Baptism: Please contact the parish office to schedule a time and date. A pre-baptism class is required. No baptisms during Advent and Lent.

Matrimony: By appointment six months in advance.

Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA): Please call the church office at 724-981-3232.

Prayer Line: For intentions, please call 724-342-3456.

PARISHIONER PRE-REGISTRATION FORM

NAME____________________________

STREET_________________________

CITY & ZIP________________________

PHONE_________________ E-Mail_________________________

New Member Address Change Update Info

Place completed form in today’s collection basket or drop it off in the church office.

Rev. Thomas J. Whitman, Pastor Director of Religious Ed: Sr. Sandy Pedone, H.M.

Parish Secretary: Lori Vasconi Financial Secretary: Carol Koch

Maintenance: Brad Goodall Music Director: Mary Messina

Office Hours Monday - Friday,

8:30 AM to 4:30 PM (closed 12:30-1:30 PM)

Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil - 5:15 PM

Sunday - 8:30 & 11:00 AM Weekday: M, T, Th, Fri - 8:00 AM

Wed. - 12:10 PM (Check weekly bulletin for changes.)

Confessions Saturday: 4:00 - 4:30 PM or by request.

Religious Education Program Sundays, 9:30 AM - 10:45 AM

CCD Grades K-10 at Case Avenue Elem. School, Grade 11 in the church annex.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Every Wednesday after the 12:10 PM Mass in

the Mother’s Chapel.

Shenango Valley Catholic School System

Mr. William Lyon, Principal, Kennedy Catholic Middle and High Schools:

724-346-5531 Mr. Joshua Testa, Principal

St. John Paul II: 724-342-2205

TWENTY-NINTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SUNDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2018

2019 Altar Flower Sign-ups Coming Soon.

Please look inside today’s bulletin for more details on how and when to sign-

up for the 2019 Altar Flowers.

PASTOR’S COLUMN

FALL RAFFLE: Thanks to all those who helped to make our Fall Raffle a success. Thanks to all those who purchased tickets to support our parish, Lori Vasconi and Carol Koch for managing the day to day details, all those who sold tickets, and the Women’s Guild for serving and cleaning up after the dinner. The $10,000 prize winner was Robert Kuzel, the $2,000 prize winner was Dorothy Yao, and the $1,000 prize winner was Dorothy Yao. COMPUTER UPGRADE: A tremendous note of thanks goes out to John Kutchenriter for upgrading our internet and cable system in the offices and in the Guild Hall. John has been working on trying to solve the problems we were having for months. This past week he was able to get us up and running where we need to be. All of his hard work has been a tremendous gift to our parish. Some of the hardware for this upgrade came from your CSA pledges. Thanks to John and to all of you for helping to put us back online. PARISH COMEDY NIGHT: Mark Friday, January 18, 2019 on your calendar! We will be holding another parish comedy night consisting of dinner, professional comedians with clean humor. These have been won-derful evenings and hope you will consider joining us for this year’s event. Invite family, friends and neighbors. Tickets will be on sale soon – consider them as stocking stuffers for Christmas. SCRIPTURE CLASS INFANCY NARRATIVES: Fr. Tom Whitman will be offering a four week Scrip-ture Class on the Infancy Narratives (stories of the birth of Jesus). It will begin on Wednesday, November 7, at 7:00pm in the choir room. The other dates vary: Monday, November 12, Tuesday, November 20, and Monday, November 26 – all at 7:00pm. You can sign up on the bulletin board in the Gathering Space. PARISH ALL SOULS SERVICE: On Friday, November 2, at 7:00pm we will hold our annual All Souls Service in the church. We invite families and individuals who have lost a loved one since last All Souls Day to come and pray together for those who have died and to pray for those who continue to mourn their loss. ANNULMENT SEMINARS: The Office of the Tribunal and Matrimonial Concerns is once again taking their services on the road and offering information sessions for persons in need of an annulment. We ask all priests, deacons, and lay persons in pastoral ministry to please invite anyone whom you know to be in need of an annulment to consider attending the next session on October 24, 2018 at Sacred Heart Church, Erie.

The session will begin at 6:30 PM and will include a presentation on the annulment process and the opportu-nity to meet one-on-one with members of the tribunal staff to answer individual questions. CEMETERY LAWN CARE: We are in the process of taking bids for cutting grass at both St. Mary Ceme-tery and St. Rose Cemetery. If you are interested in bidding this job please contact the Cemetery at 724-346- 3711. PARISH COUNCIL NOMINATIONS: In December a few members of Parish Council will be completing their terms and we are looking for people who may be interested in serving in their place. If there is someone you would like to nominate, or if you wish to nominate yourself, please write their/your name on a piece of paper, place it in an envelope marked “Parish Council” and drop it in the collection basket or at the parish office by November 4. To be eligible to serve on council: • You need to be a registered member of St. Joseph Parish for at least one year, • You must be at least 18 years of age and have been confirmed, • You cannot be a parent, child, or cohabitant of any other member of Council. REFLECTION ON THE READINGS: Our readings today focus on the fact that Jesus entered into our hu-man nature to understand the things we go through, even to the point of entering our temptations, our suffer-ings, and even our death. The purpose of doing all that was so that we might be able to share in the fullness

ULTREYA For all Cursillo members. St. Joseph Church will host an Ultreya on Thursday, November 8 at 6:30pm. Mass will be held in the Mother’s Chapel with Fr. Tom Whitman presiding. Please come and welcome all our new Cursillista and we ask to please bring a snack to share for the social to follow.

FEATURED FOOD PANTRY ITEM “Crackers”

Next week’s featured item - crackers. Please place your donation in the shopping cart located in the Gathering Space and thanks for checking the expiration date!

UPCOMING FEATURED ITEMS Canned Vegetables - Canned Tuna - Canned or Boxed Soups

If you’d like to volunteer, please report to the church’s lower level at 8:00am on our next distribution day on Friday, November 2.

Reflection on the Readings continued…

Altar flowers are donated in thanksgiving to God and in memory of

Nick Mariotti, Sr.Nick Mariotti, Sr.Nick Mariotti, Sr. by Marge and family

PLEASE PRAY FOR: Alice Fabrey, Tony Perry, Darlene Lenhart, Chris Pass, Mary Lou Brandon, Joyce Reardon, Lorraine Penhos, Joe Simko, Fran Ray, Gerrie Derr, Ed Thomas and Bill Lasche.

of his life – to be lifted up from our human life to share in his divine life. The first reading comes from a section of the book of the prophet Isaiah in which the Suffering Servant is de-scribed. There seems to have been someone in Isaiah’s time who was innocent and who chose to suffer to save the peo-ple. This became an image of who Jesus would be and who Jesus was and is for us. Jesus didn’t come to get all kinds of praise and awards from us, but to show us in person what real love and concern for another person is really like. He was willing to enter into our struggles, our suffering, and even our death in order to show us how much he loves us. The second reading from the letter to the Hebrews focuses on the fact that Jesus is God and yet he chose to humble himself to become one of us in everything that we as humans experience – joy, love, suffering, and death. Jesus understands what it is to be human and what it is that we rejoice in and what it is that we struggle with. Jesus experi-enced our humanity in order to show us to the way to enter into his divine life, to be one with him in heaven. Jesus wants us to come to the fullness of our potential. We were made in God’s image and likeness and we are thus meant to be one with God as the culmination of all that we are as human beings. But too often we settle for much less, we settle for being human. The gospel today takes place right after Jesus explains to his disciples for the third time that he will suffer and die. But the disciples still don’t get it. In fact today they ask for places of glory at the right and left of Jesus in his king-dom. How patient Jesus is with them, and with us, in one more time speaking about how his kingdom is not about power or glory, but about service. But what is the point of this service. Service is the reaching out to those in need around us and trying to help them get back on their feet or to raise them up to a place where they can survive or thrive on their own. Service is about trying to raise people up to a higher level, trying to level the playing field in order that we all have enough. Ultimately the service of Jesus is about trying to raise us all up to the level of God, to the level of real glory, to the place where we are all one, one in peace, one in joy, one in love, united in the heart of a God who desires nothing less than to be one with us.

PARISH COUNCIL The October Parish Council meeting is Monday, October 22 at 6:00pm in the choir room.

Child Protection and Creating Safe Environments Code of Conduct: The Diocese of Erie is committed to pro-tecting the children and youth who are entrusted to its care and to ensuring that those in ministry with our young people are in right relationship with the children/youth receiving services. To share in the ministry of Christ is a great privilege as well as a tremendous responsibility. The privilege is the joy of sharing in the mission of Jesus Himself. The responsibility is acting in a way that conforms to the attitude and actions of Christ. In this spirit, the diocese has issued a ministerial Code of Con-duct, which can be accessed at http://www.eriercd.org/pdf/codeofconduct.pdf . The code is included in the diocesan Pol-icy for the Protection of Children, which also includes man-dates for creating safe environments. To read the policy, go to http://www.eriercd.org/pdf/protectionpolicy.pdf For more in-formation, contact Mrs. Cindy Zemcik, at the diocesan offices at 814-824-1195.

Good Shepherd Church-Rt. 18 West Middlesex will be having a Charity Dinner from noon till 3:30pm on Sun-day, October 28 in the church social hall. Ham and scal-loped potatoes will be served. Tickets are $9/Adults, $4/Children ages 12-4 yrs. and free/3 and younger. Tickets can be purchased at the door and take-outs are available.

Today’s second collection is for World Mission Sunday. As always, your prayers are your most treasured gift to the Missions. Your prayers and financial help, offered today, WORLD MISSION SUNDAY, support mission priests, religious Sisters and Brothers, and lay catechists who are Christ’s witnesses to a world so in need of His healing. Thank you in advance for your generosity.

WEEKDAY-HOSPITAL SUNDAY, Oct. 28 Oct. 23 - P. Radasevich SRHS - G. Smith Oct. 24 - P. Emery Nugent - P. Emery Oct. 25 - J. Moroco Clepper - G. Pacsi

Mass Intentions

+Indicates Mass Time

Monday, October 22–Eph 2: 1-10 / Lk 12: 13-21 +8:00 Julia Sarchet (Jim and Sherry Perrine) *6:00 Parish Council Meeting-choir room

Tuesday, October 23–Eph 2: 12-22 / Lk 12: 35-38 +8:00 Living and Deceased Members of the Parish

Wednesday, October 24-Eph 3: 2-12 / Lk 12: 39-48 +12:10 Msgr. William Karg (Dale Perry Family) *2:30 West Hill Ministries

Thursday, October 25-Eph 3: 14-21 / Lk 12: 49-53 +8:00 Mickey Rossi (Terry Conlin Family) *2:30 West Hill Ministries *6:00 RCIA-Choir Room

Friday, October 26-Eph 4: 1-6 / Lk 12: 54-59 +8:00 Barb Young (Family)

Saturday, October 27-Jer 31: 7-9 / Heb 5: 1-6 / Mk 10: 46-52 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time +5:15 Joseph P. Donnelly (Helen, David, Jack & Maureen)

Sunday, October 28–Jer 31: 7-9 / Heb 5: 1-6 / Mk 10: 46-52 Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time +8:30 Ann Roscoe (Taylor Family) +11:00 Mr. & Mrs. Albert Billen (Nancy Rehner)

Ministry Schedule for October 27/28 LECTOR J. Bonomo

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

E. Anderson, A. Djakovich, N. Alexander, T. H. Cole, S. Messina, B. Lepore, M. Goodwin

ALTAR SERVERS N. Alexander, D. Eller, A. Jordan

GREETERS GS: B. & F. Smeraglia Fr: R. & S. Axtell

LECTOR R. Vukovich

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

B. Chalupka, P. Emery, P. Young, S. Delp, P. Miller, J. Walsh, C. Necastro

ALTAR SERVERS P. Haroldson, V. Haroldson, S. Pass

GREETERS GS: S. Paul

LECTOR G. Beshero

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS

G. Smith, M. B. Jones, M. Smith, U. Goda, P. Piccirilli, V. Mulligan, S. Feeney, J. Sherbine D. Ranelli, L. Dach, J. Grandy

ALTAR SERVERS A. Anzevino, I. Bianco, C. Duffy, H. Duffy

GREETERS GS: L. Voytko, A. Ward Fr: R. & T. Rookey CL B. Anzevino

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Sunday, Oct. 28,

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Sunday, Oct. 28,

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We hope you find warmth and hospitality at our parish as well as St. Joseph Church being nurturing and spiri-tually enriching. If you are considering or would like to join our parish community, we invite you to please take a Welcome Packet located at each exit or fill out the Pre-Registration Form on the front cover of the bulletin and drop in today’s collection basket and a census form will be mailed to you.

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Altar Flower Donor Program We are preparing the available dates for the 2019 Altar Flower Donor Program. St. Joseph’s Flower Donor Program provides an opportunity to honor a loved

one with altar flowers along with a memorial announce-ment in the bulletin. Palo Floral delivers a bouquet to the church altar and bills you, the donor, directly. Flowers are scheduled based on a first come, first served sign-up list. The available dates for 2019 altar flowers will be posted in next week’s bulletin. Signup reservations will begin after 8:30am on Monday, October 29 by calling 724-981-3232. Reservations can only be taken by speaking with office personnel directly, either by phone call or stopping by the church office. Please do not leave a phone message.