Saturday, 14 June
Vigil of Sunday
4:30 p.m. - NATHAN H. KEVY (anniversary of birth / Father's Day)
by his daughter, Phyllis, and family

Sunday, 15 June
11th Sunday of Ordinary Time
7:45 a.m. - Rev. LEO M. MITCHELL
by Albert and Martha Pasuczzo and family
10:45 a.m. - JoANN BALLET WILLIAMS
by Marlin and Mary Jane Reed and family

Monday, 16 June
Weekday
12:05 p.m. - LILLIAN MUNSTER NICOLO
by Mary Sterner

Tuesday, 17 June
Weekday
12:05 p.m. - JOSEPH A. FABIANI
by Bill and Gerry Pross
7:00 p.m. - JOHN S. JOY Sr.
by his nephew, Vincent Madaffari

Wednesday, 18 June
Weekday
12:05 p.m. - ELANORE TEGANO FOLINO (42nd anniversary of wedding)
by her husband, Jack

Thursday, 19 June
St. Romuald, abbot (OptMem)
12:05 p.m. - RACHEL ANN SNINSKI
(2nd anniversary)
by her family
7:00 p.m. - FOR THE HAPPY REPOSE OF THE SOUL OF VMF
by Mary Brady Luppino and family

Friday, 20 June
Weekday
12:05 p.m. - JENNIE GENOVESE LASCALA
by her family

Saturday, 21 June
St. Aloysius Gonzaga, religious (OblMem)
8:00 a.m. - God's Blessings on SHAWN and ALLISON MEREDITH
by her family

Vigil of Sunday
4:30 p.m. - ANTHONY J. LUPPINO
by Kitty Owens DiCello

Sunday, 22 June
12th Sunday of Ordinary Time
7:45 a.m. - JOSEPH A. PALKO and JOANNE PALKO BACH
by Patty Feeley Garland
10:45 a.m. - FRANK V. LASCALA
by his family

Saint Joseph Parish
$1,448.00 from the envelopes and $81.00 from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $1,529.00 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $410.08 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $160.01, the sum of which is $570.09, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $941.06 the sum total of which is $1,511.15, one sees that $17.85 of this collection is available for operating the parish.

Saint Francis deSales Parish
$101.00 from the envelopes and $58.00 from the plate. Thank you.
When one deducts from the sum of these two figures, $159.00 the parish's weekly financial obligation to the Diocese, i.e. assessments, $46.15 plus the weekly premiums for property and liability insurance, $60.67, the sum of which is $106.82, plus its weekly obligation to All Saints School, $188.21, the sum total of which is $295.03, one sees that ($136.03) of this collection is available for operating the parish.This is a deficit!

Please note that the monthly Mass has been "moved up" one week this month. Usually it is on the last Friday of the month. This month, it will be the next to the last Friday.
We remind one and all that you are invited to participate in this Mass.
Simply go to the Nursing Home (located on the road behind Good Samaritan Hospital) and go to the activities room on the first floor.

Please note:
We depend on the BAA Office in Allentown for updates. We do not receive this information with maximum promptness. It is quite possible that your name is not on this list, even though it should be. If that be so, please let us know.

I WASN'T ABLE TO ATTEND either the Worship or the Sunday School at Christ Church, Route 443, McKeansburg this past Sunday (8 June). My excuse is a pretty good one: I work on Sundays.
I would have enjoyed listening to the message. If anyone is able to provide me with a copy of it - either an audiotape or a print copy - I would certainly listen to it (or read it) with respectful attention.
Meanwhile, I am going to guess (this is strictly a guess, mind you) that the message touched on some or all of the following:

WHAT MAKES US PROTESTANTS AND NOT CATHOLICS
Cats substitute mere human traditions for the word of God, whereas Prots base themselves exclusively on the word of God as found in the Bible;
Cats teach that Mary plus various and sundry saints serve along with Jesus as mediators between God and human beings, whereas Prots teach that Jesus is the only mediator;

Cats belong to a false religion, headed by the Antichrist, and they consort with that Scarlet Woman who Rides on the Back of the Beast and they're all going to be thrown into the Lake of Fire where the Worm never dies unless they see the error of their ways, flee from Babylon before it's too late and become good Prots like Jesus and the Twelve Apostles and Billy Graham.

NOW, PLEASE PAY ATTENTION!
The points listed (pages 06 to 09) under the heading "Some reasons we are Protestants and not Catholics" are my feeble (and hurried) attempt to list a few of the old chestnuts.
I am NOT saying that I know that any of these points were any part of the message delivered at the Christ Church in McKeansburg on Sunday, 8 June!
I am, however, saying that I would hazard a guess that one or more of these points somehow or other found its way into that message.
What I am hoping is this: I hope that there is no adult member of either St. Joseph Parish or St. Francis deSales Parish who would not be able to deal successfully with any of these chestnuts.
Allow me, in these waning days, to say once again what I have been saying from the pulpit (and in the bulletin) time after time:

There is one and only one Church established by God for the salvation of the human race. That Church is the Catholic Church. There is no other. Let us resolve to live and die in peace and communion with the Catholic Church. Let us pray for all of our Protestant friends, that they may return to that one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church - the pillar of truth, the Body of Christ, the Bride soon to come down from heaven to meet the Lord.

Father JOHN H. HARHAGER, s.m. is a most welcome guest of St. Joseph Parish and St. Francis deSales Parish this weekend.
He comes to us under the auspices of the Propagation of the Faith. One of the programs of the Propagation of the Faith is the annual "Missionary Cooperative Weekend" in each parish. [We usually shorten that to "Mission Co-op Weekend"]
This is that weekend!
The visiting priest preaches at all the weekend Masses (and celebrates some of them). He usually tells us something about the work of his community. He hopes to raise the consciousness level of all of us in regard to what is going on in the wider world to spread the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and to bring people into the Church. A great part of the missionary task is seeing to the very basic physical needs of the people: food, shelter, health care.

Since its official recognition by the Church in 1836, the Society of Mary (Marist Fathers and Brothers) has committed itself to the missions in the southwest Pacific. Since that time, the Marists have expanded into areas of Africa, Asia and South America. Today there are nearly 300 priests and brothers working in "bush stations", teaching in schools and seminaries, ministering in training institutions, providing direct service to the poor, oppressed and marginalized, and contributing to the development of people for a better society and a strong local Church. Contributions to the Marists will help them in their mission of witness to the Gospel, service to the needy and helping the local Church to build a strong base for its promising future. Thank you for whatever you can do to help them in their life-long commitment and work.

SNAKE

The poet is Alexander Koinski, who is: 12 years old; a rising seventh-grader at All Saints School; a member of St. Francis deSales Parish; an altar boy; a neat kid.
I like his poem. It's offbeat. It has attitude! And it makes me smile. Snakes don't have many friends. It is kind of Alex to defend the lowly and despised!