Celebration of the Eucharist

Saturday Anticipation Mass: 4:00 p.m.

Sunday: 8:30 a.m., 10:30 a.m.

Extraordinary Form: 12:00 p.m.

Daily Celebration of the Eucharist

Monday - Saturday: 8:00 a.m.

Monday, Wednesday, and Friday:

Extraordinary Form: 12:00 pm.

Sacrament of Reconciliation

3:00-3:30 p.m. Saturday,

11:30-11:45 a.m. Sunday & by appointment

Baptism

Please call the Priory Office for Sacramental

Preparation (518) 274-6720

Marriage

Parishioners contemplating marriage should

contact the Priory at least six months in

advance of their intended wedding date.

The Church of

Saint Joseph 416 Third Street (518) 274-6720

Troy, NY 12180 stjoes-carm@nycap.rr.com

Pastor

Fr. James R. Sidoti, O. Carm.

Parochial Vicar, Prior

Fr. Lucian W. Beltzner, O. Carm.

Director of Faith Formation

Patti Schwartz

Cemetery Superintendent

Jason Demarest (518) 461 - 9222

Parish Secretary

Sandi DiNicola

Cemetery & Parish Information: (518) 274-6720

Office hours: Mon.– Fri. 9am-12pm, and 1pm-4pm

Directors of Music Ministry

James Early (Novus Ordo)

Bernard Ouimet (Extraordinary Form)

Carmelite Director of Vocations

Fr. Francis Amodio, O. Carm.

Food Pantry: Mon-Thurs. 9-12; (518) 244-3347

Served by the Carmelites

of the Ancient Observance

St. Joseph Parish Member Enrollment ~ Parish Member Update of Contact Information

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St. Joseph Church Mission StatementSt. Joseph Church Mission StatementSt. Joseph Church Mission StatementSt. Joseph Church Mission Statement

We, the Parish of St. Joseph, South Troy, are Roman

Catholics who strive by our reverent and devout

worship to make our church a House of Prayer. By our

concern for the education of the young and for the

spiritual and temporal welfare of all, we take special

effort to make St. Joseph’s a place of learning

hospitality, assistance and celebration.

Third Sunday of AdventThird Sunday of AdventThird Sunday of AdventThird Sunday of Advent December 17, 2017December 17, 2017December 17, 2017December 17, 2017

MASS INTENTIONS

SATURDAY, December 16 8:00 Mary E. O’Brien (A) - The Smith Family 4:00 Mary & Virginia Perrotto (B) - Family Christine Finn-Gray (B) - Mom & family Peter & Mary Zmud (A) - Rose Wronowski Demetrio & Luisa Carbonaro (24A)-Assunta & Anna Maria

Francesco Lengua - Gino & Fran Lengua Frank Smith - Emmet & Carol Schrom

SUNDAY, December 17 (3rd Sun. in Advent/Gaudette Sunday) 8:30 People of The Parish Karen Mosseau (51B) - The Mosseau Family Margaret Doyle (8A) - The family Edna Volks O’Connell (23A) - Family Maria Stanislaw Krupinski, Krystyna Pietro, & Zbiegniew Przybyla - Family

Carroll, Riley, Dugan Families-Nancy & Todd Carroll 10:30 Thomas Foley - Peggy Gulliver

12:00EF – Joseph Serafini - Margaret Purcell (niece)

MONDAY, December 18 8:00 Carmelite Purgatorial Society Thomas Oathout (B) - Family Sheila Sheehan - Dana Carpentier 12:00 EF – Fr. John F. Waldron (D) TUESDAY, December 19 8:00 Bernice Wong - Leo & Mary Wong John McMahon - Frank Ryan

(MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA FOLLOWING MASS) WEDNESDAY, December 20 8:00 Joseph Liss (1A) – Family Margaret M. Millington (B) - Margaret Pierce 12:00 EF –Robert & Patricia Lohner (50W/A)(L)

- Eugene & Roseanne Parzek THURSDAY, December 21 8:00 Daniel Conway (6A) - Conway-Purcell Families Howard Warren (A) - Charlotte (daughter) (ROSARY FOLLOWING MASS) FRIDAY, December 22 8:00 Tedesco-Mele Families - Bob & Regina Mele 12:00 EF– Mary Anne O’Connor - John & Claire Bracken

SATURDAY, December 23 8:00 William B. Gulliver - Wife 4:00 Stephen Spillane - Family Madelyn Carroll (31A) - Family Howard Warren (B) - Charlotte (daughter) Scott McKeever - Mom

Anna Paciorkowski - Family Catherine & James Fitzpatrick - Family

Carmelina Lignelli (25A) - Assunta & Anna Maria George Remarchuk - Family

SUNDAY, December 24 (4th Sunday of Advent) 8:30 People of The Parish

Marie C. Minahan (84B) - Mike (husband) & children

Nicholas Cinnamea - Cinnamea family Csezlaw Raczkowski - Kaz & Ela Raymond Grimmick - Loving family 10:30 John J. & Helen Mesley - Mary (daughter)

Peter & Julia Gaynor & family– Betty Gaynor Elizabeth R. Sheehan & family - Betty Gaynor Marjorie F. Hennessey & family - Betty Gaynor Dr. Carl & Anna Mae deLucia - Betty Gaynor 12:00EF–John & Marion Tucker - Peter & Kimberly Landauer

In charity, please pray for the repose of the soul of: Raymond Grimmick Raymond Grimmick Raymond Grimmick Raymond Grimmick and Christopher WoodChristopher WoodChristopher WoodChristopher Wood

who entered into eternal life.

Monday, December 18, 2017 7:00 p.m. Parish Evening Prayer Group

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 1:30 p.m. Parish Afternoon Prayer Group

Saturday, December 23, 2017 3:00-3:30 p.m. Reconciliation (Confession)

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This bulletin can be found online at: hhhhttttttttpppp::::////////ssssttttjjjjoooosssseeeepppphhhhccccaaaatttthhhhoooollll iiiicccccccchhhhuuuurrrrcccchhhh----ttttrrrrooooyyyy....oooorrrrgggg Parish Prayer Line

Call Lea Cramer with prayer requests, at 274-7806, or call the Priory. We pray especially for our ill and homebound parishioners in our daily prayers.

SANCTUARY CANDLE

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CARMELITE CHAPEL CANDLE

(Available)(Available)(Available)(Available)

HOST AND WINE

George McKeon (A) George McKeon (A) George McKeon (A) George McKeon (A) ---- Family

FLOWERS BESIDE OUR LADY OF MT. CARMEL

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MASS INTENTIONS

The Porcelain Doll Basket Raffle raised $800.00 Thank you!

SUNDAY, December 24 (Christmas Eve/Vigil Mass) 4:00 Edward F. (Ned) Keating - Mom & Dad Francis Teitsch - Family Richard Joseph & Agnes Egan Glasheen -6 children & their families Joanne & Henry Miecizniowski - Jeanne (sister) Tario, Egan, Spratt, Cunningham, & Montepare

Families—Meg Robert & Frances Barnes & daughter, Anne

Honsinger—Family Joseph Millington & Helen Kielb - Family William P. & Shirley A. Leahy - Shirley (daughter) Michael Gawlowski - Theresa & chuildren Settimio & Fernanda Corina - Gina (daughter)

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4th Sunday of Advent - Dec. 23/24

Lectors

4:00 Marge Deerfield

8:30 Carol Johnson

10:30 Jason & Walter Kippen

Extraordinary Ministers

4:00 Ed Manning, Jeanne Dobrindt, Eileen Schrom,

Marylou Kane, (volunteer)

8:30 Rich Carley, Nancy Carroll, Susan Finn

10:30 Thomas Cupp, Loretta Donohue, Kim Myers,

Sharon Styles, (volunteer)

Christmas Eve / Christmas Day - Dec. 24/25

Lectors

4:00pm Jody Barnes

12:00am Thomas Cupp

8:30am Susan Finn

10:30 am C. Andre Sullivan

Extraordinary Ministers

4:00 Jack Shields, Marylou Kane, Eileen Schrom

12:00am Loretta Donohue, Mary Jane Ciccarelli

8:30 Ed Manning, Cathy Place, Eileen Schrom

10:30 Kim Myers, Jack Shields, (volunteer)

Additional Parking for Weekend Masses is avail-able on Church St., between St. Joseph Park and A Child’s Place (Unity House) School Building. The parking spaces on “the park side” are on our property and can be used for church functions.

Sunday, December 10, 2017 How we came … 355 How we gave …. $ 3,084.50 - First Collection

$ 1,181.50 - Second Collection $ 298.00 - Miscellaneous $ 1,227.00 - Immaculate Conception Upcoming Collections:

December 24 - Balance the Budget December 25 - Christmas December 31 - Snow Removal January 1 - Solemnity of Mary (January 1 is not a holy day of obligation this year, 2018.)

Thank you for your continued support!

"He was not the light, but came to testify to the light ,"(John 1:8).

Lay Ministry Schedule

Pro-life Reflection: Christmas, for which we are now preparing, is not simply the feast of the birth of Christ; it is the feast of His be-coming human, the reality called the Incarnation. Life in the womb, which was already sacred because it comes from God, is now made even more holy and worthy of our every sacrifice.

Prayer: Lord Jesus, You lived for nine months within the body of the Virgin Mary. Give success to the efforts of all who believe in Your Incarnation to protect every human life in the womb. - Fr. Frank Pavone

The Giving Tree Thank you for bringing your

(unwrapped) gifts back by:

Sunday, December 17

Please set them on the

Marian altar (on the right).

They will be picked up Monday, Dec. 18th.

Faith Formation Program

Classes: Sundays 9:15am-10:15am

(Madden Center)

Prepare for Christmas and deepen your experi-

ence of the Advent season by remembering that God loves us so

much that He sent His only Son, Jesus. Please join us as we rec-

reate the beautiful Gospel story of The Nativity of Jesus Christ.

The Christmas Pageant will take place at our 10:30 Mass on De-

cember 18th. Also, this Sunday is our last faith formation class of

2017. Classes will resume on Sunday, January 7th, 2018. From

all of us at The Faith Formation program we want to wish you a

very blessed and happy Christmas and a joyful new year!! A very

special Thank You! to LOIS TEITSCH LOIS TEITSCH LOIS TEITSCH LOIS TEITSCH for a wonderful job

planning the pageant.. -Patti Schwartz, Director

The Office and Food Pantry will be

closed Mon., Dec. 25-Tues., Dec. 26 for Christmas, and will reopen Wed., Dec. 27, 2017. There will be no Tuesday Prayer

Group on Tuesday, December 25, 2017 and Tuesday, January 2, 2018.

March for Life 2018 Bus Reservations: (Rens. Co.) Call 518-221-6776. Bus leaves Thurs., Jan. 18 @ 11am from Christ the King Church. Returns Jan. 20th at 1:30pm. Tickets: $55

Floor Replacement Project There are samples of floor tile in the vesti-bule. Please stop by the table and select the one you prefer by placing your ballot in the corresponding basket provided.

The last 2017 luncheon at St. Joseph Church will be held this

Sunday, 12/17/2017 following the Latin Mass. Because the following 2 Sundays are Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, the luncheon will be on-hold until January 7, 2018.

Congratulations! Doll Basket Raffle Winner:

Patti Schwartz

Attention all volunteers: There is a Christmas gift for you in the Sacristy, in appreciation for sharing your time and talents with God at St. Joseph parish. Please

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A Welcoming Body of ChristChristina Spahn

It’s 10 am on Sunday at Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary C at hol ic C om mu n it y i n Albuquerque, New Mexico. Martha, Rick, and their two children file into the third row of chairs under the cross. A few minutes later Joe and Anna move into the row behind them. An older couple, they are visiting Albuquerque to attend to Joe’s mother, who is in the final stages of terminal cancer. Jack arrives. A longtime parishioner, he has just been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease. He is followed by the Sanchez family, whose youngest son, Jordan, is celebrating his sixth birthday, and Marie and Allen, who have decided it is time to return to the faith of their childhood and are coming to Mass for the first time in many years. Recent arrivals in Albuquerque, the six members of the Miller family are seated. They have come from a vibrant par-ish in the Denver area and have heard that Holy Rosary might be a good community to check out. Finally, Laura and Bob come rushing in and sit in the fourth row. They have spent the morning serving the weekly breakfast in Rosario Hall and now look forward to joining the community in prayer.

This imaginary configuration of people is repeated throughout the entire Church — at every Eucharist. In every row of every church, individuals filling the pews carry a range of emotions and experiences. Some hearts are filled with joy and gratitude; others are crushed with grief and pain; while the majority hold emotions somewhere in between. Whether indi-viduals leave the church restored and ready to face another week depends, of course, on how well the liturgy is celebrated and on their active participation in the rite. But their experi-ence is also inf luenced by how they feel welcomed and included. The Mass is, after all, a communal prayer, and peo-ple need to feel part of the community. How is that achieved?

In many parishes, hospi-tality ministers formally wel-come people as they enter the church. In some, visitors or newly registered parishioners are acknowledged before the liturgy begins. Some parishes invite people to introduce themselves to those seated around them. These are useful

practices and certainly aid in creating a warm and inviting atmosphere. But most important is each parishioner’s aware-ness that he/she is a member of a faith community that wel-comes others and has a commitment to doing just that. This commitment is expressed in many ways: a smile, willingness to move down the row to accommodate a person or family newly arriving, an inquiry about how the week has been, or a comment about the weather, the news, or anything else that comes to mind. Community is about relationships and rela-tionships are built as people communicate with each other.

Being a welcoming faith community involves much more than just what occurs inside the church. It also involves graciousness and generosity in the parking lot and multi-media communications that respond to the needs and prefer-ences of all members of the community. It involves pastoral sensitivity to those approaching the parish office and heartfelt thanks to the Sunday 10:15 am altar servers. It involves an invitation to a new parishioner to consider participating in a ministry and counseling an overwhelmed catechist that it might be time to take a couple of months off. It involves warmly greeting the long-time parishioner and being just as welcoming to the homeless person. It involves shared laughter and shared tears. In short, being a welcoming faith commu-nity involves individuals and groups meeting people where they are, recognizing them as comembers of the Body of Christ, and treating them with the love and respect with which they would like to be treated.

In every row of every church are people carrying a range of emotions and experiences. We honor each person with hospitality.

The wax of an Advent Candle represents

the flesh of Christ, the wick is His soul, and

the flame is His divinity, which absorbs and

The flesh of Christ is pure, just as beeswax

is the sweetest and purest wax because it

is extracted from flowers…Throughout

Advent the flame burns, expending itself,

sacrificing itself to give us light, just as

Christ came down to earth to sacrifice

Himself to give us Heaven.

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The wax of an Advent Candle represents

the flesh of Christ, the wick is His soul, and

the flame is His divinity, which absorbs and

dominates both.

The flesh of Christ is pure, just as beeswax

is the sweetest and purest wax because it

extracted from flowers…Throughout

Advent the flame burns, expending itself,

sacrificing itself to give us light, just as

Christ came down to earth to sacrifice

Himself to give us Heaven. – Holy Heroes, 2017

The wax of an Advent Candle represents

the flesh of Christ, the wick is His soul, and

the flame is His divinity, which absorbs and

The flesh of Christ is pure, just as beeswax

is the sweetest and purest wax because it

extracted from flowers…Throughout

Advent the flame burns, expending itself,

sacrificing itself to give us light, just as

Christ came down to earth to sacrifice

, 2017

In Loving Memory of John & Ada Brennan andJohn & Ada Brennan andJohn & Ada Brennan andJohn & Ada Brennan and

Daniel & Margaret Lynch Daniel & Margaret Lynch Daniel & Margaret Lynch Daniel & Margaret Lynch

Requested by: John & Peggy Lynch-Brennan

Roy F. Bordeau, Director

In Loving Memory of

Edna & Daniel O’Connell, Sr.,

William O’Connell, &

Mary Alice O’Connell Rapp

Love & Miss You - Your Family

Remembrance of Landrigan &

Glinkowski Families

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In Loving Memory of

Zillgitt & Snay Families

Your Loving Family

In Loving Memory of

Rose Donnelly Quinn

Your Loving Family

In Loving Memory of

James P. Brennan and

Fr. J. Gregory Brennan, OFM

Holy Name Province

Forever Loved

In Memory of

James W. Cramer

Your Loving Family

Dedicated with love to the

MOORE & HEFFNER Families

In Memory of

Joseph Bessette, Marguerite Bessette-Day & David Bessette

Daughter, Gail, & Larry

In Memory of

James & Florence Sullivan

Requested by daughter

In Loving Memory of

The Kane & Wachtel Families

Your Loving Family

In Loving Memory of

Joseph & Mary Perrotto

Joanne, Virginia, Anthony & Sam

By The Perrotto Family

In Memory of the

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The Society of Our Lady of Guadalupe

In Loving Memory of

Donohue and Guinan Families

Your Loving Family

With prayers for our country

In Loving Memory of The Purcell & Conway The Purcell & Conway The Purcell & Conway The Purcell & Conway

Families Families Families Families Shirley Conway

and Thomas Purcell

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In Memory of

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In Loving Memory of

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By Jack, Tom and Marie

In Loving Memory of

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In Loving Memory of Deceased Members of the Leo F. & Patricia O’Brien Boland Family

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And Eliza M. Welsh Your Loving Family

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