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HOLY CHILD CHURCH

SATURDAY VIGIL, APRIL 13, 2019 5:00 PM Ann B. Cipot 7:00 PM Alexander & Elide Trezza SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2019 6:30 AM People of Holy Child 8:00 AM Denise Ingrassia 9:30 AM Kearns & Corrao Families 11:00 AM Patricia Graulich 12:30 PM Michelina & Pasquale Maranzino 5:30 PM Maria Rallo & Grace Sarullo MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2019

9:00 AM Peter Grivas TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2019

9:00 AM Raffelina Crawford WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2019 9:00 AM Salvatore Lacagnino

HOLY WEEK - PSALTER II

Widows’ Conversation Group

meets on Tuesdays at 1:30 p.m. in the Large Conference Room. For more information

please call the Rectory or Maryann at 718-317-7901.

SECOND TIME:

Daniel Recker & Jacqueline Imbemba

Next Sunday 21st April

Easter Sunday

Bell Choir 11:00 a.m.

FIRST TIME:

Thomas Curry & Elena Ottaviana

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The Ave Maria Gift Shop

HOURS

Saturday: 3:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Sunday: 8:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

1st Sunday of the month: 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Easter, Communion gifts, new card selection, Baptism gifts, many new items available.

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CATHEDRAL GOLDEN JUBILEE

Couples celebrating their 50th Wedding

Anniversary anytime during 2019 are invited to attend the Annual Golden Wedding Jubilee

Mass with Cardinal Dolan at the Cathedral of St. Patrick, Sunday, June 2

nd at 2:00 pm. Pre-registration is required.

Please contact your parish for registration. The closing date to register for the Mass is Monday, May 13, 2019 at 5:00 pm. This event is sponsored by the Family Life + Respect Life Office of the Archdiocese of New York.

HOLY CHILD GOLDEN & SILVER JUBILARIANS

Couples celebrating their 50th

& 25th Wedding Anniversary

anytime during 2019 are eligible to receive the Anniversary Scroll which will be conferred here at Holy Child on Sunday, May 5, 2019 at the 11:00 a.m. Mass. Couples wishing to receive the Anniversary Scroll at Holy Child must leave their name, address, phone number and anniversary date at the Rectory office during the week Monday to Friday (718) 356-5890 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.

HOLY THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2019 9:00 AM Tenebrae - A Service of Shadows 7:30 PM Concelebrated Mass GOOD FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2019 9:00 AM Tenebrae - A Service of Shadows 3:00 PM Solemn Liturgy of the Passion 7:00 PM Stations of the Cross HOLY SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2019 9:00 AM Tenebrae - A Service of Shadows 11:00 AM Blessing of the Easter Food 8:00 PM Easter Vigil Mass

NO 5:00 & 7:00 PM Mass on Holy Saturday

EASTER SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2019 6:30 AM 11:00 AM 8:00 AM 12:30 PM 9:30 AM

NO 5:30 PM Mass on Easter Sunday

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STATEN ISLAND, NY

WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THIS WEEK’S DONATIONS

THE NAMES ON THIS LIST WILL BE ON UNTIL JULY 7 AND THEN

WILL BE REMOVED UNLESS WE HEAR FROM THE FAMILY TO

CONTINUE.

Adoration Chapel Candles

Romano and Naporano Families, Living & Deceased

Offered by The Romano Family

ARRANGEMENTS FOR BAPTISM

To preserve a more devout and reverent celebration of the Sacrament of Baptism, only four families will be accommodated each week. Please make arrangements with the Church at least a month beforehand.

Sanctuary Lamp

In Loving Memory of Ken Jessnik on our Anniversary

Offered by His Wife

Bread & Wine

In Loving Memory of Most Reverend Joseph Bagoberi

Offered by Annette & Angelo Ferraro

CURSILLO

Cursillo is a lay movement in the Catholic Church helping Catholics bring about changes in themselves and in the world around them for more than 60 years. Meetings are held the third Thursday of every month at 7:30 p.m., in the downstairs of the School Building. Meetings are open to all who would like to find out about Cursillo. For information please contact Lisa or Tom Castaldo at 718-967-3473.

We are happy to welcome the following newly baptized members into our Holy Child Family:

Marysol Amato

Alfred Philip Ambrosino

Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr.

Charlotte Rose Liberti

Giovanina Virginia Navetta

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PERPETUAL EUCHARISTIC ADORATION CHAPEL

“Come and spend some time with me”

Is God calling you to spend some time to love and adore Jesus, Truly present in the Blessed Sacrament? Please consider committing to one

these URGENT hours:

We welcome everyone to be an Adorer; your presence before the Blessed Sacrament makes you just that!

If you are able to commit to an hour, please contact Joan Rochford at (718) 541-9532.

Kathy Amadeo Geraldine Armstrong Loretta Bellotti Jillian Cannon

Michael Capolongo Bridget Cassidy

Anthony Del Re Sal DeSimone Ronald Dick Anthony Dimesa

Carol Flannery Josephine Funtenatto

Baby Guiliana Geller Doris Gillis Carol Guilbeault Betty Humphrey Lisa Jaffe-Dunne Anthony LaPorta, Sr.

Sunday

Monday

Wednesday

Thursday

3:00 AM

2:00 AM

1:00 AM

3:00 AM

URGENT

URGENT

URGENT

URGENT

Erik Lipke Natalia Lupia Theresa Major Frank Morano, Jr. Father Richard Omolade Lauretta Paradiso Gayle Pickhart Sebastian Rao Patricia Redmond

Lisa Romano

Ann Ronan Billy Sherwood Kristin Sherwood

Dorothy Sinatra

Frank Sinatra Samantha Snyder Stephanie Traicoff McKenna Shea Xydias

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Get Well Soon!

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EXTRA CONFESSION SESSION

By archdiocesan decree, Monday 15 April is

designated “Reconciliation Monday.”

The meaning of that is that every parish in the archdiocese

offers confessions from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Therefore, confessions will be available in Holy Child Church from

3 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday 15 April 2019

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The Pontifical Good Friday Collection

Your support helps the church minister in parishes, provide Catholic schools and offer religious education. The Pontifical Good Friday Collection also helps to preserve the sacred shrines.

The wars, unrest and instability have been especially hard on Christians.

Become an instrument of peace and join with Catholics around the world in solidarity with the Church in the Holy Land.

For more information: www.myfranciscan.org/good-friday

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PALM SUNDAY OF THE PASSION OF THE LORD

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LEGION OF MARY

Please join us on a pilgrimage to

The Basilica of the National Shrine

of the Immaculate Conception

Washington D.C.

Date: May 18, 2019

Bus Trip Cost: $35.00

Tour Guide Book: $6.00

Departing: 7:00 AM

Returning: 8:00 PM

The bus will be departing from Holy Child Parking Lot 4747 Amboy Road, Staten Island, NY 10312. There is a

cafeteria at the National Shrine.

For more information please contact:

Angela DiBenedetto

347-896-2307

Trip to Sands Casino in Bethlehem, Pa Open to all (21 yrs +)

Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Time: Leave Holy Child Parking Lot - 9:30 a.m. Return home about 7:00 p.m. approximately

Cost: $44 - Bus and Tip (receive $25 slot dollars)

Government issued Photo ID (driver’s license, passport, military ID or a Resorts Card) needed to receive slot dollars. Two levels of Outlet Stores, very nice food court, many restaurants, slots and table games. A lot to keep you busy if you are not a gambler.

If interested make check payable to Bob Mistretta and drop off with tear-off at the Rectory.

For more information please call 718-702-4216 and leave a message. -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- Name: _______________________________________

Address: _____________________________________

Telephone #: __________________________________

Cell # ________________________________________

50th

Reunion

Msgr. Farrell - Class of 1969

This October here on Staten Island.

Contact Vic Cenci at 908-693-0924 for more information.

Franciscan Handmaids of Mary

St. Edward Food Pantry

Flea Market

May 18th, 2019

(Rain Date May 19th, 2019)

10:00 AM— 5:00 PM

6581 Hylan Blvd.

Staten Island, NY 10309

In the parking lot of

Mount Loretto Friendshiip Club.

Vendors Are Needed

Proceeds benefit the St. Edward Food Pantry

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“SOME ENRAPTURED EVENING” John Heffernan & The Rhapsody Players were

well received by those in their audience Saturday

evening 6 April.

The stage was electrified by Fr. Ed, a master of

lighting design.

All other preparations were seen to by the

Rectory Staff under the direction of Mary Kelly,

Parish Manager, with the assistance of Lorraine

St. John.

Without their attention to detail, the pleasure of

the event would not have come to pass.

Father Travers

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APRIL 14, 2019

Tenebrae...a Service of Shadows

Tenebrae - The Morning Prayer of the Triduum

9:00 a.m.

Holy Thursday - Good Friday - Holy Saturday.

The name “Tenebrae” - Latin for “shadows” or “darkness” - has been given because this Office was celebrated in the hours of darkness, formerly in the evening or just after midnight, now the early morning hours.

There is an impressive ceremony, peculiar to this Office, which tends to perpetuate its name. There is placed in the sanctuary, on the altar, a large triangular candlestick holding fifteen unbleached candles that are gradually extinguished during the course of the service.

At the end of each psalm or canticle, two of the fifteen candles are extinguished, but the bleached one which is placed at the top of the triangle is left lighted at the end of the ceremony.

The desertion on the part of Jesus’ apostles and disciples is expressed by the unbleached candles being extinguished one after the other on the triangle. But Jesus, our Light, though despised and hidden, is not extinguished. This is signified by that one bleached candle which remains burning; it symbolizes our Redeemer, the Light of the World, suffering and dying on Calvary.

It is hoped that many will be drawn to these strikingly odd services that very few parishes are fortunate enough to mount effectively and that they will excite a wider appetite for the daily celebration of Morning Prayer, also known as Lauds celebrated at 8:30 a.m. Monday - Saturday in this parish.

Father Travers

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Church: Holy Child Church City: Staten Island Account: 03-00612