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Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church O u r L a dy OF THE Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church 3570 King William Avenue, West Point VA 23181 MASS SCHEDULE WEEKENDS: SATURDAY 5:30 P.M. SUNDAY 9:00 A.M. 11:30 A.M. (SPANISH MASS) WEEKDAYS: 8:30 A.M. Tuesday - Friday PARISH OFFICES at the MERCY CENTER 207 W. Euclid Blvd., West Point, VA 23181 Phone: 843-3125 Fax: 843-9158 Office Hours: M - Th 10-12 and 1-3 Parish e-mail : [email protected] Parish Web address: www.olbs-catholic.org PASTOR SACRAMENT of RECONCILIATION Rev. Oscar Paraiso 757-778-5118 Saturday 5:00 p.m. Rectory 843-4231 Also by appointment E-mail: [email protected] EUCHARISTIC ADORATION COORDINATOR of CHRISTIAN FORMATION Monday and Tuesday Mercy Center Chapel Lorraine Ryalls 843-3125 E-mail: [email protected] First Friday at the Mercy Center Chapel 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. MUSIC DIRECTOR Leda Zaginaylo 757 870-2516 OUTREACH A food basket and donation box are in the LITURGICAL DIRECTOR church entry. Your donations provide the means to give direct help to the needy. We ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT collect food on the first weekend of the month. Pam Watkins 843-3125 Hours: T-W-Th 10 - 4:30 INFANT BAPTISM Email: [email protected] Parent preparation classes are required for each couple planning to have their OFFICE/BUSINESS MANAGER baby baptized. To schedule a preparation session, please call the church office. OFFICE VOLUNTEER Gerrie Thomas (bulletin) MARRIAGE OLBS sponsors a preparation program for PRESCHOOL TEACHER/DIRECTOR couples who intend to marry. The Pastor Vangy Lawson 843-4177 must be contacted at least six months prior to the date of the wedding. GOOD NEIGHBOR CENTER Frances Thornton 843-4339 RECEPTION into the CHURCH Those inquiring into the Catholic Faith or Hours: M 10 am - 2 pm seeking Communion with the Church are W 12:30 pm - 2:30 p.m. invited to contact the Parish Office. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) is van den BOOGAARD HALL RENTALS offered. Janice McGowan 843-2870 Email: [email protected] The mission of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, centered in the Eucharist, is to love God and His people and to extend His love to others through service and prayer. Calendar for Week of January 20th, 2020 THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 18th & 19th, 2020 Monday – 1/20 – No Mass Adoration in MC Chapel Knights of Columbus Meeting – 7:30pm Tuesday – 1/21 – Mass 8:30am Adoration in MC Chapel Wednesday – 1/22 – Mass 8:30am Day of Prayer for the Sat 1/18 – No Mass Intention Legal Protection of Unborn Children Thursday – 1/23 – Mass 8:30am Sun 1/19 – Ed Kopacki (Husband) (RIP) Fr. Oscar Women’s Group Meeting – 7:00pm – Kitchen in Hall David Kopacki (Grandson) (RIP) Friday – 1/24 – Mass 8:30am Requested by Virginia Kopacki Saturday – 1/25 – Rosary 5:00pm Mass 5:30pm Larry Laccabue (RIP) PARISH POTLUCK IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING MASS Requested by Trent & Karena Funkhouser Sunday – 1/26 – Mass 9:00 am Faith Formation 10:15am Mon 1/20 – No Mass Parish Council Meeting – 10:15am in Mercy Center Confirmation Class – 6:30pm MC Conference Room Tue 1/21 – In Honor of Scott Watkins on his Fr. Oscar Birthday – Requested by Pam Watkins Wed 1/22 – Carl Rudolph (RIP) Fr. Oscar PRAYERS FOR HEALING AND GOOD HEALTH Requested by the OLBS Parishioners Emily Adams Helen Kaczmarski Thurs 1/23 – No Mass Intention Elizabeth Alley John Kellam Fri 1/24 – Francis (Frank) Townley Watkins Fr. Oscar Candace Barefoot Gloria Kojcisch Virginia Becker Bonnie Kopacki In Honor of His Birthday Paulette Berberich Gordon Langston Requested by the Watkins Family Ron Blevins Patricia Lanuza Sat 1/25 – In Honor of Father Oscar Paraiso Fr. Oscar Jon Boyette Kenny McGinley Requested by the OLBS Parishioners Robin Bristow Bill Madigan Joan Buehler Baby Vivian Mallis Sun 1/26 – No Mass Intention Linda Burch Ron Martz ***You are invited to the weekday Masses at 8:30am Lurene Burke Clara Morrow Tuesday-Friday every week*** Kevin Carson Randy Morrow Collections for January 11th & 12th, 2020 Lucy Carson Specialist Mullins Parish Operations $3,568.00 Tim Collier Marilyn Naggy Votive Stand 10.30 Meredith Crowe Larry Newtzie Initial Offering 70.00 Eric Crump Desiree Page Vincent D’elia Brett Pickens Total $3,648.30 Denise DePompeo Pam Rigsby Amount needed weekly for Parish Operations is $3,940 Dale Dippre Mark A. Roane Restricted, Special Use or Sent out of Parish Dexter Dix Virginia Ryczak Facilities Repairs & Maintenance Fund $355.00 Donna Donahue Bill Scaife Haiti Ministry $300.00 Larry Dzula, Jr. Barbara Schafer St. Theresa’s Cemetery $50.00 Michelle Eshelman James Simmons Diocesan Collection – Respect Life $55.00 Amanda Leigh Fincher Allen Smith $$$ Please mark your envelopes with the amount Henry Franzyshen Levi Sturtz you have put in them. This will help make the job Sydney Gay Jim Tokarz Margaret Geron Mae Touray of our wonderful volunteer counters much easier! Jim Gregory Gloria Wajciechowski We appreciate all they do for our parish! Pat Hinkle Linda Webster Kelly Hipple Lois Wilson Mary Ann Hooper Robert ‘Bobby’ Wilson Gail Justin Jody Zogran Thank you for your support of your Parish! PRAYERS FOR THOSE IN THE MILITARY th Major Jonathan Culberson (Afghanistan) ***Saturday, January 25 immediately CHURCH ATTENDANCE following Mass, we will have a Parish Pot Luck Saturday, January 11th, 2020 – 87 Supper in Boogaard Hall. Please plan to come Sunday, January 12th, 2020 – 133 and bring enough for your family and two Spanish Mass, January 12th, 2020 – 51 more. Drinks will be provided. Dishes can be ***Youth Group meets this Sunday, January dropped off at the Hall prior to the 5:30pm 19th, 2020 at 6:30pm in the Boogaard Hall. Mass. Come and enjoy the fellowship! SAINT OF THE WEEK At the death of Pope Anterus in 236, 1/18 – Jackson Gibbs & Oliver Owens many people went to Rome to observe 1/19 – Elizabeth DiLandro & Adrian Vidal the election of the new pope, including a 1/25 – Peter Nguyen & Philip Owens 1/26 – Daniel Duke & Tazewell Rae farmer of little importance named Fabian. Several prestigious names were being considered for the highest position 1/18 – Joe Drexler, Tom Fauber, & Lorraine Ryalls in the Roman Catholic Church. However, 1/19 – Chris Polcyn, B.J. Bui, Paula Polcyn, Kay Shaw, & during the process a dove landed on Kathy Wills 1/25 – Gary Silvia, Cathy Fudella, & Erin Lazar Fabian’s head and this was taken as a 1/26 – Sarah Rae, Bill & Edwina Madigan, Mary Leigh sign that he should be elected to McDonald, & Vickie Roane succeed Anterus. He was neither a priest nor did he speak Latin but qualifications were less stringent in 1/18 – Andrew Seckora & Paul Seckora those times. Pope Fabian led the 1/19 – Jim Milby & Jim Pyne 1/25 – Shawn Lazar & Abby Lazar Church for 14 years until he was 1/26 – Tuan Nguyen & Craig Smith martyred in the year 250. Church Cleaning Schedule 1/13/20 thru 1/19/20 – Dan Gibbs Family DO YOU KNOW? 1/20/20 thru 1/26/20 – We are one of the oldest dioceses in 1/27/20 thru 2/2/20 – Tom & Rowena Fauber 2/3/2020 thru 2/9/2020 – Gary & Jackie Silvia the country. Our territory was formerly part of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Pope Pius VII established us as our own diocese in 1820. At that PARISHIONERS: As our faith community grows, we ask time we included all of Virginia – a that we all take a moment before Mass and after Mass to say hello and welcome any new faces we see. As an territory that included all of what is extension of the Lord’s grace, we should always seize now West Virginia. Pope Paul VI the opportunity to say “hello” to a new person or established our current borders in 1973. family. Today, the Diocese of Richmond encompasses all of the southern part of Virginia – including the Eastern Shore of Congratulations to Bill & Edwina Madigan who are Virginia. Our territory covers three- celebrating their Wedding Anniversary in January fifths of Virginia, some 26,000 square – 1/28/67. miles. On east, borders stretch from the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean west to West Virginia and “To you who have been consecrated in Christ Jesus Kentucky; to the south, we border and called to be a holy people.” Could it be that Tennessee and North Carolina, and you or someone in your family is being called to extend north to the counties of consider priesthood or consecrated life? Call Father Brian Capuano at 804-359-5661 or email: Northern Virginia that comprise the [email protected]. Catholic Diocese of Arlington. QUESTION OF THE WEEK ***Blessing of the throats and candles will take st nd The Gospel today is all about how to place the weekend of February 1 & 2 , 2020. Please bring your candles from your home on that deal with a neighbor who has wronged weekend if you would like them blessed. us. But we can also look at this from the other side where we are the one wronging someone else. It works both ways. The challenge is: how to bring Catholic Charities is in Need of Volunteers for about reconciliation with a deep Seniors: Catholic Charities is in desperate need of volunteers to provide transportation, yard work, awareness of the truth of the situation. and/or help with small errands for seniors on the All of us must learn that we offend Southside Peninsula. Many seniors who reach out others at times, that we misjudge to us have no means of transportation and cannot others at times, that we take advantage afford to hire a lawn service and many face city of others at times.
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