St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church 800 Gornto Rd Valdosta GA, 31602 San Jose Mission 421 W Marion Ave, Lake Park, GA 31636 (All mail and phone calls should be directed to St. John Church) Phone: 229-244-2430 Fax: 229-244-5352 www.stjohnevang.org / stjohns@stjohnevang.org / bulletin@stjohnevang.org / www.myparishapp.com Mass Schedule Saturday 5:00pm Sunday 7:30am, 9:30am, 12:00pm 2:00pm (Spanish) (Sunday Rosary 9:00am) San José (Lake Park) Mass Saturday 7:00pm Thursday 7:00pm Daily Mass Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday (Chapel) Wednesday 8:55am (School Mass during academic year only.) 6:00pm (Church) Adoration Sunday 3:00 ~ 4:00pm (Devotional ~ Chapel) Wednesday 3:30 pm Church (Silent) 5:00pm (Divine Mercy Chaplet) Rosary 5:20pm Benediction 5:40pm (Church) Reconciliation Saturday: 4:00 4:30pm Wednesday: 5:00 5:30pm or by appointment January 14, 2018 NURSERY 9:30am and Noon Mass Parish Center
Church Office Staff Lynn Barfield Administrative Asst./Bulletin Editor Michelle Kirkpatrick Finance Director Church & School Susan Kramer Director of Religious Education Lynne Salek Office Assistant School Staff School - 244-2556 Dr. Barbara Stanley, Interim Principal Marian Mitchell, Secretary Church Office Hours Monday 1:00~-4:30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 9:00am~4:30pm (Closed for lunch 12:00~1:00 pm) Friday 9:00am~1:00pm YOUTH MINISTRY High School (Wednesday 6:00pm) Penny and- Daniel Storey 229263-1566 Catholics on Campus (Newman Center) 1524 N. Oak St. Mass Sunday @6:00pm Wednesday Blaze Night @ 7:00pm Bethanie Bass 229-561-4456 Parish PASTORAL COUNCIL 2017-2018 Meetings 3rd Wednesday of the month President, Steve Findlay 229-740-9491 Vice-President, Genevieve Harmon (229)834-5499 Secretary, Barbara Cunningham 229-630-2265 St. Francis Center Sr. Nuala Mulleady, Director Laura Dunning, Asst. Manager 229-242-8656 sfc520@att.net Tues., Wed., Thurs. 10:00-2:00 2nd Saturday of each month 8:00am - Noon Pastoral Staff Fr. Brian LaBurt, Pastor Fr. Dawid Kwiatkowski Parochial Vicar Pastoral Emergency 229-469-6464 Deacon James Burns 229-794-9422 Deacon Columbus Carter 229-245-8276 Outreach to the Sick Deacon Pete Falkenhausen 229-563-3980 pfalkon5@mchsi.com Marriage Preparation Deacon David Lasseter 229-251-7874 DeaconDavidLasseter@outlook.com Baptism Preparation Deacon Paul Worth RCIA and Prison Ministry 229-263-5659 Mr. Cesar Reyes Hispanic Ministry 706-662-6267 cesarareyes@icloud.com BAPTISM Classes are held on the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30pm in the St. Joseph Chapel. Baptism packet/registration must be picked up in advance. please stop by the Church Office. MARRIAGE Contact the church office at least six months in advance. BULLETIN INFORMATION Items for the bulletin are due on Monday morning at 8:00am the week of publication. Please e-mail information to: bulletin@stjohnevang.org The next bulletin deadline is January 15th for the bulletin to be published for January 21st. Monday, January 15th Special Intention Tuesday, January 16th +Yimi Pineda Gutierrez Wednesday, January 17th 8:55am +Russ Gerber 6:00pm +Kenneth Carter Thursday, January 18th +Virginia Shashy 7:00pm (San José) Friday, January 19th Special Intention Saturday, January 20th 5:00pm (SI) David Herron 7:00pm (San José) Sunday, January 21st 7:30am +Joe Reilly, Jr. 9:30am +John Brenner 12:00pm (SI) Stephanie Chenard 2:00pm (Spanish) People of the Parish 2
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time January 14, 2018 Reflection on the Sacrament of Confession (an excerpt from the book, Confession by Adrienne Von Speyr) As long as a person is not confessing, he feels free to speak or keep silent about whatever he wishes. What he then hates in confession is not the humbling experience of revealing himself and not the fact that he is a sinner he already knows that somehow but the necessity of capitulating before and within total confession, the fact that the freedom of selection has been withdrawn and that the only choice remaining is to reveal everything or nothing. He is sick as a whole person and must be healed as such, and not eclectically. That is the first humbling experience. The second is that he is only one of many and has to accept the same conditions as do the others, even external conditions such as having to appear at the confessional at an appointed hour: a kind of marked condition, the elimination of all external differentiation the factory owner and the watchman, the lady and her cook, all on equal footing. Precisely when one confesses that which is most intimate, one no longer has a choice or selection, is put on a level with all other sinners, and is merely one penitent in the line of other sinners. The peculiarities of my particular case, which made it seem so interesting to me and which I would so gladly have explained to the listener, do not matter at all any more. Confession (Beichten) is above all precisely that: a confession (Bekenninis) not only of my sins but also a confession to God and to God s precepts and institution, indeed to his Church, with her own weakness and myriad ambiguous, even disturbing, aspects. Discover the Difference at St. John School! Come visit our school, observe teachers and students teaching and learning in a Catholic environment. We offer pre-school for PK-3 and PK-4 and Extended Day programs. In addition to traditional academic curriculum, we also offer weekly mass and sacraments, Spanish, band and music, PE, art, computer technology, and library. Additional enrichment activities include: cross country, basketball, volleyball, soccer, science club, student council, service activities of Break Bread and visiting nursing homes, 4-H, Reading Bowl, Girls on the Run. Accredited by SACS/ AdvanceED, FCC, and GAC; pre-school licensed by Bright from the Start. For more information call the school at 229-244-2556. PARISH CHILI SUPPER Beat winter s chill at the Parish Chili Supper, Saturday, January 20th, following the 5:00 Mass in the Parish Center. No cook-off this year! Homemade chili will be served up with chili fixin s, cornbread, beverages and fruit cobbler for dessert. Grilled cheese sandwiches will be available for the little ones. Cost is $5 for adults and $2 for children 10 and under. Make your paid reservations after Mass at the Parish Life table this weekend January 13th and 14th or at the church office by January 17th. 3
JOINED BY FAITH; CALLED TO SHARE Week of December 31st Offertory $ 11,052.29 Online $ 2,615.00 Debt Reduction $ 122.00 Online $ 95.00 Your generosity is greatly appreciated! Diocesan loan balance $132, 522.90 December Payment Principal $ 4,546.71 Interest $ 492.62 $ 5,039.33 January is Poverty Awareness Month Do you know that more than 46 million Americans live in poverty? Poverty USA is the domestic antipoverty program of the USA Catholic Bishops, an initiative of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Poverty USA seeks to educate and promote understanding about Poverty and its root causes. For more information go to: WWW.PovertyUSA.org Update on Mission Co-Op Weekend Collection Thank you for your participation in the 2017 Mission Cooperative Appeal. Last week Fr. Dan Firmin from the diocese sent my Franciscan Community a check for the amount of $6,350.95 for Solidarity in South Sudan. This money will be used for teacher training. As I indicated in my talk on September 23rd, South Sudan ranks as the most illiterate country in the world and only 7% of existing teachers have received basic training. The new generation in So Sudan needs an estimated 29,000 teachers. Lack of education impacts all aspects of life. Thank you for your contribution and for helping SOUTH SUDAN TO MOVE FORWARD ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY AND STABILITY. Gratefully, Sr. Nuala YOUNG AT HEART Did you make a new year s resolution to be more involved at church? Are you 55+? St. John s Young At Heart welcomes you to join us any time! Meeting monthly, we are a social group getting together for food, friendship, and faith-sharing. Make a friend - Be a friend - Bring a friend closer to Christ Our group meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, at 4:30pm in the Teacher s Lounge at the school. This month s get-together will be Wednesday, January 17th. Contact: Mitch & Linda Rohrbach (573)619-1191 4
Prayer intentions For Those Who Have Died Joseph Reilly, Jr., son of Loretta Reilly Joanne Cawley, wife of Terry Cawley Please be sure to notify the church office if you or a family need a priest to visit at the hospital. RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) RCIA sessions continue each Sunday following the 9:30 Mass in the Parish Center conference room (10:45-11:45 AM) Topic for January 14th Vocation; The Sacrament of Holy Orders Topic for January 21st Sin and Repentence For more information contact Deacon Paul at 229-263-5659 or e-mail deaconpaul@stjohnevang.org For our sick Jerriann Levy, Beverly Lanier, Tomas Gonzalez Vigo, Jinann Wey, Janet Sparling, Gunner Bachman, Louise Okuma, Rose Marie Sinnott, Manuel Acuna, Nancy Branson, Deacon James Burns, Christa McNutt, Irene Gallagher, Yesenea Trejo, John Crowder, Robert Hudo, Brian Mallon, Zena Rozier, Suzanne Holt Miller, Tina Joiner, Anthony Petty, Henry Wright, Anne Ellison, Brian Goldstein, Tammie Schmidtlein, Scott Lang, Ashley Jones, Jay Rickman, Christie Long,, Charles Backes, Mauring Lathron, Ward Joseph Porch, Gloria Neuda, Bob Consolini, Sue Hamel, Amy Pruner RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FOR YOUTH No Religious Education Classes on Sunday, January 14th due to the Martin Luther, King, Jr. Holiday on Monday. See you back on the 21st! First Holy Communion Class II parents and students will have a Reconciliation Workshop in the Parish Center on Wednesday, January 17 th at 6:45PM. Families are encouraged to attend Mass at 6:00pm before the meeting. This is a mandatory workshop. RETROUVAILLE ( RE-TRO-VI ) A LIFE LINE FOR MARRIED COUPLES Is your marriage struggling? Has your relationship grown cold and distant? Do you experience disappointment, pain, conflict, or despair? Rediscover a loving relationship in your marriage. Our next Retrouvaille Weekend will be February 16-18, 2018 in Augusta, GA Please call (706) 869-8434 or visit Knights of Columbus to receive award Please join us at the 9:30 Mass on January 21st. The local Knights of Columbus, Council 4913, has been recognized by the Supreme Council for its work within the church and local community. The council will be presented a Columbian Award by our District Deputy. Some of the accomplishments are: Donation of $5,000 toward the parish/school security system upgrade, financial support of two seminarians, the annual Seminarian Dinner, Sunday morning rosary, coffee and donuts each weekend, Christmas Manger, and construction of classrooms at St. Anthony Church. Our Charity of the Month provides assistance to the St. Francis Center, parish high school youth group, local food bank and one of the local cancer centers. For more information on how you can become a member of this great organization, please contact Tony LaMarca at 229-292-2482, or Ed Knowles at 229-563-3199 or any council member. 5
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