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Third Sunday in Ordinary Time

III Domingo Ordinario

January 22, 2012

Teach me your ways, O

Lord. Sen or, instru´ ye

me en tus sendas.

Monday, January 23:

Noon Communion Service with Deacon

Tom at St. Joseph’s, Elma

Tuesday, January 24:

Noon Mass - St. John’s, Montesano

For Dorothy Floch requested by Alice Ditz

Thursday, January 26:

Noon Mass - St. John’s, Montesano

For Our Benefactors

Friday, January 27:

Noon Mass - St. Joseph’s, Elma

For Our Benefactors

12:45 p.m. Confessions at St. Joseph

Saturday, January 28:

4:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Confessions at St. John’s, Montesano

5:00 p.m. Mass at St. John’s, Montesano

Sunday, January 29:

9:00 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph, Elma

11:30 a.m. Mass at St. John, Montesano

St. Joseph’s & St. John’s

All Parish

Faith Formation– Teaching Mass

All parishioners eight years of age and up are invited, and

encouraged to participate in our All Parish Faith Formation

sessions. Father Dickey will lead each session in the sanctuary at

St. Joseph’s, in Elma on Sunday evenings.

5:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Adoration and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Teaching Eucharist using The Roman Missal Third Edition

Please make sure to save the dates:

February-5 March-4 April-1 May-6

Special Intention Mass

The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be offered for your special intention.

Mass is a good way to commemorate birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, me-

morials, a newly married couple, mother's day, father's day, as a spiritual bouquet

gift for someone, and to pray during illness, before surgery, and for a safe preg-

nancy.

Contact the parish office to schedule a Mass intention.

Special Intention Masses can be scheduled on:

Tuesday Noon - St. John’s, Montesano

Thursday Noon - St. John’s, Montesano

Friday Noon - St. Joseph’s, Elma

Readings for the Week of January 23, 2012 READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Mk 3:22-30, or any readings from the

Mass “For Peace and Justice,” nos. 887-891 Tuesday: 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19; Mk 3:31-35 Wednesday: Acts 22:3-16 or Acts 9:1-22; Mk 16:15-18 Thursday: 2 Tm 1:1-8 or Ti 1:1-5; Mk 4:21-25 Friday: 2 Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mk 4:26-34 Saturday: 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17; Mk 4:35-41 Sunday: Dt 18:15-20; Ps 95; 1 Cor 7:32-35; Mk 1:21-28 LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: 2 Sm 5:1-7, 10; Mc 3:22-30, o cualquier lectura de la misa “Por la paz y la justicia,” nos. 887-891 Martes: 2 Sm 6:12b-15, 17-19; Mc 3:31-35 Miércoles: Hch 22:3-16 o Hch 9:1-22; Mc 16:15-18 Jueves: 2 Tim 1:1-8 o Tit 1:1-5; Mc 4:21-25 Viernes: 2 Sm 11:1-4a, 5-10a, 13-17; Mc 4:26-34 Sábado: 2 Sm 12:1-7a, 10-17; Mc 4:35-41 Domingo: Dt 18:15-20; Sal 95 (94); 1 Cor 7:32-35;Mc 1:21-28

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St. Joseph’s: St. John’s:_________________________

Collection. 1/15/2012 YTD Collection 1/14 & 15/2012 YTD

Budgeted $ 2,300 $ 66,700 Budgeted $ 2,300 $ 66,700

Collected $ 672 $ 52,231 Collected $ Not available $ 55,859

Difference $ (1,628) $ (14,469) Difference $ ($ 8,541) Please help support the parish financially when you can’t make it to Mass. The bad weather resulted in low attendance at Mass last week.

Stewardship– GOD GIVES IT ALL— THEN CALLS US TO

THANK YOU FOR GIVING OF YOUR FIRST FRUITS!

Rite of Confirmation for Teens

The 2012 Rite of Confirmation will be on:

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

All teens hoping to be Confirmed in 2012 are

asked to attend the All Faith Formation sessions

led by Fr. Dickey on the following Sunday

evenings, from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. at St. Joseph’s:

February 5 March 4 April 1 May 6

Teens are expected to participate in focused

preparation classes, at this time we are in need

of an adult volunteer to lead preparation classes.

Please contact Diane Young at the parish office,

if you are interested in volunteering.

Special Prayer Requests: Again, I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything for which they are to pray, it shall be granted to them by my heavenly Father. Matthew 18:19

Please pray for:

Parishioners, family and friends who are serving our

country

Five good vocations to the priesthood and religious life

from St. Joseph’s and St. John’s

Diane Vangeystel

Russ, Marcella and Rick Rattie

Evelyn Van Agtmael

We are updating our prayer request list, if you would

like to have a name added to our prayer list, please

contact the parish office at 360-482-3190 or

phm.twosaints@gmail.com

All are invited to join in praying the rosary before

Mass each Sunday at St. Joseph’s.

The prayer usually begins at 8:25

a.m. Please join us.

Programs at The Priory Spirituality Cen-ter in Lacey.

Lectio Divina: Feasting on the Word

January 28, 2012

(Saturday 9:15AM-3:00PM)

Learn to Facilitate Lectio groups, 3-4PM

Lucy Wynkoop OSB

Register by prior Friday: $50 (+ $10 extra for learning to facili-tate lectio divina for a group).

To register call The Spiritual-ity Center at 360-438-2595 oremail spirituali-tyctr@stplacid.org

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¡PROTEGIENDO EL MATRIMONIO!

Los Legisladores van a votar muy pronto sobre la posibilidad de cambiar la ley actual que define el matrimonio. El

matrimonio entre un hombre y una mujer es esencial para la vida familiar y es la base fundamental de cualquier

sociedad. Por favor, llame, envíe un correo electrónico o escriba a su Senador estatal y a sus dos Representantes

pidiéndoles que apoyen la ley actual y defiendan el matrimonio como la unión entre un hombre y una mujer.

Llame al 1-800-562-6000 para dejar un mensaje para sus legisladores. Vaya al sitio de la Legislatura del Estado de

Washington: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx para encontrar a su legislador y para que le escriba

o le mande un correo electrónico, o para que le mande un mensaje a ellos.

PROTECT MARRIAGE!

Legislators will be voting soon on whether to change the current law defining marriage. Marriage between a man

and a woman is essential for family life and is the foundation of any society. Please call, email or write your state

Senator and two Representatives urging them to support the current law and defend marriage as the union of one

man and one woman.

Call 1-800-562-6000 to leave a message for your legislators. Go to the Washington State Legislature website at:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/DistrictFinder/Default.aspx to find your legislator and to write or email a message to them.

Donna Cori Gibson

in concert

The Way of the Cross -a song for each station

Take up your cross and follow Jesus with a moving concert presentation of the Stations of

the Cross to include video by Donna on

Sunday, February 26th at 6:00 p.m.

St. John’s Catholic Church 414 E. Broadway

Montesano, WA 98563

For more info: 360-482-3190

www.DonnaCoriGibson.com

Thank you

Bill Black for

clearing the

snow for the

parish office

and parking lot at St. Joseph’s.

Your donation is greatly

appreciated!

You Can Help Your Marriage – Do you feel alone? Are you frustrated or angry with each

other? Do you argue … or have you just stopped talking to each other? Does talking about it only

make it worse? Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi with a long i) helps couples through difficult times in

their marriages. This program has helped 10’s of 1000’s of couples experiencing difficulties in their

marriage. For confidential information about or to register for the January program beginning with a

weekend on January 20-22nd, 2012 call 206-706-2608, or go to our website: helpourmarriage.com

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Homily

After John had been arrested, Jesus began to proclaim a time of fulfillment. John, the forerunner of the Messiah,

began to recede unimportance while Jesus increased as the one who brings fulfillment. For you and for me, fulfill-

ment can only happen as we make room in our lives for Jesus to increase, increase and ever more to increase in

the space where we decrease, decrease, and ever more decrease. This time of fulfillment is when God becomes our

all in all.

Saint Paul said the time is running out. It is time to act differently. He does not mean change aimlessly from day to

day. He means change in the way that will make you ready for the judgment day.

Do you know someone who has changed his or her life because something was wrong and needed to be fixed? I

do. His name is Mark Wahlberg, better known to some as "Marky Mark". Mark got married in August of 2009 to

his girlfriend of eight years, with whom he had three children. Their marriage took place at Good Shepherd

Catholic Church in Beverly Hills. Both bride and groom said they wanted to make a commitment and to provide a

good home for their children. They become one in a Catholic marriage in the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony. In

an interview, Mark said he was ashamed of most of the movies he had made in his life, and he did not want his

children to see his old movies. Last week, I went to see Mark's new movie "Contraband". I was interested to find

out if it was any different from his previous movies. It was full of action and tough guy talk, but there were no

raunchy sex scenes. So Mark Wahlberg is one Catholic father who heard the warning to clean up his act and

mended his ways. Well done.

And well done to each one of us, my friends, when we see the need to mend our ways. Our shame because of past

thoughts and actions can lead us into a new time of fulfillment. If any of us thinks we have nothing to warrant

shame, then our standards are too low. If any of us says yes, then may shame lead to an examination of conscience

and to a good confession. For help in an examination of conscience, I recommend using the Ten Commandments

from Exodus chapter twenty, and the Beatitudes from Matthew chapter five.

God is still sizing up our lives according to a very high standard of behavior. Jonah preached repentance to the

Ninevites, and all of them were spared because they humbled themselves, both great and small, and put on sack-

cloth. We do not need to put on sackcloth to repent - we have each other. Mending our ways, as fathers and

mothers, and husbands and wives, as brothers and sisters, as priest and parishioners, can seem at times to be like

wearing sackcloth because it is so uncomfortable. In that holy discomfort, may we decrease so that God may in-

crease, and may the promised time of fulfillment come upon us.

Father Bryon Dickey

February 5th

Virginia Cook will be going to Seattle for Stem Cell treatment to cure the Leukemia. Please donate generously, but any amount would be greatly appreciated.

Menu will be Biscuits and gravy right after Mass.

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Homily Después de que Juan fue arrestado, Jesús comenzó a proclamar un tiempo de realización. Juan, el predecesor del Mesías, comenzó a perder importancia mientras Jesús crecía como el que trae la reali-zación. Para ustedes y para mí, la realización sólo puede ocurrir cuando le hacemos espacio a Jesús en nuestras vidas para crecer, crecer y crecer cada vez más en el espacio que disminuimos, disminuimos y disminuimos cada vez más. Este tiempo de realización es cuando Dios se convierte en nuestro todo en todo. San Pablo dijo que el tiempo se está acabando. Es tiempo de actuar de forma diferente. No se refiere a cambiar sin objetivo día a día. Quiere decir cambiar de una manera que te preparará para el día del juicio. ¿Conoce a alguien que ha cambiado su vida porque algo estaba mal y necesitaba arreglarse? Yo si. Su nombre es Mark Wahlberg, mejor conocido para algunos como “Marky Mark”. Mark se casó en agosto del 2009 con su novia de ocho años, con quien tenía tres hijos. Su matrimonio tuvo lugar en la Iglesia Católica el Buen Pastor en Beverly Hills. Tanto el novio como la novia dijeron que querían ha-cer un compromiso y ofrecer un buen hogar para sus hijos. En un matrimonio Católico se convierten en uno en el Santo Sacramento del Matrimonio. En una entrevista, Mark dijo que se sentía avergon-zado de la mayoría de las películas que había realizado en su vida, y no quería que sus hijos vieran sus películas antiguas. La semana pasada, fui a ver la nueva película de Mark “Contrabando”. Estaba in-teresado en saber si era diferente de sus películas anteriores. Estaba llena de acción y palabras de tipo rudo pero no hubo escenas de sexo obsceno. Así que Mark Wahlberg es un padre Católico que escuchó la advertencia de limpiar sus actos y enmendar sus caminos. Bien hecho. Y bien hecho a cada uno de nosotros, mis amigos, cuando vemos la necesidad de enmendar nuestros caminos. Nuestra vergüenza debido a pensamientos y acciones pasadas nos pueden llevar a un nuevo tiempo de realización. Si cualquiera de nosotros piensa que no tiene nada para merecer vergüenza, entonces nuestros criterios son muy bajos. Si cualquiera de nosotros dice que si, entonces que la ver-güenza nos lleve a un examen de conciencia y a una buena confesión. Para obtener ayuda con un ex-amen de conciencia, le recomiendo que use los Diez Mandamientos de Exodo, capítulo veinte, y las Bienaventuranzas de Mateo, capítulo cinco. Dios todavía evalúa nuestras vidas de acuerdo a un estándar muy elevado de conducta. Jonás predicó el arrepentimiento a los ninivitas, y todos ellos se libraron porque se humillaron, tanto grandes como pequeños, y se vistieron de sayal. No necesitamos vestirnos de sayal para arrepentirnos – nos tenemos unos a otros. Enmendando nuestros caminos, como padres y madres, y esposos y esposas, como hermanos y hermanas, como sacerdotes y feligreses, puede parecer a veces que llevamos vesti-dos de sayal porque es muy incómodo. Que en esa santa incomodidad, podamos disminuir para que Dios pueda crecer y que el tiempo prometido de la realización venga sobre nosotros. Father Bryon Dickey

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501 W. Main St.

PO Box 3027

Elma WA 98541

Phone: 360-482-3190

Fax: 360-482-3107

www.twosaints.us

January 22, 2012 Parish Office Our Parish Home Messenger

If you know of someone who is not able to attend Mass,

but would like to receive a copy of the

bulletin, please contact the parish office and we will mail

the weekly bulletin to them. If you have a notice or

prayer request you would like included in the bulletin,

please submit your requests

Wednesday 6:00 p.m. to ensure that it is received

before the bulletin is printed.

You can submit your requests by leaving a phone mes-

sage at the parish office with the

details of your request or email your requests to

phm.twosaints@gmail.com

We need businesses to advertise in our bulletin to help

cover the cost of printing. If you are a business owner,

please consider advertising in our bulletin. If you know

a business owner who may want to support our parish,

please suggest that they advertise in our bulletin. ($462

per year for 1 space). For advertising contact Ken Ford

at Catholic Printery, 800-867-0660, catholicprintery.com

Office Hours:

Sunday through Tuesday : Closed

Wednesday: Open 9am - Noon

Thursdays: Closed

Friday: Open 9am- Noon

Saturday: Open 9am - 5 pm

ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS PASTORAL COUNCILS ST. JOSEPH AND ST. JOHN

Each committee, ministry, or guild is invited to submit up to two names for Pastoral Council of their parish. One member will be selected from each group to serve for a year. Applicants with email are preferred.

Catholic and Lutheran Youth from grades 7-

12 are invited to meet in the Youth Room of

St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Elma.

6:30 p.m.

Sunday, January 22

COME HELP US CELEBRATE

FR. DICKEY'S BIRTHDAY AT

ST. JOHNS

Saturday, February 4th - there will be a

potluck dinner after 5:00 pm mass. Please bring a hot dish or salad. Dessert will be furnished by the St. John's Altar Society.

Sunday, February 5th - there will be a

coffee hour after the 11:30 am mass. Dessert is furnished by St. John's Altar Society.

NEW PARISHONERS:

If you are new to St. Joseph’s or St. John’s and

have not registered, please fill out a registra-

tion form and return it to the parish office.

Forms are located in the back of the church

and can be mailed to the office or placed in the

collection basket on any Sunday. Thank you!