C H U R C H O F T H E

MOST HOLY TRINITY

7321 East State Road 67 · Bryant, IN 47326-9636

TRINITY, INDIANA

Served by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood

Parish Pastor: Father Kenneth G. Alt, C.PP.S—altkg5178@gmail.com

Parish Secretary: Betsy Minnich—secretary@htcc1861.com

Bookkeeper: Bev Westgerdes

Religious Education: Linda Wellman, Director; Lori Jutte, Assistant Director

Choir Director: Agnes Schoch Organist: Katie Hamberg, Maria Knapschaefer, Leah Muhlenkamp & Tim Muhlenkamp

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Mass Schedule: Weekend Masses Saturday, 7:30pm; Sunday, 7:30am, 9:30am Daily Masses Monday-Tuesday, Thursday-Saturday 7:30am Wednesday 7:00pm Eucharistic Adoration Thursday, 8:00am-9:00am

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Confessions: Saturday (After Morning Mass & Evening Mass) Anytime by Request

Baptism: Will be set up on an individual basis

Marriage: Please contact Father at least 6 months prior to intended date of wedding

Parish Council Members: Kent Muhlenkamp (President), Larry Alig, Scott Bruggeman, Crystal Fullenkamp, Brian Link, Laurie Muhlenkamp, Leon Muhlenkamp & Kristin Westgerdes

Bulletin: Please submit items for the bulletin to the

Parish Office in writing/email by Sunday evening

Missions: On the 1st Sunday of each month, a 2nd

collection is taken up to support needs of the South American Missions in Peru served by the Missionaries of the Precious Blood

Telephone: 260-997-6450 Website: www.churchofthemostholytrinity.com

CHURCH OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY 2 TRIN ITY, INDIANA

TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Saturday August 17 7:30 pm Thelma Schindler Sunday August 18 7:30 am Living & Deceased of the Parish 9:30 am James Gross Monday August 19 Weekday 7:30 am David & Diane Polnerow & Family Tuesday August 20 St. Bernard, Abbot/Doctor 7:30 am Ralph & Virginia Laux Wednesday August 21 St. Pius X, Pope 7:00 pm Marcel Welling Thursday August 22 Queenship of the Bl.Virg Mary 7:30 am Mary Ann Post Friday August 23 St. Rose of Lima, Virgin 7:30 am Luella Homan (Birthday) Saturday August 24 St. Bartholomew, Apostle 7:30 am Bob & Sally Muhlenkamp

TWENTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 pm Don Wellman Sunday August 25 7:30 am Living & Deceased of the Parish 9:30 am Mary Ellen Welling

MASS SCHEDULE

THIS WEEK IN OUR PARISH TODAY 12:00 pm Annual Parish Council Picnic (Please bring a side dish if attending)

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Thursday 8-9:00 am Eucharistic Adoration

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Saturday 8:15 am/pm Confessions

Sunday 10:30 am CCD RELIGION CLASSES BEGIN FOR GRADES 1-8

11:30-1:00pm Annual BBQ Chicken Dinner Meal (Pre-sale tickets only)

Amazing G-Race Day (CYO)

28 JULY 2019 SUNDAY TOTAL …… $ 1,252.00 Envelopes …… $ 960.00 Loose …… $ 292.00 Envel. Avg. (23) …… $ 41.74 Overall Avg. (160) …… $ 7.83 OTHER Candles …… $ 95.00 Mission Appeal …… $ 20.00 Recom. Weekly Contribution is $30.00

PARISH SUPPORT CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Mr. & Mrs. Kody Muhlenkamp, who were

married this weekend.

UP & COMING 1 September (Sunday) LABOR DAY WEEKEND— RELIGION CLASS CANCELLED

4 September (Wednesday) Religion Classes Begin for Grades 9-12—8:00pm

10 September (Tuesday) Parish Council Meeting—7:30pm

14-15 September (Sat/Sun) Annual CYO Campout

15 September (Sunday) Catechetical Sunday—9:30am

17 September (Tuesday) Men’s Sodality Meeting—7:30pm

22 September (Sunday) Pre-K/Kindergarten Religion Classes Begin—9:30am

13 October (Sunday) Living Rosary led by grades 1-8 at church—9:00am

20 October (Sunday) Grades 5 & 6 Mass—9:30am

24-25 Aug. 7:30 PM 7:30 AM 9:30 AM

Servers Braylon, Alayna & Layla Dawson Damon & Duston Muhlenkamp Sam Westgerdes/Ed Muhlenkamp/Morgan Reier

Lectors Angela Reinhart Betty Muhlenkamp Lori Jutte

Distributors Betty Muhlenkamp Abby Muhlenkamp/Zach Fullenkamp/Jen Gelhaus

Ushers Bill Schindler/Ken Reinhart Charles Muhlenkamp/ Mike Muhlenkamp Luke Muhlenkamp/Steve Reier

Gifts Brian Link Family

Rosary Joe Jutte Family

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Preschool/Kindergarten Signup for the 2019/2020 school year is located on the table in the back of church. Any new/first time students that would like to be enrolled in the Religious Education Program at Holy Trinity will need to sign up. For any questions, please contact Linda Wellman at (260) 251- 8562. PLEASE SUBMIT COMPLETED FORMS IN THE LABELED ENVELOPE ON BACK TABLE. Deadline to enroll is TODAY.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

18 AUGUST 2019 3 THE TWENTIETH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME

The Musings of Our Pastor

Try this on for size as a very unsettling reality-check or as something to disturb the tranquility of one's conscience. "The United States wastes enough food to fill up a 70,000-seat football stadium – every day." As I explored the Perspective Section of the Journal Gazette out of Fort Wayne about a month ago (July 10, 2019), this bold headline caught my atten-tion: "How we eat can help fix planet's woes". The article by Evan Lutz (the CEO of the Baltimore-based Hungry Harvest) was written for the Baltimore Sun. He asserts that food waste is so rampant in the United States that we waste 30-40% of our entire food supply, which is "the equivalent to tossing out 133 billion pounds of food and pouring $161 billion dollars down the drain annually." Such food waste, in the words of this writer, "is a moral and economic travesty." In many re-spects, it amounts to "using about 9% of the total landmass of the United States (about the size of New Mexico) to grow food that nobody eats." Quite noteworthy in the article was a report from the National Resources Defense Council, which indicates that "prepared foods or leftovers make up about 23% of the food that lands in trash cans". In closing his article, the writer offers these thoughts: "We can change the way we eat. The small decisions we make around meals will collec-tively make progress toward solving an enormous crisis. Eliminate waste, eat more plants, buy conscientiously and spread the word to your community." One of the big frustrations affecting the greater good of others in the community is the tendency of a vast number of persons in society to "shirk their responsibilities", and not really pay much attention to some of the significant or unfortu-nate consequences flowing out of their own day-to-day choices or lifestyle patterns. Planet Earth is the collective and only home that we share together with all of our brothers and sisters in the human family. Whether we are talking about food waste, the pollution of our air and water, or the reckless and irresponsible use of other earth's natural resources, my own day-to-day choices and lifestyle patterns do, in fact, affect the bigger picture of the well-being or the demise of our "common home". There may be something rather sinful or morally wrong to be acknowledged, if we casually disregard some of these current issues, and make little or no effort to incorporate "corrective measures", which display our rever-ence for God's gracious gifts to us, while also showing loving concern for the good of our fellow earth-dwellers every-where! May the Holy Spirit enlighten our minds and strengthen our wills, so that our everyday choices and lifestyle pat-

terns may be in harmony with whatever God most desires of us. Have a great week! —Fr. Ken

CPR/AED/First Aid Training By work of the Parish Council, AED units have been acquired and will soon be installed in the church and school hall. In the case of emergency and use of this equipment, there is stressed importance of offering proper training for parishioners. If you are interested in receiving train-ing in performing CPR, administering First Aid, and using an AED, please contact the parish office. The training class will be provided at the Portland Fire Department on Saturday, September 14th from 8am to 4pm. Signup deadline is Sunday, September 1st.

BBQ Chicken Dinner Sunday, August 25th

11:30am-1:00pm Open for dine-in or carry-out

$7.00 per person Presale Tickets Only

Tickets available for purchase after Mass: the weekend of August 17-18th Tickets will also be made available for

purchase at the Parish Picnic

The resources for our annual parish picnic have been

acquired through the Wayne Street Market (IGA) in Fort

Recovery (with the benefit of a generous discount). Thanks!

“...There is a baptism with which I must be baptized, and how great is my anguish until it is

accomplished! Do you think that I have come to establish peace on

the earth? No, I tell you, but rather division...”