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Wednesday 9 9:00 AM The Trinidad Family Noon Elaine Turgeon

Thursday 10 9:00 AM William Armstrong Noon Elaine Duga

Friday 11 9:00 AM Gloria Little Noon Francis Uss

Saturday 12 9:00 AM John & Nora Finnegan 4:00 PM Patrick & Mary Gleason 5:30 PM Benito Polito 7:00 PM For the People of the Parish

Sunday 13 7:30 AM For the People of the Parish 8:45 AM Joaquim, Preciosa, Christina Sousa 10:45 AM Lauren Elise Kassirer 12:30 PM Frances Jacobellis 5:30 PM Raymond Celentano

Pray for our Sick Franz Wolf Ann Baker Carla D’Agostino William Hurley Ellen Galgano Edith Dubiel Joseph Porcelli Patricia Melisi Marilyn Porcelli Lorraine Vincent PatrickHamill Denise DiGrande Lisa Femanella Alexander Luzzi Margaret Fickeria Thomas Capozzi Josephine Portanova Connie Schievi Damian Frankfurter Theresa Diaz Ned Casey Cash Macchiarolo Mary Stanik Elizabeth Schilt Andrew Hill Marie Menna Gertrude (Doty) Ryan John McNamara Joan Hurley DeAngelo Angelo Narcsie John Carey Michael Dzubak

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Pray for our Deceased Rosemarie Pedulla

Pray for our Military Matthew Griffin - USN Joseph Monaco USAF Scott Air Force Base Ill Julie Mundy - USCG – Bahrain Ben Murphy - U.S. Marine Victor Prato - 82nd Airborne Division (Army) Gregory Lorenzini US Navy - Virginia Officer Justin Maguire - U.S. Navy – Japan Bryan Bennett - US Navy, San Diego John Christopher Tucker – Navy – Submarine Matthew Jenkins – USN Nicholas D’Uso- Marines Michael DeSandre, 1st Lieutenant, AirForce Pilot. Nicholas Patrick Spadaccini -U.S. Army Nick Spiegler - U. S. Army Ryan D. Gorell LTJG USN Nurse - Africa

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Saint Michael, the Archangel, Please guide and protect our Police Officers, Firefighters, Emergency Personnel and First Responders

Prayer for our Troops Almighty God and Father, hold our servicemen and women in

your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for

us in our time and need. We ask this in the name of Jesus, Our Lord and Savior.

Amen.

St. Andre Bessette Brother André expressed a saint’s faith by a lifelong devotion to Saint Joseph. Sickness and weakness dogged André from birth. He was the eighth of 12 children born to a French Canadian couple near Montreal. Adopted at 12, when both parents had died, he became a farmhand. Various trades followed: shoemaker, baker, blacksmith—all failures. He was a factory worker in the United States during the boom times of the Civil War. At 25, André applied for entrance into the Congregation of Holy Cross. After a year’s novitiate, he was not admitted because of his weak health. But with an extension and the urging of Bishop Bourget, he was finally received. He was given the humble job of doorkeeper at Notre Dame College in Montreal, with additional duties as sacristan, laundry worker and messenger. “When I joined this community, the superiors showed me the door, and I remained 40 years,” he said. In his little room near the door, he spent much of the night on his knees. On his windowsill, facing Mount Royal, was a small statue of Saint Joseph, to whom he had been devoted since childhood. When asked about it he said, “Someday, Saint Joseph is going to be honored in a very special way on Mount Royal!” When he heard someone was ill, he visited to bring cheer and to pray with the sick person. He would rub the sick person lightly with oil taken from a lamp burning in the college chapel. Word of healing powers began to spread. When an epidemic broke out at a nearby college, André volunteered to nurse. Not one person died. The trickle of sick people to his door became a flood. His superiors were uneasy; diocesan authorities were suspicious; doctors called him a quack. “I do not cure,” he said again and again. “Saint Joseph cures.” In the end he needed four secretaries to handle the 80,000 letters he received each year. For many years the Holy Cross authorities had tried to buy land on Mount Royal. Brother André and others climbed the steep hill and planted medals of Saint Joseph. Suddenly, the owners yielded. André collected $200 to build a small chapel and began receiving visitors there—smiling through long hours of listening, applying Saint Joseph’s oil. Some were cured, some not. The pile of crutches, canes and braces grew. The chapel also grew. By 1931, there were gleaming walls, but money ran out. “Put a statue of Saint Joseph in the middle. If he wants a roof over his head, he’ll get it.” The magnificent Oratory on Mount Royal took 50 years to build. The sickly boy who could not hold a job died at 92.

He is buried at the Oratory. He was beatified in 1982 and canonized in 2010. At his canonization in October 2010, Pope Benedict XVI said that Saint Andre “lived the beatitude of the pure of heart.”

Respect Life We wish you and your families a Blessed Epiphany

Feast Day. 1.

46th Annual March for Life in Washington, DC will be held on Friday, January 18th. This March grew to

become the largest pro-life event in the world. This somber anniversary (since 1973) is a witness to the truth

concerning the greatest human rights violation of our time – abortion. St. Patrick’s, Yorktown Heights is sponsoring 2 buses. The Youth Bus departs from St.

Patrick’s parking lot on Thursday, Jan. 17 at11:30 PM to arrive in DC for the Archdiocese Youth Rally at 6:15am.

The second bus departs on Friday, January 18th at 5:30am. Both buses will return around midnight. Call

Maria Litrenta at 914-962-1815 to reserve. Cost is $40.00. St. Lawrence O’Toole, Brewster is also having a bus. Their bus leaves at 4:30 AM from Brewster for the 10:30 Mass for NY pilgrims. Leaves Washington at 3:30 to arrive home about 9PM. Cost is $25. You can register on line at www.St.LawrenceO’Toole.org/MarchforLife

or call Irene Westin at 845-279-2021. Assumption, Peekskill is also having a bus – Call Juliet Juarez at 914-

382-3185. Please consider making this pro-life pilgrimage to pray to end abortion. If you can not attend, it is televised on EWTN or go to the 9 or 12 daily Mass.

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The feast of the Epiphany, which was kept in the East and in certain Western Churches before being observed in Rome, seems to have been originally a feast of the nativity; January 6, for those churches where it was kept, was the equivalent of Christmas (December 25) in the Roman Church. The feast was introduced at Rome in the second half of the sixth century and became the complement and, so to say, the crown of the Christmas festival.

Epiphany means manifestation. What the Church celebrates today is the manifestation of our Lord to the whole world; after being made known to the shepherds of Bethlehem He is revealed to the Magi who have come from the East to adore Him. Christian tradition has ever seen in the Magi the first fruits of the Gentiles; they lead in their wake all the peoples of the earth, and thus the Epiphany is an affirmation of universal salvation. St. Leo brings out this point admirably in a sermon, read at Matins, in which he shows in the adoration of the Magi the beginnings of Christian faith, the time when the great mass of the heathen sets off to follow the star which summons it to seek its Saviour.

That is the meaning, too, of the wonderful prophecy from Isaias which the liturgy appoints to be read in the first nocturn at Matins and at the Epistle of the Mass. This same thought of universal redemption the Church returns to as she sings, in the antiphon to the Magnificat at 2nd Vespers, applying the words to herself, of the union with Christ typified by the wedding feast at Cana, by the baptism of her children foreshadowed by that of Christ in the waters of the Jordan. Formerly the Epiphany was an additional day for solemn baptisms.

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