January 19, 2020

2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time St. Rita Church

1008 Maple Drive Webster, New York

Phone (585) 671-1100 Fax (585) 671-5446

Website: www.saintritawebster.org

Email: wstritap@dor.org

PARISH OFFICE HOURS

Monday - Thursday 9:00am - 4:30pm Friday 9:00am - Noon

For our recorded Mass Schedule please call the parish office at 671-1100 ext. 25

Confirmation Event For Year 2 Candidates and Parents

Sunday, January 26 at 1:00pm in the Gym OR

Monday, January 27 at 7:30pm in the Church

Traditional candidates, please arrive at the barn at your usual start time (11:45 am or 6:15 pm) and on your regular day.

Parents/guardians will join us for the last part of the session at the time and place shown above.

Catholic school families may choose to attend either session for their year (no RSVP needed) – come at the time and place shown above.

Please contact Anne Thomas (anne.thomas@dor.org) if you have any questions.

Ladies ~ Please Join Us for WEROC

as we share, grow, and learn through connection and prayer to deepen our faith!

We are starting a new book “Everybody Needs to Forgive Somebody”

by Fr. Allen R. Hunt

Join us each Thursday morning 9:00 - 10:00am in Room 1

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the meeting. Connect with some amazing women in an informal setting sharing coffee, friendship and reflections on timely readings. For more information please contact Julie Cohn at 671-1100 ext. 13.

St. Rita Church, Parish and School Offices will be closed on Monday, January 20

for the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday.

There will be NO morning Mass and NO Faith Formation Classes on Monday.

ST. RITA SCHOOL PROSPECTIVE FAMILY

INFORMATION NIGHT

Wednesday, January 22 beginning at 7:00pm

in Church

• Meet our dedicated Teachers

• Learn about the SRS curriculum

• Learn about our Pre-K 3, Pre-K 4, and Kindergarten through Grade 5 programs

• Hear about our Before & After School Care Programs

• Talk with current SRS parents & students

• Learn about all the extra-curricular activities we offer.

• Tours will be provided

Feel the JOY that comes from being a part

of the St. Rita School community. Ask all of the questions you want and get the answers you need to make an informed decision about your child’s future! Babysitting will be provided!

Come see what our SPIRIT is all about! Please call the school office at (585) 671-3132 or visit our website: stritawebster.org/school for more information. If you are not able to attend - let us know and we will be happy to schedule a tour at another time.

MASS INTENTIONS

Among the intentions for those who gather for the

Eucharist this week will be:

MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 2020 NO 8:15am MASS - Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2020 8:15AM JOHN, FRANCES & TERRY LYNCH - Dick WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2020 NO 8:15am MASS THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 2020 8:15AM ANNA & ALEX BODGAN - Phil & Verna Mendola FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020 8:15AM FR. RICHARD SHATZEL - Patty & Joe Janiak SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2020 5:00PM FOR THE PEOPLE OF ST. RITA PARISH SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2020 7:30AM DAVE VAN ATTA - Wife

9:00AM CATHOLIC SCHOOLS WEEK MASS

10:30AM EDWARD KATZENBERGER - James B. Isaac

Our Tabernacle Light will burn from January 20-26

for all those in need of healing.

+ Wednesday was the Finals Round for the National Geography Bee competition. Ten students qualified to move onto this round for St. Rita

School following the November 29 classroom competition. These Fourth and Fifth Grade students are: Tyler Behe, Dylan Brown, Mary Burrows, Elliot Epstein, McKenna Loncao, Andrew Rayburn, Drew Scorsone, Cooper Springer, Alex Wright, and Mateo Thompson. Congratulations to all of our students on their success!

+ On Friday, our Kindergarten students enjoyed a special morning with their mothers, grandmothers, aunts, and/or special guests for Muffins with Mom. Students enjoyed breakfast with their guests while sharing projects they made especially for them. They then celebrated the start of the formal day with our school-wide prayer and pledge. This annual breakfast tradition is always special for our Kindergarteners and their guests.

+ Don’t forget this coming Wednesday is the St. Rita School Prospective Parent Information Night, starting at 7:00 PM in the church. Learn about the JOY we teach in every subject area, the benefits of a faith-based education, all of the extra-curricular activities we offer which range from academic based to athletics, and our excellent before and after school Child Care options. Get a tour of our school and talk to parents, faculty, staff, alumni, and students on their perspective of St. Rita School. Education is a priceless gift that will last a lifetime.

As Erika Griffin, a current parent and parent of two alumni said: “Why was St. Rita's the best decision for our family? We wanted an education that was faith-based, a curriculum that was rigorous, and an environment that felt like home.” Welcome home to St. Rita School!

Join us for an evening of

Wine and Beer Tasting

Saturday, January 25 from 5:00-9:00pm

At Liberty Lodge at Finn Park (850 Maple Drive)

Hors d’oeuvres will be served. Raffles will be held.

$40 per person (ages 21 & over only)

Reserve your place at our website stritawebster.org/school via credit card (Online Giving) or with the School Office: 1008 Maple Drive, Webster, NY 14580; (585) 671-3132. All proceeds will benefit the St. Rita School Classroom Renovation Initiative.

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ST. RITA SCHOOL

Where Faith and Knowledge Meet!

Here’s What’s Happening:

BOY SCOUT SUNDAY MASS

Sunday, February 2 at 9:00am Mass

This is a celebration for ALL Scouts from our parish regardless of Pack or Troop affiliation.

Please meet in Room 1 by 8:30am. Dens and troops will be seated together after processing into church as a group. Please wear your full Scout dress uniform. A reception for all Scouts and their families will be held in the gym after Mass. We ask that Scouts in the parish who have completed the requirements for the religious emblem associated with their rank and who have sent the proper paperwork to the Diocese to please notify Margo Chamberlain (585-265-9258) by January 26 so that we may recognize them during the Scout Mass.

19 Sun 2nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 49:3,5-6 Ps 40:2,4,7-10 1 Cor 1:1-3 Jn 1:29-34 20 Mon St. Fabian; St. Sebastian 1 Sm 15:16-23 Ps 50:8-9,16-17,21,23 Mk 2:18-22 21 Tue St. Agnes 1 Sm 16:1-13 Ps 89:20-22,27-28 Mk 2:23-28 22 Wed World Day of Prayer for the Protection of Unborn Children 1 Sm 17:32-33,37,40-51 Ps 144:1,2,9-10 Mk 3:1-6 23 Thu St. Vincent; St. Marianne Cope 1 Sm 18:6-9; 19:1-7 Ps 56:2-3,9-13 Mk 3:7-12 24 Fri St. Francis de Sales 1 Sm 24:3-21 Ps 57: 2-4,6,11 Mk 3:13-19 25 Sat The Conversion of St. Paul the Apostle Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22 Ps 117:1-2 Mk 16:15-18

26 Sun 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Is 8:23-9:3 Ps 27:1,4,13-14 1 Cor 1:10-13,17 Mt 4:12-23

PARISH SUPPORT

For the Weekend of January 11 & 12

Total Budget Variance $ 11,564 $ 14,321 - $ 2,757

Year to Date Year to Date Budget Variance $ 396,356 $ 400,442 - $ 4,086

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!

We all grow spiritually when we share.

Bible Readings for the Week

SUNDAY BREAKFAST NEWS!

All are welcome each Sunday morning after the 7:30am and 9:00am Masses in the Parish Center for a hot, delicious meal served with a smile!

We offer a “Special” each Sunday in addition to our traditional menu with items such as eggs (any way you like ‘em), bacon, sausage, pancakes, etc. So sit back and let our Breakfast Club volunteers serve you on Sunday mornings from September through May!

SPECIALS:

January 19 - Team 2: FRENCH TOAST served with your choice of bacon or sausage and a bottomless cup of coffee.

January 26 - Team 4: EGG BAKE served with warm buttered toast and a bottomless cup of coffee.

Our ministry runs on donations only which are greatly appreciated!

PLANS FOR THIS WEEK

SUNDAY 1/19 8:30-11:00am Breakfast in the Parish Center After All Masses Blood Pressure Screenings 2:00-4:30pm ChristLife “Following Christ” - Gym MONDAY 1/20 Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Parish and School Offices are Closed No Faith Formation or Confirmation Classes TUESDAY 1/21 1:00pm Luncheon & Hearing Loss Presentation - Rm 1 8:30-10:00pm Women’s Basketball - Gym WEDNESDAY 1/22 2:30-3:15pm Children’s Choir Rehearsal - Rm 3 7:00pm School Information Night - Church 7:00-9:00pm Choir Rehearsal - Rm 3 THURSDAY 1/23 9:00-10:00am WEROC- Rm 3 9:00-10:30pm Men’s Basketball - Gym SATURDAY 1/25 8:15-8:45am Pray the Rosary - Church 3:30-4:30pm Reconciliation Available in Church 5:00pm Count It All Joy - Music Ministry at Mass 5:00-9:00pm SRS Wine and Beer Tasting at Finn Park 6:15pm Summer Service Project Info Mtg. w/ Fr. Tim

The St. Rita Society invites you to

A Soup Luncheon

Followed by a presentation on Hearing Loss

Tuesday, January 21 at 1:00pm

in Room 1 of the Parish Center

Guest Speaker is: Brenda Cervini from the Webster Hearing Loss Center

Do you ever think your hearing might not be as sharp as it used to be or do you find yourself asking to have things repeated? Please come and hear the latest information on Hearing Loss.

Please call Felice at 671-5177 if you plan on attending. Sponsored by: St. Rita’s Health Ministry Team

and the St. Rita Society

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PASTA DINNER Eat In or Take Out

Saturday, February 1 Served from 5:30pm-7:00pm St. Rita Parish Center (Gym)

Adults: $10.00 ~ Kids 3-10 years old $5:00

Kids Under 3 Eat For Free 2 Extra Meatballs: $3.00

Dinner Includes: Pasta, Meatball, Side Salad, Bread and Butter, Drink and Cookie. Drinks include lemonade, coffee, water and tea.

Order forms can be found online at www.stritawebster.org or in church. All proceeds benefit our school. Any Questions? Please call the school at (585) 671-3132.

CARE FOR GOD’S HOUSE: Week of Jan. 19 - Mary Ann Beikirch LINENS: Week of Jan. 26 - Ruth Wensley

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Our Contemporary Christian music ministry group will be leading the music

at the 5:00pm Mass next Saturday, January 25

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. – Isaiah 9:1

We are privileged to see the Light of God – to personally know Jesus, the Word made flesh. He calls us just as He called His first apostles – to follow Him, to change, and by the witness of our transformed lives, to attract others to the Good News.

The songs we will sing together remind us that all are invited to His table and, just like the ordinary men that were called that day by the seashore, we are empowered by the gifts of the Holy Spirit to invite others.

Confidence – Sanctus Real The Greatness Of Our God – Newsboys The Table – Chris Tomlin At Your Feet – Anna Conti The Way (New Horizon) – Pat Barrett Nobody – Casting Crowns, Matthew West

“Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.” – Matthew 4:19

Liturgical Ministers scheduled for next week: January 25 & 26

5:00 PM 7:30 AM

9:00 AM

10:30 AM

Sacristan Patty Janiak Tom Nespeca Pam Kunzer JoAnn Zaccardo

Leader Felice Armignacco Carol VanAtta Catholic Schools Week Joyce Hollander

Lector 1 Lew Mariotti Princess Fame Catholic Schools Week Val Morgan

Lector 2 Nancy Tubiolo Kathy Reinhardt Catholic Schools Week John Rafte

Altar

Servers

Avery VanDamme

Annika VanDamme

Makenna Curry Nora Curry

Brennan Quatela

Evan Tomcik

Catholic Schools Week Servers

Emma Spagnola

Anna Spagnola

Emilia Nicolay

Stephen Widor

Eucharistic Ministers

Felice Armignacco

Cassie Curry Tony Gilbert

Joe Janiak

Patty Janiak

Judy Mariotti Sharon Pucher

Katie VanDamme

Princess Fame

Josh Formella Ron Meagher

Tom Nespeca

Jack Reinhardt

Kathy Reinhardt

Catholic Schools Week Servers

Joyce Hollander

Jim Messineo

Val Morgan

Tom Swovick

Renee Widor

JoAnn Zaccardo

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St. Rita High School

Summer Service Project

Young People Who Care – Frenchville, PA

July 12 – 17, 2020 High School Students at least 16 Years Old

(entering Junior year or Senior year in Fall of 2020 or just graduated)

(OR youth entering 9th or 10

th Grade if Parent also

attends)

and Adult chaperones 25 yrs +

Catholic Service Prayer Simplicity Community

Information Meetings – Room 1

Saturday, January 25th

at 6:15pm (after 5:00 pm Mass)

Or

Sunday, February 2nd

at 11:45am (after 10:30 am Mass)

Any questions? Please contact Fr. Tim.

Pasta Dinner Order Form

Name: ______________________________________ Phone Number: ___________________________

Email: _____________________________________________________ (for ticket confirmation)

Number of Adult Meals _______ x $10 = ___________ Number of Kids ages 3-10 Meals _____ __ x $5 = ___________ Number of 2 Extra Meatballs orders ____ ___ x $3 = ___________

TOTAL ORDER AMOUNT: $ ____ ______ Please circle: DINE IN OR TAKE OUT

SRS Pasta Dinner Fundraiser For St. Rita School

Eat In or Take Out

The Catalano Family—Alumni and Parents of SRS Students will be cooking!

WHEN: Saturday, February 1 from 5:30pm-8:00pm

DINNER SERVED: 5:30pm-7:00pm

WHERE: St. Rita Parish Center (Gym)

COST: Adults: $10.00 Kids 3-10 years old : $5:00 Kids Under 3 Eat For Free 2 Extra Meatballs: $3.00

Dinner Includes: Pasta, Meatball, Side Salad, Bread and Butter, Drink and Cookie Drinks include lemonade, coffee, water and tea

To purchase tickets, please return the form below to the School, Parish Office or in the Collection.

We accept cash or send a check payable to “St. Rita School”. Any questions? Please call the school at (585) 671-3132

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The Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

In the hope that you will enter more fully into the Mass!

“Behold, The Lamb Of God, Who Takes Away The Sin Of The World”

T his Sunday begins the liturgical period of Ordinary Time. It is the period between the high seasons of Advent / Christmas and Lent / Easter. It is characterized by the numbered (ordinal) Sundays each week. Note: There is no “First Sunday in Ordinary Time” due to

differences in countries that celebrate the feast of the Epiphany on a weekday.

Our Readings today point to yet another manifestation of Jesus, this time as “the Lamb of God”, the sacrificial lamb who will save God’s people from the exile of sin.

Our first reading (Isaiah 49:3,5-6) is the second poem of what are known as the four “Servant Songs” of Isaiah. Last week we heard from the first poem. Together, these four poems paint a complete picture of a suffering servant, anointed by God, who will deliver Israel and the nations from sin and darkness. The term “nations”, which we have been hearing about the past few Sundays, refers to all the people of the world, but more specifically to the Gentile, non-Jewish world. Isaiah’s writings make clear that God’s plan is to call all people to himself, using Israel as the “light to the nations, that my salvation may reach the ends of the earth”.

The LORD said to me: You are my servant, Israel, through whom I show my glory. Now the LORD has spoken who formed me as his servant from the womb, that Jacob may be brought back to him and Israel gathered to him; and I am made glorious in the sight of the LORD, and my God is now my strength! It is too little, the LORD says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.

In our Epistle reading (1 Corinthians 1:1-3), we hear from the opening of St. Paul’s letter to the church in Corinth. Paul identifies himself as one called by God “to be an apostle of Christ Jesus.” Paul converted many Gentiles while living in Corinth and gave life and meaning to the term “light to the nations.”

Paul, called to be an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Sosthenes our brother, to the church of God that is in Corinth, to you who have been sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be holy, with all those everywhere who call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Our Gospel reading (John 1:29-34) adds to the multifaceted portrait of Jesus that we have been reading since Christmas. This Sunday’s passage describes Jesus as the “Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world”. He is not the cute, cuddly little lamb we often see depicted, but more like the sacrificial lamb of the Passover, that gave its life so that its blood would be a sign on the doorposts to deliver Israel from slavery in Egypt. Jesus, the new Paschal Lamb, will shed his blood on the cross for the forgiveness of sins. This Lamb is the Son of God, in whom the Spirit remains.

John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”

W hat do today’s readings have to do with us in our world today? We are reminded that throughout salvation history, God has called upon and relied upon his children to be beacons of hope and light, leading others to the one true God. The suffering servant of Isaiah, the prophets, John the Baptist, St. Paul, and Israel itself were all

called and sent by God. This is no less true today as now, we are the servants called by God to lead others to Christ. May it be we who become the “light to the nations”, through whom God "shows his glory".

Read and reflect on the full readings of Today’s Mass at: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011920.cfm