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January 14, 2018
St. John Neumann Parish
Parish Office [email protected]
380 Highland Lane Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
610.525.3100
Ss. Colman-John Neumann Catholic School 372 Highland Lane
Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 610.525.3266
Parish Website www.sjnparish.org
School Website www.scjnschool.org
Pastoral Staff Pastor - Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Matz
In Residence - Rev. Robert J. Chapman
Permanent Deacon-Deacon David Schaffer
Parish Services Director - Sister Carol Kelly, SSJ
Sunday Assistance -
Rev. Robert Murray, OSA
Rev. Jack Deegan, OSA
Business Manager - Mrs. Joy Falcone
Administrative Assistants—Mrs. Chris Cutrufello
Mrs. Mary Ann Keenan
School Principal - Mrs. Cathleen Lamberto
PREP Coordinator - Mrs. Debbie Andes [email protected]
Music Ministry - Mrs. Isabel Momenee [email protected]
Coordinators of Parish Ministry Active Adults Group—Bill Haines
Adult Faith Formation - Deacon David Schaffer
“Aid For Friends” - Cheryl Calnan
Altar Guild—Nora Saraceni
Catholic Charities Services - Mary Ann Gordon
Evangelization—Deacon David Schaffer
Garage Sale—Mary Ann Macciocca
H.O.P.E. Program—Sister Carol
Hospitality—Honor Jones
Interfaith Hospitality Network - Mary Beth Wolanin
Lectors - Jack McNamara
Little Church School—Janet Baffa [email protected]
Pre-Cana—Liz & Jake McDonald
Respect Life Committee - Clare Frissora [email protected]
Ushers—Dan McAnally
Sunday Mass Schedule
Saturday Vigil – 5:15 pm
Sunday - 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 am, 12 noon and 5:15 pm
Daily Mass Schedule
Monday - Friday—6:45 am and 8:00 am
Saturday—8:00 am
Holy Day Schedule
(except Christmas and New Year’s Day)
5:15 pm Vigil
6:45 am, 8:00 am and 7:00 pm
Eucharistic Adoration
Every Thursday after 8:00 am Mass
Rosary
Monday evening 7:00 pm
Every Thursday after 8:00 am Mass
Reconciliation
Saturdays 3:30 pm—4:30 pm, or by appointment.
Baptisms 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month.
Please call the Rectory to make arrangements.
Weddings
Those preparing for marriage, please call the Rectory
(610-525-3100) to schedule an appointment with
Msgr. Matz.
Newcomers Welcome!
Please call for appointment or stop in to the Parish
Office to register to become members of St. John
Neumann Parish.
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This Week at St. John Neumann
Sunday Little Church School—10:30 am
Monday Rosary for Peace—7 pm
Tuesday Prayer & Scripture—9:30 am
PREP—4:15 pm
Wednesday Choir Practice—7 pm
Thursday Adoration & Rosary—after 8 am Mass
Active Adults Group—12 noon
Friday March for Life Bus Trip—8:30 am
Sister Carol’s Book Club—9:30 am
For all the prayer requests we have received this
past week, we pray to the Lord . . . . . . . .
Lord, hear our prayer.
Derrick Artis
Gail Baselics
Kay Carlin
Diana Caron
JP Castillo
Janice Cleary
Edward R. D’Alessio
Ann DeSanctis
Louis DeSanctis
Noel DeSantis
Alice Doyle
Baby Landon J Gavio
Bobby Groer
Regina Hershey
Barbara Johnson
Brenda Logan
Jean Mayoue
Paul Morrison
James Myers
Kathleen O’Connor
Ida Marie (Skip) Quigley
Jim Quigley
Emily Rinnier
John Robinson
Joseph Robinson
Randi Rogers
Tony Tanzola
Rita Tarra
Gina Weinmann
Please Pray for Those Who Are Sick
Second Collection Next
Weekend
January 20th & 21st
Catholic Relief Services is a humanitarian aid or-
ganization which helps the poor and vulnerable
overseas by responding to major emergencies,
fighting disease and poverty, and nurturing peace-
ful and just societies.
For 75 years, CRS has been providing expertise
and compassion to the very poorest of our brothers
and sisters in more than 100 countries. But they
can't do this lifesaving work without your help.
Please support the Catholic Relief Services collec-
tion next weekend.
Today is Hospitality Sunday!
Please join us in the Gathering Room
after all the daytime Masses today.
Flowers for the Sanctuary
Week of January 13th & 14th
Flowers at the Blessed Mother &
Sacred Heart Shrines
donated by Betty Bradley
For the Intentions of the Bradley Family
Flowers in front of the Altar
donated by Judy Cassidy
For the Intentions of Emily & Al Wankmiller
Flowers behind the Altar
donated by Maria Palumbi
For the Intentions of The Palumbi Family
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Anyone who got to know Ja-son would say that he was a restless kind of guy. He had done well in grade school with hardly any studying at all. His friends thought that things
came easy to him—-that he had a lot of natural abil-ity. Yet, for some reason Jason wasn’t a happy per-son. He received a scholarship to a fancy private Catholic high school, but to his parents great disap-pointment, decided not to take advantage of it, and went to the local public school instead. After gradu-ation Jason went to college, but got caught up with the drinking and social scene. And although he did graduate, he could have done much better than he did. He was a personable guy, and had many girl-friends, but would always shy away when things started to get serious in the relationship. Jason also would change jobs pretty fre-quently. Since graduating from college he was in his third job. One thing that Jason was very proud of was his motorcycle. He loved to race around from place to place, never paying attention to speed limits and loving that he wasn’t required to wear a helmet any more. One night during the Christmas season, Ja-son was out with a particularly wild group of friends, and was drinking way too much. When it came time to leave, his friends tried to convince him to stay and sleep it off, but he would have none of that. So, off he sped into the night. It was one of those super cold nights and the roads around where he lived (still with his parents) were very hilly and winding. At one particular curve, Jason wasn’t focused enough to slow down, and by the time he realized, it was too late. He ended up crashing into a stone wall and shattered his right leg so badly that the doctors said he would probably have to lose it. Jason was in the hospital for several weeks recovering. One day, his friend Kate came to see him. Jason had known her since grade school. She was one of the few people that he maintained some type of serious friendship with. As she walked into the room Jason came right out with the news that he had just received that he would probably have to lose his leg. “Look at the mess I’m in now”, he said. Don’t I have all the luck. Maybe it would have been better if I had just died in that crash.” Kate looked right at him and said with a smile, “God isn’t ready for you yet! But, seriously, Jason, this can be a real wake up call for you.
Let’s face it, you’ve never taken life serious-ly. You were always expecting some big break-through that would just be handed to you on a silver platter, but life’s rarely like that. And you’ve had op-portunities which you walked away from because they weren’t what you had thought you wanted for yourself or you were just too lazy to pursue them. I think that God spared your life for a reason. There’s something you need to do and I really believe that God wants to show you what that is. Stop being so restless, and just flitting from one thing to the other. Stop asking the wrong questions and start to an-swer this question: What’s my purpose in life? What does God want from me? This may sound kind of strange, but as tough as this experience has been for you, it could be the best thing that has hap-pened.” Jason certainly had much to think about. Maybe what Kate was saying to him was true. Could this be a wake up call? And maybe one of the things that he had been searching for was staring him right in the face the whole time—that he allow God in his life so that he can find a sense of direc-tion and purpose. Maybe he needed to pay atten-tion to what his friend was saying. On Epiphany Sunday, we focus on the wise men or Magi. One way of looking at them is to see these three individuals as people who were search-ing. And because they were searching, they were restless. But God stepped into their lives by way of a star. And that star brought them to something that calmed their restlessness. They found in the man-ger what they were looking for, and they could re-turn to their homes, men transformed. In the story about Jason, the “star” took a very different form—-the tragic accident. And al-though it seemed on the surface to be the end of his life, it was really the chance to begin again. God was speaking to him through the words of his friend. He was now going to travel a different path, and be-cause of his experience, would be lead to a place where he could find answers. Many of us are searching. Many of us are restless. Is Christ trying to place a “star” in our lives that will be some type of guide for us? A challenge, a struggle with a weakness, a setback, these can all be opportunities to change course and be brought to something greater. Ask Jesus to help you figure out which “star” you are to follow so that you can become more set-tled, less restless, more at home with the Lord.
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Our friends from the Interfaith Hospitality Net-
work thank all the St. John Neumann volunteers
for their warm welcome and hospitality this past
week. The two families and seven children were
so grateful to everyone for their time, meals and
friendship. May God bless you all!
“I was a stranger and you welcomed me.”
Matthew 25:35
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Super Bowl Block Pool
and
SCJN Home & School
Fundraiser
Registration Deadline,
Sunday, February 4th @ 12 Noon
Here’s a fun way to enjoy the Super Bowl even
more by selecting a block on our grid of 100 blocks
and seeing if your numbers match the score at the
end of each of the quarters of the game. You can
purchase as many blocks as you’d like for $35 per
block. This fundraiser supports SCJN Home &
School through a portion of the proceeds. Please
ask your friends, co-workers, and neighbors to join.
Payouts by Quarter—1st Quarter—$375;
Halftime—$500; 3rd Quarter—$375;
4th Quarter or Final Score, if overtime—$500.
Registration Website—
https://www.runyourpool.com/join/. You will need
to enter the information below to join. You will
create a User ID and Password for your account or
use your same ID/Password from the NFL Survivor
Pool. Our Pool’s name is “SCJN 2018 Super Bowl
Block Pool”.
• Pool ID—82195
• Pool Password—SCJN2018SB
Please contact Jerry Dowd at
[email protected] with any questions.
Fight Back—Learn How to Protect
Yourself from Frauds and Scams
SJN Active Adults Meeting
Thursday, January 18th
@ 12 noon in the
Parish Life Center
FREE presentation by AARP
volunteer, Tony Wolchasty. He
is a member of the fraud protec-
tion unit. Please bring your
lunch; drinks/dessert will be
provided. Invite your friends
and neighbors!
Scam Jam
Martin Luther King Day of Service
Coopertown Service Corps is collecting gently used
books for PreK—8th grade students at St. Ignatius
of Loyola School as a Martin Luther King Day of
Service Project. If you have books to contribute,
please leave them in the back of church on Sun-
day, January 14th. We need volunteers to collect,
sort by grade level, and pack the books on January
15th at 10 am in the Life Center. To volunteer
please contact Jan Baffa at 484-437-5110. This is a
great opportunity for teens to earn service hours.
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Monday, January 15th
Martin Luther King Day—No School
Tuesday, January 16th
3 pm Play practice
Wednesday, January 17th
3 pm Play practice
Thursday, January 18th
3 pm Play practice
SCJN School is having 2 Open Houses during
Catholic Schools Week:
Sunday, January 28th 9 am to 11 am
Wednesday, January 31st 9 am to 11 am.*
*An appointment would be preferred this day.
Please call 610-525-3266.
Ss. Colman-John Neumann
School News
SJN Garage Sale
April 7th & 8th
The following “words” are a guide for what’s salea-
ble at our Garage Sale:
China, Glassware, Jewelry, Linens, Books, Tools,
Furniture, Toys, Working electronics, Household
items, Small working appliances.
Clothes (clean and in good condition), Finer cloth-
ing for the Boutique!
Cold winter days are a great time to start
gathering. Information: 610-353-1875
Respect Life
Join the March For Life bus trip to D.C. this FRIDAY! Good weather expected!
Let your voice be heard in a powerful way. The March DOES influence others, including elected officials. Enjoy the fellowship of others in an ex-perience you will be glad you participated in.
Our bus leaves at 8:30 am this Friday, January 19th. Reserve seats in advance ($27/person, discounts for families of 3 or more). Get all the details, contact: Clare Frissora at
610-312-6114 [email protected]
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Super Bowl Bake Sale February 3rd and 4th
Needed: Bakers,
wrappers and shoppers!
Do you have a tasty recipe that would help raise funds for three non-profits that support women in unexpected pregnancies?
Do you have a flair for gift wrapping to help prepare the baked items on Saturday the 3rd?
Do you have a spare dollar or two to buy some home-made items that will raise funds for our vulnerable unborn children?
If “YES”, then we need your help for the Respect Life Bake Sale! Please contact Clare Frissora in advance: 610-312-6114 [email protected]
Sunday Contributions
In the spirit of transparency, we are sharing with
you the amount of our weekly collection. We will
also be sharing with you quarterly reports and in-
formation about parish activities and service pro-
jects from time to time.
January 7, 2018 Collection
Parish—$17,907.32
Thank you for your generosity!
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MASS INTENTIONS SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 13TH
5:15 pm Mary Rinaldi
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14TH
7:30 am Dosie FitzPatrick
9:00 am Edmond C. Speitel
10:30 am Eileen Lange
12:00 pm Frank McGuiness
5:15 pm Intentions of James McTamney
MONDAY 6:45 am Walter Lee
8:00 am Patricia Kelly
TUESDAY
6:45 am Helen M. Coleman
8:00 am Jeanne Benjamin
WEDNESDAY 6:45 am Living & Deceased Benefactors of SJN
8:00 am John Scarengelli
THURSDAY
6:45 am Living & Deceased Members of SJN
8:00 am Joanne Donovan
FRIDAY 6:45 am Living & Deceased Benefactors of SJN
8:00 am Special Intention
SATURDAY
8:00 am Matthew Ribecca
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 20TH
5:15 pm Louis Gray
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21ST
7:30 am Patricia Cabrey (2nd Anniversary)
9:00 am Winifred Ranieri
10:30 am Herbert & Eileen Roebuck
12:00 pm Margaret Mary Klinges
5:15 pm James Ward
ALTAR SERVERS
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 13TH
5:15 pm Carly Morris, E.Campbell, R. Cassidy
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14TH
7:30 am John Knott, John DelPizzo
9:00 am Matt & Nick Bedrossian, Meilyn Frank
10:30 am Joe Frustaci, C. McMullen, B. Donnelly
12:00 pm Stacy Milone, H. Sheehan, J. Rowley
5:15 pm Declan Barry, Leo Figge, M. Cassidy
MTW
8:00 am Adam Yeager, Benjamin Yeager
TFS
8:00 am Madeline Gleeson, Chloe McCloskey
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 20TH
5:15 pm Megan Dugery, Tess Ewing
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21ST
7:30 am Lily McMahon, Maya D’Angelo
9:00 am Brynn Donnelly, Mallory McHale
10:30 am Noah Callahan, Ben Bloom
12:00 pm Catherine Voegele, Maeve Hegarty
5:15 pm Rick Cassidy, Mackenzie Cassidy
LECTORS SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 13TH
5:15 pm K. & S. Fay
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14TH
7:30 am C. Frissora, C. Callaghan
9:00 am C. & S. Gallagher
10:30 am J. McLaughlin, N. McDonnell
12:00 pm S. Ewing Liu, J. Swope
5:15 pm J. Reitano, C. Pushaw
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 20TH
5:15 pm E. McDonald, R. Galli
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21ST
7:30 am M. Hall, J. Rowley
9:00 am R. Ramos, S. Parrish
10:30 am J. McNamara, C. Restifo
12:00 pm E. Fehrenbach, M. Gormley
5:15 pm B. Duska, M. Duska
EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF
HOLY COMMUNION
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 13TH
5:15 pm Nora & Dick Saraceni
SUNDAY, JANUARY 14TH
7:30 am Jim Lavelle, Clare Frissora, Kevin Momenee
9:00 am Susan Cush, Maryanne Macciocca, Linda Dowd
10:30 am Regina & Pete Bruno, Pat O’Donnell
12:00 pm Michele Hartigan, Becky & Mark O’Neill
5:15 pm Cecilia Silva, Kathy Selvaggi
SATURDAY VIGIL, JANUARY 20TH
5:15 pm Susan & Dick Bannister, Dave McDonald
SUNDAY, JANUARY 21ST
7:30 am Clare Frissora, John Seykora, Joan Burke
9:00 am Kelly Koscil, Leslie Cyr, Anne Donnelly
10:30 am Barb, Craig, and Hannah Callaghan
12:00 pm Kathy & Tony Ricciotti, Annette Pennoni
5:15 pm Camille & Jim DiMarco