seventeenth Sunday in ordinary time

July 26 ^th, 2009

Special Prayer Requests: Please pray for the repose of the souls of parishioners Barbara Mascetti and Rose Marie Gerondakis, and for Robert Flanagan, father of parishioner Karen Hannan.

Parish Office Hours: Weekdays 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM, but closed on Thursday afternoons from 12 to 4:30 PM for staff development, training and administrative meetings.

Last Week’s Collection: Regular Collection: $9,892.04, Building Fund: $2,073.77, Back to School: $75.00, Propagation of the Faith: $2,080.10, Infirm Priests: $90.00, Candles: $152.90, Total: $14,363.81.

Mass Attendance:

5:00 PM: 428; 8:00 AM: 342; 10:30 AM: 498 Total: 1,268.

FLOWER INTENTIONS for this week are in memory of:

Jean Fink by Lois Fink

The 2009 FLOWER INTENTION CALENDAR has been posted in the hall by the literature rack in the church.  There are four intentions each week.  Please fill in for whom and from on the calendar. Your donation of $25 for each intention can be placed in the flower envelope located to the right of the calendar.  Please drop your envelope in the collection basket or turn in at the office.  Please call the office if you would like one of these dates.

Safe Environment Program at PBOC

Precious Blood is committed to ensuring a safe environment for our children and for upholding the “National Charter for the Protection of Children & Young People” as established by the

U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).

All adults who work with children must:

¨ Attend the “Protecting God’s Children Program

¨ Be screened by Law Enforcement

¨ Adhere to the DOC Code of Conduct (copy available in the

Gathering Space)

¨ Read and sign the DOC Sexual Abuse Policy and Procedures

For more information on how to report an allegation of abuse,

go to www.catholic-doc.org and click on “Sexual Abuse Policies and Procedures” on the left side bar. Then click on “How to

Report an Allegation of Sexual Misconduct by Church Personnel.”

Safe Environment Coordinator: Renee Faiella, 843- 485-3515

Diocesan Office of Child Protection Services:

843-853-2130, Ext. 209

Diocesan Victim Assistance: 1-800-921-8122.

HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS

This area’s most vulnerable period during hurricane season is August 1 through the second week of October. Updated Disaster Guides are being handed out at all Masses next weekend for your use in planning and preparing with your families. Extra copies are available at the parish office. Please keep this important information handy!

ATTENTION COMMITTEE/ORGANIZATION HEADS

If you have not already done so, please submit your event and/or meeting schedules to Ellen in the Parish Office for the current fiscal year, July 1, 2009—June 30, 2010. Even if there are no changes to your existing meeting times as listed in the bulletin, we need to know

that as well no later than August 1^st. Thank you for your assistance in helping to keep our calendars up-to-date!

A PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

Gracious and loving God, we thank you for the gift of our priests.

Through them, we experience your presence in the sacraments.

Help our priests to be strong in their vocation.

Set their souls on fire with love for your people.

Grant them the wisdom, understanding, and strength they need to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.

Inspire them with the vision of your Kingdom.

Give them the words they need to spread the Gospel.

Allow them to experience joy in their ministry.

Help them to become instruments of your divine grace.

We ask this through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns as our Eternal Priest. Amen.

SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS: July 26 – August 1

Happy Birthday To: Frank Cegledy, Edward Clover, Neil Fico, Ralph Justice, Anne Marzilli, Elizabeth Neering, Sean Phelan, Lynne Russell, Jennifer Botticelli, Mary Kinzie, Thomas Koltak, Thelma Low, Jackson Riley, Jessica Aiesi, Estee Hannon, Brayden Otto, Dan Richardson, Lillian Szabo, Claire White, Sarah Wincek, Michael Celatka, Kathleen Finn, Olivia Insignares, Theresa Laudone, Carol Lenhart, Jessica Lockney, Annie Carroll, Bernard Lanoue, Judy Modica, Chris Mohan, Kathleen Ross, Charles Tiller, Janet Whitteaker, Joyce Brady, Ernest Cribb, Rose D’Avanzo, Lorraine LeBlanc, Liz Roney, Kelly Triana, Jason Zawislak, Emily Christen, David Gleaton, Julia Marinoff, Ina Wall.

To: Thomas & Virginia Bentley, Lawrence & Barbara White, William & Francine Frey, Conrad & Helen Kohler, Paul & Laura Boghosian, David & Eileen Birchenough, William & June Shea.

An Invitation…

Holy Trinity Catholic School cordially invites you to a Mass celebrated by Bishop Robert E. Guglielmone on Saturday, August 22, 2009, at 11:00 AM at Holy Trinity Chapel, 1760 Living Stones Lane, Longs, SC. A catered buffet luncheon will follow after the Mass in the Life Center at a cost of $25.00 per person. Contact Vicki McCambley at the Our Lady Star of the Sea Church Office for tickets at 249-2356.

Service Men and Women are always in need of mail from home. Please drop a line to the following:

* Gy Sgt. B.M. Blonder, Force Recon PLT Task Force,

3/8 H&S Co. Unit 73275, FPO/AP 09510-3275

* Pv2 Jarrod Berger, ACO 1-12 CAV/TF 2-82 FA,

FOB Diamondback, APO AE 09334

► NEW: LCPL Thomas J. Maloney, VMM 263,

22d MEU Det A, Unit 74040, FPO AE 09502-4040.

If you would like to add someone to this list, call Phyllis Bieger at 237-3444. *Please Note: These addresses could change.

Also, please call Phyllis or the parish office to let us know when any of these servicepersons have returned home.

AID TO OUR MILITARY: Should you care to donate items for packages sent to our military, please drop off your bag or box marked “Military” at the church office. We encourage you to include a personal note to our military. Your prayers are also requested for their safe return. – John Glinka

HOW ARE WE DOING?

Church Debt 6/30/09 $275,877.30

PLC Debt 6/30/09 $1,378,821.22

Average weekly Collections for June

2008 2009

1^st Collection $11,099.70 $10,138.09

2^nd Collection $1,955.13 $2,130.02

Prayer & worship

HELP! HELP! HELP!

Usher Replacement Urgently Needed

The Usher team at the 10:30 AM Mass is still temporarily short one team member due to illness. If you could help out at this Mass time – only one a month – please contact Debbi Hipkins at 237-1645.

Respect life

The Rosary for the Unborn will be prayed at the Monument to the Unborn after the 10:30 AM Mass next Sunday (and each first Sunday of the month.)

oUTREACH

Fr. Pat’s Lunch Kitchen continues to serve on Wednesdays and Thursdays, with people coming together to enjoy sharing meals and friendship. Last Wednesday we served 135 people Fried Chicken/Chopped Beef Steak/Pork Fried Rice, Mixed Vegetables, Assorted Desserts and Sweet Tea. On Thursday we served 95 people Turkey, Ham & Cheese Sandwiches, Four Bean Salad, Potato Chips, Assorted Desserts, and Sweet Tea.

Saturday breakfast is served every Saturday morning, 9:00 to 11:00 AM. Last weekend we served 42 people French Toast, Sausage, Bacon, Fruit Cocktail, Cereal, OJ/Coffee/Milk. We thank everyone who helps to make these meals a pleasure for all who come!

FELLOWSHIP

In Prayer We Will Always Be Together

“Let’s Talk About Ephesus in Turkey”, said Phyllis Daniel at our monthly gathering on May 25^th. She brought along picture postcards, photographs and a small map of the Apostle Paul’s missionary journeys in Asia Minor on the Mediterranean, which included a 2-year stay in Ephesus around 53 A.D. It was here in the great amphitheater (only 25% of the stone structure has been excavated till now) that Paul first preached Christianity to the Gentiles. His teachings are laid down in the Letter to the Ephesians. A visit to the ancient city of Ephesus is a must-do; there are many historical gems to explore in Turkey! Ephesus was a major Greek port city, home to the famous Temple of Diana, a much-revered pagan goddess (in the Acts of the Apostles indicated as Artemis.) Visitors to Ephesus will stop by at a modest stone house, now a chapel of worship, where the Virgin Mary lived until the end of her life. At her death, she was assumed into heaven body and soul. The feast day of her Assumption is celebrated on August 15.

Thank you, Phyllis, for sharing your beautiful travel memories with us!

FAMILIES IN FAITH

Thank you for the great response to help with this year’s Back-to-School Clothing and Backpack Drive. We handed out all 110 bags last weekend, but we will still be collecting new backpacks and school supplies until Friday, August 10. You can bring donations to the church office or the collection boxes in the narthex. Our goal is to collect 100 backpacks and stock the shelves of the Waccamaw area schools and Teach My People with school supplies for the year!

RELIGIOUS ED REVIEW

PLEASE MARK YOUR CALENDARS:

Confirmation Parent/Student Social (rising 7^th graders) –Friday, July 31^st, 6:00 PM in Founders Hall.

Religious Education Open House – August 30 – 9:15 – 10:15 AM in the PLC Fellowship Hall.

VIRTUS classes will resume in August. Check the bulletin for further details.

YOUTH MINISTRY

Sr. Youth Group (SYG): Grades 9-12, Sundays 6–7:15 PM

Look for new schedules coming in August.

Youth Music

Choir Practices resume in August.

Women’s club

Attention: All Members!

Next Sunday, August 2, 2009 the Catholic Church is celebrating the bicentennial of St. Elizabeth Anne Seton's founding of the Sisters of Charity. Since she is our patron saint, all members should attend the 10:30 AM Mass in her honor. Directly after Mass, Father Pat will lead us all to the statue of Mother Seton, where we will lay flowers at the foot of the statue and recite our Mother Seton prayer. At noon, all churches will ring their bells in commemoration of the feast day. Please plan to attend Mass where we will all sit as a group, wearing our name tags, and then will attend a very short ceremony at the statue of Mother Seton.

Welcome Tea - August 30, time TBD - Watch the bulletin for further information.  Time for the Women's Club to kick off another busy year.   Members, former members, friends, all women of the Parish, are invited to join in the fun and fellowship of the Women's Club.

Hold the date for our Arts & Crafts Festival on October 2 and 3, 2009.  Also, there is a box in the back of the church to collect your used books, books on tapes, CD's, DVD's. If you have more than 10 or 12 books or a large quantity of items you would like to donate at one time, or need help in getting items to the Women's Club, please call Kathy Knittel, 235-6939 to make arrangements.

Christmas Trip to Savannah!  Dec. 7-9.  Stop for a few hours in Charleston for shopping, lunch, or whatever you would like to do.  Then on to Savannah in the afternoon.  Cost includes transportation, 2 nights at the newly remodeled Hampton Inn, Historic Savannah; two breakfasts; two dinners, all-day access to Old Savannah Tours; The Savannah Theatre production of "A Christmas Tradition".  Cost is $355 per person.  Deposit of $150 per person asap, made out to MBF Tours, mail to Marcia Boyer, 864 Pinehurst Lane 90-D, PI,SC 29585.

To submit information in the bulletin for the Women's Club, contact Debbie Desh at 235-3742.

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Over the next four weeks we will be focusing on this year’s Knights of Columbus Catholic Youth Action Award winners. The first winner is Benjamin Spagnuolo…

Ben has been altar serving for many years and has gained the confidence of Fr. Pat in that he asks him to serve the “high” Masses for visiting priests and the Bishop, along with weddings, funerals and special liturgies. He is most well read in his faith and is in the process of discerning a possible vocation to the priesthood. In addition to helping out with various Parish Functions, he has participated in Diocesan Youth Conference (DYC), Christian Leadership Institute (CLI), and XLT – teen adoration co-sponsored by PBOC and St. Michael’s, and has represented PBOC at Diocesan Listening sessions in their 5-year plan creation. He represented PBOC at World Youth Day in Australia, and most recently was selected to represent the youth of the parish on the Parish Council.

To quote his letter of nomination…”Most notably, Ben has sponsored a 16-year-old boy during his RCIA preparations and initiation into the Catholic Church. This same commitment he made to the spiritual care of this candidate swells over to his friendships. Ben acts as the “moral sounding board” to his friends, leading by example and speech, living boldly according to Catholic doctrine and not the ways of the world.”

Reminder: The Knights of Columbus Officers Meeting is this Tuesday, July 28, at 7:00 PM in Founders Hall.

LOCAL NEWS

PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP

The Myrtle Beach area support group meets monthly at Coastal Grand Mall. For information contact Conrad Kohler at 237-8237.

1^st ANNUAL PEACH FESTIVAL - St. Paul’s Waccamaw United Methodist Church, July 31^st, 4:00 – 8:00 PM, rain or shine, to raise funds for local missions. Enjoy SC peaches w/cake & ice cream, Food Court with grilled hamburgers/hot dogs, Shrimp Creole & boiled shrimp, Children’s activities, live music by Local Bands and Choirs, Silent Auction and Draw, Vendors. Cecil Chandler of Cecil’s World will be there from 4:00 to 5:15, also Ed Piotrowski, WPDE Chief Meteorologist. Free Parking and Shuttle Service. For more information call 237-2294.

July 27 – August 1

Monday Exodus 32:15-24,30-34 / Matthew 13:31-35

Tuesday Exodus 33:7-11;34:5b-9,28 / Matthew 13:31-35

Wednesday Exodus 34:29-35 / John 11:19-27

Thursday Exodus 40:16-21,34-38 / Matthew 13:47-53

Friday Leviticus 23:1,4-11,1516,27,34b-37 /

Matthew 13:54-58

Saturday Leviticus 25:1,8-17 / Matthew 14:1-12