The Catholic Community of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, guided by the Holy Spirit, commits itself to work steadfastly in

love and humility to discern the will of God as we seek to proclaim the mission of Jesus Christ in our parish and beyond.

Gifted and called by Baptism, we dedicate ourselves to minister to the diverse needs of all of God’s people through every dimension of our worship, formation, fellowship, stewardship, and service.

May all that we do in His Name glorify Jesus Christ. Amen.

314 Turner Road • Salem, Virginia 24153

Website: www.olphsalem.org • Email: office@olphsalem.org

Phone: (540) 387-0491 • Fax: (540) 389-8237 Parish Office: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., Monday–Friday Facebook: Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Salem, VA

EUCHARISTIC LITURGIES Saturday Vigil:........................................ 5:30 pm Sunday:………………………………..10:30 am Weekdays: .............................. See inside bulletin Holy Days: ............................. 12:00 and 7:00 pm A nursery is available during the 10:30 am Mass on Sunday for children 6 months to 3 years of age.

PRAYER AND DEVOTIONS Eucharistic Adoration: 3:00–9:00 pm Wed. The Church and Eucharistic Chapel are open for prayers during office hours.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: ........................................ 4:00–5:00 pm Wednesday: ..... 5:30–6:00 pm or by appointment

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM See page 2, “Christian Initiation”

SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING Please contact the parish office at 387-0491 to receive the Sacrament of Anointing by appointment or if you would like a visit by our pastoral staff.

REGIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICES Salem Knights of Columbus ................. 525-7479 Roanoke Catholic School ..................... 982-3532 Commonwealth Catholic Charities ....... 344-5107 Madonna House .................................... 343-8464 St. Francis House .................................. 342-7561 Roanoke Area Ministries ...................... 345-8850 RAM House .......................................... 343-3753 St. Andrew’s Diocesan Cemetery ......... 342-9180 Refugee & Immigration Services ......... 342-7561 Ancient Order of Hibernians ................ 427-1246 Our Lady of the Valley Ret. Comm. .... 345-5111

DECEMBER 11, 2016

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CHRISTIAN INITIATION:

Infant Baptism – Please contact Deacon Eric Surat, 387-0491, Ext. 320, for information regarding baptismal preparation.

For information regarding the adult process (RCIA), please call the parish office.

NEWCOMERS:

Welcome to our community! Please call Vicki Hubbard in the office to register, 387-0491.

MARRIAGE PREPARATION:

Please contact the Pastor, 387-0491, at least six months prior to the intended date.

ORDAINED MINISTRY &

RELIGIOUS LIFE:

For information about the life and ministry of priests, deacons, seminarians and communities of men & women in religious life, contact the pastor or visit the web page of our Vocations Office: www.richmonddiocese.org/vocations.

PARISH FAMILY CRISIS:

A resource for parishioners in need. Parish Office, 387-0491.

HOSPITAL VISITS:

If you are homebound or in the hospital, please call the parish office, 387-0491. When you are admitted to the hospital, please list yourself as Catholic and state that you want your church informed of your stay. Due to HIPPA regulations, this is the only way the hospital can release information to the church.

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION-PASTORAL

CARE:

Lewis Gale - Eric Surat Salem Health - Rita Bratcher Richfield – Martha Dishner

IHN/FAMILY PROMISE will be with us from Sunday, December 18 through Sunday, December 24. Anytime to be without a home is tough, but especially at Christmas time it is even tougher. This is a busy week for all of us, but this is a wonderful time of year to do something special for a family in need. A sign up sheet will be in the Commons on the bulletin board for people to cook dinners, host an evening with our guests, do an overnight, or help set-up or clean-up. God bless not only the people who will be our guests but you as well. PARISH LIBRARY OPEN FOR YOU Our parish library, located near the office, is available for you. One way to know God better is to study, a little every day, by reading Catholic books or listening to CDs while driving in your car. Please feel free to take books from our library. Our collection includes: The Mass: the Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition, by Cardinal Donald Wuerl, 2011, pp. 215. This book reviews a short history of the Mass, along with walking through all the parts of the Mass to explain what is happening and why. Take it home and see what it has to say. A BIG THANK YOU TO Roanoke Catholic drama club and choir for coming and helping us enter into the spirit of advent with their production of the Nativity Play. Our young thespians showed spirit and exuberance as they acted out in scripture and song the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ. THE WOMEN’S CLUB says thank you to everyone who baked, made a donation, or purchased from the “Winter Bake Sale”. All proceeds will go to St. Francis Service Dogs and the good work that they do. THE 2017 CALENDARS are in the commons this week and next. We ask that each family only take one calendar please and also to patronize and/or thank the businesses that it make it possible for us to have the calendars. Once again we thank and recognize these businesses. THE PARISH would like to take this opportunity to thank Roy Bordeaux for his help in coordinating the landscaping of our parish grounds looking great. Roy finds it necessary to step down from this ministry due to other commitments. We have a great team of people who really do a good job and take gardening seriously, and a big thank you goes to one and all. Would you be able to help in these efforts as well? Call the church office at 387-0491.

CHRISTMAS SCHEDULE

CHRISTMAS DECEMBER 24-25 Christmas Eve Mass 5:30 pm Midnight Mass 12:00 am Christmas Day Mass 10:30 am HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD DECEMBER 31 Mass (New Years Eve) 5:30 pm HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD JANUARY 1 Mass 10:30 am

PARISH EVENTS and LITURGIES

Sunday, December 11 8:30 am RCIA 9:00 am Jesse Tree, FLC 9:00 am K-12 Classes, SH & FLC 10:30 am Preschool, FLC 10:30 am Mass - OLPH Parishioners 11:30 am Children’s Choir, WS 11:30 am Winter Bake Sale, Commons 5:00 pm Mass at Roanoke College Monday, December 12 - Our Lady of Guadalupe Tuesday, December 13 9:00 am Mass

7:30 pm Prayer Group, FLC, Chapel Wednesday, December 14 1:00 pm Olive Branch (1-4 & 4:30-7pm) 3:00 pm Adoration (3-6 & 7:00-9 pm) 5:30 pm Confessions 6:30 pm Mass - Maria deGuzman Mungcal Thursday, December 15 10:30 am Bible Study, FLC 12:00 pm Mass - Charles Perkins 6:00 pm Finance Council, FLC 7:00 pm Adult Choir Friday, December 16 12:00 pm Mass - Tomasa Andres & Remedios Villaluna Saturday, December 17 8:30 am Dominicans, Chapel & FLC 10:00 am Olive Branch (10am - 1pm; 4:30 - 7 pm) 4:00 pm Confessions 5:30 pm Mass - OLPH Parishioners 7:00 pm Private Gathering, SH Sunday, December 18 8:30 am RCIA 9:00 am Jesse Tree, FLC 9:00 am K-12 Classes, SH & FLC 10:30 am Preschool, FLC 10:30 am Mass - OLPH Parishioners

11:30 am Children’s Choir, WS 1:00 pm Franciscans, SH & Worship 5:00 pm Youth Group, SH

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Liturgical Ministry Schedule

5:30 pm Saturday

December 17

10:30 am Sunday

December 18

Welcomer Margie Secor Julia Hemphill

CLW Leah Fame - L Dan McBride - H

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

Jack Miller Peggy Miller Lisa Fleischhauer Mary Gubala Theresa Ata Reunett Clark

Norman Ata

Sarah Wyar Joe Tucciarone Christine Johnson Martha Dishner Melissa Yates Jim Laub

Linda Tucciarone Pat Wyble Dave Wyble

Lectors Vicki Hubbard Janet deGuzman

Naomi Hemphill Tom Fame

Altar Servers Hannah Ahlers Sarah Ahlers

Emily Purcell James Purcell

Cross Bearer Clare Macdonald Emily Hemphill

Sound Board Gerard DeGuzman John Clarke

Instrumentalists ? ? ?

Cantor ? ?

Altar Linens Pat Purcell

Readings for the Week December 11– December 18, 2016

Sunday: Monday: Tuesday: Wednesday: Thursday: Friday: Saturday: Next Sunday:

Please pray for our sick, that they may be strengthened by the love of Christ.

Matthew Duncan Bonnie Flagg Jim Fukumoto Alicia Gay

Fr. Mike Herbert Andy Hodge Betty Holbrook Fr. Jim Parke

Robert Rutters Will Thomas Marie Tucciarone Jeanette Spichek

Is 35:1-6a, 10/Ps 146/Jas 5:7-10/Mt 11:2-11 Zec 2:14-17 or Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab/Jdt 13/Lk 1:26-38 or Lk 1:39-47 Zep 3:1-2, 9-13/Ps 34/Mt 21:28-32 Is 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25/Ps 85/Lk 7:18b-23 Is 54:1-10/Ps 30/Lk 7:24-30 Is 56:1-3a, 6-8/Ps 67/Jn 5:33-36 Gn 49:2, 8-10/Ps 72/Mt 1:1-17 Is 7:10-14/Ps 24/Rom 1:1-7/Mt 1:18-24

“A voice crying out in the desert. Make straight the way of the Lord.”

1 John: 23

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This page is sponsored by the Salem Knights of Columbus Council #10015

OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP CATHOLIC CHURCH - SALEM, VA

Ring in 2017 at OLPH

Limbo until the clock strikes

twelve

At OLPH’s New Year's luau!

8:30PM-12:30AM

Adults -- $17.00

Kids 4-12 -- $7.00

Price includes: appetizers, champagne

toast, & party favors

Sodas & mixers are provided/ BYOB

Tickets must be pre-purchased!

Sales will begin the weekend of

December 3rd & 4th

Make checks payable to OLPH

Sign up at the bulletin board in the

commons. Put check or money in

envelope and place in the

2nd collection box.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION YOUR HELP IS NEEDED! We are seeking adults to proclaim and reflect upon God’s Word with the children of the parish during Children’s Liturgy of the Word. If you are in-terested in learning more about this ministry and exploring the roles of the leader or aide, please call Bar-bara Hairfield at the church office. CHRISTMAS CLASS SCHEDULE There will be no religious education classes, preschool thru twelfth grade, on December 25 and January 1. All classes will resume on Sunday, January 8.

YOUTH

THE OLPH YOUTH GROUP will go Christmas Caroling on Sunday, December 18 at 5pm. Please bring a goody to share afterwards in the Social Hall. Next Youth Group meeting is January 8, 2017. Ring in the New Year and continue on your time capsule. Pizza and ice cream will be served!

OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE

Feast Day December 12

Monday, December 12 is the feast day of Our Lady

of Guadalupe and is a special day in Mexico as the

whole country celebrates this feast. It is a celebration like no other.

As you know, the story of Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of conversion

for not just a few but for a whole country at a time of great distress

for the native peoples of Mexico. Fifty-two tribes will gather at the

basilica in Mexico to give praise to God through Our Lady in song and

dance with fireworks and feasting. Our Hispanic brother and sisters

have brought this celebration to the United States and in many places

throughout America there are big celebrations as well. St. John Paul II

named Our Lady of Guadalupe the protector of all the Americas on one

of his visits to Mexico.

*************************** SUNDAY’S WORD is on the bookcase in the commons. These are the Sunday readings for this liturgical year. A donation of $3.00 is suggested. Extra copies are in the church. These are on the bookcase by the sacristy for use during Mass only.

PARISH STAFF

Clergy

Pastor

Rev. Ken Shuping kshuping@richmonddiocese.org

387-0491

Deacons Rev. Dr. Eric Surat

office@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 320

Rev. Mr. John Beach

office@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 320

Ministries

Music & Worship Barbara Fraticelli

music@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 305

Youth Ministry Melissa Yates

youthministry@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 307

Religious Education Barbara Hairfield

christianformation@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 304

Roanoke College Ministry Lauren DeSmit

Roanoke College Campus Minister

lhearne@roanoke.edu

Administrative Staff

Business Manager Elaine Fletchall

busmgr@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 302

Parish Secretary Vicki Hubbard

office@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 300

Custodian Milka Ponjavic

Olive Branch

Pat Hickok olivebranch@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 306

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OLPH Financial Stewardship

Regular Offertory Additional Income * Total Week Ending 10-31-16 $ 7,726.75 $ 55.00 $ 7,781.75 All Saint’s Day $ 692.00 $ $ 692.00 All Soul’s Day $ 190.00 $ $ 190.00 Week Ending 11-06-16 $ 10,008.73 $ 665.00 $ 10,673.73 Week Ending 11-13-16 $ 8,865.00 $ 386.00 $ 9,251.00 Week Ending 11-20-16 $ 7,027.00 $ 270.00 $ 7,297.00 Week Ending 11-27-16 $ 5,769.98 $ 45.00 $ 5,814.98 Additional income for the 10/30,11/06, 11/13, 11/20 and 11/27 collections include $190 for stole fees, $125 for social hall rental, $500 for diocesan subsidy, $561 for capital improvement,

$10 for discretionary, $15 for designated use (youth ministry), and $20 for Christmas flowers Also collected for 10/30, 11/06, 11/13, 11/20, and 11/27 is $528 for seasonal outreach, $52 for St. Francis House, $30 for World Mission, $15 for Catholic Relief Services, $697 for Catholic Campaign for Human Development, $60 for Gift of Life, $748 for Family Crisis, and $2,662 for Haiti Mass Count Week Ending 10-30-16 494 Week Ending 11-06-16 401 Week Ending 11-13-16 540 Week Ending 11-20-16 432 Week Ending 11-27-16 464

“Therefore, every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”

-Matthew 3:10

OUTSIDE THE PARISH

THE CENTER FOR MARRIAGE, FAMILY AND LIFE will be hosting a Respect Life Essay and Video Contest. This year’s theme is “If life were more respected.” The contest invites participants to engage the theme in dialogue with an issue related to abortion, end of life issues, disabilities, the death penalty, bioethics, or some other area of Respect Life Ministry. The contest is open to grades 7– 12 and college age. Students are encouraged to participate in the contest by developing the theme in a video and submitting online. There are prizes by grade level and all information, guidelines, and submission details are on-line. Go to www.cdrcmfl.org/respectlife/respectlifecontest/. Questions can be sent to cmfl@richmonddiocese.org or by calling 804-622-5109.

THINKING ABOUT YOUR VACATION FOR NEXT YEAR? What about joining Fr. Joe Goldsmith, the parochial Vicar at Blessed Sacrament in Harrisonburg, who will be leading a 13-day pilgrimage to Spain and Fatima on October 1-13, 2017. Highlights of the trip in-clude Fatima, the Santiago de Compostela, Madrid and many side trips. Cost is $3999. An early booking discount is available. Trip includes air fare and superior tourist class hotels and guides. Interested call 1-888-544-4461 or jtag1964@verizon.net. PLEASE CHECK OUT the bulletin board in the commons by the hospitality kitchen for several events going on around the valley and beyond for your advent and Christmas enjoyment. Events are too numerous to mention but certainly many options are available

that you might like to consider.

“At Advent we should try the key to our heart’s door. It may have gathered rust. If so, this is the time to oil it, in order that the heart’s door may open more easily when the Lord Jesus wants to enter at Christmas time!”

—A New Guinea Christian