TITUS ROMAN

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PARISH STAFF MAY 23, 2021 Pastor...... Reverend Walter E. Packard Deacon Assistant………………………..Deacon Kevin Harmon SUNDAY Administrative Secretary...... Sarah Oviatt Religious Education Coordinator...... Kathleen Puleo Music Ministers...... Anthony ‘T.J.’ Parks, Margaret Bernecky Maintenance...... Greg Tress MASS SCHEDULE St. Catharine’s Cemetery...... Bob Beauchat Tuesday: 6:30 PM Wednesday: 7:30 AM SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Thursday: 7:30 AM By appointment only. Friday: 7:30 AM

Saturday Vigil: 4:30 PM Sunday: 8:00 AM, 10:00 AM* SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday from 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM or by arrangement. *Children’s Liturgy of the Word is offered from September - May at this Mass. SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING BEREAVEMENT Please let us know when a family member or friend is ill, either at home, in the hospital, or at the nursing home. CARE AND CONCERN Call Karen Edwards at 827-2658. ACRAMENT OF ARRIAGE S M PARISH MEMBERSHIP Arrangements should be made six months prior to the ceremony.

New parishioners are always welcome! Census forms are available at the RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS Parish Office. Please contact our (R.C.I.A.) Administrative Secretary (ext. 2) in If you are interested in R.C.I.A, please contact our pastor. the event of an address or phone number change. FAITH FORMATION PRAYER CHAIN Religious instruction classes for youth take place at the Faith To add a prayer concern to our list, Formation Center on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 PM to contact Nancy Madden at 827-9774 7:45 PM. Contact the Rel. Ed. Coordinator (ext. 4) to register. (day) or 814-493-3841 (evening), Rita Homer at 827-1541, or Darlene BULLETIN DEADLINE Aul at 827-7343. 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. PENTECOST SUNDAY MAY 23, 2021

SOME THOUGHTS FROM FATHER PACKARD… A big THANK YOU to Kathy Licht and Warner’s Bakery for donating She whispered under her breath, “Lord, have mercy.” The others in delicious and beautifully decorated cookies for our Confirmation the room echoed, “Lord, have mercy.” It was not a church but a candidates. They were sugar cookies embellished with sparkling hospital room. music was playing softly on the player on the “doves.” It was a nice touch! Kathy also did the same for our young windowsill. She smiled, “Lord, have mercy God almighty, I am people who celebrated First Reconciliation last month. These coming home!” Words of faith – the Spirit of God overflowed within cookies were a “sweet surprise” for these special sacramental days! her and her joy erupted into words. By now everyone in our parish has received tickets for our special Let The feast of Pentecost is the day to celebrate the gift of speech! the Fun Begin raffle. If you did not receive them, please contact the Some of us speak for a living. Preachers preach often in the Easter Parish Office. The mailing accounted for about 1000 tickets put out season. Teachers talk the whole school year through. Sometimes to sell. We still have about 1000 more to sell. So we are hoping that we may wonder, where does the power come from to speak you will not only sell your tickets received, but come back for a few effectively? And so words make any difference in this world that is more to distribute! Extra tickets are available at the Parish Office and already so full of words? will also be available after Masses before the beginning of the raffle. Hopefully the tickets should be easy to sell because the prizes are so The experience of the Spirit in the second chapter of the Acts of the good! These tickets are numbered and accounted for so if you Apostles came to seemingly dried-up and disheartened disciples. absolutely can’t sell or buy the tickets, please return them as soon as The Spirit rushed upon them like a mighty wind! Out of their possible. We are really excited for the drawings to begin!! The raffle emptiness, the book of Acts tells us, three thousand people were benefits our Faith Formation Program. Since Santa’s Workshop had converted and the church was born. What if Peter had not spoken? to be cancelled last year and this year because of the pandemic, we What if he remained silent? The Spirit so filled him that he had to hope to try and offer financial support to the important program of speak. He had to speak. His joy bubbled up into words, telling the Faith Formation at St. Titus! This is our ONLY major fundraiser! glorious story of ’ resurrection. Human speech matters more Please help us make it successful! than we can ever imagine. Don’t forget the special Mass on Memorial Day, Monday, May Our words matter, too. On this holy day of empowering, do we 31st, at 9:00AM, at St. Catharine’s Cemetery. Hopefully the hunger for those we love to meet the living God? If so. what words weather will cooperate and allow us to have this annual outdoor Mass do we speak? We have to discern our words carefully. But joy in honor of our deceased women and men who served our country in bubbling into words of faith, even when they are hesitant, can have our Armed Forces, as well as all those persons who are buried in the an effect. For if those we love have not heard, how are they going to sacred ground of our cemetery. There will also be a special blessing believe? Come, Holy Spirit, fill the words of your faithful! of our cemetery that day as I sprinkle the entire cemetery with Holy Water. Bring a lawn chair for seating. This year will have a sound Many thanks to everyone who responded to my invitation to honor system so we all can hear well and participate at Mass. In the event the Holy Spirit of God by wearing something RED today for our of rain, Mass will be in St. Titus Church. celebration of Pentecost! I thought to myself, “If I’m asking everyone to wear red today, then I better do the same!” I started looking for All married couples of our parish who are celebrating 25, 50, 60 or some item of clothing that was RED and I was stumped! Then a light more years of Marriage are invited to our 2021 Diocesan bulb went off and I remembered: I have a RED polo shirt! So under Anniversary Celebrations for couples celebrating these milestone my voluminous vestments I have on a RED POLO SHIRT! Thanks to anniversaries. They will be celebrated at two locations in the everyone who also scoured your closets for something RED today! Diocese: August 1st at Church in Clarion, and August 8th at St. Jude Church in Erie. Both of these One more time….we have a beautiful stained glass window depicting celebrations will be at 2:00PM, and Mass will be celebrated by the apostles and Mary hiding in the Upper Room waiting for the Holy Lawrence Persico. Special Wedding Anniversary Scrolls will Spirit of God to come and empower them with courage to proclaim be presented to the honored couples. If you are interested in the resurrected Jesus. It’s one of the round windows – over the attending, please contact the Parish Office to register. Sarah will take tabernacle. Look for it. It is so BEAUTIFUL! the necessary information from you so that a special scroll can be prepared. Couples’ families are also invited to attend and a light A little re-cap from last Friday’s celebration of Confirmation (Friday, reception will follow at each of the locations. Plan now and mark your May 14th): Bishop Persico seldom makes comments about the calendars! liturgy, but as he and I were walking back to the Rectory after the pictures were finished being taken, he couldn’t stop talking about our Thanks to everyone for your continued support of the needs of our St. music for our celebration! He was very complimentary about how Titus Church and parish. Thank you, too, for your gift of continued lively and engaging our liturgical music was! And it was wonderful! presence at our weekly worship. I am so grateful for your response! And so I want to thank T.J. for making the selections and arranging May we continue to keep each other in prayer! the music for Confirmation as well as Patrick Vetter’s clarinet accompaniment. Many thanks to Marissa and Mariel Haney’s Have a good week! beautiful voices that led us in song that evening! We are blessed with wonderful liturgical music at St. Titus parish! Father Packard SAINT TITUS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH TITUSVILLE, PA WEEKLY LITURGY SCHEDULE Tues. May 25 Weekday OFFERTORY REPORT 5/15 & 5/16 6:30 PM Thomas Parres, Jr. (Parres Family) Envelopes $ 2588.00 Wed. May 26 Weekday Loose $ 213.75 7:30 AM Walter & Betty Metzgar (Karen Metzgar) Candles $ 34.00 Thurs. May 27 Weekday Ascension $ 60.00 7:30 AM Marsha Feldbauer (Larry & Pennie Fledderman) Good Shepherd $ 10.00 Fri. May 28 Weekday 7:30 AM Kathy Kerr (Jane Lamberton) International Needs $ 377.00 Sat. May 29 Weekday Religious Education $ 15.00 4:30 PM Brian Oviatt (Family) Total $ 3297.75 Sun. May 30 The Most Holy Trinity 8:00 AM The Parishioners of St. Titus Church READINGS FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 23, 2021 10:00 AM Philip & Rose Nosko (Their Children) Sunday: Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b or Ez 37:1-14 Extended Vigil: Gn 11:1-9/Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15/Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b/ PRAYER LIST Dn 3:52, 52, 53, 55, 56 or Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11/Ez 37:1-14/Ps 107:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9/Jl 3:1-5/Ps 104:1-2, 24, 35, 27-28, 29, 30 [cf. 30]/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39 For our Families and Friends: Pauline Milberger, Connie Miller, Baird Crapa, Day: :1-11/Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34 [cf. 30]/1 Cor 12:3b-7, 12-13 Carreena Ewing, Teddy Muir, Nita Ashley, Brittany Johnson, Janet Monday: Gn 3:9-15, 20 or :12-14/Ps 87:1-2, 3 and 5, 6-7/Jn 19:25-34 Anderson, Callie, Connie Phillips, Peggy , Brother Timothy Waid, Pop Tuesday: Sir 35:1-12/Ps 50:5-6, 7-8, 14 and 23 [23b]/Mk 10:28-31 DeMello, Elizabeth Barber, Charles Perkins, Paul Pennell, John Nikonchik, Wednesday: Sir 36:1, 4-5a, 10-17/Ps 79:8, 9, 11, 13 [Sir 36:1b]/Mk 10:32-45 Rachel Knupp, Jean Spence, Gina Green, Todd Campbell, Ruth Goodwill, Thursday: Sir 42:15-25/Ps 33:2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [6a]/Mk 10:46-52 Clint, Clifford J. Kirvan, Jessica & Family, Rita Homer, Ricky Reed, Katelyn Friday: Sir 44:1, 9-13/Ps 149:1b-2, 3-4, 5-6a and 9b [cf. 4a]/Mk 11:11-26 Dougherty, Ed Schneider, Robin Amore, Colleen Hofmeister, Lori Crawford, Saturday: Sir 51:12cd-20/Ps 19:8, 9, 19, 11 [9ab]/Mk 11:27-33 Mary Haas, Donna Noel, Thelma Sabella, Pam Pasi, Mary Anne Kopper, Next Sunday: Dt 4:32-34, 39-40/Ps 33:4-5, 6, 9, 18-19, 20, 22 [12b]/Rom 8:14 Frank & Cindy Ruppert, Maxine Gollehon, Joe Galletta, Joe Cicatella, Justin -17/Mt 28:16-20 Colie, Tom Boyle, Ted Kubiak, Clifford Johnson, Bill See, Mary Perkins, Drake Fellows, Frank Tomaino, Charlotte Randall, Kyle Lukowich, Sherry Lynn Beach, Zach Thompson, Kathy Obert, Steven Gratkowski, Teresa F., MAY HE REST IN PEACE—The sympathy of the parish is extended Anna Bauer, Alex Kunz, Mike Wakefield, Jim Kocan, Linda Marsh, Sharon to the Family of George P. Farley, brother to Harold Dennis Farley. Wirkowski, Brud & Nancy Giffin, Ed Vroman, Lilly Bailey, Pat Maginnis, Tom May his soul and all the souls of the faithful departed through the & Loretto Parres, Bill Amore, Beth Davidson, Valerie Boyle, Margaret Collins, mercy of God rest in peace, and may He bless those who mourn Bill Hensler, Bill Stumpf, Barb English, Jim Murphy, Barb Gratkowski, Patrick him. J. Hynes, Jr. MARRIAGE MOMENTS—On Pentecost scripture asks, “How Please call the Parish Office to add or remove anyone from the does each of us hear them in our own native language?” (Acts prayer list. 2:8) In marriage we sometimes have to stretch to really under- stand what our beloved means by their words. Is your “native” For our Servicemen and Servicewomen: Brock Benedict, language emotional words, acts of kindness, physical touch…? James Moyer, Derek Baldwin, Andrew Baldwin, Casey Bargar, Listen, watch, and feel carefully as you communicate today. Destiny Nicol, Christopher Macko, Robert Macko, Mathew Longiotti, Luke English, Cory Bemis, Kayla Barrett, Dr. K of C Into The Breach Video Series—As a Catholic man, do Joseph Shevchik, Travis Pearsall, Caden Mallory, Anna you want to deepen your spirituality and formation to combat Bauer, Alex Kunz, Andy Ferguson, Avallone, Matthew the crisis of religious faith in our world? Into the Breach outlines English the challenges faced by men of faith in the world today. Into the Breach is a call to battle for Catholic men which urges them to Lord, hold our troops in Your loving hands. Protect them as they wholeheartedly embrace masculine virtues in a world at cri- protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they sis. If you are interested, please join the Knights of Columbus perform for us in our time of need. Amen in the downstairs meeting room of St Titus Church at 7:00 pm this Sunday for the first session of the video series and discus- PRAY FOR PRIESTS: Rev. John G. Chaplin, Rev. John M. sion. This will be a six week program. If you cannot make it in Fischer, Rev. John L. Miller, Rev. Msgr. Andrew H. Karg, Rev. person and would like to join the virtual meeting you can contact Whiteford, Rev. Msgr. Robert J. Smith Dave Ditty (814) 493-1925 and he will send you the link.

FAMILY PERSPECTIVE—Today, on Pentecost, we remember K of C PRO-LIFE CAMPAIGN—We are launching a Pro-Life Baby has given us the Holy Spirit to assist us in raising our family Bottle Campaign from May 9 - June 20. Donations of spare change and he expects us to use this personal gift. Let’s set aside the will be sent to the Titusville Pregnancy Support Center to assist distractions in our lives and let the Holy Spirit “guide us to the women and children in need. Pick up your bottle in the pews of the truth.” church and when they are full, return them and place in the gather- ing space of the church. Your generosity is greatly appreciated!

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