S T MARY CATHOLIC CHURCH 207 N Main Street, Coupeville, WA 98239 - (360) 678-6536 Mailing Address P O Box 1443, Coupeville, WA 98239 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time 16 September 2018 ST. MARY RELIGIOUS EDUCATION The Religious Educaon Program of St. Mary is happy to welcome our new staff member Maria Mitchell. Maria will be working as a Religious Educaon Program Support personnel. For quesons regarding the RE program in St. Mary please email her at: mmitchell@staugusneoh.org Welcome aboard Maria! The Religious Educaon Program registraon is on-going. Classes are held on Sundays from 10am-11am. Elementary and MS to 11th grade classes will begin September 23rd Pastoral Council Corner Reflecon Queson of the Week: What is missing for you in our parish? Please respond to Pastoral Council Members or Queson of the Week Volunteers or write your ideas on a card and place in one of the Response Boxes (breezeway and hall). Please sign cards. Your responses to previous quesons are focusing largely on spiritual/scriptural needs, social acvity needs, and connuing to be a welcoming community with a sense of family/ fellowship. Pastoral work is beginning on adult faith enrichment. If you are interested in helping with this process or have ideas for topics, please let one of the Pastoral Council Members know. St Mary Works of Mercy Week three s theme from Catholic Social Teaching Rights and Responsibilities The Catholic tradition teaches that human dignity can be protected and a healthy community can be achieved only if human rights are protected and responsibilities are met. Therefore, every person has a fundamental right to life and a right to those things required for human decency. Corresponding to these rights are duties and responsibilities--to one another, to our families, and to the larger society.
Parish Office Monday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Thursday, Friday Friday 99 am am - - Noon Noon & 11 pm pm - - 33 pm pm Information@StAugustineOH.org www.staugustineoh.org www.staugustineoh.org Mass at St Mary & Mass at St Mary & Saturday Vigil 5:00 pm Filipino Saturday Music Vigil 2nd Saturday 5:00 pm Filipino Music 2nd Saturday Spanish 1st Saturday 7:00 pm Spanish 1st Saturday 7:00 pm Sunday 8:00 am Sunday 9:30 8:00 am am St 11:15 9:30 am am St St Mary Augustine Thurs, Fri, 1st Sat 11:15 am 9:00 am St Mary Thurs, Fri, 1st Sat 12:10 9:00 pm am St St Mary Augustine Thurs 12:10 pm St Mary Confession at St Mary & Confession at St Mary & Friday 8:30 am Saturday Friday 4:00 8:30 pm am St 3rd Saturday Sunday 12:15 4:00 pm pm St St Mary Augustine 3rd Sunday 12:15 pm St Mary Anointing at St Mary & 1st Thursday 12:10 pm St Mary Anointing at St Mary & 1st 1st Friday Thursday 12:10 9:00 am pm St St Augustine Mary Other 1st Friday times by request. Please 9:00 contact am the Parish Office. Holy Communion for Homebound Other times by request. Please contact the Parish Office. Holy Communion for Homebound Parish Ministers Please contact the Parish Office. Please contact the Parish Office. Pastor Rev. Paul R. Pluth, JCL Parish Ministers Administration Pastor Mary Rev. A. Paul Waters R. Pluth, JCL Religious Administration Education Rowena Mary A. Harless Waters Director Religious of Education Music Kathleen Rowena Harless Dodge-DeHaven Receptionist Director of Music Peggy McCormick Kathleen Dodge-DeHaven Receptionist Peggy McCormick Protec-ng God s Children for Adults If you are considering helping in the Religious Education, Eucharistic to the Homebound or Sacristan ministry you must attend the training. Training will be held on: Monday, October 15 at 5:30 pm in the parish office of. You will need to register online at virtusonline.org and click on the Registration tab located on the right hand of the page. If you need assistance with your registration or have any questions, contact the parish office at 360-675-2303. (Please note, this training is for those who haven t already attended or if you d like a refresher.) Parish Stewardship Thank you for your Stewardship of Treasure! Weekly Parish Expense: $3,055 September 9th: $3,769 Please remember St Mary in your will. (Please write your ID/envelope number on your checks.) For the most direct receipt of your contribution please use the following address: St. Mary Church PO BOX 1319 Oak Harbor, WA 98277
: Formed.org Register using Parish Code: G8FJ6Q May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world Please note that on Thursdays the Rosary will now begin at 11:45am Also remember that the Sunday Rosary now begins at 10:55 am SAVE THE DATE! DECEMBER 1ST CHRISTMAS BAZAAR It is time to start collecting like new gift items and working on those hand made items to donate for the Christmas Bazaar. Marriage Prepara-on Are you engaged to be married? Prepara ons for weddings are a six-month process. Please call 360.675.2303 x5 to begin. This Week at St. Mary Sun 9/16 10:55 am 11:15 am 12:15 pm 12:15 pm 1:00 pm 6:30 pm Rosary (C) Mass - INT Ernest Gendron confessions will be heard Coffee & Donuts Parking Lot closes Lutheran Service (C, HH) Mon 9/17 Tue 9/18 Office is Closed Wed 9/19 9:30 am Choir practice (C) Thu 9/20 Office will be closed from 9:00 am 12:00 noon Office is open 1:00-3:00 pm 11:45 am Rosary (C) 12:10 pm Mass INT Eileen Wachter 1:00 pm Adoration Fri 9/21 Sat 9/22 No activity Sun 9/23 Catechetical Sunday 10:55 am Rosary (C) 11:15 am Mass - RIP +Joyce Peterson 12:30 pm Coffee & donuts 1:00 pm Parking Lot closes 6:30 pm Lutheran Service (C, HH)
Prayers Please pray for all of our families & friends. Those who are in college or in the military at home and deployed Ernest Gendron, Dolores Morris, Major Thomas Allan Bender - USAF PFC Zachary McCormick - Army NG Senior Airman Luke Tiffany - USAF Please call the of6ice at 360-678-6536 to add or delete someone s name. Permission is required from the individual in order to add their name to the prayer list. Ongoing Food Drive Please remember that we have an ongoing food drive here at St Mary for the local Gifts from the Heart Food Bank. Bring your donations such as canned fruit, canned vegetables, canned/potted meats - nonperishable food items. Items are usually collected weekly and delivered to the Food Bank. The Food Bank distributes bags of food on the 2nd & 4th Wednesdays from 2-5 pm each month. Please NO OUTDATED items Pregnancy Care Center Please place your donations of new baby items: diapers, bottles, formula, clothes nonperishable baby foods, in the cradle located in Harrington Hall. Monetary donations are also accepted. Please make checks out to Pregnancy Care Center and place in a Pregnancy Care envelope. Thank you Connect with Father Paul ppluth@staugustineoh.org Facebook www.facebook.com/fatherpaulpluth Twitter www.twitter.com/@fatherpaulpluth Please visit the St Mary Parish website at staugustineoh.org Rachel s Corner Healing After Abortion Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent. To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow, but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness. Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy. - St John Chrysostom- feast day Aug 13 Is your heart begging God for His mercy as it yearns for His forgiveness and reconciliation with Him? Repentance is the first step. Don t let shame get in the way. Join us on a Rachel s Vineyard Retreat and climb into His merciful embrace. October 26-28, en Español November 9-11, in English Call Aleah : 1-800-822-HOPE (4673) Project Rachel is a program of Catholic Community Services. www.ccsww.org/projectrachel You are loved with an everlasting Love!
Rare and Extreme Occurrences When the abortion lobby was originally selling the idea of making abortion legal, they ridiculed those who said it would one day be used as birth control. They said abortion would only be used in extreme and rare cases. When over 3,500 babies lose their life to abortion each and every day, that can hardly be described as a "rare" occurrence! Given this fact, abortion apologists have switched gears and are now selling the idea that even if abortion is used as birth control, it's a private matter and no one else's business. Of course, it most definitely is our business, because legalized abortion has proven to be not only morally indefensible, but also a financial disaster. Our tax dollars indirectly pay for abortions and since abortion has been legal, we have been forced to bear the financial burden of skyrocketing pregnancy rates of unmarried mothers. Most importantly, before anyone can participate in any activity derived from his or her right to privacy, we must first ask, "The privacy to do what?" In the case of abortion, we are talking about the privacy to take the life of an innocent child. Thus, the only decent view is that when one individual's "choice" or "right to privacy" will cost another human being his or her life, that choice cannot be considered a matter of privacy. Casos Raros y Extremos Cuando el vestíbulo aborto vendía originalmente la idea de hacer el aborto legal, que ridiculizaban a los que dijo que algún día ser usado como método anticonceptivo. Dijeron que el aborto sólo se utilizaría en casos extremos y raros. Cuando más de 3.500 bebés pierden la vida al aborto cada uno y todos los días, que difícilmente se puede describir como una ocurrencia "raro"! Ante este hecho, los apologistas de aborto han cambiado de marcha y ahora están vendiendo la idea de que incluso si el aborto se utiliza como método anticonceptivo, es un asunto privado y de nadie más negocio. Por supuesto, lo más definitivamente es nuestro negocio, ya que la legalización del aborto ha demostrado ser no sólo moralmente in defensible, sino también un desastre financiero. Nuestros impuestos pagan indirectamente por abortos y desde que el aborto es legal, que se han visto obligados a soportar la carga financiera de las nubes las tasas de embarazo de las madres solteras. Lo más importante, antes de que cualquier persona puede participar en cualquier actividad derivada de su derecho a la intimidad, primero tenemos que preguntar: "La privacidad para hacer qué?" En el caso del aborto, estamos hablando de la privacidad de tomar la vida de un niño inocente. Por lo tanto, la única vista decente es que cuando la "elección" de un individuo o "derecho a la privacidad" costarán otro ser humano, su vida, que la elección no puede considerarse una cuestión de privacidad.