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's Monastery Parish

3801 Old Frederick Rd. at Monastery Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland 21229

We are a welcoming parish. Whatever your present status in the , whatever your current family or marital situation, whatever your past or present religious affiliation, whatever your personal history, age, background, race or color, sexual orientation, whatever your self-esteem, you are invited ,welcomed, accepted, loved and respected by the Catholic Community of St. Joseph’s Monastery Parish.

PARISH INFORMATION

PASTORAL STAFF Rev. Michael A. Murphy, x216 ...... Pastor Mrs. Gail Fischer,x226 [email protected] Religious Education Ms. Rebecca Obniski,x235 [email protected] Director of Music

PARISH STAFF Mr. Al McGill x219 [email protected] Facilities Manager Ms. Lisa Jacobs x214 [email protected] Parish Secretary

OFFICE HOURS Monday - Thursday 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM Friday 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM 251 S. Morley Street Phone-410 -566-0877 Fax-410 -233-4974 E-mail: [email protected]

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Catechesis of the (ages 3-12) (9:30 a.m..- 10:40 a.m.) Sunday School ……………………………...9:30 a.m.. - 10:40 a.m. RCIA ……………………………………….. 9:35 a.m. – 10:35 a.m. Mrs. Barbara Dawson: 443-844-1068 [email protected] Mrs.Mary Homans 410-299-6187 [email protected]

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE We wish to welcome everyone to become an active member of the St. Joseph's Monastery Pastor to be notified 6 months in advance of plan date.

Parish Family! SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

Hello! I would like to become a member of St. Arrangements are made with the Pastor

Joseph's Monastery Parish. Please send me a registration form as soon as possible. UPCOMING PARISH

Name: ______EVENTS SAVE THE DATE ! Address: ______THE PARISH PICNIC

______IS RETURNING ______ON SEPTEMBER 12. More information to

Phone: ______follow (Area Code) We will need volun- Check: teers and trucks to ______Change of Address ______Moving out of Parish transport supplies to ______Want Envelopes the State Park and to help with the picnic. Please cut out and drop in the Collection box or mail to: Call the Rectory if you St. Joseph's Monastery Parish Rectory are interested. 251 South Morley Street Baltimore, MD 21229

We will soon be publishing a list of events happening in the Parish. We have a lot of things planned. WELCOME TO SAINT JOSEPH’S

BULLETIN MASSES For PRAYER LIST : Please remember those who are sick, in a July 31 – 8,2021 nursing or convalescent home, the homebound and their fami- Saturday, July 31,2021 lies and caregivers by including them in our Parish Prayer Chain. Please call the Rectory 410-566-0877 to add them to 4:00 p.m. Rita Crocetti (D) our list. If anyone needs visitation, please call the Rectory 410- Sunday, August 1,2021 566-0877 with the names of anyone in the hospital, nursing 8:30 a.m. Carmen Ann Donegan (D) home or assisted living facility or who is homebound. Birthday Remembrance Richard (Cancer) Nadine (Cancer). Tom M.( Spe- 11:00 a.m. Dick Moxley (D) cial Intentions) Dick K. (Cancer) Ben Peace Monday, August 2,2021 (Good Health) Peggy Moan & Family (Special In- 8:00 a.m. In Loving Memory of tentions) Fadi, Yosif, Mara & Sally (Special Inten- Louis East (D) tions) . Cecilia W. (Special Intention) Barbara’s Tuesday, August 3,2021 Neighbor (Cancer) Larry J. (Good Health) Dareen McGloin (Good Health), Joseph Meyer (Good 8:00 a.m. In Loving Memory Health) & Family Karen Bowen (Fall & Surgery), Arthur M. Wilson (D) Herman Williams (Fall) Peggy Day (Fall) Mike G. Wednesday, August 4,2021 (Stroke) & Strength for the Family, Marian Erd- 8:00 a.m. 46th Birthday of the late man (Fall) Chris (Good Health) Pat B. (Good Chinwe Calista Adetula ( 07-18-2021) Health) Eugene M. (Covid recovery) Louis (Avon) Thursday, August 5,2021 Owens ( Good Health) Please pray for the repose of the soul of Ron Nitsch and keep the Nitsch 8:00 a.m.. No Intentions family in your prayers. Please pray for the repose Saturday, August 7,2021 of the soul of Jim Donohue , Sr. and keep the 4:00 p.m. Margaret Huppmann (D) Donohue family in your prayers. Mary Dooley Sunday, August 8 ,2021 (Liver Condition) ,Chuck McNery (Cancer) Daniel 8:30 a.m. For the People of the Parish Thomas (Cancer) , Tom Cornell (Cancer) 11:00 a.m. No Intentions

Bulletin Masses Please call the Rectory office to have your loved July 17 & 18,2021 ones and friends remembered or honored in a Mass Attendance Bulletin Mass. It is a great way to remember and Envelopes $ 3,720.50 honor your special dates and occasions. Loose $ 642.00 Online Giving $ 1,363.00 A Prayer When in Poor Health 2nd Collection/Energy $ 2,367.00 , in the goodness of your heart, you have Building & Maintenance $ 20.00 given me your great gift of life. You have asked Total Offertory $ 6,749.00 me to take up my cross daily and follow you. To- Please consider remembering our Parish in day my illness is a heavy burden, Lord, and I your estate planning and Will. Our Corporate need the comfort you have promised. As you Title is: Saint Joseph's Passionist Monastery Roman Catholic Congregation, Inc. showed your wounded side to Thomas, open now your heart and have mercy on me. Take special Thank you for your continued support. Your generosity care of those I love and of all the poor and suffer- ensures that we are able to continue with the expenses ing throughout the world. Amen. of the church. Online giving is always available. You may sign up and give as often as you like. If you would like more information, please call the rectory or go online at :www.osvhub.com/sjmp/funds Give, Serve and Pray while you’re away. Online giving helps to sus- tain our parish Download Our Sunday Visitor from the App Store or Google Play SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING OF THE SICK If you or a family member is ill or anticipating sur- gery, please contact the Pastor to be anointed.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday 3:00 - 3:45 PM Or by appointment

There is nothing so great as the . If God Religious Education returns to our Sunday had something more precious, He would have school classrooms in September given it to us. ~~~St. John Vianney RESERVE A SPOT FOR YOUR CHILD(REN) We really need to know how many students to plan for, so please email Gail Fischer at [email protected] or call the parish office 410-566-0877 and leave a message with Lisa. (Gail will be back in the office in August, but I cannot wait until then to start planning) Classes meet on Sunday mornings 9:30 to 10:40. Catechesis of the Good Shepherd CGS Level 1 – ages 3 to 6 CGS Level II – ages 6 to 9 Feast of the Transfiguration CGS Level III – ages 9 to 12 Christian commemoration of the occasion upon Parents of children in Levels I and II will need to which Jesus took three of volunteer on a rotating basis. his disciples, Peter, James, and John, up on a We are still planning for grades 7 and 8. mountain, where and appeared and If you have children in these grades please let Jesus was transfigured, his face and clothes be- me know! coming dazzlingly bright (:2–13; Matthew We need volunteers! 17:1–13; :28–36). The celebrates Please consider helping with this wonderful pro- the revelation of the eternal of the Second gram. Person of the Trinity, which was normally veiled Sacramental Preparation during Christ’s life on earth. According to tradition, Starting date to be determined. the event took place on . First Reconciliation and First Communion is for second grade or higher. The Transfiguration of Jesus is an event reported Confirmation is for ninth grade or higher. in the in which Jesus is transfig- Children must have one year of religious educa- ured and becomes radiant upon a mountain. Je- tion prior to the year they prepare to received sus and three of his apostles go to a mountain . a Sacrament. On the mountain, Jesus begins to shine with bright rays of light, the prophets Moses and Elijah appear next to him and he speaks with them. Je- ST PAUL OF THE CROSS PRAYER GARDEN sus is then called "Son" by a voice in the sky, as- Our St. Paul of the Cross Prayer Garden is sumed to be , as in the Baptism of blooming with love. Please visit before or after Jesus. Mass to see the beautiful tribute to our family and In Christian teachings, the Transfiguration is a friends. The bricks are a great way to remember pivotal moment, and the setting on the mountain important people and times in our lives. You may is presented as the point where human nature continue to purchase bricks at https:// meets God: the meeting place for the temporal www.thatsmybrick.com/sjmpmd or you may and the eternal, with Jesus himself as the con- also fill out one of the forms and mail it in or necting point, acting as the bridge between heav- come into the Rectory and someone will be glad en and earth to help you design a brick. . Thank you for your support and for preserving our rich history at St. What was the transfiguration a sign of? Joseph’s Monastery. They make great gifts for The transfiguration is a sign that Jesus was to fulfill birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, baptisms and the Law and the prophets. It also assured James, Pe- remembering our loved ones. Thank you for your ter, and John the Jesus was indeed the Messiah. support. EVERYDAY STEWARDSHIP - Practicing Graciousness in the Desert Looking back over my journey of parenthood, I know there were days when I traveled the extra mile for my children. I made their toast the way they like it, let them play in the park an extra ten minutes, or let them go to the movies with their friends and I finished up the chores on my own. And then, it happened: the attitude. The request for the smallest thing from one of them is met with disdain or bewilderment. Sometimes you can be made breathless with the ingratitude of another person who takes so much and with so little shame, only to scoff at the idea that they, too, give even the smallest amount. But if we’re being honest with ourselves, we will admit that we do the exact same thing to God. Haven’t we all been the Israelites in the desert at one point or another? God has parted our Red Sea in some way. He’s led us out of some great trial, given us some great blessings. But then we run into a little resistance somewhere along the way and we throw up our hands. How could you do this to us, Lord? How could you ask this of us? No, I can’t go any further. No, I won’t do any more. Persisting in the blindness to the many ways God continues to protect us is nothing short of a tem- per tantrum. It robs our Everyday Stewardship of its graciousness, of our ability to accept with joy the trials of life because we are also constantly aware of its blessings — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS Emily Taylor, Granddaughter of Mary and Tim Dooley graduated from Loudon County High School, Virginia. Emily will attend James Madison University.

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask that You bless my child as she takes on the challenge of a new be- ginning. Take her on wonderful journeys, show Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; who- her new ideas, and help her to explore new ad- ever comes to me will never hunger,and whoever ventures. Encourage her as she grows, and con- believes in me will never thirst.” Jn 6 35 tinue to remain steady in her life. Keep her feet firm on Your foundations and remind her daily Please come for a time of that You have blessed her with plans for the fu- prayer every Thursday 12 ture and hope for tomorrow. In Your name, I pray. noon – 3 pm Amen. (2:55 pm we will pray the Litany of Saint Joseph) Make a visit to our beauti- ful church for a time of prayer during the year of Saint Joseph! There may be times where Adoration has to be cancelled due to a funeral. GIARDINA Sterling-Ashton-Schwab-Witzke & GLUBO Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc. 1630 Edmondson Ave., Catonsvllle, Maryland 21228 Podiatrists 410-744-8600 Catonsville Arbutus 410-747-5324 410-747-6655 410-242-7066 www.sterlingashtonschwabwitzke.com

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