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SACRAMENT OF PENANCE
Saturdays: Msgr. Ryan Hall - 3:45 p.m. to 4:45 p.m.
Also by appointment
SACRAMENT OF MATRIMONY The Church provides certain times and preparation for
weddings. Please contact the Rectory at least six months
in advance to begin the process.
REGISTRATION Every family and person within the parish is encouraged
to register with the Parish.
SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM Celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. In
July and August Baptism will be celebrated at 12:30 p.m.
A required Baptism preparation meeting for parents meets
on the first Monday of the month at 8:00 p.m. Godparents
are welcome. Please register in advance for the class and
Baptism. Godparent Pre-Requisites: Godparents must be
practicing Catholics in good standing, 16 years of age or
older, Baptized and Confirmed Catholic.
ON BECOMING A CATHOLIC Those seeking information about the Catholic Faith are
invited to contact Fr. Valentine at the Rectory at 621-
2222.
CARE OF THE SICK Please notify the Rectory and Human Concerns Ministries
if there is anyone seriously ill so that we can provide
spiritual care.
THE MASS INTENTIONS FOR THE WEEK
Sunday, January 12: THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD 7:30 a.m. People of the Parish 9:00 a.m. Emanuele Abbondandolo by Nick & Cait Yohe 11:00 a.m. Jim Berry by the Clausen Family Rose Della Ratta by her Daughter, Kathy & Angelo Grande Bart Lore by Joanne & Charles Brackenridge 12:15 p.m. Fred Dimino by Jo Dimino
Monday, January 13: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Che Yu Joseph Li by Maria Han
Tuesday, January 14: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Venturino Stefanucci by the Reed Family
Wednesday, January 15: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Raymond McCleary by the Sheerin Family
Thursday, January 16: Weekday 9:00 a.m. Fr. Edward J. Shanahan by Family
Friday, January 17: Saint Anthony, Abbot 9:00 a.m. Mark Trantel by the Carbonaro Family
Saturday, January 18: Weekday 5:00 p.m. Helen Byrne & Clara Barber by Carolyn O’Neil & Family Greg Hensas by Celine Cornelia Massimo by her Daughter Clifford Sharkey & Peter Zuccaro by the Sharkey Family
Sunday, January 19: SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME 7:30 a.m. Roy J. Friend by Kathleen & Michael Friend 9:00 a.m. Adeline & Frank Di Spigno by Ann & Anthony Bastardi 11:00 a.m. Jennifer Harding McGeown by Fay & Frank Tucholski 12:15 p.m. People of the Parish
Bob Boeshore Lillian Boeshore
Ted Burger Kathleen Capuano
Barbara Coe Rebekah Cole Kevin Cronin Paul Cronin
John Damiano Linda De Stio
John Paul DiNonno James Dougherty
Eric DuBois Natalie Finamore Kamlesh Gupta
Hazel Hill Ida Kelly
Christine Kenney Maria Kim
Douglas Knehr Anne Krukowski Frank Krukowski
Richard Malon Jonathan Mannina Stuey Manzione
Baby Eleanor Marvullo Tom McCormack
Brendan Miles Freida Navarro Victoria Oxer Jenna Reggio
Anna Sambucci Charles Strecker
Elizabeth Sympson Clotida Vecchione Jacqueline Verde
Anne Wright Mary Wybaillie
PLEASE PRAY FOR THE SICK
...AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE DIED
Francis G. Califano
John Moramarco
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FOSTERING STEWARDSHIP AS A WAY OF LIFE
PARISH SACRIFICIAL GIVING
In today’s Gospel reading, we see Jesus become equipped for
His ministry by the Holy Spirit as He is baptized by John the
Baptist. In the second reading, Peter tells an audience that after
Jesus’ baptism, He “went about doing good and healing all
those oppressed by the devil.”
Parish Sacrificial Giving Summary
Thank you for your continued sacrificial gifts to St.
Mary’s.
Christmas Offertory to Date $44,582.00*
Christmas Last Year $53,692.00**
Mass Attendance for Christmas 1,737
Christmas Last Year 1,660
Sunday Offertory ~ December 28/29 $7,004.00*
Same Week Last Year $8,360.00*
Mass Attendance for December 28/28 801
Same Week Last Year 705
Sunday Offertory ~ January 4/5 $7,502.00*
Same Week Last Year $8,617.00*
Mass Attendance for January 4/5 808
Same Week Last Year 940
* Does not include Faith Direct
**Includes Faith Direct
Lumen Christi Missal
Weekend of January 11/12, 2020 The Baptism of the Lord - Year A
Readings: Missal, p. 81
The Ordinary of the Mass begins on Page 804
READINGS FOR SUNDAY, JANUARY 12, 2020 THE BAPTISM OF THE LORD
First Reading: Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 Second Reading: Acts 10:34-38
Gospel: Matthew 3:13-17
FOCUS: Through our baptism, we are called to a life of
discipleship.
The Spirit of God descends upon Jesus at his baptism,
and marks the beginning of his public ministry. At our
baptism, through water and the Holy Spirit, we are
sanctified and made children of God. By the grace of this
sacrament, we are awakened to the power of the Spirit in
our own lives.
LITURGY OF THE WORD:
Isaiah shares the Lord’s promise of a servant of the Lord
who will come forth and bring justice to the nations. In
the second reading, Peter tells those gathered that God
shows no partiality. All who fear him and act uprightly
are acceptable to him. In the Gospel, Jesus is baptized by
John, and the Spirit of God descends upon him.
Readings for next week, January 19: Second Sunday in
Ordinary Time: Isaiah 49:3, 5-6; Corinthians 1:1-3;
John 1:29-34
From Liturgical Commission Publishing, Lansing, MI
Celebrants* Lectors Eucharistic
Ministers
Altar
Servers
Sat 5:00
Fr. Valentine K. Ditrano N. Ditrano
G. Green
Sun.
7:30 Fr. Valentine
9:00 Fr. Valentine E. Guevara
11:00 Fr. Lauder A. Finnegan
C. Finnegan MHeffernan
12:15 Fr. Lauder
Celebrants for the Weekend of
January 18/19
* Subject to last minute changes.
Schedule
not
available
as of
printing
deadline.
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Dear Friends:
After the Christmas Masses one of our parishioners, Mrs. Marie Papiro, made a wonderful
observation (See? Sometimes I listen) as we enter into a new decade: “Maybe we should pray for
‘2020’ vision!” (Get it?) I couldn’t agree more; I only wish I could take credit for the line. Her point
is well taken: Catholics are not cockeyed optimists. We look at the world with neither naïveté nor
bitter cynicism. The saints were, if anything, fierce realists, but with one great qualification: they
beheld the world as if with the vision of our loving Creator. They acknowledge the fallen nature of
the world, but only “with an eye” to our re-creation in Christ. My spiritual director once advised:
“The Gospel will never make sense to us until we know what it means to have fallen in love.”
Over a decade ago, in his brilliant encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict explains the
meaning of St. Paul’s letter to the Ephesians (4:15) wherein he reminds Christians to “profess the
truth in love and grow into the full maturity of Christ the head.” Returning to Ordinary Time after
the beautiful Advent/Christmas season often means plunging back into the routine of human
existence. And precisely because it occupies the majority of the year, Ordinary Time offers us the
greater opportunity to recognize and point out the loving presence of Jesus in the world he came to
save. The use of the word “plunge” is deliberate, because it underlies today’s Feast of the Baptism
of the Lord.
At the risk of appearing obsessed with his work, I would direct your attention to our bulletin cover,
and yet another image of Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Baptism of the Lord, c. 1475. This was a
further example of collaboration between artists, but in this case, the student (Leonardo) so far
surpasses his master Verrocchio that the latter (according to Walter Isaacson) “resolve(s) never
again to touch a brush.” As Isaacson points out, we behold an almost perfect marriage of scientific
precision with artistic imagination. It is a truly Catholic work, as it springs from a mind familiar
with the world of grace. There is the hair of the (far left) angel, whose loving gaze makes that of his
companion seem rather clueless; the more “true to life” body of Jesus (vs. John the Baptist), whose
glowing flesh shows no hard edges; the sfumato (“smokiness”) that connects the background
(heaven?) with the foreground (creation); and the limpid pool of water bathing the feet of Jesus,
descending as it does from the river behind it (the continuity between nature and grace).
Indeed, Catholics are neither fantasists nor cynics. Of course, we tell the truth about sin, which
disfigures the image of Christ in humanity, but “truth” must be tempered by love, so as not to cause
further damage. Indeed, we allow the grace of God to act through us, to heal and strengthen the
human condition, and ready it for its divine destiny. Let’s get back into the world of Ordinary Time,
and there make concrete the words of the hymn: “My Song is Love Unknown/My Savior’s Love for
Me/Love to the Loveless Shown that They May Lovely Be.”
Faithfully,
Fr. Valentine
THE PASTOR’S PAGE
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Through your generous donations, St.
Mary’s Human Concerns Center again
made Christmas joyous for more than
63 families in our community. Many
of the gift cards and food vouchers
were donated anonymously.
Thanks to one and all for your generosity and support.
HUMAN CONCERNS
ST. MARTHA’S GUILD
The St. Martha’s Guild of St. Mary’s is an
organization which helps care for the altar
linens. At this time there is a need for
additional help. If you can assist, please contact
the Rectory at 621-2222.
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
NOVEL
We will resume our book discussions with the title
Deep River by Shusaku Endo on February 5, 2020.
The meetings will be in the lower Church at 1:00
p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Future book discussions will take place on March
11th and April 15th.
“Endo has written so many wonderful novels
that it would be patronizing to suggest that one
is better than the others. But surely Deep River,
this moving story about a pilgrimage of grace,
must be rated as one of the best of all of
them”….Andrew Greeley
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Processional Hymn
Worship II Hymnal - G.I.A. Publications
The Baptism of the Lord
January 12, 2020
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Psalm Response Gelineau Gradual 9c
Presentation Hymn
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COMMUNION HYMN
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Recessional Hymn
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BIG EVENT
GET TOGETHER
Sponsored by the
John Mackay
Council
Prizes are:
$1250 - final
$250 - halftime
$190 - 1st and 3rd breaks
plus 3 chances in 50/50 raffle -$625, $250,$125
Complimentary pasta dinner (BYOB/dessert)
at the Parish Center for participants
one week before The Big Game,
Sunday January 26th, 4-7 p.m. at Msgr. Ryan Hall
Please RSVP if attending the dinner.
$50 per pool box plus 1 50/50 chance –
pool boxes assigned by hand selection or proxy.
Boxes numbered 1-100 (left to right and down)
Participant does not have to be present for drawing.
50/50 drawing will be held at Jan. 26th event.
To purchase boxes- see a Council member.
Please email [email protected] or phone 917 658-9012 with questions.
Winners based on score digits at the end of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd breaks and the end of
The Big Event (including overtime). Good luck !
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TELEVISED MASS FOR THE HOMEBOUND - Each
week through television, Passionist Communications brings
The Sunday Mass to the sick and homebound. It can be
seen in the New York area (Long Island) on WLNY - Ch. 10
or 55 at 9:00 AM on Sunday; WNYW - Ch. 5 at 5:30 AM
on Sunday. Closed captioning is available for each Mass. In
addition to this Mass schedule The Sunday Mass is now
airing on ABC from 6:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. each Sunday
morning. For information consult the website at
www.TheSundayMass.org.
COURTESY ANNOUNCEMENTS
REMEMBERING THOSE WHO SERVE
LCpl Caitlin Lyons LT Dennis Mackin
Cpl Tommy Mozer SGT Julio Ortiz II
LCpl Jonathan Peres
GSGT Jonathan Porto
LT. James Raphael PVT Michael Starczewski
SGT Luke Whitting
RCT Jordan J. Williams
CAPT Brendan Echausse
COL Daniel Friend
PFC Joseph M. Friend
LCdr Christian R. Foschi
LT. Daniel Grabher
PFC Steven Hyyti
CAPT David Jacobs
SK1 John D. Klick
PFC Michael P. Lanciki
MAJOR Eric W. Lipp
Lord, hold these men and women in your
loving hands and protect them as they
protect us and bless them for their self-
forgetting acts. We pray for peace in our
world and an end to war. Amen.
Fr. Lauder Presents:
The Catholic Novel &
Friday Night Film Festival
The Catholic Novel Series - Rev.
Robert Lauder and the School of
Evangelization will present the “Five
Classic Catholic Novels Revisited”
series for the Spring of 2020. The series will
begin on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 7:30 p.m. at
the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston.
The cost of the series is $40.
Friday Night Film Festival - Fr.
Lauder and The Secretariat for
Evangelization and Catechesis
presents: “59th Friday Film Festival”
beginning on Friday, March 20, 2020 7:30 p.m. at
the Immaculate Conception Center in Douglaston.
The cost is $25 for the series or $6 for a single
film. Flyers containing additional information and
registration forms are available in the back of the
Church and Msgr. Ryan Hall.
St. Paul’s Centerstage
Presents:
“Centerstage as You’ve Never Seen Before”
A cabaret featuring musical numbers never performed in full-length Centerstage shows
January 24-26, 2020
Costa Memorial Hall - St. Paul’s Church
2534 Cedar Swamp Road, Glen Head
General Performances:
Friday, January 24 at 8 p.m.
Sunday January 26 at 2 p.m.
General Admission $15
Seniors & Children 12 & under - $12
Dinner Theatre Performance:
Saturday, January 25 at 8 p.m.
(Doors open at 6 p.m.)
All Tickets $40
(includes Dinner, Drinks, Dessert & Show)
For Ticket Information and Reservations
Call 516 754-4293 or
e-mail [email protected]
FATHER LAUDER’S LECTURES
Fr. Lauder’s Catholic Novel lectures are being shown on
the Catholic Faith Network (formerly Telecare) on
Mondays at 7:15 p.m. and Wednesdays at 9:00 a.m. The
Catholic Faith Network channels: 29/137 for Optimum
and 296 for Verizon FiOS. All 40 lectures are also on
U-Tube.