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St Bridget of February 9, 2020 1024 W. Main St. Berryville, VA 22611

t. Bridget (or ) of is one of the three major patron of Ireland Pastor: Salong with Patrick and Saint . Saint Bridget’s faith and labors for Father Paul Grankauskas the Lord are remembered among the Irish people through prayers, sacred places, Rectory: blessings and customs. St. Bridget was an extraordinary woman of faith: strong in P 540-277-2943 • F 540-277-2945 her mission, loyal to the Lord, faithful to the Church, generous to the poor and [email protected] hospitable to missionaries. St. Bridget laid strong foundations for the Church in Hours: Mon-Fri 9 AM - 4 PM (closed 12-1 PM) Ireland. Her feast day is February 1st, the first day of the Celtic Spring. Religious Education: John Sengewalt 540-277-2948 Sacramental Information: Mass Schedule: [email protected] Please check Mass Times and Intentions Knights of Columbus: Baptisms: for weekly changes inside bulletin. [email protected] Sunday, after 9:00 AM Mass Saturday Bus. meeting 2nd Tue 7 PM Hobert Hall Contact the Rectory Office at 540-277-2943 9 AM and 5:30 PM (Sunday Vigil) Office of Youth Ministry: [email protected] Office Hours: Sunday: Monday - Friday 9 AM - 4 PM 9 AM and Noon Music Ministry: Stacy Sefton [email protected] Marriage: Weekdays: Organist: Contact parish priest at least six (6) months Monday & Tuesday Noon Jenny Sorenson [email protected] prior to proposed date of the wedding. Wednesday 9 AM Contact the Rectory Office at 540-277-2943 Thursday & Friday Noon Eucharistic Minister / Lectors: Chet Lewandowski 540-722-7231 Office Hours: Holy Days: Servers: Monday - Friday 9 AM - 4 PM 12:05 PM and 7 PM John Sengewalt 540-277-2948 Sacristan: Nationwide Mass Schedule: Confessions: Becky Jackson 540-955-1715 Saturday 4 PM - 5 PM www.thecatholicdirectory.com Sunday 8 - 8:30 AM Ushers: Hospitalized and Homebound: Parish Office 540-277-2943 Rosary: Notify the rectory at 540-277-2943 so Men’s Club: The rosary is prayed after the 12:05 PM that the hospitalized and homebound Meets the last Saturday each month Mass on the 1st Friday of each month parishioners may receive the pastoral 8 AM, in Hobert Hall (7:30 Breakfast). care of the church. George Darnell [email protected] Prayer List: Women’s Group: Contact Becky Jackson at 540-955-1715 Website: www.stbridgetberryville.org Meets 1st Tues. each month after noon Mass Except for July and August FISH: Christi McMullen Coffee & Donut Sundays: Food collection is in the narthex on the 2nd [email protected] Sunday each month. Please give generously. 1st Sunday: Men’s Club 2nd Sunday: Knights of Columbus St. Bridget’s Bulletin Deadline Noon Monday Faith Direct: www.faithdirect.net 3rd Sunday: Youth Ministry [email protected] Ruth Hayes 540-277-2943 St. Bridget of Ireland Words of Wisdom “The Church was founded for the purpose of spreading Mass Times the Kingdom of Christ throughout the earth for the glory of God the Father, to enable all men to share in his saving & Intentions redemption, and through them the whole world might Mass Intentions made at the Parish office 2020 Book is open enter into a relationship with Christ. …In the Church there is diversity of ministry but a oneness of mission. Christ GF-Green Field RH-Rose Hill conferred on the Apostles and their successors the duty of Monday February 10 teaching, sanctifying, and ruling in his name and power. But Noon † Patrick Connolly the laity likewise share in the priestly, prophetic, and royal office of Christ and therefore have their own share in the Tuesday February 11 mission of the whole people of God in the Church and in the world. Noon Mass Special Intention Antonia Cummings They exercise the apostolate in fact by their activity directed to the evangelization and sanctification of men and to the penetrating and perfecting of the temporal Wednesday February 12 order through the spirit of the Gospel. In this way, their temporal activity openly bears 9 AM No Mass witness to Christ and promotes the salvation of men. Since the laity, in accordance with their state in life, live in the midst of the world and its concerns, they are called by Thursday February 13 God to exercise their apostolate in the world like leaven, with the ardor of the spirit of Noon Mass † Alina Learned Christ. Friday February 14 The very testimony of their Christian life and good works done in a supernatural spirit Noon Mass Special Intention have the power to draw men to belief and to God; for the Lord says, ‘even so let your Becky Jackson light shine before men in order that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.’” Saturday February 15 9 AM † Bob Lewis St. Paul VI Decree on the Apostolate of the Laity 5:30 PM Parish Family

Sunday February 16 FYI 9 AM Special Intention Fr. Dobbins Taxes: The parish letters with tax information have been mailed out. For questions or Noon Mass Special Intention inquiry please email [email protected] Christopher Hayes Bulletin: Write-ups for the bulletin are due by noon on Monday before publication date. Email your copy to [email protected]. Inserts are to be delivered Prayer List on the Friday before publication date. Remember the following in your prayers:

Bishop’s Lenten Appeal! The 2020 Bishop’s Lenten Appeal Commitment weekend Fr. Michael Dobbins, Jim Willis, is Feb 22/23. Once a year we are asked to make a commitment to support the work Matthew Lewis, Marie Longerbeam, of our diocesan programs and ministries which provide services that no single parish Smith, Michael Gessner (Military could provide on its own. This important effort is a means by which we work together Service, Iraq), Tricia & Courtney Dabney, sharing the gifts God has bestowed upon us. Our parish goal is 100% participation. Phillip Wilcox, John Cameron, Please join us to continue God’s work of spirituality, education and charity in our Maggie O’Connor, Theresa Vesey, diocese through this appeal! John Caroselli, Fred Curtis, Michael Boyd, Tony Tringale, NO 9AM Mass Wednesday, February 12th as there is a Priest Meeting. Eileen Murray, Jim Lewandowski Bob Lyles and Ken Rudzinski.

St. Bridget Women’s Group: Is sponsoring a Father’s Day bus trip to see the Wash- Please pray for the repose of the soul of ington Nationals on Saturday, June 20th. Tickets are $65 and include transportation. Bob Lewis and for his family. Please contact Marge Krasinski 814-450-5710 for reservations. Must book by today February 9th. See you at the game! Please contact Becky Jackson at 540-955-1715 to be added Faith Direct is easy to use and directions can be found by visiting www.faithdirect. or taken off prayer list. net. Our parish code is VA605 or call 866-507-8757 (toll free) for more information. February 9, 2020

Virtus Seminar: St. Bridget of Ireland Church is hosting a Virtus seminar February 15th at 9:30 AM. If your church ministry has you involved with children, you need to Saint of the Week be Virtus compliant. Sign up for the seminar at https://www.virtusonline.org/virtus/ St. Miguel Febres Cordero Munoz: Eucharistic Adoration: Come spend life changing time with Our Lord! First Friday of the month after Noon Mass; closing with Benediction at 7:00 PM. Miguel was born November 7, 1854 in Cuenca, Ecuador. He had an Come Walk with Me: A night of Prayer presentation by Irish Tenor Mark Forrest will unknown disability, and was be at St. Bridget of Ireland Church on Feb. 29th at 7 PM. See the bulletin board in the unable to stand until age five when narthex for more details. he received a vision of Our Lady. At age eight Miguel was miraculously protected from being mauled by a St. Ann Pilgrimage to Shrines of Quebec is August 3-13, 2020 Fr. Paul is now wild bull. In 1863, he enrolled in a accepting applications and can be obtained from the parish office. There will be an school run by the Christian Brothers, informational meeting today February 9th at Saint Ann Catholic Church in Arling- an Order which had only recently ton, VA at 4 PM. Brochure can be found on bulletin board in narthex for this train come to Ecuador. Miguel joined the pilgrimage. Brothers at age 13. He became a teacher at El Cebollar School, Quito, a Backpack Ministry: Thank you so much for your generous support. Together with position he held for 32 years. Miguel twelve other Clarke County Churches, we are helping to feed 75 CCPS students each was known as a gentle, dedicated, weekend and holiday. You may contribute tuna and Chef Boyardee products in the and enthusiastic teacher. He wrote clear tubs in the Narthex. Email us at [email protected] if you have any ques- his own textbooks, the first at age 17; tions, or if you would like to help out. some were adopted by the govern- ment and used throughout the coun- February 9, 2020 Divine Mercy Said: “…I steeped myself in prayer, especially for try. Miguel also wrote odes, hymns, the sick. I now see how much the sick have need of prayer.” (St. Faustina Diary, 826) discourses on teaching methods, St. John Paul II, in 1992, instituted the World Day of the Sick to be marked on Feb- plays, inspirational works, and retreat ruary 11, the Feast of . It was to be, he wrote, “a special time manuals. He was elected to the of prayer and sharing, of offering one’s suffering for the good of the Church and Ecuadoran Academy of Letters in of reminding everyone to see in his sick brother or sister the face of Christ who, by 1892, followed soon after by the suffering, dying and rising, achieved the salvation of mankind.” (Day by Day with St. Academies of Spain, France, and Faustina). Venezuela. Miguel often conducted -Used with permission of the Marian Fathers of the of the B.V.M. religious retreats, and prepared children for their First Communion. Veritas Young Adults Group: The Young Adults of Saint Bridget will be hosting a He was sent to Europe in 1905 to visit to the National Shrine of St. after the Noon Mass on Febru- translate texts from French to Spanish ary 16th. We are also hosting a Bible Study on Tuesday nights, January 21st - Febru- for use by the Order. His health began ary 25th, at 7 PM. Contact Ms. Laurel Morris #681-242-9177. Text or call! We can also to fail in 1908, and he was transferred be reached at [email protected]. to the school near Barcelona, Spain. He continued to work, but slowly, his Advertiser of the Bulletin: Sponsors need to renew their subscription with the health continued to fail, and he died Parish officethis month, February, as we plan for new sponsors. there in 1910. In addition to being a religious role model, Miguel is consid- ered a national hero in Ecuador for Religious Education his success in so many worthwhile areas. His Feast Day is February 9th. No Class: There is no class for February 16th in honor of President’s day. Help Needed Spiritual Thought Always need help: Want to help the church but are afraid of the time commitment? “Do not allow yourselves to be We understand, life is busy. Come talk with us, let us know what you are you are disheartened by any failure as long comfortable donating in time and task. Tell us what you like to do, we have a place as you have done your best.” for you. - St.

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