MASS SCHEDULE: 24 — 31 JANUARY 2010 SAINT JOSEPH CHURCH GIRARDVILLE Saturday, 23 January Vigil of Sunday 05:30 pm — JOSEPH BRENNAN by Edward and Judy Haluska Sunday, 24 January 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 11:30 am — DECEASED: MARIAN and PANTELEONA FULGINITI FAMILY by Mickey Catizone Monday, 25 January Conversion of St. Paul, apostle (Fst) 08:00 am — FRANCES TOPEROWSKI by Eileen Rowland Wednesday, 27 January St. Angela Merici, virgin (OptMem) 08:00 am — ROSEANN NEISS DEVINE by Jennie Drehler Friday, 29 January Weekday 08:00 am — T. NORMAN FLANNERY Sr. by Edward and Judy Haluska Saturday, 30 January Weekday 08:00 am — CHILDREN OF THE WORLD by Shirley Losch Rercla Vigil of Sunday 05:30 pm — JULIA CLARKE by the Clarke Trust Sunday, 31 January 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 11:30 am — IN HONOR OF SAINT BRIGID by the LAOH

MASS SCHEDULE: 24 — 31 JANUARY 2010 SAINT Vincent dePAUL CHURCH GIRARDVILLE   Saturday, 23 January Vigil of Sunday 04:00 pm — JOHN LIPSHUTZ and son, JOHN by Anna Chikotas Sunday, 24 January 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 08:30 am — JOHN and CATHERINE (Poprawa) WHYTENA by Jim and Georgann Connell Tuesday, 26 January SS. Timothy and Titus, bishops (OblMem) 08:00 am — God’s Blessings on EBC by friends / parishioners Thursday, 28 January St. Thomas Aquinas, priest, doctor (OblMem) 07:00 pm — God’s Blessings on EBC by friends Saturday, 30 January Vigil of Sunday 04:00 pm — ALBERT MISUNAS Sr. and ALBERT MISUNAS Jr. by their family Sunday, 31 January 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 08:30 am — JOANNE DOBROSIELSKY BRENNEMAN by her cousin, Rose D’Alfonso Popeck, and husband, Frank

MASS CONFUSION The Mass intention for Tuesday, 19 January, as printed in the bulletin, read as follows: BEATRICE WALACONIS RACKAUSKAS by her sister, Alice Walaconis Chiaretti. This was a mistake. It should have read this way: BEATRICE RACKAUSKAS WALACONIS by her daughter, Alice Walaconis Chiaretti. A Mass intention for Saturday, 16 January, as printed in the bulletin, read as follows: JOSEPH A. BRENNAN by Michael and Mary Ann Long. The “by” should have read Michael and Mary Ellen Long.

FOR THE RECORD: There was a 5:30 am Mass in StVdP Church on Friday, 22 January. This was an unscheduled Mass. It was offered for Paul and Camille Tegano and it was by their family.

LAST WEEKEND, while standing in the back of St. Joseph Church before Mass, I saw two children coming into church. I noticed that they did not genuflect before entering the pew. Please note that any children observed not genuflecting will be snatched up and sold to the next circus that comes through town and will spend the rest of their lives watering elephants and crying, “Why, oh why did we not heed Fr. Connolly’s admonition always to genuflect before entering the pew?”

DUES Some pay their dues when due. Some pay their dues when overdue. Some never do. How do you do? In reply to a question that is sometimes asked in regard to the PARISH DUES envelopes, viz. “How much are the dues?” We are happy to render an official answer to that question, which is applicable both to St. Joseph Parish and to St. Vincent dePaul Parish. Parish dues are five dollars ($5.00) per month. This is for all members of the parish who have reached adult age, which in our society is commonly taken to mean the attainment of age eighteen (18). So, count the candles on your next birthday cake. If you have 18 or more candles on your cake, you should pay dues. But what if you can’t afford five dollars a month? Well, if you can’t, you can’t. But, if you can, you ought. There is a snatch of a Harry Belafonte calypso song that rattles around in my head from time to time and it seems applicable at this point. It goes like this: “If you haven’t got a penny, well a ha’penny will do and if you haven’t got a ha’penny, well God bless YOU!” Or something like that.

On the Manner of Receiving Holy Communion "Benedict XVI, began to distribute Communion on the tongue and kneeling on the occasion of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi last year... perhaps intending to emphasize a preference for this method. One can imagine the reason for this preference: it shines more light on the truth of the real presence in the Eucharist, it helps the devotion of the faithful, and it indicates more easily the sense of mystery." Msgr. Guido Marini, Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations

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Pottsville Republican: 18 Jan 10 Church's mentality called into question To the Editor: A vast migration of Catholics from Europe came to America for employment and a hope to escape the dictatorial attitude of the Catholic Church. They found employment, unfortunately remaining under the restraints of the mentality of Rome and the Vatican. They built churches, schools, cemeteries, meeting halls, rectories, homes for the nuns, etc., which became the property of the bishops, i.e. the church. The attitude that the church cannot do any wrong has been destroyed by the immorality of too many priests, no vocations of any significance, refusal to allow women as priests, failure to import priests, disallowing priests to marry and the concrete mentality of the church. Each Sunday I hear that we are sinners!! Are all of us that sinful? The Jesuits say that we are good people, not sinners. St. Barbara Church in Minersville was closed secondary to so-called economic demands placed on it by the church. It is for sale with the condition that a large, beautiful mosaic of Jesus Christ on the wall behind the altar be destroyed. Stained glass windows, beautiful entrance doors, granite sign above the doors, the cross above the church will be destroyed or sold. Many St. Barbara parishioners say that it is insanity. Can these items be saved for their historical value? Because of our love for our Catholic parents we are reluctant to leave the Catholic Church. There are many other churches who love Jesus and Mary as much as us. All my children are educated. Some of them will not accept the dictatorial, unforgiving, Iron Curtain mentality of the present Catholic Church. Excommunication has lost its sting - if it ever existed. Jesus preached forgiveness. The church remains cold-hearted. Arthur DiNicola, M.D. Minersville Pottsville Republican: 20 Jan 10 Churches don’t belong to people To the Editor: Throughout several courses of studying the history of the church - in high school as well as at the undergraduate and graduate levels - I have never encountered the quaint narrative proposed by Dr. DiNicola of Minersville in Monday's edition. I have read numerous revisionist accounts, ranging from the ordinary sensationalizing of movies like "The Name of the Rose" to the even more macabre imaginings of Dan Brown's "The DaVinci Code," but the originality of Dr. DiNicola's version wins first prize. Nowhere in reputable accounts of history does one find Catholics fleeing Europe to escape the "dictatorial attitude" of the church. Perhaps there has been a confusion with the flight of the original, Protestant pilgrims of New England? In any case, the Catholic immigrants who came to American and built up the church here - and plentiful worship sites often more from zeal than necessity - had no illusions about whom those buildings "belonged" to. They saw their churches dedicated to God, chrismated on the wall at 12 points by the bishop to signify the 12 followers of Christ: The apostolic communion whose faith is the true foundation and pillar of the church, and which is carried on by the sacraments, especially holy orders. The church - buildings and members - belongs to God. Our fathers in faith were in this regard models of docility and obedience compared with our own waywardness. And theirs was not blind obedience. They knew well the weakness and feebleness of the church's sinful ministers: her deacons, priests and bishops. But they knew also the unshakeable tenets of doctrinal faith against which even hell was promised not to prevail: knew them much like the Jesuits whom Dr. DiNicola references, known - ironically - for their charism of special obedience to the pope. Dr. DiNicola seems to have been appealing to the exceptions rather than the rule. Dr. DiNicola's medical training will tell him that it would do no good looking anywhere but the left-center of the chest to find a man's heart. Superficially, one might suppose the seat of man to be centermost, in his stomach, and they would search there - as the Greeks did - for man's life-giving force. But such searching would be mistaken. Similarly, those who get caught up in the superficial might find the church's heart "cold" - as Dr. DiNicola has found it to be. But I would kindly suggest that, perhaps, he is looking in the wrong place. Joseph L. Grabowski Minersville My comment: Thank you, Mr. Grabowski, for your splendid reply to Dr. DiNicola!

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PETER PAUL TERESAVAGE Jr., a member of St. Vincent dePaul Parish, died on Friday, 22 January. Born on 22 November 1929, he was 80 years of age. He is the son of the late Peter. P. (Sr.) and Beatrice (Titanski) Teresavage. He was baptized on 22 December 1929 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, Eynon PA. Peter has one brother and one sister: Norbert P. Teresavage and Alice Teresavage Frey Alice is deceased. On 28 June 1951, he married Marion J. Leckner at Holy Cross Church, Harrison NJ. Peter and Marion are the parents of two children: Peter P. Teresavage III and Mariane C Teresavage Johnstone. Mariane is deceased. They have six grandchildren: Theresa A. Teresavage Skinner; Peter P. Teresavage IV; Jennifer M. Johnstone Keich; Patrick L. Teresavage; William L. Johnstone; Joseph P. Johnstone. They have six great-grandchildren: Brady P. Teresavage; Chase M. Teresavage; Clarity M. Johnstone; Izabel K. Teresavage; Beckett Q. Teresavage; Zephaniah W. Johnstone. The Mass of Christian Burial for Peter will be celebrated on Wednesday, 27 January, at 11:00 am, at St. Vincent dePaul Church. There will be a viewing at the Fritz Funeral Home (Ashland) on Tuesday, 26 January, from 5:00 to 8:00 pm. There will also be a viewing in St. Vincent dePaul Church on Wednesday, 27 January, for about one hour prior to the Mass. The interment will take place in the St. Vincent dePaul Parish Cemetery in Englewood. Eternal rest grant unto Peter, O Lord, and let the perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.

SO AS TO REMOVE ANY CONFUSION, would you please check your box of envelopes? (This applies only to members of St. Joseph Parish.) Look to see if you have a 26 December 2010 envelope that has one of the following numbers: 98 / 103 / 108 / 118 / 134 / 135 / 136 / 141. If you do, please call Ginny at the Rectory. Thank you!

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PARTICIPANTS IN THE MARCH FOR LIFE: 22 JANUARY 2010, Bus sponsored by StJosPar / StVdPPar 01. BEWLEY, Angie — St. Mary Parish, Hamburg 02. CHALINSKY, George — St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Minersville 03. COLIHAN, Julia — St. Joseph Parish, Ashland 04. CONNOLLY, Edward B. — St. Joseph Parish / St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 05. CUTHIE, Mary — St. Joseph Parish, Ashland 06. CUTHIE, Michael — St. Joseph Parish, Ashland 07. DOMALAKES, Karen — Annunciation BVM Parish, Frackville 08. FLORIANI, Pat — Unaffiliated 09. GILMARTIN, Jerome — St. Eulalia Parish, Elmhurst 10. GIRARD, Anne — Sacred Heart Parish, Palmerton 11. GIRARD, Edward — Sacred Heart Parish, Palmerton 12. HELLER, Jim — Most Blessed Trinity Parish, Tremont 13. HORAS, Teresa — Annunciation BVM Parish, Frackville 14. HUTTA, John — Sacred Heart Parish, Palmerton 15. IVES, Karen — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 16. JOY, Peter — Unaffiliated 17. LIGHTSTONE, Diana — St. Joseph Parish, Frackville 18. MALEWSKI, Barbara — St. Ambrose Parish, Schuylkill Haven 19. MALEWSKI, Paige — St. Ambrose Parish, Schuylkill Haven 20. MASI, Richard — Most Blessed Trinity Parish, Tremont 21. MERCURI, Jonathan — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 22. MERCURI, Ronald — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 23. MODESTO, Mary — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 24. MODESTO, Salvatore — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 25. PAULOSKY, Heather — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 26. PILO, Tony — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 27. PURCELL, Brian — St. Michael the Archangel Parish, Minersville 28. REEDY, Kathy — St. Ambrose Parish, Schuylkill Haven 29. RUTECKY, Tina — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 30. SEDLOCK, Rosemarie — St. Ann Parish, Frackville 31. SETLOCK, John — St. Clare of Assisi Parish, St. Clair 32. SMITH, Matthew — St. Ambrose Parish, Schuylkill Haven 33. STEFANSKI, Marilyn — St. Stephen Parish, Shenandoah 34. THYE, David — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 35. THYE, Susan — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 36. TRANQUILLO, Aaron — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 37. TRANQUILLO, Ann Marie — St. Patrick Parish, Pottsville 38. USALIS, Rebecca — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 39. WASCAVAGE, Samantha — St. Vincent dePaul Parish, Girardville 40. WEIDNER, Joseph — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 41. WEIDNER, Lisa — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 42. WEIDNER, Madelyn — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 43. WEIDNER, Mary — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 44. WEIDNER, Paul — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 45. WHITNEY, R. Michael — Child Jesus Chapel, Pittston 46. WILSON, Susanne — Most Blessed Trinity Parish, Tremont 47. YACKENCHICK, Albert J. Jr. — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 48. YACKENCHICK, Albert J. Sr. — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 49. YACKENCHICK, Michael — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville 50. YACKENCHICK, Nicholas — St. Joseph Parish, Girardville We acknowledge with gratitude the work that Susan Thye put into organizing this bus trip. May God reward her!

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THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN ON FRIDAY, 22 JANUARY 2010, AFTER THE MARCH FOR LIFE IN WASHINGTON DC. The following statement was released by the White House Press Office after the meeting President Obama is grateful to Father Connolly and the delegation from Schuylkill County who participated in the March for Life and who did him the courtesy of visiting him in the White House afterwards. As a result of the meeting, the President has announced his intention to drop all abortion funding of any kind from whatever health care reform bill he might sign off on at some future time. The President expressed his gratitude to Fr. Connolly for explaining to him certain details about “the birds and the bees” about which he had not previously been aware. As a boy growing up, the President did not have a close relationship with his father. In addition to which, his mother died relatively young. So, young Barack never had the opportunity to have that “little talk” that fathers (sometimes mothers) and sons traditionally have. As a result, he was, quite frankly, unaware of the fact that, when a lady is pregnant, there is a baby growing inside the lady’s tummy and that what is called “abortion” is the killing of the baby inside the mommy’s tummy. When Fr. Connolly explained this to him, the President was astounded. He said, “Holy cow! I never knew that abortion kills babies!” He called Rahm Emmanuel into the Oval Office and chided him for not letting him know about that. Mr. Emmanuel said, “Gee, Mr. President, I didn’t know that abortion kills babies! Scout’s honor! Cross my heart and hope to die!” President Obama then asked Father Connolly to explain it all over again to Mr. Emmanuel. By the time he was finished, Mr. Emmanuel was crying and President Obama was crying and Fr. Connolly was crying. Then they stopped crying and had a cup of tea. The President said that this meeting was “a real eye-opener for me” and he wants Fr. Connolly to stop by again and explain it all to Barney Frank and Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid and Joe Biden and Arlen Specter and Chris Dodd and a whole lot of others, including four or five of the Justices on the Supreme Court. Fr. Connolly invited the President to visit him in Girardville and promised him a genuine all-American Schuylkill County welcome, complete with pierogies, city chicken, halushki and a bottle of boilo. The meeting ended with a hearty handshake (see photo) and a question from the President as to where Fr. Connolly got those nifty magnetized reading glasses. He said he would sure like to have glasses like that!

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