Rev. Fr. James L. P. Miara, M. Div., Pastor Rev. Fr. Louis Van Thanh, Senior Priest Rev. Fr. Oliver Chanama, In Residence Rev. Fr. Andrew Bielak, In Residence

Tel: (212) 279-5861/5862

www.shrineofholyinnocents.org

Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

Weekdays: 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) Saturday: 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin) and 4:00 p.m. Vigil/Shopper’s Mass Sunday: 9:00 a.m. (Tridentine Low Mass), 10:30 a.m. (Tridentine High Mass), 12:30 p.m. Holy Days of Obligation:

Vigil at 5:15 p.m. 7:00 & 7:30 a.m.; 8:00 a.m. (Tridentine Latin); 11:15 a.m.; 12:15, 1:15 & 5:15 p.m.; 6:00 p.m. (Tridentine Latin High Mass)

Confessions

Weekdays: 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.; 12 noon -1:30 p.m.; 5:00 - 5:30 p.m. Saturday: 12 noon -1:00 p.m. and 3:15 -3:45 p.m. Sunday: 9:30 -10:30 a.m. and 12 noon -12:30 p.m.

And anytime upon request or by appointment

Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Weekdays from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.- 5:45 p.m. Benediction

BAPTISMS

3rd & 4th Saturdays at 11:00 a.m.; Sundays at 1:30 p.m.

Perpetual Novenas

Weekdays following the 7:30 a.m. and 12:15 & 1:15 p.m. Masses and at 5:50 p.m. and on Saturday following the 12 noon and 1:00 p.m. Masses. Monday: Miraculous Medal Tuesday: St. Anthony and St. Anne Wednesday: Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Joseph Thursday: Infant of Prague, St. Rita and St. Thérèse Friday: “The Return Crucifix” and the Passion Saturday: Our Lady of Lourdes and Our Lady of Fatima Sunday: Holy Innocents (at Vespers) Devotions

Vespers and Benediction: Sunday at 2:30 p.m. (Tridentine Latin)

Holy Rosary: Weekdays at 11:55 a.m. and 5:20 p.m. Saturday at 12:35 p.m. Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Divine Mercy Chaplet: Weekdays at 3:00 p.m.

Stations of the Cross (during Lent): Fridays at 12:45 p.m. and after 6:00 p.m. Mass

Holy Hour of Reparation to the Sacred Heart: First Friday of the month from 7:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Followed by All-Night Vigil until 6:00.a.m, Mass on Saturday

First Saturday Devotions: Rosary, 15 minute meditation, prayers & Benediction following 1:00 p.m. Mass

Church Hours

Monday-Friday: 6:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Parish Office/Gift Shop Hours

Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. Saturday: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Sunday: 9:00 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.

S c h e d u l e

The Shrine and Parish Church of the Holy Innocents

“The Little Catholic Church Around the Corner” at the crossroads of the world

128 West 37th St. (Just West of Broadway) New York City 10018

Founded 1866

F o u r t h S u n d a y In O r d i n a r y T i m e

January 31, 2021

HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTIONS

Please pray for Pope Francis’ Prayer Intentions:

Violence Against Women

We pray for women who are victims of violence, that they may be protected by society and have their suf-ferings considered and heeded.

Mass Intentions SUNDAY, JANUARY 31 - 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

09:00 - Charles Tebbetts (L) 10:30 - Pro Populo 12:30 - Oliver, Anthony, Mateo David Velez (L)

Monday, February 1 – Weekday

07:00 – Laurence P. Derrane (L) 07:30 – Stephen Palmer (L) 12:15 – Families in the Book of Life 1:15 – Aracely T. Baviera (d) 06:00 – Peter Gaine (d)

Tuesday, February 2 – The Presentation of the Lord

07:00 – St. Anthony 07:30 – Christian Pepo (L) 12:15 – John Quinn (d) 01:15 – In Honor of Jesus’ sufferings in Gethsemane 06:00 – Resurgence of Christian Morality in USA

Wednesday, February 3 – St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr

7:00 – Valentina Pelaez (L) Birthday 7:30 – Vladimir Tavarez (L) Birthday 12:15 – Francisco Antonio Baeza (d) 01:15 – Rose Bruno (d) 06:00 – Rose Chavez (d)

Thursday, February 4 – Weekday

7:00 – Imelda De Lara (d) 07:30 – Infant of Prague 12:15 – Raymond Progel (d) 01:15 – Susan O’Neill (d) 06:00 – James F. Kelly, II (L)

Friday, February 5 – St. Agatha, Virgin & Martyr

7:00 – The Sosa Family (L) 07:30 – Santina Enzone (d) 12:15 – For the Sick 01:15 – Gerry Panes (L) Birthday 06:00 – Johanna Rodriguez (d)

Saturday, February 6 – St. Paul Miki & Companions, Martyrs

6:00 – Intentions of the Celebrant 12:00 – Wilson Montealegre, Jr. (L) Birthday 01:00 – Agueda Guillen (L) Birthday 04:00 – Mercedita & Gary Mendoza (L) Wed. Anniv.

NEXT SUNDAY - ANNIVERSARY OF DEDICATION OF HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH

09:00 - Nancy Elizabeth Lang (d) 10:30 - Pro Populo 12:30 - Jesus Maria Grisales (d)

LATIN TRIDENTINE MASS CORNER

Calendar

January 31 - Septuagesima Sunday 2nd Class - Chant Mass

February 1 - St. Ignatius of Antioch, Bishop & Martyr 3rd Class - Low Mass

February 2 - Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary

2nd Class - High Mass

February 3 - St. Blaise, Bishop & Martyr 4th Class - Low Mass

February 4 - St. Andrew Corsini, Bishop & Confessor 3rd Class - Low Mass

February 5 - St. Agatha, Virgin & Martyr 3rd Class - Low Mass

February 6 - Immaculate Heart of Mary with Com-memoration of St. Titus, Bishop & Confessor and of St. Dorothy

3rd Class - Low Mass

Next Sunday

February 7 - Anniversary of the Dedication of Holy Innocents Church 1st Class - Chant Mass

M y G o d a n d m y A l l !

FEAST OF DEDICATION OF HOLY INNOCENTS CHURCH

Next Sunday, February 7, is the Feast of the Dedi-cation of our Shrine & Parish Church of the Holy Innocents. The Saturday Vigil Mass and all Masses on Sunday will be that of the Anniversary of the Dedication of a Church, taking the place of the Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time in the Ordinary Form of the Mass and Sexagesima Sunday in the Extraor-dinary Form of the Mass.

Eucharistic Holy Hour of Reparation in honor of the

Holy Face of Jesus

Every Third Tuesday of the month Following the 6:00 p.m. Mass

Next Holy Hour: February 16

BLESSING OF THROATS

Wednesday of this week, February 3, is the Feast of St. Blaise, Bishop and Martyr, Patron Saint against diseases of the throat and one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. The traditional Blessing of Throats will take place following all Masses on that day.

FIRST FRIDAY DEVOTIONS

Friday of this week, February 5, is the First Friday of the month. The All-Night Vigil will be reinstituted here at Holy Innocents. The Schedule will be as follows: Following the 6:00 p.m. Mass there will be the usual Holy Hour of Reparation in honor of the Sacred Heart of Je-sus. The Blessed Sacrament will be exposed throughout the night for adoration. Beginning at 9:00 p.m., every hour on the hour there will be a Rosary recited and/or brief devotions giving ample time for private adoration and silence throughout the night. Booklets and a de-tailed schedule will be provided for you at the Vigil. The Church Hall as well as the bathrooms will be open all night and there will be two Coffee Hours. The Vigil will close with Benediction and Holy Mass according to the Tridentine Rite in Latin at 6:00 a.m. As has been done over the last few months when we had all night adoration, on the First Friday the church doors will be closed shortly after the Holy Hour (around 8:15 p.m.) and will only reopen to let the people out of the church following the 6:00 p.m. Mass. If you need to leave during the night you must do so through the alley-way, and someone must accompany you to relock that door for everyone's safety.

Altar Offerings

Sanctuary Candle

Holy Souls in Purgatory

FIRST SATURDAY DEVOTIONS

Saturday, February 6 is the First Saturday of February. The First Saturday Devotions will take place following the 1:00 p.m. Mass, consisting of the recitation of the Holy Rosary, a guided 15 minute meditation on the mys-teries of the Holy Rosary, and Eucharistic Reparation and adoration in imitation of the Angel of Peace. The devotions last about one hour. Please plan on at-tending to answer the request of Our Lady to Sr. Lucia: “You at least try to console me.”

The Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us.

This is a powerful prayer to the Infant and an exorcism

CANDLEMAS

Tuesday of this week, February 2 is the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple and the Pu-rification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as Candlemas Day. The Solemn Blessing of Candles and procession will take place at the 6:00 p.m. Lat-in High Solemn Mass. Al Catholic homes should have blessed candles which are to be lit whenever the priest brings the Blessed Sacrament on a Sick Call, during storms for protection, and to assist the dying during their final agony. Once blessed, can-dles are a sacramental, reminding us of Christ, the Light of the World.

Blessed candles will be available in the Parish Of-fice for a donation of $5.00 per box.

THE SEASON OF SEPTUAGESIMA (PRE-LENT)

Septuagesima is the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Lent, called also Dominica Circum-dederunt from the first word of the Introit of the Mass. This Church Liturgical Season begins the Easter Cycle. The Sundays of Septugesima are named for their distance away from Easter. The first Sunday of Septuagesima gives its name to the entire season as it is known as "Septuagesima." "Septuagesima" means "seventy," and Septuagesima Sunday comes roughly seventy days before Easter. This seventy represents the seventy years of the Babylonian Captivity. The second Sunday of Septu-agesima is known as "Sexagesima, which means "sixty". Sexagesima Sunday comes roughly sixty days before Easter. The third Sunday of Septuagesima is known as "Quinquagesima," which means "fifty" and which comes roughly fifty days before Easter. Quadragesima means "forty," and this is the name of the first Sunday of Lent and the Latin name for the entire season of Lent. Septuagesima and Lent are both times of penance, Septuagesima being a time of voluntary fasting in preparation for the ob-ligatory Great Fast of Lent. Throughout this short Season and that of Lent (next Season) you will no-tice a deepening sense of sobriety, penance and somberness with the omission of the Alleluia and Gloria, culminating in Passiontide (the last two weeks of Lent). Septuagesima is inaugurated in the Roman Martyrology by the words: "Septuagesima Sunday, on which the canticle of the Lord, Alleluia, ceases to be said".

YEAR OF ST. JOSEPH December 8, 2020 -- December 8, 2021

“Devotion to St. Joseph is one of the choicest graces that God can give to a soul, for it is tan-tamount to revealing the entire treasury of our Lord’s graces. When God wishes to raise a soul to greater heights, he unites it to St. Joseph by giving it a strong love for the good saint.”

--St. Peter Julian Eymard

UNDER MARY'S MANTLE

"In the last times the Lord will especially spread the renown of His Mother: Mary began salvation and by her intercession it will be concluded. Before the Second Coming of Christ, Mary must, more than ever, shine in mercy..."

--Venerable Mary of Agreda ST. FAUSTINA'S PRAYER FOR PRIESTS

O my Jesus, I beg You on behalf of the whole Church: Grant it love and the light of Your Spirit, and give power to the words of Priests so that hardened hearts might be brought to repentance and return to You, O Lord. Lord, give us holy Priests; You your-self maintain them in holiness. O Divine and Great High Priest, may the power of Your mercy accompany them everywhere and protect them from the devil's traps and snares which are continually being set for the soul of Priests. May the power of Your mercy, O Lord, shatter and bring to naught all that might tarnish the sanctity of Priests, for You can do all things." Diary #1052

HOLY INNOCENTS BOOKSHELF

CONSECRATION TO ST. JOSEPH: THE WONDERS OF OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER

by Fr. Donald Calloway, M. I. C.

In the midst of crisis, confusion, and a world at war with the Church, it's time to come home again to our spiritual father, St. Joseph. In this richly re-searched and lovingly presented pro-gram of consecration to St. Joseph, Fr. Donald Calloway, MIC, brings to life the wonders, the power, and the

ceaseless love of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church and the Terror of Demons.

CONSAGRACIÓN A SAN JOSÉ: LAS MARAVILLAS DE NUESTRO PADRE ESPIRITUAL

En medio de la crisis, la confusión y un mundo en guerra con la Iglesia, es hora de volver a casa con nuestro padre espiritual, San José. En este progra-ma de consagración a San José, ricamente investi-gado y presentado con amor, el P. Donald Calloway, MIC, da vida a las maravillas, el poder y el amor incesante de San José, Patrón Universal de la Igle-sia y Terror de los Demonios.

Available in the Gift Shop in the Parish Office

FROM THE DIARY OF ST. FAUSTINA, THE SECRE-TARY AND APOSTLE OF DIVINE MERCY

598 Oh, how ardently I de-sire that every soul would praise Your mercy. Happy is the soul that calls upon the mercy of the Lord. It will see that the Lord will defend it as His glory, as He said. And who would dare fight against God? All you souls, praise the Lord's mercy by trusting in His mercy all your life and especially at the hour of your death. And fear nothing, dear soul, whoever you are; the greater the sinner, the greater his right to Your mercy, O Lord. O incom-prehensible goodness! God is the first to stoop to the sinner. O Jesus, I wish to glorify Your mercy on behalf of thousands of souls. I know very well, O my Jesus, that I am to keep telling souls about Your goodness, about Your incomprehensible mercy. 599 On one occasion, after a person had asked me for prayer, when I met the Lord I said to Him, "Jesus, I especially love those souls whom You love." And Je-sus answered, And as for Me, I bestow special graces on those souls for whom you intercede. 600 How wondrously Jesus defends me; truly this is a great grace of God which I have experienced for a long time now. 601 Once, when one of our sisters became fatally ill and all the community was gathered together, there was also a priest there who gave the sister absolution. Suddenly, I saw many spirits of dark-ness. Then, forgetting that I was with the sisters, I seized the holy water sprinkler and sprinkled the spirits, and they disappeared at once. However, when the sisters came to the refectory, Mother Su-perior [Borgia] remarked that I should not have sprinkled the sick sister in the presence of the priest, as this was his duty. I accepted the admoni-tion in the spirit of penance, but holy water is in-deed of great help to the dying. 602 My Jesus, You see how weak I am of myself. Therefore, You yourself direct my affairs. And know, Jesus, that without You I will not budge for any cause, but with You I will take on the most dif-ficult things.

PUBLIC ROSARY RALLY

On Saturday, February 20, the Feast of Saints Jacinta and Francisco of Fatima, there will be a Rosary Rally in repara-tion for sin and the conversion of Ameri-ca at 12 noon in front of Macy's in Her-ald Square (Broadway between 34th and 35th Streets). Braving the cold to pray for sinners in imitation of the sacrifices of Jacinta and Francisco is a good Lenten penance! Saints Jacinta and Francisco are models for us of the necessity and the benefits of suffering gladly offered to prevent poor souls from going to hell.

Regular Collection - 01/24/21 $5,329.00 Online Contributions $1,452.82 Shrines and Candles $1,451.50

Regular Collection - 01/26/20 $6,260.00 Shrines and Candles $2,912.50

Your generous contribution to your Parish is greatly appreciated!

May the Good Lord reward you abundantly!

* S t e w a r d s h i p *

SAINT JOHN BOSCO - January 31

The Dream of the Snake and the Rosary

I want to tell you a dream I had some nights ago, most probably on the eve of the As-sumption. I dreamed that I was at my brother’s home at Castelnuovo d’ Asti with all my boys. While they were at play, a total stranger came up to me and asked me to go with him. He took me to a meadow alongside the playground and pointed to a huge, ugly snake, over twenty feet long, coiled in the grass. Frightened, I wanted to run off, but the stranger held me back. “Get closer and take a good look,” he said. “What?” I gasped. “Don’t you realize that the monster could spring on me and gobble me up in no time?” “Don’t be afraid! Nothing of the sort will happen, just come with me.” “Nothing doing! I‘m not crazy!” “Then stay where you are,” the stranger replied. And he went to fetch a rope. “Take this end,” he said on his return, “and grip it tightly with both hands. I’ll hold the other end, and we’ll let it dangle over the snake.” “And then?” “Then we’ll snap it across its back.” “You must be crazy, the snake will leap up and tear us to pieces.” “Go on! Click it up to full size and give yourself a fright”! “No, it won’t. Leave that to me.” “Count me out! I have no intention to risk my life for a thrill of this kind!” Again I tried to run away, but the stranger once more assured me that I had nothing to fear, because the snake would do me no harm. He talked so persuasively that I stayed on and agreed to his plan. He went around to the other side of the monster. We stretched the rope and then snapped it across the snake’s back. The monster immediately sprang up and struck at the rope, but as it did so, it ensnared itself as in a noose. “Hold on!” the stranger shouted. “Don’t let go!” He ran to a nearby pear tree and tied his end of the rope to it. Then he came to me and tied his end of the rope to it. Then he came to me and tied my end to the iron grating of a win-dow in the house. The snake kept furiously struggling to free itself, writhing, thrashing and flailing about. In its fury, it tore itself to pieces, scattering its flesh over the area, till it was slashed to a mere skeleton. The stranger then un-tied the rope and coiled it up, “Now watch very carefully!” he said as he put it into a box and closed it. By this time the boys had swarmed about me. Within a few moments he opened the box. We looked in and were astounded to see the rope shaped into the words Ave Maria – “Hail Mary.” “How did that happen?” I asked. “The snake,” the man replied, “is a symbol of the Devil, whereas the rope stands for Ave Maria, or rather, the Ro-sary, a succession of Hail Marys with which we can strike, conquer and destroy all of Hell’s demons.” What followed is even stranger and more amazing. Now, while talking with that stranger about the rope, the snake and what they symbolized, I turned around and saw boys picking up scraps of snake meat and eating them. “What are you doing?” I shouted. “Are you mad? That meat is poisonous.” “It‘s delicious!” They replied. And yet no sooner had they swallowed it than they would crumple to the ground, and their bodies would swell and harden like stone. I was helpless, because, despite this, more and more boys kept eating that meat. I shouted and yelled at them, and even slapped and punched them, to keep them from eating, but in vain. For everyone who crum-pled to the ground, another took his place. Then I called the clerics and told them to go among the boys and do all they could to make them stop eating that meat. My order was ineffective; worse yet, some clerics themselves began to eat it and they too fell to the ground. Nearly out of my mind at seeing so many boys lying about me in such a piti-ful state, I turned to the stranger. “What does this mean?” I asked. “These boys know that this meat will kill them, yet they eat it. Why?” “Because ‘the sensual man does not perceive the things that are of God!’ That’s why!” He answered. “But isn’t there some way of saving these boys?” “Yes, there is.” “What?” “Anvil¹* and hammer.” “Anvil and hammer? What for?” “To put the boys back in shape.” “You mean I am to put them on an anvil and strike them with the hammer?” “Look,” the stranger said, “this whole thing is a symbol. The hammer symbolizes Confession, and the anvil symboliz-es Holy Communion. These are the remedies you must use.” I went to work and found the treatment very effective, but not for all. While most boys were restored to life and re-covered, a few did not, because their Confessions were bad.602 My Jesus, You see how weak I am of myself. There-fore, You yourself direct my affairs. And know, Jesus, that without You I will not budge for any cause, but with You I will take on the most difficult things.

The Shrine to the Unborn Blessed by Cardinal O’Connor on December 28, 1993

The Shrine is dedicated in Memory of the Children Who Have Died Unborn

We invite you to name your child(ren) and provide the opportunity to have

your babyʹs name inscribed in our “Book of Lifeʺ.

LEGION OF MARY – REGINA MUNDI

The Holy Innocents Legion of Mary group meets each Monday in the Parish Hall follow-ing the 6 p. m. Mass. For more information on joining this ministry as an active or auxil-iary member please contact John Kinney at: kinneyj333@gmail.com

Often children who have died before birth have no grave or headstone, and sometimes not even a name. At The Church of The Holy Innocents, we invite you to name your child(ren) and to have the opportunity to have your baby's name inscribed in our "BOOK OF LIFE". Here, a candle is always lit in their memory. All day long people stop to pray. On the first Monday of every month, our 12:15pm Mass is celebrated in honor of these children and for the comfort of their families. We pray that you will find peace in knowing that your child(ren) will be remembered at the Shrine and honored by all who pray here.

We will inscribe the names of babies who have died before and at birth in our Book of Life, and as always, we invite

you to visit the Shrine if you are in New York City.

SUBWAY ROSARY

Our Regina Mundi Praesidium of the Legion of Mary conducts a Subway Rosary on the second and fourth

Saturdays of the month. All are invited to join in this evangelization effort to spread devotion to Our Lady. Anyone interested in joining is asked to gath-

er at Holy Innocents by 10:00am. The group will then proceed to 42nd and Broadway Time Square subway station. We will be located by the Time

Square Shuttle downstairs. We recite 20 decades of the Holy Rosary and return back to Holy Innocents around 12:15. Come for all or part of the Subway

Rosary.

Upcoming Subway Rosaries

Will resume when restrictions are lifted

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READINGS FOR THE WEEK

Monday: Heb 11:32-40; Ps 31:20-24; Mk 5:1-20 Tuesday: Mal 3:1-4; Ps 24:7-10; Heb 2:14-18; Lk 2:22-40 [22-32] Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15; Ps 103:1-2, 13-14, 17-18a; Mk 6:1-6 Thursday: Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 48:2-4, 9-11; Mk 6:7-13 Friday: Heb 13:1-8; Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9; Mk 6:14-29 Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21; Ps 23:1-6; Mk 6:30-34 Sunday: Jb 7:1-4, 6-7; Ps 147:1-6; 1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23; Mk 1:29-39

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