Sacred Heart & St. Joseph's Bulletin

The following Parish Activities will be sponsored by one of our Parish RENEW Groups: Get-Well Card List - If anyone knows of a parishioner who is ill or hospitalized and would like to receive a get-well prayer card please contact Diane (384-3311).

Friendship Basket - We will be placing a box in the back of both churches to accept donations of non-perishable food items, paper goods and monetary gifts for a deserving parish family. When enough goods are collected, we will distribute the basket on a periodic on-going basis. For more information contact Diane (384-3311)!

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING

Natural Family Planning enables spouses to understand fertility and work with it, either to plan or space pregnancy. Modern NFP is very effective, costs next to nothing, has no side effects and is morally acceptable. Call the Office for Parish Life 207-2213 to let us know you are coming and for directions!

FOR LOCAL CONTACT, CALL ERIC & BERNADETTE JESPERSEN AT 788-4560!

GOOD SHEPHERD SCRIPTURE SESSIONS

Father McHugh will offer 2 special August scripture sessions on Thursday morning August 5th and Tuesday morning August 10th at Good Shepherd. This is something extra and is not part of the regular Fall program. The sessions will be dedicated to the memory of Fr. Robert Barone. Sessions will be similar to he regular program and will begin at 9:00 A.M. and last 1½ to 2 hours with refreshment break included. The topic for both sessions will be "Key Questions in Christology". Call Good Shepherd Church Office to register 788-3141!

ROSARY BEFORE MASSES

We pray the Rosary 25 minutes before the Saturday and Sunday Masses. Please join us. We dedicate the Rosary for the sick, suffering and dying of our parish, the end to abortion, peace in the world, our hearts and our homes, especially for all our troops.

2010 PARISH SOCIAL PICNIC

Our 12th Annual Parish Picnic will be here again soon. It will be Sunday, September 12th at Weston AA Park. There's lots of food, games and fun, as always. And this year we're having a baking contest to add to the fun.

We ask each family to please bring a "covered dish", including a food OR dessert of your preference. There will be coffee, soda on tap and diet coke. We'll start serving at 12:30. And bingo & games are planned from 2:30 to 4:00.

All our families are invited and, don't forget, there's no charge for the food and beverages. Instead, your donation is the food dish or dessert you bring.

Enclosed with the letter you will receive this week is a small return form. Fill out the form, with the number of family members in each age group who will attend AND the dish or dessert you will bring, plus your name, of course.

If you are planning to attend, please mail it back or drop it in the collection basket.

VOCATIONS -

FIRST ANNUAL GOLF CLASSIC

   We are pleased to announce that the Vocations Office has recently created the Saint John Vianney Vocations Endowment for seminarians in the Diocese of Scranton. This fund will accept donations to help assist our seminarians.
   The first major fund-raiser with which we hope to grow the fund will be the 1st Annual Golf Classic, which is scheduled for Monday, August 30, 2010, at Blue Ridge Trail Golf Club in Mountaintop, PA. Bishop Bambera will be serving as honorary chair and joining us for the day.
   If you're interested in participating or donating, please contact your parish office or the Vocations Office (570-207-2216 x 1013) for more information. We look forward to seeing you!

STAUFFER TRUST FUND

   To inform anyone in our parish who may not already know, Claude Stauffer and his wife, Anna, when they passed away, set up a trust fund to be distributed on a monthly basis to the churches in our area, including Sacred Heart & St. Joseph's Parish. As a result, our parish has been receiving a generous donation from that fund on a monthly basis since January 2006. Let us offer our gratitude and prayers to Mr. & Mrs. Stauffer!

JULY 25 COLLECTION

DONATIONS--PERCENT--------GIVEN
1----------0.78%------------95.00
1----------0.78%------------90.00
1----------0.78%------------70.00
3----------2.34%------------60.00
1----------0.78%------------55.00
1----------0.78%------------50.00
1----------0.78%------------45.00
2----------1.56%------------40.00
1----------0.78%------------37.00
3----------2.34%------------35.00
5----------3.91%------------30.00
1----------0.78%------------25.00
1----------0.78%------------23.00
10---------7.81%------------20.00
8----------6.25%------------15.00
1----------0.78%------------13.00
3----------2.34%------------12.00
26--------20.31%------------10.00
1----------0.78%-------------8.00
4----------3.12%-------------6.00
34--------26.56%-------------5.00
4----------3.12%-------------4.00
9----------7.03%-------------3.00
5----------3.91%-------------2.00
1----------0.78%-------------1.00
128 Contributions(324 issued envelopes!)
Average Contribution:-------------------------$14.76
July 18, 2010 (+Loose, etc.)---------------$1,889.25
July 19, 2009 (+Loose, etc.)---------------$2,798.00

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