Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time September 9, 2018 Did not God choose those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs to the kingdom? James 2: 5 ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST CATHOLIC CHURCH ST. LAWRENCE CATHOLIC CHURCH ST. MARTIN OF TOURS CATHOLIC CHURCH Joint Parish Office located at: 15 E. Church St., Susquehanna, Pa. 18847 Phone Number 570-853-4634 Office Email: jointoffice3@gmail.com Fax: 570-853-3356. www.saintslawrencemartinjohn.com JOINT Website: www.saintslawrencemartinjohn.com Emergency Phone Number at Rectory: 570-267-1366 or Fr. Dave at 570-604-0819 BAPTISM: The Church, as a norm, celebrates baptism on Sunday, the Lord s Day. Please contact the parish office to make arrangements. PARISH REGISTRATION: We always welcome new members to our parishes. Registration is important so that we may serve your spiritual needs. Call the office to register. You must be registered to celebrate the Sacraments of Baptism and Marriage or be granted letters of eligibility for sponsoring a Baptism or Confirmation. MARRIAGE: Couples contemplating marriage should contact the parish office at least six months before the anticipated date. This allows for proper preparation for this sacrament of commitment. PENANCE: The Sacrament of Reconciliation is celebrated on Saturday at after Mass, St Lawrence at 4:15PM, and at 3:15 to 3:45PM at. Individual Confessions can also be arranged at another time by calling the parish office for an appointment. HOSPITALS/NURSING HOMES AND ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please notify the parish office of anyone in the hospital, nursing home or seriously ill anticipating an operation or advanced in age. Members of the parish are available to bring communion to the sick and the homebound each Sunday. MASS INTENTIONS: You can honor a deceased relative or friend by remembering them with a Mass intention. Please call the rectory if you would like to have a Mass said for someone. The stipend is $10.00 per Mass. CHURCH NEWS DEADLINE: Information for our weekly bulletin, inserts, and church announcements should be submitted to the parish office by TUESDAY 11:00 AM. If you or your organization has an announcement or prayer request to be read by the lector at mass, please have it to the parish office by our Tuesday deadline as well. Like us on Facebook: @stlawrencemartinjohn check it out and don t forget to Like & Share Joint Mission Statement We, the Roman Catholic Parishes of St. John the Evangelist, and St. Martin of Tours, are committed to enriching our faith in Jesus Christ and our Catholic heritage through prayer, the celebration of the Sacraments, and devotion to the Eucharist. We joyfully proclaim the Gospel to all through word and deed and encourage our faith community to share God s gifts by serving others in works of hospitality and love. Bible Study: Friday evenings at 7PM, in the Trinity Center. Divine Mercy Service Is postponed until further notice. Email Prayer Chain, please send us your email! This prayer chain is not replacing the phone chain, it's just getting the prayers said to more people! jointoffice3@gmail.com Eucharistic Devotions: Are held at on Sunday evenings at 6:00PM. All are welcomed. Grief Support Group: Will be starting up again in August. Call the parish office for more information. Holy Hour: Will be held after the Thursday morning Mass at. The hour will include the Mass and 30 minutes of private adoration. At 8:45 the Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited. Nigerian Mission Collection: Will take place on the 3rd weekend of each month. Novena at : Every Monday evening at St. Lawrence there will be a Novena and Adoration after the 7:00PM Mass. Patriotic Rosary is said at Chapel every Thursday at Noon. All welcome to join us. Prayer Shawl Ministry : If you know of anyone who is in need of one of these special lap shawls/quilts please call Toni Romanofski @ 853-4715 (), RoseMary Cosentino @ 756-2557 () and Cheryl Tomeo: @ 879-4364 () or call the parish office at 853-4634. Next meeting is September 6th, 2018. We have given out over 200 quilts/shawls. We make these for our joint baptisms as well! Quilters and knitters always needed. Pro-Life Ministry: Call parish office for more information. Special Novena: On Thursday mornings at the 8:00 AM Mass at St. Martin of Tours there is a special novena after Mass to St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer victims and those suffering from serious illness. There is a prayer box by St. Peregrine's statue where you can enter the name of a suffering loved one or yourself to be remembered. The box is emptied January 1st and July 1st. You are welcome to reenter names for those still suffering. Anyone in need of the Sacrament of anointing can receive the anointing that evening by calling the rectory at 570 853-4634. Rev. David Cramer, Pastor Deacon Ron Maida Mrs. Vickie Mulligan, Pastoral Associate/Joint DRE Mrs. Judi Salinkas, Joint Secretary NO HARSHNESS Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.
ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST Food Bank Collections (Susq. Food Pantry) Items may be left in the vestibule. All monetary gifts may be placed in an envelope marked FOOD BANK (cash only) and dropped in the collection. Rice, canned fruit, mac & cheese, cereal and hamburger helper are needed. We are still collecting rosaries for our troops. Please place them in the back of church. Need a lift to Church? has a transportation Committee to help out parishioners who need a ride to church. Call JoAnn Barnes at 570-647-0833. The SANCTUARY LIGHT burns for all who will be travelling. 15 E. Church St. Susquehanna, PA 18847 Stewardship Offering Env: 2,057.00 Loose: 115.00 Care & Edu:286.00 Assumption: 15.00 Total: 2,473.00 Improvements: $ 25.00 3 families used WeShare. We now offer online giving. Donate today using your debit or credit card. Click Give Online - Select amount - Enter your account and payment information. Women s Club September Meeting: Due to Confirmation in September, The Woman s Club meeting will be held on Tuesday, September 18th. TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION Back to work we go! Summer break is over and there is much to accomplish in school and in the workplace. It s a venerable Catholic custom to assign patron saints to the trades and occupations of life. This is largely in the realm of popular devotion, and although from time to time the Vatican declares a saint to be patron of this or that, the process is free-wheeling and just about uncontrollable. Still, there is a saint for almost any purpose, whether you are on death row (Dismas), having eye trouble (Lucy), or pursued by poisonous toads (Hubert). Medieval guilds would often associate themselves with heavenly patrons, so Saint Joseph has the carpenters, Thomas More the lawyers, and physicians get Saint Luke. If you re stuck in the airport, St. Joseph of Cupertino is on call since he was said to rise off the floor when he prayed, and if you re in a long line at the ATM, Saint Anthony Claret is for you. In recent years, the Vatican has from time to time assigned a new patronage, as when Saint Aloysius Gonzaga was named the patron of HIV-AIDS patients, since as a young Jesuit novice he had cared for his fellow novices during a terrible plague. Anything that matters to us nation, parish church, occupation, illness can have a patron, and it is an aspect of Catholicism that has enormous appeal. To believe in the communion of saints is to know that the ties that bind us as a communion do not unravel with death, and that when we stand before life s struggles, we do not stand alone. Who is your patron saint? Ministries St. John Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 5:30PM J. Burke, A. Nieradka (Servers) M. Mazikewich (Lector) (EM) C. Walker, S. Decker, J. Schell Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 8:30PM L. Hilling, L. Dooley (Servers) (Lector) M. Cook (EM) B. Burns, B. Wolf, B. Cook SAVE THE DATES: Gift Card BINGO: Church on Sunday, September 30th. American Girl BINGO: Saturday, November 10th at Hall. JOINT FACEBOOKPAGE:@stlawrencemartinjohn check it out and don t forget to Like & Share Remember in your prayers Rita Hillis who passed away. We offer her family our sincere condolences Men s Club Fall Festival Sunday, September 16th 12:30-4PM Held on the Parish Grounds Adults: $ 15.00 & Children under 12: $ 5.00 Music by Shambles Price includes food, bev., and music IHM Silver Circle: For $ 25.00 you can participate in 324 drawings from Oct. 2018 to June, 2019, in which the lowest prize is $ 50.00. There is also a $ 1,000.00 prize drawing. In addition, Silver Circle members share in the daily prayers and works of the Sisters of IHM, Scranton, Pa. and are remembered in a monthly Mass for benefactors. All proceeds from Silver Circle Program benefit the IHM Retirement Fund. For an application and or additional information, please contact: Sr. M. Rosella Salvato, IHM St. Clare Convent 2201 N. Washington Ave. Scranton, Pa. 18509 phone # 570-346-3359
ST. LAWRENCE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 380 FRANKLIN STREET GREAT BEND, PA. 18821 We at ask you to PLEASE pray for those who have been placed on our prayer chain: Jerry Stahl, Lorraine Smith, Rick Russell, Delores Goodger, Karen Hartt, Cathy Johnson,Mary Giangrieco. Carol & Harold Smallacombe, Al Maholick, Pauline Rudy, Kevin Tross, Catherine Battisti ** when adding a person to the prayer list, PLEASE let us know when we should take off their name. Food Pantry: You can leave non perishable food items in the cry room for the Great Bend Food Pantry. All items are needed and greatly appreciated. BIBLE STUDY: Will be on Friday evenings at 7PM in the Trinity. All Welcome and encouraged to come. Stewardship Offering Env: $ 1,448.00 Loose: 273.00 Assumption: 1.00 E. Europe:7.00 Care & Edu: 237.00 Maint:145.00 Insurance:10.00 Total: $ 2,121.00 0 families used WeShare. We now offer online giving. Donate today using your debit or credit card. Click Give Online - Select amount - Enter your account and payment information. MINISTERIES ST. LAWRENCE A Disciple's Response of Time and Talent Fall Breakfast: Sunday, September 16th 2018. Come out for a pancake, sausage, eggs, potatoes, sweet breads & bev. $ 7.00 per plate. 8:30-11:30AM SAVE THE DATE: Pampered Chef BINGO: Friday, November 2nd. In the Trinity Center. Tickets available soon! Limited quantity. Planting and Watering While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh, and walking according to the manner of man? 1 Corinthians 3.3 In today s reading, Paul addresses a rivalry between those followers in Corinth who associate with one teacher or another Paul, who originally planted the gospel there, and Apollos, who came later and watered it. As Pope Benedict XVI has pointed out, Luke describes Apollos in Acts as an eloquent man an impressive orator. And, while there s no indication that he encouraged it, Apollos developed fans. Besides scolding the Corinthians for all-toohuman practice of dividing into rival camps, though, Paul is making a larger point. He quickly turns mystical: What is Apollos, after all, and what is Paul? (verse 5) and, The one wo plants and the one who waters are equal (verse 8). The source of the Good News is God, not its human conveyers. As long as we bicker with each other over details or style, says Paul, we are walking according to the manner of man, and missing the forest for the trees. Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 I. McCarthy (lector) S. & F. Connor (EM) Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 J. Burton (lector) D. Horn, D. Maida (EM) Greeters:9/8: L. Kowalewski 9/9: M. Jorgenson 9/15: B. Vaseleck 9/16: L. Landes 9/22: P. Bryce 9/23: M. & J. Riecke 9/29: I. McCarthy 9/30: R. Parkinson. The SANCTUARY LIGHT burns for or all who will be traveling. If anyone would like to send a card or note to Al and Marcy Maholick, here is their daughters address: Nancy Kelso 2249 Hieter Rd. Quakertown, Pa. 18951 Have you moved? Have you changed your phone number? It is very important to your church that you contact us with your changes. We are constantly trying to keep our parish records up to date. Also, if you come to one of our churches and would like to become a member, call the parish office for a registration form at 570-853-4634. Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all. The Knights of Columbus meetings are still on the first Sunday of the month after the mass. NO meeting until September.
ST. MARTIN OF TOURS State Rts. 92 & 492 St. Martin of Tours Mission Statement United with the Holy Father, our Bishop, and our Pastor, we, the parish community of St. Martin of Tours, bring the Word of God alive through our Eucharistic celebrations and Works of Charity. STEWARDSHIP ST. MARTIN OF TOURS Sunday Offering: $ 1,436.24 Loose: 209.00 candle: 15.00 E. Europe: 5.00 Fuel:80.00 Care & Edu:231.03 Total: $ 1,976.27 1 family used WeShare. The SANCTUARY LIGHT burns for all who will be traveling. The St. Peregrine prayer box: If you have a loved one who remains in need of prayer you are welcome to put your request in the prayer box. PLEASE JOIN US: Each First Saturday Mass at at St. Martin of Tours. First Saturdays in reparation to the Immaculate Heart of Mary include the following elements, performed with the intention of reparation for blasphemies against the Immaculate Heart, for at least five consecutive months: Confession (Father will be available) Holy Communion received on the first Saturday of each month; the Holy Rosary, five decades recited sometime during the day; meditating for 15 minutes on the Mysteries of the Rosary. A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who dropped items off, who sorted and worked hard setting up and worked countless hours at the sale. Thanks to all who came out and supported us by buying treasures at our Flea Market. We made over $ 1,700.00!!! A special Thank You to Our Lady of Light Church in Fort Myers, Fla., who set and donated wonderful jewelry! It was greatly appreciated!!! Just Judge...the one who judges me is the Lord. 1 Corinthians 4:4 St. Paul had it right it is the Lord who judges us. Yet, too often, we want to cast judgement too. However, unlike the Lord, our opinions or biases enter in, and rather than judging, we become judgmental. Let me explain. As a kid in 4-H, I raised a calf every year to take to the fair in September and, hopefully, win a blue ribbon. Come fair time, a qualified judge would enter the show ring and discern which calf was most deserving. Having made his decision, he d present the blue ribbon to the kid who had raised it. I was never that kid! Rather than see it as a case of the winner being deserving, in disappointment, I would mutter an excuse about how the judge was unfair or the kid had had help. In truth, the judge wasn t biased, I was! My personal opinions were causing me to be judgmental, thereby clouding the truth. How good it is, O God, that you are the judge; you see me as I am and love me, faults and all. unfair Online giving. Donate today using your debit or credit card. Click Give Online - Select amount - Enter your account and payment information. JOINT FACEBOOK PAGE: @stlawrencemartinjohn check it out and don t forget to Like & Share Time, Talent & Treasure: Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. MINISTERIES-ST. MARTIN S Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018 4:00PM M. Fallon (Lector) M. Pepe, M. Czachor (EM) Sunday, Sept. 16, 2018 11:00AM G. Whitehead (Server) A. Dalikas (Lector) B. Supancik, B. Kwader, K. Kempa (EM) St. Martin of Tours has an Emergency Prayer Request team that is ready to pray for the needs of her parishioners. Prayer requests can be made to Annette Corrigan at corrigan@echoes.net 570 280-2264 or Betsy Supancik at grannybets68@yahoo.com - 570 756-2586. Holy Hour: will be held after the Thursday morning Mass. The hour will include the Mass and 30 minutes of private adoration. At 8:45 the Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be recited. Special Novena: On Thursday mornings at the 8:00 AM Mass at St. Martin of Tours there is a special novena after Mass to St. Peregrine, patron saint of cancer victims and those suffering from serious illness There is a prayer box by St. Peregrine's statue where you can enter the name of a suffering loved one or yourself to be remembered. The box is emptied January 1st and July 1st. You are welcome to reenter names for those still suffering. The box is emptied, please resubmit your names of loved ones for prayers. THE GREATEST NEED The world s greatest need is not more Christians but more Christians who practice their Christianity. Our Rosary Garden The prayerful can walk along the stepping stones to recite the Rosary for anyone in the need of healing or special intentions. It may be found in the front yard facing the statue of Our Lady of Fatima.
PARISH CLUSTER NEWS Prayer Shawl Ministry : The next meeting is September 6th, 2018 in Parish Hall. All welcome to come!!! Baptism blankets/quilts as well as regular sizes and colors are appreciated. The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) This is the process whereby adults and children (8 yrs. and up) are initiated into full communion with the Catholic Church. If you have never been baptized or were baptized in another faith traditions but now feel called to become Catholic.. If you ve never received the sacrament of confirmation, you are welcome to come!! Call the Parish Office at 853-4634. New Classes begin Sept. 16th. Call the parish office for more information. If you cannot serve on your scheduled mass, please do your best to find a substitute. If you are a server, lector or EM, at one of our other two churches, please don t hesitate to help. After all, we are all One Body of Christ.. The Capuchin Sisters of Nazareth would like to invite you to spend some time with Our Lord and to get to know some of our older brothers and sisters in the faith. Join them for a day of reflection, So great a cloud of witnesses, on September 29th from 10:00AM to 2:30PM, at Church in Jackson, Pa. Please bring your own lunch. There is no charge for the day. NEED PRAYER! Come to on September 14th between 3:00PM and 7:00PM. The Divine Mercy image will be outside and the Sisters will be available for prayer. If you can t get out of your car, just drive up and pray! Confessions will be available. Times will be announced in the future. If you or a loved one are in the hospital or you are unable to attend Mass due to advanced age or sickness/ disability and would like a home visit, please call the parish office at 853-4634. Fr. Dave is more than happy to pay you a visit! Blue Ridge Senior Center" in Great Bend, Pa. is having Chair Yoga with Jim Holle on Sept. 14, 2018 at 10:00am and we will be having Zumba class on Sept.12, 2018 at 10:30am please call the center 570-465-7552. to let us know how many are going to attend. Confirmation Musicians Practice: Sunday, September 9th at 7PM and Monday, September 10th at 7PM in Church. Sat. Sept. 8 Sun. Sept. 9 St. John 4:00PM 5:30PM 8:30AM 11:00AM Confession: St. John: Saturday s after Mass : Saturday s 4:15-4:45PM St. Martin: Saturday s 3:15-3:35PM Mary Ahearn req. by Mr. and Mrs. Robert McNamara Jr. Gertrude Engates req. by Bob and Kathy Ragard Tom Robinson req. by Pat and Mary Beth Ahearn Anna Salvato req. by Irene McCarthy Mary Lorraine Starr req. by Pat and Joe King Joseph Kapcsandi Jr. req. by Roy Williams and Deb Zayas Mon. Sept. 10 7:00PM Thomas Maholick req. by Al and Marcy Maholick Tues. Sept. 11 Vicky Yancey (victim of 911) req. by Barbara McKetta Wed. Sept. 12 Poor Souls in Purgatory Thurs. Sept. 13 For our parish community Fri. Sept. 14 Joan Battisti req. by the Hennessey family Sat. Sept. 15 Sun. Sept. 16 4:00PM 5:30PM 8:30AM 11:00AM Mary McNamara req. by Helen and Jean Dribnack Dick and Judy McGuane req. by Kirk, Kathleen & Jake Hinkley Robert F. Reddon req. by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Schell Kathy Gaarde (victim of Wash. Navy yard shooting) req. by Barbara McKetta Geraldine Davidson req. by Howard and Joyce Lewis Elaine Hobart req. by Charles and Linda Buffington THE GREATEST NEED The world s greatest need is not more Christians but more Christians who practice their Christianity. Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings: Saturday evenings at 7:30PM in Hall. Call 1-800-640-7545 or TEXT: NEPAIG to # 85100 for more information.