December 28, 2014
MASS INTENTIONS
ALTAR SERVERS
SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 27TH
6:00 pm Ann Giacomucci
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28TH
7:30 am Bette Gaspari
9:00 am Pam McMahon
10:30 am Sheila & Norman Athayde
12:00 pm Eileen & Jack Williams
MONDAY
8:00 am Living & Deceased Members of
St. John Neumann Parish
TUESDAY
8:00 am Orpha Kelly 10-year Anniversary
WEDNESDAY
8:00 am Deceased Members of
Carney-McKenzie Family
NEW YEAR’S EVE
6:00 pm Richard Rizzo
THURSDAY—NEW YEAR’S DAY
8:00 am Ann M. Callaghan
10:00 am Edward Cyzewski
12:00 pm Dodie Doyle
FRIDAY
8:00 am Michael Gallagher
SATURDAY
8:00 am Ellen McFadden
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 3RD
6:00 pm Rosemary Sweeney
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4TH
7:30 am Living & Deceased Members
of the Sweeney Family
9:00 am Anna Osifchok
10:30 am Tony Marziano
12:00 pm Joan Dixon
Michael Schuster
SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 27TH
6:00 pm Peter Dugery, Sean McCarthy
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28TH
7:30 am Joseph McCabe, Garrett Ewing
9:00 am Emily Hauck, Kathryn Gleeson
10:30 am Matt Monteleone, Luke Price
12:00 pm Alexandria Lavelle, Riley Dowd
MTW
8:00 am Liam McMahon, Frankie Nieves
FS
8:00 am Lauren Bracken, Meredith Lauzon
NEW YEAR’S EVE
6:00 pm John McCabe, Joseph Dugery
NEW YEAR’S DAY
8:00 am Lauren Bracken, Meredith Lauzon
10:00 am Kirsten Zuccarini, Grace Ewing
12:00 pm Olivia Knott, Kathryn Ewing
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 3RD
6:00 pm Nolan Barry, Matt Monteleone
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4TH
7:30 am Joseph McCabe, John McCabe
9:00 am Mairead O’Hara, Lauren Bracken
10:30 am Shane Baffa, John Boyle
12:00 pm Mackenzie Lee, Elizabeth Hannold
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Extraordinary Ministers
of the Eucharist
SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 27TH
6:00 pm Kay Frissora, Barb & John Anderson
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28TH
7:30 am David McDonald, Charles Bissel,
Jim Lavelle
9:00 am Jerry Dowd, Jennifer Ciarmoli,
Charlie McKee
10:30 am Rosemary Holt, Fran & Joe Ferroni
12:00 pm Robert Hodgson, Michele Hartigan,
Pam Tureck
LECTORS
SATURDAY VIGIL, DECEMBER 27TH
6:00 pm Jean M. DiDominic
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28TH
7:30 am Jim Rowley
9:00 am Jim Swope
10:30 am Al Phelan
12:00 pm Anthony Tanzola
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 3RD
6:00 pm Joan Hadden
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4TH
7:30 am John McNamara
9:00 am Randal Gustitis
10:30 am Craig Callaghan
12:00 pm Chris Pushaw
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 3RD
6:00 pm Nora & Dick Saraceni, Jill Jordan
SUNDAY, JANUARY 4TH
7:30 am Carol & Bernie McCabe, Joan Burke
9:00 am Charlie McKee, Jerry Dowd,
Jennifer Ciarmoli,
10:30 am Kathy & Michael Devine,
Maureen Wynne
12:00 pm Pam Tureck, Tom Lavin, Dick Yanko
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Patricia Adams
Dottie Berry
Dr. Mariel Briones
Mauri Boyle
Maryrose Campbell
Diana Caron
Timothy Doring
Michael Duska
Charles Dougherty
Danny Hill
Barbara Johnson
Jeff Leighton
Father Jim Martinez
William Miller
Zachary Miller
Sarah Murnaghan
Cynthia O’Connor
Barbara O’Neill
Joe Parente
Ted Peters
Bob Pushaw
Luciana Riccobon
Graham Shafer
Sandy Shea
Michael Shelly
Dr. Jack Shutack
Kennedy Snyder
Dan Sullivan
Paul Troy
Kathy Wolfington
MASS SCHEDULE
New Year’s Eve
Please pray for
6 pm
ALL THE DECEASED MEMBERS 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.
New Year’s Day
8 am, 10 am, 12 noon
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LECTORS
Prayer for Peace
For peace in the world and
an end to terrorism and all
war, we pray to the Lord.
Wednesday, December 31
New Year’s Day
6:00 pm Virginia LiVolsi 8:00 am Larry Paulausky
10:00 am Betty Layberger
12:00 pm Carol Restifo
For the safety of our military serving all
over the world, we pray to the Lord.
For all Christians who are persecuted and
martyred because of their faith, we pray to
the Lord.
MASS SCHEDULE
The 6:45 am daily Mass (Monday through
Friday) will resume Monday, January 5,
2015.
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS
OF THE EUCHARIST
NEW YEAR’S EVE
6:00 pm Ann Schwelm, Marie Marziano,
John Fitzpatrick
NEW YEAR’S DAY
8:00 am Maryann Macciocca, Tom Lavin
10:00 am Regina & Peter Bruno, Rosemary Holt
12:00 pm Theresa O’Donnell, Emily Petrosky,
Guy Wolfington
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Holy
Baptism
Anthony Ray-Yu Wang
son of Mark and Lillian
Baptized November 30, 2014
Prayer for Families
December 9, 2014
God and Father of us all,
In Jesus, your Son and our Savior,
you have made us
your sons and daughters
in the family of the Church.
Dear Father McKeaney,
On behalf of Saint Veronica’s families, I
would like to thank you for your generous
donations for Thanksgiving! Our families’
lives are bettered and they learn to trust in
the providence of God!
May Our Lady continue to shower her
graces upon you and the faithful of Saint
John Neumann Parish!
United in the IHM,
Sr. M. Incarnation
May your grace and love
help our families
in every part of the world
be united to one another
in fidelity to the Gospel.
May the example of the Holy
Family,
with the aid of your Holy Spirit,
guide all families,
especially those most troubled,
to be homes of communion and prayer
and to always seek your truth
and live in your love,
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
New Lighthouse/Stewardship
Resource Center
There is a new Resource Center on display in the back of the Church that includes CDs, books, rosaries and other materials to help deepen our faith. All materials are free—donations are optional.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, pray for us!
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World Meeting of Families
Need for an informed Church
Priests, Religious & Laity
St. John Neumann
Active Adults Group
Media attention surrounding the World
Meeting of Families has been astounding
and generally positive thus far. This attention will continue to grow in the coming months and reach a crescendo next
September when we expect over 5,000
reporters to be present in Philadelphia.
We’re going to need well-informed
priests, religious, and lay people from
across the Archdiocese who represent
the broad spectrum of our diverse Catholic family to help us speak to the media
about Church teaching on a variety of
matters.
Invites you to join us
for lunch at Yang Ming
Wednesday, January 21st, 2015
(if bad weather—January 28th)
Carpool @ church @ noon
Please send check for $22 made out to
SJN Adult Group
to:
Jeanne McDonnell
140 Clemson Road
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
In order to help prepare people for possible media encounters, both the Archdiocese and the World Meeting of Families—Philadelphia 2015 have partnered
with Catholic Voices, USA.
SAVE THE DATE
SCJN Athletic Association
Annual Fundraiser
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
Catholic Voices will host two initial information sessions for all those interested in
this opportunity. The content provided at
each meeting will be the same. Multiple
meeting options are being provided for
your convenience. Those meetings will
be held on
Friday, January 9th at 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, January 13th at 6:00 p.m.
in the Vianney Hall Auditorium at Saint
Charles Borromeo Seminary. Representatives from Catholic Voices, the Archdiocese, and the World Meeting of Families
will provide detailed information at that
time. You’ll be able to learn more, ask
questions, and decide if this opportunity
is right for you. If you are interested in
attending, please RSVP to the Archdiocesan Office for Communications at 215587-3747 or [email protected].
7 pm—Midnight
In the Parish Center
Featuring—The Sunday James Band
Please mark your calendar and come
support our CYO sports programs.
PRE-CANA
SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH, 2015
IF INTERESTED, PLEASE CALL
SISTER CAROL 610-525-3100
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Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Clothing Donation Bin
Parish Parking Lot
Removal
by December 31, 2014
Marriage, love, and Christ’s
sacrifice on the cross
God’s love is captured vividly in Ephesians
5, where Saint Paul extends the marriage
analogy to Christ and the Church. Paul urges both husbands and wives to “be subject
to one another out of reverence for Christ.”
Christian marriage is therefore not a negotiation over rights and responsibilities, but
rather a description of mutual self-giving.
Paul does write that “the husband is the
head of the wife just as Christ is the head of
the church.” Paul calls husbands to a selfgiving love that mirrors Christ’s sacrifice on
the cross. Undermining machismo and exploitation, and in profound contrast to other
household codes in the ancient world, Paul
teaches a dynamic in the image of God:
“husbands, love your wives, just as Christ
loved the church and gave himself up for
her.” Drawing on Ephesians 5, the Church
speaks of marriage as a sacrament, and
summons couples to this kind of cruciform
self-sacrificial communion.
For many today, “love” is little more than a
warm feeling or physical attraction. These
things have their place. But real love—love
that endures and deepens and satisfies the
human heart over a lifetime—grows from
what we give to others, not what we take
for ourselves. The Lord Jesus Christ died
on a cross for our salvation. That kind of
radical, liberating capacity to abandon our
prerogatives and give ourselves to others is
the thread that unites all Catholic teaching
on marriage and the family.
Authentic
Catholic teaching on marriage and the family separates true love from all counterfeits.
The St. Vincent de Paul Society has contracted with GreenDrop Charitable Donations to handle all clothing donations
through their staffed Donation Centers
and home pickup service.
The two closest GreenDrop locations are:
Home Depot Parking Lot
700 Reed Road, Broomall, PA ;
and
606 Montgomery Avenue, Narberth, PA
They are staffed 7 days a week and open
at least 8 hours each day. Please specify
that you want the Society to be the beneficiary of your donation. The attendant
will provide you with a tax receipt if requested. You can also schedule a home
pickup at any time by calling 888-944DROP
(3767)
or
on-line
at
www.SVdPpickup.org.
LOCAL EVENTS
Main Line Singles Dinner Club (Ages 52-64)
Catholic men and women are cordially invited to
join “The Main Line Singles Dinner Club” to share
common interests and dine together 2 times a
month. Our next scheduled events are: Saturday,
January 10, 2015 @ 6:15 pm, “Post Christmas/
New Year’s House Party” at a member’s home in
Broomall, PA; Sunday, January 25th, 2015 @
6:15 pm , a Restaurant Event @ “Bourbon Blue”
located @ 2 Rector Street, Manayunk District,
Philadelphia PA 19128.
Tutoring
The Sisters of IHM offer individualized One Hour instruction (one Sister—one student) in reading, math, writing, and study skills for
students in grades K—8 at the IHM Education
Center in Bryn Mawr. Sessions are between 3:30
and 6:00 pm—Monday to Thursday. For more
information, call Sister Marian Leo 610-527-1466.
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