The Weekly Focus @ Saint Miriam for April 30th 2017
Saint Miriam in Prose: From our Pastor

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Saint Miriam in Prose: in Devotion
our weekly Devotional!
Saint Miriam in Prayer: Remembering!
Lillian, Joe, Mary Lou, Carrie, Anthony, Lawrence, Carmen, Chester, Maia, Marie, John, Peggy, Christina, Aiden, Anthony, Ruth, Michael, Joe, Mary Lou, Edie, Wayne, Greg, Michael, Pat, Bridget, Romana, Pat, Marian, Ruth, Kelly, Chima Family, Brenda, John, Wenger family, Kevin, Richard, Loretta, Rosalie, Rosalie, Robert, Pat, Nancy, Fran, Norene, Regina, Norene, Wayne, Kathleen, Dave and Midge, Frey Family, Katie, Linda, Andy, Eileen, Mark, Gabrieles’, Steve, Kelly, Deborah, Margaret, Nick, Maureen and Chris, John, Billy, Dave, Mike, Jonette, Joy, Rick, Steve, Wendell, Judy, Richelle, Kathleen, Dana, Greg, Susan and Marty, Diane, Mary, Lisa, Bryan, Angela, Leo, Bobbi, Naomi, Phyllis, Lorraine, Guy, Pat, Angie, Trevor, Bob, Kim, Kate, Terri, Mary, Dan, Andrew, Ken, Freeds’, Chris, Janet, Pat, Sue, Paul, Ed, George, Marie, Suzanne, Rich, Cassie, Linda, Mike, Shannon, Richard, Victoria, Marianne, Donna, and BJ.
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Saint Miriam in Reflection: The Mass.
Our Mass Intentions…
Memorial Masses: “In Loving Memory of…”
Anna Walloe and Curtis Lee Mitchell by Donna Mitchell
Louise Freed by Rick Freed
Diamond Williams by Rick Freed
Winifred Wolf by Father Bryan
Honor Masses: “In honor of”
Honor of Saint Miriam Staff and Ministry Team by Pam and Bill Kunz
Sanctuary Lamp:
*** NONE RECEIVED ****
Bread and Wine Sponsor for Month:
Clergy, Staff, Parishioners, and Members at Saint Miriam by Pam and Bill Kunz
(✜ Mass Intentions Available: Please make your Mass Intentions today? See anyone on staff for Masses, Sanctuary Lamp, and Bread and Wine Sponsors every Sunday, or Click Here to make your intentions online!)
Saint Miriam New News: a priori!
Today we honor The Third Sunday of Easter and First Holy Communion Sunday!
🍍Newcomer Welcome and Orientation is this Sunday, April 30th!
Join us, meet the team, hear our story from our own pastor and get your ‘Saint Miriam legs on’! Our next Newcomer Welcome is Sunday, April 30th at 12:00 noon! Join us new and old are welcome! See Donna Mitchell to learn more or email her!
💒 Congratulations Holy Communicants!!!
At Saint Miriam, we honor all that we do together, but celebrate even more when we bring people closer to God, especially our youngest! Congratulations to Dylan, Bella and Isabella who will make their First Holy Communion this Sunday at the 10:30am Mass. As a show of support, all PREP/CCD Classes will all be attending this Mass. To accommodate, all classes will begin at 10:00am for all except for those receiving FHC. They, instead, will have practice from 10:00am-10:30am. Please plan on meeting outside of the Sanctuary by 9:55am so that we can begin promptly. See you Sunday!
🎶 A Spring Concert Just in Time for…Spring!
On May 19th at 7:00PM, our own Maria Wolf and Charlie Masters will be doing our annual Spring Concert. It will be a similar format from last year: a wonderful mix of Classical, Broadway, and a few Standards, too. This year’s theme will be, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”! This famous Julie Garland song will be one of the many you’ll hear that night! So, plan to join us and get your tickets after Mass beginning May 7th for only $20.00!
🍍 Welcome Peggy Gabriele!
Welcome to Peggy Gabriele who volunteered to join the Saint Miriam Parish Board of Directors and was voted in this past week! she will serve a two-year term (unless we can convince her to stay longer!) Welcome Peggy and thank you for your service!
🏆 Way to Go Nevaeh Lee!
We love to recognize the good our parish helps create in the world, and what it instills in our youngest! So, we are proud to report that our own Naveah Lee was named Global Citizen of the Month by her kindergarten class for March 2017! She shows empathy for her peers and mindful of her actions and words on others and the world around her! Way to Ana and David for such great children in Nevaeh and Justus! So Proud of all of you!
👑 May Crowning and Procession Coming on May 7th!
We are getting ready to honor our Blessed Mother! Bring the kids and family and join us for the 10:30am Mass when we process with Mary! Bring your prayers and get ready for a beautiful May Day! Help us to continue a beautiful tradition this May 7th!
👨👩👦 May 14th is Mother’s Day and We will Be “On the Lawn”!
Our Sunday May 14th Mother’s Day honoring will include flowers, intentions, and a special brunch on the lawn! Join us and don’t forget to bring mom!
🎂 Welcome Father John on May 7th!
We will officially welcome our new Associate Pastor, Father John Connors, on Sunday, May 7th after the 10:30am Mass! Join us and enjoy some cake and say hello to your new pastor!
🍕 Join Us for Pizza with the Pastor May 7th, too!
We are pleased to invite you to our next “Pizza with the Pastor” event before we break for summer! Join us on Sunday, May 7th at 12 Noon. We will provide the pizza and the pastor, you come with questions and get answers on all of our updates going on! RSVP by Clicking Here!
👩👧👦 Mother’s Day Baskets and Those Women!
The Women of Saint Miriam do it again with a specular Mother’s Day Basket Raffle! You could win one of three baskets! They are a basket of Mally Beauty makeup and beauty products (retail value over $250); a spa basket with wine, meditation book for moms, spa products and a spa gift certificate (retail value over $150), and a cross body bag filled with Avon beauty products. Get your tickets after Mass beginning this Sunday!
🏡 Garden Volunteers Come!
We love when our own folks come to us with great ideas! That is why we are proud that Liz Foote and Jane Arenas have taken on the Saint Miriam Community Garden Project this year! We offer a small, but wonderful garden near the Angels of Assisi Memorial and Liz and Jane will soon be planting, growing, sustaining, and reaching our children in Summer Camp some Garden to Table ideas! Way to go Liz and Jane!
✝️ Welcome Our All-Sponsored Beautiful Stations of the Cross!
Our beautiful new outdoor Stations of the Cross have all been sponsored!! The plaques are on their way soon! Thank you to all who gave and supported this beautiful project!
💒 Stewardship Forms STILL Needed!
Do you love Saint Miriam? Have you pledged that love in the form of Stewardship? Many of our parishioners have neglected to complete their annual Stewardship. Please complete your stewardship forms today by Clicking Here, or seeing anyone on staff this week!
⧛⧛⧛Fence Installation Help Needed!
Our cemetery needs a fence installed around two sections and we can save up to 50% the cost, but need several volunteers to help us. We will rent a post-hole digger to make the job easier, too, but you can help if you volunteer today! Email Monsignor Jim and let him know you can assist by Clicking Here!
🎖Cemetery Ribbons for Memorial Day!
This year, join us on Sunday, May 28th after the 10:30am Mass, when we will once again honor the fallen within our beautiful historic cemetery with donated and sponsored ribbons! Your ribbon will be tied by our PREP children to our new cemetery gates prior to the ceremony on May 28th following the 10:30am Mass. Suggested donation is only $10 or 3 for $20. (*Only 1 name per ribbon please!) We will honor their sacrifice by following a bag piper out of Mass that day and pray at the gates of cemetery, followed by taps of a bugler. Our own parish Historian, Robert Pardi, will once again shoot a volley and be in full historic uniform! A great opportunity to teach your children about the sacrifice of others! You don’t want to miss this one! Last year it was one of the most moving tributes we honored! You may complete a form after any Mass or join us by Clicking Here!
🏗 Rectory Construction to Begin!
Plans are submitted to the Township, the bank is approved, the builder is getting ready! Soon…construction will begin on our new Friary Rectory! Please give to this effort by Clicking Here, and receive your miniature bronze statue of St. Francis Joliet! Then, watch for the construction to begin as we become even better!
Saint Miriam in Life: The News!
Every Thursday is Back! Our regular Thursday lineup is back! Adoration from 5:00pm until 6:00pm, Mass at 6:00pm, and Rosary at 6:30pm! Join us and adore our Lord and Our Blessed Mother and watch your life change!
Did You Know We Live by a Covenant? At Saint Miriam, we honor all that we built by living and honoring The Saint Miriam Covenant. We do so because parishes thrive in a healthy atmosphere, and close down by being torn down by gossip. Our Covenant is located by Clicking Here as a refresher to those who desire to bring rumor and innuendo to the parish due to simple things that happen within all parishes, like our recent staff changes, or expansion. We remind you to read, live by, honor it. We also remind that our pastor has an open door policy and in the past 5 years only 4 parishioners have ever used to to ask questions and get fact. Email him here for your appointment, but if you feel talking in circles is helpful, there are other parishes that welcome that kind of destruction. We do not at Saint Miriam. We are better than that; so is our God and all that He has given to us by the sacrifice of the many who labor.
Small Groups Summer Break in June! All of our Small Groups will take a break for summer beginning after May! Enjoy them now and come back in September! To get a complete list of our Small Groups, please pick up a brochure in the Bell Tower, or Click Here!
Cemetery Gets a New UTV! Our new UTV (All Terrain Utility Vehicle) arrived this week and Monsignor named her “Clare”! This vehicle will be used for maintenance and upgrades for the grounds and reduce our outside labor needs and equipment rental! Please see ‘her’ around the campus and yes, our pastor drives her, too! Welcome Clare!
Summer Camp Begins in June! Unlike many of the mega camps, we offer personalized attention for every child with low camper to staff ratios. We cater to preschool aged children and older – and welcome friends and siblings regardless of membership at our school or church. Learn more here, the fun begins June 12th!
Ministry Team Schedules for May Are Ready! We are pleased to have posted early our Ministry Team Schedules for May and Kate is now working on June’s Schedule with Monsignor Jim this week, so please contact her for any date conflicts like vacations, etc., or choose a date you’d like to serve! Kate’s email is Kate.McClelland@mySaintMiriam.org! Thank you for your service to God and the parish!
It’s Time to Read a Good Book In Our Very Own Wonderful Library! Our books are now on Goodreads and broken down by category. Check out our Goodreads page today! Want to check out a book? Just write your name, email address, and date on the sign out card located in the back of each book and place it in the checkout card holder. Books can be checked out for 30 days. If you’d like to make a book donation to the library or have any questions, email our Librarian, Peggy Gabriele by Clicking Here.
Write Down Your Prayer Intentions, too, at Saint Miriam! A Prayer Intentions Log Book has been added to our ways to honor your loved ones and offer prayer and support. The beautifully bound leather book will be located near the Saint Miriam Burning Bush Votive Stand and you may enter your own prayers and they will be offered in remembrance and pray by our priests at every Mass! The Prayer Intention Book expected to begin Sunday, February 26th! Join us as we offer the highest form of love: prayer for others!
A Little PREP Help Needed!Do you enjoy working with children? Please consider joining our PREP team! Our class sizes have increased and we are looking for assistant teachers in our PREPlay room and our second grade room. Your responsibility would be to assist the head teacher with her tasks. No planning involved! Please see Shaun Little, or anyone on staff if you are interested, or Click Here!
Visit the Store at the Parish and Online, too! We not only have an onsite Store located adjacent to our sanctuary, but our website designer made a few enhancements to our online store, too! Please visit it today and make a purchase to support our ministry by buying your own Saint Miriam Holding Cross, a Mass Cards, Saint Miriam Prayer Cards, a beautiful Rosary, or even sponsor a child, or get your annual Luau tickets, and more! Click Here!
Get A Church in Your Pocket! Our Saint Miriam Parish App was recently updated and features faster download times, and a ‘refresh’ button for the newest content and a bible and more! One more exciting change is on its way this month! So please download our Parish App by Clicking Here!
Saint Miriam in Support: Grow our Mission!
How Much do You Love Saint Miriam? There are many ways to support the mission of our parish and a flyer has been prepared to show you how easy it is! Please learn about GoodSearch, GoodShop, eBay, and Amazon Smile! Please support us and pick up a flyer or Support Flyer one today!
Matching Gifts Make Giving Easy!
Did you ever inquire to see if your employer, or club, or social network offers assistance to parishes or schools? Your gift could double and help us grow without anything more from your own pocket! Please remember to ask…it never does hurt!
Log on and Help the School? Have Fun and Help Zion Preschool at Saint Miriam! We discovered something you should check out! Vacations, golf rounds, cruises and much more that you can enjoy to help Zion Preschool at Saint Miriam. Get a great deal and help a great cause.It’s easy to get involved and make a difference! Visit: http://zionpreschool.travelpledge.com or Click Here! or Visit our Store!
Visit the Online Store for the Parish! We recently asked our website designer to make a few enhancements to our online store! Please visit it today and make a purchase to support our ministry by buying your own Saint Miriam Holding Cross, a Mass Cards, Saint Miriam Prayer Cards, a beautiful Rosary, or even sponsor a child, or get your annual Luau tickets, and more! Just Click Here!
Go Greener at Saint Miriam (and Saint Miriam Academy, too)! Our exclusive customized 24 oz. sport water bottles that combines our love of water with our parish’s “Green Policy” reduces our carbon footprint and will save thousands of plastic bottles from entering the ecosystem! And, the best part is your $10 donation goes directly to help our children’s educational programming! Get your own bottle today by visiting our online store and help go even stay greener!
Help Our Children in 2016: Sponsor a Child Today! We now have 8 Sponsors so far! There are many ways to help our children become better adults and Christians, as well as better practicing Catholics, and this year we offer two wonderful means to bring a smile – and a little support – right to our school! First, why not think about purchasing a brick that will help in the building of a new pathway to our Saint Miriam Summer Playground area and forever create a legacy on our campus! For every donation of $100.00 to The Saint Miriam Fund receive a 4 x 8 Personalized Brick! (Special Size of 8 x 8 is Available for a Donation Amount of $250.00). Learn more about our needed bricks by Clicking Here! Or, you may also sponsor a child directly now! When you sponsor a child, you create a special relationship between you, a child in need, the community of Saint Miriam, and our team of caring professionals! Together, we are helping to change the future for children through a quality and affordable private education! For just $29 a month, or a one-time donation of only $350, you can provide essential aid and education to improve the well-being of every child that comes to our doors! And, because we actually feed our children during the school day, your donation not only helps give them a good education, you fill their bellies with wholesome food, too! It gives you the opportunity to witness young lives transformed for the future right here in Montgomery County! Learn more here.
TEXT Your Gifts to Saint Miriam TODAY! Text Giving allows you to give to your organization by simply sending a text message to our specially reserved phone number! You just “Text any dollar amount to (215) 515-6511.” Once you text an amount (like “$50” or “120.50”) you would either be sent an acknowledgment for the gift (meaning it processed) or given a short link to click in order to provide their payment information (one time only). You are also prompted by text message with instructions. The whole process is designed to be very simple and self explanatory. Another way to give and support…making it easy so try it today!
Mass Donations: A Beautiful Tribute As Catholics the most important thing we do is pray and offer the sacrifice of the Mass. Please…don’t forget to make your Mass intentions today by Clicking Here. Together, we honor God together.
Get Your Mass Intentions In Person! Join the Women of Saint Miriam after any Mass and make your Mass Intentions live and in person after any Mass on Sunday! Now you can honor a loved one in person or online, too!
Why Not GoodShop, Search, and Go Amazon, too? Please support Saint Miriam by downloading and using GoodSearch and GoodShop! Every time you search or buy, we get a small percentage and you get great deals, and often free shipping! Also use Smile Amazon and make us your charity of choice! It all adds up!
Saint Miriam in Fellowship: The Saint Miriam Cafe’
Eat & Help a Child?
Now, every time you purchase something wonderful from our Saint Miriam Cafe’ after our Sunday morning Masses, we contribute 100% of that donation to a scholarship fund that allows children without the means to attend our wonderful Zion Preschool at Saint Miriam and Saint Miriam Academy! Your good eating, helps a child!
Last month we raised over $987 just by eating good food!
For more information and our delicious current month’s menus, just Click Here!
Saint Miriam in Calendar Form: A Few Upcoming Highlights!
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Apr 30th:
- First Holy Communion Sunday!
- Newcomer Meeting at 12:00!
May 2nd:
May 3rd:
May 4th:
- Adoration 5:00pm
- Mass at 6:00pm
- Rosary at 6:30pm
- Boy Scout Troop #320 at 7:00pm
May 6th:
May 7th:
- May Day Procession at 10:30am Mass
- Pizza with Pastor at 12:00pm
- Welcome Father John