PARISH STAFF FR. MARTINO BÁ THÔNG NGUYEN, PASTOR RICK RAFTER, DEACON PATTIE LIEBL, PARISH SECRETARY CELESTE GISH, DRE KATHY O SAKO, OUTREACH ASSISTANCE DON SMITH, CUSTODIAN PARISH STAFF EMAIL pastor@sbcatholic.com secretary@sbcatholic.com DRE@sbcatholic.com. outreach@sbcatholic.com WEB ADDRESS www.sbcatholic.com BAPTISMS Please contact Fr. Martino for an appointment. WEDDINGS Please contact Fr. Martino for an appointment a minimum of four months before wedding date. St. Boniface Catholic Church 1952 GA Hwy. 21 South Springfield, GA 31329 August 20, 2017 The Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time PARISH CONTACT INFORMATION Office: (912) 754-7473 Fax: (912) 754-1201 WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE Saturday, 5 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. CONFESSIONS Saturday, 4:00 4:30 p.m. Or Upon request WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE Tuesday, 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, 8:30 a.m. Thursday, 8:30 a.m. Friday 7:00 p.m. Religious Education Sunday Mornings 9:45-10:45 a.m. When school is in session ANOINTING OF THE SICK While Fr. Martino is away, please contact Pattie Liebl day or night if a priest is needed in an emergency.912.547.1603 Bulletin Deadline We welcome your contributions to the bulletin. Deadline for submission is Wednesday, by 12:00 noon
August 20, 2017 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable. - ROMANS 11:29 God has a special mission in mind for each of us. He has given us the gifts we need to accomplish that mission. We are called to be good stewards by using those gifts to do the work that He has planned for each of us. If we deny our gifts or fail to use them as God calls us to use them, then some part of His work will be left undone. Monday: READINGS FOR THE WEEK Jgs 2:11-19; Ps 106:34-37, 39-40, 43ab, 44; Mt 19:16-22 Tuesday: Jgs 6:11-24a; Ps 85:9, 11-14; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday: Jgs 9:6-15; Ps 21:2-7; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday: Rv 21:9b-14; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18; Jn 1:45-51 Friday: Ru 1:1, 3-6, 14b-16, 22; Ps 146:5-10; Saturday: Mt 22:34-40 Ru 2:1-3, 8-11; 4:13-17; Ps 128:1b-5; Mt 23:1-12 Sunday: Is 22:19-23; Ps 138:1-3, 6, 8; Rom 11:33-36; Mt 16:13-20 Job Opening CDL driver needed part time to pull a box trailer and a dry cement tanker between job site to job site. $18.00-$20.00 an hour please contact Rafael Castillo at 912-663-4341. 20 de agosto de 2017 20º Domingo del Tiempo Ordinario "Porque los dones y el llamado de Dios son irrevocables." -ROMANOS 11:29 Dios tiene una misión especial en mente para cada uno de nosotros. Él nos ha dado los dones que necesitamos para cumplir con esa misión. Estamos llamados a ser buenos administradores usando esos dones para hacer el trabajo que El ha planeado para cada uno de nosotros. Si negamos nuestros dones o no los usamos como Dios nos llama a usarlos, entonces alguna parte de su obra quedará sin hacer. CALLED TO ACT IN GOD S NAME Let all the nations praise you! (Psalm 67:4) today s psalm response exclaims. In the psalms and other Hebrew scriptures, this kind of invocation is actually an invitation to God to act, to intervene in human lives in a manner that will cause everyone not just the Chosen People to give praise. Stated a bit more strongly, it is something of a put up or shut up challenge to God, the sort of strong statement the psalmists of Israel, trusting in their intimate and loving relationship with God, were not afraid to make. The Gospel has its own exclamation, announcing the appearance of the Canaanite woman with Behold! (Matthew 15:22) Behold! is a scriptural flag that tells us that God is about to act or announce something through an individual or a situation. In the case of Jesus, God was going to act through this woman, whom nobody among Jesus followers would have believed to be an agent of the divine will. Like the psalmists, we might passively inform or perhaps even actively challenge God to do something so that everyone will come to belief, but God will always turn the tables on us. It becomes our calling, our duty (as it was for Jesus) to behold the situations and persons of our daily lives so that God can act through us, so the Kingdom can be announced through our living. Copyright J. S. Paluch Co., Inc. National Catholic Register Copies of the National Catholic Register are available in the lobby. To keep the cost to the parish down, we are asking for a $1.00 donation. Get your copy today. We would like to welcome any new Parishioner and encourage you to register with the Parish. Registration Forms are located in the church on the stand in front of the Confessional, or you may stop by the Parish Office and register Monday-Friday8:30 am - 4:00 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Monday: St. Pius X Tuesday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Wednesday: St. Rose of Lima Thursday: St. Bartholomew Friday: St. Louis; St. Joseph Calasanz Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary
Liturgical Ministry Schedule Aug. 26 5:00 p.m. AS T Liebl, J Burdick, & Lucy Duncan EM P Tanguay, J Sheahan, R Hein, B Milne, & C Reynolds L N McEvoy U C Gish, Donna Smith, & G Hixenbaugh Aug. 27 8:30 a.m. AS A & G Snyder, & B Weber EM J & B Ellis, M Heyman, & L Santos L C Weber U D Matzdorf, H Matzdorf, & J Richtman 11:00 a.m. AS M Deyhle, B Powell, & J Klock EM R Rafferty, K Klock-Powell, G Klock, & R Visconti L J Williamson U A & P Rodriguez, J Davis, & D Robider Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: This week at St. Boniface - Aug. 20-Aug. 27 Mass: 8:30 & 11:00 a.m. Faith Formation -9:45a.m. Catholic Focus-9:45 a.m. Craft Grp. Mtg-7:00 p.m. Mass: 8:30 a.m. Please Remember in Prayer Carolyn Ansel, Charles Armfield, Caroline & Brandon Arrieta, Michael Barajas, Jamie Bassett, John Ashley Beam, Richard Borough, Hayden Boyette, Tony Branham, Briones Family, Ava Buck, Diana Cato, Kathy & Andy Chester, Penny Christol, Mike & Nancy Corley, Doris Dahlweiner, Loretta Dahlweiner, Cody Danielewicz, Ellie Dennis, Rindy & George Denmark, Celina Eaddy, Marian Fallis, Connie Frazier, Mildred Galentine, Dan Gonzales, Eric Guge,, Michelle Garcia, Felipe & Manuela Garza, Aaron & Margarite Gilstrap, Lee Gobrogge, Margaret Hale, Muriel Healy, Janie Haar, Greg Hlavac, Collen Higgs, Richard Hinely, Carson Hollis, Danny Hollis, Tyler Hood, Myllar Jones, Vonnie & Niamh Kavanagh, Sandy Kowalski, Debra Lafferty, Bill Leonard, Rosa Lewis, Vince & Sandra Mackey, Frances Maher, John & Michael Maher, Tom and Bridget Maher, Justin McGregor, Elise McKinley, Delores Miller, Floyd & Susan Miller, Krystal Miller, Nancy Miller, Angie Moore, Genevieve Mueller, Noah Napier, Randy Nease, Larry Neel, Dana Newsome, Gloria O Connor, Mildred O'Connor, Zeile Oxford, Phil Pastrano, Melanie Pitingaro, Ann Preston, Emma Quin, John Ray, Faye Ray, Joel Rivera, Gabriella Reddick, Davin Rhodes, Connie Sawdy, Bill Saxon, Allen Schwartz, Bill Shean, Eddie and Linda Shellhamer, Tim & Jill Shumacher, JoAnn Skorich- Smith, Beverly Smith, Jack Stein, Trudy Stein, Paul Sweatt, Steven Talick, Mitch Talick, Burr Tolles, Ronald TuckerHans Venegas, Kaine Vincent, Bernie Weber, Garry Wilkes, Mike Wilkerson, Linda Williams, Larry & Julie Weddle Wednesday: Mass: 8:30 a.m. Followed by Adoration Rosary Grp.-9:30 a.m. K of C Business Mtg.-7:00 p.m. Thursday: Friday: Mass: 8:30 a.m. Quilt Grp. Mtg.-10:00 a.m. Mass: 7:00p.m. Followed by Adoration Saturday: Reconciliation: 4:00 Rosary:4:30-p.m. Mass: 5:00 p.m. CW2 Ross Bogard, COL Brian Healy, USAF, TSGT Brian A. Lafond, SPC Winston Hencely, SGT Clayton Emanuel Holloway, SFC Shawn Brown, SSG. Ryan Peters,LS2 Jonathon Benson King, MAJThomas Naldrett, SSG Steven Liebl,CW4 Scott Durrer, SGT Jeremy Hynes, SSG Andrew Hamilton, AZ2 Annmarie Chessari THE POWER OF PRAYER Much prayer, much power! Little prayer, little power! No prayer, no power!
Welcome Fr. Isidore Baky Please welcome back Fr. Isidore Baky, who will be our priest while Fr. Martino is on Sabbatical in Rome. If you need to reach Father Isidore for sacramental needs, please contact Pattie in the parish office 912-754-7473 or for emergencies after hours at 912-547-1603. Dear Parish Family: We want to express our sweetest thank you for all of you who attended Daniela's quinceañera ceremony. It was such a wonderful feeling being surrounded by so much warmth and love. You all are very special people in our lives and we feel blessed to have shared this important moment at St. Boniface. We specially want to thank Fr. Martino for making that day so special for our daughter, also many thanks to the 5 p.m. choir, it's always a pleasure to hear them singing. We appreciate Mr. Don Smith, and all the people that were there to help us unconditionally. Finally, Clara Jobe and Paola Lopez that made such a great job with the reception. May God bless you all!!! With great love and appreciation, --The Rodriguez Family New Air Handlers for Faith Formation Building As you may have heard, we are in need of new air handlers for the Faith Formation Building. The units are over 27 years old and they have served us very well. However, there are 5 units that serve this building and all 5 will need replacement. The cost will incur a little over $28,000.00 to have all 5 replaced. Since this has to come from our operational funds, we ask if you can spare a few extra dollars a week for the next few weeks to help offset the cost to the parish, it would be greatly appreciated. We do have funds in the savings account to help also offset the cost, but not enough to cover such a significant amount. As always we appreciate your generosity in helping the parish. Your contributions for the weekend of Aug. 13, 2017 Adult $5,217.27 Children $59.42 Building Fund $2,806.00 Bills paid this week $6,282.55 Thank you for your continuing generosity! Mass Intentions for the Week of Aug. 20-Aug 27 Sunday 08/20 Tuesday 08/22 Wednesday 08/23 Thursday 08/24 Friday 08/25 Saturday 08/26 +Nancy Dotson Paul Sweatt Linda Dean Mike Wilkerson Margie Hatchell Glenda Warren Jane Branham St. Boniface Chicken Dinners October 21, 2017 Pick up between 10:30 and 2:00 $8.00 per dinner Tickets go on sale August 5 th Sign out a packet to sell to friends or family Cut off date for tickets sales October 15, 2017 ½ Chicken BBQ Sauce Baked Potato Sour Cream Roll Butter Green Beans Piece of Pound Cake All profit goes to New Church building Fund 10% of sales go to the needy The Co-chairs Rick Rafter (912) 661-2410 Chris Weber (912) 661-4607 Joe Bahm (912) 856-0372 Thank You Thank you for your prayers, kind thoughts, and cards for the death of my father. It was greatly appreciated by my family. --Barbara & Roger Lafond CCW Craft Group The CCW Craft Group will meet on Monday, Aug 21 at 7:00 p.m. Please join us. The Craft /Bake Sale that was scheduled for August 26/27 has been cancelled. Commemorating the Reformation and Prayer for Unity On Sunday, October 22, the Catholic Diocese of Savannah and the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Church in America will join together for a Commemoration of the 500 th Anniversary of the Reformation and a Prayer for Unity. The service will take place at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in downtown Savannah at 5:00 p.m. Catholic Bishop Gregory Hartmayer, OFM Conv, and Lutheran Bishop H. Julian Gowdy will co-preside. The preacher for the service will be Rev. Fleming Rutledge, Episcopalian priest, scholar, author, and noted homilist. This is the first time since the Reformation that a centenary of that event takes place in an ecumenical atmosphere. Please plan to join us on October 22 at 5:00 p.m. at the Cathedral. For more information contact Fr. Michael J. Kavanaugh, Director, Office for Ecumenism and Interreligious Relations, Catholic Diocese of Savannah, at 912.897.5156 or frkavanaugh@spacsav.net
No class September 3 Faith Formation classes will not meet on September 3. Attention, First Communion parents Please provide the DRE with a copy of your child s baptism certificate if you haven t already done so. If your child has not been baptized, see the DRE to make arrangements for baptism. Reminder: Safe Touch opt-out If you do not want your child to participate in the Safe Touch program, please complete and return the opt-out form in your parent information packet. For more information about Faith Formation contact Celeste at 912.754.1432 or celestegish@windstream.net. VIRTUS Protecting God s Children for Adults Training will be held at St. Boniface on Tuesday, August 29, 2017 from 6:30-9:30 p.m. Registration is required prior to attending via online at VIRTUS.org to receive credit for the session. No one under the age of 18 is allowed due to the sensitive subject matter. Please arrive early no admittance once the session begins. Latecomers will be asked to reschedule. For additional questions please contact Cindy Felipe, 912-596-4251 or mcsjfelipe@comcast.net. *Diocesan policy requires all diocesan adult employees and volunteers attend VIRTUS (safe environment) awareness training, undergo a background check, and read and sign the diocesan code of conduct for working with minors prior to commencing their ministry. Office for the Protection of Children and Young People, Toll free reporting hotline: (888) 357-5530. Catholic Focus The Catholic Focus class for adults has been meeting this summer to discuss the book The 4 Signs of a Dynamic Catholic by Matthew Kelley. These sessions will continue through Aug. 27. You are welcome to attend the remaining classes even if you missed the previous sessions. The regular lessons from Living the Good News will begin Sept. 10. Please join us on Sunday mornings at 9:45! RCIA: WHAT S IT ALL ABOUT? The "RCIA process" is divided into 4 distinct phases. Phase 1, the Inquiry, is a time to provide the searchers with basic teachings about God, give them the opportunity ask questions about the Catholic Faith, and get to know other Catholics. "Catechumens" are inquirers who have not been baptized, while "candidates" were baptized into another Christian denomination. Phase 2, the "Catechumenate." If the inquirers wish to continue on their journey, they enter this period of formal training in the Catholic Faith and way of life. Studies are focused on Jesus and His teachings, the teachings of the Catholic Church, the Sacraments, etc. Phase 3, the "Enlightenment," takes place during the 40 days of Lent. The focus changes from instruction to an emphasis on repentance and conversion. The sacraments of Initiation (Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist) are conferred at the Easter Vigil. Phase 4, the "Mystagogy" (entering more deeply into the mysteries). The new Catholics are introduced to the different parish ministries so that they can choose how they want to become actively involved in parish life. >>>Phase 1 Inquiry sessions start Monday Sept. 11, 2017, in the Faith Formation Building. See future bulletins for more information, or call Denise Curtis at 912-547-3936. To register, contact the Parish Office at 754-7473.<<< Mary has been made Queen of heaven and earth by God, exalted above all the choirs of angels and all the saints. She is to be called Queen not only because of her divine motherhood, but also because she, by the will of God, had an outstanding part in the work of our eternal salvation (Pope Pius XII, Encyclical Letter, To the Queen of Heaven). She was given the power by her Son of bestowing upon us the fruits of the redemption. As the Second Vatican Council tells us, Taken up to heaven Our Lady did not lay aside her saving role, but by her manifold acts of intercession continues to win for us gifts of eternal salvation (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church 62). So Our Lady is busy working for us as the Mediatrix of All Graces, bestowing upon us the fruits of the redemption and winning for us gifts of eternal salvation. As our Queen and Mother, she helps to convert us, guide us, heal us, protect us and save us. --catholicexchange.com
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