We, Blessed Sacrament Parish, Are a Christ-Centered Community,
Committed to Worship the Father, Committed to Respond to the Spirit’s Gifts,
Committed to Loving Service to All God’s People
Nosotros, la Parroquia del Santísimo Sacramento, Somos una Comunidad Centrada en Cristo,
Comprometidos a Adorar al Padre, Comprometidos a Responder a los Dones del Espíritu Santo,
Comprometidos en el Servicio Amoroso a Todo el Pueblo de Dios
Masks are required.
We will continue to stream our Masses on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BSCWV/
for anyone who cannot come to Mass in person.
Worship aids for each Mass will be sent to all by separate emails.
After each weekend and holy day Mass you may drive up to our south entrance to receive Holy Communion in your car.
If you wish to receive Holy Communion in your car,
please send a text or leave a voicemail at 304-377-3560 to let us know that you will be coming.
Mass Schedule
Sunday 11/14 9:00am + Violet Gedeon by Missy & Larry Summey
11:30am Our Parish Family
Thursday 11/18 Noon + Mrs. Joyce Hoagland Eby by Marietta Fenton
Friday 11/19 Noon + Rosie Webb by Sandy Williams
Saturday 11/20 5:30pm + Leonard Beck by John & Arlene Hanna
Sunday 11/21 9:00am + Mike Howard by Joyce Kelley
11:30am Our Parish Family
We Remember in Our Prayers Barbara Baldy, Bo Burdette, Elizabeth Coleman, Matthew Crabtree, Karol Dunford, Joe Eisel, Marietta Fenton,
Joe Fernandes, Andrew Fields, Rose Finch, Patty Geissinger, Dante Geronilla, John Gianola, Sr. Joe Gregg,
Kathleen Groom, John Hanna, Ann Henderson, John & Claire Johnson, John Lordan, Bob Lucas, Louann Lynch-Kelley,
Sheila Kerns, Alec Mansfield, Mike McCready, Buz and Barbara McCormick, Evelyn Miller, Keith Morgan,
Marie Richardson, Michelle Smith, Nicholas Taylor, Sandy Wheeler, Lily Woolwine, Toni Van Meter
We Are Requesting Addresses for Our College Students
Once again, we would like to send "We Care" packages to all parishioners who are
away at college. Please write your student’s current address in the appropriate space
on the table in our Gathering Space or email us at haasjeanne@hotmail.com.
This Week at Blessed Sacrament Parish Anyone can participate in our Masses and Adoration by just going to www.facebook.com/BSCWV/.
All are most welcome to join all of our ZOOM gatherings but they must have received a personal email with connection information – so let us know if YOU want "in".
Day Date Time Event Location
Sat 11/13 9:00am Men's Bible Study Group (Letter of James) ZOOM
4:30 – 5:00pm Confessions Reconciliation Room
5:30pm Mass Sanctuary & Facebook.com/BSCWV/
Warm Up Kits Weekend
Purls Knitting Ministry Display
11:30am Mass Sanctuary & Facebook.com/BSCWV/
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83890375662?pw d=eGtuaWk0ZGp4b0tKaW9Rd2FBVXZBdz09
ZOOM & Parish Hall
7:00pm Dismas Men’s Group ZOOM
Mon 11/15 6:00pm RCIA Room 5
6:00pm Parkinson’s Support Group Parish Hall
Tue 11/16 1:00pm Medicare Seminar Parish Hall
5:00pm All Youth assemble Thanksgiving Baskets Parish Hall
1:00pm
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82507096646?pw d=Y0U2VjFNQktSYTNCZjEyRkR1ZDVpUT09
ZOOM & Parish Hall
Wed 11/17 10:00am Wednesday Morning Bible Study – Luke Parish Hall & Zoom
Noon Mass Chapel & Facebook.com/BSCWV/
7:00pm Bible Study – Sunday Readings ZOOM
7:00pm
6:00pm Surviving the Holidays Seminar Parish Hall
6:00pm Bell Rehearsal Sanctuary
7:00pm Choir Rehearsal Sanctuary
Noon Mass Chapel
4:30 – 5:00pm Confessions Reconciliation Room
5:30pm Mass Sanctuary & Facebook.com/BSCWV/
11:30am Mass Sanctuary & Facebook.com/BSCWV/
1:00pm Advent Craft Workshop Parish Hall
SUNDAY EVENING MASSES IN OUR AREA Sacred Heart, Charleston 5:00 PM Saint Joseph, Huntington 5:30 PM Our Lady of Fatima Huntington 6:30 PM.
Praying Together: Ideas for Developing Family Payer in Your Home
Let’s Have an Attitude of Gratitude
Gratitude for God’s goodness is the foundation of Christian prayer. In fact, the word
Eucharist is Greek for “thanksgiving”. Genuine gratitude turns what we have into
enough when we realize that its one true source is God! Here are some ideas for
praying with gratitude.
At mealtime or bedtime prayer, give thanks for the blessings of that particular
day. The advantage of doing this at mealtime is that all family members can hear
everyone’s blessings.
Develop the habit of thanking one another. Thank the cook and helpers for a nice
meal. Thank children for helping with chores. Thank parents for their help with
homework. Thank those who do the laundry and household chores. Encourage
children to watch for things for which they can express thanks.
Make a family Book of Gratitude. In the book allow each person to write what
one thing was the greatest blessing of the day. [a dry erase board works too!]
Send a thank-you note to grandparents, a neighbor, or a friend who has been a
blessing in your life.
Since the word “Eucharist” means “thanksgiving”, make it a priority for your family
to attend Mass in person or on the live stream each weekend to give thanks to
God for one another and for your life together.
Make a family Gratitude Box. Decorate a shoebox. Put it in a place that is
convenient for all family members. Each person can write blessings on individual
pieces of paper. Then deposit their papers in the box. On Thanksgiving, open the
box and read everyone’s blessings as part of your prayer.
Make a Gratitude Mural. Set aside some wall space for posting words of
gratitude. Get creative and make a mural—for example, a tree in which the leaves
are prayers of thanks, a rainbow with raindrops of thanks, etc.
Now that you have developed an Attitude of Gratitude, you will want to keep on saying
“thank you” to God to one another—all year. Happy Thanksgiving!
All good gifts around us are sent from heaven above;
Then thank the Lord, O thank the Lord for all his love.
Opportunities for Giving
Warm Up Kits (This weekend and the weekend of Dec. 11/12)
Instead of hygiene supplies, please consider donating warm hats, scarves, gloves and socks for the
women participating in the substance abuse recovery homes we help.
Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) (weekend of Nov. 20/21)
Next week our special collection will support the CCHD. More than 38 million people in the United
States live in poverty. This collection supports programs that empower people to identify and address
the obstacles they face as they work to bring permanent and positive change to their communities.
Learn more about the CCHD at www.usccb.org/cchd.
Christmas Stars (available weekend of Nov. 27/28)
Gifts for children – Catholic Charities of WV, western region, has asked for our help in gathering
Christmas gifts for needy children in our region. Each star will include a description of a child’s hoped
for items.
Coats and Blankets (weekends of Nov. 27/28 and Dec. 4/5)
For several years a various service providers and community volunteers have run a temporary
warming station/shelter for the homeless and those living with inadequate heating in Kanawha
County. Our goal is to keep our fellow human beings warm, safe, fed AND ALIVE when the
temperature drops below 15 degrees.
Clean blankets and coats can be placed in a parishioner’s old and abused silver Ford Ranger pickup
truck with a black truck-cap in the main church lot between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. The truck-cap will be
unlocked and donations can be placed in the back. There will be a sign in truck-cap window.
If you are interested in volunteering to work at the shelter contact: Margaret Ann O’Neal,
Phone 304-340-3503, Cell: 304-673-9599, or moneal@unitedwaycwv.org
Christmas Food Baskets for Good Shepherd Food Pantry (between now and Christmas)
Each year Blessed Sacrament donates around $15,000 to the Good Shepherd Food Pantry in Coalburg
to purchase supplies to make Christmas food baskets for about 300 needy families. Please consider
making monetary donations for this very important activity. Write “Food Baskets” in your check’s
memo line.
Our Solar Panel Project
We need about $22,000 to have all of the funding we need for our solar panel project. (That means
you have already donated $60,000!) Please write “solar” in the memo line of your check if you would
like to make a donation.
Thank you for helping us reach 75% of the funding we needed to move forward with our solar panel
project! Wow!
Thank You
Thank you for your generous donations of mac & cheese, cranberry sauce, carrots, etc. These and
your monetary gifts will provide Thanksgiving meal baskets for 150 families in the Coalburg area and
25 families here in the South Charleston area.
As always, thank you for helping us live the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, especially:
#2: Call to Family, Community, and Participation,
#4: Option for the Poor and Vulnerable, and
#6: Solidarity
”As you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” (Matthew 25:40)
Blessed Sacrament Parish Ministries - Liturgy
Liturgical Ministers – November 13/14
Altar Servers Rick Brennan
Communion:
Communion
Altar Servers Rick Brennan Chip Counsil Jeanne Jarrett
Cantors Joe Deegan Jack Dever John Shawler
Communion:
Communion
Attention Lectors! Please pick up your new Lector Workbook ASAP.
You will find your workbook in the gathering space.
Blessed Sacrament Parish Ministries - Vocations
31 Club this week DAY November
SUN 14 Shelley Nason
MON 15 Connie Jarzynski
TUE 16 Connie Jarzynski
FRI 19 Andrea Null Herrick
SAT 20 Sandy Wheeler Denise Burgess Moon Musilli and Peg Musilli
Serran Prayer for Vocations
O God, Who wills not the death of a sinner, but rather that he be converted and live, grant we beseech you, through the intercession of the Blessed Mary ever Virgin, Saint Joseph, her spouse, Saint Junipero Serra, and all the saints, an increase of laborers for Your church, fellow laborers with Christ to spend and consume themselves for souls, through the same Jesus Christ Your Son, Who lives and reigns with You, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever, and ever. Amen.
Blessed Sacrament Parish Ministries – Faith Formation
Advent Craft Workshop! Sunday, November 21, 2021
1:00PM in the Parish Hall
Fun for ALL AGES!
Sign up at haasjeanne@hotmail.com or text 304-382-2631
NEW FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP
Using Father Richard Rohr’s book: “Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the
Twelve Steps”
We will gather once a month in person and via Zoom to discuss the challenges of
family life relating to parenting and being a family member.
Focus will be on issues of emotional health, substance abuse, human development,
and recognizing the signs of need.
This book teaches how to move from a fear-driven life to a confidence of facing all
life challenges with serenity.
The next session is this Sunday, November 14, 2021, at 1:30pm
Sessions will be offered the second Sunday of each month
In person – go to the Room 5/Library
Time: Nov 14, 2021 01:30 PM
Join Zoom Meeting
Passcode: 154208
If you are interested and plan to attend,
please contact Bob Sylvester at 304 552-9661 or by email at bsyl@msn.com
Blessed Sacrament Parish Ministries – Faith Formation
Catholic Social Teaching for November #5 The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers – Part 1
“The Church proclaims in its teachings on social justice the need to respect employees and their rights to a just wage,
decent work, safe working conditions, association, disability protection, security in retirement, and economic
initiatives. In these teachings, labor is given priority over capital.”
Rev. Kevin E. McKenna, A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching
The teaching documents related to this topic include:
o On the Condition of Labor (Rerum Novarum), Pope Leo XIII, 1891, o On Reconstructing the Social Order (Quadragessimo Anno, Pope Pius XI, 1931 o On Human Work (Laborem Exercens), Pope John Paul II, 1981, o On the Hundredth Anniversary of Rerum Novarum (Centesimus Annus) Pope John Paul II, 1991 o For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food: Catholic Reflections on Food, Farmers, and Farmworkers, United
states Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2003, o On Integral Human Development in Charity and Truth (Caritas in Veritate), Pope Benedict XVI, 2009,
Current Discussion Area:
The encyclical Rerum Novarum (literally translated as Of New Things) of Pope Leo XIII in 1891 is considered to be the first
document in the current scope of Catholic Social Teaching, and touches on all of our recognized principles of CST. All
subsequent Popes have reaffirmed and expanded on these principles and teachings. Rerum Novarum was in response
to the rapid growth of the Industrial Age and was significantly requested by the American Bishops. This long encyclical
defines the purpose of work: “to obtain an income to purchase property for oneself”.
The duties of the worker is to perform entirely and conscientiously work that has been agreed on, and that will not
cause damage to property or incite violence. Employers should ensure that workers are treated with human dignity,
since gainful employment is a means of supporting life. Recognizing the spiritual dimension of the person, means
employees should be free for adequate periods to attend religious services. Associations for both employers and
employees are good and desirable. An interesting point in all these writings is the difficulty, in terms of technology and
capitalism, of always giving labor precedence over capital.
Questions for the Week
1. Does the Church have a role to play in teaching about labor relations? Why or why not?
2. What do you believe are the advantages of labor associations for the worker? For the employer? Disadvantages for both?
3. Has the role of associations and unions changed over the years? For better or worse?
4. What cautions should be considered by workers who could utilize work stoppages or strikes?
The Pastoral Council Goal #2 Team chose the “Salt Shaker” as our logo for Catholic Social Teaching.
Everything that our parish community does to promote our mission is “seasoned” with the seven tenets of
Catholic Social Teaching! How many salt shakers can you find in these announcements?
Children’s Therapy Clinic
2021 “Light the Way” 5K Be Merry & Bright – Walk or Run through the Christmas Lights!
Get the 1st look at the Lights at Coonskin Park before they open to the public.
We’ll have hot chocolate, caroling, and contests, too! Contests Include: Ugliest Sweater, Best Costume, and Most Creative Team Theme
The event will take place Friday, November 19, 2021 at Coonskin Park, Charleston.
Registration/Check-in begins at 4:30 pm, event begins at 6pm.
All proceeds from the event will be used for therapy services for children with disabilities who have insufficient insurance and/or income.
Fee for 5K Walk/Run: $25.00 by November 5th: $30.00 thereafter. With your registration you will receive:
* Commemorative Race Shirt (must register by this Monday, November 8th!)
* All participants will receive a race light
Register online here: Children’s Therapy Clinic 2021 “Light the Way 5K" (runsignup.com)
Volunteers wanted: CTC is also looking for volunteers to help with the event. We will need help with: set-up parking guiding participants along the route (caroling encouraged!) and clean up. For more information, please contact Valicia Leary by email: valicia@childrenstherapyclinic.com
11/17 Don Becher 11/24 Steve Rist 12/1 Tony O’Leary
12/8 John Ellison 12/15 Greg Ayers 12/22 Rory Isaac 12/29 Don Becher
CONFUSED ABOUT MEDICARE?
new day/time: Tuesday November 16, at 1:00 pm.
guest speaker: Justin Harmon, from Kanawha Valley Senior Services
Bring your friends and neighbors!
The entire Kanawha Valley Community is welcome!
Next Sunday's Mass Readings – November 21, 2021 The Solemnity of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, King of the Universe
Reading I Daniel 7:13-14 As the visions during the night continued, I saw one like a Son of man coming, on the clouds of heaven; when he reached the Ancient One and was presented before him, the one like a Son of man received dominion, glory, and kingship; all peoples, nations, and languages serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that shall not be taken away, his kingship shall not be destroyed. Responsorial Psalm Psalms 93:1, 1-2, 5 R. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. The LORD is king, in splendor robed; robed is the LORD and girt about with strength. R. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. And he has made the world firm, not to be moved. Your throne stands firm from of old; from everlasting you are, O LORD. R. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed; holiness befits your house, O LORD, for length of days. R. The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty. Reading II Revelation 1:5-8 Jesus Christ is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood, who has made us into a kingdom, priests for his God and Father, to him be glory and power forever and ever. Amen. Behold, he is coming amid the clouds, and every eye will see him, even those who pierced him. All the peoples of the earth will lament him. Yes. Amen.
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, " says the Lord God, "the one who is and who was and who is to come, the almighty." Gospel John 18:33b-37 Pilate said to Jesus, "Are you the King of the Jews?" Jesus answered, "Do you say this on your own or have others told you about me?" Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?" Jesus answered, "My kingdom does not belong to this world. If my kingdom did belong to this world, my attendants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my kingdom is not here." So Pilate said to him, "Then you are a king?" Jesus answered, "You say I am a king. For this I was born and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice."
Parish / Staff Contacts & Other Information
Our parish office is open Monday – Friday from 9:00am to 3:00pm.
The South entrance doors are unlocked during those hours so that anyone can enter the building
to visit the office, chapel or library without a prior appointment.
New Mailing Address: P.O. Box 18427, South Charleston, WV 25303
Physical Address: 305 E Street, South Charleston, WV 25303
Telephone (Parish Office): 304.744.5523 E-mail: blessedsac@suddenlinkmail.com
Web page: www.blessedsacramentwv.org
Our Parish Staff
Pastor Rev. John H. Finnell Cell: 304.377.3560 calls and texts
E-mail: snowman25303@hotmail.com
E-mail: deaconjohnh@suddenlink.net
Office Manager Natalie Zellers Office E-mail: blessedsac@suddenlinkmail.com
Music & Youth Director Mary Odin E-mail: wmodin@frontier.com
Janitors Dan Ryan and Jeff Bradley
Accompanists John Ellison and Jim Zellers
Our Pastoral Council
Laura Jennings, facilitator Rick Brennan Tim Norris Matt Davis Pam Counsil
Reagan Whitmyer John F. Gianola Ken Holz Jack Dever Chip Counsil
Joe Gresham Matt Hayes Philip Maramba Ann Dever Charlie Wilson
Katie Smithberger David Lewia
Council members are always grateful to hear about any concerns our parishioners have.
If you do not know any of the members personally, you may send a note or email to our parish office for them.
St. Paul Radio - West Virginia......Presents Catholic radio on:
WLUX 1450 AM Dunbar; WNUX 89.7 FM Beckley; WOUX 105.3 Parkersburg
Visit www.sprwv.org for a link to stream Catholic radio to a smart phone
Our diocesan newspaper, The Catholic Spirit http://thecatholicspiritwv.org/
Diocesan Financial Audit http://thecatholicspiritwv.org/download/spirit_pdf/Financial-Audit-Pages-10-11-.pdf
Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston
Go to www.dwc.org to find a directory that includes all priests (active and retired), religious, diocesan employees, parish
addresses, etc.
The main telephone number for our diocese is 304-233-0880
The main address for our diocese is P.O. Box 230, Wheeling, WV 26003
To report an incidence of suspected child sexual abuse, please contact your local law enforcement agency, or you may
confidentially contact WV Child Protective Services at 800.352.6513. In addition to civil authorities, to report suspected
cases of sexual abuse by personnel of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to the Diocese, please contact one of the
Bishop’s designees at 888.434.6237 or 304.233.0880: Mr. Bryan Minor, ext. 263; Mr. Tim Bishop, ext. 353; Fr. Dennis
Schuelkens, ext. 270 or call the Office of Safe Environment at 304.230.1504. Please visit www.dwc.org under
“Accountability” for additional information and reporting methods.
Opportunities for Giving
Special Collection – November 20-21
A teenage girl in Kentucky was rescued from a 61-year-old man after she flashed viral TikTok hand gestures indicating domestic abuse https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-hand-gestures-domestic-abuse-rescue-teen-in-kentucky-2021-11 Telling an excited person to "Calm down!" is about the same as baptizing a cat. I thought it was the dryer that made my clothes shrink….turns out it was the refrigerator! Camping is where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person. Just once, I want a username and password prompt to say: "close enough.” I'm a multitasker. I can listen, ignore, and forget all at the same time! I thought growing old would take longer. Went to an antique show and people were bidding on me! I can't stand still in an antique store without someone trying to put a price tag on me! I won't say I'm worn out, but I don't get near the curb on trash day. I don't have grey hair. I have wisdom-highlights. Sometimes it takes me all day to get nothing done. I don't trip, I do random gravity checks. When you can't find the sunshine ... be the sunshine. My spouse says I have two faults: I don't listen and something else. Never laugh at your spouse's choices: You are one of them. Have you ever noticed that "dammit I'm mad" is "dammit I'm mad" spelled backward? I'd grow my own food if only I could find bacon seeds. Losing weight doesn't seem to be working for me, so from now on I'm going to concentrate on getting taller. Day 12 without chocolate...lost hearing in my left eye. Some people are like clouds, once they disappear it's a beautiful day. Some people you're glad to see coming; some people you're glad to see going. Common sense is not a gift. It's a punishment because you have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.
By Debra Michals, PhD | 2015
At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November
1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary
school in the South.
Born on September 8, 1954, Bridges was the oldest of five children for Lucille and Abon
Bridges, farmers in Tylertown, Mississippi. When Ruby was two years old, her parents
moved their family to New Orleans, Louisiana in search of better work opportunities.
Ruby’s birth year coincided with the US Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Brown v.
the Board of Education of Topeka Kansas, which ended racial segregation in public
schools.
Nonetheless, southern states continued to resist integration, and in 1959, Ruby attended a
segregated New Orleans kindergarten. A year later, however, a federal court ordered
Louisiana to desegregate. The school district created entrance exams for African
American students to see whether they could compete academically at the all-white
school. Ruby and five other students passed the exam.
Her parents were torn about whether to let her attend the all-white William Frantz
Elementary School, a few blocks from their home. Her father resisted, fearing for his
daughter’s safety; her mother, however, wanted Ruby to have the educational
opportunities that her parents had been denied. Meanwhile, the school district dragged its
feet, delaying her admittance until November 14. Two of the other students decided not
to leave their school at all; the other three were sent to the all-white McDonough
Elementary School.
Ruby and her mother were escorted by four federal marshals to the school every day that
year. She walked past crowds screaming vicious slurs at her. Undeterred, she later said
she only became frightened when she saw a woman holding a black baby doll in a
coffin. She spent her first day in the principal’s office due to the chaos created as angry
white parents pulled their children from school. Ardent segregationists withdrew their
children permanently. Barbara Henry, a white Boston native, was the only teacher willing
to accept Ruby, and all year, she was a class of one. Ruby ate lunch alone and sometimes
played with her teacher at recess, but she never missed a day of school that year.
While some families supported her bravery—and some northerners sent money to aid her
family—others protested throughout the city. The Bridges family suffered for their
courage: Abon lost his job, and grocery stores refused to sell to Lucille. Her share-
cropping grandparents were evicted from the farm where they had lived for a quarter-
century. Over time, other African American students enrolled; many years later, Ruby’s
four nieces would also attend. In 1964, artist Norman Rockwell celebrated her courage
with a painting of that first day entitled, “The Problem We All Live With.”
Ruby graduated from a desegregated high school, became a travel agent, married and had
four sons. She was reunited with her first teacher, Henry, in the mid 1990s, and for a time
the pair did speaking engagements together. Ruby later wrote about her early experiences
in two books and received the Carter G. Woodson Book Award.
A lifelong activist for racial equality, in 1999, Ruby established The Ruby Bridges
Foundation to promote tolerance and create change through education. In 2000, she was
made an honorary deputy marshal in a ceremony in Washington, DC.