the roman catholic church of saint mary · mr. james m. snell, deacon • deaconsnell@gmail.com •...

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF SAINT MARY

Parish Office

68 COURT STREET—CANTON, NEW YORK 13617 PHONE: (315) 386-2543 • FAX: (315) 386-8870

www.cantoncatholics.com • catholicrectory@twcny.rr.com St. Mary’s School

2 Powers Street • (315) 386-3572 • stmarysc@twcny.rr.com • www.stmaryscantonny.com

Sacrament of Baptism – For Children to be Baptized, please call the Rectory to schedule a meeting. Sacrament of Penance – Saturday from 3:45-4:45 pm and by appointment.

Marriage – Make arrangements with the Pastor at least six months in advance. Pre-Cana instruction is necessary. Anointing of the Sick – Please advise the parish office of the serious illness or hospitalization of a parishioner.

Communion for shut-ins – Please notify the Rectory if anyone is unable to attend Sunday Mass regularly. *** New Parishioners – Register at the Rectory at any time. ***

February 19, 2017 PARISH STAFF

Rev. Douglas J. Lucia, Pastor • frdoug@twcny.rr.com

Rev. Todd E. Thibault, Parochial Vicar • frtodd@twcny.rr.com

Mr. James M. Snell, Deacon • deaconsnell@gmail.com • (315)262-0491

Mr. Paul J. Schrems, Pastoral Associate for Administration • catholicrectory@twcny.rr.com

Mrs. Amanda Conklin, Campus Ministry • conklina@canton.edu or aconklin@stlawu.edu

Ms. Jamie Burns, Religious Education Coordinator • religioused66@twcny.rr.com

Terrianne Yanulavich, Child Safety & Victims’ Assistance Coordinator: (518) 483-3261 terrianneyanulavich@yahoo.com

Ms. Pamelia Neal, Principal • stmarysc@twcny.rr.com

Mrs. Terry Feuka, Administrative Assistant • cantoncatholics@gmail.com

Gabriel Project • 244-8232 Parish Nurse • 386-8363 Surviving Spouse Group • 386-4378

Our Sacred Purpose

Christ-led,

Christ-fed,

and

Hope-filled

The Diocese of Ogdensburg joyfully

invites the people of the

North Country to the journey

of faith through the proclamation of

the Gospel,

the celebration of the Eucharist, and

the Sacraments, and the

loving service of neighbor.

Daily Prayer This Week

This week we see Jesus healing and teaching his disciples about the challenges of following him. As we go through our week, in the smallest moments of the day, we can beg God for strength and courage in our lives. As we awaken in the morning, sort laundry or do the dishes, we can change our attitudes toward these chores and see them as sacred moments of invitation from the God who loves us with such fire and compassion. Dear Lord, you know how I need healing. As you healed so many others, please touch my heart and help me to open my life, my heart and my soul to the love and healing you offer me. I know that if only I could trust in you more, it would change my life. “I do believe! Help my unbelief!” Let me turn all of apprehensions over to you. I beg you to give me the wisdom and courage I need to trust more and to fear less. Teach me to feel your presence deeply in my life so I can stop clinging to my lack of courage and my fear. Let me release anything that holds me back from your love and the embrace of the freedom you offer me. We can find the healing we so deeply want simply by asking God for it and then living as if we have received it. It is not about the amount of time we spend, but about an awareness of God's presence in our lives. Believing and trusting in that love and grace, we can find the humility to say, “I'm sorry” to some-one we have hurt. We can take a moment to write a note or an e-mail telling a suffering friend we are praying for them. And all day long, as we run our errands or sit at our desks, we can take a moment to say “Thank you” to the God on whom we have such an utter dependence and who loves us with such abandon. Taken from the "Weekly Guide for Daily Prayer" on the Creighton University's Online Ministries web

site: www.creighton.edu/Collaborative Ministry/online.html Used with permission.

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BINGO is held every Monday night, at 7pm

30 Miner Street

CD of the Week

For Love and Marriage By Johnnette Benkovic

Johnnette Benkovic shares her conversion back to Jesus Christ

and the Catholic Church and the struggles that came when her

husband didn't share her faith. She explains how the Lord

blessed her in unexpected ways and, through the promptings

of His Holy Spirit, showed her how she could better love her

spouse through it all.

The Gabriel Project The Church offers this program which pro-vides parishioners the means to walk with needy, hurting, pregnant women.

If you are pregnant & in need, please call local hotline: 244-8232

ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Look around your local area to identify churches/villages/cities as well as businesses and home owners who are in-vesting in cleaner energy sources like solar panels, reducing amount of energy used through the use of LED Lights, and using water saving devices. Take time this week to thank them for their efforts to create a more sustainable future for our children. Find out how and why they took these steps.

Palms Needed for Ash Wednesday.

Please deposit your old palms in the basket at the back of Church.

Mardi Gras Wine Tasting Dinner To benefit St. Mary’s Parish School

Friday, February 24,

Cocktails 5:30p.m. Dinner 6:30 p.m.

Dinner $100 per person *50% tax deductible

Contact the Rectory to RSVP

For reservations and more information contact:

Terry Feuka at St. Mary’s Rectory at 315-386-2543 or

cantoncatholics@gmail.com

DEADLINE is TOMORROW, Monday February 20

Welcome Back Father Doug!

We hope your vacation was relaxing and rest-filled!

Would you like to know more about the Catholic faith? Are you consid-ering becoming Catholic? Do you know someone who is being called to join our faith? RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) is the process through which adults are received into the Catholic Church). The process is intended for adults. Call (315)386-2543 for information.

Attention men of the parish, the theme for the 9th Annual IGNITE Men’s Conference is It’s All Possible with God. Almost 8,000 men have attended the previous conferences and we are looking to make sure 2017

breaks the 9,000 mark! You can be part of it on Saturday, March 25, 2017 at the SRC Arena & Event Center for an amazing day that will have a tremendous impact on you. You can regis-ter for the IGNITE 2017 Catholic Men's Conference online at www.ignitecatholicmen.org Sign up now.

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Karen Stever, Linda Trill, Anna McKenna, Anthony Santana, Jeri & Mike Gorman, Joan Courchesne, Pat White, Floyd Firman, Dakota Ford, Steve

Connelly, Barbara Kelly, Arlene Maroney, Linda Boise, Stephanie McKeel, Jeffrey White, Brenda Sanderson, Camille Brown, Chubby LeRoux, Paul

Marsh, Danny Law, Eugenia Jusiak, Scarlett Friot, Missie Proulx, Sami Curtis, Lynn Watson, Jeannine Ballard, Rita Lawrence, Wayne Willette, Meg-

gan Whiteford, Patricia Hayden, Jana & Jeremy Cassler, Irene Krenceski, David Datush, John Steiger, Grace Casselman, Larry LaParr, Joan Clarke,

Fred Feddersen, Pauline Proulx, Sarah Castle, Charles Dominy, Matilda Mary Smith, Natalie teRiele, Coltin Miller, Margaret McDonald, Sue

Briggs, Mary Villnave, Barbara Moritz, Zachary Hamilton, Jean Baycura, Darren Greenwood, Leward & Betty Lucia, Dan Kinsley, Shirley Ames,

Tom Stuart, Eric Whitmarsh, Jenny Cook, Shirley LaMendola, Shirley Burns, John Bessette, Sarah Bogart, David Butler, Gordon C. Gladden, Ethel

Thomas, Eric Sonsini, Laura Lombard, Timothy Bogart, Eric Roach, Clarence Austin, Oliver White and Joseph Gaurino.

If you have a complaint of suspected misconduct involving diocesan clergy, religious, employees, or volunteers, please contact Victims’

Assistance Coordinator.

Victims’ Assistance Coordinator

Terrianne Yanulavich, PhD., L.M.H.C.

Adult & Youth Counseling Services of Northern NY

Telephone (518) 483-3261 Ext 2267

Fax (518) 483-3383

E-mail: terrianneyanulavich@yahoo.com

Safe Environment Coordinator

Diocese of Ogdensburg

Sister Ellen Donahue, S.A.

Telephone (315) 393-2920 Ext 1440

E-mail: edonahue@rcdony.org

Episcopal Vicar for Pastoral Personnel

Diocese of Ogdensburg

Reverend Jay Seymour

Telephone (315) 393-2920 Ext 1340

E-mail jseymour@rcdony.org

Because We Care

Decisions Can Be Difficult

Trying to decide: Whether to keep or let go, To reach out or pull back To rest or keep going, To speak out or be silent To forgive or stay angry, To offer help or turn away. These choices, and more, tumble and spin around in us. If we bring them to God, we will make wise decisions.

Make the decision to visit the Adoration Chapel today!

That was easy.

Now let God help you with the hard decisions.

Come to the Adoration Chapel to pray any day and consider com-mitting to one hour per week as an Eucharistic Adorer. The Chapel is open to the public from 6am. to 5pm. daily.

“Be holy, for I, the LORD your God, am holy.” Everyone of us is called to be holy!

Is your vocation to holiness to be lived out as a priest, deacon or in the consecrated life?

If God is calling you, talk to Fr. Todd or Fr. Doug at (315) 386-2543/dlucia@rcdony.org or Fr. Tom Higman at (518) 594-3907/thigman@rcdony.org Cathy Russell, Diocesan Vocation Coordinator at (315)393-2920,

ext. 1450/crussell@rcdony.org. See us also on Facebook or at www.myvocation.net.

Campus Corner

Do you remember?

Principal’s Corner

Student of the Week

February 6

Thank you boys and girls for letting your “light” shine!

Pre K: Guiliana Sergi K: Jason Lucht

1: Emma Lamphere 2/3: Wyatt Wilkinson

4: John Friot 5: Marissa Page

6: James Bailey

Gym: Max Athanasakis, Soraya Rumbaugh, Madeline Hurlbut

Last Week’s Photo: Jamie Burns

Newman Club Weekly Meetings No Newman Club Meetings on President’s Day Feb. 20

Mondays 5pm-SLU-Room 232 of the Student Center Mondays 6:15pm-SUNY-Fishbowl Room of the Library

Come join us for prayer and learning! *Thinking about becoming a student minister by reading or Eucharistic

Ministering? We can train you! Contact Amanda at aconklin@stlawu.edu or conklina@canton.edu for more info!

The Chapel will be closed during Construction.

The main Church will be open

for daily prayer from

6:00 am to 5:00 pm.

Please use the front doors or the wheel chair ramp.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Monday, Feb. 20

Mid-Winter Break This Week

6 am-5 pm Eucharistic Adoration

Tuesday, Feb. 21

6 am-5 pm Eucharistic Adoration

4:50 pm Rosary for Life

Wednesday, Feb. 22

6 am-5 pm Eucharistic Adoration

9:00 am Martha Ministry Church Cleaning

Thursday, Feb. 23

6 am–5 pm Eucharistic Adoration

4 pm-5 pm Holy Hour for Vocations

Friday, Feb. 24

6 am-5 pm Eucharistic Adoration

5:30 pm 1844 Mardi Gras Wine Tasting Dinner to Support the School

Saturday, Feb. 25

3:45—4:45 pm Sacrament of Reconciliation

Sunday, Feb. 26

No Religious Education

Winter Recess

THIS WEEK at SAINT MARY’S

The Sanctuary Lamp Burns this week for The safety of those travelling during winter break.

If you desire to have the Vigil Lamp lit for a loved one or for your

intention, please contact the Rectory.

Weekly Offering

Week of January 28 & 29

Envelopes $4,526.00 Plate $429.00 Fuel $5.00 Adopt-a-Student $126.00 Total $5,086.00

Thank you for your support & generosity each week! Please continue to remember

how important your weekly offering is to the life of our parish!

President’s Day

Parish Office is Closed

Monday, Feb. 20: Weekday

8:30 am Margaret Brown by Estate

Tuesday, Feb. 21: Weekday/St. Peter Damian,

Bishop & Doctor of the Church

5:10 am All Souls Intentions

Wednesday, Feb. 22: The Chair of St. Peter the Apostle

8:30 am Eva Lucia by The Family

Thursday, Feb. 23: St. Polycarp, Bishop & Martyr

5:10 pm Sherly Datush by Debi, Matt & Family

Friday, Feb. 24: Weekday

8:30 am Walter Thornton by Barry and

Ann Chauvin

Saturday, Feb. 25: Weekday

No Morning Mass

Vigil: Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

5:00 pm Ron Reed by The Maroney Family

Sunday, Feb. 26: Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time

9:00 am Carson Emhof by Lita Maroney

11:15 am For the People of the Parish

5:00 pm Rick Bartlett by Bob and

Sandy Santamoor

LITURGY SCHEDULE February 25 & 26, 2017

Sat. 5:00 pm

Lectors: B. Mintener, C. O’Horo

Eucharist: C. O’Horo, F. Michaud, J. Burns, M. Christy

Altar Servers: G. Ballard, C. Guarino

Sun. 9:00 am

Lectors: K. Zimmerman, R. Backus

Eucharist: J. Smith, P. Neal, V. Burwell, C. Curry

Altar Servers: G. Thompson, S. Creighton Greeter: C. Curry

Sun. 11:15 am

Lector: A. Withee Eucharist: D. Rasmussen, M. Dalton

MASS SCHEDULE

Readings for the Week of February 19, 2017

Sunday: Lv 19:1-2, 17-18/Ps 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13/1 Cor 3:16-23/Mt 5:38-48 Monday: Sir 1:1-10/Ps 93:1-2, 5/Mk 9:14-29 Tuesday: Sir 2:1-11/Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40/ Mk 9:30-37 Wednesday: 1 Pt 5:1-4/Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6/Mt 16:13-19 Thursday: Sir 5:1-8/Ps 1:1-4, 6/Mk 9:41-50 Friday: Sir 6:5-17/Ps 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34-35/

Mk 10:1-12 Saturday: Sir 17:1-15/Ps 103:13-18/Mk 10:13-16 Next Sunday: Is 49:14-15/Ps 62:2-3, 6-9/

1 Cor 4:1-5/Mt 6:24-34

Live Jesus in our hearts forever!