Parish Community of St. Eulalia 214 Blue Shutters Road, Roaring Brook Twp., Pennsylvania 18444-7615

E-mail address: office @ sainteulalias.com Phone: 570-842-7656 Fax: 570-842-7193 Website: www.sainteulalias.com

Monsignor John W. Jordan, Pastor Office Hours: Mon.-Thur. 9 AM - 3 PM, Fri. 9 AM - Noon Weekday Masses: Please refer to Mass Intentions on next page. Confessions: Sat., 3:15 PM - 3:45 PM, or by request Masses: Sat. 4:00 PM, Sun. 8:00 AM, 10:05 AM, 11:30 AM Pastoral Associate: Mrs. Ellen Dermody Director of Religious Education: Mrs. Elizabeth Strasburger Director of Music Ministry: Mr. Scott Coates Maintenance: Mr. Robert Fitzsimmons, Mr. Walter Serowinski Decorating: Mrs. Linda Naro, Chair Liturgy Committee: Mr. Anthony DeScipio, Chair Parish Pastoral Council: Mrs. Lisa Cummings, Chair Parish Finance Council: Mr. Ryan Wilson, Chair R.C.I.A. Coordinator: Mrs. Sandra McAndrew Social Activities Committee: Mr. Walter Serowinski Social Concerns Committee: Mrs. Lisa Cummings Summer Fest: Mr. Thomas Cummings, Mr. Loren Caparo, Co-Chairs Youth Group: Mrs. Kelley McConnell

MISSION STATEMENT OF ST. EULALIA’S PARISH The Parish Community of St. Eulalia makes present the Lord Jesus Christ in the celebration of the Eucharist, the meeting of parishioners for various prayer opportunities, and outreach to the marginalized. We share in the works of the local Ministerium through common prayers. We are resolved to grow the faith of the Church with our children through religious education and with all others through the RCIA. We challenge ourselves to develop service projects for youth and young adults, and to become more welcoming to all. With continued growth in our area, Evangelization occurs through various outlets including pastoral outreach, sacramental preparation, and the promotion of an intimate respect for all life.

JUNE 24, 2018 THE NATIVITY OF SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST

JOHN THE BAPTIST

Since June 24 falls on a Sunday this year, the

Church has the opportunity for a more intense cele-

bration of the birth of John the Baptist, who is often

described as the last of the Old Testament prophets

and the bridge between Judaism and Christianity.

More commonly, John is known as the “precursor”

of our Lord Jesus Christ. All the Gospels report

John’s basic message: Repent, the kingdom is near

at hand. One greater than I is coming.

Though he was a wandering preacher who dressed

in camel skins and ate grasshoppers, John’s legacy is

one of true royalty. His origins are similar to those

foretold by God through the prophet Isaiah: “You

are my servant, he said to me, Israel through whom I

show my glory” (Isaiah 49:3). John’s humility—“I

am not he”—was surpassed only by that of his Lord

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MASS INTENTIONS ~ JUNE 25-JULY 1

Mon. 8:30 a.m. Alice Marie Reilly by Family

Tue. 8:30 a.m. James S. Jordan Jr. by George & Ellen Dermody

Wed. 8:30 a.m. Mitchell Sauter by M/M Vince Galko

Thur. 8:30 a.m. Genevieve Brady by Barbara Whitford

Fri. 8:30 a.m. Dec. McGuigan Family by Family

Sat. 4:00 p.m. Patrick Leonard by Caputo & Mead Families

Sun. 8:00 a.m. All Parishioners living & deceased

10:05 a.m. Ann T. Mehl by Bill & Elaine Mehl

11:30 a.m. Anthony Gazoo by Wife & Family

ALTAR SERVERS MINISTERS LECTORS

Saturday 4:00 PM AJ Croom A. Croom, J. Kochis Catherine Kochis

June 30 Ryan Laboranti Karen Clifford James Muniz

Liam McAndrew Carol Laboranti

Rose Ann Murphy

Sunday 8:00 AM Hannah Rocco Mary Farley-Mell Paulette Nish

July 1 Hailey Rocco Mary Ann Motichka Patricia Rodney

Allison Rocco Nick Rocco

Rebecca Wargo

Volunteer Needed

Sunday 10:05 AM Alex Iannone Julianna Conniff Janine Evanish

July 1 Lukas Iannone Mark Lemoncelli Mary Perry

Anna Pencek Jerry Mahon

Volunteer Needed

Volunteer Needed

Sunday 11:30 AM Gabe DeScipio Joan DeMatteo Paul Libassi

July 1 Alex Millard Ann Gazoo Megan Winslow

Volunteer Needed Frank Kinsella

Terry Zeterberg

Volunteer Needed

Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

“Behold, one is coming after me;

I am not worthy to unfasten the sandals of his feet.”

- Acts 13:25

Think Picnic!

Donations of paper products for the food stand

are now being accepted.

Paper Napkins

8” Paper Plates

Paper Towels (heavy duty)

“50-50” Summer Cash Tickets There will be TWO

prize winners! The 2 prize winners will divide 1/2 of the

proceeds, while St. Eulalia’s Parish will keep 1/2 of the

proceeds. Tickets are only $5 each. Drawing will take

place on Sunday, July 22, after the 11:30 AM Mass.

Please do your best to buy or sell these tickets as this is a

large part of our picnic income. Returns can be made via

the Sunday collection basket, parish office, mail, or at the

festival. Thank You!

Volunteers Needed Volunteer sign-up sheets are

available at the main entrance of the church. Check out

the sheet and offer whatever help you can. We appreciate

any help that you can give. Share your time and talents! Booth Sponsorship Have your business or your name

displayed on a poster at one of our many picnic booths -

$100 per booth. For more information contact Nancy @

689-0790. Arts & Crafts Boutique Donations of handmade items,

novelty gifts, etc. will be greatly appreciated. For more

information contact Marianne @ 842-7132.

Tricky Tray Booth Time to create a fabulous theme

basket to donate to Summer Fest ‘18. Suggested themes:

Seasonal, Cooking/Baking, Hair Care, Pet Supplies, Car

Care, (with a value of at least $35.) Please have baskets

wrapped and ready for display with a list of items in the

basket. For more information contact Bette @ 842-9826

or Kathy @ 842-0345.

Bake Sale An invitation is extended to all parishioners to

bake your favorite treat! Since the bake sale will be held

outside this year we are looking for cookies, breads, pies

or cakes without frosting or icing. Monetary donations

will be appreciated as well. Also, with so many people

changing phone numbers, no reminder calls will be made

this year. Thank You St. Eulalia’s Bakers!

8TH ANNUAL 5K RUN/WALK 2018

SATURDAY, JULY 21 AT 9 A.M.

Course 5K Run/Walk through scenic Roaring Brook/

Elmhurst. Some short uphill and downhill grades. 3.1

miles total.

Kids Fun Run Starts at 8:55 a.m. from the 5K Start/

Finish Line. For ages 12/under. All will receive medals.

NOTE: Kids under the age of 12 who register for the 5K

can participate in the Kids Fun Run for FREE!

Pre-Registration Entry Fee Until Saturday, June 23,

$20/pp ($12/age 12 and under) Kids Fun Run $8/pp

(includes medal but no shirt). $25/pp with K9.

Race Day Entry Fee $25/pp ($15/age 12 and under)

$30/pp with K9; 8:00 a.m. Church Parking Lot.

Highlights Celebrity starter Fran Pantuso - Professional

DJ - First 150 5K Run/Walk entrants receive a FREE

Premium Microfiber Tech shirt - Nutritious snack at the

finish line-beautiful course-bring the family or a buddy!

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~ GRANDMA’S ATTIC ~ Our parish picnic annual “Flea Market” will take

place at the bottom of the picnic grounds under a

tent during the picnic on July 19 & 20 at 6 p.m. and

July 21 at 5 p.m. An hour or two of your time on

any given day would be greatly appreciated. Bring

to the bottom of the picnic grounds your unwanted

toys, jewelry, knick-knacks, books and household

items. Items must be clean and usable. We will not

accept clothing, shoes, hats, encyclopedias,

textbooks, computers/monitors/keyboards,

televisions, cassette/VHS tapes/records, artificial

Christmas trees, suitcases and medical

equipment. For more information call Julie

Andrzejewski @ 842-1603 or Patty Evanchyk @

842-8082.

~ Grandma’s Attic Drop-Off Schedule ~

Sunday, July 15: 9 AM to 1 PM

Monday, July 16 & Tuesday, July 17:

8 to 11 AM, 1 to 3 PM, 6 to 8 PM

Wednesday: No Drop Off

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PARISH SOCIAL CONCERNS

HOSPITAL VISITS Please be sure to inform the

parish office and list St. Eulalia’s as your parish when

being admitted to the hospital to assure we are able to

visit you during your stay. Kindly inform the parish of-

fice if you know of anyone who is ill at home or in the

hospital.

HOMEBOUND Please let us know if you or any-

one you know is homebound and would like a visit from

the parish priest or Holy Communion brought to the

homebound. Each Sunday family members take Holy

Communion home to those homebound. Check out the

details.

IN YOUR PRAYERS Please remember to pray for

Sheila Avery, Margaret Barbera, Anne Barrett, John

Bartkovsky, Denise Bedics, Michael J. Bedics, Suzanne

Belker, Bernice, Stephen Blascak, Fr. William Campbell,

Linda Decker, Danielle Dobitsch, Lynn Faller, Ann

Field, Robert Gigliotti, Mary Ann Hallinan, Sarah Hal-

linan, Ann Hoffman, William Hontz, Frances Jierski,

Carol Libassi, John M., Kaitlyn Manley, Anna Mae Mar-

tin, John Maslona, Joe McGuire, Paul Miller, Quinlin

Murphy, Kenneth Noll, Mary Norvilas, Tom Notchick,

Matt O’Malley, Al Pantuso, Anna Pazzalia, JoAnne Paz-

zalia, Jason Pencek, Sean Quinn, Avery Roberts, Bonnie

Roberts, Matthew S., Eleanor Knight Sherman, Sally

Siemon, Irene Slavinski, Mark Smith, Sam Starr, Tony

W., Jason Williams, Leo Woelkers, Ed Wolfe, Bob

Yeager and all the sick & shut-ins of St. Eulalia’s Parish. N.B. - Please note that if after a month’s time you wish to con-

tinue to be included in the prayers for the sick, call 842-7656 or

e-mail: office@sainteulalias.com.

A PRAYER PLEASE For the repose of the souls of

Joseph Thomas Kelly, brother of JoAnne Ratchford, and

Josephine Dickey, sister-in-law of Dolores Janowicz, that

they may know the joy and peace of beholding their God

face to face.

REMEMBERING OUR DECEASED

Each week in the Prayer of the Faithful we pray for those

of our parish, their relatives and friends who have died

during the previous week. We check the newspapers, but

it would help us avoid missing anyone if you would call

the rectory and give us their names.

MASS TIMES WEBSITE

If you will be traveling, please visit masstimes.org, a

website for Catholics to get to Mass by helping them find

churches and worship times worldwide. The mass-

times.org website provides worship times, church loca-

tions, contact information, website links and maps.

SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND

Collection for the Care and Education of Priests will take

place at all masses next weekend, June 30-July 1. Your

generosity helps fund the ever increasing costs associated

with the care and education of priests.

OUR WEEKLY STEWARDSHIP OFFERING

For the weekend of June 16-17

Sunday Offering $6,944.55 Thank you for your commitment to our parish and for

making up your envelopes for missed Sundays. As our

parish community grows, so does our need to increase

our support. We are all grateful to those who have re-

sponded to our needs for increased weekly giving. Think

of the Automated Offertory Program. We are now ac-

cepting credit card transactions.

Please remember that your parish expenses continue,

snow, rain or shine, and that we need your offerings in

order to meet these expenses. If you missed any weekly

envelopes, please bring your contributions up to date. An

easy way to support our parish offertory collection is to

enroll in St. Eulalia’s Automatic Offertory program. This

“easy envelope giving program” keeps you current in

your weekly gift of gratitude to God and secures on-

going support to our Parish resources. Thank you for

giving this a thought. And thank you especially to those

for acting on it.

To sign up for St. Eulalia’s Automatic Offertory program,

click on the logo Enrollment Form on the parish website

to get started: www.sainteulalias.com.

Credit cards are now accepted. You can have your Visa/

MasterCard debited regularly for your parish support,

replacing your weekly envelopes. Call the parish office

for details.

SACRIFICIAL OFFERING

Memorial Day was the “unofficial” start of the vacation

season. Please do not “take a vacation” from attending

Mass. Please also remember your parish as you attend

other parish communities this summer. Our bills do not

“take a vacation.” We are grateful for your constant sup-

port and commitment.

DECEIT Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

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STEWARDSHIP REFLECTION

IS 49: 1-6; PS 139: 1B-3, 13-15; ACTS 13: 22-26; LK 1: 57-66, 80

Today is the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John

the Baptist (the Feast Day of the birth of John the

Baptist). To say John the Baptist and Jesus were

closely related and connected is an understatement.

Both were foretold by prophets, especially Isaiah.

The only record of the birth of John the Baptist ap-

pears in the Gospel of Luke and it is at the heart of

our Gospel Reading today. A key player in this

event is, of course, John the Baptist’s father Zecha-

riah. Zechariah was a Jewish priest, but when the

Archangel Gabriel revealed to him that he would

father a child, Zechariah refused to believe it. As a

result he was rendered speechless until John was

born.

Zechariah had total trust in the Lord, however. Al-

though it was traditional at that time to name the first

son after the father, he and Elizabeth had been told

to name him John. As reported in the Gospel, Eliza-

beth said “He will be called John.” The family pro-

tested at which time the Zechariah wrote “His name

is John.” When he did that, Zechariah could speak

once more. He did not say “should be”; he said “is.”

The trust shown by Zechariah is an example to us

that we must trust in God, not just when it is conven-

ient, but all the time. Those of advanced generations

know who Lawrence Welk was. Born and raised

Catholic, Welk practiced his faith throughout his

life. He once said, “Never trust anyone completely

but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in

God.”

WELCOME HOME!

A warm welcome home to all our college students!

It is terrific to see your smiling faces back for the

summer months. You bring a great spirit to our par-

ish family.

IT’S LUNCH BAG DONATION TIME AGAIN!

Last year, our youth group packed and donated 1000

lunch bags to the North Pocono Food Pantry. This

year, we are hoping to meet and exceed that number!

These lunch bags will go to children in our commu-

nity who benefit from free or reduced breakfast and

lunches during the school year. Each lunch contains

nutritious items including granola bars, fruit, juice,

crackers, and snack food items. Please support our

project by donating non-perishable items that can be

used towards our lunch bag program. We are cur-

rently collecting food and monetary donations.

DISCO WIZARD OF OZ

The Arc Angels On Stage, a performing arts theater

troupe solely made up of special needs adults, will

present Disco Wizard of Oz. The public perform-

ance will be presented at North Pocono High School

auditorium on Saturday, June 30 at 1:00 PM. Ad-

mission is free to the public, but donations are ac-

cepted. The Arc Angels on Stage: Adults with dis-

abilities (Stars) perform alongside students from lo-

cal high schools (Theater Buddies) to bring a unique

performance to the stage at North Pocono High

School. More than ten NP area students serve as

theater buddies, volunteering their time to encourage

creativity. The production is partially funded by

Lackawanna Arts & Culture Grant.

THE GREATEST NEED The world’s greatest need is

not more Christians, but more Christians who practice their Christianity.

—Anonymous

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VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

Due to the awesome construction project at St. Eula-

lia’s this summer, we have to postpone our Vacation

Bible School Program. We will let you know when

information becomes available as to our next steps

for this summer. Please know we will most certainly

be back next year in June. We look forward to see-

ing you all again soon. God Bless!

~ Tania & Gary Roberts

ST. EULALIA’S IGNITE YOUTH GROUP

Youth Group meets all summer long!

Join us on Thursday nights

from 6-7:30 p.m. for summer fun.

Stay up to date with our text club messages. Text the message @steul to 81010 to join our text club!

Questions about the Youth Group or interested in

joining? Contact Kelley at 570-510-5544 or just

show up at an event. We would love to see you!

~ ANNUAL PICNIC ~

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~ SOCIAL CONCERNS ~

Congratulations, Cameron Lewis!

~ Winner of the June Breakfast Voucher Raffle ~

ShopRite Cash Cards Thanks to all who supported

our cash card program this month. Sales are down

due to summer vacations and no parish breakfast.

Please encourage your family and friends to purchase

the ShopRite cash cards on the 3rd Sunday of each

month. If you need a cash card before Sunday, July

15, kindly call Angie (689-9120) or Carol (689-

3680). Thank You! North Pocono Food Pantry Thank you for your

donations of soup, tuna, pasta and sauce as well as

peanut butter and fruit. They are so appreciated!

Share-A-Ride If you need a ride to local appoint-

ments during the week of June 25, kindly contact Leo

Rouillard @ 689-3680.

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SCHEDULING MASS INTENTIONS

Due to our backlog of Mass intentions and in order

to ensure that Masses are available to all parishion-

ers, a Mass intention for a particular person by a

family can only be scheduled twice per year. Also

Mass intentions may be changed based on the avail-

ability of a priest or if there are any unforeseen

changes in the daily Mass schedule. Thank you for

your understanding.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Monday: Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

Wednesday: St. Cyril of Alexandria

Thursday: St. Irenaeus

Friday: Ss. Peter and Paul

Saturday: The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman

Church; Blessed Virgin Mary

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SAINT EULALIA PARISH ~ SUMMER FESTIVAL 2018

~ VOLUNTEER SIGN-UP SHEET ~

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Saturday, July 21

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Booth: __________________________________________

~ BOOTH SELECTION ~

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