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28
TH Sunday
in Ordinary Time
“The kingdom of
heaven may be
likened to a king
who gave a wedding
feast for his son.”
Matthew 22:2
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St. John University Parish—Morgantown, West Virginia
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time—October 12, 2014
Marriage Preparation Day for engaged couples will
be held Saturday, October 25. Please contact the
parish office for more information and to register.
Registration deadline is Friday, October 17.
Next CSI for all High School Teens will be
held next Sunday, October 19, at 4:30 pm
in Newman Hall.
Please remember we are no longer accepting
donations for “Refresh and Renew,” either through
the regular collection or online. Thanks to everyone
who contributed to this church renovation project!
Condolences to Deacon Steve and Marcia Olenchock
and their family upon the death last Sunday of Steve’s
mother and our much-loved former parishioner,
Virginia Olenchock. Virginia was 97 years old.
Eternal rest grant unto her, O Lord, and let perpetual
light shine upon her.
Drivers Workshop The Community Living
Initiatives Corporation (CLIC) in partnership with
Mountain Line Citizen Advisory Committee and West
Virginia Assistive Technology System is
offering a free Drivers Workshop on Tuesday
October 14 from 10:00 am-2:00 pm at the Mountain
Line facility in Westover. The Workshop is for both
personal and professional drivers who provide
transportation for older adults or individuals with disabilities. This includes family members, people who
drive for churches or social service agencies, as well
as those who drive for taxi companies, bus
services or other transit providers. Lunch will be
provided for all participants. There is no cost to
attend this workshop however registration is
required. To register, please contact CLIC
at info@clicwv.org or call 304-292-0186.
9th Annual Women’s Retreat
Turning Our Faces Towards God: Spiritual
Practices for Everyday presented by Nicki
Verploegen, PhD. Friday, October 17th to Sunday,
October 19th at Saint John XXIII Pastoral Center
Charleston. For more information contact Olivia Klee
stagneschurch@suddenlink.net or at 304-925-2863;
on facebook Women's Retreat, John XXIII Pastoral
Center
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Next weekend our parish will celebrate
World Mission Sunday. This year we are
invited to help build the Church in
Mongolia, the world’s youngest Catholic
Church, as well as churches throughout
the Missions, in the remotest areas across our world.
Through the work of these churches and their witness
to Christ, the poor receive practical help and
experience God’s love and mercy, His hope and
peace. Please keep the missions in your daily prayers.
Come prepared nest weekend to give generously in
the second collection for the Society for the
Propagation of the Faith. For more information, visit
www.IAmAMissionary.org
November Remembrance Candles Here at
St. John’s, in observance of All Souls Day,
we remember all parishioners and family
members who have died in the past year by
writing their names on candles and placing
these candles around the church during the
month of November. If you would like us to
remember someone in your immediate family in this
way, please contact the parish office by Monday,
October 27th.
Catholic Art Donations St. John's is in the process
of sprucing up a few areas such as the back Sacristy
area, Potter's Cellar, the Rectory, the SPO Men's
Household, and various areas in the Newman Center.
Catholic art (prints, paintings, frames, statuary) that
you would like to donate for this endeavor is
appreciated. Art that is more realist than abstract is
preferred. Donations can be dropped off at the parish
office and recorded for tax exemption.
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Prisoner Re-Entry Issues and Supportive Resources
October 30th from 9:30 am—4:00 pm at the St. John
XXIII Pastoral Center, Charleston. Keynote Speaker
is Dr. Edward Latessa, Professor and Director of the
School of Criminal Justice at the University of
Cincinnati. Break-Out Sessions include Housing,
Jobs, Substance Abuse, Domestic Violence and
Veteran Affairs. For more information, contact
Christy Ramsey at 304-380-0155. Sponsored by
Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston and the WV
Division of Corrections.
St. John University Parish—Morgantown, West Virginia
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time—October 12, 2014
This Week in Our Parish
12
13
11:15 am CRE
6:15 St. Francis
7:00 Adult Faith Robotics SC
Formation CL
7:00 pm Choir
11:15 am
Baptism-Brewer
11:30 am Sarah’s
Table
NO 8:30 pm Mass
14
15
7:00 pm Youth
Parent Meeting
8:00 pm Light of
Life Prayer and
Bible Study
Liturgical Ministers Schedule
th
6:30 pm Divine
Mercy Prayer
Group
7:00 pm Oblate
Meeting
7:30 pm Bad
Catholic Bible
Study
16
11:00 am-1:00 pm
SPO Street
Evangelization
7:00 pm MoCa Nite
7:00 pm
Theology on Tap
10:00 pm Adoration (Black Bear,
Suncrest)
begins
7:00 RCIA
Liturgical Ministers Schedule
5:00 pm Lector—Wanda Franz (1st)
Connie McCluskey (2nd)
AS— Emma Harper
EM—Richard Bajura, Pat
Obenauf, Rita Bajura
Sacristan—Diana Martin
5:00 pm Lector 1—Wendy Noll
Lector 2— Sandy Mayhew
AS—Nolan and Natalie Cook
EM—Erin Arthurs, Patricia Nelson,
1 Volunteer
Sacristan—Diana Martin
6:30 pm Lector—Volunteer (1st)
Louise Deal (2nd)
AS—Erin Gore, Daniel Deal
EM—Mark Gore, Katie
Rabidoux,
3 Volunteers
Sacristan—Steve Niederriter
NO 8:30 pm Mass—University Recess
Parish Collections
Sept 20-21
Regular
$6220.00
Middle East
1000.00
Bldg Fund
70.00
Thank you for your faithful support!
8:00 pm
Alcoholics
AnonymousPotter’s Cellar
MASS INTENTIONS
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29 Sunday in Ordinary Time—
Oct 18-19
10:00 am Lector—Volunteer (1st)
Shaun Moyers (2nd)
AS—Leo and Declan Ware
(or Milo)
EM—Theresa Gannett , Samer
and Claire Petro
2 Volunteers
18
Adoration continues until 5:00 pm Private Event SC
6:00 pm
3:45 pm
Dinner for a Dollar Geo Bee CL
28 Sunday in Ordinary Time—
Oct 11-12
8:00 am Lector—Volunteer (1st)
Laura Christy (2nd)
AS—Andrew Christy
EM—Stan and Judy Dlugos,
Sacristan—Diana Martin
17
Saturday, October 11
9:00 am
Priest Intention
5:00 pm The People of St. John
Sunday, October 12
8:00 am
Priest Intention
10:00 am Priest Intention
8:00 am Lector 1— Laura Christy
6:30 pm +Michael Tarantini
Lector 2—Lisa Salati
Giovanni and Cecilia Tarantini
AS— Andrew Christy
8:30
pm
NO
MASS
EM—Ginny Petersen, Jim Stevens,
1 Volunteer
Sacristan— Diana Martin
Monday, October 13
5:00 pm Priest Intention
10:00 am Lector 1— Tracy Riffon
Lector 2—Fred Gabriele
Tuesday, October 14
AS—Anthony and Dominic
5:00 pm +Yvonne Wilburn Mary Biggs
Gabriele
Wednesday, October 15
EM—Theresa Gannett, Mary
5:00 pm Patty Longfellow (health)
Gabriele, Tom Riffon
Jim and Eloida Castagneri
2 Volunteers
Thursday,
October
16
6:30 pm Lector 1—Lisa Costello
5:00 pm Souls in Purgatory
Kim Dinh
Lector 2—Michael Burkitt
AS—Elena Molnar
Friday, October 17
EM—Harry and Amy Taylor,
5:00 pm
Fr. Jeremiah Lange, OSB
Katy Hurley
Andrea Soccorsi
2 Volunteers
Saturday,
October
18
Sacristan—Pauline Lanciotti
9:00 am
Priest Intention
8:30 pm Campus Ministry
5:00 pm +Tony Ghiardi
The Ghiardi Family
Sunday,
October
19
SARAH’S TABLE VOLUNTEERS
8:00 am The People of St. John
Oct 12—Chris/Donna Kolanko group 10:00 am Priest Intention
Priest Intention
October 19—Susan Rhodes group 6:30 pm
8:30 pm
Palmer/Dunsworth Family
October 26—Linda Craig group
The King Family
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St. John University Parish—Morgantown, West Virginia
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time—October 12, 2014
New Evangelization for the New Millennium
Saturday, Nov 1st from 1:00-5:00 pm at the
Monroeville Convention Center. The parishes of St.
Bernadette Parish and North American Martyrs invite you! The conference is a half day event that
will feature Catholic evangelist Dr. Ralph Martin,
popular Catholic professor Dr. Mary Healy, young
adult speaker Peter Burak, and vocation director
Father Joe Freedy, who will speak on the power of
Faith, Intercession, Repentance, and Evangelization
( F I R E ) . V i s it t h e p a r i s h w e b s it e s
www.namcatholicchurch.org or stbrnadet.org for
more information. The cost is $10.00 per person.
IGNITE The 2014 National Leaders’ and
Ministries’ Conference will be held November 7-9
at the DoubleTree by Hilton, Pittsburgh-Green Tree,
a few miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Key
speakers include Fr. Killian Loch, O.S.B., Bishop
Sam Jacobs, Michelle Moran, Mark Nimo and Fr.
Dave Pivonka, TOR. On Saturday there will be a
Young Leaders Track for those 35 and under who
are already serving as leaders in the Renewal or in a
parish or other ministry, or are seeking to be
"ignited" in your life, gifts, worship and ministry.
For more information, registration and schedules,
please visit the website:
https://www.nsc-chariscenter.org/2014GenInfo.htm
The Lord Humbles and Exalts: A Retreat for
Those Experiencing Infertility will be held Friday,
November 14 – Sunday, November 16, 2014 at
Saint John XXIII Pastoral Center in Charleston.
This retreat will offer spouses (who may attend
together or individually) an opportunity to reflect
upon the life-giving nature of the Sacrament of
Marriage despite the experience of infertility.
Whole group and breakout sessions will be offered
with time for reflection, prayer, and conversation
with others who have experienced infertility.
Registration and cost information can be found at
www.wvmarriage.org/infertility or contact
Rebecca Royse, Coordinator of Marriage and Family Life at (304) 233 – 0880 x333 rroyse@dwc.org
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TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
The confessional is a familiar setting in
literature and drama. Everyone from Doestoevsky
and Shakespeare down the line to Seinfeld has
used the sacrament to tragic or comic effect or to
reveal aspects of character otherwise hidden. All
of this theater, from world classics to slapstick, has
had a numbing effect on our own expectations,
and has skewed how the culture looks at us and
our struggle with sin and forgiveness, hope and
healing.
Yet the artists are on to something. The
reconciliation chapel is a place where hearts are
laid bare, where honesty is the watchword, and
people confess their deepest needs. It is also a
place of rebirth, or at least realignment. It is, like
the baptismal font, a place where something dies,
and where something else is born. Today, although
literature has barely caught up, the place is usually
not the dark and gloomy cabinet of old; rather it is
a chapel that speaks of peace, serenity, and the
comfort of a welcome home. People in one parish
were astonished recently to see their children
skipping with delight as they left the place of their
first confession. We have to wait a bit for world
literature to catch up with this reality, but at least
we can experience the joy of penance, the thrill of
a new beginning, the assurance of God’s love.
—Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
The Oblates of St. Benedict, affiliated with
St. Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, PA, meet
monthly at St. John University parish. The Oblates
are men and women who seek to live out their
Faith in their particular state in life according to
the Rule of St. Benedict, and through the Liturgy
and personal prayer. For more information, please
contact Pauline Lanciotti at 304-292-2018,
or planciotti@msn.com
St. John University Parish—Morgantown, West Virginia
Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time—October 12, 2014
Staff
St. John University Parish
Pastor Rev.JohnPeck,O.S.B.304-296-8231
The Catholic Parish for West Virginia University
AssociatePastor,DirectorofCampusMinistry
1481 University Avenue, Morgantown, WV 26505
Phone: 304-296-8231
Fax: 304-296-4650
Email: stjohnmorgantown@comcast.net
Website: www.stjohnmorgantown.com
Rev.JohnPaulHeiser,O.S.B.304-296-8231
totustuusmariaosb@gmail.com
PastoralAssociate
Rev.Mr.JosephPrentiss 304-292-7766
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CoordinatorofChildren’sReligiousEducation
MargeMarino marinomarge@comcast.net/304-292-6024
MusicDirector
CarolNowak nowakmusic@comcast.net
Of"iceManager CourtneyKirby courtslkirby@comcast.net
WeekendMasses
Saturday
5:00pm
Sunday
8:00am,10:00am,6:30pm
Duringtheacademicyear,
Sundayevening8:30pminthechurch
FinanceManager
CarlaComer
ComerCarla@comcast.net
WeekdayMasses
Monday-Friday
Saturday
BulletinSecretary
MarjorieMcCawley
Mmcawley@aol.com
5:00pm
9:00am
MorningPrayerMonday-Friday7:30am
(ExpositionoftheBlessedSacramentMon-Thurs,6:45am)
AssociateDirectorofCampusMinistry/Directorof
YouthMinistry JacobKing
kingj1243@yahoo.com
DevelopmentDirectorforCampusMinistry
AshleyKing
WVUNewmanCatholics@yahoo.com
AdorationoftheBlessedSacrament
Wednesday
7:00-9:00pm
ThursdaythroughFriday
10:00pm—5:00pm
(Sign up for a time slot at www.mountainercatholic.com)
Reconciliation
Monday-Saturday
Chairperson,PastoralCouncil
DanMiller
DMiller@potesta.com
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading — On this mountain the LORD will make
for all peoples a feast of rich food and choice wines
(Isaiah 25:6-10a).
Psalm — I shall live in the house of the Lord all the
days of my life (Psalm 23).
Second Reading — God will supply whatever you need
(Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20).
Gospel — I have prepared my banquet, and everything
is ready. Come to the feast! (Matthew 22:1-14 [1-10]).
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
READINGS FOR THE WEEK
Mon
Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31 — 5:1;
Ps 113:1b-5a, 6-7; Lk 11:29-32
Tues Gal 5:1-6; Ps 119:41, 43-45, 47-48;
Lk 11:37-41
Wed Gal 5:18-25; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 11:42-46
Thurs Eph 1:1-10; Ps 98:1-6; Lk 11:47-54
Fri
Eph 1:11-14; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13; Lk 12:1-7
Sat
2 Tm 4:10-17b; Ps 145:10-13, 17-18;
Lk 10:1-9
Sun
Is 45:1, 4-6; Ps 96:1, 3-5, 7-10;
1 Thes 1:1-5b; Mt 22:15-21
4:00—5:00pm
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Parish Office Hours Monday-Friday 9:00 am—4:00 pm
Sacrament Preparation To inquire about preparation for
the sacraments of Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist,
Reconciliation, Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders or
Marriage, please contact the parish office.
Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults Contact Mary Paul
hearingservices1@comcast.net or the parish office. RCIA
meets Thursday evenings at 7:00 pm during the academic year.
Children’s Religious Education Classes for children in
grades pre K-8 are held Sunday mornings at 11:15 am during
the regular school year. For questions on high school youth
ministry, contact Jacob King kingj1243@yahoo.com
Ministry of Care To arrange for hospital or home visits,
contact the parish office. To know more about ministering to
those in need, call bob at 304-598-0026. An Afterglow of the
Eucharist prayer team is available at the altar after most
weekend Masses to pray with you for your individual and
family needs.
Prayer Requests Call the parish office.
Bulletin Deadline NOON MONDAY. Please submit a
written copy of the bulletin announcement to the parish office
or email the item to Marge Mmcawley@aol.com
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