Saint Pancras Roman Catholic Church 72-22 68th Street—Glendale, New York 11385 (t) 718-821-2323 (f) 718-639-0825 (w) www.StPancras-Queens.org Pastoral Staff Rev. Msgr. Steven J. Aguggia, J.C.L, Pastor Email: [email protected]Rev. Wladyslaw Kubrak, Parochial Vicar Email: [email protected]Mr. Robert Buonaspina, Director of Music Email: [email protected]Mr. Juan C. Perez, Pastoral Associate Email: [email protected]Ms. Paulette Rufrano, Parish Secretary Email: [email protected]Mr. George Escobar, Plant Manager Rectory Office Email: [email protected]New Rectory Office Hours Monday—Tuesday—Wednesday 9:00AM—12:00PM 1:00PM—7:00PM Thursday 9:00AM—12:00PM 1:00PM—5:00PM Friday 9:00AM—12:00PM 1:00PM—3:00PM Saturday 9:00AM—2:00PM Sunday By Appointment Mass Schedule Weekday—8:30AM Saturday Vigil—4:30PM Sunday Mass— 8:00AM—English 9:30AM—Polish 11:00AM—English Devotions Miraculous Medal and St. Anne Novena Mondays at 8:15AM Rosary Prayed Daily after the 8:30AM Mass Eucharistic Adoration Each 1st Friday of the month from October to June following the morning mass. Sacrament of Reconciliation Saturdays 3:30PM—4:00PM or by appointment. Sacrament of Baptism Fourth Sunday of each month at 1 pm (except during the Season of Lent), or when otherwise noted. Please call the rectory to make an appointment at least one month in advance. Chrzest w jezyku polskim w kazda pierwsza niedziele miesiaca o godzinie 13:00. Przypominamy iz rodzice Proszacy o chrzest swojego dziecka powinni byc zarejestrowanymi parafianami sw. Pankracego. Sacrament of Matrimony Marriage arrangements must be made at least six (6) months prior to the proposed wedding date. Please call the rectory to make an appointment. Please log on to www.pre-cana.org for complete information about marriage preparation in our Diocese. Catholic Cemeteries For information and available options, please call 718.894.4888.
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Saint Pancras Roman Catholic Church 72-22 68th Street—Glendale, New York 11385
January 31, 2021 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Page 3
Mass Intentions are Available Friday, February 5, 2021 8:30am
Tuesday, February 16, 2021 8:30am
Wednesday, February 17, 2021 7:00pm
Thursday, February 18, 2021 8:30am
Saturday, February 20, 2021 4:30pm
Saturday, February 27, 2021 8:30am
Thursday, March 4, 2021 8:30am
Friday, March 5, 2021 8:30am
Saturday, March 6, 2021 4:30pm
CONTACT TRACING
In compliance with healthcare guidelines, please scan this QR code in order to check in:
Or go to https://hubs.li/H0CpLj60
If a case of COVID-19 occurs here, your data may be shared with local health department officials to de-termine who may have had close contact with the individual with COVID-19.
Thank you for your cooperation during this unusual time!
Please Scan This QR Code Before Coming To Mass
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Reserving Mass Intentions for 2021
Please stop into the rectory Office during Office Hours to reserve Masses for 2021.
Requested for Weekday and Sunday Masses—$15
The 4:30 pm Mass on Saturdays will be a collective intention Mass
(more than one intention will be taken).
Purgatorial Society —$25
It is a good and holy thing to remember our deceased loved ones at Mass.
STAYING SAFE FROM COVID-19 IN CHURCH
You must wear a mask while in Church at all times.
Please remember to maintain 6 feet of distance from the person in front of you in the Communion
Procession. There are markers on the floor.
Receiving Holy Communion in the hand is strongly recommended because there is less risk of
inadvertent contact. If you receive on the tongue, you must wait to be the last person in the Communion
Procession.
When you receive in the hand, one hand should be placed over the other with palms open. Please do not
move or close you hand until after the sacred Host has been placed there.
Our Church is sanitized regularly. Thanks for all your efforts to keep everyone healthy!
The Paschal Candle
Each year at the Easter Vigil, the large candle you see near the Baptismal Font is blessed. It
is the symbol of the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. It is used at all baptisms when the
baptized die to their old selves and rise to a new life in Christ. For the same reason, the
candle is also lit for all funerals, when we recall Christ’s resurrection and what it means for
our departed loved ones.
This year we have purchased a larger candle as befits our beautiful (and large) Church.
If anyone would like to assist with a donation toward the Candle, please contact the parish
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This weekend, we continue to be made aware of a stagnant theme through the beginning of Ordinary Time — God's im-mense authority and power, made manifest through the heal-ing presence of His Son, Jesus Christ. One of our hymns for this weekend, "I Sing the Mighty Power of God," testifies to just this thematic construct. A well-known and ubiquitous tune of praise, this hymn was originally composed as a devo-tional Anglican melody and then rearranged by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1906. The text, scripted by Isaac Watts, originates as a paraphrase of Jeremiah 10:12-13, which makes great reference to the story of God's creation and providence among humans. At this point in the liturgical year, we are reminded of the presence of a prophet with true healing powers — so, in this way, may we reflect on both this hymntune and its text as purely emblematic of God’s saving grace. Robert Buonaspina, Music Director
Padre Pio Prayer Group
The Padre Pio Prayer group is a group which
meets the First Saturday of the month at
the 8:30 Mass. They pray in Italian and in
English. For more information please call
the rectory office.
The next meeting is
February 6, 2021.
We are happy to say that we have new candle
racks in Church featuring REAL candles.
We hope this will be an assistance in fostering
devotion and prayer.
FORMED
We have a great new service which
is being offered to all Saint Pancras
parishioners…
it’s called FORMED.
You just need to register online for this wonderful service. You will have access to interesting and informative videos, movies, and prayer experiences. It is a streaming service you can watch on your phones (with the FORMED app), on your iPads, or Smart TVs.
There are “movie nights” for the family
and kid’s videos that help teach the faith,
interesting documentaries and explanatory
videos on prayer, faith, theology, saints and
more.
Check it out and sign up. The parish has a subscription for all our parishioners.
Music Ministry
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ASH WEDNESDAY 2021 The use of ashes for punishment or penance predates Christianity. It is contained in the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) and other an-cient writings and was adopted by the infant Church as mentioned in Matthew’s Gospel (11:21) and the writings of many of the Fathers of the Church. The use of ashes in the Liturgy beginning the penitential season of Lent is credited to Pope Saint Gregory the Great who during his papacy (590-604) introduced its use to the Liturgy of Rome. Ashes were first sprin-kled collectively over the congregation and then later individually on the crown of the head of each of the faithful with the Old Testament injunc-tion from Genesis: “Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” This practice spread throughout the Universal Church and was further codified with the reforms of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). It seems that resulting from the Reformation, particularly in English speaking lands members of the Church with a desire to foster Roman Catholic identity, ceased to sprinkle the ashes on the crown of the heads of the penitents but instead smudged the ashes on the foreheads of those presenting themselves – first in a blotch and more recently in the sign of a Cross. This is the predominant custom of administering ashes on Ash Wednesday in the United States and the Diocese of Brooklyn. The Missal of Pope Saint Paul VI (1969) adds another formula that may be used when administering the ashes from Mark’s Gospel: “Repent, and believe in the Gospel.” The current Book of Blessings allows lay-faithful to administer previously blessed ashes while only a Bishop, Priest or Deacon may bless them either at Mass or within a Celebration of the Word of God. In January of this year, due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Disci-pline of the Sacraments issued a “note” requiring that ashes be sprinkled on the crown of the heads of the faithful and that the formula (using either option) be recited only once before all those gathered receive the sacramental at the Ash Wednesday Liturgies. These changes minimize the necessity of physical contact including speech between minister and recipient and remove the need for the minister (who is to wear a face covering) to speak while in close proximity to the recipient. Even though we’re not accustomed to it in our country or diocese, the distribution of ashes by sprinkling on the top or crown of the head is considered completely normal in a majority of the “Catholic World” including Rome itself. While there is clearly a noble aspect of public witness in the usual American method of marking the fore-head with ashes, it is also important to remember that ashes are a sacramental intended to help the faithful who receive them in their own interior striving for holiness and preparation for the Paschal Triduum.
