Bulletin notices: [email protected]
Mrs. Kerry Ann Carey - (914) 967-0142
Music Director: [email protected]
Mr. Joseph Viserta - (914) 925-3520
Parish Council: [email protected]
Two-Year Old Program: [email protected]
Mrs. Ellen Schiavone, Director – (914) 925-2759
Pastoral Ministry: [email protected]
Sr. Danielle Baran, C.R. - (914) 512-4463
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Please Pray for Our Sick
John & Dorothy Carolin
Please Pray for Our Deceased
Jeremiah Harrington
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Military Prayer List
Chris Kocovic
Philip J. Cassata
Gregory Dempsey
Christian Stuebe
Riley Stuebe
Hunter J. Hrab
Tyler Reisner
Alex Moreira
Jorge Jay Waddell Angie Waddell
Robert Bisconti
Ted Dempsey
Dan Somma
Jonathan W. Peters Jr
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Ash Wednesday, February 18th
Next Wednesday, February 18th is Ash
Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. Please do
something extra for Lent.
Masses on Ash Wednesday
8:00AM & 9:00AM
~Ashes are distributed AFTER Masses at:
8:30AM & 9:30AM
~There are also Services at:
12 Noon
3:00PM
4:30PM
and
7:30PM
Saturday, February 14
5:00 Phil Mezzullo & Manlia Saccoccio
7:30 Fr. Stephen Gormley
Sunday, February 15
7:30 Raymond & Bernice Dolan
8:45 Bob McCooey
10:00 Lane & Moran Families
11:15 Gerald Clement
12:30 John Elwood
Monday, February 16
8:00 Rev. Msgr. Patrick J. Boyle (4thAnniv.)
9:00 Connie Antinozzi
Tuesday, February 17
8:00 Edward Fitzsimmons
9:00 Colin Marren
Wednesday, February 18
8:00 Margaret D. Lynch
9:00 Catherine T. O’Connor
Thursday, February 19
8:00 Carmela & Anthony Checco
9:00 Lucinda Frend
Friday, February 20
8:00 Helen & Jack Curran
9:00 Joanna G. Jimolka
Saturday, February 21
8:00 Mary V. Gallagher
9:00 William & Alice Harrington
5:00 Mary McCready
7:30 Jeremiah & Marie McGuire
Sunday, February 22
7:30 Bridget McGonigle
8:45 Fay & Gabriel Carino
10:00 Chris McGrath
11:15 Mary Lo Chin
12:30 Lina & Dorothea Varano
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Our Parish Lenten Journey
Fr. Robert Barron tells us that “the better we
understand
Jesus,
the
better
we
understand
ourselves!”
He believes
that in using
biblical
insights and
engaging stories, we will see Jesus most clearly
through the lens of the Old Testament.
Please join us as we journey together with Fr.
Barron’s Six Session Study Program called,
“PRIEST, PROPHET, KING”. Each session
there will be a twenty minute DVD presentation
followed by a discussion.
For your convenience, the same sessions will be
offered twice, in the morning (9:30AM) as well as
in the evening (7:30PM), in the Lower Church
Hall’s Nielsen Room.
Sr. Danielle will be
facilitating these meetings.
Special Lent Program Lent 2015
Mornings
Evenings
9:30am – 10:30am
7:30pm – 8:30pm
(repeat of morning sessions)
1. Friday Feb. 20
1. Thursday Feb. 19
2. Friday Feb. 27
2. Thursday Feb. 26
3. Friday March 6
3. Thursday March 5
4. Friday March 13
4. Thursday March 12
5. Friday March 20
5. Thursday March 19
6. Friday March 27
6. Thursday March 26
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Children’s Rosary
The next Children's
Rosary will be this
Thursday, February 19
in Our Lady's Chapel
in the Church. We will
pray at 4:45pm. Please
note the slight time
change. Snacks and hot
chocolate afterwards.
For more information
email
Jeanne
DiProperzio
at [email protected] or call 967-1244
World Day of the Sick
This week we celebrated on Wednesday the
World Day of the Sick, proclaimed as such by Pope
Francis, a special day of prayer for those who are sick
and suffering. This special day of prayer each year is
celebrated on February 11, the feast of the appearance of
Our Blessed Mother Mary at Lourdes. It is a beautiful
story. On February 11, 1858, a young girl of fourteen
years of age, Bernadette Soubirous, was gathering wood
for her poor family by the grotto of
a French village called Lourdes.
She heard what she called a
rustling sound of the wind and
suddenly she was a young
woman clothed in white with a
rosary in her hand and a blue
sash around her waist. Thus
began a series of apparitions of
this “Lady from heaven.” And
when Bernadette asked her who
she was, the Lady said, “I am the
Immaculate Conception.” Our Blessed mother Mary
chose to appear to this poor young girl to reveal to her
and to us the great mystery of her love for the sick. In
one of the apparitions, she told Bernadette to dig in the
ground and there appeared a spring of water. Almost
immediately people came to the water of Lourdes and
great things happened. Miracles happened. One of the
titles that we use of Our Lady is “Health of the Sick.” She
is always our Mother.
Let us always pray for those who are sick. Your
prayers certainly help them in ways that we do not know.
And let us pray that all who are sick will be able to offer
their sickness as a sacrifice to
the Lord. Our late beloved
Terence Cardinal Cooke, who
one day hopefully will be
canonized as a saint, suffered
from cancer for a number of
years before his death in 1983.
He bore his suffering quietly with
only a few people knowing he
was so sick. In the last weeks of
his life, he suffered greatly, but
he offered his suffering for the
people of New York. He called
his suffering “this grace-filled
moment.” For a Christian, sickness is precisely that, “a
grace-filled moment.” May she who appeared at Lourdes
come to all who are sick and help them on the way to
health and, even more importantly, the way to eternal life.
St. Elizabeth Guild
The St. Elizabeth Guild is an organization
committed to spiritual enrichment. The patroness of
the Guild is St. Elizabeth of Hungary, a wife and
mother who gave loving care to the sick and needy.
All donations cover the costs of the lecture series.
Suggested donation for the six week series... $75.00
2015 SAINT ELIZABETH GUILD
LENTEN LECTURES
Mass 10:30am
Lecture 11:15 am
Westchester Country Club
Feb. 18..Rev. Joseph Lim
Feb. 25..Rev. George Rutler
Mar 4....Rev. Michael Hilbert, SJ
Mar 11..Rev. Mark Connell
Mar 18..Rev. Daniel O'Reilly
Mar 25..Rev. Robert Dunn
Please go to www.stelizabethguild.myevent.com to
register online. Payment may also be made by
check at the door. All are welcome please
contact [email protected] for more information
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Lent Begins on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 18
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Parish Religious Education Program News
• No PREP classes on Sunday, February 15,
Tuesday, February 17 or Wednesday,
February, 18. Enjoy the winter break!
• Sunday, February 22 Sunday PREP
students attend 10am Mass followed by a
coffee hour in the Lower Church Hall. All
are welcome!
• 157 PREP children will receive the First
Sacrament of Reconciliation during two
services on Saturday, February 28, 2015.
God Bless these children, their parents,
families and Catechists!
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On Ash Wednesday, the traditional
distribution of ashes will
take place at our parish
often during the celebration
of Mass or immediately
afterward.
The Church
requires that ashes be
distributed in sacred place such as a church
or chapel.
Ash Wednesday is a day which offers a
valuable opportunity to set a tone for the
entire season of Lent, and to reach out to
people, some of whom are not often found
in churches.
Aware of the considerable interest of the
faithful in receiving ashes at the beginning
of Lent, every effort must be made through
the reading of scripture and offering of
prayers to catechize the faithful on the
penitential character of Lent and the value of
their Lenten practices.
During Lent, the Church calls the faithful to
bring a spirit of penance into their lives
through fasting and abstinence.
Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are
days of fast and abstinence. All Fridays
in Lent are days of abstinence.
Fasting requires that only one full meal be
taken per day. Two other, smaller meals
may be taken during the day to maintain
physical strength, but these two meals
together should not equal a full meal in
quantity. Fasting is an obligation of every
catholic from age 18 through age 59.
Abstinence prohibits the eating of meat on a
particular
day.
Abstinence is an
obligation for all
Catholics beginning
at age 14 and
continuing
throughout life..
The season of Lent culminates in the
celebration of the Easter Triduum of the
Lord’s Last Supper, Passion, Death and
Resurrection. Holy Thursday is April 2.
Good Friday is April 3. The Easter Vigil
of the Lord’s Resurrection is April 4.
Easter Sunday is April 5.
Resurrection Two Year Old Program
News
There are some spaces in our Two Year Old
Program for September
2015.
Our Twos
Program offers children
a gentle introduction to
nursery school. Classes
meet two or three times
a week. There are eight
children in each class with two teachers. The
children have an opportunity to socialize, learn to
share and to separate from parents and care givers.
They play with each other, listen to stories, sing
songs, create art and play outside. We are happy to
arrange a tour of our new facility. If you have any
questions
please
email
us
at
[email protected].
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Votive Candles
Lighting Candles in Church to remember a loved
one or for a special
intention is a long time
noble practice.
Our
parish is considering
converting to real votive
candles produced by St.
Killian’s Candle Company, Tipperary, Ireland.
St. Patrick’s Cathedral converted to St. Killian’s
votive candles a few years ago. These new candles
will possibly replace our antiquated 25-year-old–
push-button candles. They are smoke free, ecofriendly, clean, safe and with no soot damage.
We have installed one new stand on a-trial-basis in
Our Lady’s Chapel. We invite you to take a look at
it and would appreciate your comments and
feedback. We will decide after Easter if we will
fully convert to these real candles. Thank you.
Memorial Mass for Ann Mara
There will be a Month’s Mind Memorial Mass on
Sunday, March
1st at 11:15am
for Ann Mara who
passed away on
February 1st. Mrs.
Mara fell on the
ice in front of her
home on January
th
18 . Ann and Wellington Mara were long time
Resurrection parishioners and prominent
Catholic philanthropists. May she rest in peace!
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A Note from Sr. Danielle: HOW ABOUT
A LENTEN MINI REFLECTION IN
THE MIDST OF YOUR
FAST-PACED DAY?!? We
have a wonderful invitation and
opportunity to pause briefly each
day and be renewed! (And this
opportunity is FREE!!) Please go
onto DynamicCatholic.com and sign up for a life
changing Lenten Program by Matthew Kelly called
“Don’t Give Up Chocolate This Lent”. You will
receive a simple quote, phrase or video clip each
day! Enjoy every “pearl” of wisdom, while eating
your chocolates too!!!!
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NYS Education Tax Credit
On January 21, 2015, the NYS Senate passed a tax
credit bill and also the Governor included an
Education Tax Credit for working families in his
budget regardless of where children attend school.
We are overjoyed that a clear path toward
enactment has been put in place by the Governor
and the Legislature.
Expanding educational opportunities is a matter of
social justice. We are delighted that there is
positive momentum on the Education Tax Credit!