St. John Neumann Parish January 17th, 2021

Second Sunday in NEWCOMERS WELCOME!

Ordinary Time Please call the Rectory for an appointment with Msgr. Matz to register to become a member.

CONNECT WITH US! www.sjnparish.org Colman—John Parish Rectory Neumann Catholic School [email protected] www.scjnschool.org 610-525-3100 610-525-3266 380 Highland Lane 372 Highland Lane Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Bryn Mawr, PA 19010

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 Pastor: Rev. Msgr. J. Matz  In Residence: Rev. Robert J. Chapman  Permanent : Deacon Kevin Harrington  “Rabbi, where are you staying?” “Come, and you will see.” Parish Services Director: Ms. Clare Frissora Andrew found his brother Simon and told him,  Sunday Assistance: “We have found the Messiah.” Rev. Gerald D. Canavan Jn 1:38b, 39a, 41 Rev. Robert Murray, OSA  Business Manager: Mrs. Joy Falcone CONFESSIONS — during the pandemic  Administrative Assistants: Mrs. Norma Guzmán 0Tuesdays at 6:00 pm—in the Gathering Room Mrs. Terri Giangiulio MASS — during the pandemic  School Principal: Mrs. Kelly Ciminera

Start each day with Mass!  PREP/Director Religious Education: Saturday Vigil: 5:15 pm Public Mass Mrs. Camille Morrison Sunday: 7:30 am Public Mass  Music Ministry: Mrs. Isabel Momenee 9:00 am Public & Livestream* Mass 10:30 am Public Mass COORDINATORS OF PARISH MINISTRY

Monday—Saturday: 8:00 am Public & Livestream* Mass Visit ‘Ministries’ at www.sjnparish.org *Join the livestream Mass when it’s taking place or catch up  Active Adults Group: Bill Haines later in the day via “Mass Replay” — www.sjnparish.org  Adult Faith Formation: Deacon Kevin Harrington DEVOTIONAL PRAYER  Altar Guild: Nora Saraceni  ‘Caring for Friends’: Cheryl Calnan Rosary — Mondays at 7:00 pm in church enter on  CYO Athletics: Dan Stout grotto side;  Garage Sale: Mary Ann Macciocca Thursday after the 8:00 am Mass  Good Samaritans: Craig Callaghan Adoration — Thursday after the 8:00 am Mass  H.O.P.E. Program: Clare Frissora Divine Mercy Chaplet —Friday after the 8:00 Mass  Hospitality: Honor Jones MARRIAGE & BAPTISM  Interfaith Hospitality Network: Mary Beth Wolanin Please contact the Rectory to speak with  Lectors: Jack McNamara Msgr. Matz. Baptisms are held on the first and third  Little Church School: Janet Baffa Sundays of the month.  Liturgical Environment: Jackie Falcone  Pre-Cana: Clare Frissora  Respect Life: Clare Frissora Follow us on Facebook  Ushers: Jack McNamara Cheers! Monks, Beer & Serving Others St. Benedict delivering his Rule to monks in his order. 3 Trappist monks have been producing beer for 1,500 years, and in that time, they have revolutionized and perfected the beer-making process. Trappists are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics from the Order of Cister- cians of the Strict Observance and follow the Rule of St. Benedict. Beer making began early in the sixth century when Benedict of Nursia wrote a template for monastic life called The Rule (later known as The Rule of St. Benedict). One of Benedict’s directives was that monks should earn their own keep and donate to the poor by the work of their own hands. In the cen- turies following, monasteries have produced goods to sell, including cheese, honey, and, of course, beer. Other themes of the Rule include: A significant amount of time should be spent in spiritual reflection and observance; Monks should engage in manual labor to balance that reflec- tion; Monasteries should be financially self-supporting; and Secular (worldly) pursuits should be avoided. Beer production served other purposes too, such as the monastery’s obligation to show hospitality to travelers and pilgrims. Beer was safer to drink in medieval times than water contaminated by sewage, and therefore was served to visitors. Beer was also helpful to monks in getting Photo by Dirk Van Esbroeck under the through periods of fasting in Lent and Advent. Beer’s nutrients earned it the Creative Commons License. nickname “liquid bread.” In the Middle Ages, monks introduced regulation and sanitary practices in their breweries. They also extended the life of beer by adding hops, which acts as a preservative. The tradition of Trappist beer continued smoothly until the French Revolution took hold of France in the early 1800s. Monasteries were sacked and looted and monks were forced to abandon their breweries. Over the next hundred years, the Trappists settled in Belgium. Photo by Fr. Brandon Bernhard, O.S.B. By the mid 1900s, Trappist beers were known worldwide for their high quality and limited production. Suddenly, the brews started popping up everywhere with many entrepreneurs simply using monks or monasteries on their labels, naming the beer after holy figures, and collecting the profits. In 1960, the Abbaye Notre Dame d’Orval filed a legal claim against the Veltem brewery of Leuven to stop the production of “Veltem Trappist.” The Belgian courts sided with the monastery and decided that to be called “Trappist,” a beer must be brewed and sold by monks who are actually members of the Trappist order. Further protections came via the International Trappist Association (ITA): brewing must take place inside the walls of a Trappist monastery, operations of the brewery must come second to the religious pursuits of the monastery and should be conducted in a way that aligns with monastic life. Today monks produce some of the most critically acclaimed beers on the market. The most famous monastic breweries are the eight Trappist breweries in northern Europe. One of these, St. Sixtus (Westveltern, Benedict XVI receives the first bottle of Birra Nursia in 2012 Belgium), makes what is considered the best beer in the world. Photo by lablock under the Creative Commons License. Sources: How Monks Revolutionized Beer and Evangelization, Loyola Press; “Brews and Benedict: The History of Trappist Ales”, TheGrowlerGuys

Mass Intentions of the Day  Saturday, Jan 16th 5:15 pm Jeanne Benjamin  Sunday, Jan 17th 7:30 am Michael and Mary O’Malley St. Anthony, Abbot 9:00 am Living and Deceased members of the Sweeney Family 10:30 am Jim Whelan  Monday, Jan. 18th 8:00 am Arthur P. Murawsky People of SJN Parish  Tuesday, Jan. 19th 8:00 am Father James Meehan  Wednesday, Jan. 20th 8:00 am Virginia Hayden St. Agnes, &  Thursday, Jan. 21st 8:00 am Winifred Ranieri  Friday, Jan. 22nd 8:00 am Margaret Mary Klinges Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of  Unborn Children  Saturday, Jan. 23rd 8:00 am Fitzpatrick and St. Vincent, Deacon & Martyr; St. Marianne Graham Families Cope, Virgin A man is standing over ments of our life is to try and see things the way the hospital bed. He's looking that God wants us to see them. Perhaps there is at his wife who is seriously ill. an aspect of the situation that we are not paying The doctor has just left and attention to. Maybe we are so intent on wanting told the family that it would everything fixed that we just throw our hands up just be a matter of a few days. It had all hap- in frustration. I am certainly not saying that the pened so fast. Within two months here she was. man in our story should not be upset over the A priest was called to anoint the woman. All the illness of his wife. But we can sometimes allow adult children are there. Some more accepting of ourselves to fall into bad ways of thinking that the situation than others. All are in shock, though. lead us into more darkness. The priest dutifully says the prayers and anoints As hard as it can be, we are asked time and the woman's forehead and hands. The ceremony time again, to surrender to God. This can be the was over in a few minutes. beginning of the healing process. Bad thinking As the priest was leaving the hospital room can only lead to anger and all the things that go the husband walked out with the priest. The with that. That's not what Christ has in mind for priest offered condolences and said he would us. That's not how we are to live. pray for his wife and for him and his family. Then When we are baptized, we become members the man started to cry and said of God's family. But that means to the priest, "Why? Why did that we should do our best to this have to happen to my wife, follow the teaching of Christ she was a good person. Now and to follow God's command- me, that's a different story. This ments. But it also means that all should have happened to we don't live lives filled with bit- me, not to her". The priest then terness. Baptism is about new said, "Try not to look at this that life. It's about a new way of way. God is not punishing your thinking and a new way of look- wife in this experience." The ing at life. It means that we live man sort of nodded and walked in hope and look forward to back into the room. It didn't something better than what we seem that he was all that con- see here and now. vinced of what the priest was God is not punishing us saying. when we experience suffering. We deal with suffering. He could be calling us to look to Whether it's personal or is hap- Him, to pay more attention to pening to someone we love. him, and to ask for his help. And we can perhaps think the says that we should listen same way that this man in the to him so that we may have life. hospital was thinking. Why is And no suffering, not even God doing this to me, or to my death itself, can conquer the wife, or to my child; or whatever Click on image for reflection card new life that Jesus Christ is the case may be. offering to each one of us. That In we heard: "For my thoughts are not offer that was first made at our baptism. your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways..." Let me leave you with this thought from When we suffer it doesn't mean that we are be- Fr. , S.J.: The greatest grace God ing punished by God. As if we could have pre- can give a man is to send him a trial he cannot vented it by acting in a better way. We all know bear with his own powers — and then sustain that bad things can happen to good people. him with his grace so he may endure to the end What we are asked to do in the challenging mo- and be saved.

We would like to say thank you to everyone who prepares meals for our Caring for Friends ministry. Meals are always needed and appreciated. If you would like to share a plate with the needy to be delivered to Caring for Friends, trays are available in the Life Click logo to visit website Since 1974, Caring for Friends has served Center and in the back of the church. You can bring the meals to over 16 million meals to more than 14,000 homebound, isolated seniors, kids, and the Freezer Room in the Life Center at anytime. families in the Greater Philadelphia region. Jan 20th: St. Fabian, Pope and Martyr, First Layman to be Pope (c. 200-250)

Fabian was pope from 236 to 250. He was a Roman layperson. After the short reign of (43 days), Fabian had come to from his farm at the time when the new election began. While the names of several illustrious and noble churchmen were being considered over the course of thirteen days, a dove suddenly descended upon the head of Fabian. To the assembled electors, this strange sight recalled the Gospel scene of the descent of the on Jesus at the time of his baptism by . The congregation took this as a sign that he was marked for this dignity, and Fabian was at once proclaimed Pope. reigned for 14 years during a lull in Christian perse- cution. During his papacy, he divided the Christian communities of Rome into seven administrative districts (deaneries); each one was overseen by a deacon and aimed at charity and assistance. He sent seven from Rome to the French areas of Gaul to preach the Gospel. He instituted the four minor clerical orders: Porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte. With the new Emperor , he was also persecuted and was martyred , 250. St. Fabian is buried in Entrance to the Cemetery of Calixtus in Rome. the Cemetery of Calixtus that he helped rebuild and beautify. Excerpts: saintscatholic.blogspot.com/2014/01/st-fabian.html; All the Blood Drive! Tuesday, February 16th Offerings — Thank Jan. 10th: $8,393 3:00 pm—8:00 pm You Your support helps us spread Sign up at redcrossblood.org the Good News of Jesus through prayer, Sponsor Code: faith formation and SJNeumann Click on image to visit our works of mercy. online giving site

Altar Flowers Sacrament of Baptism Flowers offered in front of the Altar, the Congratulations, Blessed Mother & the Sacred Heart of Jesus welcome to God’s family!

In loving memory of January 10th — Jeanne Benjamin Owen Theodore McNabb, from Connie Clery son of Connor and Taryn

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Thank you! Dear Parishioners, I offer you my heartfelt thanks for all the kindness you have should me and Father Chapman during this Christmas Season. The wonderful baked goods and treats, along with your very generous gifts, have really made this unusual holiday season very joyful. Please know how grateful I am for all your support and encouragement, not just at Christmas time, but throughout the year. Many blessings and peace in 2021! Fr. Matz

CatholicPhilly.com stopped by our celebration of the Feast Day of St. John Neumann on Tuesday, Jan. 5th — Click on “CatholicPhilly” to read their article!

Celebrate 483 miles of prayer, determination and hope — help save & support lives! The Respect Life Bake Sale isn’t possible this year, but our mission is the same!

Instead of baking, we’ve been ‘walking’ Spain’s ancient Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James), as millions of pilgrims have done since the Middle Ages.

Pilgrims offer prayer, works of mercy and a wide range of physical activities to accomplish miles on this virtual pilgrimage. Donors make one-time donations or contributions towards each mile ‘walked’. We’ve journeyed ~400 of the over 480 miles. It has been amazing—unique sites, interesting history & local culture, and new connections to our faith via prayer, art, legends and holy sites! It is so fascinating that a number of pilgrims plan to go for real after the pandemic.

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 Cheer us to the finish line— Please pray for our success!  Learn about this ancient pilgrimage route — Check out our weekly adventures Click Here/Camino  Become a pilgrim or restart if you paused — As with the real Camino, an official pilgrim walks the final 60 miles. Trip summary passports will be issued! Interested? Contact: [email protected]  Adults & youth: try your luck in the Random Acts of Kindness BINGO Raffle(2/6 -2/14), stay tuned!  Join our Parish-wide celebration February 14th—16th As we reach our destination and honor our pilgrimage patron, St. James, the Apostle!  Help us name our Spiritual Baby — his/her development will unfold over the next weeks!  Donate — Consider a donation similar to your prior Bake Sale participation or sponsor a pilgrim! Snowman Fun in Grade 1! Mrs. Smith's class has been having lots of winter fun learning about snowmen. They’re reading, "Snowmen at Night", "Snowmen All Year" and "Snowmen at Work". They have been writing their own snowman stories and painting snowman pictures!

Jan. 21st: St. Agnes, Virgin and Martyr (c.291-304) St. was born in 291 AD and raised in a Christian wealthy family dur- ing a time when Christianity was considered a crime. She was martyred when she was thirteen years old. St. Agnes was very beautiful so many high-ranking young men wanted her hand in marriage. However, Agnes had vowed to remain a virgin and devote herself to God. Her love for the Lord was great and she hated sin even more than death. Whenever a man wished to marry Agnes, she would always say, "Jesus Christ is my only Spouse." Among those she refused was the Governor’s son Procop, who became very angry when she refused him. He tried to win her for his wife with rich gifts and promises, but the beautiful young girl kept saying, "I am already promised to the Lord of the Universe. He is more splendid than the sun and the stars, and He has said He will never leave me." Procop felt insulted by her devotion to God and purity, so he accused her before his father of being a Christian. The Governor promised Agnes wonderful gifts if she would only deny God, but Agnes refused. He tried to change her mind by putting her in chains, but her lovely face shone with joy. Next, he sent her to a house of prostitution, but an Angel protected her. At last, Agnes was condemned and executed. She died a virgin-martyr on 21 January 304 and was buried beside the Via No- mentana in Rome. Within fifty years of her death a basilica in her honor was built over her tomb by a member of Constantine's family (Constantine was the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity). In 1858, Fr. Rehrl, an Austrian missionary, founded the Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes. Source: catholic.net/A. Rocha

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Saturday, January 23, 2021 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM Philadelphia March for Life

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