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1 416 SOUTH BROADWAY SCOTTDALE, PA A Pennsylvania Charitable Trust A Parish of the Diocese of Greensburg December 2, 2018 First Sunday of Advent Second THE PARTNER PARISH PASTORAL CENTER 416 South Broadway Scottdale, PA Phone: / Fax: St John the Baptist Hall: St Joseph Hall: PARISH STAFF Rev. Andrew M. Kawecki... Pastor/Administrator Residence akawecki@dioceseofgreensburg.org Caroline Stynchula.Parish Secretary/Bulletin Editor ...cnstynchula@dioceseofgreensburg.org Chris Whoric... Finance Secretary .dwhoric@dioceseofgreensburg.org Dianne Sutton...Faith Formation/RCIA ...dsutton@dioceseofgreensburg.org James Jacquillard...Music Director jjacquillard@dioceseofgreensburg.org Bill Thompson.. Maintenance wthompson@dioceseofgreensburg.org OFFICE HOURS Monday Friday:... 9:00 AM 3:30 PM Closed Daily... Noon 1:00 PM Charity Outreach ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PRE-K PROGRAM Early Childhood 3 4 years old Bonnie Sandusky..Teacher Evelyn Connors Pre-School Phone LITURGICAL SCHEDULE Weekday Masses Monday, Tuesday... 8:30 AM (SJE) Wednesday, Friday... 8:30 AM (SJBS) Weekend Masses Saturday Vigil... 4:00 PM (SJBS) Sunday... 8:30 AM (SJE) Sunday... 10:30 AM (SJBS) Holy Days of Obligation Holy Day Vigil... 6:00 PM (SJE) Holy Day... 6:00 PM (SJBS) SACRAMENTS Sacrament of Reconciliation: Daily before / after Mass and by appt. Saturday: 3:30 4:00 PM (SJBS) Sunday: 8:00 8:30 AM (SJE) Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament & Benediction: All are welcome to attend Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament after 8:30 AM Mass Tuesdays at (SJE) until concluding at 10:00 AM with Benediction. Sacrament of Baptism: Baptism is celebrated at Sunday Eucharist. To arrange a date and instructions for the Sacrament please call the Parish Office, Sacrament of Marriage: Arrangements can be made by calling the office at least one year in advance. RCIA/Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults: Those interested in learning about becoming a member of the Catholic Faith contact Parish Office, Sponsors for Sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation are required to provide a certificate of eligibility if they are not a member of our Partner Parish. To be a sponsor, you must be Baptized and Confirmed. Any parishioner needing a certificate of eligibility to be a sponsor for another parish is required to personally visit the Pastoral Center to obtain a certificate at our office during business hours. NEW MEMBERS If you wish to join the faith community of the Partner Parish of St. John the Baptist and St. Joseph please contact the Pastoral Center.

2 FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT December 2, 2018 ~ First Sunday of Advent Page 2 T W G Today s Readings

PARTNER PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS St John & St Joseph Partner Parish Cash Bash will be held this year on January 26, 2019.

members would like to buy some. They also make great Christmas Gifts!

PRE SCHOOL NEWS TEACHER BONNIE SANDUSKY 724-562-3336 TEACHER AIDE EVELYN CONNORS Charity Outreach 724-217 6259 Charity Outreach

Joseph Ladies Society is having their Christmas party Wednesday Dec. 12 in the school hall. Hors d oeuvres at 5:30, dinner at 6 p.

of the Word, where the Sunday s readings are explained to them on their level. It is truly a wonderful experience for them.

John the Baptist Social Hall, from 9:00am to 12:00pm.

Santa will be there for photo opportunities as well!! Refreshments provided, All are welcome!! Movie Night at St.

3 PARTNER PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS St John & St Joseph Partner Parish Cash Bash will be held this year on January 26, Since Thanksgiving and Christmas are right around the corner, why not take some tickets and see if any of your friends or family members would like to buy some. They also make great Christmas Gifts! If you would like any, please contact the Pastoral Center, Jason Taft, Diane Figg or June Morrocco. PRE SCHOOL NEWS TEACHER BONNIE SANDUSKY TEACHER AIDE EVELYN CONNORS Charity Outreach Charity Outreach will be open the following dates: Dec. 4th Dec. 14th 3:00pm - 5:00pm 10:30am - 12:30pm St. Joseph Ladies Society is having their Christmas party Wednesday Dec. 12 in the school hall. Hors d oeuvres at 5:30, dinner at 6 p.m. Cost $12 for members and $17 for guests. Menu: choice of stuffed chicken breast or stuffed pork chop. Reservations by Dec. 4 to Barbara Shemo at Every Sunday at 10:30 Mass in the Part ner Parish, your youngsters have an opportunity to participate in the Children s Liturgy of the Word, where the Sunday s readings are explained to them on their level. It is truly a wonderful experience for them. So, parents, send them to experience the Love of God! Join us for Breakfast with Santa on December 9th at St. John the Baptist Social Hall, from 9:00am to 12:00pm. The menu will include: Pancakes, Sausage, & Eggs and the cost is $6 per person. Santa will be there for photo opportunities as well!! Refreshments provided, All are welcome!! Movie Night at St. Joseph s Hall Decmeber 2 from 3:00pm to 6:00pm! "30 Days Of Giving" Our Partner Parish of St John & St Joseph will be participating in the "30 Days Of Giving" What better way to prepare for Christmas then to participate in this. Each day a gift, scripture and Parish event or prayer request are listed. All gifts, except for Christmas Day, will be used at Charity Outreach. All gifts can be left in the back of each church and will be given to Charity Outreach. Please consider doing this wonderful gift idea to benefit Charity Outreach.

December 8-9, 2018 Vigil for Immaculate Conception SJE 6:00pm Rudnik V Lesniowski C Konieczny* D Figg T Stepanic Immaculate Conception SJBS 10:00am P Ware E Tiedman D Kneppers*, D Waters T Tiedman

4 Generations of Faith Our Next Session of GOF will be on Sunday, December 9th from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM At St. John s School. Our theme will be: Humbleness on the Journey Poverty We will be helping Charity Outreach this month, please be sure to bring an item to be donated! Don t forget your covered dish! December 8-9, 2018 Vigil for Immaculate Conception SJE 6:00pm Rudnik V Lesniowski C Konieczny* D Figg T Stepanic Immaculate Conception SJBS 10:00am P Ware E Tiedman D Kneppers*, D Waters T Tiedman Morrocco Second Sunday of Advent 4:00 PM D Sebeck Domurat Knepper* Farrah T Sebeck Morrocco Homemade Hard Tack Candy for sale, $5 a bag in either fruit or spice. Call or :30 AM S Konieczny M Banaszak L Banaszak, C Bradley S Skowronek F Rudnik 10:30 AM P Ware E Tiedman Opalinski* E Zylka T Tiedman C Sandusky Our Lady of Fatima Pilgrim Statue Dec. 9 Dec.16 Dec. 16 Dec 23 Dec. 23 Dec. 31 Sue Kite Donna Kneppers Parish PLEASE NOTE: If you or your loved one are homebound and wish to receive Communion, please call the Pastoral Center, Also, if a member is in the hospital, we have no way of knowing unless the family notifies us. We receive a few Clergy Calls from the hospital...but that does not cover everyone. *****IF ANY EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS ARE WILLING TO HELP VISIT THE HOMEBOUND, PLEASE CALL JEAN DOMUROT AT OR THE PASTORAL OFFICE. December 2 3:00-6:00pm Youth Group Movie 12:30pm CDA Christmas Party December 3 6:30pm Worship Meeting December 4 3:00-5:00pm Charity Outreach 6:00-7:30pm Play Practice December 6 6-7:30pm Play Practice 6:30 pm Anointing Service-St John December 7 6pm Vigil for Immaculate Con ception St. Joseph December 8 10am Immaculate Conception- St. John

This time of prayer and path of penance that is so powerful, rich and intense, endeavors to give us a renewed impetus to truly welcome the message of the One who was incarnated for us.

5 WORDS FROM OUR PASTOR. F or us Catholics, the new Liturgical Year commences with the first Sunday of Advent. In this new liturgical year, the Church not only wishes to indicate the beginning of a period, but the beginning of a renewed commitment to the faith by all those who follow Christ, the Lord. This time of prayer and path of penance that is so powerful, rich and intense, endeavors to give us a renewed impetus to truly welcome the message of the One who was incarnated for us. In fact, the entire Liturgy of the Advent Season, will spur us to an awakening in our Christian life and will put us in a vigilant disposition, to wait for Our Lord Jesus who is coming. Pope Benedict the XVI once said: Awaken! Remember that God comes! Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but today, now! The one true God, "the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob", is not a God who is there in Heaven, unconcerned with us and our history, but he is the-god-who-comes. The Season of Advent is therefore a season of vigilant waiting, that prepares us to welcome the mystery of the Word Incarnate, who will give the Light to the womb of the Virgin Mary, but essentially this time prepares us not only to welcome this great event but to incarnate it in our lives. We could say that the true light enters the world through the immaculate womb of Mary but it does not stay there. On the contrary, this light flows out into our dark, obscure, sinful lives to illuminate them, so that we can become the light that illuminates the world. For this reason, let us live this time of waiting not only to celebrate a historical memory but to repeat this memory in our lives and in the service of others. To wait for the Lord who comes, means to wait and to watch so that the Word of Love enters inside us and focuses us every day of our lives. As St. John Henry Newman reminded us in a homily for the Advent Season: Advent is a time of waiting, it is a time of joy because the coming of Christ is not only a gift of grace and salvation but it is also a time of commitment because it motivates us to live the present as a time of responsibility and vigilance. This vigilance means the necessity, the urgency of an industrious, living wait. To make all this happen, then we need to wake up, as we are warned by the apostle to the Gentiles, in today's reading to the Romans: Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed (Rm 13:11). We must start our journey to ascend to the mountain of the Lord, to be illuminated by His Words of peace and to allow Him to indicate the path to tread. (Is 2:1-5). Moreover, we must change our conduct abandoning the works of darkness and put on the armor of light and so seek only to do God s work and to abandon the deeds of the flesh. ( Rm 13:12-14). Jesus, through the story in the parable, outlines the Christian life style that must not be distracted and indifferent but must be vigilant and recognize even the smallest sign of the Lord s coming because we don t know the hour in which He will arrive. ( Mt 24:39-44). On the First Sunday of Advent, the traditional opening prayer (or Collect) prayed: "Stir up Thy might, we beg Thee, and come." With this request to God to "stir up" His might, this day was traditionally called Stir-Up Sunday. Many families create a traditional plum pudding or fruit cake or some other recipe that all the family and guests can "stir-up." This activity of stirring-up the ingredients symbolizes our hearts that must be stirred in preparation for Christ's birth.

The CDA will hold their Christmas Party on December 2nd at 12:30pm at Kapr Family Center. For reservations call Dolly at 724-887-7884 St.

Featured will be Italian favorites: knots, pizzelles and biscotti, plus a variety of other assorted cookies. Come early for best selection News from the Diocese: Shop for Charity Dec.

6 The CDA will hold their Christmas Party on December 2nd at 12:30pm at Kapr Family Center. For reservations call Dolly at St. Rita Christian Mothers will hold their annual Christmas Cookie Sale on Saturday, December 8, beginning at 9am, in St. Rita's Bucci Hall on First Street in Connellsville. Featured will be Italian favorites: knots, pizzelles and biscotti, plus a variety of other assorted cookies. Come early for best selection News from the Diocese: Shop for Charity Dec. 3 to benefit Catholic Charities Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Greensburg will host Shop for Charity Dec. 3 from 5-7 p.m. at Prima Diva Boutique, 435 Fallowfield Ave., Charleroi. The shop, which features women s and children s clothing, home décor and gifts, will donate 20 percent of the evening s sales to Catholic Charities. Proceeds will help provide heating fuel, utility assistance, food boxes, diapers and baby items to people in need in the diocese. Retreat at Mount St. Macrina House of Prayer Dec. 16 A Christmas preparation retreat featuring Benedictine Father Cyprian Constantine will be held at Mount St. Macrina House of Prayer, Uniontown, Dec. 16 from 1:15-5:30 p.m. (includes dinner). Offering is $35, and the registration deadline is Dec. 12. To register for either retreat, call or hpmsm@verizon.net Hilda Schuster Former St. John the Baptist Parishioner Buried St. John Cemetery Keep her and her family in your prayers Advent: Liturgy & Music As we move into a new liturgical year, it may benefit all of us to have an understanding of how the sacredness of our music reflects the message found in the Scriptures. This year in our Partner Parish, you may notice some repetition in the musical themes of waiting, hope and light. On the First Sunday of Advent, during the procession we observe the Spoken Propers of the Mass in which we recite the Entrance Antiphon, To You, O Lord I Lift My Soul with no organ accompaniment. Taken from Psalm 25, we hear the Psalmist waiting for God to make himself known. Our hope lies in Jesus the Light of the world whom we wait for in joyful expectation. The lyrics of our communion processional, Your Light Will Come, Jerusalem so vividly portrays Jesus as the light of the world who dispels darkness and we in turn are called to reflect that same light to others. We are encouraged to spend some moments in quiet reflection during this short liturgical season and prepare our hearts for the coming of the Messiah.

7 MASS INTENTIONS WEEKLY COLLECTION-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST Saturday, December 1 SJBS 4:00 PM Sunday, December 2 First Sunday of Advent SJE 8:30 AM SJBS- 10:30 AM NO MORNING MASS + Armand & Irene Morrocco Daugh ter June + Parishioners + Jack Ermine Wife & Family November 18, 2018 Envelopes. $ Loose.$ Candles..$ All Saints.. $ All Souls.... $ Diocesan Collections.. $ Thanksgiving.... $ TOTAL REGULAR $ Monday, December 3 Saint Francis Xavier, Priest SJE-8:30 AM Tuesday, December 4 SJE 8:30 AM Wednesday, December 5 SJBS 8:30 AM + Phyllis & Joseph Sabbers Vivian Boyer & Family + Susan Williams Col. Bobo Lewan dowski + Linda Koval- Mom, Dad, & Sister, Lisa Thursday, December 6 NO MORNING MASS Friday, December 7 Saint Ambrose, Bishop & Doctor of the Church SJE 6:00 PM Saturday, December 8 Vigil for the Immaculate Conception The Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary SJBS 10:00AM SJBS 4:00 PM Sunday, December 9 Second Sunday of Advent SJE 8:30 AM SJBS- 10:30 AM Immaculate Conception + Sophie Zozula Mickey Siwula + Marion Sandzimier Joseph & Va lerie Sandzimier & Family + Jerod Miller Marsha & Bob Callaro WEEKLY COLLECTION ST. JOSEPH November 18, 2018 Envelopes. $ Loose. $ Candles.. $ Diocesan Collections $ Maintenance $ Thanksgiving $ All Souls $ All Saints $ Parish Endowment $11.00 TOTAL REGULAR. $ Cemetery.. $ If you have any suspicion about the sexual abuse (or any other type of abuse) of a minor child by anyone please contact PA Childline immediately at If the alleged abuser is functioning in a parish, school or diocesan position as clergy, religious, paid staff or volunteer you are also requested to contact the Bishop s Delegate for Matters of Sexual Misconduct after you have called the Childline number and made the report. The Bishop s Delegate may be reached at , Ext

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