Finance Committee Corner Last Sunday $10,449 was received in the offertory
baskets at Mass and $4,598.5 was received through Parish Pay, for a total of $15,047.5. Our average weekly operating budget is $15,000. Thank you for so generously giving to our regular collection.
The second collection in support of our Soup Kitchen totaled $2,385. Thank you!
Pastoral Plan Update After months of research, and receiving your feedback through our Parish Survey and Share Your Voice Meetings, the Committee for Pastoral Planning is ready to share a draft of our Parish Pastoral Plan.
At all Masses on November 12/13, committee members will distribute and share our Pastoral Plan. You will have an opportunity to provide comments and feedback. A final Pastoral Plan will be distributed in December and will include a plan for implementation to begin in early 2017.
Our Pastoral Plan will guide Blessed Sacrament Parish for the next 3 - 5 years.
Thank you for your prayers, support and participation in building our Parish Pastoral Plan.
Lector/Eucharistic Minister Training Saturday, November 19 at 6:30pm in the Church
Sunday, November 20 at 1:45pm in the Church
Become more involved in the Mass. We are in need of more Lectors to minister the Word and Eucharistic ministers. If you have a love for Scripture and would like to serve as a lector or would like to administer Communion to your fellow parishioners as a Eucharistic minister, please come to the training session. All training will be held in the Church. RSVP appreciated but not required. Email Kimberley LaMarque Orman (
[email protected]) or Thomas Davis (
[email protected]) with any questions.
BETHLEHEM HANDICRAFTS Bethlehem Handicrafts is Catholic group from Bethlehem, the Holy Land. They are going to visit our church the weekend of November 19
th and 20
th to display handmade olivewood religious articles carved by Christian carvers in Bethlehem. What a wonderful gift idea!
The JoyJ initiative is pleased to announce that its next Homeless Outreach is being held on Saturday, November 19, 2016.
The packing of the comfort bags will begin at 9:15am. From 10:00 - 10:15am Group location assignments, group photo, and prayer and from 10:15 - 10:30am McDonald's Gift Cards are dispersed and the groups go on their way.
If you want to participate, please send a message to [email protected] or leave your name at the Rectory.
The Micah Faith Formation Immigration Committee in partnership with
The Refugee Committee of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun presents
“Immigrants and Refugees in America and New York: The Political and Moral Landscape Today”
Tuesday November 15
th, 2016 at 6:45pm
Congregation B’nai Jeshurun
270 West 89
th Street (Between Broadway and West End)
Next week’s second collection for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) needs your help. CCHD was founded to break the cycle of poverty in the United States by funding organizations that help individuals help themselves. With a tradition of improving education, housing situations, and community economic development, CCHD continues to make a positive impact in communities nationwide. Your contribution will defend human dignity and reach out to those living on the margins. Please give to the CCHD Collection
Integral Ecology: A Concept of Progress? - Panel discussion on the Care of our Common Home, Laudato Si The Friends of the Collège des Bernardins (Paris, France), invite you to a participate to the panel discussion with
Kevin Cawley, Executive Director of the Thomas Berry Forum of an Ecological Dialogue, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
Michael K. Holleran, Catholic Priest and Zen Master, Member of the Delegation of Faith Leaders to the UN Climate Summit in Paris (COP21)
and
Frédéric Trinel, Co-founder & Co-CEO of EcoVadis, Supplier Sustainability Ratings
A reception will follow
Suggested Donation: $20 or more
When: Tues. Nov 15, 7pm
Where: Church of Notre Dame of Lourdes, 405 West 114th Street (btw Amsterdam & Morningside Drive), New York, NY 10025
A reading of the new documentary play
Full of Grace: Journeys of LGBT Catholics will be held at the
Church of the Ascension 221 W. 107th St. NYC on Monday, November 21 at 7pm. The play is based on hundreds of interviews with gay, lesbian and transgender Catholics and their families about the intersection of faith and sexual orientation. Tickets are $10 and available at the door or online at
www.artful.ly/store/events/10243. More info at
www.fullofgraceplay.com