Watch apologist Karlo Broussard of Catholic Answers as he considers our faith in light of themes from the Star Wars movies, offering evidence to show that the Holy Spirit is a Person, not an impersonal “force.”
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WHEN: Saturday, April 14th
Meet at 5:00pm Mass at St. Michael Catholic Church, Schererville
Dance to follow in gym from 6:00-10:00pm
FEE: $10 & Can of food/Household paper product for Good Samaritans
($10 includes pizza, snacks, and DJ)
Cash/Checks accepted at door — Checks payable to St. Michael Church
WAIVER: Permission form/waiver & payment will be collected at the door
NOTE: RSVP attendance to mzvyak@gmail.com by Sunday, April 8th
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CONGRATS TO OUR WINNERS:
$15,000 Laura Mazurkiewicz
$2,500 Chad Johnson
$1,500 Agnes Wiatr
$500 Ray Mahaffey
$500 Sheila Vanek
$500 Tim Bourget
$500 Dennis Wisner
$250 Dave Hinkel
$250 Brianne Gargas
$250 Donna Connor
$250 Mary Lefko
$250 John Lantz
$250 Mark Czazasty
$250 Robin Thiel
$250 Dave Hinkel
$150 Colleen Romeli
$150 Ruth Hensley
$150 Brenda Dumont
$150 Joyce Mullaney
$100 John Ancich
$100 Frank Koriol
$100 Thomas Ortega
$100 Jerry Pressner
$100 Linda Miller
$100 James Mullins
$100 Michael Woolsey
$100 Ruth Mary Palis
$100 Kyle Johnson
$100 Ronald Pyle
$100 Clyde Gercken
$100 PJ Klocek Family
$100 Mary Bokodi
$100 Shirley Arentz
$100 Jen Chiabai
$100 Ronald Hlad
$100 Mary Ketchmark
$100 Don Fancher
$100 Robert Giordano
$100 Lou Bufano, Jr.
$100 Veronica
$100 Braelyn LaMere
$100 Chuck Mauder
$100 Sherry Lazzaro
$100 Joel Vazquez
$100 Anthony Mancini
$100 Jacob Jakubowicz
$100 Chuck Hansen
$100 Wayne Adams
$100 Joe Gonino
$100 John Strantz
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Next time you want to visit the site just go to the site, click on Login in the Right Hand upper corner and you should be set to go.
The St. Michael Parish Project to repair our church’s water infiltration problems has begun.
The Our Lasting Legacy Fundraising Campaign is Funding our over $3 million project and the donations in that campaign are being closely monitored to ensure funding is on target to do the project, as designed, and within timing targets.
The General Contractor is Larson Danielson, with Tim Larson as our contact. The Architect is Entheos, and our contact is Kevin Stuckwisch and his site architect is Mark Prange.
Gary Krieps (773.805.2680) will be the “owner’s representative” carrying all of the interesting and not so interesting information regarding timing, costs, changes, and construction activities to Father Marty for informative continuity and authorization. No work will be authorized without a complete review and signature from Fr. Marty, for the duration of the project.
The official bidding for the contractors to do the work has been started and bids were due January 17 with some contractors asking for a 2 week extension. We recently met with over 40 contractors asking they make sure they follow our bidding requirements and timing. Some toured the work site to verify certain complex issues so all bidders have all of the information they might need.
We’ve recently learned the project can be done in a shorter schedule than the longstanding timeline of one year. We now are told the timeline will likely be starting immediately after Easter (4/1/2018) and be completed during later January of 2019. Of course this is now dependent on sub-contractor materials issues and the weather participating in our work. Of course this shorter time schedule places an additional burden on our very generous Our Lasting Legacy donors to continue and complete their donations on a timely basis.
The work includes extensive brick repair, the complete replacement of the beige colored EEFIS above the brick and below the roof with stone veneer matching the school stone, groundwater and downspout water collection, below ground waterproofing, and a completely new long lasting roof. The drainage and the roof will likely be done later in the timeline and when you see painting we will be getting close to the ending phases of the project.
To do the project, we will be closing the North West Parking lot for parking and make its use for all construction equipment, vehicles, materials and all other construction needs, for the entire project.
From time to time, you should expect to see construction equipment in the church. Our beautiful and irreplaceable Stained Glass windows will be removed, stored for the duration of the work and carefully replaced by experts.
Our wonderful church organ will be carefully protected by professionals and cleaned and tuned after the project is completed.
The landscaping around the perimeter will be removed and the draining system installed making access to the church change from time to time. The landscaping after the project is a separate project which will require many parishioners to become involved in the design meetings and the execution of this.
We expect the church to be available for normal liturgies and will carefully look at activities to keep the worship space available as often as possible.
In those areas where working and repair conditions warrant, certain normal entry and exit doors will be closed and blocked off, walkways bridged, certain church benches and chairs will be removed and other typically used spaces blocked off. The work schedule is designed to keep as much of the disturbance to a minimum while not creating delays and other problems for the contractors, which could cost our parish undo expenses.
At the end of each week the contractors will sweep up and remove all debris and construction tools and the sacristans will clean as well as possible for Saturday and Sunday events. In this area of the activity I will ask for your patience and respect as we try hard to minimize the impact on our worship space and events.
Imagine all of the activities at our church including large items like the many meetings, choir practice, school masses and the like, being impacted by this work. The work will be happening not only during regular liturgical events but remember the Festival, Christmas and many, many other events, so be patient and call the office or myself if you can help us through this very large project.
When the work is done, the church will receive a complete professional cleaning. This will include the floors, trusses, statuary, ductwork, piping, horizontal surfaces, windows, and upholstery.
This is the first of many communications we will put out so we can keep you informed. If you are looking for specific answers or want to see timelines and other construction issues we will get much of this on the web site for you to see. Fr. Marty, the Pastoral Council, and the Finance Council is interested in being very transparent in this project and again if you have any questions or comments, call the Parish Office or I and we will help answer your interests.
The next communication will update you on the bidding results and cost information and any other issues we learn about.
Gary Krieps
St. Michael Parish
Church Repair Project
Owner’s Representative