BAPTISM: Please contact the Parish Office to fill out a baptismal registration form and to schedule with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty a date for your child's bap-tism. Note: If this is your first child being baptized, a bap-tismal preparation class must also be scheduled and taken with Fr. Draper or Deacon Prunty prior to the baptism.

MARRIAGE: Arrangements are to be made by contacting the Parish Office at least six months in advance of the pro-posed date. Couples must meet in person with Fr. Draper to set their date and are required to participate in a mar-riage preparation program prior to the wedding.

ANOINTING OF THE SICK: If you or a fellow parishioner’s health is in danger due to sickness or old age, please contact the Parish Office to be anointed by Fr. Draper.

SICK VISITATION: If you are going to be hospitalized or are confined to your home and would like to receive Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Office to make ar-rangements.

PARISH STAFF

FR. TIMOTHY DRAPER, Pastor

DEACON KEVIN PRUNTY, Pastoral Associate

BEV HALSEY, Parish Secretary

CAROL PRUNTY, Parish Bookkeeper

SUSAN MCCOY, CRE

GERARD LEGNER, Custodian & Maintenance

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: Meet 2nd and 4th Wednesday of

the month at 7:00 pm in the parish hall. FOOD PANTRY: Open the 3rd Wednesday every month at

9:00 am in the basement of St. Patrick Church.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL: Meet 1st Saturday of the month at

9:00 am and 3rd Tuesday at 7:00 pm in the school.

† Communion Service led by Deacon Prunty: Mondays

at 5:00 pm at St. Patrick, Amboy.

† 1st Wednesday of the month 10:00 am Mass at Maple

Crossing at Amboy.

MASS SCHEDULE

WALTON

† Saturday 5:30 pm

HARMON

† Sunday 7:30 am

AMBOY

† Saturday 4:00 pm

† Sunday 9:00 am

† Tuesday 7:00 am

† Wednesday 5:00 pm

† Thursday 7:00 am

† Friday 8:00 am Exposition of the

Blessed Sacrament & Adoration

Mass at 5:00 pm

AMBOY RECONCILIATION: Saturday 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm

Wednesday 5:30 pm - 6:15 pm

HARMON & WALTON RECONCILIATION:

Upon Request

Parish Center For: St. Patrick, St. Flannen, & St. Mary

32 North Jones Avenue Amboy, IL 61310 Amboy Office: 815-857-2315 Harmon & Walton Office: 815-857-2670 Rectory: 815-857-4172 Fax: 815-857-3485 Office Hours: Monday-Wednesday, 8:30 am - 4:00 pm Thursday, 8:30am - 3:00 pm Friday, 8:30 am - 12 noon Website: stpatrickamboy.org

The Fifth Sunday In Ordinary Time

February 9/10, 2019

SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

FEBRUARY 16/17, 2019

First Reading: Jeremiah 17: 5-8

Response: Psalm 1: 1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 15: 12, 16-20

Gospel: Luke 6: 17, 20-26

Monday, February 11th

5:00 pm, Amboy HOLY COMMUNION SERVICE

Tuesday, February 12th

7:00 am, Amboy DINAH BAILEY †

By: Her Family

Wednesday, February 13th

5:00 pm, Amboy BARB GOY †

By: Frank & Dean Ann Lachat

Thursday, February 14th

7:00 am, Amboy URBAN BECKER †

By: Sue Duffy

Friday, February 15th

8:00 am, Amboy Exposition of the Blessed

Sacrament & Adoration

5:00 pm, Amboy WILLIAM & MARIE MCCOY †

By: Their Family

Saturday, February 16th

4:00 pm, Amboy EMILINE ROOD †

By: Larry & Eileen Piper

SPECIAL INTENTION †

5:30 pm, Walton PARISHIONERS OF ST. PATRICK,

ST. FLANNEN, ST. MARY PARISHES

Sunday, February 17th 7:30 am, Harmon MARILYN HENRY † By: Roger Colmark

9:00 am, Amboy MARY ANN KOENIG † By: Husband & Sons

LITURGICAL MINISTERS FEBRUARY 16/17, 2019

Sunday, 9:00 am

Servers: Nick Tarr Ethan Pratt

Lector: Kaylee Jones

Extraordinary Minister: Larry Eisenberg

Sacristan: Kaylee Jones

Music Ministers: Nancy & Stella

Saturday, 4:00 pm

Servers: Alena Shaw Tyrah Vaessen

Lector: Don Clayton

Extraordinary Minister: Karen Stenzel

Sacristan: Gary Schultz

Music Ministers: Silent

HOLY HOURS FOR HOLY ORDERS

There will be Adoration on February 15th . The seminarian will

be Mr. Timothy Schroeder who is attending St. Gregory the

Great Seminary, Seward, NE.

WORD OF LIFE

“When violent crime impacts a community there is a temptation to respond with anger and vengeance. But the Gospel calls for rehabilitation, reconciliation, and restoration and teaches us to respect the dignity of all human beings, even those guilty of committing horren-dous crimes.”

USCCB “Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities”

WE REMEMBER THOSE

SERVING IN OUR ARMED FORCES…

SR. Anna Albrecht

SGT. Keith Albrecht

PVT. Madeline Foster

SGT. Elise Hume

MA2. Jon B. Miller

LTC. Jerald Newman

Hosted by: Amboy Knights of

Columbus Council #8277

When: Sunday, March 3rd

Doors open at Noon,

Tournament starts at 1:00pm

Where: St. Joseph’s Hall, Amboy

Cost: The entry fee will be $10 per person —

cash prizes (TBD by # of players)

Ten Games will be played using the “round robin”

or progressive tournament rules. No partner needed. At

the end of each round everyone changes partners

Chili and Snacks will be provided. BYOB.

Contact Will @ 849-5112 with any questions.

Proceeds benefit Teen Turf

Don’t know how to play Euchre? Come anyway to watch all

the excitement, have a bowl of Chili and make a donation to

Teen Turf!!!

ADULT EDUCATION

Deacon Kevin Prunty will

be leading a 5 week Len-

ten Bible Study beginning

Wednesday, March 13th

at 7:00 pm. The study will be “Forgiven, The Transforming Pow-

er of Confession”. These sessions have been carefully designed to

help you more richly encounter God’s mercy in Confession. If you

are a parent, to also help you prepare for your child’s First Confes-

sion. In this program you will discover the merciful way that God

seeks us out when we have sinned and calls us back to him. You

will examine this Sacrament from the perspective of both the priest

and the penitent. Cost is $15.00. Please contact Carol at 857-2315 if

you would like to be a part of this study.

Teen Turf Chili Soup Supper next Saturday February 16th All U Can Eat 4:30-7:00, Free Will Offering 235 W Main St. Amboy

-STEWARDSHIP OF GOD’S BLESSINGS-

SUNDAY COLLECTION AS OF 2/4/2019

ST. PATRICK

Weekly Budget Need $3,728.00

Sunday Collection $3,220.12

Income Required to date $119,296.00

Sunday Collection to date $102,623.44

ST. FLANNEN

Weekly Budget Need $915.00

Sunday Collection $1,112.00

Income Required to date $29,280.00

Sunday Collection to date $34,149.33

ST. MARY

Weekly Budget Need $759.00

Sunday Collection $868.00

Income Required to date $24,288.00

Sunday Collection to date $21,132.00

My dear parishioners, As I return to the parish this weekend, I wish to thank all of you who very generously helped with our carpet replacement project at St. Patrick Church in Amboy. Such a project is both an opportunity to practice charity and a concrete reminder that we are a family of faith. We lend our hands and our prayers to help one another. Our service is a very real way of exercising and sharing our faith.

Whether one is a lay person, consecrated religious, or ordained minister (bishop, priest, or deacon), sharing and de-fending our faith at times can feel like a daunting task or a heavy responsibility. Our weakness and sinfulness may have us confessing, like the Prophet Isaiah in our first reading: “I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips” (Is 6:5). Or it may have us saying, like St. Peter in this Sunday’s Gospel: “Depart from me, Lord, for I am a sinful man” (Lk 5:8). Yet, it is precisely in that honest realization of our need for God’s mercy that the Lord calls us into his service. Jesus says to Peter: “Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men” (Lk 5:10). Jesus not only offers us his forgiveness, but he also sends us his Holy Spirit so that we can overcome our fears and feelings of unworthiness in order to “catch” others for him. Let us give thanks for the generous and merciful love of Jesus who continues to choose and call us to go out and bring others to him. And, in response to that call, let us, like Isaiah, have the courage to say: “Here I am, send me!” (Is 6:8)

Fr. Draper

Here and There:

Cross and Light

Coming to St. Peter Church (1891 Kaneville Road,

Geneva) for six performances, Friday March 15

through Sunday, March 17, is Cross and Light! Cross

and Light is an international, critically acclaimed musi-

cal and video surround experience of Christ's Passion,

Resurrection and the coming of the Holy Spirit. It's a

baptism of the imagination! Performances are selling

out! Buy your tickets today at :

crossandlight.com/stpeter or call (630) 232-0124

St. James Knights of Columbus 8th Annual All You

Can Eat Pancake and Sausage Breakfast

(with Biscuits & Gravy, Coffee, Orange Juice and Milk)

*50/50 Raffle* Saturday March 2, 2019 7:00am-11:00am

St. James Hall 221 West Kirke Gate Lee, IL 60530

For information call Mike Fulco 815-762-1200, Steve

Voris 815-761-6222, Paul Aloisio 815-263-9262.

Trip To Rome:

Join Fr. Timothy Draper and Fr. Jerome Koutnik, Thurs-

day, November 14 - Thursday November 21, 2019 on a

Pilgrimage to Rome. Visit the Historic Sites of the Eter-

nal City! Attend a Papal Audience with Pope Francis

and much more! Early Bird Pricing available if deposit,

($1,000), is made by July 14, 2019. For more information

call the parish office 815-857-2315.

Our Parishioners are amazing!

Thank you to all who helped us

complete “Phase Two” of our Car-

pet Project. We will have this re-

minder of the new carpet for years

to come remembering your hard

work and generosity! Thank you to

the Knights of Columbus members

and Volunteers: Gerard Legner - Deacon Kevin Prunty - Pete

Rood - Jim Travi - Don Clayton - Frank Lachat - Larry Durso -

Mark Becker - Dave Didier - Rex Meyer - Ken Burkhardt -

Shawn Grennan - Bill Schalk - Tim Oester - Rich Klein - Hugh

McCoy - Dennis Marsili - Ed Stewart - Gary Wilhelm - Mark

Kaleel - Larry Piper - Brian Dallam - Andrew Pratt - Ethan

Pratt - Jerry Corcoran - Curt Harrison - Brad Goy - Jim Mur-

phy - Brian Murphy -Jeff O’Rourke - Jeff Shaw - Avery Shaw

- Nick Vaessen - Nick Dinges - Jake Dinges - Bill Bontz -

Levi Kaleel. If we missed anyone we are sorry.

OUR LADY OF LOURDES (Feb. 11th) O glorious Mother of God, so powerful under your special title of Our Lady of Lourdes, to you we raise our hearts and hands to implore your powerful intercession in obtaining from the gra-cious heart of Jesus all the helps and graces nec-essary for our spiritual and temporal welfare and for the special favor we so earnestly seek. (mention your intention here) Our Lady of Lourdes, pray for us. Saint Bernadette, pray for us.

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Amboy Dental Group

Joel P. Hochstatter DMD

Phone 815-857-2015

Brandon R. Klein DDS

Phone 815-857-2413

Office: 305 E. Joe Dr., Suite 120, Amboy, IL 61310

238 E. Main, Amboy 121 E. First, Dixon

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Our Family Protecting Your Family

Chris Klein, Sublette 815-849-5219

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The Olson Family

LONG BRANCH SALOON “Home Of The Best Steak

Served On A Sizzling Platter”

55 S. East Ave. www.onlinelongbranch.com

Amboy, IL 61310 815-857-3486

“Contact Us For All Your Catering Needs”

AMBOY

EXPRESS LANE

345 N. Mason

Amboy

815-857-2990

Shell

The Last Alarm

“Firehouse Pub”

43 S. East Ave. - Amboy

815-857-3483

Owner: Barb Harrison

301 1/2 1st Avenue

Rock Falls, Illinois 61071

815-626-0605

Weekdays 8am - 5pm

Saturday 8am - 1pm

Closed Wed & Sun

The

Loop

Barber Shop

Residential or Recreational

Bonita Willis - Managing Broker

(815) 849-5476 ext. 213

(815) 343-1966 bwillis@woodhavenassociation.com

Phone 815-849-5232 or www.vaessenbrothers.com

Main Street Repair

205 W. Main St.

Sublette, IL 61367

-Engine Repair & Maintenance

-STIHL Power Tools

-Your area Husqvarna Dealer

If you are new to our Parish family welcome! We

encourage you to register in the parish so we know

who you are and a little more about you. Call the

Parish Office at 857-2315 or 857-2670.

Main Flower Shop

232 E. Main St—Amboy 815-857-3545

Jeff & Cindy Shaw