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SSAINTAINT PPAULAUL

CCATHOLICATHOLIC CCHURCHHURCH

Address:

140 Walnut Street, Weirton, WV 26062

Phone: 304-748-6710

Web site: stpaulcommunity.net

Prayer Line: 304-748-4245

& 304-564-3114

Pastor: Rev. Larry W. Dorsch

E-mail: lwdorsch@comcast.net

WWELCOMEELCOME TOTO SSTT. P. PAULAUL’’SS We welcome to our community all our Christmas visitors!

We are delighted to have all of you join us to celebrate the festival of Christ’s birth among us. Especially welcome are children and grandchildren of the parish who are back in town to visit

family members! Welcome also to those who have no church home who join us for this special occasion.

We would be happy to have you here any Sunday as well.

MERCY, MERCY, MERCY!!!MERCY, MERCY, MERCY!!!

Do you have a “Mercy Plan for 2016”? Our Holy Father, Francis, has asked us to observe this year as a Holy Year committed to Mercy—seeking mercy for ourselves and especially of extending mercy to others. He asked to be merciful as the Father

has been merciful to us. Nothing could be more merciful than the gift of the Son sent to show us how to live and die and gain eternal life with the Father. How can

we extend similar mercy to one another and to the hurting of our world? Perhaps we might take some time to plan a concrete strategy of mercy for the coming year: to

whom and how will we show mercy?

Are there elderly neighbors who seem to have no one to look in on them to whom we could extend mercy?

Could we make a commitment to the Table of Hope and be merciful to the hungry?

Is there a way to get involved in fighting drug abuse or helping some of the teens in our community trying to find their way after drug abuse?

Is there one relative who needs special attention because they feel isolated or lost? Don’t leave mercy to chance. Plan some concrete ways to be merciful in this

Year of Mercy.

“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To

cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the

real spirit of Christmas.”

—Calvin Coolidge

LITURGICAL SCHEDULE FOR C HRISTMAS Feast of Mary, Mother of God — Dec. 31 & January 1

6 p.m. — Thursday, New Year’s Eve 11 a.m., New Year’s Day

Feast of the Epiphany — January 2-3

Regular Weekend Schedule

LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR DECEMBER 31 –JAN 3

Ministers of

Communion Lectors

Altar Servers

Greeters Ushers

Thursday

Dec. 31

New Years Eve

6 pm

Lynette Ekey Matthew Glodowsk Peggy Rossi Darlene Sessi Jerry DeFilippo Edie Wilson Marlene Hamilton

James Mazzone

Jimmy Mazzone

Gabrielle Mazzone Roxanne Mazzone Mary Mazzone Melissa Perkins

Robert Baker Thomas Beaumont Robert Chuma Michael Cucarese

Friday

January 1

New Years Day

11 am

Anthony Mazzone Louis Stock Majorie Stock Maria Colantonio Jeannie Duffy Judith Bartley Terri Nejus

John Egan Jillian Perito Lonni Riggs

Mark Marino Mikki Marino Dave Whalen Bernadette Whalen

John Cummings Paul Duffy Patrick Gurrera John Porco

Saturday

January 2

5:00 pm

Sharon Higgins Larry Perrone Lawrence Pearce

Debbie Coletti Pearce

Not Filled Irene Canala Florence Hirkala Frances Veltri Joseph Veltri

John Cummings Ron Panko John Porco Jim Elias

Sunday

January 3

8:30 am

Mary Ann Kinder Frances Bonnaure

Katrina Mills Lindsay McAfee Diane McAfee

Joanne Darmelio Phil Darmelia Mary Ann Poole Tom Poole

Tom Beaumont Pat Gurrera Thomas Lorello Phil Darmelio

Sunday

January 3

11:00 am

Angela Reinard Geo Brandenburg Marlene Hamilton Cynthia Harcharik Carla Gianni Young Edie Wilson Melissa Perkins

Kim Edmiston Madeleine Marks

Eddie Marks Katherine Marks

Toni Marks Barbara Sistilli Patricia Valero

Robert Baker Robert Chuma Ed Halsey Not Filled

Sunday

January 3

6 pm

Michelle O’Karma Not Filled Not Filled

John O’Karma Jacqueline O’Karma Johnny O’Karma

Michael Cucarese AD Mastrantoni Michael Mastrantoni Mark White

TTABLEABLE OFOF HHOPEOPE Free Hot Meals are provided at First Methodist Church on West Street 5-6 pm

Monday. Everyone is welcome to come to share the meal and the fellowship. Our next parish day to serve will be January 22. Sign up sheet is in the back of the

church.

NNEVEREVER AALONELONE The local support group for parents, family, friends and community interested in drug and alcohol

addiction is now meeting here at St. Paul’s in our parish office conference room on Monday evenings at 6:00. This wonderful group has been providing encouragement as well as education and support to those in our area struggling with issues related especially to the abuse of substances. If you have these issues in your family or know someone who does, come on Mondays to find a welcoming group

of folks, many of whom have been there and/or are there!

CCOMMUNITYOMMUNITY BBREADREAD BBASKETASKET Don’t forget non-perishable foods, soaps, paper products for distribution at our

ecumenical food pantry. The month of December we are asked to bring corn and in January Manwich. Bring them to the offering baskets to be presented at mass.

SHARING FAITH WITH OUR CHILDREN Our Family Faith FUNdamentals program has begun for pre-school through grade eight children from

9:40 through 10:50 every Sunday morning in the morning above the parish office. We have three classes that meet to help our children enrich their Catholic faith. If you children are not yet registered or participating, please call the office immediately this week and sign them up and then bring them to

class next Sunday.

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

Adult Bible Study

Our weekly study of the coming Sunday’s Gospel will resume on Tuesday, January 5, at 6:30 in the Office

Conference Room. All are welcome.

This week: Feast of the Holy Family

I Samuel 1:20-11,24-28, I John 3:1-2,21-24; Luke 2:41-52

Background: The trip to Jerusalem at age twelve was a significant step into adulthood for Jesus, it signified his Bar Mitzvah or coming of age in the faith. Thus we should not be too shocked that Mary and Joseph left the city with checking to see that he was with the family group. Likewise, to find him among the scholars and teachers of the law would be the

likely place for a young man interested in the ways of God. Clearly Luke wants us to see that from such a young age, Jesus was committed to the Lord

and saturated with understanding what God wanted of him. Luke also portrays him as completely subject to the family of Joseph and Mary and to

learning the mysteries of human life from them.

Next Week: Isaiah 60: 1-6 Ephesians 3:2-3a,5-6 Matthew 2:1-12

PRAY FOR OUR SICK MEMBERS Rose Waltz, Mary Solomon, Guy Ceraolo, Ted Rafacz, Kenneth Dodson, Katrina Williams Trinity East: Paul Sirback , Golden Oaks—Theresa Petroski Country Club Nursing Home: Frances Oliver Weirton Geriatrics—Inez Oliver Wyngate: Virginia Yoklic Gloria Frankovitch Serra Manor—Lillian Beagle

Our Sympathy to the family and friends of Helen Derosky. May she rest in peace. Breadbasket helps out the needy all year. The month of December our parish is asked to provide corn, in January, Manwich. We thank our parishioners for their support.

PRAY FOR OUR TEENS! In the church, you will see a display of our Candidates for Confirmation to be held on June 18th at 5 pm. St. Paul Cemetery News: St. John—Section 9 is now open for the sale of in-ground burial graves. Call St. Paul Cemetery for more information or to purchase one of these graves. Family FUNdamentals resumes, January 3rd at the normal time of 9:40 am. We are proud to announce that Christine Holmes, our parishioner, has been appointed Development Director for St. Paul School.

Phase 1: CAMPAIGN PROGRESS AS OF DECEMBER 21

Donor Pledged Amount Foundations $136,000.00

Alumni $10,000.00

Christian Mothers $15,000.00

Holy Name $10,000.00

Parishioners $243,415.00

School Parents $30,660.00

Businesses $7,050.00

TOTAL $452,125.00

GOAL $500,000.00

BALANCE NEEDED $47,875.00

As the year comes to an end we thank everyone who has contributed to our Capital Campaign Fund. These figures are calculated as of December 21, 2015. This Campaign will last for three total years. We appreciate all the sacrifices made for the sake of our school. Please continue to support this fund by making your check to St. Paul School and placing it in the collection basket or mailing it to 140 Walnut Street, Weirton, WV 26062 Weekly Collection

December 20, 2015 Envelopes $ 7418.00 Offertory $ 382.00

OUR PARISH THIS WEEK

Saturday Dec. 26

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Confession Sunday Eucharist (Deceased members of Viola, Chickerella, & Chuma Families)

Sunday Dec. 27

Holy Family

8:30 am 11:00 am 6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist: (Louise Strauss) Sunday Eucharist/Children’s Church (Evelyn Spencer) Sunday Eucharist: (For All Our People) Alcoholics Anonymous in cafeteria

Monday Dec. 28

8:00 am 6:00 pm

Weekday Eucharist: (Margaret Archileti) Never Alone Meeting (Conference room)

Tuesday, Dec. 29

8:00 am

Weekday Eucharist (Angela Titonis)

Wednesday Dec. 30

8:00 am 5:45 pm 7:00 pm

Weekday Eucharist (Tony Sistilli) Voices of Hope rehearsal Adult Choir rehearsal

Thursday Dec. 31

New Years

6:00 pm

New Years Eve Eucharist (For All Our People)

Friday January 1

11:00 am New Years Day Eucharist (For All Our People)

Saturday January 2

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Confession Sunday Eucharist: (Mary Senker)

Sunday January 3

The Epiphany

8:30 am 9:40 am

11:00 am 6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist: (Mary Paris) Faith FUNdamentals Sunday Eucharist/Children’s Church (Emagene & Bob Kerr) Sunday Eucharist: (For All Our People) Alcoholics Anonymous in cafeteria

Don’t forget your parish, please consider giving a percentage of whatever remains in your estate to the parish memorial endowment fund. Bequests for the parish should read, “To the Most Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop of Wheeling Charles-ton or his successors in office for the exclusive use of St. Paul Parish (or School) in Weirton, WV Memorial Endowment Fund.”