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We are God’s People sharing a responsibility to witness to God’s unconditional love and to bring Christ’s healing presence to our world.
FEBRUARY 1, 2015
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Feb. 2 -
Monday
8 AM JOAN ECKER
by Joanne Riley
Feb. 8
Tuesday
8 AM RICHARD SEEBODE
by Rose MacDonald
8AM COMMUNION SERVICE
Wednesday
Thursday
8AM
Friday
8 AM
Saturday
Sunday
4 PM JEFFREY MARTINEZ
by the Gatt Family
8AM BERNADETTE CARROLL
by the family
1030AM ALL PARISHIONERS
SANCTUARY CARE
COFFEE HOUR
2/7 4PM
2/8 8AM
2/8 10:30AM
MICHELLE SMITH
JANET DOLAN
HELEN HELLEN
Jennifer Weinstein
Gerald Fausel
Debra Hammerer
CHILDREN’S LECTIONARY
Karen Lewis
Jeannene Albright
Joanne Conway
10:30AM (AGE 4-6)
Melody Eldred
Louis Martin
Mark DeFrancesco
Raina Josberger
Colleen Lynch
Matthew Kennedy
LECTORS
LECTORS
LECTORS
Seth Mann
Rose Littlejohn
Colleen Hazelton
Catherine Benson
Charles Mahoney
Beth Hazelton
SERVERS
SERVERS
SERVERS
Tara Josberger
Griffin Hellen
Charlie Desrosiers
Sydney Weinstein
Gracie Hellen
Ben Turck
COLLECTION REPORT
TOTAL
ATTENDANCE
Last Week
3,470
392
Last Year
3,577
387
COORDINATOR:
Valerie Dwinell
Erin Scott
PATTY MCCARROLL
8 AM
Marie Kadlick
Rachel Zanchelli
Evelyn Lein
10:30 AM
EVENING ROSARY PRAYER
Tammy Hathaway
Will not be meeting
The Marifioti Family
again until March.
MEETINGS:
FINANCE COMMITTEE: TBD. 9:15AM. Rectory
Knights meet every 2nd Wed. of the month.
PASTORAL CARE TEAM: 2/12. 8:30AM. Rectory.
PASTORAL COUNCIL: 2/15. 9:15AM. Rectory.
WIC Tuesday 2/3 9AM-2PM
YOUTH MINISTRY CORE TEAM: 2/8. 9AM. Maria Hall.
A message from Catholic Charities about the upcoming Ash Wednesday Collection
to benefit their Emergency Relief Fund.
“With your support, we can respond to local neighbors in crisis, provide basic needs,
and strengthen families and communities. Catholic Charities…Caring Beyond Belief
for our Greene and Columbia County residents. Through an array of programs covering all ages and cultures, with a special emphasis on the poor and vulnerable,
Catholic Charities of Columbia and Greene Counties works to reduce and prevent
poverty, provides for human dignity, and works for the common good.”
Details on our programming
www.catholiccharitiescg.org.
can
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We are God’s People sharing a responsibility to witness to God’s unconditional love and to bring Christ’s healing presence to our world.
Effective Monday, February 2: if a funeral Mass is celebrated on a weekday, that funeral Mass will take the
place of the scheduled weekday 8am Mass or Communion Service. The intention requested for the weekday
Mass will be included in the funeral Mass.
FAITH FORMATION & YOUTH MINISTRY:
BOB DESROSIERS 731-9268 [email protected]
Monthly Youth Mass Thank you to our 8th grade FF group for
their participation as ministers for our Mass last Sunday. Special thanks to their catechists Analyssa Shultis and Jeffrey
Lewis for preparing them.
Confirmation 2015 There will be an important meeting for
Confirmation Candidates and their sponsors on Sun. 2/1 at
9AM in Church following 8AM Mass. Bob will cover the Sponsor Mentorship Program and the remaining preparation process schedule. This is important and if a sponsor can’t attend,
then I ask that a parent come in place of the sponsor. Reminder: those who have not submitted a sponsor certificate
to Bob must do so now before the February 1st meeting.
Youth Ministry Goes Snowtubing! Family Pilgrimage to
Windham Mountain. Sat. 2/7. 3-7PM. $12 per child (original
group price $17: YM covers $5 of the fee for all children under 18. Parents who participate pay the regular fee). Those
families who wish to go as a family must give Bob the names
of those participating with the fee. Those youth in 7th grade
who are interested in going without family must submit a
completed permission form with the $12 fee to Bob by Faith
Formation Class on 1/26 or at the Rectory by that date. If you
need a permission form, call Bob. We need at least 15 snow
tubers to get the discount of $17.
5th Annual Youth Ministry Nickel Social Fundraiser: Sat.
4/18 5-8PM at the Firehouse Hose #3. The proceeds for
this fundraiser will go toward the YM trip to the National
Catholic Youth Conference in Nov. 2015. We need help in
collecting items for auction. We ask parishioners to donate
items for the social and bring them to Maria Hall beginning
CARDBOARD CROSSES AVAILABLE IN BACK OF CHURCH
the weekend of March 7/8.
(COURTESY OF KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS) As a people of God,
PRAYER AND AWARENESS TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: as Christians, we turn to the cross as a symbol of our salvaOn the Feast Day of St. Josephine Bakhita, a survivor of slav- tion. As a witness to our faith, we can place this card in our
ery, the Sisters of Mercy will pray for the millions of people windows to openly display the cross as a sign, to all who pass
that have been victims of modern day slavery. They will stand by, that believers live here. Our goal is to get a Cross Window
firm in their resolve to create a slavery-free world. Come join Sign in the window of every Christian home across the counthem in prayer on Sun. 2/8 at 2PM at the Sisters of Mercy try in the towns that the ACLU opposes our public display of
Motherhouse, 634 New Scotland Ave., Albany.
our cross and Christmas Christian displays. The ACLU, and
many now in our government, schools, and others are trying
COLUMBIETTES BAKE SALE WITH BASKET RAFFLE 2/21-22.
to remove from our history and current lives any reference to
Tickets for the basket raffle will be sold after Masses in Feb.
God. The majority of Americans are Christian. Why are we
FIRST FRIDAY EXPOSITION AND ADORATION OF THE letting this happen to us? It's time to stand-up and make a
BLESSED SACRAMENT at St. Anthony’s Friary in Catskill on statement, a small, quiet, and powerful one. Your help is
First Friday beginning with Mass at 8 AM and concluding with greatly appreciated.
Evening Prayer and Benediction at 5:30PM. ALL ARE WELADDITIONAL CHRISTMAS FLOWERS:
COME!
Donation by Mr. James F Cusker.
Each month of this year for Consecrated Life, a religious community in our diocese will open their home to all in the diocese to
join them in prayer and celebration. You are cordially invited to join the Sisters of the Resurrection on the World Day of Consecrated Life, Mon.2/2 at 7PM for Mass celebrated by Father James Ebert at the Sisters’ Provincial home in Castleton. Refreshments
following our prayer together. For further info. contact Sister Rosemary Ann Cuneo: 518-674-3818/[email protected].
When the C-A Schools have a delay or cancellation due to weather, our weekday Mass or Communion Service is cancelled.
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