SUNDAY, OCTOBER 29
8:00am   Mass (Cantor & Organ)
  9:30am  Mass (Choral)
11:00am  Mass (Contemporary)
  6:15pm  Mass (No Music)
MONDAY, OCTOBER 30
  8:30am  Word/Eucharist
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
  8:30am  Mass
WEDESDAY, NOVEMBER 1--ALL SAINTS
  8:30am  Mass
  9:00am  Quilter's Group (Rectory)
  7:00pm  Mass
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2--ALL SOULS
  8:30am  Mass
  9:00am  Monthly Prayer Vigil (Chapel)
10:15am  Script/Comm (Innsbruck CC)
  2:00pm  Script/Comm (St. Anthony CC)
  2:15pm  Mass (Trevilla New Brighton)
  7:00pm  Mass
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3
  8:30am  Mass
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4
  4:30pm Mass (Cantor & Organ)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5
  8:00am  Mass (Cantor & Organ)
  9:30am  Mass (Choir & Organ)
11:00am  Mass (Contemporary)
  6:15pm  Mass (No Music)

Connections...
October 29,2000

• Bartimaeus, a blind man, the son of Timaeus, sat by the roadside begging.  "Jesus, Son of David, have pity on me!"  Jesus told him, "Go your way; your faith has saved you."
  

The fool
A priest went to seek enlightenment from a wise old monk. 
     "Father, I have come to you seeking enlightenment."
     "Well, then," the sage directed, "for the first exercise of your retreat, go into the courtyard, tilt back your head, stretch out your arms and wait until I come for you."
     The priest went out and did as the monk had said.  As soon as he stretched out his arms and tilted back his head, it began to rain.  And rain.  And rain.  And rain.
     Finally, the monk came for him.  "Well, Father, have you been enlightened today?"
     "Are you serious?"   the priest said in disgust.  "I've been standing here with my head up in the rain for more than an hour.  I'm soaking wet!  I feel like a fool!"
     And the monk said, "Well, Father, for the first day of a retreat, that sounds like great enlightenment to me."
   [Joan Chittister, O.S.B., from Light in the Darkness: New Reflections on the Psalms for Every Day of the Year.]

CONNECTION: In today's Gospel, the blind Bartimaeus first cries out to Jesus, not asking for physical sight, but for compassion and mercy--Bartimaeus recognizes  that his need for the mercy and grace of God's presence is far more important and critical in his life than the ability to see.  Ironically, this blind man "sees" the compassion of Jesus that many of Jesus' "seeing" disciples fail to recognize.  And Jesus responds to him out of his deep compassion for every human being.  The story of the blind Bartimaeus challenges us to see ourselves and one another in the light of the compassionate love of God, to journey with eyes of faith to discern the way of God in all things.v

Beginning 1st Sunday of
Advent (Sunday, December 3)
A new Sunday Mass Schedule has been approved by the
Parish Pastoral Council

Saturday  4:30 p.m.
Sunday 7:30 a.m.
  9:30 a.m.
          11:30 a.m.
  6:15 p.m.