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St. Joseph Church
3640 Schuylkill Road, Spring City, PA, 19475
www.stjosephspringcity.com
610-948-7760 Fax: 610-948-8509 [email protected]
Rev. Charles R. O’Hara, Pastor
Rev. Donato P. Silveri, In Residence
January 18, 2015
Catholic School
Holy Family School
610-933-7562
221 Third Ave., Phoenixville
Principal: Ann Marie Braca
www.myholyfamilyschool.org
Parish Religious Education Program
PREP Director: Andrea Jackowski
September- May
Sunday: 8:45 – 10:35 AM Grades K-8
610-792-4535
[email protected]
Baptism: Sunday 12:30 PM by appointment.
Marriages: Couples contemplating mar r iage must contact the pr iest at least 6 months in advance to make an
appointment to discuss marriage preparations.
Ministry to the Sick: Anyone unable to attend Mass due to illness should call the Rector y to make
arrangements to receive Holy Communion. Hospital visitations are made as time permits. If any family member is
hospitalized please inform the Rectory to arrange a visit and to be remembered in our prayers.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is held daily fr om 8am until 7pm. On Tuesday Evenings, a Holy Hour will
begin at 6:00 pm with Private Prayer, followed by the Rosary at 6:15 pm; The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be said at
6:30 pm. Devotion Prayers and Litany of Sacred Heart will begin at 6:45 pm followed by Benediction.
Mass Schedule
Daily Mass: Monday -Friday 8:00 am
Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 11:00 am
Holy Day Vigil: 7:00 pm Holy Day: 8:00 am, 12:00 pm, 7:00 pm
Confessions: Saturday 3:00 - 4:00 pm
RECTORY OFFICE HOURS
MONDAY
12:30-4:00 PM
TUES.-THURS. 8:30AM-4:00PM
FRIDAY
8:30AM-12:30PM
January 18th, 2015
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Monday, January 19
Theresa Roberts
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Inscription Mass, First Eucharist/White, Sunday, January 18th,
11:00am in the Church.
Rockfalski, Neary, Paladino &
Salinas
First Eucharist Parent/Child Retreat, Red, Sunday, January 18th,
2:00pm in the Church.
Tuesday, January 20
Saint Blaise Blessing of the Throats, Monday, January 19th, 8am
Mass.
Req. by: Diana Kelly
A Biblical Walk Through Mass, Monday, January 19th, 8:45am &
7:00pm in the Narthex.
Wednesday, January 21
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Holy Hour, Tuesday, January 20th, 6:00-7:00pm in the Church.
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Charismatic Prayer Group, Tuesday, January 20th, 7:15pm in the
Church.
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Reg. by: Families of Rhoton,
Charles C. King
Margaret Braca
Req. by: Cooney Family
Thursday, January 22
Tara Chell
MOJO Meeting, Tuesday, January 20th, 7:00pm Rectory Basement. Building Committee Meeting, 8:30pm, Rectory Basement.
Loranca Family
Eucharistic Minister
Lectors
Friday, January 23
Diane Leonhardt
Req. by: Jack & Eleanor Slanga
1/17
4:30
K. Cabot, C. Mungin
E. Slanga
1/18
7:30
A. Lightman, Salinas, K. Thum
P. Thum
9:00
J. Pomager, Reese, R. Tamburro
A. Barrett
11:00
A. Benton, T. Chuck, S. Scowden
C. Staab
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4:30
K. Cabot, C. Mungin
H. Coggins
1/25
7:30
A. Lightman, Salinas, K. Thum
J. Kelly
9:00
J. Pomager, Reese, R. Tamburro
D. Haynes
11:00
A. Benton, T. Chuck, S. Scowden
M. Benton
A Biblical Walk Through
Mass, Monday, January
19th, 8:45am & 7:00pm in
the Narthex.
Newly Baptized
Samuel Henry Garrett
Maeve Gertrude Barrett
Daniel Jackson Standish
Chase Joseph Shivak
Layla Elizabeth Trego
Anna Rose Kroboth
Julian Parker Pickersgill Juliana Paisley Herbert
Giuliana Locricchio
Arya Marie Doman
John Eric Culver III
Payton Catherine Gertenitch
Michael Henry Gertenitch
Anthony Joseph Gertenitch
Vincent Mastrangelo
Zander Mastrangelo
Leiliana Spenser Sharpless
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January 18th , 2015
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
(MOJO) The Men of St. Joseph meet the 3rd
Tuesday of each month. We are looking for new
members. Join us! NEXT MEETING: January
20th in the Rectory Basement at 7:00 pm.
We would like to update our Parish
Membership records for 2015. If you
have moved, changed a contact number (home or cell), or have a new
email please contact the Rectory to let
us know. You can phone or email us
this information. It helps us greatly to have current
information should we need to send any correspondence
to our Parishioners. Thank you for your help!
JETS Meeting on
Sunday, January
25th, 6:35pm in the
Rectory Basement.
Super Bowl Sunday Hoagie Sale.
Pick up on Sunday, February 1st. All
orders must be prepaid.
Order envelopes are in the Narthex
with all the information.
Holy Family School News:
Catholic Schools’ Week is right around the corner, and Holy Family
School begins the celebration with an Open House followed by our
first ever International Festival! We
invite you, your neighbors and
friends to visit our school on
Sunday, January 25 from 10 am to
1 pm. Come and meet with our
teachers, tour our facilities, and
talk with current parents about the
great things
happening here at
our school. Following our Open
House, our Home and School will
be hosting an International Festival. A $10 donation buys a family
entry into a world of diverse foods and entertainment. It should be an
exciting day! In-house registration for the 2014-2015 school year
is currently in progress. Open registration begins January 25.
Don’t miss the opportunity to provide your child with an
extraordinary educational experience! For more information or a
personal tour, call us at 610-933-7562 or email us at
[email protected]
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Holy Family School Needs
You
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when you use your Save-A-Tape card. Only tapes
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vestibule.
We are still collecting Box Tops for Education and
Campbell Soup Labels for Holy Family School. Please
put them in the Redner’s box.
Join us at the Holy Family CYO
"Night at the Races" - Saturday,
January 31st, at 7 PM at Griffin
Hall, 3rd Avenue, Phoenixville. Doors open at
6:30pm. Tickets are $20 per person, horses $10. Hot
and cold entrees, beverages, horse races, games, and
DJ. Tickets, horses, ads, and sponsorships can be
purchased online at www.hfscyo.com or through any
Holy Family CYO coach or player.
Are you a retired scientist? Do you
Benefits the sports programs for our parish children at
have a scientific mind and a willingHoly Family CYO.
ness to help budding, young scientists? We need your
help! Holy Family School is looking for judges for our
upcoming science fair. Projects will be displayed for
RCIA-New Group forming, starting
judging from January 20 through January 22. If you
have an afternoon or an evening or two to help assess our on Monday, January 19th at the
students’ skill at practicing the scientific method, please
rectory 7:00pm. All Welcome. To
call us at 610-933-7562 or email us at
[email protected] for more information.
register please call the rectory @
610-948-7760.
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January 18th, 2015
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Daily Scripture
January 19
January 20
January 21
Heb. 5:1-10
Heb. 6:10-20
Heb. 7:1-3, 15-17
Mk. 2:18-22
Mk. 2:23-28
Mk. 3:1-6
January 22
January 23
Heb. 7:25-8:6
Heb. 8:6-13
Heb. 9:2-3, 11-14
Mk. 3:7-12
Mk. 3:13-1
Mk. 3:20-21
January 24
St. Joseph Devotions
Charismatic Prayer Group
"Prayer, praise, worship and song in
the power of the Holy Spirit! We
meet every Tuesday at 7:15pm in
the Church. All are welcome!
Questions? Please call Ray
(610-933-5244) or
Andrea (610-7924535).
Praise You, Jesus!"
January 25
Jon. 3:1-5, 10
1 Cor. 7:29-31
Mk. 1:14-20
IMMACULATA UNIVERSITY PRESENTS
“THE WORLD MEETING OF FAMILIES” ARTIST
Artist is from Chester County
First Saturday Devotion & Mass
Held on Saturday, February 7th, for Our Lady of
Fatima Devotions and Rosary in Honor of Our
Blessed Mother followed by Mass at 7:25 am in the
Church.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
the Holy Family for the World Meeting of Families being held
Held daily from 8am until 7pm. On Tuesday
Evenings, a Holy Hour will begin at 6:00 pm with
Private Prayer, followed by the Rosary at 6:15 pm;
The Chaplet of Divine Mercy will be said at 6:30 pm.
Devotion Prayers and Litany of Sacred Heart will
begin at 6:45 pm followed by Benediction.
in Philadelphia this September. His artwork is being used in
Secular Servites of PA
various materials connected with the meeting. During his
Please also join us immediately
following Holy Hour in the Church
Foyer to learn more about our
community. For any additional
information, contact the Prioress:
Mrs. Cecilia (Ceal) Prizer at 610-917-9470.
Immaculata University welcomes Kennett Square, PA, artist
Neilson Carlin to campus on Monday, February 2, from 7:00 to
8:30 p.m. in the Green Room, Villa Maria Hall. The event is
free and open to the public.
Carlin was commissioned to create the icon image of
presentation at Immaculata, Carlin will discuss his work,
vocation, faith and family. He will also talk about the role of
Beauty in the Search for God.
Receiving a BFA in Illustration from the University of
the Arts in Philadelphia, he continued to hone his skills with
private study under figure painter Michael Aviano in New
York. Specializing in commissioned sacred and devotional art,
Carlin has done artistic work for Catholic cathedrals and
smaller parishes nationwide as well as for St. Rocco’s Roman
Catholic Church in Avondale, PA. He also exhibits his painting
at such places as the Arnot Art Museum, the Arts Club of
Washington, and the State Museum of Pennsylvania. Carlin has
received several awards during his career including First Place
in 2003 and Second Place in 2004 at the National Art
Competition for Artist’s Magazine. In 2008, he was the
recipient of the First Place award in the Nationwide Juried
Catholic Arts Exhibition. For more information on Carlin’s
presentation, please contact Campus Ministry at Immaculata
University at 610-647-4400, ext. 3570.
Saint Joseph Girl
Scout Troop has
begun their
cookie sale. Call
Mary Frank with
your order
@610-310-4675.
Cookies are $4.00 per box. We can
deliver cookies to you. The girls
are raising money for a trip to
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Europe. Thank you.
January 18th, 2015
Second Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Family-Alive!
The Mystery of a Cup
of Wine
and some drops of Water
The Preparation of the Altar and the
Offerings: So much is happening at this part of
the Mass – singing; ushers collecting envelopes;
the procession of the gifts of bread and wine; etc.
etc. Most of us see the priest lifting up the paten
with the host and the chalice with the wine, but
we may miss a gesture that happens in between
these two motions.
Before lifting up the chalice, the priest
goes to the side of the altar, fills most of the
chalice with wine, but then adds just a few drops
of water. Here are the words that are said as this
is done: By the mystery of this water and wine
may we come to share in the divinity of Christ who
humbled himself to share in our humanity.
The water, representing us, drops into the wine,
completely mingling with it. In a sense, it now
abides in the wine which represents Christ. When
pondering this gesture with children we ask
them: after the water has been poured, can we
retrieve it? Can we separate the water and the
wine? Why, no! Ah! This is how close to us Jesus
wishes to be!
The disciples in today’s gospel ask Jesus –
Where do you abide?
How would you answer that question?
A Biblical Walk through the Mass- continues
Join - Parish Family Alive! for
A video presentation exploring the biblical roots
of the words and gestures of the Liturgy.
You can join in at -any session Mondays – January 19th, January 26th, and February 2nd
– 8:45 am and 7:00 pm in the Narthex
– Evening Sessions repeat the content of the Morning Sessions –
In order to help us prepare for the World Meeting of
Families and the visit of Pope Francis, a catechism on
family life entitled, Love is Our Mission: The Family
Fully Alive, has been prepared. Each month, our parish
is reflecting on one chapter from this catechism. For
previous months’ reflections, visit: PhillyEvang.org/
wmof. You can order a copy of the catechism at
WorldMeeting2015.org.
January 2015: Chapter 3: The Meaning of Human
Sexuality “Love is Our Mission” because God created
us for a reason: to love us, and for us to love one
another (Chapter 1). God’s covenant with Israel and the
Church reveals what God’s love is like: tender and
passionate, but also steadfast and sacrificial (Chapter 2).
In Chapter 3, we learn that the bodily, earthly world has
spiritual significance. Tangible things - sacramentals,
acts of charity, sacred art and culture, our liturgical
feasts and fasts - have the capacity to reveal the glory of
God. Marriage, as one of the sacraments, reveals this to
us in a special way. The bodies of the spouses, in the
complementarity of their masculinity and femininity,
have the unique role of revealing God’s nature as a
communion of life-giving love. How can a man and a
woman imitate God’s love together? How can they live
in a way that is intimate and committed, joyful and
merciful, forgiving and fertile? Through their
participation in the life of the Church, this kind of love
becomes possible. God’s love is not an audition, or a
temporary experiment, or a self-seeking negotiation. In
the same way, marriage is never a private, inward
romance, but always discovers its true nature in relation
to God and his wider purposes. A sacramental
marriage is called to be a little parable of God’s love,
always ordered to joy and service. All Catholic sexual
ethics flow from these ideas. In our next chapter, we
will reflect in depth on marriage, followed by the next
chapter about celibacy. –Dr. Christopher C. Roberts and
Meghan Cokeley
Did you know? Local families have the oppor tunity to host a visiting family for the World Meeting of Families through HomeStay. Learn
more about this exciting way to help Philadelphia “welcome the world”
at WorldMeeting2015.org/get-involved.
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