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IMPORTAN~ PHONE !\lUMBERSBusiness CYfice I Rectory 610-626-3321 ·610-626-3322Parish Schoo 610-626-1709Religious Educatlon 610-626-1057convent.... . 610-626-2492Pastoral Minister 610-626-8266Korean Catholic Center 610-259-2240Website www.holycrosscatholics.orgE-mail contactus@holycrosscatholics.org

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MASS SC~EDULESaturday E.er'ng: 5:15 PMSunday, uooer Churd'1: -:30. 9:30. 11:30 AM

Holy Day: 8:30 AM and 7:00 PM

Weekday: 8:30 AM

CONFESSIONSSaturday, Lower Church: 4:00 to 5:00 PM

MARRIAGE POLICYArrangements are made directly with the Parish Priests, withinsix months before the intended wedding date. Weddings arereserved for active parishioners. Pre-Cana Session is required.Please cal Rectory for appointment with Parish Priests. Ournext Parish Pre-Cana day will be on November 15, 2014. Toregister, call Bill & Nicole @ 610-626-8486.

VISITATION TO SICK AND INFIRMPlease call the Rectory or Sister Mary Carmela, PastoralMinister, when a parishioner is hospitalized or homebound.

REGISTRATIONSBy Appointment. All Catholics living in the parish should reg-ister at the Rectory. Please call Parish Office to make an ap-pointment with one of the Parish Priests.

PARISH PASTORAL STAFFRev. John D. Gabin PastorRev. Edward B. Cahill Pastor EmeritusRev. H. James Hutchins Parochial VicarRev. Msgr. Paul F. Curran In ResidenceDeacon Robert FrankenbergerDeacon Joseph N. GousieSr. Loretta Saudarg, RSM Business ManagerSr. Mary Carmela, RSM Pastoral MinisterMs. Kathleen Fitzpatrick PrincipalMrs. Kelly Meliti Director of Religious Education

BAPTISM POLlCYBaptisms are celebrated every Sunday, except for the firstSunday of the month, at 12:30 PM. Please call the rec-tory at 610-626-3321 to set up an appointment with a Priest.First time parents and godparents are required to attend aBaptism Preparation Session. Only when Certificates of Eli-gibility from godparents are presented, then a date for thebaptism can be set.

The Baptism Preparation Sessions are held the first Sundayof the month at 12:30 PM in the Upper Church, with registra-tion required. To register, please call the parish secretaryduring regular business hours (Monday to Friday, 8:00 AMto 4:00 PM). Registration must be made prior to the last Fri-day of the month. If no registrations are received, a sessionmay not be held.

RECTORY OFFICE HOURSMonday - Friday: same as the Business Office· Saturday:1:00 - 7:00 PM • Sunday: 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM

BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS(Entrance through the middle, rear door of the Church)Monday - Friday Only: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Closed for Lunch12-1 PM); Closed Saturday and Sunday

FROM THE PASTOR'S DESK

It is the time of year for vacations. Thank God! Don't you justlave acations?! Each 0:us needs and deserves a change of pace or time off from work to renewand refresn ourse. es,perhaps, re'axing around home or ata park or at the shore or the mountains.

The pace slows down in the summer. It is a good time for a needed and deserved rest. Intoday's Gospel Our lord invites us to come to Him, all of us who labor and are burdened, and Hewill give us rest. Now there's an invitation wejust can't refuse!

Summer is a perfect time to come to Our Lord and He will refresh and renew us. Perhapsby a more honest following of the teaching of the Church and a return to regular monthlyconfession - with your children. Perhaps, by letting go of resentment to that family member orneighbor or co-worker and expressing some kindness. Kindness usually begets kindness.

Perhaps, by a donation to pro-life to help fight the biggest battle of our time or to the poorand needy. Perhaps, with some extra time in the Eucharistic Adoration Chapel or in prayer, evendaily Mass.

Our Lord wants to receive our cares and worries and bless our suffering and use it for ourgood and the good of others.

The weariness of life cannot be relieved by nicer material possessions and more pleasure.In fact, it's the pursuit of pleasure and a better material life alone that wearies us more thananything. Only Jesus can satisfy the human heart.

Only coming to Him again, and again, and again, will keep us peaceful, joyful and loving.

PRAYERTO MARY IMMACULATEPATRONESS OF THE UNITED STATES

o Immaculate Mary, Mother, Teacher, and Queen,watch over with a

loving smile this blessed land of America and her children. Your heart expandsso as to welcome and enfold all peoples in the loving embrace of peace.

You continue to look down upon the earth, upon the just and the erring,ever solicitous for the salvation of all. You remember that Jesus, when dying onthe cross, assigned you as our Mother, and inflamed your heart with universallove and solicitude. Therefore, continue to inspire vocations; comfort theevangelical laborers; render all hearts docile to the Divine Master.

Through you may this great people evermore find in Christ the Way,the Truth, and the Life; may they let His light shine before the world, and maythey always seek the kingdom of God and His justice.

o Mary Immaculate, Queen of Apostles, pray for us. Amen.

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MONDAY JULY 78:30AM Shirley Burbidge

TUESDAY JULY88:30AM Mazzagatti Family

WEDNESDAY JULY9Saint Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest,

and Companions, Martyrs8:30 AM Stefano Giordano

THURSDAY8:30AM

JULY 10Adele Fromberg Bryan

FRIDAY JULY 11Saint Benedict, Abbot

8:30 AM Frank McNulty, Jr.ftl' Anniversary

SATURDAY8:30AM

JULY 12Tom and DorothyCassidy

NEXT WEEKENDMASS INTENTIONSSATURDAY JULY 125:15 PM George Scirrotto

SUNDAY7:30AM9:30AM

11:30 AM

JULY 13Michael HoranPeople of Holy CrossDeceased Members ofthe Cresante andO'Shea Families

Patty BarrySusan BassettiJoan BeeleJane BerryAnne CelottoVictoria CutuliSharon DiemerCornelius DunleavyDorothy EberhardEmelia FagnanoJulie FrankenbergerAnne GallagherCarolyn Henderson

Carol KimeMary KullKendall LambertKaren LandolfiJames McCuskerHelen MurphyHelene NearyDon and Eve PalermoLaura PalermoMary RevelloJeff SimmonsJoseph SindoniBilly Winans, Jr.

SPECIALNOTE TO PARENTSAND GRANDPARENTS

EVERYSUNDAY AT THE 9:30 AM MASS WE OFFERASPECIALCHILD LITURGYFORCHILDREN, K- GRADE 3.THE CHILDREN ARE LED DOWNSTAIRS WITH ANADULT lEADER AFTERTHEOPENING PRAYERTO HEARTHEWORD OFGOD PROCLAIMED TO THEM ON THEIRLEVEL THEYTHEN RETURNAGAIN TO THEIR FAMILIESUPSTAIRS DURING THE OFFERTORY. IT IS AWONDERFUL WAY FORTHESECHILDREN TO

LEARN ABOUT THEIR FAITH, AND IT GIVES THEIRPARENTS THE OPPORTUNITY TO LISTEN TO THEREADINGS AND HOMILY WITHOUT INTERRUPTION.PLEASEMAKE EVERYEFFORTTO BRING YOUR LITTLEONES TO MASS WITH YOU AT 9:30 AM MASS. BOTHYOU AND THEYWILL BENEFIT FROM THIS ACTIVITY.

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As we look forward to another PREP year, wewould like to thank you for considering Holy Crossor your family! Please consider being a catechist,aide, or hall monitor for the 2014-2015 PREPyear.Re-registration and New Registration began inApril. Please go to our website:www.holycrosscatholics.orgfor information about tuition rates and guidelinesfor PREP. You may download a registration formfrom the website or contact Kelly Meliti at 610-626-1057 .

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This prayer is a game changer for you spiritually, and agame changer for every aspect of your life. If every Catholic in Americaprayed in this way for a few minutes each day, the Church would be on thefast track to renewal. If everyone in your parish began to pray using thisprocess, your parish would explode with enthusiasm and engagement.

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From Matthew Kelly's Book:The Four Signs of a Dynamic Catholic

THEPRAYERPROCESS

1. Gratitude: Begin by thanking God in a personal dialoguefor whatever you are most grateful for today.

Awareness: Revisit the times in the past twenty-four hours whenyou were and were not the-best-version-of-yourself. Talk to God about these situations andwhat you learned from them.

Significant Moments:Identify something you experienced today andexplore what God might be trying to say to youthrough that event (or person).

Peace: Ask God to forgive you for any wrong you havecommitted (against yourselt another person, orHim) and to fill you with a deep and abiding peace.

Freedom: Speak with God about how He is inviting you tochange your life, so that you can experience thefreedom to be the-best-version-of-yourself.

Others: Lift up to God anyone you feel called to pray fortoday, asking God to bless and guide them.

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A PRIMER FOR CONFESSIONEXAMINATION OF CONSCIENCE

1. I am the Lord your God. You shan not have strange gods before me.00 I seek to love God with my whole heart and soul? Does He truly hold first place inmy life? Have I been involved with the occult or superstitious practices? Have I everreceived Holy Communion in the state of mortal sin? Have Itold a lie inconfession or deliberately withheld confessing a mortal sin?

2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.Have I insulted God's holy name or used it lightly or carelessly?Have Iwished evil on anyone?

3. Remember to keep holy the lord's Day.Have Imissed Mass deliberately on Sunday. the Lord's Day, or on Holy Days of obligation?00 I try to keep Sunday a day of rest?

4. Honor your father and your mother.Do Ihonor and obey my parents? Do Icare for them in their old age? Have Ineglected myfamily responsibilities to spouse and children? Is my family life centered around Christ andHis teaching?

5. You shaU not kill.Have Imurdered or physically harmed anyone? Have Ihad an abortion? Have Iencouragedan abortion? Have I abused drugs or alcohol? Have I mutilated myself through any form ofsterilization? Have I encouraged others to have themselves sterilized? Have I harboredhatred, anger or resentment in my heart towards anyone?

6. You shaD not commit aduftery.Have Ibeen unfaithful to my marriage vows in action or thought? Have Ipracticed any formof contraception in my marriage? Have I used fertility treatments condemned by theChurch? Have I been engaged in sexual activity with a member of the opposite sex or thesame sex? Have I indulged in pornographic material? Am I pure in my thoughts, words,actions? Am I modest in dress? Am I engaged in any inappropriate relationships?

7. You shall not steal.Have I taken what is not mine? Am I honest with my employer/employee? Do I gambleexcessively, thereby robbing my family of their needs? Do I seek to share what I have withthe poor and needy?

8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.Have I lied, gossiped or spoken behind anyone's back? Have I ruined anyone's good name?Do I reveal information that should be confidential? Am I sincere in my dealings with othersor am I "two-faced?"

9. You shall not desire your neighbor's wife.Am I envious of another's spouse or family? Have I consented to impure thoughts? Do I tryto control my imagination? Am I reckless and irresponsible in the books I read and themovies I watch?

10. You shall not desire your neighbor's goods.Am I envious of the possessions of others? Am I resentful and bitter over my position inlife?