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Our Parish Mission:Our Parish Mission:Our Parish Mission: Christ calls our parish family to be a Christ calls our parish family to be a Christ calls our parish family to be a

beacon of hope in a rapidly changing community.beacon of hope in a rapidly changing community.beacon of hope in a rapidly changing community.

SSAINTAINT PPAULAUL

CCATHOLICATHOLIC CCHURCHHURCH

Address: 140 Walnut Street,

Weirton, WV 26062

Phone:

304-748-6710

Web site: stpaulcommunity.net

Prayer Line: 304-748-4245

& 304-564-3114

Pastor: Rev. Larry W. Dorsch

E-mail: lwdorsch@comcast.net

Our St. Paul Parish and School Capital Campaign

No big change in the money numbers this week. We are still awaiting bids on the alternate HVAC for lesser money.

The kitchen is nearly finished. The new range has been delivered and we are awaiting some approvals by the fire marshal.

Any questions about the Campaign can be directed to our Pastor, Fr. Larry Dorsch (304-748-6710).

WWANTEDANTED: A F: A FEWEW CCOMMITTEDOMMITTED, L, LOVINGOVING AADULTSDULTS Our parish is in need of a few adults willing to commit some energy, time and love

to the young people of our community who will soon be preparing for the Sacrament of Confirmation. These young people will need help in more fully

appreciating the wonder and power of the Spirit of Jesus at work in them and in the world to bring about God’s way of peace and goodness. They need the

guidance of veterans to help them realize how the scriptures, the sacraments—especially the Eucharist and the church community can be resources for them as they try to find

and serve God in their lives and world. Do you want to help them? Let us know in the parish office (304-748-4118) and we will get the whole group together soon and begin our preparations.

All active members of the parish should have received a mailing this week asking you to do your

part in our parish life. The mailing included a checklist of the various ministries that are part of our community. Please consider how you can help!

We urgently need additional LITURGICAL MINISTERS at virtually all our liturgies. We have in recent months

been dependent on a faithful few to serve as communion ministers, readers,

greeters, servers and ushers.

We also would like to form a MARTHA AND MARY MINISTRY to provide parish support and comfort for our families experiencing grief at the death of a loved one. We want to have people at the church to welcome them, form a small music ministry and be a supportive presence for them.

Please fill out the form that came in the mail or find additional forms in the back of the church and place them in the collection basket on in the box at the back of the church.

BECOMING CATHOLIC

ARE YOU OR SOMEONE YOU KNOW INTERESTED IN BECOMING CATHOLIC? Please get in touch with Fr. Larry in the next week or so for a personal

conversation as our annual round of discussions leading toward full participation in our Catholic community begin soon. Each year we gather those who are

interested in our Catholic community—those who have no religious background, those raised in other faith traditions and those who may have been baptized in our Catholic faith

but never given any instructions in that faith — to come together with Fr. Larry and other long time Catholics for extended discussion of aspects of our faith. Some of those who participate are then

welcomed into the church through the Rites of Christian Initiation of Adults at Easter. Contact Fr. Larry Dorsch at 304-748-6710 or lwdorsch@comcast.net.

LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR SEPTEMBER 19-20

Ministers of

Communion Lectors Altar

Servers

Greeters Ushers

Saturday

Sept. 19

5 pm

Robert Marino

Evelyn Gaumer

Lawrence Pearce

Debra Marino

Thomas Sessi

Not Filled

Rebecca Biacco

Andrew Higgins

Nicholas Higgins

Sharon Higgins

John Cummings

John Porco

Ron Panko

Joseph Veltri

Sunday

Sept. 20

8:30 am

Matthew Glodowski

Anthony Mazzone

Maria Colantonio

Cindy Toth Lindsay McAfee

Diane McAfee

Christine Holmes

Guy Holmes

Betty Macre

Mary Mazzone

Thomas Beaumont

Paul Duffy

Patrick Gurrera

Thomas Lorello

Sunday

Sept. 20

11 am

Melissa Perkins

Peggy Rossi

Edie Wilson

Geo Brandenburg

Darlene Sessi

Michelle Martin

Carla Gianni Young

Gary Impellicceiri

Madeline Marks

Eddie Marks

Katherine Marks

Lorraine Lovy

Toni Marks

Suzanne Tennant

David Whalen

Robert Baker

Charles Bugin

Robert Chuma

Not Filled

Sunday,

Sept. 20

6 pm

Bennie Parr

Michael Cucarese

Not Filled

John Egan Kristen Mastrantoni

A.D. Mastrantoni

Michael Mastrantoni

Mark White

This week: Twenty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 50:5-9a James 2:14-18 Mark 8:27-35

Background: Today we have the pivot or hinge story of Mark’s Gospel: all swings on it. Peter

recognizes Jesus is the Messiah but again is told to keep it quiet and we soon hear why: Peter does not understand what Messiah means. Jesus knows it will bring rejection,

suffering, death and then resurrection. Peter cannot accept such a suffering Messiah: God forbid such a Messiah. Ah, but that is exactly the sort of Messiah

God has in mind, Peter. Take up your cross and follow me.

Next Week: Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wisdom 2:12,17-20 James 3:16-4:3 Mark 9:30-37

Adult Bible Study Tuesday Evenings at 6:30 join Fr. Larry and others for a study and discussion of the coming Sunday’s Gospel in

the parish office conference room.

CCOMMUNITYOMMUNITY BBREADREAD BBASKETASKET Don’t forget non-perishable foods, soaps, paper products for distribution at our ecumenical food pantry. Bring them to the offering baskets to be presented at mass.

Many, many families have come to the Bread Basket in recent weeks and the shelves are bare.

Please help restock with non-perishable food items of any kind: soups, noodles, pasta, veggies, tuna, oil, mac n cheese, soaps, paper products.

TTABLEABLE OFOF HHOPEOPE Free Hot Meals are provided at First Methodist Church on West Street 5-6 pm Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Volunteers needed from about 4 pm until 6:30. Please, If you can help, call Lori Duke

304-670-9544.

NOTE: Beginning in September St. Paul Parish will be exclusively responsible for staffing the Table of Hope for the Fourth Friday of each month (September 25th). This will be an opportunity for us to give parish witness of service, to get to know one another and to offer families a chance to service

together. Sign up sheets are now available in the back of church for Friday, September 25, with time slots from 3 pm through 7 pm. Please sign up if you can be part of our first St. Paul

Night at the Table of Hope.

UUPP--DDATINGATING THETHE DDATAATA BBASEASE Our diocese has now instituted a new computer database for the whole Catholic

community in the state of West Virginia and our parish is one of the first to be completely on-line with this system. One of the opportunities with the new system is

communication with parishioners via mass e-mails. We will be able to send our bulletin, mailings, contribution statements and other communications quickly, efficiently and more economically via this electronic system. We will save time since we will not

have to do such large mass mailings and save money on paper and postage. But we need your e-mail addresses! Please return the card you received in the mail or find additional cards in

the back of the church. (We realize many older members do not have e-mail so our regular mailings will continue as usual for all these members!)

PRAY FOR OUR SICK MEMBERS Gloria Frankovitch, Mary Paris Acuity—John Peterson Trinity West—Paul Sirback Golden Oaks—Theresa Petroski Country Club Nursing Home: Frances Oliver Weirton Geriatrics—Inez Oliver Wyngate: Virginia Yoklic, Reno Silvestri, Vivian DeMarco Serra Manor—Lillian Beagle Chris Dorich is at 71 Darlington Rd, Room 141, Beaver Falls, PA 15010

Our Parish is currently accepting applications for the position of Advancement Director. Main responsibilities of the Advancement Director include alumni relations, annual fund and major gift management, as well as database management, special event coordination and grant writing. Candidate must be able to communicate with various constituent groups such as faculty and staff, current and prospective parents, students, volunteers, and local community members. Position must be able to promote a strong Catholic identity for the school. Strong written and oral communication skills are required. A degree in Marketing, Business Management or a related field is desirable. Prefer 3 years in marketing, fundraising, sales or a related field. Salary is commensurate with education & experience. Interested candidates should email a resume by August 10, 2015, to pcowan@@weirtonstpauls.org. Mail to: Search Committee, c/o St. Paul School, 140 Walnut Street, Weirton, WV 26062 Capital Campaign payments can be placed in the collection on Sunday or mailed to 140 Walnut St, Weirton. Please make checks out to St. Paul School and place them in a separate envelope. Do not include this payment with the Church collection donations. St. Paul Christian Mothers Autumn Glory Card Party will be held on Sunday, September 27, 2015, at 2 pm in the school cafeteria. All Christian Mothers were given 50/25/25 raffle tickets to sell. Please return these tickets by placing them in the collection basket in an envelope marked Christian Mothers. Triumph of the Cross Annual Card Party, Sunday September 20, 2015 at Holy Rosary Auditorium, Rosemont Ave, Steubenville, Ohio Doors open at 1 pm and card party begins at 2 pm. A Day of Hope has been planned for September 13, 2015 celebrating & supporting a substance free lifestyle. This ecumenical effort is supported by the WV Council of Churches, and it focuses not only on recovery but prevention. With the need being over-whelming and faith communities and local communities looking for answers, we believe that it will take congregations and communities working together to end this epidemic. The Day of Hope is our first step to solving this problem. Facebook: www.Facebook.com/WVDayofHope*Twitter://WVDay of Hope.

Religious Education of Our Children Our Family Faith FUNdamentals will resume classes starting on September 20th from 9:40-10:50 am. Registration will be held on September 13th from 9:40-10:50 am upstairs in former rectory building. We will have classes for Pre-K through 8th Grade this year. Refreshments will be served. The Cathechists will be available to meet and the children can view their classrooms during this time. We look forward to seeing all the children again this year as well as welcoming all new children. Questions? Please contact me at christyvalero@comcast.net or 740-284-0133. A letter along with a registration form has been sent to all the public school families with children. If you have a child or family member in public school and did not receive a letter, please contact the church office 304-748-6710 so that a letter & registration form can be sent to your family.

OUR PARISH THIS WEEK

Saturday September 12

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Confession Sunday Eucharist: (William White)

Sunday September 13 24rd.Sunday

Ordinary Time

8:30 am

11:00 am 6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist: (For Living & Deceased Members of Holy Name & Christian Mothers) Sunday Eucharist (Susie Szymanek) Sunday Eucharist: (All Our Parishioners) Alcoholics Anonymous in cafeteria

Monday, September 14

8:00 am 6:00 pm

Weekday Eucharist: (Dominic Guzzetta) PTO Meeting in cafeteria

Tuesday, September 15

8:00 am 6:00 pm 6:30 pm

Weekday Eucharist: (Ethan Pashke) Christian Mothers Meeting in cafeteria Weekly Word in conference room

Wednesday September 16

9:30 am 5:45 pm 7:00 pm

School Mass Voices of hope Adult Choir rehearsal

Thursday September 17

8:00 am 2:45 pm

Weekday Eucharist: (Margaret Bracaglia)

SPS Choir Rehearsal

Friday September 18

8:00 am Weekday Eucharist: (Richard Eloi)

Saturday September 19

4:00 pm 5:00 pm

Confession Sunday Eucharist: (Shirley Gurrera)

Sunday September 20 25th. Sunday Ordinary Time

8:30 am 9:40 am

11:00 am 6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist: (George Charnie) Faith FUNdamentals upstairs of church offices Sunday Eucharist (Edwin Mullavey) Sunday Eucharist: (All Our Parishioners) Alcoholics Anonymous in cafeteria

Don’t forget your parish, please consider giving a percentage of whatever remains in your estate to the parish memorial endowment fund. Bequests for the parish should read, “To the Most Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop of Wheeling Charleston or his successors in office for the exclusive use of St. Paul Parish (or School) in Weirton, WV Memorial Endowment Fund.”

WEEKLY COLLECTIONS

September 6, 2015

Envelopes $ 6243.00 Offertory $ 370.00