St. Andrew Catholic Church

2100 SE Cove Road, Stuart, FL 34997 819-1

January 22, 2017 The Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Parish Location 2100 SE Cove Road Stuart, FL 34997 Telephone: 772-781-4415 Fax: 772-781-2906 Website: saintandrewcatholic.org Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 4:00pm 5:00pm Mariner Sands Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, & 10:30am 1:30pm in Spanish Monday-Friday 7:30am Holy Days: Vigil 4:00pm Holy Day: 7:30am & 6:00pm Confession: Saturday: 2:30pm Those wishing to receive the sacrament should be here at 2:30 or by appointment First Saturday 7:30 Mass followed by individual confessions Eucharistic Adoration Mon-Fri. 8:00am-8:00pm Saturday: 8:00am-2:00pm Pastor Reverend John Barrow Retired Assisting Clergy Monsignor Blase Gintoli Monsignor James Moore Deacons Deacon Richard Venezia Deacon Alberto Delgado Deaconate Candidates Andre Boucher Louis Romero

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For the week 7:30am Santo Santisi + 7:30am John McDowell + 4:00pm Carol Ann & Tarzy Parolin + 7:30am Scott Korte + 9:00am George & Russell Badame + 10:30am Lydia Gouveia + 7:30am Patricia Towers (liv.) 7:30am Florence Connerton + 7:30am Joseph DeBartolomeo + 7:30am Raymond Facette + 7:30am Linda Holt + 4:00pm Eleanor & Ray Chychota + 7:30am Judy Siconolfi + 9:00am Hatti Veltri + 10:30am Pat & Francis Papaceno + 7:30am Dottie Sibiski + 7:30am Wanda Aponte + 7:30am Dorothy Pietrowicz + 7:30am James Legates Sr. + 7:30am Thomas J. Herbert + 7:30am Barbara Leahey + 4:00pm Lucian Banasiewicz Sr. + 7:30am Kenneth May + 9:00am Walter Brant + 10:30am Robert Menhart +

Office Hours Mon. Wed. & Fri. 9:00am-12:00noon Saturday 3:30—5:30pm Sunday 9:00-12:00noon Parish Ministries Religious Education/Youth Activities Donna Hernandez Adult Education (RCIA) & Lectors Christine Michaelian Adoration Chapel George & Linda Mekulsia Servants of the Eucharist & Care of the Sick Kathleen Sullivan Annulments John Ginnetti Men of Saint Andrew & Prayer Shawls David Olio & Norma Olio St. Vincent de Paul Society 2200 SE Cove Rd., Stuart 772-286-4411 by appointment

CCD BAKE SALE Saturday & Sunday Jan. 28th & 29th Before & after all Masses Support our parish youth and help them raise money for The Steubenville Orlando Conference

I urge...that you be united. (1 Corinthians 1:10) The Corinthian Church was out of control. Some members were visiting prostitutes. One was even having an affair with his stepmother! They were taking each other to court. Some were abusing the Lord’s Supper. Others did not believe in the Resurrection. No matter where you looked there were signs of division and discord. Are there divisions in your home? If so, take heart, because Jesus wants to help you resolve them. Look at the way Paul responded to the Corinthians’ chaotic situation. Before he addressed any specific issues, he thanked God for all the blessings they had received. “ God is faithful,” he wrote. “He will keep you firm to the end.” ( 1Corinthians 1:9,8) Paul didn’t panic. He knew the Corinthians were in God’s hands. Confident in that knowledge, he addressed their challenges one by one, patiently and carefully. This is a model for our families. Even if your home appears to be out of control, always remember that the Lord is present with you. He is always pouring his blessings on you, always offering grace for healing and reconciliation. So bless your home every day. Use holy water is you can. Set the tone for the rest of your family. Try to practice forgiveness, division gains the upper hand and can cause deep wounds. But with forgiveness, the divisions caused by all kinds of sin can be disarmed. Judgments can stop; wounds can be healed. Not only does forgiveness resolve the specific division; it can also help heal divisive behavior in general so that there is more unity. And with more unity comes more love. So let’s make it our goal to practice forgiveness. Let’s ask Jesus to heal all divisions!

“Lord, I consecrate my home to you. Come, Holy Spirit, and teach us how to forgive One another.”

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WEEKLY ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. The Candles to Our Lady of Perpetual Help are Burning for Hugo Cinalli this week. 2. The Candle in the Adoration Chapel of the Two Hearts is burning for Lois Genuario this week. 3. The Sanctuary Candles are burning for the intention of the Antrobus Family this week. 4. The second collection this week is for Liturgical Supplies.

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TERRIFIC TUESDAYS 5:00-7:00pm Dinners include salad, coffee & dessert $12.00 per person Jan. Jan.

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World Famous Lasagna BBQ Chicken & Ribs

Call for Reservations: 286-7507 KNIGHTS SLAM BREAKFAST The First Sunday of the month February 5th 8:00am-11:30am Eggs cooked to order, pancakes, sausage, ham, french toast ,grits, OJ , coffee, tea !! All for just $6.00 per person. K Of C Hall corner of Kanner & Cove. Our St. Andrew High School Youth Group will be serving and cleaning up at the K of C on Feb. 5th. All proceeds for this Sunday’s breakfast will be donated to the St. Andrew Youth Group for their upcoming trip to Steubenville Orlando in June. Thank you in advance for your continued support to our youth!!

MEDJUGORJE NIGHT Wednesday, January 25th 6:00pm St. Andrew Catholic Church Our Lady first appeared to the children on Apparition Hill, rising above the hamlet of Bijakovici, on June 25, 1981. Since that day, Our Lady appears daily giving messages to people either in groups or individually. Fr. Barrow will discuss the history of Medjugorje, the visionaries, and the condition of Medjugorje today.

Please join us !!

The St. Vincent de Paul Society of St. Andrew is collecting regular size peanut butter & jelly for January. Please place the items in the basket by the church office in the main lobby. Thank you.

“Offer to God the sacrifice of praise (the Mass), and pay thy vows to the most High. And call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.”

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Announcements & Mass Intentions Date

Intention

Time

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Tiffany Frye Zucal+

5:00pm

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Hugh McNamara +

5:00pm

WOMEN’S MINI-CONFERENCE “We Are the Church” Saturday, January 28, 2017 9:00-11:00am 9:00 Registration & coffee 9:30am Program

Mariner Sands Chapel Presented by the Women of Mariner Sands Chapel Speaker: Jean Pawlik Mariner Sands resident, Jean Pawlik, is a former businesswoman who became a Catholic Chaplain. She will share with us some insights from her spiritual journey.

Two Anniversary Masses for Married Couples The diocese of Palm Beach will hold its 33rd Annual Anniversary Masses at 2 different locations and on two different days in February. The first will be held Saturday, Feb. 11 at 10:30am at Ascension Church in Boca Raton. Mass will begin at 10:30am. The second Mass will be held on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 10:30am at St. Lucie Church in Port St. Lucie. Couples are asked to arrive 30 minutes before the start of the Masses. After each Mass, there will be cake, coffee and punch served in the parish halls. Most Reverend Gerald M. Barbarito, Bishop of Palm Beach, will preside at both celebrations. All couples who will be celebrating 25, 40 or 50 or more years of marriage in the calendar year 2017 are invited to participate. These celebrations are sponsored by the diocesan Office of Marriage & Family Life. Please register at your church office. For more information contact Natalie at 561-775-9557 or [email protected]

Financial Update for the Six Months Ended 12/31/2016

Call the chapel office at 772288-5194 to register There is no charge for this program.

Offertory Other

203,534 52,737 ————

Total Expenses

256,271 (290,379) ————-

Net Operating Loss

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Parish Debt:

10:30am Family Mass Presentation of the Gifts January January February

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The Knight Family The Connelly Family The Gavel Family

Interest Debt Collections Holy Family Thanks for Giving Debt Reduction

34,267 (44,000) (25,000) (25,000) ———— (59,733) ========

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Spiritual Awakening Retreat Are you interested in your prayer life? God is Constantly calling us, personally, each one by name, beckoning and waiting for us to respond. This past Fall several of our parishioners took part in a program of Spiritual Awakening which was conducted on Friday mornings. The response was amazing. A similar program will take place during the weeks of Lent; February 17– April 7th from 9:00am to 10:00am here at St. Andrew Parish. For further information please call

Gerri Murray at 772-336-2410.

The St. Andrew Prayer Shawl Ministry has been meeting the first Wednesday of the month since last October. We have 5 knitters and 3 crocheters, who have made and distributed 13 shawls since we began. Many of our homebound and nursing home residents have received shawls, thanks to Kathleen Sullivan’s ministry as well as several ill parishioners. Please join us any first Wednesday at 10:30am in classroom C in this ministry that gives as well as receives. Next meeting, Wed. Feb. 1st From 10:30-11:30am in classroom C.

Contact Norma Olio at [email protected] Or 772-919-5963

Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children January 22nd Among the vulnerable for whom the Church wishes to care with particular love and concern are unborn children, the most defenseless and innocent among us. Nowadays efforts are made to deny them their human dignity and to do with them whatever one pleases, taking their lives and passing laws preventing anyone from standing in the way of this. Frequently, as a way of ridiculing the Church’s effort to defend their lives, attempts are made to present her position as ideological, obscurantist, and conservative. Yet this defense of unborn life is closely linked to the defense of each and every other human right. It involves the conviction that a human being is always sacred and inviolable, in any situation and at every stage of development. Human beings are ends in themselves and never a means of resolving other problems. Once this conviction disappears, so do solid and lasting foundations for the defense of human rights, which would always be subject to the passing whims of the powers that be. Reason alone is sufficient to recognize the inviolable value of each single human life, but if we also look at the issue from the standpoint of faith, “every violation of the personal dignity of the human being cries out in vengeance to God and is an offense against the creator of the individual” (Christfideles Laici 37) From the apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (The Joy of the Gospel) published by Pope Francis in 2013

Dear Heavenly Father, As we celebrate the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this month, we pray that all Christians may be faithful to the Lord’s teaching on unity. May we, with prayer and fraternal charity, strive to restore Christian unity and collaborate to meet the challenges facing humanity. Amen.

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent. ( Rv3:19)

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