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January 22, 2017
Third Sunday In Ordinary Time
A special remembrance will be made at Mass for:
Monday, January 23 St. Vincent, Deacon & Martyr
8:00 AM Irene Steiner
Tuesday, January 24 St. Francis de Sales
8:00 AM John Emanuel
Wednesday, January 25 The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle
9:00 AM Laura Cawthray
Thursday, January 26 St. Timothy and Titus, Bishops
8:00 AM Anita Harry
8:30 AM Novena – Mary Undoer of Knots
Friday, January 27 Weekday
8:00 AM Communion Service
Saturday, January 28 St. Thomas Aquinas
4:30 PM Helen Parker
Sunday, January 29 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time
8:00 AM John Cocca
9:45 AM People of the Parish
11:30 AM Stanley Krupski
To access current & past bulletins visit www.sercc.org
You can also visit us on Facebook – St Elizabeth Catholic Church
Pray For Our Sick Please pray for the well-being of the following people:
Wyatt & Declan Artz, Anne Baran, Rose Brosious, Jayden
Cardona, Luisa Cicelot, Carol Crugnale, Deborah
Csorba, Nicholas Csorba, Mary Teresa De Cruz, Cindy
Dell’Aguzzo, Marina Duszak, Betty Faustner, Cathy
Feichtel, Dianne Fogel, Dina Fonzone, John Ryan
Harris, Regina Heng, Janet Huber, Gino Iannelli,
William Kaufmann, Patrick Keating, Roger King, Rita
Kline, Fran Kosack, Marie LoCicero, Joseph Macaluso,
David Millan, Phyllis Mizgerd, Sandra Morris, Helene
Parker, Betty Porter, Joseph Purvis, Angie Sauerzopf,
Fritz Sauerzopf, Gene Smith, Jude Solderich, Maria Sosa,
Michelle Teo, Joseph Tomcho, Betty Tonelis, Michael
Winston, John Zelinsky, Doris Zibura.
Please let us know when your loved one is better, so their
name can be removed.
Hospitalization and Illness Just a reminder to call the parish office if a loved one is
ill or in the hospital. We’re not always informed by the
hospitals if one of our parishioners has been admitted.
Sanctuary Candle and Altar Flowers Donations for the vigil candle burning in
the Sanctuary or for flowers on the altar
may be given each week in memory of a
loved one or for a special intention.
Contact the parish office for details.
“Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace
and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve.”
- St. Agnes
SPIRITUAL THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK
“Let them fly with utter confidence to this most sweet
Mother of mercy and grace in all dangers, difficulties,
needs, doubts and fears. Under her guidance, under her
patronage, under her kindness and protection, nothing
is hopeless. Because, while bearing toward us a truly
mother affection and having in her care the work of our
salvation, she is solicitous about the whole human race.
And since she has been appointed by God to be the
Queen of heaven and earth, and is exalted above all the
choirs of angels and saints, and even stands at the right
hand of her only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ our Lord,
she presents our petitions in a most efficacious manner.
When she asks, she obtains. Her pleas can never be
unheard.” - Blessed Pope Pius IX
An excerpt from Manual for Marian Devotion
Readings for Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
First Reading: Isaiah 8: 23 - 9:3
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 27:1, 4, 13 - 14 (1a)
Second Reading: 1 Corinthians 1: 10 -13, 17
Gospel: Matthew 4:12 - 23
Please pray for our Holy Father, bishops and
these priests serving in the Diocese of
Allentown on each designated date.
Jan 22 Rev. John A Frink
Jan 23 Rev. Francis J Fromholzer
Jan 24 Rev. Kevin P Gallagher
Jan 25 Rev. Daniel G Gambet
Jan 26 Rev. Joseph S Ganser
Jan 27 His Holiness Pope Francis
Jan 28 Bishop John O. Barres
The Sanctuary Candle burns this
week in memory of
Catherine Brennen
requested by Howard & Maria Sweeney
Please pray for those who have died, especially
parishioners Dolores Decker and Juliette A Roy
who passed away recently. May their souls and
the souls of all the faithful departed, rest in peace.
“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are
always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise
them, and make good use of their help and assistance in
all your temporal and spiritual affairs.”
-St. Francis De Sale
PASTOR’S CORNER
Prayer: Part 4 Finding time to pray. I have found that many people have
the desire to pray, however, desire only gets us so far - it
takes a commitment, a faithfulness. So it is with regular
exercise, of which I am a miserable failure, but hope to
get better. I have the desire to exercise. Sometimes I’m
too tired. Sometimes I make excuses – cold weather, rain,
too busy. The desire only gets me so far. It takes a
commitment to being faithful. Think about that word –
full of faith!
Francis de Sales, that master of the spiritual life, advised
something like this: “Fifteen minutes a day set aside for
prayer will be sufficient. However, if you are extremely
busy that day, make it a half hour.”
One of the most memorable stories about making time for
prayer is told by James Finley in this book “Merton’s
Palace of Nowhere.” It happened one day that the alarm
went off signaling a nearby forest fire. The monks
gathered shovels and rushed out to battle the flames. They
hadn’t gone far when Merton heard the Angelus bells,
threw down his shovel, and yelled, “Stop. Let us pray the
Angelus!” They all fell to their knees for a moment of
prayer. No one questioned His sanity or suggested that it
would be better to pray as they ran. It was the moment to
pray. So they were faithful. They stopped, even in the
midst of an emergency, and made God first.
We can all be tempted to rush from one activity to the next
as if we were always on our way to a fire. Everything else
can seem to be more important. Let prayer be first, and
see how each task is then handled better, since God is then
in charge, not you! Find time to pray.
God Bless You! - Fr. Pendzick
FROM THE FINANCE MANAGER
Statements for your 2016 donation to St. Elizabeth
Church will be available at the back of Church
beginning the weekend of January 28th.
“As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the
wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and
the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in
temptation.”
– St. Basil the Great
PARISH NEWS
Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults All are welcome to join us this Tuesday,
January 24th at 7 pm in the large meeting
room for our next topic:
“Sine Saints”- by Father George Winnie
Next meeting will be on January 31st at 7
pm in the large meeting room. Topic will be:
“Sin” – by Father John S Pendzick
Brownie Super Bowl weekend – Feb 4 and 5 Brownie/Junior Troop 363403 will be collecting
at the exits of the church after all the Masses over
Super Bowl Weekend. Any donation you can give
would be greatly appreciated. Half of the proceeds
will go to the Ecumenical Kitchen in Allentown
to help feed the hungry and half to the troop to help pay
for scout expenses, activities and trips. Thank you for
your kind generosity!
Low Impact Aerobics Sign-ups Looking for a night out with friends? Our
instructor, Karen Hoff, is offering 8 weeks of
aerobics on Tuesday nights and two Thursday
(3/23 & 4/20) nights (6:00 - 6:50 PM) from
March 7 to April 25 in St. Elizabeth’s parish
hall. The cost is only $20.00 per person which includes 50
minutes of aerobic exercises followed by 30 additional
minutes of toning and floor work exercises for all who
wish to stay. (All that is needed is a towel or mat for the
floor work exercises. Feel free to bring light weights, as
well.) Registration deadline is March 1 or until the
maximum number of participants is reached. Please find
registration forms in the back of church at the nurses table.
Bring a friend!
Youth Ministry Event for 6th – 12th graders!
Pro-Life Activities & Social! Come and join our ministers:
Cassie, Tina and Tiffany at our next Youth
Ministry event on Sunday, January 22nd, in
the large meeting room above the Chapel.
(Look for signs!). Time: 6:00 – 8:00 pm.
Direct any questions to [email protected] or 610-266-
0695 and ask for Mrs. Spieker. We will pray, discuss and
defend Life which will include an hour service project,
fellowship and FOOD! Confirmation students can gain
one hour of service if attending. So come and BRING A
FRIEND OR TWO!
“If you learn everything except Christ, you learn
nothing. If you learn nothing except Christ, you learn
everything.”
-St. Bonaventure
The Sacrament of Confirmation On Thursday, March 2nd at 4:30 pm, Rev.
John Pendzick, delegatus, will administer the
Sacrament of Confirmation to our parish
Confirmandi. Please join us on this joyous
occasion. We ask you, our parishioners, to keep these
young men and women in your prayers as they prepare to
receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
SAINT ELIZABETH
REGIONAL SCHOOL
Catholic School’s Week Kick Off!
Save the Date! St. Elizabeth’s School Board is hosting
the Annual Spaghetti Dinner on
Saturday, January 28th as the Kick Off
to Catholic School’s Week. Tickets will
be sold after all masses on the weekends of January 14th
and 15th, January 21st and 22nd. Reserve your seat early
and join in the community event to help support our
school. Also, please consider volunteering to help make
this community event successful and to support our
students and our school. Cooks, servers and dessert
makers are all needed!
Spaghetti Dinner – Parish Bakers Needed! Please consider baking or making your
favorite dessert to be served at our annual
spaghetti dinner on Saturday, January
28th, 2017 for the Kick Off to Catholic
School’s Week. Many scrumptious
desserts are needed and the homemade ones are surely the
BEST!
Don’t forget to buy your Spaghetti dinner tickets early!
Catholic School Week – January 29th Mass In observance of the opening of Catholic Schools Week,
we invite all Catholic School students, parents, and
faculty to attend the 9:45 mass on Sunday, January 29th.
We encourage all students, elementary through high
school, to wear your school uniform to this mass. What a
great way to visually express your school pride! After
mass, everyone is invited over to the school for our Open
House. Check out what is happening at Saint Elizabeth
Regional School!
Available Now! School Registration Packets Registration packets are now available for the 2017-2018
school year for any student interested in our Pre-K 3
year-old or Pre-K 4 year-old program, Kindergarten
or grades 1-8. Please plan to visit the school on Sunday, January 29,
2017 from 10:30 AM – 1:00 PM to pick up registration
information or call Mrs. Schiller in the school office at
610-264-0143 to set up an appointment. Registration
information is also available in the parish office, for your
convenience.
EITC and OSTC Tax Credit Programs Do you own a business or know someone who owns a
business and pays PA state taxes? If the answer is
YES…how would you like to see those tax dollars be kept
at St Elizabeth Regional School? Please contact Mrs.
Linda Schiller, Principal, at the school, at 610-264-0143
or [email protected] to learn about the Education
Improvement Tax Credit and the Opportunity Scholarship
Tax Credit programs.
Baseball/softball Registrations will be open on
Wednesday, January 25, 2017.
Our next hoagie sale will be on Wednesday, February
15, 2017.
Our Winter Social Dance is on Saturday, February 25,
2017. Tickets for the Winter Social Dance will go on
sale on Monday, February 13, 2017 at the Parish Office
at 618 Fullerton Ave. and the School Office at 433
Pershing Blvd. You may purchase tickets now by
contacting Tom Shak @ 484-632-9790 or Mike Brosious
@ 610-262-7143.
COMING EVENTS
Golden Agers Upcoming Events No Membership meeting in January, next meeting will
be February 3rd, 2017.
February 15th – Bus trip to Mohegan Sun Casino. Price
is $25. To book a seat call Irene at 610-264-3721.
March 1st – Trip to Hunterdon Hills Dinner Theatre to
see “LEGENDS OF POP”. Price is $88, which includes
bus, dinner, dessert buffet, tax and gratuity. Leaves
church parking lot at 10:00am. Interested call Barbara at
610-266-2874.
March 29th – Bus trip to Hunterdon Hills Dinner
Theatre to see “Born Yesterday”. Price is $89. If
interested in booking a seat call Charlette at 484-264-
7723.
June 21st – Mt. Airy Casino and Show – “MAMMA
MIA”. Price is $62 this includes bus, free buffet, $10
free slot play. Bus leaves church parking lot at 9:30 am.
To book this show call Irene at 610-264-3721.
IN OUR COMMUNITY
Unsung Hero Event
Each year Lehigh County Aging and Adult Services
honors older adults who generously give their time and
talents to enhance the lives of those among them and their
community. The event is held in May during Older
Americans Month. This year’s Unsung Hero Event will
be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 1:00 p.m.
The Unsung Hero Program pays tribute to people 60 and
older who display exceptional generosity with their time
and talents for the benefit of their community and to
enhance the lives of others. This program salutes ordinary
individuals who do extraordinary things. Unsung Heroes
are people who live quietly among us, inspiring all those
who are privileged to know them. Each May we celebrate
Older Americans Month to recognize older Americans for
their contributions. This year’s theme is Age Out Loud
raising awareness about important issues facing older
adults and highlighting the ways that Americans are
advocating for themselves, their peers, and their
communities.
Reach out to your groups, organizations, churches and
neighborhood groups and nominate an older adult.
Nominees must be a resident of Lehigh County and age
60 and older. Nomination forms can be printed from the
Lehigh County Aging and Adult Services page at
www.lehighcounty.org or by contacting Karen
Kirchdoerfer at (610) 782-3247. Nominations must be
postmarked by March 10, 2017.
St. John the Baptist Slovak Church Spaghetti Dinner – Saturday February 4, 2017. All you
can eat. Time: 3 pm to 7 pm. Cost: $9. Call for tickets. For
more information, please call Bill Drost at 610-432-3505.
St. John’s Valentine’s Sweetheart Dance – Saturday
February 18. Doors open at 6:30 pm. Dance from 7 – 10
pm. Oldies Dance featuring Steel City Band with Bobby
Molchan. Cost $5 per person includes ice and snacks. For
more information, please call Bill Drost at 610-432-3505.
Meat Bingo – Sunday, February 19 at 1 pm; Doors open
at noon. $11.00 for 15 games; Great Prizes! No reserved
seating – first come, first served seating. Refreshments
available. For more information, please call Bill Drost at
610-432-3505.
“Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that
the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man destroys the
temple of God, God will destroy him, for the temple of
God is holy, and that is what you are.”
- 1 Corinthians 3:16-17
Charismatic Mass of Healing and
Anointing of the Sick
Charismatic Mass of Healing and Anointing of the Sick,
Wednesday February 8th at 7pm in Holy Ghost Church,
417 Carlton Avenue, S. Bethlehem, PA 18015. Rev.
Clifton E. Bishop Jr., - Bishop’s Liaison for Charismatic
Renewal, Celebrant and Homilist. Adoration and
Confession 6 – 6:55 pm. Any and all inquiries 610-867-
9382 ext. 4. Please Note another Healing Mass will be
Wednesday March 8th at Holy Ghost. All are Welcome!
De Sales University Accounting Students To
Provide Free Tax Preparation Assistance
Junior and senior accounting students from DeSales
University will provide tax preparation assistance free of
charge to senior citizens and those with lower incomes
beginning Monday, January 23, through Friday, March
31. The program is part of the United States Internal
Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance
(VITA) program. Students are required to pass a test
given by the IRS, in order to receive certification to
participate in the program.
This marks the seventeenth consecutive year that DeSales
students have participated in the program. Since it was
first offered, DeSales students have completed more than
4,000 tax returns for more than 1,800 Lehigh Valley
taxpayers.
To schedule a VITA appointment, individuals can call
(610) 282-1100, ext 1868. A DeSales student will return
the phone call and provide assistance accordingly.
Individuals needing assistance should bring all printed tax
information and all documents pertaining to federal, state
and local taxes with them to their appointment.
The program is sponsored by the IRS and supervised by
Dr. Christopher R. Cocozza, division head of DeSales
University’s Division of Business and associate professor
of business. Cocozza has served as VITA coordinator at
DeSales since the program was initiated at DeSales in
2001. Cocozza holds a bachelor's in accounting and law
degree from Fordham University and a master's of law
from New York University.
“I will make fishers of men.” –Matthew 4: 17
PRO – LIFE COLUMN
“Jesus taught his disciples to pray by asking the
Heavenly Father not for "my" but for "our" daily
bread. Thus, he desired every person to feel co‐responsible for his brothers so that no one would want
for what he needs in order to live. The earth's produce
forms a gift which God has destined "for the entire
human family”.
— Pope Benedict XVI, Angelus, 12 November 2006
You Are Not Alone Ministry
If a Prenatal Diagnosis identifies a possible disability, you
are not alone; there is help. The Diocese of Allentown
has a network of concerned parents and professionals who
have experienced or worked closely with these issues and
are here to help you.
For support contact: Sister Janice Marie Johnson,
[email protected] or 610-289-8900 x 42.
“I know now that true charity consists in bearing all of
our neighbors’ defects – not being surprised at their
weakness, but edified at their smallest virtues.”
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Liturgical Ministers Schedule The January liturgical schedule was sent out the week of
December 19th. If you have not received it, please call
Joan Glover at 610-349-7791. You can always find it on
the church’s web page: www.sercc.org under “Liturgical
Ministries”. If you cannot fulfill your duty, please find a
substitute. If you switch with someone, please let us
know so we have the correct names. The schedule for
January 28 & 29 Liturgical Ministers is shown below.
4:30
Cantor: J. Glover
Lector: B. Reinik
EOMS: A & F Mihalow, K. Mittura, M. Signarovitz
Altar Servers: O. Mittura, E. Tran, V. Tran
Ushers: J. Gallucci, S. Fogel, K. Lyons, P. Sivonda
Gift Cards: Scott/Donna Fogel
8:00
Lector: E. Bonshak
EOMS: J. Radocha, M. Tertel, C. Pontician (CC), J & J
Samanka (CC)
Altar Servers: P. Donahue, C. Reifinger, P. Shak
Ushers: F. Kropf, J & K Jones
Gift Cards: C. Bonshak
9:45
Cantor: D. Mascari
Lector: A. Garger
EOMS: K. Hamilton, T. Hamilton, M. Sweeney, M.
Colon (WM)
Altar Servers: A. Anatalio, J. King, A. Le
Ushers: F. Garger, B. Hartzell, J. Stella, H. Sweeney
Gift Cards: J. Garger
11:30
Cantor: W. Ohlsen
Lector: S. Mordosky
EOMS: K. Hoff, K. Puskar, E & M Quiteles
Altar Servers: J. Baker, A. Brosious, A. Quiteles
Ushers: R. Trentalange, S. Hawkes, J. Kratzer, J.
Kucharik
Gift Cards: E. Quiteles