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27 / 28 JANUARY Saint Joseph Parish Saint Francis deSales Parish |
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6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at St. Joseph's 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. at St. Francis deSales' 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. at St. Joseph's |
| THE SANCTUARY LAMP at St. Joseph Church is offered, during the week of 04 - 10 February, in loving memory of John J. Deramo, at the request of his wife, Angie, and family. |
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THE BLESSING OF THROATS in
memory of Saint Blaise, will be offered after each of the Masses
this weekend. bishop and martyr, may the Lord deliver you from ailments of the throat and from every other evil. In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. If you are in a hurry and can't stay for the blessing, please leave your throat in the sacristy. The priest will bless it and you can pick it up at your convenience. Please remember to write your name on your throat, because they all look alike. |
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Peter J. Calabrese Dominick W. ["Danny"] Doyne Jason A. Laplaca Craig A. Leymeister Joann Tokonitz Mikos Rose Papapietro Piccioni Pasquale A. Pilo Eugene E. Eccenrode Derek L. James Kristina M. Miller |
David A. Kasper Jeffrey J. Dunkel Verna Minneci Maccarone Amelia Quirin Marrazzo Chelsea M. Arndt Sophie Wasatonic Kantner * Elizabeth Matz Kemmerling Anthony J. Sedicino Joshua M. Brahler |
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BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY Last week we missed wishing Happy Birthday (1 Feb) to a little boy named Travis Lee Block Jr. Because this was his first birthday, we presume he is not yet an avid bulletin reader. So, please don't anyone tell him we omitted it. He might not understand that it wasn't on purpose and that "such things happen". We sure don't want the kid to feel bad. BORN ON 10 FEB 1912, Sophie Kantner turns 95 today! We thank God for granting her many years and we respectfully recommend that He extend her lease indefinitely. Sophie lives now in Virginia. I spoke with her daughter recently. She said that her mother is doing very well and that she often thinks about her friends in the old neighborhood. God bless her! |
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ETHEL GASTIN is
a resident of the Schuylkill Center - the nursing home where
we celebrate Mass on the last Friday of each month. This past Friday (26 Jan), while we were there, we learned that Miss Gastin will observe her 100th birthday on Wednesday, 7 February. We found this hard to believe. The years have been kind to Ethel. She looks and seems at least thirty years younger! We send our love and respectful good wishes to Ethel Gastin, a good Catholic lady and a distinguished member of our community. |
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SOME HONOR ROLLERS Angela M. Cairns / 12th grade / PAHS / 1st Honors Kelly A. McCord / 10th grade / PAHS / Honors Megan L. McCord / 6th grade / Lengel / 1st Honors |
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MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER Valentine's Day is coming! Still wondering what to give your Valentine? The gift of a MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER will last a lifetime. Join us from 9 to 11 Feb at St. Francis Center for Renewal, Bethlehem. For more information, call (610) 767-0327 or 1-800-787-7679 or go online at http://www.wwme-nepa.org |
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A LETTER FROM BIRTHRIGHT Dear Friends of Birthright: Birthright Volunteers (signatures) This letter refers to the gifts of baby clothes and "assorted baby items" that were donated during the Advent / Christmas seasons. There were also some monetary donations. Everything we received went to Birthright. Thank you to all who contributed! |
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With a view towards Valentine's Day
coming up soon, we are reprinting on pages 7 and 8 of this bulletin
some words written by St. Francis deSales, plus a reflection
on these words, written by the pastor of St. Francis deSales
Parish. The Mystical Meaning
of Earrings St. Francis deSales |
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He should say to her the things that are beautiful and true and kind and helpful and good. He should laugh with her every day. He should console her when she is sad. He should tell her about his life, his thoughts, his feelings. He should pay her honest compliments and thank her for all the good she does for him. He should speak words that will make her heart smile. If she has given him children, he should, from time to time, thank her for conferring on him the awesome dignity of fatherhood. He should enter into her soul by the simple sincerity of his words. So that her ears might remain receptive to his words, a husband must make his own ears attentive to his wife's words. He should take an interest in the things that interest her. He should never dare suggest that she is inferior to him, nor ever dare to think that she is unworthy of his attention. He should remember that she has voluntarily handed over to him the awesome right to embrace both her body and her soul. He must approach her with humility and must ask God for the grace never to lose his sense of wonder that she trusts him so profoundly. He must treat his wife in such a way that her ears are delighted to hear the sound of his footsteps approaching. Her husband's lips must themselves be the mystical jewels that she allows to guard and to adorn her ears, those ears which are the portals into the mystery of her soul, pendants that she wears with pride in the presence of her family, of her friends and of all the world. Pastor of St. Francis deSales' |
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STOCK MARKET TIP Disclaimer: StJosPar and StFdSPar and the pastor thereof accept no blame whatsoever if you utilize this tip in your investment decisions this coming year, as a result of which you go belly-up. On the other hand, if you do utilize this tip in your investment decisions this coming year and it works out to your favor, we would be happy if you would remember that you read it here in this bulletin and would show your gratitude in some tangible way. Okay, here is the tip: If an AFC team wins the Super Bowl, the stock market will decline in the following year. If an NFC team wins the Super Bowl, the stock market will rise in the following year. [This has been true 85'% of the time.] So, if the Bears win the Super Bowl, you would do well to be bullish in the coming year. But if the Colts win the Super Bowl, you would do well to be bearish in the coming year. |
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LOOK THROUGH YOUR OLD VIDEOTAPES! There are no videos (as far as anyone knows) of the first two Super Bowls (1967 and 1968). Just in case you were into videotaping way back in 1967 - 68 and you happened to videotape either or both of those games and then put the tapes into a drawer somewhere or in a box that sits now in your attic or garage, please dig them out. Then donate the tapes to StJosPar or StFdSPar. I understand that the NFL will pay mega bucks for them. We'll be able to pay some bills AND we will thank you in the bulletin!! |
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ALTERNATE DEFINITIONS ADULT: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle. BEAUTY PARLOR: A place where women curl up and dye. CANNIBAL: Someone who is fed up with people. CHICKENS: The only animals you eat before they are born and after they are dead. COMMITTEE: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours. DUST: Mud with the juice squeezed out. EGOTIST: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation. HANDKERCHIEF: Cold Storage. INFLATION: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper. MOSQUITO: An insect that makes you dislike flies less. RAISIN: Grape with a sunburn. SECRET: Something you tell to only one person at a time. SKELETON: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off. TOOTHACHE: The pain that drives you to extraction. TOMORROW: One of the greatest labor saving devices ever devised. YAWN: An honest opinion openly expressed. WRINKLES: Something other people have. You and I have character lines. |
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NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING NOTE ON THE ABOVE: A knowledge of Natural Family Planning can be useful not only for those couples who need
(for serious reason) to defer childbearing for a while, but also
for those couples who are sad that, despite their earnest expressions
of love for one another, they have not yet received the gift
of a child of their own flesh. NFP is God's way of giving married couples some share
in His jurisdiction over their fertility. |
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Stations of the Cross Friday, 23 February Saint Patrick Please note that the five parishes of Pottsville
/ Mount Carbon will do as we did last year. Now, you have plenty of advance notice. |
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Saturday, 03 FebruaryVigil of Sunday 6:00 p.m. - MARIE ELAINE LUPPINO by Stephen (+) and Jeanette Chalinksy
Sunday, 04 February5th Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:15 a.m. - EDWARD W. KULL by his wife, Barbara, and family 12:15 p.m. - LEE KORBICH by the Mohan family
Monday, 05 FebruarySt. Agatha, virgin, martyr (OblMem) 10:00 a.m. - PHILOMENA ["Mamie"] TUCCI DiCELLO by Mary A. Luppino
Wednesday, 07 FebruaryWeekday 10:00 a.m. - LOUISE TROILO ALATI by Angela Giacoia Alati
Friday, 09 FebruaryWeekday 10:00 a.m. - BERTHA ZVORSKY MESSINA by Leonard and Roberta Sumoski
Saturday, 10 FebruaryVigil of Sunday 6:00 p.m. - CATHERINE CARESTIA RINALDO by Joseph and Barbara Reichert
Sunday, 11 February6th Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:15 a.m. - EDWARD W. KULL by Frank and Ann Marie Tranquillo and Aaron 12:15 p.m. - LEO J. BECKER Jr. by Kathryn Selinsky Luppino (+) |