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Sixth Sunday
of Easter
May 26, 2019
PASTOR
Rev. Jeffrey R. Galens
WEEEKEND ASSISTANTS
Rev. John Christ
Rev. Mark Vaillancourt
MASSES
Saturday: 5:30 pm
Sunday: 8:30 am 10:30 am, 12 noon
Weekdays: 8:30 am
Saturday: 9:00 am
Holy Days: as announced
LAUDS MORNING PRAYER
Sunday: 8:00am
Monday - Friday: 8:15am
DEVOTIONS (September - June)
First Fridays: Exposition of the Blessed
Sacrament 9am - 7pm,
Benediction 7pm
First Saturdays: Confessions 8:30 - 8:55,
9am Mass, Rosary & 15 minute guided
meditation on the Rosary
CONFESSION
Saturday 4:30 -5:15pm and
by appointment
BAPTISM AND MARRIAGES
Please check our website or
Call the Parish Office
PARISH OFFICE
Email: [email protected]
Hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm
Office Manager: Fiona Finnan
Controller: Cathy Mitzian
Webmaster: John Erickson
Bulletin Editor:Tina Puttre
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Moderator: Allanna Hasselgren
Tel: (914) 273-8226
Email: reled@stpatr ickinarmonk.org
Parish Committees
Parish Council President: Vincent Greco
Parish Council Secretary: Lori Schiliro
Finance Chairman: Bill Davis
Finance Committee: Ron Poe,
Joe DiMauro, Kevin Mannix
Trustees:
Faith Lorenzo, Robert Hasselgren
Music Director: John Failla
Parish Organizations
Contemplative Prayer: Gina Shea
Youth Ministry Coordinators:
Melissa Gordon, Vera Scavone
CYO Basketball:
Elvis Grgurovic, Mike Corelli
Gym Schedule & Rentals: Mike Corelli
Respect Life Society: Patricia Cummings
Walking with Purpose:
Jo Golden, Fiona Finnan
Food Pantry: Angela Livingston
MASSES: MAY 25 – JUNE 2, 2019
Calendar:
COLLECTION
May 18/19: $3,261.50 in 71 envelopes
Central & Eastern Europe: $775.00 in 38 envelopes
WeShare April 2019: Regular Collection—
$8,107.00
Please consider using WeShare
Thank you for your generosity
SUNDAY, MAY 26th - SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes
to support a local food pantry
Mon., May 27 — St. Augustine of Canterbury
Memorial Day
Tue, May 28 — Weekday
� Walking With Purpose: No meeting this week
Wed, May 29 — Weekday
Thu, May 30 — THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD
Fri, May 31 — The Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
� Contemplative Prayer Group: 12:30-1:30
Sat, June 1 — St. Justin; Fir st Saturday
� Confession: 4:30-5:15
SUNDAY, JUNE 2nd - SEVENTH SUNDAY OF
EASTER
FOOD FIRST —Each Sunday the food collected goes
to support a local food pantry.
Sat 5/25 8:30
5:30
Mother’s Day Novena 7
People of the Parish
Sun 5/26 8:30 Elsa Gaetano (D)
10:30
12:00
David Fondu (D)
Maria Russo (D)
Mon 5/27 8:30 Ralph Edwards (D)
Tue 5/28 8:30 Mother’s Day Novena 8
Wed 5/29 8:30 Mother’s Day Novena 9
Thu 5/30 8:30
12:10
7:30
Ronald Corelli (D)
Fr. Fernando Hernandez (L)
People of the Parish
Fri 5/31 8:30 Pat Howel (L)
Sat 6/1 9:00
5:30
Catechists
Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Spinelli (D)
Sun 6/2 8:30 People of the Parish
10:30
12:00
Thomas Dillulio (D)
Louise Hayden (D
Parish Office
New Hours from June 1
st
Monday 9am – 5pm
Tuesday 9am – 5pm
Wednesday 9am – 5pm
Thursday 9am – 5pm
Friday: CLOSED
FOOD FIRST
The following items are currently needed:
Canned black beans
Canned tomato products
As always, healthy, non-expired staples of all kinds
are appreciated and utilized.
Pieta Statue Project
Daniel Ahern Troop 94 Armonk
Eagle Scout Project
The Project is to build a Prayer Grotto that will house
a marble Pieta Statue, especially for the consolation
of all parents who have lost a child, both the born and
the unborn. It will be built after the 13th Station of
the Cross: Jesus is taken down from the Cross.
You can memorialize a loved one by dedicating the
entire shrine in their memory with a large bronze
plaque or dedicating a small bronze plaque placed at
the base of the shrine.
Any donation is greatly appreciated.
Additional information is on the Church website and
at the entrances to the Church or contact Daniel at
914-707-3667 or [email protected]
Religious Education
Congratulations to all of our Religious Ed students
upon successfully completing another year of
studying Jesus’ teachings!
We will be registering students for next year’s classes
beginning…
Wednesday, June 5th.
Watch for our blast email...Then go to St. Patrick in
Armonk website. Click on the Religious Ed page and
then the Registration Packet. Read through the
Packet for details and then download and print out the
Registration form. Return to the Religious Education
office or the Rectory office with your payment
enclosed…
Simple as that!
Fall 2019
BLAZE is coming to
St. Patrick’s
Blaze is the Walking with Purpose ministry for 7
th
and 8
th
grade girls. It was created to counteract the
way our society drives girls to question their identity,
worth and beauty. Through Blaze, we emphasize how
a girl’s identity is rooted in Christ as God’s chosen,
beloved daughter. An antidote to bullying, anxiety
and body-image issues, Blaze replaces lies with truth
and strengthens girls from the inside out through the
use of Scripture based programs.
Beginning in Fall 2019, the girls will be meeting
twice per month for a one hour session. As the girls
are introduced to the Bible in a relevant and fresh
way, they will hear Jesus telling them how loved and
beautiful they are!
Contact us to learn more and signup
Lauren Karp / Kelley Sanders
An Autobiography of a Vocation: Chapter XI
Brother Benjamin Beh stood no taller than 4’ 11’. He was 74 years old, had pure white hair, and wore the full Redemptorist religious habit
(black cassock and sash, with a white collar and a large set of rosary beads adorning the left side, hanging from the sash of his cassock. He
wore his religious garb at all times. He radiated holiness, joy, peace, and humility. I was struck by his appearance, and coupled with his out-
ward manner of holiness, I was drawn to him, wanting to get to know more about him.
I must say the first time I met Br. Benjamin, I was taken aback by his simplicity. By this I don’t mean that he was simple-minded in any way,
in fact far from it. Extraordinarily humble yes, but simple-minded, not in the least. He was not a complex person. There was no guile in
him, his whole being and mannerisms, even his speech and conversations pointed towards God and to Heaven. By “Heaven” I mean that
his whole being pointed to another world. He lived in the world, but was not of the world. I cannot recall a single conversion with Br. Ben-
jamin whereby he did not direct the conversion towards God. I am not speaking about private conversations, although they are included
here, but sitting at the table during lunch break with the other staff and employees of the retreat house. While we would be in trivial conver-
sations about all types of things, Br. Benjamin, when he joined us, would listen in with a gentle smile on his face and when he decided to
speak, inevitably he would speak of God and heavenly things. If we were speaking about baseball (of which he told me he once had an at-
tachment to his love of baseball, but that the Holy Spirit has freed him from all attachments, even baseball) he would say something like: “O’
I hope to hit a home run and go straight to heaven,” or if we were talking about who had the keys to the storage room, he might chime in
and say, “This is my key to get to heaven,” while hold up the rosary of his cassock. His favorite adjective was “heavenly.” His duties were
simple, he would make the run to the post office each day to deliver and retrieve the mail, take care of the sacristy and the sanctuary of the
chapel, and simply be a gentle and humble presence at the retreat house, greeting the retreatants and visitors with a “heavenly” greeting. He
was so simple and humble, I could sense the pride in my own soul in contradiction to his humility. Some people even mocked his simplicity,
I could sense the temptation emanating from my own pride. However, his love and gentleness won most people over as it did me. I do
know, however, from his own testimony, he suffered much ridicule from many members of his own congregation, especially for wearing the
habit (religious garb/cassock) at all times, referring to it as his “wedding gown.”
Br. Benjamin would not engage in long conversations. He lived a very recollected life, immersed in a spiritual union with God and long con-
versation would be a distraction, as he would say “like a fish out of water.” However, over the summer I got to know him much better, with
little tidbits here and there. He once said to me: “The first time I saw you, I could see that you had a vocation to the priesthood.” I didn’t
really know what he meant by this, I was not sure how he knew or what he meant by “I could SEE that you had a vocation.” I would later
understand, that he seriously meant that he had a spiritual insight into my vocation. Later on he confided in me that when he received his
vocation he heard with his ear, our Lord call him to religious life. As he told me this he grabbed and shook his ear lobe. He repeated this a
couple of other times to me that I knew he meant a literal hearing of the voice of Christ. He also confided that the Holy Spirit imbued into
his heart and soul the path of holiness. He said it was like a canon that pointed him “straight to the portals of heaven.” His religious for-
mation in the novitiate only confirmed all that the Holy Spirit placed in his heart. He told me he was like a fish in water, constantly in the
recollected presence of God. While he never used the term “unitive way,” I was convinced that he was in the unitive way of the spiritual life.
(Three stages of growth in the way of prayer and the spiritual life: purgative, enlightenment, and unitive. The unitive is obtained only after
the other two and only by the work of God and not by anything the individual does or can do. It is a state of habitual recollection in the
presence of God.)
I remember once, early on after meeting Br. Benjamin, asking him if he thought his religious habit/garb separated him from the people. I
had asked this because one of the things that was stressed in the seminary was that clerical garb separated the priest or religious from the
people and that this was not good because it was a form of clericalism, setting the priests and religious above the people in a way that we
could not relate to them or they to us. Fr. Roach, the pastor of my parish, always wore his clerics in public. Hardly any of the priest and
religious, except for a few of the “older/ old time” religious priest and brothers, wore clerical garb in the seminary. I accepted their reason-
ing. So when I asked Br. Benjamin the question I expected him to say “No, it does not separate me from the people but brings me closer.”
Instead he answered me “O yes, definitely.” I was immediately taken aback by his answer because he said it in a manner that suggested that
it was good and right that his religious garb separated him from the people. Later, I came to understand what he meant by this. He is conse-
crated to the service of God and as such he is set apart and called to be a living witness to the faithful of the world to come, our final end
which is God and holiness. His religious garb is a reminder to him and the people, of that end, to which he and they are called. Priest and
Religious are called to live a “separate” life while still living among and for the people whom they serve, not above them, lording over them,
but in humble service to them.
After the summer getting to know Br. Benjamin, I realized – that is it! Br. Benjamin is the embodiment of holiness that I had expected and
hoped to be directed towards in my seminary formation. I didn’t expect to achieve in one year the holiness that I witnessed in Br. Benjamin,
or anywhere near it, but I did expect to at least be laying foundations in my prayer and spiritual life that would point me in that direction. I
was pointed and heading in the opposite direction. All the externals of our faith, the external forms of the Liturgy, the external forms of our
bodily posture in prayer and worship, the external forms of religious and priest garbs and habits, are all meant to remind us, laity and reli-
gious, that while we live in the world, we are not to be of the world. We are consecrated, set apart, for a higher purpose: Eternal Commun-
ion with God. I was not sure how I would translate this in my second year of seminary. I didn’t know exactly what or how to change, but I
was returning with a new sense of determination and enthusiasm. Enter in Ray Leonard. Not Sugar Ray Leonard the boxer, but a classmate
of mine whom I hardly got to know in my first year of seminary.
In Jesus and Mary,
Please keep the
following in your
PRAYERS
Barbara A.
Jon Adam
Enza Dattero
Jane Dean
Barbara Grasso
Mario & Gloria Guiliano
Robert Kalian
Stella Kielb
Michael Lage
Danny McManus
John Puttre
Amanda Ross
Perinna Ruggerio
John Scrocca
Rose Shallo
Patricia Tkach
Nathaniel Valcich
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