August 18 & 19, 2018 Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Welcome to St. Joseph’s Church!
Please take a missalette / hymnal from the rack
in the pew so you can participate fully in the Holy Mass.
MASS INTENTIONS
August 25 - Sat. - 5:45pm - Parishioners & Helena Ryan
By Ken & Mary Smith
August 26 - Sun. 8:45 am - Mary D’Ambra
By Don & Sandy Beckwith
If the Mass is scheduled for your family member and you would like to take up the gifts, please let the ushers know before Mass. Thank you.
The Candle to the Blessed Mother burns this week in memory of Phyllis Rotundo
By Julie Winner & family
Remember in Prayer
Pam Menard, Jenny Knee, Valentine Root, Trevor Comeau, Keith Price, Carolyn Marvin, Rossi family, Ann Marie Cunnane, Marge Kida, Jacob S., Chris Turner & family, Harper Schultz, Linn Christian, Kim S., Sue Menard, Thomas Grgurich & Bob Ingraham
Liturgical Ministry Schedule
Saturday, August 25, 5:45pm
Lector: Ann Lanfair
Usher: Isaac Fahey & Matt Franklin
Altar Server: Nelson Lucier
Sunday, August 26, 8:45 am
Lector: Marian Godfrey
Ushers: Tim & Mary Hardendorf
Altar Servers: Madison Long & Sarah Camiel
Eucharistic Ministers: Joan Kulina, Richard Gregg & Katie Turner
ALTAR CARE FOR AUGUST 26
Elizabeth Fahey (Green)
COLLECTION COUNTERS FOR AUG. 26
Mary Hardendorf & June Burroughs
Sacrificial Giving – August 11 & 12, 2018
$ 727.00 - Envelopes
$ 236.00 - Loose
$ 251.00 - Monthly
$ 20.00 - Assumption
$ 14.56 - Votive Candles
$1348.56
Recent bills paid: $721.07
Thank you for your generosity.
September Pot Luck Supper
Please join us on September 8, 2018 after the 5:45 p.m. for a pot luck supper in the church hall. We will be celebrating the 30th year of Ordination to the Priesthood of our Father Paul. Every weekend Father Paul drives between ICC and St. Joseph's celebrating Mass 4:00 p.m. at ICC and 5:45 at St. Joseph's. After Saturday evening Mass he goes to the rectory and loves to cook his meals, so let us give him the night off and break bread together to celebrate with him. Also as we welcome the fall season upon us. Tableware and beverage will be provided, please bring a dish to pass.
Virtus training, ProtectingGod's Children
Coming Up for all Adult parishioners, parents, parish staff,and volunteers, choir members, lectors, ushers, altar servers, greeters, etc...Mark your Calendars!
Virtus training, ProtectingGod's Children, will be offered on September 7, 2018, for initial certification from6 - 8:30 p.m, and on September 14, 2018 for recertificationfrom 6-7:30 P.M. Training will take place at St. Joseph's Parish Hall, 3 Scott Street, Oxford, NY, 13830. This program is mandated by the Syracuse Diocese for all staff, including religious education teachers, and all who are currently orcould be directly involved with children under 18 in our parishes. This includes choir members, altar servers, lectorsand all who participate in church activities where children are present or could be present (that's quite a fewof us). The training is open to anyone who is interested in learning new ways to help keep the children inour lives, our most precious gifts, safe from harm. Sign up with Elizabeth Fahey, St. Joseph's Parish Secretary, at 607-843-7021, or Kathleen M. Anderson, Virtus Facilitator,at 607-316-1717.
Prayer Chain
If you have a prayer request for St. Joseph's Prayer Chain, please call Julie Winner at 607-843-9141 or email her at . Thank you.
“Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.”
~St. Mother Teresa
Upcoming Events at St. Joseph’s Parish
August 18- RCIA candidates and teachers meet with Father Paul after 5:45 p.m. Mass
August 19- Coffee hour after 8:45 a.m. Mass
August 21- Welcoming committee and RCIA meeting 6:00 p.m. at the rectory
September 7- VIRTUS training 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.
September 8 – Fall Pot Luck supper after 5:45 p.m. mass – Celebrating Father Paul and Welcoming Fall. Please join us as we celebrate Father Paul’s 30th year of his Ordination to the priesthood and also to welcome the fall season.
September 14- VIRTUS recertification 6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
September 15- RCIA candidates and teachers meet
with Father Paul after 5:45 p.m. Mass
September 16- Coffee hour after 8:45 a.m.
September 18- Roma’s eat in or take out all day fundraiser to benefit St. Joseph’s Cemetery Improvement Fund
September 19- Parish Council meeting at 6:00 p.m. * note date change
September 29- Youth Mass at 5:45 p.m. – ushers, lectors, choir needed. Please be at practice at 5:15 p.m. ½ hour prior to Mass
October 5 – Fish dinner 5 to 7 p.m. eat in or take outs available
Communion to the homebound
Do you have a family member who is not able to attend Mass and receive communion? St. Joseph's Churchhas Ministers of the Eucharist that go tothe homebound. They will read scripture, pray and distribute communion to your loved one. Please call Elizabeth at the parish office at 843-7021and she will arrange this for you.
Mission Appeal
Peter Daino, from the Syracuse Diocese, who has been working in the African country of Malawi, will be our Mission Coop speaker this year. He will be with us at Mass on September 1 and 2.
Peter will be speaking with us about his program to help older orphans attend high school. The aim is that these young people who graduate from high school will be able to get jobs and use their wages to feed, clothe and educate their younger siblings in their parentless families.
In 2016 the U.N. rated Malawi to be the poorest country in the world – a sobering assessment of this small landlocked country located in southeastern Africa. Built on a largely agrarian economy, most people in Malawi eke out an existence as subsistence farmers earning less than a dollar a day.
The AIDS crisis, which began in the 1980s, has compounded Malawi’s economic distress. Today, in a country of 17 million, there are more than 1.2 million AIDS orphans – one in every three children.
In Malawi one must pay to attend high school. On average a student must pay $30 per term, or $90 for the full year.
These brave students will have a new responsibility as the breadwinners in orphan headed households. Thank You for whatever you can do to assist them.
Prayer to Know One’s Vocation, via the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:
“Lord, my God and my loving Father, you have made me to know you, to love you, to serve you, and thereby to find and to fulfill my deepest longings. I know that you are in all things, and that every path can lead me to you. But of them all, there is one especially by which you want me to come to you. Since I will do what you want of me, I pray you, send your Holy Spirit to me: into my mind, to show me what you want of me; into my heart, to give me the determination to do it, and to do it with all my love, with all my mind, and with all of my strength right to the end. Jesus, I trust in you. Amen.”
Please pray for vocations to the priesthood and religious life. For prayer tools and resources for families, visit vocations-syracuse.org.
The Promise of God’s Love
This year’s annual retreat for the Separated and Divorced entitled “The Promise of God’s Love” will be held fromSeptember 21-23, 2018at Christ the King Retreat Center, 500 Brookford Road, Syracuse. Fr Joseph Phillips will deliver an uplifting keynote and Fr Clarence Cerwonka will preside over the Healing Liturgy. Empowering testimonials by those who have experienced separation and divorce will be offered. $175 for the full weekend and all accommodations, $95 for the full weekend commuter rate and $50 forSaturdayattendance only. Tuition reimbursement is available. To register reach out to Deacon Dean Brainard 314-472-6754, or email:. Learn more at: online at: are welcome!