Holy Name of Jesus Parish 2 Broadway, Valhalla, NY 10595

Rev. Bejoy Thomas, Temp Administrator Rev. Raymond Nwegede, In Residence Rev. Nana Ampah, Weekend Associate Deacon Thomas J. Abbamont

Rectory

Phone: 914-949-2323 Email: HNJValhallaNY@gmail.com Fax: 914-930-5156 Office Hours: Monday-Friday 9am to 4pm, Except Holidays

Religious Education Office Phone: 914-949-1422 Email: HNJRE@aol.com Fax: 914-930-5154

Mass Schedule

SATURDAY: 5:00pm SUNDAY: 8:00am, 10:00am & Noon HOLY DAYS: Vigil: 5:00pm 7:15am, 9:00am & 6:30pm Monday - Friday 7:15am & 9:00am Saturday: 9:00am Morning Prayer: Daily - 8:30am

Miraculous Medal Devotion Devotions every Monday after the 9:am Mass

Welcome to All! Our Parish Family invites all to be active and participating members

in every aspect of parish life! We care for each other and want to worship and serve

our Lord and one another.

SPONSOR LETTERS if you are in need of a sponsor letter you must be an active registered parishioner of HNJ and living in the area. Please call for a form that is to be completed or come to the rectory with your completed form or complete HNJ’s form and then it will be signed by Fr Bejoy and stamped with Holy Name’s seal.

CHRISTMAS MASS

SCHEDULE:

Christmas Eve, Tuesday, December 24th Masses will be at 4pm (Children’s Choir), 7:30pm and 10:30pm .The Adult Choir will sing Carols at 10pm. Christmas Day, Wednesday. December 25th Masses will be at 8am, 10am and 12noon New Years Eve, Tuesday, December 31st Mass will be at 5pm New Year’s Day, Wednesday, January 1st Mass will be at 10am and 12pm The Rectory will be closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day.

CHRISTMAS FLOWER

ENVELOPES are available in the Church vestibules. Remember a loved one by donating towards the flowers that decorate our Church, Put their name (s) on the envelope and drop it in the offertory collection

BABY JESUS FIGURINE BLESSING

This weekend all figurines of the Baby Jesus from your home nativity will be blessed. Also, there will be blessed hay for all families to take home and place it at your nativity

“Glory to God in the highest....” Each and every year, Christmas brings me a lot of childhood memories. We used to make a Christmas manger with our parents. In my local language ‘Malayalam’, the Christmas crib is called “Pulkoodu”. Locally available materials go into the making of a crib. The bottom of the crib would be lined with hay and the roof is made of grass or coconut tree leaves. The recreated mangers will be decorated with stars, balloons and colourful ribbons. Clay models of Joseph, Mary, angels and shepherds will be placed in the crib on the previous day of Christmas. Sheep, cows and other gifted animals that had a glimpse of the Holy baby, also find a place in the recreated stables. From my parents and Catechists I learned and loved the story of Christmas. Christmas was always been a season of love , joy and celebrations for us children. On Christmas we remember the unfathomable love of God .He sent his only begotten son Jesus Christ to be our Saviour. Jesus showed us the way to the Father. His message is love; unconditional love. And he showed us how to love unconditionally even at the last moment of his life. As we exchange the Christmas gifts to each other, let us remember the gifts of God in our lives. Our parents, husband and wife, children, dear and near ones, health and wealth. Let us remember that God became man that we might have life and have it to the full. God de-cided to be with us ‘Emmanuel’. The abiding presence of our Lord in our hearts makes us loving and lovable persons. May the joy and peace of Christmas be with us all through the new year 2020!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2020

Yours in Christ, Fr. Bejoy Thomas CMI,

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Saturday: 4PM—4:45PM or by appointment www.flocknote.com/HNJvalhalla New website www.HolyNameofJesusChurch.org

Mass Intentions Prayer Lists A.B.C. Justina Antonio MaryEllen Avolese Ben Balldasam Peter Barbieri Nick Cacciola Michael Capasso Jeff Caponera Frank Carnazza Andrea Damato Donald DeLandri Anita DelVecchio Matthew Phillips Ed Delliveau Frankie Dezell Edward Di Capril Joseph DiCioccio Rev. Ralph DiOrio Alexandria Diemoz John Edwards Sable Regina Fields Jason Fiore Isabella Fountain Terry Franzken Fr. Michael Gambi Emily Gerstle Fred Gillu Judy Keegan

P.A.L. Gavin Little Billy Loua Theresa Luparrello Holly Lynch Frank Machera Maria Magnotta Joshua Jayden Flavia Mirasole Francesco Mirasole Jaspare Miranda Alexa Nitting Dan Oderifero Dennis Pierce Ginger Ragusa Frankie Ragusa Madeline Ragusa Frank Rotelline Daniel Schoen Traci Sinapi Carina Phyllis Siano Ida Sorgie Ann Spaziante Carol Tucciarone Meredith Grace Windisch Adriana Xhudo Vincent Zappi

Pray for all the souls of our faithfully departed and for all those who have no one to pray for them, grant eternal rest unto them

Our MILITARY

Stephanie Athanasatos, U.S.. Coast Guard

Jonathan Alicea, U.S. Air Force Nicholas Capasso, U. S. Marine

Lieut. Junior Grade Louis DePaolis, U.S. Coast Guard

Capt. Peter M Kavanagh III, U.S. Army Capt. Kyle J. Kavanagh, U.S. Marine Sgt. Kyle Ross Martin, U.S. Marine

Alyson Oderifero, US Air Force Christopher T. Oderifero, Sr. Airman, Air Force

Clayton Perry, U.S. Air Force Seamen Benjamin Scher, U.S. Coast Guard

Robert Soderquist, U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Capt. Daniel Spies, U.S. Army

Major Michael Tillson, U.S. Army

Saturday, December 21 9:00am Matthew Kearney 5:00pm Deceased Members of the Renna & Rigano Families

Sunday, December 22

8:00am Sherie Fierro 10:00am Ron Rose 12:00pm Carmela & Michael Greco

Monday, December 23

7:15am Carmine Mazzella 9:00am Frank J. Oderifero

Tuesday, December 24 7:15am Matthew Spataro 9:00am Ron Rose 4:00pm For All The People 7:30pm For All The People 10:30pm For All The People

Wednesday, December 25 8am For All The People 10am For All The People 12noon For All The People

Thursday, December 26 7:15am Walter Tkach 9:00am Deceased Members of the Ciotola & LeDonnaFamilies

Friday, December 27 7:15am Ann Bochterle 9:00am Anna, Charles & Joseph Arbore

Saturday, December 28

9:00am James Roche 5:00pm Cames CasolaroB

Sunday, December 29 8:00am Vincent F. Rocco 10:00am Brian Naughton 12:00pm Richard Bonomo

Served by: Mrs. Fran Berger, Acct/ Parish Mgr. Mrs. Janan Lane, Rel. Ed Coordinator Miss Anita Ghilardi, Rel. Ed Secretary Mr. Robert DeLuccia, Trustee Mrs. Fritzi Mc Clintock, Trustee Mrs. Erin Sica, Choir Director Mr. Frank Squillante, Organist Mr. Brian Clifford, B.A.S.I.C.S. Mrs. Suzanne Gerbosi, Children’s Choir Mr. Brian Morrow, Parish Council Pres

LAST MAN STANDING RAFFLE Tickets available at the Rectory

HOW IT WORKS AND RULES –The trick is to be the last man standing. A last man standing raffle is the opposite of a normal raffle in that it is the LAST number drawn wins the prize RULES: – Tickets are $100 each . There will only be 300 tickets sold. Winner NEED NOT be pre-sent to claim a prize. Monetary prizes are as follows: 1st drawn wins $300 25th drawn wins $200 50th drawn wins $250 75th drawn wins $200 100th drawn wins $250 125th drawn wins $200 150th drawn wins $250 175th drawn wins $200 200th drawn wins $300 225th drawn wins $200 250th drawn wins $300 275th drawn wins $300 296th drawn wins $500 297th drawn wins $500 298th drawn wins $500 299th drawn wins $500 300th drawn wins $10,000.

DID YOU KNOW:

When you are attending a Mass in remembrance of a loved one, approach and inform the usher of that

Mass that it is in remembrance of your loved one. In this way if you would like, you will be able to bring up the gifts to be offered at that Mass.

Please contact the Rectory when someone is about to undergo a serious surgery or has a great risk to health so that we may pray for them,

At any time that you have not received or misplaced an offering envelope, use a plain envelope, put your name on it your parish id number (if you know it)

As of January 1st, 2020 the Rectory office will be closed on Fridays.

THE LADIES of THE ROSARY ALTAR SOCIETY

sincerely thank everyone who supported their Bake Sale, Christmas Sale, Basket Raffle and Munchkins with Santa last Sunday. Also the Rosary Altar Society sends a huge thank you to all the RE students who participated in last week’s Munchkins with Santa. The bak-ers provided lots and lots of beauti-fully wrapped goodies, the elves were great and sharing the munchkins and juice and directing the children to Santa

CHRISTMAS ANGELS

THANK YOU to all our parishioners who donated gifts to help those less fortunate . Because of your generosity, we were able to give presents to 60 families and individuals who otherwise would not have been able to have much of a Christmas. Each Christmas Angel shopped with care for their “adopted” family, and the many packages were beautifully wrapped and tagged. All the families were so grateful for the gifts and overwhelmed by the generosity of people who did not even know them. Please know that you made many children and their parents very happy, and I am sure it will be a Christmas they will long remember! Thank you ever so much to Gail and Brian Morrow who organized and delivered all the Christmas packages to Fr. Nana, Sr Alice and many individuals. We have amazing parishioners here at Holy Name who continually reach out to others in need. Thank you!

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SOCIAL CONCERNS and PRAYER SHAWL Maureen McLoughlin

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On Tuesday Mornings at 9:30am in the Fr Dave Library join the Ladies for a morning of knitting or rocheting. Donations of yarn are always gratefully accepted.

VALHALLA AMERICAN LEGION NEWS

Each year Valhalla American Legion Post 1038 and American Legion Auxiliary Unit 1038 send selected 11th grade Boys to Boys’ State at SUNY Morrisville and selected 11th Grade Girls to Girls’ State at SUNY Brockport. These are Nationally Sponsored Programs by The American Legion in each of the United States. During the month of December, we will be ac-cepting applications for in-terviews from interested 11th graders for Boys’ State and for Girls’ State. Select-ed candidates will be sent to SUNY Morrisville (Boys) and Suny Brockport (Girls) in the last week of June, (actual dates will be announced). where they will set up State Governments. Their expenses will be paid for along with some spending money by the Post and Auxilliary unit. Those boys interested should contact Frank Bucci (914-483-9969) and girls interested should contact Joann Gala (914-391-5488) for applications that will be sent out during December. Interviews will be done In January 2020.

MARCH FOR LIFE

Bus Info The 47th Annual March for Life in Washington, DC is on Friday, January 24, 2020. This is the first March since the passing of the devastating Reproductive Health Act last January. A bus will be leaving at 6:15am from St. Theresa’s in Briar-cliff. The cost will be $50 for an adult and $25 for a stu-dent. If you cannot go, please consider making a donation to sponsor others. To sign up for the bus for further info, please contact Maryann Priorie at 914-747-0082.

THANKS FROM SOCIAL CONCERNS

Thank you to all Parishioners who have supported our many activities throughout the year. From volunteering at the Food Bank, donating Thanksgiving food baskets, making crafts for residents of nursing homes, donating clothing and toiletries, help-ing to make meals at the Ronald McDonald House, donating school supplies for families in the South Bronx, etc. etc.- we have such a generous par-ish!!! Thanks all for your support! Merry Christmas to you all, and hoping you have a happy and healthy 2020!

PRAYER SHAWL REQUESTS

Do you know someone who is ill or bereaved, or is feel-ing the effects of aging and could use a shawl or lap blanket for comfort and warmth? We will be happy to donate one to them. Please call or either Maureen or Christine to request a shawl or lap blanket.

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