ST. JOHN PAUL II REGIONAL SCHOOL 631-727-1650 sjp2regional.org Mrs. Abby Swiatkowski, Principal

MUSIC MINISTRY Margaret & Elizabeth Kane

Valentina Danowski John Dautzenberg

631-727-2114

Our Mission Statement Lord, God, all creation is yours, and you call us to serve you by caring for the gifts

that surround us. May the example of St. Isidore urge us to share our food with the hungry and to work for the salvation of mankind. We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your son, who lives

and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen. Saint Isidore, Pray for Us.

Miraculous Medal Novena—Mondays following 7 AM Mass Morning Prayer—Monday thru Friday 6:30 AM, Saturday 7:30 AM

Altar Rosary Society—First Wednesdays 7 PM Respect Life Group—Second Wednesdays 7 PM & Every Wednesday 2-4 PM

in front of Planned Parenthood, Riverhead

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 631-727-2114

stisidorefaithformation@gmail.com Mrs. Adrienne Dillingham

7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 24, 2019

ST. ISIDORE R. C. CHURCH 622 PULASKI STREET RIVERHEAD, NY 11901-3038 PHONE (631) 727-2114 FAX (631) 369-3566 EMAIL: sisidore@optonline.net www.saintisidoreriverhead.org

REV. ROBERT KUZNIK, PASTOR REV. PIOTR NARKIEWICZ, ASSOC. DEACON MICHAEL A. BONOCORE

REINA BONOCORE, OFFICE DIANNE MASSIELLO, SPIRITUAL

AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

SECOND & FOURTH SUNDAYS 1:15 PM ENG / 2:15 POLISH

Please arrange the date of baptism through the Rectory office after the birth of your child.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Please call the Rectory for an appointment at least six months prior to the desired date.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

SATURDAYS 4:00 to 4:45 PM THURSDAYS BEFORE FIRST FRIDAYS 4:00 to 5:00 PM

LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

WEEKDAYS 7:00 AM

SATURDAYS 8:00 AM

SATURDAY EVENINGS VIGIL MASS 5:00 PM

SUNDAYS 8:00 & 9:15 AM

10:30 AM (Polish) 12:00 Noon

3:30 PM (Latin)

RECTORY HOURS

WEEKDAYS 9 AM to 12 Noon & 1 PM to 4 PM

SATURDAYS By Appointment Only

EUCHARISTIC

ADORATION W/ BENEDICTION

Tuesdays 12:00 to 1:00 PM

MASS INTENTIONS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2019

5:00 pm + Janet Cox / + Lina Guardino + Dec’d members of the Cichanowicz, Valek & Donahue Families + Frank Mackie / + Frank Zambriski and Pat

7TH SUN. IN ORDINARY TIME, FEB 24, 2019

8:00 am + Frank, Florence, Paul and Steven (A) Podlas 9:15 am + Bertha Stepnoski (A) 10:30 am + Tadeusz Zakrzewski / + Anna Rus (Polish) The People of the Parish Living & Deceased + Leokadia & Asia Chojnowski + Jerzy (A) & Malgorzata Aleksandrowicz & Fam 50th Birthday blessings for Jan Oleksiejuk 12:00pm + Brian Kizielewicz

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2019

7:00 am + Helen Strebel (A)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2019

7:00 am + Ryszard Pietkun

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2019

7:00 am + Dolores Spicer

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019

7:00 am 95th Birthday Blessings for Jadwiga Zawadzka

FIRST FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2019

7:00 am + Albert Stepnoski / + Carl Haupt

FIRST SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2019

8:00 am + Lewis Tomaszewski The Intentions of the Goodale Family + Mary Perry Healing for Frank O’Neil 5:00 pm The People of the Parish, Living and Deceased + Jennie Stanis / + Greg Stelzer + Sam Bruno / + Charles Vesely + Carol Ann Sheppard

8TH SUN. IN ORD. TIME, MARCH 3, 2019

8:00 am + Frank, Florence, Paul and Steven Podlas 9:15 am + Frank L., Bertha M.. and Frank L. Jr. Ostroski 10:30 am + Za Członków żywego Różańca i Rodzinę Radia Maryja (Polish) + Marek Rachubka / + Leokadia Zurawski + Stanislawa Roman and Jan Blando + Lilia and Jan Arent 12:00pm + Florence Theresa Yusko

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — David found Saul in a deep sleep, but would not harm him (1 Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23). Psalm — The Lord is kind and merciful (Psalm 103). Second Reading — We shall bear the image of the heavenly Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45-49). Gospel — Give to everyone who asks of you. Lend expecting nothing back (Luke 6:27-38).

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

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: Sir 4:11-19; Ps 119:165, 168, 171, 172, 174, 175; Mk 9:38-40 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: Sir:27:4-7; Ps 92:2-3, 13-16; 1 Cor 15:54-58; Lk 6:39-45

7TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 24, 2019

IN LOVING MEMORY

MISSALETTES Robert and Walter Zilnicki

Merciful and gracious is the LORD,

slow to anger and abounding in kindness.

— Psalm 103:8

PRAY FOR OUR SICK Slawek Cindy Slivonik Marty & Linda Keller Tom & Elizabeth Farrugia Diane Densieski Cecilia Murphy Walter Bonczyk Kelly Wine Jimmy Temperino Virginia Todd Gale Durney Gillian Lynch Karen Reilly Frances Alec Karen Fleishman Mary Van Duesen Thomas DeGirolamo William Berenger Daria Quarlena Eileen Borchart Sheila Nolan Tom Wisniewski III Jean Reyes Carroll Lynn Markowski Thomas & Corinne Clark Grzegorz Radziwonski James Patrick Jaeger Karen Payet Ernest and Alex Aponte Helen Long Michael Miglionico Wieslaw Luniewski Theresa Mannuzza Krzysztof Olszowski Ralph Conforti The Barauskus Family Hope & Brittany Williams John Marion Julie Zotos Mary Oleksiak Dan Massiello Chris & Susan Kane

The Curry Family Vera Doroski Sister M. Alexeus George & Barbara Jaeger The Huntley Family Mark Raplee Ann Bonocore Theresa Puglia Brian Darmody Dakota Anthony Harmon Greg Alty Leigh Anne Brown Ann Mickaliger Carol Anne Livingston Dan Modjeska Judy Zakorski Kelly Trick Marie & Greg Miley Marcjanna Stolarzewicz John Shuot Clara Fasulo Jan Santacapita Maureen & John Tighe Helen Sheppard Gene Esposito Patrick Murphy Harry Koehler Alex Michaelson Regina Semon Mike Diem Brian Crowley Michael Barker Louise Pampinello Patricia Liebler Jim DeRosa Dee DeGirolamo Barbara Fenn Therese Gigante Augie & Georgianna Lucente Johanna Benthal Joan Meister Barbara Kobielski

THE WEEK AHEAD

Sunday, February 24, 2019 Latin Mass 3:30 PM

Monday, February 25, 2019 Miraculous Medal Novena after 7 AM Mass

Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Adoration and Benediction 12 to 1 PM

Altar Server Meeting 5:30 PM

Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Religious Ed Classes

Thursday, February 28, 2019 Confessions 4 to 5 PM

PRAY FOR OUR DECEASED

Julia Broncaccio

Please keep all those serving in the military and their families in your thoughts and prayers especially:

Christopher Drowns, Anthony and Thomas Gallo, Jeffrey Heppner, James Fleming, Kevin Thomas, Michael Tagliareni, Justin Kruel, Peter and Denis

Clark, Daniel, Andrew Vesely, Cole Lamond, Brendan Fitzgerald, Thomas V. D’Auria and

Dylan Marzec

COLLECTIONS

2019 2018

February 17th $ 6,078 $ 6,967

This Week, February 24, 2019 Sunday Weekly / Debt Reduction

Next Week, March 3, 2019 Sunday Weekly / SJPII School

BAPTISMS WE WELCOME:

Arya Pendzick

BECOME A MEMBER OF THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

COUNCIL 928

The Knights of Columbus are seeking new members that wish to improve the lives of those in our community.

“The Knights of Columbus Immaculate Conception Council 928 is unified and dedicated to improving the

lives of all in our local community. Be engaging in works of charity to help those in need.”

It is time to make a difference in your neighbors’ lives and join the Knights. God compels us to take action!

To live your faith and make a difference, please contact Bob Fisher (631-525-1900)

or John Dunleavy (631-800-6388)

NEW YORK, ABORTION AND A SHORT ROAD TO CHAOS

by Bishop Robert Barron January 29, 2019 (Wordonfire.org)

It was the celebration that was particularly galling. On the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed into law a protocol that gives practically unrestricted access to abortion,

permitting the killing of an unborn child up until the moment of delivery. In the wake of the ratification, the legislators and their supporters whooped, hollered, and cheered, a display depressingly similar to the jubilation that broke out in

Ireland when a referendum legalizing abortion passed last year. Of course, all of the rhetoric about women’s rights and reproductive health and empowerment was trotted out, but who can fail to see what was at stake? If an infant, lying

peacefully in a bassinet in his parents’ home, were brutally killed and dismembered, the entire country would rightfully be outraged and call for an investigation of the murder. But now the law of New York confirms that that same child,

moments before his birth, resting peacefully in his mother’s womb, can be, with utter impunity, pulled apart with forceps. And the police won’t be summoned; rather, it appears, the killing should be a matter of celebration.

An ideology, taken in the negative sense, is a conceptual framework that blinds one to reality. The purpose of any ideational system, obviously, is to shed light, to bring us closer to the truth of things, but an ideology does the reverse,

effectively obfuscating reality, distancing us from truth. All of the buzz terms I mentioned above are ideological markers, smokescreens. Or if I can borrow the terminology of Jordan Peterson, they are the chattering of demons, the

distracting hubbub of the father of lies. I recall that during the presidential campaign of 2016, Hillary Clinton was asked several times whether the child in the womb, within minutes of birth, has constitutional rights, and this extremely I

ntelligent, experienced, and canny politician said, over and over again, “That’s what our law dictates.” Therefore, by a sheer accident of location, the unborn baby can be butchered, and the same baby, moments later and in the arms of his

mother, must be protected by full force of law. That many of our political leaders can’t or won’t see how utterly ludicrous this is can only be the result of ideological indoctrination.

As I watched film of Andrew Cuomo signing this repulsive bill into law, my mind drifted back to 1984 and an auditorium at the University of Notre Dame where Cuomo’s father, Mario—also Governor of New York at the time—delivered a famous address. In his lengthy and intellectually substantive speech, Gov. Cuomo presented himself, con-vincingly, as a faithful Catholic, thoroughly convinced in conscience that abortion is morally outrageous. But he also

made a fateful distinction that has been exploited by liberal Catholic politicians for the past thirty-five years. He explained that though he was personally opposed to abortion, he was not willing to pursue legal action to abolish it or

even to limit it, since he was the representative of all the people, and not just of those who shared his Catholic convictions. Now this distinction is an illegitimate one, which is evident the moment we draw an analogy to other

public matters of great moral import: “I’m personally opposed to slavery, but I’ll take no action to outlaw it or limit its spread”; “I personally find Jim Crow laws repugnant, but I will pursue no legal strategy to undo them”; etc. But at the very least, Mario Cuomo could declare himself deeply conflicted, anguished, willing to support abortion law only as a

regrettable political necessity in a pluralistic democracy.

But in a single generation, we have moved from reluctant toleration to unbridled celebration, from struggling Mario to exultant Andrew. And there is a simple reason for this. A privatized religion, one that never incarnates itself in ges-ture, behavior, and moral commitment, rapidly evanesces. Once-powerful convictions, never concretely expressed, de-volve, practically overnight, into pious velleities—and finally disappear altogether. In Robert Bolt’s magnificent play

regarding St. Thomas More, A Man for All Seasons, we find a telling exchange between Cardinal Wolsey, a hard-bitten, largely amoral politico, and the saintly More. Wolsey laments, “You’re a constant regret to me, Thomas. If you could just see facts flat on, without that horrible moral squint, with just a little common sense, you could have been a statesman.” To which More responds, “Well…I believe when statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties…they lead their country by a short route to chaos.” Abandoning the convictions of one’s conscience in the exercise of one’s public duties is precisely equivalent to “I’m personally opposed but unwilling to

take concrete action to instantiate my opposition.”

And this abandonment—evident in Mario Cuomo’s 1984 address—has indeed led by a short road to chaos, evident in Andrew Cuomo’s joyful celebration of a law permitting the murder of children.

More Christmas Thank You’s…

“I would like to thank whoever gave me the beautiful suit for Christmas, God Bless You...I can’t thank you enough. I wear it to church every Sunday.”

~Alease

“Thank you for the jacket and gift card.” ~Brenda

“Thank you sooooo much for the gift cards. They helped us buy much-needed

food for Christmas.” ~Mary and son, Charles

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"ORDINARY" TIME

Ordinary Time refers to all of those parts of the Catholic Church's liturgical year that aren't included in the major seasons of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter. Ordinary Time thus encompasses two different periods in the Church's

calendar, since the Christmas season immediately follows Advent, and the Easter season immediately follows Lent.

The Church year begins with Advent, followed immediately by the Christmas season. Ordinary Time begins on the Monday after the first Sunday after January 6, the traditional date of the Feast of the Epiphany and the end of the

liturgical season of Christmas. This first period of Ordinary Time runs until Ash Wednesday when the liturgical season of Lent begins. Both Lent and the Easter season fall outside of Ordinary Time, which resumes again on the Monday

after Pentecost Sunday, the end of the Easter season. This second period of Ordinary Time runs until the First Sunday of Advent when the liturgical year begins again.

Because the term ordinary in English most often means something that's not special or distinctive, many people think that “Ordinary Time” refers to parts of the calendar of the Catholic Church that are unimportant. Even though the season of Ordinary Time makes up most of the liturgical year in the Catholic Church, the fact that Ordinary Time refers to those

periods that fall outside of the major liturgical seasons reinforces this impression. Yet Ordinary Time is far from unimportant or uninteresting.

Ordinary Time is called "ordinary" not because it is common but simply because the weeks of Ordinary Time are numbered. The Latin word ordinalis, which refers to numbers in a series, stems from the Latin word ordo, from which we get the English word order. Thus, the numbered weeks of Ordinary Time, in fact, represent the ordered life of the Church—the period in which we live our lives neither in feasting (as in the Christmas and Easter seasons) or in more

severe penance (as in Advent and Lent), but in watchfulness and expectation of the Second Coming of Christ.

It's appropriate, therefore, that the Gospel for the Second Sunday of Ordinary Time (which is actually the first Sunday celebrated in Ordinary Time) always features either John the Baptist's acknowledgment of Christ as the Lamb of God or Christ's first miracle—the transformation of water into wine at the wedding at Cana. Thus for Catholics, Ordinary Time

is the part of the year in which Christ, the Lamb of God, walks among us and transforms our lives. There's nothing "ordinary" about that!

Why Is Green the Color of Ordinary Time? The normal liturgical color for Ordinary Time—for those days when there is no special feast—is green. Green vestments and altar cloths have traditionally been associated with the time after Pentecost, the period in which the Church founded

by the risen Christ and enlivened by the Holy Spirit began to grow and to spread the Gospel to all nations.

How Many Sundays Are There in Ordinary Time? In any given year, there are either 33 or 34 Sundays in Ordinary Time. Because Easter is a moveable feast, and thus the

Lent and Easter seasons "float" from year to year, the number of Sundays in each period of Ordinary Time vary from the other period as well as from year to year.

CELEBRATE MARRIAGE

A full-day enrichment for married couples

All married couples are welcome to join us on Saturday, Marcy 16, 2019

9:30 am to 4:30 pm Corpus Christi Parish

155 Garfield Ave., Mineola We will gather at 9:30 in the Parish Hall

Continental Breakfast and Lunch Provided $40 per couple

RSVP by March 8th Diane and Jim Popp 516-794-0069

SJPII REGIONAL SCHOOL

100TH DAY OF

SCHOOL

The kindergarten class shared snacks and practiced counting to 100!

St. John Paul II Regional Elementary School is looking for Parishioners from each parish to sit on the Regional School Board. If you are interested and have a skill that would provide insight to establish a

successful Catholic elementary school, please call 631-727-1650 or email aswiatkowski@sjp2regional.org. The newly established board would be required to meet together one evening per month.

All applicants must show interest by March 10th.

Thank you.

Mrs. Abbey Swiatkowski Principal

St. John Paul II Regional School 515 Marcy Avenue

Riverhead, NY 11901 (P) 631-727-1650

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Isidore Church #022299 622 Pulaski Street Riverhead, NY 11901 TELEPHONE 631 727-2114 CONTACT PERSON Reina Bonocore SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2013 Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Windows 7 PRINTER HP Officejet J4580 Transmission Time Wednesday 11:45 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION February 24, 2018 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 8 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS