February 4-5, 2012 ~ Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Readings for the Week of February 5, 2012 We Pray For… Sunday: Jb 7:1-4,6-7/1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23/ Fr. Leo Tittler, Theresa Lapointe, Joan McLoughlin; Tom Mk 1:29-39 McLoughlin; Pat Zimmerman; Doug Duber; John & Mary Monday: 1Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13/Mk 6:53-56 Pate; Carol Ladouceur; Wilbur Ford; Florence Lee; Keith Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30/Mk 7:1-13 Geisinger; Cody Pugh; Mary Wolfe; Craig & Rosemarie Wednesday: 1 Kgs 10:1-10/Mk 7:14-23 Goldsworthy; Soledad Elad; Michelle Harich; Barbara Thursday: 1 Kgs 11:4-13/Mk 7:24-30 German; Ida Susan Ricketson; Tom Putsay; Kevin Reese; Friday: 1 Kgs 11:29-32, 12:19/Mk 7:31-37 Kathy Keller Roberts; Francesca McCarter; Rev. Art Kuehn; Saturday: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34/Mk 8:1-10 Duane Krepps; John Pawlik; Mary Justice; Janice George; Next Sunday: Lv 13:1-2,44-46/1 Cor 10:31-11:1/ Terry Frye; Tim Ruggles; Maria Manzoni; Marty DiIenno; Mk 1:40-45 Theodore Kenney

This Week in Our Parish About Our Prayer List Mass intentions are listed in parentheses below To add a name to the prayer list, please email M 2/6 St. Paul Miki & Companions, martyrs [email protected] or call 301-663-0907 x3022. 9:00 am Daily Mass (My children, Boris, Pidio, & For privacy reasons, names will be included only if they are Martine, special) - Church submitted by the person requesting prayers themselves or a 7:00 pm Faith Formation Advisory Board - 1,2 close relative. Names will be kept on the list for six months. 7:00 pm Baptism Prep Session 1 - 3 7:00 pm Social Justice - 4 Prayer For Our Troops Tu 2/7 Weekday Lord, hold our troops 9:00 am Daily Mass (My children, Kenny & Jeffery, in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. special) - Church Bless them and their 7:00 pm Discipleship Council - 1,2 For the selfless acts they perform 7:00 pm Renew - 4 For us in our time of need. W 2/8 Weekday/St. Jerome Emiliani/St. Josephine And give us peace. Bakhita, virgin We ask this in the name of Jesus 9:00 am Daily Mass (Dorothy Foley) - Church Our Lord and Savior. Amen. 6:00 pm Folk Group - Lapointe Hall 6:50 pm CFF - 1,2,3,4,T,B Word of Life 7:30 pm RCIA - Church Our society, which all too often questions the 7:30 pm Adult Choir - Lapointe Hall inestimable value of life, every life, needs you [young people 7:30 pm Capital Campaign Reports - STMA with disabilities]: in a decisive way you help build the Th 2/9 Weekday civilization of love. What is more, you play a leading role in 7:00 pm Respect Life - 4 that civilization. As sons and daughters of the Church, you offer the Lord your lives, with all their ups and downs, 7:30 pm Edge Core Team - T cooperating with him and somehow becoming “part of the Fr 2/10 St. Scholastica, virgin treasury of compassion so greatly needed by the human Sa 2/11 Weekday/Our Lady of Lourdes race” (Spe Salvi, 40). 4:00 pm Confessions - Pastor’s Office ~ Pope Benedict XVI, Remarks at the San José Foundation for Disabled 4:30 pm Mass (Parishioners) - Lapointe Hall Youth, Madrid, August 20, 2011 5:30 pm Generations of Faith - 1,2,3,4,LH,T,B,C Su 2/12 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Next weekend’s Poor Box collection World Day reception - 1,2 St. Vincent de Paul Society: In the Gospel today, we 8:00 am Mass (Harry Murphy) - Church find that Jesus would rise very early before dawn and go 9:30 am Mass (Mariano Patuano) - Lapointe Hall to a deserted place to pray, and then he went out to 10:30 am RCIA - T preach and to heal. Praying for the poor can bring the 11:15 am Mass (Sgt. David Smith) - Lapointe Hall love and peace of Jesus to those who live in fear and doubt, loneliness and dread. Financial donations to the 12:30 pm Generations of Faith - 1,2,3,4,LH,T,B,C Poor Box and volunteers are needed (301-662-4676). 6:15 pm Confirmation Prep - 1,2,3,4,LH

On the road? Check out www.masstimes.org for information on Mass times and locations in the area you are visiting. Thank you for your contributions! Rest in Peace Weekend of January 28-29 Roma Duber, mother of Margaret Snyder Regular Offertory:(including auto-giving) David Haney, father of Shelly Lang $8,452.93 Margaret Knott, aunt of Jeanne Geisinger New Church Gifts:(including auto-giving) Rev. Joseph Cote $ 448.00 Living the Eucharist Give Special Attention to Our Special Funds Today is Sign-Up Sunday for Living the Eucharist. For St. Joseph's has many specific income areas to the six weeks of Lent, we invite you to join a small group, accomplish specific goals. For those of you who are able, we a teen group, and/or participate with your . The encourage you to generously support the activities of the Sign-Up Sunday brochures, along with sign-up cards, will Church through your contributions to our various funds. As a be available after all Masses today. For more information, convenience to those who prefer to make their contributions contact Therese Ivanisin, at 301-663-0907 x3012 or electronically using our automatic giving program, you can [email protected]. Please join us! give to the regular offertory, the Capital Campaign, Social Outreach/Social Justice (the Poor Box), monthly Diocesan collections, Christmas, Easter, and Catholic Education. World Marriage Day at St. Joseph’s Please contact the church office for details. We will be celebrating World Marriage Day, on the weekend of February 11 & 12. As part of our celebration we are asking that parishioners bring in a 4x6 or 5x7 copy Gift Card Orders of a picture from their to be displayed in rooms Gift cards will be available next weekend for Giant, 1&2 during hospitality that weekend. Please bring Giant/Eagle, CVS, iTunes, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Chipotle, pictures to the parish office with the name of the couple Panera, Olive Garden, Outback, Longhorn, Red Lobster, and wedding date on the back, to the attention of Aimee Red Robin, Starbucks, Sheetz, Shell, WaWa, Target and Catania. We are asking for a copy that we can keep so Wal-mart/Sam’s. We will also be taking orders for other that the pictures can be reused each year. If you would vendors. Order forms may be found in the racks outside the like to have your picture returned, please label it as such parish offices. Orders can picked up the following weekend, so that we can make sure you get it back. Thank you for February 18-19. Proceeds benefit the new church fund. sharing your wedding memories with your parish family!

Tuition Assistance Available-- New Church Building on our Website If you are making the sacrifice to send your children to Our Building Committee has been working on the design Catholic school or are considering Catholic school for the of the new church and we are happy to announce that we 2012-13 school year, your parish has some news for you! received approval of the site plan by the Frederick County St. Joseph-on-Carrollton Manor parish families may apply Planning Commission in December! for Catholic school tuition assistance for grades K–8. To This is the first step in many approvals required before qualify, the family must be registered and active stewards in filing for the building permit. The design team is working on the parish, which includes sharing time and talent and finalizing the plans and elevations for presentation to the contributing regularly to the general offertory using Archdiocese of Baltimore for approval, which will be followed envelopes or automatic giving. The student’s school must by building permit submittal later this year. be recognized by a Diocese/Archdiocese but need not be in For the latest on our building progress along with Frederick County. drawings of the interior design and exterior views check out Our parish uses a service known as FACTS Grant and www.stjoesbuckeystown.org/new-churchcapital-campaign . Aid Assessment for confidential collection and analysis of financial data, with further analysis and final award Bring in Your Palms decisions made by the Pastor, based on advisement by an As Ash Wednesday approaches we are asking you to impartial committee at the parish. If your family would like to bring in your palms from last year and place them in the be considered for tuition assistance from St. Joseph’s, baskets located in the back of the Church or the hallway complete a FACTS form at www.factstuitionaid.com, pay of the Parish Center by February 17th. They will be the $23 application fee, and supply all required burned and the ashes will be used at the Ash Wednesday documentation by Wednesday, February 29, 2012. We Masses. expect to notify applicants about assistance decisions by the end of March 2012. Kids’ Choir The Kids’ Choir for Easter will begin Thursday, March 1 The Food Pantry Needs You! at 7 pm. Children interested in participating are welcomed. Please bring in canned and non-perishable food items Questions? Contact Cindy Kindl at 301-663-0907 x3017. for the Food Pantry. Remember those less fortunate when you are at the grocery and add a few extra items in your cart. Donations may be dropped off at the Parish Center. Check out the latest parish news on Thanks for your continued generosity. www.stjoesbuckeystown.org Action Alert - Health and Human Services Ruling Baptism Prep Class The US Health and Human Services has issued a rule Our Baptism Preparation program has changed. First forcing nearly all private health plans to include coverage for time parents will now attend two sessions, one week apart all FDA-approved prescription contraceptive drugs and before a baptism will be scheduled. devices, as well as surgical sterilization. These are listed Repeating parents must have attended a Baptismal among "preventive services for women" that all health plans Preparation Class within the past 4 years before a baptism will have to cover without co-pays or other cost-sharing - will be scheduled. If not they will take Session I of the regardless of whether the insurer, the employer or other plan program. sponsor, or even the woman herself objects to such The next Baptism Preparation Session I will be held coverage. The exemption provided for "religious employers" is so Monday, February 6 at 7 pm; Session II will be held on narrow that it fails to cover the vast majority of faith-based Monday, February 13 at 7 pm, both in Room 3 of the organizations, including Catholic hospitals, universities, and Parish Center. Although there is no fee for these classes, service organizations that help millions every year. Ironically, registration is required. To register please contact not even Jesus & his disciples would have qualified. Therese Kennedy at 301-663-0907 x3022 or email During the public comment period last fall, the bishops' [email protected]. grassroots campaign alone generated over 57,000 You are encouraged to sign up for the preparation comments to HHS opposing their mandate. classes before your delivery date. Please note that baptisms Now that the Administration has refused to recognize are not scheduled during Lent. the Constitutional conscience rights of organizations and individuals who oppose the mandate, the bishops are now urging Catholics and others of good will to fight this Softball? - It’s not too early! unprecedented attack on conscience rights and religious The Orioles and Nationals are getting ready for liberty. Spring Training. So let’s think - SOFTBALL! For more information on this issue and how to contact Anyone interested in joining St. Joseph’s softball your representative, visit the website of the US Council of team should contact Robert Moucheron at 301- Catholic Bishops at www.usccb.org. Your voice can make a 696-1835 or [email protected], or John difference. Wolf 301-874-5402 or [email protected].

Stand Strong in the Public Square ST. JOSEPH‐ON‐CARROLLTON MANOR PRESENTS Join Maryland’s bishops and hundreds of fellow Catholics on Presidents’ Day, Monday, February 20, from 3 BOULDER CANYON to 8 pm, for the 28th annual Catholic Lobby Night in Formerly “Friends With You” Annapolis and make your voice heard. Tell legislators that we all have a duty to serve the poor and vulnerable, build up IN A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO the common good and respect human life and dignity. JOHN DENVER Lobby Night is an advocacy event that gives Catholic voters the opportunity to speak in person with their elected WEINBERG CENTER FOR THE ARTS officials about issues including abortion, health care, poverty, 20 WEST PATRICK STREET immigration, Catholic schools, the death penalty and FREDERICK, MD marriage. Registration is required. Visit www.mdcathcon.org/ SATURDAY APRIL 14, 2012 lobbynight or call the Maryland Catholic Conference at 410- 269-1155/301-261-1979 to register or for more information. DOORS OPEN 6:3O PM SHOW BEGINS 8:OO PM Catholic Advocacy Network TICKETS: $30.OO $25.00 $20.00 The Maryland Catholic Advocacy Network (CAN) is an PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT NEW CHURCH BUILDING FUND outreach of the Maryland Catholic Conference. The BOULDER CANYON, formerly “Friends With You”, is Conference advocates on behalf of the Archdiocese of comprised of players from all over the United States who met at Baltimore, Archdiocese of Washington, and the Diocese of an annual gathering of musicians in Aspen, Colorado to celebrate Wilmington for public policies that promote the dignity of the the music of John Denver. Since 2005, they have been human person and social justice. Help bring Gospel values entertaining audiences across the country. Let them introduce to the public square by joining CAN, which features: you to one of America’s most treasured performers!! John  Email alerts on legislation under consideration by state Denver fans will want to purchase their tickets early as it is sure and federal lawmakers to be another sell out performance. These tickets make excellent gifts for , birthdays, anniversaries, etc.  Email messages relevant to issues you choose: Education, family life, respect for life, or social concerns CONTACT: CHARLIE ABELL 301-473-5805  Quick, easy-to-use, pre-drafted messages to send to your FOR TICKETS AND INFORMATION elected officials (as-is or modified to your style)  Strict protection of your information, which will not be shared with other organizations Visit www.mdcathcon.org to register. Faith Formation Therese Ivanisin, Director, ext. 3012 Ashley Arominski, Youth Ministry, ext. 3016

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Thank you to those families that have already made a pledge. Together, our parish community can do great things. This is truly a remarkable time for us as we look to build a New Church!

Campaign Goal: $1,600,000 Raised to Date: $742,000

Percent of Goal: 46%

Number of Gifts: 63

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We would like to share some of the comments we received:  It will be so exciting to have all the Masses in a church....

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Our volunteers continue to call to share details about the campaign and let you know how you can get involved in the effort. Please welcome our volunteers to your home for a short discussion about the campaign. If you have not yet been called and would like a visit or more information please call the parish office at (301) 663‐0907 or you can contact our Capital Campaign Chairperson Fred Genau, at 301‐694‐6321.

Marriage and Society: Marriage Cannot Be Redefined

2012 Legislative Session

3. How did we get to this point? 5. Do same-sex couples already Overview A 2005 lawsuit claimed that Maryland’s receive benefits? During the 2011 legislative session, marriage law was unconstitutional Under Maryland law2, significant benefits Maryland lawmakers chose not to because it violated the state’s equal rights are granted to domestic partners, redefine marriage and stood by their amendment, which bans gender including same-sex partners. They deeply-held moral convictions. They discrimination. The state’s highest court include: disagreed with that claim and, in supported our long-standing law defining • Health care facility visitation marriage as the union of one man and one September 2007, issued a final ruling woman. Marriage, recognized by upholding the law. The court also said, • Health care decision making, including societies throughout human history, however, that the General Assembly the capacity to make medical and end-of- originates in a simple biological fact. could overturn the law and redefine life decisions marriage if it chose to do so. In 2008, the This unique union of one man and one state enacted several measures that grant • Organ donation priority woman is the only human relationship specific benefits to domestic • The ability to adopt children capable of creating children and nurturing partners. Then, in February 2010, • Nursing home room sharing them together as father and mother. Maryland Attorney General Doug • Funeral arrangements Treating heterosexual and same-sex Gansler issued an opinion that Maryland relationships differently is not unjust law does not prohibit the recognition of • State employee health benefits discrimination, and upholding the truth of same-sex that are performed • Health and life insurance coverage for 3 marriage does not ignore the rights or legally in other jurisdictions. As a result, domestic partners at request of employer state agencies have been directed to equal dignity of all human persons. • Exemption from recordation taxes and, Indeed, Maryland already has granted recognize out-of-state same-sex marriages as valid in Maryland. under specific circumstances, state and many rights to domestic partnerships. county transfer taxes Rather, stripping marriage of its unique connection to parenthood erases a child’s 4. Isn’t opposing same-sex • Exemption from state inheritance taxes4 birthright to a mother and father, and marriage about discrimination? ignores an essential question of why Support for marriage between one man 6. Isn’t civil marriage a civil government favors marriage between one and one woman is not based on bigotry man and one woman over all other against gays and lesbians. The Catholic right that should be available to relationships. Church is very clear that all people have everyone? inherent dignity as children of God. This “The fundamental right to marry is not 1. How does Maryland law includes those who are homosexual. We absolute,” according to Maryland’s high define marriage? have a deep commitment to eliminate any court. Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme “Only a marriage between a man and a form of injustice. Court only recognizes a fundamental 1 right to marry because of marriage’s woman is valid in this State.” Believing that marriage is to be between “inextricable link to procreation, which a man and a woman is not discrimination. necessarily and biologically involves 2. What happened during the Discrimination is understood as the participation (in ways either intimate or last legislative session? unjust denial of basic human rights to a 5 remote) by a man and a woman.” The The Maryland House of Delegates certain person or group of persons. The state also protects marriage by rejected legislation to redefine marriage Church stands against all discrimination considering other limitations before despite the enormous political pressure and seeks to promote justice for all granting a , including a they were under to vote against their people. However, like “equality,” couple’s age, mental competence, and conscience and the interests of their “fairness,” and “civil rights,” the blood relationship. constituents. language of “discrimination” has been artificially inserted into the discussion on Redefining marriage is not a question of The successful coalition of faith marriage. To define marriage as civil rights. The very reason for marriage communities that upheld marriage in belonging only to the relationship of one – creating and raising children with the Maryland remains intact and will man and one woman is simply a matter of gifts of a father and mother – means it continue to be active as we approach the recognizing an inescapably unique must be between a man and woman. If 2012 legislative session. distinction about this relationship. our society is going to dismantle marriage, there is no longer a rational

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basis for deciding which relationships procreation. The state merely seeks to future generations.7 “The U.S. Supreme should receive special recognition from ensure a stable environment for the Court has traditionally viewed marriage, the government. Why do we need to children that do result from this union. not as a vehicle for satisfying the adult redefine marriage, when same-sex couple or individuals, but as ‘the We know that families struggle and that couples already receive many benefits? foundation of the family and of society, the ideal of an intact family with father Why should we not also grant these without which there would be neither and mother is not always possible. We benefits to many other loving and civilization nor progress.’”8 And the U.S. need to do all we can to help couples committed human relationships, such as Department of Health and Human have healthy marriages and support two elderly siblings who live together? Services reports that children raised by single parents in their heroic roles. But parents in healthy marriages are more It is clear that there are other avenues for mothers and fathers are not likely to succeed academically and are granting certain rights and benefits to interchangeable and up to the present physically and emotionally healthier. couples who are not married. Maryland time, society has never intentionally They also are less likely to attempt or has already granted many rights to deprived children of their birthright to a commit suicide, be a victim of physical domestic partnerships. There are many mother and a father. or sexual abuse and abuse drugs or ways to protect basic human rights; alcohol.9 The federal government even sacrificing marriage is not one of them. 9. What about our religious invests $150,000,000 a year to promote freedom? 7. Why is the Church opposed to healthy marriages, recognizing that Despite the limited measures some states marriage serves as a strong and stable redefining marriage? have taken to protect religious foundation for society. Christ raised marriage to the dignity of a institutions, none have recognized the sacrament, but it is also a natural religious freedom of individuals. It is Conclusion institution rooted in our biological reality hard to believe that any measure can Drastically altering marriage’s legal as men and women. The union of one avoid the inevitable collision that definition by recognizing same-sex man and one woman is the only human redefining marriage will bring between marriage is not necessary to achieve relationship capable of creating children government and people of faith. Neither benefits because they already exist in and nurturing them together as father and can we seriously guarantee that efforts to law. Instead, passing such a bill would mother. Marriage is therefore properly promote “religious exemptions” will significantly undermine the legal, social, entrusted only to them. As such, survive future judicial or legislative and cultural status of marriage that is marriage is not an arbitrary recognition of reversals. appropriately assigned only to the union one relationship among many of one man and one woman. possibilities. 10. Why does marriage matter

While marriage benefits both husband to the state? Contact your legislators NOW and and wife, the legal protections afforded As the Maryland Court of Appeals stated encourage them to preserve marriage this relationship are most important for in its 2007 ruling upholding Maryland’s in Maryland. children. A child deserves a stable and marriage statute, “In light of the nurturing environment that is best fundamental nature of procreation, … www.mdcathcon.org provided by the marriage of his or her safeguarding an environment most ______biological mother and father. Our focus conducive to the stable propagation and continuance of the human race is a 1 Maryland Family Law §2–201. as a society should be on strengthening 6 2 SB 566 and SB 597 passed into law in 2008. marriage, not dismantling it altogether, legitimate government interest.” 3 See the Insurance Article of the Maryland Code, Section 15-403.2 and Section 17-209. especially when the harmful effects of the The state grants privileges to, and 4 SB 785 passed into law in 2009. erosion of marriage are so apparent. demands responsibilities of, marriage 5 Conaway v. Deane, Court of Appeals of Maryland, September, 2007. between man and woman to promote the 6 Ibid. 8. What does the Church say to procreation of children and provide for 7 W. Bradford Wilcox et al. 2005. Why Marriage Matters, Second Edition: Twenty-Six Conclusions couples without children or their proper care. The legal union and the from the Social Sciences. Institute for American families of divorce? benefits that come with it provide an Values at www.americanvalues.org. impetus for couples to stay together. 8 Maynard v. Hill 125 U.S. 190, 211 (1888), quoted in For many couples, fertility is a struggle, How Does Legalizing “Same-Sex Marriage” Deny the or they find one another later in life. But There is no compelling reason for the True Nature of Marriage? USCCB state to involve itself in a sexual www.usccb.org/laity/marriage/samesexeng.shtml. the fact that a child is not conceived 9 Maynard v. Hill reported in U.S. Department of when a husband and wife join together relationship that by its very nature cannot Health and Human Services; does not make their union lesser. naturally lead to children. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/healthymarriage/about/mission .html#background. Together in marriage, they still mirror the two parts of society – man and woman. 11. So, marriage helps keep society intact? Clearly it would be intrusive, and The stability of marriage is inextricably unnecessary, for the state to limit connected to the stability of the social marriage only to those couples capable of order, and to the continued stability of

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Profit to Amount of Profit to Amount Stores St. Joe's Card Quantity Total Stores St. Joe's of Card Quantity Total Ace Hardware 4.0% $25 CVS/Pharmacy 6.0% $25 4.0% $100 6.0% $100 Advance Auto Parts 7.0% $25 Dave & Busters 13.0% $25 Aeropostale 7.0% $25 Denny's 7.0% $10 Amazon.com 4.0% $25 Dick's Sporting Goods 8.0% $25 4.0% $100 Dillard's 9.0% $25 American Eagle Outfitters Domino's Pizza 10.0% $25 8.0% $10 Applebees 8.0% $25 Dressbarn 8.0% $25 Arby's 8.0% $10 Dunkin Donuts 4.0% $10 Auto Zone 8.0% $25 Exxon 1.5% $50 Baja Fresh 7.0% $25 2.5% $250 Barnes & Noble 9.0% $10 Einstein Bros. Bakery 10% $10 9.0% $25 Fashion Bug 6.0% $25 9.0% $100 Foot Locker 9.0% $25 Bass Pro Shop 9.0% $25 Gap 9.0% $25 9.0% $100 GetGo 4.0% $25 Bath & Body Works13.0% $10 Giant Eagle 4.0% $25 13.0% $25 4.0% $100 Bed, Bath & Beyond 7.0% $25 Giant Foods 4.0% $50 Best Buy 3.0% $25 4.0% $100 3.0% $100 Gymboree 13% $25 3.0% $250 Hallmark 4.0% $25 Bob Evans 10.0% $10 Hard Rock Café 10.0% $25 BoneFish Grill 8.0% $25 Home Depot 4.0% $25 Boscovs 8.0% $25 4.0% $100 Boston Market 12.0% $10 4.0% $500 1.50% $50 Itunes 5.0% $15 BP 1.50% $100 5.0% $25 Bruster's Ice Cream 8.0% $10 JCPenney 5.0% $25 Buffalo Wild Wings 8% $25 5.0% $100 Build a Bear Workshop 8.0% $25 Jiffy Lube 8.0% $30 Burger King 4.0% $10 JoAnn Fabrics 6.0% $25 Burlington Coat Factory 8% $25 KFC 8.0% $5 Cabela's11.0% $25 Kmart 4.0% $25 11.0% $100 4.0% $50 California Pizza Kitchen 4.0% $10 Kohl's 4.0% $25 Carraba's Italian Grill 8.0% $25 4.0% $100 Cheescake Factory 5.0% $25 LL Bean 15.0% $25 Children's Place 12.0% $25 15.0% $100 Chili's Grill & Bar 11.0% $25 Lady Foot Locker 9.0% $25 Chipolte Mexican Grill 10.0% $10 Lands End 16.0% $25 Chuck E Cheese 8.0% $10 16.0% $100 Claire's 9.0% $10 Lane Bryant 6.0% $25 Coldstone Creamery 8.0% $10 Limited 9.0% $25 Cracker Barrel 9.0% $10 Little Caesar's Pizza 8.0% $20 9.0% $25 Long Horn Steakhouse 9.0% $25 Crate & Barrel 8.0% $25 Lord & Taylor 8.0% $25 Carzy 8 13.0% $25

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Profit to Amount of Profit to Amount Stores St. Joe's Card Quantity TotalStores St. Joe's of Card Quantity Total Lowe's Home Sally Beauty Supply Improvement 4.0% $25 12.0% $25 4.0% $100 Sears 4.0% $25 4.0% $500 4.0% $100 4.0% $1,000 4.0% $250 Macaroni Grill 11.0% $25 Sears Auto Service Center 4.0% $25 Macy's 10.0% $25 4.0% $100 10.0% $100 4.0% $250 Marshalls 7.0% $25 See's Candies 20.0% $16.5 7.0% $100 Sheetz 3.0% $25 Men's Wearhouse 8.0% $25 3.0% $100 Michaels 4.0% $25 Shell 2.5% $25 Mimis Café 8.0% $25 2.5% $50 Neiman Marcus 12.0% $50 2.5% $100 NIKE 12.0% $25 Sports Authority 8.0% $25 Office Depot 4.0% $25 8.0% $100 4.0% $100 Staples 5.0% $25 Office Max 5.0% $25 5.0% $100 5.0% $100 Starbucks 7.0% $10 Old Navy 9.0% $25 7.0% $25 Olive Garden 9.0% $25 Subway 3.0% $10 Omaha Steaks 11.0% $25 Sunoco 1.5% $50 Outback Steakhouse 8.0% $25 2.5% $250 Overstock.com 8.0% $25 Target 2.0% $25 PF Chang 8.0% $25 2.0% $100 Panera9.0% $10 TJ Max 7.0% $25 9.0% $25 7.0% $100 Papa John's 8.0% $10 Talbots 13.0% $25 Payless Shoes 13.0% $20 Texaco 1.5% $25 Pep Boys 4.0% $20 TGI Friday's 9.0% $25 PetSmart 4.0% $25 Toys R Us 1.5% $20 Pier 1 Imports 9.0% $25 Ulta 4.0% $25 Pizza Hut 8.0% $10 Uno's Chicago Grill 12.0% $25 Pottery Barn 8.0% $25 Walgreens 6.0% $20 Quizno's 10.0% $10 6.0% $100 Radio Shack 4.0% $25 WalMart/Sam's 2.0% $25 Red Lobster 9.0% $25 2.0% $100 Red Robin 9.0% $25 2.0% $250 Regal Entertainment WaWa Group 8.0% $25 1.5% $25 Regal Entertainment Single 15.0% $9.50 1.5% $100 Regis Salon 8.0% $25 Wendy's 4.0% $10 Ross For Less 8.0% $25 3% $25 Rite Aid 4.0% $25 Whole Foods 3% $100 Ruby Tuesday 8.0% $25 Safeway 4.0% $25 4.0% $100 Total Column 4 Total Column 3

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This Super Bowl Sunday weekend (February 4th & 5th)

After all the Masses Youth will be Collecting donations for the Souper Bowl of Caring which will directly benefit our Food Pantry here at St. Joseph’s.

Goal: Utilizing Super Bowl weekend to mobilize youth to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities.

Visit www.souperbowl.org for more information

Thank you in advance for your support!

VS.

Let’s see who the most generous fans are! World Marriage Day February 12, 2012

All couples celebrating wedding anniversaries of 25 years or more during 2012 are invited to submit their names and anniversary year to the office. Names and years married will be included in a bulletin flyer the weekend of World Marriage Day. We ask that all information be submitted by February 6, 2012.

Please fill out the bottom of this page, tear it off, and submit it by one of the following ways: (If you sent in your names previously, you do not need to resubmit them.)

-Place in mailbox of Therese Kennedy, Administrative Assistant, located in the parish office.

-Place in offertory basket at Mass.

-Email information below to [email protected].

-Call Therese K. in the Parish Office at 301-663-0907 x 3022.

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Name of Couple: ______

Number of years married: ______

Wedding Date: ______

Phone Number: ______

Email Address: ______Community Bulletin Board

St. John Regional Catholic School News Retreats for Couples Now accepting applications for 2012/2013 school year Join us in a “Married Couples” Retreat at Priestfield, WV on for Pre-K 3 through 8th grade. the weekends of March 2, March 9, March 16, March 30 or Are you a SJRCS Alumni? We are currently looking for April 27. For more information call Elaine at 410-252-5355 alumni to serve on “The Alumni Program Committee Executive Board Team.” The goals of the program include; St. John the Evangelist Parish Mission reconnectingalumni with classmates, teachers, and the February 13, 14, & 15, 2012 current students of SJRCS. Please visit www.sjrcs.org/ 10:00 – 11:30 AM alumni_info.php or contact, Sheila Evers at 301-662-6722. 7:30 – 9:00 PM Story-Time Tots - “Hats & Hearts” free story time will be Fr. Nicholas Amato, Facilitator on Monday, February 13 starting at 8:30 am for 2, 3, and 4 Listening & Community: year olds. Please join us and bring a friend. You Can’t Have One Without the Other Musactifun - with Monte Leister at SJRCS for ages 2 to With all the cell phone calling, emailing, and texting, 6. Join us on Wednesday, February 1, 8, 15, and 29 from we wonder if anyone is really listening. And if we’re not 11-11:45 am. This program is designed to get kids and communicating, it stands to reason that we’re not parents moving, singing, laughing, learning, and having fun experiencing any deep sense of community. Thus we find together while reinforcing large motor coordination and ourselves out there somewhere as if floating in space cognitive development. Cost: $40 for the four week session. disconnected from God and from others. Our parish mission will be devoted to better understanding how to Mother Seton School Bingo listen more effectively to God and to others and how that Saturday, February 11 - BINGO Vera Bradley at Mother listening can transform our relationships into an Seton School, Emmitsburg. Doors open at 5:30 pm; Bingo experience of community. St. John’s is located at 112 starts at 7 pm. Tickets: $15 in advance; $20 at the door. East Second St. Frederick. 301-662-8288. Tickets include 20 regular games with new 2012 and classic patterned bags as prizes. Specials and Raffles available for Scout Recognition Dinner purchase. Door prizes and concessions available. For more The Pangborn Council #1365, Knights of Columbus, information or tickets, please contact MSS at 301-447-3161, invites every Scout in the parish to be their guest at a Scout or Lena at 301-717-8860. Snow date: February 18. Recognition Dinner on Sunday, February 12. The event begins at 3 pm with a social and review of exhibits with Quiet Days Apart dinner at 4 pm. The location is the Council’s home, 20340 Mini-retreats at Priest Field Pastoral Center, Leitersburg Pike, Hagerstown. The dinner is FREE of Kearneysville, WV: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm on a Saturday every CHARGE for each Scouter and Scout plus an adult guest. other month: February 18, April 28, June 30, August 18, Scouts and leaders are requested to attend in uniform. October 20, December 1. Please RSVP to Fred Nugent: [email protected], or 301- Take advantage of this opportunity to revitalize your soul 739-9325 no later than February 6. Hope to see you there. throughout the year. Each day will include brief reflections in the larger group around the themes inspired by the seasons Our Lady of Lourdes Rosary Crusade in nature and the church. There will be plenty of space for We warmly invite you to join us in heartfelt prayer and silence, solitude, and taking in the beauty of our beautiful sacred music at our monthly Rosary Crusade, surroundings. Join with other journeying men and women to Saturday, February 11, from 1-2 pm, the Feast of Our Lady help stay connected to the Heart of our lives. Participate in of Lourdes, at the Gazebo in Baker Park, off West 2nd Street, all or any number of the days. Our guide is Trish Stefanik, a near the Band Shell in Frederick. Bring your family, (lawn contemplative retreat leader who led our mini-retreats last chairs) and invite others to pray with us! Questions: call Pat year. Cost is $30 per retreat, which includes lunch. Please Oliver at 301-845-8253. “Everything begins with prayer.” register at least one week in advance. To register, call 304- Mother Teresa 725-1435 or email [email protected] and send a $10 deposit to: Priest Field Pastoral Center, 4030 Middleway Pike, Kearneysville, WV 25430 The Best of Ireland Tour July 2-12 -$2799 (Excludes fuel surcharges and tips). Tour includes: Round trip airfare from Dulles, At Heartly House we know that domestic violence accommodations at first class select hotels, most meals, does not take a holiday. Our 24-hour hotline is always services of a professional guide and driver; all hotel service available, so if you or a loved one needs support please charges, local taxes, porterage and entrance fees. do not hesitate to call us at 301-662-8800. Touring: Waterford, Killarney, Galway, Connemara, Knock, Sligo and Dublin. Hosted by Fr. Jerry Francik (St. Crisis pregnancy? Call 800-492-5530 Mark, Fallston) and Mrs. Laura Nisonger (Church of the Suffering after abortion? Call 410-354-6900 Resurrection, Ellicott City). For more information or a complete brochure, call Laura at 410-461-9111, ext 223.