Page St. John’s Parish , Olean, New York St. John’s Church January 26, 2020
Masses: Saturday Vigil: 4:30 PM Sunday: 9:30 AM Mon, Tues, Thurs Fri: 8:00 AM
** If the Olean City Schools are closed due to unsafe weather conditions, morning Mass will be cancelled.
Parish Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9:00 AM –3:30 PM *Website: sjteolean.org
Confessions: Saturday - 3:30 - 4:10 PM and upon request.
Baptisms - Parents requesting an infant Baptism please call Katie at the church office.
Marriages - Arrangements by the couple need to be made 6 months in advance, by making Parish Finance Council: Paul Abdo, Dan Butler, Paul Bzdak, an appointment. Rita DeRose, Steve Pachla and Carol Stitt New Registrations: Please use registration form on website or call the office. Parish Council: Donna Brestensky, Joseph Keary, MS, MBA Kathy Brewer, Dan Butler, Joint Operations Manager for Dan Hinz, Kathy Mahar, St. John’s & St. Mary of the Angels Churches Pat O’Malley, Larry Pavlock, Dennis Pezzimenti, Anita Schmidt, Office: 716-372-4841, X33 Jay Sorokes and Carol Stitt Winter Watch for Religious Education Classes Grades K-10 Regional Pastor : “Faith Formation” please contact Ann Sorokes. Rev. F. Patrick Melfi St. John’s Church [email protected] During the winter Parish Staff season, if the city of Katie Barber, Regional Parochial Vicars: Olean Schools are Rev. David Tourville [email protected] closed due to bad [email protected] weather conditions, Ann Sorokes, Faith Formation - Rev. Romulo T. Montero there will be [email protected] [email protected] NO MORNING MASS Mark Lang, Custodian - [email protected] Deacon: Matthew Wenke
931 N Union Street | 716 - 372 - 5313 | sjteolean.org January 26, 2020 St. John’s Parish , Olean, New York Page 2 Mass Intentions for the Week Our Sanctuary Lamp burns Feb. 1-15 for the glory of God in the Remembrance of Saturday, January 25 - The Conversion of Eileen Smith St. Paul the Apostle By: Gigi Chizewick & Joan Corson 4:30 pm - James N. Connelly By: Mike & Charlotte McLaughlin Our Lady of Perpetual Help burns Dennis McCole January 15-31 for the glory of God and By: Charles & Mary McCole in remembrance of Philomena Aiello Sunday, January 26 - 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time By: Hilda Baudry 9:30 am - Louella Potter - By: Mary Jill, Mary Lou, Bonnie, Nancy, Pam and Mary Our parish extends its condolences to the tri catholic community families of : Monday, January 27 – S. Angela Merici Charlotte Murphy, Roseann Hall, 8:00 am – Tom Victor Sr. - By: Mary Brown Betty Sakala, Carol Jedrosko, and Carolyn Hanson Tuesday, January 28 - St. Thomas Aquinas Please keep them and their families 8:00 AM - Carolyn Hanson - By: Dee Cecchi in your prayers. Wednesday, January 29 - NO MASS Please Pray For Our Sick Thursday, January 30 - Pyrrha Bertrand, Gaby Coburn, Julie Dix, David Frey, Tom McInerney, 8:00 am – Peg Tupper - By: The MacWilliams Family Rosella Kendzior, Carol Kielar, David Krahe, Mother’s Day Remembrances Bernie Lyaski, Rev. John P. Mack, Patricia Magnano, Friday, January 31 - St. John Bosco Carol Moran, Paul Mountain, Gavin Riley, 8:00 am - All Souls Jennifer Sauter, Joan Sauter, Rob Umbenhour, Jeff Veno, and all the Hospice Patients Saturday, February 1 - and for their families and caregivers ______4:30 pm - Joseph Crisafulli - By: Rita DeRose Bud & Mary Pezzimenti - By: Carol Moses Sunday, February - The Presentation of the Lord Let us lift up in prayer all the men & woman in the 9:30 am - Theresa Napolione - By: Armeda Ramire military service and Mary Gardner serving our country.
If you require a contribution statement for Reading and Music Selection 2019, please contact the Parish Office during normal business hours. Opening Hymn: Today’s Sing a New Song #598 ** Pastoral Care Medical information privacy laws re- Readings Page 931 quire that you must give permission to have the parish Offertory: notified or pastoral care to visit you when you are ad- Remember Your Love #533 mitted to the hospital. ** Communion : Come to Me #695
Thank You for Recessional : supporting our Anthem #727 sponsors Page 3 St. John’s Parish , Olean, New York January 26, 2020 Attention Catholic Men looking for new members Events Knights of Columbus 338 meets every 4th Thursday :J8 ^ %J8_ Chrisan Unity Service and Ecumen Award @ @ 7pm at the Parish Life Center next to the Basilica of St Mary of the Angels ]I R 8 #C1<:GV . &Q .V`.Q% V85 (CCV$:J75 “In service to one-in service to all”! Congratulaons to this year’s award recipient, the Brian Graham –307-2437/Joe Keary 307-4968 Franciscan Sisters of Allegany. Recepon will follow. New email : [email protected]
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St. Vincent de Paul The first Sunday of the month there is a food drive for non - perishable food items for QJ :H 7:`I:.1CR: St. Vincent de Paul. Please put your food in 0H.1CR $I:1C8HQI the shopping carts located at each entrance. More informaon at Thank you for your support! CV:JL 8Q`$ ______January 26, 2020 St. John’s Parish , Olean, New York Page 4
Altar Servers February 1 & 2 St. John’s has decided to replace our 4:30 PM: Wenke paper-cover seasonal Missals and 9:30 AM: DeFazio Hymnals with hard cover Ministers of the Holy Eucharist dual-purpose Missals/Hymnals. February 1 & 2 These will enable us to reduce our waste stream, as the paper Missals 4:30 PM : A. Rybicki, J. Abdo and C. Moses and Hymnals need to be disposed of
serval times a year. The hard-cover 9:30 AM: D. Cecchi, T. Mark and C. MacWilliams Missal/Hymnal is estimated to last for 15-20 years, at a considerable Lector Schedule February 1 & 2 saving in both cost as well as being 4:30 PM : K. Fitzgerald more ecologically friendly. 9:30 AM: R. Mikolajczyk Greeter Schedule February 1 & 2 As part of this conversion, we want 4:30 PM - P. Brady and M. Klotz to offer the opportunity for 9:30 AM - A/C Shafer and B/L Sherman Parishioners to memorialize these Missals/Hymnals in the name of an What’s Happening at our Parish individual, a family or a special Please group. The cost to purchase and This week... contact the memorialize each set of Missals/ Parish Monday, January 27, 2020 Hymnals of 5 books is a donation of Office with $175.00. An individual memorial - City of Olean Afterschool Rec - 3:00 - 5:30PM your may be purchased at $35 per missal - Bible Study - 10:00 am - 12Noon names and or any combination of missals. This - Bible Study 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm payments is an opportunity to serve our Parish Thank and our Parishioners while insuring Tuesday, January 28, 2020 You you loved ones are kept in our memories and prayers daily. Contact - City of Olean Afterschool Rec - 3:00 - 5:30PM the Parish Office for payments. Wednesday, January 29 ,2020 - AA Unity Meeting - School Campus - 11:00 am St. John’s Volunteer Spotlight of the week - City of Olean Afterschool Rec - 3:00 - 5:30PM — St. John’s Ushers — Thursday, January 30, 2020 A great big thank you to Our Ushers - AA Unity Meeting - School Campus - 11:00 am - City of Olean Afterschool Rec - 3:00 - 5:30PM Thank you so very much to each of our ushers. There are many tasks that go unnoticed and that Friday, January 31, 2020 are done behind the scenes and even though you - AA Unity Meeting - School Campus - 11:00 am are very visible in your duties - City of Olean Afterschool Rec - 3:00 - 6:30PM it is a blessing that each of you volunteer to be so kind as to help. The annual Souper Bowl of Caring food drive will Paul Abdo, Steve Bergstrom, Dan Butler, be held on Feb. 1 & 2 John Butler, Paul Cashimere, Art Filjones, Please place Jim Leone, Richard Lindamer, Larry Lewicki, non-perishable food items John Neeson, Dee Rogers , Don Schifley and in the labeled boxes Mark Schmidt before or on that weekend. All food and May God Bless YOU! monetary donations are given to St. Vincent dePaul food pantry to benefit our community. St. John’s Volunteer Spotlight of the week Page 5 St. John’s Parish , Olean, New York January 26, 2020 LIVING DONOR NEEDED FOR LIVER TRANSPLANT
About a year ago, my body entered a “perfect FR. JOHN P. MACK storm” as various symptoms, all pointing to eventual liver failure, began to emerge and converge. Four stays in South PRIEST, BROTHER, Buffalo’s Mercy Hospital beginning in November 2018 FRIEND, PROFESSOR helped bring me back to a manageable level. My name is Father John P. This past October, upon the advice of the liver transplant Mack, a Roman Catholic specialists at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y., priest for the Diocese of my life entered a new phase. Following a two-day evalua- Buffalo. Currently, I am a tion process and a thorough examination of my results by faculty member at Christ the King Seminary, in East the entire transplant team, they recommended I be placed Aurora just south of Buffalo, NY. I’ve currently been on the liver transplant list. serving here for more than 10 years. I preside as an assistant professor in Pastoral Studies/Theology and chair Living Donor Liver Transplant (LDLT) is possible because of of the Pastoral Studies/Theology Department. the unique ability of the liver to regenerate in humans af- ter a segment is removed. When a piece of the liver is re- Growing up in Rochester, NY I would frequently watch the moved from a healthy living donor, the part that remains in Rochester Red Wings baseball team play. Before the donor regenerates in six to eight weeks while the trans- becoming a priest, I was a disc jockey on the air at radio planted segment will also regenerate in six to eight weeks. stations in Olean and Seneca Falls, NY. Currently in the U.S. there are over 16,000 people regis- I was ordained to the priesthood on June 1, 1985, by tered and waiting for a liver transplant with the United Net- Bishop Edward D. Head at St. Barnabas Church in Depew, work for Organ Sharing (UNOS). There are only 4,500 de- NY. All of my pastoral assignments have been in Western ceased donor livers available each year and only about 15 New York. I serve as chaplain of the Church Musicians living liver transplants each year, although that number is Guild, in the Diocese of Buffalo. I am also on the Mission growing. Integration Committee for the Catholic Health System of Buffalo, and since 2008, I have served as a weekend as- ANY INQUIRIES ABOUT MY SPECIFIC SITUATION OF sistant at Immaculate Conception Church in East Aurora, ANYONE INTERESTED IN MORE INFORMATION NY. Besides my priestly ministry, I am a Fourth Degree SHOULD CONTACT ONE OF MY CHAMPIONS, OR Knight of Columbus in the St. Joseph Assembly at Christ REACH OUT DIRECTLY TO JENNIE ERRIGO, RN, the King Seminary and have published a number of books, DONOR COORDINATOR, AT STRONG MEMORIAL including: “Priests: An Inside Look.” HOSPITAL AT 585-275-5875 WITH A DOUBLE I am a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and IDENTIFICATION OF MY NAME (JOHN MACK) AND Operation Iraqi Freedom. I served as a chaplain in the DATE OF BIRTH (APRIL 27, 1954). United States Air Force Reserve and the New York Air National Guard from 1981 until 2009, retiring with the Thank you all for your prayers and support! rank of Lieutenant Colonel. During my military service, God bless you all. I deployed numerous times to different locations including Colombia, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; Jacobabad, Pakistan www.liverformack.com (for Operation Enduring Freedom, and the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom), and multiple deployments to Al Udeid AB, Doha, Qatar. I have a Bachelor of Science degree from Kent State University, a Master of Divinity degree from Christ the King Seminary and a Certificate of Advanced Studies in Educational Administration from the State University College of New York at Brockport. I earned Master of Theology and Licentiate in Sacred Theology degrees, from Regis College, Toronto School of Theology, University of Toronto, in Ontario, Canada. Five years ago I was diagnosed with non-alcoholic cirrhosis of the liver. The medical term is Non-Alcoholic Steato Hepatitis or NASH. It is a chronic condition that can be defined as the liver manifestation of a metabolic disorder. It is the most severe form of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
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