SAINT MARY, MOTHER OF GOD
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH
22 Bartlett Street, Sylva, NC 28779 (828) 586-9496
Very Rev. J. A. Voitus, VF, Pastor
www.StMarySylva.org; www.facebook.com/stmarysylva
[email protected]; office hours: Monday-Wednesday 10am-2pm
Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed
(Holy Souls’ Day) - November 2, 2014
THIS WEEK we will have weekday Mass Monday and Wednesday through
Saturday. The following week we will have no weekday Masses while
Father Voitus is on vacation.
PARISH COUNCIL MEETING was postponed last
week to today, November 2nd, in the Conference Center
at 12:30 pm.
This Tuesday is FIRST TUESDAY. We will have silent adoration from
7:00 pm until 7:30 pm. As it is also election night, this seems a good
opportunity to gather in prayer for our country.
Our homebound and nursing home patients need your help! Could you
please help with ministering to these special people by bringing them Holy
Communion? We would like to have someone visit each person once each
week. Please call the office for more information.
OTHER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES: Please consider serving as
Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers at our Sunday Masses. Both the 9:00 am
and the 11:00 am Masses really need some extra help. Please call the office
for more information. We hope to continue offering the Sacred Species
under both kinds without interruption, but we do need your support.
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Complimentary copies of THE WORD AMONG US for the month of
November are available at the main entrance to the Church.
IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN! Offertory envelopes, Saint Joseph Missals,
and annual guides for Christian Prayer and the Liturgy of the Hours for 2015
are now available in the Fellowship Hall. 2015 Calendars are expected to
arrive by the end of October.
The last Sunday to return donations for the WOUNDED WARRIOR
program will be November 16, 2014. The Knights of Columbus and all the
wounded warriors thank you for getting them together with their families
during the Christmas season.
Our SOUND SYSTEM is in need of experienced help. The
response to our request for contacts was very successful. We
will be in contact with the suggested sound engineers very
soon. Thank you for your input!
Upcoming Eastern Catholic Liturgies in Canton
Very Rev. Fr. Mark Shuey, an Eastern Catholic priest from Cary, NC, will
celebrate Byzantine rite Vespers and the Divine Liturgy of St. John
Chrysostom at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Canton on
Saturday, November 15, and Saturday, December 20.
Vespers will begin at 4 p.m. and Divine Liturgy at 5 p.m. Services will be
celebrated in English. Participating in Divine Liturgy fulfills the Sunday
obligation for Catholics of any rite.
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church is located at 42 Newfound Street,
Canton.
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From the Pastor:
PRO-LIFE
“[T]he courage and grace shown by those women who choose life—in the
face of fear, uncertainty, parental or partner intimidation, seemingly
insurmountable odds—make them today's heroes. They are joined by the
many who counsel, support and nurture them both before and after the
birth of their child. Such self-giving love...is powerfully transformative of
mother, of child, of families, of cultures.”
— 2013-2014 Respect Life Program (USCCB), Erika Bachiochi, Esq., “Life
Matters: Roe Plus 40”
FREE Natural Family Planning (NFP) Full Course (with intro.) dates
are November 8thin Arden at St. Barnabas Catholic Church and December
13th in Winston-Salem at Holy Family Catholic Church. Topics to be
covered include:
* Effectiveness of modern NFP methods
* Health risks of popular contraceptives
* Benefits of NFP - health, relational, and spiritual
* Church teaching on responsible parenting
* And...how to use NFP
For more information, go to ccdoc.org/nfp or to RSVP, contact: Batrice
Adcock, MSN, at Catholic Charities (704)-370-3230
or [email protected].
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This week the Church has celebrated, and is celebrating, a
pair of wonderful feasts. On Saturday morning we
celebrated All Saints, a day on which we remember all who
have gone before us to the eternal splendor of Heaven, and
we ask for their intercession for us on earth as we strive
to follow in their footsteps. On Sunday we are celebrating
the feast of All Souls on which we offer our prayers and
sacrifices for those who have died, but who are still awaiting
entrance into Paradise. These two feasts together show the
grand unity of the Body of Christ, a unity which continues
even in death; where the Church triumphant (those in
heaven) assists the Church Militant (those still struggling
here on earth) and the Church Suffering (those in Purgatory)
by prayers, and the Church Militant prays for its own
salvation as well as the end of the purgation of the Church
Suffering that all might be united in union with God.
Now, it may seem that the feast of All Souls is a somewhat
grim one. The "Gloria" is omitted, we use unbleached
candles on the altar, and the priest wears either Violet or, in
our case, Black vestments for the Mass. Why this grimness?
Don't we have faith in the resurrection? Of course we do!
The somberness (I like this word better than "grimness") of
the celebration points to three realities.
1) It points to the real grief and mourning which we
experience when we lose a loved one to death. Just as we
mourn the death of a friend or family member, so does the
Church mourn the passing on of all who have passed from
this life to the next.
2) It also acknowledges, ceremonially, the reality which we
confront on this day, that the people for whom we pray are
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not yet in Heaven. True, we rejoice that they are on their
way and, if they are in Purgatory, they are guaranteed a
place in Heaven, but we are somewhat sorrowful that their
entrance has been delayed.
3) Violet and black vestments are, in addition to
being symbolic of mourning, are symbolic of penance. Today
we remind ourselves that we ought to do penance and
fasting not only for ourselves (we really should be doing this
for ourselves regularly), but that we should be doing these
things on behalf of those in Purgatory, that their time there
may be short and that they may quickly be brought to
Eternal Joy with God.
So let us pray for those who have gone before us; let us too
mourn the loss of our loved ones. Yet, in the midst of our
mourning and sacrifice, let us remember that we do have
faith in the eternal love of Jesus Christ, that, just as
the penitential vestments are trimmed in gold and silver, so
our mourning and penance should always be trimmed with
Hope and Joy and Faith in the Love and Salvation of
Almighty God.
- Father Voitus
Words of the Church Fathers
“But not the high priest [Christ] alone prays for those who
pray sincerely, but also the angels . . . as also the souls of
the saints who have already fallen asleep.”
Origen (A.D. 233)
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SCHEDULES FOR NEXT WEEK
9:00 am
11:00 am
Reader
EMHCs
Ushers
Altar Servers
Reader
EMHCs
Ushers
Altar Servers
Jan Chervenak
Rita Lamanna, David Ramsey
Robert Lamanna, Allen Thurston
Roy Ensley, Braden Tholkes
Rita Goffinet
Gladys Pilch, Kathy Starr
Linwood Newsome, Dean Slusser
Beau Franzen, Josiah Newsome, Isaac
Moorman and Avery Moorman
PLEASE KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS:
Justin Basenese, Jacki Bautista, Regina Bryson, Della Sue Bryson, Will Crain, Kit
Gilliam, Monica Glover, Rosemary Hudson, Georgia Newsom, William Newsom, Jr.,
William Newsom, Sr., Cathleen Pilch, Zig Pilch, Flo Piotrowski, Alicia Ramirez, Halie
Settlemyre, Jay Thorne, Allen Thurston, Joshua Turner, Bonnie Welch, and Mel and
Virginia Wittekind;
Those in Nursing Homes and the Homebound: Rosemary Bauer, Katherine Baumann,
Phyllis Brogan, Theresa Campbell, Joan Doolan, George Feick, Cecilia Gomez, TJ
Martin, Diane Muelick, and Lorraine Sclafani;
Family and Friends called to active duty: Courtney Ortengren.
Friends in Religious Life: Sr. Catherine, OCD and those men discerning their call to the
priesthood, the religious life or to the permanent diaconate;
and the intentions for all of the prayers written in the parish book.
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CHURCH EVENT SCHEDULE – November 2, 2014
LITURGICAL AID
Proper (Cycle A-2)
SUNDAY
ALL SOULS’ DAY
Monday
St. Martin de
Porres
Tuesday
ST. CHARLES
BORROMEO
Wednesday
Mass Readings
Wisdom 3:1-9;
Romans 5:5-11;
John 6:37-40
Philippians 2:1-4;
Luke 14:12-14
Philippians 2:5-11;
Luke 14:15-24
Philippians 2:12-18;
Luke 14:25-33
Thursday
Philippians 3:3-8a;
Luke 15:1-10
Friday
Philippians 3:17-4:1;
Luke 16:1-8
Saturday
Philippians 4:10-19;
Luke 16:9-15
SUNDAY
Ezekiel 47:1-2,8-9,12;
DEDICATION OF SAINT 1 Corinthians
JOHN LATERAN
3:9c-11,16-17;
(Feast)
John 2:13-22
Sunday
Common
Psalms
Sun III
Monday
Holy Men: Mon III
Relig
Pastor
Tue III
Tuesday
Wednesday
Wed III
Thu III
Fri III
Thursday
Sat III
Sun IV
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
8:00 am Hispanic Parents’ Retreat in the Conference Ctr.
9:00 am ALL SOULS’ DAY MASS: Holy Souls+
11:00 am ALL SOULS’ DAY MASS:
The Intentions of Pope Francis
4:00 pm ALL SOULS’ DAY MASS at WCU Student Center
9:00 am WEEKDAY MASS: Georgia Newsom
9:30 am Morning Prayer
6:00 pm Hispanic Familias in the Fellowship Hall
7:00 pm Hispanic Choir Practice in the Church
9:45 am Choir Practice for the 11am Mass
7:00 pm FIRST TUESDAY ADORATION until 7:30 pm
9:00 am WEEKDAY MASS: Catherine Hartley+
9:30 am Morning Prayer
5:45 pm Faith Formation Classes (K-9) until 6:45 pm
6:00 pm Hispanic Familias in the Fellowship Hall
7:00 pm Hispanic Readers’ Practice in the Church
7:30 pm Hispanic Familias Pastoral in the Conference Center
9:00 am WEEKDAY MASS:
Deceased Members of the Culler and Knaff Families
9:30 am Morning Prayer
6:00 pm Hispanic Familias in the Fellowship Hall
7:00 pm Hispanic Choir Practice in the Church
7:00 pm RCIA Class Meeting in the Conference Center
9:00 am WEEKDAY MASS: Catherine Hartley+
9:30 am Adoration and Benediction until 10:30 am
6:00 pm Hispanic Women’s Retreat
All Day Hispanic Women’s Retreat
9:00 am WEEKDAY MASS: Pastor’s Intention
9:30 am Morning Prayer
6:00 pm Confessions
8:00 pm MISA EN ESPANOL
Hispanic Women’s Retreat
9:00 am SUNDAY MASS: Linda Tiller+
11:00 am SUNDAY MASS: Pro Populo
2:30 pm MISA EN ESPANOL ends Women’s Retreat
4:00 pm SUNDAY MASS at WCU Student Center
Offertory for last weekend: $ 2,508.00; Children’s Collection: $ 2.00
 Rosary is prayed 30 minutes before Mass
 Confessions are also available by request
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