ST. ISIDORE R. C. SCHOOL 727-1650 / www.sisriverhead.com Ms. Helen Anne Livingston, Principal

VILLA IMMACULATA Sister Ronald

727-5122

ST. ISIDORE R. C. CHURCH

Our Mission Statement Lord, God, all creation is yours, and you call us to serve you by caring for the gifts

that surround us. May the example of St. Isidore urge us to share our food with the hungry and to work for the salvation of mankind. We ask this through our Lord, Jesus Christ, your son, who lives

and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen.

SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM

SECOND & FOURTH SUNDAYS 1:15 PM ENG / 2:15 POLISH

Please arrange the date of baptism through the Rectory office after the birth of your child.

SACRAMENT OF MARRIAGE

Please call the Rectory for an appointment at least six months prior to the desired date.

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION

SATURDAYS 4:00 to 4:45 PM THURSDAYS BEFORE FIRST FRIDAYS 4:00 to 5:00 PM Other times by appointment.

THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST

WEEKDAYS 7:00 AM

SATURDAYS 8:00 AM

SATURDAY EVENINGS VIGIL MASS 5:00 PM

SUNDAYS 8:00 & 9:15 AM

10:30 AM (Polish) 12:00 Noon

3:30 PM (Latin)

RECTORY OFFICE HOURS

WEEKDAYS 9 AM to 12 Noon & 1 PM to 4 PM

SATURDAYS By Appointment Only

EUCHARISTIC ADORATION Tuesdays 12:00 to 1:00 PM

622 PULASKI STREET RIVERHEAD, NY 11901-3038 PHONE (631) 727-2114 FAX (631) 369-3566 EMAIL: sisidore@optonline.net www.saintisidoreriverhead.org

MOST REV. NELSON PEREZ REV. ROBERT KUZNIK, PASTOR

REV. PIOTR NARKIEWICZ, ASSOCIATE DEACON MICHAEL A. BONOCORE

REINA BONOCORE, OFFICE DIANNE MASSIELLO, SPIRITUAL

AND SOCIAL MINISTRIES

Miraculous Medal Novena—Mondays following 7 AM Mass / Bible Study—Tuesdays 1 to 2 PM Morning Prayer—Monday thru Friday 6:30 AM, Saturday 7:30 AM

Altar Rosary Society—First Wednesdays 7 PM Respect Life Group—Second Wednesdays 7 PM & Every Wednesday 2-4 PM in front of

Planned Parenthood, Riverhead / Knights of Columbus—First Tuesdays 7:30 PM, American Legion Hall Columbiettes—Third Tuesdays 7 PM / BINGO—Saturdays 7:30 PM

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 26, 2017

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION 727-1650

Mrs. Kathleen Tysz, Coordinator Mrs. Marypat Fitzgerald, Assistant

MASS INTENTIONS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2017

5:00 pm + Walter and Robert Zilnicki + Adele (A) and Robert Colt + Mary Kubus + Deceased Members of the Cichanowicz, Valek, Donahue and Zilnicki Families

EIGHTH SUN. IN ORD. TIME, FEB. 26, 2017

8:00 am + Catherine (A) and Stanley (A) Brocki 9:15 am + Stephanie (A), Peter (A) & Partick (A) Marcinowski 10:30 am + Jadwiga Bondarowicz / + Tadeusz Zakrzewski (POLISH) + Waldemar Gugnacki (3rd A) + Jan Harasimowicz 12 noon + Maria Manuela Gonzalez Costa

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2017

7:00 am + James Balnis (A) Living Members of the Joyce Wood Family

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2017

7:00 am + Lina Guardino / Blessings for Kevin Pfeiffer

ASH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 2017

7:00 am + Yvette Cavanagh-Meehan 7:00 pm (PL) The People of the Parish, Living & Deceased

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2017

7:00 am + Dorothy Norman / + Carl Haupt

FIRST FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2017

7:00 am + Dillon Perry

FIRST SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2017

8:00 am + Katherine Ordjonikidze 5:00 pm + Antone Kolenski (1st A) + Kazimierz Chrapusta / + Frank & Justine Doroski

FIRST SUNDAY OF LENT, MAR. 5, 2017

8:00 am + Podlas and Okula Families 9:15 am + Albertine Shableski 10:30 am Za Członków żywego Różańca i Rodzinę Radia Maryja (POLISH) + Jozef and Urszula Sawicki / + Feliksa Sawicka + Jerzy Aleksandrowicz / + Antone Kolenski 12 noon + Lynda Stegmaier

EIGHTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME—FEBRUARY 26, 2017

TODAY’S READINGS

First Reading — God will never forget you (Isaiah 49:14-15) Psalm — Rest in God alone, my soul (Psalm 62). Second Reading — Make no judgments; the Lord will judge (1 Corinthians 4:1-5). Gospel — God feeds the bird and clothes the flowers. Do not be anxious; God knows all your needs (Matthew 6:24-34).

READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Sir 17:20-24; Ps 32:1-2, 5-7; Mk 10:17-27 Tuesday: Sir 35:1-12; Ps 50:5-8, 14, 23; Mk 10:28-31 Wednesday: Jl 2:12-18; Ps 51:3-6ab, 12-14, 17; 2 Cor 5:20 — 6:2; Mt 6:1-6, 16-18 Thursday: Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-4, 6; Lk 9:22-25 Friday: Is 58:1-9a; Ps 51:3-6ab, 18-19; Mt 9:14-15 Saturday: Is 58:9b-14; Ps 86:1-6; Lk 5:27-32 Sunday: Gn 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Ps 51:3-6, 12-13, 17; Rom 5:12-19 [12, 17-19]; Mt 4:1-11

IN LOVING MEMORY

MISSALETTES

Walter and Robert Zilnicki

SANCTUARY LAMP & BREAD AND WINE

Walter and Robert Zilnicki

SPECIAL LENTEN OBSERVANCE

For the Sundays of Lent, from March 5 to April 2nd, there will be a class on how one can prayerfully

enter into the Traditional Latin Mass from 2 to 3 pm in the lower level of St. Isidore Church. The class will be followed by the usual schedule of rosary at 3 pm and the Traditional Latin Mass at 3:30 pm.

All are welcome.

COLLECTIONS

This Week, Feb. 26—Sunday Weekly / Debt Red.

Next Week, March 5—Sunday Weekly / Church In Need: The monies collected at this time will be shared among three areas of the world where there is

particular need for help: Central and Eastern Europe Latin America Africa

DONATIONS

2017 2016

February 19th $ 6,905 $ 6,730

PRAY FOR OUR SICK

James Redmond Barbara Fenn Therese Gigante Richard Nedosik Rocco Gandolfo Duke Mader Richard Miller Augie & Georgianna Lucente Nicholas Santiago Johanna Benthal Giuseppe LaFata Christopher Loth James Burke Regina Semon Ralph Maffei George DeStefano Bryan Andrews Jadwiga Suchta Marta Andreotta Barbara Kobielski Joyce Wood Bogdan Sagan Andrew Smith Dr. John Brady Irene McCarthy Bertha Harris Amanda O’Connor Jan Santacapita Arthur Breen Frankie Antonawich Ray Munoz Marie Catalinao Thomas Wisniewski III Chris & Susan Kane Sister M. Alexeus Marie Jacobchek Tina Catanzaro Jessie Kowalska

Jadwiga Luniewski Theresa Mannuzza Krzysztof Olszowski Maryanne & Ralph Conforti The Barauskus Family Hope & Brittany Williams Mary Ellen Caracuel Helen Sheppard John Marion Joey Goldfarb Carol Loper David Perez Julie Zotos Kathy Curcio Peter Thompson Dolores DeGirolamo Maureen Lally Willie Maldonado Marian Klodaski Lauren Gill Joanie Johnson Frances Kenny Valluci Diana McCarthy Eleanor Koroleski Kevin Bozza Geraldine Weir Cecilia Murphy Thomas Clark Mary Oleksiak Barbara Cushieri Dan Massiello Christopher Wyhowanec Brian Darmody Joann Marchese Frances Majeski Tony Condzella George & Barbara Jaeger Brie Redmond

THE WEEK AHEAD

Sunday, February 26, 2017 Latin Mass 3:30 PM

Monday, February 27, 2017 Miraculous Medal Novena After 7 AM Mass

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 Adoration 12 to 1 PM / Bible Study 1 to 2 PM

Reconciliation/1st Commun. Mtg. for Parents 6:30 PM

Ash Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Fast and Abstinence

Masses 7 am (English) 7 pm (Polish) Prayer Services: 12:30, 3:30, 5:30 pm

Thursday, March 2, 2017 Confession 4 to 5 PM

Friday, March 3, 2017 Abstinence

6:15 English Stations of the Cross 7:15 Droga Krzyzowa Po Polsku

Saturday, March 4, 2017 BINGO 7:30 PM

Please keep all those serving in the military and their families in your thoughts and prayers

especially: Justin, Anthony and Thomas Gallo, Jessica Kent, Jeffrey Heppner, Adam Bugdin,

James Fleming and Kevin Thomas.

CHOIR PRACTICE

For all children and adults who would like to sing for the Easter services. New members are needed. Prac-

tice will be on Tuesdays at 6 PM beginning March 7th.

LIFE CENTER NEWS

The new Riverhead office is looking for volunteers a few hours per week to help the pro-life work on Long Island. Will train. Bi-lingual volunteers also needed.

Please call Lisa or Franci M-F 10 am—4 pm at 631-591-9017

For your Lenten almsgiving, St. Isidore is again participating in the Baby Bottle Fundraiser for the Life Center. Please consider taking a bottle on your way out

of church next weekend.

Did you know…………How Lent as we know it came about

The death and resurrection of Jesus Christ are at the heart of the Christian gospel, and Good Friday and Easter are two of the most significant celebrations of the Christian year. Lent is a season of preparation and repentance during which we anticipate Good Friday and Easter. Just as we carefully prepare for big events in our personal lives, such as a wedding or commencement, Lent invites us to make our hearts ready for remembering Jesus' passion and celebrating Jesus' resurrection.

Originally, the focus of Lent was on the elect preparing for initiation, but with the decline in the catechumenate and in adult initiation by the fifth century, focus shifted to penitents, since public penance was still practiced. Lent then took on a penitential air, as the whole community prayed for the penitents and fasted with them. This was the time when Ash Wednesday got its name. Beginning probably in Gaul, the practice developed of sprinkling the penitents with ashes—a practice which was adopted voluntarily by other community members in the tenth and eleventh centuries and was eventually incorporated into the liturgy on the first day of Lent. With the rise of the mendicant orders (especially the Franciscans, Dominicans and Carmelites) in the thirteenth century, Lent shifted focus again. Mendicant preachers focused on the passion of Christ, and the prayer and fasting of Lent assumed an aspect of suffering with the Savior. Penitence and a focus on participation in the sufferings of Christ led to very strict rules for fasting, abstinence, and other behavior during Lent. Although feast days were rarely observed during this season, the appearance of even a few feast days, with their relaxation of the Lenten rules, helped to lighten the load, and the appearance of rose vestments on Laetare Sunday (the Fourth Sunday of Lent) in the sixteenth century served as a reminder that Lent’s strictures would soon end.

The practice of a forty-day preparation period began in the Christian church during the third and fourth centuries. The number forty carries biblical significance based on the forty years Israel spent in the wilderness and Jesus' forty-day fast in the wilderness. The forty days of Lent begin on Ash Wednesday and continue through holy week, not counting Sundays (which are reserved for celebratory worship). In practice, many congregations choose to focus Sunday worship on the themes of repentance and renewal. The singing of “Alleluia” and “Glory to God” are omitted.

Lent has historically included the instruction of persons for baptism and profession of faith on Easter Sunday; the calling back of those who have become estranged from the church; and efforts by all Christians to deepen their piety, devotion, and readiness to mark the death and resurrection of their Savior. As such, the primary focus of the season is to explore and deepen a "baptismal spirituality" that centers on our union with Christ rather than to function only as an extended meditation on Christ's suffering and death. FASTING: Eating less food than normal (One normal, full-sized meal and two smaller meals which, if combined, would not exceed one full meal. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.)

ABSTINENCE: Do not eat meat. (All Fr idays dur ing Lent.)

ALMSGIVING: Mater ial generosity to the less for tunate. (Money, goods, acts of char ity.)

Wszystko o Środzie Popielcowej

Dlaczego lubię Popielec? Ryzykowne pytanie. Może lepiej brzmiałoby: "Czy lubię Popielec?". W końcu dzień ten ma w sobie wiele elementów, za którymi ludzie nie przepadają. Na przykład przypomnienie, że

skończył się karnawał i znów rozpoczyna się Wielki Post. A jednak można polubić ten dzień.

Najpierw dlatego, że jest zupełnie inny niż pozostałe dni w roku. Nie zobowiązuje do udziału we Mszy św., a gro-madzi w kościołach - mimo że jest normalnym dniem pracy - tłumy porównywalne do najważniejszych świąt chrze-

ścijańskich. Nie wiadomo jak to zjawisko wytłumaczyć.

W tabeli pierwszeństwa dni liturgicznych, za pomocą której co roku układany jest kalendarz, zajmuje miejsce wśród uroczystości (Narodzenia Pańskiego, Objawienia, Wniebowstąpienia, Zesłania Ducha Świętego, Niedziel

Adwentu, Wielkiego Postu, Okresu Wielkanocnego, dni Wielkiego Tygodnia i Oktawy Wielkanocy), a w żaden spo-sób nie może być nazwany uroczystością, czego wyrazem jest choćby obowiązujący tego dnia post porównywalny

z tym, który obowiązuje katolików jeszcze tylko w Wielki Piątek.

Obrzęd posypania głów popiołem też jest ewenementem. W Kościele pierwszych wieków biskup naznaczał w ten sposób jedynie tych, którzy czynili publiczną pokutę i aż do Wielkiego Czwartku byli wyłączeni ze wspólnoty. Z cza-

sem obrzęd ten stał się znakiem postu i pokuty, odprawianej prywatnie przez wszystkich wiernych, w łączności z innymi członkami Kościoła.

W Środę Popielcową, w trakcie posypywania głów popiołem, kapłan wypowiada słowa z Pisma Świętego. Ma do wyboru dwa zdania i warto pamiętać, które z nich będzie przeznaczone dla nas w danym roku. Jeśli usłyszymy:

"Prochem jesteś i w proch się obrócisz" (Rdz 3,19), uświadamiamy sobie własną słabość, ułomność, przemijanie. A jeśli: "Nawracajcie się i wierzcie w Ewangelię!" (Mk 1,15), przypominamy sobie, ile jeszcze mamy w sobie zła,

jaka praca nas czeka. Może zastanawiamy się, co mają wspólnego ze sobą te dwa fragmenty Biblii. Otóż ich wspólnym mianownikiem jest zaufanie Bogu.

Tylko w Nim mamy pewność życia, tylko On może nadać sens naszej szarej codzienności. Kto ufa własnym siłom, srodze się zawiedzie. Jeśli uzmysłowimy sobie własną bezradność wobec śmierci i grzechu, jesteśmy na dobrej

drodze. Pozostaje do wykonania tylko jeden krok - krok w stronę Boga. Mamy go czynić każdego dnia, nie tylko w tę jedną środę w roku. Popielec to ani nie ósmy sakrament, ani zwyczajna tradycja ojców. To autentyczny znak

oddania się Bogu - oddania Mu naszego życia i grzeszności. Znów można zacząć od nowa.

SCHEDULE

Masses: 7 AM (English) 7 PM (Polish)

Prayer Services (w/ ash distribution):

12:30 PM, 3:30 PM, 5:30 PM

2017 CATHOLIC MINISTRIES APPEAL

“...He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich…” ~St. Paul (2 Cor 8:9)

The season of Lent is a time for us to renew our heart-to-heart relationship with God and with our neighbors. It is also an opportunity to reflect more deeply on what it means to be Disciples of Christ. One way we can respond to this call and help others to experience the love of God is by making a gift through the Catholic Ministries Appeal.

The Catholic Ministries Appeal provides the means for our Diocese to serve more than 600,000 people of God in our communities each year. Your generosity would enable us to support the Diocesan efforts in evangelization, liturgy and worship, youth and young adult ministry, and programs for the poor and disadvantaged through Catholic Charities. It

also helps fund critically important religious education programs while promoting vocations to the priesthood and consecrated life.

This Lent, I invite you to reflect on the words of Saint Paul, “For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich yet for your sake He became poor, so that by His poverty you might become rich.” (2 Cor 8:9). His sacrifice is a model for all of us to follow as we join together to impact the lives of thousands of people on Long

Island through support of the Catholic Ministries Appeal.

Thank you for your continuing generosity and commitment to the good works of our Church. Pledge cards are being mailed this week and can also be found by the Church entrances.

CEMETERY NEWS

The beginning of LENT is a reminder that Christmas and all old decorations must be removed from the cemetery to make room

for Easter decorations.

Anything left behind will be removed and discarded by cemetery personnel.

Thank you for your help in keeping our cemetery beautiful.

SAVE THE DATE!...

LENTEN MISSION

Given by Fr. Roy Tvrdik, SMM

Speaking at all Masses the weekend of March 11th/12th

Mission: March 13th, 14th, 15th

1 to 2 pm AND 7 to 8 pm

DEFENSIVE DRIVING COURSE

Given in the lower level of the Church on Saturday, March 25th

8:30 am to 3:00 pm $45 per person

Call Driver Education Consultants to register: 631-360-9720

A DMV Approved-Insurance/Point Reduction Course

CHURCH NAME AND ADDRESS St. Isidore Church #022299 622 Pulaski Street Riverhead, NY 11901 TELEPHONE 631 727-2114 CONTACT PERSON Reina Bonocore SOFTWARE MSPublisher 2013 Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Windows 7 PRINTER HP Officejet J4580 Transmission Time Wednesday 12:00 SUNDAY DATE OF PUBLICATION February 26, 2017 NUMBER OF PAGES SENT 6 SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS