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2100 Baseline Rd., Grand Island NY ststephenswny.com
A Respect Life Parish
24 January 2021
CLERGY Pastoral Admin. - Rev. Raymond G. Corbin [email protected] Ext. 102
PARISH OFFICE 773-7647 Opt#1
Fax 773-5792
Business Manager Karen Sweet / Ext. 104
Admin Asst. Sandra Beyer Ext. 101 Admin Asst. Lori Lenz Ext. 114
FAITH FORMATION 773-7647 Opt. #3 Fax 773-2231 Coordinator - Rebecca Cambria - Ext 122 [email protected] Admin Asst. Denise Ricotta - Ext.117
Parochial Vicar - Fr. Chris Emminger Ext. 107 [email protected]
Deacon Frank Kedzielawa 773-3364
Deacon Tom Sutton 329-2292
TRUSTEES Carl Walbert 773-2518 Richard Sander 773-3929
PARISH SCHOOL PK3 – GR 8 773-7647 Opt#2
Fax 773-1438 www.ststephensgi.org
Principal - Lynn Ortiz Ext 119
[email protected] Admin Asst. Ramona Dewitt Ext 119
MASS SCHEDULE Saturday~ 4:30pm (Organ/ Piano) Sunday~ 7:30am (Organ), 9:00am (Choir) 11:00am
(Contemporary Ensemble)
DAILY MASS Monday to Friday~8:00am *Holy Days: Check Bulletin or Website
PARISH MEMBERSHIP New parishioners can register online or stop at the rectory for more information.
WEDDINGS Arrangements must be made with a parish priest no less than six months before the wedding.
Pre-marriage preparation is required.
MINISTRY TO THE SICK AND HOMEBOUND Call the rectory to make arrangements for the Sacramentof the
Anointing of theSick or to have Holy Communion brought to the home. A Communal Annointing of The
Sick is held on the last Friday of each month at the 8:00am Mass.
BAPTISMS Please call the parish deacons to arrange a baptism. Parents must be registered parishioners.
Baptisms may be scheduled during any weekend Masses or privately. Parents must attend a one-time
preparation class which is offered monthly. Deacon Frank Kedzielawa: [email protected] 773-3364
Deacon Tom Sutton:[email protected] 329-2292
RECONCILIATION (CONFESSIONS) Saturday: 3:00–4:00 or anytime by appointment. Reconciliation Room is
in the daily Mass chapel.
ST. STEPHEN RC CHURCH
Music Director - Max Mauro Ext# 126
Cemetery Inquiries Ext. 101
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
The Wine is offered this week in memory of
Paul Gipp
With Love from his wife Georgianna & Family
Sunday: Jon 3:1-5, 10/Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 [4a]/1 Cor 7:29-31/Mk 1:14-20
Monday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22/Ps 117:1bc, 2 [Mk 16:15]/Mk 16:15-18
Tuesday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5/Ps 96:1-2a, 2b-3, 7-8a, 10 [3]/Mk 3:31-35
Wednesday: Heb 10:11-18/Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4 [4b]/Mk 4:1-20
Thursday: Heb 10:19-25/Ps 24:1-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 [cf. 6]/Mk 4:21-25
Friday: Heb 10:32-39/Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40 [39a]/Mk 4:26-34
Saturday: Heb 11:1-2, 8-19/Lk 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75 [cf. 68]/Mk 4:35-41
Next Sunday: Dt 18:15-20/Ps 95:1-2, 6-7, 7-9 [8]/1 Cor 7:32-35/Mk 1:21-2
MASS INTENTIONS
Monday, January 25~Conversion of St. Paul, Apostle
8:00am~Paul Gipp (Wife, Georgianna)
Tuesday, January 26~Saints Timothy & Titus, Bishops
8:00am~Elizabeth Podsiadlo (Family)
Wednesday, January 27~Weekday
8:00am~Ezequiel Ruiz (Junior HighTeachers, School 33)
Thursday, January 28~St. Thomas Aquinas
8:00am~Jack Wirth (Paulette & Greg Voyzey)
Rebecca Stowell (Michael McKeating)
Friday, January 29~Weekday
8:00am~Editha Hillock Kapoor (Sister, Linda)
~Anointing of the Sick Mass
Saturday, January 30~Weekday
4:30pm~ Deceased Members of Borgese &
Massaro Family (Jim & Marie Massaro)
Sunday, January 31~4th Sunday in Ordinary Time
7:30am~John Wirth (Gagola & Mills Families)
9:00am~Charles & Carmella Giambra (John & Judy Bauer)
Ann Hegarty (The Altar Society)
11:00am~Trudy Walbert (Deacon Frank Kedzielwawa)
Ziggy Ruiz (Carol & Jim Maul)
The Sanctuary Lamp burns this week for
Lawrence Desemone
With Love from Family
Conversion of St. PaulConversion of St. PaulConversion of St. Paul Feast DayFeast DayFeast Day January 25th January 25th January 25th
Garofalo 1481-1559, Yale University
The Wine is offered this week in memory of
Paul Gipp
With Love from his wife Georgianna & Family
There will be a second
collection next weekend,
Jan. 30 & 31st for the
Catholic Relief Fund
24 January 2021
It was a normal day by all accounts, but John just wasn’t feeling him-self. He was a little lightheaded and out of sorts. Later in the afternoon, he experienced a sharp pain in his chest and arm. Quick thinking and action brought John to the emergency department with a diagnosis of a significant heart attack. Surviving this ordeal, he found himself face to face with his cardiologist, having an honest conversation about things that needed to change. “I came close to death,” John found himself thinking. Then came the remorse. He was a young man with a loving
wife and children who were very close to facing life without him. John found himself with intense sorrow for living an unchecked and self-indulgent life that almost brought him to his demise. He wanted to change.
We all have our wake-up calls. We have experiences and encounters that force us to really think twice about choices we have made and directions we have taken. Often, we find ourselves looking at those we have hurt square in the eye and wallowing in our fool-ishness. We regrettably realize that we have allowed our needs to lure us into making some cruel mistakes. We impulsively say things and flippantly do things that reveal our unredeemed and unhealed self. It is a self we stumble over and try to tame but can’t quite seem to master and control. Help!
We spin our wheels, naively thinking that we will somehow, perhaps through persistence, get ourselves unstuck. But, we don’t. We just get out of the car, feeling very helpless, and ignorantly look at the mess we got ourselves into. Did we ever think to ask some-one for help? Or, taken the advice of One who is wiser and avoid this route altogether? “Come after me,” are words that Jesus says to all of us. In order to heed his invitation, we must leave our ego-self behind and follow.
When we really see and understand the freedom, peace, justice, and love he offers, we find ourselves with such sorrow in our hearts for how foolish and silly we have been. All the misguided choices and sinful actions come full view and we see how risky our random impassioned behaviors really have been. Repentance is beautiful. When done with a sincere and contrite heart, it di-rects us to the glory that can be ours, ignites us with the challenge of living a life in service of others and reminds us that all is well.
NEWS Respect Life Committee meets every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 7 PM. Questions? Call Mark or Kathy (773-5726). We welcome new members for our committee! Please call
Kathy or Mark for meeting location until we are again able to meet at the church.
† Lou Macro † Kevin Beyer Jr. † Pat Fitzgerald, † Susanne McMahon
Megan Johnson Brett Lombardo † Richard Pyc † Linda, Lisa ,Jacinta & Gianna
Morinello † Frank Costanzo † Bethany Dzielski † Olga Demicke † Bill Ortiz †
Fr. Dan Fiebelkorn † Eveylen Strobel †Brian Fitzpatrick † Sandy Caffery †
Dorothy Jourdain † Bill Appenzeller † Deanna N. Pavone † Denise N. Baker † Dorothy Lew † Don Bartus † Francis Roman
† Maria DelSignore † Luann Moliterno † Mary Pascucci
And the Deceased…….Richard Furman, Rosemarie McDonald, James Holler, Gary Stott
24 January 2021
GENERATIONS IN
Materials are still available at the Faith Formation Office for those families that are beginning their formation at home. Please contact us anytime. The Sponsor/Candidate Meeting scheduled for January 25 has been postponed. All 10th grade Confirmation Candi-dates should be working on and completing the require-ments in the red Confirmation Packet that was mailed to you. These packets can be dropped off at the Faith For-mation Office. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us anytime 773-7647 option #3 First Communion Families- packets have been prepared for pick up at the Faith Formation Building. They are located in the red tote outside the door. Please make ar-rangements to pick up your child’s packet this week. SSS children were given them to take home. Please be work-ing on this together. If you have any questions or con-cerns, please contact us anytime.
SCHOOL NEWS
Meeting - The next prescheduled, monthly meeting (for officers and key members only) is on Sunday, January 10, in the Community Room (Library), fol-lowing the 9:00 a.m. Mass. The meeting may be cancelled or postponed without further notice Cancelling Events - Our 4th Annual Breakfast Fund-raiser, originally pre-scheduled for Sunday, February 7, is a casualty of the pandemic. Without the profit from this event, we must consider: (1) cancelling both the woman- and man-of the-year awards and the scholarship; (2) adjusting or eliminating some annual donations. Hosting the pre-scheduled Holy Name District 10 meeting on Thursday, May 20 is also in jeopardy.
of St. Stephen Parish
2020 Year End Contribution Statements can be emailed to you or snail mailed - call the parish office, 773.7647
PSALMS II -PRAYING WITH JESUS Beginning Tuesday evenings 7:30 PM: January 12, 2021
This 6 week study takes a look at 6 psalms that played an important role in Jesus' life and will help you apply those words to your life and prayers today. Study book $8
JESUS: THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE Beginning Wednesday mornings 9:30, January 20, 2021
(hospitality room) This 10 week study is filmed on location in the Holy Land and anchored in the life of Christ as presented in the Gospels. This study explores the Jesus' life -who he is, what he is really like, what he taught, what he did for our salvation and what all this means for us as Catholics today. Study guide, book, Jesus TimeLine Chart,& online ac-cess $30. REGISTRATION NEEDED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. FILL OUT FORM BELOW AND DROP OFF AT THE RECTORY OFFICE OR DROP IN THE COLLECTION.
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Two studies to begin in January with Covid precautions.
St. Stephen St. Stephen St. Stephen
We will be unable to hold our in-person open house. We will host a virtual open house, but we are currently looking for a parent or student alumni to speak about their experience at SSS during masses on January 30 & 31st. We are looking for 4 volunteers, one for each mass, to speak for approximately 2 minutes. If this is something you can help with please contact [email protected] or [email protected] or call 773-7647 to leave a message with the school office.
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Give Until It Hurts
One of the characteristics of Everyday Stewardship is to be committed — to persevere daily in a way of life acknowledging that everything belongs to God. I know, I know. Easier said than done. Just ask Zebedee. It’s quite an image we get from the Gospel, after all. “So they left their father Zebedee in the boat along with the hired men and followed him.” There was Zebedee, about his business, mending nets with his two sons, who were undoubtedly his best workers — they had to have been more dedicated than the hired men, who worked for wages rather than for family. And in an instant off they go, following this strange man. I don’t know about you, but if my kids left me on a hot summer day to finish the lawn by myself, I wouldn’t be too happy. But Zebedee must have been someone quite special. Perhaps he realized that his sons didn’t belong to him — not really. They belonged to God, and from the beginning of time, it had been appointed that they would be among the first disciples of Christ. He passed, he called, they followed, and Zebedee obliged. He simply went back to mending his nets, I imagine. Zebedee already understood what St. Teresa of Calcutta would say millennia later: “Give until it hurts.” “You’re wasting my time.” “I’ve done so much for her; she owes me this.” How often do we think things, and even people and relationships, belong to us? The truth is none of them do. We must be ready, as Zebedee was, to surrender them to God when He comes walking past. — Tracy Earl Welliver, MTS
The Search from FORMED is an innovative video-based journey that tackles the key questions of every human heart. In
seven beautifully filmed episodes, Chris Stefanick and experts from the fields of science, medicine, psychology, art, and reli-
gion examine our place in the larger story of existence. It’s easy for any parish that subscribes to FORMED to be part of this
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Episode 4—What’s Our Story
By universal consent, Thomas Aquinas is the preeminent spokesman of the Catholic tradition of reason and of divine revelation. He is one of the great teachers of the medieval Catholic Church, honored with the titles Doctor of the Church and Angelic Doctor. At five he was given to the Benedictine monastery at Monte Cassino in his parents’ hopes that he would choose that way of life and eventually became abbot. In 1239, he was sent to Naples to complete his studies. It was here that he was first attracted to Aristotle’s philosophy. By 1243, Thomas abandoned his family’s plans for him and joined the Domini-cans, much to his mother’s dismay. On her order, Thomas was captured by his brother and kept at home for over a year. Once free, he went to Paris and then to Cologne, where he finished his studies with Albert the Great. He held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of
Pope Urban IV, directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo, combated adversaries of the mendicants, as well as the Averroists, and argued with some Franciscans about Aristotelianism. His greatest contribution to the Catholic Church is his writings. The unity, harmony, and continuity of faith and reason, of revealed and natural human knowledge, pervades his writings. One might expect Thomas, as a man of the gospel, to be an ardent defender of revealed truth. But he was broad enough, deep enough, to see the whole natural order as coming from God the Creator, and to see reason as a divine gift to be highly cherished. The Summa Theologiae, his last and, unfortunately, uncompleted work, deals with the whole of Catholic theology. He stopped work on it after celebrating Mass on December 6, 1273. When asked why he stopped writing, he replied, “I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.” He died March 7, 1274.
3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
Holy Name News
OUR LADY OF POMPEII PARISH FEBRUARY FAITH ENRICHMENT SPEAKER Join us on Monday, February 8, 2021 from 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. in the AUD at 129 Laverack Ave, Lancaster, NY 14086! Deacon Dave Rotterman will give a presentation entitled: "WHY, GOD? The Struggle to Understand Suffering." RSVP REQUIRED for social distancing: 716-683-6522 www.olpparish.com
200 St. Gregory Court Williamsville, NY 14221
Traditional Polish Dinner 1/30/2021 from 4-7 pm Drive-Thru Pick-Up Dinner includes: 1 golumbki, 1 smoked kielbasa link, 2 Babcia’s farmer’s cheese pierogi, Sweet & sour red cabbage, and Rye bread & butter. Pre-sale Price $12.00. Day of Price $14.00 Pick up at the St. Gregory the Great Parish Ministry Center (100 St. Gregory Court). Purchase tickets: At the Parish Office, Catholic Store or contact Youth Ministry 688-5678 or online at https://givebutter.com/Stgregspolishdinner
Take Out Valentine’s Day Dinner 2/14/2021 from 1-3 pm Drive-Thru Pick-Up Menu: Salad, Beef Tenderloin, Twice-Baked Potato, Vegetable, and Dessert. Pre-Sale only. $45/per dinner, $85 for two dinners Dinners will be packaged and tenderloin will be ready to cook, the remaining meal with be ful-ly cooked with reheat instructions. Pick up at the St. Gregory the Great Parish Ministry Center (100 St. Gregory Court).
Tickets: Call 688-5678, or online using the links provided below. https://givebutter.com/bvAdi2 The Great Lenten Fish Fry’s will start on Friday, February 19. Take out only from the Minis-try Center. More information to come soon in our Bulletin and on our website at www.stgregs.org.
Appeal 2021 is underway! Bishop Michael Fisher, Appeal 2021 Chair Rick Cronin, and Deacon Steve Schumer launched the Appeal earlier this week and announced the $10 million goal, as well as HOPE for all seasons as the campaign theme and St. Ignatius Loyola as this year’s patron saint. Your dona-tion to the Appeal can support Catholic Charities of Buffalo and the Fund for the Faith. Your donation stays in Western New York. Your gift helps those in our communities who are struggling to live, work and support families, and those who need spiritual care and support. You help provide HOPE for all sea-sons. And it couldn’t be easier: visit www.ccwny.org/donation or call our Help-line at 716-218-1419 today!
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