• Our gifts to the 2024 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal bear witness to God's love at work in our lives. Thank you to all those at our parish who have responded so generously to Archbishop Lucas' invitation to join him in the work of equipping disciples and living mercy. 

• To date, our parish has raised $22,471.00 towards our goal of $58,939.50 at St. Bernadette. $8,926.00 towards our goal of $16,095.99 at Holy Ghost. 

• Please prayerfully consider supporting this year’s Archbishop’s Annual Appeal.

• The St. Vincent de Paul Conference at St. Bernadette’s is working on our annual Christmas Project. We will be assisting 40 families in our community with Christmas gifts for the children and a family gift, along with a grocery voucher for food. 

• If you would like to adopt a family, please call Barb at 402-699-1434 or Rosary at 402-676-1557. 

• The tags will be on the trees on Thanksgiving weekend. St. Bernadette parishioners are extremely generous and helpful in fulfilling Christ’s mission to love Him and to serve His children through this project. We appreciate YOU and all that you do to support this work!

Magnificat-Omaha invites all area women to our Advent Brunch, December 7,  at 9:30 a.m. at St. Robert Bellarmine Church with guest speaker Lavinia Spirito, the founding teaching leader for the nationally distributed Catholic Way Bible Study series, as seen on EWTN, and Renewal Ministry Retreat Speaker. 

• Cost: $20. For Reservations, go to www.MagnificatOmaha.org or email magnificatomaha@gmail.com.

• Magnificat-Omaha is an archdiocesan-wide Catholic women’s organization focused on evangelization. 

• For more information, please contact Terri Aulner at 402-669-9024

The Holy Ghost Parish Office will close at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 27 and will reopen on Monday, Dec. 2.

Help support 50 years of Husker tradition at Holy Ghost. Fantastic food! Husker Fans! Insightful and interesting information! 

Our next Husker Night at Holy Ghost is this Thursday, Dec. 5!

• Doors open at 5 p.m. and our speakers start at 7 p.m. 

• Admission is $5 for kids and $10 for adults. 

• Food and drink are available for purchase (not included in admission fee). 

• Our guest speaker for Thursday, Dec. 5 is Adam Carriker. 

• Click here to see photos from our recent Husker Night at Holy Ghost.

• Grab your family and friends and join us at Don & Millie’s on Monday, Dec. 16

• Twenty percent (20%) of every dollar spent on great food and drink will go right back to our parish!

• Dine-in or carryout at 84th & “Q” Street location.

Upcoming Holy Ghost Women’s Club Events!

• Advent Angels: Nov. 30 tags will be hung at Holy Ghost. Bring gifts back with tag attached by Sunday, Dec. 15, to Holy Ghost.  We will sort items on Dec. 15 after 9:00 a.m. mass in the parish social hall at Holy Ghost. 

• Chicken Dinner: Friday, Jan. 10 at Holy Ghost. We need your delicious desserts!

• Meeting: Tuesday, Jan. 21 at 6:30 p.m. in Holy Ghost Social Hall. 

• Cinnamon Rolls:  Sunday, Jan. 26 after 9:00 a.m. mass in Holy Ghost Social Hall. 

Weekly Needs: $3,350.00

Collection: $3,372.00

YTD Needs: $63,650.00 

YTD Collection: $65,863.44 

Overage: $2,213.00      

Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 

7:00 a.m. + Peggy Steinauer

Friday, Nov. 22, 2024 

7:00 a.m. + Floyd East

Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024 

9:00 a.m. + Todd Gruidel

SUNDAY, DEC. 1 - 9:00 A.M.

Deacon: 

Sacristan: 

Lector:
EMHC:
Altar Servers: 

Gift Bearers: 

Greeters: 

Dorothy Blach, Jan Brinck (sister-in-law of Marita Grebl), Carmen Cogan, Becky English, Theresa Eubanks Schwartzer, Yvonne Fisher, Warren Hadley, Christine Haite, Donna Hansen, Cheryl Koziel (daughter of Jackie Peroutka), Cathy Longacre, Betty and Mike McMillan, Mark Mruz, Cooper Pofahl, Jon Ricci (nephew of Nellie Hadley), John Ripa, Hayden Sommer, Raymond Starks, Mary Townley, Donna Vaughn, Brian Walters, and Danny Watkins (brother of Brenda Tylkowski) 

Let us also remember in our prayers those who in care centers or homebound: 

Rick Becerra, Jean Buechler, Dee Clap, Patty Dworak, Jacob Fraser, Kim Hall, Dorothy Kazor, Joanne Leutzinger, Pat Makara, Darlene McKinley, Janet Nicholas, Dolores Noonan, & Rita Tomes

Please help support St. Bernadette Home and School at these upcoming Family Food Nights. Please mention St. Bernadette when ordering your meals. 

• First Tuesday of every month Don & Millie's - Bellevue, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. 

• Nov. 21 at McDonald's - LaVista from 4 to 8 p.m. 

• Dec. 3 at Texas Roadhouse - Shadow Lake from 4 to 8 p.m. 

The Altar Society Annual Cookie Walk & Raffle is back. 

• It will be held on Dec. 14 -15 after all Masses. Be watching for more details. There will be a variety of cookies, available to purchase for your Holiday Events! Something to please everyone’s sweet tooth! 

• The Raffle will have fabulous items to buy. Come check out these items in the social hall after all Masses. 

How would you like to bless another family this year with something as simple as prayers? I am looking for parishioners to pray for Parish Religious Education, PRE, families. These families will be learning about the seven sacraments this year and some of them will even have family members making their First Reconciliation/ Communion or Confirmation. There is a basket on the table at the back of church. Please pick a card and pray for this family through our PRE year, now through April. What a wonderful way to share God’s goodness with others…prayer.

Spending Time with the Saints

This year, during our Wednesday evening Family Classes for Religious Education (PRE), we decided to add something new. During the months of September, October, November, February, March, and April, we will be doing Saints and S'mores! 

• At our Family Classes during these months, we will do our closing prayer acknowledging and praying to certain Saints and then enjoying S'mores! 

• For each of these 6 classes, we will need graham crackers, marshmallows, and chocolate bars. If you would like to donate to this part of our program to offset the costs of these items…it would greatly appreciated. 

• Please contact Sue Reed in the Parish Office or put your donation in an envelope labeled S'mores and place it in the weekly collection basket. Thank you for being supportive of this wonderful program.

Boxes of Joy!

The Parish Religious Education (PRE) and St Bernadette School students are working together once again this year to fill Boxes of Joy. We will fill these boxes with goodies and then they will be distributed to children in Guatemala, Dominican Republic, and Malawi. We want them to have a very Merry Christmas. There will be a list in the back of church on the bulletin board, please help us out and donate some items. A collection box will be in the back as well. Also, it is $9.00 per box to mail so a monetary donation is also greatly appreciated. Contact Sue Reed in the Parish Office for more information.

This year we will once again be doing the Boxes of Joy. Collection of items will be in September and October. If you would like to shop for some items now, that would be great. We will have a collection basket in the back of the Church. 

A couple of "Boxes of Joy" team members went on a mission trip, and below are some of the items they noticed the children really liked: 

• Playing cards, card games (UNO, GO FISH, etc.)

• Crochet hooks and yarn, 

• Craft items or kits, (beads, pipe cleaners, bracelet string)

• Small playing balls, (can be deflated) 

• Matchbox cars

• Lego sets 

• Solar digital watches 

• Calculators. 

Remember that we can not include liquid of any kind in these boxes. 

Continue to watch for more Boxes of Joy information!

We want to give a heartfelt thank you to all the Legion of Mary Legionnaires and the Junior Legionnaires for their help at the Omaha Nursing And Rehabilitation Center. 

• The residents have enjoyed bingo twice a week and the rosary on Tuesday mornings. 

• The Junior legion kids helped with games and crafts and served ice cream sodas to the residents. 

• These volunteers also provided manicures and one-on-one visits with the residents. 

• We also want to thank Fr. Phil Flott, and Deacon Gary Krupa, Deacon Al Aulner and Deacon Tom Schulte for Mass and communion services. Their lives have been enriched spiritually and emotionally. 

Thank you and God Bless you! Omaha Nursing Home

All 3rd through 8th graders of St. Bernadette are invited to join our Junior Legion of Mary group. The Legion of Mary is a unique opportunity to increase one's love of God through devotion to our Blessed Mother through prayer and good deeds. Meetings are Tuesdays at school in Room 206, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. For more information, call or text Patty Pogge at (402) 681-7331.

Our prayer shawl ministry has been busy providing a lot of prayer shawls to parishioners and their families, especially those who have lost a loved one. This is great! We are however in need of more prayer shawls.

If you knit or crochet or would like to learn, please join us on the second Friday of the month from 1 to 3 p.m. in the faculty lounge. We can provide instructions, tools and yarn.

If you knit or crochet but don't want to get involved with a commitment to a meeting -- we would welcome any prayer shawls you would like to make. Everyone who receives one is so appreciative. Please contact Mary Benak at 402-733-8451 or via email at mbenak@cox.net if you are interested. 

Join us for Coffee and sweet treats after the 8:00 a.m. Mass every second  Thursday of the month. 

The prayer line offers an opportunity to pray for requested special prayers promptly for fellow parishioners, family and friends.  There is much need for prayer for many different reasons. Special prayers for our Military are also always needed. Please consider becoming part of the Prayer Line Ministry. Please call Betty Rezek at 402-734-2531 or Patty Pogge at 402-733-8234 to request instant prayer for those in need. 

The Rosary at 4:20 p.m. before the 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday's will be for the intention of vocations. We are praying the patriotic rosary every Monday night at 6:30 p.m. in the church. We are praying for the conversion of our country. 

We will be praying our Parish Rosary for world peace, the peace our nation needs for the very survival which is now dying for lack thereof. We pray for people in Ukraine and those effected by war. We will be praying on Monday night at 6:30 p.m. in the church. 

- The Legion of Mary, Holy Ghost & St. Bernadette Parish Family

Weekly Needs: $13,585.00 

Collection: $12,328.33

YTD Needs: $253,065.00

YTD Collection: $239,185.28

Shortage: $13,879.72 

Cheryl Adamson, Annabelle Berrera, Rick Becerra, Elle Burgess, Alfonso Calderon, Leonardo Clymer, Kathi Ciurej, John Cunningham, Charlotte & Dominic Cullenward, Donna Dailey, Kathleen Devlin, Mike Digilio, Kelly Dix, Margaret Eipperle, Norma Flores, Juanice Furmanski, Louise LaFramboise, Adam Gutierrez, Josephine Gutierrez, Michelle Gutierrez, Lisa Hargis, Jeanette Hauptman, Barbara Jansen, Margie Janssen, Carol Johnson, Carol Jura, Olga Kanne, Phyllis Knicky, Connie Kleber, Donna Kubiak, Donna Krysl, John Kwapnioski, Terry Lampe, Jan Lampe, Michael Macdonald, Marge Monaco, Mark Maeder, Steve Maguire, Fr. Robert Matya, Edwin Maslonka, Lisa Meier, Carol McDaniel, Leonard Meier, The Meyer Family, Joel Rivera, Blanche Murphy, Charles Murphy, Sue Novotny, Maryn Page, Ellen Pankievicz, Ella Peters, Jonathan Perez, Rita Perito, Keelan Phillips, Joe Pitman, Jennifer Pryjmak, Jann Reinig, Betty Rodgers, Jodi Ronnfeldt, Joyce Salvatori, Kelly Burkhardt Sheard, Fred Sokol, JoAnn Simoens, Debbie Schumacher, Isabella Sterba, Pam Stein, David Virgilito, Hope Wicken, Mark White, Michael Winter, Claire Winter, Theresa Yost, and Annabella Zyla.