Twenty Ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time s1

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME NOVEMBER 15, 2015

ST. ANN’S REMEMBERS THE FOLLOWING FOR ALL SOUL’S DAY WHO PASSED AWAY DURING THE LAST TWELVE MONTHS: Helen Collins Stella Redmerski Louise Murphy Charles Colombo, Sr. Elizabeth Smith Eleanor Frarer John Maloney Francesco Bonmartini

Rita Mulrooney Joan Murphy Emory Champney John Trzuskowski Anne Abbiss Thomas Wolhar, Jr. Rosemary Heron Russell McBride Earl Crowley Thomas E. Miller James Goebel Helen Setting Francis Meredith Rosaline Oliver Susan Poillon

St. Ann’s 2015/16 1st Quarter Year- To- Date Operating Financial Report Variance 7/1/16- Year to 9/30/2015 Prior Year Budget Year Church/Rectory Income 140,887 158,577 158,262 (17,690) Expenses 143,296 120,076 138,187 23,220 Net $ (2,409) $ 38,501 $ 20,075 $ (40,910)

School Income 635,679 572,483 494,530 63,196 Expenses 381,593 383,591 434,651 (1,998) Net $ 254,086 $ 188,892 $ 59,879 $ 65,194

Religious Education Income 13,245 12,654 13,100 591 Expenses 30,222 27,047 30,905 3,175 Net $ (16,977) $ (14,393) $ (17,805) $ (2,584)

Total Net Income $ 234,700 $ 213,000 $ 62,149 $ 21,700

Church income includes collections deposited of $135,567 which is $9,667 less than the same period last year. If you are a new parishioner and would like to receive envelopes or you are a current parishioner who has not been receiving your envelopes, please call the rectory at 654-5519. Thank you to everyone for your continued generosity.

Thanksgiving Food Drive - St. Ann’s Knights of Columbus and Parish Outreach will be accepting your donations of canned goods and non-perishable food Saturday, November 21; Sunday, November 22; and Thanksgiving Day, November 26 at all Masses. Food will be donated to St. Paul’s Food Closet who serve the needy twelve months a year. The winter months are especially demanding. Please remember those less fortunate as you give thanks for blessings received this year. Thank you.

MARK THE DATE!!! St. Ann’s Christmas Concert – You are cordially invited to the 2015 St. Ann’s Christmas Concert on Sunday December 13th at 2pm. The concert will feature the St. Ann’s Adult Choir, St. Ann’s Children’s choir, a classical guitarist, and more. There will be a reception to follow in the school Social Hall. This is a free concert – please come out to St. Ann’s and get in the Christmas spirit. 302ann1 BVM Sodality Mass – November 15, 2015 at the 11:30am Mass. Meeting and Rosary at 1pm at the Saturday November 14 home of Prefect, Rosemarie Kleman. For info, call 8:00 A.M. Iris Prince 658-3816. 5:00 P.M. Deceased members of the John D. Kelly & Albert S. Azar families Sunday November 15 SAVE THE DATE FOR BREAKFAST WITH 7:30 A.M. All Souls SANTA – December 5th from 9am-11am in the St. 9:30 A.M. Deceased members of the Msgr. Ann’s School Social Hall. This event is open to Dewson Council 13821 Knights of Columbus school and prep families. Limited tickets available. 11:30 A.M. Parishioners For more info, contact the Rectory at 654-5519. Monday November 16 6:30 A.M. Deceased members of the Keyser St. Ann’s Children’s Choir – 2015 6abc Dunkin family Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade 8:00 A.M. All Souls We are proud to announce that our St. Ann’s Tuesday November 17 Children’s Choir has been invited to sing in the 6:30 A.M. James Kane, Sr. family parade. Twenty three of our students will be 8:00 A.M. Intentions of the Coons family performing on the VIP stage located on the steps Wednesday November 18 of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Here’s a little 6:30 A.M. Catherine Winner peek at their Performance Schedule: 8:00 A.M. All Souls 10am – participating in the Dionne Warwick Thursday November 19 World Record Sing Along 10:53am – featured in a song medley from “The 6:30 A.M. All Souls Wiz” as backup singers and dangers to 8:00 A.M. Deceased members of the Sisaundra Lewis (last season’s finalist on Blake Harris/Montague families Sheldon’s team on “The Voice” Friday November 20 11:46am - performing in the Grand Finale. 6:30 A.M. Jane Kamenc We are so proud of their commitment and talent! 8:00 A.M. All Souls They have been working so hard to make sure all 10:00 A.M. All Souls - Kentmere of the choreography and music that was sent Saturday November 21 from the producers at 6abc is “performance 8:00 A.M. Intentions of Paul Prince ready”. Tune in Thanksgiving Day and watch 5:00 P.M. Judge Allan N. Cooper their magic unfold! Sunday November 22 7:30 A.M. Parishioners Christmas Giving Tree - will be set up Saturday 9:30 A.M. Joseph Conaty November 28th in the church sanctuary. Tags on 11:30 A.M. Timothy Ryan the tree represent gift request for families visited by Pray for the sick, shut-ins and elderly of our our St. Vincent de Paul Society throughout 2015. If Parish. you take a tag, please return the wrapped gift no later than Sunday December 13th. In order to WE CONGRATULATE…OWEN RICHARD, son of ensure safe delivery of the gifts, please make sure Kevin & Lisa McClafferty who was welcomed into you: the Christian community through Baptism - Attach the tag to the outside of the gift - Leave the gifts either under tree or The Chapel of Divine Mercy is open 6am to inside the rectory. 10pm, 7 days a week with the Blessed Sacrament Thank you for your generosity. For more info, exposed. Can you offer an hour of your time? Visit contact Katie O’Connor at [email protected]. www.adorationchapel.org to sign up. You can also call Chris at 668-1819 or Nan at 656-8438. ATTENTION LECTORS – The 2016 workbooks ST. ANN’S PRAYER LINE – to place a name or are in and can be picked up in the sacristy. special request on the prayer line email Joe/Shirley Ackerman at [email protected] or 384-7513. Hospital Visitations – Make sure to call the 2nd Collection next week is for the Catholic Rectory at 654-5519 if you are in the hospital and Campaign for Human Development. would like a priest to visit. Please visit these businesses and don’t forget to 302 ann2 tell them where you saw their ad! Religious Vocations - In today’s gospel, Jesus Lights of Love Ceremony – St. Francis Hospital tells his disciples “heaven and earth will pass away, on Tuesday December 8th, 2015. Mass at noon in but my words will not pass away”. What is his word the hospital chapel. The celebrant is Rev. Leonard for you? How does he want you to live out your Klein with the tree lighting and display of names in life? Is he calling you to marriage or to the single the hospital lobby immediately following. By life? Or is your vocation to religious life and/or making a donation of $5.00 per name, your loved priesthood? If you think it might be the later, ones, living or deceased, will be honored by the contact Fr. David Kelley, Diocesan Director of lights on the tree and their names placed on a scroll Priestly and Religious vocations at 573-3113 or in the hospital lobby until January 9, 2016. To [email protected]. participate, please send names and donations to Mrs. Jean DesJardins, 726 Loveville Road, #22, GIVE THE GIFT OF A MALVERN RETREAT FOR Hockessin Delaware 19707. Checks should be CHRISTMAS – The annual Archbishop Fitzmaurice payable to the Junior Board of St. Francis Hospital. Group weekend retreat for the men of the Diocese The deadline is Tuesday December 1st, 2015. \ of Wilmington is April 20 through May 1, 2016 at beautiful St. Joseph’s in the Hills, Malvern, PA. In 33rd Annual Festival of Trees – which will be held these times of frantic activity, when the pace of life Friday November 20th-Sunday November 22nd is can be almost too much to bear, a quiet peaceful looking for some wonderful volunteers for a variety and spiritually fulfilling retreat could make a of tasks such as making items for Marketplace or wonderful Christmas gift for a father, husband, our Bake Shop along with helping setting up and brother or son. For more information, please visit taking down. As Delaware Hospice’s signature the website at www.malvernretreat.com or call fundraising event, the Festival of Trees comes to Dave O’Connor at (302)764-7149. Cokesbury Village in Hockessin on the above named dates. This year’s three day festival Diocesan Vocations Guild – Help the guild features an Enchanted Forest theme and welcomes encourage and support vocations to the priesthood, visitors 10am-4pm daily. To help or for more info, religious life and the diaconate. The Guild is contact [email protected] or call 302- raffling off a woodcut of The Good Shepherd by 476-4635. Sister Mary Grace Thul, OP at their annual Christmas dinner for priests/seminarians on Coming Up: January 10, 2016. Info at cdow.org/dvg. 11/15 6pm Confirmation session 11/16 7pm Coaches Meeting St. Peter the Apostle Christmas Bazaar – 11/17 6:30pm First Confession Saturday, November 21st from 9am-3pm and 11/17 6:30pm Symbolon Class Sunday, November 22nd from 9am-4pm. 11/18 7pm Choir Breakfast with Santa on Saturday from 9-11am in 11/19 7:30pm SVDP Msgr. Crowley Hall. Spaghetti dinner Sunday from 11/20 10am Kentmere Mass 12-6pm. Tickets for dinner are $10 for adults and 11/24 9:15am School Mass $5 for children – eat in or take out. For tickets call 11/24 8:30am Grandparents & 328-1488 or 328-2230. Special Friends Day – School Noon dismissal for Thanksgiving Women’s Weekend Retreat – All women are Holiday – No Aftercare invited to a special weekend retreat dedicated to 11/25 School/Rectory Closed Blessed Teresa of Calcutta. The retreat will be 11/26 School/Rectory Closed held November 20-22 in Malvern Retreat house’s McShain-Horstmann Family Life Center located at Thanksgiving Day Mass and the Friday after 315 S. Warren Avenue in Malvern, PA. The retreat Thanksgiving (November 26/27) will be at 9am will be directed by Sr. Marie Michele Donnelly, only. RSM. To register or for more info, visit malvernretreat.com/register or call 610-644-0400.

BULLETIN ADVERTISERS – Have you taken a look at the patrons listed on the back on the bulletin? It’s because of their support that we can provide this bulletin at no cost to our parish. 302ann3