Please join us in adoration Wednesday evenings from the end of the 5:15pm Mass to 9:00pm and spend some time with the Blessed Sacrament.

SUNDAY ROSARY

Every Sunday at 7:05 before the

7:30 am Mass the Rosary is

said. All are welcome to attend.

St. John Full-Day Pre-K Program

At St. John Catholic Elementary School we believe that Pre-Kindergarten is the time to turn your curious child into an active, interested student who looks forward to going to school. A love of learning that begins in Pre-K starts your child down the road that leads to success in high school and beyond.

Our full-day, center-based, Pre-K program for 4 year olds, offers the young learner a safe, caring environment, where the fundamentals of literacy, math, religion, science and social studies are introduced. As students play, learn, make their own choices and socialize, our teachers work to help children develop creative and critical thinking, as well as large and fine motor skills, through active, hands-on exploration.

Contact: St. John School, 77 Murray Ave., Goshen, NY 10924 or Call 845-294-6434 -

Email: [email protected] www.saintjohngoshen.org. buildboldfutures.org.

 



FRANCISCAN SPIRIT TOURS
The Franciscan Friar of Renewal will lead several upcoming pilgrimages
to Holy sites around the world. Proceeds benefit the
work of the Franciscans. For more info., or to arrange a private,
custom pilgrimage, contact Franciscan Spirit Tours toll free @
1800-631-1128, 646-736-7964 or information @
FranciscanSpiritTours.com or the web @
www.FranciscanSpiritTours.com.
“Great Women of Faith” - Parish/Lourdes/Lisieux
“Franciscan Italy” - Footsteps of Pope Francis-Argentina”
“Holy Land-The Living Rosary” - Footsteps of St. John Paul II
–Poland/Prague”
“Journey to Peace”-Medjugorje Fatima—Catholic Ireland
“Our Lady in the New World” - Guadalupe/Mexico
“Catholic Spain” - Church of John & Paul” - Greece/Turkey.

 THE CARDINAL’S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL

  THE CARDINAL’S ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL
  If you have not yet made a pledge or gift,
you may do so online at www.cardinalsappeal.org, or by
using one of the envelopes available at the back of the
church. Our parish number is 433.  

FORTY YEARS: OPENING DOORS TO OUR FAITH 

In 1979, Terence Cardinal Cooke started the Cardinal's Archdiocesan Appeal to facilitate the pastoral, educational and charitable works of the Archdiocese of New York. In the 40 years since, the Appeal has raised many millions of dollars - every penny of which has benefited parishes and the 2.7 million Catholics of the Archdiocese of New York. 

In his first address as pope, Saint John Paul II called on all of us to " open wide the doors to Christ"- a call for personal holiness and conversion of heart but also a call to invite others into the universal Church. We pray we may continue opening our doors to those who need to hear the message of our Lord. 

The doors that matter most are at the entrances to our nearly 300 parishes. That's why, on its 40th anniversary, we are focusing the Cardinal's Annual Stewardship Appeal entirely on keeping our parishes healthy and vibrant.- .ny-archdiocese.org 
 

Questions to ponder this week •
How am I reconciled to God and others?
How am I not living in this spirit of reconciliation? •
What is God doing in my life through my involvement in the communities I engage with (work, family, church community, local community)?




Catholic Charities offers low-cost, short-term counseling services to help individuals and families.
Please speak with Fr. George or Fr. Wency for more information.




Sign up for Best Lent Ever with Dynamic Catholic and spend the 40 days of lent discovering God’s mission for your life. To get a daily inspirational video via email, simply sign up at: www.dynamiccatholic.com/ lent.html If you would like to receive Best Lent Ever text messages, text BESTLENT to 70307.

The Catechism in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz  https://ascensionpress.com/pages/catechisminayear

The Archdiocese of New York has launched a new website, The Good Newsroom, a digital platform where you can stay up to date on everything happening in the Church of New York. You will find videos, articles, opinion pieces, and photos on a daily basis to tell the story of our faith, actions, and good deeds. Please join Cardinal Dolan in staying connected with the Catholic community of New York. TheGoodNewsroom.org




CYFM Men's Retreat
What Can We Learn from The Early Followers of Jesus?
Saturday, February 4, 2023—9:00am to 5:00 pm
St. Lawrence Retreat Center 180 Sargent Avenue Beacon, NY 12508 In the Gospels and today, Jesus encounters people from every walk of life.
He offers a path to peace, mercy, and transformation. Join us for a Saturday retreat where we will seek to follow and hear the Lord, who seeks us. Please register by January 28.
The $65 fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. For online registration: https://secure.qgiv.com/for/ capuchinyfm/event/862968. For more information: https://www.capuchin.org/ cyfm/retreats/




There will be Eucharistic Adoration
on Friday, February 3
in the chapel following the 6:30am Mass and concluding with benediction at 5:00pm. As always, it is essential that we have one or two parishioners committed to be present during each hour.
Please call or stop by the parish office to sign up.





SEPARATED AND DIVORCED ROMAN CATHOLIC MINISTRY
will meet on Saturday, February 4 at 11:30am
in the Parish Center meeting room.
To RSVP or for more information, please contact Helen at 845-325-0719.





The Catholic Daughters of the Americas
will meet on Saturday, February 4 at 10:00am in the rectory meeting room. For more information, please contact our regent, Joy Palazzola at [email protected]








Next Sunday, February 5 is Food Pantry Sunday.
Please be as generous as you can
to assist those in need in our community.
Reminder: please check the expiration dates!








Our young people will hold soup pots outside the church on Souper Bowl of Caring Weekend, February 11 and 12, 2023. They will join young people in houses of worship across the country to collect money for those who are hungry and hurting. In 2022, $8.15 million was collected by Souper Bowl of Caring participants for local charities. All of the money collected is donated to a charity selected by the participant; none of the money is sent to the Souper Bowl of Caring headquarters. Please support the youth of our parish in this effort to love our neighbors by dropping $5 and a canned food item in the soup pot on February 11 or 12. All donations go to The Goshen Ecumenical Food Pantry. As always, thank you for your support!





Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the season of Lent, is February 22, 2023. Here’s the schedule:
6:30am Mass
9:00am Mass
12:05pm Mass
4:00pm Liturgy of the Word
7:00pm Liturgy of the Word
Ashes will be imposed only during these liturgies.






Our fledgling funeral ministry has proven to be a tremendous help, both to grieving families and to the priests. Our aim is to have an adult altar server, a lector, and a guide for the family (a “mourner”) at each funeral Mass. Several of our parishioners have been stalwarts, but we’re always open to additional help. If you’d like to learn more, or to sign up, please speak with Fr. George after Mass. We’d like to reinvigorate the hospitality committee, which in the past had coordinated events like the reception for couples celebrating their wedding anniversaries (more on that soon), as well as other parish celebrations. If you’d like to learn more, or are interested in being a part of this, please leave your name and contact information at the parish office ([email protected]; 845-294-5328).

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Those of a certain age may remember when the Forty Hours Devotion was a staple of parish life. For those who have never heard of it, here’s an explanation, courtesy of Catholicstraightanswers.com:

The Forty Hours Devotion is a special forty-hour period of continuous prayer made before the Blessed Sacrament in solemn exposition. Of course, the focus of this devotion is on the Holy Eucharist. As Catholics, the words of our Lord burn in our hearts: “I myself am the living bread come down from Heaven. If anyone eats this bread, He shall live forever; the bread I will give is my flesh for the life of the world” (John 6:51).

[T]he number forty has always signified a sacred period of time: the rains during the time of Noah lasted 40 days and nights; the Jews wandered through the desert for 40 years, our Lord fasted and prayed for 40 days before beginning His public ministry. The 40 Hours Devotion remembers that traditional “forty-hour period” from our Lord’s burial until the resurrection. Actually, in the Middle Ages, the Blessed Sacrament was transferred to the repository, “the Easter Sepulcher,” for this period of time to signify our Lord’s time in the tomb.

We’d like to propose a forty hours devotion here, to begin following the 7:00pm Mass on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception – Thursday, December 8 – and concluding on the morning of Saturday, December 10. This would lead up to our Advent parish mission, which will be preached by Fr. William Garrott, OP, beginning that weekend. For this to happen, we would need to have at least two adorers present during each of those forty hours – even through Thursday and Friday nights. That’s eighty people (at least!) to commit to spending one hour with the Lord during that timeframe. Your thoughts?

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Finally, we have an opening for a part-time position in our parish office. This would be for ten hours a week, with the opportunity for additional hours on occasion. The responsibilities include answering the phone, helping to prepare the weekly bulletin, inputting collections, scheduling liturgical ministers, and some bookkeeping. Prior experience with Microsoft Office, especially Publisher and Word, is helpful, as is an understanding of bookkeeping, though we would train the right candidate. (The archdiocese uses a proprietary bookkeeping system, so whomever is hired will get training anyway.) If you’d like to apply, please email a resume, including references, to [email protected]



Parish Counseling Network (PCN) Catholic Charities offers low cost, short term counseling services to help individuals and families. Anxiety, depression, conflicts over marital issues, raising children, caring for adults, can make it hard to cope. As the months wear on, the effects of the pandemic continue to affect our society. Self-care remains a vital step in overall good health. PCN offers access to licensed mental health professionals throughout the Hudson Valley and can help parishioners with a variety of concerns, included the stress of COVID-19. Parishioners are eligible for up to six sessions; the fee for each session is a $10 co-pay. A referral from a priest or deacon is needed. Please call the parish office for more information.




We would like to begin the rebuilding of our cadre of liturgical ministers first by recruiting parishioners to serve as altar servers and as lectors. We have a faithful corps of boys, girls and teens who serve at the altar at Sunday Mass, though we’d like to double or – even better – triple that number. We invite boys and girls currently in grades 3 and up, who would like to be servers, to a training session the weekend of October 22/23. Rather than one session, we’ll offer training after each of the Masses that weekend – Saturday evening and Sunday – for about 45 minutes. That way, prospective servers (and parents) can stay following whatever Mass they attend, without having to make a second trip here. Once we get a sense of who our new servers are, we’ll schedule additional training. As with servers, so with lectors (those who read the Scriptures at Mass): we’ll offer post-Mass training after each Mass the weekend of November 12/13.





Emergency Rental Assistance Program Catholic Charities recently paired with an attorney from Legal Services of the Hudson Valley to hold an information session about ERAP live through Facebook. The live event allowed for an in-depth discussion about the current Emergency Rental Assistance Program as well as the legal rights of tenants.
ERAP is a New York State program to assist house holds behind on their rent or that have experienced financial hardship due to COVID-19 and are at risk of homelessness or housing instabilities.
Applications are now being accepted, and assistance with completing applications is available through Catholic Charities. The recording of the information session can be found at http://fb.watch/6NrMOyceKK/ [email protected] Orange County 845-561-1665

 




The Matthew Kelly Show is live every Monday night at 8:00pm EDT.
Join Matthew Kelly on YouTube and you’ll have access to a weekly Q&A session with Matthew himself!
Just subscribe, hop on YouTube every Monday, and click on the live video! https://www.youtube.com/c/ MatthewKellyAuthor/featured The live chat opens an hour early at 7:00pm EDT.
Join and submit your questions early to have Matthew answer them live!
Each week, Matthew will speak on a specific topic for 10 minutes and then answer your questions on that topic. And yes, we’ll be taking your suggestions for future topics! Your questions matter.
The questions you ask of yourself and others shape your life. Our lives change when we start asking good questions. We hope this opportunity to interact with Matthew helps you discover deeply personal answers to your deeply personal questions!







The Archdiocese of New York Drug and Abuse Prevention Program is offering free educational meetings and help for parents and guardians with youths ages 12-19. For more information: Call: Jessica Pforte 845-561-3633 x47 Email: [email protected] www.adapp.org




Care & Prepare End-of-Life Education Free Video! Available now! Peace at the end of life begins today. Equip yourself with the tools and knowledge you need to face difficult decisions with confidence. Care & Prepare is a 30-minute educational video with essential information on Church teaching, practical guidance in navigating medical decisions, and advice on legal preparation for the end of life. Watch it online: bitly.com/careandprepare




You can make your weekly offerings with ease. WeShare is an online site that you can utilize to make your weekly and special collection offerings. SJEGOSHEN.CHURCHGIVING.COM




A heartfelt thank you to all of our bulletin advertisers, whose generosity allows us to print this weekly resource. When you patronize them, please thank them for their generosity to the parish! 


SEPARATED & DIVORCED ROMAN CATHOLIC MINISTRY meets virtually every Saturday morning, 9:30-10:45 am. If interested, please contact Helen at 845-325-0719 for more information.



Catholic Charities has been on the frontline helping each and every day; working to provide help and hope to those among us who are most in need.

Our prayers are with those who have lost loved ones, been sick themselves, or have had family members struck by the virus. But, as it lingers on, the requests for assistance are growing and our resources are being stretched thin.

If you’re able to lend your care and support, please make a donation to the COVID-19 Relief Fund, securely and conveniently online at www.cccsos.org/ donate-now/ or by mailing to Catholic Charities Advancement Office, 27 Matthews Street, Goshen, NY 10924. Your donation will stay local.

We are grateful to our many friends who have already given generously so that Catholic Charities can help those who have been impacted by the pandemic. If you, or someone you know, is in need of assistance, please contact our regional helpline at [email protected] For more information, contact [email protected] or call 845-492-6331.




Please remember to pray daily for an increase in vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

HEALING AFTER ABORTION Do you know someone who is carrying the grief of a past abortion? There is help and hope available, and the pain and sorrow of abortion need not endure for a lifetime. A “Day of Prayer and Healing” offers the  opportunity to experience the love and mercy of God and to heal the wound of abortion. For dates, location, and confidential registration, or to talk to a Sister, please call the Sisters of Life  at (866)-575-0075 (toll free) or email [email protected]. Days of Prayer and Healing for Men - For more information or to register for men please call Lumina at 877.586.4621 or [email protected].


 

FORMED is an innovative online platform through

which your parishioners can have access to a wide

range of top-quality faith formation resources from

Bishop Robert Barron, the Augustine Institute,

Father Michael Gaitley, Lighthouse Catholic Media,

and several others. It is an effective tool that can

support efforts in the areas of adult faith formation,

sacramental preparation, youth ministry, marriage

ministry, and more. A number of Spanish-language

resources are also available on FORMED, and new

materials are being added regularly. Registration is

very simple. Visit formed.org, and use our parish

access code: DGJWJK. If you have any problem

gaining access, there is a very responsive customer

service team ready and able to assist.


SICK LIST REQUEST—

To all those who have a family member on the sick list, Please update your request. The forms must be up-dated every six (6) weeks . THANK YOU