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May 2, 2021 Fifth Sunday of Easter
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Catholic Church
150 N Elizabeth Ave Ferguson Mo 63135
Tel: 314-524-0500 Fax: 314-524-0744
www.Btcparish.or
Parish Mission Statement
We are a Catholic people,
joined together in the Eucharist.
We are carriers of God’s love
to one another and to the greater community.
CONNECT - GIVE - GROW - SERVE - WORSHIP
WELCOME TO READINGS FOR THE WEEK
BLESSED TERESA of CALCUTTA CATHOLIC CHURCH
www.btcparish.org Monday: 1 Cor 15:1-8; Ps 19:2-5; Jn 14:6-14
RECTORY Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28; Ps 145:10-13ab, 21;
140 N. Elizabeth - Ferguson, MO 63135 – Tel 314 522 0275
Jn 14:27-31a
PARISH OFFICE
120 N. Elizabeth - Ferguson, MO 63135 – Tel 314 524 0500 Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122:1-5; Jn 15:1-8
FAX NUMBER Thursday: Acts 15:7-21; Ps 96:1-3, 10; Jn 15:9-11
314-524-0744
Office Hours Friday: Acts 15:22-31; Ps 57:8-10, 12;
Monday - Thursday 9:00 a.m. - 5:30p.m.
Jn 15:12-17
PARISH OFFICE CLOSED ON FRIDAYS
Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; Ps 100:1b-3, 5;
CLERGY
Rev. Tom Haley, Pastor Jn 15:18-21
Rev. Mr. Allen Love, Business Manager Sunday: Acts 10:25-36, 34-35, 44-48; Ps 98:1-4;
PARISH STAFF
Jeanne Baer, Pastoral Associate 1 Jn 4:7-10 or 1 Jn 4:11-16; Jn 15:9-17
Leonard Bobrowski, Director of Music
Jeff Finnegan, Director of Youth Ministry
Sharon Heidemann, Parish Health Coordinator
Carol Breckle, Office Manager/Child Safety Coordinator
LaToya M. Williams, Bulletin Editor
SCHOOL Electronic Offertory thru 4/24/2021
150 N. Elizabeth - Ferguson, Mo. 63135 Tel 314 522 3888
Mrs. Adrienne Govero, Principal
General Funds $ 2,592.80
2021 WMAD $ 571.00
Ms. June Stephenson, Secretary
St. Vincent DePaul $ 70.00
Mrs. Millie Kimmick, Director of Children’s Liturgy
BTC Angels $ 10.00
School Assistance $ 42.50
Processing Fees $ 26.63
Total $ 3,212.93
These are your parish council representatives for
2021
Bob Brandon Fourth Sunday in Easter 4/25/2021
Bernadette Dalton -Secretary
Miriam Gutting General Funds $ 3,194.00
Lisa Lonero Holy Land $ 40.00
Kathy Magrecki St. Vincent DePaul $ 595.00
Christine Stoverink School Assistance $ 35.00
Corin Thornton -Chair Candles$$$ $ 6.00
Margaret Toney
Regina Cleri $ 155.00
Jane Orlando
Total $ 4,025.00
Lorenzo Robinson
Eileen Weiskopf
CONNECT - GIVE - GROW - SERVE - WORSHIP
BTC CHRISTIAN 8TH GRADE SERVICE WEEK 2021
What is it?
This week is an opportunity for our rising 8th graders to take a
BTC YOUTH MINISTRY deeper look into what it means to be a Christian through the
experience of putting faith into practice. We will be taking
HIGH SCHOOL TEENS: Jesus’ invitation to “wash the feet” of others by engaging in
various types of service and experiencing firsthand what the
Meeting Tonight May 2nd! 7-8:30 p.m.
Church is doing in our local community. Space is limited to
first 6 students to sign up for this optional week on a day-to-
All high school teens always welcome—and your day “ala-carte” style.
friends—in the Parish Center for socially-distant, mask-
Where?
wearing time to get closer to God through personal input,
faith sharing and fun. We will begin at BTC, and each day venturing to areas both in
our parish boundaries as well as the greater St. Louis Archdiocese.
Some of the sites we will be working at are Mother Teresa’s
Missionaries of Charity Soup Kitchen, St. Vincent Parish in Soulard,
St. Patrick’s Center, Ronald McDonald House, a local skilled
EDGE JUNIOR-HIGH MINISTRY nursing home and parishioners’ homes.
MONDAY, May 3rd
When?
6:30-8:00 P.M FIRST FULL WEEK OF SUMMER BREAK:
Make it your LENTEN PROGRAM!! Monday, May 24- Friday May 28
We meet in the Parish Center Meet at the BTC Youth Room in the Parish Office on each day
“masks required!”
in which you choose to participate.
Most days will complete by 5 pm.
SUMMER MISSION TRIP: WHOLE KIDS OUTREACH
What to Bring?
Mark your calendars for Sunday, July 25- Thursday, July
29 for high school teen service week in Ellington, MO at the A list of items to bring daily and dress code (if applicable)
WKO site in Reynolds County, one of the poorest areas of will be provided.
our state. We have been taking teens here for many sum-
mers and our BTC school students have been collecting
toys for their Christmas outreach each season.
Applications are now available at the office, youth group Last Sunday, April 25, the St. Charles
and online.
Lwanga Center held their 37th Annual
Testimonial Awards Celebration. While
More information and forms to follow. in this time of the pandemic it had to be
presented virtually, it was a wonderful opportunity to honor
many individuals and organizations within our Archdiocese
STEUBENVILLE/ST. LOUIS YOUTH CONFERENCE
who are living the mission of Jesus Christ as leaders in our
2021:“RESTORED” Psalm 80:3
community.
The Archdiocesan Office of Youth Ministry is planning
on safely opening up the annual Youth Conference for Two of our B.T.C. parishioners were celebrated at this
High School teens this summer! Registration will be event:
open March 25th but if BTC youth plan on attending,
Ted Heidemann, as our Adult Honoree, and Nydia Tate, as
we will have commitment registration soon. The two
our youth Honoree. We are very proud of all that you do,
available weekends are:
seen and unseen, to live out the mission of the Lwanga Center
July 9-11 & July 16-18, 2021 Forms now available! as leaders in the faith, “doing small things with great love!”
Watch for more information here and on the parish
Website or call Jeff for more info----
CONNECT - GIVE - GROW - SERVE - WORSHIP
In Honor of our Mothers First Holy Communion
May 2, 2021
Since there will be no formal fundraising efforts
this year, the Pro-Life Committee recommends that Abigail Appel
we make a contribution to a Pro-life organization Chinemelum Arinze
this year. Kaylynn Brandon
Zoe Collins
Matthew Knapp
August Moore
Warren Moore
Luke Nadeau
Raegen Marie Reeves
Natalie Sewell
Mid-Life Singles Ava Weyrauch
Gwendolyn Wilder
Are you looking for a renewed
sense of connection and purpose
during this pandemic?
Register today for a life-changing
REFLECT Catholic weekend retreat at
King’s House Retreat Center
Belleville
Welcome to
(20mins from downtown St. Louis)
Blessed Teresa!
June 4, 2021
Take a chance and get involved.. Matt Barnhart
you won’t regret it! has recently moved here from
Florissant with his daughter,
Allison.
$210
Including meals & single room Matt is an IT project manager and Allison will
be in third grade next fall. Matt has been actively
engaged in CYC sports as a coach.
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Email: reflect.stlouis@gmail.com We are happy to have them as part of the family!
Call 314-283-0044 for details
CONNECT - GIVE - GROW - SERVE - WORSHIP
Miriam
Gutting
Colossal thanks to all who made this year’s auction
I was born in Ireland and received my college education in Dublin.
another huge success! Whatever way you joined
in, you made a difference! Special thanks to our In 1963, I received an invitation to open a Montessori school in St. Louis.
anchors, Jeff Appel and Lizzie Lonero, for their I married a St. Louis gentleman, and we were blessed with eight
work in promoting the auction as well as for the children.
great job on screen! We moved to Ferguson in 2008 and, of course, joined BTC
We also need to thank all those who worked diligently where I am very happy (my husband went to Heaven in 2014). I feel
behind the scenes. (There are so many and you privileged to be part of the Parish Council.
know who you are!) An event like this takes the
When I retired, I hoped to share my hobby and to meet some
love and involvement of a whole community.
local residents so I started a knitting group. We meet once a week
to knit, crochet, drink tea, and chat when circumstances permit- all
are welcome!
Dear Prospective Basketball Campers and Families,
We wanted to send you a friendly reminder that Thanks be to God
registration for our basketball camps is open but
space is limited! All information regarding our Marsha
basketball camps, including registration information, &
can be found here. Jerry Wood
We will have COVID protocols in place for the safety
of all. Please feel free to share this information
with anyone who may be interested in attend-
ing. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate
are celebrating fifty years of marriage
to contact us! Thank you!
Sincerely,
next Saturday, May 8th
Coach Bennett
at 4:30pm Mass.
fbennett@chaminade-stl.org
Twitter: @CCPBasketball We wish them many more!
Instagram: @CCPBasketball
TikTok: @CCPBasketball
CONNECT - GIVE - GROW - SERVE - WORSHIP
Don’t forget that we have TAP cards on sale!
BEARING FRUIT
You may send an order to school or email the parish
office and we will fill your order the same day. Few of us, even when we meditate on the image of the vine
No email? Give us a call! and branches, stop to really think about how God “prunes”
As you start your spring projects don’t forget we have us. For some there is the danger of thinking that we are al-
Home Depot, Lowes and Menards gift cards. ready producing fruit for the kingdom, in deed and truth as
With graduation and weddings on the way we have John says, perhaps raising a family, being active in our par-
Amazon and all major department stores available. ish, and so on. But even those branches which are bearing
fruit, the Gospel tells us, can be pruned to produce still
Check out the parish website for an entire more.
listing.
Today Saul, freshly “pruned” by his conversion, arrives in
Your purchase of TAP helps support our school. Jerusalem and meets resistance. Since he had been perse-
cuting Christians, this was only natural. But even after he is
accepted and begins to bear fruit, he meets further adversity,
and his letters are filled with many accounts of how his trials
“pruned” him to produce greater fruit for the kingdom. Like
him, as long as we remain in Christ we will continue to bear
fruit and, when the will of the Father determines it is time to
prune us, the strength of the true vine must enable us to
endure it.
The Quilters and the Men’s Club would like to
Let us love not in word or speech
remind you that it’s not too late to buy raffle
but in deed and truth.
tickets.
-1 John 3:18
Call the parish office
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“Our Pantry is an Equal Opportunity Provider”
Mass Intentions and Liturgical Ministries May 8-9 Mothers Day Weekend
4:30 8:15 10.30
Ushers: Carolyn Randazzo Ushers: Carol Breckle Ushers: Marianne Marr
Kevin McCabe Mary Appel Michael Kaseberg
Connie Chavez John Knowles Marilyn Geiger
Michael Noelker Patrick Schwierjohn Char Taylor
Lector: Michael Cunningham Lector: Suzann Cross Lector: Kathy Magrecki
Cantor: Tim Grumich Cantor: Laurie Steinmann Cantor: Catherine Hayek
Priest’s Intention Priest’s Intention Priest’s Intention
Nancy Klaesener People of the Parish All Mothers
Money Counters 2
Tuesday May 4 Quilters All Saints 9am-3pm Church Cleaning
Team 2
Thursday May 6 Quilters All Saints 9am-Noon
We apologize that some shifting in our format
occurred in the 1st weekend’s bulletin.
The 8:15 Mass on Sunday
should have shown as
Dennis John Lance,
not, Money Counters.
Although the money counters might also be deserving
of prayer, please join in offering thanks for the life
Dennis as you pray this week.
In Our Thoughts and Prayers
8:15 Daily Masses Shayna Beasley Sharon Kramer John Schlereth
Marie Bennett Lester Kramer Patricia Schlereth
Dolores Braun Jane King Richard Schwent
Matilda Bryson Brock Loesche Bob & Pat Sorenson
Monday, May 3 Hall
Janet Cambell Steve Marsden Kateri Stalinksi
Joe Dafflitto
Tim Cosgrove Kathleen McAleenan Lillian Szczuka
Tuesday, May 4 Hall Jean Crowley Anne Murphy Meghan Touhill
Carl Bell Joe Funke Dick Murphy Meghan Touhill
Wednesday, May 5 Church Martin Gibbons Declan Nelson Ignatius Touhill
Samuel Horan Imarion Griffin Anastasia Parres Oscar Touhill
Bob Hoffman Dave Proost Nancy Tracy
Thursday, May 6 Church
Deacon Ralph Hayes Daniel Huber Ralph Rockamann Cecilia Vossmeyer
Mike Jawahir Jeanette Rubak Todd Widemann
Friday, May 7 Hall Irene Janowski Mary Serra Dolores Weinmann
Ruth Everett Delaney Knowles Pearce Neikirk Nicolene Rosene
Theresa Asberry
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Lavay Davis Blaize Owens Andrew Wagner
Anthony Deken Joe Schmermund Daniel Weber
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