Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter 828 Buford Road, N. Chesterfield, Virginia 23235 office: (804) 320-4932 fax: (804) 451-1009 www.stjosephrichmond.org [email protected]“If I shall touch only His garment, I shall be healed.” (Matt. 9. 21) -Pastor- Rev. Robert Novokowsky, FSSP Parish Business: (804) 320-4932, ext. 302 [email protected]-Parochial Vicar- Rev. Terrence Gordon, FSSP Parish Business: (804) 320-4932, ext. 304 [email protected]Parish Office Hours: Mon. - Fri., 9 am — 2 pm Beverly Howe, Admin. Asst., ext. 301 David Pedersen, Choirmaster Holy Mass Schedule Sunday 8:30 am (Low) 11 am (High) 4:30 pm (Low) Monday 7 am & 9 am Tuesday 7 am & 9 am Wednesday 7 am & 6 pm Thursday 7 am & 9 am Friday 7 am & 6 pm Saturday 9 am Sacramental Emergencies: 396-5665 Confession: ½ hr before all Masses, Saturdays - 10:00 to 12 noon Novena & Benediction: Wed. evenings. Holy Days: look for announcement Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Eve- ry Friday from 8 am until noon, First Fri- days from 8 am until 5 pm. Other Sacraments: please call the office. Ladies Altar Guild Mary Claire Adams 515-0973 Kids Social Coordinator Maintenance/Improvements John Hewitt 330-0896 Savvy Seniors Mary Alice Hoffman 440-1618 [email protected]Music Director David Pedersen [email protected]Gift Shop Rose Mary Cosby 272-3908 Ushers Patrick Latimer 262-7628 Parish Pastoral Council Andy Piffat 804-897- 4322 Religious Education Katy Hichborn [email protected]Finance Council Jay Lagarde 741-3085 Knights of Columbus Tom Dennis St. Joseph’s Education Guild Web Master [email protected]Pot Luck Coordinator Megan Bean 894-2894 Parish Library Antoinette Cleary 748-3179 [email protected]St. Camillus de Lellis Prayer Group Margaret Ansari 716-1086 Volunteer Coordinator Anne-Marie Beauchesne 714-5135 [email protected]Flower Guild Andria Morris 525-0733 Friday Adoration Bernadette Piccininni 291-8961 Grounds Crew Steve Michniak Building Committee Bob Kaplan Sacristan Antoinette Cleary 748-3179 Lost & Found Cathy Howe 795-1142 November 12, 2017 COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITIES Corner Cont. wasn't fair to our volunteer staff of clean- ers. Therefore, I decided to lock up the kitchen outside of public uses. This now seems too restric- tive, and so we are going to try again leaving it open. The sign on the door says, "No unaccompa- nied children." I need the parents to help me en- force this policy by word and deed. Which chil- dren need to be accompanied? All children who need help leaving things 'exactly as they found it.' I appreciate your patience, understanding and cooperation. Roof. After many weeks of dogged fact- finding, we have engaged a company to make sig- nificant repairs to our roofing system. The biggest portion of the project is replacing the 25 year old rubber flat roof (5000 sq. ft. not visible from the ground) with a new PVC product with a 30-year life expectancy. Your generous donations to the Capital Improvements Fund make this possi- ble. The fun will continue in another 5 to 7 years when we'll be replacing all the cedar shakes. Thank you for all of your contributions, may God reward you. Fr. Novokowsky Thank You The Comboni Missionary Sisters send gratitude for the $685 that they raised through your generosity. 24 Hour Adoration Event Fri., Dec. 1, 4pm until Sat., Dec. 2, 4 pm; the Cathe- dral of the Sacred Heart will be open and the Blessed Sacrament exposed all night. Come when and for as long as you wish. A uniformed police of- ficer will be on duty during the night to provide se- curity. Info: Maria [email protected]Sunday Offertory Budget Surplus/(Deficit) Collection Operations Sun. 11/5 $10,407 $7,700 $2,707 YTD $142,409 $146,300 ($3,891) Capital Improvements Sun. 11/5 $1,418 $1,250 $168 YTD $27,343 $23,750 $3,593 Thank you for your continued generosity!
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Richmond Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter
828 Buford Road, N. Chesterfield, Virginia 23235 office: (804) 320-4932 fax: (804) 451-1009 www.stjosephrichmond.org
Holy Mass Schedule Sunday 8:30 am (Low) 11 am (High) 4:30 pm (Low) Monday 7 am & 9 am Tuesday 7 am & 9 am Wednesday 7 am & 6 pm Thursday 7 am & 9 am Friday 7 am & 6 pm Saturday 9 am
Sacramental Emergencies: 396-5665
Confession: ½ hr before all Masses, Saturdays - 10:00 to 12 noon
Novena & Benediction: Wed. evenings.
Holy Days: look for announcement
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament: Eve-ry Friday from 8 am until noon, First Fri-days from 8 am until 5 pm.
Corner Cont. wasn't fair to our volunteer staff of clean-ers. Therefore, I decided to lock up the kitchen outside of public uses. This now seems too restric-tive, and so we are going to try again leaving it open. The sign on the door says, "No unaccompa-nied children." I need the parents to help me en-force this policy by word and deed. Which chil-dren need to be accompanied? All children who need help leaving things 'exactly as they found it.' I appreciate your patience, understanding and cooperation. Roof. After many weeks of dogged fact-finding, we have engaged a company to make sig-nificant repairs to our roofing system. The biggest portion of the project is replacing the 25 year old rubber flat roof (5000 sq. ft. not visible from the ground) with a new PVC product with a 30-year life expectancy. Your generous donations to the Capital Improvements Fund make this possi-ble. The fun will continue in another 5 to 7 years when we'll be replacing all the cedar shakes. Thank you for all of your contributions, may God reward you.
Fr. Novokowsky
Thank You The Comboni Missionary Sisters send gratitude for the $685 that they raised through your generosity.
24 Hour Adoration Event Fri., Dec. 1, 4pm until Sat., Dec. 2, 4 pm; the Cathe-dral of the Sacred Heart will be open and the Blessed Sacrament exposed all night. Come when and for as long as you wish. A uniformed police of-ficer will be on duty during the night to provide se-curity. Info: Maria [email protected]
Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost November 12, 2017
Prayer Intentions Margaret Latimer, Edward Crawford, Freda Clark, Peggy Dowdy, Teddy McAuliff, Joe Guerrero, Bosco Sanctafamilia, Justine Madigan, Sharon Arrington, Raymond McCoy, Judith Evans, Rachel O’Connell, Peter Osborne, JW Stephens, Alisa Lazor-Barnette, Taylor Barnette, Frank Blake, Charles Furlough, Sam Sponeybarger, Julia Reardon, Maryann Fischler, Linda Vegas, Dottie Calhoun, Angela Rhys-Sonnenschein, Ed Peters, Karen Evans, Bob Martin, Tracy Patrowicz, Betty Proffitt, Patricia Willard, Elizabeth Storm, Charles & Jeanette LaPaglia, Cathy Van Pelt, Barbara Reith, Diane Hayes, Andria Morris, Caroline Laing, Ron & Sherri Crawford, Gerard Lajoie, Betty Faina, Kathleen Stells, Julie Trexler, Theresa Trexler, Antoinette McLaughlin, Bobby Overman, Dick and Nan Wray, Mary Zacharias, Casey Stalvey, Suki & Beau Simpson, Maryann McLaughlin, John Osborne, Ann Horgan.
In your charity, please remember the soul of Tom Wright and the souls of all the
faithfully departed. May they rest in peace.
Pastor’s Corner Upcoming Events Nov. 12—Cookie Sale Nov. 18—Apostolate of Mary, Mother of Priests Nov. 19—KofC Pancake Breakfast Nov. 19—Lost & Found Sunday Nov. 23—Thanksgiving Holiday—Mass at 10 am
TODAY—Cookie Sale Sun., Nov. 12, in Fr. Adrian Hall after the morning Masses. Members of Spiders for Life, the U of R pro-life group, are coming to raise money to support their efforts both on and off campus. Thank you for your generosity.
New Carmelite Novice Sr. Muriel Wankep-Kamga, will take the holy habit of Carmel on Tuesday Nov. 14, 8 am. Fr. Novokowsky will assist in the ceremony. You are most welcome to attend. Please pray for her, and the rest of the sisters there, including novice Sr. Aimee (Valerie Tay-lor). This monastery is doing well. They are preparing a new building on a new property as their current one is unacceptable. They have many new vocations, enough that they recently sent some to re-found a fail-ing Carmelite monastery in Philadelphia.
Lost & Found Sunday Sun., Nov. 19. Come to Fr. Adrian Hall and look through the items from our lost and found. Anything remaining on Monday morning will be disposed of, so come see what you forgot you lost!
Another Man’s Treasure Some people have manifested a desire to give away items they no longer need. Therefore, we are going to organize a Swap Sunday on Dec. 3. More details to follow.
Great Book Give Away Thank you to Maria Liberatore who donated some nice reading, and to all who participated in her charitable give-away by making many free-will offerings. We raised nearly $500 for the parish. Masses will be of-fered for the intentions of the donors, and the Holy Souls, Dying Souls, and the conversion of sinners. Thanks again. Free Sample Packs of Christmas cards are available
in the vestibule.
Dear Parishioners, Christmas Party and Talent Show: Please save the date: Sunday Dec. 31st 12:30 pm will be the occasion of our celebration together. Stay tuned for more de-tails which will follow. Spiritual Reading: We all have a duty to plant new seeds in the garden of our mind. How else to have a harvest? How else not to starve in the win-ter? And yet how easily neglected! Our spiritual reading has as its aim greater union with God in pray-er. Blog posts don’t count as spiritual reading. The best reading is timeless because it treats of eternal things. Blog posts might be exciting because they deal with the storm of current events. Let’s not confuse exciting with good. We need to escape the tyranny of time and space, to see the invisible God. As with all human endeavors, a good beginning is worth half the whole. Where can we find good reading?! We have an excellent small lending library for this purpose. Excellent Book: I’d like to suggest a book worthy of purchase: “Divine Intimacy: Meditations on the Interior Life for Every Day of the Year,” by Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalen, OCD. This book is a masterpiece. It has two or three pages for every day of the Traditional Liturgical year—beginning, of course, on the first Sunday of Advent. As the preface says, “Divine Intimacy seeks to arrange daily meditations in such a way that in the course of one year the most im-portant problems of the spiritual life and all the super-natural realities met with in the interior life will have been reviewed.” Its theology is made digestible be-cause it’s presented in straight forward language, and broken up into bite-size pieces. But it’s not a theology textbook: God is studied for the purpose of daily prayer. The author says: “Mental prayer is indispen-sable to the spiritual life … therefore we are offering a collection of subjects for meditation for each day of the year, according to the Teresian [St. Teresa of Je-sus] idea and method of mental prayer.” Divine Inti-macy was already “extraordinarily successful” in 1961. The English edition has been reprinted beauti-fully—necessarily in hardback—by Baronius Press and available from Rose Mary in the Gift Shop. The Hall's Kitchen. Use of the kitchen had become a free-for-all for messes left behind, etc. This
Schedule Changes
• 7 am Mass cancelled on Nov. 13 & 14.
• 7 am Mass cancelled on Nov. 21, 22, & 23.
• Mass at 10 am on Thurs., Nov. 23.
FSSP Liturgical Calendars The 2018 Traditional Liturgical Calendars have arrived and are on sale outside the Par-ish Office for $10. Please put cash or check in the envelope provided and slip it under the office door.
Keeper of the Lights Nick Heinz has kept the practice of vigil lights possible by his devoted service. He needs now to pass the reins to another. He is willing to train any interested candi-date. Please call Bev in the office.
Pancake Breakfast Sun., Nov. 19. The Knights of Columbus are raising money toward the bus for the March for Life. Thank you for your generosity. Continued
Mass Schedule and Intentions
Sun. Nov. 12
8:30 am Ronald Woody 11 am Betty C. Rowland 4:30 pm Pro Populo
23rd Sunday After Pentecost
( 2nd Cl.)
Mon. Nov. 13
9 am Celebrant’s Intention St. Francis
Xavier Cabrini (3rd Cl.)
Tues. Nov. 14
9 am Muriel & All Carmelites St. Josaphat
(3rd Cl.)
Wed. Nov. 15
7 am Hans Weissgerber 6 pm Joanna & Karol Kozlowski
St. Albert the Great (3rd Cl.)
Thurs. Nov. 16
7 am Private Intention 9 am Bernadette Woods
St. Gertrude the Great (3rd Cl.)
Fri. Nov. 17
7 am Miriam Diaz Sanchez 6 pm Claire Bonilla
St. Gregory the Wonderworker
(3rd Cl.)
Sat. Nov. 18
9 am To Honor Our Lady of Walsingham
Dedication of the Basilicas of SS. Peter and Paul
(3rd Cl.)
Sun. Nov. 19
8:30 am Cathy Trommer 11 am Pro Populo 4:30 pm Celebrant’s Intention
Res. 6th Sunday After Epiphany
( 2nd Cl.)
Mon. Nov. 20
7 am Liberatore Children 9 am Celebrant’s Intention
St. Felix of Valois (3rd Cl.)
Tues. Nov. 21
9 am Private Intention Presentation
of the B.V.M. (3rd Cl.)
Wed. Nov. 22
6 pm Duncan Van Ness St. Cecilia (3rd Cl.)
Thurs. Nov. 23
10 am FSSP St. Celement I
(3rd Cl.)
Fri. Nov. 24
7 am Celebrant’s Intention 6 pm Mr. & Mrs. Ken Diman
