FROM OUR PASTOR

Dear St. Charles Parishioners:

Last weekend, Carolyn Gretzinger, our outgoing Parish Council Chair, presented an extensive report on the ministries of St. Charles. [see: 2000 Annual Report and 2001 Integrated Goals and Objectives Report] This past academic year has been a time of historic growth and development. I want to express thanks to all who have joined Carolyn in leading our various services. I also offer a big welcome to Jim and Genie Murphy, who have stepped forward to co-lead our Parish Council. I ask your support for them and the various activities that build up the Kingdom of God at St. Charles.

This week’s bulletin contains a report from Charles Sullivan, the capable Chair of our parish Finance Committee. It indicates that we had some large, unanticipated expenditures this past year. Because of the age of our existing facilities, we have planned ambitiously for next year, so that the parish will increase its reserve fund to proactively anticipate major improvements and maintenance.

We have been able to plan generously and wisely for our current programs and facilities because of a generous increase of giving, nine percent. I thank you. This increase is especially appreciated in the light of the concurrent needs of our Capital Fund Campaign. The parish funds are entirely segregated from the Capital Campaign. However, I recognize that they both place a demand on your stewardship and support.

Let us continue to BUILD THE SPIRIT!

P.S. Welcome, to the Haiti Priests visiting next weekend!

C’YA

July 15 C’YA takes to the river for an afternoon of whitewater rafting. Our brave leader, Larry Prikockis, arranged for this water expedition to Harper’s Ferry. For more details, please call him at 703-312-9463 or alaric@ljcp.com.

July 16 As an ongoing activity, members of C’YA have been attending the Young Adult Masses sponsored by the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. Young Adult Ministry. After the day’s Mass, there will be a potluck BBQ. So pack up something to grill and meet up at St. Charles by 4 PM.

Support Our Sponsors

Through the kindness of the sponsors that appear, this bulletin is furnished to the Parish without charge. We feel the sponsors get good coverage with their ads, and at a relatively low cost. We urge you to patronize them! Diocesan Publications has done a fine job in publishing our weekly bulletin and we hope our present sponsors renew their ads. Also, if others are interested, please contact the Parish Office on Monday at 703-527-5500.

SPONSOR OF THE WEEK: Our special thanks to Philip A. Gentry, DDS, FAGD and Jeanette Coutin-Gentry, DDS for their support. Thank you!

SUNDAY, JULY 16, 2000:

7:30 Emerenciana N. Bernarte and Igmedio Nuqui by Dolores B. Bustos
9:00 Parishioners
11:00 Francis W. Normandin by Gregory J. Toland
1:00 Abelardo Moncayo by Susana Moncayo
Readings: Amos 7:12-15; Ephesians 1:3-14; Mark 6:7-13

Monday, July 17:

9:00 A very special need of Savery M. Gradoville (L)
7:30 (at the Arlington Detention Center) for the Inmates
Readings: Isaiah 1:10-17; Matthew 10:34-11:1

Tuesday, July 18:

9:00 Mary M. Morris by Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Gallagher
Readings: Isaiah 7:1-9; Matthew 11:20-24

Wednesday, July 19:

9:00 Consuelo Ruiz by The Hittle Family
Readings: Isaiah 10: 5-7,13-16; Matthew 11:25-27

Thursday, July 20:

9:00 George Muller by Viola Muller
Readings: Isaiah 26:7-9,12,16-19; Matthew 11:28-30

Friday, July 21:

9:00 Bishop Vincent MacCauley, CSC
Readings: Isaiah 38:1-6,21-22,7-8; Matthew 12:1-8

Saturday, July 22:

9:00 Craig Reilly by Cathal L. Flynn
5:00 John Dwight Evans by Rose Evans
Readings: Micah 2:1-5; John 20:1-2,11-18

Please remember to keep in your prayers, those who are sick and those who suffer, especially: Kathy & Mike Burke, Gene Biedscheid, Glyne Goodridge, Jill Hasty, Ralph Bruno, Eileen Bruno and James Kern, Michael Rontaler, Rocky Weaver, John Spasaro, Helena Guziczek, Josephine Hilton, Barbara Cronin, Bea Caffarina and Robert Howe. Let us also pray for those who have died, especially: Blanca Cruz, Deloris Gunn and Vina Oczytko.

SOCIAL JUSTICE CORNER

Project Lazarus/Food Vouchers Are you aware of how much assistance St. Charles offers to families in need? Every week, we see people who have fallen behind on bills because of illness, job loss or other unexpected crises. Your generosity through Project Lazarus donations enables us to not turn away the truly needy. Are you able to give extra money during the summer, or to buy food vouchers for us to give out? Please mark all checks and food vouchers for “Project Lazarus”. Thank you!! Questions? Contact Micheline Toussaint at the Parish Office.

Ministry

Democracy stands or falls with the values which it embodies and promotes. … In defending life you are defending an original and vital part of the vision on which your country was built. America must become, again, a hospitable society, in which every unborn child and every handicapped or terminally ill person is cherished and enjoys the protection of the law.

- Ad limina address of Pope John Paul II to bishops of California, Nevada and Hawaii, Oct. 2, 1998

SCHOOL NEWS

Rules for acceptance and participation in the Diocese of Arlington U.S. Department of Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs and all activities of the Child Nutrition Programs are the same for all without regard to race, color, sex, age, disability or national origin. Any person who believes he or she has been discriminated against in any USDA related activity should write to the Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. 20250. St. Charles is among the schools in the Diocese of Arlington eligible for participation in this program.

YOUTH NEWS!

Being Catholic in Contemporary America Commonweal magazine offers a prize of $2,000 for the best 3,000-word essay on the general subject “Being Catholic in Contemporary America.” The contest is open to Catholics, 27-years-old and younger. Entries must be submitted by January 31, 2001. Call the Parish Office for more specifics.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION FOR ADULTS

Are you being called to join the Catholic Church? The Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) will be starting Tuesday, September 5.

Is your Catholic faith important to your? Are you willing to share your faith with adults coming into the Catholic Church? We are seeking sponsors and team members for RCIA. No experience necessary!

Contact Stacy Greene at 703-522-9467 or 703-527-5500 for more information or to indicate interest. You may also e-mail her at SGreene715@aol.com.

ESL TEACHERS NEEDED

Would you like to teach English? Hogar Hispano has an English program for the Latino Community at St. Charles. Volunteer teachers are needed for the year, beginning September 2000 through May 2001. If you can help, please call Salvador D’Itri, site coordinator, at 703-516-7516 or Hogar Hispano, at 703-534-9805.

FREEDOM ACTIONS FOR THE JUBILEE

Share your freedom through forgiveness or understanding of yourself AND someone else. Open yourself to receive anew the gift we’ve all been given.

IN OUR PARISH...

The Parish Council will not meet during July and August. “Parish Council News” will resume in September. In the meantime, you may wish to look at the Parish web site to review a copy of the Parish Council Report on activities that took place during the last fiscal year.

NEIGHBORHOOD F PICNIC

Neighborhood F will hold its annual picnic on Sunday, July 30, from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM at Lubber Run Park. If your last name begins with: A-H, please bring an appetizer; I-N, please bring a main course; O-Z, please bring a dessert. If you have any questions, please call Sabra Flaherty at 703-920-2689. We hope to see you there!

PHILIPPINE MEDICAL MISSION (PMM)

PMM thanks the St. Charles Community for its generous tithe of $1,421.80. Together with the funds raised from the Filipino Communtiy and outside the parish, a total of $3,570.00 was sent to the foundation of Our Lady of Peace Mission in the Philippines. The money will help fund a three-day medical mission in Minoan, Leyte. With your generosity, some 300 people are hoped to be treated.

YOUR VOTE COUNTS!

The parish web site poll is underway so you can let us know what you think of www.stcharleschurch.org. What would you like to see online? What are your favorite features? Log on this week and vote! The site has 800 pages, but we need your input to plan new content. So spread the word about our parish web site. It’s the hi-tech yet low-key way to share your faith.

AN EVENING OF HEALING

St. Charles’ Children of God’s Love Prayer Group invites you to An Evening of Healing. Deacon Bruce Simpson will visit with us and share some of his experiences of healing on Monday, July 17, from 7:30-9:00 PM in the Chapel.

• Last Week’s Collection: $14,746.00
• Last Week’s Tithe of $1,474.60 is for our sister parishes in Cavaillon and Gros Marin, Haiti.
• This Week’s Tithe is for St. Charles Outreach.
• Next Week’s Tithe is for our sister parishes in Cavaillon and Gros Marin, Haiti.

Revised/reviewed July 12, 2000