February 16, 2020

Rev. Msgr. James L. LeBlanc The Sanctuary is located at the corner of Wilson Blvd. and N Pines Rd. Pastor Our Parish Office is open weekdays from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located in the white farmhouse at 9720 Wilson Blvd. Deacon John Tempesco Blythewood, SC 29016  Phone (80) 735-0512 www.TransfigurationSC.org

+ facebook.com/Transfig Sunday Mass: Saturday at 4:00 p.m. Sunday at 8:00 & 10:30 a.m.

Daily Mass: Tues. & Thurs. at 6:00 p.m. Saturday at 9:00 a.m.

Eucharistic Adoration: Thursday 5:00—6:00 p.m. Saturday 9:30—10:30 a.m.

Sacrament of Reconciliation: Tuesday 5:00—5:45 p.m. Saturday 3:00—3:45 p.m. and by appointment

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Mary Beth Vernau Youth Minister

Dr. Denise Rudell Director of Music

Patricia Evans Director of Religious Education

Valerie Shealy Parish Secretary Ministry Directory

Adult Education ...... Karen Hanson 318-6452

Altar Society ...... Connie Turgeon 397-1026

Altar Servers ...... Robert Leonard 606-0267 or ask a Master Server after Mass

Building Committee.Paul Jeanmougin (859) 630-9659 Tuesday, February 18, 6:00 p.m.

Sacristan: Volunteer Needed Bulletin Editor...... Valerie Shealy 735-0512 or [email protected] Altar Server: Danni Sherman Lector: Valerie Shealy Collection Counters…….Shirley Sipowicz 736-4005 Eucharistic Minister: Judyka Botia Columbiettes ...... Barbara D’Aurora 261-9229

Thursday, February 20, 6:00 p.m. DP&R Team Leader ...... Greg Scheuer 210-7272

Sacristan: Volunteer Needed Cursillo…………………….. ... Kathy Paxton 333-0997 Altar Server: Danni Sherman or [email protected] Lector: Debbie Keegan Disaster Prep Coordinator...Paul Richter 609-5924 Eucharistic Minister: Ed Hogue Environment & Art ...... Rosie Leonard 238-4951 or Suzanne Fulmer 240-4062 Saturday, February 22, 9:00 a.m.

Sacristan: Volunteer Needed Eucharistic Ministers (Mass).David Shinn 446-4196 Lector: Volunteer Needed or Vince Williams 603-0105

Eucharistic Minister: Elaine Slan Eucharistic Ministers (Home) ... Ed Hogue 348-1260 Altar Server: Elaine Slan Finance Council ...... ……..Valerie Shealy 735-0512 Saturday, February 22, 4:00 p.m. Greeting Ministry….Gary Matthews (843) 861-7879 Master Server: Volunteer Needed or Mary Matthews (614) 506-4182 Altar Servers: Elli Payne, Christian Agustin Heavenly Helpers.Mark & Pat Greenwood Noah Schreiber [email protected] 960-8320 Sacristan: Vince Williams Hospitality ...... Volunteers Needed Lector Traci Williams, David Shinn Eucharistic Ministers: Vince Williams, Cheri Shinn Infant Baptism ...... call the office 735-0512

Gladys Trujillo Knights of Columbus ...... Bill Smith 549-3035 Ushers: John Kelley, Volunteer Needed or [email protected]

The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Kitchen Committee ...... Danni Sherman 315-1344

Sunday, February 23 Lectors…………………….. Sharon McNatt 338-0419 Ministry Scheduler…..Patty Evans (803) 729-4625 8:00 a.m. Master Server: Jordan Rowland Music Ministry……………. Denise Rudell 735-0512 Altar Servers: Declan Rowland or [email protected] Volunteers Needed Sacristan: Bo Bowman Prayer Line ...... ……… Jessica Sisco Moore 477-6255 Lector: Bo Bowman, Sharon McNatt or [email protected] Eucharistic Ministers: Sharon McNatt, Bo Bowman RCIA ...... Deacon John Tempesco 735-0512 Judyka Botia or [email protected]

Ushers: Walter & Julie Rowland Religious Education ...... Patty Evans 729-4625 Greeters: Volunteers Needed or [email protected]

10:30 a.m. Respect for Life………….. Karen Hanson 318-6452

Master Server: Pierce Mulero Sacristans ...... Bob Wagner 629-2978 Altar Servers: Elyse Mulero, Elizabeth Coble or Russ Foss (404) 518-0323 Will Coble, Thomas Anderson Volunteer Needed Service Committee……...Russ Foss (404) 518-0323 Sacristan: John Paxton Stewardship Committee ...... Lois Thomas 315-2743

Lectors: Gaye Guerre, Frieda Campbell Ushers…………Kevin Cunningham (847) 691-5897 Eucharistic Ministers: Bob Wagner, Elaine Slan or Kathy Cunningham (847) 691-5899 Mike Mozdzierz, Kelly Scott Vince Presutti Vocations Chalice…………...Bob Wagner 629-2978 Ushers: Gary Matthews, Joe Mulero Welcome Ministry ...... Rosie Leonard 238-4951

Greeters: Patty Evans, Mary Matthews Youth Ministry……….. Mary Beth Vernau 814-6214 Collection Counters: Marshall & Lynda Wilke or [email protected] Debbie Winner Healing Our Church: Lenten Program for SJN Parish

On behalf of our Core Team, we invite you to participate in a very significant program here at SJN, Healing Our Church. This program was developed by RENEW International as a way for“ people in the pews” to face the difficult truth concerning the clergy abuse and find a way to rebuild the Church as a family of faith. It is a small-group process with prayer, reflections on Scripture, victim-survivors’ stories and faith sharing which will lead us as laity to action.

Healing Our Church will address such questions as: “How can we help ourselves and others deal with this crisis?” “How can we be sure this never happens again?” “How can we support those who have experienced abuse?” “How can we respond when we are asked why we stay in the Church?” “How can we find a way forward as a Church?” The six-weeks of faith sharing will begin the week of February 23rd, led by fellow parishioners, meeting once a week for 90 minutes. Register with the sign-up cards in the bulletin or in the pew, or contact me at the email address below, or call the parish office at 788-3252, ext. 326. We will offer different times and days of the week, hoping to meet the needs of all of our parishioners, both in English and in Spanish.

We invite you to join us on this spiritual journey as we pray for victims of abuse and begin a process of healing. May the Holy Spirit guide us through this journey.

Lisa Thibodeaux, SJN Parish Coordinator for Healing Our Church [email protected] Dear Parishioners, Over the next few weeks, you will be hearing a lot about a special way to journey through Lent this year. We all have felt heartbroken and, at times, outraged by the ongoing revelations of abuse by clergy in the Catholic Church over the years. The report from Pennsylvania that was released in 2018 was an especially strong notice that there is still much to come to terms within the Church. Bishop Guglielmone has asked the parishes of the Diocese of Charleston to participate in a process called Healing Our Church during Lent 2020. It is a six-week process designed to help us not only come to grips with the realities of the past but to truly make further changes to ensure healing for those who have been harmed and to ensure a safe environment for all within the Church. This is important. There have been moments when I have hesitated on whether to bring in another effort to respond to the legacy of abuse by clergy in the Church. Why stir up more difficult emotions and memories? What can we do to address the problems in the face of which I feel so powerless? After those brief moments of panic, I realize again that the grace of God is given room to operate when we become vulnerable and open to one another. God’s grace is powerfully present as we meet Christ the Wounded Healer in one another. God’s movement in the Church is discerned as we discover Christ’s story within our stories—indeed, the suffering of those who have been abused and the suffering of those who love them tell the story of our crucified savior in a powerful way. I know I am not alone when I also long for some good news of resurrection out of this story. Out of the experience of this process, I hope that we will rediscover in and through our faith-sharing that there is no darkness, no pit in which He is not deeper still, to borrow a famous phrase from a concentration camp survivor of World War II. I hope that we will find the Gospel alive and fully capable of guiding us to find healing as a Church and to bring healing to those who have suffered. I hope we will reclaim hope itself in the face of something that seems overwhelmingly difficult and tragic. Very little happens in an extraordinary way without some risk, investment, and faith. Because I long for some new life to be found out of the tragedy of abuse in the Church, we will participate in Healing Our Church at St. John Neumann. We will be telling you more about HOC throughout February, and groups will begin to meet the week of 23 February. In Christ, Fr. Sandy McDonald

Vocations Chalice

Sign Up is Easy! Just place your name in the binder found in the Gathering

Space. Please commit to pray for vocations. Questions? Contact Bob Wagner at (803) 629-2978 or [email protected].

Weekend 4:00 p.m. Mass 8:00 a.m. Mass 10:30 a.m. Mass

Feb Ben & Beth Bair Judyka Botia Rich & Audrey LaVecchia 8/9

Feb Volunteer Needed Larissa Cuffie & Brennen Volunteer Needed 15/16

Feb Volunteer Needed Volunteer Needed Volunteer Needed 22/23

Special Easter Schedule: There will not be a Chalice transfer on Easter Sunday. Please sign up to receive the chalice on April 4/5 and return it on April 18/19.

Save the Date

June 22—26, 2020

The VBS Adventure Columbiettes had the First Under the Sea

Degree Ceremony February 3rd Diving Into Our where 3 ladies joined: Faith Laura Okhungu, Georgia Tempesco, Jenell Torbit.

Our Deepest

Sympathy to

Wanda Heron

and family on

the loss of her

husband, Jack.

Rachel’s Vineyard Retreats bring spiritual healing The Mass of Christian Burial for Jack W. and strengthening of faith to women and men who Heron will be celebrated Tuesday, February 18, have had or participated in an abortion. Join us 2020, at 12:00 Noon at Transfiguration. The on the journey to healing, peace and reconciliation in Greenville, March 20-22, 2020. For more family will receive friends following the service information, please contact: in the parish Gathering Space. Burial will take

Christy (803) 554-6088 or place at 3:00 p.m. at Fort Jackson National grace4healing @gmail.com Cemetery, 4170 Percival Rd, Columbia. or Kathy at (803) 546-6010

John England, First Bishop of emancipation. In particular, England opposed the Charleston (1786-1842) British government’s attempt to veto bishops’ appointments in the British Isles. By Brian P. Fahey In 1820, Pope Pius VII appointed England the first John England, the Bishop of the Diocese of Charleston, encompassing first Catholic the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Bishop of Georgia. He was consecrated in St. Finbar Church, Charleston, South Cork, on September 21, and refused an obligatory Carolina, was oath of allegiance to the British government. He stated born in Cork, that his imminent departure for the United States Ireland, on made the oath unnecessary. September 23, 1786. He was the eldest son of Thomas England, a tobacco merchant, and Honora Lordan. From 1792 until 1800, during the early years of the relaxation of the penal laws against Irish Catholics, England received his education in Cork’s Protestant Upon arrival in Charleston on December 30, he was schools. After met with a string of challenges. The diocese had only initially preparing three priests to serve the Catholics spread across the for a legal career, vast territory of South Carolina, North Carolina and England chose to Georgia. study for the priesthood. In 1802 he attended St. Patrick’s College On May 27, 1829, Bishop England wrote, in Carlow, Ireland. He was ordained at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Cork, on October 11, 1808, at the age of “My Dear Sir:

twenty-two. His ordination at such a young age “When I was appointed Bishop of the diocese required a special dispensation. In Cork, he served in of Charleston, towards the close of the year 1820, I various parishes and headed the diocesan schools and found myself burdened with the spiritual care of seminary. He founded and edited a magazine, the three large States, together containing about a Religious Repertory, and he edited a patriotic secular million and a half of people, in fact about one- newspaper, the Cork Mercantile Chronicle, which seventh of the whole population of the United was a strong defender of Irish civil and political States. “The white people were mainly of English and rights. While editing the newspaper, England Irish extraction, with some Protestant and Huguenot associated with Irish political leader Daniel O’Connell families that had come hither from France at the and became prominent in the movement for Catholic time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Virginia and the Northern New England States had on account of the exhausting labors of their charge contributed many fortune-hunters. There were and the lack of the necessaries of life. I then procured Catholic refugees from the island of St. Domingo; three others, but had eventually to dismiss them. I also a few Frenchmen who had succeeded in have educated twenty subjects. Eight of them, who escaping the horrors of the French Revolution; lastly, received Holy Orders at my hands, are now on the a number of emigrants from Ireland and from the mission working zealously and accomplishing much State of Maryland. good. Four are still at the seminary; four others “In general the Catholics were poor and the died, a priest, a subdeacon and two not yet in objects of immense prejudice, and they had no minor orders. Two others who had become priests clergy. Many of the slaves, especially such as had and two students left the diocese. accompanied the French refugees, were Catholics, “Eighteen to twenty priests would be needed and nearly all were located at Charleston, Savannah to meet the present requirements of the diocese, as and Augusta. Several Indian tribes, also, were well as a professor of theology to take my place at found within the diocese; but they were sadly the seminary, leaving me free to attend my special neglected through lack of priests. duties.” “My jurisdiction extends from 30° 60' to 36° 50' North Lat., and from the Atlantic to 85° 20' west The Catholic community was disorganized and had of the Greenwich meridian. It covers the experienced years of dissension. St. Mary of the Chattahouchee River and over the Yellow Mountains Annunciation, the only church in the see city, had to 80°, making in all a territory of 133 thousand been under interdict for three years, and the parish square miles. “I found upon my arrival one small brick was on the verge of schism. England addressed these church in South Carolina; in Georgia, one log and problems with tact and energy, earning the nickname two frame edifices, in all four churches. In South “Steam Carolina there were probably two hundred Bishop.” communicants; in Georgia, one hundred and fifty; in North Carolina, twenty-five, a total of three Father J.J. hundred and seventy-five. O’Connell, a “In Georgia and South Carolina there were contemporary, only three priests. In coming over from Ireland I had described brought along, at my own expense, three more whom England as a I had ordained. Those who were already here did not long remain with me. Still I managed to obtain man “of three others, so that I was enabled to assign two to medium size, Georgia, three to South Carolina, and I personally regular and attended to the pastoral wants of North Carolina as manly soon as I had completed my visits to the chief features… religious centres of the other two States. strong-set jaw, and eyes blazing and flashing like “In 1821 I tried to establish a college, hoping thereby to make enough as a teacher to maintain a crushed diamonds… he walked down Broad Street few theological students; but the Protestant with the independence of a king.” ministers, discovering my purpose, induced those co-religionists of theirs who had entrusted their Bishop John England’s passion and drive led to children to me to withdraw them again. lasting accomplishments. He issued a pastoral letter, “Debts hung over all the churches; and yet the first by an American bishop. He traveled today I have my seminary, and, despite the repeatedly to all corners of his huge diocese, pecuniary difficulties that beset me, I have raised established new parishes, and recruited priests. He many young candidates for Holy Orders. The only founded a philosophical and classical school for boys help I received was a sum of five hundred dollars, as well as the Seminary of St. John the Baptist in forwarded to me by Pope Leo XII. “Death deprived me of two of my Irish Charleston. The seminary educated nearly fifty priests. The two whom they had replaced had left priests, four of whom later became bishops. He met with several bishops in the north, President James first regularly published American Catholic Monroe, and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams. newspaper, the United States Catholic Miscellany, in He founded the Brotherhood of San Marino, the first 1822, he incorporated the first amendment of the Catholic society for working men in the United States, American Constitution into its banner. and organized the Anti-Dueling Society of Charleston. He made the first English translation of the Roman Missal in the United States and published a Catechism of the Roman Catholic Faith for use in the diocese.

On January 8, 1826, a month prior to finalizing his American citizenship, England became the first Catholic priest to address the United States Congress. In 1829, he founded the Sisters of Charity of Our There, he asserted that Catholicism and the American Lady of Mercy "to educate females of the middling Constitution were compatible: “I would not allow to class of society; also to have a school for free colored the Pope or to any other bishop of our church, outside girls, and to give religious instruction to the Union, female slaves ; they will also devote themselves to the the smallest service of the sick," and later recruited other religious interference communities to the diocese. with the humblest England held modern views on education and free vote at our expression. His ideology was strongly influenced by most his experience of British persecution of Irish insignificant Catholics. He embraced American democracy and balloting envisioned a free church in a free society. He became box.” an outspoken advocate for freedom of religion and separation of church and state. When he founded the To reconcile traditional Catholicism with American England personally abhorred slavery but stated that democracy, England established a diocesan the church permitted the continued servitude of Constitution. Under these new regulations, parishes descendants of those originally enslaved. He hoped elected lay vestries to take care of the church’s American slavery would not continue, but he saw no financial and physical needs. Lay delegates and clergy quick end to it. He worked to improve the condition of met in annual conventions to deliberate and pass blacks, slave and free. In 1835, he established a resolutions for the bishop’s approval. This system was Charleston Academy for free black youth, but threats successful in promoting Catholic unity and support for of white mob violence forced its closure. the church. Affable and sophisticated, England was well received in South Carolina society. He was active in the Charleston Library Society and the Literary and Philosophical Society, serving as curator of the latter’s natural history museum. His health declined during 1841, and he died in Charleston on April 11, 1842. He is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Charleston.

For Bibliography, See the critical edition of The Works of the Right Reverend John England, First Bishop of Charleston, edited by Sebastian G. Messmer, Archbishop of Milwaukee (7 vols., 1908).

Guilday, Peter. The Life and Times of John England, First Bishop of Charleston, 1786-1842 (2 vols., 1927), the authoritative biography;

Grant, Dorothy. John England (1949).

Carey, Patrick. An Immigrant Bishop: John England's Adaptation of Irish Catholicism to American Republicanism. Yonkers, New York, 1982.

Clarke, Peter. A Free Church in a Free Society: The Ecclesiology of John England, Bishop of Charleston, 1820-1842: A Nineteenth-Centwy Bishop in the Southern United States. Hartsville, South Carolina, 1982. The Vatican acknowledged England’s skill of diplomacy and appointed him Apostolic Delegate O'Brien, Joseph L. John England, Bishop of from 1833 to 1837 to negotiate an agreement with the Charleston: Apostle to Democracy. New York, 1944. Haitian government of President Jean Pierre Boyer. In Rousseau, Richard W., S.J. "Bishop John England negotiations he attempted to secure internal freedom and American Church-State Theory." Ph.D. for the Catholic Church in Haiti. At the time, his dissertation, St. Paul University, 1969. negotiations failed. But in 1860, Haiti signed a Concordat with the Vatican that contained "The Greatness of John England." American substantially the same terms. Ecclesiastical Review 168 (1974) 196-206.

Black Catholics Heritage Celebration

Prayer, Dialogue and Celebrating the History of Black Catholics in the Diocese of Charleston

February 21- February 22, 2020

Diocese of Charleston invites all Catholics, especially all African Americans and people of Caribbean and African descent, to the Bicentennial Black Catholic Heritage Celebration February 21- February 22, 2020 at St. Martin de Porres Church, 2229 Hampton St, Columbia, SC. This two day event consists of activities that center on the rich history of Evangelization of Black Catholics in South Carolina and the history of Catholic Schools and Parishes in and for the Black community throughout the years. You will hear stories of Black Catholics attending prestigious boarding schools in the North and South, segregation and desegregation and the role the diocese played during the Civil Rights Movement.

Friday, February 21, 2020 6:30 pm—11:00 pm

Dialogue and Mardi Gras Affair A panel led discussion on Catholic schools in and for the Black community followed by a Mardi Gras party with New Orleans style food and dancing. Separate youth track will be facilitated by Dr. Alison McLetchie and Sr. Roberta Fulton, SSMN

Saturday, February 22, 2020 9:00 am—3:30 pm

9:00 am Registration; Program begins at 10:00 am; Franciscan Friar, Paul Williams, will serve as our Homilist and keynote speaker. Bishop Robert Guglielmone will celebrate the Mass at 11:00 am; Lunch, Dialogue and Speakers. Liturgical Dancers, Heritage Choir and youth track.

COST: $10.00 per day per person. Youth up to 18 years old Free. For more information or to register call the Office of Ethnic Ministries (864) 331-2627 or email [email protected]

Ash Wednesday To Lennie February 26, 2020 Brunnette for Mass 7:00 a.m. or 7:00 p.m.

working on the Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. Ash septic drain at Wednesday and Good Friday are obligatory days of fasting and abstinence for Catholics. In addition, the Bishop’s House and to Adger Fridays during Lent are obligatory days of abstinence. The norms on fasting are obligatory from age 18 until Brown and Greg McCarty for age 59. When fasting, a person is permitted to eat one full meal, as well as two smaller meals that together repairing some electrical issues in are not equal to a full meal. The norms concerning abstinence from meat are binding upon members of the Red Brick Building. the Church from age 14 onwards.

March 7, 2020 Cardinal Newman High School / 2945 Alpine Road / Columbia, SC

Do you want to: Men’s Issues • Grow in your Catholic Faith? • Deepen your relationship with Christ? • Be a better father, son, husband and Mike Aquilina man? • Be a spiritual leader in your family, church, work place, and community? This conference is for you! Catholic Evangelist, Author, Television Come and fill your spiritual toolbox with and Radio Host and National Speaker the information you need to build your faith and lead your family.

COST: $40 Pre-Registration Most Reverend

$50 at the door Robert E.

Discounts for: Knights of Columbus Guglielmone

● Knights of the Equestrian Order of the

Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem ● Knights

of Peter Claver ● Ancient Order of Hi-

bernians ● College/HS Students ●

Bishop of Charleston Early Registration

Includes light breakfast and

lunch

REGISTRATION: On-line at Fr. Sean Kilcawley www.sccatholicmensconf.org or mail check to: Jeffery M. Crouch | 6 Leacroft Drive

| Greenville, SC 29615

Registration at 7:30 a.m., Mass 8:30 a.m., Presentations 9:45 a.m., Conclude 4:00 p.m Hotel Accommodations: Courtyard / 111 Gate- National Speaker, Family Life Director way Corporate Blvd. / Columbia SC 29223 / 803- 736-3600 / Rate: $104.00 plus tax / By 2-21-2020 for Diocese of Lincoln The South Carolina Catholic Men’s Conference is sponsored by the South Carolina Knights of Columbus State Council in support of the Diocese of Charleston Office of Family Life Ministry Transfiguration Catholic Church - Blythewood S.C.

I'M NOT OK, YOU'RE NOT OK, BBUUTT IITT''SS OOKK!! An evening retreat with speaker, author & musician Chris Padgett

If they really knew me... how many times have we thought that? We put on a face that says we're OK, but in reality we're all a mess. We don't think life can get better so we learn to excel at being average. WHAT IF LIFE COULD BE LIVED DIFFERENTLY? No one is perfect, we're in good company, and there's a God who sees that we are not OK and wants to be with us anyway.

THIS YEAR TRANSFIGURATION CATHOLIC CHURCH IS EXCITED TO WELCOME CHRIS PADGETT AS HE CHALLENGES US TO LOOK AT LIFE DIFFERENTLY, GROW IN AUTHENTICITY AND HOLINESS! CHRIS COMBINES HIS LOVE FOR THE LORD WITH A PASSION FOR MUSIC AND KNACK FOR HUMOR! THIS IS NOT AN EVENT YOU'LL WANT TO MISS! PLEASE COME AND INVITE A FRIEND TOO!

LY AMI & F ENT! FREE EV NDLY FRIE

SAVE THE DATE: MARCH 19TH!

Pre-Retreat Graces: Adoration (5-6pm), Daily Mass (6pm) Retreat Begins: 6:30pm in the PLC with food & fellowship! m o c . t t

Chris's talk kicks off at 7pm in the church! e g d a

Whether you come for the entire evening, or just the talk, we hope you'll consider joining p s i us! For more info, please contact our parish office: (803)-735-0512 r h c Volume 2020, Issue 2 The Catholic Diocese of Charleston A20n20n Biushoap'sl Appeal

- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS -

What is the Bishop's Does my gift make a Annual Appeal? difference, even if it’s small? The Bishop's Annual Appeal (BAA), is a primary source Y es! Each of us must discern what we can give in of funding to help sustain and expand the ministries of response to God’s generosity to us. If our gift is the 94 parishes, 20 missions, 34 Catholic schools, and intentional, even though small, it is a gift of good multiple agencies throughout the Diocese of stewardship and an act of faith. Together, everyone in Charleston. the diocese makes a tremendous difference – accomplishing far more than any one of us could on our own. Your participation and the joy and love that Why should people you share by supporting your brothers and sisters in give to the Appeal? Christ is what’s most important. We are stewards of the gifts God blesses us with, and this includes our money. Yes, we might EARN it, but Can the funds raised by the Annual only because God has first given us our talents and Appeal be used for anything other gifts to utilize in the world. We are called to share than their stated purpose? what we have been given. Jesus said, “Amen, I say to No, donations to the BAA are restricted. The diocese you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers has designated these funds to be used only for the of mine, you did for me.” purpose in which the donations were intended. The diocese has an obligation to honor the wishes of the Why do we need these donors and use these funds for the purpose they were ministries and programs? collected. The Catholic Church offers outreach and serves the What’s the difference between needs of so many people in our diocese and beyond – the Bishop’s Annual Appeal and Catholic or not. We are called to serve others and to the Bicentennial Campaign? invite them into communion with Jesus Christ and His The Church’s mission is advanced in important ways Church by living out the Gospel. The ministries through both the Bishop’s Annual Appeal and the supported by the Appeal provide tangible ways to help Bicentennial Campaign. In some areas, the Appeal so many who are in need, offer education and supports the daily operation of critical ministries formation to build up strong disciples in the faith, throughout our diocese, while the Bicentennial education for our future priests, and so much more. Campaign funds more strategic, comprehensive, long- range, and larger scale initiatives to help the Church serve its people and prepare for doing the Lord’s work Want to learn more? in the future. Please contact the Office of Stewardship and Mission Advancement at (843) 261-0438 or [email protected] This Week in our Parish

Worship Activities

The Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Sunday, February 16

Sunday, February 16 9:00 a.m. Confirmation (Red Brick Building) 8:00 a.m. Mass Francis Musick+ by the Vinklers 12:00 p.m. High School Youth (RBB) 10:30 a.m. Mass Intentions of the Parish Tuesday, February 18 Monday, February 17 6:30 p.m. Columbiettes’ Officers Meeting (Blue Building) 5:00 p.m. Reconciliation

6:00 p.m. Daily Mass Healing for Nadine McDonald Tuesday, February 18 by Ladies Fellowship Group 6:30 p.m. Consoling the Heart of Jesus Study (Office) Thursday, February 20 6:30 p.m. Epic! Church History Study (Parish Life Center) 5:00 p.m. Eucharistic Adoration + 6:00 p.m. Daily Mass The Poor Souls in Purgatory Wednesday, February 19 by Joan Robison 9:00 a.m. Epic! Church History Study (Parish Life Center) Saturday, February 22—Chair of St. Peter the Apostle + 5:45 p.m. Disaster Preparation & Response Team (Blue Bldg) 9:00 a.m. Daily Mass The Poor Souls in Purgatory 6:10 p.m. Scriptural Rosary (Parish Life Center) by Joan Robison 6:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus Social (Office) 9:30 a.m. Eucharistic Adoration 3:00 p.m. Reconciliation Thursday, February 20 4:00 p.m. Vigil Mass Jan & Gene Lippert+ 7:00 p.m. Finance Council (Office)

7:00 p.m. Summit! Youth Bible Study (Red Brick Building) The Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Lev 19:1-18; Ps 103:1-13; 1 Cor 3:16-23; Friday, February 21 Mt 5:38-48 6:30 a.m. Men’s Prayer Meeting (Parish Life Center)

6:30 p.m. Choir Practice (Parish Life Center) Sunday, February 23 8:00 a.m. Mass Intentions of the Parish Sunday, February 23 10:30 a.m. Mass Wilson Hoyt+ by Jane Ward 9:00 a.m. Elementary Faith Formation (Blue & Tan Bldgs) 9:00 a.m. Middle School Youth (Red Brick Building) 5:00 p.m. Divine Liturgy by Holy Cross Eastern Catholic 9:00 a.m. Confirmation (RBB) Mission 12:00 p.m. High School Youth (RBB) 12:00 p.m. E(vangelization)-Team (Parish Life Center)

Lord, Hear Our Prayer... For the healing of…Melody Anderson, Richard Astrella, Jr., Jody Batson, Michelle Beck, Christopher Helms Botia, Jeri Boysia, Troy Bradshaw, Mary Branham, Murphy Branham, Alex Bringle, Melie Carlisle, Mary Causey, Kevin Causey, Joseph Christmann, Eveline Collins, Jim and Marian Craig, Barbara Cubanski, Mary Dean, Kathleen DePlacido, Michelle Dobson, Carol Dyar, Jennifer Embleton, Aida Fajardo, Janice Falk, Nick Furniss, Hope Galloway, Karen Gordon, Chuck Grone, Sherry Haggerty, David Hall, Laura Hall, Jason Harter, Jack Heron, Frank Horn, Meg Huggins, Teresa Jeanmougin, Lewis Jones, Angela M. Johnson, J. Anthony Johnson, Tom Kelley, Edward Kowalski, Katie Kulp, Michelle Laibly, Molly Laporte, Thomas Lee, Michaele Lemrow, Vince Luckie, Boyd Marivittori, Abram Martin, Kenny Martin, Ava Claire Mates, Gary McCloud, Diane McCoy, Brian McHugh, Patrick McLeod, Alivia Menges, Paul David Menges, George Mori, Shirley Mosley, The Murr Family, Eunice Robertson, Joan Robison, Linda Roush, Jenine Ryan, Brenda Schachner, Joseph Scott, Leigh Sharpe, Eula Shealy, Marc Sintoni, Doug & Uyong Skroback, Joann Smith, Winifred Smith, Mary Ann Straka, Deborah Thomas, Deronia Elizabeth Thompson, The Trujillo Family, Greyson Tubbs, Peggy Vincent, Kimberly Wagner, Franklin Watson, Nicole White, Lana Wheatcroft, and Maddie Winters.

For the safety of….Joshua Blizzard, Thomas Castles, Chad Cox, Brian Dodds, Matthew Schreiber, all missionaries, and military personnel serving in hazardous locations around the world, and their families.