Welcome to St. Paul’s (St. Rita’s Oratory) 210 LeRay Street, Black River, NY 13612 - Phones: SP’s 315-773-5672 & SM’s 315-629-4678 - http://rivercatholics.org PASTOR: Reverend Vicente F. Jazmines Candidates: DAN LEROY and NOEL VOOS January 24, 2021 OFFICE HOURS SACRAMENT OF PENANCE SACRAMENT OF SACRAMENT OF SP’s: Monday & Friday, 12:30 – 4:00 PM Sunday @ 10:30 AM BAPTISM MATRIMONY SM’s: Monday & Friday, 8:30 AM – noon Also by Appointment Contact the Pastor. Contact the Pastor.

STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE 1/17/21 – Envs.: $1,522.00/Plate: $127.00 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time: Saturday, 4:00 PM (SM) Andy Kilcer 2020 CHURCH CONTRIBUTION STATEMENTS - January 23 By Jim Decker will be mailed upon request – call 315-773-5672, or place a separate note in your collection envelope. Sunday, 9:00 AM (SM) For the People of the Parishes January 24 RESPECT LIFE COLLECTION Jan. 23/24: Grants 11:00 AM (SP) Geno Martini from the collection benefit pro-life projects in our By Brigitte Schulz diocese. Thank you for your support of efforts to build a culture of life. Liturgical Schedule: Monday, 8:00 AM (SM) NO Mass Ushers for 1/24/2021 are: January 25 No Communion Service • Francis Dunbar • William Flynn Tuesday, 8:00 AM (SP) NO MASS January 26 No Communion Service • Sheila Blankenbush • Ken Blankenbush Wednesday, 9:00 AM (SM) Edith Thompson Lector – Children’s Liturgy January 27 LATIN MASS By Robert & Mary Boucher Ushers for 1/31/2021 are: • Frances Dunbar Thursday, 8:00 AM (SP) NO MASS January 28 No Communion Service • William Flynn • Dr. Newell Friday, 8:00 AM (SM) NO MASS • Ken Blankenbush January 29 No Communion Service

Lector – Francis Dunbar Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time:

Saturday, 4:00 PM (SM) Andy Kilcer WEEKLY MEMORIALS (this week) January 30 By His Family St. Paul’s: The SANCTUARY LAMP will burn in loving memory of SAMANTHA LUCILLE Sunday, 9:00 AM (SM) Juanita Dominguez TURNER. Requested by her grandparents. January 31 By The Perkins Family

Bishop LaValley will be offering a MASS FOR LIFE 11:00 AM (SP) For the People of the Parishes on Sunday, January 24, 2021 at 11AM at St Mary's

Cathedral in Ogdensburg. With covid, it is unrealistic IN OUR PRAYERS: We ask God’s help as we that many will be traveling to DC for the March for Life so the Bishop thought this was a good way to pray for our sick; for world peace; for Christian celebrate life! The Mass will be live-streamed for unity; for the victims of oppression and violence; those unable to attend at www.rcdony.org/livemass. for greater respect of all human life; and for all our departed.

HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTION FOR JANUARY: Entrusted to his worldwide prayer network SCRIPTURE AND REFLECTION: (Magnificat Jan. 2021) "You have the Intention for evangelization - Human fraternity May the words of eternal life.” (Jn 6:68) The way of God leads to wisdom, joy, light, Lord give us the grace to live in full fellowship with our and life; the way of evil leads to foolishness, suffering, darkness and death. Let brothers and sisters of other religions, praying for one us live by God’s law. another, open to all. THANK YOU Father Deluca for filling in for us during this PLEASE wear your masks, practice social distancing and trying time. Please note that he is doing a Latin Mass at St. don’t linger in groups in the parking lot. Protect Mary’s at 9:00 AM on Wednesdays. yourselves and others. Please leave the kneelers down in the pew you occupied when you leave so that we may know to clean it. Thank you

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION:. ➢ January 24 – Class/Children’s Liturgy ➢ January 31 – Faith at Home with Parents/FORMED (Catholic website) ➢ February 7 – Class ➢ February 14 & 21 – No Class, Winter Break ➢ February 28 – Class

CLASSES are held at St. Paul’s Church Parish Center on Sundays, 9:45 – 10:45 AM, for Grades Kindergarten through 7. PARENTS please drop off and pick up your child(ren) at the Parish Center doors. Confirmation CLASS (Grades 8 -12): Class is being held at St. Mary’s Church. RCIA CLASSES If you are interested in being a part of the RCIA, coming into full communion with the Catholic Church. If you are interested or have questions call Dennis Olshfski at 315-642-3757 or call Kareta at the church office at 315-629-4678.

THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME: Gospel reading - Mark 1:14-20 Jesus calls the January 24: THIRD SUNDAY fishermen, Simon and Andrew, James and John, to be his disciples . IN ORDINARY TIME (Family Connection) Today’s Gospel describes how Jesus called his first disciples and the Readings: Jon 3:1-5, 10/1 Cor immediacy with which these men dropped everything to follow him. We can only begin to imagine what 7:29-31/Mk 1:14-20 Jesus’ presence must have been like to invoke such a response in these first disciples. While a few of us might relate to such a radical conversion, many of us would find such a sudden change in ourselves or in They abandoned their another person unsettling. There are few things for which we would willingly drop everything. And yet this nets and followed him. is the immediacy with which these first disciples responded to Jesus. These first disciples were willing to Following Jesus requires a drop everything in order to make Jesus and the Kingdom of God the most important things in their lives. choice. It demands a Gather as a family and talk about circumstances in which you have had to “drop everything.” (the call to commitment. It is a challenge to pick up a sick child from school, the cry of a hurt or angry child) How did you feel about having to change let go of those things that keep your plans in each of these situations? How do we feel when someone asks us to drop everything to help us from knowing the ways of the him or her? For many of us, it is not easy to drop everything to respond to the needs of another. Read LORD and to following in his today’s Gospel, Mark 1:14–20. Invite your family to imagine what Jesus’ presence and invitation to these paths. To follow him, we must first followers must have been like that they responded by leaving their livelihood to become his disciples. keep our eyes fixed on him and How might our life change if we understood the Kingdom of God to be as important and immediate in our spend time with him. lives? Ask God to help you experience the Kingdom of God with such immediacy. Pray together the Lord’s Prayer. HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INIn today’s Gospel we learn about one of at least two family relations that appear among Jesus’

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP: In the midst of our troubled and hurting world we are reminded in the quote from Leonard Cohen, ''There is a crack in everything; that is how the light gets in." As we begin this week, let us pray that we find a way to allow God’s light to shine in us by embracing one new concrete practice of good stewardship of the earth’s resources. A good starting point might be: only use what I need.

OUR LADY OF PEACE: The memorial feast of (Our lady, Queen of Peace) is celebrated on two dates: January 24 (in and some churches in the United States) and July 9 (many other parts of the world). The story of celebration begins in the early 16th century when Jean de Joyeuse presented a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary to his bride, Françoise e Voisins on their wedding day. Mary was depicted holding an olive branch in her right hand and the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, seated in her left hand. The statue became a family heirloom and was passed down to her grandson, Henri Joyeuse, who joined the Capuchin community around 1588. The statue remained with the Capuchins in for the next 200 years; it was renamed Notre Dame de Paix – Our Lady of Peace. In 1657 the Capuchin community erected a large chapel as there were so many who came seeking her intercession. On July 9, the papal nuncio to blessed and solemnly enthroned Mary’s statue. Later, Pope Alexander VII designated this date for the Capuchin community to celebrate the feast. In 1789, the anti- Catholic French Revolution erupted and the Capuchins were forced out of their monastery. They fled in secret with the statue and it was kept in Paris, entrusted to Fr. Peter Coudrin, a diocesan priest who kept it hidden until the Revolution was over. In 1800, Fr. Coudrin and Henriette Aymer de Chevaliere co-founded an institute of sisters, brothers and priests: The Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and the Perpetual Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. Our Lady of Peace became the patroness of the congregation. This congregation were early missionaries to Hawaii. There they established the first Catholic church, which was dedicated to Our Lady of Peace. When the Diocese of Hawaii was erected on January 25, 1941 by Pope Pius XII, he dedicated the Cathedral to Our Lady of Peace. It is due to this date that Our Lady of Peace is celebrated on January 24 in the United States (January 25 being the Conversion of St. Paul). Today, the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States. By Judy Pearson

PRAYER LINE: If you wish to be a person who prays for the people on the Prayer Line, please call Virginia Martin at 315-773-5182; or to add someone to the Prayer Line, call Virginia and give the name and reason why the person should be on the Prayer Line (if permitted by the person). Also, if the petition has been granted, or if the person is deceased, or if you would like to give thanks for petitions received, please call Virginia