S T . A N TH ON Y
125 YEARS
OF
OF
P A DUA C H U R CH
FA I T H & S E R V I C E
1 892- 2 017
Served by the Order of Friars Minor (The Franciscans) since 1926
PARISH OFFICE
28 STATE STREET, TROY, NEW YORK 12180
PHONE: 518-273-8622
FAX: 518-273-2731
OFFICE HOURS:
Monday – Thursday 9:00 am - 3:00 pm
(July & August 9:00 am – 2:00 pm)
PARISH WEBSITE
www.rcda.org/churches/stanthonyofpadua
PASTORAL STAFF
Fr. Francis Walter, OFM – Pastor
Fr. Primo Piscitello, OFM – Priest in Residence
Brother Philip Hira, OFM – Hospital & Parish Ministry
Fr. Jorge Reyes, OSA – Hispanic Apostolate
Deacon Charles Z. Wojton
Email: [email protected]
Christopher Lohr – Sacristan
Email: [email protected]
Suzanne Turner – Parish Business Manager
Email: [email protected]
PARISH PASTORAL COUNCIL
LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
Saturday 4:30 pm
Sunday
9:00 am
10:00 am Spanish
12:00 noon
5:30 pm*
*The 5:30 Mass is not held on the following weekends:
New Year’s, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Memorial
Day, July 4 , Labor Day, Thanksgiving & Christmas.
DAILY MASS
Monday through Friday 7:15 am & 12:10 pm
Holy Days will be announced.
RECONCILIATION
Saturdays from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm or by appointment.
Please call the friary.
PASTORAL CARE
Please call to arrange for pastoral visitation including
Anointing of the Sick and Communion calls to the
hospitalized and homebound
Paul Dellio - President
PASTORAL FINANCE COUNCIL
Rich LaRose – President & Trustee
Gene Sestito – Trustee
Dr. Frank Lanzillo
Kelly Melaragno
PARISH REGISTRATION:
Please use registration forms in the back of church. Return
completed forms to the friary. WELCOME!
THE ROARKE CENTER
107 Fourth Street, Troy 273-8351
An outreach for people in Troy; offering its members
crisis intervention and advocacy.
BAPTISM
Please call to schedule Baptism.
MARRIAGE
Arrangements must be made at least six months in
advance. Couples must attend a one- day Pre-Cana
Marriage Preparation program.
PERPETUAL NOVENAS
St. Anthony of Padua: Tuesday, after daily Mass
Our Lady of Lourdes: Wednesday, after daily Mass
St. Anne: Wednesday 4:00pm (winter months 3:00pm)
St. Jude: Thursday, after daily Mass
The mission of St. Anthony of Padua Church
is to minister spiritually, sacramentally and physically to all who enter our doors.
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time
February 25-26, 2017
Let us pray that we have unquenchable faith in God’s provisions and not be anxious about tomorrow. Saturday, February 25th 4:30
Ralph Coli – Family
Edward Zavis – wife, Mary
Josephine Biski – Joseph Moscatello & Family
Gertrude Quackenbush – Family
Sunday, February 26th
9:00 John Mamone (B’day Rem.) - Family
Pat Hartman – Wife
Michael Gabriel – Jennifer Case & Family
Marianne Blair (Anniv.) - Friends
10:00 Spanish Mass
12:00 Charles & Anne Radliff – Family
Myra Keating – Tony
Francesco DePalma – Francesco Renda
5:30 For the Parishioners
Monday, February 27th
7:15 John J. McNulty, Jr. (B’day Rem.) – McNulty Family
12:10 Deceased Members of the Hart Family
Tuesday, February 28th
7:15 Lydia Skiba - Friend
12:10 Deceased Members of the Hart Family
Wednesday, March 1st Ash Wednesday
7:15 Mass with Ashes
12:10 Mass with Ashes
5:00 Prayer Service with Ashes
7:00 Spanish Mass with Ashes
Thursday, March 2nd
7:15 Angela Renna – John & Dawn Merola
12:10 Sean O’Dwyer – Ann & Carl Clemente
Friday, March 3rd World Day of Prayer St. Katharine Drexel
7:15 For the Province
12:10 William Whalen – Grace McBain
Saturday, March 4th 4:30 St. Casimir
Angelina Germano - Family
Bill Warren – Grace & Pam
Patricia Kane –Friend, Joan
Nicholas J. Gayton – Linda Hewitt
Sunday, March 5th
9:00 Saverio Valenti & Edward Yamin (B’day Rem)– Family
John Noonan– Maureen Noonan
Thomas Schermerhorn – Friend, Mike
Francesco DePalma – Fran & Nick Casale
10:00 Spanish Mass
12:00 The DeNault Family – Tony
5:30 For the Parishioners
Saints of the Week
St. Katharine Drexel
(November 26, 1858-March 3, 1955)
If your father is an international banker and you ride in a private railroad car, you are not likely to be drawn into a life of voluntary poverty. But if your mother opens your home to the poor three days each week and your father spends half an hour each evening in prayer, it is not impossible that you will devote your life to the poor and give away millions of dollars. Katharine Drexel did that. Born in Philadelphia in 1858, she had an excellent education and traveled widely. As a rich girl, Katharine also had a grand debut into society. But when she nursed her stepmother through a three-­‐year terminal illness, she saw that all the Drexel money could not buy safety from pain or death, and her life took a profound turn. Katharine had always been interested in the plight of the Indians, having been appalled by what she read in Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor. While on a European tour, she met Pope Leo XIII and asked him to send more missionaries to Wyoming for her friend Bishop James O’Connor. The pope replied, “Why don’t you become a missionary?” His answer shocked her into considering new possibilities. Back home, Katharine visited the Dakotas, met the Sioux leader Red Cloud and began her systematic aid to Indian missions. Katharine Drexel could easily have married. But after much discussion with Bishop O’Connor, she wrote in 1889, “The feast of St. Joseph brought me the grace to give the remainder of my life to the Indians and the Colored.” Newspaper headlines screamed “Gives Up Seven Million!” After three and a half years of training, Mother Drexel and her first band of nuns–Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored–opened a boarding school in Santa Fe. A string of foundations followed. By 1942, she had a system of black Catholic schools in 13 states, plus 40 mission centers and 23 rural schools. Segregationists harassed her work, even burning a school in Pennsylvania. In all, she established 50 missions for Indians in 16 states. Two saints met when Mother Drexel was advised by Mother Cabrini about the “politics” of getting her order’s Rule approved in Rome. Her crowning achievement was the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans, the first Catholic university in the United States for African Americans. At 77, Mother Drexel suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire. Apparently her life was over. But now came almost 20 years of quiet, intense prayer from a small room overlooking the sanctuary. Small notebooks and slips of paper record her various prayers, ceaseless aspirations and meditation. She died at 96 and was canonized in 2000. Reflection: Saints have always said the same thing: Pray, be humble, accept the cross, love and forgive. But it is good to hear these things in the American idiom from one who, for instance, had her ears pierced as a teenager, who resolved to have “no cake, no preserves,” who wore a watch, was interviewed by the press, traveled by train, and could concern herself with the proper size of pipe for a new mission. These are obvious reminders that holiness can be lived in today’s culture as well as in that of Jerusalem or Rome. (franciscanmedia.org) Lectors & Eucharistic Ministers are needed for Ash Wednesday’s 12:10 Mass and 5pm Service. Sign up sheet is in the sacristy. Thank you Parish Activities
Offering for the weekend of
February 18-19, 2017
Mass
Attendance
Collection
4:30
175
$ 1259.00
9:00
140
$ 1147.00
10:00
118
$ 275.00
12:00
135
$ 831.00
5:30
52
$ 673.00
Weekly Collection:
$ 4185.00
Candles: $247.49
Monthly: $80
Fuel: $10
ASH WEDNESDAY, March 1, 2017
St. Anthony’s Church Services
7:15 am Mass & Ashes
12:10 pm Mass & Ashes
5:00 pm Prayer Service and Ashes
7:00 pm Spanish Mass with Ashes
STATIONS OF THE CROSS at St. Anthony’s
Every Friday during Lent at 12:45 pm
STATIONS OF THE CROSS at St. Joseph’s
Fridays in Lent, March 3-April 7 at 7pm
The next ‘Special Collection’ will be the weekend of
March 5th for Black, Native American & Latin American
Missions. Please place your envelopes in the first collection.
Thank you.
Money Counters will meet MONDAY, Feb. 27th:
Betty Bott, Tom & Janis Lumley, Jim McPhillips,
Kathleen Palmer, Steve Calacone
***** New Website *****
To find the latest bulletins, parish news, upcoming
events, special Mass schedules and more. You can view
the site either by going to www.rcda.org and clicking
on “Parishes & Apostolates” or by typing into your
browser: www.rcda.org/churches/stanthonyofpadua
Religious Education Class Schedule
Classes will take place in the Friary on
February 26, March 5 & 19, April 2
from 9:45-10:45.
Catholic Central High School will hold a placement
exam for new 7th - 9th graders on Friday, March 3rd at
8:30am. Call 235-7100 ext. 224 to reserve a seat.
Cleaning Group #2 will be cleaning the
Church on Saturday, March 11th at 10am.
Thank you to Raisa & Jose Ramos and the
Hispanic Apostolate for their service to
church.
FIVE-WEEK LENTEN SPEAKER SERIES
Wednesdays at 7:00 pm ~ Beginning March 8th
The Chapel & Cultural Center
2125 Burdett Avenue, Troy NY
MEN’S WEEKEND RETREAT
March 10-12, 2017
St. Joseph’s – Valatie, NY
Contact Deacon Charles Wojton
at St. Anthony’s for more information.
DYNAMIC CATHOLIC
Make it the ‘Best Lent Ever’!
Spend a few minutes watching
a daily video messages from
Dynamic Catholic’s Matthew Kelly.
Visit www.dynamiccatholic.com to sign up.
Looking to spend some quiet time…
with the Lord this Lent?
Please consider a visit to the Perpetual Adoration
of the Real Presence at St. Augustine’s Chapel in
North Troy (see ad on back of our bulletin). The
chapel is open to visitors and hourly adorers - 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. If you haven’t
experienced the grace and peace of Perpetual
Adoration, the season of Lent is the perfect
opportunity.
9th Annual Irish Night Fundraiser
Benefits Roarke Center and other local agencies
St. Michael’s Church ~ Troy
Friday, March 10th 6:30 pm
“The Irish Show”
Adults $15, Children 12 & Under Free
Call office for more information: 283-6110