PRAYER INTENTIONS

St. Mary's Sunday Bulletin January 20. 2008

PRAYER INTENTIONS

Please keep the following people in your prayers:

Shirley Adams, Helen Callahan, Kevin Chase, Keith Curran, Barbara Dowell, Carolyn Dukes, Loretta Green, David Grigsby, Betty Harper, Jane Harper, Jerry Hoover, Barbara Howard,

Alma Johnson, Bob Johnson, Bill Julian, Bruce Leverette, Harold Looney, Nan Lunn, Jane Meier, Freda McCracken, Ruth McMahon, Winifred O’Toole, Carl Pope, Bernice Riley,

Mike Roberts, Nancy Roberts, Olive Savoy, Chloe Smith, David Sturm, Jimmie Ruth Watson, Stephen Watson, Truman Willard

Also, for those who are serving our country overseas, and the victims of natural disasters.

OFFER OF THANKSGIVING

Church Budgeted $2500

Offertory received $2421

Difference - $79

Georgia Bulletin $289

Votive candles (January) $44.64

COUNTERS FOR JAN 21st:
Rita Nash & Gwen Cuvo

BULLETIN ANNOUNCEMENTS Please place any announcements you wish to publicize in the bulletin in the mailbox by the Religious Ed. Hall or email to stmarys@alltel.net or rainabo@yahoo.com

(Christen Cook) Thanks!

SOCIAL HALL Needing to use the Social Hall for a meeting or event? Please call Deanna Holmer at 706-297-7493 to check on availability/guidelines for using the Hall.

ADORATION: Starting Friday July 6th there will be Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament at 1:00 PM. This will be held every Friday at this time.

SAINT MARY’S WEBSITE: Our website is now up and operating. The address is:

www.stmarystoccoaga.com

LADIES DAY OF REFLECTION. Mark you calendar's ladies for February 16. Your Ladies Guild has a wonderful day planned, our guest speaker will be addressing spirituality

and issues of concern to women. Details after January 1st.

VISITATION MINISTRY: If you know of anyone who might enjoy a visit from our Visitation Ministry...especially during the colder winter months we will be happy to arrange a

time to call on them. Call Robbie 706-779-2342.

LADIES GUILD RELIGIOUS ARTICLES Religious articles cabinet still has 2 boxes of Advent candles. We also have 1, Our Lady of

Guadalupe, rosary and several statues of Our Lady of Guadalupe and Juan Diego. We hope you are enjoying our new selections.



FOOD DRIVE: St. Mary’s Ladies Guild is starting a food drive to help Toccoa’s Soup Kitchen. We would like for each family to

 bring a 1 lb. box



or bag of rice – the last weekend of the month, January 26-27^th. Each month we will do a

different food item. Any questions, please contact Belle Atkinson at 886-8730.

PLEASE JOIN US TO CELEBRATE!! On January 26^th, from 2-5pm, there will be an engagement party honoring Kristy Gonzalez and

Drew Crozier. The party will be held at St. Mary’s in the social hall. RSVP 706-886-7996

LORD’S HOUSEKEEPERS: I am asking for the help of all parish members, men, women, and teens. We need your help with cleaning

the church. The more we have the less that has to be done by the same ones, over and over. Would you please come to our aid?

Please call Barbara Watson at 706-886-2282.

PALM BRANCHES: Lent is rapidly approaching. Please bring in palm branches from last year so we can use them for Ash Wednesday, February 6th. You can leave them in the box

in the Narthex. Thanks!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! To Robbie Franzemathes, who was voted as St. Mary’s Woman Of The Year!!!!

REMARKABLE WOMEN OF A REMARKABLE FAITH: Addressing issues of a woman’s spiritual journey hosted by the Ladies Guild, presented by

 Beedee Soskin – February 16^th, 







2008. To reserve your place or for more information, call Robbie Franzemathes at 706-779-2342 or Millie Broussard at 706-886-8271.

POINSETTIAS: Please help yourself to the poinsettias that are in the Narthex…take as many as you like!

St. Vincent Pallotti

Feastday: January 22

St. Vincent Pallotti, Priest (Feast - January 22) Born in Rome in 1795, St. Vincent became a priest and dedicated himself completely to God and cared for souls.

He dreamed of gaining for Christ all non-Catholics, especially the Mohammedans. To this end he inaugurated a revolutionary program which envisaged the

collaboration of the laity in the apostolate of the clergy. But St. Vincent was also well aware of the many deprivations in the natural sphere that hindered the

spread of the Faith. He thus obtained and spent huge sums for the poor and underprivileged. He founded guilds for workers, agriculture schools, loan associations,

orphanages and homes for girls - all of which made him the pioneer and precursor of Catholic Action. His great legacy was the congregation which he founded

for urban mission work, known as the "Society for Catholic Action". This indefatigable laborer for Christ in 1850 from a severe cold which he most likely caught on

a cold rainy night after giving his cloak to a beggar who had none.