recall Fr. Donald Thissens description: What a way to love a Son,
Son though He was, He learned obedience from what He suffered. All His
trust was in God. God loved His Son through it all! On Calvary, He gave us
the power to live. We must wait now to see why the Father loved the Son so
much. On the Cross, the Church was born.!
HOLY SATURDAY EVENING, the night our Savior arose triumphantly
from the dead, is the holiest night of the year and the liturgical ceremonies of
the Easter Vigil are the most beautiful and symbolic of the entire week. It is
the victory of Christ over the darkness of sin and death. The Church comes
back to life! RCIA ends, the catechumens are baptized, we repeat our baptis-
mal vows, all receive the Eucharist, the Triduum ends, and we begin a 50 day
celebration known as Easter! Article by Marcel Normand









We Thank our advertisers for their support!
Holy Wednesday Arma, Mass at 8AM
Girard, Mass at 6:30PM
Holy Thursday - Girard, 7PM -Mass of the Last Supper,
Washing of the Feet, and Adoration of the Eucharist until
midnight
Good Friday: Arma - 12 Noon - Stations of the Cross fol-
lowed by Veneration of the Cross and Communion
Girard - 3PM Stations of the Cross
6PM - Veneration of the Cross and Communion
April 19
th
-Saturday Night, Easter Vigil Girard 8:30PM
Easter Sunday Masses: 8:00AM Arma, 10:00AM
Girard

Note: Easter Egg hunt in Arma right after the 8AM Mass
and Girard right after the 10AM mass on Easter Sunday,
April 20
th
!

Congratulations to four of our kids at Saint Michaels in
Girard who made their first reconciliation Saturday, April
12
th
: Kolton Droessler, Anne Martin, Carly Reif, and Jake
Towner. Congratulations also to their parents for making
this possible and for fulfilling their promise to the Church
during their wedding and when the kids were baptized to
bring them up in the Catholic faith. Congratulations and
thank you also to all our catechists especially to our second
graders cathechist, Janel Scales, for their sacrifice of their
time, talent, and treasure to teach these kids every Wednes-
day! God bless you a hundredfold as He has promised!
These kids and four from Arma will be receiving their first com-
munion on Sunday April 27
th
. Include them in your prayers.
Better late than never: Congratulations to Cooper Puckett for
being awarded as Outstanding Catholic Youth for Region 1 last
March 23 during the Diocesan Youth Conference in Wichita.
May God bless you always Cooper and may other youth follow
your good example!
This April 18
th
, is my 28
th
year anniversary of ordination to the
priesthood. Pray for me and all the priests as we thank God for
the gift of the priesthood for the community. As it falls on Good
Friday, we are moving the celebration on April 26
th
, Saturday at
the 5:30 mass at Saint Michael and the banquet following the
mass at Saint Michael grounds. We will be having food (Asian
and American; my friends will be roasting two whole hog-with
the head on it-yikes!) and lots of activities for a free will dona-
tion. All the proceeds will be added to the money we have re-
ceived since November last year for the victims of Hurricane
Haiyan in the Philippines. I will take the donation myself when I
visit the Philippines on May 12 and make sure it will go to where
it is mostly needed. Come all and join the celebration!
God bless you all! Fr. Roger


ST. MICHAEL, DEFEND US IN ALL OUR BATTLES!

Hickory Bend, LLC

MA55 5cHbUL
GIRARD ARMA
Sat. 5:30pm 4:00pm
Sun. 10:00 am 8:00 am

cOHf55lOH
Sat. 2:00-2:30pm 3:15-3:45pm

Weekdays before Mass;
anytime by appointment.

STAFF
Fr. Roger Lumbre
Pastor

Janel Scales
Bookkeeper/Bulletin Editor


Faith Paoni
Secretary

Rectory Office Hours
Tues-Fri 9AM-Noon
Closed on Mondays
Tel. (620) 724-8717

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