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Check out our Facebook page - Church of St. Patrick CHURCH OF SAINT PATRICK 319 MAHANTONGO STREET POTTSVILLE, PA Pastor........................................................ Rev. Msgr. Edward J. O'Connor Parochial Vicar/Hospital Chaplain ....................... Rev. Barnabas Shayo, A.J. Permanent Deacons ........................................................ Mr. John E. Quirk Mr. Lawrence J. Lonergan Membership/Registraon St. Patrick Parish offers Online Giving All parishioners should be registered as an electronic tool for contribuons so in our files. New parishioners are you can contribute via the Internet. Online asked to register as soon as possible. Giving helps you maintain your giving even if When moving from the parish, nofy you cannot be here at Mass. Please go to our the office. Please also report any Parish website at www.stpatrickposville.org address change. to get started. SCHEDULE OF MASSES WEEKDAY MASSES DIVINE MERCY PERPETUAL ADORATION CHAPEL AT ST. Saturday .................................... 4:15 pm Weekdays .........Currently 8:00 am PATRICK RECTORY: Please call Aleece at 570-449-7678 Sunday ................. 8:00 am and 10:00 am Saturdays..None at the present me for more informaon. CONFESSIONS ROSARY AND NOVENA: 7:00 pm, Wednesdays in Our Saturday ........................ 3:00 to 4:00 pm Wednesday ........... 6:30 to 7:30 pm Lady's Chapel Phone ............ 570-622-1802 Email................ [email protected] COMMUNION CALLS are made monthly. Please contact Fax ................ 570-622-2593 Web ................ www.stpatrickposville.org the Parish Office if you would like to be put on the Communion Call list, or would like to receive the Business Manager.......................................................................... Lisa Arant Anoinng of the Sick. Office Administrator .............................................................. Debbie Walker Office Hours .................................. 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday - Thursday HOSPITAL/NURSING HOME VISITS: The paent or a 8:30 am to 12:00 pm, Friday member of the immediate family must nofy the Parish Bullen Deadline .............................................................. 9:00 am, Mondays Office of a paent's admission so a visit can be made. PARISHMonthly OFFICE Parish Events Calendar Deadline ...............First day of prior month This is in compliance with the Federal HIPAA Law. RCIA: Rite of Chrisan Iniaon of Adults is the SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Parents are required to register and aend a reparatory workshop before Bapsm. Please call Deacon Jack Quirk at 570-622-1802, ext. 7, to process in which adults join the Catholic Church. Please register. Workshops are held bi-monthly. Parents wishing Bapsm for their children call the Parish Office if interested. must be praccing Catholics; meaning regular aendance at Mass, and supporng ELIGIBILITY CERTIFICATE: Cerficates to act as a the Parish by the use of envelopes. sponsor for Bapsm or Confirmaon are available at the SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Couples planning to be married must contact a parish Parish Office. You must be a praccing Catholic, priest at least six months prior to the desired date of the marriage. meaning regular aendance at Mass, and supporng RELIGIOUS EDUCATION (PREP): Grades 1 - 8 • September thru May the Parish by the use of envelopes. Please follow schedule on calendar. When classes are held, please report aer the ST. PATRICK POTTSVILLE AREA KITCHEN: Please call 9:30 am Mass from 10:45 am to noon. Terry Alexander at 570-617-2957 for hours and Sr. Mary Jane Dunleavy, S.S.J., Director 570-544-2464 / [email protected] donaons. Catholic Bishop Abuse Reporng Service: If you have an allegaon of abuse against a bishop, please contact the Catholic Bishop Abuse Reporng Service at www.ReportBishopAbuse.org or by calling 800-276-1562. St. Patrick’s Preschool Navity BVM High School Local Safe Environment Coord. Diocesan Safe at Assumpon BVM Principal: Mrs. Lynn Sabol Lisa Arant, 570-622-5566 Environment Coord. Director: Mrs. Sharon Rossi 570-622-8110 Pamela J. Russo, MSW, MS Vicm Assistance Coordinator 570-622-0106 610-871-5200, Ext. 2204 St. Joseph’s Center Wendy Krisak, MA, NCC, LPC Assumpon BVM for Special Learning DIRECT LINE: 800-791-9209 Elementary School Program Director: Principal: Mrs. Teresa Keang Mr. Robert Giba Diocesan Policies on the Protecon of Youth can be found at: 570-622-0106 570-622-4638 hp://www.allentowndiocese.org/youth-protecon © 2013 Bon Venture Services, LLC, Services, ©© Bon- silver-john 2013Venture Fotolia . FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT FEBRUARY 21, 2021 PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS: - the sick of the parish - our many Benefactors - those recently deceased – Anna Blickley, Kim Schappell Monday, February 22 – The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle If you are a visitor to the Church of St. Patrick, we 8:00 am Mildred Stoudt (Kathleen Didjunas) want you to know that you are most welcome, whether --------------------------------------------------------------------------- you come from another State or from another Parish. Tuesday, February 23 – St. Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr Please feel comfortable in our beautiful house of the 8:00 am Kathryn Kenney (John Catt) Father. Thank you for worshipping with us! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, February 24 8:00 am A Special Miracle for Darin & A Special CANDLE INTENTIONS Intention (Maryann Fetterolf) February 21 to February 27 12:00 pm Regina “Jean” Yeasted (JoAnne & Ron Mercuri) Sanctuary – IMO Barbara (Swantner) Cescon (Swartz/Cescon Families) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sacred Heart – IMO Alice & Thomas Murphy Thursday, February 25 (Alice Henry) 8:00 am For the Special Intentions of the 2020 Pieta – IMO James, Jr., & Sally Schreffler Retreatants (2020 Retreat Team) (Pat & Joe Stoffey) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pope St. John Paul II – Friday, February 26 St. Patrick – IMO Ruth Bernadyn (Jack & Susan Spleen) 8:00 am Ronald F. Christ (Taronis Family) Sanctuary – Our Lady’s Chapel - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blessed Virgin Mary – Our Lady’s Chapel – IMO Joanne Second Sunday of Lent “Cookie” Crowley (The Swartz/Cescon Families) Saturday, February 27 4:15 pm Barbara (Swantner) & Joseph T. Cescon LOTTERY CALENDARS – RECENT OUTCOMES (Swartz/Cescon Families) Sunday, February 28 Tues., February 9 #386 Beth C. ($50) 8:00 am People of the Parish Wed., February 10 #789 No Winner 10:00 am Girda N. Matz (The Monti Family) Thurs., February 11 #206 Msgr. John ($50) Fri., February 12 #502 Joan B. ($50) Sat., February 13 #769 No Winner READINGS OF THE DAY Sun., February 14 #530 No Winner Mon., February 15 #160 Dennis G. ($50) First Reading: Genesis 9:8-15 God made a promise to Noah that he would never again Our monthly lottery calendars are a great fundraiser for devastate the entire planet with a flood. He also told our Parish! They make great gifts! Please consider being Noah that the symbol of this promise would be a rainbow a seller, or buying one by calling the Parish Office! in the clouds. Second Reading: 1 Peter 3:18-22 This letter from Peter reminds all people that Christ died In memory of Joe Phillips by: Kathleen Young for us so that we might be led to God. We have been DONATIONS TO saved by our baptism; not a physical cleansing, but a THE In memory of Joseph Noel promise to continually strive to obey God. ST. PATRICK by: Laurie & Richard Bell MEMORIAL In memory of William DeAngeles Gospel: Mark 1:12-15 FUND Mark briefly tells of Jesus’ by: Francis & Jean Quirk; stay in the desert, where he Jim & Ann Marie Somers was tested by Satan. He did not give in to In memory of Agnes Franko temptation, but reappeared by: Ann & David Terleckas in Galilee to proclaim the In memory of Helen McGeever good news. by: Molly Dimmerling Greenawalt ©1999 Bon Venture Services, Inc. PARISH STEWARDSHIP The Next Activities Committee Meeting is on Tuesday, February 23, at 6 pm, in the Parish Due to the President’s Day Holiday, the Parish Center. All are welcome! Please wear a mask! Stewardship report for February 14 will be in next Bishop Alfred Schlert week’s bulletin. asks the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Allentown to The Second Collection on the weekend of February 28 celebrate the Ember will be for Parish Maintenance. Please be generous! Days for the Season of Lent as a sign of Debbie will not be available at the Parish Office reparation and healing on Thursday, April 1, Friday, April 2, and for the Church. Monday, April 5 for the Easter Holiday! Ember Days are quarterly observances with three days set LAST CHANCE FOR THE BIG ONE!!! 10,000!!! aside (Wednesday, Friday and Saturday) to pray in gratitude for the blessings The fourth drawing of the Shamrock of the season and human labor, to thank God publicly. $10,000 took place on February 6, and There are 12 Ember Days in all. the winner was Mike Curran from The Lenten Ember Days for 2021 are as follows: Schuylkill Haven! Congratulations Mike!! Wednesday, February 24; Friday, February 26; and Just a reminder that if you didn’t get your tickets in or if Saturday, February 27. you would like to purchase some more, you still can and you will have a chance to win the $10,000 Grand Prize! The $10,000 will be drawn on Saturday, SPECIAL OPPORTUNITIES IN LENT March 6 after the 4:15 pm Mass! The drawing will be AT ST. PATRICK CHURCH livestreamed on our Facebook page. Where else can you buy a ticket for $5 with a chance to win $10,000! STATIONS OF THE CROSS IN LENT Please remember, not only do the winners benefit Every Wednesday at 11:15 am, and financially, but St. Patrick Parish does too! We need every Friday at 6:30 pm the help of ALL of our Parishioners to support the (with Exposition and Benediction) Parish! Thank you if you already purchased your MORNING PRAYER IN LENT tickets! Every morning, Monday through Friday, at 7:40 am. LENTEN REMINDER: Good Friday is an obligatory day of fasting CONFESSIONS IN LENT and abstinence for Catholics. In Saturday: 3 pm to 4 pm, and addition, Fridays during Lent are Wednesday: 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm obligatory days of abstinence.