Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel 627 East 187th Street, Bronx, New York 10458 | T: (718) 295-3770/ 3771 | F: (718) 367-2240

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Sunday, March 12, 2017| First Sunday of Lent - Year A

PARISH STAFF

Pastor Rev. Fr. Jonathan Morris

Parochial Vicar

Rev. Fr. Urbano Rodrigues

Coordinator of Religious Education Sister Edna Loquias, S.M.C.

Parish Secretary

Elizabeth Mannini

Music Director & Organist Dr. Stephen Rapp

Cantor

Bilen Eminov

Youth Minister School Principal Jesus Vargas Ms. Valerie Savino

PARISH CENTER

2380 Belmont Avenue Bronx, NY 10458

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday 9:00am to 8:00pm

Thursday & Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

Saturday: 8:30am (English) | 12:00pm ( English)

Saturday Evening: 5:00pm (English)

Sunday: 8:30am (English) | 9:30am (Spanish)

11:00am (Italian) | 12:15pm (English)

1:30pm (Spanish)

Weekday: 8:30am / 12:00pm / 6:30pm (All English)

RITE OF RECONCILIATION

Saturdays 4:00pm to 5:00pm or any time by calling the Parish Office.

RITE OF BAPTISM

2nd Sunday of every month in Spanish at 2:30pm 3rd Sunday every other month in English at 2:30pm Attendance at Pre - Baptism Class is required. Please stop by the Parish Center to register or call for more information.

RITE OF MATRIMONY

Wedding dates may be scheduled after initial meeting with a priest.

PASTORAL VISITS TO THE SICK

If you or someone you know is in the hospital or homebound and would be served by a pastoral visit by a Priest, Religious Sister or a lay Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion, please contact the Parish Center.

NEW PARISHIONERS

We invite new parishioners to register at the Parish Center.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION PROGRAM

For information please call Sr. Edna at the Parish Office at (718) 295-3770.

MOUNT CARMEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Please contact the School Office at (718) 295-6080.

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ANNOUNCED MASSES

SUN. MARCH 12th SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

8:30am Pasquale Marsibilio 9:30 am Pro Populo 11:00 am Antonio, Filomena e Concetta Del Sisto 12:15pm Silvana & Vincenzo De Luca 1:30pm Jose Moreno

MON. MARCH 13th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Giovanni Boiano 12:00pm Filippa & Peter Di Lorenzo 6:30pm John DeSisto

TUES. MARCH 14th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am For the Intentions of Giovanni Navarra (L) 12:00pm Luisa and Joseph Spedaliere & Mario Campanelli 6:30pm Lena & Alphonse Manna

WED. MARCH 15th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Carmine Pistocco 12:00pm Rosa Anastasio 6:30pm Lindo & Maria Borgatti

THURS. MARCH 16th LENTEN WEEKDAY 8:30am Francisco & Rosa Leon 12:00pm Gaetano Moretti 6:30pm Salvatore & Sarah Contento

FRI. MARCH 17th LENTEN WEEKDAY; ST. PATRICK 8:30am Caitlyn & Damian Cignarella (L) 12:00pm Frances & Nicholas Longo; Christine & Thomas Covino; Frank Pappas, Jennie Salce 6:30pm For the intentions of Jasmine Forestier (L)

SAT. MARCH 18th LENTEN WEEKDAY; ST. CYRIL OF JERUSALEM 8:30am Giuseppe Ruscigno 12:00pm Padre Pio Prayer Group 5:00pm Jacques DeMolay

SUN. MARCH 19th SECOND SUNDAY OF LENT

8:30am Deceased Parents & Benefactors of the MSC 9:30 am Pro Populo 11:00 am Maria Antonino 12:15pm Giuseppe Ruscigno 1:30pm Pedro Urbano Bailon Pesante

WEEKEND MASS COLLECTION - 3/5/2017

Collection ........................................................$4,784.16 Last year’s Collection …..................................$5,317.11

WEEKEND ATTENDANCE - 3/5/2017

Adults: …….789 Children: …….226 / Total: ……1,015

From the Desk of Father Jonathan During my early morning spiritual reading time, I ran across a very simple passage from one of my favorite early Church Fathers, Gregory of Nazianzus (4th century Archbishop of Constantinople). In a passage that is very appropriate for our Lenten journey, he reminds us of how simple our Christian life can be as we follow Jesus' command to love the poor. "So long as you are sailing with favorable winds, give a hand to those who are shipwrecked; so long as you are healthy and wealthy, help those who are suffering! Do not wait to experience for yourself how wretched it is to be inhuman, and how good it is to open your heart toward those in need. Do not wish to become an example of how God shows the strength of his arm against the proud, against those who pass by without taking care of the poor. Learn this form the calamities of others: give even a little to those who are in need; it is not so little for those who need everything" (On the Love for the Poor, 27-28). Who are the poor in my life? Even if I consider myself to be poor because I am struggling to pay bills, take care of children, or dealing with bad health.... there are always people near me who are in greater need than me. Every single Christian is called to serve the poor. I ask again, who are the poor in my life? Do I take seriously this call to be the hands and feet of Jesus for the poor among us? We are now beginning the second week of Lent. Let's not let these holy weeks pass us by without God's grace chang-ing us.

God bless! Father Jonathan

WEDDING BANNS

I. Carmine Gialanella & Alexis Natale Angelo Diaz & Anna Baggio Salvatore LaLumia & Karen DelCasale

II. Mark Bonifacio and Lisa Cruz

St. Anthony’s Bread - March 14th

In Loving Memory of Silvia, Nicola & Julianna Marricco

Love, Felice & Lucy Piccolino

In Loving Memory of Felice Moschetta, Raffaele & Rosa Piccolino

Love, Felicetta & Joseph Moschetta

+ REST IN PEACE +

Please pray for Hipolita Ortiz, Elvira Mulone, and all the faithful departed

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REFLECTING ON GOD’S WORD

THE JOURNEY OF TRANSFIGURATION Sunday’s Gospel: (Matt 17:1-9) “We used to be such good friends. How is it that you’ve moved so far away?” one man asked another. “Perhaps,” the other replied, “you have moved away. By standing still.” This exchange very well could have happened between Peter and Jesus, had Peter been allowed to erect tents to stay on the mount of the Transfiguration. He nearly succumbed to the temptation to stay in a place of wonder and light. But Jesus knew the hard truth: we are on a continual journey when we are walking the paths of God’s will. It is not good for us to stay in one place on our faith journey. Equally unhealthy is staying put in times of joy and wonder to avoid life’s difficulties, or to wallow in our trials and temptations and fail to be companions for our sisters and brothers who are also suffering—or celebrating! The pilgrim Church is required to do one thing on its Lenten journey: to walk continually with Christ as his Body born of water and the Spirit, seeking God’s will, helping the reign of God to be known on earth, being led to the end of our journey, transfigured for all time into the company of heaven.

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RIFLESSIONE SULLA PAROLA DI DIO Vangelo della Domenica: (Matt 17, 1-9)

Nelle Scritture, la montagna è sempre il luogo della rivelazione. Sono gli uomini come Mosè (Es 19) e Elia (1Re 19) che Dio incontra. Si racconta anche che il volto di Mosè venne trasfigurato da quell’incontro: “Quando Mosè scese dal monte Sinai - le due tavole della Testimonianza si trovavano nelle mani di Mosè mentre egli scendeva dal monte - non sapeva che la pelle del suo viso era diventata raggiante, poiché aveva conversato con il Signore” (Es 34,29). La magnificenza della rivelazione divina si comunica anche a coloro che la ricevono e diventano i mediatori della parola di Dio. Gesù si mette a brillare come il sole sotto gli occhi di tre discepoli: questo lo individua come colui che è l’ultimo a rivelare Dio, come colui che oltrepassa tutti i suoi predecessori. Ciò è sottolineato ancor più dal fatto che Mosè ed Elia appaiono e si intrattengono con lui. Essi rappresentano la legge e i profeti, cioè la rivelazione divina prima di Gesù. Gesù è l’ultima manifestazione di Dio. È quello che dimostra la nube luminosa - luogo della presenza divina (come in Es 19) - da dove una voce designa Gesù come il servitore regale di Dio (combinazione del salmo 2, 7 e di Isaia 42, 1). A ciò si aggiunge, in riferimento a Deuteronomio 18, 15, l’esortazione ad ascoltare Gesù, ad ascoltare soprattutto il suo insegnamento morale. © la chiesa.it

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION The Blessed Sacrament was not reserved in church buildings in the first centuries of the church. In those early years, of course, people met in borrowed “house churches,” gathering on the Lord’s Day for com-munity, apostolic teaching, the breaking of the bread, and the prayers, as Acts of the Apostles tells us. Dis-persed, people went their way into the workaday world until the next assembly. Weighing down their hearts was the absence of brothers and sisters, not only the sick, but those imprisoned for the faith. No wonder they devel-oped a way of extending the food of the Holy Table to them. Forty years ago, every altar boy in training heard about Saint Tarcisius. He was a twelve-year-old boy at the time of intense persecution in fourth-century Rome. His community had begun to convey the consecrated bread from their Eucharist to those condemned to death or awaiting trial. Normally deacons did this, but on one occasion, it was necessary to send the boy to bear the holy mysteries to the prison. The legend says that he was an athlete, and was detained on the way by some playmates who wanted him to join in their game. When he refused, they demanded to know what he was carry-ing. The situation went from bad to worse, and he was badly beaten and died of his injuries. A hundred years later, a pope called him a second St. Stephen. In the nineteenth century, Cardinal Nicholas Wiseman of Eng-land wrote a novel in which he expanded the story and popularized it. By then, no one seemed to notice that this twelve-year-old was actually touching and ministering the Eucharist, unthinkable until recently. Scholars say the story rings true: the first reason for setting some Eu-charistic bread aside was not adoration, but Communion of the sick. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

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FRIDAYS + VENERDÌ + VIERNES 11:15am - Italiano

5:45pm - English

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-Gesù nella vita non ti chiede di portare con lui la pesante croce, ma un piccolo pezzo della sua croce; pezzo che si compendia nei dolori umani.

-Chi comincia ad amare deve essere pronto a soffrire.

-Il Signore talvolta ti fa sentire il peso della croce. Questo peso ti sembra intollerabile, ma tu lo porti perché il Signore nel suo amore e nella sua miseri-cordia ti stende la mano e ti dà la forza.

REFLEXIONEMOS LA PALABRA DE DIOS Evangelio del Domingo: (Mat 17 1-9)

EL VIAJE DE LA TRANSFIGURACIÓN “Solíamos ser tan buenos amigos. ¿Por qué te has alejado tanto?” un hombre le preguntó a otro. “Quizás”, le respondió el otro “tú te has alejado al quedarte quieto”. Este diálogo bien podría haberse dado entre Pedro y Jesús si a Pedro se le hubiera permitido armar tiendas para quedarse en el monte de la Transfiguración. Casi sucumbió a la tentación de quedarse en un lugar de maravilla y luz. Pero Jesús sabía la difícil verdad: estamos en un viaje continuo cuando transitamos los caminos de la voluntad de Dios. No es bueno que nos quedemos en un lugar en nuestro viaje de fe. Es igualmente malsano estancarnos en los momentos de alegría y milagros para evitar las dificultades de la vida que ensimismarnos en nuestros sufrimientos y tentaciones para evadir ser buenos compañeros de nuestras hermanas y hermanos que también están sufriendo; ¡o celebrar! La Iglesia peregrina debe hacer una cosa en su viaje de Cuaresma: caminar continuamente con Cristo como su Cuerpo nacido del agua y del Espíritu, buscando la voluntad de Dios, ayudando a que se conozca en la tierra el Reino de Dios, siendo guiada al final de nuestro viaje, transfigurada para siempre en la compañía del cielo.

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TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE Muchos católicos aprovechan el tiempo de Cuaresma para confesarse. El sacramento de Reconciliación tiene una historia un poco complicada, pues ha sufrido muchos cambios con el transcurrir de los siglos. Al principio, la penitencia sólo se celebraba una sola vez en la vida de un cristiano y era necesaria en caso de pecado grave, como lo era la apostasía, el adulterio y el asesinato. El peniten-te tenía que hacer una confesión en público, frente al obispo y la comunidad entera. La penitencia consistía de un ayuno severo y vestir una indumentaria especial que lo distinguía. Esta penitencia podía durar semanas, y a veces, meses. Durante este tiempo, el penitente no podía estar presente en la mesa de la Eucaristía hasta que el obispo le diera la bendición de reconciliación, la cual, a menudo, se llevaba a cabo el Jueves Santo. Con el paso del tiempo, los cristianos se dieron cuenta de la necesi-dad de celebrar el sacramento de la Reconciliación con más frecuencia y por otras clases de pecado. Algún tiempo después, esta práctica cayó en el desuso y fue sustituida por la confesión privada, la cual se originó entre los monjes irlandeses. Después, esta práctica fue aceptada por toda la Iglesia. De esta manera es que nació el sacramento de la reconciliación que co-nocemos hoy. Actualmente, a pesar de que la Iglesia dice que no es necesario acercarse al confesionario antes de recibir la Comunión, se nos exhorta a confesarnos por lo menos una vez al año, o lo antes posible después de ha-ber cometido pecado grave.

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