March 13, 2016 JMJ. Fifth Sunday of Lent March 06, 2016 FIRST READING: (Ezekiel 37:12-14) 2 nd Reading (Romans 8:8-11) Gospel (John 11:1-45)

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1 JMJ Saint Patrick Catholic Church 301 Shamrock Trail Adamsville, Alabama Very Reverend Vernon F. Huguley, Pastor Volume 34 Number 10 Fourth Sunday of Lent March 13, 2016 Fifth Sunday of Lent March 06, 2016 FIRST READING: (Ezekiel 37:12-14) 2 nd Reading (Romans 8:8-11) Gospel (John 11:1-45) PRAY FOR OUR PARISHIONERS IN THE HOSPITAL OR ON HOSPICE: Dr. Charles C. White. Please keep all the sick and their caregivers in your prayers. OUT OF RESPECT for the privacy of our parishioners, names of those who are in the hospital are not listed in the bulletin without prior approval by the individual or an immediate family member if the individual is unable to speak for themselves. PRAYER BOOK: The prayer book in the narthex is available for all prayer requests. Please pray daily for these requests. PRAY FOR OUR TROOPS: Especially our families, friends and loved ones who are currently in active military service: Carlos Aguirre (Stateside) Darren Armentrout (Stateside), Darryl Balcom (Stateside), Jeremy Barton (Stateside), Dane Blankenship (Jordan), Joseph Byrd (Egypt), Aaron M. Causey (Stateside- Severely injured), Matthew Cavender (Stateside), Melissa Dooley (England) Andy Easter (Afghanistan) Jaren Garton (Stateside) Brian Gibson (Iraq), Heath Gober (Iraq), Michael Anthony Grinston (Stateside), Andrew Hays (At Sea) Samantha Higgins (Stateside), Zach Higgins (Stateside), Scott Jones (Stateside), Zack Kiggens (Stateside) Jenny Malone (Stateside), David Miller (Stateside), Richard Parvin (Qatar), Joey Serio (Iraq), Ben Perry (Qatar) Justin Richerzhagen (Stateside), and John Toombs (Afghanistan). Please keep all of our brave men and women in your prayers. If you know of anyone who should be added to or removed from this list, please contact the church office. CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS were mailed January 28 th. However, there apparently has been an issue at the post office and some were not delivered. If you did not receive your statement please call the office. PLEASE JOIN OUR PARISH! We would love to have you as a registered member of St. Patrick. If you would like to join our parish, please pick up a Census Card in the narthex, fill it out and put it in the collection basket. PRAY FOR OUR PARISHIONERS WHO ARE UNABLE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES Mickey Davidson, Jo Melton, and Ethel Pruitt. Please keep these, all the homebound, and their caregivers in your prayers. If you know of any parishioner who should be added to or removed, please contact the office. NOTES FROM THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE ON OUR FEAST DAY: Calling all Irish, and not so Irish, cooks, servers, decorators, and cleaners. Our first event of the year will be the Pot Luck dinner to celebrate our Feast Day; St. Patrick s Day. Mass will begin at 6:00 pm on Thursday, March 17 th followed by our annual Pot Luck. A sign-up sheet is available in the Narthex. If you are willing and able to help in any way please sign up or better yet, avoid the rush and call Tina Webb. ENVELOPE DATES: We will collect for Capital Improvement on the 5 th & 6 th, School Subsidy on the 12 th & 13 th and Catholic Relief Services (dated the 6 th ) on March 19 th & 20 th. The only other date change will be Beacons of Hope. The envelope shows Nov. 27 th but we will collect it on October 29 th & 30 th. SUNSHINE CLUB will meet next Wednesday, March 16, 2016 for our St. Joseph Luncheon. We will begin with the Celebration of the Mass at 10:00 am in the Chapel. Bingo will begin after Mass followed by lunch. A donation of at least $5.00 is asked per person and all money will be given to Fr. Vernon to use for those in need. Please RSVP to Sharon Slovensky or the church office.

2 4 th Sunday of Lent: God welcomes us home with extravagant love. Let the call to holiness draw you home into a deeper relationship with God. (Luke 15:1-3, 11-32) Let us pray for those who are discerning their life s vocation, may they seek God s help in prayer. (Vocation View is sponsored by Serra Club) FAITH FORMATION- Only 6 more classes before Year End. Where did our year go? Please make every effort to attend the remaining sessions. Confirmation class will be taking the ACRE Assessment on a Wednesday evening as directed by the Office of Religious Education as part of their preparation; Grades 1-7 will be preparing to complete lessons and take their Family Faith On- Line assessments; Second Grader's will continue their First Communion Preparation for April; and we have two students who are in preparation for the sacraments in a fast-track class; High School is in rehearsal for the Stations of the Cross; so many things going on and we are thankful that the students and their parents support the opportunity to attend formation classes at St. Patrick. RCIA OUR ELECT: Please remember to pray for our Elect as well as their Godparents/Sponsors as they walk another week closer on their Lenten journey to full reception into the Catholic Church as a member of St. Patrick. - TJ Bullock / Stephanee Smith ; Buddy Keeton / Pete Parrish ; Shane Davis / Daphne Davis. SERVICE DRIVE: The SPIRIT "Service Drive," is an opportunity that gives SPIRIT Youth the chance to help parishioners and other friends of SPIRIT with yard work, odd jobs, or other assistance in exchange for a donation to help offset SPIRIT functions. No work too big and no donation too small. If you have basic odd jobs you'd like help with, please contact Dale Blanchard to request help. Donations are requested at the end of the job. SVdP FOOD PANTRY Although we are truly grateful for the donations we receive; we have been answering many calls lately which have taken a toll on our pantry shelves. We do our best to be consistent with what we put in our grocery bags. Please see the grocery list in the Growing Thru Action section of the bulletin for the items we need most. SVdP MEETINGS: The next meeting will be Sunday, March 6th after the 10:00 AM Mass, in the conference room. Due to a Communal Penance Service on Tues. 3/15, we will have our 2nd March meeting on Monday, 3/14. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause, however we would like for everyone to have a Blessed and Holy Lenten experience during this year of Mercy. BABY ITEMS NEEDED SVdP is working with a family who lost their home to a house fire. They are also expecting a baby boy in about 6 weeks. If anyone has any new or gently used baby items and baby clothes you would be willing to donate please bring the items to the St. Joseph Hall and place them on the designated table between now and Sunday March 20 th. MUSIC MATTERS: There is an additional Choir rehearsal on MONDAY evening, March 14th at 6pm or as soon as you can get there. We will focus on music for HOLY WEEK that evening since we are only 2 weeks away from Palm Sunday. SHAWL MINISTRY: The Prayer Shawl Ministry will not meet this Monday. Please join us on Monday, March 14 th at 6:30 pm. Interested in joining? Call Mary Evans.

3 ASK AL KC (State Ladies Auxiliaries) are sponsoring a raffle. Ladies Auxiliary has a limited number of tickets for one week in Gatlinburg, TN 2 bedroom-2 bath condo. Tickets are $10 each or 3 for $25. The winner will be drawn at the State Convention on April 30, You do not have to be present to win. Please see Jimmie Chicarello in St. Joseph Hall after Mass on Sunday or her if you would like to purchase a ticket at nonna49@bellsouth.net. SPRINGFEST 2016 SPRINGFEST 32 PLANNING UNDERWAY: Springfest is set for Sunday, May 1 st. Our theme for Springfest 32 is Keep Calm and Springfest. Reaching out to our community is key to ensuring that our Springfest fundraiser is a success. Our flyer will soon be available for you to take and help market this event. In the meantime, please help by sharing our posts on Facebook and promoting our event on social media. Use the hashtag #Springfest32 so that everyone can join the conversation. Remember, if you are willing to give of your time and talents to help make Springfest 32 a success, please feel free to attend a meeting or contact a committee member. This year we need help particularly in the area of children's games. Please prayerfully consider how you can help and reach out to the applicable committee chair (found on the website) in that area of Springfest. SPRINGFEST 2016 RAFFLE TICKETS Please sell the Raffle Tickets you were given to sell. Please try to sell more tickets than your initial packet of 20 sheets. Need more tickets, please ask Gaeton Conte, Ticket Chair Person. SELL SELL SELL by May 1st. TEN PLUS and TWENTY PLUS TICKET SELLERS: We now have twenty-one (21) parishioners who have each sold $ or more of Raffle Tickets so far and are in our Ten Plus Club; and Four (4) of those have now sold $ or more of tickets and are in our Twenty Plus Club. Please see their names on the Springfest website, as well as on the bulletin board in the church hallway. AUCTION: We are continuing our work to get the Springfest auction together for this year. How can you help? We can always use gifts cards in any amount. If you work for a company or have a contact at a business that can offer gift cards or services, could you please solicit on behalf of the committee? You may have an item that you received but would like to re-gift it, give me a call and we will see if we can find a place for it in the auction! Donations will be taken until March 13th. The committee is always looking for new members. If you would like to share your time and talent with the auction, please contact Margaret Pender, Springfest Auction Chairperson. WE NEED PLANTS AND TREE SPROUTS: Just a reminder to all those green thumbs out there make certain and begin to ready your sprouts, cuttings and seedlings for our Springfest 32 plant sale! If you have empty pots that can be used to pot plants for the sale, please place them in the marked area behind St. Joseph Hall. For more information or if you have any questions, please contact our Plant Sale chairperson, Barbara Glover. SVDP Grocery List Cooking Oil Mayo Cereal Crackers Canned Turnip greens Oats Grits Thank you all for your continued generosity in helping us to feed the hungry in our community. ON SALE! If you would like to see this week s sales ad prices, please check out our Facebook group: Feeding the Hungry with SVdp

4 TWO WEEKS LEFT IN 40 DAYS FOR LIFE CAMPAIGN: We continue to take part in 40 Days for Life, and there is still time to be a part of this campaign for Life taking place at Planned Parenthood (1211 South 27 th Place) daily from 7am-5pm. We encourage all people of faith to take part in this campaign. For more information on the campaign, ways to help, and to register please visit: 40daysforlife.com/Birmingham (or call ). SOCIAL COMMITTEE MEETING: All members, and want to be members, of the Social Committee are asked to attend a meeting this Sunday, March 6 th after the 10:00 am Mass. 33 DAYS TO MORNING GLORY Thank you to those who are taking their Lenten Journey with 33 Days to Morning Glory. There are two sessions: 8:30am on Sundays before Mass and 6:30pm on Wednesdays. Both of these sessions are in St. Joseph Hall. Thank you to Joan Marks for leading this program. LENTEN OFFERINGS THE LAST SUPPER: This Sunday evening, March 6 th at 6:30 PM, men from St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church in Gardendale will present a drama of "The Last Supper". This play brings Leonardo Da Vinci's painting to life. The drama allows a glimpse into the mind and heart of each of the men who were present with Jesus at the Last Supper. You don't want to miss this Lenten drama. KATERI CIRCLE will lead Stations of the Cross on March 11 th at 6:30 pm. LIVE STATIONS OF THE CROSS: SPIRIT will be putting on a live Stations of the Cross on Friday March 18th. PENANCE SERVICE: There will be a parish Penance Service on Tuesday, March 15 th at 6:30 pm. SACRED SILENCE...SACRED SPACE - Much appreciation for the attention before Mass to allow some quiet time with Our Lord. It is extremely nice to have our visiting in St. Joseph Hall in fellowship after the weekend liturgies. Continue coming to gather with the Parish family after Mass. Thank you!! LENTEN DAY OF SERVICE Saturday, March 12 th from 7:30 am 3:00 pm. Please sign up to help with this Annual Lenten project of preparing the church, buildings and grounds for the greatest celebration of the year; Easter Sunday! Please give prayerful consideration to your ability to lend your time and talents to this project and sign up in the St. Joseph Hall today. The sign-up sheets will also give us a count to plan food for Breakfast and Lunch. FISH FRY- Our Lenten Fish Fry will be Friday March 18th, from 4:30pm until 7:00 pm, in Saint Joseph hall. We will offer Fish, hush puppies, baked potato, slaw, dessert and drink for $ For children or those who are not fans of fish, we are offering 2 slices of cheese pizza, drink and dessert for $5.00. Take out is available (does not include beverage) Tickets go on sale Saturday February 20th thru Sunday March 13th, after both Masses in the hall. All dinners are pre-sale only. We look forward to having everyone join us for an evening of great food with all Fish Fry proceeds going to Saint Patrick's Church. Thank you for your support, Sumiton Journey Group!

5 A SUNDAY FOR REJOICING Today s Gospel story of the prodigal son is a favorite of many. We can identify with all the major figures and their crisscross of emotions. The father s initial grief over his young son s avarice is turned to relief at his return. The son s grief over his loss of fortune, family, and friends is turned to delirious joy at the sight of his father. We understand the eldest son s bewilderment over his father s generosity. For the older son, virtue seems not to be its own reward. For all his honorable toil and loyalty, there seems to be no celebration. The father, however, is prodigal in his forgiveness and mercy. He expects the same generosity from his older son. He wants all to rejoice when the lost one is found. This is a Sunday for rejoicing. It s time to pause, consider, and encourage one another. We are the prodigal children heading home. We are the elder siblings waiting with the eager Father, who scans the horizon. In Christ Jesus we are reconciled to the Father and one another. In his death and resurrection we have passed over. We are a new creation. In this we rejoice. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co. CHARACTER A simple judge of my character is how I treat a person who can do absolutely nothing for me. Anonymous CLOSER THAN YOU THINK Many of life s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas Edison THANKS TO EVERYONE who supported the Knights of Columbus Boston Butt sales for the Sisters at St. Rose Academy. We sold a total of 74 butts here at St. Patrick and 16 at St. Stanislaus for a total of $ St. Stanislaus donated another $ and St. Patrick donated an additional $ The cost of the meet was $ The total profit donated to the Nuns was $ A special thanks to the Jasper Knights of Columbus who cooked the meat.

6 Please check the 2 nd Collection column each week for correct dates of current and upcoming collections. 2 nd Collection Weekly Mass Schedule Capital Imp. Saturday 03/05 4:00 pm Marie Elaine Burritt - Sunday 03/06 10:00 am Mass for the People Monday 03/07 No Mass Tuesday 03/08 No Mass Wednesday 03/09 9:00 am Greg Skocik - Thursday 03/10 9:00 am Fr. Michael Wriggley - Friday 03/11 9:00 St. Stanislaus School Subsidy Saturday 03/12 4:00 pm Butch Evans - Sunday 03/13 10:00 am Mass for the People Weekly Events and Meetings Sunday Mar. 06 The Fourth Sunday of Lent Mass 10:00 am Children s Liturgy Choir 8:30 am 33 Days 8:30 am Children s Liturgy Social Committee meeting after Mass St. Vincent de Paul after Mass Last Supper Presentation 6:30 Monday Mar. 07 No Prayer Shawl Ministry 6:30 Tuesday Wednesday Mar. 08 RCIA 6:00 pm Mar 09 Mass 9:00 am Legion of Mary 9:45 am Faith Formation 6:30 sharp! 33 Days 6:30 pm Thursday Mar. 10 Mass 9:00 am Friday Mar. 11 Stations of the Cross 6:30 pm Saturday Mar. 12 The Vigil of The Fifth Sunday of Lent - Mass 4:00 pm Lenten Day of Service 7:30 am 3:00 pm Sunday Mar. 13 The Fifth Sunday of Lent Mass 10:00 am 33 Days 8:30 am Children s Liturgy VISITS TO THE SICK If you are ill and in need of the Sacraments and would like a visit from Fr. Vernon, he has asked that you (or an immediate family member if you are too ill) contact him through the church office. The surest way of getting the message to Father is by speaking to him personally during office hours or calling the church office and leaving a message either on the answering machine or with a member of the office staff. NOTE CHANGE!! DAILY MASS MINISTRY: Volunteers are needed to be Lectors and Extraordinary Ministers during Daily Mass. If you would like to serve please check in at the office 15 minutes before Mass begins. LOST AND FOUND: There are several articles in lost and found. Please call the Church Office for assistance. NEW CENSUS CARD PLEASE: If any of your information has changed, please take the time to fill out a new census card completely. Not sure? Fill one out anyway and don t forget to mark your choices on the privacy line. That is, let us know if we can share your address and phone information with your fellow parishioners. This line is located under the Home phone/(s) /wife s Maiden Name line.