HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM. 431 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-0025,FAX: (914) 747-2476 Website: www.hiparish.org Office Hours: M-F: 9am-3pm, Sat: 11am-5pm, Sun:9am-1pm MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am Children’s Choir, 11am and 5:15pm Daily: 7:00am Monday to Saturday Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am; Daily: 8:45am SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request. Please call the office for an appointment. NEW PARISHIONERS: You are cordially invited to join our parish community. Please stop in at the Parish Office. CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA): An ongoing invitation is extended to anyone who is interested in becoming a Catholic. Simply contact the Parish Office. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for our Baptismal Preparation Program, several weeks in advance of the baby’s birth. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: By appointment at least 6 months in advance. A pre-Cana program is required. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: As scheduled, or anytime a priest is called. Please notify us when a family member enters the hospital. PARISH STAFF Fr. William A. Holt, OP, Pastor Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Jordan McConway, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP Sr. Kathleen O’Hanlon, OP Fr. Hugh Burns, OP (In Residence) Gerard Roggemann 769-3297 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Eileen Bruehl 769-0025 x11 Parish Coordinator Thomas Conaty 769-0025 x30 Youth Minister Barbara Mackin 769-0025 x22 Business Manager [email protected]Bulletin Editor July 26, 2015
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HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM.
MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am Children’s Choir, 11am and 5:15pm Daily: 7:00am Monday to Saturday
Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am; Daily: 8:45am
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request. Please call the office for an appointment.
NEW PARISHIONERS: You are cordially invited to join our parish community. Please stop in at the Parish Office.
CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA): An ongoing invitation is extended to anyone who is interested in becoming a Catholic. Simply contact the Parish Office. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for our Baptismal Preparation Program, several weeks in advance of the baby’s birth. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: By appointment at least 6 months in advance. A pre-Cana program is required. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: As scheduled, or anytime a priest is called. Please notify us when a family member enters the hospital.
PARISH STAFF Fr. William A. Holt, OP, Pastor
Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Jordan McConway, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP Sr. Kathleen O’Hanlon, OP Fr. Hugh Burns, OP (In Residence)
Gerard Roggemann 769-3297 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Eileen Bruehl 769-0025 x11 Parish Coordinator Thomas Conaty 769-0025 x30 Youth Minister Barbara Mackin 769-0025 x22 Business Manager [email protected] Bulletin Editor
July 26, 2015
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Monday Ex 32:15-24, 30-34;Mt 13:31-35
Tuesday Ex 33:7-11; 34:5b-9, 28; Ps 103:6-13; Mt 13:36-43
Sunday Ex 16:2-4, 12-15; Eph 4:17, 20-24; Jn 6:24-35
Evening Vigil 5:15pm Austin Travis SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Dominicilia Rivera 10:00 (OLP) Rinaldo & Maria Cicci 11:00 Stephen Carini 5:15 Michael Flanagan Monday, Weekday 7:00 Thomas McCormack 8:45 (OLP) James Sullivan Tuesday, Weekday 7:00 Anna Leanzo 8:45 (OLP) John Carlin Wednesday, Saint Martha 7:00 Elizabeth Santagate 8:45 (OLP) Helen M. Farrell & Adrienne T. Billé Thursday, Weekday 7:00 Teresa Davis 8:45 (OLP) Ernest Kastner Friday, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest 7:00 James Sullivan 8:45 (OLP) John O’Connor First Saturday, Weekday 7:00 Jeanne St. Pierre 8:45 (OLP) Anthony Rubicco Evening Vigil 5:15pm Joseph Lemmo EIGHTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Margaret Borelli 10:00 (OLP) Brian Gallick 11:00 Frances McCormick 5:15 Midge Delaney
2015 FINANCE CORNER
Regular Maintenance July 5 $ 8,124.20 Church in Africa Collect $ 1,683.00 July 12 $ 7,336.10 $ 2,105.00 July 19 $ 6,355.43
Jimmy Fleming, Joyce Scholz Deborah Migliorini, Rita Laviano, Antonio Soto, John Keator, Mary Pat & Jack McMahon, Betty Burns, Meghan Rizzo, Mary Renna, Walter Salat, Barbara Walters, Juan Portillo, Jacques Padawer, Kathy FioRito, Edythe Proehl, Elizabeth Kelleher, Bonnie Proudian, Jeanne Cibirka, Lucia Carlucci, Jennifer Schneider, Elsie Vernon, Richard Colucci, Maria Provenzano, Lee Franco, Adele Casagrande, Carrie Dunsmore, Joseph Drago, Gabrielle Sanchez, Rose Puller Olivia Bendus, Linda Iorizzo, Judy Chriss, Jane Chitty, Jerry Brennan, Jean Balzone, Bernadette Harris, Angela Lynch, Robert Iovino, Joey DeMatteis, Dennis Catozella, Beth Frankoviac, Jennifer Schneider, Bartholomew Hickey, Teresa Cardinali, Rocco Zacarolli, Robert Sarro, Irene Ramirez, Eleanor Stockel, Michael Lepore, Ellen Dierking, Nate Smith, Matthew Ryan Taylor, Maureen Corry
Please pray for the safety of our men and women in the military, especially those who are serving overseas.
We recently welcomed into the family of God and our parish family:
Conor Francis O’Donovan
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The Curious Coffee Hour with Br. Dominic will be held for the last time on Wednesday, July 29th at 7:00pm. Theology 101: Adult Faith Discussion Group will gather for the last session on Thursday, July 30th at 2:00pm in the classroom adjoining the parish conference room.
CYO YOUTH GROUP The Youth Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Sun-days of each month. No Meetings during July and August. All 9th-12th graders are welcome to join us. If you have any questions please contact [email protected]
●New Youth Group officers will be announced soon. ●New officers will meet in August to plan first half of year. ●General Youth Group meetings resume the Sunday after Labor Day. ●CYO Basketball (K-HS) online registration will be in September...dates TBA ●If you are entering the 5th grade you may now become an Altar Server. We will be training servers in September; email me at:
[email protected] CYO TRACK @ Parkway Field #4 for K-6th grades has begun. Dates: July 28th & 30th. Late registration is permitted. Fee $30.00
“25th & 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY” CELEBRATION
Holy Innocents is planning a celebration on October 18th for those parishioners who are celebrating their 25th or 50th Wedding Anniversary during 2015. Participants will be recognized at the 11am Mass followed by a reception in our Social Hall. If you are celebrating either Wedding Anniversary this year, please register with the parish office by calling 769-0025.
FOOD PANTRY The Food Pantry is now accepting donations. The Pantry is in need of the following: canned fruit, tuna, salmon pasta sauce, beans, brown rice, white rice. There is a special need for low or lower sodium foods such as: canned vegetables, shredded wheat, chicken and beef broth.
RECEPTION FOR BROTHER DOMINIC
Next Sunday, August 2nd, after the 11:00am Mass, there will be a reception from 12:00-1:00pm to say “Thank You” to our Brother Dominic as he goes to St. Dominic in Washington D.C. He will be ordained to the Priesthood on May 21, 2016.
PENNY SOCIAL Our summer “Penny Social” sponsored by the Family Events Committee was wonderful evening! All who attended enjoyed themselves. Thank you to all the parishioners who donated new gifts. Your generosity enabled the committee to award over 200 prizes to lucky recipients. A big “Thank You” to the adults, teens and children who set up the hall on Tuesday, to those who baked delicious and decorative cakes for our famous “Cake Walk”, to all who worked at the Penny Social, cleaned up and to all who attended and supported our Penny Social. A very special “Thank You” to Jackie Kovatch, Danielle Dispenza and Tricia Mooney who served as chairpersons for the Penny Social; they did an excellent job! Without them and the many people who worked with them, this event would not have been possible. Thanks also to Joe Kovatch who was superb in calling the prizes! It was truly a parish event. God bless you all.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Parent letters to be mailed in August. They will include: verification of child’s class, Program calendar, information about Program calendar on Burbio.com. Also, an invitation for parents who have children at-tending Religious Education at Holy Innocents for the first time to hear about what your children will experi-ence and how the Program is run.
Candidates for Nov. 2015 Confirmation. Each day I am dedicating Prayers for a different Candidate. I mailed letters to your Sponsors to let them know the day and also to remind them they are invited to your Retreat in September.
Candidates for Confirmation October 2016. Please continue to work on your “Blue Book Journals.”
Program Calendar will be available at the end of August. We are looking to offer the calendars through Burbio.com to make the parent’s life a little easier and hopefully more manageable. There will be a short meeting in September to introduce those who are not familiar with, or have questions about Burbio.
Each year on July 26th we celebrate the feast of Saints Anne and Joachim, the parents of our Blessed Mother and grandparents of Jesus. Since the feast falls on a Sunday this year, our Sunday liturgy supercedes the celebration of their memorial. Coincidentally the composer of our Entrance hymn, Praise
to the Lord, shares the same name as one of these saints.
Joachim Neander was the grandson of a musician and son of a teacher. His family name in German was Neumann (“new man”), but, as was popular at the time, his grandfather, also named Joachim, changed it to the Greek equivalent. He was born in 1650 in Bremen Germany and studied theology in his hometown from 1666 to 1670. In 1671 he became a private tutor in Heidelberg and in 1674 became a teacher at a Latin school in Düsseldorf. While living there, he would often go to the nearby valley of the Düssel river where nature served as an inspiration for his poems and hymns. Joachim also held gatherings and services in the valley and gave many sermons becoming a popular preacher among the people. The valley was renamed in his honor in the early 19th century and became famous when the remains of the Homo neanderthalensis (Neanderthal Man) were found there in 1856. In 1679, he returned to Bremen and worked as a pastor. The next year, at the age of 30, he became seriously ill and died, presumably of the plague or tuberculosis.
Praise to the Lord, in German, Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren, was written in 1665 and is generally regarded as one of the greatest hymns of praise of the Christian church. Because the music's powerful, poetic lyrics are difficult to translate from the original German, no one version had been accepted as the standard. The situation was resolved in 2007 with the creation of the Standard Revised English Version, which is based on the 1863 work of Catherine Winkworth, with later work done to harmonize other versions and incorporate the best of what the various traditions have to offer.
While Joachim Neander wrote about 60 hymns and provided tunes for many others, and is considered by many to be the first important German hymnist after the Reformation, it is Praise to the Lord for which he is best remembered and the one that appears in most major hymnals.
The picnic begins with 11a.m. Mass at the Park and ends at 4:30p.m.
$5 per person/$20 per family of 4 or more
Committee will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelon, water and soda. Sweet treats will be provided for kids. There will be relay races, kickball and corn-hole tournaments and old-fashioned lawn games. There is parking and indoor restroom facilities available.
DRIVE FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES
The Social Concerns Committee, as part of our outreach program to the Highbridge community, is conducting a drive for NEW school supplies. These supplies will be distributed to 200 impoverished children before the opening of the coming school year. New items requested include: black and white composition books, pencils, pens, erasers, rulers, crayons, folders, loose leaf paper, loose leaf binders and backpacks. Donations may be left in the appropriate box in the Tompkins Ave. entrance of the church. Your donations are deeply appreciated and will be put to good use.
Thursday, September 24th
5:00pm...Arrive at JFK International Airport 6:45pm...Evening Prayer (Vespers) at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Friday, September 25th
8:30am...Visit to the United Nations and Address to the UN General Assembly 11:30am...Multi-religious service at 9/11 Memorial & Museum, World Trade Center
4:00pm...Visit to Our Lady Queen of Angels School, East Harlem 6:00pm...Mass at Madison Square Garden
Saturday, September 26th
8:40am...Depart JFK Airport
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A SUMMER PRAYER From the “Circle of Life” by
Joyce Rupp and Macrina Wiederkehr
May you breathe in the beauty of summer with its power of transformation. May this beauty permeate all that feels un-beautiful in you. May the God of summer give us beauty. May you seek and find spaces of repose during these summer months. May these moments refresh and restore the tired places within you. May the God of summer give us rest. May you be open to times of celebration and recreation that are so much a part of summer. May you find happiness in these times of play and leisure. May the God of summer give us joy. May your eyes see the wonders of summer’s colors. May these colors delight you and entice you into contemplation and joy. May the God of summer give us inner light. May you feel the energy of summer rains penetrating thirsty gardens, golf courses, lawns, and farmlands. May these quenching rains remind you that your inner thirst needs quenching, May your inner self be refreshed, restored, and renewed. May the God of summer give us what we need for healing. May you savor the fresh produce that comes to your table and enjoy the fruits of summer’s bounty. May the God of summer give us a sense of satisfaction in the work of our hands. May you find shelter when the stormy skies of summer threaten your safety. May the God of summer give us shelter when inner storms threaten our peace of mind and heart. May you enjoy the unexpected and find surprises of beauty and happiness as you travel the roads on summer vacation. May the God of summer lead us to amazing discoveries as we travel the inner roads of our soul.
SEVENTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME July 28, 2015
First Reading: II Kings 4:42-44 A man brought twenty loaves of bread to Elisha the prophet, who told his servant to distribute it to the people. The servant asked how he could offer twenty loaves to one hundred people. Elisha replied that God had said, “They shall eat and there shall be some left over.” After all the people had eaten, there was bread left over as God had said. Second Reading: Ephesians 4:1-6 Paul implores the Ephesians to live a life worthy of their calling by preserving unity among all of Christ’s followers. He reminds them that there is one body, one Spirit, and one God who works through all people. Gospel: John 6:1-15 Jesus fed a crowd of five thousand people with five loaves of bread and a couple of dried fish. After everyone present had enough to eat, twelve baskets of leftover bread were collected. Jesus then realized the people would want to make him king so he fled alone.
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MASS FOR HEALING Holy Rosary Church
170 Bradhurst Avenue Hawthorne
Monday, August 10th
Celebrant: Fr. Louis Leonelli, CFR Praise & Worship @ 7:15pm
Mass 7:30pm Sponsored by the Mother of God Prayer Group
