HIPPOLYTE CHURCH CHURCH 26012 N. Frenchtown Rd., Guys Mills PA 16327 Nineteenth Sunday 251 S. Franklin St., Cochranton, PA 16314 (GPS only; mail to the parish office) in Ordinary Time (GPS only; mail to the parish office)

Liturgies: Liturgies: Saturday 4:30pm (Nov-Apr) August 9, 2020 Saturday 4:30pm (May-Oct) Sunday 10:30am Sunday 8:30am

Confessions: Confessions: By appointment By appointment

IT IS THE MISSION OF SAINT HIPPOLYTE AND OUR LADY OF LOURDES TO FULLY, CONSCIOUSLY, AND ACTIVELY GROW AS A FAMILY CENTERED IN CHRIST MINISTERING TO THE ENTIRE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.

Pastor Weekly Liturgy Schedule Father Prez

Faith Formation Coordinator MONDAY, AUGUST 10, SAINT LAWRENCE Joyce Tarr 814-671-1009 8:30am SH Living and Deceased Fathers Administrative Assistant TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, SAINT CLARE Desiree Wagner Director of Music Ministries WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, SAINT Darcie Schoenfeldt-White THURSDAY, , SAINT PONTIAN; SAINT HIPPOLYTUS

Parish Office FRIDAY, AUGUST 14, SAINT 25997 State Highway 27, Guys Mills, PA 16327 8:30am OLL Spiritual Strength for Parishioners Phone: (814) 789-2022 Fax: (814) 789-2025 SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, THE ASSUMPTION OF Office Hours: Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 4:00pm THE BLESSED MARY Anticipated Sunday Liturgy: E-mail address: [email protected] 4:30pm OLL Living and Deceased of the Prez & Komar Families (Fr. Dan) Web Site: www.sainthippolytechurch.com SUNDAY, AUGUST 16, TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME St. Hippolyte Social Hall: (814) 789-4533 8:30am OLL For the Parishioners Our Lady of Lourdes Social Hall: (814) 425-7550 10:30am SH Don Mailliard (Kids) Read the parish bulletin online at www.sainthippolytechurch.com

HELPING HANDS Coordinators: Transportation: Fran Greathouse ...... 425-2549 Jennifer Mitchell ...... 827-3803 Carole Jones ...... 789-2881 Bob Robinson (to church) ...... 282-3673 Beth Bryan (errands) ...... 671-3335 Prayer Requests: Bob & Denise Schoenfeldt...... 333-8464 Services to the Bereaved: Julia Hovis ...... 657-3265 Kay Hotchkiss (Mass) ...... 425-3933

Visitation: Mary Ann Francic (Mass) ...... 724-452-4492 Elisabeth Guest (cards) ...... 789-3683 Kitty Jehn (Dinner) ...... 425-8282 Nancy Musser (cards) ...... 425-7725 Cathy Kalinowski (Dinner) ...... 425-2484 Connie Molli (visits/telephone) ...... 967-3813 Rita Bogardus (Dinner) ...... 789-2679 Joyce Tarr (Follow up) ...... 671-1009 Judy Shonnard (visits) ...... 758-1169 Sharon Boughner (telephone) ...... 425-8284 Elizabeth Ministry:

Emergency Home Care: Joanne Froella ...... 425-3645 Carol Barickman ...... 789-3814 Ruth Jackard (Meals) ...... 789-2085 Mary Beth Coyle (Meals) ...... 425-2502 Ministry of Welcome: Chris & Shannon Ploski (Odd Jobs) .... 967-4065 Garold Molli ...... 967-3813 Dave Wolff (Odd Jobs) ...... 573-6260 Rosanne Chamberlain ...... 374-4026 Mary Everitt (Respite Care) ...... 853-0599

PARISH MEMBERSHIP: Membership includes active MARRIAGE: One party must be a registered parishioner and participation in the sacramental life of the Church, involvement in actively involved for one year before scheduling a wedding. Please the activities of the faith community and financial support of the call the parish office at least six months prior to the proposed date parish. New members are welcome to register by calling the parish of marriage. No date can be set before the first interview with the office. priest has been completed. BAPTISM: Parents must attend the Pre-Baptism Program. Call ANOINTING OF THE SICK: Please phone the parish office the parish office for a copy of the program schedule and to immediately if a loved one is sick or hospitalized. schedule your child’s baptism. READINGS FOR THE WEEK SACRIFICIAL GIVING

TODAY: Our gifts given in thanksgiving for what we have already received. 1 Kgs 19:9a, 11-13a/Rom 9:1-5/Mt 14:22-33 SH OLL MONDAY: Offertory last week: $1,099 $1,703 2 Cor 9:6-10/Jn 12:24-26 envelopes used: 35 39

TUESDAY: Building Fund last week: $ 474 $ 420 Ez 2:8—3:4/Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14 envelopes used: 24 23 WEDNESDAY: Ez 9:1-7; 10:18-22/Mt 18:15-20 Catholic Services Appeal 2020: Dio Assessment : $27,618 THURSDAY: # of Gifts/Pledges: 101 Ez 12:1-12/Mt 18:21—19:1 Pledged: $36,685 Received: $29,790

FRIDAY: Ez 16:1-15, 60, 63/Mt 19:3-12 Thanks for your generosity and dedication. SATURDAY: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/1 Cor 15:20-27/Lk 1:39-56 SUNDAY: Is 56:1, 6-7/Rom 11:13-15, 29-32/Mt 15:21-28

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Aug. 10: Robert Schmidt Aug. 11: Blake Barickman Aug. 12: Carrie Mirage, Cynthia Poduszlo, Raelynn Pratt Aug. 13: Abby Palotas, Monika Root Aug. 15: Ken Stafford Aug. 16: Bernadette Lewis HELPING HANDS PRAYER: Strong and faithful God, Your outstretched arm governs the mighty forces of creation, and Your gentle hand cradles even the HAPPY ANNIVERSARY smallest of creatures. Strengthen our “little faith,” and Aug. 11: Craig & Jenny Beuchat open our eyes to Your presence at every moment of & Amy Tate history and in every circumstance of life, that we may Jim & Julie Hutcheson face with serenity times of testing and turmoil, and walk Aug. 12: Chuck & Gwen Shank with Christ through every storm toward safe haven and Aug. 13: Bob & Tina Steinbeck true peace. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God for ever and ever. Amen. QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Adults – Tell about your experiences of hearing God INTERESTED IN ATTENDING A speak in “tiny voices” rather than in the winds and CURSILLO WEEKEND or NEED earthquakes of life. MORE INFO? Pick up a brochure in the church Youth – In today’s Gospel, Peter began vestibule or call Carl and Kay Hotchkiss at 425- to walk on the water when he was 3933. focused on Jesus. He began to sink when he got distracted by the storm. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK: What is your life like when you are Saint Hippolyte/Our Lady of Lourdes focused on Jesus and your relationship Roman with God? How is it different when you get caught up in other things? LOOKING FOR RESOURCES FOR Children – What does God’s voice sound like when YOUR FAMILY? you pray and listen to Jesus? Discover why families lifelongcatechesis.osv.com always matter at: http:// www.eriercd.org/fam.htm

Contact the parish office for bulletin announcements. The deadline for submitting information to be included in the parish bulletin is Monday at noon. To avoid confusion, information should be submitted in writing. THE FEAST OF THE WHOLE COMMUNITY ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED CATECHESIS VIRGIN MARY is observed on August 15th and is not a holy day of Who is Saint Hippolyte? obligation this year. THE SACRAMENT OF FIRST That question is asked often. Can't find him in RECONCILIATION will be your Dictionary of the ? Try looking celebrated on Saturday, August 15 at under Hippolytus. Early documents show that Our Lady of Lourdes. Students and the Roman Catholic Church in Frenchtown their parents will participate in a was dedicated to Saint Hippolytus. How, why retreat beginning at 12:30pm and the or when the name evolved into "Hippolyte" is sacrament will be celebrated during a mystery, but it's been that way a very long the retreat. Please pray for our First time and nobody is about to change it now. Reconciliation Students as they prepare for the sacrament: The life of Saint Hippolytus is somewhat of a mystery itself. He was John Buckley, Dashner, Olivia born around 170 AD. A priest in the Church of Rome during the Gordon, Ferrah Maloney, Anna Rynd, late second and early third century, Hippolytus had a strict idea Max Schmidt and RJ Schmidt. about how people should live. Until the 1851 publishing of his THE SACRAMENT OF FIRST works titled “Philosophumena," also known as “A Refutation of all HOLY COMMUNION will be Heresies,” not much was known about him. Most authorities do celebrated on Aug. 23rd and 30th agree that he was born in the eastern Empire. He later moved to during the 10:30am Mass at Saint Rome, becoming a leading writer on Christian theology and Hippolyte. Students and their parents worship. Hippolytus was a harsh critic of anyone that did not live up will participate in a retreat beginning to his demanding standards. at 9:00am at Saint Hippolyte on Aug. 22nd and 29th. Please pray for our During the reign of Zephyrinun (198-217) he got into a First Holy Communion students as conflict with him and the Church of Rome on account of they prepare for the sacrament: Christological opinions that were causing controversies in John Buckley, Bryce Huddleson, Ty Rome. Hippolytus combated the heresies and false doctrines of Neely and Sophia Terrill. Theodotion, the Alogi, Noetus, Epigonus, Cleomenes, and Sabellius who saw the Father and the Son as only manifestations of PRAYER God. Hippolytus believed in a real difference between the Son and TO OVERCOME RACISM the Father, with the Son being Divine but also completely separate Mary, Friend and Mother to from and subordinate to the Father. all, through Your Son, God has found When Pope Zehyrinus declined to give a decision on the matter, a way to unite Himself to every Hippolytus censured him and called him unworthy to rule the human being, called to be one people, Church of Rome. He also called the Pope a tool in the hands of the sisters and brothers to each other. deacon Callistus. After Zephyrinus died, Callistus was elected Pope We ask for your help in calling (217-218). Declaring Pope Callistus too lenient in disciplinary and on your Son, seeking forgiveness for doctrinal matters, Hippolytus instantly left the communion of the the times when we have failed to love Roman Church. He was then elected as the first . and respect one another. We ask for your help in Fifteen years and three pontificates later, anti-Christian emperor obtaining from your Son the grace we Maximinus sentenced both Hippolytus and Pope Pontian to need to overcome the evil of racism death. They were sent to the penal colony of in 235. It was and to build a just society. there that they reconciled their differences before their deaths. The We ask for your help in following year on August 13, brought their remains following your Son, so that prejudice back to Rome for a solemn burial. Pontianus was solemnly interred and animosity will no longer infect in the papal vault in the catacomb of Callistus. Hippolytus was our minds or hearts but will be interred in a vault in a cemetery on the Via Tiburtina. replaced with a love that respects the dignity of each person. His statue was placed in the Vatican Library by Pope John XXIII in Mother of the Church, the 1959. Hippolytus is credited with being the author of Eucharistic Spirit of your Son Jesus warms our Prayer II. His feast day is August 13th, and his Saint Emblem is a hearts: pray for us. Amen. horse. THE ANNUAL COLLECTION FOR THE CHURCH IN AMERICA TAKES PLACE NEXT WEEKEND. YOUR GENEROSITY IS GREATLY APPREICATED.