Pastor's Weekly Email
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Thursday, September 9, 2021
XXIII Week in Ordinary Time
Feast of St. Peter Claver
Collection of Haiti and Ida victims
We have been contacted by Archdiocesan Leadership to take up a collection for the relief of people suffering due to Hurricane Ida and the earthquake in Haiti. I am thinking that we will hold the relief collection together and split the total by half when the collection is finished. I will keep you posted on the day of the Collection.RCIA invitation
Please pray for and extend an invitation to all of those whom God is calling into the Catholic Church.
Would you like to learn more about the Catholic Faith?
Are you married to a Catholic?
Are you a Catholic who has not received the Sacraments?
Are you someone seeking a spiritual home?
We will be hosting a meeting for all of those who are interested in looking into the Catholic faith or Catholics who have not received the Sacraments of Holy Eucharist and/or Confirmation on Tuesday evening, September 28th at 7:00 PM. We will meet in the Fr. Simon Meeting room in the Parish Life Center. You are welcome to call the office at (610) 459-2502 to express your interest.40 Hours Devotion
Our annual Forty Hours Devotions are scheduled to begin this Sunday, September 12th. after the 11:00 AM Mass and continue through Tuesday evening. Each evening we will gather for Solemn Vespers and Benediction. The church will remain open for visits - time for prayer and reflection with our Eucharistic Lord. Please take time during these sacred days to come to church through the day, in the evening, for morning Mass and pray either in intercession or gratitude of our God who gives His very self in the Eucharist.
Sign up Genius for Forty Hours
Here is the link for the 40 Hours Devotion signup.
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/70A0D48AAAC28A5FF2-40hours2
40 Hours Devotion ScheduleAdult Choir
The Adult Choir is looking for new members to help us raise a joyful noise. If you enjoy singing, we would love to have you become a member of our group! No experience reading music or singing in a choir? No problem. Singers of all experience levels are welcome to participate. Practice is once a week on Wednesday nights from 7-8pm in the church and alternate singing at the Saturday evening Mass and the Sunday 9am Mass. Please contact Tricia Binkley at mandmbinkley@gmail.com or Margie Melchiore at m.melc@verizon.net to join today. It is necessary to know ahead of time to prepare folders and outlines for you. Our next practice will be on Wednesday, September 15th
RESPECT LIFE MONTH
ARCHDIOCESAN OPENING CELEBRATION
September 26, 2021
followed by a brunch reception
with The Sisters of Life
CATHEDRAL BASILICA OF SS PETER & PAUL 18TH STREET & BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY PHILADELPHIA, PA 19103
For more information: Office for Life and Family phillycatholiclife.orgPennsylvania Pro Life March
The St Cornelius Pro-Life committee has been selected to organize a bus for the First Ever Pennsylvania Pro Life March on Monday, September 27. The bus is sponsored by (and paid for) by the Pro-Life Union of Greater Philadelphia and is open to anyone in Delaware or Chester County. Departure will be from St Cornelius at 8:45AM and returning around 4PM.
The general schedule is:- Leave St Cornelius - 8:45AM
- Arrive Harrisburg Capitol Building - 10:30AM
- Rally begins - 11:00AM
- March begins - 12 Noon
- Board bus to return to St Cornelius - 2PM
- Arrive St Cornelius - 4PM
More information about the Rally and March can be found here:https://marchforlife.org/pennsylvania-march-for-life/
https://marchforlife.org/first-annual-pennsylvania-march-for-life/
To sign up for a seat on the bus, go here:
American Red CrossOr register at redcrossblood.org using St. Cornelius as the sponsor code or call 1-800-RED CROSS (1-800-733-2767) Call Marilyn at 484-732-8842 leaving your name and phone number with any questions. **Extra precautions are being taken by the Red Cross to ensure the safety of all donors and staff at this time.
Blood Drive
St. Cornelius!
Thursday, October 7, 2021
2PM to 7PM
Parish Life Center
Registration opportunity
September 18th and 19th after all Masses!
The need for blood is constant and only volunteer donors can fulfill that need in our community. Nationwide, someone needs a unit of blood every 2 to 3 seconds. Blood cannot be manufactured. It can only come from generous donors like YOU.
Be that Good Samaritan! Be a donor on October 7th !!!
Eligibility questions? Call the Red Cross Donor Center
@ 1-866-236-3276St. Cornelius Early Learning Center
Saint Cornelius Early Learning Center has enrolled 87 children for this school year. That is up from 63 last year. We are continuing to grow, and it is wonderful to see the children on campus.Loaves and Fishes – New!
Volunteers:
To support the casserole program:
Our next opportunities to drop off casseroles are- September 10th
- October 8th
- November 5th
- December 3rd.
Normally we can store casseroles in the deep freeze in the PLC kitchen so you can drop-off at times that fit your schedule. A casserole should be of your choice, cooked, then frozen. Casserole pans are in the office at the PLC.
To support our lunch program:
The opportunities to drop off lunches are- September 24th
- October 29th
- November 19th
- December 17th.
A lunch consists of a PBJ sandwich, a granola or protein bar, a juice box or water bottle and a small piece of fruit if you can add it, the fruit is optional. Another reminder - to help keep the sandwiches from getting soggy spread the peanut butter on both pieces of bread and then spread the jelly in between.
If you would like to bring a bag of apples, or oranges, or a box of granola bars those are also accepted and you can drop them off on any of the above dates.
If you prefer to donate baby supplies we will deliver to YoungMoms in Kennett Square. You can drop off baby supplies on any of the above dates.
We meet at the PLC between 09:30 - 10:00 on the morning of the drop-off.
If you have a high school student who is helping and need their volunteer hours validated, simply email (joburns66@gmail.com) the form and she will sign and scan the form back to you.
Thank you for your continued support.Meal Packing Event - Saturday, November 13th
November 13th we will have a meal packing event. We will be looking for volunteers to staff the meal packing stations.
The sign up for registration is available. I wanted to make sure you knew about it so you could put it on your calendars.
All interested people can register for this event by way of the web site.The St. Cornelius Literary Society – New!
The winner for September's Selection is A Gentleman in Moscow, by Armor Towles with 16 votes. Second place was tied with 6 votes each for The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson and To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Show comes in at 5 votes for And Now I See, by Bishop Robert Barron
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose.Amazon.comI will let you know when the group will meet next.Happenings in October
Archbishop Perez will be with us on Saturday, October 23rd to bless the Holy Family Portico and celebrate the 4:00 PM Vigil Mass. The other important thing about this visit is that it marks the day when our parish Mass schedule on Saturday and Sunday evenings changes. Beginning on the 23rd of October the Vigil Mass on Saturday and the Sunday evening Mass will move to 4:00. Confessions on Saturday will be held from 2:30 to 3:30.
We will have a social after Mass to mark the occasion. Wine and cheese on the Holy Family Portico. Say a prayer for good weather.
Nothing compares to being there!
I am anticipating the return of altar servers at our Liturgies and will be looking for volunteers to learn how to assist the celebrant at Mass. We are planning on two groups: children who are in the 4th grade and up as well as a group of adults (18 and up).
You will be given training and a schedule for the altar servers for Masses each weekend. Please contact the Parish Life Center with your name, phone number and email address as well as which group you are interested in joining (adult or child).
We will contact you with further information.Haskell farm clean-up
Our Matthew XXV Garden has had a great deal of success in its inaugural planting. Organizations in need of food have benefitted from the efforts of our parishioners. Among that cadre of volunteers is a neighbor of ours. He’s not a parishioner, but rather someone who has shared his gift with our volunteers of planting and harvesting a garden. He is affectionally called simply, Farmer Haskell. A week ago today many of us awakened to the aftermath of tropical storm Ida and the disruption it may have brought to our homes, places of work and perhaps our daily life for a few days. For farmer Haskell this storm brought damage and destruction to his vegetable stand, his home and other buildings on his property. This past week a group of our Matthew XXV Garden volunteers collected themselves and gathered to help farmer Haskell begin the long arduous process of cleaning up and restoring his farm to a state of function once again. If you can offer your brunt and muscle to assist a friend and neighbor, I know he would appreciate it and as a friend of the parish it would be a great way to return our thanks to him for all he has done for the development of the Matthew XXV Garden. If you would like to help in other ways, simply stopping by to purchase what is still available will give him confidence and strength as he faces the long road ahead of recovery.
Farmer Haskell's address is:
4317 Creek Rd., Chadds Ford, PA 19317
Faithfully,
Msgr. DiamondVisit the parish website for more information: www.saintcornelius.org