SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC CHURCH

SAINT RICHARD CATHOLIC CHURCH
201 Adele Avenue
(717) 665-2465
Manheim, PA 17545
Fax (717) 665-7119
www.strichardcatholicchurch.org
Father Stephen D. Weitzel, Pastor
WeitzelStephen@aol.com
Deacon Bill Jordan, Pastoral Associate
deaconbill@peoplepc.com
Deacon Donovan Mann, Permanent Deacon
Saint Richard’s Prayer
Thanks be to you, our Lord Jesus Christ
for all the benefits which you have given
for all the pains and insults
which you have borne for us.
Most merciful Redeemer, Friend and Brother
may we know you more clearly,
love you more dearly,
and follow you more nearly,
day by day.
Amen
MISSION STATEMENT
TO CREATE A SPIRITUAL AWAKENING IN EACH OF US, WHICH WILL FOCUS AND INCREASE OUR
FAITH. TO OPEN OURSELVES TO EMBRACE ALL IN OUR PARISH FAMILY, IN ORDER TO BUILD OUR
RELATIONSHIPS AS SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN CHRIST.
SUNDAY MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday Evening – 4:00 p.m.
Sunday Morning - 8:00 and 10:30 a.m.
ROSARY DEVOTIONS
Sunday - 7:30 a.m.
Before daily Mass. Beginning at 8:40 a.m.
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
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Ash Wednesday, February 18
Masses at 9:00 a.m. & 7:00 p.m.
DIVINE MERCY CHAPLET
Second Friday of each month.
WEEKDAY MASS SCHEDULE
Monday through Friday - 9:00 a.m.
FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTIONS
Every First Friday at 9:00 a.m.
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION
Saturday – 3:00 p.m. - 3:45p.m.
NEW PARISHIONERS Welcome to the parish!
Please register at the parish office. Office hours are
Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Congratulations. We welcome your family into our midst. Please be aware that
preregistration and attendance at a scheduled baptism class is required prior to the baptism of your first child.
Please contact the parish office as early as possible.
SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE: Blessings upon your engagement. We need time to prepare you for your happy
day. Please try to contact the parish office nine to twelve months in advance to make arrangements.
Participation in Diocesan Marriage Preparatory Program is required. Young couples like you report its
helpfulness.
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MASS INTENTIONS
Saturday, January 24
Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20
4:00 p.m.
+Vin Rooney
Sunday, January 25
Jon 3:1-5, 10 1 Cor 7:29-31 Mk 1:14-20
8:00 a.m. Parishioners of St. Richard
10:30 a.m. +Mary Ann Berchin
Monday, January 26
2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5 Mk 3:22-30
9:00 a.m.
Tuesday, January 27
Heb 10:1-10 Mk 3:32-35
9:00 a.m.
Wednesday, January 28
Heb 10:11-18/Mk 4:1-20
9:00 a.m.
Thursday, January 29
Heb 10:19-25 Mk 4:21-25
9:00 a.m.
STEWARDSHIP A WAY OF LIFE
Tithing: God’s Plan for Giving
Sunday Collection Jan. 17, 2015
Difference
Budgeted Weekly Parish Need
$3,953.70
($161.30)
$4,115.00
Attendance: Saturday Jan. 17, 4:00 p.m., 97 people;
Sunday, Jan.18, 8:00 a.m., 55 people; and 10:30 a.m.
132 people. Total people 284.
Please pray for our sick and shut-in’s
Albert Boerger
Joey Kerman
Tonya Metchoir
Jane Boerger
Bob Boyle
Stephanie Knosp
Joey Lauber
Jack Muldowney
Betty O’Connell
Margaret Carey
Richard Lewis
Charlotte Petroll
Thomas Carey
Catherine Lewis
Nancy Risoldi
Eileen Coyle
Dan Lindsey
Azlyn Sebold
Brad Emonds
Lee Marrash
Virginia Shaffer
Friday, January 30
Heb 10:32-39 Mk 4:26-34
9:00 a.m.
+Elvira Mittica
Jim Forsha
John Marrash
Carolyn Staffieri
Karen Grimm
Joe Moreno
Elizabeth Stevanus
Sam Harsh
Bob McKeegan
Terri Swoope
Saturday, January 31
Dt 18:15-20 1 Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28
4:00 p.m.
+Charlotte Wolf
Cameron Hess
Father Menei
Denise Wiler
Maureen Johnson
Betty Hains
Brad Yeagle
Andrew Kennedy
Dave Hains
Sunday, February 1
Dt 18:15-20 1 Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28
8:00 a.m.
Special Intention for Sr. Albina FSML
10:30 a.m.
Parishioners of St. Richard
MINISTRIES for January 31 & February 1
4:00 p.m.
Altar Servers: Victoria Moreno & Gavin Achen
Eucharistic Ministers: Betty Rush & Jocelyn Sherman
Lector: Anni Goldman
Ushers: Matt Huboky & Don Horst
8:00 a.m.
Altar Servers: Joseph Giambalvo
Eucharistic Ministers: Sharon Overton & Jackie Holzel
Lector: Donna Mascuch
Ushers: Dick Zack & Ephraim Brandt
10:30 a.m.
Altar Servers: Ansley & Bruce Ryan
Eucharistic Ministers: Sally Burke
Lector: Jim Shaffer
Ushers: Frank Durdock & Gordon Williams
FLOWERS FOR THE GLORY OF GOD
Sanctuary: In memory of Robert & Gertrude Johnson,
requested by Jim & Lois Kline
Statues: In memory of Evelyn Roehl, requested by Rich
& Lisa Giambalvo
Sandra Zack
Wayne Moyer
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Christian Unity
Last Saturday at the Vigil Mass, I
sounded like I was striking a blow against
Christian Unity rather than fostering it, when I
shared with you an exchange I had with
several relatives (former members of the
Church of God, who are now Methodist)
gathered at my father’s deathbed. One asked,
“Do you really think he accepted Jesus as his
Lord and Savior?” I replied, “Yes, don’t worry
about his salvation. He’s Catholic.” What I
meant to share with them and you is that our
faith perspectives differ. Allow me to explain.
Catholics encounter the Protestant
understanding of salvation in our families,
culture and popular books like, Heaven is For
Real. In one chapter, little Colton Burpo, the
boy who saw Heaven and came back, says
after his visit, “You can’t get into heaven if you
don’t have Jesus in your heart,” a belief
congruent with his Dad’s church, Crossroad’s
Wesleyan.
My Christian family members
believe that Christ’s salvation is a gift, but one
requiring the specific act of a heartfelt personal
proclamation, “Jesus is my Lord and Savior” in
order for one to be saved. If this were true, the
number of the world’s saved would be small.
If the belief that the proclamation is
necessary fills our hearts with fear, then we
ask a helpful question.
Do we believe the
book, Heaven is for Real, should be entitled,
Heaven is for Evangelical Protestants--only?
No? Then our fear is misleading us and we
are free to ignore it.
Our Catholic faith professes that Christ
saves all people: Catholics, non-Catholics,
non-Christians, people of all faiths, people of
no faith, and people who refuse to believe until,
like Thomas, they see Him with their eyes and
touch Him with their hands. Ours is an
expansive view of salvation, where all are
saved by Christ, in Christ and through Christ,
even if they do not know Him. “Knowing
Christ” does not make us members of an
exclusive club, but rather, children of a loving
God. We hear this clearly, when on rare
occasions a priest uses Eucharistic Canon IV
at Mass. We hear him pray, “Remember those
who take part in this offering, those here
present and all your people, and all who seek
you with a sincere heart.” This final category of
people, those seeking God with sincerity of
heart, are people who may not know Jesus or
God, but whose hearts are naturally good. We
pray for them for they are destined for
salvation.
We believe that God gives us free will to
reject him. We may do this through sinning
mortally, choosing to extinguish the life of
grace within us and to turn our backs on God.
If we repent, God will take us back, forgive our
sin and restore the His life within us. Beyond
this we know that Jesus taught that our
salvation depends upon us seeing Him in one
another, especially the hungry, the thirsty, the
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naked, the imprisoned, and the homeless. For
in helping one another, we help Him.
Clearly we have been made by God, are
loved by him from conception to a natural
death and saved in His Son, so that we might
be with Him in this life and the next. As we
pray for Christian Unity, let us pray that our
brothers and sisters who do not share our
expansive view of salvation, handed down
faithfully from the time of the Apostles, may
soon enjoy a less exclusive vision of salvation.
The moment of death is painful enough as it is
a time of parting. Our loss is made bearable
by the promise of the reunion we will enjoy in
heaven. Fear of salvation or worry of an angry
God should not plague the faithful.
Perfect love casts away all fear. Let us
pray that God makes our love perfect, that the
divisions in Christianity may cease. Let the
desire to love better be the rule that erases the
differences and rejoins God’s family.
Fr. Steve