SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC CHURCH
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SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC CHURCH
SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC CHURCH 201 Adele Avenue (717) 665-2465 Manheim, PA 17545 Fax (717) 665-7119 www.strichardcatholicchurch.org Father Stephen D. Weitzel, Pastor [email protected] Deacon Bill Jordan, Pastoral Associate [email protected] Deacon Donovan Mann, Permanent Deacon Saint Richard’s Prayer Thanks be to you, our Lord Jesus Christ for all the benefits which you have given for all the pains and insults which you have borne for us. Most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother may we know you more clearly, love you more dearly, and follow you more nearly, day by day. Amen MISSION STATEMENT TO CREATE A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN EACH OF US, WHICH WILL FOCUS AND INCREASE OUR FAITH. TO OPEN OURSELVES TO EMBRACE ALL IN OUR PARISH FAMILY, IN ORDER TO BUILD OUR RELATIONSHIPS AS SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN CHRIST. SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE Saturday Evening – 4:00 p.m. Sunday Morning - 8:00 and 10:30 a.m. ROSARY DEVOTIONS Sunday - 7:30 a.m. Before daily Mass. Beginning at 8:40 a.m. FOR YOUR INFORMATION th Ash Wednesday, February 18 Masses at 9:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m. DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET Second Friday of each month. WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE Monday through Friday - 9:00 a.m. FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTIONS Every First Friday at 9:00 a.m. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday – 3:00 p.m. - 3:45p.m. NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome to the parish! Please register at the parish office. Office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Congratulations. We welcome your family into our midst. Please be aware that preregistration and attendance at a scheduled baptism class is required prior to the baptism of your first child. Please contact the parish office as early as possible. SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Blessings upon your engagement. We need time to prepare you for your happy day. Please try to contact the parish office nine to twelve months in advance to make arrangements. Participation in Diocesan Marriage Preparatory Program is required. Young couples like you report its helpfulness. Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - January 25, 2015 MASS INTENTIONS Saturday, January 24 Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20 4:00 p.m. +Vin Rooney Sunday, January 25 Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20 8:00 a.m. Parishioners of St. Richard 10:30 a.m. +Mary Ann Berchin Monday, January 26 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5 Mk 3:22-30 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 27 Heb 10:1-10 Mk 3:32-35 9:00 a.m. Wednesday, January 28 Heb 10:11-18/Mk 4:1-20 9:00 a.m. Thursday, January 29 Heb 10:19-25 Mk 4:21-25 9:00 a.m. STEWARDSHIP A WAY OF LIFE Tithing: God’s Plan for Giving Sunday Collection Jan. 17, 2015 Difference Budgeted Weekly Parish Need $3,953.70 ($161.30) $4,115.00 Attendance: Saturday Jan. 17, 4:00 p.m., 97 people; Sunday, Jan.18, 8:00 a.m., 55 people; and 10:30 a.m. 132 people. Total people 284. Please pray for our sick and shut-in’s Albert Boerger Joey Kerman Tonya Metchoir Jane Boerger Bob Boyle Stephanie Knosp Joey Lauber Jack Muldowney Betty O’Connell Margaret Carey Richard Lewis Charlotte Petroll Thomas Carey Catherine Lewis Nancy Risoldi Eileen Coyle Dan Lindsey Azlyn Sebold Brad Emonds Lee Marrash Virginia Shaffer Friday, January 30 Heb 10:32-39 Mk 4:26-34 9:00 a.m. +Elvira Mittica Jim Forsha John Marrash Carolyn Staffieri Karen Grimm Joe Moreno Elizabeth Stevanus Sam Harsh Bob McKeegan Terri Swoope Saturday, January 31 Dt 18:15-20 1 Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28 4:00 p.m. +Charlotte Wolf Cameron Hess Father Menei Denise Wiler Maureen Johnson Betty Hains Brad Yeagle Andrew Kennedy Dave Hains Sunday, February 1 Dt 18:15-20 1 Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28 8:00 a.m. Special Intention for Sr. Albina FSML 10:30 a.m. Parishioners of St. Richard MINISTRIES for January 31 & February 1 4:00 p.m. Altar Servers: Victoria Moreno & Gavin Achen Eucharistic Ministers: Betty Rush & Jocelyn Sherman Lector: Anni Goldman Ushers: Matt Huboky & Don Horst 8:00 a.m. Altar Servers: Joseph Giambalvo Eucharistic Ministers: Sharon Overton & Jackie Holzel Lector: Donna Mascuch Ushers: Dick Zack & Ephraim Brandt 10:30 a.m. Altar Servers: Ansley & Bruce Ryan Eucharistic Ministers: Sally Burke Lector: Jim Shaffer Ushers: Frank Durdock & Gordon Williams FLOWERS FOR THE GLORY OF GOD Sanctuary: In memory of Robert & Gertrude Johnson, requested by Jim & Lois Kline Statues: In memory of Evelyn Roehl, requested by Rich & Lisa Giambalvo Sandra Zack Wayne Moyer Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - January 25, 2015 Christian Unity Last Saturday at the Vigil Mass, I sounded like I was striking a blow against Christian Unity rather than fostering it, when I shared with you an exchange I had with several relatives (former members of the Church of God, who are now Methodist) gathered at my father’s deathbed. One asked, “Do you really think he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior?” I replied, “Yes, don’t worry about his salvation. He’s Catholic.” What I meant to share with them and you is that our faith perspectives differ. Allow me to explain. Catholics encounter the Protestant understanding of salvation in our families, culture and popular books like, Heaven is For Real. In one chapter, little Colton Burpo, the boy who saw Heaven and came back, says after his visit, “You can’t get into heaven if you don’t have Jesus in your heart,” a belief congruent with his Dad’s church, Crossroad’s Wesleyan. My Christian family members believe that Christ’s salvation is a gift, but one requiring the specific act of a heartfelt personal proclamation, “Jesus is my Lord and Savior” in order for one to be saved. If this were true, the number of the world’s saved would be small. If the belief that the proclamation is necessary fills our hearts with fear, then we ask a helpful question. Do we believe the book, Heaven is for Real, should be entitled, Heaven is for Evangelical Protestants--only? No? Then our fear is misleading us and we are free to ignore it. Our Catholic faith professes that Christ saves all people: Catholics, non-Catholics, non-Christians, people of all faiths, people of no faith, and people who refuse to believe until, like Thomas, they see Him with their eyes and touch Him with their hands. Ours is an expansive view of salvation, where all are saved by Christ, in Christ and through Christ, even if they do not know Him. “Knowing Christ” does not make us members of an exclusive club, but rather, children of a loving God. We hear this clearly, when on rare occasions a priest uses Eucharistic Canon IV at Mass. We hear him pray, “Remember those who take part in this offering, those here present and all your people, and all who seek you with a sincere heart.” This final category of people, those seeking God with sincerity of heart, are people who may not know Jesus or God, but whose hearts are naturally good. We pray for them for they are destined for salvation. We believe that God gives us free will to reject him. We may do this through sinning mortally, choosing to extinguish the life of grace within us and to turn our backs on God. If we repent, God will take us back, forgive our sin and restore the His life within us. Beyond this we know that Jesus taught that our salvation depends upon us seeing Him in one another, especially the hungry, the thirsty, the Third Sunday in Ordinary Time - January 25, 2015 naked, the imprisoned, and the homeless. For in helping one another, we help Him. Clearly we have been made by God, are loved by him from conception to a natural death and saved in His Son, so that we might be with Him in this life and the next. As we pray for Christian Unity, let us pray that our brothers and sisters who do not share our expansive view of salvation, handed down faithfully from the time of the Apostles, may soon enjoy a less exclusive vision of salvation. The moment of death is painful enough as it is a time of parting. Our loss is made bearable by the promise of the reunion we will enjoy in heaven. Fear of salvation or worry of an angry God should not plague the faithful. Perfect love casts away all fear. Let us pray that God makes our love perfect, that the divisions in Christianity may cease. Let the desire to love better be the rule that erases the differences and rejoins God’s family. Fr. Steve