Post on 22-Jan-2022
St. Theresa the Little Flower Catholic Church Twenty-Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Summerville, South Carolina
Mass Intentions Oct. 2nd—9th
Sat. 5:00 pm Cynthia Tsakanikas By Church Family
Sun. 8:00 am Rafael Jose Maldonado Lupe †
By Maldonado & Arrieta Families 10:45 am Parishioners’ Intentions
Mon. 9:00 am Tim McCall By Lota McCall
Tues. 9:00 am Mary Rosselot By Columbiettes
Wed. 9:00 am Carol Tibbs By Joe Gubeli
Thur. 9:00 am Andy Kuffel By Columbiettes
Fri. 9:00 am Delfina Aisola †
Sat. 9 :00 am Tricia Bays By Stephanie Dempsy
Welcome! You may have come as a stranger to us, yet you are known to our Lord, Jesus
Christ. In His name, we pray you will find peace, hospitality and friendship with us.
Conjugal love, lived in fidelity to God’s original plan, is to be one of the principal manifestations of the kingdom proclaimed by Jesus. Through baptism into into Christ, we join with him in having one and the same Father.
Office of Child and Youth Protection Bonnie Sigers Victim Assistance Services
843-261-0430Louisa Storen LISW, LMFT 843-856-0748
Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People is available for you to read http://
sccatholic.org/resources or usccb.org
STEWARDSHIP OF TREASURE
9/26/2021
Offertory:…………………………$7,900.00
Family Life Center:………………..565.00
SVdP:………………………………..1,239.01
Votives:………………………………..262.59
Count:…………………………………500
God Bless & Thank You!
Online giving, one time or recurring, is now available on
our website: www.StTheresachurch.com
Next Weekend’s the second collection is in support of
Meals on Wheels.
Our Online Giving is getting an upgrade to a newer, easier-to-use platform! If you currently give online, you will soon be receiving an email with instructions on how to log into the new system. Best of all, your existing payment and donation information will be
migrated over so you will not have to set up your gifts again! Keep an eye on your email for more information coming very soon.
Fr. Norbert has encouraged us all to
read the word of God. A great way to
start would be with the daily
readings. Our app has them ready for you,
they come up when you first open the app. If
you don't have our app yet, simply go to
your app store, look for MyParishApp and
select St. Theresa the Little Flower. It's a
handy tool, includes links to online giving, our website, prayers, readings and so much more!!
October 3, 2021 E-mail: office@sttheresachurch.com Website: www.StTheresaChurch.com
We now have a Facebook Event for the festival on our
Parish Facebook Page- Please give it a share so everyone can come out an enjoy this time! If any of you know vendors for the events- crafters, jewelry makers, etc.- please let them know that our vendor forms are now live on our website. They can contact the office or Peggy Diewald for more information. Here are some roles we are looking to fill:
1. Live Entertainment Coordinator/Scheduler: Want to help us plan the dancers? The performances? Etc. Step up to the plate and help us get everyone on their feet, singing, and interested in all that the Summerville communities have to offer!
2. Mailing of Raffle Tickets: The staff needs your help stuffing letters and raffle tickets to send to our parishioners. The money prizes are big and we need all hands on deck on August 31
st to
prepare our mass mailing. Please contact Teresa in the office to sign up or for more information.
3. Publicity Coordinator: We need all of Summerville to know the great things happening at their local Catholic Church. The news! The press! Help us make sure everyone knows when, where, how, and why.
4. Volunteers: To make this thing go, we need all your help the day of the event! Please plan to attend our next planning meeting to sign up.
5. Just a reminder, we are still in need of donations of soda and water as well as, CDs, DVDs, books, and NEW items for our Silent Auction.
6. Game Bracelets will be on sale 10/9 and 10/10 for $10 and $15 at fall fest Our Fall Family Festival will be held
Saturday, October 23rd from 8:30 AM to 4 PM!
The Fall Festival
Christmas Shop We are looking for donations to
reimagine for your shopping
pleasure at our Christmas Shop at the Fall Festival on
October 23rd. Please start bringing in your gently used
Christmas items and place them in the
hall. (Please no broken items)
We are also in need of people who like
to craft to help us reimagine our
items. We will begin the first week
September. Please contact Nancy
Kuffel at nancykuffel@gmail.com or
call or text 843-607-2631.
And all who are held in the silence of our hearts!
Please pray the ROSARY.
PRAYER REQUESTS PLEASE PRAY for all those serving in the armed services and
all who are home-bound. For the physical and spiritual well-being
of parishioners and friends who are ill and recovering including:
Melissa Valentino Bailey
Batchelor Family
Betty Craven
Cecil Family
Rachel Dalton
DeLustro Family
Barbara Dunn
Christy & Kenny Fix
Laurie Friend
Richard Fromholtz
Jerilynn Gregory
Sara Gordon
Paula Griffard
Consuelo Gubeli
Mary Alaine Hardesty
William Hawkins
Harold Hufton
Barbara Ivey
Bryan Kelly
John Kelly
Kelly Konya
Anne Ledgerwood
Joe & Bonnie Lynge
Barbara Machajewski
Len Machajewski
Thelma Marshal
Lota & Lloyd McCall
Gary Melton
Kenneth Mich
Liz Moody
Gary Moon
Sarah Norton
Gary Nosotti
Larry Papineau
Debbie Sharp
Shane Shaughnessy
Carol Tibbs
Naty Trajano
Ricardo Trajano
Cynthia Tsakanikas
Arnelda Turner
Daniel Valenti
Toby & Lydia Wickenhoefer
Download Our Updated Parish
App!Our newly updated St. Theresa the Little Flower app is now available to download for iPhone and Android smart phones. Stay connected with our parish throughout the
week with instant notifications, an easy-to-access event calendar, and the ability to quickly reply to or share messages via Facebook or Twitter. Also enjoy a bunch of additional features like prayers, daily readings, helpful reminders to silence your phone before Mass or Confession, and much more. Download our app today at myparishapp.com or search your phone's app store for myparish.
Fifth Quarter @ St. John the Beloved Catholic Church
Madden Hall
October 8th, 2021
After the Summerville High School
Football game
Volunteers in the St. Vincent de Paul Conference here at St. Theresa’s serve anyone in need living in our parish boundaries, whether they are Catholic or not, whether they are parishioners or not.
Our Help Line phone number is: 843-727-1933.
St. Vincent DePaul is looking for donations of items:
Large bags of Rice
Boxes of Pasta
Canned Meat, Fruit, and Chili
Peanut Butter
Breakfast Cereal
Mac and Cheese
Crackers
Snacks
Paper Bags
We will have October 3rd Youth Ministry night for
both Middle and High Schoolers at Stars and Strikes
with St. John the Beloved. It goes from 5 pm to 7 pm
with one hour each bowling and games for $10 per
youth. Please get in touch with Mr. Richard for the
permission slip and more information. Friends are
welcome to attend. (843) 560-0653 or
YouthMinistry@StTheresaChurch.com
St. Theresa, The Little Flower represents the
Catholic Church and our parish at Summerville’s
Flowertown Festival October 8th -10th from 8 am to 6
pm each Friday and Saturday, and 8 am to 4 pm on
Sunday. We need volunteers for 2-hour shifts. Our
Booth should be next to Summerville Catholic
School’s and next to the games/rides area of the
event. Please go to the parish website or this link to
signup: https://thelittleflower.flocknote.com/
signup/69017 YouthMinistry@StTheresaChurch.com
or (843) 560-0653
October 30th at 5 pm, we have Trunk or Treat. Leslie
and Richard, plus the people of St. John the Beloved
and Summerville Catholic School, are putting on a
Trunk or Treat event for a safe and fun event in the
school’s front parking lot. There will be prizes for the
most creative Saint costume, best Treat, and best
Trunk of the evening. (843) 560-0653 or
YouthMinistry@StTheresaChurch.com Sign up:
https://thelittleflower.flocknote.com/signup/69204
Homeschool Families: Each Wednesday at 11 am, a
Short Catholic lesson in the church and then lunch
together somewhere on this gorgeous campus.
During lunch, the older kids are doing a Bible Study
on the Book of Tobit. Please let Mr. Richard know
you are interested in that, and we can direct you to
the study material we are using. (843) 560-0653 or
YouthMinistry@StTheresaChurch.com
Blood Drive St. Theresa Catholic Church
Monday, October 11th 10 am—4 pm In the fellowship hall Please make
your appointment online at red-crossblood.org with sponsor code:
Theresa
ALL BLOOD TYPES NEEDED!
40 DAYS FOR LIFE Is an internationally coordinated 40 Day campaign that aims to end abortion locally through prayer and fasting, community outreach and peaceful all day vigils in front of abortion businesses, Since launched in 2007 40 DAYS has become a worldwide movement with 19,000 lives saved, 223 abortion workers quitting and 112 abortion centers closed. We are called to stand witness during this vigil and by our presence send a powerful message to our community about the tragic reality of abortions. People of faith believe that when God’s faithful pray and fast with broken, repentant. And contrite hearts, our Heavenly Father will hear us and heal our lives, our churches, our communities our nation and our world. The Fall campaign dates are September 22 through October 31. Please consider joining us for St. Theresa’s assigned date.
Planned Parenthood 1312 Ashley River Rd
7am -7 pm Sunday, October 24 Sign-up sheets will be available in the gathering area. Those who cannot attend please join us in prayer and fasting at home on the date above and all through the fall campaign.
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Attention parishioners: if you know of anyone who is sick or going through difficult times that could use a smile, please contact the office of St. Theresa. The “Send a smile ministry” would love to send them a card and a prayer to brighten their day.
The Life Chain event will be taking place this year in Summerville on Sunday October 3rd from 1pm-2:30pm at the corner of Richardson and Main
Streets (Hutchinson Square/City Hall area). This annual event started in 1987 and occurs on the First Sunday of October throughout our country and Canada. It is a peaceful, prayerful, public witness of pro-Life. Our fight is life, our weapon is prayer. Our Respect for Life ministry is hoping that the St. Theresa’s community will respond with great enthusiasm. Join us in prayer and ask our Lord to: Guide our thoughts to consider Your creation. Guide our hearts especially to Your creation of human life. Teach us to appreciate love and protect ALL human life.
Grief Support
The Grief Recovery Method®: Grief Support
Group for adults is a time-proven method based
in part on helping grievers create a new level of
awareness. Research conducted by Kent State
University has shown that The Grief Recovery
Method approach to helping grievers deal with
the pain of emotional loss in any relationship is
“Evidence Based” and effective. Part of the
process is helping you to better understand all
the different life experiences that produce grief.
This weekly program starts Tuesday, October 5
at 10 am. in Madden Hall, the Sister Carol
Room and ends on November 23. Enrollment
for all programs is limited to fourteen
attendees. For more information call Paul
Brustowicz, 732-801-8333 (mobile), or email
paul_brustowicz@sc.rr.com. You can also check
out .thegriefrecoverymethod.com.
Honor and Help Our Veterans in Need on October 30-31 & November 6-7, 2021 Veterans that reside at the Veterans’ Victory House in Walterboro need: health and hygiene supplies, games, books (large and regular print), newspapers, magazines, hats, gloves, sunglasses, regular glasses and clothing. From its birth more than 245 years ago, the United States has maintained a tradition of caring for citizens who have served in her military. When there was a need, these Veterans answered the call. And now, our country recognizes and honors its obligations to do the same for them. The Veterans’ Victory House in Walterboro SC is a modern testimony to this ongoing commitment. Honorably discharged Veterans who are residents of South Carolina and in need of skilled or intermediate nursing home care reside at the 220 bed Victory House facility. In most cases this is their final residence. Please Honor and Help Our Veterans in Need by bringing items from the above list to the Church on October 30 -31 & November 6-7 and place them in the collection boxes in the rear of church. If you would like to donate to the Veterans’ Victory House, make out a check payable to Veterans Victory Group and give it to the Knight standing by the collection box. Contact Andy Folz if you have questions at aadb@sbcglobal.net or 812-430-0950.
St. Theresa Music Ministry - 'The Hymns we Sing' - 'When Love is Found' by Brian Wren b.1936.
Melody :- 'O Waly Waly' - folk song (authorship unknown)
The gentle song ' When Love is Found' is included in our Mass today as the gifts are prepared and
the offertory taken. Brian Wren was born in Sussex in the South of England, served in the British
Army for two years and attended Oxford University for both B.A. and Ph.D. He was ordained a
minister in the United Reformed Church (U.R.C.) in 1965. Brian, a teacher and prolific hymn writer
(of over 250 hymns!), moved to the United States and became a citizen. He married United
Methodist minister, Rev. Susan Heafield, and the couple have worked together on many hymn
collections. Brian retired in 2006; he is Professor of Worship (emeritus) at Columbia Theological
Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. 'When Love is Found' was published in 1983. Brian Wren composed
the words for two weddings, neither of which he was able to attend. The first wedding was of his
brother Keith to bride Sandra in Bombay, and the second was his friend, Gill, and groom Percy,
marrying in Scotland. Brian set the words to the well known folk tune ' O Waly Waly', - a lovely
beseeching melody with a 'Celtic' feel (though the Irish, Scots and English have laid some claim to
it!). It seems that its origins may be in 17th century Scotland. Using this melody, 'The Water is
Wide' is a very well known folk song in the United States and Ireland. 'When Love is Found' offers a
sweet tribute to love and its enduring and vital nature. The poetry explores the joy and the many
faces of love, and offers a portrait that can be adapted to apply to other relationships too (familial,
friendship for example). Brian's song describes the journey of emotion, character and spirituality
that is taken with love between two people. In the first verse, the poet sets a scene of great
celebration in keeping with the marriage day,- love is found, hope secured, and two become one. He
links his poetry with theology in the first verse and again in the last two verses. In the first, he
speaks of celebration and gives praise to God for His intentional plan. In the next verses he speaks
of the building years, where from the stability and base of home we learn to reach out in service
towards truth and light. Through a lens of wisdom, the hymn acknowledges that love is tried, we
face change, and we ' hold still to hope'. As we grow older, so our love is wiser; we add empathy and
understanding as we truly see and hear more clearly. At the close of the hymn we sing of those
times where sorrow and grief enter our lives, - we may become aquainted with the torn love of
betrayal, or love tired or tried, lost or out of sight through bereavement. Here Brian weaves into the
gentle lines the image of God to whom we pray in order to gain strength until these 'torments fade'.
Hints of forgiveness and redemption are given in this verse 'till loves keep no score of wrong', but
emphasis falls upon the last line 'but hear through pain loves Easter song'. Our connection to the
Resurrected Lord is mentioned here and taken up again in the final verse, to raise our hearts with
hope and love 'through death and life in broken bread'. Here we come to the close, and the heart of
the hymn, - our hope in the Eucharist, our Lord's body, broken for us that we might have life. God is
love, - this is our hope. 'God is love, and whoever abides in love ,abides in God, and God abides in
him'....(1 John 4:16)
'Dear friends, let us love one another, for love is from God' . (1 John 4: 7) May we praise God today
for His great mercies and gift of love, which draw us to Himself, our Hope and our Living Water
In the words of the poet/ hymnist, let us: 'Praise God for love, Praise God for life,
in age or youth, in calm or strife,
Lift up your hearts, let love be fed,
through death and life, in broken bread'.
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