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Old St. Joseph’s 321 Willings Alley
Church Philadelphia PA 19106
215-923-1733
Est. 1733 | Philadelphia’s Jesuit www.oldstjoseph.org
Parish
October 10, 2021 | The 28th Sunday in Ordinary Time (B)
Today’s Gospel Reading: Mark 10:17-30
As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up,
knelt down before him, and asked him, "Good
teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" Jesus
answered him, "Why do you call me good? No one is
good but God alone. You know the commandments:
You shall not kill; you shall not commit adultery; you
shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness; you
shall not defraud; honor your father and your
mother." He replied and said to him, "Teacher, all of
these I have observed from my youth." Jesus,
looking at him, loved him and said to him, "You are
lacking in one thing. Go, sell what you have, and give
to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven;
then come, follow me." At that statement his face
fell, and he went away sad, for he had many
possessions.
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How
hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the
kingdom of God!" The disciples were amazed at his
words. So Jesus again said to them in reply,
"Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of
God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye
of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the
kingdom of God." They were exceedingly astonished
and said among themselves, "Then who can be
saved?" Jesus looked at them and said, "For human
beings it is impossible, but not for God. All things
are possible for God." Peter began to say to him,
"We have given up everything and followed you."
Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you, there is no one who
has given up house or brothers or sisters or mother
or father or children or lands for my sake and for the
sake of the gospel who will not receive a hundred
times more now in this present age: houses and
brothers and sisters and mothers and children and
lands, with persecutions, and eternal life in the age
to come."
Old St. Joseph’s is equipped with an audio hearing loop. Switch on the T-coil function of your device to use the
loop. Readings can be followed in the Daily Readings app, available in the App Store or Google Play.
This Week at Old St. Joseph’s
Date Mass Intention and Presider Calendar Events
Mon 12:05 PM Owners & Staff of Alliance Fencing (L)
Columbus Day – Rectory offices closed
11 Presider: Fr. Frank Hannafey SJ
Tues 12:05 PM Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society 11:00 AM Faith, Food & Friends (Barbelin)
12 Presider: Fr. Pal Holland SJ 7:30 PM YAC About Scripture – Zoom
Wed 12:05 PM Geraldine Marren & Family (D)
13 Presider: Fr. Matthew Roche SJ
Thurs 12:05 PM Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society 11:00 AM Faith, Food & Friends (Barbelin)
14 Presider: Fr. Matthew Roche SJ 6:30 PM Wedding reh: Chevrette & Lapent
7:30 PM Wedding reh: Giampietro & Cochet
Choir Rehearsal (Barbelin)
Fri 12:05 PM Our Faith, Food & Friends Guests 4:00 PM Wedding: Giampietro & Cochet
15 Presider: Fr. Matathew Roche SJ 5:30 PM Wedding reh: Wise & Anarai
Sat 12:05 PM Old St. Joseph’s Memorial Society 11:00 AM Faith, Food & Friends (Barbelin)
16 Presider: Fr. Matthew Roche SJ 1:00 PM Wedding: Chevrette & Lapent
3:00 PM Wedding: Wise & Anari
Sun 7:30 AM Presider: Fr. Paul Holland SJ 10:00 AM RCIA Mtg (Greaton)
17 9:30 AM Presider: Fr. Matthew Roche SJ 1:30 PM Group Baptisms
11:30 AM Presider: Fr. Eugene Geinzer SJ 5:00 PM Vespers (Zoom)
OSJ PRAYER LIST: In your prayers, please remember our sick and homebound brothers and sisters
and our ministry at Pennsylvania Hospital.
Barbara Epting, Marie Wojcik, Louise Cruz-Vizcaino, Sharon Winge, Stefania Crum, Dennis Scott, Bill Jennings, Eleanor &
Rick Bravo, Tom McNamara, Allen May, Anthony Pelle Jr, Betty Farris Pfeiffer, Billy Rispo, Alex Corona, Melissa Counselor,
Helga Kogut, Ernie Koschineg, Gerrie Dressler, Tom Vaughn, Ava Iezzi, Cory Smith, Bill and Theresa Sherwin,
Deborah Brooks, Ann Crowther, Jane Crowther, Mary Kay Crowther, Fr. Jerry McAndrews SJ.
Updating our Prayer List: Once a quarter, OSJ updates our parish prayer list. If you would like someone’s name to remain on
the prayer list, or to add a name, please call 215-923-1733.
A Warm Welcome to Fr. Paul Holland, SJ
Rev. Paul D. Holland, S.J. in addition to his new position as Parochial Vicar
for Old St. Joseph’s parish, is also the Secretary for Jesuit Life for the Jesuit
Conference of Canada and the United States. For the last four years he has
also been the Conference Delegate for Formation. His responsibilities
include coordination of the Conference’s program for abuse prevention
and promotion of healthy living of vowed religious life, as well as training
Jesuit superiors. He is originally from Belmont, MA. He entered the Jesuits
in 1972 and was ordained in 1980. His ministries have included secondary
school teaching in Zambia, campus ministry and teaching religious
education at Fairfield University, parish ministry as pastor of St. Thomas
Aquinas parish at the University of Connecticut, as well as service as Jesuit
superior for the Jesuit communities at Campion Center and at Fairfield. He
also served the church in Adelaide Australia and the diocese of Palmerston
North in New Zealand. He has taught courses on discernment for the
permanent diaconate formation programs in several dioceses and on
Christology for Catholic schools’ faculties. His interests include crossword
puzzles, old time radio, theater, and poetry.
MUSIC AT OSJ FINANCIAL INFO
Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for the Offertory for the week ending October 3, 2021
following upcoming special music event here at Old St. Daily Mass Collection: $39.00
Joseph's Church. The Schola Cantorum under the direction of In-Pew Sunday Collection: $2,318.00
Dr. Bani will present: Mail-In Sunday Collection: $1,443.00
All Souls' Requiem Mass sung by our Schola Cantorum Online Giving Sunday Collection: $5,161.00
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, at 7:00 PM Total Collection: $8,961.00
Gabriel Fauré's sublime setting of the Requiem Mass will be
sung by our choir in the context of a Mass commemorating the
Thank you!
faithful departed on All Souls' Day. Offertory for the week ending October 4, 2020
Lessons and Carols, sung by our Schola Cantorum In-Pew Sunday Collection: $249.00
Sunday, December 12 (Gaudete Sunday) at 3:00 PM Mail-In Sunday Collection: $1,603.00
A festive holiday tradition at Old St. Joseph's, the Schola Online Giving Sunday Collection: $4,476.00
Cantorum, under the direction of Dr. Bani, will present a Total Collection: $6,328.00
festive Advent-Christmas Service of Lessons and Carols
proclaiming God's promise of salvation through sacred
scripture, seasonal choral anthems, and favorite settings of ONLINE GIVING & TEXT-TO-GIVE
familiar Advent and Christmas carols. A free will offering will Please click here for easy access to ParishSOFT Giving.
be gratefully accepted. A reception will follow the service. For Text-to-Give, please dial 215-929-7151.
SATURDAY VIGIL MASS RETURNS on NOV. 6th
Our Saturday 5:30 PM Vigil Mass will return on Saturday, Nov.
All young adults (20s and 30s) are
6, 2021. On the same date, we will also discontinue our
Saturday Noon Mass. Note: All announced Masses already invited to join a weekly Zoom
requested for dates falling on Saturdays will be honored and gathering to read and reflect on the
transferred to the Vigil Mass starting Nov. 6. The return of our previous Sunday's scripture
Vigil Mass will be on a trial basis, and we are hoping for good readings. The structure of the
attendance! reflection group begins with prayer and reading the
scripture passages together from the previous Sunday,
Join Our Usher Ministry! We want to tell followed by a short bit of quiet or imaginative prayer,
you about a ministry that’s different from and then an opportunity for sharing and discussion. The
others. Where one welcomes members and group gathers each Tuesday at 7:00pm. Please email
visitors from all walks of life as true brothers osjyac@gmail.com for Zoom meeting information and
and sisters in the Lord. Serving others during with any questions.
our beautiful liturgies while sharing our faith together. We’re
looking for a few good women and men to share their talents
and forge our common bond by serving as Ushers. We’ll work Faith, Food & Friends Relies on You!
closely with you on training and scheduling. You’ll meet new
During the weekends of October 9-
friends and become a deeper part of our parish community. A
10 and 16-17, Old St. Joseph’s will
special invitation and calling awaits you - please introduce
yourself to an Usher after Mass or visit our website and click collect essential supplies for the
on Ministry Scheduling Program at the bottom of the page to guests of our Faith, Food & Friends
sign up! We’re looking forward to welcoming you to our team outreach program. To help keep our
and thank you for your service. cupboard stocked and meet our guests’ needs through
the autumn months, we are especially in need of the
Catholic History Lecture: The American following basic personal care items: bar soap, travel
Catholic Historical Society (263 S. 4th St.) size deodorant (½ ounce size), disposable twin blade
will host its annual Fall Lecture on razors, and multipacks of men’s socks. If you like, you
Tuesday, October 19. Dr. Zachary Schrag can conveniently order these essentials and other items
will speak on his new book, The Fires of
from Faith, Food & Friends’ Amazon wish list (click here)
Philadelphia, on the Nativist Riots of
1844. Cost for dinner (6pm) and the
and they will be shipped directly to the Church. If you
lecture (7pm) is $20 for members and $30 prefer to shop in person, donations may be dropped in
for non-members. Online attendance via the baskets in the back of the church. Your gift of any
Zoom for the lecture alone is free for wish list item would be most appreciated by our guests.
members and $10 for non-members. For more information Thank you for your ongoing support!
and/or to register, click here.STAFF
Pastor
Fr. Francis Hannafey SJ (pastor@oldstjoseph.org)
Parochial Vicar
Fr. Paul Holland SJ
Senior Priest
Fr. Matthew Roche SJ (mroche@oldstjoseph.org)
In Residence
Br. Robert Carson SJ
Business Manager
Eric German (germane@oldstjoseph.org)
Director of Music
Mark Bani (music@oldstjoseph.org)
Pastoral Associate for Weddings
INFORMATION Donna Soultoukis (dsoultoukis@oldstjoseph.org)
Parish Offices (office@oldstjoseph.org)
Rectory Office Hours PREP & Baptism Coordinator
Monday through Friday: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM Christine Szczepanowski (prep@oldstjoseph.org)
Mass Times Faith, Food & Friends Director
Monday through Saturday: 12:05 PM Deborah Hluchan (faithandfriends@oldstjoseph.org)
Sunday: 7:30, 9:30, and 11:30 AM Note: All Sunday morning Parish Pastoral Council
Masses are open to the public. Pastor, Fr. Francis Hannafey
Holy Days: 12:05 and 7:00 PM (osjpc@oldstjoseph.org) Note: OSJ’s Parish Council consists
Medical Emergency of the following chairs:
In a medical emergency when the need for a priest is urgent, Parish Finance Council
please call 267-438-7266 Paul Shay, chair
Registration Historic Preservation Corporation Board
Persons who want to register as parishioners should Fr. Francis Hannafey SJ, president
complete a parish registration form and return it to the Barry Eiswerth, chair
rectory office by mail or in person. Registration forms are Adult Education
available in the rectory office during normal office hours and Rita O’Brien and Jeanmarie Zippo
(adulted@oldstjoseph.org)
online at www.oldstjoseph.org.
Eldership
Hearing Enhancements
Ted Robb (eldership@oldstjoseph.org)
Old St. Joseph’s is equipped with an audio hearing loop.
Parish Life
Switch on the T-coil function of your device to use the loop. Joe Casey (parishlife@oldstjoseph.org)
Sacrament of Reconciliation Ignatian Spirituality and Formation
Monday through Saturday: Please approach the presiding John Bitterman (osjspirituality@oldstjoseph.org)
priest directly after the 12:05 Mass to request reconciliation. Women, Faith and Fellowship
Sacrament of Baptism Rana McNamara (wff@oldstjoseph.org)
Persons wanting to arrange a baptism should call Christine Young Adult Community
Szczepanowski at the parish office at least two months Danielle Critelli and Mark Dushel (osjyac@gmail.com)
before the desired date to arrange catechesis and the Altar Servers
baptism celebration. Maria Ramirez (altarserver@oldstjoseph.org)
Sacrament of Matrimony Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion
Persons wanting to be married in the parish should call our Bill Stewart (EM@oldstjoseph.org)
wedding line (215-923-1766) at least nine months before the Homebound Ministry
desired date. Neal Hébert (homeEM@oldstjoseph.org)
Rite of Christian Initiation Lectors
Unbaptized adults who are considering baptism into the Lou Anne Bulik (lectors@oldstjoseph.org)
Catholic Church, baptized Catholics who have received no Ushers and Scheduling
Nikola Sizgorich (ushers@oldstjoseph.org)
other sacraments and who want to be confirmed and to
Children’s Liturgy of the Word
receive First Eucharist, and baptized non-Catholics who are
Peggy Connolly (clow@oldstjoseph.org)
considering full communion in the Catholic Church should call
Faith, Food and Friends:
Christine Szczepanowski at the parish office. Deborah Hluchan and Mary Freedman
Mass of Christian Burial (faithandfriends@oldstjoseph.org)
The funeral director should call the parish office. Care for Creation Committee
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