VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

VISITATION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH

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Mrs. Elsie Tweedy

Mrs. Sylvia Dobles

Fr. Johannes Sr. Máire

Fr. Eamon

Sr. Frauke 917-515-4225

Sr. Rosanna 718-675-6058

Sr. Máire 805-300-6913

Ms. Annette Amendola

Mrs.Francesca DeLuca

A LANDMARK OF FAITH IN RED HOOK SINCE 1854

Secretary/Bookkeeper

Office Assistant/Religious Ed

Religious Ed. Director Religious Ed.

Youth Ministry

Pastoral Associate

Public Relation

Music Ministry

Trustee

Trustee

98 RICHARDS STREET,BROOKLYN, NY 11231

Tel. (718) 624-1572 Fax (718) 722-7748

Rev. Claudio Antecini, Pastor

Rev. Johannes Siegert, Parochial Vicar - Rev. Eamon Murray, Parochial Vicar

OFFICE HOURS Monday – Thurs. 9:00 a.m. - 3:00pm

MASS SCHEDULE Saturday (Sunday Vigil Mass) 5:00 p.m. (English) Sunday: 10:00 a.m. (Spanish) 12:30 p.m. (English) Community Prayer /Weekday Mass Tuesday & Thursday 7:30 p.m. (bilingual)

House of Prayer: Monday @7pm Emily Rodriguez 347-622-7429 (Eng) Tuesday @7pm Ileanna 347-461-5169 Tuesday @7pm Graciela Vargas 929-276-8176 Thursday @7pm Hilda 347-932-2985 Thursday @7pm Josefina 718-522-0205 Friday @7pm Emily Morales 718-875-2969

Saturday @ 3pm Christyl Rodriguez (ages 14-18) 347-383-7850

Monday @ 7pm Brittany Rodriguez (ages 10-14) 347-383-7850

Children's House of Prayer Tuesday @7pm Diana Ortiz (ages 6-12) 718-930-0978

Faith Formation :Grades 1– 8

First Communion Wednesday's 3:15pm Or Sunday 11:15 am

Confirmation & First Communion Sunday’s 11:15am until 12:20pm

RCIA Classes -Sunday's 2:00pm

BAPTISMS FOR CHILDREN UNDER 7 Baptism will be every other month after parents and god-parents have taken the Philip Course. Classes will be an-nounced. Please make sure you bring your child’s birth certificate before the date of baptism.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION Saturday at 4:30pm or by appointment. (Confessions)

MARRIAGES

For the Sacrament of Matrimony, an appointment must be made with the Pastor 6 months in advance of the pro-posed date

VISITS TO THE SICK Please contact the parish office so we visit the sick.

Please notify us when you know an active member of our parish is ill.

BAUTISMO PARA NIÑOS MENORES DE 7 AÑOS Los Bautismos serán cada dos meses. Después de que los padres y padrinos hayan tomado el curso Felipe. El curso se llevara a cabo en un fin de semana o puede tomarlo en una sesion de seis tardes el dia martes a las 7:00 p.m. Traer el certificado de nacimiento del niño.

EL SACRAMENTO DE LA RECONCILIACION Sabados con cita

EL MATRIMONIO La pareja deberá fijar una cita con el párroco por lo menos 6 meses antes de la fecha de la boda

LA CONFIRMACION Y LA COMUMION La preparación para estos sacramentos se cumple según la edad de la persona y su conocimiento de la Fe Católica

VISITA DE LOS ENFERMOS Comunicarse con la oficina parroquial.

GRUPO DE ORACION ARCA DE ALIANZA Lunes 7:00pm - 9:00pm

April 9, 2017

WINE & HOSTS IN MEMORY OF

Pablo Sierra

SANCTUARY LAMP Joseph Johnson

BLESSED SACRAMENT CANDLE (chapel) Daniel Rosado

Please Pray for the Deceased Pablo Sierra

PRAYER REQUESTS FOR THE SICK Pete Morales, Kaitlin Nelson, Anilda Rodriguez Rosanna Smith, Bertha Delinski, Debbie Agostini Angela Santiago, Pedro Incle, Ann Nelson, Ramona Cruz Vega

Easter Sunday April 16, 2017 Sat. April 15th 8:00pm Laura Ramirez (Blessing)

Sun. April 16th 10:00am Pablo Sierra

12:30pm Alfonse Niedermeyer III

Tue. April 18th 7:30pm Daniel Rosado

Thurs. April 20th 7:30pm Justina Rosado (For Health)

Sat. April 22nd 5:00pm Hosea Benjamin Ramirez (For Health)

Sun. April 23rd 10:00am Bennardo, Anna, Eleonora, Giuseppe, Paolo Contorno

12:30pm Pablo & Eva Sierra

Visitation BVM is open for you Thank you for taking part in restoring the House

of Our Lord

Help us pay for Repairs Needed To the column, roof and organ due to water damage

Please send in your donation to

Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church or checks payable to Visitation BVM

All donations however large or small are gratefully received.

Margarita R. Sofia Torres Orellana Family Lidia Marrero Saucedo Family Roman Lorenza Dijarsa Justo Delos Santo Cody Family Sweeney Family Wirth Family Charles Wirth Nieves Martinez Alberto Dobles King Family John Burkard Robert Burkard Richard Burkard Carol Ann Gagliano Andrew Amendola Ralph Amendola Sr. M. Dolores Sullivan Sr. M Malachy Cusack Salvator Pizzitola Andrea Jaume

Anton & Elsa Kullen Joseph Johnson Rosado Family Amendola Family Browne Family Recchia Family Mejia Family Marrero Family Riscoe Family Pablo & Eva Sierra Ruthy Sanchez Harry Ramos Joseph & Mary Giarrusso Frances D’Angelo Carmelo & Carmela Pistone Rebecca Sanchez Rafael Hernandez Genao Family Agustin Huertas Aiva Ralph Colon Angelo Rosado

From an Easter homily by Saint Melito of Sardis, bishop The lamb that was slain has delivered us from death and given us life There was much proclaimed by the prophets about the mystery of the Passover: that mystery is Christ, and to him be glory for ever and ever. Amen. For the sake of suffering humanity he came down from heaven to earth, clothed himself in that humanity in the Vir-gin’s womb, and was born a man. Having then a body ca-pable of suffering, he took the pain of fallen man upon him-self; he triumphed over the diseases of soul and body that were its cause, and by his Spirit, which was incapable of dying, he dealt man’s destroyer, death, a fatal blow. He was led forth like a lamb; he was slaughtered like a sheep. He ransomed us from our servitude to the world, as he had ransomed Israel from the land of Egypt; he freed us from our slavery to the devil, as he had freed Israel from the hand of Pharaoh. He sealed our souls with his own Spirit, and the members of our body with his own blood. He is the One who covered death with shame and cast the devil into mourning, as Moses cast Pharaoh into mourning. He is the One who smote sin and robbed iniquity of off-spring. He is the One who brought us out of slavery into freedom, out of darkness into light, out of death into life, out of tyranny into an eternal kingdom; who made us a new priesthood, a people chosen to be his own for ever. He is the Passover that is our salvation. It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonored in the prophets.

It is he who was made man of the Virgin, he who was hung on the tree; it is he who was buried in the earth, raised from the dead, and taken up to the heights of heaven. He is the mute lamb, the slain lamb, the lamb born of Mary, the fair ewe. He was seized from the flock, dragged off to be slaughtered, sacrificed in the evening, and buried at night. On the tree no bone of his was broken; in the earth his body knew no decay. He is the One who rose from the dead, and who raised man from the depths of the tomb.