TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY

in ORDINARY TIME

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Church of St. Joseph Wurtsboro, NY

180 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, NY 12790 P. O. Box 277

(845) 888-4522 (845) 888-5072 FAX

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday - 5:00 (Vigil) Sunday - 9:00 & 11:00 AM

Weekdays - 8:00 AM No Mass celebrated Saturday mornings

Holy Days - Consult “Bulletin” SACRAMENTAL SERVICES

Reconciliation - Saturday, 4:00

Baptism - by Appointment

Marriage - by Appointment

SERVED BY: Fr. Peter J. Madori, Administrator 888-4522

Fr. Matthias Ndulaka, Chaplain: Woodbourne Correctional Facility

Mickey Maher, 888-2103 Director of Religious Education

Nick Sywyk, 888-2825 Director of Music

Stephen Melchionne 645-1139 Plant Manager

PARISH SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS Welcoming Committee Kate Labuda 888-2652

Church of St. Joseph Wurtsboro, NY

180 Sullivan St., Wurtsboro, NY 12790 P. O. Box 277

(845) 888-4522 (845) 888-5072 FAX

CLOTHING DONATION DEPOSITORY

Place used items of clothing in the shed located behind the Summer Church Hall.

MASSES at NEIGHBORING PARISHES Our Lady of Assumption, Bloomingburg - 5:30 PM Sat; 9:30 AM Sunday

Sts. Mary & Andrew, Ellenville - 5 PM Sat.; 8,10:15, 11:45 & 1 (PM) Sun.

St. Peter, Monticello - 5:15 PM Sat.; 7, 8:30, 11:15 & 7 (PM) Sunday

St. Paul, Bullville - 5 PM Sat., 9 & 11 AM Sunday

Infant Saviour, Pine Bush - 5 PM, Sat.; 9:30 & 11:15 Sunday

Holy Name, Otisville - 5 PM Sat.; 8:30 & 10:30 Sunday

e-mail: www.stjoswurts@frontiernet.net

Visit us at: www.stjosephwurtsboro.com

“FOR ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST . . .”

Weekend Masses, Twenty-Fifth Sunday in___ ___ Ordinary Time Saturday, September 19: 5:00 PM Robert Worthington Sunday, September 20: 9:00 AM Janet Maresca 11:00 AM For the People

Mon., Sept. 21 - Feast of St. Matthew, Apostle___ 8:00 Deceased of Haselau Family

Tuesday, September 22 ___ 8:00 Salvatore & Phoebe Facciponte

Wednesday, September 23 - St. Pio of Pietrelcina__ 8:00 Hector Gonzalez

Thursday, September 24___ 8:00 Emil Motl Dulin

Friday, September 25___ 8:00 Edward Walsh

Saturday, September 26___ Noon - First Communion Mass: William Fassell Weekend Masses, Twenty-Sixth Sunday in___ ___ Ordinary Time

Saturday, September 26: 5:00 PM Helen Corrigan Sunday, September 27: 9:00 AM Janet Maresca 11:00 AM Christina Longo Please pray for all our deceased parishioners, benefactors, relatives and friends, especially: Tom Seaver; Ronald Kleveno; Robert O’Brien; Tyler Skaggs; Lou Brock.; Diana Rigg. Please pray for those who are ill, especially: Miskit Airth; Brian Amrhein; Anita Auer; Robert Banks; the Berchtold Family; Sue Berry; Sharon Bierman; Ed Boyle; Michele Brow; Doris Buesing; Frank Caramico; Albert Caravello; Adeline Carbone; Tuck-er Carr; James Carney; Lottie Carney; Ronald Carr; Thomas Cash-man; Nicholas Cetera; Adelina Rose Ciarelli; Nickolas Civitano; Rocky Collins; Mikie Congemi; Carl Consolo; Donna Con-solo; Paula Cornine; Thomas Coughlin; Anna Courneya; William Cronic; Sue Currier; Donna Dalton; Jeannine Davis; Reilly Davis; Rosemarie Delia; Joan DeLizza; Carol Diamond; Christine Dobbs; Nancy

Donohue; Fr. Jack Duffell; Thomas Dunn; Connie Durante; Jerry Earl; Larry Eisen; Josephine Emanuele; Buddy Fahey; Nellie Fahy; Rev. John Fanning; Roger Fiat; Shawn Finneran; Jennifer Florio; Joe Franklin; Jake Gabriel; Lawrence Gallott; Jim & Pat Gatens; Kevin Garvey; Matthew Germann; Tyler Germann; Amy Giuseffi; John Giustiniani; Dillon Gleason; Erik Godfrey; Alex Goodman; Jen-na Graham; Robert Green; Karen Hackett; Mark Hairie; Jack Haley; Josh Harrison; Jill Hey; Steven Higgins; Theresa Higgins; Ola Hillar; Dennis Holohan; James Holden; Maggie Horne; Brenda Jansons; Conchita Javier; Cliff Jessup; Beatrice Johnson; Carolyn Johnson; Colin Johnston; Fred & Margaret Kinsella; Russell Kin-sella; Patricia Kirby; Aidan Kokakis; Alfred Kramer; Ron Kramer; Patricia & Ed Krekorian; Kate Labuda; Pat Lawler; Ver-danna Lawrence; Micah Lechner; Rick Lewis; Robert Linzer; John Longo; Mr. Lynn; William Maher; Diana Martinez; Eileen Mary-Rose; Fr. Jeff Maurer; Tracy Motley; Tandy McClung; Rosemary Mc-Cormick; Eddie & Patricia (Ryan) McKay; Maree McKinney; Terry Mills; Mickey Mirra; Dawn Montforte; Liz Moore; Kenneth Moore; Robert Morris; Brian Mortonson; Jennifer Motillo; Eileen Murphy; Sr. Mary Murray, OP; Sharon Nelson; Margaret Nichols; Carol Niedermeyer; Carole O’Neill; Richard Ortiz; Donald Paccione, Sr.; Piper Paddock; Patricia Parish; Meredith Parks; Bobby Patchuoli; Florence Penzo; Susan & Janet Peters; Eileen & John Pinsl; Larry Polsky; Gerry Ragusa; Regina Rahilly; Carolyn Ramsay; Thomas Reinholz; John Rivera; Linda Roosa; Vivian Rutherford; Ed Ryan; Marie Sabas-tiano; Susan Sheridan; Fran Spielhagen; Loretta Spordone; Joan Springwalt; Stephen Suida; Robert Sweeney; Aimee Swift; William Tappan; Gloria Taylor; Therese Van DeBogart; Louis Vega; Chris-tian Vidale; Rita Volpe; Mary Wardell; Joel & Joan Welsh; William Wetzel; Linda Williams; John Williamson; Evelyn Young.

+ BANNS OF MARRIAGE +__ I - Ian Rocker & Elizabeth Kennedy

“150 CLUB” NEWS___ The first drawing in the next “150 Club” took place last Sunday. Our first winner was # 9, Doris Motl. It’s not too late to join !! As a special bonus, because we could not have our usual barbeque to end the last Club, memberhip “dues” -- this time only!! -- are $ 20, a 20 % savings. For information, please call Kate Labuda, 888-2652. AVE MARIA GUILD NEWS___ Ave Maria Guild members attend Mass at 9 or 11 AM this Sunday, September 20. The regular monthly meeting will be held at 7 PM on Monday, September 21. The Rosary is recited at 6:30 before gavelling the meeting to order. The Holiday Crafts Fair is on the agenda and a Women’s Day of Reflec-tion are among the agenda items.Parish women inter-ested in the Guild are welcome to attend the meeting. SPECIAL COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND___

Gee Whiz! Not another one!! Well, usually the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops schedules eight each year, our diocese hosts the Propagation Collection and there is Peter’s Pence and the Good Friday Holy Land Collection. That last was postponed from April until this past weekend, due the pandem-ic. But the St. Joseph’s Semin -

ary Collection is for our own men preparing for ordination. Your pastor might not have become a priest if he were a college guy applying today. My way was paid with a NYS Regents Scholarship throughout the four years of college. The theology years were covered by a life insurance policy, taken on each seminarian, with premium payments deferred until after ordination and redeemed over a twenty year period. At maturity, the seminary received the $ 20,000 face value. That worked wonderfully well when we were ordaining an average of 25 priests per year. It would come to a hefty $ 500,000. But tuition costs have sky-rocketed. Ordinations have fallen to fewer than 10 per year. Now, to offset the cost of educating future clergy, we need a yearly special collection. The parish will “tithe” about 3 % of next weekend’s Offertory to this cause. Your own donation will help. COLLECTION REPORT: SEPTEMBER 12 & 13

MASS ATTENDANCE COLLECTION __ Mail-in donations $ 610.00 Reserved usage $ 150.00 5 PM 51 $ 1,124.00 9 AM 50 $ 498.00 11 AM 59 $ 566.00 Totals 160 $ 2,948.00

You can tell by the drop in attendance that “Summer in the Catskills: -- or should we say the Covidkills” is over for another season. The generosity of our parish-ioners continues unabated. It’s a good thing because the “summer bump” is long gone. The milder weather last weekend is a harbinger of Autumn, one of the loviest times of the year in Mamakating. __EXPENDITURES THROUGH SEPTEMBER 13__ Loan repay $ 88.00 Wurtsboro Village water ( 2 bills ) $ 126.74 Telephone $ 322.01 Cable TV ( house ) $ 148.13 Office expense $ 90.12 Bottini Fuel ( annual svc. c/tc/t. ) $ 899.85 Orange & Rockland ( 3 meters ) $ 933.35__ Total $ 2,608.20 A PARISH RESPONSE TO RACIAL INJUSTICE_ As it should have, the current resurgence of de-monstrations surrounding the inequities experienced by people of color in our society raised the question in your pastor’s own conscience: “Am I a bigot?” I came to the conclusion that I, perhaps like many others moral people, am an “unconscious bigot.” I do not act from motives of hatred, I do not think judgmentally about blacks, hispanics or any other racial group. But I am most likely conditioned by my entire life experience unwittingly to act and think “dif-ferently” when race is part of the equation. Our Church teaches that, in examining our consciences for confession, we need not hold ourselves ac-countable for the work of our subconscious minds. However, it is both spiritually and emotionally con-

structive to surface what may lurk beneath our con-scious behaviors and begin to correct or heal harmful thoughts and feelings. The teaching of our Church stands squarely against discrimination, even when her represen-tatives and authority figures often in the past -- and even in the present day -- may not always act ac-cording to the dictates of Catholic doctrine !! The Parish Council and I have decided that the parish should witness to our Church’s teaching in some demonstrable way. October is annual “Pro-Life Month,” no better time to address the issue. We have come up with a four-pronged plan: edification, education, prayer and action. Beginning with last Sunday’s “Bulletin,” there will be weekly fliers detail-ing the lives of people of color -- and Caucasian peo-ple who have stood in solidarity with them -- people who have led holy lives and even been canonized as saints by the Church. At the end of that series, the “Bulletin” will contain a flier featuring an essay by the bishop of Baltimore, applying Church doctrine to the issue of “Black Lives Matter. Some Sunday in October, after the 11 AM Mass, there will be two hours of Eucharistic adoration during which people are invited to pray before the Eucharistic Presence of Our Lord, asking His intevention in our national crisis. Finally, we are still forulating action steps, including the work of our children on “Family, Faith & Fun” Day.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1:30 PM

BLESSING of the ANIMALS

COLUMBUS DAY WEEKEND “FAMILY, FAITH & FUN”

for RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 ANNUAL HOLIDAY CRAFTS FAIR

9 AM - 3 PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 10 AM MASS for ALL COVID-19 VICTIMS

THANKSGIVING DAY ANNUAL PARISH OPEN DINNER