February 4-5, 2012 ~ Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Readings for the Week of February 5, 2012 We Pray For… Sunday: Jb 7:1-4,6-7/1 Cor 9:16-19,22-23/ Fr. Leo Tittler, Theresa Lapointe, Joan McLoughlin; Tom Mk 1:29-39 McLoughlin; Pat Zimmerman; Doug Duber; John & Mary Monday: 1Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13/Mk 6:53-56 Pate; Carol Ladouceur; Wilbur Ford; Florence Lee; Keith Tuesday: 1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30/Mk 7:1-13 Geisinger; Cody Pugh; Mary Wolfe; Craig & Rosemarie Wednesday: 1 Kgs 10:1-10/Mk 7:14-23 Goldsworthy; Soledad Elad; Michelle Harich; Barbara Thursday: 1 Kgs 11:4-13/Mk 7:24-30 German; Ida Susan Ricketson; Tom Putsay; Kevin Reese; Friday: 1 Kgs 11:29-32, 12:19/Mk 7:31-37 Kathy Keller Roberts; Francesca McCarter; Rev. Art Kuehn; Saturday: 1 Kgs 12:26-32; 13:33-34/Mk 8:1-10 Duane Krepps; John Pawlik; Mary Justice; Janice George; Next Sunday: Lv 13:1-2,44-46/1 Cor 10:31-11:1/ Terry Frye; Tim Ruggles; Maria Manzoni; Marty DiIenno; Mk 1:40-45 Theodore Kenney This Week in Our Parish About Our Prayer List Mass intentions are listed in parentheses below To add a name to the prayer list, please email M 2/6 St. Paul Miki & Companions, martyrs [email protected] or call 301-663-0907 x3022. 9:00 am Daily Mass (My children, Boris, Pidio, & For privacy reasons, names will be included only if they are Martine, special) - Church submitted by the person requesting prayers themselves or a 7:00 pm Faith Formation Advisory Board - 1,2 close relative. Names will be kept on the list for six months. 7:00 pm Baptism Prep Session 1 - 3 7:00 pm Social Justice - 4 Prayer For Our Troops Tu 2/7 Weekday Lord, hold our troops 9:00 am Daily Mass (My children, Kenny & Jeffery, in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. special) - Church Bless them and their families 7:00 pm Discipleship Council - 1,2 For the selfless acts they perform 7:00 pm Renew - 4 For us in our time of need. W 2/8 Weekday/St. Jerome Emiliani/St. Josephine And give us peace. Bakhita, virgin We ask this in the name of Jesus 9:00 am Daily Mass (Dorothy Foley) - Church Our Lord and Savior. Amen. 6:00 pm Folk Group - Lapointe Hall 6:50 pm CFF - 1,2,3,4,T,B Word of Life 7:30 pm RCIA - Church Our society, which all too often questions the 7:30 pm Adult Choir - Lapointe Hall inestimable value of life, every life, needs you [young people 7:30 pm Capital Campaign Reports - STMA with disabilities]: in a decisive way you help build the Th 2/9 Weekday civilization of love. What is more, you play a leading role in 7:00 pm Respect Life - 4 that civilization. As sons and daughters of the Church, you offer the Lord your lives, with all their ups and downs, 7:30 pm Edge Core Team - T cooperating with him and somehow becoming “part of the Fr 2/10 St. Scholastica, virgin treasury of compassion so greatly needed by the human Sa 2/11 Weekday/Our Lady of Lourdes race” (Spe Salvi, 40). 4:00 pm Confessions - Pastor’s Office ~ Pope Benedict XVI, Remarks at the San José Foundation for Disabled 4:30 pm Mass (Parishioners) - Lapointe Hall Youth, Madrid, August 20, 2011 5:30 pm Generations of Faith - 1,2,3,4,LH,T,B,C Su 2/12 Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time Next weekend’s Poor Box collection World Marriage Day reception - 1,2 St. Vincent de Paul Society: In the Gospel today, we 8:00 am Mass (Harry Murphy) - Church find that Jesus would rise very early before dawn and go 9:30 am Mass (Mariano Patuano) - Lapointe Hall to a deserted place to pray, and then he went out to 10:30 am RCIA - T preach and to heal. Praying for the poor can bring the 11:15 am Mass (Sgt. David Smith) - Lapointe Hall love and peace of Jesus to those who live in fear and doubt, loneliness and dread. Financial donations to the 12:30 pm Generations of Faith - 1,2,3,4,LH,T,B,C Poor Box and volunteers are needed (301-662-4676). 6:15 pm Confirmation Prep - 1,2,3,4,LH On the road? Check out www.masstimes.org for information on Mass times and locations in the area you are visiting. Thank you for your contributions! Rest in Peace Weekend of January 28-29 Roma Duber, mother of Margaret Snyder Regular Offertory:(including auto-giving) David Haney, father of Shelly Lang $8,452.93 Margaret Knott, aunt of Jeanne Geisinger New Church Gifts:(including auto-giving) Rev. Joseph Cote $ 448.00 Living the Eucharist Give Special Attention to Our Special Funds Today is Sign-Up Sunday for Living the Eucharist. For St. Joseph's has many specific income areas to the six weeks of Lent, we invite you to join a small group, accomplish specific goals. For those of you who are able, we a teen group, and/or participate with your family. The encourage you to generously support the activities of the Sign-Up Sunday brochures, along with sign-up cards, will Church through your contributions to our various funds. As a be available after all Masses today. For more information, convenience to those who prefer to make their contributions contact Therese Ivanisin, at 301-663-0907 x3012 or electronically using our automatic giving program, you can [email protected]. Please join us! give to the regular offertory, the Capital Campaign, Social Outreach/Social Justice (the Poor Box), monthly Diocesan collections, Christmas, Easter, and Catholic Education. World Marriage Day at St. Joseph’s Please contact the church office for details. We will be celebrating World Marriage Day, on the weekend of February 11 & 12. As part of our celebration we are asking that parishioners bring in a 4x6 or 5x7 copy Gift Card Orders of a picture from their wedding to be displayed in rooms Gift cards will be available next weekend for Giant, 1&2 during hospitality that weekend. Please bring Giant/Eagle, CVS, iTunes, Lowe’s, Home Depot, Chipotle, pictures to the parish office with the name of the couple Panera, Olive Garden, Outback, Longhorn, Red Lobster, and wedding date on the back, to the attention of Aimee Red Robin, Starbucks, Sheetz, Shell, WaWa, Target and Catania. We are asking for a copy that we can keep so Wal-mart/Sam’s. We will also be taking orders for other that the pictures can be reused each year. If you would vendors. Order forms may be found in the racks outside the like to have your picture returned, please label it as such parish offices. Orders can picked up the following weekend, so that we can make sure you get it back. Thank you for February 18-19. Proceeds benefit the new church fund. sharing your wedding memories with your parish family! Tuition Assistance Available-- New Church Building on our Website If you are making the sacrifice to send your children to Our Building Committee has been working on the design Catholic school or are considering Catholic school for the of the new church and we are happy to announce that we 2012-13 school year, your parish has some news for you! received approval of the site plan by the Frederick County St. Joseph-on-Carrollton Manor parish families may apply Planning Commission in December! for Catholic school tuition assistance for grades K–8. To This is the first step in many approvals required before qualify, the family must be registered and active stewards in filing for the building permit. The design team is working on the parish, which includes sharing time and talent and finalizing the plans and elevations for presentation to the contributing regularly to the general offertory using Archdiocese of Baltimore for approval, which will be followed envelopes or automatic giving. The student’s school must by building permit submittal later this year. be recognized by a Diocese/Archdiocese but need not be in For the latest on our building progress along with Frederick County. drawings of the interior design and exterior views check out Our parish uses a service known as FACTS Grant and www.stjoesbuckeystown.org/new-churchcapital-campaign . Aid Assessment for confidential collection and analysis of financial data, with further analysis and final award Bring in Your Palms decisions made by the Pastor, based on advisement by an As Ash Wednesday approaches we are asking you to impartial committee at the parish. If your family would like to bring in your palms from last year and place them in the be considered for tuition assistance from St. Joseph’s, baskets located in the back of the Church or the hallway complete a FACTS form at www.factstuitionaid.com, pay of the Parish Center by February 17th. They will be the $23 application fee, and supply all required burned and the ashes will be used at the Ash Wednesday documentation by Wednesday, February 29, 2012. We Masses. expect to notify applicants about assistance decisions by the end of March 2012. Kids’ Choir The Kids’ Choir for Easter will begin Thursday, March 1 The Food Pantry Needs You! at 7 pm. Children interested in participating are welcomed. Please bring in canned and non-perishable food items Questions? Contact Cindy Kindl at 301-663-0907 x3017. for the Food Pantry.