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SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Infant baptisms are celebrated on
Saturdays at Noon and Sundays at 11:30AM. Parents are asked to
attend a one-evening presentation on Baptism prior to the
celebration. Please phone the Parish Office to register for the
class and Baptism. SPONSOR CERTIFICATES for sacramental sponsors
can be issued only to registered & active members of the
parish. Please call the office.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: Please call the Parish Office at least
12 months prior to the date of the intended wedding. Church date
and arrangements should precede all other wedding plans. Pre-Cana
conferences are mandatory and are available several times a
year.
SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: Call the Parish Office to notify us about
admission to a hospital or extended confinement to one’s home.
COMMUNION TO SICK AND SHUT-INS: Call the Parish Office if someone
is unable to attend Mass. Communion is taken to the sick and
homebound on First Fridays and at other arranged times.
BABYSITTERS are on duty at 10:30am Mass in church basement.
BULLETIN DEADLINE Due by MONDAY @ noon.
RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults): Adults interested
in learning more about the faith or becoming Catholic may join this
on-going program of formation and instruction. Classes now meeting
on Thursday evenings in the School Library from 6:30PM-7:30PM.
Please call the Parish Office to register.
ALTAR FLOWERS: Flowers may be placed in the sanctuary for
special occasions or in memory of a loved one. Call Deborah Breon
at 717-986-1959 for details.
SCRIP: This is a successful program earning Seven Sorrows rebate
money on all your gift card purchases. Each card you buy is
purchased at face value. The rebates we receive are placed into a
scholarship fund to help offset tuition and fees. Cards are
available after Masses (excluding 6:00PM). Inventory also available
in the Rectory (Mondays 8:30-9:30AM & 3:00-4:00PM; Tuesdays
& Wednesdays 8:30-4:00PM; Thursdays 1-4:00PM and Fridays
(excluding summer) 8:30-4:00PM). For more information, contact Lisa
Fortunato ([email protected]).
PRAYER CHAIN: Need prayers? Reach out to our Prayer Chain
coordinator, Donna Jennings at 717-566-3184 or via email at
[email protected].
Zoe Martin—[email protected] Kristin
[email protected]
Carole Larry—[email protected]
Evangel D.—[email protected]
Ray Kerwin 717-944-5371 x208
Mrs. Rebecca Harvey, Principal School Phone 717-944-5371 School
Fax 717-944-5419
Bishop McDevitt 717-236-7973
Holy Bible Quiz
There were Peter and Andrew his brother; James and John the sons
of
Zebedee (Matt. 10:2) and James son of Alphaeus and his brother
Judas
(Luke. 6:16) Acts 1:13).
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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK
“ATOMIC HABITS” AND THE LITTLE WAY OF ST. JOSEPH
Prayer for the year of St. Joseph
My favorite book of the moment is Atomic
Habits, the huge-selling book by James Clear. I have
bought it for several of my children because it is a
great method of taking small, satisfying steps toward
self-discipline. Its tagline: “Tiny Changes,
Remarkable Results.”
The book was recommended by a monk, and since I
happened to read the book as the Year of Joseph
began, it gave me new insight into how Joseph was
able to fulfill his vocation not by giant, unprecedented
acts but by repeating ordinary virtues. Call it “the
Little Way of St. Joseph.”
1. Form your identity through many “little fiats”
like Joseph’s. “Every action you take is a vote for the
type of person you wish to become,” writes Clear.
“No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as
the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new
identity.” St. John Paul II said the same thing in his
often repeated phrase, “Become who you are.” We
don’t need an overhaul; we need a quiet commitment
to the person God made us to be.
This is also the whole point of Francis’s apostolic
letter on Joseph, which names his deepest identity in
its title: “A Father’s Heart.” Joseph did not gain that
heart all at once, but “in every situation, Joseph
declared his own ‘fiat,’ like those of Mary at the
Annunciation and Jesus in the Garden of
Gethsemane.” We all need to make little “fiats”
continually, says Pope Francis. “How many fathers,
mothers, grandparents and teachers are showing our
children, in small everyday ways, how to accept and
deal with a crisis by adjusting their routines, looking
ahead and encouraging the practice of prayer.”
2. Have the “creative courage” to face new
situations. “Over the long run, however, the real
reason you fail to stick with habits is that your self-
image gets in the way,” writes Clear. “This is why
To you, O blessed Joseph, do we come in our tribulation,
and having implored the help of your most holy Spouse,
we confidently invoke your patronage also. Through that
charity which bound you to the Immaculate Virgin
Mother of God and through the paternal love with which
you embraced the Child Jesus, we humbly beg you
graciously to regard the inheritance which Jesus Christ
has purchased by his Blood, and with your power and
strength to aid us in our necessities. O most watchful
g u a r d i a n o f t h e H o l y F a m i l y ,
defend the chosen children of Jesus Christ;
O most loving father, ward off from us very contagion of
error and corrupting influence; O our most mighty
protector, be kind to us and from heaven assist us in our
struggle with the power of darkness. As once you rescued
the Child Jesus from deadly peril, so now protect God’s
Holy Church from the snares of the enemy and from all
adversity; shield, too, each one of us by your constant
protection, so that, supported by your example and your
aid, we may be able to live piously, to die in holiness, and
to obtain eternal happiness in heaven. Amen.
you can’t get too attached to one version of your
identity. Progress requires unlearning … to upgrade
and expand your identity.”
Imagine if St. Joseph was attached to his identity as a
Nazareth carpenter. He may never have been able to
be the other things his family needed him to be: a
protector, traveler and teacher. As Pope Francis put
it: “The Gospel does not tell us how long Mary,
Joseph and the child remained in Egypt. Yet they
certainly needed to eat, to find a home and
employment. It does not take much imagination to fill
in those details. The Holy Family had to face
concrete problems” and adapt.
For us, “In the face of difficulty, we can either give
up and walk away, or somehow engage with it. At
times, difficulties bring out resources we did not even
think we had.” (to be continued)
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SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PARISH—MIDDLETOWN,
PENNSYLVANIA
MASS & CONFESSION SCHEDULE SUNDAY OFFERING
Sunday Offering -Week of Jan. 17, 2021: $10,324.00
December "Online Giving" $23,880.81
Christmas Offering $60,269.00
ROSARY LEADERS JANUARY 23/24, 2021
Saturday 5:30PM Vincent Varankar
Sunday 8:00AM Linda Hartzell Sunday 10:30AM Paulanne
Loutinsky
DAILY SCRIPTURE READINGS
ETERNAL REST, GRANT, O LORD, UNTO
DONALD MARTINO
And let perpetual light shine upon him. May he rest in peace.
Amen.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 24, 2021 THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
8:00 AM + OUR PARISH FAMILY
10:30AM + DOLORES & RICHARD STICHTER
6:00 PM Special Intentions for SHANNA BYRNE
MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 The Conversion of Saint Paul the
Apostle (Feast) 8:30 AM + JAMES McGOVERN
TUESDAY, JANUARY 26, 2021 Saints Timothy and Titus, Bishops
(Memorial) 8:00 AM + LINDA CALDWELL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2021
[Saint Angela Merici, Virgin]
8:00 AM + DEAN DRAYER
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2021 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the
Church (Memorial)
8:00 AM + Special Intentions for KATHY CAMPBELL 4:30-6PM
CONFESSIONS
FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 2021
8:00 AM + RICHARD STONER
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 2021 [BVM]
7:30-7:50AM CONFESSIONS
8:00 AM + ART SANTONI
4:30-5:10PM CONFESSIONS
5:30 PM + PAULINE CHERRA
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 2021
FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
8:00 AM + PAULINE CHERRA
10:30AM + MICHAEL VERSARI
6:00 PM OUR PARISH FAMILY
The Confraternity of St. Joseph
Zoom meeting Feb. 7th at 7:30 PM if interested in
attending and have not already received the Zoom
invitation please contact Jerry Mackarevich
at [email protected]
2020 Diocesan Annual Campaign
Seven Sorrows’ Goal $176,000
Total Pledge/Paid $165,418.00
Please consider pledging or making a donation online.
May God bless and reward you for your contribution.
EASTER EGGS 2021 Thank you for donating 40oz or 48oz jars of
Jif
Creamy Peanut Butter
Please place your donations in the cart in the Narthex
of the Church. THANK YOU!
Mon. Jan. 25 Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22/Mk 16:15-18
Tue. Jan. 26 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5 (520)/Mk 3:31-35
Wed. Jan. 27 Heb 10:11-18/Mk 4:1-20
Thu. Jan. 28 Heb 10:19-25/Mk 4:21-25
Fri. Jan. 29 Heb 10:32-39/Mk 4:26-34
Sat. Jan. 30 Heb 11:1-2, 8-19/Mk 4:35-41
Sun. Jan. 31 Dt 18:15-20/1 Cor 7:32-35/Mk 1:21-28
Goal: 1,000 jars Received: 333 jars
It's Tax Time! To request a tax letter listing your
donations, please email Carole [email protected] or
call the church office at 717-944-3133.
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can/
plastic jar of spaghetti sauce, peas, any
type of box potatoes, pork-n-beans,
toothpaste and paper towels.
SEVEN SORROWS OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY PARISH—MIDDLETOWN,
PENNSYLVANIA
THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME JANUARY 24, 2021
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than
reason.
While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most
dangerous; because when you are in despair you care
neither about yourself nor about others.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to
know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought
to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To
one without faith, no explanation is possible.
The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule
among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the
necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what
scientific scrutiny shows to be false.
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life
only when God lays His head against us.
The things that we love tell us what we are.
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along
with mortal sin.
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution;
justice without mercy is cruelty.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart
to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to
you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a
hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
WISDOM FROM ST. AQUINAS
Conquering Toxic Femininity with Mary, Mother
of God A Two-Part Benedicta Enrichment Online
Seminar by Dr.Carrie Gress January 28th and 29th
at 7:30 - 9:00 PM. Register at womenofgrace.com
For More Information contact Chris Arnold at
[email protected] or 717-379-6041.
WOMEN OF GRACE EVENT AND STUDY
SSBVM’S STUDENTS FOOD DRIVE PROJECT
As part of SSBVM's Catholic Schools Week
celebrations; emphasizing faith, excellence and
service, SSBVM's National Junior Honor
Society student members & our 3rd grade class are
leading our school family in a food drive to benefit
Middletown's local food pantry. Your contribution is
much appreciated! Donations can be dropped off
outside of the school’s main entrance February 1-5,
from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
SSBVM’S STUDENTS SPREAD LOVE
As part of SSBVM's Catholic Schools Week
celebrations; emphasizing faith, excellence and
service, SSBVM's 1st grade class is spearheading a
campaign to brighten the day of Middletown Home
residents. To contribute to this project, please
consider donating pre-packaged chocolates
(without nuts/ caramel) to add to the Valentine's
Day surprise for Middletown Home residents.
Donations can be dropped off outside of the school’s
main entrance February 1-5, from 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM.
Middletown Area Interfaith Food PantryAn emergency food supply
program, Provides food
for 4-5 days once a month. Photo ID and proof of
residency (PSH students may use college ID).
Contact 717-944-5668 or visit Tuesdays and Fridays
10:00am-12:30pm at 201 Wyoming St. Middletown.
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