SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 2017

The Reverend Myles P. Murphy, S.T.L. ,Pastor The Reverend Teodoro Cortezano, Parochial Vicar

The Reverend Roshan Sovis, Parochial Vicar The Reverend Edward Owusu-Ansah, In Residence

Deacon David Ciorciari, Weekday Assistant

OUR LADY OF VICTORY PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 9:00am-5:00pm

OUR LADY OF VICTORY MASSES

Saturday (Fulfills Sunday Obligation): 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30, 10:00am, 12:15pm Mon. - Fri.: 7:15, 8:00am 12:15, 1:05 (lower Chapel), 5:15pm Saturday & Holidays: 12:15pm Holy Day Vigil: 4:40, 5:15pm Holy Days: 7:10, 7:40, 8:10, 8:40,11:40am 12:10, 12:40, 1:10, 1:40, 4:40, & 5:15pm

CONFESSIONS Mon. - Fri.: 8:00-8:30am, 12:45-1:30pm, 5:00-5:30pm

Sat.: 4:50-5:15pm

DEVOTIONS SERVICES: Each day at 12:45pm Monday: Miraculous Medal Tuesday: St. Anthony Wednesday: St. Jude Thursday: The Holy Spirit Friday: The Rosary Saturday: The Rosary 1st Friday: Sacred Heart Novena Fridays of Lent: Stations of the Cross

ALL DEVOTIONS FOLLOWED BY: Exposition & Benediction of the Most Blessed

Sacrament until 5:00pm.

BAPTISMS Sundays 1:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S MASSES

Sunday: 12:10pm, 5:10pm Monday - Friday: 12:10pm, 1:10pm

CONFESSIONS 15 minutes after each Mass

DEVOTIONS Rosary and Novenas after 12:10 weekday Mass

PARISH ACTIVITIES Monday: 5:45pm – Legion of Mary (Our Lady of Victory) 4th Friday: 5:45pm – Patrician Catholic Discussion Group (Our Lady of Victory) As Announced: FiDi Catholic Young Adults

Church of Our Lady of Victory 60 William Street

PH: 212-422-5535, FAX: 212-785-4457

Church of Saint Andrew 20 Cardinal Hayes Place

PH: 212-962-3972

The Catholic Faith Community of

Our Lady of Victory and the

Church of St. Andrew

Website: www.olvsta.org

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — You humble of the land, seek justice and humility, and the Lord will be your protection (Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13). Psalm — Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs! (Psalm 146). Second Reading — God chose the weak of the world, those who count for nothing, so that whoever boasts should boast in the Lord (1 Corinthians 1:26-31). Gospel — Jesus taught from the mountain: Blessed are the poor in spirit (Matthew 5:1-12a).

The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Heb 11:32-40; Ps 31:20-24; Mk 5:1-20 Tuesday: Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-28, 30-32; Mk 5:21-43 Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a; Mk 6:1-6 Thursday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32] Friday: Heb 13:1-8; Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9; Mk 6:14-29 Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-6; Mk 6:30-34 Sunday: Is 58:7-10; Ps 112:4-9; 1 Cor 2:1-5; Mt 5:13-16

THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME January 29, 2017, Year A

THE CHOSEN REMNANT

Zephaniah is one of the least-known of the Old Testament prophets. He speaks in today’s first reading of impending judgment. But the Lord will leave a “remnant” in Israel. This image of a remnant, or remainder, was to become vital to both Judaism and Christianity. Paul’s letter to Corinth makes obvious his deep concern for the Christians there. They are too self-confident, he says, too sure of themselves. He admonishes them to remember that Christ has given them all they have. Today’s Gospel comprises the opening of Jesus’ “Great Sermon.” As God gave Moses the law on Sinai, so now Jesus gathers his disciples on a hillside to teach them the new law. Each of these Beatitudes contrasts the humiliation of the present with the glory of the future: poverty vs. the riches of God’s kingdom, hunger for holiness vs. fulfillment in the Spirit, persecution vs. the reign of God. Jesus is here speaking to God’s chosen “remnant.” Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.

PROTECTED The servants of Christ are protected by invisible, rather than visible, beings. But if these guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers. —St. Ambrose, fourth century

THE BEATITUDES (Matthew 5:3-12)

Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the land. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are they who are persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when they insult you and persecute you and utter every kind of evil against you falsely because of me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward will be great in heaven.

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

Until very recent decades “Holy Thursday” and “Good Friday” were centered on personal pious devotions, not public liturgy. In urban America, at least in cities with a significant Catholic population, Holy Thursday was about veneration of the Blessed Sacrament. People were encouraged to walk to seven churches for a “visit” to each parish’s repository, a kind of temporary tabernacle on a side altar, closer in proximity to the faith-ful than the usual tabernacle on the distant high altar. On Good Friday, the most popular form of devotion was the Stations of the Cross, or a three-hour program of word and preaching beginning at noon. The Holy Thursday seven-church hike was a way of participating in a custom of the city of Rome. Traditionally, each day in Lent was assigned to a particular parish church or basilica in the city. Each week of Lent thus had seven churches, and pious people tried to get to each one of them. The pilgrimage was a symbol of unity and also the journey of faith. Originally, the pope would go to each place for a liturgy, but political strife removed the pope from Rome in 1305. With the papacy relocated in France, the custom ceased until Pope Leo XIII expressed interest in restoring it in 1900, and Blessed John XXIII fully restored the custom in 1959. By the time Pope Leo began to revive the custom, many American cities had enough parishes and monasteries that the faithful could vicariously participate in the revived tradition of stational liturgies by a very long walk! —Rev. James Field, © J. S.

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time; Catholic Schools Week Tuesday: St. John Bosco Thursday: The Presentation of the Lord; Groundhog Day Friday: St. Blase; St. Ansgar; First Friday; Blessing of throats Saturday: Blessed Virgin Mary; First Saturday

THE CHRISTIAN IDEAL

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

—Gilbert K. Chesterton

PRAYER FOR THE INTERCESSION OF SAINT BLASE O glorious Saint Blase, who by thy martyrdom has left to the Church a precious witness to the faith, obtain for us the grace to preserve within ourselves this divine gift, and to de-fend, without human respect, both by word and example, the truth of that same faith, which is so wickedly attacked and slandered in these our times. Thou who didst miracu-lously cure a little child when it was at the point of death by reason of an affliction of the throat, grant us thy power-ful protection in like misfortunes; and, above all, obtain for us the grace of Christian mortification together with a faithful observance of the precepts of the Church, which may keep us from offending Almighty God. Amen

WHAT DAY IS TODAY?

Over breakfast one morning, a woman said to her husband, "I’ll bet you don't know what day this is." "Of course I do," he answered as if he was offended, and left for the office. At 10:00 a.m., the doorbell rang and when the woman opened the door, she was handed a box of a dozen long stemmed red roses. At 1:00 p.m., a foil-wrapped, two-pound box of her favorite chocolates was delivered. Later, a boutique delivered a designer dress. The woman couldn't wait for her husband to come home. "First the flowers, then the chocolates and then the dress!" she exclaimed when he came through the door."I've never had a more wonderful Groundhog Day in my life!

Friday, February 3rd is the Feast of Saint Blase. For centuries, the faith-ful have had their throats blest on his feast day because the saint was recognized as a healer while here on earth as well as intercessor in

heaven. Because of the size of the congregations, throats will be blest through the intercession of Saint Blase before the final prayer at all Masses.

MASS INTENTIONS

OUR LADY OF VICTORY

SUNDAY, JANUARY 29 7:30 am: Angela Vacirca 10:00 am: Nour Sami 12:15 pm: John Trudden

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 7:15 am: Marie Elena Albano 8:00 am: In Thanksgiving to God 12:15 pm: Marie Elena Albano 1:05 pm: Constance Riva 5:15 pm: Concordia Soriano

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31 7:15 am: Bernard Kelly 8:00 am: Linda Goff & Mary Shipherd 12:15 pm: Rachel Luzzi 1:05 pm: Louise Vernieri 5:15 pm: Patrick Joseph Mahoney

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 7:15 am: John Trudden 8:00 am: Jessica, Daniel & Randel Goff (L) 12:15 pm: Therese Marie Sa-bato 1:05 pm: Roman Mariano 5:15 pm: Angie Valeroso

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2 7:15 am: Frances Segretario 8:00 am: Nicola, Giovanna & Anna Lucignano 12:15 pm: Anna Ciorciari 1:05 pm: For the Faithful Departed Souls 5:15 pm Helen Schiele

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3 7:15 am: Margaret Mary Murphy 8:00 am: Sister Mary Colette Edwards 12:15 pm: Eric Wanless 1:05 pm: In Honor of St. Martin de Porres 5:15 pm Valerie Campbell (L)

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4 12:15 pm: Anthony Biondi 5:15 pm: Josephine Romano

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5 7:30 am: Ronald Petrocelli 10:00 am: Elizabeth Tan (L) 12:15 pm: Holy Souls in

ST. ANDREW CHURCH 12:10 pm: Camille Consalvo 5:10 pm Available 12:10 pm: Marion Renz 1:10 pm: Jack Wilkerson

12:10 pm: Healing for Celese Roa 1:10pm: Ralph Giordano 12:10 pm: Rona Rayman 1:10pm: Available

THE PRESENTATION OF THE LORD

12:10 pm: Marianus Ioannes Krzyzanowski 5:10 pm Columbia Mercedes Taveras

MEMORIAL OF ST. BLASE

12:10 pm: Available 1:10pm: Joan Lobianco No Saturday Mass at St. Andrew’s location 12:10 pm: Available 5:10 pm: Available

JOIN US FOR EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Exposition after the 12:15 PM Mass

Benediction at 5:00 PM MONDAY-FRIDAY

JOIN THE MARCH FOR LIFE! DEFEND THE RIGHTS

OF THE UNBORN

Friday, January 27, 2017 In Washington DC

The March for Life Rally will take place on the grounds of the Washington

Monument, near the corner of 15th Street and Constitution Avenue.

11:45 a.m. Musical Opening 12:00 p.m. Rally 1:00 p.m. March (on Constitution Ave. between 15th and 17th Streets ) 3:00 p.m. (approx) Listen to Silent No More testimonies outside U.S. Supreme Court 3:30 p.m. Visit your Representative or Senator to advocate for life

For details visit: marchforlife.org

Our Lady of Victory Church “Lifesaving” Blood Drive

Thursday, January 26, 2017 11:30 am – 5:30 pm

60 William Street/ Lower Level Chapel Appointments pre-

ferred, but walk-ins always welcome! To Schedule an appointment Please contact: The Church

Phone: 212-422–5535 Email: parishmail@olvsta.org

*****Questions about donating blood?***** Please phone:

New York Blood Center Special Donor Services @ 1-800-688-0900

Please bring a photo or signature I.D. or please bring your *NYBC Blood Donor Card

Please have balance meals prior to giving blood. Walk-In Blood Donors are Welcome.