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HOLY INNOCENTS PARISH “WE GATHER TO PRAISE, TO BLESS AND TO PROCLAIM.”
February 26, 2017
431 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-0025,FAX: (914) 747-2476
Website: www.hiparish.org
OFFICE HOURS Monday-Friday: 9am-3pm
Saturday: 11am-5pm Sunday: 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 12:15pm Monday-Friday during Lent
Our Lady of Pompeii, Saratoga Avenue Sunday: 10:00am
SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION: Saturdays: 4:30-5:00pm in the church; all other times by request.
Please call the office for an appointment.
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.
NEW PARISHIONERS:
You are cordially invited to join our parish community. Please stop in at the Parish Office.
PARISH STAFF Fr. Hugh L. Burns, OP, Pastor
Fr. Daniel Davies, OP Fr. Frank Sutman, OP Sr. Kathleen O’Hanlon, OP Fr. Gregory Doherty, OP (In Residence)
Maria Lamorgese 769-3297, x1 Director of Religious Education Joe DeSanctis 514-8731 Music Director Loretta Hotter 769-0025 Sacristan 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
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Monday Sir 1:1-10; Ps 93:1-2, 5; Mk 9:14-29
Tuesday Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mk 9:30-37
Wednesday 1 Pt 5:1-4; Ps 23:1-3a, 4-6; Mt 16:13-19
Thursday Sir 5:1-8; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Mk 9:41-50
Friday Sir 6:5-17; Ps 119:12, 16, 18, 27, 34, 35; Mk 10:1-12
Saturday Sir 17:1-15; Ps 103:13-18; Mk 10:13-16
Sunday Is 49:14-15; Ps 62:2-3, 6-9; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 6:24-34
Evening Vigil 5:15 Josephine T. McMahon
8TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Margaret Borelli 10:00 (OLP) Peter Osso 11:00 Maggie Anne Sheerin 5:15 Rebecca Donnelly
Monday, Weekday 7:00 Dennis Vaccaro
Tuesday, Weekday 7:00 Charles Rudd
Wednesday, Ash Wednesday 7:00 Thanksgiving to the Holy Family 12:15 Michele Patane Weldon
Thursday after Ash Wednesday 7:00 Margaret Sardella 12:15 Lt. George P. O’Reilly
First Friday after Ash Wednesday 7:00 Florence Surace Sferlazza 12:15 Bruce Thomas
First Saturday after Ash Wednesday 7:00 Celia Rudd Evening Vigil 5:15 Anthony Milo
FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT 7:30 Our Parishioners 9:00 Antonia Papalia 10:00 (OLP) Eugene Delguidice 11:00 Elena Braia 5:15 Jerry and Eileen Lynch
2016 FINANCE CORNER
Regular Maintenance February Feb. 5 $ 8,313.90 Peter’s Pence $ 2,329.00 Feb. 12 $ 5,906.37 $ 1,910.00 Feb. 19 $ 7,522.29
WEEKLY DONATION ENVELOPES
Please help us make the recording of your donations accurate and efficient.
On the front of every envelope please indicate the amount enclosed by circling the box or writing in the amount. The second collection envelopes (maintenance, holy days, etc.) have a space on the bottom right hand side of the envelope for the amount enclosed.
Please pray for the safety of our men and women in the military, especially those who are serving overseas.
Dennis Catozella, Jimmy Fleming, Joyce Scholz Deborah Migliorini, Antonio Soto, Mary Pat & Jack McMahon, Betty Burns, Meghan Rizzo, Mary Renna, Walter Salat, Barbara Walters, Juan Portillo, Jacques Padawer, Kathy FioRito, Bonnie Proudian, Jeanne Cibirka, Lucia Carlucci, Jennifer Schneider, Elsie Vernon, Richard & Maryann Colucci, Maria Provenzano, Lee Franco, Adele Casagrande, Joseph Drago, Gabrielle Sanchez, Olivia Bendus, Linda Iorizzo, Judy Chriss, Jane Chitty, Jean Balzone, Bernadette Harris, Angela Lynch, Robert Iovino, Beth Frankoviac, Rocco Zacarolli, Robert Sarro, Irene Ramirez, Eleanor Stockel, Nate Smith, Matthew Ryan Taylor, Nicholas Torres, Baby Hazel, Cathy Policastro, Mary Bachmann, Jaspare Miranda, Stephen Mercatili, Ray Aldes, Cissy Patane, Arthur Woods, Rose Cipriano, Hernan Rebagliati, Bridget Tidd, Jane Richardson (Dublin, Ireland), Helen Burton, Maria Victoria Zulli, Adelaide Greco, Julia Sessa, Sean Murphy, Kathleen Shortall, Baby George Driscoll, Dorothea Lang, Michael Garris, Kevin Keane, Ramiro Valderrama, Barbara Brady, Gavin Brady, Tara Morstatt, Emma Murphy, Gina Linss, Jackie Mastrolillo
CONDOLENCES We extend our sympathy and promise of prayers
to the family and friends of Anna Coppola
(mother of Marie Olivier) Lawrence Karabaic
(father of Laura Simonelli)
We recently welcomed into the family of God and our parish family:
Sean Kyle Dooley Daniel Patrick Koss
Peter Anthony Paternostro Liam Connail Walencik
Congratulations to the parents and sponsors!
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YOU’RE INVITED
A Special Mass and Celebration for
Sister Kathy O’Hanlon’s Retirement
When: Sunday, March 5th, 2017 – after 11am Mass
Where: Holy Innocents Catholic Church 431 Bedford Road
Pleasantville, NY
Social Hall entrance is on Tompkins near parking lot
Holy Innocents Parish has been blessed to have Sister Kathy with us for 14 years.
Sr. Kathy has been the backbone and the spirit of our Parish Community.
We are forever grateful for her countless contributions
and will miss her smile, humility and love.
All parishioners, friends and family are invited to celebrate this
joyous occasion.
Light refreshments will be served
If you have a special memory or a photo you would like to share, please email
Roseann Graj at: [email protected]
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I hope and pray that everyone had a wonderful Winter Break. Classes will resume on Monday, February 27th. We will be back just in time for the Liturgical Season of LENT. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, March 1st. The students from our afternoon classes will be attending the 3:30pm Paraliturgy and the students from our evening classes will attend the 7:30pm Paraliturgy. Ashes will be distributed at those times. Throughout the upcoming weeks, all classes will be learning about Lent and focusing on the three pillars of this Liturgical Season: Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving. Our Seventh Grade classes will be preparing for the Stations of the Cross. On March 21st we will be inviting the families to attend a reflection on the Stations of the Cross as the students help us to remember the events of the last few hours of Jesus’ life. On Saturday, February 25th, several of our catechists and volunteers joined me at the Riverview in Hastings on Hudson for the Annual Catechist Communion Breakfast. Eucharistic Liturgy was celebrated by Most Reverend Dominick Lagonegro. The Breakfast Speaker was Dave Barosci from Pflaum Publishing Company. There was much prayer, discussion and reflection that took place during this special day as we joined other parishes throughout the Archdiocese of New York. Last but not least, if you know of anyone who has a child with special needs, please contact me as I am now a founding member of the Advisory Committee for Special Religious Education for the Archdiocese of New York. I will be happy to work with these families in preparing their children for the Sacraments. Maria Lamorgese, Director ph 914-769-3297, Ext. 1 [email protected]
PASTOR’S POETRY POST-IT
“Goodtime Jesus”
I came across this curious and whimsical little poem by James Tate in the New York Review of Books. Of this poem the reviewer wrote: “Goodtime Jesus has no precedent in anybody’s poetry. It is a hilarious and touching poem, pairing mischief and piety as if they were meant to be the most natural of companions.” For many religious folks mischief and piety are not an obvious duo. The poem’s last line of Jesus saying “Hell, I love everybody” is flip and irreverent and yet its very flippancy only underlines the deep Christian truth of God’s unmitigated love. Piety needs a bit of the “mischievous” to keep it from becoming bloated with bogus platitudes and baroque ornamentation. Reverence must make room for irreverence. Did Jesus use an explicative like “hell?” Who knows and who cares? Those easily scandalized also blush at a God becoming truly human, suffering the indignity of infancy, dirty diapers and all; the onslaught of puberty etc. Just hold onto that last line: “Hell, I love everybody.” Dare to believe it with all its irreverence and awesome power of the Creator of the moon and the stars…...and everything else!
Fr. Hugh, OP
ASH WEDNESDAY March 1, 2017
The following is our Ash Wednesday schedule. Please save a copy of the bulletin for reference or visit:
www.hiparish.org
Holy Innocents 7:00am Mass
12:15pm Mass 3:30pm Paraliturgy 7:30pm Paraliturgy
Our Lady of Pompeii
5:15pm Paraliturgy
Jesus got up one day a little later than
usual. He had been dreaming so deep
there was nothing left in his head. What
was it? A nightmare, dead bodies walking all around
him, eyes rolled back, skin falling off. But he wasn’t
afraid of that. It was a beautiful day. How ‘bout
some coffee? Don’t mind if I do. Take a little ride on
my donkey, I love that donkey. Hell, I love everybody.
James Tate (1943-2015)
LADIES HIGH TEA Sunday, March 26th
2:30pm
THE WEEK AHEAD IN THE PARISH Monday, February 27th: 11:00am—Bible Study
Tuesday, February 28th: 11:00am—Lectio Divina
Wednesday, March 1st: ASH WEDNESDAY See Ash Wednesday schedule 6:00pm—Junior Choir 7:15pm—Adult Choir
Friday, March 3rd: 12:45pm—Stations of the Cross at Holy Innocents
Saturday, March 4th: 4:30pm—Teen Choir
Sunday, March 5th: 9:00am—Family Mass 11:00am—Sr. Kathy’s Mass & Celebration 7:00pm—Lenten Parish Mission at Holy Innocents
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LENTEN PARISH MISSION
AT HOLY INNOCENTS
Got Christ?
Fr. Dominic Briese, OP
Sunday March 5th-Wednesday March 8th
(7:00pm each night)
Sunday: Palm Sunday—How’d you get here?
Monday: Last Supper— Who’s hungry?
Tuesday: Good Friday: Fuggedaboutit!
Wednesday: Easter—We interrupt this broadcast.
Fr. Dominic Briese, O.P. was born in 1961 and raised in Westbury, Long Island
(New York). In 1979 he enrolled in the University of Utah and met the
Dominicans at the local Newman Center where he got very involved in a host of
lay ministries, including being the Pastoral Council President. After graduating
with two Business degrees, Fr. Dominic worked for the United States Air Force as
a contracting officer in the F16 program. However, he pursued his religious and
priestly vocation in the Dominican Order by entering the Western Province in
1988.
Fr. Dominic has been ordained 20 years and has done a variety of ministries
throughout the Western U.S. and Mexico, including: parish work, campus ministry
at various Newman Centers, High School Chaplaincy, along with Preaching Parish
Missions and providing retreats throughout the country. He is looking forward to
visiting the Holy Innocents Parish community and seeing his mentor, Fr. Hugh
Burns, O.P., for another experience of sharing God’s Word of love.
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CYO YOUTH GROUP
The Youth Group meets on the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month. All 9th-12th graders are welcome to join us. If you h a v e a n y q u e s t i o n s p l e a s e c o n t a c t : [email protected]
FEBRUARY/MARCH
●Feb. 29th—Cottage School Visit at 9:30am ●Mar. 5th—Youth Group Mass at 5:15pm ●Mar. 5th—Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm ●Mar. 19th—Youth Group Meeting at 6:15pm
CYO FUNDRAISER Saturday, March 11th at 7pm Holy Innocents Social Hall
featuring White Wedding
Tickets On Sale NOW!
Price: $60 per person in advance ($70 at the door)
To purchase tickets go to: holyinnocentscyo.com
Includes: Food, soft drinks, beer, wine and Live Music Show by White Wedding
(NY's premier 80's cover band) additionally there will be raffles, prizes and silent auction
If you would like to volunteer to help or to donate a prize to
the Silent Auction please email:
This coming Wednesday, March 1st, is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season. During Lent the Gloria is omitted from the order of the mass. The only exceptions are the celebrations of feasts and solemnities that occur during this season. This year they are the Feast of St. Joseph celebrated on March 20th since the actual feast day of March 19th is a Sunday this year, and the Feast of the Annunciation on Saturday, March 25th. As part of the musical changes in the liturgy for Lent, we will begin to sing the Kyrie, one of the earliest penitential supplications used in the Christian Church, originating from the Old Testament. The Greek words are: “Kyrie eleison; Christe eleison; Kyrie eleison”, meaning “Lord have mercy; Christ have mercy; Lord have mercy”. The cantor will begin the intonation and will invite you to respond, just as we do with our Responsorial psalms. The Kyrie follows the Confiteor, “I Confess”, which is concluded by a short prayer of absolution from the presider before we move to the Liturgy of the Word. The word mercy in English is the translation of the Greek word eleos. This word has the same ultimate root as the Greek word for oil, or more precisely, olive oil, a substance which was used extensively as a soothing agent for bruises and minor wounds. The oil was poured into the wound and gently massaged in, thus soothing, comforting and making whole the injured part. The Hebrew word for mercy is hesed, and means steadfast love. If we substitute these words in our minds as we sing the Kyrie at Mass, we are saying, “Lord, soothe me, comfort me, take away my pain, show me your steadfast love.” Thus mercy does not refer so much to justice, a very Western interpretation, but to the infinite loving-kindness of God, and His compassion. We invite you to join in singing the Kyrie throughout Lent as a simple and sincere prayer for God’s compassion and love, keeping in mind that God’s majesty and His power are exceeded only by His mercy.
HOLY INNOCENTS CATHOLIC CHURCH WELCOMES A NEW
PARTNER IN CHARITY: A-HOME (located right here in Pleasantville!)
A-HOME'S mission is to strengthen northern Westchester neighborhoods by providing people safe and affordable places to live - the foundation of a stable life. If you want to know more about them, have any household items, specifically vacuums, to donate or if you have any inclination of volunteering, please contact them directly at: 914-741-0740 or Email: [email protected] or visit their website at: www.a-homehousing.org
ANNUAL GOLDEN WEDDING JUBILEE MASS AT SAINT PATRICK’S CATHEDRAL
Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding Anniversary anytime during 2017 are invited to attend the Annual Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass with Cardinal Dolan at the Cathedral of St. Patrick on Sunday, June 11th at 2:00pm. Pre-registration is required. Please call the Parish Office at 769-0025 as soon as possible so we can reserve seats (total of three tickets per couple) for you. Additional non-ticketed seating will be available for families and guests who are invited to sit/stand outside of the reserved section. Tickets are limited. If you can not attend the Mass but would like to receive a certificate from the Archdiocese, please call the Parish Office and we will send the Archdiocese the following information: your first and last names, mailing address and date of wedding.