ANNUNCIATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY 401 BROOKLINE BLVD. HAVERTOWN, PA 19083 RECTORY: 610.449.1613 FAX: 610.449.7041 www.annunciationparish.com Reverend James M. Cox, Pastor Msgr. Ignatius L. Murray, Pastor Emeritus Rev. Sean Loomis, Part-Time Parochial Vicar Rev. Tadeusz Pacholczyk, In residence Deacon Bob McElwee Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil 4:30 PM Sacrament of Reconciliation Sunday 7:30, 9:00, 11:00 AM Saturday morning 9:05 to 9:35 AM Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday Saturday afternoon 3:15–4:15 PM 8:30 AM Or by appointment. Tuesday and Thursday 6:30 AM Holy Day Vigil 7:00 PM, 6:30 & 8:30 AM Sacrament of Baptism Pre Jordan classes are held on the third Wednesday of each month at 7:30 PM. Pre-registration is re- Parish Office Hours M-F 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM quired one week in advance. Baptisms are held the first and third Sundays of each month at 12:15 PM. Parish Registration Call the rectory to register 610-449-1613. We welcome new members to our Parish Family. Please call the parish office to register. Sacrament of Marriage Couples who desire to be married in the Church, must make an appointment with a priest at least six months in advance. Please do not schedule your wedding without first confirming church availability. Rev. James M. Cox Adoration of the Most Blessed Sacrament [email protected] Rev. Sean Loomis Every Wednesday following the 8:30 am Mass in church. Evening Prayer and Benediction will be [email protected] celebrated at 7:00 pm Wednesday evening. Celie Adams, Parish Secretary Church is open every day 8:30 am to 3:00 pm for [email protected] private prayer. Peter DiNofia, Business Manager [email protected] Anointing of the Sick This sacrament is available to schedule prior to major Leslee Smith, CRE/PREP surgery or in the case of serious illness. [email protected] Elizabeth Jane McGuire, Music Director Communion for the Homebound [email protected] If you or a family member are unable to attend Sunday Mass, please contact the Parish Office so that arrangements can be made for you to receive Holy Cardinal John Foley Regional Catholic School Communion at home. Mrs. MaryAnn DeAngelo, Principal 610-446-4608 26 September 2021 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK Sunday 9/26 Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30 am John McGrath 9:00 am Joseph Brumfield 11:00 am Robert Smedley Monday 9/27 St. Vincent de Paul Exposition and Adoration in church 8:30 am Grace Burns every Wednesday Tuesday 9/28 St. Wenceslaus St. Lawrence Ruiz immediately following the 6:30 am Thomas Mahoney 8:30 am Mass Wednesday 9/29 SS. Michael, Gabriel and Evening Prayer and Benediction Raphael, Archangels is celebrated at 7:00 pm 8:30 am Patrick Hart Thursday 9/30 St. Jerome 6:30 am William Smithson (living) We continue to pray for all the men Friday 10/1 St. Therese of the and women serving in the armed forces. Child Jesus May the sacrifices they are making bring 8:30 am Marie Tomasetti peace, and may God bring them Saturday 10/2 Weekday home safely. 8:30 am Santuary Guild 4:30 pm People of the Parish PRAYER CORNER All Masses are livestreamed Together this week as a parish, let us join in Please go to our website Annunciationparish.com praying for families living on Holbrook Road, and use the Vimeo or Facebook link Kathmere Road, Kenmore Road, E. Langhorne Ave. https://vimeo.com/event/30234 PLEASE REMEMBER IN YOUR PRAYERS THE SICK OF THE PARISH: Liz Campbell, Kathy Cera, Tiffany Cera, Nancy Cicione, Weekly Collection Report Jack Cloran, Jen Colletti, Nick Compton, Carrie Connolly, Basket Week of 9/19/2021 $ 6,218 Roxanne Danley, Lucy DeLuca, Matthew Donahue, EFT Week of 9/19/2021 $ 3,172 Lauren Engle, Nan Fagan, Connie Gibson, Sean Total $ 9,390 Grogan, Charlie Green, Ben Hamilton, Conall Harvey, Michael Howard, Mary Huha, Dana Iannella, Teresa Basket Week of 9/20/2020 $ 6,082 Immel, Susan Battani Karwacki, Barry Kelly, Edward EFT Week of 9/20/2020 $ 3,983 Kolbe, Rick Kroger, Francisco & Anna Koo, Sophia Total $ 10,065 Leidy, Jack Luli, John Mahan, Barbara McCaulley, Kathy Thank you for your continued support especially McDougall, Mary Mensack, Charles Morris, Franny through these challenging times. Murray, Msgr. Ignatius Murray, Florence Myers, Paul Myers, Tim Pickeral, Thompson Pitz, James Rastatter, Steve Ranaldi, Drew Robertson, Rosalie Rotondi, Mi- Sign up for Flocknote chael Scanlon, Henry Schovain, Christine Seltzer, Barba- Get important updates via email & text to Sign up ra Tourdot, Lucille Vitulli,,Rita Walsh, Lily Walker, Text: abvm to 84576 on your cell phone Isabel Wilsbach, Visit: www.flocknote.com/AnnunciationBVM All the sick and shut-ins of the parish Unsubscribe anytime—no spam we promise remain in our prayers. 2 039AnnuciationBVM The Sanctuary Lamp burns for seven days We welcome new members to our and is placed near the tabernacle to desig- Parish Family. Please call or email the nate the real presence of the Lord in our parish office to register. Church. The Sanctuary Lamp will burn [email protected] during the week of September 26th in 610 449-1613 memory of Mary Griesser. Please join us today! A Catholic "Blue Mass" to honor, pray for, and bless all Haverford Township Police Officers, Firefighters, and EMS Responders will be held Today, Sunday, September 26th at 11:00 am Mass and Lunch in the church hall. Formerly the Oktoberfest, please join us for our A.B.V.M. Fall Social. Highlights include music, delicious food, good beer and both indoor/outside seating. We IRISH CEILI DANCING are planning an outdoor bier garten in addition to our Stress Free Fun so Jig don’t Jog. usual indoor seating. Register now by purchasing your Join us for our next class on Tuesday, tickets at https://my.cheddarup.com/c/a-b-v-m-fall-social October 5th at 7 pm in the ABVM OR www.signugenius.com/go/4090d48a5a92ca1fe3- church hall for dance class. For information email annuncition Bobby Graham [email protected] Get those tickets now at our lower rate! Sales go up at the door. Adults 16 & up $35.00 11 to 15, $20.00, 4 to 10, $10.00 We are accepting donations for water and soda to help offset the cost. Please kindly consider helping make this night a big success! Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Interested in becoming a Catholic? Are you seeking to be baptized? Have you been bap- tized in another faith tradition and are interest- ed in joining the Catholic Church? Are you a baptized Catholic who has never received Eu- charist or Confirmation? If any of the above apply, RCIA may be for you… RCIA provides an opportunity to be guided to a deeper under- standing of Catholic teachings and prayer through a process adapted to the needs and situations of adults seeking to be fully initiated Catholics. Please contact the rectory for infor- mation 610 449-1613. 3 4 Cinderella's Genderless Godmother ANNE HENDERSHOTT For the child — and the adult who knows there is still a child in all of us — fairy tales reveal truths about our- selves and the world. As psychologist Bruno Bettelheim stated in his extraordinary study titled The Uses of Enchantment (1976), "the fantastical, sometimes cruel, but always deeply significant narrative strands of the classic fairy tales can aid in the greatest human task, that of finding meaning for one's life." Children who are familiar with fairy tales understand that these stories speak to them in the language of symbols — not the reality of everyday life. Children know that the fairy stories are not "real," yet the real events in their lives become important through the symbolic meaning that is attached to them. They know that the events described in these stories happened "once upon a time," in a "world far from here." The old castles, the magical fairies, and the enchanted forests exist in a unique fairy-tale time — a time described in the opening lines of the Brothers Grimm's "The Frog King" as a time that was long, long ago, "when wishing still helped." The original fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm always had a moral message — a warning that we must be virtuous or else hor- rible things will happen to us. The classic fairy tales always ended with the wicked punished and goodness overcoming evil. And although Disney has distorted some of our most beloved fairy tales — like their most recent production of Sleeping Beauty, replete with a morally ambiguous character like Maleficent — Sony's newest version of Cinderella promises to create even more chaos in the child's mind. Just as there should not be shades of gray in a truly evil figure (like Maleficent) in a fairy tale, it will be even more difficult for children to understand how the Fairy Godmother in Sony's new Cinderella can be what some reviews are calling a "fierce and fabulous" man wearing a dress. Releasing on Amazon Prime today, Sony's Cinderella features Billy Porter as Cinderella's beloved and magical Fairy God- mother. Rather than the grandmotherly fairy godmother of the original Disney classic Cinderella, children are presented with a young gay man wearing a ball gown, high heels, and carrying a magic wand. Claiming that "Magic has no gender … we are presenting this character as genderless … At least that's how I'm playing it. And it's really powerful." The creators of what reviewers have called the "queer" Cinderella claim that the "next generation is already more than ready to see this kind of representation in their favorite media … You know this is a classic fairy tale for a new generation, and I think that the new generation is really ready.