Old St. Joseph's Church

Old St. Joseph’s Church
321 Willings Alley + Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215.923.1733 + Fax: 215.574.8529
www.oldstjoseph.org
All are welcome here.
Rectory Office Hours
Monday through Friday: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Sunday: 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Mass Times
Monday through Saturday: 12:05 PM
Saturday Vigil Mass for Sunday: 5:30 PM
Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, and 11:30 AM and 6:30 PM
Holy Days: 12:05 and 7:30 PM
Staff
Pastor: Fr. Daniel Ruff, S.J. ([email protected])
Parochial Vicar: Fr. Edward O’Donnell, S.J.
([email protected])
In Residence: Br. Robert Carson, S.J.;
Fr. Edward Dougherty S.J. ([email protected]);
Fr. James McAndrews, S.J.
Business Manager: Eric German ([email protected])
Director of Music: Marianne Lipson ([email protected])
Administrative Assistant: Jeff Chapman
([email protected])
Faith, Food & Friends Program Director: Mary Freedman—
Registration
Persons who want to register as parishioners should complete a 215.923.2381, extension 125 ([email protected])
parish registration form and return it to the rectory office by mail PREP Coordinator: Christine Szczepanowski
or in person. Registration forms are available in the rectory office ([email protected])
during normal office hours, in the pamphlet racks in the church Parish Pastoral Council ([email protected])
vestibules and online at www.oldstjoseph.org.
Susan Fisher (Chair), Bill Culleton (Vice-chair), Anthony
Campisi, Marie Killian, David Magerr, David Maynard, Rana
Sacrament of Reconciliation
McNamara, Tom Nailor, Lou Oschmann, Maria Ramirez, Paul
Monday through Saturday: 11:30 AM to noon and by appoint- Shay (ex officio - Parish Finance Council), Bill Stewart, Bethany
ment
Welch
Sacrament of Baptism
Parish Finance Council
Persons wanting to arrange for a baptism should call Fr. Dough- Paul Shay (Chair), John Church, Camille Fallon, Lorraine
erty at the parish offices at least two months before the desired Knight, Matt McClure, Christopher McGill, Edward Tomezsko
date to arrange catechesis and the baptism.
Sacrament of Anointing
Historic Preservation Corporation Board
Gregory Alexander; Carmen Croce (ex officio representing St.
The Sacrament of Anointing (the sacrament of the sick) is admin- Joseph’s University); Ed Grusheski; Fr. Dan Joyce, S.J. (ex
istered during the 12:05 PM Mass on the first Saturday of each officio representing Fr. Robert Hussey, S.J., Provincial, Maryland
month. Homebound or hospitalized persons wanting to receive Province); Robert Palestini, Ph.D; Boyd Petterson
the Sacrament of Anointing should call the parish office.
Sacrament of Matrimony
Parish Committees and Chairpersons
Adult Education: Nick D’Arecca ([email protected])
Persons wanting to be married in the parish should call Fr. Parish Life: Joe Casey and Donna Soultoukis
O’Donnell at the parish offices at least nine months before the Ignatian Spirituality and Formation: Donna Soultoukis
desired date.
([email protected])
Social Justice: Nick D’Arecca and Tim Donofrio
Rite of Christian Initiation
([email protected])
Unbaptized adults who are considering baptism into the Catholic
Church, baptized Catholics who have received no other sacra- Medical Emergency
ments and who want to be confirmed and to receive First Eucha- In the event of a true medical emergency where the need for a
rist, and baptized non-Catholics who are considering full com- priest is urgent, please page the priest on duty at 215.422.5764.
munion in the Catholic Church should call Fr. O’Donnell at the
parish office.
Hearing Enhancement
Old St. Joseph’s is equipped with an audio hearing loop. Switch
To arrange Mass of Christian Burial, the funeral director on the T-coil function of your device to use the loop.
should call the parish office.
The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
™MASSES FOR THE WEEK™
18 January 2015
™TODAY’S READINGS™
First Reading — Speak, Lord, for your servant is
listening (1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19).
Psalm — Here am I, Lord; I come to do your will
(Psalm 40).
Second Reading — Your bodies are members of
Christ; glorify God in your body (1 Corinthians 6:13c15a, 17-20).
Gospel — The first disciples saw where Jesus was
staying and they stayed with him (John 1:35-42).
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997,
International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
™READINGS FOR THE WEEK™
Monday:
Tuesday:
Heb 5:1-10; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 2:18-22
Heb 6:10-20; Ps 111:1-2, 4-5, 9, 10c;
Mk 2:23-28
Wednesday: Heb 7:1-3, 15-17; Ps 110:1-4; Mk 3:1-6
Thursday: Heb 7:25 — 8:6; Ps 40:7-10, 17; Mk 3:7-12,
or any of a number of readings for the
Day of Prayer
Friday:
Heb 8:6-13; Ps 85:8, 10-14; Mk 3:13-19
Saturday: Heb 9:2-3, 11-14; Ps 47:2-3, 6-9;
Mk 3:20-21
Sunday:
Jon 3:1-5, 10; Ps 25:4-9; 1 Cor 7:29-31;
Mk 1:14-20
Monday January 19
12:05pm
Dec. Members of Farris & Croft Families
Presider: Fr. Dan Ruff, S.J.
Tuesday January 20
12:05pm
Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society
Presider: Fr. James McAndrews, S.J.
Wed.
January 21
12:05pm
Edward & Mary Britt Family
Presider: Fr. Ed O’Donnell, S.J.
Thursday January 22
12:05pm
Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society
Presider: Fr. Ed Dougherty, S.J.
Friday January 23 12:05pm
Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society
Presider: Fr. Dan Ruff, S.J.
Saturday January 24
12:05pm
Louis May (D)
Presider: Fr. James McAndrews, S.J.
5:30pm Presider: Fr. Ed O’Donnell, S.J.
Sunday January 25
7:30am Presider: Fr. Dan Ruff, S.J.
9:30am Presider: Fr. James McAndrews, S.J.
11:30am Presider: Fr. Dan Ruff, S.J.
6:30pm Presider: Fr. Ed Dougherty, S.J.
™THIS WEEK AT OSJ™
Mon
19
Tue
20
Wed
21
Thu
22
Sun
25
MLK Day – No PREP today
12 noon:
7:00pm:
7:30pm:
6:30pm:
Rectory Office open from 11am
to 1pm only
Al-Anon Meeting (Drexel)
Schola Rehearsal (church)
YAC Mtg. (Irani Hse)
Centering Prayer (3RD fl. library)
7:00pm: RCIA (rectory)
10:45am: PREP Homeschoolers’ Mtg.
(3rd fl. Conf. Rm.)
12:30pm: Augustine Fellowship (Greaton)
Please remember our sick and
homebound sisters and brothers:
Margaret Glackin, Morgan Donato,
Robert Tozzi, Cathryn Gottstine, Hector
Corsanico, Karen Lockyer, Marilyn
Alexander, Helen Plocha, Dawn Minter, Annaclaire
Maliff, Tom Hart, Charles Buckley, Betty Laufer, Heidi
Zippo, Ed Tomezsko, Marie Jacobs, Beth Notredame.
Pray also for our ministry at Pennsylvania Hospital.
The OSJ Young Adult Community
invites you to the next “First Sunday”
Cook-in in Barbelin Hall after the
6:30pm Sunday on Sunday, February 8,
2015. Enjoy some fellowship and good
food! See you there!
Requiescat in pace
™ FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP™
Offertory for the week ending January 11, 2015
Collection
Regular
Online
Total
Noonday Mass
Sunday Mass
$199.00
$5,990.00
n/a
$3,239.50
$199.00
$9,229.50
Online Giving contributed 35% of the Sunday offertory.
Thank you!
Online Givers – Funds have been set up for special
collections:
Fund
Cath. Relief Services
Fund available online
Now through Feb. 8 ‘15
Old St. Joseph’s provides Online Giving – a
convenient, flexible and safe way to make a one-time
or recurring donation the fund of your choice (e.g.,
Sunday Offertory, FF&F, HPC, Ars Sacra). For Online
Givers who are uneasy about not putting anything in
the collection basket, “I gave online” cards are
available at the back of the church. Simply put a card
in the basket to represent your gift.
See the flyer at the back of the church for
frequently asked questions about Online Giving and
for instructions on how to sign up.
The 2nd Collection next weekend will be for Catholic
Relief Services. Please be generous. Thank you.
™PARISH LIFE™
Welcome! We’re always happy to
welcome new parishioners. John
Passick, Rolando J. Portocarrero &
Family, R. John Repique, Mr. & Mrs.
Robert Weiser & Robert, David M. D’Orlando &
Caitlin Dadey, Aileen Connell, we’re glad you’ve
joined our parish community!
Michael O’Sullivan Floyd
Longtime parishioner Michael Floyd passed away
on Thursday, January 8, 2015. His viewing and
funeral were held here at St. Joseph’s on
Wednesday, January 14. We extend our heartfelt
condolences to Mary Louise and Family.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let
perpetual light shine upon him; may his soul, and
the souls of all the faithful departed, through the
mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
™FROM THE PASTOR™
You may recall my column of a couple weeks
back in which I discussed a play called “Every Brilliant
Thing.” In that column, inspired by the play, I invited
myself and all of you to make a habit, as this New Year
begins, of writing out our own lists of “brilliant things”
which we experience daily – things that make life
beautiful and worth living.
You know, God is good; and he tends to hear
our prayers, even when we don’t voice them directly.
Anyway, he obviously read my above-referenced
column as a prayer; because he sent me a “brilliant
thing” recently. It was my monthly 1-hour spirituality
session with those guests of our Food Faith & Friends
program who opt to remain for it. Since Epiphany had
just passed, I decided we might read and discuss the
classic short story by O. Henry entitled “The Gift of the
Magi.” I paired this little gem with my own column on
“Every Brilliant Thing”…
As they often do, our guests floored me with
their insight and their faith. At some point, just about
every one of them jumped in to share an insight or an
experience of their own. They also listened attentively
to one another, and offered support, both verbal and
nonverbal. It was, of course, their genuineness and
conviction which moved me; I’ll say more of that in a
minute…
But first, a refresher… Most of you probably
read “The Gift of the Magi” in high school or college.
It was published originally in 1905 (and is readily
available for free online). It was meant to be
contemporary then. The relative value of a 1905
dollar versus a 2015 dollar is striking indeed!!
Anyway, the story tells of Jim and Della – a young
newlywed couple of (very) slender means who are
very much in love.
As Christmas draws near, each of the young
marrieds wants to get a special gift for the other; but
money is obviously tight. They own between them, as
the author tells it, only two things of any real value.
Della has long, thick, beautiful hair; and Jim has a gold
pocket watch which had once belonged to his father,
and to his father’s father before that.
Intending to surprise one another, Jim pawns
his watch in order to purchase some bejeweled combs
which Della had admired in a store window, while
Della sells her hair to buy a worthy gold chain for Jim’s
precious watch. When they recover from the mutual
shock of each other’s ironic sacrifice, Jim – having
hugged Della tight – wisely says: “Della, let’s put our
Christmas gifts away and keep them a while. They’re
too nice to use now... And now I think we should have
our dinner.”
O. Henry, reflecting the tastes of his day, is not
at all reticent to moralize. He declares at the end of
his tale: “The magi, as you know, were wise men—
wonderfully wise men— who brought gifts to the
newborn Christ-child. They were the first to give
Christmas gifts. Being wise, their gifts were doubtless
wise ones.
“And here I have told you the story of two
children who were not wise. Each sold the most
valuable thing he owned in order to buy a gift for the
other. But let me speak a last word to the wise of
these days: Of all who give gifts, these two were the
most wise. Of all who give and receive gifts, such as
they are the most wise. Everywhere they are the wise
ones. They are the magi.”
Which leads me back to my own God-given
“brilliant thing” with our FF & F guests. Once again,
they floored me with the depth of their own
spirituality. They expressed only compassion – and
even near-pity – for the wealthy in our culture. Some
recalled having had periods of relative wealth
themselves; and they freely acknowledged that during
those periods, they had worked too hard and too long,
worried too much about safeguarding their
possessions, and often missed the most precious
things in life, which (as Della and Jim illustrate) have to
do with the free giving and receiving of love.
Our guests also had no difficulty at all in
naming any number of “brilliant things” in their recent
experience for which they thanked God
unapologetically, and with great enthusiasm. I was
reminded yet again that to “find God in all things,” you
need to have your eyes and ears open – and your
humility in abundant supply.
The “icing on the cake.” One of our guests
had recently lost most of his possessions in a fire.
Having openly thanked God for keeping him and his
housemate safe, he asked me quietly if we could help
him to get some clothes. The short answer would
have been “no,” as we no longer collect and store
clothing on an ongoing basis. But as it happens, I
personally had several boxes of clothes which no
longer fit me, and which were waiting for me to
deliver them to a neighborhood thrift store.
Amazingly – no, providentially! – about three-quarters
of them were the exact right sizes for our guest. So he
and I thanked God together for this latest gift, and for
“every brilliant thing.”
—Fr. Dan
™HOLIDAY THANKS™
Thanks For Beautifully "Decked Halls": As always,
special thanks to Joe Casey and his volunteer "elves"
for the beautiful Advent and Christmas decorations. If
we looked like a Christmas photo -- and we did -- then
we owe it all to our liturgical environment crew under
Joe's able direction.
Thanks for Your Generosity: A very deep and heartfelt
thanks to you all for your wonderful generosity in the
regular Christmas collections, as well as in the special
collections for flowers and music. After more than 280
years, you continue to make it possible through your
ongoing financial stewardship to sustain our
community of faith in the Alley. Without you and your
support, there could be no Old St. Joseph's. As your
pastor, I am humbled and gratified...
Jesuit Thanks: On behalf of all the members of the Old
St. Joseph's Jesuit Community, heartfelt thanks to one
and all for your many generous Christmas gifts -everything from magazine subscriptions and books to
various delicious Christmas treats. We regret that your
kindnesses are too numerous for us to respond to
them individually; but please be assured that we feel
loved, supported, and blessed to serve you here at
OSJ. We promise our continued prayers for your
health and happiness throughout the coming year...
™WORSHIP AND LITURGICAL ARTS™
Remember the Rules for
Relaxed On-Street Parking! A
reminder that "relaxed"
parking is available ONLY on
Saturdays and Sundays, ONLY
during services at OSJ, and ONLY with the appropriate
permit displayed on the dashboard. The added parking
is both sides of 4th Street between Walnut & Spruce,
and both sides of Locust Street between 4th and 5th.
(You can download and print a permit from the front
page of our website -- the link is on the front page
under "Worship/Mass Schedule. Permits also available
at the Rectory office.) The city has become more
aggressive in enforcing these limits of late...
Ecumenical Service on January 20 at the Cathedral
Basilica: All are invited and encouraged to participate
in an Ecumenical Service at the Cathedral Basilica of
Ss. Peter & Paul during the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity. The service will take place Tuesday,
January 20 at 7:00pm at the Basilica. Some parking
may be available at the adjacent lot belonging to the
Archdiocese.
The centering prayer group will meet on Wednesday,
January 21 from 6:30 to 8:30 pm in the third-floor
conference room. The meeting will include discussion
of centering prayer followed by Mass with a period of
centering. Anyone interested in contemplative prayer
is welcome to join us. For further information, contact
Christine Szczepanowski at 267-250-3049
or
[email protected]
Congratulations to our former Music Director Norm
Gouin! Norm’s entry in the contest for the official
hymn of next year’s World Meeting of Families in
Philadelphia was named the winner! To hear “Sound
the
Bell
of
Holy
Freedom”
go
to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fDrVPKx800.
™FOOD, FAITH AND FRIENDS™
‘Tis the season of giving! And our Food, Faith and
Friends guests are in need of toiletries. The following
items are always in high demand. Please bring them to
Sunday liturgies and place them in the gift basket in
the back of the church or deliver to the Parish Office
during regular office hours.
• Bar soap - full size
• Disposable plastic razors
• Deodorant
• Lotion
• Toothpaste
Thank you for your generosity. All donations are
greatly appreciated.
™SOCIAL JUSTICE™
RESPECT LIFE RECOGNITION
On Saturday 1/24 and Sunday
1/25, in solidarity with the
Washington, D.C. "March for
Life," which will occur on
Thursday, 1/22, Old St. Joseph's will hold a Diaper
Drive. We hope you can join in this effort to help the
mothers of newborn children throughout the
Archdiocese and the Philadelphia area, who have a
desperate need, thereby giving witness to the dignity
of life for all who are abused and vulnerable from
conception to natural death. Your donated diapers
will be given to the Philadelphia Diaper Bank. Baby
diapers in the following sizes are needed: Sizes 1 and
2. Please place your donations in the baskets in the
back of the church. Thank you for your support of
Respect Life.
On behalf of the Children of the Gesu School, the
Children of Rowan Homes and the Seniors served by
the Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly, many
thanks for including them all in your Christmas Gift
Giving. Through your generosity, we collected over
250 books, 60 mitten and scarf gifts and 125 gifts for
the elderly. It was, as always, an impressive collection.
Many, many thanks from them and the OSJ Social
Justice Committee.
A Letter Received, December 22:
“On behalf of the Board of Directors, staff,
volunteers and especially the elderly we serve, Little
Brothers-Friends of the Elderly (LBFE) would like to
thank the members of the Old St. Joseph’s Church for
its recent donations of holiday gifts. We have never
received as many beautiful gifts from a single
organization. Our seniors are going to love opening
their gifts on Christmas.
“We are delighted to be a recipient of your
generosity, and we are very grateful for your
demonstrated commitment to our case. It is because
of your support that Little Brothers is able to
accomplish its mission of relieving the isolation and
loneliness of the elderly in Philadelphia.
“We are sincerely thankful that, with the
assistance of organizations like yours, we are able to
continue to brighten the holiday season for so many
of our “old friends.”
“Once again, we thank you very much for all of
your support.
“Sincerely, (signed) Nancy Dube, Volunteer
Coordinator.”
™PRAYER AND SPIRITUALITY™
The 2nd Annual John Cardinal Foley Lecture with a
presentation on “The Crux of Church Communications” by
John L. Allen, Jr., associate editor at the Boston Globe,
specializing in coverage of the Vatican & the Catholic
Church on MONDAY, January 26, 2015 at 7PM in the
Vianney Hall Auditorium at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary,
100 E. Wynnewood Rd., Wynnewood, PA 19096. This free
lecture is open to the public. For more info, call 610-7856530 or go to 222.scs.edu.
™YOUNG ADULT COMMUNITY™
Check out our Google Calendar & YAC Matters for
our upcoming events! Find us on Facebook at Old St
Joseph’s Young Adult Community. Questions? Want to
join our email list? Please email us at
[email protected].
YAC Spirituality Night: Exploring Our Relationships
with Others, Self, and God: As young adults, we have
a myriad of relationships to maintain including our
relationships with family and friends, significant
others, ourselves, and God. Come on January 20th to
the Irani House to explore these relationships and how
to balance them with our busy lives. The night will
begin with an Ignatian style meditation on
relationships followed by conversation on our
different experiences. Spirits at 7:00 pm, Spirituality
at 7:30 pm!
™INTERFAITH™
On Tuesday, January 27, 2015 from 7:00pm to
9:00pm at Old St Joseph's 3rd floor Library we will
discuss the book The Ornament of the World: How
Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of
Tolerance in Medieval Spain. A review on
Amazon describes the book as follows: María Rosa
Menocal's wafting, ineffably sad The Ornament of the
World tells of a time and place--from 786 to 1492, in
Andalucía, Spain--that is largely and unjustly
overshadowed in most historical chronicles. It was a
time when three cultures--Judaic, Islamic, and
Christian--forged a relatively stable (though
occasionally contentious) coexistence. Such was this
period that there remains in Toledo a church with an
"homage to Arabic writing on its walls [and] a
sumptuous 14th-century synagogue built to look like
Granada's Alhambra." Long gone, however, is the
Córdoba library--a thousand times larger than any
other in Christian Europe. Menocal's history is one of
palatine cities, of philosophers, of poets whose work
inspired Chaucer and Boccaccio, of weeping fountains,
breezy courtyards, and a long-running tolerance
"profoundly rooted in the cultivation of the
complexities,
charms
and
challenges
of
contradictions," which ended with the repression of
Judaism and Islam the same year Columbus sailed to
the New World. --H. O'Billovich. The book is available
at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and the Free Library of
Philadelphia. And all also have e-editions.
™WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES™
World Meeting of Families: Archbishop Chaput Wants
YOU! In a letter to all the people of the Archdiocese dated
December 15, Archbishop Chaput has invited us all to
consider being personally involved next year in the World
Meeting of Families in a special way. He expects over 5,000
reporters to be here covering the meeting, and so identifies
a need for well-informed priests, religious, and lay people
from across the Archdiocese who represent the broad
spectrum of our diverse Catholic family to help speak to the
media about Church teaching on a variety of matters. In
order to help prepare people, both the Archdiocese and the
World Meeting of Families have partnered with Catholic
Voices, USA, which provides media training to Catholics so
that they can speak to the press about their faith with
confidence, comfort, and sensitivity. Training sessions focus
not only on interviewing techniques, but also on how to
field questions that might seem critical of the Church and
her teachings by embracing them as a way to provide clarity
and understanding. Catholic Voices will host an initial
information session for all those interested; the meeting
will be held on 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 215-5873747 or [email protected]. Thank you for all of your
continued support. Please continue to pray for the success
of our efforts as we prepare to welcome Pope Francis and
the world to Philadelphia next year.
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(215) 925-2882 • (866) 739-2171
Come Sail Away on a 7-night Catholic Exotic Cruise
starting as low as $1045 per couple. Daily Mass and
Rosary offered. Deposit of only $100 per person
will reserve your cabin.
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at the Omni Hotel
at Independence
Park
Best of Philly
Sunday Brunch
Lunch and Dinner
Private Rooms Available
Weddings • Anniversaries
Christenings • Communions
Rehearsal Dinners
Overnight Accommodations
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All of our Rooms Boast
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Independence Park
Only 1 1/2 Blocks Away
After a comprehensive
renovation, the Sheraton Society
Hill Hotel provides a welcoming
retreat for leisure & business
travelers alike with enhanced
social space & room to gather.
Space is limited. Thanks and God Bless,
Brian or Sally, coordinators 860.399.1785
an Official
Travel Agency
of AOS-USA
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I Dentical Group
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One Dock Street Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Joseph A. Nowak
401 Chestnut St.
215-656-2824
215-931-4260
1818 Market Street, 24th fl.,
Philadelphia, PA 19103
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Over 150 Wines by the Glass
Complimentary Parking at Lunch
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