ST. RAPHAEL’S PARISH

35-20 Greenpoint Avenue, L.I.C., NY 11101 Telephone: (718)729-8957 Fax: (718)729-5238

E-Mail: straphaelrectory@yahoo.com Website: www.straphael-queens.org

MISSION STATEMENT: St. Raphael’s is a parish rooted in tradition yet responding to an evolving community by evangeliza-tion in action. We seek to inspire the larger Catholic community to a more committed faith life and to heed Christ’s call of sharing time, talent and treasure for the needs of others. DECLARACION DE MISION: San Rafael es una parroquia enraizada en la tradición y a la vez responde a una comunidad que evoluciona con una acción evangelizadora. Buscamos inspirar a la comunidad católica global a que vivan una fe más comprometida y a prestar atención a la llamada de Cristo a compartir tiempo, talento y bienes con los necesitados.

EUCHARIST SCHEDULE

Saturday/Sábado 5:00pm - English

Sunday/Domingo 8:00am - English 9:45am - Korean

11:00 am - English 12:30 pm - Spanish/Español

WEEKDAY SCHEDULE

Monday - Friday 9:00am Lunes - Viernes 9:00am

OFFICE HOURS/HORARIO

Monday - Friday/Lunes - Viernes 9:00-1:00pm & 2:00-4:00pm

Saturday/Sábado By appointment / Mediante cita

BAPTISM/BAUTISMO

Please contact the rectory to make arrangements. You will need the child’s birth certificate. Favor de llamar a la rectoría. Necesitará el certificado de nacimiento del niño.

MARRIAGE/MATRIMONIO

Any couple wishing to marry should contact the rectory

at least six (6) months before the wedding. Una pareja que está pensando en el matrimonio debe de llamar a la rectoría seis (6) meses antes de la boda.

RECONCILIATION/RECONCILIACION Saturday/Sábado 4:00-4:45pm

and by appointment/y por cita.

MINISTRY TO THE SICK/

CUIDADO DE LOS ENFERMOS Please call the rectory at (718)729-8957 to make ar-

rangements for the sick person to receive Holy Com-

munion or the Anointing of the sick at home. Favor de llamar a la rectoría al (718)729-8957 para que la persona enferma reciba la Comunión o Unción de los Enfermos en la casa.

FROM THE PASTOR… Dear Parishioners,

We have just received confirmation that Bishop DiMarzio will be joining our parish com-munity for the 11:00 am Mass on Sunday, Feb-ruary 9, 2020. He will be the principal celebrant of the liturgy, as well as the homilist. This will be his third pastoral visit to St. Raphael’s.

We hope you will save the date and join us for the occasion. As you know, in light of his age, the Bishop has submitted his res-ignation to Pope Francis, who has yet to act on it.

The 11:00 am Mass that day, which will be trilingual ( English, Spanish, Korean), is open to all. We will keep the other scheduled Masses that weekend as they are {Saturday 5 pm; Sunday 8 am, 9:45 am (Korean), 12:30 pm (Spanish)} to accommo-date those unable to be present at the 11 am.

Following the Mass, Bishop DiMarzio will meet with our Parish Pastoral Council members, trustees, Pastoral Ministers and others in leadership.

Speaking of our Bishop and our diocese, we have just ended the Annual Catho-lic Appeal 2019. Thanks to your generosity,, we surpassed, in paid-up pledges, our assigned goal by more than $8,000 and will receive back that money for our local use. The ministries of the diocese benefit from your engagement and follow-through, and so does St. Raphael’s Church. Thanks for keeping your promises.

-Father Jerry Jecewiz

PARISH STAFF/EQUIPO PARROQUIAL

Rev. Jerry Jecewiz, Pastor Rev. Kuno Kim, Parochial Vicar

Sister Christine Scherer, D.W., Religious Educ. Mr. Jan Wnek, Music Minister

PARISH STEWARDSHIP

$6,185

Last week’s offering Average weekly expenses

January 19th, 2020 — Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

$4,394

Bishop DiMarzio Sun., Feb. 9th, 11:00am

SECOND COLLECTION NEXT WEEKEND: Next weekend’s second collection will be for the CHURCHES IN NEED. These include Latin America and the Caribbean, and Central and Eastern Europe. The collection is an act of pastoral solidarity to give programmatic support to important pas-toral ministries which would otherwise lack funding in those areas. We are doing this collection on January 18/19, because our envelope company mistakenly dated the appeal that day. On the following weekend Jan. 25/26), we will do an at-doors collection for the earthquake victims in Puerto Rico.

January 19th, 2020 — Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Mass Intentions for the Week

Sunday, January 19th

: 8:00 am - Maria Nhung Le (Dinh Family) 9:45 am - KOREAN MASS 11:00 am - Deceased of Boyle Family (Family) 12:30 pm - Juanita Leon (Estate) Monday, January 20

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9:00 am - Souls in Purgatory Tuesday, January 21

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9:00 am - Tatiana Lopez, B’day, living (Her Family) Wednesday, January 22

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9:00 am - For unborn children Thursday, January 23

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9:00 am - Victims of Ecological Disasters Friday, January 24

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9:00 am - Parish Purgatorial Society Saturday, January 25

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5:00 pm - Madeline B. Boehler (Robert Boehler) AND

Peggy McMahon (Kathleen Jacob)

(Fumio Tanai photo)

THIS WEEK

Sun., January 19th: No Religious Ed. (CCD) Classes today 1:30 pm - R.I.C.A.

Mon., January 20th: Feast of St. Fabian Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 7 pm - Spanish Baptism Prep

Tues., January 21st: Feast of St. Agnes 6:00 pm - Children’s Music Group

Wed., January 22nd: Feast of St. Vincent Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children 7:00 pm - Spanish Rosary & Praise (RB)

Thur., January 23rd: Feasts of St. Marianne Cope and St. Vincent 10:30 - 12:00 pm Food Pantry 7:00 pm - Ultreya 7:30 pm - Choir practice

Fri., January 24th: Feast of St. Francis de Sales Rectory office closed today 7:00 pm Spanish Family Catechesis (RB) 7:00 pm - Folkloric Dance Group (MBH)

Sat., January 25th: Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul Lunar New Year 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm - Food Pantry 2 pm - Spanish baptism 5:00 pm - Folkloric Dance Group Week of Prayer for Christian Unity ends

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM:

English: Sat., Feb. 1. Time & Prep Class to be set.

Spanish: Sat., Jan. 25, 2:00 pm. Prep Class is Mon., Jan. 20, 7pm.

Food Pantry …

is normally open on Thursdays from 10:30 am to 12:00 noon, and on Satur-days from 1:30 to 3:00 pm.

First timers must bring official photo ID.

THIS ‘N THAT

1. The 108th Community Council will meet on Tues., Jan. 28, 7:00 pm, at Sunnyside Community Ser-vices (Queens Blvd. & 39th St.).

2. Attention, Confirmation candidates: our Confirma-tion date has been set: Thursday., May 14th, 5:00 pm, at Queen of Angels Church, Sunnyside. Bishop Witold Mroziewski will preside.

3. The rectory office will be closed this coming Friday, January 24th.

4. No Religious Education (CCD) classes this holiday weekend.

To help the church grow in love and faithful witness to God, Pope Francis has declared the third Sunday in Ordinary Time to be dedicated to the word of God.

Salvation, faith, unity and mercy all depend on knowing Christ and sacred Scrip-ture, he said in a new document.

Devoting a special day "to the celebration, study and dissemination of the word of God" will help the church "experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world," the pope said.

The declaration to have a "Sunday of the Word of God" was made in a new document, given "motu proprio," on the pope's own initiative. Its title, "Aperuit Illis," is based on a verse from the Gospel of St. Luke, "Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures."

"The relationship between the risen Lord, the community of believers and sacred Scripture is essential to our identity as Christians," the pope said in the apostolic letter, released by the Vatican Sept. 30, the feast of St. Jerome, patron saint of biblical scholars.

January 26th

Sat., Feb. 15, 6:00 pm

Brennan Hall

A bit different priest-celebrant line-up for this weekend’s Masses: Msgr. Maks for the Saturday 5 pm and Sunday 11 am; Msgr. Otto Garcia from St. Teresa’s for Sunday’s 8 am, and Father Kavungal Davey (from St. Anthony-St. Alphonsus, Greenpoint) for the 12:30 pm Spanish Mass. Also, the priests from St. Stanislaus Kostka in Maspeth for covering the daily litur-gies this past week. Gratitude to all!

(Continued from last week’s bulletin…)

This illustrates a major theme in the passage: divine providence. It had been the centurion’s decision to set sail in bad weather, and throughout the storm the sailors made decisions about how to handle the ship. But in the end their own plans are thwarted, and only by staying together and allowing the ship to be wrecked do they come to be saved through divine providence. The ship and its entire valuable cargo will be lost, but all lives will be saved, “for none of you will lose a hair from your heads.” (Acts 27: 34) In our search for Christian unity, surrendering ourselves to divine providence will demand letting go of many things to which we are deeply attached. What matters to God is the salvation of all people.

This diverse and conflicted group of people runs aground “on some island.” Having been thrown together in the same boat, they arrive at the same destination, where their human unity is disclosed in the hospitality they receive from the islanders. As they gather round the fire, sur-rounded by a people who neither know nor understand them, differences of power and status fall away. The 276 are no longer at the mercy of indifferent forces, but embraced by God’s loving providence made present through a people who show them “unusual kindness.” Cold and wet, they can warm and dry them-selves by the fire. Hungry, they are given food. They are sheltered until it is safe for them to continue their journey.

Today many people are facing the same terrors on the same seas. The very same places named in the reading also feature in the stories of modern-day migrants. In other parts of the world many others are making equally dangerous journeys by land and sea to escape natural disasters, warfare and poverty. Their lives, too, are at the mercy of immense and coldly indifferent forces – not only natural, but political, economic and human. This human indifference takes various forms: the indifference of those who sell places on unseaworthy vessels to desperate people; the indifference of the decision not to send out rescue boats; and the indifference of turning migrant ships away. This names only a few instances. As Christians together facing these crises of migration this story challenges us: do we collude with the cold forces of indif-ference, or do we show “unusual kindness” and become witnesses of God’s loving providence to all peo-ple?

Hospitality is a much needed virtue in our search for Christian unity. It is a practice that calls us to a greater generosity to those in need. The people who showed unusual kindness to Paul and his companions did not yet know Christ, and yet it is through their unusual kindness that a divided people were drawn closer to-gether. Our own Christian unity will be discovered not only through showing hospitality to one another, im-portant though this is, but also through loving encounters with those who do not share our language, cul-ture or faith. In such tempestuous journeys and chance encounters, God’s will for the Church and all peo-ple comes to fulfillment.

January 18 to January 25 2020

THIS ‘N THAT 1. Queen of Angels Parish in Sunnyside is offering English classes on Saturdays. $50 registration includes

textbook. For info, phone 718-392-0011 or 937-5174. 2. Thank you to our Manhatitlan Folkloric Dance group for the donation of its recent performance stipends to

the parish. Very thoughtful and much appreciated. 3. Thank you to the Green Valley Marketplace of Sunnyside for its recent donation ($100) to our Food Pan-

try. This ongoing support from the popular neighborhood supermarket is gratefully received. 4. Bishop Molloy Retreat House in Jamaica invites married couples to a retreat January 31-Feruary 2. The

theme is Encountering Christ as Husband & Wife in Life, Faith & Family. Starts with dinner at 7 pm Friday and ends with Sunday Mass at 11 am. For more info, phone 718-739-1229 or 729-4884.

5. Next Family Masses: Sunday, February 2nd: 11 am in English and 12:30 pm in Spanish.

EL RINCON HISPANO

CURSILLO DE HOMBRES (en español)

Enero 23 at 26,

2020. Para mas informa-ción, comunicarse

con Angelina Muñoz (718) 937-8459

Hoy en día muchas personas se enfrentan a los mismos miedos en los mismos mares. Los mismos sitios que se nombran en la lectura (27, 21; 28, 1), aparecen también en las historias de los migrantes de hoy. En otros lugares del mundo muchos otros em-prenden viajes igualmente peligrosos por tierra y por mar para escapar de catástrofes naturales, de guerras y de la pobreza. También sus vidas están a la merced de inmen-sas fuerzas, frías e indiferentes, no solo pertenecientes a la naturaleza, sino también políticas, económicas y humanas. Esta indiferencia del ser humano asume varias for-mas: la indiferencia de aquellos que venden plazas a personas desesperadas en bu-ques que no son aptos para navegar; la indiferencia de los que deciden no mandar naves de rescate; y la indiferencia de los que alejan de sus costas a pateras con mi-grantes. Estos son solo algunos ejemplos. Como cristianos unidos que enfrentan la crisis migratoria, esta historia nos reta: ¿nos unimos a las frías fuerzas de la indiferen-cia o mostramos «una solicitud poco común», haciéndonos testigos de la providencia amorosa de Dios para todas las personas? Es muy necesaria la virtud de la hospitali-dad en nuestra búsqueda de la unidad de los cristianos. Es un hábito que nos invita a una mayor generosidad para con los que pasan necesidad. Las personas que trataron con una solicitud poco común a Pablo y a sus compañeros no conocían aún a Cristo y,

sin embargo, fue a través de su trato poco común que un grupo dividido se fue uniendo. Nuestra propia unidad cristi-ana se manifestará no solamente mostrando hospitalidad unos con otros, por muy importante que esto sea, sino tam-bién a través de encuentros cordiales con aquellos que no comparten nuestra lengua, cultura o religión. En estos viajes tempestuosos y encuentros casuales la voluntad de Dios para su Iglesia y para todas las personas llega a su plenitud. Como proclamará Pablo en Roma, esta salvación de Dios ha sido ofrecida a todos los pueblos (cfr. Hechos 28, 28).

18 de enero hasta 25 de enero de 2020

22 de Enero: Dia de oración para la pro-tección de la vida no nacida

Aparten la fecha: Domingo 9 de febrero a las 11:00 am--Misa (trilingue) celebrada por el Mon-señor Di Marzio en la iglesia de San Rafael.

January 22nd

To left and below: The Three Kings did not only distribute gifts to the children in Brennan Hall on January 5th. After-wards, they visited young persons con-fined to their home due to illness or dis-ability. As the message of the Epiphany proclaimed: Jesus is for everybody!