St. Joseph Church ~ Bardstown KY January 7, 2018

Stewardship - December 23rd & 24th, 2017

Stewardship Collections Received $19,260

Weekly Budget $18,913

Weekly Over/(Under) Budget $347

Special Collections

Angel Tree-$170 Bereavement-$3

Christmas Flowers/Masses-$230 Haiti Mission Parish-$150

Parish Needy Fund-$20 Catholic Charities-$992

St. Vincent DePaul-$380 Building Maint Fund-$20

Christmas-$9,424

“On entering the house they saw the child with Mary his mother.

They knelt down and did him homage. Then they opened their

treasures and offered him with gifts of gold, frankincense, and

myrrh.” Matthew 2:11

The wise men shared their treasures in thanksgiving for God’s great

gift to world. Are we willing share our treasures in praise and

thanksgiving to God?

This Weekend: The Epiphany of the Lord

Knights of the Columbus

110th Anniversary

Saturday, January 6

2:30 p.m. Reconciliation

4:00 p.m. K of C 110th Anniversary Mass

with Reception in Parish Hall

Sunday, January 7

11:30 a.m. Baptism

Children’s Liturgy of the Word

1:30 p.m. Baptism (Deacon)

Monday, January 8

7:00 p.m. RCIA-Maloney Room

Tuesday, January 9

1:00 p.m. Bible Study– “The Wild Goose”

Wednesday, January 10

5:00 p.m. Perpetual Novena to St. Jude

7:00 p.m. RCIA-Holy Family Room

7:30 p.m. W.O.W. Youth night

Thursday, January 11

9:30 a.m. Bible Study- “The Wild Goose”

11:00 a.m. SJS– 5th Grade Liturgy and Lunch

7:00 p.m. Journey of Hope

Friday, January 12

6:00 a.m. The Rosary is Prayed for Promotion of Life

Next Weekend: Bethlehem Winter Formal

Saturday, January 13

8:30 a.m. Sewing for Haiti-Maloney Room

2:30 p.m. Reconciliation

Sunday, January 14

11:30 a.m. Children’s Liturgy of the Word

Monday, January 8

6:30 a.m. Annis Noe

11:00 a.m. Joseph E. “Jodie” Miles

Tuesday, January 9

6:30 a.m. Katharina Ballard

Wednesday, January 10

6:30 a.m. Hillman Blanford

10:00 a.m. Bill Luckett at Colonial

Thursday, January 11

6:30 a.m. Bertram & Sylvia Smith

11:00 a.m. John Newcomb

Friday, January 12

6:30 a.m. Shirley Guthrie

Saturday, January 13

4:00 p.m. Frank Thompson

Sunday, January 14

7:00 a.m. People of the Parish

9:00 a.m. Frank Zavaglia

11:30 a.m. Alice Filiatreau

Readings for the Week of January 7, 2018 Monday The Baptism of the Lord Is 42:1-4, 6-7 or Is 55:1-11 or Acts 10:34-38 or 1 Jn 5:1-9; Ps 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10; Is 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6; Mk 1:7-11 Tuesday 1 Sm 1:9-20; 1 Sm 2:1, 4-5, 6-7, 8abcd; Mk 1:21-28 Wednesday 1 Sm 3:1-10, 19-20; Ps 40:2 and 5, 7-8a, 8b-9, 10; Mk 1:29-39 Thursday 1 Sm 4:1-11; Ps 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25; Mk 1:40-45 Friday 1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a; Ps 89:16-17, 18-19; Mk 2:1-12 Saturday Saint Hilary, Bishop and Doctor of the Church 1 Sm 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1; Ps 21:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; Mk 2:13-17 Sunday Second Sunday in Ordinary Time 1 Sm 3:3b-10, 19; Ps 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10; 1 Cor 6:13c-15a, 17-20; Jn 1:35-42

Canned goods can be brought to

St. Joseph Church every weekend

to benefit the Bread for Life Food Pantry.

The Epiphany of the Lord

Is 60:1-6; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13; Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6; Mt 2:1-12

Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw His star at its

rising… Matthew 2:2

My 12-year-old son and I were in the car, on a dirt road through a

forest, on our way to a swimming hole. “Wait,” he said, “Is that an

owl?” I stopped the car and looked where he was pointing. All I saw

were shades of green leaves and brown trunks and branches. But he

insisted. And, after a minute or two, I saw it too –a large owl, sitting on

a fallen log, far away from the road. We sat quietly and watched. At

one point, the owl flew higher and closer, never taking its huge eyes off

us.

I would have just driven on by. But my son, always alert to the

mysteries that nature holds, had been paying attention, so he was able

to see. And so Magi, wise and observant of God’s ways in the world,

were led by the light to his son.

Lord, you have revealed yourself to us. May I pay attention and follow

the light of your love.

Amy Welborn, Living Faith, Terence Hegarty, Editor

JANUARY PRAYER LIST

We remember in prayer: Our Military: Alaska: Lt Col Ben Busch Fort

Stewart, GA: 1Lt Martin P. Mudd Arizona: Lt Col James Busch USS Dallas:

ETSN Connor Jarrell Guam: AIC Kelsey Lyvers Georgia: 1st LT Austin Heil

Those Who Are Ill: Mary Ruth Adams, Lee Agee, Erin Andrews, Mike Auberry,

Debbie Ayers, Jourdan Farnsworth Bacot, Kate Baker, Matthew Baker, Christopher Jude Ballard, Jenny M. Ballard,

Lois Marks Ballard, Preston Barber, Phyllis Barnes, Cindy Bartley, Hortense Beam, Jack Beam, John Begley, Troy

Bell, Arline Bitsky, Donna Blair, Alexis Boone, Pat Murray Boone, Nichole Borden, Mary Breeden, Judy Burba, Marie

Carr, Bill Cecil, William Cecil, George Cecil, Sharon Cerdeira, Barbara Chesser, Logan Chevalier, John Cissell,

Mary Elizabeth Clark, Pat Clark, Tony Clements, Donald Comer, Michael Coots, Jaime Dela Cruz, Kaden

Curtsinger, David DeMar, Infant Brooks DeCarlo, Ralph Diaz, Donnie Dick, Marilyn Dick, Joseph A. Downs, Vincent

Downs, Harold Durbin, Greg Elder, Oma Lee Feaster, John Lee Fenwick, Nancy L. Festervan, John Filiatreau,

Geraldine Flaugher, Jan C. Fleck, Robert Fugazzi, Nellie Geoghegan, Ann Goff, B. J. Greenwell, PFC Bryan

Greenwell, Imelda Greenwell, Joan Greenwell, John Greenwell, Susie Greer, Chance Grundy, Fred Hagan,

Josephine Hall, Jerry Hamilton, Susan Hamilton Hardin, Sarah Lynn Harris, Leona Haydon, Catherine Hicks,

Margaret Hicks, Rose Hill, Sue Hodge, David Holderman, Alexa Huges, Debbie Hurst, Lola Hutchins, H.Y.C. Family,

Mary Inman, Buddy Janes, Charlie Janes, Christine Janes, Donna Jansen, Becky Thomas Johnson, Ed Jones,

Heather Kays, Lynn Kays, Margaret Hamilton Kilgore, Sister Marilyn King, Jimmy Kneisler, Bernard Knoppe, Jim

Knoppe, Susan Knoppe, Frances Boone Spalding Kofugi, Anita Kvinta, Faith Lanham, Linda Miller Lawrence,

Officer Eddie Lawson, Anita Lucas, Glenda Lucas, Inez Lucas, Jim Lucas, Rita Lucas, Thomas L. Lutes, Bobby

Lyvers, Joseph Spalding Marks, Eddie Marksbury, Charles Mattingly, Lloyd Mattingly, Donnie Mattingly, Philip

Mattingly, Rita McCubbins, Tracy Lee Miles, Carolyn Miller, Shirley Milligan, Jane Mudd, Larry Mudd, Leonard

Mudd, Joseph “Jo Jo” Murphy, Flaget Nally, Linda Mattingly Nalley, Larry Nally, Beverly Newton, Dean Newton, Joe

Ray Newton, Betty Nunn, Bruce O’Daniel, Nancy O’Daniel, Judy Parrish, Hannah Isabelle Perkins, Mason Phillips,

Steven Rapier, Donna Ray, Angie Reid, Jay Reavis, Avery Reynolds, Virginia Rhodes, Linda Richardson, Adrian

Riggs, Geraldine Riggs, David Ritchie, Grace Ritchie, Randy Robertson, Jarett Rogers, Jeff Rogers, Merrill Rogers,

Ruth Rouse, Connie Royalty, Linda Rummage, Joe Satterly, Don Schepker, Gabriel Schepker, Willie Schumacher,

Linda Shaw, Phillip Shaw, Joyce Shofner, Kenny & Bonnie Simpson, Carol Sims, Willie Skaggs, Violet Smith, Eddie

Spalding, John L. Spalding, LaMonda Sue Spalding, Margie Spalding, Robert Spalding, Mary Margaret St. Peter,

Mary Catherine Stovall, Martha Terry, Crystal Thacker, Geneva Thompson, Joyce Tingle, Pete Tingle, Carter Lee

Trent, Matthew Tucker, Bobby Unseld, Alton Vessells, Mary Aline Vessells, Mary Vittitow, Joyce Washburn, John

Wells, Braelyn Whaley, Madison Wheatley, Rodney Wheatley, Bruce Wheeler, Mary Wilkerson, Agnes Williamson,

James Wilmouth, Martha Wilmouth, Mary Wimsatt, Lucy Zaboronak, Amy Zucker.

Thank you for your prayers! The below Military Parishioners have made it home safely:

Afghanistan: GS 11 David A. Hardin

Italy: Sgt 1st Class Michael Walsh

Kuwait: SPC Jassmine Bunch

St. Joseph Church ~ Bardstown KY January 7, 2018

Congratulations Michael & Tammy Hicks

35yrs

Anniversary

Marriage Moment

Ways to Turn Your Spouse Off #7—Let Lists Rule Your Life. It’s the season of New Year Resolutions. This can be good,

but it can also turn your focus away from your spouse to self improvement. Today, make 1 specific resolution to deepen

your love. Parenting Pointer

January 6th is the feast of the Epiphany when Christians celebrate the 3 wise men’s (foreigners) search for God. Legend

has it that they followed a star. Gazing at stars can be a mystical experience. Look up at the sky with your child tonight.

Hopefully you will see stars. Ponder the universe together.

Archdiocese of Louisville Family Ministries Office. Susan Vogt, www.susanvogt.net

Haiti Sewing Ministry 2018 (Sewing in the Maloney Room)

January 13, 20, and 27th From 8:30 to 12:00 noon

Conversations For the January episode of Conversations with Archbishop Kurtz, Chancellor Dr. Brian Reynolds and Archbishop Kurtz discuss the leadership in the Church and the Church’s approach to immigration and refugee issues, especially in light of Pope Francis’ invitation to “Share the Journey” with migrants around the world. Archbishop also welcomes special guest Bishop-elect J. Mark Spalding, a priest of the Archdiocese of Louisville who was appointed by Pope Francis as the twelfth Bishop of Nashville.

Conversations airs on the Faith Channel (Spectrum channels19 and digital channel 279) on Tues. at 7 p.m., Wed. at 10 a.m., Fri. at 7 p.m., and Sat. at 4 p.m. It is heard on radio stations WLCR 1040 AM, Breadbox Media, and WLHN 95.3 FM in Meade County. In addition, Conversations can be downloaded for no charge through iTunes. Conversations is also available on Bardstown Cable Channel 19 (BRTV) at 7 p.m. on the first two Monday nights of the month and on Bardstown’s PLG TV on Tuesday afternoons at 4 p.m. and Saturdays and Sundays at 11:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Conversations can be seen online on www.archlou.org/conversations.

Middle School Youth - R.O.C. Nights (5:30-6:45 pm) - 1/10, 1/24 At Flaget Hall

High School Youth- W.O.W. Nights (7:30-9:00 pm) - 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31

At Parish Hall

Youth Ministry Youth Mass on Jan. 28 at 11:30 pm. Archdiocese of Louisville Walk for Life - this walk is in solidarity with the Nat'l March for Life in Washing-ton, D.C. All ages are welcomed to attend. Meet at 3:45 and travel to the Cathedral of the Assumption. The prayer walk is 1.5 miles with stops at the courthouse, jail, hospital, abortion clinic, etc. All ages are welcome to attend. Contact Ellen before 1/15 if you would like to help transport or would like to attend. We will stop for dinner and arrive home around 9pm.

YOUTH MINISTRY ACTIVITIES JANUARY

The Epiphany of the Lord

Knights of Columbus

Sponsoring a FREE THROW SHOOTING contest schedule on Sunday January 14, 2018 at 1:00pm in the Bethlehem Gym

The contest is open to all Nelson County

boys and girls, ages 9-14. Winners will advance to District, Regional

and State Competition.

No entry fee is involved & you can register at the door.

1907 History

On December 29, in the year of our Lord 1907, 71 Catholic gentlemen came together in Bardstown, Kentucky to establish Council 1290 of the Knights of Columbus. Although the founders are long gone, many of their names live on in our community as well known and popular family names, like Boone, Bowling, Greenwell, Hamilton, Haydon, Hurst, Mattingly, Smith, Spalding, Talbott and Willett. Since our council’s history is incomplete, we thought it would be interesting to share some history of the day with you. Pope Pius X was the leader of the Catholic Church. Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States. If you wanted any news of the world or the U.S., you would have had to read the local paper, since radios were just beginning to be sold commercially. Television was years away. A well known and respected scientist by the name of Albert Einstein had just introduced his “Theory of Relativity” and air flight was in its infancy, with the Wright brothers having flown only a few years before. In 1907, French cyclist Paul Comu flew a twin rotor helicopter. A magician by the name of Harry Houdini escaped from chains under water in just 57 seconds and New York City saw its first taxi cab. A small delivery company by the name of United Parcel Service began in Seattle, Washington. Meanwhile, in England, a retired military general by the name of Robert Baden-Powell wrote a book called “Scouting for Boys”, that launched a worldwide movement known as the Boy Scouts. And in Russia, the first Russian Revolution was taking place. In 1907, Oklahoma became the 46th state of the United States. A couple of peoples’ births went unnoticed, except for maybe by their parents, but later in life much note would be taken of them, as Katherine Hepburn and Gene Autry were born. Color photography was invented, but in black and white. Ben Hur was the year’s most popular movie. Rudyard Kipling received the Nobel Prize in literature and the Chicago Cubs beat the Detroit Tigers in the World Series. San Francisco was still rebuilding from its tragic earthquake of 1906, and another tragedy was in the making, as the plans for an unsinkable ship by the name of Titanic were being developed. It would be 5 more years before its tragic maiden voyage took place. In 1907, a man who would later become a Kentucky giant was still a runt, as Adolph Rupp was only 6 years old. The University of Kentucky basketball team had a tough year that year, going a staggering 3 wins to 6 losses. Meanwhile, here in Bardstown and Nelson County, according to the Bureau of Agriculture, the population of Nelson County was 19,110 people. Livestock far outnumbered people, with 3,463 horses, 1,731 mules, 7,338 cattle, 13,267 sheep, and 11,007 hogs. Crops grown included tobacco, wheat, corn and alfalfa. Farm labor was available for about $20 per month, while an acre of farmland went for about $15. Timber tracts were available for anywhere from $2 to $10 an acre. There were 11 banks and 41 churches in Nelson County. As 1907 ended, a group of Catholic gentlemen from Nelson County came together on December 29 th to start a new organization. We can be certain that this event passed with little fanfare given that the Knights of Columbus was only 25 years old. However, our Brother Knights came together on that night, a night much like tonight, strong in spirit and eager to create a fraternal order that could serve their Church and their community. The weather that night might have been cold and there may have been a trace of snow in the air, but they left their homes that day to sign their names to a constitutional roll, just as we continue to do today. Moreover, in so doing, they set in motion the wheels of a charitable organization that has helped thousands of Nelson Countians over the past 110 years. It is certain that those gentlemen did not realize that they were making history, but today, we understand that they did and are committed to continuing their vision and commitment to all of the Parishes. May God bless them and you for being a part of the Knights of Columbus history here in Nelson County. Statistics today: Current Members: 283 Years of Service:

60 Years: 6 50 Years: 4 40 Years: 10 30 Years: 35

Total Years of service: 4787

Knights of Columbus Family of the Year 2017

David and Judy Beaven have been chosen as our Family of the Year for their outstanding volunteer support

to the Knights of Columbus, St. Joseph Parish, St. Vincent Depaul Mission Store and Food Pantry,

and the local Community. We are truly blessed by their donations of their time,

talents and treasure.

Thank you David and Judy!

St. Joseph Church ~ Bardstown KY January 7, 2018

Our “Bulletin Sponsor of the Week” is:

We encourage our parishioners to patronize our bulletin

sponsors. It is through their generosity that our weekly bulletin

comes to you at no publishing cost.

TIME, DATE & LOCATION

Tuesdays: Beginning January 9 at 1:00 p.m. Thursdays: Beginning January 11 at 9:30 a.m.

We meet in the Malony Room in Flaget Hall

Contact Robin Leake to register: 502-348-3126 Classes meet for 14 weeks!

The Wild Goose is a term the Ancient Celts

used that referred to the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit will take you to the

very Heart of God!

Louis J. Bubbie Cecil Family

J. Noel Cecil Family Joe & Genora Hamilton Family Ray & Emma Higdon Family

John, Carol, Chuck & Cherrie Mudd Thomas Edward Mudd, Sr.

Marvin Roby Family Ben Wheatley Family

ADDITIONAL CHRISTMAS

MASS INTENTIONS