212 Meredith Street • Kennett Square, PA 19348 www.stpatrickkennettsquare.org

MASSES Saturday Vigil: 5:00 PM

Sunday: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30, 12:00 Weekday Mass: 7:30 AM Monday through

Friday, 8:00 AM Saturday

CONFESSIONS Saturday: 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM

Holy Days of Obligation - See Sunday bulletin.

ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT

Mondays 8 AM to 7 PM in the Church

Parish Office 205 Lafayette Street

Telephone: 610-444-4364 Fax: 610-444-2129

Hours: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Monday through Friday

Buffington House 227 Lafayette Street

Clergy

Rev. Christopher B. Rogers, Pastor

Rev. Victor F. Sharrett, Pastor Emeritus

Rev. Andres Garcia, In Residence

Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, Sunday Assistance

Deacons James K. Madonna and James J. Elliott

Seminarian Phong Le

September 22, 2019

Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

MISSION STATEMENT

St. Patrick Church, in the process of strengthening its Catholic Community, seeks

to make the gospel of Jesus Christ better known and loved through prayer, stewardship

and good works. 236

Monday, September 23, St. Pius of Pietrelcina 7:30AM Ida DiNorscia r/o Drew & Kathy Anderson Tuesday, September 24, Weekday 7:30AM Florence Raimato r/o Anthony & Elaine Donofrio Wednesday, September 25, Weekday 7:30AM Ida DiNorscia r/o Bobbie O’Sullivan Thursday, September 26, SS. Cosmas & Damian 7:30AM Ida DiNorscia r/o Pat & Bill Kotkin Friday, September 27, St. Vincent de Paul 7:30AM Ida DiNorscia r/o Carolyn & Tom Peppernick Saturday, September 28, St. Wenceslaus 8:00AM Special Intention Vigil, Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 5:00PM Clarence Brown r/o Theresa Watson Sunday, September 29, Twenty-Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time 7:30AM Mass for Parishioners 9:00AM Timothy Lawes r/o Lawes Family 10:30AM Edwad Gegenheimer r/o Iacono Family 12:00PM Ida DiNorscia r/o Mel & Doug Singo

ST. PATRICK CHURCH, KENNETT SQUARE, PA PRAYER INTENTIONS

Good and loving Fa-ther, watch over and protect all who serve in the Armed Forces of

our nation. Surround them with your love and care and bring them safely home.

SGT Richard Baffa

SSG Raymond Burke III LT Michael Crawford

Capt. Dominic Paul DellaPelle, USMC LCPL Ben Farrell, USMC

Chief Petty Ofcr 1st Cl Shauna McNeely SFC Tyler Nellens

E1 Airman 1st Cl Andrew Szonntag Major Ian C. Whiteman

1st Lt. USAF Scott Seidenberger 1st Lt. USAF Natalie King

Major Robert C. McDonough 236

All praise and glory is yours, Lord our God, for You have called us to serve You in love. Bless our sick: Ro Teel, Gweneth Malchione, Bill Ewell, Ronald Hall, Frank Reck, Mario Lorenzut, Phil Morehead, Rosemary F. Madrigale, Tim Ewell, Ro-sa Maria Santos, Ilidi Brown, Phyllis Palos, Thomas Layug, Steven Mangini, John Pellegrino, Thomas Kelleher, Diane Jones, Giovanna Sankus, Frankie Knowles, Jackie VanGrofski, Richard Reynolds, Marc Palfy, Karen Dinius, Joshua Brown, Maria Rowe, Margaret DiNorscia, Walter Oram, William Morey, Eufemia Ortega Milagros Ada Maldonado, Tiffany Volovich, Christopher Iacono, Bryan Pu-delka, Miles Kennedy, Tippi Carlino, Ron O’Brien, Diane Stansberry, Dolores Stingel , Kathy Norris, Diane & Jeff Jones, Katelyn Johnson, Janice Rowe, Ana Teresa Encarnacion, Robert “Mack” Marc-Aurele, Matilda Bazzano Bronson , Joseph Tercha that they bear this illness in union with Your Son’s obedient suffering, restore them to health, and lead them to glory. OUR FAITHFUL DEPARTED: For those who have been faithful, O Lord, life is not end-ed. An eternal dwelling place awaits them in heaven.

Julia Kmeck

PRAY A PUBLIC ROSARY

You are invited to pray a Rosary on the sidewalk next to St. Patrick’s School on Saturday, October 12 at noon to com-memorate the 102nd anniversary of Our

Lady of Fa ma. There is expected to be more than 20,000 other Rosary Rally groups throughout the United States who will be praying the Rosary on this same day/ me. Praying the Rosary in public is exhilara ng and powerful! Our Lady will pour forth grac-es on the en re world and bring peace! Everyone is WELCOME –including non-Catholics and children. Invite your family and friends! FREE Rosaries will be provided. More informa on can be found on the America Needs Fa ma website at:

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Ques ons? Contact Susan (610-388-6334).

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TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

My Dear Parishioners,

Praised be Jesus Christ! Two weeks from today, we will welcome back to our parish Bishop John McIntyre, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia. Bishop McIntyre was with us in January to open our Jubilee Year and it’s a great

honor to have him back to officially “re-open” our Church building a er our beau ful renova on. He will celebrate the Noon Mass on October 6 during which our new altar will be blessed and dedicated. Among the many highlights of our renova on project, our new altar certainly serves as a center- piece and with the image of the Pelican and her chicks on the front, I share with you this week, its powerful meaning.

The pelican is one of the oldest and favorite animal mo fs of Chris an iconography/art. Its significance goes back to a text wri en by an anonymous Alexandrian author in the second century which says that in order to prevent its chicks from starving in mes of scarcity, the pelican would pierce its chest with its own beak to feed them with its own blood. According to other legends, if pelican chicks happen to die, the pelican would open its own chest and bring them back to life, spraying them with his own blood. With this in mind, it’s easy to see why the early Chris ans adopted the mo f as a symbol of Christ, the Redeemer who gives up His own life to bring his own back from the death of sin, feeding them with His own Body and Blood in the Eucharist. The image is found in the wri ngs of the Saints and Chris an writers. St. Epiphanius, St. Basil and St. Peter of Alexandria all quoted talked of the Eucharist and the Pelican. Dante, in his Paradiso, refers to Christ as “our Pelican” and even Shakespeare, in his Hamlet, through Laertes, refers to the legend of the pelican (“to his good friend thus wide, I’ll open my arms / and, like the kind, life-rendering pelican, repast them with my blood”). St. Thomas Aquinas, in his Adoro te devote, wrote: “like the tender tales of the Pelican / bathe me, Jesus Lord, in what Thy Bosom ran / Blood that but one drop has the power to win / all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.”

Certainly, like Chris ans in the second century, we too live in a me of scarcity. Scarcity in the things that ma er most. And so, the image of the pelican giving of itself in me of need is powerful one for our own me. It’s an image of Hope and Truth, reminding us of the Eucharist and Christ’s love, sacrifice and very self, given each day to us on the altar.

This week, our parish will be assis ng once again with Family Promise, providing support to families in need. My thanks to all who give of their me and their very selves in serving this week, you are modern-day “pelicans” and I ask our en re parish to bless you in prayer this week.

Finally, I want to commend to you a special conference on addic on being held at First Bap st Church the weekend of October 18. The drug problem in our community is a real one and unfortunately, it’s covered in shame. I know many a family in the parish who suffer with loved ones and the damage of drugs. It’s me to break-out of the shame. I encourage you to join me at First Bap st for this important seminar and let’s bring light into this darkness which is plaguing the best of us.

Peace,

Fr. Rogers

Addi onal Renova ons at St. Patrick Parish

In addi on to the renova ons upstairs in Church, be sure to visit our newly improved restrooms with a changing sta on, our new mee ng rooms in the school and the high defini on broadcast of our Sunday Masses available downstairs in the Church Base-ment.

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Catholic Women’s Conference

October 26, 2019

9:00AM-4:30PM

Our Lady of Czestochowa, Doylestown. Join over 1,300 Catholic women for a day of fun, friendship, faith forma on and prayer. Visit catholicwomensconference.org

THIS WEEK AT ST. PATRICK PARISH

Sunday, September 22

Children’s Liturgy of the Word 9:00AM C

PREP Classes 10:00AM S

Bereavement Meeting 1:00PM BH

Baptism 1:30PM C

Monday, September 23

Eucharistic Adoration 8AM-7:30PM C

PREP Classes 4:45PM S

Tuesday, September 24

Symbolon Adult Education 7:00PM BH

Wednesday, September 25

Fall Adult Education Series 7:00PM BH

Adult Choir Rehearsal 7:00PM C

Thursday, September 26

Credo 7:00PM PO

Parish Council Meeting 7:00PM CB

Friday, September 27

Saturday, September 28

Rosary 8:30AM & 4:30PM C

BH-Buffington House PO-Parish Office

C-Church S-School

CB-Church Basement

ST. PATRICK CHURCH, KENNETT SQUARE, PA PARISH NEWS AND EVENTS

Change for Life

The St. Patrick’s Knights of Columbus will be star ng their annual Change for Life fund-raising campaign the weekend of Septem-ber 28 through October 27. The funds col-lected are used exclusively for Pro Life caus-

es such as enabling parish par cipa on in the March for Life, sup-por ng Sisters for Life, and numerous other causes. A er each mass they will be handing out baby bo les that can be filled with change or bills and returned. Please try to have your bo les re-turned by the October 27 campaign end date. Let’s try to make 2019 a big success together in support of life!

Join us for the annual fall parish picnic which will be celebrated as part of our Jubilee Year as Oktoberfest! This family friendly event takes place on Sunday, October 13 from 1:00PM-5:00PM on the grass lawn located behind the church. All the fun includes a spe-cial jubilee brew from Braeloch Brewing, delicious buffet from Hood’s BBQ, lawn games, DJ, bonfire, volleyball, and pumpkin contest! Tickets will be sold both online now through September 29, and a er Sunday Masses on September 8, 15,22, and 29. Learn more at stpatrickkenne square.org/events. 236

FAITH FORMATION TWENTY-FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

Sunday Celebrant Schedule-Subject to Change

September 28-29, 2019

5:00 Fr. Rogers

7:30 Fr. Rogers

9:00 Fr. Rogers

10:30 Fr. Kolodziej

12:00 Fr. Rogers

Sunday Collec on

September 14-15, 2019

This year-$13,400.00

Last year-$12,687.60 236

PREP classes have begun and the students are ge ng accustomed to a new school year. If anyone has not registered their son/daughter, please contact the Office of Reli-gious Educa on at 610-444-2214.

Calendar of events for September

September 29-Join other PRPEP families as we gather together to make children’s wooden rosary beads in the school building a er the noon Mass.

Confirma on News!

Our parish family will welcome Bishop McIntyre on Monday, March 16 for the celebra on of Confirma on. We look forward to this special day with our families and the children who are eligible to receive this final sacrament of ini a on into the Catholic Church.

Families who have children a ending private school and have been preparing for the sacrament of Confirma on are asked to contact the Office of Religious Educa on with their contact infor-ma on as soon as possible.

Mass of Anoin ng

St. Joseph Parish in Downingtown invites you to join us for our Annual Mass of Anoin ng

Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11:30AM

The Celebra on of the Anoin ng of the Sick is a sacrament of strengthening, peace and courage for all Chris ans who are seri-ously ill, injured, about to undergo surgery or a procedure, strug-gling with an addic on, suffering from a decline due to advanced age or in danger of death. Family members and friends are wel-come. A light lunch will follow in the cafeteria. R.S.V.P. by Octo-ber 14, 2019 to the parish office at 610-269-8294.

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Archdiocesan Catholic Charisma c Renewal Conference

Saturday, October 5, 2019, Clarion Hotel, Essington, PA.

9:00AM-9:00PM

Join us for a day filled with dynamic speakers, praise and wor-ship, prayer teams, Eucharis c Adora on, Benedic on and a Healing Service. Vigil Mass will be celebrated by Bishop Sam Jacobs. To register, visit phillyspirit.com or call 215-315-7008.

**************************************************** The next Joseph’s People mee ng for the Unemployed and Underemployed will be Wednesday, September 25 at 7:00PM in the Assump on B.V.M. Parish Life Center. Joseph’s People provides prayerful support, introducing community resources, encouraging member interac on, discussing job opportuni es, and employment search resources.

Small Groups at St. Patrick’s

Reach More Small Groups are back this fall!

Join your fellow parishioners as we come together to deepen our

faith and build friendships through Small Group discussion.

We are expec ng a wonderful fall season. Groups are open to all adult ages. We will have both day me and evening sessions.

Don’t miss the opportunity to experience being in a Small Group this fall of our Jubilee Year!

Contact Brian Eyre at 484-753-4788 or eyre.brian.s@gmail.com

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SACRAMENTAL INFORMATION Bap sm: celebrated on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each Month. Please call the parish office to schedule. Matrimony: celebrated throughout the year. Please contact Fr. Rogers.

PARISH REGISTRATION Registra on is held on the First Sunday of Each Month or at the parish office. Roman Catholics who live within the boundaries of the parish should register in the parish. This will regularize one’s status and allow for the issuance of

cer ficates and make possible the arrangements for Bap sm, Weddings and Confirma ons. 236

COMING UP THIS JUBILEE YEAR:

JUBILEE LEGACY APPEAL UPDATE:

Fr. Rogers’ homilies are available online: www.cbr.podbean.com

Like ST. PATRICK’S on FACEBOOK

Flock Note Sign Up: Sign up by visi ng www.flocknote.com/StPats or text the message 31716 to the Number 84576 from your

cell phone.

Thank you to all who have responded so far to our special

appeal. The response has been terrific. As of July 15, 2019

we have raised $513,962.00 for our Jubilee Legacy

Appeal. Visit our website, click on Jubilee Logo.

SPECIAL JUBILEE EVENT

One more reminder about our Jubilee Yearbook. We won’t be able to complete it without your cooperation in having your photos taken next month. One of our goals was to emphasize the strength of our parish community, and we’re asking that everyone in the parish be included in the yearbook. Sign-ups are outside the church or online at https://booknow-lifetouch.appointment-plus.com/b0m90sj4/. Your photos will be delivered before Christmas.

DID YOU KNOW? Our fellow parishioners Patrick and Silvia Mohan moved to the area and joined St. Patrick’s at about the same me as Father Rogers. They both studied classical architecture at Notre Dame, studying under the renowned church architect

Duncan Stroik. As our church renova on plan was being developed, they offered to prepare a plan for the interior design. Their goal was to create an interior design and color scheme that highlights the classical Gothic architecture of the church fa-çade and the exquisite stained glass windows. The rich interior colors with stencil designs are meant to highlight the exis ng plaster moldings while adding addi onal detail where appropriate. The paint design highlights the primacy of the sanctuary by transi oning from the white walls of the nave to the deep yellow of the apse, with the gold leaf center arch serving as a threshold between the two.

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October 13, 2019 12-5:00PM St. Patrick’s Oktoberfest St. Patrick Campus Sign-ups required

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