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PRAY FOR OUR MILITARY PERSONNEL

INDEPENDENCE STRENGTH FREEDOM

U.S. Air Force:

Staff Sgt. Andrew D. Simpson

Master Sergeant Scott Moller

Tech. Sgt. Francisco J. Velasquez

Master Sgt. Jeremy Salaver

U.S. Army:

Private Angelique J. Rosado

Master Sergeant Jill Agront

Sgt. Hisnard Cadet, Jr.

Staff Sgt. Misael Exantus

PFC Zaymery Villalobos

Special Force Kareem Inniss

Spc. Richard Aquilar

Captain Gavin Campbell McMahon

LTC Douglas Boltuc

Sgt. Andrew Gandolfo

PFC Francisco Fuentes Melinium

PFC Stefan Saindoux

PFC Luc-Ambert Saindoux, Jr.

PFC Betty Piquion

U.S. Marines:

1st Battalion Carlos Fuentes

CPL Daniel C. Monroe

RCT Eric Joel Vazquez

Sergeant W. Jason Ferris

L. Cpl. Alfonso Rodriquez

U.S. Navy:

Airman Herbert J. Alvarado

JE-4/CS3 Jesus Ron

Chief Petty Officer John V. Sparkowski

Lt. Joseph A. Baugh

Cpl. Eric Omar Matos

Lt. John R. Esposito

AG2/Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael McGee

Fr. Christopher Costigan, Pastor..................... Ext. 302

Cheryl Nicholson................................................. Ext. 301

Parish Assistant

Mrs. Kathy Day ................................................... Ext. 304

Bookkeeper

Mrs. Marlene Jean-Baptiste

Co-Director of Social Ministry

292-1603 or 481-2550, Ext. 320

Ms. Barbara Powell

Co-Director of Social Ministry

292-1603 or 481-2550, Ext. 321

Cheryl Nicholson................................................. Ext. 312

Bulletin Editor

Voice Mail Only: Must Leave a Message

Deacon Hernst Bellevue ...................................... Ext. 346

Director of Adult Faith Formation

English/Creole Baptismal Program

Mr. Alvin Ingram ................................................ Ext. 347

Liturgy Chairperson

Mr. Tom Gould ................................................... Ext. 348

Plant Manager

Mrs. Dulce Sepulveda ......................................... Ext. 349

Spanish Baptism Program

Elissa Hanson ....................................................... Ext.350

Choir Director & Organist

Ms. Lisette Joachim.............................................. Ext 351

Ministry of Consolation

Deacon Evenou Saint-Louis

Parochial Archivist .............................................. Ext. 352

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

Deacon Trevor Mathurin,

Director of Religious Education ..................................Ext. 311

Mrs. Imogene Regan,

RCIA Director ..............................................................Ext. 314

13TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—JULY 2, 2017

“We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him.”

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To the Sacred Heart of Jesus….

Beginning Friday, July 7th, we will have the Stations of the Cross in the Chapel each Friday at 12:00 Noon. Along with our Morning Pray-er Service and Exposition of the Blessed (and Benediction on the First Fridays of each month), Our hope is that Fridays will become a special day of prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in St. Martha’s Parish.

A partir del Viernes, 7 de Julio, tendremos las Estaciones de la Cruz en la capilla cada Viernes a las 12:00 del mediodía. Junto con nuestro servicio de la oración de la mañana y Exposición del Santísi-mo (y Bendición de los primeros Viernes de cada mes), nuestra es-peranza es que los Viernes se convertirá en un día especial de oración al Sagrado Corazón de Jesús en la parroquia de Santa Mar-tha.

A partir du Vendredi 7 Juillet, nous aurons un Chemin de Croix à la chapelle tous les vendredis à Midi. Avec la Prière du Matin et l’Expo-sition du Saint Sacrement (et la Bénédiction les Premiers Vendredis de chaque mois), nous espérons que le vendredi deviendra un jour spécial de prière au Sacré Cœur de Jésus à la paroisse de Sainte Martha.

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Lectio Divina

A Prayerful Reading of Sacred Scripture

The Gospel for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42

Jesus said to his apostles: “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever

loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me” (10:37).

Saint Thomas Aquinas finds the basis for this challenging teaching in human experience itself: “Sons are natu-

rally subject to their father so that they naturally honor the father, so much so that they are more angered over

an injury done to the father than over an injury to themselves. And they desire glory for the father more than

for themselves. What a son receives from a father, he receives more abundantly from God, for he himself

teaches us, he feeds us, he keeps us safe for ever. Therefore, God should always be loved more. Because noth-

ing can fill one’s whole desire but God.” Saint Augustine: “Let us answer our mother and our father, ‘I will

love you in Christ, not instead of Christ. You will be with me in him, but I will not be with you without him.’”

CCC 2232: “Family ties are important but not absolute.” Not worthy: see Mt 22:8; 25:26.

“And whoever does not take up his cross and follow after me is not worthy of me” (10:38).

Saint Gregory the Great: “There are two ways in which we bear the Lord’s cross: either when we afflict our

flesh through abstinence, or when, out of compassion for our neighbor, we make their afflictions our own.”

Aquinas: “The cross is borne in the heart when one sorrows over sin.” Saint John Chrysostom: “Christ says,

‘As I have brought you the utmost blessing, so I ask of your in return a singular obedience and affection, that

you may be like lions in battle array.’” Follow after me—Erasmo Leiva-Merikakis: “To follow behind Jesus

means to be wherever he is, whenever that might be, serving him in doing whatever he happens to be doing.

One who follows makes that other’s journey his own.”

“Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it” (10:39).

Saint Hilary of Poitiers: “Apostles must confront their persecutors with contempt for things present, holding

fast to their freedom by a glorious confession of faith, and shunning any gain that would harm their souls.”

Monsignor Romano Guardini: “In the last resort, becoming a believer always means the same thing: another

reality looms before the person who was formerly enclosed in their own being, in their own world; before them

is another reality, belonging to another world, from above, from beyond. This reality, this beyond becomes

more concrete, grows in strength; its truth, goodness, and holiness become more definite and demand the alle-

giance of the one who has been called. The decision to entrust one’s own existence to the strange reality that

surpasses it, the sacrifice of one’s own self-sufficiency and of the independence of one’s own world will be

difficult. It will mean a rude shock and a gamble. Hence the soul must first lose itself by recognizing that there

is a second goal, and then must recognize that beyond that lies the true goal.

“Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me” (10:40).

Blessed John Henry Newman: “There are in every age a certain number of souls in the world, known to God,

unknown to us, who will obey the Truth when offered to them, whatever be the mysterious reason that they do

and others do not. For these we must labor; these are God’s special care, for these are all things.”

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Lectio Divina Cont’d

A Prayerful Reading of Sacred Scripture

The Gospel for the Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Matthew 10:37-42

“Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet’s reward, and whoever receives

a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man’s reward” (10:41)

Aquinas: “If you cooperate toward the good, you receive the reward of that good; if you supply the helps of

life, you receive the reward; for otherwise the prophet would not be able to fulfill his office.” Father Cornelius

a Lapide, S.J.: “To the measure of charity corresponds the measure of celestial glory and blessedness. For the

measure in which someone loves God is the measure in which he will enjoy the beatific vision. The degrees of

vision and glory correspond to and are commensurate with the degree of charity.” Leiva-Merikakis: “The man-

ner in which we receive God’s envoys, particularly when these come to us in a form deemed contemptible by

the world, already contains God’s judgment of us.”

“And whoever gives only a cup of cold water to one of these little ones to drink because the little one is a

disciple—amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward” (10:42).

Saint Jerome: “Who is so weak or poor that they could not give, or at least carry, a cup of cold water?” Servant

of God Mother Mary Alphonsa (Rose Hawthorne): “For every good work, every kindly thought or tiny act of

humble helpfulness, God gives a reward, a merited return of sustenance for our souls, or an answer to our

pleading for some purpose.” Leiva-Merikakis: “One of the effects of Christ’s instruction has been to strip the

Apostles clean of any worldly illusions or means. They are ‘little’ because the world will now have absolutely

no use for them.”

The Significance of That Cup of Cold Water

Another cunning trick of the devil is the opposite of that described above. Instead of exalting the heart, he humiliates

and discourages it to the point of driving it to despair. He recalls past sins, aggravating them as much as possible, so that

the person, terrified and falling dismayed under such a heavy burden, is reduced to despair. So the devil acted with Ju-

das. When he was at the point of committing his sin, the devil removed its gravity from his sight; afterward, he brought

to his mind the gravity of his crime in having sold his Master at so low a price and unto such a death. Thus, the devil

blinded his eyes with the greatness of his sin and, having caught him in the snare, led him to hell (cf. Mt 27:3-5). So, he

blinds some people by their good works. He places them before them and hides their sins from their sight, thus deceiv-

ing them with pride. He blinds others by hiding from them the memory of God’s mercy and the good works they have

performed by his grace. By then bringing their sins to mind, he pulls them down through despair.

The remedy for the first temptation would be that, when the devil would want to exalt us in vanity to the sky, we should

cling fast to the earth, considering not our peacock feathers, but our feet covered with the mud of the sins we have com-

mitted—or would commit if it were not for God’s grace. For the other deceit of the devil, the remedy is to turn our eyes

away from our sins and to fix them on God’s mercy and on the good things that we have done by grace. For in the time

when our sins fight against us through despair, it is good to recall the good things that we have done or that we do….

The purpose here is not to put confidence in our good works insofar as they are ours, for this would be to flee from one

trap and fall into another. Rather, the purpose is to hope in the mercy of God, who has favored us so that, by his grace,

we might do good. He will reward what we do, including even the cup of water that we have given for love of him.

SAINT JOHN OF AVILA (+1569) was a Spanish priest mystic, preacher, and scholar. He is a Doctor of the Church.

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7-2-2017 - 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Thank you for your generosity to St. Martha’s Parish!

June 25, 2017

5:00 PM Mass .................................................................... $1,018.00 7:30 AM Mass ....................................................................... $927.00 8:45 AM Mass .................................................................... $3,207.00 11:00 AM Mass .................................................................. $1,983.00 12:30 PM Mass .................................................................. $1,020.00 Poor Box ............................................................................... $152.00

(Does not reflect donations made by Faith Direct)

5:00PM - Lector: Kathleen Purchase

Altar Server: David LaBlanc

Eucharistic Ministers: Marie G. Josma, Leandre Magloire, Nancy A. Napoleon

Ushers: Rosemarie Allen, Thomas Maddox, Jennifer King, Mario Cadavid, Alejandro Apresa

7:30AM - Lector: Maria Gonzalez

Eucharistic Ministers: Martha Ann Brady, Barbara Powell, Dolores Spagnoli

Ushers: Jim Capriotti, Carmen Charles, Anton Brown, Genevieve Charles, Joseph Gedeon, Alex Apresa

11:00AM - Lector: Joanne Williams

Altar Servers: Eddie D’Atri, Carloline Lopez, Gentiva Abrahams

Eucharistic Minister: Yanick Bellevue, Solange Bricourt, Pat Edwards, Lisette Joachim, Marie Lucie Lebon, Teresa Sanders Davis

Ushers: Bennett Paul, Agnes Duclairon, Wilner Nestor, Frantz Denis

If thou love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, thou shall serve Him well.

This is NOT a substitute for your schedule! Please refer to the schedule

you received from the head of your ministry!

July 2, 2017

Monday July 3-St. Thomas, Apostles

8:30 AM ............. Mary Barbarito

Tuesday July 4– America’s Independence Day

8:30 AM ............. Thomas Knudsen

Wednesday July 5-St. Anthony Zaccaria, Priest

St. Elizabeth of Portugal 8:30 AM ............. Baby Keria Victoria Cocchi

Thursday July 6-St. Maria Goretti, Virgin and Martyr 8:30 AM ............. Marie Th-Conserve

Friday July 7 8:30 AM ............. Morning Prayer Service

Saturday July 8 5:00 PM .............. Martijn Sajous

Sunday July 9

7:30 AM ............. Pierre Ligonde

8:45 AM ............. Maria Albertina Abarca & Daniel Obidio Abarca

11:00 AM ........... The Parishioners of St. Martha

12:30 PM ............ Vercilise Dumont

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR 14TH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME

July 9, 2017

Zechariah 9:9-10 Psalm 145:1-2, 8-9, 10-11, 13-14

Romans 8:9, 11-13 Matthew 11:25-30

The Bread and Wine for the Week of July 2 to July 8, 2017

are offered in Thanksgiving for

Valerie Brutus

Requested by

Maud Brutus

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Scripture Readings

July 3—July 8

Monday, July 3 Ephesians 2 :19 -22

Psalm 117 John 20:24-29

Tuesday, July 4 Genesis 19:15 -29

Psalm 26 Mat thew 8:23 -27

Wednesday, July 5 Genesis 21:5 , 8 -20a

Psalm 34 Mat thew 8:28 -34

Thursday, July 6 Genesis 22:1b -19

Psalm 115 Matthew 9:1 -8

Friday, July 7 Genesis 23:1 -4,19; 24:1 -8,62-67

Psalm 106 Mat thew 9:9 -13

Saturday , July 8 Genesis 27:1 -5, 15-29

Psalm 135 Mat thew 9:14 -17

Vocation Prayer

Merciful Father, you sent your Son into the world to free us from the power of sin and evil. Grant that, through the intercession of

the Virgin Mary, our Mother of Mercy, many young men will respond to your call to give of themselves in imitation of Christ the Redeemer. Fill them with the light of your Holy Spirit that they may renounce the power of the world, proclaim truth and freedom, and bring consolation and relief to oppressed Chris-tians. Bless our family of Mercy with numerous holy priests and brothers who will offer our world the testimony of your faith and love. We ask this through Christ our Lord. AMEN

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Being Good-Hearted is Not Enough

By. Fr. Ron Rolheiser—Week of June 18, 2017

Charity is about being good-hearted, but justice is about something more. Individual sympathy is good and virtuous, but

it doesn’t necessarily change the social, economic, and political structures that unfairly victimize some people and unduly

privilege others. We need to be fair and good of heart, but we also need to have fair and good policies.

Jim Wallis, speaking more-specifically about racism, puts it this way: When we protest that we are not implicated in un-

just systems by saying things like: “I have black friends”, we need to challenge ourselves: It’s not just what’s in our

hearts that’s at issue; it’s also what’s at the heart of public policy. We can have black friends but if our policies are racist

there’s still no justice in land. Individual good will alone doesn’t always make for a system that’s fair to everyone.

And it’s precisely on this point where we see the crucial distinction between charity and justice, between being good-

hearted as individuals and trying as a community to ensure that our social, economic, and political systems are not them-

selves the cause of the very things we are trying to respond to in charity. What causes poverty, racism, economic dispari-

ty, lack of fair access to education and health care, and the irresponsibility with which we often treat nature? Individual

attitudes, true. But injustice is also the result of social, economic, and political policies that, whatever their other merits,

help produce the conditions that spawn poverty, inequality, racism, privilege, and the lack of conscientious concern for

the air we breathe.

Most of us, I suspect, are familiar with a story that’s often used to distinguish between charity and justice. It runs this

way: There was a town built alongside a river, but situated around a bend so that the townsfolk could see only that part of

the river that bordered their town. One day a few of the children were playing by the river when they saw five bodies

floating in the water. They quickly ran for help and the townspeople they alerted did what any responsible persons would

do in that situation. They took care of the bodies. Pulling them from the river they found that two were dead and they bur-

ied them. Three were still alive. One was a child for whom they quickly found a foster home; another was a severely ill

woman, her they put in a hospital; the last was a young man and, for him, they found a job and a place to live.

But the story didn’t end there. The next day more bodies appeared and, again, the townsfolk responded as before. They

took care of the bodies. They buried the dead, placed the sick in hospitals, found foster homes for the children, and jobs

and places to live for the adults. And so it went on for years so that taking care of the bodies that they found each day

became a normal feature of their lives and became part of the life of their churches and their community. A few altruisti-

cally motivated people even made it their life’s work to take care of those bodies.

But … and this is the point, nobody ever went up the river to see from where and for what reasons those bodies kept ap-

pearing each day in the river. They just remained good-hearted and generous in their response to the bodies that found

their way to their town.

The lesson is clear enough: It’s one thing (needed, good, and Christian) to take care of the needy bodies we find on our

doorsteps, but it’s another thing (also needed, good, and Christian) to go upstream to try to change the things that are

causing those bodies to be in the river. That’s the difference between good-hearted charity and acting for social justice.

Sadly though, as good church-going Christians we have been too slow to grasp this and consequently have not brought

the demands of Jesus and faith to bear as strongly upon the question of social justice as we have been to bring them to

bear upon charity. Too many, good, good-hearted, church-going, charitable women and men simply do not see the de-

mands of justice as being anything beyond the demands of private charity and good-heartedness. And so we are often

good-hearted enough that we will, literally, give a needy person the shirt off our back even as we refuse to look at why

our closets are overfull while some others don’t have a shirt.

But this should not be misunderstood. The gospel-demand that we act for justice does not in any way denigrate the virtue

of charity. Charity is still the ultimate virtue and, sometimes, the only positive difference we can make in our world is

precisely the, one-to-one, love and respect that we give to each other. Our own individual goodness is sometimes the only

candle that is ours to light.

But that goodness and light must shine publicly too, namely, in how we vote and in what public policies we support or

oppose.

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True Independence

One of the most memorable aspects of my pastoral visit to the United States was the opportunity it afforded

me to reflect on America’s historical experience of religious freedom, and specifically the relationship be-

tween religion and culture. At the heart of every culture, whether perceived or not, is a consensus about the

nature of reality and the moral good, and thus about the conditions for human flourishing. In America, that

consensus, as enshrined in your nation’s founding documents, was grounded in a worldview shaped not only

by faith but a commitment to certain ethical principles deriving from nature and nature’s God. Today that con-

sensus has eroded significantly in the face of powerful new cultural currents which are not only directly op-

posed to core moral teachings of the Judeo-Christian tradition, but increasingly hostile to Christianity as such.

For her part, the Church in the United States is called, in season and out of season, to proclaim a Gospel which

not only proposes unchanging moral truths but proposes them precisely as the key to human happiness and

social prospering (cf. Gaudium et Specs 10). To the extent that some current cultural trends contain elements

that would curtail the proclamation of these truths, whether constricting it within the limits of a merely scien-

tific rationality, or suppressing it in the name of political power or majority rule, they represent a threat not

just to Christian faith, but also to humanity itself and to the deepest truth about our being and ultimate voca-

tion, our relationship to God. When a culture attempts to suppress the dimension of ultimate mystery, and to

close the doors to transcendent truth, it inevitably becomes impoverished and falls prey, as the late Pope John

Paul II so clearly saw, to reductionist and totalitarian readings of the human person and the nature of society.

With her long tradition of respect for the right relationship between faith and reason, the Church has a critical

role to play in countering cultural currents which, on the basis of an extreme individualism, seek to promote

notions of freedom detached from moral truth. Our tradition does not speak from blind faith, but from a ra-

tional perspective which links our commitment to building an authentically just, humane, and prosperous soci-

ety to our ultimate assurance that the cosmos is possessed of an inner logic accessible to human reasoning.

The Church’s defense of a moral reasoning based on the natural law is grounded on her conviction that this

law is not a threat to our freedom, but rather a “language” which enables us to understand ourselves and the

truth of our being, and so to shape a more just and humane world. She thus proposes her moral teaching as a

message not of constraint but of liberation, and as the basis for building a secure future.

The Church’s witness, then, is of its nature public: she seeks to convince by proposing rational arguments in

the public square. The legitimate separation of Church and State cannot be taken to mean that the Church must

be silent on certain issues, nor that the State may choose not to engage, or be engaged by, the voices of com-

mitted believers in determining the values which will shape the future of the nation.

In the light of these considerations, it is imperative that the entire Catholic community in the United States

come to realize the grave threats to the Church’s public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which

finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres….

No one who looks at these issues realistically can ignore the genuine difficulties which the Church encounters

at the present moment. Yet in faith we can take heart from the growing awareness of the need to preserve a

civil order clearly rooted in the Judeo-Christian tradition, as well as from the promise offered by a new gener-

ation of Catholics whose experience and convictions will have a decisive role in renewing the Church’s pres-

ence and witness in American society. The hope which these “signs of the times” give us is itself a reason to

renew our efforts to mobilize the intellectual and moral resources of the entire Catholic community in the ser-

vice of the evangelization of American culture and the building of the civilization of love.

POPE BENEDICT XVI

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PADRE MIGUEL ÁNGEL RIVERA: Cel. 516-939-7165

E-mail: mrfranco934@gmail.com - Por el momento, el Padre no se encuentra con nosotros. Tan pronto

tengamos más información, les informaremos.

LA EUCARISTÍA SE OFRECE: Por los Feligreses de Santa Mar ta.

GRUPO DE ORACION: Miércoles, 7:00 PM, en el gimnasio.

ULTREYA: Domingo, 11:00 AM en la Capilla.

JUVENTUD SIN FRONTERAS: Jueves, 7:30 PM, Salón Betania.

CORO HISPANO: Ensayo en la iglesia, los viernes a las 8:00 PM.

MINISTERIO DE ACOGIDA: Son los que extienden la bienvenida y entregan

las hojas de canto a los que llegan a la Misa.

MOVIMIENTO FAMILIAR CATÓLICO: Se reúne cada 15 días. Para informarse,

llamar al 516- 554-4503 o al 965-7311..

CENACULO DIVINA MISERICORDIA: Pr imer mar tes, 7:00 PM en la Capilla.

MISA DE NIÑOS Y JOVENES: Cada segundo domingo del mes.

LOS NIÑOS: Cada domingo los niños se reúnen en el Salón Betania para escuchar y compar tir las lec-

turas dominicales.

ESCUELA DE LA PALABRA: Cada mar tes, a las 7:30 PM en San Ladislaus.

PRESENTACION Y BENDICION DE PÁRVULOS: Cada segundo y cuar to

domingos del mes.

EL SACRAMENTO DEL BAUTISMO: El tercer domingo de cada mes, a las 2:30 PM en la iglesia. Los

interesados consulten con la Sra. Dulce Sepúlveda después de la Misa.

XIII DOMINGO ORDINARIO

Hoy los textos de las Sagradas Escrituras nos muestran cómo Dios nos enseña a recibir su amor, por medio de

otros, para poder dar a los demás. En la primera lectura, la mujer de Sunem que siempre le dio albergue al pro-

feta Eliseo, recibe la buena nueva de la fertilidad; el profeta anuncia a la que está estéril que va a tener un hi-

jo. Consecuentemente, en el Evangelio, Jesús extiende una invitación especial a los que reciben a los apósto-

les, ya que, en realidad, lo están recibiendo a Él. Cristo nos acoge en la Eucaristía para alimentarnos y fortale-

cernos. San Pablo nos recuerda que al haber sido incorporados con Cristo Jesús, por medio del bautismo, he-

mos sido incorporados a su muerte y resurrección.

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The Mass Intentions Book...

is now open until the end of July. 2017

&

The Bread and Wine Calendar...

is now open until the end of Dec. 2017

he list of names that will appear under this column will reflect ONLY those who are CRITICALLY ILL. The

individual or family member must contact the Parish Cen-ter in order to be placed on the Sick List. Please note the new email address the Parish Center at cnicholson@saintmartha.org (“PRAY FOR THE SICK” MUST APPEAR IN YOUR EMAIL’S SUBJECT LINE); or come by the Parish Center with your request in writing, no later than Monday. This list will be updated on a monthly basis.

Omnipotent and Eternal God, the everlasting Salvation of those who believe, hear us on behalf of Thy pitying mercy, that, with their bodily health restored, they may give thanks to Thee in Thy church. Through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Helen Zeiser Sophia Kyriakaksis

Edith Lucchi Julienne Jacques

Carolyn Maffettone Mercia Edwards

Frank Brown Leopold Johnson

Ginger Dudek Baby McCann

Lawrence A. Feliu ......................................................... +May 13, 2017

Martijn Sajous ............................................................... +May 21, 2017

Eucelie Mombeleur ....................................................... +May 22, 2017

Marie Lourdes Lapaix .................................................... +May 27,2017

Joyce Angela Baugh .................................................... +June 14, 2017

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Memorialize a loved one with a leaf on

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THANK YOU to everyone who has donated to my medical fund thus far. I found out my initial campaign (not run by me) has been shut down for an unknown reason. The first campaign helped cover my household bills from missed work, as well as smaller hospital bills. This new campaign is set up in hopes of paying back some of the $90k+ I owe as of now. (This is only one of the two surgeries I have had so far.) It is very possible I will have to claim bankruptcy if I can-not make a good dent. That is a very frightening thought as a single parent. For those of you who either have donated already, or cannot afford to, please do not feel obligated. I ask for prayers for myself and for my family. It has been a very rough couple of months. The new link is www.gofundme.com/lishanson. You can also leave donations at the Parish Center. Every little bit helps, and has helped. God bless and thank you so much. St. Martha’s has been incredible with your generosity.

~Elissa Hanson, Music Director

Dear Lord, As my life declines and my energies decrease,

more than ever hold me by

Your Power, that I may not offend You, but daily increase in Your Love.

Give me strength to work in Your Service till the last day of my life.

Help me to ever have an increasing dread of venial sin,

or whatever would cause the

slightest withdrawal of Your Love; all day long,

and at night keep me close to Your Heart; and should I die, ere the morning breaks,

may I go rejoicing

in that vision of Your entrancing beauty, never to be separated from You. Amen.

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Social Ministry/Outreach Office Hours

Mon., Wed., Thurs., Fri. 10:00AM—2:00PM (516) 292-1603 or (516) 481-2550, Ext. 320

(English/Spanish/French/Creole)

An Immigration Consultant...

will be available at the Parish Social Ministry the second Wednesday of each month.

The next date will be on:

Wednesday, July 12, 2017 10:00AM - 1:00PM

Do you need a babysitter, home health aid, house-keeper or landscaper? Or can you provide these services? Register with St. Martha’s Social Ministry Job Bank.

Call 292-1603 Monday or Thursday between 10:00 AM and 2:00PM.

Give us our daily bread

FREE FOOD FOR THOSE IN NEED: For further information and income guidelines please call:

631-491-4166 in Suffolk or 516-623-4568 in Nassau

BABY ITEMS NEEDED: Diapers, diaper wipes, strollers and car seats that meet current standards.

ITEMS NEEDED: individual boxed milk (i.e., Parma-lat); toilet tissue, paper towels, personal care

items, gift certificates.

SHOPPING BAGS ARE ALWAYS APPRECIATED

FOOD STAMPS First & Third Thursdays!

11:00 AM—2:00 PM Representative: Pat

This Week: Parmalat Milk & Cereal!

WHERE: Gathering Area

Some additional items needed: dry milk, peanut but-ter, jelly, rice, pinto beans, dry or canned beans and canned meat/fish.