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May 17, 2015
Volume 17 Issue 20
Blessed Trinity
Parish
St. James
503 Clark Street
Waverly, NY
St. John
28 Rock Street
Newark Valley, NY
St. Margaret Mary
1110 Pennsylvania Ave.
Apalachin, NY
St. Patrick
Parish
300 Main Street
Owego, NY
Website:
Http:// www.blessedtrinity-parish.org
“Together we will build an atmosphere of faith in which the fruit
of the Spirit will abound and draw others to Christ.”
Saturday Vigil: Seventh Sunday of Easter
5:00 p.m. St. James
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+ The Ball Family
- Family
5:00 p.m. St. Patrick
+ The Buturla & Gianovich Families
Sunday Seventh Sunday of Easter
17
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick
+ Pat Burnett
- Joe & Louise McTamney
9:00 a.m. St. James
+ Fr. Thomas Watts
- Estate of Fr. Thomas Watts
+ Darin Salerno
- Grandma & Grandpa Bonetti
10:45 a.m. St. Margaret Mary
11:15 a.m. St. John
Readings for the Week of May 17, 2015
Sunday:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday:
Saturday:
Next Sunday:
+ For the People
Monday
18
8:30 a.m. St. James
+ George Kisel
- Joan Kenrick
9:00 a.m. St. John
+ For the Intentions of
Marianne Russell
- Patti Blazey
Tuesday
19
7:00 a.m. St. Margaret Mary
+ Frank DiRenno
- The Esposito Family
12 noon St. Patrick
Morning Prayer with Communion
Monday, May 18
10:00 a.m. Mobile Food Pantry—St. John’s Parking Lot
7:00 p.m. Building and Grounds Meeting—St. Patrick McAuley
11:00 a.m. Mother’s Prayer Group—St. Patrick McAuley
6:00 p.m. Altar & Rosary—St. James Hall
11:00 a.m. Elderwood
+ Gerry Picco
Wednesday, May 20
- Rita & Louis Tomasso
7:00 a.m. St. Margaret Mary
12 noon St. Patrick
+ Ed Kinney
Friday
8:30 a.m. St. John
2:30 p.m. Book Club—St. Patrick McAuley
6:00 p.m. Kindness Counts Kitchen—Free Meal—St. John’s Hall
Thursday, May 21
Morning Prayer with Communion
- Jim & Virginia Raftis
8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer Group—St. Margaret Mary Hall
4:30 p.m. Free Meal—St. James Hall
6:00 p.m. Altar & Rosary—St. Patrick Daily Mass Chapel
7:30 p.m. Knights of Columbus—St. Patrick Hall
Friday, May 22
Morning Prayer with Communion
Saturday, May 23
4:30 p.m. Rosary for Life—St. Patrick Church
Saturday Vigil: Pentecost Sunday
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8:30 a.m. Rosary for Life—St. Patrick Church
12:15 p.m. Jr. & Sr. High Youth Group—St. John’s Hall
5:30 p.m. Sr. High Youth Group—St. James Rectory
+ Michael Kelly
Thursday
22
Sunday, May 17
10:15 a.m. Elderwood
- John Hedrick
21
Liturgical Publications Inc.
Tuesday, May 19
Wednesday
20
5:00 p.m. St. James
5:00 p.m. St. Patrick
+ The Kingston Family
- Cindy Kingston
+ Kathy Chapman
- Stephen Ministry Program
Sunday, May 24
8:30 a.m. Rosary for Life—St. Patrick Church
Sunday Pentecost Sunday
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Acts 1:15-17, 20a, 20c-26/1 Jn 4:11-16/Jn
17:11b-19
Acts 19:1-8/Jn 16:29-33
Acts 20:17-27/Jn 17:1-11a
Acts 20:28-38/Jn 17:11b-19
Acts 22:30; 23:6-11/Jn 17:20-26
Acts 25:13b-21/Jn 21:15-19
Morning: Acts 28:16-20, 30-31/Jn 21:20-25
Vigil: Gn 11:1-9 or Ex 19:3-8a, 6-20b or Ez
37:1-14 or Jl 3:1-5/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39
Ext. Vigil: Gn 11:1-9/Ex 19:3-8a, 16-20b/Ez
37:1-14/Jl 3:1-5/Rom 8:22-27/Jn 7:37-39
Day: Acts 2:1-11/Gal 5:16-25 or 1 Cor 12:3b7, 12-13/Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15 or Jn 20:1923
+ Sam Morabito
- The McTamney Family
9:00 a.m. St. James
+ For the People
10:45 a.m. St. Margaret Mary + Moe Miller
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick
- Family
11:15 a.m. St. John
+ Prospero Spatola
- Reginald Van Savage
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Central Office
300 Main Street, Owego, NY 13827
(607) 687-1068
Fax 687-8122
M-Th 8 am - 3 pm, F 8 am - 12 noon
Email: blessedtrinity@dor.org
Rev. Thomas Valenti, Parochial Administrator
Rev. Brian Carpenter , Parochial Vicar
(607) 687-1068
Deacon Mike Donovan, Pastoral Associate
(607) 687-1068
mdonovan@dor.org
Website:
Http:// www.blessed-trinity-parish.org Ellen Keough, Pastoral Associate
Waverly Office
503 Clark Street, Waverly, NY
(607) 565-2014
Apalachin Office
1110 Pennsylvania Avenue, Apalachin, NY
(607) 625-3191
M & Th 9 am -1 pm
St. Patrick School
309 Front Street, Owego, NY 13827
Paula Smith, Principal
(607) 687-1770
Website: www.stpatrickowego.org
Email: stpatricks@stny.rr.com
(607) 687-1068
ekeough@dor.org
Cathy Wunder, Director of Faith Formation & Youth Ministry
(607) 687-1068
cwunder@dor.org
Diane Snyder-Bell, Business Manager
(607) 687-1068
dsbell@dor.org
St. Patrick Cemetery
Len Mantei, (607) 687-1068
Reconciliation
This sacrament celebrating God’s forgiveness is
available by appointment (contact a priest) or at the
following scheduled times.
St. James - Saturday 4:00 - 4:45 p.m.
St. Patrick - Saturday 4:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Anointing of the Sick
Ths Sacrament of strength and healing is available
upon request for those who are sick or elderly.
Please contact the church office.
Hospital/Nursing Home Visits
Please notify the church office if you or a family
member will be hospitalized and would like the
Sacrament of the Sick or a staff member to visit.
Holy Communion at Home
Please call the church office if you wish to bring
Holy Communion to a sick friend or family member
or to arrange a visit by one of our Communion
Ministers.
St. James Cemetery
Sharon Lovell, (607) 565-9967
Memorial Candles/Gifts
Memorial donations are accepted for the Sanctuary
lamp that burns before the Blessed Sacrament and
the Bread and Wine used in our Eucharistic
celebrations. Please contact the church office.
Maeve Anderson
Marith Anderson
Brandi Ayers
Steven Bale
Marie Basile
Joann Brinkman
Al Bush
Mary Ellen Carollo
James Dubinsky
Brody Hines
Janet LaClair
Isla Landon
Sara Lenz
Jim Liberatore
Macie Mangan
Tim McGovern
David Moorby
Monique Morse
Patricia Mozgawa
Don Murch
Gloria Muscatello
Russ Nicosia
Greg Pedroza
Deven Powell
Pete Premock
Edith Randolph
Violet Ray
Charlene Rich
Don Riesbeck
Marianne Russell
Louis Sherry
Jerry Stahl
Connie Streck
Joanne Stoughton
Anne Thomas
Joan Tschinkel
Laraine Vetter
John Vassil
Tom Vassil
Dave Zevan
Sanctuary Lamp:
Ann Bendzyn
St. John
Richard Eschler
St. Patrick
Sara Tedesco
St. James
Baptisms
Baptismal preparation is offered and required for
parents of children to be baptized in our churches.
Please contact the church office for an initial
interview and baptismal preparation.
"Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they
protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they
perform for us in our time of need. Amen."
Don Bolduc
Matthew Cascarino
Jennifer Leary Dean
Megan DeKay
Chad Halliday
Matthew Harford
Cameron Harrington
Marriage
John Harrington
Matthew Harrington
Patricia Mallins
Colton Miller
Travis Phillips
Paul Stauder
Couples should contact a Priest or Deacon to begin
their preparation for marriage at least six months
before any anticipated wedding.
Banns:
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Thank You, Lisa Grant!
NOTES FROM THE CHALKBOARD
On Sunday, May 3, we said a fond farewell to a staff
member, Lisa Grant.
Lisa has been a member of our staff as Faith Formation
Secretary for the past seven years and was the St. Patrick
Site Administrator for the Faith Formation Program. Lisa
also helped on the Blessed Trinity St. Patrick staff with
Baptism and Funeral paperwork as well as putting together
many databases and reports for many ministries.
We will miss Lisa’s organizational skills, but mostly Lisa’s
pleasant attitude and humor! I know you will all want to
wish Lisa well as she accepts a full time job in Owego at the
Tioga Chamber of Commerce.
Celebrating St. Patrick
School
th
Friday June 5
6 pm Prayer Service St. Patrick Church
6:30 pm—8 pm St. Patrick School
food, refreshments, entertainment, art show, share
memories, view photos, tour school
After 156 years St. Patrick School will be closing.
Please join us in remembering our beloved school.
Community Yard Sale & Flea Market
Saturday, June 6
9 am - 2 pm
St. Patrick School Parking Lot
$10/yard sale table
$20/vendor or artisan table
If you have items to get rid of but don’t want to get a
table for yourself, we will take your items
to sell at the St. Patrick School table.
Women’s Spring Tea Thank You
The May 1 Women's Spring Tea ministry
held at St. Margaret Mary's was a rousing
success with 140 guests parish-wide and
beyond! Thank you to the individuals and
19 table hostesses who devoted their time, talent, and
treasure to this endeavor. The guest speaker's
message of the many ways God delights in and cares for
women touched our hearts, made us think, and made us
laugh! Thank you to the men in the kitchen for serving the
meal so the ladies could relax and enjoy one another's
company. The St. Margaret Mary Altar & Rosary, the
Welcome Committee, and this year's Journey Bible Study
group were also crucial to the success as they cooked,
chopped, mixed, and baked! Many thanks!
Spring Concert
Wednesday, June 10
6:30 p.m.
St. Patrick Church
All are invited.
Youth Group Service Project
to Benefit Ronald McDonald House
The youth groups of Blessed Trinity &
St. Patrick Parish will be collecting items for the
Syracuse Ronald McDonald House. We will be
delivering our donations to the RMH on
May 30. Here’s how you can help:
 Purchase: paper plates, paper towels, chap stick,
razors, travel size baby powder, travel size mouth wash,
juice boxes, granola bars & dry cereal. Place items in
the donation containers at each church.
 Donate cash to be used towards the purchase of gift
cards.
 Collect pop tabs from aluminum cans & place them in
the collection containers at each church.
Also, please pray for the families served by the Syracuse
Ronald McDonald House.
687-1770
St.
Patrick
School
St. Val’s
2015 ~ 2016
Week 1
$40 Ruthanne Orth—St. John
$20 Pat Komar—St. Margaret Mary
Save the date!
It’s CBBQ time & St. John’s is the place to be!
Tickets on sale after St. John’s Sunday Mass.
PLEASE NOTE: All items, including food items, must
be new for the safety of children with compromised
immune systems.
SUNDAY, JUNE 7 Noon ~ 2:00 pm
Saturday, June 20, 2015
Our Blessed Trinity & St. Patrick youth thank you for
your support!
Deacon Mike Fowler will be ordained at Sacred Heart
Cathedral, Rochester, NY at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Thank You
Father Mike Fowler will celebrate Mass at 9 am at
St. Patrick Church, Owego, NY
A reception will follow in the church hall.
Please join us!
Birthright of Binghamton Inc. and The Bridge would like
to thank all the workers and parishioners for making the
Mother’s Day Flower Sale such a success.
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Pastoral Council Corner
Congratulations to those chosen to serve
on the next Pastoral Council!
St. James - Christina Homrighouse and
Kathy Shaw
St. John - Mary Ann Hornick
St. Patrick - Lora Kuchinski
St. Margaret Mary - Lee Campfield and Martha Donovan
Thank you to all 19 people whose names were submitted!
It was wonderful to have such a successful response. For
the six whose names were selected from the Spirit Bowl,
they will began serving after the June 4th picnic/meeting to
be held at St. James.
A Bishop Matano Assignment
Fr. Valenti has permission from the Bishop to inform the
parishioners of Blessed Trinity and St. Patrick Parishes that
the he has been reappointment to Tioga County for another
year. Bishop Matano agreed that the timing of this
announcement was deemed necessary given the
extraordinary amount of time that parishioners had to wait
last year for his appointment. Knowing that Fr. Valenti would
be in Europe from the next 2 weeks was another motive for
the special timing of this announcement.
No other parish assignments are public at this time.
Blessed Trinity Council 251,
Knights of Columbus
Memorial Day Masses
As many are aware, our Holy Father, Pope Francis will be
in Philadelphia this upcoming fall. Our Council has been
considering chartering buses and inviting everyone parish
wide to join us in a Philly Road Trip. The bus expense
will be around 20 – 30 dollars a seat, depending on how
many people would like to attend. Everything is tentative
now, but I would like to hear from folks who are interested in
joining Blessed Trinity 251 in this adventure.
If this sounds interesting, please contact me at (607)6593160 or email me at joedphil@yahoo.com. Once again, this
trip is for everyone! Adults, children, Knights, Non Knights
and even those considering joining the Knights, all are
welcome!
Monday, May 25
9:00 a.m. St. James Cemetery
[
9:00 a.m. St. Patrick Cemetery
Please bring your lawn chair. In case
of inclement weather the Masses will be held in
St. James Church and St. Patrick Church.
Blessed Trinity & St. Patrick
Book Discussion Group
Joe Phillips, Grand Knight, Blessed Trinity Council 251
Our next book provided by the Finger Lakes
Library System is titled The Dead Beat by
Marilyn Johnson. We will meet on Wednesday,
May 20th at 2:30 in the McAuley Center. Copies of the
book are available at the McAuley with the book club kit.
The summary of this book from Harper Collins Publishers:
"The New York Times comes each morning and never
fails to deliver news of the important dead. Every day is
new; every day is fraught with significance. I arrange my
cup of tea, prop up my slippers. Obituaries are history as it
is happening. Whose time am I living in? Was he a
success or a failure, lucky or doomed, older than I am or
younger? Did she know how to live? I shake out the
pages. Tell me the secret of a good life! Where else can
you celebrate the life of the pharmacist who moonlighted as
a spy, the genius behind Sea Monkeys , the school lunch
lady who spent her evenings as ballroom hostess? No
wonder so many readers skip the news and the sports and
go directly to the obituary page. The Dead Beat is the story
of how these stories get told." All are welcome!
Diocesan Missions Sunday
Today is Diocesan Missions Sunday honoring this year
the Sisters of Mercy’s fifty years of presence in Chile. We
also acknowledge the missionary efforts of the Sisters of
St. Joseph in Brazil.
We are called to take part in the missionary work of the
Church. We may not all have to move to another town or city
to do so, but impelled by the Holy Spirit, each one of us is to
move beyond our daily concerns, important as they are, to
help others live in the faith that sustains us.
Bishop Salvatore Matano calls us to a responsible
sharing in the missionary works of the Diocese of Rochester.
No diocese is truly a diocese unless it extends beyond its
own borders and allows itself to be touched by the presence
of other churches.
May we share the gift of faith today by helping our
missionary friends with our prayers and a generous gift.
In this year of Consecrated Life may God continue to
bless these women in Consecrated and strengthen their
commitment to follow Jesus.
Daily Prayer of the Month
Holy Spirit, during this month of Pentecost and each day
of the year, we pray that with your guidance, we
will seek the Father's Will for us each morning.
Holy Spirit, we pray that you inspire us as you
inspired the disciples, to carry out His Will as we
receive it daily. By striving to do His Will, we hope
to fulfill our Confirmation duties to "spread and
defend the faith by word and deed". Amen.
Please pray this prayer along with our Prayer Partners today and throughout this
month. If you have a suggestion for prayer intention please let us know at
hawaii2343@yahoo.com
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Soap for Hope Collection for TCRM
NEW HOURS FOR
BLESSED TRINITY AND
ST. PATRICK OWEGO
OFFICE
During the month of May Rural Ministry will once again be
placing bins in churches, schools, and area businesses. The
bins are meant to be a reminder that we are trying to
replenish our supplies of personal hygiene and household
cleaning items like soap, dish detergent, laundry detergent,
paper towels, Kleenex, etc. – all supplies that are not
covered by SNAP (food stamp) grants. If you can help, we
would be most grateful. Bins will be located in St. Patrick
Church, St. Margaret Mary Church and also at St. Patrick
School. Thank you for all the ways you support our ministry
in the community!
Effective Immediately
Monday - Thursday
8 am - 3 pm
Closed Friday
143 North Ave. Owego, NY
687-3021
***** HELP WANTED *****
Rectory Housekeeper/Cook
Pantry Needs:
dish detergent, toilet tissue and
shampoo
2 days / week (approx.10 hrs/wk)
cleaning, laundry, cooking
Contact Diane Snyder-Bell 687-1068 or
dsbell@dor.org.
Cana Retreat
Cana Retreats Presents: A Catholic Family
Retreat Vacation
Come join us for a Catholic Family Retreat vacation at the
scenic Watson Homestead in Painted Post. A Catholic
Family Retreat is a time to
gather as a family with other
Catholic families to rest,
recreate and share our
common Catholic experiences.
The retreat/vacation is
located at the Watson
Homestead in Painted Post,
NY. It is held in a somewhat rustic setting with plenty of time
for family activities.
Our retreat will run from July 12—18. For more
information contact Deacon Ed Blaine at 607-754-0289 or
email dcnedb@aol.com, www.canadced.com
Parish:
May 9/10
Blessed Trinity
St. Patrick
Envelopes:
197
132
Catholic Ministries Appeal
St. Patrick Parish
Sacrificial Offerings
Attendance:
608
381
Blessed Trinity Parish
Collection:
Pre-Auth:
Total Gifts:
$7,208.00
$5,135.00
$535.00
$205.00
$7,743.00
$5,340.00
Make Parish a Priority!
Please Use Your
Envelopes.
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Weekly Needs:
$9,135.00
$5,913.00