ST. RAPHAEL’S PARISH

35-20 Greenpoint Avenue, L.I.C., NY 11101 Telephone: 718-729-8957 Fax: 729-5238

E-Mail: straphaelrectory@yahoo.com Website: www.straphael-queens.org

MISSION STATEMENT: St. Raphael’s is a parish rooted in tradition yet responding to an evolving community by evangeliza-tion in action. We seek to inspire the larger Catholic community to a more committed faith life and to heed Christ’s call of sharing time, talent and treasure for the needs of others. DECLARACION DE MISION: San Rafael es una parroquia enraizada en la tradición y a la vez responde a una comunidad que evoluciona con una acción evangelizadora. Buscamos inspirar a la comunidad católica global a que vivan una fe más comprometida y a prestar atención a la llamada de Cristo a compartir tiempo, talento y bienes con los necesitados.

EUCHARIST SCHEDULE

Saturday/Sábado 5:00pm - English

Sunday/Domingo 8:00am - English 9:45am - Korean

11:00 am—English 12:30 pm—Spanish/Español

WEEKDAY SCHEDULE

Monday - Friday 9:00am Lunes - Viernes 9:00am

OFFICE HOURS/HORARIO

Monday - Friday/Lunes - Viernes 9:00-1:00pm & 2:00-4:00pm

Saturday/Sábado By appointment / Mediante cita

BAPTISM/BAUTISMO

Please contact the rectory to make arrangements. You will need the child’s birth certificate. favor de llamar la rectoria. Necesitará el certificado de nacimiento del niño.

MARRIAGE/MATRIMONIO

Any couple wishing to marry should contact the rectory

at least six (6) months before the wedding. Una pareja que está pensando en el matrimonio debe de llamar la rectoría seis (6) meses antes de la boda.

RECONCILIATION/RECONCILIACION Saturday/Sábado 4:00-4:45pm

and by appointment/y por cita.

MINISTRY TO THE SICK/

CUIDADO DE LOS ENFERMOS Please call the rectory at 729-8957 to make arrange-

ments for the sick person to receive Holy Communion or

the Anointing of the sick at home. favor de llamar la rectoría al 729-8957 para que la persona enferma reciba la Comunión o Unción de los Enfermos en la casa.

PARISH STAFF/EQUIPO PARROQUIAL

Rev. Jerry Jecewiz, Pastor Sister Christine Scherer, D.W., Religious Educ.

Mr. Jan Wnek, Music Minister

PARISH STEWARDSHIP

$4,833

$6,185.00

July 30th: Seventeenth Sunday In Ordinary Time

Last week’s church offering Average weekly expenses

FROM THE PASTOR… Dear Parishioners, Today our parish hosts its annual Summer Mission Appeal, which benefits the Piarist Fathers. We welcome Father Andrew Berinyuy, who will speak at our parish Masses in behalf of the Central African Province of his religious order. We had included information about the Piarists in last week’s bulletin. If you missed it, we re-print it elsewhere in this issue. Please familiarize yourself with the wonderful evangelization outreach they do in the name of Jesus. This weekend’s second collection (the collection after Communion) is for our missionary group. There is no corresponding envelope in the parish-support packet. If you came unprepared for this, we’ll hold off sending out the collection until the end of the week. You could drop off a donation at the rectory until then, in an envelope marked MISSIONARY or PIARIST FATHERS. Checks should have the same notation on them, but be made out to St. Raphael’s Church, so that one exchange check can be drafted and forwarded. Thank you for your generosity to the missions. -Father Jerry Jecewiz

THIS AFTERNOON, AT ST. RAPHAEL’S… Annual Celebration in Honor of the Lord of Pardon, the Blessed Virgin Mary & Holy Infant Jesus

2:00 pm—Rosary and prayers 3:00 pm—Mass celebrated by Msgr. Jonas Achacoso Reception to follow, downstairs in Michael Brennan Hall.

July 30th: Seventeenth Sunday In Ordinary Time

THIS WEEK’S EVENTS

Sunday, July 30th: 8:00— Bernardo Valdez (Delia and Joe Dela Cruz) 9:45— KOREAN MASS 11:00—Teresita Alcantara (Food Pantry Volunteers) AND John Anthony Hickey (Elizabeth Ciro) 12:30—Juanita Leon (Estate) AND Alicia Restrepo (Maria Marilla) 3:00—Lord of Pardon Mass Monday, July 31st: 9:00— John Hickey (Gavin Nichols) Tuesday August 1st: 9:00— Roberto Chumbes (Nora Chumbes) Wednesday, August 2nd: 9:00— Souls in Purgatory (Lesley Mahon) Thursday, August 3rd: 9:00—Elizabeth Devlin (Elizabeth Ciro) Friday, August 4th: 9:00— Wladyslaw Mirecki (Birthday Remembrance) (Mirecki Family) Saturday, August 5th: 5:00— Stanley Dzikowski Sr. (23rd Anniversary) (Alex and Robert Boehler) AND Brandie Spinner (Glenn Kern) Sunday, August 6th: 8:00— Dr. Henry Bolante and Mina Torres Liamas (Delia and Joe Dela Cruz) 9:45— KOREAN MASS 11:00—Teresita Alcantara (Food Pantry Volunteers) AND Arthur Fourcand and Yvonee Clara Samedi Fourcand (Yanick Fourcand) 12:30—Pedro y Carola (Aniversario de Muerte)

Mass Intentions for the Week of July 30th

(Fumio Tanai photo)

UPCOMING BAPTISM DATES: In English:

Sat., Sept. 23, 2:00 pm. Prep class is Sat., Sept. 16, 11:00 AM. In Spanish:

Sat., Sept. 30, 2:00 pm. Prep class is Mon., Aug. 14, 7:30 pm. Sat., Oct. 14, 2:00 pm. Prep class is Mon., Oct. 9, 7:30 pm

FOOD PANTRY is usually open Thursdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon, and Saturdays from 1:30 to 3:00 pm. New volunteers are always welcome, as are donations of canned, packaged foods (non-perishable).

Sun., July 30:

17th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Summer Mission Appeal at Masses

Lord of Pardon celebration (2 pm: Rosary &

Prayers; 3 pm: Mass)

Mon., July 31:

Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola

Tues., Aug. 1:

Feast of St. Alphonsus Liguori

Wed., Aug. 2:

Feast of Sts. Eusebius Vercelli & Peter

Julian Eymard

7 pm—Spanish Rosary + Praise

Thurs., Aug. 3:

Food Pantry CLOSED today

Fri., Aug 4:

Feast of St. John Vianney

First Friday

7 pm—Spanish Faith Formation for Chil-

dren

Sat., Aug. 5:

Feast of Dedication of St. Mary Major’s

Food Pantry CLOSED today

2 pm—Spanish Quinceañera

Rosario y

Alabanza:

Cada miércoles a las 7:00 pm en

el sótano de la

rectoría.

FORMACION EN LA FE

Un programa espiritual (en español) para los niños y las niñas empezando con la edad de 4 años. Viernes de las 7 pm a las 8 pm en el sótano de la rectoría. Todos están invitados a participar. Con la colaboración del apostolado Vino Nuevo.

EL RINCON HISPANO

QUE ES LA ORDEN DE LAS ESCOLAPIOS?…. Los Escolapios han venido trabajando continuamente en los Estados Unidos desde 1948 y en Puerto Rico desde 1956. Hemos sido bendecidos a través del servicio en escuelas, parroquias y otros ministerios religiosos. Damos gracias a numerosos obispos, sacerdotes, religiosos y laicos, que han caminado a nuestro lado, en el ministerio según el carisma de San José Calasanz. Damos gracias a muchos padres, que nos han confiado el cuidado de sus hijos e hijas en las aulas. Agradecemos la gran cantidad de personas que ha buscado renovación espiritual a través nuestro. Todos ustedes nos han brindado la oportunidad de cumplir con nuestro especial cuarto voto de edu-car a los jóvenes.

HOY: APELACION MISIONERO DEL VERANO: la segunda colecta será para la sociedad misionero (La Orden de las Escolapios) que nos visitará para explicar su mis-sion y sus ministerios. Sean generosos por favor.

Oración por las Misiones

Padre de bondad, Tu que eres rico en amor y misericordia, que nos enviaste a tu Hijo Jesús para nuestra salvación, escucha a tu iglesia misionera. Que todos los bautizados sepamos responder al llamado de Jesús: "Vayan y hagan que todos los pueblos sean mis discípulos". Fortalece con el fuego de tu Espíritu a todos los misioneros, que en tu nombre anuncian la Buena Nueva del Reino. María, Madre de la Iglesia y estrella de la evangelización, acompáñanos y concédenos el don de la perseverancia en nuestro compromiso misionero. Amén.

THIS ‘N THAT 1. Our Food Pantry will take its annual Summer Break and be closed on Thursdays and Saturdays

for the first three weeks of August. The Pantry will re-open Thursday, Aug. 24th, 10:30 am. 2. The Pantry acknowledges, with gratitude, the kind donation of Judy and Joe Becker in memory

of the late Jimmy Walker. 3. NEXT FLEA MARKET:

Sun., August 6, 9 am to 3 pm Browse...Buy...Brunch!

SUMMER MISSION APPEAL (SECOND COLLECTION) THIS WEKEND: WHO ARE THE PIARIST FATHERS?

The Order of the Pious Schools commonly known as the Piarist Fathers are a Religious Order founded in Rome on March 6, 1617 by Saint Joseph Calasanz (1557-1648)- a priest of Spanish origin. We completely dedicate ourselves to the education of children and youth especially the poor in schools, parishes and youth non-formal education centers.

The Piarist Province of Central Africa covers four countries in the central African region namely: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Democratic Republic of Congo. In these countries, we run a total number of 11 Elementary Schools, 5 High Schools, 2 Technical and vocational Schools. The total enrollment in these schools ranges between 6000 to 7000 students. To strengthen our collaboration with the local church, we also run 6 parishes. To each parish we have attached a Socio-educative and Cultural center to drill children and youths in non-formal educative activities. Our province has a total number of 125 Religious (58 Finally professed/Priests; 67 seminarians; 19 novices; 27 prenovices).

The context in which we are working is a very challenging one: the socio- political instability and poor govern-ance in the above named countries have rendered many youths hopeless. Youth underemployment is a great challenge and it is pushing many youths to despair. Some of these youths engage in a search for “greener pastures” abroad thus leading to migration and brain drain. For those other youths who are not daring enough, the end result is usually high crime waves among other ills. The situation is very pathetic and something needs to be done and urgently. The Piarist Fathers think that the way out of this situation is through an education that seeks to empower the youths by helping them to discover and develop their talents.

We are therefore requesting for help in this mission appeal to do the following:

· We would like to build more classrooms to be able to accommodate and offer Christian education to as many chil-dren as possible

· The available school buildings are dilapidating and are in great need of repairs. In addition to this, these schools do not have the basic or essential facilities in a school. There are schools without electricity, potable water or even toilets.

· Offer scholarships and school material to students from very poor backgrounds

· Equip the few technical and vocational centers that we are running and build more in other areas

· Support the “Caravane of Education” program. In this program we intend to educate the rural population on some issues that concern them directly such as health care, social welfare, conflict resolution, micro-projects etc.

· Train young people and help them start self-reliant projects

· Formation of teachers in our schools and catechists and other pastoral leaders in our parishes.

We are deeply grateful for the opportunity given to us to share our missionary experience with you. On behalf of those we serve, we want to express our immense gratitude for your spiritual and material support.