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September 21~22, 2013 25th Slmdal in Ordinary Time

Scripture Readings: Amos 8:4-7. I Timothy -':1-8

Luke 16:1-13. Very few people seem to like this parable, but we are renlind~d : gain that Jesus tells a parable to make a poiot, not always to extol the main character. Jesus encouraged His d.isciples to have an enterpri 'ing spirit. He also warned them: ,. \10 ser 'ant c~n "erv tv» master 0"

NEXT WEEK'S SCRIPTURE READIN.,GS: Amos 6:1, 4-7. 1 Timothy 6:11-16. Luke 16:19-31.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION SATURDAYS FROM 3:30~4:30 PM; WWNESDAYS fROM 5-6p~ ,

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Saturday, September 21 5 pm-Marion Rozinski-Elaine McD~m1ott Sunday, September 22 8:30 am-John Wargo-Mich!'lelene & Ed Marge! 0

Slmday, September 2::' 10:45 am-Joseph Sarubbi-John & Jane Marie Terefencko Sunday, September 22 0.... 6 pm-People of the Parish and All Susquehanna University students Tuesday, September 24.. 0..... 12 Toon-Adoration Chapel-Ema Berg-Karen & Bob Hessek Wednesday, September 25 7 am-Adoration Chapel-John Konyar-Barbara Krieger Wednesday, September 25 0. 3 pm-Selinsgrove Center-Doris Dominica Good -The Farnily Thursday, Sept. 26 SIS CI)smas & Damian 12 Noon-Adoration Chapel-Walt Howard-Marissa Howard & Hunter Friday, Sept. 27 St. Vincent de Paul 7 am-Adoration Chapel-Speciallntention-The Heckman's Saturday, Scpt~mber 2g _.. 5 pm-Michael Pakoskey-Pakoskey, Grandizio & Bloom Families Sunday, September 2S 8:30 am-Special Intention-Heckman Family.0 •••• '.......

Sunday, Septemher 29 10:45 am-Anna Bergamo-Kathleen Downs Sunday, September 29 6 pm-People of the Parish and All Susquehanna University students ·0 ••• 0" _ •••• ,.

O[)!.ILEGE MASS ON SUNDAY EVENINGS AT 6 PM During th" time that usquehanna University is in session, a Sunday evening Mass wilt be celebrated at St.

Pius X ebt ci. ~vld.'3:' will be celebrated this evening, Sunday, September 22, 2013 at 6 pm.

ALTAR SERVER TRAINING Attention Paren s: .; f you have a son or daughter in grades 3 through high school interested in becoming an altar server, they ru..e w'''kome to attend a training session on Saturday. October 12, 2013 at lOam. Please contact Dave Z~ck a .:'70-743-7438 or zack32@Vtdprolog.nct if you pla..'1 on attending the training session.

MONTHLY ULTREYA The monthy Ultreya will be held on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 from 7-8prn in the lower level.

GOD'S PLAN FOR GIVING

TITHING Last Week's Collection Children & Teen Envelope Collection Total Income for September 14-15,2013

Last Year's Collection

5> 8,808.84 47.50

8,856.34

$ 8,116.15

PA ISH INDEBTEDNESS Loan Amount $ 1,900,000.00 Principal Balance 1,374,088.27 Monthly Interest 6,870.44

DEBT REDUCTION Month of September Year-To-Date (fiscal year)

Goal 8,000.00 Goal 24,000.00 Actual 2,175.00 Actual 12,667.76

SUPERMARKET GIFT CARDS SALE

We appreciate your continuing support of our Supermarket Gift Certificate progr am from Giant Food Stores and Weis Markets. Remember, you receive full v lue for the amount of gift cards purchased, and St. Pius X Parish receives 10% from Giant and Weis Markets.

Profit from last week $ 336.00

Gift Certificates are available to purchase before and after each we kend Mass in the Narthex. Gift cards are also available during the week from the Parish office, Monday-Friday, 8:30 am to 5 pm.

MINISTRY SCHEDULE: WEEKEND OF SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2013

5 pm 8:30am 10:45am

Extraord inary Pattie Kircher, Dennis Van, Ministers Belinda Albright,

Ray and Janey Cerezo

Reader Barbara Prentiss

Servers Dylan DeFazio. Katie Bond. Annalise Bond

hers Lou Ann Sprenkle, George Stephens

Music Minister Diane Jay

Charles Kerstetter, Sherry Evans. Brandon Bucher, Mike Seno, Marcia LaBant

James Pomykalski

Jason Lightner, Austin LaBant, Morgan Andretta

Bob Bausinger. Ron Butkera

Julie Long

Kathy Dalius, Katia Felty, Bill Switala, Barb Zack, Annette Sarsfield

Julie Trometter

Giuseppe Ferraro, Nicole Piccioni Olivia Gavason

Phil Fetzko, Sherry Marczyk

Mike Andretta

Please pray for our family, friends and loved ones who are ill and/or hospitalized:

DaVid Bailey Dick & Mary Lou Coukart Fritz Frost Tim Legg Joe Molitoris Lisa Sta rzel Juanita Barlow Richard Donahoe Sherman Good Shirley Lenhart Judy Moyer Billy Stewart Julia Becker Frank Doughtery Christopher Hunt Andy Litavec Sue Mull Helen Underhill Christian Bohling Thomas Downs David Kehler Martin Family Jeffrey Murphy Fred White Don Borruso David Everett Kathy King Ridge Maurer Billy Pensyl Walter Worhacz Gary Bowers John Fatchaline Joe Kontura Billy McDonald Nancy Ruffatto Betty Yagel Rose Bru ba ker Caleb Fornal Harvey Kreamer Emma Merante Lou Ann Sprenkle Shirley Zoch William Colegrove

Visit our updated website: stpiusxparish.net

CATHOLICS COME HOME St. Pius X Catholic Church is offering a six week seri s entitled "Catholics Come Home" beginning Tues­

day evening, October 22, 2013. The sessions provide an opportunity for Catholics who have not been active in their faith to discuss questions and concerns. Pre-registration is requested.

As baptized Catholics we have a precious gift of faith and love from the Lord that needs to be shared with our brothers and sisters. First we need to pray for th m. Next we need to extend a personal invitation to come home to the Catholic Ch rch. Many non-active Catholics are waiting for an invitation to return. Many mistakenly think they are excommunicated and are not w !come to return for a vari ty of reasons.

If you know someone who is no longer active in the Church please invite them to join us. For information ask them to call Catholics Come Home coordinator, Joe ScarteJli at (H) 570-374-9954 or © 570-313-7606 or parish office 570-374-4113.

FEA T OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI On Friday, October 4,2013, the feast of St. Francis of Asissi, Fr. Dan Powell will bless the animals. Please

bring your pets to the front of the Church, outside the front doors at Noon. The blessing will be held rain or shine.

Scriptures & Lunch will meet on Thursday, September 26,2013 in the parish library after noon Mass.

RECITATION OF THE HOLY ROSARY The Rosary is prayed:

Monday- hursday-11:40 am-Adoration Chapel; Tuesdays- 7 pm -Adoration Chapel and Thursdays- 5:30 pm -in the Church

MASS AT THE MA 0 OF PENN VILLAGE Mass will be cel brated on the First Friday of each month at 10:30 am in the Chapel at the Manor

located on Route 204 in Selinsgrove. Parishioners are welcome to attend Mass and if able, are asked to help escort residents to Mass.

September 22, 2013~ Twenty-Fifth unday in Ordinary Time~ Y R OF FAITH

As an innocent lamb Christ merited for us life by the free shedding of His own blood. [n Him God reconciled us to Himself and among ourselves; from bondage to the devil and sin He delivered us. so that each one of us can say with the Apostle: The Son of God "loved m and gave Himself up for me" (Gal. 2:20). By suffering for us He not only pro­vided us with an example for our imitation, He blazed a trail, and if we follow it, life and death are made holy and take on a new meaning.

The Christian man, conformed to the likeness of that Son Who is the firstborn of many brothers, received "the first­fruits of the Spirit" (Rom. 8:23) by which he becom s capable of discharging the new law of love. Through this Spirit, who is "the pledge of our inheritance" (Eph. 1:]4), the whole man is renewed from within, even to the achievement of "the redemption of the bod ., (Rom. 8:23): "If the Spirit f him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, th n he who raised Jesus Christ from th dead will also bring to life your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who dwells in you" (Rom. 8: \1). Pressing upon the Christian to be sure, are the need and the duty to battle against evil through mani­fold tribulations and even to suffer death. But, linked with the paschal mystery and patterned on the dying Christ, he will hasten forward to resurrection in the strength which comes from hope. - Gaudium et Spes, 22

ROSARY RALLY Join us on Saturday, October 12,2013 at Noon in th Marian Meditation Garden at , 1. Pius X to recite

the rosary on the day before th 96th Anniversary of the miracle of the sun at Fatima. We will be one of several rosary rallies taking place across the U.S.A initiated by America Needs Fatima or ANF.org. All are welcome.

SCHOLARSHIP AW RD The Knights 0 Columbus, Marian Council #3780. is sponsoring three (3) $200 scholarships for any student

in Grades 2 thru 8 attending a Parochial School who is a member of St. Pius X Church. A short written essay will be required by the student to apply. Applications will be accepted thru October 31, 2013. Scholarship awardees will be announced shortly lh reafter. For more information on how to apply please call Tom Hoff­man at 374-5983 evenings or 570-765-8010 daytime.

CAPSULE CALENDAR

Sunday, September 22-9:30 am-1O:30 am-Parish Religious Education Program -Lower Level Monday, September 23 -6 am-12 Midnight-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-Adoration Chapel Tuesday, September 24- 12 am-12 Midnight-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-Adoration Chapel Tuesday, September 24 -7 pm-Rosary Prayer Group-Adoration Chapel Wednesday, September 25-12 am-12 Midnight-Adoration 0 the Blessed Sacrament-Adoration Chapel Wednesday, September 25-6-7 pm-Kid's Choir Practic -Church Wednesday, September 25-7-8pm-Monthly U treya-Lower Level Thursday, September 26 -12 am-12 Midnight-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-Adoration Chapel Thursday, September 26-7-8:30 pm-R.C.I.A- Lower level Friday, September 27-12 am-6am-Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament-Adoration Chapel

The Parish has assistive listening devices available/or those who wish to use them during weekend Masses.

HYMN SING St. Pius X has been invited to sing at the Selinsgrove Center Hymn Sing on Thursday, September 26th

from 7-8 pm. Anyone is welcome to join us. This is a great opportunity for community service and is ap­preciated by residents and staff. Meet at the entrance to the Central Bldg/Selinsgrove Center on Rt 522 at 7:00pm. We sing the songs right out of our church hymnals. Any questions, call Marcia LaBant at 717-805 -4494.

FISHERS OF MEN DIN ER Most Reverend illiam 1. Waltersheid, Auxiliary Bishop of Pittsburgh, will be the Keynote Speaker.

We are faced with a challenge! Many dioceses throughout the United States are facing the challenge of fewer vocations to the priesthood. We in the Diocese of Harrisburg are faced with a different kind of challenge - the need to provide solid seminary formation for an increasing number of men who are studying for the priesthood. What a wonderful challenge to be blessed with! As we have counted on your prayers for young men considering a vocation to the priesthood, so now we need your financial help in providing seminary formation for them.

EA OF FAITH PILG MAGE I DANVILLE The Basilica of Saints Cyril and Methodius is the culminating site of a Year of Faith Pilgrimage which

will be held at Villa Sacred Heart in Danville, PA on Sunday. October 6 from 1 to 4 pm. At 1 pm a presen­tation on the mission and ministry of Saints Cyril and Methodius will be given. A Living Rosary will follow, that will include an outdoor procession ending in the Basilica. Msgr. Thomas Derzack, National Chaplain of the lovak 'atholic Federation will offer a re lection and B~nediction of the Blessed Sacrament will conclude the pilgrimage. For more information please call 570-275-3581.

GIFT NEWS Is Global Warming Real'? Does the Church have a position? Do you know what it is? On Saturday, October 5 at 6pm, join your fellow St. Pius X parishioners on the lower level of the church In honoring St. Francis, the patron saint of th environment, by participating in a Catholic Nationwide Education Project called Melting lee, Mending Creation: A Cafholic Approach to Climate Change. The program will provide highlights of the Pontifical A cademy of Science 's statem~nt on glaciers and \-vill include science photogra­pher James Balong's time-l pse photography in a documentary focused on ghcial melting. Snacks will be provided. Questions? Call Carol Parowski 570-539-4283 or email heratcarolparowski@hughes.net.

Mark Your Calendars and Plan to Attend On of This Fall's Bible Study Offerings! Beginning the week of October 13 th

, by popular d mand, St. Pius X will present three important Bible studies: Monday nights beginning at 7:00 pm we \ lill be covering all the narrative books of the Bible in The Great A dven­ture-The Bible Timeline (see the timeline banner in the. arthex); uesday m mings, at 10 al11, the book of Matthew; and Thursday mornings, also at 10:00 al11, Paul's lett r to the Galatians-a first time offering. If you haven't yet tried one of these Bible Studi s, narrated by Jeff avins, you've definitely been missing out on some fabulous instruction in your faith by one of the Catholic Church's most renowned theologians and Bible experts. You don't need to have any experience with reading the Bible or, conversely, can be a long­time 'Bible-thumper.' Either way, you'll gain a new and profound appreciation for what God has revealed to us in is Holy Book by attending anyone of these studi s. For those of ou who may be 'afraid' of the Bible, we suggest you start with the The Great A dventure-The Bible Timeline and put your fears to rest. The Timeline provides an overview of salv lion history and gives you a great perspective for continued Bible reading and further study. Details in the next several bulletins! : . ~ In an effort to have the ability to communicate with the parish in an electronic fashion, we are asking for each :family who has an e-mail address to submit it (0 (he Parish office. Simply e-mail your name and e-mail ~ address to the Parish office at spxc@ptd.nel. We can then add this information to our in-house Parish Data ~ System. Thank you.

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SEL NSGROVE MARKET STREET FESTIVAL The Selinsgrove Market Street Festival is scheduled for Saturday, September 28, 2013 from

8:30 am to 4:30 pm. in owntown Selinsgrove. St. Pius X will sponsor a booth and will be selling Pierogies, homemade Maryland Crab Soup and homemade baked goods *** see below. Workers are needed to help set up and take down th booth, as well as workers at the booth for one hour shifts. Sign-up sheets for workers are in the arthex. PLEASE VOLUNTEER! Men, women,

8thYouth Ministry High School students and we especially ncourage 7th and Grade Confirma­tion students who can use the hours worked as service hours for Con1irmation. For more infor­mation, please contact Mike Schlenker at 570-374-8125, Jack Kircher 570-765-4919 or you may contact the Par'sh Office at 570-374-4113.

ATTENTION ALL BAKERS: : St. Pius X will be selling homemade baked goods at the booth at the Street Fair on Saturday, : : September 28, 2013. If you are able to donate any baked good item, they can be dropped off at the: : Parish office on Friday, September 27th from 8:30 am-4pm. Donations will also be accepted the day of: : the fair, but they must be dropped off at the booth on Market Street. .

18TH A . VAL ST. PIUS X GOLF TOURNAME T The 18tb Annual t. Pius X Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, October 5, 2013 at the

Susquehanna Valley Co ntry Club. Registration will be at 8 am with a shotgun stmi at 9 am. Cost is $90.00 per person and includes golf, cart, Continental Breakfast, lunch, and prizes. Single golfers are encouraged to sign-up and we will pair people together. Registration and sponsorship forms are available in the Narthex of the Ch rch. If you can help with contacting businesses or working at the tournament, please contact Greg Felty at 570.743.7052 or gregfelty@earthlink.net. Thank You.

PRAYERJSHAREIMEAL PSM usually stands for Prayer Shawl Ministry. This time it also means Prayer/Share/Meal. On

Sunday, October 6th we are having a special (mini-retreat) meeting for all those who have ever been in­volved in the PSM, for those who would like to now more about this ministry, and for those who may consider joining. We will meet from 12 to 3pm in Richfi ld to share a meal. and to reHect on the Prayer Shawl Ministry as a way to make God more pre ent in our world through the work of our hands. Bring your handiwork along if you want. To RSVP and/or for more information & directions, call or email Kathy Dalius at 374-9883 l-..<1tlndalll pld.net

ADORATIO OPE INGS An opportunity to join in Adoration is now available. If you've been wanting to join us, now may be just the time. Tuesdays from 3- 4 pm will be open as of October 1st. Wednesdays from 3- 4 pm is open now. If you currently participate in Adoration. but would like to change your day and/or time, let me know. Please give it serious consideration and caB Judy at 570-743-4453.

THA KYO The Relay for Life'- 'eam sends their heartf~lt thanks to all who supported their recent fund raiser. Your purchase oftlowering bulbs will help serve many people who are dealing with cancer.

OLEMN CLOSING MASS FOR THE YEAR OF FAITH As we conclude the Y ar of Faith, all from throughout the Diocese are welcome to attend the closing

celebrations slated to ta 'e place on the Solemnity of Christ the King, November 24. 2013 at Holy Name of Jesus Church, Harrisburg. At the conclusion of Holy Mass at noon, the Most Blessed Sacrament will be exposed for Adoration followed by the Musical Recitation of the Rosary, the Sacrament of Penance and the Divine Mercy Chaplet. The celebration will conclude with Solemn Vespers and Benediction of the Most Blessed Sacrament at 4 p.m., presided over by the Very Reverend Robert Gillelan, Diocesan Administrator. The grace of a ptenary indutgence may be obtained this day according to the proper prescriptions."

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