19 january 2014 2nd sunday in ordinary time - st. mary's · pdf filehomily reflections...
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St. Mary’s Church Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church 31 Elm Street, Cooperstown, NY 13326
Serving: Fly Creek, Hartwick, Milford, Middlefield, Northern Otsego County and Communities
Diocese of Albany, New York
Phone: 607-547-2213 Fax: 607-547-5742 Website: www.stmaryscoop.org
Father John P. Rosson, BA. MA, MDiv, STM Pastor Trustees: Peter Henrici, Jeffrey Woeppel and Michael Millea – Parish Council President: Dorothy Dabrowski
Cemetery Superintendent: Patrick Christman 287-4268 or 547-2571
Office Manager: Maureen Brennan - Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 9:00am-12:00pm
Director of Religious Education: Rosemarie Abbate 547-8716, [email protected]
Confirmation Coordinator: Mary Dirr [email protected]
Bulletin Publisher: Father John Rosson - Bulletin Editor: Penney Gentile [email protected]
The Bulletin is the official publication of St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Lake Church, Cooperstown, New York
For your safety and the protection of the Church, we have video surveillance.
St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church Christ centeredBiblically groundedSacramentally nourishedServing our neighbors in Christian love
~ 19 January 2014 ~
2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Parish Support
January 11/12: Attendance: 384 Offertory: $2927
Eucharistic Minister Schedule
Cup/Set up Cup/Gift Bearer Host Lectors January 18/19
January 25/26
4:30pm J. Nicols F. Raeder B. Sohacki/L. Sohacki 8:00am L. Nicholson P. Bliss M. Cring D. Raddatz/B. Jay 11:00am A. McGoldrick R. Bohm P. Gentile B. Markusen/D. Storck Choir
4:30pm D. Gerard F. Raeder M. Lachance/C. Lachance 8:00am L. Bliss Lamb A. Curtis S. Oberriter B. Jay/P. Henrici 11:00am A. McGoldrick J. Nicols P. Gentile L. Mooney/B. Markusen Choir
Memorials after Death
Remember St. Mary’s Our Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic
Church in wills and final testaments
For your safety and the protection of the Church,
we have video surveillance.
In Sympathy Michael Martinichio, Ferdinand Thering
Julia Bruce, Charles “Chuck” “Pappy” Coleman, Rosa Miranda
Maryellen Wrubleski, Jack Weber
Pray for our Sick Jimmy Anania, Maureen Aquilino, Frank Cappello
Military Deployment Matthew and Alex Fahey (grandchildren of Diane & Joe Koffer)
Prayer Corner
EXPOSITION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT
FRIDAYS 8-10 AM (BENEDICTION)
Alison Cole’s 6th Grade Children’s Mass
Interpretation of the Epiphany
Homily Reflections
Today, we solemnly celebrate the feast of “The Baptism of the Lord.” Till yesterday, we celebrated an ' infant
Jesus.' From today, we celebrate an 'adult Jesus.' Today's celebration marks transition from the liturgical
season of Christmas into the liturgical season of Ordinary Time. Today is the First Sunday in Ordinary Time
~never celebrated. However, the prayers of its Mass will be said during the week.
Jesus leaves the region of Galilee .. journeys south on a three day trek to encounter a prophet in the wilderness and wades
into the waters of the river Jordan. Jesus is baptized. An extraordinary event recorded in all the Gospels.
We have a reminder of our own Baptism. This feast reminds us of own Baptism. The Gift of Baptism by which we become
members of the Church, we receive what Jesus has by nature … we receive by adoption status as beloved sons and daughters
of the Father. We give glory and praise for baptism.
Our deepest identity is as beloved sons and daughters of the Father.
How mindful are we of our baptism?
I have an exercise for all of us ..Do you know your feast day? - No – not your saints name day… the day of your baptism!
Do we have any memory of the celebration of this Baptism Sacrament?
We often do not – it is obvious – because we were baptized so soon after birth. So the exercise -
Today – go home, go look- ask about the date of your own baptism.
The danger of not knowing the day of baptism is loosing awareness of what the Lord has done in us – loosing contact with the memory
of the gift of what we receive.
Thus, we end up considering our very Baptism as an event of the past –a formality – a ritual – that took place in the past - - not by our
own will but by that of our parents – and thus – has no impact on the present.
We must reawaken the memory of our Baptism. We are called to live out our Baptism every day.
As I know my birthday, I should know my Baptism. Day.. because it is my great feast day.- where by I became a member of the
family of God, entered the Church – and was adopted as the Father’s son and daughter.
JPRosson 12 January 2014
Saturday January 18th 2014
Sunday February 2nd 2014
MASS SCHEDULE thru
Sarah Porter & James J. Ahern III
SUNDAY JANUARY 26th– Third Sunday Ordinary Time
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FIRST SATURDAY - FEBRUARY 1st
8:00am Kevin Fitzgerald r/b John Auld & Family
11:00am Peter Hunt r/b The Grigoli Family
The Parish office will be closed on
Monday January 20th in observance
of Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
TUESDAY JANUARY 28th - St. Thomas Aquinas
SATURDAY JANUARY 18th
4:30pm Jack Gerard r/b Mary Laden
5:30pm Jack Weber r/b Lachance Family
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 29th
FRIDAY JANUARY 31st - St. John Bosco
5:30pm All Souls Memorials
5:30pm Maryellen Wrubleski r/b Mary Pangborn
THURSDAY JANUARY 30th
7:30am Maryellen Wrubleski r/b St. Mary’s Parish 8-10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
January 22 Day of Prayer
for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children
The General Instruction of the Roman Missal no. 373,
designates January 22 as a particular day of prayer and
penance for abortion, called the “Day of Prayer for the
Legal Protection of Unborn Children.” In all Dioceses
of the United States of America, January 22 shall be
observed as a particular day of prayer for the full
restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and
of penance for violations to the dignity of the human
person committed through acts of abortion.
End of Life Booklet
The NYS Bishops offer a helpful guide to Catholics on the difficult decisions involving end-of-life treatment and care. The document is called "Now and at the Hour of Our Death. To order or download go to http://www.nyscatholic.org/.
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2nd - Presentation of the Lord
8:00am Catherine E. O’Meara (5th Ann) r/b Family
11:00am Sam Tophia r/b Sal & Diane Grigoli & Children
8:00am Fatima Devotions
4:30pm Jack Gerard r/b Donna Gerard
Mary Beth Morris r/b Morris Family
SUNDAY JANUARY 19th—Second Sunday Ordinary Time
FRIDAY JANUARY 24th - St. Francis de Sales
7:30am Parishioners of St. Mary’s
8-10am Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
8:00am Peter Sequeira r/b Lucille Gargiulo
11:00am Jimmy Anania (living) r/b Family
Andrew Dowdy (living)
TUESDAY JANUARY 21st
5:30pm James R. Gohery r/b The Poulsons
WEDNESDAY JANUARY 22nd
Day of Prayer for Legal Protection of Unborn Children
5:30pm Maryellen Wrubleski r/b Fr. John
THURSDAY JANUARY 23rd - St. Vincent
5:30pm Jack Weber r/b Fr. John
SATURDAY JANUARY 25th - Conversion of St. Paul
1:00pm James J. Ahern III & Sarah Porter Wedding
4:30pm Maryellen Wrubleski r/b St. Mary’s Parishioners
PRAY WITH THE BISHOPS
TO END ABORTION
9 DAYS FOR LIFE
PRAYER + PENANCE + PILGRIMAGE
Pray with the bishops to end abortion January 18-26 as our nation marks the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
Confirmation Program Schedule 2013 – 2014 Grades 7, 8 and 9
Class 3:30 – 5:15 PM (Note the earlier start)
Teaching Mass 5:15 PM [instructive liturgy- explaining the meaning, history of Eucharist]
Feb 9-2014* Class / teaching Mass (Note 2nd Sunday)
Mar 2 Class / teaching Mass
Apr 6 Class/ teaching Mass
May 4 Class/ teaching Mass /Family potluck dinner
The social time is before class so the students can leave after Mass. The Youth I’nC parent volunteers assume responsibilities for the students at the social time.
*January and February, we schedule Mass the 2nd Sunday
to accommodate vacation schedule in January and the
sporting event in February.
Confirmation Corner
The English name Ordinary Time, translates in Latin Tempus per annum or time through the year. Compared to the other seasons of the liturgical year, Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter — Ordinary Time, which makes up the rest of the liturgical year may seem ordinary, or not as important. However Ordinary Time refers to ordinal, that which is numbered, as the Church numbers the weeks in Ordinary Time. The season of Ordinary Time begins after the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord and continues through the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. Ordinary Time continues again the Monday following Pentecost until the Saturday before the First Sunday of Advent. It is during this time the Church focuses on the fullness of the mystery of Christ’s life in its entirety; the life and ministry of Jesus when He lived and walked among us. Ordinary Time is filled with feast days such as Trinity Sunday (June 15), Corpus Christi (June 22), Feast of the Sacred Heart (June 27), Assumption of Blessed Mary (August 15), All Saints Day (Nov 1), All Souls (Nov 2) , and the Feast of Christ the King (November 23).
Is There Anything Ordinary About Ordinary Time?
Week of January 18-25
The traditional period in the northern hemisphere for the Week of Prayer for
Christian Unity is January 18-25. Those dates were proposed in 1908 by Paul Wattson to cover the days between the feasts of St. Peter (celebrated January 18 in Rome as the festival of the “Cathedra Petri”) and St. Paul, (The Conversion of
St. Paul celebrated January 25) and therefore have a symbolic significance. In the southern hemisphere where January is a vacation time, churches often find other days to celebrate the week of prayer, for example around Pentecost (suggested by the Faith and Order movement in 1926), which is also a symbolic date for the unity of the church. We are asked as Christians to pray for one another and we hope that one day we may all be united in Christian love.