MAY 10, 2020 - FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

BLESSED TRINITY CATHOLIC PARISH

Roxbury - Rockaway Point - Breezy Point

SUNDAY MASSES

ST. THOMAS MORE Saturday Vigil 5:00pm

Sunday 8:30am, 11:30am

ST. GENEVIEVE Saturday Vigil 4:00pm

Sunday 9:00am, 12noon

ST. EDMUND Sunday 10:00am

WEEKDAY MASSES ST. THOMAS MORE

8:30am ST. GENEVIEVE

9:00am

CONFESSION/RECONCILIATION Every Saturday at 4:00pm at St. Thomas More (Also at any time

convenient upon request)

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Arrangements can be made at the

Rectory. Second Saturday at 12:30pm and Fourth Sunday at 2:00pm

ANOINTING OF THE SICK

Please call the Rectory or speak with a priest to request the

Anointing of the Sick. Please do not hesitate with people in serious

health crisis.

HOLY MATRIMONY Couples are required to make

arrangements 6 Months in advance. This allows time to

prepare the necessary paper work and Pastoral Instructions.

PARISH OFFICE 204-25 Rockaway Point Boulevard

Rockaway Point, N.Y. 11697 718-634-6357 www.btparish.org

E-Mail: rectory@btparish.org

Parish Office Hours Monday—Friday 9am—6pm

Saturday 8am-2pm

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION SCHOOL St. Thomas More Rectory

204-25 Rockaway Point Boulevard Rockaway Point, N.Y. 11697

PARISH CLERGY Rev. Fr. Michael Louis Gelfant ....................................Pastor Deacon James F. Ruoff

RETIRED CLERGY Rev. Msgr. Joseph P. Nagle ............................ In Residence Rev. Msgr. Ronald Newland .................. Weekend Assistant Rev. Fr. Michael Perry ..................................... In Residence Deacon Richard Lee

PARISH STAFF Maureen McVeigh............... Coordinator Religious Education Marlene Baisley........................................... Parish Secretary Julie Ratka ………………...…….Exec Assistant to the Pastor Richard Louis-Pierre........................Director of Music Ministry

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“ Do not let your hearts be troubled. You have faith in God , have faith also in me. In my Father’s house there

are many dwelling places. If there were not, would I have told you I was going to prepare a place for you?”

-_John 14:1-12

The Following Mass Intentions will be offered Privately and Live Streamed

Sunday, May 10 People of the Parish Gerald Dwyer Cathy Kane Rosemary Rorke Russ Sullivan Joan Mahar Robert Mc Enroe Mother’s Day Intentions

Monday, May 11

Pete Mc Partlan Mother’s Day Intentions

Tuesday, May 12

Charles J. Rayder Jr. Margaret Caravello Mother’s Day Intentions

Wed, May 13

Josephine & William Farrell Mother’s Day Intentions

Thursday, May 14

Patricia Rubino Josephine & Michael F. Logan Mother’s Day Intentions

Friday, May 15 Emma & Martin Lee Mother’s Day Intentions

Saturday, May 16 James Lepera Mother’s Day Intentions

Sunday, May 17 People of the Parish Joan Fitzgerald Violet Fallon Kenneth Connelly Andrew Ford Peter Mc Cullagh Paul Williamson Walter Cook

Eternal Rest Eternal Rest Eternal Rest

Grant Unto Them, Grant Unto Them, Grant Unto Them, O Lord…O Lord…O Lord…

...We remember in our prayers

the faithful departed of Blessed Trinity Parish especially,

Marion C. Clifford, Victor Colon, John McGuiness, Robert O’Brien

Welcome to 2020! Online Giving for your weekly/monthly donations is encouraged. You can register to have your church

donations directly debited from your checking, savings or credit card. (and earn reward points). Register on the

website:

btparish.churchgiving.com Once you reach the website, click on

MAKE A DONATION. It will give you the option of making a recurring donation

(weekly or monthly) or a one time donation.

Please call the office to speak to Marlene or Father Gelfant.

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MARY OUR MOTHER What a joy to remember that Mary is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear? —Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

PLEASE KEEP IN YOUR PRAYERS THE FAITHFUL MEMBERS OF BLESSED TRINITY WHO ARE CURRENTLY SERVING IN THE

UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES Lawrence T. Alvelo

Tom Boggiano Ronald Brown Denis Cashin

Norbert J.J. Dengler Mark Dennington

Ryan Dorogoff Michael Dunne

Joseph Finn, III Thomas Gabriele Keith Gallagher Caitlyn Ganley

Philip Gatti Daniel Gillen Bobby Girard

Erik P. Glasser Michael Halas

James Hayhurst James Hegarty

Val Hughes Christopher Jamison

Kevin Kearney Christopher W. Knowles

Luke Kane Maguire Owen Maguire James Lavin Kevin Logar Elana Marino

John McBride, Jr. Kevin McCabe

Thomas McDonald William Mullin

Michael R. Nilson Roderick O’Connor

Kevin O’ Hara Eric Reilly

Stephen J. Ryan Donny Santasieri

Brad Stoultz Kevin T. Walsh

Michael K. Watson Terence J. White

Patrick McMahon, Rita Gibson, Kevin Reilly, Jim Carlson, Arlene Mulholland, Maureen Ritter, Timmy Guvaitis, Matthew Kearney, Oswaldo Vera, Bridget Harpur, Madeline Case, David Jeremy Santos, Mary Ambery, Ian Tissot, Kathleen Battista, Pat Newall, Donald Ritter, Frank Marmo, Grace Mandry, Mark

Trapani, Zorida Cirillo, Eileen Britton, Colleen Britton, Jim Kingston, Rob Follinger, June Silverman, Rick Manero, Eileen Corral, Jordyn Negron, Jim Cannon, Debbie Walker, Bobby Buehler, Enrico D’Angio, Cindy & Jeff Shelton, Lorraine Larsen, Margaret Ryan, Maura Moran, Baby Callie Grace Watson, Alexandra Gaffney, Gregory Valentine, Barbara Johnson, Fred Britton, Maria Middletown, Fr. Peter Rayder and Laura Armour

WEEKLY MEMORIALS

The Candles for the Week at St. Genevieve

burn in loving memory of

Everette, Phyllis & Carrie Ann Duemig, Mel & Gladys Duemig and Eldon & Dorothy Raymo

The Hosts and Wine for the Week

St. Thomas More, St. Edmund and St. Genevieve are offered this week in loving memory of Kathy & Frank Patton

requested by the family

The Light Before St. Jude in St. Genevieve is offered this week in loving memory of Mary & Joe Ferrandino

Fifth Sunday of Easter May 10, 2020

“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except

through me.”

— John 14:6

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — To meet their growing needs, the community chooses seven reputable men to serve the new Greek believers (Acts 6:1-7).

Psalm — Lord, let your mercy be on us, as we place our trust in you (Psalm 33).

Second Reading — We, like living stones, let ourselves be built into a spiritual house (1 Peter 2:4-9).

Gospel — “Show us the Father,” Philip asks Jesus. To which Jesus replies: “Whoever sees me, sees the Father” (John 14:1-12).

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.

Generations of Faith Update

The money raised has been earmarked for the Renovations of St. Edmund’s for Religious Education

Classrooms. The cost of this project is $671,845.

As of April 13, 2020 Our Parish Goal is: $645,000

Number of Pledges: 287 Amount Pledged:$1,313,515

Total Paid: $963,856.95

As of February 4, 2020 The Diocese received: $ 398,457 The Parish received: $ 550,210

As of May 5th

We are at 57% of our Annual Catholic

Appeal goal.

Thank you to all those who have pledged

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Acts 14:5-18; Ps 115:1-4, 15-16;

Jn 14:21-26

Tuesday: Acts 14:19-28; Ps 145:10-13ab, 21;

Jn 14:27-31a

Wednesday: Acts 15:1-6; Ps 122:1-5; Jn 15:1-8

Thursday: Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; Ps 113:1-8; Jn 15:9-17

Friday: Acts 15:22-31; Ps 57:8-10, 12; Jn 15:12-17

Saturday: Acts 16:1-10; Ps 100:1b-3, 5; Jn 15:18-21

Sunday: Acts 8:5-8, 14-17; Ps 66:1-7, 16, 20;

1 Pt 3:15-18 or 1 Pt 4:13-16; Jn 14:15-21 or Jn 17:1-11a

SAINTS AND SPECIAL OBSERVANCES

Sunday: Fifth Sunday of Easter; Mother’s Day

Tuesday: Ss. Nereus and Achilleus; St. Pancras

Wednesday: Our Lady of Fatima

Thursday: St. Matthias

Friday: St. Isidore the Farmer

Saturday: Armed Forces Day

HUGS

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go. —Anonymous

Dear Parishioners: Thank you to all families who dropped-off food and supported the Graybeards collection for St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish. Much was collected due to your generosity.

On Tuesday, May 12th, at 12:30pm we will crown the statue of Mary in front of the Parish Office at St. Thomas More. We are in the process of a lottery to choose the child who gets the honors. Remember to pray a Hail Mary each day during the month of May as we ask the Blessed Mother to heal us, and restore our lives. Each morning, one family/child/teen leads the parish in the Hail Mary. You can see these prayers on Facebook.

The church bells are ringing. In addition to the Mass call and Angelus that normally ring, there is a 3pm Bells of Hope ringing of the bells at all three churches and the 7pm playing of the National Anthem for the 7pm Clap. Head-up, we will get through this.

Finally, a Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers, Grandmothers, and Godmothers. This year we bought palm branches for each of you, but we still are not able to give them out. In any case, thank you for saying yes to LIFE and for supporting FAMILIES.

Have a great week! -Fr. Gelfant

Blessed Trinity Mission Statement Washed by the waters of the sea and blessed with

generations of faithful worship we, a trinity of churches: Saint Edmund, Saint Genevieve and Saint Thomas More, stand united in our mission. To embrace the presence of Christ in our community and strive to assist all to deepen their relationship with the Lord. To seek to be a parish of service and comfort to all. To commit ourselves to be a

vessel through which our Catholic heritage and traditions may be preserved and grow so that our parish may flourish

in the Spirit of the Lord.

The 2020 Annual Catholic Appeal supports the daily work of our Church throughout Brooklyn and Queens in ways no one parish can accomplish alone by supporting the following ministries:

Catholic Youth Ministry Initiative, Catholic Charities; Hospital, College and Prison Chaplains; Diocesan Vocations Office; Catholic Migration Services; Office of Faith Formation; Bishop Mugavero Residence for infirmed clergy; Futures in Education Scholarship Foundation

WE HAVE BEGUN OUR CAMPAIGN. PLEASE MAIL IN YOUR PLEDGE AND HELP US REACH GOAL. THANK YOU! –Fr. Gelfant

WEEKLY ENVELOPES If you are just returning to Blessed Trinity after spending the winter in warmer climates, welcome back! Sometimes due to the erratic mail delivery here in Breezy your envelopes may not have arrived on time. If you need a set of temporary envelopes please call the

rectory at (718) 634-6357 and leave a message for Marlene or email Marlene at MBaisley@BTparish.org A set of envelopes will be left in your mailbox. Thank you for your generosity and faithfulness to our parish.

What Makes Good Mothers? It is a pertinent question whose answer cannot be contained within a few words. Mothers are comprised of a bundle of emotions that sometimes defy reason. So this goes out to all the mothers who have been kept awake all night with their sick toddlers in their arms, constantly uttering those compassionate words, "It's OK, honey, Mommy's here." For all the mothers who run carpools and make cookies and sew Halloween costumes. And all the mothers who don't. For those who show up at work with milk stains on their dress and diapers in their handbags. For those mothers who cannot restrain tears from trickling down their cheeks when they hold their babies for the first time in their arms; and for the mothers who give birth to babies they'll never see. For the mothers who gave homes to babies and gifted them a family. For the mothers who defy all odds just to watch their kid perform and repeat to themselves "That's my child!!" For all the mothers who read "Goodnight, Moon" twice a night for a year, and then read it again. "Just one more time." For the mothers who taught their children to tie their shoelaces even before they started going to school. For the mothers who silently shed tears for their children who have gone astray. For all those mothers whose heart aches to watch their son or daughter disappear down the street, walking to school alone for the very first time. So, this is meant for all the young and aged mothers, working mothers and homemakers, married mothers and the single mothers, those with money and without and for those without whom life would have been insufferable. Wishing you a very Happy Mother's Day!!

TREASURES FROM OUR TRADITION If there is such a thing as a Catholic “trademark” it is the sign of the cross, first traced on the senses of catechumens as they begin the journey to baptism, or on the forehead of an infant who is brought to the doors of the church at baptism. As early as the third century, Christians were tracing the sign of the cross on their bodies. At first, the cross was traced on the forehead during times of prayer and daily occupations. We use a similar small cross today as we trace the cross over on the forehead, lips, and heart at the Gospel during Mass. Much later, the full-body sign traced from forehead to heart to shoulders took shape, perhaps copying the priest’s gesture of blessing with the consecrated host during Mass. Today, this superb baptismal gift is a sign of belonging to Christ and the community, a way of focusing our attention, of asking for God’s blessing, of tracing on our shoulders a willingness to find meaning in life’s burdens. In the sign of the cross, we have an ever-available means of expressing gratitude for our baptism. —Rev. James Field, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

VOCATION

Roman Catholics in the United States spend a good deal of time speaking of “vocation” and the manner in which each of us discerns our vocation for life. In today’s apostolic letter, however, Peter gives us the “cornerstone” of our vocation, the description of what each of us is called to first and foremost by our baptism. He describes our vocation as “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of [God’s] own, so that you may announce the praises” of Christ, who called us out of darkness into light (1 Peter 2:9). All of us, no matter what path our life’s vocation may take us down, have been chosen by God, made holy, and anointed as priests in the high priesthood of Christ through baptism. All of this, so that we may an-nounce the praises of Christ. Vocation is given for proclamation at home, in the workplace—wherever life takes us—in service, in word, and in sacrament. Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

SAINT DAMIEN JOSEPH DE VEUSTER OF MOLOKA’I (1840-1889) May 10

In the mid-1990s, a heavily bearded, bespectacled Robin Williams ap-peared on Late Night with David Letterman, whose host was clearly taken aback. Letterman inquired as to why the wild look. Uncharacteristically subdued, the usually manic comic responded that he was producing and star-ring in a movie about a most extraordinarily compassionate man, Damien, the Leper Priest of Moloka’i. Some saints transcend religious and ethnic boundaries to touch the heart that beats in each human being: Francis of Assisi; Mother Teresa; and, though Williams’ film was never completed, his admiration speaks, as does Damien’s statue outside the capitol in Honolulu, of this newest saint’s universal appeal. Far from his native Flanders’ idyllic beauty and rich culture, Damien volunteered to bear Christ’s light into Moloka’i’s bleak leper colony, building decent homes, opening schools, establishing clinics, planting farms, sharing the sufferings—and the social stigma—of those with whom he delighted to identify: “We lep-ers,” he would proudly say when finally he contracted leprosy. Saint Damien challenges us to identify the lepers of our own day, to examine our compassion for and our identification with them. —Peter Scagnelli, Copyright © J. S. Paluch Co.

NOVENA TO OUR LADY OF FATIMA

Most Holy Virgin, who came to Fatima to reveal to the three little shep-herds the treasures of graces hidden in the praying of the Rosary, Inspire our hearts with a sincere love of this devotion, so that by

meditating on the mysteries of our redemption that are recalled in it, we may gather the fruits and obtain the conversion of sinners, the

conversion of Russia, and this favor that I so earnestly seek (mention your request) which I ask of you in this novena, for the greater glory of

God, for your own honor and for the good of all people. Amen. (Pray the Our Father, Hail Mary, and Glory Be

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