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SAINT TITUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH 513 WEST MAIN STREET • TITUSVILLE, PA 16354 PHONE: 814.827.4636 • FAX: 814.827.3958 OFFICE HOURS: MON.-FRI. 8AM-12PM & 1PM-4PM [email protected] PARISH STAFF SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 Pastor..........................................Reverend Walter E. Packard TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY IN Deacon Assistant………………………..Deacon Kevin Harmon ORDINARY TIME Administrative Secretary.......................................Sarah Oviatt Religious Education Coordinator......................Kathleen Puleo Music Ministers.......Anthony ‘T.J.’ Parks, Margaret Bernecky MASS SCHEDULE Maintenance............................................................Greg Tress Tuesday: 6:30 PM Wednesday: 7:30 AM St. Catharine’s Cemetery......................................Bob Beauchat Thursday: 7:30 AM Friday: 7:30 AM SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Saturday Vigil: 4:30 PM By appointment only. Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM* SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION *Children’s Liturgy of the Word is offered Saturday from 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM or by arrangement. from September - May at this Mass. BEREAVEMENT SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING CARE AND CONCERN Please let us know when a family member or friend is ill, either at home, in the hospital, or at the nursing home. Call Karen Edwards at 827-2658. PARISH MEMBERSHIP SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE New parishioners are always welcome! Arrangements should be made six months prior to the ceremony. Census forms are available at the Parish Office. Please contact our RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS Administrative Secretary (ext. 2) in the event of an address or phone (R.C.I.A.) number change. If you are interested in R.C.I.A, please contact our pastor. PRAYER CHAIN FAITH FORMATION To add a prayer concern to our list, Religious instruction classes for youth take place at the Faith contact Teasy Wilson at 827-7000, Formation Center on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 PM to Nancy Madden at 827-9774 (day) or 7:45 PM. Contact the Rel. Ed. Coordinator (ext. 4) to register. 814-493-3841 (evening), Rita Homer at 827-1541, or Darlene Aul at 827-7343. BULLETIN DEADLINE Submissions for the bulletin must be dropped off at the Parish Office or sent via e-mail no later than 10:00 AM on Tuesday. TWENTY THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 SOME THOUGHTS FROM FATHER PACKARD… serve faithfully. And we need to pray that our own faith be It’s been almost a week and a half since students and teachers have strengthened. returned to the classrooms for a new academic year. It’s interesting that today’s Gospel is all about being a disciple. Consider the words that we ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15TH, THE DOORS OF ST. TITUS know in our everyday English language that have the word disciple as CHURCH WILL OPEN AT 7:00AM AND REMAIN OPEN UNTIL 7PM their root. We know the word “Discipline” which has many different FOR PRAYER AS WELL AS OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED connotations for us. The Latin root disciplina means “teaching or SUNDAY MASSES. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 10AM instruction.” So let’s look at today’s Gospel more closely. SUNDAY MASS, THERE WILL BE EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT LASTING THROUGHOUT THE DAY FOR PRIVATE Jesus called Simon Peter after filling his net on an otherwise fruitless PRAYER. AT 7PM, THE DAY OF PRAYER WILL CLOSE WITH evening of fishing. Having witnessed this miracle, Peter and his partners BENEDICTION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. ALL ARE immediately left their families and jobs to follow Jesus. But in today’s ENCOURAGED TO TAKE TIME THIS DAY TO COME TO OUR passage, Jesus encourages would-be disciples to follow the examples of CHURCH TO PRAY FOR SURVIVOR/VICTIMS, FOR THE CHURCH, a tower builder and an army leader, each of whom deliberates at length FOR PRIESTS! before reaching a practical conclusion. We may be bowled over by a miracle, but it is more likely we will follow based on practical CATHOLIC EDUCATION COLLECTION considerations. Jesus asks us to consider the practical question: “Is it Next weekend is the 2019 CATHOLIC EDUCATION COLLECTION. more important to accumulate possessions or to follow the One who This important collection supports lifelong faith formation for all opened the way to eternal life?” generations throughout our diocese. Please give generously and know that half of what you give will remain here at St. Titus parish to support Interestingly, each statement Jesus makes about discipleship he phrases our own religious education and faith formation programs. Because of negatively, ending with “…cannot be my disciple.” Jesus is aware that you, our children and their families are led to greater faith. THANK YOU the demands of discipleship are not likely to be accepted. Jesus is for your support! challenging us to do what seems impossible, spurning one’s family, one’s possessions, one’s comfort, even one’s own life. JOURNEY OF FAITH – THE R.C.I.A. Are you or someone you know considering becoming a member of the Question of the Week Catholic faith? The RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) will How do I need to transform myself to be a true disciple? Who is part of begin here at St. Titus. This is for non-baptized persons, baptized my family? Christians of another faith tradition, and catholics who have never received the Sacrament of Confirmation. You are invited to join us for We pray, “In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.” In every this journey. It will begin soon and will continue through fall, Advent, age you speak to us, including this age. Help us to listen actively Lent, and culminate at Easter. An invitation from YOU could make all the for your voice in every way that you make it known. Once we hear difference in the world to someone! Please contact Father Packard for your voice, give us the courage to live what we hear and make you more information or if you have any questions. known today as clearly as your Son Jesus did in his time and place. Amen! ALTAR ROSARY SOCIETY TO MEET Our parish’s Altar/Rosary Society is scheduled to meet and resume DAY OF PRAYER THOUGHOUT DIOCESE OF ERIE their meetings this coming Tuesday, September 10th, at 7:30PM, at It was a little over a year ago that our Bishop Lawrence Persico offered Margaret Fiely’s home. New members are always welcome! A his first response to the release of the Pennsylvania Statewide Grand suggestion to our present members: Why not invite someone to attend Jury Report. The statement he made was offered directly to survivor/ with you to a meeting? Present members are encouraged to be part of victims – those who had waited so long for the unthinkable experiences this Tuesday’s meeting! they had endured to be brought to light. It was devastating for all of us to see the ugly details of what had happened within the Church. The pain FAITH FORMATION was deep and anger and grief was understandable. Wednesday, September 11th – FAMILY COOKOUT! All parents/ guardians and Youth are asked to come to this Family Cookout to start Some could be tempted to want to close this chapter of our history and this year’s faith Formation Program. We will have hotdogs, mac and move on, but that would be a disservice not only to survivor/victims, but cheese, pasta salad and dessert. After our picnic supper all parents and also to the many who fill our pews every Sunday. As with any event that Youth will visit their classrooms and meet their Catechists for this year. has had a broad impact on so many people, it must be remembered, in Please make every effort to be present! part, to ensure that the changes we make in the Church an in our world are deep and lasting. STAINED GLASS WINDOWS Half of the protective glass for the Church windows was delivered this For this reason, Bishop Persico is calling for a day of prayer in the past Wednesday, with the rest of the glass coming soon. The workers Diocese of Erie on the memorial of Our Mother of Sorrows, Sunday, from the Fiske Company will be here working on the windows until the September 15th. The doors of all our Churches are to be opened this project is completed. Hooray!! Watch and see how this project comes day from 7AM to 7PM. The Bishop is inviting all people of the Diocese to completion. The windows look stunning with the new glass coverings! of Erie to visit a Catholic Church and spend time in prayer in whatever way the Holy Spirit moves them. We need to pray for survivor/victims. Have a good week! We need to pray for the healing and purification of the Church. We need to pray for the many good and holy priests who continue to Father Packard SAINT TITUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TITUSVILLE, PA WEEKLY LITURGY SCHEDULE Mon. Sept. 9 St. Peter Claver, Priest OFFERTORY REPORT 8/31 & 9/1 7:30 AM Communion Service Envelopes $5090.00 Tues. Sept. 10 Weekday Loose Collection $ 386.00 6:30 PM Florence Gray Candles $ 17.00 Wed. Sept. 11 Weekday Church in Latin America $ 40.00 7:30 AM Selma Schoppert Assumption $ 10.00 Thur. Sept. 12 Weekday 7:30 AM Louis W. Dowling (Peter & Diane Dowling Burke) Religious Education $ 72.00 Fri. Sept. 13 St. John Chrystostom, Bishop and Doctor of the Church Total $ 5615.00 7:30 AM Walter & Regina Andres (Chris Andres) Sat. Sept. 14 The Exaltation of the Cross READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 8, 2019 4:30 PM The McNamara Family (Family) Sunday: Wis 9:13-18b/Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14-17 [1]/Phlm 9-10, 12-17/Lk Sun.