

News & Notes
Michelle Weaver from LPi, our bulletin printer, will be securing new ads for our church the week of May 22nd. It is the support of the business community that helps to make our church thrive. Please consider purchasing a print and/or digital ad as your participation makes our bulletin successful, and you attract customers!
Michelle Weaver
440-655-8987 | 800-477-4574 x6302
Remembering Our faithful departed
Please remember in prayer, Rita Spieker who departed us to be with the Lord on April 29, 2023.
Eternal rest grant unto her O Lord, and let your perpetual light shine upon her. May she rest in peace. Amen
Group Outing at Fifth Third Field
Mud Hens baseball is in full swing and it’s time to spend a summer evening
at the ballpark with family and friends.
Game time is 7:05pm on Thursday, July 6th vs. the Louisville Bats.
Ticket price is $11.
Order your tickets by visiting our website, gesutoledo.org. Select Welcome tab and scroll to Donate-online. Click on Mud Hens tickets and enter the total amount for
each ticket purchasing.
Deadline for ordering is June 22nd.
Tickets will be available for pick up at the parish office after June 28 th .
Questions? Call the parish office or email gesuofficemg@gmail.com.
PLAY BALL!!
Love children and want to make a difference in our corner of the world?
Christ Child Society of Toledo is looking for women to join its organization. Christ Child is dedicated to serving the needs of underserved children and youth—for the love of the Christ Child. Christ Child is an all-volunteer organization with more than 200 local members who donate over
10,000 hours annually. Christ Child’s largest program is Clothe-a-Child. Each year the organization purchases and distributes more than 2,000 new coats, hats, gloves, and books to children birth through eighth grade. Through the Layette Program, more than 1,200 layette/newborn care packages are distributed to underserved new moms in the fall and spring. Christ Child volunteers also tutor and offer library assistance at Rosary Cathedral, Gesu, Queen of Apostles School and Hope Learning Academy. Volunteers also teach classes for new and expectant parents at several local service agencies and assist with other programs including Angel Layettes and Theatre Vision. For more information on joining Christ Child, please visit www.christchildsocietyoftoledo.org or email christchildoftoledo@gmail.com. There will be an Advent Communal Penance Service at 7:00 PM at St. Pius on Wednesday, December 14th. Plan now to attend.
St. Pius X/Gesu Bread Team Looking for Additional Members
May I introduce the St. Benedict Bakers. This group currently meets twice a month at Gesu church's Loyola Hall kitchen to bake bread for distribution to Toledo's poor through Labre, our partner ministry at St Johns and St Ursula high schools. Both ministries are named after St. Benedict Joseph Labre, patron saint of the homeless, the poor, the unhoused. He wore the rags of a beggar, shared his food with the poor, and was filled with the love of God and neighbor.
Directly serving the poor is a hallmark of Christian life. Jesus teaches "whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” If you would like to join our team, even if it's just once or twice a year, you can participate in the joy of this shared life. In the words of Fr. Greg Boyle, SJ, speaking about his book, 'Tattoos on the Heart', we learn that "God ... is inviting us to the margins to create a kinship with those who are out there. That is the God we know in the deepest part of us. We know that God only wants for us, not from us. We don’t have to measure up; we don’t have to perform. In asking us to create a community of kinship, God is not asking something from us, because it is in that community that the joy is. The joy for us." Boyle continues, "We want to roll up our sleeves and be in kinship. It’s about exquisite mutuality, about relationship." But the blessings don't end with just the service we provide. According to Fr. Boyle, it's much more than that. "Service is the hallway that gets you to the ballroom, where there is the exclusive mutuality of joy, kinship. God doesn’t want anything from us. God just wants us to be in that ballroom. When it stops at service, there’s a barrier—the service providers and the service recipients. But truth be told, all of us are in need of healing. It is one of those things that join us together as a human family."
If you would like to help out, please contact St. Pius X parishioner Don Curtis to get added to the baking schedule. His email address is donald.curtis@gmail.com
GESU & ST. PIUS X
50+
Members of Gesu 50+ will meet Thursday, May 11, beginning with Mass at 11AM. Lunch will follow in the Sullivan Center with pizza, salad, dessert, and beverages at a cost of $6.00 per member. Melissa Miller, PT, a therapist with Balance & Mobility, will be our guest speaker. This should be another interesting and informative meeting. To assist us with ordering enough pizza, please RSVP by May 7th to Maggie Duger at 419- 882-8579 (home) or 419-261-0621(call/text).
MINISTRY OPPORTUNITIES
Eucharistic Minister, Usher, Sanctuary Guild (care of the altar linens.), MC, Server, collection counter, St. Vincent de Paul, Sunday Choir, Resurrection Choir, Giving tree, helping hands, bringing communion to homebound, outdoor grounds work, after Mass coffee and donuts are just a few!
Connect with Dianna to sign up! At 419-531-1421 or gesusec@gmail.com
New Mass Scheduled
4 pm Mass Saturday At Gesu
8 am Mass Sunday At St. Pius X
10 am Mass Sunday At Gesu
11:30 Mass Sunday At St. Pius X
Week Day Mass Times
8 am Monday Mass At St. Pius X
7 am Tuesday Mass At Gesu
8:30 am Wednesday Mass At St. Pius X - School Mass Only
5:30 pm Thursday Mass At St. Pius X
7 am Friday Mass At Gesu

Gesu’s 100th Anniversary Yearbook is available for purchase for $50.
Over 300 pages of Gesu history in pictures, stories and memories.
Call the rectory office to purchase one.
Gesu Catholic School
2045 Parkside Blvd
Toledo, OH 43607-1597
Phone: (419) 536 - 8932
Fax: (419) 531- 8932
Email: Babka@gesugreyhoundz.com
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 8 am - 3 pm
Gesu Catholic Church
2049 Parkside Blvd.
Toledo, OH 43607-1597
Phone: (419) 531-1421
Fax: (419) 531-0270
Email: Toledogesu@gmail.com
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 8 am - 4:30 pm

Gesu Sullivan Center
2049 Parkside Blvd.
Toledo, OH 43607-1597
Phone: (419) 531-1421
Fax: (419) 531-0270
Email: Gesusec@gmail.com
Office Hours: Mon - Fri 8 am - 4:30 pm
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