Saints Aedan & Brendan Parish 112 Fountain Street, New Haven, CT 06515

WEEKEND MASSES Saturday Vigil: 4:30 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m.

DAILY MASSES Monday - Thursday 7:30 a.m.

CONFESSION Saturdays, 3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.

MARRIAGES AND BAPTISM Please contact the parish priest for further informa on.

SAINTS AEDAN AND BRENDAN SCHOOL

351 McKinley Avenue Phone: 203-387-5693

Mrs. Taryn Duncan School Principal

Dr. James Acabbo, Director of Pre-K/ Readiness Program

Chris ne Amendola, School Secretary

PARISH OFFICE HOURS Mon, Tues, Thurs., Friday

8:00 am - 1:00 pm Phone: 203-389-2619 Fax: 203-389-1235

ss.aedan.brendan@outlook.com

PARISH STAFF Rev. Robert Morgewicz, Pastor

Gregory Czerkawski, Music Director

Margie Mongillo, Parish Office Administrator

MASS INTENTIONS

Welcome to Saints Aedan & Brendan Parish

Coffee And with Guest Speaker Sunday, June 3, 10:30 a.m., Lower Church Parish Council Mee ng: Monday, June 4, 2018, 7:00 p.m., Church Hall Liturgy Commi ee Mee ng Monday, June 11, 2018, 7:00 p.m., Church Hall

Weekly Financial Summary: May 21, 2018 - May 27, 2018 Weekly Offertory: $3148.00

PARISH CALENDAR

Sat, Jun 2 Vigil Mass for Sunday 4:30 p.m. Anne & Paul Ly Requested by Reopell Family Sun, Jun 3 The Most Holy Body and Blood Of Christ 9:30 a.m. Frank Carangelo Requested by The Randall Family 11:30 a.m. Modesta C. Moedjanto Requested by Norma Proto Mon, Jun 4 Weekday 7:30 a.m. Rev. Joseph McCann Tues, Jun 5 St. Boniface, Bishop & Martyr 7:30 a.m. Rey Ayala Requested by Wife Wed, Jun 6 Weekday 7:30 a.m. Deceased Members of the William Fitzgibbons Family Thurs, Jun 7 Weekday 7:30 a.m. Deceased Members of the James Keenan Family Sat, Jun 9 Vigil Mass for Sunday 4:30 p.m. Joseph Della Camera (1 yr. Memorial) Requested by Family Sun, Jun 10 Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time 9:30 a.m. Deacon Edward Taddei and Angelina Rosselli Taddei Requested by Their Children 11:30 a.m. People of the Parish

Top Dollar Raffle Now in Progress $30,000.00 Raffle ckets are being made available to parishioners of Saints Aedan and Brendan Parish

as part of a mul ple parish fundraiser. The parish will receive 50% of the proceeds of ckets sold from our parish. Tickets are $25.00 each with a top prize of $30,000 in an American Express Gi Card. Second place prize is $4,000, third place is $3,000 and fourth place prize $2,000 in gi cards. The drawing is August 11, 2018, and ckets will be sold un l August 5, 2018. Tickets are available at “Coffee And,” parish events, the rectory office and from Fr. Morgewicz.

Archbishop’s Annual Appeal Commitment Weekend is June 9th and June 10th at our parish and across the Archdiocese for the 2018 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal. It is important that when you give to any charita-ble organiza on, you are confident that the funds received are being used wisely. Be assured that your gi to the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal supports the ministries and programs indicated in the 2018 Ap-peal literature! Many organiza ons right here in our own town received funding from the Appeal’s Vicari-ate Outreach Program that makes a difference in the lives of our local neighbors. Please visit the Appeal website: Www.archdioceseo ar ord.org to learn more and make your gi today.

Guest Speaker to Join us for Last Coffee And… The Social Ac on Commi ee is sponsoring a talk by Rev. Bonita Grubbs during “coffee and” on June 3, a er the 9:30 Mass. Chris an Community Ac on provides help, housing and hope to those who are poor in New Haven. We support them by our collec on of items in our giving tree at Christ-mas. Please make a point to come and listen to this dynamic speaker.

Catholic Relief Services Collection Today! This weekend, we are taking up the Catholic Relief Services Collec on to respond to Jesus in Disguise. This collec on helps six Catholic agencies to provide relief and support to struggling communi es and to work to-wards peace and reconcilia on among our marginalized brothers and sisters here and around the world. Please prayerfully consider how you can best support the col-lec on.

We con nue to inves gate the theological meaning and purpose behind the ac ons of what we do in the celebra on of the Mass. Every aspect of the Mass has a significance and when we know the meaning behind the ac on we will appreciate it a bit more and as a result make praying the Mass more meaningful.

“The Concluding Rites of the Mass” The Last Installment Before dismissing the people from Mass, the priest offers God’s blessing. To be blessed by God is to be put under his protec on and in his love. It is to know that he is near us at every moment and be sure of his presence that supports and gives us courage. It is easy to know that we can count on him whatever happens. When God blesses us, he binds himself to us and commits himself to us. The cross is the source

of blessings we receive from him. We acknowledge him by crossing ourselves when the priest blesses us. A er the blessing from the priest, the deacon if present, dismisses the people saying, “Go forth, the Mass is ended.” This dismissal has been used in the Church since the fourth century and probably comes from the Gospel of Mark, 5:34, where Jesus sends the healed woman off to share her faith with others. The dismissal is the final dialogue in the Mass. Like the woman in the Gospel of Mark we are to receive graces in the Mass and then go forth into the world, our workplaces and families pro-claiming the good news of Jesus Christ. Prayer is simple. It is experiencing the love of God. It is the stopping of other things so that the heart can know its mak-er. The celebra on of the Mass is the Church’s most important prayer. It contains many words, gestures, songs and silences, to express and experience what we hold most dear—the real presence of Jesus Christ. We are called to come away for a while to rest and be with the Lord in worship and that is what the command of weekly a endance at the celebra on of the Eucharist is all about. I hope these 22 ar cles on the parts of the Mass have been helpful to those who have been kind enough to take or open the bulle n and read, as we all go about our task of understanding God and his holy Church more and more each and every day of our lives.

Outdoor Masses to Return this Summer Summer me is a great me to relax and enjoy the goodness of God outside and with each other. This summer we will sched-ule four outdoor neighborhood Masses in July. We hope this will be an opportunity for parishioners to meet their Catholic neigh-bors in the surrounding streets, and perhaps encourage some, who have been away to discover the faith and friendship of our parish. The plan is simple, a host family will provide their backyard for an outdoor Mass and those a ending will bring a chair for themselves and some food to be shared in a post Mass pot luck picnic. We are looking for host families for Tuesday evenings: July 10, 17, 24, 31, at 6:15. Interested in hos ng or have a ques on please contact Chris Paglia at 203-376-2487.

Corpus Chris Sunday Celebrated Today The Feast of Corpus Chris (The Body of Christ) that we celebrate today was first established by Pope Urban IV in 1264, to honor Our Lord present in the Blessed Sacrament. Tradi onally on the feast of Corpus Chris , the faithful would gather behind the priest holding the monstrance with the Blessed Sacrament under a fes ve canopy, and process together outside the Church into the fields and towns of medieval Europe. In our day many parishes are returning to the custom of the Corpus Chris procession, hopefully more aware that Christ wants to be among His people in the world. We are reminded that in order to receive worthily and not commit the sin of sacrilege we must be “able” and “prepared” to receive Holy Communion. To be “able” to receive means that there is no obstacle preven ng us from receiving the Lord, such ob-stacles include not being in unity with the Church, such disunity occurs when one gets married outside of the Church or has for-mally le the Church. To be “prepared” means that we are in a state of grace before receiving Holy Communion. For example, if one misses Mass on purpose (without a valid reason like illness) or in other mortal sin, the person must receive sacramental con-fession before going to communion. Corpus Chris Sunday seems an appropriate me to men on the benefits of the Holy Eucharist. When we receive Holy Com-munion worthily, meaning that we are in a state of grace, we receive Jesus Christ, Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity, the grace that flows from that and we experience koinonia—our union in the family bond of comfor ng love—that we share as the Body of Christ. Communion makes us one. The Catechism of the Catholic Church in paragraphs 1391-1398 lists the following benefits of Holy Communion: 1. Holy Communion increases our union with the Lord. Remember Jesus’ parable about the vine and the branches? A dead branch withers and dies apart from the vine. In like manner we need the Eucharist to keep us strong in Christ. 2. Holy Communion nourishes our spirits with all that we need to grow spiritually. It o en imparts physical strength as well. 3. Holy Communion separates us from sin and its power. 4. Holy Communion strengthens God’s love within us. It revives our hearts and empowers us to root ourselves in Christ. 5. Holy Communion preserves us from falling into mortal sin. 6. Holy Communion deepens our unity as Church. The Eucharist actually makes the Church! 7. Holy Communion constrains us to recognize Christ in the poor and invites us to serve them. 8. Holy Communion causes us to long for the full unity of all Chris ans and invites us to pray, “that they may all be one.”