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6 May 2018 Most Blessed Sacrament 610-845-2460
www.mbsbally.org 610 Pine Street, Bally PA Pastor: Father Adam Sedar
Email: [email protected] Office hours daily are from 8:30am-3:30pm
In the summer Monday thru Thursday. Closed Friday.
HOLY DAY OF
OBLIGATION May 10, 2018
Ascension Thursday
Wed Vigil Mass
7 PM Thursday Masses
7AM & 9AM Rectory Closed
Friday, May 11th
“No one has greater love than
this, to lay down
one's life for one's friends.”
John 15:
9-17
All Guests and New
Parishioners are
Most Welcome! You can register at our parish on line
at: www.mbsbally.org
www.allentowndiocese.org
SACRAMENT OF
RECONCILIATION
CONFESSIONS: Monday 6:00-6:30 pm. Saturday 3:15-4:00pm.
6th Sunday
Of Easter
Mission Statement: “We are called through Baptism to lead a Holy Life and spread the Good News of Jesus Christ…”
HEAR YE! HEAR YE!
Please Pray for all in our Armed Services ISSN Keith Essig, SGT Jeffrey Ferry, CPT. Kevin Bergan, SGT Brad Kline, USMC 2nd Lt. Peter C. Fisher, SPC Daniel Saylor, CPL Matt Renner, PSC Derrick Avant, SPC Michael Greaves, SGT Vince Sodano, Chief Noah W. Ziegler, MAJ Jeremy Bushyager, SGT Eddie Pierce, CAPT Justin Knepp, PFC Sam S. Myers, Lt. 1st Class Heather Cupitt, Staff SGT Eric J. Crews, Staff SGT, Anthony Lucarelli, MAJ Michael O’Kane, SSG Antonio Rivera, Airman 1st Class Andrew Gerard, SSgt. Michael Viola, Douglas Philip Murray, Staff SGT J.T. Walters, Lt. Justin Hazlett, MSTR SGT Jason Robbins, CPT Tylara Romero, 2nd LT Konrad Thaler, Midshipman Piper Thaler, David Stavish, Capt, USN, Joseph Stavish, Cdr, USN, SPC James O’ Connor, Markus De Larantus, Navy, PFC USMC Emily Gehringer ENS Alex Viola Staff SGT Megan Crews
“Lord, hold our troops in Your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the self-less acts that they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen.”
MASS INTENTIONS MONDAY, MAY 7 No Mass Today TUESDAY, MAY 8 8:00 AM-For the Intentions of Sharon Hare, by the Rosary Guild WEDNESDAY, MAY 9 7:00 PM-John Conrad, by Lorraine & Ralph THURSDAY, MAY 10 7:00 AM-Donald Gehringer, Sr., by the Estate 9:00 AM-John Hartnett, by the Murphy’s FRIDAY, MAY 11 8:00 AM-Donna Kramer, by the Estate SATURDAY, MAY 12 8:00 AM-Mary Kehs, by Alma Sharrow 4:30 PM-Elizabeth Patches, by Sharon & Dale Boyer SUNDAY, MAY 13 6:00 AM-People of Most Blessed Sacrament Parish 7:30 AM-Jerry Melcher, by His Family 10:15 AM-Deceased Members of the LeRoy Koch Family
PRAYFUL INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
LEGION OF MARY Tuesday evening at 7:00 PM.
MASS CARDS To schedule a Mass please stop by the Rectory Office
between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Mon-Thurs.
PRAY FOR OUR PRIESTS
Mon May 07—Msgr. Nevin Klinger Tue May 08—Fr. G. Jose Kochuparambil Wed May 09—Msgr. Thomas Koons Thur May 10—Fr. Dr. Robert Kosek Fri May 11—Fr. David Kosak Sat May 12—Msgr. Robert Kozel Sun May 13—Fr. Daniel Kravatz
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Every Tuesday from 8:30am-6:30 pm
Followed by Benediction and Miraculous Medal Novena
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READING FOR MAY 6, 2018 Reading 1: ACTS 10:25-26, 34-35, 44-48
Reading 2: 1 JOHN 4: 7-10 Gospel: JOHN 15: 9-17
Steubenville Update There is ONE spot open for our Steubenville trip in July. The dates are July 13th to July 15th. The cost is $240.00. This includes transportation on a charter bus, food for the entire weekend, a t-shirt and an experience you will never forget. Heather Shainline is our Director of our vibrant Youth Group. She can be reached at: [email protected]
Youth Group (7th-12th Grades) St. Francis Academy
St. Francis Academy 610 Pine Street Bally, PA 19503 http://www.sfabally.org/ May 10 - Ascension Thursday Liturgy 9:00 May 11 - 8th Grade Retreat at St. Francis Center for Re-newal in Bethlehem - Dance Gr. 6, 7, 8 6:30-9:00 - First and Second Grade are headed to Doylestown to enjoy the wonders of the Mercer Museum. Anniversary News Update May 20 - Our day to honor the Sisters of St. Francis and their service to our school. We’ll begin with the 10:15 Mass and follow with a light reception in Fr. Schneider Hall. June 2 - After the 4:30 Mass, there will be an “Alumni Recess” in the SFA auditorium and school yard. Get ready for kickball, four square, jump roping, etc. ALL school families are invited, alumni and present school families. Fun and fellowship! Recently our fourth graders participated in the Penn State Extension gardening program, Meet the Plants. Do we have any future botanists? Move over CSI! Our 7th grade experimented with DNA in Science class. Thank you to Dr. Patterson and Ms. Miller for the demonstration. Reminder-Registration and re-registration for the 2018-19 school year is taking place NOW! PK 4-yr-old program FULL DAY Kindergarten Grades 1-8 Any questions, please call the school 610-845-7364. Grades 1 to 4 after school STEM Club has started on Mondays and Thursdays. St. Francis Academy Financial Aid - St. Francis is proud to be one of the top schools in the Diocese that is blessed to grant over $30,000! See our SFA website: www.sfabally.org. Scroll down & see the heading “Tuition & Financial Aid”. Click on the link below this heading. After signing in, follow the directions for FACTS Grant & Aid. Call the school if you need help applying for financial aid. Also available is the SFA Grant for K-8. The application can be downloaded from our website by going to the home page. Scroll down to “Announcements. Click on “read more”. Send or bring in this application to school. Please call the school office if you have family hardship and require assistance 610-845-7364.
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SATURDAY May 12 4:30 PM-Breton Poster – Delaney Geise – Olivia Campbell SUNDAY May 13 6:00 AM—Volunteer 7:30 AM—Grace & Joshua Spaar – Ryan Willing 10:15 AM-Sara & Anthony Adamkovic -Erin Smola
Welcome Bishop Schlert! Mass Celebrating the Lord’s Comfort and Healing
Monday, May 14th 6:30 PM Philip & Thomas Heid
Matthew & Gianna Graczyk Paul & Andrew Dalickas Maureen & Kelly Ryan
Altar Servers
YOUTH HUMOR OF THE WEEK
“Why do you keep reading your Bible all day long Grandpop?”, asked young Betsy.
“Well,” he explained, “you might say I’m
cramming for my final examinations!” And this time...Betsy was smiling!
GRADES PRE SCHOOL THRU 5TH GRADE CCD TEACHER NEEDED A 5th Grade CCD Teacher is needed for the 2018-2019 School year. Please call Deacon Murphy at 610-845-7364. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL @ ST. COLUMBKILL Pre-K thru 5th grade VBS is June 25-29, 2018 Registration is due by June 1-2018. To Register on our parish website go to: https://stcolumbkill.org/vbs-online-registration More info: Megan Repko: [email protected]
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Fr. Adam’s Corner
Dear Parishioners: Last weekend people of faith and good will around the world mourned the death of young Alfie Evans, the 23-month-old boy who was basically sentenced to death by the British National Health Service. Little Alfie was in Alder Hey Children’s Hospital whose doctors said he had an undiagnosed and untreatable neuro-logical condition that caused irreparable brain damage. For months Alfie’s parents fought in court to be allowed to take him to another hospital or at least to take him home. Alfie was, through the inter-vention of the pope, even granted Italian citizenship and an Italian hospital was willing to take him. All of these efforts were denied by the courts. Think about that. Doctors and courts decided that a mother and father could not take their baby to another hospital, one willing to take him, for another opinion and possible further treat-ment. Doctors and courts decided a mother and father could not take their little baby home to give him comfort if he was to die. Finally, the doctors, against his parents’ wishes, removed Alfie’s ventilator. But something unexpected happened. He didn’t die. He began breathing on his own. So, what did the hospital do? Rethink their decision? Reevaluate his circumstances? Give him better care? NO! They refused to feed him for seventy-two hours. Clearly, they wanted him to die. And he did, but not for five days after hav-ing his ventilator removed. He was just too weak to continue on his own but weakened deliberately by the hospital who for so long refused to feed him. They even threw out the family’s priest who was there to give them spiritual care. This did not happen in some third world country run by a two-bit petty dictator. This happened in Great Britain. And it is not the first time. Recall last July a simi-lar case, that of Charlie Gard. We know of these two cases because the parents fought the hospital’s and court’s decisions. It begs the question, how many more have there been that we do not know about? Again, this happened in Britain, the home of the Magna Carta, once the standard bearer of what it meant to be a “civilized people”. If this can happen there, it can happen anywhere, it can happen here. The great Catholic evangelist and preacher, Archbishop Fulton Sheen once said “It is characteristic of any decaying civilization the great masses of the people are unaware of the tragedy. Humanity in a crisis is generally insensitive to the gravity of the times in which it lives. Only those who live by faith really know what is happening in the world; the great masses are unconscious of the destructive processes going on in the world because they have lost the vision of the heights from which they have fallen.” Make no mistake, we are in decay. There are dark forces at work, forces that are remak-ing our society from one that recognizes the dignity of each human person as coming from God, to a society in which human dignity, and therefore all rights, are given, and taken, by the state, an atheis-tic state. This remaking of society began with the widespread ac-ceptance of contraception, by which man decides the meaning and purpose of human sexuality, independent of the plan of God the Creator. It continued with the rise of abortion on demand, where man decides, apart from God, and against God, what is and is not human life. These dark forces now continue their remake of our society through the forced euthanasia of children like Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans, where again man, or certain men in power, take the place of God and decide when a human life is no longer worth living, no longer worth the resources of society to provide even the most basic care such as food. If these dark forces are not stopped the future of our society will be one of unthinkable horror. These forces can be stopped. They can be stopped by those who have the view from the heights provided by true faith in the One True God.
(Fr. Adam’s Corner cont’d bottom next column)
STEWARDSHIP April 8th collection $8,575.00 (+ $1,383 Parish Giving) = $9,958 April 15th collection $7,745.00 (+ $1,076 Parish Giving) = $8,821 April 22nd collection $6,569.00 ( + $1,157 Parish Giving) = $7,726 THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT! USED TABLES SFA has 25 used tables up for grab. The tables meas-ure 30” x 96”. Call the Rectory 610-845-2460 if inter-ested. MBS PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY - Thank you to all who have made such beautiful shawls, and to those who have donated yarn for our projects. We are very grateful for your contributions. We will have our regu-lar monthly meetings on the First Friday of each month in Father Schneider Hall. THE BISHOPS ANNUAL APPEAL Please keep the 2018 Bishop’s Annual Appeal in your prayers and thoughts. Your gift will mean so much to so many throughout our Diocese and here in our own faith community. All payments should be made out to the Bishop’s Annual Appeal. FOOD DRIVE Our Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, KNIGHTS OF CO-LUMBUS Council #16745 is coordinating a collection of Staple Food and Pantry items to replenish the Community Food Pantry at Boyertown Area Multi Service on the week-ends of May 13th with a Final collection the weekend of May 27th. Please refer to the flier in this week’s bulletin for additional information concerning priority items needed at the Food Pantry to support our neighbors and friends. We let others know of our faith by our actions; may our actions exemplify us! Food Drive Contact Kevin C. Millet Sr. @ 484-942-7443.
Continued Fr. Adam’s Corner Make no mistake though, until the Lord returns in glory there will be evil, but we do not have to condone evil as a society, nor do we have to allow the state to enshrine evil into law, thus promoting and further causing it. Our two most powerful weapons against this evil are Eucharistic Adoration and the Holy Rosary. Sacrifice some time every week before the Lord in the Blessed Sacrament and bring before the Eucharistic Heart of Christ the intention of the conversion of our society. Pray the Holy Rosary and ask Our Blessed Mother to shower this world with the grace of conversion to her Son. A con-sistent effort of prayer will bring about a peaceful and lasting change. And remember, despite the evil we face, be of good cheer, for Christ has already overcome the world.
Peace Fr. Adam
UPCOMING News, Events and Ministry Information
PARISH STAFF Pastor - Father Adam Sedar Weekend Assistant - Father Kevin Bobbin Deacons - Thomas J. Murphy & Mike Boyle Administrative Assistant - Cindy Repko Financial Secretary - Sue Nitroy Parish School, St. Francis Academy - Deacon Thomas J. Murphy, Headmaster Preschool Teacher—Maria Crail Director of Religious Edu - Deacon Murphy RCIA Coordinator—Deacon Murphy
Parish News and Events
BINGO Volunteers are needed, no experience necessary. Contact: Janice Szilli 610-987-8851.
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Most Blessed Sacrament Council # 16745 regular Council meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:30 pm in Father Schneider Hall. Men 18 years of age & older interested in the Knights of Columbus contact Joe Dusko Grand Knight by email at [email protected] or call 610-864-1163.
LEGION OF MARY NEWS A recent luncheon sponsored by the Philadelphia Senatus of the Legion of Mary saw the attendance of approximately 40 priests, deacons and nuns who function as spiritual advisors for their respective parishes. Deacon James McAvoy, St. Elizabeth’s Parish in Upper Uwchlan Township, described their monthly devotions from May to October on the lawn adjacent to Rt. 100. On the 13th of each month they form up to say the rosary next to Rt. 100 at 6 PM. Following their lead, the active and auxiliary members of the Legion of Mary from Most Blessed Sacrament Parish, with the assistance of Bally Mennonite Church will present the Rosary for Peace in our Communities, starting at 6 PM, on May 13th. The focal point will be the grassy area just south of the Mennonite Church, which is home to the biggest angel in this part of Pennsylvania. For additional information call Deacon Mike at 484-336-9849. Parking is available
LOVES ONES IN THE MILITARY
A local group would like to send care packages to our Loved Ones Serving in the Military. Please call Cindy during Rectory business hours Monday – Thursday 9 AM to 2 PM or email at: [email protected]
News, Ministries & Organizations WIDOW AND WIDOWERS GRIEF SUPPORT The next “REACH OUT” meeting is Sunday, May 13th at St Columbkill’s Conference RM at 1 PM. The following meet-ing will be on May 27th at Most Blessed Sacrament’s Schneider Hall at 1 PM. Some will find that the change of seasons is particularly stressful. Come join us to reduce that stress in many ways. For those that have lost a loved one, the thought of a New Season is challenging where they are at that time. We ask all to pray for the families who have lost a loved-one as they adapt to life after loss. For more information, please call Dn. Mike Boyle at 484-336-9849.
CEMETERY CLEANUP The cemetery crew will be discarding any unsightly ne-glected decorations from seasons past in preparation of Me-morial Day. Anyone who wishes to save their decorations please remove them by May 20th. PLEASE NOTE: No Mass on Monday, May 7th. The Rectory will be closed Friday, May 11th. BLOOD DRIVE Our next blood drive is Thursday, May 17th, at Bally Mennonite Church from 2:30 – 7:30 PM. Contact Tammi Eccleston for an appointment. 215-679-9198 home, 610-282-1100 x 1287 work, [email protected] Walk-ins always welcome. PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK & SUFFERING Our list is published on our website Home Page as: www.mbsbally.org.
PARISH STAFF Youth Ministry - Heather Shainline: [email protected] Adult Choir - Rob Zambanini Youth Choir—Fred Carr Diocesan Victim Assistance Coordinator Wendy S Krisak, MA, NCC, LPC Direct Line 800-791-9209 Diocesan Safe Environment Coord. - Sr. Meg Cole, SSJ,MS.LMFT, 610-332-0442, ext. 2019 [email protected]
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