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Salus Animarum Suprema Lex

Douglaston-Little Neck

www.stanastasia.info

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Douglaston, NY 11362Douglaston, NY 11362Douglaston, NY 11362Douglaston, NY 11362----1135113511351135 Phone: (718) 631Phone: (718) 631Phone: (718) 631Phone: (718) 631----4454445444544454

Fax: (718) 631Fax: (718) 631Fax: (718) 631Fax: (718) 631----1774177417741774 Email: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]: [email protected]

Rev. Msgr. George J. Ryan, Pastor

Rev. William A. McLaughlin Rev. Chris J. Piasta, OFM

Rev. Msgr. Michael J. Cantley, S.T.D., Pastor Emeritus

Rectory Office Hours:Rectory Office Hours:Rectory Office Hours:Rectory Office Hours: Monday to Friday 9:15 AM to 8 PM

Saturday 9:15 AM to 1 PM

Mrs. Betty Harris, Secretary

Mrs. Ann Larkin, Accounting Admin.

St. Anastasia School:St. Anastasia School:St. Anastasia School:St. Anastasia School: 45-11 245th Street

Mrs. Lucy Mihulka, Principal Mrs. Cindy Roma-McCann, Assist. Princ.

Phone: (718) 631-3153; (718) 631-3155 Email: [email protected]

Religious Education & CCD Office:Religious Education & CCD Office:Religious Education & CCD Office:Religious Education & CCD Office: Mrs. Janine Kramer, Directress

Phone: (718) 225-5191 Email: [email protected]

Music Minister:Music Minister:Music Minister:Music Minister: Mr. Joseph C. Extejt

Weekend Masses:Weekend Masses:Weekend Masses:Weekend Masses:

Saturday Vigil at 5:30

Sundays 8 AM, 10 AM, 12 PM & 5 PM

Weekday Masses:Weekday Masses:Weekday Masses:Weekday Masses: Monday thru Saturday at 8:30 AM

Sacrament of Reconciliation:Sacrament of Reconciliation:Sacrament of Reconciliation:Sacrament of Reconciliation: Saturdays 4—4:30 PM

Holy Days and Special Liturgies:Holy Days and Special Liturgies:Holy Days and Special Liturgies:Holy Days and Special Liturgies: Mass schedules will be printed in the

Bulletin at the appropriate time.

Devotions:Devotions:Devotions:Devotions: Miraculous Medal Novena:

Mondays after 8:30 AM Mass

PARISH MEMBERSHIP:PARISH MEMBERSHIP:PARISH MEMBERSHIP:PARISH MEMBERSHIP:

All new families are welcome to the Parish and every family should be properly registered.

Registration forms are available at the Rectory.

Use of the electronic giving (Faith Direct) or envelope system is required if statement of

contribution is sought for tax purposes. All parishioners should use either one of the do-

nation forms. If you move or change your address, please notify the Rectory by mail.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:

First Sunday of each month at 1:30 PM only. Parents should make arrangements by call-

ing the Rectory no later than 2 weeks before the Baptism.

Parents mustmustmustmust attend the Baptism instructions beforebeforebeforebefore Baptism

SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY:SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY:SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY:SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY:

Time available: Saturday 11 AM-3 PM; Sunday 2:30 PM-3 PM

Couples must make arrangements six months prior to the selected date of their marriage

and fullyfullyfullyfully participate in the “Pre-Cana” Parish at home.

R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)R.C.I.A. (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults)

It is the process for adults wishing to become Catholic, complete their sacramental initia-

tion, or attain full membership in the Church. For further information, please contact

Ms. Janine Kramer

October 26, 2008

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time

■ ANNOUNCEMENTS October 26, 2008 ST. ANASTASIA BULLETIN

Leisure Club News

T rip to Atlantic City Monday, October 27.

Cost: $30 pp.

Anyone interested, please call Peggy McKeon at (718) 428-2833. Outreach Committee

G etting to Know You Want some company?

Need some help? Have a neighbor in need? Want to help? Let us know! The Outreach Committee Hotline is (347) 481-5477. St. Anastasia’s Outreach Com-mittee is a group of parishion-ers who have come together to offer services (visits, errands, etc.) to those in need. We’re ready and waiting for your call! Family and Individual Therapy

T he Blanton Peale Institute offers therapy for fami-

lies, teens, Married Couples and individuals. Fees are deter-mined by income and family size. Sacred Heart parishioner Mary Kane LM SW is now on staff at the Douglaston Office located at the Community Church of Douglaston on 39-50 Douglaston Parkway. For appointments or informa-tion call the Douglaston Office at (718) 237-3078 or contact Mary Kane directly at (914) 562-9638. Marriage Encounter

F all is a beautiful season full of color and crisp

fresh air. A World Wide Mar-riage Encounter Weekend is like autumn because it’s a weekend full of fresh air, new beginnings and a time to re-joice in the beauty of your mar-riage and family. It’s a great time to rekindle communica-tion and enjoy a weekend

away. The next weekend is November 7—9, 2008. For information or to register, call 877 NYS-WWME or visit our website at www.mygmgwwme.org Choir News

S t. Anastasia Choir is look-ing to expand its members.

If you are interested and like to sing we need you and your voice! Please call Joseph Ex-tejt, our Music Director at (718) 631-4909. Activity Leaders Wanted

O zanam Hall of Queens Nursing Home at 42-41

201st Street in Bayside is look-ing for part-time Activity Leaders. No experience neces-sary with good verbal/writing, interpersonal skills to work with senior population 9 Hours per weekend and/or evening. Reliability a must! If interested please call Marilyn Gindi at (718) 971-2708. The Big Apple Circus

T he Women’s Club of Douglaston is sponsoring

a trip to the Big Apple Circus: November 12, 2008 at Lincoln Center—Tent. Performance at 6:30 PM. Bus leaves Douglas-ton Dock at 3:30 PM and re-turns to the Dock at 8:30 PM. Contact Fran (718) 225-0223 or Gina (718) 225-9716. St. Anastasia Blood Drive

M ark your calendar: The 2008 St. Anastasia

Blood Drive will be held on November 23—the Sunday before Thanksgiving—between 9 AM and 2 PM. More infor-mation to come. Senior Services Website

B ishop Nicholas DiMarzio is delighted to introduce

the Blessed John XXIII Senior

Services Website, providing all seniors and their families ready access to senior services of-fered throughout Brooklyn and Queens by the Catholic Church. Seniors and their fami-lies can now find information on: Alzheimer’s and dementia services, social services, home care, services for homebound elderly, health insurance hos-pice care, nursing and rehabili-tation programs, affordable senior housing, and senior cen-ters. To visit the Web site, go to the Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens home page at www.ccbq.org The Blessed John XXIII Senior Services link is on the left hand side. Help the Homeless

H omeless men living under Flushing Meadow

Bridges need clothing For a number of years now and thanks to the generosity of our parishioners; every Sunday morning during the winter months, we bring hot choco-late, a sandwich and some warm clothes to a group of homeless men living under the bridges and surrounding areas

of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. These are men who for different reasons have given up on life and seen unable to cope with it. As the cold weather approaches, once again we are preparing to start our mission and we need clothing. If you have warm clothes and blan-kets that are clean and in good condition and would like to donate them please call us and we will pick them up. For more information call Jorge at (718) 224-8187 or (718) 423-5988. Annual Coat Drive

T he official start of the coat drive is November 1st. The

coats are dropped off to needy parishes in Queens and Brook-lyn, visiting Nurse Early Head Start program in Rockaway, St. John’s Bread and Life Minis-try, and other spots that are in need of help. The coats can be left at my office at Bryce Rea Associates, or if you can’t come to me I will go and pick them up; just call my cell phone: Carolyn Meenan at (917) 796-2990. Thank you again for your generous help by keeping someone warm this winter.

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A t each Easter and Christmas, from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, the City

of Rome and the World receive a pa-pal address and blessings. This is not witnessed only by the people gathered in St. Peter's Square but also by the millions watching the Urbi et Orbi on television and listening on radio. In Christmas 1995, Pope John Paul II launched the Vatican's Website, vatican.va. It consisted of one page with the text of his Urbi et Orbi address. Behind the scenes was Judith Zoebelein, a Franciscan Sister from New York. Sister Judith, 59 years-old, is the technical and editorial director of the Internet Office of the Holy See. She grew up in the Hamp-tons and later resided in Manhattan. She studied Irish drama and graduated from Hof-stra University. Sister Judith began her inter-national travels after joining the Peace Corps. She spent two years teaching English in rural Thailand and after returning home, studied to teach English as a second lan-guage. After meeting a group of nuns, the Franciscan Sisters of the Eucharist, Judith found her childhood Catholicism rekindled. She entered the abbey in Meriden, Connecti-cut. "I was looking for something meaning-ful and eternal," she says. Sister Judith loved computers. Her father was a computer professional who worked for Burroughs Corporation. In 1981 the Order sent her to Jerusalem to help train Palestini-ans in the use of computers. In 1986 she was asked to oversee the organi-zation of computer systems for Catholic Re-lief Services, the relief and development arm of the Church here in the United States. She was programming, training and setting up telecommunications services when she came to the attention of Rosario Jose Cardinal Castillo Lara, who was the manager of Vati-can properties and he asked her in 1991 to come work at the Vatican With the outbreak of Internet use in the mid-1990s, Sister Judith recognized the Web's potential and together with a small group of Vatican technologists took the idea of creat-

ing a website to John Paul II, who quickly approved of it. The website vatican.va is available in Eng-lish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian and as of May 2008, Latin. In its first two days in 1995, the site had more than 300,000 visitors and received many emails requesting information, prayers, and sending good wishes to the Pope. ''In the first two weeks we got 4,000 letters,'' Sister Judith said. ''It surprised everybody.'' Uncomfort-able with the system's inability to respond to such E-mail, the Vatican suspended opera-tions at the site for 18 months. The site reap-peared on Easter Sunday 1997, without an E-mail address. The site now gets far more than 15 million hits per day. Visitors come from over 120 different countries including Muslim coun-tries and communist China. So what does Sister Judith cite as her profes-sional challenges and what’s ahead for her

team? It is integrating information technol-ogy with a 2000 year old institution. As of 2006, there were 17 people working on the website and many more were interested in helping the Church's efforts on the Internet. Her hopes for the next 5-10 years are for different groups within the Catholic Church hierarchy to communicate and collaborate better using technology. She sees this being done by creating documents, sharing ideas, and putting together outreach missions within a secure technology environment. With information from:

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The Vatican Webservant The Franciscan Sister from Long Island Behind the Vatican's Website | BY RALPH ISKAROS

SR. JUDITH ZOEBELEIN | PICTURE BY STEPHANIE BOOTH

Saturday, Nov. 1 — All Saints 9:00 AM Mass 4:00 PM Reconciliation 5:30 PM Mass

SUNDAY, Nov. 2 — All Souls 8:00 AM Mass 10:00 AM Mass (Coffee & donuts after Mass) 12:00 PM Mass 1:30 PM Baptisms 5:00 PM Mass 6:00 PM Youth Group (Youth Center)

Monday, Nov. 3 8:30 AM Mass 1:15 PM Bible Study (Annex) 7:30 PM Bible Study (Annex)

Tuesday, Nov. 4 8:30 AM Mass 1:45 PM Leisure Club (Fr. Smith Hall)

Wednesday, Nov. 5 8:30 AM Mass 11:00 AM Mommy & Me 2:30 PM Religious Ed Classes 7:00 PM Religious Ed Classes 8:30 PM RCIA

Thursday, Nov. 6 8:30 AM Mass 7:00 PM Spanish Prayer Group (Church)

Friday, Nov. 7 8:30 AM Mass 7:30 PM Al Anon (Annex)

Saturday, Nov. 8 8:30 AM Mass 4:00 PM Reconciliation 5:30 PM Mass

SUNDAY, Nov. 9 8:00 AM Mass (Coffee & donuts after Mass) 10:00 AM Mass 12:00 PM Mass 5:00 PM Mass 6:00 PM Youth Group (Youth Center)

Monday, Nov. 10 8:30 AM Mass



Thursday, Nov. 13 8:30 AM Mass 7:00 PM Spanish Prayer Group (Church) 7:00 PM Movie Club (Youth Center)



SUNDAY, Nov. 16 8:00 AM Mass 10:00 AM Mass — Confirmation Enrollment 12:00 PM Mass — Confirmation Enrollment 5:00 PM Mass




Thursday, Nov. 20 8:30 AM Mass 7:00 PM Spanish Prayer Group (Church)



SUNDAY, Nov. 23 8:00 AM Mass 9:00 AM—2:00 PM Blood Drive 10:00 AM Mass 12:00 PM Mass 5:00 PM Mass



Wednesday, Nov. 26 8:30 AM Mass 11:00 AM Mommy & Me

Thursday, Nov. 27 — THANKSGIVING 9:00 AM Mass

Friday, Nov. 28 8:30 AM Mass 7:30 PM Padre Pio Prayer Group (Church) 7:30 PM Al Anon (Annex)


SUNDAY, Nov. 30 — FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT 8:00 AM Mass 10:00 AM Mass 12:00 PM Mass 5:00 PM Mass 6:00 PM Youth Group Movie Night (Youth Center)

November 2008

SAUERBRATEN | by MARY & JOE THOMASSEN For 15- 20 people. 9 lbs. eye round. Put in deep dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper. Cover completely with equal amount of vinegar and water, add 1 box pickling spices and 2 tbls. sugar and onions. Cover and let stand in re-frigerator for 3—4 days. Cook like Pot Roast in this mixture until tender (2—2½ hrs.) Strain mixture and thicken with crushed ginger snaps and flour. POTATO BALLS | by MARY & JOE THOMASSEN 10 lbs. potatoes 5-6 Eggs 2 ½ Cups flour 1/2 cup farina Be sure to flour hands. Boil potatoes, peel, put through ricer. Rice on cloth, cover with another cloth and let stand overnight. Put into a mixing bowl add eggs, flour farina and salt. Roll into balls, cook in boiling salted water until balls come to the surface. Then let cook on top of water for about 4—5 min-utes.

APPLE WALNUT CAKE WITH CIDER SAUCE | by DOROTHY ANN MULHOLLAND 2 cups sugar 1 cup plus 2Tbsp. Vegetable oil ¼ cup apple cider 3 large eggs 1 tsp. vanilla extract 1 tsp. each cinnamon, nutmeg, and baking Soda ½ tsp. salt 3 cups flour 2 large Granny Smith (3 ½ cups) peeled, cored and sliced 1 ½ cups chopped walnuts CIDER SAUCE | by DOROTHY ANN MULHOLLAND 2 cups apple cider ¼ cup packed brown sugar 1 tbsp cornstarch 1 tbsp butter 1 tsp vanilla extract Heat oven to 350°. Coat a 10” tube pan with removable tube insert with nonstick spray. Whisk sugar oil apple cider, eggs, vanilla, cinnamon, nutmeg, baking soda and salt in large bowl until blended. Stir in flour until blended Stir in apples and walnuts. Scrape mixture into prepared pan. Bake 1 hour and 10 to 20 minutes. Let cool in pan on wire rack 1 hour. Remove sides of pan. Cool completely before lifting cake off bottom of pan. Cider Sauce: Whisk cider, brown sugar and cornstarch in a medium saucepan until blended. Place over medium–high heat and bring to a boil, whisking occasionally. Boil 1 minute or until slightly thickened. Remove from heat and add butter and vanilla; stir until butter

The next recipe section will be published in the November 23 edition of our Bulletin. This time we will focus on Thanksgiving recipes. If you would like to share your “secret formulas”, leave them at the Rectory or email us at [email protected] by November 18. Bon Appétit!

MASS INTENTIONS October 26—November 1, 2008

SATURDAY WEEKDAY

5:30 PM Toni Rose Tommaso and Alzira P. de Aguiar

SUNDAY THIRTIETH ORDINARY SUNDAY

8:00 AM Angelo Maria & Nereo Masi

10:00 AM Hermancia Casanova and Victor Panasci

12:00 PM Vincent LaVeglia and Moses Mohan Rangan

5:00 PM

MONDAY WEEKDAY

8:30 AM Joseph J. Baumann and Victoria Sweet

TUESDAY SIMON & JUDE, APOSTLES Simon, called “the Zealot”, possibly preached in Egypt and Persia. Jude, or Thaddeus, may have preached in Palestine and Persia; patron of those in despair, or in hopeless situations (perhaps because of the similarity of his name with that of Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus and despaired).

8:30 AM Vincent Sabella and Cornelius Fitzgerald

WEDNESDAY WEEKDAY

8:30 AM Gertrude McLaughlin and Gertrude Kelly

THURSDAY WEEKDAY

8:30 AM Kevin Wuertz and Bonnie Kane & Anne O’Donohue

FRIDAY WEEKDAY

8:30 AM Aida Simonelli and Jim Mulligan

SATURDAY ALL SAINTS (not holy day of obligation) First mentioned in the 4th c. (Feast of All Mar-tyrs); for reasons which are unclear, Pope Greg-ory IV (827—844) transferred the feast from may to 1 November.

9:00 AM Mary McLaughlin, Rose & Teresa Balzano and William & Mary Shaw

Bread & Wine Memorial

IN THANKSGIVING FOR

*** Anna & Stanley Gambeski *** OCTOBER 27—NOVEMBER 2, 2008

{ Remember }

Please remember in your prayers all the sick of our Parish Community, especially:

• Ruth Marchese • Annette Montello • Joseph Alchus

and those who have died, especially:

• William McElhenney • Marie Geuther

This week:

■ Leisure Club on Tuesday

■ Religious Education Classes on Wednesday ■ RCIA on Wednesday

■ Spanish Prayer Group on Thursday

■ All Saints feast on Saturday

■ Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed on Sunday ■ Youth Group (BBQ) on Sunday

Mommy & Me

The Mommy and Me Program meets on Wednes-days 11:00—12:30 in the Annex.

Bible Study Date Change

Please be advised, that the date of the last session of the Bible Study Series is changed from Monday, October 27 to Monday, November 3, 2008.

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