Historic St. James at Sag Bridge Church 10600 S. Archer Avenue | Lemont, Illinois 60439-9344 | (Ph) 630.257.7000 | (Fx) 630.257.7912

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Mass Schedule

WEEKENDS: Saturdays: 5:00pm & Sundays: 8:30, 10:00 & 11:30am HOLY DAYS: 7:00am & 7:00pm

WEEKDAYS: Mon, Tue, Thu 8:15am & Fri 6:00pm

WEDNESDAY: Adoration at 5:00pm & Mass 7:00pm

CONFESSION SCHEDULE: Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm & Saturdays 9:30-10:15am otherwise by appointment.

BAPTISMS, WEDDINGS & FUNERALS: Contact the rectory office.

SICK & HOMEBOUND PASTORAL CARE: Please notify rectory.

RECTORY OFFICE HOURS: Wed, Thu & Fri: 9:00am to 2:00pm.

CLERGY: Fr. Tom Koys, M.A.,S.T.L., Pastor, Fr. Edward Gleeson, Pastor Emeritus Fr. Robert Coleman, Resident Deacon John Wilkinson, C.K.M. Deacon Doug Szarzynski

Altar & Rosary Society HAPPY MOTHERS DAY. We wish you a Blessed Day. Please join us after Mass to honor our Blessed Virgin Mary at the May Crowning. All proceeds from today’s flower sale will benefit The Woman’s Center. President: Barbara 708.257.9129 V.P. Linda 630.257.8252 Sec: Judi 630.243.9414 Treas: Chris 708.330.5216

Fourth Sunday of Easter May 12, 2019

Preserve St. James

(Northern Illinois’ Oldest Working Roman

Catholic Church)

We’re Always Home

Page Two May 12, 2019

Someone you should know…. Hello Friends and Family, I just wanted to have the chance to update you on my year serving with NET Ministries as it comes to a close. I am writing to you from Amarillo, Texas. And at this point in our year, my team and I have put on 117 retreats and ministered to over 5,000 youth across the United States. Life on the road has been challenging, yet eternally rewarding. Every day is a new opportunity to meet Jesus in the people He has surrounded me with, whether it be the youth on re-treat, the host family I’m staying with, or my team-mates. These past three months, we have been travel-ing all across the states of Texas and Oklahoma. This was quite a transition from our Fall months, which were spent on the East Coast. A lot of the teens we have encountered here, having been raised in Catholic homes, know that a personal relationship with God is something that they desire but are unsure of how to attain it. The experience of going on a NET retreat gave many of them the opportunity to learn more about Christ’s love for them and respond to that love by committing to pursue a prayer life.

It has truly been a gift to share my personal testimony of Faith with these young men and women and to see the fire within them to follow Jesus more closely. There is a lot of hope amongst America’s young people, and being able to witness that and be a part of their Faith journey has been nothing short of life changing.

Thank you for all of your support of me and this ministry over the past part! Please, know of my prayers for you and your family. May the peace of the Risen Christ be with you during the upcoming Easter season! In Christ, Tony Wall

Please keep Fr. Koys and a number of pastors in your prayers as they will be gathering with Cardinal Cupich at Mundelein seminary, Tuesday-Thursday, May 21-23 to further discuss the parish and priest allocation situation through the “Renew My Church” initiative. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Be sure to check out our ALL NEW St. James web-site…same address as before, but way “cooler”. Be sure to look at “Formation” > “From the desk of Fr. Koys” for insights to wrinkle your brain.

FROM THE DESK OF, FR. THOMAS KOYS, M.A.,S.T.L., PASTOR

Preserve St. James (Northern Illinois’ Oldest Working Roman Catholic

Church)

We’re Always Home

Fourth Sunday of Easter Page Three

LEFT-WING NUT ATTACKS BARR’S CATHOLICISM

Catholic League president Bill Donohue com-ments on a recent attack on the Catholicism of U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr:

Over the weekend, left-wing nuts picked up on a screed by Frank Cocozzelli in the Daily Kos, home to assorted crackpots. In a piece that was deeply conspiratorial, he tries desperately to con-vince the reader that U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr is a Catholic extremist out to destroy de-mocracy.

Cocozzelli says he was “dismayed with in watch-ing Attorney General William Barr’s performance two days ago before the House Judicial Commit-tee [sic].” Instead of crafting a diligent response, he seeks to portray Barr as having “links” to the “highly secretive, ultra-conservative Catholic group Opus Dei.”

He says the organization “is known for recruiting very influential members, especially those simpa-tico with culturally conservative causes. To de-scribe its many wealthy and powerful leaders as economic royalists would be an understate-ment.” (His emphasis.)

Continuing with this conspiratorial tone, Co-cozzelli says that Opus Dei members “are not ashamed of the organization’s wealth, but are actually conspicuous about it as evidenced by its new seventeen-story 243 Lexington Avenue, New York, New York headquarters.” That alone should be enough to bring in a SWAT team.

What does this have to do with Barr? Is he a member of Opus Dei? If so, who cares, aside from the kooks who write for the Daily Kos? Cocozzelli says Barr “may be a ‘Supernumerary’ (married member) or simply a ‘cooperator (sympathetic non-member).'” In other

words, he doesn’t know. So much for the “link” to Opus Dei.

What is really eating away at Cocozzelli is Barr’s politics. Barr is not a fan of the public schools. Moreover, “in a 1992 address to Bill Donohue’s Catholic League, he called for the imposition of ‘God’s law’ in America. In that same address he went after contemporary supporters of the sepa-ration of church and state (‘The secularists of to-day are clearly fanatics’).”

In point of fact, in 1992 I was a professor in Pitts-burgh, so Cocozzelli’s attempt to “link” Barr to me is another failed exercise.

This doesn’t stop Cocozzelli from concluding that Barr’s views prove that “This is precisely why the Attorney General’s Opus Dei links matter.” Reali-ty check: No links were demonstrated. Even if they did, it is a non-starter.

Cocozzelli concludes that Barr is “willing to de-stroy the norms of both justice and American de-mocracy.” Yeah, he did a great job of proving just that.

Time for this guy to check himself into the near-est asylum.

We need to add additional 11:30 Ushers & Cart Drivers for 5:00 PM 10 & 11:30 Masses.

If you are able on a regular/dependable basis, please contact Deacon John at

630.257.7000.

Our weekly Offertory collection of May 5, 2019 was $3,525.00. The Maintenance collection was $1,025.00. The number of envelopes coming out of that collection was 95.

OUR MANY THANKS TO OUR REGISTERED FAMILIES USING ENVELOPES & THE CASH-AND-CARRY FOLKS.

Our CHURCH CLEANERS FOR FRI – 5/17/19 Are Margaret G., Judi, Bronislawa & volunteers. If you are interested in volunteering, please con-

tact the rectory office at 630.257.7000.

VOTIVE OFFERINGS FOR THE WEEK OF 5/12/19 St. James Altar & Rosary Society

Preservation of St. James The Flynn Family The Golom Family

In Remembrance of Janice MacFarlane Health & Healing of Michael McMillian In Memory of Lillian Simanavicius

In Memory of Zig Simanavicius In Loving Memory of Donna Wilkinson

Our beautiful bouquets of flowers surrounding our altar were made

available in celebration of 2nd Wedding Anniversary of

Andrea/Michael Kozmanonski & 1st Wedding Anniversary of

Charles & Kathleen Ivers

MONDAY, MAY 13TH – Our Lady of Fatima 8:15 AM In Loving Memory of Donna Wilkinson Blessing & Thanksgiving ~ Raj Family

TUESDAY, MAY 14TH – St. Matthias 8:15 AM Fred Butalla Jr.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15TH – St. Isidore 7:00 PM Mary Rose & Frank Wenzel

THUSDAY, MAY 16TH 8:15 AM Charles & Genevieve Howard

FRIDAY, MAY 17TH 6:00 PM Birthday & Health Blessings ~ Aniela Szczech

Fifth Easter Sunday SATURDAY, MAY 18TH 5:00 PM Joseph Dziaba

SUNDAY, MAY 19TH 8:30 AM In Memory of Adalbert “George” Stach & Kazimerz Ciereszko 10:00 AM Expectant Mothers: Angela, Grace & Michelle, “Gift of Healthy Babies” 11:30 AM James & Veronica Doyle

5TH EASTER 5/18 & 5/19/19

Celebrant Altar Servers

Lectors

5:00 PM 5/18/19

Fr. Tom Koys

N. Akroush A. Wilson M. & M. Wilson

L. Pieprzyca

8:30 AM 5/19/19

Fr. Wrenn J. Beecher J. Beecher Carver

C. Slowik

10:00 AM 5/19/19

Fr. Tom Koys

S. Bruin M. Lawler T. Lawler

P. Brunk

11:30 AM 5/19/19

Fr. Tom Koys

G. Estrada D. Estrada A. & I. Gallager

S. Hagen

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