Reverend Joseph E. Bonafed, Pastor jbonafed@dioceseofgreensburg.org

Reverend James F. Bump, Administer Pro Tem

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2018 Weekend Masses Saturday: 4:00 PM

Sunday: 11:00 AM

Weekday Masses Monday through Friday

8:00 AM

Holy Days Vigil-7:00 PM

8:00 AM Holy Day

Confessions Saturday

3:00-3:30 PM

Sr. Patricia Myers, Pastoral Associate 412-805-7499

Cheryl Hall, Faith Formation 724-872-2106

Eric Blanda, Director of Music 412-582-2512

Paula DeClaudio, Parish Secretary 724-872-6123

225 N 2nd St. West Newton, PA 15089-1609 | holyfamilywestnewton.org | 724-872-6123 | hfamilywn@comcast.net

Remember to set your clock back one

hour on Saturday night!

Special Collection

Retired Religious and Retired Priests

11/3 & 4/2018

Advent Penance Service Schedule

High lights

and important

information in this

bulletin:

4:00 PM | Saturday, November 3 Lector

Bill Hughes

Eucharistic Ministers Volunteer, Coreen Goetz, Ann Page

Altar Servers Emily Callaway

11:00 AM | Sunday, November 4 Lector

Sienna Lehner

Eucharistic Ministers Bill Ryckman, Dan Landini, Tina Quinn

Altar Servers Jocelyn Siburt, Raphaela Lombardozzi

4:00 PM | Saturday, November 10 Lector

Pat Beneccio

Eucharistic Ministers Barry Beneccio, Mary Houseman, Tony Lovato

Altar Servers Gina Beneccio

11:00 AM | Sunday, November 11 Lector

Aleta Keegan

Eucharistic Ministers Dennis Balenovich, Larry Risku, Armand Luzi

Altar Servers Jacob Boyer, Nick Boyer

PRAYER AND WORSHIP

Saturday, November 03 4:00 PM Vigil– Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Grace “Boots” Sabljak by Marlene and Matt Yurkovich

Sunday, November 04 11:00 AM Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time Helen Rudd-Anniversary of Death

by Mary and Bill Ryckman

Monday, November 05 8:00 AM Weekday

Jim Tuscano by Lynn, Jim and Madison Shrump Tuesday, November 06

8:00 AM Weekday

Joanne Grinarml by Confraternity of Christian Mothers

Wednesday, November 07 8:00 AM Weekday

Jeffrey Oblack by Dedra and Bill Fritch

Thursday, November 08 8:00 AM Weekday

Joanne Grinarml by Jacque and Jon Janos

Friday, November 09 8:00 AM The Dedication of the Lateran Basilica

Ann and Frank Balash by Family

Saturday, November 10 4:00 PM Vigil– Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Joseph & David Gabonay by Donna

Sunday, November 11 11:00 AM Thirty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time Catherine, Alex, Sr. and Alex, Jr. Romonosky by Family

WEEKLY BELL CHIMES NOON 6:00 PM DAY

SAT 11/03 Mary & Dean Sedlar—Anniversary

SUN 11/04 Hazel Bozik—Birthday

MON 11/05 Alfred Floriani—Birthday Paul Byzon—Memorial

TUES 11/06 April Manley—Birthday Remembrance

WED 11/07 Sherman Brizzi

THURS 11/08 Thelma & Ralph Marsh—Anniversary

FRI 11/09 Dolores and Jim Brier—Anniversary

SAT 11/10 Albert, Davis, Floriani, Risko Sisters, DiClaudio-Mem. Bernard Bileck—Memorial

SUN 11/11 Walter Zima—Memorial Jimmy Foster—Memorial

MINISTRY SCHEDULE

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Financial Report for 9/23/2018 Parish Income: Offertory: 2530..00 Loose: 246.00 Candles: 00..00 Monthly: 483.00 Holy Day: 39.00

Total: $3298.00

Parish Budget $4,000.00 Total Income $3298.00

Under Budget $702.00

Faith Formation News Our next class will be on Sunday, November 13 at 9:00 am. You may pick your child up in the social hall at 10:45 am and take them to Mass with you.

Concerns Regarding Sexual Abuse If you have any suspicion about the sexual abuse (or any other type of abuse) of a minor child by anyone — please contact PA Childline immediately at 1-800-932-0313. If the alleged abuser is functioning in a parish, school or diocesan position as clergy, religious, paid staff or volunteer you are also requested to contact the Bishop’s Delegate for Matters of Sexual Misconduct after you have called the Childline number and made the report. The Bishop’s Delegate may be reached at 724-837-0901, Ext. 1221

Priests who are on the sick list:

Please pray for these priests who have been sick and are in need of our prayers.

Fr. Kenneth Zaccagnini, Pastor of St. Mar-garet Mary Parish, Lower Burrel and Dean of Deanery I

Fr. Micah Kozoil, retired, has been admit-ted to a nursing home for care and is in need of our prayers.

Fr. Alvin Enal Cabungcal, St. John the Bap-tist, Perryopolis-Good news! Recovering at the rectory at St. John!

Now, more than ever, we need volunteers to help at Church and in our Parish Community. If you are able to help in any way call the office.

Listening Sessions Bishop Edward C. Malesic invites every member of the Diocese of Greens-burg to join him at any of the seven listening sessions where he will be pre-sent this fall. Bishop Malesic knows that the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report and the events of the past few months have evoked a great deal of pain, sadness, confusion and uncertainty for the faithful of the Diocese of Greens-burg.

These seven upcoming gatherings are extremely important, enabling Bish-op Malesic to be present to you, to listen to your concerns and to respond to your questions. These sessions will give you the opportunity to express your feelings, observations and suggestions. Please attend one of the sessions with Bishop Malesic and allow your input to help him guide our church as we go forward from this moment in our history as the People of God.

Evening sessions: 6:30-8:30 p.m. St. Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Kittanning, Monday, Nov. 5 Mother of Sorrows Parish, Murrysville, Thursday, Nov. 8 St. Bernard of Clairvaux Parish, Indiana, Thursday, Nov. 29

Advent Penance Service Schedule

12/12 7:00 PM Holy Family West Newton 12/17 6:30 PM St. Sebastian Belle Vernon 12/18 7:00 PM St. Anne Rostraver 12/19 7:00 PM St. John the Baptist Perryopolis 12/20 7:00 PM Epiphany of Our Lord Monessen

Attention Youth in grades 8 to 12

NCYC (National Catholic Youth Con-ference) will be held in November 20-23, 2019 in Indianapolis, Indiana. This conference is held every two years and is an educational, prayer-ful, safe and interesting trip for all those who attend. This conference attracts over 20,000 Catholic teen-agers across the country! Some of the activities include a trip to Dave and Buster’s, nationally recognized speakers, powerful prayer experi-ences, Christian musicians and an interactive park to hang out with 20,000 + of your closest friends! Most students who attend once, want to return a second time! Please contact Cheryl if you are in-terested in receiving more infor-mation about this exciting trip! Ask to see the cool hats she traded for there!

The Angel Tree is return-ing this year! Please keep an eye out, more infor-mation coming soon! Please consider helping those in need this Christ-mas!

Plans are underway for an Epiphany party on January 6, 2019. Please mark your calendars for this new, fun event and celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany with the youth of our parish! If you are interested in help-ing in any way, please contact Cher-yl at 724-872-2106.

11/04/2018 SAVE THE DATE

Here is a list of upcoming activities. Watch the bulletin for news of activities. Listed below are some of the dates you will want to reserve in the coming months.

November 4 – Appeal for Retired Religious and Retired Priests

November 10 – Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate

Mr. John Zombar

November 10-11 – Diocesan Collection for local Flood Relief

November 11 – Holy Name Society Meeting in the Social Hall @ 9:30 AM

November 11 – Bingo Social in the Social Hall

November 11 – Week of 11/11 Delivery of Meals on Wheels

November 13 – Confraternity of Christian Mothers Executive Board Meeting

@ 9:30 AM at Gary’s Chuck Wagon

November 18 – Diocesan Poverty Relief and Catholic Relief Services Appeal

November 22 – Thanksgiving Day

November 25 – Confraternity of Christian Mothers Meeting @ 9:30 in the

Social Hall

December 2 – First Sunday of Advent

LITTLE ROCK BIBLE STUDY The next meeting of the Little Rock Bible Study Group will be on Wednesday, November 7th. The group meets in the Social Hall weekly on Wednesdays from 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM. Please attend a session and learn the details of this year’s study. All are welcome to attend. Watch the bulletin for more news about the Bible study.

CALL TO ORDERS FOR MR. JOHN ZOMBAR

Bishop Malesic has formally called Mr. John Zombar to Ordination to the Permanent Diaconate. The date for the diaconate ordination is Saturday, November 10, 2018 at 10:00 AM in Blessed Sacrament Cathedral, Greensburg. John has invited all parishioners to attend the ordination. Please remember John in prayer as he anticipates the joyous occasion of his ordination to the permanent diaconate. THANK YOU! The Spaghetti Dinner held on 10/30/2018 was a great success. The committee wishes to thank everyone who donated baskets, lottery tickets, and items for the dinner, cakes, desserts, and time or helped in any way with the dinner. We also want to thank everyone who patronized the event. We are planning another event soon and hope to see you there!

ERIC’S MUSIC NOTES

The first reading, the great “Shema, Israel” from Deuteronomy reminds us that God must be central in our lives. That we must love the Lord with all our heart, soul and strength. The Gospel passage repeats that point and adds the reminder that love of neighbor is intimately connected to love of God. We must love our neighbor as ourselves. We begin our celebration today with Praise to the Lord, a familiar and majestic hymn of praise, reminding us to “ponder anew what the almighty can do”. This is a hymn based on Joachim Neander's German hymn "Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren", published in 1680. John Julian in his “A Dictionary of Hymnology” calls the German original "a magnificent hymn of praise to God, perhaps the finest creation of its author, and of the first rank in its class." Our Preparation Hymn, We Are Called, echoes today’s Gospel call to love and service to our neighbor. Our Communion Hymn, This Bread That We Share, reminds us that we are called to love one another and to become the Presence of Christ to those around us. May our celebration of the Eucharist today lead us all to a greater love of God and neighbor. In a few weeks we will be beginning a new Liturgical Year, and with that our 2019 subscription to Breaking Bread Missalette will begin. At that time, you will notice that we have decreased the number of copies we have purchased for the year. Instead of the present three copies per pew rack, there will be two copies. This was done to decrease the cost to the parish, given the weekly Mass attendance numbers. The decreased number of copies will still be in excess of our usual weekly attendance, so there will still be a book for each person at Mass. The annual cost of the books is approximately $10.00 with shipping costs. Would you consider giving an EXTRA $10.00 donation this month to help defray this expense?

Eric

REST IN PEACE Lawrence “Patsy” Brunory father of Paula DeClaudio, parish secretary, who passed away peacefully at 100 years of age on 10/25. Please remember Patsy and his family in your prayers. Father Arnel Estrella died on October 27th at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Fr. Arnel was our Pastor for a short time before becoming ill and in that brief time made a most favorable impression on our parishioners. Well known for his brilliant smile and kind words, we were sad to see him leave us when he became ill. May choirs of angels bear him to paradise and present him to God most high. May he rest in eternal peace. Please keep Fr. Arnel’s mother and his family in your prayers. Pray for comfort for his brother priests from his home in the Philippines and from the Diocese of Greensburg and for his many friends in parishes both here and in his homeland.

11/04/2018 LISTENING SESSIONS Bishop Edward C. Malesic invites every member of the Diocese of Greensburg to join him at any of the seven listening sessions where he will be present this fall. Bishop Malesic knows that the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report and the events of the past few months have evoked a great deal of pain, sadness, confusion and uncertainty for the faithful of the Diocese of Greensburg. These gatherings are extremely important, enabling Bishop Malesic to be present to you, to listen to your concerns and to respond to your questions. These sessions will give you the opportunity to express your feelings, observations and suggestions. Please attend one of the sessions with Bishop Malesic and allow your input to help him guide our church as we go forward from this moment in our history as the People of God. Evening sessions: 6:30-8:30 p.m. St. Mary, Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, Kittanning, Monday, Nov. 5 Mother of Sorrows Parish, Murrysville, Thursday, Nov. 8 St. Bernard of Clairvaux Parish, Indiana, Thursday, Nov. 29

BINGO SOCIAL A BINGO Social will be held on Sunday, November 11th at Holy Family Social Hall. Bingo starts at 12:30. This is an all paper BINGO. The $8 admission includes a packet of 20 cards, door prize, Red Ball, and a delicious luncheon. The Jack Pot is $220.00, 51 numbers. The November Bingo is sponsored by the Holy Name Society. Proceeds will benefit HNS projects. Come on out and have some fun. ********************************************************

SPECIAL COLLECTION-RETIRED RELIGIOUS AND RETIRED PRIESTS-NOVEMBER 3 & 4 Bishop Malesic asks that we join him in support of the upcoming appeal for the Retirement Fund for Religious and Diocesan Priests and all of our brothers and sisters in Christ, present and past, who have dedicated their lives to prayer, ministry, and service. Today, the majority of women and men religious are past age 60; a significant number are past age 80. Many institutes simply do not have the resources to meet the dramatically escalating costs of care for their growing populations of elderly. Since 1999 we have included our retired diocesan priests in this appeal. The revenue generated through this collection allows the retirement fund for diocesan priests to provide periodically for an increase in the retirement benefit, without passing on the cost directly through an increase in the retirement premium. Twenty-five percent of the total of this year’s collection will be designated for the retired diocesan priests’ fund, and the remainder of the collection revenue will be passed on to the National Religious Retirement Office for distribution to the various religious communities applying for assistance.

LAST WEEKEND FOR THESE TWO DRIVES IS NOVEMBER 10 & 11 TOWEL COLLECTION TO SUPPORT THE HOMELESS The Holy Name Society, in response to a request from Fr. Tim Kruthraupt and the “Men of the Boulevard”, are asking for your support to the homeless by donating TOWELS—both bath towels, hand towels and wash cloths. There will be a collection bin at the back of the Church. Please help this collection which will end at the end of October. SOCK DRIVE FOR VETERANS The Knights of Columbus are asking for your support of the Veterans both in the local hospitals as well as those who are homeless by donating SOCKS and FLEECE ITEMS. The winter will soon be upon us and these items are in particular need. A collection bin will be in the back of the church for this collection. Thank you for your support REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF THE SHOOTING IN PITTSBURGH Let us pray for the victims of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, and for all affected by this tragedy, may God’s healing consolation be known by all in pain, and may God’s Spirit of peace fill our world. PANCAKE & SAUSAGE BREAKFAST Sunday, November 4, 8AM – 1 PM at St. John the Baptist Social Hall, Perryopolis. Adults $8.00, Children 3-10, $4.00 and children under 2 free. The menu is pancakes, sausage, hash brown and beverage. ETHNIC FESTIVAL Next Sunday, November 4, St. Sebastian Parish, Belle Vernon, will hold an Ethnic Festival in their Parish Hall from 12:00 Noon until 3:00 p.m. As a parish of many different ethnic backgrounds, there will be a variety of foods to taste and see and purchase. Takes out will be available. SISTERS OF CHARITY COUPON BOOK FUNDRAISER “Enjoy 2019” coupon books are available from the Sisters of Charity of Seton Hill through Dec. 29 for $30. For additional information or to reserve a book, call Sister of Charity Agnes Steedle in Greensburg at 724-836-0406, ext. 6646, or Sister Patrice Hughes in the Pittsburgh area, 412-343-1382. NOMINATIONS FOR DISTINGUISHED CENTURION AWARDS Nominations are being sought for the 2019 Greensburg Central Catholic Distinguished Centurion Awards. Awards are given in four categories: achievement, community, service and young alumnus. Awards will be presented at the annual Auction Gala Feb. 22 at Stratigos Banquet Centre, North Huntingdon. Go to www.gcchs.org/alumni/Pages/award for more information and nomination materials. Send completed materials to Dennis Cremonese at dcremonese@gcchs.org by Nov. 20.