MAY 10, 2020 W E L C O M E FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

The Mission of our parish is to serve our neighbors with Jesus, to pray in faith with Jesus, and to teach as His Church with Jesus, so “that all may

have more abundant life.” (John 10:10). The Word of God, the Sacraments, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church are the instruments and stan-

dards of this work of evangelization and faith formation.

Our Lady of Mount CarmelOur Lady of Mount CarmelOur Lady of Mount CarmelOur Lady of Mount Carmel 23–25 Newtown Avenue, Astoria, NY 11102

718.278.1834 • Fax 718.278.0998 church@mountcarmelastoria.org

All Masses and Meetings are Suspended Until Further Notice

Parish Office Hours/ Horario de la Oficina None until further notice.

CHAPEL OF ST. MARGARET MARYCHAPEL OF ST. MARGARET MARYCHAPEL OF ST. MARGARET MARYCHAPEL OF ST. MARGARET MARY 9-18 27th Avenue, Astoria, NY 11102 718.721.9020 Fax: 718.721.3729

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Food Pantry will be closed until June 1, 2020

CATHOLIC SCHOOL Saint Joseph Catholic Academy 28-46 44th St Astoria, NY 11103

718.728.0724—www.stjosephsch.org Financial Assistance/ Ayuda Financiera:

school@mountcarmelastoria.org

www.mountcarmelastoria.org

Pastoral Team

Pastor Msgr. Sean G. Ogle, V.F. Ext. 122 pastor@mountcarmelastoria.org

Follow me on twitter @theogleoffice

Parochial Vicars Father Peter Nguyen Ext. 120

Father Michael McHugh Ext. 119

Pastor Emeritus-SMM Father Ed Brady Ext. 118

In Residence Msgr. John Harrington K.H.S., Ext. 128

Father Joseph Pham Ext. 115

Deacon Ruben Mendez

Pastoral Worker Chin Nguyen Ext. 123

Pastoral Year Seminarian Brendon J. Harfmann

Coordinator of Religious Education Nelly Gutierrez Ext. 114

reled@mountcarmelastoria.org

Parish Outreach Coordinator Denise Dollard 718.721.9020

Parish Secretary/Bookkeeper Celeste Stewart Ext. 112

church@mountcarmelastoria.org

Bulletin/ Calendar/ Records Secre-tary

Luis Sanchez Ext. 110 reception@mountcarmelastoria.org

Director of Music Lucille Mascia

Parish Athletic Director Steve Leoutsakos

Cluster Hospital Chaplain Father Jean Laguerre

•Confessions/Confesiones: By appointment only.

•Weddings/ Bodas: Wedding arrangements should be made 6 months in advance

Arreglos para bodas deben hacerse 6 meses en avance.

•Sweet Sixteen/ Quinceaños: Must have made the sacrament of Confirmation

Debe haber recibido el sacramento de Confirmacion

•Legal Holidays : There will only be one Mass at 9:00am.

•Recitation of the Rosary: After weekday masses.

•Novena: To Our Lady of Mount Carmel and St. Jude every Wednesday after the 12:00

Noon Mass

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Weekly Observances are now listed on page 3!

SATURDAY, MAY 9

5:00pm Malika Silien– For Healing

SUNDAY, MAY 10

8:00am ALL MASSES 9:00am ARE 10:00am FOR THE 11:15am MOTHERS 12:30pm IN 5:00pm Our Parish Family MONDAY, MAY 11

8:00am Julia Jarrick Immordino 12:00pm Edwin Mosler TUESDAY, MAY 12

8:00am In Shik Min– Death Anniversary 12:00pm Joseph Mascia WEDNESDAY, MAY 13

8:00am Our Lady of Fatima 12:00pm Mothers Prayers– Oraciones de las Madres THURSDAY, MAY 14

8:30am Giuseppe & Bernarda DiLorenzo 12:00pm Alfred G. Magistrado, Jr. FRIDAY, MAY 15

8:00am Joseph Albanese 12:00pm Lucy & Pierto Mascia SATURDAY, MAY 16

8:00am Mercedes Beck 5:00pm Malika Silien– For Healing

SUNDAY, MAY 17

8:00am Joseph Lucania 9:00am Santa Rita da Cascia 10:00am Antoinette & Sal Giambrone 11:15am 80th Anniversary of Ordination– Fr. Michael McHugh 12:30pm Damian Valencia 5:00pm Our Parish Family

The Sanctuary Lamp is burning this week for

Giuseppa Barretta & Sabbia Carullo

&

The Altar Candles are burning this week for

Fancesca Salamone

This was requested by Ida & Gaspare Barretta

The Altar Bread & Wine are offered this week for

Margherita Petruso & Sabbia Carullo

This was requested by Tony & Nina Crullo

PRAY FOR THE SICK If you have a family member you wish to be prayed for, please let us know immediately and we will be happy to pray for them. The names will remain on the sick list for three weeks and thereafter repeated as requested. James Leung Isabel Mercado Victor Vasquez Jim Click Marina Cepeda Marie Sedlackova Sierra Rodriguez Iris Narvaez Jeannie Ortiz Denise Persichetti

PRAY FOR OUR RECENTLY DECEASED

MAY 10TH, 2020— FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER

PURGATORIAL SOCIETY We pray for the souls in Purgatory every first Friday of the

month. You may enroll names in the Purgatorial Society to be

prayed for one year for a donation of $10.00.

Annual Catholic Appeal 2020Annual Catholic Appeal 2020Annual Catholic Appeal 2020Annual Catholic Appeal 2020 We have begun the 2020 Annual Catholic Appeal. We thank all who have participated with a gift to the 2019 Appeal and ask that everyone prayerfully consider making a gift to the 2020 appeal. The works and services made possible through your donation to the Annual Catholic Appeal help people in Brooklyn & Queens in ways that no one parish can do alone. Please remain assured that your gift to the Annual Catholic Appeal cannot be used in the settlement of abuse claims or for anything other than their

intended purpose.

As of April 13, 2020 we have 79pledges totaling $31,100 towards our parish goal of 64,586. So far we have received more than $16,000. Thank you for your support.

Electronic Giving

Enroll at faithdirect.net– code NY370

WEEKLY OFFERINGS: In the absence of Mass attendance, we will be grateful if you can remember your weekly offerings to the church, either through the mail or dropping them through the rectory mail slot; whether weekly, monthly, or when the emergency is over and Masses resume. This might be a good opportunity to start doing your church offerings electronically. Just visit FaithDirect.com, and register entering our parish code: NY370. We thank you for your loyal support. EL DIEZMO SEMANAL: En ausencia de asistencia a la Santa Misa, estaremos agradecidos si puede recordar sus ofrendas semanales a la parroquia, ya sea a través del correo o dejarlas a través de la ranura de correo de la rectoría; ya sea semanal, mensualmente o cuando la emergencia haya terminado y las Misas se reanuden. Esta podría ser una buena oportunidad para comenzar a hacer sus ofrendas de la parroquia electrónicamente. Simple-mente visite FaithDirect.com, y regístrese ingresando nuestro código parroquial: NY370. Le agradecemos su leal apoyo.

ST. MARGARET MARY

MASS INTENTIONS THIS WEEK

Sunday, May 10, 2020

(FIFth Sunday of Easter– Divine Mercy Sunday) 10:15 am

ST. MARGARET MARY FOOD PANTRY NEWS

In the month of March, 2019 a total of 2,829 people were served. This included 1,218 children, 1,251 adults and 360 seniors.

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At every Sunday Mass, Catholics confess that Jesus came down from heaven “for us men and for our salvation.” But what does “salvation” mean? In this remarkable 10-part video series, Scripture scholar and theologian Michael Patrick Barber provides a thorough, deeply Catholic, and deeply biblical, answer. Based on the best-selling book Salvation: What Every Catholic Should Know this video series is inspiring, engaging, and accessible. To register for FORMED, please visit www.mountcarmelastoria.formed.org. It’s free! We encourage everyone to use FORMED as a platform for learning and spiritual renewal, especially during these difficult times. For your children, FORMED also has video for all ages as well! Deseamos que todos usen la plataforma de FORMED para

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F O R M E DF O R M E DF O R M E DF O R M E D

The Carmel Diamond Seniors have decided to cancel their Bingo meetings on Thursdays until further notice. If you have any questions please call the parish office or keep updated by following our social media and parish website.

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We urge you to sign up for Faith Direct in view of the Coronavirus pandemic. Please go online to faithdirect.net and use our parish code NY370 to continue supporting your parish. Online giving is easy, convenient and safe. Another way to give securely to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is by texting a dollar amount to 929.254-3850. You will be asked to complete a one-time registration page with your billing and contact information. After this registration, you can give any time by texting a dollar amount to that phone number.

POSTPONEMENT OF FATHER JOE PHAM’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY MASS AND PARTY

After consultation with the committee and staff, Fr. Joe has decided to postpone his May 8 party and May 9 Mass indefinitely, due to the uncertainty about when public gatherings of any kind will be permitted.

APLAZAMIENTO DE LA CELEBRACIÓN DEL ANIVERSARIO 50 DE PADRE JOE PHAM: Después de consultar con el comité y el personal, el P. Joe ha decidido posponer su partido del 8 de mayo y la Misa del 9 de mayo indefinidamente, debido a la incertidumbre sobre cuándo serán permitidas cualquier reunion pública.

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The Rosary Society Luncheon that was originally planned for Sunday, May 3, 2020 has been postponed until further notice.

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Dear Friends, We wish a blessed Mothers Day to the moms in our community. We hope you get lots of candy, flowers and well-deserved praise on your special day! And we offer prayers for the mothers who have gone home to the Lord, including the mothers of all the priests in our parish. In a uniquely Catholic combination of the old and the new, on Mothers Day morning we will livestream the May crowning of the image of Our Lady after the 8 AM Mass (inside) and after the 11 AM Mass (outside). Please join us virtually via Facebook or the parish website. Pope St. John Paul II probably expressed the spiritual importance of motherhood best in his 1995 “Letter to

Women” in which he wrote: 2. Thank you, women who are mothers! You have sheltered human beings within yourselves in a unique ex-

perience of joy and travail. This experience makes you become God's own smile upon the newborn child, the one

who guides your child's first steps, who helps it to grow, and who is the anchor as the child makes its way along

the journey of life.

4. And what shall we say of the obstacles which in so many parts of the world still keep women from being

fully integrated into social, political and economic life? We need only think of how the gift of motherhood is of-

ten penalized rather than rewarded, even though humanity owes its very survival to this gift. Certainly, much

remains to be done to prevent discrimination against those who have chosen to be wives and mothers. As far as

personal rights are concerned, there is an urgent need to achieve real equality in every area: equal pay for equal

work, protection for working mothers, fairness in career advancements, equality of spouses with regard to fam-

ily rights and the recognition of everything that is part of the rights and duties of citizens in a democratic State.

This is a matter of justice but also of necessity. Women will increasingly play a part in the solution of the

serious problems of the future: leisure time, the quality of life, migration, social services, euthanasia, drugs,

health care, the ecology, etc. In all these areas a greater presence of women in society will prove most valuable,

for it will help to manifest the contradictions present when society is organized solely according to the criteria of

efficiency and productivity, and it will force systems to be redesigned in a way which favors the processes of hu-

manization which mark the "civilization of love".

St. John Paul puts motherhood within the framework of the special calling for which God has created all his children, male and female, mothers or not: 11. Furthermore, precisely in line with this economy of signs, even if apart from the sacramental sphere, there

is great significance to that "womanhood" which was lived in such a sublime way by Mary. In fact, there is pre-

sent in the "womanhood" of a woman who believes, and especially in a woman who is "consecrated", a kind of

inherent "prophecy" (cf. Mulieris Dignitatem, 29), a powerfully evocative symbolism, a highly significant

"iconic character", which finds its full realization in Mary and which also aptly expresses the very essence

of the Church as a community consecrated with the integrity of a "virgin" heart to become the "bride" of Christ

and "mother" of believers. When we consider the "iconic" complementarity of male and female roles, two of the

Church's essential dimensions are seen in a clearer light: the "Marian" principle and the Apostolic- Petrine princi-

ple (cf. ibid., 27).

A blessed Mothers Day to everyone who understands and celebrates God’s calling to us all. Msgr. Sean G. Ogle

Queridos Feligreses: Deseamos un bendito Día de las Madres a las madres de nuestra comunidad. ¡Esperamos que reciba muchos dulces, flores y merecidos elogios en su día especial! Y ofrecemos oraciones por las madres que se han ido a casa con el Señor, incluidas las madres de todos los sacerdotes de nuestra parroquia. En una combinación singularmente católica de lo antiguo y lo nuevo, en la mañana del Día de la Madre transmitiremos en vivo la coronación de mayo de la imagen de la Virgen

Maria después de la Misa de las 8 AM (adentro) y después de la Misa de las 11 AM (afuera). Únase a nosotros virtualmente a través de Facebook o el sitio web de la parroquia. El Papa San Juan Pablo II probablemente expresó la importancia espiritual de la maternidad mejor en su "Carta a las mujeres" de 1995 en la que escribió: 2. ¡Gracias, mujeres que son madres! Han protegido a los seres humanos dentro de ustedes mismos en

una experiencia única de alegría y trabajo. Esta experiencia te hace convertirte en la propia sonrisa de Dios

sobre el niño recién nacido, el que guía los primeros pasos de tu hijo, quien lo ayuda a crecer y quién es el

ancla mientras el niño avanza en el viaje de la vida.

4. ¿Y qué diremos de los obstáculos que en tantas partes del mundo aún impiden que las mujeres se

integren completamente en la vida social, política y económica? Solo tenemos que pensar en cómo el don

de la maternidad a menudo se penaliza en lugar de recompensarse, a pesar de que la humanidad debe su

supervivencia a este don. Ciertamente, queda mucho por hacer para evitar la discriminación contra

aquellos que han elegido ser esposas y madres. En lo que respecta a los derechos personales, existe una

necesidad urgente de lograr una igualdad real en todas las áreas: igualdad de remuneración por igual

trabajo, protección para las madres trabajadoras, equidad en los avances profesionales, igualdad de los

cónyuges con respecto a los derechos familiares y el reconocimiento de todo. eso es parte de los derechos y

deberes de los ciudadanos en un Estado democrático.

Esto es una cuestión de justicia pero también de necesidad. Las mujeres desempeñarán cada vez más un

papel en la solución de los graves problemas del futuro: el tiempo libre, la calidad de vida, la migración, los

servicios sociales, la eutanasia, las drogas, la atención médica, la ecología, etc. En todas estas áreas, una

mayor presencia de Las mujeres en la sociedad serán las más valiosas, ya que ayudarán a manifestar las

contradicciones presentes cuando la sociedad se organiza únicamente de acuerdo con los criterios de

eficiencia y productividad, y obligará a los sistemas a ser rediseñados de una manera que favorezca los

procesos de humanización que marcan La "civilización del amor".

San Juan Pablo pone la maternidad en el marco del llamado especial para el cual Dios ha creado a todos sus hijos, hombres y mujeres, madres o no: 11. Además, precisamente en línea con esta economía de signos, incluso si fuera de la esfera

sacramental, hay una gran importancia para esa "feminidad" que Mary vivió de una manera tan sublime.

De hecho, existe en la "feminidad" de una mujer que cree, y especialmente en una mujer que está

"consagrada", una especie de "profecía" inherente (cf. Mulieris Dignitatem, 29), un simbolismo

poderosamente evocador, un "personaje icónico" altamente significativo, que encuentra su plena

realización en María y que también expresa acertadamente la esencia misma de la Iglesia como una

comunidad consagrada con la integridad de un corazón "virgen" para convertirse en la "novia" de Cristo y

la "madre" de creyentes Cuando consideramos la complementariedad "icónica" de los roles masculino y

femenino, dos de las dimensiones esenciales de la Iglesia se ven con una luz más clara: el principio

"mariano" y el principio apostólico-petrino (cf. ibid., 27).

Un bendito Día de las Madres para todos los que entienden y celebran el llamado de Dios para todos nosotros.

Mons. Sean G. Ogle