HOLY MARTYRS CATHOLIC CHURCH 3100 OLD WEYMOUTH RD MEDINA OH 44256

Holy Martyrs Turkey Run

Father Stephen Dohner

Pastor

Father Robert F. Pfeiffer

Pastor Emeritus

Janet Payton

Pastoral Associate

Dorothy Thomas

Coordinator of Pastoral Care

Father Mark Ott

Weekend Associate

Diane Bruce

Director of Religious Education

Nancy Fiamingo

Pastoral Associate

Adam Nestor

Youth Minister

Dino Paoletta

Deacon

Jason Falkofsky

Director of Music

Libbie Radecky

Office Assistant

Paula Phillips

Bookkeeper

Parish Staff

Church Office hours: Monday - Friday:

9:00 am - 12:15 pm, 1:00 pm - 5:30 pm

The church office will be closed

Thursday & Friday, November 24 & 25.

Mass Schedule & Intentions this Week

Sat 5:30 pm Noel S. Ilg

(Holy Martyrs Choir)

Sun 7:30 am Parishioners

9:30 am Richard Brej

(Friends of Family)

11:30 am Margery Sowa

(Robert Sowa)

Mon 8:00 am Enzo Chiuchiarelli

(Assunta Chiuchiarelli )

Tues 6:30 pm Rosary for Peace

7:00 pm Richard McAuliffe

(Bruce McAuliffe)

Wed 8:00 am Health of Debra Gaebelein

(Joe & Kathie Gaebelein)

Thanksgiving

Thurs 10:00 am Doug Cunningham

(Assunta Chiuchiarelli)

Fri 8:00 am No Mass

Sat 5:30 pm Charles Gebbia

(John & Linda Hogan)

Sun 7:30 am James Donnelly, Sr.

(Dorothy Donnelly)

9:30 am Parishioners

11:30 am Richard Stull, Jr.

(Stull Family)

Pray for those who have died in Christ:

Janina Antczak,

sister of Christine Wallace

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This week at Holy Martyrs

Sun 11/20 MOA Give-a-gift slips After all Masses

Time Travelers 9:00 AM Room 203

Home School Parent & Child Meeting

10:30 AM Room 200

Turkey Run to St. Augustine’s Hunger

Caravan leaves at 1:00 PM

Life Teen/Life Night 5:00 PM Worship Space

Mon 11/21 Seniors Soup & Service Project

12:00 PM Martyrs Hall

PSR 6:00 PM

Small Group Meeting 6:00 PM Lounge

Children's RCIA 6:30 PM Clarke Room

First Reconciliation for both

Mon. & Tues. 2nd Graders 6:30 PM Worship Space

Tue 11/22 Glory Bees: 9:00 AM Worship Space

Roberta Braun, Tom Yannetti, Cynthia Adkins

Little Rock Bible Study 1:00 PM Room 103

PSR 6:00 PM

SPIRIT 6:00 PM Martyrs Hall

BT/SM Small Group 6:00 PM Lounge

Wed 11/23 Intercessory Prayer 5:30 PM Chapel

Choir Rehearsal 7:15 PM Worship Space

Thu 11/24 Happy Thanksgiving!

Sat 11/26 MOA Give-a-gift slips: After all Masses

Holy Land Olivewood Sale : After all Masses

Sun 11/27 Donut Sunday

MOA Give-a-gift slips : After all Masses

Holy Land Olivewood Sale : After all Masses

Time Travelers 9:00 AM Room 203

Parish News

Please notify the church office in advance of a surgery or

scheduled hospital stay so that you may receive the

Sacrament of Anointing. The Church has always prayed

for the sick to be freed from pain and restored to health.

This sacrament originated in the healing ministry of

Jesus. An anointing may be scheduled before or after a

Mass or during the week.

Holy Martyrs is excited to be part of the first-ever We Give Catholic online day of giving, coming

up on #Giving Tuesday, November 29th

to let our parish family and friends contribute in a special

way to support our programs for children and youth. All the funds raised stay in our parish and

will make possible new technologies in our classrooms, new programs for our students and

dynamic opportunities for our teens. It will also help make possible new opportunities for adults

to grow in their faith.

Find out more by visiting WeGiveCatholic.org (https://wegivecatholic.org/designee/holy-martyrs-

church) or our website (www.holymartyrs.net)

#GivingTuesday is a global movement on the Tuesday after the Black Friday and Cyber Monday

to kick off the charitable giving season.

BAPTISM

Garrison Lee Henry,

son of Geoffrey & Josephine Henry

Ayla Lou Fruits,

daughter of Robert & Courtney Fruits

Colin Joseph Zeltner ,

son of Steven & Shannon Zeltner

Claire Marie Zeltner,

daughter of Steven & Shannon Zeltner

Daily scripture readings for the week of

November 20, 2016 can be obtained on the USCCB

website or you can download one of the following

Apps on your phone:

Laudate or The New Missal

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Pilgrim Statue of Our Lady of Fatima

As a special opportunity for family prayer

and devotion, a pilgrim statue of Our Lady

of Fatima has been made available in our

parish. You may welcome the statue into

your home for a week by signing up in the

Gathering Area or by calling Libbie in the

church office at 330-722-6633.

Parish News

Join Us on the January El Salvador Mission Trip!

Would you like to personally meet Jesus? Then come to El

Salvador on our next mission trip in late January 2017.

Yes, you will see HIM in the eyes and hearts of the Salva-

doran people … guaranteed! Take communion to the

shut-ins, meet with school children and teachers at

Immaculada Concepcion school, and hear first-hand from

our scholarship students and Father Paul Schindler about

the importance of our work there.

If you would like to go or have been thinking about it but

have questions, the time to act is NOW!

For more information, contact Janet Payton at

jpayton@holymartyrs.net or Shelley Conry at

SMALL GROUPS MINISTRY UPDATE

Small Groups continue to meet weekly and enjoy their

discussions on prayer and the ways that we communi-

cate with God and the ways that he speaks to us.

Members of Small Groups are delighted with the new

insights they are gaining and the new friendships they

are forming through participating in a small

faith-sharing group.

We will welcome additional parishioners to register for

our new 6-week series which will begin in January. For

more information about our Small Groups Ministry,

please contact Nancy Fiamingo:

nfiamingo@holymartyrs.net.

Please continue to pray for this ministry

and especially for our Small Groups leaders!

Holy Land Carvings are back!

Holy Land carvings have been

popular at Holy Martyrs for many

years. The sale of Holy Land carv-

ings will take place on the week-

end of November 26 & 27 in the

Gathering Area. Bishop Lennon

has designated Suhair Musleh as

the official vendor of the Holy Land carvings. Because of

the conflict in the region, many Christian families in

Bethlehem are struggling to make ends meet. Holy Land

Gifts represent over 100 Christian families who make a

living selling traditional olive wood handcrafts and reli-

gious articles. When you purchase one of these beautiful

gifts, you are helping artisans in the Holy Land provide

for their families and live and work with dignity in a re-

gion fraught with tension. Thank you for supporting this

project to keep the Christians present in the holy land of

Jesus’ birth.

Seniors Corner

Inviting all Seniors to join us for our upcoming

events:

Our next meeting which will be a Soup and Service

luncheon to benefit Birthcare on Monday, Nov. 21, at

NOON. Please bring soup or bread to share. We will

be making fleece blankets so please bring a pair of

scissors.

Our Christmas Lunch at Williams on the Lake is on

December 5 at Noon. Cost is $25. Please contact

John Solecki at 330-722-5981.

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Medina, Ohio

If you have an unwanted, working appliance,

please call Ron Maitland, chair of our parish Social

Justice Committee, at 330-722-3373. He will make sure

it finds a good home with a family in need.

Do you have an hour or two on a Tuesday

morning once per month? Do you mind

vacuuming? You are needed!!

THE GLORY BEES give glory to God by

cleaning the church. Please call Libbie or Kathy at the

church office if you can help. 330-722-6633.

OPPORTUNITIES FOR SHARING TIME,

TALENT, TREASURE

Grateful Giving Holy Martyrs Parish

“In all created things discern the providence and wisdom

of God, and in all things give Him thanks.” ~St. Teresa of Avila

Grateful Giving

November 5& 6

Weekly Offering $13,092.39

Number of Envelopes 329

Electronic Donations $3,845.00

Number of Envelopes 53

Weekly Total $16,937.39

Thank you!

November/December Activities

at Holy Martyrs

Thanksgiving

November 20: Holy Martyrs Annual Turkey Run to

St. Augustine’s Hunger Center.

Christmas

November 19/20 and 26/27 and

December 3/4: Give-a-gift slips

available in the Gathering area.

Please attach gift slips to the

outside of your wrapped pack-

ages. (The coding on the slips

represents the individual families that requested

help.)

December 10/11: Last weekend to return wrapped

gifts.

December 12: PSR toy donation & gift cards

December 10/11 and 17/18: RED STOCKING

COLLECTION (proceeds to be used for needy

families).

Your generosity to this ministry is wonderful, and we

thank you for all that you do to help the needy of our

parish family and community over the holidays.

~Holy Martyrs Ministry of Assistance

“The Church’s love for the poor…

is a part of her constant

tradition” (Catechism, 2444).

The collection for the Campaign

for Human Development (CCHD)

provides funding for groups that

create lasting change and uplift the poor in the United

States. CCHD grants make possible community-building,

supporting economic development, new social enterpris-

es that employ low-income neighbors, and improving

housing in low-income neighborhoods. Your generous

support is needed on Nov. 19-20 to make possible more

opportunities like these. Help overcome poverty in

America. Defend human dignity. Give to the CCHD

Collection.

The Bake Sale Is Coming!

Holy Martyrs will hold their Annual

Advent Bake Sale on December 3 & 4.

For details and sign up, check our

website (www.holymartyrs.net) or stop by at the

Welcome Center in the Gathering Area (the sale of your

delectable treats will help with the care and

purchases of our altar linens and vessels.

Prince of Peace Church, 3355 Medina Rd., Medina, OH,

will be providing meals for the community the day

after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 25. They will

serve a free turkey dinner and all

the trimmings continuously from

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. We are locat-

ed on Rt. 18 just west of I-71 in

the city of Medina. A good meal is

planned for those who may find

themselves alone on this day and/or in need of a meal or

just desiring to spend an afternoon with friends. Wheth-

er you are already a friend of Prince of Peace or not, you

are welcome to join us. Accessibility for handicapped

guests includes parking, ground floor entrance, dining

hall and restrooms.

For dinner reservations or a meal delivery in Medina

County, please call Jill at 330-723-8293.

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MINISTERS SCHEDULE - November 26 & November 27

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS LECTORS SERVERS USHERS VIDEO

MASSES Bread Cup

Saturday

5:30 PM

Lee LeVoyer

Evan Hathcock

Emily Hathcock

Jeff Hood

Bobbie Santiago

B1 Alicia Hathcock

B2 Colette Dowling

B3 Steve Brownfield

C1 Corey Koewler

C2 Judith Linton

C3 Rosemary LeVoyer

C4 Mary Schwarz

(pyx) Michelle Koewler

Sunday

7:30 AM

B1 Sandy Twardzik

B2 Jeff Twardzik

C1 Darcy Lorius

C2 Bob Yanks

(pyx) Debbie Kells

Bob Kronander

Vincent Pfahl

Paul Zeiger

Gary Kozel

Mary Kozel

Sunday

9:30 AM

Jake Severyn Amanda Lutz

(sub req)

William Sollenberger

Jeanette Cottrell

Ben Stobbs

Michael Green

Sunday

11:30 AM

B1 Gary Link (sub req)

B2 Jen Coppolino

B3 Dinah Lambert

C1 Bart Conry

C2 Shelley Conry

C3 Mike Terrell

C4 Debbie Terrell

(pyx) Dick Zalack

Mary Anne Mayer Sam Arnold

Dylan Gorczyca

Jim Gaeckle

Mike Szabo

Steve Sauthoff

Parish School of Religion - 330-952-1466

SAINTS

Wax Museum

GREAT job to our saints and their presentations.

Thank you for taking responsibility for presenting a

Saint to the children in PSR.

What do we as Catholic parents want for our children?

We want our children to be happy, healthy, and grow in their faith. We want our children to have a strong set of morals

and ethics. We want them to grow to be loving, caring, responsible Christians. Above all, we want them to have a deep,

personal relationship with God and one day be a saint in Heaven.

How do we nurture faith in our children? Are we the best role models we can be? Do our children witness our own prayer

life and our own desire for a relationship with God? Do we attend Mass and live a sacramental life filled with God's grac-

es? Do we read the Bible in our homes to learn of God's amazing love for us? Do we actively teach the Gospel message by

our example or do we just they learn of God’s personal love for them along the way?

We know the necessities; food, shelter, clothing and love, but do we give them a strong faith foundation? Just like food

and love that helps our children grow into healthy individuals; do we help our children grow in his/her faith with our Lord?

Do we take them to weekly Mass and religious education? Do we say daily prayers and read from our Bibles? Do we speak

openly about our faith and celebrate the sacraments? Xboxes* and American Girl Dolls* come and go, but our faith in the

Lord is for eternity.

* Trademarks not being promoted by the author.

Miller, Lisa P.H. D. The Spiritual Child. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2015.

CONFIRMATION SESSION 2

Tuesday November 29

6:00—7:30 pm in the Gathering Area

with a parent or sponsor.

Holy Martyrs Church November 20, 2016

Medina, Ohio

THANKSGIVING

The children in the Parish School

of Religion gathered in the

church for a Thanksgiving Prayer

Service with their parents and

teachers. The prayer service was

followed by awards given for the most creatively

decorated Turkey Run Box and most donated food

items.

LEARN TO PLAY DRUMS

Contact Joe Toth at

joemedic12@zoominternet.net

11/20 — Prayer: Why & How We Pray

11/27 — No LifeTeen; Thanksgiving

12/04 — Wait For It: A Night on Advent

LifeTeen Mass is 5:00pm

Our LifeNights follow from 6:00-7:30pm

Join us for both or just come for the LifeNight!

lifeteen@holymartyrs.net

spirit@holymartyrs.net

GET HELP NOW

If you are a victim of domestic abuse, or know someone

who is, call the BATTERED WOMEN’S SHELTER of

Summit & Medina Counties confidential hotline for help

24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Caring staff and trained

volunteers who understand domestic violence, can an-

swer questions, provide information, emergency shelter,

referrals, and support.

Medina County Hotline 330-723-3900,

Toll Free 877-414-1344

Summit County Hotline 330-374-1111,

Toll Free 888-395-4357

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