Sacred Heart Church

260 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ 08060-1404 Telephone: 609-267-0209 • FAX: 609-267-9293 • Website: www.parishofsacredheart.org Office Hours: Mon. - Sat. 9:00am - 5:00pm (Closed for Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm) Evening Office Hours: Mon. - Fri. 6:00pm - 9:00pm • Sunday 8:30am -1:00pm

Mass Schedule Saturday: 4:30pm (Vigil) Sunday: 7:30am, 9:30am, 11:30am & 7:00pm Weekday: Mon.-Fri. 7:00am & 8:30am Saturday: 8:30am

Confessions Saturday: 3:30pm - 4:00pm (Reconciliation Rooms are to the right of the Eucharistic Chapel)

Parish Staff Pastor: Rev. John P. Czahur ext. 308 Parochial Vicar: Rev. Roberto Padilla Residence: Christ The Redeemer Church 113 South Avenue, Mt. Holly (609) 261-0181 Deacons: Deacon Jim Casa [email protected] Deacon John Hoefling Deacon Stan Orkis Deacon William Rowley

Sacred Heart School 250 High Street, Mount Holly, NJ 08060 Telephone: 609-267-1728 Email: [email protected] Website: www.sacred-heart-school.org Principal: Ms. Kathryn Besheer ext. 340 Admin. Assist. Margo Lihvarcik ext. 316

Parish Secretary: Mrs. Michele O’Toole ext. 301 [email protected] Business Manager: Mrs. Deneen Thomas ext. 303 Cemetery Manager: Mrs. Paula Pietrow ext. 304 [email protected] Pastoral Administrator: Mrs. Marge McGinley ext. 306 [email protected] Asst. to Pastoral Admin.: Ms. Merry Marcellino ext. 305 [email protected] Parish Maintenance Mr. Jason D’Entremont ext. 319 [email protected]

Sacred Heart Religious Education Telephone: 609-267-6319 Email: [email protected] Director of Rel. Ed: Mrs. Jessica Donohue ext.307 Admin. Assistant: Mrs. Amy Raimondi ext. 324 Office Hours: Mon-Thurs. 9:00am – 2:00pm Fall Program Class Times Grades 1st - 8th Tuesday: 5:30pm to 6:45pm Grades 1st - 8th Wednesday: 5:30pm to 6:45pm

October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Parish Registration

The Sacrament of Marriage

Our Parish family warmly welcomes new members. Please register at your earliest convenience by stopping by the Parish House during the office hours.

Couples wishing to celebrate and consecrate their love in the Sacrament of Marriage are asked to call the Parish Secretary, Michele O’Toole at 609-702-1848 ext. 301. Arrangements are to be made with the Pastor a year in advance of the requested date. At least one person should be a registered member of the parish. All couples are required to attend preparation sessions.

The Sacrament of Baptism We welcome new life into the Church through the sacramental sign of Baptism which is celebrated every Sunday of the month at 1:00pm with the exception of Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday. We encourage parents who wish to have their child baptized to call the Parish Secretary, Michele O’Toole, at 609-702-1848 ext. 301 or stop in and pick up a Baptism packet. Once the Baptismal Preparation class is attended, the form completed and the Godparent Eligibility Certificates are turned in then a date for your child’s Baptism will be set.

Baptismal Preparation Catholic Godparents are required to complete an Eligibility Certificate and have the certificates signed by the pastor of the parish where they are currently registered and practicing their faith. We offer a Baptismal Prep Class for parents as a way of preparing them for their child’s journey of faith. Classes are scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month at 7:30pm. Please contact the Parish Secretary to register.

Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick Any Catholic who is seriously ill, advanced in age, or who feels the need for the comforting presence of the Church’s sacramental prayer life may be anointed. Please contact the Parish Office at 609-702-1848 ext. 301 during office hours. In the case of an emergency, please call and follow the instructions listed on our telephone message.

Funerals In all cases, the family of the deceased parishioner should contact the funeral home directly. They will contact the Church to make further arrangements. For information regarding our Parish Cemetery, please call the Cemetery Office at 609-702-1848 ext 304

Care of the Sick, Homebound and Elderly: The sick, the homebound and the elderly are valued members of our parish. Please call the Parish House at 609-267-0209 ext. 305 for a visit.

Sacramental Sponsorship Letter

Bulletin Articles

This is a form required to be a Godparent or Sponsor for Baptism or Confirmation. To receive this form the following requirements must be met: -If married, be in a valid marriage according to the laws of the Catholic Church. -Be at least 16 years of age. -Completed the Sacraments of Initiation; Baptism, Eucharist and Confirmation -Be a registered, active participant of a Parish.

Articles for the Bulletin need to be submitted No Later than Friday to appear the next weekend (9 days prior). Articles can be emailed to [email protected]

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MONDAY 7:00am Elsie Porubovic Req. By the Lehman Family 8:30am Julia Dimaano Req. By Sacred Heart School EDP Friends TUESDAY 7:00am Theodore Makaro Req. By Pepita Mercado 8:30am Alfred Zeto Req. By John & June Madden WEDNESDAY 7:00am Larry Roth Req. By His Family 8:30am Vela Swanson Req. By Her Son John Livingston THURSDAY 7:00am Danny Daly Req. By Michael & Janine Devenney 8:30am Antoinette DiStefano Req. By Rosalie Trojanowski FRIDAY 7:00am Sharon Watson Req. By The Romano Family 8:30am Beth Davis Req. By Marge McGinley SATURDAY 8:30AM Pat LaCorte Req. By The Cacace Family Ida Harley Req. By Diane Sampson Marianne Schmid Req. By Sofie Williams Louis Yochim Req. By Joan & Joe Smith 4:30pm Vincent & Dolores O’Hearn Req. By Their Family SUNDAY 7:30am Catherine Giulian Req. By Dave & Rita Gillis 9:30am Irene Beauchemin Req. By Marge McGinley 11:30am The People of the Parish, Deacon Lou Restivo Req. By Marge Restivo 7:00pm The Special Intentions of Lina & Bobby Sumanga Req. By Betty Konrad

The Devotional Candle in the Chapel of the Two Hearts

Will Burn in Loving Memory of: The Deceased Members of the Hastings & MacArell Families Eucharistic Adoration – Come and spend time in the quiet with Our Lord in the Chapel of the Two Hearts located next to the Parish House. Our Chapel is open for you and Jesus to spend some time during the following hours: Monday through Friday 9:00am to 8:30pm Saturday 9:00am to noon. Readings for the Week Monday: Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31 — 5:1; Lk 11:29-32 Tuesday: Gal 5:1-6; Lk 11:37-41 Wednesday: Gal 5:18-25; Lk 11:42-46 Thursday: Eph 1:1-10; Lk 11:47-54 Friday: Eph 1:11-14; Lk 12:1-7 Saturday: Eph 1:15-23; Lk 12:8-12 Sunday: Ex 17:8-13Lk 18:1-8

Banns of Marriage

III Michael Milazzo & Gretchen Ramos

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October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Please remember in your prayers: Religious Education News Connie Vazquez, McKenzie Hunter, We are off to a great start to our Religious Alice Farkas, Gail Reilly, Alva Marino, Education year! We are always looking for Paul J. Marcinko, Mollie Zimmer, Fred Zimmer, volunteers to join us, so if you are interested, please Wayne Potts, Stephanie Martin, Pat Adornetto, contact us in the office at 609-267-6319 or via Corey Kaiser, Baby Stella Grundahl, email at [email protected]. We have Rebecca Bozarth, Matthew Wernoch, some upcoming formation opportunities as well, for Kay Weiss, Marlane DeMara, Maria Wolfe, parents (whether you have a child in the program Casey Davitt, Barbara Dziemian, right now or not!) and for anyone who has thought Fredrick Naphys, Natalia Lucia Rosko, about becoming a catechist, i.e., a Religious Margaret Brock, Herbert Cuccuini, Education teacher – Daniel Toussaint, Baby Zoey Reed, Mason Damico, Lynn Kellogg, David McCoy, ‘Raising Our Children Together in the Catholic Stanley Kiczek, Lois Pedrick, John Rubino, Faith: A Partnership of Families and George Sampson, Evan Martinez, Trey Nieves, Church’: October 10th – November 4th. This is a Gisela Harrell, Camila Doris Perez, completely online, free 4-week course for anyone Annabelle Ochipinti, Loretta Minakee, who would like to learn more about how we hand Toribia Cadavez, Patricia Parker, Jane Ciletti, on the faith within the parish and within the Sabrina Kaiser, Wilma Peterson, family. This is purely an enrichment course – i.e., Morgan Ackerman, Celeste Bunn, there are no tests! – and participants complete each Tom Polinski, Raymond Bishop, week according to their own schedules. For more Walter Klarmann, Patricia O’Connor, information, you can find our informational George Schneider, Marie Donahue, pamphlet online at Jenny Hand, Christine, Peggy Stewart, http://parishofsacredheart.org/religious-education Dylan Crespo, Sharon Carroll, Teddy Smith, under ‘Forms and Documents’ on the left side of the Arthur Netti, Doris Gallo, Clara Hynes, screen. Hard copies of the pamphlets are also Don Hartman, Mary Hartman, Daniel DeMaio, available in the church near the sacristy. Liam Stellwag, Frank Anton, William Lawrence, Annmarie Laraia Bette, Michelle Schafle Reed, ‘The Art of Catechesis’ – Class for Catechists (or anyone interested in becoming a As a parish family we remember all who are Catechist!): October 15th, 9 am until 1 pm in the struggling or suffering in mind, body, or spirit, Sacred Heart Library. This class presents the especially those who have requested our basics of handing on the faith in the classroom prayers. setting, and covers issues ranging from classroom Please pray for the men and women now management to the Church teaching which forms serving in the military, especially the loved the basis of Religious Education programs. For ones of our parishioners who are serving more information or to register, please contact me at overseas: [email protected] or at 609-267Cpl. Jimmy Graham U.S.M.C. 6319, ext. 307. Capt. Robert J. Boccio, U.S.A.F Michael Bakker, Isaac Paredez Be sure to check our pages on the parish web site Douglas Schwenck, Army Reserve regularly for additional future formation Richard DeLorge U.S.M.C opportunities! Thank you and we ask that you keep Peter Liedman, Dorinia Dibuono the children and families of our Religious Education Capt. James Rankin U.S.M.C program in your prayers as we all continue to learn SSgt Daniel E. Naro, Sgt. Alison Lyport and grow in our beautiful Catholic faith! Sgt. Stephanie Robertson, U.S. Army Sgt. Russell Norton, NG Army Cpl. Marshall Norton, U.S.M.C Jessica Donohue Corporal Maxwell Hughes, U.S.M.C Director of Religious Education 512– Page 4

October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SERRA VOCATION PRAYER CHALICE

“Faithfulness of Christ, Faithfulness of Priests” Cure of Ars St. John Marie Vianney A true example of a pastor at the service of Christ’s flock Most gracious Heavenly Father, we thank you for our faithful priests and bishops, whose spiritual fatherhood and example of fidelity, selfsacrifice, and devotion is so vital to the faith of your people. May our spiritual fathers be guided by the example of St. John Vianney. Give them valiant faith in the face of confusion and conflict, hope in time of trouble and sorrow, and steadfast love for you, for their families, and for all your people throughout the world. May the light of your Truth shine through their lives and their good works. Assist all spiritual fathers, that through your Grace they may steadily grow in holiness and in knowledge and understanding of your Truth. May they generously impart this knowledge to those who rely on them. Through Christ our Lord. Amen Thank you for praying for vocations.

The Spectacular Versus the Ordinary The passage from Kings and the Gospel passage recount healings of people with leprosy. When the prophet Elisha gave Naaman, the leper, a simple command to wash in the river Jordan seven times, Naaman expected a more spectacular command. However, he obeyed this and was cleansed of his leprosy. He returned with his whole retinue with gratitude to the man of God, Elisha. Today’s gospel had ten lepers cured of their leprosy by Jesus but only one, a Samaritan, returning to give thanks to Jesus. Both of these readings emphasize the generosity with which mercy is showered upon all and the principle of universality, God’s plan to save the world excluding no one. These readings present God’s will revealed in every situation of our everyday life. His will is what He actually wills to send us each day in the way of circumstances, places, people, and problems. May we receive the grace to be conscious of God’s presence in our daily activities.

The SVDP Pantry is in need of *RICE* and we continue to need the following: Canned Vegetables, Canned Potatoes, Canned Soup, Cereal, Canned Tuna, and Meals in a can, If you would like to make a monetary donation please make checks payable to: SOCIETY OF ST. VINCENT de PAUL Thank you!

To learn more about the Vocation Prayer Chalice, please call Ann (609)-267-5836

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October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME "Carrie McCay, the music minister at the Rosary Rally 4:30pm Mass, has compiled a CD for your Please join the 2016 Public Square Rosary musical inspiration. On this CD you will hear Crusade. As we all know, the United States is beautiful hymns and songs that are sure to in great need of public prayer, repentance and touch your heart. All profits from the sale of conversion. We must ask God to save America the CD's will be donated to charities that are significant to Carrie: "Stop the Heroin," and through the Rosary of His Most Holy Mother. "Rebuilding Liberty," and other local charities. Please join us in praying for our nation on You may purchase this unique CD called "I October 15, 2016 at 12:00 noon. The local Brought a Little Justice Into This World" for $20 Public Square Rosary Rally will take place in before or after all of our Masses on October front of the Parish House, around the statue of 8th and 9th or you may contact Carrie at 609our Blessed Mother. 969-1669. Please contact Evelyn Baron at (609-3875668) for more information.

Benefit Concert!

Mass of Healing for Infant & Pregnancy Loss the Elizabeth Ministry of St. Gregory the Great, Hamilton Square, NJ Invites you to join in the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass on Thursday, October 13th, 2016 at 7pm. Where: St. Gregory the Great Roman Catholic Church 4620 Nottingham Way Hamilton Square, NJ All Are Welcome! Whether you have suffered the loss of a child through miscarriage, stillbirth, neo-natal death or regretted abortion, or if you know someone who has had any of these experiences, please join us as we celebrate the lives of our children who left us too soon. Refreshments and fellowship to follow in the Gathering space of the Church. For more information, please contact Carol Moscarello 732 691-6001 or Doreen Griffin-Gallway 609 672-3799 “Those we cannot hold in our arms, we hold forever in our hearts.”

A Benefit Concert is coming to Sacred Heart to help with our outreach to the poor of our community.... Sunday, October 9th at 3:00pm at Sacred Heart Church. Bring yourself, your friends and family and enjoy toe-tapping Spirituals, Gospel music and a few other "surprise" tunes all presented by the "Laudate Chorale." This is a traveling band of 40-60 singers from all over South Jersey, under the direction of Steve Lucasi, who gift their time and talent to offer benefit concerts. They invite all of us to join them for some great music and to donate a free will offering for our St. Vincent de Paul Society. The Society reaches out to those in need in our community by offering food, utilities and rental funding along with advocacy, job search assistance etc.

Mark those calendars and spend an hour just soaking in some great music while you help the poor.

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October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SAVE THE DATE!! PARISH PASTA DINNER Join Members of The Sacred Heart Altar Rosary Society On their bus trip to: The American Music Theater in Lancaster PA for Their Christmas Spectacular “WINTER WONDERLAND” “That Celebrates the Magic and Meaning of Christmas” Friday, December 9th 2016 Cost: $95.00 includes Show, Lunch, Transportation, Light snacks on coach. Leaves and Returns to Lumberton Plaza, Lumberton NJ Please Contact Terry Rensman of the Sacred Heart Altar Rosary Society at 609-284-2517 for more details.

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Join Us For the Annual Sacred Heart

Saturday, November 7th 2016 In the Sacred Heart Auditorium UPCOMING DATES – FOR THOSE WHO WISH TO SERVE New Altar Servers – for students 4th grade and up – Monday, October 17th, 6:30pm in the Church. The meeting will last about an hour and at least one parent must be present at the meeting. Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion – for adults 18 years or older who have been Confirmed and if married, must be a valid marriage in the Catholic Church. Monday, November 21st at 7pm in the Church. The meeting will last about 90 minutes. For either of these meetings please RSVP to Merry Marcellino at 609-267-0209, ext. 305 or [email protected]

Youth Ministry News Elementary Youth Group!

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Saturday, October 15 at 8:30am Come on out to run OR walk Go to www.shshalloweenhustle.com to register.

All Kindergarten - 3rd Grade Youth are welcome to our next meeting! "Cool to Be CATHOLIC!" Sunday, October 23rd 2:00pm - 4:00pm To register for this event, please go to http://parishofsacredheart.org/elementary-youthgroup We'll be working together to solve a special mystery...Why is it so Cool to be Catholic? Join us for fun activities, puzzles & games! Cost is $3 per youth; Pre-registration required. 512– Page 7

October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Offerings at Francis House of Prayer Trenton Diocesan Spiritual Center Box 392 • Rancocas, NJ 08073 609-877-0509 or [email protected] Please check www.FHOP.org for directions and for our other offerings! ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME LAUDATO SI’ Wednesday, October 12 9:30AM1:00PM Have you been wanting to read Pope Francis’ latest encyclical, On Care for our Common Home, but you just haven’t time or it’s a bit long to tackle? I have found an abbreviated version designed for groups (only 13 pages). I think we could use it for the morning and really get a good understanding of the Pope’s message and the desire of his all-embracing heart. Could you afford to give the morning to this pursuit? I believe God will bless us in our effort. I’m up for it! Are you? Donation: $20, includes lunch and all materials. GETTING TO KNOW THE HEART OF IGNATIUS Friday, October 14 9:30AM–2:00PM Who is St. Ignatius? Do you want to get to know him better? I’d love to introduce you to him with the help of Margaret Silf, an Ignatian expert. St. Ignatius wasn’t always heroic and holy; he was flawed and fallible, just like us. As we get to know him, we will realize that our very human faults and imperfect behavior do not prevent us from receiving God’s grace; rather, knowing our weaknesses and giving ourselves over to the Holy Spirit can reveal the God within us and the path before us. Limited to 7 people; please register early. Donation: $35, includes lunch and book MORNINGS WITH MERTON DELIGHT IN THE BEAUTY OF GOD’S CREATION Monday, October 17 9:00–11:00AM Open your eyes, ears and hearts to God’s glory in nature. Let God catch you by surprise with His creation. No day is ever the same when we are aware of God’s gifts. We will listen to Thomas Merton and let his words inspire us to be more attentive to the love of God vibrating through nature everywhere. Then we will spend some time outdoors at Francis House enjoying what God has created and reflecting on God as a loving Creator. All is a gift of God that helps each one of us to know, love and serve God with joy and gratitude. Donation: Love Offering

To register, call 609-877-0509. Please check www.FHOP.org for our other offerings!

COLUMBIETTES SANTA MARIA AUXILIARY WELLNESS FAIR UPDATE…. SAVE THE DATE: OCTOBER 29TH 10 AM TO 2 PM IN THE SACRED HEART AUDITORIUM IN ADDITION TO MANY HELPFUL DEMONSTRATIONS AND SCREENINGS WE WILL HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER FROM DEBORAH HEART AND LUNG CENTER AND-------

WE WILL BE RAFFLING OFF A SURPRISE ITEM YOU WON’T WANT TO MISS… MORE INFORMATION TO COME…..STAY TUNED!

PLEASE JOIN US AT GOOD COUNSEL’S BANQUET THURSDAY, October 27, 6:00-9:00pm THE MERION, 1901 US ROUTE 130, CINNAMINSON YOU are invited to attend Good Counsel’s Tenth Annual Fund Raising Banquet to benefit the homeless, pregnant mothers of our Riverside home. Our key note speaker is Vicar General of the Camden Diocese, Father Robert Hughes. Come and hear one of the many success stories of one of Good Counsel’s moms and how, through your financial support, she now has hope for her future. Reservations are required. Please contact Mary Ann Lorimer for information: 215989-0021 or [email protected]. Ask friends to join you and we will reserve a table of 10 just for you! A free will offering will be taken during the dinner. Celebrate the miracles of our Riverside home with us. I look forward to seeing you JoAnn DiNoia [email protected] 512– Page 8

October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Living the Good News Today “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” In every family, there are times when loved ones become seriously ill. Those moments bring with them multiple medical appointments, diagnostic tests, prescription of medications and treatment plans, and, sometimes, side effects that can add to the pain of the illness. When these circumstances happen in families, it is not uncommon for us to reach out to others and ask for prayers—for healing and comfort, strength and courage, and solidarity during the vigil of battling illness. How important is our faith during such challenging life experiences! In both the first reading from the Book of Kings and the Gospel this weekend, people who were afflicted with leprosy desired to be healed. God heard their cries for help. Through Naaman’s interaction with the prophet Elisha and the ten lepers with Jesus, all were healed. Jesus was on a long journey from Galilee to Jerusalem when he met the band of lepers, who appealed to him from a distance with the cry: “Jesus, Master! Have pity on us!” There is so much to learn from Jesus about how to show mercy to others. What is striking about the two stories, however, is that the expression of gratitude for their healing came from two foreigners: Naaman the Syrian and the one leper (of ten) who was a Samaritan. Jesus even noted that it was a foreigner who had returned to give thanks to God! For both of them, the healing experience with the living God had transformed their faith. While on a recent vacation with my family, I decided to read again the book He Leadeth Me by Jesuit Fr. Walter Ciszek about his experiences as a young priest in eastern Poland in 1939, just two years after his ordination. After witnessing the deportation of many people on the disputed eastern borders with Russia, Fr. Ciszek felt called to minister to those who were taken away, so he relocated into the Russian-controlled territory. His faithful ministry led to his arrest/imprisonment in the Lubyanka prison in 1941 for four years. His ordeal did not end with the war. While in prison, he faithfully ministered to others through prayer, the liturgy, confessions, and spiritual direction. During the four years of the war, he was tortured and mistreated in situations. He was able to sustain others with hope through his faith. His family did not know what had happened to him, and so they and the Jesuit community believed him to be dead. Just as St. Paul wrote of his experiences to Timothy in this weekend’s epistle, Fr. Ciszek also suffered for Christ, even to the point of chains, having been sentenced for espionage to 15 years of hard labor in a Russian gulag. With every page that I have re-read in this book, I am

repeatedly inspired by the humility, fidelity, and gratitude of this wonderful priest who heard God calling him to live the Good News so that others might be healed. In April 1955, Fr. Ciszek was released from prison with restrictions in the city of Norilsk and wrote to his sisters. After the KGB learned that he had secretly established mission parishes there, he was forcibly moved to Akaban in 1958, where he worked as a car mechanic for four more years and finally heard from his sisters in 1963. That year, the US State Department arranged for a prisoner exchange and his release. It is so easy to formulate intercessory prayers in which we ask God to have mercy on us and pay attention to particular needs. Prayers of gratitude, though, require more attentiveness and deliberate awareness of God at work in our lives, in both large and small matters. Many people asked Fr. Ciszek how he had endured those many years of physical and mental torture. In his book, he left us this legacy: “There was but one will that directed all things, God's will. I had only to see it, to discern it in every circumstance in which I found myself, and let myself be ruled by it. God is in all things, sustains all things, directs all things. To discern this in every situation and circumstance, to see His will in all things, was to accept each circumstance and situation and let oneself be borne along in perfect confidence and trust. Nothing could separate me from Him, because He was in all things. No danger could threaten me, no fear could shake me, except the fear of losing sight of Him. The future, hidden as it was, was hidden in His will and therefore acceptable to me no matter what it might bring. The past, with all its failures, was not forgotten; it remained to remind me of the weakness of human nature and the folly of putting any faith in self. But it no longer depressed me. I looked no longer to self to guide me, relied on it no longer in any way, so it could not again fail me. By renouncing, finally and completely, all control of my life and future destiny, I was relieved as a consequence of all responsibility. I was freed thereby from anxiety and worry, from every tension, and could float serenely upon the tide of God's sustaining providence in perfect peace of soul.”

This weekend, our Scripture take-away can be an attitude of gratitude, strengthened by the witness of St. Paul and Fr. Ciszek, who cherished Jesus’ words: “Your faith has saved you.”

Teresa S. Redder, OFS

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October 8 – 9 2016 TWENTY- EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME WEEKLY PLANNER UPCOMING EVENTS SUNDAY October 9th 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Right of Acceptance R.C.I.A Adult 10:00am LIB SVDP Benefit Concert 3:00pm Church Mass Music Practice 6:30pm Church MONDAY October 10th Columbus Day School Closed Cub Scouts 5:00pm to 8:00pm PHMR Basketball 6:30pm Gym AOH 7:30pm LIB 11th

TUESDAY October Religious Ed. Fall Program 5:30pm - 6:45pm SVDP Meeting 7:00pm SVDP Center Legion of Mary 7:00pm PHMR small rm Knights of Columbus 7:30pm PHMR Columbiettes 7:30pm LIB 12th

WEDNESDAY October Religious Ed. Fall Program 5:30pm - 6:45pm Children’s Choir 5:00pm Church Basketball 6:30pm GYM OLPH Prayer 7:15pm Chapel Bible Study 7:30pm – 9:00pm PHMR THURSDAY October 13th RE Summer Program Section 2 5pm- 6pm Music Practice 6:00pm Church Basketball 6:30pm Gym Boy Scouts 7:00pm PHMR Adult Choir 7:30pm Church FRIDAY October 14th Basketball 6:30pm GYM SATURDAY October 15th Catechist Training 9:00am LIB Basketball 8:30am Halloween Hustle AUD Foyer Mass Music Practice 3:30pm

SUNDAY October 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time Adult R.C.I.A 10:00am LIB Mass Music Practice 6:30pm Church 29th

MONDAY October 17th Bible Study 9:30am PHCR RCIA Children 5:00pm PHMO Cub Scouts 5:00pm to 8:00pm PHMR Altar Server Training 6:30pm Church Parents meeting 7:30pm Basketball 6:30pm Gym TUESDAY October 18th Religious Ed. Fall Program 5:30pm - 6:45pm High School Youth Group 7pm to 8:30pm LIB SVDP Meeting 7:00pm SVDP Center Legion of Mary 7:00pm PHMR Knights of Columbus 7:30pm PHMR WEDNESDAY October 19th Religious Ed. Fall Program 5:30pm - 6:45pm Children’s Choir 5:00pm Church Basketball 6:30pm GYM OLPH Prayer 7:15pm Chapel Bible Study 7:30pm – 9:00pm PHMR THURSDAY October 20th Music Practice 6:00pm Church Basketball 6:30pm Gym Boy Scouts 7:00pm PHMR Adult Choir 7:30pm Church FRIDAY October 21st Sacred Heart PTA Social Shuffle SATURDAY October 22nd Youth Ministry Retreat Mass Music Practice 3:30pm GATHERING LOCATION KEY AUD- Auditorium/Gym Chapel- Adoration Chapel of 2 Hearts- Entrance faces High St., on side of Parish House closest to the School LIB- Library PHCR- Parish House Conference Room (Room behind the Library) PHMO- Parish House Ministry Office (Marge & Merry’s office) PHMR- Parish House Meeting Room (Under Library)

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