ONE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH COMMUNITY WITH THREE WORSHIP SITES ST CHURCH, CHURCH & OUR LADY OF KNOCK November 1, 2020 - Feast of All Saints Sacred Heart of , Have mercy of us. Our Lady of Knock, Intercede for us. St. John the Baptist, Pray for us.

As you know, this Tuesday (November 3) is Election Day, which gives all Americans the opportunity to vote on candidates for many different government positions. While we have the “right” to vote, we also have the “responsibility” to show up at the polls (or vote in advance) and a duty to “actually vote!” We also need to do so in the most informed way possible. (Adapted form an article by Professor Emeritus Bernard Evans, St. John’s University, Collegeville, Minnesota.) For more information on this article, please see the U.S. Catholic magazine, November 2020 issue: https://uscatholic.org/articles/202010/how-should-catholics-vote-read-this-guide-before-you-hit-the-polls/ He goes on to point out a number of important reminders for Catholics including, 3 reminders from Catholic Social Teaching – see inside.

We will have an online daily mass this Monday, November 2nd at 11am to celebrate the Feast of All Souls, also Wednesday, November 4th at 10am. Both will be livestreamed and then available later in the day on our websites and on YouTube. Please call the Sacred Heart office for information on signing up to attend a mass during the week with a smaller number of people in attendance.

Please join us in prayer for all those affected by the covid 19 pandemic and all the intentions listed inside the bulletin.

Our Fall and Winter Mass Schedule is as follows: (Effective Through May 23, 2021.) Saturday vigil 4:00 pm (Our Lady of Knock Shrine). Sunday 9am (St. John the Baptist Church) and 11am (Sacred Heart Church).

Please plan on arriving at least 40-45 minutes early at all public masses until further notice. Parking lots close 10-15 minutes before mass. Please be in your seat by 5 minutes before mass, when the doors will be closed. Thank you for your cooperation!

Please note that the 11 am Mass will be on Facebook Live starting at 11:00 am and on our websites and YouTube later on Sunday. We apologize if there are any technical difficulties.

Confession Times - call office for an appointment Anointing of the Sick - available at any time by calling either parish office

Welcome to our One Roman Catholic Faith Community! While we can only gather in smaller groups in our worship sites, we can all continue to pray for each other. We can also join together in prayer via YouTube, Facebook and our parishes’ websites (see addresses below). Fr. Steve Sacraments Roman Catholics believe in Seven Sacraments. If you or someone you know is behind in receiving any of the sacraments, Please contact us and we’ll help you get “caught up.”

Rev. Steve Matthews, Pastor Please join us during Mass with the Spiritual Communion

[email protected] Prayer (Saint Alphonsus Liguori) as suggested by Francis. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTdE-NcnATWiSfH7JbIFukw Please see the spiritual communion prayer on our parish website.

St John the Baptist Church Sacred Heart Church This coming Sunday's readings: Sunday, November 8, 2020 sjbg.weebly.com sholk.weebly.com Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time Our offices are reopened but by appointment only. Additionally, First Reading: Wisdom 6:12-16 access will be limited, so we appreciate your calling first and your Our Response: Psalm 6-2,3-4,5-6, 7-8 patience and understanding. Please wear a mask and maintain Second Reading: 1Thess.4:13-18 social distancing when coming into either parish office. Gospel of MT 25:1-13 Please take a few moments this week to read and pray about any St. John the Baptist Sacred Heart Church or all of the above readings. Review these readings online at: Church & Our Lady of Knock https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/110820.cfm

Parish Office: Parish Office for both Sacred Heart & Our Lady of Knock: Three Reminders from Catholic Social Teaching (continued Mailing address: P.O. Box 340 35 Church Street, from the cover): Focus on the common good. Consider all the Greenville, NY 12083 Cairo, NY 12413 issues, evaluate the candidate’s character. 518-966-8317 518-622-3319 Professor Shaw’s article (link listed on the cover) also goes into detail about Seven (7) issues of importance

for the 2020 election: (Physical address: Our Lady of Knock 4987 State Route 81 (do not send mail to this address) Climate Change Greenville, NY 12083) 2052 NY-145, Racial Justice

East Durham, NY 12423 Culture of Violence

Immigrants and Refugees Mrs. Paula Dennis Ms. Melissa Rompolski Poverty

Parish Office Parish Office Healthcare [email protected] [email protected] International Relations

Additionally, he points out five steps for discerning your vote Mrs. Barbara Koerner-Fox this election. Please see the link on the cover of this bulletin Pastoral Associate for Faith Formation & Offices for further information. [email protected] Lastly, as a reminder, the “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” document from the US Bishops points out: “As Catholics we are not single-issue voters. A candidate’s Our Worship Site Hours: position on a single issue is not sufficient to guarantee a Sacred Heart Church - only open for Sunday Mass - 10:15 until voter’s support.” 12:15 only. St. Catherine of Siena Chapel (on Sacred Heart grounds) usually open 24 hours a day. Christmas Mass Schedule Our Lady of Knock Shrine - Open - Sunday through Thursday: As the calendar now turns to November, our thoughts start to 10am until 6pm; Fridays: 10 am until 3pm and Saturdays: 3:30 turn towards Christmas Mass times. While I would love to add pm until 5:30 pm only. masses to both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we will need Saint John the Baptist - Eucharistic Chapel (in rear of church) extra volunteers before, during and after all masses. While we open 24/7 Monday through Saturday; Sundays closed from 8am probably won’t have the usual larger crowds, we will still be until 10:30am - open the rest of the day. The main church is limited to the number of people allowed to be seated at each open from 8:15am - 10:15am only. mass. If we would like to offer more than just the usual three masses we will need help at each mass. AA Meetings, Monday to Friday, 12 noon in St. John’s Hall. Also, in order to avoid people being turned away we will be taking reservations. Details will be provided in the upcoming Please contact your sponsor for any change to this meeting.

AA meets every Friday at 7:00 pm in St. Mary's Community weeks, so please watch the bulletin. So that everyone can Center in E. Durham adjust, the reservation system will begin sometime in November. Thank you in advance for your understanding, cooperation and assistance! Fr. Steve Deadline for next week’s bulletin is Mon., Nov. 2nd @ Noon Email to: [email protected]

This Week’s Gospel Reflection Diocesan Appeal for Fiscal Year 2020 – 2021: This week we reflect on the Beatitudes. We can ask The theme for this year's Diocesan Appeal (formerly called the ourselves are we the poor in spirit? Do we empty ourselves to Bishop's Appeal) is: "For we walk by Faith, not by sight." make room for God’s will? Am I truly present to those (2 Corinthians 5:7) To help spread the good news of Jesus, He suffering, to those whom we should be seeing the face of chose disciples and apostles. In turn, the has Jesus? Am I among the meek, being merciful to those who are deacons, priests and bishops to continue helping spread the Word hated, disregarded and rejected? Or am I and to help all of us "walk by faith." judgmental? Do I offer words of encouragement to those This year instead of mailing your pledge or donation to either suffering in mind and spirit? Am I a peacemaker, trying to build parish office, the diocese asks that all pledges and/or checks be bridges of reconciliation and restoration in my sent to the Stewardship Development office at relationships with friends and family, in my community and in 40 North Main Ave., Albany NY 12203 the world? Or do I give into divisions and separation? For information: Do I live my faith? Do I proclaim the Words of the Gospel or do www.rcda.org/offices/[email protected] I cave and compromise trying to justify giving into the trends or call 518-453-6680. and culture of the world? For our parish e-giving information, please see the next page in Is my heart truly detached from false idols, and does my heart this bulletin, our websites or call either parish office. seek out and put first the kingdom of God? Thank you for your generosity. As you reflect on these questions, how will you respond? Goals:

For St. John’s the goal is $30,000.00. Public Mass Protocols For Sacred Heart/Our Lady of Knock the goal is $25,464.00 St. John’s $10,495 (about 35% of goal) and As many know by now, we need to follow strict guidelines when Sacred Heart $4,052 (about 16% of goal). coming to, praying at, and leaving mass. As most parishioners Thank you to all who have donated and pledged! know, I was exposed to the covid-19 virus while out to dinner with a friend. Therefore, I must insist that everyone coming into any of our worship sites for mass follow all safety protocols. If All Soul’s Day Novena. It’s not too late to add your deceased you are unable or unwilling to do so, you will not be able to friends and relatives to our novena for the month of November. stay. On behalf of all who want to safely pray at mass, thank you Please contact either parish office and provide us with their for your cooperation! name(s) and we will include them. (Donations can be made during the week or next weekend – please mark envelope and /or Arrival and Parking – please arrive 45 minutes early. The check – All soul’s novena.) Let us pray during this month for all parking lot closes 10-15 minutes before the scheduled mass time who have died in the past year and before. and the doors to the worship site close at 5 minutes before mass time. Once the doors are closed, no one will be admitted. Please note there are no rest rooms available before, during or after Christmas Giving: Because of the circumstances of COVID mass. Thank you for your understanding. this year we will not be putting up our usual Giving Trees. We

are, however, collecting Gas Cards for seminarians and also Contact Tracing and Personal Information – we ask for and Walmart gift cards for families in need in our communities. process this information as quickly as possible. Our volunteers If you would like to purchase either of these they need to be in appreciate your cooperation! (We will this information only if the office no later than Tuesday, December 1st! there is a covid-19 exposure in church.)

You can place them in an envelope marked Christmas gift and place it in the collection or you can mail it to either St. John the Ushers will guide you to your seats upon entering and will guide Baptist or Sacred Heart office. There is also a mail slot in the you during the communion procession at the end of mass. Please door at Sacred Heart’s office where you can drop them. remain in your place during the entire mass. Only those who are Please watch the bulletin for further details about gifts for our ushers for the mass should be standing at the doors of the church. local nursing homes. If you get up to leave after mass has started, we may ask you Thank you! to not return.

Face Coverings are REQUIRED to cover both your nose and mouth. They must remain on from the moment you leave your Food Donations: If you would like to donate to either parish's vehicle to come to mass and until you are in your vehicle after food pantry, please bring non-perishable foods to the receiving Holy Communion at the end of Mass. St. Catherine's Chapel (on the grounds of Sacred Heart

Church). For the Greenville Food Pantry, which St. John's Sunday Obligation is still suspended. If you cannot or will not supports, please bring to the front doors to the church. While the follow all safety protocols, please stay home and watch mass inner doors are locked, the outer doors are not and there is a online. basket for your donations. If you would like to make a monetary donation for the poor of our one faith community, please mail in Thank you to all who follow and cooperate! Thank you also to all or make an appointment to bring to either parish office. who have stepped up with our extra need for volunteers. Please do not leave cash at either worship site. Right now there is a need for canned vegetables and fruits and non-perishable items for Thanksgiving dinners. Lifeline (National Suicide Prevention) - 1 800 273-8255

Thank you for helping to feed the hungry of Greene County! (call only 24/7) Text (only) Start to 741741, Text or call to 845-485-9700

Mass Intentions for November 2 – November 8 Finance Corner – Background Information Weekday Intentions Once again thank you again to ALL who support our one faith community with three worship sites. During these continuing Monday, 11/2 - All the names in our All Soul’s Novena; days of pandemic where many of our “at risk” parishioners are All our parishioners who have died, all who have died during staying home, it is important to ask everyone to keep up on their this pandemic. support of each parish. Please consider e-giving (see below) so For an increase in vocation to the priesthood, that if you are unable to come to mass in church you will still be

permanent diaconate and religious life. able to support your parish every week. Please be assured of my

heartfelt gratitude for all who donate financially or by sharing Wednesday, 11/4 - For all our citizens and government their time or talents. Thank you! Fr. Steve officials during these days of election results. Eileen Boyle by Boyle

Online Giving For all those affected by the Covid-19 Pandemic.

For Sacred Heart Parish go to www.sholk.weebly.com. For all active duty military, including National Guard, For St. John the Baptist Parish go to www.sjbg.weebly.com. veterans, first responders and front line workers and their

families during these troubled times.

Finance Corner - Collections Through October 25th For the health and safety of all who minister to the sick and those in nursing homes, homebound or hospitals SJB SHOLK

FY 19-20 to date $52,019 $48,569 Weekend Intentions FY 20-21 to date $44,425 $30,198

Neil McArdle by family Fr. James Gavin by Patricia Cullie Overage/Shortage $7,594 $18,371 Bridget Harley by Gerry & Noreen Gilligan & family Intns. of Maria Cieslak for her 71st birthday As you can see, our collection amounts are falling further behind by Anna Dziekan from last year. If you would please think about donating to next John Bernard O’Malley, Diane Failing by Harriet & Art Marini weekend’s second collection for financial catchup, Rose Feibel & family by family I would very much appreciate it! God Bless and thank you for your consideration! Fr. Steve This Month’s Eucharistic Gifts Contributions towards the hosts and wine, which become for us Save the Dates - 2020 the Body and Blood of Christ were made for the month of November 2 - All Soul’s Day November 3 - Election Day November: November 11 -Veteran’s Day* - Offices Closed At Sacred Heart & Our Lady of Knock: in memory of November 26 - Thanksgiving Day* - Offices Closed Thomas Rohan by his loving wife, Anne & family *If you would like to come to either of these masses - Mary Murphy by family registration beforehand is required

Upcoming Second Collections: Please contact either parish office to make arrangements for a October 31/November 1 - Special Disaster Relief Fund mass, or monthly Eucharistic gifts, to be offered in memory or in (see website for details) honor of a loved one. November 7 & 8 - Monthly CatchUp Collection- Shortage due to Covid 19 November 21/22 - Catholic Campaign for Human Development Respect Life “As Catholics, how should we vote according to our faith?” Special Disaster Relief Fund Fr. Chris Alar of the Marian priests in Stockbridge MA. has The USCCB (Bishops of USA) has asked for donations that will provided a video with guidelines based on the of the be used as necessary throughout the year when there are floods, Catholic Church and these are in keeping with the guidelines hurricanes, wildfires or other disasters in the United States. (The given by the USCCB. recent fires in CA and CO come to mind as well as the https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=mzWOUIFz444 hurricanes and tropical storms which hit the southern states hard This talk can be found at the above link and this particular earlier this “season.”) These funds will be used for humanitarian information is found between the 14-16 minute interval aid, long-term recovery and Church needs arising form these

of this video. calamities. If you are able, please place your

Also, our Respect Life Group would like to thank the Crafty donation in an envelope with your name and address on it along who again have provided a treasure trove of knitted and with the words “USCCB Bishops Emergency Disaster Fund.” crocheted items for the babies of the brave moms who choose While there are a number of urgent needs and special collections, Life for them! The beautiful items will be delivered to the Alight especially during these days of pandemic, it is Center who will distribute them. understood that if you cannot help at this time, we ask that you Thanks again Angels! use the power of prayer instead or as well. Thank you! If you missed it, please place a donation in next week’s collection or mail to either parish office.

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