St. Ignatius of Loyola St. Catherine of Alexandria Established 1859 Established 1911 Hilltop, Maryland Port Tobacco, Maryland
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St. Ignatius of Loyola St. Catherine of Alexandria Established 1859 Established 1911 Hilltop, Maryland Port Tobacco, Maryland September 13, 2020 ~ 24th Sunday in Ordinary During COVID-19, the Mass schedule is as follows: SUNDAY MASS DAILY MASS St. Catherine Sat 5:00pm Field St. Catherine Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri 6:30pm St. Catherine Sun 10:30am St. Ignatius Sun 8:30am CONFESSIONS ADORATION St. Catherine Sat 4:00-4:45pm Field St. Catherine Mon-Tue-Thu-Fri 5:30-6:30pm St. Ignatius Sun 7:45-8:15am St. Catherine Thu 5:30-6:15pm OFFICE & STAFF St. Catherine / St. Ignatius 7640 Port Tobacco Rd. Port Tobacco, MD 20677 Sandy Taylor Marcus Elam Raymond Leon Higgs Robert Ansell DiGiovanni Website: www.stcsti.org Bill Higgs Robin Proctor Hailey Sellers Phone: 301-934-9630 Lionel Gray Sarah Smith Linda D. Welch Flocknote: Text “ROUTE6” to 84576 Mike Hancock Daniel Jameson Vincent Jamieson Pastor Joe Cooper Sissy Cooper Clarke Hettel Rev. Aaron Qureshi Marie Boteler Craig Doshen Jean Ambrose [email protected] Marcella Palmer Irene Proctor DeAngelo Ball Hank Galotta Aubrey Proctor Carina Gibbs Administrative Assistant Ramona Dobry Jennifer Hancock Kayla Kiley Linda Harrigan Ignatius Cooper Jean Carter Xenia Hernandez [email protected] Kelly Welch Michael DeLane Steve Pavlot John Shifflett Dawn Walters Joe Raub Bookkeeper Avery Sandiford Brenda Greer Logan Willey Theresa Wegand Bobby Vermillion Robert Cecil accounting.stcatherine- [email protected] Please keep in your prayers those with long term illnesses and their caregivers. To have names added to or removed St. John Paul II from the prayer list or if you need a priest at the hospital, Faith Formation Program nursing home or assisted living facility, call (301) 934-9630. Director, Bill Wannall Please leave your name, phone number, person's name, 301-934-2261 ext. 107 facility and room number. [email protected] Sacrificial Giving Youth Ministry Weekend of September 6, 2020 Anna Albrittain 301-934-2261 ext. 105 St. Catherine St. Ignatius [email protected] Offertory: $3,326 Offertory: $3,191 R&M: $1,258 R&M: $420 Archbishop Neale School Principal, Linda Bourne Thank you for you generous support of our church & 301-934-9595 ministries. www.archbishopnealeschool.org Prayer Group at St. Ignatius Catholic Counselor Caitlin Langreich St. Ignatius is delighted to host a prayer 301-541-3740 group devoted to the Exaltation of the Holy [email protected] Cross from Sept 10-16. The group will be using the church and hall at various times during the week for Mass & adoration. All are welcome to join. Normal Sunday Mass on Sept 13 will take place as usual. Mass Intentions and Readings Adult Faith Formation Have you ever wondered Saturday, September 12 – Vigil 24th Sunday in why we believe what we Ordinary Time do? Have you ever been 5:00pm Deceased Parishioners & Benefactors tongue-tied when some- I Cor 10:14-22 LK 6:43-49 one asks you a question about your Catholic faith? Our Adult Faith For- Sunday, September 13 —24th Sunday mation sessions for the fall Ordinary Time will cover the book Why 8:30am People of the Community We’re Catholic by Trent Sir 27:30; 28:7 Rom 14:7-9 Mt 18:21-35 Horn. The book covers 26 common questions, like: Monday September 14 – The Exaltation of the • Why do we believe in science? Holy Cross 6:30pm Perin Mawhinney • Why do we believe in the Resurrection? Nm 21:4b-9 Phil 2:6-11 Jn 3:13-17 • Why aren’t we Bible-only Christians? • Why believe in the midst of scandal? Tuesday September 15 - Our Lady of Sorrows • Why defend marriage? 6:30pm Deacon Albert L. Opdenaker IV And many more! Fr. Q leads each session. No 1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a Jn 19:25-27 sign-up or purchase required—just show up! Wednesday September 16 — Saint Cornelius No Mass at St. Catherine’s Beginning Saturday, September 26 1 Cor 12:31; 13:13 Lk 7:31-35 8:30am-9:30am St. Catherine Hall Thursday September 17 – Weekday 6:30pm Joyce Goodman 2 Cor 15:1-11 Lk 7:36-50 Our Address Has Friday September 18 – Weekday Changed! 6:30pm Collins & Morrisroe Families Many of you have noticed we 1 Cor 15:12-20 Lk 8:1-3 have a new mailbox Mass offered for the repose of the soul of Juanita Yates on the Our new mailing address: one-year anniversary of her passing 7640 Port Tobacco Road Port Tobacco, MD 20677 Saturday October 3, 2020 at 10:30am St. Catherine of Alexandria Church Very soon, our old PO Box will be closed, so All family and friends are warmly invited to please update your records and use this address attend. to mail anything to the Rectory. From Fr. Q’s Desk bama, as a fraternal organization for black Catholic men. It now has the claim to being the largest and oldest continually-existing African- This week the Church celebrated the feast day American lay Catholic organization. The La- of St. Peter Claver—a most remarkable saint. dies Auxiliary was founded shortly afterwards When he canonized this saint in 1888, Pope in 1922. The Knights and Ladies participate in Leo XIII opined, “No life, except the life of a number of church and community efforts. Christ, has moved me so deeply as that Here at St. Catherine’s, the Knights recently of Peter Claver”. Who was this amazing man? helped with some hall renovations, and the La- dies help regularly with our “Grateful Plate” hot St. Peter Claver was a Jesu- meals outreach. Many of it priest from Spain who our old-timers at St. Cathe- left his home country to rine’s remember fondly the spend his life ministering Knights of Peter Claver in “New Spain” - in Carta- Hall on Marshalls Corner gena, Colombia. His days Rd., which was generously were spent ministering to rented out to St. Cathe- the African slaves who ar- rine’s before the present rived there daily after their hall was built. transatlantic voyage. He gave them food and medi- cine, tended to their needs, We are so grateful for the presence of the Knights instructed them (via trans- St. Peter Claver lators) in the rudiments of and the Ladies in our par- faith, and baptized those ish, and for the good chari- willing to accept Jesus table work they do for our Christ as their Lord and community. They have a Savior. He called himself wonderful example to imi- “the slave of slaves” and tate in the life of their pa- would baptize some tron! 300,000 people over the course of his amazing Theological Reflection life. Pope Leo XIII, encyclical In Plurimis on the abolition of slavery, 1888 St. Peter Claver’s legacy lives on locally for us “Let apostolic men endeavor to find out how in two ways. First, at St. Catherine’s, we have they can best secure the safety and liberty of two stained glass windows. One of them is, of slaves. We advise them to look at the life and course, Catherine of Alexandria, our patroness. works of St. Peter Claver, to whom We have The other is Peter Claver, with an icon of a ship lately added a crown of glory. Let them look at signifying his service on slave ships. him who for fully forty years gave himself up to minister with the greatest constancy in his The second way his legacy lives on is in the labors, to a most miserable assembly of Moor- fraternal organization “The Knights of Peter ish slaves; truly he ought to be called the apos- Claver” and their associated womens’ group tle of those whose constant servant he pro- the “Ladies Auxiliary”. The Knights of Peter fessed himself and gave himself up to be. Claver were founded in 1909 in Mobile, Ala- [May] they endeavor to take to themselves and Parish Renovations Our parishes’ renovation projects are underway! • Cash: with a note for “Renovations” We are working on enhancing the beauty and • Check: write “Renovations” on memo line modernize the efficiency of our parishes. The plans are moving forward, but we need your • Credit Card / ACH: choose the category support! We do not have funds to use from our normal operations, so these renovations depend en- tirely on your contributions. Can you make a spe- Thank you for your generosity cial gift? 100% of your renovation donations go to supporting this project. Catechism of the Catholic Church EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP Recognize God in your Everyday Moments I. Dying in Christ Jesus Should I Stay or Should I Go? 1005 To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must "be away from the body and at Life is not always easy on us and it can be hard home with the Lord." In that "departure" which to figure out the next step to take in our journey. is death the soul is separated from the body. It We can even become immobilized by indecisive- will be reunited with the body on the day of res- ness and fear about making the wrong move or urrection of the dead. choosing the incorrect path. I think of the song, Should I Stay, or Should I Go, as a mantra for Death many times in my life. Should I stay in this house, this job, or this car? Should I go here or 1006 "It is in regard to death that man's condition there? When those times of decision surface, I is most shrouded in doubt." In a sense bodily usually turn to my wife, my friends, or even my death is natural, but for faith it is in fact "the children.