ST. TIMOTHY PARISH. Baptism The Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated at scheduled Liturgies.

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1 650 Nichols Street, Norwood, MA Serving Norwood, Walpole, and Westwood Liturgical Celebrations Sunday Eucharist: Saturday 4:30pm Sunday 8am; 9:30am; 11am; 5pm (No 5:00 pm Liturgy Memorial Day through Labor Day) Daily Eucharist Mon.-Sat. 9:00am Reconciliation Sat. 3:30-4:00pm Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament Friday 9:30am 3:00pm Reach us by Website: Parish Fr. Culloty Colleen Campion Bonnie Gleason Kathy MacKenzie Leah Ramsdell Betsy Rivard Sue Bartlett Judson Vail Reach us by Telephone Parish Office Religious Education Youth Formation Ministry Fax Pastor Rev. John P. Culloty (ext. 25) Senior Priest in Residence Rev. George Emerson (ext. 13) Business Manager Judson Vail Pastoral Associate/Liturgy Director Colleen Campion (ext. 28) Music Director Bonnie Gleason (ext. 11) Religious Education Director (gr. K-8) Kathryn MacKenzie (ext. 27) Youth Formation Ministry (gr.9-12) Leah Ramsdell (ext. 26) Parish Secretary/Religious Education Secretary Janet Kelly (ext. 32) Parish Nurse Betsy Rivard (ext. 34) Facilities Manager Sue Bartlett (ext. 24) Adult Initiation The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is an ongoing process of individual faith development and communal formation. Anyone interested in learning more about what it means to become a Catholic Christian, should contact the parish office. Baptism The Sacrament of Baptism is celebrated at scheduled Liturgies. Parishioners who are expecting a child should contact the office at least two months in advance, or as soon as possible to make arrangements and meet with the Baptismal Preparation Team. Reconciliation Also known as penance or confession, the Sacrament of Penance is regularly available every Saturday at 3:30pm in the church. Individual appointments may also be made with one of the priests. The Sacrament of Penance is celebrated communally during the seasons of Advent and Lent. Marriage Engaged parishioners who are interested in being married at St. Timothy Parish must contact one of the priests at least six months in advance. Call the office regarding Marriage Preparation classes. Sacrament of the Sick Praying for healing in body, mind and soul has always been a part of the Church s ministry to those who are ill. Anyone who is seriously ill or anticipating hospitalization, may celebrate the Sacrament on Saturdays following the 9am Mass, or upon request. Devotion/Prayer Groups Rosary is said Monday through Saturday prior to morning Mass. Guild of St. Timothy Please refer to the bulletin for meetings. Women s Bible Study Monday evenings at 7:15pm Wednesday afternoons at 1pm Thursday mornings at 9:30am New Jerusalem Charismatic Prayer Group meets on Thursday from 7:30-9pm. All are welcome!

2 NORWOOD, WALPOLE, WESTWOOD DECEMBER 22, 2013 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Events of the Week Sunday, December 22, 2pm, Faith & Light Friday, December 27, 9:30am-3pm, Eucharistic Adoration, Chaplet prayed at 3pm Liturgical Calendar Sunday, December 22 Fourth Sunday of Advent Tuesday, December 24 Solemnity of the Vigil of the Nativity of the Lord Wednesday, December 25 Solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord Thursday, December 26 Feast of Saint Stephen Friday, December 27 Feast of Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist Saturday, December 28 Fest of the Holy Innocents Sunday, December 29 Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary and Joseph Christmas Eve: 4pm, 6pm, 10pm Christmas Day: 9:30am, 11am Lector and Altar Server Schedules December 28/29 4:30 lector: Matthew Fearnley, Kristi Jacobi 4:30 server: Kayla Cormier, Talia Fruci, Victor Greene 8:00 lector: George Antonetti, Linda Rau 8:00 server: Angela Buckley, Rachel Graham, Francesca Theofilou 9:30 lector: Eve Madden, Mike Guarin 9:30 server: Maryjane Timilty, Margaret Wall, Cullen Weidenaar 11:00 lector: Richard Haley, Ann Fogarty 11:00 server: Kelly Fogarty, Hector & Jasmine Santos-Suaso 5:00 lector: Thomas & Marcus Bockhorst 5:00 server: Marilyn Kippenberger, Austin & Becky Persons Eucharistic Ministers: Team 4 QUESTION OF THE WEEK Breaking Open the Word Suggested text for faith sharing: Today s Gospel Question for Children: What could you do this week to make someone feel welcome, as Joseph welcomed Mary? Question for Adults: Whom do you find it difficult to welcome in your life? What can you do to overcome that? Mass Intentions for the Week Saturday, December 21 9:00 Catherine & Maurice Joy, Memorial 4:30 Mary Skelly, 3rd Anniversary Sunday, December 22 8:00 Ippolito Mottola, Memorial 9:30 Carol Kelly, 20th Anniversary 11:00 Maria Papagni, Anniversary 5:00 Edwarda Piotrowska, Memorial Monday, December 23 9:00 Mary Welsh, Memorial Tuesday, December 24 9:00 Manuel Vicente, Memorial Thursday, December 26 9:00 James Kinsella, Anniversary Friday, December 27 9:00 Joaquin DaSilva, Memorial Saturday, December 28 9:00 Special Intention 4:30 Rosa Soares, Memorial Sunday, December 29 8:00 Norman Hall, 3rd Anniversary 9:30 Eugene Borkowski, Memorial 11:00 Marguerite Dervan, Memorial 5:00 Dr. Frank Mason, 2nd Anniversary Wedding Banns Please pray for our brides & grooms: Kristine O Shea & Robert Saulog Please pray for Richard Flaherty and Joseph Cattafe whose funerals were recently celebrated in our parish.

3 NORWOOD, WALPOLE, WESTWOOD DECEMBER 22, 2013 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT RELIGIOUS EDUCATION/Gr. K-8 PARISH NURSE NEWS No Classes During Christmas Break Thursday, Dec. 19 through Wednesday, Jan. 1 Religious Ed classes for Grades K through 8 will not be held during Christmas Break, from Thursday, December 19 th through Wednesday, January 1 st. Classes will resume on Thursday, January 2 nd. I hope you have a blessed, peaceful, and joy-filled Christmas and a very Happy New Year ahead! YOUTH FORMATION/Gr. 9&10 Upcoming Class Dates: Confirmation I Class-Sunday, January 26 th from 3:15-4:45pm Confirmation II Class-Sunday, January 26 th from 6-7:30pm Confirmation II Retreat Students in Confirmation II should have already submitted and received notification regarding which retreat date has been assigned to them. If your student is in the second year of our program and has NOT received this information, please contact Leah at ymindirector@gmail.com ASAP. The dates for the retreat are: Friday, January 10 th from 3:15-9:45pm Saturday, January 11 th from 11-5:30pm Sunday, January 12 th from 11:30-6pm Families will receive further information about the permission slip, dress code and where and when to pick up and drop off your student as we get closer to the date itself. Reminders for Students in Confirmation I and II Students in Confirmation I are asked to submit their Confirmation sponsor forms to the Youth Minister ASAP. Students in Confirmation II are asked to submit their Confirmation name sheets no later than March 9 th. An was sent home with a list of Saints names as well as some websites where Saints names can be researched. We also have books available in the YFM Office. 5pm Sunday Liturgy Students in the Confirmation program and their families are invited and encouraged to join us for the 5pm Sunday liturgy at St. Tim s. This Mass is geared towards our young people and our Youth Ensemble helps to provide the music for this Mass. Additionally, priests from both St. Catherine s and St. Timothy s alternate celebrating the liturgy with us each week! Please join us! Visits to the Sick and Homebound If you or a family member is unable to come to church due to illness or the aging process, and would like a visitor from the parish to come to your home and bring the Eucharist, please call the Parish Nurse, Betsy Rivard. We have many dedicated volunteers who are happy to visit! Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group The Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group will meet Tuesday morning, January 14, The group is open to people caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's Disease or a related dementia. New members are welcome. Please call the Parish Nurse before attending for the first time. Blood Pressure Clinic The next BP Clinic will be held downstairs in the Church Hall on Friday, Jan. 3, 2014 and Sunday, Jan. 5, 2014 after the morning Masses. Composing our Prayer of the Faithful Each week at Mass, after we profess our faith as Catholics, we pray for the needs of the Church, the world, and our local community in the part of the Mass called the Prayer of the Faithful. These prayers are our response to the Word of God proclaimed in the liturgy, as we pray for the Church, civil leaders, ourselves and the salvation of the whole world (General Instruction on the Roman Missal, #70). While general in nature, these intentions should also address the deepest concerns, needs and prayers of the local community, truly the heartfelt prayer of all the faithful. At St. Timothy s, we strive to compose prayers each week that reflect the prayers on the hearts and minds of a wide variety of parishioners. In order to do this, we have teams of lay people who take turns writing these prayers each week. Their contribution is a quiet one, in that these people do not receive public recognition for writing the prayers. Yet it is a contribution that touches each and every person who worships with us each weekend. We are grateful to these individuals who have dedicated time and spirit to the writing of these prayers. We are now in need of a few more people to help fill out this ministry. Would you be interested in helping in this important effort of writing our intercessions for our Prayer of the Faithful? The time commitment is manageable. Individuals would commit to helping out by writing prayers just once a month or once every other month. Training and support will be offered to each of the teams created. If you are interested in helping on this committee, or just want to find out more about how these prayers are composed, please contact Colleen in the office (CNCampion@yahoo.com). We invite you to join us!

4 Retrouvaille of New England Struggling in your marriage? You are not alone! If your marriage is tearing the two of you apart, if there is little or no meaningful communication, if you are considering separation or divorce, we believe Retrouvaille can help. Our peer ministry is led by couples who have lived through the honeymoon phase often followed by deep disillusionment before finally finding resurrection in their marriages using the tools taught in this program. Rediscover a loving marriage with a Retrouvaille weekend. The 2014 New England Retrouvaille marriage renewal weekends will be held on: January 10-12, 2014, April 4-6, 2014 and September 12-14, To register for the weekend or for more information, call or visit St. Timothy Book Group News We have made our book selections through May. Our meeting dates and books are as follows. All meetings are from 7:30-9pm in the Ruocco Center. January 27: Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country, by Andrew Bacevich. The author, a respected BU professor and frequent interview subject on national public radio, is a St. Timothy parishioner and will attend this meeting to discuss the book with us! February 24: Sweetness of Forgetting by Kristin Harmel March 31: The Mystery of Breathing by Peri Klas April 28: The Ear of the Heart by Mother Dolores Heart June 1: Amazing Gifts: Stories of Faith, Disabilty and Inclusion by Mark Pinsky Pine Street Inn We will be serving supper at the Pine Street Inn on Monday, January 27, If you can help in any way, please call Jayne at Thank you to those who have made generous donations in the past. St. Tim s sends $500 each month to Pine Street Inn. Please help to support this ministry. Donations to pay for these meals may be sent to: Campagna, 86 Countryside Lane, Norwood, MA Please make checks payable to St. Timothy Christian Service Fund. Xaverian Missionaries Christmas Lights Display and Concert The Xaverian Missionaries will hold their traditional Christmas Lights Display thru Wednesday, January 1, from 5-9pm. The Christmas Concert will be held on Sunday, December 8 at 3pm. It will feature the St. Cecilia s Parish Youth and Adult Choirs under the Direction of Lelia Viana, with the participation of composer-pianist Isaac Stearns. It will be followed by the Candle Light Procession and Blessing of the Nativity Scene. Refreshments will be served in the Hall after the services. These events are held at Xaverian Missionaries, 101 Summer St., Holliston, MA. For more information call All are most welcome! Worldwide Marriage Encounter Christ is the reason for the Season. Is Christ in your marriage? Worldwide Marriage Encounter can help you make your marriage Christcentered. The next Worldwide Marriage Encounter weekends in the New England are: January 10-12, 2014 and March 14-16, For more information call Jim and Elaine Richard at WWME or visit our webpage at Miramar Retreat Center Miramar Retreat Center, 121 Parks St., Duxbury, MA will be offering the following programs: Jan : Worldwide Marriage Encounter Tom Griffiths, SVD Jan : New Beginnings: A Retreat for Women Peggy Patenaude Jan.29: Mini Retreat Day for Women: Transitions--Carriers of God s Grace in the Midst of Chaos Maureen Casey, SND For more info, check our website at Miramaretreat.org or call us at

5 Dear friends- A Message From Our Pastor Christmas is literally just around the corner. Hopefully, the church will be filled at each of the five Masses for this feast. Traditionally, the 4pm Mass on Christmas Eve tends to be the most crowded or the last few years it seems to be almost filled by 3:30 and parking is at a premium. The remaining Masses, though full, usually do not fill up quite so early and usually there is sufficient room in the parking lot for all cars. A question that people ask me each year is, Where do all these extra people come from?" In some cases it is our younger parishioners who are home from college; sometimes it is relatives who are visiting for Christmas; sometimes it is the people who do tend to come at Christmas but not so often the rest of the year. With all the extra people, our regular routines might need to be adjusted. Our regular parishioners might not be able to get their regular seat or their usual parking space. A lot of Churches these days would love to have our Christmas problem overflow crowds. Although some change in our regular routine might be necessary, I hope you can join me in realizing that all these people who might be visiting our church for Christmas give us a great opportunity. If we can truly make them feel welcome, if we can really enter into the spirit of Christmas Mass by singing and praying with joy and intensity, if we can do something as simple as move in from the end of a bench or point out the song in the hymnal, then just perhaps that person who is here for the first time might feel so welcomed that they will come again on a more regular basis. Even if one person returns next week and the week after, then that is what I think Jesus would want us to do. Each Christmas and Easter and one additional Sunday during the year, the proceeds of the collection go to support the retired and disabled priests of the Archdiocese of Boston. We all know what a great gift Fr. Emerson is to our parish. Many of the priests who have served this parish in the past are now, like Fr. Emerson, supported by the Christmas collection. You have been most generous to this collection in the past and for that I am most grateful. If you are able to contribute to this collection again this year that is most appreciated. Finally, on behalf of Fr. Emerson, myself, and our parish staff please know what a wonderful group of parishioners you are and what a blessing it is for us to be a part of your lives. I ask God to bless you and your loved ones at Christmas and to be close to you and guide you in the New Year. Fr. Culloty Please join us for our Annual Epiphany Celebration Friday, January 3rd Dinner at 6pm; Pageant at 7pm Join us for a spirit-filled evening of fun, friends, music, carols and a telling of the rich, wonderful stories of the Christmas season. Every year there s at least one surprise twist what will we be up to this year? Our evening begins at 6pm with a pasta dinner downstairs in the parish hall. All are most welcome to join us. We will need to plan accordingly with our caterer, so please sign up in the foyer of the church after Mass this weekend and next (December 28/29). Many are participating in the intergenerational pageant beginning at 7pm in the Church. It s not too late to join! We need kids(5+ yrs.), teens & adults to be part of the this celebration! Dress rehearsal Thursday January 2 nd 5:30-6:30pm Prefer to help out behind the scenes? We still need help with costumes, set-up and clean up, angel herding and sheep wrangling, to name a few. If you re willing to help, we ll find a job for you! Call the office at or Colleen at cncampion@yahoo.com. Prayer to St. Joseph During the Fourth Week of Advent, we hear of Joseph s trusting and faith-filled response to God s call in his life. Inspired by Joseph s example, we offer a prayer in his honor that may lead each of us, as we discern God s call in our own lives. O Great Saint Joseph, you were completely obedient to the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Obtain for me the grace to know the state of life that God in His providence has chosen for me. Since my happiness on earth, and perhaps even my final happiness in heaven, depends on this choice, let me not be deceived in making it. Obtain for me the light to know God's will, to carry it out faithfully, and to live the vocation which will lead me to a happy eternity. You won t want to miss this parish event!

6 NORWOOD, WALPOLE, WESTWOOD DECEMBER 22, 2013 FOURTH SUNDAY OF ADVENT Information page Church name: St. Timothy Parish Bulletin number: Contact information: Janet Kelly Number of pages: 5 Software: Microsoft Publisher 2007 Adobe standard 9 Microsoft XP Printer number: Samsung 6345 Date of publication: November 29, 2009