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Foreclosures -
The Crisis Next Door
How is Your Neighborhood?
How Can You Help?
Why Are There Empty Houses?
How Can You Stop Foreclosures?
Join your neighbors for insight and information about the changes in our community:
Sunday, February 28th, 2-3:30 PM
St. Columban School Library
This informational forum will address the extremely high foreclosure rate in Greater Cincinnati and why this is such an important issue for ALL Homeowners!
Learn: How to avoid predatory home mortgages; How foreclosure affects community services and schools; What to do to avoid a foreclosure and where to turn for help; How to be an advocate for your neighborhood.
Brought to you by: Working In Neighborhoods, 541-4109; Archdiocese of Cincinnati’s Catholic Social Action Parish Collaborative, 421-3131, ext. 2660; and St. Columban Peace and Justice Committee, 658-2063 for more information.
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The Archdiocese recommends that your child be age 5 on or before September 30th , to enter kindergarten, and age 6 on or before September 30th to enter the first grade. If you have any questions, please contact Mrs. Pat Martin in the school office at 513-683-7903, Monday thr Friday,
8:30 AM to 4:00 PM.
Open House/Family Night
Thursday, February 4
From 6:00 to 7:30 PM
Current and prospective parents are welcome!
St. Columban School...where faith makes the difference!
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Christ Renews His Parish Retreats (CRHP)
Are you interested in CRHP? Here are the dates for upcoming retreats. The Women will be meeting on January 30 & 31, 2010 and the Men will meet on March 13 & 14, 2010. For more information, please contact the Parish Office at 683-0105. Watch upcoming bulletins for more details.
Cast Your Nets 2010
Youth Rally - January 31 from 5-9 PM
Meet at Good Shepherd Church. All high school teens and young adults are invited This event includes
Sunday Mass, live music by The Lee Roessler Band, an inspiring keynote speaker, pizza, and an opportunity to celebrate your faith with other teens and young adults in Cincinnati. The event is FREE but we ask that you bring a non-perishable food item for St. Francis Seraph Food Pantry. Contact Maria Meyer at 683-0105 for permission slips and more information.
YOUTH 2010 Mission Trip to Chicago
Do you want to do something fun and different this summer? Do you like to help others or need service
hours? All high school students who are incoming sophomores, juniors, and graduating seniors are invited to participate in our annual mission trip through Young Neighbors in Action. This year we will go to Chicago, IL from July 18-24th. We are in need of chaperones (who are over 21 yrs old), please prayerfully consider joining us. Need more information? Need permission slips? Contact Maria Meyer at 683-0105.
St. Columban
Grand Affair invites you to…
“Viva Las Vegas” Saturday, February 27th, 2010. Experience an evening of live entertainment, delicious cuisine, great gaming, live and silent auctions and much, much more. This annual event benefits St. Columban Parish. Register for your tickets today!
PARISH MISSION
March 6-10, 2010
Success: Full Living
Fr. Justin Belitz, O.F.M.
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February 7, 2010
Catch the latest updates in our weekly bulletin and newsletter!
 Patron ads are included in this new online version of the bulletin. These ads provide us our weekly bulletin and The Columban newsletter. Please support those businesses when possible. Thank you!
Recent bulletin and newsletter! (pdf)
Back issues of bulletin and newsletters (pdf)
We welcome YOU to join us!
Registration is available online, at the Parish Office and after Masses!
Donation Tax Letters
The Parish Office will be preparing letters with contribution totals for those who request them. In the past, we have mailed them to all parishioners and recently moved parishioners. If you would like to receive a letter with your donation amounts, please contact Lisa in the Parish Office at 683-0105, ext. 106.
February-March Ministers Schedule. The next schedule will contain the assignments for Holy Week – Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Vigil and Easter. Please let Deacon Jim Miller know as soon as possible your preferences and especially if you are planning to be away for Easter and not available.
Little Black Books will be Here Soon!
The most well-known and well-used Lenten resource of our parish is the Little Black Book. This paperback has a reflection for every day of Lent that is small enough to carry around and short enough to be done in just a few minutes. We will have Little Purple Books this year too. These are designed especially for children. There are many other excellent resources such as Catholic
Updates, The Word Among Us, and Every Day Catholic – to name just a few – that will be in the Hall Rack. All of these items are free, so look for them to be made available a few days before Lent begins, and join your fellow parishioners in making the most of your Lenten season.
Pancake Supper
Tuesday, February 16, from 5-7:00 PM in Cafeteria
Indulge in delicious blueberry chocolate chip pancakes by our own chef Fr. Larry! Shrove Tuesday is a family fun event. Ash Wednesday begins the next day. Check out our special Lent section for more information! If you would like to help this year, please contact Terri Kerley at 683-0105.
FISH FRY
Thank Cod it's Friday!
 Many volunteers are needed on Friday nights during Lent to ensure the success of this important fundraiser. If you’ve volunteered in the past, you know how much fun it is! Remember last year? We were voted as one of the best fish frys around!...and radio personality Jim Scott joined us for dinner! If you haven’t worked Fish Fry before, come see what you’ve been missing! Be sure to check out the dates, menu and volunteer sign up information!
 St. Columban 2010 Portrait Directory
Did you have your portrait taken at a Lifetouch studio other than here at St. Columban? Please
contact
with the registration information from that location. Thank you!
If you would like to purchase an additional directory or if you did not have your portrait taken, LifeTouch is making them available as a PreSale for $7.00.
Widow-Widower Gathering
TONIGHT, February 8, 1:15 PM after 12:30 PM Mass, in the Church Family Room
A light lunch will be available followed by open discussion. All are welcome.
Any questions, call Jim Miller 683-0105.
Nurse Volunteers Needed for Blood Pressure Screening
We would like to begin offering blood pressure screenings as a public service. The time commitment would be 30-45 minutes after Mass once a month or once every other month. If you are willing to volunteer or need more information contact Caryl Mayo or Diane McPhillips.
Youth Ministry: Winter Renew 2010
Need a break? Want to meet new people, do something fun and different, and strengthen your
relationship with God? All High School students are invited to the Winter Renew Retreat on February 12-14, 2010.
COME TO GUATEMALA!
Make your vacation make a difference! See breath-taking scenery, meet amazing people, and have the experience of a lifetime—all while providing critical educational resources to children in need. Join Cooperative for Education on a Snapshot Tour to Guatemala. These Snapshot Tours are February 9-14; July 27-August 1; and August 3-8, 2010. Space is limited so please contact Emily Kenney,
or 731-2595 x101, or check out www.coeduc.org/tours.htm for more information!
I Get By With a Little Help from My Friends…
Who Might Receive Care from a Stephen Minister?
Care receivers may be persons hospitalized, or persons grieving the death of a loved one, or persons separated or divorcing. They may be persons homebound, unemployed, adjusting to the birth of a child, or experiencing difficulties. We all need a concerned, caring friend at difficult times in our lives. A Stephen Minister can listen and care for you or someone you know who is going through a tough time. Contact Stephen Ministry or 683-0105 ext. 120. All conversations and e-mails are kept in strict confidence.
150th ANNIVERSARY HISTORY
Remember When…
Do you still have your first communion dress, veil, prayer book, prayer cards, etc.? Would you be willing to loan it to our anniversary committee for a display in our history cabinet? If you have something to contribute, please contact Chad Drinnen or the Parish Office at 683-0105.
HELPING HANDS: (Also known as H.A.N.D.S.) If you are in need of assistance with a minor home repair, please contact Don Kruse in the Parish Office at 683-0105 x 108. Should you wish to learn more about how to become active in the HANDS ministry, please contact Jim Stiegler.
WANTED: St. Columban Stories!
If you have stories to share we’d like to hear them. Photographs with or without stories are also welcome! Please e-mail your stories, and/or photos along with your name and day time phone or drop them off at the Parish Office. All photographs will be returned. St. Columban Stories from years gone by. We are in the process of collecting our Parish history. If you have a story to tell, photos to share, memorabilia to be photographed, etc., please contact Ruthy Trusler. All material(s) will be returned. Release forms will be available for those who will give permission to use any of their stories and photographs in an upcoming anniversary book.
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A Worshipping Community Since 1859
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St. Columban Parish is a Catholic community that follows the Word and Work of Jesus Christ through discipleship, stewardship, and fellowship. It is an understatement to say that our parish has grown significantly since the 1850s, when we were a mission church of St. Andrew in Milford. We have changed, as has the Church universal. Many though we are, we are one body in Christ. We reflect the plurality of our larger church community. Some of us have been here a long time; others have been here a short time. Like the Church throughout the world, we are many but one; like the image of St. Columban in our worship space, we are unfinished. “There is always more to be done – by a prophet, or a painter, or by a parish.”
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