MASS SCHEDULE Sat Feb 16 4:00pm ST. ANDREW’S – Dale Wells 1st Anniversary by Paula & Family Sun Feb 17 + Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order 8:15am ST. PATRICK’S – (Brasher Falls) 10:45am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Intentions of the People of the Parish Mon Feb 18 8:30am ST. ANDREW’S – Theresa Aldridge 4th Anniversary by Husband & Children Paul Cutler by The Cutler Family Tue Feb 19 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Nora Kellison by Dominic & Lola Germano 9:30am LBSH, Brasher Falls Wed Feb 20 9:30am HIGH STREET APTS, Norfolk – Mike Lynch by John & Gerry Richards All Souls Intentions by Mrs. Lawrence Haggett Thu Feb 21 + Saint Peter Damian, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Intentions of Paul & Nancy Paige by The Firman Family 8:30am ST. PATRICK’S – (Brasher Falls) Fri Feb 22 +Chair of Saint Peter 8:30am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Jeanne Amyot by Barbara Lavigne Sat Feb 23 + Saint Polycarp, Bishop and Martyr 4:00pm ST. ANDREW’S – Joey Bregg by Nancy & Family Sun Feb 24 8:15am ST. PATRICK’S – (Brasher Falls) - Intentions of the People of the Parish 10:45am CHURCH OF THE VISITATION – Kim Grady 6th Year Anniversary by Jean & Family

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Feb 17 – 23 School Mid-Winter Break Feb 21 Norwood Knights of Columbus Mtg., 4:00pm, Church Hall Feb 24 Stepping Stones Youth Group, 6:00pm -8:00pm, FAPC Feb 25 Bingo for the Fun of It, 1:30pm – 3:30pm, High Street Senior Citizens, Norfolk Feb 27 1st First Communion Parent Child Mtg., 6:00pm – 7:30pm, FAPC Mar 2 Fr. Giroux Installation, St. Andrew’s after 4pm Mass Mar 3 Faith Formation, 9:35am – 10:35am, FAPC Mar 3 Children’s Mass 10:45am, Church of the Visitation Mar 4 NHN Nursing Home Crafting, 10:00am – 12:00pm, FAPC Mar 4 NHN Bingo, 1:30pm – 3:30pm, High Street Senior Citizens, Norfolk Mar 4 Manicotti Monday, 4:00pm – 6:30pm, FAPC Mar 5 Mardi Gras, 5:00pm until?, FAPC Mar 6 Ash Wednesday, see Mass schedule Mar 10 Norfolk Knight’s Brunch, 8:30am – 12:00pm, FAPC Mar 10 Faith Formation, 9:35am – 10:35am, FAPC

Father Giroux's Weekly Schedule Monday Norwood, Norfolk & Raymondville Tuesday Brasher Falls & North Lawrence Wednesday Norfolk, Norwood & Raymondville Thursday Mass at Brasher Fall then

Canon Law work at Ogdensburg Friday Typically a day off Saturday All three parishes Sunday All three parishes

Neighbors Helping Neighbors

Heating & Utility Bill Assistance Through the Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), St. Lawrence DSS assists income qualified residents with the cost of heating their homes. They also operate a Heating Equipment Repair & Replacement Benefit as well as a Clean & Tune Benefit for income qualified residents. Other programs available include incentives for switching to a pellet stove for those who are not currently using natural gas and possible rebates on new heating installations. Weatherization assistance is also available through St. Lawrence County CDP & NYSERDA. For more information on the above programs, please call 315-379-2303. And for those who are facing shutoffs of utility services, have unaffordable past-due amounts, or have other issues with their utility provider, please contact Public Utility Law Project of New York (PULP) at 877-669-2572.

VIRTUS TRAINING

Protecting God's Children for Adults

2/25/19- 5:00pm- 8:00pm St. Alphonsus-Holy Name of Jesus Parish (Tupper Lake)

YOUTH RALLY 2019 A Day of Faith and Fun For 7th to 12th Grade Students

God has blessed each, and every one of us with the “Light”, the gift that enables us to be the best that we can be. The time is now. It’s time to RISE UP! Join us for a day filled with Fun, Praise, Food, Music and the Holy Spirit.

Date: April 6th, 2019 Time: 9:30am to 5:00pm Rally location: Trinity Catholic School, Massena New York 188 Main Street

Registration for this one, day event is $25.00, and lunch is included. To Register: www.rcdony.org/youthrally REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS, MARCH 29TH If you would like more information please contact: Tom Semeraro, Director of Youth Ministry at, 315-393-2920 ext. 1415 or tsemeraro@rcdony.org

YOUTH LENTEN RETREAT A Lenten Retreat for 6th to 12 Graders Rising from the ashes, we begin our journey of healing through the sacrament of Reconciliation. Each retreat will be comprised of a unique blend of activities, discussion, and DYC led workshops. Heavy snacks and drinks included. Locations and Times

St. James in Gouverneur March 2nd, 2019 12:00 to 5:00 (mass included) St. Mary’s in Ticonderoga March 9th, 2019 12:30 to 5:30 (mass included)

NO FEE TO ATTEND/Space is limited To register visit: www.rcdony.org/youth Select “Lenten Retreats” to register. Chaperones must fill out the Chaperone registration form as well as have Virtus training and background check. For more information please contact: Tom Semeraro, Director of Youth Ministry tsemeraro@rcdony.org or 315-393-2920 ext. 1415

WOMEN'S RETREAT: Save the Date Save the date! A day long women's retreat will be held May 4th at Norfolk. Edwina Gateley is a very inspiring and entertaining presenter. Stay tuned for on line registration.

Several people have asked for Fr. Murphy’s new address. It is: Msgr. John R Murphy

189 Park Ave. P O Box 236

Old Forge, NY 13420

PARISH OF THE VISITATION AND ST. RAYMOND

SANCTUARY LAMP

BEFORE THE TABERNACLE

The Sanctuary Lamp at The Church of the Visitation burns this week for

Agatha Carson By Duane Carson

SANCTUARY LIGHT

A beneficial spiritual practice in our churches allows people to request that the Sanctuary Lamp before the Blessed Sacrament burn for one week remembering a person or family members. A $10 offering is asked. To make arrangements contact the parish office, or speak with those who accept Mass intentions at St. Andrew's. You are also welcome to use one of the "Sanctuary Lamp" envelopes at the church entrances, placing it in the collection basket any weekend.

ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH

ST. ANDREW’S PRAYER LINE

Members of our Parish who would like a member of their family or a close friend put on our Prayer Line are asked to call either Doreen Valade @ 315-212-5729 or Ann Miller @ 315-353-2950. Please be sure the person we will be praying for agrees to this before you call. Everything you share with us is kept confidential.

ST. ANDREW’S PRAYER GROUP St. Andrew’s prayer group meets at St. Andrew’s Church Hall each Monday at 7:00pm. All are welcome.

3-YEAR-OLD CLASS AT TRINITY Trinity Catholic is looking into opening a 3-year-old program for the 2019-2020 school year. If you are interested in exploring this option for your children, please attend an informational meeting on Tuesday, February 26, in the Trinity Dining Hall....just come in the big double doors! If you cannot make it that evening, but are interested the program, please let them know at 315-769-5911.

INSTALLATION OF FATHER GIROUX

On Saturday, March 2,, 2019, at the 4:00 pm Vigil Mass at St. Andrew’s Church in Norwood, Bishop Terry LaValley will formally install Fr. Garry Giroux as the pastor of the parishes of Visitation and St. Raymond of Norfolk and St. Andrew’s of Norwood. A reception will follow the Mass. Parishioners from both parishes are encouraged to participate in this Mass.

Parish of the Visitation &St. Raymond and St. Andrew’s:

*** NEW CLASS TIME ***Sunday, February 17th: No Classes Relax! Mid-Winter BreakSunday, February 24th: No Classes Relax! Mid-Winter Break

February 17, 2019Faith Formation

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The Key to Evangelization: Start Talking and Start Inviting In the next month, if ten visitors come to your Sunday liturgy, how many will return for a second visit? According to Chris Walker, founder of EvangelismCoach.org, the answer is one or two. Can you guess the number-one reason the other eight to nine did not return? Because no one talked to them! The number-one thing most visitors are looking for is a friendly parish. How do they decide if a parish is friendly? They decide a parish is friendly by how many people talked to them. Make a visitor’s first ten minutes welcoming! According to the Church Growth Institute, the first ten minutes of a visitor’s experience are important. Those big evangelical mega-churches are big for a reason. Many of them have greeters in the parking lot, striking up what will be the first of many conversations a visitor to their churches is likely to have on any given Sunday. Make a visitor’s last ten minutes even more welcoming! But as important as those first ten minutes are, the crucial time is the ten minutes immediately after the Mass concludes. That is the time frame in which most newcomers make up their minds about the friendliness or unfriendliness of a parish. Did we talk to any visitors? Did we even look to see if there were any visitors? Or, were we just eager to get to our car? An easy solution—or maybe not The solution seems both easy and difficult. It is easy to look for visitors and chat with them, isn’t it? This requires a major shift in parish culture. It means we all need to develop new habits. The benefit to your parish But what would happen if we could change our habits and start looking for and talking with visitors? The Church Growth Institute did some research to answer this question. They asked churches to block out six continuous weeks and observe the number of people who visited once, twice, and three times during that block. Then they asked how many of those visitors were active in the church one year later. Guess what? The more often people visit, the more likely they are to become active parishioners. They found that 9% of the one-time visitors were active a year later. Of those who visited twice in that six-week block, 17% were active. And a whopping 33% of the three-time visitors were active. So how to do we get visitors to make return visits? As we said at the beginning, the number-one reason people don’t return is that no one talked to them. We need to start talking. And we need to start inviting. Three simple steps are all it takes: 1. See visitors 2. Talk to visitors 3. Invite visitors

TRINITY OPEN HOUSE AND REGISTRATIONPlease join Trinity Catholic School March 4th-8th for their annual Open House and Registration for students Pre-K through 6th grades. Schedule a tour, or just come at your convenience. Hours will be 8:30am–5:30pm, Monday-Wednesday, with extend-ed hours until 6:00pm on Thursday. Friday will have normal school hours of 8:30am -3:30pm. Please visit the school website for tuition information and downloadable paperwork. If you plan to register your child, make sure to bring a $55 registration fee, along with birth certificate, baptismal records (if Catholic), and immunization records. Questions? Call 315-769-5911 or email principa@twcny.rr.com.

GOD’S PLAN FOR GIVING – TITHING “None of those who cry out “Lord, Lord” will enter the Kingdom of God, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven” (Matthew 7:21). Jesus made it clear that being stewards of our time, talent and treasure is part of the will of His Father.

Parish of the Visitation and St. Raymond

February 10-11, 2018 - $1,882.00 February 9-10, 2019 - $2,589.00 Adult Env. $2,390.00, Plate $184.00 Maintenance $15.00 Fiscal year-to-date adult envelope comparison: 2/10-11/18 – $64,496.40 2/9-10/19 – $73,646.00 Adult weekly envelopes: 2018 - $1,567.00 2019 – $2,390.00 Adult envelopes used: 2/10-11/18 – 43 2/2-3/19 – 49 2/9-10/19 – 37 *includes EFT contributions

St. Andrew’s Church

February 10-11, 2018 - $1,903.00 February 9-10, 2019 - $2,218.00 Adult Env. $1,652.00, Plate $387.00 Votive Candles $29.00, Maintenance $150.00 Fiscal year-to-date adult envelope comparison: 2/10-11/18 - $53,388.00 2/9-10/19 – $71,194.00 Adult weekly envelopes: 2018 - $1,117.00, 2019 - $1,652.00 Adult envelopes used: 2/10-11/18 – 48 1/2-3/19 - 42 2/9-10/19 - 59

LET US PRAY Please remember in your prayers all of our parish family and friends who suffer emotionally, spiritually or physically especially for Jeremiah Hammill, Cathy Rodger, and Msgr. John R. Murphy. If you wish to have someone listed for one month, please contact the Parish office at 315-384-4242.

Anyone from Our Catholic Parishes may request to have a person included in the bulletin for prayers. We will adhere to the practice of including a name for one month before removing it. Prayer can always be requested again at any time.

Creating a culture of vocation . . . CELIBACY is a gift and a promise to love very deeply and to express that love for others without using those physical expressions proper to marriage. The lives of many men and women religious and generous single people are rich and loving within the context of celibate love.

PARISH OF THE VISITATION AND ST. RAYMOND

Lector and Ministers of Eucharist Church of the Visitation

2/17/19 - Terri Clemmo, Jean Gang, Kathie Ashley

2/24/19 - Molly Pressey, Terri Clemmo, Gil Gonthier

Collection Counters 2/17/19 - Fred Baxter, Francis Sharlow 2/24/19 - Mike LaShomb, Donna Raab

ST. ANDREW’S CHURCH

Lector and Ministers of Eucharist

2/16/19 - Kathleen Colarusso, Ted Levison Lisa Levison, Linda Regan

2/23/19 - Andy Burnett, Pat LaRose Jim Murray, Cathy Crary

Collection Counters 2/17/19 - Rita Jackson, Ellen Farrington 2/24/19 - Reta Donahue, Rose Radell

ST. RAYMOND’S CHAPEL MASS SCHEDULE Father Jack Downs will celebrate daily Mass at St. Raymond’s Church in the rectory chapel at 8:00am

according to the following schedule: Week of February 18th Mon - Fri

FUN FACTS FOR CATHOLIC KIDS

February 17 – Did you ever go to a doctor and have him hold a funny-looking thing to your chest and listen to your heartbeat? Well, that funny-looking thing is called a stethoscope, and it was invented by a French doctor named Theophile Laènnec, whose birthday is today. But do you know where he got the idea for this invention? Well, one day Dr. Laènnec was watching some children playing with a board. One child would tap very softly on one end of the board while another listened at the other end. The sound of the tap came out much louder after it had traveled along the board. This gave the doctor a bright idea – a new and better way to hear the soft sounds of heartbeats! Say a little prayer for your doctor today, and the next time you see him or her, ask him or her if they know who invented the stethoscope.