149 South Main Street, Gloversville, NY Phone: (518) ~ Fax (518)

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1 Church of the Holy Spirit Holy Trinity Church 149 South Main Street, Gloversville, NY Phone: (518) ~ Fax (518) HolySpirit.Gloversville@rcda.org Website: Glebe Street, Johnstown, N.Y Phone: (518) ~ Fax: (518) Rectory: 205 Glebe Street, Johnstown, N.Y Phone: (518) Website: HolyTrinityJohnstown OFFICE HOURS FOR HOLY TRINITY PARISH : Monday-Thursday 9:00 A.M. - 2:30 P.M. Closed Friday OFFICE HOURS FOR HOLY SPIRIT PARISH: Monday-Thursday 9:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. Friday 10:00 A.M.-1:00 P.M. (Closed 12:30-P.M.-1:30 P.M. for lunch) Rev. Matthew Wetsel, Pastor Matthew.Wetsel@rcda.org Rev. Donald Czelusniak, Pastor Emeritus Larry Groesbeck, Deacon CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT served by: Liz Anderson, Pastoral Assoc. for Business Administration Jaime Kosowicz, Parish Secretary, Bulletin Editor Ann Simonson, Faith Formation & Youth Ministry Clarence Veeder, Cemetery Director Adam Valachovic, Buildings & Grounds Tom Cichy and Lisa Stanyon, Trustees CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST Saturday Vigil - 4:00 P.M. Sunday - 11:30 A.M. Daily Mass - Thursday & Friday 8:30 A.M. HOLY TRINITY served by: Jeannie Popp, Parish Secretary, Cemeteries & Finance (jpopp@holytrinityjohnstown.com) (rcchurch@holytrinityjohnstown.com) Cindy Kollar, Faith Formation Coordinator (ckollar@holytrinityjohnstown.com) Kevin Quinn, Buildings & Grounds Frank DeRosa and Bob Schultz, Trustees CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST Sunday - 8:00 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. Daily Mass - Tuesday & Wednesday 8:30 A.M. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Every Saturday 3:15 P.M. - 3:45 P.M. at Holy Spirit. Also, First Wednesday of the month following devotions, alternating monthly between parishes.

2 December 9, 2018 BAPTISM: First time parents are required to receive instructions. Call parish offices. MATRIMONY: Pre-Cana is expected. Call parish offices at least six months in advance. RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA): Call the Parish Offices. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK & HOMEBOUND: If you are planning a surgery, ask one of our priests to celebrate the Sacrament after one of our weekend or daily Masses. Seriously ill or home bound should call the office. PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL: At The Church of the Holy Spirit. CEMETERIES: Call parish offices. MOTHER TERESA S CLOSET: Emergency household and personal care items available at Holy Trinity Parish. DURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT: Items are available, free of charge, at Holy Trinity Parish for those in need. WEDNESDAY DEVOTIONS: 3:00 P.M. In December the Wednesday Devotions will be at Holy Trinity with the Divine Mercy Chaplet in the presence of the exposed Blessed Sacrament. Prayer to Our Lady Undoer of Knots, Prayer for Vocations, Benediction, Divine Praise and closing prayer. MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 4:00 P.M. at Holy Spirit Sunday: 8:00 A.M. at Holy Trinity 10:00 A.M. at Holy Trinity 11:30 A.M. at Holy Spirit Weekday Masses: 8:30 A.M. Tuesday & Wednesday at Holy Trinity, Johnstown Thursday & Friday at Holy Spirit, Gloversville. Confessions: 3:15 P.M. Saturday at Holy Spirit AND First Wednesday of the Month following devotions, alternating monthly between the parishes. EXTENDED CONFESSIONAL HOURS: Fr. Matt will offer the sacrament of Reconciliation on Thursday, December 13th 2:00 P.M.-5:00 P.M. in the Holy Trinity Confessional. PASTOR S MESSAGE: 2nd Sunday in Advent "In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar...and Herod was tetrarch of Galilee...and Lysanias was tetrach of..." Did you need to pinch yourself awake during the first few lines of this Sunday's Gospel? John the Baptist received quite a prelude today as Luke described the religious and political leadership of the time period. Scripture is divinely inspired, and we believe that everything that made it into the Bible is there for a reason. These lines remind us of an important truth. The Christmas story isn't a fairy tale or nursery rhyme. It's not a parable we say to give meaning to the holiday. At Christmas, God's presence is made tangible in a precise moment in time. The birth of Christ is a historical event. As precursor to Jesus' preaching, the ministry of John the Baptist is also a historical event. "Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths." John's call to repentance and the forgiveness of sins happened in a particular time and place. But that does not mean it is limited to first century Palestine! God continues to move in our daily lives. What we hear in today's Gospel - and what we anticipate at Christmas - occurs in our daily lives. God works in concrete ways in time and space. He did that 2,000 years ago, and He continues to do so today! This Sunday, examine your own Christmas preparations. Is there anything you need to repent of before the Christmas season? Are there low points in your life, valleys to "be filled" by the love of God? Are their mountainous obstacles in your spiritual life? How can they be "made low"? Are you making decisions that have moved you away from God? This Advent season is the time for them to "be made straight and made smooth." Prepare the way in your heart for Christ today! PILGRIMAGE OPPORTUNITY: Fr. Matt will be leading a pilgrimage to Fatima, Lourdes, and Barcelona from October 6th October 15, For more information, please speak with Fr. Matt and take an informational brochure from the entrance of the churches. USE OF HOLY TRINITY AND HOLY SPIRIT CHURCH OR HALL BUILDINGS FOR MEETINGS AND ACTIVITIES OF ANY KIND must be scheduled in the parish offices by the person who is using the facility. Staff will mark activities on the parish calendar. This request is necessary to prevent double booking of space. All requests will be honored if made thru the parish office staff unless something else is all ready scheduled for that time. Thank you for your co-operation in this matter. ~Fr. Matt READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 9, 2018 Sunday: Bar 5:1-9/Ps 126:1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 6 [3]/Phil 1:4-6, 8-11 Lk 3:1-6 Monday: Is 35:1-10/Ps 85:9ab and 10, 11-12, [Is 35:4f] Lk 5:17-26 Tuesday: Is 40:1-11/Ps 96:1-2, 3 and 10ac, 11-12, 13 [Is 40:10ab]/Mt 18:12-14 Wednesday: Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/Jdt 13:18bcde, 19 [15:9d]/Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47 Thursday: Is 41:13-20/Ps 145:1 and 9, 10-11, 12-13ab [8]/Mt 11:11-15 Friday: Is 48:17-19/Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6 [Jn 8:12]/Mt 11:16-19 Saturday: Sir 48:1-4, 9-11/Ps 80:2ac and 3b, 15-16, [4] Mt 17:9a, Next Sunday: Zep 3:14-18a/Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6 [6]/Phil 4:4-7/Lk 3:10-18

3 December 9, 2018 The Church of the Holy Spirit Collection information for the week of: December 2, 2018 Regular Collection 12/2/18 $4, Envelopes $3, Loose $ Online $ Attendance 4:00 P.M :30 A.M. 164 Bishop s Appeal Assessment: $41, Gifts $41, Capital Campaign Assessment: $355, Gifts $469, CHRISTMAS FLOWER DONATIONS: If you would like to donate toward the Christmas flowers at Holy Trinity or Holy Spirit, please do so by December 17th. Use your Christmas Flower envelope or a plain envelope including your name and the name of the person/s the donation is in memory of and place it in the offertory basket. We will publish the booklet of names during the Christmas season. Holy Trinity Parish Collection information for the week of: December 2, 2018 Regular Collection 12/2/18 $3, Envelopes $3, Loose $ Fuel $10.00 Human Development $52.00 Christmas $40.00 Christmas Flowers $ Other $45.00 Attendance 8:00 A.M :00 A.M. 165 Bishop s Appeal Assessment: $46, Townsend fund -$20, gifts $21, Balance $5, Capital Campaign Assessment: $250, gifts $231, Balance $18, LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR THE WEEKEND OF DECEMBER 15 & 16 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT LECTORS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION ALTAR SERVERS 4:00 P.M. Mark Amico Casey LeMaitre, Barbara Rieth, Richard Nigro Michael Nichols Rita Bravo Kristen Farley 11:30 A.M. Mike Shrader Mary Jablonski, Benedetta Scarpa, Kylie Griffiths Bridget Will, Preston & Valerie Person Julia Gillis HOLY TRINITY PARISH LECTOR EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION ALTAR SERVERS 8:00 A.M. Lynn Knowlton Bruce & Jennie Mrha, Mary Pradelski Colleen & Emily Long 10:00 A.M. Gerard McAuliffe Father Murphy, Anne Solar, Michelle Wessendorf Mickey Staie Grace Giarrizzo Wells House/Pineview Commons: Chris Nunn & Bob Smida CEMETERY NEWS: The cemetery at Mt. Carmel is closed for the winter season. The cable at the entrance will be open until the next snow storm, then the cable will be put back up admittance to the cemetery only by foot. Please, once the cable is replaced, do not remove it. Thank you. Thank you for your continued support and your thoughtful donations. Thank you to all our volunteers who work so hard at keeping the store open six days a week. Without all of you there wouldn t be a store! Please remember us this Christmas Season with your donations of gently used toys. MOTHER TERESA S CLOSET: We are in need of bar soap, deodorant, feminine products, kleenex, paper towels, laundry detergent, cleaners, toilet paper & shampoo. Monetary donations are also welcome. Thank you to all who support this ministry. We are grateful for your time, donations and your kindness both from Holy Trinity and Holy Spirit churches. ~Outreach Committee We will be sponsoring families for Christmas this year. If you would like to help in any way please contact the office for information. We will also be donating food baskets to these Christmas families. Christmas ornament sale to benefit Mother Teresa s Closet will be held after Masses on Sunday.

4 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FAITH FORMATION NEWS: Ann Simonson, Faith Formation Coordinator Second Sunday of Advent HOLY TRINITY PARISH FAITH FORMATION NEWS: Cindy Kollar, Faith Formation Coordinator FRIDAY S TABLE GIVING TREE: The Youth Ministry Program will be participating in a Giving Tree Project again this year with Friday s Table. Gift tags are filled out by the Friday s Table participants with the help of the teens from the Youth Ministry Program. The tags are put on a tree in Spirit Central for the teens to take and bring home so they, along with their families, can shop for the person they picked. The gifts will then be delivered to Friday Table by the teens before Christmas. If anyone in the parish would like to donate any items such as blankets, gloves, hats, etc., please drop your donation off to the office before Sunday, December 16th. Labeled Friday s Table Giving Project. This is a total different project than the gift tag trees we did for Maternity Services in the past. If you have any questions, please contact Ann Simonson. GIFT TAG PROJECT: Due to the fact that Maternity Services has moved out of our area, we have reached out to the local Domestic Violence House and the Salvation Army. We have teamed up with these organizations this year to help those in need. The trees with the gift tags are located at all three of the church entrances. If you take a tag, please bring the gift you purchased back by December 13th. The gifts are all getting picked up on December 14! Please make sure that your gift is unwrapped and has the gift tag attached to it. You may put them in a gift bag if you wish. Gifts can be returned and put under the trees in church or dropped off at the church office. We thank you so much for your continued giving each year to those in need. THIS PROJECT IS SEPARATE FROM THE FRIDAY S TABLE GIVING TREE PROJECT. JOYOUS SOUNDS OF THE SEASON featuring Olivia Esposito, Paul Whitney, Sam & Jessica Zimmerman, Don Ambrosino & Sue Shrader. Please join us in the Church of the Holy Spirit on December 9th at 3:00 P.M. The concert will benefit Mother Teresa s Closet. Free will donations and household items will be accepted. Adoration of Our Lord Are You Prepared to Receive the Greatest Presence of all? Perpetual Adoration Chapel at Holy Spirit. Jesus listens to your heart. Come and visit Him in the Adoration Chapel. ELEMENTARY FAITH FORMATION ADVENT ACTIVITY: The children in grade kindergarten through sixth grade will be making a giving ornament on Sunday, December 16th during our Faith Formation Class time. We invite the parents of these children to join us for this activity. Refreshments will be provided. Sunday, December 9th, we will celebrate the 6th Grade Class Mass at 10:00 A.M. at Holy Trinity. Please keep these young people in your prayers as they prepare to participate in the Mass. Sunday, December 9th, Fr. Matt will do a recruitment of altar servers for the teens in junior high school during our Faith Formation classes. ADULT FAITH FORMATION: All are welcome. Holy Trinity meets on Tues. at 9:15 A.M. in the Parish Center. Holy Spirit meets on Tues. at 10:00 A.M. in the Café. Please join us! Advent Preparing for Christmas, Journeying in Our Faith. Join us for Door of Mercy-Exploring God s Covenant with You. The program will be held each week on Tuesdays at the Church of the Holy Spirit, 10:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M. and Wednesdays at Holy Trinity, 6:30 P.M.-8:30 P.M. This video/discussion program explores God s covenants with His people throughout Salvation History. For more information call Ann Jones or Veronica Quinn. LIFE ISSUES and the N.Y.S. LEGISLATURE Senate Bill S7863, sponsored by Sen. Jim Tedisco, will allow parents the right to request the remains of their miscarried children from the hospital. The current law only allows the request to be made if the unborn fetus is beyond 20 weeks. This legislation would let the family bury and grieve their unborn child respectfully rather than have him/her disposed of as medical waste. We should thank him for this compassionate legislation. Read more at: Gov. Cuomo has promised swift action to expand abortions to full-term within the first 30 days of This is not basic health care. The results will not be good for any of us. Let him know that his Abortion Expansion Bill should be dropped. Read more at: THE HOLY TRINITY MEN S GROUP will sponsor a Spiral Ham Dinner on December 11th. Social hour begins at 5:00 P.M. with dinner to follow at 6:00 P.M. The Speaker will be Loraaine Hohenforst, PhD from BOCES. Ticket will be sold after Sunday Mass at Holy Trinity.

5 Church of the Holy Spirit & Holy Trinity Catholic Church The angel said to her, Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God. Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall name him Jesus. - Lk 1:30-31 SAT. 8:30 A.M. SAT. 4:00 P.M. SUN. 11:30 A.M. HOLY SPIRIT MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 9, 2018 IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE BLESSED BIRGIN MARY JOHN HEIMER, JR. CATHIE SCHONBECK REQUESTED BY JOHN & ANGIE SAVAGE JEFFREY PELOSI REQUESTED BY MOM & DAD SALVATORE ZARELLI REQUESTED BY EMILIA DECICCO ROBERT GRANT GERTRUDE BERNADETTE & BERNARD TIMOTHY MULHALL REQUESTED BY ESTATE OF IRENE MULHALL SALVATORE ZARRELLI REQUESTED BY RALPH CAMPANILE JOSEPH LAPORTA REQUESTED BY WING & VANSKIVER FAMILIES TERESA AVELLINO REQUESTED BY ANTHONY AVELLINO & FAMILY MARY AVELLINO ZAMBRI REQUESTED BY ANTHONY AVELLINO MON. 8:30 A.M. NO DAILY MASS TUES. 8:30 A.M. MASS AT HOLY TRINITY WED. 8:00 A.M. MASS AT HOLY TRINITY THURS. 8:30 A.M. FOR AMERICA DORIS DJ CUNNINGHAM REQUESTED BY JIM & TOMI AMBROSINO FRI. 8:30 A.M. END ABORTION REQUESTED BY RESPECT LIFE GROUP JOSEPH LAPORTA REQUESTED BY FRANK & LENA DEROSA SAT. 4:00 P.M. SUN. 11:30 A.M. SAL LANDRIO (7TH ANN) REQUESTED BY CHILDREN JOHN HEIMER, JR SHARON FARHART (21ST ANN) REQUESTED BY MAURICE & FAMILY AMALIA CALANDRA REQUESTED BY JOSEPHINE ROSMARINO CHARLES DIANA REQUESTED BY JOHN & PATTY FRANCO PAUL DONVAN REQUESTED BY JIM & PAT DONOVAN OWEN FARHART REQUESTED BY FAMILY PASQUALE PUCKY VIETRI REQUESTED BY GUY & JOAN CIACCIO TONI HOWE REQUESTED BY JOHN & PATTY FRANCO SUN. 8:00 A.M. HOLY TRINITY MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK OF DECEMBER 9, 2018 END ABORTION REQUESTED BY RESPECT LIFE GROUP ROSE CELLARY (1ST ANN) REQUESTED BY JOHN & TIM MASS FOR THE PEOPLE SUN. 10:00 A.M. PATRICIA LANOIS REQUESTED BY LEE LANOIS DOROTHY HANCHAR (4TH ANN) REQUESTED BY LOVING DAUGHTER, DEBORAH KRISSY SCHWARTZ (7TH ANN) REQUSTED BY DAD FRED FAGAN REQUESTED BY HOLY TRINITY FAMILY & STAFF MON. 8:30 A.M. NO DAILY MASS TUES. 8:30 A.M. FOR AMERICA WED. 8:30 A.M. THOMAS VACEK (3RD ANN) REQUESTED BY CHRIS NUNN PETAR BJELICA (2ND ANN) REQUESTED BY CHRIS NUNN THURS. 8:30 A.M. MASS AT HOLY SPRIRT FRI. 8:30 A.M. SUN. 8:00 A.M. MASS AT HOLY SPIRIT GEORGE BEVINGTON REQUESTED BY PAUL & BONNIE STEENBURGH & BROYLES FAMILY THADDEUS & ANGELA PRADELSKI (ANN) REQUESTED BY JOHN & MARY & FAMILY MASS FOR THE PEOPLE SUN. 10:00 A.M. RICHARD MAXIAN SR. REQUESTED BY FAMILY DAVID HORNIDGE (2ND ANN) REQUESTED BY DAD, TYLER, ALEC & BILL MIKE KIRKPATRICK REQUESTED BY BOB & JEAN SCHULTZ FRED FAGAN REQUESTED BY BOB & JEAN SCHULTZ Please pray for Josephine Campanile, Jeannette Bornt and all who have gone to their heavenly reward and all who are sick or recuperating at home or in nursing homes. Children s bulletin The Preaching of John the Baptist. These bulletins are available at the entrances of Holy Trinity Church.