sunday, june 14, 2015
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St. Thomas More Weekly Bulletin for Sunday, June 14, 2015TRANSCRIPT
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11th Sunday in Ordinary TimeJune 14, 2015
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Parish Office(located in chelsea center)
Hours (mon-fri)8:30am - 4:30pm
address:2506 Gulf Gate dr.sarasota, fl 34231
941-923-1691
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Saturday 4:00pm
confessions 3:00pm (in the Chapel)
Sunday8:00am9:45am11:30am (Contemporary choir)
Weekday 8:00am
Mass tiMes this week: Did you know?• We have Care Notes - and they are free!Stop by the display stand near the chapel and take any pamphlet that you wish. Titles include subjects such as grief, loss of a spouse, loved one or co-worker, dealing with disability and anger.
• Mary’s Memorial Garden is always open before and after all Masses for you to visit the gravesite of a loved one. Please know that we consider the ground holy. You are welcome to walk along the pathway, or sit and reflect at one of the benches. We ask that you not leave trinkets in the Garden.
• We have many dates that are available to light the Sanctuary candle and/or place flowers in the Church. It is a wonderful way for you to celebrate a family milestone such as a birthday or wedding anniversary.
• It’s not too early to sign up for Faith Formation! Classes for students in kindergarten through 10th grade start in the fall, but now is the time to register. See the parish website: www.stthomasmoresrq.org for details and forms.
Fr. Michal Szyszka Parochial Vicar
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SR. Judy BaldinoPastoral Associate
Rev. Mr. Bob GaitensDeacon
REV. Mr. Kevin MonahanDeacon
Alex DilanOrganist & Music Director
chuck LynchSacristan
Tom LelyoDir. of Youth Ministry
Mimi FitzgeraldHealth Mininistry Coordinator
carolAnn Lovejoy-JessupExecutive Assistant
David FelicianoParish Accountant
Mary MaxwellParish Secretary
Susan JacobsFront Office Coordinator
Joanne TararaChelsea Coordinator
Paul UrbanGrounds/Maintenance
Supervisor
Ramon AlveroMaintenance/Set up
John DriscollMaintenance/Set up
Jim SelinskiDir. of Operations& Stewardship
Fr. Joe cliffordPastor
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Our Hospitals & HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act)
If you or a friend are in Sarasota Memorial or Doctors Hospitals and are looking for spiritual care, there is a procedure you must follow due to the new laws that are now enforced.
If you are at sarasota Memorial Hospital and wish Holy communion or a visit by the catholic chaplain you must:
1. Dial 0 and ask for the Chaplain’s Office and request Communion.This Chaplain is full-time at the hospital and lives at St. Martha’s Parish. We pay a portion of his salary to ensure our Catholics are seen.
2. If you are going to be there a few days, call the Parish Office and let us know. We will then be able to send Father Michal or Father Joe to visit you. Both priests visit the hospitals once a week. The Chaplain visits every day. It is important to take the above steps, as there no longer is a Catholic parish list available to the priest.
3. The same is required at Doctors Hospital and Hospice.
The laws, though they seem strict, are for the privacy and protection of the hospital patient.
THE HEART OF THE PooRThe poor have shown the church the true way to go. A church that does not join the poor, in order to speak out from the side of the poor against the injustices committed against them, is not the true church of Jesus christ. - FEBRUARY 17, 1980
The guarantee of one’s prayer is not in saying a lot of words. The guarantee of one’s petition is very easy to know: How do I treat the poor? Because that is where God is. The degree in which you approach them, and the love with which you approach them, or the scorn with which you approach them – that is how you approach your God. What you do to them, you do to God. The way you look at them is the way you look at God.
- FEBRUARY 5, 1978
Blessed are the poor, for they know that their riches are in the One who being rich made himself poor in order to enrich us with his poverty, teaching us the christian’s true wisdom.
- JANUARY 29, 1978
A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed – what gospel is that?
- APRIL 16, 1978
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know that we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down to proclaim blessed the poor, blessed the thirsting for justice, blessed the suffering. - MAY 11, 1978
When the poor have nowhere to rest their bodies, and their children fleeing from the cold find only hammocks strung up in the fields and coffee groves, we must recall that the Savior’s good news is for all. - DEcEMBER 24, 1978
This dynamic church must enlighten, but first it is. Before all else, the church has this task: to be, to build itself up. I continually invite you, dear friends, to view this purpose above all in my poor
words.They do not try to confront anyone; I am not fighting with anyone. I am helping Christ to build his church and calling on all of you who are baptized, who are the church, to make yourselves aware, to work together, so that we may make of this pilgrim people truly a torch to enlighten the world. - AUGUST 20, 1978
We must not seek the child Jesus in the pretty figures of our Christmas cribs. We must seek him among the undernourished children who have gone to bed tonight with nothing to eat. - DEcEMBER 24, 1979
There aren’t two categories of people. There aren’t some that were born to have everything,leaving the rest with nothing, and a majority that has nothing and cannot taste the happiness that God has created for all. The christian society that God wants is one in which we share the goodness that God has given for everyone.
- DEcEMBER 16, 1979
The christian knows that christ has been working in humanity for twenty centuries and that the person that is converted to christ is the new human being that society needs to organize a world according to God’s heart. - DEcEMBER 3, 1978
In our preaching to rich and poor, it is not that we pander to the sins of the poor and ignore the virtues of the rich. Both have sins and both need conversion. But the poor, in their condition of need, are disposed to conversion. They are more conscious of their need of God. All of us, if we really want to know the meaning of conversion and of faith and confidence in another, must become poor, or at least make the cause of the poor our own inner motivation. That is when one begins to experience faith and conversion: when one has the heart of the poor.
- FEBRUARY 18, 1979
Texts from The Violence of Love by Oscar Romerocopyright 2011 by The Plough Publishing House.
Used with permission.
cooking Matters: youth ministry lettuce used to serve All Faith’s Food Bank.by Tom Lelyo
Pictured above is Nancy Pantano, Cooking Matters Coordinator for All Faith’s Food bank as she delivers fresh lettuce to her community members.
Cooking Matters is fun, hands-on cooking class for kids, teens, parents, families,
and adults. Groups meet weekly for six weeks to learn cooking skills, best nutrition choices and shopping and budgeting for healthy meals.
STM students grew 20 heads of lettuce using the outside Tower Garden over a period of about 4 weeks to provide this harvest for All Faith’s Food Bank. As the summer months arrive, they will be shifting their efforts indoors using a Tower Garden equipped with grow lights.
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Offertory6/7/15 $19,423.02Last year $16,529.00
St. Vincent de Paul $ 159.00Parish Pay $1,307.00
To make an online gift visit: stthomasmoresrq.org/give
CFAGoal $345,000.00Pledged $218,278.90Received (as of 5/17) $168,517.55
To make an online gift visit: stthomasmoresrq.org/cfa
Checks should be made to “Catholic Faith Appeal”
Sunday Fr. Joe 8:00am +Savoy & Striano families +Angela & Albert Evangelista Fr. Joe 9:45am +Benedetta & Vincenzo Moretti +Jim Connors Fr. Joe 11:30am +Kerryanne Jessup +Marge Feeney
Monday Fr. Joe 8:00am +Al & Rose Lynch +Tony Altobelli
Tuesday Fr. Joe 8:00am +Phil Mentz +Marjorie Rivet
Wednesday Fr. Dave 8:00am +Lloyd Polan +Julius Juron
Thursday Fr. Joe 8:00am +Velaire & Frank Odrowski +Dennis Cox
Friday Fr. Joe 8:00am +Delia Goodrick +Anne Scotto
Saturday Fr. Joe 8:00am Sue & Bill Whitman - Happy 48th Anniversary! +Dennis Cox
Fr. Joe 4:00pm +Bob Haas +George Andrade
Sunday Fr. Joe 8:00am St. Thomas More Fr. Joe 9:45am Fathers - Fr. Joe 11:30am Living & Deceased
prayer INTENTIONS
sanctuary candle lightedCelebrating the birthday of Rev. John Masiello - given by his niece, Marie Portulano.
thisWEEK:SUPPORT GRoUPsAA & N-A Meetings: Meetings
are Confidential - All are Welcome
Alcoholics Anonymous 5:30 pm Mondays,
Bavaria Room.
Al-Anon (Family groups) 7:00 pm Mondays,
Bavaria Room.
Alcoholics Anonymous 6:00 pm Wednesdays,
Bavaria Room
Alcoholics Anonymous 6:00 pm Fridays, Bavaria Room
Narcotics Anonymous 8:00 pm Sundays,
Spirit Center, Gathering Room.
Sunday, June 148:00am, 9:45am, 11:30 am Masses - Church8:00pm N.A. Meeting - Spirit Center8:00pm Nar-Anon Meeting - Spirit Center
Monday, June 157:30am Pray the Rosary - Church8:00am Mass - Chapel10:00am Quilters of St. Thomas More - Spirit Center Bonnie Lagner 941-921-12612:30pm G.O.D.D. Squad Practice - Spirit Center Josi Madigan 941-966-5:30pm AA - Chelsea Bavaria Room6:00pm Cub/Boy Scouts - Spirit Center Michelle Dunn 941-806-8133; Javier Aristimuño 941-232-80737:00pm Al-Anon - Chelsea Bavaria Room
Tuesday, June 167:30am Pray the Rosary - Church8:00am Mass - Chapel
Wednesday, June 177:30am Pray the Rosary - Church8:00am Mass - Chapel1:30pm Prayer Shawl Ministry - Chelsea Garden Room Pat Lucke 941-927-3419)6:00pm AA - Chelsea Bavaria Room6:00pm Youth Group - Spirit Center Tom Lelyo 941-374-68846:30pm Micah’s Men & Women at the Well Prayer Groups - Chelsea Center Roger Grenier 993-2908 [email protected]
Thursday, June 187:30am Pray the Rosary - Church8:00am Mass - Chapel9:30am Parish Staff Meeting - Chelsea Center9:30am Crafty Ladies - Spirit Faith Room Mary Hautanen 941-922-88924:00pm Guardian ad Litem - Chelsea Lancaster Room (Sandra Mullen 941-377-5979)10:00am Quilters of St. Thomas More - Spirit Chariity Room Bonnie Lagner 941-921-126110:30am Contemplative Prayer - Chelsea Bavaria Room Ed Savoy 941-923-5706 7:00pm Contemporary Choir - Church Alex Dilan 941-923-1691; [email protected]
Friday, June 197:30am Pray the Rosary - Church8:00am Mass - Chapel1:00pm Mah Jongg/Card Ladies - Chelsea Lancaster Room6:00pm AA Meeting - Chelsea Bavaria Room
Saturday, June 207:30am Pray the Rosary - Church 8:00am Mass - Chapel9:30am Funeral Mass for James Pye, Jr. - Chapel4:00pm Mass - Church
Sunday, June 218:00am, 9:45am, 11:30 am Masses - Church8:00pm N.A. Meeting - Spirit Center8:00pm Nar-Anon Meeting - Spirit Center share your photos!
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Knights of Columbus On May 29, the Knights of columbus sponsored a dinner at The Oaks, honoring the Dreams Are Free Catholic School and The Oak Park School. A check was presented to each school in the amount of $3,080.
Funds were raised from the Knights' citizens with Disabilities Drive, also known as the Tootsie Roll Drive, which was conducted at two area Publix Stores and St. Thomas More church.
Holding the checks, (left to right): connie Taft, Director of Development at Dreams Are Free
School, Grand Knight Dan Bulinski and carol Wojtyna, a teacher at Oak Park School. Also pictured are the knights and their spouses who worked on the project.
The council recently received an award at the K of c state convention for the most funds collected for this event in its division. The Knights of columbus wish to thank our parishioners for their generosity in making this year's drive such a huge success. If you are interested in becoming a knight, contact Dan Bulinski, Grand Knight, at [email protected] or 941-556-9673.
To read more news visit:stthomasmoresrq.org/news
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Keep your eyes on the view (for lunch) & your toes in the sand (to walk on the beach)
Fins Restaurant at sharkey's on the Pier1600 Harbor Dr. s., Venicethursday, June 18, noon
RSVP Janice Russo 941-925-9591 or [email protected] by THIS MONDAY, June 15.
Menu includes offerings starting at $8 & a special sushi menu