January 24, 2021 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

MASS INTENTIONS Pray for the homebound, those in healthcare centers, and those who need your continuous thoughts and prayers:

Saturday, January 23rd, 5:00 pm Elizabeth Flaherty-Lovy, Tracey Green Wakeland, Bonnie Geitz, Sydney † Bonnie Zender Johnson, James A. Harrelson Jr., Chris Dixon, Jim Geitz, John Howard, Barbara by Mary and Bob Roberts ______Mahaffey, Carolyn Hicks, Betty Barr and Rosemary Darrow.

Sunday, January 24th, 8:00 am Pray for the speedy, or continued, recovery of:

† Kathleen Allen Keith Williamson, Aric Burks, Victoria Beltran, Bryant, Jr, Karen by the Palmer Family Smith, Kevin Mattero, Sandy Hill, Jane Sementilli, Nancy Engel, “Bud” ______Williamson, Jack Myer, Jim Lauro, Addison Stringer, Sean Sheely, Irene Sunday, January 24th, 10:00 am Burks, Davis, Rachel Ecle, Wallace Moulton, Bill Jackson, Joe Larimore, Cyn- People of the Parish ______thia Dawson, George Nichols, Jennifer Gray, Nancy Harvath, Andrew Childers, Cameron Cook, Joanne Urso, Bryan Couture, Joan Kenny Marshall, Ellie Thomas, Sunday, January 24th, 1:00 pm Donna Jones, Dr. Matt Stover, Carol Lusby, Brandie Barr, John Benford, Christi † Maria del Rosario Hernandez Reyes by Lupe Hernandez Sorokach Miller, John Belusz, Pat Teel, Shelly Rossi, Hal Ness, James DelGuidice, ______Dan South, Frankie Prox O’Donnell, Anthony Maslowski, Kim Howard, Winifred Poit,

Monday, January 25th Hayley Wolfe, Jamison Dumm, Chuck Vanover, Arthur Cannon, Sandra Garrett, No Mass Murrey Lord, Shelly Savage, Diane Cuptray, Mateo Lara, Lorna Campagna, Konrad ______Zeiske, Krystina Millar, Theresa Michau, Savannah Marie Mincey, Paul Renault, Gre- Tuesday, January 26th, 8:00 am gorio Viray, Barbara Dumm, Mark Mercer, Linda DiPetrillo, Maureen Delahunt, George Nichols George Chiha, Tammy Miychell, Victoria Barr, Maria Handy, Francy Green, James ______Manford, Thomas Lusby, James A. Harrelson, III, Laura Saparito Leach, Mandy Wednesday, January 27th, 5:30 pm Moore, Nick Nicoletti, Joanne Lechwar, Martin Altman, Mike VanLandingham Rose- † Marion Bessilieu mary DelGuidice, Jimmy Howard, Ellen Vignone, Barbara Natoli, Earl DeGhetto, by Barbara Mathis Claudia Sanchez Campos and Kathy Yacavino. ______Pray for those in our Military: Thursday, January 28th, 8:00 am Mary Jo and Paul Karre Jonathan Greene, Brandon Parker, Fairfield, Sheena McGee, J. Thomas Jo- by Julie Snyder seph, Jason A. Schroeder, Tirik Drayton, Jay Rivers, and Brian Eduardo Vazquez. ______

Friday, January 29th, 5:30 pm † Freddy Tagui Jimenez The Knights Corner “Holy Family Light Our Way in Love and Charity” by Barbara Mathis ______Thank you to those who were able to contribute last weekend to our January Saturday, January 30th, 5:00 pm Food Bank. The food has been delivered to the St. Outreach and † Gerald Klaras, Jr. the Georgetown Helping Hands. Our next Food Drive will be February 20 - 21, by Diane and Tom Macedo 2021. ______We are looking for donors and/or volunteers for our next Blood Drive on Tuesday, Sunday, January 31st, 8:00 am February 16, 2021. The Drive will operate from 1 to 6 PM at St. Mary's Parish Hall, † Ronald Cavalieri and all CDC COVID-19 requirements will be followed. You can register online by Neena and Bob McMahan at www.redcrossblood.org or contact chair Jim Lauro at (610) 513-2869 for more ______information. Sunday, January 31st, 10:00 am We would like to acknowledge the following selected Council award winners for People of the Parish January: Knight of the Month- Henry S. Moore IV. Henry will have been a knight ______of our Council in March 2021 for 50 years; he has been our Council Treasurer the Sunday, January 31st, 1:00 pm last 2-years; he has expanded his volunteering to include the acting hall manager † Fr. Michel Bineen role for Columbia Building Association; and he has continued to mentor and assist by the Hispanic Choir his youngest daughter and her family in successfully helping her through a long anticipated recent kidney transplant! Family of the Month- Tom and Diane Macedo. With the many changes, uncertainty and demands put on our Parish over the past several months, both Tom and Diane could be counted on as needed for their re- Parish Support spective roles as Cantor and Altar Server at Masses; and Diane is one of the Offer- tory Counters. Altar Server of the Quarter- Michael Carlton. Michael has been a The offertory collection for January 16th reliable scheduled altar server for several years, as well as whenever something and 17th was $7,583.00. This in- unscheduled comes up or changes require an immediate person to step-in. He re- cludes $1,122.00 from online giv- mains a trusted trainer and mentor for new altar servers. Michael remains active ing. This is $2,183.00 over our weekly on the Waccamaw High School baseball team, as well as on a successful travel goal of $5,400.00. baseball team that has traveled the southeast over the last year. Thank you Mi- chael for stepping up and making a difference! Thank you for worshipping with us! The South Carolina Knights of Columbus 100th State Convention will be in Sum- merville April 16 - 18. The convention is open to all Knights and their family. Con- If we can help you in your walk with Christ tact GK Brian Clark for more details at (843) 344-9771. in any way, please call the church office. Seminarian Update: Through the generous donations of our Parishioners, we just mailed in December 2020 a $500 stipend to each of three seminarians from the Diocese of Charleston that we agreed to support: Daniel Perry, Trenton Redmond A Promise to Protect, A Pledge to Heal and Mauricio Moreno. We encourage you to read about Daniel Perry, as he is fea- Our goal at St Mary remains that the tured in the January 14, 2021 The Catholic Miscellany, page 4! Parish be aware of and support the Safe Knights of Columbus Insurance Field Agent Shane Goheen remains available as Environment we seek to foster. needed at 843-457-5757. To Report Abuse

The Diocese of Charleston treats all allegations of sexual misconduct seriously and deals with all allegations in a prompt, confi- dential thorough manner. To Report Abuse, call Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator, Louisa Storen, LISW at 843-856-0748 or 800 -921-8122. January 24, 2021 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

Weekly Readings

Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10 Ps 25:4-9 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20 St. Mary’s Altar Society

Monday: Acts 22:3-16 Ps 117:1-2 Mk 16:15-18 All ladies of the parish are invited to become part of this Tuesday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 Ps 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10 Mk 3:31-35 rewarding ministry. Contact Mary Roberts at (843)546- Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18 Ps 110:1-4 Mk 4:1-20 4800 or Ann Boone at (843)235-4094 for more information. Thursday: Heb 10:19-25 Ps 24:1-4b, 5-6 Mk 4:21-25 Friday: Heb 10:32-39 Ps 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40 Mk 4:26-34 Mass Intentions for 2020 may be arranged Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19 Lk 1:69-75 Mk 4:35-41 by calling the Parish Office at 843-546-7416. Next Sunday: Dt 18:15-20 Ps 95:1-2, 6-9 1 Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28 To dedicate Flowers for the Altar for 2020 please contact the Parish Office to confirm names and dates.

January 30th January 31st January 31st Gospel Study Group meets every Wednesday, at 9:30 am in the par- Saturday Sunday Sunday ish hall. We look forward to seeing you there! All are welcome. Due to the 5:00 pm 8:00 am 10:00 am coronavirus, meetings are canceled until further notice. Virtual meetings may occur in the future. If you have any questions or know someone who Lector: is interested in joining our group, please call Mary Boelke at (843)543- L Goldbach B Clark T Howard 3537.

Ushers: 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time - Gospel Meditation TBD TBD TBD

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion: It was a normal day by all accounts, but John just wasn’t feeling himself. N/A N/A N/A He was a little lightheaded and out of sorts. Later in the afternoon, he experienced a sharp pain in his chest and arm. Quick thinking and action Altar Servers: brought John to the emergency department with a diagnosis of a signifi- B Mathis TBD TBD cant heart attack. Surviving this ordeal, he found himself face to face with

Altar Care: his cardiologist, having an honest conversation about things that needed D Macedo P Hughes L Ortiz to change. “I came close to death,” John found himself thinking. Then came the remorse. He was a young man with a loving wife and children If you are unable to serve when you are scheduled, who were very close to facing life without him. John found himself with please remember to find a substitute. intense sorrow for living an unchecked and self-indulgent life that almost brought him to his demise. He wanted to change. Adoration - Wednesday 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM We all have our wake-up calls. We have experiences and encounters that force us to really think twice about choices we have made and direc- Adoration will start this Wednesday, January 27th, tions we have taken. Often, we find ourselves looking at those we have after the 5:30 PM Mass. hurt square in the eye and wallowing in our foolishness. We regrettably realize that we have allowed our needs to lure us into making some cruel Moral Permissibility of a COVID-19 Vaccine mistakes. We impulsively say things and flippantly do things that reveal

To clear any confusion or concerns regarding COVID our unredeemed and unhealed self. It is a self we stumble over and try to vaccines and future production, the U.S. Conference tame but can’t quite seem to master and control. Help! of Catholic Bishops has released the following memo We spin our wheels, naively thinking that we will somehow, perhaps from Greg Schleppenback, associate director of the through persistence, get ourselves unstuck. But, we don’t. We just get out Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities: of the car, feeling very helpless, and ignorantly look at the mess we got “Neither the Pfizer nor the Moderna vaccine involved ourselves into. Did we ever think to ask someone for help? Or, taken the the use of cell lines that originated in fetal tissue tak- advice of One who is wiser and avoid this route altogether? “Come after en from the body of an aborted baby at any level of me,” are words that Jesus says to all of us. In order to heed his invitation, design, development, or production. we must leave our ego-self behind and follow. … “ Some are asserting that if a vaccine is connected When we really see and understand the freedom, peace, justice, and in any way with tainted cell lines then it is immoral to love he offers, we find ourselves with such sorrow in our hearts for how be vaccinated with them. This is an inaccurate por- foolish and silly we have been. All the misguided choices and sinful actions trayal of Catholic moral teaching.” come full view and we see how risky our random impassioned behaviors There are other vaccines currently in development really have been. Repentance is beautiful. When done with a sincere and that have used fetal stem cells. If they go into pro- contrite heart, it directs us to the glory that can be ours, ignites us with duction in our country, we will provide further recom- the challenge of living a life in service of others and reminds us that all is mendations and options. well. ©LPi

Recognize God In Your Ordinary Moments - Give Until It Hurts

One of the characteristics of Everyday Stewardship is to be committed — to persevere daily in a way of life acknowledging that everything belongs to God. I know, I know. Easier said than done. Just ask Zebedee. It’s quite an image we get from the Gospel, after all. “So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.” There was Zebedee, about his business, mending nets with his two sons, who were undoubtedly his best workers — they had to have been more dedicated than the hired men, who worked for wages rather than for family. And in an instant off they go, follow- ing this strange man. I don’t know about you, but if my kids left me on a hot summer day to finish the lawn by myself, I wouldn’t be too happy. But Zebedee must have been someone quite special. Perhaps he realized that his sons didn’t belong to him — not really. They belonged to God, and from the beginning of time, it had been appointed that they would be among the first disciples of Christ. He passed, he called, they followed, and Zebedee obliged. He simply went back to mending his nets, I imagine. Zebedee already understood what St. Teresa of Calcutta would say millennia later: “Give until it hurts.” “You’re wasting my time.” “I’ve done so much for her; she owes me this.” How often do we think things, and even people and relationships, belong to us? The truth is none of them do. We must be ready, as Zebedee was, to surrender them to God when He comes walking past. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS ©LPi