2nd SUNDAY OF EASTER - APRIL 3, 2016

✞ Mass Schedule ✞

Saturday Vigil: 5:30 pm OLMC

7:00 pm (Spanish) SJE

Sunday: 8:00 am SJE

9:00 am OLMC 11:00 am SJE

12:30 pm (Spanish) SJE 5:00 pm OLMC

6:30 pm (Haitian) OLMC

Weekday Masses: Monday-Friday: 7:30 am SJE

12:10 pm OLMC First Friday: 12:10 pm SJE

Saturday: 12:10 pm SJE

Holyday Vigil: 5:30 pm OLMC

7:00 pm Spanish SJE

Holyday: 7:30 am, 6:30 pm SJE

12:10 pm, 5:30 pm OLMC

Mass for the Hearing Impaired: 4th Sunday of each month

at 2:00 pm OLMC (not in July & Aug.)

Italian Mass: Palm Sunday, Easter Sunday

& Christmas Day at 10:30 am OLMC

Welcome to the Parish of Saint John the Evangelist

& Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Office Hours at SJE Rectory: Monday - Friday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm SJE: 148 Hamilton Avenue White Plains, NY 10601

OLMC: 92 South Lexington Avenue White Plains, NY 10606 (914) 949-0439 www.sjeolmc.org 914-948-5909

Parish Email: info@sjeolmc.org

Father Thomas Kallumady, Pastor Father Rubenus Cammayo, Parochial Vicar

Father Chellan Joseph, Chaplain - White Plains Hospital

~ Visiting Priests ~ Father Bart Daly, Father Patrick McCahill, Father Bob O’Neil,

Father Edward O’Neil, Father Romane St. Vil, M.M., Father John Tino

~ Staff ~ Andrea Caridi, Cesar Ceballos, JoAnn Douglass - Office Staff

David Graf - Music Director

~ Parish Cemetery ~ Mount Calvary Cemetery - (914) 949-0671 - Mr. Daniel Murray, Director

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Saint John the Evangelist Manuel Mendoza

Phone: 914-437-5144 Classes Sunday 9:15-10:45 am

followed by Family Mass at 11:00 am

Our Lady of Mount Carmel Andrew Morzello

Email: re.olmcwp@yahoo.com Phone: 914-948-6834, option 2 Classes Sunday 10:00-11:30 am

Family Mass at 9:00 am

CONFESSIONS

Saturdays 4:30 to 5:15 pm OLMC

6:00 to 6:45 pm SJE

Mondays 11:30 to 12:00 pm OLMC

Anytime by appointment at SJE rectory

MARRIAGES

At least six months notice

BAPTISMS

3rd Sunday of the month - after 9:00 am Mass OLMC

4th Sunday of the month - 10:15 am (English) SJE, Mass to follow

- after 12:30 pm Mass (Spanish) SJE

Baptism instruction (2nd Tuesday of the month)

is required for parents and godparents. Parents should register in

advance to make arrangements.

NEW TO THE PARISH?

We invite you to register with the parish by filling out the envelopes found in the church, or by calling the rectory office at 914-949-0439

DEVOTIONS

Miraculous Medal - Monday after 12:10 pm Mass OLMC

St. Anthony Mary Claret & St. Anthony Padua -

Tuesday after 12:10 pm Mass OLMC

Five Wounds of Our Lord & St. Gaspar Bertoni -

Friday after 12:10 pm Mass OLMC

First Friday - Mass 12:10 pm SJE Adoration after Mass until 5:30 pm SJE

Mass 12:10 pm OLMC Followed by Holy Hour OLMC

Our Lady of Fatima -

First Saturday after 12:10 pm Mass SJE

Pro-Life Rosary - Saturday at 5:00 pm OLMC

BINGO - is held Monday nights at 7:20 pm in the Church hall at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church. All are welcome!

Thank you Children's Choir members - for your participation in the SJE Easter Vigil Mass, we appreciated your beautiful talent: Mariana Leon, Saul Leon, Diego Medel, Juan Medel, Yaretzi Melendez, Grace Plaza and Diego Romero.

50/50 SJE Monthly Raffle Winner - Congratulations to Elvira Restrepo. She is the winner of this month’s 50/50 Club raffle. She won $90! A sincere thank you to all our buyers, and to all our volunteer sellers.

Youth Group: The next Meeting of the Youth Group is on Sunday, April 17th at 6:00 pm in the Rectory Hall at OLMC. Fun energetic group: trips, games, volunteer service and spiritual fun! For ages 13-17 (8th-12th graders only). Come join us! Learn to Make Rosary - The Decades Group will be having its monthly meeting on Thursday April 7 at St. John's School Bldg. 1st floor, 7:00 pm. We make Rosaries in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary's request to pray the Rosaries. Please join us in making Rosaries. All are welcome. For more info please call Romana 318-6122. The 50th Reunion for the St. John's Elementary School Class of 1966 - will be held on June 4, 2016. For further information, please contact Norah McAvoy, 914-946-6351

Church Support Thank you very much for your continued

love & support for the parish. We are especially grateful to those who “make up” for their Sundays away from the parish.

Offering Collection 3-27-16 SJE $ 9,722 OLMC $ 6,441

Easter Gift Collection 3-27-16 SJE $ 13,607 OLMC $ 3,346

Holy Land Collection 3-25-16 SJE $ 3,729 OLMC $ 569

~ Pastor’s Column ~

Next weekend we will have a second collection for the Archdiocese of the

Military . Please be generous!

The readings for this Sunday are about God’s mercy, the necessity for trusting faith and the need for the forgiveness of sins. The opening prayer addresses the Father as "God of everlasting Mercy." In the Responsorial Psalm we repeat several times, “His mercy endures forever!” (Ps 118). God revealed His mercy, first and foremost, by sending His only-begotten Son to become our Savior and Lord through His suffering, death and Resurrection. Divine Mercy is given to us also in each celebration of the Sacraments.

The first reading explains how the Risen Lord continued to show his Divine Mercy to the sick through the healing and preaching ministry of his apostles in the early Church. The apostles’ Faith enabled them to minister to the people, giving them the Lord’s healing love in “signs and wonders.” The second reading, taken from the Book of Revelation, written to comfort and bolster the Faith of the persecuted Christians, assures them of the presence of the merciful Lord in their lives. The passage from Revelations encourages Christians to fight fear with Faith, and trepidation about the future with trust and Hope. The Gospel vividly reminds us of how Jesus instituted the Sacrament of Reconciliation, a Sacrament of Divine Mercy.

Let us accept God's invitation to celebrate and practice mercy: One way the Church celebrates God’s mercy throughout the year is through the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Finding time for Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is another good way to receive and give thanks for Divine Mercy. It is mainly through the corporal and spiritual works of mercy that we practice mercy in our daily lives and are enabled to receive God’s merciful judgment. Sincerely, Father Thomas Kallumady

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During this Jubilee Year of Mercy, we are called to help one another and be merciful, as Jesus is for all of us. As we celebrate the risen Lord, let us continue to think of the sacrifice that He made for us. Your sacrifice can continue to help your brothers and sisters across the Archdiocese of New York. Our parish goal is $117,000. To date our parish has received $46,397 in pledges/gifts toward the 2016 Cardinal’s Appeal, from 117 families. For this Appeal to be truly successful, we must have support from all of our families. The Appeal is a vital source of funding for the programs and ministries that sustain the parishes across our Archdiocese. It is not too late to make your gift. Please be as generous as you can. Thank you for the continued sacrifice. Please be sure to note Parish #563 on all donations.

To make an online gift, visit: www.cardinalsappeal.org

Felicidades! A Todos Los Que Hicieron Los Sacramentos -

En la Vigilia Pascual los siguientes candidatos fueron bienvenidos a la Iglesia:

Mario R. Monroy Consuelo Rodríguez

Antonia Galicia Geovanny Flores

Cástulo Palma José Manuel Gutiérrez

Miguel Tehuitzil Jonathan Gutiérrez

Margelia Torres Blanca Zepeda Sánchez

José Ángel Mejía Roman Delgado Edward Delgado

Amy Abrego Yaismín Dominguez

Jesse Joseph Ahearn Marcello Giovanni Cappello

Azucena Maria Ceja Arturo Jose Chavez

Ashlen Adolf Chevalier Britney Sofia Cuevas

Giovanni Michael DeLia Camila Julia DeSouza Louis Gandolf Fazio

Francisco Francis Gomez Steven Pedro Leon

Paola Cecilia Magana Tanya Teresa Magana

Anthony Joseph Mazzaro Brendan Nicholas McChain

Briana Mary Nunez John Paul Pasqualini

Joseph Nicola Portanova Jyro Michael Resurreccion Fernando Antonio Salgado

Georgia Maria Sgouros Giuseppe Rocco Tassone Mariantonia Ida Vernillo

Congratulations! Confirmation was held Saturday April 2 at OLMC.

We welcomed Most Reverend Bishop Gerald T. Walsh as he confirmed the faith of our 8th Graders

on the reception of the sacrament of Confirmation.

Msgr. Edward Weber, main celebrant & Fr. John Pichappilly, homilist

MASSES FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 2 – APRIL 10 ~ Saint John the Evangelist Church & Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church ~

Saturday, 4/2 - Saturday within the Octave of Easter 12:10 pm SJE Our Lady of Fatima 5:30 pm Vigil OLMC Rosama Kalathara 7:00 pm Vigil SJE Emma Peña Correa

Sunday, 4/3 - Divine Mercy Sunday 8:00 am SJE Frank Sinistore 9:00 am OLMC Thomas A. Morzello 11:00 am SJE For the People of the Parish 12:30 pm SJE Brotherhood of the Lord of the Miracles 5:00 pm OLMC Anthony Cucciare 6:30 pm OLMC Amelida Etienne Monday, 4/4 - Solemnity of the Annunciation of the Lord 7:30 am SJE Souls in Purgatory 12:10 pm OLMC Margaret Attalienti

Tuesday, 4/5 - Saint Vincent Ferrer, Priest 7:30 am SJE Cleliz Lamela 12:10 pm OLMC Madeline Cohen

Wednesday, 4/6 7:30 am SJE For the Intentions of Alex & Ashley Mundackal 12:10 pm OLMC Giulia Cacciaglia ( 5th Anniversary)

Thursday, 4/7 - Saint John Baptist de la Salle, Priest 7:30 am SJE Scaria Vembenil 12:10 pm OLMC Eduardo & Lucrecia De Lia

Friday, 4/8 7:30 am SJE Milagros Villaseñor 12:00 pm OLMC No Intentions

Saturday, 4/9 12:10 pm SJE Thankamma Mundackal 5:30 pm Vigil OLMC Joan & Jacqueline Tumber 7:00 pm Vigil SJE Rafael Nunez

Sunday, 4/10 - Third Sunday of Easter 8:00 am SJE Carina Gallego & Ana Osorio 9:00 am OLMC Philomena, Cyril & Peter Hickey 11:00 am SJE La Velle Frawley 12:30 pm SJE In Honor of Saint Anthony 5:00 pm OLMC Carmela Scavone 6:30 pm OLMC For the People of the Parish Altar Bread & Wine SJE - In Memory of William P. Downey. Rest in Peace - Please pray for the soul of Lucy Carpenito who died this past week.

Divine Mercy Sunday - April 3 3pm Holy Hour with the chaplet of

Divine Mercy and Benediction SJE.