The Catholic Community of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, guided by the Holy Spirit, commits itself to work steadfastly in

love and humility to discern the will of God as we seek to proclaim the mission of Jesus Christ in our parish and beyond.

Gifted and called by Baptism, we dedicate ourselves to minister to the diverse needs of all of God’s people through every dimension of our worship, formation, fellowship, stewardship, and service.

May all that we do in His Name glorify Jesus Christ. Amen.

314 Turner Road • Salem, Virginia 24153

Website: www.olphsalem.org • Email: office@olphsalem.org

Phone: (540) 387-0491 • Fax: (540) 389-8237 Parish Office: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m., Monday–Friday Facebook: Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Salem, VA

EUCHARISTIC LITURGIES Saturday Vigil:........................................ 5:30 pm Sunday:…………………… 8:00 am &10:30 am Weekdays: .............................. See inside bulletin Holy Days: ............................. 12:00 and 7:00 pm A nursery is available during the 10:30 am Mass on Sunday for children 6 months to 3 years of age.

PRAYER AND DEVOTIONS Eucharistic Adoration: 3:00–9:00 pm Wed. The Church and Eucharistic Chapel are open for prayers during office hours.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: ........................................ 4:00–5:00 pm Wednesday: ..... 5:30–6:00 pm or by appointment

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM See page 2, “Christian Initiation”

SACRAMENT OF ANOINTING Please contact the parish office at 387-0491 to receive the Sacrament of Anointing by appointment or if you would like a visit by our pastoral staff.

REGIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICES Salem Knights of Columbus ................. 525-7479 Roanoke Catholic School ..................... 982-3532 Commonwealth Catholic Charities ....... 344-5107 Madonna House .................................... 343-8464 St. Francis House .................................. 342-7561 Roanoke Area Ministries ...................... 345-8850 RAM House .......................................... 343-3753 St. Andrew’s Diocesan Cemetery ......... 342-9180 Refugee & Immigration Services ......... 342-7561 Ancient Order of Hibernians ................ 427-1246 Our Lady of the Valley Ret. Comm. .... 345-5111

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CHRISTIAN INITIATION:

Infant Baptism – Please contact Deacon Eric Surat, 387-0491, Ext. 320, for information regarding baptismal preparation.

For information regarding the adult process (RCIA), please call the parish office.

NEWCOMERS:

Welcome to our community! Please call Vicki Hubbard in the office to register, 387-0491.

MARRIAGE PREPARATION:

Please contact the Pastor, 387-0491, at least six months prior to the intended date.

ORDAINED MINISTRY &

RELIGIOUS LIFE:

For information about the life and ministry of priests, deacons, seminarians and communities of men & women in religious life, contact the pastor or visit the web page of our Vocations Office: www.richmonddiocese.org/vocations.

PARISH FAMILY CRISIS:

A resource for parishioners in need. Fr. McKay, 387-0491.

HOSPITAL VISITS:

If you are homebound or in the hospital, please call the parish office, 387-0491. When you are admitted to the hospital, please list yourself as Catholic and state that you want your church informed of your stay. Due to HIPPA regulations, this is the only way the hospital can release information to the church.

EXTRAORDINARY MINISTERS OF HOLY COMMUNION-PASTORAL

CARE:

Lewis Gale - Constance Hull Salem Health - Rita Bratcher Richfield – Martha Dishner

THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS will once again be selling Christmas Cards. The proceeds this year will go to KOVAR, which supports the mentally disabled through its many local and national programs. We hope that you will consider helping to “Keep Christ in Christmas” through the purchasing and mailing of these beautiful Christmas cards. The Knights will have them available in the Commons this weekend and next. THE ANGEL TREE will be set up in the commons the weekend of November 28-29. Please

take an Angel off the tree, buy an age appropriate gift (no guns or violent toys please) and return it unwrapped to the church (gifts will be wrapped at a later date). OLPH has participated in this ministry with the Salem City Jail for a few years now. This program connects parents in jail with their children through the delivery of a Christmas gift. Pray for the families involved and think how you can brighten a child’s face and life this Christmas.

ROANOKE CATHOLIC SCHOOL invites you to start your Christmas season by attending a free performance of “THE NATIVITY PLAY”, featuring the school's new Drama Club, the RCS Celtic Singers, and Roanoke Catholic Dance. These performances will be held on Thursday, December 3, at 6 pm at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and on Friday, December 4, at 6 pm at St. Andrew's Church. For more information, contact Michael Hemphill: mhemphill@roanokecatholic.com, 982-3532. THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS AND THE SQUIRES are sponsoring a float in the Salem Christmas Parade, which will be held on Friday, December 4. Parishioners of all ages are encouraged to assist in decorating the float and participating in this community event. Sign up in the commons at the bulletin board by the water fountain. We will need material and labor to transform our 40-foot trailer into a nativity scene. The theme is Keep Christ in Christmas. If you have any props and/or would like to help, call Dave Wyble at 529-4982. SAVE THE DATE for December 5 from 8am -11am. The OLPH Youth Group is sponsoring a breakfast with Santa. More information will follow. CHRISTMAS OUTING Are you 55 and older? Then come and join the Joy group and go to the Wolfahrt Hous dinner theatre in Wytheville to see “Christmas Spectacular” on Wednesday, December 9. Sign up in the Commons at the bulletin board; the bus leaves the parking lot at 10:30 am.

MARK YOUR CALENDAR! A valley-wide Advent Mission is planned for December 6-8, 2015 with Sr. Judith Gomila, MSC, of the Marianites of Holy Cross from New Orleans. The mission will be held at Roanoke and Salem area Catholic parishes with a focus on family, forgiveness and mercy. In addition to Sr. Judy’s presentations, the

mission will include an opportunity for participants to celebrate the sacrament of Reconciliation and a valley-wide celebration of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception and the start of the “Year of Mercy”. Look for more details to come in the

coming week!

THE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING is, as Catholic feasts go, a relatively recent one. It was established by Pope Pius XI in 1925, to remind Catholics (and the world generally) that Jesus Christ is Lord of the Universe, both as God and as Man. Pius XI announced the feast in his encyclical Quas Primas, which was delivered on December 11, 1925. At the end of the encyclical, he declared that he expected three "blessings" to flow from the celebration of the feast: first, that "men will doubtless be reminded that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state"; second, that "Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ"; and third, that "The faithful, moreover, by meditating upon these truths, will gain much strength and courage, enabling them to form their lives after the true Christian ideal."

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PARISH EVENTS and LITURGIES

Saturday, November 21 8:30 am Dominicans, Chapel & FLC 10:00 am Olive Branch (10am -1pm; 4:30-7 pm)

1:00 pm Private Gathering, FLC 4:00 pm Confessions 5:30 pm Mass - Susan Gallagher Sunday, November 22 8:00 am Mass - OLPH Parishioners 8:30 am RCIA, FLC 9:15 am K-12 Classes, SH/FLC 10:30 am Preschool, FLC 10:30 am Mass - Barbara Rosato

Monday, November 23 Tuesday, November 24 6:30 pm ALPHA, FLC Wednesday, November 25 Thursday, November 26 - Thanksgiving Day 9:00 am Mass 11:00 am Private Gathering, FLC Friday, November 27 5:00 am Private Gathering, SH Saturday, November 28 4:00 pm Confessions 5:30 pm Mass - Patrick Gallagher Sunday November 29 8:00 am Mass - Loren Beach 10:30 am Mass - Sonny Keener 11:30 am Children’s Choir, Choir Room

There will be no daily Mass this week.

The office will be closed

Thursday and Friday.

There will be Mass on

Thursday, November 26 at 9:00 am.

Liturgical Ministry Schedule

5:30 pm Saturday

November 28

8:00 am Sunday

November 29

10:30 am Sunday

November 29

Welcomer ? ? John Clarke

CLW

Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion

Norman Ata Jack Miller Pat Purcell Paul Purcell Reunett Clark Nathan Johnson Therese Ata

? ?

Julie McKnew Melissa Yates Brenda Holtzlander Sarah Wyar Marisa McKnew Michael McKnew Susan McKnew

Jeffrey Krajnik Angela Meadows

Lectors Frank Kristoff Nancy Harbach

Tom Fame Janet deGuzman

Kathryn Anderson Vicki Hubbard

Altar Servers Sarah Ahlers Hannah Ahlers

McKenna Shearer Nathan Yates Caitin Simms

Cross Bearer Clare Macdonald Kyle Simms

Sound Board Chris Smith Gerard deGuzman Jeremiah Krajnik

Instrumentalists Delores Azar Dave Drahos Gerard de Guzman

Cantor Delores Azar Delores Azar Delores Azar

Altar Linens Diane Ferguson

Readings for the Week November 22 – November 29, 2015

Sunday: Dn 7:13-14/Rv 1:5-8/Jn 18:33b-37 Monday: Dn 1:1-6, 8-20/Lk 21:1-4 Tuesday: Dn 2:31-45/Lk 21:5-11 Wednesday: Dn 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, 23-28/Lk 21:12-19 Thursday: Dn 6:12-28/Lk 21:20-28 Friday: Dn 7:2-14/Lk 21:29-33 Saturday: Dn 7:15-27/Lk 21:34-36 Next Sunday: Jer 33:14-16/1 Thes 3:12--4:2/Lk 21:25-28, 34-36

WINNERS FOR ONE BALL BINGO The week of 11/15/2015 $25

Nathan Johnson, $15 Sylvania Kennedy and $10 Judy & Frank Kristoff.

Please pray for our sick, that they may be

strengthened by the love of Christ.

Janice Allen Janet Andrews Martha Faw Alicia Gay Fr. McKay

Steve Mowles Charles Perkins Danny Psathos Micah Schuff Therese Stokes

Will Thomas Marie Waid Sarah Williams Shirley Williams Judy Witherow

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This page is sponsored by the Salem Knights of Columbus Council #10015

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WOMEN’S CLUB will have their meeting on Tuesday, December 1 at 6 pm at Mama Marias. Please bring a wrapped Christmas ornament for our ornament exchange around $5. Instead of exchanging gifts amongst ourselves it has been suggested that each member donate $10 be used to help a family at Christmas. ADVENT BEGINS next Sunday, November 29. In the commons on the round table, you will find a variety of little books for your spiritual reading through the season of Advent and Christmas. There are the popular Little Blue Books (also in Spanish) and Daybreaks along with a variety of books for children and teens. Also, for those who like to have the readings for the week, you will find Sunday’s Word on the bookcase in the Commons.

CHRISTIAN FORMATION CONFIRMATION PREPARATION Candidates for Confirmation and their sponsors meet on Sunday, December 6 from 11:45am-1:45pm in Room 8/10. CLASS SCHEDULE There will be no religious education classes, preschool thru grade 12, on November 29 due to the Thanksgiving holiday. All classes will resume on Sunday, December 13. We give God thanks for his abundant blessings he has bestowed upon us. YOUTH GROUP

The OLPH Youth Group would like to say a huge thank you to those that supported the

OLPH soup and cupcake lunch! The kids did a great job making the soup and it was

delicious! All left overs were donated to the RAM House and were served for lunch.

Ring in 2016 at OLPH

Cast your dice on a New Year’s Eve Casino Royale Party

Adults -- $17.00

Kids 4-12 -- $7.00

Price includes: appetizers, champagne toast, & party favors

Sodas & mixers are provided/ BYOB

Tickets must be pre-purchased!

Sales will begin the weekend of December 5th & 6th

Make checks payable to OLPH

Any questions, please contact Melissa Yates

If you wish to pay today, please put money in an envelope & place

in the 2nd collection box marked New Year’s Eve Party Melissa

BAKERS NEEDED The Women’s Club is having a bake sale the weekend of December 12/13. Anyone who would like to bake for the event is asked to bring their donation’s to the office at the church on Friday, December 11 before 4 pm or just bring them to the bake sale when you come for Mass. All proceeds from the bake sale will go to Madonna House.

PARISH STAFF

Clergy

Pastor

Rev. Alistair McKay, C.SS.R. amckay@richmonddiocese.org

387-0491 Ext. 301

Deacon Rev. Dr. Eric Surat

office@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 320

Ministries

Music & Worship Barbara Fraticelli

music@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 305

Youth Ministry Melissa Yates

youthministry@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 307

Religious Education Barbara Hairfield

christianformation@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 304

Roanoke College Ministry Fr. McKay

Lauren Hearne Roanoke College Campus Minister

lhearne@roanoke.edu Mass Sundays at 5 pm

at Antrim Chapel

Administrative Staff Business Manager

Elaine Fletchall busmgr@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 302

Parish Secretary Vicki Hubbard

office@olphsalem.org 387-0491 Ext. 300

Custodian Milka Ponjavic

Olive Branch

Pat Hickok olivebranch@olphsalem.org

387-0491 Ext. 306

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OLPH Financial Stewardship

Regular Offertory Additional Income * Total Week Ending 11-01-15 $ 10,312.18 $ 25.00 $ 10,337.18 Week Ending 11-08-15 $ 10,848.00 $1,308.48 $ 12,156.48 Week Ending 11-15-15 $ 6,554.00 $ 104.00 $ 6,658.00 Additional income for the first three weeks in November includes $30 for discretionary, $686 for

capital improvement, $40 for stole fees, $50 for rental income, and $631.48 for our first Living Our Mission parish share. Also collected for the first three weeks in November includes $212 for St. Francis House, $650 for Seasonal Outreach, $5 for World Mission, $10 for Gift of Life, $505 for Family Crisis, and $1,805 for Haiti Mass Count Week Ending 11-01-15 487 Week Ending 11-08-15 583 Week Ending 11-15-15 482

“Jesus answered, „My kingdom does not belong to this world.” -John 18:36

OUTSIDE THE PARISH

DRUMSTICK DASH What are you doing on Thanksgiving Day morning? Sign up to run the 5k race and family walk sponsored by the Rescue Mission Ministries in Roanoke. This is the 10th year that people have moved their feet so others can eat. See the poster in the Commons on the bulletin board for contact information or visit https://drumstickdash.net/. THE REDEMPTORISTS are celebrating the 150th anniversary of the icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help. The icon was entrusted to the Redemptorists by the pope with the charge to make her known through out the world. A Jubilee Pilgrimage To Italy in honor of this event will be held on June 20-30, 2016. There are some brochures on the bookcase in the commons that include a reservation form, prices for the pilgrimage, and contact information. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL Fr. Tom Mattingly, pastor at St. Olaf parish in Williamsburg, will be the spiritual director for a 10-day pilgrimage to Greece and Turkey from September 6-16, 2016. The cost is $3,550 with a deposit of $450 and final payment in June of 2016. If interested, call 1-888-544-4461.

“There is no such thing in one‟s life as an unimportant day.”

—Alexander Wolcott

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