JULY 17, 2016—SIXTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

SAINT PAUL

CATHOLIC CHURCH

Address:

140 Walnut Street, Weirton, WV 26062

Phone:

304-748-6710

Web site: stpaulcommunity.net

Pastor:

Rev. Larry W. Dorsch E-mail:

lwdorsch@comcast.net

Prayer Line: 304-748-4245

&

304-564-3114

Our Parish Mission: Christ calls our parish family to be a

beacon of hope in a rapidly changing community.

NEVER ALONE The local support group for parents, family, friends and community interested in drug and

alcohol addiction is now meeting here at St. Paul’s in our parish office conference room on Monday evenings at 6:00. This wonderful group has been providing encouragement as well as education and support to those in our area struggling with issues related especially to the abuse

of substances. If you have these issues in your family or know someone who does, come on Mondays to find a welcoming group of folks, many of whom have been there and/or are there!

TABLE OF HOPE Free Hot Meals are provided at First Methodist Church on West Street 5-6 pm Monday,

Wednesday & Friday. Everyone is welcome to come to share the meal and the fellowship. Some new volunteers are needed during the summer months. Please feel free to bring your

children or grandchildren for a wonderful Christian service opportunity. Next Friday, July 22, is the Fourth Friday and our Parish’s regular day to

staff the Table of Hope. We are badly in need of volunteers to cover for regulars who are on vacation. If you can help please call the

office early in the week and let us know. This is a wonderful opportunity to show children the meaning of Christian service—bring them along with you.

COMMUNITY BREAD B ASKET Every week we continue to offer non-perishable foods, soaps and paper products for those in our community who need a little extra help to make ends meet. Our parish along with other

churches, businesses and groups in the community provide these items after the command of Christ to take care of one another. Bring anything you can to the offering baskets in the back of

church on Sunday and a volunteer will see they are delivered to the Bread Basket.

AIR CONDITIONING At long last AC is coming to St. Paul Grade School! TUDI Mechanical Co. is in process of

tearing out old piping and installing new lines and units for the new heating and cooling system! We have run into some asbestos problems but these should not delay things too much. Most of

the project will be finished by the first day of school in August. Many thank to all who contributed to the Capital Campaign or are paying on pledges.

LITURGICAL MINISTERS FOR JULY 23-24

Ministers of

Communion Lectors

Altar Servers

Greeters

Ushers

Saturday

July 23

5 pm

Frances Veltri

Robert Marino

Theresa Elias

Debra Marino

Kristina Lesho

Thomas Sessi

Rebecca Biacco

Irene Canala

Florence Hirkala

Mary Kay Schuetz

John Cummings

Ron Panko

John Porco

Joseph Veltri

Sunday

July 24

8:30 am

Louis Stock

Marjorie Stock

Frances Bonnaure

Christine Holmes

Lindsay McAfee

Diane McAfee

Joanne Darmelio

Philip Darmelio

Joan Dayoub

George Kobulnicky

Thomas Beaumont

Patrick Gurrera

Thomas Lorello

Not Filled

Sunday

July 24

11 am

Cynthia Harcharik

Kim Edmiston

George Brandenburg

Angela Reinard

Lorraine Lovy

Angie Impellicceiri

Jerry DeFilippo

Cindy Toth

Gary Impellicceiri

Sara Impellicceiri

Emma Impellicceiri

Charles Bugin

Joann Bugin

Marguerite Huyghe

Edie Wilson

Robert Baker

Robert Chuma

Ed Halsey

Chuck Robinson

Sunday,

July 24

6 pm

Lynette Ekey

Ryan Ekey

Not Filled

Jennifer Costello

Jenna Costello

James Sauer

A D Mastrantoni

Michael Mastrantoni

Mark White

Michael Cucarese

Excerpts from “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship - Part I - The U.S. Bishops’ Reflection on Catholic Teaching and Political Life” 2. The political realities of our nation present us with opportunities and challenges. We are a nation founded on "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness," but the right to life itself is not fully protected, especially for unborn children, the terminally ill, and the elderly, the most vulnerable members of the American family. We are called to be peacemakers in a nation at war. We are a country pledged to pursue "liberty and justice for all," but we are too often divided across lines of race, ethnicity, and economic inequality. We are a nation of immigrants, struggling to address the challenges of many new immigrants in our midst. We are a society built on the strength of our families, called to defend marriage and offer moral and economic supports for family life. We are a powerful nation in a violent world, confronting terror and trying to build a safer, more just, more peaceful world. We are an affluent society where too many live in poverty and lack health care and other necessities of life. We are part of a global community charged with being good stewards of the earth's environment, what Pope Francis calls "our common home," which is being threatened. These challenges are at the heart of public life and at the center of the pursuit of the com-mon good.1 They are intertwined and inseparable. As Pope Francis has insisted, "We are faced . . . with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental. Strategies for a solution demand an integrated approach to combating poverty, restoring dignity to the ex-cluded, and at the same time protecting nature" (Laudato Si', no. 139). 7. In this statement, we bishops do not intend to tell Catholics for whom or against whom to vote. Our purpose is to help Catholics form their consciences in accordance with God's truth. We recognize that the responsibility to make choices in political life rests with each individual in light of a properly formed conscience, and that participation goes well beyond casting a vote in a particular election. The entire Statement can be found at http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/faithful-citizenship/forming-consciences-for-faithful-citizenship-part-one.cfm

This week: Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Genesis 18:1-10a Colossian 1:24-28 Luke 10:38-42

Background: When you are on your way to Jerusalem (remember Luke’s journey motif)

for a show down with the religious and political authorities about the Kingdom of God, it is

no time for a five course gourmet dinner with good china and crystal, Martha! A one-pot

meal on paper plates is really all that is necessary. Mary has chosen the better part

because she has chosen to hear the critical message of the kingdom rather than getting

all wrapped up in details of hospitality at an inappropriate time.

Next Week: Genesis 18:20-32 Colossians 2:12-14 Luke 11:1-13

Adult Bible Study

No bible study this week due to Father Larry’s vacation. We will resume next week on Tuesday at 6:30 pm.

PRAY FOR OUR SICK MEMBERS : Weirton Medical Center: Mary Magnone, Mark White, Dr. Luis Torres Carriage Inn— Vivian DeMarco Golden Oaks—Theresa Petroski Country Club Nursing Home: Frances Oliver Wyngate: Virginia Yoklic Weirton Geriatrics - Inez Oliver, Elsie Saleh Trinity West —Victor Greco Chris Dorich is at 71 Darlington Rd, Room 141, Beaver Falls, PA 15010

Our sympathy Sue Mason and family on the death of her sister, Mary Schmitt of Mingo Junction, Ohio. May she and all the faithful departed rest in peace.

Help needed: If any parishioners who would like to volunteer with flood recovery in Green-brier County, specifically the White Sulphur Springs area, St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church will be a staging area for non governmental organizations that will head into the community to help affected residents. If you know of individuals or groups who would like to work in this region, please call Fr. Chapin Engler at 304-860-0007 or contact Janet Kelley at Catholic Charities at jkelley@ccwva.org to register. You will first need to register as a volunteer at www.volunteerwv.org

Community Bread Basket Fundraiser Attention golfers! Community Bread Basket is in need of golfers to fill the tees on Sunday afternoon, July 31 at Mountaineer Woodview Golf Course to "Tee Off on Hun-ger". Sponsors are also needed. Contact Community Bread Basket office at 304-748-7595 or Jim Pauchnik 304-670-8637 for registration and sponsor forms. Help feed the hungry of Brooke and Hancock Counties.

Summer break is here!!! While our Family Faith Formation program has ended for the year 2015-2016, we hope you will continue to speak to your children about their religion. I want to thank all the families who were a part of our Family Faith Formation program this year. Thank you for making this year such a success!!! We look forward to having all of the children back in the fall. We will have registration on Sunday, September 11, 2016 ,from 9:40-10:50. Classes would then begin the following week on Sunday, September 18, 2016. As the date approaches, more details will be placed in the bulletin as well as St. Paul's Church Facebook page. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me via phone 740-284-0133 or via email christyvalero@comcast.net .

SAVE THE DATE: St. Paul Parish picnic will be held on Sunday, August 28th at the Serbian Picnic Grounds beginning with the 11 am Mass. All are welcome to come and enjoy the fellowship.

Madonna High School registration is scheduled for Monday, July 18th from 4pm - 8pm and Tuesday, July 19th from 8am - 1pm. Please call the office at 304-723-0545 to schedule an appointment. Office hours are Monday-Thursday 9-12. Also, please bring your in-parish tuition form signed by your pastor to receive the tuition discount.

Don’t forget your parish, please consider giving a percentage of whatever remains in your estate to the parish memorial endowment fund. Bequests for the parish should read, “To the Most Rev. Michael J. Bransfield, Bishop of Wheeling Charleston or his successors in office for the exclusive use of St. Paul Parish (or School) in Weirton, WV Memorial Endowment Fund)

Weekly Collections July 10, 2016

Envelopes $ 6830.00 Offertory $ 379.00

Energy Needs $1050.00 Communications $ 351.00 Flood Recovery $ 4300.00

THANK YOU!

OUR PARISH THIS WEEK

Saturday July 16

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Confessions Sunday Eucharist: (Robert “Bob” & John Canala)

Sunday July 17

8:30 am 11:00 am

6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist (Laura Scandola) Sunday Eucharist (Loren DeFilippo) Sunday Eucharist: (For All Our People) Alcoholics Anonymous

Monday July 18

8:00 am 6:00 pm

Weekday Eucharist: (Margaret Castelli Bracaglia) Never Alone Meeting in conference room

Tuesday, July 19

8:00 am

Weekday Eucharist: (Linda Mudrick)

Wednesday July 20

8:00 am

Weekday Eucharist: (John “Jack” Wells)

Thursday July 21

8:00 am

Weekday Eucharist: (Fr. Anthony Gaydos)

Friday July 22

8:00 am

Weekday Eucharist: (Paul Cervenak)

Saturday July 23

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Confessions Sunday Eucharist: (In Thanksgiving for Anna Pellegrino)

Sunday July 24

8:30 am 11:00 am

6:00 pm 7:00 pm

Sunday Eucharist (Margarite & Anthony Paolo) Sunday Eucharist (Joan Mullavey) Sunday Eucharist: (For All Our People) Alcoholics Anonymous