Good News from All Souls – 07/26/2025

Weekly News & Bulletin

July 26, 2025

Sunday: 17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

THANK YOU to all our volunteers who helped at the Berks County Pride Festival last week! We had a fun time but also spread Love and Good News at our booth last week. We could not have done it with you! Thank you!

And thank you the members of All Souls who volunteered with Reading Pride to do all the many tasks needed to pull off the entire day! Your example of service to others is appreciated!

ONE MORE WEEK TO GIVE A DONATION TO THE MMS in JULY!

The ECC Mary Magdalene Society supports:

• ECC youth through summer camps, service projects

• Seminarians/clergy, who are ECC affiliated, with economic needs

• Student debt relief

• Incardination expenses

• Candidate ordination expenses

To all parishioners – Please consider making a special donation during the month of July to MMS in honor of and in gratitude for the clergy serving your parish community.   

Donate any Sunday in July by marking “special offering” and writing MMS on your envelope in the offering plate. Place your donation (check or cash) in an envelope marked MMS and deposit in the collection basket

any time during the month of July. (If donating by check, please make it out to ECC and on the memo line list MMS.)

Sunday, July 27

12 pm – Mass

Fellowship After (Q-Z)

Sunday, August 3

12 pm – Mass

Sunday, August 10

12 pm – Mass

Fellowship After (A-P)

Sunday, August 17

12 pm – Mass

Sunday, August 24

12 pm – Mass

Fellowship After (Q-Z)

September 12-14 – East Coast ECC Retreat. Framingham MA. If interested in attending, please see any board member.

Saturday, September 20 – FALL FEST in West Reading.

(All Souls will have a booth)

Saturday, September 27 – BERKS CULTURAL DIVERSITY FESTIVAL in Reading City Park

(All Souls will have a booth)

Do you have any of our WAWA shorti coupons from our past fundraisers?

If so, please know that WAWA will no longer accept these after 12/31/25. So if you have them, now is the time to redeem!

Worship This Week

Helping with mass:

Ministers – ALL ARE MINISTERS

Celebrant – Rev. Henry Pruski

This week: Sunday, 7/27/25

Lay Assistant – Joan

Music – John

Reader – Donna

Sunday, 8/3/25

Lay Assistant – Kent

Music – Steve

Reader – Kimmie

Click below to prepare for mass this week or follow along virtually.

First Reading: Genesis 18:20-32

Responsorial: Psalm 138:1-2, 2-3, 6-7, 7-8

Second Reading: Colossians 2:12-14

Gospel: Luke 11:1-13

OUR SERVICES WILL NOW BE LIVE STREAMED ON YOUTUBE or can be viewed later at any time.

CLICK HERE: All Souls ECC – YouTube

Question of the Week: Over the coming week, take time each day to persistently ask God for a need of yours or a friend’s. At the end of the week, answer this question: What have I learned by persisting in prayer daily for this need?

Tithe, offering, and special events payment via Zelle or PayPal:

If you would like to give electronically, please feel free to use our All Souls PayPal or Zelle. Zelle is preferred as there are no fees, but either service is fine.

  • Zelle: look up our account using our email: allsoulsecc@gmail.com. (It will list name of our treasurer, Jerry Schearer, but it will go directly to All Souls account.)
  • PayPal: use the QR code to the right.

In the notes please indicate what the payment is for. Thank you for your continued support of All Souls and its ministries.

Can’t join us in person this week? Watch the service on YouTube Live or the recording any time on YouTube. Our links are below:

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