St. John Neumann Church
Our Jubilee Year
November 16, 2014
Parish Office
380 Highland Lane
610.525.3100
Celebrating
A Half Century of
Building Upon
A Community Of
Faith
Ss. Colman-John Neumann
Regional Catholic School
372 Highland Lane
610.525.3266
Parish Website
www.sjnparish.org
School Website
www.scjnschool.org
Mass Schedule
Pastoral Staff
Saturday Evening – 6:00pm
Sunday - 7:30, 9:00, 10:30am and 12pm
Reconciliation
Pastor - Rev. James J. McKeaney
In Residence - Rev. Robert J. Chapman
Permanent Deacon - Deacon David Schaffer
Parish Services Dir. - Sr. Carol Kelly, SSJ
Sunday Assistance Rev. John Deegan, OSA
Rev. Robert Murray, OSA
Bishop Robert Maginnis, D.D.
Principal - Mrs. Cathleen Lamberto
PREP Coordinator - Mrs. Debbie Andes
Music Ministry - Mrs. Isabel Momenee
Saturdays – 5:00 to 5:45pm
Coordinators of Parish Ministry
Daily Mass
Monday - Friday—6:45am and 8:00am
Saturday - 8:00am
Holy Days - (except Christmas and New
Year’s Day) 7:00am, 8:30am & 7:00pm
( No Vigil Mass for the Holy Days)
Baptisms
1:00pm most Sundays. Please call the
rectory to make arrangements.
Weddings
Friday evenings and Saturdays 11:00am,
1:00 and 3:00pm
Adult Ed Coordinator - Deacon David Schaffer
“Aid For Friends” - Kathy LaMonaca
Catholic Charities Services - Mary Ann Gordon
Lectors - Edward Last
Respect Life Committee - Kathy Heenan
Interfaith Hospitality Network - Sister Carol
Active Adults - Bill Haines
Little Church School - Janet Baffa
Altar Guild - Nora Saraceni
MASS INTENTIONS
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 15TH
6:00 pm Joseph Hughes
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
7:30 am James McGoldrick
9:00 am Mary Papola
10:30 am Peggy Henderson
12:00 pm The Carney Family
MONDAY
6:45 am Ruth Epps
8:00 am Ron Haydanek
TUESDAY
6:45 am James Kerwick
8:00 am Ruth Fitzpatrick
WEDNESDAY
6:45 am Elise Allan Tucci
8:00 am Michael Duzy
THURSDAY
6:45 am Living & Deceased Members of
St. John Neumann Parish
8:00 am William Holland
FRIDAY
6:45 am Grazia Firmani—10th Anniversary
8:00 am Armand J. Leusner
SATURDAY
8:00 am Deceased Members Lee and
Costa Families
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 22ND
6:00 pm Frank Damato, Jr.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD
7:30 am Martin Han
9:00 am Rosemary Sweeney
10:30 am Aubrey & Noleta Athayde
12:00 pm Robert E. Slota, Jr.
LECTORS
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 15TH
6:00 pm Virginia LiVolsi
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
7:30 am Randal Gustitis
9:00 am Jim Rowley
10:30 am Anthony Tanzola
12:00 pm Larry Paulausky
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 22ND
6:00 pm Richard Galli
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD
7:30 am John McNamara
9:00 am Mike Gormley
10:30 am Erik Fehrenbach
12:00 pm Betty Layberger
ALTAR SERVERS
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 15TH
6:00 pm Emma McGrath, Kaitlyn Powel
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
7:30 am Joseph McCabe, Luke Price
9:00 am Kathryn Ewing, Olivia Knott
10:30 am George Voegele, Kevin Donnelly
12:00 pm Garrett McCloskey, Liam McMahon
MTW
8:00 am Aidan O’Connor, Joseph Schanne
Th F S
8:00 am Amanda Heilman, Riley Dowd
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 22ND
6:00 pm Sean Clark, Liam McHale
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD
7:30 am Ned Burke, Sean McCarthy
9:00 am Mary Kate Kearney, Teresa Hegarty
10:30 am Kirsten Zuccarini, Cameron Zuccarini
12:00 pm Kathryn Gleeson, Riley Dowd
Extraordinary Ministers
of the Eucharist
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 15TH
6:00 pm Nora & Dick Saraceni, Jill Jordan
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH
7:30 am Charles Falcone, Kevin Momenee,
Jim Lavelle
9:00 am Kathy & Michael Devine, Greg Hauck
10:30 am Hannah, Barbara & Craig Callaghan
12:00 pm Theresa McDonald, Emily Petrosky,
Guy Wolfington
SATURDAY VIGIL, NOVEMBER 22ND
6:00 pm Kay Frissora, Susan & Rich Bannister
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD
7:30 am Carol & Bernie McCabe, Barb Heath
9:00 am Diane & Larry Freedman, Mary Hauck
10:30 am Peter Callaghan, Susan Cush, Dick Yanko
12:00 pm Kathy & Anthony Ricciotti,
Vicki Gerstenfeld
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This Week at St. John Neumann
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Little Church School—10:30 am
Rosary for Peace—7 pm
Prayer & Scripture—9:30 am
PREP—4:15 pm—school
Choir—7 pm
Adoration—8:30 to 9:30 am
Parents’ Confirmation Meeting—
7 pm—School Gym
Book Club—9:30 am
Floor Hockey—6:30 pm—School
Patricia Adams
Dottie Berry
Dr. Mariel Briones
Maryrose Campbell
Diana Caron
Timothy Doring
Charles Dougherty
Danny Hill
Barbara Johnson
Jeff Leighton
Father Jim Martinez
Catherine Meticarti
William Miller
Zachary Miller
Sarah Murnaghan
Cynthia O’Connor
Barbara O’Neill
Joe Parente
Sandy Shea
Michael Shelly
Dr. Jack Shutack
Kennedy Snyder
Dan Sullivan
Paul Troy
Please pray for
All the deceased parishioners of St. John
Neumann Parish
May their souls and all the souls of the faithful
departed, through the mercy of God, rest in
peace. Amen.
Prayer for Peace
For peace in the world and an end
to terrorism and all war, we pray
to the Lord.
For the protection of Christians in the Middle
East, and for the safety of our military serving
all over the world, we pray to the Lord.
Second Collection this Weekend
The fundamental mission of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary is the formation of Catholic men for pastoral service in the Priesthood of Jesus Christ. The Seminary is committed to providing a unified college and theology program of formation in priestly spirituality, pastoral ministry, celibate witness, emotional maturity, intellectual integrity, and physical wellness.
Formation towards the ministerial Priesthood
centers on the Word of God and the Sacraments of the
Church; most especially Eucharist and Reconciliation.
This is complemented by personal and community prayer, a comprehensive academic program of liberal arts
and theological studies, and a program of pastoral preparation designed primarily for parochial ministry.
The Seminary recognizes the diverse challenges
of our time and promotes in the seminarian a commitment to work in unity with others in the Church with a
pastoral sensitivity that is exercised in fidelity to the
Magisterium of the Church. Saint Charles Borromeo
Seminary provides an atmosphere that fosters and ensures a thorough process of formation, so that the man
called to the Priesthood by God will have a strong priestly identity, a desire to serve, and a love for the people of
God.
Thank you for your generous support of Saint
Charles Seminary.
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SCJN SPORTS CENTER
Ss. Colman John Neumann School News
Tuesday, November 18th—
Home & School Board Meeting
Wednesday, November 19th—
Second trimester pretzel/beverage forms due.
Thanksgiving donations due.
Bulldawg Flag Football
Congratulations to the 3rd grade Bulldawg
Flag Football team for completing an undefeated season with an 8-0-1 record. SCJN
was well represented on the team.
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SCJN Social Justice Program
Our parish school’s October
Social Justice project was to
fill baby bottles with loose
change for the Mothers’
Home in Darby.
The staff at Mothers’ Home
was overjoyed with the response of our parish.
We donated $621.
This donation will go a long
way in supporting their financial needs.
JV Soccer
Finished their season with a 4th place finish
in the end-of-season playoffs. Congrats on a
great season!
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Cross Country
We have 2 runners who will be participating
in the CYO National Meet in Nashville, TN.
Good luck to Makiela McCloskey and James
Rowley. Also, Garrett McCloskey will be
attending the meet as an alternate.
Also, congratulations to cross country runner
Molly Dwyer who finished 16th out of 100
runners in the league championship meet.
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If you have any time or talent to share at the
Home, please contact
[email protected]
THANK YOU!
To all who
helped make
the Boutique a
Special Thanks to all our Fall Coaches
Andy Convery
Ann Donnelly
Dennis Donnelly
Jim Durkin
Shannon Gillespie
grand success for the parish
and school!
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Deanna Golden
Greg Hauck
Mary Hauck
Michelle Nassib
Dan Rufo
Jane Voegele
LITTLE CHURCH SCHOOL
50th Anniversary
During 10:30 am Mass
In the Parish Life Center
Parish Mission
Our Family
Little Church School is
a program held during
the 10:30 am Mass for
3 year olds through kindergarten. The children
gather in the Life Center to hear a child's version of the day's Gospel followed by a hands-on activity to further their learning. This gives the children
an opportunity to focus in an age appropriate setting while their parents and older siblings gather at Mass.
For more information or to register, please
contact Jan Baffa, [email protected], or
484-347-3217.
November 30th to December 3rd
On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday
at 7:00 PM
by
Rev. Bruce Lewandowski, C.Ss.R
Sister Carol’s Book Club
The Book Club will meet Friday morning,
November 21st, at 9:30 am in the Rectory
Meeting Room. We will be discussing
Chapters 5 and 6 of “Witness to Hope.”
All are welcome to celebrate family life.
Bring your entire family each evening for
an uplifting mission given by one of Saint
John Neumann’s own community,
the Redemptorist Fathers
SAVE
THE
DATE—TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9TH
PROFESSIONALS WILL SHOW
YOU HOW TO ARRANGE YOUR
HOLIDAY GIFT BASKETS.
BRING YOUR OWN BASKET
AND CONTENTS, OR BUY THEM
AT THE CLASS.
MORE DETAILS WILL FOLLOW
ST. JOHN NEUMANN ACTIVE ADULTS CLUB
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29th Annual Bulldawg Bash
Celebrating Bulldawg Football
with
St. Denis, St. John Neumann &
St. Colman Parishioners!
CREATED FOR JOY
Jesus reveals our human identity
and destiny
Jesus reveals who God is, including that God loves
us and reaches out to us. But Jesus also reveals
what it means to be human. The Second Vatican
Council, speaking of Jesus as the “Word” of God,
taught, “The truth is that only in the mystery of the
incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on
light.” In Jesus Christ, we learn things about ourselves that are true, which we could not invent, and
which we would not otherwise know. As the Bible
puts it, “your life is hidden with Christ.” Catholics
believe that God so loves the world (Jn 3:16), that
rather than leave us in confusion, God took human
flesh to disclose who God is and who we are. The
Second Vatican Council explains:
The root reason for human dignity lies in
man’s call to communion with God. From
the very circumstance of his origin, man
is already invited to converse with God.
For man would not exist were he not
created by God’s love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that love and devotes Himself to
his Creator.
As Pope Benedict XVI stressed at the last World
Meeting of Families, in Milan in 2012, “It is love
that makes the human person the authentic image
of the Blessed Trinity, [the] image of God.”
Saturday, November 22nd
(8:00 pm—?)
Palombaro Club (The Big Club)
County Line Road, Ardmore
Live Music!!! Featuring...
$30 per person / $50 couple
Food...Beer/Wine...Live Music...Raffles
Great times indeed!
For tickets please contact Jan Baffa 484-347-3217
[email protected]
LOCAL EVENTS
Full-time job for a Custodial Position with Sodexo
Company at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. If interested please fax resume to Facilities Department at
610-785-6533.
Archbishop’s Lecture Series: Mary Eberstadt
Join Archbishop Chaput for a powerful lecture by
Mary Eberstadt, on the topic of her most recent book
How the West Really Lost God. Mrs. Eberstadt will
show how the undermining of the family in the Western world has undermined Christianity itself. Monday, November 17th @ 7 pm, St. Charles Seminary,
Wynnewood, PA. www.PhillyEvang.org/lectures
Stay up to date with local Catholic news fr om
CatholicPhilly.com. Visit CatholicPhilly.com on
your computer or smart phone.
Life after Death
The “image of God” phrase comes from Genesis.
It suggests that each individual person is precious,
with unique and irreducible dignity. The image of
God abides in us, no matter what we do to obscure
it.
“Do you believe in life after death?” the boss asked
one of his employees.
“Yes, sir,” the employee replied.
“Well, then, that makes everything just fine,” the boss
went on.
“After you left early yesterday to go to your Grandmother’s funeral, she stopped in to see you!”
(Consult this column each week for another teaching on the Family.)
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