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1325 Boot Road West Chester, PA 19380
Phone 610.692.2216 Fax 610.692.7103
www.sspeterandpaulrc.org
Saints Peter and Paul Parish
Pastor Fr. James T. McGuinn
Deacons
Deacon Patrick Stokely Deacon Robert Pierce
Director of Communications
Manisha Divecha 610.692.2216 ext:238
Office Manager; Peggy Anne Fox ext:250
Director of CYO
John Callahan [email protected]
Director of Family Ministries
Michele D’Alessandro 610.692.2216 ext:236
Safe Environment Coordinator, Mari Lyons [email protected]
Director of Finances/Facilities
Bob Angiulo 610.692.2216 ext:258
Business Manager; Julie Carlson ext:237
Facilities Manager; David Leitch ext:234
Director of Pastoral Ministries
Daniel Hoover 610.692.2216 ext:263 [email protected]
Asst. Director; Judy Magee ext:257
Principal of the School Mrs. Margaret Egan 610.696.1000 ext:202
Secretary; Barbara McCarron ext:201
Advancement Director; Barbara Downing ext:262
Director of Worship Bruce Carlson 610.692.2216 ext:265
Asst. Director of Worship; Michele Marinelli ext:264 [email protected]
Pastoral Council Members Fr. Jim McGuinn (Chair), Brian Magee (Vice Chair) Pat Crawford (Secretary), Carol Bove, Marge Donoghue, Margaret Egan, Mary Finley, Chris Lyons, Rich Marinelli, Marietta Moody, Deacon Bob Pierce, Tom Pitt, Deacon Pat Stokely
Finance Council Members
Fr. Jim McGuinn (President), Bob Angiulo, Christian Callahan (Secretary), Martin Roddy, Jim Schiele (Chair), Kevin Rulis, Thomas Mehler
Parish Office and Church Hours
Mass Schedule Saturday Vigil: 5:30 PM
Sunday: 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30 AM
Weekdays: 8:30 AM
Holydays: 8:30 AM & 5:30 PM
Holidays 9:30 AM
Confessions 4:00 PM Saturday
Church Hours Mon-Wed-Thursday 8:00 AM-5:00 PM
Tuesday 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Friday 8:00 AM-Noon Saturday 4:00 PM-6:30 PM
Sunday 7:00 AM-1:00 PM
Parish Office Hours
Monday-Thursday 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Friday 9:00 AM-Noon
February 28, 2016
Third Sunday in Lent Luke 13:1-9
Sick List and Prayer Intentions
Please pray for the parishioners listed below who are in need of our healing prayers. Due to space restrictions in the bulletin, names will remain on the list for 1 month only, unless we hear from you. Thank you . Tim Anderson, Mary Baffa, Maria Casalnova, Lou Casciato, Mary Celommi, Rita Dailey, Ralph Dastalfo, Arthur DiGiuseppe, Bob Dymowski, Mia & Lelia Finnegan, Dr. John Flanagan, John J. Flanagan, Issy Gallen, Stephanie Gallen, James & Therese Gillespie, Bob Gorey, Catherine Greenfield, Jean Grentz, Heidi Grieb, Ray Hummel, Carmen Lobis, Joe Kearney, Jeanne Kelch, John Kelch, Phil Kennedy, Christine Madden, Nancy Mandato, Jim Myers, Susan Nanoski, Jim Nelson, Bob Olseski, Mary O’Reilly, Peggy Raspa, Amy Sadowski, Helen Schaffer, Joy Shields, Marta
Simons, George Stanek, Doris Taggert, the Taylor family, Jeanne Ward, Larry Wolov.
Please keep the following family members in your prayers as military and first responders in dangerous places throughout the world.
Thomas Burns; Steve DiMaio, Marc Doucette; Mr. & Mrs. Josh & Megan Elliott; Bill Fletcher; Joe Gable; Tom Gutherman, Riley Harsh, Marc Nielson, Eric Reigner; Timothy & Mary Alice Rie-mann; John Strasser lll, Christian Troutner.
Communications Saturday, February 27, 2016 5:30 PM For Saints Peter & Paul Parishioners Sunday, February 28, 2016 7:30 AM Loretta Greim by the Applebee family 9:30 AM Chuck Hills by Robert, Elizabeth, Lauren and Caitlin Reusche
11:30AM Ann Grove by the Applebee family
Monday, February 29, 2016 8:30 AM Dorothy Pizii by Tony & Jeannie Pizii Tuesday, March 1, 2016 8:30 AM Katerina, Andrea Descovich, Iro, Giorgina Lekich, Silvana Penzo, Giacomina Marecich by Elsie & family
Wednesday, March 2, 2016 8:30 AM Dorothy Pizii by Bill & Sandi Pizii Thursday, March 3, 2016 8:30 AM Mr. & Mrs. Alfondso Asarese by Millie
Pogorzelski
Friday, March 4, 2016 8:30 AM Chris Morelli by the Morelli family
Saturday, March 5, 2106 5:30 PM Helen Murphy by John & Monica Reilly
Sunday, March 6, 2016 7:30 AM For Saints Peter & Paul Parishioners 9:30 AM Daniel O’Neill by Chris & Fran O’Neill
11:30 AM Noreen Crowley by Barbara Bonini
Please pray for the repose of the soul of the recently departed member of Saints Peter & Paul Parish family. May their soul and all the souls of the faithfully departed, rest in peace.
Mr. William Bauernschmidt Mr. Vincent Calderaro
Family Ministries
Finances/Facilities
Lenten and Holy Week Schedule 2016
STATIONS OF THE CROSS Fridays in Lent: 1:15, 7:00PM
PALM SUNDAY March 20, 2016 Masses: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30AM
(9:30AM simulcast in the Church Hall) “Were You There?” 7:00PM - A multimedia
presentation
HOLY THURSDAY March 24, 2016
Morning Prayer: 8:30AM Mass of the Lord’s Supper: 7:00PM
Eucharistic Procession immediately following Mass with Night Prayer at 9:00PM
GOOD FRIDAY March 25, 2016
Morning Prayer: 8:30AM Stations of the Cross: 12:00PM Divine Mercy Novena: 3:00PM Confessions: 3:30 to 4:30PM
Celebration of the Lord’s Passion: 7:00PM
HOLY SATURDAY March 26, 2016
Morning Prayer, Blessing of Easter Food: 8:30AM Divine Mercy Novena: 3:00PM Confessions: 3:30 to 4:30PM Easter Vigil Mass: 8:00PM
EASTER SUNDAY March 27, 2016
Masses: 7:30, 9:30, 11:30AM (9:30 simulcast in the Church hall) Divine Mercy Novena:12:30PM
The Divine Mercy Novena will continue through Easter week, following the 8:30AM daily Mass, and conclude on Saturday, April 2, at 3:00PM.
Spend An Awesome Summer at Saints Peter and Paul Summer Camps!
Full-day, half-day, and extended care available for preschoolers to tweens. Choose from: Sports, Theatre, Cooking, Art & Crafts, Cheerlead-ing, Vacation Bible Camp, and traditional Day Camp Theme Weeks. Field trips, water days, special per-formances, and FREE pizza Fridays. Hang out with old friends, and make new ones! Call 610.692.2216 ext.266 or visit: www.sspeteandpaulrc.com.
Saints Peter and Paul Summer Day Camps is looking for Summer Camp Counselors.
Working at Summer Camp is a wonderful opportuni-ty to create memories, make lasting friendships, and impact our youth. We seek responsible individ-uals with a love for kids. Imagine going to work knowing that what you do each day positively influ-ences the lives of individuals and families in your community.
Camp Counselors are responsible for ensuring that our campers have the best summer ever through guidance, interaction, and supervision. The ideal candidate is at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or equivalent and has experience working with children, preferably in a summer camp setting. If you are interested in joining our Summer Camp
team this summer, please submit resume to:
[email protected] or call 610.692.2216 ext.266.
Second Collection This Weekend
This weekend, February 27, 28, we will be taking up a second collection. This is an Archdiocesan collection for Aid to the Church in Eastern Europe.
Thank you as always, for your generosity.
Pastoral Ministries
CYO
Sunday Collection Totals February 14, 2016 Loose collection: $ 2,362.71
Envelope collection: $ 11,362.00
WeShare collection: $ 4,175.00
Total collection: $ 17,899.71
Thank you!!
High School co-ed volleyball, anyone??
Our CYO program would like to solicit families to see what level of interest there is for a Coed High School volleyball, grades 9 through12 (as of March 2016). The program and games would be geared toward providing a fun and enjoyable experience, more of relaxed competition and would run through April & May. We need to hear back from you by emailing Ross Fasco & Rochelle Rothstein, let them know the number of children, age & gender. Communicate to Rochelle & Ross, if interested. Then we will decide to move forward or not. [email protected], [email protected] �
11 Cents: God’s Native Tongue
A Catholic spiritual writer says, “Silence is God's first language.” Isn’t that fun to think that God speaks through the silence? We must seek out that silence as an act of listening. Silence however, is hard to come by these days, and if we want to ex-perience it, we usually have to intentionally seek it out. If we do sit in silence, (while being aware of God’s presence), we might not feel or sense anything and that might cause us to abandon the practice. The danger of that, is that God does not always make us aware of the work that He is doing within us in that silence. If we knew all of the transformation being done in that silence, we would be distracted by it, and might even become self-congratulatory, and less motivated, thinking of how far we have already come. We might not notice the work God is doing in si-lence because sometimes, God acts from the Spirit directly into our spirit. This might not be sensed or noticed, but we can make space to allow it to hap-pen by entering into more silence (10 to 20 minutes a day at least). Over time we will find that God has been changing us from the inside out. This was made clear to me when one day I was walking by a river. When I looked upstream the wa-ter was still and completely flat. As I looked down beneath where I stood, there were rapids roaring loudly over rocks. The message seemed to be that in prayer, even when the soul seems placid and calm, like the water upstream, God is actually amazingly active, like the rushing waters below. In that moment I felt encouraged to believe in the work of God that happens in the silence of prayer. As people with such busy lives let us honor and treat God by taking time to say, “I’m going to just be with You for awhile.” Like a child resting in a Fa-ther’s arms, let yourself be held by the Father in prayerful silence.
Daniel Hoover Director of Pastoral Ministry
Catholic Charities
Saints Peter and Paul Parish has been recognized by Catholic Charities for surpassing their 2015 Catholic Charities Appeal parish goal. The Most Reverend Charles Chaput, Archbishiop of Philadelphia, in his letter to our Pastor stated, “Your support of last year’s Catholic Charities Ap-peal brought the theme of Giving Hope to life. Be-cause of you and your parishioners, the Appeal was able to, once again, surpass its $10,000,000 goal. You clearly saw the challenges so many of our brothers and sisters face in their daily lives, and once again, you committed yourself to better-ing their reality – you gave them hope.” Thank you for your generous support!
Worship Ministries
School
Please Join Our Greeters Ministry
We bring smiles to faces, God’s love to all entering Saints Peter and Paul Church, happy hearts to all entering or leaving our Church, always lending a hand to new friends and parishioners. Please be with us: if you are interested please con-tact Joe Kearney at: [email protected], 610.212.9734 or Pat Connelly at [email protected], 610.696.8195. Thank you for your consideration. Sign up sheets are on the table in the lobby.
Spring Fundraiser April 9, 2016
Saints Peter and Paul Home and School Associa-tion Presents Live and Silent Auction Saturday, April 9, 2016 At the Desmond Hotel, Malvern. Introducing a new $10 Grand Raffle – the winner walks away with $10,000! Classroom theme bas-ket tickets will also be available. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities call the school at 610.696.1000. If you would like to donate an item or service, please email Christy at [email protected]. Thank you for supporting our parish school!
Women’s Evening Café February 29, 2016
Our next Women’s Cafe is scheduled for Monday, February 29, at 6:30PM in Parish Center room 11. Donna Teti, an inspirational writer and speaker, will be giving a moving presentation on God’s love for us. Her stories have been published in Chicken Soup for the Soul books, Guideposts Magazine and His Mysterious Ways Magazine. Through her inspirational stories of God’s compassion and ever-present love, Donna hopes to refresh our souls, lift our spirits, and remind us that even in the dark-est of times to turn to our Lord for guidance and healing graces. All of the women of our parish are encouraged to attend for an evening of refresh-ment, friendship and fun. Bring a friend!
Appalachia Service Trip
�As part of our Outreach opportunities at Saints Pe-ter and Paul, we have been investigating a trip to build and renovate homes in some of the poorest parts of our country, near the Appalachian Moun-tains. Construction experience is very helpful but not required. Because this is a new endeavor, we are not sure if we are prepared to take a trip this summer or if we will have to wait until next summer. To find out if there is enough interest, we are hav-ing an information meeting on: February 24 from 7:00PM to 8:30PM, in the Parish Center. If we were to take a trip this summer, it would be July 23 to July 30, 2016, and the cost would be $375 per per-son. If you’re interested in going or learning about future trips please contact Daniel Hoover at [email protected] or extension 263 ASAP.
Operation Easter Outfit 2016
Partners in Outreach is collecting new Easter outfits for boys and girls, sizes Infant to 16, this year for the St. Agnes Day Room and Coatesville YWCA Family Center.
A coat rack in the church basement will be labeled Operation Easter Outfit 2016 for any new clothing donations.
Please contact Barb Quinn at: 610.344.0418 with any questions or vis-it partnersinoutreach.org for any additional infor-mation. Thank you and God bless you and your families this Lenten season.
Casserole Sunday February 28, 2016
Please have your casseroles in the freezer this Sunday, February 28. Supplies and instructions are in the cabinet in the freezer room, in the lobby of Church. Thank you!
Local News
Ushers Ministry
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Worship is looking for a volunteers to fill out the ranks of our Ushers Ministry. We could use some help at all the Masses but most especially at the 11:30 Sunday Mass. Among their duties, our ush-ers help seat and guide parishioners before Mass-es, take up collections and direct and assist the assembly during Holy Communion. If you are look-ing for a way to get involved at SSPP please con-tact Bruce Carlson at 610-692-2216 ext. 265 or send an email to [email protected].
Young Adults: Join Us for Praise & Worship Adoration
March 2, 2106
Are you a Catholic adult in your 20s and 30s? CYACC (pronounced "kayak") exists to offer you social, spiritual, and service opportunities in the local area. Join us Wednesday March 2, 2016 for our monthly Praise & Worship Adoration. Holy Hour begins at 7:30PM in the lower chapel of St. Agnes in West Chester.
Confession will be available. For more info, check us out on Facebook or email us at [email protected].
Man Up Philly
March 12, 2016
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia is hosting their
8th annual Men's conference with speakers like
Rich Gannon (former NFL quarterback), Curtis
Martin (founder of Focus), and John Scoot Thom-
son (Camden NJ, Chief of Police). The conference
is March 12, 2016 at St. Joe’s University from
8:00AM to 5:00PM. For more info and to register
visit ManUpPhilly.com.
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Villa Maria Academy High School News
Practice Entrance Exam for 7th Graders on: April 23, and 30 9:00 AM to 12:30PM
Visit Villa Days for 7th Graders on: April 29 and May 20
Visitors will spend part of the day at Villa and re-ceive a preview of Villa Maria’s school curriculum by attending classes and having lunch with current students. Preview Breakfasts for 6th and 7th Graders on: April 22, May 9, May 13 8:30AM to 10:30AM
The morning will include a brief presentation fol-lowed by a tour of Villa’s campus during regular class time. Register online for each of these events at: www.vmahs.org. The following students from our parish have re-ceived honors at Villa for the First Semester of this school year: Distinguished honors: Christine Kovell, Allison Leyden First honors: Shannon Smith, Grace Kuroki, Courtney Chambers, Emily Gillin, Rebecca Ostein, Alyssa Viscardo
Second honors: Caroline Bradford, Elizabeth Callahan, Laura Davis, Sarah Delaney, Aislinn Walsh
Congratulations to all our students for doing their very best!
Archbishop Carroll Honor Roll
Kyle W. Cummings has achieved honors for the First Semester of the school year. Congratulations, Kyle, and keep up the good work.
