The Reverend Myles P. Murphy, S.T.L. ,Pastor

The Reverend Teodoro Cortezano, Parochial Vicar The Reverend Edward Owusu-Ansah, Parochial Vicar

The Reverend Roshan Sovis, Parochial Vicar The Reverend Robert Powers, Weekday Assistant

Deacon David Ciorciari, Weekday Assistant

OUR LADY OF VICTORY PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 8:30am-5:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S PARISH OFFICE Monday-Friday: 9:00am-5:00pm

OUR LADY OF VICTORY MASSES

Saturday for Sunday obligation: 5:15pm Sunday: 7:30, 10:00am, 12:15pm Mon. - Fri.: 7:15, 8:00am 12:15, 1:05 (lower Chapel), 5:15pm Saturday & Holidays: 7:30am Holy Day Vigil: 4:30, 5:15pm Holy Days: 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30, 9:00, 11:30am 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 1:30, 4:30, 5:15pm

CONFESSIONS Mon. - Fri.: 8:00-8:30am, 12:45-1:30pm,

5:00-5:30pm

DEVOTIONS SERVICES: Each day at 12:45pm Monday: Miraculous Medal Tuesday: St. Anthony Wednesday: St. Jude Thursday: The Holy Spirit Friday: The Rosary 1st Friday: Sacred Heart Novena Fridays of Lent: Stations of the Cross

ALL DEVOTIONS FOLLOWED BY: Exposition & Benediction of the Most Blessed

Sacrament until 5:00pm.

BAPTISMS Sundays 1:00pm

ST. ANDREW’S MASSES

Sunday: 12:00pm, 5:00pm Mon. - Fri.: 12:10pm, 1:05pm

CONFESSIONS 15 minutes after each Mass

DEVOTIONS Rosary and Devotions after the noon weekday Masses

PARISH ACTIVITIES

Monday: 5:45pm – Legion of Mary (Our Lady of Victory) 4th Friday: 5:45pm – Patrician Catholic Discussion Group (Our Lady of Victory) As Announced: FiDi Catholic Young Adults

Church of Our Lady of Victory 60 William Street

212-422-5535

Church of Saint Andrew 20 Cardinal Hayes Place

212-962-3972

The Catholic Faith Community of

Our Lady of Victory and the

Church of St. Andrew

Website: www.olvsta.org

THE COSTS OF DISCIPLESHIP Today’s responsorial psalm, Psalm 40, is more familiar to us with the refrain “Here am I, Lord.” This “Here am I” is Jeremiah’s great prophetic response to God’s call. But today’s story of Jeremiah and the refrain “Lord, come to my aid!” remind us that there are always two sides to following the call of God. The author of the Letter to the Hebrews knew this, too. He reminded his readers that even weighted down with burdens and sins, we can still persevere by keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, who himself knew the shame and pain of the cross, but saw beyond it to the joy of sitting at the right of the throne of God.

Jesus himself gave the disciples a “sneak preview” of a baptism that would not be as wondrous as the one in the Jordan that inaugurated his ministry, but would be one of fire and anguish. Today’s words from scrip-ture may not be terribly soothing, but in their honesty and strength we can acknowledge the difficulties of daily discipleship, and take comfort in the assurance of our own salvation in Christ. © J. S. Paluch Co.

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TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — They took Jeremiah and threw him into the cistern (Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10). Psalm — Lord, come to my aid! (Psalm 40). Second Reading — Let us keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith (Hebrews 12: 1-4). Gospel — I have come to set the earth on fire, and how I wish it were already blazing (Luke 12:49-53). The English translation of the Psalm Responses from Lectionary for Mass © 1969, 1981, 1997, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.

READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Vigil: 1 Chr 15:3-4, 15-16; 16:1-2; Ps 132:6-7, 9-10, 13-14; 1Cor 15:54b-57; Lk 11:27-28 Day: Rv 11:19a; 12:1-6a, 10ab; Ps 45:10-12, 16; 1 Cor 15:20-27; Lk 1:39-56 Tuesday: Ez 28:1-10; Dt 32:26-28, 30, 35cd-36ab; Mt 19:23-30 Wednesday: Ez 34:1-11; Ps 23:1-6; Mt 20:1-16 Thursday: Ez 36:23-28; Ps 51:12-15, 18-19; Mt 22:1-14 Friday: Ez 37:1-14; Ps 107:2-9; Mt 22:34-40 Saturday: Ez 43:1-7a; Ps 85:9ab, 10-14; Mt 23:1-12 Sunday: Is 66:18-21; Ps 117:1, 2; Heb 12:5-7, 11-13; Lk 13:22-30

ADULT CONFIRMATION CLASSES THIS FALL

This coming Fall, in cooperation with the Archdiocese of New York Catechetical Office and the Cluster of Lower Manhattan Parishes, we will be hosting Confirmation Classes for those Adults

who never received the Sacrament of Confirmation. There will be approximately

nine classes on Tuesday evenings at Our Lady of Victory. The Confirmation will be celebrated on Tuesday evening, November 22nd. If interested please call the Parish Office: 212-422-5535.

These aren’t your average religious gifts! Truly beauti-ful statues, inspiring books, rosaries, and more! Plus you have the added advan-tage of be able to have some of them blessed by a priest. Drop by the store downstairs before or after weekday Mass and say “hi” to Patricia!

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION

Long ago, a signet ring was an essential part of the wardrobe of influential people. A letter or document would be sealed with hot wax, and a signet ring pressed into the wax would affirm the origin of the document. In the case of the pope, at least from the thirteenth century, the ring was used to seal public documents with hot lead, saving the red wax for private letters. The public documents were called bullae after the Latin name for the lead stamp, and we still call them “papal bulls.” It is not surprising, therefore, that a signet ring has long been be-stowed as part of the inauguration of a pope. The ring is called the Pescatorio, or “Ring of the Fisher-man.” It reminds the wearer of his link with Peter, and his responsibil-ity to continue the apostolic minis-try of “fishing for human beings.” Until 1842 it actually functioned as a signet ring. Now, each pope receives a new gold ring at the beginning of his ministry. It goes on the fourth finger of his right hand and bears some fisherman design, usually St. Peter casting nets from a boat, as well as the pope’s name in Latin. A custom that endures for the pope, but not so much for bishops, is for people being introduced to him to kiss the Pescatorio as a sign of respect for his teaching authority. Another enduring custom is for the ring to be smashed and defaced at the pope’s death, originally a way of preventing counterfeit deathbed documents.

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What the signet ring looked like

until 1842.

THE ASSUMPTION OF MARY This Monday, August 15th is the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and while it is not a Holy Day of Obligation because if falls on a Monday, it is still a Solemnity and a Holy Day. We will follow our regular daily Mass schedule as found in the bulletin and in the back of the Church. We invite you to attend Mass here on Monday or if working, at the nearest Catholic Church to give thanks to the Lord for the gift of His mother to us and to ask for her intercession.

FAMILY DAY BE INVOLVED, STAY INVOLVED

Family Day is the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse’s national initiative to promote simple acts of parental engagement as key ways to help prevent risky sub-stance use in children and teens. Family Day will be celebrated across the coun-try on September 26th, 2016. To learn more about Family Day, and to join parents all across America in taking the Family Day STAR Pledge, log on to: www.CASAFamilyDay.Org.

54-DAY ROSARY NOVENA FOR OUR NATION STARTS AUG 15

and ENDS OCT 7, ON THE FEAST OF OUR LADY THE ROSARY

“There is no doubt that our beloved nation is in one of the worst crises which it has ever experienced, a profound moral crisis which generates division on all levels...Let us now turn to the powerful prayer of the Holy Rosary, asking Mary Immaculate to intercede with Our Lord to bring healing to our nation and to inspire in her citizens the holiness of life which alone can transform our nation … I urge as many as are able to participate in these great spiritual works for the sake of our entire nation.” — Cardinal Raymond Burke

The objective of the novena is to make an act of reparation to return the U.S. to holiness imploring God to bless the nation through the intervention of

Our Lady. More information can be found at: http://novenaforournation.com.

MEMORIAL FOR THE WEEK

Church Sanctuary Lamp In Loving Memory of

Natividad Tabique