212 Meredith Street • Kennett Square, PA 19348 www.stpatrickkennettsquare.org
MASSES August 19, 2018 Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 AM and 12 Noon Time Weekday Mass: 7:30 AM Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM Saturday
CONFESSIONS
Saturday: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM Holy Days of Obligation - See Sunday bulletin.
ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT Mondays 8 AM to 7 PM
Parish Office 205 Lafayette Street Telephone: 610-444-4364 Fax: 610-444-2129 Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday through Friday Clergy Religious Ed. Center Rev. Christopher B. Rogers, Pastor 210 Meredith St. Rev. Victor F. Sharrett, Pastor Emeritus Buffington House Rev. Andres Garcia, In Residence 227 Lafayette Street Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, Sunday Assistance 236 Deacons James K. Madonna and James J. Elliott Andrew Auletta, Seminarian
MISSION STATEMENT St. Patrick Church, in the process of strengthening its Catholic Community, seeks to make the gospel of Jesus Christ better known and loved through prayer, stewardship and good works ST. PATRICK CHURCH, KENNETT SQUARE, PA PRAYER INTENTIONS
All praise and glory is yours, Lord our God, for You have called us to serve You in love. Bless our sick: Ro Teel, Gweneth Malchione, Bill Ewell, Ronald Hall, Frank Reck, Michael Odorisio, Monday, August 20, St. Bernard 7:30AM Agnes DaVia Sr., Mario Lorenzut, Ginny Basilio, Pastor Dan r/o Charles & Dianne Smith Nicewonger, Steve Briley, Ana Teresa Encar- Tuesday, August 21, St. Pius X, Pope nacion, Robert “Mack” Marc-Aurele, Clara Dunlap, 7:30AM Phillip Angelucci Phil Morehead, Rosemary F. Madrigale, Tim Ewell, r/o Daughter, Rita Ida DiNorscia, Rosa Maria Santos, Thomas Layug, Wednesday, August 22, The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary Steven Mangini, John Pellegrino, Thomas Kelleher, 7:30AM Marge Baffa (living) Angela Smoker, Diane Jones, Giovanna Sankus, r/o Friend Emily DiStefano, Frankie Knowles, Jackie Thursday, August 23, St. Rose of Lima VanGrofski, Lucy DiNorscia, Maria Rowe, Richard 7:30AM Frances Green Reynolds, Marc Palfy, Karen Dinius, Joshua r/o Pat Kotkin Friday, August 24, St. Bartholomew Brown, Deacon Jim Elliott so that they bear this 7:30AM Tony Malchione illness in union with Your Son’s obedient suffering, r/o Kathy Shore restore them to health, and lead them to glory. Saturday, August 25, St. Louis Amen. 8:00AM Special Intention Vigil, Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00PM Peter Conigliaro OUR FAITHFUL DEPARTED: Eugene Fragale. r/o Tony & Ginny Basilio Sunday, August 26, Twenty-First Sunday in Ordinary For those who have been faithful, O Lord, life is not Time ended. An eternal dwelling place awaits them in 7:30AM Mass for Parishioners heaven. 9:00AM Jeanne Harkins r/o Daughters & Families 10:30AM Norby McDonough r/o Herta Dignan & Marlene Fiala Good and loving Fa- 12:00PM John Ryan Parkinson ther, watch over and r/o Michael & Patricia Bresnahan protect all who serve in the Armed Forces of It takes a minute to find a special person; an hour to appreci- our nation. Surround ate them; a day to love them; but an en re life to forget them with your love and care & bring them them. safely home. SGT Richard Baffa SSG Raymond Burke III LT Michael Crawford Capt. Dominic Paul DellaPelle, USMC
LCPL Ben Farrell, USMC
Senior Chief Shauna McNeely The U.S. Bishops urge our par cipa on each Friday in a na- SFC Tyler Nellens onwide Novena for the Legal Protec on of Human Life, Au- E1 Airman 1st Cl Andrew Szonntag gust 3-September 28. Par cipants will receive weekly email Major Ian C. Whiteman or text reminders to pray and fast, along with li le known 1st Lt. USAF Scott Seidenberger facts about Roe v. Wade to share with others. Sign up at 1st Lt. USAF Natalie King www.usccb.org/pray 236 TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME AUGUST 19, 2018
My Dear Parishioners, Praised be Jesus Christ! All of us who were living remember well the morning of September 11, 2001. And chances are we remember the days after. It would be hard and certainly foolish to forget. One of the many books written about those days was entitled: “WE WERE THERE”. It’s a short but inspiring read about priests who ministered to others in that time. Priests like Frs. Kevin Smith, Ray Nobiletti and Kevin Madigan, all of whom were there and who reminded others that God also was there. 17 years later, as I write this column, I could use that reminder once again: THAT GOD IS HERE. To help, I share excerpts from a recent article by David Mills, a fellow Pennsylvanian Catholic. Fr. Rogers In times of testing, it’s good to remember that God was there as his chosen people chose other gods and fought with each other and split up into two warring nations. He was there, as the great and good ones of the day cold-bloodedly murder his Son, and Jesus’ best friends run for cover. He’s been with His Church through all the centuries, including all the times her leaders failed so badly. He knows every horrible act, every stupid move, every bit of laziness and selfishness and pettiness, every lying, cheating, lowdown thing his people ever did. Neither McCarrick nor the attorney general’s report were unknown to him. One thing the Father knows is people. He gave us a Church that’s as people-proof as any human institution can be. He knew from the beginning what we would need: a place we knew we’d meet Jesus, a place where we’d find out what he wants to tell us and how he wants us to live, and where we’d get his help and aid. He created the Catholic Church. He created the Petrine office, and gives its holder the grace to guard the Church’s teaching and unity. He created the episcopacy and priesthood, and gives those the Church ordains the power to celebrate the Sacraments, especially the Mass. God was looking out for his people from the very beginning. He knew we’d sometimes have really bad shepherds. But the fundamental things, the necessary things, they always work no matter how bad Catholics get. Jesus lives with us in the Tabernacle and gives himself to us in the Mass. Our Father didn’t promise all of these men would be saints, or even just run-of-the-mill good guys. He promised that the gates of Hell would not prevail against his Church, no matter what. He promised to be with us to the end of the age. He promised to write straight with crooked lines. For God so loved the world, and so deeply knew his people, that he gave us the Church. On Good Friday 2005, then-cardinal Joseph Ratzinger reflected on Jesus falling for the third time. He saw the shame: “How much filth there is in the Church, and even among those who, in the priesthood, ought to belong entirely to him,” he said. Here’s the prayer with which the future pope responded to that insight, it’s a prayer we might make our own this week: Lord, your Church often seems like a boat about to sink, a boat taking in water on every side. In your field we see more weeds than wheat. The soiled garments and face of your Church throw us into confusion. Yet it is we ourselves who have soiled them! It is we who betray you time and time again, after all our lofty words and grand gestures. Have mercy on your Church; within her too, Adam continues to fall. When we fall, we drag you down to earth, and Satan laughs, for he hopes that you will not be able to rise from that fall; he hopes that being dragged down in the fall of your Church, you will remain prostrate and overpowered. But you will rise again. You stood up, you arose and you can also raise us up. Save and sanctify your Church. Save and sanctify us all. 236 ST. PATRICK CHURCH, KENNETT SQUARE, PA PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS THIS WEEK AT ST. PATRICK PARISH LOCAL RESOURCES Sunday, August 19 Pregnant? Scared? Call 1-800-CARE-002 KOC Officers Meeting 7:00PM CB Birthright: 610-436-0773 Monday, August 20 HopeA erAbor on.com; a erabor on.org Tuesday, August 21 RachelsVineyard.org or 1-877-HOPE-4-ME Wednesday, August 22 Thursday, August 23 ************************************************* Pastoral Council Meeting 7:00PM CB Assistance/Resources for Marriage Troubles: Friday, August 24 h ps://www.helpourmarriage.org/
Saturday, August 25 Annulment Proceeding: Contact the Metropolitan Tribunal, Rosary 8:30AM & 4:30PM C Archdiocese of Philadelphia 215-587-3750. Interviews are C-Church confiden al.
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Courage: Courage ministers to those with same sex a rac- Fight all error, but do it with good humor, pa ence, kind- ons and their loved ones. A weekly peer support group is ness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and offered to homosexual men and women who wish to live spoil the best cause. St. John Kanty according to the teaching of the Catholic Church. Call 215- 587-4505. Confiden ality assured.
FACEBOOK LIVE EVENT-THE STATE OF VOCATIONS ADDRESS, ************************************************* THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 2018 at 7:00PM. This event will be Event: We Thirst; Chris an Reflec ons on Addic on. A broadcast on the Facebook page www.facebook.com/ comprehensive and compassionate educa onal series on phillypriest. Contact Sue Matour at [email protected] addic on from a Chris an perspec ve. The series is not or call 610-667-5778. HEED YOUR CALL! only highly educa onal, but it inspires faith, hope, love, ______community ac on, and it is approved for con nuing educa- on credits by the Na onal Associa on of Catholic Chap- lains, and the Associa on of professional Chaplains. Have you considered joining the Knights of Columbus? If you have, you and your wife are invited to Victory Brewing Where: SS. Peter & Paul Parish, 1325 Boot Road, West on Wednesday, August 22 at 7:00PM. Come and enjoy an Chester with speaker Nina Marie Corona MA, CRS evening out while learning more about the Knights of Co- When: September 4, 11, 18, 25 and October 2, 7-9PM lumbus. For more informa on contact Judy Magee at 610-692-2216 ext. 263 St. Cornelius School is s ll accep ng Support for Addic on Recovery/Help: registra ons for PK3, PK4, Kdg. and Grades 1-8. h p://archphila.org/hope/
Transfer Grants available for Grades 2-7 and a $1000 grant for any child entering Children’s Rosary First Grade. Monday, August 20, 2018
Please call school at 610-459-8663 to schedule a tour. 6:00-6:30PM
______236 All are welcome! TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME FAITH FORMATION
Transfer of the Sacred Remains of St. Katharine Drexel
New Tomb to be in place in September, 2018
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia recently announced that the sacred remains of St. Katharine Drexel will be transferred from the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament Motherhouse and DID YOU FORGET Shrine in Bensalem, PA. to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter SOMETHING? and Paul in Philadelphia this summer. The new loca on for The school bells will soon be St. Katharine Drexel’s tomb will open to the public in Sep- ringing for the children to re- tember, 2018. turn to school. The bells for St. Katharine Drexel was canonized on October 1, 2000. She our parish religious educa on is the second American-born person ever to be canonized. program PREP will also be ringing soon. If your child will be 5 Born into tremendous wealth as part of the Drexel family, by August 2018 they can register for our kindergarten pro- she gave up her life of privilege to found the Sisters of the gram on Sunday mornings. Children who will be 6 by August Blessed Sacrament in 1891. She dedicated her life to serve 2018 are invited to begin the first level of their religious in- the needs of African Americans and na ve Americans, and struc on which is held on Sunday morning from 10-11:30AM inspired so many women, who joined the Sisters of the or on Monday a ernoon from 4:45 to 6:15PM. Blessed Sacrament to follow her example. Today, the Sisters Applica ons can be found on our parish site: con nue to serve in elementary and secondary schools, as well as at Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, the www.stpatrickkenne square.com first Black Catholic university in the U.S. They are also in- We look forward to seeing you! volved in a variety of other services including pastoral and spiritual ministries, social services, counseling, religious edu- ************************************************** ca on and health care, primarily but not exclusively among ATTENTION: ALL MOMS, DADS, GRANDMAS AND GRANDPAS Black and Na ve American peoples.
We are looking for a few individuals who would want to ************************************************* share their me and talent with the young people of our par- MERCY & MARY RETREAT-September 21-22, 2018, Ignai us ish. We need your help as a fi h grade or Kindergarten Cate- Church, Yardley, PA.. Best selling author and acclaimed chist on Sunday mornings or as a classroom aide for either speaker, Fr. Michael Gaitley, MIC will be giving 5 dynamic Sunday or Monday. Our classes will begin September 16 & talks. There will be a retreat Mass, Adora on, Benedic on, 17. If you are curious and would like to learn more, contact Chaplet of Divine Mercy and book signing. the Office of Religious Educa on at 610-444-2214 and ask for Marianne Kane. Visit marianmissionaries.org for more informa on. ************************************************* 2018 CATHOLIC WOMEN’S CONFERENCE: Saturday, October ABBEYFEST-September 22, 2018, Daylesford Abbey, Paoli, 27, 2018 from 9:00AM-4:00PM at Our Lady of Czestochowa, PA. Eight- me Grammy nominee, Ma Maher, will headline Doylestown, PA. Opening Mass will be celebrated by Bishop this year’s fes val. Don’t miss this one of a kind experience John McIntyre. Our theme: “Daughters of the King” is about celebra ng faith, music and powerful witness! discovering and claiming the most founda onal iden ty of every woman. Keynote speakers will be Dr. Mary Healy and Visit www.theabbeyfest.com for more informa on Sr. Regina Marie Gorman, O.C.D. ************************************************* Register at www.catholicwomensconference.org. A mid- FAMILY FULLY ALIVE FESTIVAL: Saturday, September 22, September sellout is expected. 2018, St. Joseph in Downingtown, PA. from 10:30AM- ______4:00PM. Visit h ps://www.familyfullyalive.us/ for more informa on. 236 Parish Staff SACRAMENTAL INFORMATION Candace Malchione Bap sm: celebrated on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each Month. Pre-Jordan class is Secretary required and held on the 2nd Monday of each month. Please call the parish office Marie Ellio to schedule. Business Manager Confirma on: celebrated annually at the Parish with our Bishop. For more infor- Marianne Kane ma on, please contact Religious Educa on office. Dir. of Religious Educa on Dave Cavanaugh Matrimony: celebrated regularly throughout the year. Engaged couples must Cemetery Coordinator meet with the pastor at least six months prior to the wedding, to arrange for the Annemarie McCarthy Sacrament. Music Director Anoin ng of the Sick: celebrated regularly throughout the year in hospitals, Kurt Smith homes or a er Mass. Please contact the Parish Office to arrange for the Sacrament Parish Facili es in mes of sickness, prior to surgery or in emergency. Pastoral Council: Holy Orders: Please visit www.HeedTheCall.org for informa on about priestly Fr. Christopher Rogers voca ons Deacon Jim Madonna Deacon Jim Ellio RCIA: Rite of Chris an Ini a on of Adults. For informa on about becoming Marie Ellio Catholic, please contact the Religious Educa on Office. Marianne Kane PARISH REGISTRATION Horace Scherer Jim Jennings Registra on is held on the First Sunday of Each Month or at the parish office. Ro- Warren BeVard man Catholics who live within the boundaries of the parish should register in the Meghan Cascarelli parish. This will regularize one’s status and allow for the issuance of cer ficates and Anne Marie Gillinger make possible the arrangements for Bap sm, Weddings and Confirma ons. Michael Curry Robert Bertrando RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Jeffrey Pysher Formal Religious Educa on and Sacramental Prepara on is provided for children grades 1 thru 6. Classes are held on Sunday Mornings and Monday Evenings. Con- Brian Raffety tact Marianne Kane for more informa on at 610-444-2214. Marge Korn
Mike Weber Sunday Celebrant Schedule Sunday Collec on Finance Council Subject to Change August 4-5, 2018 August 25-26, 2018 Regular-$15,347.51 Fr. Christopher Rogers Last year-$15,986.16 Marie Ellio 5:00 Fr. Rogers Doug Singo 7:30 Fr. Rogers Fr. Rogers’ homilies are available online: Bill Teel 9:00 Fr. Rogers www.cbr.podbean.com 10:30 Fr. McGee Arlene Schock 12:00 Fr. Rogers Flock Note Sign Up: Get important updates from St. Patrick’s Michael Piergalline in a mely and convenient way. Sign up by visi ng www. flocknote.com/StPats or text the message 31716 to the Building & Grounds Number 84576 from your cell phone. Michael Miller Like ST. PATRICK’S on FACEBOOK 236 Kurt Smith
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