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HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM.
431 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-0025,FAX: (914) 747-2476 Website: www.hiparish.org Office Hours: M-F: 9am-3pm, Sat: 11am-5pm, Sun:9am-1pm
MASS SCHEDULE Saturday: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30am, 9:00am Children’s Choir, 11am and 5:15pm Daily: 7:00am Monday to Saturday
Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am; Daily: 8:45am
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request. Please call the office for an appointment.
NEW PARISHIONERS: You are cordially invited to join our parish community. Please stop in at the Parish Office.
CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS (RCIA): An ongoing invitation is extended to anyone who is interested in becoming a Catholic. Simply contact the Parish Office. SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Please call the Parish Office to make arrangements for our Baptismal Preparation Program, several weeks in advance of the baby’s birth. SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY: By appointment at least 6 months in advance. A pre-Cana program is required. SACRAMENT OF THE SICK: As scheduled, or anytime a priest is called. Please notify us when a family member enters the hospital.
PARISH STAFF Fr. William A. Holt, OP, Pastor
Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Jordan McConway, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP Sr. Kathleen O’Hanlon, OP Fr. Hugh Burns, OP (In Residence)
Gerard Roggemann 769-3297 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Eileen Bruehl 769-0025 x11 Parish Coordinator Thomas Conaty 769-0025 x30 Youth Minister Barbara Mackin 769-0025 x22 Business Manager [email protected] Bulletin Editor
August 9, 2015
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Monday 2 Cor 9:6-10; Jn 12:24-26
Tuesday Dt 31:1-8; Dt 32:3-4ab, 7-9, 12; Mt 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
Wednesday Dt 34:1-2; Ps 66:1-3a, 5, 8, 16-17; Mt 18:15-20
Thursday Jos 3:7-10a, 11, 13-17; Mt 18:21 — 19:1
Friday Jos 24:1-13; Mt 19:3-12
Saturday Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56
Sunday Prv 9:1-6; Eph 5:15-20; Jn 6:51-58
Evening Vigil 5:15pm Robert Tracy NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Alex & Mario Mirando 10:00 (OLP) Anne Cedrone (1st Anniversary) 11:00 Stephen Akalski 5:15 Agnes Ward Monday, Saint Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr 7:00 Anne Cedrone 8:45 (OLP) George Davis Tuesday, Saint Clair, Virgin 7:00 James Sullivan 8:45 (OLP) Costanzo & Marietta Spedaliere Wednesday, Weekday 7:00 Ruth Fidgeon 8:45 (OLP) John Carlin Thursday, Weekday 7:00 Frank Myett 8:45 (OLP) Josephine Grescavage Friday, Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest & Martyr 7:00 Ruth Fidgeon 8:45 (OLP) Anthony Rubicco Saturday, The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 7:00 Margaret Fox 8:45 (OLP) Vincenzo & Tanya Pili Evening Vigil 5:15pm Mary Moran & Family TWENTIETH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Deceased Members of the Surace Family 10:00 (OLP) Bill Caldera 11:00 Stephen Dowd 5:15 Frances Waters
2015 FINANCE CORNER
Regular Maintenance July 5 $ 8,124.20 Church in Africa Collect $ 1,683.00 July 12 $ 7,336.10 $ 2,105.00 July 19 $ 6,355.43 July 26 $ 7,164.21 Aug 2 $ 7,466.87 Church in Latin America $ 1,824.00 Parish Pay $ 9,884.67 $ 1,219.00
Jimmy Fleming, Joyce Scholz Deborah Migliorini, Rita Laviano, Antonio Soto, John Keator, Mary Pat & Jack McMahon, Betty Burns, Meghan Rizzo, Mary Renna, Walter Salat, Barbara Walters, Juan Portillo, Jacques Padawer, Kathy FioRito, Edythe Proehl, Elizabeth Kelleher, Bonnie Proudian, Jeanne Cibirka, Lucia Carlucci, Jennifer Schneider, Elsie Vernon, Richard Colucci, Maria Provenzano, Lee Franco, Adele Casagrande, Carrie Dunsmore, Joseph Drago, Gabrielle Sanchez, Rose Puller, Olivia Bendus, Linda Iorizzo, Judy Chriss, Jane Chitty, Jerry Brennan, Jean Balzone, Bernadette Harris, Angela Lynch, Robert Iovino, Joey DeMatteis, Dennis Catozella, Beth Frankoviac, Jennifer Schneider, Bartholomew Hickey, Teresa Cardinali, Rocco Zacarolli, Robert Sarro, Irene Ramirez, Eleanor Stockel, Michael Lepore, Ellen Dierking, Nate Smith, Matthew Ryan Taylor, Maureen Corry, Nicholas Torres, Baby Hazel.
Please pray for the safety of our men and women in the military, especially those who are serving overseas.
CONDOLENCES We extend our sympathy and promise of prayers to the family and friends of Lidia Marcella, (mother of Linda Jackson) and Angelo Nonna (father of John.)
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CYO YOUTH GROUP The Youth Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Sun-days of each month. No Meetings during July and August. All 9th-12th graders are welcome to join us. If you have any questions please contact [email protected]
●New Youth Group officers will be announced soon. ●New officers will meet in August to plan first half of year. ●General Youth Group meetings resume the Sunday after Labor Day. ●CYO Basketball (K-HS) online registration will be in September...dates TBA ●If you are entering the 5th grade you may now become an Altar Server. We will be training servers in September; email me at:
“25th & 50th WEDDING ANNIVERSARY” CELEBRATION
Holy Innocents is planning a celebration on October 18th for those parishioners who are celebrating their 25th or 50th Wedding Anniversary during 2015. Participants will be recognized at the 11am Mass followed by a reception in our Social Hall. If you are celebrating either Wedding Anniversary this year, please register with the parish office by calling 769-0025.
FOOD PANTRY
The Food Pantry is now accepting donations. The Pantry is in need of the following: canned fruit, tuna, salmon pasta sauce, beans, brown rice, white rice. There is a special need for low or lower sodium foods such as: canned vegetables, shredded wheat, chicken and beef broth.
DRIVE FOR SCHOOL SUPPLIES
The Social Concerns Committee, as part of our outreach program to the Highbridge community, is conducting a drive for NEW school supplies. These supplies will be distributed to 200 impoverished children before the opening of the coming school year. New items requested include: black and white composition books, pencils, pens, erasers, rulers, crayons, folders, loose leaf paper, loose leaf binders and backpacks. Donations may be left in the appropriate box in the Tompkins Ave. entrance of the church. Your donations are deeply appreciated and will be put to good use.
We recently welcomed into the family of God and our parish family:
Grace Anne Hoffman
Our parishioner and Pleasantville High School student, James Bathon will host a Blood Drive on Wednesday, September 16th in the Social Hall at Holy Innocents.
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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
EVBS - Ecumenical Vacation Bible School-August 10
th – 14
th at Holy Innocents
Volunteers needed..please call for information.
Program Calendar will be posted on the Parish Website: www.hiparish.org and on Burbio.com. We are looking to offer the calendars through Burbio.com to make the parent’s life a little easier and hopefully more manageable. Parent letters to be mailed in August. They will include: verification of child’s class, Program calendar, information about Program calendar on Burbio.com. Also, an invitation for parents who have children attending Religious Education at Holy Innocents for the first time to hear about what your children will experience and how the Program is run. Candidates for Confirmation October 2016. Please continue to work on your “Blue Book Journals.” Gerard J Roggemann Coordinator - Holy Innocents Religious Education ph 914-769-3297 www.hiparish.org fax 914-769-7225 [email protected]
This weekend our recessional hymn is one of the most popular in Catholic liturgies. I Am the Bread of Life was written by Mercy Sister Suzanne Toolan. Sr. Toolan was one of the first composers to write music for the Catholic Church in English after Vatican II. The song has been translated into more than 20 languages and Sr. Toolan explains how this popular hymn came to be: “It was 1966 and I had been asked to write a song for an event in the San Francisco archdiocese. With the deadline looming, I worked on a song in an unoccupied room next to the infirmary in the Catholic girl’s high school where I was teaching. I worked on it, and I tore it up. I thought, ‘This will not do,’ and this little girl came out of the infirmary and said, ‘What was that? That was beautiful!’ I went right back and Scotch-taped it up.” That schoolgirl saved one of the most popular hymns of the Second Vatican Council era. Sr. Toolan is aware that some don’t care for the song, but she takes the criticism in stride. She has wondered about its popularity – “it’s a hymn that really shouldn’t work for the congregation, it’s too low, it’s too high.” Sr. Toolan believes it works so well, because the scripture is so strong. In addition to Catholic hymnals, it is also part of the official hymnbooks fo the Episcopal, Lutheran and Methodist churches. People give Sr. Toolan copies of it after their travels to Europe and Asia, seeing it in so many different languages is thrilling for the composer. Sr. Suzanne Toolan will turn 88 on October 24th. Her memoir titled I Am the Bread of Life was published in 2007 as part of the celebration of her 80
th birthday. Her call to religious life came in the first grade. Sr. Toolan describes it this
way “We had this strange, but wonderful man who played the organ, and I thought, gee, I want to be a nun and I want to be an organist.” Sr. Toolan is a teacher and inspiring spiritual figure at Mercy High School in Burlingame, California. She is a prominent American spokesperson for the music and prayer of the Taizé ecumenical community from France and continues to lead many Taizé-style retreats.
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DONATIONS Please do not leave bags of old clothing, shoes, books, toys, etc. in the entrances to our church. We are unable to donate these items.
ST. PATRICK’S SCHOOL YORKTOWN
St. Patrick's School(Yorktown) is welcoming new students for the Fall 2015. NEW partnership with Kennedy Catholic - iPADs for 6-7-8 grades! Full/Half Day Pre-K 3/4 through 8th. SPS has 5 days hot lunch program, morning/after school care, a r esour c e t eac he r , Span i s h , Mus i c , Art, Computer, class plays, basketball, volleyball, scouts, class trips, and more! Transportation from districts available! Call 914-962-2211 and visit w w w . s t p a t r i c k s s c h o o l y o r k t o w n . o r g
We need you—do you have an interest in discussing the challenges that face youth and parents, including underage drinking and drug use? If so, please join us; we invite you! Like us on Facebook.
facebook.com/PleasantvilleStrong
Coalition Meetings held the third Wednesday of every month at 8:00pm at Pleasantville High School Library. Everyone is Welcome.
Join the Dominican Province of Saint Joseph on pilgrimage to Spain & France
In the Footsteps of Saint Dominic for the 800th Jubilee of the Order
June 2 – 9, 2016
Brochures available at the entrances to the church. Online booking available at:
jubilee.opeast.org/booking
FRANK CONROY BASKETBALL CAMP
August 17th-21st and August 23th-28th, from 8:45am-4:00pm.
Boys and girls, ages 6-14. Group discounts. Teaching the fundamentals of basketball.
Register online at:
www.conroybasketballcamp.com
Call Coach Conroy at 980-0820
HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH PICNIC
September 20, 2015
Bradhurst Park, Hawthorne
The picnic begins with 11a.m. Mass at the Park and ends at 4:30p.m.
$5 per person/$20 per family of 4 or more
Committee will provide hot dogs, hamburgers, watermelon, water and soda. Sweet treats will be
provided for kids. There will be relay races, kickball and corn-hole tournaments and old-fashioned lawn games. There is parking and
indoor
MASS FOR HEALING Holy Rosary Church 170 Bradhurst Avenue
Hawthorne
Monday, August 10th Celebrant: Fr. Louis Leonelli, CFR
Praise & Worship @ 7:15pm Mass 7:30pm
Sponsored by the Mother of God Prayer Group
Saturday, August 15th is the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This year the Feast Day is not a Holy Day of Obligation. It is a holy day and all are encouraged to attend Mass.
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NINETEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME August 9, 2015
First Reading: I Kings 19:4-8: Queen Jezebel had vowed to kill Elijah, who went into the desert and prayed for death. Instead he went to sleep and was awakened by an angel, who told him to eat the food God had given him. He ate and went back to sleep, but God’s angel again woke him and told him to eat. Strengthened by the food, he got up and walked forty days and nights to the mountain of God. Second Reading: Ephesians 4:30-5:2: Paul appeals to the Ephesians to get rid of bitterness, anger, and malice. Instead they must be kind, compassionate, and forgiving just as God has been. We must be imitators of Christ, and love one another as he has loved us. Gospel: John 6:41-51: The Jews were not convinced that Jesus was the bread that came down from heaven. But he again explains that he is the bread of life. He tells them that anyone who believes and eats this bread shall live forever. He explains that the bread he will give is his flesh, for the life of the world.
HIS WORD TODAY by Rev. William J. Reilly “Do nothing to sadden the Holy Spirit with whom you were sealed against the day of redemption. Get rid of all bitterness, all passion and anger, harsh words, slander and malice of every kind, in place of these be kind to one another, compassionate, and mutually forgiving, just as God has forgiven you in Christ… Follow the way of love, even as Christ has loved you.”
The scriptures use words which are reflective of the human experience. Jonas indicates that God can relent, change His mind and not punish us. The creation account uses the expression that ‘God said, let there be light.’ And so it was. Today Paul tells the Ephesians not to ‘sadden’ the Holy Spirit. Surely we know what sadness produces in our lives. Sometimes hurts bring us to tears. Sometimes we find it most difficult to get past the death of a loved one, the loss of employment, a failing grade on a report card or more recently, bullying. Even when we grade health we talk about a setback. Paul encourages his Ephesian friends to do nothing to cause sadness for God and offers the remedies through lives of kindness, compassion and forgiveness. Many years ago I changed the order of a popular chicken restaurant to assure readers the need of KFC. When one who heard this and passed the drive-in he referred to the three letters, what he had heard. As a follow up I asked if he remembered what the letters stood for. He quickly responded with the virtues of which Paul spoke kindness, compassion and forgiveness. Are these three found in your life? Do you follow the way of love?
