ST. AJ'S WISH LIST

 

Sts. AJ's Wish list .........Please consider the invitation and opportunity for you to contribute to the various items listed below.   There are numerous ways to pay for these items such as ParishPay, PayPal, (which can be accessed on the website index) personal check, money order or cash.  You can contact the rectory by mail or  email at info@saintsaj.org,  please include your telephone number in the communication, so we can get back to you  personally and promptly.  This wish list will be updated monthly.

 

 

 

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            Artistic Stained Glass

St. Level  Church Replacement Windows 38th St/ Church Facade

 

Window #1 taken : single donor,       $2,250, completed/installed, no memorial    

Window #2 taken: 2 donors, $1,125 each, installation in process, memoralized

Window #3 taken: single donor, $2,250 each, installation in process, memoralized

Window #4 taken: single donor, $2,250 each, installation in process, memoralized

 

 

 

 

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            Artistic Stained Glass

St. Level  Church Replacement Windows 38th St/ Church Facade

 

Window #5 matching funds of $1,125 pledged, taken: installation in process, memoralized

Window #6 matching funds of $1,125 pledged, taken:  installation in process, memoralized

Window #7 matching funds of $1,125 pledged, taken:  installation in process, memoralized

Window #8 matching funds of $1,125 pledged, taken: installation in process, memoralized

 

 

 

 

Marian Chasuble

with gold and silk embroidered panel, with inside stole

Cost:  $714.00

 

 

 

 

Professional Cleaning of Main Altar

St. Joseph & Blessed Mother Altars

Cost:  Original Main Altar ,$3000 

 

 

St. Joseph Altar, $1500

FULFILLEDBy

Maria & Barry McKeon

 

 

 

Blessed Mother Altar, $1500FULFILLED By Mary Kelly

 

 

 

 Professional Cleaning of Sacred Heart Altar

 

Cost:  $1,500

 

 

Professional Cleaning of

St.Anthony & Our Lady of Lourdes Altar

Cost:  $1,500

FULFILLED

By Jacqueline B. McCrea

 & Brian W. Yachyshen

PAIR OF  SANCTUARY CHAIRS FOR LITURGICAL MINISTERS

STILL AVAILABLE

FOR PURCHASE

COST:  $250.00 PER CHAIR

 WHICH INCLUDES PADDED SEAT AND KNEELER

 

Flower Fund

For fresh flowers during the year, for example, Christmas, Easter and other holidays.

 

 

 

 The Nord C2 Combo Organ

Cost of this instrument is $3000.  This gift would be a benefit to our wonderful and dedicated musical groups, and also to the entire parish.        

FULFILLED

By Dr. Peter Scoles in honor of his 21st wedding anniversary.

 

 

 

The Nord C2 Combo Organ includes a beautiful baroque pipe organ. This makes the C2 the perfect instrument for our use here at St. AJ since we are not yet ready or able to initiate a restoration program for our current Kilgen Organ.  This compact instrument would be placed in the choir loft and used in all those musical situations which would benefit from a high clarity organ sound, especially on holidays, holydays and other festive liturgies, such as weddings, and funerals.  With this instrument situated in the loft, the choirs could do more work from the choir loft without having to drag the current Clavinova keyboard up to the loft, and back down - a danger to the instrument and to movers. For those who may be familiar with “organspeak,” the C2's pipe organ has a total of 21 stops, distributed across the Swell (9 stops) manual, the Great (9 stops) manual, and the bass section (3 stops). The pipe organ is sampled, using Nord's leading sampling technologies for real-to-life sound.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Each potential convert in the RCIA receives a bible. Description:  See picture

 

 

 

Cost:  $8.95

 

Hospital Patients in three major hospitals: 

HUP [Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania]                                             CHOP [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia] and Presbyterian Hospital

Hospitals:  

Funds Needed for

Pastoral Care Minister

We need a part time Pastoral Care Minister who can provide much needed assistance to our priest chaplain to extend sacramental and pastoral outreach to the many patients in these hospitals. We have people who will make their experience and expertise available to us. We project the cost of this person for 15 hours a week at 10 dollars an hours to be  a yearly salary of $7,800

 

 

  

 

 

RCIA Adult Catechisms

Each potential convert in RCIA receives one for study.                                      

 Official US

Catechism for Adults

 

 

  Cost:  $24.96 per book                    We use approximately 20 every yr.

 

 

                                                       

Ritual:  Order of

Christian Funerals

 

 

 

 

FULFILLED

By

Antonio Pina

Cost:  $29.95

 

              

Book of Gospels           

 Liturgical Book carried in procession at Mass.

This book contains only the Sunday Gospels.

Cost:  $75.00

 

FULFILLED

  In Loving Memory

of

Dolph Tokarczyk

 

 

Advent Vestment , (Royal Purple)           

Description:  Royal purple Advent as opposed to the red hues of Lent.  

            FULFILLED

 

By

Alex Bell

( In Loving Memory of

Jean Bell)

 

 

 

Joseph & Mary Callahan

  Fr. Steven J. Marinucci

 

Kathryn Groller

( In Loving Memory

of Dolph Tokarczyk)

Cost:  $300.00

 

Free Standing

Altar Candle

This Altar Candle is not supposed to sit on the Altar.

Cost:  $1200

FULFILLED  In Loving Memory

of

Dolph Tokarczyk

 

    

Permanent Artificial Custom Flowers Arrangement for High Altar/Ordinary Time

Cost $300

per arrangement

(2) needed

FULFILLED

  In Loving Memory

of

Dolph Tokarczyk

 

Rosaries Hospital Patients

Priests and EMs give to patients

Description: 

FULFILLED

By

Antonio Pina

Simple rosaries given to hospital patients by request

Cost.  $15.00 per dozen  

 

 

Book of the Names of the Dead used in November - Month of the Holy souls

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cost:  $69.95

 

 Professional Cleaning

       of the Sacred Heart Statue

 

Worship of the Sacred Heart is a long-established tradition in this faith community.   In 1905 an oak confessional near the altar was removed so that a beautiful marble statue of the Sacred Heart could be installed in the church as a permanent shrine. At that time an active Sacred Heart Society existed in St. James Parish, and its members participated in regular devotions. 

This statue along with the other has not been professionally cleaned or polished in our memory.

 Cost:  $2000

FULFILLED

 

 Professional Cleaning of       

St. Anthony

& Our Lady of Lourdes Statues

 

In 1905 the parishioners of St. James Church asked the pastor to establish a shrine of St. Anthony to honor their deep devotion to this great saint.  The center piece of the shrine is a statute of  St. Anthony holding the infant Jesus.

This statue along with the other has not been professionally cleaned or polished in our memory.

 

Cost:  $2000 per statue

FULFILLED

Background information on the statue of Our Lady of Lourdes

    Mr. Edward Newnan, an art expert, went on record in 1972 with this quote “As I looked at the great images of the virgin in Portugal, Spain and Rome, I wondered if my memory had deceived me.  But no, it is what I thought it was the loveliest thing in the United States.”

 

Cost:  $2000 per statue

FULFILLED

 

 

Professional Cleaning of  

St. Anthony

 

 

 

Justin & Trish Tokarczyk,

"In Honor of our wedding, 6/27/09"

"In Loving Memory of Dolph J. Tokarczyk"

 

Carole D. Tokarczyk

"In Gratitude for God's Blessings"

"In Special Thanksgiving to St. Anthony"

 

Larry & Adrienne Riley

In celebration of the birth of Jack Carleton Riley

&  Betrothal of David Riley & Graziella Matty

 

 

  Professional Cleaning of  

Our Lady of Lourdes

 

Anne Marie Campbell & Mary Beth Musetti

Loving Memory of Robert & Anne Montgomery

 

Erin Wade & Christian Ticehurst

In Honor of Their Coming Wedding

 

Carole D. Tokarczyk

"In Loving Memory of Dolph J. Tokarczyk"

 

Elizabeth Campion Motyka

John & Lisa Yaich

 

 

 

 

Pyx for

Hospital Eucharistic Ministers

Hospital Eucharistic Ministers carry Hosts on patient visits.

 

Cost:  $79.00 per pyx.

Pyx donated by Margaret Quigley

In Loving Memory of her brother,

Robert Montgomery