Saint Barbara Catholic Church the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 19-20, 2016 “Lord, Remember Me When You Come Into Your Kingdom.”

Saint Barbara Catholic Church The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 19-20, 2016 “Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

Pastor: Rev. Brian Cline School Principal: Matthew Creamer Dir. Religious Education: Mollie Luginski Youth Minister: Cara Lipinski Church Secretary: Judy Wellin PR, Marketing, PLC: Ken Boyce Parish Council Chairperson: Bob Otte Finance Council Chairperson: Tony Spitale

Church Office: Phone: (330) 833-6898 Fax: (330) 833-5164 E-mail: [email protected] St. Barbara School: Phone: (330) 833-9510 E-mail: [email protected] Parish Life Center: Phone: (330) 832-4773

UR MISSION STATEMENT: We, the Christian Community of St. Barbara Parish O are united in our solid Catholic faith and tradition. We strive to live out our baptismal call through service to our members and God’s people.

SCHEDULE OF MASSES: Through support and education, we shall nurture spiritual growth, at all ages, while promoting a strong foundation for our SATURDAY values and beliefs. 4:30 p.m. SUNDAY Joyfully, we go forth, through the working 8:00 a.m., 10:30 a.m., 5:30 p.m. of the Holy Spirit, to carry out the HOLYDAY mission of Jesus Christ. Vigil ~ 7:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. WEEKDAY 8:00 a.m. (*Special December Schedule) SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION SATURDAY 3:30 p.m.

Parish Office Hours: Monday—Friday 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Bingo: Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. (PLC)

2813 Lincoln Way NW, Massillon, Ohio 44647 www.StBarbMassillon.com

SBP: Vol I, Issue III SAINT BARBARA CHURCH November 19 - 20, 2016

BAPTISM Mandatory Baptism Preparation Sessions are held quarterly: February / May / August / November Baptisms are held the fourth Sunday of the month.

Sunday Nov. 20– Our Lord Jesus Christ King of the Universe REGISTRATION 8:00 a.m. – People of Our Parish New families should register by phone or by coming to the 10:30 a.m. – Emilio & Manuela Gonzalez (Dautghters) Rectory. Every wage earner should make a real effort to support the parish with Christian generosity. 5:30 p.m. – Sheri Davis (Elementary School Friends)

RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults) Monday – Nov. 21-Presentation of the Blessed Mother The RCIA is the ancient and currently renewed process for NO MASS initiating adults into the Catholic Church. It is for those desiring full membership through Baptism, Confirmation, and Eucharist. Tuesday – November 22 – St. Cecelia We invite newcomers who are seeking membership to join us! 7:45 a.m. – Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Call the church office for information.

8:00 a.m. – Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion MARRIAGE 8:30 a.m. – Eucharistic Adoration Begins Arrange six moths in advance.

Wednesday – November 23 – Ss. Clement, Columban MINISTRY OF CARE 8:30 a.m. – SCHOOL MASS For visits to shut-ins or the homebound, call: Larry Fierstos (Tom and LaDonna Kraus)

Tess Simonetti- (330) 832-0597 and Julie Turkal- (330) 832-7868 Thursday – November 24 – St. Andrew Dung-Lac

Bulletin Submissions 9:00 a.m. – THANKSGIVING DAY Bulletin submissions are due to the rectory by Tuesday at noon. Morsheiser Family (Family) Inserts should be sent in electronic form whenever possible. Friday – November 25 – St. Catherine of Alexandria Ministries and Contact Information: NO MASS Saturday – November 26 Youth Ministry: Cara Lipinski (330) 412-1125 4:30 p.m. – Andrew & Norma Mastrianni (Susan, Janet, David)

Music Ministry: Ken Boyce (330) 575-1561 Parish Council : Bob Otte (330) 833-7690 Sunday – November 27 – First Sunday of Advent Finance Council: Tony Spitale (330) 209-8454 8:00 a.m. – Larry & Verla Lorenz – 50th Anniversary Prayer Circle: Vincent & Lois Drouhard (330) 833-9790 10:30 a.m. - Dianne Heather (Agie Kennedy-DeVault) Social Club: Joe Pape (330) 832-2824 5:30 p.m. – Margaret Puzzoule (Tess & Len Simonetti) Liturgy Committee: Ken Boyce (330) 833-6898 Eucharistic Ministers: LaDonna Kraus (330) 837-3669 Scripture Readings for the Week – 11/20/16-11/27/16 Lectors: Judy Wellin (330) 833-8879 Sun.– 2 Sm 5: 1-3; Col 1: 12-20; Lk 23: 35-43 Adult Servers: Joel Fichter (330) 830-9301 Mon.- Rv 14: 1-3, 4b-5; Lk 21: 1-4 Child Servers: Ken Boyce (330) 833-6898 Tues – Rv 14: 14-19; Lk 21: 5-11 Ushers: Thomas Kraus (330) 837-3669 Wed. - Rv 15: 1-4; Lk 21: 12-19 Gift Bearers: Julie Turkal (330) 832-7868 Thurs – Rv 18:1-2, 21-23, Rv19:1-3, 9a; Lk 21: 20-28 Greeters: Joan Galant (330) 830-5311 Fri. – Rv 20: 1-4, 11, Rv21: 2; Lk 21: 29-33 Sacristans: Marcia Thomas (330) 830-3847 Sat. – Rv 22: 1-7, Lk21: 34-36 Caring Stitchers: Mary Sirgo (330) 837-4588 Faith in Action: Arlene Nussbaum (330) 837-2705 Sun. – Is 2: 1-5; Rom 13: 11-14; Mt 24: 37-44 Church Coordinator *Daily Masses at St. Barbara Parish: P.T.O.: Jennifer Doney (330) 904-2599 For the month of December, regular daily Masses School Secretary: Rhonda Annen (330) 833-9510 (M, T, W, F) will be offered at 9:00am. 2 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 19 - 20, 2016

Flowers on the Altar are in Memory of Schedules for 11/21/16-11/27/16 Dan Petcavage with love from his wife, Leona. Weekday Server – 11/21,22,25 – NO MASSES Gift Bearers This Weekend 8:30am- 11/23– D. Carbone, JT Brown, L. Eberhardt 4:30 p.m. – Bessie Jackson, Lori Dearth 9:00am- 11/24 – W. and N. Watkins, B. Lipinski 8:00 a.m. – Tom and Dorothy Tonn Saturday/Sunday Masses - Servers 10:30 a.m. – PSR 4:30 pm – 11/26 – P. Via, J. and C. Majors 5:30 p.m. - Ushers 8:00 am – 11/27 – L. Soehnlen, T. and A. Kasunick Thanksgiving 10:30 am – 11/27 – Aubrey Spitale, A. Freidly, K. Schonauer 9:00 a.m. – Steve and Mary Jane Malich 5:30 pm – 11/27– L. Eberhardt Lectors: EUCHARISTIC ADORATION is Tuesday, 11/22. 4:30 pm – 11/26 – J. Shrider, K. Schiller If you can’t make your appointed time, please call one of the 8:00 am – 11/27 – C. Anderson, K. Mitchell substitutes: Verla Lorenz, 330-833-1125; Judi Frank, 330-828-8343; 10:30 am - 11/27– B. Kracker, R. Young Sue Ehmer, 330-704-0965 5:30 pm – 11/27 – C. Giltz and Bob Kracker 330-833-1885. 9:00 am – 11/24 – M.J. Malich - Thanksgiving If they are not available, then call the rectory. Please remember: Sacristans: do not leave until the next person arrives, as we should never leave our Lord unattended. 4:30 pm – 11/26 – S. Zeigelhofer 8:00 am - 11/27 – J. Wyman, T. Simonetti National Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military- 10:30 am – 11/27– J. Turkal Thank You - On behalf of the Most Reverend Timothy P. 9:00 am – 11/24 – P. Bishop - Thanksgiving Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services, USA, and his Auxiliary Bishops and staff, heartfelt thanks to those who Offering for November 12-13, 2016 participated in the Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services (AMS). Your prayers and generosity will Weekly Budget $ 12,621.00 support the unique ministry to men and women who currently Military $ 1,225.62 protect this great nation of ours and defend the freedoms we hold dear. You have also helped to provide the sacraments Regular Collection $ 8,393.44 and pastoral care for Catholic veterans who served with Mail-in $ 1,645.00 distinction and who are cared for in Veterans Administration On-line $ 210.00 Medical Centers across the U.S., in Puerto Rico and Guam. Total $ 10,248.44

Vocations – Let us pray that Christ the King, who Defecit ($2,372.56) has brought peace through the blood of His cross, will choose many men and women from our midst to 609 Total: 4:30 – 200; 8:00 – 135; 10:30 – 243; 5:30 - 31

preach redemption by the forgiveness of sins as Capital Campaign $799,299.00 priests, deacons and in the consecrated life. Collected to date $333,768.92 Retirement Fund for Religious – Sister Joyce from Daily Masses – are offered at St. Joseph at 8:30 a.m., the Diocese of Youngstown will be here this St. Mary at 8:15 am (at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church) and weekend, November 19 and 20, to talk about the Ss. Philip & James, Mon. at 6:30 am, Tues.-Thurs. at 8:00 am, retirement fund for retired religious in our diocese. Fri. at 9:00 a.m. Please be generous for these dedicated religious. Please note - NO BINGO on November 23rd. (See donation form in this bulletin) 3 SAINT BARBARA CHURCH November 19 - 20, 2016

The Chart for “Flowers on the Altar 2017”

is on the card table on the west side of the Narthex. Please PRINT your name first and then your loved one’s This Week’s Schedule: name in honor or in memory of them. Drop an envelope into the collection basket with your check for $25 and mark BELL CHOIR Practice is on it “Flowers on the Altar” or if convenient for you, drop st Monday, November 21 from 5:30-7pm the check off at the Rectory. Checks are to be made out to In the Worship Space St. Barbara Church.

CHOIR Practice is Magnificat of Stark County – Mary, Queen of Heaven and st Monday, November 21 from 7-8:30pm Earth Chapter, invites you to our 15 Year Celebration – Saturday, In the Worship Space December 3rd at Walsh University, Barrette Center, 2020 East Maple Street, North Canton. Join us in a special time of fellowship and sharing. YOUTH CHOIR Practice is Diane Bates will be our guest speaker. nd Tuesday, November 22 from 3-4pm Cost is $18. Make checks payable to “Magnificat of Stark County” and In the School Music Room send to Debby Bentivegna, 5575 East Blvd NW, Canton, OH 44718. Seating is limited. PLAN on getting your reservations in EARLY! No FOLK GROUP Practice this week Reservations cannot be accepted after November 26th.

All groups are ALWAYS Doors open at 8:30 am with Breakfast at 9:00 am. There will be an welcoming new members! optional Mass at 8:00 am in Our Lady of Perpetual Help Chapel at Walsh University. For further info, call Shirley DeOrio at 614-620-3169.

Next Week Mass Schedule at a Glance: th Thursday, November 24th: 9:00am- Cantor Social Club Meeting is Sunday, November 20 – Saturday, November 26th: 4:30pm- Folk Group 6:00 pm in the Parish Life Center. Bring change for Sunday, November 27th: 8:00am- Cantor the Horse Races. Refreshments will be served – all are 10:30am- CHOIR welcome! 5:30pm- Cantor

WANTED A person to assist with household chores for a partially disabled male. (Some mornings and Christmas Eve Choir! evenings) For more information, please call Cheryl at 330-832-6360. Anyone interested in singing in the Christmas Eve Choir is invited to rehearse with us at two special practices: ATTENTION! PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS.

 Sunday December 18th from 2-5pm (mandatory) The Angel Giving Trees will be up and ready the  Wednesday, December 21st at 7pm. weekend of Thanksgiving, November 26 and 27. They will be up through December 11th. The DEADLINE for Both practices are in the worship space. returning the gifts is no later than December 11th. The Christmas Eve Choir provides festive music 30-min. prior Thank you in advance for making Christmas merry for to the midnight Mass, as well as leading song during the those in need! Mass. This is a great opportunity to give the choir a try! No audition or previous experience necessary, just a love of Sanctuary Candle – The large Sanctuary candle next to the singing and a willingness to make a joyful noise! tabernacle can be lit in Memory of a loved one for one week for Contact Ken Boyce at 330-575-1561 or $10. The candles on the “tree” of candles can be lit in Memory of a loved one for $4. You can place the money in an envelope [email protected] for more details! and put it into the collection baskets on the weekend Masses Let’s make a joyful noise together! marked, “Candle Money” or you can drop it off at the rectory. 4 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 19 - 20, 2016

Volunteers Needed! Our Monday Holy Dusters are in need of Youth Ministry Notes more volunteers. We begin after the Monday morning Mass

and are usually done no later than 10:00 a.m. Please help us! Thank You! For your poinsettia orders. As a reminder, all Call the Rectory at 330-833-6898 if you want to help out. flowers will be at the Church after Masses on December 3 and 4 for pick-up. We appreciate your continued support. SCHOOL NEWS

nd Youth Ministry will be holding their first annual Thanksgiving Feast Tuesday, November 22 -Dairy Queen Family Night Out on this Sunday, November 20th at St. Joe’s. ALL youth in grades – 5-8PM at the DQ on Lincoln Way NW. Please come 7-12 are welcome to attend. Please text Cara 330-412-1125 with and join us! They donate 20% of the proceeds (including the what kind of dish you can bring. We will be decorating our drive-thru) back to our school.

Christmas tree following the dinner in our room! rd

Wednesday, November 23 - SCHOOL MASS – 8:30 am The Youth Ministry Team would like to take this opportunity to say November 24, 25 and 28– NO SCHOOL – Thursday, THANK YOU to so many people we appreciate. First, thank you to Friday and Monday – for Thanksgiving Break. our pastors, Father Brian and Father Paul, who have allowed us to work in this ministry that is so incredibly important to our Church. Thank You – The Co-Chairpersons Becky Himes and Pat We appreciate their support of our program. THANK YOU to the Eberhardt, along with the entire Auction Committee would parishioners for always supporting us with your prayers, your kind like to extend a huge THANK YOU to everyone who helped words and financially. Without you we would not be able to offer with the auction in any way. Be it working, donating, the many opportunities for our teens. THANK YOU to the parents promoting, attending or whatever you did to help, please and families of the teens we serve. You allow us to be a part of know that it is truly appreciated. We will have an amount of your teens’ faith journey and the trust you place in us is humbling – profit for the school soon from this fun-filled event and will your support keeps us going. THANK YOU to the youth who are a put it in the bulletin. We hope that everyone enjoyed the part of our program, whether you attended once or every week. We evening and the food and will plan to come back next time enjoy working with you – you put the pep in our Sunday nights we have our auction. when most are settling down preparing for Monday mornings – we are energized to begin a new week after being with you. You mean 200 Club Winners from the Nov. 15th Drawing the world to us and thank you for just being you for accepting us # 77 – Ed Heimann - $100 and allowing us into your ilves. THANK YOU to our families for understanding that this program is a part of us and making it a part #184 – Arlene Nussbaum - $100 of you. You embrace these youth as we do – you make it possible for us to take them on trips and away from our homes throughout Greeters are needed for all Masses! Would you be the year because you believe in us and in the work we do. This willing to give the Greeter Ministry a hand? If interested or Thanksgiving we thank all of you for making our ministry possible. for more info, call: Joan Galant 330-830-5311 Deacon Randy Smith and Cara Lipinski In Memoriam

More Youth Ministry Notes: Attention ALL YOUTH in In your kindness please pray for the repose of the souls of grades 7-12 we invite you to meet us at Lock 3 in Akron the following people who died this past week: for ice skating and winter putt putting. There is a small Carol Webb loving sister of Merle (Judy) Webb group doing a service project at Akron Children’s of our parish. Hospital and we want to have a fun winter celebration afterwards! If you have your own skates, skating is free; Francis Schmidt our loving parishioner, dear husband of if not, it’s only $3 and putt putt is also $3 and includes Shirley and father of Mike of our parish. 9-holes of golf and a hot chocolate. Please consider Eternal rest grant unto them O Lord and let the perpetual nd joining us on December 22 . Please text Cara for a light shine upon them. Amen. permission form. (330-412-1125)

5 SAINT BARBARA CHURCH November 19 - 20, 2016

Faith in Action Christmas Gift Bags – There will be approximately 124 elderly Why Do We Do That? residents who will receive gift bags from LITURGICAL GESTURES (Part 1)

Faith in Action. This may be the only gift they will receive. Items such as snack “We do any number of things with our bodies during bars, juice boxes, cookies, small toiletry liturgy, most of which we don’t even think about. We items are donated by members of local just do them because that’s what we’ve always done or organizations. They will be delivered to that is what other members of the assembly are doing. the care receivers on December 14th. In reality, however, each gesture we make is fraught Donations can be dropped off at the Faith in Action office at 412 Lincoln Way East, Mon.-Thurs. 9:30-3:30. with meaning. Call 330-837-2705 if you need us to pick up your donations. The sign of the cross is the same gesture and (See the list of suggested gift items below) words used at baptism. We make the sign of the cross with holy water when we enter the church. We sign CHRISTMAS BAGS ourselves at the very beginning and end of the liturgy. This suggests to us that everything that happens in Sugar Free Candy between is the work of the Holy Trinity, is God’s work Regular Candy on our behalf. We sign ourselves at the beginning of Individual Servings of Can Foods the proclamation of the gospel, using a different Snack items - snack bars gesture, begging God that these words be in our minds, Juices – Hot chocolate – Asst. teas on our lips, and in our hearts. Crackers (peanut butter) When the priest (and deacon) approach the altar at the beginning of Mass and again at the end, he Fruit - Apples - Oranges pauses to kiss the altar. The altar is consecrated with Cookies – Chips - Pretzels holy chrism when it is new. Holy chrism is a special Stamps – Note Paper oil we use in very few liturgical rites. Each of us is anointed with holy chrism at our baptism (and All Occasion Cards – Christmas confirmation) as a sign of our participation in Christ’s Puzzle books – Devotional books priesthood. Priests and bishops are anointed with holy Gift Certificates chrism at their ordination. The altar and walls of the Grocery Store/Restaurants church are anointed with holy chrism at their consecration and dedication. These anointings set Bath & Hand Towels persons and things apart to be special presences of the Shawls – Sweaters – Scarfs - Gloves risen Christ. So, when the priest kisses the altar at the beginning of Mass, he is symbolically kissing Christ. Manicure – Emery boards etc. More kissing takes place at Mass! After proclaiming the gospel, the deacon or priest kisses the Book of the Men Deodorants Gospels, reminding us that Christ is truly present in Pretty Soaps the proclamation of the gospel.”

The Parish Office will be closed on Thanksgiving Day, the day after, and the following Monday. November 24, 25 & 28. 6 Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe November 19 - 20, 2016

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