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2229 Hampton Street - Columbia, South Carolina 29204 Office: (803) 254-6862 - Rectory: (803) 376-6027 - Fax: (803) 799-4720

Church E-mail: stmartincolunnbiaqmail.com

School: (803) 254-5477 - Fax: (803) 254-7335

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Sunday Masses Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM

Sunday: 9:00 & 11:30 AM

Mass in Vietnamese As announced in bulletin

Weekday Masses Tuesday, Wednesday & Friday

12:00 Noon

September thru May Thursday: 9:30 AM

Check calendar for changes.

Parish Staff Rev. Michael Okere

Administrator

Rev. Mr. Carl Johnson, Deacon

Mrs. Ardrina Scott Elliott Administrative Assistant

Mrs. Doris Arvelo, Director of Religious Education

Sr. Roberta Fulton, S.S.M.N., School Principal

Parish Council

Office Hours Dr. Gerald Wilson, Chairman

Monday-Thursday 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM

Hermina Bellinger, Secretary

Friday 9:30 AM - 12:00 Noon Deacon Carl Johnson

Sr. Roberta Fulton, ssmn Confessions

Doris Arvelo Saturday 4:15 PM to 4:45 PM

Hank MacDonald and by appointment

Lin Wright Finance Council

Weddings Cathy Chiles, Chairperson

If planning to receive the Sacrament of Marriage,

Larry Bailey our Diocese requires a program of instruction Naomi Scipio

& preparation at least six months prior to the John Spells wedding date. Please contact the Church Office.

St. Martin de Porres Mission Statement St. Martin de Porres Catholic Church is a multicultural community founded on the African American Catholic experience.

We are a faith-filled community promoting spiritual and academic development, financial stability, social justice, and strong shared leadership. We will continue the faith of our ancestors as we hand down the traditions to our youth. }

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Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

This Week In Our Parish Website: stmartincolumbia.org

MONDAY, August 17 Father Michael's Day Off TUESDAY, August 18 12:00 pm Mass Intention: Sylvia Hiers WEDNESDAY, August 19 12:15 pm Mass Intention: +Al & Patricia Moffatt THURSDAY, August 20 No Mass FRIDAY, August 21 12:00 pm Mass Intention: In Honor of Fr. Michael's birthday SATURDAY, August 22 4:15 pm — Confession 5:00 pm Mass SUNDAY, August 23 7:00 am Vietnamese Mass 9:00 am Mass Intention: +deceased members of the Phillips family 11:30 am Mass 5:00 pm - SOUP KITCHEN: St. Vincent de Paul Society

In.lmtant DItsinAls2L___ 'August 19 — Back to School August 21 — Fr. Michael's Birthday

MASS INTENTIONS For August 15 and August 16, 2015

5:00 pm — Lydia & Wayne Lackey 9:00 am — Fr. Michael 11:30 am — The People of the Parish + denotes a deceased intention

Today's 2nd Collection: The second collection today is for Maintenance. Please give generously.

$$ FINANCIAL MATTERS $$ August 8 and August 9, 2015

Total General Collection: $6,520.50 SMDP Soup Kitchen 95.00 SMDP School 98.00 Building Fund 10.00 Re-pay Altar Flowers 65.00 Diocesan Campus Ministry 282.50 Total Offerings for the week: $7,071.00

Liturgical Ministry Schedule SATURDAY AUGUST 22, 2015 — 5:00 pm

Lector: Lin Wright

Eucharistic Ministers: Juanita Henry & Barbara Holloway

Altar Servers: Gavin Mincer &

Jerry Carter Sacristan:

Hank MacDonald SUNDAY —AUGUST 23, 2015 — 9:00 am

Lector: Alleen Williams

Eucharistic Ministers: Lillian Green & Albert Green

Altar Servers:

David Pelley & Isaiah Francis

Sacristan: Toni Campbell

SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2015 —11:30 am Lector:

Barbara Johnson Eucharistic Ministers: Claudia Cooper &

Andrea Perry Altar Server:

Tymia Boles Sacristan:

Loyce Harrison Collection Counters: Katrina Lorick

Veronica Ramseur Vickie Thomas

"Lord, Hear Our Prayer" For the healing of Miguel Aidar, Declan Alexander, John Arceneaux, Chester Bolden, Sallie M. Boykin, Nellie Brown, Vivian Carraway, Rea Coverdale DeVan, Floria Dial, Pat R. Goodwin, Edward Hampton, Jacqueline Kelly, Jordan Kokesh, Harriet McKie, Marie Meglen, Donald Miller, Robert Pearson, Theodore Pearson, Jane Rienzie, the Silver family, Jaimie Smith, Veronica Sullivan, Agnes Toomer, Catherine J. Weedon and Leroy White, Jr. For the souls of James Darrell Flynn and all our departed brothers and sisters in Christ. Assisted Living: Dora Brooks, Alexzenia Hebert Nursing Home: Charlese Fischer, Byron Weston If you would like to include someone in our prayer list, kindly call the office at (803)254-6862.

MASS ATTENDANCE August 8 and August 9, 2015

Adults: 221

Children: 51

Mortgage Reduction Offerings for the Weekend of

August 9, 2015 were $1,380. A special Thanks' to Romalis & Cheryl Dorris for their $1,000.00 gift towards this effort.

SCHOOL NEWS SMDP School is accepting applications for the 2015-2016 school year. Registration packets are available at the school office. New families in the parish are encouraged to apply. August 17 — Orientation for New Parents 5:00-6:00 PM August 19 — Classes Start

EVENTS ACTIVITES/UPDATES

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Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults Classes will resume on September 3,2015 from 6:30-8:00 pm. Please contact Cathy Meadows at (908) 548-4350 if you are interested in joining the class.

New to the Parish??? Please drop by the Office to complete Registration forms, pick up a ministry booklet, calendar and photo directory.

FLOWERS THANK YOU to John Spells for sponsoring this week's altar flowers.

Vacation Planning We pray God's guidance on you as you engage in your summer vacations. Please do not forget to send in your weekly donation for the upkeep of St. Martin de Porres.

Special "Thank You" from the Church Office In gratitude to Lauren and Cara Thomason, Brooke Mathis, Loren Brown, Don Doggett, Sharon Lynn, Roosevelt Cummings, Edward Sutton, Drake Elliott, Joseph 'Ur Mealing, Kelsey and Kayla Bailey for your assistance over the summer.

AT THE TABLE In today's first reading, Wisdom is imagined as

a woman rich in poise and grace. She moves smoothly and confidently about her temple-like home. She doesn't flutter about, nervous with worry. Wisdom sends her maidens to invite all to her open house. The guests do not possess any particular genius or insight. They need only be a people of good will and common sense. They are summoned to leave behind foolishness and to find for themselves a place at Wisdom's table. There they may and can eat and drink deeply.

Today's Gospel draws us back to the table of the Eucharist. Jesus addresses those who seek to understand his words and, sadly, those who seek to avoid them. As people born of God, we are called and equipped to seek God's will and act on it. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

I came so that they might have life and have it more abundantly. John 10 :10

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION If the alb is the premier baptismal garment, then

why are there so many other styles of vesture in evidence in our parishes? In some places, altar servers and other ministers might wear a garment, usually black, called a cassock. Over that is normally worn a white garment (a "surplice"), reminiscent of the alb but much shorter, often of starched linen and trimmed with lace. The cassock is not a liturgical garment, but a clerical robe. Its origins lie in the religious habit of monks. By the late Middle Ages, diocesan priests and clerics increasingly were encouraged to emulate religious priests. Very small boys were often apprenticed to monasteries, especially for music education, and would be invested with a cassock and sometimes even inducted into the ranks of clerics.

For centuries before the Reformation, it was required that all men entering higher education be clerics, and so the cassock and its variations became familiar academic garb. At the Reformation, many ministers retained a form of the cassock as ordinary dress, rejecting liturgical garments. In the seventeenth century, the English Civil War was in part provoked by the Archbishop of Canterbury's insistence that ministers wear surplices. Although the Episcopal Church now retains "cassock and surplice" as the normal dress for lay men and women assisting at liturgy, Catholics are increasingly attentive to the deeply traditional treasure of the alb, our baptismal robe, when special liturgical vesture is needed. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time Wednesday:

St. John Eudes Thursday:

St. Bernard Friday:

St. Pius X Saturday: The Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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