Sunday, March 11, 2018

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1 Sunday, March 11, 2018

2 Pentecost The Twelfth Fourth Most Holy Sunday June Trinity June of Lent Ordinary - March 4, 2017 Time 11, 11, 2017 June , Saint 2017 Andrew Saint the Andrew Apostle the the Parish Apostle Parish Page 2 Stewardship is a way of life. Tithing is God s Plan for Giving: February 25, 2018 Tithing Income $7, Tithe $ Actual Income $6, Weekly Budget $7, Poor Box $ Children s Offerings $ 7.00 Lenten Concert Beauty & Hope in Suffering Saint Andrew Parish is offering a Special Lenten Presentation & Concert with Music & Spoken Word by Jaime Thietten, Sunday, March 18 at 7:00pm in the Church. Following the concert, there will be light refreshments in the school hall with an opportunity to meet Jaime and to purchase her CD s. A free will offering will be taken up with a portion of the donations to be given to the school. Please be generous! Thank you! Next weekend, March 17-18, our parish will take up The Catholic Relief Services Collection (CRSC). Funds from this collection help provide food to the hungry, support to displaced refugees, and bring Christ s love and mercy to all people here at home and abroad. Your contributions to the CRSC support six Catholic agencies that uphold the dignity of human life around the world. These organizations provide humanitarian aid, advocate for the marginalized, and provide services and pastoral care to vulnerable communities. Your support is needed to continue this important work. Next week, please prayerfully consider giving generously to the CRSC, and help Jesus in disguise. Today, March 11, 2018 CCD Classes Sunday 9:30-10:45am for Kindergarten High School 10:50 thru 11am Mass for 3yr & 4yr Preschool Next Weekend, March 17/18, 2018 CCD Classes Sunday 9:30-10:45am for Kindergarten High School 10:50 thru 11am Mass for 3yr & 4yr Preschool Youth Group 6-8pm, School Hall Youth Group Soup Sales after Masses in School hall Minister Schedule If you are unable to serve, please find a substitute. Thank you. Saturday, March 17, 5pm: EMHC Karen Lison, Martin Lison, Mary Little, 1 Needed; Altar Servers Austin Linn, Blake Linn, Ryan Linn; Lector Jan Strait; Gift Bearers Carol Cool, Anne Fritzinger, 1 Needed; Greeters Anne Fritzinger, Elaine Sneeringer Sunday, March 18, 8:00am: EMHC Anne Bonner, Rick Baker, Mike Geoffroy, Anne Hefner; Altar Servers Bella Cartwright, Audrey Foreman, Tanner Barvir; Lector Mimi Lising; Gift Bearers Christine Bradley, Teresa Wile, Pattie Wise; Greeters Terry Shockey, Ginny Shockey Sunday, March 18, 11:00am: EMHC Belen Aid Bautista, Richard Cook, Teresa Woodring, 1 Needed; Altar Servers Emma Bercaw, Gaven Dingle, Nicholai Moreno; Lector 1 Needed; Gift Bearers April Berendt, Emil Berendt, Mary Skehan; Greeters Samantha Cook, Bernadine Null Please volunteer for the needed spots on the Ministry Schedule on the Website. This week: 3/11: Raylynn Gladhill, Jo Willard; Stan McElhaney, Jim Barnes, Paulette Remick, Judy Huber; Bill Beyier, Dawn Bowders, Bernetta Patridge, Robert Topper, Paul Doty, Becky & Jeffrey Schreck, Jr., Marie Keen; Ronnie Starry, Paul E. Decker; Paul Schur, Don Breinich; Eileen Duke; Woodard Poper, Nicole Lyons; Louise West; Carolyn Krouse, Monica Wishard, Liz Jobes, Betty Powers, Ralph & Gladys Wetzel, Dorothea Peters, Eliana Bettwy, Catherine Hinkle, Charles Gladhill, Joe Adams, Seth Stine, Helen Hemler, Donna Krietz, Emma Loomis; Prayer List Policy: To help focus our prayers, names are kept on the list for one month. If someone is still in need of prayer, notify the office to list them for another month for as long as prayers are needed.

3 Seventh Pentecost Seventeenth Sixth Second The Twenty-First Fifth Third Fourth Most Transfiguration Holy Sunday June in of Body of Ordinary of Easter April Lent Easter May of and - - -the Ordinary March February Blood 4, (Sunday Time Lord , 30, -of 11, 18, August 28, 2018 February Time Christ of 25, Divine 2018 July June August 6, 4, 11, Saint Mercy) April , , 2017 Andrew 27, Saint 2017 Andrew the Saint 23, Saint Apostle 2017 Andrew the Saint Apostle Parish the the the Andrew Apostle Parish the Parish Apostle Parish Page 3 3 Mass Schedule Mass of Anticipation 5:00 PM For the People / Pro Populo Sunday, March 11, 2018 Fourth Sunday of Lent 8:00 AM Rose Marie Gullett 11:00 AM Gale Krawczak Monday, March 12 8:00 AM Patricia Topper Tuesday, March 13 8:00 AM John Jobes Wednesday, March 14 Saints Perpetua & Felicity, Martyrs 8:00 AM Vincenza LoPiccolo 6:30 PM Dorothy Willhide 7:15-8:00 PM Confessions Thursday, March 15 Saint John of God, Religious 8:00 AM Gale Krawczak Friday, March 16 Saint Frances of Rome, Religious 9:30AM John Jobes 7:00 Stations of the Cross Saturday, March 17 8:00 AM Elizabeth & Leo Doyle 3:30 Confessions Mass of Anticipation 5:00 PM Buck Wagaman Sunday, March 18, 2018 Fifth Sunday of Lent 8:00 AM For the People / Pro Populo 11:00 AM Robert Seebach Memorialize the Sanctuary Lamp: You are invited to memorialize the sanctuary lamp that burns 24 hours a day to remind us of the Lord s presence in the Tabernacle. Call the parish office to arrange for a 2-week period. New Books, Pamphlets, & CD's for Lent have been added to our bookshelves at the entrance of the church for Easter & Lent. There are many books/videos for children, new CD's, and interesting books on the a number of spiritual and faith based topics. Be Restored by God's Mercy Using the highly-acclaimed Augustine Institute program, Symbolon and Forgiven: The Transforming Power of Confession, A Lent to Remember explores the ways God reaches out to each of us with his mercy. Through Christ s suffering on the cross in the Paschal Mystery and his perpetual reception of his people in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, God makes his love, his very self, present to us in the world. By reflecting on the Paschal Mystery and making a step-by-step examination of the Rite of Confession, A Lent to Remember communicates God s invitation to each one of us to come experience his indescribable love this Lent. Log onto Formed.org and set up your own account using the parish code: 3YWE4F Parish Ministries Directory Boy Scouts Fred Shetter Cemetery Joe Little Church Cleaning Crew Kathy Osbourn Council of Catholic Women Elaine Sneeringer Finance Council Chair Charlie Willhide Knights of Columbus Javier Estrada (240) Music Director Kathy Bourdeau Natural Family Planning Jeff & Marcia Moyer Parish Council Chair Chris Dennis Parish Nurse Program Margy Cook Betty Green Prayer Chain Bernie Null Judy Baker Pro-Life Committee Marcia Moyer SCRIP Jen Dennis x209 St Andrew Board of Education Perry Sandy Social Outreach & Advocacy Ministries Marie Maisie DiGiammarino Lucy Ivins Spirited Singles John Hoffman St. Andrew Seniors Joy McDonald Waynesboro Fellowship of Churches Patricia Muir Youth Group Jen Nelson standrewsyouth316@gmail.com To our new parishioners Thomas Gracik and Virginia Shea. Please do your part to welcome them into the Saint Andrew Community!

4 Palm Seventh Sixth Second Twenty-First Fifth Third Fourth Sunday April in of of Ordinary of Easter April Lent Easter May -9, Saint Ordinary March February (Sunday Time 4, 30, -11, 18, 28, 2018 February Time Andrew of 25, Divine 2018 August the 4, 11, Saint Mercy) April Apostle 2018 Andrew 27, Saint 2017 Parish Andrew the Saint 23, Saint Apostle 2017 Andrew the Saint Apostle Parish the the Andrew Apostle Parish the Parish Apostle Page Parish 6 Page 4 4 Hygiene/Relief Kits for Refugees Social Outreach Ministry This Lent (February 17 through March 18), our Social Outreach Ministry will collect hygiene items for Cumberland Valley Relief Center refugee kits. Please limit your donations to the following items and place them in the marked bin in the back of the church: adult size toothbrushes, individually wrapped bars of bath soap, medium weight hand and bath towels (no light colors). All items must be new and in original packaging. Thanks for your help with this project. SOCIAL OUTREACH MINISTRY Our next Social Outreach meeting will be Monday, April 9, when we will review yearly projects and future meeting calendar; and look at the Forty-two Ways to Practice the Corporal Works of Mercy pamphlet published by Liguori Press. Saint Andrew s Youth Group Upcoming Events Laser Bowling April 7 th from 9:30pm- Midnight Hershey Park June 2 nd. If your youth is interested in attending any of these events, please contact Jen Nelson at standrewsyouth316@gmail.com. Mark your calendars for the CCW Yard Sale, June 8 9! Think of us when doing your spring cleaning and drop off your items in the School Hall on June 6 & 7. Please place the items in boxes if possible. For questions or further information, please contact Jo Spigler, ; Kathy Osbourn, Were you married in 1968? In honor of your 50 th Wedding Anniversary, there will be a special Mass and reception on Sunday, July 8, 2018 at 2:00pm at Good Shepherd Parish in Camp Hill. Bishop Ronald W. Gainer will be the celebrant. To receive an invitation, please contact the parish office, ext 5, by April 13 if you are celebrating your 50th Wedding Anniversary this year. LENTEN PENANCE SERVICE Thursday, March 22 at 6:30PM Several priests will be available for individual confessions The Women of CCW are honored to offer a Soup Supper before Stations of the Cross on the fourth Friday of Lent, March 16, from 5:30pm to 8:00pm. 5:30pm -6:55pm Soup, Bread & Drinks in the School Cafeteria 7:00pm 8:00pm Stations of the Cross in the Church The event is free and open to everyone! Bring your family, invite your friends, eat, pray and renew your faith. Follow in Jesus footsteps. This is a wonderful way to continue your Lenten Journey! HERSHEY PARK DIS- COUNT TICKETS It s not too early to think about your summer plans, especially when you can save over 50%! Discount tickets to Hershey Park are available for purchase to families of the parish & school at a significant savings. Regular Gate admission is $67.80 for all (age 3 and over.) This year there is just one price for all, but the price has been deeply discounted at $29.95 for early group orders. Tickets are valid one day from April 27 Sept. 30, Also available is a discount on Hershey Park Meal $11.99 each and include an entrée, side and large cold beverage or regular hot beverage. Orders must be received at the parish office by Friday, March 23, 2018 to get this early order price! Order forms are available in the parish or school office and on the bulletin board in the vestibule. Knights of Columbus Regular Council Mtg Thursday, March 15, 7:30pm.

5 Seventh Pentecost Seventeenth Sixth Second Twelfth The Twenty-First Fifth Third Fourth Most Transfiguration Holy Sunday June in of Body Trinity June of Ordinary of Easter April Lent Easter May of and - - -the Ordinary March February Blood 4, (Sunday Time Lord 2017 Time 11, 4, 30, -of 11, 18, August 28, 2018 February Time 2017 June Christ of 25, Divine 2018 July June 25, August 6, 4, 11, Saint Mercy) April , , 2017 Andrew 27, Saint 2017 Andrew the Saint 23, Saint Apostle 2017 Andrew the the Saint Apostle Parish the the the Andrew Apostle Parish the Parish Apostle Parish Page Sunday, March 11, 2018 Fourth Sunday of Lent, 2nd Scrutiny of the Elect 1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a; Ephesians 5:8-14; John 9:1-41 The second creation account in the book of Genesis tells us how the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life (Gen 2:7, NABRE). God was the first potter! God was the first to have the pleasure of taking dust and water, mixing it and smoothing it. And then drawing it into a divine image into which God breathed God s very own life. This Sunday s gospel tells of another divine potter Jesus, the Son of God who uses his own saliva to mix with the dust of the earth, make clay, and use it to bring new seeing and believing out of a blind beggar. All the man needed to do was to obey Jesus command to Go wash. He did so, and recreated to see with the new eyes of faith. Through baptism we come to a new seeing and we are recreated into being more perfect members of the Body of Christ, more truth-filled images of God. Our own believing-responding to Jesus continually re recreates us with new spiritual insight, with deeper believing, with more sure understanding of who Jesus is for us and who we are to be for others. This long gospel intertwines many conversationencounters on many levels. There is the conversationencounter of the miracle: Jesus touched, the man went and washed. There are the conversation-encounters of relationships: the disciples and Jesus, Jesus and the blind man, the neighbors and the blind man, parents and Pharisees, Pharisees and the blind man, Pharisees and Jesus. There are conversation-encounters about seeing: gaining sight, resisting sight; coming to faith; resisting faith. Lent invites us into the same conversation-encounters with Jesus, in which we choose either to be drawn toward Jesus or to turn away from him. Which do we choose? This is our lifelong baptismal challenge. The miracle recorded in this gospel is less about a blind man receiving his sight than about the openness of the blind man to having an encounter with Jesus, his willingness to enter into a conversation with him, and his readiness to believe and respond in worship. This gospel challenges those who are preparing for the Easter sacraments to deepen their faith in Jesus power to recreate them as members of his Body. It challenges all of us to deepen their faith so that we, too, are recreated with ever new Life. Then, like the blind man whom Jesus helps to see, we can exclaim I do believe and worship with raised hearts and voices. From Living Liturgy From our Pastor s Pen... The Anniversary of our Diocese - Part I by Father Edward Quinlan This year we will observe the 150 th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Harrisburg. It is a good time to ask how we got here. In one sense the story always begins with Jesus call of the Apostles and the founding of the Church. But what about the Church in our country? The first parish in what will later become the United States is founded in the city of St. Augustine in Florida. With the arrival of Spanish settlers and accompanying priests, Mass is offered and a church built. Both the city and the church are named for the saint on whose feast day the voyagers first sighted land a little further down the Florida coast. The first Mass will be celebrated with land fall there on September 8, 1565, the birthday of Mary. In the original 13 colonies the story is different. Many early settlements were created by different Protestant groups fleeing persecution in England and Europe. The most familiar were the Pilgrims who settled in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, while seeking religious freedom for themselves they were not often prepared to extend it to others. Catholics were decidedly not welcome in these settlements, and the presence of the Catholic Church was formally forbidden by English law. The exceptions to this were in Maryland, the colony founded by the Calvert family, who were devout Catholics and other place Catholics were welcome was in our own state of Pennsylvania. William Penn and the Quakers who establish our state were very respectful and tolerated other faiths. In 1720 a Jesuit priest was sent to Maryland for Catholics in the central colonies. Eventually he will move to Philadelphia in order to establish missions for Catholic families in Pennsylvania and beyond. He will build what is affectionately called Old St. Josephs near Independence Hall in This is the first public Catholic church in the colonies and remains in operation today. A few years later he will request the assistance of German speaking Jesuits to help with the significant German Catholic population in the state. St. Mary s Church in Lancaster and Sacred Heart Church in Conewago, both started as mission chapels, also date to the mid 1700 s and will serve as bases for the wide ranging missions extending throughout central and western Pennsylvania.

6 Seventh Pentecost Seventeenth Sixth Second Twelfth The Twenty-First Fifth Third Fourth Most Transfiguration Holy Sunday June in of Body Trinity June of Ordinary of Easter April Lent Easter May of and - - -the Ordinary March February Blood 4, (Sunday Time Lord 2017 Time 11, 4, 30, -of 11, 18, August 28, 2018 February Time 2017 June Christ of 25, Divine 2018 July June 25, August 6, 4, 11, Saint Mercy) April , , 2017 Andrew 27, Saint 2017 Andrew the Saint 23, Saint Apostle 2017 Andrew the the Saint Apostle Parish the the the Andrew Apostle Parish the Parish Apostle Parish Page Monday, March 12, 2018 Isaiah 65:17-21; John 4:43-54 What caused an anxious parent of a dying child to accept Jesus word as sufficient? Your son will live is not medicine. These four words are not magic. Yet they were enough because of the authority of the one who spoke them. Do we believe in the words of Jesus in the same way? Try living as if you do. Start with accepting that your sins are forgiven. This is the miracle of new life that Jesus promises us now and when his Kingdom comes. Tuesday, March 13, 2018 Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12; John 5:1-16 Not long before Jesus heals the sick man at the pool, he encounters the Samaritan woman at the well. The stories have much in common. Neither knew who Jesus was or the power he possessed, but Jesus knew everything about them and offers to wash away their troubles, in fact, without them having to ask or repent first. Both were afflicted and shunned for a long time, coming to the water alone with nobody to help them. Jesus goes ahead and heals them, before they have a clue. But isn t that just like God? Giving us what no one else will give? Giving it to us before we have the sense to ask? Our job: Tell others of God s amazing grace. Wednesday, March 14, 2018 Isaiah 49:8-15; John 5:17-30 God worked to create the world in six days and then rested on the seventh. Thereafter, all creation was called to rest on the seventh day and to observe with God a sabbath of holiness. But the gospel reminds us that God s work continues even after quittin time. Jesus therefore ignores the whistle and stays at his post, doing the work of God even as the world rests from its labors. God s mercy and compassion know no rest. They continue as long as human weakness is in need of healing. Followers of Jesus, therefore, punch in at Baptism and stay on the job until the work is done. Friday, March 16, 2018, A Day of Absinence Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22; John 7:1-2, 10, Where Jesus came from was always a source of trouble. King Herod went after all the babies around Bethlehem because of the prophecy that said the next king would come from there. People later scoffed to hear that Jesus was raised in Nazareth a town that didn t get any respect in cosmopolitan Jerusalem. Some also complained that Jesus came from anywhere at all, because the Messiah s origins ought to be a bit more mysterious. But no one seemed to get where Jesus was coming from in a cosmic sense: from the One who sent him. Are we as clear about our origins? Saturday, March 17, 2018 Saint Patrick, Bishop & Missionary Jeremiah 11:18-20; John 7:40-53 Until the mid-1800s most Irish immigrants in America were middle-class Protestants, but in 1845 Ireland s Great Potato Famine forced nearly 1 million of its poor Catholics to flee to America s shores. Open and hostile anti- Catholicism made it difficult for the new arrivals to find work and be accepted in American society. What helped the Irish Catholics, they soon discovered, was their large population, which when organized gave them political power. There is strength in numbers whether it is in fighting prejudice or showing compassion. Get yourselves and others organized around a just cause and become a force to be reckoned with. The Harrisburg Diocesan Council of Catholic Women cordially invites all women of the Diocese to attend the 93rd Annual Convention, Monday, April 16, 2018 from 9am 4pm at the Cardinal Keeler Center, Harrisburg, PA. The theme is Joined in Christ. Bishop Ronald W. Gainer is the principle celebrant & homilist at Mass. The keynote speaker is Rose Folsom, speaking on Cultivating the Garden of Your Soul. Contact Linda at or linda.hartzell@comcast.net to register. Thursday, March 15, 2018 Exodus 32:7-14; John 5:31-47 As Lent proceeds, one of the temptations that can sidetrack us is to start feeling pretty good about ourselves: I am keeping my resolution, I am praying more, I ve asked God to forgive my sins. Soon our hands folded in prayer become fingers pointing at others: They gossip, they lie and steal, they are weak and sinful. We may not be that obvious, but the readings today show that the religious leaders were quick to misjudge. We can t let the good that Lent is doing for us evaporate by failing to embrace and love others. St. Patrick Day Celebration! Saint Patrick s Day Dinner and Dance, Saturday, March 17 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, Leitersburg Pike, Leitersburg, MD. Doors open at 6pm. Corned Beef and Cabbage, Wearin O the Green. Adults $15, children under12, $6. For tickets, call Fred Nugent at or fnugent@verizon.net.