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He said, ‘Master, you gave me five talents. See, I have made five more.’His master said to him, ‘Well done, my good and faithful servant. Since you were faithful in small matters,I will give you great responsibilities.

THIS WEEK’S GOSPELMT 25:14-30

For additional information: Offering Masses for deceased loved ones, Wedding

arrangements, Arranging Funeral Masses, Registering your child for Religious Ed.

please visit our website:www.saintjanefrances.org

AuxilliAry StAffMrs. Gloria Zamot Sunday School X205Mrs. MaryJo Lombardi Special Needs Faith Formation X205Mr. Tom Mulvey Facilities Manager X227

PAriSh regionAl SchoolSAint elizAbeth Ann Seton regionAl School Leeann Graziose, Principal- Tel: (516) 785-5709Please visit our school Website: www.steas.com

PAStorAl StAff 516-785-2333Rev. Seth N. Awo Doku Pastor X201

Donna Locastro (Asst to Father Seth), Baptism Program X235 Rev. Aloysius Pakianather Associate Pastor X232Rev. Stanislaw Choragwicki Associate Pastor X200Deacon Robert O’Donovan Pre-Cana, CYO X207Deacon Thomas Anderson CMA Chair & St Frances X222 Theatre Grp Moderator Msgr. John Rowan Sunday Associate X 0Sr. Lauren Hanley Spiritual Dev. Director X243Sr. Jocelyn Panzetta, CIJ Faith Formation (Adults) X206Mr. Christopher Gospodarzec Director of Faith Formation X204Mrs. Donna Mugno Faith Formation (Children) X209Ms. Ele Ruth Melendez Parish Social Ministry X240Ms. Elisa Vignali Liturgical Music X223Mrs. Amy Markin Business Manager X203

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Mass Cards, Altar Candles. Eucharistic Bread & Wine and Altar Flowers are

still available even though the Pastoral Center is Closed. If you need a Mass

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Pastoral Center is closed but we are working from home and will return your

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Live Streaming of MassMonday – Friday 9 a.m.Saturday 8:30 a.m.Saturday Vigil Mass at 4:00 p.mSunday Mass at 8:30 a.m. Via Facebook Liveand posted on our Parish Websitewww.saintjanefrances.org

Confessions are heard on Mondays at 1:15 p.m. and on Saturdays at 12 Noon in the church

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GOD IS HAPPYRON ROLHEISER,OMI

God is happy! God is not habitually disappointed with us, frowning at our weaknesses, and sending the majority of us to hell. Rather, God is like the loving parent of a little child, forever luring us forwards, delighting in our energy, wanting us to flourish, saddened when we act in ways that bring unhappiness to others and to ourselves, but understanding of weakness rather than angry and unhappy.

Julian of Norwich, the famed mystic, describes God this way: God sits in heaven, smiling, completely relaxed, his face looking like a marvelous symphony. When I first read this passage some years ago, I was taken aback both by the concept of God as smiling and by the image of God as relaxed. I had never thought of God as “relaxed”. Surely with all that’s happening in our world and surely with all the betrayals, large and small, in our lives, God must be tense, frustrated and anxious. It’s difficult but easier to picture God as smiling (at least sometimes), but it’s exceedingly difficult to picture God as relaxed, as not being tense about all that’s wrong with us and our world.

Here’s my journey in grappling with that. I was wonderfully blessed in my religious background. From my parents and family, through the parish community I grew up in, through the Ursuline nuns who taught me in school, you couldn’t have ordered a more-ideal faith milieu. I experienced faith and religion being lived out in real life in a way that gave it credibility and made it attractive. My seminary training and theological studies strongly reinforced that. But, all that time, underneath, there was a picture of a God who wasn’t very happy and who smiled only when the occasion merited it, which wasn’t very often. The consequence of that in my life was an anxious attempt always to measure up, to be good enough, to not make God unhappy, and to earn God’s approval and affection. But of course, we can never be good enough, never measure up, and so it’s natural to believe that God is never really happy with us and never really happy at all.

In theory, of course, we know better. We tend to have a healthier concept of God theoretically; but the heart is not so easy to bring onside. It’s hard to feel inside myself that God is happy, happy with us, happy with me. It has taken me seventy years to realize, accept, take consolation in, and finally bathe in the fact that God is happy. I’m not sure what pulled all the triggers inside me that helped me make that shift, but the fact that God is happy comes to me now whenever I’m praying whole-heartedly, nakedly, and sincerely. It’s also what comes to me when I look at the saints in my life, those men and women whom I most look up to in faith, who reflect the face of God for me. They’re happy, relaxed, and not perpetually frowning in displeasure.9-26-2020

Christianity, Judaism, and Islam ultimately all believe in the same God. Interestingly, too, in the popular mind they also all tend to conceive of God in the same way,

namely, as male, celibate, and not being particularly happy.

Well, the gender of God is not something we can ever conceptualize. God is neither male or female, nor some androgynous mix of gender. So how can we conceptualize God’s gender? We can’t, pure and simple. Classically we’ve spoken of God as male, even as we know that this isn’t exactly true because we affirm, dogmatically, that God is ineffable, incapable of ever being captured in any concept. That also holds true for our notion of God as celibate, as not having a wife. How masculinity and femininity interrelate in God is also ineffable, incapable of being conceived of, but we know God is not simply a male celibate.

But what about that other popular notion, namely, that God is not particularly happy, especially with us?

Here we have a clear answer: God is happy. How can God not be? If God is perfect oneness, perfect goodness, perfect truth, perfect beauty, and perfect fullness in every way, how then can God not be perfect happiness? An unhappy God would not be God for such a God would be lacking the power to make Himself (pardon the pronoun) happy. Not a minor inadequacy for God. So a perfect God is also a perfectly happy God. But that’s a metaphysical statement. We can still ask, is God happy emotionally and is God happy with us? Mustn’t God frown at times and shake his head in disappointment at our behavior? Surely God can’t be happy with a lot that goes on in our world. God can’t be happy in the face of sin.

Well, just as in every other thing about God, there are things here we cannot comprehend. However, this much must be affirmed, both from what’s deepest in revelation in our scriptures and from the testimony of countless good people:

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Thirty-Fourth Sunday in Ordinary TimeWeekend of Novemeber 21 – Novemeber 22, 2020

1st Reading: Ezekiel 34:11-12, 15-17 2nd Reading: 1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28 Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46

Reflection Questions for this week

Adults: Using Jesus’ parable as your starting point, describe in your own words how you are using your own gifts to enrich the reign of God.Children: Name one talent or gift that God has given you and tell how you have used it.

THIRTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME1st Reading: Proverbs 31:10-13, 19-20, 30-312nd Reading: 1 Thessalonians 5:1-6 Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30

Names given to us for the sick list will remain in the bulletin for one month. After one month, the name will be entered in the Intercessory Book and will be on a permanent prayer list.

As of October 11, 2020 – Annette Romanski, Charles Schaffer, Mamma Yosimo

As of October 25, 2020 – Kellie Seltzer

As of November 1, 2020 – Mary Spinosa

As of November 8, 2020 - James Brannigan, Raymond McGrath

We pray for the sick

Saturday 11/14/20208:30 AM Thomas J. Honeyman - 29th Anniversary4:00 PM Kevin Hopkins5:30 PM Richard FolkSunday 11/15/20207:00 AM For the People of the Parish8:30 AM Eleanor A. Mule

10:00 AM John M. & Patrick A. Diffley12:00 PM Robert Bruno

5:00 PM Olivia BreezeMonday 11/16/20207:00 AM Daniel Fowler9:00 AM Daniel Murphy -23 AnniversaryTuesday 11/17/20207:00 AM Patricia Rufle9:00 AM Joe Dehler

Wednesday 11/18/20207:00 AM Ann Thompson9:00 AM Bruce Cassoni

Thursday 11/19/2020

7:00 AM All Souls Spiritual Bouquet

9:00 AM Edward J. Wengler - AnniversaryFriday 11/20/2020

7:00 AM All Souls Spiritual Bouquet9:00 AM Denny (Dennis) Davidson

Saturday 11/21/20208:30 AM Jonathan Masone4:00 PM Eleanor Folk Mule5:30 PM Jimmy KurinskasSunday 11/22/20207:00 AM Eleanor Mule8:30 AM For the People of the Parish

10:00 AM Jacqueline Lombardi12:00 PM Maria Esposito

5:00 PM Gabriel Marino

Maria R. MarramaoJudith M. Hoehn

Giovanna Helene DiPiano

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For our Parish WeShare Online Giving system visit our website at www.saintjanefrances.org and click on the logo.

Weekly Collectionfor November 7-8, 2020

Last Year

$ 17,115.00 Includes WeShare Online offerings of $ 3,055.00$ 22,793.00

The Eucharistic Bread and Wine

for the Weekend of November 7th -

November 8th, 2020

are offered in Loving Memory of

Thomas M. SullivanRequested by

His Loving Wife Audrey Sullivan

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Michael J. Aguanno, Sr. Chief Brian Berretta, Lt. Richard Bruno, Robert Cirolia, Airman 1st Class Michael D’Ottavio, Tyler Daly, Scott Dickson, Valerie Dickson, Ian Sage Donley, LTJG Patrick Dreiss, PFC Joseph Garronbone III, Kieran J. Grogan, Jack Hall, Steven John, Brian Paduano, Pvt. Tyler J. Palmeri, Major Joseph M. Palumbo, Christopher Price, Sean Patrick Riordan, Noel Sawyer, Joshua Sider, Corporal Craig Torres, Monica Tretola, CW02 Jason P. Williams, Michael Perez, SRA. Kristopher Duer, P.V.T 2 Brian Witte, LCPL Douglas Terra , Lt. Paul Emmi, Lance Corporal Matthew B. DeFelice

May God protect you all and may you see the light of Jesus even in the darkness of war.

Weekly Attendance Weekend of November 7- November 8th,

2020Saturday 4:00 p.m. 178 Live Streamed

5:30 p.m 67

Sunday 7:00 a.m. 83

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YOU ARE NEVER ALONEWe, the staff and clergy at St. Frances de Chantal, want you to know that you are never alone in your time of need. Below are a few phone numbers of

various helplines:

National Drug & Alcohol Treatment Hotline1-800-662-HELP

National Domestic Violence Hotline1-800-799-7233

National Child Abuse Hotline1-800-4-A-CHILD

National Institute of Mental Health1-888-ANXIETY

National Suicide Prevention Hotline1-800-273-TALK

For additional information, please feel free to call

us at the Parish Social Ministry Office.785-2333 ext. 240

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Would You Like to Decorate A Box For Thanksgiving?

We are just beginning our Thanksgiving preparations. Each year we give families in need a Thanksgiving Basket (box) filled with food for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for Thanksgiving Day. If you would like to help, please consider decorating a cardboard box (approximately 18" X 20"). Some suggestions are to cover the outside of the box with colored paper, wrapping paper, or a fall/Thanksgiving plastic tablecloth. Also, hand-drawn Thanksgiving pictures are a nice added touch. There is no right or wrong way -- feel free to use your imagination. This can be a fun family project -- a time to share our blessings with those in need.

Do not feel obligated to fill the boxes with food. We would be happy to simply receive a decorated box which we would then fill with food donated to the pantry. However, if you would like to donate food for these boxes, please refer to the list of needed food items.

We will be giving these boxes to families in our community as well as other Long Island parishes and some Charitable Organizations.

Please return decorated boxes as soon as possible but no later than the week of November 13th.

Thank you, Ele Ruth Melendez, Director Parish Social Ministry

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300 Club Update – 17th Round – Report No. 4

Dear 300 Club Members,

Hopefully by now you have read my letter that was in last weekend’s bulletin which updates you on the 300 Club’s activities in 2020. Below is a summary of what was covered:

Charity-We highlighted all the charities we donated to during the coronavirus, all made possible by your continued support. Over $10,000 went to 11 charities at a time when it was needed most.

Community- Round 18 is now upon us and without a Thank You Dinner fundraising event we are once again asking all members to please submit their $30 membership fee so we can continue to do the work we do and stay connected as a community through our monthly raffles.

Chance- We announced our initiative to demonstrate how important our 300 Club members are to us. We will be awarding complimentary renewals for the 19th Round to 50 random members who have never won a monthly raffle prize since I became Chairman in July 2019.

Congratulations to our October Raffle Winners listed below:

As always, feel free to contact us with any questions or instructions on renewing your membership.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Best Wishes, John Tomeo ______________________________________________________________________________

300 Club Committee Members Contact Information Name Phone No. E-Mail Name Phone No. E-Mail

John Tomeo-Chairman (516)695-7230 johntomeo@gmail.com Bob Cabrera (631)264-1042 bobandchriscabrera@gmail.com Dick Campbell (516)781-2608 rjc291@gmail.com Paul DeLuccio (516)360-0230 pmd819@optonline.net Tom Casey (516)783-9313 tomkc53@hotmail.com Joe Parmese (516)785-6760 maryajo@optonline.net Charlie Dawson (516)781-9610 chaed.dson@gmail.com Russell Merendino (516)395-9945 rnj593@netscape.net

Winning # October Winners Prize 274 Bonnie Doon $50 97 Margaret Doherty $50 245 Clement Ignieri $50 218 Joseph Rienti $50 57 Ed Scutellaro $75 240 Lucy Rodin $75 177 Angela LoBiondo $75 237 Bill Fowler $100

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THANK YOU TO THE YOUNG VINCENTIANS FROM PARISH SOCIAL MINISTRY

Thank you to the Young Vincentians for helping us fill our Thanksgiving boxes for those in need this holiday. They collected 13 carts of food as well as gift cards at the food drive they held last weekend. Thank you for all your support.

Blessings,

Parish Social Ministry__________

ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON CHRISTMAS CARD RAFFLE

Support our regional school by purchasing a Christmas card raffle for $10. Each card equals 31 opportunities to win cash up to $2,500. Great stocking stuffers. Contact main office of school at 516-785-5709 to purchase through December 19th.__________

The Parish Social Ministry office will be collec5ng Christmas cards to send to our Military personnel overseas. Please fill out pre-printed cards or make your own. Decorate them with hand-drawn pictures and personal messages. Have fun! This is a great way to show support for the service members who cannot be home to celebrate this Christmas season. Please drop them off by Dec. 4 at the PSM office, the Pastoral Center, or drop them in the collec5on box in the lobby of the Church.

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