March 1919 - February 2020 100 years of Christ, Community and Charity

Mark Frank Biondi, Mathew L. Brandli

Tom Brady, Bryan Budd, Paul Burawa,

Francis X. Castellano, Garrett Carty, Brian Dale, Joey Diveck,

Johnathan Delvalle, Dennis Ryan Dooley, Tatiana Drawbridge,

Jeremy Ferguson, Josef Gerace, Andrew Hughes, James Hooper,

Joe Hwang , Joseph Janssen, Tracey M. Kentoffio,

Kevin Kiefer, Chris Klimek, Frankie Lopez, Adam McCarthy,

Eugene Mahan, Al Mediate, Daniel Murphy,

Patrick Musumeci, Jonathan Parker,

Ernesto Perez, Maria Perez, Michael B. Poole,

David D. Post, Michael Probst, Aldo Ruiz, Szu-Moy Ruiz,

Paulina Sanchez, Pamela Seagroatt Michael Sedlak,

Fianna Sogomoyan, Michael Vincent Toro

Anthony Ventura, Jonathan Warshauer, Alexandria Waszmer,

James Welsh Robert W. White, Brian Wilkenson,

Brendon James Willy

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Romanita Abad, Louis Alloyne,

Patricia Hayes Axtmayer,

Madison Makenzie Baker,

Bill “ Ben,” Amelia Barone, Dennis Berger,

Patricia Boyle, Katherine Budd,

Jim & Marilyn Capaldo

Michael Castro, Kyle Chalupa,

Angela Chiaorrmonte, Yolanda Celone,

Lillian Cestaro, Mary Collins,

Neil Coogan, Kenny Cook,

Ginna Cooper, Kathleen Corrigan,

Airen Craig,Rita Cuozzo,

Frances Damara, Eileen Damico,

Josephine Diaz,

Anna A. Ferello, Mike Flynn, Malena Garcete,

Deacon Anthony Graviano,

Joseph Guyton, Roy Hanson,

Lisa Haus-McWilliams, Jeffery Haller,

SavanAshes-Service nah Hoesterey, Anthony Ivancich,

Lori Ann M. Kaan, Desiree Keefe,

Joan Keoppen,

Carol Kennedy, Natale Kennedy,

Kathleen D. Kollegger,

Giavana Laakman, John Laakman Jr.,

Robert Leask Jr., James Leung ,

Joan Lo Dolce,

Michael Lubrico, Maria Multese,

Ann Mc Carthy, Ryan Mc Carthy,

Diane Raheb Maclaren, Maria Maltese,

Thomas McCleary, Nick Montanaro,

Shirley Nocerino,

Bob Metz, Mary Ray, Helen Metz Rogers,

Nick Montanaro,Virginia Morellino, Wayne

Mudrack, Mildred Neubeck,

Mary Norwick, Kathleen O’Kane,

Sean O’Kane, Madline Piciullo,

Joan Parente, Lucy Peters, Anne Riccio,

Thomas Rigney, Michael Sanbardino,

Rosa Maria Santos, Fran Schutz,

Maria Shine, Jim Space,

Rachel Schopp, Sylvia Shpect,, Cooper Siano,

Ed Siano, Kathleen Stidioso,

Lauren Sweeney, Charles Terrano,

Ann Vidal, Emerson Vidal,

Emerson Vidal II,

Kenneth Vidal, Lisa Vidal

Robert Vidal, John F. Watson,

Mickey Welch,, Kathleen Wolf,

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ If you have information for the Military or sick lists please call the Office at 631-475-4739 or simply put a note in the collection basket. ********************************* Mass cards are available in the Parish Center Office during scheduled hours. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ MASS SCHEDULE Weekend - Saturday: 5:00 pm (Vigil) Church Sunday: 7;00am, 8:30,10:00 & 11:30 Spanish Mass 8:30 am in Church Weekday Monday—Saturday 8:00am in Chapel

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There will not be intentions in the bulletin. They will be given to the Priest to pray for at a private mass. The Office is closed due to corona virus until notice is given for churches to open. This is an unprecedented time for All church communities. We ask that you watch the Bishops daily Mass or check CFN Catholic Faith Network for the Popes Mass schedule.

May 3, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Easter

From Pastors Desk

Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, It has been a long time since we have been able to come together, seven Sundays have passed since we gathered for the Third Sunday of Lent, and in many ways we seem to be waiting for the Resurrection to take place. Unfortunately, we still have a couple of weeks until the State government allows us to resume our celebration of the Sacraments as a community, if the date is not moved again. If things go as planned, we should be able to celebrate weekday Masses beginning on May 15th and Sunday Masses that weekend. Over the past weeks, I kept thinking back to the Thirty-day Ignatian retreat I went on during my time in the seminary. Not many seminarians would ask to do this thirty-day retreat, which would encompass the month of January into the first week of February, which was part of the Christmas break and workshop time. However, after experiencing the Ignatian eight-day retreat a couple of years prior, I asked permission to apply for a spot. When I arrived at Eastern Point Retreat House, in Gloucester, Massachusetts, I had a day and a half to familiarize myself with the surroundings, and with the men I would be with over the next month. Other than myself, the other men were Jesuit novices, who were in their second year of formation, from the provinces of New York and New England, and Chicago and Detroit. The evening of the second day, we entered into silence, speaking only to our spiritual directors once a day, and giving the responses at Mass. Part of these exercises are asking for the experience of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, and while not going through the physical torture, there was definitely emotional experiences with these periods of prayer. To experience the Passion of Christ as an observer, as a disciple witnessing the suffering of someone you love enduring this agony was overwhelming, as it is meant to be, and the blessing of experiencing it in other ways, empathizing with Jesus, was draining. Just as emotional was the ex-perience of the Resurrection, and in many ways it was also draining. There were those who arrived at it fairly easily, fairly quickly, but for others, we were told sometimes people did not come to experience the Resurrection in the periods of prayers while on re-treat. This was something I was coming to fear. In the days between experiencing the Passion and Crucifixion, and my eventual release with the Resurrection, I sat in the Tomb. It is difficult to describe what all this means to those who have never experienced it, let alone may be unfamiliar with the Ignatian exercises, but the closest thing I can come to, is to say it was a feeling of emptiness. It was not despair or hopelessness, it was just a nothingness, a feeling of being separated from God. There is a reason why I kept coming back to this experience over the past seven weeks. Not only did we enter into this new social and cultural experience during Lent, but we have come to this Easter Season with an expectation that has yet to be realized by many of us. I know, through my Faith and my experience, that Jesus Christ is Present in the Tabernacle, that when I celebrate the Mass, He is Present, there is no doubt in my mind that this is True. But there still seems to be that absence of Christ in another way; in the worship community that He calls around His Sacred Altar, to hear His voice in the word proclaimed and to experience Him in the fullness of the Faith. While I am glad that many, or most of you, are taking advantage of this time to enter into Spiritual Communion with the Bishop and other priests on the Catholic Faith Network, my great desire is to celebrate the great Communion we are called to as a parish community. See you in a couple of weeks. Pax, Fr. Henry

LOS SANTOS Y OTRAS CELEBRACIONES Domingo: Cuarto Domingo de Pascua; Jornada Mundial de Oración por las Vocaciones Martes: Cinco de Mayo Jueves: Día Nacional de Oración SANTOS FELIPE Y SANTIAGO (Siglo I) 3 de mayo Felipe nació en Bastida y fue discípulo de Juan Bautista. Él mismo descubrió en la persona de Jesús al Mesías, al anunciado en el Antiguo Testamento y va a comunicarlo a los demás. Asimismo, el evangelista pone en boca de Felipe la falta de fe: ‘Ni doscientos de-narios (salario por un día de trabajo) bastarían para darle de comer a esta multitud’. Jesús multiplica el pan y alimenta a la multitud. Se cree que Felipe murió hacia el año 87 y sus restos fueron llevados a Roma, a la Iglesia de los Apóstoles, junto a los de Santiago, de ahí que la fiesta litúrgica sea el mismo día. Santiago “el menor” es el hijo de Alfeo y también pertenece a los Doce. Fue obispo de Jerusalén a partir del año 42, debido a la muerte de Santiago “el mayor”. Fue él mismo quien escribió la carta canónica que aparece en el Nuevo Tes-tamento. El historiador Flavio Josefo nos dice que fue martirizado en el año 62 debido a una orden de lapidación emitida por el sumo sa-cerdote Anás II. —Miguel Arias, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. SIN PASTOR Sin pastor, las ovejas no son rebaño. —Proverbio ruso 3 de mayo de 2020 Cuarto Domingo de Pascua SE NECESITA UN PASTOR Por un tiempo estuvo de moda tener cerdos como mascotas. La publicidad que rodeó a estas criaturas nos informó que, contrario a la imagen popular, son anima-les muy limpios y también bastante inteli-gentes. Resulta triste decirlo, pero las ovejas probablemente nunca gozarán de este tipo de popularidad doméstica. Ni limpias ni inteligentes, son mayormente indefensas cuando se dejan solas, aunque el rebaño sea numeroso. La imagen bíblica de que so-mos un rebaño de ovejas no resulta muy favorecedora. Triste es el caso de las ovejas sin pastor porque, sin duda, perecerán dada su incapacidad de valerse por sí mismas o su carencia de defensas contra sus predadores. Colocarnos al centro de esta imagen poco favorece-dora puede fortalecer nuestra fe. Sólo cuando tomamos profunda conciencia de que necesitamos un pastor, podemos apreciar nuestras bendiciones al haber sido entregados al Pastor, a aquél que dio su vida por nosotros y fue resucitado para la vida eterna en el Espíritu, a fin de poder guiarnos por siempre mientras lo seguimos en fe. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. LECTURAS DE LA SEMANA Lunes: Hch 11:1-18; Sal 42 (41):2-3; 43:3, 4; Jn 10:11-18 Martes: Hch 11:19-26; Sal 87 (86):1b-7; Jn 10:22-30 Miércoles: Hch 12:24 — 13:5a; Sal 67 (66):2-3, 5, 6, 8; Jn 12:44-50 Jueves: Hch 13:13-25; Sal 89 (88):2-3, 21-22, 25, 27; Jn 13:16-20 Viernes: Hch 13:26-33; Sal 2:6-11ab; Jn 14:1-6 Sábado: Hch 13:44-52; Sal 98 (97):1-4; Jn 14:7-14 Domingo: Hch 6:1-7; Sal 33 (32):1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Pe 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12

May 3, 2020 Fourth Sunday of Easter IN NEED OF A SHEPHERD For a while it was very fashionable to own pigs as pets. The publicity surrounding these creatures informed us that they were—contrary to their popular image—very clean animals, and also quite smart. Sad to say, sheep will most likely never enjoy this sort of do-mes c vogue. They are neither clean nor smart and are largely de-fenseless when le on their own, even in large numbers. The biblical image of us as the flock of sheep is not a par cularly fla ering one. Sheep without a shepherd are truly sad, because they most likely will perish either from their inability to fend for themselves or from their lack of defenses against predators. Placing ourselves in the heart of this unfla ering image can reinforce our faith. Un l we come to a profound realiza on of how much we need a shepherd, we cannot appreciate how deeply blessed we are to have been given a Shep-herd, one who laid down his life for us and was raised to life eternal in the Spirit, so he might guide us and we might follow him in faith forever. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. READINGS FOR THE WEEK Monday: Acts 11:1-18; Ps 42:2-3; 43:3, 4; Jn 10:11-18 Tuesday: Acts 11:19-26; Ps 87:1b-7; Jn 10:22-30 Wednesday: Acts 12:24 — 13:5a; Ps 67:2-3, 5, 6, 8; Jn 12:44-50 Thursday: Acts 13:13-25; Ps 89:2-3, 21-22, 25, 27; Jn 13:16-20 Friday: Acts 13:26-33; Ps 2:6-11ab; Jn 14:1-6 Saturday: Acts 13:44-52; Ps 98:1-4; Jn 14:7-14 Sunday: Acts 6:1-7; Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 18-19; 1 Pt 2:4-9; Jn 14:1-12 SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES Sunday: Fourth Sunday of Easter; World Day of Prayer for Vocations Tuesday: Cinco de Mayo Thursday: National Day of Prayer SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES, APOSTLES May 3 Call Philip the gospel’s “Answer Man.” “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Nathaniel asked Philip, who had proclaimed Jesus “the one about whom Moses wrote in the law, and also the prophets” (John 1:45). Jesus asked Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” (John 6:5). Greeks brought Philip their request: “We would like to see Jesus” (John 12:21). Philip’s answer to each question: bring people to Jesus! At the Last Supper, finally, Philip had a request of his own: “Show us the Father!” (John 14:8). Jesus had three last questions for Philip: “You still don’t know me? How can you ask that? Don’t you believe?” And an answer: “I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (John 14:10). Today’s James is not John’s brother, Zebedee’s son, but, tradition says, author of the New Testa-ment Letter of James, who died praying for his murderers in Jesus’ words: “Forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Few histori-cal details for either saint, but lessons aplenty: Bring every question we have and everybody we meet to Jesus; be, as James’ letter chal-lenges, “doers of the word and not hearers only” (James 1:22). —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co. COUNTING SHEEP When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. —Anonymous

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Pantry Hours 10AM to 2PM, Thursday & Friday CLOSED The Food Pantry could use your help all year with donations of the following non-perishable items: Cake Mixes Soup (no tomato soup please) Canned meat/stew/Spam Sugar Canned tuna Baby Wipes Cereal Bath Soap Chef Boy-R-Dee Diapers (size 3 and larger) Coffee// Tea Laundry detergent Cookies/crackers Shampoo/conditioner Cooking Oil Toilet paper Mayo/mustard/ketchup Toothpaste Pancake mix/syrup Pasta Sauces in jars Peanut butter /jelly We wish to thank you for your continued generosity to the Pantry. Remember , no donations is too small. All contributions to helping the less fortunate are greatly appreciated. May God bless you.

Diocese of Rockville Centre announces Morning Star Initiative

As you may have heard, the Diocese of Rockville Centre has decided to launch a bold plan, called the Morning Star Initiative, to revitalize Catho-lic elementary school education on Long Island. The goal of this initiative is to restore a robust Catholic culture to the DRVC schools, improve academics, and create a more fiscally sustainable model for schools. The Diocese will partner with the Marianists, who have two centuries of Catholic educational commitment and expertise. The Diocese has asked Brother Thomas Cleary, S.M., President of Chaminade High School, to serve as the Chief Revitalization Officer and to spearhead this effort. He will be assisted by his fellow Marianists, who will seek feedback and ideas from the full spectrum of those with a stake in a revitalized Catholic elementary education, including our parishioners. We value your input,

so please share your thoughts. Please visit the Diocese of Rockville Centre’s website at Morningstarinitiative.org .

During this time when we are at home, far more than then ever before, we ask you to join us starting this even-ing for many opportunities to take a retreat at no fees for anything we put on our Facebook page, which already

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We have now on Facebook: The Liturgy of the Hours

Every mystery of the Rosary in its entirety The Divine Mercy Chaplet Prayer in it’s entirety

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Sacrament of Marriage Arrangement must be made 6 months in advance. No date for a wedding can be given over the phone or reserved until the couple completes the formal paperwork with a member of the pas-toral staff. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, R.C.I.A. is for those who are interested in coming into the Catholic Church or a Catholic inter-ested in completing the Sacraments of Initiation. Call the Faith Formation office for more information. Wednesday Evenings. Thursday evening 7:30 pm in Parish Center. 631-475-4739 ext 102

Mass Intentions Mass cards announced are $20.00 Presentation Folders are $25.00 Mass cards sold in the parish center during business hours. MASS SCHEDULE Weekend - Saturday: 5:00 pm (Vigil) Church Sunday: 7;00am, 8:30,10:00 & 11:30 Spanish Mass 8:30 am in Church Weekday Monday—Saturday 8:00am in Chapel & Thursday 6pm Mass in Chapel

PASTOR Rev. Henry Reid Deacon Bob Lyon Deacon Anthony Graviano , Retired Father Henry’s and the Deacon’s Offices are located in the Parish Center. The Rectory is a Residence

Sacrament of Baptism Baptisms are celebrated on the 4th Sunday at 1:00pm in the Chapel Baptismal preparation is required prior to the baptism of any child. Please call 631-475-4739 for f further info.

Reconciliation/Confession Monday-Friday, Following Daily Mass in Chapel Saturday 4:00 – 4:45 PM in Church

Monday Night Prayer Group 7:30 in the Chapel -Jerry Curreri 698-3533 Legion of Mary Prayer Group Monday 7:pm In Parish Center Rob Costanzo 631-834-3385 Wednesday Night Prayer Group 7:30 pm in a Private Home Mary Peterson– 475-4739 Secular Franciscans (OFS) Meet in the Parish Center 1st Sunday of the Month 1pm to 4 pm EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Following 8 am Mass Thursday till 10 pm 6pm Divine Mercy Mass Rosary for Life 7pm Prayer Groups as printed above.

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COMMUNION CALLS Any homebound or shut-in may receive Holy Communion in their home. A Eucharistic Minister, will visit. Please call 631-475-4739

First Sunday of Advent December 1, 2019 “You . . . must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come.” — Matthew 24:44