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Father Paul Grankauskas John Sengewalt Stacy Sefton Jenny Sunday Mass Schedule Parish Office Bulletin Saturday 5:30 p.m. Vigil Mass Monday - Friday The bulletin deadline is Sunday 9:00 a.m. & 12:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. Friday one week 540-277-2943 before publication. Weekday Mass Schedule [email protected] Monday & Tuesday 12:00 p.m. Stbridgetberryville.org Religious Education Wednesday 9:00 a.m. 540-277-2948 Thursday & Friday 12:00 p.m. Baptism [email protected] Saturday 9:00 a.m. Contact parish office for Religious Education classes are information. held from the Sunday following Holy Days Labor Day until the first 12:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m. Marriage Sunday in May. Classes are Contact parish priest at least Sundays from 10:15 a.m. to Confessions six (6) months prior to 11:30 a.m. Mondays 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. proposed date of the wedding. Saturdays 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Knights of Columbus Rosary Council 16938 First Friday The Rosary is prayed after the Michael Murrow, Grand Knight Adoration following 12:00 p.m. Mass on First Friday [email protected] 12:00 p.m. Mass each month. For more information please Rosary & visit KofCberryville.org. Divine Mercy Chaplet Hospitalized & Homebound Contact the parish office so that Men’s Club Eucharistic Adoration hospitalized and homebound George Darnell Mondays during Confessions parishioners may receive [email protected] from 7:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. pastoral care. Meetings are the first Saturday of each month at 10:00 a.m. in Father Paul Grankauskas FISH of Clarke County Hobert Hall. Breakfast is served Pastor Food donations may be left following 9:00 a.m. Mass. in the narthex on the second John Sengewalt Sunday each month. Women’s Group Religious Education Ruth Hayes E-Giving [email protected] Stacy Sefton Our e-giving partner is Faith Meetings are the first Tuesday Music Program Direct. Our church code each month following VA605. 12:00 p.m. Mass. Jenny Sorenson Organist Veritas Young Adults Group Laurel Morris JoAn Drake [email protected] EMHC & Lectors For adults in their 20s and 30s. Join us for faith, service and Becky Jackson fellowship! Prayer List, Sacristan September 27, 2020 vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also for those of others. Have in you the same attitude that is also in Christ Entrance Antiphon Jesus, Who, though he was in the form of God, did All that you have done to us, O Lord, you have done not regard equality with God something to be with true judgment, for we have sinned against you grasped. Rather, he emptied himself, taking the form and not obeyed your commandments. But give glory of a slave, coming in human likeness; and found to your name and deal with us according to the human in appearance, he humbled himself, becoming bounty of your mercy. obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. Because of this, God greatly exalted him and First Reading Ezekiel 18:25-28 bestowed on him the name which is above every Thus says the LORD: You say, "The LORD's way is not name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should fair!" Hear now, house of Israel: Is it my way that is bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the unfair, or rather, are not your ways unfair? When earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is someone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit Lord, to the glory of God the Father. iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he Thanks be to God. committed that he must die. But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, he does what is right and Gospel Acclamation just, he shall preserve his life; since he has turned away My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely them, and they follow me. live, he shall not die. Gospel Matthew 21:28-32 Thanks be to God. Jesus said to the chief priests and elders of the Responsorial Psalm Psalm 25 people: "What is your opinion? A man had two sons. Remember your mercies, O Lord. He came to the first and said, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' He said in reply, 'I will not, ' Your ways, O LORD, make known to me; but afterwards changed his mind and went. The man teach me your paths, came to the other son and gave the same order. He guide me in your truth and teach me, said in reply, 'Yes, sir,’ but did not go. Which of the for you are God my savior. R. two did his father's will?" They answered, "The Remember that your compassion, O LORD, first." Jesus said to them, "Amen, I say to you, tax and your love are from of old. collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom The sins of my youth and my frailties remember not; of God before you. When John came to you in the in your kindness remember me, way of righteousness, you did not believe him; but because of your goodness, O LORD. R. tax collectors and prostitutes did. Yet even when you Good and upright is the LORD; saw that, you did not later change your minds and thus he shows sinners the way. believe him." He guides the humble to justice, Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ. and teaches the humble his way. R. Communion Antiphon Second Reading Philippians 2:1-11 Remember your word to your servant, O Lord, by Brothers and sisters: which you have given me hope. This is my comfort If there is any encouragement in Christ, any solace in when I am brought low. love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of St. Bridget of Ireland Parish • Berryville, VA Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Please remember the following people in your prayers: † For the repose of the soul Fr. Michael Dobbins Dianne Seaver Jim Willis Jim Lewandowski Daily Readings Mass Intentions Matthew Lewis Connie Guevremont Jack Cameron Victoria White Job 1:6-22 Monday, September 28 John Caroselli Patricia Cobb Psalm 17 Saint Wenceslaus Fred Curtis Dan Purtill Luke 9:46-50 Saint Lawrence Ruiz and Companions Tony Tringale Gayle Keenan 12:00 p.m. David Smith Dick Drake Rachel Piescik Mary Leps Carol Ann Chaffin Daniel 7:9-10, 13-14 Tuesday, September 29 Psalm 138 Saints Michael, Gabriel John 1:47-51 and Raphael 12:00 p.m. Logan Morris Job 9:1-12, 14-16 Wednesday, September 30 Psalm 88 Saint Jerome In Tongues All Can Hear | Luke 9:57-62 9:00 a.m. Communicating the Hope of Holy Souls in Purgatory Christ in Times of Trial, a Pastoral letter of Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Job 19:21-27 Thursday, October 1 Arlington can be read at Psalm 27 Saint Thérèse of arlingtondiocese.org. Luke 10:1-12 the Child Jesus 12:00 p.m. † Ada Kalbian Exodus 23:20-23 Friday, October 2 Coat and Shoe/Boot Psalm 91 The Holy Guardian Angels Drive. The Knights of Matthew 18:1-5, 10 12:00 p.m. Columbus is again Nick Young sponsoring a coat drive to help keep our neighbors warm in the winter. The Winchester Rescue Mission Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17 Saturday, October 3 sponsors two shelters, one for men and one for Psalm 119 Luke 10:17-24 9:00 a.m. woman, and will be the recipients of this year’s drive. † Mr. Todd They are in GREAT need of men’s and women’s 5:30 p.m. coats, and tennis shoes or boots. They do not need Parish Family blankets this year. The Winchester Rescue Mission does not need child sizes, but if you have some gently used children’s coats or footwear, we promise also to Isaiah 5:1-7 Sunday, October 4 find them a good home. Boxes will be set out in the Psalm 80 Twenty-Seventh Sunday in narthex from September 26 through October 11. Since Philippians 4:6-9 Ordinary Time some people are not getting out to go shopping, cash Matthew 21:33-43 9:00 a.m. or check donations can be sent to the parish office, and † Mr. Iglesias we will go shopping for you. Please send any 12:00 p.m. questions to [email protected]. † Richard Kobetz For more parish information • www.stbridgetberryville.org September 27, 2020 Special Collection October 11 to benefit The Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary In response to the Missionary Cooperative Plan of the Diocese of Arlington of The Society of the Propagation of the Faith, this year’s Mission Appeal will go to serve the needs of the South American mission schools and activities conducted by the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In addition to the private schools in Peru, the “IHM” Community operates several schools in Peru to serve the poorest of the poor. It is wonderful that the proceeds from the Mission Appeal at St. Bridget of Ireland Parish will help this Community which is so established in our own Diocese to continue to help the very poor whom they serve in their South American Missions.
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