Church Office: Telephone: 907-225-2570 Fax: 907-225-2571 Web site: www.holynamektn.org Email: churchoffice@holynamektn.org Facebook.com/holynameketchikan Holy Name Parish Ketchikan s Catholic Church and School 433 Jackson Street, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901 Pastor: Fr. Patrick Travers pjtravers@att.net Telephone: 907-225-2575 Director of Religious Education: Vincent Marcantonio Email: v.marcantonio@holynamektn.org Telephone: 907-225-2120 Secretary: Shelly Tradel Email: churchoffice@holynamektn.org Business Office: businessoffice@holynamektn.org Telephone: 907-225-2572 School Administrator & Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Coordinator Nicole Miller n.miller@holynamektn.org Telephone: 907-204-0563 Music Ministry: Chaz Staunton chazstaunton@gmail.com Telephone: 907-617-1438 School Office: Telephone: 907-225-2400 Fax: 907-247-0041 Email: schooloffice@holynamektn.org Website: holynameschoolketchikan.org Lord s Day Masses: Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM Sunday: 9:30 AM and 5:30 PM Weekday Masses: Monday thru Thursday 12:10PM Friday 8:45 AM School Mass First Saturday of the month: 9:00 AM Pioneer Home Mass: 2 nd and 4 th Mondays of the month: 11:00 AM Hospital Mass: 1 st and 3 rd Wednesday of the month: 11:00 AM Sacrament of Penance: Saturday: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM or by appt. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Saturdays at 4:00PM Rosary: Saturday at 5:00 PM, Sunday at 9:00 AM [Please see next page for any schedule changes] Thirty Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time 26, November 2017
MONDAY 27 November 34 th Week in Ordinary Time 11:00 AM Pioneer Home Mass 5:15 PM Lion Den (bh) 5:45 PM Webelo I (gym) TUESDAY 28 November 34 th Week in Ordinary Time 5:00 PM RDQ (ph) 5:15 PM Bears (gym) 5:30 PM Choir Practice 5:45 PM Tigers (bh) 6:00 PM District Meet (cr) 6:15 PM Tigers 2 (ph) 6:30 PM Confirmation WEDNESDAY 29 November 34 th Week in Ordinary Time 5:00 PM Wolves (gym) 6:15 PM Webelos 2 (gym) THURSDAY 30 November St. Andrew 5:15 PM Webelos 2 (gym) 6:45 PM Scouts (gym) FRIDAY 1 December 34 th Week in Ordinary Time 10:00 AM Friday Freeloaders (ph) 8:45 AM School Mass First Friday SATURDAY 2 December First Saturday 9:00 AM Mass 10:00 AM Prison Visit 4:00 PM Reconciliation/Adoration 5:30 PM Holy Mass SUNDAY 3 DECEMBER FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 9:30 AM MASS 10:30 AM PANCAKE BREAKFAST 5:30 PM MASS Stewardship Matters Last Sunday s Collection $4,657 Budgeted Weekly Collection: $5,770 Shortage for week ($1,113) Collection year to date: $112,463 Budgeted Year to date: $121,170 Shortage for year ($7,593) 2 nd Collection- Campaign for Human Development: $1,228 Thank you for your generosity! Spiritual preparation for next Sunday First Sunday of Advent Isaiah 63:16-17, 64:2-7(prayer for the return of God s Love) 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 (thanksgiving) Mark 13:33-37 (need for watchfulness) Key Passage: God is faithful; by him you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (1Corinthians 1:9) QUESTION OF THE WEEK Adult: At this time, how faithful do you feel you are being to God s plan for you? Child: What good thing might God be asking you to do right now? Mary Garden News: Many thanks to Alan Coffin for designing and installing our new railing! Special THANK YOU to Katie Dossett and Jessica Plummer and our Youth Group for helping out at the Youth Ministry Garage Sale FIA Please watch for your FIA envelope to come in the mail. If you do not receive one please let the church office know so we can be sure your address is correct and get you the information you need! Offertory Envelopes If you are giving electronically or using checks and are receiving offertory envelopes and no longer want them, please let us know and we will remove you from the offertory envelope list. Online Giving There is a financial benefit to the parish as more and more parishioners switch to online giving. We have more consistent monthly income to use for budgeting and there are savings in reducing our mailed offertory envelopes.
To all those who have, more will be given. Thirty-third Sunday of Ordinary Time Fr. Mike Galbraith The parable in today's reading has an unpleasant tone at first sight. Instead of telling us that everything is a gift of God, it tells us about investments and profits. And worse: the punch-line could come from a director of a multinational company! "To all those who have, more will be given, and they will have an abundance; but from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away." That's how the business world operates. How could this have anything to do with the spiritual world? The business world is only about 'outer things' - property - but the spiritual world has to include also 'inner things'. How could the same rules apply? To say that the spiritual world is all gift' is to say the truth. But to say no more would be to make it a purely passive thing. In reality, we know that nothing deep or 'inner' can ever be given to us without our effort. You would love to give your knowledge of, say, a foreign language to someone you love, but it cannot be done without their labor. How much more your understanding, your wisdom, your experience? Even God's gifts, poured out without measure, cannot really become mine unless I interiorize them myself. Struggle is part of the spiritual life, even though it remains true that everything is a gift. And it's a fact of experience (not a policy statement of a company) that the more I have the more I will receive. The more I know the more I am capable of knowing; the more I love the more I am capable of loving; the more I pray the more I am able to pray; and likewise, sadly, the less. A 'talent' was a measure of weight before it was a unit of currency. You could have a talent of gold, a talent of silver, a talent of copper, etc.; it didn't matter, it was still a talent. This is surely part of the parable's message. It doesn't matter what kind of talents you have: very ordinary ones, or bordering on genius; the same holds true of them all. We are to risk our talents, this parable teaches; in other words, we are to use them. The man who had only one talent was afraid to lose it, so he buried it in the ground. He probably looked at the people who had two talents or five, and he said, "It is all right for them; they can afford to risk and lose, but I have only one chance and it would be madness to risk it. Very logical. But there would be no life on earth if that logic prevailed everywhere. We might feel safe, but we would just be dead safe. It is clear that the parable was directed against the scribes and Pharisees, who were identified as the "wicked and lazy servant". This servant buried the talent so as to be able to hand it back just as it was. The whole aim of the scribes and Pharisees was to keep the Law exactly as it was. In their own phrase, they sought "to build a fence around the Law." The slightest alteration or adaptation was out of the question. But safety is not the supreme value in religion. In this parable Jesus is telling us we must take risks. Life itself is a risk, and the quality of it is continual risk-taking. Of course, there are foolish risks that are better avoided, but that is because they are foolish, not because they are risks. We are invited to use our gifts recklessly for the good of our families, our community, everyone we meet, and even many whom we will never meet. Fr. Mike
*Holy Name Catholic School NEWS* Among our many blessings, the support and love of our parish family is one of the most precious. On behalf of all of the faculty, staff, and students, we pray you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Religious Education Schedule: Pre-K to 1st grade (CGS Level I) 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM on Sundays in Atrium 2nd to 4th grade (CGS Level II) (First Communion) 3:00-5:00 PM on Sundays in Atrium (No class Dec 3 rd ) 5th/6th grade - 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on Sundays in Conference Room 7th/8th grade (Confirmation) 6:30PM - 7:30PM on Tuesdays in Youth Lounge WEEKLY NEWS: CATECHESIS OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD Day 7 in Level 1 Atrium was a day of introducing the children to Jesse Tree. In Parish Hall, the children and their families worked together to create Advent coloring ornaments to hang on the Jesse Tree. High School Youth Group Schedule (9th to 12th grade) November 19 - Regular Meeting -Youth Lounge (3:30PM - 5:30 PM) November 26 - Regular Meeting -Youth Lounge (3:30PM - 5:30 PM) November 30 Old Pioneers Home (5:30PM - 6:30PM) December 3 - Regular Meeting -Youth Lounge (3:30PM - 5:30 PM) December 7 - Old Pioneers Home (5:30PM - 6:30PM) December 10 - Regular Meeting -Youth Lounge (3:30PM - 5:30 PM) December 17 - Regular Meeting -Youth Lounge (3:30PM - 5:30 PM) December 22-23 Advent Lock-In and White Elephant (6:00PM 8:00AM) The Rite of Christian Initiation (RCIA) Program is offered on Wednesdays from 6:00PM - 7:00PM for adults who are interested in joining the Catholic Church or current Catholics who are interested in learning more about their faith. Baptism classes will be offered on 1/18, 4/12, and 5/17 in the Atrium from 6:30pm-8:00pm. Please register with the Church Office or DRE before attending. All questions, comments, and concerns may be referred to Vincent Marcantonio (Director of Religious Education & Youth Minister) at 907-204-0650 or v.marcantonio@holynamektn.org
Ministry Schedule for 2 December and 3 December 2017 Lord s Day Masses Saturday 5:30PM Sunday 9:30AM Sunday 5:30PM LECTOR Clyde Pasterski Martha Jacobson Maury Meiresonne EMHC SERVERS Jim Connelly Connie Wingren Gabriel Garcia Tom Schulz Melissa Cruise Caity Pearson Chase Hanis Jackson Hanis Jim Meiresonne Ann Marie Meiresonne Volunteer GREETERS Anastacia Ylanin Pam Hamlin Mary Dowling USHERS Bill Hardy Jim Connelly Greg Staunton Tom Schulz John Radzilowski Volunteer HOSPITAL: Molly Pihl PIONEER HOME: Julie Dowling LINENS: Miriam Estacio Please locate a substitute minister if you are unable to serve due to a planned absence. Sacrament of Baptism: Please contact the church office at 225-2570 at least 3 months before you plan to have your infant baptized (even before they are born!) Baptismal Preparation classes are offered 4 times a year. Please plan accordingly for preparation to be completed prior to the date you wish your child to be baptized. Sacrament of Holy Matrimony: Contact the parish priest at least six months before you plan to marry. Liturgical Ministries Scheduling: If you need to make any permanent changes or if you will have an extended absence from the ministry, contact Judith McQuerry (jlmha@kpunet.net.) Homebound: Families of those confined at home or in the hospital: please notify the church office or Pastor for Communion or the Sacrament of Anointing of the Sick Prayer Chain: Contact the church at 225-2570 or Shelly Tradel at 617-9898. Soup Kitchen Volunteers: We serve lunch at Salvation Army every 2 nd and last Friday of the Month. If you would like to join us and help, please contact the office at 225-2570. We always need extra hands. Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA): Adults wishing to be baptized or to inquire about joining the Catholic Church, contact the Director of Religious Education or the parish priest. Our Lady of Fatima Statue: Anyone wishing to take our Lady of Fatima Statue home for a week, 2 weeks; a month, please contact Purita Villaflor at 220-9950. We should answer our Lady s requests by a great love for her Son in the Holy Eucharist at Holy Mass and Holy Communion. We should consecrate ourselves to her Immaculate Heart and pray the rosary that God may forgive sinners and grant peace in the world.