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CHURCH OF ST. CHARLES
644 CLAWSON STREET, OAKWOOD HEIGHTS, STATEN ISLAND, NY 10306
MAY 17, 2020 SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Pastoral Staff Pastor Rev. Louis R. Jerome Parochial Vicar Fr. Stefan Chanas Fr. Ruwandana Mendis In Residence Bishop John J. O’Hara Weekend Associate Bishop Edmund J. Whalen Permanent Deacons Deacon Stephen Tobon Deacon Lawrence Droge Pastoral Associate Sr. Jeanine Conlon, O.P. School Principal Mr. J. C. Kiernan Religious Education Coordinator Ms. Kerry Quinn Director of Music Mr. Paul Light Sacristan Mr. Frank Castelao
Contact Information
Rectory School
644 Clawson Street 200 Penn Avenue
(718) 987-2670 (718) 987-0200
Fax: (718) 987-7950 Fax: (718) 987-8158
Email Address Tuition Office
[email protected] (718) 987-5780
Website:
www.stcharlessi.org
Religious Education
200 Penn Avenue www.saintcharlesccd.org
(718) 979-6800 [email protected]
Parish Office Hours
Sunday 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Monday - Friday 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday 10:30 AM - 6:30 PM
Sacramental Life
Mass Schedule
Parish Registration New parishioners need to register at the rectory. Please inform us if you move into or out of the parish.
Confessions Saturday: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM, 5:00 - 5:30 PM, and after Mass on the Eve of a Holy Day.
Baptisms Second Sunday of the month at 2:30 PM Instruction for parents of the children to be baptized to be ar-ranged at the rectory. SPONSOR CERTIFICATES REQUIRED for Godparents and also a copy of the child’s birth certificate.
Marriages To arrange a marriage at St. Charles, consult with a priest or deacon at least six months prior to the pro-posed date and before social arrangements. Attend-ance at Pre-Cana and Natural Family Planning Clas-ses is required.
Anointing and
Communion of the Sick Regular administration of the Sacraments should be arranged for shut-ins by calling the rectory. Emer-gency sick calls anytime.
Religious Education Program Instruction for all grade levels beginning with first grade. For information call the Religious Education Office.
Weekend Masses Saturday Evening 4:00 & 5:30 PM Sunday 8:15, 9:30 & 10:45 AM 12:00, 1:15
Weekday Masses Monday - Friday 8:30 & 12 Noon Saturday 8:30 AM
Holy Days Masses Eve of the Holy Day 7:30 PM
8:30, 12:00 and 7:30 PM
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LITURGY CORNER MONDAY – MAY 18 8:30 - Mary Capo—Mem. 12:00 - William Ringwood—Mem. TUESDAY - MAY 19 8:30 - Mimi Cusick—Mem. 12:00—Ruland & Morgan Families—Mem. WEDNESDAY - MAY 20 8:30—Living & Deceased Members of the Burrell & Janiszewski Families—Mem. 12:00—Geraldine Irrera —Ann. 7:30—Dolores Laieta—Mem. THURSDAY—MAY 21 8:30—Madeline Bitetto—Mem. 12:00—Fr. Marius Fernando—Living Intentions 7:30—Edward Cossetta—Mem. FRIDAY—MAY 22 8:30—Lauren Sassano—Mem. 12:00—John Lombardo—Mem. SATURDAY - MAY 23 8:30—Paul LaGrega—Mem. 4:00—MaryAnn Sparano—Mem. 5:30—Rose & Paul Fazio—Mem. SUNDAY - MAY 24 8:15—Denise Ioviero—Mem. 9:30—Parishioners of St. Charles 10:45—John Gabriel—Mem. 12:00—Walter Starita—Mem. 1:15—Frank DeMartini, Sr. —Mem.
So many of you have signed up for online giving through Weshare or have mailed your church envelopes to the rectory. Thank you so much for your continued support of St. Charles Church. You have always been so committed to St. Charles parish and continue to do so during this difficult time and we thank you. The link to Weshare is on our website (www.stcharlessi.org).
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament Monday - Friday at 12:00-5:00 PM in the Chapel
First Mondays at 7:30 PM in the Church (cancelled in August)
First Fridays at 7:00 PM in the Church (cancelled in August)
Call Jeannette Burrell (718-979-0034) or Lois Galvin (718-948-8193) for information
Rosary and Novenas The Rosary is recited each weekday at 8:10 and 11:30
AM and on Saturday at 8:10 AM. The Miraculous Medal novena prayers are said after
the 8:30 & 12:00 PM Masses on Mondays.
Flowers, Wine & Hosts and Oil
If you would like to make arrangements to have the flowers for the main altar, the wine & hosts, or oils used for Mass Candles in memory of a loved one or a special occasion, please, call the rectory.
PLEASE NOTE
If a Mass is being said for a member of your family on Saturday evening or Sunday, it would be most fitting if someone from the family would bring up the gifts at the Offertory. Please let one of the ushers know before Mass.
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Weekly Offerings
PARISH MINISTRIES Adult Faith Formation Wednesday - 1:30; rectory Baptism Classes First Tuesday of the month at 8:00 PM; rectory Bereavement Group Will resume in the Spring Book Club Third Thursday each month at 4:00 PM; rectory Caregivers Support Group Thursday - 9:30 - 11:30 AM; rectory Choir (Adult) Thursday at 7:30 PM; church Divine Mercy Devotion Friday at 3:00 PM; chapel Eucharistic Ministers First Fridays at 7:00 PM; church Legion of Mary Wednesday at 4:00 PM; rectory chapel Prayer Group & Holy Hour First Monday of the month at 7:30 PM; church Prayer Shawl/Blanket Ministry Last Friday of the month at 10:00 AM; rectory Religious Education Classes Monday 3:45 - 5:15 PM Grades 6 & 7 Wednesday 3:45 - 5:15 PM Grades 1-5 Special Needs: Monday 5:30 - 6:00 PM St. Vincent de Paul Society Meeting - Second Tuesday of month at 1:30 PM; rectory Food Pantry open 2nd & 4th Tuesday of every month 11:30 AM -1:30 PM; rectory Teen Club Sunday at 7:00 PM; auditorium
Women’s Wednesday Worship - April 15 at 7:30 PM; rectory
WEEKLY COFFEE HOUR Cancelled until further notice
Coffee and donuts will be served following the 9:30 Mass. All are welcome.
St. Charles School 2020-2021
Application and Registration Process for NEW students is NOW OPEN!
Application and Registration for the 2020-2021 school year is now open for families interested in Pre-Kindergarten (3 year olds) and grades
Kindergarten through 8th.
Families can now begin applying to St. Charles School by accessing the school website at
www.SaintCharlesSchool SI.org
**Financial Assistance is available**
After completing the application, the school will contact the applicant and discuss the next steps. Upon registration, all students will re-quire birth certificate, baptismal certificate (if applicable), immunization and physical docu-mentation, and past year report cards and NYS
standardized test results (if applicable).
The FREE Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) registration process for children born in the year 2016 will not begin until February 2020.
You can stay up to date on the UPK registration process by going to www.nyc.gov/prek.
If you have any questions or would like to schedule a school tour with our principal,
Mr. Kiernan, please contact Mrs. Browne in the main office at 718-987-0200 or 718-987-5780.
We hope to welcome you to the
St. Charles School family real soon!
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PARISH NEWS
PLEASE UTILIZE FLOCKNOTES TO STAY INFORMED OF
PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS BELOW ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS
TO SIGN UP IF YOU HAVEN’T ALREADY DONE SO!
There are two easy ways to connect. 1. Visit our parish at: www.flocknote.com/
SCBstatenisland and sign up. 2. Text stcharlesb to 84576 from your cell
phone to subscribe to Flocknote. This is a great opportunity for you to get plugged into things going on in our parish.
PLEASE CONSIDER USING OUR ONLINE GIVING PROGRAM TO
CONTINUE TO SUPPORT ST. CHARLES CHURCH DURING
THESE DIFFICULT TIMES
WESHARE
For your convenience, we offer the oppor-tunity to make your envelope payments elec-tronically through WeShare. For more infor-mation, go to www.churchgiving.com or a d i r e c t l i n k o n o u r w e b s i t e (www.stcharlessi.org).
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PARISH OFFICE The parish office is answering the phones but the office is closed. If you have an emer-gency and need a priest, please call the office at 718-987-2670.
Live in the Light When we can’t rely on the buildings and struc-tures of our parish, we are offered an oppor-tunity to lean into our unity of faith as a body. Enlightened by Christ, by the many saints who have marked the way before us, we are invited to share this light with one another. Let’s start this vigil together with a practical, simple first step of offering everything we do back to God. A great way to start is with a morning offering. Let’s reclaim these days ahead of us. Although we are being asked to physically distance ourselves from one another, we have an opportunity now to spiritually unite each day as we claim our homes and our daily living for Christ.
Morning Offering O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart, in union with the Holy Sac-rifice of the Mass throughout the world, for the salvation of souls, the reparation of sins, the reunion of all Christians, and in particular for the intentions of the Holy Father this month. Amen.
WE PRAY...WE CELEBRATE...WE REMEMBER
THE GET WELL LIST
WE REMEMBER
Eternal rest grant unto their souls, O Lord. And let perpetual light shine upon them.
May they rest in peace. Amen. May their souls and the souls of the faithful departed
rest in peace. Amen Santa Mancuso Teresa Deegan
Isabel Gallo Oscar Diaz
Keith Alaimo Paul Alaimo Sr. Robert Aviles Debbie Bernfeld Hanah Black Madeline Buonpane Jodi Butt Mary Campitelli Lee Canning Marietta Canning Marty Casey Nick Castagna Grace Castelao Nicholas Christy John Comito Joseph Coscia Elaine Cupak Frank Deegan Andrew DiPadova Mary Lou Fiore James Gallagher Nina Giblin Lou Gioia Cathy Harris Emily Harris Jim Hlavac
Cheryl Houss Jeannette Castelao Keane Rosaria Ladaro Thomas Willam Larson Anthony Locicero Jr. Nicole Lucchini Ursula Marco Lauren Marie Virginia McBride Mary McKeever Alfred Merendino Mary Messias Loraine Minutillo MaryAnn Mongiello Steven Morvillo Eileen Raineri Ella Reilly Dolores & Tony Sclafani Anthony Scocco Marie Starita Abigail Taylor Jude Riley Taylor Vincent Truscelli Christopher Wandy
Today’s Gospel—John 14: 15-21
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains with you, and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. In a little while the world will no longer see me, but you will see me, because I live and you will live. On that day you will realize that I am in my Father and you are in me and I in you. Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”
The Gospel of the Lord.
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Romans 8: 38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor pre-sent things nor future things, nor powers nor height, nor depth, nor any other crea-ture will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
PARISH NEWS
LIVESTREAM MASSES Fr. Jerome will be doing a live stream daily Mass at 9:30 AM (Mondays at 12:30) and on Sundays at 12 noon on Fa-cebook—St. Charles Staten Island page. You can also get to it by going to our website at www.stcharlessi.org. In addition, below are various websites and TV channels that offer live streams of Masses as well as links to assist you in your prayer life during this difficult time. We hope that this will help to give you peace. Mass will be celebrated on Catholic Faith Net-work—Channel 296 Fios and Channel 162/471 Spectrum—at 12 Noon from St. Agnes Cathe-dral and 6:30 PM from St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Mass is also celebrated on EWTN—Channel 285 Fios and Channel 460 Spectrum at 12 noon daily.
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SPIRITUAL COMMUNION PRAYER
My Jesus, I believe that you are present in the Most Holy Sacrament.
I love you above all things and I desire to receive you in my soul.
Since I cannot at this moment receive you sacra-mentally,
Come at least spiritually into my heart. I embrace you as if you were already there
And unite myself wholly to you. Never permit me to be separated from you.
Amen.
PRAY THE ROSARY May is such a beautiful month. The whole month is dedicated to our Blessed Lady, Mother of
God. The pious practice of honoring the Blessed
Virgin Mary during the entire month of May has been especially recommended by many Popes. Mary is our loving mother. Her maternal heart is full of love and mercy for her beloved children. She is always waiting for us to turn to her for her motherly guidance. She constantly presents all our prayers to her dear son, Jesus. Mary is known as the “Gate of Heaven“. We need to pray the Rosary every single day during the month of May. If you cannot pray the entire ro-s a r y w i t h d e d i c a t i o n , p r a y a t least one decade with all your heart, and if a dec-ade is not possible, recite at least one Hail
Mary with complete devotion. When we pray the Hail Mary, we ask our heav-enly mother to intercede for us now and at the hour of our death. Yes, we need her power-ful intercession during that fearful time. Our merciful mother will help us, we only need to pray to her without ceasing.
Canticle of Mary My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant. From this day all generations will call me blessed: the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name. He has mercy on those who fear him in every generation. He has shown the strength of his arm, he has scattered the proud in their conceit. He has cast down the mighty from their thrones, and has lifted up the lowly. He has filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he has sent away empty. He has come to the help of his servant Israel for he has remembered his promise of mercy, the promise he made to our fathers, to Abraham and his children for ever. Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spir-it, as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be for ever. Amen.
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FROM THE PASTOR’S DESK
SOCIAL DISTANCING NOT SPIRITUAL DISTANCING… Recently I heard a story about two masked men who entered a bank. Everyone nervously stared at them. One of them then said, “oh, don’t worry folks...this is just a robbery!” All of us have learned in the past two months to put our masks on when we enter a store. But what happens when the elastic on the mask breaks? That’s exactly what happened to me at the dry cleaners a few weeks ago. My mask snapped! There was a man who was coming into the store at the same time and when he saw my broken face covering, he ran out. The clerk behind the counter said to me, “looks like he’s afraid to come back in as long as you’re here!” As I passed him on the street I said, “sorry sir but I am not contaminated!” He said, “how do I know that?” There is a great deal of nervousness in our society today over covid 19. But perhaps all of us just need to be calm and while taking all the precautions try to be kind to one another! The other phenomena that we have all become familiar with since March is what we call “social dis-tancing.” For some people it comes easier than others. A man had a sign on his office door which read: “Please respect my personal space. Nothing to do with corona virus. I am just a miserable son of a gun.” A lady made a comment to me last week about how she did not like that term “social distancing.” She sug-gested that “physical distancing” is a better phrase and I think that’s right. Human beings need to socialize, interact with each other and communicate! Even before this virus, there was too much social isolation, especially among the young. With the onset of the pandemic, we have moved into a new virtual world where physical presence and communication is lessened. We meet now on facebook, zoom, instagram and other cyber sites. While this is a temporary measure, it’s not really beneficial in the long run for the human spirit. God does not communicate to ma-chines—he communicates to all of us who are living persons! The Acts of the Apostles reminds us that “God is not far from anyone of us.” All we have to do is to pray. Of course, we do not need to be in church to pray. However, the church is really the most excellent place to pray because there in the tabernacle we have the real presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharistic. The Lord is in our midst and if it is possible, we should try to make a visit to the Blessed Sacrament—no mask is required! Here at St. Charles, we have kept the church open each day and I know that many of you are grateful for that privilege. If we can’t make it to the church or feel uncomfortable, we can always pray at home. Of course, there are distractions in the house, but if we have a small “prayer corner” with perhaps a statue or a crucifix, it will help. The important thing about prayer is that we must do it! More than ever, we need to speak to the Lord and to listen to His word. Prayer gives us light, peace and joy. With the strength and grace that prayer obtains, we should then begin to “see Christ” in our brothers and sisters all around us and pray for them. Social distancing does not entail spiritual distancing. In the scriptures, we read these words: “Cast all your cares upon the Lord for He does indeed care for you.” No distance here! During this stressful time, let us put our trust in the Lord our Shepherd who leads us and guides us.
Sincerely in Christ, Fr. Jerome
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