HRINE CHURCH OF SAINT GERARD MAJELLA
188-16 91st Avenue, Hollis, NY 11423
Phone: 718-468-6565 Email: [email protected] Web: stgerardshrine.org
PASTORAL TEAM: REV. JOSEPHJUDE C. GANNON PASTOR – Ext. 25
REV. JOSEPH THARACKAL
In Residence – Ext. 13
REV. DAWIT TERFA MORODA
In Residence – Ext. 20
MR. GUILLERMO D. GOMEZ
Permanent Deacon – Ext. 35
MR. LAURENCE O. MCMASTER
Permanent Deacon – Ext. 15
MRS. CARMEN MACCHIO
Director of Religious Education – Ext. 22
MRS. ANNE SMITH-THOMPSON Director of Music Ministry – Ext. 28
MR. GILBERT RODRIGUEZ
Youth Ministry Coordinator—Ext. 26
MRS. DENISE DAS
Adult Faith Ministry Coordinator –Ext 17
MRS. LUCY GUZMAN
Admin. Assistant to the Pastor— Ext. 27
January 1, 2017
Solemnity of Mary,
The Holy Mother of God
BUSINESS OFFICE HOURS:
Business Office — Ext. 10
Monday 9 am to 4 pm
Tuesday 9 am to 4 pm
Wednesday 9 am to 4 pm
Thursday 9 am to 4 pm
Friday 9 am to 2 pm & 5 pm to 8 pm
Saturday 9 am to 12 pm
No office hours on Sunday.
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Please call the office to make an appointment to speak with a priest or
deacon. MONTHLY FOOD PANTRY: Tuesday 1 to 4 pm only.
MASSES:
Monday thru Saturday:
Saturday:
Sunday:
9:00 am
5:00 pm – Fulfills Sunday Obligation
8:15 am & 11:30 am in English
9:45 am in Spanish
Holy Day Masses: As Announced
SACRAMENT OF PENANCE:
Saturday:
4:00 to 4:45 pm
And by Appointment at other times by calling ext 25
DEVOTIONS all are welcome:
Miraculous Medal Novena: Monday 9:20 am
St. Gerard Majella Novena: Wednesday 9:20 am
Adoration: Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30 to 11:30 am
First Fridays 9:30 am to 8 pm October to June only!
“Blessed is she who has believed that the
Lord would fulfill His promises to her.”
- Luke 1:45
MINISTRY TO THE SICK: Urgent calls at any time of day or night. We ask that arrangements for the reception of Holy Communion
for Shut-Ins be made by calling the office during business hours.
HOSPITAL: Please inform us of any parishioner who has been admitted to a Hospital or Nursing Home.
NEW MEMBERS: Please register by filling out the form found on the back inside cover of this bulletin or by calling the Office.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Classes for our children Sundays at 10:00 am, from the end of September to end of May. They must
attend the 11:30 am Mass with their parents and family. To register your child, please contact Mrs. Macchio at Ext 22.
R.C.I.A.: Rite of Christian Initiation – Adults interested in becoming Catholic or who need to receive the sacraments of First
Communion and /or Confirmation please contact Deacon Laurence Mc Master at Ext. 15.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM: Arrangements can be made by calling the office during office hours and leaving a message for one of
the deacons. In English: Instructions are given on the SECOND & THIRD Sunday of the month beginning with the 11:30 am Mass
followed by instructions at 12:30 pm. Please register at least 8 weeks before the Baptism by setting up an interview appointment
with Deacon Laurence McMaster E 15 by calling the office. Baptism is generally on the fourth Sunday of the month.
En español: Cada dos meses el tercer domingo. Se requiere que los padres que desean bautizar a sus hijos vengan a la misa y
asistan a clases previas de preparación. Para más información deben hablar con el Diácono Guillermo D. Gómez a Ext. 35.
MARRIAGES: Church Wedding arrangements should be made before Reception plans are finalized so that the date will be available
at the Church. Please make arrangements at least six months to a year before the proposed date.
Parish Meetings at
St. Gerard Majella
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS: 2nd & 4th Tues. – 8pm ST. JOSEPH
CONF. RM. RECTORY
CHOIR REHEARSALS: CHURCH - SPEAK TO ANN for practice
schedule and to JOIN THE CHOIR!!!
FAMILY OF CHRIST PRAYER GROUP Fridays at 8 pm BVM
CONF. RM. RECTORY All are Welcome! Contact Ofelia or
Margie for schedule and to join.
JESUS ESTA VIVO PRAYER GROUP Fridays at 8 pm in CHURCH
JESUS & MARY PRAYER GROUP Wednesdays after 9 am Mass
YOUTH NIGHT 8 to 12 grade - every Friday 7:30 pm in Rectory
St. Joseph’s conference room. PLEASE JOIN US!
SPANISH LEGION OF MARY — contact Hilda Cortes for details.
FOOD PANTRY COLLECTION: please bring NON PERISHABLE
FOOD to church or office during the week.
The 9 am Mass on the First Saturday of the month is for those
enrolled in the PURGATORIAL SOCIETY. To enroll a loved one
for a year, fill out the form below & enclose $10 donation.
Saint Gerard Majella Parish seeks to provide a festive gathering for
all people, of every race and color. A Table at which the lonely find
company, the hungry savor rich food and fine wine and strangers
enjoy warm family ties. Our prayer is that we may draw our new
neighbors from other lands into a loving community and that our
Eucharistic table may prefigure our oneness with the Father, Son
and Holy Spirit.
St. Gerard Majella is the patron saint of expectant mothers
and couples trying to conceive, as well as the protector of mothers
and children, born and unborn and the wrongly accused.
Please complete the lower part of this form and drop it in the
collection basket or return it to the office.
PRINT CLEARLY!
DATE:_____________
NAME:___________________________________________________
ADDRESS:___________________________________ Apt # ________
CITY & ZIP________________________________________________
PHONE(S): (
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E-mail___________________________________________________
_____ New Registration
_____ Change of address
_____ Moving out of Parish _____ Want 2015 donation envelopes
_____ Request St. Gerard Novena prayers for: ________________
_____ Enroll in Purgatorial Society: _________________________
_____ Enclosed please find $10 per person enrolled / send card to
___ me FOR:______________________________________
_____ I know some one in the parish that is physically, mentally,
visually or hearing impaired. Please have the Disability Advocate
Ms. Celestine contact me at the phone number listed above.
MASSES FOR THE WEEK:
SATURDAY, December 31:
9:00 AM – † Teodoro Reyes
7:00 PM - Holy Hour
8:00 PM – People of the Parish
SUNDAY, January 1:
8:15 AM – † Pedro Loria
9:45 AM – † Miguel Suriel; People of the Parish
11:30 AM – Intentions of the Jacala & Jose Families
MONDAY, January 2:
9:00 AM – Intentions of Marie Emile
TUESDAY, January 3:
9:00 AM – Intentions of Emmanuel Jacob Canuto
WEDNESDAY, January 4:
9:00 AM – † Kenneth Schwenzer
THURSDAY, January 5:
9:00 AM – Intentions of Lucy Guzman & Family
FRIDAY, January 6:
9:00 AM – † Genie Rudmann
SATURDAY, January 7:
9:00 AM – For all Souls in the Purgatorial Society
5:00 PM – † Eugenia D. Rudmann
SUNDAY, JANUARY 8:
8:15 AM – † Miguel Hidalgo
9:45 AM – † Adolfo, Mariana, y Elvis Tejada;
† Miguel Hidalgo
11:30 AM – Deceased members of Glagys Family
2017 Purgatorial Society
John Henry Castro
Miguel Hidalgo
Vincent Pereira
Angelita Sanchez Torres
Adan Sanchez
Arturo Olarte Sanchez
Jenny Olarte
Leonor del Valle
Carmen Bey
Bertha Cortes de Lopez
Marie T. Murad
Patrick Murad
Njideka Chiejina
Anne J. Nahman
Debbie Coutieri
Judith Ricot Payan
Desir Saintfort
Jean Briere Lombard
Marie Montreuil
Gerard Montreuil
Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy
Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout
the world today, for all the holy souls in purgatory, for
sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those
in my own home and within my family. Amen.
TODAY’S READINGS
First Reading — The LORD bless you and
keep you! The LORD look upon you kindly
and give you peace! (Numbers 6:22-27).
Psalm — May God bless us in his mercy
(Psalm 67).
Second Reading — God sent the Spirit of
the Son into our hearts, crying out,
“Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a slave but an heir,
through God (Galatians 4:4-7).
Gospel — The shepherds glorified and praised God for all they
had heard and seen (Luke 2:16-21).
The English translation of the Psalm Responses from the Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
A Message from our Pastor
Happy New Year and Happy Feast of Mary!
New Years Day starts a new opportunity to do good
works of charity and to promise to pray in new ways
each day. Maybe this year each of us can promise
God a visit to church each day for quiet prayer, or
maybe join a catholic organization of charity like
the Knights of Columbus or the renewed
Columbiettes group that is reforming in the parish.
Maybe one can make a promise to God to go to
confession weekly, or say the rosary or divine mercy
each day. New Years is about starting things again
and doing it in a renewed and holy way. I invite
each of you to promise God something special this
year and then ask God for the strength to keep your
promise.
Also just as a note, we are celebrating the
Novena to the Infant Jesus (Divino Nino-Santo Nino)
every day this week and next Sunday we will have a
special blessing at the end of the 11:30 Mass for the
children of the parish. Everyone is welcome all
week long.
God bless Fr Gannon
“In the Footsteps of Jesus”
A 10 Day pilgrimage to the Holy Land
October 28 - November 6, 2017
Led by Fr. Josephjude Gannon
Enrollment due on Jan 9, 2017
Final Payment due on July 20, 2017
Please see Flyers on back tables of Church.
JANUARY :
Lamps, Altar Breads & Wine
Donated by Jules Ulysses
For the Intentions of Gislaine Ulysses
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
Mondays from 9:30 am until 11:30am
Wednesdays from 9:30 am until 11:30 am
sponsored by the Haitian Jesus and Mary Prayer
Group. All are welcome!
Please pray
for those who are ill:
Ronnie Parsolano
Myriam Duarte
Myriam Correa
Business Office is Closed
on Monday, January 2nd
We wish you a Blessed & Joyous New Year!
HEARTFELT THANK YOU to St. Kevin’s
Church in Flushing for their generous
monthly donations to our Food Pantry.
Last month they donated numerous
Thanksgiving boxes complete with canned
foods, baked pies, and turkeys!
The Family of Christ
Prayer Group
cordially invites you to pray
and celebrate the Holy
Infant Jesus.
Novena to Holy Infant
Jesus
SANTO NINO
The novena begins on Saturday December
31st after 5pm Mass. Please see Flyers on
back tables of Church.
THE BLESSING WE RECEIVE
INCOME & EXPENSES FOR THE WEEK ENDING
The blessing we experience in Christ Jesus is
proclaimed in Numbers as the special blessing for
the people of Israel. They and we are to be blessed
by the invocation of God’s loving kindness, the
shining glory of God’s face turned toward us in love,
not away from us in anger. We are blessed by God’s
own peace!
Our wish and our hope are fulfilled in this
blessing, which is made visible in the coming of
Jesus. In Jesus, the image of the invisible God, God’s
face is shown to us and God’s presence is made
known to us in faithful and loving kindness.
Dec. 25th will be in next bulletin First Collection
Second Collection
Total Collection
Average Cost per week
(Deficit) for the week
Christmas Flowers
.00
.00
.00
(8,425.00)
(6, .00)
COMUNIDAD
HISPANA
Santa María,
Madre de Dios
LECTURAS PARA DEL 8 de enero de 2016
TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION
“Octave” comes from the Latin word for “eight,” and
since eight is one step beyond seven, the number of days
in a week, it has long been seen as a symbol of
perfection, completion, and new beginnings. Early
Christians called Sunday the “eighth day,” since it was
the day after the Sabbath and a day of resurrected life,
the Lord’s Day. By the seventh century, people regarded
the eight days after Easter Sunday as one great day, an
octave, one glorious feast when people were forbidden
to fast or kneel. In the seventh century, Pentecost
acquired an Octave, too. Christmas didn’t claim the
honor of a continuous feast, but it did get an Octave Day.
January 1 is the oldest Marian feast, the Octave of
Christmas. It was originally a feast of the motherhood of
Mary, although for centuries until 1969 it was called the
Feast of the Circumcision. Our reformed calendar follows
the earlier tradition of celebrating Mary as Mother of
God.
—James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
Primera lectura — ¡Levántate y brilla, Jerusalén! La gloria
del Señor amaneció sobre ti (Isaías 60:1-6).
Salmo — Que te adoren, Señor, todos los pueblos (Salmo
72 [71]).
Segunda lectura — El misterio de que los gentiles son
coherederos, socios en la promesa en Jesucristo, se ha
dado a conocer a los hombres (Efesios 3:2-3a, 5-6).
Evangelio — Magos del oriente llegaron, diciendo:
“¿Dónde está el rey de los judíos que ha
nacido?”
(Mateo 2:1-12).
Salmo responsorial: Leccionario Hispanoamericano Dominical © 1970, Comisión Episcopal Española. Usado con permiso. Todos los derechos reservados.
la hora del café - 8 de Enero
tendremos nuestro compartir mensual
comunitario, inmediatamente después de
la Misa en Español. Invitamos a todos los
feligreses a una taza de café o chocolate con pan y,
especialmente a compartir unos con otros como
familia.
REUNIÓN MENSUAL DEL GRUPO DE LITURGIA:
La reunión mensual de los servidores del grupo de
Liturgia es siempre el tercer (3er) domingo de cada
TRADICIONES DE NUESTRA FE
En Nicaragua y otras naciones latinoamericanas se
celebra el final de un año con la “quema del año viejo”.
Construyen grandes muñecos con ropa vieja, pólvora y
papel que se encienden a medianoche entre los dos años.
Celebrar el comienzo de un año nuevo tiene una larga
trayectoria en la historia humana. Hace unos 4000 años el
pueblo de Babilonia ya festejaba la llegada de un nuevo
año con grandes fiestas de primavera. Los judíos, al igual
que otros pueblos agrícolas, también celebraban su año
nuevo durante la primavera, el primer día de Nisán
(a principios de abril).
Fue Julio César quien nos dio la fecha del primero de
enero como el inicio de nuestro calendario. En 1582 el Papa
Gregorio XIII reformó el calendario para darnos el que
actualmente está en uso. No obstante, los cristianos
continuaron celebrando el año nuevo en primavera para
evitar los excesos del “hombre viejo”. Hace 400 años la
Iglesia comenzó a celebrar el día primero de enero
buscando cristianizarlo lo mejor posible. Por eso en el
calendario litúrgico este día es dedicado a María, Madre de
Dios.
—Fray Gilberto Cavazos-Glz, OFM, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co., Inc.
LA BENDICIÓN QUE RECIBIMOS
La bendición que experimentamos en Cristo Jesús es
proclamada en Números como una bendición especial
para el pueblo de Israel. Ellos y nosotros seremos
bendecidos por la invocación de la misericordia de Dios,
la gloria resplandeciente de su rostro que nos mira con
amor y no se aleja de nosotros con ira. ¡Hemos sido
bendecidos por la paz de Dios!
Nuestro deseo y nuestra esperanza se cumplen en
esta bendición, que se hace visible en la venida de Jesús.
En Jesús, la imagen del Dios invisible, se nos muestra su
rostro y su presencia se nos da a conocer en la bondad
amorosa y fiel.
Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.
ADORACIÓN EUCARISTICA
Pidámosle al Señor que nos ayude a acercarnos más a
través de la oración frente a Jesús sacramentado.
LUNES: 9:30am a 11:30am y se termina con la
bendición.
MIÉRCOLES: 9:30am a 11:30am auspiciada por el
grupo haitiano Jesús y María Grupo de Oración.
MENSAJE DE NUESTRO PÁRROCO
Un ¡Feliz Año Nuevo y Feliz Fiesta de María! El Primer Día
del Año empieza una nueva oportunidad para hacer
obras de caridad, para prometer orar de una manera
nueva cada día. Tal vez este año podamos todos
prometer a Dios visitar cada día una iglesia para orar
tranquilamente, o unirnos a una organización caritativa
católica como los Caballeros de Colón, o el grupo de las
Columbiettes que se está reorganizando en la parroquia.
Tal vez alguien pueda prometerle a Dios el acercarse a la
confesión cada semana, o rezar cada día el rosario o la
coronilla de la Divina Misericordia. El Nuevo Año es como
para empezar cosas de nuevo y hacerlas de una manera
renovada y santa. Invito a cada uno a prometerle a Dios
algo especial este año y a pedirle la fuerza para cumplir
su promesa. Les comparto una nota, estamos celebrando
cada día esta semana la novena al Divino Niño (Santo
Niño) y el próximo domingo tendremos una bendición
especial para los niños de la parroquia al final de la misa
de las 11:30. Todos están invitados durante toda la
semana. !Que Dios los bendiga!
Padre Gannon.
SI DESEA BAUTIZAR UN NIÑO. . .
Ud. debe hacer lo siguiente: trae el certificado de
nacimiento del niño, y habla con el diácono Guillermo
Gómez para la entrevista inicial. Tenga en cuenta que los
bautismos se celebran el domingo, día del Señor, ya sea en
la misa de las 9:45 am o las 2 pm. Padres y padrinos deben
asistir a tres reuniones.
Volveré, volveré donde mi Padre
Volveré, volveré donde mi Padre