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 BOTH PARISHES : Monday-Thursday from 9:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. (Closed 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. for lunch) Friday, 9:00 a.m. 12:00 Noon Rev. Donald Czelusniak, Pastor Larry Groesbeck, Deacon CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT served by: Karen Hoose, Director of Faith Formation Liz Anderson, Pastoral Assoc. for Business Administration Barbara Rieth, Parish Secretary Ann Simonson, Youth Minister Adam Valachovic, Buildings & Grounds CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST Saturday Vigil - 4:00 P.M. Sunday - 11:30 A.M. HOLY TRINITY served by: Mary Pradelski & Jaime Kosowicz, Parish Secretaries (rcchurch@holytrinityjohnstown.com) Cindy Kollar, Faith Formation Coordinator (ckollar@holytrinityjohnstown.com) Jeannie Popp, Administrator for Finance & Cemeteries (jpopp@holytrinityjohnstown.com) Kevin Quinn, Plant Manager Joe Polidore, Chair of Joint Pastoral Council CELEBRATION OF THE EUCHARIST Sunday - 8:00 A.M. & 10:00 A.M. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Every Saturday 3:15 P.M.-3:45 P.M. at Holy Spirit. Also, First Wednesday of the month 7:30 P.M., alternating monthly between parishes.

2 January 1, 2017 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): Karen Hoose 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 is available, free of charge, at Holy Trinity Parish for those in need. WEDNESDAY EVENING DEVOTIONS: 7:00 P.M.-7:30 P.M. In January the Wednesday Evening Devotions will be at Holy Spirit with Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the Divine Mercy Chaplet, 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.-3:45 P.M., Saturday at Holy Spirit AND First Wednesday of the Month 7:30 P.M., alternating monthly between the parishes. January Holy Spirit. PASTOR S MESSAGE: The value of suffering Euthanasia supporters do not consider logical consequences-or suffering s redemptive nature. Question: I have a question about physician-assisted suicide (euthanasia). Why does the Church teach it is wrong to allow a person to die when they are suffering badly? I think we appear as cruel by insisting that people suffer so. How do you answer this? Answer: Euthanasia is not the same as allowing a person to die. Euthanasia is the direct and active killing of a person, usually with drugs or some other manner such as starving a person to death by removing a feeding tube. Allowing a person to die is sometimes a justified decision to stop using machines and other extensive medical interventions that keep a person alive. When the dying process is clearly underway, we are not obliged to make extensive and burdensome medical interventions. We are obliged to provide the dying with comfort and pain relief, and to supply food and water, even if administered by a tube. You are correct in noting that suffering and its meaning is ultimately a key focus in the matter of euthanasia. And for the Church, two hurdles exist regarding suffering in order to make the case against euthanasia. The first hurdle is that in an increasingly post-christian, secular world, suffering has no positive meaning at all. St. Paul wrote that the cross was an absurdity to the Gentiles (1 Cor 1:23). Yet, Christ commanded us to carry our cross and set this at the heart of true discipleship. For a catechized Christian, the cross of suffering has rich meaning. It teaches us humility, brings us wisdom, purifies us, develops gifts in us and brings the promise of glory. To a secular, often godless culture, much of this is absurdity. Suffering (especially without obvious rewards near at hand) is all but meaningless and cruel. The Church, thus, faces the hurdle of reproposing the cross to a resistant world. The second hurdle is the modern tendency to base many arguments in feelings and emotional notions of happiness. Doing what is right is not always easy, but in the modern world, if a truth or moral principle makes someone sad, or angry, or unhappy, the presumption too often is that what is proposed is therefore bad or wrong. With these hurdles in mind, the most fruitful argument seems to center on warning of the dangerous consequences of legalizing euthanasia. The right to die soon becomes the duty to die. And thus the elderly, the handicapped and the chronically ill become far more pressured to end it all. Insurance coverage and the priorities of the medical field are likely to shift away from care to exit strategies. Some invoke privacy and the right to do with their own READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 1, 2017 HAPPY NEW YEAR Sunday: Nm 6:22-27/Ps 67/Gal 4:4-7/Lk 2:16-21 Monday: 1 Jn 2:22-28/Ps 98/Jn 1:19-28 Tuesday: 1 Jn 2:29--3:6/Ps 98/Jn 1:29-34 Wednesday: 1 Jn 3:7-10/Ps 98/Jn 1:35-42 Thursday: 1 Jn 3:11-21/Ps 100/Jn 1:43-51 Friday: 1 Jn 5:5-13/Ps 147/Mk 1:7-11 or Lk 3:23-28 or 3:23, 31-34, 36, 38 Saturday: 1 Jn 5:14-21/Ps 149/Jn 2:1-11

3 January 1, 2017 The Church of the Holy Spirit Collection information for the week of: December 18, 2016 Regular Collection 12/18/16 $4, Envelopes $3, Loose $ Online $ Christmas Flowers $ Immaculate Conception $ Attendance 4:00 P.M. 159 ~ 11:30 A.M. 157 Holy Trinity Parish Collection information for the week of: December 18, 2016 Regular Collection 12/18/16 $2, Envelopes $2, Loose $ Flowers $95.00 Christmas $45.00 Other $5.00 Attendance 8:00 A.M. 122 ~ 10:00 A.M. 165 LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR THE WEEKEND OF JANUARY 7 & 8, 2017 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT LECTORS EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION ALTAR SERVERS 4:00 P.M. Julie Ambrosino Vince LaPorta, Ann Masala, Jim Semione Katie & Mike Mark Amico 11:30 A.M. Matt Trainor Stan Karpinski, Richard Nigro, Ron Zimmerman Erin, Colin, Preston HOLY TRINITY PARISH LECTOR EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF COMMUNION ALTAR SERVERS 8:00 A.M. Pat O Lucci Peter & Louise O Lucci, Rebecca Weiderman Colleen & Emily Long 10:00 A.M. Willow Carey Liz & Echo Carey, Cindy Kollar Chase Benton Kyle Salamack SANCTURY CANDLES: We have openings for 2017 at Holy Spirit. The cost is $12.00 for a two week period. Call the parish office if you are interested ( ). WINE & HOSTS for the month of January at Holy Spirit are given in memory of Martha Louise Toner, beloved mother and grandmother to Teshia & Veronica Shults, by the Youth Ministry Framily. We have some months open in The cost is $50:00 for each wine and hosts. Call the parish office If you would like a copy of your 2016 Contribution Report, please fill out this coupon and drop it in the collection basket, drop it off at the offices or mail to the parish office. NAME ENVELOPE # ADDRESS MOTHER TERESA S CLOSET: Adoration of Our Lord O my Lord! O my King! Perpetual Adoration Fulton Montgomery Deanery. Look for us on Facebook. Thank you so much for the help we received from all those who bought gifts and food products for the five families we helped for Christmas which included a family who suffered a fire and lost everything. Your continuous generosity is truly overwhelming. We were so blessed to receive monetary donations from our Men s Club & private donors to Mother Teresa s Closet. Without your help this ministry would not be able to survive. We currently help over 100 families monthly.

4 CHURCH OF THE HOLY SPIRIT FAITH FORMATION NEWS: Karen Hoose, Director of Faith Formation Solemnity of Mary, The Holy Mother of God HOLY TRINITY PARISH FAITH FORMATION NEWS: Cindy Kollar, Faith Formation Coordinator There will be no Faith Formation classes the weekend of January 1 st. Emmaus Meetings to begin! Our Emmaus Retreat for our 9 th graders is scheduled for March 17-19, We will begin meetings to prepare for this Encounter with Christ on Sunday, January 8, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at the Spirit Central Youth Ministry Café. ANYONE who feels a call to help our young people journey closer to Christ in preparation for their Confirmation can come to the meeting on the 8th or contact Ann Simonson ( ) or Karen Hoose ( ). It is an experience you will never forget! Carols and Cookies: A big THANK YOU to all who participated in our Carols and Cookies last Sunday with our elementary students. Thank you to the children who sang, the catechists who helped prepare them, the families that brought cookies and juice and filled a box with gloves and hats for children in our local schools. An especially big thank you to Amber Murphy, Jennifer Huckans, Loren Iorio, and Jennifer Gillis who planned this event, as well as others throughout the year, for our children. They (and their families) did a wonderful job to bring us all together for one FRIDAY S TABLE-Our parishioners have always been very generous to this very important outreach program. At this very special time of the year we especially appreciate your support, as the demand for our help is always increasing. There are envelopes in the pews for your convenience. The collection box at the main entrance needs to be replaced as the last one There will be no Faith Formation classes the weekend of January 1 st. I wish all the families, catechists and parishioners a very Blessed Christmas and a Healthy New Year. A reminder to all Burda Scholarship Recipients. Please submit your fall semester grades to the Pastoral Office at Holy Trinity Parish by January 9, 2017, or as soon as you FREE BUS TO WASHINGTON, D.C. Any parishioner from Holy Trinity or Holy Spirit can take advantage of a bus that will be going to the March for Life 2017 on Friday, January 27. We will be attending the Youth Rally at the Verizon Center before participating in the March from the National Mall to the Supreme Court. Call Chris Nunn ( ) or see the flyers at the church entrances for more information. BINGO WORKERS: Thanks for your help all year! Happy New Year. Bingo Workers Needed! The Church of the Holy Spirit bingo program is held each Saturday evening in the Church hall. We need more workers in order for the program to continue in 2017 and the future! Several very loyal parishioners can no longer serve due to family commitments so we need others to step forward and replace them. Without more help, the few remaining workers will be stretched and need to work every second or third Saturday. That is a huge sacrifice to ask of them and their families. If you could serve your church one Saturday evening every 4 or 5 weeks, please contact Ron for details. Bingo has always been an important source of income to our parish. In addition, it provides much needed entertainment and social outlet for the wider community. For these reasons, we are appealing to you to keep OUR COUNTRY NEEDS OUR PRAYERS: Please join us to pray the Rosary to Our Lady of Fatima on the first Saturday of each month at 10:00 A.M. at the Trackside Homes meeting room in Johnstown. This group is not a part of the Holy Trinity Rosary Society. We are a group of men and women who have come together to pray for our country to Our Lady of Fatima and to follow her Children s bulletin this week deals with Joseph Takes Mary and Jesus to Egypt. Please take a few minutes to share the activities with your children. These bulletins are available at the entrances of Holy Trinity Church.

5 Church of the Holy Spirit & Holy Trinity Catholic Church When they saw this, they made known the message that had been told them about this child. All who heard it were amazed by what had been told them by the shepherds. And Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. - Lk 2:17-19 HOLY SPIRIT MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK OF JANUARY 1, 2017 JOHN V. FERDICO REQUESTED BY VIRGINIA & ARCHIE FYFE & FAMILY CATHERINE LANDRIO REQUESTED BY SANDY YACOBUCCI MICHAEL DIMARCO REQUESTED BY HANK & MARIE BORN JEAN DESJARDINS REQUESTED BY JOHN & SHARON POLING SUN. 10:00 A.M. HAPPY NEW YEAR MASS AT HOLY TRINITY MON. 8:30 A.M. NO DAILY MASS TUES. 8:30 A.M. MASS AT HOLY TRINITY WED. 8:30 A.M. MASS AT HOLY TRINITY THURS. 8:30 A.M. CATHERINE LANDRIO REQUESTED BY DAVID RENDA & LINDA WAGAR THANKSGIVING TO ST. JUDE REQUESTED BY DEVOTEE FRI. 8:30 A.M. MARY SAVAGE REQUESTED BY JOHN & ANGIE SAVAGE MEMORIAL MASS SAL LANDRIO REQUESTED BY FAMILY JEAN DESJARDINS REQUESTED BY VICTOR & FRANK BASILEO VIOLA BUCCI REQUESTED BY ROSE SARRAINO ARTHUR BYRNE REQUESTED BY GINGER TRIPPODO SUN. 11:30 A.M. MICHAEL DIMARCO REQUESTED BY JAMIN CLEMENTE JOSEPH & CAROLINE MULONE REQUESTED BY TERESA HOLY TRINITY MASS INTENTIONS FOR WEEK OF JANUARY 1, 2017 SUN. 10:00 A.M. TOM FRAUMANE REQUESTED BY LISE WILSON & FAMILY RICHARD MAXIAN, JR. & RICHARD MAXIAN, SR. (8TH ANN) REQUESTED BY KITTY DILLON DAVID HORNIDGE REQUESTED BY REBECCA, BONNIE, KEN & CHILDREN MASS FOR THE PEOPLE MON. 8:30 A.M. NO DAILY MASS TUES. 8:30 A.M. MASS FOR THE PEOPLE WED. 8:30 A.M. MASS FOR THE PEOPLE THURS. 8:30 A.M. FRI. 8:30 A.M. SUN. 8:00 A.M. DOUGLASS CORRELL REQUESTED BY JOHN & KAREN SAGAN BILL HERRICK REQUESTED BY JUDY WORMUTH RICHARD MAXIAN, JR. REQUESTED BY HOLY TRINITY STAFF & FAMILY MASS FOR THE PEOPLE SUN. 10:00 A.M. OLIVIA DAVIS REQUESTED BY JEANNE & BILL BROWN FRANK MADONNA REQUESTED BY MARION CASSIDY DAVID RUBINO Pray for Charles Farrar and all who have gone to their heavenly reward and all who are sick or recuperating at home. The Parish Offices of Holy Spirit and Holy Trinity will be Closed on Monday January 2nd.