BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH June 3, 2018 Staten Island, New York 10310 Reverend Monsignor Peter G. Finn, Pastor Reverend Francisco Lanzaderas Reverend Roland Antony Raj, MMI Reverend Monsignor Francis V. Boyle, Pastor Emeritus MASSES: Saturday in the Church: 5:00 PM (Vigil), Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM, 12:30 PM. Weekdays in the Church: 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Saturday in the Church: 9:00 AM. Holy Days in the Church: 7:00 PM (Vigil), 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 12:00 to 1:00 PM; 4:15 to 5:00 PM. Anytime upon reasonable request. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Sunday at 2:00 PM. (Except during July & August, then only on the First and Third Sunday and other specified days) Arrangements should be made at least one month in advance with the priest of the Parish. Parents of a first child and parents who are new to Blessed Sacrament must attend a Baptism Instruction Class which is held the second Tuesday evening of every month (except July and August) at 7:30 P.M. in the Parish House Meeting Room. Godparents should be Practicing Catholics, and must obtain a Sponsor Certificate from their Parish. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY Arrangements should be made about six months in advance, with a priest of the Parish. Couples must attend Pre- Cana Conferences. SICK CALLS - At any time. MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA - Every Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - First Friday from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. NEW PARISHIONERS - Welcome to our Parish. We invite all parishioners to participate fully in our spiritual and social life. If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself after Mass and register at the Parish House Office weekdays 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Kindly notify us if you change your address. PARISH HOUSE 30 Manor Road 442-1581 http://www.blessedsacramentchurchsi.org SCHOOL Mr. Joseph Cocozello Principal 830 Delafield Avenue 442-3090 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sister Anne Dolores Van Wagenen, C.S.JB. - D.R.E. 830 Delafield Avenue 448-0378
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BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH June 3, 2018 Staten Island, New York 10310
Reverend Monsignor Peter G. Finn, Pastor Reverend Francisco Lanzaderas Reverend Roland Antony Raj, MMI Reverend Monsignor Francis V. Boyle, Pastor Emeritus MASSES: Saturday in the Church: 5:00 PM (Vigil), Sunday 8:00, 9:30, 11:00 AM, 12:30 PM. Weekdays in the Church: 7:00 AM and 9:00 AM. Saturday in the Church: 9:00 AM. Holy Days in the Church: 7:00 PM (Vigil), 7:00, 9:00, 11:00 AM and 7:00 PM. SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday: 12:00 to 1:00 PM; 4:15 to 5:00 PM. Anytime upon reasonable request. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM
Sunday at 2:00 PM. (Except during July & August, then only on the First and Third Sunday and other specified days) Arrangements should be made at least one month in advance with the priest of the Parish. Parents of a first child and parents who are new to Blessed Sacrament must attend a Baptism Instruction Class which is held the second Tuesday evening of every month (except July and August) at 7:30 P.M. in the Parish House Meeting Room. Godparents should be Practicing Catholics, and must obtain a Sponsor Certificate from their Parish.
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY
Arrangements should be made about six months in advance, with a priest of the Parish. Couples must attend Pre-Cana Conferences.
SICK CALLS - At any time. MIRACULOUS MEDAL NOVENA - Every Monday after the 9:00 AM Mass. EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - First Friday from 12:00 Noon to 2:00 P.M. NEW PARISHIONERS - Welcome to our Parish.
We invite all parishioners to participate fully in our spiritual and social life. If you are new in the parish, please introduce yourself after Mass and register at the Parish House Office weekdays 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. Kindly notify us if you change your address.
PARISH HOUSE
30 Manor Road 442-1581
http://www.blessedsacramentchurchsi.org
SCHOOL Mr. Joseph Cocozello
Principal 830 Delafield Avenue
442-3090
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Sister Anne Dolores Van Wagenen, C.S.JB. - D.R.E.
830 Delafield Avenue 448-0378
PAGE TWO June 3, 2018 COFFEE SUNDAY Please join us next Sunday, June 10th after the 8, 9:30 and 11am Masses for a cup of coffee, a donut and fellowship in the Parish Center Meeting Room.
“Summer will soon be upon us!”
Vacations are being planned; the kids are almost finished with school and the smell of the pool or ocean waves might soon be in
the air for you and your family. We miss you when you're away. Before you leave to enjoy your well deserved getaway please consider automating your gifts to our parish by utilizing our online giving platform, WeShare. You can contribute from wherever you are. You can easily set up payments in advance, just for the summer or for the entire year. When you give online, it helps our parish make our budget, even when attendance is a bit lower in the summer months. Whether you give online or by the envelope, you are a necessary part of our family and we thank God for you. Your continued and generous support is a blessing to our parish and we look forward to sharing in God’s work with you for years to come. If you have not had a chance to enroll in Online Giving and would like to, please visit http://blessedsacramentchurchsi.org. If you have any questions or concerns about the program or would like help setting up your account, please call the WeShare Customer Care support team at 800-950-9952. Thank you and have a wonderful summer.
BEFORE THE BLESSED SACRAMENT FOR A SPECIAL INTENTION TO THE SACRED
HEART OF JESUS
The Bread and Wine this week are offered in memory of June Lee.
PRAY FOR THE SICK The sick are comforted just knowing that you pray for them In your charity please remember: Margaret Pittman-Boyle, Douglas Pfleging, Jr., Phyllis Ribaudo, Ann Socci, Concetta Chicolo, Mary Kenny, Jean Carter, Jane Redmond, Carolyn DeStefano, Robert Tursi, Nicholas Toto, Marykate Rose, Peggy Travers, Mary Anne Blaine, Jean Cunningham, Jean Elmadary, Alan March, Sebastian Lattuga, Grayce Novaro, Angela Siuzdak, Helen Ramsey, Katherine Barbera, Margaret Romani, Br. William Herbst, Barbara Brown, Michael Caruso, Patricia Connelly, Mary Belli, Mark Volpe, Linda Hansen, Dean Robert Ziegler, Danielle Ziegler, Marco Antonio Gonzalez, Larry Taylor, Jr., Kathy Quinlan, Katie Hanley, Jose Ruiz, Rosemary Callahan, Robert Hammerton, Catherine Vitale, Capala Lusi, Jack McGarry, Robert McQuade, Brian Nelson, Julia Micol, Molly Cafaro, Bob Miuccio, Maryann & Danny Brown, James McGarrigle, James Finnigan, Robert Blake, Lelia Moran, Gail Kees, Michelina Farley, Cara Healy, Eileen Doran, Phyllis Morrell, Marion Coolen, Michael Roskowinski, Barbara Braisted, Jeff Orr, Debbie Caporale, Ana Ely Diaz, Ruth Orr, John G. Ferriera, Gina King, Anna Scampas, Kaitlyn, Elinor Walshe, Debra Olsen, Joan Callahan and Roy Yates
SYMPATHY
Remember the soul and the souls for whom Mass will be offered during the week, especially: MONDAY 7:00 Francis J. Pauciulo 9:00 Victor Prevosti TUESDAY 7:00 Patricia smith 9:00 Doris & John O’Toole WEDNESDAY 7:00 Roursas Borbor & Jimmy Borbor 9:00 Michael McCarthy THURSDAY 7:00 Fran Gannon (Living - 90th Birthday) 9:00 Joseph Fealey, Jr. FRIDAY 7:00 Louis F. Farese, Jr. (Living) 9:00 Richard O’Connor, Jr. SATURDAY 9:00 Josephine Schmidt 5:00 Rooney & Klee Family SUNDAY 8:00 Theophilus Diaz 9:30 Taffie Healey 12:30 Anthony Mazza
FROM THE PASTOR Today we celebrate God’s greatest gift - Corpus Christi - The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ. Christ Jesus is the greatest gift of God to humanity. Yet every gift is measured not just by its value but by our ability to receive that gift. In the Eucharist we are given a way to receive Christ. Today there is sadness also for those of us who believe in the sacredness of human life from creation to natural death and as an Irish American and Catholic, increased sadness for the referendum in 2018 in Ireland on the issue of abortion. In the power of crafting a human being we are gifted with the human image and likeness of God - imperfect, but magnificent, destined for eternal happiness in the presence of God. Reflecting on these gifts permit me to share George Weigel’s thoughts on:
Roe v Wade, Derangement Syndrome Senior fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D. C. “The defense of the indefensible often leads to a kind of derangement in otherwise rational people. That was the case with the defenders of slavery and legalized racial segregation; it has become the case with abortion. I’ve long thought that the most callous, coldhearted contribution to the national debate on abortion was penned by the feminist ideologue, Barbara Ehrenreich, in a 1985 column for the New York Times. There, Ehrenreich deplored the “lasting… damage” done by the pro-life movement by “getting even pro-choice people to think of abortion as a ‘moral dilemma,’ an ‘agonizing decision,’ and related code phrases for something murky and compromising…
PAGE FOUR Regrets are also fashionable, and one otherwise feminist author wrote recently of mourning, each year following her abortion, the putative birthday of her discarded fetus. I cannot speak for other women, of course, but the one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.” Ehrenreich remains in a class, so to speak, of her own. But now comes Ruth Marcus, op-ed columnist and deputy editorial page director of The Washington Post, who, while admitting in a March 9 column that “the new Gerber baby with Down syndrome is awfully cute,” went on to announce that, “I can say without hesitation” that, had pre-natal testing shown her carrying a child with Down syndrome, “I would have terminated those pregnancies…grieved the loss and moved on.” Marcus went on to praise “families that knowingly welcome a baby with Down syndrome into their lives,” but candidly confessed such a baby was “not the child I wanted…You can call me selfish or worse, but I am in good company. The evidence is clear that most women confronted with the same unhappy alternative would make the same decision” to abort the Down syndrome child. “Not the child I wanted.” There, in a single phrase, is the moral dereliction at the center of Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome: if a pregnancy is inconvenient for career purposes, or the child to be born seems unlikely to tick all the boxes of one’s expectation, one makes the choice - “tragic,” as Marcus admits, or No Big Deal, on the Ehrenreich scale of values - to destroy the indisputably human life one has procreated. Lebensunwertes leben - “life unworthy of life” - is what German eugenicists and legal scholars called it in the 1920s. We all know, or should know, where that lethal logic led when the definition of the “unworthy” was extended beyond the mentally handicapped to include certain ethnic groups, thought not to be the kind of people other people wanted as neighbors and fellow-citizens. The refusal to recognize that lethal logic is another facet of Roe v. Wade Derangement Syndrome. There can be no denial that the object of an abortion is a human being; elementary genetics teaches us that. What is at issue - what has always been at issue - is what is owed, morally and legally, to that human being. If the lethal logic of Lebensunwertes leben prevails, where will proponents of an unrestricted abortion license stop when it comes to eliminating the inconvenient? Will the 14 self-identified Catholic US senators who voted recently against a late-term abortion ban stand firm against euthanasia? Will they defend the conscience rights of Catholic medical professionals who refuse to participate in those euphemisms known as “pregnancy termination” or “death with dignity”? Don’t hold your breath. Which brings us to the recent Democratic primary in Illinois’ third congressional district. There, the heroic Dan Lipinski, a stalwart pro-lifer, survived a vicious challenge from another victim of Roe v Wade Derangement Syndrome, Maria Newman, who got serious financial and ground-game support from Planned Parenthood, NARAL Pro-Choice America, and Emily’s List. A few weeks before the primary Newman told a rally of her supporters, “I know what’s in his heart, and it’s called hate. This guy is dangerous. His views are dangerous.” That’s what Roe v Wade Derangement Syndrome has done to politics: it’s made it possible to say that what’s in the heart of a mild-mannered gentlemen like Dan Lipinski is “hate” - and get away with it.” Truly across the Globe human life is challenged by war, poverty, execution, euthanasia, abortion and so many human activities that turn away from God, fleeing I suggest, the good angels of human consciousness for the “apple like” temptations of “post garden” civilization. And yet there “is Jesus” and may we remember Him this Corpus Christi Sunday. God bless you Msgr. Finn
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