Sacramental Information Baptism

The Pre-Baptismal Program is required; contact Fr. Charles or Msgr. Putano for in-formation prior to the birth of the child.

For adults, contact Fr. Charles for the RCIA process.

Marriage

Arrangements must be made at least six months in advance with Fr. Charles or Msgr. Putano. One of the parties must be registered in the parish.

Hospitalized

Please notify the parish office when a family member is in the hospital. Very often we do not receive this information.

Anointing of the Sick

If you are preparing to enter the hospital for any reason and would like to be anointed, please contact the parish offices.

Low Gluten hosts are available for anyone who is gluten intolerant. Please stop in the sacristy before Mass to let us know.

Bulletin available on either parish website.

Parishes Office at SS. Cyril & Methodius 148 Clinton Street, Binghamton, NY 13905

(607) 724 1372 Parish Hall: (607) 723 2920

Website: www.sscyrilandmethod.org

Pastoral Team Rev. Charles Opondo-Owora, Moderator (607) 729-6147 ext. 316 Barbara Hill, Pastoral Associate (607) 724-1372 Rev. Fredrick Mwangi Kooro (607) 797-4015 Rev. Msgr. John P. Putano (607) 725-7705

Staff Rev. Alfred J. Bebel, Retired Andrea Carey, Religious Education Coordinator (607) 724-1372 Gary Strong, Administrative Assistant Joshua Carey, Music Director

Office Hours: Monday Thursday, 9am 3pm; Closed Fridays

MASS SCHEDULE: Saturday Vigil: 4:30 pm, SS. Cyril & Methodius Sundays: 8:45 am, Holy Trinity 10:15 am, SS. Cyril & Methodius 10:30 am, (Polish, 1st & 4th Sundays), Holy Trinity Weekdays: 8:00 am, Monday, Wednesday, & Friday, Holy Trinity 12:05 pm, Tuesday & Thursday, SS. Cyril & Methodius

Confessions: 3:30– 4:00 pm, Saturday, SS. Cyril & Methodius

Holy Trinity 346 Prospect Street, Binghamton, NY 13905

(607) 797-1856 Website: www.holytrinitybinghamton.org

Year of the Family Sunday, December 3, 2017 - Sunday, November 25, 2018

Prayer for the Family O God, who was pleased to give us

the shining example of the Holy Family, Graciously grant that we may imitate them

in practicing the virtues of family life.

Transform our doubt to faith; Strengthen our hope;

Help us to live in charity.

Until we are all one in your kingdom Through Jesus Christ, your Son, In the unity of the Holy Spirit,

One God, forever and ever. Amen.

The Roman Catholic Parishes of SS. Cyril & Methodius Church of the Holy Trinity

Weekend of January 27 & 28, 2018

SS. Cyril & Methodius Church Church of the Holy Trinity

Liturgical Roles

February 3/4

ALTAR SERVERS

4:30 pm J. Mehal

10:15 am L. Oliva, M. Patinka, A. MacBlane

EUCHARISTIC MINISTERS 4:30 pm J. & J. Gialanella, M.L. Gresham, J. Mehal, L. Kaminsky 10:15 am D. Tarr, J. Tarr, D. Sirgany, R. Roman, R. Edwards

LECTORS 4:30 pm M.L. Gresham, L. Kaminsky 10:15 am J. Farrell, K. Martinez

GREETERS 4:30 pm P. Mangurian, L. Vasisko 10:15 am E. Kumpon, P. Kumpon

CHILDREN’S LITURGY OF THE WORD 10:15am J. Merlino

Liturgical Roles

February 4

Lectors: J. Naylor, M. Massar

Host: G. Naylor, A. Lenkiewicz, S. Behal

Cup: J. Dayton, K. Payne, A. Kavulich

Greeters: F. & J. Juodaitis

Servers: L. Tripp, T. Lehmann, S. Snell

Lectors for Polish Mass: M. Kozik, V. Soljan

VOTIVE CANDLES Murph Hlopko by wife & family ▪ John & Mary Vinse-vich by daughter, Judithann ▪ Laureen Warrick by hus-band, Art ▪ Jean Vlasak by husband, Fred ▪ Lois Orzel by Frank Orzel Family ▪ Walter & Agnes Petrikonis by Children ▪ William Maney by wife, Irene ▪ Robert Mur-ray by Mary Vavra ▪ Darek Janiszewski by Krysia Zduniak Family ▪ Thomas Cupina by wife, Geraldine

Sanctuary Candles Our Sanctuary Candles burn this week

for the Glory and Honor of Almighty God, and in loving memory of

Helen Letkiewicz (5 year anniversary) from Peter Letkiewicz

Collection Totals—Jan. 21

Regular $2922 Loose $38 Fuel $77 School Red $17

Sol of Mary $10 Bldg Maint $69 Child & Fam $32 Hope Appeal $125

Total: $3290

Weekly Budget Goal: $5,580

February 2, BINGO #5

Workers: J. & M. Choynowski, F. Vrablic, M. Baer, B. Gladhill, S. Vaskovic Serv. Kit: M. Zembek, V. Scheffer Cook Kit: L. Scheffer-Wilson, K. Francik Supplies: P. Stiner Treasurer: M. Jacobs Pull Tabs: L. Zabadal Cashier: P. Stiner

Thank you to all our bingo volun-teers!

Our Sanctuary Candle burns this week to the glory and honor of Almighty God, and

in loving memory of

The deceased parishioners of S.S. Cyril & Methodius Church

Collection Totals—Jan. 20/21

Regular $3250 Loose $210 Heat & Air $347 Sol of Mary $61

Total: $3868

Weekly Budget Goal: $5,900

There is Coffee & Doughnuts Jan. 28 & Feb. 4

Bingo Kitchen opens at 4:30pm

Pondering Stewardship Stewardship involves the conscientious, firm decision, carried out con-stantly in action, to conduct one’s self as a follow-er of Jesus, regardless of the cost.

MASS REQUESTS - If you are interested in re-questing a Mass for 2018 at either Holy Trinity or St. Cyril’s, please contact the Parish Office.

Please mark your envelopes! When filling out your weekly enve-lopes, please be sure to include the amount of your offering on the

cover. Thank you!

Our Parishes & Pastoral Care Area

Please notify us if you have a family member who is homebound or in a Nursing Home. We want to be sure to add them to our flower delivery list and bulletin mailing list. Please also let us know if you know someone who is homebound or in a nursing home who would like a visit from a parish representative. Keeping in touch with our parishioners who can no longer attend Mass is im-portant to us. Please call the office at 724-1372 to let us know.

Holy Trinity Mardi Gras Updates—We are look-ing for donations for our basket raffle which will be held during the Mardi Gras celebration. Please

bring your baskets to the Church Hall (Prospect Street entrance only!) between 9:30 and 11:30am on Saturday, Feb. 3. Thank you in advance for your help!

We also need baked goods for our Cake Wheel; these can be brought to the Church Hall on Satur-day, Feb. 10 between 9 and 11am.

Tickets for Mardi Gras on Saturday, Feb. 10 from 1-4pm are now on sale! Tickets are $5 for adults, $1 for children ages 6-12, and children 5 & under are free.

Holy Trinity Envelopes—Please contact the Par-ish Office to make arrangements to pick up your 2018 envelopes. If you no longer wish to receive envelopes, please let us know, as it does cost the Church money to have them printed. Any enve-lopes remaining in the office after January 31 will be marked as “inactive” in our parishioner list.

Information on Formed—All those in our Pasto-ral Care Area (PCA) are provided a subscription to Formed, an online resource for the best Catho-lic content, including e-books, movies, studies, and videos. You may access the subscription by visiting FORMED.org to register. The parish ac-cess code is T44BBZ.FORMED. There are many free resources available. If you have any ques-tions, please contact the Parish Office.

Are you recently retired? Are you looking to volunteer your time for a worthy cause? St. Cyril’s is looking for volunteers to take Eucha-rist to the homebound, and to meet with fami-lies to plan funeral liturgies. If interested, please call Barb Hill at the Parish Office.

St. Cyril’s Altar Rosary Meeting—Our next Altar Rosary Meeting will be held on Sunday, February 4 following the 10:15am Mass in the Upper Room. The meeting will be followed by a covered dish lunch. Please sign up on the sheet at the Parking Lot entrance.

Donations for St. Cyril’s Weekly Bagged Lunch Program—Donations are needed for our Wednes-day weekly bagged lunch program for those in need

in our community. We are in need of sandwich baggies, peanut butter, jelly, bologna, American cheese, and bottled water. Donations can be brought to the Church Hall on Wednesdays be-tween 9am and 1pm, on Fridays between 9am and 4:30pm, and before or after the weekend Masses. Your generosity is truly appreciated!

THANK YOU to all who have donated Winter coats and clothing! Your generosity is truly ap-preciated by those in need in our community!! Do-nations are still needed and welcomed—all dona-tions can be brought to the basement of the St. Cyril’s Parish Hall before or after any weekend Mass throughout the Winter months.

Book Club—The St. James Book Club meet on Monday, January 29 at 6:30pm in the McDevitt Room. Please read 1 Kings 12:1-14:20, 1 Kings 15:25-16:34 and Chapter 21.

St. Cyril’s Rosary Makers—We have made 55,480 rosaries to date. Most recently 425 were mailed to North Dakota to Mary’s House to be for-warded to Africa, thus saving us much money. Al-so, monthly donations are taken to Lourdes at Shippers Road in Vestal, and Lourdes Chemo De-partment in Binghamton. Thank you ladies who are totally dedicated to our rosary makers group! God bless you! If you are in need of rosaries, please contact me. Eileen Kumpon, Chairman

JANUARY 28 - ORDINARY TIME

VOCATIONS—It takes courage to pray for vocations from your own parish and family. Moses promised, “A prophet like me will the Lord, your God, raise up for you from among your own kin.” Pray that the Lord might raise up someone in

your family t o serve as a religious sister, brother, or priest.

Protecting God’s Children: Contact Safe Envi-ronment Coordinator Jacqueline Bressett, jbre-sette@syrdio.org for information. Any person working with children needs to take this train-ing. Additional training sessions will be scheduled in the coming weeks.

Initial training sessions:

Wed, 3/14 at 1pm - Catholic Charities, Bing-hamton (limited seating)

Recertification sessions: Mon, 1/29 at 6pm - St. Mary’s, Binghamton Sat, 3/10 at 11am - St. Mary’s, Binghamton Tues, 4/17 at 11am - Sts John & Andrew, Bing-hamton

A Family Perspective Today’s gospel reminds us “unclean spirits” still haunt our families. These “spirits” thrive inside our grudges, punishing si-lence, impatience, and abruptness. Today Jesus offers you the “authority” to cast out these spirits from your life and your family.

PRAY FOR VOCATIONS We pray this month especially for: Dennis Walker From Our Lady of Hope,

Syracuse Theology II St. Mary’s Seminary

Daily Mass Winter Reminder—When school is cancelled or delayed for the Binghamton or Johnson City School Districts due to inclement weather, the 8am Mass at Holy Trinity will be can-

celled for that day.

10th Annual IGNITE Catholic Men’s Conference, sponsored by the Diocese of Syracuse will be held March 24, 2018 and will in-clude Deacon Harold Burke-Silver, Michael Komisarek, and Dr. Peter Kreeft as speakers. Contact Rick

Sanguinito at 607-222-3509 for more information. All Catholic men are welcome!

32nd Annual Knights for Life Spaghetti Dinner featuring sauce and meatballs by Cortese Res-taurant will be held Sunday, Jan 28 from 12-5pm at Knights of Columbus Council No. 206, 136 Park Ave, Binghamton. Adult tickets are $10, chil-dren (under 12) are $5. Dinner includes spaghetti and meatballs, salad, dessert, bread, coffee, tea & milk. All proceeds benefit our local Right to Life & Birthright. Tickets are available at the door. For more ticket information call Len Almy at 427-3555, Charlie Browning at 725-7516, or Michael Murphey at 765-9201. Takeout orders are availa-ble (must be picked up by 4pm) by calling 771-8303.

Best Lent Ever—Don’t give up chocolate for Lent! Instead, take a 40 day journey to become the best-version-of-yourself. Sign up at dy-namiccatholic.com/Lent to receive a daily inspirational message each day of Lent.

Ladies of Charity Scholarships—The Ladies of Charity will award two $500 scholarships to high school seniors who plan to pursue a service-oriented career which specifically makes a differ-ence in someone’s life. The scholarship is based on academic achievement, financial need, and service to school, church, and community. Please see your school guidance counselor for an appli-cation. The deadline is April 27, 2018.

Women’s Lenten Retreat—A Lenten Retreat for Catholic Women will be held Saturday, February 24, 8 am - 12:30 pm at St. Vincent De Paul/Blessed Sacrament Church, 465 Clubhouse Rd., Vestal, NY. (Handicap Accessible) Registration begins at 8 am. The retreat includes Holy Mass with Rev. Corey VanKuren, breakfast, speaker re-flection with Sr. Mary Jane Florence Athieno LSOSF, confession and Eucharistic Adora-tion. Registration is $15 and can be done by emailing swc@syracusediocese.org, mailing the Women's Commission, c/o Diocese of Syra-cuse, 240 E. Onondaga St., Syracuse, NY 13202, or register at the door. On check, please note "Southern Retreat."

Saturday, Jan. 27 (SCM) 4:30pm - For the Parishioners

Sunday, Jan. 28—4th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:45am - George Brunette (30th anniversary) from

wife, Theresa and sons (HT) 10:15am - Evelyn Aton from Kristen & Rick Stefano

(SCM) 10:30am - For the Parishioners (HT)

Monday, Jan. 29 (HT) 8:00am - For the Parishioners

Tuesday, Jan. 30 (SCM) 12:05pm - For the Parishioners

Wednesday, Jan. 31 (HT) 8:00am - For the Parishioners

Thursday, Feb. 1 (SCM) 12:05pm - For the Parishioners

Friday, Feb. 2 (HT) 8:00am - For the Parishioners

Saturday, Feb. 3 (SCM) 4:30pm - William Orband from wife, Julianne Orband

Sunday, Feb. 4—5th Sunday in Ordinary Time 8:45am - Agnes & Walter Petrikonis from children (HT) 10:15am - For the Parishioners (SCM) 10:30am - For the Parishioners (HT)

Monday, Jan. 29 8:00am - Daily Mass (HT)

Tuesday, Jan. 30 10:00am - Holy Hour (HT) 12:05pm - Daily Mass (SCM) 12:30pm - Divine Mercy Chaplet (SCM)

Wednesday, Jan. 31 8:00am - Daily Mass (HT)

Thursday, Feb. 1 12:05pm - Daily Mass (SCM) 12:30pm - Divine Mercy Chaplet (SCM) 1:00pm - Legion of Mary (SCM) 7:00pm - Joint Choir Rehearsal (HT)

Friday, Feb. 2 8:00am - Daily Mass (HT) 6:45pm - Bingo (HT/SCM)

Sunday, Feb. 4 11:15am - Religious Education Classes (grades K-9) 12:30pm - Confirmation Direct Prep at St. James

The Week Ahead

Mass Intentions