HOLY COMFORTER CATHOLIC CHURCH November 13, 2016

Saturday, November 12 8:00 AM Oliver Witkowski (The Witkowski Family) Catherine Floyd Barrs Floyd Charles Bourke Floyd Bonnie Ham George Ham (Carol and Steve Ham) 5:00 PM Jack Showalter (Family) Helen and Anthony Yudt Helen and Jack Bennett, Edward Yudt Carol Dalton Jay Yagelski (Charlotte Bennett) Sunday, November 13 8:30 AM Peter Colo (Kay Colo) Deceased Members of the Sarazin Family Pierre Mayer Pierre Bechade Marcel Laurent Fred Chiswell (The Lee Faust Family) 11:00 AM Members of the Parish Marguerite and Albert J. Lilly Dorothy and Raymond F. Littley (Mary Frances Lilly and Family) Monday, November 14 NOON Jack Showalter Sherrie Lee Showalter Tommy Showalter Joyce Showalter Richard Showalter Louise Showalter Ethel Connor Diane Connor Jean Kemper Becky Kemper (Sally Kammauff) Tuesday, November 15 NOON Stanley Lank Karl Ackerman Jack Owen, Jr. (Suzanne Bailey) Wednesday, November 16 NOON Peter Michael Hallinan Angelina and Vincent Brooks Mary and Peter Hallinan Mr. and Mrs. High Green (Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hallinan) Thursday, November 17 8 AM Father Dennis McAuliffe Friday, November 18 8 AM Charles Lombino (Denise Collado) Saturday, November 19 8:00 AM Adelard Riendeau Claire Riendeau Urbain Auger Catherine Auger Guy Fortier Susan Wilder Gail Auger Lloyd Smith, Sr. Hilan Smith John Mitchell Wyatt Willie Ashlin Wyatt (Diane and Garrett Smith) 5:00 PM Stanislawa Sowinska (88th Birthday) (The Witkowski Family) Sunday, November 20 8:30 AM Peter Colo (Marlene Wood) 11:00 AM Members of the Parish Velma Hockman Ruth Davis Martha Goris George Goris Ada Whetze Nelson Whetze Boyd Whetzel Scott Whalen (Darlene and Brian Beard)

November 13 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini 14 St. Lawrence O’Toole 15 St. Albert the Great 16 St. Margaret of Scotland 17 St. Elizabeth of Hungary 18 Dedication of the Basilicas of Sts. Peter and Paul

19 St. Mechtilde

First Reading 2 Samuel 5:1-3 David is anointed king. Responsorial Psalm Psalm 122:1-2, 3-4, 4-5 Enter the house of the Lord rejoicing. Second Reading Colossians 1:12-20 Hymn to Jesus as the first-born of all creation. Gospel Reading Luke 23:35-43 Jesus is crucified under the title King of the Jews.

Offertory November 29-30, 2016 (Plate) $7,712.50 Offertory (Online) 3,342.00 Offertory (Other) 5,849.31 Justice and Peace $367 Outreach 535 Haiti 235 Weekly Offertory Budget $ 7,173.00 Offertory Received 16,900.81 Surplus $ 9,730.81 There will be a second collection next weekend for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development. THANKSGIVING DAY MASS AND FOOD BLESSING Join the Holy Comforter community at the 10:00 am mass on Thanksgiving Day. Share the Eucharistic Feast with the Holy Comforter community before sharing a Thanksgiving feast with your family and friends. Parishioners are invited to bring the bread and wine they plan to serve at their Thanksgiving meal for a special blessing.

MASS INTENTIONS

NEXT WEEKEND’S READINGS THE SOLEMNITY OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST,

KING OF THE UNIVERSE

SAINTS TO REMEMBER

GIFTS FROM GOD

HOLY COMFORTER CATHOLIC CHURCH November 13, 2016

SATURDAY (11/12) 8 AM: MASS

9 AM: Cursillo Men and Women 3:30-4:30 PM: Reconciliation (Chapel) 5 PM: Vigil MASS

SUNDAY (11/13) THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (Altar Flowers provided by Anonymous Donation) 7-7:45 AM: Reconciliation (Chapel)

8:30 AM: MASS 9:40-10:50 AM: RCIA (CRE Office) 9:45-10:45 AM: Christian Formation (Lower Level) 9:45-10:45 AM: Gloria D’Alessandro: An Action Toward Forgiveness (Chapel) 11:00 AM: MASS NOON: Confirmation Class (Lower Level) 1:30 PM: Latin MASS

MONDAY (11/14) 10:30 AM: Divine Will Prayer Group (Chapel) NOON: MASS

TUESDAY (11/15) 10 AM-NOON: Food Pantry

NOON: MASS WEDNESDAY (11/16)

7 AM: MASS (Please Note Time Change) 10 AM-NOON: Food Pantry

NOON: AA Meeting (Lower Level) 6 PM: Children’s Choir Rehearsal (Church) 6-8:30 PM: Dogma on Draft (Kardinal Hall) 7 PM: Choir Rehearsal (Church)

THURSDAY (11/17) 7 AM: MASS (Please Note Time Change) NOON: Soup Kitchen

FRIDAY (11/18) 8 AM: MASS 10 AM-NOON: Food Pantry NOON: AA Meeting (Lower Level) 5:30-6 PM: Vespers Service (Church)

SATURDAY (11/19) 8 AM: MASS

9 AM: Cursillo Men and Women 3:30-4:30 PM: Reconciliation (Chapel) 5 PM: Vigil MASS

SUNDAY (11/20) FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING (Altar Flowers provided by Holy Comforter) 7-7:45 AM: Reconciliation (Chapel)

8:30 AM: MASS 9:40-10:50 AM: RCIA (CRE Office) 9:45-10:45 AM: Christian Formation and Adult Education (Lower Level) 11:00 AM: MASS 4 PM: High School Formation (Lower Level)

PLEASE KEEP THE FOLLOWING IN YOUR PRAYERS Please call the parish office at 295-7185, to arrange to receive Holy Communion or a visit by Fr. Joseph Mary. THE ILL & HOME BOUND: Parishioners: Mary Fusco, Eileen Foster, Jack Valloric, Tam Nguyen, Rachel Witt, Jack Andrews, Joe Murray, Helen Edwards, Betty Jane Prufer, Fran Cannon Slayton, Ron Lavis, Sue Newman, Michael Ludgate, Frank Pologruto, Al Bracuti, Norman Bednarcyk, Nicholas Sisman, Mary Ann Williams, Rose Bowker, Hermann Ortmann, Katherine Russo, Charley and Kitty Moore. Friends and Relatives: James Worley, Carolyn Ann Davis, Blandine Attey, Andy Gillespie, Michael James McNeil, JoAnn Fox Klein, George Lilly, The Campbell Family, Fred Crane, Bill Eddy, Susan Steeby, Lisa Marshall, John Lank, Susan Straub Martin, George William Polhill, II, Claudia Hartland, Betsy Boyce, Michael Norton, Leslie Gilliam, Jane Sargent, Josephine Nampijja, Grace Dawn Wicke, Melyssa Dove, Nicole Carpenter, Beth Mauk, Evan Dotas, Dave Halley, Cullen McQuhae, Bill & Marie Jones, Christine Bentéjac, David Rumpf, Mrs. Jessica Viglietta, Pam D. Goines, Charlie Previtali, Nicole Shaw, Jean Clayton, Rich Hawkins, Kimberly Hasenfus Hulick, Kristin Fagan, June Atherton, Natalie Potter, Harper Grace, J. Sloan, Paul Hillard, Dale Evans, Marie Johnston, Suzanne Lank, Diane Schmidt, Earl Scheetz, Shirley O’Rourke, Xavier Van Bastelaer, Mary Griffin, Makala Thomas, Sibylle Llewellyn, Duncan Nixon, John Patrick Dennison, Christine Russo Carpenter, Elaine Roberti, Benedict Pax, Jerry Colgate, Timothy Lee Smith, Ned Foss & Jennifer Rinehart, Janet Dunham, Susie Jackson, Fr. Michael Hann, Fr. Joseph Torretto, Mike Charlie, Joel Rivera, Pam Heron, Elizabeth Scott, Kwasi Johnson, Marianne Rossner, Angie Lee, Residents of Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, Residents of Albemarle County Regional Jail, Residents of Blue Ridge Juvenile Detention, In memory of James Brazell. Members of the Military: Tom Logan, William Murray, Trey Linebrink, Jeff Woodside, David Alvey, Brian Fagan, Jamie Torbet, Mike Eiermann, Charles G. Ellison, Eric Emmott, and Matthew Mickiewicz. PARISHIONER WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES 11/5 Angie and Jim Morrisard (1966) 11/18 Annie and Tom Tromey (1967) 11/20 Susan and Jim Neale 11/26 Margaret and Walter McMahon 11/27 Jane Dittmar and Frank Squillace

PARISH NEWS THIS WEEK’S CALENDAR

HOLY COMFORTER CATHOLIC CHURCH November 13, 2016

SACRISTANS NEEDED Help is needed to maintain our sacred space. There is an urgent need for someone who can assist in maintaining and ironing altar cloths, as well as for someone who can polish brass candle fixtures. Please contact the office or Suzanne Bailey (slank@ntelos.net; 296-5033) for details. MEDJUGORJE ROSARY PRAYER GROUP There will be no meeting this week, so please join us next Wednesday evening in the Chapel at 6:15 to pray the Rosary. We accept prayer requests, so please add your intention to the book outside of the Chapel. All are welcome! CHRISTMAS CHILDREN’S CHOIR Practices will be held every Wednesday from 6-7 pm in the Church. If you are interested in singing at the Children’s Mass on Christmas Eve, please join us. No experience required. Please contact Daniel Kirkland, Music Minister, for more information. music@holycomforterparish.org DOGMA ON DRAFT. Join us for the sixth installment of the "Dogma on Draft" series on November 16th at Kardinal Hall in Charlottesville! We will not meet during the Christmas season, but will resume in January every third Wednesday of the month. Meet new friends, chat with acquaintances, relax and unwind with a pint, and have good conversation. Come anytime. Stop-by for a bit or stay for a while! Contact parishlife.holycomforter@gmail.com for more details BI-PARISH HAITI COMMITTEE Father Petina, pastor of St. Michel, will visit us in mid-December. He will update us on St. Michel School and progress on the medical clinic renovation. Please join us for our next meeting at 1 PM November 20 at St. Thomas Aquinas in the library room at 1 PM. Contact: e-mail Anne Knasel at anne@stagebridge.net or Ginny Zeller at ginnyannzeller@gmail.com. Website: www.saltadere.org. SECULAR FRANCISCAN ORDER Is Christ calling you to walk in the footsteps of St Francis of Assisi? If you are interested in learning more about Franciscan spirituality, or possibly find yourself discerning a call to the Secular Franciscan Order, join us at our Open House 11/19. All are welcome! We meet in Room 8 at Church of the Incarnation on the second Saturday of each month from 12:15-2:30pm. See PeaceandAllGood.org to learn more, or contact Carl Stacy, OFS at (434) 326-4492.

FIRST SACRAMENTS An orientation for all parents whose children are preparing for the Sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Eucharist will be held on Sunday, December 11, at 9:45 in the chapel. Please mark your calendar and plan ahead, as it is important be present for this event. Registration forms for First Sacraments are due by Monday, December 5. If your child was baptized outside of Holy Comforter Parish, a Baptism certificate must be included with the registration fee. CONFIRMATION 2016-2017: Confirmation preparation classes will begin on Sunday, November 13 following the 11:00 Mass. Registration is still open to all students who are at least 15 years of age and in the 10th grade. Registration forms are available in the Commons and on the website. HIGH SCHOOL FORMATION The next meeting of our High School Youth Ministry will take place on Sunday, November 20. We will consider how we can make Advent a meaningful time of preparation for the celebration of Christ’s birth! ADULT FORMATION OPPORTUNITIES Unlocking the Mysteries of the Bible This week we will take a short hiatus to hear from our guest speaker, Gloria D’Alessandro (see below). Our DVD series will meet for one final session on Sunday, November 20. An Action Toward Forgiveness Sunday, November 13 from 9:45-10:45 AM. Please join our guest speaker Gloria D’Alessandro, to hear a step-by-step approach that promises to bring you from anger and resentment to forgiveness and peace. You will receive a wonderful FREE take-home gift from Gloria to you! Close out this Jubilee Year of Mercy with this critical tool for practicing forgiveness. Family Advent Practices: Wondering how you can keep Christ in Christmas with your family this year? Please join Sue Dougherty on the lower level during RE class time on Sunday, November 20 to learn ways that you and your family can make Advent a meaningful time of preparation for the celebration of Christ’s birth! Traditions and practices that you can implement with your family during Advent will be presented.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION

HOLY COMFORTER CATHOLIC CHURCH November 13, 2016

FROM THE PASTOR: FOR A CHRISTIAN, IS SAINTHOOD AN OPTION OR AN OBLIGATION? #2

“For those he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son” (Romans 8:29).

In the Constitution on the Church, the Second Vatican Council spoke with clarity of the universal call to holiness, affirming that no one is excluded: “The classes and duties of life are many, but holiness is one — that sanctity which is cultivated by all who are moved by the Spirit of God, and who … follow the poor Christ, the humble and cross-bearing Christ in order to be worthy of being sharers in His glory” (No. 41).To be a saint is not a privilege of a few says Pope Francis, “ all of us in baptism have the inheritance of being able to become saints. Sanctity is a vocation for everyone.--All of us are called to walk in the way of sanctity, and this way has a name, a face: the face of Jesus Christ”. However, the question remains: How can we journey on the path of holiness, with the eyes on that face? How can we respond to this call? Can I do so with my own strength? The answer is clear: A holy life is not primarily the fruit of our own effort, of our actions, because it is God’s doing as we read from the prophet; “He touched my mouth with it and said, "Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away and your sin is forgiven."(Isaiah 6:7). Only the Lord makes us saints, and the action of the Holy Spirit who encourages us from within; it is the life itself of the Risen Christ, which has been communicated to us and which transforms us. To say it again according to Vatican Council II: “The followers of Christ are called by God, not because of their works, but according to His own purpose and grace. They are justified in the Lord Jesus, because in the baptism of faith they truly become sons of God and sharers in the divine nature. In this way they are really made holy. Then too, by God’s gift, they must hold on to and complete in their lives this holiness they have received” (Constitution on the Church, 40). If your life’s goal is to love and serve God in this life and spend eternity with Him in the next one, then study the lives of the saints. Becoming holy is the calling of every Christian believer because to become holy is to become like Jesus. The path to holiness is well-known and well-traveled. Contrary to Hollywood, it’s not a secret that only a few can know or understand. The problem is that most people are looking in the wrong places. If you want to follow Jesus, read the Gospels and the lives of His greatest followers, the saints. The saints are no different from you and me in all things but one: they never gave up. Virtuous and sinful, faithful and doubting, they gave their lives to Christ, messed it up, and turned to Him again and again and again. Sainthood doesn’t happen in an instantaneous thunderclap of holiness. It’s a journey with Jesus and a path well-trodden by the saints who have gone before us. (To be continued---).

33rd. SUNDAY SNAPSHOT. JOHN: I WISH JESUS WOULD COME SOONER THAN LATER. MARY: DON’T TELL ME YOU ARE DISGUSTED BEYOND ENDURENCE TO LIVE! JOHN: THE WORLD FEELS AS IF WE ARE IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF CHRISTIANITY, PERSECUTIONS FROM WITHIN AND PERSECUTION FROM WITHOUT. ISN’T RELIGIOUS FREEDOM A MOCKERY? MARY: WAIT A MINUTE, PERSECUTION IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FOLLOWERS OF JESUS TO GIVE TESTIMONY AND PERSECUTION IS AN OCCASION FOR PERSEVERANCE THAT LEADS TO SALVATION. JOHN: I CAN SEE SATAN NOT ONLY OPPOSES GOD’S RULE, BUT ALSO SEEKS TO DESTROY ALL WHO OBEY GOD. MARY: JESUS TELLS HIS DESCIPLES THAT IF THEY ENDURE TO THE END THEY WILL GAIN THEIR LIVES. WE MUST ENDURE AND HOPE- REMEMBER.