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From the Principal2019 RegistrationParish Organizations· American Heritage Girls: Epiphany Troop AshleyHarcharik AHG@epiphanyparish.com· Bereavement Ministry: Help in time of SorrowDear Epiphany School Families, Members of theParish, and other Friends,The decision on where to send your children toschool perhaps may be one of life’s most important; the advantages of a Catholic educa!on arecentered in our emphasis on the teaching of JesusChrist. As I have said many !mes, everything wedo, all of our programs and all of our efforts mustkeep this as our primary focus.There are advantages that go beyond the parochial; Catholic schools are known for their rigorousacademic standards and unmatched prepara!on for future educa!onpursuits. Other advantages, as I see them, are discussed below;ATMOSPHERECatholic schools are known for providing a social atmosphere that isconducive to learning and personal growth. Religion classes and programs like Steps-To-Respect and Character Educa!on promote posi!vesocial interac!on at Epiphany Catholic School. Our school combinesCatholic tradi!on (prayer, Mass and discipline) with modern, second tonone, facili!es and an ar!culated, demanding Pre-8 curriculum. TheCatechesis of the Good Shepherd program provides our children theopportunity to develop a closer rela!on with the Lord; we pray this toowill assist our children to act like saints.ACADEMICSEpiphany Catholic School has strict academic standards with a curriculum that allows for the differen!ated instruc!on of our students. Ourstudents have the opportunity to take high school Algebra and Geometry at Epiphany in our accelerated junior high Math curriculum. Instruc!on in the Spanish language begins for all students in Kindergarten.DISCIPLINECatholic schools historically maintain a strict policy of discipline. Wehope our policies teach our children to be responsible for their own behavior and encourage a high level of maturity. Epiphany Catholic Schoolstudents are required to adhere to a uniform dress code that promotesa sense of community in our buildings.VALUESBesides the emphasis on our faith, our values and the transmission ofthese to our students in a tremendous advantage of a Catholic educa!on. Catholic schools combine a Christ-centered educa!on with a collegial, suppor!ve community atmosphere.I ask that you prayerfully consider our school for your children’s educa!on. Please, if there are any ques!ons and/or concerns that you mayhave, contact me. We are always willing to show you our school and tosit down and discuss why we believe that Epiphany Catholic School isthe right educa!onal choice for your family. —Mike Lootensbereavement@epiphanyparish.com· Boy Scouts: Epiphany Pack 25, Tim Hendrickson824-7038 epiphany.pack25@gmail.com· Charismatic Prayer Group: Deacon Michael An454-9409 an.106riss@yahoo.com· Elizabeth Ministry: Women’s Practical & SpiritualSupport Amanda Wesselmann 765-412-6124elizabethministry@epiphanyparish.com· Faith in Action: Volunteer Support for Area SeniorsSandy Holcomb sandyonline@hotmail.com· Funeral Committee: Reception following FuneralsMaggie Veselack 452-1886· Girl Scouts: Kim Taber, kataber29@gmail.com· Hospitality Committee: Receptions following MassKaren Bordewick hospitality@epiphanyparish.com· Knights of Columbus: Men’s Fraternal & Service OrgMatt Sanders@kofc6498.org or 452-0035· Natural Family Planning Teaches Fertility Awareness· Sympto-thermal method: Elizabeth Rariden287-8069liz.rariden@gmail.com· Sympto-thermal method: Michelle Koetters (815) 954-9088mkoetters@yahoo.com· Creighton Model: Erica Miller 661-6060Erica.L.Miller2@osfhealthcare.org· Outreach (& Financial Planning): Orlando Lopezoutreach@epiphanyparish.com· Perpetual Adoration: Schedules Chapel AdorersLynFedden 824-3443 adoration@epiphanyparish.com· Parish Prayer Chain: Send prayer requests to office or.prayerchain@epiphanyparish.com· Sanctity of Life Committee: Promotes Human DignityRobin Postonepiphanyparish.sanctityoflife@gmail.com· Schoenstatt A Marian Movement in the Church Tim &Molly Olsen 314-517-4721 olsen101202@yahoo.com· Servants of the Shepherd: Adoration & FellowshipCathy Nalewajka 830-6722 cjnalew@comcast.net· Troops of Saint George: Epiphany Troop JackMaggiore 630-632-4462 jamagg2@gmail.com· Uncoupled Catholics: Social & Service FellowshipAngie Eilers 830-8215 uncoupled@epiphanyparish.com· Welcome Team: Welcome & Hospitality to VisitorsJean Lewis welcome@epiphanyparish.com· Women's Fellowship & Service: Sharon Sweeney530-5715 smsween@ilstu.edu· Young Adults (21-35) David and Rachel Tayloryoungadults@epiphanyparish.com

Saint John Paul IIPerpetual EucharisticAdoration ChapelPlease consider commi!ng to anhour, or sharing an hour withfriends.Mondays 2:00pm-3:00pmThank you to all those serving in thechapel for your dedica"on and commitment, it is greatly appreciated.Lyn Fedden, Coordinator, 824-3443,adora"on@epiphanyparish.comFeast of theHoly Family -December 30,2018Do you have afriend or family member who iscalled to serve the family of the Lordand share the Father’s love as apriest, sister or brother? Call Fr. Timothy Hepner, (309) 671-1550, oremail fr hepner@cdop.org.Intercession: For all Catholic families, that they will esteem the graceof each child’s voca"on and prayerfully encourage their children toconsider being a priest or religioussister or brother, we pray to theLord.Page 6Community NewssUNCOUPLED CATHOLICSHOST FAMILIES NEEDEDLooking for a way to meet other single,divorced or widowed Catholics for funand fellowship; then this is the group foryou! January 18 (Friday) We're having agame night at Epiphany Catholic Church,1000 E College, Normal, from 6-9 pm.Bring a favorite game or a snack toshare, if you wish. We'll provide somedrinks. January 19 (Saturday) Holy Trinity/Historic St. Patrick's is hos"ng a trivia night, from 7-9:30 pm. Interested inbeing part of a "team" for this event?Call or text Renee at 309-310-5983 byJanuary 12, for further informa"on.Epiphany Parish is looking for 3 familiesto host NET Retreat leaders in March,2019. Housing is needed from FridayMarch 15 un"l Sunday March 18 whilethey lead a Confirma"on retreat for ourlocal Catholic grade schools and CCDprograms. If you are interested or wouldlike more info, please contact Karen:karen.overby@epiphanyschools.org.JOIN THE WELCOME TEAMDo you have a great smile and a passionto make others feel welcome at ourmasses? Would you like to get more involved in our parish but don’t have a lotof extra "me to commit? The WelcomeTeam may be the perfect opportunityfor you! Welcome Team members areassigned to specific masses based ontheir schedules and preferences. Theseambassadors greet guests and parishioners, distribute bulle"ns, and answerbasic ques"ons. If you are interested injoining this team, please contact JeanLewis at welcome@epiphanyparish.comto a&end an orienta"on session or askfurther ques"ons. Thanks for your considera"on!NATURAL FAMILY PLANNINGNatural Family Planning is a great way formarried couples to be&er understandtheir fer"lity to help with family planning. Whether you’re newly engaged orhave been married for years, we encourage you to a&end our three-class serieson the Couple to Couple League’s Sympto-Thermal Method of Natural FamilyPlanning. This method is not the outdated calendar or rhythm method. Coupleswho a&end our class will learn to recognize the no"ceable signs of fer"lity towork with God in the natural way Hedesigned our bodies to either achieve oravoid pregnancy. It’s natural, safe, effec"ve, and truly empowering. Our nextclass series is from 3:15-5:15 p.m. January 13, February 10, and March 10 inEpiphany’s Cenacle Room. If you haveany ques"ons, contact Michelle Koe&ersat mkoe&ers@yahoo.com. Visit ccli.orgto register.Supporting VocationsEve Cuesta will receive theVocations Crucifix and Chalicenext Sunday, January 6, at the5:30 Mass.If you or yourfamily wouldlike to receivethe Vocationsitems, pleasecall BobSchopp at 888-9696 (TheDwellingPlace) or theEpiphanyChurch officeat 452-2585to schedule aweekend.2018 Contribution and Tuition Payment Statements

and NotesMARCFIRSTPROGRAMHOSTRECONNECT!HOMEMarcfirst Host Home Program assistsindividuals with developmental disabili-They are children of God!We welcome our newlyBaptized!Owen Neil Strong- infant son ofTyler Strong and Mary O'Meara es in McLean County with finding ahome with a Host Home Provider. HostHomes are designed to encourage independence in a family se%ng, while providers are compensated for their support. We are looking for individuals, andfamilies that are would be willing to opentheir homes to an adult with a developmental disability. If you would like tolearn more, please contact Elaina VonQualen at Marcfirst 451-8888 ext. 290.CHICAGO MARCH FOR LIFEThe Chicago March For Life is on Sunday,January 13 from 2-4 pm beginning at theFederal Plaza downtown. If you wouldlike to be on the bus that leaves fromISU's Newman Center at 7:40 am thatmorning, you can register no later thanJanuary 7 at www.cdop.org. You can alsocall the Office of Evangeliza on and FaithForma on at 309-671-1550. The cost is25.00 for non college students who are18 years or older and 10.00 for currentcollege students. It includes a con nentalbreakfast on the bus, lunch a"er a 10:15am mass in Chicago, and dinner at St.Mary's in Pon ac. For great ar cles concerning life issues, check out our pro-lifeblog at www.epiphanyparish.com.Visits to the Aged & InfirmIf you would like a visit from Fr.Eric, Fr. Joe, or one of the Deacons,or a Eucharis c Minister, pleasecontact the parish office, or one ofus directly. Phone numbers areunder the staff lis ng. If you are afamily member, please let us knowif a loved one needs pastoral care.Lucas Dean Biddle- infant son ofRyan and Crystal BiddleAs you reconnect withfamily over Christmas,remember to reconnectwith us as well. CentralCatholic Alumni, pleaseregister and create profiles at our Alumni Website,alumni.blmcchs.org, and joinnearly 500 Saints Familymembers who have already done so. Connectwith classmates and teammates andhelp us keep up with all of the important things that are happening inyour life. A"er you create your profile,challenge your fellow Alumni to create aprofile as well!

Page 8Dear Epiphany Parishionersand Friends,I am happy to introduce you tothe Prayer Quilt Ministry, andsee if there are quilters/sewers who are interested inpar!cipa!ng. For genera!ons,patchwork quilts have been avisible act of love. Pieced together from bits and pieces ofmaterial, they represent the handiwork and devo!on of the quilter - and a deep and comfor!ng connec!on with the person they're presented to.In this Ministry, the quilt is a visible act of prayer.It's made not just with ar!stry but with purpose; notjust with fabric but with prayer. From the !me thefabric is purchased to the !me the finished quilt isgiven away, a prayer quilt is prayed over by scoresof people, from the person who cuts the fabric tothe person who inserts the !es.A heavy thread is used to take s!tches through thequilt layers, and the ends are le# free to be !edwith a square knot. As each knot is !ed, a silentprayer is offered for someone in need – someonewho has asked us to pray for them. The quilt is thengiven to that person. 3 Special Rules apply withPrayer Quilts:·The goal is to encourage and involve as manypeople as possible to par!cipate in the prayereffort, not merely to make and give away quilts.·Before tying a prayer quilt for an individual, thatperson must have agreed to accept the gi# ofprayer in the form of a quilt·No payment can ever be accepted for a prayerquilt.Discernment for this Ministry is now underway.Quilters/sewers needed but not required skill to bea part of this group!Ques!ons/interest?Contact: Karen Bordewick, kbordewick@hotmail.comor 530-7425Page 8Priest’s battlewith terminalcancer serves ashis ‘last homily’.By Christopher White, CRUX, December 22, 2018From his perch on KStreet at the CatholicInforma!onCenter(CIC), Father Arne Panula shepherded someof the na!on’s powerbrokers into the Catholic Church. Yet the o#quiet, cerebral OpusDei priest, who diedlast year a#er a longand public ba&le withcancer, is rememberedby those closest to himnot for his influen!alconnec!ons, but for hisselfless and !relesssacrificial work behindthe scenes. In the final months of his illness, noted author and cultural commentator Mary Eberstadt spent!me with her long-!me friend, chronicling his thoughtson everything from classical music to the clerical sexualabuse crisis.Crux: You spent more !me with Father Arne than arguably anyone else in those final months. What did youlearn about him that you didn’t know before?Eberstadt: Like many other friends who lined up to visit, Iwas struck, first, by the overwhelming joy with whichFather Arne raced to the finish line. That was one unexpected lesson of our last talks together. He was luminousthroughout every single conversa!on - jocular, focused,animated - as if the death cells detona!ng inside himwere somehow conver!ng instead into a glowing energysource.He also laughed more than once about the unlikelinessof this book project, which he saw in manuscript formright before he died (as explained in the Introduc!on,the backstory to The Last Homily is proof posi!ve thatProvidence has a droll side).

These conversa!ons were also absorbing lessons inbooks and ideas, of course. The range of Father Arne’smind can be glimpsed in the footnotes, which I addedlater so that readers could follow up on his abundantreferences.On a more subterranean stratum, conversing in thoseclosing months taught one more and most importantlesson. It shocked me into apprehending as never beforewhat sanc!ty might look like.Catholics are taught that all love is sacrificial. We some!mes see the truth of that teaching play out in our ownlives. But sacrificial, I came to understand, needn’t be adour word! The example set by Father Arne’s dying revealed a deeper reality: Self-sacrifice, done right, is anact of joy. In some way that passes understanding (atleast mine), the two are joined at the root.I had never seen that truth embodied as formidably as inthe example of Father Arne.It’s been over a year since he died. What’s his legacy toyou?In a sentence: Holiness is possible a er all.That’s one take. I wanted the book to include others, sothere’s an Appendix in which names both known andunknown share their own thoughts about Father Arne’swork. All of these stories are inspira!onal. Some are intensely moving. Contributors range from anonymousindividuals to na!onally known figures. These includeArthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Ins!tute; Hadley Arkes, renowned professor of cons!tu!onal law, who was brought into the Catholic Churchthrough the agency of Father Arne; and other men andwomen of note (including my interlocutor here at Crux!).Why, in your view, would someone - especially an individual without any religious convic!ons - seek to readand reflect on the thoughts of a dying priest?Death has a neat way of making ordinary preoccupa!onsand divisions superfluous. Throughout his last months, asin his ministry, Father Arne focused on profound and elemental ques!ons inescapable for all of us, whatever wethink (or think we think) about religion or anything else.Who am I? Why am I here? How can I find love? What’sthe recipe for leading a good life? Where and how can Ibest help others?These are just a few of the eternal vexa!ons to whichFather Arne brought dis!lled wisdom and wit, deliveredwith infec!ous good cheer.Montaigne, following Cicero, said that to philosophizewas to learn how to die. Si'ng with Father Arne duringhis hospice !me demonstrated repeatedly that livingwell and dying well are indis!nguishable.We’re living in a !me where the clerical sexual abusecrisis in this country has re-emerged and it’s arguablythe worst crisis the Catholic Church has faced since theProtestant Reforma!on. How do you think Father Arnewould approach it?Our conversa!ons turned a couple of !mes to the related priestly sex scandals of 2002. I’ll extrapolate fromwhat he said there.He a*ributed the “Long Lent” of 2002 to lack of religiousdiscipline; the failure of religious men and women to liveas religious; the infiltra!on of erroneous ideas rooted inpsychiatry; and the !me of “great confusion,” ushered induring the 1960s and 1970s.He also said: “With young priests, Ialways tell them: you’re public enemy number one for the devil. Ifyou’re a force for the good, you’redefinitely on his radar screen.”The closing contribu!on in the Ap- “With young priests, I alwayspendix comes from Peter Thiel, Sili- tell them: you’re public enecon Valley entrepreneur and found- my number one for the devil.er of PayPal. He and Father Arne If you’re a force for the good,enjoyed an intellectual friendship you’re definitely on his radar In The Last Homily, Father Arnestretching back over decades, first screen.”weighs in on a wide-range of topforged when Father Arne was aics, from da!ng to metaphysics toyoung chaplain on the Stanford Uniaddic!on and depression. How is aversity campus and Peter Thiel was an undergraduate.celibate priest, in your view, able to expertly commandFrom different perspec!ves, they found themselves unitsuch a range of issues?ed against the an!nomian mantra of “Hey hey, ho ho,Just as Shakespeare didn’t need to be a woman or a pauWestern Civ has got to go!” They remained in ongoingper or a sprite to write such characters into immortalconversa!on and philosophical comradeship un!l Fatherexistence, great empaths - like Father Arne - seem able inArne’s death.some similar way to “read” people across the spectrum.

Continued from page 4PhiladelphiaInquirer,which found that morethan 130 U.S. bishops have been accused of failing torespond adequately to clerical sexual misconduct—50 ofthem a!er the adop"on of the 2002 Dallas Charter forthe Protec"on of Children and Young People.Finally, we saw a mee"ng of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that opened with an announcement that theVa"can had determined that the proposals under discussion by the U.S. bishops, which the Holy See had receivedonly days earlier, had a number of problems that meantthey could not be put to a vote. Instead, the U.S. bishopsdiscussed those proposals and others, but decisions onthem were held in abeyance un"l a!er the upcomingFebruary 2019 Va"can mee"ng of all episcopal conference presidents from around the world so that furtherac"on could be informed by listening to the experiencesof these bishops from different cultures and backgrounds.In reac"on to this turn of events, Cardinal Cupich, amember of the organizing commi ee for the FebruaryVa"can mee"ng, noted that “It is clear that the Holy Seerecognizes the urgency of this issue, and is placing greatimportance on the February mee"ng, understanding thatthe present crisis is not limited to one or a few countries,but that it is a watershed moment for the universalChurch.”The bishops gathered in Bal"more had some frui%ul discussions but came to no real conclusions, leaving manyto wonder why so many bishops seemed more concerned with their rights and privileges than with theirresponsibili"es, and why, despite much talk of the needfor fraternal correc"on, several bishops who covered upclerical sexual abuse and denied jus"ce to vic"ms a ended the mee"ng and even spoke to the assembly.American Catholics arrive at this moment with anguishin our hearts for the vic!ms and survivors of sexualabuse, and anger at our leaders, who we trusted to prevent these horrific crimes, and expected to live by thetruths of our faith. The crisis has eroded trust in ourbishops and damaged their credibility as moral leaders.As we try to think through a path forward in response tothis crisis, answers are beginning t

Dec 30, 2018 · Malone ’s failure to remove abusive priests from ministry and efforts to cover up the scope of abuse in his diocese, as well as a major joint in-vesgaon by the Boston Globe and the Continued on page 10 Kim Daniels is the As-sociate Director of the Ini!ave on Cathol