ST. JOSEPH MINISTRY CONTACTS and INFO

Adult Education 

• Parish Office  586-3820
  

Altar Linen Care  

• Sr. Robert Joseph   586-3820
  

Altar Servers

• English Parish Office 586-3820
  
• Spanish Anna Hernandez 582-4980
  

Art & Wine 

• Nancy Milliken 438-9504
  

Arts and Crafts 

• Jennifer Hickman 946-9574
  

Baptisms:

• English Parish Office 586-3820
  
• Spanish Viola/Ramon Mata 586-9995
  

Boy Scouts 

• Jeff Hylden 551-1304
  

Catholic Family& Child Service 

• 946-4645
  

Children’s Liturgy 

• Annete Freier 586-8938
  

Choir/Musicians 

• Susan Miller 943-8538
  

Christophers 

• Wendy Nuxoll 582-0451
  

CSJ Associates 

• Sr. Frances 586-3958
  

Cursillo

• English John Swart 582-4366
  
• Spanish Olivia Solis 438-0591
  

Diocese of Yakima 

• 1-509-965-7117
  
• 5301-A Tieton Drive, Yakima, WA 98908-3493
  

Engaged Encounter 

• Frank/Tracy Becker 627-1076
  

Environmental Comm. 

• Lynn Hanson 586-2527
  

Eucharistic Ministers

• English Bob Squires 582-4749
  
• Spanish D. & J. Aleman 735-6403
  

First Friday Devotion 

• Nic DeLeon 582-5828
  

Flower Committee 

• Cherie Carr 586-1140
  

Funeral Dinners 

• Camille Holman 586-1409
  

Giving Tree 

• Sr. Robert Joseph 586-3820
  

Greeters 

• Joe Gallegos 783-7644
  

Grief Ministry 

• Sr. Robert 586-3958
  

Grounds Maintenance 

• Dave Dallaire 586-3820
  

Hospital Ministry 

• Deacon Bill Mich 735-9057
  

Hospital Equipment 

• Joe Gallegos 783-7644
  

Knights of Columbus 

• Jeff Hylden 551-1304
  

Lectors

• English Sue Conway 734-4090
  
• Spanish T&A Mariscal 585-1161
  

Liturgy Board 

• Fr. Richard Sedlacek 586-3820
  

Marian Devotion 

• Don Klippstein 783-8057
  

Marriage Encounter

• English Dave/Carole King 546-8257
  
• Spanish Ben/Maria Reyes 967-0610
  

Meals for New Moms 

• Kim Sheldon 586-2032
  

Ministers to the Sick 

• Peggy Mager 582-1863
  

Mom’s Group 

• Wendy Nuxoll 582-0451
  

Natural Family Plan. 

• Shira Wise 735-5380
  

Parish Office Help 

• Caroline Patnode 586-3820
  

Pastoral Council 

• Laurie Cortez 735-6829
  

Perpetual Adoration 

• Carol LeCompte 582-5011
  

Prayer Chain 

• Esther McClendon 582-8186
  

Email Prayer Chain

• cpatnode@st.joseph-kennewick.org
  

Prison Ministry

ProLife Rosary 

• Dick Gilmore 586-4585
  

PTO Board 

• Brian Cole 547-5617
  

Quinceañeras 

• Teresa Franco 627-0214
  

Religious Education 

• Carol LeCompte 586-3820
  

RCIA Team/Sponsors 

• Danette Hester 586-3864
  

Retrouvaille 

• Deb/Dave Barrow 783-4070
  

Schoenstatt Rosary 

• Carol LeCompte 582-5011
  

St. Joseph School 

• 586-0481
  

School Advisory Bd. 

• Todd Halter 582-0944
  

School Volunteers 

• Nancy Dodson 586-0481
  

Scrip Volunteers 

• Michele Roth 783-9068
  

St. Vincent de Paul 

• Dick McAloon 586-3879
  

St. Vincent de Paul Store, 

• 120 N. Morain 783-7020
  

Social Commission 

• Janice Squires 582-4749
  

Spanish Youth 

• Nancy Trinidad 547-1765
  

Spanish Rel. ED 

• Amailia Del Pozo 582-9207
  

Stewardship Comm. 

• Dom Sansotta 628-3999
  

Ushers 

• Joe Gallegos 783-7644
  

Visit Homebound 

• Peggy Mager 582-1863
  

Volunteer Chore Min. 

• Shari Hallman 545-6145
  

Welcoming Comm. 

• Gloria Larson 582-2517
  

Women of St. Joseph 

• Kimber Keel 438-3344
  

Yard Sales 

• Joyce Ritter 734-4714
  

Youth Choir 

• Lenice Nagle 582-6893
  

Youth Ministry 

• Angele St.Hilaire 308-2553
  

gift of faith

May you have the gift of faith

the blessing of hope and the

peace of His love at Christmas

and always . . .

From the Priests and Staff

of St. Joseph Parish

Community

The Light Weigh

The Light Weigh is beginning a new session.  Are you tired of constantly struggling with your weight?  Tired of following diets like they were religions?  Consider giving God a chance to touch your heart, your life and your eating.  

Two Light Weigh orientations will be held in January: 

Monday, January 12, 2009, 7-8 p.m. in the Game Room of the Youth Center at Christ the King & Thursday, January 15, 2009, 6-7 p.m. at the Keller Home (158 Mattis Dr., Richland, WA 99352).  

Come and find out about the Light Weigh Bible Study and video series, and how this program has been a blessing to others.  

Questions? or need directions? 

Contact Kendra Keller at 627-2703 or kendra621@juno.com

Word of Life

Our Savior is born for all. We must proclaim this not only in words, but by our entire life, giving the world a witness of united, open communities where fraternity and forgiveness reign, along with acceptance and mutual service, truth, justice and love. — Pope Benedict XVI, Urbi et OrbiMessage, Christmas 2006

Fundraiser Results:

Cookbook Sale

Receipts $16,740.75

Expenses $12,077.89

Net $ 4,662.86

Profits for Building Expansion Fund

Please Note-- We just found out that we have a few more of these collector cookbooks. If you want one for Christmas giving come to the Parish Office

Knights of Columbus breakfast on December 14

Revenue $879.89

Expenses $561.65

Net $318.24

The proceeds will go to support seminarians.

Annual Christmas Appeal - Catholic Charities

Each Christmas, our Christmas Eve and Christmas Day parish collection goes to support abused children, battered wives and families in crisis. 

Please be generous and help“Bring Hope To Life” for thousands of your neighbors across the Diocese.

RCIA CORNER

What is a Catechumen? What is a Candidate?

A Catechumen is a person who is preparing for Baptism.  The term comes the Greek meaning one who is learning.

A Candidate is a person who has already received a Trinitarian Baptism and is now seeking full communion in the Catholic Church.  Both Catechumens and Candidates are dismissed to “break open” the readings of the Sunday Lectionary.  

Both attend Monday evening sessions to receive a suitable catechesis to acquaint them with dogmas and precepts.

Baptisms

English Baptisms for December 27 are at 10AM not 7:30PM. 

Registrations must be truned in by noon on December 24th. 

No Spanish Baptisms for December.

Christmas Office Hours

St. Joseph Parish Office will be closed from Noon December 24th until 9AM on January 5th.  

Phones will be answered from 9 - 11AM  December 29, 30, 31

Notes from Scrip

Did you know there are 4 days until Christmas? 

Have you purchased your Scrip forthe holidays, yet? 

Scrip certificates, which make great gifts or stocking stuffers, are available to many different stores and restaurants.  Scrip Gift Certificates are also available in many denominations.  

Be sure and stop by the parish office and pick up your gift cards today.

School Raffle Calendar Winner

John Stephenson

School News

Starting January 5, 2009 through January 30, 2009 our preschool program will reopen for new afternoon registrations. The new registrations are for the remainder of THIS current 20082009

school year

ACA Report

2009 Parish Goal 

• $138,550.00 

Total Pledges Received to date 

• 76,300.50
  

Building Fund Report

4th Campaign Pledged 

• $1,491,308.80 

Building Fund Weekly Collection: 

• 2,537.00
  

Collection for December 14, 2008

Regular:  

• 14,900.72 
  
• (Needed to make budget ($16,500)
  

Children’s:           

• 9.00 
  

Holy Day       

• 519.00 
  

School Endowment         

• 63.00 
  

Year End Giving   

• 6,800.00
  

This Week’s Stewardship of Time and Talent Salute

We salute everyone who is adopting families for Christmas andhelping make Christmas merrier for the less fortunate of ourparish community.

Stewardship Message

“Do not be afraid, Mary.” - Luke 1:30 It can be a little scary to do as God asks – to give Him the first fruits of our time, talent and treasure. But the comforting words the angel spoke to Mary can comfort us, too, when we dedicate ourselves to being good Christian stewards – “Do not be afraid.”

Bilingual Volunteers

Catholic Charities is in need of Bilingual people (Spanish/English) to help as volunteers with this year’s (2008) tax preparation effort.  The areas in which we will be needing volunteers are to coverall of the Yakima Lower Valley and the City ofYakima.  

If you are interested, please call Sandra Aguilar at Catholic Charities Housing Services at 509-972-2907.

Se solicitan personas Bilingües (español e Ingles) como voluntarios para ayudar con las preparaciones del Recuento de Impuestos del año 2008.  Los lugares en los que se ocuparan voluntarios serán para cubrir todo el Valle Bajo de Yakima y la cuidad de Yakima.  Si están interesados favor de llamar a Sandra Aguilar deServicios de Vivienda de Caridades Católicas al 509-972-2907.

Catholic Family & Child Services

Did you know Catholic Family & Child Services provides maternity counseling services at no cost, to women facing an unplanned pregnancy.  They are now accepting inquiries from families interested in adopting domestically or internationally. 

Call 965-7100 or 1-800-246-2962 for more information for either of these subjects. 

All Faiths Served

Word of Life

Chastity is the joyous affirmation of someone who knows how to live self-giving, free from any form of self-centered slavery.  This presupposes that the person has learnt how to accept other people, to relate with them, while respecting their dignity in diversity. The chaste person is not selfcentered, not involved in selfish relationships with other people.  Chastity makes the personality harmonious.  It matures it and fills it with innerpeace.  This purity of mind and body helps develop true self-respect and at the same time makes one capable of respecting others, because it makes one see in them persons to reverence, insofar as they are created in the image of God and through grace are children of God, re-created by Christ. …

—Pontifical Council for the Family, “The Truthand Meaning of Human Sexuality,” December 8, 1995

Prepared by the USCCB Secretariat of Pro-life Activities, 2008

Special Thanks

The Holy Angels Homeschoolers Group would like to extend a special thank you to Fr. Richard for his willingness to allow the Homeschool group to host and offer Our Thanksgiving Feast to parishioners and those in need.  They would especially like to thank the parishioners along with Catholic Daughters of America for their generosity for providing the items needed to host such a feast. 

Thank you all!!!

RCIA CORNER

What’s been happening in RCIA since the Rite of Acceptance in November?

• The Catechumens and Candidates are gently dismissed from the Sunday, 9 am Mass after the Liturgy of the Word to continue their prayer with the readings.  Guided by a Catechist, they “break open the Word” to deepen their relationship with Jesus.
• The Catechumens and Candidates, along with their Sponsors and the RCIA Team have adopted a family from the Giving Tree. This activity is an apostolic outreach effort by to love and serve others.

As the Catechumens and Candidates continue their journey toward initiation, they will need your prayers of support along the way.

Fundraiser Results:

Boy Scout Doughnuts 12/7/08

Receipts  $184.13

Expenses    82.63

Net          $101.70

Profits for Weblo Open House

Arts & Crafts Show

Bake Sale         1525

Raffle                1487

Silent Auction  2877

Table Fees       3077

Gross Profit     8966

Expenses         2781

Net Profit       $6185.00

Profits are used for Church Supplies and to support the Building Expansion Project

Fr. Richard wants to let the parish know the results of the fundraisers that are held in the parish. All groups holding fundraisers in the parish need to report the results to the parish office as soon as possible. We will try to publish them in a timely manner.

Catholics Come Home Program

The Catholic Church is waiting for your return.  If what’s keeping you is that you feel it is a big step, let us give you a springboard.  It’s not too late. Meet in a nonjudgmental setting with your peers who have returned to the church.  Christ the King Church is holding a Catholics Come Home program to help those who are thinking about returning to the church.  Together we will travel through the process of understanding our Catholic faith.  

Information Night is January 26 at 7 PM.  

Come & find out about the

Catholics Come Home Program 

Christ the King Church 

111 Stevens Drive, Richland

We look forward to seeing you on Monday nights.

For more information contact 

Kay Kaffer 946-1154 x 222  kay@ckparish.org or 

Spike Anderson 539-4853

Wine for "Art and Wine"

I am still collecting bottles of wine for the auction during our Art & Wine event.  When you areout Christmas shopping, pick upan extra bottle.  Just drop it by the parish office any time.  Thanks for all the bottles I have received these last two weeks and keep them coming!

Notes from Scrip

Did you know thereare 11 days until Christmas? Have you purchased your Scrip for the holidays, yet? Scrip certificates, which make great gifts or stocking stuffers, are available to many different stores and restaurants.  Scrip Gift Certificates are also available in any denomination. Be sure and stop by the school office or the parish office and pick up your gift cards today.

Eucharist Ministers Needed

One Mass each Month

… or be a Substitute

Please Call / Leave Name & Number

Bob Squires

(509) 947-5747

Please Consider this Wonderful Ministry

posada

A posada is a family celebration in preparation for Christmas.  It starts with prayers and ends with a party.  The Knights of Columbus will be sponsoring a posada for the parish on Wednesday December 17 in Dillon Hall beginning at 6PM.  Please bring your family and enjoy the festivities.

Christmas for Mexicans, in traditional homes and rural areas, is a religious holiday. It is a celebration of the Nativity. This means the birthday of Our Lord Jesus. In order to prepare for the day of symbolic commemoration, we have the “Posadas”. These celebrations are a “Novena” or nine days before the 24th which is the “Noche Buena” or “Holy Night”. These Posadas are an enactment of looking for lodging of St. Joseph and Virgin Mary, called The Pilgrims going to Bethlehem for the Census according to the Scriptures. In Spanish we called them: “Los Peregrinos, San José y la Virgen María”. Each family in a neighborhood, will schedule a night for the Posada to be held at their home, starting on the 16th of December and finishing on the 24th on Noche Buena. Every home will have a Nativity scene. The hosts of the home are the innkeepers, and the neighborhood children and adults are Los Peregrinos, who have to request lodging through singing a simple chant. All carry small lit candles in their hands and four teenagers of about the same height are chosen to carry Los Peregrinos, which are two small statues of St. Joseph leading a donkey, which Virgin Mary is riding sidesaddle. The head of the procession will have a candle inside of a paper lamp shade that looks like an accordion but open at the top and it is called a “Farolito” or little lantern. The Peregrinos will ask for lodging in three different houses but only the third one will allow them in. That will be the house that is supposed to have the Posada for that evening. Once the innkeepers let them in, the group of guests comes into the home and kneels around the Nativity scene to pray the Rosary. The Rosary is a traditional Catholic prayer, which consists of the following prayers: 50 Hail Mary, 5 Our Father , 5 Glory and the Litany, which is a series of Praises for the Virgin Mary, plus singing traditional songs like Holy Night in Spanish of course! After all the prayer is done, then comes the party. 

Lectors, Servers, and E. Ministers

please sign up for Christmas Masses in the Sacristy today.

Knights of Columbus Christmas Tree Lot

Hours: 

Weekdays 3-9PM

Saturday & Sunday 9AM - 9PM

Christmas Season Mass Schedule

Christmas Eve

• 4PM Children’s Mass
  
• 6PM Youth Choir
  
• 8PM Spanish
  
• Midnight Mass ( Music begins at 11:15PM)
  

Christmas Day

• 9AM, 11AM & 7PM English
  
• 1PM Spanish
  

New Year’s Mass Schedule

The Feast of Mary, Mother of God

Holy Day of Obligation

Vigil, December 31

• 5:30PM English
  
• 7:30PM Spanish
  

January 1

• 9AM, 11AM & 7PM English
  
• 1PM Spanish
  

A big THANK YOU

A big THANK YOU to our parish community from St. Joseph’s conference Society of St. Vincent de Paul.  Your generous support makes our mission to help those in need possible.  The 5th Sunday collection will provide food to several families.  So far we have helped over 250 families this year.

St. Josephs Art & Wine

Tickets now available at the School and Parish Offices.  Art & Wine goes Hollywood for 2009 with the Golden Age of Hollywood as our theme.  Art & Wine is a major school fundraiser that features some of the areas finest artists, wineries, microbrews, restaurants, live music, as well as live and silent auctions. 

Event Location:

St. Josephs Church, Dillon Hall.

When:February 7, 2009 6 – 10 pm.

Price: $50 per person.

Table pricing is also available.

For more information:

Nancy Milliken at 585-9371.

Advent Penance Service 2008

Sun. Dec 21 3:00PM        St. Joseph, Kennewick

Wed. Dec 17 7:00PM       St. Frances Cabrini, Benton City

Fri. Dec 19 7:00PM         Christ the King, Richland

Mon. Dec 22 7:00PM      St. Patrick, Pasco

Tues. Dec 23, 7:00PM    Holy Spirit, Kennewick

November Birthdays

The Women of St. Joe’s invite ALL parishioners to celebrate December Birthdays with a Birthday Mass at 8:30AM on Wednesday, December 19 in the Chapel followed by Cake in the Holy Grounds Cafe.

COME CELEBRATE!

Red Cross Blood Drawing

Red Cross Blood Drawing
Dillon Hall
Tuesday, December 16
10AM - 3PM

Give Blood - The Gift of Life