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October 25, 2015
Saint Rita of Cascia Catholic Church 3815 Russell Road | Alexandria, VA 22305 | 703.836.1640
HOLY SACRIFICE OF THE MASS
Sunday 7:15, 8:30, 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM (en Español)
Monday 7 AM & 7:30 PM (Novena followed by M ass)
Tuesday 7 AM & 7:30 PM (Traditional Latin M ass)
Wednesday 7 AM, 8:30 AM & 7:30 PM
Thursday 7 AM & 7:30 PM (Traditional Latin M ass)
Friday 7 AM & 7:30 PM & 8 AM (1st Friday-TLM)
Saturday 8 AM & 5:00 PM (Vigil M ass)
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Sunday 10:30—11:00 AM; 12:30—1 PM (en Español)
Monday—Friday 7:00 PM
Saturday 8:30 AM, 4:00—5:00 PM & 7:00—7:30 PM
EUCHARISTIC ADORATION
Tuesday—Thurs First Fridays
6:30 PM — 7:30 PM
ST. RITA CATHOLIC SCHOOL (703) 548-1888 (Kindergarten—8th Grade and Pre-School/Atrium) EXT.
Principal Mary Patricia Schlickenmaier [email protected]
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Admissions Josephine Cunningham [email protected]
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School Secretary Lynn Reardon 23
Parish Rectory & Office: (703) 836-1640 Open: Monday — Friday: 9 AM to 9 PM
Closed: M-F (12:30 — 1:30 PM) & Saturday & Sunday Welcome to St. Rita Parish!
PARISH MEMBERSHIP & REGISTRATION: To join our parish family, please submit a Parish Registration form.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Saturdays 10 AM to 12 PM. Please submit a Baptism Application
form. Parents must attend a one-time one-hour Pre-Baptism Preparation Class, held the 1st Tuesday of each month.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Please submit a Marriage Application form. Diocesan regulations
require 6 months of marriage preparation. Couples living together will be asked to live separately during marriage preparation.
OBTAINING & SUBMITTING PARISH FORMS To receive Sacraments at St. Rita Church, you must be a Registered Parishioner. All Parish forms are located in all three vestibules of the church and at www.strita-parish.net Please drop-off the completed form(s) at the rectory office (Monday—Friday) or drop in the collec-tion basket or email to: [email protected]
CLERGY (703) 836-1640 EXT.
Pastor: Rev. Daniel N. Gee [email protected]
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Parochial Vicar Rev. Vincent P. Bork 30
Permanent Deacon Rev. Mr. Stephen J. Dixon [email protected]
In Residence 15
PARISH STAFF (703) 836-1640 EXT.
Director of Religious Education
Betsy Nunn [email protected]
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Dir. of Music, Organist Lawrence Bowie 29
Sacristan: Elizabeth Vail [email protected]
Business Manager Church & School
Debbie Beck [email protected]
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Registrar, Sacramental Records, Bulletin Editor
Karen Davidson [email protected]
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Receptionist, Hispanic Liaison
Alma Ramirez [email protected]
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Maintenance Manager Church & School
James Toner [email protected]
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www.strita-parish.net | www.saintrita-school.org
Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time
ST. RITA CHURCH ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA OCTOBER 25, 2015
Holy Sacrifice Of the
Mass * TLM = Traditional Latin Mass
5th ANNUAL St. Rita Parish WINTER CLOTHING COLLECTION
Help us provide warm clothing for our neighbors. Gather your good winter clothing
for men, women & children and bring to church.
Vehicles will be stationed outside the church to receive your donations.
We need: shoes, hats & gloves/mittens, rain gear: umbrellas, boots, coats, ponchos, and other warm clothing
Donation receipts available.
Clothing will be collected each weekend before & after all Masses on the following dates:
OCTOBER 24/25 and 31st & NOVEMBER 1
Set-up of Clothing: Friday, NOVEMBER 6 at 6 PM in the St. Rita School hall
Distribution will be Saturday, NOVEMBER 7 from 9 AM to 12 PM in the St. Rita School hall.
To volunteer to help, email: [email protected]
SUPPORT ST. RITA SCHOOL: Register for , or donate to, the PARISH GOLF OUTING to benefit Blessed Sacra-ment and Saint Rita schools TOMORROW, Monday, OCTOBER 26 at Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, VA. Tee off is 9:00 AM. Cost is $160 per person and in-cludes golf, food and prizes. Contact Jeremy Greiner at (703) 304-6040 or [email protected] to reserve a spot.
ST RITA PRO-LIFE GROUP. Our mission is to make the respect life message live in the hearts and actions of all Saint Rita parishioners. Restoring respect for human life at all stages from initial conception to natural death is our goal. Our program em-braces the four foundational aspects of this task as articulated by Bishop Loverde, namely: prayer, education, action, and sacrifice. Please JOIN OUR GROUP. Sign-up sheets are available in the Russell Road Vestibule of the church.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2015 Monday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Mass HOLY SOULS IN PURGATORY 7:00 PM Confession & Miraculous Medal Novena 7:30 PM Mass WILLIAM MANAKER
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2015 Tuesday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time
7:00 AM Mass GRATITUDE FOR BLESSINGS 6:30 PM Eucharistic Adoration (ends:7:30 PM)
7:00 PM Confession 7:30 PM Mass WILLIAM & MARIA SHIELDS TLM
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2015 Saints Simon and Jude, Apostles 7:00 AM Mass JOHN WARMAN 8:30 AM Mass SUSAN GIBSON 6:30 PM Eucharistic Adoration (ends:7:30 PM) 7:00 PM Confession 7:30 PM Mass JOHN A. MARK, JR.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2015 Thursday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time
7:00 AM Mass JOHN MORETTI, JR. 6:30 PM Eucharistic Adoration (ends:7:30 PM)
7:00 PM Confession 7:30 PM Mass WILLIAM & MARIA SHIELDS TLM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2015 Friday of Week 30 in Ordinary Time 7:00 AM Mass MARY ELLEN PERRY 7:00 PM Confession 7:30 PM Mass CAROLYN WHITE
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2015
Saturday Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary
8:00 AM Mass JOHN & ANGELA MARK FAMILY 8:30 AM Confession
4:00 PM Confession (ends: 5:00 pm)
5:00 PM Mass GEORGE B. RAMSEY 7:30 PM Confession
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2015 Feast of All Saints
7:15 AM Mass JEFF SAELI 8:30 AM Mass THE CUNNINGHAM FAMILY
10:30 AM Confession (until 11:00 AM) 11:00 AM Mass Missa Pro Populo—Mass for the People 12:30 PM Confessions in Spanish (until 1:00 PM) 1:00 PM Mass CARLOS MERCADO
ALL WOMEN are invited to a Walking with Purpose Con-nect Coffee on Thursday, OCTOBER 29 at 7:30 PM in the Parish
Center. Light refreshments will be served as we view and discuss a video lecture by Lisa Brenninkmeyer entitled Jesus, the Living Water. Please join us, and bring a friend! Please contact Kate or Martha at [email protected] for more information.
Newly elected Student Council officers
surprise our school principal Mrs. Schlickenmaier
with a pep rally in honor of receiving the
2015 Distinguished Principal Award from NAESP.
This is her second award this year! She received the NCEA Distinguished Principal Award in May, 2015.
CONGRATULATIONS MRS. SCHLICKENMAIER!
THE THIRTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME
Please Pray for Parishioners who have died in 2014 –15:
John Moretti, Jr. Michael Douglas Taylor Dominic Takeshi Dodson Candida Diaz Patricia Rohrer Mary Lucia Orsini Virginia Duncan-Hall Albert M. Formando, Jr.
Randall Sawyer Hart Dan S. Serice Charles Alfred Attiliis Lillian Lorraine Massino Rita Flynn Peggy Curry Maria Ruiz de Merino
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
If you know of a St. Rita parishioner who should be added to our prayer list, please email Karen at [email protected]
Please pray for the sick in our Parish:
Gary McAlpin Dr. John Gleeson Mary Gleeson Agnes Ransom Karl Heinz
Mark Gerard Chery Fuentes Herschel Otto Dorothy Turner Pedro Diaz
Laura Stevens Beth Louison Stephen Lynn Emma Gomez de Blanco
Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ. Rest your weary ones. Bless your dying ones. Soothe your suffering ones. Pity your afflicted ones. Shield your joyous ones.
And all for Your love's sake. Amen. — Saint Augustine
St Rita Parishioners We Are Praying For:
AROUND THE DIOCESE
SEPTEMBER 23 – NOVEMBER 1, 2015 Save unborn babies from the tragedy of abortion and spare their mothers from a life-
time of regret through prayer, fasting, and peaceful vigils. For more information, or to volunteer to help, please contact: Sara Dina at 571-218-6224 or [email protected] or visit our web site at http://www.40daysforlife.com/alexandria
VOCATIONS — Considering the generous service of priesthood or consecrated life? Call Father J.D. Jaffe at (703) 841-2514 or write: [email protected]
WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: Gain the tools to truly love your spouse and receive all the joy that oneness can bring. Sign up today to attend one of the Marriage Encounter Weekends on NOVEMBER
6—8 in Rockville, MD or NOVEMBER 13-15 in Herndon. For more information or to apply, visit: renewmarriage-vanorth.org.
CATHOLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION TAX CREDIT — A new Virginia Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credit Program will award a 65% tax credit, on top of current state and federal tax deductions, for donations made to the Diocese of Arlington Scholarship Foundation, which will pro-vide scholarships for new students wishing to attend our diocesan Catholic Schools. Learn more: http://www.arlingtondiocese.org/catholicschools/Scholarship_Foundation.aspx
BISHOP LOVERDE IS RETIRING. Please send him a spiritual bouquet and your warm wishes at: http://www.arlingtondiocese.org/SpiritualBouquet/
SAINT JOHN PAUL THE GREAT, 17700 Dominican Dr., Dumfries, VA, Open House on NOVEMBER 15 from 1—4 PM. To learn more, visit jpthegreat.org or call (703) 445-0300
ST THOMAS MORE FRATERNITY OF THE 3RD ORDER SECULAR OF ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI— Meet at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Center (across the parking lot from the church) every 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:05 PM. Lay Catholics and diocesan clergy interested in becoming members, please con-tact Dennis Webb at (703) 548-3466 between 1pm— 6:30 pm Monday-Saturday.
TAX SAVINGS THROUGH A GIFT OF STOCK — You may make a gift of stock as a donation to our parish or our dio-cese. In exchange for a gift of long-term, appreciated securities (stock), you can receive an income tax deduction and avoid capi-tal gains taxes on stock appreciation. For more information, please call (703) 841-3896 or visit: www.arlingtondiocese.org/giving/gifts_stock.aspx.
Please join the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life for a Public Dialogue on Pope Francis' Environmental Encyclical: Protecting the Planet and the Poor, a conversation with Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez, on Monday, NOVEMBER 2 at 4 PM in Hart Auditorium at the Georgetown University Law Center. Cardinal Rodr iguez is Chair of Pope Francis' Council of Cardinals, the first Cardinal from Honduras, and leads the Church's efforts to protect the planet and the poor. The conversa-tion will be moderated by John Carr, Director of the Initiative. Faculty from Georgetown Law Center will respond including Edith Brown Weiss; Francis Cabell Brown, Professor of Interna-tional Law; and John Podesta, Distinguished Visitor from Prac-tice and former Counselor to President Barack Obama on climate change and energy policy. For more information or to RSVP email [email protected]. St Rita parishion-ers: If you attend, let us know what you thought.
REMINDER: St. Rita School Walk for the Homeless is Wednesday OCTOBER 28th .
The next BAPTISM CLASS is TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 at 6:30 PM in the St. Rita Parish Center Conference room. To sign up, please contact Karen Davidson at (703) 836-1640 or [email protected].
PARISHIONER DATABASE UPDATE — Over the next few weeks, we’ll be updating our Parishioner databases and removing parishioners from our rosters we believe are no longer mem-bers of St. Rita Parish. Most of you will not
receive a letter. For those that do, please call the parish office, (703) 836-1640, to notify us if you DO wish to remain a parish-ioner. If we receive no response from you within 2 weeks, from the date we mailed the letter, we will remove you from our parish rosters. We believe we have a couple hundred families that are no longer parishioners. When the diocese estimates vari-ous things regarding our parish, they do so based on the number of families we have as parishioners. We need the numbers we send to the diocese to be accurate. Thank you!
FURNITURE MOVERS NEEDED for Saturday, OCTOBER 31, from 8 AM -- 12 PM. Join other volunteers going out with the ALIVE! trucks to pick up donated furniture and deliver it to those in need. Teenagers welcome - get those service hours! Sign up at [email protected] or call 703-683-5138